She was infected with an ailment, and perhaps has since died of it; she received this present of a learned Franciscan, who derived it from the fountainhead; he was indebted for it to an old countess, who had it of a captain of horse, who had it of a marchioness, who had it of a page, the page had it of a Jesuit, who, during his novitiate, had it in a direct line from one of the fellow adventurers of Christopher Columbus; for my part I shall give it to nobody, I am a dying man."
Paquita debió este don á un Franciscano instruidísimo, que había averiguado el orígen de su achaque, porque se le habia dado una condesa vieja, la qual le habia recibido de un capitan de caballería, que le hubo de una marquesa, á quien se le dió un page, que le cogió de un jesuita, el qual, siendo novicio, le habia recibido en línea recta de uno de los compañeros de Cristobal Colon. Yo por mi no se le daré á nadie, porque me voy á morir luego.