For promotion [cometh] neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south.
Ver. 6. For promotion cometh neither from the east] Dignitatis nullum est emporium. Ambitionists used to look this way and that way how to advance themselves, but all in vain. Hispanis monarchia Catholica debetur divinitus, sed in Utopia, saith one.
Nor from the south] Where the warm sunshine is.