Question

And it could have been only the devil himself that put into his head tales to match his own adventures, for now, forgetting Baldwin, he bethought himself of the Moor Abindarraez, when the Alcaide of Antequera, Rodrigo de Narvaez, took him prisoner and carried him away to his castle; so that when the peasant again asked him how he was and what ailed him, he gave him for reply the same words and phrases that the captive Abindarraez gave to Rodrigo de Narvaez, just as he had read the story in the "Diana" of Jorge de Montemayor where it is written, applying it to his own case so aptly that the peasant went along cursing his fate that he had to listen to such a lot of nonsense; from which, however, he came to the conclusion that his neighbour was mad, and so made all haste to reach the village to escape the wearisomeness of this harangue of Don Quixote's; who, at the end of it, said,

Accepted Answer

De suerte que, cuando el labrador le volvió a preguntar que cómo estaba y qué sentía, le respondió las mesmas palabras y razones que el cautivo Abencerraje respondía a Rodrigo de Narváez, del mesmo modo que él había leído la historia en La Diana, de Jorge de Montemayor, donde se escribe; aprovechándose della tan a propósito, que el labrador se iba dando al diablo de oír tanta máquina de necedades; por donde conoció que su vecino estaba loco, y dábale priesa a llegar al pueblo, por escusar el enfado que don Quijote le causaba con su larga arenga. Al cabo de lo cual, dijo:

De El Rodrigo Le Y Al Narvaez Peasant