The keeper, then, in full detail, and bit by bit, described the end of the contest, exalting to the best of his power and ability the valour of Don Quixote, at the sight of whom the lion quailed, and would not and dared not come out of the cage, although he had held the door open ever so long; and showing how, in consequence of his having represented to the knight that it was tempting God to provoke the lion in order to force him out, which he wished to have done, he very reluctantly, and altogether against his will, had allowed the door to be closed.
Entonces el leonero, menudamente y por sus pausas, contó el fin de la contienda, exagerando, como él mejor pudo y supo, el valor de don Quijote, de cuya vista el león, acobardado, no quiso ni osó salir de la jaula, puesto que había tenido un buen espacio abierta la puerta de la jaula; y que, por haber él dicho a aquel caballero que era tentar a Dios irritar al león para que por fuerza saliese, como él quería que se irritase, mal de su grado y contra toda su voluntad, había permitido que la puerta se cerrase.