Sancho was taken aback at the sight of them, nor did Don Quixote altogether relish them: the one pulled up his ass by the halter, the other his hack by the bridle, and they stood still, watching anxiously to see what all this would turn out to be, and found that the lights were approaching them, and the nearer they came the greater they seemed, at which spectacle Sancho began to shake like a man dosed with mercury, and Don Quixote's hair stood on end; he, however, plucking up spirit a little, said:
Pasmóse Sancho en viéndolas, y don Quijote no las tuvo todas consigo; tiró el uno del cabestro a su asno, y el otro de las riendas a su rocino, y estuvieron quedos, mirando atentamente lo que podía ser aquello, y vieron que las lumbres se iban acercando a ellos, y mientras más se llegaban, mayores parecían; a cuya vista Sancho comenzó a temblar como un azogado, y los cabellos de la cabeza se le erizaron a don Quijote; el cual, animándose un poco, dijo: