Metropolisses

Cities honored by Letters Patents from the Kings or Emperors, with the name and dignities of Metropoliſſes;

Which done, another Damſel comes and caſts about his Shoulders a magnificent embroider’d Mantle, worth the Metropoliſſes of three great Kingdoms.

All the Metropoliſſes of Provinces (beſides ſeveral others of equal Deſerts) are moſtly reckoned of the ſecond Rank, though poſſibly they do not always deſerve to be called ſo.

It was in this manner that the riches of India and Europe, accumulated upon the banks of the Nile, the Tigris, and the Euphrates, gave ſucceſſive exiſtence to the ſplendor of a thouſand metropoliſſes.