at all in esteem for Honorable Ladies as they were
before. Yet sometimes he will send for the Sons or Brothers of these
whom he hath cut off for Traitors, and remand them out of the Prisons
where he had committed them; and prefer them in honorable Employment.

[The foolish ambition of the Men and Women of this Countrey.] It
is generally reported, and I have seen it so, that those whom he
prefers unto the greatest and weightiest Imployments are those
whom he intends soon to cut off, and contrariwise those whom he
doth affect, and intends to have longer Service of, shall not be
so laden with Places and Honours. Howbeit altho they know and see
this before their eyes daily, yet their hearts are so haughty and
ambitious, that their desires and endeavours are to ascend unto the
highest degrees of honour: tho that be but one remove from Death
and utter Destruction. And the Women's ambition is so great also,
that they will put their Husbands on to seek for Preferment, urging
how dishonorable it is for them to sit at home like Women, that so
they may have respect, and be reputed for great Ladies.

CHAP. VI.

Of the King's Strength and Wars.

[The King's Military Affairs.] It remains now that I speak a little
of the King's Military Affairs. His Power consists, in the natural
Strength of his Countrey, in his Watches, and in the Craft, more than
the Courage, of his Soldiers.

[The natural strength of his Countrey.] He hath no Artificial
Forts or Castles, but Nature hath supplied the want of them. For
his whole Countrey of Cande Uda, standing upon such high Hills, and
those so difficult to pass, is all an Impregnable Fort: and so is
more especially Digligy-neur his present Palace. These Places have
been already described at large; and therefore I omit speaking any
further of them here.

[Watches and Thorn-gates.] There are constant Watches set in convenient
places in all parts of the Countrey, and Thorn-gates: but in time of
danger, besides the ordinary Watches, in all Towns, and in all places
and in every cross Road, exceeding thick, that 'tis not possible for
any to pass unobserved. These Thorn-gates which I here mention and
have done before, are made of a sort of Thorn-bush or Thorn-tree,
each stick or branch whereof thrusts out on all sides round about,
sharp prickles, like Iron Nails, of three or four inches long: one
of these very Thorns I have lately seen in the Repository at Gresham
College: These sticks