they would have all the more amusement in listening to his

simplicities; and so they bade him pray to God for his lord's

health, as it was a very likely and a very feasible thing for him in

course of time to come to be an emperor, as he said, or at least an

archbishop or some other dignitary of equal rank.

To which Sancho made answer, "If fortune, sirs, should bring

things about in such a way that my master should have a mind,

instead of being an emperor, to be an archbishop, I should like to