He then stripped himself from the waist upwards, and snatching up the rope he began to lay on and Don Quixote to count the lashes. He might have given himself six or eight when he began to think the joke no trifle, and its price very low; and holding his hand for a moment, he told his master that he cried off on the score of a blind bargain, for each of those lashes ought to be paid for at the rate of half a real instead of a quarter.
Desnudóse luego de medio cuerpo arriba, y, arrebatando el cordel, comenzó a darse, y comenzó don Quijote a contar los azotes.Hasta seis o ocho se habría dado Sancho, cuando le pareció ser pesada la burla y muy barato el precio della, y, deteniéndose un poco, dijo a su amo que se llamaba a engaño, porque merecía cada azote de aquéllos ser pagado a medio real, no que a cuartillo.