In this way, and in sighing and calling on the fauns and satyrs of the woods and the nymphs of the streams, and Echo, moist and mournful, to answer, console, and hear him, as well as in looking for herbs to sustain him, he passed his time until Sancho's return; and had that been delayed three weeks, as it was three days, the Knight of the Rueful Countenance would have worn such an altered countenance that the mother that bore him would not have known him: and here it will be well to leave him, wrapped up in sighs and verses, to relate how Sancho Panza fared on his mission.
En esto, y en suspirar y en llamar a los faunos y silvanos de aquellos bosques, a las ninfas de los ríos, a la dolorosa y húmida Eco, que le respondiese, consolasen y escuchasen, se entretenía, y en buscar algunas yerbas con que sustentarse en tanto que Sancho volvía; que, si como tardó tres días, tardara tres semanas, el Caballero de la Triste Figura quedara tan desfigurado que no le conociera la madre que lo parió. Y será bien dejalle, envuelto entre sus suspiros y versos, por contar lo que le avino a Sancho Panza en su mandadería.