Cide Hamete, the chronicler of this great history, begins this chapter with these words, "I swear as a Catholic Christian;" with regard to which his translator says that Cide Hamete's swearing as a Catholic Christian, he being—as no doubt he was—a Moor, only meant that, just as a Catholic Christian taking an oath swears, or ought to swear, what is true, and tell the truth in what he avers, so he was telling the truth, as much as if he swore as a Catholic Christian, in all he chose to write about Quixote, especially in declaring who Master Pedro was and what was the divining ape that astonished all the villages with his divinations.
Entra Cide Hamete, coronista desta grande historia, con estas palabras en este capítulo: ''Juro como católico cristiano...''; a lo que su traductor dice que el jurar Cide Hamete como católico cristiano, siendo él moro, como sin duda lo era, no quiso decir otra cosa sino que, así como el católico cristiano cuando jura, jura, o debe jurar, verdad, y decirla en lo que dijere, así él la decía, como si jurara como cristiano católico, en lo que quería escribir de don Quijote, especialmente en decir quién era maese Pedro, y quién el mono adivino que traía admirados todos aquellos pueblos con sus adivinanzas.