Sancho made him an obeisance, and said, "Ever since I came down from heaven, and from the top of it beheld the earth, and saw how little it is, the great desire I had to be a governor has been partly cooled in me; for what is there grand in being ruler on a grain of mustard seed, or what dignity or authority in governing half a dozen men about as big as hazel nuts; for, so far as I could see, there were no more on the whole earth?
-Después que bajé del cielo, y después que desde su alta cumbre miré la tierra y la vi tan pequeña, se templó en parte en mí la gana que tenía tan grande de ser gobernador; porque, ¿qué grandeza es mandar en un grano de mostaza, o qué dignidad o imperio el gobernar a media docena de hombres tamaños como avellanas, que, a mi parecer, no había más en toda la tierra?