Don Quijote de la Mancha          de Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Edición bilingüe, español-inglés, en textos paralelos Bilingual edition: Spanish-English, in parallel texts English translation by J. Ormsby, with Translator's Preface Integrado en el sistema MGARCI
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II. Capítulo XXXI. Que trata de muchas y grandes cosas.	Chapter XXXI. Which treats of many and great matters.
Suma era la alegría que llevaba consigo Sancho, viéndose, a su parecer, en privanza con la duquesa, porque se le figuraba que había de hallar en su castillo lo que en la casa de don Diego y en la de Basilio, siempre aficionado a la buena vida; y así, tomaba la ocasión por la melena en esto del regalarse cada y cuando que se le ofrecía.	Supreme was the satisfaction that Sancho felt at seeing himself, as it seemed, an established favourite with the duchess, for he looked forward to finding in her castle what he had found in Don Diego's house and in Basilio's; he was always fond of good living, and always seized by the forelock any opportunity of feasting himself whenever it presented itself.
Cuenta, pues, la historia, que antes que a la casa de placer o castillo llegasen, se adelantó el duque y dio orden a todos sus criados del modo que habían de tratar a don Quijote; el cual, como llegó con la duquesa a las puertas del castillo, al instante salieron dél dos lacayos o palafreneros, vestidos hasta en pies de unas ropas que llaman de levantar, de finísimo raso carmesí, y, cogiendo a don Quijote en brazos, sin ser oído ni visto, le dijeron.	The history informs us, then, that before they reached the country house or castle, the duke went on in advance and instructed all his servants how they were to treat Don Quixote; and so the instant he came up to the castle gates with the duchess, two lackeys or equerries, clad in what they call morning gowns of fine crimson satin reaching to their feet, hastened out, and catching Don Quixote in their arms before he saw or heard them, said to him,
-Vaya la vuestra grandeza a apear a mi señora la duquesa.	"Your highness should go and take my lady the duchess off her horse."
Don Quijote lo hizo, y hubo grandes comedimientos entre los dos sobre el caso; pero, en efecto, venció la porfía de la duquesa, y no quiso decender o bajar del palafrén sino en los brazos del duque, diciendo que no se hallaba digna de dar a tan gran caballero tan inútil carga. En fin, salió el duque a apearla; y al entrar en un gran patio, llegaron dos hermosas doncellas y echaron sobre los hombros a don Quijote un gran manto de finísima escarlata, y en un instante se coronaron todos los corredores del patio de criados y criadas de aquellos señores, diciendo a grandes voces.	Don Quixote obeyed, and great bandying of compliments followed between the two over the matter; but in the end the duchess's determination carried the day, and she refused to get down or dismount from her palfrey except in the arms of the duke, saying she did not consider herself worthy to impose so unnecessary a burden on so great a knight. At length the duke came out to take her down, and as they entered a spacious court two fair damsels came forward and threw over Don Quixote's shoulders a large mantle of the finest scarlet cloth, and at the same instant all the galleries of the court were lined with the men-servants and women-servants of the household, crying,
-¡Bien sea venido la flor y la nata de los caballeros andantes.	"Welcome, flower and cream of knight-errantry!"
Y todos, o los más, derramaban pomos de aguas olorosas sobre don Quijote y sobre los duques, de todo lo cual se admiraba don Quijote; y aquél fue el primer día que de todo en todo conoció y creyó ser caballero andante verdadero, y no fantástico, viéndose tratar del mesmo modo que él había leído se trataban los tales caballeros en los pasados siglos.	while all or most of them flung pellets filled with scented water over Don Quixote and the duke and duchess; at all which Don Quixote was greatly astonished, and this was the first time that he thoroughly felt and believed himself to be a knight-errant in reality and not merely in fancy, now that he saw himself treated in the same way as he had read of such knights being treated in days of yore.
