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the end now tell if you are willg to follow out y idea and advice as i haved it before you&ot;

havg called upon as the eldest to answer, i, after urgg hot to strip hiself of his property but to spend it all as hepleased, for we were young n able to ga our livg, nsented ly with his wi射s, and said that e were to follow theprofession of ars and thereby serve god and y kg y sendbrother havg ade the sa proposal, decided upon gog to thedies, ebarkg the portion that fell to hi trade the younst,and y opion the wisest, said he would rather follow thechurch, or go to plete his studies at salaanca as on as wehad e to an understandg, and ade choice of our professions, yfather ebraced all, and the short ti he ntioned carriedto effect all he had proised; and when he had given to each hisshare, which as well as i reber was three thoand ducats apiece cash （for an uncle of ours bought the estate and paid for it down, notto let it go out of the faily）， we all three on the sa day tookleave of our good father; and at the sa ti, as it seed to huan to leave y father with such scanty ans his old a, iduced hi to take o of y three thoand ducats, as thereader would be enough to provide with all a ldier neededy o brothers, oved by y exaple, gave hi each a thoand ducats, that there was left for y father four thoand ducats oney,besides three thoand, the vae of the portion that fell to hiwhich he preferred to reta land stead of sellg it fally,as i said, we took leave of hi, and of our uncl