Gulliver fashions a comb from a piece of wood and pieces of the

king's beard stubble. He weaves a chair from the queen's hair. He

makes a purse from her hair as well, and gives it
to Glumdalclitch with the queen's permission. Gulliver entertains
the king by playing a spinet, or piano, for him. The spinet is large,
so Gulliver can't press the keys, so he strikes them with giant
sticks as he runs along the keyboard.
Gulliver explains the structure of English government to the king.
The king asks him many questions about England's economy,
politics, and society. The king is surprised to hear about violent
rebellions and revolutions in British history. From his conversation
with Gulliver, the king concludes that the English must be "the
most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever
suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth."

Gulliver uses some combings of the Queen's hair to make a pair of

miniature chairs as a present for her.
The King, whom Gulliver describes as "a prince of excellent
understanding," asks him to describe the government of England in detail,
hoping that he might learn of something that can benefit his own country.
Gulliver tells him about the two chambers of Parliament, the House of
Lords and House of Commons, and about the Courts of Justice. The King
asks penetrating questions about these institutions, such as how the
nobility who are destined for the House of Lords are educated, and whether
new lords are sometimes chosen for dishonorable reasons, such as
favoritism, bribes, or for the purpose of strengthening a party opposite to
the public interest. He asks whether the lords are so free from avarice that
bribes cannot influence them, and whether the bishops chosen to sit in the
House of Lords are promoted on account of the holiness of their lives, or
because they servilely follow the opinions of some nobleman who employed
them before their elevation to the Lords.
The King asks about how members of the House of Commons are elected.
He wants to know whether votes can be bought; he asks why people want so
much to be members of the Commons when they receive no salary, and
wonders if it is because they are ready to sacrifice the public good in return
for illicit rewards from a corrupt monarch and ministers.
The King asks about the Courts of Justice. He asks whether lawyers are
allowed to plead in causes known to be unjust or oppressive; whether
lawyers and judges are well educated in justice or merely in local or
national customs; and whether lawyers or judges have any part in writing
the laws which they later interpret (thereby opening up a potential conflict
of interest).
Next, the King turns his attention to England's management of its treasury.
He cannot understand how a government can be so imprudent as to spend
more than its income, and why it should engage in such costly and frequent
wars. He believes that the English must be unusually quarrelsome, or that
they must have unusually bad neighbors. He cannot grasp what business
England has sending a military presence to other countries, unless it be to
protect trade or to honor a treaty. Regarding England's warring factions in
religion and politics, he believes that people should be allowed to hold
opinions contrary to the public good in religion and politics, as long as they
do not try to spread them.
The King inquires into the nobility's habit of gambling. He is concerned
about its negative effects on their minds and finances.
Responding to Gulliver's account of the history of England, the King is
horrified by what appears to be a heap of conspiracies, rebellions, and
murders, driven by avarice, cruelty, rage, or ambition.
The King ends by saying that it is clear that in English law, legislators can
be full of vice, and that there are conflicts of interest that pervert the course
of justice. Men are promoted for reasons other than their worth, and priests
for reasons other than their holiness. Members of Parliament and advisors
are not chosen for their love of their country or their wisdom. He concludes
in Chapter VI that Gulliver's fellow men are a wicked and odious race.