| Back | Don Quixote was puzzled, wondering what could be the object of such precautions; whereupon Don Antonio taking his hand passed it over the bronze head and the whole table and the pedestal of jasper on which it stood, and then said, "This head, Senor Don Quixote, has been made and fabricated by one of the greatest magicians and wizards the world ever saw, a Pole, I believe, by birth, and a pupil of the famous Escotillo of whom such marvellous stories are told. He was here in my house, and for a consideration of a thousand crowns that I gave him he constructed this head, which has the property and virtue of answering whatever questions are put to its ear. |
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| Front | Suspenso estaba don Quijote, esperando en qué habían de parar tantas prevenciones. En esto, tomándole la mano don Antonio, se la paseó por la cabeza de bronce y por toda la mesa, y por el pie de jaspe sobre que se sostenía, y luego dijo: -Esta cabeza, señor don Quijote, ha sido hecha y fabricada por uno de los mayores encantadores y hechiceros que ha tenido el mundo, que creo era polaco de nación y dicípulo del famoso Escotillo, de quien tantas maravillas se cuentan; el cual estuvo aquí en mi casa, y por precio de mil escudos que le di, labró esta cabeza, que tiene propiedad y virtud de responder a cuantas cosas al oído le preguntaren. |
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