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diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6833f05 --- /dev/null +++ b/.gitattributes @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +* text=auto +*.txt text +*.md text diff --git a/5917-h.zip b/5917-h.zip Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..1076ec1 --- /dev/null +++ b/5917-h.zip diff --git a/5917-h/5917-h.htm b/5917-h/5917-h.htm new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f776096 --- /dev/null +++ b/5917-h/5917-h.htm @@ -0,0 +1,2254 @@ +<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> +<html> +<head> +<title>THE HISTORY OF DON QUIXOTE, By Cervantes, Vol. I., Part 15.</title> +<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> + +<style type="text/css"> + <!-- + body {background:#faebd7; margin:10%; text-align:justify} + P { text-indent: 1em; + margin-top: .75em; + margin-bottom: .75em; } + H1,H2,H3,H4,H5,H6 { text-align: center; } + HR { width: 33%; text-align: center; } + blockquote {font-size: 97%; } + .figleft {float: left;} + .figright {float: right;} + .toc { margin-left: 15%; margin-bottom: 0em;} + CENTER { padding: 10px;} + PRE { font-family: Times; font-size: 97%; margin-left: 15%;} + // --> +</style> + + +</head> +<body> + +<h2>THE HISTORY OF DON QUIXOTE, Vol. I., Part 15.</h2> +<pre> + +The Project Gutenberg EBook of The History of Don Quixote, Vol. I., Part +15., by Miguel de Cervantes + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: The History of Don Quixote, Vol. I., Part 15. + +Author: Miguel de Cervantes + +Release Date: July 19, 2004 [EBook #5917] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DON QUIXOTE, PART 15 *** + + + + +Produced by David Widger + + + + + +</pre> + + + + + +<br> +<hr> +<br><br><br><br><br><br> + + + +<center> +<h1>DON QUIXOTE</h1> +<br> +<h2>by Miguel de Cervantes</h2> +<br> +<h3>Translated by John Ormsby</h3> +</center> + +<br><br> + +<center><h3> +Volume I., Part 15. +<br><br> +Chapters 42-46 +</h3></center> + +<br><br> +<center> +<img alt="bookcover.jpg (230K)" src="images/bookcover.jpg" height="842" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/bookcover.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"> +</a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center> +<img alt="spine.jpg (152K)" src="images/spine.jpg" height="842" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/spine.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"> +</a> +<br><br><br><br> + + + +<h3>Ebook Editor's Note</h3> + +<blockquote><blockquote><blockquote><blockquote> +<p>The book cover and spine above and the images which follow were not part of the original Ormsby +translation—they are taken from the 1880 edition of J. W. Clark, illustrated by +Gustave Dore. Clark in his edition states that, "The English text of 'Don Quixote' +adopted in this edition is that of Jarvis, with occasional corrections from Motteaux." +See in the introduction below John Ormsby's critique of +both the Jarvis and Motteaux translations. It has been elected in the present Project Gutenberg edition +to attach the famous engravings of Gustave Dore to the Ormsby translation instead +of the Jarvis/Motteaux. The detail of many of the Dore engravings can be fully appreciated only +by utilizing the "Enlarge" button to expand them to their original dimensions. Ormsby +in his Preface has criticized the fanciful nature of Dore's illustrations; others feel +these woodcuts and steel engravings well match Quixote's dreams. + + D.W.</p> +</blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<br><br><br><br> +<center> +<img alt="p003.jpg (307K)" src="images/p003.jpg" height="813" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p003.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"> +</a> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<center><h2>CONTENTS</h2></center> + + +<pre> + +<a href="#ch42">CHAPTER XLII</a> +WHICH TREATS OF WHAT FURTHER TOOK PLACE IN THE INN, +AND OF SEVERAL OTHER THINGS WORTH KNOWING + +<a href="#ch43">CHAPTER XLIII</a> +WHEREIN IS RELATED THE PLEASANT STORY OF THE MULETEER, +TOGETHER WITH OTHER STRANGE THINGS THAT CAME TO PASS +IN THE INN + +<a href="#ch44">CHAPTER XLIV</a> +IN WHICH ARE CONTINUED THE UNHEARD-OF ADVENTURES +OF THE INN + +<a href="#ch45">CHAPTER XLV</a> +IN WHICH THE DOUBTFUL QUESTION OF MAMBRINO'S HELMET +AND THE PACK-SADDLE IS FINALLY SETTLED, WITH OTHER +ADVENTURES THAT OCCURRED IN TRUTH AND EARNEST + +<a href="#ch46">CHAPTER XLVI</a> +OF THE END OF THE NOTABLE ADVENTURE OF THE OFFICERS +OF THE HOLY BROTHERHOOD; AND OF THE GREAT FEROCITY +OF OUR WORTHY KNIGHT, DON QUIXOTE + +</pre> + +<br><br><br><br> + + + +<br><br> +<center><h2><a name="ch42"></a>CHAPTER XLII.</h2></center> +<br> +<center><h3>WHICH TREATS OF WHAT FURTHER TOOK PLACE IN THE INN, AND OF SEVERAL +OTHER THINGS WORTH KNOWING +</h3></center> +<br> +<br> + +<center><a name="c42a"></a><img alt="c42a.jpg (139K)" src="images/c42a.jpg" height="404" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/c42a.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<p>With these words the captive held his peace, and Don Fernando said +to him, "In truth, captain, the manner in which you have related +this remarkable adventure has been such as befitted the novelty and +strangeness of the matter. The whole story is curious and uncommon, +and abounds with incidents that fill the hearers with wonder and +astonishment; and so great is the pleasure we have found in +listening to it that we should be glad if it were to begin again, even +though to-morrow were to find us still occupied with the same tale." +And while he said this Cardenio and the rest of them offered to be +of service to him in any way that lay in their power, and in words and +language so kindly and sincere that the captain was much gratified +by their good-will. In particular Don Fernando offered, if he would go +back with him, to get his brother the marquis to become godfather at +the baptism of Zoraida, and on his own part to provide him with the +means of making his appearance in his own country with the credit +and comfort he was entitled to. For all this the captive returned +thanks very courteously, although he would not accept any of their +generous offers.</p> + +<p>By this time night closed in, and as it did, there came up to the +inn a coach attended by some men on horseback, who demanded +accommodation; to which the landlady replied that there was not a +hand's breadth of the whole inn unoccupied.</p> + +<p>"Still, for all that," said one of those who had entered on +horseback, "room must be found for his lordship the Judge here."</p> + +<p>At this name the landlady was taken aback, and said, "Senor, the +fact is I have no beds; but if his lordship the Judge carries one with +him, as no doubt he does, let him come in and welcome; for my +husband and I will give up our room to accommodate his worship."</p> + +<p>"Very good, so be it," said the squire; but in the meantime a man +had got out of the coach whose dress indicated at a glance the +office and post he held, for the long robe with ruffled sleeves that +he wore showed that he was, as his servant said, a Judge of appeal. He +led by the hand a young girl in a travelling dress, apparently about +sixteen years of age, and of such a high-bred air, so beautiful and so +graceful, that all were filled with admiration when she made her +appearance, and but for having seen Dorothea, Luscinda, and Zoraida, +who were there in the inn, they would have fancied that a beauty +like that of this maiden's would have been hard to find. Don Quixote +was present at the entrance of the Judge with the young lady, and as +soon as he saw him he said, "Your worship may with confidence enter +and take your ease in this castle; for though the accommodation be +scanty and poor, there are no quarters so cramped or inconvenient that +they cannot make room for arms and letters; above all if arms and +letters have beauty for a guide and leader, as letters represented +by your worship have in this fair maiden, to whom not only ought +castles to throw themselves open and yield themselves up, but rocks +should rend themselves asunder and mountains divide and bow themselves +down to give her a reception. Enter, your worship, I say, into this +paradise, for here you will find stars and suns to accompany the +heaven your worship brings with you, here you will find arms in +their supreme excellence, and beauty in its highest perfection."</p> + +<p>The Judge was struck with amazement at the language of Don +Quixote, whom he scrutinized very carefully, no less astonished by his +figure than by his talk; and before he could find words to answer +him he had a fresh surprise, when he saw opposite to him Luscinda, +Dorothea, and Zoraida, who, having heard of the new guests and of +the beauty of the young lady, had come to see her and welcome her; Don +Fernando, Cardenio, and the curate, however, greeted him in a more +intelligible and polished style. In short, the Judge made his entrance +in a state of bewilderment, as well with what he saw as what he heard, +and the fair ladies of the inn gave the fair damsel a cordial welcome. +On the whole he could perceive that all who were there were people +of quality; but with the figure, countenance, and bearing of Don +Quixote he was at his wits' end; and all civilities having been +exchanged, and the accommodation of the inn inquired into, it was +settled, as it had been before settled, that all the women should +retire to the garret that has been already mentioned, and that the men +should remain outside as if to guard them; the Judge, therefore, was +very well pleased to allow his daughter, for such the damsel was, to +go with the ladies, which she did very willingly; and with part of the +host's narrow bed and half of what the Judge had brought with him, +they made a more comfortable arrangement for the night than they had +expected.</p> + +<p>The captive, whose heart had leaped within him the instant he saw +the Judge, telling him somehow that this was his brother, asked one of +the servants who accompanied him what his name was, and whether he +knew from what part of the country he came. The servant replied that +he was called the Licentiate Juan Perez de Viedma, and that he had +heard it said he came from a village in the mountains of Leon. From +this statement, and what he himself had seen, he felt convinced that +this was his brother who had adopted letters by his father's advice; +and excited and rejoiced, he called Don Fernando and Cardenio and +the curate aside, and told them how the matter stood, assuring them +that the judge was his brother. The servant had further informed him +that he was now going to the Indies with the appointment of Judge of +the Supreme Court of Mexico; and he had learned, likewise, that the +young lady was his daughter, whose mother had died in giving birth +to her, and that he was very rich in consequence of the dowry left +to him with the daughter. He asked their advice as to what means he +should adopt to make himself known, or to ascertain beforehand +whether, when he had made himself known, his brother, seeing him so +poor, would be ashamed of him, or would receive him with a warm heart.</p> + +<p>"Leave it to me to find out that," said the curate; "though there is +no reason for supposing, senor captain, that you will not be kindly +received, because the worth and wisdom that your brother's bearing +shows him to possess do not make it likely that he will prove +haughty or insensible, or that he will not know how to estimate the +accidents of fortune at their proper value."</p> + +<p>"Still," said the captain, "I would not make myself known +abruptly, but in some indirect way."</p> + +<p>"I have told you already," said the curate, "that I will manage it +in a way to satisfy us all."</p> + +<p>By this time supper was ready, and they all took their seats at +the table, except the captive, and the ladies, who supped by +themselves in their own room. In the middle of supper the curate said:</p> + +<p>"I had a comrade of your worship's name, Senor Judge, in +Constantinople, where I was a captive for several years, and that same +comrade was one of the stoutest soldiers and captains in the whole +Spanish infantry; but he had as large a share of misfortune as he +had of gallantry and courage."</p> + +<p>"And how was the captain called, senor?" asked the Judge.</p> + +<p>"He was called Ruy Perez de Viedma," replied the curate, "and he was +born in a village in the mountains of Leon; and he mentioned a +circumstance connected with his father and his brothers which, had +it not been told me by so truthful a man as he was, I should have +set down as one of those fables the old women tell over the fire in +winter; for he said his father had divided his property among his +three sons and had addressed words of advice to them sounder than +any of Cato's. But I can say this much, that the choice he made of +going to the wars was attended with such success, that by his +gallant conduct and courage, and without any help save his own +merit, he rose in a few years to be captain of infantry, and to see +himself on the high-road and in position to be given the command of +a corps before long; but Fortune was against him, for where he might +have expected her favour he lost it, and with it his liberty, on +that glorious day when so many recovered theirs, at the battle of +Lepanto. I lost mine at the Goletta, and after a variety of adventures +we found ourselves comrades at Constantinople. Thence he went to +Algiers, where he met with one of the most extraordinary adventures +that ever befell anyone in the world."</p> + +<p>Here the curate went on to relate briefly his brother's adventure +with Zoraida; to all which the Judge gave such an attentive hearing +that he never before had been so much of a hearer. The curate, +however, only went so far as to describe how the Frenchmen plundered +those who were in the boat, and the poverty and distress in which +his comrade and the fair Moor were left, of whom he said he had not +been able to learn what became of them, or whether they had reached +Spain, or been carried to France by the Frenchmen.</p> + +<p>The captain, standing a little to one side, was listening to all the +curate said, and watching every movement of his brother, who, as +soon as he perceived the curate had made an end of his story, gave a +deep sigh and said with his eyes full of tears, "Oh, senor, if you +only knew what news you have given me and how it comes home to me, +making me show how I feel it with these tears that spring from my eyes +in spite of all my worldly wisdom and self-restraint! That brave +captain that you speak of is my eldest brother, who, being of a bolder +and loftier mind than my other brother or myself, chose the honourable +and worthy calling of arms, which was one of the three careers our +father proposed to us, as your comrade mentioned in that fable you +thought he was telling you. I followed that of letters, in which God +and my own exertions have raised me to the position in which you see +me. My second brother is in Peru, so wealthy that with what he has +sent to my father and to me he has fully repaid the portion he took +with him, and has even furnished my father's hands with the means of +gratifying his natural generosity, while I too have been enabled to +pursue my studies in a more becoming and creditable fashion, and so to +attain my present standing. My father is still alive, though dying +with anxiety to hear of his eldest son, and he prays God unceasingly +that death may not close his eyes until he has looked upon those of +his son; but with regard to him what surprises me is, that having so +much common sense as he had, he should have neglected to give any +intelligence about himself, either in his troubles and sufferings, +or in his prosperity, for if his father or any of us had known of +his condition he need not have waited for that miracle of the reed +to obtain his ransom; but what now disquiets me is the uncertainty +whether those Frenchmen may have restored him to liberty, or +murdered him to hide the robbery. All this will make me continue my +journey, not with the satisfaction in which I began it, but in the +deepest melancholy and sadness. Oh dear brother! that I only knew +where thou art now, and I would hasten to seek thee out and deliver +thee from thy sufferings, though it were to cost me suffering +myself! Oh that I could bring news to our old father that thou art +alive, even wert thou the deepest dungeon of Barbary; for his wealth +and my brother's and mine would rescue thee thence! Oh beautiful and +generous Zoraida, that I could repay thy good goodness to a brother! +That I could be present at the new birth of thy soul, and at thy +bridal that would give us all such happiness!"</p> + +<p>All this and more the Judge uttered with such deep emotion at the +news he had received of his brother that all who heard him shared in +it, showing their sympathy with his sorrow. The curate, seeing, +then, how well he had succeeded in carrying out his purpose and the +captain's wishes, had no desire to keep them unhappy any longer, so he +rose from the table and going into the room where Zoraida was he +took her by the hand, Luscinda, Dorothea, and the Judge's daughter +following her. The captain was waiting to see what the curate would +do, when the latter, taking him with the other hand, advanced with +both of them to where the Judge and the other gentlemen were and said, +"Let your tears cease to flow, Senor Judge, and the wish of your heart +be gratified as fully as you could desire, for you have before you +your worthy brother and your good sister-in-law. He whom you see here +is the Captain Viedma, and this is the fair Moor who has been so good +to him. The Frenchmen I told you of have reduced them to the state of +poverty you see that you may show the generosity of your kind heart."</p> + +<p>The captain ran to embrace his brother, who placed both hands on his +breast so as to have a good look at him, holding him a little way +off but as soon as he had fully recognised him he clasped him in his +arms so closely, shedding such tears of heartfelt joy, that most of +those present could not but join in them. The words the brothers +exchanged, the emotion they showed can scarcely be imagined, I +fancy, much less put down in writing. They told each other in a few +words the events of their lives; they showed the true affection of +brothers in all its strength; then the judge embraced Zoraida, putting +all he possessed at her disposal; then he made his daughter embrace +her, and the fair Christian and the lovely Moor drew fresh tears +from every eye. And there was Don Quixote observing all these +strange proceedings attentively without uttering a word, and +attributing the whole to chimeras of knight-errantry. Then they agreed +that the captain and Zoraida should return with his brother to +Seville, and send news to his father of his having been delivered +and found, so as to enable him to come and be present at the +marriage and baptism of Zoraida, for it was impossible for the Judge +to put off his journey, as he was informed that in a month from that +time the fleet was to sail from Seville for New Spain, and to miss the +passage would have been a great inconvenience to him. In short, +everybody was well pleased and glad at the captive's good fortune; and +as now almost two-thirds of the night were past, they resolved to +retire to rest for the remainder of it. Don Quixote offered to mount +guard over the castle lest they should be attacked by some giant or +other malevolent scoundrel, covetous of the great treasure of beauty +the castle contained. Those who understood him returned him thanks for +this service, and they gave the Judge an account of his +extraordinary humour, with which he was not a little amused. Sancho +Panza alone was fuming at the lateness of the hour for retiring to +rest; and he of all was the one that made himself most comfortable, as +he stretched himself on the trappings of his ass, which, as will be +told farther on, cost him so dear.</p> + +<p>The ladies, then, having retired to their chamber, and the others +having disposed themselves with as little discomfort as they could, +Don Quixote sallied out of the inn to act as sentinel of the castle as +he had promised. It happened, however, that a little before the +approach of dawn a voice so musical and sweet reached the ears of +the ladies that it forced them all to listen attentively, but +especially Dorothea, who had been awake, and by whose side Dona +Clara de Viedma, for so the Judge's daughter was called, lay sleeping. +No one could imagine who it was that sang so sweetly, and the voice +was unaccompanied by any instrument. At one moment it seemed to them +as if the singer were in the courtyard, at another in the stable; +and as they were all attention, wondering, Cardenio came to the door +and said, "Listen, whoever is not asleep, and you will hear a +muleteer's voice that enchants as it chants."</p> + +<p>"We are listening to it already, senor," said Dorothea; on which +Cardenio went away; and Dorothea, giving all her attention to it, made +out the words of the song to be these:</p> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="c42e"></a><img alt="c42e.jpg (11K)" src="images/c42e.jpg" height="313" width="213"> +</center> +<br><br><br><br> + +<br><br> +<center><h2><a name="ch43"></a>CHAPTER XLIII.</h2></center> +<br> +<center><h3>WHEREIN IS RELATED THE PLEASANT STORY OF THE MULETEER, TOGETHER WITH +OTHER STRANGE THINGS THAT CAME TO PASS IN THE INN +</h3></center> +<br> +<br> + +<center><a name="c43a"></a><img alt="c43a.jpg (127K)" src="images/c43a.jpg" height="437" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/c43a.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<pre>Ah me, Love's mariner am I + On Love's deep ocean sailing; +I know not where the haven lies, + I dare not hope to gain it. + +One solitary distant star + Is all I have to guide me, +A brighter orb than those of old + That Palinurus lighted. + +And vaguely drifting am I borne, + I know not where it leads me; +I fix my gaze on it alone, + Of all beside it heedless. + +But over-cautious prudery, + And coyness cold and cruel, +When most I need it, these, like clouds, + Its longed-for light refuse me. + +Bright star, goal of my yearning eyes + As thou above me beamest, +When thou shalt hide thee from my sight + I'll know that death is near me.</pre> + + +<p> +The singer had got so far when it struck Dorothea that it was not +fair to let Clara miss hearing such a sweet voice, so, shaking her +from side to side, she woke her, saying:</p> + +<p>"Forgive me, child, for waking thee, but I do so that thou mayest +have the pleasure of hearing the best voice thou hast ever heard, +perhaps, in all thy life."</p> + +<p>Clara awoke quite drowsy, and not understanding at the moment what +Dorothea said, asked her what it was; she repeated what she had +said, and Clara became attentive at once; but she had hardly heard two +lines, as the singer continued, when a strange trembling seized her, +as if she were suffering from a severe attack of quartan ague, and +throwing her arms round Dorothea she said:</p> + +<p>"Ah, dear lady of my soul and life! why did you wake me? The +greatest kindness fortune could do me now would be to close my eyes +and ears so as neither to see or hear that unhappy musician."</p> + +<p>"What art thou talking about, child?" said Dorothea. "Why, they +say this singer is a muleteer!"</p> + +<p>"Nay, he is the lord of many places," replied Clara, "and that one +in my heart which he holds so firmly shall never be taken from him, +unless he be willing to surrender it."</p> + +<p>Dorothea was amazed at the ardent language of the girl, for it +seemed to be far beyond such experience of life as her tender years +gave any promise of, so she said to her:</p> + +<p>"You speak in such a way that I cannot understand you, Senora Clara; +explain yourself more clearly, and tell me what is this you are saying +about hearts and places and this musician whose voice has so moved +you? But do not tell me anything now; I do not want to lose the +pleasure I get from listening to the singer by giving my attention +to your transports, for I perceive he is beginning to sing a new +strain and a new air."