I am resolved with your worship's leave, lady of my soul, to make the most of this fair day, and go to Court to stretch myself at ease in a coach, and make all those I have envying me already burst their eyes out; so I beg your excellence to order my husband to send me a small trifle of money, and to let it be something to speak of, because one's expenses are heavy at the Court; for a loaf costs a real, and meat thirty maravedis a pound, which is beyond everything; and if he does not want me to go let him tell me in time, for my feet are on the fidgets to be off; and my friends and neighbours tell me that if my daughter and I make a figure and a brave show at Court, my husband will come to be known far more by me than I by him, for of course plenty of people will ask, "Who are those ladies in that coach?" and some servant of mine will answer, "The wife and daughter of Sancho Panza, governor of the island of Barataria;" and in this way Sancho will become known, and I'll be thought well of, and "to Rome for everything."
Yo, señora de mi alma, estoy determinada, con licencia de vuesa merced, de meter este buen día en mi casa, yéndome a la corte a tenderme en un coche, para quebrar los ojos a mil envidiosos que ya tengo; y así, suplico a vuesa excelencia mande a mi marido me envíe algún dinerillo, y que sea algo qué, porque en la corte son los gastos grandes: que el pan vale a real, y la carne, la libra, a treinta maravedís, que es un juicio; y si quisiere que no vaya, que me lo avise con tiempo, porque me están bullendo los pies por ponerme en camino; que me dicen mis amigas y mis vecinas que, si yo y mi hija andamos orondas y pomposas en la corte, vendrá a ser conocido mi marido por mí más que yo por él, siendo forzoso que pregunten muchos: ''-¿Quién son estas señoras deste coche?'' Y un criado mío responder: ''-La mujer y la hija de Sancho Panza, gobernador de la ínsula Barataria''; y desta manera será conocido Sancho, y yo seré estimada, y a Roma por todo.