While Don Quixote was talking in this strain, the curate was endeavouring to persuade the officers that he was out of his senses, as they might perceive by his deeds and his words, and that they need not press the matter any further, for even if they arrested him and carried him off, they would have to release him by-and-by as a madman; to which the holder of the warrant replied that he had nothing to do with inquiring into Don Quixote's madness, but only to execute his superior's orders, and that once taken they might let him go three hundred times if they liked.
En tanto que don Quijote esto decía, estaba persuadiendo el cura a los cuadrilleros como don Quijote era falto de juicio, como lo veían por sus obras y por sus palabras, y que no tenían para qué llevar aquel negocio adelante, pues, aunque le prendiesen y llevasen, luego le habían de dejar por loco; a lo que respondió el del mandamiento que a él no tocaba juzgar de la locura de don Quijote, sino hacer lo que por su mayor le era mandado, y que una vez preso, siquiera le soltasen trecientas.