Don Quixote — Chapter 57 in Spanish
By Miguel de Cervantes
(Llegando a escribir el traductor desta historia este quinto capítulo, dice que le tiene por apócrifo, porque en él habla Sancho Panza con otro estilo del que se podía prometer de su corto ingenio, y dice cosas tan sutiles, que no tiene por posible que él las supiese; pero que no quiso dejar de traducirlo, por cumplir con lo que a su oficio debía; y así, prosiguió diciendo:) The translator of this history, when he comes to write this fifth chapter, says that he considers it apocryphal, because in it Sancho Panza speaks in a style unlike that which might have been expected from his limited intelligence, and says things so subtle that he does not think it possible he could have conceived them; however, desirous of doing what his task imposed upon him, he was unwilling to leave it untranslated, and therefore he went on to say:
Llegó Sancho a su casa tan regocijado y alegre, que su mujer conoció su alegría a tiro de ballesta; tanto, que la obligó a preguntarle: Sancho came home in such glee and spirits that his wife noticed his happiness a bowshot off, so much so that it made her ask him, "What have you got, Sancho friend, that you are so glad?"
A lo que él respondió: — Mujer mía, si Dios quisiera, bien me holgara yo de no estar tan contento como muestro. To which he replied, "Wife, if it were God's will, I should be very glad not to be so well pleased as I show myself."
— No os entiendo, marido —replicó ella—, y no sé qué queréis decir en eso de que os holgáredes, si Dios quisiera, de no estar contento; que, maguer tonta, no sé yo quién recibe gusto de no tenerle. "I don't understand you, husband," said she, "and I don't know what you mean by saying you would be glad, if it were God's will, not to be well pleased; for, fool as I am, I don't know how one can find pleasure in not having it."