To which he made answer, 'Forgive me, Senor Don Quixote; I own I was wrong and spoke unadvisedly in saying that the lady Dulcinea could scarcely come up to the lady Belerma; for it were enough for me to have learned, by what means I know not, that you are her knight, to make me bite my tongue out before I compared her to anything save heaven itself.'
A lo que él me respondió: ''Señor don Quijote, perdóneme vuesa merced, que yo confieso que anduve mal, y no dije bien en decir que apenas igualara la señora Dulcinea a la señora Belerma, pues me bastaba a mí haber entendido, por no sé qué barruntos, que vuesa merced es su caballero, para que me mordiera la lengua antes de compararla sino con el mismo cielo''.