In this short interval Don Quixote told him of his unfortunate defeat, and of Dulcinea's enchantment and the remedy, all which threw Don Alvaro into fresh amazement, and embracing Don Quixote and Sancho he went his way, and Don Quixote went his. That night he passed among trees again in order to give Sancho an opportunity of working out his penance, which he did in the same fashion as the night before, at the expense of the bark of the beech trees much more than of his back, of which he took such good care that the lashes would not have knocked off a fly had there been one there.
En este poco espacio le contó don Quijote la desgracia de su vencimiento y el encanto y el remedio de Dulcinea, que todo puso en nueva admiración a don Álvaro, el cual, abrazando a don Quijote y a Sancho, siguió su camino, y don Quijote el suyo, que aquella noche la pasó entre otros árboles, por dar lugar a Sancho de cumplir su penitencia, que la cumplió del mismo modo que la pasada noche, a costa de las cortezas de las hayas, harto más que de sus espaldas, que las guardó tanto, que no pudieran quitar los azotes una mosca, aunque la tuviera encima.