Note 164 — BOOK II. (continued 3)

As it is altogether impossible, in a translation, literally to preserve the low humour arising from blunders upon words or sounds, I have been obliged to substitute an equivalent jingle, in the room of puto, gafo and meon, which are Spanish words, signifying, a a whore, a catamite, and a piss-a-bed: so that Sancho, deceived by the affinity of these sounds to computo, cosmographa, and Ptolemeo, thought he had reason to say his master had produced a fair set of evidences.