'I will take no pledge of her,' I replied, 'nor yet can I give her what she asks, for all I have is four reals; which I gave (they were those which thou, Sancho, gavest me the other day to bestow in alms upon the poor I met along the road), and I said, 'Tell your mistress, my dear, that I am grieved to the heart because of her distresses, and wish I was a Fucar to remedy them, and that I would have her know that I cannot be, and ought not be, in health while deprived of the happiness of seeing her and enjoying her discreet conversation, and that I implore her as earnestly as I can, to allow herself to be seen and addressed by this her captive servant and forlorn knight.
''Prenda, no la tomaré yo -le respondí-, ni menos le daré lo que pide, porque no tengo sino solos cuatro reales''; los cuales le di (que fueron los que tú, Sancho, me diste el otro día para dar limosna a los pobres que topase por los caminos), y le dije: ''Decid, amiga mía, a vuesa señora que a mí me pesa en el alma de sus trabajos, y que quisiera ser un Fúcar para remediarlos; y que le hago saber que yo no puedo ni debo tener salud careciendo de su agradable vista y discreta conversación, y que le suplico, cuan encarecidamente puedo, sea servida su merced de dejarse ver y tratar deste su cautivo servidor y asendereado caballero.