| Back | "Retentio," answered Sancho, "means that whoever is in hell never comes nor can come out of it, which will be the opposite case with your worship or my legs will be idle, that is if I have spurs to enliven Rocinante: let me once get to El Toboso and into the presence of my lady Dulcinea, and I will tell her such things of the follies and madnesses (for it is all one) that your worship has done and is still doing, that I will manage to make her softer than a glove though I find her harder than a cork tree; and with her sweet and honeyed answer I will come back through the air like a witch, and take your worship out of this purgatory that seems to be hell but is not, as there is hope of getting out of it; which, as I have said, those in hell have not, and I believe your worship will not say anything to the contrary." |
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| Front | Retencio es -respondió Sancho- que quien está en el infierno nunca sale dél, ni puede. Lo cual será al revés en vuestra merced, o a mí me andarán mal los pies, si es que llevo espuelas para avivar a Rocinante; y póngame yo una por una en el Toboso, y delante de mi señora Dulcinea, que yo le diré tales cosas de las necedades y locuras, que todo es uno, que vuestra merced ha hecho y queda haciendo, que la venga a poner más blanda que un guante, aunque la halle más dura que un alcornoque; con cuya respuesta dulce y melificada volveré por los aires, como brujo, y sacaré a vuestra merced deste purgatorio, que parece infierno y no lo es, pues hay esperanza de salir dél, la cual, como tengo dicho, no la tienen de salir los que están en el infierno, ni creo que vuestra merced dirá otra cosa. |
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