On a subsequent occasion he went to the Lord Chamberlain leading a miserable, unkempt dog, old and decrepit, with bald patches on its body, and said, 'Here is another of your sublime pictures!'
後日に、尨犬の浅ましく老いさらぼひて、毛はげたるをひかせて、「この気色尊くみえて候」とて、内府へ参らせられたりけるとぞ。