Sancho promised him with much earnestness to keep his mouth shut, and to bite off his tongue before he uttered a word that was not altogether to the purpose and well considered, and told him he might make his mind easy on that point, for it should never be discovered through him what they were.
Sancho le prometió con muchas veras de coserse la boca, o morderse la lengua, antes de hablar palabra que no fuese muy a propósito y bien considerada, como él se lo mandaba, y que descuidase acerca de lo tal, que nunca por él se descubriría quién ellos eran.