</p> + +<p>"Let him, in Heaven's name," returned Clara; and not to hear him she +stopped both ears with her hands, at which Dorothea was again +surprised; but turning her attention to the song she found that it ran +in this fashion:</p> + +<pre> Sweet Hope, my stay, +That onward to the goal of thy intent + Dost make thy way, +Heedless of hindrance or impediment, + Have thou no fear +If at each step thou findest death is near. + + No victory, +No joy of triumph doth the faint heart know; + Unblest is he +That a bold front to Fortune dares not show, + But soul and sense +In bondage yieldeth up to indolence. + + If Love his wares +Do dearly sell, his right must be contest; + What gold compares +With that whereon his stamp he hath imprest? + And all men know +What costeth little that we rate but low. + + Love resolute +Knows not the word "impossibility;" + And though my suit +Beset by endless obstacles I see, + Yet no despair +Shall hold me bound to earth while heaven is there. +</pre> + + +<p> +Here the voice ceased and Clara's sobs began afresh, all which +excited Dorothea's curiosity to know what could be the cause of +singing so sweet and weeping so bitter, so she again asked her what it +was she was going to say before. On this Clara, afraid that Luscinda +might overhear her, winding her arms tightly round Dorothea put her +mouth so close to her ear that she could speak without fear of being +heard by anyone else, and said:</p> + +<p>"This singer, dear senora, is the son of a gentleman of Aragon, lord +of two villages, who lives opposite my father's house at Madrid; and +though my father had curtains to the windows of his house in winter, +and lattice-work in summer, in some way—I know not how—this +gentleman, who was pursuing his studies, saw me, whether in church +or elsewhere, I cannot tell, and, in fact, fell in love with me, and +gave me to know it from the windows of his house, with so many signs +and tears that I was forced to believe him, and even to love him, +without knowing what it was he wanted of me. One of the signs he +used to make me was to link one hand in the other, to show me he +wished to marry me; and though I should have been glad if that could +be, being alone and motherless I knew not whom to open my mind to, and +so I left it as it was, showing him no favour, except when my +father, and his too, were from home, to raise the curtain or the +lattice a little and let him see me plainly, at which he would show +such delight that he seemed as if he were going mad. Meanwhile the +time for my father's departure arrived, which he became aware of, +but not from me, for I had never been able to tell him of it. He +fell sick, of grief I believe, and so the day we were going away I +could not see him to take farewell of him, were it only with the eyes. +But after we had been two days on the road, on entering the posada +of a village a day's journey from this, I saw him at the inn door in +the dress of a muleteer, and so well disguised, that if I did not +carry his image graven on my heart it would have been impossible for +me to recognise him. But I knew him, and I was surprised, and glad; he +watched me, unsuspected by my father, from whom he always hides +himself when he crosses my path on the road, or in the posadas where +we halt; and, as I know what he is, and reflect that for love of me he +makes this journey on foot in all this hardship, I am ready to die +of sorrow; and where he sets foot there I set my eyes. I know not with +what object he has come; or how he could have got away from his +father, who loves him beyond measure, having no other heir, and +because he deserves it, as you will perceive when you see him. And +moreover, I can tell you, all that he sings is out of his own head; +for I have heard them say he is a great scholar and poet; and what is +more, every time I see him or hear him sing I tremble all over, and am +terrified lest my father should recognise him and come to know of our +loves. I have never spoken a word to him in my life; and for all that +I love him so that I could not live without him. This, dear senora, is +all I have to tell you about the musician whose voice has delighted +you so much; and from it alone you might easily perceive he is no +muleteer, but a lord of hearts and towns, as I told you already."</p> + +<p>"Say no more, Dona Clara," said Dorothea at this, at the same time +kissing her a thousand times over, "say no more, I tell you, but +wait till day comes; when I trust in God to arrange this affair of +yours so that it may have the happy ending such an innocent +beginning deserves."</p> + +<p>"Ah, senora," said Dona Clara, "what end can be hoped for when his +father is of such lofty position, and so wealthy, that he would +think I was not fit to be even a servant to his son, much less wife? +And as to marrying without the knowledge of my father, I would not +do it for all the world. I would not ask anything more than that +this youth should go back and leave me; perhaps with not seeing him, +and the long distance we shall have to travel, the pain I suffer now +may become easier; though I daresay the remedy I propose will do me +very little good. I don't know how the devil this has come about, or +how this love I have for him got in; I such a young girl, and he +such a mere boy; for I verily believe we are both of an age, and I +am not sixteen yet; for I will be sixteen Michaelmas Day, next, my +father says."</p> + +<p>Dorothea could not help laughing to hear how like a child Dona Clara +spoke. "Let us go to sleep now, senora," said she, "for the little +of the night that I fancy is left to us: God will soon send us +daylight, and we will set all to rights, or it will go hard with me."</p> + +<p>With this they fell asleep, and deep silence reigned all through the +inn. The only persons not asleep were the landlady's daughter and +her servant Maritornes, who, knowing the weak point of Don Quixote's +humour, and that he was outside the inn mounting guard in armour and +on horseback, resolved, the pair of them, to play some trick upon him, +or at any rate to amuse themselves for a while by listening to his +nonsense. As it so happened there was not a window in the whole inn +that looked outwards except a hole in the wall of a straw-loft through +which they used to throw out the straw. At this hole the two +demi-damsels posted themselves, and observed Don Quixote on his horse, +leaning on his pike and from time to time sending forth such deep +and doleful sighs, that he seemed to pluck up his soul by the roots +with each of them; and they could hear him, too, saying in a soft, +tender, loving tone, "Oh my lady Dulcinea del Toboso, perfection of +all beauty, summit and crown of discretion, treasure house of grace, +depositary of virtue, and finally, ideal of all that is good, +honourable, and delectable in this world! What is thy grace doing now? +Art thou, perchance, mindful of thy enslaved knight who of his own +free will hath exposed himself to so great perils, and all to serve +thee? Give me tidings of her, oh luminary of the three faces! +Perhaps at this moment, envious of hers, thou art regarding her, +either as she paces to and fro some gallery of her sumptuous +palaces, or leans over some balcony, meditating how, whilst preserving +her purity and greatness, she may mitigate the tortures this +wretched heart of mine endures for her sake, what glory should +recompense my sufferings, what repose my toil, and lastly what death +my life, and what reward my services? And thou, oh sun, that art now +doubtless harnessing thy steeds in haste to rise betimes and come +forth to see my lady; when thou seest her I entreat of thee to +salute her on my behalf: but have a care, when thou shalt see her +and salute her, that thou kiss not her face; for I shall be more +jealous of thee than thou wert of that light-footed ingrate that +made thee sweat and run so on the plains of Thessaly, or on the +banks of the Peneus (for I do not exactly recollect where it was +thou didst run on that occasion) in thy jealousy and love."</p> + +<p>Don Quixote had got so far in his pathetic speech when the +landlady's daughter began to signal to him, saying, "Senor, come +over here, please."</p> + +<p>At these signals and voice Don Quixote turned his head and saw by +the light of the moon, which then was in its full splendour, that some +one was calling to him from the hole in the wall, which seemed to +him to be a window, and what is more, with a gilt grating, as rich +castles, such as he believed the inn to be, ought to have; and it +immediately suggested itself to his imagination that, as on the former +occasion, the fair damsel, the daughter of the lady of the castle, +overcome by love for him, was once more endeavouring to win his +affections; and with this idea, not to show himself discourteous, or +ungrateful, he turned Rocinante's head and approached the hole, and as +he perceived the two wenches he said:</p> + +<p>"I pity you, beauteous lady, that you should have directed your +thoughts of love to a quarter from whence it is impossible that such a +return can be made to you as is due to your great merit and gentle +birth, for which you must not blame this unhappy knight-errant whom +love renders incapable of submission to any other than her whom, the +first moment his eyes beheld her, he made absolute mistress of his +soul. Forgive me, noble lady, and retire to your apartment, and do +not, by any further declaration of your passion, compel me to show +myself more ungrateful; and if, of the love you bear me, you should +find that there is anything else in my power wherein I can gratify +you, provided it be not love itself, demand it of me; for I swear to +you by that sweet absent enemy of mine to grant it this instant, +though it be that you require of me a lock of Medusa's hair, which was +all snakes, or even the very beams of the sun shut up in a vial."</p> + +<p>"My mistress wants nothing of that sort, sir knight," said +Maritornes at this.</p> + +<p>"What then, discreet dame, is it that your mistress wants?" +replied Don Quixote.</p> + +<p>"Only one of your fair hands," said Maritornes, "to enable her to +vent over it the great passion passion which has brought her to this +loophole, so much to the risk of her honour; for if the lord her +father had heard her, the least slice he would cut off her would be +her ear."</p> + +<p>"I should like to see that tried," said Don Quixote; "but he had +better beware of that, if he does not want to meet the most disastrous +end that ever father in the world met for having laid hands on the +tender limbs of a love-stricken daughter."</p> + +<p>Maritornes felt sure that Don Quixote would present the hand she had +asked, and making up her mind what to do, she got down from the hole +and went into the stable, where she took the halter of Sancho +Panza's ass, and in all haste returned to the hole, just as Don +Quixote had planted himself standing on Rocinante's saddle in order to +reach the grated window where he supposed the lovelorn damsel to be; +and giving her his hand, he said, "Lady, take this hand, or rather +this scourge of the evil-doers of the earth; take, I say, this hand +which no other hand of woman has ever touched, not even hers who has +complete possession of my entire body. I present it to you, not that +you may kiss it, but that you may observe the contexture of the +sinews, the close network of the muscles, the breadth and capacity +of the veins, whence you may infer what must be the strength of the +arm that has such a hand."</p> + +<p>"That we shall see presently," said Maritornes, and making a running +knot on the halter, she passed it over his wrist and coming down +from the hole tied the other end very firmly to the bolt of the door +of the straw-loft.</p> + +<p>Don Quixote, feeling the roughness of the rope on his wrist, +exclaimed, "Your grace seems to be grating rather than caressing my +hand; treat it not so harshly, for it is not to blame for the +offence my resolution has given you, nor is it just to wreak all +your vengeance on so small a part; remember that one who loves so well +should not revenge herself so cruelly."</p> + +<p>But there was nobody now to listen to these words of Don +Quixote's, for as soon as Maritornes had tied him she and the other +made off, ready to die with laughing, leaving him fastened in such a +way that it was impossible for him to release himself.</p> + +<p>He was, as has been said, standing on Rocinante, with his arm passed +through the hole and his wrist tied to the bolt of the door, and in +mighty fear and dread of being left hanging by the arm if Rocinante +were to stir one side or the other; so he did not dare to make the +least movement, although from the patience and imperturbable +disposition of Rocinante, he had good reason to expect that he would +stand without budging for a whole century. Finding himself fast, then, +and that the ladies had retired, he began to fancy that all this was +done by enchantment, as on the former occasion when in that same +castle that enchanted Moor of a carrier had belaboured him; and he +cursed in his heart his own want of sense and judgment in venturing to +enter the castle again, after having come off so badly the first time; +it being a settled point with knights-errant that when they have tried +an adventure, and have not succeeded in it, it is a sign that it is +not reserved for them but for others, and that therefore they need not +try it again. Nevertheless he pulled his arm to see if he could +release himself, but it had been made so fast that all his efforts +were in vain. It is true he pulled it gently lest Rocinante should +move, but try as he might to seat himself in the saddle, he had +nothing for it but to stand upright or pull his hand off. Then it +was he wished for the sword of Amadis, against which no enchantment +whatever had any power; then he cursed his ill fortune; then he +magnified the loss the world would sustain by his absence while he +remained there enchanted, for that he believed he was beyond all +doubt; then he once more took to thinking of his beloved Dulcinea +del Toboso; then he called to his worthy squire Sancho Panza, who, +buried in sleep and stretched upon the pack-saddle of his ass, was +oblivious, at that moment, of the mother that bore him; then he called +upon the sages Lirgandeo and Alquife to come to his aid; then he +invoked his good friend Urganda to succour him; and then, at last, +morning found him in such a state of desperation and perplexity that +he was bellowing like a bull, for he had no hope that day would +bring any relief to his suffering, which he believed would last for +ever, inasmuch as he was enchanted; and of this he was convinced by +seeing that Rocinante never stirred, much or little, and he felt +persuaded that he and his horse were to remain in this state, +without eating or drinking or sleeping, until the malign influence +of the stars was overpast, or until some other more sage enchanter +should disenchant him.</p> + +<p>But he was very much deceived in this conclusion, for daylight had +hardly begun to appear when there came up to the inn four men on +horseback, well equipped and accoutred, with firelocks across their +saddle-bows. They called out and knocked loudly at the gate of the +inn, which was still shut; on seeing which, Don Quixote, even there +where he was, did not forget to act as sentinel, and said in a loud +and imperious tone, "Knights, or squires, or whatever ye be, ye have +no right to knock at the gates of this castle; for it is plain +enough that they who are within are either asleep, or else are not +in the habit of throwing open the fortress until the sun's rays are +spread over the whole surface of the earth. Withdraw to a distance, +and wait till it is broad daylight, and then we shall see whether it +will be proper or not to open to you."</p> + +<p>"What the devil fortress or castle is this," said one, "to make us +stand on such ceremony? If you are the innkeeper bid them open to +us; we are travellers who only want to feed our horses and go on, +for we are in haste."</p> + +<p>"Do you think, gentlemen, that I look like an innkeeper?" said Don +Quixote.</p> + +<p>"I don't know what you look like," replied the other; "but I know +that you are talking nonsense when you call this inn a castle."</p> + +<p>"A castle it is," returned Don Quixote, "nay, more, one of the +best in this whole province, and it has within it people who have +had the sceptre in the hand and the crown on the head."</p> + +<p>"It would be better if it were the other way," said the traveller, +"the sceptre on the head and the crown in the hand; but if so, may +be there is within some company of players, with whom it is a common +thing to have those crowns and sceptres you speak of; for in such a +small inn as this, and where such silence is kept, I do not believe +any people entitled to crowns and sceptres can have taken up their +quarters."</p> + +<p>"You know but little of the world," returned Don Quixote, "since you +are ignorant of what commonly occurs in knight-errantry."</p> + +<p>But the comrades of the spokesman, growing weary of the dialogue +with Don Quixote, renewed their knocks with great vehemence, so much +so that the host, and not only he but everybody in the inn, awoke, and +he got up to ask who knocked. It happened at this moment that one of +the horses of the four who were seeking admittance went to smell +Rocinante, who melancholy, dejected, and with drooping ears stood +motionless, supporting his sorely stretched master; and as he was, +after all, flesh, though he looked as if he were made of wood, he +could not help giving way and in return smelling the one who had come +to offer him attentions. But he had hardly moved at all when Don +Quixote lost his footing; and slipping off the saddle, he would have +come to the ground, but for being suspended by the arm, which caused +him such agony that he believed either his wrist would be cut through +or his arm torn off; and he hung so near the ground that he could just +touch it with his feet, which was all the worse for him; for, finding +how little was wanted to enable him to plant his feet firmly, he +struggled and stretched himself as much as he could to gain a footing; +just like those undergoing the torture of the strappado, when they are +fixed at "touch and no touch," who aggravate their own sufferings by +their violent efforts to stretch themselves, deceived by the hope +which makes them fancy that with a very little more they will reach +the ground.</p> + + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="c43b"></a><img alt="c43b.jpg (272K)" src="images/c43b.jpg" height="830" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/c43b.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<center><a name="c43e"></a><img alt="c43e.jpg (20K)" src="images/c43e.jpg" height="501" width="295"> +</center> +<br><br><br><br> + + + +<br><br> +<center><h2><a name="ch44"></a>CHAPTER XLIV.</h2></center> +<br> +<center><h3>IN WHICH ARE CONTINUED THE UNHEARD-OF ADVENTURES OF THE INN +</h3></center> +<br> +<br> + +<center><a name="c44a"></a><img alt="c44a.jpg (144K)" src="images/c44a.jpg" height="414" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/c44a.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<p>So loud, in fact, were the shouts of Don Quixote, that the +landlord opening the gate of the inn in all haste, came out in dismay, +and ran to see who was uttering such cries, and those who were outside +joined him. Maritornes, who had been by this time roused up by the +same outcry, suspecting what it was, ran to the loft and, without +anyone seeing her, untied the halter by which Don Quixote was +suspended, and down he came to the ground in the sight of the landlord +and the travellers, who approaching asked him what was the matter with +him that he shouted so. He without replying a word took the rope off +his wrist, and rising to his feet leaped upon Rocinante, braced his +buckler on his arm, put his lance in rest, and making a considerable +circuit of the plain came back at a half-gallop exclaiming:</p> + +<p>"Whoever shall say that I have been enchanted with just cause, +provided my lady the Princess Micomicona grants me permission to do +so, I give him the lie, challenge him and defy him to single combat."</p> + +<p>The newly arrived travellers were amazed at the words of Don +Quixote; but the landlord removed their surprise by telling them who +he was, and not to mind him as he was out of his senses. They then +asked the landlord if by any chance a youth of about fifteen years +of age had come to that inn, one dressed like a muleteer, and of +such and such an appearance, describing that of Dona Clara's lover. +The landlord replied that there were so many people in the inn he +had not noticed the person they were inquiring for; but one of them +observing the coach in which the Judge had come, said, "He is here +no doubt, for this is the coach he is following: let one of us stay at +the gate, and the rest go in to look for him; or indeed it would be as +well if one of us went round the inn, lest he should escape over the +wall of the yard." "So be it," said another; and while two of them +went in, one remained at the gate and the other made the circuit of +the inn; observing all which, the landlord was unable to conjecture +for what reason they were taking all these precautions, though he +understood they were looking for the youth whose description they +had given him.</p> + +<p>It was by this time broad daylight; and for that reason, as well +as in consequence of the noise Don Quixote had made, everybody was +awake and up, but particularly Dona Clara and Dorothea; for they had +been able to sleep but badly that night, the one from agitation at +having her lover so near her, the other from curiosity to see him. Don +Quixote, when he saw that not one of the four travellers took any +notice of him or replied to his challenge, was furious and ready to +die with indignation and wrath; and if he could have found in the +ordinances of chivalry that it was lawful for a knight-errant to +undertake or engage in another enterprise, when he had plighted his +word and faith not to involve himself in any until he had made an +end of the one to which he was pledged, he would have attacked the +whole of them, and would have made them return an answer in spite of +themselves. But considering that it would not become him, nor be +right, to begin any new emprise until he had established Micomicona in +her kingdom, he was constrained to hold his peace and wait quietly +to see what would be the upshot of the proceedings of those same +travellers; one of whom found the youth they were seeking lying asleep +by the side of a muleteer, without a thought of anyone coming in +search of him, much less finding him.</p> + +<p>The man laid hold of him by the arm, saying, "It becomes you well +indeed, Senor Don Luis, to be in the dress you wear, and well the +bed in which I find you agrees with the luxury in which your mother +reared you."</p> + +<p>The youth rubbed his sleepy eyes and stared for a while at him who +held him, but presently recognised him as one of his father's +servants, at which he was so taken aback that for some time he could +not find or utter a word; while the servant went on to say, "There +is nothing for it now, Senor Don Luis, but to submit quietly and +return home, unless it is your wish that my lord, your father, +should take his departure for the other world, for nothing else can be +the consequence of the grief he is in at your absence."</p> + +<p>"But how did my father know that I had gone this road and in this +dress?" said Don Luis.