I was by no means pleased with a story, told me by a man of very great quality of a relation of mine, and one who had given a very good account of himself both in peace and war, that, coming to die in a very old age, of excessive pain of the stone, he spent the last hours of his life in an extraordinary solicitude about ordering the honour and ceremony of his funeral, pressing all the men of condition who came to see him to engage their word to attend him to his grave:
Hiltzen ari zelarik bere gortean biziki zahartuta, harriaren oinaze handiek tormentatua, bere azkeneko ordu guziak iragan zituen bere ehorzketen ohore eta zeremoniak antolatzen ardurarik handienarekin, eta ikustera joaten zitzaizkion noble guziei hutsik gabe joanen zirelako hitza emanarazi zien.