| Back | Don Quixote at once asked the landlord what this Master Pedro was, and what was the show and what was the ape he had with him; which the landlord replied, "This is a famous puppet-showman, who for some time past has been going about this Mancha de Aragon, exhibiting a show of the release of Melisendra by the famous Don Gaiferos, one of the best and best-represented stories that have been seen in this part of the kingdom for many a year; he has also with him an ape with the most extraordinary gift ever seen in an ape or imagined in a human being; for if you ask him anything, he listens attentively to the question, and then jumps on his master's shoulder, and pressing close to his ear tells him the answer which Master Pedro then delivers. He says a great deal more about things past than about things to come; and though he does not always hit the truth in every case, most times he is not far wrong, so that he makes us fancy he has got the devil in him. |
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| Front | A lo que respondió el ventero: -Éste es un famoso titerero, que ha muchos días que anda por esta Mancha de Aragón enseñando un retablo de Melisendra, libertada por el famoso don Gaiferos, que es una de las mejores y más bien representadas historias que de muchos años a esta parte en este reino se han visto. Trae asimismo consigo un mono de la más rara habilidad que se vio entre monos, ni se imaginó entre hombres, porque si le preguntan algo, está atento a lo que le preguntan y luego salta sobre los hombros de su amo, y, llegándosele al oído, le dice la respuesta de lo que le preguntan, y maese Pedro la declara luego; y de las cosas pasadas dice mucho más que de las que están por venir; y, aunque no todas veces acierta en todas, en las más no yerra, de modo que nos hace creer que tiene el diablo en el cuerpo. |
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