"I should think they were!" said the other; "let the money they cost speak for that; for as a matter of fact there is not one of them that does not stand us in more than fifty ducats; and that your worship may judge; wait a moment, and you shall see with your own eyes;" and getting up from his dinner he went and uncovered the first image, which proved to be one of Saint George on horseback with a serpent writhing at his feet and the lance thrust down its throat with all that fierceness that is usually depicted.
Si no, dígalo lo que cuesta: que en verdad que no hay ninguna que no esté en más de cincuenta ducados; y, porque vea vuestra merced esta verdad, espere vuestra merced, y verla ha por vista de ojos. Y, levantándose, dejó de comer y fue a quitar la cubierta de la primera imagen, que mostró ser la de San Jorge puesto a caballo, con una serpiente enroscada a los pies y la lanza atravesada por la boca, con la fiereza que suele pintarse.