Sancho, desamparando al rucio, se cosió con la duquesa y se entró en el castillo; y, remordiéndole la conciencia de que dejaba al jumento solo, se llegó a una reverenda dueña, que con otras a recebir a la duquesa había salido, y con voz baja le dijo.	Sancho, deserting Dapple, hung on to the duchess and entered the castle, but feeling some twinges of conscience at having left the ass alone, he approached a respectable duenna who had come out with the rest to receive the duchess, and in a low voice he said to her,
-Señora González, o como es su gracia de vuesa merced... .	"Senora Gonzalez, or however your grace may be called-"
-Doña Rodríguez de Grijalba me llamo -respondió la dueña-. ¿Qué es lo que mandáis, hermano.	"I am called Dona Rodriguez de Grijalba," replied the duenna; "what is your will, brother?"
A lo que respondió Sancho.	To which Sancho made answer,
-Querría que vuesa merced me la hiciese de salir a la puerta del castillo, donde hallará un asno rucio mío; vuesa merced sea servida de mandarle poner, o ponerle, en la caballeriza, porque el pobrecito es un poco medroso, y no se hallará a estar solo en ninguna de las maneras.	"I should be glad if your worship would do me the favour to go out to the castle gate, where you will find a grey ass of mine; make them, if you please, put him in the stable, or put him there yourself, for the poor little beast is rather easily frightened, and cannot bear being alone at all."
-Si tan discreto es el amo como el mozo -respondió la dueña-, ¡medradas estamos! Andad, hermano, mucho de enhoramala para vos y para quien acá os trujo, y tened cuenta con vuestro jumento, que las dueñas desta casa no estamos acostumbradas a semejantes haciendas.	"If the master is as wise as the man," said the duenna, "we have got a fine bargain. Be off with you, brother, and bad luck to you and him who brought you here; go, look after your ass, for we, the duennas of this house, are not used to work of that sort."
-Pues en verdad -respondió Sancho- que he oído yo decir a mi señor, que es zahorí de las historias, contando aquella de Lanzarote.	"Well then, in troth," returned Sancho, "I have heard my master, who is the very treasure-finder of stories, telling the story of Lancelot
cuando de Bretaña vino, que damas curaban dél; y dueñas del su rocino.	when he came from Britain, say that ladies waited upon him and duennas upon his hack;
y que en el particular de mi asno, que no le trocara yo con el rocín del señor Lanzarote.	and, if it comes to my ass, I wouldn't change him for Senor Lancelot's hack."
-Hermano, si sois juglar- replicó la dueña-, guardad vuestras gracias para donde lo parezcan y se os paguen, que de mi no podréis llevar sino una higa.	"If you are a jester, brother," said the duenna, "keep your drolleries for some place where they'll pass muster and be paid for; for you'll get nothing from me but a fig."
-¡Aun bien -respondió Sancho- que será bien madura, pues no perderá vuesa merced la quínola de sus años por punto menos.	"At any rate, it will be a very ripe one," said Sancho, "for you won't lose the trick in years by a point too little."
-Hijo de puta -dijo la dueña, toda ya encendida en cólera-, si soy vieja o no, a Dios daré la cuenta, que no a vos, bellaco, harto de ajos.	"Son of a bitch," said the duenna, all aglow with anger, "whether I'm old or not, it's with God I have to reckon, not with you, you garlic-stuffed scoundrel!"
Y esto dijo en voz tan alta, que lo oyó la duquesa; y, volviendo y viendo a la dueña tan alborotada y tan encarnizados los ojos, le preguntó con quién las había.	and she said it so loud, that the duchess heard it, and turning round and seeing the duenna in such a state of excitement, and her eyes flaming so, asked whom she was wrangling with.
-Aquí las he -respondió la dueña- con este buen hombre, que me ha pedido encarecidamente que vaya a poner en la caballeriza a un asno suyo que está a la puerta del castillo, trayéndome por ejemplo que así lo hicieron no sé dónde, que unas damas curaron a un tal Lanzarote, y unas dueñas a su rocino, y, sobre todo, por buen término me ha llamado vieja.	"With this good fellow here," said the duenna, "who has particularly requested me to go and put an ass of his that is at the castle gate into the stable, holding it up to me as an example that they did the same I don't know where- that some ladies waited on one Lancelot, and duennas on his hack; and what is more, to wind up with, he called me old."
