Secondly, that this accident served me for exercise to prepare me for worse, if I, who both by the benefit of fortune, and by the condition of my manners, hoped to be among the last, should happen to be one of the first assailed by this storm; instructing myself betimes to constrain my life, and fit it for a new state.
Bigarrenik, ezbehar horrek balio zidala makurragorako prestatzeko ariketa bezala, baldin eta ni, zoriaren ontasunagatik eta neure ohituren baldintzagatik, azkenetarik izanen nintzela uste nuena, erauntsi horrek harrapatu lehenetarik izaten banintzen: tenore onetik neure bizitzaren bortxatzen eta egoera berri baten arabera antolatzen neure buruari irakatsiz.