But after all, though still under the same fear and apprehension, he has recorded it without adding to the story or leaving out a particle of the truth, and entirely disregarding the charges of falsehood that might be brought against him; and he was right, for the truth may run fine but will not break, and always rises above falsehood as oil above water; and so, going on with his story, he says that as soon as Don Quixote had ensconced himself in the forest, oak grove, or wood near El Toboso, he bade Sancho return to the city, and not come into his presence again without having first spoken on his behalf to his lady, and begged of her that it might be her good pleasure to permit herself to be seen by her enslaved knight, and deign to bestow her blessing upon him, so that he might thereby hope for a happy issue in all his encounters and difficult enterprises.
Y tuvo razón, porque la verdad adelgaza y no quiebra, y siempre anda sobre la mentira como el aceite sobre el agua. Y así, prosiguiendo su historia, dice que, así como don Quijote se emboscó en la floresta, encinar o selva junto al gran Toboso, mandó a Sancho volver a la ciudad, y que no volviese a su presencia sin haber primero hablado de su parte a su señora, pidiéndola fuese servida de dejarse ver de su cautivo caballero, y se dignase de echarle su bendición, para que pudiese esperar por ella felicísimos sucesos de todos sus acometimientos y dificultosas empresas.