I made bold to tell her majesty, "that I owed no other obligation to my late master, than his not dashing out the brains of a poor harmless creature, found by chance in his fields: which obligation was amply recompensed, by the gain he had made in showing me through half the kingdom, and the price he had now sold me for.
Ausartu nintzen Maiestateari erantzutera ugazaba ohiari ez niola beste mesederik zor, bere soroan txiripaz aurkituriko kaltegabeko izaki koitadu bati burmuinak ez zanpatu izana baino; mesede hori ederki saritua izan zitzaiola erresuma erdian zehar ni erakutsiz ateratako irabaziez, eta orduantxe ni saltzean eskuratutako dirutzaz.