He told them, moreover, how his lord, if he brought him a favourable answer from the lady Dulcinea del Toboso, was to put himself in the way of endeavouring to become an emperor, or at least a monarch; for it had been so settled between them, and with his personal worth and the might of his arm it was an easy matter to come to be one: and how on becoming one his lord was to make a marriage for him (for he would be a widower by that time, as a matter of course) and was to give him as a wife one of the damsels of the empress, the heiress of some rich and grand state on the mainland, having nothing to do with islands of any sort, for he did not care for them now.
Dijo también como su señor, en trayendo que le trujese buen despacho de la señora Dulcinea del Toboso, se había de poner en camino a procurar cómo ser emperador, o, por lo menos, monarca; que así lo tenían concertado entre los dos, y era cosa muy fácil venir a serlo, según era el valor de su persona y la fuerza de su brazo; y que, en siéndolo, le había de casar a él, porque ya sería viudo, que no podía ser menos, y le había de dar por mujer a una doncella de la emperatriz, heredera de un rico y grande estado de tierra firme, sin ínsulos ni ínsulas, que ya no las quería.