I say, though fortune should unjustly favour their dissimulation; which often falls out, because there is none of the sex, let her be as ugly as the devil, who does not think herself well worthy to be beloved, and who does not prefer herself before other women, either for her youth, the colour of her hair, or her graceful motion (for there are no more women universally ugly, than there are women universally beautiful, and such of the Brahmin virgins as have nothing else to recommend them, the people being assembled by the common crier to that effect, come out into the market-place to expose their matrimonial parts to public view, to try if these at least are not of temptation sufficient to get them a husband). Consequently, there is not one who does not easily suffer herself to be overcome by the first vow that they make to serve her.
Gogoz nahi izan behar da gogoz hartu nahi den gozatzeko atsegina; hau diot zoriak zuzengabe haien maskara faboratuko balu, maiz gertaten dena, zeren ez baita andere horietarik inor, baldarragoa bada ere, hagitz maitagarria dela gogoan ez duenik, eta gomendatzen ez denik bere adinaz edo bere irriaz, edo bere mugimenduaz; zeren erabateko itsusirik ez baita, ez ederrik ere; beste gomendiorik ez duten neska bramaniarrak badoaz plazan barrena, jendea horretarako bildua dei publikoaz, beren ezkontzarako zatiak erakutsiz, ea hortik bederen senarraren erdiesteko balio ez ote duten. Beraz, zerbitzatzeko egiten zaion lehen zinean errazki sinesten ez duen emakumerik ez da.