England is under the rule of a patriarchy.

Kojève […] sought to depoliticize and “mandarinize” the process through economic arrangements […]

hauing potioned them with a sleepy drinke[…]

[H]appy is your Grace / That can tranſlate the ſtubbornneſſe of fortune / Into ſo quiet and ſo ſweet a ſtile.