</p> + +<p>"It was a student to whom you confided your intentions," answered +the servant, "that disclosed them, touched with pity at the distress +he saw your father suffer on missing you; he therefore despatched four +of his servants in quest of you, and here we all are at your +service, better pleased than you can imagine that we shall return so +soon and be able to restore you to those eyes that so yearn for you."</p> + +<p>"That shall be as I please, or as heaven orders," returned Don Luis.</p> + +<p>"What can you please or heaven order," said the other, "except to +agree to go back? Anything else is impossible."</p> + +<p>All this conversation between the two was overheard by the +muleteer at whose side Don Luis lay, and rising, he went to report +what had taken place to Don Fernando, Cardenio, and the others, who +had by this time dressed themselves; and told them how the man had +addressed the youth as "Don," and what words had passed, and how he +wanted him to return to his father, which the youth was unwilling to +do. With this, and what they already knew of the rare voice that +heaven had bestowed upon him, they all felt very anxious to know +more particularly who he was, and even to help him if it was attempted +to employ force against him; so they hastened to where he was still +talking and arguing with his servant. Dorothea at this instant came +out of her room, followed by Dona Clara all in a tremor; and calling +Cardenio aside, she told him in a few words the story of the +musician and Dona Clara, and he at the same time told her what had +happened, how his father's servants had come in search of him; but +in telling her so, he did not speak low enough but that Dona Clara +heard what he said, at which she was so much agitated that had not +Dorothea hastened to support her she would have fallen to the +ground. Cardenio then bade Dorothea return to her room, as he would +endeavour to make the whole matter right, and they did as he +desired. All the four who had come in quest of Don Luis had now come +into the inn and surrounded him, urging him to return and console +his father at once and without a moment's delay. He replied that he +could not do so on any account until he had concluded some business in +which his life, honour, and heart were at stake. The servants +pressed him, saying that most certainly they would not return +without him, and that they would take him away whether he liked it +or not.</p> + +<p>"You shall not do that," replied Don Luis, "unless you take me dead; +though however you take me, it will be without life."</p> + +<p>By this time most of those in the inn had been attracted by the +dispute, but particularly Cardenio, Don Fernando, his companions, +the Judge, the curate, the barber, and Don Quixote; for he now +considered there was no necessity for mounting guard over the castle +any longer. Cardenio being already acquainted with the young man's +story, asked the men who wanted to take him away, what object they had +in seeking to carry off this youth against his will.</p> + +<p>"Our object," said one of the four, "is to save the life of his +father, who is in danger of losing it through this gentleman's +disappearance."</p> + +<p>Upon this Don Luis exclaimed, "There is no need to make my affairs +public here; I am free, and I will return if I please; and if not, +none of you shall compel me."</p> + +<p>"Reason will compel your worship," said the man, "and if it has no +power over you, it has power over us, to make us do what we came +for, and what it is our duty to do."</p> + +<p>"Let us hear what the whole affair is about," said the Judge at +this; but the man, who knew him as a neighbour of theirs, replied, "Do +you not know this gentleman, Senor Judge? He is the son of your +neighbour, who has run away from his father's house in a dress so +unbecoming his rank, as your worship may perceive."</p> + +<p>The judge on this looked at him more carefully and recognised him, +and embracing him said, "What folly is this, Senor Don Luis, or what +can have been the cause that could have induced you to come here in +this way, and in this dress, which so ill becomes your condition?"</p> + +<p>Tears came into the eyes of the young man, and he was unable to +utter a word in reply to the Judge, who told the four servants not +to be uneasy, for all would be satisfactorily settled; and then taking +Don Luis by the hand, he drew him aside and asked the reason of his +having come there.</p> + +<p>But while he was questioning him they heard a loud outcry at the +gate of the inn, the cause of which was that two of the guests who had +passed the night there, seeing everybody busy about finding out what +it was the four men wanted, had conceived the idea of going off +without paying what they owed; but the landlord, who minded his own +affairs more than other people's, caught them going out of the gate +and demanded his reckoning, abusing them for their dishonesty with +such language that he drove them to reply with their fists, and so +they began to lay on him in such a style that the poor man was +forced to cry out, and call for help. The landlady and her daughter +could see no one more free to give aid than Don Quixote, and to him +the daughter said, "Sir knight, by the virtue God has given you, +help my poor father, for two wicked men are beating him to a mummy."</p> + +<p>To which Don Quixote very deliberately and phlegmatically replied, +"Fair damsel, at the present moment your request is inopportune, for I +am debarred from involving myself in any adventure until I have +brought to a happy conclusion one to which my word has pledged me; but +that which I can do for you is what I will now mention: run and tell +your father to stand his ground as well as he can in this battle, +and on no account to allow himself to be vanquished, while I go and +request permission of the Princess Micomicona to enable me to +succour him in his distress; and if she grants it, rest assured I will +relieve him from it."</p> + +<p>"Sinner that I am," exclaimed Maritornes, who stood by; "before +you have got your permission my master will be in the other world."</p> + +<p>"Give me leave, senora, to obtain the permission I speak of," +returned Don Quixote; "and if I get it, it will matter very little +if he is in the other world; for I will rescue him thence in spite +of all the same world can do; or at any rate I will give you such a +revenge over those who shall have sent him there that you will be more +than moderately satisfied;" and without saying anything more he went +and knelt before Dorothea, requesting her Highness in knightly and +errant phrase to be pleased to grant him permission to aid and succour +the castellan of that castle, who now stood in grievous jeopardy. +The princess granted it graciously, and he at once, bracing his +buckler on his arm and drawing his sword, hastened to the inn-gate, +where the two guests were still handling the landlord roughly; but +as soon as he reached the spot he stopped short and stood still, +though Maritornes and the landlady asked him why he hesitated to +help their master and husband.</p> + +<p>"I hesitate," said Don Quixote, "because it is not lawful for me +to draw sword against persons of squirely condition; but call my +squire Sancho to me; for this defence and vengeance are his affair and +business."</p> + +<p>Thus matters stood at the inn-gate, where there was a very lively +exchange of fisticuffs and punches, to the sore damage of the landlord +and to the wrath of Maritornes, the landlady, and her daughter, who +were furious when they saw the pusillanimity of Don Quixote, and the +hard treatment their master, husband and father was undergoing. But +let us leave him there; for he will surely find some one to help +him, and if not, let him suffer and hold his tongue who attempts +more than his strength allows him to do; and let us go back fifty +paces to see what Don Luis said in reply to the Judge whom we left +questioning him privately as to his reasons for coming on foot and +so meanly dressed.</p> + +<p>To which the youth, pressing his hand in a way that showed his heart +was troubled by some great sorrow, and shedding a flood of tears, made +answer:</p> + +<p>"Senor, I have no more to tell you than that from the moment when, +through heaven's will and our being near neighbours, I first saw +Dona Clara, your daughter and my lady, from that instant I made her +the mistress of my will, and if yours, my true lord and father, offers +no impediment, this very day she shall become my wife. For her I +left my father's house, and for her I assumed this disguise, to follow +her whithersoever she may go, as the arrow seeks its mark or the +sailor the pole-star. She knows nothing more of my passion than what +she may have learned from having sometimes seen from a distance that +my eyes were filled with tears. You know already, senor, the wealth +and noble birth of my parents, and that I am their sole heir; if +this be a sufficient inducement for you to venture to make me +completely happy, accept me at once as your son; for if my father, +influenced by other objects of his own, should disapprove of this +happiness I have sought for myself, time has more power to alter and +change things, than human will."</p> + +<p>With this the love-smitten youth was silent, while the Judge, +after hearing him, was astonished, perplexed, and surprised, as well +at the manner and intelligence with which Don Luis had confessed the +secret of his heart, as at the position in which he found himself, not +knowing what course to take in a matter so sudden and unexpected. +All the answer, therefore, he gave him was to bid him to make his mind +easy for the present, and arrange with his servants not to take him +back that day, so that there might be time to consider what was best +for all parties. Don Luis kissed his hands by force, nay, bathed +them with his tears, in a way that would have touched a heart of +marble, not to say that of the Judge, who, as a shrewd man, had +already perceived how advantageous the marriage would be to his +daughter; though, were it possible, he would have preferred that it +should be brought about with the consent of the father of Don Luis, +who he knew looked for a title for his son.</p> + +<p>The guests had by this time made peace with the landlord, for, by +persuasion and Don Quixote's fair words more than by threats, they had +paid him what he demanded, and the servants of Don Luis were waiting +for the end of the conversation with the Judge and their master's +decision, when the devil, who never sleeps, contrived that the barber, +from whom Don Quixote had taken Mambrino's helmet, and Sancho Panza +the trappings of his ass in exchange for those of his own, should at +this instant enter the inn; which said barber, as he led his ass to +the stable, observed Sancho Panza engaged in repairing something or +other belonging to the pack-saddle; and the moment he saw it he knew +it, and made bold to attack Sancho, exclaiming, "Ho, sir thief, I have +caught you! hand over my basin and my pack-saddle, and all my +trappings that you robbed me of."</p> + +<p>Sancho, finding himself so unexpectedly assailed, and hearing the +abuse poured upon him, seized the pack-saddle with one hand, and +with the other gave the barber a cuff that bathed his teeth in +blood. The barber, however, was not so ready to relinquish the prize +he had made in the pack-saddle; on the contrary, he raised such an +outcry that everyone in the inn came running to know what the noise +and quarrel meant. "Here, in the name of the king and justice!" he +cried, "this thief and highwayman wants to kill me for trying to +recover my property."</p> + +<p>"You lie," said Sancho, "I am no highwayman; it was in fair war my +master Don Quixote won these spoils."</p> + +<p>Don Quixote was standing by at the time, highly pleased to see his +squire's stoutness, both offensive and defensive, and from that time +forth he reckoned him a man of mettle, and in his heart resolved to +dub him a knight on the first opportunity that presented itself, +feeling sure that the order of chivalry would be fittingly bestowed +upon him.</p> + +<p>In the course of the altercation, among other things the barber +said, "Gentlemen, this pack-saddle is mine as surely as I owe God a +death, and I know it as well as if I had given birth to it, and here +is my ass in the stable who will not let me lie; only try it, and if +it does not fit him like a glove, call me a rascal; and what is +more, the same day I was robbed of this, they robbed me likewise of +a new brass basin, never yet handselled, that would fetch a crown +any day."</p> + +<p>At this Don Quixote could not keep himself from answering; and +interposing between the two, and separating them, he placed the +pack-saddle on the ground, to lie there in sight until the truth was +established, and said, "Your worships may perceive clearly and plainly +the error under which this worthy squire lies when he calls a basin +which was, is, and shall be the helmet of Mambrino which I won from +him in air war, and made myself master of by legitimate and lawful +possession. With the pack-saddle I do not concern myself; but I may +tell you on that head that my squire Sancho asked my permission to +strip off the caparison of this vanquished poltroon's steed, and +with it adorn his own; I allowed him, and he took it; and as to its +having been changed from a caparison into a pack-saddle, I can give no +explanation except the usual one, that such transformations will +take place in adventures of chivalry. To confirm all which, run, +Sancho my son, and fetch hither the helmet which this good fellow +calls a basin."</p> + +<p>"Egad, master," said Sancho, "if we have no other proof of our +case than what your worship puts forward, Mambrino's helmet is just as +much a basin as this good fellow's caparison is a pack-saddle."</p> + +<p>"Do as I bid thee," said Don Quixote; "it cannot be that +everything in this castle goes by enchantment."</p> + +<p>Sancho hastened to where the basin was, and brought it back with +him, and when Don Quixote saw it, he took hold of it and said:</p> + +<p>"Your worships may see with what a face this squire can assert +that this is a basin and not the helmet I told you of; and I swear +by the order of chivalry I profess, that this helmet is the +identical one I took from him, without anything added to or taken from +it."</p> + +<p>"There is no doubt of that," said Sancho, "for from the time my +master won it until now he has only fought one battle in it, when he +let loose those unlucky men in chains; and if had not been for this +basin-helmet he would not have come off over well that time, for there +was plenty of stone-throwing in that affair."</p> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="c44e"></a><img alt="c44e.jpg (13K)" src="images/c44e.jpg" height="317" width="265"> +</center> +<br><br><br><br> + +<br><br> +<center><h2><a name="ch45"></a>CHAPTER XLV.</h2></center> +<br> +<center><h3>IN WHICH THE DOUBTFUL QUESTION OF MAMBRINO'S HELMET AND THE +PACK-SADDLE IS FINALLY SETTLED, WITH OTHER ADVENTURES THAT OCCURRED IN +TRUTH AND EARNEST +</h3></center> +<br> +<br> + +<center><a name="c45a"></a><img alt="c45a.jpg (154K)" src="images/c45a.jpg" height="439" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/c45a.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<p>"What do you think now, gentlemen," said the barber, "of what these +gentles say, when they want to make out that this is a helmet?"</p> + +<p>"And whoever says the contrary," said Don Quixote, "I will let him +know he lies if he is a knight, and if he is a squire that he lies +again a thousand times."</p> + +<p>Our own barber, who was present at all this, and understood Don +Quixote's humour so thoroughly, took it into his head to back up his +delusion and carry on the joke for the general amusement; so +addressing the other barber he said:</p> + +<p>"Senor barber, or whatever you are, you must know that I belong to +your profession too, and have had a licence to practise for more +than twenty years, and I know the implements of the barber craft, +every one of them, perfectly well; and I was likewise a soldier for +some time in the days of my youth, and I know also what a helmet is, +and a morion, and a headpiece with a visor, and other things +pertaining to soldiering, I meant to say to soldiers' arms; and I +say—saving better opinions and always with submission to sounder +judgments—that this piece we have now before us, which this worthy gentleman +has in his hands, not only is no barber's basin, but is as far from +being one as white is from black, and truth from falsehood; I say, +moreover, that this, although it is a helmet, is not a complete +helmet."</p> + +<p>"Certainly not," said Don Quixote, "for half of it is wanting, +that is to say the beaver."</p> + +<p>"It is quite true," said the curate, who saw the object of his +friend the barber; and Cardenio, Don Fernando and his companions +agreed with him, and even the Judge, if his thoughts had not been so +full of Don Luis's affair, would have helped to carry on the joke; but +he was so taken up with the serious matters he had on his mind that he +paid little or no attention to these facetious proceedings.</p> + +<p>"God bless me!" exclaimed their butt the barber at this; "is it +possible that such an honourable company can say that this is not a +basin but a helmet? Why, this is a thing that would astonish a whole +university, however wise it might be! That will do; if this basin is a +helmet, why, then the pack-saddle must be a horse's caparison, as this +gentleman has said."</p> + +<p>"To me it looks like a pack-saddle," said Don Quixote; "but I have +already said that with that question I do not concern myself."</p> + +<p>"As to whether it be pack-saddle or caparison," said the curate, "it +is only for Senor Don Quixote to say; for in these matters of chivalry +all these gentlemen and I bow to his authority."</p> + +<p>"By God, gentlemen," said Don Quixote, "so many strange things +have happened to me in this castle on the two occasions on which I +have sojourned in it, that I will not venture to assert anything +positively in reply to any question touching anything it contains; for +it is my belief that everything that goes on within it goes by +enchantment. The first time, an enchanted Moor that there is in it +gave me sore trouble, nor did Sancho fare well among certain followers +of his; and last night I was kept hanging by this arm for nearly two +hours, without knowing how or why I came by such a mishap. So that +now, for me to come forward to give an opinion in such a puzzling +matter, would be to risk a rash decision. As regards the assertion +that this is a basin and not a helmet I have already given an +answer; but as to the question whether this is a pack-saddle or a +caparison I will not venture to give a positive opinion, but will +leave it to your worships' better judgment. Perhaps as you are not +dubbed knights like myself, the enchantments of this place have +nothing to do with you, and your faculties are unfettered, and you can +see things in this castle as they really and truly are, and not as +they appear to me."</p> + +<p>"There can be no question," said Don Fernando on this, "but that +Senor Don Quixote has spoken very wisely, and that with us rests the +decision of this matter; and that we may have surer ground to go on, I +will take the votes of the gentlemen in secret, and declare the result +clearly and fully."</p> + +<p>To those who were in the secret of Don Quixote's humour all this +afforded great amusement; but to those who knew nothing about it, it +seemed the greatest nonsense in the world, in particular to the four +servants of Don Luis, as well as to Don Luis himself, and to three +other travellers who had by chance come to the inn, and had the +appearance of officers of the Holy Brotherhood, as indeed they were; +but the one who above all was at his wits' end, was the barber +basin, there before his very eyes, had been turned into Mambrino's +helmet, and whose pack-saddle he had no doubt whatever was about to +become a rich caparison for a horse. All laughed to see Don Fernando +going from one to another collecting the votes, and whispering to them +to give him their private opinion whether the treasure over which +there had been so much fighting was a pack-saddle or a caparison; +but after he had taken the votes of those who knew Don Quixote, he +said aloud, "The fact is, my good fellow, that I am tired collecting +such a number of opinions, for I find that there is not one of whom +I ask what I desire to know, who does not tell me that it is absurd to +say that this is the pack-saddle of an ass, and not the caparison of a +horse, nay, of a thoroughbred horse; so you must submit, for, in spite +of you and your ass, this is a caparison and no pack-saddle, and you +have stated and proved your case very badly."</p> + +<p>"May I never share heaven," said the poor barber, "if your +worships are not all mistaken; and may my soul appear before God as +that appears to me a pack-saddle and not a caparison; but, +'laws go,'—I say no more; and indeed I am not drunk, for I am fasting, except +it be from sin."</p> + +<p>The simple talk of the barber did not afford less amusement than the +absurdities of Don Quixote, who now observed:</p> + +<p>"There is no more to be done now than for each to take what +belongs to him, and to whom God has given it, may St. Peter add his +blessing."</p> + +<p>But said one of the four servants, "Unless, indeed, this is a +deliberate joke, I cannot bring myself to believe that men so +intelligent as those present are, or seem to be, can venture to +declare and assert that this is not a basin, and that not a +pack-saddle; but as I perceive that they do assert and declare it, I +can only come to the conclusion that there is some mystery in this +persistence in what is so opposed to the evidence of experience and +truth itself; for I swear by"—and here he rapped out a round +oath—"all the people in the world will not make me believe that this is not +a barber's basin and that a jackass's pack-saddle."</p> + +<p>"It might easily be a she-ass's," observed the curate.</p> + +<p>"It is all the same," said the servant; "that is not the point; +but whether it is or is not a pack-saddle, as your worships say."</p> + +<p>On hearing this one of the newly arrived officers of the +Brotherhood, who had been listening to the dispute and controversy, +unable to restrain his anger and impatience, exclaimed, "It is a +pack-saddle as sure as my father is my father, and whoever has said or +will say anything else must be drunk."</p> + +<p>"You lie like a rascally clown," returned Don Quixote; and lifting +his pike, which he had never let out of his hand, he delivered such +a blow at his head that, had not the officer dodged it, it would +have stretched him at full length. The pike was shivered in pieces +against the ground, and the rest of the officers, seeing their comrade +assaulted, raised a shout, calling for help for the Holy +Brotherhood. The landlord, who was of the fraternity, ran at once to +fetch his staff of office and his sword, and ranged himself on the +side of his comrades; the servants of Don Luis clustered round him, +lest he should escape from them in the confusion; the barber, seeing +the house turned upside down, once more laid hold of his pack-saddle +and Sancho did the same; Don Quixote drew his sword and charged the +officers; Don Luis cried out to his servants to leave him alone and go +and help Don Quixote, and Cardenio and Don Fernando, who were +supporting him; the curate was shouting at the top of his voice, the +landlady was screaming, her daughter was wailing, Maritornes was +weeping, Dorothea was aghast, Luscinda terror-stricken, and Dona Clara +in a faint. The barber cudgelled Sancho, and Sancho pommelled the +barber; Don Luis gave one of his servants, who ventured to catch him +by the arm to keep him from escaping, a cuff that bathed his teeth +in blood; the Judge took his part; Don Fernando had got one of the +officers down and was belabouring him heartily; the landlord raised +his voice again calling for help for the Holy Brotherhood; so that the +whole inn was nothing but cries, shouts, shrieks, confusion, terror, +dismay, mishaps, sword-cuts, fisticuffs, cudgellings, kicks, and +bloodshed; and in the midst of all this chaos, complication, and +general entanglement, Don Quixote took it into his head that he had +been plunged into the thick of the discord of Agramante's camp; and, +in a voice that shook the inn like thunder, he cried out:</p> + +<p>"Hold all, let all sheathe their swords, let all be calm and +attend to me as they value their lives!"