The account is correct, but not a sixpense appears.
More Spanish Proverbs:
Good words fill not a sack.Spanish
Let those pater nosters be for your own soul. (Ironical, against swearing.)
Spanish
Where there's fire there's smoke.
Spanish
Though my father-in-law is a good man, I do not like a dog with a bell.
Spanish
Fear and love never eat from the same plate.
Spanish
A short halter for a greedy horse.
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