"I pity you, beauteous lady, that you should have directed your thoughts of love to a quarter from whence it is impossible that such a return can be made to you as is due to your great merit and gentle birth, for which you must not blame this unhappy knight-errant whom love renders incapable of submission to any other than her whom, the first moment his eyes beheld her, he made absolute mistress of his soul.
-Lástima os tengo, fermosa señora, de que hayades puesto vuestras amorosas mientes en parte donde no es posible corresponderos conforme merece vuestro gran valor y gentileza; de lo que no debéis dar culpa a este miserable andante caballero, a quien tiene amor imposibilitado de poder entregar su voluntad a otra que aquella que, en el punto que sus ojos la vieron, la hizo señora absoluta de su alma.