-Eso tuviera yo por afrenta -respondió la duquesa-, más que cuantas pudieran decirme.	"That," said the duchess, "I should have considered the greatest affront that could be offered me;"
Y, hablando con Sancho, le dijo.	and addressing Sancho, she said to him,
-Advertid, Sancho amigo, que doña Rodríguez es muy moza, y que aquellas tocas más las trae por autoridad y por la usanza que por los años.	"You must know, friend Sancho, that Dona Rodriguez is very youthful, and that she wears that hood more for authority and custom sake than because of her years."
-Malos sean los que me quedan por vivir -respondió Sancho-, si lo dije por tanto; sólo lo dije porque es tan grande el cariño que tengo a mi jumento, que me pareció que no podía encomendarle a persona más caritativa que a la señora doña Rodríguez.	"May all the rest of mine be unlucky," said Sancho, "if I meant it that way; I only spoke because the affection I have for my ass is so great, and I thought I could not commend him to a more kind-hearted person than the lady Dona Rodriguez."
Don Quijote, que todo lo oía, le dijo.	Don Quixote, who was listening, said to him,
-¿Pláticas son éstas, Sancho, para este lugar.	"Is this proper conversation for the place, Sancho?"
-Señor -respondió Sancho-, cada uno ha de hablar de su menester dondequiera que estuviere; aquí se me acordó del rucio, y aquí hablé dél; y si en la caballeriza se me acordara, allí hablara.	"Senor," replied Sancho, "every one must mention what he wants wherever he may be; I thought of Dapple here, and I spoke of him here; if I had thought of him in the stable I would have spoken there."
A lo que dijo el duque.	On which the duke observed,
-Sancho está muy en lo cierto, y no hay que culparle en nada; al rucio se le dará recado a pedir de boca, y descuide Sancho, que se le tratará como a su mesma persona.	"Sancho is quite right, and there is no reason at all to find fault with him; Dapple shall be fed to his heart's content, and Sancho may rest easy, for he shall be treated like himself."
Con estos razonamientos, gustosos a todos sino a don Quijote, llegaron a lo alto y entraron a don Quijote en una sala adornada de telas riquísimas de oro y de brocado; seis doncellas le desarmaron y sirvieron de pajes, todas industriadas y advertidas del duque y de la duquesa de lo que habían de hacer, y de cómo habían de tratar a don Quijote, para que imaginase y viese que le trataban como caballero andante. Quedó don Quijote, después de desarmado, en sus estrechos greguescos y en su jubón de camuza, seco, alto, tendido, con las quijadas, que por de dentro se besaba la una con la otra; figura que, a no tener cuenta las doncellas que le servían con disimular la risa -que fue una de las precisas órdenes que sus señores les habían dado-, reventaran riendo.	While this conversation, amusing to all except Don Quixote, was proceeding, they ascended the staircase and ushered Don Quixote into a chamber hung with rich cloth of gold and brocade; six damsels relieved him of his armour and waited on him like pages, all of them prepared and instructed by the duke and duchess as to what they were to do, and how they were to treat Don Quixote, so that he might see and believe they were treating him like a knight-errant. When his armour was removed, there stood Don Quixote in his tight-fitting breeches and chamois doublet, lean, lanky, and long, with cheeks that seemed to be kissing each other inside; such a figure, that if the damsels waiting on him had not taken care to check their merriment (which was one of the particular directions their master and mistress had given them), they would have burst with laughter.
