Measure out seven feet on the earth, brother squire, and if that's not enough for you, take as many more, for you may have it all your own way and stretch yourself to your heart's content. Oh that I could see burnt and turned to ashes the first man that meddled with knight-errantry or at any rate the first who chose to be squire to such fools as all the knights-errant of past times must have been!
Contad, hermano escudero, siete pies de tierra, y si quisiéredes más, tomad otros tantos, que en vuestra mano está escudillar, y tendeos a todo vuestro buen talante; que quemado vea yo y hecho polvos al primero que dio puntada en la andante caballería, o, a lo menos, al primero que quiso ser escudero de tales tontos como debieron ser todos los caballeros andantes pasados.