We left the great governor angered and irritated by that portrait-painting rogue of a farmer who, instructed the majordomo, as the majordomo was by the duke, tried to practise upon him; he however, fool, boor, and clown as he was, held his own against them all, saying to those round him and to Doctor Pedro Recio, who as soon as the private business of the duke's letter was disposed of had returned to the room, "Now I see plainly enough that judges and governors ought to be and must be made of brass not to feel the importunities of the applicants that at all times and all seasons insist on being heard, and having their business despatched, and their own affairs and no others attended to, come what may; and if the poor judge does not hear them and settle the matter—either because he cannot or because that is not the time set apart for hearing them-forthwith they abuse him, and run him down, and gnaw at his bones, and even pick holes in his pedigree.
Dejamos al gran gobernador enojado y mohíno con el labrador pintor y socarrón, el cual, industriado del mayordomo, y el mayordomo del duque, se burlaban de Sancho; pero él se las tenía tiesas a todos, maguera tonto, bronco y rollizo, y dijo a los que con él estaban, y al doctor Pedro Recio, que, como se acabó el secreto de la carta del duque, había vuelto a entrar en la sala: -Ahora verdaderamente que entiendo que los jueces y gobernadores deben de ser, o han de ser, de bronce, para no sentir las importunidades de los negociantes, que a todas horas y a todos tiempos quieren que los escuchen y despachen, atendiendo sólo a su negocio, venga lo que viniere; y si el pobre del juez no los escucha y despacha, o porque no puede o porque no es aquél el tiempo diputado para darles audiencia, luego les maldicen y murmuran, y les roen los huesos, y aun les deslindan los linajes.