They went to meet him, and in answer to their inquiries about Don Quixote, he told them how he had found him stripped to his shirt, lank, yellow, half dead with hunger, and sighing for his lady Dulcinea; and although he had told him that she commanded him to quit that place and come to El Toboso, where she was expecting him, he had answered that he was determined not to appear in the presence of her beauty until he had done deeds to make him worthy of her favour; and if this went on, Sancho said, he ran the risk of not becoming an emperor as in duty bound, or even an archbishop, which was the least he could be; for which reason they ought to consider what was to be done to get him away from there.
Saliéronle al encuentro, y, preguntándole por don Quijote, les dijo cómo le había hallado desnudo en camisa, flaco, amarillo y muerto de hambre, y suspirando por su señora Dulcinea; y que, puesto que le había dicho que ella le mandaba que saliese de aquel lugar y se fuese al del Toboso, donde le quedaba esperando, había respondido que estaba determinado de no parecer ante su fermosura fasta que hobiese fecho fazañas que le ficiesen digno de su gracia. Y que si aquello pasaba adelante, corría peligro de no venir a ser emperador, como estaba obligado, ni aun arzobispo, que era lo menos que podía ser.