My parents are this lord's vassals, lowly in origin, but so wealthy that if birth had conferred as much on them as fortune, they would have had nothing left to desire, nor should I have had reason to fear trouble like that in which I find myself now; for it may be that my ill fortune came of theirs in not having been nobly born.
Deste señor son vasallos mis padres, humildes en linaje, pero tan ricos que si los bienes de su naturaleza igualaran a los de su fortuna, ni ellos tuvieran más que desear ni yo temiera verme en la desdicha en que me veo; porque quizá nace mi poca ventura de la que no tuvieron ellos en no haber nacido ilustres.