</p> + +<p>All paused at his mighty voice, and he went on to say, "Did I not +tell you, sirs, that this castle was enchanted, and that a legion or +so of devils dwelt in it? In proof whereof I call upon you to behold +with your own eyes how the discord of Agramante's camp has come +hither, and been transferred into the midst of us. See how they fight, +there for the sword, here for the horse, on that side for the eagle, +on this for the helmet; we are all fighting, and all at cross +purposes. Come then, you, Senor Judge, and you, senor curate; let +the one represent King Agramante and the other King Sobrino, and +make peace among us; for by God Almighty it is a sorry business that +so many persons of quality as we are should slay one another for +such trifling cause." + The officers, who did not understand Don Quixote's mode of +speaking, and found themselves roughly handled by Don Fernando, +Cardenio, and their companions, were not to be appeased; the barber +was, however, for both his beard and his pack-saddle were the worse +for the struggle; Sancho like a good servant obeyed the slightest word +of his master; while the four servants of Don Luis kept quiet when +they saw how little they gained by not being so. The landlord alone +insisted upon it that they must punish the insolence of this madman, +who at every turn raised a disturbance in the inn; but at length the +uproar was stilled for the present; the pack-saddle remained a +caparison till the day of judgment, and the basin a helmet and the inn +a castle in Don Quixote's imagination.</p> + +<p>All having been now pacified and made friends by the persuasion of +the Judge and the curate, the servants of Don Luis began again to urge +him to return with them at once; and while he was discussing the +matter with them, the Judge took counsel with Don Fernando, +Cardenio, and the curate as to what he ought to do in the case, +telling them how it stood, and what Don Luis had said to him. It was +agreed at length that Don Fernando should tell the servants of Don +Luis who he was, and that it was his desire that Don Luis should +accompany him to Andalusia, where he would receive from the marquis +his brother the welcome his quality entitled him to; for, otherwise, +it was easy to see from the determination of Don Luis that he would +not return to his father at present, though they tore him to pieces. +On learning the rank of Don Fernando and the resolution of Don Luis +the four then settled it between themselves that three of them +should return to tell his father how matters stood, and that the other +should remain to wait upon Don Luis, and not leave him until they came +back for him, or his father's orders were known. Thus by the authority +of Agramante and the wisdom of King Sobrino all this complication of +disputes was arranged; but the enemy of concord and hater of peace, +feeling himself slighted and made a fool of, and seeing how little +he had gained after having involved them all in such an elaborate +entanglement, resolved to try his hand once more by stirring up +fresh quarrels and disturbances.</p> + +<p>It came about in this wise: the officers were pacified on learning +the rank of those with whom they had been engaged, and withdrew from +the contest, considering that whatever the result might be they were +likely to get the worst of the battle; but one of them, the one who +had been thrashed and kicked by Don Fernando, recollected that among +some warrants he carried for the arrest of certain delinquents, he had +one against Don Quixote, whom the Holy Brotherhood had ordered to be +arrested for setting the galley slaves free, as Sancho had, with +very good reason, apprehended. Suspecting how it was, then, he +wished to satisfy himself as to whether Don Quixote's features +corresponded; and taking a parchment out of his bosom he lit upon what +he was in search of, and setting himself to read it deliberately, +for he was not a quick reader, as he made out each word he fixed his +eyes on Don Quixote, and went on comparing the description in the +warrant with his face, and discovered that beyond all doubt he was the +person described in it. As soon as he had satisfied himself, folding +up the parchment, he took the warrant in his left hand and with his +right seized Don Quixote by the collar so tightly that he did not +allow him to breathe, and shouted aloud, "Help for the Holy +Brotherhood! and that you may see I demand it in earnest, read this +warrant which says this highwayman is to be arrested."</p> + +<p>The curate took the warrant and saw that what the officer said was +true, and that it agreed with Don Quixote's appearance, who, on his +part, when he found himself roughly handled by this rascally clown, +worked up to the highest pitch of wrath, and all his joints cracking +with rage, with both hands seized the officer by the throat with all +his might, so that had he not been helped by his comrades he would +have yielded up his life ere Don Quixote released his hold. The +landlord, who had perforce to support his brother officers, ran at +once to aid them. The landlady, when she saw her husband engaged in +a fresh quarrel, lifted up her voice afresh, and its note was +immediately caught up by Maritornes and her daughter, calling upon +heaven and all present for help; and Sancho, seeing what was going on, +exclaimed, "By the Lord, it is quite true what my master says about +the enchantments of this castle, for it is impossible to live an +hour in peace in it!"</p> + +<p>Don Fernando parted the officer and Don Quixote, and to their mutual +contentment made them relax the grip by which they held, the one the +coat collar, the other the throat of his adversary; for all this, +however, the officers did not cease to demand their prisoner and +call on them to help, and deliver him over bound into their power, +as was required for the service of the King and of the Holy +Brotherhood, on whose behalf they again demanded aid and assistance to +effect the capture of this robber and footpad of the highways.</p> + +<p>Don Quixote smiled when he heard these words, and said very +calmly, "Come now, base, ill-born brood; call ye it highway robbery to +give freedom to those in bondage, to release the captives, to +succour the miserable, to raise up the fallen, to relieve the needy? +Infamous beings, who by your vile grovelling intellects deserve that +heaven should not make known to you the virtue that lies in +knight-errantry, or show you the sin and ignorance in which ye lie +when ye refuse to respect the shadow, not to say the presence, of +any knight-errant! Come now; band, not of officers, but of thieves; +footpads with the licence of the Holy Brotherhood; tell me who was the +ignoramus who signed a warrant of arrest against such a knight as I +am? Who was he that did not know that knights-errant are independent +of all jurisdictions, that their law is their sword, their charter +their prowess, and their edicts their will? Who, I say again, was +the fool that knows not that there are no letters patent of nobility +that confer such privileges or exemptions as a knight-errant +acquires the day he is dubbed a knight, and devotes himself to the +arduous calling of chivalry? What knight-errant ever paid poll-tax, +duty, queen's pin-money, king's dues, toll or ferry? What tailor +ever took payment of him for making his clothes? What castellan that +received him in his castle ever made him pay his shot? What king did +not seat him at his table? What damsel was not enamoured of him and +did not yield herself up wholly to his will and pleasure? And, lastly, +what knight-errant has there been, is there, or will there ever be +in the world, not bold enough to give, single-handed, four hundred +cudgellings to four hundred officers of the Holy Brotherhood if they +come in his way?"</p> + + + +<br><br> +<center><h2><a name="ch46"></a>CHAPTER XLVI.</h2></center> +<br> +<center><h3>OF THE END OF THE NOTABLE ADVENTURE OF THE OFFICERS OF THE HOLY +BROTHERHOOD; AND OF THE GREAT FEROCITY OF OUR WORTHY KNIGHT, DON +QUIXOTE +</h3></center> +<br> +<br> + +<center><a name="c46a"></a><img alt="c46a.jpg (163K)" src="images/c46a.jpg" height="444" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/c46a.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<p>While Don Quixote was talking in this strain, the curate was +endeavouring to persuade the officers that he was out of his senses, +as they might perceive by his deeds and his words, and that they +need not press the matter any further, for even if they arrested him +and carried him off, they would have to release him by-and-by as a +madman; to which the holder of the warrant replied that he had nothing +to do with inquiring into Don Quixote's madness, but only to execute +his superior's orders, and that once taken they might let him go three +hundred times if they liked.</p> + +<p>"For all that," said the curate, "you must not take him away this +time, nor will he, it is my opinion, let himself be taken away."</p> + +<p>In short, the curate used such arguments, and Don Quixote did such +mad things, that the officers would have been more mad than he was +if they had not perceived his want of wits, and so they thought it +best to allow themselves to be pacified, and even to act as +peacemakers between the barber and Sancho Panza, who still continued +their altercation with much bitterness. In the end they, as officers +of justice, settled the question by arbitration in such a manner +that both sides were, if not perfectly contented, at least to some +extent satisfied; for they changed the pack-saddles, but not the +girths or head-stalls; and as to Mambrino's helmet, the curate, +under the rose and without Don Quixote's knowing it, paid eight +reals for the basin, and the barber executed a full receipt and +engagement to make no further demand then or thenceforth for evermore, +amen. These two disputes, which were the most important and gravest, +being settled, it only remained for the servants of Don Luis to +consent that three of them should return while one was left to +accompany him whither Don Fernando desired to take him; and good +luck and better fortune, having already begun to solve difficulties +and remove obstructions in favour of the lovers and warriors of the +inn, were pleased to persevere and bring everything to a happy +issue; for the servants agreed to do as Don Luis wished; which gave +Dona Clara such happiness that no one could have looked into her +face just then without seeing the joy of her heart. Zoraida, though +she did not fully comprehend all she saw, was grave or gay without +knowing why, as she watched and studied the various countenances, +but particularly her Spaniard's, whom she followed with her eyes and +clung to with her soul. The gift and compensation which the curate +gave the barber had not escaped the landlord's notice, and he demanded +Don Quixote's reckoning, together with the amount of the damage to his +wine-skins, and the loss of his wine, swearing that neither +Rocinante nor Sancho's ass should leave the inn until he had been paid +to the very last farthing. The curate settled all amicably, and Don +Fernando paid; though the Judge had also very readily offered to pay +the score; and all became so peaceful and quiet that the inn no longer +reminded one of the discord of Agramante's camp, as Don Quixote +said, but of the peace and tranquillity of the days of Octavianus: for +all which it was the universal opinion that their thanks were due to +the great zeal and eloquence of the curate, and to the unexampled +generosity of Don Fernando.</p> + +<p>Finding himself now clear and quit of all quarrels, his squire's +as well as his own, Don Quixote considered that it would be +advisable to continue the journey he had begun, and bring to a close +that great adventure for which he had been called and chosen; and with +this high resolve he went and knelt before Dorothea, who, however, +would not allow him to utter a word until he had risen; so to obey her +he rose, and said, "It is a common proverb, fair lady, that 'diligence +is the mother of good fortune,' and experience has often shown in +important affairs that the earnestness of the negotiator brings the +doubtful case to a successful termination; but in nothing does this +truth show itself more plainly than in war, where quickness and +activity forestall the devices of the enemy, and win the victory +before the foe has time to defend himself. All this I say, exalted and +esteemed lady, because it seems to me that for us to remain any longer +in this castle now is useless, and may be injurious to us in a way +that we shall find out some day; for who knows but that your enemy the +giant may have learned by means of secret and diligent spies that I am +going to destroy him, and if the opportunity be given him he may seize +it to fortify himself in some impregnable castle or stronghold, +against which all my efforts and the might of my indefatigable arm may +avail but little? Therefore, lady, let us, as I say, forestall his +schemes by our activity, and let us depart at once in quest of fair +fortune; for your highness is only kept from enjoying it as fully as +you could desire by my delay in encountering your adversary."</p> + +<p>Don Quixote held his peace and said no more, calmly awaiting the +reply of the beauteous princess, who, with commanding dignity and in a +style adapted to Don Quixote's own, replied to him in these words, +"I give you thanks, sir knight, for the eagerness you, like a good +knight to whom it is a natural obligation to succour the orphan and +the needy, display to afford me aid in my sore trouble; and heaven +grant that your wishes and mine may be realised, so that you may see +that there are women in this world capable of gratitude; as to my +departure, let it be forthwith, for I have no will but yours; +dispose of me entirely in accordance with your good pleasure; for +she who has once entrusted to you the defence of her person, and +placed in your hands the recovery of her dominions, must not think +of offering opposition to that which your wisdom may ordain."</p> + +<p>"On, then, in God's name," said Don Quixote; "for, when a lady +humbles herself to me, I will not lose the opportunity of raising +her up and placing her on the throne of her ancestors. Let us depart +at once, for the common saying that in delay there is danger, lends +spurs to my eagerness to take the road; and as neither heaven has +created nor hell seen any that can daunt or intimidate me, saddle +Rocinante, Sancho, and get ready thy ass and the queen's palfrey, +and let us take leave of the castellan and these gentlemen, and go +hence this very instant."</p> + +<p>Sancho, who was standing by all the time, said, shaking his head, +"Ah! master, master, there is more mischief in the village than one +hears of, begging all good bodies' pardon."</p> + +<p>"What mischief can there be in any village, or in all the cities +of the world, you booby, that can hurt my reputation?" said Don +Quixote.</p> + +<p>"If your worship is angry," replied Sancho, "I will hold my tongue +and leave unsaid what as a good squire I am bound to say, and what a +good servant should tell his master."</p> + +<p>"Say what thou wilt," returned Don Quixote, "provided thy words be +not meant to work upon my fears; for thou, if thou fearest, art +behaving like thyself; but I like myself, in not fearing."</p> + +<p>"It is nothing of the sort, as I am a sinner before God," said +Sancho, "but that I take it to be sure and certain that this lady, who +calls herself queen of the great kingdom of Micomicon, is no more so +than my mother; for, if she was what she says, she would not go +rubbing noses with one that is here every instant and behind every +door."</p> + +<p>Dorothea turned red at Sancho's words, for the truth was that her +husband Don Fernando had now and then, when the others were not +looking, gathered from her lips some of the reward his love had +earned, and Sancho seeing this had considered that such freedom was +more like a courtesan than a queen of a great kingdom; she, however, +being unable or not caring to answer him, allowed him to proceed, +and he continued, "This I say, senor, because, if after we have +travelled roads and highways, and passed bad nights and worse days, +one who is now enjoying himself in this inn is to reap the fruit of +our labours, there is no need for me to be in a hurry to saddle +Rocinante, put the pad on the ass, or get ready the palfrey; for it +will be better for us to stay quiet, and let every jade mind her +spinning, and let us go to dinner."</p> + +<p>Good God, what was the indignation of Don Quixote when he heard +the audacious words of his squire! So great was it, that in a voice +inarticulate with rage, with a stammering tongue, and eyes that +flashed living fire, he exclaimed, "Rascally clown, boorish, insolent, +and ignorant, ill-spoken, foul-mouthed, impudent backbiter and +slanderer! Hast thou dared to utter such words in my presence and in +that of these illustrious ladies? Hast thou dared to harbour such +gross and shameless thoughts in thy muddled imagination? Begone from +my presence, thou born monster, storehouse of lies, hoard of untruths, +garner of knaveries, inventor of scandals, publisher of absurdities, +enemy of the respect due to royal personages! Begone, show thyself +no more before me under pain of my wrath;" and so saying he knitted +his brows, puffed out his cheeks, gazed around him, and stamped on the +ground violently with his right foot, showing in every way the rage +that was pent up in his heart; and at his words and furious gestures +Sancho was so scared and terrified that he would have been glad if the +earth had opened that instant and swallowed him, and his only +thought was to turn round and make his escape from the angry +presence of his master.</p> + +<p>But the ready-witted Dorothea, who by this time so well understood +Don Quixote's humour, said, to mollify his wrath, "Be not irritated at +the absurdities your good squire has uttered, Sir Knight of the Rueful +Countenance, for perhaps he did not utter them without cause, and from +his good sense and Christian conscience it is not likely that he would +bear false witness against anyone. We may therefore believe, without +any hesitation, that since, as you say, sir knight, everything in this +castle goes and is brought about by means of enchantment, Sancho, I +say, may possibly have seen, through this diabolical medium, what he +says he saw so much to the detriment of my modesty."</p> + +<p>"I swear by God Omnipotent," exclaimed Don Quixote at this, "your +highness has hit the point; and that some vile illusion must have come +before this sinner of a Sancho, that made him see what it would have +been impossible to see by any other means than enchantments; for I +know well enough, from the poor fellow's goodness and harmlessness, +that he is incapable of bearing false witness against anybody."</p> + +<p>"True, no doubt," said Don Fernando, "for which reason, Senor Don +Quixote, you ought to forgive him and restore him to the bosom of your +favour, sicut erat in principio, before illusions of this sort had +taken away his senses."</p> + +<p>Don Quixote said he was ready to pardon him, and the curate went for +Sancho, who came in very humbly, and falling on his knees begged for +the hand of his master, who having presented it to him and allowed him +to kiss it, gave him his blessing and said, "Now, Sancho my son, +thou wilt be convinced of the truth of what I have many a time told +thee, that everything in this castle is done by means of enchantment."</p> + +<p>"So it is, I believe," said Sancho, "except the affair of the +blanket, which came to pass in reality by ordinary means."</p> + +<p>"Believe it not," said Don Quixote, "for had it been so, I would +have avenged thee that instant, or even now; but neither then nor +now could I, nor have I seen anyone upon whom to avenge thy wrong."</p> + +<p>They were all eager to know what the affair of the blanket was, +and the landlord gave them a minute account of Sancho's flights, at +which they laughed not a little, and at which Sancho would have been +no less out of countenance had not his master once more assured him it +was all enchantment. For all that his simplicity never reached so high +a pitch that he could persuade himself it was not the plain and simple +truth, without any deception whatever about it, that he had been +blanketed by beings of flesh and blood, and not by visionary and +imaginary phantoms, as his master believed and protested.</p> + +<p>The illustrious company had now been two days in the inn; and as +it seemed to them time to depart, they devised a plan so that, without +giving Dorothea and Don Fernando the trouble of going back with Don +Quixote to his village under pretence of restoring Queen Micomicona, +the curate and the barber might carry him away with them as they +proposed, and the curate be able to take his madness in hand at +home; and in pursuance of their plan they arranged with the owner of +an oxcart who happened to be passing that way to carry him after +this fashion. They constructed a kind of cage with wooden bars, +large enough to hold Don Quixote comfortably; and then Don Fernando +and his companions, the servants of Don Luis, and the officers of +the Brotherhood, together with the landlord, by the directions and +advice of the curate, covered their faces and disguised themselves, +some in one way, some in another, so as to appear to Don Quixote quite +different from the persons he had seen in the castle. This done, in +profound silence they entered the room where he was asleep, taking his +his rest after the past frays, and advancing to where he was +sleeping tranquilly, not dreaming of anything of the kind happening, +they seized him firmly and bound him fast hand and foot, so that, when +he awoke startled, he was unable to move, and could only marvel and +wonder at the strange figures he saw before him; upon which he at once +gave way to the idea which his crazed fancy invariably conjured up +before him, and took it into his head that all these shapes were +phantoms of the enchanted castle, and that he himself was +unquestionably enchanted as he could neither move nor help himself; +precisely what the curate, the concoctor of the scheme, expected would +happen. Of all that were there Sancho was the only one who was at once +in his senses and in his own proper character, and he, though he was +within very little of sharing his master's infirmity, did not fail +to perceive who all these disguised figures were; but he did not +dare to open his lips until he saw what came of this assault and +capture of his master; nor did the latter utter a word, waiting to the +upshot of his mishap; which was that bringing in the cage, they shut +him up in it and nailed the bars so firmly that they could not be +easily burst open.</p> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="c46b"></a><img alt="c46b.jpg (342K)" src="images/c46b.jpg" height="808" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/c46b.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<p>They then took him on their shoulders, and as +they passed out of the room an awful voice—as much so as the +barber, not he of the pack-saddle but the other, was able to make +it—was heard to say, "O Knight of the Rueful Countenance, let not +this captivity in which thou art placed afflict thee, for this must +needs be, for the more speedy accomplishment of the adventure in which +thy great heart has engaged thee; the which shall be accomplished when +the raging Manchegan lion and the white Tobosan dove shall be linked +together, having first humbled their haughty necks to the gentle +yoke of matrimony. And from this marvellous union shall come forth +to the light of the world brave whelps that shall rival the ravening +claws of their valiant father; and this shall come to pass ere the +pursuer of the flying nymph shall in his swift natural course have +twice visited the starry signs. And thou, O most noble and obedient +squire that ever bore sword at side, beard on face, or nose to smell +with, be not dismayed or grieved to see the flower of +knight-errantry carried away thus before thy very eyes; for soon, if +it so please the Framer of the universe, thou shalt see thyself +exalted to such a height that thou shalt not know thyself, and the +promises which thy good master has made thee shall not prove false; +and I assure thee, on the authority of the sage Mentironiana, that thy +wages shall be paid thee, as thou shalt see in due season. Follow then +the footsteps of the valiant enchanted knight, for it is expedient +that thou shouldst go to the destination assigned to both of you; +and as it is not permitted to me to say more, God be with thee; for +I return to that place I wot of;" and as he brought the prophecy to +a close he raised his voice to a high pitch, and then lowered it to +such a soft tone, that even those who knew it was all a joke were +almost inclined to take what they heard seriously.</p> + +<p>Don Quixote was comforted by the prophecy he heard, for he at once +comprehended its meaning perfectly, and perceived it was promised to +him that he should see himself united in holy and lawful matrimony +with his beloved Dulcinea del Toboso, from whose blessed womb should +proceed the whelps, his sons, to the eternal glory of La Mancha; and +being thoroughly and firmly persuaded of this, he lifted up his voice, +and with a deep sigh exclaimed, "Oh thou, whoever thou art, who hast +foretold me so much good, I implore of thee that on my part thou +entreat that sage enchanter who takes charge of my interests, that +he leave me not to perish in this captivity in which they are now +carrying me away, ere I see fulfilled promises so joyful and +incomparable as those which have been now made me; for, let this but +come to pass, and I shall glory in the pains of my prison, find +comfort in these chains wherewith they bind me, and regard this bed +whereon they stretch me, not as a hard battle-field, but as a soft and +happy nuptial couch; and touching the consolation of Sancho Panza, +my squire, I rely upon his goodness and rectitude that he will not +desert me in good or evil fortune; for if, by his ill luck or mine, it +may not happen to be in my power to give him the island I have +promised, or any equivalent for it, at least his wages shall not be +lost; for in my will, which is already made, I have declared the sum +that shall be paid to him, measured, not by his many faithful +services, but by the means at my disposal."</p> + +<p>Sancho bowed his head very respectfully and kissed both his hands, +for, being tied together, he could not kiss one; and then the +apparitions lifted the cage upon their shoulders and fixed it upon the +ox-cart.</p> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="c46e"></a><img alt="c46e.jpg (56K)" src="images/c46e.jpg" height="434" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/c46e.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> + + +<br> +<br> +<hr> +<br><br> + + + + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The History of Don Quixote, Vol. I., +Part 15., by Miguel de Cervantes + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DON QUIXOTE, PART 15 *** + +***** This file should be named 5917-h.htm or 5917-h.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/5/9/1/5917/ + +Produced by David Widger + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: The History of Don Quixote, Vol. I., Part 15. + +Author: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra + +Release Date: July 19, 2004 [EBook #5917] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DON QUIXOTE, PART 15 *** + + + + +Produced by David Widger + + + + + + DON QUIXOTE + + by Miguel de Cervantes + + Translated by John Ormsby + + + Volume I. + + Part 15. + + + +CHAPTER XLII. + +WHICH TREATS OF WHAT FURTHER TOOK PLACE IN THE INN, AND OF SEVERAL OTHER +THINGS WORTH KNOWING + + +With these words the captive held his peace, and Don Fernando said to +him, "In truth, captain, the manner in which you have related this +remarkable adventure has been such as befitted the novelty and +strangeness of the matter. The whole story is curious and uncommon, and +abounds with incidents that fill the hearers with wonder and +astonishment; and so great is the pleasure we have found in listening to +it that we should be glad if it were to begin again, even though +to-morrow were to find us still occupied with the same tale." And while +he said this Cardenio and the rest of them offered to be of service to +him in any way that lay in their power, and in words and language so +kindly and sincere that the captain was much gratified by their +good-will. In particular Don Fernando offered, if he would go back with +him, to get his brother the marquis to become godfather at the baptism of +Zoraida, and on his own part to provide him with the means of making his +appearance in his own country with the credit and comfort he was entitled +to. For all this the captive returned thanks very courteously, although +he would not accept any of their generous offers. + +By this time night closed in, and as it did, there came up to the inn a +coach attended by some men on horseback, who demanded accommodation; to +which the landlady replied that there was not a hand's breadth of the +whole inn unoccupied. + +"Still, for all that," said one of those who had entered on horseback, +"room must be found for his lordship the Judge here." + +At this name the landlady was taken aback, and said, "Senor, the fact is +I have no beds; but if his lordship the Judge carries one with him, as no +doubt he does, let him come in and welcome; for my husband and I will +give up our room to accommodate his worship." + +"Very good, so be it," said the squire; but in the meantime a man had got +out of the coach whose dress indicated at a glance the office and post he +held, for the long robe with ruffled sleeves that he wore showed that he +was, as his servant said, a Judge of appeal. He led by the hand a young +girl in a travelling dress, apparently about sixteen years of age, and of +such a high-bred air, so beautiful and so graceful, that all were filled +with admiration when she made her appearance, and but for having seen +Dorothea, Luscinda, and Zoraida, who were there in the inn, they would +have fancied that a beauty like that of this maiden's would have been +hard to find. Don Quixote was present at the entrance of the Judge with +the young lady, and as soon as he saw him he said, "Your worship may with +confidence enter and take your ease in this castle; for though the +accommodation be scanty and poor, there are no quarters so cramped or +inconvenient that they cannot make room for arms and letters; above all +if arms and letters have beauty for a guide and leader, as letters +represented by your worship have in this fair maiden, to whom not only +ought castles to throw themselves open and yield themselves up, but rocks +should rend themselves asunder and mountains divide and bow themselves +down to give her a reception. Enter, your worship, I say, into this +paradise, for here you will find stars and suns to accompany the heaven +your worship brings with you, here you will find arms in their supreme +excellence, and beauty in its highest perfection." + +The Judge was struck with amazement at the language of Don Quixote, whom +he scrutinized very carefully, no less astonished by his figure than by +his talk; and before he could find words to answer him he had a fresh +surprise, when he saw opposite to him Luscinda, Dorothea, and Zoraida, +who, having heard of the new guests and of the beauty of the young lady, +had come to see her and welcome her; Don Fernando, Cardenio, and the +curate, however, greeted him in a more intelligible and polished style. +In short, the Judge made his entrance in a state of bewilderment, as well +with what he saw as what he heard, and the fair ladies of the inn gave +the fair damsel a cordial welcome. On the whole he could perceive that +all who were there were people of quality; but with the figure, +countenance, and bearing of Don Quixote he was at his wits' end; and all +civilities having been exchanged, and the accommodation of the inn +inquired into, it was settled, as it had been before settled, that all +the women should retire to the garret that has been already mentioned, +and that the men should remain outside as if to guard them; the Judge, +therefore, was very well pleased to allow his daughter, for such the +damsel was, to go with the ladies, which she did very willingly; and with +part of the host's narrow bed and half of what the Judge had brought with +him, they made a more comfortable arrangement for the night than they had +expected. + +The captive, whose heart had leaped within him the instant he saw the +Judge, telling him somehow that this was his brother, asked one of the +servants who accompanied him what his name was, and whether he knew from +what part of the country he came. The servant replied that he was called +the Licentiate Juan Perez de Viedma, and that he had heard it said he +came from a village in the mountains of Leon. From this statement, and +what he himself had seen, he felt convinced that this was his brother who +had adopted letters by his father's advice; and excited and rejoiced, he +called Don Fernando and Cardenio and the curate aside, and told them how +the matter stood, assuring them that the judge was his brother. The +servant had further informed him that he was now going to the Indies with +the appointment of Judge of the Supreme Court of Mexico; and he had +learned, likewise, that the young lady was his daughter, whose mother had +died in giving birth to her, and that he was very rich in consequence of +the dowry left to him with the daughter. He asked their advice as to what +means he should adopt to make himself known, or to ascertain beforehand +whether, when he had made himself known, his brother, seeing him so poor, +would be ashamed of him, or would receive him with a warm heart. + +"Leave it to me to find out that," said the curate; "though there is no +reason for supposing, senor captain, that you will not be kindly +received, because the worth and wisdom that your brother's bearing shows +him to possess do not make it likely that he will prove haughty or +insensible, or that he will not know how to estimate the accidents of +fortune at their proper value." + +"Still," said the captain, "I would not make myself known abruptly, but +in some indirect way." + +"I have told you already," said the curate, "that I will manage it in a +way to satisfy us all." + +By this time supper was ready, and they all took their seats at the +table, except the captive, and the ladies, who supped by themselves in +their own room. In the middle of supper the curate said: + +"I had a comrade of your worship's name, Senor Judge, in Constantinople, +where I was a captive for several years, and that same comrade was one of +the stoutest soldiers and captains in the whole Spanish infantry; but he +had as large a share of misfortune as he had of gallantry and courage." + +"And how was the captain called, senor?" asked the Judge. + +"He was called Ruy Perez de Viedma," replied the curate, "and he was born +in a village in the mountains of Leon; and he mentioned a circumstance +connected with his father and his brothers which, had it not been told me +by so truthful a man as he was, I should have set down as one of those +fables the old women tell over the fire in winter; for he said his father +had divided his property among his three sons and had addressed words of +advice to them sounder than any of Cato's. But I can say this much, that +the choice he made of going to the wars was attended with such success, +that by his gallant conduct and courage, and without any help save his +own merit, he rose in a few years to be captain of infantry, and to see +himself on the high-road and in position to be given the command of a +corps before long; but Fortune was against him, for where he might have +expected her favour he lost it, and with it his liberty, on that glorious +day when so many recovered theirs, at the battle of Lepanto. I lost mine +at the Goletta, and after a variety of adventures we found ourselves +comrades at Constantinople. Thence he went to Algiers, where he met with +one of the most extraordinary adventures that ever befell anyone in the +world." + +Here the curate went on to relate briefly his brother's adventure with +Zoraida; to all which the Judge gave such an attentive hearing that he +never before had been so much of a hearer. The curate, however, only went +so far as to describe how the Frenchmen plundered those who were in the +boat, and the poverty and distress in which his comrade and the fair Moor +were left, of whom he said he had not been able to learn what became of +them, or whether they had reached Spain, or been carried to France by the +Frenchmen. + +The captain, standing a little to one side, was listening to all the +curate said, and watching every movement of his brother, who, as soon as +he perceived the curate had made an end of his story, gave a deep sigh +and said with his eyes full of tears, "Oh, senor, if you only knew what +news you have given me and how it comes home to me, making me show how I +feel it with these tears that spring from my eyes in spite of all my +worldly wisdom and self-restraint! That brave captain that you speak of +is my eldest brother, who, being of a bolder and loftier mind than my +other brother or myself, chose the honourable and worthy calling of arms, +which was one of the three careers our father proposed to us, as your +comrade mentioned in that fable you thought he was telling you. I +followed that of letters, in which God and my own exertions have raised +me to the position in which you see me. My second brother is in Peru, so +wealthy that with what he has sent to my father and to me he has fully +repaid the portion he took with him, and has even furnished my father's +hands with the means of gratifying his natural generosity, while I too +have been enabled to pursue my studies in a more becoming and creditable +fashion, and so to attain my present standing. My father is still alive, +though dying with anxiety to hear of his eldest son, and he prays God +unceasingly that death may not close his eyes until he has looked upon +those of his son; but with regard to him what surprises me is, that +having so much common sense as he had, he should have neglected to give +any intelligence about himself, either in his troubles and sufferings, or +in his prosperity, for if his father or any of us had known of his +condition he need not have waited for that miracle of the reed to obtain +his ransom; but what now disquiets me is the uncertainty whether those +Frenchmen may have restored him to liberty, or murdered him to hide the +robbery. All this will make me continue my journey, not with the +satisfaction in which I began it, but in the deepest melancholy and +sadness. Oh dear brother! that I only knew where thou art now, and I +would hasten to seek thee out and deliver thee from thy sufferings, +though it were to cost me suffering myself! Oh that I could bring news to +our old father that thou art alive, even wert thou the deepest dungeon of +Barbary; for his wealth and my brother's and mine would rescue thee +thence! Oh beautiful and generous Zoraida, that I could repay thy good +goodness to a brother! That I could be present at the new birth of thy +soul, and at thy bridal that would give us all such happiness!" + +All this and more the Judge uttered with such deep emotion at the news he +had received of his brother that all who heard him shared in it, showing +their sympathy with his sorrow. The curate, seeing, then, how well he had +succeeded in carrying out his purpose and the captain's wishes, had no +desire to keep them unhappy any longer, so he rose from the table and +going into the room where Zoraida was he took her by the hand, Luscinda, +Dorothea, and the Judge's daughter following her. The captain was waiting +to see what the curate would do, when the latter, taking him with the +other hand, advanced with both of them to where the Judge and the other +gentlemen were and said, "Let your tears cease to flow, Senor Judge, and +the wish of your heart be gratified as fully as you could desire, for you +have before you your worthy brother and your good sister-in-law. He whom +you see here is the Captain Viedma, and this is the fair Moor who has +been so good to him. The Frenchmen I told you of have reduced them to the +state of poverty you see that you may show the generosity of your kind +heart." + +The captain ran to embrace his brother, who placed both hands on his +breast so as to have a good look at him, holding him a little way off but +as soon as he had fully recognised him he clasped him in his arms so +closely, shedding such tears of heartfelt joy, that most of those present +could not but join in them. The words the brothers exchanged, the emotion +they showed can scarcely be imagined, I fancy, much less put down in +writing. They told each other in a few words the events of their lives; +they showed the true affection of brothers in all its strength; then the +judge embraced Zoraida, putting all he possessed at her disposal; then he +made his daughter embrace her, and the fair Christian and the lovely Moor +drew fresh tears from every eye. And there was Don Quixote observing all +these strange proceedings attentively without uttering a word, and +attributing the whole to chimeras of knight-errantry. Then they agreed +that the captain and Zoraida should return with his brother to Seville, +and send news to his father of his having been delivered and found, so as +to enable him to come and be present at the marriage and baptism of +Zoraida, for it was impossible for the Judge to put off his journey, as +he was informed that in a month from that time the fleet was to sail from +Seville for New Spain, and to miss the passage would have been a great +inconvenience to him. In short, everybody was well pleased and glad at +the captive's good fortune; and as now almost two-thirds of the night +were past, they resolved to retire to rest for the remainder of it. Don +Quixote offered to mount guard over the castle lest they should be +attacked by some giant or other malevolent scoundrel, covetous of the +great treasure of beauty the castle contained. Those who understood him +returned him thanks for this service, and they gave the Judge an account +of his extraordinary humour, with which he was not a little amused. +Sancho Panza alone was fuming at the lateness of the hour for retiring to +rest; and he of all was the one that made himself most comfortable, as he +stretched himself on the trappings of his ass, which, as will be told +farther on, cost him so dear. + +The ladies, then, having retired to their chamber, and the others having +disposed themselves with as little discomfort as they could, Don Quixote +sallied out of the inn to act as sentinel of the castle as he had +promised. It happened, however, that a little before the approach of dawn +a voice so musical and sweet reached the ears of the ladies that it +forced them all to listen attentively, but especially Dorothea, who had +been awake, and by whose side Dona Clara de Viedma, for so the Judge's +daughter was called, lay sleeping. No one could imagine who it was that +sang so sweetly, and the voice was unaccompanied by any instrument. At +one moment it seemed to them as if the singer were in the courtyard, at +another in the stable; and as they were all attention, wondering, +Cardenio came to the door and said, "Listen, whoever is not asleep, and +you will hear a muleteer's voice that enchants as it chants." + +"We are listening to it already, senor," said Dorothea; on which Cardenio +went away; and Dorothea, giving all her attention to it, made out the +words of the song to be these: + + + + +CHAPTER XLIII. + +WHEREIN IS RELATED THE PLEASANT STORY OF THE MULETEER, TOGETHER WITH +OTHER STRANGE THINGS THAT CAME TO PASS IN THE INN + +Ah me, Love's mariner am I + On Love's deep ocean sailing; +I know not where the haven lies, + I dare not hope to gain it. + +One solitary distant star + Is all I have to guide me, +A brighter orb than those of old + That Palinurus lighted. + +And vaguely drifting am I borne, + I know not where it leads me; +I fix my gaze on it alone, + Of all beside it heedless. + +But over-cautious prudery, + And coyness cold and cruel, +When most I need it, these, like clouds, + Its longed-for light refuse me. + +Bright star, goal of my yearning eyes + As thou above me beamest, +When thou shalt hide thee from my sight + I'll know that death is near me. + +The singer had got so far when it struck Dorothea that it was not fair to +let Clara miss hearing such a sweet voice, so, shaking her from side to +side, she woke her, saying: + +"Forgive me, child, for waking thee, but I do so that thou mayest have +the pleasure of hearing the best voice thou hast ever heard, perhaps, in +all thy life." + +Clara awoke quite drowsy, and not understanding at the moment what +Dorothea said, asked her what it was; she repeated what she had said, and +Clara became attentive at once; but she had hardly heard two lines, as +the singer continued, when a strange trembling seized her, as if she were +suffering from a severe attack of quartan ague, and throwing her arms +round Dorothea she said: + +"Ah, dear lady of my soul and life! why did you wake me? The greatest +kindness fortune could do me now would be to close my eyes and ears so as +neither to see or hear that unhappy musician." + +"What art thou talking about, child?" said Dorothea. "Why, they say this +singer is a muleteer!" + +"Nay, he is the lord of many places," replied Clara, "and that one in my +heart which he holds so firmly shall never be taken from him, unless he +be willing to surrender it." + +Dorothea was amazed at the ardent language of the girl, for it seemed to +be far beyond such experience of life as her tender years gave any +promise of, so she said to her: + +"You speak in such a way that I cannot understand you, Senora Clara; +explain yourself more clearly, and tell me what is this you are saying +about hearts and places and this musician whose voice has so moved you? +But do not tell me anything now; I do not want to lose the pleasure I get +from listening to the singer by giving my attention to your transports, +for I perceive he is beginning to sing a new strain and a new air." + +"Let him, in Heaven's name," returned Clara; and not to hear him she +stopped both ears with her hands, at which Dorothea was again surprised; +but turning her attention to the song she found that it ran in this +fashion: + + Sweet Hope, my stay, +That onward to the goal of thy intent + Dost make thy way, +Heedless of hindrance or impediment, + Have thou no fear +If at each step thou findest death is near. + + No victory, +No joy of triumph doth the faint heart know; + Unblest is he +That a bold front to Fortune dares not show, + But soul and sense +In bondage yieldeth up to indolence. + + If Love his wares +Do dearly sell, his right must be contest; + What gold compares +With that whereon his stamp he hath imprest? + And all men know +What costeth little that we rate but low. + + Love resolute +Knows not the word "impossibility;" + And though my suit +Beset by endless obstacles I see, + Yet no despair +Shall hold me bound to earth while heaven is there. + +Here