During our late wars of Milan, where there happened so many takings and retakings of towns, the people, impatient of so many changes of fortune, took such a resolution to die, that I have heard my father say he there saw a list taken of five-and-twenty masters of families who made themselves away in one week's time: an incident somewhat resembling that of the Xanthians, who being besieged by Brutus, fell-men, women, and children-into such a furious appetite of dying, that nothing can be done to evade death which they did not to avoid life; insomuch that Brutus had much difficulty in saving a very small number.
"Ez garela gure partikularrerako sortuak, publikorako baizik", jo dezagun ausarki dantza horretan dabiltzanengan, eta gogo-zolatik aitor bezate, aitzitik, estatuak, karguak eta munduko buruhauste horiek ez ote diren bilatzen publikotik eskuratzeko bakoitzaren mozkin partikularra.