Don Quixote - pg. 636

Cide Hamete, the chronicler of this great history, begins this chapter with the words I swear as a Catholic Christian ..., to which his translator says that Cide Hamete swearing as a Catholic Christian when he was a Moor, which he undoubtedly was, meant only that just as the Catholic Christian, when he swears, swears or should swear the truth, and tell the truth in everything he says, so too he was telling the truth, as if he were sweraing as a Catholic Christian, when he wrote about Don Quixote, especially when he told who Master Pedro was, as well as the soothsaying monkey whho had amazed all those towns and villages with his divinations.