the voice ceased and Clara's sobs began afresh, all which excited +Dorothea's curiosity to know what could be the cause of singing so sweet +and weeping so bitter, so she again asked her what it was she was going +to say before. On this Clara, afraid that Luscinda might overhear her, +winding her arms tightly round Dorothea put her mouth so close to her ear +that she could speak without fear of being heard by anyone else, and +said: + +"This singer, dear senora, is the son of a gentleman of Aragon, lord of +two villages, who lives opposite my father's house at Madrid; and though +my father had curtains to the windows of his house in winter, and +lattice-work in summer, in some way--I know not how--this gentleman, who +was pursuing his studies, saw me, whether in church or elsewhere, I +cannot tell, and, in fact, fell in love with me, and gave me to know it +from the windows of his house, with so many signs and tears that I was +forced to believe him, and even to love him, without knowing what it was +he wanted of me. One of the signs he used to make me was to link one hand +in the other, to show me he wished to marry me; and though I should have +been glad if that could be, being alone and motherless I knew not whom to +open my mind to, and so I left it as it was, showing him no favour, +except when my father, and his too, were from home, to raise the curtain +or the lattice a little and let him see me plainly, at which he would +show such delight that he seemed as if he were going mad. Meanwhile the +time for my father's departure arrived, which he became aware of, but not +from me, for I had never been able to tell him of it. He fell sick, of +grief I believe, and so the day we were going away I could not see him to +take farewell of him, were it only with the eyes. But after we had been +two days on the road, on entering the posada of a village a day's journey +from this, I saw him at the inn door in the dress of a muleteer, and so +well disguised, that if I did not carry his image graven on my heart it +would have been impossible for me to recognise him. But I knew him, and I +was surprised, and glad; he watched me, unsuspected by my father, from +whom he always hides himself when he crosses my path on the road, or in +the posadas where we halt; and, as I know what he is, and reflect that +for love of me he makes this journey on foot in all this hardship, I am +ready to die of sorrow; and where he sets foot there I set my eyes. I +know not with what object he has come; or how he could have got away from +his father, who loves him beyond measure, having no other heir, and +because he deserves it, as you will perceive when you see him. And +moreover, I can tell you, all that he sings is out of his own head; for I +have heard them say he is a great scholar and poet; and what is more, +every time I see him or hear him sing I tremble all over, and am +terrified lest my father should recognise him and come to know of our +loves. I have never spoken a word to him in my life; and for all that I +love him so that I could not live without him. This, dear senora, is all +I have to tell you about the musician whose voice has delighted you so +much; and from it alone you might easily perceive he is no muleteer, but +a lord of hearts and towns, as I told you already." + +"Say no more, Dona Clara," said Dorothea at this, at the same time +kissing her a thousand times over, "say no more, I tell you, but wait +till day comes; when I trust in God to arrange this affair of yours so +that it may have the happy ending such an innocent beginning deserves." + +"Ah, senora," said Dona Clara, "what end can be hoped for when his father +is of such lofty position, and so wealthy, that he would think I was not +fit to be even a servant to his son, much less wife? And as to marrying +without the knowledge of my father, I would not do it for all the world. +I would not ask anything more than that this youth should go back and +leave me; perhaps with not seeing him, and the long distance we shall +have to travel, the pain I suffer now may become easier; though I daresay +the remedy I propose will do me very little good. I don't know how the +devil this has come about, or how this love I have for him got in; I such +a young girl, and he such a mere boy; for I verily believe we are both of +an age, and I am not sixteen yet; for I will be sixteen Michaelmas Day, +next, my father says." + +Dorothea could not help laughing to hear how like a child Dona Clara +spoke. "Let us go to sleep now, senora," said she, "for the little of the +night that I fancy is left to us: God will soon send us daylight, and we +will set all to rights, or it will go hard with me." + +With this they fell asleep, and deep silence reigned all through the inn. +The only persons not asleep were the landlady's daughter and her servant +Maritornes, who, knowing the weak point of Don Quixote's humour, and that +he was outside the inn mounting guard in armour and on horseback, +resolved, the pair of them, to play some trick upon him, or at any rate +to amuse themselves for a while by listening to his nonsense. As it so +happened there was not a window in the whole inn that looked outwards +except a hole in the wall of a straw-loft through which they used to +throw out the straw. At this hole the two demi-damsels posted themselves, +and observed Don Quixote on his horse, leaning on his pike and from time +to time sending forth such deep and doleful sighs, that he seemed to +pluck up his soul by the roots with each of them; and they could hear +him, too, saying in a soft, tender, loving tone, "Oh my lady Dulcinea del +Toboso, perfection of all beauty, summit and crown of discretion, +treasure house of grace, depositary of virtue, and finally, ideal of all +that is good, honourable, and delectable in this world! What is thy grace +doing now? Art thou, perchance, mindful of thy enslaved knight who of his +own free will hath exposed himself to so great perils, and all to serve +thee? Give me tidings of her, oh luminary of the three faces! Perhaps at +this moment, envious of hers, thou art regarding her, either as she paces +to and fro some gallery of her sumptuous palaces, or leans over some +balcony, meditating how, whilst preserving her purity and greatness, she +may mitigate the tortures this wretched heart of mine endures for her +sake, what glory should recompense my sufferings, what repose my toil, +and lastly what death my life, and what reward my services? And thou, oh +sun, that art now doubtless harnessing thy steeds in haste to rise +betimes and come forth to see my lady; when thou seest her I entreat of +thee to salute her on my behalf: but have a care, when thou shalt see her +and salute her, that thou kiss not her face; for I shall be more jealous +of thee than thou wert of that light-footed ingrate that made thee sweat +and run so on the plains of Thessaly, or on the banks of the Peneus (for +I do not exactly recollect where it was thou didst run on that occasion) +in thy jealousy and love." + +Don Quixote had got so far in his pathetic speech when the landlady's +daughter began to signal to him, saying, "Senor, come over here, please." + +At these signals and voice Don Quixote turned his head and saw by the +light of the moon, which then was in its full splendour, that some one +was calling to him from the hole in the wall, which seemed to him to be a +window, and what is more, with a gilt grating, as rich castles, such as +he believed the inn to be, ought to have; and it immediately suggested +itself to his imagination that, as on the former occasion, the fair +damsel, the daughter of the lady of the castle, overcome by love for him, +was once more endeavouring to win his affections; and with this idea, not +to show himself discourteous, or ungrateful, he turned Rocinante's head +and approached the hole, and as he perceived the two wenches he said: + +"I pity you, beauteous lady, that you should have directed your thoughts +of love to a quarter from whence it is impossible that such a return can +be made to you as is due to your great merit and gentle birth, for which +you must not blame this unhappy knight-errant whom love renders incapable +of submission to any other than her whom, the first moment his eyes +beheld her, he made absolute mistress of his soul. Forgive me, noble +lady, and retire to your apartment, and do not, by any further +declaration of your passion, compel me to show myself more ungrateful; +and if, of the love you bear me, you should find that there is anything +else in my power wherein I can gratify you, provided it be not love +itself, demand it of me; for I swear to you by that sweet absent enemy of +mine to grant it this instant, though it be that you require of me a lock +of Medusa's hair, which was all snakes, or even the very beams of the sun +shut up in a vial." + +"My mistress wants nothing of that sort, sir knight," said Maritornes at +this. + +"What then, discreet dame, is it that your mistress wants?" replied Don +Quixote. + +"Only one of your fair hands," said Maritornes, "to enable her to vent +over it the great passion passion which has brought her to this loophole, +so much to the risk of her honour; for if the lord her father had heard +her, the least slice he would cut off her would be her ear." + +"I should like to see that tried," said Don Quixote; "but he had better +beware of that, if he does not want to meet the most disastrous end that +ever father in the world met for having laid hands on the tender limbs of +a love-stricken daughter." + +Maritornes felt sure that Don Quixote would present the hand she had +asked, and making up her mind what to do, she got down from the hole and +went into the stable, where she took the halter of Sancho Panza's ass, +and in all haste returned to the hole, just as Don Quixote had planted +himself standing on Rocinante's saddle in order to reach the grated +window where he supposed the lovelorn damsel to be; and giving her his +hand, he said, "Lady, take this hand, or rather this scourge of the +evil-doers of the earth; take, I say, this hand which no other hand of +woman has ever touched, not even hers who has complete possession of my +entire body. I present it to you, not that you may kiss it, but that you +may observe the contexture of the sinews, the close network of the +muscles, the breadth and capacity of the veins, whence you may infer what +must be the strength of the arm that has such a hand." + +"That we shall see presently," said Maritornes, and making a running knot +on the halter, she passed it over his wrist and coming down from the hole +tied the other end very firmly to the bolt of the door of the straw-loft. + +Don Quixote, feeling the roughness of the rope on his wrist, exclaimed, +"Your grace seems to be grating rather than caressing my hand; treat it +not so harshly, for it is not to blame for the offence my resolution has +given you, nor is it just to wreak all your vengeance on so small a part; +remember that one who loves so well should not revenge herself so +cruelly." + +But there was nobody now to listen to these words of Don Quixote's, for +as soon as Maritornes had tied him she and the other made off, ready to +die with laughing, leaving him fastened in such a way that it was +impossible for him to release himself. + +He was, as has been said, standing on Rocinante, with his arm passed +through the hole and his wrist tied to the bolt of the door, and in +mighty fear and dread of being left hanging by the arm if Rocinante were +to stir one side or the other; so he did not dare to make the least +movement, although from the patience and imperturbable disposition of +Rocinante, he had good reason to expect that he would stand without +budging for a whole century. Finding himself fast, then, and that the +ladies had retired, he began to fancy that all this was done by +enchantment, as on the former occasion when in that same castle that +enchanted Moor of a carrier had belaboured him; and he cursed in his +heart his own want of sense and judgment in venturing to enter the castle +again, after having come off so badly the first time; it being a settled +point with knights-errant that when they have tried an adventure, and +have not succeeded in it, it is a sign that it is not reserved for them +but for others, and that therefore they need not try it again. +Nevertheless he pulled his arm to see if he could release himself, but it +had been made so fast that all his efforts were in vain. It is true he +pulled it gently lest Rocinante should move, but try as he might to seat +himself in the saddle, he had nothing for it but to stand upright or pull +his hand off. Then it was he wished for the sword of Amadis, against +which no enchantment whatever had any power; then he cursed his ill +fortune; then he magnified the loss the world would sustain by his +absence while he remained there enchanted, for that he believed he was +beyond all doubt; then he once more took to thinking of his beloved +Dulcinea del Toboso; then he called to his worthy squire Sancho Panza, +who, buried in sleep and stretched upon the pack-saddle of his ass, was +oblivious, at that moment, of the mother that bore him; then he called +upon the sages Lirgandeo and Alquife to come to his aid; then he invoked +his good friend Urganda to succour him; and then, at last, morning found +him in such a state of desperation and perplexity that he was bellowing +like a bull, for he had no hope that day would bring any relief to his +suffering, which he believed would last for ever, inasmuch as he was +enchanted; and of this he was convinced by seeing that Rocinante never +stirred, much or little, and he felt persuaded that he and his horse were +to remain in this state, without eating or drinking or sleeping, until +the malign influence of the stars was overpast, or until some other more +sage enchanter should disenchant him. + +But he was very much deceived in this conclusion, for daylight had hardly +begun to appear when there came up to the inn four men on horseback, well +equipped and accoutred, with firelocks across their saddle-bows. They +called out and knocked loudly at the gate of the inn, which was still +shut; on seeing which, Don Quixote, even there where he was, did not +forget to act as sentinel, and said in a loud and imperious tone, +"Knights, or squires, or whatever ye be, ye have no right to knock at the +gates of this castle; for it is plain enough that they who are within are +either asleep, or else are not in the habit of throwing open the fortress +until the sun's rays are spread over the whole surface of the earth. +Withdraw to a distance, and wait till it is broad daylight, and then we +shall see whether it will be proper or not to open to you." + +"What the devil fortress or castle is this," said one, "to make us stand +on such ceremony? If you are the innkeeper bid them open to us; we are +travellers who only want to feed our horses and go on, for we are in +haste." + +"Do you think, gentlemen, that I look like an innkeeper?" said Don +Quixote. + +"I don't know what you look like," replied the other; "but I know that +you are talking nonsense when you call this inn a castle." + +"A castle it is," returned Don Quixote, "nay, more, one of the best in +this whole province, and it has within it people who have had the sceptre +in the hand and the crown on the head." + +"It would be better if it were the other way," said the traveller, "the +sceptre on the head and the crown in the hand; but if so, may be there is +within some company of players, with whom it is a common thing to have +those crowns and sceptres you speak of; for in such a small inn as this, +and where such silence is kept, I do not believe any people entitled to +crowns and sceptres can have taken up their quarters." + +"You know but little of the world," returned Don Quixote, "since you are +ignorant of what commonly occurs in knight-errantry." + +But the comrades of the spokesman, growing weary of the dialogue with Don +Quixote, renewed their knocks with great vehemence, so much so that the +host, and not only he but everybody in the inn, awoke, and he got up to +ask who knocked. It happened at this moment that one of the horses of the +four who were seeking admittance went to smell Rocinante, who melancholy, +dejected, and with drooping ears stood motionless, supporting his sorely +stretched master; and as he was, after all, flesh, though he looked as if +he were made of wood, he could not help giving way and in return smelling +the one who had come to offer him attentions. But he had hardly moved at +all when Don Quixote lost his footing; and slipping off the saddle, he +would have come to the ground, but for being suspended by the arm, which +caused him such agony that he believed either his wrist would be cut +through or his arm torn off; and he hung so near the ground that he could +just touch it with his feet, which was all the worse for him; for, +finding how little was wanted to enable him to plant his feet firmly, he +struggled and stretched himself as much as he could to gain a footing; +just like those undergoing the torture of the strappado, when they are +fixed at "touch and no touch," who aggravate their own sufferings by +their violent efforts to stretch themselves, deceived by the hope which +makes them fancy that with a very little more they will reach the ground. + + + + +CHAPTER XLIV. + +IN WHICH ARE CONTINUED THE UNHEARD-OF ADVENTURES OF THE INN + + +So loud, in fact, were the shouts of Don Quixote, that the landlord +opening the gate of the inn in all haste, came out in dismay, and ran to +see who was uttering such cries, and those who were outside joined him. +Maritornes, who had been by this time roused up by the same outcry, +suspecting what it was, ran to the loft and, without anyone seeing her, +untied the halter by which Don Quixote was suspended, and down he came to +the ground in the sight of the landlord and the travellers, who +approaching asked him what was the matter with him that he shouted so. He +without replying a word took the rope off his wrist, and rising to his +feet leaped upon Rocinante, braced his buckler on his arm, put his lance +in rest, and making a considerable circuit of the plain came back at a +half-gallop exclaiming: + +"Whoever shall say that I have been enchanted with just cause, provided +my lady the Princess Micomicona grants me permission to do so, I give him +the lie, challenge him and defy him to single combat." + +The newly arrived travellers were amazed at the words of Don Quixote; but +the landlord removed their surprise by telling them who he was, and not +to mind him as he was out of his senses. They then asked the landlord if +by any chance a youth of about fifteen years of age had come to that inn, +one dressed like a muleteer, and of such and such an appearance, +describing that of Dona Clara's lover. The landlord replied that there +were so many people in the inn he had not noticed the person they were +inquiring for; but one of them observing the coach in which the Judge had +come, said, "He is here no doubt, for this is the coach he is following: +let one of us stay at the gate, and the rest go in to look for him; or +indeed it would be as well if one of us went round the inn, lest he +should escape over the wall of the yard." "So be it," said another; and +while two of them went in, one remained at the gate and the other made +the circuit of the inn; observing all which, the landlord was unable to +conjecture for what reason they were taking all these precautions, though +he understood they were looking for the youth whose description they had +given him. + +It was by this time broad daylight; and for that reason, as well as in +consequence of the noise Don Quixote had made, everybody was awake and +up, but particularly Dona Clara and Dorothea; for they had been able to +sleep but badly that night, the one from agitation at having her lover so +near her, the other from curiosity to see him. Don Quixote, when he saw +that not one of the four travellers took any notice of him or replied to +his challenge, was furious and ready to die with indignation and wrath; +and if he could have found in the ordinances of chivalry that it was +lawful for a knight-errant to undertake or engage in another enterprise, +when he had plighted his word and faith not to involve himself in any +until he had made an end of the one to which he was pledged, he would +have attacked the whole of them, and would have made them return an +answer in spite of themselves. But considering that it would not become +him, nor be right, to begin any new emprise until he had established +Micomicona in her kingdom, he was constrained to hold his peace and wait +quietly to see what would be the upshot of the proceedings of those same +travellers; one of whom found the youth they were seeking lying asleep by +the side of a muleteer, without a thought of anyone coming in search of +him, much less finding him. + +The man laid hold of him by the arm, saying, "It becomes you well indeed, +Senor Don Luis, to be in the dress you wear, and well the bed in which I +find you agrees with the luxury in which your mother reared you." + +The youth rubbed his sleepy eyes and stared for a while at him who held +him, but presently recognised him as one of his father's servants, at +which he was so taken aback that for some time he could not find or utter +a word; while the servant went on to say, "There is nothing for it now, +Senor Don Luis, but to submit quietly and return home, unless it is your +wish that my lord, your father, should take his departure for the other +world, for nothing else can be the consequence of the grief he is in at +your absence." + +"But how did my father know that I had gone this road and in this dress?" +said Don Luis. + +"It was a student to whom you confided your intentions," answered the +servant, "that disclosed them, touched with pity at the distress he saw +your father suffer on missing you; he therefore despatched four of his +servants in quest of you, and here we all are at your service, better +pleased than you can imagine that we shall return so soon and be able to +restore you to those eyes that so yearn for you." + +"That shall be as I please, or as heaven orders," returned Don Luis. + +"What can you please or heaven order," said the other, "except to agree +to go back? Anything else is impossible." + +All this conversation between the two was overheard by the muleteer at +whose side Don Luis lay, and rising, he went to report what had taken +place to Don Fernando, Cardenio, and the others, who had by this time +dressed themselves; and told them how the man had addressed the youth as +"Don," and what words had passed, and how he wanted him to return to his +father, which the youth was unwilling to do. With this, and what they +already knew of the rare voice that heaven had bestowed upon him, they +all felt very anxious to know more particularly who he was, and even to +help him if it was attempted to employ force against him; so they +hastened to where he was still talking and arguing with his servant. +Dorothea at this instant came out of her room, followed by Dona Clara all +in a tremor; and calling Cardenio aside, she told him in a few words the +story of the musician and Dona Clara, and he at the same time told her +what had happened, how his father's servants had come in search of him; +but in telling her so, he did not speak low enough but that Dona Clara +heard what he said, at which she was so much agitated that had not +Dorothea hastened to support her she would have fallen to the ground. +Cardenio then bade Dorothea return to her room, as he would endeavour to +make the whole matter right, and they did as he desired. All the four who +had come in quest of Don Luis had now come into the inn and surrounded +him, urging him to return and console his father at once and without a +moment's delay. He replied that he could not do so on any account until +he had concluded some business in which his life, honour, and heart were +at stake. The servants pressed him, saying that most certainly they would +not return without him, and that they would take him away whether he +liked it or not. + +"You shall not do that," replied Don Luis, "unless you take me dead; +though however you take me, it will be without life." + +By this time most of those in the inn had been attracted by the dispute, +but particularly Cardenio, Don Fernando, his companions, the Judge, the +curate, the barber, and Don Quixote; for he now considered there was no +necessity for mounting guard over the castle any longer. Cardenio being +already acquainted with the young man's story, asked the men who wanted +to take him away, what object they had in seeking to carry off this youth +against his will. + +"Our object," said one of the four, "is to save the life of his father, +who is in danger of losing it through this gentleman's disappearance." + +Upon this Don Luis exclaimed, "There is no need to make my affairs public +here; I am free, and I will return if I please; and if not, none of you +shall compel me." + +"Reason will compel your worship," said the man, "and if it has no power +over you, it has power over us, to make us do what we came for, and what +it is our duty to do." + +"Let us hear what the whole affair is about," said the Judge at this; but +the man, who knew him as a neighbour of theirs, replied, "Do you not know +this gentleman, Senor Judge? He is the son of your neighbour, who has run +away from his father's house in a dress so unbecoming his rank, as your +worship may perceive." + +The judge on this looked at him more carefully and recognised him, and +embracing him said, "What folly is this, Senor Don Luis, or what can have +been the cause that could have induced you to come here in this way, and +in this dress, which so ill becomes your condition?" + +Tears came into the eyes of the young man, and he was unable to utter a +word in reply to the Judge, who told the four servants not to be uneasy, +for all would be satisfactorily settled; and then taking Don Luis by the +hand, he drew him aside and asked the reason of his having come there. + +But while he was questioning him they heard a loud outcry at the gate of +the inn, the cause of which was that two of the guests who had passed the +night there, seeing everybody busy about finding out what it was the four +men wanted, had conceived the idea of going off without paying what they +owed; but the landlord, who minded his own affairs more than other +people's, caught them going out of the gate and demanded his reckoning, +abusing them for their dishonesty with such language that he drove them +to reply with their fists, and so they began to lay on him in such a +style that the poor man was forced to cry out, and call for help. The +landlady and her daughter could see no one more free to give aid than Don +Quixote, and to him the daughter said, "Sir knight, by the virtue God has +given you, help my poor father, for two wicked men are beating him to a +mummy." + +To which Don Quixote very deliberately and phlegmatically replied, "Fair +damsel, at the present moment your request is inopportune, for I am +debarred from involving myself in any adventure until I have brought to a +happy conclusion one to which my word has pledged me; but that which I +can do for you is what I will now mention: run and tell your father to +stand his ground as well as he can in this battle, and on no account to +allow himself to be vanquished, while I go and request permission of the +Princess Micomicona to enable me to succour him in his distress; and if +she grants it, rest assured I will relieve him from it." + +"Sinner that I am," exclaimed Maritornes, who stood by; "before you have +got your permission my master will be in the other world." + +"Give me leave, senora, to obtain the permission I speak of," returned +Don Quixote; "and if I get it, it will matter very little if he is in the +other world; for I will rescue him thence in spite of all the same world +can do; or at any rate I will give you such a revenge over those who +shall have sent him there that you will be more than moderately +satisfied;" and without saying anything more he went and knelt before +Dorothea, requesting her Highness in knightly and errant phrase to be +pleased to grant him permission to aid and succour the castellan of that +castle, who now stood in grievous jeopardy. The princess granted it +graciously, and he at once, bracing his buckler on his arm and drawing +his sword, hastened to the inn-gate, where the two guests were still +handling the landlord roughly; but as soon as he reached the spot he +stopped short and stood still, though Maritornes and the landlady asked +him why he hesitated to help their master and husband. + +"I hesitate," said Don Quixote, "because it is not lawful for me to draw +sword against persons of squirely condition; but call my squire Sancho to +me; for this defence and vengeance are his affair and business." + +Thus matters stood at the inn-gate, where there was a very lively +exchange of fisticuffs and punches, to the sore damage of the landlord +and to the wrath of Maritornes, the landlady, and her daughter, who were +furious when they saw the pusillanimity of Don Quixote, and the hard +treatment their master, husband and father was undergoing. But let us +leave him there; for he will surely find some one to help him, and if +not, let him suffer and hold his tongue who attempts more than his +strength allows him to do; and let us go back fifty paces to see what Don +Luis said in reply to the Judge whom we left questioning him privately as +to his reasons for coming on foot and so meanly dressed. + +To which the youth, pressing his hand in a way that showed his heart was +troubled by some great sorrow, and shedding a flood of tears, made +answer: + +"Senor, I have no more to tell you than that from the moment when, +through heaven's will and our being near neighbours, I first saw Dona +Clara, your daughter and my lady, from that instant I made her the +mistress of my will, and if yours, my true lord and father, offers no +impediment, this very day she shall become my wife. For her I left my +father's house, and for her I assumed this disguise, to follow her +whithersoever she may go, as the arrow seeks its mark or the sailor the +pole-star. She knows nothing more of my passion than what she may have +learned from having sometimes seen from a distance that my eyes were +filled with tears. You know already, senor, the wealth and noble birth of +my parents, and that I am their sole heir; if this be a sufficient +inducement for you to venture to make me completely happy, accept me at +once as your son; for if my father, influenced by other objects of his +own, should disapprove of this happiness I have sought for myself, time +has more power to alter and change things, than human will." + +With this the love-smitten youth was silent, while the Judge, after +hearing him, was astonished, perplexed, and surprised, as well at the +manner and intelligence with which Don Luis had confessed the secret of +his heart, as at the position in which he found himself, not knowing what +course to take in a matter so sudden and unexpected. All the answer, +therefore, he gave him was to bid him to make his mind easy for the +present, and arrange with his servants not to take him back that day, so +that there might be time to consider what was best for all parties. Don +Luis kissed his hands by force, nay, bathed them with his tears, in a way +that would have touched a heart of marble, not to say that of the Judge, +who, as a shrewd man, had already perceived how advantageous the marriage +would be to his daughter; though, were it possible, he would have +preferred that it should be brought about with the consent of the father +of Don Luis, who he knew looked for a title for his son. + +The guests had by this time made peace with the landlord, for, by +persuasion and Don Quixote's fair words more than by threats, they had +paid him what he demanded, and the servants of Don Luis were waiting for +the end of the conversation with the Judge and their master's decision, +when the devil, who never sleeps, contrived that the barber, from whom +Don Quixote had taken Mambrino's helmet, and Sancho Panza the trappings +of his ass in exchange for those of his own, should at this instant enter +the inn; which said barber, as he led his ass to the stable, observed +Sancho Panza engaged in repairing something or other belonging to the +pack-saddle; and the moment he saw it he knew it, and made bold to attack +Sancho, exclaiming, "Ho, sir thief, I have caught you! hand over my basin +and my pack-saddle, and all my trappings that you robbed me of." + +Sancho, finding himself so unexpectedly assailed, and hearing the abuse +poured upon him, seized the pack-saddle with one hand, and with the other +gave the barber a cuff that bathed his teeth in blood. The barber, +however, was not so ready to relinquish the prize he had made in the +pack-saddle; on the contrary, he raised such an outcry that everyone in +the inn came running to know what the noise and quarrel meant. "Here, in +the name of the king and justice!" he cried, "this thief and highwayman +wants to kill me for trying to recover my property." + +"You lie," said Sancho, "I am no highwayman; it was in fair war my master +Don Quixote won these spoils." + +Don Quixote was standing by at the time, highly pleased to see his +squire's stoutness, both offensive and defensive, and from that time +forth he reckoned him a man of mettle, and in his heart resolved to dub +him a knight on the first opportunity that presented itself, feeling sure +that the order of chivalry would be fittingly bestowed upon him. + +In the course of the altercation, among other things the barber said, +"Gentlemen, this pack-saddle is mine as surely as I owe God a death, and +I know it as well as if I had given birth to it, and here is my ass in +the stable who will not let me lie; only try it, and if it does not fit +him like a glove, call me a rascal; and what is more, the same day I was +robbed of this, they robbed me likewise of a new brass basin, never yet +handselled, that would fetch a crown any day." + +At this Don Quixote could not keep himself from answering; and +interposing between the two, and separating them, he placed the +pack-saddle on the ground, to lie there in sight until the truth was +established, and said, "Your worships may perceive clearly and plainly +the error under which this worthy squire lies when he calls a basin which +was, is, and shall be the helmet of Mambrino which I won from him in air +war, and made myself master of by legitimate and lawful possession. With +the pack-saddle I do not concern myself; but I may tell you on that head +that my squire Sancho asked my permission to strip off the caparison of +this vanquished poltroon's steed, and with it adorn his own; I allowed +him, and he took it; and as to its having been changed from a caparison +into a pack-saddle, I can give no explanation except the usual one, that +such transformations will take place in adventures of chivalry. To +confirm all which, run, Sancho my son, and fetch hither the helmet which +this good fellow calls a basin." + +"Egad, master," said Sancho, "if we have no other proof of our case than +what your worship puts forward, Mambrino's helmet is just as much a basin +as this good fellow's caparison is a pack-saddle." + +"Do as I bid thee," said Don Quixote; "it cannot be that everything in +this castle goes by enchantment." + +Sancho hastened to where the basin was, and brought it back with him, and +when Don Quixote saw it, he took hold of it and said: + +"Your worships may see with what a face this squire can assert that this +is a basin and not the helmet I told you of; and I swear by the order of +chivalry I profess, that this helmet is the identical one I took from +him, without anything added to or taken from it." + +"There is no doubt of that," said Sancho, "for from the time my master +won it until now he has only fought one battle in it, when he let loose +those unlucky men in chains; and if had not been for this basin-helmet he +would not have come off over well that time, for there was plenty of +stone-throwing in that affair." + + + + +CHAPTER XLV. + +IN WHICH THE DOUBTFUL QUESTION OF MAMBRINO'S HELMET AND THE PACK-SADDLE +IS FINALLY SETTLED, WITH OTHER ADVENTURES THAT OCCURRED IN TRUTH AND +EARNEST + + +"What do you think now, gentlemen," said the barber, "of what these +gentles say, when they want to make out that this is a helmet?" + +"And whoever says the contrary," said Don Quixote, "I will let him know +he lies if he is a knight, and if he is a squire that he lies again a +thousand times." + +Our own barber, who was present at all this, and understood Don Quixote's +humour so thoroughly, took it into his head to back up his delusion and +carry on the joke for the general amusement; so addressing the other +barber he said: + +"Senor barber, or whatever you are, you must know that I belong to your +profession too, and have had a licence to practise for more than twenty +years, and I know the implements of the barber craft, every one of them, +perfectly well; and I was likewise a soldier for some time in the days of +my youth, and I know also what a helmet is, and a morion, and a headpiece +with a visor, and other things pertaining to soldiering, I meant to say +to soldiers' arms; and I say-saving better opinions and always with +submission to sounder judgments--that this piece we have now before us, +which this worthy gentleman has in his hands, not only is no barber's +basin, but is as far from being one as white is from black, and truth +from falsehood; I say, moreover, that this, although it is a helmet, is +not a complete helmet." + +"Certainly not," said Don Quixote, "for half of it is wanting, that is to +say the beaver." + +"It is quite true," said the curate, who saw the object of his friend the +barber; and Cardenio, Don Fernando and his companions agreed with him, +and even the Judge, if his thoughts had not been so full of Don Luis's +affair, would have helped to carry on the joke; but he was so taken up +with the serious matters he had on his mind that he paid little or no +attention to these facetious proceedings. + +"God bless me!" exclaimed their butt the barber at this; "is it possible +that such an honourable company can say that this is not a basin but a +helmet? Why, this is a thing that would astonish a whole university, +however wise it might be! That will do; if this basin is a helmet, why, +then the pack-saddle must be a horse's caparison, as this gentleman has +said." + +"To me it looks like a pack-saddle," said Don Quixote; "but I have +already said that with that question I do not concern myself." + +"As to whether it be pack-saddle or caparison," said the curate, "it is +only for Senor Don Quixote to say; for in these matters of chivalry all +these gentlemen and I bow to his authority." + +"By God, gentlemen," said Don Quixote, "so many strange things have +happened to me in this castle on the two occasions on which I have +sojourned in it, that I will not venture to assert anything positively in +reply to any question touching anything it contains; for it is my belief +that everything that goes on within it goes by enchantment. The first +time, an enchanted Moor that there is in it gave me sore trouble, nor did +Sancho fare well among certain followers of his; and last night I was +kept hanging by this arm for nearly two hours, without knowing how or why +I came by such a mishap. So that now, for me to come forward to give an +opinion in such a puzzling matter, would be to risk a rash decision. As +regards the assertion that this is a basin and not a helmet I have +already given an answer; but as to the question whether this is a +pack-saddle or a caparison I will not venture to give a positive opinion, +but will leave it to your worships' better judgment. Perhaps as you are +not dubbed knights like myself, the enchantments of this place have +nothing to do with you, and your faculties are unfettered, and you can +see things in this castle as they really and truly are, and not as they +appear to me." + +"There can be no question," said Don Fernando on this, "but that Senor +Don Quixote has spoken very wisely, and that with us rests the decision +of this matter; and that we may have surer ground to go on, I will take +the votes of the gentlemen in secret, and declare the result clearly and +fully." + +To those who were in the secret of Don Quixote's humour all this afforded +great amusement; but to those who knew nothing about it, it seemed the +greatest nonsense in the world, in particular to the four servants of Don +Luis, as well as to Don Luis himself, and to three other travellers who +had by chance come to the inn, and had the appearance of officers of the +Holy Brotherhood, as indeed they were; but the one who above all was at +his wits' end, was the barber basin, there before his very eyes, had been +turned into Mambrino's helmet, and whose pack-saddle he had no doubt +whatever was about to become a rich caparison for a horse. All laughed to +see Don Fernando going from one to another collecting the votes, and +whispering to them to give him their private opinion whether the treasure +over which there had been so much fighting was a pack-saddle or a +caparison; but after he had taken the votes of those who knew Don +Quixote, he said aloud, "The fact is, my good fellow, that I am tired +collecting such a number of opinions, for I find that there is not one of +whom I ask what I desire to know, who does not tell me that it is absurd +to say that this is the pack-saddle of an ass, and not the caparison of a +horse, nay, of a thoroughbred horse; so you must submit, for, in spite of +you and your ass, this is a caparison and no pack-saddle, and you have +stated and proved your case very badly." + +"May I never share heaven," said the poor barber, "if your worships are +not all mistaken; and may my soul appear before God as that appears to me +a pack-saddle and not a caparison; but, 'laws go,'-I say no more; and +indeed I am not drunk, for I am fasting, except it be from sin." + +The simple talk of the barber did not afford less amusement than the +absurdities of Don Quixote, who now observed: + +"There is no more to be done now than for each to take what belongs to +him, and to whom God has given it, may St. Peter add his blessing." + +But said one of the four servants, "Unless, indeed, this is a deliberate +joke, I cannot bring myself to believe that men so intelligent as those +present are, or seem to be, can venture to declare and assert that this +is not a basin, and that not a pack-saddle; but as I perceive that they +do assert and declare it, I can only come to the conclusion that there is +some mystery in this persistence in what is so opposed to the evidence of +experience and truth itself; for I swear by"--and here he rapped out a +round oath-"all the people in the world will not make me believe that +this is not a barber's basin and that a jackass's pack-saddle." + +"It might easily be a she-ass's," observed the curate. + +"It is all the same," said the servant; "that is not the point; but +whether it is or is not a pack-saddle, as your worships say." + +On hearing this one of the newly arrived officers of the Brotherhood, who +had been listening to the dispute and controversy, unable to restrain his +anger and impatience, exclaimed, "It is a pack-saddle as sure as my +father is my father, and whoever has said or will say anything else must +be drunk." + +"You lie like a rascally clown," returned Don Quixote; and lifting his +pike, which he had never let out of his hand, he delivered such a blow at +his head that, had not the officer dodged it, it would have stretched him +at full length. The pike was shivered in pieces against the ground, and +the rest of the officers, seeing their comrade assaulted, raised a shout, +calling for help for the Holy Brotherhood. The landlord, who was of the +fraternity, ran at once to fetch his staff of office and his sword, and +ranged himself on the side of his comrades; the servants of Don Luis +clustered round him, lest he should escape from them in the confusion; +the barber, seeing the house turned upside down, once more laid hold of +his pack-saddle and Sancho did the same; Don Quixote drew his sword and +charged the officers; Don Luis cried out to his servants to leave him +alone and go and help Don Quixote, and Cardenio and Don Fernando, who +were supporting him; the curate was shouting at the top of his voice, the +landlady was screaming, her daughter was wailing, Maritornes was weeping, +Dorothea was aghast, Luscinda terror-stricken, and Dona Clara in a faint. +The barber cudgelled Sancho, and Sancho pommelled the barber; Don Luis +gave one of his servants, who ventured to catch him by the arm to keep +him from escaping, a cuff that bathed his teeth in blood; the Judge took +his part; Don Fernando had got one of the officers down and was +belabouring him heartily; the landlord raised his voice again calling for +help for the Holy Brotherhood; so that the whole inn was nothing but +cries, shouts, shrieks, confusion, terror, dismay, mishaps, sword-cuts, +fisticuffs, cudgellings, kicks, and bloodshed; and in the midst of all +this chaos, complication, and general entanglement, Don Quixote took it +into his head that he had been plunged into the thick of the discord of +Agramante's camp; and, in a voice that shook the inn like thunder, he +cried out: + +"Hold all, let all sheathe their swords, let all be calm and attend to me +as they value their lives!" + +All paused at his mighty voice, and he went on to say, "Did I not tell +you, sirs, that this castle was enchanted, and that a legion or so of +devils dwelt in it? In proof whereof I call upon you to behold with your +own eyes how the discord of Agramante's camp has come hither, and been +transferred into the midst of us. See how they fight, there for the +sword, here for the horse, on that side for the eagle, on this for the +helmet; we are all fighting, and all at cross purposes. Come then, you, +Senor Judge, and you, senor curate; let the one represent King Agramante +and the other King Sobrino, and make peace among us; for by God Almighty +it is a sorry business that so many persons of quality as we are should +slay one another for such trifling cause." The officers, who did not +understand Don Quixote's mode of speaking, and found themselves roughly +handled by Don Fernando, Cardenio, and their companions, were not to be +appeased; the barber was, however, for both his beard and his pack-saddle +were the worse for the struggle; Sancho like a good servant obeyed the +slightest word of his master; while the four servants of Don Luis kept +quiet when they saw how little they gained by not being so. The landlord +alone insisted upon it that they must punish the insolence of this +madman, who at every turn raised a disturbance in the inn; but at length +the uproar was stilled for the present; the pack-saddle remained a +caparison till the day of judgment, and the basin a helmet and the inn a +castle in Don Quixote's imagination. + +All having been now pacified and made friends by the persuasion of the +Judge and the curate, the servants of Don Luis began again to urge him to +return with them at once; and while he was discussing the matter with +them, the Judge took counsel with Don Fernando, Cardenio, and the curate +as to what he ought to do in the case, telling them how it stood, and +what Don Luis had said to him. It was agreed at length that Don Fernando +should tell the servants of Don Luis who he was, and that it was his +desire that Don Luis should accompany him to Andalusia, where he would +receive from the marquis his brother the welcome his quality entitled him +to; for, otherwise, it was easy to see from the determination of Don Luis +that he would not return to his father at present, though they tore him +to pieces. On learning the rank of Don Fernando and the resolution of Don +Luis the four then settled it