"The very devil would be in it in that case," said Sancho; and letting off thirty "ohs," and sixty sighs, and a hundred and twenty maledictions and execrations on whomsoever it was that had brought him there, he raised himself, stopping half-way bent like a Turkish bow without power to bring himself upright, but with all his pains he saddled his ass, who too had gone astray somewhat, yielding to the excessive licence of the day; he next raised up Rocinante, and as for him, had he possessed a tongue to complain with, most assuredly neither Sancho nor his master would have been behind him.
Pero dejemos ya esto, Sancho, y acaba, antes que suceda otra desgracia al jumento, como a Rocinante. -Aun ahí sería el diablo -dijo Sancho. Y, despidiendo treinta ayes, y sesenta sospiros, y ciento y veinte pésetes y reniegos de quien allí le había traído, se levantó, quedándose agobiado en la mitad del camino, como arco turquesco, sin poder acabar de enderezarse; y con todo este trabajo aparejó su asno, que también había andado algo destraído con la demasiada libertad de aquel día.