Also my book must do without sonnets at the beginning, at least sonnets whose authors are dukes, marquises, counts, bishops, ladies, or famous poets. Though if I were to ask two or three obliging friends, I know they would give me them, and such as the productions of those that have the highest reputation in our Spain could not equal.
También ha de carecer mi libro de sonetos al principio, a lo menos de sonetos cuyos autores sean duques, marqueses, condes, obispos, damas o poetas celebérrimos; aunque, si yo los pidiese a dos o tres oficiales amigos, yo sé que me los darían, y tales, que no les igualasen los de aquellos que tienen más nombre en nuestra España.