| Back | "Ascertain cautiously what thy office may be worth; and if it will allow thee to give liveries to thy servants, give them respectable and serviceable, rather than showy and gay ones, and divide them between thy servants and the poor; that is to say, if thou canst clothe six pages, clothe three and three poor men, and thus thou wilt have pages for heaven and pages for earth; the vainglorious never think of this new mode of giving liveries. |
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| Front | Toma con discreción el pulso a lo que pudiere valer tu oficio, y si sufriere que des librea a tus criados, dásela honesta y provechosa más que vistosa y bizarra, y repártela entre tus criados y los pobres: quiero decir que si has de vestir seis pajes, viste tres y otros tres pobres, y así tendrás pajes para el cielo y para el suelo; y este nuevo modo de dar librea no la alcanzan los vanagloriosos. |
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