Thou must know that a certain widow, fair, young, independent, and rich, and above all free and easy, fell in love with a sturdy strapping young lay-brother; his superior came to know of it, and one day said to the worthy widow by way of brotherly remonstrance, 'I am surprised, senora, and not without good reason, that a woman of such high standing, so fair, and so rich as you are, should have fallen in love with such a mean, low, stupid fellow as So-and-so, when in this house there are so many masters, graduates, and divinity students from among whom you might choose as if they were a lot of pears, saying this one I'll take, that I won't take;' but she replied to him with great sprightliness and candour, 'My dear sir, you are very much mistaken, and your ideas are very old-fashioned, if you think that I have made a bad choice in So-and-so, fool as he seems; because for all I want with him he knows as much and more philosophy than Aristotle.'
«Has de saber que una viuda hermosa, moza, libre y rica, y, sobre todo, desenfadada, se enamoró de un mozo motilón, rollizo y de buen tomo. Alcanzólo a saber su mayor, y un día dijo a la buena viuda, por vía de fraternal reprehensión: ''Maravillado estoy, señora, y no sin mucha causa, de que una mujer tan principal, tan hermosa y tan rica como vuestra merced, se haya enamorado de un hombre tan soez, tan bajo y tan idiota como fulano, habiendo en esta casa tantos maestros, tantos presentados y tantos teólogos, en quien vuestra merced pudiera escoger como entre peras, y decir: "Éste quiero, aquéste no quiero"''.