"Repeat it then, Sancho," said the barber, "and we will write it down afterwards." Sancho Panza stopped to scratch his head to bring back the letter to his memory, and balanced himself now on one foot, now the other, one moment staring at the ground, the next at the sky, and after having half gnawed off the end of a finger and kept them in suspense waiting for him to begin, he said, after a long pause, "By God, senor licentiate, devil a thing can I recollect of the letter; but it said at the beginning, 'Exalted and scrubbing Lady.'"
Paróse Sancho Panza a rascar la cabeza para traer a la memoria la carta, y ya se ponía sobre un pie, y ya sobre otro; unas veces miraba al suelo, otras al cielo; y, al cabo de haberse roído la mitad de la yema de un dedo, teniendo suspensos a los que esperaban que ya la dijese, dijo al cabo de grandísimo rato: -Por Dios, señor licenciado, que los diablos lleven la cosa que de la carta se me acuerda; aunque en el principio decía: «Alta y sobajada señora».