diff options
| author | Roger Frank <rfrank@pglaf.org> | 2025-10-15 05:26:34 -0700 |
|---|---|---|
| committer | Roger Frank <rfrank@pglaf.org> | 2025-10-15 05:26:34 -0700 |
| commit | 544b9688f44cd458c0686559e22b0be2de6842ab (patch) | |
| tree | f2ec5f070abcbc1b2913dd7ea03f1bad135218ef /old/orig5921-h | |
Diffstat (limited to 'old/orig5921-h')
181 files changed, 25814 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/5921-h.htm b/old/orig5921-h/5921-h.htm new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6ad1dfa --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/5921-h.htm @@ -0,0 +1,781 @@ +<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> +<html> +<head> +<title>THE HISTORY OF DON QUIXOTE, By Cervantes, Vol. I, Complete</title> +<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> +<link rel="coverpage" href="images/cover.jpg"> + +<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, Complete</h2> + + + + +<center> +<table summary="" cellPadding=6 border=4> +<tr><td> + <a href="p1.htm"><b>BEGIN VOLUME ONE</b></a> </td></tr><tr><td> + <a href="#contents"><b>CONTENTS OF VOLUME ONE</b></a> </td></tr><tr><td> + <a href="http://www.gutenberg.net/5/9/4/5946/5946-h/5946-h.htm"><b>LINK TO VOLUME TWO</b></a> +</td></tr> +</table> +</center> + + +<pre> + +The Project Gutenberg EBook of The History of Don Quixote, Vol. I, Complete +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.net + + +Title: The History of Don Quixote, Vol. I, Complete + +Author: Miguel de Cervantes + +Release Date: July 19, 2004 [EBook #5921] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DON QUIXOTE, VOLUME I. *** + + + + +Produced by David Widger + + + + + +</pre> + + + + + +<br> +<hr> +<br><br><br><br><br><br> + + + + +<h1>DON QUIXOTE</h1> +<br> +<h2>by Miguel de Cervantes</h2> +<br> +<h3>Translated by John Ormsby</h3> +<br> +<h2>Illustrated by Gustave Dore</h2> +<br> + +<br><br> + +<center><h3>Volume I., Complete</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. </p> + + +<br><br> + +<h3>Note on the Images<br>Please use the "Enlarge" Link</h3> + +<p> +The images both woodcuts and steel-engravings are some of Gustave Dore's finest productions. +The pages of the printed edition measure 16 inches by 11 inches—images as first displayed here +have been reduced to one-fourth of the original +size. This severely deteriorates many of the illustrations which can only be appreciated when returned to +full size. All of the steel-engravings should be enlarged.<p> + + + + + D.W.</p> +</blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote> +<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> + +<a name="contents"></a> +<br><br> + + +<h2>CONTENTS</h2> +<br> + +<h3>Volume I.</h3> + + +<pre> + +<a href="p1.htm#ch1">CHAPTER I</a> +WHICH TREATS OF THE CHARACTER AND PURSUITS OF THE FAMOUS GENTLEMAN +DON QUIXOTE OF LA MANCHA + +<a href="p1.htm#ch2">CHAPTER II</a> +WHICH TREATS OF THE FIRST SALLY THE INGENIOUS DON QUIXOTE MADE +FROM HOME + +<a href="p1.htm#ch3">CHAPTER III</a> +WHEREIN IS RELATED THE DROLL WAY IN WHICH DON QUIXOTE HAD HIMSELF +DUBBED A KNIGHT + +<a href="p2.htm#ch4">CHAPTER IV</a> +OF WHAT HAPPENED TO OUR KNIGHT WHEN HE LEFT THE INN + +<a href="p2.htm#ch5">CHAPTER V</a> +IN WHICH THE NARRATIVE OF OUR KNIGHT'S MISHAP IS CONTINUED + +<a href="p3.htm#ch6">CHAPTER VI</a> +OF THE DIVERTING AND IMPORTANT SCRUTINY WHICH THE CURATE AND THE +BARBER MADE IN THE LIBRARY OF OUR INGENIOUS GENTLEMAN + +<a href="p3.htm#ch7">CHAPTER VII</a> +OF THE SECOND SALLY OF OUR WORTHY KNIGHT DON QUIXOTE OF LA MANCHA + +<a href="p3.htm#ch8">CHAPTER VIII</a> +OF THE GOOD FORTUNE WHICH THE VALIANT DON QUIXOTE HAD IN THE +TERRIBLE AND UNDREAMT-OF ADVENTURE OF THE WINDMILLS, WITH OTHER +OCCURRENCES WORTHY TO BE FITLY RECORDED + +<a href="p4.htm#ch9">CHAPTER IX</a> +IN WHICH IS CONCLUDED AND FINISHED THE TERRIFIC BATTLE BETWEEN THE +GALLANT BISCAYAN AND THE VALIANT MANCHEGAN + +<a href="p4.htm#ch10">CHAPTER X</a> +OF THE PLEASANT DISCOURSE THAT PASSED BETWEEN DON QUIXOTE AND HIS +SQUIRE SANCHO PANZA + +<a href="p4.htm#ch11">CHAPTER XI</a> +OF WHAT BEFELL DON QUIXOTE WITH CERTAIN GOATHERDS + +<a href="p4.htm#ch12">CHAPTER XII</a> +OF WHAT A GOATHERD RELATED TO THOSE WITH DON QUIXOTE + +<a href="p4.htm#ch13">CHAPTER XIII</a> +IN WHICH IS ENDED THE STORY OF THE SHEPHERDESS MARCELA, WITH OTHER +INCIDENTS + +<a href="p5.htm#ch14">CHAPTER XIV</a> +WHEREIN ARE INSERTED THE DESPAIRING VERSES OF THE DEAD SHEPHERD, +TOGETHER WITH OTHER INCIDENTS NOT LOOKED FOR + +<a href="p5.htm#ch15">CHAPTER XV</a> +IN WHICH IS RELATED THE UNFORTUNATE ADVENTURE THAT DON QUIXOTE +FELL IN WITH WHEN HE FELL OUT WITH CERTAIN HEARTLESS YANGUESANS + +<a href="p6.htm#ch16">CHAPTER XVI</a> +OF WHAT HAPPENED TO THE INGENIOUS GENTLEMAN IN THE INN WHICH HE +TOOK TO BE A CASTLE + +<a href="p6.htm#ch17">CHAPTER XVII</a> +IN WHICH ARE CONTAINED THE INNUMERABLE TROUBLES WHICH THE BRAVE +DON QUIXOTE AND HIS GOOD SQUIRE SANCHO PANZA ENDURED IN THE INN, +WHICH TO HIS MISFORTUNE HE TOOK TO BE A CASTLE + +<a href="p7.htm#ch18">CHAPTER XVIII</a> +IN WHICH IS RELATED THE DISCOURSE SANCHO PANZA HELD WITH HIS MASTER, +DON QUIXOTE, AND OTHER ADVENTURES WORTH RELATING + +<a href="p7.htm#ch19">CHAPTER XIX</a> +OF THE SHREWD DISCOURSE WHICH SANCHO HELD WITH HIS MASTER, AND OF +THE ADVENTURE THAT BEFELL HIM WITH A DEAD BODY, TOGETHER WITH OTHER +NOTABLE OCCURRENCES + +<a href="p7.htm#ch20">CHAPTER XX</a> +OF THE UNEXAMPLED AND UNHEARD-OF ADVENTURE WHICH WAS ACHIEVED BY THE +VALIANT DON QUIXOTE OF LA MANCHA WITH LESS PERIL THAN ANY EVER +ACHIEVED BY ANY FAMOUS KNIGHT IN THE WORLD + +<a href="p7.htm#ch21">CHAPTER XXI</a> +WHICH TREATS OF THE EXALTED ADVENTURE AND RICH PRIZE OF MAMBRINO'S +HELMET, TOGETHER WITH OTHER THINGS THAT HAPPENED TO OUR INVINCIBLE +KNIGHT + +<a href="p7.htm#ch22">CHAPTER XXII</a> +OF THE FREEDOM DON QUIXOTE CONFERRED ON SEVERAL UNFORTUNATES WHO +AGAINST THEIR WILL WERE BEING CARRIED WHERE THEY HAD NO WISH TO GO + +<a href="p8.htm#ch23">CHAPTER XXIII</a> +OF WHAT BEFELL DON QUIXOTE IN THE SIERRA MORENA, WHICH WAS ONE OF +THE RAREST ADVENTURES RELATED IN THIS VERACIOUS HISTORY + +<a href="p9.htm#ch24">CHAPTER XXIV</a> +IN WHICH IS CONTINUED THE ADVENTURE OF THE SIERRA MORENA + +<a href="p9.htm#ch25">CHAPTER XXV</a> +WHICH TREATS OF THE STRANGE THINGS THAT HAPPENED TO THE STOUT +KNIGHT OF LA MANCHA IN THE SIERRA MORENA, AND OF HIS IMITATION +OF THE PENANCE OF BELTENEBROS + +<a href="p9.htm#ch26">CHAPTER XXVI</a> +IN WHICH ARE CONTINUED THE REFINEMENTS WHEREWITH DON QUIXOTE +PLAYED THE PART OF A LOVER IN THE SIERRA MORENA + +<a href="p9.htm#ch27">CHAPTER XXVII</a> +OF HOW THE CURATE AND THE BARBER PROCEEDED WITH THEIR SCHEME; +TOGETHER WITH OTHER MATTERS WORTHY OF RECORD IN THIS GREAT HISTORY + +<a href="p10.htm#ch28">CHAPTER XXVIII</a> +WHICH TREATS OF THE STRANGE AND DELIGHTFUL ADVENTURE THAT BEFELL +THE CURATE AND THE BARBER IN THE SAME SIERRA + +<a href="p11.htm#ch29">CHAPTER XXIX</a> +WHICH TREATS OF THE DROLL DEVICE AND METHOD ADOPTED TO EXTRICATE +OUR LOVE-STRICKEN KNIGHT FROM THE SEVERE PENANCE HE HAD IMPOSED +UPON HIMSELF + +<a href="p12.htm#ch30">CHAPTER XXX</a> +WHICH TREATS OF ADDRESS DISPLAYED BY THE FAIR DOROTHEA, WITH OTHER +MATTERS PLEASANT AND AMUSING + +<a href="p12.htm#ch31">CHAPTER XXXI</a> +OF THE DELECTABLE DISCUSSION BETWEEN DON QUIXOTE AND SANCHO PANZA, +HIS SQUIRE, TOGETHER WITH OTHER INCIDENTS + +<a href="p12.htm#ch32">CHAPTER XXXII</a> +WHICH TREATS OF WHAT BEFELL DON QUIXOTE'S PARTY AT THE INN + +<a href="p13.htm#ch33">CHAPTER XXXIII</a> +IN WHICH IS RELATED THE NOVEL OF "THE ILL-ADVISED CURIOSITY" + +<a href="p13.htm#ch34">CHAPTER XXXIV</a> +IN WHICH IS CONTINUED THE NOVEL OF "THE ILL-ADVISED CURIOSITY" + +<a href="p13.htm#ch35">CHAPTER XXXV</a> +WHICH TREATS OF THE HEROIC AND PRODIGIOUS BATTLE DON QUIXOTE HAD +WITH CERTAIN SKINS OF RED WINE, AND BRINGS THE NOVEL OF "THE +ILL-ADVISED CURIOSITY" TO A CLOSE + +<a href="p13.htm#ch36">CHAPTER XXXVI</a> +WHICH TREATS OF MORE CURIOUS INCIDENTS THAT OCCURRED AT THE INN + +<a href="p13.htm#ch37">CHAPTER XXXVII</a> +IN WHICH IS CONTINUED THE STORY OF THE FAMOUS PRINCESS MICOMICONA, +WITH OTHER DROLL ADVENTURES + +<a href="p13.htm#ch38">CHAPTER XXXVIII</a> +WHICH TREATS OF THE CURIOUS DISCOURSE DON QUIXOTE DELIVERED ON +ARMS AND LETTERS + +<a href="p13.htm#ch39">CHAPTER XXXIX</a> +WHEREIN THE CAPTIVE RELATES HIS LIFE AND ADVENTURES + +<a href="p13.htm#ch40">CHAPTER XL</a> +IN WHICH THE STORY OF THE CAPTIVE IS CONTINUED. + +<a href="p14.htm#ch41">CHAPTER XLI</a> +IN WHICH THE CAPTIVE STILL CONTINUES HIS ADVENTURES + +<a href="p15.htm#ch42">CHAPTER XLII</a> +WHICH TREATS OF WHAT FURTHER TOOK PLACE IN THE INN, AND OF +SEVERAL OTHER THINGS WORTH KNOWING + +<a href="p15.htm#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="p15.htm#ch44">CHAPTER XLIV</a> +IN WHICH ARE CONTINUED THE UNHEARD-OF ADVENTURES OF THE INN + +<a href="p15.htm#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="p15.htm#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 + +<a href="p16.htm#ch47">CHAPTER XLVII</a> +OF THE STRANGE MANNER IN WHICH DON QUIXOTE OF LA MANCHA WAS +CARRIED AWAY ENCHANTED, TOGETHER WITH OTHER REMARKABLE INCIDENTS + +<a href="p16.htm#ch48">CHAPTER XLVIII</a> +IN WHICH THE CANON PURSUES THE SUBJECT OF THE BOOKS OF CHIVALRY, +WITH OTHER MATTERS WORTHY OF HIS WIT + +<a href="p16.htm#ch49">CHAPTER XLIX</a> +WHICH TREATS OF THE SHREWD CONVERSATION WHICH SANCHO PANZA HELD +WITH HIS MASTER DON QUIXOTE + +<a href="p17.htm#ch50">CHAPTER L</a> +OF THE SHREWD CONTROVERSY WHICH DON QUIXOTE AND THE CANON HELD, +TOGETHER WITH OTHER INCIDENTS + +<a href="p18.htm#ch51">CHAPTER LI</a> +WHICH DEALS WITH WHAT THE GOATHERD TOLD THOSE WHO WERE CARRYING +OFF DON QUIXOTE + +<a href="p18.htm#ch52">CHAPTER LII</a> +OF THE QUARREL THAT DON QUIXOTE HAD WITH THE GOATHERD, TOGETHER +WITH NTHE RARE ADVENTURE OF THE PENITENTS, WHICH WITH AN +EXPENDITURE OF SWEAT HE BROUGHT TO A HAPPY CONCLUSION + +</pre> + + + +<br><br><br><br> + + +<center> +<table summary="" cellPadding=6 border=4> +<tr><td> + <a href="p1.htm"><b>BEGIN VOLUME ONE</b></a> </td></tr><tr><td> + <a href="#contents"><b>CONTENTS OF VOLUME ONE</b></a> </td></tr><tr><td> + <a href="http://www.gutenberg.net/5/9/4/5946/5946-h/5946-h.htm"><b>LINK TO VOLUME TWO</b></a> +</td></tr> +</table> +</center> + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The History of Don Quixote, Vol. I, +Complete, by Miguel de Cervantes + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DON QUIXOTE, VOLUME I. *** + +***** This file should be named 5921-h.htm or 5921-h.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.net/5/9/2/5921/ + +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. Special rules, +set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to +copying and distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to +protect the PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm concept and trademark. Project +Gutenberg is a registered trademark, and may not be used if you +charge for the eBooks, unless you receive specific permission. If you +do not charge anything for copies of this eBook, complying with the +rules is very easy. You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose +such as creation of derivative works, reports, performances and +research. They may be modified and printed and given away--you may do +practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks. Redistribution is +subject to the trademark license, especially commercial +redistribution. + + + +*** START: FULL LICENSE *** + +THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE +PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE YOU DISTRIBUTE OR USE THIS WORK + +To protect the Project Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting the free +distribution of electronic works, by using or distributing this work +(or any other work associated in any way with the phrase "Project +Gutenberg"), you agree to comply with all the terms of the Full Project +Gutenberg-tm License (available with this file or online at +http://gutenberg.net/license). + + +Section 1. General Terms of Use and Redistributing Project Gutenberg-tm +electronic works + +1.A. By reading or using any part of this Project Gutenberg-tm +electronic work, you indicate that you have read, understand, agree to +and accept all the terms of this license and intellectual property +(trademark/copyright) agreement. If you do not agree to abide by all +the terms of this agreement, you must cease using and return or destroy +all copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in your possession. +If you paid a fee for obtaining a copy of or access to a Project +Gutenberg-tm electronic work and you do not agree to be bound by the +terms of this agreement, you may obtain a refund from the person or +entity to whom you paid the fee as set forth in paragraph 1.E.8. + +1.B. "Project Gutenberg" is a registered trademark. It may only be +used on or associated in any way with an electronic work by people who +agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement. There are a few +things that you can do with most Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works +even without complying with the full terms of this agreement. See +paragraph 1.C below. There are a lot of things you can do with Project +Gutenberg-tm electronic works if you follow the terms of this agreement +and help preserve free future access to Project Gutenberg-tm electronic +works. See paragraph 1.E below. + +1.C. The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation ("the Foundation" +or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of Project +Gutenberg-tm electronic works. Nearly all the individual works in the +collection are in the public domain in the United States. If an +individual work is in the public domain in the United States and you are +located in the United States, we do not claim a right to prevent you from +copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating derivative +works based on the work as long as all references to Project Gutenberg +are removed. Of course, we hope that you will support the Project +Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting free access to electronic works by +freely sharing Project Gutenberg-tm works in compliance with the terms of +this agreement for keeping the Project Gutenberg-tm name associated with +the work. You can easily comply with the terms of this agreement by +keeping this work in the same format with its attached full Project +Gutenberg-tm License when you share it without charge with others. + +1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern +what you can do with this work. Copyright laws in most countries are in +a constant state of change. If you are outside the United States, check +the laws of your country in addition to the terms of this agreement +before downloading, copying, displaying, performing, distributing or +creating derivative works based on this work or any other Project +Gutenberg-tm work. The Foundation makes no representations concerning +the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United +States. + +1.E. Unless you have removed all references to Project Gutenberg: + +1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate +access to, the full Project Gutenberg-tm License must appear prominently +whenever any copy of a Project Gutenberg-tm work (any work on which the +phrase "Project Gutenberg" appears, or with which the phrase "Project +Gutenberg" is associated) is accessed, displayed, performed, viewed, +copied or distributed: + +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.net + +1.E.2. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived +from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is +posted with permission of the copyright holder), the work can be copied +and distributed to anyone in the United States without paying any fees +or charges. If you are redistributing or providing access to a work +with the phrase "Project Gutenberg" associated with or appearing on the +work, you must comply either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.E.1 +through 1.E.7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the +Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.E.8 or +1.E.9. + +1.E.3. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted +with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution +must comply with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 and any additional +terms imposed by the copyright holder. Additional terms will be linked +to the Project Gutenberg-tm License for all works posted with the +permission of the copyright holder found at the beginning of this work. + +1.E.4. Do not unlink or detach or remove the full Project Gutenberg-tm +License terms from this work, or any files containing a part of this +work or any other work associated with Project Gutenberg-tm. + +1.E.5. Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this +electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without +prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with +active links or immediate access to the full terms of the Project +Gutenberg-tm License. + +1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, +compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any +word processing or hypertext form. However, if you provide access to or +distribute copies of a Project Gutenberg-tm work in a format other than +"Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other format used in the official version +posted on the official Project Gutenberg-tm web site (www.gutenberg.net), +you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a +copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon +request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other +form. Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm +License as specified in paragraph 1.E.1. + +1.E.7. Do not charge a fee for access to, viewing, displaying, +performing, copying or distributing any Project Gutenberg-tm works +unless you comply with paragraph 1.E.8 or 1.E.9. + +1.E.8. You may charge a reasonable fee for copies of or providing +access to or distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works provided +that + +- You pay a royalty fee of 20% of the gross profits you derive from + the use of Project Gutenberg-tm works calculated using the method + you already use to calculate your applicable taxes. The fee is + owed to the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark, but he + has agreed to donate royalties under this paragraph to the + Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation. Royalty payments + must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you + prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your periodic tax + returns. Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such and + sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation at the + address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to + the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation." + +- You provide a full refund of any money paid by a user who notifies + you in writing (or by e-mail) within 30 days of receipt that s/he + does not agree to the terms of the full Project Gutenberg-tm + License. You must require such a user to return or + destroy all copies of the works possessed in a physical medium + and discontinue all use of and all access to other copies of + Project Gutenberg-tm works. + +- You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any + money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the + electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days + of receipt of the work. + +- You comply with all other terms of this agreement for free + distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm works. + +1.E.9. If you wish to charge a fee or distribute a Project Gutenberg-tm +electronic work or group of works on different terms than are set +forth in this agreement, you must obtain permission in writing from +both the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation and Michael +Hart, the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark. Contact the +Foundation as set forth in Section 3 below. + +1.F. + +1.F.1. Project Gutenberg volunteers and employees expend considerable +effort to identify, do copyright research on, transcribe and proofread +public domain works in creating the Project Gutenberg-tm +collection. Despite these efforts, Project Gutenberg-tm electronic +works, and the medium on which they may be stored, may contain +"Defects," such as, but not limited to, incomplete, inaccurate or +corrupt data, transcription errors, a copyright or other intellectual +property infringement, a defective or damaged disk or other medium, a +computer virus, or computer codes that damage or cannot be read by +your equipment. + +1.F.2. LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right +of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.F.3, the Project +Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, the owner of the Project +Gutenberg-tm trademark, and any other party distributing a Project +Gutenberg-tm electronic work under this agreement, disclaim all +liability to you for damages, costs and expenses, including legal +fees. YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT +LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE +PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH F3. YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE +TRADEMARK OWNER, AND ANY DISTRIBUTOR UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT BE +LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR +INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH +DAMAGE. + +1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a +defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can +receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a +written explanation to the person you received the work from. If you +received the work on a physical medium, you must return the medium with +your written explanation. The person or entity that provided you with +the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a +refund. If you received the work electronically, the person or entity +providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to +receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy +is also defective, you may demand a refund in writing without further +opportunities to fix the problem. + +1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth +in paragraph 1.F.3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER +WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO +WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE. + +1.F.5. Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied +warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages. +If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the +law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be +interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by +the applicable state law. The invalidity or unenforceability of any +provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions. + +1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the +trademark owner, any agent or employee of the Foundation, anyone +providing copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in accordance +with this agreement, and any volunteers associated with the production, +promotion and distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works, +harmless from all liability, costs and expenses, including legal fees, +that arise directly or indirectly from any of the following which you do +or cause to occur: (a) distribution of this or any Project Gutenberg-tm +work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any +Project Gutenberg-tm work, and (c) any Defect you cause. + + +Section 2. Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm + +Project Gutenberg-tm is synonymous with the free distribution of +electronic works in formats readable by the widest variety of computers +including obsolete, old, middle-aged and new computers. It exists +because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and donations from +people in all walks of life. + +Volunteers and financial support to provide volunteers with the +assistance they need, is critical to reaching Project Gutenberg-tm's +goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will +remain freely available for generations to come. In 2001, the Project +Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation was created to provide a secure +and permanent future for Project Gutenberg-tm and future generations. +To learn more about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation +and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4 +and the Foundation web page at http://www.pglaf.org. + + +Section 3. Information about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive +Foundation + +The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation is a non profit +501(c)(3) educational corporation organized under the laws of the +state of Mississippi and granted tax exempt status by the Internal +Revenue Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification +number is 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at +http://pglaf.org/fundraising. Contributions to the Project Gutenberg +Literary Archive Foundation are tax deductible to the full extent +permitted by U.S. federal laws and your state's laws. + +The Foundation's principal office is located at 4557 Melan Dr. S. +Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered +throughout numerous locations. Its business office is located at +809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email +business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact +information can be found at the Foundation's web site and official +page at http://pglaf.org + +For additional contact information: + Dr. Gregory B. Newby + Chief Executive and Director + gbnewby@pglaf.org + + +Section 4. Information about Donations to the Project Gutenberg +Literary Archive Foundation + +Project Gutenberg-tm depends upon and cannot survive without wide +spread public support and donations to carry out its mission of +increasing the number of public domain and licensed works that can be +freely distributed in machine readable form accessible by the widest +array of equipment including outdated equipment. Many small donations +($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to maintaining tax exempt +status with the IRS. + +The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating +charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United +States. Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a +considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up +with these requirements. We do not solicit donations in locations +where we have not received written confirmation of compliance. To +SEND DONATIONS or determine the status of compliance for any +particular state visit http://pglaf.org + +While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we +have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition +against accepting unsolicited donations from donors in such states who +approach us with offers to donate. + +International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make +any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from +outside the United States. U.S. laws alone swamp our small staff. + +Please check the Project Gutenberg Web pages for current donation +methods and addresses. Donations are accepted in a number of other +ways including including checks, online payments and credit card +donations. To donate, please visit: http://pglaf.org/donate + + +Section 5. General Information About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic +works. + +Professor Michael S. Hart is the originator of the Project Gutenberg-tm +concept of a library of electronic works that could be freely shared +with anyone. For thirty years, he produced and distributed Project +Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support. + + +Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed +editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the U.S. +unless a copyright notice is included. Thus, we do not necessarily +keep eBooks in compliance with any particular paper edition. + + +Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: + + http://www.gutenberg.net + +This Web site includes information about Project Gutenberg-tm, +including how to make donations to the Project Gutenberg Literary +Archive Foundation, how to help produce our new eBooks, and how to +subscribe to our email newsletter to hear about new eBooks. + + +</pre> + +</body> +</html> + + diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/bookcover.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/bookcover.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..e256156 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/bookcover.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/c06a.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/c06a.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..074a926 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/c06a.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/c06e.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/c06e.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..a0ad581 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/c06e.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/c07a.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/c07a.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..f3f33ea --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/c07a.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/c07b.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/c07b.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..a561caa --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/c07b.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/c07c.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/c07c.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..a4651f0 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/c07c.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/c07e.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/c07e.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..16baaa6 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/c07e.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/c08a.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/c08a.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..d31d0ba --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/c08a.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/c08b.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/c08b.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..90d7554 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/c08b.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/c08c.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/c08c.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..2757aea --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/c08c.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/c08e.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/c08e.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..f0a783a --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/c08e.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/c09a.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/c09a.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..ef5ea43 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/c09a.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/c09e.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/c09e.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..5ac5881 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/c09e.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/c10a.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/c10a.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..3ee157c --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/c10a.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/c10e.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/c10e.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..f317551 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/c10e.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/c11a.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/c11a.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..cabd4c1 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/c11a.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/c11b.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/c11b.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..c8673b7 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/c11b.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/c11e.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/c11e.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..a88869f --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/c11e.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/c12a.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/c12a.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..66f5f2f --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/c12a.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/c12e.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/c12e.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..c0981bb --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/c12e.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/c13a.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/c13a.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..452c1ae --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/c13a.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/c13e.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/c13e.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..d854587 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/c13e.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/c14a.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/c14a.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..53c17a6 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/c14a.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/c14e.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/c14e.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..ae2d765 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/c14e.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/c15a.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/c15a.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..92ae916 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/c15a.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/c15b.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/c15b.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..e9e49a4 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/c15b.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/c15c.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/c15c.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..44293d7 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/c15c.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/c15d.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/c15d.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..5e9e5b5 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/c15d.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/c15e.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/c15e.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..12fa17b --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/c15e.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/c16a.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/c16a.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..a8e1a40 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/c16a.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/c16b.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/c16b.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..3992ff8 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/c16b.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/c16c.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/c16c.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..156346b --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/c16c.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/c16d.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/c16d.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..d9e5025 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/c16d.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/c16e.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/c16e.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..c7be098 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/c16e.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/c17a.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/c17a.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..c6a0daa --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/c17a.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/c17b.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/c17b.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..9a39e26 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/c17b.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/c17e.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/c17e.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..9a39e02 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/c17e.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/c18a.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/c18a.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..10202e5 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/c18a.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/c18e.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/c18e.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..6b9e718 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/c18e.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/c19a.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/c19a.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..1346e56 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/c19a.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/c19b.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/c19b.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..36bf242 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/c19b.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/c19c.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/c19c.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..3117c7f --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/c19c.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/c19e.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/c19e.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..d46099d --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/c19e.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/c20a.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/c20a.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..56b40a1 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/c20a.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/c20e.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/c20e.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..a4bd383 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/c20e.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/c22a.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/c22a.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..2496253 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/c22a.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/c22b.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/c22b.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..5f38f74 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/c22b.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/c22e.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/c22e.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..ff88b6f --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/c22e.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/c23a.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/c23a.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..64845f4 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/c23a.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/c23b.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/c23b.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..62efe94 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/c23b.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/c23c.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/c23c.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..082948c --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/c23c.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/c23d.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/c23d.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..1d22f2c --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/c23d.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/c23e.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/c23e.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..065e7ae --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/c23e.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/c23f.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/c23f.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..f00d087 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/c23f.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/c23g.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/c23g.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..619eb3b --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/c23g.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/c23h.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/c23h.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..0cc8a0d --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/c23h.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/c23i.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/c23i.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..6313d85 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/c23i.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/c24a.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/c24a.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..f2a9eac --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/c24a.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/c24e.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/c24e.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..489aede --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/c24e.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/c25a.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/c25a.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..21fd129 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/c25a.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/c25b.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/c25b.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..7ee7c01 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/c25b.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/c25c.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/c25c.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..8d59e52 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/c25c.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/c25e.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/c25e.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..8a8e443 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/c25e.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/c26a.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/c26a.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..14ee5fd --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/c26a.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/c26e.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/c26e.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..45d1812 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/c26e.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/c27a.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/c27a.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..5f38991 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/c27a.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/c27e.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/c27e.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..472c30f --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/c27e.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/c28a.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/c28a.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..561543b --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/c28a.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/c28b.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/c28b.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..34c5b70 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/c28b.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/c28c.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/c28c.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..3715afa --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/c28c.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/c28d.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/c28d.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..2cfbdf5 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/c28d.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/c28e.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/c28e.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..f076939 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/c28e.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/c28f.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/c28f.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..2842fa6 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/c28f.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/c29a.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/c29a.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..a3c0d9c --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/c29a.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/c29b.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/c29b.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..24c2d1a --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/c29b.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/c29c.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/c29c.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..6cbaf97 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/c29c.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/c29d.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/c29d.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..06169b2 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/c29d.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/c29e.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/c29e.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..622f8d0 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/c29e.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/c29f.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/c29f.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..1657378 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/c29f.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/c30a.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/c30a.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..c48be07 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/c30a.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/c30e.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/c30e.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..9428aac --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/c30e.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/c31a.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/c31a.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..3d61c99 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/c31a.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/c31e.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/c31e.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..dac0e76 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/c31e.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/c32a.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/c32a.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..2dcec06 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/c32a.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/c32b.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/c32b.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..7140c55 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/c32b.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/c32c.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/c32c.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..2f1d5ac --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/c32c.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/c32e.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/c32e.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..d4d6901 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/c32e.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/c36a.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/c36a.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..a74518d --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/c36a.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/c36b.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/c36b.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..a8d5c66 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/c36b.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/c36e.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/c36e.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..a2fbcc9 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/c36e.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/c37a.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/c37a.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..4b762ce --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/c37a.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/c37e.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/c37e.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..649e0e1 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/c37e.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/c38a.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/c38a.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..bf7aaa2 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/c38a.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/c38e.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/c38e.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..a2d0d8f --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/c38e.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/c39a.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/c39a.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..065b593 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/c39a.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/c39b.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/c39b.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..2461b70 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/c39b.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/c39e.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/c39e.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..17713c0 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/c39e.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/c40a.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/c40a.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..585c8e6 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/c40a.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/c40b.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/c40b.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..fbed443 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/c40b.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/c40e.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/c40e.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..48d3855 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/c40e.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/c41a.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/c41a.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..ef744b2 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/c41a.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/c41b.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/c41b.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..c3f54ec --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/c41b.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/c41c.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/c41c.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..3d37454 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/c41c.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/c41d.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/c41d.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..1a6cbf3 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/c41d.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/c41e.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/c41e.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..3a14c21 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/c41e.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/c41f.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/c41f.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..3698ae2 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/c41f.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/c41g.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/c41g.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..ac79134 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/c41g.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/c42a.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/c42a.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..7225ff9 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/c42a.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/c42e.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/c42e.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..a4b4444 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/c42e.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/c43a.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/c43a.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..c02470a --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/c43a.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/c43b.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/c43b.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..d4bb580 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/c43b.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/c43e.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/c43e.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..e695e34 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/c43e.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/c44a.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/c44a.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..cafb718 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/c44a.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/c44e.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/c44e.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..e4efe30 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/c44e.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/c45a.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/c45a.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..cb3260e --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/c45a.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/c46a.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/c46a.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..8df0618 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/c46a.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/c46b.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/c46b.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..08a63df --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/c46b.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/c46e.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/c46e.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..7dee493 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/c46e.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/c47a.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/c47a.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..18ab191 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/c47a.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/c47b.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/c47b.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..8b86ed4 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/c47b.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/c47c.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/c47c.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..ba0360d --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/c47c.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/c47e.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/c47e.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..bf7c0f2 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/c47e.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/c48a.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/c48a.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..3ea574d --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/c48a.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/c48e.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/c48e.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..d8dffef --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/c48e.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/c49a.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/c49a.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..324d1d6 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/c49a.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/c49e.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/c49e.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..e9c8013 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/c49e.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/c50a.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/c50a.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..5c96f5b --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/c50a.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/c50b.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/c50b.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..0492c85 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/c50b.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/c50c.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/c50c.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..61a7931 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/c50c.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/c50d.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/c50d.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..240f960 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/c50d.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/c50e.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/c50e.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..354ad6e --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/c50e.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/c51a.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/c51a.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..cbe2a9d --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/c51a.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/c51b.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/c51b.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..0d0dbe9 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/c51b.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/c51c.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/c51c.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..012c769 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/c51c.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/c51e.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/c51e.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..e97fe58 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/c51e.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/c52a.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/c52a.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..d6c7e04 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/c52a.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/c52b.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/c52b.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..5b17d68 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/c52b.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/c52c.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/c52c.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..4911f98 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/c52c.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/c52e.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/c52e.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..d5cc475 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/c52e.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/cover.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/cover.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..1fd83ec --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/cover.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/e00.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/e00.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..4d964a3 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/e00.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/e02.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/e02.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..54a3e4c --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/e02.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/e04.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/e04.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..d1c6e08 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/e04.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/enlarge.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/enlarge.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..34c47df --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/enlarge.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/p003.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/p003.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..1780449 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/p003.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/p005.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/p005.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..1f992f8 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/p005.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/p007.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/p007.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..a848d30 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/p007.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/p007b.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/p007b.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..a6e3051 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/p007b.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/p007c.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/p007c.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..0a18c68 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/p007c.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/p008.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/p008.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..ca9a959 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/p008.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/p009.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/p009.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..e3b6823 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/p009.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/p010.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/p010.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..e4268bd --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/p010.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/p017.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/p017.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..75ebba5 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/p017.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/p018.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/p018.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..3905ad4 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/p018.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/p019.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/p019.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..b1617bd --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/p019.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/p020.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/p020.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..59a7a38 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/p020.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/p022.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/p022.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..8480e71 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/p022.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/p026.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/p026.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..5350e39 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/p026.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/p029.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/p029.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..e43e0f3 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/p029.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/p031.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/p031.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..52202b6 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/p031.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/images/spine.jpg b/old/orig5921-h/images/spine.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..7a967ba --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/images/spine.jpg diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/main.htm b/old/orig5921-h/main.htm new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6ad1dfa --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/main.htm @@ -0,0 +1,781 @@ +<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> +<html> +<head> +<title>THE HISTORY OF DON QUIXOTE, By Cervantes, Vol. I, Complete</title> +<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> +<link rel="coverpage" href="images/cover.jpg"> + +<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, Complete</h2> + + + + +<center> +<table summary="" cellPadding=6 border=4> +<tr><td> + <a href="p1.htm"><b>BEGIN VOLUME ONE</b></a> </td></tr><tr><td> + <a href="#contents"><b>CONTENTS OF VOLUME ONE</b></a> </td></tr><tr><td> + <a href="http://www.gutenberg.net/5/9/4/5946/5946-h/5946-h.htm"><b>LINK TO VOLUME TWO</b></a> +</td></tr> +</table> +</center> + + +<pre> + +The Project Gutenberg EBook of The History of Don Quixote, Vol. I, Complete +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.net + + +Title: The History of Don Quixote, Vol. I, Complete + +Author: Miguel de Cervantes + +Release Date: July 19, 2004 [EBook #5921] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DON QUIXOTE, VOLUME I. *** + + + + +Produced by David Widger + + + + + +</pre> + + + + + +<br> +<hr> +<br><br><br><br><br><br> + + + + +<h1>DON QUIXOTE</h1> +<br> +<h2>by Miguel de Cervantes</h2> +<br> +<h3>Translated by John Ormsby</h3> +<br> +<h2>Illustrated by Gustave Dore</h2> +<br> + +<br><br> + +<center><h3>Volume I., Complete</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. </p> + + +<br><br> + +<h3>Note on the Images<br>Please use the "Enlarge" Link</h3> + +<p> +The images both woodcuts and steel-engravings are some of Gustave Dore's finest productions. +The pages of the printed edition measure 16 inches by 11 inches—images as first displayed here +have been reduced to one-fourth of the original +size. This severely deteriorates many of the illustrations which can only be appreciated when returned to +full size. All of the steel-engravings should be enlarged.<p> + + + + + D.W.</p> +</blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote> +<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> + +<a name="contents"></a> +<br><br> + + +<h2>CONTENTS</h2> +<br> + +<h3>Volume I.</h3> + + +<pre> + +<a href="p1.htm#ch1">CHAPTER I</a> +WHICH TREATS OF THE CHARACTER AND PURSUITS OF THE FAMOUS GENTLEMAN +DON QUIXOTE OF LA MANCHA + +<a href="p1.htm#ch2">CHAPTER II</a> +WHICH TREATS OF THE FIRST SALLY THE INGENIOUS DON QUIXOTE MADE +FROM HOME + +<a href="p1.htm#ch3">CHAPTER III</a> +WHEREIN IS RELATED THE DROLL WAY IN WHICH DON QUIXOTE HAD HIMSELF +DUBBED A KNIGHT + +<a href="p2.htm#ch4">CHAPTER IV</a> +OF WHAT HAPPENED TO OUR KNIGHT WHEN HE LEFT THE INN + +<a href="p2.htm#ch5">CHAPTER V</a> +IN WHICH THE NARRATIVE OF OUR KNIGHT'S MISHAP IS CONTINUED + +<a href="p3.htm#ch6">CHAPTER VI</a> +OF THE DIVERTING AND IMPORTANT SCRUTINY WHICH THE CURATE AND THE +BARBER MADE IN THE LIBRARY OF OUR INGENIOUS GENTLEMAN + +<a href="p3.htm#ch7">CHAPTER VII</a> +OF THE SECOND SALLY OF OUR WORTHY KNIGHT DON QUIXOTE OF LA MANCHA + +<a href="p3.htm#ch8">CHAPTER VIII</a> +OF THE GOOD FORTUNE WHICH THE VALIANT DON QUIXOTE HAD IN THE +TERRIBLE AND UNDREAMT-OF ADVENTURE OF THE WINDMILLS, WITH OTHER +OCCURRENCES WORTHY TO BE FITLY RECORDED + +<a href="p4.htm#ch9">CHAPTER IX</a> +IN WHICH IS CONCLUDED AND FINISHED THE TERRIFIC BATTLE BETWEEN THE +GALLANT BISCAYAN AND THE VALIANT MANCHEGAN + +<a href="p4.htm#ch10">CHAPTER X</a> +OF THE PLEASANT DISCOURSE THAT PASSED BETWEEN DON QUIXOTE AND HIS +SQUIRE SANCHO PANZA + +<a href="p4.htm#ch11">CHAPTER XI</a> +OF WHAT BEFELL DON QUIXOTE WITH CERTAIN GOATHERDS + +<a href="p4.htm#ch12">CHAPTER XII</a> +OF WHAT A GOATHERD RELATED TO THOSE WITH DON QUIXOTE + +<a href="p4.htm#ch13">CHAPTER XIII</a> +IN WHICH IS ENDED THE STORY OF THE SHEPHERDESS MARCELA, WITH OTHER +INCIDENTS + +<a href="p5.htm#ch14">CHAPTER XIV</a> +WHEREIN ARE INSERTED THE DESPAIRING VERSES OF THE DEAD SHEPHERD, +TOGETHER WITH OTHER INCIDENTS NOT LOOKED FOR + +<a href="p5.htm#ch15">CHAPTER XV</a> +IN WHICH IS RELATED THE UNFORTUNATE ADVENTURE THAT DON QUIXOTE +FELL IN WITH WHEN HE FELL OUT WITH CERTAIN HEARTLESS YANGUESANS + +<a href="p6.htm#ch16">CHAPTER XVI</a> +OF WHAT HAPPENED TO THE INGENIOUS GENTLEMAN IN THE INN WHICH HE +TOOK TO BE A CASTLE + +<a href="p6.htm#ch17">CHAPTER XVII</a> +IN WHICH ARE CONTAINED THE INNUMERABLE TROUBLES WHICH THE BRAVE +DON QUIXOTE AND HIS GOOD SQUIRE SANCHO PANZA ENDURED IN THE INN, +WHICH TO HIS MISFORTUNE HE TOOK TO BE A CASTLE + +<a href="p7.htm#ch18">CHAPTER XVIII</a> +IN WHICH IS RELATED THE DISCOURSE SANCHO PANZA HELD WITH HIS MASTER, +DON QUIXOTE, AND OTHER ADVENTURES WORTH RELATING + +<a href="p7.htm#ch19">CHAPTER XIX</a> +OF THE SHREWD DISCOURSE WHICH SANCHO HELD WITH HIS MASTER, AND OF +THE ADVENTURE THAT BEFELL HIM WITH A DEAD BODY, TOGETHER WITH OTHER +NOTABLE OCCURRENCES + +<a href="p7.htm#ch20">CHAPTER XX</a> +OF THE UNEXAMPLED AND UNHEARD-OF ADVENTURE WHICH WAS ACHIEVED BY THE +VALIANT DON QUIXOTE OF LA MANCHA WITH LESS PERIL THAN ANY EVER +ACHIEVED BY ANY FAMOUS KNIGHT IN THE WORLD + +<a href="p7.htm#ch21">CHAPTER XXI</a> +WHICH TREATS OF THE EXALTED ADVENTURE AND RICH PRIZE OF MAMBRINO'S +HELMET, TOGETHER WITH OTHER THINGS THAT HAPPENED TO OUR INVINCIBLE +KNIGHT + +<a href="p7.htm#ch22">CHAPTER XXII</a> +OF THE FREEDOM DON QUIXOTE CONFERRED ON SEVERAL UNFORTUNATES WHO +AGAINST THEIR WILL WERE BEING CARRIED WHERE THEY HAD NO WISH TO GO + +<a href="p8.htm#ch23">CHAPTER XXIII</a> +OF WHAT BEFELL DON QUIXOTE IN THE SIERRA MORENA, WHICH WAS ONE OF +THE RAREST ADVENTURES RELATED IN THIS VERACIOUS HISTORY + +<a href="p9.htm#ch24">CHAPTER XXIV</a> +IN WHICH IS CONTINUED THE ADVENTURE OF THE SIERRA MORENA + +<a href="p9.htm#ch25">CHAPTER XXV</a> +WHICH TREATS OF THE STRANGE THINGS THAT HAPPENED TO THE STOUT +KNIGHT OF LA MANCHA IN THE SIERRA MORENA, AND OF HIS IMITATION +OF THE PENANCE OF BELTENEBROS + +<a href="p9.htm#ch26">CHAPTER XXVI</a> +IN WHICH ARE CONTINUED THE REFINEMENTS WHEREWITH DON QUIXOTE +PLAYED THE PART OF A LOVER IN THE SIERRA MORENA + +<a href="p9.htm#ch27">CHAPTER XXVII</a> +OF HOW THE CURATE AND THE BARBER PROCEEDED WITH THEIR SCHEME; +TOGETHER WITH OTHER MATTERS WORTHY OF RECORD IN THIS GREAT HISTORY + +<a href="p10.htm#ch28">CHAPTER XXVIII</a> +WHICH TREATS OF THE STRANGE AND DELIGHTFUL ADVENTURE THAT BEFELL +THE CURATE AND THE BARBER IN THE SAME SIERRA + +<a href="p11.htm#ch29">CHAPTER XXIX</a> +WHICH TREATS OF THE DROLL DEVICE AND METHOD ADOPTED TO EXTRICATE +OUR LOVE-STRICKEN KNIGHT FROM THE SEVERE PENANCE HE HAD IMPOSED +UPON HIMSELF + +<a href="p12.htm#ch30">CHAPTER XXX</a> +WHICH TREATS OF ADDRESS DISPLAYED BY THE FAIR DOROTHEA, WITH OTHER +MATTERS PLEASANT AND AMUSING + +<a href="p12.htm#ch31">CHAPTER XXXI</a> +OF THE DELECTABLE DISCUSSION BETWEEN DON QUIXOTE AND SANCHO PANZA, +HIS SQUIRE, TOGETHER WITH OTHER INCIDENTS + +<a href="p12.htm#ch32">CHAPTER XXXII</a> +WHICH TREATS OF WHAT BEFELL DON QUIXOTE'S PARTY AT THE INN + +<a href="p13.htm#ch33">CHAPTER XXXIII</a> +IN WHICH IS RELATED THE NOVEL OF "THE ILL-ADVISED CURIOSITY" + +<a href="p13.htm#ch34">CHAPTER XXXIV</a> +IN WHICH IS CONTINUED THE NOVEL OF "THE ILL-ADVISED CURIOSITY" + +<a href="p13.htm#ch35">CHAPTER XXXV</a> +WHICH TREATS OF THE HEROIC AND PRODIGIOUS BATTLE DON QUIXOTE HAD +WITH CERTAIN SKINS OF RED WINE, AND BRINGS THE NOVEL OF "THE +ILL-ADVISED CURIOSITY" TO A CLOSE + +<a href="p13.htm#ch36">CHAPTER XXXVI</a> +WHICH TREATS OF MORE CURIOUS INCIDENTS THAT OCCURRED AT THE INN + +<a href="p13.htm#ch37">CHAPTER XXXVII</a> +IN WHICH IS CONTINUED THE STORY OF THE FAMOUS PRINCESS MICOMICONA, +WITH OTHER DROLL ADVENTURES + +<a href="p13.htm#ch38">CHAPTER XXXVIII</a> +WHICH TREATS OF THE CURIOUS DISCOURSE DON QUIXOTE DELIVERED ON +ARMS AND LETTERS + +<a href="p13.htm#ch39">CHAPTER XXXIX</a> +WHEREIN THE CAPTIVE RELATES HIS LIFE AND ADVENTURES + +<a href="p13.htm#ch40">CHAPTER XL</a> +IN WHICH THE STORY OF THE CAPTIVE IS CONTINUED. + +<a href="p14.htm#ch41">CHAPTER XLI</a> +IN WHICH THE CAPTIVE STILL CONTINUES HIS ADVENTURES + +<a href="p15.htm#ch42">CHAPTER XLII</a> +WHICH TREATS OF WHAT FURTHER TOOK PLACE IN THE INN, AND OF +SEVERAL OTHER THINGS WORTH KNOWING + +<a href="p15.htm#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="p15.htm#ch44">CHAPTER XLIV</a> +IN WHICH ARE CONTINUED THE UNHEARD-OF ADVENTURES OF THE INN + +<a href="p15.htm#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="p15.htm#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 + +<a href="p16.htm#ch47">CHAPTER XLVII</a> +OF THE STRANGE MANNER IN WHICH DON QUIXOTE OF LA MANCHA WAS +CARRIED AWAY ENCHANTED, TOGETHER WITH OTHER REMARKABLE INCIDENTS + +<a href="p16.htm#ch48">CHAPTER XLVIII</a> +IN WHICH THE CANON PURSUES THE SUBJECT OF THE BOOKS OF CHIVALRY, +WITH OTHER MATTERS WORTHY OF HIS WIT + +<a href="p16.htm#ch49">CHAPTER XLIX</a> +WHICH TREATS OF THE SHREWD CONVERSATION WHICH SANCHO PANZA HELD +WITH HIS MASTER DON QUIXOTE + +<a href="p17.htm#ch50">CHAPTER L</a> +OF THE SHREWD CONTROVERSY WHICH DON QUIXOTE AND THE CANON HELD, +TOGETHER WITH OTHER INCIDENTS + +<a href="p18.htm#ch51">CHAPTER LI</a> +WHICH DEALS WITH WHAT THE GOATHERD TOLD THOSE WHO WERE CARRYING +OFF DON QUIXOTE + +<a href="p18.htm#ch52">CHAPTER LII</a> +OF THE QUARREL THAT DON QUIXOTE HAD WITH THE GOATHERD, TOGETHER +WITH NTHE RARE ADVENTURE OF THE PENITENTS, WHICH WITH AN +EXPENDITURE OF SWEAT HE BROUGHT TO A HAPPY CONCLUSION + +</pre> + + + +<br><br><br><br> + + +<center> +<table summary="" cellPadding=6 border=4> +<tr><td> + <a href="p1.htm"><b>BEGIN VOLUME ONE</b></a> </td></tr><tr><td> + <a href="#contents"><b>CONTENTS OF VOLUME ONE</b></a> </td></tr><tr><td> + <a href="http://www.gutenberg.net/5/9/4/5946/5946-h/5946-h.htm"><b>LINK TO VOLUME TWO</b></a> +</td></tr> +</table> +</center> + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The History of Don Quixote, Vol. I, +Complete, by Miguel de Cervantes + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DON QUIXOTE, VOLUME I. *** + +***** This file should be named 5921-h.htm or 5921-h.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.net/5/9/2/5921/ + +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. Special rules, +set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to +copying and distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to +protect the PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm concept and trademark. Project +Gutenberg is a registered trademark, and may not be used if you +charge for the eBooks, unless you receive specific permission. If you +do not charge anything for copies of this eBook, complying with the +rules is very easy. You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose +such as creation of derivative works, reports, performances and +research. They may be modified and printed and given away--you may do +practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks. Redistribution is +subject to the trademark license, especially commercial +redistribution. + + + +*** START: FULL LICENSE *** + +THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE +PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE YOU DISTRIBUTE OR USE THIS WORK + +To protect the Project Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting the free +distribution of electronic works, by using or distributing this work +(or any other work associated in any way with the phrase "Project +Gutenberg"), you agree to comply with all the terms of the Full Project +Gutenberg-tm License (available with this file or online at +http://gutenberg.net/license). + + +Section 1. General Terms of Use and Redistributing Project Gutenberg-tm +electronic works + +1.A. By reading or using any part of this Project Gutenberg-tm +electronic work, you indicate that you have read, understand, agree to +and accept all the terms of this license and intellectual property +(trademark/copyright) agreement. If you do not agree to abide by all +the terms of this agreement, you must cease using and return or destroy +all copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in your possession. +If you paid a fee for obtaining a copy of or access to a Project +Gutenberg-tm electronic work and you do not agree to be bound by the +terms of this agreement, you may obtain a refund from the person or +entity to whom you paid the fee as set forth in paragraph 1.E.8. + +1.B. "Project Gutenberg" is a registered trademark. It may only be +used on or associated in any way with an electronic work by people who +agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement. There are a few +things that you can do with most Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works +even without complying with the full terms of this agreement. See +paragraph 1.C below. There are a lot of things you can do with Project +Gutenberg-tm electronic works if you follow the terms of this agreement +and help preserve free future access to Project Gutenberg-tm electronic +works. See paragraph 1.E below. + +1.C. The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation ("the Foundation" +or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of Project +Gutenberg-tm electronic works. Nearly all the individual works in the +collection are in the public domain in the United States. If an +individual work is in the public domain in the United States and you are +located in the United States, we do not claim a right to prevent you from +copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating derivative +works based on the work as long as all references to Project Gutenberg +are removed. Of course, we hope that you will support the Project +Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting free access to electronic works by +freely sharing Project Gutenberg-tm works in compliance with the terms of +this agreement for keeping the Project Gutenberg-tm name associated with +the work. You can easily comply with the terms of this agreement by +keeping this work in the same format with its attached full Project +Gutenberg-tm License when you share it without charge with others. + +1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern +what you can do with this work. Copyright laws in most countries are in +a constant state of change. If you are outside the United States, check +the laws of your country in addition to the terms of this agreement +before downloading, copying, displaying, performing, distributing or +creating derivative works based on this work or any other Project +Gutenberg-tm work. The Foundation makes no representations concerning +the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United +States. + +1.E. Unless you have removed all references to Project Gutenberg: + +1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate +access to, the full Project Gutenberg-tm License must appear prominently +whenever any copy of a Project Gutenberg-tm work (any work on which the +phrase "Project Gutenberg" appears, or with which the phrase "Project +Gutenberg" is associated) is accessed, displayed, performed, viewed, +copied or distributed: + +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.net + +1.E.2. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived +from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is +posted with permission of the copyright holder), the work can be copied +and distributed to anyone in the United States without paying any fees +or charges. If you are redistributing or providing access to a work +with the phrase "Project Gutenberg" associated with or appearing on the +work, you must comply either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.E.1 +through 1.E.7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the +Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.E.8 or +1.E.9. + +1.E.3. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted +with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution +must comply with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 and any additional +terms imposed by the copyright holder. Additional terms will be linked +to the Project Gutenberg-tm License for all works posted with the +permission of the copyright holder found at the beginning of this work. + +1.E.4. Do not unlink or detach or remove the full Project Gutenberg-tm +License terms from this work, or any files containing a part of this +work or any other work associated with Project Gutenberg-tm. + +1.E.5. Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this +electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without +prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with +active links or immediate access to the full terms of the Project +Gutenberg-tm License. + +1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, +compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any +word processing or hypertext form. However, if you provide access to or +distribute copies of a Project Gutenberg-tm work in a format other than +"Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other format used in the official version +posted on the official Project Gutenberg-tm web site (www.gutenberg.net), +you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a +copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon +request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other +form. Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm +License as specified in paragraph 1.E.1. + +1.E.7. Do not charge a fee for access to, viewing, displaying, +performing, copying or distributing any Project Gutenberg-tm works +unless you comply with paragraph 1.E.8 or 1.E.9. + +1.E.8. You may charge a reasonable fee for copies of or providing +access to or distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works provided +that + +- You pay a royalty fee of 20% of the gross profits you derive from + the use of Project Gutenberg-tm works calculated using the method + you already use to calculate your applicable taxes. The fee is + owed to the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark, but he + has agreed to donate royalties under this paragraph to the + Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation. Royalty payments + must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you + prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your periodic tax + returns. Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such and + sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation at the + address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to + the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation." + +- You provide a full refund of any money paid by a user who notifies + you in writing (or by e-mail) within 30 days of receipt that s/he + does not agree to the terms of the full Project Gutenberg-tm + License. You must require such a user to return or + destroy all copies of the works possessed in a physical medium + and discontinue all use of and all access to other copies of + Project Gutenberg-tm works. + +- You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any + money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the + electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days + of receipt of the work. + +- You comply with all other terms of this agreement for free + distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm works. + +1.E.9. If you wish to charge a fee or distribute a Project Gutenberg-tm +electronic work or group of works on different terms than are set +forth in this agreement, you must obtain permission in writing from +both the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation and Michael +Hart, the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark. Contact the +Foundation as set forth in Section 3 below. + +1.F. + +1.F.1. Project Gutenberg volunteers and employees expend considerable +effort to identify, do copyright research on, transcribe and proofread +public domain works in creating the Project Gutenberg-tm +collection. Despite these efforts, Project Gutenberg-tm electronic +works, and the medium on which they may be stored, may contain +"Defects," such as, but not limited to, incomplete, inaccurate or +corrupt data, transcription errors, a copyright or other intellectual +property infringement, a defective or damaged disk or other medium, a +computer virus, or computer codes that damage or cannot be read by +your equipment. + +1.F.2. LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right +of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.F.3, the Project +Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, the owner of the Project +Gutenberg-tm trademark, and any other party distributing a Project +Gutenberg-tm electronic work under this agreement, disclaim all +liability to you for damages, costs and expenses, including legal +fees. YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT +LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE +PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH F3. YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE +TRADEMARK OWNER, AND ANY DISTRIBUTOR UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT BE +LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR +INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH +DAMAGE. + +1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a +defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can +receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a +written explanation to the person you received the work from. If you +received the work on a physical medium, you must return the medium with +your written explanation. The person or entity that provided you with +the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a +refund. If you received the work electronically, the person or entity +providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to +receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy +is also defective, you may demand a refund in writing without further +opportunities to fix the problem. + +1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth +in paragraph 1.F.3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER +WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO +WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE. + +1.F.5. Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied +warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages. +If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the +law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be +interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by +the applicable state law. The invalidity or unenforceability of any +provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions. + +1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the +trademark owner, any agent or employee of the Foundation, anyone +providing copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in accordance +with this agreement, and any volunteers associated with the production, +promotion and distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works, +harmless from all liability, costs and expenses, including legal fees, +that arise directly or indirectly from any of the following which you do +or cause to occur: (a) distribution of this or any Project Gutenberg-tm +work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any +Project Gutenberg-tm work, and (c) any Defect you cause. + + +Section 2. Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm + +Project Gutenberg-tm is synonymous with the free distribution of +electronic works in formats readable by the widest variety of computers +including obsolete, old, middle-aged and new computers. It exists +because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and donations from +people in all walks of life. + +Volunteers and financial support to provide volunteers with the +assistance they need, is critical to reaching Project Gutenberg-tm's +goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will +remain freely available for generations to come. In 2001, the Project +Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation was created to provide a secure +and permanent future for Project Gutenberg-tm and future generations. +To learn more about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation +and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4 +and the Foundation web page at http://www.pglaf.org. + + +Section 3. Information about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive +Foundation + +The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation is a non profit +501(c)(3) educational corporation organized under the laws of the +state of Mississippi and granted tax exempt status by the Internal +Revenue Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification +number is 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at +http://pglaf.org/fundraising. Contributions to the Project Gutenberg +Literary Archive Foundation are tax deductible to the full extent +permitted by U.S. federal laws and your state's laws. + +The Foundation's principal office is located at 4557 Melan Dr. S. +Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered +throughout numerous locations. Its business office is located at +809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email +business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact +information can be found at the Foundation's web site and official +page at http://pglaf.org + +For additional contact information: + Dr. Gregory B. Newby + Chief Executive and Director + gbnewby@pglaf.org + + +Section 4. Information about Donations to the Project Gutenberg +Literary Archive Foundation + +Project Gutenberg-tm depends upon and cannot survive without wide +spread public support and donations to carry out its mission of +increasing the number of public domain and licensed works that can be +freely distributed in machine readable form accessible by the widest +array of equipment including outdated equipment. Many small donations +($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to maintaining tax exempt +status with the IRS. + +The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating +charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United +States. Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a +considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up +with these requirements. We do not solicit donations in locations +where we have not received written confirmation of compliance. To +SEND DONATIONS or determine the status of compliance for any +particular state visit http://pglaf.org + +While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we +have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition +against accepting unsolicited donations from donors in such states who +approach us with offers to donate. + +International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make +any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from +outside the United States. U.S. laws alone swamp our small staff. + +Please check the Project Gutenberg Web pages for current donation +methods and addresses. Donations are accepted in a number of other +ways including including checks, online payments and credit card +donations. To donate, please visit: http://pglaf.org/donate + + +Section 5. General Information About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic +works. + +Professor Michael S. Hart is the originator of the Project Gutenberg-tm +concept of a library of electronic works that could be freely shared +with anyone. For thirty years, he produced and distributed Project +Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support. + + +Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed +editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the U.S. +unless a copyright notice is included. Thus, we do not necessarily +keep eBooks in compliance with any particular paper edition. + + +Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: + + http://www.gutenberg.net + +This Web site includes information about Project Gutenberg-tm, +including how to make donations to the Project Gutenberg Literary +Archive Foundation, how to help produce our new eBooks, and how to +subscribe to our email newsletter to hear about new eBooks. + + +</pre> + +</body> +</html> + + diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/p1.htm b/old/orig5921-h/p1.htm new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6151550 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/p1.htm @@ -0,0 +1,2924 @@ +<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> +<html> +<head> +<title>THE HISTORY OF DON QUIXOTE, By Cervantes, Vol. I, Part 1.</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> + +<center> +<table summary="" cellPadding=4 border=3> +<tr><td> + <a href="p2.htm">Next Part</a> +</td><td> + <a href="5921-h.htm">Main Index</a> + </td></tr> +</table> +</center> +<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 1. +<br><br> +Chapters 1-3 +</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> + + +<center> +<h4>Ebook Editor's Note</h4> +</center> +<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 "Full Size" 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="#ch1">CHAPTER I</a> +WHICH TREATS OF THE CHARACTER AND PURSUITS OF THE FAMOUS GENTLEMAN +DON QUIXOTE OF LA MANCHA + +<a href="#ch2">CHAPTER II</a> +WHICH TREATS OF THE FIRST SALLY THE INGENIOUS DON QUIXOTE MADE +FROM HOME + +<a href="#ch3">CHAPTER III</a> +WHEREIN IS RELATED THE DROLL WAY IN WHICH DON QUIXOTE HAD HIMSELF +DUBBED A KNIGHT + +</pre> + +<br><br><br><br> + +<center> +<h2>TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE</h2> +</center> +<br><br> + + +<h3>I: ABOUT THIS TRANSLATION</h3> + +<p> +It was with considerable reluctance that I abandoned in favour of +the present undertaking what had long been a favourite project: that +of a new edition of Shelton's "Don Quixote," which has now become a +somewhat scarce book. There are some—and I confess myself to be +one—for whom Shelton's racy old version, with all its defects, has +a charm that no modern translation, however skilful or correct, +could possess. Shelton had the inestimable advantage of belonging to +the same generation as Cervantes; "Don Quixote" had to him a +vitality that only a contemporary could feel; it cost him no +dramatic effort to see things as Cervantes saw them; there is no +anachronism in his language; he put the Spanish of Cervantes into +the English of Shakespeare. Shakespeare himself most likely knew the +book; he may have carried it home with him in his saddle-bags to +Stratford on one of his last journeys, and under the mulberry tree +at New Place joined hands with a kindred genius in its pages.</p> + +<p>But it was soon made plain to me that to hope for even a moderate +popularity for Shelton was vain. His fine old crusted English would, +no doubt, be relished by a minority, but it would be only by a +minority. His warmest admirers must admit that he is not a +satisfactory representative of Cervantes. His translation of the First +Part was very hastily made and was never revised by him. It has all +the freshness and vigour, but also a full measure of the faults, of +a hasty production. It is often very literal—barbarously literal +frequently—but just as often very loose. He had evidently a good +colloquial knowledge of Spanish, but apparently not much more. It +never seems to occur to him that the same translation of a word will +not suit in every case.</p> + +<p>It is often said that we have no satisfactory translation of "Don +Quixote." To those who are familiar with the original, it savours of +truism or platitude to say so, for in truth there can be no thoroughly +satisfactory translation of "Don Quixote" into English or any other +language. It is not that the Spanish idioms are so utterly +unmanageable, or that the untranslatable words, numerous enough no +doubt, are so superabundant, but rather that the sententious terseness +to which the humour of the book owes its flavour is peculiar to +Spanish, and can at best be only distantly imitated in any other +tongue.</p> + +<p>The history of our English translations of "Don Quixote" is +instructive. Shelton's, the first in any language, was made, +apparently, about 1608, but not published till 1612. This of course +was only the First Part. It has been asserted that the Second, +published in 1620, is not the work of Shelton, but there is nothing to +support the assertion save the fact that it has less spirit, less of +what we generally understand by "go," about it than the first, which +would be only natural if the first were the work of a young man +writing currente calamo, and the second that of a middle-aged man +writing for a bookseller. On the other hand, it is closer and more +literal, the style is the same, the very same translations, or +mistranslations, occur in it, and it is extremely unlikely that a +new translator would, by suppressing his name, have allowed Shelton to +carry off the credit.</p> + +<p>In 1687 John Phillips, Milton's nephew, produced a "Don Quixote" +"made English," he says, "according to the humour of our modern +language." His "Quixote" is not so much a translation as a travesty, +and a travesty that for coarseness, vulgarity, and buffoonery is +almost unexampled even in the literature of that day.</p> + +<p>Ned Ward's "Life and Notable Adventures of Don Quixote, merrily +translated into Hudibrastic Verse" (1700), can scarcely be reckoned +a translation, but it serves to show the light in which "Don +Quixote" was regarded at the time.</p> + +<p>A further illustration may be found in the version published in 1712 +by Peter Motteux, who had then recently combined tea-dealing with +literature. It is described as "translated from the original by +several hands," but if so all Spanish flavour has entirely +evaporated under the manipulation of the several hands. The flavour +that it has, on the other hand, is distinctly Franco-cockney. Anyone +who compares it carefully with the original will have little doubt +that it is a concoction from Shelton and the French of Filleau de +Saint Martin, eked out by borrowings from Phillips, whose mode of +treatment it adopts. It is, to be sure, more decent and decorous, +but it treats "Don Quixote" in the same fashion as a comic book that +cannot be made too comic.</p> + +<p>To attempt to improve the humour of "Don Quixote" by an infusion +of cockney flippancy and facetiousness, as Motteux's operators did, is +not merely an impertinence like larding a sirloin of prize beef, but +an absolute falsification of the spirit of the book, and it is a proof +of the uncritical way in which "Don Quixote" is generally read that +this worse than worthless translation—worthless as failing to +represent, worse than worthless as misrepresenting—should have been +favoured as it has been.</p> + +<p>It had the effect, however, of bringing out a translation undertaken +and executed in a very different spirit, that of Charles Jervas, the +portrait painter, and friend of Pope, Swift, Arbuthnot, and Gay. +Jervas has been allowed little credit for his work, indeed it may be +said none, for it is known to the world in general as Jarvis's. It was +not published until after his death, and the printers gave the name +according to the current pronunciation of the day. It has been the +most freely used and the most freely abused of all the translations. +It has seen far more editions than any other, it is admitted on all +hands to be by far the most faithful, and yet nobody seems to have a +good word to say for it or for its author. Jervas no doubt +prejudiced readers against himself in his preface, where among many +true words about Shelton, Stevens, and Motteux, he rashly and unjustly +charges Shelton with having translated not from the Spanish, but +from the Italian version of Franciosini, which did not appear until +ten years after Shelton's first volume. A suspicion of incompetence, +too, seems to have attached to him because he was by profession a +painter and a mediocre one (though he has given us the best portrait +we have of Swift), and this may have been strengthened by Pope's +remark that he "translated 'Don Quixote' without understanding +Spanish." He has been also charged with borrowing from Shelton, whom +he disparaged. It is true that in a few difficult or obscure +passages he has followed Shelton, and gone astray with him; but for +one case of this sort, there are fifty where he is right and Shelton +wrong. As for Pope's dictum, anyone who examines Jervas's version +carefully, side by side with the original, will see that he was a +sound Spanish scholar, incomparably a better one than Shelton, +except perhaps in mere colloquial Spanish. He was, in fact, an honest, +faithful, and painstaking translator, and he has left a version which, +whatever its shortcomings may be, is singularly free from errors and +mistranslations.</p> + +<p>The charge against it is that it is stiff, dry—"wooden" in a +word,—and no one can deny that there is a foundation for it. But it may be +pleaded for Jervas that a good deal of this rigidity is due to his +abhorrence of the light, flippant, jocose style of his predecessors. +He was one of the few, very few, translators that have shown any +apprehension of the unsmiling gravity which is the essence of Quixotic +humour; it seemed to him a crime to bring Cervantes forward smirking +and grinning at his own good things, and to this may be attributed +in a great measure the ascetic abstinence from everything savouring of +liveliness which is the characteristic of his translation. In most +modern editions, it should be observed, his style has been smoothed +and smartened, but without any reference to the original Spanish, so +that if he has been made to read more agreeably he has also been +robbed of his chief merit of fidelity.</p> + +<p>Smollett's version, published in 1755, may be almost counted as +one of these. At any rate it is plain that in its construction +Jervas's translation was very freely drawn upon, and very little or +probably no heed given to the original Spanish.</p> + +<p>The later translations may be dismissed in a few words. George +Kelly's, which appeared in 1769, "printed for the Translator," was +an impudent imposture, being nothing more than Motteux's version +with a few of the words, here and there, artfully transposed; +Charles Wilmot's (1774) was only an abridgment like Florian's, but not +so skilfully executed; and the version published by Miss Smirke in +1818, to accompany her brother's plates, was merely a patchwork +production made out of former translations. On the latest, Mr. A. J. +Duffield's, it would be in every sense of the word impertinent in me +to offer an opinion here. I had not even seen it when the present +undertaking was proposed to me, and since then I may say vidi +tantum, having for obvious reasons resisted the temptation which Mr. +Duffield's reputation and comely volumes hold out to every lover of +Cervantes.</p> + +<p>From the foregoing history of our translations of "Don Quixote," +it will be seen that there are a good many people who, provided they +get the mere narrative with its full complement of facts, incidents, +and adventures served up to them in a form that amuses them, care very +little whether that form is the one in which Cervantes originally +shaped his ideas. On the other hand, it is clear that there are many +who desire to have not merely the story he tells, but the story as +he tells it, so far at least as differences of idiom and circumstances +permit, and who will give a preference to the conscientious +translator, even though he may have acquitted himself somewhat +awkwardly.</p> + +<p>But after all there is no real antagonism between the two classes; +there is no reason why what pleases the one should not please the +other, or why a translator who makes it his aim to treat "Don Quixote" +with the respect due to a great classic, should not be as acceptable +even to the careless reader as the one who treats it as a famous old +jest-book. It is not a question of caviare to the general, or, if it +is, the fault rests with him who makes so. The method by which +Cervantes won the ear of the Spanish people ought, mutatis mutandis, +to be equally effective with the great majority of English readers. At +any rate, even if there are readers to whom it is a matter of +indifference, fidelity to the method is as much a part of the +translator's duty as fidelity to the matter. If he can please all +parties, so much the better; but his first duty is to those who look +to him for as faithful a representation of his author as it is in +his power to give them, faithful to the letter so long as fidelity +is practicable, faithful to the spirit so far as he can make it.</p> + +<p>My purpose here is not to dogmatise on the rules of translation, but +to indicate those I have followed, or at least tried to the best of my +ability to follow, in the present instance. One which, it seems to me, +cannot be too rigidly followed in translating "Don Quixote," is to +avoid everything that savours of affectation. The book itself is, +indeed, in one sense a protest against it, and no man abhorred it more +than Cervantes. For this reason, I think, any temptation to use +antiquated or obsolete language should be resisted. It is after all an +affectation, and one for which there is no warrant or excuse. +Spanish has probably undergone less change since the seventeenth +century than any language in Europe, and by far the greater and +certainly the best part of "Don Quixote" differs but little in +language from the colloquial Spanish of the present day. Except in the +tales and Don Quixote's speeches, the translator who uses the simplest +and plainest everyday language will almost always be the one who +approaches nearest to the original.</p> + +<p>Seeing that the story of "Don Quixote" and all its characters and +incidents have now been for more than two centuries and a half +familiar as household words in English mouths, it seems to me that the +old familiar names and phrases should not be changed without good +reason. Of course a translator who holds that "Don Quixote" should +receive the treatment a great classic deserves, will feel himself +bound by the injunction laid upon the Morisco in Chap. IX not to +omit or add anything.</p> + +<p> +II: ABOUT CERVANTES AND DON QUIXOTE</p> + +<p> +Four generations had laughed over "Don Quixote" before it occurred +to anyone to ask, who and what manner of man was this Miguel de +Cervantes Saavedra whose name is on the title-page; and it was too +late for a satisfactory answer to the question when it was proposed to +add a life of the author to the London edition published at Lord +Carteret's instance in 1738. All traces of the personality of +Cervantes had by that time disappeared. Any floating traditions that +may once have existed, transmitted from men who had known him, had +long since died out, and of other record there was none; for the +sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were incurious as to "the men of +the time," a reproach against which the nineteenth has, at any rate, +secured itself, if it has produced no Shakespeare or Cervantes. All +that Mayans y Siscar, to whom the task was entrusted, or any of +those who followed him, Rios, Pellicer, or Navarrete, could do was +to eke out the few allusions Cervantes makes to himself in his various +prefaces with such pieces of documentary evidence bearing upon his +life as they could find.</p> + +<p>This, however, has been done by the last-named biographer to such +good purpose that he has superseded all predecessors. Thoroughness +is the chief characteristic of Navarrete's work. Besides sifting, +testing, and methodising with rare patience and judgment what had been +previously brought to light, he left, as the saying is, no stone +unturned under which anything to illustrate his subject might possibly +be found. Navarrete has done all that industry and acumen could do, +and it is no fault of his if he has not given us what we want. What +Hallam says of Shakespeare may be applied to the almost parallel +case of Cervantes: "It is not the register of his baptism, or the +draft of his will, or the orthography of his name that we seek; no +letter of his writing, no record of his conversation, no character +of him drawn ... by a contemporary has been produced."</p> + +<p>It is only natural, therefore, that the biographers of Cervantes, +forced to make brick without straw, should have recourse largely to +conjecture, and that conjecture should in some instances come by +degrees to take the place of established fact. All that I propose to +do here is to separate what is matter of fact from what is matter of +conjecture, and leave it to the reader's judgment to decide whether +the data justify the inference or not.</p> + +<p>The men whose names by common consent stand in the front rank of +Spanish literature, Cervantes, Lope de Vega, Quevedo, Calderon, +Garcilaso de la Vega, the Mendozas, Gongora, were all men of ancient +families, and, curiously, all, except the last, of families that +traced their origin to the same mountain district in the North of +Spain. The family of Cervantes is commonly said to have been of +Galician origin, and unquestionably it was in possession of lands in +Galicia at a very early date; but I think the balance of the +evidence tends to show that the "solar," the original site of the +family, was at Cervatos in the north-west corner of Old Castile, close +to the junction of Castile, Leon, and the Asturias. As it happens, +there is a complete history of the Cervantes family from the tenth +century down to the seventeenth extant under the title of "Illustrious +Ancestry, Glorious Deeds, and Noble Posterity of the Famous Nuno +Alfonso, Alcaide of Toledo," written in 1648 by the industrious +genealogist Rodrigo Mendez Silva, who availed himself of a +manuscript genealogy by Juan de Mena, the poet laureate and +historiographer of John II.</p> + +<p>The origin of the name Cervantes is curious. Nuno Alfonso was almost +as distinguished in the struggle against the Moors in the reign of +Alfonso VII as the Cid had been half a century before in that of +Alfonso VI, and was rewarded by divers grants of land in the +neighbourhood of Toledo. On one of his acquisitions, about two leagues +from the city, he built himself a castle which he called Cervatos, +because "he was lord of the solar of Cervatos in the Montana," as +the mountain region extending from the Basque Provinces to Leon was +always called. At his death in battle in 1143, the castle passed by +his will to his son Alfonso Munio, who, as territorial or local +surnames were then coming into vogue in place of the simple +patronymic, took the additional name of Cervatos. His eldest son Pedro +succeeded him in the possession of the castle, and followed his +example in adopting the name, an assumption at which the younger +son, Gonzalo, seems to have taken umbrage.</p> + +<p>Everyone who has paid even a flying visit to Toledo will remember +the ruined castle that crowns the hill above the spot where the bridge +of Alcantara spans the gorge of the Tagus, and with its broken outline +and crumbling walls makes such an admirable pendant to the square +solid Alcazar towering over the city roofs on the opposite side. It +was built, or as some say restored, by Alfonso VI shortly after his +occupation of Toledo in 1085, and called by him San Servando after a +Spanish martyr, a name subsequently modified into San Servan (in which +form it appears in the "Poem of the Cid"), San Servantes, and San +Cervantes: with regard to which last the "Handbook for Spain" warns +its readers against the supposition that it has anything to do with +the author of "Don Quixote." Ford, as all know who have taken him +for a companion and counsellor on the roads of Spain, is seldom +wrong in matters of literature or history. In this instance, +however, he is in error. It has everything to do with the author of +"Don Quixote," for it is in fact these old walls that have given to +Spain the name she is proudest of to-day. Gonzalo, above mentioned, it +may be readily conceived, did not relish the appropriation by his +brother of a name to which he himself had an equal right, for though +nominally taken from the castle, it was in reality derived from the +ancient territorial possession of the family, and as a set-off, and to +distinguish himself (diferenciarse) from his brother, he took as a +surname the name of the castle on the bank of the Tagus, in the +building of which, according to a family tradition, his +great-grandfather had a share.</p> + +<p>Both brothers founded families. The Cervantes branch had more +tenacity; it sent offshoots in various directions, Andalusia, +Estremadura, Galicia, and Portugal, and produced a goodly line of +men distinguished in the service of Church and State. Gonzalo himself, +and apparently a son of his, followed Ferdinand III in the great +campaign of 1236-48 that gave Cordova and Seville to Christian Spain +and penned up the Moors in the kingdom of Granada, and his descendants +intermarried with some of the noblest families of the Peninsula and +numbered among them soldiers, magistrates, and Church dignitaries, +including at least two cardinal-archbishops.</p> + +<p>Of the line that settled in Andalusia, Deigo de Cervantes, +Commander of the Order of Santiago, married Juana Avellaneda, daughter +of Juan Arias de Saavedra, and had several sons, of whom one was +Gonzalo Gomez, Corregidor of Jerez and ancestor of the Mexican and +Columbian branches of the family; and another, Juan, whose son Rodrigo +married Dona Leonor de Cortinas, and by her had four children, +Rodrigo, Andrea, Luisa, and Miguel, our author.</p> + +<p>The pedigree of Cervantes is not without its bearing on "Don +Quixote." A man who could look back upon an ancestry of genuine +knights-errant extending from well-nigh the time of Pelayo to the +siege of Granada was likely to have a strong feeling on the subject of +the sham chivalry of the romances. It gives a point, too, to what he +says in more than one place about families that have once been great +and have tapered away until they have come to nothing, like a pyramid. +It was the case of his own.</p> + +<p>He was born at Alcala de Henares and baptised in the church of Santa +Maria Mayor on the 9th of October, 1547. Of his boyhood and youth we +know nothing, unless it be from the glimpse he gives us in the preface +to his "Comedies" of himself as a boy looking on with delight while +Lope de Rueda and his company set up their rude plank stage in the +plaza and acted the rustic farces which he himself afterwards took +as the model of his interludes. This first glimpse, however, is a +significant one, for it shows the early development of that love of +the drama which exercised such an influence on his life and seems to +have grown stronger as he grew older, and of which this very +preface, written only a few months before his death, is such a +striking proof. He gives us to understand, too, that he was a great +reader in his youth; but of this no assurance was needed, for the +First Part of "Don Quixote" alone proves a vast amount of +miscellaneous reading, romances of chivalry, ballads, popular +poetry, chronicles, for which he had no time or opportunity except +in the first twenty years of his life; and his misquotations and +mistakes in matters of detail are always, it may be noticed, those +of a man recalling the reading of his boyhood.</p> + +<p>Other things besides the drama were in their infancy when +Cervantes was a boy. The period of his boyhood was in every way a +transition period for Spain. The old chivalrous Spain had passed away. +The new Spain was the mightiest power the world had seen since the +Roman Empire and it had not yet been called upon to pay the price of +its greatness. By the policy of Ferdinand and Ximenez the sovereign +had been made absolute, and the Church and Inquisition adroitly +adjusted to keep him so. The nobles, who had always resisted +absolutism as strenuously as they had fought the Moors, had been +divested of all political power, a like fate had befallen the +cities, the free constitutions of Castile and Aragon had been swept +away, and the only function that remained to the Cortes was that of +granting money at the King's dictation.</p> + +<p>The transition extended to literature. Men who, like Garcilaso de la +Vega and Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, followed the Italian wars, had +brought back from Italy the products of the post-Renaissance +literature, which took root and flourished and even threatened to +extinguish the native growths. Damon and Thyrsis, Phyllis and Chloe +had been fairly naturalised in Spain, together with all the devices of +pastoral poetry for investing with an air of novelty the idea of a +dispairing shepherd and inflexible shepherdess. As a set-off against +this, the old historical and traditional ballads, and the true +pastorals, the songs and ballads of peasant life, were being collected +assiduously and printed in the cancioneros that succeeded one +another with increasing rapidity. But the most notable consequence, +perhaps, of the spread of printing was the flood of romances of +chivalry that had continued to pour from the press ever since Garci +Ordonez de Montalvo had resuscitated "Amadis of Gaul" at the beginning +of the century.</p> + +<p>For a youth fond of reading, solid or light, there could have been +no better spot in Spain than Alcala de Henares in the middle of the +sixteenth century. It was then a busy, populous university town, +something more than the enterprising rival of Salamanca, and +altogether a very different place from the melancholy, silent, +deserted Alcala the traveller sees now as he goes from Madrid to +Saragossa. Theology and medicine may have been the strong points of +the university, but the town itself seems to have inclined rather to +the humanities and light literature, and as a producer of books Alcala +was already beginning to compete with the older presses of Toledo, +Burgos, Salamanca and Seville.</p> + +<p>A pendant to the picture Cervantes has given us of his first +playgoings might, no doubt, have been often seen in the streets of +Alcala at that time; a bright, eager, tawny-haired boy peering into +a book-shop where the latest volumes lay open to tempt the public, +wondering, it may be, what that little book with the woodcut of the +blind beggar and his boy, that called itself "Vida de Lazarillo de +Tormes, segunda impresion," could be about; or with eyes brimming over +with merriment gazing at one of those preposterous portraits of a +knight-errant in outrageous panoply and plumes with which the +publishers of chivalry romances loved to embellish the title-pages +of their folios. If the boy was the father of the man, the sense of +the incongruous that was strong at fifty was lively at ten, and some +such reflections as these may have been the true genesis of "Don +Quixote."</p> + +<p>For his more solid education, we are told, he went to Salamanca. But +why Rodrigo de Cervantes, who was very poor, should have sent his +son to a university a hundred and fifty miles away when he had one +at his own door, would be a puzzle, if we had any reason for supposing +that he did so. The only evidence is a vague statement by Professor +Tomas Gonzalez, that he once saw an old entry of the matriculation +of a Miguel de Cervantes. This does not appear to have been ever +seen again; but even if it had, and if the date corresponded, it would +prove nothing, as there were at least two other Miguels born about the +middle of the century; one of them, moreover, a Cervantes Saavedra, +a cousin, no doubt, who was a source of great embarrassment to the +biographers.</p> + +<p>That he was a student neither at Salamanca nor at Alcala is best +proved by his own works. No man drew more largely upon experience than +he did, and he has nowhere left a single reminiscence of student +life—for the "Tia Fingida," if it be his, is not one—nothing, not even +"a college joke," to show that he remembered days that most men +remember best. All that we know positively about his education is that +Juan Lopez de Hoyos, a professor of humanities and belles-lettres of +some eminence, calls him his "dear and beloved pupil." This was in a +little collection of verses by different hands on the death of +Isabel de Valois, second queen of Philip II, published by the +professor in 1569, to which Cervantes contributed four pieces, +including an elegy, and an epitaph in the form of a sonnet. It is only +by a rare chance that a "Lycidas" finds its way into a volume of +this sort, and Cervantes was no Milton. His verses are no worse than +such things usually are; so much, at least, may be said for them.</p> + +<p>By the time the book appeared he had left Spain, and, as fate +ordered it, for twelve years, the most eventful ones of his life. +Giulio, afterwards Cardinal, Acquaviva had been sent at the end of +1568 to Philip II by the Pope on a mission, partly of condolence, +partly political, and on his return to Rome, which was somewhat +brusquely expedited by the King, he took Cervantes with him as his +camarero (chamberlain), the office he himself held in the Pope's +household. The post would no doubt have led to advancement at the +Papal Court had Cervantes retained it, but in the summer of 1570 he +resigned it and enlisted as a private soldier in Captain Diego +Urbina's company, belonging to Don Miguel de Moncada's regiment, but +at that time forming a part of the command of Marc Antony Colonna. +What impelled him to this step we know not, whether it was distaste +for the career before him, or purely military enthusiasm. It may +well have been the latter, for it was a stirring time; the events, +however, which led to the alliance between Spain, Venice, and the +Pope, against the common enemy, the Porte, and to the victory of the +combined fleets at Lepanto, belong rather to the history of Europe +than to the life of Cervantes. He was one of those that sailed from +Messina, in September 1571, under the command of Don John of +Austria; but on the morning of the 7th of October, when the Turkish +fleet was sighted, he was lying below ill with fever. At the news that +the enemy was in sight he rose, and, in spite of the remonstrances +of his comrades and superiors, insisted on taking his post, saying +he preferred death in the service of God and the King to health. His +galley, the Marquesa, was in the thick of the fight, and before it was +over he had received three gunshot wounds, two in the breast and one +in the left hand or arm. On the morning after the battle, according to +Navarrete, he had an interview with the commander-in-chief, Don +John, who was making a personal inspection of the wounded, one +result of which was an addition of three crowns to his pay, and +another, apparently, the friendship of his general.</p> + +<p>How severely Cervantes was wounded may be inferred from the fact, +that with youth, a vigorous frame, and as cheerful and buoyant a +temperament as ever invalid had, he was seven months in hospital at +Messina before he was discharged. He came out with his left hand +permanently disabled; he had lost the use of it, as Mercury told him +in the "Viaje del Parnaso" for the greater glory of the right. This, +however, did not absolutely unfit him for service, and in April 1572 +he joined Manuel Ponce de Leon's company of Lope de Figueroa's +regiment, in which, it seems probable, his brother Rodrigo was +serving, and shared in the operations of the next three years, +including the capture of the Goletta and Tunis. Taking advantage of +the lull which followed the recapture of these places by the Turks, he +obtained leave to return to Spain, and sailed from Naples in September +1575 on board the Sun galley, in company with his brother Rodrigo, +Pedro Carrillo de Quesada, late Governor of the Goletta, and some +others, and furnished with letters from Don John of Austria and the +Duke of Sesa, the Viceroy of Sicily, recommending him to the King +for the command of a company, on account of his services; a dono +infelice as events proved. On the 26th they fell in with a squadron of +Algerine galleys, and after a stout resistance were overpowered and +carried into Algiers.</p> + +<p>By means of a ransomed fellow-captive the brothers contrived to +inform their family of their condition, and the poor people at +Alcala at once strove to raise the ransom money, the father +disposing of all he possessed, and the two sisters giving up their +marriage portions. But Dali Mami had found on Cervantes the letters +addressed to the King by Don John and the Duke of Sesa, and, +concluding that his prize must be a person of great consequence, +when the money came he refused it scornfully as being altogether +insufficient. The owner of Rodrigo, however, was more easily +satisfied; ransom was accepted in his case, and it was arranged +between the brothers that he should return to Spain and procure a +vessel in which he was to come back to Algiers and take off Miguel and +as many of their comrades as possible. This was not the first +attempt to escape that Cervantes had made. Soon after the commencement +of his captivity he induced several of his companions to join him in +trying to reach Oran, then a Spanish post, on foot; but after the +first day's journey, the Moor who had agreed to act as their guide +deserted them, and they had no choice but to return. The second +attempt was more disastrous. In a garden outside the city on the +sea-shore, he constructed, with the help of the gardener, a +Spaniard, a hiding-place, to which he brought, one by one, fourteen of +his fellow-captives, keeping them there in secrecy for several months, +and supplying them with food through a renegade known as El Dorador, +"the Gilder." How he, a captive himself, contrived to do all this, +is one of the mysteries of the story. Wild as the project may +appear, it was very nearly successful. The vessel procured by +Rodrigo made its appearance off the coast, and under cover of night +was proceeding to take off the refugees, when the crew were alarmed by +a passing fishing boat, and beat a hasty retreat. On renewing the +attempt shortly afterwards, they, or a portion of them at least, +were taken prisoners, and just as the poor fellows in the garden +were exulting in the thought that in a few moments more freedom +would be within their grasp, they found themselves surrounded by +Turkish troops, horse and foot. The Dorador had revealed the whole +scheme to the Dey Hassan.</p> + +<p>When Cervantes saw what had befallen them, he charged his companions +to lay all the blame upon him, and as they were being bound he +declared aloud that the whole plot was of his contriving, and that +nobody else had any share in it. Brought before the Dey, he said the +same. He was threatened with impalement and with torture; and as +cutting off ears and noses were playful freaks with the Algerines, +it may be conceived what their tortures were like; but nothing could +make him swerve from his original statement that he and he alone was +responsible. The upshot was that the unhappy gardener was hanged by +his master, and the prisoners taken possession of by the Dey, who, +however, afterwards restored most of them to their masters, but kept +Cervantes, paying Dali Mami 500 crowns for him. He felt, no doubt, +that a man of such resource, energy, and daring, was too dangerous a +piece of property to be left in private hands; and he had him +heavily ironed and lodged in his own prison. If he thought that by +these means he could break the spirit or shake the resolution of his +prisoner, he was soon undeceived, for Cervantes contrived before +long to despatch a letter to the Governor of Oran, entreating him to +send him some one that could be trusted, to enable him and three other +gentlemen, fellow-captives of his, to make their escape; intending +evidently to renew his first attempt with a more trustworthy guide. +Unfortunately the Moor who carried the letter was stopped just outside +Oran, and the letter being found upon him, he was sent back to +Algiers, where by the order of the Dey he was promptly impaled as a +warning to others, while Cervantes was condemned to receive two +thousand blows of the stick, a number which most likely would have +deprived the world of "Don Quixote," had not some persons, who they +were we know not, interceded on his behalf.