Sancho strove to comfort him, and among other things he said to him, "Hold up your head, senor, and be of good cheer if you can, and give thanks to heaven that if you have had a tumble to the ground you have not come off with a broken rib; and, as you know that 'where they give they take,' and that 'there are not always fletches where there are pegs,' a fig for the doctor, for there's no need of him to cure this ailment. Let us go home, and give over going about in search of adventures in strange lands and places; rightly looked at, it is I that am the greater loser, though it is your worship that has had the worse usage.
Consolábale Sancho, y, entre otras razones, le dijo: -Señor mío, alce vuestra merced la cabeza y alégrese, si puede, y dé gracias al cielo que, ya que le derribó en la tierra, no salió con alguna costilla quebrada; y, pues sabe que donde las dan las toman, y que no siempre hay tocinos donde hay estacas, dé una higa al médico, pues no le ha menester para que le cure en esta enfermedad: volvámonos a nuestra casa y dejémonos de andar buscando aventuras por tierras y lugares que no sabemos; y, si bien se considera, yo soy aquí el más perdidoso, aunque es vuestra merced el más mal parado.