A friend of mine (falsely so called) knew this, and on the Lord's day morning came into the vestry to me, and informed me that a person whom I respected was going to be arrested for the small sum of sixty pounds, and pressed me hard to lend him the money I then had in my pocket. I told him I was altogether a stranger to the gentleman's circumstances: "But," says he, "I am not, and had I a thousand pounds I would lend it him." I replied, "I have no objection to lend it to you."
dejado, Sancho? -preguntó Ricote. no se le ha de dar nada por ser gobernador, no que de una ínsula, sino de todo el mundo; y, con este presupuesto, besando a vuestras mercedes los pies, imitando al juego de los muchachos, que dicen "Salta tú, y dámela tú", doy un salto del gobierno, y me paso al servicio de mi señor don Quijote; que, en fin, en él, aunque como el pan con sobresalto, hártome, a lo menos, y para mí, como yo esté harto, eso me hace que sea de zanahorias que de perdices.