"But while I was in the city, uncertain what to do, as I could not find Don Fernando, I heard notice given by the public crier offering a great reward to anyone who should find me, and giving the particulars of my age and of the very dress I wore; and I heard it said that the lad who came with me had taken me away from my father's house; a thing that cut me to the heart, showing how low my good name had fallen, since it was not enough that I should lose it by my flight, but they must add with whom I had fled, and that one so much beneath me and so unworthy of my consideration.
»Estando, pues, en la ciudad, sin saber qué hacerme, pues a don Fernando no hallaba, llegó a mis oídos un público pregón, donde se prometía grande hallazgo a quien me hallase, dando las señas de la edad y del mesmo traje que traía; y oí decir que se decía que me había sacado de casa de mis padres el mozo que conmigo vino, cosa que me llegó al alma, por ver cuán de caída andaba mi crédito, pues no bastaba perderle con mi venida, sino añadir el con quién, siendo subjeto tan bajo y tan indigno de mis buenos pensamientos.