"The mischief," said Don Quixote, "lay in my going away; for I should not have gone until I had seen thee paid; because I ought to have known well by long experience that there is no clown who will keep his word if he finds it will not suit him to keep it; but thou rememberest, Andres, that I swore if he did not pay thee I would go and seek him, and find him though he were to hide himself in the whale's belly."
-El daño estuvo -dijo don Quijote- en irme yo de allí; que no me había de ir hasta dejarte pagado, porque bien debía yo de saber, por luengas experiencias, que no hay villano que guarde palabra que tiene, si él vee que no le está bien guardalla. Pero ya te acuerdas, Andrés, que yo juré que si no te pagaba, que había de ir a buscarle, y que le había de hallar, aunque se escondiese en el vientre de la ballena.