One of those on foot, putting his finger to his lips as a sign to him to be silent, seized Rocinante's bridle and drew him out of the road, and the others driving Sancho and Dapple before them, and all maintaining a strange silence, followed in the steps of the one who led Don Quixote. The latter two or three times attempted to ask where they were taking him to and what they wanted, but the instant he began to open his lips they threatened to close them with the points of their lances; and Sancho fared the same way, for the moment he seemed about to speak one of those on foot punched him with a goad, and Dapple likewise, as if he too wanted to talk.
Uno de los de a pie, puesto un dedo en la boca, en señal de que callase, asió del freno de Rocinante y le sacó del camino; y los demás de a pie, antecogiendo a Sancho y al rucio, guardando todos maravilloso silencio, siguieron los pasos del que llevaba a don Quijote, el cual dos o tres veces quiso preguntar adónde le llevaban o qué querían; pero, apenas comenzaba a mover los labios, cuando se los iban a cerrar con los hierros de las lanzas; y a Sancho le acontecía lo mismo, porque, apenas daba muestras de hablar, cuando uno de los de a pie, con un aguijón, le punzaba, y al rucio ni más ni menos como si hablar quisiera.