if, instead of suffering thyself to be softened by their complaints and tears, thou wouldst send them to weep before me, which should never soften me, I would soon fashion them to the yoke they ought to bear, and I should weary out their imperious and independant humour.
horien kexu eta malkoez ez bazina bigunduko, sekulan leuntzen ez naizen honen aitzina bidaliko zenituzke negar egitera: berehala eraman behar duten uztarria ezarriko nieke, eta daukaten jenio bortitz eta askezale amorratua eztituko.