Don Quixote laughed at Sancho's affected phraseology, and perceived that what he said about his improvement was true, for now and then he spoke in a way that surprised him; though always, or mostly, when Sancho tried to talk fine and attempted polite language, he wound up by toppling over from the summit of his simplicity into the abyss of his ignorance; and where he showed his culture and his memory to the greatest advantage was in dragging in proverbs, no matter whether they had any bearing or not upon the subject in hand, as may have been seen already and will be noticed in the course of this history.
Rióse don Quijote de las afectadas razones de Sancho, y parecióle ser verdad lo que decía de su emienda, porque de cuando en cuando hablaba de manera que le admiraba; puesto que todas o las más veces que Sancho quería hablar de oposición y a lo cortesano, acababa su razón con despeñarse del monte de su simplicidad al profundo de su ignorancia; y en lo que él se mostraba más elegante y memorioso era en traer refranes, viniesen o no viniesen a pelo de lo que trataba, como se habrá visto y se habrá notado en el discurso desta historia.