'No finer figure than me'
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e cá da nossa laia não és capaz de encontrar rapaz de melhor figura, do que este seo criado.
and among our sort you won't find a lad of finer figure than this your servant.
The boast lands where all his talk was headed: himself. 'Da nossa laia,' of our sort, our kind — he plants them both firmly among the enslaved and then crowns himself its finest specimen, 'este seo criado,' this your servant, with mock-humble flourish. The vanity is complete and faintly ridiculous, and the inventory of his charms is about to follow.
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