I had tortoise or turtle enough, but now and then one was as much as I could put to any use: I had timber enough to have built a fleet of ships; and I had grapes enough to have made wine, or to have cured into raisins, to have loaded that fleet when it had been built.
Tenía tortugas en abundancia pero no las cogía sino de cuando en cuando, según mis necesidades. Tenía suficiente leña para construir toda una flota de barcos y luego llenar sus bodegas con el vino o las pasas que podía obtener de mi viñedo.