he showed to what straits his majesty's revenue was reduced, by the charge of maintaining you, which would soon grow insupportable; that the secretary's expedient of putting out your eyes, was so far from being a remedy against this evil, that it would probably increase it, as is manifest from the common practice of blinding some kind of fowls, after which they fed the faster, and grew sooner fat;
Maiestatearen diru-sarrerak zein murriztuta zeuden erakutsi zuen honek, eta hau zure mantenuaren kostuagatik, laster jasangaitz bilakatuko omen zelarik egoera; begiak ateratzeko Idazkariak proposaturiko irtenbidea ez zela inola ere gaitzaren aurkako erremedioa, eta ziur aski arazoa larriagotu egingo zuela, hau erakusten duelarik hegazti-motaren bat itsutzeko ohiturak, gero arinago jaten baitute eta bizkorrago loditzen;