Don Quixote and Sancho got up rather shaken, and, looking about them, were filled with amazement at finding themselves in the same garden from which they had started, and seeing such a number of people stretched on the ground; and their astonishment was increased when at one side of the garden they perceived a tall lance planted in the ground, and hanging from it by two cords of green silk a smooth white parchment on which there was the following inscription in large gold letters:
Don Quijote y Sancho se levantaron maltrechos, y, mirando a todas partes, quedaron atónitos de verse en el mesmo jardín de donde habían partido y de ver tendido por tierra tanto número de gente; y creció más su admiración cuando a un lado del jardín vieron hincada una gran lanza en el suelo y pendiente della y de dos cordones de seda verde un pergamino liso y blanco, en el cual, con grandes letras de oro, estaba escrito lo siguiente: