"I [am] today eighty years old. Can I discern between the good and bad? Can your servant taste what I eat or what I drink? Can I hear any longer the voice of singing men and singing women? Why then should your servant be a further burden to my lord the king?
Baditut, dagoeneko, laurogei urte. Uste al duzu badudala ahalmenik ona eta txarra bereizteko? Edota janari-edariez gozatzeko? Edota kantariei entzuteko? Zuretzat oztopo baizik ez nintzateke izango, ene errege jauna.