The curate would not let them hood him, but put on his head a little quilted linen cap which he used for a night-cap, and bound his forehead with a strip of black silk, while with another he made a mask with which he concealed his beard and face very well. He then put on his hat, which was broad enough to serve him for an umbrella, and enveloping himself in his cloak seated himself woman-fashion on his mule, while the barber mounted his with a beard down to the waist of mingled red and white, for it was, as has been said, the tail of a clay-red ox.
No consintió el cura que le tocasen, sino púsose en la cabeza un birretillo de lienzo colchado que llevaba para dormir de noche, y ciñóse por la frente una liga de tafetán negro, y con otra liga hizo un antifaz, con que se cubrió muy bien las barbas y el rostro; encasquetóse su sombrero, que era tan grande que le podía servir de quitasol, y, cubriéndose su herreruelo, subió en su mula a mujeriegas, y el barbero en la suya, con su barba que le llegaba a la cintura, entre roja y blanca, como aquella que, como se ha dicho, era hecha de la cola de un buey barroso.