"Do nothing of the kind," said Don Quixote; "remember the true story of the licentiate Torralva that the devils carried flying through the air riding on a stick with his eyes shut; who in twelve hours reached Rome and dismounted at Torre di Nona, which is a street of the city, and saw the whole sack and storming and the death of Bourbon, and was back in Madrid the next morning, where he gave an account of all he had seen; and he said moreover that as he was going through the air, the devil bade him open his eyes, and he did so, and saw himself so near the body of the moon, so it seemed to him, that he could have laid hold of it with his hand, and that he did not dare to look at the earth lest he should be seized with giddiness.
-No hagas tal -respondió don Quijote-, y acuérdate del verdadero cuento del licenciado Torralba, a quien llevaron los diablos en volandas por el aire, caballero en una caña, cerrados los ojos, y en doce horas llegó a Roma, y se apeó en Torre de Nona, que es una calle de la ciudad, y vio todo el fracaso y asalto y muerte de Borbón, y por la mañana ya estaba de vuelta en Madrid, donde dio cuenta de todo lo que había visto; el cual asimismo dijo que cuando iba por el aire le mandó el diablo que abriese los ojos, y los abrió, y se vio tan cerca, a su parecer, del cuerpo de la luna, que la pudiera asir con la mano, y que no osó mirar a la tierra por no desvanecerse.