Pidiéronle que se dejase desnudar para una camisa, pero nunca lo consintió, diciendo que la honestidad parecía tan bien en los caballeros andantes como la valentía. Con todo, dijo que diesen la camisa a Sancho, y, encerrándose con él en una cuadra donde estaba un rico lecho, se desnudó y vistió la camisa; y, viéndose solo con Sancho, le dijo.	They asked him to let himself be stripped that they might put a shirt on him, but he would not on any account, saying that modesty became knights-errant just as much as valour. However, he said they might give the shirt to Sancho; and shutting himself in with him in a room where there was a sumptuous bed, he undressed and put on the shirt; and then, finding himself alone with Sancho, he said to him,
-Dime, truhán moderno y majadero antiguo: ¿parécete bien deshonrar y afrentar a una dueña tan veneranda y tan digna de respeto como aquélla? ¿Tiempos eran aquéllos para acordarte del rucio, o señores son éstos para dejar mal pasar a las bestias, tratando tan elegantemente a sus dueños? Por quien Dios es, Sancho, que te reportes, y que no descubras la hilaza de manera que caigan en la cuenta de que eres de villana y grosera tela tejido. Mira, pecador de ti, que en tanto más es tenido el señor cuanto tiene más honrados y bien nacidos criados, y que una de las ventajas mayores que llevan los príncipes a los demás hombres es que se sirven de criados tan buenos como ellos. ¿No adviertes, angustiado de ti, y malaventurado de mí, que si veen que tú eres un grosero villano, o un mentecato gracioso, pensarán que yo soy algún echacuervos, o algún caballero de mohatra? No, no, Sancho amigo, huye, huye destos inconvinientes, que quien tropieza en hablador y en gracioso, al primer puntapié cae y da en truhán desgraciado. Enfrena la lengua, considera y rumia las palabras antes que te salgan de la boca, y advierte que hemos llegado a parte donde, con el favor de Dios y valor de mi brazo, hemos de salir mejorados en tercio y quinto en fama y en hacienda.	"Tell me, thou new-fledged buffoon and old booby, dost thou think it right to offend and insult a duenna so deserving of reverence and respect as that one just now? Was that a time to bethink thee of thy Dapple, or are these noble personages likely to let the beasts fare badly when they treat their owners in such elegant style? For God's sake, Sancho, restrain thyself, and don't show the thread so as to let them see what a coarse, boorish texture thou art of. Remember, sinner that thou art, the master is the more esteemed the more respectable and well-bred his servants are; and that one of the greatest advantages that princes have over other men is that they have servants as good as themselves to wait on them. Dost thou not see- shortsighted being that thou art, and unlucky mortal that I am!- that if they perceive thee to be a coarse clown or a dull blockhead, they will suspect me to be some impostor or swindler? Nay, nay, Sancho friend, keep clear, oh, keep clear of these stumbling-blocks; for he who falls into the way of being a chatterbox and droll, drops into a wretched buffoon the first time he trips; bridle thy tongue, consider and weigh thy words before they escape thy mouth, and bear in mind we are now in quarters whence, by God's help, and the strength of my arm, we shall come forth mightily advanced in fame and fortune."
Sancho le prometió con muchas veras de coserse la boca, o morderse la lengua, antes de hablar palabra que no fuese muy a propósito y bien considerada, como él se lo mandaba, y que descuidase acerca de lo tal, que nunca por él se descubriría quién ellos eran.	Sancho promised him with much earnestness to keep his mouth shut, and to bite off his tongue before he uttered a word that was not altogether to the purpose and well considered, and told him he might make his mind easy on that point, for it should never be discovered through him what they were.
Vistióse don Quijote, púsose su tahalí con su espada, echóse el mantón de escarlata a cuestas, púsose una montera de raso verde que las doncellas le dieron, y con este adorno salió a la gran sala, adonde halló a las doncellas puestas en ala, tantas a una parte como a otra, y todas con aderezo de darle aguamanos, la cual le dieron con muchas reverencias y ceremonias.	Don Quixote dressed himself, put on his baldric with his sword, threw the scarlet mantle over his shoulders, placed on his head a montera of green satin that the damsels had given him, and thus arrayed passed out into the large room, where he found the damsels drawn up in double file, the same number on each side, all with the appliances for washing the hands, which they presented to him with profuse obeisances and ceremonies.
