The impudent servitors, and even the seneschal who came with them, took the duchess to be speaking in earnest, so they removed the straining-cloth from Sancho's neck, and with something like shame and confusion of face went off all of them and left him; whereupon he, seeing himself safe out of that extreme danger, as it seemed to him, ran and fell on his knees before the duchess, saying, "From great ladies great favours may be looked for; this which your grace has done me today cannot be requited with less than wishing I was dubbed a knight-errant, to devote myself all the days of my life to the service of so exalted a lady.
Creyeron los apicarados ministros, y aun el maestresala, que venía con ellos, que la duquesa hablaba de veras; y así, quitaron el cernadero del pecho de Sancho, y todos confusos y casi corridos se fueron y le dejaron; el cual, viéndose fuera de aquel, a su parecer, sumo peligro, se fue a hincar de rodillas ante la duquesa y dijo: -De grandes señoras, grandes mercedes se esperan; esta que la vuestra merced hoy me ha fecho no puede pagarse con menos, si no es con desear verme armado caballero andante, para ocuparme todos los días de mi vida en servir a tan alta señora.