Anti-chamber till sent for, and went himself into the Presence.  He had not been there five Minutes, before I heard that Door open, and a Jay with a strait-body’d Coat, which button’d on his Breast, and thro’ which his Wings and Legs pass’d, came hopping into the Room where I was, surrounded by the Courtiers, who view’d me with Surprize, but were so well bred as to whisper their Sentiments of me.  This impertinent Jay peck’d ’em by the Legs, or pull’d ’em by the Crown-feathers, without Distinction:  Nay, I saw some Cacklogallinians of the great Order, whose Heads he could not reach, stoop to him, and beg he would do them the Honour to pull their Crowns.  Every one shew’d him Respect, and made way for him to come up to me; he view’d me some time, and then peck’d me by the Finger; for he did not reach higher than my Hand, when it hung down.  I returned the Compliment with a Wherret of my Fist, which knock’d him over, and had cost me my Life, durst any have struck in the Palace.  There was a terrible Uproar, and I was apprehensive, that I should pay dear for my Resentment; but the Emperor to whom my Lord was then giving an Account of me, being inform’d, that the Impertinence of the Jay had caus’d the Disturbance, he order’d him to be carried to the Guard, that he should be lock’d up for three Days, and take two Purges and a Vomit (for Criminals not guilty of Capital Crimes, are punish’d by a Number of Vomits or Purges, which are more or less, according to the Vileness of the Fact) I was called into the Presence-chamber, where I made my Compliment as instructed, and then address’d my self to the Ladies, giving the Precedence always to the bulkiest, according to my Instructions.  The first Squabbaw whom I address’d my self to, was about Seven Foot round; her Crop hung within Six Inches of the Floor, which I have since learn’d is a particular Beauty; the Effluvia of her Body were extreamly strong, and oblig’d his Imperial Majesty, when she spread her Tail to me, to smell to an Aromatick Leaf.

This Prince, tho’ of a very advanced Age, has been represented, both by the Reports of his Ministers, and others, as a Person of great Incontinency, in which I think he was injured; for tho’ he pass’d most of his private Hours only in the Company of the Vultuaquilian Squabbaws (so call’d from the Province where they were born) he did it, partly because of his long Accquaintance with them, and partly to hinder the too frequent Visits of the first Minister, who scarce ever came into his Presence, but to importune him, for new Grants and Promotions for Himself and Family; and as to the Cacklogallinian Squabbaws, he sometimes admitted them to please their Husbands and Relations, who flatter themselves with an imaginary Honour, to have their Wives and Daughters near him.  I have good Grounds for what I advance; for I was Five Years in his Court, and frequently convers’d with his Squabbaws.  This won’t I hope, be thought a piece of Vanity in me, when the Reader reflects, that I was look’d upon as a Monkey is with our Ladies.