She was infected with an ailment, and perhaps has since died of it; she received this present of a learned Franciscan, who derived it from the fountainhead; he was indebted for it to an old countess, who had it of a captain of horse, who had it of a marchioness, who had it of a page, the page had it of a Jesuit, who, during his novitiate, had it in a direct line from one of the fellow adventurers of Christopher Columbus; for my part I shall give it to nobody, I am a dying man."
Paquette egy tudós ferencrendi baráttól kapta a nyavalyát, ki a forrásig ment vissza, mert őrá meg egy vén grófnőtől ragadt, ki viszont egy lovassági kapitánynak köszönhette; az utóbbi egy márkinőtől kapta, ez egy apródtól, emez egy jezsuita noviciustól, ki egyenesen Kolumbusz Kristóf egyik bajtársától szerezte. Ami engem illet, én már senkire sem származtatom, mert én belehalok.