Sancho Panza in His Island: Comic Opera in One Act

It is true, that is what they say; you see that I have come as I promised you, while my mother is out, and without my lover knowing.

What does that mean? At your age you already have a lover?

Oh! yes. And a tall one at that, but that does not matter.

Indeed, it does, it matters a great deal to me.

Oh! I do not love him at all, because he is a mean man who only knows how to shout and fight.

And what about me, my little one?

Oh! I like you very much, because you promised to make me a Queen.

Truly, I promise you again, upon the word of a wandering Ecuyer Squire.

What is that?

You do not know what a wandering squire is? Devil, it is a creature who is always on the verge of being a Governor, or being beaten to a pulp, sometimes dying of hunger, sometimes eating enough for four... In short... it is enough that you do not love your other lover; but that a good big fellow, simple and round like me, here, who has courage and health, would please you better as your husband.

Oh!.. I do not know.

Beg your pardon?