They feed many sheep, with fine wool, from which, two hundred years ago, they learned to make cloth.

They keep many idle servants, and many wild animals for their pleasure, instead of cultivating the sail.

They have many ships, but they do not even catch fish enough for their own consumption, but purchase of their neighbours.

They dress very elegantly.
Their costume is light and costly, but they are very changeable and capricious, altering their fashions every year, both the men and the women.

When they go away from home, riding or travelling, they always wear their best clothes, contrary to the habit of other nations.