There he lay like a tortoise enclosed in its shell, or a side of bacon between two kneading-troughs, or a boat bottom up on the beach; nor did the gang of jokers feel any compassion for him when they saw him down; so far from that, extinguishing their torches they began to shout afresh and to renew the calls to arms with such energy, trampling on poor Sancho, and slashing at him over the shield with their swords in such a way that, if he had not gathered himself together and made himself small and drawn in his head between the shields, it would have fared badly with the poor governor, as, squeezed into that narrow compass, he lay, sweating and sweating again, and commending himself with all his heart to God to deliver him from his present peril.
Quedó como galápago encerrado y cubierto con sus conchas, o como medio tocino metido entre dos artesas, o bien así como barca que da al través en la arena; y no por verle caído aquella gente burladora le tuvieron compasión alguna; antes, apagando las antorchas, tornaron a reforzar las voces, y a reiterar el ¡arma! con tan gran priesa, pasando por encima del pobre Sancho, dándole infinitas cuchilladas sobre los paveses, que si él no se recogiera y encogiera, metiendo la cabeza entre los paveses, lo pasara muy mal el pobre gobernador, el cual, en aquella estrecheza recogido, sudaba y trasudaba, y de todo corazón se encomendaba a Dios que de aquel peligro le sacase.