"Have not your worships," replied Don Quixote, "read the annals and histories of England, in which are recorded the famous deeds of King Arthur, whom we in our popular Castilian invariably call King Artus, with regard to whom it is an ancient tradition, and commonly received all over that kingdom of Great Britain, that this king did not die, but was changed by magic art into a raven, and that in process of time he is to return to reign and recover his kingdom and sceptre; for which reason it cannot be proved that from that time to this any Englishman ever killed a raven?
-¿No han vuestras mercedes leído -respondió don Quijote- los anales e historias de Ingalaterra, donde se tratan las famosas fazañas del rey Arturo, que continuamente en nuestro romance castellano llamamos el rey Artús, de quien es tradición antigua y común en todo aquel reino de la Gran Bretaña que este rey no murió, sino que, por arte de encantamento, se convirtió en cuervo, y que, andando los tiempos, ha de volver a reinar y a cobrar su reino y cetro; a cuya causa no se probará que desde aquel tiempo a éste haya ningún inglés muerto cuervo alguno?