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Updated: June 15, 2025
Scip. And do you complain of that, Berganza? Berg. Nay; have I not reason to complain, since I feel the pain even now; and since it appears to me that my good intentions merited no such chastisement? Scip. Look you, Berganza, no one should interfere where he is not wanted, nor take upon himself a business that in no wise is his concern.
Berganza, my friend, let us leave our watch over the hospital to-night, and retire to this lonely place and these mats, where, without being noticed, we may enjoy that unexampled favour which heaven has bestowed on us both at the same moment. Berg. Brother Scipio, I hear you speak, and know that I am speaking to you; yet cannot I believe, so much does it seem to me to pass the bounds of nature.
Scip. Enough, Berganza; get back into your road, and trot on. Berg. I am much obliged to you, friend Scipio; for, but for your hint, I was getting so warm upon the scent, that I should not have stopped till I had given you one whole specimen of those books that had so deceived me. But a time will come when I shall discuss the whole matter more fully and more opportunely than now. Scip.
But of course you, who have seen so many wonders in foreign countries, will find nothing remarkable in our old church. We poor provincials of Orbajosa, however, think it divine. Master Lopez of Berganza, one of the prebendaries of the cathedral, called it in the sixteenth century pulchra augustissima.
All you have heard is nothing to what I could relate to you about these people and their ways, their work and their idleness, their ignorance and their cleverness, and other matters without end, which might serve to disenchant many who idolise these fictitious divinities. Scip. I see clearly, Berganza, that the field is large; but leave it now, and go on. Berg.
They are all good-for-nothing vagabonds, bread weevils and winesponges. Scip. No more of that, Berganza; let us not go over the same ground again. Continue your story, for the night is waning, and I should not like, when the sun rises, that we should be left in the shades of silence. Berg. Keep it and listen.
With great ease I became an eagle among my fellows in this respect. Scip. I do not wonder, Berganza, that ill-doing is so easily learned, since it comes by a natural obliquity. Berg. What can I say to you, brother Scipio, of what I saw in those slaughter-houses, and the enormous things that were done in them?
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