and now, in your turn, you are to fulfil your promise, and tell me what virtue is in the universal; and do not make a singular into a plural, as the facetious say of those who break a thing, but deliver virtue to me whole and sound, and not broken into a number of pieces:
Baina tira, aurrera, zu ere saia zaitez agindu didazuna betetzen, bertutea orokorrean zer den esanez, eta utz iezaiozu gauza batetik asko egiteari, beti zerbait hausten dutenei buruz txantxetan esaten duten bezala, baizik eta osorik eta onik utzita, esaidazu zer den bertutea.