Don Quixote thought that to say anything further with regard to his safety would be putting his courage in an unfavourable light; and so, without more words, he mounted Clavileno, and tried the peg, which turned easily; and as he had no stirrups and his legs hung down, he looked like nothing so much as a figure in some Roman triumph painted or embroidered on a Flemish tapestry.
Parecióle a don Quijote que cualquiera cosa que replicase acerca de su seguridad sería poner en detrimento su valentía; y así, sin más altercar, subió sobre Clavileño y le tentó la clavija, que fácilmente se rodeaba; y, como no tenía estribos y le colgaban las piernas, no parecía sino figura de tapiz flamenco pintada o tejida en algún romano triunfo.