Note 58 — BOOK III.
T. (Tobias) Smollett translation
Don Quixote seems in this place to have forgot one adventure of his great pattern, Orlando, who, while he accompanied Angelica in her flight from Albracca, happened to intrude upon the king of the Lestrigons as he sat at dinner in a valley; and being in great want of victuals, accosted his most savage majesty in these words, recorded by Boyardo, or rather Berni, in his poem intitled Orlando Innamorato.
Poichè fortuna a quest’ora ne mena
Da voi, vi prego, che non vi despiaccia,
O pe nostri danari o in cortesia,
Che noi cenium con voi di compagnia.
Thus humbly requesting, that he would either for love or money give them a bone to pick.