To all this conversation Don Quixote was listening very attentively, and sitting up in bed as well as he could, and taking the hostess by the hand he said to her, "Believe me, fair lady, you may call yourself fortunate in having in this castle of yours sheltered my person, which is such that if I do not myself praise it, it is because of what is commonly said, that self-praise debaseth; but my squire will inform you who I am.
Todas estas pláticas estaba escuchando, muy atento, don Quijote, y, sentándose en el lecho como pudo, tomando de la mano a la ventera, le dijo: -Creedme, fermosa señora, que os podéis llamar venturosa por haber alojado en este vuestro castillo a mi persona, que es tal, que si yo no la alabo, es por lo que suele decirse que la alabanza propria envilece; pero mi escudero os dirá quién soy.