For as he lay in bed on the night of the seventh day of his government, sated, not with bread and wine, but with delivering judgments and giving opinions and making laws and proclamations, just as sleep, in spite of hunger, was beginning to close his eyelids, he heard such a noise of bell-ringing and shouting that one would have fancied the whole island was going to the bottom.
El cual, estando la séptima noche de los días de su gobierno en su cama, no harto de pan ni de vino, sino de juzgar y dar pareceres y de hacer estatutos y pragmáticas, cuando el sueño, a despecho y pesar de la hambre, le comenzaba a cerrar los párpados, oyó tan gran ruido de campanas y de voces, que no parecía sino que toda la ínsula se hundía.