"My profits I have gained in foreign parts.

My condition of life is without excess, and in my opinion every means are good so long as they are honourable and legal.

They say my post was given me by the Advocate.

Ergo, all my fortune comes from the Advocate.

Strenuously to have striven to make myself agreeable to the King and his counsellors, while fulfilling my office with fidelity and honour, these are the arts by which I have prospered, so that my splendour dazzles the eyes of the envious.