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Spanish to English: Don Quixote General field: Art/Literary Detailed field: Poetry & Literature
Source text - Spanish Capítulo XLVII. Del estraño modo con que fue encantado don Quijote de la Mancha, con otros famosos sucesos
—(…) ¿Qué te parece desto, Sancho hijo?
— No sé yo lo que me parece —respondió Sancho—, por no ser tan leído como vuestra merced en las escrituras andantes; pero, con todo eso, osaría afirmar y jurar que estas visiones que por aquí andan, que no son del todo católicas.
— ¿Católicas? ¡Mi padre! —respondió don Quijote—. ¿Cómo han de ser católicas si son todos demonios que han tomado cuerpos fantásticos para venir a hacer esto y a ponerme en este estado? Y si quieres ver esta verdad, tócalos y pálpalos, y verás como no tienen cuerpo sino de aire, y como no consiste más de en la apariencia.
— Par Dios, señor —replicó Sancho—, ya yo los he tocado; y este diablo que aquí anda tan solícito es rollizo de carnes, y tiene otra propiedad muy diferente de la que yo he oído decir que tienen los demonios; porque, según se dice, todos huelen a piedra azufre y a otros malos olores; pero éste huele a ámbar de media legua.
Decía esto Sancho por don Fernando, que, como tan señor, debía de oler a lo que Sancho decía.
Obra citada
de Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel. “El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de La Mancha.” Project Gutenberg, 17 Jan. 2021, www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2000
Translation - English Chapter XLVII. Of the strange way in which Don Quixote de la Mancha was enchanted, along with other famous events
"I don't know what to think," replied Sancho, "for I am not as well read as my master in adventurous writings; but, nevertheless, I would dare to affirm and swear that these visions that are going about here are not altogether Catholic.
"Catholic? On my father!” said Don Quixote, "How could they be Catholics if they are all demons who have taken the form of ghostly bodies to come and put me in this state? And if you will see this truth, touch them and feel them, and you will see how they have no body but air, and how they consist of only their appearance.
“By God, sir," replied Sancho, "I have already touched them; and this devil who walks so actively here has real plump flesh, and has another property very different from what I have heard people say that demons have; because, it is said, they all smell of brimstone and other bad odours; but this one smells like half a league of amber.
Sancho said this about Don Fernando, who, as such a gentleman of his rank, must have smelled like what Sancho said.
Work cited
de Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel. “El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de La Mancha.” Project Gutenberg, 17 Jan. 2021, www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2000
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