"May Your Highness," said he, "deign to excuse my impertinence in daring to come to lay at your noble feet a painting I made for you, wherein I had the honour to pourtray Madame the Virgin in imperial array."
-Zure Altezari-esan zuen-nahi dakizula barkatzea hau mutirikeriau zure oin nobleetara zeuretzat eginiko pintura bat pausatzen etortzeko, eta zeinean Andra Mari jantzi inperialetan aurkezteko ohorea eduki dudan.