This I have been an eyewitness of, that in public confusions, men astonished at their fortune, have abandoned their own reason, superstitiously to seek out in the stars the ancient causes and menaces of the present mishaps, and in my time have been so strangely successful in it, as to make me believe that this being an amusement of sharp and volatile wits, those who have been versed in this knack of unfolding and untying riddles, are capable, in any sort of writing, to find out what they desire.
Neronek ikusia hau da: nahasmendu publikoetan, gizonak, beren zoriaz harriturik, gibelatzen direla sineskeria orotara, zeruan bilatzera beren ezbeharraren aintzineko kausak eta mehatxuak.