Nor as I saw some years ago, a dean of St. Hilary of Poitiers given up to such a solitude, that at the time I came into his chamber it had been two and twenty years that he had not stepped one foot out of it, and yet had all his motions free and easy, and was in good health, saving a cold that fell upon his lungs;
Ez, duela urte zenbait, Poitierseko S. Hilaireko apez nagusi bat ikusi nuen bezala, halako bakartasunean ezarria bere goibeltasunaren gaiztaldiak non, haren gelan sartu nintzenean, baitzuen hogeita bi urte ez zuela urratsik ateratzeko egina;