What do you pretend by these large conquests?
What shall be the end of so many labours and crosses?
Thus it shall be, said Picrochole, that when we are returned we shall sit down, rest, and be merry.

But, said Echephron, if by chance you should never come back, for the voyage is long and dangerous, were it not better for us to take our rest now, than unnecessarily to expose ourselves to so many dangers?
O, said Swashbuckler, by G--, here is a good dotard; come, let us go hide ourselves in the corner of a chimney, and there spend the whole time of our life amongst ladies, in threading of pearls, or spinning, like Sardanapalus.

He that nothing ventures hath neither horse nor mule, says Solomon.

He who adventureth too much, said Echephron, loseth both horse and mule, answered Malchon.

Enough, said Picrochole, go forward.