The canon agreed, and going on ahead with his servants, listened with attention to the account of the character, life, madness, and ways of Don Quixote, given him by the curate, who described to him briefly the beginning and origin of his craze, and told him the whole story of his adventures up to his being confined in the cage, together with the plan they had of taking him home to try if by any means they could discover a cure for his madness.
Hízolo así el canónigo, y adelantóse con sus criados y con él: estuvo atento a todo aquello que decirle quiso de la condición, vida, locura y costumbres de don Quijote, contándole brevemente el principio y causa de su desvarío, y todo el progreso de sus sucesos, hasta haberlo puesto en aquella jaula, y el disignio que llevaban de llevarle a su tierra, para ver si por algún medio hallaban remedio a su locura.