The duchess was ready to die with laughter when she saw Sancho's rage and heard his words; but it was no pleasure to Don Quixote to see him in such a sorry trim, with the dingy towel about him, and the hangers-on of the kitchen all round him; so making a low bow to the duke and duchess, as if to ask their permission to speak, he addressed the rout in a dignified tone:
Perecida de risa estaba la duquesa, viendo la cólera y oyendo las razones de Sancho, pero no dio mucho gusto a don Quijote verle tan mal adeliñado con la jaspeada toalla, y tan rodeado de tantos entretenidos de cocina; y así, haciendo una profunda reverencia a los duques, como que les pedía licencia para hablar, con voz reposada dijo a la canalla: