Don Quixote — Chapter 101 in Spanish
By Miguel de Cervantes
Dejamos al gran gobernador enojado y mohíno con el labrador pintor y socarrón, el cual, industriado del mayordomo, y el mayordomo del duque, se burlaban de Sancho; pero él se las tenía tiesas a todos, maguera tonto, bronco y rollizo, y dijo a los que con él estaban, y al doctor Pedro Recio, que, como se acabó el secreto de la carta del duque, había vuelto a entrar en la sala: We left the great governor angered and irritated by that portrait-painting rogue of a farmer who, instructed the majordomo, as the majordomo was by the duke, tried to practise upon him; he however, fool, boor, and clown as he was, held his own against them all, saying to those round him and to Doctor Pedro Recio, who as soon as the private business of the duke's letter was disposed of had returned to the room, "Now I see plainly enough that judges and governors ought to be and must be made of brass not to feel the importunities of the applicants that at all times and all seasons insist on being heard, and having their business despatched, and their own affairs and no others attended to, come what may; and if the poor judge does not hear them and settle the matter--either because he cannot or because that is not the time set apart for hearing them-forthwith they abuse him, and run him down, and gnaw at his bones, and even pick holes in his pedigree. Negociante necio, negociante mentecato, no te apresures; espera sazón y coyuntura para negociar: no vengas a la hora del comer ni a la del dormir, que los jueces son de carne y de hueso y han de dar a la naturaleza lo que naturalmente les pide, si no es yo, que no le doy de comer a la mía, merced al señor doctor Pedro Recio Tirteafuera, que está delante, que quiere que muera de hambre, y afirma que esta muerte es vida, que así se la dé Dios a él y a todos los de su ralea: digo, a la de los malos médicos, que la de los buenos, palmas y lauros merecen. You silly, stupid applicant, don't be in a hurry; wait for the proper time and season for doing business; don't come at dinner-hour, or at bed-time; for judges are only flesh and blood, and must give to Nature what she naturally demands of them; all except myself, for in my case I give her nothing to eat, thanks to Senor Doctor Pedro Recio Tirteafuera here, who would have me die of hunger, and declares that death to be life; and the same sort of life may God give him and all his kind--I mean the bad doctors; for the good ones deserve palms and laurels."
Todos los que conocían a Sancho Panza se admiraban, oyéndole hablar tan elegantemente, y no sabían a qué atribuirlo, sino a que los oficios y cargos graves, o adoban o entorpecen los entendimientos. All who knew Sancho Panza were astonished to hear him speak so elegantly, and did not know what to attribute it to unless it were that office and grave responsibility either smarten or stupefy men's wits. Finalmente, el doctor Pedro Recio Agüero de Tirteafuera prometió de darle de cenar aquella noche, aunque excediese de todos los aforismos de Hipócrates. At last Doctor Pedro Recio Agilers of Tirteafuera promised to let him have supper that night though it might be in contravention of all the aphorisms of Hippocrates. Con esto quedó contento el gobernador, y esperaba con grande ansia llegase la noche y la hora de cenar; y, aunque el tiempo, al parecer suyo, se estaba quedo, sin moverse de un lugar, todavía se llegó por él el tanto deseado, donde le dieron de cenar un salpicón de vaca con cebolla, y unas manos cocidas de ternera algo entrada en días. With this the governor was satisfied and looked forward to the approach of night and supper-time with great anxiety; and though time, to his mind, stood still and made no progress, nevertheless the hour he so longed for came, and they gave him a beef salad with onions and some boiled calves' feet rather far gone. — Mirad, señor doctor: de aquí adelante no os curéis de darme a comer cosas regaladas ni manjares esquisitos, porque será sacar a mi estómago de sus quicios, el cual está acostumbrado a cabra, a vaca, a tocino, a cecina, a nabos y a cebollas; y, si acaso le dan otros manjares de palacio, los recibe con melindre, y algunas veces con asco. At this he fell to with greater relish than if they had given him francolins from Milan, pheasants from Rome, veal from