At length the duke came out to take her down, and as they entered a spacious court two fair damsels came forward and threw over Don Quixote's shoulders a large mantle of the finest scarlet cloth, and at the same instant all the galleries of the court were lined with the men-servants and women-servants of the household, crying, "Welcome, flower and cream of knight-errantry!" while all or most of them flung pellets filled with scented water over Don Quixote and the duke and duchess; at all which Don Quixote was greatly astonished, and this was the first time that he thoroughly felt and believed himself to be a knight-errant in reality and not merely in fancy, now that he saw himself treated in the same way as he had read of such knights being treated in days of yore.
En fin, salió el duque a apearla; y al entrar en un gran patio, llegaron dos hermosas doncellas y echaron sobre los hombros a don Quijote un gran manto de finísima escarlata, y en un instante se coronaron todos los corredores del patio de criados y criadas de aquellos señores, diciendo a grandes voces: -¡Bien sea venido la flor y la nata de los caballeros andantes! Y todos, o los más, derramaban pomos de aguas olorosas sobre don Quijote y sobre los duques, de todo lo cual se admiraba don Quijote; y aquél fue el primer día que de todo en todo conoció y creyó ser caballero andante verdadero, y no fantástico, viéndose tratar del mesmo modo que él había leído se trataban los tales caballeros en los pasados siglos.