"We have still fifteen days before us," said he to his friends, "well, if at the end of a fortnight I have found nothing, or rather if nothing has come to find me, as I, too good a Catholic to kill myself with a pistol bullet, I will seek a good quarrel with four of his Eminence’s Guards or with eight Englishmen, and I will fight until one of them has killed me, which, considering the number, cannot fail to happen.
Nos quedan quince días les decía a sus amigos ; pues bien, si al cabo de quince días no he encontrado nada mejor, si nada ha venido a encontrarme, como soy buen católico para romperme la cabeza de un disparo, buscaré una buena pelea a cuatro guardias de su Eminencia o a ocho ingleses y me batiré hasta que haya uno que me mate, lo cual, con esa cantidad, no puede dejar de ocurrir.