Question

"Your master," said Sancho, "no doubt is a knight in the Church line, and can bestow rewards of that sort on his good squire; but mine is only a layman; though I remember some clever, but, to my mind, designing people, strove to persuade him to try and become an archbishop. He, however, would not be anything but an emperor; but I was trembling all the time lest he should take a fancy to go into the Church, not finding myself fit to hold office in it; for I may tell you, though I seem a man, I am no better than a beast for the Church."

Accepted Answer

-Debe de ser -dijo Sancho- su amo de vuesa merced caballero a lo eclesiástico, y podrá hacer esas mercedes a sus buenos escuderos; pero el mío es meramente lego, aunque yo me acuerdo cuando le querían aconsejar personas discretas, aunque, a mi parecer mal intencionadas, que procurase ser arzobispo; pero él no quiso sino ser emperador, y yo estaba entonces temblando si le venía en voluntad de ser de la Iglesia, por no hallarme suficiente de tener beneficios por ella; porque le hago saber a vuesa merced que, aunque parezco hombre, soy una bestia para ser de la Iglesia.

De I Ser Le Vuesa Merced Y Pero