Don Quixote — Chapter 123 in Spanish
By Miguel de Cervantes
Iba el vencido y asendereado don Quijote pensativo además por una parte, y muy alegre por otra. The vanquished and afflicted Don Quixote went along very downcast in one respect and very happy in another. Causaba su tristeza el vencimiento; y la alegría, el considerar en la virtud de Sancho, como lo había mostrado en la resurreción de Altisidora, aunque con algún escrúpulo se persuadía a que la enamorada doncella fuese muerta de veras. His sadness arose from his defeat, and his satisfaction from the thought of the virtue that lay in Sancho, as had been proved by the resurrection of Altisidora; though it was with difficulty he could persuade himself that the love-smitten damsel had been really dead. No iba nada Sancho alegre, porque le entristecía ver que Altisidora no le había cumplido la palabra de darle las camisas; y, yendo y viniendo en esto, dijo a su amo: — En verdad, señor, que soy el más desgraciado médico que se debe de hallar en el mundo, en el cual hay físicos que, con matar al enfermo que curan, quieren ser pagados de su trabajo, que no es otro sino firmar una cedulilla de algunas medicinas, que no las hace él, sino el boticario, y cátalo cantusado; y a mí, que la salud ajena me cuesta gotas de sangre, mamonas, pellizcos, alfilerazos y azotes, no me dan un ardite. Sancho went along anything but cheerful, for it grieved him that Altisidora had not kept her promise of giving him the smocks; and turning this over in his mind he said to his master, "Surely, senor, I'm the most unlucky doctor in the world; there's many a physician that, after killing the sick man he had to cure, requires to be paid for his work, though it is only signing a bit of a list of medicines, that the apothecary and not he makes up, and, there, his labour is over; but with me though to cure somebody else costs me drops of blood, smacks, pinches, pinproddings, and whippings, nobody gives me a farthing. Pues yo les voto a tal que si me traen a las manos otro algún enfermo, que, antes que le cure, me han de untar las mías; que el abad de donde canta yanta, y no quiero creer que me haya dado el cielo la virtud que tengo para que yo la comunique con otros de bóbilis, bóbilis. Well, I swear by all that's good if they put another patient into my hands, they'll have to grease them for me before I cure him; for, as they say, 'it's by his singing the abbot gets his dinner,' and I'm not going to believe that heaven has bestowed upon me the virtue I have, that I should be dealing it out to others all for nothing."
— Tú tienes razón, Sancho amigo —respondió don Quijote—, y halo hecho muy mal Altisidora en no haberte dado las prometidas camisas; y, puesto que tu virtud es gratis data, que no te ha costado estudio alguno, más que estudio es recebir martirios en tu persona. "Thou art right, Sancho my friend," said Don Quixote, "and Altisidora has behaved very badly in not giving thee the smocks she promised; and although that virtue of thine is gratis data--as it has cost thee no study whatever, any more than such study as thy personal sufferings may be--I can say for myself that if thou wouldst have payment for the lashes on account of the disenchant of Dulcinea, I would have given it to thee freely ere this. De mí te sé decir que si quisieras paga por los azotes del desencanto de Dulcinea, ya te la hubiera dado tal como buena; pero no sé si vendrá bien con la cura la paga, y no querría que impidiese el premio a la medicina. I am not sure, however, whether payment will comport with the cure, and I would not have the reward interfere with the medicine. Con todo eso, me parece que no se perderá nada en probarlo: mira, Sancho, el que quieres, y azótate luego, y págate de contado y de tu propia mano, pues tienes dineros míos. I think there will be nothing lost by trying it; consider how much thou wouldst have, Sancho, and whip thyself at once, and pay thyself down with thine own hand, as thou hast money of mine."
A cuyos ofrecimientos abrió Sancho los ojos y las orejas de un palmo, y dio consentimiento en su corazón a azotarse de buena gana; y dijo a su amo: At this proposal Sancho opened his eyes and his ears a palm's breadth wide, and in his heart very readily acquiesced in whipping himself, and said he to his master, "Very well then, senor, I'll hold myself in readiness to gratify your worship's wishes if I'm to profit by it; for the love of my wife and children forces me to seem grasping. Dígame vuestra merced: ¿cuánto me dará por cada azote que me diere? Let your worship say how much you will pay me for each lash I give myself."
— Si yo te hubiera de pagar, Sancho —respondió don Quijote—, conforme lo que merece la grandeza y calidad deste remedio, el tesoro de Venecia, las minas del Potosí fueran poco para pagarte; toma tú el tiento a lo que llevas mío, y pon el precio a cada azote. "If Sancho," replied Don Quixote, "I were to requite thee as the importance and nature of the cure deserves, the treasures of Venice, the mines of Potosi, would be insufficient to pay thee. toma tú el tiento a lo que llevas mío, y pon el precio a cada azote. See what thou hast of mine, and put a price on each lash."