"No more of that, senor," said Sancho; "'let the hen live, even though it be with her pip; 'today for thee and to-morrow for me;' in these affairs of encounters and whacks one must not mind them, for he that falls to-day may get up to-morrow; unless indeed he chooses to lie in bed, I mean gives way to weakness and does not pluck up fresh spirit for fresh battles; let your worship get up now to receive Don Gregorio; for the household seems to be in a bustle, and no doubt he has come by this time;" and so it proved, for as soon as Don Gregorio and the renegade had given the viceroy an account of the voyage out and home, Don Gregorio, eager to see Ana Felix, came with the renegade to Don Antonio's house.
-Déjese deso, señor -dijo Sancho-: viva la gallina, aunque con su pepita, que hoy por ti y mañana por mí; y en estas cosas de encuentros y porrazos no hay tomarles tiento alguno, pues el que hoy cae puede levantarse mañana, si no es que se quiere estar en la cama; quiero decir que se deje desmayar, sin cobrar nuevos bríos para nuevas pendencias. Y levántese vuestra merced agora para recebir a don Gregorio, que me parece que anda la gente alborotada, y ya debe de estar en casa.