"Had your worship told me at the beginning of your story that the Lady Luscinda was fond of books of chivalry, no other laudation would have been requisite to impress upon me the superiority of her understanding, for it could not have been of the excellence you describe had a taste for such delightful reading been wanting; so, as far as I am concerned, you need waste no more words in describing her beauty, worth, and intelligence; for, on merely hearing what her taste was, I declare her to be the most beautiful and the most intelligent woman in the world; and I wish your worship had, along with Amadis of Gaul, sent her the worthy Don Rugel of Greece, for I know the Lady Luscinda would greatly relish Daraida and Garaya, and the shrewd sayings of the shepherd Darinel, and the admirable verses of his bucolics, sung and delivered by him with such sprightliness, wit, and ease; but a time may come when this omission can be remedied, and to rectify it nothing more is needed than for your worship to be so good as to come with me to my village, for there I can give you more than three hundred books which are the delight of my soul and the entertainment of my life;—though it occurs to me that I have not got one of them now, thanks to the spite of wicked and envious enchanters;—but pardon me for having broken the promise we made not to interrupt your discourse; for when I hear chivalry or knights-errant mentioned, I can no more help talking about them than the rays of the sun can help giving heat, or those of the moon moisture; pardon me, therefore, and proceed, for that is more to the purpose now."
Pero tiempo podrá venir en que se enmiende esa falta, y no dura más en hacerse la enmienda de cuanto quiera vuestra merced ser servido de venirse conmigo a mi aldea, que allí le podré dar más de trecientos libros, que son el regalo de mi alma y el entretenimiento de mi vida; aunque tengo para mí que ya no tengo ninguno, merced a la malicia de malos y envidiosos encantadores. Y perdóneme vuestra merced el haber contravenido a lo que prometimos de no interromper su plática, pues, en oyendo cosas de caballerías y de caballeros andantes, así es en mi mano dejar de hablar en ellos, como lo es en la de los rayos del sol dejar de calentar, ni humedecer en los de la luna.