| Back | Sancho overheard him and said, "It is eight or ten days, brother growler, since I entered upon the government of the island they gave me, and all that time I never had a bellyful of victuals, no not for an hour; doctors persecuted me and enemies crushed my bones; nor had I any opportunity of taking bribes or levying taxes; and if that be the case, as it is, I don't deserve, I think, to come out in this fashion; but 'man proposes and God disposes;' and God knows what is best, and what suits each one best; and 'as the occasion, so the behaviour;' and 'let nobody say "I won't drink of this water;"' and 'where one thinks there are flitches, there are no pegs;' God knows my meaning and that's enough; I say no more, though I could." |
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| Front | Oyólo Sancho, y dijo: -Ocho días o diez ha, hermano murmurador, que entré a gobernar la ínsula que me dieron, en los cuales no me vi harto de pan siquiera un hora; en ellos me han perseguido médicos, y enemigos me han brumado los güesos; ni he tenido lugar de hacer cohechos, ni de cobrar derechos; y, siendo esto así, como lo es, no merecía yo, a mi parecer, salir de esta manera; pero el hombre pone y Dios dispone, y Dios sabe lo mejor y lo que le está bien a cada uno; y cual el tiempo, tal el tiento; y nadie diga "desta agua no beberé", que adonde se piensa que hay tocinos, no hay estacas; y Dios me entiende, y basta, y no digo más, aunque pudiera. |
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