Cui primus pontificum ipsius Coifi continuo respondit: Tu vide, rex, quale sit hoc quod nobis modo praedicatur: ego autem tibi verissime quod certum didici, profiteor, quia nihil omnino virtutis habet, nihil utilitatis religio illa quam hucusque tenuimus: nullus enim tuorum studiosius quam ego culturae deorum nostrorum se subdidit; et nihilominus multi sunt qui ampliora a te beneficia quam ego, et maiores accipiunt dignitates, magisque prosperantur in omnibus quae agenda vel adquirenda disponunt.
To whom Coin, the first of the kings priests, incontinently answered: May it like your highness to prove what manner of doctrine this is which is now preached unto us; but thus much I surely avouch unto you, which I have certainly learned, that the religion which unto this day we have observed hath no virtue nor advantage in it at all: for none of your subjects hath set himself more earnestly to the worship of our gods than I; and yet, notwithstanding, there are many of them which receive from you more ample benefits than I, and higher dignities than I, and better prosper in all they take in hand to do or seek to get than I.
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