Luego llegaron doce pajes con el maestresala, para llevarle a comer, que ya los señores le aguardaban. Cogiéronle en medio, y, lleno de pompa y majestad, le llevaron a otra sala, donde estaba puesta una rica mesa con solos cuatro servicios. La duquesa y el duque salieron a la puerta de la sala a recebirle, y con ellos un grave eclesiástico, destos que gobiernan las casas de los príncipes; destos que, como no nacen príncipes, no aciertan a enseñar cómo lo han de ser los que lo son; destos que quieren que la grandeza de los grandes se mida con la estrecheza de sus ánimos; destos que, queriendo mostrar a los que ellos gobiernan a ser limitados, les hacen ser miserables; destos tales, digo que debía de ser el grave religioso que con los duques salió a recebir a don Quijote. Hiciéronse mil corteses comedimientos, y, finalmente, cogiendo a don Quijote en medio, se fueron a sentar a la mesa.	Then came twelve pages, together with the seneschal, to lead him to dinner, as his hosts were already waiting for him. They placed him in the midst of them, and with much pomp and stateliness they conducted him into another room, where there was a sumptuous table laid with but four covers. The duchess and the duke came out to the door of the room to receive him, and with them a grave ecclesiastic, one of those who rule noblemen's houses; one of those who, not being born magnates themselves, never know how to teach those who are how to behave as such; one of those who would have the greatness of great folk measured by their own narrowness of mind; one of those who, when they try to introduce economy into the household they rule, lead it into meanness. One of this sort, I say, must have been the grave churchman who came out with the duke and duchess to receive Don Quixote. A vast number of polite speeches were exchanged, and at length, taking Don Quixote between them, they proceeded to sit down to table.
Convidó el duque a don Quijote con la cabecera de la mesa, y aunque él lo rehusó, las importunaciones del duque fueron tantas que la hubo de tomar. El eclesiástico se sentó frontero, y el duque y la duquesa a los dos lados.	The duke pressed Don Quixote to take the head of the table, and, though he refused, the entreaties of the duke were so urgent that he had to accept it. The ecclesiastic took his seat opposite to him, and the duke and duchess those at the sides.
A todo estaba presente Sancho, embobado y atónito de ver la honra que a su señor aquellos príncipes le hacían; y, viendo las muchas ceremonias y ruegos que pasaron entre el duque y don Quijote para hacerle sentar a la cabecera de la mesa, dijo.	All this time Sancho stood by, gaping with amazement at the honour he saw shown to his master by these illustrious persons; and observing all the ceremonious pressing that had passed between the duke and Don Quixote to induce him to take his seat at the head of the table, he said,
-Si sus mercedes me dan licencia, les contaré un cuento que pasó en mi pueblo acerca desto de los asientos.	"If your worship will give me leave I will tell you a story of what happened in my village about this matter of seats."
Apenas hubo dicho esto Sancho, cuando don Quijote tembló, creyendo sin duda alguna que había de decir alguna necedad. Miróle Sancho y entendióle, y dijo.	The moment Sancho said this Don Quixote trembled, making sure that he was about to say something foolish. Sancho glanced at him, and guessing his thoughts, said,
-No tema vuesa merced, señor mío, que yo me desmande, ni que diga cosa que no venga muy a pelo, que no se me han olvidado los consejos que poco ha vuesa merced me dio sobre el hablar mucho o poco, o bien o mal.	"Don't be afraid of my going astray, senor, or saying anything that won't be pat to the purpose; I haven't forgotten the advice your worship gave me just now about talking much or little, well or ill."
-Yo no me acuerdo de nada, Sancho -respondió don Quijote-; di lo que quisieres, como lo digas presto.	"I have no recollection of anything, Sancho," said Don Quixote; "say what thou wilt, only say it quickly."
-Pues lo que quiero decir -dijo Sancho- es tan verdad, que mi señor don Quijote, que está presente, no me dejará mentir.	"Well then," said Sancho, "what I am going to say is so true that my master Don Quixote, who is here present, will keep me from lying."
-Por mí -replicó don Quijote-, miente tú, Sancho, cuanto quisieres, que yo no te iré a la mano, pero mira lo que vas a decir.	"Lie as much as thou wilt for all I care, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "for I am not going to stop thee, but consider what thou art going to say."
-Tan mirado y remirado lo tengo, que a buen salvo está el que repica, como se verá por la obra.	"I have so considered and reconsidered," said Sancho, "that the bell-ringer's in a safe berth; as will be seen by what follows."
