For what injustice is it that when we allow every course of life its recreation, that study only should have none? Especially when such toys are not without their serious matter, and foolery is so handled that the reader that is not altogether thick-skulled may reap more benefit from it than from some men's crabbish and specious arguments. As when one, with long study and great pains, patches many pieces together on the praise of rhetoric or philosophy; another makes a panegyric to a prince; another encourages him to a war against the Turks; another tells you what will become of the world after himself is dead; and another finds out some new device for the better ordering of goat's wool:
Azken batean, ez al da bidegabekeria izugarri bat ikaszalei jostaketa batera ere jolasten ez uztea, aukera hori gizarteko maila guztiei ematen zaienean, eta gainera huskeria horiek elementu serioak ere baldin badituzte eta gai laketgarri horiek usaimen oneko irakurleak idazle batzuen argumentu garratz eta distiratsuetatik baino fruitu nahiko gehiago ateratzeko moduan tratatzen badira? Esaterako, batek erretorika eta filosofia goraltzen ditu hemendik eta handik hartutako txatalez luze eta zabal osaturiko hitzaldi batekin, beste batek printzeren baten laudorioak deskribatzen ditu, hurrengoak turkiarren kontrako gerrara jendea eramateko aholkuak ematen ditu.