With his mailed gauntlet he brushed away a furtive tear and was overheard, by those privileged burghers who happened to be in his immediate entourage, to murmur to himself in a faltering undertone:
Itzalgaizka ihes egindako malko bat xukatu zuen sarezko esku-babesaz, eta haren entourage hurbilean zeuden hiritar pribilegiatuek entzun zuten haren oharkabean nola esaten zion bere buruari ahopetik, ahots pitzatuz: