Don Quixote descried […] six merchants of Toledo going to buy silks at Murcia, and who travelled with umbrelloes [translating quitasoles], attended by four servants on horseback, and three mule-drivers on foot.

The activities of Jewish singers immediately before the expulsion from Spain testifies that they were outsiders in every respect, regarded neither as Jews nor Christians. They also appeared in the company of troubadours and trouvers, and like Suesskind of Trimberg (c.1220); these Jewish singers mastered the international repertoire no less than their Gentile colleagues.

[…] stood on it with one takkie that had no shoelace.

Over the years, he developed a reputation as a penny pincher who wouldn't spend money for anything.