between themselves that three of them +should return to tell his father how matters stood, and that the other +should remain to wait upon Don Luis, and not leave him until they came +back for him, or his father's orders were known. Thus by the authority of +Agramante and the wisdom of King Sobrino all this complication of +disputes was arranged; but the enemy of concord and hater of peace, +feeling himself slighted and made a fool of, and seeing how little he had +gained after having involved them all in such an elaborate entanglement, +resolved to try his hand once more by stirring up fresh quarrels and +disturbances. + +It came about in this wise: the officers were pacified on learning the +rank of those with whom they had been engaged, and withdrew from the +contest, considering that whatever the result might be they were likely +to get the worst of the battle; but one of them, the one who had been +thrashed and kicked by Don Fernando, recollected that among some warrants +he carried for the arrest of certain delinquents, he had one against Don +Quixote, whom the Holy Brotherhood had ordered to be arrested for setting +the galley slaves free, as Sancho had, with very good reason, +apprehended. Suspecting how it was, then, he wished to satisfy himself as +to whether Don Quixote's features corresponded; and taking a parchment +out of his bosom he lit upon what he was in search of, and setting +himself to read it deliberately, for he was not a quick reader, as he +made out each word he fixed his eyes on Don Quixote, and went on +comparing the description in the warrant with his face, and discovered +that beyond all doubt he was the person described in it. As soon as he +had satisfied himself, folding up the parchment, he took the warrant in +his left hand and with his right seized Don Quixote by the collar so +tightly that he did not allow him to breathe, and shouted aloud, "Help +for the Holy Brotherhood! and that you may see I demand it in earnest, +read this warrant which says this highwayman is to be arrested." + +The curate took the warrant and saw that what the officer said was true, +and that it agreed with Don Quixote's appearance, who, on his part, when +he found himself roughly handled by this rascally clown, worked up to the +highest pitch of wrath, and all his joints cracking with rage, with both +hands seized the officer by the throat with all his might, so that had he +not been helped by his comrades he would have yielded up his life ere Don +Quixote released his hold. The landlord, who had perforce to support his +brother officers, ran at once to aid them. The landlady, when she saw her +husband engaged in a fresh quarrel, lifted up her voice afresh, and its +note was immediately caught up by Maritornes and her daughter, calling +upon heaven and all present for help; and Sancho, seeing what was going +on, exclaimed, "By the Lord, it is quite true what my master says about +the enchantments of this castle, for it is impossible to live an hour in +peace in it!" + +Don Fernando parted the officer and Don Quixote, and to their mutual +contentment made them relax the grip by which they held, the one the coat +collar, the other the throat of his adversary; for all this, however, the +officers did not cease to demand their prisoner and call on them to help, +and deliver him over bound into their power, as was required for the +service of the King and of the Holy Brotherhood, on whose behalf they +again demanded aid and assistance to effect the capture of this robber +and footpad of the highways. + +Don Quixote smiled when he heard these words, and said very calmly, "Come +now, base, ill-born brood; call ye it highway robbery to give freedom to +those in bondage, to release the captives, to succour the miserable, to +raise up the fallen, to relieve the needy? Infamous beings, who by your +vile grovelling intellects deserve that heaven should not make known to +you the virtue that lies in knight-errantry, or show you the sin and +ignorance in which ye lie when ye refuse to respect the shadow, not to +say the presence, of any knight-errant! Come now; band, not of officers, +but of thieves; footpads with the licence of the Holy Brotherhood; tell +me who was the ignoramus who signed a warrant of arrest against such a +knight as I am? Who was he that did not know that knights-errant are +independent of all jurisdictions, that their law is their sword, their +charter their prowess, and their edicts their will? Who, I say again, was +the fool that knows not that there are no letters patent of nobility that +confer such privileges or exemptions as a knight-errant acquires the day +he is dubbed a knight, and devotes himself to the arduous calling of +chivalry? What knight-errant ever paid poll-tax, duty, queen's pin-money, +king's dues, toll or ferry? What tailor ever took payment of him for +making his clothes? What castellan that received him in his castle ever +made him pay his shot? What king did not seat him at his table? What +damsel was not enamoured of him and did not yield herself up wholly to +his will and pleasure? And, lastly, what knight-errant has there been, is +there, or will there ever be in the world, not bold enough to give, +single-handed, four hundred cudgellings to four hundred officers of the +Holy Brotherhood if they come in his way?" + + + + +CHAPTER XLVI. + +OF THE END OF THE NOTABLE ADVENTURE OF THE OFFICERS OF THE HOLY +BROTHERHOOD; AND OF THE GREAT FEROCITY OF OUR WORTHY KNIGHT, DON QUIXOTE + + +While Don Quixote was talking in this strain, the curate was endeavouring +to persuade the officers that he was out of his senses, as they might +perceive by his deeds and his words, and that they need not press the +matter any further, for even if they arrested him and carried him off, +they would have to release him by-and-by as a madman; to which the holder +of the warrant replied that he had nothing to do with inquiring into Don +Quixote's madness, but only to execute his superior's orders, and that +once taken they might let him go three hundred times if they liked. + +"For all that," said the curate, "you must not take him away this time, +nor will he, it is my opinion, let himself be taken away." + +In short, the curate used such arguments, and Don Quixote did such mad +things, that the officers would have been more mad than he was if they +had not perceived his want of wits, and so they thought it best to allow +themselves to be pacified, and even to act as peacemakers between the +barber and Sancho Panza, who still continued their altercation with much +bitterness. In the end they, as officers of justice, settled the question +by arbitration in such a manner that both sides were, if not perfectly +contented, at least to some extent satisfied; for they changed the +pack-saddles, but not the girths or head-stalls; and as to Mambrino's +helmet, the curate, under the rose and without Don Quixote's knowing it, +paid eight reals for the basin, and the barber executed a full receipt +and engagement to make no further demand then or thenceforth for +evermore, amen. These two disputes, which were the most important and +gravest, being settled, it only remained for the servants of Don Luis to +consent that three of them should return while one was left to accompany +him whither Don Fernando desired to take him; and good luck and better +fortune, having already begun to solve difficulties and remove +obstructions in favour of the lovers and warriors of the inn, were +pleased to persevere and bring everything to a happy issue; for the +servants agreed to do as Don Luis wished; which gave Dona Clara such +happiness that no one could have looked into her face just then without +seeing the joy of her heart. Zoraida, though she did not fully comprehend +all she saw, was grave or gay without knowing why, as she watched and +studied the various countenances, but particularly her Spaniard's, whom +she followed with her eyes and clung to with her soul. The gift and +compensation which the curate gave the barber had not escaped the +landlord's notice, and he demanded Don Quixote's reckoning, together with +the amount of the damage to his wine-skins, and the loss of his wine, +swearing that neither Rocinante nor Sancho's ass should leave the inn +until he had been paid to the very last farthing. The curate settled all +amicably, and Don Fernando paid; though the Judge had also very readily +offered to pay the score; and all became so peaceful and quiet that the +inn no longer reminded one of the discord of Agramante's camp, as Don +Quixote said, but of the peace and tranquillity of the days of +Octavianus: for all which it was the universal opinion that their thanks +were due to the great zeal and eloquence of the curate, and to the +unexampled generosity of Don Fernando. + +Finding himself now clear and quit of all quarrels, his squire's as well +as his own, Don Quixote considered that it would be advisable to continue +the journey he had begun, and bring to a close that great adventure for +which he had been called and chosen; and with this high resolve he went +and knelt before Dorothea, who, however, would not allow him to utter a +word until he had risen; so to obey her he rose, and said, "It is a +common proverb, fair lady, that 'diligence is the mother of good +fortune,' and experience has often shown in important affairs that the +earnestness of the negotiator brings the doubtful case to a successful +termination; but in nothing does this truth show itself more plainly than +in war, where quickness and activity forestall the devices of the enemy, +and win the victory before the foe has time to defend himself. All this I +say, exalted and esteemed lady, because it seems to me that for us to +remain any longer in this castle now is useless, and may be injurious to +us in a way that we shall find out some day; for who knows but that your +enemy the giant may have learned by means of secret and diligent spies +that I am going to destroy him, and if the opportunity be given him he +may seize it to fortify himself in some impregnable castle or stronghold, +against which all my efforts and the might of my indefatigable arm may +avail but little? Therefore, lady, let us, as I say, forestall his +schemes by our activity, and let us depart at once in quest of fair +fortune; for your highness is only kept from enjoying it as fully as you +could desire by my delay in encountering your adversary." + +Don Quixote held his peace and said no more, calmly awaiting the reply of +the beauteous princess, who, with commanding dignity and in a style +adapted to Don Quixote's own, replied to him in these words, "I give you +thanks, sir knight, for the eagerness you, like a good knight to whom it +is a natural obligation to succour the orphan and the needy, display to +afford me aid in my sore trouble; and heaven grant that your wishes and +mine may be realised, so that you may see that there are women in this +world capable of gratitude; as to my departure, let it be forthwith, for +I have no will but yours; dispose of me entirely in accordance with your +good pleasure; for she who has once entrusted to you the defence of her +person, and placed in your hands the recovery of her dominions, must not +think of offering opposition to that which your wisdom may ordain." + +"On, then, in God's name," said Don Quixote; "for, when a lady humbles +herself to me, I will not lose the opportunity of raising her up and +placing her on the throne of her ancestors. Let us depart at once, for +the common saying that in delay there is danger, lends spurs to my +eagerness to take the road; and as neither heaven has created nor hell +seen any that can daunt or intimidate me, saddle Rocinante, Sancho, and +get ready thy ass and the queen's palfrey, and let us take leave of the +castellan and these gentlemen, and go hence this very instant." + +Sancho, who was standing by all the time, said, shaking his head, "Ah! +master, master, there is more mischief in the village than one hears of, +begging all good bodies' pardon." + +"What mischief can there be in any village, or in all the cities of the +world, you booby, that can hurt my reputation?" said Don Quixote. + +"If your worship is angry," replied Sancho, "I will hold my tongue and +leave unsaid what as a good squire I am bound to say, and what a good +servant should tell his master." + +"Say what thou wilt," returned Don Quixote, "provided thy words be not +meant to work upon my fears; for thou, if thou fearest, art behaving like +thyself; but I like myself, in not fearing." + +"It is nothing of the sort, as I am a sinner before God," said Sancho, +"but that I take it to be sure and certain that this lady, who calls +herself queen of the great kingdom of Micomicon, is no more so than my +mother; for, if she was what she says, she would not go rubbing noses +with one that is here every instant and behind every door." + +Dorothea turned red at Sancho's words, for the truth was that her husband +Don Fernando had now and then, when the others were not looking, gathered +from her lips some of the reward his love had earned, and Sancho seeing +this had considered that such freedom was more like a courtesan than a +queen of a great kingdom; she, however, being unable or not caring to +answer him, allowed him to proceed, and he continued, "This I say, senor, +because, if after we have travelled roads and highways, and passed bad +nights and worse days, one who is now enjoying himself in this inn is to +reap the fruit of our labours, there is no need for me to be in a hurry +to saddle Rocinante, put the pad on the ass, or get ready the palfrey; +for it will be better for us to stay quiet, and let every jade mind her +spinning, and let us go to dinner." + +Good God, what was the indignation of Don Quixote when he heard the +audacious words of his squire! So great was it, that in a voice +inarticulate with rage, with a stammering tongue, and eyes that flashed +living fire, he exclaimed, "Rascally clown, boorish, insolent, and +ignorant, ill-spoken, foul-mouthed, impudent backbiter and slanderer! +Hast thou dared to utter such words in my presence and in that of these +illustrious ladies? Hast thou dared to harbour such gross and shameless +thoughts in thy muddled imagination? Begone from my presence, thou born +monster, storehouse of lies, hoard of untruths, garner of knaveries, +inventor of scandals, publisher of absurdities, enemy of the respect due +to royal personages! Begone, show thyself no more before me under pain of +my wrath;" and so saying he knitted his brows, puffed out his cheeks, +gazed around him, and stamped on the ground violently with his right +foot, showing in every way the rage that was pent up in his heart; and at +his words and furious gestures Sancho was so scared and terrified that he +would have been glad if the earth had opened that instant and swallowed +him, and his only thought was to turn round and make his escape from the +angry presence of his master. + +But the ready-witted Dorothea, who by this time so well understood Don +Quixote's humour, said, to mollify his wrath, "Be not irritated at the +absurdities your good squire has uttered, Sir Knight of the Rueful +Countenance, for perhaps he did not utter them without cause, and from +his good sense and Christian conscience it is not likely that he would +bear false witness against anyone. We may therefore believe, without any +hesitation, that since, as you say, sir knight, everything in this castle +goes and is brought about by means of enchantment, Sancho, I say, may +possibly have seen, through this diabolical medium, what he says he saw +so much to the detriment of my modesty." + +"I swear by God Omnipotent," exclaimed Don Quixote at this, "your +highness has hit the point; and that some vile illusion must have come +before this sinner of a Sancho, that made him see what it would have been +impossible to see by any other means than enchantments; for I know well +enough, from the poor fellow's goodness and harmlessness, that he is +incapable of bearing false witness against anybody." + +"True, no doubt," said Don Fernando, "for which reason, Senor Don +Quixote, you ought to forgive him and restore him to the bosom of your +favour, sicut erat in principio, before illusions of this sort had taken +away his senses." + +Don Quixote said he was ready to pardon him, and the curate went for +Sancho, who came in very humbly, and falling on his knees begged for the +hand of his master, who having presented it to him and allowed him to +kiss it, gave him his blessing and said, "Now, Sancho my son, thou wilt +be convinced of the truth of what I have many a time told thee, that +everything in this castle is done by means of enchantment." + +"So it is, I believe," said Sancho, "except the affair of the blanket, +which came to pass in reality by ordinary means." + +"Believe it not," said Don Quixote, "for had it been so, I would have +avenged thee that instant, or even now; but neither then nor now could I, +nor have I seen anyone upon whom to avenge thy wrong." + +They were all eager to know what the affair of the blanket was, and the +landlord gave them a minute account of Sancho's flights, at which they +laughed not a little, and at which Sancho would have been no less out of +countenance had not his master once more assured him it was all +enchantment. For all that his simplicity never reached so high a pitch +that he could persuade himself it was not the plain and simple truth, +without any deception whatever about it, that he had been blanketed by +beings of flesh and blood, and not by visionary and imaginary phantoms, +as his master believed and protested. + +The illustrious company had now been two days in the inn; and as it +seemed to them time to depart, they devised a plan so that, without +giving Dorothea and Don Fernando the trouble of going back with Don +Quixote to his village under pretence of restoring Queen Micomicona, the +curate and the barber might carry him away with them as they proposed, +and the curate be able to take his madness in hand at home; and in +pursuance of their plan they arranged with the owner of an oxcart who +happened to be passing that way to carry him after this fashion. They +constructed a kind of cage with wooden bars, large enough to hold Don +Quixote comfortably; and then Don Fernando and his companions, the +servants of Don Luis, and the officers of the Brotherhood, together with +the landlord, by the directions and advice of the curate, covered their +faces and disguised themselves, some in one way, some in another, so as +to appear to Don Quixote quite different from the persons he had seen in +the castle. This done, in profound silence they entered the room where he +was asleep, taking his his rest after the past frays, and advancing to +where he was sleeping tranquilly, not dreaming of anything of the kind +happening, they seized him firmly and bound him fast hand and foot, so +that, when he awoke startled, he was unable to move, and could only +marvel and wonder at the strange figures he saw before him; upon which he +at once gave way to the idea which his crazed fancy invariably conjured +up before him, and took it into his head that all these shapes were +phantoms of the enchanted castle, and that he himself was unquestionably +enchanted as he could neither move nor help himself; precisely what the +curate, the concoctor of the scheme, expected would happen. Of all that +were there Sancho was the only one who was at once in his senses and in +his own proper character, and he, though he was within very little of +sharing his master's infirmity, did not fail to perceive who all these +disguised figures were; but he did not dare to open his lips until he saw +what came of this assault and capture of his master; nor did the latter +utter a word, waiting to the upshot of his mishap; which was that +bringing in the cage, they shut him up in it and nailed the bars so +firmly that they could not be easily burst open. + +They then took him on their shoulders, and as they passed out of the room +an awful voice--as much so as the barber, not he of the pack-saddle but +the other, was able to make it--was heard to say, "O Knight of the Rueful +Countenance, let not this captivity in which thou art placed afflict +thee, for this must needs be, for the more speedy accomplishment of the +adventure in which thy great heart has engaged thee; the which shall be +accomplished when the raging Manchegan lion and the white Tobosan dove +shall be linked together, having first humbled their haughty necks to the +gentle yoke of matrimony. And from this marvellous union shall come forth +to the light of the world brave whelps that shall rival the ravening +claws of their valiant father; and this shall come to pass ere the +pursuer of the flying nymph shall in his swift natural course have twice +visited the starry signs. And thou, O most noble and obedient squire that +ever bore sword at side, beard on face, or nose to smell with, be not +dismayed or grieved to see the flower of knight-errantry carried away +thus before thy very eyes; for soon, if it so please the Framer of the +universe, thou shalt see thyself exalted to such a height that thou shalt +not know thyself, and the promises which thy good master has made thee +shall not prove false; and I assure thee, on the authority of the sage +Mentironiana, that thy wages shall be paid thee, as thou shalt see in due +season. Follow then the footsteps of the valiant enchanted knight, for it +is expedient that thou shouldst go to the destination assigned to both of +you; and as it is not permitted to me to say more, God be with thee; for +I return to that place I wot of;" and as he brought the prophecy to a +close he raised his voice to a high pitch, and then lowered it to such a +soft tone, that even those who knew it was all a joke were almost +inclined to take what they heard seriously. + +Don Quixote was comforted by the prophecy he heard, for he at once +comprehended its meaning perfectly, and perceived it was promised to him +that he should see himself united in holy and lawful matrimony with his +beloved Dulcinea del Toboso, from whose blessed womb should proceed the +whelps, his sons, to the eternal glory of La Mancha; and being thoroughly +and firmly persuaded of this, he lifted up his voice, and with a deep +sigh exclaimed, "Oh thou, whoever thou art, who hast foretold me so much +good, I implore of thee that on my part thou entreat that sage enchanter +who takes charge of my interests, that he leave me not to perish in this +captivity in which they are now carrying me away, ere I see fulfilled +promises so joyful and incomparable as those which have been now made me; +for, let this but come to pass, and I shall glory in the pains of my +prison, find comfort in these chains wherewith they bind me, and regard +this bed whereon they stretch me, not as a hard battle-field, but as a +soft and happy nuptial couch; and touching the consolation of Sancho +Panza, my squire, I rely upon his goodness and rectitude that he will not +desert me in good or evil fortune; for if, by his ill luck or mine, it +may not happen to be in my power to give him the island I have promised, +or any equivalent for it, at least his wages shall not be lost; for in my +will, which is already made, I have declared the sum that shall be paid +to him, measured, not by his many faithful services, but by the means at +my disposal." + +Sancho bowed his head very respectfully and kissed both his hands, for, +being tied together, he could not kiss one; and then the apparitions +lifted the cage upon their shoulders and fixed it upon the ox-cart. + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The History of Don Quixote, Vol. I., +Part 15., by Miguel de Cervantes + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DON QUIXOTE, PART 15 *** + +***** This file should be named 5917.txt or 5917.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/5/9/1/5917/ + +Produced by David Widger + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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