pallaces, in diuers partes of the Citie:  their gates be redde, and the entrie into their houses, that they may be knowen, for that is the kings colour.  These Gentlemen, according to their neerenesse in blood vnto the king, as soone as they be married receiue their place in honour:  this place neither increaseth nor diminisheth in any respect as long as the king liueth, the king appointeth them their wiues and familie, allowing them by the moneth all things necessarie abundantly, as he doth to his gouernours of shires and Cities, howbeit, not one of these hath as long as he liueth any charge or gouernement at all.  They giue themselues to eating and drinking, and be for the most part burly men of bodie, insomuch that espying any one of them whom we had not seene before, we might knowe him to be the King his cosin.  They be neuerthelesse very pleasant, courteous, and faire conditioned:  neither did we find, all the time wee were in that citie, so much honour and good intertainement any where as at their hands.  They bid vs to their houses to eate and drinke, and when they found vs not, or we were not willing to go with them, they bid our seruants and slaues, causing them to sit downe with the first.  Notwithstanding the good lodging these Gentlemen haue, so commodious that they want nothing, yet are they in this bondage, that during life they neuer goe abroad.  The cause, as I did vnderstand, wherefore the king so vseth his cosins is, that none of them at any time may rebell against him:  and thus he shutteth them vp in three or foure other cities.  Most of them can play on the Lute, and to make that kinde of pastime peculiar vnto them onely, all other in the cities where they doe liue be forbidden that instrument, the Curtisans and blinde folke onely accepted, who be musicians and can play.

This king furthermore, for the greater securitie of his Realme and the auoiding of tumults, letteth not one in all his countrey to be called Lord, except he be of his blood.  Manie great estates and gouernours there be, that during their office are lodged Lord-like, and doe beare the port of mightie Princes:  but they be so many times displaced and other placed a new, that they haue not the time to become corrupt.  True it is that during their office they be well prouided for, as afterward also lodged at the kings charges, and in pension as long as they liue, payed them monethly in the cities where they dwell by certaine officers appointed for that purpose.  The king then is a Lord onely, not one besides him as you haue seene, except it be such as be of his blood.  A Nephew likewise of the king, the kings sisters sonne, lyeth continually within the walles of the citie in a strong pallace built Castlewise, euen as his other cousins do, remayning alwayes within doores, serued by Eunuches, neuer dealing with any matters.  On their festiuall dayes, new moones, and full moones the magistrates make great bankets, and so do such as be of the king his blood. [Sidenote:  Goa is a city of the Portugals