As she loves reading in general, but chiefly poems and romances, she was desirous to hear some account of ours. The account I gave her doubled her curiosity: she begged the favour of me to translate a fragment of one of those I had brought with me.
Poeten eta batez ere eleberrigileen irakurle ona denez, gureez mintza nenkion eskatu zidan. Kontatu nionak bere jakin-mina handitu egin zion; eta eskatu zidan, arren, ea itzultzen nizkion zenbaiten zati hautatuak.