if it be not that the princes of that art, applying themselves with a peculiar attention to cull out portentous words and to contrive artificial sentences, have so weighed every syllable, and so thoroughly sifted every sort of quirking connection that they are now confounded and entangled in the infinity of figures and minute divisions, and can no more fall within any rule or prescription, nor any certain intelligence:
Arte horren printzeek, arreta bereziz hitz hanpatuen bereizpenari eta esaldi artistikoen moldatzeari loturik, hainbat pisatu dute silaba bakoitza, hainbat bihurdikatu juntagailu bakoitza, hain nahasiak eta korapilatuak dira figuren mugagabetasunean eta zatiketen xehekerian, non ez baitira ezein arauditan ez adimen segurutan sartzen ahal.