On the way Don Quixote asked the cousin of what sort and character his pursuits, avocations, and studies were, to which he replied that he was by profession a humanist, and that his pursuits and studies were making books for the press, all of great utility and no less entertainment to the nation. One was called "The Book of Liveries," in which he described seven hundred and three liveries, with their colours, mottoes, and ciphers, from which gentlemen of the court might pick and choose any they fancied for festivals and revels, without having to go a-begging for them from anyone, or puzzling their brains, as the saying is, to have them appropriate to their objects and purposes; "for," said he, "I give the jealous, the rejected, the forgotten, the absent, what will suit them, and fit them without fail.
En el camino preguntó don Quijote al primo de qué género y calidad eran sus ejercicios, su profesión y estudios; a lo que él respondió que su profesión era ser humanista; sus ejercicios y estudios, componer libros para dar a la estampa, todos de gran provecho y no menos entretenimiento para la república; que el uno se intitulaba el de las libreas, donde pinta setecientas y tres libreas, con sus colores, motes y cifras, de donde podían sacar y tomar las que quisiesen en tiempo de fiestas y regocijos los caballeros cortesanos, sin andarlas mendigando de nadie, ni lambicando, como dicen, el cerbelo, por sacarlas conformes a sus deseos e intenciones. -Porque doy al celoso, al desdeñado, al olvidado y al ausente las que les convienen, que les vendrán más justas que pecadoras.