Fruits: and this but once a day. Whatsoever is brought
for him to eat or drink is covered with a white cloath, and whoever
brings it, hath a Mufler tyed about his mouth, lest he should breath
upon the Kings Food. [After what manner he Eats.] The Kings manner
of eating is thus. He sits upon a Stool before a small Table covered
with a white cloath, all alone. He eats on a green Plantane-Leaf laid
in a Gold Bason. There are twenty or thirty Dishes prepared for him,
which are brought into his Dining-Room. And which of these Dishes
the King pleases to call for, a Nobleman appointed for that service,
takes a Portion of and reaches in a Ladle to the Kings Bason. This
person also waits with a mufler about his mouth.

[Chast himself, and requires his Attendants to be so.] And as he is
abstemious in his eating, so in the use of women. If he useth them
'tis unknown and with great secrecy. He hath not had the Company of
his Queen this twenty years, to wit, since he went from Candy, where
he left her. He allowes not in his Court Whoredom or Adultery; and many
times when he hears of the misdemeanors of some of his Nobles in regard
of women, He not only Executes them, but severely punisheth the women,
if known: and he hath so many Spyes, that there is but little done,
which he knows not of. And often he gives Command to expel all the
women out of the City, not one to remain. But by little and little
when they think his wrath is appeas'd, they do creep in again. But
no women of any Quality dare presume, and if they would, they cannot,
the Watches having charge given them not to let them pass. Some have
been taken concealed under mans Apparel, and what became of them
all may judg, for they never went home again. Rebellion does not
more displease this King, then for his Nobles to have to do with
women. Therefore when any are admitted to his Court to wait upon
him, they are not permitted to enjoy the Company of their Wives,
no more then any other women. Neither hath he suffered any for near
this twenty years to have their Wives in the City, except Slaves or
inferior servants.

[He committed incest, but such as was allowable.] Indeed he was once
guilty of an Act, that seemed to argue him a man of most unbridled
Lust. For he had a Daughter that was with Child by himself: but
in Childbed both dyed. But this manner of Incest is allowable in
Kings, if it be only to beget a right Royal Issue, which can only be
gotten that way. But in all oth