The fact of the matter as regards the helmet, steed, and knight that Don Quixote saw, was this. In that neighbourhood there were two villages, one of them so small that it had neither apothecary's shop nor barber, which the other that was close to it had, so the barber of the larger served the smaller, and in it there was a sick man who required to be bled and another man who wanted to be shaved, and on this errand the barber was going, carrying with him a brass basin; but as luck would have it, as he was on the way it began to rain, and not to spoil his hat, which probably was a new one, he put the basin on his head, and being clean it glittered at half a league's distance.
Es, pues, el caso que el yelmo, y el caballo y caballero que don Quijote veía, era esto: que en aquel contorno había dos lugares, el uno tan pequeño que ni tenía botica ni barbero, y el otro, que estaba junto, sí; y así, el barbero del mayor servía al menor, en el cual tuvo necesidad un enfermo de sangrarse y otro de hacerse la barba, para lo cual venía el barbero, y traía una bacía de azófar; y quiso la suerte que, al tiempo que venía, comenzó a llover, y, porque no se le manchase el sombrero, que debía de ser nuevo, se puso la bacía sobre la cabeza; y, como estaba limpia, desde media legua relumbraba.