Yet this lasted not long, for afterwards they fell to their work again.

Those that have been long there are permitted to build little Shops on the Street side against the Prison, and to come out in the day time, and sell their work as they make it; but in the Night time are shut up again.
When the Streets are to be swept about the Palace, they make the Prisoners come out in their Chains, and do it.
And after all their Imprisonment, without any examination, they are carried forth and executed: and these not only the common sort, but even the greatest and most nobly descended in the Land: For with whom he is displeased, he maketh no difference.
[He punishes whole generations for the sake of one.] Nor is his wrath appeased by the Execution of the Malefactor, but oftentimes he punisheth all his Generation; it may be kills them alltogether, or gives them all away for Slaves.
[The sad condition of young Gentlemen that wait on his Person.] Thus he often deals with those, whose Children are his Attendants.

I mentioned before, that young Men of the best Families in the Land, are sought out to wait upon the King in his Court.

These after they have served here some small time, and have as it were but seen the Court, and known his Customs and Manners, he requiteth them by cutting off their Heads, and putting them into their Bellies: other faults none do know.

Heretofore, as it is reported, he was not so Cruel, but now none escapes, that serves in his Palace.