When the cloth had been removed, grace said and their hands washed, Don Quixote earnestly pressed Don Lorenzo to repeat to him his verses for the poetical tournament, to which he replied, "Not to be like those poets who, when they are asked to recite their verses, refuse, and when they are not asked for them vomit them up, I will repeat my gloss, for which I do not expect any prize, having composed it merely as an exercise of ingenuity."
Levantados, pues, los manteles, y dadas gracias a Dios y agua a las manos, don Quijote pidió ahincadamente a don Lorenzo dijese los versos de la justa literaria; a lo que él respondió que, por no parecer de aquellos poetas que cuando les ruegan digan sus versos los niegan y cuando no se los piden los vomitan,...-...yo diré mi glosa, de la cual no espero premio alguno, que sólo por ejercitar el ingenio la he hecho.