</p> + +<p>After this he seems to have been kept in still closer confinement +than before, for nearly two years passed before he made another +attempt. This time his plan was to purchase, by the aid of a Spanish +renegade and two Valencian merchants resident in Algiers, an armed +vessel in which he and about sixty of the leading captives were to +make their escape; but just as they were about to put it into +execution one Doctor Juan Blanco de Paz, an ecclesiastic and a +compatriot, informed the Dey of the plot. Cervantes by force of +character, by his self-devotion, by his untiring energy and his +exertions to lighten the lot of his companions in misery, had endeared +himself to all, and become the leading spirit in the captive colony, +and, incredible as it may seem, jealousy of his influence and the +esteem in which he was held, moved this man to compass his destruction +by a cruel death. The merchants finding that the Dey knew all, and +fearing that Cervantes under torture might make disclosures that would +imperil their own lives, tried to persuade him to slip away on board a +vessel that was on the point of sailing for Spain; but he told them +they had nothing to fear, for no tortures would make him compromise +anybody, and he went at once and gave himself up to the Dey.</p> + +<p>As before, the Dey tried to force him to name his accomplices. +Everything was made ready for his immediate execution; the halter +was put round his neck and his hands tied behind him, but all that +could be got from him was that he himself, with the help of four +gentlemen who had since left Algiers, had arranged the whole, and that +the sixty who were to accompany him were not to know anything of it +until the last moment. Finding he could make nothing of him, the Dey +sent him back to prison more heavily ironed than before.</p> + +<p>The poverty-stricken Cervantes family had been all this time +trying once more to raise the ransom money, and at last a sum of three +hundred ducats was got together and entrusted to the Redemptorist +Father Juan Gil, who was about to sail for Algiers. The Dey, +however, demanded more than double the sum offered, and as his term of +office had expired and he was about to sail for Constantinople, taking +all his slaves with him, the case of Cervantes was critical. He was +already on board heavily ironed, when the Dey at length agreed to +reduce his demand by one-half, and Father Gil by borrowing was able to +make up the amount, and on September 19, 1580, after a captivity of +five years all but a week, Cervantes was at last set free. Before long +he discovered that Blanco de Paz, who claimed to be an officer of +the Inquisition, was now concocting on false evidence a charge of +misconduct to be brought against him on his return to Spain. To +checkmate him Cervantes drew up a series of twenty-five questions, +covering the whole period of his captivity, upon which he requested +Father Gil to take the depositions of credible witnesses before a +notary. Eleven witnesses taken from among the principal captives in +Algiers deposed to all the facts above stated and to a great deal more +besides. There is something touching in the admiration, love, and +gratitude we see struggling to find expression in the formal +language of the notary, as they testify one after another to the +good deeds of Cervantes, how he comforted and helped the weak-hearted, +how he kept up their drooping courage, how he shared his poor purse +with this deponent, and how "in him this deponent found father and +mother."</p> + +<p>On his return to Spain he found his old regiment about to march +for Portugal to support Philip's claim to the crown, and utterly +penniless now, had no choice but to rejoin it. He was in the +expeditions to the Azores in 1582 and the following year, and on the +conclusion of the war returned to Spain in the autumn of 1583, +bringing with him the manuscript of his pastoral romance, the +"Galatea," and probably also, to judge by internal evidence, that of +the first portion of "Persiles and Sigismunda." He also brought back +with him, his biographers assert, an infant daughter, the offspring of +an amour, as some of them with great circumstantiality inform us, with +a Lisbon lady of noble birth, whose name, however, as well as that +of the street she lived in, they omit to mention. The sole +foundation for all this is that in 1605 there certainly was living +in the family of Cervantes a Dona Isabel de Saavedra, who is described +in an official document as his natural daughter, and then twenty years +of age.</p> + +<p>With his crippled left hand promotion in the army was hopeless, +now that Don John was dead and he had no one to press his claims and +services, and for a man drawing on to forty life in the ranks was a +dismal prospect; he had already a certain reputation as a poet; he +made up his mind, therefore, to cast his lot with literature, and +for a first venture committed his "Galatea" to the press. It was +published, as Salva y Mallen shows conclusively, at Alcala, his own +birth-place, in 1585 and no doubt helped to make his name more +widely known, but certainly did not do him much good in any other way.</p> + +<p>While it was going through the press, he married Dona Catalina de +Palacios Salazar y Vozmediano, a lady of Esquivias near Madrid, and +apparently a friend of the family, who brought him a fortune which may +possibly have served to keep the wolf from the door, but if so, that +was all. The drama had by this time outgrown market-place stages and +strolling companies, and with his old love for it he naturally +turned to it for a congenial employment. In about three years he wrote +twenty or thirty plays, which he tells us were performed without any +throwing of cucumbers or other missiles, and ran their course +without any hisses, outcries, or disturbance. In other words, his +plays were not bad enough to be hissed off the stage, but not good +enough to hold their own upon it. Only two of them have been +preserved, but as they happen to be two of the seven or eight he +mentions with complacency, we may assume they are favourable +specimens, and no one who reads the "Numancia" and the "Trato de +Argel" will feel any surprise that they failed as acting dramas. +Whatever merits they may have, whatever occasional they may show, they +are, as regards construction, incurably clumsy. How completely they +failed is manifest from the fact that with all his sanguine +temperament and indomitable perseverance he was unable to maintain the +struggle to gain a livelihood as a dramatist for more than three +years; nor was the rising popularity of Lope the cause, as is often +said, notwithstanding his own words to the contrary. When Lope began +to write for the stage is uncertain, but it was certainly after +Cervantes went to Seville.</p> + +<p>Among the "Nuevos Documentos" printed by Senor Asensio y Toledo is +one dated 1592, and curiously characteristic of Cervantes. It is an +agreement with one Rodrigo Osorio, a manager, who was to accept six +comedies at fifty ducats (about 6l.) apiece, not to be paid in any +case unless it appeared on representation that the said comedy was one +of the best that had ever been represented in Spain. The test does not +seem to have been ever applied; perhaps it was sufficiently apparent +to Rodrigo Osorio that the comedies were not among the best that had +ever been represented. Among the correspondence of Cervantes there +might have been found, no doubt, more than one letter like that we see +in the "Rake's Progress," "Sir, I have read your play, and it will not +doo."</p> + +<p>He was more successful in a literary contest at Saragossa in 1595 in +honour of the canonisation of St. Jacinto, when his composition won +the first prize, three silver spoons. The year before this he had been +appointed a collector of revenues for the kingdom of Granada. In order +to remit the money he had collected more conveniently to the treasury, +he entrusted it to a merchant, who failed and absconded; and as the +bankrupt's assets were insufficient to cover the whole, he was sent to +prison at Seville in September 1597. The balance against him, however, +was a small one, about 26l., and on giving security for it he was +released at the end of the year.</p> + +<p>It was as he journeyed from town to town collecting the king's +taxes, that he noted down those bits of inn and wayside life and +character that abound in the pages of "Don Quixote:" the Benedictine +monks with spectacles and sunshades, mounted on their tall mules; +the strollers in costume bound for the next village; the barber with +his basin on his head, on his way to bleed a patient; the recruit with +his breeches in his bundle, tramping along the road singing; the +reapers gathered in the venta gateway listening to "Felixmarte of +Hircania" read out to them; and those little Hogarthian touches that +he so well knew how to bring in, the ox-tail hanging up with the +landlord's comb stuck in it, the wine-skins at the bed-head, and those +notable examples of hostelry art, Helen going off in high spirits on +Paris's arm, and Dido on the tower dropping tears as big as walnuts. +Nay, it may well be that on those journeys into remote regions he came +across now and then a specimen of the pauper gentleman, with his +lean hack and his greyhound and his books of chivalry, dreaming away +his life in happy ignorance that the world had changed since his +great-grandfather's old helmet was new. But it was in Seville that +he found out his true vocation, though he himself would not by any +means have admitted it to be so. It was there, in Triana, that he +was first tempted to try his hand at drawing from life, and first +brought his humour into play in the exquisite little sketch of +"Rinconete y Cortadillo," the germ, in more ways than one, of "Don +Quixote."</p> + +<p>Where and when that was written, we cannot tell. After his +imprisonment all trace of Cervantes in his official capacity +disappears, from which it may be inferred that he was not +reinstated. That he was still in Seville in November 1598 appears from +a satirical sonnet of his on the elaborate catafalque erected to +testify the grief of the city at the death of Philip II, but from this +up to 1603 we have no clue to his movements. The words in the +preface to the First Part of "Don Quixote" are generally held to be +conclusive that he conceived the idea of the book, and wrote the +beginning of it at least, in a prison, and that he may have done so is +extremely likely.</p> + +<p>There is a tradition that Cervantes read some portions of his work +to a select audience at the Duke of Bejar's, which may have helped +to make the book known; but the obvious conclusion is that the First +Part of "Don Quixote" lay on his hands some time before he could +find a publisher bold enough to undertake a venture of so novel a +character; and so little faith in it had Francisco Robles of Madrid, +to whom at last he sold it, that he did not care to incur the +expense of securing the copyright for Aragon or Portugal, contenting +himself with that for Castile. The printing was finished in +December, and the book came out with the new year, 1605. It is often +said that "Don Quixote" was at first received coldly. The facts show +just the contrary. No sooner was it in the hands of the public than +preparations were made to issue pirated editions at Lisbon and +Valencia, and to bring out a second edition with the additional +copyrights for Aragon and Portugal, which he secured in February.</p> + +<p>No doubt it was received with something more than coldness by +certain sections of the community. Men of wit, taste, and +discrimination among the aristocracy gave it a hearty welcome, but the +aristocracy in general were not likely to relish a book that turned +their favourite reading into ridicule and laughed at so many of +their favourite ideas. The dramatists who gathered round Lope as their +leader regarded Cervantes as their common enemy, and it is plain +that he was equally obnoxious to the other clique, the culto poets who +had Gongora for their chief. Navarrete, who knew nothing of the letter +above mentioned, tries hard to show that the relations between +Cervantes and Lope were of a very friendly sort, as indeed they were +until "Don Quixote" was written. Cervantes, indeed, to the last +generously and manfully declared his admiration of Lope's powers, +his unfailing invention, and his marvellous fertility; but in the +preface of the First Part of "Don Quixote" and in the verses of +"Urganda the Unknown," and one or two other places, there are, if we +read between the lines, sly hits at Lope's vanities and affectations +that argue no personal good-will; and Lope openly sneers at "Don +Quixote" and Cervantes, and fourteen years after his death gives him +only a few lines of cold commonplace in the "Laurel de Apolo," that +seem all the colder for the eulogies of a host of nonentities whose +names are found nowhere else.</p> + +<p>In 1601 Valladolid was made the seat of the Court, and at the +beginning of 1603 Cervantes had been summoned thither in connection +with the balance due by him to the Treasury, which was still +outstanding. He remained at Valladolid, apparently supporting +himself by agencies and scrivener's work of some sort; probably +drafting petitions and drawing up statements of claims to be presented +to the Council, and the like. So, at least, we gather from the +depositions taken on the occasion of the death of a gentleman, the +victim of a street brawl, who had been carried into the house in which +he lived. In these he himself is described as a man who wrote and +transacted business, and it appears that his household then +consisted of his wife, the natural daughter Isabel de Saavedra already +mentioned, his sister Andrea, now a widow, her daughter Constanza, a +mysterious Magdalena de Sotomayor calling herself his sister, for whom +his biographers cannot account, and a servant-maid.</p> + +<p>Meanwhile "Don Quixote" had been growing in favour, and its author's +name was now known beyond the Pyrenees. In 1607 an edition was printed +at Brussels. Robles, the Madrid publisher, found it necessary to +meet the demand by a third edition, the seventh in all, in 1608. The +popularity of the book in Italy was such that a Milan bookseller was +led to bring out an edition in 1610; and another was called for in +Brussels in 1611. It might naturally have been expected that, with +such proofs before him that he had hit the taste of the public, +Cervantes would have at once set about redeeming his rather vague +promise of a second volume.</p> + +<p>But, to all appearance, nothing was farther from his thoughts. He +had still by him one or two short tales of the same vintage as those +he had inserted in "Don Quixote" and instead of continuing the +adventures of Don Quixote, he set to work to write more of these +"Novelas Exemplares" as he afterwards called them, with a view to +making a book of them.</p> + +<p>The novels were published in the summer of 1613, with a dedication +to the Conde de Lemos, the Maecenas of the day, and with one of +those chatty confidential prefaces Cervantes was so fond of. In +this, eight years and a half after the First Part of "Don Quixote" had +appeared, we get the first hint of a forthcoming Second Part. "You +shall see shortly," he says, "the further exploits of Don Quixote +and humours of Sancho Panza." His idea of "shortly" was a somewhat +elastic one, for, as we know by the date to Sancho's letter, he had +barely one-half of the book completed that time twelvemonth.</p> + +<p>But more than poems, or pastorals, or novels, it was his dramatic +ambition that engrossed his thoughts. The same indomitable spirit that +kept him from despair in the bagnios of Algiers, and prompted him to +attempt the escape of himself and his comrades again and again, made +him persevere in spite of failure and discouragement in his efforts to +win the ear of the public as a dramatist. The temperament of Cervantes +was essentially sanguine. The portrait he draws in the preface to +the novels, with the aquiline features, chestnut hair, smooth +untroubled forehead, and bright cheerful eyes, is the very portrait of +a sanguine man. Nothing that the managers might say could persuade him +that the merits of his plays would not be recognised at last if they +were only given a fair chance. The old soldier of the Spanish +Salamis was bent on being the Aeschylus of Spain. He was to found a +great national drama, based on the true principles of art, that was to +be the envy of all nations; he was to drive from the stage the +silly, childish plays, the "mirrors of nonsense and models of folly" +that were in vogue through the cupidity of the managers and +shortsightedness of the authors; he was to correct and educate the +public taste until it was ripe for tragedies on the model of the Greek +drama—like the "Numancia" for instance—and comedies that would not +only amuse but improve and instruct. All this he was to do, could he +once get a hearing: there was the initial difficulty.</p> + +<p>He shows plainly enough, too, that "Don Quixote" and the +demolition of the chivalry romances was not the work that lay next his +heart. He was, indeed, as he says himself in his preface, more a +stepfather than a father to "Don Quixote." Never was great work so +neglected by its author. That it was written carelessly, hastily, +and by fits and starts, was not always his fault, but it seems clear +he never read what he sent to the press. He knew how the printers +had blundered, but he never took the trouble to correct them when +the third edition was in progress, as a man who really cared for the +child of his brain would have done. He appears to have regarded the +book as little more than a mere libro de entretenimiento, an amusing +book, a thing, as he says in the "Viaje," "to divert the melancholy +moody heart at any time or season." No doubt he had an affection for +his hero, and was very proud of Sancho Panza. It would have been +strange indeed if he had not been proud of the most humorous +creation in all fiction. He was proud, too, of the popularity and +success of the book, and beyond measure delightful is the naivete with +which he shows his pride in a dozen passages in the Second Part. But +it was not the success he coveted. In all probability he would have +given all the success of "Don Quixote," nay, would have seen every +copy of "Don Quixote" burned in the Plaza Mayor, for one such +success as Lope de Vega was enjoying on an average once a week.</p> + +<p> And so he went on, dawdling over "Don Quixote," adding a chapter +now and again, and putting it aside to turn to "Persiles and +Sigismunda"—which, as we know, was to be the most entertaining book +in the language, and the rival of "Theagenes and Chariclea"—or +finishing off one of his darling comedies; and if Robles asked when +"Don Quixote" would be ready, the answer no doubt was: +En breve—shortly, there was time enough for that. At sixty-eight he was as full +of life and hope and plans for the future as a boy of eighteen.</p> + +<p>Nemesis was coming, however. He had got as far as Chapter LIX, which +at his leisurely pace he could hardly have reached before October or +November 1614, when there was put into his hand a small octave +lately printed at Tarragona, and calling itself "Second Volume of +the Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha: by the Licentiate +Alonso Fernandez de Avellaneda of Tordesillas." The last half of +Chapter LIX and most of the following chapters of the Second Part give +us some idea of the effect produced upon him, and his irritation was +not likely to be lessened by the reflection that he had no one to +blame but himself. Had Avellaneda, in fact, been content with merely +bringing out a continuation to "Don Quixote," Cervantes would have had +no reasonable grievance. His own intentions were expressed in the very +vaguest language at the end of the book; nay, in his last words, +"forse altro cantera con miglior plettro," he seems actually to invite +some one else to continue the work, and he made no sign until eight +years and a half had gone by; by which time Avellaneda's volume was no +doubt written.</p> + +<p>In fact Cervantes had no case, or a very bad one, as far as the mere +continuation was concerned. But Avellaneda chose to write a preface to +it, full of such coarse personal abuse as only an ill-conditioned +man could pour out. He taunts Cervantes with being old, with having +lost his hand, with having been in prison, with being poor, with being +friendless, accuses him of envy of Lope's success, of petulance and +querulousness, and so on; and it was in this that the sting lay. +Avellaneda's reason for this personal attack is obvious enough. +Whoever he may have been, it is clear that he was one of the +dramatists of Lope's school, for he has the impudence to charge +Cervantes with attacking him as well as Lope in his criticism on the +drama. His identification has exercised the best critics and baffled +all the ingenuity and research that has been brought to bear on it. +Navarrete and Ticknor both incline to the belief that Cervantes knew +who he was; but I must say I think the anger he shows suggests an +invisible assailant; it is like the irritation of a man stung by a +mosquito in the dark. Cervantes from certain solecisms of language +pronounces him to be an Aragonese, and Pellicer, an Aragonese himself, +supports this view and believes him, moreover, to have been an +ecclesiastic, a Dominican probably.</p> + +<p>Any merit Avellaneda has is reflected from Cervantes, and he is +too dull to reflect much. "Dull and dirty" will always be, I +imagine, the verdict of the vast majority of unprejudiced readers. +He is, at best, a poor plagiarist; all he can do is to follow +slavishly the lead given him by Cervantes; his only humour lies in +making Don Quixote take inns for castles and fancy himself some +legendary or historical personage, and Sancho mistake words, invert +proverbs, and display his gluttony; all through he shows a +proclivity to coarseness and dirt, and he has contrived to introduce +two tales filthier than anything by the sixteenth century novellieri +and without their sprightliness.</p> + +<p>But whatever Avellaneda and his book may be, we must not forget +the debt we owe them. But for them, there can be no doubt, "Don +Quixote" would have come to us a mere torso instead of a complete +work. Even if Cervantes had finished the volume he had in hand, most +assuredly he would have left off with a promise of a Third Part, +giving the further adventures of Don Quixote and humours of Sancho +Panza as shepherds. It is plain that he had at one time an intention +of dealing with the pastoral romances as he had dealt with the books +of chivalry, and but for Avellaneda he would have tried to carry it +out. But it is more likely that, with his plans, and projects, and +hopefulness, the volume would have remained unfinished till his death, +and that we should have never made the acquaintance of the Duke and +Duchess, or gone with Sancho to Barataria.</p> + +<p>From the moment the book came into his hands he seems to have been +haunted by the fear that there might be more Avellanedas in the field, +and putting everything else aside, he set himself to finish off his +task and protect Don Quixote in the only way he could, by killing him. +The conclusion is no doubt a hasty and in some places clumsy piece +of work and the frequent repetition of the scolding administered to +Avellaneda becomes in the end rather wearisome; but it is, at any +rate, a conclusion and for that we must thank Avellaneda.</p> + +<p>The new volume was ready for the press in February, but was not +printed till the very end of 1615, and during the interval Cervantes +put together the comedies and interludes he had written within the +last few years, and, as he adds plaintively, found no demand for among +the managers, and published them with a preface, worth the book it +introduces tenfold, in which he gives an account of the early +Spanish stage, and of his own attempts as a dramatist. It is +needless to say they were put forward by Cervantes in all good faith +and full confidence in their merits. The reader, however, was not to +suppose they were his last word or final effort in the drama, for he +had in hand a comedy called "Engano a los ojos," about which, if he +mistook not, there would be no question.</p> + +<p>Of this dramatic masterpiece the world has no opportunity of +judging; his health had been failing for some time, and he died, +apparently of dropsy, on the 23rd of April, 1616, the day on which +England lost Shakespeare, nominally at least, for the English calendar +had not yet been reformed. He died as he had lived, accepting his +lot bravely and cheerfully.</p> + +<p>Was it an unhappy life, that of Cervantes? His biographers all +tell us that it was; but I must say I doubt it. It was a hard life, +a life of poverty, of incessant struggle, of toil ill paid, of +disappointment, but Cervantes carried within himself the antidote to +all these evils. His was not one of those light natures that rise +above adversity merely by virtue of their own buoyancy; it was in +the fortitude of a high spirit that he was proof against it. It is +impossible to conceive Cervantes giving way to despondency or +prostrated by dejection. As for poverty, it was with him a thing to be +laughed over, and the only sigh he ever allows to escape him is when +he says, "Happy he to whom Heaven has given a piece of bread for which +he is not bound to give thanks to any but Heaven itself." Add to all +this his vital energy and mental activity, his restless invention +and his sanguine temperament, and there will be reason enough to doubt +whether his could have been a very unhappy life. He who could take +Cervantes' distresses together with his apparatus for enduring them +would not make so bad a bargain, perhaps, as far as happiness in +life is concerned.</p> + +<p>Of his burial-place nothing is known except that he was buried, in +accordance with his will, in the neighbouring convent of Trinitarian +nuns, of which it is supposed his daughter, Isabel de Saavedra, was an +inmate, and that a few years afterwards the nuns removed to another +convent, carrying their dead with them. But whether the remains of +Cervantes were included in the removal or not no one knows, and the +clue to their resting-place is now lost beyond all hope. This +furnishes perhaps the least defensible of the items in the charge of +neglect brought against his contemporaries. In some of the others +there is a good deal of exaggeration. To listen to most of his +biographers one would suppose that all Spain was in league not only +against the man but against his memory, or at least that it was +insensible to his merits, and left him to live in misery and die of +want. To talk of his hard life and unworthy employments in Andalusia +is absurd. What had he done to distinguish him from thousands of other +struggling men earning a precarious livelihood? True, he was a gallant +soldier, who had been wounded and had undergone captivity and +suffering in his country's cause, but there were hundreds of others in +the same case. He had written a mediocre specimen of an insipid +class of romance, and some plays which manifestly did not comply +with the primary condition of pleasing: were the playgoers to +patronise plays that did not amuse them, because the author was to +produce "Don Quixote" twenty years afterwards?</p> + +<p>The scramble for copies which, as we have seen, followed immediately +on the appearance of the book, does not look like general +insensibility to its merits. No doubt it was received coldly by +some, but if a man writes a book in ridicule of periwigs he must +make his account with being coldly received by the periwig wearers and +hated by the whole tribe of wigmakers. If Cervantes had the +chivalry-romance readers, the sentimentalists, the dramatists, and the +poets of the period all against him, it was because "Don Quixote" +was what it was; and if the general public did not come forward to +make him comfortable for the rest of his days, it is no more to be +charged with neglect and ingratitude than the English-speaking +public that did not pay off Scott's liabilities. It did the best it +could; it read his book and liked it and bought it, and encouraged the +bookseller to pay him well for others.</p> + +<p>It has been also made a reproach to Spain that she has erected no +monument to the man she is proudest of; no monument, that is to say, +of him; for the bronze statue in the little garden of the Plaza de las +Cortes, a fair work of art no doubt, and unexceptionable had it been +set up to the local poet in the market-place of some provincial +town, is not worthy of Cervantes or of Madrid. But what need has +Cervantes of "such weak witness of his name;" or what could a monument +do in his case except testify to the self-glorification of those who +had put it up? Si monumentum quoeris, circumspice. The nearest +bookseller's shop will show what bathos there would be in a monument +to the author of "Don Quixote."</p> + +<p>Nine editions of the First Part of "Don Quixote" had already +appeared before Cervantes died, thirty thousand copies in all, +according to his own estimate, and a tenth was printed at Barcelona +the year after his death. So large a number naturally supplied the +demand for some time, but by 1634 it appears to have been exhausted; +and from that time down to the present day the stream of editions +has continued to flow rapidly and regularly. The translations show +still more clearly in what request the book has been from the very +outset. In seven years from the completion of the work it had been +translated into the four leading languages of Europe. Except the +Bible, in fact, no book has been so widely diffused as "Don +Quixote." The "Imitatio Christi" may have been translated into as many +different languages, and perhaps "Robinson Crusoe" and the "Vicar of +Wakefield" into nearly as many, but in multiplicity of translations +and editions "Don Quixote" leaves them all far behind.</p> + +<p>Still more remarkable is the character of this wide diffusion. +"Don Quixote" has been thoroughly naturalised among people whose ideas +about knight-errantry, if they had any at all, were of the vaguest, +who had never seen or heard of a book of chivalry, who could not +possibly feel the humour of the burlesque or sympathise with the +author's purpose. Another curious fact is that this, the most +cosmopolitan book in the world, is one of the most intensely national. +"Manon Lescaut" is not more thoroughly French, "Tom Jones" not more +English, "Rob Roy" not more Scotch, than "Don Quixote" is Spanish, +in character, in ideas, in sentiment, in local colour, in +everything. What, then, is the secret of this unparalleled popularity, +increasing year by year for well-nigh three centuries? One +explanation, no doubt, is that of all the books in the world, "Don +Quixote" is the most catholic. There is something in it for every sort +of reader, young or old, sage or simple, high or low. As Cervantes +himself says with a touch of pride, "It is thumbed and read and got by +heart by people of all sorts; the children turn its leaves, the +young people read it, the grown men understand it, the old folk praise +it."</p> + +<p>But it would be idle to deny that the ingredient which, more than +its humour, or its wisdom, or the fertility of invention or +knowledge of human nature it displays, has insured its success with +the multitude, is the vein of farce that runs through it. It was the +attack upon the sheep, the battle with the wine-skins, Mambrino's +helmet, the balsam of Fierabras, Don Quixote knocked over by the sails +of the windmill, Sancho tossed in the blanket, the mishaps and +misadventures of master and man, that were originally the great +attraction, and perhaps are so still to some extent with the +majority of readers. It is plain that "Don Quixote" was generally +regarded at first, and indeed in Spain for a long time, as little more +than a queer droll book, full of laughable incidents and absurd +situations, very amusing, but not entitled to much consideration or +care. All the editions printed in Spain from 1637 to 1771, when the +famous printer Ibarra took it up, were mere trade editions, badly +and carelessly printed on vile paper and got up in the style of +chap-books intended only for popular use, with, in most instances, +uncouth illustrations and clap-trap additions by the publisher.</p> + +<p>To England belongs the credit of having been the first country to +recognise the right of "Don Quixote" to better treatment than this. +The London edition of 1738, commonly called Lord Carteret's from +having been suggested by him, was not a mere edition de luxe. It +produced "Don Quixote" in becoming form as regards paper and type, and +embellished with plates which, if not particularly happy as +illustrations, were at least well intentioned and well executed, but +it also aimed at correctness of text, a matter to which nobody +except the editors of the Valencia and Brussels editions had given +even a passing thought; and for a first attempt it was fairly +successful, for though some of its emendations are inadmissible, a +good many of them have been adopted by all subsequent editors.</p> + +<p>The zeal of publishers, editors, and annotators brought about a +remarkable change of sentiment with regard to "Don Quixote." A vast +number of its admirers began to grow ashamed of laughing over it. It +became almost a crime to treat it as a humorous book. The humour was +not entirely denied, but, according to the new view, it was rated as +an altogether secondary quality, a mere accessory, nothing more than +the stalking-horse under the presentation of which Cervantes shot +his philosophy or his satire, or whatever it was he meant to shoot; +for on this point opinions varied. All were agreed, however, that +the object he aimed at was not the books of chivalry. He said +emphatically in the preface to the First Part and in the last sentence +of the Second, that he had no other object in view than to discredit +these books, and this, to advanced criticism, made it clear that his +object must have been something else.</p> + +<p>One theory was that the book was a kind of allegory, setting forth +the eternal struggle between the ideal and the real, between the +spirit of poetry and the spirit of prose; and perhaps German +philosophy never evolved a more ungainly or unlikely camel out of +the depths of its inner consciousness. Something of the antagonism, no +doubt, is to be found in "Don Quixote," because it is to be found +everywhere in life, and Cervantes drew from life. It is difficult to +imagine a community in which the never-ceasing game of +cross-purposes between Sancho Panza and Don Quixote would not be +recognized as true to nature. In the stone age, among the lake +dwellers, among the cave men, there were Don Quixotes and Sancho +Panzas; there must have been the troglodyte who never could see the +facts before his eyes, and the troglodyte who could see nothing +else. But to suppose Cervantes deliberately setting himself to expound +any such idea in two stout quarto volumes is to suppose something +not only very unlike the age in which he lived, but altogether +unlike Cervantes himself, who would have been the first to laugh at an +attempt of the sort made by anyone else.</p> + +<p>The extraordinary influence of the romances of chivalry in his day +is quite enough to account for the genesis of the book. Some idea of +the prodigious development of this branch of literature in the +sixteenth century may be obtained from the scrutiny of Chapter VII, if +the reader bears in mind that only a portion of the romances belonging +to by far the largest group are enumerated. As to its effect upon +the nation, there is abundant evidence. From the time when the +Amadises and Palmerins began to grow popular down to the very end of +the century, there is a steady stream of invective, from men whose +character and position lend weight to their words, against the +romances of chivalry and the infatuation of their readers. Ridicule +was the only besom to sweep away that dust.</p> + +<p>That this was the task Cervantes set himself, and that he had +ample provocation to urge him to it, will be sufficiently clear to +those who look into the evidence; as it will be also that it was not +chivalry itself that he attacked and swept away. Of all the +absurdities that, thanks to poetry, will be repeated to the end of +time, there is no greater one than saying that "Cervantes smiled +Spain's chivalry away." In the first place there was no chivalry for +him to smile away. Spain's chivalry had been dead for more than a +century. Its work was done when Granada fell, and as chivalry was +essentially republican in its nature, it could not live under the rule +that Ferdinand substituted for the free institutions of mediaeval +Spain. What he did smile away was not chivalry but a degrading mockery +of it.</p> + +<p>The true nature of the "right arm" and the "bright array," before +which, according to the poet, "the world gave ground," and which +Cervantes' single laugh demolished, may be gathered from the words +of one of his own countrymen, Don Felix Pacheco, as reported by +Captain George Carleton, in his "Military Memoirs from 1672 to +1713." "Before the appearance in the world of that labour of +Cervantes," he said, "it was next to an impossibility for a man to +walk the streets with any delight or without danger. There were seen +so many cavaliers prancing and curvetting before the windows of +their mistresses, that a stranger would have imagined the whole nation +to have been nothing less than a race of knight-errants. But after the +world became a little acquainted with that notable history, the man +that was seen in that once celebrated drapery was pointed at as a +Don Quixote, and found himself the jest of high and low. And I +verily believe that to this, and this only, we owe that dampness and +poverty of spirit which has run through all our councils for a century +past, so little agreeable to those nobler actions of our famous +ancestors."</p> + +<p>To call "Don Quixote" a sad book, preaching a pessimist view of +life, argues a total misconception of its drift. It would be so if its +moral were that, in this world, true enthusiasm naturally leads to +ridicule and discomfiture. But it preaches nothing of the sort; its +moral, so far as it can be said to have one, is that the spurious +enthusiasm that is born of vanity and self-conceit, that is made an +end in itself, not a means to an end, that acts on mere impulse, +regardless of circumstances and consequences, is mischievous to its +owner, and a very considerable nuisance to the community at large. +To those who cannot distinguish between the one kind and the other, no +doubt "Don Quixote" is a sad book; no doubt to some minds it is very +sad that a man who had just uttered so beautiful a sentiment as that +"it is a hard case to make slaves of those whom God and Nature made +free," should be ungratefully pelted by the scoundrels his crazy +philanthropy had let loose on society; but to others of a more +judicial cast it will be a matter of regret that reckless +self-sufficient enthusiasm is not oftener requited in some such way +for all the mischief it does in the world.</p> + +<p>A very slight examination of the structure of "Don Quixote" will +suffice to show that Cervantes had no deep design or elaborate plan in +his mind when he began the book. When he wrote those lines in which +"with a few strokes of a great master he sets before us the pauper +gentleman," he had no idea of the goal to which his imagination was +leading him. There can be little doubt that all he contemplated was +a short tale to range with those he had already written, a tale +setting forth the ludicrous results that might be expected to follow +the attempt of a crazy gentleman to act the part of a knight-errant in +modern life.</p> + +<p>It is plain, for one thing, that Sancho Panza did not enter into the +original scheme, for had Cervantes thought of him he certainly would +not have omitted him in his hero's outfit, which he obviously meant to +be complete. Him we owe to the landlord's chance remark in Chapter III +that knights seldom travelled without squires. To try to think of a +Don Quixote without Sancho Panza is like trying to think of a +one-bladed pair of scissors.</p> + +<p>The story was written at first, like the others, without any +division and without the intervention of Cide Hamete Benengeli; and it +seems not unlikely that Cervantes had some intention of bringing +Dulcinea, or Aldonza Lorenzo, on the scene in person. It was +probably the ransacking of the Don's library and the discussion on the +books of chivalry that first suggested it to him that his idea was +capable of development. What, if instead of a mere string of +farcical misadventures, he were to make his tale a burlesque of one of +these books, caricaturing their style, incidents, and spirit?</p> + +<p>In pursuance of this change of plan, he hastily and somewhat +clumsily divided what he had written into chapters on the model of +"Amadis," invented the fable of a mysterious Arabic manuscript, and +set up Cide Hamete Benengeli in imitation of the almost invariable +practice of the chivalry-romance authors, who were fond of tracing +their books to some recondite source. In working out the new ideas, he +soon found the value of Sancho Panza. Indeed, the keynote, not only to +Sancho's part, but to the whole book, is struck in the first words +Sancho utters when he announces his intention of taking his ass with +him. "About the ass," we are told, "Don Quixote hesitated a little, +trying whether he could call to mind any knight-errant taking with him +an esquire mounted on ass-back; but no instance occurred to his +memory." We can see the whole scene at a glance, the stolid +unconsciousness of Sancho and the perplexity of his master, upon whose +perception the incongruity has just forced itself. This is Sancho's +mission throughout the book; he is an unconscious Mephistopheles, +always unwittingly making mockery of his master's aspirations, +always exposing the fallacy of his ideas by some unintentional ad +absurdum, always bringing him back to the world of fact and +commonplace by force of sheer stolidity.</p> + +<p>By the time Cervantes had got his volume of novels off his hands, +and summoned up resolution enough to set about the Second Part in +earnest, the case was very much altered. Don Quixote and Sancho +Panza had not merely found favour, but had already become, what they +have never since ceased to be, veritable entities to the popular +imagination. There was no occasion for him now to interpolate +extraneous matter; nay, his readers told him plainly that what they +wanted of him was more Don Quixote and more Sancho Panza, and not +novels, tales, or digressions. To himself, too, his creations had +become realities, and he had become proud of them, especially of +Sancho. He began the Second Part, therefore, under very different +conditions, and the difference makes itself manifest at once. Even +in translation the style will be seen to be far easier, more +flowing, more natural, and more like that of a man sure of himself and +of his audience. Don Quixote and Sancho undergo a change also. In +the First Part, Don Quixote has no character or individuality +whatever. He is nothing more than a crazy representative of the +sentiments of the chivalry romances. In all that he says and does he +is simply repeating the lesson he has learned from his books; and +therefore, it is absurd to speak of him in the gushing strain of the +sentimental critics when they dilate upon his nobleness, +disinterestedness, dauntless courage, and so forth. It was the +business of a knight-errant to right wrongs, redress injuries, and +succour the distressed, and this, as a matter of course, he makes +his business when he takes up the part; a knight-errant was bound to +be intrepid, and so he feels bound to cast fear aside. Of all +Byron's melodious nonsense about Don Quixote, the most nonsensical +statement is that "'t is his virtue makes him mad!" The exact opposite +is the truth; it is his madness makes him virtuous.</p> + +<p>In the Second Part, Cervantes repeatedly reminds the reader, as if +it was a point upon which he was anxious there should be no mistake, +that his hero's madness is strictly confined to delusions on the +subject of chivalry, and that on every other subject he is discreto, +one, in fact, whose faculty of discernment is in perfect order. The +advantage of this is that he is enabled to make use of Don Quixote +as a mouthpiece for his own reflections, and so, without seeming to +digress, allow himself the relief of digression when he requires it, +as freely as in a commonplace book.</p> + +<p>It is true the amount of individuality bestowed upon Don Quixote +is not very great. There are some natural touches of character about +him, such as his mixture of irascibility and placability, and his +curious affection for Sancho together with his impatience of the +squire's loquacity and impertinence; but in the main, apart from his +craze, he is little more than a thoughtful, cultured gentleman, with +instinctive good taste and a great deal of shrewdness and +originality of mind.</p> + +<p>As to Sancho, it is plain, from the concluding words of the +preface to the First Part, that he was a favourite with his creator +even before he had been taken into favour by the public. An inferior +genius, taking him in hand a second time, would very likely have tried +to improve him by making him more comical, clever, amiable, or +virtuous. But Cervantes was too true an artist to spoil his work in +this way. Sancho, when he reappears, is the old Sancho with the old +familiar features; but with a difference; they have been brought out +more distinctly, but at the same time with a careful avoidance of +anything like caricature; the outline has been filled in where filling +in was necessary, and, vivified by a few touches of a master's hand, +Sancho stands before us as he might in a character portrait by +Velazquez. He is a much more important and prominent figure in the +Second Part than in the First; indeed, it is his matchless mendacity +about Dulcinea that to a great extent supplies the action of the +story.</p> + +<p>His development in this respect is as remarkable as in any other. In +the First Part he displays a great natural gift of lying. His lies are +not of the highly imaginative sort that liars in fiction commonly +indulge in; like Falstaff's, they resemble the father that begets +them; they are simple, homely, plump lies; plain working lies, in +short. But in the service of such a master as Don Quixote he +develops rapidly, as we see when he comes to palm off the three +country wenches as Dulcinea and her ladies in waiting. It is worth +noticing how, flushed by his success in this instance, he is tempted +afterwards to try a flight beyond his powers in his account of the +journey on Clavileno.</p> + +<p>In the Second Part it is the spirit rather than the incidents of the +chivalry romances that is the subject of the burlesque. Enchantments +of the sort travestied in those of Dulcinea and the Trifaldi and the +cave of Montesinos play a leading part in the later and inferior +romances, and another distinguishing feature is caricatured in Don +Quixote's blind adoration of Dulcinea. In the romances of chivalry +love is either a mere animalism or a fantastic idolatry. Only a +coarse-minded man would care to make merry with the former, but to one +of Cervantes' humour the latter was naturally an attractive subject +for ridicule. Like everything else in these romances, it is a gross +exaggeration of the real sentiment of chivalry, but its peculiar +extravagance is probably due to the influence of those masters of +hyperbole, the Provencal poets. When a troubadour professed his +readiness to obey his lady in all things, he made it incumbent upon +the next comer, if he wished to avoid the imputation of tameness and +commonplace, to declare himself the slave of her will, which the +next was compelled to cap by some still stronger declaration; and so +expressions of devotion went on rising one above the other like +biddings at an auction, and a conventional language of gallantry and +theory of love came into being that in time permeated the literature +of Southern Europe, and bore fruit, in one direction in the +transcendental worship of Beatrice and Laura, and in another in the +grotesque idolatry which found exponents in writers like Feliciano +de Silva. This is what Cervantes deals with in Don Quixote's passion +for Dulcinea, and in no instance has he carried out the burlesque more +happily. By keeping Dulcinea in the background, and making her a vague +shadowy being of whose very existence we are left in doubt, he invests +Don Quixote's worship of her virtues and charms with an additional +extravagance, and gives still more point to the caricature of the +sentiment and language of the romances.</p> + +<p>One of the great merits of "Don Quixote," and one of the qualities +that have secured its acceptance by all classes of readers and made it +the most cosmopolitan of books, is its simplicity. There are, of +course, points obvious enough to a Spanish seventeenth century +audience which do not immediately strike a reader now-a-days, and +Cervantes often takes it for granted that an allusion will be +generally understood which is only intelligible to a few. For example, +on many of his readers in Spain, and most of his readers out of it, +the significance of his choice of a country for his hero is completely +lost. It would be going too far to say that no one can thoroughly +comprehend "Don Quixote" without having seen La Mancha, but +undoubtedly even a glimpse of La Mancha will give an insight into +the meaning of Cervantes such as no commentator can give. Of all the +regions of Spain it is the last that would suggest the idea of +romance. Of all the dull central plateau of the Peninsula it is the +dullest tract. There is something impressive about the grim +solitudes of Estremadura; and if the plains of Leon and Old Castile +are bald and dreary, they are studded with old cities renowned in +history and rich in relics of the past. But there is no redeeming +feature in the Manchegan landscape; it has all the sameness of the +desert without its dignity; the few towns and villages that break +its monotony are mean and commonplace, there is nothing venerable +about them, they have not even the picturesqueness of poverty; indeed, +Don Quixote's own village, Argamasilla, has a sort of oppressive +respectability in the prim regularity of its streets and houses; +everything is ignoble; the very windmills are the ugliest and +shabbiest of the windmill kind.</p> + +<p>To anyone who knew the country well, the mere style and title of +"Don Quixote of La Mancha" gave the key to the author's meaning at +once. La Mancha as the knight's country and scene of his chivalries is +of a piece with the pasteboard helmet, the farm-labourer on ass-back +for a squire, knighthood conferred by a rascally ventero, convicts +taken for victims of oppression, and the rest of the incongruities +between Don Quixote's world and the world he lived in, between +things as he saw them and things as they were.</p> + +<p>It is strange that this element of incongruity, underlying the whole +humour and purpose of the book, should have been so little heeded by +the majority of those who have undertaken to interpret "Don +Quixote." It has been completely overlooked, for example, by the +illustrators. To be sure, the great majority of the artists who +illustrated "Don Quixote" knew nothing whatever of Spain. To them a +venta conveyed no idea but the abstract one of a roadside inn, and +they could not therefore do full justice to the humour of Don +Quixote's misconception in taking it for a castle, or perceive the +remoteness of all its realities from his ideal. But even when better +informed they seem to have no apprehension of the full force of the +discrepancy. Take, for instance, Gustave Dore's drawing of Don Quixote +watching his armour in the inn-yard. Whether or not the Venta de +Quesada on the Seville road is, as tradition maintains, the inn +described in "Don Quixote," beyond all question it was just such an +inn-yard as the one behind it that Cervantes had in his mind's eye, +and it was on just such a rude stone trough as that beside the +primitive draw-well in the corner that he meant Don Quixote to deposit +his armour. Gustave Dore makes it an elaborate fountain such as no +arriero ever watered his mules at in the corral of any venta in Spain, +and thereby entirely misses the point aimed at by Cervantes. It is the +mean, prosaic, commonplace character of all the surroundings and +circumstances that gives a significance to Don Quixote's vigil and the +ceremony that follows.</p> + +<p>Cervantes' humour is for the most part of that broader and simpler +sort, the strength of which lies in the perception of the incongruous. +It is the incongruity of Sancho in all his ways, words, and works, +with the ideas and aims of his master, quite as much as the +wonderful vitality and truth to nature of the character, that makes +him the most humorous creation in the whole range of fiction. That +unsmiling gravity of which Cervantes was the first great master, +"Cervantes' serious air," which sits naturally on Swift alone, +perhaps, of later humourists, is essential to this kind of humour, and +here again Cervantes has suffered at the hands of his interpreters. +Nothing, unless indeed the coarse buffoonery of Phillips, could be +more out of place in an attempt to represent Cervantes, than a +flippant, would-be facetious style, like that of Motteux's version for +example, or the sprightly, jaunty air, French translators sometimes +adopt. It is the grave matter-of-factness of the narrative, and the +apparent unconsciousness of the author that he is saying anything +ludicrous, anything but the merest commonplace, that give its peculiar +flavour to the humour of Cervantes. His, in fact, is the exact +opposite of the humour of Sterne and the self-conscious humourists. +Even when Uncle Toby is at his best, you are always aware of "the +man Sterne" behind him, watching you over his shoulder to see what +effect he is producing. Cervantes always leaves you alone with Don +Quixote and Sancho. He and Swift and the great humourists always +keep themselves out of sight, or, more properly speaking, never +think about themselves at all, unlike our latter-day school of +humourists, who seem to have revived the old horse-collar method, +and try to raise a laugh by some grotesque assumption of ignorance, +imbecility, or bad taste.</p> + +<p>It is true that to do full justice to Spanish humour in any other +language is well-nigh an impossibility. There is a natural gravity and +a sonorous stateliness about Spanish, be it ever so colloquial, that +make an absurdity doubly absurd, and give plausibility to the most +preposterous statement. This is what makes Sancho Panza's drollery the +despair of the conscientious translator. Sancho's curt comments can +never fall flat, but they lose half their flavour when transferred +from their native Castilian into any other medium. But if foreigners +have failed to do justice to the humour of Cervantes, they are no +worse than his own countrymen. Indeed, were it not for the Spanish +peasant's relish of "Don Quixote," one might be tempted to think +that the great humourist was not looked upon as a humourist at all +in his own country.</p> + +<p>The craze of Don Quixote seems, in some instances, to have +communicated itself to his critics, making them see things that are +not in the book and run full tilt at phantoms that have no existence +save in their own imaginations. Like a good many critics now-a-days, +they forget that screams are not criticism, and that it is only vulgar +tastes that are influenced by strings of superlatives, three-piled +hyperboles, and pompous epithets. But what strikes one as particularly +strange is that while they deal in extravagant eulogies, and ascribe +all manner of imaginary ideas and qualities to Cervantes, they show no +perception of the quality that ninety-nine out of a hundred of his +readers would rate highest in him, and hold to be the one that +raises him above all rivalry.</p> + +<p>To speak of "Don Quixote" as if it were merely a humorous book would +be a manifest misdescription. Cervantes at times makes it a kind of +commonplace book for occasional essays and criticisms, or for the +observations and reflections and gathered wisdom of a long and +stirring life. It is a mine of shrewd observation on mankind and human +nature. Among modern novels there may be, here and there, more +elaborate studies of character, but there is no book richer in +individualised character. What Coleridge said of Shakespeare in +minimis is true of Cervantes; he never, even for the most temporary +purpose, puts forward a lay figure. There is life and individuality in +all his characters, however little they may have to do, or however +short a time they may be before the reader. Samson Carrasco, the +curate, Teresa Panza, Altisidora, even the two students met on the +road to the cave of Montesinos, all live and move and have their +being; and it is characteristic of the broad humanity of Cervantes +that there is not a hateful one among them all. Even poor +Maritornes, with her deplorable morals, has a kind heart of her own +and "some faint and distant resemblance to a Christian about her;" and +as for Sancho, though on dissection we fail to find a lovable trait in +him, unless it be a sort of dog-like affection for his master, who +is there that in his heart does not love him?</p> + +<p>But it is, after all, the humour of "Don Quixote" that distinguishes +it from all other books of the romance kind. It is this that makes it, +as one of the most judicial-minded of modern critics calls it, "the +best novel in the world beyond all comparison." It is its varied +humour, ranging from broad farce to comedy as subtle as +Shakespeare's or Moliere's that has naturalised it in every country +where there are readers, and made it a classic in every language +that has a literature.</p> + +<br><br><br><br> + +<center> +<h2>SOME COMMENDATORY VERSES</h2> +</center> + + + +<pre> + +URGANDA THE UNKNOWN + +To the book of Don Quixote of la Mancha + + If to be welcomed by the good, + O Book! thou make thy steady aim, + No empty chatterer will dare + To question or dispute thy claim. + But if perchance thou hast a mind + To win of idiots approbation, + Lost labour will be thy reward, + Though they'll pretend appreciation. + + They say a goodly shade he finds + Who shelters 'neath a goodly tree; + And such a one thy kindly star + In Bejar bath provided thee: + A royal tree whose spreading boughs + A show of princely fruit display; + A tree that bears a noble Duke, + The Alexander of his day. + + Of a Manchegan gentleman + Thy purpose is to tell the story, + Relating how he lost his wits + O'er idle tales of love and glory, + Of "ladies, arms, and cavaliers:" + A new Orlando Furioso— + Innamorato, rather—who + Won Dulcinea del Toboso. + + Put no vain emblems on thy shield; + All figures—that is bragging play. + A modest dedication make, + And give no scoffer room to say, + "What! Alvaro de Luna here? + Or is it Hannibal again? + Or does King Francis at Madrid + Once more of destiny complain?" + + Since Heaven it hath not pleased on thee + Deep erudition to bestow, + Or black Latino's gift of tongues, + No Latin let thy pages show. + Ape not philosophy or wit, + Lest one who cannot comprehend, + Make a wry face at thee and ask, + "Why offer flowers to me, my friend?" + + Be not a meddler; no affair + Of thine the life thy neighbours lead: + Be prudent; oft the random jest + Recoils upon the jester's head. + Thy constant labour let it be + To earn thyself an honest name, + For fooleries preserved in print + Are perpetuity of shame. + + A further counsel bear in mind: + If that thy roof be made of glass, + It shows small wit to pick up stones + To pelt the people as they pass. + Win the attention of the wise, + And give the thinker food for thought; + Whoso indites frivolities, + Will but by simpletons be sought. + + + + + AMADIS OF GAUL + To Don Quixote of la Mancha + +SONNET + + Thou that didst imitate that life of mine + When I in lonely sadness on the great + Rock Pena Pobre sat disconsolate, + In self-imposed penance there to pine; + Thou, whose sole beverage was the bitter brine + Of thine own tears, and who withouten plate + Of silver, copper, tin, in lowly state + Off the bare earth and on earth's fruits didst dine; + Live thou, of thine eternal glory sure. + So long as on the round of the fourth sphere + The bright Apollo shall his coursers steer, + In thy renown thou shalt remain secure, + Thy country's name in story shall endure, + And thy sage author stand without a peer. + + + + +DON BELIANIS OF GREECE +To Don Quixote of la Mancha + +SONNET + + In slashing, hewing, cleaving, word and deed, + I was the foremost knight of chivalry, + Stout, bold, expert, as e'er the world did see; + Thousands from the oppressor's wrong I freed; + Great were my feats, eternal fame their meed; + In love I proved my truth and loyalty; + The hugest giant was a dwarf for me; + Ever to knighthood's laws gave I good heed. + My mastery the Fickle Goddess owned, + And even Chance, submitting to control, + Grasped by the forelock, yielded to my will. + Yet—though above yon horned moon enthroned + My fortune seems to sit—great Quixote, still + Envy of thy achievements fills my soul. + + + + +THE LADY OF ORIANA +To Dulcinea del Toboso + +SONNET + + Oh, fairest Dulcinea, could it be! + It were a pleasant fancy to suppose so— + Could Miraflores change to El Toboso, + And London's town to that which shelters thee! + Oh, could mine but acquire that livery + Of countless charms thy mind and body show so! + Or him, now famous grown—thou mad'st him grow so— + Thy knight, in some dread combat could I see! + Oh, could I be released from Amadis + By exercise of such coy chastity + As led thee gentle Quixote to dismiss! + Then would my heavy sorrow turn to joy; + None would I envy, all would envy me, + And happiness be mine without alloy. + + + + +GANDALIN, SQUIRE OF AMADIS OF GAUL, +To Sancho Panza, squire of Don Quixote + +SONNET + + All hail, illustrious man! Fortune, when she + Bound thee apprentice to the esquire trade, + Her care and tenderness of thee displayed, + Shaping thy course from misadventure free. + No longer now doth proud knight-errantry + Regard with scorn the sickle and the spade; + Of towering arrogance less count is made + Than of plain esquire-like simplicity. + I envy thee thy Dapple, and thy name, + And those alforjas thou wast wont to stuff + With comforts that thy providence proclaim. + Excellent Sancho! hail to thee again! + To thee alone the Ovid of our Spain + Does homage with the rustic kiss and cuff. + + + + + FROM EL DONOSO, THE MOTLEY POET, + +On Sancho Panza and Rocinante + +ON SANCHO + +I am the esquire Sancho Pan— +Who served Don Quixote of La Man—; +But from his service I retreat—, +Resolved to pass my life discreet—; +For Villadiego, called the Si—, +Maintained that only in reti— +Was found the secret of well-be—, +According to the "Celesti—:" +A book divine, except for sin— +By speech too plain, in my opin— + + + + +ON ROCINANTE + +I am that Rocinante fa—, +Great-grandson of great Babie—, +Who, all for being lean and bon—, +Had one Don Quixote for an own—; +But if I matched him well in weak—, +I never took short commons meek—, +But kept myself in corn by steal—, +A trick I learned from Lazaril—, +When with a piece of straw so neat— +The blind man of his wine he cheat—. + + + + +ORLANDO FURIOSO +To Don Quixote of La Mancha + +SONNET + + If thou art not a Peer, peer thou hast none; + Among a thousand Peers thou art a peer; + Nor is there room for one when thou art near, + Unvanquished victor, great unconquered one! + Orlando, by Angelica undone, + Am I; o'er distant seas condemned to steer, + And to Fame's altars as an offering bear + Valour respected by Oblivion. + I cannot be thy rival, for thy fame + And prowess rise above all rivalry, + Albeit both bereft of wits we go. + But, though the Scythian or the Moor to tame + Was not thy lot, still thou dost rival me: + Love binds us in a fellowship of woe. + + + + +THE KNIGHT OF PHOEBUS + +To Don Quixote of La Mancha + + My sword was not to be compared with thine + Phoebus of Spain, marvel of courtesy, + Nor with thy famous arm this hand of mine + That smote from east to west as lightnings fly. + I scorned all empire, and that monarchy + The rosy east held out did I resign + For one glance of Claridiana's eye, + The bright Aurora for whose love I pine. + A miracle of constancy my love; + And banished by her ruthless cruelty, + This arm had might the rage of Hell to tame. + But, Gothic Quixote, happier thou dost prove, + For thou dost live in Dulcinea's name, + And famous, honoured, wise, she lives in thee. + + + + +FROM SOLISDAN +To Don Quixote of La Mancha + +SONNET + + Your fantasies, Sir Quixote, it is true, + That crazy brain of yours have quite upset, + But aught of base or mean hath never yet + Been charged by any in reproach to you. + Your deeds are open proof in all men's view; + For you went forth injustice to abate, + And for your pains sore drubbings did you get + From many a rascally and ruffian crew. + If the fair Dulcinea, your heart's queen, + Be unrelenting in her cruelty, + If still your woe be powerless to move her, + In such hard case your comfort let it be + That Sancho was a sorry go-between: + A booby he, hard-hearted she, and you no lover. + + + + +DIALOGUE +Between Babieca and Rocinante + +SONNET + +B. "How comes it, Rocinante, you're so lean?" +R. "I'm underfed, with overwork I'm worn." +B. "But what becomes of all the hay and corn?" +R. "My master gives me none; he's much too mean." +B. "Come, come, you show ill-breeding, sir, I ween; + 'T is like an ass your master thus to scorn." +R. He is an ass, will die an ass, an ass was born; + Why, he's in love; what's what's plainer to be seen?" +B. "To be in love is folly?"—R. "No great sense." +B. "You're metaphysical."—R. "From want of food." +B. "Rail at the squire, then."—R. "Why, what's the good? + I might indeed complain of him, I grant ye, + But, squire or master, where's the difference? + They're both as sorry hacks as Rocinante." + +</pre> + + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p005"></a><img alt="p005.jpg (171K)" src="images/p005.jpg" height="431" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p005.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<center> +<h2>THE AUTHOR'S PREFACE</h2> +</center> +<br> +<p>Idle reader: thou mayest believe me without any oath that I would +this book, as it is the child of my brain, were the fairest, gayest, +and cleverest that could be imagined. But I could not counteract +Nature's law that everything shall beget its like; and what, then, +could this sterile, illtilled wit of mine beget but the story of a +dry, shrivelled, whimsical offspring, full of thoughts of all sorts +and such as never came into any other imagination—just what might +be begotten in a prison, where every misery is lodged and every +doleful sound makes its dwelling? Tranquillity, a cheerful retreat, +pleasant fields, bright skies, murmuring brooks, peace of mind, +these are the things that go far to make even the most barren muses +fertile, and bring into the world births that fill it with wonder +and delight. Sometimes when a father has an ugly, loutish son, the +love he bears him so blindfolds his eyes that he does not see his +defects, or, rather, takes them for gifts and charms of mind and body, +and talks of them to his friends as wit and grace. I, however—for +though I pass for the father, I am but the stepfather to "Don +Quixote"—have no desire to go with the current of custom, or to +implore thee, dearest reader, almost with tears in my eyes, as +others do, to pardon or excuse the defects thou wilt perceive in +this child of mine. Thou art neither its kinsman nor its friend, thy +soul is thine own and thy will as free as any man's, whate'er he be, +thou art in thine own house and master of it as much as the king of +his taxes and thou knowest the common saying, "Under my cloak I kill +the king;" all which exempts and frees thee from every consideration +and obligation, and thou canst say what thou wilt of the story without +fear of being abused for any ill or rewarded for any good thou +mayest say of it.</p> + +<p>My wish would be simply to present it to thee plain and unadorned, +without any embellishment of preface or uncountable muster of +customary sonnets, epigrams, and eulogies, such as are commonly put at +the beginning of books. For I can tell thee, though composing it +cost me some labour, I found none greater than the making of this +Preface thou art now reading. Many times did I take up my pen to write +it, and many did I lay it down again, not knowing what to write. One +of these times, as I was pondering with the paper before me, a pen +in my ear, my elbow on the desk, and my cheek in my hand, thinking +of what I should say, there came in unexpectedly a certain lively, +clever friend of mine, who, seeing me so deep in thought, asked the +reason; to which I, making no mystery of it, answered that I was +thinking of the Preface I had to make for the story of "Don +Quixote," which so troubled me that I had a mind not to make any at +all, nor even publish the achievements of so noble a knight.</p> + +<p>"For, how could you expect me not to feel uneasy about what that +ancient lawgiver they call the Public will say when it sees me, +after slumbering so many years in the silence of oblivion, coming +out now with all my years upon my back, and with a book as dry as a +rush, devoid of invention, meagre in style, poor in thoughts, wholly +wanting in learning and wisdom, without quotations in the margin or +annotations at the end, after the fashion of other books I see, which, +though all fables and profanity, are so full of maxims from Aristotle, +and Plato, and the whole herd of philosophers, that they fill the +readers with amazement and convince them that the authors are men of +learning, erudition, and eloquence. And then, when they quote the Holy +Scriptures!—anyone would say they are St. Thomases or other doctors +of the Church, observing as they do a decorum so ingenious that in one +sentence they describe a distracted lover and in the next deliver a +devout little sermon that it is a pleasure and a treat to hear and +read. Of all this there will be nothing in my book, for I have nothing +to quote in the margin or to note at the end, and still less do I know +what authors I follow in it, to place them at the beginning, as all +do, under the letters A, B, C, beginning with Aristotle and ending +with Xenophon, or Zoilus, or Zeuxis, though one was a slanderer and +the other a painter. Also my book must do without sonnets at the +beginning, at least sonnets whose authors are dukes, marquises, +counts, bishops, ladies, or famous poets. Though if I were to ask +two or three obliging friends, I know they would give me them, and +such as the productions of those that have the highest reputation in +our Spain could not equal.</p> + +<p>"In short, my friend," I continued, "I am determined that Senor +Don Quixote shall remain buried in the archives of his own La Mancha +until Heaven provide some one to garnish him with all those things +he stands in need of; because I find myself, through my shallowness +and want of learning, unequal to supplying them, and because I am by +nature shy and careless about hunting for authors to say what I myself +can say without them. Hence the cogitation and abstraction you found +me in, and reason enough, what you have heard from me."</p> + +<p>Hearing this, my friend, giving himself a slap on the forehead and +breaking into a hearty laugh, exclaimed, "Before God, Brother, now +am I disabused of an error in which I have been living all this long +time I have known you, all through which I have taken you to be shrewd +and sensible in all you do; but now I see you are as far from that +as the heaven is from the earth. It is possible that things of so +little moment and so easy to set right can occupy and perplex a ripe +wit like yours, fit to break through and crush far greater +obstacles? By my faith, this comes, not of any want of ability, but of +too much indolence and too little knowledge of life. Do you want to +know if I am telling the truth? Well, then, attend to me, and you will +see how, in the opening and shutting of an eye, I sweep away all +your difficulties, and supply all those deficiencies which you say +check and discourage you from bringing before the world the story of +your famous Don Quixote, the light and mirror of all knight-errantry."</p> + +<p>"Say on," said I, listening to his talk; "how do you propose to make +up for my diffidence, and reduce to order this chaos of perplexity I +am in?"</p> + +<p>To which he made answer, "Your first difficulty about the sonnets, +epigrams, or complimentary verses which you want for the beginning, +and which ought to be by persons of importance and rank, can be +removed if you yourself take a little trouble to make them; you can +afterwards baptise them, and put any name you like to them, +fathering them on Prester John of the Indies or the Emperor of +Trebizond, who, to my knowledge, were said to have been famous +poets: and even if they were not, and any pedants or bachelors +should attack you and question the fact, never care two maravedis +for that, for even if they prove a lie against you they cannot cut off +the hand you wrote it with.</p> + +<p>"As to references in the margin to the books and authors from whom +you take the aphorisms and sayings you put into your story, it is only +contriving to fit in nicely any sentences or scraps of Latin you may +happen to have by heart, or at any rate that will not give you much +trouble to look up; so as, when you speak of freedom and captivity, to +insert</p> +<blockquote><blockquote> +<i> Non bene pro toto libertas venditur auro;</i> +</blockquote></blockquote> + +<p>and then refer in the margin to Horace, or whoever said it; or, if you +allude to the power of death, to come in with—</p> + +<blockquote><blockquote> +<i> Pallida mors Aequo pulsat pede pauperum tabernas, + <br> Regumque turres.</i> +</blockquote></blockquote> +<p>"If it be friendship and the love God bids us bear to our enemy, go +at once to the Holy Scriptures, which you can do with a very small +amount of research, and quote no less than the words of God himself: +Ego autem dico vobis: diligite inimicos vestros. If you speak of +evil thoughts, turn to the Gospel: De corde exeunt cogitationes malae. +If of the fickleness of friends, there is Cato, who will give you +his distich:</p> +<blockquote><blockquote> +<i>Donec eris felix multos numerabis amicos, + <br> Tempora si fuerint nubila, solus eris.</i> +</blockquote></blockquote> +<p>"With these and such like bits of Latin they will take you for a +grammarian at all events, and that now-a-days is no small honour and +profit.</p> + +<p>"With regard to adding annotations at the end of the book, you may +safely do it in this way. If you mention any giant in your book +contrive that it shall be the giant Goliath, and with this alone, +which will cost you almost nothing, you have a grand note, for you can +put—The giant Golias or Goliath was a Philistine whom the shepherd +David slew by a mighty stone-cast in the Terebinth valley, as is +related in the Book of Kings—in the chapter where you find it +written.</p> + +<p>"Next, to prove yourself a man of erudition in polite literature and +cosmography, manage that the river Tagus shall be named in your story, +and there you are at once with another famous annotation, setting +forth—The river Tagus was so called after a King of Spain: it has its +source in such and such a place and falls into the ocean, kissing +the walls of the famous city of Lisbon, and it is a common belief that +it has golden sands, etc. If you should have anything to do with +robbers, I will give you the story of Cacus, for I have it by heart; +if with loose women, there is the Bishop of Mondonedo, who will give +you the loan of Lamia, Laida, and Flora, any reference to whom will +bring you great credit; if with hard-hearted ones, Ovid will furnish +you with Medea; if with witches or enchantresses, Homer has Calypso, +and Virgil Circe; if with valiant captains, Julius Caesar himself will +lend you himself in his own 'Commentaries,' and Plutarch will give you +a thousand Alexanders. If you should deal with love, with two ounces +you may know of Tuscan you can go to Leon the Hebrew, who will +supply you to your heart's content; or if you should not care to go to +foreign countries you have at home Fonseca's 'Of the Love of God,' +in which is condensed all that you or the most imaginative mind can +want on the subject. In short, all you have to do is to manage to +quote these names, or refer to these stories I have mentioned, and +leave it to me to insert the annotations and quotations, and I swear +by all that's good to fill your margins and use up four sheets at +the end of the book.</p> + +<p>"Now let us come to those references to authors which other books +have, and you want for yours. The remedy for this is very simple: +You have only to look out for some book that quotes them all, from A +to Z as you say yourself, and then insert the very same alphabet in +your book, and though the imposition may be plain to see, because +you have so little need to borrow from them, that is no matter; +there will probably be some simple enough to believe that you have +made use of them all in this plain, artless story of yours. At any +rate, if it answers no other purpose, this long catalogue of authors +will serve to give a surprising look of authority to your book. +Besides, no one will trouble himself to verify whether you have +followed them or whether you have not, being no way concerned in it; +especially as, if I mistake not, this book of yours has no need of any +one of those things you say it wants, for it is, from beginning to +end, an attack upon the books of chivalry, of which Aristotle never +dreamt, nor St. Basil said a word, nor Cicero had any knowledge; nor +do the niceties of truth nor the observations of astrology come within +the range of its fanciful vagaries; nor have geometrical +measurements or refutations of the arguments used in rhetoric anything +to do with it; nor does it mean to preach to anybody, mixing up things +human and divine, a sort of motley in which no Christian understanding +should dress itself. It has only to avail itself of truth to nature in +its composition, and the more perfect the imitation the better the +work will be. And as this piece of yours aims at nothing more than +to destroy the authority and influence which books of chivalry have in +the world and with the public, there is no need for you to go +a-begging for aphorisms from philosophers, precepts from Holy +Scripture, fables from poets, speeches from orators, or miracles +from saints; but merely to take care that your style and diction run +musically, pleasantly, and plainly, with clear, proper, and +well-placed words, setting forth your purpose to the best of your +power, and putting your ideas intelligibly, without confusion or +obscurity. Strive, too, that in reading your story the melancholy +may be moved to laughter, and the merry made merrier still; that the +simple shall not be wearied, that the judicious shall admire the +invention, that the grave shall not despise it, nor the wise fail to +praise it. Finally, keep your aim fixed on the destruction of that +ill-founded edifice of the books of chivalry, hated by some and +praised by many more; for if you succeed in this you will have +achieved no small success."</p> + +<p>In profound silence I listened to what my friend said, and his +observations made such an impression on me that, without attempting to +question them, I admitted their soundness, and out of them I +determined to make this Preface; wherein, gentle reader, thou wilt +perceive my friend's good sense, my good fortune in finding such an +adviser in such a time of need, and what thou hast gained in +receiving, without addition or alteration, the story of the famous Don +Quixote of La Mancha, who is held by all the inhabitants of the +district of the Campo de Montiel to have been the chastest lover and +the bravest knight that has for many years been seen in that +neighbourhood. I have no desire to magnify the service I render thee +in making thee acquainted with so renowned and honoured a knight, +but I do desire thy thanks for the acquaintance thou wilt make with +the famous Sancho Panza, his squire, in whom, to my thinking, I have +given thee condensed all the squirely drolleries that are scattered +through the swarm of the vain books of chivalry. And so—may God +give thee health, and not forget me. Vale.</p> + +<br><br><br><br> + + +<center><h2>DEDICATION OF PART I</h2> +</center> +<br> +<p>TO THE DUKE OF BEJAR, MARQUIS OF GIBRALEON, COUNT OF BENALCAZAR +AND BANARES, VICECOUNT OF THE PUEBLA DE ALCOCER, MASTER OF THE TOWNS +OF CAPILLA, CURIEL AND BURGUILLOS</p> +<br> +<p> +In belief of the good reception and honours that Your Excellency +bestows on all sort of books, as prince so inclined to favor good +arts, chiefly those who by their nobleness do not submit to the +service and bribery of the vulgar, I have determined bringing to light +The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of la Mancha, in shelter of Your +Excellency's glamorous name, to whom, with the obeisance I owe to such +grandeur, I pray to receive it agreeably under his protection, so that +in this shadow, though deprived of that precious ornament of +elegance and erudition that clothe the works composed in the houses of +those who know, it dares appear with assurance in the judgment of some +who, trespassing the bounds of their own ignorance, use to condemn +with more rigour and less justice the writings of others. It is my +earnest hope that Your Excellency's good counsel in regard to my +honourable purpose, will not disdain the littleness of so humble a +service.</p> + +<p>Miguel de Cervantes</p> +<br><br> + +<br><br> +<center><img alt="e00.jpg (24K)" src="images/e00.jpg" height="445" width="308"> +</center> + + +<br><br><br><br><br><br> +<center><h2><a name="ch1"></a>CHAPTER I.</h2></center> +<br> +<center><h3>WHICH TREATS OF THE CHARACTER AND PURSUITS OF THE FAMOUS GENTLEMAN +DON QUIXOTE OF LA MANCHA</h3></center> + +<br><br> +<center><a name="p007"></a><img alt="p007.jpg (150K)" src="images/p007.jpg" height="437" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p007.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> + + + + +<p>In a village of La Mancha, the name of which I have no desire to +call to mind, there lived not long since one of those gentlemen that +keep a lance in the lance-rack, an old buckler, a lean hack, and a +greyhound for coursing. An olla of rather more beef than mutton, a +salad on most nights, scraps on Saturdays, lentils on Fridays, and a +pigeon or so extra on Sundays, made away with three-quarters of his +income. The rest of it went in a doublet of fine cloth and velvet +breeches and shoes to match for holidays, while on week-days he made a +brave figure in his best homespun. He had in his house a housekeeper +past forty, a niece under twenty, and a lad for the field and +market-place, who used to saddle the hack as well as handle the +bill-hook. The age of this gentleman of ours was bordering on fifty; +he was of a hardy habit, spare, gaunt-featured, a very early riser and +a great sportsman. They will have it his surname was Quixada or +Quesada (for here there is some difference of opinion among the +authors who write on the subject), although from reasonable +conjectures it seems plain that he was called Quexana. This, +however, is of but little importance to our tale; it will be enough +not to stray a hair's breadth from the truth in the telling of it.</p> + +<p>You must know, then, that the above-named gentleman whenever he +was at leisure (which was mostly all the year round) gave himself up +to reading books of chivalry with such ardour and avidity that he +almost entirely neglected the pursuit of his field-sports, and even +the management of his property; and to such a pitch did his +eagerness and infatuation go that he sold many an acre of +tillageland to buy books of chivalry to read, and brought home as many +of them as he could get. But of all there were none he liked so well +as those of the famous Feliciano de Silva's composition, for their +lucidity of style and complicated conceits were as pearls in his +sight, particularly when in his reading he came upon courtships and +cartels, where he often found passages like "the reason of the +unreason with which my reason is afflicted so weakens my reason that +with reason I murmur at your beauty;" or again, "the high heavens, +that of your divinity divinely fortify you with the stars, render +you deserving of the desert your greatness deserves." Over conceits of +this sort the poor gentleman lost his wits, and used to lie awake +striving to understand them and worm the meaning out of them; what +Aristotle himself could not have made out or extracted had he come +to life again for that special purpose. He was not at all easy about +the wounds which Don Belianis gave and took, because it seemed to +him that, great as were the surgeons who had cured him, he must have +had his face and body covered all over with seams and scars. He +commended, however, the author's way of ending his book with the +promise of that interminable adventure, and many a time was he tempted +to take up his pen and finish it properly as is there proposed, +which no doubt he would have done, and made a successful piece of work +of it too, had not greater and more absorbing thoughts prevented him.</p> + +<p>Many an argument did he have with the curate of his village (a +learned man, and a graduate of Siguenza) as to which had been the +better knight, Palmerin of England or Amadis of Gaul. Master Nicholas, +the village barber, however, used to say that neither of them came +up to the Knight of Phoebus, and that if there was any that could +compare with him it was Don Galaor, the brother of Amadis of Gaul, +because he had a spirit that was equal to every occasion, and was no +finikin knight, nor lachrymose like his brother, while in the matter +of valour he was not a whit behind him. In short, he became so +absorbed in his books that he spent his nights from sunset to sunrise, +and his days from dawn to dark, poring over them; and what with little +sleep and much reading his brains got so dry that he lost his wits. +His fancy grew full of what he used to read about in his books, +enchantments, quarrels, battles, challenges, wounds, wooings, loves, +agonies, and all sorts of impossible nonsense; and it so possessed his +mind that the whole fabric of invention and fancy he read of was true, +that to him no history in the world had more reality in it. He used to +say the Cid Ruy Diaz was a very good knight, but that he was not to be +compared with the Knight of the Burning Sword who with one back-stroke +cut in half two fierce and monstrous giants. He thought more of +Bernardo del Carpio because at Roncesvalles he slew Roland in spite of +enchantments, availing himself of the artifice of Hercules when he +strangled Antaeus the son of Terra in his arms. He approved highly +of the giant Morgante, because, although of the giant breed which is +always arrogant and ill-conditioned, he alone was affable and +well-bred. But above all he admired Reinaldos of Montalban, especially +when he saw him sallying forth from his castle and robbing everyone he +met, and when beyond the seas he stole that image of Mahomet which, as +his history says, was entirely of gold. To have a bout of kicking at +that traitor of a Ganelon he would have given his housekeeper, and his +niece into the bargain.</p> + +<p>In short, his wits being quite gone, he hit upon the strangest +notion that ever madman in this world hit upon, and that was that he +fancied it was right and requisite, as well for the support of his own +honour as for the service of his country, that he should make a +knight-errant of himself, roaming the world over in full armour and on +horseback in quest of adventures, and putting in practice himself +all that he had read of as being the usual practices of +knights-errant; righting every kind of wrong, and exposing himself +to peril and danger from which, in the issue, he was to reap eternal +renown and fame. Already the poor man saw himself crowned by the might +of his arm Emperor of Trebizond at least; and so, led away by the +intense enjoyment he found in these pleasant fancies, he set himself +forthwith to put his scheme into execution.</p> + +<p>The first thing he did was to clean up some armour that had belonged +to his great-grandfather, and had been for ages lying forgotten in a +corner eaten with rust and covered with mildew. He scoured and +polished it as best he could, but he perceived one great defect in it, +that it had no closed helmet, nothing but a simple morion. This +deficiency, however, his ingenuity supplied, for he contrived a kind +of half-helmet of pasteboard which, fitted on to the morion, looked +like a whole one. It is true that, in order to see if it was strong +and fit to stand a cut, he drew his sword and gave it a couple of +slashes, the first of which undid in an instant what had taken him a +week to do. The ease with which he had knocked it to pieces +disconcerted him somewhat, and to guard against that danger he set +to work again, fixing bars of iron on the inside until he was +satisfied with its strength; and then, not caring to try any more +experiments with it, he passed it and adopted it as a helmet of the +most perfect construction.</p> + +<p>He next proceeded to inspect his hack, which, with more quartos than +a real and more blemishes than the steed of Gonela, that "tantum +pellis et ossa fuit," surpassed in his eyes the Bucephalus of +Alexander or the Babieca of the Cid. Four days were spent in +thinking what name to give him, because (as he said to himself) it was +not right that a horse belonging to a knight so famous, and one with +such merits of his own, should be without some distinctive name, and +he strove to adapt it so as to indicate what he had been before +belonging to a knight-errant, and what he then was; for it was only +reasonable that, his master taking a new character, he should take a +new name, and that it should be a distinguished and full-sounding one, +befitting the new order and calling he was about to follow. And so, +after having composed, struck out, rejected, added to, unmade, and +remade a multitude of names out of his memory and fancy, he decided +upon calling him Rocinante, a name, to his thinking, lofty, +sonorous, and significant of his condition as a hack before he +became what he now was, the first and foremost of all the hacks in the +world.</p> + +<p>Having got a name for his horse so much to his taste, he was anxious +to get one for himself, and he was eight days more pondering over this +point, till at last he made up his mind to call himself "Don Quixote," +whence, as has been already said, the authors of this veracious +history have inferred that his name must have been beyond a doubt +Quixada, and not Quesada as others would have it. Recollecting, +however, that the valiant Amadis was not content to call himself +curtly Amadis and nothing more, but added the name of his kingdom +and country to make it famous, and called himself Amadis of Gaul, +he, like a good knight, resolved to add on the name of his, and to +style himself Don Quixote of La Mancha, whereby, he considered, he +described accurately his origin and country, and did honour to it in +taking his surname from it.</p> + +<p>So then, his armour being furbished, his morion turned into a +helmet, his hack christened, and he himself confirmed, he came to +the conclusion that nothing more was needed now but to look out for +a lady to be in love with; for a knight-errant without love was like a +tree without leaves or fruit, or a body without a soul. As he said +to himself, "If, for my sins, or by my good fortune, I come across +some giant hereabouts, a common occurrence with knights-errant, and +overthrow him in one onslaught, or cleave him asunder to the waist, +or, in short, vanquish and subdue him, will it not be well to have +some one I may send him to as a present, that he may come in and +fall on his knees before my sweet lady, and in a humble, submissive +voice say, 'I am the giant Caraculiambro, lord of the island of +Malindrania, vanquished in single combat by the never sufficiently +extolled knight Don Quixote of La Mancha, who has commanded me to +present myself before your Grace, that your Highness dispose of me +at your pleasure'?" Oh, how our good gentleman enjoyed the delivery of +this speech, especially when he had thought of some one to call his +Lady! There was, so the story goes, in a village near his own a very +good-looking farm-girl with whom he had been at one time in love, +though, so far as is known, she never knew it nor gave a thought to +the matter. Her name was Aldonza Lorenzo, and upon her he thought +fit to confer the title of Lady of his Thoughts; and after some search +for a name which should not be out of harmony with her own, and should +suggest and indicate that of a princess and great lady, he decided +upon calling her Dulcinea del Toboso—she being of El Toboso—a name, +to his mind, musical, uncommon, and significant, like all those he had +already bestowed upon himself and the things belonging to him.</p> + + + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p007b"></a><img alt="p007b.jpg (61K)" src="images/p007b.jpg" height="485" width="623"> +</center> + + +<br><br><br><br><br><br> +<center><h2><a name="ch2"></a>CHAPTER II.</h2></center> +<br> +<center><h3>WHICH TREATS OF THE FIRST SALLY THE INGENIOUS DON QUIXOTE MADE FROM HOME +</h3></center> + +<br><br> +<center><a name="p007c"></a><img alt="p007c.jpg (97K)" src="images/p007c.jpg" height="265" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p007c.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<p>These preliminaries settled, he did not care to put off any longer +the execution of his design, urged on to it by the thought of all +the world was losing by his delay, seeing what wrongs he intended to +right, grievances to redress, injustices to repair, abuses to +remove, and duties to discharge. So, without giving notice of his +intention to anyone, and without anybody seeing him, one morning +before the dawning of the day (which was one of the hottest of the +month of July) he donned his suit of armour, mounted Rocinante with +his patched-up helmet on, braced his buckler, took his lance, and by +the back door of the yard sallied forth upon the plain in the +highest contentment and satisfaction at seeing with what ease he had +made a beginning with his grand purpose. But scarcely did he find +himself upon the open plain, when a terrible thought struck him, one +all but enough to make him abandon the enterprise at the very +outset. It occurred to him that he had not been dubbed a knight, and +that according to the law of chivalry he neither could nor ought to +bear arms against any knight; and that even if he had been, still he +ought, as a novice knight, to wear white armour, without a device upon +the shield until by his prowess he had earned one. These reflections +made him waver in his purpose, but his craze being stronger than any +reasoning, he made up his mind to have himself dubbed a knight by +the first one he came across, following the example of others in the +same case, as he had read in the books that brought him to this +pass. As for white armour, he resolved, on the first opportunity, to +scour his until it was whiter than an ermine; and so comforting +himself he pursued his way, taking that which his horse chose, for +in this he believed lay the essence of adventures.</p> + +<p>Thus setting out, our new-fledged adventurer paced along, talking to +himself and saying, "Who knows but that in time to come, when the +veracious history of my famous deeds is made known, the sage who +writes it, when he has to set forth my first sally in the early +morning, will do it after this fashion? 'Scarce had the rubicund +Apollo spread o'er the face of the broad spacious earth the golden +threads of his bright hair, scarce had the little birds of painted +plumage attuned their notes to hail with dulcet and mellifluous +harmony the coming of the rosy Dawn, that, deserting the soft couch of +her jealous spouse, was appearing to mortals at the gates and +balconies of the Manchegan horizon, when the renowned knight Don +Quixote of La Mancha, quitting the lazy down, mounted his celebrated +steed Rocinante and began to traverse the ancient and famous Campo +de Montiel;'" which in fact he was actually traversing. "Happy the +age, happy the time," he continued, "in which shall be made known my +deeds of fame, worthy to be moulded in brass, carved in marble, limned +in pictures, for a memorial for ever. And thou, O sage magician, +whoever thou art, to whom it shall fall to be the chronicler of this +wondrous history, forget not, I entreat thee, my good Rocinante, the +constant companion of my ways and wanderings." Presently he broke +out again, as if he were love-stricken in earnest, "O Princess +Dulcinea, lady of this captive heart, a grievous wrong hast thou +done me to drive me forth with scorn, and with inexorable obduracy +banish me from the presence of thy beauty. O lady, deign to hold in +remembrance this heart, thy vassal, that thus in anguish pines for +love of thee."</p> + +<p>So he went on stringing together these and other absurdities, all in +the style of those his books had taught him, imitating their +language as well as he could; and all the while he rode so slowly +and the sun mounted so rapidly and with such fervour that it was +enough to melt his brains if he had any. Nearly all day he travelled +without anything remarkable happening to him, at which he was in +despair, for he was anxious to encounter some one at once upon whom to +try the might of his strong arm.</p> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p008"></a><img alt="p008.jpg (289K)" src="images/p008.jpg" height="512" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p008.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<p>Writers there are who say the first adventure he met with was that +of Puerto Lapice; others say it was that of the windmills; but what +I have ascertained on this point, and what I have found written in the +annals of La Mancha, is that he was on the road all day, and towards +nightfall his hack and he found themselves dead tired and hungry, +when, looking all around to see if he could discover any castle or +shepherd's shanty where he might refresh himself and relieve his +sore wants, he perceived not far out of his road an inn, which was +as welcome as a star guiding him to the portals, if not the palaces, +of his redemption; and quickening his pace he reached it just as night +was setting in. At the door were standing two young women, girls of +the district as they call them, on their way to Seville with some +carriers who had chanced to halt that night at the inn; and as, happen +what might to our adventurer, everything he saw or imaged seemed to +him to be and to happen after the fashion of what he read of, the +moment he saw the inn he pictured it to himself as a castle with its +four turrets and pinnacles of shining silver, not forgetting the +drawbridge and moat and all the belongings usually ascribed to castles +of the sort. To this inn, which to him seemed a castle, he advanced, +and at a short distance from it he checked Rocinante, hoping that some +dwarf would show himself upon the battlements, and by sound of trumpet +give notice that a knight was approaching the castle. But seeing +that they were slow about it, and that Rocinante was in a hurry to +reach the stable, he made for the inn door, and perceived the two +gay damsels who were standing there, and who seemed to him to be two +fair maidens or lovely ladies taking their ease at the castle gate.</p> + +<p>At this moment it so happened that a swineherd who was going through +the stubbles collecting a drove of pigs (for, without any apology, +that is what they are called) gave a blast of his horn to bring them +together, and forthwith it seemed to Don Quixote to be what he was +expecting, the signal of some dwarf announcing his arrival; and so +with prodigious satisfaction he rode up to the inn and to the +ladies, who, seeing a man of this sort approaching in full armour +and with lance and buckler, were turning in dismay into the inn, +when Don Quixote, guessing their fear by their flight, raising his +pasteboard visor, disclosed his dry dusty visage, and with courteous +bearing and gentle voice addressed them, "Your ladyships need not +fly or fear any rudeness, for that it belongs not to the order of +knighthood which I profess to offer to anyone, much less to highborn +maidens as your appearance proclaims you to be." The girls were +looking at him and straining their eyes to make out the features which +the clumsy visor obscured, but when they heard themselves called +maidens, a thing so much out of their line, they could not restrain +their laughter, which made Don Quixote wax indignant, and say, +"Modesty becomes the fair, and moreover laughter that has little cause +is great silliness; this, however, I say not to pain or anger you, for +my desire is none other than to serve you."</p> + +<p>The incomprehensible language and the unpromising looks of our +cavalier only increased the ladies' laughter, and that increased his +irritation, and matters might have gone farther if at that moment +the landlord had not come out, who, being a very fat man, was a very +peaceful one. He, seeing this grotesque figure clad in armour that did +not match any more than his saddle, bridle, lance, buckler, or +corselet, was not at all indisposed to join the damsels in their +manifestations of amusement; but, in truth, standing in awe of such +a complicated armament, he thought it best to speak him fairly, so +he said, "Senor Caballero, if your worship wants lodging, bating the +bed (for there is not one in the inn) there is plenty of everything +else here." Don Quixote, observing the respectful bearing of the +Alcaide of the fortress (for so innkeeper and inn seemed in his eyes), +made answer, "Sir Castellan, for me anything will suffice, for</p> + + +<pre>'My armour is my only wear, +My only rest the fray.'"</pre> + +<p>The host fancied he called him Castellan because he took him for a +"worthy of Castile," though he was in fact an Andalusian, and one from +the strand of San Lucar, as crafty a thief as Cacus and as full of +tricks as a student or a page. "In that case," said he,</p> + +<pre>"'Your bed is on the flinty rock, +Your sleep to watch alway;'</pre> + +<p>and if so, you may dismount and safely reckon upon any quantity of +sleeplessness under this roof for a twelvemonth, not to say for a +single night." So saying, he advanced to hold the stirrup for Don +Quixote, who got down with great difficulty and exertion (for he had +not broken his fast all day), and then charged the host to take +great care of his horse, as he was the best bit of flesh that ever ate +bread in this world. The landlord eyed him over but did not find him +as good as Don Quixote said, nor even half as good; and putting him up +in the stable, he returned to see what might be wanted by his guest, +whom the damsels, who had by this time made their peace with him, were +now relieving of his armour. They had taken off his breastplate and +backpiece, but they neither knew nor saw how to open his gorget or +remove his make-shift helmet, for he had fastened it with green +ribbons, which, as there was no untying the knots, required to be cut. +This, however, he would not by any means consent to, so he remained +all the evening with his helmet on, the drollest and oddest figure +that can be imagined; and while they were removing his armour, +taking the baggages who were about it for ladies of high degree +belonging to the castle, he said to them with great sprightliness:</p> + +<pre>"Oh, never, surely, was there knight + So served by hand of dame, +As served was he, Don Quixote hight, + When from his town he came; +With maidens waiting on himself, + Princesses on his hack— +</pre> +<p>—or Rocinante, for that, ladies mine, is my horse's name, and Don +Quixote of La Mancha is my own; for though I had no intention of +declaring myself until my achievements in your service and honour +had made me known, the necessity of adapting that old ballad of +Lancelot to the present occasion has given you the knowledge of my +name altogether prematurely. A time, however, will come for your +ladyships to command and me to obey, and then the might of my arm will +show my desire to serve you."</p> + +<p>The girls, who were not used to hearing rhetoric of this sort, had +nothing to say in reply; they only asked him if he wanted anything +to eat. "I would gladly eat a bit of something," said Don Quixote, +"for I feel it would come very seasonably." The day happened to be a +Friday, and in the whole inn there was nothing but some pieces of +the fish they call in Castile "abadejo," in Andalusia "bacallao," +and in some places "curadillo," and in others "troutlet;" so they +asked him if he thought he could eat troutlet, for there was no +other fish to give him. "If there be troutlets enough," said Don +Quixote, "they will be the same thing as a trout; for it is all one to +me whether I am given eight reals in small change or a piece of eight; +moreover, it may be that these troutlets are like veal, which is +better than beef, or kid, which is better than goat. But whatever it +be let it come quickly, for the burden and pressure of arms cannot +be borne without support to the inside." They laid a table for him +at the door of the inn for the sake of the air, and the host brought +him a portion of ill-soaked and worse cooked stockfish, and a piece of +bread as black and mouldy as his own armour; but a laughable sight +it was to see him eating, for having his helmet on and the beaver +up, he could not with his own hands put anything into his mouth unless +some one else placed it there, and this service one of the ladies +rendered him. But to give him anything to drink was impossible, or +would have been so had not the landlord bored a reed, and putting +one end in his mouth poured the wine into him through the other; all +which he bore with patience rather than sever the ribbons of his +helmet.</p> + +<p>While this was going on there came up to the inn a sowgelder, who, +as he approached, sounded his reed pipe four or five times, and +thereby completely convinced Don Quixote that he was in some famous +castle, and that they were regaling him with music, and that the +stockfish was trout, the bread the whitest, the wenches ladies, and +the landlord the castellan of the castle; and consequently he held +that his enterprise and sally had been to some purpose. But still it +distressed him to think he had not been dubbed a knight, for it was +plain to him he could not lawfully engage in any adventure without +receiving the order of knighthood.</p> + +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<center><img alt="e02.jpg (39K)" src="images/e02.jpg" height="381" width="575"> +</center> + + +<br><br><br><br><br><br> +<center><h2><a name="ch3"></a>CHAPTER III.</h2></center> +<br> +<center><h3>WHEREIN IS RELATED THE DROLL WAY IN WHICH DON QUIXOTE HAD HIMSELF +DUBBED A KNIGHT +</h3></center> +<br> +<br> +<center><a name="p009"></a><img alt="p009.jpg (164K)" src="images/p009.jpg" height="423" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p009.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<p>Harassed by this reflection, he made haste with his scanty +pothouse supper, and having finished it called the landlord, and +shutting himself into the stable with him, fell on his knees before +him, saying, "From this spot I rise not, valiant knight, until your +courtesy grants me the boon I seek, one that will redound to your +praise and the benefit of the human race." The landlord, seeing his +guest at his feet and hearing a speech of this kind, stood staring +at him in bewilderment, not knowing what to do or say, and +entreating him to rise, but all to no purpose until he had agreed to +grant the boon demanded of him. "I looked for no less, my lord, from +your High Magnificence," replied Don Quixote, "and I have to tell +you that the boon I have asked and your liberality has granted is that +you shall dub me knight to-morrow morning, and that to-night I shall +watch my arms in the chapel of this your castle; thus tomorrow, as I +have said, will be accomplished what I so much desire, enabling me +lawfully to roam through all the four quarters of the world seeking +adventures on behalf of those in distress, as is the duty of +chivalry and of knights-errant like myself, whose ambition is directed +to such deeds."</p> + +<p>The landlord, who, as has been mentioned, was something of a wag, +and had already some suspicion of his guest's want of wits, was +quite convinced of it on hearing talk of this kind from him, and to +make sport for the night he determined to fall in with his humour. +So he told him he was quite right in pursuing the object he had in +view, and that such a motive was natural and becoming in cavaliers +as distinguished as he seemed and his gallant bearing showed him to +be; and that he himself in his younger days had followed the same +honourable calling, roaming in quest of adventures in various parts of +the world, among others the Curing-grounds of Malaga, the Isles of +Riaran, the Precinct of Seville, the Little Market of Segovia, the +Olivera of Valencia, the Rondilla of Granada, the Strand of San Lucar, +the Colt of Cordova, the Taverns of Toledo, and divers other quarters, +where he had proved the nimbleness of his feet and the lightness of +his fingers, doing many wrongs, cheating many widows, ruining maids +and swindling minors, and, in short, bringing himself under the notice +of almost every tribunal and court of justice in Spain; until at +last he had retired to this castle of his, where he was living upon +his property and upon that of others; and where he received all +knights-errant of whatever rank or condition they might be, all for +the great love he bore them and that they might share their +substance with him in return for his benevolence. He told him, +moreover, that in this castle of his there was no chapel in which he +could watch his armour, as it had been pulled down in order to be +rebuilt, but that in a case of necessity it might, he knew, be watched +anywhere, and he might watch it that night in a courtyard of the +castle, and in the morning, God willing, the requisite ceremonies +might be performed so as to have him dubbed a knight, and so +thoroughly dubbed that nobody could be more so. He asked if he had any +money with him, to which Don Quixote replied that he had not a +farthing, as in the histories of knights-errant he had never read of +any of them carrying any. On this point the landlord told him he was +mistaken; for, though not recorded in the histories, because in the +author's opinion there was no need to mention anything so obvious +and necessary as money and clean shirts, it was not to be supposed +therefore that they did not carry them, and he might regard it as +certain and established that all knights-errant (about whom there were +so many full and unimpeachable books) carried well-furnished purses in +case of emergency, and likewise carried shirts and a little box of +ointment to cure the wounds they received. For in those plains and +deserts where they engaged in combat and came out wounded, it was +not always that there was some one to cure them, unless indeed they +had for a friend some sage magician to succour them at once by +fetching through the air upon a cloud some damsel or dwarf with a vial +of water of such virtue that by tasting one drop of it they were cured +of their hurts and wounds in an instant and left as sound as if they +had not received any damage whatever. But in case this should not +occur, the knights of old took care to see that their squires were +provided with money and other requisites, such as lint and ointments +for healing purposes; and when it happened that knights had no squires +(which was rarely and seldom the case) they themselves carried +everything in cunning saddle-bags that were hardly seen on the horse's +croup, as if it were something else of more importance, because, +unless for some such reason, carrying saddle-bags was not very +favourably regarded among knights-errant. He therefore advised him +(and, as his godson so soon to be, he might even command him) never +from that time forth to travel without money and the usual +requirements, and he would find the advantage of them when he least +expected it.</p> + +<p>Don Quixote promised to follow his advice scrupulously, and it was +arranged forthwith that he should watch his armour in a large yard +at one side of the inn; so, collecting it all together, Don Quixote +placed it on a trough that stood by the side of a well, and bracing +his buckler on his arm he grasped his lance and began with a stately +air to march up and down in front of the trough, and as he began his +march night began to fall.</p> + +<p>The landlord told all the people who were in the inn about the craze +of his guest, the watching of the armour, and the dubbing ceremony +he contemplated. Full of wonder at so strange a form of madness, +they flocked to see it from a distance, and observed with what +composure he sometimes paced up and down, or sometimes, leaning on his +lance, gazed on his armour without taking his eyes off it for ever +so long; and as the night closed in with a light from the moon so +brilliant that it might vie with his that lent it, everything the +novice knight did was plainly seen by all.</p> + +<p>Meanwhile one of the carriers who were in the inn thought fit to +water his team, and it was necessary to remove Don Quixote's armour as +it lay on the trough; but he seeing the other approach hailed him in a +loud voice, "O thou, whoever thou art, rash knight that comest to +lay hands on the armour of the most valorous errant that ever girt +on sword, have a care what thou dost; touch it not unless thou wouldst +lay down thy life as the penalty of thy rashness." The carrier gave no +heed to these words (and he would have done better to heed them if +he had been heedful of his health), but seizing it by the straps flung +the armour some distance from him. Seeing this, Don Quixote raised his +eyes to heaven, and fixing his thoughts, apparently, upon his lady +Dulcinea, exclaimed, "Aid me, lady mine, in this the first encounter +that presents itself to this breast which thou holdest in subjection; +let not thy favour and protection fail me in this first jeopardy;" +and, with these words and others to the same purpose, dropping his +buckler he lifted his lance with both hands and with it smote such a +blow on the carrier's head that he stretched him on the ground, so +stunned that had he followed it up with a second there would have been +no need of a surgeon to cure him. This done, he picked up his armour +and returned to his beat with the same serenity as before.</p> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p010"></a><img alt="p010.jpg (261K)" src="images/p010.jpg" height="835" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p010.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<p>Shortly after this, another, not knowing what had happened (for +the carrier still lay senseless), came with the same object of +giving water to his mules, and was proceeding to remove the armour +in order to clear the trough, when Don Quixote, without uttering a +word or imploring aid from anyone, once more dropped his buckler and +once more lifted his lance, and without actually breaking the second +carrier's head into pieces, made more than three of it, for he laid it +open in four. At the noise all the people of the inn ran to the +spot, and among them the landlord. Seeing this, Don Quixote braced his +buckler on his arm, and with his hand on his sword exclaimed, "O +Lady of Beauty, strength and support of my faint heart, it is time for +thee to turn the eyes of thy greatness on this thy captive knight on +the brink of so mighty an adventure." By this he felt himself so +inspired that he would not have flinched if all the carriers in the +world had assailed him. The comrades of the wounded perceiving the +plight they were in began from a distance to shower stones on Don +Quixote, who screened himself as best he could with his buckler, not +daring to quit the trough and leave his armour unprotected. The +landlord shouted to them to leave him alone, for he had already told +them that he was mad, and as a madman he would not be accountable even +if he killed them all. Still louder shouted Don Quixote, calling +them knaves and traitors, and the lord of the castle, who allowed +knights-errant to be treated in this fashion, a villain and a low-born +knight whom, had he received the order of knighthood, he would call to +account for his treachery. "But of you," he cried, "base and vile +rabble, I make no account; fling, strike, come on, do all ye can +against me, ye shall see what the reward of your folly and insolence +will be." This he uttered with so much spirit and boldness that he +filled his assailants with a terrible fear, and as much for this +reason as at the persuasion of the landlord they left off stoning him, +and he allowed them to carry off the wounded, and with the same +calmness and composure as before resumed the watch over his armour.</p> + +<p>But these freaks of his guest were not much to the liking of the +landlord, so he determined to cut matters short and confer upon him at +once the unlucky order of knighthood before any further misadventure +could occur; so, going up to him, he apologised for the rudeness +which, without his knowledge, had been offered to him by these low +people, who, however, had been well punished for their audacity. As he +had already told him, he said, there was no chapel in the castle, +nor was it needed for what remained to be done, for, as he +understood the ceremonial of the order, the whole point of being +dubbed a knight lay in the accolade and in the slap on the shoulder, +and that could be administered in the middle of a field; and that he +had now done all that was needful as to watching the armour, for all +requirements were satisfied by a watch of two hours only, while he had +been more than four about it. Don Quixote believed it all, and told +him he stood there ready to obey him, and to make an end of it with as +much despatch as possible; for, if he were again attacked, and felt +himself to be dubbed knight, he would not, he thought, leave a soul +alive in the castle, except such as out of respect he might spare at +his bidding.</p> + +<p>Thus warned and menaced, the castellan forthwith brought out a +book in which he used to enter the straw and barley he served out to +the carriers, and, with a lad carrying a candle-end, and the two +damsels already mentioned, he returned to where Don Quixote stood, and +bade him kneel down. Then, reading from his account-book as if he were +repeating some devout prayer, in the middle of his delivery he +raised his hand and gave him a sturdy blow on the neck, and then, with +his own sword, a smart slap on the shoulder, all the while muttering +between his teeth as if he was saying his prayers. Having done this, +he directed one of the ladies to gird on his sword, which she did with +great self-possession and gravity, and not a little was required to +prevent a burst of laughter at each stage of the ceremony; but what +they had already seen of the novice knight's prowess kept their +laughter within bounds. On girding him with the sword the worthy +lady said to him, "May God make your worship a very fortunate +knight, and grant you success in battle." Don Quixote asked her name +in order that he might from that time forward know to whom he was +beholden for the favour he had received, as he meant to confer upon +her some portion of the honour he acquired by the might of his arm. +She answered with great humility that she was called La Tolosa, and +that she was the daughter of a cobbler of Toledo who lived in the +stalls of Sanchobienaya, and that wherever she might be she would +serve and esteem him as her lord. Don Quixote said in reply that she +would do him a favour if thenceforward she assumed the "Don" and +called herself Dona Tolosa. She promised she would, and then the other +buckled on his spur, and with her followed almost the same +conversation as with the lady of the sword. He asked her name, and she +said it was La Molinera, and that she was the daughter of a +respectable miller of Antequera; and of her likewise Don Quixote +requested that she would adopt the "Don" and call herself Dona +Molinera, making offers to her further services and favours.</p> + +<p>Having thus, with hot haste and speed, brought to a conclusion these +never-till-now-seen ceremonies, Don Quixote was on thorns until he saw +himself on horseback sallying forth in quest of adventures; and +saddling Rocinante at once he mounted, and embracing his host, as he +returned thanks for his kindness in knighting him, he addressed him in +language so extraordinary that it is impossible to convey an idea of +it or report it. The landlord, to get him out of the inn, replied with +no less rhetoric though with shorter words, and without calling upon +him to pay the reckoning let him go with a Godspeed.</p> + + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p017"></a><img alt="p017.jpg (54K)" src="images/p017.jpg" height="435" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p017.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> + +<br> +<br> + + + +<center> +<table summary="" cellPadding=4 border=3> +<tr><td> + <a href="p2.htm">Next Part</a> +</td><td> + <a href="5921-h.htm">Main Index</a> + </td></tr> +</table> +</center> +<br><br> + +</body> +</html> + diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/p10.htm b/old/orig5921-h/p10.htm new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6d7c5f8 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/p10.htm @@ -0,0 +1,704 @@ +<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> +<html> +<head> +<title>THE HISTORY OF DON QUIXOTE, By Cervantes, Vol. I., Part 10.</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> + +<center> +<table summary="" cellPadding=4 border=3> +<tr><td> + <a href="p9.htm">Previous Part</a> +</td><td> + <a href="5921-h.htm">Main Index</a> +</td><td> + <a href="p11.htm">Next Part</a> + </td></tr> +</table> +</center> +<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 10. +<br><br> +Chapter 28 +</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="#ch28">CHAPTER XXVIII</a> +WHICH TREATS OF THE STRANGE AND DELIGHTFUL ADVENTURE +THAT BEFELL THE CURATE AND THE BARBER IN THE SAME SIERRA + +</pre> + +<br><br><br><br> + + + +<br><br> +<center><h2><a name="ch28"></a>CHAPTER XXVIII.</h2></center> +<br> +<center><h3>WHICH TREATS OF THE STRANGE AND DELIGHTFUL ADVENTURE THAT BEFELL THE +CURATE AND THE BARBER IN THE SAME SIERRA +</h3></center> +<br> +<br> + +<center><a name="c28a"></a><img alt="c28a.jpg (159K)" src="images/c28a.jpg" height="446" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/c28a.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<p>Happy and fortunate were the times when that most daring knight +Don Quixote of La Mancha was sent into the world; for by reason of his +having formed a resolution so honourable as that of seeking to +revive and restore to the world the long-lost and almost defunct order +of knight-errantry, we now enjoy in this age of ours, so poor in light +entertainment, not only the charm of his veracious history, but also +of the tales and episodes contained in it which are, in a measure, +no less pleasing, ingenious, and truthful, than the history itself; +which, resuming its thread, carded, spun, and wound, relates that just +as the curate was going to offer consolation to Cardenio, he was +interrupted by a voice that fell upon his ear saying in plaintive +tones:</p> + +<p>"O God! is it possible I have found a place that may serve as a +secret grave for the weary load of this body that I support so +unwillingly? If the solitude these mountains promise deceives me +not, it is so; ah! woe is me! how much more grateful to my mind will +be the society of these rocks and brakes that permit me to complain of +my misfortune to Heaven, than that of any human being, for there is +none on earth to look to for counsel in doubt, comfort in sorrow, or +relief in distress!"</p> + +<p>All this was heard distinctly by the curate and those with him, +and as it seemed to them to be uttered close by, as indeed it was, +they got up to look for the speaker, and before they had gone twenty +paces they discovered behind a rock, seated at the foot of an ash +tree, a youth in the dress of a peasant, whose face they were unable +at the moment to see as he was leaning forward, bathing his feet in +the brook that flowed past. They approached so silently that he did +not perceive them, being fully occupied in bathing his feet, which +were so fair that they looked like two pieces of shining crystal +brought forth among the other stones of the brook. The whiteness and +beauty of these feet struck them with surprise, for they did not +seem to have been made to crush clods or to follow the plough and +the oxen as their owner's dress suggested; and so, finding they had +not been noticed, the curate, who was in front, made a sign to the +other two to conceal themselves behind some fragments of rock that lay +there; which they did, observing closely what the youth was about. +He had on a loose double-skirted dark brown jacket bound tight to +his body with a white cloth; he wore besides breeches and gaiters of +brown cloth, and on his head a brown montera; and he had the gaiters +turned up as far as the middle of the leg, which verily seemed to be +of pure alabaster.</p> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="c28b"></a><img alt="c28b.jpg (339K)" src="images/c28b.jpg" height="822" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/c28b.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<p>As soon as he had done bathing his beautiful feet, he wiped them +with a towel he took from under the montera, on taking off which he +raised his face, and those who were watching him had an opportunity of +seeing a beauty so exquisite that Cardenio said to the curate in a +whisper:</p> + +<p>"As this is not Luscinda, it is no human creature but a divine +being."</p> + +<p>The youth then took off the montera, and shaking his head from +side to side there broke loose and spread out a mass of hair that +the beams of the sun might have envied; by this they knew that what +had seemed a peasant was a lovely woman, nay the most beautiful the +eyes of two of them had ever beheld, or even Cardenio's if they had +not seen and known Luscinda, for he afterwards declared that only +the beauty of Luscinda could compare with this. The long auburn +tresses not only covered her shoulders, but such was their length +and abundance, concealed her all round beneath their masses, so that +except the feet nothing of her form was visible. She now used her +hands as a comb, and if her feet had seemed like bits of crystal in +the water, her hands looked like pieces of driven snow among her +locks; all which increased not only the admiration of the three +beholders, but their anxiety to learn who she was. With this object +they resolved to show themselves, and at the stir they made in getting +upon their feet the fair damsel raised her head, and parting her +hair from before her eyes with both hands, she looked to see who had +made the noise, and the instant she perceived them she started to +her feet, and without waiting to put on her shoes or gather up her +hair, hastily snatched up a bundle as though of clothes that she had +beside her, and, scared and alarmed, endeavoured to take flight; but +before she had gone six paces she fell to the ground, her delicate +feet being unable to bear the roughness of the stones; seeing which, +the three hastened towards her, and the curate addressing her first +said:</p> + +<p>"Stay, senora, whoever you may be, for those whom you see here +only desire to be of service to you; you have no need to attempt a +flight so heedless, for neither can your feet bear it, nor we allow +it."</p> + +<p>Taken by surprise and bewildered, she made no reply to these +words. They, however, came towards her, and the curate taking her hand +went on to say:</p> + +<p>"What your dress would hide, senora, is made known to us by your +hair; a clear proof that it can be no trifling cause that has +disguised your beauty in a garb so unworthy of it, and sent it into +solitudes like these where we have had the good fortune to find you, +if not to relieve your distress, at least to offer you comfort; for no +distress, so long as life lasts, can be so oppressive or reach such +a height as to make the sufferer refuse to listen to comfort offered +with good intention. And so, senora, or senor, or whatever you +prefer to be, dismiss the fears that our appearance has caused you and +make us acquainted with your good or evil fortunes, for from all of us +together, or from each one of us, you will receive sympathy in your +trouble."</p> + +<p>While the curate was speaking, the disguised damsel stood as if +spell-bound, looking at them without opening her lips or uttering a +word, just like a village rustic to whom something strange that he has +never seen before has been suddenly shown; but on the curate +addressing some further words to the same effect to her, sighing +deeply she broke silence and said:</p> + +<p>"Since the solitude of these mountains has been unable to conceal +me, and the escape of my dishevelled tresses will not allow my +tongue to deal in falsehoods, it would be idle for me now to make +any further pretence of what, if you were to believe me, you would +believe more out of courtesy than for any other reason. This being so, +I say I thank you, sirs, for the offer you have made me, which +places me under the obligation of complying with the request you +have made of me; though I fear the account I shall give you of my +misfortunes will excite in you as much concern as compassion, for +you will be unable to suggest anything to remedy them or any +consolation to alleviate them. However, that my honour may not be left +a matter of doubt in your minds, now that you have discovered me to be +a woman, and see that I am young, alone, and in this dress, things +that taken together or separately would be enough to destroy any +good name, I feel bound to tell what I would willingly keep secret +if I could."