-Bien será -dijo don Quijote- que vuestras grandezas manden echar de aquí a este tonto, que dirá mil patochadas.	"It would be well," said Don Quixote, "if your highnesses would order them to turn out this idiot, for he will talk a heap of nonsense."
-Por vida del duque -dijo la duquesa-, que no se ha de apartar de mí Sancho un punto: quiérole yo mucho, porque sé que es muy discreto.	"By the life of the duke, Sancho shall not be taken away from me for a moment," said the duchess; "I am very fond of him, for I know he is very discreet."
-Discretos días -dijo Sancho- viva vuestra santidad por el buen crédito que de mí tiene, aunque en mí no lo haya. Y el cuento que quiero decir es éste: « Convidó un hidalgo de mi pueblo, muy rico y principal, porque venía de los Álamos de Medina del Campo, que casó con doña Mencía de Quiñones, que fue hija de don Alonso de Marañón, caballero del hábito de Santiago, que se ahogó en la Herradura, por quien hubo aquella pendencia años ha en nuestro lugar, que, a lo que entiendo, mi señor don Quijote se halló en ella, de donde salió herido Tomasillo el Travieso, el hijo de Balbastro el herrero...» ¿No es verdad todo esto, señor nuestro amo? Dígalo, por su vida, porque estos señores no me tengan por algún hablador mentiroso.	"Discreet be the days of your holiness," said Sancho, "for the good opinion you have of my wit, though there's none in me; but the story I want to tell is this. There was an invitation given by a gentleman of my town, a very rich one, and one of quality, for he was one of the Alamos of Medina del Campo, and married to Dona Mencia de Quinones, the daughter of Don Alonso de Maranon, Knight of the Order of Santiago, that was drowned at the Herradura- him there was that quarrel about years ago in our village, that my master Don Quixote was mixed up in, to the best of my belief, that Tomasillo the scapegrace, the son of Balbastro the smith, was wounded in.- Isn't all this true, master mine? As you live, say so, that these gentlefolk may not take me for some lying chatterer."
-Hasta ahora -dijo el eclesiástico-, más os tengo por hablador que por mentiroso, pero de aquí adelante no sé por lo que os tendré.	"So far," said the ecclesiastic, "I take you to be more a chatterer than a liar; but I don't know what I shall take you for by-and-by."
-Tú das tantos testigos, Sancho, y tantas señas, que no puedo dejar de decir que debes de decir verdad. Pasa adelante y acorta el cuento, porque llevas camino de no acabar en dos días.	"Thou citest so many witnesses and proofs, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "that I have no choice but to say thou must be telling the truth; go on, and cut the story short, for thou art taking the way not to make an end for two days to come."
-No ha de acortar tal -dijo la duquesa-, por hacerme a mí placer; antes, le ha de contar de la manera que le sabe, aunque no le acabe en seis días; que si tantos fuesen, serían para mí los mejores que hubiese llevado en mi vida.	"He is not to cut it short," said the duchess; "on the contrary, for my gratification, he is to tell it as he knows it, though he should not finish it these six days; and if he took so many they would be to me the pleasantest I ever spent."
-« Digo, pues, señores míos -prosiguió Sancho-, que este tal hidalgo, que yo conozco como a mis manos, porque no hay de mi casa a la suya un tiro de ballesta, convidó un labrador pobre, pero honrado.	"Well then, sirs, I say," continued Sancho, "that this same gentleman, whom I know as well as I do my own hands, for it's not a bowshot from my house to his, invited a poor but respectable labourer-"
-Adelante, hermano -dijo a esta sazón el religioso-, que camino lleváis de no parar con vuestro cuento hasta el otro mundo.	"Get on, brother," said the churchman; "at the rate you are going you will not stop with your story short of the next world."
