One morning as Don Quixote went out for a stroll along the beach, arrayed in full armour (for, as he often said, that was "his only gear, his only rest the fray," and he never was without it for a moment), he saw coming towards him a knight, also in full armour, with a shining moon painted on his shield, who, on approaching sufficiently near to be heard, said in a loud voice, addressing himself to Don Quixote, "Illustrious knight, and never sufficiently extolled Don Quixote of La Mancha, I am the Knight of the White Moon, whose unheard-of achievements will perhaps have recalled him to thy memory.
Y una mañana, saliendo don Quijote a pasearse por la playa armado de todas sus armas, porque, como muchas veces decía, ellas eran sus arreos, y su descanso el pelear, y no se hallaba sin ellas un punto, vio venir hacía él un caballero, armado asimismo de punta en blanco, que en el escudo traía pintada una luna resplandeciente; el cual, llegándose a trecho que podía ser oído, en altas voces, encaminando sus razones a don Quijote, dijo: -Insigne caballero y jamás como se debe alabado don Quijote de la Mancha, yo soy el Caballero de la Blanca Luna, cuyas inauditas hazañas quizá te le habrán traído a la memoria.