Sorrento, partridges from Moron, or geese from Lavajos, and turning to the doctor at supper he said to him, "Look here, senor doctor, for the future don't trouble yourself about giving me dainty things or choice dishes to eat, for it will be only taking my stomach off its hinges; it is accustomed to goat, cow, bacon, hung beef, turnips and onions; and if by any chance it is given these palace dishes, it receives them squeamishly, and sometimes with loathing. Lo que el maestresala puede hacer es traerme estas que llaman ollas podridas, que mientras más podridas son, mejor huelen, y en ellas puede embaular y encerrar todo lo que él quisiere, como sea de comer, que yo se lo agradeceré y se lo pagaré algún día; y no se burle nadie conmigo, porque o somos o no somos: vivamos todos y comamos en buena paz compaña, pues, cuando Dios amanece, para todos amanece. What the head-carver had best do is to serve me with what they call ollas podridas (and the rottener they are the better they smell); and he can put whatever he likes into them, so long as it is good to eat, and I'll be obliged to him, and will requite him some day. Pero que nadie me burle, porque o somos o no somos; vivamos en paz y en buena hermandad, que cuando Dios envía la aurora, la envía para todos. But let nobody play pranks on me, for either we are or we are not; let us live and eat in peace and good-fellowship, for when God sends the dawn, he sends it for all. Tengo de gobernar esta ínsula sin soltar derecho alguno ni recibir dádiva; que todos abran los ojos y miren por dó sale el tiro; que bien les digo que 'el diablo está en Cantillana,' y si me lo hacen hacer verán cosas que los asombren. I mean to govern this island without giving up a right or taking a bribe; let everyone keep his eye open, and look out for the arrow; for I can tell them 'the devil's in Cantillana,' and if they drive me to it they'll see something that will astonish them. ¡No! Nay! No, sino haceos miel, y comeros han moscas. make yourself honey and the flies eat you."
— Por cierto, señor gobernador —dijo el maestresala—, que vuesa merced tiene mucha razón en cuanto ha dicho, y que yo ofrezco en nombre de todos los insulanos desta ínsula que han de servir a vuestra merced con toda puntualidad, amor y benevolencia, porque el suave modo de gobernar que en estos principios vuesa merced ha dado no les da lugar de hacer ni de pensar cosa que en deservicio de vuesa merced redunde. "Of a truth, senor governor," said the carver, "your worship is in the right of it in everything you have said; and I promise you in the name of all the inhabitants of this island that they will serve your worship with all zeal, affection, and good-will, for the mild kind of government you have given a sample of to begin with, leaves them no ground for doing or thinking anything to your worship's disadvantage."
Y vuelvo a decir que se tenga cuenta con mi sustento y con el de mi rucio, que es lo que en este negocio importa y hace más al caso; y, en siendo hora, vamos a rondar, que es mi intención limpiar esta ínsula de todo género de inmundicia y de gente vagamunda, holgazanes, y mal entretenida; porque quiero que sepáis, amigos, que la gente baldía y perezosa es en la república lo mesmo que los zánganos en las colmenas, que se comen la miel que las trabajadoras abejas hacen. "That I believe," said Sancho; "and they would be great fools if they did or thought otherwise; once more I say, see to my feeding and my Dapple's for that is the great point and what is most to the purpose; and when the hour comes let us go the rounds, for it is my intention to purge this island of all manner of uncleanness and of all idle good-for-nothing vagabonds; for I would have you know that lazy idlers are the same thing in a State as the drones in a hive, that eat up the honey the industrious bees make. Mi intención es amparar al labrador, conservar al caballero sus privilegios, recompensar a los virtuosos, y principalmente respetar la religión y honrar a sus ministros. I mean to protect the husbandman, to preserve to the gentleman his privileges, to reward the virtuous, and above all to respect religion and honour its ministers. ¿Qué decís de eso, amigos? What say you to that, my friends? ¿Hay algo en lo que digo, o hablo sin propósito? Is there anything in what I say, or am I talking to no purpose?"