-A menos de la mitad pararé, si Dios fuere servido -respondió Sancho-. « Y así, digo que, llegando el tal labrador a casa del dicho hidalgo convidador, que buen poso haya su ánima, que ya es muerto, y por más señas dicen que hizo una muerte de un ángel, que yo no me hallé presente, que había ido por aquel tiempo a segar a Tembleque. .	"I'll stop less than half-way, please God," said Sancho; "and so I say this labourer, coming to the house of the gentleman I spoke of that invited him- rest his soul, he is now dead; and more by token he died the death of an angel, so they say; for I was not there, for just at that time I had gone to reap at Tembleque-"
-Por vida vuestra, hijo, que volváis presto de Tembleque, y que, sin enterrar al hidalgo, si no queréis hacer más exequias, acabéis vuestro cuento.	"As you live, my son," said the churchman, "make haste back from Tembleque, and finish your story without burying the gentleman, unless you want to make more funerals."
-« Es, pues, el caso -replicó Sancho- que, estando los dos para asentarse a la mesa, que parece que ahora los veo más que nunca. .	"Well then, it so happened," said Sancho, "that as the pair of them were going to sit down to table -and I think I can see them now plainer than ever-"
Gran gusto recebían los duques del disgusto que mostraba tomar el buen religioso de la dilación y pausas con que Sancho contaba su cuento, y don Quijote se estaba consumiendo en cólera y en rabia.	Great was the enjoyment the duke and duchess derived from the irritation the worthy churchman showed at the long-winded, halting way Sancho had of telling his story, while Don Quixote was chafing with rage and vexation.
-« Digo, así -dijo Sancho-, que, estando, como he dicho, los dos para sentarse a la mesa, el labrador porfiaba con el hidalgo que tomase la cabecera de la mesa, y el hidalgo porfiaba también que el labrador la tomase, porque en su casa se había de hacer lo que él mandase; pero el labrador, que presumía de cortés y bien criado, jamás quiso, hasta que el hidalgo, mohíno, poniéndole ambas manos sobre los hombros, le hizo sentar por fuerza, diciéndole: ''Sentaos, majagranzas, que adondequiera que yo me siente será vuestra cabecera''. Y éste es el cuento, y en verdad que creo que no ha sido aquí traído fuera de propósito.	"So, as I was saying," continued Sancho, "as the pair of them were going to sit down to table, as I said, the labourer insisted upon the gentleman's taking the head of the table, and the gentleman insisted upon the labourer's taking it, as his orders should be obeyed in his house; but the labourer, who plumed himself on his politeness and good breeding, would not on any account, until the gentleman, out of patience, putting his hands on his shoulders, compelled him by force to sit down, saying, 'Sit down, you stupid lout, for wherever I sit will he the head to you; and that's the story, and, troth, I think it hasn't been brought in amiss here."
Púsose don Quijote de mil colores, que sobre lo moreno le jaspeaban y se le parecían; los señores disimularon la risa, porque don Quijote no acabase de correrse, habiendo entendido la malicia de Sancho; y, por mudar de plática y hacer que Sancho no prosiguiese con otros disparates, preguntó la duquesa a don Quijote que qué nuevas tenía de la señora Dulcinea, y que si le había enviado aquellos días algunos presentes de gigantes o malandrines, pues no podía dejar de haber vencido muchos. A lo que don Quijote respondió.	Don Quixote turned all colours, which, on his sunburnt face, mottled it till it looked like jasper. The duke and duchess suppressed their laughter so as not altogether to mortify Don Quixote, for they saw through Sancho's impertinence; and to change the conversation, and keep Sancho from uttering more absurdities, the duchess asked Don Quixote what news he had of the lady Dulcinea, and if he had sent her any presents of giants or miscreants lately, for he could not but have vanquished a good many. To which Don Quixote replied,
-Señora mía, mis desgracias, aunque tuvieron principio, nunca tendrán fin. Gigantes he vencido, y follones y malandrines le he enviado, pero ¿adónde la habían de hallar, si está encantada y vuelta en la más fea labradora que imaginar se puede.	"Senora, my misfortunes, though they had a beginning, will never have an end. I have vanquished giants and I have sent her caitiffs and miscreants; but where are they to find her if she is enchanted and turned into the most ill-favoured peasant wench that can be imagined?"
