"Don't wait for that," said Don Quixote; "I'll help you in everything," and so he did, sifting the barley for him and cleaning out the manger; a degree of humility which made the other feel bound to tell him with a good grace what he had asked; so seating himself on a bench, with Don Quixote beside him, and the cousin, the page, Sancho Panza, and the landlord, for a senate and an audience, he began his story in this way:
-No quede por eso -respondió don Quijote-, que yo os ayudaré a todo. Y así lo hizo, ahechándole la cebada y limpiando el pesebre, humildad que obligó al hombre a contarle con buena voluntad lo que le pedía; y, sentándose en un poyo y don Quijote junto a él, teniendo por senado y auditorio al primo, al paje, a Sancho Panza y al ventero, comenzó a decir desta manera: