Now he surrounded himself with this state to the end that his fellows, who had been brought up with him and were of no meaner family nor behind him in manly virtue, might not be grieved by seeing him and make plots against him, but that being unseen by them he might be thought to be of different mould.
inor ez zedila erregearenganatu, aitzitik, gauza guztietarako mandatariez balia zitezela, eta inork ez zezala erregea ikusi, eta, horrez gainera, guztientzat lotsagarri izan zedila honen aurrean barre egitea eta txistua botatzea. Eta hona zergatik ezarri zuen begiramendu hau bere inguruan: