and some there are who vapour and brag of their zeal and constancy, that if things were justly weighed, do much less than I. My house, as one that has ever been open and free to all comers, and civil to all (for I could never persuade myself to make it a garrison of war, war being a thing that I prefer to see as remote as may be), has sufficiently merited popular kindness, and so that it would be a hard matter justly to insult over me upon my own dunghill;
Betidanik etxe librea, harrera handikoa eta bakoitzari zabalik den bezala (zeren hartaz gerrako tresna baten egiteko sekula ez baitut neure buruaren bideratzera utzi; gerran gogotikago sartzen bainaiz, neure auzotasunetik urrunena denean), nire etxeak merezi izan du jendearen atxikimendurik aski, eta ez litzateke erraza zoko honetan nire oldartzea;