It was an August day with all the heat of one, and the heat in those parts is intense, and the hour was three in the afternoon, all which made the spot the more inviting and tempted them to wait there for Sancho's return, which they did. They were reposing, then, in the shade, when a voice unaccompanied by the notes of any instrument, but sweet and pleasing in its tone, reached their ears, at which they were not a little astonished, as the place did not seem to them likely quarters for one who sang so well; for though it is often said that shepherds of rare voice are to be found in the woods and fields, this is rather a flight of the poet's fancy than the truth.
El calor, y el día que allí llegaron, era de los del mes de agosto, que por aquellas partes suele ser el ardor muy grande; la hora, las tres de la tarde: todo lo cual hacía al sitio más agradable, y que convidase a que en él esperasen la vuelta de Sancho, como lo hicieron. Estando, pues, los dos allí, sosegados y a la sombra, llegó a sus oídos una voz que, sin acompañarla son de algún otro instrumento, dulce y regaladamente sonaba, de que no poco se admiraron, por parecerles que aquél no era lugar donde pudiese haber quien tan bien cantase.