The Baron pretended that he had been worse used than myself; and I insisted that there was far less harm in taking up a nosegay, and putting it into a woman's bosom, than to be found stark naked with a young Icoglan. We were continually whipped, and received twenty lashes a day with a heavy thong, when the concatenation of sublunary events brought you on board our galley to ransom us from slavery."
Sustentaba el señor baron que le habian hecho mas injusticia que á mí; y yo defendia que mucho mas permitido era volver á poner un ramillete al pecho de una moza, que hallarse en cueros con un icoglan: disputábamos continuamente, y nos sacudian cien latigazos al dia con la penca, quando te conduxo á nuestra galera la cadena de los sucesos de este universo, y nos rescataste.