</p> + +<p>All this she who was now seen to be a lovely woman delivered without +any hesitation, with so much ease and in so sweet a voice that they +were not less charmed by her intelligence than by her beauty, and as +they again repeated their offers and entreaties to her to fulfil her +promise, she without further pressing, first modestly covering her +feet and gathering up her hair, seated herself on a stone with the +three placed around her, and, after an effort to restrain some tears +that came to her eyes, in a clear and steady voice began her story +thus:</p> + +<p>"In this Andalusia there is a town from which a duke takes a title +which makes him one of those that are called Grandees of Spain. This +nobleman has two sons, the elder heir to his dignity and apparently to +his good qualities; the younger heir to I know not what, unless it +be the treachery of Vellido and the falsehood of Ganelon. My parents +are this lord's vassals, lowly in origin, but so wealthy that if birth +had conferred as much on them as fortune, they would have had +nothing left to desire, nor should I have had reason to fear trouble +like that in which I find myself now; for it may be that my ill +fortune came of theirs in not having been nobly born. It is true +they are not so low that they have any reason to be ashamed of their +condition, but neither are they so high as to remove from my mind +the impression that my mishap comes of their humble birth. They are, +in short, peasants, plain homely people, without any taint of +disreputable blood, and, as the saying is, old rusty Christians, but +so rich that by their wealth and free-handed way of life they are +coming by degrees to be considered gentlefolk by birth, and even by +position; though the wealth and nobility they thought most of was +having me for their daughter; and as they have no other child to +make their heir, and are affectionate parents, I was one of the most +indulged daughters that ever parents indulged.</p> + +<p>"I was the mirror in which they beheld themselves, the staff of +their old age, and the object in which, with submission to Heaven, all +their wishes centred, and mine were in accordance with theirs, for I +knew their worth; and as I was mistress of their hearts, so was I also +of their possessions. Through me they engaged or dismissed their +servants; through my hands passed the accounts and returns of what was +sown and reaped; the oil-mills, the wine-presses, the count of the +flocks and herds, the beehives, all in short that a rich farmer like +my father has or can have, I had under my care, and I acted as steward +and mistress with an assiduity on my part and satisfaction on theirs +that I cannot well describe to you. The leisure hours left to me after +I had given the requisite orders to the head-shepherds, overseers, and +other labourers, I passed in such employments as are not only +allowable but necessary for young girls, those that the needle, +embroidery cushion, and spinning wheel usually afford, and if to +refresh my mind I quitted them for a while, I found recreation in +reading some devotional book or playing the harp, for experience +taught me that music soothes the troubled mind and relieves +weariness of spirit. Such was the life I led in my parents' house +and if I have depicted it thus minutely, it is not out of ostentation, +or to let you know that I am rich, but that you may see how, without +any fault of mine, I have fallen from the happy condition I have +described, to the misery I am in at present. The truth is, that +while I was leading this busy life, in a retirement that might compare +with that of a monastery, and unseen as I thought by any except the +servants of the house (for when I went to Mass it was so early in +the morning, and I was so closely attended by my mother and the +women of the household, and so thickly veiled and so shy, that my eyes +scarcely saw more ground than I trod on), in spite of all this, the +eyes of love, or idleness, more properly speaking, that the lynx's +cannot rival, discovered me, with the help of the assiduity of Don +Fernando; for that is the name of the younger son of the duke I told +of."</p> + +<p>The moment the speaker mentioned the name of Don Fernando, +Cardenio changed colour and broke into a sweat, with such signs of +emotion that the curate and the barber, who observed it, feared that +one of the mad fits which they heard attacked him sometimes was coming +upon him; but Cardenio showed no further agitation and remained quiet, +regarding the peasant girl with fixed attention, for he began to +suspect who she was. She, however, without noticing the excitement +of Cardenio, continuing her story, went on to say:</p> + +<p>"And they had hardly discovered me, when, as he owned afterwards, he +was smitten with a violent love for me, as the manner in which it +displayed itself plainly showed. But to shorten the long recital of my +woes, I will pass over in silence all the artifices employed by Don +Fernando for declaring his passion for me. He bribed all the +household, he gave and offered gifts and presents to my parents; every +day was like a holiday or a merry-making in our street; by night no +one could sleep for the music; the love letters that used to come to +my hand, no one knew how, were innumerable, full of tender pleadings +and pledges, containing more promises and oaths than there were +letters in them; all which not only did not soften me, but hardened my +heart against him, as if he had been my mortal enemy, and as if +everything he did to make me yield were done with the opposite +intention. Not that the high-bred bearing of Don Fernando was +disagreeable to me, or that I found his importunities wearisome; for +it gave me a certain sort of satisfaction to find myself so sought and +prized by a gentleman of such distinction, and I was not displeased at +seeing my praises in his letters (for however ugly we women may be, it +seems to me it always pleases us to hear ourselves called beautiful) +but that my own sense of right was opposed to all this, as well as the +repeated advice of my parents, who now very plainly perceived Don +Fernando's purpose, for he cared very little if all the world knew it. +They told me they trusted and confided their honour and good name to +my virtue and rectitude alone, and bade me consider the disparity +between Don Fernando and myself, from which I might conclude that +his intentions, whatever he might say to the contrary, had for their +aim his own pleasure rather than my advantage; and if I were at all +desirous of opposing an obstacle to his unreasonable suit, they were +ready, they said, to marry me at once to anyone I preferred, either +among the leading people of our own town, or of any of those in the +neighbourhood; for with their wealth and my good name, a match might +be looked for in any quarter. This offer, and their sound advice +strengthened my resolution, and I never gave Don Fernando a word in +reply that could hold out to him any hope of success, however remote.</p> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="c28c"></a><img alt="c28c.jpg (279K)" src="images/c28c.jpg" height="814" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/c28c.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<p>"All this caution of mine, which he must have taken for coyness, had +apparently the effect of increasing his wanton appetite—for that is +the name I give to his passion for me; had it been what he declared it +to be, you would not know of it now, because there would have been +no occasion to tell you of it. At length he learned that my parents +were contemplating marriage for me in order to put an end to his hopes +of obtaining possession of me, or at least to secure additional +protectors to watch over me, and this intelligence or suspicion made +him act as you shall hear. One night, as I was in my chamber with no +other companion than a damsel who waited on me, with the doors +carefully locked lest my honour should be imperilled through any +carelessness, I know not nor can conceive how it happened, but, with +all this seclusion and these precautions, and in the solitude and +silence of my retirement, I found him standing before me, a vision +that so astounded me that it deprived my eyes of sight, and my +tongue of speech. I had no power to utter a cry, nor, I think, did +he give me time to utter one, as he immediately approached me, and +taking me in his arms (for, overwhelmed as I was, I was powerless, I +say, to help myself), he began to make such professions to me that I +know not how falsehood could have had the power of dressing them up to +seem so like truth; and the traitor contrived that his tears should +vouch for his words, and his sighs for his sincerity.</p> + +<p>"I, a poor young creature alone, ill versed among my people in cases +such as this, began, I know not how, to think all these lying +protestations true, though without being moved by his sighs and +tears to anything more than pure compassion; and so, as the first +feeling of bewilderment passed away, and I began in some degree to +recover myself, I said to him with more courage than I thought I could +have possessed, 'If, as I am now in your arms, senor, I were in the +claws of a fierce lion, and my deliverance could be procured by +doing or saying anything to the prejudice of my honour, it would no +more be in my power to do it or say it, than it would be possible that +what was should not have been; so then, if you hold my body clasped in +your arms, I hold my soul secured by virtuous intentions, very +different from yours, as you will see if you attempt to carry them +into effect by force. I am your vassal, but I am not your slave; +your nobility neither has nor should have any right to dishonour or +degrade my humble birth; and low-born peasant as I am, I have my +self-respect as much as you, a lord and gentleman: with me your +violence will be to no purpose, your wealth will have no weight, +your words will have no power to deceive me, nor your sighs or tears +to soften me: were I to see any of the things I speak of in him whom +my parents gave me as a husband, his will should be mine, and mine +should be bounded by his; and my honour being preserved even though my +inclinations were not would willingly yield him what you, senor, would +now obtain by force; and this I say lest you should suppose that any +but my lawful husband shall ever win anything of me.' 'If that,' +said this disloyal gentleman, 'be the only scruple you feel, fairest +Dorothea' (for that is the name of this unhappy being), 'see here I +give you my hand to be yours, and let Heaven, from which nothing is +hid, and this image of Our Lady you have here, be witnesses of this +pledge.'"</p> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="c28d"></a><img alt="c28d.jpg (289K)" src="images/c28d.jpg" height="830" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/c28d.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<p>When Cardenio heard her say she was called Dorothea, he showed fresh +agitation and felt convinced of the truth of his former suspicion, but +he was unwilling to interrupt the story, and wished to hear the end of +what he already all but knew, so he merely said:</p> + +<p>"What! is Dorothea your name, senora? I have heard of another of the +same name who can perhaps match your misfortunes. But proceed; +by-and-by I may tell you something that will astonish you as much as +it will excite your compassion."</p> + +<p>Dorothea was struck by Cardenio's words as well as by his strange +and miserable attire, and begged him if he knew anything concerning +her to tell it to her at once, for if fortune had left her any +blessing it was courage to bear whatever calamity might fall upon her, +as she felt sure that none could reach her capable of increasing in +any degree what she endured already.</p> + +<p>"I would not let the occasion pass, senora," replied Cardenio, "of +telling you what I think, if what I suspect were the truth, but so far +there has been no opportunity, nor is it of any importance to you to +know it."</p> + +<p>"Be it as it may," replied Dorothea, "what happened in my story +was that Don Fernando, taking an image that stood in the chamber, +placed it as a witness of our betrothal, and with the most binding +words and extravagant oaths gave me his promise to become my +husband; though before he had made an end of pledging himself I bade +him consider well what he was doing, and think of the anger his father +would feel at seeing him married to a peasant girl and one of his +vassals; I told him not to let my beauty, such as it was, blind him, +for that was not enough to furnish an excuse for his transgression; +and if in the love he bore me he wished to do me any kindness, it +would be to leave my lot to follow its course at the level my +condition required; for marriages so unequal never brought +happiness, nor did they continue long to afford the enjoyment they +began with.</p> + +<p>"All this that I have now repeated I said to him, and much more +which I cannot recollect; but it had no effect in inducing him to +forego his purpose; he who has no intention of paying does not trouble +himself about difficulties when he is striking the bargain. At the +same time I argued the matter briefly in my own mind, saying to +myself, 'I shall not be the first who has risen through marriage +from a lowly to a lofty station, nor will Don Fernando be the first +whom beauty or, as is more likely, a blind attachment, has led to mate +himself below his rank. Then, since I am introducing no new usage or +practice, I may as well avail myself of the honour that chance +offers me, for even though his inclination for me should not outlast +the attainment of his wishes, I shall be, after all, his wife before +God. And if I strive to repel him by scorn, I can see that, fair means +failing, he is in a mood to use force, and I shall be left dishonoured +and without any means of proving my innocence to those who cannot know +how innocently I have come to be in this position; for what +arguments would persuade my parents that this gentleman entered my +chamber without my consent?'</p> + +<p>"All these questions and answers passed through my mind in a moment; +but the oaths of Don Fernando, the witnesses he appealed to, the tears +he shed, and lastly the charms of his person and his high-bred +grace, which, accompanied by such signs of genuine love, might well +have conquered a heart even more free and coy than mine—these were +the things that more than all began to influence me and lead me +unawares to my ruin. I called my waiting-maid to me, that there +might be a witness on earth besides those in Heaven, and again Don +Fernando renewed and repeated his oaths, invoked as witnesses fresh +saints in addition to the former ones, called down upon himself a +thousand curses hereafter should he fail to keep his promise, shed +more tears, redoubled his sighs and pressed me closer in his arms, +from which he had never allowed me to escape; and so I was left by +my maid, and ceased to be one, and he became a traitor and a +perjured man.</p> + +<p>"The day which followed the night of my misfortune did not come so +quickly, I imagine, as Don Fernando wished, for when desire has +attained its object, the greatest pleasure is to fly from the scene of +pleasure. I say so because Don Fernando made all haste to leave me, +and by the adroitness of my maid, who was indeed the one who had +admitted him, gained the street before daybreak; but on taking leave +of me he told me, though not with as much earnestness and fervour as +when he came, that I might rest assured of his faith and of the +sanctity and sincerity of his oaths; and to confirm his words he +drew a rich ring off his finger and placed it upon mine. He then +took his departure and I was left, I know not whether sorrowful or +happy; all I can say is, I was left agitated and troubled in mind +and almost bewildered by what had taken place, and I had not the +spirit, or else it did not occur to me, to chide my maid for the +treachery she had been guilty of in concealing Don Fernando in my +chamber; for as yet I was unable to make up my mind whether what had +befallen me was for good or evil. I told Don Fernando at parting, that +as I was now his, he might see me on other nights in the same way, +until it should be his pleasure to let the matter become known; but, +except the following night, he came no more, nor for more than a month +could I catch a glimpse of him in the street or in church, while I +wearied myself with watching for one; although I knew he was in the +town, and almost every day went out hunting, a pastime he was very +fond of. I remember well how sad and dreary those days and hours +were to me; I remember well how I began to doubt as they went by, +and even to lose confidence in the faith of Don Fernando; and I +remember, too, how my maid heard those words in reproof of her +audacity that she had not heard before, and how I was forced to put +a constraint on my tears and on the expression of my countenance, +not to give my parents cause to ask me why I was so melancholy, and +drive me to invent falsehoods in reply. But all this was suddenly +brought to an end, for the time came when all such considerations were +disregarded, and there was no further question of honour, when my +patience gave way and the secret of my heart became known abroad. +The reason was, that a few days later it was reported in the town that +Don Fernando had been married in a neighbouring city to a maiden of +rare beauty, the daughter of parents of distinguished position, though +not so rich that her portion would entitle her to look for so +brilliant a match; it was said, too, that her name was Luscinda, and +that at the betrothal some strange things had happened."</p> + +<p>Cardenio heard the name of Luscinda, but he only shrugged his +shoulders, bit his lips, bent his brows, and before long two streams +of tears escaped from his eyes. Dorothea, however, did not interrupt +her story, but went on in these words:</p> + +<p>"This sad intelligence reached my ears, and, instead of being struck +with a chill, with such wrath and fury did my heart burn that I +scarcely restrained myself from rushing out into the streets, crying +aloud and proclaiming openly the perfidy and treachery of which I +was the victim; but this transport of rage was for the time checked by +a resolution I formed, to be carried out the same night, and that +was to assume this dress, which I got from a servant of my father's, +one of the zagals, as they are called in farmhouses, to whom I +confided the whole of my misfortune, and whom I entreated to accompany +me to the city where I heard my enemy was. He, though he +remonstrated with me for my boldness, and condemned my resolution, +when he saw me bent upon my purpose, offered to bear me company, as he +said, to the end of the world. I at once packed up in a linen +pillow-case a woman's dress, and some jewels and money to provide +for emergencies, and in the silence of the night, without letting my +treacherous maid know, I sallied forth from the house, accompanied +by my servant and abundant anxieties, and on foot set out for the +city, but borne as it were on wings by my eagerness to reach it, if +not to prevent what I presumed to be already done, at least to call +upon Don Fernando to tell me with what conscience he had done it. I +reached my destination in two days and a half, and on entering the +city inquired for the house of Luscinda's parents. The first person +I asked gave me more in reply than I sought to know; he showed me +the house, and told me all that had occurred at the betrothal of the +daughter of the family, an affair of such notoriety in the city that +it was the talk of every knot of idlers in the street. He said that on +the night of Don Fernando's betrothal with Luscinda, as soon as she +had consented to be his bride by saying 'Yes,' she was taken with a +sudden fainting fit, and that on the bridegroom approaching to +unlace the bosom of her dress to give her air, he found a paper in her +own handwriting, in which she said and declared that she could not +be Don Fernando's bride, because she was already Cardenio's, who, +according to the man's account, was a gentleman of distinction of +the same city; and that if she had accepted Don Fernando, it was +only in obedience to her parents. In short, he said, the words of +the paper made it clear she meant to kill herself on the completion of +the betrothal, and gave her reasons for putting an end to herself +all which was confirmed, it was said, by a dagger they found somewhere +in her clothes. On seeing this, Don Fernando, persuaded that +Luscinda had befooled, slighted, and trifled with him, assailed her +before she had recovered from her swoon, and tried to stab her with +the dagger that had been found, and would have succeeded had not her +parents and those who were present prevented him. It was said, +moreover, that Don Fernando went away at once, and that Luscinda did +not recover from her prostration until the next day, when she told her +parents how she was really the bride of that Cardenio I have +mentioned. I learned besides that Cardenio, according to report, had +been present at the betrothal; and that upon seeing her betrothed +contrary to his expectation, he had quitted the city in despair, +leaving behind him a letter declaring the wrong Luscinda had done him, +and his intention of going where no one should ever see him again. All +this was a matter of notoriety in the city, and everyone spoke of +it; especially when it became known that Luscinda was missing from her +father's house and from the city, for she was not to be found +anywhere, to the distraction of her parents, who knew not what steps +to take to recover her. What I learned revived my hopes, and I was +better pleased not to have found Don Fernando than to find him +married, for it seemed to me that the door was not yet entirely shut +upon relief in my case, and I thought that perhaps Heaven had put this +impediment in the way of the second marriage, to lead him to recognise +his obligations under the former one, and reflect that as a +Christian he was bound to consider his soul above all human objects. +All this passed through my mind, and I strove to comfort myself +without comfort, indulging in faint and distant hopes of cherishing +that life that I now abhor.</p> + +<p>"But while I was in the city, uncertain what to do, as I could not +find Don Fernando, I heard notice given by the public crier offering a +great reward to anyone who should find me, and giving the +particulars of my age and of the very dress I wore; and I heard it +said that the lad who came with me had taken me away from my +father's house; a thing that cut me to the heart, showing how low my +good name had fallen, since it was not enough that I should lose it by +my flight, but they must add with whom I had fled, and that one so +much beneath me and so unworthy of my consideration. The instant I +heard the notice I quitted the city with my servant, who now began +to show signs of wavering in his fidelity to me, and the same night, +for fear of discovery, we entered the most thickly wooded part of +these mountains. But, as is commonly said, one evil calls up another +and the end of one misfortune is apt to be the beginning of one +still greater, and so it proved in my case; for my worthy servant, +until then so faithful and trusty when he found me in this lonely +spot, moved more by his own villainy than by my beauty, sought to take +advantage of the opportunity which these solitudes seemed to present +him, and with little shame and less fear of God and respect for me, +began to make overtures to me; and finding that I replied to the +effrontery of his proposals with justly severe language, he laid aside +the entreaties which he had employed at first, and began to use +violence.</p> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="c28e"></a><img alt="c28e.jpg (324K)" src="images/c28e.jpg" height="810" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/c28e.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<p>"But just Heaven, that seldom fails to watch over and aid +good intentions, so aided mine that with my slight strength and with +little exertion I pushed him over a precipice, where I left him, +whether dead or alive I know not; and then, with greater speed than +seemed possible in my terror and fatigue, I made my way into the +mountains, without any other thought or purpose save that of hiding +myself among them, and escaping my father and those despatched in +search of me by his orders. It is now I know not how many months since +with this object I came here, where I met a herdsman who engaged me as +his servant at a place in the heart of this Sierra, and all this +time I have been serving him as herd, striving to keep always afield +to hide these locks which have now unexpectedly betrayed me. But all +my care and pains were unavailing, for my master made the discovery +that I was not a man, and harboured the same base designs as my +servant; and as fortune does not always supply a remedy in cases of +difficulty, and I had no precipice or ravine at hand down which to +fling the master and cure his passion, as I had in the servant's case, +I thought it a lesser evil to leave him and again conceal myself among +these crags, than make trial of my strength and argument with him. So, +as I say, once more I went into hiding to seek for some place where +I might with sighs and tears implore Heaven to have pity on my misery, +and grant me help and strength to escape from it, or let me die +among the solitudes, leaving no trace of an unhappy being who, by no +fault of hers, has furnished matter for talk and scandal at home and +abroad."</p> + + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="c28f"></a><img alt="c28f.jpg (42K)" src="images/c28f.jpg" height="621" width="509"> +</center> + + +<br> +<br> + + +<center> +<table summary="" cellPadding=4 border=3> +<tr><td> + <a href="p9.htm">Previous Part</a> +</td><td> + <a href="5921-h.htm">Main Index</a> +</td><td> + <a href="p11.htm">Next Part</a> + </td></tr> +</table> +</center> +<br><br> + +</body> +</html> + diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/p11.htm b/old/orig5921-h/p11.htm new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9a8cee7 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/p11.htm @@ -0,0 +1,627 @@ +<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> +<html> +<head> +<title>THE HISTORY OF DON QUIXOTE, By Cervantes, Vol. I., Part 11.</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> + +<center> +<table summary="" cellPadding=4 border=3> +<tr><td> + <a href="p10.htm">Previous Part</a> +</td><td> + <a href="5921-h.htm">Main Index</a> +</td><td> + <a href="p12.htm">Next Part</a> + </td></tr> +</table> +</center> +<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 11. +<br><br> +Chapter 29 +</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="#ch29">CHAPTER XXIX</a> +WHICH TREATS OF THE DROLL DEVICE AND METHOD +ADOPTED TO EXTRICATE OUR LOVE-STRICKEN KNIGHT +FROM THE SEVERE PENANCE HE HAD IMPOSED UPON HIMSELF + +</pre> + +<br><br><br><br> + + +<br><br> +<center><h2><a name="ch29"></a>CHAPTER XXIX.</h2></center> +<br> +<center><h3>WHICH TREATS OF THE DROLL DEVICE AND METHOD ADOPTED TO EXTRICATE OUR +LOVE-STRICKEN KNIGHT FROM THE SEVERE PENANCE HE HAD IMPOSED UPON HIMSELF +</h3></center> +<br> +<br> + +<center><a name="c29a"></a><img alt="c29a.jpg (99K)" src="images/c29a.jpg" height="282" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/c29a.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<p>"Such, sirs, is the true story of my sad adventures; judge for +yourselves now whether the sighs and lamentations you heard, and the +tears that flowed from my eyes, had not sufficient cause even if I had +indulged in them more freely; and if you consider the nature of my +misfortune you will see that consolation is idle, as there is no +possible remedy for it. All I ask of you is, what you may easily and +reasonably do, to show me where I may pass my life unharassed by the +fear and dread of discovery by those who are in search of me; for +though the great love my parents bear me makes me feel sure of being +kindly received by them, so great is my feeling of shame at the mere +thought that I cannot present myself before them as they expect, +that I had rather banish myself from their sight for ever than look +them in the face with the reflection that they beheld mine stripped of +that purity they had a right to expect in me."</p> + +<p>With these words she became silent, and the colour that overspread +her face showed plainly the pain and shame she was suffering at heart. +In theirs the listeners felt as much pity as wonder at her +misfortunes; but as the curate was just about to offer her some +consolation and advice Cardenio forestalled him, saying, "So then, +senora, you are the fair Dorothea, the only daughter of the rich +Clenardo?" Dorothea was astonished at hearing her father's name, and +at the miserable appearance of him who mentioned it, for it has been +already said how wretchedly clad Cardenio was; so she said to him:</p> + +<p>"And who may you be, brother, who seem to know my father's name so +well? For so far, if I remember rightly, I have not mentioned it in +the whole story of my misfortunes."</p> + +<p>"I am that unhappy being, senora," replied Cardenio, "whom, as you +have said, Luscinda declared to be her husband; I am the unfortunate +Cardenio, whom the wrong-doing of him who has brought you to your +present condition has reduced to the state you see me in, bare, +ragged, bereft of all human comfort, and what is worse, of reason, for +I only possess it when Heaven is pleased for some short space to +restore it to me. I, Dorothea, am he who witnessed the wrong done by +Don Fernando, and waited to hear the 'Yes' uttered by which Luscinda +owned herself his betrothed: I am he who had not courage enough to see +how her fainting fit ended, or what came of the paper that was found +in her bosom, because my heart had not the fortitude to endure so many +strokes of ill-fortune at once; and so losing patience I quitted the +house, and leaving a letter with my host, which I entreated him to +place in Luscinda's hands, I betook myself to these solitudes, +resolved to end here the life I hated as if it were my mortal enemy. +But fate would not rid me of it, contenting itself with robbing me +of my reason, perhaps to preserve me for the good fortune I have had +in meeting you; for if that which you have just told us be true, as +I believe it to be, it may be that Heaven has yet in store for both of +us a happier termination to our misfortunes than we look for; +because seeing that Luscinda cannot marry Don Fernando, being mine, as +she has herself so openly declared, and that Don Fernando cannot marry +her as he is yours, we may reasonably hope that Heaven will restore to +us what is ours, as it is still in existence and not yet alienated +or destroyed. And as we have this consolation springing from no very +visionary hope or wild fancy, I entreat you, senora, to form new +resolutions in your better mind, as I mean to do in mine, preparing +yourself to look forward to happier fortunes; for I swear to you by +the faith of a gentleman and a Christian not to desert you until I see +you in possession of Don Fernando, and if I cannot by words induce him +to recognise his obligation to you, in that case to avail myself of +the right which my rank as a gentleman gives me, and with just cause +challenge him on account of the injury he has done you, not +regarding my own wrongs, which I shall leave to Heaven to avenge, +while I on earth devote myself to yours."</p> + +<p>Cardenio's words completed the astonishment of Dorothea, and not +knowing how to return thanks for such an offer, she attempted to +kiss his feet; but Cardenio would not permit it, and the licentiate +replied for both, commended the sound reasoning of Cardenio, and +lastly, begged, advised, and urged them to come with him to his +village, where they might furnish themselves with what they needed, +and take measures to discover Don Fernando, or restore Dorothea to her +parents, or do what seemed to them most advisable. Cardenio and +Dorothea thanked him, and accepted the kind offer he made them; and +the barber, who had been listening to all attentively and in +silence, on his part some kindly words also, and with no less +good-will than the curate offered his services in any way that might +be of use to them. He also explained to them in a few words the object +that had brought them there, and the strange nature of Don Quixote's +madness, and how they were waiting for his squire, who had gone in +search of him. Like the recollection of a dream, the quarrel he had +had with Don Quixote came back to Cardenio's memory, and he +described it to the others; but he was unable to say what the +dispute was about.</p> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="c29b"></a><img alt="c29b.jpg (351K)" src="images/c29b.jpg" height="815" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/c29b.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<p>At this moment they heard a shout, and recognised it as coming +from Sancho Panza, who, not finding them where he had left them, was +calling aloud to them. They went to meet him, and in answer to their +inquiries about Don Quixote, he told them how he had found him +stripped to his shirt, lank, yellow, half dead with hunger, and +sighing for his lady Dulcinea; and although he had told him that she +commanded him to quit that place and come to El Toboso, where she +was expecting him, he had answered that he was determined not to +appear in the presence of her beauty until he had done deeds to make +him worthy of her favour; and if this went on, Sancho said, he ran the +risk of not becoming an emperor as in duty bound, or even an +archbishop, which was the least he could be; for which reason they +ought to consider what was to be done to get him away from there. +The licentiate in reply told him not to be uneasy, for they would +fetch him away in spite of himself. He then told Cardenio and Dorothea +what they had proposed to do to cure Don Quixote, or at any rate +take him home; upon which Dorothea said that she could play the +distressed damsel better than the barber; especially as she had +there the dress in which to do it to the life, and that they might +trust to her acting the part in every particular requisite for +carrying out their scheme, for she had read a great many books of +chivalry, and knew exactly the style in which afflicted damsels begged +boons of knights-errant.</p> + +<p>"In that case," said the curate, "there is nothing more required +than to set about it at once, for beyond a doubt fortune is +declaring itself in our favour, since it has so unexpectedly begun +to open a door for your relief, and smoothed the way for us to our +object."</p> + +<p>Dorothea then took out of her pillow-case a complete petticoat of +some rich stuff, and a green mantle of some other fine material, and a +necklace and other ornaments out of a little box, and with these in an +instant she so arrayed herself that she looked like a great and rich +lady. All this, and more, she said, she had taken from home in case of +need, but that until then she had had no occasion to make use of it. +They were all highly delighted with her grace, air, and beauty, and +declared Don Fernando to be a man of very little taste when he +rejected such charms. But the one who admired her most was Sancho +Panza, for it seemed to him (what indeed was true) that in all the +days of his life he had never seen such a lovely creature; and he +asked the curate with great eagerness who this beautiful lady was, and +what she wanted in these out-of-the-way quarters.</p> + +<p>"This fair lady, brother Sancho," replied the curate, "is no less +a personage than the heiress in the direct male line of the great +kingdom of Micomicon, who has come in search of your master to beg a +boon of him, which is that he redress a wrong or injury that a +wicked giant has done her; and from the fame as a good knight which +your master has acquired far and wide, this princess has come from +Guinea to seek him."</p> + +<p>"A lucky seeking and a lucky finding!" said Sancho Panza at this; +"especially if my master has the good fortune to redress that +injury, and right that wrong, and kill that son of a bitch of a +giant your worship speaks of; as kill him he will if he meets him, +unless, indeed, he happens to be a phantom; for my master has no power +at all against phantoms. But one thing among others I would beg of +you, senor licentiate, which is, that, to prevent my master taking a +fancy to be an archbishop, for that is what I'm afraid of, your +worship would recommend him to marry this princess at once; for in +this way he will be disabled from taking archbishop's orders, and will +easily come into his empire, and I to the end of my desires; I have +been thinking over the matter carefully, and by what I can make out +I find it will not do for me that my master should become an +archbishop, because I am no good for the Church, as I am married; +and for me now, having as I have a wife and children, to set about +obtaining dispensations to enable me to hold a place of profit under +the Church, would be endless work; so that, senor, it all turns on +my master marrying this lady at once—for as yet I do not know her +grace, and so I cannot call her by her name."</p> + +<p>"She is called the Princess Micomicona," said the curate; "for as +her kingdom is Micomicon, it is clear that must be her name."</p> + +<p>"There's no doubt of that," replied Sancho, "for I have known many +to take their name and title from the place where they were born and +call themselves Pedro of Alcala, Juan of Ubeda, and Diego of +Valladolid; and it may be that over there in Guinea queens have the +same way of taking the names of their kingdoms."</p> + +<p>"So it may," said the curate; "and as for your master's marrying, +I will do all in my power towards it:" with which Sancho was as much +pleased as the curate was amazed at his simplicity and at seeing +what a hold the absurdities of his master had taken of his fancy, +for he had evidently persuaded himself that he was going to be an +emperor.</p> + +<p>By this time Dorothea had seated herself upon the curate's mule, and +the barber had fitted the ox-tail beard to his face, and they now told +Sancho to conduct them to where Don Quixote was, warning him not to +say that he knew either the licentiate or the barber, as his +master's becoming an emperor entirely depended on his not +recognising them; neither the curate nor Cardenio, however, thought +fit to go with them; Cardenio lest he should remind Don Quixote of the +quarrel he had with him, and the curate as there was no necessity +for his presence just yet, so they allowed the others to go on +before them, while they themselves followed slowly on foot. The curate +did not forget to instruct Dorothea how to act, but she said they +might make their minds easy, as everything would be done exactly as +the books of chivalry required and described.</p> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="c29c"></a><img alt="c29c.jpg (286K)" src="images/c29c.jpg" height="821" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/c29c.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<p>They had gone about three-quarters of a league when they +discovered Don Quixote in a wilderness of rocks, by this time clothed, +but without his armour; and as soon as Dorothea saw him and was told +by Sancho that that was Don Quixote, she whipped her palfrey, the +well-bearded barber following her, and on coming up to him her +squire sprang from his mule and came forward to receive her in his +arms, and she dismounting with great ease of manner advanced to +kneel before the feet of Don Quixote; and though he strove to raise +her up, she without rising addressed him in this fashion:</p> + +<p>"From this spot I will not rise, valiant and doughty knight, until +your goodness and courtesy grant me a boon, which will redound to +the honour and renown of your person and render a service to the +most disconsolate and afflicted damsel the sun has seen; and if the +might of your strong arm corresponds to the repute of your immortal +fame, you are bound to aid the helpless being who, led by the savour +of your renowned name, hath come from far distant lands to seek your +aid in her misfortunes."</p> + +<p>"I will not answer a word, beauteous lady," replied Don Quixote, +"nor will I listen to anything further concerning you, until you +rise from the earth."</p> + +<p>"I will not rise, senor," answered the afflicted damsel, "unless +of your courtesy the boon I ask is first granted me."</p> + +<p>"I grant and accord it," said Don Quixote, "provided without +detriment or prejudice to my king, my country, or her who holds the +key of my heart and freedom, it may be complied with."</p> + +<p>"It will not be to the detriment or prejudice of any of them, my +worthy lord," said the afflicted damsel; and here Sancho Panza drew +close to his master's ear and said to him very softly, "Your worship +may very safely grant the boon she asks; it's nothing at all; only +to kill a big giant; and she who asks it is the exalted Princess +Micomicona, queen of the great kingdom of Micomicon of Ethiopia."</p> + +<p>"Let her be who she may," replied Don Quixote, "I will do what is my +bounden duty, and what my conscience bids me, in conformity with +what I have professed;" and turning to the damsel he said, "Let your +great beauty rise, for I grant the boon which you would ask of me."</p> + +<p>"Then what I ask," said the damsel, "is that your magnanimous person +accompany me at once whither I will conduct you, and that you +promise not to engage in any other adventure or quest until you have +avenged me of a traitor who against all human and divine law, has +usurped my kingdom."</p> + +<p>"I repeat that I grant it," replied Don Quixote; "and so, lady, +you may from this day forth lay aside the melancholy that distresses +you, and let your failing hopes gather new life and strength, for with +the help of God and of my arm you will soon see yourself restored to +your kingdom, and seated upon the throne of your ancient and mighty +realm, notwithstanding and despite of the felons who would gainsay it; +and now hands to the work, for in delay there is apt to be danger."</p> + +<p>The distressed damsel strove with much pertinacity to kiss his +hands; but Don Quixote, who was in all things a polished and courteous +knight, would by no means allow it, but made her rise and embraced her +with great courtesy and politeness, and ordered Sancho to look to +Rocinante's girths, and to arm him without a moment's delay. Sancho +took down the armour, which was hung up on a tree like a trophy, and +having seen to the girths armed his master in a trice, who as soon +as he found himself in his armour exclaimed:</p> + +<p>"Let us be gone in the name of God to bring aid to this great lady."</p> + +<p>The barber was all this time on his knees at great pains to hide his +laughter and not let his beard fall, for had it fallen maybe their +fine scheme would have come to nothing; but now seeing the boon +granted, and the promptitude with which Don Quixote prepared to set +out in compliance with it, he rose and took his lady's hand, and +between them they placed her upon the mule. Don Quixote then mounted +Rocinante, and the barber settled himself on his beast, Sancho being +left to go on foot, which made him feel anew the loss of his Dapple, +finding the want of him now. But he bore all with cheerfulness, +being persuaded that his master had now fairly started and was just on +the point of becoming an emperor; for he felt no doubt at all that +he would marry this princess, and be king of Micomicon at least. The +only thing that troubled him was the reflection that this kingdom +was in the land of the blacks, and that the people they would give him +for vassals would be all black; but for this he soon found a remedy in +his fancy, and said he to himself, "What is it to me if my vassals are +blacks? What more have I to do than make a cargo of them and carry +them to Spain, where I can sell them and get ready money for them, and +with it buy some title or some office in which to live at ease all the +days of my life? Not unless you go to sleep and haven't the wit or +skill to turn things to account and sell three, six, or ten thousand +vassals while you would be talking about it! By God I will stir them +up, big and little, or as best I can, and let them be ever so black +I'll turn them into white or yellow. Come, come, what a fool I am!" +And so he jogged on, so occupied with his thoughts and easy in his +mind that he forgot all about the hardship of travelling on foot.</p> + +<p>Cardenio and the curate were watching all this from among some +bushes, not knowing how to join company with the others; but the +curate, who was very fertile in devices, soon hit upon a way of +effecting their purpose, and with a pair of scissors he had in a +case he quickly cut off Cardenio's beard, and putting on him a grey +jerkin of his own he gave him a black cloak, leaving himself in his +breeches and doublet, while Cardenio's appearance was so different +from what it had been that he would not have known himself had he seen +himself in a mirror. Having effected this, although the others had +gone on ahead while they were disguising themselves, they easily +came out on the high road before them, for the brambles and awkward +places they encountered did not allow those on horseback to go as fast +as those on foot. They then posted themselves on the level ground at +the outlet of the Sierra, and as soon as Don Quixote and his +companions emerged from it the curate began to examine him very +deliberately, as though he were striving to recognise him, and after +having stared at him for some time he hastened towards him with open +arms exclaiming, "A happy meeting with the mirror of chivalry, my +worthy compatriot Don Quixote of La Mancha, the flower and cream of +high breeding, the protection and relief of the distressed, the +quintessence of knights-errant!" And so saying he clasped in his +arms the knee of Don Quixote's left leg. He, astonished at the +stranger's words and behaviour, looked at him attentively, and at +length recognised him, very much surprised to see him there, and +made great efforts to dismount. This, however, the curate would not +allow, on which Don Quixote said, "Permit me, senor licentiate, for it +is not fitting that I should be on horseback and so reverend a +person as your worship on foot."</p> + +<p>"On no account will I allow it," said the curate; "your mightiness +must remain on horseback, for it is on horseback you achieve the +greatest deeds and adventures that have been beheld in our age; as for +me, an unworthy priest, it will serve me well enough to mount on the +haunches of one of the mules of these gentlefolk who accompany your +worship, if they have no objection, and I will fancy I am mounted on +the steed Pegasus, or on the zebra or charger that bore the famous +Moor, Muzaraque, who to this day lies enchanted in the great hill of +Zulema, a little distance from the great Complutum."</p> + +<p>"Nor even that will I consent to, senor licentiate," answered Don +Quixote, "and I know it will be the good pleasure of my lady the +princess, out of love for me, to order her squire to give up the +saddle of his mule to your worship, and he can sit behind if the beast +will bear it."</p> + +<p>"It will, I am sure," said the princess, "and I am sure, too, that I +need not order my squire, for he is too courteous and considerate to +allow a Churchman to go on foot when he might be mounted."</p> + +<p>"That he is," said the barber, and at once alighting, he offered his +saddle to the curate, who accepted it without much entreaty; but +unfortunately as the barber was mounting behind, the mule, being as it +happened a hired one, which is the same thing as saying +ill-conditioned, lifted its hind hoofs and let fly a couple of kicks +in the air, which would have made Master Nicholas wish his +expedition in quest of Don Quixote at the devil had they caught him on +the breast or head. As it was, they so took him by surprise that he +came to the ground, giving so little heed to his beard that it fell +off, and all he could do when he found himself without it was to cover +his face hastily with both his hands and moan that his teeth were +knocked out. Don Quixote when he saw all that bundle of beard +detached, without jaws or blood, from the face of the fallen squire, +exclaimed:</p> + +<p>"By the living God, but this is a great miracle! it has knocked +off and plucked away the beard from his face as if it had been +shaved off designedly."</p> + +<p>The curate, seeing the danger of discovery that threatened his +scheme, at once pounced upon the beard and hastened with it to where +Master Nicholas lay, still uttering moans, and drawing his head to his +breast had it on in an instant, muttering over him some words which he +said were a certain special charm for sticking on beards, as they +would see; and as soon as he had it fixed he left him, and the +squire appeared well bearded and whole as before, whereat Don +Quixote was beyond measure astonished, and begged the curate to +teach him that charm when he had an opportunity, as he was persuaded +its virtue must extend beyond the sticking on of beards, for it was +clear that where the beard had been stripped off the flesh must have +remained torn and lacerated, and when it could heal all that it must +be good for more than beards.</p> + +<p>"And so it is," said the curate, and he promised to teach it to +him on the first opportunity. They then agreed that for the present +the curate should mount, and that the three should ride by turns until +they reached the inn, which might be about six leagues from where they +were.</p> + +<p>Three then being mounted, that is to say, Don Quixote, the princess, +and the curate, and three on foot, Cardenio, the barber, and Sancho +Panza, Don Quixote said to the damsel:</p> + +<p>"Let your highness, lady, lead on whithersoever is most pleasing +to you;" but before she could answer the licentiate said:</p> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="c29d"></a><img alt="c29d.jpg (345K)" src="images/c29d.jpg" height="818" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/c29d.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<p>"Towards what kingdom would your ladyship direct our course? Is it +perchance towards that of Micomicon? It must be, or else I know little +about kingdoms."</p> + +<p>She, being ready on all points, understood that she was to answer +"Yes," so she said "Yes, senor, my way lies towards that kingdom."</p> + +<p>"In that case," said the curate, "we must pass right through my +village, and there your worship will take the road to Cartagena, where +you will be able to embark, fortune favouring; and if the wind be fair +and the sea smooth and tranquil, in somewhat less than nine years +you may come in sight of the great lake Meona, I mean Meotides, +which is little more than a hundred days' journey this side of your +highness's kingdom."</p> + + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="c29e"></a><img alt="c29e.jpg (318K)" src="images/c29e.jpg" height="819" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/c29e.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<p>"Your worship is mistaken, senor," said she; "for it is not two +years since I set out from it, and though I never had good weather, +nevertheless I am here to behold what I so longed for, and that is +my lord Don Quixote of La Mancha, whose fame came to my ears as soon +as I set foot in Spain and impelled me to go in search of him, to +commend myself to his courtesy, and entrust the justice of my cause to +the might of his invincible arm."</p> + +<p>"Enough; no more praise," said Don Quixote at this, "for I hate +all flattery; and though this may not be so, still language of the +kind is offensive to my chaste ears. I will only say, senora, that +whether it has might or not, that which it may or may not have shall +be devoted to your service even to death; and now, leaving this to its +proper season, I would ask the senor licentiate to tell me what it +is that has brought him into these parts, alone, unattended, and so +lightly clad that I am filled with amazement."</p> + +<p>"I will answer that briefly," replied the curate; "you must know +then, Senor Don Quixote, that Master Nicholas, our friend and +barber, and I were going to Seville to receive some money that a +relative of mine who went to the Indies many years ago had sent me, +and not such a small sum but that it was over sixty thousand pieces of +eight, full weight, which is something; and passing by this place +yesterday we were attacked by four footpads, who stripped us even to +our beards, and them they stripped off so that the barber found it +necessary to put on a false one, and even this young man +here"—pointing to Cardenio—"they completely transformed. But the best of it +is, the story goes in the neighbourhood that those who attacked us +belong to a number of galley slaves who, they say, were set free +almost on the very same spot by a man of such valour that, in spite of +the commissary and of the guards, he released the whole of them; and +beyond all doubt he must have been out of his senses, or he must be as +great a scoundrel as they, or some man without heart or conscience +to let the wolf loose among the sheep, the fox among the hens, the fly +among the honey. He has defrauded justice, and opposed his king and +lawful master, for he opposed his just commands; he has, I say, robbed +the galleys of their feet, stirred up the Holy Brotherhood which for +many years past has been quiet, and, lastly, has done a deed by +which his soul may be lost without any gain to his body." Sancho had +told the curate and the barber of the adventure of the galley +slaves, which, so much to his glory, his master had achieved, and +hence the curate in alluding to it made the most of it to see what +would be said or done by Don Quixote; who changed colour at every +word, not daring to say that it was he who had been the liberator of +those worthy people. "These, then," said the curate, "were they who +robbed us; and God in his mercy pardon him who would not let them go +to the punishment they deserved."</p> + + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="c29f"></a><img alt="c29f.jpg (53K)" src="images/c29f.jpg" height="443" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/c29f.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> + + +<br> +<br> + + + +<center> +<table summary="" cellPadding=4 border=3> +<tr><td> + <a href="p10.htm">Previous Part</a> +</td><td> + <a href="5921-h.htm">Main Index</a> +</td><td> + <a href="p12.htm">Next Part</a> + </td></tr> +</table> +</center> +<br><br> + +</body> +</html> + + diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/p12.htm b/old/orig5921-h/p12.htm new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a75a750 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/p12.htm @@ -0,0 +1,1262 @@ +<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> +<html> +<head> +<title>THE HISTORY OF DON QUIXOTE, By Cervantes, Vol. I., Part 12.</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> + +<center> +<table summary="" cellPadding=4 border=3> +<tr><td> + <a href="p11.htm">Previous Part</a> +</td><td> + <a href="5921-h.htm">Main Index</a> +</td><td> + <a href="p13.htm">Next Part</a> + </td></tr> +</table> +</center> +<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 12. +<br><br> +Chapters 30-32 +</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="#ch30">CHAPTER XXX</a> +WHICH TREATS OF ADDRESS DISPLAYED BY THE FAIR DOROTHEA, +WITH OTHER MATTERS PLEASANT AND AMUSING + +<a href="#ch31">CHAPTER XXXI</a> +OF THE DELECTABLE DISCUSSION BETWEEN DON QUIXOTE AND +SANCHO PANZA, HIS SQUIRE, TOGETHER WITH OTHER INCIDENTS + +<a href="#ch32">CHAPTER XXXII</a> +WHICH TREATS OF WHAT BEFELL DON QUIXOTE'S PARTY AT THE INN + + +</pre> + +<br><br><br><br> + + + +<br><br> +<center><h2><a name="ch30"></a>CHAPTER XXX.</h2></center> +<br> +<center><h3>WHICH TREATS OF ADDRESS DISPLAYED BY THE FAIR DOROTHEA, WITH OTHER +MATTERS PLEASANT AND AMUSING +</h3></center> +<br> +<br> + +<center><a name="c30a"></a><img alt="c30a.jpg (147K)" src="images/c30a.jpg" height="408" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/c30a.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<p>The curate had hardly ceased speaking, when Sancho said, "In +faith, then, senor licentiate, he who did that deed was my master; and +it was not for want of my telling him beforehand and warning him to +mind what he was about, and that it was a sin to set them at +liberty, as they were all on the march there because they were special +scoundrels."</p> + +<p>"Blockhead!" said Don Quixote at this, "it is no business or concern +of knights-errant to inquire whether any persons in affliction, in +chains, or oppressed that they may meet on the high roads go that +way and suffer as they do because of their faults or because of +their misfortunes. It only concerns them to aid them as persons in +need of help, having regard to their sufferings and not to their +rascalities. I encountered a chaplet or string of miserable and +unfortunate people, and did for them what my sense of duty demands +of me, and as for the rest be that as it may; and whoever takes +objection to it, saving the sacred dignity of the senor licentiate and +his honoured person, I say he knows little about chivalry and lies +like a whoreson villain, and this I will give him to know to the +fullest extent with my sword;" and so saying he settled himself in his +stirrups and pressed down his morion; for the barber's basin, which +according to him was Mambrino's helmet, he carried hanging at the +saddle-bow until he could repair the damage done to it by the galley +slaves.</p> + +<p>Dorothea, who was shrewd and sprightly, and by this time +thoroughly understood Don Quixote's crazy turn, and that all except +Sancho Panza were making game of him, not to be behind the rest said +to him, on observing his irritation, "Sir Knight, remember the boon +you have promised me, and that in accordance with it you must not +engage in any other adventure, be it ever so pressing; calm +yourself, for if the licentiate had known that the galley slaves had +been set free by that unconquered arm he would have stopped his +mouth thrice over, or even bitten his tongue three times before he +would have said a word that tended towards disrespect of your +worship."</p> + +<p>"That I swear heartily," said the curate, "and I would have even +plucked off a moustache."</p> + +<p>"I will hold my peace, senora," said Don Quixote, "and I will curb +the natural anger that had arisen in my breast, and will proceed in +peace and quietness until I have fulfilled my promise; but in return +for this consideration I entreat you to tell me, if you have no +objection to do so, what is the nature of your trouble, and how +many, who, and what are the persons of whom I am to require due +satisfaction, and on whom I am to take vengeance on your behalf?"</p> + +<p>"That I will do with all my heart," replied Dorothea, "if it will +not be wearisome to you to hear of miseries and misfortunes."</p> + +<p>"It will not be wearisome, senora," said Don Quixote; to which +Dorothea replied, "Well, if that be so, give me your attention." As +soon as she said this, Cardenio and the barber drew close to her side, +eager to hear what sort of story the quick-witted Dorothea would +invent for herself; and Sancho did the same, for he was as much +taken in by her as his master; and she having settled herself +comfortably in the saddle, and with the help of coughing and other +preliminaries taken time to think, began with great sprightliness of +manner in this fashion.</p> + +<p>"First of all, I would have you know, sirs, that my name is-" and +here she stopped for a moment, for she forgot the name the curate +had given her; but he came to her relief, seeing what her difficulty +was, and said, "It is no wonder, senora, that your highness should +be confused and embarrassed in telling the tale of your misfortunes; +for such afflictions often have the effect of depriving the +sufferers of memory, so that they do not even remember their own +names, as is the case now with your ladyship, who has forgotten that +she is called the Princess Micomicona, lawful heiress of the great +kingdom of Micomicon; and with this cue your highness may now recall +to your sorrowful recollection all you may wish to tell us."</p> + +<p>"That is the truth," said the damsel; "but I think from this on I +shall have no need of any prompting, and I shall bring my true story +safe into port, and here it is. The king my father, who was called +Tinacrio the Sapient, was very learned in what they call magic arts, +and became aware by his craft that my mother, who was called Queen +Jaramilla, was to die before he did, and that soon after he too was to +depart this life, and I was to be left an orphan without father or +mother. But all this, he declared, did not so much grieve or +distress him as his certain knowledge that a prodigious giant, the +lord of a great island close to our kingdom, Pandafilando of the Scowl +by name--for it is averred that, though his eyes are properly placed +and straight, he always looks askew as if he squinted, and this he +does out of malignity, to strike fear and terror into those he looks +at--that he knew, I say, that this giant on becoming aware of my +orphan condition would overrun my kingdom with a mighty force and +strip me of all, not leaving me even a small village to shelter me; +but that I could avoid all this ruin and misfortune if I were +willing to marry him; however, as far as he could see, he never +expected that I would consent to a marriage so unequal; and he said no +more than the truth in this, for it has never entered my mind to marry +that giant, or any other, let him be ever so great or enormous. My +father said, too, that when he was dead, and I saw Pandafilando +about to invade my kingdom, I was not to wait and attempt to defend +myself, for that would be destructive to me, but that I should leave +the kingdom entirely open to him if I wished to avoid the death and +total destruction of my good and loyal vassals, for there would be +no possibility of defending myself against the giant's devilish power; +and that I should at once with some of my followers set out for Spain, +where I should obtain relief in my distress on finding a certain +knight-errant whose fame by that time would extend over the whole +kingdom, and who would be called, if I remember rightly, Don Azote +or Don Gigote."</p> + +<p>"'Don Quixote,' he must have said, senora," observed Sancho at this, +"otherwise called the Knight of the Rueful Countenance."</p> + +<p>"That is it," said Dorothea; "he said, moreover, that he would be +tall of stature and lank featured; and that on his right side under +the left shoulder, or thereabouts, he would have a grey mole with +hairs like bristles."</p> + +<p>On hearing this, Don Quixote said to his squire, "Here, Sancho my +son, bear a hand and help me to strip, for I want to see if I am the +knight that sage king foretold."</p> + +<p>"What does your worship want to strip for?" said Dorothea.</p> + +<p>"To see if I have that mole your father spoke of," answered Don +Quixote.</p> + +<p>"There is no occasion to strip," said Sancho; "for I know your +worship has just such a mole on the middle of your backbone, which +is the mark of a strong man."</p> + +<p>"That is enough," said Dorothea, "for with friends we must not +look too closely into trifles; and whether it be on the shoulder or on +the backbone matters little; it is enough if there is a mole, be it +where it may, for it is all the same flesh; no doubt my good father +hit the truth in every particular, and I have made a lucky hit in +commending myself to Don Quixote; for he is the one my father spoke +of, as the features of his countenance correspond with those +assigned to this knight by that wide fame he has acquired not only +in Spain but in all La Mancha; for I had scarcely landed at Osuna when +I heard such accounts of his achievements, that at once my heart +told me he was the very one I had come in search of."</p> + +<p>"But how did you land at Osuna, senora," asked Don Quixote, "when it +is not a seaport?"</p> + +<p>But before Dorothea could reply the curate anticipated her, +saying, "The princess meant to say that after she had landed at Malaga +the first place where she heard of your worship was Osuna."</p> + +<p>"That is what I meant to say," said Dorothea.</p> + +<p>"And that would be only natural," said the curate. "Will your +majesty please proceed?"</p> + +<p>"There is no more to add," said Dorothea, "save that in finding +Don Quixote I have had such good fortune, that I already reckon and +regard myself queen and mistress of my entire dominions, since of +his courtesy and magnanimity he has granted me the boon of +accompanying me whithersoever I may conduct him, which will be only to +bring him face to face with Pandafilando of the Scowl, that he may +slay him and restore to me what has been unjustly usurped by him: +for all this must come to pass satisfactorily since my good father +Tinacrio the Sapient foretold it, who likewise left it declared in +writing in Chaldee or Greek characters (for I cannot read them), +that if this predicted knight, after having cut the giant's throat, +should be disposed to marry me I was to offer myself at once without +demur as his lawful wife, and yield him possession of my kingdom +together with my person."</p> + +<p>"What thinkest thou now, friend Sancho?" said Don Quixote at this. +"Hearest thou that? Did I not tell thee so? See how we have already +got a kingdom to govern and a queen to marry!"</p> + +<p>"On my oath it is so," said Sancho; "and foul fortune to him who +won't marry after slitting Senor Pandahilado's windpipe! And then, how +illfavoured the queen is! I wish the fleas in my bed were that sort!"</p> + +<p>And so saying he cut a couple of capers in the air with every sign +of extreme satisfaction, and then ran to seize the bridle of +Dorothea's mule, and checking it fell on his knees before her, begging +her to give him her hand to kiss in token of his acknowledgment of her +as his queen and mistress. Which of the bystanders could have helped +laughing to see the madness of the master and the simplicity of the +servant? Dorothea therefore gave her hand, and promised to make him +a great lord in her kingdom, when Heaven should be so good as to +permit her to recover and enjoy it, for which Sancho returned thanks +in words that set them all laughing again.</p> + +<p>"This, sirs," continued Dorothea, "is my story; it only remains to +tell you that of all the attendants I took with me from my kingdom I +have none left except this well-bearded squire, for all were drowned +in a great tempest we encountered when in sight of port; and he and +I came to land on a couple of planks as if by a miracle; and indeed +the whole course of my life is a miracle and a mystery as you may have +observed; and if I have been over minute in any respect or not as +precise as I ought, let it be accounted for by what the licentiate +said at the beginning of my tale, that constant and excessive troubles +deprive the sufferers of their memory."</p> + +<p>"They shall not deprive me of mine, exalted and worthy princess," +said Don Quixote, "however great and unexampled those which I shall +endure in your service may be; and here I confirm anew the boon I have +promised you, and I swear to go with you to the end of the world until +I find myself in the presence of your fierce enemy, whose haughty head +I trust by the aid of my arm to cut off with the edge of this--I +will not say good sword, thanks to Gines de Pasamonte who carried away +mine"--(this he said between his teeth, and then continued), "and when +it has been cut off and you have been put in peaceful possession of +your realm it shall be left to your own decision to dispose of your +person as may be most pleasing to you; for so long as my memory is +occupied, my will enslaved, and my understanding enthralled by +her--I say no more--it is impossible for me for a moment to contemplate +marriage, even with a Phoenix."</p> + +<p>The last words of his master about not wanting to marry were so +disagreeable to Sancho that raising his voice he exclaimed with +great irritation:</p> + +<p>"By my oath, Senor Don Quixote, you are not in your right senses; +for how can your worship possibly object to marrying such an exalted +princess as this? Do you think Fortune will offer you behind every +stone such a piece of luck as is offered you now? Is my lady +Dulcinea fairer, perchance? Not she; nor half as fair; and I will even +go so far as to say she does not come up to the shoe of this one here. +A poor chance I have of getting that county I am waiting for if your +worship goes looking for dainties in the bottom of the sea. In the +devil's name, marry, marry, and take this kingdom that comes to hand +without any trouble, and when you are king make me a marquis or +governor of a province, and for the rest let the devil take it all."</p> + +<p>Don Quixote, when he heard such blasphemies uttered against his lady +Dulcinea, could not endure it, and lifting his pike, without saying +anything to Sancho or uttering a word, he gave him two such thwacks +that he brought him to the ground; and had it not been that Dorothea +cried out to him to spare him he would have no doubt taken his life on +the spot.</p> + +<p>"Do you think," he said to him after a pause, "you scurvy clown, +that you are to be always interfering with me, and that you are to +be always offending and I always pardoning? Don't fancy it, impious +scoundrel, for that beyond a doubt thou art, since thou hast set thy +tongue going against the peerless Dulcinea. Know you not, lout, +vagabond, beggar, that were it not for the might that she infuses into +my arm I should not have strength enough to kill a flea? Say, +scoffer with a viper's tongue, what think you has won this kingdom and +cut off this giant's head and made you a marquis (for all this I count +as already accomplished and decided), but the might of Dulcinea, +employing my arm as the instrument of her achievements? She fights +in me and conquers in me, and I live and breathe in her, and owe my +life and being to her. O whoreson scoundrel, how ungrateful you are, +you see yourself raised from the dust of the earth to be a titled +lord, and the return you make for so great a benefit is to speak +evil of her who has conferred it upon you!"</p> + +<p>Sancho was not so stunned but that he heard all his master said, and +rising with some degree of nimbleness he ran to place himself behind +Dorothea's palfrey, and from that position he said to his master:</p> + +<p>"Tell me, senor; if your worship is resolved not to marry this great +princess, it is plain the kingdom will not be yours; and not being so, +how can you bestow favours upon me? That is what I complain of. Let +your worship at any rate marry this queen, now that we have got her +here as if showered down from heaven, and afterwards you may go back +to my lady Dulcinea; for there must have been kings in the world who +kept mistresses. As to beauty, I have nothing to do with it; and if +the truth is to be told, I like them both; though I have never seen +the lady Dulcinea."</p> + +<p>"How! never seen her, blasphemous traitor!" exclaimed Don Quixote; +"hast thou not just now brought me a message from her?"</p> + +<p>"I mean," said Sancho, "that I did not see her so much at my leisure +that I could take particular notice of her beauty, or of her charms +piecemeal; but taken in the lump I like her."</p> + +<p>"Now I forgive thee," said Don Quixote; "and do thou forgive me +the injury I have done thee; for our first impulses are not in our +control."</p> + +<p>"That I see," replied Sancho, "and with me the wish to speak is +always the first impulse, and I cannot help saying, once at any +rate, what I have on the tip of my tongue."</p> + +<p>"For all that, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "take heed of what thou +sayest, for the pitcher goes so often to the well--I need say no +more to thee."</p> + +<p>"Well, well," said Sancho, "God is in heaven, and sees all tricks, +and will judge who does most harm, I in not speaking right, or your +worship in not doing it."</p> + +<p>"That is enough," said Dorothea; "run, Sancho, and kiss your +lord's hand and beg his pardon, and henceforward be more circumspect +with your praise and abuse; and say nothing in disparagement of that +lady Toboso, of whom I know nothing save that I am her servant; and +put your trust in God, for you will not fail to obtain some dignity so +as to live like a prince."</p> + +<p>Sancho advanced hanging his head and begged his master's hand, which +Don Quixote with dignity presented to him, giving him his blessing +as soon as he had kissed it; he then bade him go on ahead a little, as +he had questions to ask him and matters of great importance to discuss +with him. Sancho obeyed, and when the two had gone some distance in +advance Don Quixote said to him, "Since thy return I have had no +opportunity or time to ask thee many particulars touching thy +mission and the answer thou hast brought back, and now that chance has +granted us the time and opportunity, deny me not the happiness thou +canst give me by such good news."</p> + +<p>"Let your worship ask what you will," answered Sancho, "for I +shall find a way out of all as as I found a way in; but I implore you, +senor, not not to be so revengeful in future."</p> + +<p>"Why dost thou say that, Sancho?" said Don Quixote.</p> + +<p>"I say it," he returned, "because those blows just now were more +because of the quarrel the devil stirred up between us both the +other night, than for what I said against my lady Dulcinea, whom I +love and reverence as I would a relic--though there is nothing of that +about her--merely as something belonging to your worship."</p> + +<p>"Say no more on that subject for thy life, Sancho," said Don +Quixote, "for it is displeasing to me; I have already pardoned thee +for that, and thou knowest the common saying, 'for a fresh sin a fresh +penance.'"</p> + +<p>While this was going on they saw coming along the road they were +following a man mounted on an ass, who when he came close seemed to be +a gipsy; but Sancho Panza, whose eyes and heart were there wherever he +saw asses, no sooner beheld the man than he knew him to be Gines de +Pasamonte; and by the thread of the gipsy he got at the ball, his ass, +for it was, in fact, Dapple that carried Pasamonte, who to escape +recognition and to sell the ass had disguised himself as a gipsy, +being able to speak the gipsy language, and many more, as well as if +they were his own. Sancho saw him and recognised him, and the +instant he did so he shouted to him, "Ginesillo, you thief, give up my +treasure, release my life, embarrass thyself not with my repose, +quit my ass, leave my delight, be off, rip, get thee gone, thief, +and give up what is not thine."</p> + +<p>There was no necessity for so many words or objurgations, for at the +first one Gines jumped down, and at a like racing speed made off and +got clear of them all. Sancho hastened to his Dapple, and embracing +him he said, "How hast thou fared, my blessing, Dapple of my eyes, +my comrade?" all the while kissing him and caressing him as if he were +a human being. The ass held his peace, and let himself be kissed and +caressed by Sancho without answering a single word. They all came up +and congratulated him on having found Dapple, Don Quixote +especially, who told him that notwithstanding this he would not cancel +the order for the three ass-colts, for which Sancho thanked him.</p> + +<p>While the two had been going along conversing in this fashion, the +curate observed to Dorothea that she had shown great cleverness, as +well in the story itself as in its conciseness, and the resemblance it +bore to those of the books of chivalry. She said that she had many +times amused herself reading them; but that she did not know the +situation of the provinces or seaports, and so she had said at +haphazard that she had landed at Osuna.</p> + +<p>"So I saw," said the curate, "and for that reason I made haste to +say what I did, by which it was all set right. But is it not a strange +thing to see how readily this unhappy gentleman believes all these +figments and lies, simply because they are in the style and manner +of the absurdities of his books?"</p> + +<p>"So it is," said Cardenio; "and so uncommon and unexampled, that +were one to attempt to invent and concoct it in fiction, I doubt if +there be any wit keen enough to imagine it."</p> + +<p>"But another strange thing about it," said the curate, "is that, +apart from the silly things which this worthy gentleman says in +connection with his craze, when other subjects are dealt with, he +can discuss them in a perfectly rational manner, showing that his mind +is quite clear and composed; so that, provided his chivalry is not +touched upon, no one would take him to be anything but a man of +thoroughly sound understanding."</p> + +<p>While they were holding this conversation Don Quixote continued +his with Sancho, saying:</p> + +<p>"Friend Panza, let us forgive and forget as to our quarrels, and +tell me now, dismissing anger and irritation, where, how, and when +didst thou find Dulcinea? What was she doing? What didst thou say to +her? What did she answer? How did she look when she was reading my +letter? Who copied it out for thee? and everything in the matter +that seems to thee worth knowing, asking, and learning; neither adding +nor falsifying to give me pleasure, nor yet curtailing lest you should +deprive me of it."</p> + +<p>"Senor," replied Sancho, "if the truth is to be told, nobody +copied out the letter for me, for I carried no letter at all."</p> + +<p>"It is as thou sayest," said Don Quixote, "for the note-book in +which I wrote it I found in my own possession two days after thy +departure, which gave me very great vexation, as I knew not what +thou wouldst do on finding thyself without any letter; and I made sure +thou wouldst return from the place where thou didst first miss it."</p> + +<p>"So I should have done," said Sancho, "if I had not got it by +heart when your worship read it to me, so that I repeated it to a +sacristan, who copied it out for me from hearing it, so exactly that +he said in all the days of his life, though he had read many a +letter of excommunication, he had never seen or read so pretty a +letter as that."</p> + +<p>"And hast thou got it still in thy memory, Sancho?" said Don +Quixote.</p> + +<p>"No, senor," replied Sancho, "for as soon as I had repeated it, +seeing there was no further use for it, I set about forgetting it; and +if I recollect any of it, it is that about 'Scrubbing,'I mean to say +'Sovereign Lady,' and the end 'Yours till death, the Knight of the +Rueful Countenance;' and between these two I put into it more than +three hundred 'my souls' and 'my life's' and 'my eyes."</p> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="c30e"></a><img alt="c30e.jpg (13K)" src="images/c30e.jpg" height="297" width="325"> +</center> +<br><br><br><br> + +<br><br> +<center><h2><a name="ch31"></a>CHAPTER XXXI.</h2></center> +<br> +<center><h3>OF THE DELECTABLE DISCUSSION BETWEEN DON QUIXOTE AND SANCHO PANZA, +HIS SQUIRE, TOGETHER WITH OTHER INCIDENTS +</h3></center> +<br> +<br> + +<center><a name="c31a"></a><img alt="c31a.jpg (151K)" src="images/c31a.jpg" height="441" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/c31a.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<p>"All that is not unsatisfactory to me," said Don Quixote. "Go on; +thou didst reach her; and what was that queen of beauty doing? +Surely thou didst find her stringing pearls, or embroidering some +device in gold thread for this her enslaved knight."</p> + +<p>"I did not," said Sancho, "but I found her winnowing two bushels +of wheat in the yard of her house."</p> + +<p>"Then depend upon it," said Don Quixote, "the grains of that wheat +were pearls when touched by her hands; and didst thou look, friend? +was it white wheat or brown?"</p> + +<p>"It was neither, but red," said Sancho.</p> + +<p>"Then I promise thee," said Don Quixote, "that, winnowed by her +hands, beyond a doubt the bread it made was of the whitest; but go on; +when thou gavest her my letter, did she kiss it? Did she place it on +her head? Did she perform any ceremony befitting it, or what did she +do?"</p> + +<p>"When I went to give it to her," replied Sancho, "she was hard at it +swaying from side to side with a lot of wheat she had in the sieve, +and she said to me, 'Lay the letter, friend, on the top of that +sack, for I cannot read it until I have done sifting all this."</p> + +<p>"Discreet lady!" said Don Quixote; "that was in order to read it +at her leisure and enjoy it; proceed, Sancho; while she was engaged in +her occupation what converse did she hold with thee? What did she +ask about me, and what answer didst thou give? Make haste; tell me +all, and let not an atom be left behind in the ink-bottle."</p> + +<p>"She asked me nothing," said Sancho; "but I told her how your +worship was left doing penance in her service, naked from the waist +up, in among these mountains like a savage, sleeping on the ground, +not eating bread off a tablecloth nor combing your beard, weeping +and cursing your fortune."</p> + +<p>"In saying I cursed my fortune thou saidst wrong," said Don Quixote; +"for rather do I bless it and shall bless it all the days of my life +for having made me worthy of aspiring to love so lofty a lady as +Dulcinea del Toboso."</p> + +<p>"And so lofty she is," said Sancho, "that she overtops me by more +than a hand's-breadth."</p> + +<p>"What! Sancho," said Don Quixote, "didst thou measure with her?"</p> + +<p>"I measured in this way," said Sancho; "going to help her to put a +sack of wheat on the back of an ass, we came so close together that +I could see she stood more than a good palm over me."</p> + +<p>"Well!" said Don Quixote, "and doth she not of a truth accompany and +adorn this greatness with a thousand million charms of mind! But one +thing thou wilt not deny, Sancho; when thou camest close to her +didst thou not perceive a Sabaean odour, an aromatic fragrance, a, I +know not what, delicious, that I cannot find a name for; I mean a +redolence, an exhalation, as if thou wert in the shop of some dainty +glover?"</p> + +<p>"All I can say is," said Sancho, "that I did perceive a little +odour, something goaty; it must have been that she was all in a +sweat with hard work."</p> + +<p>"It could not be that," said Don Quixote, "but thou must have been +suffering from cold in the head, or must have smelt thyself; for I +know well what would be the scent of that rose among thorns, that lily +of the field, that dissolved amber."</p> + +<p>"Maybe so," replied Sancho; "there often comes from myself that same +odour which then seemed to me to come from her grace the lady +Dulcinea; but that's no wonder, for one devil is like another."</p> + +<p>"Well then," continued Don Quixote, "now she has done sifting the +corn and sent it to the mill; what did she do when she read the +letter?"</p> + +<p>"As for the letter," said Sancho, "she did not read it, for she said +she could neither read nor write; instead of that she tore it up +into small pieces, saying that she did not want to let anyone read +it lest her secrets should become known in the village, and that +what I had told her by word of mouth about the love your worship +bore her, and the extraordinary penance you were doing for her sake, +was enough; and, to make an end of it, she told me to tell your +worship that she kissed your hands, and that she had a greater +desire to see you than to write to you; and that therefore she +entreated and commanded you, on sight of this present, to come out +of these thickets, and to have done with carrying on absurdities, +and to set out at once for El Toboso, unless something else of greater +importance should happen, for she had a great desire to see your +worship. She laughed greatly when I told her how your worship was +called The Knight of the Rueful Countenance; I asked her if that +Biscayan the other day had been there; and she told me he had, and +that he was an honest fellow; I asked her too about the galley slaves, +but she said she had not seen any as yet."</p> + +<p>"So far all goes well," said Don Quixote; "but tell me what jewel +was it that she gave thee on taking thy leave, in return for thy +tidings of me? For it is a usual and ancient custom with knights and +ladies errant to give the squires, damsels, or dwarfs who bring +tidings of their ladies to the knights, or of their knights to the +ladies, some rich jewel as a guerdon for good news,' and +acknowledgment of the message."</p> + +<p>"That is very likely," said Sancho, "and a good custom it was, to my +mind; but that must have been in days gone by, for now it would seem +to be the custom only to give a piece of bread and cheese; because +that was what my lady Dulcinea gave me over the top of the yard-wall +when I took leave of her; and more by token it was sheep's-milk +cheese."</p> + +<p>"She is generous in the extreme," said Don Quixote, "and if she +did not give thee a jewel of gold, no doubt it must have been +because she had not one to hand there to give thee; but sleeves are +good after Easter; I shall see her and all shall be made right. But +knowest thou what amazes me, Sancho? It seems to me thou must have +gone and come through the air, for thou hast taken but little more +than three days to go to El Toboso and return, though it is more +than thirty leagues from here to there. From which I am inclined to +think that the sage magician who is my friend, and watches over my +interests (for of necessity there is and must be one, or else I should +not be a right knight-errant), that this same, I say, must have helped +thee to travel without thy knowledge; for some of these sages will +catch up a knight-errant sleeping in his bed, and without his +knowing how or in what way it happened, he wakes up the next day +more than a thousand leagues away from the place where he went to +sleep. And if it were not for this, knights-errant would not be able +to give aid to one another in peril, as they do at every turn. For a +knight, maybe, is fighting in the mountains of Armenia with some +dragon, or fierce serpent, or another knight, and gets the worst of +the battle, and is at the point of death; but when he least looks +for it, there appears over against him on a cloud, or chariot of fire, +another knight, a friend of his, who just before had been in +England, and who takes his part, and delivers him from death; and at +night he finds himself in his own quarters supping very much to his +satisfaction; and yet from one place to the other will have been two +or three thousand leagues. And all this is done by the craft and skill +of the sage enchanters who take care of those valiant knights; so +that, friend Sancho, I find no difficulty in believing that thou +mayest have gone from this place to El Toboso and returned in such a +short time, since, as I have said, some friendly sage must have +carried thee through the air without thee perceiving it."</p> + +<p>"That must have been it," said Sancho, "for indeed Rocinante went +like a gipsy's ass with quicksilver in his ears."</p> + +<p>"Quicksilver!" said Don Quixote, "aye and what is more, a legion +of devils, folk that can travel and make others travel without being +weary, exactly as the whim seizes them. But putting this aside, what +thinkest thou I ought to do about my lady's command to go and see her? +For though I feel that I am bound to obey her mandate, I feel too that +I am debarred by the boon I have accorded to the princess that +accompanies us, and the law of chivalry compels me to have regard +for my word in preference to my inclination; on the one hand the +desire to see my lady pursues and harasses me, on the other my +solemn promise and the glory I shall win in this enterprise urge and +call me; but what I think I shall do is to travel with all speed and +reach quickly the place where this giant is, and on my arrival I shall +cut off his head, and establish the princess peacefully in her +realm, and forthwith I shall return to behold the light that +lightens my senses, to whom I shall make such excuses that she will be +led to approve of my delay, for she will see that it entirely tends to +increase her glory and fame; for all that I have won, am winning, or +shall win by arms in this life, comes to me of the favour she +extends to me, and because I am hers."</p> + +<p>"Ah! what a sad state your worship's brains are in!" said Sancho. +"Tell me, senor, do you mean to travel all that way for nothing, and +to let slip and lose so rich and great a match as this where they give +as a portion a kingdom that in sober truth I have heard say is more +than twenty thousand leagues round about, and abounds with all +things necessary to support human life, and is bigger than Portugal +and Castile put together? Peace, for the love of God! Blush for what +you have said, and take my advice, and forgive me, and marry at once +in the first village where there is a curate; if not, here is our +licentiate who will do the business beautifully; remember, I am old +enough to give advice, and this I am giving comes pat to the +purpose; for a sparrow in the hand is better than a vulture on the +wing, and he who has the good to his hand and chooses the bad, that +the good he complains of may not come to him."</p> + +<p>"Look here, Sancho," said Don Quixote. "If thou art advising me to +marry, in order that immediately on slaying the giant I may become +king, and be able to confer favours on thee, and give thee what I have +promised, let me tell thee I shall be able very easily to satisfy +thy desires without marrying; for before going into battle I will make +it a stipulation that, if I come out of it victorious, even I do not +marry, they shall give me a portion portion of the kingdom, that I may +bestow it upon whomsoever I choose, and when they give it to me upon +whom wouldst thou have me bestow it but upon thee?"</p> + +<p>"That is plain speaking," said Sancho; "but let your worship take +care to choose it on the seacoast, so that if I don't like the life, I +may be able to ship off my black vassals and deal with them as I +have said; don't mind going to see my lady Dulcinea now, but go and +kill this giant and let us finish off this business; for by God it +strikes me it will be one of great honour and great profit."</p> + +<p>"I hold thou art in the right of it, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "and +I will take thy advice as to accompanying the princess before going to +see Dulcinea; but I counsel thee not to say anything to any one, or to +those who are with us, about what we have considered and discussed, +for as Dulcinea is so decorous that she does not wish her thoughts +to be known it is not right that I or anyone for me should disclose +them."</p> + +<p>"Well then, if that be so," said Sancho, "how is it that your +worship makes all those you overcome by your arm go to present +themselves before my lady Dulcinea, this being the same thing as +signing your name to it that you love her and are her lover? And as +those who go must perforce kneel before her and say they come from +your worship to submit themselves to her, how can the thoughts of both +of you be hid?"</p> + +<p>"O, how silly and simple thou art!" said Don Quixote; "seest thou +not, Sancho, that this tends to her greater exaltation? For thou +must know that according to our way of thinking in chivalry, it is a +high honour to a lady to have many knights-errant in her service, +whose thoughts never go beyond serving her for her own sake, and who +look for no other reward for their great and true devotion than that +she should be willing to accept them as her knights."</p> + +<p>"It is with that kind of love," said Sancho, "I have heard preachers +say we ought to love our Lord, for himself alone, without being +moved by the hope of glory or the fear of punishment; though for my +part, I would rather love and serve him for what he could do."</p> + +<p>"The devil take thee for a clown!" said Don Quixote, "and what +shrewd things thou sayest at times! One would think thou hadst +studied."</p> + +<p>"In faith, then, I cannot even read."</p> + +<p>Master Nicholas here called out to them to wait a while, as they +wanted to halt and drink at a little spring there was there. Don +Quixote drew up, not a little to the satisfaction of Sancho, for he +was by this time weary of telling so many lies, and in dread of his +master catching him tripping, for though he knew that Dulcinea was a +peasant girl of El Toboso, he had never seen her in all his life. +Cardenio had now put on the clothes which Dorothea was wearing when +they found her, and though they were not very good, they were far +better than those he put off. They dismounted together by the side +of the spring, and with what the curate had provided himself with at +the inn they appeased, though not very well, the keen appetite they +all of them brought with them.</p> + +<p>While they were so employed there happened to come by a youth +passing on his way, who stopping to examine the party at the spring, +the next moment ran to Don Quixote and clasping him round the legs, +began to weep freely, saying, "O, senor, do you not know me? Look at +me well; I am that lad Andres that your worship released from the +oak-tree where I was tied."</p> + +<p>Don Quixote recognised him, and taking his hand he turned to those +present and said: "That your worships may see how important it is to +have knights-errant to redress the wrongs and injuries done by +tyrannical and wicked men in this world, I may tell you that some days +ago passing through a wood, I heard cries and piteous complaints as of +a person in pain and distress; I immediately hastened, impelled by +my bounden duty, to the quarter whence the plaintive accents seemed to +me to proceed, and I found tied to an oak this lad who now stands +before you, which in my heart I rejoice at, for his testimony will not +permit me to depart from the truth in any particular. He was, I say, +tied to an oak, naked from the waist up, and a clown, whom I +afterwards found to be his master, was scarifying him by lashes with +the reins of his mare. As soon as I saw him I asked the reason of so +cruel a flagellation. The boor replied that he was flogging him +because he was his servant and because of carelessness that +proceeded rather from dishonesty than stupidity; on which this boy +said, 'Senor, he flogs me only because I ask for my wages.' The master +made I know not what speeches and explanations, which, though I +listened to them, I did not accept. In short, I compelled the clown to +unbind him, and to swear he would take him with him, and pay him +real by real, and perfumed into the bargain. Is not all this true, +Andres my son? Didst thou not mark with what authority I commanded +him, and with what humility he promised to do all I enjoined, +specified, and required of him? Answer without hesitation; tell +these gentlemen what took place, that they may see that it is as great +an advantage as I say to have knights-errant abroad."</p> + +<p>"All that your worship has said is quite true," answered the lad; +"but the end of the business turned out just the opposite of what your +worship supposes."</p> + +<p>"How! the opposite?" said Don Quixote; "did not the clown pay thee +then?"</p> + +<p>"Not only did he not pay me," replied the lad, "but as soon as +your worship had passed out of the wood and we were alone, he tied +me up again to the same oak and gave me a fresh flogging, that left me +like a flayed Saint Bartholomew; and every stroke he gave me he +followed up with some jest or gibe about having made a fool of your +worship, and but for the pain I was suffering I should have laughed at +the things he said. In short he left me in such a condition that I +have been until now in a hospital getting cured of the injuries +which that rascally clown inflicted on me then; for all which your +worship is to blame; for if you had gone your own way and not come +where there was no call for you, nor meddled in other people's +affairs, my master would have been content with giving me one or two +dozen lashes, and would have then loosed me and paid me what he owed +me; but when your worship abused him so out of measure, and gave him +so many hard words, his anger was kindled; and as he could not revenge +himself on you, as soon as he saw you had left him the storm burst +upon me in such a way, that I feel as if I should never be a man +again."</p> + +<p>"The mischief," said Don Quixote, "lay in my going away; for I +should not have gone until I had seen thee paid; because I ought to +have known well by long experience that there is no clown who will +keep his word if he finds it will not suit him to keep it; but thou +rememberest, Andres, that I swore if he did not pay thee I would go +and seek him, and find him though he were to hide himself in the +whale's belly."</p> + +<p>"That is true," said Andres; "but it was of no use."</p> + +<p>"Thou shalt see now whether it is of use or not," said Don +Quixote; and so saying, he got up hastily and bade Sancho bridle +Rocinante, who was browsing while they were eating. Dorothea asked him +what he meant to do. He replied that he meant to go in search of +this clown and chastise him for such iniquitous conduct, and see +Andres paid to the last maravedi, despite and in the teeth of all +the clowns in the world. To which she replied that he must remember +that in accordance with his promise he could not engage in any +enterprise until he had concluded hers; and that as he knew this +better than anyone, he should restrain his ardour until his return +from her kingdom.</p> + +<p>"That is true," said Don Quixote, "and Andres must have patience +until my return as you say, senora; but I once more swear and +promise not to stop until I have seen him avenged and paid."</p> + +<p>"I have no faith in those oaths," said Andres; "I would rather +have now something to help me to get to Seville than all the +revenges in the world; if you have here anything to eat that I can +take with me, give it me, and God be with your worship and all +knights-errant; and may their errands turn out as well for +themselves as they have for me."</p> + +<p>Sancho took out from his store a piece of bread and another of +cheese, and giving them to the lad he said, "Here, take this, +brother Andres, for we have all of us a share in your misfortune."</p> + +<p>"Why, what share have you got?"</p> + +<p>"This share of bread and cheese I am giving you," answered Sancho; +"and God knows whether I shall feel the want of it myself or not; +for I would have you know, friend, that we squires to knights-errant +have to bear a great deal of hunger and hard fortune, and even other +things more easily felt than told."</p> + +<p>Andres seized his bread and cheese, and seeing that nobody gave +him anything more, bent his head, and took hold of the road, as the +saying is. However, before leaving he said, "For the love of God, +sir knight-errant, if you ever meet me again, though you may see +them cutting me to pieces, give me no aid or succour, but leave me +to my misfortune, which will not be so great but that a greater will +come to me by being helped by your worship, on whom and all the +knights-errant that have ever been born God send his curse."</p> + +<p>Don Quixote was getting up to chastise him, but he took to his heels +at such a pace that no one attempted to follow him; and mightily +chapfallen was Don Quixote at Andres' story, and the others had to +take great care to restrain their laughter so as not to put him +entirely out of countenance.</p> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="c31e"></a><img alt="c31e.jpg (32K)" src="images/c31e.jpg" height="431" width="411"> +</center> +<br><br><br><br> + + + + +<br><br> +<center><h2><a name="ch32"></a>CHAPTER XXXII.</h2></center> +<br> +<center><h3>WHICH TREATS OF WHAT BEFELL DON QUIXOTE'S PARTY AT THE INN +</h3></center> +<br> +<br> + +<center><a name="c32a"></a><img alt="c32a.jpg (132K)" src="images/c32a.jpg" height="418" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/c32a.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<p>Their dainty repast being finished, they saddled at once, and +without any adventure worth mentioning they reached next day the +inn, the object of Sancho Panza's fear and dread; but though he +would have rather not entered it, there was no help for it. The +landlady, the landlord, their daughter, and Maritornes, when they +saw Don Quixote and Sancho coming, went out to welcome them with signs +of hearty satisfaction, which Don Quixote received with dignity and +gravity, and bade them make up a better bed for him than the last +time: to which the landlady replied that if he paid better than he did +the last time she would give him one fit for a prince. Don Quixote +said he would, so they made up a tolerable one for him in the same +garret as before; and he lay down at once, being sorely shaken and +in want of sleep.</p> + +<p>No sooner was the door shut upon him than the landlady made at the +barber, and seizing him by the beard, said:</p> + +<p>"By my faith you are not going to make a beard of my tail any +longer; you must give me back tail, for it is a shame the way that +thing of my husband's goes tossing about on the floor; I mean the comb +that I used to stick in my good tail."</p> + +<p>But for all she tugged at it the barber would not give it up until +the licentiate told him to let her have it, as there was now no +further occasion for that stratagem, because he might declare +himself and appear in his own character, and tell Don Quixote that +he had fled to this inn when those thieves the galley slaves robbed +him; and should he ask for the princess's squire, they could tell +him that she had sent him on before her to give notice to the people +of her kingdom that she was coming, and bringing with her the +deliverer of them all. On this the barber cheerfully restored the tail +to the landlady, and at the same time they returned all the +accessories they had borrowed to effect Don Quixote's deliverance. All +the people of the inn were struck with astonishment at the beauty of +Dorothea, and even at the comely figure of the shepherd Cardenio. +The curate made them get ready such fare as there was in the inn, +and the landlord, in hope of better payment, served them up a +tolerably good dinner. All this time Don Quixote was asleep, and +they thought it best not to waken him, as sleeping would now do him +more good than eating.</p> + +<p>While at dinner, the company consisting of the landlord, his wife, +their daughter, Maritornes, and all the travellers, they discussed the +strange craze of Don Quixote and the manner in which he had been +found; and the landlady told them what had taken place between him and +the carrier; and then, looking round to see if Sancho was there, +when she saw he was not, she gave them the whole story of his +blanketing, which they received with no little amusement. But on the +curate observing that it was the books of chivalry which Don Quixote +had read that had turned his brain, the landlord said:</p> + +<p>"I cannot understand how that can be, for in truth to my mind +there is no better reading in the world, and I have here two or +three of them, with other writings that are the very life, not only of +myself but of plenty more; for when it is harvest-time, the reapers +flock here on holidays, and there is always one among them who can +read and who takes up one of these books, and we gather round him, +thirty or more of us, and stay listening to him with a delight that +makes our grey hairs grow young again. At least I can say for myself +that when I hear of what furious and terrible blows the knights +deliver, I am seized with the longing to do the same, and I would like +to be hearing about them night and day."</p> + +<p>"And I just as much," said the landlady, "because I never have a +quiet moment in my house except when you are listening to some one +reading; for then you are so taken up that for the time being you +forget to scold."</p> + +<p>"That is true," said Maritornes; "and, faith, I relish hearing these +things greatly too, for they are very pretty; especially when they +describe some lady or another in the arms of her knight under the +orange trees, and the duenna who is keeping watch for them half dead +with envy and fright; all this I say is as good as honey."</p> + +<p>"And you, what do you think, young lady?" said the curate turning to +the landlord's daughter.</p> + +<p>"I don't know indeed, senor," said she; "I listen too, and to tell +the truth, though I do not understand it, I like hearing it; but it is +not the blows that my father likes that I like, but the laments the +knights utter when they are separated from their ladies; and indeed +they sometimes make me weep with the pity I feel for them."</p> + +<p>"Then you would console them if it was for you they wept, young +lady?" said Dorothea.</p> + +<p>"I don't know what I should do," said the girl; "I only know that +there are some of those ladies so cruel that they call their knights +tigers and lions and a thousand other foul names: and Jesus! I don't +know what sort of folk they can be, so unfeeling and heartless, that +rather than bestow a glance upon a worthy man they leave him to die or +go mad. I don't know what is the good of such prudery; if it is for +honour's sake, why not marry them? That's all they want."</p> + +<p>"Hush, child," said the landlady; "it seems to me thou knowest a +great deal about these things, and it is not fit for girls to know +or talk so much."</p> + +<p>"As the gentleman asked me, I could not help answering him," said +the girl.</p> + +<p>"Well then," said the curate, "bring me these books, senor landlord, +for I should like to see them."</p> + +<p>"With all my heart," said he, and going into his own room he brought +out an old valise secured with a little chain, on opening which the +curate found in it three large books and some manuscripts written in a +very good hand. The first that he opened he found to be "Don +Cirongilio of Thrace," and the second "Don Felixmarte of Hircania," +and the other the "History of the Great Captain Gonzalo Hernandez de +Cordova, with the Life of Diego Garcia de Paredes."</p> + +<p>When the curate read the two first titles he looked over at the +barber and said, "We want my friend's housekeeper and niece here now."</p> + +<p>"Nay," said the barber, "I can do just as well to carry them to +the yard or to the hearth, and there is a very good fire there."</p> + +<p>"What! your worship would burn my books!" said the landlord.</p> + +<p>"Only these two," said the curate, "Don Cirongilio, and Felixmarte."</p> + +<p>"Are my books, then, heretics or phlegmaties that you want to burn +them?" said the landlord.</p> + +<p>"Schismatics you mean, friend," said the barber, "not phlegmatics."</p> + +<p>"That's it," said the landlord; "but if you want to burn any, let it +be that about the Great Captain and that Diego Garcia; for I would +rather have a child of mine burnt than either of the others."</p> + +<p>"Brother," said the curate, "those two books are made up of lies, +and are full of folly and nonsense; but this of the Great Captain is a +true history, and contains the deeds of Gonzalo Hernandez of +Cordova, who by his many and great achievements earned the title all +over the world of the Great Captain, a famous and illustrious name, +and deserved by him alone; and this Diego Garcia de Paredes was a +distinguished knight of the city of Trujillo in Estremadura, a most +gallant soldier, and of such bodily strength that with one finger he +stopped a mill-wheel in full motion; and posted with a two-handed +sword at the foot of a bridge he kept the whole of an immense army +from passing over it, and achieved such other exploits that if, +instead of his relating them himself with the modesty of a knight +and of one writing his own history, some free and unbiassed writer had +recorded them, they would have thrown into the shade all the deeds +of the Hectors, Achilleses, and Rolands."</p> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="c32b"></a><img alt="c32b.jpg (395K)" src="images/c32b.jpg" height="823" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/c32b.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<p>"Tell that to my father," said the landlord. "There's a thing to +be astonished at! Stopping a mill-wheel! By God your worship should +read what I have read of Felixmarte of Hircania, how with one single +backstroke he cleft five giants asunder through the middle as if +they had been made of bean-pods like the little friars the children +make; and another time he attacked a very great and powerful army, +in which there were more than a million six hundred thousand soldiers, +all armed from head to foot, and he routed them all as if they had +been flocks of sheep."</p> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="c32c"></a><img alt="c32c.jpg (341K)" src="images/c32c.jpg" height="825" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/c32c.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<p>"And then, what do you say to the good Cirongilio +of Thrace, that was so stout and bold; as may be seen in the book, +where it is related that as he was sailing along a river there came up +out of the midst of the water against him a fiery serpent, and he, +as soon as he saw it, flung himself upon it and got astride of its +scaly shoulders, and squeezed its throat with both hands with such +force that the serpent, finding he was throttling it, had nothing +for it but to let itself sink to the bottom of the river, carrying +with it the knight who would not let go his hold; and when they got +down there he found himself among palaces and gardens so pretty that +it was a wonder to see; and then the serpent changed itself into an +old ancient man, who told him such things as were never heard. Hold +your peace, senor; for if you were to hear this you would go mad +with delight. A couple of figs for your Great Captain and your Diego +Garcia!"</p> + +<p>Hearing this Dorothea said in a whisper to Cardenio, "Our landlord +is almost fit to play a second part to Don Quixote."</p> + +<p>"I think so," said Cardenio, "for, as he shows, he accepts it as a +certainty that everything those books relate took place exactly as +it is written down; and the barefooted friars themselves would not +persuade him to the contrary."</p> + +<p>"But consider, brother," said the curate once more, "there never +was any Felixmarte of Hircania in the world, nor any Cirongilio of +Thrace, or any of the other knights of the same sort, that the books +of chivalry talk of; the whole thing is the fabrication and +invention of idle wits, devised by them for the purpose you describe +of beguiling the time, as your reapers do when they read; for I +swear to you in all seriousness there never were any such knights in +the world, and no such exploits or nonsense ever happened anywhere."</p> + +<p>"Try that bone on another dog," said the landlord; "as if I did +not know how many make five, and where my shoe pinches me; don't think +to feed me with pap, for by God I am no fool. It is a good joke for +your worship to try and persuade me that everything these good books +say is nonsense and lies, and they printed by the license of the Lords +of the Royal Council, as if they were people who would allow such a +lot of lies to be printed all together, and so many battles and +enchantments that they take away one's senses."</p> + +<p>"I have told you, friend," said the curate, "that this is done to +divert our idle thoughts; and as in well-ordered states games of +chess, fives, and billiards are allowed for the diversion of those who +do not care, or are not obliged, or are unable to work, so books of +this kind are allowed to be printed, on the supposition that, what +indeed is the truth, there can be nobody so ignorant as to take any of +them for true stories; and if it were permitted me now, and the +present company desired it, I could say something about the +qualities books of chivalry should possess to be good ones, that would +be to the advantage and even to the taste of some; but I hope the time +will come when I can communicate my ideas to some one who may be +able to mend matters; and in the meantime, senor landlord, believe +what I have said, and take your books, and make up your mind about +their truth or falsehood, and much good may they do you; and God grant +you may not fall lame of the same foot your guest Don Quixote halts +on."</p> + +<p>"No fear of that," returned the landlord; "I shall not be so mad +as to make a knight-errant of myself; for I see well enough that +things are not now as they used to be in those days, when they say +those famous knights roamed about the world."</p> + +<p>Sancho had made his appearance in the middle of this conversation, +and he was very much troubled and cast down by what he heard said +about knights-errant being now no longer in vogue, and all books of +chivalry being folly and lies; and he resolved in his heart to wait +and see what came of this journey of his master's, and if it did not +turn out as happily as his master expected, he determined to leave him +and go back to his wife and children and his ordinary labour.</p> + +<p>The landlord was carrying away the valise and the books, but the +curate said to him, "Wait; I want to see what those papers are that +are written in such a good hand." The landlord taking them out +handed them to him to read, and he perceived they were a work of about +eight sheets of manuscript, with, in large letters at the beginning, +the title of "Novel of the Ill-advised Curiosity." The curate read +three or four lines to himself, and said, "I must say the title of +this novel does not seem to me a bad one, and I feel an inclination to +read it all." To which the landlord replied, "Then your reverence will +do well to read it, for I can tell you that some guests who have +read it here have been much pleased with it, and have begged it of +me very earnestly; but I would not give it, meaning to return it to +the person who forgot the valise, books, and papers here, for maybe he +will return here some time or other; and though I know I shall miss +the books, faith I mean to return them; for though I am an +innkeeper, still I am a Christian."</p> + +<p>"You are very right, friend," said the curate; "but for all that, if +the novel pleases me you must let me copy it."</p> + +<p>"With all my heart," replied the host.</p> + +<p>While they were talking Cardenio had taken up the novel and begun to +read it, and forming the same opinion of it as the curate, he begged +him to read it so that they might all hear it.</p> + +<p>"I would read it," said the curate, "if the time would not be better +spent in sleeping."</p> + +<p>"It will be rest enough for me," said Dorothea, "to while away the +time by listening to some tale, for my spirits are not yet tranquil +enough to let me sleep when it would be seasonable."</p> + +<p>"Well then, in that case," said the curate, "I will read it, if it +were only out of curiosity; perhaps it may contain something +pleasant."</p> + +<p>Master Nicholas added his entreaties to the same effect, and +Sancho too; seeing which, and considering that he would give +pleasure to all, and receive it himself, the curate said, "Well +then, attend to me everyone, for the novel begins thus."</p> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="c32e"></a><img alt="c32e.jpg (11K)" src="images/c32e.jpg" height="313" width="253"> +</center> +<br> +<br> + + +<center> +<table summary="" cellPadding=4 border=3> +<tr><td> + <a href="p11.htm">Previous Part</a> +</td><td> + <a href="5921-h.htm">Main Index</a> +</td><td> + <a href="p13.htm">Next Part</a> + </td></tr> +</table> +</center> +<br><br> + +</body> +</html> + diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/p13.htm b/old/orig5921-h/p13.htm new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d7b24ce --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/p13.htm @@ -0,0 +1,3654 @@ +<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> +<html> +<head> +<title>THE HISTORY OF DON QUIXOTE, By Cervantes, Vol. I., Part 13.</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> + +<center> +<table summary="" cellPadding=4 border=3> +<tr><td> + <a href="p12.htm">Previous Part</a> +</td><td> + <a href="5921-h.htm">Main Index</a> +</td><td> + <a href="p14.htm">Next Part</a> + </td></tr> +</table> +</center> +<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 13. +<br><br> +Chapters 33-40 +</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="#ch33">CHAPTER XXXIII</a> +IN WHICH IS RELATED THE NOVEL OF "THE ILL-ADVISED +CURIOSITY" + +<a href="#ch34">CHAPTER XXXIV</a> +IN WHICH IS CONTINUED THE NOVEL OF "THE ILL-ADVISED +CURIOSITY" + +<a href="#ch35">CHAPTER XXXV</a> +WHICH TREATS OF THE HEROIC AND PRODIGIOUS BATTLE +DON QUIXOTE HAD WITH CERTAIN SKINS OF RED WINE, +AND BRINGS THE NOVEL OF "THE ILL-ADVISED CURIOSITY" +TO A CLOSE + +<a href="#ch36">CHAPTER XXXVI</a> +WHICH TREATS OF MORE CURIOUS INCIDENTS THAT +OCCURRED AT THE INN + +<a href="#ch37">CHAPTER XXXVII</a> +IN WHICH IS CONTINUED THE STORY OF THE FAMOUS +PRINCESS MICOMICONA, WITH OTHER DROLL ADVENTURES + +<a href="#ch38">CHAPTER XXXVIII</a> +WHICH TREATS OF THE CURIOUS DISCOURSE DON QUIXOTE +DELIVERED ON ARMS AND LETTERS + +<a href="#ch39">CHAPTER XXXIX</a> +WHEREIN THE CAPTIVE RELATES HIS LIFE AND ADVENTURES + +<a href="#ch40">CHAPTER XL</a> +IN WHICH THE STORY OF THE CAPTIVE IS CONTINUED. +</pre> +<br><br><br><br> + + + +<br><br> +<center><h2><a name="ch33"></a>CHAPTER XXXIII.</h2></center> +<br> +<center><h3>IN WHICH IS RELATED THE NOVEL OF "THE ILL-ADVISED CURIOSITY" +</h3></center> +<br> +<br> + +<p>In Florence, a rich and famous city of Italy in the province +called Tuscany, there lived two gentlemen of wealth and quality, +Anselmo and Lothario, such great friends that by way of distinction +they were called by all that knew them "The Two Friends." They were +unmarried, young, of the same age and of the same tastes, which was +enough to account for the reciprocal friendship between them. Anselmo, +it is true, was somewhat more inclined to seek pleasure in love than +Lothario, for whom the pleasures of the chase had more attraction; but +on occasion Anselmo would forego his own tastes to yield to those of +Lothario, and Lothario would surrender his to fall in with those of +Anselmo, and in this way their inclinations kept pace one with the +other with a concord so perfect that the best regulated clock could +not surpass it.</p> + +<p>Anselmo was deep in love with a high-born and beautiful maiden of +the same city, the daughter of parents so estimable, and so +estimable herself, that he resolved, with the approval of his friend +Lothario, without whom he did nothing, to ask her of them in marriage, +and did so, Lothario being the bearer of the demand, and conducting +the negotiation so much to the satisfaction of his friend that in a +short time he was in possession of the object of his desires, and +Camilla so happy in having won Anselmo for her husband, that she +gave thanks unceasingly to heaven and to Lothario, by whose means such +good fortune had fallen to her. The first few days, those of a wedding +being usually days of merry-making, Lothario frequented his friend +Anselmo's house as he had been wont, striving to do honour to him +and to the occasion, and to gratify him in every way he could; but +when the wedding days were over and the succession of visits and +congratulations had slackened, he began purposely to leave off going +to the house of Anselmo, for it seemed to him, as it naturally would +to all men of sense, that friends' houses ought not to be visited +after marriage with the same frequency as in their masters' bachelor +days: because, though true and genuine friendship cannot and should +not be in any way suspicious, still a married man's honour is a +thing of such delicacy that it is held liable to injury from brothers, +much more from friends. Anselmo remarked the cessation of Lothario's +visits, and complained of it to him, saying that if he had known +that marriage was to keep him from enjoying his society as he used, he +would have never married; and that, if by the thorough harmony that +subsisted between them while he was a bachelor they had earned such +a sweet name as that of "The Two Friends," he should not allow a title +so rare and so delightful to be lost through a needless anxiety to act +circumspectly; and so he entreated him, if such a phrase was allowable +between them, to be once more master of his house and to come in and +go out as formerly, assuring him that his wife Camilla had no other +desire or inclination than that which he would wish her to have, and +that knowing how sincerely they loved one another she was grieved to +see such coldness in him.</p> + +<p>To all this and much more that Anselmo said to Lothario to +persuade him to come to his house as he had been in the habit of +doing, Lothario replied with so much prudence, sense, and judgment, +that Anselmo was satisfied of his friend's good intentions, and it was +agreed that on two days in the week, and on holidays, Lothario +should come to dine with him; but though this arrangement was made +between them Lothario resolved to observe it no further than he +considered to be in accordance with the honour of his friend, whose +good name was more to him than his own. He said, and justly, that a +married man upon whom heaven had bestowed a beautiful wife should +consider as carefully what friends he brought to his house as what +female friends his wife associated with, for what cannot be done or +arranged in the market-place, in church, at public festivals or at +stations (opportunities that husbands cannot always deny their wives), +may be easily managed in the house of the female friend or relative in +whom most confidence is reposed. Lothario said, too, that every +married man should have some friend who would point out to him any +negligence he might be guilty of in his conduct, for it will sometimes +happen that owing to the deep affection the husband bears his wife +either he does not caution her, or, not to vex her, refrains from +telling her to do or not to do certain things, doing or avoiding which +may be a matter of honour or reproach to him; and errors of this +kind he could easily correct if warned by a friend. But where is +such a friend to be found as Lothario would have, so judicious, so +loyal, and so true?</p> + +<p>Of a truth I know not; Lothario alone was such a one, for with the +utmost care and vigilance he watched over the honour of his friend, +and strove to diminish, cut down, and reduce the number of days for +going to his house according to their agreement, lest the visits of +a young man, wealthy, high-born, and with the attractions he was +conscious of possessing, at the house of a woman so beautiful as +Camilla, should be regarded with suspicion by the inquisitive and +malicious eyes of the idle public. For though his integrity and +reputation might bridle slanderous tongues, still he was unwilling +to hazard either his own good name or that of his friend; and for this +reason most of the days agreed upon he devoted to some other +business which he pretended was unavoidable; so that a great portion +of the day was taken up with complaints on one side and excuses on the +other. It happened, however, that on one occasion when the two were +strolling together outside the city, Anselmo addressed the following +words to Lothario.</p> + +<p>"Thou mayest suppose, Lothario my friend, that I am unable to give +sufficient thanks for the favours God has rendered me in making me the +son of such parents as mine were, and bestowing upon me with no +niggard hand what are called the gifts of nature as well as those of +fortune, and above all for what he has done in giving me thee for a +friend and Camilla for a wife—two treasures that I value, if not as +highly as I ought, at least as highly as I am able. And yet, with +all these good things, which are commonly all that men need to +enable them to live happily, I am the most discontented and +dissatisfied man in the whole world; for, I know not how long since, I +have been harassed and oppressed by a desire so strange and so +unusual, that I wonder at myself and blame and chide myself when I +am alone, and strive to stifle it and hide it from my own thoughts, +and with no better success than if I were endeavouring deliberately to +publish it to all the world; and as, in short, it must come out, I +would confide it to thy safe keeping, feeling sure that by this means, +and by thy readiness as a true friend to afford me relief, I shall +soon find myself freed from the distress it causes me, and that thy +care will give me happiness in the same degree as my own folly has +caused me misery."</p> + +<p>The words of Anselmo struck Lothario with astonishment, unable as he +was to conjecture the purport of such a lengthy preamble; and though +he strove to imagine what desire it could be that so troubled his +friend, his conjectures were all far from the truth, and to relieve +the anxiety which this perplexity was causing him, he told him he +was doing a flagrant injustice to their great friendship in seeking +circuitous methods of confiding to him his most hidden thoughts, for +he well knew he might reckon upon his counsel in diverting them, or +his help in carrying them into effect.</p> + +<p>"That is the truth," replied Anselmo, "and relying upon that I +will tell thee, friend Lothario, that the desire which harasses me +is that of knowing whether my wife Camilla is as good and as perfect +as I think her to be; and I cannot satisfy myself of the truth on this +point except by testing her in such a way that the trial may prove the +purity of her virtue as the fire proves that of gold; because I am +persuaded, my friend, that a woman is virtuous only in proportion as +she is or is not tempted; and that she alone is strong who does not +yield to the promises, gifts, tears, and importunities of earnest +lovers; for what thanks does a woman deserve for being good if no +one urges her to be bad, and what wonder is it that she is reserved +and circumspect to whom no opportunity is given of going wrong and who +knows she has a husband that will take her life the first time he +detects her in an impropriety? I do not therefore hold her who is +virtuous through fear or want of opportunity in the same estimation as +her who comes out of temptation and trial with a crown of victory; and +so, for these reasons and many others that I could give thee to +justify and support the opinion I hold, I am desirous that my wife +Camilla should pass this crisis, and be refined and tested by the fire +of finding herself wooed and by one worthy to set his affections +upon her; and if she comes out, as I know she will, victorious from +this struggle, I shall look upon my good fortune as unequalled, I +shall be able to say that the cup of my desire is full, and that the +virtuous woman of whom the sage says 'Who shall find her?' has +fallen to my lot. And if the result be the contrary of what I +expect, in the satisfaction of knowing that I have been right in my +opinion, I shall bear without complaint the pain which my so dearly +bought experience will naturally cause me. And, as nothing of all thou +wilt urge in opposition to my wish will avail to keep me from carrying +it into effect, it is my desire, friend Lothario, that thou shouldst +consent to become the instrument for effecting this purpose that I +am bent upon, for I will afford thee opportunities to that end, and +nothing shall be wanting that I may think necessary for the pursuit of +a virtuous, honourable, modest and high-minded woman. And among +other reasons, I am induced to entrust this arduous task to thee by +the consideration that if Camilla be conquered by thee the conquest +will not be pushed to extremes, but only far enough to account that +accomplished which from a sense of honour will be left undone; thus +I shall not be wronged in anything more than intention, and my wrong +will remain buried in the integrity of thy silence, which I know +well will be as lasting as that of death in what concerns me. If, +therefore, thou wouldst have me enjoy what can be called life, thou +wilt at once engage in this love struggle, not lukewarmly nor +slothfully, but with the energy and zeal that my desire demands, and +with the loyalty our friendship assures me of."</p> + +<p>Such were the words Anselmo addressed to Lothario, who listened to +them with such attention that, except to say what has been already +mentioned, he did not open his lips until the other had finished. Then +perceiving that he had no more to say, after regarding him for awhile, +as one would regard something never before seen that excited wonder +and amazement, he said to him, "I cannot persuade myself, Anselmo my +friend, that what thou hast said to me is not in jest; if I thought +that thou wert speaking seriously I would not have allowed thee to +go so far; so as to put a stop to thy long harangue by not listening +to thee I verily suspect that either thou dost not know me, or I do +not know thee; but no, I know well thou art Anselmo, and thou +knowest that I am Lothario; the misfortune is, it seems to me, that +thou art not the Anselmo thou wert, and must have thought that I am +not the Lothario I should be; for the things that thou hast said to me +are not those of that Anselmo who was my friend, nor are those that +thou demandest of me what should be asked of the Lothario thou +knowest. True friends will prove their friends and make use of them, +as a poet has said, usque ad aras; whereby he meant that they will not +make use of their friendship in things that are contrary to God's +will. If this, then, was a heathen's feeling about friendship, how +much more should it be a Christian's, who knows that the divine must +not be forfeited for the sake of any human friendship? And if a friend +should go so far as to put aside his duty to Heaven to fulfil his duty +to his friend, it should not be in matters that are trifling or of +little moment, but in such as affect the friend's life and honour. Now +tell me, Anselmo, in which of these two art thou imperilled, that I +should hazard myself to gratify thee, and do a thing so detestable +as that thou seekest of me? Neither forsooth; on the contrary, thou +dost ask of me, so far as I understand, to strive and labour to rob +thee of honour and life, and to rob myself of them at the same time; +for if I take away thy honour it is plain I take away thy life, as a +man without honour is worse than dead; and being the instrument, as +thou wilt have it so, of so much wrong to thee, shall not I, too, be +left without honour, and consequently without life? Listen to me, +Anselmo my friend, and be not impatient to answer me until I have said +what occurs to me touching the object of thy desire, for there will be +time enough left for thee to reply and for me to hear."