…but luckily Donald Frame gave us an excellent translation!

I dislike to see a man cross himself three times at the Benedicite, and as often at the Grace, and meanwhile see him all the other hours of the day occupied with hatred, avarice and injustice.

If these essays were worthy of being judged, I think they might not be much liked by common and vulgar minds, or by singular and excellent ones; the former would not understand enough about them, the later too much. But they might get by in the middle region.

Every rich man is avaricious, in my opinion.