"Then with that assurance and your highness's good leave," said Don Quixote, "I hereby for this once waive my privilege of gentle blood, and come down and put myself on a level with the lowly birth of the wrong-doer, making myself equal with him and enabling him to enter into combat with me; and so, I challenge and defy him, though absent, on the plea of his malfeasance in breaking faith with this poor damsel, who was a maiden and now by his misdeed is none; and say that he shall fulfill the promise he gave her to become her lawful husband, or else stake his life upon the question."
-Pues con ese seguro y con buena licencia de vuestra grandeza -replicó don Quijote-, desde aquí digo que por esta vez renuncio a mi hidalguía, y me allano y ajusto con la llaneza del dañador, y me hago igual con él, habilitándole para poder combatir conmigo; y así, aunque ausente, le desafío y repto, en razón de que hizo mal en defraudar a esta pobre, que fue doncella y ya por su culpa no lo es, y que le ha de cumplir la palabra que le dio de ser su legítimo esposo, o morir en la demanda.