</p> + +<p>"Be it so," said Anselmo, "say what thou wilt."</p> + +<p>Lothario then went on to say, "It seems to me, Anselmo, that thine +is just now the temper of mind which is always that of the Moors, +who can never be brought to see the error of their creed by quotations +from the Holy Scriptures, or by reasons which depend upon the +examination of the understanding or are founded upon the articles of +faith, but must have examples that are palpable, easy, intelligible, +capable of proof, not admitting of doubt, with mathematical +demonstrations that cannot be denied, like, 'If equals be taken from +equals, the remainders are equal:' and if they do not understand +this in words, and indeed they do not, it has to be shown to them with +the hands, and put before their eyes, and even with all this no one +succeeds in convincing them of the truth of our holy religion. This +same mode of proceeding I shall have to adopt with thee, for the +desire which has sprung up in thee is so absurd and remote from +everything that has a semblance of reason, that I feel it would be a +waste of time to employ it in reasoning with thy simplicity, for at +present I will call it by no other name; and I am even tempted to +leave thee in thy folly as a punishment for thy pernicious desire; but +the friendship I bear thee, which will not allow me to desert thee +in such manifest danger of destruction, keeps me from dealing so +harshly by thee. And that thou mayest clearly see this, say, +Anselmo, hast thou not told me that I must force my suit upon a modest +woman, decoy one that is virtuous, make overtures to one that is +pure-minded, pay court to one that is prudent? Yes, thou hast told +me so. Then, if thou knowest that thou hast a wife, modest, +virtuous, pure-minded and prudent, what is it that thou seekest? And +if thou believest that she will come forth victorious from all my +attacks—as doubtless she would—what higher titles than those she +possesses now dost thou think thou canst upon her then, or in what +will she be better then than she is now? Either thou dost not hold her +to be what thou sayest, or thou knowest not what thou dost demand. +If thou dost not hold her to be what thou why dost thou seek to +prove her instead of treating her as guilty in the way that may seem +best to thee? but if she be as virtuous as thou believest, it is an +uncalled-for proceeding to make trial of truth itself, for, after +trial, it will but be in the same estimation as before. Thus, then, it +is conclusive that to attempt things from which harm rather than +advantage may come to us is the part of unreasoning and reckless +minds, more especially when they are things which we are not forced or +compelled to attempt, and which show from afar that it is plainly +madness to attempt them.</p> + +<p>"Difficulties are attempted either for the sake of God or for the +sake of the world, or for both; those undertaken for God's sake are +those which the saints undertake when they attempt to live the lives +of angels in human bodies; those undertaken for the sake of the +world are those of the men who traverse such a vast expanse of +water, such a variety of climates, so many strange countries, to +acquire what are called the blessings of fortune; and those undertaken +for the sake of God and the world together are those of brave +soldiers, who no sooner do they see in the enemy's wall a breach as +wide as a cannon ball could make, than, casting aside all fear, +without hesitating, or heeding the manifest peril that threatens them, +borne onward by the desire of defending their faith, their country, +and their king, they fling themselves dauntlessly into the midst of +the thousand opposing deaths that await them. Such are the things that +men are wont to attempt, and there is honour, glory, gain, in +attempting them, however full of difficulty and peril they may be; but +that which thou sayest it is thy wish to attempt and carry out will +not win thee the glory of God nor the blessings of fortune nor fame +among men; for even if the issue he as thou wouldst have it, thou wilt +be no happier, richer, or more honoured than thou art this moment; and +if it be otherwise thou wilt be reduced to misery greater than can +be imagined, for then it will avail thee nothing to reflect that no +one is aware of the misfortune that has befallen thee; it will suffice +to torture and crush thee that thou knowest it thyself. And in +confirmation of the truth of what I say, let me repeat to thee a +stanza made by the famous poet Luigi Tansillo at the end of the +first part of his 'Tears of Saint Peter,' which says thus:</p> + +<p>The anguish and the shame but greater grew + In Peter's heart as morning slowly came; +No eye was there to see him, well he knew, + Yet he himself was to himself a shame; +Exposed to all men's gaze, or screened from view, + A noble heart will feel the pang the same; +A prey to shame the sinning soul will be, +Though none but heaven and earth its shame can see.</p> + +<p>Thus by keeping it secret thou wilt not escape thy sorrow, but +rather thou wilt shed tears unceasingly, if not tears of the eyes, +tears of blood from the heart, like those shed by that simple doctor +our poet tells us of, that tried the test of the cup, which the wise +Rinaldo, better advised, refused to do; for though this may be a +poetic fiction it contains a moral lesson worthy of attention and +study and imitation. Moreover by what I am about to say to thee thou +wilt be led to see the great error thou wouldst commit.</p> + +<p>"Tell me, Anselmo, if Heaven or good fortune had made thee master +and lawful owner of a diamond of the finest quality, with the +excellence and purity of which all the lapidaries that had seen it had +been satisfied, saying with one voice and common consent that in +purity, quality, and fineness, it was all that a stone of the kind +could possibly be, thou thyself too being of the same belief, as +knowing nothing to the contrary, would it be reasonable in thee to +desire to take that diamond and place it between an anvil and a +hammer, and by mere force of blows and strength of arm try if it +were as hard and as fine as they said? And if thou didst, and if the +stone should resist so silly a test, that would add nothing to its +value or reputation; and if it were broken, as it might be, would +not all be lost? Undoubtedly it would, leaving its owner to be rated +as a fool in the opinion of all. Consider, then, Anselmo my friend, +that Camilla is a diamond of the finest quality as well in thy +estimation as in that of others, and that it is contrary to reason +to expose her to the risk of being broken; for if she remains intact +she cannot rise to a higher value than she now possesses; and if she +give way and be unable to resist, bethink thee now how thou wilt be +deprived of her, and with what good reason thou wilt complain of +thyself for having been the cause of her ruin and thine own. +Remember there is no jewel in the world so precious as a chaste and +virtuous woman, and that the whole honour of women consists in +reputation; and since thy wife's is of that high excellence that +thou knowest, wherefore shouldst thou seek to call that truth in +question? Remember, my friend, that woman is an imperfect animal, +and that impediments are not to be placed in her way to make her +trip and fall, but that they should be removed, and her path left +clear of all obstacles, so that without hindrance she may run her +course freely to attain the desired perfection, which consists in +being virtuous. Naturalists tell us that the ermine is a little animal +which has a fur of purest white, and that when the hunters wish to +take it, they make use of this artifice. Having ascertained the places +which it frequents and passes, they stop the way to them with mud, and +then rousing it, drive it towards the spot, and as soon as the +ermine comes to the mud it halts, and allows itself to be taken +captive rather than pass through the mire, and spoil and sully its +whiteness, which it values more than life and liberty. The virtuous +and chaste woman is an ermine, and whiter and purer than snow is the +virtue of modesty; and he who wishes her not to lose it, but to keep +and preserve it, must adopt a course different from that employed with +the ermine; he must not put before her the mire of the gifts and +attentions of persevering lovers, because perhaps—and even without +a perhaps—she may not have sufficient virtue and natural strength +in herself to pass through and tread under foot these impediments; +they must be removed, and the brightness of virtue and the beauty of a +fair fame must be put before her. A virtuous woman, too, is like a +mirror, of clear shining crystal, liable to be tarnished and dimmed by +every breath that touches it. She must be treated as relics are; +adored, not touched. She must be protected and prized as one +protects and prizes a fair garden full of roses and flowers, the owner +of which allows no one to trespass or pluck a blossom; enough for +others that from afar and through the iron grating they may enjoy +its fragrance and its beauty. Finally let me repeat to thee some +verses that come to my mind; I heard them in a modern comedy, and it +seems to me they bear upon the point we are discussing. A prudent +old man was giving advice to another, the father of a young girl, to +lock her up, watch over her and keep her in seclusion, and among other +arguments he used these:</p> + +<pre> + Woman is a thing of glass; + But her brittleness 'tis best + Not too curiously to test: + Who knows what may come to pass? + + Breaking is an easy matter, + And it's folly to expose + What you cannot mend to blows; + What you can't make whole to shatter. + + This, then, all may hold as true, + And the reason's plain to see; + For if Danaes there be, + There are golden showers too." +</pre> + +<p> +"All that I have said to thee so far, Anselmo, has had reference +to what concerns thee; now it is right that I should say something +of what regards myself; and if I be prolix, pardon me, for the +labyrinth into which thou hast entered and from which thou wouldst +have me extricate thee makes it necessary.</p> + +<p>"Thou dost reckon me thy friend, and thou wouldst rob me of +honour, a thing wholly inconsistent with friendship; and not only dost +thou aim at this, but thou wouldst have me rob thee of it also. That +thou wouldst rob me of it is clear, for when Camilla sees that I pay +court to her as thou requirest, she will certainly regard me as a +man without honour or right feeling, since I attempt and do a thing so +much opposed to what I owe to my own position and thy friendship. That +thou wouldst have me rob thee of it is beyond a doubt, for Camilla, +seeing that I press my suit upon her, will suppose that I have +perceived in her something light that has encouraged me to make +known to her my base desire; and if she holds herself dishonoured, her +dishonour touches thee as belonging to her; and hence arises what so +commonly takes place, that the husband of the adulterous woman, though +he may not be aware of or have given any cause for his wife's +failure in her duty, or (being careless or negligent) have had it in +his power to prevent his dishonour, nevertheless is stigmatised by a +vile and reproachful name, and in a manner regarded with eyes of +contempt instead of pity by all who know of his wife's guilt, though +they see that he is unfortunate not by his own fault, but by the +lust of a vicious consort. But I will tell thee why with good reason +dishonour attaches to the husband of the unchaste wife, though he know +not that she is so, nor be to blame, nor have done anything, or +given any provocation to make her so; and be not weary with +listening to me, for it will be for thy good.</p> + +<p>"When God created our first parent in the earthly paradise, the Holy +Scripture says that he infused sleep into Adam and while he slept took +a rib from his left side of which he formed our mother Eve, and when +Adam awoke and beheld her he said, 'This is flesh of my flesh, and +bone of my bone.' And God said 'For this shall a man leave his +father and his mother, and they shall be two in one flesh; and then +was instituted the divine sacrament of marriage, with such ties that +death alone can loose them. And such is the force and virtue of this +miraculous sacrament that it makes two different persons one and the +same flesh; and even more than this when the virtuous are married; for +though they have two souls they have but one will. And hence it +follows that as the flesh of the wife is one and the same with that of +her husband the stains that may come upon it, or the injuries it +incurs fall upon the husband's flesh, though he, as has been said, may +have given no cause for them; for as the pain of the foot or any +member of the body is felt by the whole body, because all is one +flesh, as the head feels the hurt to the ankle without having caused +it, so the husband, being one with her, shares the dishonour of the +wife; and as all worldly honour or dishonour comes of flesh and blood, +and the erring wife's is of that kind, the husband must needs bear his +part of it and be held dishonoured without knowing it. See, then, +Anselmo, the peril thou art encountering in seeking to disturb the +peace of thy virtuous consort; see for what an empty and ill-advised +curiosity thou wouldst rouse up passions that now repose in quiet in +the breast of thy chaste wife; reflect that what thou art staking +all to win is little, and what thou wilt lose so much that I leave +it undescribed, not having the words to express it. But if all I +have said be not enough to turn thee from thy vile purpose, thou +must seek some other instrument for thy dishonour and misfortune; +for such I will not consent to be, though I lose thy friendship, the +greatest loss that I can conceive."</p> + +<p>Having said this, the wise and virtuous Lothario was silent, and +Anselmo, troubled in mind and deep in thought, was unable for a +while to utter a word in reply; but at length he said, "I have +listened, Lothario my friend, attentively, as thou hast seen, to +what thou hast chosen to say to me, and in thy arguments, examples, +and comparisons I have seen that high intelligence thou dost +possess, and the perfection of true friendship thou hast reached; +and likewise I see and confess that if I am not guided by thy opinion, +but follow my own, I am flying from the good and pursuing the evil. +This being so, thou must remember that I am now labouring under that +infirmity which women sometimes suffer from, when the craving seizes +them to eat clay, plaster, charcoal, and things even worse, disgusting +to look at, much more to eat; so that it will be necessary to have +recourse to some artifice to cure me; and this can be easily +effected if only thou wilt make a beginning, even though it be in a +lukewarm and make-believe fashion, to pay court to Camilla, who will +not be so yielding that her virtue will give way at the first +attack: with this mere attempt I shall rest satisfied, and thou wilt +have done what our friendship binds thee to do, not only in giving +me life, but in persuading me not to discard my honour. And this +thou art bound to do for one reason alone, that, being, as I am, +resolved to apply this test, it is not for thee to permit me to reveal +my weakness to another, and so imperil that honour thou art striving +to keep me from losing; and if thine may not stand as high as it ought +in the estimation of Camilla while thou art paying court to her, +that is of little or no importance, because ere long, on finding in +her that constancy which we expect, thou canst tell her the plain +truth as regards our stratagem, and so regain thy place in her esteem; +and as thou art venturing so little, and by the venture canst afford +me so much satisfaction, refuse not to undertake it, even if further +difficulties present themselves to thee; for, as I have said, if +thou wilt only make a beginning I will acknowledge the issue decided."</p> + +<p>Lothario seeing the fixed determination of Anselmo, and not +knowing what further examples to offer or arguments to urge in order +to dissuade him from it, and perceiving that he threatened to +confide his pernicious scheme to some one else, to avoid a greater +evil resolved to gratify him and do what he asked, intending to manage +the business so as to satisfy Anselmo without corrupting the mind of +Camilla; so in reply he told him not to communicate his purpose to any +other, for he would undertake the task himself, and would begin it +as soon as he pleased. Anselmo embraced him warmly and affectionately, +and thanked him for his offer as if he had bestowed some great +favour upon him; and it was agreed between them to set about it the +next day, Anselmo affording opportunity and time to Lothario to +converse alone with Camilla, and furnishing him with money and +jewels to offer and present to her. He suggested, too, that he +should treat her to music, and write verses in her praise, and if he +was unwilling to take the trouble of composing them, he offered to +do it himself. Lothario agreed to all with an intention very different +from what Anselmo supposed, and with this understanding they +returned to Anselmo's house, where they found Camilla awaiting her +husband anxiously and uneasily, for he was later than usual in +returning that day. Lothario repaired to his own house, and Anselmo +remained in his, as well satisfied as Lothario was troubled in mind; +for he could see no satisfactory way out of this ill-advised business. +That night, however, he thought of a plan by which he might deceive +Anselmo without any injury to Camilla. The next day he went to dine +with his friend, and was welcomed by Camilla, who received and treated +him with great cordiality, knowing the affection her husband felt +for him. When dinner was over and the cloth removed, Anselmo told +Lothario to stay there with Camilla while he attended to some pressing +business, as he would return in an hour and a half. Camilla begged him +not to go, and Lothario offered to accompany him, but nothing could +persuade Anselmo, who on the contrary pressed Lothario to remain +waiting for him as he had a matter of great importance to discuss with +him. At the same time he bade Camilla not to leave Lothario alone +until he came back. In short he contrived to put so good a face on the +reason, or the folly, of his absence that no one could have +suspected it was a pretence.</p> + +<p>Anselmo took his departure, and Camilla and Lothario were left alone +at the table, for the rest of the household had gone to dinner. +Lothario saw himself in the lists according to his friend's wish, +and facing an enemy that could by her beauty alone vanquish a squadron +of armed knights; judge whether he had good reason to fear; but what +he did was to lean his elbow on the arm of the chair, and his cheek +upon his hand, and, asking Camilla's pardon for his ill manners, he +said he wished to take a little sleep until Anselmo returned. +Camilla in reply said he could repose more at his ease in the +reception-room than in his chair, and begged of him to go in and sleep +there; but Lothario declined, and there he remained asleep until the +return of Anselmo, who finding Camilla in her own room, and Lothario +asleep, imagined that he had stayed away so long as to have afforded +them time enough for conversation and even for sleep, and was all +impatience until Lothario should wake up, that he might go out with +him and question him as to his success. Everything fell out as he +wished; Lothario awoke, and the two at once left the house, and +Anselmo asked what he was anxious to know, and Lothario in answer told +him that he had not thought it advisable to declare himself entirely +the first time, and therefore had only extolled the charms of Camilla, +telling her that all the city spoke of nothing else but her beauty and +wit, for this seemed to him an excellent way of beginning to gain +her good-will and render her disposed to listen to him with pleasure +the next time, thus availing himself of the device the devil has +recourse to when he would deceive one who is on the watch; for he +being the angel of darkness transforms himself into an angel of light, +and, under cover of a fair seeming, discloses himself at length, and +effects his purpose if at the beginning his wiles are not +discovered. All this gave great satisfaction to Anselmo, and he said +he would afford the same opportunity every day, but without leaving +the house, for he would find things to do at home so that Camilla +should not detect the plot.</p> + +<p>Thus, then, several days went by, and Lothario, without uttering a +word to Camilla, reported to Anselmo that he had talked with her and +that he had never been able to draw from her the slightest +indication of consent to anything dishonourable, nor even a sign or +shadow of hope; on the contrary, he said she would inform her +husband of it.</p> + +<p>"So far well," said Anselmo; "Camilla has thus far resisted words; +we must now see how she will resist deeds. I will give you to-morrow +two thousand crowns in gold for you to offer or even present, and as +many more to buy jewels to lure her, for women are fond of being +becomingly attired and going gaily dressed, and all the more so if +they are beautiful, however chaste they may be; and if she resists +this temptation, I will rest satisfied and will give you no more +trouble."</p> + +<p>Lothario replied that now he had begun he would carry on the +undertaking to the end, though he perceived he was to come out of it +wearied and vanquished. The next day he received the four thousand +crowns, and with them four thousand perplexities, for he knew not what +to say by way of a new falsehood; but in the end he made up his mind +to tell him that Camilla stood as firm against gifts and promises as +against words, and that there was no use in taking any further +trouble, for the time was all spent to no purpose.</p> + +<p>But chance, directing things in a different manner, so ordered it +that Anselmo, having left Lothario and Camilla alone as on other +occasions, shut himself into a chamber and posted himself to watch and +listen through the keyhole to what passed between them, and +perceived that for more than half an hour Lothario did not utter a +word to Camilla, nor would utter a word though he were to be there for +an age; and he came to the conclusion that what his friend had told +him about the replies of Camilla was all invention and falsehood, +and to ascertain if it were so, he came out, and calling Lothario +aside asked him what news he had and in what humour Camilla was. +Lothario replied that he was not disposed to go on with the +business, for she had answered him so angrily and harshly that he +had no heart to say anything more to her.</p> + +<p>"Ah, Lothario, Lothario," said Anselmo, "how ill dost thou meet +thy obligations to me, and the great confidence I repose in thee! I +have been just now watching through this keyhole, and I have seen that +thou has not said a word to Camilla, whence I conclude that on the +former occasions thou hast not spoken to her either, and if this be +so, as no doubt it is, why dost thou deceive me, or wherefore +seekest thou by craft to deprive me of the means I might find of +attaining my desire?"</p> + +<p>Anselmo said no more, but he had said enough to cover Lothario +with shame and confusion, and he, feeling as it were his honour +touched by having been detected in a lie, swore to Anselmo that he +would from that moment devote himself to satisfying him without any +deception, as he would see if he had the curiosity to watch; though he +need not take the trouble, for the pains he would take to satisfy +him would remove all suspicions from his mind. Anselmo believed him, +and to afford him an opportunity more free and less liable to +surprise, he resolved to absent himself from his house for eight days, +betaking himself to that of a friend of his who lived in a village not +far from the city; and, the better to account for his departure to +Camilla, he so arranged it that the friend should send him a very +pressing invitation.</p> + +<p>Unhappy, shortsighted Anselmo, what art thou doing, what art thou +plotting, what art thou devising? Bethink thee thou art working +against thyself, plotting thine own dishonour, devising thine own +ruin. Thy wife Camilla is virtuous, thou dost possess her in peace and +quietness, no one assails thy happiness, her thoughts wander not +beyond the walls of thy house, thou art her heaven on earth, the +object of her wishes, the fulfilment of her desires, the measure +wherewith she measures her will, making it conform in all things to +thine and Heaven's. If, then, the mine of her honour, beauty, +virtue, and modesty yields thee without labour all the wealth it +contains and thou canst wish for, why wilt thou dig the earth in +search of fresh veins, of new unknown treasure, risking the collapse +of all, since it but rests on the feeble props of her weak nature? +Bethink thee that from him who seeks impossibilities that which is +possible may with justice be withheld, as was better expressed by a +poet who said: +<pre> +'Tis mine to seek for life in death, + Health in disease seek I, +I seek in prison freedom's breath, + In traitors loyalty. +So Fate that ever scorns to grant + Or grace or boon to me, +Since what can never be I want, + Denies me what might be. +</pre> + +<p> +The next day Anselmo took his departure for the village, leaving +instructions with Camilla that during his absence Lothario would +come to look after his house and to dine with her, and that she was to +treat him as she would himself. Camilla was distressed, as a +discreet and right-minded woman would be, at the orders her husband +left her, and bade him remember that it was not becoming that anyone +should occupy his seat at the table during his absence, and if he +acted thus from not feeling confidence that she would be able to +manage his house, let him try her this time, and he would find by +experience that she was equal to greater responsibilities. Anselmo +replied that it was his pleasure to have it so, and that she had +only to submit and obey. Camilla said she would do so, though +against her will.</p> + +<p>Anselmo went, and the next day Lothario came to his house, where +he was received by Camilla with a friendly and modest welcome; but she +never suffered Lothario to see her alone, for she was always +attended by her men and women servants, especially by a handmaid of +hers, Leonela by name, to whom she was much attached (for they had +been brought up together from childhood in her father's house), and +whom she had kept with her after her marriage with Anselmo. The +first three days Lothario did not speak to her, though he might have +done so when they removed the cloth and the servants retired to dine +hastily; for such were Camilla's orders; nay more, Leonela had +directions to dine earlier than Camilla and never to leave her side. +She, however, having her thoughts fixed upon other things more to +her taste, and wanting that time and opportunity for her own +pleasures, did not always obey her mistress's commands, but on the +contrary left them alone, as if they had ordered her to do so; but the +modest bearing of Camilla, the calmness of her countenance, the +composure of her aspect were enough to bridle the tongue of +Lothario. But the influence which the many virtues of Camilla +exerted in imposing silence on Lothario's tongue proved mischievous +for both of them, for if his tongue was silent his thoughts were busy, +and could dwell at leisure upon the perfections of Camilla's +goodness and beauty one by one, charms enough to warm with love a +marble statue, not to say a heart of flesh. Lothario gazed upon her +when he might have been speaking to her, and thought how worthy of +being loved she was; and thus reflection began little by little to +assail his allegiance to Anselmo, and a thousand times he thought of +withdrawing from the city and going where Anselmo should never see him +nor he see Camilla. But already the delight he found in gazing on +her interposed and held him fast. He put a constraint upon himself, +and struggled to repel and repress the pleasure he found in +contemplating Camilla; when alone he blamed himself for his +weakness, called himself a bad friend, nay a bad Christian; then he +argued the matter and compared himself with Anselmo; always coming +to the conclusion that the folly and rashness of Anselmo had been +worse than his faithlessness, and that if he could excuse his +intentions as easily before God as with man, he had no reason to +fear any punishment for his offence.</p> + +<p>In short the beauty and goodness of Camilla, joined with the +opportunity which the blind husband had placed in his hands, overthrew +the loyalty of Lothario; and giving heed to nothing save the object +towards which his inclinations led him, after Anselmo had been three +days absent, during which he had been carrying on a continual struggle +with his passion, he began to make love to Camilla with so much +vehemence and warmth of language that she was overwhelmed with +amazement, and could only rise from her place and retire to her room +without answering him a word. But the hope which always springs up +with love was not weakened in Lothario by this repelling demeanour; on +the contrary his passion for Camilla increased, and she discovering in +him what she had never expected, knew not what to do; and +considering it neither safe nor right to give him the chance or +opportunity of speaking to her again, she resolved to send, as she did +that very night, one of her servants with a letter to Anselmo, in +which she addressed the following words to him.</p> + + + +<br><br> +<center><h2><a name="ch34"></a>CHAPTER XXXIV.</h2></center> +<br> +<center><h3>IN WHICH IS CONTINUED THE NOVEL OF "THE ILL-ADVISED CURIOSITY" +</h3></center> +<br> +<br> + +<p>"It is commonly said that an army looks ill without its general +and a castle without its castellan, and I say that a young married +woman looks still worse without her husband unless there are very good +reasons for it. I find myself so ill at ease without you, and so +incapable of enduring this separation, that unless you return +quickly I shall have to go for relief to my parents' house, even if +I leave yours without a protector; for the one you left me, if +indeed he deserved that title, has, I think, more regard to his own +pleasure than to what concerns you: as you are possessed of +discernment I need say no more to you, nor indeed is it fitting I +should say more."</p> + +<p>Anselmo received this letter, and from it he gathered that +Lothario had already begun his task and that Camilla must have replied +to him as he would have wished; and delighted beyond measure at such +intelligence he sent word to her not to leave his house on any +account, as he would very shortly return. Camilla was astonished at +Anselmo's reply, which placed her in greater perplexity than before, +for she neither dared to remain in her own house, nor yet to go to her +parents'; for in remaining her virtue was imperilled, and in going she +was opposing her husband's commands. Finally she decided upon what was +the worse course for her, to remain, resolving not to fly from the +presence of Lothario, that she might not give food for gossip to her +servants; and she now began to regret having written as she had to her +husband, fearing he might imagine that Lothario had perceived in her +some lightness which had impelled him to lay aside the respect he owed +her; but confident of her rectitude she put her trust in God and in +her own virtuous intentions, with which she hoped to resist in silence +all the solicitations of Lothario, without saying anything to her +husband so as not to involve him in any quarrel or trouble; and she +even began to consider how to excuse Lothario to Anselmo when he +should ask her what it was that induced her to write that letter. With +these resolutions, more honourable than judicious or effectual, she +remained the next day listening to Lothario, who pressed his suit so +strenuously that Camilla's firmness began to waver, and her virtue had +enough to do to come to the rescue of her eyes and keep them from +showing signs of a certain tender compassion which the tears and +appeals of Lothario had awakened in her bosom. Lothario observed all +this, and it inflamed him all the more. In short he felt that while +Anselmo's absence afforded time and opportunity he must press the +siege of the fortress, and so he assailed her self-esteem with praises +of her beauty, for there is nothing that more quickly reduces and +levels the castle towers of fair women's vanity than vanity itself +upon the tongue of flattery. In fact with the utmost assiduity he +undermined the rock of her purity with such engines that had Camilla +been of brass she must have fallen. He wept, he entreated, he +promised, he flattered, he importuned, he pretended with so much +feeling and apparent sincerity, that he overthrew the virtuous +resolves of Camilla and won the triumph he least expected and most +longed for. Camilla yielded, Camilla fell; but what wonder if the +friendship of Lothario could not stand firm? A clear proof to us +that the passion of love is to be conquered only by flying from it, +and that no one should engage in a struggle with an enemy so mighty; +for divine strength is needed to overcome his human power. Leonela +alone knew of her mistress's weakness, for the two false friends and +new lovers were unable to conceal it. Lothario did not care to tell +Camilla the object Anselmo had in view, nor that he had afforded him +the opportunity of attaining such a result, lest she should undervalue +his love and think that it was by chance and without intending it +and not of his own accord that he had made love to her.</p> + +<p>A few days later Anselmo returned to his house and did not +perceive what it had lost, that which he so lightly treated and so +highly prized. He went at once to see Lothario, and found him at home; +they embraced each other, and Anselmo asked for the tidings of his +life or his death.</p> + +<p>"The tidings I have to give thee, Anselmo my friend," said Lothario, +"are that thou dost possess a wife that is worthy to be the pattern +and crown of all good wives. The words that I have addressed to her +were borne away on the wind, my promises have been despised, my +presents have been refused, such feigned tears as I shed have been +turned into open ridicule. In short, as Camilla is the essence of +all beauty, so is she the treasure-house where purity dwells, and +gentleness and modesty abide with all the virtues that can confer +praise, honour, and happiness upon a woman. Take back thy money, my +friend; here it is, and I have had no need to touch it, for the +chastity of Camilla yields not to things so base as gifts or promises. +Be content, Anselmo, and refrain from making further proof; and as +thou hast passed dryshod through the sea of those doubts and +suspicions that are and may be entertained of women, seek not to +plunge again into the deep ocean of new embarrassments, or with +another pilot make trial of the goodness and strength of the bark that +Heaven has granted thee for thy passage across the sea of this +world; but reckon thyself now safe in port, moor thyself with the +anchor of sound reflection, and rest in peace until thou art called +upon to pay that debt which no nobility on earth can escape paying."</p> + +<p>Anselmo was completely satisfied by the words of Lothario, and +believed them as fully as if they had been spoken by an oracle; +nevertheless he begged of him not to relinquish the undertaking, +were it but for the sake of curiosity and amusement; though +thenceforward he need not make use of the same earnest endeavours as +before; all he wished him to do was to write some verses to her, +praising her under the name of Chloris, for he himself would give +her to understand that he was in love with a lady to whom he had given +that name to enable him to sing her praises with the decorum due to +her modesty; and if Lothario were unwilling to take the trouble of +writing the verses he would compose them himself.</p> + +<p>"That will not be necessary," said Lothario, "for the muses are +not such enemies of mine but that they visit me now and then in the +course of the year. Do thou tell Camilla what thou hast proposed about +a pretended amour of mine; as for the verses will make them, and if +not as good as the subject deserves, they shall be at least the best I +can produce." An agreement to this effect was made between the +friends, the ill-advised one and the treacherous, and Anselmo +returning to his house asked Camilla the question she already wondered +he had not asked before—what it was that had caused her to write +the letter she had sent him. Camilla replied that it had seemed to her +that Lothario looked at her somewhat more freely than when he had been +at home; but that now she was undeceived and believed it to have +been only her own imagination, for Lothario now avoided seeing her, or +being alone with her. Anselmo told her she might be quite easy on +the score of that suspicion, for he knew that Lothario was in love +with a damsel of rank in the city whom he celebrated under the name of +Chloris, and that even if he were not, his fidelity and their great +friendship left no room for fear. Had not Camilla, however, been +informed beforehand by Lothario that this love for Chloris was a +pretence, and that he himself had told Anselmo of it in order to be +able sometimes to give utterance to the praises of Camilla herself, no +doubt she would have fallen into the despairing toils of jealousy; but +being forewarned she received the startling news without uneasiness.</p> + +<p>The next day as the three were at table Anselmo asked Lothario to +recite something of what he had composed for his mistress Chloris; for +as Camilla did not know her, he might safely say what he liked.</p> + +<p>"Even did she know her," returned Lothario, "I would hide nothing, +for when a lover praises his lady's beauty, and charges her with +cruelty, he casts no imputation upon her fair name; at any rate, all I +can say is that yesterday I made a sonnet on the ingratitude of this +Chloris, which goes thus:</p> + + +<pre> +SONNET + +At midnight, in the silence, when the eyes + Of happier mortals balmy slumbers close, + The weary tale of my unnumbered woes +To Chloris and to Heaven is wont to rise. +And when the light of day returning dyes + The portals of the east with tints of rose, + With undiminished force my sorrow flows +In broken accents and in burning sighs. +And when the sun ascends his star-girt throne, + And on the earth pours down his midday beams, + Noon but renews my wailing and my tears; +And with the night again goes up my moan. + Yet ever in my agony it seems + To me that neither Heaven nor Chloris hears." +</pre> + + +<p> +The sonnet pleased Camilla, and still more Anselmo, for he praised +it and said the lady was excessively cruel who made no return for +sincerity so manifest. On which Camilla said, "Then all that +love-smitten poets say is true?"</p> + +<p>"As poets they do not tell the truth," replied Lothario; "but as +lovers they are not more defective in expression than they are +truthful."</p> + +<p>"There is no doubt of that," observed Anselmo, anxious to support +and uphold Lothario's ideas with Camilla, who was as regardless of his +design as she was deep in love with Lothario; and so taking delight in +anything that was his, and knowing that his thoughts and writings +had her for their object, and that she herself was the real Chloris, +she asked him to repeat some other sonnet or verses if he +recollected any.</p> + +<p>"I do," replied Lothario, "but I do not think it as good as the +first one, or, more correctly speaking, less bad; but you can easily +judge, for it is this.</p> + + +<pre> +SONNET + +I know that I am doomed; death is to me + As certain as that thou, ungrateful fair, + Dead at thy feet shouldst see me lying, ere +My heart repented of its love for thee. +If buried in oblivion I should be, + Bereft of life, fame, favour, even there + It would be found that I thy image bear +Deep graven in my breast for all to see. +This like some holy relic do I prize + To save me from the fate my truth entails, + Truth that to thy hard heart its vigour owes. +Alas for him that under lowering skies, + In peril o'er a trackless ocean sails, + Where neither friendly port nor pole-star shows." +</pre> + + +<p> +Anselmo praised this second sonnet too, as he had praised the first; +and so he went on adding link after link to the chain with which he +was binding himself and making his dishonour secure; for when Lothario +was doing most to dishonour him he told him he was most honoured; +and thus each step that Camilla descended towards the depths of her +abasement, she mounted, in his opinion, towards the summit of virtue +and fair fame.</p> + +<p>It so happened that finding herself on one occasion alone with her +maid, Camilla said to her, "I am ashamed to think, my dear Leonela, +how lightly I have valued myself that I did not compel Lothario to +purchase by at least some expenditure of time that full possession +of me that I so quickly yielded him of my own free will. I fear that +he will think ill of my pliancy or lightness, not considering the +irresistible influence he brought to bear upon me."</p> + +<p>"Let not that trouble you, my lady," said Leonela, "for it does +not take away the value of the thing given or make it the less +precious to give it quickly if it be really valuable and worthy of +being prized; nay, they are wont to say that he who gives quickly +gives twice."</p> + +<p>"They say also," said Camilla, "that what costs little is valued +less."</p> + +<p>"That saying does not hold good in your case," replied Leonela, "for +love, as I have heard say, sometimes flies and sometimes walks; with +this one it runs, with that it moves slowly; some it cools, others +it burns; some it wounds, others it slays; it begins the course of its +desires, and at the same moment completes and ends it; in the +morning it will lay siege to a fortress and by night will have taken +it, for there is no power that can resist it; so what are you in dread +of, what do you fear, when the same must have befallen Lothario, +love having chosen the absence of my lord as the instrument for +subduing you? and it was absolutely necessary to complete then what +love had resolved upon, without affording the time to let Anselmo +return and by his presence compel the work to be left unfinished; +for love has no better agent for carrying out his designs than +opportunity; and of opportunity he avails himself in all his feats, +especially at the outset. All this I know well myself, more by +experience than by hearsay, and some day, senora, I will enlighten you +on the subject, for I am of your flesh and blood too. Moreover, lady +Camilla, you did not surrender yourself or yield so quickly but that +first you saw Lothario's whole soul in his eyes, in his sighs, in +his words, his promises and his gifts, and by it and his good +qualities perceived how worthy he was of your love. This, then, +being the case, let not these scrupulous and prudish ideas trouble +your imagination, but be assured that Lothario prizes you as you do +him, and rest content and satisfied that as you are caught in the +noose of love it is one of worth and merit that has taken you, and one +that has not only the four S's that they say true lovers ought to +have, but a complete alphabet; only listen to me and you will see +how I can repeat it by rote. He is to my eyes and thinking, Amiable, +Brave, Courteous, Distinguished, Elegant, Fond, Gay, Honourable, +Illustrious, Loyal, Manly, Noble, Open, Polite, Quickwitted, Rich, and +the S's according to the saying, and then Tender, Veracious: X does +not suit him, for it is a rough letter; Y has been given already; +and Z Zealous for your honour."</p> + +<p>Camilla laughed at her maid's alphabet, and perceived her to be more +experienced in love affairs than she said, which she admitted, +confessing to Camilla that she had love passages with a young man of +good birth of the same city. Camilla was uneasy at this, dreading lest +it might prove the means of endangering her honour, and asked +whether her intrigue had gone beyond words, and she with little +shame and much effrontery said it had; for certain it is that +ladies' imprudences make servants shameless, who, when they see +their mistresses make a false step, think nothing of going astray +themselves, or of its being known. All that Camilla could do was to +entreat Leonela to say nothing about her doings to him whom she called +her lover, and to conduct her own affairs secretly lest they should +come to the knowledge of Anselmo or of Lothario. Leonela said she +would, but kept her word in such a way that she confirmed Camilla's +apprehension of losing her reputation through her means; for this +abandoned and bold Leonela, as soon as she perceived that her +mistress's demeanour was not what it was wont to be, had the +audacity to introduce her lover into the house, confident that even if +her mistress saw him she would not dare to expose him; for the sins of +mistresses entail this mischief among others; they make themselves the +slaves of their own servants, and are obliged to hide their laxities +and depravities; as was the case with Camilla, who though she +perceived, not once but many times, that Leonela was with her lover in +some room of the house, not only did not dare to chide her, but +afforded her opportunities for concealing him and removed all +difficulties, lest he should be seen by her husband. She was unable, +however, to prevent him from being seen on one occasion, as he sallied +forth at daybreak, by Lothario, who, not knowing who he was, at +first took him for a spectre; but, as soon as he saw him hasten +away, muffling his face with his cloak and concealing himself +carefully and cautiously, he rejected this foolish idea, and adopted +another, which would have been the ruin of all had not Camilla found a +remedy. It did not occur to Lothario that this man he had seen issuing +at such an untimely hour from Anselmo's house could have entered it on +Leonela's account, nor did he even remember there was such a person as +Leonela; all he thought was that as Camilla had been light and +yielding with him, so she had been with another; for this further +penalty the erring woman's sin brings with it, that her honour is +distrusted even by him to whose overtures and persuasions she has +yielded; and he believes her to have surrendered more easily to +others, and gives implicit credence to every suspicion that comes into +his mind. All Lothario's good sense seems to have failed him at this +juncture; all his prudent maxims escaped his memory; for without +once reflecting rationally, and without more ado, in his impatience +and in the blindness of the jealous rage that gnawed his heart, and +dying to revenge himself upon Camilla, who had done him no wrong, +before Anselmo had risen he hastened to him and said to him, "Know, +Anselmo, that for several days past I have been struggling with +myself, striving to withhold from thee what it is no longer possible +or right that I should conceal from thee. Know that Camilla's fortress +has surrendered and is ready to submit to my will; and if I have +been slow to reveal this fact to thee, it was in order to see if it +were some light caprice of hers, or if she sought to try me and +ascertain if the love I began to make to her with thy permission was +made with a serious intention. I thought, too, that she, if she were +what she ought to be, and what we both believed her, would have ere +this given thee information of my addresses; but seeing that she +delays, I believe the truth of the promise she has given me that the +next time thou art absent from the house she will grant me an +interview in the closet where thy jewels are kept (and it was true +that Camilla used to meet him there); but I do not wish thee to rush +precipitately to take vengeance, for the sin is as yet only +committed in intention, and Camilla's may change perhaps between +this and the appointed time, and repentance spring up in its place. As +hitherto thou hast always followed my advice wholly or in part, follow +and observe this that I will give thee now, so that, without +mistake, and with mature deliberation, thou mayest satisfy thyself +as to what may seem the best course; pretend to absent thyself for two +or three days as thou hast been wont to do on other occasions, and +contrive to hide thyself in the closet; for the tapestries and other +things there afford great facilities for thy concealment, and then +thou wilt see with thine own eyes and I with mine what Camilla's +purpose may be. And if it be a guilty one, which may be feared +rather than expected, with silence, prudence, and discretion thou +canst thyself become the instrument of punishment for the wrong done +thee."</p> + +<p>Anselmo was amazed, overwhelmed, and astounded at the words of +Lothario, which came upon him at a time when he least expected to hear +them, for he now looked upon Camilla as having triumphed over the +pretended attacks of Lothario, and was beginning to enjoy the glory of +her victory. He remained silent for a considerable time, looking on +the ground with fixed gaze, and at length said, "Thou hast behaved, +Lothario, as I expected of thy friendship: I will follow thy advice in +everything; do as thou wilt, and keep this secret as thou seest it +should be kept in circumstances so unlooked for."</p> + +<p>Lothario gave him his word, but after leaving him he repented +altogether of what he had said to him, perceiving how foolishly he had +acted, as he might have revenged himself upon Camilla in some less +cruel and degrading way. He cursed his want of sense, condemned his +hasty resolution, and knew not what course to take to undo the +mischief or find some ready escape from it. At last he decided upon +revealing all to Camilla, and, as there was no want of opportunity for +doing so, he found her alone the same day; but she, as soon as she had +the chance of speaking to him, said, "Lothario my friend, I must +tell thee I have a sorrow in my heart which fills it so that it +seems ready to burst; and it will be a wonder if it does not; for +the audacity of Leonela has now reached such a pitch that every +night she conceals a gallant of hers in this house and remains with +him till morning, at the expense of my reputation; inasmuch as it is +open to anyone to question it who may see him quitting my house at +such unseasonable hours; but what distresses me is that I cannot +punish or chide her, for her privity to our intrigue bridles my +mouth and keeps me silent about hers, while I am dreading that some +catastrophe will come of it."</p> + +<p>As Camilla said this Lothario at first imagined it was some device +to delude him into the idea that the man he had seen going out was +Leonela's lover and not hers; but when he saw how she wept and +suffered, and begged him to help her, he became convinced of the +truth, and the conviction completed his confusion and remorse; +however, he told Camilla not to distress herself, as he would take +measures to put a stop to the insolence of Leonela. At the same time +he told her what, driven by the fierce rage of jealousy, he had said +to Anselmo, and how he had arranged to hide himself in the closet that +he might there see plainly how little she preserved her fidelity to +him; and he entreated her pardon for this madness, and her advice as +to how to repair it, and escape safely from the intricate labyrinth in +which his imprudence had involved him. Camilla was struck with alarm +at hearing what Lothario said, and with much anger, and great good +sense, she reproved him and rebuked his base design and the foolish +and mischievous resolution he had made; but as woman has by nature a +nimbler wit than man for good and for evil, though it is apt to fail +when she sets herself deliberately to reason, Camilla on the spur of +the moment thought of a way to remedy what was to all appearance +irremediable, and told Lothario to contrive that the next day +Anselmo should conceal himself in the place he mentioned, for she +hoped from his concealment to obtain the means of their enjoying +themselves for the future without any apprehension; and without +revealing her purpose to him entirely she charged him to be careful, +as soon as Anselmo was concealed, to come to her when Leonela should +call him, and to all she said to him to answer as he would have +answered had he not known that Anselmo was listening. Lothario pressed +her to explain her intention fully, so that he might with more +certainty and precaution take care to do what he saw to be needful.</p> + +<p>"I tell you," said Camilla, "there is nothing to take care of except +to answer me what I shall ask you;" for she did not wish to explain to +him beforehand what she meant to do, fearing lest he should be +unwilling to follow out an idea which seemed to her such a good one, +and should try or devise some other less practicable plan.</p> + +<p>Lothario then retired, and the next day Anselmo, under pretence of +going to his friend's country house, took his departure, and then +returned to conceal himself, which he was able to do easily, as +Camilla and Leonela took care to give him the opportunity; and so he +placed himself in hiding in the state of agitation that it may be +imagined he would feel who expected to see the vitals of his honour +laid bare before his eyes, and found himself on the point of losing +the supreme blessing he thought he possessed in his beloved Camilla. +Having made sure of Anselmo's being in his hiding-place, Camilla and +Leonela entered the closet, and the instant she set foot within it +Camilla said, with a deep sigh, "Ah! dear Leonela, would it not be +better, before I do what I am unwilling you should know lest you +should seek to prevent it, that you should take Anselmo's dagger +that I have asked of you and with it pierce this vile heart of mine? +But no; there is no reason why I should suffer the punishment of +another's fault. I will first know what it is that the bold licentious +eyes of Lothario have seen in me that could have encouraged him to +reveal to me a design so base as that which he has disclosed +regardless of his friend and of my honour. Go to the window, +Leonela, and call him, for no doubt he is in the street waiting to +carry out his vile project; but mine, cruel it may be, but honourable, +shall be carried out first."</p> + +<p>"Ah, senora," said the crafty Leonela, who knew her part, "what is +it you want to do with this dagger? Can it be that you mean to take +your own life, or Lothario's? for whichever you mean to do, it will +lead to the loss of your reputation and good name. It is better to +dissemble your wrong and not give this wicked man the chance of +entering the house now and finding us alone; consider, senora, we +are weak women and he is a man, and determined, and as he comes with +such a base purpose, blind and urged by passion, perhaps before you +can put yours into execution he may do what will be worse for you than +taking your life. Ill betide my master, Anselmo, for giving such +authority in his house to this shameless fellow! And supposing you +kill him, senora, as I suspect you mean to do, what shall we do with +him when he is dead?"</p> + +<p>"What, my friend?" replied Camilla, "we shall leave him for +Anselmo to bury him; for in reason it will be to him a light labour to +hide his own infamy under ground. Summon him, make haste, for all +the time I delay in taking vengeance for my wrong seems to me an +offence against the loyalty I owe my husband."</p> + +<p>Anselmo was listening to all this, and every word that Camilla +uttered made him change his mind; but when he heard that it was +resolved to kill Lothario his first impulse was to come out and show +himself to avert such a disaster; but in his anxiety to see the +issue of a resolution so bold and virtuous he restrained himself, +intending to come forth in time to prevent the deed. At this moment +Camilla, throwing herself upon a bed that was close by, swooned +away, and Leonela began to weep bitterly, exclaiming, "Woe is me! that +I should be fated to have dying here in my arms the flower of virtue +upon earth, the crown of true wives, the pattern of chastity!" with +more to the same effect, so that anyone who heard her would have taken +her for the most tender-hearted and faithful handmaid in the world, +and her mistress for another persecuted Penelope.</p> + +<p>Camilla was not long in recovering from her fainting fit and on +coming to herself she said, "Why do you not go, Leonela, to call +hither that friend, the falsest to his friend the sun ever shone +upon or night concealed? Away, run, haste, speed! lest the fire of +my wrath burn itself out with delay, and the righteous vengeance +that I hope for melt away in menaces and maledictions."</p> + +<p>"I am just going to call him, senora," said Leonela; "but you must +first give me that dagger, lest while I am gone you should by means of +it give cause to all who love you to weep all their lives."</p> + +<p>"Go in peace, dear Leonela, I will not do so," said Camilla, "for +rash and foolish as I may be, to your mind, in defending my honour, +I am not going to be so much so as that Lucretia who they say killed +herself without having done anything wrong, and without having first +killed him on whom the guilt of her misfortune lay. I shall die, if +I am to die; but it must be after full vengeance upon him who has +brought me here to weep over audacity that no fault of mine gave birth +to."</p> + +<p>Leonela required much pressing before she would go to summon +Lothario, but at last she went, and while awaiting her return +Camilla continued, as if speaking to herself, "Good God! would it +not have been more prudent to have repulsed Lothario, as I have done +many a time before, than to allow him, as I am now doing, to think +me unchaste and vile, even for the short time I must wait until I +undeceive him? No doubt it would have been better; but I should not be +avenged, nor the honour of my husband vindicated, should he find so +clear and easy an escape from the strait into which his depravity +has led him. Let the traitor pay with his life for the temerity of his +wanton wishes, and let the world know (if haply it shall ever come +to know) that Camilla not only preserved her allegiance to her +husband, but avenged him of the man who dared to wrong him. Still, I +think it might be better to disclose this to Anselmo. But then I +have called his attention to it in the letter I wrote to him in the +country, and, if he did nothing to prevent the mischief I there +pointed out to him, I suppose it was that from pure goodness of +heart and trustfulness he would not and could not believe that any +thought against his honour could harbour in the breast of so stanch +a friend; nor indeed did I myself believe it for many days, nor should +I have ever believed it if his insolence had not gone so far as to +make it manifest by open presents, lavish promises, and ceaseless +tears. But why do I argue thus? Does a bold determination stand in +need of arguments? Surely not. Then traitors avaunt! Vengeance to my +aid! Let the false one come, approach, advance, die, yield up his +life, and then befall what may. Pure I came to him whom Heaven +bestowed upon me, pure I shall leave him; and at the worst bathed in +my own chaste blood and in the foul blood of the falsest friend that +friendship ever saw in the world;" and as she uttered these words +she paced the room holding the unsheathed dagger, with such +irregular and disordered steps, and such gestures that one would +have supposed her to have lost her senses, and taken her for some +violent desperado instead of a delicate woman.</p> + +<p>Anselmo, hidden behind some tapestries where he had concealed +himself, beheld and was amazed at all, and already felt that what he +had seen and heard was a sufficient answer to even greater suspicions; +and he would have been now well pleased if the proof afforded by +Lothario's coming were dispensed with, as he feared some sudden +mishap; but as he was on the point of showing himself and coming forth +to embrace and undeceive his wife he paused as he saw Leonela +returning, leading Lothario. Camilla when she saw him, drawing a +long line in front of her on the floor with the dagger, said to him, +"Lothario, pay attention to what I say to thee: if by any chance +thou darest to cross this line thou seest, or even approach it, the +instant I see thee attempt it that same instant will I pierce my bosom +with this dagger that I hold in my hand; and before thou answerest +me a word desire thee to listen to a few from me, and afterwards +thou shalt reply as may please thee. First, I desire thee to tell +me, Lothario, if thou knowest my husband Anselmo, and in what light +thou regardest him; and secondly I desire to know if thou knowest me +too. Answer me this, without embarrassment or reflecting deeply what +thou wilt answer, for they are no riddles I put to thee."</p> + +<p>Lothario was not so dull but that from the first moment when Camilla +directed him to make Anselmo hide himself he understood what she +intended to do, and therefore he fell in with her idea so readily +and promptly that between them they made the imposture look more +true than truth; so he answered her thus: "I did not think, fair +Camilla, that thou wert calling me to ask questions so remote from the +object with which I come; but if it is to defer the promised reward +thou art doing so, thou mightst have put it off still longer, for +the longing for happiness gives the more distress the nearer comes the +hope of gaining it; but lest thou shouldst say that I do not answer +thy questions, I say that I know thy husband Anselmo, and that we have +known each other from our earliest years; I will not speak of what +thou too knowest, of our friendship, that I may not compel myself to +testify against the wrong that love, the mighty excuse for greater +errors, makes me inflict upon him. Thee I know and hold in the same +estimation as he does, for were it not so I had not for a lesser prize +acted in opposition to what I owe to my station and the holy laws of +true friendship, now broken and violated by me through that powerful +enemy, love."</p> + +<p>"If thou dost confess that," returned Camilla, "mortal enemy of +all that rightly deserves to be loved, with what face dost thou dare +to come before one whom thou knowest to be the mirror wherein he is +reflected on whom thou shouldst look to see how unworthily thou him? +But, woe is me, I now comprehend what has made thee give so little +heed to what thou owest to thyself; it must have been some freedom +of mine, for I will not call it immodesty, as it did not proceed +from any deliberate intention, but from some heedlessness such as +women are guilty of through inadvertence when they think they have +no occasion for reserve. But tell me, traitor, when did I by word or +sign give a reply to thy prayers that could awaken in thee a shadow of +hope of attaining thy base wishes? When were not thy professions of +love sternly and scornfully rejected and rebuked? When were thy +frequent pledges and still more frequent gifts believed or accepted? +But as I am persuaded that no one can long persevere in the attempt to +win love unsustained by some hope, I am willing to attribute to myself +the blame of thy assurance, for no doubt some thoughtlessness of +mine has all this time fostered thy hopes; and therefore will I punish +myself and inflict upon myself the penalty thy guilt deserves. And +that thou mayest see that being so relentless to myself I cannot +possibly be otherwise to thee, I have summoned thee to be a witness of +the sacrifice I mean to offer to the injured honour of my honoured +husband, wronged by thee with all the assiduity thou wert capable +of, and by me too through want of caution in avoiding every +occasion, if I have given any, of encouraging and sanctioning thy base +designs. Once more I say the suspicion in my mind that some imprudence +of mine has engendered these lawless thoughts in thee, is what +causes me most distress and what I desire most to punish with my own +hands, for were any other instrument of punishment employed my error +might become perhaps more widely known; but before I do so, in my +death I mean to inflict death, and take with me one that will fully +satisfy my longing for the revenge I hope for and have; for I shall +see, wheresoever it may be that I go, the penalty awarded by +inflexible, unswerving justice on him who has placed me in a +position so desperate."</p> + +<p>As she uttered these words, with incredible energy and swiftness she +flew upon Lothario with the naked dagger, so manifestly bent on +burying it in his breast that he was almost uncertain whether these +demonstrations were real or feigned, for he was obliged to have +recourse to all his skill and strength to prevent her from striking +him; and with such reality did she act this strange farce and +mystification that, to give it a colour of truth, she determined to +stain it with her own blood; for perceiving, or pretending, that she +could not wound Lothario, she said, "Fate, it seems, will not grant my +just desire complete satisfaction, but it will not be able to keep +me from satisfying it partially at least;" and making an effort to +free the hand with the dagger which Lothario held in his grasp, she +released it, and directing the point to a place where it could not +inflict a deep wound, she plunged it into her left side high up +close to the shoulder, and then allowed herself to fall to the +ground as if in a faint.</p> + +<p>Leonela and Lothario stood amazed and astounded at the +catastrophe, and seeing Camilla stretched on the ground and bathed +in her blood they were still uncertain as to the true nature of the +act. Lothario, terrified and breathless, ran in haste to pluck out the +dagger; but when he saw how slight the wound was he was relieved of +his fears and once more admired the subtlety, coolness, and ready +wit of the fair Camilla; and the better to support the part he had +to play he began to utter profuse and doleful lamentations over her +body as if she were dead, invoking maledictions not only on himself +but also on him who had been the means of placing him in such a +position: and knowing that his friend Anselmo heard him he spoke in +such a way as to make a listener feel much more pity for him than +for Camilla, even though he supposed her dead. Leonela took her up +in her arms and laid her on the bed, entreating Lothario to go in +quest of some one to attend to her wound in secret, and at the same +time asking his advice and opinion as to what they should say to +Anselmo about his lady's wound if he should chance to return before it +was healed. He replied they might say what they liked, for he was +not in a state to give advice that would be of any use; all he could +tell her was to try and stanch the blood, as he was going where he +should never more be seen; and with every appearance of deep grief and +sorrow he left the house; but when he found himself alone, and where +there was nobody to see him, he crossed himself unceasingly, lost in +wonder at the adroitness of Camilla and the consistent acting of +Leonela. He reflected how convinced Anselmo would be that he had a +second Portia for a wife, and he looked forward anxiously to meeting +him in order to rejoice together over falsehood and truth the most +craftily veiled that could be imagined.</p> + +<p>Leonela, as he told her, stanched her lady's blood, which was no +more than sufficed to support her deception; and washing the wound +with a little wine she bound it up to the best of her skill, talking +all the time she was tending her in a strain that, even if nothing +else had been said before, would have been enough to assure Anselmo +that he had in Camilla a model of purity. To Leonela's words Camilla +added her own, calling herself cowardly and wanting in spirit, since +she had not enough at the time she had most need of it to rid +herself of the life she so much loathed. She asked her attendant's +advice as to whether or not she ought to inform her beloved husband of +all that had happened, but the other bade her say nothing about it, as +she would lay upon him the obligation of taking vengeance on Lothario, +which he could not do but at great risk to himself; and it was the +duty of a true wife not to give her husband provocation to quarrel, +but, on the contrary, to remove it as far as possible from him.</p> + +<p>Camilla replied that she believed she was right and that she would +follow her advice, but at any rate it would be well to consider how +she was to explain the wound to Anselmo, for he could not help +seeing it; to which Leonela answered that she did not know how to tell +a lie even in jest.</p> + +<p>"How then can I know, my dear?" said Camilla, "for I should not dare +to forge or keep up a falsehood if my life depended on it. If we can +think of no escape from this difficulty, it will be better to tell him +the plain truth than that he should find us out in an untrue story."</p> + +<p>"Be not uneasy, senora," said Leonela; "between this and to-morrow I +will think of what we must say to him, and perhaps the wound being +where it is it can be hidden from his sight, and Heaven will be +pleased to aid us in a purpose so good and honourable. Compose +yourself, senora, and endeavour to calm your excitement lest my lord +find you agitated; and leave the rest to my care and God's, who always +supports good intentions."</p> + +<p>Anselmo had with the deepest attention listened to and seen played +out the tragedy of the death of his honour, which the performers acted +with such wonderfully effective truth that it seemed as if they had +become the realities of the parts they played. He longed for night and +an opportunity of escaping from the house to go and see his good +friend Lothario, and with him give vent to his joy over the precious +pearl he had gained in having established his wife's purity. Both +mistress and maid took care to give him time and opportunity to get +away, and taking advantage of it he made his escape, and at once +went in quest of Lothario, and it would be impossible to describe +how he embraced him when he found him, and the things he said to him +in the joy of his heart, and the praises he bestowed upon Camilla; all +which Lothario listened to without being able to show any pleasure, +for he could not forget how deceived his friend was, and how +dishonourably he had wronged him; and though Anselmo could see that +Lothario was not glad, still he imagined it was only because he had +left Camilla wounded and had been himself the cause of it; and so +among other things he told him not to be distressed about Camilla's +accident, for, as they had agreed to hide it from him, the wound was +evidently trifling; and that being so, he had no cause for fear, but +should henceforward be of good cheer and rejoice with him, seeing that +by his means and adroitness he found himself raised to the greatest +height of happiness that he could have ventured to hope for, and +desired no better pastime than making verses in praise of Camilla that +would preserve her name for all time to come. Lothario commended his +purpose, and promised on his own part to aid him in raising a monument +so glorious.</p> + +<p>And so Anselmo was left the most charmingly hoodwinked man there +could be in the world. He himself, persuaded he was conducting the +instrument of his glory, led home by the hand him who had been the +utter destruction of his good name; whom Camilla received with averted +countenance, though with smiles in her heart. The deception was +carried on for some time, until at the end of a few months Fortune +turned her wheel and the guilt which had been until then so +skilfully concealed was published abroad, and Anselmo paid with his +life the penalty of his ill-advised curiosity.</p> + +<br><br> +<center><h2><a name="ch35"></a>CHAPTER XXXV.</h2></center> +<br> +<center><h3>WHICH TREATS OF THE HEROIC AND PRODIGIOUS BATTLE DON QUIXOTE HAD +WITH CERTAIN SKINS OF RED WINE, AND BRINGS THE NOVEL OF "THE +ILL-ADVISED CURIOSITY" TO A CLOSE +</h3></center> +<br> +<br> + + +<p>There remained but little more of the novel to be read, when +Sancho Panza burst forth in wild excitement from the garret where +Don Quixote was lying, shouting, "Run, sirs! quick; and help my +master, who is in the thick of the toughest and stiffest battle I ever +laid eyes on. By the living God he has given the giant, the enemy of +my lady the Princess Micomicona, such a slash that he has sliced his +head clean off as if it were a turnip."</p> + +<p>"What are you talking about, brother?" said the curate, pausing as +he was about to read the remainder of the novel. "Are you in your +senses, Sancho? How the devil can it be as you say, when the giant +is two thousand leagues away?"</p> + +<p>Here they heard a loud noise in the chamber, and Don Quixote +shouting out, "Stand, thief, brigand, villain; now I have got thee, +and thy scimitar shall not avail thee!" And then it seemed as though +he were slashing vigorously at the wall.</p> + +<p>"Don't stop to listen," said Sancho, "but go in and part them or +help my master: though there is no need of that now, for no doubt +the giant is dead by this time and giving account to God of his past +wicked life; for I saw the blood flowing on the ground, and the head +cut off and fallen on one side, and it is as big as a large +wine-skin."</p> + +<p>"May I die," said the landlord at this, "if Don Quixote or Don Devil +has not been slashing some of the skins of red wine that stand full at +his bed's head, and the spilt wine must be what this good fellow takes +for blood;" and so saying he went into the room and the rest after +him, and there they found Don Quixote in the strangest costume in +the world. He was in his shirt, which was not long enough in front +to cover his thighs completely and was six fingers shorter behind; his +legs were very long and lean, covered with hair, and anything but +clean; on his head he had a little greasy red cap that belonged to the +host, round his left arm he had rolled the blanket of the bed, to +which Sancho, for reasons best known to himself, owed a grudge, and in +his right hand he held his unsheathed sword, with which he was +slashing about on all sides, uttering exclamations as if he were +actually fighting some giant: and the best of it was his eyes were not +open, for he was fast asleep, and dreaming that he was doing battle +with the giant. For his imagination was so wrought upon by the +adventure he was going to accomplish, that it made him dream he had +already reached the kingdom of Micomicon, and was engaged in combat +with his enemy; and believing he was laying on the giant, he had given +so many sword cuts to the skins that the whole room was full of +wine. On seeing this the landlord was so enraged that he fell on Don +Quixote, and with his clenched fist began to pummel him in such a way, +that if Cardenio and the curate had not dragged him off, he would have +brought the war of the giant to an end. But in spite of all the poor +gentleman never woke until the barber brought a great pot of cold +water from the well and flung it with one dash all over his body, on +which Don Quixote woke up, but not so completely as to understand what +was the matter. Dorothea, seeing how short and slight his attire +was, would not go in to witness the battle between her champion and +her opponent. As for Sancho, he went searching all over the floor +for the head of the giant, and not finding it he said, "I see now that +it's all enchantment in this house; for the last time, on this very +spot where I am now, I got ever so many thumps without knowing who +gave them to me, or being able to see anybody; and now this head is +not to be seen anywhere about, though I saw it cut off with my own +eyes and the blood running from the body as if from a fountain."</p> + +<p>"What blood and fountains are you talking about, enemy of God and +his saints?" said the landlord. "Don't you see, you thief, that the +blood and the fountain are only these skins here that have been +stabbed and the red wine swimming all over the room?—and I wish I saw +the soul of him that stabbed them swimming in hell."</p> + +<p>"I know nothing about that," said Sancho; "all I know is it will +be my bad luck that through not finding this head my county will +melt away like salt in water;"—for Sancho awake was worse than his +master asleep, so much had his master's promises addled his wits.</p> + +<p>The landlord was beside himself at the coolness of the squire and +the mischievous doings of the master, and swore it should not be +like the last time when they went without paying; and that their +privileges of chivalry should not hold good this time to let one or +other of them off without paying, even to the cost of the plugs that +would have to be put to the damaged wine-skins. The curate was holding +Don Quixote's hands, who, fancying he had now ended the adventure +and was in the presence of the Princess Micomicona, knelt before the +curate and said, "Exalted and beauteous lady, your highness may live +from this day forth fearless of any harm this base being could do you; +and I too from this day forth am released from the promise I gave you, +since by the help of God on high and by the favour of her by whom I +live and breathe, I have fulfilled it so successfully."</p> + +<p>"Did not I say so?" said Sancho on hearing this. "You see I wasn't +drunk; there you see my master has already salted the giant; there's +no doubt about the bulls; my county is all right!"</p> + +<p>Who could have helped laughing at the absurdities of the pair, +master and man? And laugh they did, all except the landlord, who +cursed himself; but at length the barber, Cardenio, and the curate +contrived with no small trouble to get Don Quixote on the bed, and +he fell asleep with every appearance of excessive weariness. They left +him to sleep, and came out to the gate of the inn to console Sancho +Panza on not having found the head of the giant; but much more work +had they to appease the landlord, who was furious at the sudden +death of his wine-skins; and said the landlady half scolding, half +crying, "At an evil moment and in an unlucky hour he came into my +house, this knight-errant—would that I had never set eyes on him, for +dear he has cost me; the last time he went off with the overnight +score against him for supper, bed, straw, and barley, for himself +and his squire and a hack and an ass, saying he was a knight +adventurer—God send unlucky adventures to him and all the adventurers +in the world—and therefore not bound to pay anything, for it was so +settled by the knight-errantry tariff: and then, all because of him, +came the other gentleman and carried off my tail, and gives it back +more than two cuartillos the worse, all stripped of its hair, so +that it is no use for my husband's purpose; and then, for a +finishing touch to all, to burst my wine-skins and spill my wine! I +wish I saw his own blood spilt! But let him not deceive himself, +for, by the bones of my father and the shade of my mother, they +shall pay me down every quarts; or my name is not what it is, and I am +not my father's daughter." All this and more to the same effect the +landlady delivered with great irritation, and her good maid Maritornes +backed her up, while the daughter held her peace and smiled from +time to time. The curate smoothed matters by promising to make good +all losses to the best of his power, not only as regarded the +wine-skins but also the wine, and above all the depreciation of the +tail which they set such store by. Dorothea comforted Sancho, +telling him that she pledged herself, as soon as it should appear +certain that his master had decapitated the giant, and she found +herself peacefully established in her kingdom, to bestow upon him +the best county there was in it. With this Sancho consoled himself, +and assured the princess she might rely upon it that he had seen the +head of the giant, and more by token it had a beard that reached to +the girdle, and that if it was not to be seen now it was because +everything that happened in that house went by enchantment, as he +himself had proved the last time he had lodged there. Dorothea said +she fully believed it, and that he need not be uneasy, for all would +go well and turn out as he wished. All therefore being appeased, the +curate was anxious to go on with the novel, as he saw there was but +little more left to read. Dorothea and the others begged him to finish +it, and he, as he was willing to please them, and enjoyed reading it +himself, continued the tale in these words:</p> + +<p> +The result was, that from the confidence Anselmo felt in Camilla's +virtue, he lived happy and free from anxiety, and Camilla purposely +looked coldly on Lothario, that Anselmo might suppose her feelings +towards him to be the opposite of what they were; and the better to +support the position, Lothario begged to be excused from coming to the +house, as the displeasure with which Camilla regarded his presence was +plain to be seen. But the befooled Anselmo said he would on no account +allow such a thing, and so in a thousand ways he became the author +of his own dishonour, while he believed he was insuring his happiness. +Meanwhile the satisfaction with which Leonela saw herself empowered to +carry on her amour reached such a height that, regardless of +everything else, she followed her inclinations unrestrainedly, feeling +confident that her mistress would screen her, and even show her how to +manage it safely. At last one night Anselmo heard footsteps in +Leonela's room, and on trying to enter to see who it was, he found +that the door was held against him, which made him all the more +determined to open it; and exerting his strength he forced it open, +and entered the room in time to see a man leaping through the window +into the street. He ran quickly to seize him or discover who he was, +but he was unable to effect either purpose, for Leonela flung her arms +round him crying, "Be calm, senor; do not give way to passion or +follow him who has escaped from this; he belongs to me, and in fact he +is my husband."</p> + +<p>Anselmo would not believe it, but blind with rage drew a dagger +and threatened to stab Leonela, bidding her tell the truth or he would +kill her. She, in her fear, not knowing what she was saying, +exclaimed, "Do not kill me, senor, for I can tell you things more +important than any you can imagine."</p> + +<p>"Tell me then at once or thou diest," said Anselmo.</p> + +<p>"It would be impossible for me now," said Leonela, "I am so +agitated: leave me till to-morrow, and then you shall hear from me +what will fill you with astonishment; but rest assured that he who +leaped through the window is a young man of this city, who has given +me his promise to become my husband."</p> + +<p>Anselmo was appeased with this, and was content to wait the time she +asked of him, for he never expected to hear anything against +Camilla, so satisfied and sure of her virtue was he; and so he quitted +the room, and left Leonela locked in, telling her she should not +come out until she had told him all she had to make known to him. He +went at once to see Camilla, and tell her, as he did, all that had +passed between him and her handmaid, and the promise she had given him +to inform him matters of serious importance.</p> + +<p>There is no need of saying whether Camilla was agitated or not, +for so great was her fear and dismay, that, making sure, as she had +good reason to do, that Leonela would tell Anselmo all she knew of her +faithlessness, she had not the courage to wait and see if her +suspicions were confirmed; and that same night, as soon as she thought +that Anselmo was asleep, she packed up the most valuable jewels she +had and some money, and without being observed by anybody escaped from +the house and betook herself to Lothario's, to whom she related what +had occurred, imploring him to convey her to some place of safety or +fly with her where they might be safe from Anselmo. The state of +perplexity to which Camilla reduced Lothario was such that he was +unable to utter a word in reply, still less to decide upon what he +should do. At length he resolved to conduct her to a convent of +which a sister of his was prioress; Camilla agreed to this, and with +the speed which the circumstances demanded, Lothario took her to the +convent and left her there, and then himself quitted the city +without letting anyone know of his departure.</p> + +<p>As soon as daylight came Anselmo, without missing Camilla from his +side, rose cager to learn what Leonela had to tell him, and hastened +to the room where he had locked her in. He opened the door, entered, +but found no Leonela; all he found was some sheets knotted to the +window, a plain proof that she had let herself down from it and +escaped. He returned, uneasy, to tell Camilla, but not finding her +in bed or anywhere in the house he was lost in amazement. He asked the +servants of the house about her, but none of them could give him any +explanation. As he was going in search of Camilla it happened by +chance that he observed her boxes were lying open, and that the +greater part of her jewels were gone; and now he became fully aware of +his disgrace, and that Leonela was not the cause of his misfortune; +and, just as he was, without delaying to dress himself completely, +he repaired, sad at heart and dejected, to his friend Lothario to make +known his sorrow to him; but when he failed to find him and the +servants reported that he had been absent from his house all night and +had taken with him all the money he had, he felt as though he were +losing his senses; and to make all complete on returning to his own +house he found it deserted and empty, not one of all his servants, +male or female, remaining in it. He knew not what to think, or say, or +do, and his reason seemed to be deserting him little by little. He +reviewed his position, and saw himself in a moment left without +wife, friend, or servants, abandoned, he felt, by the heaven above +him, and more than all robbed of his honour, for in Camilla's +disappearance he saw his own ruin. After long reflection he resolved +at last to go to his friend's village, where he had been staying +when he afforded opportunities for the contrivance of this +complication of misfortune. He locked the doors of his house, +mounted his horse, and with a broken spirit set out on his journey; +but he had hardly gone half-way when, harassed by his reflections, +he had to dismount and tie his horse to a tree, at the foot of which +he threw himself, giving vent to piteous heartrending sighs; and there +he remained till nearly nightfall, when he observed a man +approaching on horseback from the city, of whom, after saluting him, +he asked what was the news in Florence.</p> + +<p>The citizen replied, "The strangest that have been heard for many +a day; for it is reported abroad that Lothario, the great friend of +the wealthy Anselmo, who lived at San Giovanni, carried off last night +Camilla, the wife of Anselmo, who also has disappeared. All this has +been told by a maid-servant of Camilla's, whom the governor found last +night lowering herself by a sheet from the windows of Anselmo's house. +I know not indeed, precisely, how the affair came to pass; all I +know is that the whole city is wondering at the occurrence, for no one +could have expected a thing of the kind, seeing the great and intimate +friendship that existed between them, so great, they say, that they +were called 'The Two Friends.'"</p> + +<p>"Is it known at all," said Anselmo, "what road Lothario and +Camilla took?"</p> + +<p>"Not in the least," said the citizen, "though the governor has +been very active in searching for them."</p> + +<p>"God speed you, senor," said Anselmo.</p> + +<p>"God be with you," said the citizen and went his way.</p> + +<p>This disastrous intelligence almost robbed Anselmo not only of his +senses but of his life. He got up as well as he was able and reached +the house of his friend, who as yet knew nothing of his misfortune, +but seeing him come pale, worn, and haggard, perceived that he was +suffering some heavy affliction. Anselmo at once begged to be +allowed to retire to rest, and to be given writing materials. His wish +was complied with and he was left lying down and alone, for he desired +this, and even that the door should be locked. Finding himself alone +he so took to heart the thought of his misfortune that by the signs of +death he felt within him he knew well his life was drawing to a close, +and therefore he resolved to leave behind him a declaration of the +cause of his strange end. He began to write, but before he had put +down all he meant to say, his breath failed him and he yielded up +his life, a victim to the suffering which his ill-advised curiosity +had entailed upon him. The master of the house observing that it was +now late and that Anselmo did not call, determined to go in and +ascertain if his indisposition was increasing, and found him lying +on his face, his body partly in the bed, partly on the +writing-table, on which he lay with the written paper open and the pen +still in his hand. Having first called to him without receiving any +answer, his host approached him, and taking him by the hand, found +that it was cold, and saw that he was dead. Greatly surprised and +distressed he summoned the household to witness the sad fate which had +befallen Anselmo; and then he read the paper, the handwriting of which +he recognised as his, and which contained these words:</p> + +<p>"A foolish and ill-advised desire has robbed me of life. If the news +of my death should reach the ears of Camilla, let her know that I +forgive her, for she was not bound to perform miracles, nor ought I to +have required her to perform them; and since I have been the author of +my own dishonour, there is no reason why-"</p> + +<p>So far Anselmo had written, and thus it was plain that at this +point, before he could finish what he had to say, his life came to +an end. The next day his friend sent intelligence of his death to +his relatives, who had already ascertained his misfortune, as well +as the convent where Camilla lay almost on the point of accompanying +her husband on that inevitable journey, not on account of the +tidings of his death, but because of those she received of her lover's +departure. Although she saw herself a widow, it is said she refused +either to quit the convent or take the veil, until, not long +afterwards, intelligence reached her that Lothario had been killed +in a battle in which M. de Lautrec had been recently engaged with +the Great Captain Gonzalo Fernandez de Cordova in the kingdom of +Naples, whither her too late repentant lover had repaired. On learning +this Camilla took the veil, and shortly afterwards died, worn out by +grief and melancholy. This was the end of all three, an end that +came of a thoughtless beginning.</p> + +<p> +"I like this novel," said the curate; "but I cannot persuade +myself of its truth; and if it has been invented, the author's +invention is faulty, for it is impossible to imagine any husband so +foolish as to try such a costly experiment as Anselmo's. If it had +been represented as occurring between a gallant and his mistress it +might pass; but between husband and wife there is something of an +impossibility about it. As to the way in which the story is told, +however, I have no fault to find."</p> + + +<br><br> +<center><h2><a name="ch36"></a>CHAPTER XXXVI.</h2></center> +<br> +<center><h3>WHICH TREATS OF MORE CURIOUS INCIDENTS THAT OCCURRED AT THE INN +</h3></center> +<br> +<br> +<center><a name="c36a"></a><img alt="c36a.jpg (124K)" src="images/c36a.jpg" height="393" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/c36a.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<p>Just at that instant the landlord, who was standing at the gate of +the inn, exclaimed, "Here comes a fine troop of guests; if they stop +here we may say gaudeamus."</p> + +<p>"What are they?" said Cardenio.</p> + +<p>"Four men," said the landlord, "riding a la jineta, with lances +and bucklers, and all with black veils, and with them there is a woman +in white on a side-saddle, whose face is also veiled, and two +attendants on foot."</p> + +<p>"Are they very near?" said the curate.</p> + +<p>"So near," answered the landlord, "that here they come."</p> + +<p>Hearing this Dorothea covered her face, and Cardenio retreated +into Don Quixote's room, and they hardly had time to do so before +the whole party the host had described entered the inn, and the four +that were on horseback, who were of highbred appearance and bearing, +dismounted, and came forward to take down the woman who rode on the +side-saddle, and one of them taking her in his arms placed her in a +chair that stood at the entrance of the room where Cardenio had hidden +himself. All this time neither she nor they had removed their veils or +spoken a word, only on sitting down on the chair the woman gave a deep +sigh and let her arms fall like one that was ill and weak. The +attendants on foot then led the horses away to the stable. Observing +this the curate, curious to know who these people in such a dress +and preserving such silence were, went to where the servants were +standing and put the question to one of them, who answered him.</p> + +<p>"Faith, sir, I cannot tell you who they are, I only know they seem +to be people of distinction, particularly he who advanced to take +the lady you saw in his arms; and I say so because all the rest show +him respect, and nothing is done except what he directs and orders."</p> + +<p>"And the lady, who is she?" asked the curate.</p> + +<p>"That I cannot tell you either," said the servant, "for I have not +seen her face all the way: I have indeed heard her sigh many times and +utter such groans that she seems to be giving up the ghost every time; +but it is no wonder if we do not know more than we have told you, as +my comrade and I have only been in their company two days, for +having met us on the road they begged and persuaded us to accompany +them to Andalusia, promising to pay us well."</p> + +<p>"And have you heard any of them called by his name?" asked the +curate.</p> + +<p>"No, indeed," replied the servant; "they all preserve a marvellous +silence on the road, for not a sound is to be heard among them +except the poor lady's sighs and sobs, which make us pity her; and +we feel sure that wherever it is she is going, it is against her will, +and as far as one can judge from her dress she is a nun or, what is +more likely, about to become one; and perhaps it is because taking the +vows is not of her own free will, that she is so unhappy as she +seems to be."</p> + +<p>"That may well be," said the curate, and leaving them he returned to +where Dorothea was, who, hearing the veiled lady sigh, moved by +natural compassion drew near to her and said, "What are you +suffering from, senora? If it be anything that women are accustomed +and know how to relieve, I offer you my services with all my heart."</p> + +<p>To this the unhappy lady made no reply; and though Dorothea repeated +her offers more earnestly she still kept silence, until the +gentleman with the veil, who, the servant said, was obeyed by the +rest, approached and said to Dorothea, "Do not give yourself the +trouble, senora, of making any offers to that woman, for it is her way +to give no thanks for anything that is done for her; and do not try to +make her answer unless you want to hear some lie from her lips."</p> + +<p>"I have never told a lie," was the immediate reply of her who had +been silent until now; "on the contrary, it is because I am so +truthful and so ignorant of lying devices that I am now in this +miserable condition; and this I call you yourself to witness, for it +is my unstained truth that has made you false and a liar."</p> + +<p>Cardenio heard these words clearly and distinctly, being quite close +to the speaker, for there was only the door of Don Quixote's room +between them, and the instant he did so, uttering a loud exclamation +he cried, "Good God! what is this I hear? What voice is this that +has reached my ears?" Startled at the voice the lady turned her +head; and not seeing the speaker she stood up and attempted to enter +the room; observing which the gentleman held her back, preventing +her from moving a step. In her agitation and sudden movement the +silk with which she had covered her face fell off and disclosed a +countenance of incomparable and marvellous beauty, but pale and +terrified; for she kept turning her eyes, everywhere she could +direct her gaze, with an eagerness that made her look as if she had +lost her senses, and so marked that it excited the pity of Dorothea +and all who beheld her, though they knew not what caused it. The +gentleman grasped her firmly by the shoulders, and being so fully +occupied with holding her back, he was unable to put a hand to his +veil which was falling off, as it did at length entirely, and +Dorothea, who was holding the lady in her arms, raising her eyes saw +that he who likewise held her was her husband, Don Fernando. The +instant she recognised him, with a prolonged plaintive cry drawn +from the depths of her heart, she fell backwards fainting, and but for +the barber being close by to catch her in his arms, she would have +fallen completely to the ground. The curate at once hastened to +uncover her face and throw water on it, and as he did so Don Fernando, +for he it was who held the other in his arms, recognised her and stood +as if death-stricken by the sight; not, however, relaxing his grasp of +Luscinda, for it was she that was struggling to release herself from +his hold, having recognised Cardenio by his voice, as he had +recognised her. Cardenio also heard Dorothea's cry as she fell +fainting, and imagining that it came from his Luscinda burst forth +in terror from the room, and the first thing he saw was Don Fernando +with Luscinda in his arms. Don Fernando, too, knew Cardenio at once; +and all three, Luscinda, Cardenio, and Dorothea, stood in silent +amazement scarcely knowing what had happened to them.</p> + +<p>They gazed at one another without speaking, Dorothea at Don +Fernando, Don Fernando at Cardenio, Cardenio at Luscinda, and Luscinda +at Cardenio. The first to break silence was Luscinda, who thus +addressed Don Fernando: "Leave me, Senor Don Fernando, for the sake of +what you owe to yourself; if no other reason will induce you, leave me +to cling to the wall of which I am the ivy, to the support from +which neither your importunities, nor your threats, nor your promises, +nor your gifts have been able to detach me. See how Heaven, by ways +strange and hidden from our sight, has brought me face to face with my +true husband; and well you know by dear-bought experience that death +alone will be able to efface him from my memory. May this plain +declaration, then, lead you, as you can do nothing else, to turn +your love into rage, your affection into resentment, and so to take my +life; for if I yield it up in the presence of my beloved husband I +count it well bestowed; it may be by my death he will be convinced +that I kept my faith to him to the last moment of life."</p> + +<p>Meanwhile Dorothea had come to herself, and had heard Luscinda's +words, by means of which she divined who she was; but seeing that +Don Fernando did not yet release her or reply to her, summoning up her +resolution as well as she could she rose and knelt at his feet, and +with a flood of bright and touching tears addressed him thus:</p> + +<p>"If, my lord, the beams of that sun that thou holdest eclipsed in +thine arms did not dazzle and rob thine eyes of sight thou wouldst +have seen by this time that she who kneels at thy feet is, so long +as thou wilt have it so, the unhappy and unfortunate Dorothea. I am +that lowly peasant girl whom thou in thy goodness or for thy +pleasure wouldst raise high enough to call herself thine; I am she who +in the seclusion of innocence led a contented life until at the +voice of thy importunity, and thy true and tender passion, as it +seemed, she opened the gates of her modesty and surrendered to thee +the keys of her liberty; a gift received by thee but thanklessly, as +is clearly shown by my forced retreat to the place where thou dost +find me, and by thy appearance under the circumstances in which I +see thee. Nevertheless, I would not have thee suppose that I have come +here driven by my shame; it is only grief and sorrow at seeing +myself forgotten by thee that have led me. It was thy will to make +me thine, and thou didst so follow thy will, that now, even though +thou repentest, thou canst not help being mine. Bethink thee, my lord, +the unsurpassable affection I bear thee may compensate for the +beauty and noble birth for which thou wouldst desert me. Thou canst +not be the fair Luscinda's because thou art mine, nor can she be thine +because she is Cardenio's; and it will be easier, remember, to bend +thy will to love one who adores thee, than to lead one to love thee +who abhors thee now. Thou didst address thyself to my simplicity, thou +didst lay siege to my virtue, thou wert not ignorant of my station, +well dost thou know how I yielded wholly to thy will; there is no +ground or reason for thee to plead deception, and if it be so, as it +is, and if thou art a Christian as thou art a gentleman, why dost thou +by such subterfuges put off making me as happy at last as thou didst +at first? And if thou wilt not have me for what I am, thy true and +lawful wife, at least take and accept me as thy slave, for so long +as I am thine I will count myself happy and fortunate. Do not by +deserting me let my shame become the talk of the gossips in the +streets; make not the old age of my parents miserable; for the loyal +services they as faithful vassals have ever rendered thine are not +deserving of such a return; and if thou thinkest it will debase thy +blood to mingle it with mine, reflect that there is little or no +nobility in the world that has not travelled the same road, and that +in illustrious lineages it is not the woman's blood that is of +account; and, moreover, that true nobility consists in virtue, and +if thou art wanting in that, refusing me what in justice thou owest +me, then even I have higher claims to nobility than thine. To make +an end, senor, these are my last words to thee: whether thou wilt, +or wilt not, I am thy wife; witness thy words, which must not and +ought not to be false, if thou dost pride thyself on that for want +of which thou scornest me; witness the pledge which thou didst give +me, and witness Heaven, which thou thyself didst call to witness the +promise thou hadst made me; and if all this fail, thy own conscience +will not fail to lift up its silent voice in the midst of all thy +gaiety, and vindicate the truth of what I say and mar thy highest +pleasure and enjoyment."</p> + +<p>All this and more the injured Dorothea delivered with such earnest +feeling and such tears that all present, even those who came with +Don Fernando, were constrained to join her in them. Don Fernando +listened to her without replying, until, ceasing to speak, she gave +way to such sobs and sighs that it must have been a heart of brass +that was not softened by the sight of so great sorrow. Luscinda +stood regarding her with no less compassion for her sufferings than +admiration for her intelligence and beauty, and would have gone to her +to say some words of comfort to her, but was prevented by Don +Fernando's grasp which held her fast. He, overwhelmed with confusion +and astonishment, after regarding Dorothea for some moments with a +fixed gaze, opened his arms, and, releasing Luscinda, exclaimed:</p> + +<p>"Thou hast conquered, fair Dorothea, thou hast conquered, for it +is impossible to have the heart to deny the united force of so many +truths."</p> + +<p>Luscinda in her feebleness was on the point of falling to the ground +when Don Fernando released her, but Cardenio, who stood near, having +retreated behind Don Fernando to escape recognition, casting fear +aside and regardless of what might happen, ran forward to support her, +and said as he clasped her in his arms, "If Heaven in its compassion +is willing to let thee rest at last, mistress of my heart, true, +constant, and fair, nowhere canst thou rest more safely than in +these arms that now receive thee, and received thee before when +fortune permitted me to call thee mine."</p> + +<p>At these words Luscinda looked up at Cardenio, at first beginning to +recognise him by his voice and then satisfying herself by her eyes +that it was he, and hardly knowing what she did, and heedless of all +considerations of decorum, she flung her arms around his neck and +pressing her face close to his, said, "Yes, my dear lord, you are +the true master of this your slave, even though adverse fate interpose +again, and fresh dangers threaten this life that hangs on yours."</p> + +<p>A strange sight was this for Don Fernando and those that stood +around, filled with surprise at an incident so unlooked for. +Dorothea fancied that Don Fernando changed colour and looked as though +he meant to take vengeance on Cardenio, for she observed him put his +hand to his sword; and the instant the idea struck her, with wonderful +quickness she clasped him round the knees, and kissing them and +holding him so as to prevent his moving, she said, while her tears +continued to flow, "What is it thou wouldst do, my only refuge, in +this unforeseen event? Thou hast thy wife at thy feet, and she whom +thou wouldst have for thy wife is in the arms of her husband: +reflect whether it will be right for thee, whether it will be possible +for thee to undo what Heaven has done, or whether it will be +becoming in thee to seek to raise her to be thy mate who in spite of +every obstacle, and strong in her truth and constancy, is before thine +eyes, bathing with the tears of love the face and bosom of her +lawful husband. For God's sake I entreat of thee, for thine own I +implore thee, let not this open manifestation rouse thy anger; but +rather so calm it as to allow these two lovers to live in peace and +quiet without any interference from thee so long as Heaven permits +them; and in so doing thou wilt prove the generosity of thy lofty +noble spirit, and the world shall see that with thee reason has more +influence than passion."</p> + +<p>All the time Dorothea was speaking, Cardenio, though he held +Luscinda in his arms, never took his eyes off Don Fernando, +determined, if he saw him make any hostile movement, to try and defend +himself and resist as best he could all who might assail him, though +it should cost him his life. But now Don Fernando's friends, as well +as the curate and the barber, who had been present all the while, +not forgetting the worthy Sancho Panza, ran forward and gathered round +Don Fernando, entreating him to have regard for the tears of Dorothea, +and not suffer her reasonable hopes to be disappointed, since, as they +firmly believed, what she said was but the truth; and bidding him +observe that it was not, as it might seem, by accident, but by a +special disposition of Providence that they had all met in a place +where no one could have expected a meeting. And the curate bade him +remember that only death could part Luscinda from Cardenio; that +even if some sword were to separate them they would think their +death most happy; and that in a case that admitted of no remedy his +wisest course was, by conquering and putting a constraint upon +himself, to show a generous mind, and of his own accord suffer these +two to enjoy the happiness Heaven had granted them. He bade him, +too, turn his eyes upon the beauty of Dorothea and he would see that +few if any could equal much less excel her; while to that beauty +should be added her modesty and the surpassing love she bore him. +But besides all this, he reminded him that if he prided himself on +being a gentleman and a Christian, he could not do otherwise than keep +his plighted word; and that in doing so he would obey God and meet the +approval of all sensible people, who know and recognised it to be +the privilege of beauty, even in one of humble birth, provided +virtue accompany it, to be able to raise itself to the level of any +rank, without any slur upon him who places it upon an equality with +himself; and furthermore that when the potent sway of passion +asserts itself, so long as there be no mixture of sin in it, he is not +to be blamed who gives way to it.</p> + +<p>To be brief, they added to these such other forcible arguments +that Don Fernando's manly heart, being after all nourished by noble +blood, was touched, and yielded to the truth which, even had he wished +it, he could not gainsay; and he showed his submission, and acceptance +of the good advice that had been offered to him, by stooping down +and embracing Dorothea, saying to her, "Rise, dear lady, it is not +right that what I hold in my heart should be kneeling at my feet; +and if until now I have shown no sign of what I own, it may have +been by Heaven's decree in order that, seeing the constancy with which +you love me, I may learn to value you as you deserve. What I entreat +of you is that you reproach me not with my transgression and +grievous wrong-doing; for the same cause and force that drove me to +make you mine impelled me to struggle against being yours; and to +prove this, turn and look at the eyes of the now happy Luscinda, and +you will see in them an excuse for all my errors: and as she has found +and gained the object of her desires, and I have found in you what +satisfies all my wishes, may she live in peace and contentment as many +happy years with her Cardenio, as on my knees I pray Heaven to allow +me to live with my Dorothea;" and with these words he once more +embraced her and pressed his face to hers with so much tenderness that +he had to take great heed to keep his tears from completing the +proof of his love and repentance in the sight of all. Not so Luscinda, +and Cardenio, and almost all the others, for they shed so many +tears, some in their own happiness, some at that of the others, that +one would have supposed a heavy calamity had fallen upon them all. +Even Sancho Panza was weeping; though afterwards he said he only +wept because he saw that Dorothea was not as he fancied the queen +Micomicona, of whom he expected such great favours. Their wonder as +well as their weeping lasted some time, and then Cardenio and Luscinda +went and fell on their knees before Don Fernando, returning him thanks +for the favour he had rendered them in language so grateful that he +knew not how to answer them, and raising them up embraced them with +every mark of affection and courtesy.</p> + +<p>He then asked Dorothea how she had managed to reach a place so far +removed from her own home, and she in a few fitting words told all +that she had previously related to Cardenio, with which Don Fernando +and his companions were so delighted that they wished the story had +been longer; so charmingly did Dorothea describe her misadventures. +When she had finished Don Fernando recounted what had befallen him +in the city after he had found in Luscinda's bosom the paper in +which she declared that she was Cardenio's wife, and never could be +his. He said he meant to kill her, and would have done so had he not +been prevented by her parents, and that he quitted the house full of +rage and shame, and resolved to avenge himself when a more +convenient opportunity should offer. The next day he learned that +Luscinda had disappeared from her father's house, and that no one +could tell whither she had gone. Finally, at the end of some months he +ascertained that she was in a convent and meant to remain there all +the rest of her life, if she were not to share it with Cardenio; and +as soon as he had learned this, taking these three gentlemen as his +companions, he arrived at the place where she was, but avoided +speaking to her, fearing that if it were known he was there stricter +precautions would be taken in the convent; and watching a time when +the porter's lodge was open he left two to guard the gate, and he +and the other entered the convent in quest of Luscinda, whom they +found in the cloisters in conversation with one of the nuns, and +carrying her off without giving her time to resist, they reached a +place with her where they provided themselves with what they +required for taking her away; all which they were able to do in +complete safety, as the convent was in the country at a considerable +distance from the city. He added that when Luscinda found herself in +his power she lost all consciousness, and after returning to herself +did nothing but weep and sigh without speaking a word; and thus in +silence and tears they reached that inn, which for him was reaching +heaven where all the mischances of earth are over and at an end.</p> + + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="c36b"></a><img alt="c36b.jpg (319K)" src="images/c36b.jpg" height="835" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/c36b.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<center><a name="c36e"></a><img alt="c36e.jpg (36K)" src="images/c36e.jpg" height="467" width="650"> +</center> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<br><br> +<center><h2><a name="ch37"></a>CHAPTER XXXVII.</h2></center> +<br> +<center><h3>IN WHICH IS CONTINUED THE STORY OF THE FAMOUS PRINCESS MICOMICONA, +WITH OTHER DROLL ADVENTURES +</h3></center> +<br> +<br> + +<center><a name="c37a"></a><img alt="c37a.jpg (159K)" src="images/c37a.jpg" height="434" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/c37a.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<p>To all this Sancho listened with no little sorrow at heart to see +how his hopes of dignity were fading away and vanishing in smoke, +and how the fair Princess Micomicona had turned into Dorothea, and the +giant into Don Fernando, while his master was sleeping tranquilly, +totally unconscious of all that had come to pass. Dorothea was +unable to persuade herself that her present happiness was not all a +dream; Cardenio was in a similar state of mind, and Luscinda's +thoughts ran in the same direction. Don Fernando gave thanks to Heaven +for the favour shown to him and for having been rescued from the +intricate labyrinth in which he had been brought so near the +destruction of his good name and of his soul; and in short everybody +in the inn was full of contentment and satisfaction at the happy issue +of such a complicated and hopeless business. The curate as a +sensible man made sound reflections upon the whole affair, and +congratulated each upon his good fortune; but the one that was in +the highest spirits and good humour was the landlady, because of the +promise Cardenio and the curate had given her to pay for all the +losses and damage she had sustained through Don Quixote's means. +Sancho, as has been already said, was the only one who was distressed, +unhappy, and dejected; and so with a long face he went in to his +master, who had just awoke, and said to him:</p> + +<p>"Sir Rueful Countenance, your worship may as well sleep on as much +as you like, without troubling yourself about killing any giant or +restoring her kingdom to the princess; for that is all over and +settled now."</p> + +<p>"I should think it was," replied Don Quixote, "for I have had the +most prodigious and stupendous battle with the giant that I ever +remember having had all the days of my life; and with +one back-stroke—swish!—I brought his head tumbling to the ground, and so much blood +gushed forth from him that it ran in rivulets over the earth like +water."</p> + +<p> "Like red wine, your worship had better say," replied Sancho; +"for I would have you know, if you don't know it, that the dead +giant is a hacked wine-skin, and the blood four-and-twenty gallons +of red wine that it had in its belly, and the cut-off head is the +bitch that bore me; and the devil take it all."</p> + +<p>"What art thou talking about, fool?" said Don Quixote; "art thou +in thy senses?"</p> + +<p>"Let your worship get up," said Sancho, "and you will see the nice +business you have made of it, and what we have to pay; and you will +see the queen turned into a private lady called Dorothea, and other +things that will astonish you, if you understand them."</p> + +<p>"I shall not be surprised at anything of the kind," returned Don +Quixote; "for if thou dost remember the last time we were here I +told thee that everything that happened here was a matter of +enchantment, and it would be no wonder if it were the same now."</p> + +<p>"I could believe all that," replied Sancho, "if my blanketing was +the same sort of thing also; only it wasn't, but real and genuine; for +I saw the landlord, Who is here to-day, holding one end of the blanket +and jerking me up to the skies very neatly and smartly, and with as +much laughter as strength; and when it comes to be a case of knowing +people, I hold for my part, simple and sinner as I am, that there is +no enchantment about it at all, but a great deal of bruising and bad +luck."</p> + +<p>"Well, well, God will give a remedy," said Don Quixote; "hand me +my clothes and let me go out, for I want to see these +transformations and things thou speakest of."</p> + +<p>Sancho fetched him his clothes; and while he was dressing, the +curate gave Don Fernando and the others present an account of Don +Quixote's madness and of the stratagem they had made use of to +withdraw him from that Pena Pobre where he fancied himself stationed +because of his lady's scorn. He described to them also nearly all +the adventures that Sancho had mentioned, at which they marvelled +and laughed not a little, thinking it, as all did, the strangest +form of madness a crazy intellect could be capable of. But now, the +curate said, that the lady Dorothea's good fortune prevented her +from proceeding with their purpose, it would be necessary to devise or +discover some other way of getting him home.</p> + +<p>Cardenio proposed to carry out the scheme they had begun, and +suggested that Luscinda would act and support Dorothea's part +sufficiently well.</p> + +<p>"No," said Don Fernando, "that must not be, for I want Dorothea to +follow out this idea of hers; and if the worthy gentleman's village is +not very far off, I shall be happy if I can do anything for his +relief."</p> + +<p>"It is not more than two days' journey from this," said the curate.</p> + +<p>"Even if it were more," said Don Fernando, "I would gladly travel so +far for the sake of doing so good a work.</p> + +<p>"At this moment Don Quixote came out in full panoply, with +Mambrino's helmet, all dinted as it was, on his head, his buckler on +his arm, and leaning on his staff or pike. The strange figure he +presented filled Don Fernando and the rest with amazement as they +contemplated his lean yellow face half a league long, his armour of +all sorts, and the solemnity of his deportment. They stood silent +waiting to see what he would say, and he, fixing his eyes on the air +Dorothea, addressed her with great gravity and composure:</p> + +<p>"I am informed, fair lady, by my squire here that your greatness has +been annihilated and your being abolished, since, from a queen and +lady of high degree as you used to be, you have been turned into a +private maiden. If this has been done by the command of the magician +king your father, through fear that I should not afford you the aid +you need and are entitled to, I may tell you he did not know and +does not know half the mass, and was little versed in the annals of +chivalry; for, if he had read and gone through them as attentively and +deliberately as I have, he would have found at every turn that knights +of less renown than mine have accomplished things more difficult: it +is no great matter to kill a whelp of a giant, however arrogant he may +be; for it is not many hours since I myself was engaged with one, +and—I will not speak of it, that they may not say I am lying; time, +however, that reveals all, will tell the tale when we least expect +it."</p> + +<p>"You were engaged with a couple of wine-skins, and not a giant," +said the landlord at this; but Don Fernando told him to hold his +tongue and on no account interrupt Don Quixote, who continued, "I +say in conclusion, high and disinherited lady, that if your father has +brought about this metamorphosis in your person for the reason I +have mentioned, you ought not to attach any importance to it; for +there is no peril on earth through which my sword will not force a +way, and with it, before many days are over, I will bring your enemy's +head to the ground and place on yours the crown of your kingdom."</p> + +<p>Don Quixote said no more, and waited for the reply of the +princess, who aware of Don Fernando's determination to carry on the +deception until Don Quixote had been conveyed to his home, with +great ease of manner and gravity made answer, "Whoever told you, +valiant Knight of the Rueful Countenance, that I had undergone any +change or transformation did not tell you the truth, for I am the same +as I was yesterday. It is true that certain strokes of good fortune, +that have given me more than I could have hoped for, have made some +alteration in me; but I have not therefore ceased to be what I was +before, or to entertain the same desire I have had all through of +availing myself of the might of your valiant and invincible arm. And +so, senor, let your goodness reinstate the father that begot me in +your good opinion, and be assured that he was a wise and prudent +man, since by his craft he found out such a sure and easy way of +remedying my misfortune; for I believe, senor, that had it not been +for you I should never have lit upon the good fortune I now possess; +and in this I am saying what is perfectly true; as most of these +gentlemen who are present can fully testify. All that remains is to +set out on our journey to-morrow, for to-day we could not make much +way; and for the rest of the happy result I am looking forward to, I +trust to God and the valour of your heart."</p> + +<p>So said the sprightly Dorothea, and on hearing her Don Quixote +turned to Sancho, and said to him, with an angry air, "I declare +now, little Sancho, thou art the greatest little villain in Spain. +Say, thief and vagabond, hast thou not just now told me that this +princess had been turned into a maiden called Dorothea, and that the +head which I am persuaded I cut off from a giant was the bitch that +bore thee, and other nonsense that put me in the greatest perplexity I +have ever been in all my life? I vow" (and here he looked to heaven +and ground his teeth) "I have a mind to play the mischief with thee, +in a way that will teach sense for the future to all lying squires +of knights-errant in the world."</p> + +<p>"Let your worship be calm, senor," returned Sancho, "for it may well +be that I have been mistaken as to the change of the lady princess +Micomicona; but as to the giant's head, or at least as to the piercing +of the wine-skins, and the blood being red wine, I make no mistake, as +sure as there is a God; because the wounded skins are there at the +head of your worship's bed, and the wine has made a lake of the +room; if not you will see when the eggs come to be fried; I mean +when his worship the landlord calls for all the damages: for the rest, +I am heartily glad that her ladyship the queen is as she was, for it +concerns me as much as anyone."</p> + +<p>"I tell thee again, Sancho, thou art a fool," said Don Quixote; +"forgive me, and that will do."</p> + +<p>"That will do," said Don Fernando; "let us say no more about it; and +as her ladyship the princess proposes to set out to-morrow because +it is too late to-day, so be it, and we will pass the night in +pleasant conversation, and to-morrow we will all accompany Senor Don +Quixote; for we wish to witness the valiant and unparalleled +achievements he is about to perform in the course of this mighty +enterprise which he has undertaken."</p> + +<p>"It is I who shall wait upon and accompany you," said Don Quixote; +"and I am much gratified by the favour that is bestowed upon me, and +the good opinion entertained of me, which I shall strive to justify or +it shall cost me my life, or even more, if it can possibly cost me +more."</p> + +<p>Many were the compliments and expressions of politeness that +passed between Don Quixote and Don Fernando; but they were brought +to an end by a traveller who at this moment entered the inn, and who +seemed from his attire to be a Christian lately come from the +country of the Moors, for he was dressed in a short-skirted coat of +blue cloth with half-sleeves and without a collar; his breeches were +also of blue cloth, and his cap of the same colour, and he wore yellow +buskins and had a Moorish cutlass slung from a baldric across his +breast. Behind him, mounted upon an ass, there came a woman dressed in +Moorish fashion, with her face veiled and a scarf on her head, and +wearing a little brocaded cap, and a mantle that covered her from +her shoulders to her feet. The man was of a robust and +well-proportioned frame, in age a little over forty, rather swarthy in +complexion, with long moustaches and a full beard, and, in short, +his appearance was such that if he had been well dressed he would have +been taken for a person of quality and good birth. On entering he +asked for a room, and when they told him there was none in the inn +he seemed distressed, and approaching her who by her dress seemed to +be a Moor he her down from saddle in his arms. Luscinda, Dorothea, the +landlady, her daughter and Maritornes, attracted by the strange, and +to them entirely new costume, gathered round her; and Dorothea, who +was always kindly, courteous, and quick-witted, perceiving that both +she and the man who had brought her were annoyed at not finding a +room, said to her, "Do not be put out, senora, by the discomfort and +want of luxuries here, for it is the way of road-side inns to be +without them; still, if you will be pleased to share our lodging +with us (pointing to Luscinda) perhaps you will have found worse +accommodation in the course of your journey."</p> + +<p>To this the veiled lady made no reply; all she did was to rise +from her seat, crossing her hands upon her bosom, bowing her head +and bending her body as a sign that she returned thanks. From her +silence they concluded that she must be a Moor and unable to speak a +Christian tongue.</p> + +<p>At this moment the captive came up, having been until now +otherwise engaged, and seeing that they all stood round his +companion and that she made no reply to what they addressed to her, he +said, "Ladies, this damsel hardly understands my language and can +speak none but that of her own country, for which reason she does +not and cannot answer what has been asked of her."</p> + +<p>"Nothing has been asked of her," returned Luscinda; "she has only +been offered our company for this evening and a share of the +quarters we occupy, where she shall be made as comfortable as the +circumstances allow, with the good-will we are bound to show all +strangers that stand in need of it, especially if it be a woman to +whom the service is rendered."</p> + +<p>"On her part and my own, senora," replied the captive, "I kiss +your hands, and I esteem highly, as I ought, the favour you have +offered, which, on such an occasion and coming from persons of your +appearance, is, it is plain to see, a very great one."</p> + +<p>"Tell me, senor," said Dorothea, "is this lady a Christian or a +Moor? for her dress and her silence lead us to imagine that she is +what we could wish she was not."</p> + +<p>"In dress and outwardly," said he, "she is a Moor, but at heart +she is a thoroughly good Christian, for she has the greatest desire to +become one."</p> + +<p>"Then she has not been baptised?" returned Luscinda.</p> + +<p>"There has been no opportunity for that," replied the captive, +"since she left Algiers, her native country and home; and up to the +present she has not found herself in any such imminent danger of death +as to make it necessary to baptise her before she has been +instructed in all the ceremonies our holy mother Church ordains; +but, please God, ere long she shall be baptised with the solemnity +befitting her which is higher than her dress or mine indicates."</p> + +<p>By these words he excited a desire in all who heard him, to know who +the Moorish lady and the captive were, but no one liked to ask just +then, seeing that it was a fitter moment for helping them to rest +themselves than for questioning them about their lives. Dorothea +took the Moorish lady by the hand and leading her to a seat beside +herself, requested her to remove her veil. She looked at the captive +as if to ask him what they meant and what she was to do. He said to +her in Arabic that they asked her to take off her veil, and +thereupon she removed it and disclosed a countenance so lovely, that +to Dorothea she seemed more beautiful than Luscinda, and to Luscinda +more beautiful than Dorothea, and all the bystanders felt that if +any beauty could compare with theirs it was the Moorish lady's, and +there were even those who were inclined to give it somewhat the +preference. And as it is the privilege and charm of beauty to win +the heart and secure good-will, all forthwith became eager to show +kindness and attention to the lovely Moor.</p> + +<p>Don Fernando asked the captive what her name was, and he replied +that it was Lela Zoraida; but the instant she heard him, she guessed +what the Christian had asked, and said hastily, with some +displeasure and energy, "No, not Zoraida; Maria, Maria!" giving them +to understand that she was called "Maria" and not "Zoraida." These +words, and the touching earnestness with which she uttered them, +drew more than one tear from some of the listeners, particularly the +women, who are by nature tender-hearted and compassionate. Luscinda +embraced her affectionately, saying, "Yes, yes, Maria, Maria," to +which the Moor replied, "Yes, yes, Maria; Zoraida macange," which +means "not Zoraida."