"By God the basin is a good one, and worth a real of eight if it is worth a maravedis," and handed it to his master, who immediately put it on his head, turning it round, now this way, now that, in search of fitment, and not finding it he said, "Clearly the pagan to whose measure this famous head-piece was first forged must have had a very large head; but the worst of it is half of it is wanting."
-Por Dios, que la bacía es buena y que vale un real de a ocho como un maravedí. Y, dándosela a su amo, se la puso luego en la cabeza, rodeándola a una parte y a otra, buscándole el encaje; y, como no se le hallaba, dijo: -Sin duda que el pagano, a cuya medida se forjó primero esta famosa celada, debía de tener grandísima cabeza, y lo peor dello es que le falta la mitad.