Don Quixote saw very plainly the attention with which the traveller was regarding him, and read his curiosity in his astonishment; and courteous as he was and ready to please everybody, before the other could ask him any question he anticipated him by saying, "The appearance I present to your worship being so strange and so out of the common, I should not be surprised if it filled you with wonder; but you will cease to wonder when I tell you, as I do, that I am one of those knights who, as people say, go seeking adventures.
Notó bien don Quijote la atención con que el caminante le miraba, y leyóle en la suspensión su deseo; y, como era tan cortés y tan amigo de dar gusto a todos, antes que le preguntase nada, le salió al camino, diciéndole: -Esta figura que vuesa merced en mí ha visto, por ser tan nueva y tan fuera de las que comúnmente se usan, no me maravillaría yo de que le hubiese maravillado; pero dejará vuesa merced de estarlo cuando le diga, como le digo, que soy caballero destos que dicen las gentes que a sus aventuras van.