</p> + +<p>Night was now approaching, and by the orders of those who +accompanied Don Fernando the landlord had taken care and pains to +prepare for them the best supper that was in his power. The hour +therefore having arrived they all took their seats at a long table +like a refectory one, for round or square table there was none in +the inn, and the seat of honour at the head of it, though he was for +refusing it, they assigned to Don Quixote, who desired the lady +Micomicona to place herself by his side, as he was her protector. +Luscinda and Zoraida took their places next her, opposite to them were +Don Fernando and Cardenio, and next the captive and the other +gentlemen, and by the side of the ladies, the curate and the barber. +And so they supped in high enjoyment, which was increased when they +observed Don Quixote leave off eating, and, moved by an impulse like +that which made him deliver himself at such length when he supped with +the goatherds, begin to address them:</p> + +<p>"Verily, gentlemen, if we reflect upon it, great and marvellous +are the things they see, who make profession of the order of +knight-errantry. Say, what being is there in this world, who +entering the gate of this castle at this moment, and seeing us as we +are here, would suppose or imagine us to be what we are? Who would say +that this lady who is beside me was the great queen that we all know +her to be, or that I am that Knight of the Rueful Countenance, +trumpeted far and wide by the mouth of Fame? Now, there can be no +doubt that this art and calling surpasses all those that mankind has +invented, and is the more deserving of being held in honour in +proportion as it is the more exposed to peril. Away with those who +assert that letters have the preeminence over arms; I will tell +them, whosoever they may be, that they know not what they say. For the +reason which such persons commonly assign, and upon which they chiefly +rest, is, that the labours of the mind are greater than those of the +body, and that arms give employment to the body alone; as if the +calling were a porter's trade, for which nothing more is required than +sturdy strength; or as if, in what we who profess them call arms, +there were not included acts of vigour for the execution of which high +intelligence is requisite; or as if the soul of the warrior, when he +has an army, or the defence of a city under his care, did not exert +itself as much by mind as by body. Nay; see whether by bodily strength +it be possible to learn or divine the intentions of the enemy, his +plans, stratagems, or obstacles, or to ward off impending mischief; +for all these are the work of the mind, and in them the body has no +share whatever. Since, therefore, arms have need of the mind, as +much as letters, let us see now which of the two minds, that of the +man of letters or that of the warrior, has most to do; and this will +be seen by the end and goal that each seeks to attain; for that +purpose is the more estimable which has for its aim the nobler object. +The end and goal of letters—I am not speaking now of divine +letters, the aim of which is to raise and direct the soul to Heaven; +for with an end so infinite no other can be compared—I speak of human +letters, the end of which is to establish distributive justice, give +to every man that which is his, and see and take care that good laws +are observed: an end undoubtedly noble, lofty, and deserving of high +praise, but not such as should be given to that sought by arms, +which have for their end and object peace, the greatest boon that +men can desire in this life. The first good news the world and mankind +received was that which the angels announced on the night that was our +day, when they sang in the air, 'Glory to God in the highest, and +peace on earth to men of good-will;' and the salutation which the +great Master of heaven and earth taught his disciples and chosen +followers when they entered any house, was to say, 'Peace be on this +house;' and many other times he said to them, 'My peace I give unto +you, my peace I leave you, peace be with you;' a jewel and a +precious gift given and left by such a hand: a jewel without which +there can be no happiness either on earth or in heaven. This peace +is the true end of war; and war is only another name for arms. This, +then, being admitted, that the end of war is peace, and that so far it +has the advantage of the end of letters, let us turn to the bodily +labours of the man of letters, and those of him who follows the +profession of arms, and see which are the greater."</p> + +<p>Don Quixote delivered his discourse in such a manner and in such +correct language, that for the time being he made it impossible for +any of his hearers to consider him a madman; on the contrary, as +they were mostly gentlemen, to whom arms are an appurtenance by birth, +they listened to him with great pleasure as he continued: "Here, then, +I say is what the student has to undergo; first of all poverty: not +that all are poor, but to put the case as strongly as possible: and +when I have said that he endures poverty, I think nothing more need be +said about his hard fortune, for he who is poor has no share of the +good things of life. This poverty he suffers from in various ways, +hunger, or cold, or nakedness, or all together; but for all that it is +not so extreme but that he gets something to eat, though it may be +at somewhat unseasonable hours and from the leavings of the rich; +for the greatest misery of the student is what they themselves call +'going out for soup,' and there is always some neighbour's brazier +or hearth for them, which, if it does not warm, at least tempers the +cold to them, and lastly, they sleep comfortably at night under a +roof. I will not go into other particulars, as for example want of +shirts, and no superabundance of shoes, thin and threadbare +garments, and gorging themselves to surfeit in their voracity when +good luck has treated them to a banquet of some sort. By this road +that I have described, rough and hard, stumbling here, falling +there, getting up again to fall again, they reach the rank they +desire, and that once attained, we have seen many who have passed +these Syrtes and Scyllas and Charybdises, as if borne flying on the +wings of favouring fortune; we have seen them, I say, ruling and +governing the world from a chair, their hunger turned into satiety, +their cold into comfort, their nakedness into fine raiment, their +sleep on a mat into repose in holland and damask, the justly earned +reward of their virtue; but, contrasted and compared with what the +warrior undergoes, all they have undergone falls far short of it, as I +am now about to show."</p> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="c37e"></a><img alt="c37e.jpg (13K)" src="images/c37e.jpg" height="371" width="303"> +</center> +<br><br><br><br> + +<br><br> +<center><h2><a name="ch38"></a>CHAPTER XXXVIII.</h2></center> +<br> +<center><h3>WHICH TREATS OF THE CURIOUS DISCOURSE DON QUIXOTE DELIVERED ON +ARMS AND LETTERS +</h3></center> +<br> +<br> + +<center><a name="c38a"></a><img alt="c38a.jpg (180K)" src="images/c38a.jpg" height="417" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/c38a.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<p>Continuing his discourse Don Quixote said: "As we began in the +student's case with poverty and its accompaniments, let us see now +if the soldier is richer, and we shall find that in poverty itself +there is no one poorer; for he is dependent on his miserable pay, +which comes late or never, or else on what he can plunder, seriously +imperilling his life and conscience; and sometimes his nakedness +will be so great that a slashed doublet serves him for uniform and +shirt, and in the depth of winter he has to defend himself against the +inclemency of the weather in the open field with nothing better than +the breath of his mouth, which I need not say, coming from an empty +place, must come out cold, contrary to the laws of nature. To be +sure he looks forward to the approach of night to make up for all +these discomforts on the bed that awaits him, which, unless by some +fault of his, never sins by being over narrow, for he can easily +measure out on the ground as he likes, and roll himself about in it to +his heart's content without any fear of the sheets slipping away +from him. Then, after all this, suppose the day and hour for taking +his degree in his calling to have come; suppose the day of battle to +have arrived, when they invest him with the doctor's cap made of lint, +to mend some bullet-hole, perhaps, that has gone through his +temples, or left him with a crippled arm or leg. Or if this does not +happen, and merciful Heaven watches over him and keeps him safe and +sound, it may be he will be in the same poverty he was in before, +and he must go through more engagements and more battles, and come +victorious out of all before he betters himself; but miracles of +that sort are seldom seen. For tell me, sirs, if you have ever +reflected upon it, by how much do those who have gained by war fall +short of the number of those who have perished in it? No doubt you +will reply that there can be no comparison, that the dead cannot be +numbered, while the living who have been rewarded may be summed up +with three figures. All which is the reverse in the case of men of +letters; for by skirts, to say nothing of sleeves, they all find means +of support; so that though the soldier has more to endure, his +reward is much less. But against all this it may be urged that it is +easier to reward two thousand soldiers, for the former may be +remunerated by giving them places, which must perforce be conferred +upon men of their calling, while the latter can only be recompensed +out of the very property of the master they serve; but this +impossibility only strengthens my argument.</p> + +<p>"Putting this, however, aside, for it is a puzzling question for +which it is difficult to find a solution, let us return to the +superiority of arms over letters, a matter still undecided, so many +are the arguments put forward on each side; for besides those I have +mentioned, letters say that without them arms cannot maintain +themselves, for war, too, has its laws and is governed by them, and +laws belong to the domain of letters and men of letters. To this +arms make answer that without them laws cannot be maintained, for by +arms states are defended, kingdoms preserved, cities protected, +roads made safe, seas cleared of pirates; and, in short, if it were +not for them, states, kingdoms, monarchies, cities, ways by sea and +land would be exposed to the violence and confusion which war brings +with it, so long as it lasts and is free to make use of its privileges +and powers. And then it is plain that whatever costs most is valued +and deserves to be valued most. To attain to eminence in letters costs +a man time, watching, hunger, nakedness, headaches, indigestions, +and other things of the sort, some of which I have already referred +to. But for a man to come in the ordinary course of things to be a +good soldier costs him all the student suffers, and in an incomparably +higher degree, for at every step he runs the risk of losing his +life. For what dread of want or poverty that can reach or harass the +student can compare with what the soldier feels, who finds himself +beleaguered in some stronghold mounting guard in some ravelin or +cavalier, knows that the enemy is pushing a mine towards the post +where he is stationed, and cannot under any circumstances retire or +fly from the imminent danger that threatens him? All he can do is to +inform his captain of what is going on so that he may try to remedy it +by a counter-mine, and then stand his ground in fear and expectation +of the moment when he will fly up to the clouds without wings and +descend into the deep against his will. And if this seems a trifling +risk, let us see whether it is equalled or surpassed by the +encounter of two galleys stem to stem, in the midst of the open sea, +locked and entangled one with the other, when the soldier has no +more standing room than two feet of the plank of the spur; and yet, +though he sees before him threatening him as many ministers of death +as there are cannon of the foe pointed at him, not a lance length from +his body, and sees too that with the first heedless step he will go +down to visit the profundities of Neptune's bosom, still with +dauntless heart, urged on by honour that nerves him, he makes +himself a target for all that musketry, and struggles to cross that +narrow path to the enemy's ship. And what is still more marvellous, no +sooner has one gone down into the depths he will never rise from +till the end of the world, than another takes his place; and if he too +falls into the sea that waits for him like an enemy, another and +another will succeed him without a moment's pause between their +deaths: courage and daring the greatest that all the chances of war +can show. Happy the blest ages that knew not the dread fury of those +devilish engines of artillery, whose inventor I am persuaded is in +hell receiving the reward of his diabolical invention, by which he +made it easy for a base and cowardly arm to take the life of a gallant +gentleman; and that, when he knows not how or whence, in the height of +the ardour and enthusiasm that fire and animate brave hearts, there +should come some random bullet, discharged perhaps by one who fled +in terror at the flash when he fired off his accursed machine, which +in an instant puts an end to the projects and cuts off the life of one +who deserved to live for ages to come. And thus when I reflect on +this, I am almost tempted to say that in my heart I repent of having +adopted this profession of knight-errant in so detestable an age as we +live in now; for though no peril can make me fear, still it gives me +some uneasiness to think that powder and lead may rob me of the +opportunity of making myself famous and renowned throughout the +known earth by the might of my arm and the edge of my sword. But +Heaven's will be done; if I succeed in my attempt I shall be all the +more honoured, as I have faced greater dangers than the knights-errant +of yore exposed themselves to."</p> + +<p>All this lengthy discourse Don Quixote delivered while the others +supped, forgetting to raise a morsel to his lips, though Sancho more +than once told him to eat his supper, as he would have time enough +afterwards to say all he wanted. It excited fresh pity in those who +had heard him to see a man of apparently sound sense, and with +rational views on every subject he discussed, so hopelessly wanting in +all, when his wretched unlucky chivalry was in question. The curate +told him he was quite right in all he had said in favour of arms, +and that he himself, though a man of letters and a graduate, was of +the same opinion.</p> + +<p>They finished their supper, the cloth was removed, and while the +hostess, her daughter, and Maritornes were getting Don Quixote of La +Mancha's garret ready, in which it was arranged that the women were to +be quartered by themselves for the night, Don Fernando begged the +captive to tell them the story of his life, for it could not fail to +be strange and interesting, to judge by the hints he had let fall on +his arrival in company with Zoraida. To this the captive replied +that he would very willingly yield to his request, only he feared +his tale would not give them as much pleasure as he wished; +nevertheless, not to be wanting in compliance, he would tell it. The +curate and the others thanked him and added their entreaties, and he +finding himself so pressed said there was no occasion ask, where a +command had such weight, and added, "If your worships will give me +your attention you will hear a true story which, perhaps, fictitious +ones constructed with ingenious and studied art cannot come up to." +These words made them settle themselves in their places and preserve a +deep silence, and he seeing them waiting on his words in mute +expectation, began thus in a pleasant quiet voice.</p> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="c38e"></a><img alt="c38e.jpg (18K)" src="images/c38e.jpg" height="365" width="389"> +</center> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<br><br> +<center><h2><a name="ch39"></a>CHAPTER XXXIX.</h2></center> +<br> +<center><h3>WHEREIN THE CAPTIVE RELATES HIS LIFE AND ADVENTURES +</h3></center> +<br> +<br> + +<center><a name="c39a"></a><img alt="c39a.jpg (137K)" src="images/c39a.jpg" height="442" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/c39a.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<p>My family had its origin in a village in the mountains of Leon, +and nature had been kinder and more generous to it than fortune; +though in the general poverty of those communities my father passed +for being even a rich man; and he would have been so in reality had he +been as clever in preserving his property as he was in spending it. +This tendency of his to be liberal and profuse he had acquired from +having been a soldier in his youth, for the soldier's life is a school +in which the niggard becomes free-handed and the free-handed prodigal; +and if any soldiers are to be found who are misers, they are +monsters of rare occurrence. My father went beyond liberality and +bordered on prodigality, a disposition by no means advantageous to a +married man who has children to succeed to his name and position. My +father had three, all sons, and all of sufficient age to make choice +of a profession. Finding, then, that he was unable to resist his +propensity, he resolved to divest himself of the instrument and +cause of his prodigality and lavishness, to divest himself of +wealth, without which Alexander himself would have seemed +parsimonious; and so calling us all three aside one day into a room, +he addressed us in words somewhat to the following effect:</p> + +<p>"My sons, to assure you that I love you, no more need be known or +said than that you are my sons; and to encourage a suspicion that I do +not love you, no more is needed than the knowledge that I have no +self-control as far as preservation of your patrimony is concerned; +therefore, that you may for the future feel sure that I love you +like a father, and have no wish to ruin you like a stepfather, I +propose to do with you what I have for some time back meditated, and +after mature deliberation decided upon. You are now of an age to +choose your line of life or at least make choice of a calling that +will bring you honour and profit when you are older; and what I have +resolved to do is to divide my property into four parts; three I +will give to you, to each his portion without making any difference, +and the other I will retain to live upon and support myself for +whatever remainder of life Heaven may be pleased to grant me. But I +wish each of you on taking possession of the share that falls to him +to follow one of the paths I shall indicate. In this Spain of ours +there is a proverb, to my mind very true—as they all are, being short +aphorisms drawn from long practical experience—and the one I refer to +says, 'The church, or the sea, or the king's house;' as much as to +say, in plainer language, whoever wants to flourish and become rich, +let him follow the church, or go to sea, adopting commerce as his +calling, or go into the king's service in his household, for they say, +'Better a king's crumb than a lord's favour.' I say so because it is +my will and pleasure that one of you should follow letters, another +trade, and the third serve the king in the wars, for it is a difficult +matter to gain admission to his service in his household, and if war +does not bring much wealth it confers great distinction and fame. +Eight days hence I will give you your full shares in money, without +defrauding you of a farthing, as you will see in the end. Now tell +me if you are willing to follow out my idea and advice as I have +laid it before you."</p> + +<p>Having called upon me as the eldest to answer, I, after urging him +not to strip himself of his property but to spend it all as he +pleased, for we were young men able to gain our living, consented to +comply with his wishes, and said that mine were to follow the +profession of arms and thereby serve God and my king. My second +brother having made the same proposal, decided upon going to the +Indies, embarking the portion that fell to him in trade. The youngest, +and in my opinion the wisest, said he would rather follow the +church, or go to complete his studies at Salamanca. As soon as we +had come to an understanding, and made choice of our professions, my +father embraced us all, and in the short time he mentioned carried +into effect all he had promised; and when he had given to each his +share, which as well as I remember was three thousand ducats apiece in +cash (for an uncle of ours bought the estate and paid for it down, not +to let it go out of the family), we all three on the same day took +leave of our good father; and at the same time, as it seemed to me +inhuman to leave my father with such scanty means in his old age, I +induced him to take two of my three thousand ducats, as the +remainder would be enough to provide me with all a soldier needed. +My two brothers, moved by my example, gave him each a thousand ducats, +so that there was left for my father four thousand ducats in money, +besides three thousand, the value of the portion that fell to him +which he preferred to retain in land instead of selling it. Finally, +as I said, we took leave of him, and of our uncle whom I have +mentioned, not without sorrow and tears on both sides, they charging +us to let them know whenever an opportunity offered how we fared, +whether well or ill. We promised to do so, and when he had embraced us +and given us his blessing, one set out for Salamanca, the other for +Seville, and I for Alicante, where I had heard there was a Genoese +vessel taking in a cargo of wool for Genoa.</p> + +<p>It is now some twenty-two years since I left my father's house, +and all that time, though I have written several letters, I have had +no news whatever of him or of my brothers; my own adventures during +that period I will now relate briefly. I embarked at Alicante, reached +Genoa after a prosperous voyage, and proceeded thence to Milan, +where I provided myself with arms and a few soldier's accoutrements; +thence it was my intention to go and take service in Piedmont, but +as I was already on the road to Alessandria della Paglia, I learned +that the great Duke of Alva was on his way to Flanders. I changed my +plans, joined him, served under him in the campaigns he made, was +present at the deaths of the Counts Egmont and Horn, and was +promoted to be ensign under a famous captain of Guadalajara, Diego +de Urbina by name. Some time after my arrival in Flanders news came of +the league that his Holiness Pope Pius V of happy memory, had made +with Venice and Spain against the common enemy, the Turk, who had just +then with his fleet taken the famous island of Cyprus, which +belonged to the Venetians, a loss deplorable and disastrous. It was +known as a fact that the Most Serene Don John of Austria, natural +brother of our good king Don Philip, was coming as +commander-in-chief of the allied forces, and rumours were abroad of +the vast warlike preparations which were being made, all which stirred +my heart and filled me with a longing to take part in the campaign +which was expected; and though I had reason to believe, and almost +certain promises, that on the first opportunity that presented +itself I should be promoted to be captain, I preferred to leave all +and betake myself, as I did, to Italy; and it was my good fortune that +Don John had just arrived at Genoa, and was going on to Naples to join +the Venetian fleet, as he afterwards did at Messina. I may say, in +short, that I took part in that glorious expedition, promoted by +this time to be a captain of infantry, to which honourable charge my +good luck rather than my merits raised me; and that day—so +fortunate for Christendom, because then all the nations of the earth +were disabused of the error under which they lay in imagining the +Turks to be invincible on sea-on that day, I say, on which the Ottoman +pride and arrogance were broken, among all that were there made +happy (for the Christians who died that day were happier than those +who remained alive and victorious) I alone was miserable; for, instead +of some naval crown that I might have expected had it been in Roman +times, on the night that followed that famous day I found myself +with fetters on my feet and manacles on my hands.</p> + +<p>It happened in this way: El Uchali, the king of Algiers, a daring +and successful corsair, having attacked and taken the leading +Maltese galley (only three knights being left alive in it, and they +badly wounded), the chief galley of John Andrea, on board of which I +and my company were placed, came to its relief, and doing as was bound +to do in such a case, I leaped on board the enemy's galley, which, +sheering off from that which had attacked it, prevented my men from +following me, and so I found myself alone in the midst of my +enemies, who were in such numbers that I was unable to resist; in +short I was taken, covered with wounds; El Uchali, as you know, +sirs, made his escape with his entire squadron, and I was left a +prisoner in his power, the only sad being among so many filled with +joy, and the only captive among so many free; for there were fifteen +thousand Christians, all at the oar in the Turkish fleet, that +regained their longed-for liberty that day.</p> + +<p>They carried me to Constantinople, where the Grand Turk, Selim, made +my master general at sea for having done his duty in the battle and +carried off as evidence of his bravery the standard of the Order of +Malta. The following year, which was the year seventy-two, I found +myself at Navarino rowing in the leading galley with the three +lanterns. There I saw and observed how the opportunity of capturing +the whole Turkish fleet in harbour was lost; for all the marines and +janizzaries that belonged to it made sure that they were about to be +attacked inside the very harbour, and had their kits and pasamaques, +or shoes, ready to flee at once on shore without waiting to be +assailed, in so great fear did they stand of our fleet. But Heaven +ordered it otherwise, not for any fault or neglect of the general +who commanded on our side, but for the sins of Christendom, and +because it was God's will and pleasure that we should always have +instruments of punishment to chastise us. As it was, El Uchali took +refuge at Modon, which is an island near Navarino, and landing +forces fortified the mouth of the harbour and waited quietly until Don +John retired. On this expedition was taken the galley called the +Prize, whose captain was a son of the famous corsair Barbarossa. It +was taken by the chief Neapolitan galley called the She-wolf, +commanded by that thunderbolt of war, that father of his men, that +successful and unconquered captain Don Alvaro de Bazan, Marquis of +Santa Cruz; and I cannot help telling you what took place at the +capture of the Prize.</p> + +<p>The son of Barbarossa was so cruel, and treated his slaves so badly, +that, when those who were at the oars saw that the She-wolf galley was +bearing down upon them and gaining upon them, they all at once dropped +their oars and seized their captain who stood on the stage at the +end of the gangway shouting to them to row lustily; and passing him on +from bench to bench, from the poop to the prow, they so bit him that +before he had got much past the mast his soul had already got to hell; +so great, as I said, was the cruelty with which he treated them, and +the hatred with which they hated him.</p> + +<p>We returned to Constantinople, and the following year, +seventy-three, it became known that Don John had seized Tunis and +taken the kingdom from the Turks, and placed Muley Hamet in +possession, putting an end to the hopes which Muley Hamida, the +cruelest and bravest Moor in the world, entertained of returning to +reign there. The Grand Turk took the loss greatly to heart, and with +the cunning which all his race possess, he made peace with the +Venetians (who were much more eager for it than he was), and the +following year, seventy-four, he attacked the Goletta and the fort +which Don John had left half built near Tunis. While all these +events were occurring, I was labouring at the oar without any hope +of freedom; at least I had no hope of obtaining it by ransom, for I +was firmly resolved not to write to my father telling him of my +misfortunes. At length the Goletta fell, and the fort fell, before +which places there were seventy-five thousand regular Turkish +soldiers, and more than four hundred thousand Moors and Arabs from all +parts of Africa, and in the train of all this great host such +munitions and engines of war, and so many pioneers that with their +hands they might have covered the Goletta and the fort with handfuls +of earth. The first to fall was the Goletta, until then reckoned +impregnable, and it fell, not by any fault of its defenders, who did +all that they could and should have done, but because experiment +proved how easily entrenchments could be made in the desert sand +there; for water used to be found at two palms depth, while the +Turks found none at two yards; and so by means of a quantity of +sandbags they raised their works so high that they commanded the walls +of the fort, sweeping them as if from a cavalier, so that no one was +able to make a stand or maintain the defence.</p> + +<p>It was a common opinion that our men should not have shut themselves +up in the Goletta, but should have waited in the open at the +landing-place; but those who say so talk at random and with little +knowledge of such matters; for if in the Goletta and in the fort there +were barely seven thousand soldiers, how could such a small number, +however resolute, sally out and hold their own against numbers like +those of the enemy? And how is it possible to help losing a stronghold +that is not relieved, above all when surrounded by a host of +determined enemies in their own country? But many thought, and I +thought so too, that it was special favour and mercy which Heaven +showed to Spain in permitting the destruction of that source and +hiding place of mischief, that devourer, sponge, and moth of countless +money, fruitlessly wasted there to no other purpose save preserving +the memory of its capture by the invincible Charles V; as if to make +that eternal, as it is and will be, these stones were needed to +support it. The fort also fell; but the Turks had to win it inch by +inch, for the soldiers who defended it fought so gallantly and stoutly +that the number of the enemy killed in twenty-two general assaults +exceeded twenty-five thousand. Of three hundred that remained alive +not one was taken unwounded, a clear and manifest proof of their +gallantry and resolution, and how sturdily they had defended +themselves and held their post. A small fort or tower which was in the +middle of the lagoon under the command of Don Juan Zanoguera, a +Valencian gentleman and a famous soldier, capitulated upon terms. They +took prisoner Don Pedro Puertocarrero, commandant of the Goletta, +who had done all in his power to defend his fortress, and took the +loss of it so much to heart that he died of grief on the way to +Constantinople, where they were carrying him a prisoner. They also +took the commandant of the fort, Gabrio Cerbellon by name, a +Milanese gentleman, a great engineer and a very brave soldier. In +these two fortresses perished many persons of note, among whom was +Pagano Doria, knight of the Order of St. John, a man of generous +disposition, as was shown by his extreme liberality to his brother, +the famous John Andrea Doria; and what made his death the more sad was +that he was slain by some Arabs to whom, seeing that the fort was +now lost, he entrusted himself, and who offered to conduct him in +the disguise of a Moor to Tabarca, a small fort or station on the +coast held by the Genoese employed in the coral fishery. These Arabs +cut off his head and carried it to the commander of the Turkish fleet, +who proved on them the truth of our Castilian proverb, that "though +the treason may please, the traitor is hated;" for they say he ordered +those who brought him the present to be hanged for not having +brought him alive.</p> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="c39b"></a><img alt="c39b.jpg (371K)" src="images/c39b.jpg" height="824" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/c39b.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<p>Among the Christians who were taken in the fort was one named Don +Pedro de Aguilar, a native of some place, I know not what, in +Andalusia, who had been ensign in the fort, a soldier of great +repute and rare intelligence, who had in particular a special gift for +what they call poetry. I say so because his fate brought him to my +galley and to my bench, and made him a slave to the same master; and +before we left the port this gentleman composed two sonnets by way +of epitaphs, one on the Goletta and the other on the fort; indeed, I +may as well repeat them, for I have them by heart, and I think they +will be liked rather than disliked.</p> + +<p> +The instant the captive mentioned the name of Don Pedro de +Aguilar, Don Fernando looked at his companions and they all three +smiled; and when he came to speak of the sonnets one of them said, +"Before your worship proceeds any further I entreat you to tell me +what became of that Don Pedro de Aguilar you have spoken of."</p> + +<p>"All I know is," replied the captive, "that after having been in +Constantinople two years, he escaped in the disguise of an Arnaut, +in company with a Greek spy; but whether he regained his liberty or +not I cannot tell, though I fancy he did, because a year afterwards +I saw the Greek at Constantinople, though I was unable to ask him what +the result of the journey was."</p> + +<p>"Well then, you are right," returned the gentleman, "for that Don +Pedro is my brother, and he is now in our village in good health, +rich, married, and with three children."</p> + +<p>"Thanks be to God for all the mercies he has shown him," said the +captive; "for to my mind there is no happiness on earth to compare +with recovering lost liberty."</p> + +<p>"And what is more," said the gentleman, "I know the sonnets my +brother made."</p> + +<p>"Then let your worship repeat them," said the captive, "for you will +recite them better than I can."</p> + +<p>"With all my heart," said the gentleman; "that on the Goletta runs +thus."</p> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="c39e"></a><img alt="c39e.jpg (38K)" src="images/c39e.jpg" height="332" width="650"> +</center> +<br><br><br><br> + +<br><br> +<center><h2><a name="ch40"></a>CHAPTER XL.</h2></center> +<br> +<center><h3>IN WHICH THE STORY OF THE CAPTIVE IS CONTINUED. +</h3></center> +<br> +<br> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="c40a"></a><img alt="c40a.jpg (131K)" src="images/c40a.jpg" height="790" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/c40a.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<pre> +SONNET + +"Blest souls, that, from this mortal husk set free, + In guerdon of brave deeds beatified, + Above this lowly orb of ours abide +Made heirs of heaven and immortality, +With noble rage and ardour glowing ye + Your strength, while strength was yours, in battle plied, + And with your own blood and the foeman's dyed +The sandy soil and the encircling sea. +It was the ebbing life-blood first that failed +The weary arms; the stout hearts never quailed. + Though vanquished, yet ye earned the victor's crown: +Though mourned, yet still triumphant was your fall +For there ye won, between the sword and wall, + In Heaven glory and on earth renown." +</pre> + + +<p> +"That is it exactly, according to my recollection," said the +captive.</p> + +<p> +"Well then, that on the fort," said the gentleman, "if my memory +serves me, goes thus:</p> + + +<pre> +SONNET + +"Up from this wasted soil, this shattered shell, + Whose walls and towers here in ruin lie, + Three thousand soldier souls took wing on high, +In the bright mansions of the blest to dwell. +The onslaught of the foeman to repel + By might of arm all vainly did they try, + And when at length 'twas left them but to die, +Wearied and few the last defenders fell. +And this same arid soil hath ever been +A haunt of countless mournful memories, + As well in our day as in days of yore. +But never yet to Heaven it sent, I ween, +From its hard bosom purer souls than these, + Or braver bodies on its surface bore." +</pre> + + +<p> + The sonnets were not disliked, and the captive was rejoiced at +the tidings they gave him of his comrade, and continuing his tale, +he went on to say:</p> + +<p> +The Goletta and the fort being thus in their hands, the Turks gave +orders to dismantle the Goletta—for the fort was reduced to such a +state that there was nothing left to level—and to do the work more +quickly and easily they mined it in three places; but nowhere were +they able to blow up the part which seemed to be the least strong, +that is to say, the old walls, while all that remained standing of the +new fortifications that the Fratin had made came to the ground with +the greatest ease. Finally the fleet returned victorious and +triumphant to Constantinople, and a few months later died my master, +El Uchali, otherwise Uchali Fartax, which means in Turkish "the scabby +renegade;" for that he was; it is the practice with the Turks to +name people from some defect or virtue they may possess; the reason +being that there are among them only four surnames belonging to +families tracing their descent from the Ottoman house, and the others, +as I have said, take their names and surnames either from bodily +blemishes or moral qualities. This "scabby one" rowed at the oar as +a slave of the Grand Signor's for fourteen years, and when over +thirty-four years of age, in resentment at having been struck by a +Turk while at the oar, turned renegade and renounced his faith in +order to be able to revenge himself; and such was his valour that, +without owing his advancement to the base ways and means by which most +favourites of the Grand Signor rise to power, he came to be king of +Algiers, and afterwards general-on-sea, which is the third place of +trust in the realm. He was a Calabrian by birth, and a worthy man +morally, and he treated his slaves with great humanity. He had three +thousand of them, and after his death they were divided, as he +directed by his will, between the Grand Signor (who is heir of all who +die and shares with the children of the deceased) and his renegades. I +fell to the lot of a Venetian renegade who, when a cabin boy on +board a ship, had been taken by Uchali and was so much beloved by +him that he became one of his most favoured youths. He came to be +the most cruel renegade I ever saw: his name was Hassan Aga, and he +grew very rich and became king of Algiers. With him I went there +from Constantinople, rather glad to be so near Spain, not that I +intended to write to anyone about my unhappy lot, but to try if +fortune would be kinder to me in Algiers than in Constantinople, where +I had attempted in a thousand ways to escape without ever finding a +favourable time or chance; but in Algiers I resolved to seek for other +means of effecting the purpose I cherished so dearly; for the hope +of obtaining my liberty never deserted me; and when in my plots and +schemes and attempts the result did not answer my expectations, +without giving way to despair I immediately began to look out for or +conjure up some new hope to support me, however faint or feeble it +might be.</p> + +<p>In this way I lived on immured in a building or prison called by the +Turks a bano in which they confine the Christian captives, as well +those that are the king's as those belonging to private individuals, +and also what they call those of the Almacen, which is as much as to +say the slaves of the municipality, who serve the city in the public +works and other employments; but captives of this kind recover their +liberty with great difficulty, for, as they are public property and +have no particular master, there is no one with whom to treat for +their ransom, even though they may have the means. To these banos, +as I have said, some private individuals of the town are in the +habit of bringing their captives, especially when they are to be +ransomed; because there they can keep them in safety and comfort until +their ransom arrives. The king's captives also, that are on ransom, do +not go out to work with the rest of the crew, unless when their ransom +is delayed; for then, to make them write for it more pressingly, +they compel them to work and go for wood, which is no light labour.</p> + +<p>I, however, was one of those on ransom, for when it was discovered +that I was a captain, although I declared my scanty means and want +of fortune, nothing could dissuade them from including me among the +gentlemen and those waiting to be ransomed. They put a chain on me, +more as a mark of this than to keep me safe, and so I passed my life +in that bano with several other gentlemen and persons of quality +marked out as held to ransom; but though at times, or rather almost +always, we suffered from hunger and scanty clothing, nothing +distressed us so much as hearing and seeing at every turn the +unexampled and unheard-of cruelties my master inflicted upon the +Christians. Every day he hanged a man, impaled one, cut off the ears +of another; and all with so little provocation, or so entirely without +any, that the Turks acknowledged he did it merely for the sake of +doing it, and because he was by nature murderously disposed towards +the whole human race. The only one that fared at all well with him was +a Spanish soldier, something de Saavedra by name, to whom he never +gave a blow himself, or ordered a blow to be given, or addressed a +hard word, although he had done things that will dwell in the memory +of the people there for many a year, and all to recover his liberty; +and for the least of the many things he did we all dreaded that he +would be impaled, and he himself was in fear of it more than once; and +only that time does not allow, I could tell you now something of +what that soldier did, that would interest and astonish you much +more than the narration of my own tale.</p> + +<p>To go on with my story; the courtyard of our prison was overlooked +by the windows of the house belonging to a wealthy Moor of high +position; and these, as is usual in Moorish houses, were rather +loopholes than windows, and besides were covered with thick and +close lattice-work. It so happened, then, that as I was one day on the +terrace of our prison with three other comrades, trying, to pass +away the time, how far we could leap with our chains, we being +alone, for all the other Christians had gone out to work, I chanced to +raise my eyes, and from one of these little closed windows I saw a +reed appear with a cloth attached to the end of it, and it kept waving +to and fro, and moving as if making signs to us to come and take it. +We watched it, and one of those who were with me went and stood +under the reed to see whether they would let it drop, or what they +would do, but as he did so the reed was raised and moved from side +to side, as if they meant to say "no" by a shake of the head. The +Christian came back, and it was again lowered, making the same +movements as before. Another of my comrades went, and with him the +same happened as with the first, and then the third went forward, +but with the same result as the first and second. Seeing this I did +not like not to try my luck, and as soon as I came under the reed it +was dropped and fell inside the bano at my feet. I hastened to untie +the cloth, in which I perceived a knot, and in this were ten cianis, +which are coins of base gold, current among the Moors, and each +worth ten reals of our money.</p> + +<p>It is needless to say I rejoiced over this godsend, and my joy was +not less than my wonder as I strove to imagine how this good fortune +could have come to us, but to me specially; for the evident +unwillingness to drop the reed for any but me showed that it was for +me the favour was intended. I took my welcome money, broke the reed, +and returned to the terrace, and looking up at the window, I saw a +very white hand put out that opened and shut very quickly. From this +we gathered or fancied that it must be some woman living in that house +that had done us this kindness, and to show that we were grateful +for it, we made salaams after the fashion of the Moors, bowing the +head, bending the body, and crossing the arms on the breast. Shortly +afterwards at the same window a small cross made of reeds was put +out and immediately withdrawn. This sign led us to believe that some +Christian woman was a captive in the house, and that it was she who +had been so good to us; but the whiteness of the hand and the +bracelets we had perceived made us dismiss that idea, though we +thought it might be one of the Christian renegades whom their +masters very often take as lawful wives, and gladly, for they prefer +them to the women of their own nation. In all our conjectures we +were wide of the truth; so from that time forward our sole +occupation was watching and gazing at the window where the cross had +appeared to us, as if it were our pole-star; but at least fifteen days +passed without our seeing either it or the hand, or any other sign and +though meanwhile we endeavoured with the utmost pains to ascertain who +it was that lived in the house, and whether there were any Christian +renegade in it, nobody could ever tell us anything more than that he +who lived there was a rich Moor of high position, Hadji Morato by +name, formerly alcaide of La Pata, an office of high dignity among +them. But when we least thought it was going to rain any more cianis +from that quarter, we saw the reed suddenly appear with another +cloth tied in a larger knot attached to it, and this at a time when, +as on the former occasion, the bano was deserted and unoccupied.</p> + + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="c40b"></a><img alt="c40b.jpg (288K)" src="images/c40b.jpg" height="833" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/c40b.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<p>We made trial as before, each of the same three going forward before +I did; but the reed was delivered to none but me, and on my approach +it was let drop. I untied the knot and I found forty Spanish gold +crowns with a paper written in Arabic, and at the end of the writing +there was a large cross drawn. I kissed the cross, took the crowns and +returned to the terrace, and we all made our salaams; again the hand +appeared, I made signs that I would read the paper, and then the +window was closed. We were all puzzled, though filled with joy at what +had taken place; and as none of us understood Arabic, great was our +curiosity to know what the paper contained, and still greater the +difficulty of finding some one to read it. At last I resolved to +confide in a renegade, a native of Murcia, who professed a very +great friendship for me, and had given pledges that bound him to +keep any secret I might entrust to him; for it is the custom with some +renegades, when they intend to return to Christian territory, to carry +about them certificates from captives of mark testifying, in +whatever form they can, that such and such a renegade is a worthy +man who has always shown kindness to Christians, and is anxious to +escape on the first opportunity that may present itself. Some obtain +these testimonials with good intentions, others put them to a +cunning use; for when they go to pillage on Christian territory, if +they chance to be cast away, or taken prisoners, they produce their +certificates and say that from these papers may be seen the object +they came for, which was to remain on Christian ground, and that it +was to this end they joined the Turks in their foray. In this way they +escape the consequences of the first outburst and make their peace +with the Church before it does them any harm, and then when they +have the chance they return to Barbary to become what they were +before. Others, however, there are who procure these papers and make +use of them honestly, and remain on Christian soil. This friend of +mine, then, was one of these renegades that I have described; he had +certificates from all our comrades, in which we testified in his +favour as strongly as we could; and if the Moors had found the +papers they would have burned him alive.</p> + +<p>I knew that he understood Arabic very well, and could not only speak +but also write it; but before I disclosed the whole matter to him, I +asked him to read for me this paper which I had found by accident in a +hole in my cell. He opened it and remained some time examining it +and muttering to himself as he translated it. I asked him if he +understood it, and he told me he did perfectly well, and that if I +wished him to tell me its meaning word for word, I must give him pen +and ink that he might do it more satisfactorily. We at once gave him +what he required, and he set about translating it bit by bit, and when +he had done he said:</p> + +<p>"All that is here in Spanish is what the Moorish paper contains, and +you must bear in mind that when it says 'Lela +Marien' it means 'Our Lady the Virgin Mary.'"</p> + +<p>We read the paper and it ran thus:</p> + +<p>"When I was a child my father had a slave who taught me to pray +the Christian prayer in my own language, and told me many things about +Lela Marien. The Christian died, and I know that she did not go to the +fire, but to Allah, because since then I have seen her twice, and +she told me to go to the land of the Christians to see Lela Marien, +who had great love for me. I know not how to go. I have seen many +Christians, but except thyself none has seemed to me to be a +gentleman. I am young and beautiful, and have plenty of money to +take with me. See if thou canst contrive how we may go, and if thou +wilt thou shalt be my husband there, and if thou wilt not it will +not distress me, for Lela Marien will find me some one to marry me. +I myself have written this: have a care to whom thou givest it to +read: trust no Moor, for they are all perfidious. I am greatly +troubled on this account, for I would not have thee confide in anyone, +because if my father knew it he would at once fling me down a well and +cover me with stones. I will put a thread to the reed; tie the +answer to it, and if thou hast no one to write for thee in Arabic, +tell it to me by signs, for Lela Marien will make me understand +thee. She and Allah and this cross, which I often kiss as the +captive bade me, protect thee."</p> + +<p>Judge, sirs, whether we had reason for surprise and joy at the words +of this paper; and both one and the other were so great, that the +renegade perceived that the paper had not been found by chance, but +had been in reality addressed to some one of us, and he begged us, +if what he suspected were the truth, to trust him and tell him all, +for he would risk his life for our freedom; and so saying he took +out from his breast a metal crucifix, and with many tears swore by the +God the image represented, in whom, sinful and wicked as he was, he +truly and faithfully believed, to be loyal to us and keep secret +whatever we chose to reveal to him; for he thought and almost +foresaw that by means of her who had written that paper, he and all of +us would obtain our liberty, and he himself obtain the object he so +much desired, his restoration to the bosom of the Holy Mother +Church, from which by his own sin and ignorance he was now severed +like a corrupt limb. The renegade said this with so many tears and +such signs of repentance, that with one consent we all agreed to +tell him the whole truth of the matter, and so we gave him a full +account of all, without hiding anything from him. We pointed out to +him the window at which the reed appeared, and he by that means took +note of the house, and resolved to ascertain with particular care +who lived in it. We agreed also that it would be advisable to answer +the Moorish lady's letter, and the renegade without a moment's delay +took down the words I dictated to him, which were exactly what I shall +tell you, for nothing of importance that took place in this affair has +escaped my memory, or ever will while life lasts. This, then, was +the answer returned to the Moorish lady:</p> + +<p>"The true Allah protect thee, Lady, and that blessed Marien who is +the true mother of God, and who has put it into thy heart to go to the +land of the Christians, because she loves thee. Entreat her that she +be pleased to show thee how thou canst execute the command she gives +thee, for she will, such is her goodness. On my own part, and on +that of all these Christians who are with me, I promise to do all that +we can for thee, even to death. Fail not to write to me and inform +me what thou dost mean to do, and I will always answer thee; for the +great Allah has given us a Christian captive who can speak and write +thy language well, as thou mayest see by this paper; without fear, +therefore, thou canst inform us of all thou wouldst. As to what thou +sayest, that if thou dost reach the land of the Christians thou wilt +be my wife, I give thee my promise upon it as a good Christian; and +know that the Christians keep their promises better than the Moors. +Allah and Marien his mother watch over thee, my Lady."</p> + +<p>The paper being written and folded I waited two days until the +bano was empty as before, and immediately repaired to the usual walk +on the terrace to see if there were any sign of the reed, which was +not long in making its appearance. As soon as I saw it, although I +could not distinguish who put it out, I showed the paper as a sign +to attach the thread, but it was already fixed to the reed, and to +it I tied the paper; and shortly afterwards our star once more made +its appearance with the white flag of peace, the little bundle. It was +dropped, and I picked it up, and found in the cloth, in gold and +silver coins of all sorts, more than fifty crowns, which fifty times +more strengthened our joy and doubled our hope of gaining our liberty. +That very night our renegade returned and said he had learned that the +Moor we had been told of lived in that house, that his name was +Hadji Morato, that he was enormously rich, that he had one only +daughter the heiress of all his wealth, and that it was the general +opinion throughout the city that she was the most beautiful woman in +Barbary, and that several of the viceroys who came there had sought +her for a wife, but that she had been always unwilling to marry; and +he had learned, moreover, that she had a Christian slave who was now +dead; all which agreed with the contents of the paper. We +immediately took counsel with the renegade as to what means would have +to be adopted in order to carry off the Moorish lady and bring us +all to Christian territory; and in the end it was agreed that for +the present we should wait for a second communication from Zoraida +(for that was the name of her who now desires to be called Maria), +because we saw clearly that she and no one else could find a way out +of all these difficulties. When we had decided upon this the +renegade told us not to be uneasy, for he would lose his life or +restore us to liberty. For four days the bano was filled with +people, for which reason the reed delayed its appearance for four +days, but at the end of that time, when the bano was, as it +generally was, empty, it appeared with the cloth so bulky that it +promised a happy birth. Reed and cloth came down to me, and I found +another paper and a hundred crowns in gold, without any other coin. +The renegade was present, and in our cell we gave him the paper to +read, which was to this effect:</p> + +<p>"I cannot think of a plan, senor, for our going to Spain, nor has +Lela Marien shown me one, though I have asked her. All that can be +done is for me to give you plenty of money in gold from this window. +With it ransom yourself and your friends, and let one of you go to the +land of the Christians, and there buy a vessel and come back for the +others; and he will find me in my father's garden, which is at the +Babazon gate near the seashore, where I shall be all this summer +with my father and my servants. You can carry me away from there by +night without any danger, and bring me to the vessel. And remember +thou art to be my husband, else I will pray to Marien to punish +thee. If thou canst not trust anyone to go for the vessel, ransom +thyself and do thou go, for I know thou wilt return more surely than +any other, as thou art a gentleman and a Christian. Endeavour to +make thyself acquainted with the garden; and when I see thee walking +yonder I shall know that the bano is empty and I will give thee +abundance of money. Allah protect thee, senor."</p> + +<p>These were the words and contents of the second paper, and on +hearing them, each declared himself willing to be the ransomed one, +and promised to go and return with scrupulous good faith; and I too +made the same offer; but to all this the renegade objected, saying +that he would not on any account consent to one being set free +before all went together, as experience had taught him how ill those +who have been set free keep promises which they made in captivity; for +captives of distinction frequently had recourse to this plan, paying +the ransom of one who was to go to Valencia or Majorca with money to +enable him to arm a bark and return for the others who had ransomed +him, but who never came back; for recovered liberty and the dread of +losing it again efface from the memory all the obligations in the +world. And to prove the truth of what he said, he told us briefly what +had happened to a certain Christian gentleman almost at that very +time, the strangest case that had ever occurred even there, where +astonishing and marvellous things are happening every instant. In +short, he ended by saying that what could and ought to be done was +to give the money intended for the ransom of one of us Christians to +him, so that he might with it buy a vessel there in Algiers under +the pretence of becoming a merchant and trader at Tetuan and along the +coast; and when master of the vessel, it would be easy for him to +hit on some way of getting us all out of the bano and putting us on +board; especially if the Moorish lady gave, as she said, money +enough to ransom all, because once free it would be the easiest +thing in the world for us to embark even in open day; but the greatest +difficulty was that the Moors do not allow any renegade to buy or +own any craft, unless it be a large vessel for going on roving +expeditions, because they are afraid that anyone who buys a small +vessel, especially if he be a Spaniard, only wants it for the +purpose of escaping to Christian territory. This however he could +get over by arranging with a Tagarin Moor to go shares with him in the +purchase of the vessel, and in the profit on the cargo; and under +cover of this he could become master of the vessel, in which case he +looked upon all the rest as accomplished. But though to me and my +comrades it had seemed a better plan to send to Majorca for the +vessel, as the Moorish lady suggested, we did not dare to oppose +him, fearing that if we did not do as he said he would denounce us, +and place us in danger of losing all our lives if he were to +disclose our dealings with Zoraida, for whose life we would have all +given our own. We therefore resolved to put ourselves in the hands +of God and in the renegade's; and at the same time an answer was given +to Zoraida, telling her that we would do all she recommended, for +she had given as good advice as if Lela Marien had delivered it, and +that it depended on her alone whether we were to defer the business or +put it in execution at once. I renewed my promise to be her husband; +and thus the next day that the bano chanced to be empty she at +different times gave us by means of the reed and cloth two thousand +gold crowns and a paper in which she said that the next Juma, that +is to say Friday, she was going to her father's garden, but that +before she went she would give us more money; and if it were not +enough we were to let her know, as she would give us as much as we +asked, for her father had so much he would not miss it, and besides +she kept all the keys.</p> + +<p>We at once gave the renegade five hundred crowns to buy the +vessel, and with eight hundred I ransomed myself, giving the money +to a Valencian merchant who happened to be in Algiers at the time, and +who had me released on his word, pledging it that on the arrival of +the first ship from Valencia he would pay my ransom; for if he had +given the money at once it would have made the king suspect that my +ransom money had been for a long time in Algiers, and that the +merchant had for his own advantage kept it secret. In fact my master +was so difficult to deal with that I dared not on any account pay down +the money at once. The Thursday before the Friday on which the fair +Zoraida was to go to the garden she gave us a thousand crowns more, +and warned us of her departure, begging me, if I were ransomed, to +find out her father's garden at once, and by all means to seek an +opportunity of going there to see her. I answered in a few words +that I would do so, and that she must remember to commend us to Lela +Marien with all the prayers the captive had taught her. This having +been done, steps were taken to ransom our three comrades, so as to +enable them to quit the bano, and lest, seeing me ransomed and +themselves not, though the money was forthcoming, they should make a +disturbance about it and the devil should prompt them to do +something that might injure Zoraida; for though their position might +be sufficient to relieve me from this apprehension, nevertheless I was +unwilling to run any risk in the matter; and so I had them ransomed in +the same way as I was, handing over all the money to the merchant so +that he might with safety and confidence give security; without, +however, confiding our arrangement and secret to him, which might have +been dangerous.</p> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="c40e"></a><img alt="c40e.jpg (34K)" src="images/c40e.jpg" height="667" width="425"> +</center> + + +<br> +<br> + + + +<center> +<table summary="" cellPadding=4 border=3> +<tr><td> + <a href="p12.htm">Previous Part</a> +</td><td> + <a href="5921-h.htm">Main Index</a> +</td><td> + <a href="p14.htm">Next Part</a> + </td></tr> +</table> +</center> +<br><br> + +</body> +</html> + diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/p14.htm b/old/orig5921-h/p14.htm new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f84f429 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/p14.htm @@ -0,0 +1,916 @@ +<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> +<html> +<head> +<title>THE HISTORY OF DON QUIXOTE, By Cervantes, Volume I., Part 14.</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> + +<center> +<table summary="" cellPadding=4 border=3> +<tr><td> + <a href="p13.htm">Previous Part</a> +</td><td> + <a href="5921-h.htm">Main Index</a> +</td><td> + <a href="p15.htm">Next Part</a> + </td></tr> +</table> +</center> +<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 14. +<br><br> +Chapters 41 +</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 "Full Size" 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. + + 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="#ch41">CHAPTER XLI</a> +IN WHICH THE CAPTIVE STILL CONTINUES HIS ADVENTURES + +</pre> + +<br><br><br><br> + + +<br><br> +<center><h2><a name="ch41"></a>CHAPTER XLI.</h2></center> +<br> +<center><h3>IN WHICH THE CAPTIVE STILL CONTINUES HIS ADVENTURES +</h3></center> +<br> +<br> + +<center><a name="c41a"></a><img alt="c41a.jpg (106K)" src="images/c41a.jpg" height="374" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/c41a.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<p>Before fifteen days were over our renegade had already purchased +an excellent vessel with room for more than thirty persons; and to +make the transaction safe and lend a colour to it, he thought it +well to make, as he did, a voyage to a place called Shershel, twenty +leagues from Algiers on the Oran side, where there is an extensive +trade in dried figs. Two or three times he made this voyage in company +with the Tagarin already mentioned. The Moors of Aragon are called +Tagarins in Barbary, and those of Granada Mudejars; but in the Kingdom +of Fez they call the Mudejars Elches, and they are the people the king +chiefly employs in war. To proceed: every time he passed with his +vessel he anchored in a cove that was not two crossbow shots from +the garden where Zoraida was waiting; and there the renegade, together +with the two Moorish lads that rowed, used purposely to station +himself, either going through his prayers, or else practising as a +part what he meant to perform in earnest. And thus he would go to +Zoraida's garden and ask for fruit, which her father gave him, not +knowing him; but though, as he afterwards told me, he sought to +speak to Zoraida, and tell her who he was, and that by my orders he +was to take her to the land of the Christians, so that she might +feel satisfied and easy, he had never been able to do so; for the +Moorish women do not allow themselves to be seen by any Moor or +Turk, unless their husband or father bid them: with Christian captives +they permit freedom of intercourse and communication, even more than +might be considered proper. But for my part I should have been sorry +if he had spoken to her, for perhaps it might have alarmed her to find +her affairs talked of by renegades. But God, who ordered it otherwise, +afforded no opportunity for our renegade's well-meant purpose; and he, +seeing how safely he could go to Shershel and return, and anchor +when and how and where he liked, and that the Tagarin his partner +had no will but his, and that, now I was ransomed, all we wanted was +to find some Christians to row, told me to look out for any I should +he willing to take with me, over and above those who had been +ransomed, and to engage them for the next Friday, which he fixed +upon for our departure. On this I spoke to twelve Spaniards, all stout +rowers, and such as could most easily leave the city; but it was no +easy matter to find so many just then, because there were twenty ships +out on a cruise and they had taken all the rowers with them; and these +would not have been found were it not that their master remained at +home that summer without going to sea in order to finish a galliot +that he had upon the stocks. To these men I said nothing more than +that the next Friday in the evening they were to come out stealthily +one by one and hang about Hadji Morato's garden, waiting for me +there until I came. These directions I gave each one separately, +with orders that if they saw any other Christians there they were +not to say anything to them except that I had directed them to wait at +that spot.</p> + +<p>This preliminary having been settled, another still more necessary +step had to be taken, which was to let Zoraida know how matters +stood that she might be prepared and forewarned, so as not to be taken +by surprise if we were suddenly to seize upon her before she thought +the Christians' vessel could have returned. I determined, therefore, +to go to the garden and try if I could speak to her; and the day +before my departure I went there under the pretence of gathering +herbs. The first person I met was her father, who addressed me in +the language that all over Barbary and even in Constantinople is the +medium between captives and Moors, and is neither Morisco nor +Castilian, nor of any other nation, but a mixture of all languages, by +means of which we can all understand one another. In this sort of +language, I say, he asked me what I wanted in his garden, and to +whom I belonged. I replied that I was a slave of the Arnaut Mami +(for I knew as a certainty that he was a very great friend of his), +and that I wanted some herbs to make a salad. He asked me then whether +I were on ransom or not, and what my master demanded for me. While +these questions and answers were proceeding, the fair Zoraida, who had +already perceived me some time before, came out of the house in the +garden, and as Moorish women are by no means particular about +letting themselves be seen by Christians, or, as I have said before, +at all coy, she had no hesitation in coming to where her father +stood with me; moreover her father, seeing her approaching slowly, +called to her to come. It would be beyond my power now to describe +to you the great beauty, the high-bred air, the brilliant attire of my +beloved Zoraida as she presented herself before my eyes. I will +content myself with saying that more pearls hung from her fair neck, +her ears, and her hair than she had hairs on her head. On her +ankles, which as is customary were bare, she had carcajes (for so +bracelets or anklets are called in Morisco) of the purest gold, set +with so many diamonds that she told me afterwards her father valued +them at ten thousand doubloons, and those she had on her wrists were +worth as much more. The pearls were in profusion and very fine, for +the highest display and adornment of the Moorish women is decking +themselves with rich pearls and seed-pearls; and of these there are +therefore more among the Moors than among any other people. +Zoraida's father had to the reputation of possessing a great number, +and the purest in all Algiers, and of possessing also more than two +hundred thousand Spanish crowns; and she, who is now mistress of me +only, was mistress of all this. Whether thus adorned she would have +been beautiful or not, and what she must have been in her +prosperity, may be imagined from the beauty remaining to her after +so many hardships; for, as everyone knows, the beauty of some women +has its times and its seasons, and is increased or diminished by +chance causes; and naturally the emotions of the mind will heighten or +impair it, though indeed more frequently they totally destroy it. In a +word she presented herself before me that day attired with the +utmost splendour, and supremely beautiful; at any rate, she seemed +to me the most beautiful object I had ever seen; and when, besides, +I thought of all I owed to her I felt as though I had before me some +heavenly being come to earth to bring me relief and happiness.</p> + +<p>As she approached her father told her in his own language that I was +a captive belonging to his friend the Arnaut Mami, and that I had come +for salad.</p> + +<p>She took up the conversation, and in that mixture of tongues I +have spoken of she asked me if I was a gentleman, and why I was not +ransomed.</p> + +<p>I answered that I was already ransomed, and that by the price it +might be seen what value my master set on me, as I had given one +thousand five hundred zoltanis for me; to which she replied, "Hadst +thou been my father's, I can tell thee, I would not have let him +part with thee for twice as much, for you Christians always tell +lies about yourselves and make yourselves out poor to cheat the +Moors."</p> + +<p>"That may be, lady," said I; "but indeed I dealt truthfully with +my master, as I do and mean to do with everybody in the world."</p> + +<p>"And when dost thou go?" said Zoraida.</p> + +<p>"To-morrow, I think," said I, "for there is a vessel here from +France which sails to-morrow, and I think I shall go in her."</p> + +<p>"Would it not be better," said Zoraida, "to wait for the arrival +of ships from Spain and go with them and not with the French who are +not your friends?"</p> + +<p>"No," said I; "though if there were intelligence that a vessel +were now coming from Spain it is true I might, perhaps, wait for it; +however, it is more likely I shall depart to-morrow, for the longing I +feel to return to my country and to those I love is so great that it +will not allow me to wait for another opportunity, however more +convenient, if it be delayed."</p> + +<p>"No doubt thou art married in thine own country," said Zoraida, "and +for that reason thou art anxious to go and see thy wife."</p> + +<p>"I am not married," I replied, "but I have given my promise to marry +on my arrival there."</p> + +<p>"And is the lady beautiful to whom thou hast given it?" said +Zoraida.</p> + +<p>"So beautiful," said I, "that, to describe her worthily and tell +thee the truth, she is very like thee."</p> + +<p>At this her father laughed very heartily and said, "By Allah, +Christian, she must be very beautiful if she is like my daughter, +who is the most beautiful woman in all this kingdom: only look at +her well and thou wilt see I am telling the truth."</p> + +<p>Zoraida's father as the better linguist helped to interpret most +of these words and phrases, for though she spoke the bastard language, +that, as I have said, is employed there, she expressed her meaning +more by signs than by words.</p> + +<p>While we were still engaged in this conversation, a Moor came +running up, exclaiming that four Turks had leaped over the fence or +wall of the garden, and were gathering the fruit though it was not yet +ripe. The old man was alarmed and Zoraida too, for the Moors commonly, +and, so to speak, instinctively have a dread of the Turks, but +particularly of the soldiers, who are so insolent and domineering to +the Moors who are under their power that they treat them worse than if +they were their slaves. Her father said to Zoraida, "Daughter, +retire into the house and shut thyself in while I go and speak to +these dogs; and thou, Christian, pick thy herbs, and go in peace, +and Allah bring thee safe to thy own country."</p> + +<p>I bowed, and he went away to look for the Turks, leaving me alone +with Zoraida, who made as if she were about to retire as her father +bade her; but the moment he was concealed by the trees of the +garden, turning to me with her eyes full of tears she said, "Tameji, +cristiano, tameji?" that is to say, "Art thou going, Christian, art +thou going?"</p> + +<p>I made answer, "Yes, lady, but not without thee, come what may: be +on the watch for me on the next Juma, and be not alarmed when thou +seest us; for most surely we shall go to the land of the Christians."</p> + +<p>This I said in such a way that she understood perfectly all that +passed between us, and throwing her arm round my neck she began with +feeble steps to move towards the house; but as fate would have it (and +it might have been very unfortunate if Heaven had not otherwise +ordered it), just as we were moving on in the manner and position I +have described, with her arm round my neck, her father, as he returned +after having sent away the Turks, saw how we were walking and we +perceived that he saw us; but Zoraida, ready and quickwitted, took +care not to remove her arm from my neck, but on the contrary drew +closer to me and laid her head on my breast, bending her knees a +little and showing all the signs and tokens of fainting, while I at the +same time made it seem as though I were supporting her against my +will. Her father came running up to where we were, and seeing his +daughter in this state asked what was the matter with her; she, +however, giving no answer, he said, "No doubt she has fainted in alarm +at the entrance of those dogs," and taking her from mine he drew her +to his own breast, while she sighing, her eyes still wet with tears, +said again, "Ameji, cristiano, ameji"—"Go, Christian, go." To this +her father replied, "There is no need, daughter, for the Christian +to go, for he has done thee no harm, and the Turks have now gone; feel +no alarm, there is nothing to hurt thee, for as I say, the Turks at my +request have gone back the way they came."</p> + + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="c41b"></a><img alt="c41b.jpg (320K)" src="images/c41b.jpg" height="838" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/c41b.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<p>"It was they who terrified her, as thou hast said, senor," said I to +her father; "but since she tells me to go, I have no wish to displease +her: peace be with thee, and with thy leave I will come back to this +garden for herbs if need be, for my master says there are nowhere +better herbs for salad then here."</p> + +<p>"Come back for any thou hast need of," replied Hadji Morato; "for my +daughter does not speak thus because she is displeased with thee or +any Christian: she only meant that the Turks should go, not thou; or +that it was time for thee to look for thy herbs."</p> + +<p>With this I at once took my leave of both; and she, looking as +though her heart were breaking, retired with her father. While +pretending to look for herbs I made the round of the garden at my +ease, and studied carefully all the approaches and outlets, and the +fastenings of the house and everything that could be taken advantage +of to make our task easy.</p> + + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="c41c"></a><img alt="c41c.jpg (326K)" src="images/c41c.jpg" height="828" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/c41c.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<p>Having done so I went and gave an account of +all that had taken place to the renegade and my comrades, and looked +forward with impatience to the hour when, all fear at an end, I should +find myself in possession of the prize which fortune held out to me in +the fair and lovely Zoraida. The time passed at length, and the +appointed day we so longed for arrived; and, all following out the +arrangement and plan which, after careful consideration and many a +long discussion, we had decided upon, we succeeded as fully as we +could have wished; for on the Friday following the day upon which I +spoke to Zoraida in the garden, the renegade anchored his vessel at +nightfall almost opposite the spot where she was. The Christians who +were to row were ready and in hiding in different places round +about, all waiting for me, anxious and elated, and eager to attack the +vessel they had before their eyes; for they did not know the +renegade's plan, but expected that they were to gain their liberty +by force of arms and by killing the Moors who were on board the +vessel. As soon, then, as I and my comrades made our appearance, all +those that were in hiding seeing us came and joined us. It was now the +time when the city gates are shut, and there was no one to be seen +in all the space outside. When we were collected together we debated +whether it would be better first to go for Zoraida, or to make +prisoners of the Moorish rowers who rowed in the vessel; but while +we were still uncertain our renegade came up asking us what kept us, +as it was now the time, and all the Moors were off their guard and +most of them asleep. We told him why we hesitated, but he said it +was of more importance first to secure the vessel, which could be done +with the greatest ease and without any danger, and then we could go +for Zoraida. We all approved of what he said, and so without further +delay, guided by him we made for the vessel, and he leaping on board +first, drew his cutlass and said in Morisco, "Let no one stir from +this if he does not want it to cost him his life." By this almost +all the Christians were on board, and the Moors, who were +fainthearted, hearing their captain speak in this way, were cowed, and +without any one of them taking to his arms (and indeed they had few or +hardly any) they submitted without saying a word to be bound by the +Christians, who quickly secured them, threatening them that if they +raised any kind of outcry they would be all put to the sword. This +having been accomplished, and half of our party being left to keep +guard over them, the rest of us, again taking the renegade as our +guide, hastened towards Hadji Morato's garden, and as good luck +would have it, on trying the gate it opened as easily as if it had not +been locked; and so, quite quietly and in silence, we reached the +house without being perceived by anybody. The lovely Zoraida was +watching for us at a window, and as soon as she perceived that there +were people there, she asked in a low voice if we were "Nizarani," +as much as to say or ask if we were Christians. I answered that we +were, and begged her to come down. As soon as she recognised me she +did not delay an instant, but without answering a word came down +immediately, opened the door and presented herself before us all, so +beautiful and so richly attired that I cannot attempt to describe her. +The moment I saw her I took her hand and kissed it, and the renegade +and my two comrades did the same; and the rest, who knew nothing of +the circumstances, did as they saw us do, for it only seemed as if +we were returning thanks to her, and recognising her as the giver of +our liberty. The renegade asked her in the Morisco language if her +father was in the house. She replied that he was and that he was +asleep.</p> + +<p>"Then it will be necessary to waken him and take him with us," +said the renegade, "and everything of value in this fair mansion."</p> + +<p>"Nay," said she, "my father must not on any account be touched, +and there is nothing in the house except what I shall take, and that +will be quite enough to enrich and satisfy all of you; wait a little +and you shall see," and so saying she went in, telling us she would +return immediately and bidding us keep quiet making any noise.</p> + +<p>I asked the renegade what had passed between them, and when he +told me, I declared that nothing should be done except in accordance +with the wishes of Zoraida, who now came back with a little trunk so +full of gold crowns that she could scarcely carry it. Unfortunately +her father awoke while this was going on, and hearing a noise in the +garden, came to the window, and at once perceiving that all those +who were there were Christians, raising a prodigiously loud outcry, he +began to call out in Arabic, "Christians, Christians! thieves, +thieves!" by which cries we were all thrown into the greatest fear and +embarrassment; but the renegade seeing the danger we were in and how +important it was for him to effect his purpose before we were heard, +mounted with the utmost quickness to where Hadji Morato was, and +with him went some of our party; I, however, did not dare to leave +Zoraida, who had fallen almost fainting in my arms. To be brief, those +who had gone upstairs acted so promptly that in an instant they came +down, carrying Hadji Morato with his hands bound and a napkin tied +over his mouth, which prevented him from uttering a word, warning +him at the same time that to attempt to speak would cost him his life. +When his daughter caught sight of him she covered her eyes so as not +to see him, and her father was horror-stricken, not knowing how +willingly she had placed herself in our hands. But it was now most +essential for us to be on the move, and carefully and quickly we +regained the vessel, where those who had remained on board were +waiting for us in apprehension of some mishap having befallen us. It +was barely two hours after night set in when we were all on board +the vessel, where the cords were removed from the hands of Zoraida's +father, and the napkin from his mouth; but the renegade once more told +him not to utter a word, or they would take his life. He, when he +saw his daughter there, began to sigh piteously, and still more when +he perceived that I held her closely embraced and that she lay quiet +without resisting or complaining, or showing any reluctance; +nevertheless he remained silent lest they should carry into effect the +repeated threats the renegade had addressed to him.</p> + +<p>Finding herself now on board, and that we were about to give way +with the oars, Zoraida, seeing her father there, and the other Moors +bound, bade the renegade ask me to do her the favour of releasing +the Moors and setting her father at liberty, for she would rather +drown herself in the sea than suffer a father that had loved her so +dearly to be carried away captive before her eyes and on her +account. The renegade repeated this to me, and I replied that I was +very willing to do so; but he replied that it was not advisable, +because if they were left there they would at once raise the country +and stir up the city, and lead to the despatch of swift cruisers in +pursuit, and our being taken, by sea or land, without any +possibility of escape; and that all that could be done was to set them +free on the first Christian ground we reached. On this point we all +agreed; and Zoraida, to whom it was explained, together with the +reasons that prevented us from doing at once what she desired, was +satisfied likewise; and then in glad silence and with cheerful +alacrity each of our stout rowers took his oar, and commending +ourselves to God with all our hearts, we began to shape our course for +the island of Majorca, the nearest Christian land. Owing, however, +to the Tramontana rising a little, and the sea growing somewhat rough, +it was impossible for us to keep a straight course for Majorca, and we +were compelled to coast in the direction of Oran, not without great +uneasiness on our part lest we should be observed from the town of +Shershel, which lies on that coast, not more than sixty miles from +Algiers. Moreover we were afraid of meeting on that course one of +the galliots that usually come with goods from Tetuan; although each +of us for himself and all of us together felt confident that, if we +were to meet a merchant galliot, so that it were not a cruiser, not +only should we not be lost, but that we should take a vessel in +which we could more safely accomplish our voyage. As we pursued our +course Zoraida kept her head between my hands so as not to see her +father, and I felt that she was praying to Lela Marien to help us.</p> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="c41d"></a><img alt="c41d.jpg (266K)" src="images/c41d.jpg" height="505" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/c41d.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<p>We might have made about thirty miles when daybreak found us some +three musket-shots off the land, which seemed to us deserted, and +without anyone to see us. For all that, however, by hard rowing we put +out a little to sea, for it was now somewhat calmer, and having gained +about two leagues the word was given to row by batches, while we ate +something, for the vessel was well provided; but the rowers said it +was not a time to take any rest; let food be served out to those who +were not rowing, but they would not leave their oars on any account. +This was done, but now a stiff breeze began to blow, which obliged +us to leave off rowing and make sail at once and steer for Oran, as it +was impossible to make any other course. All this was done very +promptly, and under sail we ran more than eight miles an hour +without any fear, except that of coming across some vessel out on a +roving expedition. We gave the Moorish rowers some food, and the +renegade comforted them by telling them that they were not held as +captives, as we should set them free on the first opportunity.</p> + +<p>The same was said to Zoraida's father, who replied, "Anything +else, Christian, I might hope for or think likely from your generosity +and good behaviour, but do not think me so simple as to imagine you +will give me my liberty; for you would have never exposed yourselves +to the danger of depriving me of it only to restore it to me so +generously, especially as you know who I am and the sum you may expect +to receive on restoring it; and if you will only name that, I here +offer you all you require for myself and for my unhappy daughter +there; or else for her alone, for she is the greatest and most +precious part of my soul."</p> + +<p>As he said this he began to weep so bitterly that he filled us all +with compassion and forced Zoraida to look at him, and when she saw +him weeping she was so moved that she rose from my feet and ran to +throw her arms round him, and pressing her face to his, they both gave +way to such an outburst of tears that several of us were constrained +to keep them company.</p> + +<p>But when her father saw her in full dress and with all her jewels +about her, he said to her in his own language, "What means this, my +daughter? Last night, before this terrible misfortune in which we +are plunged befell us, I saw thee in thy everyday and indoor garments; +and now, without having had time to attire thyself, and without my +bringing thee any joyful tidings to furnish an occasion for adorning +and bedecking thyself, I see thee arrayed in the finest attire it +would be in my power to give thee when fortune was most kind to us. +Answer me this; for it causes me greater anxiety and surprise than +even this misfortune itself."</p> + +<p>The renegade interpreted to us what the Moor said to his daughter; +she, however, returned him no answer. But when he observed in one +corner of the vessel the little trunk in which she used to keep her +jewels, which he well knew he had left in Algiers and had not +brought to the garden, he was still more amazed, and asked her how +that trunk had come into our hands, and what there was in it. To which +the renegade, without waiting for Zoraida to reply, made answer, "Do +not trouble thyself by asking thy daughter Zoraida so many +questions, senor, for the one answer I will give thee will serve for +all; I would have thee know that she is a Christian, and that it is +she who has been the file for our chains and our deliverer from +captivity. She is here of her own free will, as glad, I imagine, to +find herself in this position as he who escapes from darkness into the +light, from death to life, and from suffering to glory."</p> + +<p>"Daughter, is this true, what he says?" cried the Moor.</p> + +<p>"It is," replied Zoraida.</p> + +<p>"That thou art in truth a Christian," said the old man, "and that +thou hast given thy father into the power of his enemies?"</p> + +<p>To which Zoraida made answer, "A Christian I am, but it is not I who +have placed thee in this position, for it never was my wish to leave +thee or do thee harm, but only to do good to myself."</p> + +<p>"And what good hast thou done thyself, daughter?" said he.</p> + +<p>"Ask thou that," said she, "of Lela Marien, for she can tell thee +better than I."</p> + +<p>The Moor had hardly heard these words when with marvellous quickness +he flung himself headforemost into the sea, where no doubt he would +have been drowned had not the long and full dress he wore held him +up for a little on the surface of the water. Zoraida cried aloud to us +to save him, and we all hastened to help, and seizing him by his +robe we drew him in half drowned and insensible, at which Zoraida +was in such distress that she wept over him as piteously and +bitterly as though he were already dead. We turned him upon his face +and he voided a great quantity of water, and at the end of two hours +came to himself. Meanwhile, the wind having changed we were +compelled to head for the land, and ply our oars to avoid being driven +on shore; but it was our good fortune to reach a creek that lies on +one side of a small promontory or cape, called by the Moors that of +the "Cava rumia," which in our language means "the wicked Christian +woman;" for it is a tradition among them that La Cava, through whom +Spain was lost, lies buried at that spot; "cava" in their language +meaning "wicked woman," and "rumia" "Christian;" moreover, they +count it unlucky to anchor there when necessity compels them, and they +never do so otherwise. For us, however, it was not the resting-place +of the wicked woman but a haven of safety for our relief, so much +had the sea now got up. We posted a look-out on shore, and never let +the oars out of our hands, and ate of the stores the renegade had laid +in, imploring God and Our Lady with all our hearts to help and protect +us, that we might give a happy ending to a beginning so prosperous. At +the entreaty of Zoraida orders were given to set on shore her father +and the other Moors who were still bound, for she could not endure, +nor could her tender heart bear to see her father in bonds and her +fellow-countrymen prisoners before her eyes. We promised her to do +this at the moment of departure, for as it was uninhabited we ran no +risk in releasing them at that place.</p> + +<p>Our prayers were not so far in vain as to be unheard by Heaven, +for after a while the wind changed in our favour, and made the sea +calm, inviting us once more to resume our voyage with a good heart. +Seeing this we unbound the Moors, and one by one put them on shore, at +which they were filled with amazement; but when we came to land +Zoraida's father, who had now completely recovered his senses, he +said:</p> + +<p>"Why is it, think ye, Christians, that this wicked woman is rejoiced +at your giving me my liberty? Think ye it is because of the +affection she bears me? Nay verily, it is only because of the +hindrance my presence offers to the execution of her base designs. And +think not that it is her belief that yours is better than ours that +has led her to change her religion; it is only because she knows +that immodesty is more freely practised in your country than in ours." +Then turning to Zoraida, while I and another of the Christians held +him fast by both arms, lest he should do some mad act, he said to her, +"Infamous girl, misguided maiden, whither in thy blindness and madness +art thou going in the hands of these dogs, our natural enemies? Cursed +be the hour when I begot thee! Cursed the luxury and indulgence in +which I reared thee!"</p> + +<p>But seeing that he was not likely soon to cease I made haste to +put him on shore, and thence he continued his maledictions and +lamentations aloud; calling on Mohammed to pray to Allah to destroy +us, to confound us, to make an end of us; and when, in consequence +of having made sail, we could no longer hear what he said we could see +what he did; how he plucked out his beard and tore his hair and lay +writhing on the ground. But once he raised his voice to such a pitch +that we were able to hear what he said. "Come back, dear daughter, +come back to shore; I forgive thee all; let those men have the +money, for it is theirs now, and come back to comfort thy sorrowing +father, who will yield up his life on this barren strand if thou +dost leave him."</p> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="c41e"></a><img alt="c41e.jpg (281K)" src="images/c41e.jpg" height="514" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/c41e.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<p>All this Zoraida heard, and heard with sorrow and tears, and all she +could say in answer was, "Allah grant that Lela Marien, who has made +me become a Christian, give thee comfort in thy sorrow, my father. +Allah knows that I could not do otherwise than I have done, and that +these Christians owe nothing to my will; for even had I wished not +to accompany them, but remain at home, it would have been impossible +for me, so eagerly did my soul urge me on to the accomplishment of +this purpose, which I feel to be as righteous as to thee, dear father, +it seems wicked."</p> + +<p>But neither could her father hear her nor we see him when she said +this; and so, while I consoled Zoraida, we turned our attention to our +voyage, in which a breeze from the right point so favoured us that +we made sure of finding ourselves off the coast of Spain on the morrow +by daybreak. But, as good seldom or never comes pure and unmixed, +without being attended or followed by some disturbing evil that +gives a shock to it, our fortune, or perhaps the curses which the Moor +had hurled at his daughter (for whatever kind of father they may +come from these are always to be dreaded), brought it about that +when we were now in mid-sea, and the night about three hours spent, as +we were running with all sail set and oars lashed, for the favouring +breeze saved us the trouble of using them, we saw by the light of +the moon, which shone brilliantly, a square-rigged vessel in full sail +close to us, luffing up and standing across our course, and so close +that we had to strike sail to avoid running foul of her, while they +too put the helm hard up to let us pass. They came to the side of +the ship to ask who we were, whither we were bound, and whence we +came, but as they asked this in French our renegade said, "Let no +one answer, for no doubt these are French corsairs who plunder all +comers."</p> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="c41f"></a><img alt="c41f.jpg (268K)" src="images/c41f.jpg" height="518" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/c41f.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<p>Acting on this warning no one answered a word, but after we +had gone a little ahead, and the vessel was now lying to leeward, +suddenly they fired two guns, and apparently both loaded with +chain-shot, for with one they cut our mast in half and brought down +both it and the sail into the sea, and the other, discharged at the +same moment, sent a ball into our vessel amidships, staving her in +completely, but without doing any further damage. We, however, finding +ourselves sinking began to shout for help and call upon those in the +ship to pick us up as we were beginning to fill. They then lay to, and +lowering a skiff or boat, as many as a dozen Frenchmen, well armed +with match-locks, and their matches burning, got into it and came +alongside; and seeing how few we were, and that our vessel was going +down, they took us in, telling us that this had come to us through our +incivility in not giving them an answer. Our renegade took the trunk +containing Zoraida's wealth and dropped it into the sea without anyone +perceiving what he did. In short we went on board with the +Frenchmen, who, after having ascertained all they wanted to know about +us, rifled us of everything we had, as if they had been our +bitterest enemies, and from Zoraida they took even the anklets she +wore on her feet; but the distress they caused her did not distress me +so much as the fear I was in that from robbing her of her rich and +precious jewels they would proceed to rob her of the most precious +jewel that she valued more than all. The desires, however, of those +people do not go beyond money, but of that their covetousness is +insatiable, and on this occasion it was carried to such a pitch that +they would have taken even the clothes we wore as captives if they had +been worth anything to them. It was the advice of some of them to +throw us all into the sea wrapped up in a sail; for their purpose +was to trade at some of the ports of Spain, giving themselves out as +Bretons, and if they brought us alive they would be punished as soon +as the robbery was discovered; but the captain (who was the one who +had plundered my beloved Zoraida) said he was satisfied with the prize +he had got, and that he would not touch at any Spanish port, but +pass the Straits of Gibraltar by night, or as best he could, and +make for La Rochelle, from which he had sailed. So they agreed by +common consent to give us the skiff belonging to their ship and all we +required for the short voyage that remained to us, and this they did +the next day on coming in sight of the Spanish coast, with which, +and the joy we felt, all our sufferings and miseries were as +completely forgotten as if they had never been endured by us, such +is the delight of recovering lost liberty.</p> + +<p>It may have been about mid-day when they placed us in the boat, +giving us two kegs of water and some biscuit; and the captain, moved +by I know not what compassion, as the lovely Zoraida was about to +embark, gave her some forty gold crowns, and would not permit his +men to take from her those same garments which she has on now. We +got into the boat, returning them thanks for their kindness to us, and +showing ourselves grateful rather than indignant. They stood out to +sea, steering for the straits; we, without looking to any compass save +the land we had before us, set ourselves to row with such energy +that by sunset we were so near that we might easily, we thought, +land before the night was far advanced. But as the moon did not show +that night, and the sky was clouded, and as we knew not whereabouts we +were, it did not seem to us a prudent thing to make for the shore, +as several of us advised, saying we ought to run ourselves ashore even +if it were on rocks and far from any habitation, for in this way we +should be relieved from the apprehensions we naturally felt of the +prowling vessels of the Tetuan corsairs, who leave Barbary at +nightfall and are on the Spanish coast by daybreak, where they +commonly take some prize, and then go home to sleep in their own +houses. But of the conflicting counsels the one which was adopted +was that we should approach gradually, and land where we could if +the sea were calm enough to permit us. This was done, and a little +before midnight we drew near to the foot of a huge and lofty mountain, +not so close to the sea but that it left a narrow space on which to +land conveniently. We ran our boat up on the sand, and all sprang +out and kissed the ground, and with tears of joyful satisfaction +returned thanks to God our Lord for all his incomparable goodness to +us on our voyage. We took out of the boat the provisions it contained, +and drew it up on the shore, and then climbed a long way up the +mountain, for even there we could not feel easy in our hearts, or +persuade ourselves that it was Christian soil that was now under our +feet.</p> + +<p>The dawn came, more slowly, I think, than we could have wished; we +completed the ascent in order to see if from the summit any habitation +or any shepherds' huts could be discovered, but strain our eyes as +we might, neither dwelling, nor human being, nor path nor road could +we perceive. However, we determined to push on farther, as it could +not but be that ere long we must see some one who could tell us +where we were. But what distressed me most was to see Zoraida going on +foot over that rough ground; for though I once carried her on my +shoulders, she was more wearied by my weariness than rested by the +rest; and so she would never again allow me to undergo the exertion, +and went on very patiently and cheerfully, while I led her by the +hand. We had gone rather less than a quarter of a league when the +sound of a little bell fell on our ears, a clear proof that there were +flocks hard by, and looking about carefully to see if any were +within view, we observed a young shepherd tranquilly and +unsuspiciously trimming a stick with his knife at the foot of a cork +tree. We called to him, and he, raising his head, sprang nimbly to his +feet, for, as we afterwards learned, the first who presented +themselves to his sight were the renegade and Zoraida, and seeing them +in Moorish dress he imagined that all the Moors of Barbary were upon +him; and plunging with marvellous swiftness into the thicket in +front of him, he began to raise a prodigious outcry, exclaiming, +"The Moors—the Moors have landed! To arms, to arms!" We were all +thrown into perplexity by these cries, not knowing what to do; but +reflecting that the shouts of the shepherd would raise the country and +that the mounted coast-guard would come at once to see what was the +matter, we agreed that the renegade must strip off his Turkish +garments and put on a captive's jacket or coat which one of our +party gave him at once, though he himself was reduced to his shirt; +and so commending ourselves to God, we followed the same road which we +saw the shepherd take, expecting every moment that the coast-guard +would be down upon us. Nor did our expectation deceive us, for two +hours had not passed when, coming out of the brushwood into the open +ground, we perceived some fifty mounted men swiftly approaching us +at a hand-gallop. As soon as we saw them we stood still, waiting for +them; but as they came close and, instead of the Moors they were in +quest of, saw a set of poor Christians, they were taken aback, and one +of them asked if it could be we who were the cause of the shepherd +having raised the call to arms. I said "Yes," and as I was about to +explain to him what had occurred, and whence we came and who we +were, one of the Christians of our party recognised the horseman who +had put the question to us, and before I could say anything more he +exclaimed:</p> + +<p>"Thanks be to God, sirs, for bringing us to such good quarters; for, +if I do not deceive myself, the ground we stand on is that of Velez +Malaga unless, indeed, all my years of captivity have made me unable +to recollect that you, senor, who ask who we are, are Pedro de +Bustamante, my uncle."</p> + +<p>The Christian captive had hardly uttered these words, when the +horseman threw himself off his horse, and ran to embrace the young +man, crying:</p> + +<p>"Nephew of my soul and life! I recognise thee now; and long have I +mourned thee as dead, I, and my sister, thy mother, and all thy kin +that are still alive, and whom God has been pleased to preserve that +they may enjoy the happiness of seeing thee. We knew long since that +thou wert in Algiers, and from the appearance of thy garments and +those of all this company, I conclude that ye have had a miraculous +restoration to liberty."</p> + +<p>"It is true," replied the young man, "and by-and-by we will tell you +all."</p> + +<p>As soon as the horsemen understood that we were Christian +captives, they dismounted from their horses, and each offered his to +carry us to the city of Velez Malaga, which was a league and a half +distant. Some of them went to bring the boat to the city, we having +told them where we had left it; others took us up behind them, and +Zoraida was placed on the horse of the young man's uncle. The whole +town came out to meet us, for they had by this time heard of our +arrival from one who had gone on in advance. They were not +astonished to see liberated captives or captive Moors, for people on +that coast are well used to see both one and the other; but they +were astonished at the beauty of Zoraida, which was just then +heightened, as well by the exertion of travelling as by joy at finding +herself on Christian soil, and relieved of all fear of being lost; for +this had brought such a glow upon her face, that unless my affection +for her were deceiving me, I would venture to say that there was not a +more beautiful creature in the world—at least, that I had ever seen. + We went straight to the church to return thanks to God for the +mercies we had received, and when Zoraida entered it she said there +were faces there like Lela Marien's. We told her they were her images; +and as well as he could the renegade explained to her what they meant, +that she might adore them as if each of them were the very same Lela +Marien that had spoken to her; and she, having great intelligence +and a quick and clear instinct, understood at once all he said to +her about them. Thence they took us away and distributed us all in +different houses in the town; but as for the renegade, Zoraida, and +myself, the Christian who came with us brought us to the house of +his parents, who had a fair share of the gifts of fortune, and treated +us with as much kindness as they did their own son.</p> + +<p>We remained six days in Velez, at the end of which the renegade, +having informed himself of all that was requisite for him to do, set +out for the city of Granada to restore himself to the sacred bosom +of the Church through the medium of the Holy Inquisition. The other +released captives took their departures, each the way that seemed best +to him, and Zoraida and I were left alone, with nothing more than +the crowns which the courtesy of the Frenchman had bestowed upon +Zoraida, out of which I bought the beast on which she rides; and, I +for the present attending her as her father and squire and not as +her husband, we are now going to ascertain if my father is living, +or if any of my brothers has had better fortune than mine has been; +though, as Heaven has made me the companion of Zoraida, I think no +other lot could be assigned to me, however happy, that I would +rather have. The patience with which she endures the hardships that +poverty brings with it, and the eagerness she shows to become a +Christian, are such that they fill me with admiration, and bind me +to serve her all my life; though the happiness I feel in seeing myself +hers, and her mine, is disturbed and marred by not knowing whether I +shall find any corner to shelter her in my own country, or whether +time and death may not have made such changes in the fortunes and +lives of my father and brothers, that I shall hardly find anyone who +knows me, if they are not alive.</p> + +<p>I have no more of my story to tell you, gentlemen; whether it be +an interesting or a curious one let your better judgments decide; +all I can say is I would gladly have told it to you more briefly; +although my fear of wearying you has made me leave out more than one +circumstance.</p> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="c41g"></a><img alt="c41g.jpg (33K)" src="images/c41g.jpg" height="300" width="650"> +</center> + + +<br> +<br> + + + +<center> +<table summary="" cellPadding=4 border=3> +<tr><td> + <a href="p13.htm">Previous Part</a> +</td><td> + <a href="5921-h.htm">Main Index</a> +</td><td> + <a href="p15.htm">Next Part</a> + </td></tr> +</table> +</center> +<br><br> + +</body> +</html> + diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/p15.htm b/old/orig5921-h/p15.htm new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5e506c5 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/p15.htm @@ -0,0 +1,1856 @@ +<!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> + +<center> +<table summary="" cellPadding=4 border=3> +<tr><td> + <a href="p14.htm">Previous Part</a> +</td><td> + <a href="5921-h.htm">Main Index</a> +</td><td> + <a href="p16.htm">Next Part</a> + </td></tr> +</table> +</center> +<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> + + +<center> +<table summary="" cellPadding=4 border=3> +<tr><td> + <a href="p14.htm">Previous Part</a> +</td><td> + <a href="5921-h.htm">Main Index</a> +</td><td> + <a href="p16.htm">Next Part</a> + </td></tr> +</table> +</center> +<br><br> + +</body> +</html> + + + diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/p16.htm b/old/orig5921-h/p16.htm new file mode 100644 index 0000000..30ce8e3 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/p16.htm @@ -0,0 +1,1105 @@ +<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> +<html> +<head> +<title>THE HISTORY OF DON QUIXOTE, By Cervantes, Vol. I., Part 16.</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> + +<center> +<table summary="" cellPadding=4 border=3> +<tr><td> + <a href="p15.htm">Previous Part</a> +</td><td> + <a href="5921-h.htm">Main Index</a> +</td><td> + <a href="p17.htm">Next Part</a> + </td></tr> +</table> +</center> +<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 16 +<br><br> +Chapters 47-49 +</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="#ch47">CHAPTER XLVII</a> +OF THE STRANGE MANNER IN WHICH DON QUIXOTE OF +LA MANCHA WAS CARRIED AWAY ENCHANTED, TOGETHER +WITH OTHER REMARKABLE INCIDENTS + +<a href="#ch48">CHAPTER XLVIII</a> +IN WHICH THE CANON PURSUES THE SUBJECT OF THE BOOKS +OF CHIVALRY, WITH OTHER MATTERS WORTHY OF HIS WIT + +<a href="#ch49">CHAPTER XLIX</a> +WHICH TREATS OF THE SHREWD CONVERSATION WHICH SANCHO +PANZA HELD WITH HIS MASTER DON QUIXOTE + + +</pre> + +<br><br><br><br> + + + +<br><br> +<center><h2><a name="ch47"></a>CHAPTER XLVII.</h2></center> +<br> +<center><h3>OF THE STRANGE MANNER IN WHICH DON QUIXOTE OF LA MANCHA WAS +CARRIED AWAY ENCHANTED, TOGETHER WITH OTHER REMARKABLE INCIDENTS +</h3></center> +<br> +<br> + +<center><a name="c47a"></a><img alt="c47a.jpg (181K)" src="images/c47a.jpg" height="433" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/c47a.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<p>When Don Quixote saw himself caged and hoisted on the cart in this +way, he said, "Many grave histories of knights-errant have I read; but +never yet have I read, seen, or heard of their carrying off +enchanted knights-errant in this fashion, or at the slow pace that +these lazy, sluggish animals promise; for they always take them away +through the air with marvellous swiftness, enveloped in a dark thick +cloud, or on a chariot of fire, or it may be on some hippogriff or +other beast of the kind; but to carry me off like this on an +ox-cart! By God, it puzzles me! But perhaps the chivalry and +enchantments of our day take a different course from that of those +in days gone by; and it may be, too, that as I am a new knight in +the world, and the first to revive the already forgotten calling of +knight-adventurers, they may have newly invented other kinds of +enchantments and other modes of carrying off the enchanted. What +thinkest thou of the matter, Sancho my son?"</p> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="c47b"></a><img alt="c47b.jpg (357K)" src="images/c47b.jpg" height="836" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/c47b.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<p>"I don't know what to think," answered Sancho, "not being as well +read as your worship in errant writings; but for all that I venture to +say and swear that these apparitions that are about us are not quite +catholic."</p> + +<p>"Catholic!" said Don Quixote. "Father of me! how can they be +Catholic when they are all devils that have taken fantastic shapes +to come and do this, and bring me to this condition? And if thou +wouldst prove it, touch them, and feel them, and thou wilt find they +have only bodies of air, and no consistency except in appearance."</p> + +<p>"By God, master," returned Sancho, "I have touched them already; and +that devil, that goes about there so busily, has firm flesh, and +another property very different from what I have heard say devils +have, for by all accounts they all smell of brimstone and other bad +smells; but this one smells of amber half a league off." Sancho was +here speaking of Don Fernando, who, like a gentleman of his rank, +was very likely perfumed as Sancho said.</p> + +<p>"Marvel not at that, Sancho my friend," said Don Quixote; "for let +me tell thee devils are crafty; and even if they do carry odours about +with them, they themselves have no smell, because they are spirits; +or, if they have any smell, they cannot smell of anything sweet, but +of something foul and fetid; and the reason is that as they carry hell +with them wherever they go, and can get no ease whatever from their +torments, and as a sweet smell is a thing that gives pleasure and +enjoyment, it is impossible that they can smell sweet; if, then, +this devil thou speakest of seems to thee to smell of amber, either +thou art deceiving thyself, or he wants to deceive thee by making thee +fancy he is not a devil."</p> + +<p>Such was the conversation that passed between master and man; and +Don Fernando and Cardenio, apprehensive of Sancho's making a +complete discovery of their scheme, towards which he had already +gone some way, resolved to hasten their departure, and calling the +landlord aside, they directed him to saddle Rocinante and put the +pack-saddle on Sancho's ass, which he did with great alacrity. In +the meantime the curate had made an arrangement with the officers that +they should bear them company as far as his village, he paying them so +much a day. Cardenio hung the buckler on one side of the bow of +Rocinante's saddle and the basin on the other, and by signs +commanded Sancho to mount his ass and take Rocinante's bridle, and +at each side of the cart he placed two officers with their muskets; +but before the cart was put in motion, out came the landlady and her +daughter and Maritornes to bid Don Quixote farewell, pretending to +weep with grief at his misfortune; and to them Don Quixote said:</p> + +<p>"Weep not, good ladies, for all these mishaps are the lot of those +who follow the profession I profess; and if these reverses did not +befall me I should not esteem myself a famous knight-errant; for +such things never happen to knights of little renown and fame, because +nobody in the world thinks about them; to valiant knights they do, for +these are envied for their virtue and valour by many princes and other +knights who compass the destruction of the worthy by base means. +Nevertheless, virtue is of herself so mighty, that, in spite of all +the magic that Zoroaster its first inventor knew, she will come +victorious out of every trial, and shed her light upon the earth as +the sun does upon the heavens. Forgive me, fair ladies, if, through +inadvertence, I have in aught offended you; for intentionally and +wittingly I have never done so to any; and pray to God that he deliver +me from this captivity to which some malevolent enchanter has +consigned me; and should I find myself released therefrom, the favours +that ye have bestowed upon me in this castle shall be held in memory +by me, that I may acknowledge, recognise, and requite them as they +deserve."</p> + +<p>While this was passing between the ladies of the castle and Don +Quixote, the curate and the barber bade farewell to Don Fernando and +his companions, to the captain, his brother, and the ladies, now all +made happy, and in particular to Dorothea and Luscinda. They all +embraced one another, and promised to let each other know how things +went with them, and Don Fernando directed the curate where to write to +him, to tell him what became of Don Quixote, assuring him that there +was nothing that could give him more pleasure than to hear of it, +and that he too, on his part, would send him word of everything he +thought he would like to know, about his marriage, Zoraida's +baptism, Don Luis's affair, and Luscinda's return to her home. The +curate promised to comply with his request carefully, and they +embraced once more, and renewed their promises.</p> + +<p>The landlord approached the curate and handed him some papers, +saying he had discovered them in the lining of the valise in which the +novel of "The Ill-advised Curiosity" had been found, and that he might +take them all away with him as their owner had not since returned; +for, as he could not read, he did not want them himself. The curate +thanked him, and opening them he saw at the beginning of the +manuscript the words, "Novel of Rinconete and Cortadillo," by which he +perceived that it was a novel, and as that of "The Ill-advised +Curiosity" had been good he concluded this would be so too, as they +were both probably by the same author; so he kept it, intending to +read it when he had an opportunity. He then mounted and his friend the +barber did the same, both masked, so as not to be recognised by Don +Quixote, and set out following in the rear of the cart. The order of +march was this: first went the cart with the owner leading it; at each +side of it marched the officers of the Brotherhood, as has been +said, with their muskets; then followed Sancho Panza on his ass, +leading Rocinante by the bridle; and behind all came the curate and +the barber on their mighty mules, with faces covered, as aforesaid, +and a grave and serious air, measuring their pace to suit the slow +steps of the oxen. Don Quixote was seated in the cage, with his +hands tied and his feet stretched out, leaning against the bars as +silent and as patient as if he were a stone statue and not a man of +flesh. Thus slowly and silently they made, it might be, two leagues, +until they reached a valley which the carter thought a convenient +place for resting and feeding his oxen, and he said so to the +curate, but the barber was of opinion that they ought to push on a +little farther, as at the other side of a hill which appeared close by +he knew there was a valley that had more grass and much better than +the one where they proposed to halt; and his advice was taken and they +continued their journey.</p> + +<p>Just at that moment the curate, looking back, saw coming on behind +them six or seven mounted men, well found and equipped, who soon +overtook them, for they were travelling, not at the sluggish, +deliberate pace of oxen, but like men who rode canons' mules, and in +haste to take their noontide rest as soon as possible at the inn which +was in sight not a league off. The quick travellers came up with the +slow, and courteous salutations were exchanged; and one of the new +comers, who was, in fact, a canon of Toledo and master of the others +who accompanied him, observing the regular order of the procession, +the cart, the officers, Sancho, Rocinante, the curate and the +barber, and above all Don Quixote caged and confined, could not help +asking what was the meaning of carrying the man in that fashion; +though, from the badges of the officers, he already concluded that +he must be some desperate highwayman or other malefactor whose +punishment fell within the jurisdiction of the Holy Brotherhood. One +of the officers to whom he had put the question, replied, "Let the +gentleman himself tell you the meaning of his going this way, senor, +for we do not know."</p> + +<p>Don Quixote overheard the conversation and said, "Haply, +gentlemen, you are versed and learned in matters of errant chivalry? +Because if you are I will tell you my misfortunes; if not, there is no +good in my giving myself the trouble of relating them;" but here the +curate and the barber, seeing that the travellers were engaged in +conversation with Don Quixote, came forward, in order to answer in +such a way as to save their stratagem from being discovered.</p> + +<p>The canon, replying to Don Quixote, said, "In truth, brother, I know +more about books of chivalry than I do about Villalpando's elements of +logic; so if that be all, you may safely tell me what you please."</p> + +<p>"In God's name, then, senor," replied Don Quixote; "if that be so, I +would have you know that I am held enchanted in this cage by the +envy and fraud of wicked enchanters; for virtue is more persecuted +by the wicked than loved by the good. I am a knight-errant, and not +one of those whose names Fame has never thought of immortalising in +her record, but of those who, in defiance and in spite of envy itself, +and all the magicians that Persia, or Brahmans that India, or +Gymnosophists that Ethiopia ever produced, will place their names in +the temple of immortality, to serve as examples and patterns for +ages to come, whereby knights-errant may see the footsteps in which +they must tread if they would attain the summit and crowning point +of honour in arms."</p> + +<p>"What Senor Don Quixote of La Mancha says," observed the curate, "is +the truth; for he goes enchanted in this cart, not from any fault or +sins of his, but because of the malevolence of those to whom virtue is +odious and valour hateful. This, senor, is the Knight of the Rueful +Countenance, if you have ever heard him named, whose valiant +achievements and mighty deeds shall be written on lasting brass and +imperishable marble, notwithstanding all the efforts of envy to +obscure them and malice to hide them."</p> + +<p>When the canon heard both the prisoner and the man who was at +liberty talk in such a strain he was ready to cross himself in his +astonishment, and could not make out what had befallen him; and all +his attendants were in the same state of amazement.</p> + +<p>At this point Sancho Panza, who had drawn near to hear the +conversation, said, in order to make everything plain, "Well, sirs, +you may like or dislike what I am going to say, but the fact of the +matter is, my master, Don Quixote, is just as much enchanted as my +mother. He is in his full senses, he eats and he drinks, and he has +his calls like other men and as he had yesterday, before they caged +him. And if that's the case, what do they mean by wanting me to +believe that he is enchanted? For I have heard many a one say that +enchanted people neither eat, nor sleep, nor talk; and my master, if +you don't stop him, will talk more than thirty lawyers." Then +turning to the curate he exclaimed, "Ah, senor curate, senor curate! +do you think I don't know you? Do you think I don't guess and see +the drift of these new enchantments? Well then, I can tell you I +know you, for all your face is covered, and I can tell you I am up +to you, however you may hide your tricks. After all, where envy reigns +virtue cannot live, and where there is niggardliness there can be no +liberality. Ill betide the devil! if it had not been for your +worship my master would be married to the Princess Micomicona this +minute, and I should be a count at least; for no less was to be +expected, as well from the goodness of my master, him of the Rueful +Countenance, as from the greatness of my services. But I see now how +true it is what they say in these parts, that the wheel of fortune +turns faster than a mill-wheel, and that those who were up yesterday +are down to-day. I am sorry for my wife and children, for when they +might fairly and reasonably expect to see their father return to +them a governor or viceroy of some island or kingdom, they will see +him come back a horse-boy. I have said all this, senor curate, only to +urge your paternity to lay to your conscience your ill-treatment of my +master; and have a care that God does not call you to account in +another life for making a prisoner of him in this way, and charge +against you all the succours and good deeds that my lord Don Quixote +leaves undone while he is shut up.</p> + +<p>"Trim those lamps there!" exclaimed the barber at this; "so you +are of the same fraternity as your master, too, Sancho? By God, I +begin to see that you will have to keep him company in the cage, and +be enchanted like him for having caught some of his humour and +chivalry. It was an evil hour when you let yourself be got with +child by his promises, and that island you long so much for found +its way into your head."</p> + +<p>"I am not with child by anyone," returned Sancho, "nor am I a man to +let myself be got with child, if it was by the King himself. Though +I am poor I am an old Christian, and I owe nothing to nobody, and if I +long for an island, other people long for worse. Each of us is the son +of his own works; and being a man I may come to be pope, not to say +governor of an island, especially as my master may win so many that he +will not know whom to give them to. Mind how you talk, master +barber; for shaving is not everything, and there is some difference +between Peter and Peter. I say this because we all know one another, +and it will not do to throw false dice with me; and as to the +enchantment of my master, God knows the truth; leave it as it is; it +only makes it worse to stir it."</p> + +<p>The barber did not care to answer Sancho lest by his plain +speaking he should disclose what the curate and he himself were trying +so hard to conceal; and under the same apprehension the curate had +asked the canon to ride on a little in advance, so that he might +tell him the mystery of this man in the cage, and other things that +would amuse him. The canon agreed, and going on ahead with his +servants, listened with attention to the account of the character, +life, madness, and ways of Don Quixote, given him by the curate, who +described to him briefly the beginning and origin of his craze, and +told him the whole story of his adventures up to his being confined in +the cage, together with the plan they had of taking him home to try if +by any means they could discover a cure for his madness. The canon and +his servants were surprised anew when they heard Don Quixote's strange +story, and when it was finished he said, "To tell the truth, senor +curate, I for my part consider what they call books of chivalry to +be mischievous to the State; and though, led by idle and false +taste, I have read the beginnings of almost all that have been +printed, I never could manage to read any one of them from beginning +to end; for it seems to me they are all more or less the same thing; +and one has nothing more in it than another; this no more than that. +And in my opinion this sort of writing and composition is of the +same species as the fables they call the Milesian, nonsensical tales +that aim solely at giving amusement and not instruction, exactly the +opposite of the apologue fables which amuse and instruct at the same +time. And though it may be the chief object of such books to amuse, +I do not know how they can succeed, when they are so full of such +monstrous nonsense. For the enjoyment the mind feels must come from +the beauty and harmony which it perceives or contemplates in the +things that the eye or the imagination brings before it; and nothing +that has any ugliness or disproportion about it can give any pleasure. +What beauty, then, or what proportion of the parts to the whole, or of +the whole to the parts, can there be in a book or fable where a lad of +sixteen cuts down a giant as tall as a tower and makes two halves of +him as if he was an almond cake? And when they want to give us a +picture of a battle, after having told us that there are a million +of combatants on the side of the enemy, let the hero of the book be +opposed to them, and we have perforce to believe, whether we like it +or not, that the said knight wins the victory by the single might of +his strong arm. And then, what shall we say of the facility with which +a born queen or empress will give herself over into the arms of some +unknown wandering knight? What mind, that is not wholly barbarous +and uncultured, can find pleasure in reading of how a great tower full +of knights sails away across the sea like a ship with a fair wind, and +will be to-night in Lombardy and to-morrow morning in the land of +Prester John of the Indies, or some other that Ptolemy never described +nor Marco Polo saw? And if, in answer to this, I am told that the +authors of books of the kind write them as fiction, and therefore +are not bound to regard niceties of truth, I would reply that +fiction is all the better the more it looks like truth, and gives +the more pleasure the more probability and possibility there is +about it. Plots in fiction should be wedded to the understanding of +the reader, and be constructed in such a way that, reconciling +impossibilities, smoothing over difficulties, keeping the mind on +the alert, they may surprise, interest, divert, and entertain, so that +wonder and delight joined may keep pace one with the other; all +which he will fail to effect who shuns verisimilitude and truth to +nature, wherein lies the perfection of writing. I have never yet +seen any book of chivalry that puts together a connected plot complete +in all its numbers, so that the middle agrees with the beginning, +and the end with the beginning and middle; on the contrary, they +construct them with such a multitude of members that it seems as +though they meant to produce a chimera or monster rather than a +well-proportioned figure. And besides all this they are harsh in their +style, incredible in their achievements, licentious in their amours, +uncouth in their courtly speeches, prolix in their battles, silly in +their arguments, absurd in their travels, and, in short, wanting in +everything like intelligent art; for which reason they deserve to be +banished from the Christian commonwealth as a worthless breed."