First, the villain and heartless vagabond sought to win my good-will and purchase my compliance, so as to get me, like a treacherous warder, to deliver up to him the keys of the fortress I had in charge.
Primero quiso el malandrín y desalmado vagamundo granjearme la voluntad y cohecharme el gusto, para que yo, mal alcaide, le entregase las llaves de la fortaleza que guardaba.