[208] M. and D. read: "They will place the best cup and plate, [D. mentions only the plate] which are much different than the others, for the master, and will only look after him, and pay no attention to the guests." [209] M. and D. omit this sentence. [210] Spanish, sacabuches consistol y deresistol, a transcriber's error for con sistol y diastol (this phrase omitted in D.); a play on words, as the sackbut forms the various tones by lengthening and shortening the instrument. The phrase systole and diastole is now applied to the alternate contraction and expansion of the heart; San Agustin apparently uses it through fondness for a learned phrase. [211] The citation from Quevedo is lacking in M. San Agustin has slightly misquoted; though it translates the same as the correct version. The lines are as follows: Galalon, que en casa come poco, y á costa agena el corpanchon ahita. The citation is from Quevedo's Poema heroica de las necedades y locuras de Orlando el enamorado. [212] That is, "Much good may it do you," an expression used at eating or drinking. San Agustin evidently refers in the following clause to the scanty fare supplied to those who row in the boats as compulsory service. [213] This is not a general rule among the Tagálogs, and much less among the Visayans. Neither are all the Indians forgers. (Delgado, pp. 315, 316.) [214] M. omits "alcalde" and reads "prudent and experienced man." D. reads "a prudent and experienced alcalde." [215] i.e., "I heard your evidence, and feared." [216] M. reads "some Indians;" D., "some erudite Indians." [217] Rabula, "an ignorant, vociferous lawyer;" cf. English "pettifogger." [218] This sentence is omitted by M. D. reads "all the alcaldes." [219] The Italian phrase fabro de calumina is used. [220] King Josiah or Josias was slain at Mageddo. See IV Kings (II Kings of the King James version), xxiii, 29, 30; and II Paralipomenon (II Chronicles of the King James version), xxxv, 22-25. [221] M. reads: "the Indians making use of a whole year in order to increase their calumny." D. reads: "Just see what subtlety and moderate arithmetic they use in order to make their accusation; the Indians lumping together a whole year in order to give pasture to one single horse;" and then adds: "And there are so many cases of this that if I mentioned them all I would never end." [222] We have thus freely translated the original sin afianzar calumnia, which is a regular law term. [223] "But a short time ago, when Señor Seoane was regent of the Audiencia, as the result of an urgent complaint against a Spanish cura, a verbal process was ordered to be made, and from it not the slightest charge resulted against the priest. Another judge was entrusted with the forming of another verbal process, with the same result. The supreme tribunal, being persuaded that the matter was not all calumny, sent an expressly commissioned judge from Manila, who found no more crime than did the others.