</p> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="c47c"></a><img alt="c47c.jpg (300K)" src="images/c47c.jpg" height="524" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/c47c.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<p>The curate listened to him attentively and felt that he was a man of +sound understanding, and that there was good reason in what he said; +so he told him that, being of the same opinion himself, and bearing +a grudge to books of chivalry, he had burned all Don Quixote's, +which were many; and gave him an account of the scrutiny he had made +of them, and of those he had condemned to the flames and those he +had spared, with which the canon was not a little amused, adding +that though he had said so much in condemnation of these books, +still he found one good thing in them, and that was the opportunity +they afforded to a gifted intellect for displaying itself; for they +presented a wide and spacious field over which the pen might range +freely, describing shipwrecks, tempests, combats, battles, +portraying a valiant captain with all the qualifications requisite +to make one, showing him sagacious in foreseeing the wiles of the +enemy, eloquent in speech to encourage or restrain his soldiers, +ripe in counsel, rapid in resolve, as bold in biding his time as in +pressing the attack; now picturing some sad tragic incident, now +some joyful and unexpected event; here a beauteous lady, virtuous, +wise, and modest; there a Christian knight, brave and gentle; here a +lawless, barbarous braggart; there a courteous prince, gallant and +gracious; setting forth the devotion and loyalty of vassals, the +greatness and generosity of nobles. "Or again," said he, "the author +may show himself to be an astronomer, or a skilled cosmographer, or +musician, or one versed in affairs of state, and sometimes he will +have a chance of coming forward as a magician if he likes. He can +set forth the craftiness of Ulysses, the piety of AEneas, the valour +of Achilles, the misfortunes of Hector, the treachery of Sinon, the +friendship of Euryalus, the generosity of Alexander, the boldness of +Caesar, the clemency and truth of Trajan, the fidelity of Zopyrus, the +wisdom of Cato, and in short all the faculties that serve to make an +illustrious man perfect, now uniting them in one individual, again +distributing them among many; and if this be done with charm of +style and ingenious invention, aiming at the truth as much as +possible, he will assuredly weave a web of bright and varied threads +that, when finished, will display such perfection and beauty that it +will attain the worthiest object any writing can seek, which, as I +said before, is to give instruction and pleasure combined; for the +unrestricted range of these books enables the author to show his +powers, epic, lyric, tragic, or comic, and all the moods the sweet and +winning arts of poesy and oratory are capable of; for the epic may +be written in prose just as well as in verse."</p> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="c47e"></a><img alt="c47e.jpg (67K)" src="images/c47e.jpg" height="409" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/c47e.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + + + +<br><br> +<center><h2><a name="ch48"></a>CHAPTER XLVIII.</h2></center> +<br> +<center><h3>IN WHICH THE CANON PURSUES THE SUBJECT OF THE BOOKS OF CHIVALRY, +WITH OTHER MATTERS WORTHY OF HIS WIT +</h3></center> +<br> +<br> + +<center><a name="c48a"></a><img alt="c48a.jpg (80K)" src="images/c48a.jpg" height="232" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/c48a.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<p>"It is as you say, senor canon," said the curate; "and for that +reason those who have hitherto written books of the sort deserve all +the more censure for writing without paying any attention to good +taste or the rules of art, by which they might guide themselves and +become as famous in prose as the two princes of Greek and Latin poetry +are in verse."</p> + +<p>"I myself, at any rate," said the canon, "was once tempted to +write a book of chivalry in which all the points I have mentioned were +to be observed; and if I must own the truth I have more than a hundred +sheets written; and to try if it came up to my own opinion of it, I +showed them to persons who were fond of this kind of reading, to +learned and intelligent men as well as to ignorant people who cared +for nothing but the pleasure of listening to nonsense, and from all +I obtained flattering approval; nevertheless I proceeded no farther +with it, as well because it seemed to me an occupation inconsistent +with my profession, as because I perceived that the fools are more +numerous than the wise; and, though it is better to be praised by +the wise few than applauded by the foolish many, I have no mind to +submit myself to the stupid judgment of the silly public, to whom +the reading of such books falls for the most part.</p> + +<p>"But what most of all made me hold my hand and even abandon all idea +of finishing it was an argument I put to myself taken from the plays +that are acted now-a-days, which was in this wise: if those that are +now in vogue, as well those that are pure invention as those founded +on history, are, all or most of them, downright nonsense and things +that have neither head nor tail, and yet the public listens to them +with delight, and regards and cries them up as perfection when they +are so far from it; and if the authors who write them, and the players +who act them, say that this is what they must be, for the public wants +this and will have nothing else; and that those that go by rule and +work out a plot according to the laws of art will only find some +half-dozen intelligent people to understand them, while all the rest +remain blind to the merit of their composition; and that for +themselves it is better to get bread from the many than praise from +the few; then my book will fare the same way, after I have burnt off +my eyebrows in trying to observe the principles I have spoken of, +and I shall be 'the tailor of the corner.' And though I have sometimes +endeavoured to convince actors that they are mistaken in this notion +they have adopted, and that they would attract more people, and get +more credit, by producing plays in accordance with the rules of art, +than by absurd ones, they are so thoroughly wedded to their own +opinion that no argument or evidence can wean them from it.</p> + +<p>"I remember saying one day to one of these obstinate fellows, +'Tell me, do you not recollect that a few years ago, there were +three tragedies acted in Spain, written by a famous poet of these +kingdoms, which were such that they filled all who heard them with +admiration, delight, and interest, the ignorant as well as the wise, +the masses as well as the higher orders, and brought in more money +to the performers, these three alone, than thirty of the best that +have been since produced?'</p> + +<p>"'No doubt,' replied the actor in question, 'you mean the +"Isabella," the "Phyllis," and the "Alexandra."'</p> + +<p>"'Those are the ones I mean,' said I; 'and see if they did not +observe the principles of art, and if, by observing them, they +failed to show their superiority and please all the world; so that the +fault does not lie with the public that insists upon nonsense, but +with those who don't know how to produce something else. "The +Ingratitude Revenged" was not nonsense, nor was there any in "The +Numantia," nor any to be found in "The Merchant Lover," nor yet in +"The Friendly Fair Foe," nor in some others that have been written +by certain gifted poets, to their own fame and renown, and to the +profit of those that brought them out;' some further remarks I added +to these, with which, I think, I left him rather dumbfoundered, but +not so satisfied or convinced that I could disabuse him of his error."</p> + +<p>"You have touched upon a subject, senor canon," observed the +curate here, "that has awakened an old enmity I have against the plays +in vogue at the present day, quite as strong as that which I bear to +the books of chivalry; for while the drama, according to Tully, should +be the mirror of human life, the model of manners, and the image of +the truth, those which are presented now-a-days are mirrors of +nonsense, models of folly, and images of lewdness. For what greater +nonsense can there be in connection with what we are now discussing +than for an infant to appear in swaddling clothes in the first scene +of the first act, and in the second a grown-up bearded man? Or what +greater absurdity can there be than putting before us an old man as +a swashbuckler, a young man as a poltroon, a lackey using fine +language, a page giving sage advice, a king plying as a porter, a +princess who is a kitchen-maid? And then what shall I say of their +attention to the time in which the action they represent may or can +take place, save that I have seen a play where the first act began +in Europe, the second in Asia, the third finished in Africa, and no +doubt, had it been in four acts, the fourth would have ended in +America, and so it would have been laid in all four quarters of the +globe? And if truth to life is the main thing the drama should keep in +view, how is it possible for any average understanding to be satisfied +when the action is supposed to pass in the time of King Pepin or +Charlemagne, and the principal personage in it they represent to be +the Emperor Heraclius who entered Jerusalem with the cross and won the +Holy Sepulchre, like Godfrey of Bouillon, there being years +innumerable between the one and the other? or, if the play is based on +fiction and historical facts are introduced, or bits of what +occurred to different people and at different times mixed up with +it, all, not only without any semblance of probability, but with +obvious errors that from every point of view are inexcusable? And +the worst of it is, there are ignorant people who say that this is +perfection, and that anything beyond this is affected refinement. +And then if we turn to sacred dramas--what miracles they invent in +them! What apocryphal, ill-devised incidents, attributing to one saint +the miracles of another! And even in secular plays they venture to +introduce miracles without any reason or object except that they think +some such miracle, or transformation as they call it, will come in +well to astonish stupid people and draw them to the play. All this +tends to the prejudice of the truth and the corruption of history, nay +more, to the reproach of the wits of Spain; for foreigners who +scrupulously observe the laws of the drama look upon us as barbarous +and ignorant, when they see the absurdity and nonsense of the plays we +produce. Nor will it be a sufficient excuse to say that the chief +object well-ordered governments have in view when they permit plays to +be performed in public is to entertain the people with some harmless +amusement occasionally, and keep it from those evil humours which +idleness is apt to engender; and that, as this may be attained by +any sort of play, good or bad, there is no need to lay down laws, or +bind those who write or act them to make them as they ought to be +made, since, as I say, the object sought for may be secured by any +sort. To this I would reply that the same end would be, beyond all +comparison, better attained by means of good plays than by those +that are not so; for after listening to an artistic and properly +constructed play, the hearer will come away enlivened by the jests, +instructed by the serious parts, full of admiration at the +incidents, his wits sharpened by the arguments, warned by the +tricks, all the wiser for the examples, inflamed against vice, and +in love with virtue; for in all these ways a good play will +stimulate the mind of the hearer be he ever so boorish or dull; and of +all impossibilities the greatest is that a play endowed with all these +qualities will not entertain, satisfy, and please much more than one +wanting in them, like the greater number of those which are commonly +acted now-a-days. Nor are the poets who write them to be blamed for +this; for some there are among them who are perfectly well aware of +their faults, and know what they ought to do; but as plays have become +a salable commodity, they say, and with truth, that the actors will +not buy them unless they are after this fashion; and so the poet tries +to adapt himself to the requirements of the actor who is to pay him +for his work. And that this is the truth may be seen by the +countless plays that a most fertile wit of these kingdoms has written, +with so much brilliancy, so much grace and gaiety, such polished +versification, such choice language, such profound reflections, and in +a word, so rich in eloquence and elevation of style, that he has +filled the world with his fame; and yet, in consequence of his +desire to suit the taste of the actors, they have not all, as some +of them have, come as near perfection as they ought. Others write +plays with such heedlessness that, after they have been acted, the +actors have to fly and abscond, afraid of being punished, as they +often have been, for having acted something offensive to some king +or other, or insulting to some noble family. All which evils, and many +more that I say nothing of, would be removed if there were some +intelligent and sensible person at the capital to examine all plays +before they were acted, not only those produced in the capital itself, +but all that were intended to be acted in Spain; without whose +approval, seal, and signature, no local magistracy should allow any +play to be acted. In that case actors would take care to send their +plays to the capital, and could act them in safety, and those who +write them would be more careful and take more pains with their +work, standing in awe of having to submit it to the strict examination +of one who understood the matter; and so good plays would be +produced and the objects they aim at happily attained; as well the +amusement of the people, as the credit of the wits of Spain, the +interest and safety of the actors, and the saving of trouble in +inflicting punishment on them. And if the same or some other person +were authorised to examine the newly written books of chivalry, no +doubt some would appear with all the perfections you have described, +enriching our language with the gracious and precious treasure of +eloquence, and driving the old books into obscurity before the light +of the new ones that would come out for the harmless entertainment, +not merely of the idle but of the very busiest; for the bow cannot +be always bent, nor can weak human nature exist without some lawful +amusement."</p> + +<p>The canon and the curate had proceeded thus far with their +conversation, when the barber, coming forward, joined them, and said +to the curate, "This is the spot, senor licentiate, that I said was +a good one for fresh and plentiful pasture for the oxen, while we take +our noontide rest."</p> + +<p>"And so it seems," returned the curate, and he told the canon what +he proposed to do, on which he too made up his mind to halt with them, +attracted by the aspect of the fair valley that lay before their eyes; +and to enjoy it as well as the conversation of the curate, to whom +he had begun to take a fancy, and also to learn more particulars about +the doings of Don Quixote, he desired some of his servants to go on to +the inn, which was not far distant, and fetch from it what eatables +there might be for the whole party, as he meant to rest for the +afternoon where he was; to which one of his servants replied that +the sumpter mule, which by this time ought to have reached the inn, +carried provisions enough to make it unnecessary to get anything +from the inn except barley.</p> + +<p>"In that case," said the canon, "take all the beasts there, and +bring the sumpter mule back."</p> + +<p>While this was going on, Sancho, perceiving that he could speak to +his master without having the curate and the barber, of whom he had +his suspicions, present all the time, approached the cage in which Don +Quixote was placed, and said, "Senor, to ease my conscience I want +to tell you the state of the case as to your enchantment, and that +is that these two here, with their faces covered, are the curate of +our village and the barber; and I suspect they have hit upon this plan +of carrying you off in this fashion, out of pure envy because your +worship surpasses them in doing famous deeds; and if this be the truth +it follows that you are not enchanted, but hoodwinked and made a +fool of. And to prove this I want to ask you one thing; and if you +answer me as I believe you will answer, you will be able to lay your +finger on the trick, and you will see that you are not enchanted but +gone wrong in your wits."</p> + +<p>"Ask what thou wilt, Sancho my son," returned Don Quixote, "for I +will satisfy thee and answer all thou requirest. As to what thou +sayest, that these who accompany us yonder are the curate and the +barber, our neighbours and acquaintances, it is very possible that +they may seem to be those same persons; but that they are so in +reality and in fact, believe it not on any account; what thou art to +believe and think is that, if they look like them, as thou sayest, +it must be that those who have enchanted me have taken this shape +and likeness; for it is easy for enchanters to take any form they +please, and they may have taken those of our friends in order to +make thee think as thou dost, and lead thee into a labyrinth of +fancies from which thou wilt find no escape though thou hadst the cord +of Theseus; and they may also have done it to make me uncertain in +my mind, and unable to conjecture whence this evil comes to me; for if +on the one hand thou dost tell me that the barber and curate of our +village are here in company with us, and on the other I find myself +shut up in a cage, and know in my heart that no power on earth that +was not supernatural would have been able to shut me in, what +wouldst thou have me say or think, but that my enchantment is of a +sort that transcends all I have ever read of in all the histories that +deal with knights-errant that have been enchanted? So thou mayest +set thy mind at rest as to the idea that they are what thou sayest, +for they are as much so as I am a Turk. But touching thy desire to ask +me something, say on, and I will answer thee, though thou shouldst ask +questions from this till to-morrow morning."</p> + +<p>"May Our Lady be good to me!" said Sancho, lifting up his voice; +"and is it possible that your worship is so thick of skull and so +short of brains that you cannot see that what I say is the simple +truth, and that malice has more to do with your imprisonment and +misfortune than enchantment? But as it is so, I will prove plainly +to you that you are not enchanted. Now tell me, so may God deliver you +from this affliction, and so may you find yourself when you least +expect it in the arms of my lady Dulcinea-"</p> + +<p>"Leave off conjuring me," said Don Quixote, "and ask what thou +wouldst know; I have already told thee I will answer with all possible +precision."</p> + +<p>"That is what I want," said Sancho; "and what I would know, and have +you tell me, without adding or leaving out anything, but telling the +whole truth as one expects it to be told, and as it is told, by all +who profess arms, as your worship professes them, under the title of +knights-errant-"</p> + +<p>"I tell thee I will not lie in any particular," said Don Quixote; +"finish thy question; for in truth thou weariest me with all these +asseverations, requirements, and precautions, Sancho."</p> + +<p>"Well, I rely on the goodness and truth of my master," said +Sancho; "and so, because it bears upon what we are talking about, I +would ask, speaking with all reverence, whether since your worship has +been shut up and, as you think, enchanted in this cage, you have +felt any desire or inclination to go anywhere, as the saying is?"</p> + +<p>"I do not understand 'going anywhere,'" said Don Quixote; "explain +thyself more clearly, Sancho, if thou wouldst have me give an answer +to the point."</p> + +<p>"Is it possible," said Sancho, "that your worship does not +understand 'going anywhere'? Why, the schoolboys know that from the +time they were babes. Well then, you must know I mean have you had any +desire to do what cannot be avoided?"</p> + +<p>"Ah! now I understand thee, Sancho," said Don Quixote; "yes, +often, and even this minute; get me out of this strait, or all will +not go right."</p> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="c48e"></a><img alt="c48e.jpg (32K)" src="images/c48e.jpg" height="653" width="461"> +</center> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<br><br> +<center><h2><a name="ch49"></a>CHAPTER XLIX.</h2></center> +<br> +<center><h3>WHICH TREATS OF THE SHREWD CONVERSATION WHICH SANCHO PANZA HELD WITH +HIS MASTER DON QUIXOTE +</h3></center> +<br> +<br> + +<center><a name="c49a"></a><img alt="c49a.jpg (181K)" src="images/c49a.jpg" height="434" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/c49a.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<p>"Aha, I have caught you," said Sancho; "this is what in my heart and +soul I was longing to know. Come now, senor, can you deny what is +commonly said around us, when a person is out of humour, 'I don't know +what ails so-and-so, that he neither eats, nor drinks, nor sleeps, nor +gives a proper answer to any question; one would think he was +enchanted'? From which it is to be gathered that those who do not eat, +or drink, or sleep, or do any of the natural acts I am speaking +of--that such persons are enchanted; but not those that have the desire +your worship has, and drink when drink is given them, and eat when +there is anything to eat, and answer every question that is asked +them."</p> + +<p>"What thou sayest is true, Sancho," replied Don Quixote; "but I have +already told thee there are many sorts of enchantments, and it may +be that in the course of time they have been changed one for +another, and that now it may be the way with enchanted people to do +all that I do, though they did not do so before; so it is vain to +argue or draw inferences against the usage of the time. I know and +feel that I am enchanted, and that is enough to ease my conscience; +for it would weigh heavily on it if I thought that I was not +enchanted, and that in a faint-hearted and cowardly way I allowed +myself to lie in this cage, defrauding multitudes of the succour I +might afford to those in need and distress, who at this very moment +may be in sore want of my aid and protection."</p> + +<p>"Still for all that," replied Sancho, "I say that, for your +greater and fuller satisfaction, it would be well if your worship were +to try to get out of this prison (and I promise to do all in my +power to help, and even to take you out of it), and see if you could +once more mount your good Rocinante, who seems to be enchanted too, he +is so melancholy and dejected; and then we might try our chance in +looking for adventures again; and if we have no luck there will be +time enough to go back to the cage; in which, on the faith of a good +and loyal squire, I promise to shut myself up along with your worship, +if so be you are so unfortunate, or I so stupid, as not to be able +to carry out my plan."</p> + +<p>"I am content to do as thou sayest, brother Sancho," said Don +Quixote, "and when thou seest an opportunity for effecting my +release I will obey thee absolutely; but thou wilt see, Sancho, how +mistaken thou art in thy conception of my misfortune."</p> + +<p>The knight-errant and the ill-errant squire kept up their +conversation till they reached the place where the curate, the +canon, and the barber, who had already dismounted, were waiting for +them. The carter at once unyoked the oxen and left them to roam at +large about the pleasant green spot, the freshness of which seemed +to invite, not enchanted people like Don Quixote, but wide-awake, +sensible folk like his squire, who begged the curate to allow his +master to leave the cage for a little; for if they did not let him +out, the prison might not be as clean as the propriety of such a +gentleman as his master required. The curate understood him, and +said he would very gladly comply with his request, only that he feared +his master, finding himself at liberty, would take to his old +courses and make off where nobody could ever find him again.</p> + +<p>"I will answer for his not running away," said Sancho.</p> + +<p>"And I also," said the canon, "especially if he gives me his word as +a knight not to leave us without our consent."</p> + +<p>Don Quixote, who was listening to all this, said, "I give +it;--moreover one who is enchanted as I am cannot do as he likes with +himself; for he who had enchanted him could prevent his moving from +one place for three ages, and if he attempted to escape would bring +him back flying."--And that being so, they might as well release +him, particularly as it would be to the advantage of all; for, if they +did not let him out, he protested he would be unable to avoid +offending their nostrils unless they kept their distance.</p> + +<p>The canon took his hand, tied together as they both were, and on his +word and promise they unbound him, and rejoiced beyond measure he +was to find himself out of the cage. The first thing he did was to +stretch himself all over, and then he went to where Rocinante was +standing and giving him a couple of slaps on the haunches said, "I +still trust in God and in his blessed mother, O flower and mirror of +steeds, that we shall soon see ourselves, both of us, as we wish to +be, thou with thy master on thy back, and I mounted upon thee, +following the calling for which God sent me into the world." And so +saying, accompanied by Sancho, he withdrew to a retired spot, from +which he came back much relieved and more eager than ever to put his +squire's scheme into execution.</p> + +<p>The canon gazed at him, wondering at the extraordinary nature of his +madness, and that in all his remarks and replies he should show such +excellent sense, and only lose his stirrups, as has been already said, +when the subject of chivalry was broached. And so, moved by +compassion, he said to him, as they all sat on the green grass +awaiting the arrival of the provisions:</p> + +<p>"Is it possible, gentle sir, that the nauseous and idle reading of +books of chivalry can have had such an effect on your worship as to +upset your reason so that you fancy yourself enchanted, and the +like, all as far from the truth as falsehood itself is? How can +there be any human understanding that can persuade itself there ever +was all that infinity of Amadises in the world, or all that +multitude of famous knights, all those emperors of Trebizond, all +those Felixmartes of Hircania, all those palfreys, and damsels-errant, +and serpents, and monsters, and giants, and marvellous adventures, and +enchantments of every kind, and battles, and prodigious encounters, +splendid costumes, love-sick princesses, squires made counts, droll +dwarfs, love letters, billings and cooings, swashbuckler women, and, +in a word, all that nonsense the books of chivalry contain? For +myself, I can only say that when I read them, so long as I do not stop +to think that they are all lies and frivolity, they give me a +certain amount of pleasure; but when I come to consider what they are, +I fling the very best of them at the wall, and would fling it into the +fire if there were one at hand, as richly deserving such punishment as +cheats and impostors out of the range of ordinary toleration, and as +founders of new sects and modes of life, and teachers that lead the +ignorant public to believe and accept as truth all the folly they +contain. And such is their audacity, they even dare to unsettle the +wits of gentlemen of birth and intelligence, as is shown plainly by +the way they have served your worship, when they have brought you to +such a pass that you have to be shut up in a cage and carried on an +ox-cart as one would carry a lion or a tiger from place to place to +make money by showing it. Come, Senor Don Quixote, have some +compassion for yourself, return to the bosom of common sense, and make +use of the liberal share of it that heaven has been pleased to +bestow upon you, employing your abundant gifts of mind in some other +reading that may serve to benefit your conscience and add to your +honour. And if, still led away by your natural bent, you desire to +read books of achievements and of chivalry, read the Book of Judges in +the Holy Scriptures, for there you will find grand reality, and +deeds as true as they are heroic. Lusitania had a Viriatus, Rome a +Caesar, Carthage a Hannibal, Greece an Alexander, Castile a Count +Fernan Gonzalez, Valencia a Cid, Andalusia a Gonzalo Fernandez, +Estremadura a Diego Garcia de Paredes, Jerez a Garci Perez de +Vargas, Toledo a Garcilaso, Seville a Don Manuel de Leon, to read of +whose valiant deeds will entertain and instruct the loftiest minds and +fill them with delight and wonder. Here, Senor Don Quixote, will be +reading worthy of your sound understanding; from which you will rise +learned in history, in love with virtue, strengthened in goodness, +improved in manners, brave without rashness, prudent without +cowardice; and all to the honour of God, your own advantage and the +glory of La Mancha, whence, I am informed, your worship derives your +birth."</p> + +<p>Don Quixote listened with the greatest attention to the canon's +words, and when he found he had finished, after regarding him for some +time, he replied to him:</p> + +<p>"It appears to me, gentle sir, that your worship's discourse is +intended to persuade me that there never were any knights-errant in +the world, and that all the books of chivalry are false, lying, +mischievous and useless to the State, and that I have done wrong in +reading them, and worse in believing them, and still worse in +imitating them, when I undertook to follow the arduous calling of +knight-errantry which they set forth; for you deny that there ever +were Amadises of Gaul or of Greece, or any other of the knights of +whom the books are full."</p> + +<p>"It is all exactly as you state it," said the canon; to which Don +Quixote returned, "You also went on to say that books of this kind had +done me much harm, inasmuch as they had upset my senses, and shut me +up in a cage, and that it would be better for me to reform and +change my studies, and read other truer books which would afford +more pleasure and instruction."</p> + +<p>"Just so," said the canon.</p> + +<p>"Well then," returned Don Quixote, "to my mind it is you who are the +one that is out of his wits and enchanted, as you have ventured to +utter such blasphemies against a thing so universally acknowledged and +accepted as true that whoever denies it, as you do, deserves the +same punishment which you say you inflict on the books that irritate +you when you read them. For to try to persuade anybody that Amadis, +and all the other knights-adventurers with whom the books are +filled, never existed, would be like trying to persuade him that the +sun does not yield light, or ice cold, or earth nourishment. What +wit in the world can persuade another that the story of the Princess +Floripes and Guy of Burgundy is not true, or that of Fierabras and the +bridge of Mantible, which happened in the time of Charlemagne? For +by all that is good it is as true as that it is daylight now; and if +it be a lie, it must be a lie too that there was a Hector, or +Achilles, or Trojan war, or Twelve Peers of France, or Arthur of +England, who still lives changed into a raven, and is unceasingly +looked for in his kingdom. One might just as well try to make out that +the history of Guarino Mezquino, or of the quest of the Holy Grail, is +false, or that the loves of Tristram and the Queen Yseult are +apocryphal, as well as those of Guinevere and Lancelot, when there are +persons who can almost remember having seen the Dame Quintanona, who +was the best cupbearer in Great Britain. And so true is this, that I +recollect a grandmother of mine on the father's side, whenever she saw +any dame in a venerable hood, used to say to me, 'Grandson, that one +is like Dame Quintanona,' from which I conclude that she must have +known her, or at least had managed to see some portrait of her. Then +who can deny that the story of Pierres and the fair Magalona is +true, when even to this day may be seen in the king's armoury the +pin with which the valiant Pierres guided the wooden horse he rode +through the air, and it is a trifle bigger than the pole of a cart? +And alongside of the pin is Babieca's saddle, and at Roncesvalles +there is Roland's horn, as large as a large beam; whence we may +infer that there were Twelve Peers, and a Pierres, and a Cid, and +other knights like them, of the sort people commonly call adventurers. +Or perhaps I shall be told, too, that there was no such +knight-errant as the valiant Lusitanian Juan de Merlo, who went to +Burgundy and in the city of Arras fought with the famous lord of +Charny, Mosen Pierres by name, and afterwards in the city of Basle +with Mosen Enrique de Remesten, coming out of both encounters +covered with fame and honour; or adventures and challenges achieved +and delivered, also in Burgundy, by the valiant Spaniards Pedro +Barba and Gutierre Quixada (of whose family I come in the direct +male line), when they vanquished the sons of the Count of San Polo. +I shall be told, too, that Don Fernando de Guevara did not go in quest +of adventures to Germany, where he engaged in combat with Micer +George, a knight of the house of the Duke of Austria. I shall be +told that the jousts of Suero de Quinones, him of the 'Paso,' and +the emprise of Mosen Luis de Falces against the Castilian knight, +Don Gonzalo de Guzman, were mere mockeries; as well as many other +achievements of Christian knights of these and foreign realms, which +are so authentic and true, that, I repeat, he who denies them must +be totally wanting in reason and good sense."</p> + +<p>The canon was amazed to hear the medley of truth and fiction Don +Quixote uttered, and to see how well acquainted he was with everything +relating or belonging to the achievements of his knight-errantry; so +he said in reply:</p> + +<p>"I cannot deny, Senor Don Quixote, that there is some truth in +what you say, especially as regards the Spanish knights-errant; and +I am willing to grant too that the Twelve Peers of France existed, but +I am not disposed to believe that they did all the things that the +Archbishop Turpin relates of them. For the truth of the matter is they +were knights chosen by the kings of France, and called 'Peers' because +they were all equal in worth, rank and prowess (at least if they +were not they ought to have been), and it was a kind of religious +order like those of Santiago and Calatrava in the present day, in +which it is assumed that those who take it are valiant knights of +distinction and good birth; and just as we say now a Knight of St. +John, or of Alcantara, they used to say then a Knight of the Twelve +Peers, because twelve equals were chosen for that military order. That +there was a Cid, as well as a Bernardo del Carpio, there can be no +doubt; but that they did the deeds people say they did, I hold to be +very doubtful. In that other matter of the pin of Count Pierres that +you speak of, and say is near Babieca's saddle in the Armoury, I +confess my sin; for I am either so stupid or so short-sighted, that, +though I have seen the saddle, I have never been able to see the +pin, in spite of it being as big as your worship says it is."</p> + +<p>"For all that it is there, without any manner of doubt," said Don +Quixote; "and more by token they say it is inclosed in a sheath of +cowhide to keep it from rusting."</p> + +<p>"All that may be," replied the canon; "but, by the orders I have +received, I do not remember seeing it. However, granting it is +there, that is no reason why I am bound to believe the stories of +all those Amadises and of all that multitude of knights they tell us +about, nor is it reasonable that a man like your worship, so worthy, +and with so many good qualities, and endowed with such a good +understanding, should allow himself to be persuaded that such wild +crazy things as are written in those absurd books of chivalry are +really true."</p> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="c49e"></a><img alt="c49e.jpg (22K)" src="images/c49e.jpg" height="513" width="389"> +</center> + + +<br> +<br> + + + +<center> +<table summary="" cellPadding=4 border=3> +<tr><td> + <a href="p15.htm">Previous Part</a> +</td><td> + <a href="5921-h.htm">Main Index</a> +</td><td> + <a href="p17.htm">Next Part</a> + </td></tr> +</table> +</center> +<br><br> + +</body> +</html> + diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/p17.htm b/old/orig5921-h/p17.htm new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5a9651d --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/p17.htm @@ -0,0 +1,415 @@ +<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> +<html> +<head> +<title>THE HISTORY OF DON QUIXOTE, By Cervantes, Vol. I., Part 17.</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> + +<center> +<table summary="" cellPadding=4 border=3> +<tr><td> + <a href="p16.htm">Previous Part</a> +</td><td> + <a href="5921-h.htm">Main Index</a> +</td><td> + <a href="p18.htm">Next Part</a> + </td></tr> +</table> +</center> +<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 17. +<br><br> +Chapter 50 +</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 "Full Size" 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="#ch50">CHAPTER L</a> +OF THE SHREWD CONTROVERSY WHICH DON QUIXOTE +AND THE CANON HELD, TOGETHER WITH OTHER INCIDENTS + +</pre> + +<br><br><br><br> + + +<br><br> +<center><h2><a name="ch50"></a>CHAPTER L.</h2></center> +<br> +<center><h3>OF THE SHREWD CONTROVERSY WHICH DON QUIXOTE AND THE CANON HELD, +TOGETHER WITH OTHER INCIDENTS +</h3></center> +<br> +<br> + +<center><a name="c50a"></a><img alt="c50a.jpg (160K)" src="images/c50a.jpg" height="427" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/c50a.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<p>"A good joke, that!" returned Don Quixote. "Books that have been +printed with the king's licence, and with the approbation of those +to whom they have been submitted, and read with universal delight, and +extolled by great and small, rich and poor, learned and ignorant, +gentle and simple, in a word by people of every sort, of whatever rank +or condition they may be—that these should be lies! And above all +when they carry such an appearance of truth with them; for they tell +us the father, mother, country, kindred, age, place, and the +achievements, step by step, and day by day, performed by such a knight +or knights! Hush, sir; utter not such blasphemy; trust me I am +advising you now to act as a sensible man should; only read them, +and you will see the pleasure you will derive from them. For, come, +tell me, can there be anything more delightful than to see, as it +were, here now displayed before us a vast lake of bubbling pitch +with a host of snakes and serpents and lizards, and ferocious and +terrible creatures of all sorts swimming about in it, while from the +middle of the lake there comes a plaintive voice saying: 'Knight, +whosoever thou art who beholdest this dread lake, if thou wouldst +win the prize that lies hidden beneath these dusky waves, prove the +valour of thy stout heart and cast thyself into the midst of its +dark burning waters, else thou shalt not be worthy to see the mighty +wonders contained in the seven castles of the seven Fays that lie +beneath this black expanse;' and then the knight, almost ere the awful +voice has ceased, without stopping to consider, without pausing to +reflect upon the danger to which he is exposing himself, without +even relieving himself of the weight of his massive armour, commending +himself to God and to his lady, plunges into the midst of the +boiling lake, and when he little looks for it, or knows what his +fate is to be, he finds himself among flowery meadows, with which +the Elysian fields are not to be compared.</p> + + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="c50b"></a><img alt="c50b.jpg (344K)" src="images/c50b.jpg" height="827" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/c50b.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<p>"The sky seems more +transparent there, and the sun shines with a strange brilliancy, and a +delightful grove of green leafy trees presents itself to the eyes +and charms the sight with its verdure, while the ear is soothed by the +sweet untutored melody of the countless birds of gay plumage that flit +to and fro among the interlacing branches. Here he sees a brook +whose limpid waters, like liquid crystal, ripple over fine sands and +white pebbles that look like sifted gold and purest pearls. There he +perceives a cunningly wrought fountain of many-coloured jasper and +polished marble; here another of rustic fashion where the little +mussel-shells and the spiral white and yellow mansions of the snail +disposed in studious disorder, mingled with fragments of glittering +crystal and mock emeralds, make up a work of varied aspect, where art, +imitating nature, seems to have outdone it.</p> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="c50c"></a><img alt="c50c.jpg (334K)" src="images/c50c.jpg" height="830" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/c50c.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<p>"Suddenly there is +presented to his sight a strong castle or gorgeous palace with walls +of massy gold, turrets of diamond and gates of jacinth; in short, so +marvellous is its structure that though the materials of which it is +built are nothing less than diamonds, carbuncles, rubies, pearls, +gold, and emeralds, the workmanship is still more rare. And after +having seen all this, what can be more charming than to see how a bevy +of damsels comes forth from the gate of the castle in gay and gorgeous +attire, such that, were I to set myself now to depict it as the +histories describe it to us, I should never have done; and then how +she who seems to be the first among them all takes the bold knight who +plunged into the boiling lake by the hand, and without addressing a +word to him leads him into the rich palace or castle, and strips him +as naked as when his mother bore him, and bathes him in lukewarm +water, and anoints him all over with sweet-smelling unguents, and +clothes him in a shirt of the softest sendal, all scented and +perfumed, while another damsel comes and throws over his shoulders a +mantle which is said to be worth at the very least a city, and even +more? How charming it is, then, when they tell us how, after all this, +they lead him to another chamber where he finds the tables set out +in such style that he is filled with amazement and wonder; to see +how they pour out water for his hands distilled from amber and +sweet-scented flowers; how they seat him on an ivory chair; to see how +the damsels wait on him all in profound silence; how they bring him +such a variety of dainties so temptingly prepared that the appetite is +at a loss which to select; to hear the music that resounds while he is +at table, by whom or whence produced he knows not. And then when the +repast is over and the tables removed, for the knight to recline in +the chair, picking his teeth perhaps as usual, and a damsel, much +lovelier than any of the others, to enter unexpectedly by the +chamber door, and herself by his side, and begin to tell him what +the castle is, and how she is held enchanted there, and other things +that amaze the knight and astonish the readers who are perusing his +history.</p> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="c50d"></a><img alt="c50d.jpg (433K)" src="images/c50d.jpg" height="825" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/c50d.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<p>"But I will not expatiate any further upon this, as it may +be gathered from it that whatever part of whatever history of a +knight-errant one reads, it will fill the reader, whoever he be, +with delight and wonder; and take my advice, sir, and, as I said +before, read these books and you will see how they will banish any +melancholy you may feel and raise your spirits should they be +depressed. For myself I can say that since I have been a knight-errant +I have become valiant, polite, generous, well-bred, magnanimous, +courteous, dauntless, gentle, patient, and have learned to bear +hardships, imprisonments, and enchantments; and though it be such a +short time since I have seen myself shut up in a cage like a madman, I +hope by the might of my arm, if heaven aid me and fortune thwart me +not, to see myself king of some kingdom where I may be able to show +the gratitude and generosity that dwell in my heart; for by my +faith, senor, the poor man is incapacitated from showing the virtue of +generosity to anyone, though he may possess it in the highest +degree; and gratitude that consists of disposition only is a dead +thing, just as faith without works is dead. For this reason I should +be glad were fortune soon to offer me some opportunity of making +myself an emperor, so as to show my heart in doing good to my friends, +particularly to this poor Sancho Panza, my squire, who is the best +fellow in the world; and I would gladly give him a county I have +promised him this ever so long, only that I am afraid he has not the +capacity to govern his realm."</p> + +<p>Sancho partly heard these last words of his master, and said to him, +"Strive hard you, Senor Don Quixote, to give me that county so often +promised by you and so long looked for by me, for I promise you +there will be no want of capacity in me to govern it; and even if +there is, I have heard say there are men in the world who farm +seigniories, paying so much a year, and they themselves taking +charge of the government, while the lord, with his legs stretched out, +enjoys the revenue they pay him, without troubling himself about +anything else. That's what I'll do, and not stand haggling over +trifles, but wash my hands at once of the whole business, and enjoy my +rents like a duke, and let things go their own way."</p> + +<p>"That, brother Sancho," said the canon, "only holds good as far as +the enjoyment of the revenue goes; but the lord of the seigniory +must attend to the administration of justice, and here capacity and +sound judgment come in, and above all a firm determination to find out +the truth; for if this be wanting in the beginning, the middle and the +end will always go wrong; and God as commonly aids the honest +intentions of the simple as he frustrates the evil designs of the +crafty."</p> + +<p>"I don't understand those philosophies," returned Sancho Panza; "all +I know is I would I had the county as soon as I shall know how to +govern it; for I have as much soul as another, and as much body as +anyone, and I shall be as much king of my realm as any other of his; +and being so I should do as I liked, and doing as I liked I should +please myself, and pleasing myself I should be content, and when one +is content he has nothing more to desire, and when one has nothing +more to desire there is an end of it; so let the county come, and +God he with you, and let us see one another, as one blind man said +to the other."</p> + +<p>"That is not bad philosophy thou art talking, Sancho," said the +canon; "but for all that there is a good deal to be said on this +matter of counties."</p> + +<p>To which Don Quixote returned, "I know not what more there is to +be said; I only guide myself by the example set me by the great Amadis +of Gaul, when he made his squire count of the Insula Firme; and so, +without any scruples of conscience, I can make a count of Sancho +Panza, for he is one of the best squires that ever knight-errant had."</p> + +<p>The canon was astonished at the methodical nonsense (if nonsense +be capable of method) that Don Quixote uttered, at the way in which he +had described the adventure of the knight of the lake, at the +impression that the deliberate lies of the books he read had made upon +him, and lastly he marvelled at the simplicity of Sancho, who +desired so eagerly to obtain the county his master had promised him.</p> + +<p>By this time the canon's servants, who had gone to the inn to +fetch the sumpter mule, had returned, and making a carpet and the +green grass of the meadow serve as a table, they seated themselves +in the shade of some trees and made their repast there, that the +carter might not be deprived of the advantage of the spot, as has been +already said. As they were eating they suddenly heard a loud noise and +the sound of a bell that seemed to come from among some brambles and +thick bushes that were close by, and the same instant they observed +a beautiful goat, spotted all over black, white, and brown, spring out +of the thicket with a goatherd after it, calling to it and uttering +the usual cries to make it stop or turn back to the fold. The fugitive +goat, scared and frightened, ran towards the company as if seeking +their protection and then stood still, and the goatherd coming up +seized it by the horns and began to talk to it as if it were possessed +of reason and understanding: "Ah wanderer, wanderer, Spotty, Spotty; +how have you gone limping all this time? What wolves have frightened +you, my daughter? Won't you tell me what is the matter, my beauty? But +what else can it be except that you are a she, and cannot keep +quiet? A plague on your humours and the humours of those you take +after! Come back, come back, my darling; and if you will not be so +happy, at any rate you will be safe in the fold or with your +companions; for if you who ought to keep and lead them, go wandering +astray, what will become of them?"</p> + +<p>The goatherd's talk amused all who heard it, but especially the +canon, who said to him, "As you live, brother, take it easy, and be +not in such a hurry to drive this goat back to the fold; for, being +a female, as you say, she will follow her natural instinct in spite of +all you can do to prevent it. Take this morsel and drink a sup, and +that will soothe your irritation, and in the meantime the goat will +rest herself," and so saying, he handed him the loins of a cold rabbit +on a fork.</p> + +<p>The goatherd took it with thanks, and drank and calmed himself, +and then said, "I should be sorry if your worships were to take me for +a simpleton for having spoken so seriously as I did to this animal; +but the truth is there is a certain mystery in the words I used. I +am a clown, but not so much of one but that I know how to behave to +men and to beasts."</p> + +<p>"That I can well believe," said the curate, "for I know already by +experience that the woods breed men of learning, and shepherds' +harbour philosophers."</p> + +<p>"At all events, senor," returned the goatherd, "they shelter men +of experience; and that you may see the truth of this and grasp it, +though I may seem to put myself forward without being asked, I will, +if it will not tire you, gentlemen, and you will give me your +attention for a little, tell you a true story which will confirm +this gentleman's word (and he pointed to the curate) as well as my +own."</p> + +<p>To this Don Quixote replied, "Seeing that this affair has a +certain colour of chivalry about it, I for my part, brother, will hear +you most gladly, and so will all these gentlemen, from the high +intelligence they possess and their love of curious novelties that +interest, charm, and entertain the mind, as I feel quite sure your +story will do. So begin, friend, for we are all prepared to listen."</p> + +<p>"I draw my stakes," said Sancho, "and will retreat with this pasty +to the brook there, where I mean to victual myself for three days; for +I have heard my lord, Don Quixote, say that a knight-errant's squire +should eat until he can hold no more, whenever he has the chance, +because it often happens them to get by accident into a wood so +thick that they cannot find a way out of it for six days; and if the +man is not well filled or his alforjas well stored, there he may stay, +as very often he does, turned into a dried mummy."</p> + +<p>"Thou art in the right of it, Sancho," said Don Quixote; "go where +thou wilt and eat all thou canst, for I have had enough, and only want +to give my mind its refreshment, as I shall by listening to this +good fellow's story."</p> + +<p>"It is what we shall all do," said the canon; and then begged the +goatherd to begin the promised tale.</p> + +<p>The goatherd gave the goat which he held by the horns a couple of +slaps on the back, saying, "Lie down here beside me, Spotty, for we +have time enough to return to our fold." The goat seemed to understand +him, for as her master seated himself, she stretched herself quietly +beside him and looked up in his face to show him she was all attention +to what he was going to say, and then in these words he began his +story.</p> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="c50e"></a><img alt="c50e.jpg (27K)" src="images/c50e.jpg" height="381" width="423"> +</center> + + +<br> +<br> + + + +<center> +<table summary="" cellPadding=4 border=3> +<tr><td> + <a href="p16.htm">Previous Part</a> +</td><td> + <a href="5921-h.htm">Main Index</a> +</td><td> + <a href="p18.htm">Next Part</a> + </td></tr> +</table> +</center> +<br><br> + +</body> +</html> + diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/p18.htm b/old/orig5921-h/p18.htm new file mode 100644 index 0000000..05849d2 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/p18.htm @@ -0,0 +1,870 @@ +<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> +<html> +<head> +<title>THE HISTORY OF DON QUIXOTE, By Cervantes, Vol. I., Part 18.</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> + +<center> +<table summary="" cellPadding=4 border=3> +<tr><td> + <a href="p17.htm">Previous Part</a> +</td><td> + <a href="5921-h.htm">Main Index</a> + </td></tr> +</table> +</center> +<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 18. +<br><br> +Chapters 51-52 +</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="#ch51">CHAPTER LI</a> +WHICH DEALS WITH WHAT THE GOATHERD TOLD THOSE WHO +WERE CARRYING OFF DON QUIXOTE + +<a href="#ch52">CHAPTER LII</a> +OF THE QUARREL THAT DON QUIXOTE HAD WITH THE GOATHERD, +TOGETHER WITH THE RARE ADVENTURE OF THE PENITENTS, +WHICH WITH AN EXPENDITURE OF SWEAT HE BROUGHT TO +A HAPPY CONCLUSION + +</pre> + +<br><br><br><br> + + + + + + +<br><br> +<center><h2><a name="ch51"></a>CHAPTER LI.</h2></center> +<br> +<center><h3>WHICH DEALS WITH WHAT THE GOATHERD TOLD THOSE WHO WERE CARRYING +OFF DON QUIXOTE +</h3></center> +<br> +<br> + +<center><a name="c51a"></a><img alt="c51a.jpg (115K)" src="images/c51a.jpg" height="423" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/c51a.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<p>Three leagues from this valley there is a village which, though +small, is one of the richest in all this neighbourhood, and in it +there lived a farmer, a very worthy man, and so much respected that, +although to be so is the natural consequence of being rich, he was +even more respected for his virtue than for the wealth he had +acquired. But what made him still more fortunate, as he said +himself, was having a daughter of such exceeding beauty, rare +intelligence, gracefulness, and virtue, that everyone who knew her and +beheld her marvelled at the extraordinary gifts with which heaven +and nature had endowed her. As a child she was beautiful, she +continued to grow in beauty, and at the age of sixteen she was most +lovely. The fame of her beauty began to spread abroad through all +the villages around—but why do I say the villages around, merely, +when it spread to distant cities, and even made its way into the halls +of royalty and reached the ears of people of every class, who came +from all sides to see her as if to see something rare and curious, +or some wonder-working image?</p> + +<p>Her father watched over her and she watched over herself; for +there are no locks, or guards, or bolts that can protect a young +girl better than her own modesty. The wealth of the father and the +beauty of the daughter led many neighbours as well as strangers to +seek her for a wife; but he, as one might well be who had the disposal +of so rich a jewel, was perplexed and unable to make up his mind to +which of her countless suitors he should entrust her. I was one +among the many who felt a desire so natural, and, as her father knew +who I was, and I was of the same town, of pure blood, in the bloom +of life, and very rich in possessions, I had great hopes of success. +There was another of the same place and qualifications who also sought +her, and this made her father's choice hang in the balance, for he +felt that on either of us his daughter would be well bestowed; so to +escape from this state of perplexity he resolved to refer the matter +to Leandra (for that is the name of the rich damsel who has reduced me +to misery), reflecting that as we were both equal it would be best +to leave it to his dear daughter to choose according to her +inclination—a course that is worthy of imitation by all fathers who +wish to settle their children in life. I do not mean that they ought +to leave them to make a choice of what is contemptible and bad, but +that they should place before them what is good and then allow them to +make a good choice as they please. I do not know which Leandra +chose; I only know her father put us both off with the tender age of +his daughter and vague words that neither bound him nor dismissed +us. My rival is called Anselmo and I myself Eugenio—that you may know +the names of the personages that figure in this tragedy, the end of +which is still in suspense, though it is plain to see it must be +disastrous.</p> + +<p>About this time there arrived in our town one Vicente de la Roca, +the son of a poor peasant of the same town, the said Vicente having +returned from service as a soldier in Italy and divers other parts. +A captain who chanced to pass that way with his company had carried +him off from our village when he was a boy of about twelve years, +and now twelve years later the young man came back in a soldier's +uniform, arrayed in a thousand colours, and all over glass trinkets +and fine steel chains. To-day he would appear in one gay dress, +to-morrow in another; but all flimsy and gaudy, of little substance +and less worth. The peasant folk, who are naturally malicious, and +when they have nothing to do can be malice itself, remarked all +this, and took note of his finery and jewellery, piece by piece, and +discovered that he had three suits of different colours, with +garters and stockings to match; but he made so many arrangements and +combinations out of them, that if they had not counted them, anyone +would have sworn that he had made a display of more than ten suits +of clothes and twenty plumes. Do not look upon all this that I am +telling you about the clothes as uncalled for or spun out, for they +have a great deal to do with the story. He used to seat himself on a +bench under the great poplar in our plaza, and there he would keep +us all hanging open-mouthed on the stories he told us of his exploits. +There was no country on the face of the globe he had not seen, nor +battle he had not been engaged in; he had killed more Moors than there +are in Morocco and Tunis, and fought more single combats, according to +his own account, than Garcilaso, Diego Garcia de Paredes and a +thousand others he named, and out of all he had come victorious +without losing a drop of blood. On the other hand he showed marks of +wounds, which, though they could not be made out, he said were gunshot +wounds received in divers encounters and actions. Lastly, with +monstrous impudence he used to say "you" to his equals and even +those who knew what he was, and declare that his arm was his father +and his deeds his pedigree, and that being a soldier he was as good as +the king himself. And to add to these swaggering ways he was a +trifle of a musician, and played the guitar with such a flourish +that some said he made it speak; nor did his accomplishments end here, +for he was something of a poet too, and on every trifle that +happened in the town he made a ballad a league long.</p> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="c51b"></a><img alt="c51b.jpg (372K)" src="images/c51b.jpg" height="827" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/c51b.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<p>This soldier, then, that I have described, this Vicente de la +Roca, this bravo, gallant, musician, poet, was often seen and +watched by Leandra from a window of her house which looked out on +the plaza. The glitter of his showy attire took her fancy, his ballads +bewitched her (for he gave away twenty copies of every one he made), +the tales of his exploits which he told about himself came to her +ears; and in short, as the devil no doubt had arranged it, she fell in +love with him before the presumption of making love to her had +suggested itself to him; and as in love-affairs none are more easily +brought to an issue than those which have the inclination of the +lady for an ally, Leandra and Vicente came to an understanding without +any difficulty; and before any of her numerous suitors had any +suspicion of her design, she had already carried it into effect, +having left the house of her dearly beloved father (for mother she had +none), and disappeared from the village with the soldier, who came +more triumphantly out of this enterprise than out of any of the +large number he laid claim to. All the village and all who heard of it +were amazed at the affair; I was aghast, Anselmo thunderstruck, her +father full of grief, her relations indignant, the authorities all +in a ferment, the officers of the Brotherhood in arms. They scoured +the roads, they searched the woods and all quarters, and at the end of +three days they found the flighty Leandra in a mountain cave, stript +to her shift, and robbed of all the money and precious jewels she +had carried away from home with her.</p> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="c51c"></a><img alt="c51c.jpg (275K)" src="images/c51c.jpg" height="826" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/c51c.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<p>They brought her back to her +unhappy father, and questioned her as to her misfortune, and she +confessed without pressure that Vicente de la Roca had deceived her, +and under promise of marrying her had induced her to leave her +father's house, as he meant to take her to the richest and most +delightful city in the whole world, which was Naples; and that she, +ill-advised and deluded, had believed him, and robbed her father, +and handed over all to him the night she disappeared; and that he +had carried her away to a rugged mountain and shut her up in the +eave where they had found her. She said, moreover, that the soldier, +without robbing her of her honour, had taken from her everything she +had, and made off, leaving her in the cave, a thing that still further +surprised everybody. It was not easy for us to credit the young +man's continence, but she asserted it with such earnestness that it +helped to console her distressed father, who thought nothing of what +had been taken since the jewel that once lost can never be recovered +had been left to his daughter. The same day that Leandra made her +appearance her father removed her from our sight and took her away +to shut her up in a convent in a town near this, in the hope that time +may wear away some of the disgrace she has incurred. Leandra's youth +furnished an excuse for her fault, at least with those to whom it +was of no consequence whether she was good or bad; but those who +knew her shrewdness and intelligence did not attribute her +misdemeanour to ignorance but to wantonness and the natural +disposition of women, which is for the most part flighty and +ill-regulated.</p> + +<p>Leandra withdrawn from sight, Anselmo's eyes grew blind, or at any +rate found nothing to look at that gave them any pleasure, and mine +were in darkness without a ray of light to direct them to anything +enjoyable while Leandra was away. Our melancholy grew greater, our +patience grew less; we cursed the soldier's finery and railed at the +carelessness of Leandra's father. At last Anselmo and I agreed to +leave the village and come to this valley; and, he feeding a great +flock of sheep of his own, and I a large herd of goats of mine, we +pass our life among the trees, giving vent to our sorrows, together +singing the fair Leandra's praises, or upbraiding her, or else sighing +alone, and to heaven pouring forth our complaints in solitude. +Following our example, many more of Leandra's lovers have come to +these rude mountains and adopted our mode of life, and they are so +numerous that one would fancy the place had been turned into the +pastoral Arcadia, so full is it of shepherds and sheep-folds; nor is +there a spot in it where the name of the fair Leandra is not heard. +Here one curses her and calls her capricious, fickle, and immodest, +there another condemns her as frail and frivolous; this pardons and +absolves her, that spurns and reviles her; one extols her beauty, +another assails her character, and in short all abuse her, and all +adore her, and to such a pitch has this general infatuation gone +that there are some who complain of her scorn without ever having +exchanged a word with her, and even some that bewail and mourn the +raging fever of jealousy, for which she never gave anyone cause, +for, as I have already said, her misconduct was known before her +passion. There is no nook among the rocks, no brookside, no shade +beneath the trees that is not haunted by some shepherd telling his +woes to the breezes; wherever there is an echo it repeats the name +of Leandra; the mountains ring with "Leandra," "Leandra" murmur the +brooks, and Leandra keeps us all bewildered and bewitched, hoping +without hope and fearing without knowing what we fear. Of all this +silly set the one that shows the least and also the most sense is my +rival Anselmo, for having so many other things to complain of, he only +complains of separation, and to the accompaniment of a rebeck, which +he plays admirably, he sings his complaints in verses that show his +ingenuity. I follow another, easier, and to my mind wiser course, +and that is to rail at the frivolity of women, at their inconstancy, +their double dealing, their broken promises, their unkept pledges, and +in short the want of reflection they show in fixing their affections +and inclinations. This, sirs, was the reason of words and +expressions I made use of to this goat when I came up just now; for as +she is a female I have a contempt for her, though she is the best in +all my fold. This is the story I promised to tell you, and if I have +been tedious in telling it, I will not be slow to serve you; my hut is +close by, and I have fresh milk and dainty cheese there, as well as +a variety of toothsome fruit, no less pleasing to the eye than to +the palate.</p> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="c51e"><img alt="c51e.jpg (14K)" src="images/c51e.jpg" height="377" width="315">"></a> +</center> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<br><br> +<center><h2><a name="ch52"></a>CHAPTER LII.</h2></center> +<br> +<center><h3>OF THE QUARREL THAT DON QUIXOTE HAD WITH THE GOATHERD, TOGETHER WITH +THE RARE ADVENTURE OF THE PENITENTS, WHICH WITH AN EXPENDITURE OF +SWEAT HE BROUGHT TO A HAPPY CONCLUSION +</h3></center> +<br> +<br> + +<center><a name="c52a"></a><img alt="c52a.jpg (40K)" src="images/c52a.jpg" height="130" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/c52a.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<p>The goatherd's tale gave great satisfaction to all the hearers, +and the canon especially enjoyed it, for he had remarked with +particular attention the manner in which it had been told, which was +as unlike the manner of a clownish goatherd as it was like that of a +polished city wit; and he observed that the curate had been quite +right in saying that the woods bred men of learning. They all +offered their services to Eugenio but he who showed himself most +liberal in this way was Don Quixote, who said to him, "Most assuredly, +brother goatherd, if I found myself in a position to attempt any +adventure, I would, this very instant, set out on your behalf, and +would rescue Leandra from that convent (where no doubt she is kept +against her will), in spite of the abbess and all who might try to +prevent me, and would place her in your hands to deal with her +according to your will and pleasure, observing, however, the laws of +chivalry which lay down that no violence of any kind is to be +offered to any damsel. But I trust in God our Lord that the might of +one malignant enchanter may not prove so great but that the power of +another better disposed may prove superior to it, and then I promise +you my support and assistance, as I am bound to do by my profession, +which is none other than to give aid to the weak and needy."</p> + +<p>The goatherd eyed him, and noticing Don Quixote's sorry appearance +and looks, he was filled with wonder, and asked the barber, who was +next him, "Senor, who is this man who makes such a figure and talks in +such a strain?"</p> + +<p>"Who should it be," said the barber, "but the famous Don Quixote +of La Mancha, the undoer of injustice, the righter of wrongs, the +protector of damsels, the terror of giants, and the winner of +battles?"</p> + +<p>"That," said the goatherd, "sounds like what one reads in the +books of the knights-errant, who did all that you say this man does; +though it is my belief that either you are joking, or else this +gentleman has empty lodgings in his head."</p> + +<p>"You are a great scoundrel," said Don Quixote, "and it is you who +are empty and a fool. I am fuller than ever was the whoreson bitch +that bore you;" and passing from words to deeds, he caught up a loaf +that was near him and sent it full in the goatherd's face, with such +force that he flattened his nose; but the goatherd, who did not +understand jokes, and found himself roughly handled in such good +earnest, paying no respect to carpet, tablecloth, or diners, sprang +upon Don Quixote, and seizing him by the throat with both hands +would no doubt have throttled him, had not Sancho Panza that instant +come to the rescue, and grasping him by the shoulders flung him down +on the table, smashing plates, breaking glasses, and upsetting and +scattering everything on it. Don Quixote, finding himself free, strove +to get on top of the goatherd, who, with his face covered with +blood, and soundly kicked by Sancho, was on all fours feeling about +for one of the table-knives to take a bloody revenge with. The canon +and the curate, however, prevented him, but the barber so contrived it +that he got Don Quixote under him, and rained down upon him such a +shower of fisticuffs that the poor knight's face streamed with blood +as freely as his own. The canon and the curate were bursting with +laughter, the officers were capering with delight, and both the one +and the other hissed them on as they do dogs that are worrying one +another in a fight. Sancho alone was frantic, for he could not free +himself from the grasp of one of the canon's servants, who kept him +from going to his master's assistance.</p> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="c52b"></a><img alt="c52b.jpg (348K)" src="images/c52b.jpg" height="510" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/c52b.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<p>At last, while they were all, with the exception of the two bruisers +who were mauling each other, in high glee and enjoyment, they heard +a trumpet sound a note so doleful that it made them all look in the +direction whence the sound seemed to come. But the one that was most +excited by hearing it was Don Quixote, who though sorely against his +will he was under the goatherd, and something more than pretty well +pummelled, said to him, "Brother devil (for it is impossible but +that thou must be one since thou hast had might and strength enough to +overcome mine), I ask thee to agree to a truce for but one hour for +the solemn note of yonder trumpet that falls on our ears seems to me +to summon me to some new adventure." The goatherd, who was by this +time tired of pummelling and being pummelled, released him at once, +and Don Quixote rising to his feet and turning his eyes to the quarter +where the sound had been heard, suddenly saw coming down the slope +of a hill several men clad in white like penitents.</p> + +<p>The fact was that the clouds had that year withheld their moisture +from the earth, and in all the villages of the district they were +organising processions, rogations, and penances, imploring God to open +the hands of his mercy and send the rain; and to this end the people +of a village that was hard by were going in procession to a holy +hermitage there was on one side of that valley. Don Quixote when he +saw the strange garb of the penitents, without reflecting how often he +had seen it before, took it into his head that this was a case of +adventure, and that it fell to him alone as a knight-errant to +engage in it; and he was all the more confirmed in this notion, by the +idea that an image draped in black they had with them was some +illustrious lady that these villains and discourteous thieves were +carrying off by force. As soon as this occurred to him he ran with all +speed to Rocinante who was grazing at large, and taking the bridle and +the buckler from the saddle-bow, he had him bridled in an instant, and +calling to Sancho for his sword he mounted Rocinante, braced his +buckler on his arm, and in a loud voice exclaimed to those who stood +by, "Now, noble company, ye shall see how important it is that there +should be knights in the world professing the of knight-errantry; now, +I say, ye shall see, by the deliverance of that worthy lady who is +borne captive there, whether knights-errant deserve to be held in +estimation," and so saying he brought his legs to bear on +Rocinante—for he had no spurs—and at a full canter (for in all this veracious +history we never read of Rocinante fairly galloping) set off to +encounter the penitents, though the curate, the canon, and the +barber ran to prevent him. But it was out of their power, nor did he +even stop for the shouts of Sancho calling after him, "Where are you +going, Senor Don Quixote? What devils have possessed you to set you on +against our Catholic faith? Plague take me! mind, that is a procession +of penitents, and the lady they are carrying on that stand there is +the blessed image of the immaculate Virgin. Take care what you are +doing, senor, for this time it may be safely said you don't know +what you are about." Sancho laboured in vain, for his master was so +bent on coming to quarters with these sheeted figures and releasing +the lady in black that he did not hear a word; and even had he +heard, he would not have turned back if the king had ordered him. He +came up with the procession and reined in Rocinante, who was already +anxious enough to slacken speed a little, and in a hoarse, excited +voice he exclaimed, "You who hide your faces, perhaps because you +are not good subjects, pay attention and listen to what I am about +to say to you." The first to halt were those who were carrying the +image, and one of the four ecclesiastics who were chanting the Litany, +struck by the strange figure of Don Quixote, the leanness of +Rocinante, and the other ludicrous peculiarities he observed, said +in reply to him, "Brother, if you have anything to say to us say it +quickly, for these brethren are whipping themselves, and we cannot +stop, nor is it reasonable we should stop to hear anything, unless +indeed it is short enough to be said in two words."</p> + +<p>"I will say it in one," replied Don Quixote, "and it is this; that +at once, this very instant, ye release that fair lady whose tears +and sad aspect show plainly that ye are carrying her off against her +will, and that ye have committed some scandalous outrage against +her; and I, who was born into the world to redress all such like +wrongs, will not permit you to advance another step until you have +restored to her the liberty she pines for and deserves."</p> + +<p>From these words all the hearers concluded that he must be a madman, +and began to laugh heartily, and their laughter acted like gunpowder +on Don Quixote's fury, for drawing his sword without another word he +made a rush at the stand. One of those who supported it, leaving the +burden to his comrades, advanced to meet him, flourishing a forked +stick that he had for propping up the stand when resting, and with +this he caught a mighty cut Don Quixote made at him that severed it in +two; but with the portion that remained in his hand he dealt such a +thwack on the shoulder of Don Quixote's sword arm (which the buckler +could not protect against the clownish assault) that poor Don +Quixote came to the ground in a sad plight.</p> + +<p>Sancho Panza, who was coming on close behind puffing and blowing, +seeing him fall, cried out to his assailant not to strike him again, +for he was poor enchanted knight, who had never harmed anyone all +the days of his life; but what checked the clown was, not Sancho's +shouting, but seeing that Don Quixote did not stir hand or foot; and +so, fancying he had killed him, he hastily hitched up his tunic +under his girdle and took to his heels across the country like a deer.</p> + +<p>By this time all Don Quixote's companions had come up to where he +lay; but the processionists seeing them come running, and with them +the officers of the Brotherhood with their crossbows, apprehended +mischief, and clustering round the image, raised their hoods, and +grasped their scourges, as the priests did their tapers, and awaited +the attack, resolved to defend themselves and even to take the +offensive against their assailants if they could. Fortune, however, +arranged the matter better than they expected, for all Sancho did +was to fling himself on his master's body, raising over him the most +doleful and laughable lamentation that ever was heard, for he believed +he was dead. The curate was known to another curate who walked in +the procession, and their recognition of one another set at rest the +apprehensions of both parties; the first then told the other in two +words who Don Quixote was, and he and the whole troop of penitents +went to see if the poor gentleman was dead, and heard Sancho Panza +saying, with tears in his eyes, "Oh flower of chivalry, that with +one blow of a stick hast ended the course of thy well-spent life! Oh +pride of thy race, honour and glory of all La Mancha, nay, of all +the world, that for want of thee will be full of evil-doers, no longer +in fear of punishment for their misdeeds! Oh thou, generous above +all the Alexanders, since for only eight months of service thou hast +given me the best island the sea girds or surrounds! Humble with the +proud, haughty with the humble, encounterer of dangers, endurer of +outrages, enamoured without reason, imitator of the good, scourge of +the wicked, enemy of the mean, in short, knight-errant, which is all +that can be said!"</p> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="c52c"></a><img alt="c52c.jpg (325K)" src="images/c52c.jpg" height="516" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/c52c.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<p>At the cries and moans of Sancho, Don Quixote came to himself, and +the first word he said was, "He who lives separated from you, sweetest +Dulcinea, has greater miseries to endure than these. Aid me, friend +Sancho, to mount the enchanted cart, for I am not in a condition to +press the saddle of Rocinante, as this shoulder is all knocked to +pieces."</p> + +<p>"That I will do with all my heart, senor," said Sancho; "and let +us return to our village with these gentlemen, who seek your good, and +there we will prepare for making another sally, which may turn out +more profitable and creditable to us."</p> + +<p>"Thou art right, Sancho," returned Don Quixote; "It will be wise +to let the malign influence of the stars which now prevails pass off."</p> + +<p>The canon, the curate, and the barber told him he would act very +wisely in doing as he said; and so, highly amused at Sancho Panza's +simplicities, they placed Don Quixote in the cart as before. The +procession once more formed itself in order and proceeded on its road; +the goatherd took his leave of the party; the officers of the +Brotherhood declined to go any farther, and the curate paid them +what was due to them; the canon begged the curate to let him know +how Don Quixote did, whether he was cured of his madness or still +suffered from it, and then begged leave to continue his journey; in +short, they all separated and went their ways, leaving to themselves +the curate and the barber, Don Quixote, Sancho Panza, and the good +Rocinante, who regarded everything with as great resignation as his +master. The carter yoked his oxen and made Don Quixote comfortable +on a truss of hay, and at his usual deliberate pace took the road +the curate directed, and at the end of six days they reached Don +Quixote's village, and entered it about the middle of the day, which +it so happened was a Sunday, and the people were all in the plaza, +through which Don Quixote's cart passed. They all flocked to see +what was in the cart, and when they recognised their townsman they +were filled with amazement, and a boy ran off to bring the news to his +housekeeper and his niece that their master and uncle had come back +all lean and yellow and stretched on a truss of hay on an ox-cart. +It was piteous to hear the cries the two good ladies raised, how +they beat their breasts and poured out fresh maledictions on those +accursed books of chivalry; all which was renewed when they saw Don +Quixote coming in at the gate.</p> + +<p>At the news of Don Quixote's arrival Sancho Panza's wife came +running, for she by this time knew that her husband had gone away with +him as his squire, and on seeing Sancho, the first thing she asked him +was if the ass was well. Sancho replied that he was, better than his +master was.</p> + +<p>"Thanks be to God," said she, "for being so good to me; but now tell +me, my friend, what have you made by your squirings? What gown have +you brought me back? What shoes for your children?"</p> + +<p>"I bring nothing of that sort, wife," said Sancho; "though I bring +other things of more consequence and value."</p> + +<p>"I am very glad of that," returned his wife; "show me these things +of more value and consequence, my friend; for I want to see them to +cheer my heart that has been so sad and heavy all these ages that +you have been away."</p> + +<p>"I will show them to you at home, wife," said Sancho; "be content +for the present; for if it please God that we should again go on our +travels in search of adventures, you will soon see me a count, or +governor of an island, and that not one of those everyday ones, but +the best that is to be had."</p> + +<p>"Heaven grant it, husband," said she, "for indeed we have need of +it. But tell me, what's this about islands, for I don't understand +it?"</p> + +<p>"Honey is not for the mouth of the ass," returned Sancho; "all in +good time thou shalt see, wife—nay, thou wilt be surprised to hear +thyself called 'your ladyship' by all thy vassals."</p> + +<p>"What are you talking about, Sancho, with your ladyships, islands, +and vassals?" returned Teresa Panza—for so Sancho's wife was +called, though they were not relations, for in La Mancha it is +customary for wives to take their husbands' surnames.</p> + +<p>"Don't be in such a hurry to know all this, Teresa," said Sancho; +"it is enough that I am telling you the truth, so shut your mouth. But +I may tell you this much by the way, that there is nothing in the +world more delightful than to be a person of consideration, squire +to a knight-errant, and a seeker of adventures. To be sure most of +those one finds do not end as pleasantly as one could wish, for out of +a hundred, ninety-nine will turn out cross and contrary. I know it +by experience, for out of some I came blanketed, and out of others +belaboured. Still, for all that, it is a fine thing to be on the +look-out for what may happen, crossing mountains, searching woods, +climbing rocks, visiting castles, putting up at inns, all at free +quarters, and devil take the maravedi to pay."</p> + +<p>While this conversation passed between Sancho Panza and his wife, +Don Quixote's housekeeper and niece took him in and undressed him +and laid him in his old bed. He eyed them askance, and could not +make out where he was. The curate charged his niece to be very careful +to make her uncle comfortable and to keep a watch over him lest he +should make his escape from them again, telling her what they had been +obliged to do to bring him home. On this the pair once more lifted +up their voices and renewed their maledictions upon the books of +chivalry, and implored heaven to plunge the authors of such lies and +nonsense into the midst of the bottomless pit. They were, in short, +kept in anxiety and dread lest their uncle and master should give them +the slip the moment he found himself somewhat better, and as they +feared so it fell out.</p> + +<p>But the author of this history, though he has devoted research and +industry to the discovery of the deeds achieved by Don Quixote in +his third sally, has been unable to obtain any information +respecting them, at any rate derived from authentic documents; +tradition has merely preserved in the memory of La Mancha the fact +that Don Quixote, the third time he sallied forth from his home, +betook himself to Saragossa, where he was present at some famous +jousts which came off in that city, and that he had adventures there +worthy of his valour and high intelligence. Of his end and death he +could learn no particulars, nor would he have ascertained it or +known of it, if good fortune had not produced an old physician for him +who had in his possession a leaden box, which, according to his +account, had been discovered among the crumbling foundations of an +ancient hermitage that was being rebuilt; in which box were found +certain parchment manuscripts in Gothic character, but in Castilian +verse, containing many of his achievements, and setting forth the +beauty of Dulcinea, the form of Rocinante, the fidelity of Sancho +Panza, and the burial of Don Quixote himself, together with sundry +epitaphs and eulogies on his life and character; but all that could be +read and deciphered were those which the trustworthy author of this +new and unparalleled history here presents. And the said author asks +of those that shall read it nothing in return for the vast toil +which it has cost him in examining and searching the Manchegan +archives in order to bring it to light, save that they give him the +same credit that people of sense give to the books of chivalry that +pervade the world and are so popular; for with this he will consider +himself amply paid and fully satisfied, and will be encouraged to seek +out and produce other histories, if not as truthful, at least equal in +invention and not less entertaining. The first words written on the +parchment found in the leaden box were these:</p> + + +<center> + + THE ACADEMICIANS OF<br> + ARGAMASILLA, A VILLAGE OF<br> + LA MANCHA,<br> + ON THE LIFE AND DEATH<br> + OF DON QUIXOTE OF LA MANCHA,<br> + HOC SCRIPSERUNT<br> +MONICONGO, ACADEMICIAN OF ARGAMASILLA,<br> +</center> + + +<pre> + + + + + ON THE TOMB OF DON QUIXOTE + + +EPITAPH + +The scatterbrain that gave La Mancha more + Rich spoils than Jason's; who a point so keen + Had to his wit, and happier far had been +If his wit's weathercock a blunter bore; +The arm renowned far as Gaeta's shore, + Cathay, and all the lands that lie between; + The muse discreet and terrible in mien +As ever wrote on brass in days of yore; +He who surpassed the Amadises all, + And who as naught the Galaors accounted, + Supported by his love and gallantry: +Who made the Belianises sing small, + And sought renown on Rocinante mounted; + Here, underneath this cold stone, doth he lie. + + + +PANIAGUADO, +ACADEMICIAN OF ARGAMASILLA, +IN LAUDEM DULCINEAE DEL TOBOSO + +SONNET + +She, whose full features may be here descried, + High-bosomed, with a bearing of disdain, + Is Dulcinea, she for whom in vain +The great Don Quixote of La Mancha sighed. +For her, Toboso's queen, from side to side + He traversed the grim sierra, the champaign + Of Aranjuez, and Montiel's famous plain: +On Rocinante oft a weary ride. +Malignant planets, cruel destiny, + Pursued them both, the fair Manchegan dame, +And the unconquered star of chivalry. + Nor youth nor beauty saved her from the claim +Of death; he paid love's bitter penalty, + And left the marble to preserve his name. + + + +CAPRICHOSO, A MOST ACUTE ACADEMICIAN +OF ARGAMASILLA, IN PRAISE OF ROCINANTE, +STEED OF DON QUIXOTE OF LA MANCHA + +SONNET + +On that proud throne of diamantine sheen, + Which the blood-reeking feet of Mars degrade, +The mad Manchegan's banner now hath been + By him in all its bravery displayed. + There hath he hung his arms and trenchant blade +Wherewith, achieving deeds till now unseen, + He slays, lays low, cleaves, hews; but art hath made +A novel style for our new paladin. +If Amadis be the proud boast of Gaul, + If by his progeny the fame of Greece + Through all the regions of the earth be spread, +Great Quixote crowned in grim Bellona's hall + To-day exalts La Mancha over these, + And above Greece or Gaul she holds her head. +Nor ends his glory here, for his good steed +Doth Brillador and Bayard far exceed; +As mettled steeds compared with Rocinante, +The reputation they have won is scanty. + + + + +BURLADOR, ACADEMICIAN OF ARGAMASILLA, +ON SANCHO PANZA + +SONNET + + The worthy Sancho Panza here you see; + A great soul once was in that body small, + Nor was there squire upon this earthly ball +So plain and simple, or of guile so free. +Within an ace of being Count was he, + And would have been but for the spite and gall + Of this vile age, mean and illiberal, +That cannot even let a donkey be. +For mounted on an ass (excuse the word), + By Rocinante's side this gentle squire + Was wont his wandering master to attend. +Delusive hopes that lure the common herd + With promises of ease, the heart's desire, + In shadows, dreams, and smoke ye always end. + + + + +CACHIDIABLO, +ACADEMICIAN OF ARGAMASILLA, +ON THE TOMB OF DON QUIXOTE +EPITAPH + +The knight lies here below, + Ill-errant and bruised sore, + Whom Rocinante bore +In his wanderings to and fro. +By the side of the knight is laid + Stolid man Sancho too, + Than whom a squire more true +Was not in the esquire trade. + + + + + TIQUITOC, + ACADEMICIAN OF ARGAMASILLA, +ON THE TOMB OF DULCINEA DEL TOBOSO + + EPITAPH +Here Dulcinea lies. + Plump was she and robust: + Now she is ashes and dust: +The end of all flesh that dies. +A lady of high degree, + With the port of a lofty dame, + And the great Don Quixote's flame, +And the pride of her village was she. +</pre> + + +<p> +These were all the verses that could be deciphered; the rest, the +writing being worm-eaten, were handed over to one of the +Academicians to make out their meaning conjecturally. We have been +informed that at the cost of many sleepless nights and much toil he +has succeeded, and that he means to publish them in hopes of Don +Quixote's third sally.</p> + +<center><i> +"Forse altro cantera con miglior plectro."</i> +</center> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="c52e"></a><img alt="c52e.jpg (54K)" src="images/c52e.jpg" height="713" width="479"> +</center> + + +<br> +<br> + + +<center> +<table summary="" cellPadding=4 border=3> +<tr><td> + <a href="p17.htm">Previous Part</a> +</td><td> + <a href="5921-h.htm">Main Index</a> + </td></tr> +</table> +</center> +<br><br> + +</body> +</html> + + diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/p2.htm b/old/orig5921-h/p2.htm new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ec8b8a8 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/p2.htm @@ -0,0 +1,621 @@ +<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> +<html> +<head> +<title>THE HISTORY OF DON QUIXOTE, By Cervantes, Vol. I., Part 2.</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> + + +<center> +<table summary="" cellPadding=4 border=3> +<tr><td> + <a href="p1.htm">Previous Part</a> +</td><td> + <a href="5921-h.htm">Main Index</a> +</td><td> + <a href="p3.htm">Next Part</a> + </td></tr> +</table> +</center> +<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 2. +<br><br> +Chapters 4-5 +</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> + +<blockquote><blockquote><blockquote><blockquote> +<center> +<h3>Ebook Editor's Note</h3> +</center> + +<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="#ch4">CHAPTER IV</a> +OF WHAT HAPPENED TO OUR KNIGHT WHEN HE LEFT THE INN + +<a href="#ch5">CHAPTER V</a> +IN WHICH THE NARRATIVE OF OUR KNIGHT'S MISHAP IS CONTINUED + + +</pre> + +<br><br><br><br> + + +<center><h2><a name="ch4"></a>CHAPTER IV.</h2></center> +<br> +<center><h3>OF WHAT HAPPENED TO OUR KNIGHT WHEN HE LEFT THE INN +</h3></center> + +<br><br> +<center><a name="p018"></a><img alt="p018.jpg (94K)" src="images/p018.jpg" height="258" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p018.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<p>Day was dawning when Don Quixote quitted the inn, so happy, so +gay, so exhilarated at finding himself now dubbed a knight, that his +joy was like to burst his horse-girths. However, recalling the +advice of his host as to the requisites he ought to carry with him, +especially that referring to money and shirts, he determined to go +home and provide himself with all, and also with a squire, for he +reckoned upon securing a farm-labourer, a neighbour of his, a poor man +with a family, but very well qualified for the office of squire to a +knight. With this object he turned his horse's head towards his +village, and Rocinante, thus reminded of his old quarters, stepped out +so briskly that he hardly seemed to tread the earth.</p> + +<p>He had not gone far, when out of a thicket on his right there seemed +to come feeble cries as of some one in distress, and the instant he +heard them he exclaimed, "Thanks be to heaven for the favour it +accords me, that it so soon offers me an opportunity of fulfilling the +obligation I have undertaken, and gathering the fruit of my +ambition. These cries, no doubt, come from some man or woman in want +of help, and needing my aid and protection;" and wheeling, he turned +Rocinante in the direction whence the cries seemed to proceed. He +had gone but a few paces into the wood, when he saw a mare tied to +an oak, and tied to another, and stripped from the waist upwards, a +youth of about fifteen years of age, from whom the cries came. Nor +were they without cause, for a lusty farmer was flogging him with a +belt and following up every blow with scoldings and commands, +repeating, "Your mouth shut and your eyes open!" while the youth +made answer, "I won't do it again, master mine; by God's passion I +won't do it again, and I'll take more care of the flock another time."</p> + +<p>Seeing what was going on, Don Quixote said in an angry voice, +"Discourteous knight, it ill becomes you to assail one who cannot +defend himself; mount your steed and take your lance" (for there was a +lance leaning against the oak to which the mare was tied), "and I will +make you know that you are behaving as a coward." The farmer, seeing +before him this figure in full armour brandishing a lance over his +head, gave himself up for dead, and made answer meekly, "Sir Knight, +this youth that I am chastising is my servant, employed by me to watch +a flock of sheep that I have hard by, and he is so careless that I +lose one every day, and when I punish him for his carelessness and +knavery he says I do it out of niggardliness, to escape paying him the +wages I owe him, and before God, and on my soul, he lies."</p> + +<p>"Lies before me, base clown!" said Don Quixote. "By the sun that +shines on us I have a mind to run you through with this lance. Pay him +at once without another word; if not, by the God that rules us I +will make an end of you, and annihilate you on the spot; release him +instantly."</p> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p019"></a><img alt="p019.jpg (339K)" src="images/p019.jpg" height="865" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p019.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<p>The farmer hung his head, and without a word untied his servant, +of whom Don Quixote asked how much his master owed him.</p> + +<p>He replied, nine months at seven reals a month. Don Quixote added it +up, found that it came to sixty-three reals, and told the farmer to +pay it down immediately, if he did not want to die for it.</p> + +<p>The trembling clown replied that as he lived and by the oath he +had sworn (though he had not sworn any) it was not so much; for +there were to be taken into account and deducted three pairs of +shoes he had given him, and a real for two blood-lettings when he +was sick.</p> + +<p>"All that is very well," said Don Quixote; "but let the shoes and +the blood-lettings stand as a setoff against the blows you have +given him without any cause; for if he spoiled the leather of the +shoes you paid for, you have damaged that of his body, and if the +barber took blood from him when he was sick, you have drawn it when he +was sound; so on that score he owes you nothing."</p> + +<p>"The difficulty is, Sir Knight, that I have no money here; let +Andres come home with me, and I will pay him all, real by real."</p> + +<p>"I go with him!" said the youth. "Nay, God forbid! No, senor, not +for the world; for once alone with me, he would ray me like a Saint +Bartholomew."</p> + +<p>"He will do nothing of the kind," said Don Quixote; "I have only +to command, and he will obey me; and as he has sworn to me by the +order of knighthood which he has received, I leave him free, and I +guarantee the payment."</p> + +<p>"Consider what you are saying, senor," said the youth; "this +master of mine is not a knight, nor has he received any order of +knighthood; for he is Juan Haldudo the Rich, of Quintanar."</p> + +<p>"That matters little," replied Don Quixote; "there may be Haldudos +knights; moreover, everyone is the son of his works."</p> + +<p>"That is true," said Andres; "but this master of mine—of what works +is he the son, when he refuses me the wages of my sweat and labour?"</p> + +<p>"I do not refuse, brother Andres," said the farmer, "be good +enough to come along with me, and I swear by all the orders of +knighthood there are in the world to pay you as I have agreed, real by +real, and perfumed."</p> + +<p>"For the perfumery I excuse you," said Don Quixote; "give it to +him in reals, and I shall be satisfied; and see that you do as you +have sworn; if not, by the same oath I swear to come back and hunt you +out and punish you; and I shall find you though you should lie +closer than a lizard. And if you desire to know who it is lays this +command upon you, that you be more firmly bound to obey it, know +that I am the valorous Don Quixote of La Mancha, the undoer of +wrongs and injustices; and so, God be with you, and keep in mind +what you have promised and sworn under those penalties that have +been already declared to you."</p> + +<p>So saying, he gave Rocinante the spur and was soon out of reach. The +farmer followed him with his eyes, and when he saw that he had cleared +the wood and was no longer in sight, he turned to his boy Andres, +and said, "Come here, my son, I want to pay you what I owe you, as +that undoer of wrongs has commanded me."</p> + +<p>"My oath on it," said Andres, "your worship will be well advised +to obey the command of that good knight—may he live a thousand +years—for, as he is a valiant and just judge, by Roque, if you do not pay +me, he will come back and do as he said."</p> + +<p>"My oath on it, too," said the farmer; "but as I have a strong +affection for you, I want to add to the debt in order to add to the +payment;" and seizing him by the arm, he tied him up again, and gave +him such a flogging that he left him for dead.</p> + +<p>"Now, Master Andres," said the farmer, "call on the undoer of +wrongs; you will find he won't undo that, though I am not sure that +I have quite done with you, for I have a good mind to flay you alive." +But at last he untied him, and gave him leave to go look for his judge +in order to put the sentence pronounced into execution.</p> + +<p>Andres went off rather down in the mouth, swearing he would go to +look for the valiant Don Quixote of La Mancha and tell him exactly +what had happened, and that all would have to be repaid him sevenfold; +but for all that, he went off weeping, while his master stood +laughing.</p> + +<p>Thus did the valiant Don Quixote right that wrong, and, thoroughly +satisfied with what had taken place, as he considered he had made a +very happy and noble beginning with his knighthood, he took the road +towards his village in perfect self-content, saying in a low voice, +"Well mayest thou this day call thyself fortunate above all on +earth, O Dulcinea del Toboso, fairest of the fair! since it has fallen +to thy lot to hold subject and submissive to thy full will and +pleasure a knight so renowned as is and will be Don Quixote of La +Mancha, who, as all the world knows, yesterday received the order of +knighthood, and hath to-day righted the greatest wrong and grievance +that ever injustice conceived and cruelty perpetrated: who hath to-day +plucked the rod from the hand of yonder ruthless oppressor so wantonly +lashing that tender child."</p> + +<p>He now came to a road branching in four directions, and +immediately he was reminded of those cross-roads where +knights-errant used to stop to consider which road they should take. +In imitation of them he halted for a while, and after having deeply +considered it, he gave Rocinante his head, submitting his own will +to that of his hack, who followed out his first intention, which was +to make straight for his own stable. After he had gone about two miles +Don Quixote perceived a large party of people, who, as afterwards +appeared, were some Toledo traders, on their way to buy silk at +Murcia. There were six of them coming along under their sunshades, +with four servants mounted, and three muleteers on foot. Scarcely +had Don Quixote descried them when the fancy possessed him that this +must be some new adventure; and to help him to imitate as far as he +could those passages he had read of in his books, here seemed to +come one made on purpose, which he resolved to attempt. So with a +lofty bearing and determination he fixed himself firmly in his +stirrups, got his lance ready, brought his buckler before his +breast, and planting himself in the middle of the road, stood +waiting the approach of these knights-errant, for such he now +considered and held them to be; and when they had come near enough +to see and hear, he exclaimed with a haughty gesture, "All the world +stand, unless all the world confess that in all the world there is +no maiden fairer than the Empress of La Mancha, the peerless +Dulcinea del Toboso."</p> + +<p>The traders halted at the sound of this language and the sight of +the strange figure that uttered it, and from both figure and +language at once guessed the craze of their owner; they wished, +however, to learn quietly what was the object of this confession +that was demanded of them, and one of them, who was rather fond of a +joke and was very sharp-witted, said to him, "Sir Knight, we do not +know who this good lady is that you speak of; show her to us, for, +if she be of such beauty as you suggest, with all our hearts and +without any pressure we will confess the truth that is on your part +required of us."</p> + +<p>"If I were to show her to you," replied Don Quixote, "what merit +would you have in confessing a truth so manifest? The essential +point is that without seeing her you must believe, confess, affirm, +swear, and defend it; else ye have to do with me in battle, +ill-conditioned, arrogant rabble that ye are; and come ye on, one by +one as the order of knighthood requires, or all together as is the +custom and vile usage of your breed, here do I bide and await you +relying on the justice of the cause I maintain."</p> + +<p>"Sir Knight," replied the trader, "I entreat your worship in the +name of this present company of princes, that, to save us from +charging our consciences with the confession of a thing we have +never seen or heard of, and one moreover so much to the prejudice of +the Empresses and Queens of the Alcarria and Estremadura, your worship +will be pleased to show us some portrait of this lady, though it be no +bigger than a grain of wheat; for by the thread one gets at the +ball, and in this way we shall be satisfied and easy, and you will +be content and pleased; nay, I believe we are already so far agreed +with you that even though her portrait should show her blind of one +eye, and distilling vermilion and sulphur from the other, we would +nevertheless, to gratify your worship, say all in her favour that +you desire."</p> + +<p>"She distils nothing of the kind, vile rabble," said Don Quixote, +burning with rage, "nothing of the kind, I say, only ambergris and +civet in cotton; nor is she one-eyed or humpbacked, but straighter +than a Guadarrama spindle: but ye must pay for the blasphemy ye have +uttered against beauty like that of my lady."</p> + +<p>And so saying, he charged with levelled lance against the one who +had spoken, with such fury and fierceness that, if luck had not +contrived that Rocinante should stumble midway and come down, it would +have gone hard with the rash trader. Down went Rocinante, and over +went his master, rolling along the ground for some distance; and +when he tried to rise he was unable, so encumbered was he with +lance, buckler, spurs, helmet, and the weight of his old armour; and +all the while he was struggling to get up he kept saying, "Fly not, +cowards and caitiffs! stay, for not by my fault, but my horse's, am +I stretched here."</p> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p020"></a><img alt="p020.jpg (352K)" src="images/p020.jpg" height="498" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p020.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<p>One of the muleteers in attendance, who could not have had much good +nature in him, hearing the poor prostrate man blustering in this +style, was unable to refrain from giving him an answer on his ribs; +and coming up to him he seized his lance, and having broken it in +pieces, with one of them he began so to belabour our Don Quixote that, +notwithstanding and in spite of his armour, he milled him like a +measure of wheat. His masters called out not to lay on so hard and +to leave him alone, but the muleteers blood was up, and he did not +care to drop the game until he had vented the rest of his wrath, and +gathering up the remaining fragments of the lance he finished with a +discharge upon the unhappy victim, who all through the storm of sticks +that rained on him never ceased threatening heaven, and earth, and the +brigands, for such they seemed to him. At last the muleteer was tired, +and the traders continued their journey, taking with them matter for +talk about the poor fellow who had been cudgelled. He when he found +himself alone made another effort to rise; but if he was unable when +whole and sound, how was he to rise after having been thrashed and +well-nigh knocked to pieces? And yet he esteemed himself fortunate, as +it seemed to him that this was a regular knight-errant's mishap, and +entirely, he considered, the fault of his horse. However, battered +in body as he was, to rise was beyond his power.</p> + + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="e04"></a><img alt="e04.jpg (28K)" src="images/e04.jpg" height="389" width="523"> +</center> + + +<br><br><br><br><br><br> +<center><h2><a name="ch5"></a>CHAPTER V.</h2></center> +<br> +<center><h3>IN WHICH THE NARRATIVE OF OUR KNIGHT'S MISHAP IS CONTINUED +</h3></center> +<br> +<br> +<center><a name="p022"></a><img alt="p022.jpg (123K)" src="images/p022.jpg" height="385" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p022.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<p>Finding, then, that, in fact he could not move, he thought himself +of having recourse to his usual remedy, which was to think of some +passage in his books, and his craze brought to his mind that about +Baldwin and the Marquis of Mantua, when Carloto left him wounded on +the mountain side, a story known by heart by the children, not +forgotten by the young men, and lauded and even believed by the old +folk; and for all that not a whit truer than the miracles of +Mahomet. This seemed to him to fit exactly the case in which he +found himself, so, making a show of severe suffering, he began to roll +on the ground and with feeble breath repeat the very words which the +wounded knight of the wood is said to have uttered:</p> + + +<pre> +Where art thou, lady mine, that thou + My sorrow dost not rue? +Thou canst not know it, lady mine, + Or else thou art untrue. +</pre> + + +<p>And so he went on with the ballad as far as the lines:</p> + + +<pre> +O noble Marquis of Mantua, + My Uncle and liege lord! +</pre> + + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p026"></a><img alt="p026.jpg (316K)" src="images/p026.jpg" height="508" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p026.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<p> +As chance would have it, when he had got to this line there happened +to come by a peasant from his own village, a neighbour of his, who had +been with a load of wheat to the mill, and he, seeing the man +stretched there, came up to him and asked him who he was and what +was the matter with him that he complained so dolefully.</p> + +<p>Don Quixote was firmly persuaded that this was the Marquis of +Mantua, his uncle, so the only answer he made was to go on with his +ballad, in which he told the tale of his misfortune, and of the +loves of the Emperor's son and his wife all exactly as the ballad +sings it.</p> + +<p>The peasant stood amazed at hearing such nonsense, and relieving him +of the visor, already battered to pieces by blows, he wiped his +face, which was covered with dust, and as soon as he had done so he +recognised him and said, "Senor Quixada" (for so he appears to have +been called when he was in his senses and had not yet changed from a +quiet country gentleman into a knight-errant), "who has brought your +worship to this pass?" But to all questions the other only went on +with his ballad.</p> + +<p>Seeing this, the good man removed as well as he could his +breastplate and backpiece to see if he had any wound, but he could +perceive no blood nor any mark whatever. He then contrived to raise +him from the ground, and with no little difficulty hoisted him upon +his ass, which seemed to him to be the easiest mount for him; and +collecting the arms, even to the splinters of the lance, he tied +them on Rocinante, and leading him by the bridle and the ass by the +halter he took the road for the village, very sad to hear what +absurd stuff Don Quixote was talking.</p> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p029"></a><img alt="p029.jpg (285K)" src="images/p029.jpg" height="834" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p029.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<p>Nor was Don Quixote less so, for +what with blows and bruises he could not sit upright on the ass, and +from time to time he sent up sighs to heaven, so that once more he +drove the peasant to ask what ailed him. And it could have been only +the devil himself that put into his head tales to match his own +adventures, for now, forgetting Baldwin, he bethought himself of the +Moor Abindarraez, when the Alcaide of Antequera, Rodrigo de Narvaez, +took him prisoner and carried him away to his castle; so that when the +peasant again asked him how he was and what ailed him, he gave him for +reply the same words and phrases that the captive Abindarraez gave +to Rodrigo de Narvaez, just as he had read the story in the "Diana" of +Jorge de Montemayor where it is written, applying it to his own case +so aptly that the peasant went along cursing his fate that he had to +listen to such a lot of nonsense; from which, however, he came to +the conclusion that his neighbour was mad, and so made all haste to +reach the village to escape the wearisomeness of this harangue of +Don Quixote's; who, at the end of it, said, "Senor Don Rodrigo de +Narvaez, your worship must know that this fair Xarifa I have mentioned +is now the lovely Dulcinea del Toboso, for whom I have done, am doing, +and will do the most famous deeds of chivalry that in this world +have been seen, are to be seen, or ever shall be seen."</p> + +<p>To this the peasant answered, "Senor—sinner that I am!—cannot your +worship see that I am not Don Rodrigo de Narvaez nor the Marquis of +Mantua, but Pedro Alonso your neighbour, and that your worship is +neither Baldwin nor Abindarraez, but the worthy gentleman Senor +Quixada?"</p> + +<p>"I know who I am," replied Don Quixote, "and I know that I may be +not only those I have named, but all the Twelve Peers of France and +even all the Nine Worthies, since my achievements surpass all that +they have done all together and each of them on his own account."</p> + +<p>With this talk and more of the same kind they reached the village +just as night was beginning to fall, but the peasant waited until it +was a little later that the belaboured gentleman might not be seen +riding in such a miserable trim. When it was what seemed to him the +proper time he entered the village and went to Don Quixote's house, +which he found all in confusion, and there were the curate and the +village barber, who were great friends of Don Quixote, and his +housekeeper was saying to them in a loud voice, "What does your +worship think can have befallen my master, Senor Licentiate Pero +Perez?" for so the curate was called; "it is three days now since +anything has been seen of him, or the hack, or the buckler, lance, +or armour. Miserable me! I am certain of it, and it is as true as that +I was born to die, that these accursed books of chivalry he has, and +has got into the way of reading so constantly, have upset his +reason; for now I remember having often heard him saying to himself +that he would turn knight-errant and go all over the world in quest of +adventures. To the devil and Barabbas with such books, that have +brought to ruin in this way the finest understanding there was in +all La Mancha!"</p> + +<p>The niece said the same, and, more: "You must know, Master +Nicholas"—for that was the name of the barber—"it was often my +uncle's way to stay two days and nights together poring over these +unholy books of misventures, after which he would fling the book +away and snatch up his sword and fall to slashing the walls; and +when he was tired out he would say he had killed four giants like four +towers; and the sweat that flowed from him when he was weary he said +was the blood of the wounds he had received in battle; and then he +would drink a great jug of cold water and become calm and quiet, +saying that this water was a most precious potion which the sage +Esquife, a great magician and friend of his, had brought him. But I +take all the blame upon myself for never having told your worships +of my uncle's vagaries, that you might put a stop to them before +things had come to this pass, and burn all these accursed books—for +he has a great number—that richly deserve to be burned like +heretics."</p> + +<p>"So say I too," said the curate, "and by my faith to-morrow shall +not pass without public judgment upon them, and may they be +condemned to the flames lest they lead those that read to behave as my +good friend seems to have behaved."</p> + +<p>All this the peasant heard, and from it he understood at last what +was the matter with his neighbour, so he began calling aloud, "Open, +your worships, to Senor Baldwin and to Senor the Marquis of Mantua, +who comes badly wounded, and to Senor Abindarraez, the Moor, whom +the valiant Rodrigo de Narvaez, the Alcaide of Antequera, brings +captive."</p> + +<p>At these words they all hurried out, and when they recognised +their friend, master, and uncle, who had not yet dismounted from the +ass because he could not, they ran to embrace him.</p> + +<p>"Hold!" said he, "for I am badly wounded through my horse's fault; +carry me to bed, and if possible send for the wise Urganda to cure and +see to my wounds."</p> + +<p>"See there! plague on it!" cried the housekeeper at this: "did not +my heart tell the truth as to which foot my master went lame of? To +bed with your worship at once, and we will contrive to cure you here +without fetching that Hurgada. A curse I say once more, and a +hundred times more, on those books of chivalry that have brought +your worship to such a pass."</p> + +<p>They carried him to bed at once, and after searching for his +wounds could find none, but he said they were all bruises from +having had a severe fall with his horse Rocinante when in combat +with ten giants, the biggest and the boldest to be found on earth.</p> + +<p>"So, so!" said the curate, "are there giants in the dance? By the +sign of the Cross I will burn them to-morrow before the day over."</p> + +<p>They put a host of questions to Don Quixote, but his only answer +to all was—give him something to eat, and leave him to sleep, for +that was what he needed most. They did so, and the curate questioned +the peasant at great length as to how he had found Don Quixote. He +told him, and the nonsense he had talked when found and on the way +home, all which made the licentiate the more eager to do what he did +the next day, which was to summon his friend the barber, Master +Nicholas, and go with him to Don Quixote's house.</p> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p031"></a><img alt="p031.jpg (31K)" src="images/p031.jpg" height="355" width="559"> +</center> + + +<br> +<br> + + +<center> +<table summary="" cellPadding=4 border=3> +<tr><td> + <a href="p1.htm">Previous Part</a> +</td><td> + <a href="5921-h.htm">Main Index</a> +</td><td> + <a href="p3.htm">Next Part</a> + </td></tr> +</table> +</center> +<br><br> + +</body> +</html> + diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/p3.htm b/old/orig5921-h/p3.htm new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7f93dee --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/p3.htm @@ -0,0 +1,1031 @@ +<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> +<html> +<head> +<title>THE HISTORY OF DON QUIXOTE, By Cervantes, Vol. I., Part 3.</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> + +<center> +<table summary="" cellPadding=4 border=3> +<tr><td> + <a href="p2.htm">Previous Part</a> +</td><td> + <a href="5921-h.htm">Main Index</a> +</td><td> + <a href="p4.htm">Next Part</a> + </td></tr> +</table> +</center> +<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 3. +<br><br> +Chapters 6-8 +</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> + + + +<h4>Ebook Editor's Note</h4> + +<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="#ch6">CHAPTER VI</a> +OF THE DIVERTING AND IMPORTANT SCRUTINY WHICH THE CURATE AND THE +BARBER MADE IN THE LIBRARY OF OUR INGENIOUS GENTLEMAN + +<a href="#ch7">CHAPTER VII</a> +OF THE SECOND SALLY OF OUR WORTHY KNIGHT DON QUIXOTE OF LA MANCHA + +<a href="#ch8">CHAPTER VIII</a> +OF THE GOOD FORTUNE WHICH THE VALIANT DON QUIXOTE HAD IN THE +TERRIBLE AND UNDREAMT-OF ADVENTURE OF THE WINDMILLS, WITH OTHER +OCCURRENCES WORTHY TO BE FITLY RECORDED + +</pre> + +<br><br><br><br> + + + +<center><h2><a name="ch6"></a>CHAPTER VI.</h2></center> +<br> +<center><h3>OF THE DIVERTING AND IMPORTANT SCRUTINY WHICH THE CURATE AND THE +BARBER MADE IN THE LIBRARY OF OUR INGENIOUS GENTLEMAN +</h3></center> +<br> +<br> +<center><a name="c06a"></a><img alt="c06a.jpg (92K)" src="images/c06a.jpg" height="310" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/c06a.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<p>He was still sleeping; so the curate asked the niece for the keys of +the room where the books, the authors of all the mischief, were, and +right willingly she gave them. They all went in, the housekeeper +with them, and found more than a hundred volumes of big books very +well bound, and some other small ones. The moment the housekeeper +saw them she turned about and ran out of the room, and came back +immediately with a saucer of holy water and a sprinkler, saying, +"Here, your worship, senor licentiate, sprinkle this room; don't leave +any magician of the many there are in these books to bewitch us in +revenge for our design of banishing them from the world."</p> + +<p>The simplicity of the housekeeper made the licentiate laugh, and +he directed the barber to give him the books one by one to see what +they were about, as there might be some to be found among them that +did not deserve the penalty of fire.</p> + +<p>"No," said the niece, "there is no reason for showing mercy to any +of them; they have every one of them done mischief; better fling +them out of the window into the court and make a pile of them and +set fire to them; or else carry them into the yard, and there a +bonfire can be made without the smoke giving any annoyance." The +housekeeper said the same, so eager were they both for the slaughter +of those innocents, but the curate would not agree to it without first +reading at any rate the titles.</p> + +<p>The first that Master Nicholas put into his hand was "The four books +of Amadis of Gaul." "This seems a mysterious thing," said the +curate, "for, as I have heard say, this was the first book of chivalry +printed in Spain, and from this all the others derive their birth +and origin; so it seems to me that we ought inexorably to condemn it +to the flames as the founder of so vile a sect."</p> + +<p>"Nay, sir," said the barber, "I too, have heard say that this is the +best of all the books of this kind that have been written, and so, +as something singular in its line, it ought to be pardoned."</p> + +<p>"True," said the curate; "and for that reason let its life be spared +for the present. Let us see that other which is next to it."</p> + +<p>"It is," said the barber, "the 'Sergas de Esplandian,' the lawful +son of Amadis of Gaul."</p> + +<p>"Then verily," said the curate, "the merit of the father must not be +put down to the account of the son. Take it, mistress housekeeper; +open the window and fling it into the yard and lay the foundation of +the pile for the bonfire we are to make."</p> + +<p>The housekeeper obeyed with great satisfaction, and the worthy +"Esplandian" went flying into the yard to await with all patience +the fire that was in store for him.</p> + +<p>"Proceed," said the curate.</p> + +<p>"This that comes next," said the barber, "is 'Amadis of Greece,' +and, indeed, I believe all those on this side are of the same Amadis +lineage."</p> + +<p>"Then to the yard with the whole of them," said the curate; "for +to have the burning of Queen Pintiquiniestra, and the shepherd Darinel +and his eclogues, and the bedevilled and involved discourses of his +author, I would burn with them the father who begot me if he were +going about in the guise of a knight-errant."</p> + +<p>"I am of the same mind," said the barber.</p> + +<p>"And so am I," added the niece.</p> + +<p>"In that case," said the housekeeper, "here, into the yard with +them!"</p> + +<p>They were handed to her, and as there were many of them, she +spared herself the staircase, and flung them down out of the window.</p> + +<p>"Who is that tub there?" said the curate.</p> + +<p>"This," said the barber, "is 'Don Olivante de Laura.'"</p> + +<p>"The author of that book," said the curate, "was the same that wrote +'The Garden of Flowers,' and truly there is no deciding which of the +two books is the more truthful, or, to put it better, the less +lying; all I can say is, send this one into the yard for a +swaggering fool."</p> + +<p>"This that follows is 'Florismarte of Hircania,'" said the barber.</p> + +<p>"Senor Florismarte here?" said the curate; "then by my faith he must +take up his quarters in the yard, in spite of his marvellous birth and +visionary adventures, for the stiffness and dryness of his style +deserve nothing else; into the yard with him and the other, mistress +housekeeper."</p> + +<p>"With all my heart, senor," said she, and executed the order with +great delight.</p> + +<p>"This," said the barber, "is The Knight Platir.'"</p> + +<p>"An old book that," said the curate, "but I find no reason for +clemency in it; send it after the others without appeal;" which was +done.</p> + +<p>Another book was opened, and they saw it was entitled, "The Knight +of the Cross."</p> + +<p>"For the sake of the holy name this book has," said the curate, "its +ignorance might be excused; but then, they say, 'behind the cross +there's the devil; to the fire with it."</p> + +<p>Taking down another book, the barber said, "This is 'The Mirror of +Chivalry.'"</p> + +<p>"I know his worship," said the curate; "that is where Senor +Reinaldos of Montalvan figures with his friends and comrades, +greater thieves than Cacus, and the Twelve Peers of France with the +veracious historian Turpin; however, I am not for condemning them to +more than perpetual banishment, because, at any rate, they have some +share in the invention of the famous Matteo Boiardo, whence too the +Christian poet Ludovico Ariosto wove his web, to whom, if I find him +here, and speaking any language but his own, I shall show no respect +whatever; but if he speaks his own tongue I will put him upon my +head."</p> + +<p>"Well, I have him in Italian," said the barber, "but I do not +understand him."</p> + +<p>"Nor would it be well that you should understand him," said the +curate, "and on that score we might have excused the Captain if he had +not brought him into Spain and turned him into Castilian. He robbed +him of a great deal of his natural force, and so do all those who +try to turn books written in verse into another language, for, with +all the pains they take and all the cleverness they show, they never +can reach the level of the originals as they were first produced. In +short, I say that this book, and all that may be found treating of +those French affairs, should be thrown into or deposited in some dry +well, until after more consideration it is settled what is to be +done with them; excepting always one 'Bernardo del Carpio' that is +going about, and another called 'Roncesvalles;' for these, if they +come into my hands, shall pass at once into those of the +housekeeper, and from hers into the fire without any reprieve."</p> + +<p>To all this the barber gave his assent, and looked upon it as +right and proper, being persuaded that the curate was so staunch to +the Faith and loyal to the Truth that he would not for the world say +anything opposed to them. Opening another book he saw it was "Palmerin +de Oliva," and beside it was another called "Palmerin of England," +seeing which the licentiate said, "Let the Olive be made firewood of +at once and burned until no ashes even are left; and let that Palm +of England be kept and preserved as a thing that stands alone, and let +such another case be made for it as that which Alexander found among +the spoils of Darius and set aside for the safe keeping of the works +of the poet Homer. This book, gossip, is of authority for two reasons, +first because it is very good, and secondly because it is said to have +been written by a wise and witty king of Portugal. All the +adventures at the Castle of Miraguarda are excellent and of +admirable contrivance, and the language is polished and clear, +studying and observing the style befitting the speaker with +propriety and judgment. So then, provided it seems good to you, Master +Nicholas, I say let this and 'Amadis of Gaul' be remitted the +penalty of fire, and as for all the rest, let them perish without +further question or query."</p> + +<p>"Nay, gossip," said the barber, "for this that I have here is the +famous 'Don Belianis.'"</p> + +<p>"Well," said the curate, "that and the second, third, and fourth +parts all stand in need of a little rhubarb to purge their excess of +bile, and they must be cleared of all that stuff about the Castle of +Fame and other greater affectations, to which end let them be +allowed the over-seas term, and, according as they mend, so shall +mercy or justice be meted out to them; and in the mean time, gossip, +do you keep them in your house and let no one read them."</p> + +<p>"With all my heart," said the barber; and not caring to tire himself +with reading more books of chivalry, he told the housekeeper to take +all the big ones and throw them into the yard. It was not said to +one dull or deaf, but to one who enjoyed burning them more than +weaving the broadest and finest web that could be; and seizing about +eight at a time, she flung them out of the window.</p> + +<p>In carrying so many together she let one fall at the feet of the +barber, who took it up, curious to know whose it was, and found it +said, "History of the Famous Knight, Tirante el Blanco."</p> + +<p>"God bless me!" said the curate with a shout, "'Tirante el Blanco' +here! Hand it over, gossip, for in it I reckon I have found a treasury +of enjoyment and a mine of recreation. Here is Don Kyrieleison of +Montalvan, a valiant knight, and his brother Thomas of Montalvan, +and the knight Fonseca, with the battle the bold Tirante fought with +the mastiff, and the witticisms of the damsel Placerdemivida, and +the loves and wiles of the widow Reposada, and the empress in love +with the squire Hipolito—in truth, gossip, by right of its style it +is the best book in the world. Here knights eat and sleep, and die +in their beds, and make their wills before dying, and a great deal +more of which there is nothing in all the other books. Nevertheless, I +say he who wrote it, for deliberately composing such fooleries, +deserves to be sent to the galleys for life. Take it home with you and +read it, and you will see that what I have said is true."</p> + +<p>"As you will," said the barber; "but what are we to do with these +little books that are left?"</p> + +<p>"These must be, not chivalry, but poetry," said the curate; and +opening one he saw it was the "Diana" of Jorge de Montemayor, and, +supposing all the others to be of the same sort, "these," he said, "do +not deserve to be burned like the others, for they neither do nor +can do the mischief the books of chivalry have done, being books of +entertainment that can hurt no one."