-No sé -dijo Sancho Panza-, a mí me parece la más hermosa criatura del mundo; a lo menos, en la ligereza y en el brincar bien sé yo que no dará ella la ventaja a un volteador; a buena fe, señora duquesa, así salta desde el suelo sobre una borrica como si fuera un gato.	"I don't know," said Sancho Panza; "to me she seems the fairest creature in the world; at any rate, in nimbleness and jumping she won't give in to a tumbler; by my faith, senora duchess, she leaps from the ground on to the back of an ass like a cat."
-¿Habéisla visto vos encantada, Sancho? -preguntó el duque.	"Have you seen her enchanted, Sancho?" asked the duke.
-Y ¡cómo si la he visto! -respondió Sancho-. Pues, ¿quién diablos sino yo fue el primero que cayó en el achaque del encantorio? ¡Tan encantada está como mi padre.	"What, seen her!" said Sancho; "why, who the devil was it but myself that first thought of the enchantment business? She is as much enchanted as my father."
El eclesiástico, que oyó decir de gigantes, de follones y de encantos, cayó en la cuenta de que aquél debía de ser don Quijote de la Mancha, cuya historia leía el duque de ordinario, y él se lo había reprehendido muchas veces, diciéndole que era disparate leer tales disparates; y, enterándose ser verdad lo que sospechaba, con mucha cólera, hablando con el duque, le dijo.	The ecclesiastic, when he heard them talking of giants and caitiffs and enchantments, began to suspect that this must be Don Quixote of La Mancha, whose story the duke was always reading; and he had himself often reproved him for it, telling him it was foolish to read such fooleries; and becoming convinced that his suspicion was correct, addressing the duke, he said very angrily to him,
-Vuestra Excelencia, señor mío, tiene que dar cuenta a Nuestro Señor de lo que hace este buen hombre. Este don Quijote, o don Tonto, o como se llama, imagino yo que no debe de ser tan mentecato como Vuestra Excelencia quiere que sea, dándole ocasiones a la mano para que lleve adelante sus sandeces y vaciedades.	"Senor, your excellence will have to give account to God for what this good man does. This Don Quixote, or Don Simpleton, or whatever his name is, cannot, I imagine, be such a blockhead as your excellence would have him, holding out encouragement to him to go on with his vagaries and follies."
Y, volviendo la plática a don Quijote, le dijo.	Then turning to address Don Quixote he said,
-Y a vos, alma de cántaro, ¿quién os ha encajado en el celebro que sois caballero andante y que vencéis gigantes y prendéis malandrines? Andad en hora buena, y en tal se os diga: volveos a vuestra casa, y criad vuestros hijos, si los tenéis, y curad de vuestra hacienda, y dejad de andar vagando por el mundo, papando viento y dando que reír a cuantos os conocen y no conocen. ¿En dónde, nora tal, habéis vos hallado que hubo ni hay ahora caballeros andantes? ¿Dónde hay gigantes en España, o malandrines en la Mancha, ni Dulcineas encantadas, ni toda la caterva de las simplicidades que de vos se cuentan.	"And you, num-skull, who put it into your head that you are a knight-errant, and vanquish giants and capture miscreants? Go your ways in a good hour, and in a good hour be it said to you. Go home and bring up your children if you have any, and attend to your business, and give over going wandering about the world, gaping and making a laughing-stock of yourself to all who know you and all who don't. Where, in heaven's name, have you discovered that there are or ever were knights-errant? Where are there giants in Spain or miscreants in La Mancha, or enchanted Dulcineas, or all the rest of the silly things they tell about you?"
Atento estuvo don Quijote a las razones de aquel venerable varón, y, viendo que ya callaba, sin guardar respeto a los duques, con semblante airado y alborotado rostro, se puso en pie y dijo. .	Don Quixote listened attentively to the reverend gentleman's words, and as soon as he perceived he had done speaking, regardless of the presence of the duke and duchess, he sprang to his feet with angry looks and an agitated countenance, and said-
Pero esta respuesta capítulo por sí merece.	But the reply deserves a chapter to itself.