Great was the pleasure the duke and duchess took in the conversation of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza; and, more bent than ever upon the plan they had of practising some jokes upon them that should have the look and appearance of adventures, they took as their basis of action what Don Quixote had already told them about the cave of Montesinos, in order to play him a famous one. But what the duchess marvelled at above all was that Sancho's simplicity could be so great as to make him believe as absolute truth that Dulcinea had been enchanted, when it was he himself who had been the enchanter and trickster in the business. Having, therefore, instructed their servants in everything they were to do, six days afterwards they took him out to hunt, with as great a retinue of huntsmen and beaters as a crowned king.
Grande era el gusto que recebían el duque y la duquesa de la conversación de don Quijote y de la de Sancho Panza; y, confirmándose en la intención que tenían de hacerles algunas burlas que llevasen vislumbres y apariencias de aventuras, tomaron motivo de la que don Quijote ya les había contado de la cueva de Montesinos, para hacerle una que fuese famosa (pero de lo que más la duquesa se admiraba era que la simplicidad de Sancho fuese tanta que hubiese venido a creer ser verdad infalible que Dulcinea del Toboso estuviese encantada, habiendo sido él mesmo el encantador y el embustero de aquel negocio); y así, habiendo dado orden a sus criados de todo lo que habían de hacer, de allí a seis días le llevaron a caza de montería, con tanto aparato de monteros y cazadores como pudiera llevar un rey coronado.