Sancho Panza in His Island: Comic Opera in One Act

boy! Such suites! And then the gold, and the large furniture! Ah, good heavens, if this continues, say what you will, I will believe that it is for real that our man has suddenly become either Governor or Prince.

No, I tell you, I am in on the secret; all that glitters is not gold. It is a prank they are playing on Papa Sancho; because he never spoke of anything but Principalities and Governments, they made him believe that they were giving him this one, and all to entertain a Duke and Duchess who are kept informed quite faithfully of everything he does there.

Truly, it is not very nice of these great Lords to mock poor people like that.

But also your husband, from what the people in the house have told me, is so droll and so simple!

Ah, nonsense, there is no worse water than that which runs deep French idiom meaning "still waters run deep"; implying Sancho is craftier than he appears; he is a sly one, a trickster who has given me quite a lot of trouble. See that I have a nice reward for it!

ARIETTA.

You should have seen him in the village,
When he left the tavern;
He was drunk, he was raging.
Ah! What torment that was for me!
It would be fine if a few slaps
Had ended the dispute.
One does not keep one's hands in one's pockets,
Pif, paf, one gives them, one gets them back.
When nothing stops the work,
And a husband does his duty,
If during the day one grumbles,
One makes up in the evening.

It is true that friend Sancho is a bit fond of his drink.