quem constat cantu commendabiles aviculas immanibus emptas pretiis pro ficedulis ponere, acetoque liquatos magnae summae uniones potionibus aspergere solitum, amplissimum patrimonium tamquam amaram aliquam sarcinam quam celerrime abicere cupientem.
He is said to have been in the habit of buying little birds in demand for their song at enormous prices and serving them up as beccaficos and of dissolving pearls of great value in vinegar and sprinkling them over drinks, eager to throw away his large patrimony with all possible speed as though it were a galling load.
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