</p> + +<p>"Ah, senor!" said the niece, "your worship had better order these to +be burned as well as the others; for it would be no wonder if, after +being cured of his chivalry disorder, my uncle, by reading these, took +a fancy to turn shepherd and range the woods and fields singing and +piping; or, what would be still worse, to turn poet, which they say is +an incurable and infectious malady."</p> + +<p>"The damsel is right," said the curate, "and it will be well to +put this stumbling-block and temptation out of our friend's way. To +begin, then, with the 'Diana' of Montemayor. I am of opinion it should +not be burned, but that it should be cleared of all that about the +sage Felicia and the magic water, and of almost all the longer +pieces of verse: let it keep, and welcome, its prose and the honour of +being the first of books of the kind."</p> + +<p>"This that comes next," said the barber, "is the 'Diana,' entitled +the 'Second Part, by the Salamancan,' and this other has the same +title, and its author is Gil Polo."</p> + +<p>"As for that of the Salamancan," replied the curate, "let it go to +swell the number of the condemned in the yard, and let Gil Polo's be +preserved as if it came from Apollo himself: but get on, gossip, and +make haste, for it is growing late."</p> + +<p>"This book," said the barber, opening another, "is the ten books +of the 'Fortune of Love,' written by Antonio de Lofraso, a Sardinian +poet."</p> + +<p>"By the orders I have received," said the curate, "since Apollo +has been Apollo, and the Muses have been Muses, and poets have been +poets, so droll and absurd a book as this has never been written, +and in its way it is the best and the most singular of all of this +species that have as yet appeared, and he who has not read it may be +sure he has never read what is delightful. Give it here, gossip, for I +make more account of having found it than if they had given me a +cassock of Florence stuff."</p> + +<p>He put it aside with extreme satisfaction, and the barber went on, +"These that come next are 'The Shepherd of Iberia,' 'Nymphs of +Henares,' and 'The Enlightenment of Jealousy.'"</p> + +<p>"Then all we have to do," said the curate, "is to hand them over +to the secular arm of the housekeeper, and ask me not why, or we shall +never have done."</p> + +<p>"This next is the 'Pastor de Filida.'"</p> + +<p>"No Pastor that," said the curate, "but a highly polished +courtier; let it be preserved as a precious jewel."</p> + +<p>"This large one here," said the barber, "is called 'The Treasury +of various Poems.'"</p> + +<p>"If there were not so many of them," said the curate, "they would be +more relished: this book must be weeded and cleansed of certain +vulgarities which it has with its excellences; let it be preserved +because the author is a friend of mine, and out of respect for other +more heroic and loftier works that he has written."</p> + +<p>"This," continued the barber, "is the 'Cancionero' of Lopez de +Maldonado."</p> + +<p>"The author of that book, too," said the curate, "is a great +friend of mine, and his verses from his own mouth are the admiration +of all who hear them, for such is the sweetness of his voice that he +enchants when he chants them: it gives rather too much of its +eclogues, but what is good was never yet plentiful: let it be kept +with those that have been set apart. But what book is that next it?"</p> + +<p>"The 'Galatea' of Miguel de Cervantes," said the barber.</p> + +<p>"That Cervantes has been for many years a great friend of mine, +and to my knowledge he has had more experience in reverses than in +verses. His book has some good invention in it, it presents us with +something but brings nothing to a conclusion: we must wait for the +Second Part it promises: perhaps with amendment it may succeed in +winning the full measure of grace that is now denied it; and in the +mean time do you, senor gossip, keep it shut up in your own quarters."</p> + +<p>"Very good," said the barber; "and here come three together, the +'Araucana' of Don Alonso de Ercilla, the 'Austriada' of Juan Rufo, +Justice of Cordova, and the 'Montserrate' of Christobal de Virues, the +Valencian poet."</p> + +<p>"These three books," said the curate, "are the best that have been +written in Castilian in heroic verse, and they may compare with the +most famous of Italy; let them be preserved as the richest treasures +of poetry that Spain possesses."</p> + +<p>The curate was tired and would not look into any more books, and +so he decided that, "contents uncertified," all the rest should be +burned; but just then the barber held open one, called "The Tears of +Angelica."</p> + +<p>"I should have shed tears myself," said the curate when he heard the +title, "had I ordered that book to be burned, for its author was one +of the famous poets of the world, not to say of Spain, and was very +happy in the translation of some of Ovid's fables."</p> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="c06e"></a><img alt="c06e.jpg (30K)" src="images/c06e.jpg" height="383" width="547"> +</center> +<br><br><br><br><br><br> + + + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><h2><a name="ch7"></a>CHAPTER VII.</h2></center> +<br> +<center><h3>OF THE SECOND SALLY OF OUR WORTHY KNIGHT DON QUIXOTE OF LA MANCHA +</h3></center> + +<br> +<br> +<center><a name="c07a"></a><img alt="c07a.jpg (151K)" src="images/c07a.jpg" height="440" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/c07a.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<p>At this instant Don Quixote began shouting out, "Here, here, +valiant knights! here is need for you to put forth the might of your +strong arms, for they of the Court are gaining the mastery in the +tourney!" Called away by this noise and outcry, they proceeded no +farther with the scrutiny of the remaining books, and so it is thought +that "The Carolea," "The Lion of Spain," and "The Deeds of the +Emperor," written by Don Luis de Avila, went to the fire unseen and +unheard; for no doubt they were among those that remained, and perhaps +if the curate had seen them they would not have undergone so severe +a sentence.</p> + +<p>When they reached Don Quixote he was already out of bed, and was +still shouting and raving, and slashing and cutting all round, as wide +awake as if he had never slept.</p> + +<p>They closed with him and by force got him back to bed, and when he +had become a little calm, addressing the curate, he said to him, "Of a +truth, Senor Archbishop Turpin, it is a great disgrace for us who call +ourselves the Twelve Peers, so carelessly to allow the knights of +the Court to gain the victory in this tourney, we the adventurers +having carried off the honour on the three former days."</p> + +<p>"Hush, gossip," said the curate; "please God, the luck may turn, and +what is lost to-day may be won to-morrow; for the present let your +worship have a care of your health, for it seems to me that you are +over-fatigued, if not badly wounded."</p> + +<p>"Wounded no," said Don Quixote, "but bruised and battered no +doubt, for that bastard Don Roland has cudgelled me with the trunk +of an oak tree, and all for envy, because he sees that I alone rival +him in his achievements. But I should not call myself Reinaldos of +Montalvan did he not pay me for it in spite of all his enchantments as +soon as I rise from this bed. For the present let them bring me +something to eat, for that, I feel, is what will be more to my +purpose, and leave it to me to avenge myself."</p> + +<p>They did as he wished; they gave him something to eat, and once more +he fell asleep, leaving them marvelling at his madness.</p> + +<p>That night the housekeeper burned to ashes all the books that were +in the yard and in the whole house; and some must have been consumed +that deserved preservation in everlasting archives, but their fate and +the laziness of the examiner did not permit it, and so in them was +verified the proverb that the innocent suffer for the guilty.</p> + +<p>One of the remedies which the curate and the barber immediately +applied to their friend's disorder was to wall up and plaster the room +where the books were, so that when he got up he should not find them +(possibly the cause being removed the effect might cease), and they +might say that a magician had carried them off, room and all; and this +was done with all despatch. Two days later Don Quixote got up, and the +first thing he did was to go and look at his books, and not finding +the room where he had left it, he wandered from side to side looking +for it. He came to the place where the door used to be, and tried it +with his hands, and turned and twisted his eyes in every direction +without saying a word; but after a good while he asked his housekeeper +whereabouts was the room that held his books.</p> + +<p>The housekeeper, who had been already well instructed in what she +was to answer, said, "What room or what nothing is it that your +worship is looking for? There are neither room nor books in this house +now, for the devil himself has carried all away."</p> + +<p>"It was not the devil," said the niece, "but a magician who came +on a cloud one night after the day your worship left this, and +dismounting from a serpent that he rode he entered the room, and +what he did there I know not, but after a little while he made off, +flying through the roof, and left the house full of smoke; and when we +went to see what he had done we saw neither book nor room: but we +remember very well, the housekeeper and I, that on leaving, the old +villain said in a loud voice that, for a private grudge he owed the +owner of the books and the room, he had done mischief in that house +that would be discovered by-and-by: he said too that his name was +the Sage Munaton."</p> + +<p>"He must have said Friston," said Don Quixote.</p> + +<p>"I don't know whether he called himself Friston or Friton," said the +housekeeper, "I only know that his name ended with 'ton.'"</p> + +<p>"So it does," said Don Quixote, "and he is a sage magician, a +great enemy of mine, who has a spite against me because he knows by +his arts and lore that in process of time I am to engage in single +combat with a knight whom he befriends and that I am to conquer, and +he will be unable to prevent it; and for this reason he endeavours +to do me all the ill turns that he can; but I promise him it will be +hard for him to oppose or avoid what is decreed by Heaven."</p> + +<p>"Who doubts that?" said the niece; "but, uncle, who mixes you up +in these quarrels? Would it not be better to remain at peace in your +own house instead of roaming the world looking for better bread than +ever came of wheat, never reflecting that many go for wool and come +back shorn?"</p> + +<p>"Oh, niece of mine," replied Don Quixote, "how much astray art +thou in thy reckoning: ere they shear me I shall have plucked away and +stripped off the beards of all who dare to touch only the tip of a +hair of mine."</p> + +<p>The two were unwilling to make any further answer, as they saw +that his anger was kindling.</p> + +<p>In short, then, he remained at home fifteen days very quietly +without showing any signs of a desire to take up with his former +delusions, and during this time he held lively discussions with his +two gossips, the curate and the barber, on the point he maintained, +that knights-errant were what the world stood most in need of, and +that in him was to be accomplished the revival of knight-errantry. The +curate sometimes contradicted him, sometimes agreed with him, for if +he had not observed this precaution he would have been unable to bring +him to reason.</p> + +<p>Meanwhile Don Quixote worked upon a farm labourer, a neighbour of +his, an honest man (if indeed that title can be given to him who is +poor), but with very little wit in his pate. In a word, he so talked +him over, and with such persuasions and promises, that the poor +clown made up his mind to sally forth with him and serve him as +esquire. Don Quixote, among other things, told him he ought to be +ready to go with him gladly, because any moment an adventure might +occur that might win an island in the twinkling of an eye and leave +him governor of it. On these and the like promises Sancho Panza (for +so the labourer was called) left wife and children, and engaged +himself as esquire to his neighbour.</p> + +<br> +<br><br><br> +<center><a name="c07b"></a><img alt="c07b.jpg (322K)" src="images/c07b.jpg" height="818" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/c07b.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<p>Don Quixote next set about +getting some money; and selling one thing and pawning another, and +making a bad bargain in every case, he got together a fair sum. He +provided himself with a buckler, which he begged as a loan from a +friend, and, restoring his battered helmet as best he could, he warned +his squire Sancho of the day and hour he meant to set out, that he +might provide himself with what he thought most needful. Above all, he +charged him to take alforjas with him. The other said he would, and +that he meant to take also a very good ass he had, as he was not +much given to going on foot. About the ass, Don Quixote hesitated a +little, trying whether he could call to mind any knight-errant +taking with him an esquire mounted on ass-back, but no instance +occurred to his memory. For all that, however, he determined to take +him, intending to furnish him with a more honourable mount when a +chance of it presented itself, by appropriating the horse of the first +discourteous knight he encountered. Himself he provided with shirts +and such other things as he could, according to the advice the host +had given him; all which being done, without taking leave, Sancho +Panza of his wife and children, or Don Quixote of his housekeeper +and niece, they sallied forth unseen by anybody from the village one +night, and made such good way in the course of it that by daylight +they held themselves safe from discovery, even should search be made +for them.</p> + +<p>Sancho rode on his ass like a patriarch, with his alforjas and bota, +and longing to see himself soon governor of the island his master +had promised him. Don Quixote decided upon taking the same route and +road he had taken on his first journey, that over the Campo de +Montiel, which he travelled with less discomfort than on the last +occasion, for, as it was early morning and the rays of the sun fell on +them obliquely, the heat did not distress them.</p> + +<p>And now said Sancho Panza to his master, "Your worship will take +care, Senor Knight-errant, not to forget about the island you have +promised me, for be it ever so big I'll be equal to governing it."</p> + +<p>To which Don Quixote replied, "Thou must know, friend Sancho +Panza, that it was a practice very much in vogue with the +knights-errant of old to make their squires governors of the islands +or kingdoms they won, and I am determined that there shall be no +failure on my part in so liberal a custom; on the contrary, I mean +to improve upon it, for they sometimes, and perhaps most frequently, +waited until their squires were old, and then when they had had enough +of service and hard days and worse nights, they gave them some title +or other, of count, or at the most marquis, of some valley or province +more or less; but if thou livest and I live, it may well be that +before six days are over, I may have won some kingdom that has +others dependent upon it, which will be just the thing to enable +thee to be crowned king of one of them. Nor needst thou count this +wonderful, for things and chances fall to the lot of such knights in +ways so unexampled and unexpected that I might easily give thee even +more than I promise thee."</p> + +<p>"In that case," said Sancho Panza, "if I should become a king by one +of those miracles your worship speaks of, even Juana Gutierrez, my old +woman, would come to be queen and my children infantes."</p> + +<p>"Well, who doubts it?" said Don Quixote.</p> + +<p>"I doubt it," replied Sancho Panza, "because for my part I am +persuaded that though God should shower down kingdoms upon earth, +not one of them would fit the head of Mari Gutierrez. Let me tell you, +senor, she is not worth two maravedis for a queen; countess will fit +her better, and that only with God's help."</p> + +<p>"Leave it to God, Sancho," returned Don Quixote, "for he will give +her what suits her best; but do not undervalue thyself so much as to +come to be content with anything less than being governor of a +province."</p> + +<p>"I will not, senor," answered Sancho, "specially as I have a man +of such quality for a master in your worship, who will know how to +give me all that will be suitable for me and that I can bear."</p> + +<br> +<br><br><br> +<center><a name="c07e"></a><img alt="c07e.jpg (70K)" src="images/c07e.jpg" height="747" width="589"> +</center> +<br><br><br><br> + + + + +<br><br> +<center><h2><a name="ch8"></a>CHAPTER VIII.</h2></center> +<br> +<center><h3>OF THE GOOD FORTUNE WHICH THE VALIANT DON QUIXOTE HAD IN THE +TERRIBLE AND UNDREAMT-OF ADVENTURE OF THE WINDMILLS, WITH OTHER +OCCURRENCES WORTHY TO BE FITLY RECORDED +</h3></center> + +<br><br> +<center><a name="c08a"></a><img alt="c08a.jpg (142K)" src="images/c08a.jpg" height="428" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/c08a.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<p>At this point they came in sight of thirty forty windmills that +there are on plain, and as soon as Don Quixote saw them he said to his +squire, "Fortune is arranging matters for us better than we could have +shaped our desires ourselves, for look there, friend Sancho Panza, +where thirty or more monstrous giants present themselves, all of +whom I mean to engage in battle and slay, and with whose spoils we +shall begin to make our fortunes; for this is righteous warfare, and +it is God's good service to sweep so evil a breed from off the face of +the earth."</p> + +<p>"What giants?" said Sancho Panza.</p> + +<p>"Those thou seest there," answered his master, "with the long +arms, and some have them nearly two leagues long."</p> + +<p>"Look, your worship," said Sancho; "what we see there are not giants +but windmills, and what seem to be their arms are the sails that +turned by the wind make the millstone go."</p> + +<p>"It is easy to see," replied Don Quixote, "that thou art not used to +this business of adventures; those are giants; and if thou art afraid, +away with thee out of this and betake thyself to prayer while I engage +them in fierce and unequal combat."</p> + +<p>So saying, he gave the spur to his steed Rocinante, heedless of +the cries his squire Sancho sent after him, warning him that most +certainly they were windmills and not giants he was going to attack. +He, however, was so positive they were giants that he neither heard +the cries of Sancho, nor perceived, near as he was, what they were, +but made at them shouting, "Fly not, cowards and vile beings, for a +single knight attacks you."</p> + +<p>A slight breeze at this moment sprang up, and the great sails +began to move, seeing which Don Quixote exclaimed, "Though ye flourish +more arms than the giant Briareus, ye have to reckon with me."</p> + +<p>So saying, and commending himself with all his heart to his lady +Dulcinea, imploring her to support him in such a peril, with lance +in rest and covered by his buckler, he charged at Rocinante's +fullest gallop and fell upon the first mill that stood in front of +him; but as he drove his lance-point into the sail the wind whirled it +round with such force that it shivered the lance to pieces, sweeping +with it horse and rider, who went rolling over on the plain, in a +sorry condition. Sancho hastened to his assistance as fast as his +ass could go, and when he came up found him unable to move, with +such a shock had Rocinante fallen with him.</p> + +<br> +<br><br><br> +<center><a name="c08b"></a><img alt="c08b.jpg (358K)" src="images/c08b.jpg" height="812" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/c08b.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<p>"God bless me!" said Sancho, "did I not tell your worship to mind +what you were about, for they were only windmills? and no one could +have made any mistake about it but one who had something of the same +kind in his head."</p> + +<p>"Hush, friend Sancho," replied Don Quixote, "the fortunes of war +more than any other are liable to frequent fluctuations; and +moreover I think, and it is the truth, that that same sage Friston who +carried off my study and books, has turned these giants into mills +in order to rob me of the glory of vanquishing them, such is the +enmity he bears me; but in the end his wicked arts will avail but +little against my good sword."</p> + +<br> +<br><br><br> +<center><a name="c08c"></a><img alt="c08c.jpg (301K)" src="images/c08c.jpg" height="833" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/c08c.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<p>"God order it as he may," said Sancho Panza, and helping him to rise +got him up again on Rocinante, whose shoulder was half out; and +then, discussing the late adventure, they followed the road to +Puerto Lapice, for there, said Don Quixote, they could not fail to +find adventures in abundance and variety, as it was a great +thoroughfare. For all that, he was much grieved at the loss of his +lance, and saying so to his squire, he added, "I remember having +read how a Spanish knight, Diego Perez de Vargas by name, having +broken his sword in battle, tore from an oak a ponderous bough or +branch, and with it did such things that day, and pounded so many +Moors, that he got the surname of Machuca, and he and his +descendants from that day forth were called Vargas y Machuca. I +mention this because from the first oak I see I mean to rend such +another branch, large and stout like that, with which I am +determined and resolved to do such deeds that thou mayest deem thyself +very fortunate in being found worthy to come and see them, and be an +eyewitness of things that will with difficulty be believed."</p> + +<p>"Be that as God will," said Sancho, "I believe it all as your +worship says it; but straighten yourself a little, for you seem all on +one side, may be from the shaking of the fall."</p> + +<p>"That is the truth," said Don Quixote, "and if I make no complaint +of the pain it is because knights-errant are not permitted to complain +of any wound, even though their bowels be coming out through it."</p> + +<p>"If so," said Sancho, "I have nothing to say; but God knows I +would rather your worship complained when anything ailed you. For my +part, I confess I must complain however small the ache may be; +unless this rule about not complaining extends to the squires of +knights-errant also."</p> + +<p>Don Quixote could not help laughing at his squire's simplicity, +and he assured him he might complain whenever and however he chose, +just as he liked, for, so far, he had never read of anything to the +contrary in the order of knighthood.</p> + +<p>Sancho bade him remember it was dinner-time, to which his master +answered that he wanted nothing himself just then, but that he might +eat when he had a mind. With this permission Sancho settled himself as +comfortably as he could on his beast, and taking out of the alforjas +what he had stowed away in them, he jogged along behind his master +munching deliberately, and from time to time taking a pull at the bota +with a relish that the thirstiest tapster in Malaga might have envied; +and while he went on in this way, gulping down draught after +draught, he never gave a thought to any of the promises his master had +made him, nor did he rate it as hardship but rather as recreation +going in quest of adventures, however dangerous they might be. Finally +they passed the night among some trees, from one of which Don +Quixote plucked a dry branch to serve him after a fashion as a +lance, and fixed on it the head he had removed from the broken one. +All that night Don Quixote lay awake thinking of his lady Dulcinea, in +order to conform to what he had read in his books, how many a night in +the forests and deserts knights used to lie sleepless supported by the +memory of their mistresses. Not so did Sancho Panza spend it, for +having his stomach full of something stronger than chicory water he +made but one sleep of it, and, if his master had not called him, +neither the rays of the sun beating on his face nor all the cheery +notes of the birds welcoming the approach of day would have had +power to waken him. On getting up he tried the bota and found it +somewhat less full than the night before, which grieved his heart +because they did not seem to be on the way to remedy the deficiency +readily. Don Quixote did not care to break his fast, for, as has +been already said, he confined himself to savoury recollections for +nourishment.</p> + +<p>They returned to the road they had set out with, leading to Puerto +Lapice, and at three in the afternoon they came in sight of it. "Here, +brother Sancho Panza," said Don Quixote when he saw it, "we may plunge +our hands up to the elbows in what they call adventures; but +observe, even shouldst thou see me in the greatest danger in the +world, thou must not put a hand to thy sword in my defence, unless +indeed thou perceivest that those who assail me are rabble or base +folk; for in that case thou mayest very properly aid me; but if they +be knights it is on no account permitted or allowed thee by the laws +of knighthood to help me until thou hast been dubbed a knight."</p> + +<p>"Most certainly, senor," replied Sancho, "your worship shall be +fully obeyed in this matter; all the more as of myself I am peaceful +and no friend to mixing in strife and quarrels: it is true that as +regards the defence of my own person I shall not give much heed to +those laws, for laws human and divine allow each one to defend himself +against any assailant whatever."</p> + +<p>"That I grant," said Don Quixote, "but in this matter of aiding me +against knights thou must put a restraint upon thy natural +impetuosity."</p> + +<p>"I will do so, I promise you," answered Sancho, "and will keep +this precept as carefully as Sunday."</p> + +<p>While they were thus talking there appeared on the road two friars +of the order of St. Benedict, mounted on two dromedaries, for not less +tall were the two mules they rode on. They wore travelling +spectacles and carried sunshades; and behind them came a coach +attended by four or five persons on horseback and two muleteers on +foot. In the coach there was, as afterwards appeared, a Biscay lady on +her way to Seville, where her husband was about to take passage for +the Indies with an appointment of high honour. The friars, though +going the same road, were not in her company; but the moment Don +Quixote perceived them he said to his squire, "Either I am mistaken, +or this is going to be the most famous adventure that has ever been +seen, for those black bodies we see there must be, and doubtless +are, magicians who are carrying off some stolen princess in that +coach, and with all my might I must undo this wrong."</p> + +<p>"This will be worse than the windmills," said Sancho. "Look, +senor; those are friars of St. Benedict, and the coach plainly belongs +to some travellers: I tell you to mind well what you are about and +don't let the devil mislead you."</p> + +<p>"I have told thee already, Sancho," replied Don Quixote, "that on +the subject of adventures thou knowest little. What I say is the +truth, as thou shalt see presently."</p> + +<p>So saying, he advanced and posted himself in the middle of the +road along which the friars were coming, and as soon as he thought +they had come near enough to hear what he said, he cried aloud, +"Devilish and unnatural beings, release instantly the highborn +princesses whom you are carrying off by force in this coach, else +prepare to meet a speedy death as the just punishment of your evil +deeds."</p> + +<p>The friars drew rein and stood wondering at the appearance of Don +Quixote as well as at his words, to which they replied, "Senor +Caballero, we are not devilish or unnatural, but two brothers of St. +Benedict following our road, nor do we know whether or not there are +any captive princesses coming in this coach."</p> + +<p>"No soft words with me, for I know you, lying rabble," said Don +Quixote, and without waiting for a reply he spurred Rocinante and with +levelled lance charged the first friar with such fury and +determination, that, if the friar had not flung himself off the +mule, he would have brought him to the ground against his will, and +sore wounded, if not killed outright. The second brother, seeing how +his comrade was treated, drove his heels into his castle of a mule and +made off across the country faster than the wind.</p> + +<p>Sancho Panza, when he saw the friar on the ground, dismounting +briskly from his ass, rushed towards him and began to strip off his +gown. At that instant the friars muleteers came up and asked what he +was stripping him for. Sancho answered them that this fell to him +lawfully as spoil of the battle which his lord Don Quixote had won. +The muleteers, who had no idea of a joke and did not understand all +this about battles and spoils, seeing that Don Quixote was some +distance off talking to the travellers in the coach, fell upon Sancho, +knocked him down, and leaving hardly a hair in his beard, belaboured +him with kicks and left him stretched breathless and senseless on +the ground; and without any more delay helped the friar to mount, who, +trembling, terrified, and pale, as soon as he found himself in the +saddle, spurred after his companion, who was standing at a distance +looking on, watching the result of the onslaught; then, not caring +to wait for the end of the affair just begun, they pursued their +journey making more crosses than if they had the devil after them.</p> + +<p>Don Quixote was, as has been said, speaking to the lady in the +coach: "Your beauty, lady mine," said he, "may now dispose of your +person as may be most in accordance with your pleasure, for the +pride of your ravishers lies prostrate on the ground through this +strong arm of mine; and lest you should be pining to know the name +of your deliverer, know that I am called Don Quixote of La Mancha, +knight-errant and adventurer, and captive to the peerless and +beautiful lady Dulcinea del Toboso: and in return for the service +you have received of me I ask no more than that you should return to +El Toboso, and on my behalf present yourself before that lady and tell +her what I have done to set you free."</p> + +<p>One of the squires in attendance upon the coach, a Biscayan, was +listening to all Don Quixote was saying, and, perceiving that he would +not allow the coach to go on, but was saying it must return at once to +El Toboso, he made at him, and seizing his lance addressed him in +bad Castilian and worse Biscayan after his fashion, "Begone, +caballero, and ill go with thee; by the God that made me, unless +thou quittest coach, slayest thee as art here a Biscayan."</p> + +<p>Don Quixote understood him quite well, and answered him very +quietly, "If thou wert a knight, as thou art none, I should have +already chastised thy folly and rashness, miserable creature." To +which the Biscayan returned, "I no gentleman!—I swear to God thou +liest as I am Christian: if thou droppest lance and drawest sword, +soon shalt thou see thou art carrying water to the cat: Biscayan on +land, hidalgo at sea, hidalgo at the devil, and look, if thou sayest +otherwise thou liest."</p> + +<p>"'"You will see presently," said Agrajes,'" replied Don Quixote; and +throwing his lance on the ground he drew his sword, braced his buckler +on his arm, and attacked the Biscayan, bent upon taking his life.</p> + +<p>The Biscayan, when he saw him coming on, though he wished to +dismount from his mule, in which, being one of those sorry ones let +out for hire, he had no confidence, had no choice but to draw his +sword; it was lucky for him, however, that he was near the coach, from +which he was able to snatch a cushion that served him for a shield; +and they went at one another as if they had been two mortal enemies. +The others strove to make peace between them, but could not, for the +Biscayan declared in his disjointed phrase that if they did not let +him finish his battle he would kill his mistress and everyone that +strove to prevent him. The lady in the coach, amazed and terrified +at what she saw, ordered the coachman to draw aside a little, and +set herself to watch this severe struggle, in the course of which +the Biscayan smote Don Quixote a mighty stroke on the shoulder over +the top of his buckler, which, given to one without armour, would have +cleft him to the waist. Don Quixote, feeling the weight of this +prodigious blow, cried aloud, saying, "O lady of my soul, Dulcinea, +flower of beauty, come to the aid of this your knight, who, in +fulfilling his obligations to your beauty, finds himself in this +extreme peril." To say this, to lift his sword, to shelter himself +well behind his buckler, and to assail the Biscayan was the work of an +instant, determined as he was to venture all upon a single blow. The +Biscayan, seeing him come on in this way, was convinced of his courage +by his spirited bearing, and resolved to follow his example, so he +waited for him keeping well under cover of his cushion, being unable +to execute any sort of manoeuvre with his mule, which, dead tired +and never meant for this kind of game, could not stir a step.</p> + +<p>On, then, as aforesaid, came Don Quixote against the wary +Biscayan, with uplifted sword and a firm intention of splitting him in +half, while on his side the Biscayan waited for him sword in hand, and +under the protection of his cushion; and all present stood +trembling, waiting in suspense the result of blows such as +threatened to fall, and the lady in the coach and the rest of her +following were making a thousand vows and offerings to all the +images and shrines of Spain, that God might deliver her squire and all +of them from this great peril in which they found themselves. But it +spoils all, that at this point and crisis the author of the history +leaves this battle impending, giving as excuse that he could find +nothing more written about these achievements of Don Quixote than what +has been already set forth. It is true the second author of this +work was unwilling to believe that a history so curious could have +been allowed to fall under the sentence of oblivion, or that the +wits of La Mancha could have been so undiscerning as not to preserve +in their archives or registries some documents referring to this +famous knight; and this being his persuasion, he did not despair of +finding the conclusion of this pleasant history, which, heaven +favouring him, he did find in a way that shall be related in the +Second Part.</p> + + +<br> +<br><br><br> +<center><a name="c08e"></a><img alt="c08e.jpg (54K)" src="images/c08e.jpg" height="409" width="650"> +</center> + + +<br> +<br> + + +<center> +<table summary="" cellPadding=4 border=3> +<tr><td> + <a href="p2.htm">Previous Part</a> +</td><td> + <a href="5921-h.htm">Main Index</a> +</td><td> + <a href="p4.htm">Next Part</a> + </td></tr> +</table> +</center> +<br><br> + +</body> +</html> + diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/p4.htm b/old/orig5921-h/p4.htm new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a28aede --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/p4.htm @@ -0,0 +1,1499 @@ +<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> +<html> +<head> +<title>THE HISTORY OF DON QUIXOTE, By Cervantes, Vol.I., Part 4.</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> + +<center> +<table summary="" cellPadding=4 border=3> +<tr><td> + <a href="p3.htm">Previous Part</a> +</td><td> + <a href="5921-h.htm">Main Index</a> +</td><td> + <a href="p5.htm">Next Part</a> + </td></tr> +</table> +</center> +<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 4. +<br><br> +Chapters 9-13 +</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="#ch9">CHAPTER IX</a> +IN WHICH IS CONCLUDED AND FINISHED THE TERRIFIC BATTLE +BETWEEN THE GALLANT BISCAYAN AND THE VALIANT MANCHEGAN + +<a href="#ch10">CHAPTER X</a> +OF THE PLEASANT DISCOURSE THAT PASSED BETWEEN DON QUIXOTE +AND HIS SQUIRE SANCHO PANZA + +<a href="#ch11">CHAPTER XI</a> +OF WHAT BEFELL DON QUIXOTE WITH CERTAIN GOATHERDS + +<a href="#ch12">CHAPTER XII</a> +OF WHAT A GOATHERD RELATED TO THOSE WITH DON QUIXOTE + +<a href="#ch13">CHAPTER XIII</a> +IN WHICH IS ENDED THE STORY OF THE SHEPHERDESS MARCELA, +WITH OTHER INCIDENTS + +</pre> + +<br><br><br><br> + + + + +<br><br> +<center><h2><a name="ch9"></a>CHAPTER IX.</h2></center> +<br> +<center><h3>IN WHICH IS CONCLUDED AND FINISHED THE TERRIFIC BATTLE BETWEEN THE +GALLANT BISCAYAN AND THE VALIANT MANCHEGAN +</h3></center> +<br> + +<br> +<br><br><br> +<center><a name="c09a"></a><img alt="c09a.jpg (142K)" src="images/c09a.jpg" height="447" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/c09a.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<p>In the First Part of this history we left the valiant Biscayan and +the renowned Don Quixote with drawn swords uplifted, ready to +deliver two such furious slashing blows that if they had fallen full +and fair they would at least have split and cleft them asunder from +top to toe and laid them open like a pomegranate; and at this so +critical point the delightful history came to a stop and stood cut +short without any intimation from the author where what was missing +was to be found.</p> + +<p>This distressed me greatly, because the pleasure derived from having +read such a small portion turned to vexation at the thought of the +poor chance that presented itself of finding the large part that, so +it seemed to me, was missing of such an interesting tale. It +appeared to me to be a thing impossible and contrary to all +precedent that so good a knight should have been without some sage +to undertake the task of writing his marvellous achievements; a +thing that was never wanting to any of those knights-errant who, +they say, went after adventures; for every one of them had one or +two sages as if made on purpose, who not only recorded their deeds but +described their most trifling thoughts and follies, however secret +they might be; and such a good knight could not have been so +unfortunate as not to have what Platir and others like him had in +abundance. And so I could not bring myself to believe that such a +gallant tale had been left maimed and mutilated, and I laid the +blame on Time, the devourer and destroyer of all things, that had +either concealed or consumed it.</p> + +<p>On the other hand, it struck me that, inasmuch as among his books +there had been found such modern ones as "The Enlightenment of +Jealousy" and the "Nymphs and Shepherds of Henares," his story must +likewise be modern, and that though it might not be written, it +might exist in the memory of the people of his village and of those in +the neighbourhood. This reflection kept me perplexed and longing to +know really and truly the whole life and wondrous deeds of our +famous Spaniard, Don Quixote of La Mancha, light and mirror of +Manchegan chivalry, and the first that in our age and in these so evil +days devoted himself to the labour and exercise of the arms of +knight-errantry, righting wrongs, succouring widows, and protecting +damsels of that sort that used to ride about, whip in hand, on their +palfreys, with all their virginity about them, from mountain to +mountain and valley to valley—for, if it were not for some ruffian, +or boor with a hood and hatchet, or monstrous giant, that forced them, +there were in days of yore damsels that at the end of eighty years, in +all which time they had never slept a day under a roof, went to +their graves as much maids as the mothers that bore them. I say, then, +that in these and other respects our gallant Don Quixote is worthy +of everlasting and notable praise, nor should it be withheld even from +me for the labour and pains spent in searching for the conclusion of +this delightful history; though I know well that if Heaven, chance and +good fortune had not helped me, the world would have remained deprived +of an entertainment and pleasure that for a couple of hours or so +may well occupy him who shall read it attentively. The discovery of it +occurred in this way.</p> + +<p>One day, as I was in the Alcana of Toledo, a boy came up to sell +some pamphlets and old papers to a silk mercer, and, as I am fond of +reading even the very scraps of paper in the streets, led by this +natural bent of mine I took up one of the pamphlets the boy had for +sale, and saw that it was in characters which I recognised as +Arabic, and as I was unable to read them though I could recognise +them, I looked about to see if there were any Spanish-speaking Morisco +at hand to read them for me; nor was there any great difficulty in +finding such an interpreter, for even had I sought one for an older +and better language I should have found him. In short, chance provided +me with one, who when I told him what I wanted and put the book into +his hands, opened it in the middle and after reading a little in it +began to laugh. I asked him what he was laughing at, and he replied +that it was at something the book had written in the margin by way +of a note. I bade him tell it to me; and he still laughing said, "In +the margin, as I told you, this is written: 'This Dulcinea del +Toboso so often mentioned in this history, had, they say, the best +hand of any woman in all La Mancha for salting pigs.'"</p> + +<p>When I heard Dulcinea del Toboso named, I was struck with surprise +and amazement, for it occurred to me at once that these pamphlets +contained the history of Don Quixote. With this idea I pressed him +to read the beginning, and doing so, turning the Arabic offhand into +Castilian, he told me it meant, "History of Don Quixote of La +Mancha, written by Cide Hamete Benengeli, an Arab historian." It +required great caution to hide the joy I felt when the title of the +book reached my ears, and snatching it from the silk mercer, I +bought all the papers and pamphlets from the boy for half a real; +and if he had had his wits about him and had known how eager I was for +them, he might have safely calculated on making more than six reals by +the bargain. I withdrew at once with the Morisco into the cloister +of the cathedral, and begged him to turn all these pamphlets that +related to Don Quixote into the Castilian tongue, without omitting +or adding anything to them, offering him whatever payment he +pleased. He was satisfied with two arrobas of raisins and two +bushels of wheat, and promised to translate them faithfully and with +all despatch; but to make the matter easier, and not to let such a +precious find out of my hands, I took him to my house, where in little +more than a month and a half he translated the whole just as it is set +down here.</p> + +<p>In the first pamphlet the battle between Don Quixote and the +Biscayan was drawn to the very life, they planted in the same attitude +as the history describes, their swords raised, and the one protected +by his buckler, the other by his cushion, and the Biscayan's mule so +true to nature that it could be seen to be a hired one a bowshot +off. The Biscayan had an inscription under his feet which said, "Don +Sancho de Azpeitia," which no doubt must have been his name; and at +the feet of Rocinante was another that said, "Don Quixote." +Rocinante was marvellously portrayed, so long and thin, so lank and +lean, with so much backbone and so far gone in consumption, that he +showed plainly with what judgment and propriety the name of +Rocinante had been bestowed upon him. Near him was Sancho Panza +holding the halter of his ass, at whose feet was another label that +said, "Sancho Zancas," and according to the picture, he must have +had a big belly, a short body, and long shanks, for which reason, no +doubt, the names of Panza and Zancas were given him, for by these +two surnames the history several times calls him. Some other +trifling particulars might be mentioned, but they are all of slight +importance and have nothing to do with the true relation of the +history; and no history can be bad so long as it is true.</p> + +<p>If against the present one any objection be raised on the score of +its truth, it can only be that its author was an Arab, as lying is a +very common propensity with those of that nation; though, as they +are such enemies of ours, it is conceivable that there were +omissions rather than additions made in the course of it. And this +is my own opinion; for, where he could and should give freedom to +his pen in praise of so worthy a knight, he seems to me deliberately +to pass it over in silence; which is ill done and worse contrived, for +it is the business and duty of historians to be exact, truthful, and +wholly free from passion, and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor +love, should make them swerve from the path of truth, whose mother +is history, rival of time, storehouse of deeds, witness for the +past, example and counsel for the present, and warning for the future. +In this I know will be found all that can be desired in the +pleasantest, and if it be wanting in any good quality, I maintain it +is the fault of its hound of an author and not the fault of the +subject. To be brief, its Second Part, according to the translation, +began in this way:</p> + +<p>With trenchant swords upraised and poised on high, it seemed as +though the two valiant and wrathful combatants stood threatening +heaven, and earth, and hell, with such resolution and determination +did they bear themselves. The fiery Biscayan was the first to strike a +blow, which was delivered with such force and fury that had not the +sword turned in its course, that single stroke would have sufficed +to put an end to the bitter struggle and to all the adventures of +our knight; but that good fortune which reserved him for greater +things, turned aside the sword of his adversary, so that although it +smote him upon the left shoulder, it did him no more harm than to +strip all that side of its armour, carrying away a great part of his +helmet with half of his ear, all which with fearful ruin fell to the +ground, leaving him in a sorry plight.</p> + +<p>Good God! Who is there that could properly describe the rage that +filled the heart of our Manchegan when he saw himself dealt with in +this fashion? All that can be said is, it was such that he again +raised himself in his stirrups, and, grasping his sword more firmly +with both hands, he came down on the Biscayan with such fury, +smiting him full over the cushion and over the head, that—even so +good a shield proving useless—as if a mountain had fallen on him, +he began to bleed from nose, mouth, and ears, reeling as if about to +fall backwards from his mule, as no doubt he would have done had he +not flung his arms about its neck; at the same time, however, he +slipped his feet out of the stirrups and then unclasped his arms, +and the mule, taking fright at the terrible blow, made off across +the plain, and with a few plunges flung its master to the ground. +Don Quixote stood looking on very calmly, and, when he saw him fall, +leaped from his horse and with great briskness ran to him, and, +presenting the point of his sword to his eyes, bade him surrender, +or he would cut his head off. The Biscayan was so bewildered that he +was unable to answer a word, and it would have gone hard with him, +so blind was Don Quixote, had not the ladies in the coach, who had +hitherto been watching the combat in great terror, hastened to where +he stood and implored him with earnest entreaties to grant them the +great grace and favour of sparing their squire's life; to which Don +Quixote replied with much gravity and dignity, "In truth, fair ladies, +I am well content to do what ye ask of me; but it must be on one +condition and understanding, which is that this knight promise me to +go to the village of El Toboso, and on my behalf present himself +before the peerless lady Dulcinea, that she deal with him as shall +be most pleasing to her."</p> + +<p>The terrified and disconsolate ladies, without discussing Don +Quixote's demand or asking who Dulcinea might be, promised that +their squire should do all that had been commanded.</p> + +<p>"Then, on the faith of that promise," said Don Quixote, "I shall +do him no further harm, though he well deserves it of me."</p> + +<br> +<br><br><br> +<center><a name="c09e"></a><img alt="c09e.jpg (61K)" src="images/c09e.jpg" height="421" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/c09e.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + + + + +<br><br> +<center><h2><a name="ch10"></a>CHAPTER X.</h2></center> +<br> +<center><h3>OF THE PLEASANT DISCOURSE THAT PASSED BETWEEN DON QUIXOTE AND HIS +SQUIRE SANCHO PANZA +</h3></center> + +<br><br> +<center><a name="c10a"></a><img alt="c10a.jpg (91K)" src="images/c10a.jpg" height="379" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/c10a.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<p>Now by this time Sancho had risen, rather the worse for the handling +of the friars' muleteers, and stood watching the battle of his master, +Don Quixote, and praying to God in his heart that it might be his will +to grant him the victory, and that he might thereby win some island to +make him governor of, as he had promised. Seeing, therefore, that +the struggle was now over, and that his master was returning to +mount Rocinante, he approached to hold the stirrup for him, and, +before he could mount, he went on his knees before him, and taking his +hand, kissed it saying, "May it please your worship, Senor Don +Quixote, to give me the government of that island which has been won +in this hard fight, for be it ever so big I feel myself in +sufficient force to be able to govern it as much and as well as anyone +in the world who has ever governed islands."</p> + +<p>To which Don Quixote replied, "Thou must take notice, brother +Sancho, that this adventure and those like it are not adventures of +islands, but of cross-roads, in which nothing is got except a broken +head or an ear the less: have patience, for adventures will present +themselves from which I may make you, not only a governor, but +something more."</p> + +<p>Sancho gave him many thanks, and again kissing his hand and the +skirt of his hauberk, helped him to mount Rocinante, and mounting +his ass himself, proceeded to follow his master, who at a brisk +pace, without taking leave, or saying anything further to the ladies +belonging to the coach, turned into a wood that was hard by. Sancho +followed him at his ass's best trot, but Rocinante stepped out so +that, seeing himself left behind, he was forced to call to his +master to wait for him. Don Quixote did so, reining in Rocinante until +his weary squire came up, who on reaching him said, "It seems to me, +senor, it would be prudent in us to go and take refuge in some church, +for, seeing how mauled he with whom you fought has been left, it +will be no wonder if they give information of the affair to the Holy +Brotherhood and arrest us, and, faith, if they do, before we come +out of gaol we shall have to sweat for it."</p> + +<p>"Peace," said Don Quixote; "where hast thou ever seen or heard +that a knight-errant has been arraigned before a court of justice, +however many homicides he may have committed?"</p> + +<p>"I know nothing about omecils," answered Sancho, "nor in my life +have had anything to do with one; I only know that the Holy +Brotherhood looks after those who fight in the fields, and in that +other matter I do not meddle."</p> + +<p>"Then thou needst have no uneasiness, my friend," said Don +Quixote, "for I will deliver thee out of the hands of the Chaldeans, +much more out of those of the Brotherhood. But tell me, as thou +livest, hast thou seen a more valiant knight than I in all the known +world; hast thou read in history of any who has or had higher mettle +in attack, more spirit in maintaining it, more dexterity in wounding +or skill in overthrowing?"</p> + +<p>"The truth is," answered Sancho, "that I have never read any +history, for I can neither read nor write, but what I will venture +to bet is that a more daring master than your worship I have never +served in all the days of my life, and God grant that this daring be +not paid for where I have said; what I beg of your worship is to dress +your wound, for a great deal of blood flows from that ear, and I +have here some lint and a little white ointment in the alforjas."</p> + +<p>"All that might be well dispensed with," said Don Quixote, "if I had +remembered to make a vial of the balsam of Fierabras, for time and +medicine are saved by one single drop."</p> + +<p>"What vial and what balsam is that?" said Sancho Panza.</p> + +<p>"It is a balsam," answered Don Quixote, "the receipt of which I have +in my memory, with which one need have no fear of death, or dread +dying of any wound; and so when I make it and give it to thee thou +hast nothing to do when in some battle thou seest they have cut me +in half through the middle of the body—as is wont to happen +frequently,—but neatly and with great nicety, ere the blood +congeal, to place that portion of the body which shall have fallen +to the ground upon the other half which remains in the saddle, +taking care to fit it on evenly and exactly. Then thou shalt give me +to drink but two drops of the balsam I have mentioned, and thou +shalt see me become sounder than an apple."</p> + +<p>"If that be so," said Panza, "I renounce henceforth the government +of the promised island, and desire nothing more in payment of my +many and faithful services than that your worship give me the +receipt of this supreme liquor, for I am persuaded it will be worth +more than two reals an ounce anywhere, and I want no more to pass +the rest of my life in ease and honour; but it remains to be told if +it costs much to make it."</p> + +<p>"With less than three reals, six quarts of it may be made," said Don +Quixote.</p> + +<p>"Sinner that I am!" said Sancho, "then why does your worship put off +making it and teaching it to me?"</p> + +<p>"Peace, friend," answered Don Quixote; "greater secrets I mean to +teach thee and greater favours to bestow upon thee; and for the +present let us see to the dressing, for my ear pains me more than I +could wish."</p> + +<p>Sancho took out some lint and ointment from the alforjas; but when +Don Quixote came to see his helmet shattered, he was like to lose +his senses, and clapping his hand upon his sword and raising his +eyes to heaven, be said, "I swear by the Creator of all things and the +four Gospels in their fullest extent, to do as the great Marquis of +Mantua did when he swore to avenge the death of his nephew Baldwin +(and that was not to eat bread from a table-cloth, nor embrace his +wife, and other points which, though I cannot now call them to mind, I +here grant as expressed) until I take complete vengeance upon him +who has committed such an offence against me."</p> + +<p>Hearing this, Sancho said to him, "Your worship should bear in mind, +Senor Don Quixote, that if the knight has done what was commanded +him in going to present himself before my lady Dulcinea del Toboso, he +will have done all that he was bound to do, and does not deserve +further punishment unless he commits some new offence."</p> + +<p>"Thou hast said well and hit the point," answered Don Quixote; and +so I recall the oath in so far as relates to taking fresh vengeance on +him, but I make and confirm it anew to lead the life I have said until +such time as I take by force from some knight another helmet such as +this and as good; and think not, Sancho, that I am raising smoke +with straw in doing so, for I have one to imitate in the matter, since +the very same thing to a hair happened in the case of Mambrino's +helmet, which cost Sacripante so dear."</p> + +<p>"Senor," replied Sancho, "let your worship send all such oaths to +the devil, for they are very pernicious to salvation and prejudicial +to the conscience; just tell me now, if for several days to come we +fall in with no man armed with a helmet, what are we to do? Is the +oath to be observed in spite of all the inconvenience and discomfort +it will be to sleep in your clothes, and not to sleep in a house, +and a thousand other mortifications contained in the oath of that +old fool the Marquis of Mantua, which your worship is now wanting to +revive? Let your worship observe that there are no men in armour +travelling on any of these roads, nothing but carriers and carters, +who not only do not wear helmets, but perhaps never heard tell of them +all their lives."</p> + +<p>"Thou art wrong there," said Don Quixote, "for we shall not have +been above two hours among these cross-roads before we see more men in +armour than came to Albraca to win the fair Angelica."</p> + +<p>"Enough," said Sancho; "so be it then, and God grant us success, and +that the time for winning that island which is costing me so dear +may soon come, and then let me die."</p> + +<p>"I have already told thee, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "not to give +thyself any uneasiness on that score; for if an island should fail, +there is the kingdom of Denmark, or of Sobradisa, which will fit +thee as a ring fits the finger, and all the more that, being on +terra firma, thou wilt all the better enjoy thyself. But let us +leave that to its own time; see if thou hast anything for us to eat in +those alforjas, because we must presently go in quest of some castle +where we may lodge to-night and make the balsam I told thee of, for +I swear to thee by God, this ear is giving me great pain."</p> + +<p>"I have here an onion and a little cheese and a few scraps of +bread," said Sancho, "but they are not victuals fit for a valiant +knight like your worship."</p> + +<p>"How little thou knowest about it," answered Don Quixote; "I would +have thee to know, Sancho, that it is the glory of knights-errant to +go without eating for a month, and even when they do eat, that it +should be of what comes first to hand; and this would have been +clear to thee hadst thou read as many histories as I have, for, though +they are very many, among them all I have found no mention made of +knights-errant eating, unless by accident or at some sumptuous +banquets prepared for them, and the rest of the time they passed in +dalliance. And though it is plain they could not do without eating and +performing all the other natural functions, because, in fact, they +were men like ourselves, it is plain too that, wandering as they did +the most part of their lives through woods and wilds and without a +cook, their most usual fare would be rustic viands such as those +thou now offer me; so that, friend Sancho, let not that distress +thee which pleases me, and do not seek to make a new world or +pervert knight-errantry."</p> + +<p>"Pardon me, your worship," said Sancho, "for, as I cannot read or +write, as I said just now, I neither know nor comprehend the rules +of the profession of chivalry: henceforward I will stock the +alforjas with every kind of dry fruit for your worship, as you are a +knight; and for myself, as I am not one, I will furnish them with +poultry and other things more substantial."</p> + +<p>"I do not say, Sancho," replied Don Quixote, "that it is +imperative on knights-errant not to eat anything else but the fruits +thou speakest of; only that their more usual diet must be those, and +certain herbs they found in the fields which they knew and I know +too."</p> + +<p>"A good thing it is," answered Sancho, "to know those herbs, for +to my thinking it will be needful some day to put that knowledge +into practice."</p> + +<p>And here taking out what he said he had brought, the pair made their +repast peaceably and sociably. But anxious to find quarters for the +night, they with all despatch made an end of their poor dry fare, +mounted at once, and made haste to reach some habitation before +night set in; but daylight and the hope of succeeding in their +object failed them close by the huts of some goatherds, so they +determined to pass the night there, and it was as much to Sancho's +discontent not to have reached a house, as it was to his master's +satisfaction to sleep under the open heaven, for he fancied that +each time this happened to him he performed an act of ownership that +helped to prove his chivalry.</p> + + + +<br> +<br><br><br> +<center><a name="c10e"></a><img alt="c10e.jpg (57K)" src="images/c10e.jpg" height="462" width="650"> +</center> +<br><br><br><br> + +<br><br> +<center><h2><a name="ch11"></a>CHAPTER XI.</h2></center> +<br> +<center><h3>WHAT BEFELL DON QUIXOTE WITH CERTAIN GOATHERDS +</h3></center> + +<br><br> +<center><a name="c11a"></a><img alt="c11a.jpg (173K)" src="images/c11a.jpg" height="460" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/c11a.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<p>He was cordially welcomed by the goatherds, and Sancho, having as +best he could put up Rocinante and the ass, drew towards the fragrance +that came from some pieces of salted goat simmering in a pot on the +fire; and though he would have liked at once to try if they were ready +to be transferred from the pot to the stomach, he refrained from doing +so as the goatherds removed them from the fire, and laying +sheepskins on the ground, quickly spread their rude table, and with +signs of hearty good-will invited them both to share what they had. +Round the skins six of the men belonging to the fold seated +themselves, having first with rough politeness pressed Don Quixote +to take a seat upon a trough which they placed for him upside down. +Don Quixote seated himself, and Sancho remained standing to serve +the cup, which was made of horn. Seeing him standing, his master +said to him:</p> + +<p>"That thou mayest see, Sancho, the good that knight-errantry +contains in itself, and how those who fill any office in it are on the +high road to be speedily honoured and esteemed by the world, I +desire that thou seat thyself here at my side and in the company of +these worthy people, and that thou be one with me who am thy master +and natural lord, and that thou eat from my plate and drink from +whatever I drink from; for the same may be said of knight-errantry +as of love, that it levels all."</p> + +<p>"Great thanks," said Sancho, "but I may tell your worship that +provided I have enough to eat, I can eat it as well, or better, +standing, and by myself, than seated alongside of an emperor. And +indeed, if the truth is to be told, what I eat in my corner without +form or fuss has much more relish for me, even though it be bread +and onions, than the turkeys of those other tables where I am forced +to chew slowly, drink little, wipe my mouth every minute, and cannot +sneeze or cough if I want or do other things that are the privileges +of liberty and solitude. So, senor, as for these honours which your +worship would put upon me as a servant and follower of +knight-errantry, exchange them for other things which may be of more +use and advantage to me; for these, though I fully acknowledge them as +received, I renounce from this moment to the end of the world."</p> + +<p>"For all that," said Don Quixote, "thou must seat thyself, because +him who humbleth himself God exalteth;" and seizing him by the arm +he forced him to sit down beside himself.</p> + +<p>The goatherds did not understand this jargon about squires and +knights-errant, and all they did was to eat in silence and stare at +their guests, who with great elegance and appetite were stowing away +pieces as big as one's fist. The course of meat finished, they +spread upon the sheepskins a great heap of parched acorns, and with +them they put down a half cheese harder than if it had been made of +mortar. All this while the horn was not idle, for it went round so +constantly, now full, now empty, like the bucket of a water-wheel, +that it soon drained one of the two wine-skins that were in sight. +When Don Quixote had quite appeased his appetite he took up a +handful of the acorns, and contemplating them attentively delivered +himself somewhat in this fashion:</p> + +<p>"Happy the age, happy the time, to which the ancients gave the +name of golden, not because in that fortunate age the gold so +coveted in this our iron one was gained without toil, but because they +that lived in it knew not the two words "mine" and "thine"! In that +blessed age all things were in common; to win the daily food no labour +was required of any save to stretch forth his hand and gather it +from the sturdy oaks that stood generously inviting him with their +sweet ripe fruit. The clear streams and running brooks yielded their +savoury limpid waters in noble abundance. The busy and sagacious +bees fixed their republic in the clefts of the rocks and hollows of +the trees, offering without usance the plenteous produce of their +fragrant toil to every hand. The mighty cork trees, unenforced save of +their own courtesy, shed the broad light bark that served at first +to roof the houses supported by rude stakes, a protection against +the inclemency of heaven alone. Then all was peace, all friendship, +all concord; as yet the dull share of the crooked plough had not dared +to rend and pierce the tender bowels of our first mother that +without compulsion yielded from every portion of her broad fertile +bosom all that could satisfy, sustain, and delight the children that +then possessed her. Then was it that the innocent and fair young +shepherdess roamed from vale to vale and hill to hill, with flowing +locks, and no more garments than were needful modestly to cover what +modesty seeks and ever sought to hide. Nor were their ornaments like +those in use to-day, set off by Tyrian purple, and silk tortured in +endless fashions, but the wreathed leaves of the green dock and ivy, +wherewith they went as bravely and becomingly decked as our Court +dames with all the rare and far-fetched artifices that idle +curiosity has taught them. Then the love-thoughts of the heart clothed +themselves simply and naturally as the heart conceived them, nor +sought to commend themselves by forced and rambling verbiage. Fraud, +deceit, or malice had then not yet mingled with truth and sincerity. +Justice held her ground, undisturbed and unassailed by the efforts +of favour and of interest, that now so much impair, pervert, and beset +her. Arbitrary law had not yet established itself in the mind of the +judge, for then there was no cause to judge and no one to be judged. +Maidens and modesty, as I have said, wandered at will alone and +unattended, without fear of insult from lawlessness or libertine +assault, and if they were undone it was of their own will and +pleasure. But now in this hateful age of ours not one is safe, not +though some new labyrinth like that of Crete conceal and surround her; +even there the pestilence of gallantry will make its way to them +through chinks or on the air by the zeal of its accursed +importunity, and, despite of all seclusion, lead them to ruin. In +defence of these, as time advanced and wickedness increased, the order +of knights-errant was instituted, to defend maidens, to protect widows +and to succour the orphans and the needy. To this order I belong, +brother goatherds, to whom I return thanks for the hospitality and +kindly welcome ye offer me and my squire; for though by natural law +all living are bound to show favour to knights-errant, yet, seeing +that without knowing this obligation ye have welcomed and feasted +me, it is right that with all the good-will in my power I should thank +you for yours."</p> + +<br> +<br><br><br> +<center><a name="c11b"></a><img alt="c11b.jpg (349K)" src="images/c11b.jpg" height="831" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/c11b.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<p>All this long harangue (which might very well have been spared) +our knight delivered because the acorns they gave him reminded him +of the golden age; and the whim seized him to address all this +unnecessary argument to the goatherds, who listened to him gaping in +amazement without saying a word in reply. Sancho likewise held his +peace and ate acorns, and paid repeated visits to the second +wine-skin, which they had hung up on a cork tree to keep the wine +cool.</p> + +<p>Don Quixote was longer in talking than the supper in finishing, at +the end of which one of the goatherds said, "That your worship, +senor knight-errant, may say with more truth that we show you +hospitality with ready good-will, we will give you amusement and +pleasure by making one of our comrades sing: he will be here before +long, and he is a very intelligent youth and deep in love, and what is +more he can read and write and play on the rebeck to perfection."</p> + +<p>The goatherd had hardly done speaking, when the notes of the +rebeck reached their ears; and shortly after, the player came up, a +very good-looking young man of about two-and-twenty. His comrades +asked him if he had supped, and on his replying that he had, he who +had already made the offer said to him:</p> + +<p>"In that case, Antonio, thou mayest as well do us the pleasure of +singing a little, that the gentleman, our guest, may see that even +in the mountains and woods there are musicians: we have told him of +thy accomplishments, and we want thee to show them and prove that we +say true; so, as thou livest, pray sit down and sing that ballad about +thy love that thy uncle the prebendary made thee, and that was so much +liked in the town."</p> + +<p>"With all my heart," said the young man, and without waiting for +more pressing he seated himself on the trunk of a felled oak, and +tuning his rebeck, presently began to sing to these words.</p> + +<pre> + ANTONIO'S BALLAD + +Thou dost love me well, Olalla; + Well I know it, even though +Love's mute tongues, thine eyes, have never + By their glances told me so. + +For I know my love thou knowest, + Therefore thine to claim I dare: +Once it ceases to be secret, + Love need never feel despair. + +True it is, Olalla, sometimes + Thou hast all too plainly shown +That thy heart is brass in hardness, + And thy snowy bosom stone. + +Yet for all that, in thy coyness, + And thy fickle fits between, +Hope is there—at least the border + Of her garment may be seen. + +Lures to faith are they, those glimpses, + And to faith in thee I hold; +Kindness cannot make it stronger, + Coldness cannot make it cold. + +If it be that love is gentle, + In thy gentleness I see +Something holding out assurance + To the hope of winning thee. + +If it be that in devotion + Lies a power hearts to move, +That which every day I show thee, + Helpful to my suit should prove. + +Many a time thou must have noticed— + If to notice thou dost care— +How I go about on Monday + Dressed in all my Sunday wear. + +Love's eyes love to look on brightness; + Love loves what is gaily drest; +Sunday, Monday, all I care is + Thou shouldst see me in my best. + +No account I make of dances, + Or of strains that pleased thee so, +Keeping thee awake from midnight + Till the cocks began to crow; + +Or of how I roundly swore it + That there's none so fair as thou; +True it is, but as I said it, + By the girls I'm hated now. + +For Teresa of the hillside + At my praise of thee was sore; +Said, "You think you love an angel; + It's a monkey you adore; + +"Caught by all her glittering trinkets, + And her borrowed braids of hair, +And a host of made-up beauties + That would Love himself ensnare." + +'T was a lie, and so I told her, + And her cousin at the word +Gave me his defiance for it; + And what followed thou hast heard. + +Mine is no high-flown affection, + Mine no passion par amours— +As they call it—what I offer + Is an honest love, and pure. + +Cunning cords the holy Church has, + Cords of softest silk they be; +Put thy neck beneath the yoke, dear; + Mine will follow, thou wilt see. + +Else—and once for all I swear it + By the saint of most renown— +If I ever quit the mountains, + 'T will be in a friar's gown. +</pre> + +<p> +Here the goatherd brought his song to an end, and though Don Quixote +entreated him to sing more, Sancho had no mind that way, being more +inclined for sleep than for listening to songs; so said he to his +master, "Your worship will do well to settle at once where you mean to +pass the night, for the labour these good men are at all day does +not allow them to spend the night in singing."</p> + +<p>"I understand thee, Sancho," replied Don Quixote; "I perceive +clearly that those visits to the wine-skin demand compensation in +sleep rather than in music."</p> + +<p>"It's sweet to us all, blessed be God," said Sancho.</p> + +<p>"I do not deny it," replied Don Quixote; "but settle thyself where +thou wilt; those of my calling are more becomingly employed in +watching than in sleeping; still it would be as well if thou wert to +dress this ear for me again, for it is giving me more pain than it +need."</p> + +<p>Sancho did as he bade him, but one of the goatherds, seeing the +wound, told him not to be uneasy, as he would apply a remedy with +which it would be soon healed; and gathering some leaves of +rosemary, of which there was a great quantity there, he chewed them +and mixed them with a little salt, and applying them to the ear he +secured them firmly with a bandage, assuring him that no other +treatment would be required, and so it proved.</p> + + +<br> +<br><br><br> +<center><a name="c11e"></a><img alt="c11e.jpg (37K)" src="images/c11e.jpg" height="619" width="451"> +</center> +<br><br><br><br> + + + +<br><br> +<center><h2><a name="ch12"></a>CHAPTER XII.</h2></center> +<br> +<center><h3>OF WHAT A GOATHERD RELATED TO THOSE WITH DON QUIXOTE +</h3></center> + +<br><br> +<center><a name="c12a"></a><img alt="c12a.jpg (143K)" src="images/c12a.jpg" height="441" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/c12a.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<p>Just then another young man, one of those who fetched their +provisions from the village, came up and said, "Do you know what is +going on in the village, comrades?"</p> + +<p>"How could we know it?" replied one of them.</p> + +<p>"Well, then, you must know," continued the young man, "this +morning that famous student-shepherd called Chrysostom died, and it is +rumoured that he died of love for that devil of a village girl the +daughter of Guillermo the Rich, she that wanders about the wolds +here in the dress of a shepherdess."</p> + +<p>"You mean Marcela?" said one.</p> + +<p>"Her I mean," answered the goatherd; "and the best of it is, he +has directed in his will that he is to be buried in the fields like +a Moor, and at the foot of the rock where the Cork-tree spring is, +because, as the story goes (and they say he himself said so), that was +the place where he first saw her. And he has also left other +directions which the clergy of the village say should not and must not +be obeyed because they savour of paganism. To all which his great +friend Ambrosio the student, he who, like him, also went dressed as +a shepherd, replies that everything must be done without any +omission according to the directions left by Chrysostom, and about +this the village is all in commotion; however, report says that, after +all, what Ambrosio and all the shepherds his friends desire will be +done, and to-morrow they are coming to bury him with great ceremony +where I said. I am sure it will be something worth seeing; at least +I will not fail to go and see it even if I knew I should not return to +the village tomorrow."</p> + +<p>"We will do the same," answered the goatherds, "and cast lots to see +who must stay to mind the goats of all."</p> + +<p>"Thou sayest well, Pedro," said one, "though there will be no need +of taking that trouble, for I will stay behind for all; and don't +suppose it is virtue or want of curiosity in me; it is that the +splinter that ran into my foot the other day will not let me walk."</p> + +<p>"For all that, we thank thee," answered Pedro.</p> + +<p>Don Quixote asked Pedro to tell him who the dead man was and who the +shepherdess, to which Pedro replied that all he knew was that the dead +man was a wealthy gentleman belonging to a village in those mountains, +who had been a student at Salamanca for many years, at the end of +which he returned to his village with the reputation of being very +learned and deeply read. "Above all, they said, he was learned in +the science of the stars and of what went on yonder in the heavens and +the sun and the moon, for he told us of the cris of the sun and moon +to exact time."</p> + +<p>"Eclipse it is called, friend, not cris, the darkening of those +two luminaries," said Don Quixote; but Pedro, not troubling himself +with trifles, went on with his story, saying, "Also he foretold when +the year was going to be one of abundance or estility."</p> + +<p>"Sterility, you mean," said Don Quixote.</p> + +<p>"Sterility or estility," answered Pedro, "it is all the same in +the end. And I can tell you that by this his father and friends who +believed him grew very rich because they did as he advised them, +bidding them 'sow barley this year, not wheat; this year you may sow +pulse and not barley; the next there will be a full oil crop, and +the three following not a drop will be got.'"</p> + +<p>"That science is called astrology," said Don Quixote.</p> + +<p>"I do not know what it is called," replied Pedro, "but I know that +he knew all this and more besides. But, to make an end, not many +months had passed after he returned from Salamanca, when one day he +appeared dressed as a shepherd with his crook and sheepskin, having +put off the long gown he wore as a scholar; and at the same time his +great friend, Ambrosio by name, who had been his companion in his +studies, took to the shepherd's dress with him. I forgot to say that +Chrysostom, who is dead, was a great man for writing verses, so much +so that he made carols for Christmas Eve, and plays for Corpus +Christi, which the young men of our village acted, and all said they +were excellent. When the villagers saw the two scholars so +unexpectedly appearing in shepherd's dress, they were lost in +wonder, and could not guess what had led them to make so extraordinary +a change. About this time the father of our Chrysostom died, and he +was left heir to a large amount of property in chattels as well as +in land, no small number of cattle and sheep, and a large sum of +money, of all of which the young man was left dissolute owner, and +indeed he was deserving of it all, for he was a very good comrade, and +kind-hearted, and a friend of worthy folk, and had a countenance +like a benediction. Presently it came to be known that he had +changed his dress with no other object than to wander about these +wastes after that shepherdess Marcela our lad mentioned a while ago, +with whom the deceased Chrysostom had fallen in love. And I must +tell you now, for it is well you should know it, who this girl is; +perhaps, and even without any perhaps, you will not have heard +anything like it all the days of your life, though you should live +more years than sarna."</p> + +<p>"Say Sarra," said Don Quixote, unable to endure the goatherd's +confusion of words.</p> + +<p>"The sarna lives long enough," answered Pedro; "and if, senor, you +must go finding fault with words at every step, we shall not make an +end of it this twelvemonth."</p> + +<p>"Pardon me, friend," said Don Quixote; "but, as there is such a +difference between sarna and Sarra, I told you of it; however, you +have answered very rightly, for sarna lives longer than Sarra: so +continue your story, and I will not object any more to anything."</p> + +<p>"I say then, my dear sir," said the goatherd, "that in our village +there was a farmer even richer than the father of Chrysostom, who +was named Guillermo, and upon whom God bestowed, over and above +great wealth, a daughter at whose birth her mother died, the most +respected woman there was in this neighbourhood; I fancy I can see her +now with that countenance which had the sun on one side and the moon +on the other; and moreover active, and kind to the poor, for which I +trust that at the present moment her soul is in bliss with God in +the other world. Her husband Guillermo died of grief at the death of +so good a wife, leaving his daughter Marcela, a child and rich, to the +care of an uncle of hers, a priest and prebendary in our village. +The girl grew up with such beauty that it reminded us of her mother's, +which was very great, and yet it was thought that the daughter's would +exceed it; and so when she reached the age of fourteen to fifteen +years nobody beheld her but blessed God that had made her so +beautiful, and the greater number were in love with her past +redemption. Her uncle kept her in great seclusion and retirement, +but for all that the fame of her great beauty spread so that, as +well for it as for her great wealth, her uncle was asked, solicited, +and importuned, to give her in marriage not only by those of our +town but of those many leagues round, and by the persons of highest +quality in them. But he, being a good Christian man, though he desired +to give her in marriage at once, seeing her to be old enough, was +unwilling to do so without her consent, not that he had any eye to the +gain and profit which the custody of the girl's property brought him +while he put off her marriage; and, faith, this was said in praise +of the good priest in more than one set in the town. For I would +have you know, Sir Errant, that in these little villages everything is +talked about and everything is carped at, and rest assured, as I am, +that the priest must be over and above good who forces his +parishioners to speak well of him, especially in villages."</p> + +<p>"That is the truth," said Don Quixote; "but go on, for the story +is very good, and you, good Pedro, tell it with very good grace."</p> + +<p>"May that of the Lord not be wanting to me," said Pedro; "that is +the one to have. To proceed; you must know that though the uncle put +before his niece and described to her the qualities of each one in +particular of the many who had asked her in marriage, begging her to +marry and make a choice according to her own taste, she never gave any +other answer than that she had no desire to marry just yet, and that +being so young she did not think herself fit to bear the burden of +matrimony. At these, to all appearance, reasonable excuses that she +made, her uncle ceased to urge her, and waited till she was somewhat +more advanced in age and could mate herself to her own liking. For, +said he—and he said quite right—parents are not to settle children +in life against their will. But when one least looked for it, lo and +behold! one day the demure Marcela makes her appearance turned +shepherdess; and, in spite of her uncle and all those of the town that +strove to dissuade her, took to going a-field with the other +shepherd-lasses of the village, and tending her own flock. And so, +since she appeared in public, and her beauty came to be seen openly, I +could not well tell you how many rich youths, gentlemen and +peasants, have adopted the costume of Chrysostom, and go about these +fields making love to her. One of these, as has been already said, was +our deceased friend, of whom they say that he did not love but adore +her. But you must not suppose, because Marcela chose a life of such +liberty and independence, and of so little or rather no retirement, +that she has given any occasion, or even the semblance of one, for +disparagement of her purity and modesty; on the contrary, such and +so great is the vigilance with which she watches over her honour, that +of all those that court and woo her not one has boasted, or can with +truth boast, that she has given him any hope however small of +obtaining his desire. For although she does not avoid or shun the +society and conversation of the shepherds, and treats them courteously +and kindly, should any one of them come to declare his intention to +her, though it be one as proper and holy as that of matrimony, she +flings him from her like a catapult. And with this kind of disposition +she does more harm in this country than if the plague had got into it, +for her affability and her beauty draw on the hearts of those that +associate with her to love her and to court her, but her scorn and her +frankness bring them to the brink of despair; and so they know not +what to say save to proclaim her aloud cruel and hard-hearted, and +other names of the same sort which well describe the nature of her +character; and if you should remain here any time, senor, you would +hear these hills and valleys resounding with the laments of the +rejected ones who pursue her. Not far from this there is a spot +where there are a couple of dozen of tall beeches, and there is not +one of them but has carved and written on its smooth bark the name +of Marcela, and above some a crown carved on the same tree as though +her lover would say more plainly that Marcela wore and deserved that +of all human beauty. Here one shepherd is sighing, there another is +lamenting; there love songs are heard, here despairing elegies. One +will pass all the hours of the night seated at the foot of some oak or +rock, and there, without having closed his weeping eyes, the sun finds +him in the morning bemused and bereft of sense; and another without +relief or respite to his sighs, stretched on the burning sand in the +full heat of the sultry summer noontide, makes his appeal to the +compassionate heavens, and over one and the other, over these and all, +the beautiful Marcela triumphs free and careless. And all of us that +know her are waiting to see what her pride will come to, and who is to +be the happy man that will succeed in taming a nature so formidable +and gaining possession of a beauty so supreme. All that I have told +you being such well-established truth, I am persuaded that what they +say of the cause of Chrysostom's death, as our lad told us, is the +same. And so I advise you, senor, fail not to be present to-morrow +at his burial, which will be well worth seeing, for Chrysostom had +many friends, and it is not half a league from this place to where +he directed he should be buried."</p> + +<p>"I will make a point of it," said Don Quixote, "and I thank you +for the pleasure you have given me by relating so interesting a tale."</p> + +<p>"Oh," said the goatherd, "I do not know even the half of what has +happened to the lovers of Marcela, but perhaps to-morrow we may fall +in with some shepherd on the road who can tell us; and now it will +be well for you to go and sleep under cover, for the night air may +hurt your wound, though with the remedy I have applied to you there is +no fear of an untoward result."</p> + +<p>Sancho Panza, who was wishing the goatherd's loquacity at the devil, +on his part begged his master to go into Pedro's hut to sleep. He +did so, and passed all the rest of the night in thinking of his lady +Dulcinea, in imitation of the lovers of Marcela. Sancho Panza settled +himself between Rocinante and his ass, and slept, not like a lover +who had been discarded, but like a man who had been soundly kicked.</p> + + +<br> +<br><br><br> +<center><a name="c12e"></a><img alt="c12e.jpg (42K)" src="images/c12e.jpg" height="425" width="615"> +</center> +<br><br><br><br> + + + + +<br><br> +<center><h2><a name="ch13"></a>CHAPTER XIII.</h2></center> +<br> +<center><h3>IN WHICH IS ENDED THE STORY OF THE SHEPHERDESS MARCELA, WITH OTHER +INCIDENTS +</h3></center> +<br> + +<br> +<br><br><br> +<center><a name="c13a"></a><img alt="c13a.jpg (181K)" src="images/c13a.jpg" height="434" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/c13a.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<p>Bit hardly had day begun to show itself through the balconies of the +east, when five of the six goatherds came to rouse Don Quixote and +tell him that if he was still of a mind to go and see the famous +burial of Chrysostom they would bear him company. Don Quixote, who +desired nothing better, rose and ordered Sancho to saddle and pannel +at once, which he did with all despatch, and with the same they all +set out forthwith. They had not gone a quarter of a league when at the +meeting of two paths they saw coming towards them some six shepherds +dressed in black sheepskins and with their heads crowned with garlands +of cypress and bitter oleander. Each of them carried a stout holly +staff in his hand, and along with them there came two men of quality +on horseback in handsome travelling dress, with three servants on foot +accompanying them. Courteous salutations were exchanged on meeting, +and inquiring one of the other which way each party was going, they +learned that all were bound for the scene of the burial, so they +went on all together.</p> + +<p>One of those on horseback addressing his companion said to him, +"It seems to me, Senor Vivaldo, that we may reckon as well spent the +delay we shall incur in seeing this remarkable funeral, for remarkable +it cannot but be judging by the strange things these shepherds have +told us, of both the dead shepherd and homicide shepherdess."</p> + +<p>"So I think too," replied Vivaldo, "and I would delay not to say a +day, but four, for the sake of seeing it."</p> + +<p>Don Quixote asked them what it was they had heard of Marcela and +Chrysostom. The traveller answered that the same morning they had +met these shepherds, and seeing them dressed in this mournful +fashion they had asked them the reason of their appearing in such a +guise; which one of them gave, describing the strange behaviour and +beauty of a shepherdess called Marcela, and the loves of many who +courted her, together with the death of that Chrysostom to whose +burial they were going. In short, he repeated all that Pedro had +related to Don Quixote.</p> + +<p>This conversation dropped, and another was commenced by him who +was called Vivaldo asking Don Quixote what was the reason that led him +to go armed in that fashion in a country so peaceful. To which Don +Quixote replied, "The pursuit of my calling does not allow or permit +me to go in any other fashion; easy life, enjoyment, and repose were +invented for soft courtiers, but toil, unrest, and arms were +invented and made for those alone whom the world calls knights-errant, +of whom I, though unworthy, am the least of all."</p> + +<p>The instant they heard this all set him down as mad, and the +better to settle the point and discover what kind of madness his +was, Vivaldo proceeded to ask him what knights-errant meant.</p> + +<p>"Have not your worships," replied Don Quixote, "read the annals +and histories of England, in which are recorded the famous deeds of +King Arthur, whom we in our popular Castilian invariably call King +Artus, with regard to whom it is an ancient tradition, and commonly +received all over that kingdom of Great Britain, that this king did +not die, but was changed by magic art into a raven, and that in +process of time he is to return to reign and recover his kingdom and +sceptre; for which reason it cannot be proved that from that time to +this any Englishman ever killed a raven? Well, then, in the time of +this good king that famous order of chivalry of the Knights of the +Round Table was instituted, and the amour of Don Lancelot of the +Lake with the Queen Guinevere occurred, precisely as is there related, +the go-between and confidante therein being the highly honourable dame +Quintanona, whence came that ballad so well known and widely spread in +our Spain—</p> + + +<pre> +O never surely was there knight + So served by hand of dame, +As served was he Sir Lancelot hight + When he from Britain came-- +</pre> + + +<p>with all the sweet and delectable course of his achievements in love +and war. Handed down from that time, then, this order of chivalry went +on extending and spreading itself over many and various parts of the +world; and in it, famous and renowned for their deeds, were the mighty +Amadis of Gaul with all his sons and descendants to the fifth +generation, and the valiant Felixmarte of Hircania, and the never +sufficiently praised Tirante el Blanco, and in our own days almost +we have seen and heard and talked with the invincible knight Don +Belianis of Greece. This, then, sirs, is to be a knight-errant, and +what I have spoken of is the order of his chivalry, of which, as I +have already said, I, though a sinner, have made profession, and +what the aforesaid knights professed that same do I profess, and so +I go through these solitudes and wilds seeking adventures, resolved in +soul to oppose my arm and person to the most perilous that fortune may +offer me in aid of the weak and needy."</p> + +<p>By these words of his the travellers were able to satisfy themselves +of Don Quixote's being out of his senses and of the form of madness +that overmastered him, at which they felt the same astonishment that +all felt on first becoming acquainted with it; and Vivaldo, who was +a person of great shrewdness and of a lively temperament, in order +to beguile the short journey which they said was required to reach the +mountain, the scene of the burial, sought to give him an opportunity +of going on with his absurdities. So he said to him, "It seems to +me, Senor Knight-errant, that your worship has made choice of one of +the most austere professions in the world, and I imagine even that +of the Carthusian monks is not so austere."</p> + +<p>"As austere it may perhaps be," replied our Don Quixote, "but so +necessary for the world I am very much inclined to doubt. For, if +the truth is to be told, the soldier who executes what his captain +orders does no less than the captain himself who gives the order. My +meaning, is, that churchmen in peace and quiet pray to Heaven for +the welfare of the world, but we soldiers and knights carry into +effect what they pray for, defending it with the might of our arms and +the edge of our swords, not under shelter but in the open air, a +target for the intolerable rays of the sun in summer and the +piercing frosts of winter. Thus are we God's ministers on earth and +the arms by which his justice is done therein. And as the business +of war and all that relates and belongs to it cannot be conducted +without exceeding great sweat, toil, and exertion, it follows that +those who make it their profession have undoubtedly more labour than +those who in tranquil peace and quiet are engaged in praying to God to +help the weak. I do not mean to say, nor does it enter into my +thoughts, that the knight-errant's calling is as good as that of the +monk in his cell; I would merely infer from what I endure myself +that it is beyond a doubt a more laborious and a more belaboured +one, a hungrier and thirstier, a wretcheder, raggeder, and lousier; +for there is no reason to doubt that the knights-errant of yore +endured much hardship in the course of their lives. And if some of +them by the might of their arms did rise to be emperors, in faith it +cost them dear in the matter of blood and sweat; and if those who +attained to that rank had not had magicians and sages to help them +they would have been completely baulked in their ambition and +disappointed in their hopes."</p> + +<p>"That is my own opinion," replied the traveller; "but one thing +among many others seems to me very wrong in knights-errant, and that +is that when they find themselves about to engage in some mighty and +perilous adventure in which there is manifest danger of losing their +lives, they never at the moment of engaging in it think of +commending themselves to God, as is the duty of every good Christian +in like peril; instead of which they commend themselves to their +ladies with as much devotion as if these were their gods, a thing +which seems to me to savour somewhat of heathenism."</p> + +<p>"Sir," answered Don Quixote, "that cannot be on any account omitted, +and the knight-errant would be disgraced who acted otherwise: for it +is usual and customary in knight-errantry that the knight-errant, +who on engaging in any great feat of arms has his lady before him, +should turn his eyes towards her softly and lovingly, as though with +them entreating her to favour and protect him in the hazardous venture +he is about to undertake, and even though no one hear him, he is bound +to say certain words between his teeth, commending himself to her with +all his heart, and of this we have innumerable instances in the +histories. Nor is it to be supposed from this that they are to omit +commending themselves to God, for there will be time and opportunity +for doing so while they are engaged in their task."</p> + +<p>"For all that," answered the traveller, "I feel some doubt still, +because often I have read how words will arise between two +knights-errant, and from one thing to another it comes about that +their anger kindles and they wheel their horses round and take a +good stretch of field, and then without any more ado at the top of +their speed they come to the charge, and in mid-career they are wont +to commend themselves to their ladies; and what commonly comes of +the encounter is that one falls over the haunches of his horse pierced +through and through by his antagonist's lance, and as for the other, +it is only by holding on to the mane of his horse that he can help +falling to the ground; but I know not how the dead man had time to +commend himself to God in the course of such rapid work as this; it +would have been better if those words which he spent in commending +himself to his lady in the midst of his career had been devoted to his +duty and obligation as a Christian. Moreover, it is my belief that all +knights-errant have not ladies to commend themselves to, for they +are not all in love."</p> + +<p>"That is impossible," said Don Quixote: "I say it is impossible that +there could be a knight-errant without a lady, because to such it is +as natural and proper to be in love as to the heavens to have stars: +most certainly no history has been seen in which there is to be +found a knight-errant without an amour, and for the simple reason that +without one he would be held no legitimate knight but a bastard, and +one who had gained entrance into the stronghold of the said +knighthood, not by the door, but over the wall like a thief and a +robber."</p> + +<p>"Nevertheless," said the traveller, "if I remember rightly, I +think I have read that Don Galaor, the brother of the valiant Amadis +of Gaul, never had any special lady to whom he might commend +himself, and yet he was not the less esteemed, and was a very stout +and famous knight."</p> + +<p>To which our Don Quixote made answer, "Sir, one solitary swallow +does not make summer; moreover, I know that knight was in secret +very deeply in love; besides which, that way of falling in love with +all that took his fancy was a natural propensity which he could not +control. But, in short, it is very manifest that he had one alone whom +he made mistress of his will, to whom he commended himself very +frequently and very secretly, for he prided himself on being a +reticent knight."</p> + +<p>"Then if it be essential that every knight-errant should be in +love," said the traveller, "it may be fairly supposed that your +worship is so, as you are of the order; and if you do not pride +yourself on being as reticent as Don Galaor, I entreat you as +earnestly as I can, in the name of all this company and in my own, +to inform us of the name, country, rank, and beauty of your lady, +for she will esteem herself fortunate if all the world knows that +she is loved and served by such a knight as your worship seems to be."</p> + +<p>At this Don Quixote heaved a deep sigh and said, "I cannot say +positively whether my sweet enemy is pleased or not that the world +should know I serve her; I can only say in answer to what has been +so courteously asked of me, that her name is Dulcinea, her country +El Toboso, a village of La Mancha, her rank must be at least that of a +princess, since she is my queen and lady, and her beauty superhuman, +since all the impossible and fanciful attributes of beauty which the +poets apply to their ladies are verified in her; for her hairs are +gold, her forehead Elysian fields, her eyebrows rainbows, her eyes +suns, her cheeks roses, her lips coral, her teeth pearls, her neck +alabaster, her bosom marble, her hands ivory, her fairness snow, and +what modesty conceals from sight such, I think and imagine, as +rational reflection can only extol, not compare."</p> + +<p>"We should like to know her lineage, race, and ancestry," said +Vivaldo.</p> + +<p>To which Don Quixote replied, "She is not of the ancient Roman +Curtii, Caii, or Scipios, nor of the modern Colonnas or Orsini, nor of +the Moncadas or Requesenes of Catalonia, nor yet of the Rebellas or +Villanovas of Valencia; Palafoxes, Nuzas, Rocabertis, Corellas, Lunas, +Alagones, Urreas, Foces, or Gurreas of Aragon; Cerdas, Manriques, +Mendozas, or Guzmans of Castile; Alencastros, Pallas, or Meneses of +Portugal; but she is of those of El Toboso of La Mancha, a lineage +that though modern, may furnish a source of gentle blood for the +most illustrious families of the ages that are to come, and this let +none dispute with me save on the condition that Zerbino placed at +the foot of the trophy of Orlando's arms, saying,</p> + +<p>'These let none move + Who dareth not his might with Roland prove.'"</p> + +<p> +"Although mine is of the Cachopins of Laredo," said the traveller, +"I will not venture to compare it with that of El Toboso of La Mancha, +though, to tell the truth, no such surname has until now ever +reached my ears."</p> + +<p>"What!" said Don Quixote, "has that never reached them?"</p> + +<p>The rest of the party went along listening with great attention to +the conversation of the pair, and even the very goatherds and +shepherds perceived how exceedingly out of his wits our Don Quixote +was. Sancho Panza alone thought that what his master said was the +truth, knowing who he was and having known him from his birth; and all +that he felt any difficulty in believing was that about the fair +Dulcinea del Toboso, because neither any such name nor any such +princess had ever come to his knowledge though he lived so close to El +Toboso. They were going along conversing in this way, when they saw +descending a gap between two high mountains some twenty shepherds, all +clad in sheepskins of black wool, and crowned with garlands which, +as afterwards appeared, were, some of them of yew, some of cypress. +Six of the number were carrying a bier covered with a great variety of +flowers and branches, on seeing which one of the goatherds said, +"Those who come there are the bearers of Chrysostom's body, and the +foot of that mountain is the place where he ordered them to bury him." +They therefore made haste to reach the spot, and did so by the time +those who came had laid the bier upon the ground, and four of them +with sharp pickaxes were digging a grave by the side of a hard rock. +They greeted each other courteously, and then Don Quixote and those +who accompanied him turned to examine the bier, and on it, covered +with flowers, they saw a dead body in the dress of a shepherd, to +all appearance of one thirty years of age, and showing even in death +that in life he had been of comely features and gallant bearing. +Around him on the bier itself were laid some books, and several papers +open and folded; and those who were looking on as well as those who +were opening the grave and all the others who were there preserved a +strange silence, until one of those who had borne the body said to +another, "Observe carefully, Ambrosia if this is the place +Chrysostom spoke of, since you are anxious that what he directed in +his will should be so strictly complied with."</p> + +<p>"This is the place," answered Ambrosia "for in it many a time did my +poor friend tell me the story of his hard fortune. Here it was, he +told me, that he saw for the first time that mortal enemy of the human +race, and here, too, for the first time he declared to her his +passion, as honourable as it was devoted, and here it was that at last +Marcela ended by scorning and rejecting him so as to bring the tragedy +of his wretched life to a close; here, in memory of misfortunes so +great, he desired to be laid in the bowels of eternal oblivion." +Then turning to Don Quixote and the travellers he went on to say, +"That body, sirs, on which you are looking with compassionate eyes, +was the abode of a soul on which Heaven bestowed a vast share of its +riches. That is the body of Chrysostom, who was unrivalled in wit, +unequalled in courtesy, unapproached in gentle bearing, a phoenix in +friendship, generous without limit, grave without arrogance, gay +without vulgarity, and, in short, first in all that constitutes +goodness and second to none in all that makes up misfortune. He +loved deeply, he was hated; he adored, he was scorned; he wooed a wild +beast, he pleaded with marble, he pursued the wind, he cried to the +wilderness, he served ingratitude, and for reward was made the prey of +death in the mid-course of life, cut short by a shepherdess whom he +sought to immortalise in the memory of man, as these papers which +you see could fully prove, had he not commanded me to consign them +to the fire after having consigned his body to the earth."</p> + +<p>"You would deal with them more harshly and cruelly than their +owner himself," said Vivaldo, "for it is neither right nor proper to +do the will of one who enjoins what is wholly unreasonable; it would +not have been reasonable in Augustus Caesar had he permitted the +directions left by the divine Mantuan in his will to be carried into +effect. So that, Senor Ambrosia while you consign your friend's body +to the earth, you should not consign his writings to oblivion, for +if he gave the order in bitterness of heart, it is not right that +you should irrationally obey it. On the contrary, by granting life +to those papers, let the cruelty of Marcela live for ever, to serve as +a warning in ages to come to all men to shun and avoid falling into +like danger; or I and all of us who have come here know already the +story of this your love-stricken and heart-broken friend, and we know, +too, your friendship, and the cause of his death, and the directions +he gave at the close of his life; from which sad story may be gathered +how great was the cruelty of Marcela, the love of Chrysostom, and +the loyalty of your friendship, together with the end awaiting those +who pursue rashly the path that insane passion opens to their eyes. +Last night we learned the death of Chrysostom and that he was to be +buried here, and out of curiosity and pity we left our direct road and +resolved to come and see with our eyes that which when heard of had so +moved our compassion, and in consideration of that compassion and +our desire to prove it if we might by condolence, we beg of you, +excellent Ambrosia, or at least I on my own account entreat you, +that instead of burning those papers you allow me to carry away some +of them."</p> + +<p>And without waiting for the shepherd's answer, he stretched out +his hand and took up some of those that were nearest to him; seeing +which Ambrosio said, "Out of courtesy, senor, I will grant your +request as to those you have taken, but it is idle to expect me to +abstain from burning the remainder."</p> + +<p>Vivaldo, who was eager to see what the papers contained, opened +one of them at once, and saw that its title was "Lay of Despair."</p> + +<p>Ambrosio hearing it said, "That is the last paper the unhappy man +wrote; and that you may see, senor, to what an end his misfortunes +brought him, read it so that you may be heard, for you will have +time enough for that while we are waiting for the grave to be dug."</p> + +<p>"I will do so very willingly," said Vivaldo; and as all the +bystanders were equally eager they gathered round him, and he, reading +in a loud voice, found that it ran as follows.</p> + + +<br> +<br><br><br> +<center><a name="c13e"></a><img alt="c13e.jpg (15K)" src="images/c13e.jpg" height="285" width="441"> +</center> + + + +<br> +<br> + + +<center> +<table summary="" cellPadding=4 border=3> +<tr><td> + <a href="p3.htm">Previous Part</a> +</td><td> + <a href="5921-h.htm">Main Index</a> +</td><td> + <a href="p5.htm">Next Part</a> + </td></tr> +</table> +</center> +<br><br> + + +</body> +</html> + + diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/p5.htm b/old/orig5921-h/p5.htm new file mode 100644 index 0000000..23a7d25 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/p5.htm @@ -0,0 +1,807 @@ +<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> +<html> +<head> +<title>THE HISTORY OF DON QUIXOTE, By Cervantes, Vol.I., Part 5.</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> + +<center> +<table summary="" cellPadding=4 border=3> +<tr><td> + <a href="p4.htm">Previous Part</a> +</td><td> + <a href="5921-h.htm">Main Index</a> +</td><td> + <a href="p6.htm">Next Part</a> + </td></tr> +</table> +</center> +<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 5. +<br><br> +Chapters 14-15 +</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="#ch14">CHAPTER XIV</a> +WHEREIN ARE INSERTED THE DESPAIRING VERSES OF THE DEAD +SHEPHERD, TOGETHER WITH OTHER INCIDENTS NOT LOOKED FOR + +<a href="#ch15">CHAPTER XV</a> +IN WHICH IS RELATED THE UNFORTUNATE ADVENTURE THAT +DON QUIXOTE FELL IN WITH WHEN HE FELL OUT WITH CERTAIN +HEARTLESS YANGUESANS + + +</pre> + +<br><br><br><br> + + + + + +<br><br> +<center><h2><a name="ch14"></a>CHAPTER XIV.</h2></center> +<br> +<center><h3>WHEREIN ARE INSERTED THE DESPAIRING VERSES OF THE DEAD SHEPHERD, +TOGETHER WITH OTHER INCIDENTS NOT LOOKED FOR +</h3></center> +<br> + +<br> +<br><br><br> +<center><a name="c14a"></a><img alt="c14a.jpg (172K)" src="images/c14a.jpg" height="441" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/c14a.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<pre> + THE LAY OF CHRYSOSTOM + + Since thou dost in thy cruelty desire +The ruthless rigour of thy tyranny +From tongue to tongue, from land to land proclaimed, +The very Hell will I constrain to lend +This stricken breast of mine deep notes of woe +To serve my need of fitting utterance. +And as I strive to body forth the tale +Of all I suffer, all that thou hast done, +Forth shall the dread voice roll, and bear along +Shreds from my vitals torn for greater pain. +Then listen, not to dulcet harmony, +But to a discord wrung by mad despair +Out of this bosom's depths of bitterness, +To ease my heart and plant a sting in thine. + + The lion's roar, the fierce wolf's savage howl, +The horrid hissing of the scaly snake, +The awesome cries of monsters yet unnamed, +The crow's ill-boding croak, the hollow moan +Of wild winds wrestling with the restless sea, +The wrathful bellow of the vanquished bull, +The plaintive sobbing of the widowed dove, +The envied owl's sad note, the wail of woe +That rises from the dreary choir of Hell, +Commingled in one sound, confusing sense, +Let all these come to aid my soul's complaint, +For pain like mine demands new modes of song. + + No echoes of that discord shall be heard +Where Father Tagus rolls, or on the banks +Of olive-bordered Betis; to the rocks +Or in deep caverns shall my plaint be told, +And by a lifeless tongue in living words; +Or in dark valleys or on lonely shores, +Where neither foot of man nor sunbeam falls; +Or in among the poison-breathing swarms +Of monsters nourished by the sluggish Nile. +For, though it be to solitudes remote +The hoarse vague echoes of my sorrows sound +Thy matchless cruelty, my dismal fate +Shall carry them to all the spacious world. + + Disdain hath power to kill, and patience dies +Slain by suspicion, be it false or true; +And deadly is the force of jealousy; +Long absence makes of life a dreary void; +No hope of happiness can give repose +To him that ever fears to be forgot; +And death, inevitable, waits in hall. +But I, by some strange miracle, live on +A prey to absence, jealousy, disdain; +Racked by suspicion as by certainty; +Forgotten, left to feed my flame alone. +And while I suffer thus, there comes no ray +Of hope to gladden me athwart the gloom; +Nor do I look for it in my despair; +But rather clinging to a cureless woe, +All hope do I abjure for evermore. + + Can there be hope where fear is? Were it well, +When far more certain are the grounds of fear? +Ought I to shut mine eyes to jealousy, +If through a thousand heart-wounds it appears? +Who would not give free access to distrust, +Seeing disdain unveiled, and—bitter change!— +All his suspicions turned to certainties, +And the fair truth transformed into a lie? +Oh, thou fierce tyrant of the realms of love, +Oh, Jealousy! put chains upon these hands, +And bind me with thy strongest cord, Disdain. +But, woe is me! triumphant over all, +My sufferings drown the memory of you. + + And now I die, and since there is no hope +Of happiness for me in life or death, +Still to my fantasy I'll fondly cling. +I'll say that he is wise who loveth well, +And that the soul most free is that most bound +In thraldom to the ancient tyrant Love. +I'll say that she who is mine enemy +In that fair body hath as fair a mind, +And that her coldness is but my desert, +And that by virtue of the pain he sends +Love rules his kingdom with a gentle sway. +Thus, self-deluding, and in bondage sore, +And wearing out the wretched shred of life +To which I am reduced by her disdain, +I'll give this soul and body to the winds, +All hopeless of a crown of bliss in store. + + Thou whose injustice hath supplied the cause +That makes me quit the weary life I loathe, +As by this wounded bosom thou canst see +How willingly thy victim I become, +Let not my death, if haply worth a tear, +Cloud the clear heaven that dwells in thy bright eyes; +I would not have thee expiate in aught +The crime of having made my heart thy prey; +But rather let thy laughter gaily ring +And prove my death to be thy festival. +Fool that I am to bid thee! well I know +Thy glory gains by my untimely end. + + And now it is the time; from Hell's abyss +Come thirsting Tantalus, come Sisyphus +Heaving the cruel stone, come Tityus +With vulture, and with wheel Ixion come, +And come the sisters of the ceaseless toil; +And all into this breast transfer their pains, +And (if such tribute to despair be due) +Chant in their deepest tones a doleful dirge +Over a corse unworthy of a shroud. +Let the three-headed guardian of the gate, +And all the monstrous progeny of hell, +The doleful concert join: a lover dead +Methinks can have no fitter obsequies. + + Lay of despair, grieve not when thou art gone +Forth from this sorrowing heart: my misery +Brings fortune to the cause that gave thee birth; +Then banish sadness even in the tomb. + +</pre> + + +<p> +The "Lay of Chrysostom" met with the approbation of the listeners, +though the reader said it did not seem to him to agree with what he +had heard of Marcela's reserve and propriety, for Chrysostom +complained in it of jealousy, suspicion, and absence, all to the +prejudice of the good name and fame of Marcela; to which Ambrosio +replied as one who knew well his friend's most secret thoughts, +"Senor, to remove that doubt I should tell you that when the unhappy +man wrote this lay he was away from Marcela, from whom he had +voluntarily separated himself, to try if absence would act with him as +it is wont; and as everything distresses and every fear haunts the +banished lover, so imaginary jealousies and suspicions, dreaded as +if they were true, tormented Chrysostom; and thus the truth of what +report declares of the virtue of Marcela remains unshaken, and with +her envy itself should not and cannot find any fault save that of +being cruel, somewhat haughty, and very scornful."</p> + +<p>"That is true," said Vivaldo; and as he was about to read another +paper of those he had preserved from the fire, he was stopped by a +marvellous vision (for such it seemed) that unexpectedly presented +itself to their eyes; for on the summit of the rock where they were +digging the grave there appeared the shepherdess Marcela, so beautiful +that her beauty exceeded its reputation. Those who had never till then +beheld her gazed upon her in wonder and silence, and those who were +accustomed to see her were not less amazed than those who had never +seen her before. But the instant Ambrosio saw her he addressed her, +with manifest indignation:</p> + +<p>"Art thou come, by chance, cruel basilisk of these mountains, to see +if in thy presence blood will flow from the wounds of this wretched +being thy cruelty has robbed of life; or is it to exult over the cruel +work of thy humours that thou art come; or like another pitiless +Nero to look down from that height upon the ruin of his Rome in +embers; or in thy arrogance to trample on this ill-fated corpse, as +the ungrateful daughter trampled on her father Tarquin's? Tell us +quickly for what thou art come, or what it is thou wouldst have, +for, as I know the thoughts of Chrysostom never failed to obey thee in +life, I will make all these who call themselves his friends obey thee, +though he be dead."</p> + +<p>"I come not, Ambrosia for any of the purposes thou hast named," +replied Marcela, "but to defend myself and to prove how unreasonable +are all those who blame me for their sorrow and for Chrysostom's +death; and therefore I ask all of you that are here to give me your +attention, for will not take much time or many words to bring the +truth home to persons of sense. Heaven has made me, so you say, +beautiful, and so much so that in spite of yourselves my beauty +leads you to love me; and for the love you show me you say, and even +urge, that I am bound to love you. By that natural understanding which +God has given me I know that everything beautiful attracts love, but I +cannot see how, by reason of being loved, that which is loved for +its beauty is bound to love that which loves it; besides, it may +happen that the lover of that which is beautiful may be ugly, and +ugliness being detestable, it is very absurd to say, "I love thee +because thou art beautiful, thou must love me though I be ugly." But +supposing the beauty equal on both sides, it does not follow that +the inclinations must be therefore alike, for it is not every beauty +that excites love, some but pleasing the eye without winning the +affection; and if every sort of beauty excited love and won the heart, +the will would wander vaguely to and fro unable to make choice of any; +for as there is an infinity of beautiful objects there must be an +infinity of inclinations, and true love, I have heard it said, is +indivisible, and must be voluntary and not compelled. If this be so, +as I believe it to be, why do you desire me to bend my will by +force, for no other reason but that you say you love me? Nay—tell +me—had Heaven made me ugly, as it has made me beautiful, could I with +justice complain of you for not loving me? Moreover, you must remember +that the beauty I possess was no choice of mine, for, be it what it +may, Heaven of its bounty gave it me without my asking or choosing it; +and as the viper, though it kills with it, does not deserve to be +blamed for the poison it carries, as it is a gift of nature, neither +do I deserve reproach for being beautiful; for beauty in a modest +woman is like fire at a distance or a sharp sword; the one does not +burn, the other does not cut, those who do not come too near. Honour +and virtue are the ornaments of the mind, without which the body, +though it be so, has no right to pass for beautiful; but if modesty is +one of the virtues that specially lend a grace and charm to mind and +body, why should she who is loved for her beauty part with it to +gratify one who for his pleasure alone strives with all his might +and energy to rob her of it? I was born free, and that I might live in +freedom I chose the solitude of the fields; in the trees of the +mountains I find society, the clear waters of the brooks are my +mirrors, and to the trees and waters I make known my thoughts and +charms. I am a fire afar off, a sword laid aside. Those whom I have +inspired with love by letting them see me, I have by words undeceived, +and if their longings live on hope—and I have given none to +Chrysostom or to any other—it cannot justly be said that the death of +any is my doing, for it was rather his own obstinacy than my cruelty +that killed him; and if it be made a charge against me that his wishes +were honourable, and that therefore I was bound to yield to them, I +answer that when on this very spot where now his grave is made he +declared to me his purity of purpose, I told him that mine was to live +in perpetual solitude, and that the earth alone should enjoy the +fruits of my retirement and the spoils of my beauty; and if, after +this open avowal, he chose to persist against hope and steer against +the wind, what wonder is it that he should sink in the depths of his +infatuation? If I had encouraged him, I should be false; if I had +gratified him, I should have acted against my own better resolution +and purpose. He was persistent in spite of warning, he despaired +without being hated. Bethink you now if it be reasonable that his +suffering should be laid to my charge. Let him who has been deceived +complain, let him give way to despair whose encouraged hopes have +proved vain, let him flatter himself whom I shall entice, let him +boast whom I shall receive; but let not him call me cruel or +homicide to whom I make no promise, upon whom I practise no deception, +whom I neither entice nor receive. It has not been so far the will +of Heaven that I should love by fate, and to expect me to love by +choice is idle. Let this general declaration serve for each of my +suitors on his own account, and let it be understood from this time +forth that if anyone dies for me it is not of jealousy or misery he +dies, for she who loves no one can give no cause for jealousy to +any, and candour is not to be confounded with scorn. Let him who calls +me wild beast and basilisk, leave me alone as something noxious and +evil; let him who calls me ungrateful, withhold his service; who calls +me wayward, seek not my acquaintance; who calls me cruel, pursue me +not; for this wild beast, this basilisk, this ungrateful, cruel, +wayward being has no kind of desire to seek, serve, know, or follow +them. If Chrysostom's impatience and violent passion killed him, why +should my modest behaviour and circumspection be blamed? If I preserve +my purity in the society of the trees, why should he who would have me +preserve it among men, seek to rob me of it? I have, as you know, +wealth of my own, and I covet not that of others; my taste is for +freedom, and I have no relish for constraint; I neither love nor +hate anyone; I do not deceive this one or court that, or trifle with +one or play with another. The modest converse of the shepherd girls of +these hamlets and the care of my goats are my recreations; my +desires are bounded by these mountains, and if they ever wander +hence it is to contemplate the beauty of the heavens, steps by which +the soul travels to its primeval abode."</p> + +<p>With these words, and not waiting to hear a reply, she turned and +passed into the thickest part of a wood that was hard by, leaving +all who were there lost in admiration as much of her good sense as +of her beauty. Some—those wounded by the irresistible shafts launched +by her bright eyes—made as though they would follow her, heedless +of the frank declaration they had heard; seeing which, and deeming +this a fitting occasion for the exercise of his chivalry in aid of +distressed damsels, Don Quixote, laying his hand on the hilt of his +sword, exclaimed in a loud and distinct voice:</p> + +<p>"Let no one, whatever his rank or condition, dare to follow the +beautiful Marcela, under pain of incurring my fierce indignation. +She has shown by clear and satisfactory arguments that little or no +fault is to be found with her for the death of Chrysostom, and also +how far she is from yielding to the wishes of any of her lovers, for +which reason, instead of being followed and persecuted, she should +in justice be honoured and esteemed by all the good people of the +world, for she shows that she is the only woman in it that holds to +such a virtuous resolution."</p> + +<p>Whether it was because of the threats of Don Quixote, or because +Ambrosio told them to fulfil their duty to their good friend, none +of the shepherds moved or stirred from the spot until, having finished +the grave and burned Chrysostom's papers, they laid his body in it, +not without many tears from those who stood by. They closed the +grave with a heavy stone until a slab was ready which Ambrosio said he +meant to have prepared, with an epitaph which was to be to this effect:</p> + +<pre> +Beneath the stone before your eyes +The body of a lover lies; +In life he was a shepherd swain, +In death a victim to disdain. +Ungrateful, cruel, coy, and fair, +Was she that drove him to despair, +And Love hath made her his ally +For spreading wide his tyranny.</pre> + +<p> +They then strewed upon the grave a profusion of flowers and +branches, and all expressing their condolence with his friend +ambrosio, took their Vivaldo and his companion did the same; and Don +Quixote bade farewell to his hosts and to the travellers, who +pressed him to come with them to Seville, as being such a convenient +place for finding adventures, for they presented themselves in every +street and round every corner oftener than anywhere else. Don +Quixote thanked them for their advice and for the disposition they +showed to do him a favour, and said that for the present he would not, +and must not go to Seville until he had cleared all these mountains of +highwaymen and robbers, of whom report said they were full. Seeing his +good intention, the travellers were unwilling to press him further, +and once more bidding him farewell, they left him and pursued their +journey, in the course of which they did not fail to discuss the story +of Marcela and Chrysostom as well as the madness of Don Quixote. He, +on his part, resolved to go in quest of the shepherdess Marcela, and +make offer to her of all the service he could render her; but things +did not fall out with him as he expected, according to what is related +in the course of this veracious history, of which the Second Part ends +here.</p> + + +<br> +<br><br><br> +<center><a name="c14e"></a><img alt="c14e.jpg (31K)" src="images/c14e.jpg" height="503" width="529"> +</center> +<br><br><br><br> + + + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><h2><a name="ch15"></a>CHAPTER XV.</h2></center> +<br> +<center><h3>IN WHICH IS RELATED THE UNFORTUNATE ADVENTURE THAT DON QUIXOTE +FELL IN WITH WHEN HE FELL OUT WITH CERTAIN HEARTLESS YANGUESANS +</h3></center> +<br> +<br> +<center><a name="c15a"></a><img alt="c15a.jpg (81K)" src="images/c15a.jpg" height="202" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/c15a.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<p>The sage Cide Hamete Benengeli relates that as soon as Don Quixote +took leave of his hosts and all who had been present at the burial +of Chrysostom, he and his squire passed into the same wood which +they had seen the shepherdess Marcela enter, and after having wandered +for more than two hours in all directions in search of her without +finding her, they came to a halt in a glade covered with tender grass, +beside which ran a pleasant cool stream that invited and compelled +them to pass there the hours of the noontide heat, which by this +time was beginning to come on oppressively. Don Quixote and Sancho +dismounted, and turning Rocinante and the ass loose to feed on the +grass that was there in abundance, they ransacked the alforjas, and +without any ceremony very peacefully and sociably master and man +made their repast on what they found in them.</p> + +<br> +<br><br><br> +<center><a name="c15b"></a><img alt="c15b.jpg (376K)" src="images/c15b.jpg" height="822" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/c15b.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<p>Sancho had not thought +it worth while to hobble Rocinante, feeling sure, from what he knew of +his staidness and freedom from incontinence, that all the mares in the +Cordova pastures would not lead him into an impropriety. Chance, +however, and the devil, who is not always asleep, so ordained it +that feeding in this valley there was a drove of Galician ponies +belonging to certain Yanguesan carriers, whose way it is to take their +midday rest with their teams in places and spots where grass and water +abound; and that where Don Quixote chanced to be suited the +Yanguesans' purpose very well. It so happened, then, that Rocinante +took a fancy to disport himself with their ladyships the ponies, and +abandoning his usual gait and demeanour as he scented them, he, +without asking leave of his master, got up a briskish little trot +and hastened to make known his wishes to them; they, however, it +seemed, preferred their pasture to him, and received him with their +heels and teeth to such effect that they soon broke his girths and +left him naked without a saddle to cover him; but what must have +been worse to him was that the carriers, seeing the violence he was +offering to their mares, came running up armed with stakes, and so +belaboured him that they brought him sorely battered to the ground.</p> + +<p>By this time Don Quixote and Sancho, who had witnessed the +drubbing of Rocinante, came up panting, and said Don Quixote to +Sancho:</p> + +<p>"So far as I can see, friend Sancho, these are not knights but +base folk of low birth: I mention it because thou canst lawfully aid +me in taking due vengeance for the insult offered to Rocinante +before our eyes."</p> + +<p>"What the devil vengeance can we take," answered Sancho, "if they +are more than twenty, and we no more than two, or, indeed, perhaps not +more than one and a half?"</p> + +<p>"I count for a hundred," replied Don Quixote, and without more words +he drew his sword and attacked the Yanguesans and excited and impelled +by the example of his master, Sancho did the same; and to begin +with, Don Quixote delivered a slash at one of them that laid open +the leather jerkin he wore, together with a great portion of his +shoulder. The Yanguesans, seeing themselves assaulted by only two +men while they were so many, betook themselves to their stakes, and +driving the two into the middle they began to lay on with great zeal +and energy; in fact, at the second blow they brought Sancho to the +ground, and Don Quixote fared the same way, all his skill and high +mettle availing him nothing, and fate willed it that he should fall at +the feet of Rocinante, who had not yet risen; whereby it may be seen +how furiously stakes can pound in angry boorish hands.</p> + +<br> +<br><br><br> +<center><a name="c15c"></a><img alt="c15c.jpg (362K)" src="images/c15c.jpg" height="841" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/c15c.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<p>Then, seeing +the mischief they had done, the Yanguesans with all the haste they +could loaded their team and pursued their journey, leaving the two +adventurers a sorry sight and in sorrier mood.</p> + +<p>Sancho was the first to come to, and finding himself close to his +master he called to him in a weak and doleful voice, "Senor Don +Quixote, ah, Senor Don Quixote!"