By these words of his the travellers were able to satisfy themselves of Don Quixote's being out of his senses and of the form of madness that overmastered him, at which they felt the same astonishment that all felt on first becoming acquainted with it; and Vivaldo, who was a person of great shrewdness and of a lively temperament, in order to beguile the short journey which they said was required to reach the mountain, the scene of the burial, sought to give him an opportunity of going on with his absurdities.
Por estas razones que dijo, acabaron de enterarse los caminantes que era don Quijote falto de juicio, y del género de locura que lo señoreaba, de lo cual recibieron la mesma admiración que recibían todos aquellos que de nuevo venían en conocimiento della. Y Vivaldo, que era persona muy discreta y de alegre condición, por pasar sin pesadumbre el poco camino que decían que les faltaba, al llegar a la sierra del entierro, quiso darle ocasión a que pasase más adelante con sus disparates.