I am not willing that a compatriot, a handsome cavalier, a brave youth, quite fit to make his way, should become the dupe of all these artifices and fall into the snare after the example of so many others who have been ruined by it.
No pretendo que un compatriota, un buen caballero, un muchacho valiente, hecho para avanzar, sea víctima de todos esos fingimientos y caiga como un necio en la trampa, al modo de tantos otros que se han perdido por ello.