This being as it is, it is clear that this ape speaks by the spirit of the devil; and I am astonished they have not denounced him to the Holy Office, and put him to the question, and forced it out of him by whose virtue it is that he divines; because it is certain this ape is not an astrologer; neither his master nor he sets up, or knows how to set up, those figures they call judiciary, which are now so common in Spain that there is not a jade, or page, or old cobbler, that will not undertake to set up a figure as readily as pick up a knave of cards from the ground, bringing to nought the marvellous truth of the science by their lies and ignorance.
Y, siendo esto así, como lo es, está claro que este mono habla con el estilo del diablo; y estoy maravillado cómo no le han acusado al Santo Oficio, y examinádole y sacádole de cuajo en virtud de quién adivina; porque cierto está que este mono no es astrólogo, ni su amo ni él alzan, ni saben alzar, estas figuras que llaman judiciarias, que tanto ahora se usan en España, que no hay mujercilla, ni paje, ni zapatero de viejo que no presuma de alzar una figura, como si fuera una sota de naipes del suelo, echando a perder con sus mentiras e ignorancias la verdad maravillosa de la ciencia.