“I can sign my name well enough,” said Sancho, “for when I was steward of the brotherhood in my village I learned to make certain letters, like the marks on bales of goods, which they told me made out my name. Besides I can pretend my right hand is disabled and make someone else sign for me, for ‘there’s a remedy for everything except death;’ 797 and as I shall be in command and hold the staff, I can do as I like; moreover, ‘he who has the alcalde for his father⁠—,’ 798 and I’ll be governor, and that’s higher than alcalde. Only come and see! Let them make light of me and abuse me; ‘they’ll come for wool and go back shorn;’ 799 ‘whom God loves, his house is known to Him;’ 800 ‘the silly sayings of the rich pass for saws in the world;’ 801