Shortly after this, several bands of dancers of various sorts began to enter the arcade at different points, and among them one of sword-dancers composed of some four-and-twenty lads of gallant and high-spirited mien, clad in the finest and whitest of linen, and with handkerchiefs embroidered in various colours with fine silk; and one of those on the mares asked an active youth who led them if any of the dancers had been wounded. "As yet, thank God, no one has been wounded," said he, "we are all safe and sound;" and he at once began to execute complicated figures with the rest of his comrades, with so many turns and so great dexterity, that although Don Quixote was well used to see dances of the same kind, he thought he had never seen any so good as this.
De allí a poco comenzaron a entrar por diversas partes de la enramada muchas y diferentes danzas, entre las cuales venía una de espadas, de hasta veinte y cuatro zagales de gallardo parecer y brío, todos vestidos de delgado y blanquísimo lienzo, con sus paños de tocar, labrados de varias colores de fina seda; y al que los guiaba, que era un ligero mancebo, preguntó uno de los de las yeguas si se había herido alguno de los danzantes. -Por ahora, bendito sea Dios, no se ha herido nadie: todos vamos sanos. Y luego comenzó a enredarse con los demás compañeros, con tantas vueltas y con tanta destreza que, aunque don Quijote estaba hecho a ver semejantes danzas, ninguna le había parecido tan bien como aquélla.