'For picks, shovels, and hoes, a hundred million ducats;
for alms for nuns and friars to pray for the Spanish, one hundred and fifty thousand ducats;
for scented gloves so that the soldiers wouldn't smell the stench of battle, two hundred million ducats;
for replacing bells damaged by so much ringing of victory, one hundred and seventy thousand ducats;
and, finally, for the patience of having to descend to these trifles of the king to whom I have given a kingdom, one hundred million ducats.
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