"I can well believe," replied Don Quixote, "that if Sacripante or Roland had been poets they would have given the damsel a trimming; for it is naturally the way with poets who have been scorned and rejected by their ladies, whether fictitious or not, in short by those whom they select as the ladies of their thoughts, to avenge themselves in satires and libels—a vengeance, to be sure, unworthy of generous hearts; but up to the present I have not heard of any defamatory verse against the Lady Angelica, who turned the world upside down."
-Bien creo yo -respondió don Quijote- que si Sacripante o Roldán fueran poetas, que ya me hubieran jabonado a la doncella; porque es propio y natural de los poetas desdeñados y no admitidos de sus damas fingidas -o fingidas, en efeto, de aquéllos a quien ellos escogieron por señoras de sus pensamientos-, vengarse con sátiras y libelos (venganza, por cierto, indigna de pechos generosos), pero hasta agora no ha llegado a mi noticia ningún verso infamatorio contra la señora Angélica, que trujo revuelto el mundo.