To which Sancho answered, "I spent them for my own good, and my wife's, and my children's, and it is they that have made my wife bear so patiently all my wanderings on highways and byways, in the service of my master, Don Quixote; for if after all this time I had come back to the house without a rap and without the ass, it would have been a poor look-out for me; and if anyone wants to know anything more about me, here I am, ready to answer the king himself in person; and it is no affair of anyone's whether I took or did not take, whether I spent or did not spend; for the whacks that were given me in these journeys were to be paid for in money, even if they were valued at no more than four maravedis apiece, another hundred crowns would not pay me for half of them. Let each look to himself and not try to make out white black, and black white; for each of us is as God made him, aye, and often worse."
Respondió Sancho: -Yo los gasté en pro de mi persona y de la de mi mujer, y de mis hijos, y ellos han sido causa de que mi mujer lleve en paciencia los caminos y carreras que he andado sirviendo a mi señor don Quijote; que si, al cabo de tanto tiempo, volviera sin blanca y sin el jumento a mi casa, negra ventura me esperaba; y si hay más que saber de mí, aquí estoy, que responderé al mismo rey en presona, y nadie tiene para qué meterse en si truje o no truje, si gasté o no gasté; que si los palos que me dieron en estos viajes se hubieran de pagar a dinero, aunque no se tasaran sino a cuatro maravedís cada uno, en otros cien escudos no había para pagarme la mitad; y cada uno meta la mano en su pecho, y no se ponga a juzgar lo blanco por negro y lo negro por blanco; que cada uno es como Dios le hizo, y aun peor muchas veces.