quoting Izambri:

Cens ti domànyant tresperer is damlor n’ont cambre arillantant au assagar-ve’r man artenyes tires te, n’atlle erdes, perent sam a dou dossatzes ar oidant te dou ru sanint. Èu tir atzà te nantet oidam sam ru dant marius na tegolls, martes, dalmatzs na lhaurès, cavarons è n’ardres didavets sarladhes doneies na se veie marnence.
Those who strive to obtain the good graces of a prince are accustomed to come before him with such things as they hold most precious, or in which they see him take most delight; whence one often sees horses, arms, cloth of gold, precious stones, and similar ornaments presented to princes, worthy of their greatness.

N'Is Cambre, na Machiavel
From Machiavelli's The Prince