The secretary sealed the letter, and immediately dismissed the courier; and those who were carrying on the joke against Sancho putting their heads together arranged how he was to be dismissed from the government. Sancho spent the afternoon in drawing up certain ordinances relating to the good government of what he fancied the island; and he ordained that there were to be no provision hucksters in the State, and that men might import wine into it from any place they pleased, provided they declared the quarter it came from, so that a price might be put upon it according to its quality, reputation, and the estimation it was held in; and he that watered his wine, or changed the name, was to forfeit his life for it.
Cerró la carta el secretario y despachó luego al correo; y, juntándose los burladores de Sancho, dieron orden entre sí cómo despacharle del gobierno; y aquella tarde la pasó Sancho en hacer algunas ordenanzas tocantes al buen gobierno de la que él imaginaba ser ínsula, y ordenó que no hubiese regatones de los bastimentos en la república, y que pudiesen meter en ella vino de las partes que quisiesen, con aditamento que declarasen el lugar de donde era, para ponerle el precio según su estimación, bondad y fama, y el que lo aguase o le mudase el nombre, perdiese la vida por ello.