Or cannot a country wench know that, having received a shilling from one that owes her three, and a shilling also from another that owes her three, the remaining debts in each of their hands are equal? Cannot she know this, I say, unless she fetch the certainty of it from this maxim, that IF YOU TAKE EQUALS FROM EQUALS, THE REMAINDER WILL BE EQUALS, a maxim which possibly she never heard or thought of?
Edo neskatila baserritar batek ez al du jakiterik txelin bat hartuz gero hiru zor dionarengandik eta txelin bat, halaber, hiru zor dion beste batengandik, bi horiek elkarren bestena zor diotela?