"There are maxims in this writer," replied Pococurante, "whence a man of the world may reap some benefit; and the short measure of the verse makes them more easily to be retained in the memory. But I see nothing extraordinary in his journey to Brundusium, and his account of his had dinner; nor in his dirty, low quarrel between one Rupillius, whose words, as he expresses it, were full of poisonous filth; and another, whose language was dipped in vinegar.
Máxîmas hay en él, dixo Pococurante, que pueden ser útiles á un hombre de mundo, y que reducidas á enérgicos versos se graban con facilidad en la memoria; pero no me curo ni de su viage á Brindis, ni de su descripcion de una mala comida, ni de la disputa digna de unos mozos de esquina entre no sé qué Rupilo, cuyas razones, dice, estaban llenas de podre, y las de su contrincante llenas de vinagre.