| Back | By this road that I have described, rough and hard, stumbling here, falling there, getting up again to fall again, they reach the rank they desire, and that once attained, we have seen many who have passed these Syrtes and Scyllas and Charybdises, as if borne flying on the wings of favouring fortune; we have seen them, I say, ruling and governing the world from a chair, their hunger turned into satiety, their cold into comfort, their nakedness into fine raiment, their sleep on a mat into repose in holland and damask, the justly earned reward of their virtue; but, contrasted and compared with what the warrior undergoes, all they have undergone falls far short of it, as I am now about to show." |
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| Front | Por este camino que he pintado, áspero y dificultoso, tropezando aquí, cayendo allí, levantándose acullá, tornando a caer acá, llegan al grado que desean; el cual alcanzado, a muchos hemos visto que, habiendo pasado por estas Sirtes y por estas Scilas y Caribdis, como llevados en vuelo de la favorable fortuna, digo que los hemos visto mandar y gobernar el mundo desde una silla, trocada su hambre en hartura, su frío en refrigerio, su desnudez en galas, y su dormir en una estera en reposar en holandas y damascos: premio justamente merecido de su virtud. Pero, contrapuestos y comparados sus trabajos con los del mílite guerrero, se quedan muy atrás en todo, como ahora diré. |
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