</p> + +<p>"What wouldst thou, brother Sancho?" answered Don Quixote in the +same feeble suffering tone as Sancho.</p> + +<p>"I would like, if it were possible," answered Sancho Panza, "your +worship to give me a couple of sups of that potion of the fiery +Blas, if it be that you have any to hand there; perhaps it will +serve for broken bones as well as for wounds."</p> + +<p>"If I only had it here, wretch that I am, what more should we want?" +said Don Quixote; "but I swear to thee, Sancho Panza, on the faith +of a knight-errant, ere two days are over, unless fortune orders +otherwise, I mean to have it in my possession, or my hand will have +lost its cunning."</p> + +<p>"But in how many does your worship think we shall have the use of +our feet?" answered Sancho Panza.</p> + +<p>"For myself I must say I cannot guess how many," said the battered +knight Don Quixote; "but I take all the blame upon myself, for I had +no business to put hand to sword against men who where not dubbed +knights like myself, and so I believe that in punishment for having +transgressed the laws of chivalry the God of battles has permitted +this chastisement to be administered to me; for which reason, +brother Sancho, it is well thou shouldst receive a hint on the +matter which I am now about to mention to thee, for it is of much +importance to the welfare of both of us. It is at when thou shalt +see rabble of this sort offering us insult thou art not to wait till I +draw sword against them, for I shall not do so at all; but do thou +draw sword and chastise them to thy heart's content, and if any +knights come to their aid and defence I will take care to defend +thee and assail them with all my might; and thou hast already seen +by a thousand signs and proofs what the might of this strong arm of +mine is equal to"—so uplifted had the poor gentleman become through +the victory over the stout Biscayan.</p> + +<p>But Sancho did not so fully approve of his master's admonition as to +let it pass without saying in reply, "Senor, I am a man of peace, meek +and quiet, and I can put up with any affront because I have a wife and +children to support and bring up; so let it be likewise a hint to your +worship, as it cannot be a mandate, that on no account will I draw +sword either against clown or against knight, and that here before God +I forgive the insults that have been offered me, whether they have +been, are, or shall be offered me by high or low, rich or poor, +noble or commoner, not excepting any rank or condition whatsoever."</p> + +<p>To all which his master said in reply, "I wish I had breath enough +to speak somewhat easily, and that the pain I feel on this side +would abate so as to let me explain to thee, Panza, the mistake thou +makest. Come now, sinner, suppose the wind of fortune, hitherto so +adverse, should turn in our favour, filling the sails of our desires +so that safely and without impediment we put into port in some one +of those islands I have promised thee, how would it be with thee if on +winning it I made thee lord of it? Why, thou wilt make it well-nigh +impossible through not being a knight nor having any desire to be one, +nor possessing the courage nor the will to avenge insults or defend +thy lordship; for thou must know that in newly conquered kingdoms +and provinces the minds of the inhabitants are never so quiet nor so +well disposed to the new lord that there is no fear of their making +some move to change matters once more, and try, as they say, what +chance may do for them; so it is essential that the new possessor +should have good sense to enable him to govern, and valour to attack +and defend himself, whatever may befall him."</p> + +<p>"In what has now befallen us," answered Sancho, "I'd have been +well pleased to have that good sense and that valour your worship +speaks of, but I swear on the faith of a poor man I am more fit for +plasters than for arguments. See if your worship can get up, and let +us help Rocinante, though he does not deserve it, for he was the +main cause of all this thrashing. I never thought it of Rocinante, for +I took him to be a virtuous person and as quiet as myself. After +all, they say right that it takes a long time to come to know +people, and that there is nothing sure in this life. Who would have +said that, after such mighty slashes as your worship gave that unlucky +knight-errant, there was coming, travelling post and at the very heels +of them, such a great storm of sticks as has fallen upon our +shoulders?"</p> + +<p>"And yet thine, Sancho," replied Don Quixote, "ought to be used to +such squalls; but mine, reared in soft cloth and fine linen, it is +plain they must feel more keenly the pain of this mishap, and if it +were not that I imagine—why do I say imagine?—know of a certainty +that all these annoyances are very necessary accompaniments of the +calling of arms, I would lay me down here to die of pure vexation."</p> + +<p>To this the squire replied, "Senor, as these mishaps are what one +reaps of chivalry, tell me if they happen very often, or if they +have their own fixed times for coming to pass; because it seems to +me that after two harvests we shall be no good for the third, unless +God in his infinite mercy helps us."</p> + +<p>"Know, friend Sancho," answered Don Quixote, "that the life of +knights-errant is subject to a thousand dangers and reverses, and +neither more nor less is it within immediate possibility for +knights-errant to become kings and emperors, as experience has shown +in the case of many different knights with whose histories I am +thoroughly acquainted; and I could tell thee now, if the pain would +let me, of some who simply by might of arm have risen to the high +stations I have mentioned; and those same, both before and after, +experienced divers misfortunes and miseries; for the valiant Amadis of +Gaul found himself in the power of his mortal enemy Arcalaus the +magician, who, it is positively asserted, holding him captive, gave +him more than two hundred lashes with the reins of his horse while +tied to one of the pillars of a court; and moreover there is a certain +recondite author of no small authority who says that the Knight of +Phoebus, being caught in a certain pitfall, which opened under his +feet in a certain castle, on falling found himself bound hand and foot +in a deep pit underground, where they administered to him one of those +things they call clysters, of sand and snow-water, that well-nigh +finished him; and if he had not been succoured in that sore +extremity by a sage, a great friend of his, it would have gone very +hard with the poor knight; so I may well suffer in company with such +worthy folk, for greater were the indignities which they had to suffer +than those which we suffer. For I would have thee know, Sancho, that +wounds caused by any instruments which happen by chance to be in +hand inflict no indignity, and this is laid down in the law of the +duel in express words: if, for instance, the cobbler strikes another +with the last which he has in his hand, though it be in fact a piece +of wood, it cannot be said for that reason that he whom he struck with +it has been cudgelled. I say this lest thou shouldst imagine that +because we have been drubbed in this affray we have therefore suffered +any indignity; for the arms those men carried, with which they pounded +us, were nothing more than their stakes, and not one of them, so far +as I remember, carried rapier, sword, or dagger."</p> + +<p>"They gave me no time to see that much," answered Sancho, "for +hardly had I laid hand on my tizona when they signed the cross on my +shoulders with their sticks in such style that they took the sight out +of my eyes and the strength out of my feet, stretching me where I +now lie, and where thinking of whether all those stake-strokes were an +indignity or not gives me no uneasiness, which the pain of the blows +does, for they will remain as deeply impressed on my memory as on my +shoulders."</p> + +<p>"For all that let me tell thee, brother Panza," said Don Quixote, +"that there is no recollection which time does not put an end to, +and no pain which death does not remove."</p> + +<p>"And what greater misfortune can there be," replied Panza, "than the +one that waits for time to put an end to it and death to remove it? If +our mishap were one of those that are cured with a couple of plasters, +it would not be so bad; but I am beginning to think that all the +plasters in a hospital almost won't be enough to put us right."</p> + +<p>"No more of that: pluck strength out of weakness, Sancho, as I +mean to do," returned Don Quixote, "and let us see how Rocinante is, +for it seems to me that not the least share of this mishap has +fallen to the lot of the poor beast."</p> + +<p>"There is nothing wonderful in that," replied Sancho, "since he is a +knight-errant too; what I wonder at is that my beast should have +come off scot-free where we come out scotched."</p> + +<p>"Fortune always leaves a door open in adversity in order to bring +relief to it," said Don Quixote; "I say so because this little beast +may now supply the want of Rocinante, carrying me hence to some castle +where I may be cured of my wounds. And moreover I shall not hold it +any dishonour to be so mounted, for I remember having read how the +good old Silenus, the tutor and instructor of the gay god of laughter, +when he entered the city of the hundred gates, went very contentedly +mounted on a handsome ass."</p> + +<p>"It may be true that he went mounted as your worship says," answered +Sancho, "but there is a great difference between going mounted and +going slung like a sack of manure."</p> + +<p>To which Don Quixote replied, "Wounds received in battle confer +honour instead of taking it away; and so, friend Panza, say no more, +but, as I told thee before, get up as well as thou canst and put me on +top of thy beast in whatever fashion pleases thee best, and let us +go hence ere night come on and surprise us in these wilds."</p> + +<p>"And yet I have heard your worship say," observed Panza, "that it is +very meet for knights-errant to sleep in wastes and deserts, and +that they esteem it very good fortune."</p> + +<p>"That is," said Don Quixote, "when they cannot help it, or when they +are in love; and so true is this that there have been knights who have +remained two years on rocks, in sunshine and shade and all the +inclemencies of heaven, without their ladies knowing anything of it; +and one of these was Amadis, when, under the name of Beltenebros, he +took up his abode on the Pena Pobre for—I know not if it was eight +years or eight months, for I am not very sure of the reckoning; at any +rate he stayed there doing penance for I know not what pique the +Princess Oriana had against him; but no more of this now, Sancho, +and make haste before a mishap like Rocinante's befalls the ass."</p> + +<p>"The very devil would be in it in that case," said Sancho; and +letting off thirty "ohs," and sixty sighs, and a hundred and twenty +maledictions and execrations on whomsoever it was that had brought him +there, he raised himself, stopping half-way bent like a Turkish bow +without power to bring himself upright, but with all his pains he +saddled his ass, who too had gone astray somewhat, yielding to the +excessive licence of the day; he next raised up Rocinante, and as +for him, had he possessed a tongue to complain with, most assuredly +neither Sancho nor his master would have been behind him.</p> + +<br> +<br><br><br> +<center><a name="c15d"></a><img alt="c15d.jpg (329K)" src="images/c15d.jpg" height="510" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/c15d.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<p>To be brief, +Sancho fixed Don Quixote on the ass and secured Rocinante with a +leading rein, and taking the ass by the halter, he proceeded more or +less in the direction in which it seemed to him the high road might +be; and, as chance was conducting their affairs for them from good +to better, he had not gone a short league when the road came in sight, +and on it he perceived an inn, which to his annoyance and to the +delight of Don Quixote must needs be a castle. Sancho insisted that it +was an inn, and his master that it was not one, but a castle, and +the dispute lasted so long that before the point was settled they +had time to reach it, and into it Sancho entered with all his team +without any further controversy.</p> + +<br> +<br><br><br> +<center><a name="c15e"></a><img alt="c15e.jpg (31K)" src="images/c15e.jpg" height="520" width="329"> +</center> + + +<br> +<br> + + +<center> +<table summary="" cellPadding=4 border=3> +<tr><td> + <a href="p4.htm">Previous Part</a> +</td><td> + <a href="5921-h.htm">Main Index</a> +</td><td> + <a href="p6.htm">Next Part</a> + </td></tr> +</table> +</center> +<br><br> + +</body> +</html> + diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/p6.htm b/old/orig5921-h/p6.htm new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7a0f605 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/p6.htm @@ -0,0 +1,808 @@ +<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> +<html> +<head> +<title>THE HISTORY OF DON QUIXOTE, By Cervantes, Vol. I., Part 6.</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> + +<center> +<table summary="" cellPadding=4 border=3> +<tr><td> + <a href="p5.htm">Previous Part</a> +</td><td> + <a href="5921-h.htm">Main Index</a> +</td><td> + <a href="p7.htm">Next Part</a> + </td></tr> +</table> +</center> +<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 6. +<br><br> +Chapters 16-17 +</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="#ch16">CHAPTER XVI</a> +OF WHAT HAPPENED TO THE INGENIOUS GENTLEMAN IN THE INN +WHICH HE TOOK TO BE A CASTLE + +<a href="#ch17">CHAPTER XVII</a> +IN WHICH ARE CONTAINED THE INNUMERABLE TROUBLES WHICH +THE BRAVE DON QUIXOTE AND HIS GOOD SQUIRE SANCHO PANZA +ENDURED IN THE INN, WHICH TO HIS MISFORTUNE HE TOOK TO +BE A CASTLE + +</pre> + +<br><br><br><br> + + + +<br><br> +<center><h2><a name="ch16"></a>CHAPTER XVI.</h2></center> +<br> +<center><h3>OF WHAT HAPPENED TO THE INGENIOUS GENTLEMAN IN THE INN WHICH HE TOOK +TO BE A CASTLE +</h3></center> +<br> + +<br> +<center><a name="c16a"></a><img alt="c16a.jpg (129K)" src="images/c16a.jpg" height="332" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/c16a.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<p>The innkeeper, seeing Don Quixote slung across the ass, asked Sancho +what was amiss with him. Sancho answered that it was nothing, only +that he had fallen down from a rock and had his ribs a little bruised. +The innkeeper had a wife whose disposition was not such as those of +her calling commonly have, for she was by nature kind-hearted and felt +for the sufferings of her neighbours, so she at once set about tending +Don Quixote, and made her young daughter, a very comely girl, help her +in taking care of her guest. There was besides in the inn, as servant, +an Asturian lass with a broad face, flat poll, and snub nose, blind of +one eye and not very sound in the other. The elegance of her shape, to +be sure, made up for all her defects; she did not measure seven +palms from head to foot, and her shoulders, which overweighted her +somewhat, made her contemplate the ground more than she liked. This +graceful lass, then, helped the young girl, and the two made up a very +bad bed for Don Quixote in a garret that showed evident signs of +having formerly served for many years as a straw-loft, in which +there was also quartered a carrier whose bed was placed a little +beyond our Don Quixote's, and, though only made of the pack-saddles +and cloths of his mules, had much the advantage of it, as Don +Quixote's consisted simply of four rough boards on two not very even +trestles, a mattress, that for thinness might have passed for a quilt, +full of pellets which, were they not seen through the rents to be +wool, would to the touch have seemed pebbles in hardness, two sheets +made of buckler leather, and a coverlet the threads of which anyone +that chose might have counted without missing one in the reckoning.</p> + +<p>On this accursed bed Don Quixote stretched himself, and the +hostess and her daughter soon covered him with plasters from top to +toe, while Maritornes—for that was the name of the Asturian—held the +light for them, and while plastering him, the hostess, observing how +full of wheals Don Quixote was in some places, remarked that this +had more the look of blows than of a fall.</p> + +<p>It was not blows, Sancho said, but that the rock had many points and +projections, and that each of them had left its mark. "Pray, +senora," he added, "manage to save some tow, as there will be no +want of some one to use it, for my loins too are rather sore."</p> + +<p>"Then you must have fallen too," said the hostess.</p> + +<p>"I did not fall," said Sancho Panza, "but from the shock I got at +seeing my master fall, my body aches so that I feel as if I had had +a thousand thwacks."</p> + +<p>"That may well be," said the young girl, "for it has many a time +happened to me to dream that I was falling down from a tower and never +coming to the ground, and when I awoke from the dream to find myself +as weak and shaken as if I had really fallen."</p> + +<p>"There is the point, senora," replied Sancho Panza, "that I +without dreaming at all, but being more awake than I am now, find +myself with scarcely less wheals than my master, Don Quixote."</p> + +<p>"How is the gentleman called?" asked Maritornes the Asturian.</p> + +<p>"Don Quixote of La Mancha," answered Sancho Panza, "and he is a +knight-adventurer, and one of the best and stoutest that have been +seen in the world this long time past."</p> + +<p>"What is a knight-adventurer?" said the lass.</p> + +<p>"Are you so new in the world as not to know?" answered Sancho Panza. +"Well, then, you must know, sister, that a knight-adventurer is a +thing that in two words is seen drubbed and emperor, that is to-day +the most miserable and needy being in the world, and to-morrow will +have two or three crowns of kingdoms to give his squire."</p> + +<p>"Then how is it," said the hostess, "that belonging to so good a +master as this, you have not, to judge by appearances, even so much as +a county?"</p> + +<p>"It is too soon yet," answered Sancho, "for we have only been a +month going in quest of adventures, and so far we have met with +nothing that can be called one, for it will happen that when one thing +is looked for another thing is found; however, if my master Don +Quixote gets well of this wound, or fall, and I am left none the worse +of it, I would not change my hopes for the best title in Spain."</p> + +<p>To all this conversation Don Quixote was listening very attentively, +and sitting up in bed as well as he could, and taking the hostess by +the hand he said to her, "Believe me, fair lady, you may call yourself +fortunate in having in this castle of yours sheltered my person, which +is such that if I do not myself praise it, it is because of what is +commonly said, that self-praise debaseth; but my squire will inform +you who I am. I only tell you that I shall preserve for ever inscribed +on my memory the service you have rendered me in order to tender you +my gratitude while life shall last me; and would to Heaven love held +me not so enthralled and subject to its laws and to the eyes of that +fair ingrate whom I name between my teeth, but that those of this +lovely damsel might be the masters of my liberty."</p> + +<p>The hostess, her daughter, and the worthy Maritornes listened in +bewilderment to the words of the knight-errant; for they understood +about as much of them as if he had been talking Greek, though they +could perceive they were all meant for expressions of good-will and +blandishments; and not being accustomed to this kind of language, they +stared at him and wondered to themselves, for he seemed to them a +man of a different sort from those they were used to, and thanking him +in pothouse phrase for his civility they left him, while the +Asturian gave her attention to Sancho, who needed it no less than +his master.</p> + +<p>The carrier had made an arrangement with her for recreation that +night, and she had given him her word that when the guests were +quiet and the family asleep she would come in search of him and meet +his wishes unreservedly. And it is said of this good lass that she +never made promises of the kind without fulfilling them, even though +she made them in a forest and without any witness present, for she +plumed herself greatly on being a lady and held it no disgrace to be +in such an employment as servant in an inn, because, she said, +misfortunes and ill-luck had brought her to that position. The hard, +narrow, wretched, rickety bed of Don Quixote stood first in the middle +of this star-lit stable, and close beside it Sancho made his, which +merely consisted of a rush mat and a blanket that looked as if it +was of threadbare canvas rather than of wool. Next to these two beds +was that of the carrier, made up, as has been said, of the +pack-saddles and all the trappings of the two best mules he had, +though there were twelve of them, sleek, plump, and in prime +condition, for he was one of the rich carriers of Arevalo, according +to the author of this history, who particularly mentions this +carrier because he knew him very well, and they even say was in some +degree a relation of his; besides which Cide Hamete Benengeli was a +historian of great research and accuracy in all things, as is very +evident since he would not pass over in silence those that have been +already mentioned, however trifling and insignificant they might be, +an example that might be followed by those grave historians who relate +transactions so curtly and briefly that we hardly get a taste of them, +all the substance of the work being left in the inkstand from +carelessness, perverseness, or ignorance. A thousand blessings on +the author of "Tablante de Ricamonte" and that of the other book in +which the deeds of the Conde Tomillas are recounted; with what +minuteness they describe everything!</p> + +<p>To proceed, then: after having paid a visit to his team and given +them their second feed, the carrier stretched himself on his +pack-saddles and lay waiting for his conscientious Maritornes. +Sancho was by this time plastered and had lain down, and though he +strove to sleep the pain of his ribs would not let him, while Don +Quixote with the pain of his had his eyes as wide open as a hare's.</p> + +<br> +<br><br><br> +<center><a name="c16b"></a><img alt="c16b.jpg (333K)" src="images/c16b.jpg" height="838" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/c16b.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<p>The inn was all in silence, and in the whole of it there was no +light except that given by a lantern that hung burning in the middle +of the gateway. This strange stillness, and the thoughts, always +present to our knight's mind, of the incidents described at every turn +in the books that were the cause of his misfortune, conjured up to his +imagination as extraordinary a delusion as can well be conceived, +which was that he fancied himself to have reached a famous castle +(for, as has been said, all the inns he lodged in were castles to +his eyes), and that the daughter of the innkeeper was daughter of +the lord of the castle, and that she, won by his high-bred bearing, +had fallen in love with him, and had promised to come to his bed for a +while that night without the knowledge of her parents; and holding all +this fantasy that he had constructed as solid fact, he began to feel +uneasy and to consider the perilous risk which his virtue was about to +encounter, and he resolved in his heart to commit no treason to his +lady Dulcinea del Toboso, even though the queen Guinevere herself +and the dame Quintanona should present themselves before him.</p> + +<p>While he was taken up with these vagaries, then, the time and the +hour—an unlucky one for him—arrived for the Asturian to come, who in +her smock, with bare feet and her hair gathered into a fustian coif, +with noiseless and cautious steps entered the chamber where the +three were quartered, in quest of the carrier; but scarcely had she +gained the door when Don Quixote perceived her, and sitting up in +his bed in spite of his plasters and the pain of his ribs, he +stretched out his arms to receive his beauteous damsel. The +Asturian, who went all doubled up and in silence with her hands before +her feeling for her lover, encountered the arms of Don Quixote, who +grasped her tightly by the wrist, and drawing her towards him, while +she dared not utter a word, made her sit down on the bed. He then felt +her smock, and although it was of sackcloth it appeared to him to be +of the finest and softest silk: on her wrists she wore some glass +beads, but to him they had the sheen of precious Orient pearls: her +hair, which in some measure resembled a horse's mane, he rated as +threads of the brightest gold of Araby, whose refulgence dimmed the +sun himself: her breath, which no doubt smelt of yesterday's stale +salad, seemed to him to diffuse a sweet aromatic fragrance from her +mouth; and, in short, he drew her portrait in his imagination with the +same features and in the same style as that which he had seen in his +books of the other princesses who, smitten by love, came with all +the adornments that are here set down, to see the sorely wounded +knight; and so great was the poor gentleman's blindness that neither +touch, nor smell, nor anything else about the good lass that would +have made any but a carrier vomit, were enough to undeceive him; on +the contrary, he was persuaded he had the goddess of beauty in his +arms, and holding her firmly in his grasp he went on to say in low, +tender voice:</p> + +<p>"Would that found myself, lovely and exalted lady, in a position +to repay such a favour as that which you, by the sight of your great +beauty, have granted me; but fortune, which is never weary of +persecuting the good, has chosen to place me upon this bed, where I +lie so bruised and broken that though my inclination would gladly +comply with yours it is impossible; besides, to this impossibility +another yet greater is to be added, which is the faith that I have +pledged to the peerless Dulcinea del Toboso, sole lady of my most +secret thoughts; and were it not that this stood in the way I should +not be so insensible a knight as to miss the happy opportunity which +your great goodness has offered me."</p> + +<p>Maritornes was fretting and sweating at finding herself held so fast +by Don Quixote, and not understanding or heeding the words he +addressed to her, she strove without speaking to free herself. The +worthy carrier, whose unholy thoughts kept him awake, was aware of his +doxy the moment she entered the door, and was listening attentively to +all Don Quixote said; and jealous that the Asturian should have broken +her word with him for another, drew nearer to Don Quixote's bed and +stood still to see what would come of this talk which he could not +understand; but when he perceived the wench struggling to get free and +Don Quixote striving to hold her, not relishing the joke he raised his +arm and delivered such a terrible cuff on the lank jaws of the amorous +knight that he bathed all his mouth in blood, and not content with +this he mounted on his ribs and with his feet tramped all over them at +a pace rather smarter than a trot. The bed which was somewhat crazy +and not very firm on its feet, unable to support the additional weight +of the carrier, came to the ground, and at the mighty crash of this +the innkeeper awoke and at once concluded that it must be some brawl +of Maritornes', because after calling loudly to her he got no +answer. With this suspicion he got up, and lighting a lamp hastened to +the quarter where he had heard the disturbance. The wench, seeing that +her master was coming and knowing that his temper was terrible, +frightened and panic-stricken made for the bed of Sancho Panza, who +still slept, and crouching upon it made a ball of herself.</p> + +<p>The innkeeper came in exclaiming, "Where art thou, strumpet? Of +course this is some of thy work." At this Sancho awoke, and feeling +this mass almost on top of him fancied he had the nightmare and +began to distribute fisticuffs all round, of which a certain share +fell upon Maritornes, who, irritated by the pain and flinging +modesty aside, paid back so many in return to Sancho that she woke him +up in spite of himself. He then, finding himself so handled, by whom +he knew not, raising himself up as well as he could, grappled with +Maritornes, and he and she between them began the bitterest and +drollest scrimmage in the world. The carrier, however, perceiving by +the light of the innkeeper candle how it fared with his ladylove, +quitting Don Quixote, ran to bring her the help she needed; and the +innkeeper did the same but with a different intention, for his was +to chastise the lass, as he believed that beyond a doubt she alone was +the cause of all the harmony. And so, as the saying is, cat to rat, +rat to rope, rope to stick, the carrier pounded Sancho, Sancho the +lass, she him, and the innkeeper her, and all worked away so briskly +that they did not give themselves a moment's rest; and the best of +it was that the innkeeper's lamp went out, and as they were left in +the dark they all laid on one upon the other in a mass so unmercifully +that there was not a sound spot left where a hand could light.</p> + +<p>It so happened that there was lodging that night in the inn a +caudrillero of what they call the Old Holy Brotherhood of Toledo, who, +also hearing the extraordinary noise of the conflict, seized his staff +and the tin case with his warrants, and made his way in the dark +into the room crying: "Hold! in the name of the Jurisdiction! Hold! in +the name of the Holy Brotherhood!"</p> + +<p>The first that he came upon was the pummelled Don Quixote, who lay +stretched senseless on his back upon his broken-down bed, and, his +hand falling on the beard as he felt about, he continued to cry, "Help +for the Jurisdiction!" but perceiving that he whom he had laid hold of +did not move or stir, he concluded that he was dead and that those +in the room were his murderers, and with this suspicion he raised +his voice still higher, calling out, "Shut the inn gate; see that no +one goes out; they have killed a man here!" This cry startled them +all, and each dropped the contest at the point at which the voice +reached him. The innkeeper retreated to his room, the carrier to his +pack-saddles, the lass to her crib; the unlucky Don Quixote and Sancho +alone were unable to move from where they were. The cuadrillero on +this let go Don Quixote's beard, and went out to look for a light to +search for and apprehend the culprits; but not finding one, as the +innkeeper had purposely extinguished the lantern on retreating to +his room, he was compelled to have recourse to the hearth, where after +much time and trouble he lit another lamp.</p> + + +<br> +<br><br><br> +<center><a name="c16e"></a><img alt="c16e.jpg (32K)" src="images/c16e.jpg" height="565" width="375"> +</center> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><h2><a name="ch17"></a>CHAPTER XVII.</h2></center> +<br> +<center><h3>IN WHICH ARE CONTAINED THE INNUMERABLE TROUBLES WHICH THE BRAVE +DON QUIXOTE AND HIS GOOD SQUIRE SANCHO PANZA ENDURED IN THE INN, WHICH +TO HIS MISFORTUNE HE TOOK TO BE A CASTLE +</h3></center> +<br> + +<br> +<br><br><br> +<center><a name="c17a"></a><img alt="c17a.jpg (87K)" src="images/c17a.jpg" height="224" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/c17a.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<p>By this time Don Quixote had recovered from his swoon; and in the +same tone of voice in which he had called to his squire the day before +when he lay stretched "in the vale of the stakes," he began calling to +him now, "Sancho, my friend, art thou asleep? sleepest thou, friend +Sancho?"</p> + +<p>"How can I sleep, curses on it!" returned Sancho discontentedly +and bitterly, "when it is plain that all the devils have been at me +this night?"</p> + +<p>"Thou mayest well believe that," answered Don Quixote, "because, +either I know little, or this castle is enchanted, for thou must +know—but this that I am now about to tell thee thou must swear to keep +secret until after my death."</p> + +<p>"I swear it," answered Sancho.</p> + +<p>"I say so," continued Don Quixote, "because I hate taking away +anyone's good name."</p> + +<p>"I say," replied Sancho, "that I swear to hold my tongue about it +till the end of your worship's days, and God grant I may be able to +let it out tomorrow."</p> + +<p>"Do I do thee such injuries, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "that thou +wouldst see me dead so soon?"</p> + +<p>"It is not for that," replied Sancho, "but because I hate keeping +things long, and I don't want them to grow rotten with me from +over-keeping."</p> + +<p>"At any rate," said Don Quixote, "I have more confidence in thy +affection and good nature; and so I would have thee know that this +night there befell me one of the strangest adventures that I could +describe, and to relate it to thee briefly thou must know that a +little while ago the daughter of the lord of this castle came to me, +and that she is the most elegant and beautiful damsel that could be +found in the wide world. What I could tell thee of the charms of her +person! of her lively wit! of other secret matters which, to +preserve the fealty I owe to my lady Dulcinea del Toboso, I shall pass +over unnoticed and in silence! I will only tell thee that, either fate +being envious of so great a boon placed in my hands by good fortune, +or perhaps (and this is more probable) this castle being, as I have +already said, enchanted, at the time when I was engaged in the +sweetest and most amorous discourse with her, there came, without my +seeing or knowing whence it came, a hand attached to some arm of +some huge giant, that planted such a cuff on my jaws that I have +them all bathed in blood, and then pummelled me in such a way that I +am in a worse plight than yesterday when the carriers, on account of +Rocinante's misbehaviour, inflicted on us the injury thou knowest +of; whence conjecture that there must be some enchanted Moor +guarding the treasure of this damsel's beauty, and that it is not +for me."</p> + +<p>"Not for me either," said Sancho, "for more than four hundred +Moors have so thrashed me that the drubbing of the stakes was cakes +and fancy-bread to it. But tell me, senor, what do you call this +excellent and rare adventure that has left us as we are left now? +Though your worship was not so badly off, having in your arms that +incomparable beauty you spoke of; but I, what did I have, except the +heaviest whacks I think I had in all my life? Unlucky me and the +mother that bore me! for I am not a knight-errant and never expect +to be one, and of all the mishaps, the greater part falls to my +share."</p> + +<p>"Then thou hast been thrashed too?" said Don Quixote.</p> + +<p>"Didn't I say so? worse luck to my line!" said Sancho.</p> + +<p>"Be not distressed, friend," said Don Quixote, "for I will now +make the precious balsam with which we shall cure ourselves in the +twinkling of an eye."</p> + +<p>By this time the cuadrillero had succeeded in lighting the lamp, and +came in to see the man that he thought had been killed; and as +Sancho caught sight of him at the door, seeing him coming in his +shirt, with a cloth on his head, and a lamp in his hand, and a very +forbidding countenance, he said to his master, "Senor, can it be +that this is the enchanted Moor coming back to give us more +castigation if there be anything still left in the ink-bottle?"</p> + +<p>"It cannot be the Moor," answered Don Quixote, "for those under +enchantment do not let themselves be seen by anyone."</p> + +<p>"If they don't let themselves be seen, they let themselves be felt," +said Sancho; "if not, let my shoulders speak to the point."</p> + +<p>"Mine could speak too," said Don Quixote, "but that is not a +sufficient reason for believing that what we see is the enchanted +Moor."</p> + +<p>The officer came up, and finding them engaged in such a peaceful +conversation, stood amazed; though Don Quixote, to be sure, still +lay on his back unable to move from pure pummelling and plasters. +The officer turned to him and said, "Well, how goes it, good man?"</p> + +<p>"I would speak more politely if I were you," replied Don Quixote; +"is it the way of this country to address knights-errant in that +style, you booby?"</p> + +<p>The cuadrillero finding himself so disrespectfully treated by such a +sorry-looking individual, lost his temper, and raising the lamp full +of oil, smote Don Quixote such a blow with it on the head that he gave +him a badly broken pate; then, all being in darkness, he went out, and +Sancho Panza said, "That is certainly the enchanted Moor, Senor, and +he keeps the treasure for others, and for us only the cuffs and +lamp-whacks."</p> + +<p>"That is the truth," answered Don Quixote, "and there is no use in +troubling oneself about these matters of enchantment or being angry or +vexed at them, for as they are invisible and visionary we shall find +no one on whom to avenge ourselves, do what we may; rise, Sancho, if +thou canst, and call the alcaide of this fortress, and get him to give +me a little oil, wine, salt, and rosemary to make the salutiferous +balsam, for indeed I believe I have great need of it now, because I am +losing much blood from the wound that phantom gave me."</p> + +<p>Sancho got up with pain enough in his bones, and went after the +innkeeper in the dark, and meeting the officer, who was looking to see +what had become of his enemy, he said to him, "Senor, whoever you are, +do us the favour and kindness to give us a little rosemary, oil, salt, +and wine, for it is wanted to cure one of the best knights-errant on +earth, who lies on yonder bed wounded by the hands of the enchanted +Moor that is in this inn."</p> + +<p>When the officer heard him talk in this way, he took him for a man +out of his senses, and as day was now beginning to break, he opened +the inn gate, and calling the host, he told him what this good man +wanted. The host furnished him with what he required, and Sancho +brought it to Don Quixote, who, with his hand to his head, was +bewailing the pain of the blow of the lamp, which had done him no more +harm than raising a couple of rather large lumps, and what he +fancied blood was only the sweat that flowed from him in his +sufferings during the late storm. To be brief, he took the +materials, of which he made a compound, mixing them all and boiling +them a good while until it seemed to him they had come to +perfection. He then asked for some vial to pour it into, and as +there was not one in the inn, he decided on putting it into a tin +oil-bottle or flask of which the host made him a free gift; and over +the flask he repeated more than eighty paternosters and as many more +ave-marias, salves, and credos, accompanying each word with a cross by +way of benediction, at all which there were present Sancho, the +innkeeper, and the cuadrillero; for the carrier was now peacefully +engaged in attending to the comfort of his mules.</p> + +<p>This being accomplished, he felt anxious to make trial himself, on +the spot, of the virtue of this precious balsam, as he considered +it, and so he drank near a quart of what could not be put into the +flask and remained in the pigskin in which it had been boiled; but +scarcely had he done drinking when he began to vomit in such a way +that nothing was left in his stomach, and with the pangs and spasms of +vomiting he broke into a profuse sweat, on account of which he bade +them cover him up and leave him alone. They did so, and he lay +sleeping more than three hours, at the end of which he awoke and +felt very great bodily relief and so much ease from his bruises that +he thought himself quite cured, and verily believed he had hit upon +the balsam of Fierabras; and that with this remedy he might +thenceforward, without any fear, face any kind of destruction, battle, +or combat, however perilous it might be.</p> + +<p>Sancho Panza, who also regarded the amendment of his master as +miraculous, begged him to give him what was left in the pigskin, which +was no small quantity. Don Quixote consented, and he, taking it with +both hands, in good faith and with a better will, gulped down and +drained off very little less than his master. But the fact is, that +the stomach of poor Sancho was of necessity not so delicate as that of +his master, and so, before vomiting, he was seized with such +gripings and retchings, and such sweats and faintness, that verily and +truly be believed his last hour had come, and finding himself so +racked and tormented he cursed the balsam and the thief that had given +it to him.</p> + +<p>Don Quixote seeing him in this state said, "It is my belief, Sancho, +that this mischief comes of thy not being dubbed a knight, for I am +persuaded this liquor cannot be good for those who are not so."</p> + +<p>"If your worship knew that," returned Sancho—"woe betide me and all +my kindred!—why did you let me taste it?"</p> + +<p>At this moment the draught took effect, and the poor squire began to +discharge both ways at such a rate that the rush mat on which he had +thrown himself and the canvas blanket he had covering him were fit for +nothing afterwards. He sweated and perspired with such paroxysms and +convulsions that not only he himself but all present thought his end +had come. This tempest and tribulation lasted about two hours, at +the end of which he was left, not like his master, but so weak and +exhausted that he could not stand. Don Quixote, however, who, as has +been said, felt himself relieved and well, was eager to take his +departure at once in quest of adventures, as it seemed to him that all +the time he loitered there was a fraud upon the world and those in +it who stood in need of his help and protection, all the more when +he had the security and confidence his balsam afforded him; and so, +urged by this impulse, he saddled Rocinante himself and put the +pack-saddle on his squire's beast, whom likewise he helped to dress +and mount the ass; after which he mounted his horse and turning to a +corner of the inn he laid hold of a pike that stood there, to serve +him by way of a lance. All that were in the inn, who were more than +twenty persons, stood watching him; the innkeeper's daughter was +likewise observing him, and he too never took his eyes off her, and +from time to time fetched a sigh that he seemed to pluck up from the +depths of his bowels; but they all thought it must be from the pain he +felt in his ribs; at any rate they who had seen him plastered the +night before thought so.</p> + +<p>As soon as they were both mounted, at the gate of the inn, he called +to the host and said in a very grave and measured voice, "Many and +great are the favours, Senor Alcaide, that I have received in this +castle of yours, and I remain under the deepest obligation to be +grateful to you for them all the days of my life; if I can repay +them in avenging you of any arrogant foe who may have wronged you, +know that my calling is no other than to aid the weak, to avenge those +who suffer wrong, and to chastise perfidy. Search your memory, and +if you find anything of this kind you need only tell me of it, and I +promise you by the order of knighthood which I have received to +procure you satisfaction and reparation to the utmost of your desire."</p> + +<p>The innkeeper replied to him with equal calmness, "Sir Knight, I +do not want your worship to avenge me of any wrong, because when any +is done me I can take what vengeance seems good to me; the only +thing I want is that you pay me the score that you have run up in +the inn last night, as well for the straw and barley for your two +beasts, as for supper and beds."</p> + +<br> +<br><br><br> +<center><a name="c16c"></a><img alt="c16c.jpg (326K)" src="images/c16c.jpg" height="846" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/c16c.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<p>"Then this is an inn?" said Don Quixote.</p> + +<p>"And a very respectable one," said the innkeeper.</p> + +<p>"I have been under a mistake all this time," answered Don Quixote, +"for in truth I thought it was a castle, and not a bad one; but +since it appears that it is not a castle but an inn, all that can be +done now is that you should excuse the payment, for I cannot +contravene the rule of knights-errant, of whom I know as a fact (and +up to the present I have read nothing to the contrary) that they never +paid for lodging or anything else in the inn where they might be; +for any hospitality that might be offered them is their due by law and +right in return for the insufferable toil they endure in seeking +adventures by night and by day, in summer and in winter, on foot and +on horseback, in hunger and thirst, cold and heat, exposed to all +the inclemencies of heaven and all the hardships of earth."</p> + +<p>"I have little to do with that," replied the innkeeper; "pay me what +you owe me, and let us have no more talk of chivalry, for all I care +about is to get my money."</p> + +<p>"You are a stupid, scurvy innkeeper," said Don Quixote, and +putting spurs to Rocinante and bringing his pike to the slope he +rode out of the inn before anyone could stop him, and pushed on some +distance without looking to see if his squire was following him.</p> + +<p>The innkeeper when he saw him go without paying him ran to get +payment of Sancho, who said that as his master would not pay neither +would he, because, being as he was squire to a knight-errant, the same +rule and reason held good for him as for his master with regard to not +paying anything in inns and hostelries. At this the innkeeper waxed +very wroth, and threatened if he did not pay to compel him in a way +that he would not like. To which Sancho made answer that by the law of +chivalry his master had received he would not pay a rap, though it +cost him his life; for the excellent and ancient usage of +knights-errant was not going to be violated by him, nor should the +squires of such as were yet to come into the world ever complain of +him or reproach him with breaking so just a privilege.</p> + +<p>The ill-luck of the unfortunate Sancho so ordered it that among +the company in the inn there were four woolcarders from Segovia, three +needle-makers from the Colt of Cordova, and two lodgers from the +Fair of Seville, lively fellows, tender-hearted, fond of a joke, and +playful, who, almost as if instigated and moved by a common impulse, +made up to Sancho and dismounted him from his ass, while one of them +went in for the blanket of the host's bed; but on flinging him into it +they looked up, and seeing that the ceiling was somewhat lower what +they required for their work, they decided upon going out into the +yard, which was bounded by the sky, and there, putting Sancho in the +middle of the blanket, they began to raise him high, making sport with +him as they would with a dog at Shrovetide.</p> + + +<br> +<br><br><br> +<center><a name="c16d"></a><img alt="c16d.jpg (285K)" src="images/c16d.jpg" height="840" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/c16d.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<p>The cries of the poor blanketed wretch were so loud that they +reached the ears of his master, who, halting to listen attentively, +was persuaded that some new adventure was coming, until he clearly +perceived that it was his squire who uttered them. Wheeling about he +came up to the inn with a laborious gallop, and finding it shut went +round it to see if he could find some way of getting in; but as soon +as he came to the wall of the yard, which was not very high, he +discovered the game that was being played with his squire. He saw +him rising and falling in the air with such grace and nimbleness that, +had his rage allowed him, it is my belief he would have laughed. He +tried to climb from his horse on to the top of the wall, but he was so +bruised and battered that he could not even dismount; and so from +the back of his horse he began to utter such maledictions and +objurgations against those who were blanketing Sancho as it would be +impossible to write down accurately: they, however, did not stay their +laughter or their work for this, nor did the flying Sancho cease his +lamentations, mingled now with threats, now with entreaties but all to +little purpose, or none at all, until from pure weariness they left +off. They then brought him his ass, and mounting him on top of it they +put his jacket round him; and the compassionate Maritornes, seeing him +so exhausted, thought fit to refresh him with a jug of water, and that +it might be all the cooler she fetched it from the well. Sancho took +it, and as he was raising it to his mouth he was stopped by the +cries of his master exclaiming, "Sancho, my son, drink not water; +drink it not, my son, for it will kill thee; see, here I have the +blessed balsam (and he held up the flask of liquor), and with drinking +two drops of it thou wilt certainly be restored."</p> + +<p>At these words Sancho turned his eyes asquint, and in a still louder +voice said, "Can it be your worship has forgotten that I am not a +knight, or do you want me to end by vomiting up what bowels I have +left after last night? Keep your liquor in the name of all the devils, +and leave me to myself!" and at one and the same instant he left off +talking and began drinking; but as at the first sup he perceived it +was water he did not care to go on with it, and begged Maritornes to +fetch him some wine, which she did with right good will, and paid +for it with her own money; for indeed they say of her that, though she +was in that line of life, there was some faint and distant resemblance +to a Christian about her. When Sancho had done drinking he dug his +heels into his ass, and the gate of the inn being thrown open he +passed out very well pleased at having paid nothing and carried his +point, though it had been at the expense of his usual sureties, his +shoulders. It is true that the innkeeper detained his alforjas in +payment of what was owing to him, but Sancho took his departure in +such a flurry that he never missed them. The innkeeper, as soon as +he saw him off, wanted to bar the gate close, but the blanketers would +not agree to it, for they were fellows who would not have cared two +farthings for Don Quixote, even had he been really one of the +knights-errant of the Round Table.</p> + + +<br> +<br><br><br> +<center><a name="c17e"></a><img alt="c17e.jpg (47K)" src="images/c17e.jpg" height="398" width="650"> +</center> +<br><br> + + + +<center> +<table summary="" cellPadding=4 border=3> +<tr><td> + <a href="p5.htm">Previous Part</a> +</td><td> + <a href="5921-h.htm">Main Index</a> +</td><td> + <a href="p7.htm">Next Part</a> + </td></tr> +</table> +</center> + +<br><br> + + +</body> +</html> + diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/p7.htm b/old/orig5921-h/p7.htm new file mode 100644 index 0000000..169ac51 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/p7.htm @@ -0,0 +1,2367 @@ +<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> +<html> +<head> +<title>THE HISTORY OF DON QUIXOTE, By Cervantes, Vol. I., Part 7.</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> + +<center> +<table summary="" cellPadding=4 border=3> +<tr><td> + <a href="p6.htm">Previous Part</a> +</td><td> + <a href="5921-h.htm">Main Index</a> +</td><td> + <a href="p8.htm">Next Part</a> + </td></tr> +</table> +</center> +<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 7. +<br><br> +Chapters 18-22 +</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="#ch18">CHAPTER XVIII</a> +IN WHICH IS RELATED THE DISCOURSE SANCHO PANZA +HELD WITH HIS MASTER, DON QUIXOTE, AND OTHER +ADVENTURES WORTH RELATING + +<a href="#ch19">CHAPTER XIX</a> +OF THE SHREWD DISCOURSE WHICH SANCHO HELD WITH +HIS MASTER, AND OF THE ADVENTURE THAT BEFELL HIM +WITH A DEAD BODY, TOGETHER WITH OTHER NOTABLE +OCCURRENCES + +<a href="#ch20">CHAPTER XX</a> +OF THE UNEXAMPLED AND UNHEARD-OF ADVENTURE WHICH +WAS ACHIEVED BY THE VALIANT DON QUIXOTE OF +LA MANCHA WITH LESS PERIL THAN ANY EVER ACHIEVED +BY ANY FAMOUS KNIGHT IN THE WORLD + +<a href="#ch21">CHAPTER XXI</a> +WHICH TREATS OF THE EXALTED ADVENTURE AND RICH +PRIZE OF MAMBRINO'S HELMET, TOGETHER WITH OTHER +THINGS THAT HAPPENED TO OUR INVINCIBLE KNIGHT + +<a href="#ch22">CHAPTER XXII</a> +OF THE FREEDOM DON QUIXOTE CONFERRED ON SEVERAL +UNFORTUNATES WHO AGAINST THEIR WILL WERE BEING +CARRIED WHERE THEY HAD NO WISH TO GO + +</pre> + +<br><br> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><h2><a name="ch18"></a>CHAPTER XVIII.</h2></center> +<br> +<center><h3>IN WHICH IS RELATED THE DISCOURSE SANCHO PANZA HELD WITH HIS MASTER, +DON QUIXOTE, AND OTHER ADVENTURES WORTH RELATING +</h3></center> +<br> + +<br> +<br><br><br> +<center><a name="c18a"></a><img alt="c18a.jpg (79K)" src="images/c18a.jpg" height="242" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/c18a.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<p>Sancho reached his master so limp and faint that he could not urge +on his beast. When Don Quixote saw the state he was in he said, "I +have now come to the conclusion, good Sancho, that this castle or +inn is beyond a doubt enchanted, because those who have so atrociously +diverted themselves with thee, what can they be but phantoms or beings +of another world? and I hold this confirmed by having noticed that +when I was by the wall of the yard witnessing the acts of thy sad +tragedy, it was out of my power to mount upon it, nor could I even +dismount from Rocinante, because they no doubt had me enchanted; for I +swear to thee by the faith of what I am that if I had been able to +climb up or dismount, I would have avenged thee in such a way that +those braggart thieves would have remembered their freak for ever, +even though in so doing I knew that I contravened the laws of +chivalry, which, as I have often told thee, do not permit a knight +to lay hands on him who is not one, save in case of urgent and great +necessity in defence of his own life and person."</p> + +<p>"I would have avenged myself too if I could," said Sancho, +"whether I had been dubbed knight or not, but I could not; though +for my part I am persuaded those who amused themselves with me were +not phantoms or enchanted men, as your worship says, but men of +flesh and bone like ourselves; and they all had their names, for I +heard them name them when they were tossing me, and one was called +Pedro Martinez, and another Tenorio Hernandez, and the innkeeper, I +heard, was called Juan Palomeque the Left-handed; so that, senor, your +not being able to leap over the wall of the yard or dismount from your +horse came of something else besides enchantments; and what I make out +clearly from all this is, that these adventures we go seeking will +in the end lead us into such misadventures that we shall not know +which is our right foot; and that the best and wisest thing, according +to my small wits, would be for us to return home, now that it is +harvest-time, and attend to our business, and give over wandering from +Zeca to Mecca and from pail to bucket, as the saying is."</p> + +<p>"How little thou knowest about chivalry, Sancho," replied Don +Quixote; "hold thy peace and have patience; the day will come when +thou shalt see with thine own eyes what an honourable thing it is to +wander in the pursuit of this calling; nay, tell me, what greater +pleasure can there be in the world, or what delight can equal that +of winning a battle, and triumphing over one's enemy? None, beyond all +doubt."</p> + +<p>"Very likely," answered Sancho, "though I do not know it; all I know +is that since we have been knights-errant, or since your worship has +been one (for I have no right to reckon myself one of so honourable +a number) we have never won any battle except the one with the +Biscayan, and even out of that your worship came with half an ear +and half a helmet the less; and from that till now it has been all +cudgellings and more cudgellings, cuffs and more cuffs, I getting +the blanketing over and above, and falling in with enchanted persons +on whom I cannot avenge myself so as to know what the delight, as your +worship calls it, of conquering an enemy is like."</p> + +<p>"That is what vexes me, and what ought to vex thee, Sancho," replied +Don Quixote; "but henceforward I will endeavour to have at hand some +sword made by such craft that no kind of enchantments can take +effect upon him who carries it, and it is even possible that fortune +may procure for me that which belonged to Amadis when he was called +'The Knight of the Burning Sword,' which was one of the best swords +that ever knight in the world possessed, for, besides having the +said virtue, it cut like a razor, and there was no armour, however +strong and enchanted it might be, that could resist it."</p> + +<p>"Such is my luck," said Sancho, "that even if that happened and your +worship found some such sword, it would, like the balsam, turn out +serviceable and good for dubbed knights only, and as for the +squires, they might sup sorrow."</p> + +<p>"Fear not that, Sancho," said Don Quixote: "Heaven will deal +better by thee."</p> + +<p>Thus talking, Don Quixote and his squire were going along, when, +on the road they were following, Don Quixote perceived approaching +them a large and thick cloud of dust, on seeing which he turned to +Sancho and said:</p> + +<p>"This is the day, Sancho, on which will be seen the boon my +fortune is reserving for me; this, I say, is the day on which as +much as on any other shall be displayed the might of my arm, and on +which I shall do deeds that shall remain written in the book of fame +for all ages to come. Seest thou that cloud of dust which rises +yonder? Well, then, all that is churned up by a vast army composed +of various and countless nations that comes marching there."</p> + +<p>"According to that there must be two," said Sancho, "for on this +opposite side also there rises just such another cloud of dust."</p> + +<p>Don Quixote turned to look and found that it was true, and rejoicing +exceedingly, he concluded that they were two armies about to engage +and encounter in the midst of that broad plain; for at all times and +seasons his fancy was full of the battles, enchantments, adventures, +crazy feats, loves, and defiances that are recorded in the books of +chivalry, and everything he said, thought, or did had reference to +such things. Now the cloud of dust he had seen was raised by two great +droves of sheep coming along the same road in opposite directions, +which, because of the dust, did not become visible until they drew +near, but Don Quixote asserted so positively that they were armies +that Sancho was led to believe it and say, "Well, and what are we to +do, senor?"</p> + +<br> +<br><br><br> +<center><a name="c17b"></a><img alt="c17b.jpg (339K)" src="images/c17b.jpg" height="814" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/c17b.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<p>"What?" said Don Quixote: "give aid and assistance to the weak and +those who need it; and thou must know, Sancho, that this which comes +opposite to us is conducted and led by the mighty emperor Alifanfaron, +lord of the great isle of Trapobana; this other that marches behind me +is that of his enemy the king of the Garamantas, Pentapolin of the +Bare Arm, for he always goes into battle with his right arm bare."</p> + +<p>"But why are these two lords such enemies?"</p> + +<p>"They are at enmity," replied Don Quixote, "because this Alifanfaron +is a furious pagan and is in love with the daughter of Pentapolin, who +is a very beautiful and moreover gracious lady, and a Christian, and +her father is unwilling to bestow her upon the pagan king unless he +first abandons the religion of his false prophet Mahomet, and adopts +his own."</p> + +<p>"By my beard," said Sancho, "but Pentapolin does quite right, and +I will help him as much as I can."</p> + +<p>"In that thou wilt do what is thy duty, Sancho," said Don Quixote; +"for to engage in battles of this sort it is not requisite to be a +dubbed knight."</p> + +<p>"That I can well understand," answered Sancho; "but where shall we +put this ass where we may be sure to find him after the fray is +over? for I believe it has not been the custom so far to go into +battle on a beast of this kind."</p> + +<p>"That is true," said Don Quixote, "and what you had best do with him +is to leave him to take his chance whether he be lost or not, for +the horses we shall have when we come out victors will be so many that +even Rocinante will run a risk of being changed for another. But +attend to me and observe, for I wish to give thee some account of +the chief knights who accompany these two armies; and that thou mayest +the better see and mark, let us withdraw to that hillock which rises +yonder, whence both armies may be seen."</p> + +<p>They did so, and placed themselves on a rising ground from which the +two droves that Don Quixote made armies of might have been plainly +seen if the clouds of dust they raised had not obscured them and +blinded the sight; nevertheless, seeing in his imagination what he did +not see and what did not exist, he began thus in a loud voice:</p> + +<p>"That knight whom thou seest yonder in yellow armour, who bears upon +his shield a lion crowned crouching at the feet of a damsel, is the +valiant Laurcalco, lord of the Silver Bridge; that one in armour +with flowers of gold, who bears on his shield three crowns argent on +an azure field, is the dreaded Micocolembo, grand duke of Quirocia; +that other of gigantic frame, on his right hand, is the ever dauntless +Brandabarbaran de Boliche, lord of the three Arabias, who for armour +wears that serpent skin, and has for shield a gate which, according to +tradition, is one of those of the temple that Samson brought to the +ground when by his death he revenged himself upon his enemies. But +turn thine eyes to the other side, and thou shalt see in front and +in the van of this other army the ever victorious and never vanquished +Timonel of Carcajona, prince of New Biscay, who comes in armour with +arms quartered azure, vert, white, and yellow, and bears on his shield +a cat or on a field tawny with a motto which says Miau, which is the +beginning of the name of his lady, who according to report is the +peerless Miaulina, daughter of the duke Alfeniquen of the Algarve; the +other, who burdens and presses the loins of that powerful charger +and bears arms white as snow and a shield blank and without any +device, is a novice knight, a Frenchman by birth, Pierres Papin by +name, lord of the baronies of Utrique; that other, who with +iron-shod heels strikes the flanks of that nimble parti-coloured +zebra, and for arms bears azure vair, is the mighty duke of Nerbia, +Espartafilardo del Bosque, who bears for device on his shield an +asparagus plant with a motto in Castilian that says, Rastrea mi +suerte." And so he went on naming a number of knights of one +squadron or the other out of his imagination, and to all he assigned +off-hand their arms, colours, devices, and mottoes, carried away by +the illusions of his unheard-of craze; and without a pause, he +continued, "People of divers nations compose this squadron in front; +here are those that drink of the sweet waters of the famous Xanthus, +those that scour the woody Massilian plains, those that sift the +pure fine gold of Arabia Felix, those that enjoy the famed cool +banks of the crystal Thermodon, those that in many and various ways +divert the streams of the golden Pactolus, the Numidians, faithless in +their promises, the Persians renowned in archery, the Parthians and +the Medes that fight as they fly, the Arabs that ever shift their +dwellings, the Scythians as cruel as they are fair, the Ethiopians +with pierced lips, and an infinity of other nations whose features I +recognise and descry, though I cannot recall their names. In this +other squadron there come those that drink of the crystal streams of +the olive-bearing Betis, those that make smooth their countenances +with the water of the ever rich and golden Tagus, those that rejoice +in the fertilising flow of the divine Genil, those that roam the +Tartesian plains abounding in pasture, those that take their +pleasure in the Elysian meadows of Jerez, the rich Manchegans +crowned with ruddy ears of corn, the wearers of iron, old relics of +the Gothic race, those that bathe in the Pisuerga renowned for its +gentle current, those that feed their herds along the spreading +pastures of the winding Guadiana famed for its hidden course, those +that tremble with the cold of the pineclad Pyrenees or the dazzling +snows of the lofty Apennine; in a word, as many as all Europe includes +and contains."</p> + +<p>Good God! what a number of countries and nations he named! giving to +each its proper attributes with marvellous readiness; brimful and +saturated with what he had read in his lying books! Sancho Panza +hung upon his words without speaking, and from time to time turned +to try if he could see the knights and giants his master was +describing, and as he could not make out one of them he said to him:</p> + +<p>"Senor, devil take it if there's a sign of any man you talk of, +knight or giant, in the whole thing; maybe it's all enchantment, +like the phantoms last night."</p> + +<p>"How canst thou say that!" answered Don Quixote; "dost thou not hear +the neighing of the steeds, the braying of the trumpets, the roll of +the drums?"</p> + +<p>"I hear nothing but a great bleating of ewes and sheep," said +Sancho; which was true, for by this time the two flocks had come +close.</p> + +<p>"The fear thou art in, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "prevents thee +from seeing or hearing correctly, for one of the effects of fear is to +derange the senses and make things appear different from what they +are; if thou art in such fear, withdraw to one side and leave me to +myself, for alone I suffice to bring victory to that side to which I +shall give my aid;" and so saying he gave Rocinante the spur, and +putting the lance in rest, shot down the slope like a thunderbolt. +Sancho shouted after him, crying, "Come back, Senor Don Quixote; I vow +to God they are sheep and ewes you are charging! Come back! Unlucky +the father that begot me! what madness is this! Look, there is no +giant, nor knight, nor cats, nor arms, nor shields quartered or whole, +nor vair azure or bedevilled. What are you about? Sinner that I am +before God!" But not for all these entreaties did Don Quixote turn +back; on the contrary he went on shouting out, "Ho, knights, ye who +follow and fight under the banners of the valiant emperor Pentapolin +of the Bare Arm, follow me all; ye shall see how easily I shall give +him his revenge over his enemy Alifanfaron of the Trapobana."</p> + +<p>So saying, he dashed into the midst of the squadron of ewes, and +began spearing them with as much spirit and intrepidity as if he +were transfixing mortal enemies in earnest. The shepherds and +drovers accompanying the flock shouted to him to desist; seeing it was +no use, they ungirt their slings and began to salute his ears with +stones as big as one's fist. Don Quixote gave no heed to the stones, +but, letting drive right and left kept saying:</p> + +<p>"Where art thou, proud Alifanfaron? Come before me; I am a single +knight who would fain prove thy prowess hand to hand, and make thee +yield thy life a penalty for the wrong thou dost to the valiant +Pentapolin Garamanta." Here came a sugar-plum from the brook that +struck him on the side and buried a couple of ribs in his body. +Feeling himself so smitten, he imagined himself slain or badly wounded +for certain, and recollecting his liquor he drew out his flask, and +putting it to his mouth began to pour the contents into his stomach; +but ere he had succeeded in swallowing what seemed to him enough, +there came another almond which struck him on the hand and on the +flask so fairly that it smashed it to pieces, knocking three or four +teeth and grinders out of his mouth in its course, and sorely crushing +two fingers of his hand. Such was the force of the first blow and of +the second, that the poor knight in spite of himself came down +backwards off his horse. The shepherds came up, and felt sure they had +killed him; so in all haste they collected their flock together, +took up the dead beasts, of which there were more than seven, and made +off without waiting to ascertain anything further.</p> + +<p>All this time Sancho stood on the hill watching the crazy feats +his master was performing, and tearing his beard and cursing the +hour and the occasion when fortune had made him acquainted with him. +Seeing him, then, brought to the ground, and that the shepherds had +taken themselves off, he ran to him and found him in very bad case, +though not unconscious; and said he:</p> + +<p>"Did I not tell you to come back, Senor Don Quixote; and that what +you were going to attack were not armies but droves of sheep?"</p> + +<p>"That's how that thief of a sage, my enemy, can alter and falsify +things," answered Don Quixote; "thou must know, Sancho, that it is a +very easy matter for those of his sort to make us believe what they +choose; and this malignant being who persecutes me, envious of the +glory he knew I was to win in this battle, has turned the squadrons of +the enemy into droves of sheep. At any rate, do this much, I beg of +thee, Sancho, to undeceive thyself, and see that what I say is true; +mount thy ass and follow them quietly, and thou shalt see that when +they have gone some little distance from this they will return to +their original shape and, ceasing to be sheep, become men in all +respects as I described them to thee at first. But go not just yet, +for I want thy help and assistance; come hither, and see how many of +my teeth and grinders are missing, for I feel as if there was not +one left in my mouth."</p> + +<p>Sancho came so close that he almost put his eyes into his mouth; now +just at that moment the balsam had acted on the stomach of Don +Quixote, so, at the very instant when Sancho came to examine his +mouth, he discharged all its contents with more force than a musket, +and full into the beard of the compassionate squire.</p> + +<p>"Holy Mary!" cried Sancho, "what is this that has happened me? +Clearly this sinner is mortally wounded, as he vomits blood from the +mouth;" but considering the matter a little more closely he +perceived by the colour, taste, and smell, that it was not blood but +the balsam from the flask which he had seen him drink; and he was +taken with such a loathing that his stomach turned, and he vomited +up his inside over his very master, and both were left in a precious +state. Sancho ran to his ass to get something wherewith to clean +himself, and relieve his master, out of his alforjas; but not +finding them, he well-nigh took leave of his senses, and cursed +himself anew, and in his heart resolved to quit his master and +return home, even though he forfeited the wages of his service and all +hopes of the promised island.</p> + +<p>Don Quixote now rose, and putting his left hand to his mouth to keep +his teeth from falling out altogether, with the other he laid hold +of the bridle of Rocinante, who had never stirred from his master's +side—so loyal and well-behaved was he—and betook himself to where +the squire stood leaning over his ass with his hand to his cheek, like +one in deep dejection. Seeing him in this mood, looking so sad, Don +Quixote said to him:</p> + +<p>"Bear in mind, Sancho, that one man is no more than another, +unless he does more than another; all these tempests that fall upon us +are signs that fair weather is coming shortly, and that things will go +well with us, for it is impossible for good or evil to last for +ever; and hence it follows that the evil having lasted long, the +good must be now nigh at hand; so thou must not distress thyself at +the misfortunes which happen to me, since thou hast no share in them."</p> + +<p>"How have I not?" replied Sancho; "was he whom they blanketed +yesterday perchance any other than my father's son? and the alforjas +that are missing to-day with all my treasures, did they belong to +any other but myself?"</p> + +<p>"What! are the alforjas missing, Sancho?" said Don Quixote.</p> + +<p>"Yes, they are missing," answered Sancho.</p> + +<p>"In that case we have nothing to eat to-day," replied Don Quixote.</p> + +<p>"It would be so," answered Sancho, "if there were none of the +herbs your worship says you know in these meadows, those with which +knights-errant as unlucky as your worship are wont to supply such-like +shortcomings."</p> + +<p>"For all that," answered Don Quixote, "I would rather have just +now a quarter of bread, or a loaf and a couple of pilchards' heads, +than all the herbs described by Dioscorides, even with Doctor Laguna's +notes. Nevertheless, Sancho the Good, mount thy beast and come along +with me, for God, who provides for all things, will not fail us +(more especially when we are so active in his service as we are), +since he fails not the midges of the air, nor the grubs of the +earth, nor the tadpoles of the water, and is so merciful that he +maketh his sun to rise on the good and on the evil, and sendeth rain +on the unjust and on the just."</p> + +<p>"Your worship would make a better preacher than knight-errant," said +Sancho.</p> + +<p>"Knights-errant knew and ought to know everything, Sancho," said Don +Quixote; "for there were knights-errant in former times as well +qualified to deliver a sermon or discourse in the middle of an +encampment, as if they had graduated in the University of Paris; +whereby we may see that the lance has never blunted the pen, nor the +pen the lance."</p> + +<p>"Well, be it as your worship says," replied Sancho; "let us be off +now and find some place of shelter for the night, and God grant it may +be somewhere where there are no blankets, nor blanketeers, nor +phantoms, nor enchanted Moors; for if there are, may the devil take +the whole concern."</p> + +<p>"Ask that of God, my son," said Don Quixote; and do thou lead on +where thou wilt, for this time I leave our lodging to thy choice; +but reach me here thy hand, and feel with thy finger, and find out how +many of my teeth and grinders are missing from this right side of +the upper jaw, for it is there I feel the pain."</p> + +<p>Sancho put in his fingers, and feeling about asked him, "How many +grinders used your worship have on this side?"</p> + +<p>"Four," replied Don Quixote, "besides the back-tooth, all whole +and quite sound."</p> + +<p>"Mind what you are saying, senor."</p> + +<p>"I say four, if not five," answered Don Quixote, "for never in my +life have I had tooth or grinder drawn, nor has any fallen out or been +destroyed by any decay or rheum."</p> + +<p>"Well, then," said Sancho, "in this lower side your worship has no +more than two grinders and a half, and in the upper neither a half nor +any at all, for it is all as smooth as the palm of my hand."</p> + +<p>"Luckless that I am!" said Don Quixote, hearing the sad news his +squire gave him; "I had rather they despoiled me of an arm, so it were +not the sword-arm; for I tell thee, Sancho, a mouth without teeth is +like a mill without a millstone, and a tooth is much more to be prized +than a diamond; but we who profess the austere order of chivalry are +liable to all this. Mount, friend, and lead the way, and I will follow +thee at whatever pace thou wilt."</p> + +<p>Sancho did as he bade him, and proceeded in the direction in which +he thought he might find refuge without quitting the high road, +which was there very much frequented. As they went along, then, at a +slow pace—for the pain in Don Quixote's jaws kept him uneasy and +ill-disposed for speed—Sancho thought it well to amuse and divert him +by talk of some kind, and among the things he said to him was that +which will be told in the following chapter.</p> + + +<br> +<br><br><br> +<center><a name="c18e"></a><img alt="c18e.jpg (44K)" src="images/c18e.jpg" height="391" width="621"> +</center> +<br><br> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><h2><a name="ch19"></a>CHAPTER XIX.</h2></center> +<br> +<center><h3>OF THE SHREWD DISCOURSE WHICH SANCHO HELD WITH HIS MASTER, AND OF +THE ADVENTURE THAT BEFELL HIM WITH A DEAD BODY, TOGETHER WITH OTHER +NOTABLE OCCURRENCES +</h3></center> +<br> + +<p>"It seems to me, senor, that all these mishaps that have befallen us +of late have been without any doubt a punishment for the offence +committed by your worship against the order of chivalry in not keeping +the oath you made not to eat bread off a tablecloth or embrace the +queen, and all the rest of it that your worship swore to observe until +you had taken that helmet of Malandrino's, or whatever the Moor is +called, for I do not very well remember."</p> + +<p>"Thou art very right, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "but to tell the +truth, it had escaped my memory; and likewise thou mayest rely upon it +that the affair of the blanket happened to thee because of thy fault +in not reminding me of it in time; but I will make amends, for there +are ways of compounding for everything in the order of chivalry."</p> + +<p>"Why! have I taken an oath of some sort, then?" said Sancho.</p> + +<p>"It makes no matter that thou hast not taken an oath," said Don +Quixote; "suffice it that I see thou art not quite clear of +complicity; and whether or no, it will not be ill done to provide +ourselves with a remedy."</p> + +<p>"In that case," said Sancho, "mind that your worship does not forget +this as you did the oath; perhaps the phantoms may take it into +their heads to amuse themselves once more with me; or even with your +worship if they see you so obstinate."</p> + +<p>While engaged in this and other talk, night overtook them on the +road before they had reached or discovered any place of shelter; and +what made it still worse was that they were dying of hunger, for +with the loss of the alforjas they had lost their entire larder and +commissariat; and to complete the misfortune they met with an +adventure which without any invention had really the appearance of +one. It so happened that the night closed in somewhat darkly, but +for all that they pushed on, Sancho feeling sure that as the road +was the king's highway they might reasonably expect to find some inn +within a league or two. Going along, then, in this way, the night +dark, the squire hungry, the master sharp-set, they saw coming towards +them on the road they were travelling a great number of lights which +looked exactly like stars in motion. Sancho was taken aback at the +sight of them, nor did Don Quixote altogether relish them: the one +pulled up his ass by the halter, the other his hack by the bridle, and +they stood still, watching anxiously to see what all this would turn +out to be, and found that the lights were approaching them, and the +nearer they came the greater they seemed, at which spectacle Sancho +began to shake like a man dosed with mercury, and Don Quixote's hair +stood on end; he, however, plucking up spirit a little, said:</p> + +<p>"This, no doubt, Sancho, will be a most mighty and perilous +adventure, in which it will be needful for me to put forth all my +valour and resolution."</p> + +<p>"Unlucky me!" answered Sancho; "if this adventure happens to be +one of phantoms, as I am beginning to think it is, where shall I +find the ribs to bear it?"</p> + +<p>"Be they phantoms ever so much," said Don Quixote, "I will not +permit them to touch a thread of thy garments; for if they played +tricks with thee the time before, it was because I was unable to +leap the walls of the yard; but now we are on a wide plain, where I +shall be able to wield my sword as I please."</p> + +<p>"And if they enchant and cripple you as they did the last time," +said Sancho, "what difference will it make being on the open plain +or not?"</p> + +<p>"For all that," replied Don Quixote, "I entreat thee, Sancho, to +keep a good heart, for experience will tell thee what mine is."</p> + +<p>"I will, please God," answered Sancho, and the two retiring to one +side of the road set themselves to observe closely what all these +moving lights might be; and very soon afterwards they made out some +twenty encamisados, all on horseback, with lighted torches in their +hands, the awe-inspiring aspect of whom completely extinguished the +courage of Sancho, who began to chatter with his teeth like one in the +cold fit of an ague; and his heart sank and his teeth chattered +still more when they perceived distinctly that behind them there +came a litter covered over with black and followed by six more mounted +figures in mourning down to the very feet of their mules—for they +could perceive plainly they were not horses by the easy pace at +which they went. And as the encamisados came along they muttered to +themselves in a low plaintive tone. This strange spectacle at such +an hour and in such a solitary place was quite enough to strike terror +into Sancho's heart, and even into his master's; and (save in Don +Quixote's case) did so, for all Sancho's resolution had now broken +down. It was just the opposite with his master, whose imagination +immediately conjured up all this to him vividly as one of the +adventures of his books.</p> + +<p>He took it into his head that the litter was a bier on which was +borne some sorely wounded or slain knight, to avenge whom was a task +reserved for him alone; and without any further reasoning he laid +his lance in rest, fixed himself firmly in his saddle, and with +gallant spirit and bearing took up his position in the middle of the +road where the encamisados must of necessity pass; and as soon as he +saw them near at hand he raised his voice and said:</p> + +<p>"Halt, knights, or whosoever ye may be, and render me account of who +ye are, whence ye come, where ye go, what it is ye carry upon that +bier, for, to judge by appearances, either ye have done some wrong +or some wrong has been done to you, and it is fitting and necessary +that I should know, either that I may chastise you for the evil ye +have done, or else that I may avenge you for the injury that has +been inflicted upon you."</p> + +<p>"We are in haste," answered one of the encamisados, "and the inn +is far off, and we cannot stop to render you such an account as you +demand;" and spurring his mule he moved on.</p> + +<p>Don Quixote was mightily provoked by this answer, and seizing the +mule by the bridle he said, "Halt, and be more mannerly, and render an +account of what I have asked of you; else, take my defiance to combat, +all of you."</p> + +<p>The mule was shy, and was so frightened at her bridle being seized +that rearing up she flung her rider to the ground over her haunches. +An attendant who was on foot, seeing the encamisado fall, began to +abuse Don Quixote, who now moved to anger, without any more ado, +laying his lance in rest charged one of the men in mourning and +brought him badly wounded to the ground, and as he wheeled round +upon the others the agility with which he attacked and routed them was +a sight to see, for it seemed just as if wings had that instant +grown upon Rocinante, so lightly and proudly did he bear himself. +The encamisados were all timid folk and unarmed, so they speedily made +their escape from the fray and set off at a run across the plain +with their lighted torches, looking exactly like maskers running on +some gala or festival night. The mourners, too, enveloped and +swathed in their skirts and gowns, were unable to bestir themselves, +and so with entire safety to himself Don Quixote belaboured them all +and drove them off against their will, for they all thought it was +no man but a devil from hell come to carry away the dead body they had +in the litter.</p> + +<p>Sancho beheld all this in astonishment at the intrepidity of his +lord, and said to himself, "Clearly this master of mine is as bold and +valiant as he says he is."</p> + +<p>A burning torch lay on the ground near the first man whom the mule +had thrown, by the light of which Don Quixote perceived him, and +coming up to him he presented the point of the lance to his face, +calling on him to yield himself prisoner, or else he would kill him; +to which the prostrate man replied, "I am prisoner enough as it is; +I cannot stir, for one of my legs is broken: I entreat you, if you +be a Christian gentleman, not to kill me, which will be committing +grave sacrilege, for I am a licentiate and I hold first orders."</p> + +<p>"Then what the devil brought you here, being a churchman?" said +Don Quixote.</p> + +<p>"What, senor?" said the other. "My bad luck."</p> + +<p>"Then still worse awaits you," said Don Quixote, "if you do not +satisfy me as to all I asked you at first."</p> + +<p>"You shall be soon satisfied," said the licentiate; "you must +know, then, that though just now I said I was a licentiate, I am +only a bachelor, and my name is Alonzo Lopez; I am a native of +Alcobendas, I come from the city of Baeza with eleven others, priests, +the same who fled with the torches, and we are going to the city of +Segovia accompanying a dead body which is in that litter, and is +that of a gentleman who died in Baeza, where he was interred; and now, +as I said, we are taking his bones to their burial-place, which is +in Segovia, where he was born."</p> + +<p>"And who killed him?" asked Don Quixote.</p> + +<p>"God, by means of a malignant fever that took him," answered the +bachelor.</p> + +<p>"In that case," said Don Quixote, "the Lord has relieved me of the +task of avenging his death had any other slain him; but, he who slew +him having slain him, there is nothing for it but to be silent, and +shrug one's shoulders; I should do the same were he to slay myself; +and I would have your reverence know that I am a knight of La +Mancha, Don Quixote by name, and it is my business and calling to roam +the world righting wrongs and redressing injuries."</p> + +<p>"I do not know how that about righting wrongs can be," said the +bachelor, "for from straight you have made me crooked, leaving me with +a broken leg that will never see itself straight again all the days of +its life; and the injury you have redressed in my case has been to +leave me injured in such a way that I shall remain injured for ever; +and the height of misadventure it was to fall in with you who go in +search of adventures."</p> + +<p>"Things do not all happen in the same way," answered Don Quixote; +"it all came, Sir Bachelor Alonzo Lopez, of your going, as you did, by +night, dressed in those surplices, with lighted torches, praying, +covered with mourning, so that naturally you looked like something +evil and of the other world; and so I could not avoid doing my duty in +attacking you, and I should have attacked you even had I known +positively that you were the very devils of hell, for such I certainly +believed and took you to be."</p> + +<p>"As my fate has so willed it," said the bachelor, "I entreat you, +sir knight-errant, whose errand has been such an evil one for me, to +help me to get from under this mule that holds one of my legs caught +between the stirrup and the saddle."</p> + +<p>"I would have talked on till to-morrow," said Don Quixote; "how long +were you going to wait before telling me of your distress?"</p> + +<p>He at once called to Sancho, who, however, had no mind to come, as +he was just then engaged in unloading a sumpter mule, well laden +with provender, which these worthy gentlemen had brought with them. +Sancho made a bag of his coat, and, getting together as much as he +could, and as the bag would hold, he loaded his beast, and then +hastened to obey his master's call, and helped him to remove the +bachelor from under the mule; then putting him on her back he gave him +the torch, and Don Quixote bade him follow the track of his +companions, and beg pardon of them on his part for the wrong which +he could not help doing them.</p> + +<p>And said Sancho, "If by chance these gentlemen should want to know +who was the hero that served them so, your worship may tell them +that he is the famous Don Quixote of La Mancha, otherwise called the +Knight of the Rueful Countenance."</p> + +<p>The bachelor then took his departure.</p> + +<p>I forgot to mention that before he did so he said to Don Quixote, +"Remember that you stand excommunicated for having laid violent +hands on a holy thing, juxta illud, si quis, suadente diabolo."</p> + +<p>"I do not understand that Latin," answered Don Quixote, "but I +know well I did not lay hands, only this pike; besides, I did not +think I was committing an assault upon priests or things of the +Church, which, like a Catholic and faithful Christian as I am, I +respect and revere, but upon phantoms and spectres of the other world; +but even so, I remember how it fared with Cid Ruy Diaz when he broke +the chair of the ambassador of that king before his Holiness the Pope, +who excommunicated him for the same; and yet the good Roderick of +Vivar bore himself that day like a very noble and valiant knight."</p> + +<p>On hearing this the bachelor took his departure, as has been said, +without making any reply; and Don Quixote asked Sancho what had +induced him to call him the "Knight of the Rueful Countenance" more +then than at any other time.</p> + +<p>"I will tell you," answered Sancho; "it was because I have been +looking at you for some time by the light of the torch held by that +unfortunate, and verily your worship has got of late the most +ill-favoured countenance I ever saw: it must be either owing to the +fatigue of this combat, or else to the want of teeth and grinders."</p> + +<p>"It is not that," replied Don Quixote, "but because the sage whose +duty it will be to write the history of my achievements must have +thought it proper that I should take some distinctive name as all +knights of yore did; one being 'He of the Burning Sword,' another +'He of the Unicorn,' this one 'He of the Damsels,' that 'He of the +Phoenix,' another 'The Knight of the Griffin,' and another 'He of +the Death,' and by these names and designations they were known all +the world round; and so I say that the sage aforesaid must have put it +into your mouth and mind just now to call me 'The Knight of the Rueful +Countenance,' as I intend to call myself from this day forward; and +that the said name may fit me better, I mean, when the opportunity +offers, to have a very rueful countenance painted on my shield."</p> + +<p>"There is no occasion, senor, for wasting time or money on making +that countenance," said Sancho; "for all that need be done is for your +worship to show your own, face to face, to those who look at you, +and without anything more, either image or shield, they will call +you 'Him of the Rueful Countenance' and believe me I am telling you +the truth, for I assure you, senor (and in good part be it said), +hunger and the loss of your grinders have given you such an +ill-favoured face that, as I say, the rueful picture may be very +well spared."</p> + +<p>Don Quixote laughed at Sancho's pleasantry; nevertheless he resolved +to call himself by that name, and have his shield or buckler painted +as he had devised.</p> + +<p>Don Quixote would have looked to see whether the body in the +litter were bones or not, but Sancho would not have it, saying:</p> + +<p>"Senor, you have ended this perilous adventure more safely for +yourself than any of those I have seen: perhaps these people, though +beaten and routed, may bethink themselves that it is a single man that +has beaten them, and feeling sore and ashamed of it may take heart and +come in search of us and give us trouble enough. The ass is in +proper trim, the mountains are near at hand, hunger presses, we have +nothing more to do but make good our retreat, and, as the saying is, +the dead to the grave and the living to the loaf."</p> + +<p>And driving his ass before him he begged his master to follow, +who, feeling that Sancho was right, did so without replying; and after +proceeding some little distance between two hills they found +themselves in a wide and retired valley, where they alighted, and +Sancho unloaded his beast, and stretched upon the green grass, with +hunger for sauce, they breakfasted, dined, lunched, and supped all +at once, satisfying their appetites with more than one store of cold +meat which the dead man's clerical gentlemen (who seldom put +themselves on short allowance) had brought with them on their +sumpter mule. But another piece of ill-luck befell them, which +Sancho held the worst of all, and that was that they had no wine to +drink, nor even water to moisten their lips; and as thirst tormented +them, Sancho, observing that the meadow where they were was full of +green and tender grass, said what will be told in the following chapter.</p> + + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><h2><a name="ch20"></a>CHAPTER XX.</h2></center> +<br> +<center><h3>OF THE UNEXAMPLED AND UNHEARD-OF ADVENTURE WHICH WAS ACHIEVED BY THE +VALIANT DON QUIXOTE OF LA MANCHA WITH LESS PERIL THAN ANY EVER +ACHIEVED BY ANY FAMOUS KNIGHT IN THE WORLD +</h3></center> +<br> + +<br> +<br><br><br> +<center><a name="c19a"></a><img alt="c19a.jpg (147K)" src="images/c19a.jpg" height="287" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/c19a.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<p>"It cannot be, senor, but that this grass is a proof that there must +be hard by some spring or brook to give it moisture, so it would be +well to move a little farther on, that we may find some place where we +may quench this terrible thirst that plagues us, which beyond a +doubt is more distressing than hunger."</p> + +<p>The advice seemed good to Don Quixote, and, he leading Rocinante +by the bridle and Sancho the ass by the halter, after he had packed +away upon him the remains of the supper, they advanced the meadow +feeling their way, for the darkness of the night made it impossible to +see anything; but they had not gone two hundred paces when a loud +noise of water, as if falling from great rocks, struck their ears. The +sound cheered them greatly; but halting to make out by listening +from what quarter it came they heard unseasonably another noise +which spoiled the satisfaction the sound of the water gave them, +especially for Sancho, who was by nature timid and faint-hearted. They +heard, I say, strokes falling with a measured beat, and a certain +rattling of iron and chains that, together with the furious din of the +water, would have struck terror into any heart but Don Quixote's. +The night was, as has been said, dark, and they had happened to +reach a spot in among some tall trees, whose leaves stirred by a +gentle breeze made a low ominous sound; so that, what with the +solitude, the place, the darkness, the noise of the water, and the +rustling of the leaves, everything inspired awe and dread; more +especially as they perceived that the strokes did not cease, nor the +wind lull, nor morning approach; to all which might be added their +ignorance as to where they were.</p> + + +<br> +<br><br><br> +<center><a name="c19b"></a><img alt="c19b.jpg (204K)" src="images/c19b.jpg" height="525" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/c19b.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<p>But Don Quixote, supported by his +intrepid heart, leaped on Rocinante, and bracing his buckler on his +arm, brought his pike to the slope, and said, "Friend Sancho, know +that I by Heaven's will have been born in this our iron age to +revive revive in it the age of gold, or the golden as it is called; +I am he for whom perils, mighty achievements, and valiant deeds are +reserved; I am, I say again, he who is to revive the Knights of the +Round Table, the Twelve of France and the Nine Worthies; and he who is +to consign to oblivion the Platirs, the Tablantes, the Olivantes and +Tirantes, the Phoebuses and Belianises, with the whole herd of +famous knights-errant of days gone by, performing in these in which +I live such exploits, marvels, and feats of arms as shall obscure +their brightest deeds. Thou dost mark well, faithful and trusty +squire, the gloom of this night, its strange silence, the dull +confused murmur of those trees, the awful sound of that water in quest +of which we came, that seems as though it were precipitating and +dashing itself down from the lofty mountains of the Moon, and that +incessant hammering that wounds and pains our ears; which things all +together and each of itself are enough to instil fear, dread, and +dismay into the breast of Mars himself, much more into one not used to +hazards and adventures of the kind. Well, then, all this that I put +before thee is but an incentive and stimulant to my spirit, making +my heart burst in my bosom through eagerness to engage in this +adventure, arduous as it promises to be; therefore tighten Rocinante's +girths a little, and God be with thee; wait for me here three days and +no more, and if in that time I come not back, thou canst return to our +village, and thence, to do me a favour and a service, thou wilt go +to El Toboso, where thou shalt say to my incomparable lady Dulcinea +that her captive knight hath died in attempting things that might make +him worthy of being called hers."</p> + +<p>When Sancho heard his master's words he began to weep in the most +pathetic way, saying:</p> + +<p>"Senor, I know not why your worship wants to attempt this so +dreadful adventure; it is night now, no one sees us here, we can +easily turn about and take ourselves out of danger, even if we don't +drink for three days to come; and as there is no one to see us, all +the less will there be anyone to set us down as cowards; besides, I +have many a time heard the curate of our village, whom your worship +knows well, preach that he who seeks danger perishes in it; so it is +not right to tempt God by trying so tremendous a feat from which there +can be no escape save by a miracle, and Heaven has performed enough of +them for your worship in delivering you from being blanketed as I was, +and bringing you out victorious and safe and sound from among all +those enemies that were with the dead man; and if all this does not +move or soften that hard heart, let this thought and reflection move +it, that you will have hardly quitted this spot when from pure fear +I shall yield my soul up to anyone that will take it. I left home +and wife and children to come and serve your worship, trusting to do +better and not worse; but as covetousness bursts the bag, it has +rent my hopes asunder, for just as I had them highest about getting +that wretched unlucky island your worship has so often promised me, +I see that instead and in lieu of it you mean to desert me now in a +place so far from human reach: for God's sake, master mine, deal not +so unjustly by me, and if your worship will not entirely give up +attempting this feat, at least put it off till morning, for by what +the lore I learned when I was a shepherd tells me it cannot want three +hours of dawn now, because the mouth of the Horn is overhead and makes +midnight in the line of the left arm."</p> + +<p>"How canst thou see, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "where it makes that +line, or where this mouth or this occiput is that thou talkest of, +when the night is so dark that there is not a star to be seen in the +whole heaven?"</p> + +<p>"That's true," said Sancho, "but fear has sharp eyes, and sees +things underground, much more above in heavens; besides, there is good +reason to show that it now wants but little of day."</p> + +<p>"Let it want what it may," replied Don Quixote, "it shall not be +said of me now or at any time that tears or entreaties turned me aside +from doing what was in accordance with knightly usage; and so I beg of +thee, Sancho, to hold thy peace, for God, who has put it into my heart +to undertake now this so unexampled and terrible adventure, will +take care to watch over my safety and console thy sorrow; what thou +hast to do is to tighten Rocinante's girths well, and wait here, for I +shall come back shortly, alive or dead."</p> + +<p>Sancho perceiving it his master's final resolve, and how little +his tears, counsels, and entreaties prevailed with him, determined +to have recourse to his own ingenuity and compel him, if he could, +to wait till daylight; and so, while tightening the girths of the +horse, he quietly and without being felt, with his ass' halter tied +both Rocinante's legs, so that when Don Quixote strove to go he was +unable as the horse could only move by jumps. Seeing the success of +his trick, Sancho Panza said:</p> + +<p>"See there, senor! Heaven, moved by my tears and prayers, has so +ordered it that Rocinante cannot stir; and if you will be obstinate, +and spur and strike him, you will only provoke fortune, and kick, as +they say, against the pricks."</p> + +<p>Don Quixote at this grew desperate, but the more he drove his +heels into the horse, the less he stirred him; and not having any +suspicion of the tying, he was fain to resign himself and wait till +daybreak or until Rocinante could move, firmly persuaded that all this +came of something other than Sancho's ingenuity. So he said to him, +"As it is so, Sancho, and as Rocinante cannot move, I am content to +wait till dawn smiles upon us, even though I weep while it delays +its coming."</p> + +<p>"There is no need to weep," answered Sancho, "for I will amuse +your worship by telling stories from this till daylight, unless indeed +you like to dismount and lie down to sleep a little on the green grass +after the fashion of knights-errant, so as to be fresher when day +comes and the moment arrives for attempting this extraordinary +adventure you are looking forward to."</p> + +<p>"What art thou talking about dismounting or sleeping for?" said +Don Quixote. "Am I, thinkest thou, one of those knights that take +their rest in the presence of danger? Sleep thou who art born to +sleep, or do as thou wilt, for I will act as I think most consistent +with my character."</p> + +<p>"Be not angry, master mine," replied Sancho, "I did not mean to +say that;" and coming close to him he laid one hand on the pommel of +the saddle and the other on the cantle so that he held his master's +left thigh in his embrace, not daring to separate a finger's width +from him; so much afraid was he of the strokes which still resounded +with a regular beat. Don Quixote bade him tell some story to amuse him +as he had proposed, to which Sancho replied that he would if his dread +of what he heard would let him; "Still," said he, "I will strive to +tell a story which, if I can manage to relate it, and nobody +interferes with the telling, is the best of stories, and let your +worship give me your attention, for here I begin. What was, was; and +may the good that is to come be for all, and the evil for him who goes +to look for it—your worship must know that the beginning the old folk +used to put to their tales was not just as each one pleased; it was +a maxim of Cato Zonzorino the Roman, that says 'the evil for him +that goes to look for it,' and it comes as pat to the purpose now as +ring to finger, to show that your worship should keep quiet and not go +looking for evil in any quarter, and that we should go back by some +other road, since nobody forces us to follow this in which so many +terrors affright us."</p> + +<p>"Go on with thy story, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "and leave the +choice of our road to my care."</p> + +<p>"I say then," continued Sancho, "that in a village of Estremadura +there was a goat-shepherd—that is to say, one who tended goats—which +shepherd or goatherd, as my story goes, was called Lope Ruiz, and this +Lope Ruiz was in love with a shepherdess called Torralva, which +shepherdess called Torralva was the daughter of a rich grazier, and +this rich grazier-"</p> + +<p>"If that is the way thou tellest thy tale, Sancho," said Don +Quixote, "repeating twice all thou hast to say, thou wilt not have +done these two days; go straight on with it, and tell it like a +reasonable man, or else say nothing."</p> + +<p>"Tales are always told in my country in the very way I am telling +this," answered Sancho, "and I cannot tell it in any other, nor is +it right of your worship to ask me to make new customs."</p> + +<p>"Tell it as thou wilt," replied Don Quixote; "and as fate will +have it that I cannot help listening to thee, go on."</p> + +<p>"And so, lord of my soul," continued Sancho, as I have said, this +shepherd was in love with Torralva the shepherdess, who was a wild +buxom lass with something of the look of a man about her, for she +had little moustaches; I fancy I see her now."</p> + +<p>"Then you knew her?" said Don Quixote.</p> + +<p>"I did not know her," said Sancho, "but he who told me the story +said it was so true and certain that when I told it to another I might +safely declare and swear I had seen it all myself. And so in course of +time, the devil, who never sleeps and puts everything in confusion, +contrived that the love the shepherd bore the shepherdess turned +into hatred and ill-will, and the reason, according to evil tongues, +was some little jealousy she caused him that crossed the line and +trespassed on forbidden ground; and so much did the shepherd hate +her from that time forward that, in order to escape from her, he +determined to quit the country and go where he should never set eyes +on her again. Torralva, when she found herself spurned by Lope, was +immediately smitten with love for him, though she had never loved +him before."</p> + +<p>"That is the natural way of women," said Don Quixote, "to scorn +the one that loves them, and love the one that hates them: go on, +Sancho."</p> + +<p>"It came to pass," said Sancho, "that the shepherd carried out his +intention, and driving his goats before him took his way across the +plains of Estremadura to pass over into the Kingdom of Portugal. +Torralva, who knew of it, went after him, and on foot and barefoot +followed him at a distance, with a pilgrim's staff in her hand and a +scrip round her neck, in which she carried, it is said, a bit of +looking-glass and a piece of a comb and some little pot or other of +paint for her face; but let her carry what she did, I am not going +to trouble myself to prove it; all I say is, that the shepherd, they +say, came with his flock to cross over the river Guadiana, which was +at that time swollen and almost overflowing its banks, and at the spot +he came to there was neither ferry nor boat nor anyone to carry him or +his flock to the other side, at which he was much vexed, for he +perceived that Torralva was approaching and would give him great +annoyance with her tears and entreaties; however, he went looking +about so closely that he discovered a fisherman who had alongside of +him a boat so small that it could only hold one person and one goat; +but for all that he spoke to him and agreed with him to carry +himself and his three hundred goats across. The fisherman got into the +boat and carried one goat over; he came back and carried another over; +he came back again, and again brought over another—let your worship +keep count of the goats the fisherman is taking across, for if one +escapes the memory there will be an end of the story, and it will be +impossible to tell another word of it. To proceed, I must tell you the +landing place on the other side was miry and slippery, and the +fisherman lost a great deal of time in going and coming; still he +returned for another goat, and another, and another."</p> + +<p>"Take it for granted he brought them all across," said Don +Quixote, "and don't keep going and coming in this way, or thou wilt +not make an end of bringing them over this twelvemonth."</p> + +<p>"How many have gone across so far?" said Sancho.</p> + +<p>"How the devil do I know?" replied Don Quixote.</p> + +<p>"There it is," said Sancho, "what I told you, that you must keep a +good count; well then, by God, there is an end of the story, for there +is no going any farther."</p> + +<p>"How can that be?" said Don Quixote; "is it so essential to the +story to know to a nicety the goats that have crossed over, that if +there be a mistake of one in the reckoning, thou canst not go on +with it?"</p> + +<p>"No, senor, not a bit," replied Sancho; "for when I asked your +worship to tell me how many goats had crossed, and you answered you +did not know, at that very instant all I had to say passed away out of +my memory, and, faith, there was much virtue in it, and +entertainment."</p> + +<p>"So, then," said Don Quixote, "the story has come to an end?"</p> + +<p>"As much as my mother has," said Sancho.</p> + +<p>"In truth," said Don Quixote, "thou hast told one of the rarest +stories, tales, or histories, that anyone in the world could have +imagined, and such a way of telling it and ending it was never seen +nor will be in a lifetime; though I expected nothing else from thy +excellent understanding. But I do not wonder, for perhaps those +ceaseless strokes may have confused thy wits."</p> + +<p>"All that may be," replied Sancho, "but I know that as to my +story, all that can be said is that it ends there where the mistake in +the count of the passage of the goats begins."</p> + +<p>"Let it end where it will, well and good," said Don Quixote, "and +let us see if Rocinante can go;" and again he spurred him, and again +Rocinante made jumps and remained where he was, so well tied was he.</p> + +<p>Just then, whether it was the cold of the morning that was now +approaching, or that he had eaten something laxative at supper, or +that it was only natural (as is most likely), Sancho felt a desire +to do what no one could do for him; but so great was the fear that had +penetrated his heart, he dared not separate himself from his master by +as much as the black of his nail; to escape doing what he wanted +was, however, also impossible; so what he did for peace's sake was +to remove his right hand, which held the back of the saddle, and +with it to untie gently and silently the running string which alone +held up his breeches, so that on loosening it they at once fell down +round his feet like fetters; he then raised his shirt as well as he +could and bared his hind quarters, no slim ones. But, this +accomplished, which he fancied was all he had to do to get out of this +terrible strait and embarrassment, another still greater difficulty +presented itself, for it seemed to him impossible to relieve himself +without making some noise, and he ground his teeth and squeezed his +shoulders together, holding his breath as much as he could; but in +spite of his precautions he was unlucky enough after all to make a +little noise, very different from that which was causing him so much +fear.</p> + +<br> +<br><br><br> +<center><a name="c19c"></a><img alt="c19c.jpg (308K)" src="images/c19c.jpg" height="839" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/c19c.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<p>Don Quixote, hearing it, said, "What noise is that, Sancho?"</p> + +<p>"I don't know, senor," said he; "it must be something new, for +adventures and misadventures never begin with a trifle." Once more +he tried his luck, and succeeded so well, that without any further +noise or disturbance he found himself relieved of the burden that +had given him so much discomfort. But as Don Quixote's sense of +smell was as acute as his hearing, and as Sancho was so closely linked +with him that the fumes rose almost in a straight line, it could not +be but that some should reach his nose, and as soon as they did he +came to its relief by compressing it between his fingers, saying in +a rather snuffing tone, "Sancho, it strikes me thou art in great +fear."</p> + +<p>"I am," answered Sancho; "but how does your worship perceive it +now more than ever?"</p> + +<p>"Because just now thou smellest stronger than ever, and not of +ambergris," answered Don Quixote.</p> + +<p>"Very likely," said Sancho, "but that's not my fault, but your +worship's, for leading me about at unseasonable hours and at such +unwonted paces."</p> + +<p>"Then go back three or four, my friend," said Don Quixote, all the +time with his fingers to his nose; "and for the future pay more +attention to thy person and to what thou owest to mine; for it is my +great familiarity with thee that has bred this contempt."</p> + +<p>"I'll bet," replied Sancho, "that your worship thinks I have done +something I ought not with my person."</p> + +<p>"It makes it worse to stir it, friend Sancho," returned Don Quixote.</p> + +<p>With this and other talk of the same sort master and man passed +the night, till Sancho, perceiving that daybreak was coming on +apace, very cautiously untied Rocinante and tied up his breeches. As +soon as Rocinante found himself free, though by nature he was not at +all mettlesome, he seemed to feel lively and began pawing—for as to +capering, begging his pardon, he knew not what it meant. Don +Quixote, then, observing that Rocinante could move, took it as a +good sign and a signal that he should attempt the dread adventure. +By this time day had fully broken and everything showed distinctly, +and Don Quixote saw that he was among some tall trees, chestnuts, +which cast a very deep shade; he perceived likewise that the sound +of the strokes did not cease, but could not discover what caused it, +and so without any further delay he let Rocinante feel the spur, and +once more taking leave of Sancho, he told him to wait for him there +three days at most, as he had said before, and if he should not have +returned by that time, he might feel sure it had been God's will +that he should end his days in that perilous adventure. He again +repeated the message and commission with which he was to go on his +behalf to his lady Dulcinea, and said he was not to be uneasy as to +the payment of his services, for before leaving home he had made his +will, in which he would find himself fully recompensed in the matter +of wages in due proportion to the time he had served; but if God +delivered him safe, sound, and unhurt out of that danger, he might +look upon the promised island as much more than certain. Sancho +began to weep afresh on again hearing the affecting words of his +good master, and resolved to stay with him until the final issue and +end of the business. From these tears and this honourable resolve of +Sancho Panza's the author of this history infers that he must have +been of good birth and at least an old Christian; and the feeling he +displayed touched his but not so much as to make him show any +weakness; on the contrary, hiding what he felt as well as he could, he +began to move towards that quarter whence the sound of the water and +of the strokes seemed to come.</p> + +<p>Sancho followed him on foot, leading by the halter, as his custom +was, his ass, his constant comrade in prosperity or adversity; and +advancing some distance through the shady chestnut trees they came +upon a little meadow at the foot of some high rocks, down which a +mighty rush of water flung itself. At the foot of the rocks were +some rudely constructed houses looking more like ruins than houses, +from among which came, they perceived, the din and clatter of blows, +which still continued without intermission. Rocinante took fright at +the noise of the water and of the blows, but quieting him Don +Quixote advanced step by step towards the houses, commending himself +with all his heart to his lady, imploring her support in that dread +pass and enterprise, and on the way commending himself to God, too, +not to forget him. Sancho who never quitted his side, stretched his +neck as far as he could and peered between the legs of Rocinante to +see if he could now discover what it was that caused him such fear and +apprehension. They went it might be a hundred paces farther, when on +turning a corner the true cause, beyond the possibility of any +mistake, of that dread-sounding and to them awe-inspiring noise that +had kept them all the night in such fear and perplexity, appeared +plain and obvious; and it was (if, reader, thou art not disgusted +and disappointed) six fulling hammers which by their alternate strokes +made all the din.</p> + +<p>When Don Quixote perceived what it was, he was struck dumb and rigid +from head to foot. Sancho glanced at him and saw him with his head +bent down upon his breast in manifest mortification; and Don Quixote +glanced at Sancho and saw him with his cheeks puffed out and his mouth +full of laughter, and evidently ready to explode with it, and in spite +of his vexation he could not help laughing at the sight of him; and +when Sancho saw his master begin he let go so heartily that he had +to hold his sides with both hands to keep himself from bursting with +laughter. Four times he stopped, and as many times did his laughter +break out afresh with the same violence as at first, whereat Don +Quixote grew furious, above all when he heard him say mockingly, "Thou +must know, friend Sancho, that of Heaven's will I was born in this our +iron age to revive in it the golden or age of gold; I am he for whom +are reserved perils, mighty achievements, valiant deeds;" and here +he went on repeating the words that Don Quixote uttered the first time +they heard the awful strokes.</p> + +<p>Don Quixote, then, seeing that Sancho was turning him into ridicule, +was so mortified and vexed that he lifted up his pike and smote him +two such blows that if, instead of catching them on his shoulders, +he had caught them on his head there would have been no wages to +pay, unless indeed to his heirs. Sancho seeing that he was getting +an awkward return in earnest for his jest, and fearing his master +might carry it still further, said to him very humbly, "Calm yourself, +sir, for by God I am only joking."</p> + +<p>"Well, then, if you are joking I am not," replied Don Quixote. "Look +here, my lively gentleman, if these, instead of being fulling hammers, +had been some perilous adventure, have I not, think you, shown the +courage required for the attempt and achievement? Am I, perchance, +being, as I am, a gentleman, bound to know and distinguish sounds +and tell whether they come from fulling mills or not; and that, when +perhaps, as is the case, I have never in my life seen any as you have, +low boor as you are, that have been born and bred among them? But turn +me these six hammers into six giants, and bring them to beard me, +one by one or all together, and if I do not knock them head over +heels, then make what mockery you like of me."</p> + +<p>"No more of that, senor," returned Sancho; "I own I went a little +too far with the joke. But tell me, your worship, now that peace is +made between us (and may God bring you out of all the adventures +that may befall you as safe and sound as he has brought you out of +this one), was it not a thing to laugh at, and is it not a good story, +the great fear we were in?—at least that I was in; for as to your +worship I see now that you neither know nor understand what either +fear or dismay is."</p> + +<p>"I do not deny," said Don Quixote, "that what happened to us may +be worth laughing at, but it is not worth making a story about, for it +is not everyone that is shrewd enough to hit the right point of a +thing."</p> + +<p>"At any rate," said Sancho, "your worship knew how to hit the +right point with your pike, aiming at my head and hitting me on the +shoulders, thanks be to God and my own smartness in dodging it. But +let that pass; all will come out in the scouring; for I have heard say +'he loves thee well that makes thee weep;' and moreover that it is the +way with great lords after any hard words they give a servant to +give him a pair of breeches; though I do not know what they give after +blows, unless it be that knights-errant after blows give islands, or +kingdoms on the mainland."</p> + +<p>"It may be on the dice," said Don Quixote, "that all thou sayest +will come true; overlook the past, for thou art shrewd enough to +know that our first movements are not in our own control; and one +thing for the future bear in mind, that thou curb and restrain thy +loquacity in my company; for in all the books of chivalry that I +have read, and they are innumerable, I never met with a squire who +talked so much to his lord as thou dost to thine; and in fact I feel +it to be a great fault of thine and of mine: of thine, that thou +hast so little respect for me; of mine, that I do not make myself more +respected. There was Gandalin, the squire of Amadis of Gaul, that +was Count of the Insula Firme, and we read of him that he always +addressed his lord with his cap in his hand, his head bowed down and +his body bent double, more turquesco. And then, what shall we say of +Gasabal, the squire of Galaor, who was so silent that in order to +indicate to us the greatness of his marvellous taciturnity his name is +only once mentioned in the whole of that history, as long as it is +truthful? From all I have said thou wilt gather, Sancho, that there +must be a difference between master and man, between lord and +lackey, between knight and squire: so that from this day forward in +our intercourse we must observe more respect and take less +liberties, for in whatever way I may be provoked with you it will be +bad for the pitcher. The favours and benefits that I have promised you +will come in due time, and if they do not your wages at least will not +be lost, as I have already told you."</p> + +<p>"All that your worship says is very well," said Sancho, "but I +should like to know (in case the time of favours should not come, +and it might be necessary to fall back upon wages) how much did the +squire of a knight-errant get in those days, and did they agree by the +month, or by the day like bricklayers?"</p> + +<p>"I do not believe," replied Don Quixote, "that such squires were +ever on wages, but were dependent on favour; and if I have now +mentioned thine in the sealed will I have left at home, it was with +a view to what may happen; for as yet I know not how chivalry will +turn out in these wretched times of ours, and I do not wish my soul to +suffer for trifles in the other world; for I would have thee know, +Sancho, that in this there is no condition more hazardous than that of +adventurers."</p> + +<p>"That is true," said Sancho, "since the mere noise of the hammers of +a fulling mill can disturb and disquiet the heart of such a valiant +errant adventurer as your worship; but you may be sure I will not open +my lips henceforward to make light of anything of your worship's, +but only to honour you as my master and natural lord."</p> + +<p>"By so doing," replied Don Quixote, "shalt thou live long on the +face of the earth; for next to parents, masters are to be respected as +though they were parents."</p> + + +<br> +<br><br><br> +<center><a name="c19e"></a><img alt="c19e.jpg (33K)" src="images/c19e.jpg" height="643" width="459"> +</center> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<br><br> +<center><h2><a name="ch21"></a>CHAPTER XXI.</h2></center> +<br> +<center><h3>WHICH TREATS OF THE EXALTED ADVENTURE AND RICH PRIZE OF MAMBRINO'S +HELMET, TOGETHER WITH OTHER THINGS THAT HAPPENED TO OUR INVINCIBLE +KNIGHT +</h3></center> +<br> +<br> + +<center><a name="c20a"></a><img alt="c20a.jpg (73K)" src="images/c20a.jpg" height="219" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/c20a.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<p>It now began to rain a little, and Sancho was for going into the +fulling mills, but Don Quixote had taken such an abhorrence to them on +account of the late joke that he would not enter them on any +account; so turning aside to right they came upon another road, +different from that which they had taken the night before. Shortly +afterwards Don Quixote perceived a man on horseback who wore on his +head something that shone like gold, and the moment he saw him he +turned to Sancho and said:</p> + +<p>"I think, Sancho, there is no proverb that is not true, all being +maxims drawn from experience itself, the mother of all the sciences, +especially that one that says, 'Where one door shuts, another +opens.' I say so because if last night fortune shut the door of the +adventure we were looking for against us, cheating us with the fulling +mills, it now opens wide another one for another better and more +certain adventure, and if I do not contrive to enter it, it will be my +own fault, and I cannot lay it to my ignorance of fulling mills, or +the darkness of the night. I say this because, if I mistake not, there +comes towards us one who wears on his head the helmet of Mambrino, +concerning which I took the oath thou rememberest."</p> + +<p>"Mind what you say, your worship, and still more what you do," +said Sancho, "for I don't want any more fulling mills to finish off +fulling and knocking our senses out."</p> + +<p>"The devil take thee, man," said Don Quixote; "what has a helmet +to do with fulling mills?"</p> + +<p>"I don't know," replied Sancho, "but, faith, if I might speak as I +used, perhaps I could give such reasons that your worship would see +you were mistaken in what you say."</p> + +<p>"How can I be mistaken in what I say, unbelieving traitor?" returned +Don Quixote; "tell me, seest thou not yonder knight coming towards +us on a dappled grey steed, who has upon his head a helmet of gold?"</p> + +<p>"What I see and make out," answered Sancho, "is only a man on a grey +ass like my own, who has something that shines on his head."</p> + +<p>"Well, that is the helmet of Mambrino," said Don Quixote; "stand +to one side and leave me alone with him; thou shalt see how, without +saying a word, to save time, I shall bring this adventure to an +issue and possess myself of the helmet I have so longed for."</p> + +<p>"I will take care to stand aside," said Sancho; "but God grant, I +say once more, that it may be marjoram and not fulling mills."</p> + +<p>"I have told thee, brother, on no account to mention those fulling +mills to me again," said Don Quixote, "or I vow—and I say no +more—I'll full the soul out of you."</p> + +<p>Sancho held his peace in dread lest his master should carry out +the vow he had hurled like a bowl at him.</p> + +<p>The fact of the matter as regards the helmet, steed, and knight that +Don Quixote saw, was this. In that neighbourhood there were two +villages, one of them so small that it had neither apothecary's shop +nor barber, which the other that was close to it had, so the barber of +the larger served the smaller, and in it there was a sick man who +required to be bled and another man who wanted to be shaved, and on +this errand the barber was going, carrying with him a brass basin; but +as luck would have it, as he was on the way it began to rain, and +not to spoil his hat, which probably was a new one, he put the basin +on his head, and being clean it glittered at half a league's distance. +He rode upon a grey ass, as Sancho said, and this was what made it +seem to Don Quixote to be a dapple-grey steed and a knight and a +golden helmet; for everything he saw he made to fall in with his crazy +chivalry and ill-errant notions; and when he saw the poor knight +draw near, without entering into any parley with him, at Rocinante's +top speed he bore down upon him with the pike pointed low, fully +determined to run him through and through, and as he reached him, +without checking the fury of his charge, he cried to him:</p> + +<p>"Defend thyself, miserable being, or yield me of thine own accord +that which is so reasonably my due."</p> + +<p>The barber, who without any expectation or apprehension of it saw +this apparition coming down upon him, had no other way of saving +himself from the stroke of the lance but to let himself fall off his +ass; and no sooner had he touched the ground than he sprang up more +nimbly than a deer and sped away across the plain faster than the +wind.</p> + +<p>He left the basin on the ground, with which Don Quixote contented +himself, saying that the pagan had shown his discretion and imitated +the beaver, which finding itself pressed by the hunters bites and cuts +off with its teeth that for which, by its natural instinct, it knows +it is pursued.</p> + +<p>He told Sancho to pick up the helmet, and he taking it in his +hands said:</p> + +<p>"By God the basin is a good one, and worth a real of eight if it +is worth a maravedis," and handed it to his master, who immediately +put it on his head, turning it round, now this way, now that, in +search of fitment, and not finding it he said, "Clearly the pagan to +whose measure this famous head-piece was first forged must have had +a very large head; but the worst of it is half of it is wanting."</p> + +<p>When Sancho heard him call the basin a headpiece he was unable to +restrain his laughter, but remembering his master's wrath he checked +himself in the midst of it.</p> + +<p>"What art thou laughing at, Sancho?" said Don Quixote.</p> + +<p>"I am laughing," said he, "to think of the great head the pagan must +have had who owned this helmet, for it looks exactly like a regular +barber's basin."</p> + +<p>"Dost thou know what I suspect, Sancho?" said Don Quixote; "that +this wonderful piece of this enchanted helmet must by some strange +accident have come into the hands of some one who was unable to +recognise or realise its value, and who, not knowing what he did, +and seeing it to be of the purest gold, must have melted down one half +for the sake of what it might be worth, and of the other made this +which is like a barber's basin as thou sayest; but be it as it may, to +me who recognise it, its transformation makes no difference, for I +will set it to rights at the first village where there is a +blacksmith, and in such style that that helmet the god of smithies +forged for the god of battles shall not surpass it or even come up +to it; and in the meantime I will wear it as well as I can, for +something is better than nothing; all the more as it will be quite +enough to protect me from any chance blow of a stone."</p> + +<p>"That is," said Sancho, "if it is not shot with a sling as they were +in the battle of the two armies, when they signed the cross on your +worship's grinders and smashed the flask with that blessed draught +that made me vomit my bowels up."</p> + +<p>"It does not grieve me much to have lost it," said Don Quixote, "for +thou knowest, Sancho, that I have the receipt in my memory."</p> + +<p>"So have I," answered Sancho, "but if ever I make it, or try it +again as long as I live, may this be my last hour; moreover, I have no +intention of putting myself in the way of wanting it, for I mean, with +all my five senses, to keep myself from being wounded or from wounding +anyone: as to being blanketed again I say nothing, for it is hard to +prevent mishaps of that sort, and if they come there is nothing for it +but to squeeze our shoulders together, hold our breath, shut our eyes, +and let ourselves go where luck and the blanket may send us."</p> + +<p>"Thou art a bad Christian, Sancho," said Don Quixote on hearing +this, "for once an injury has been done thee thou never forgettest it: +but know that it is the part of noble and generous hearts not to +attach importance to trifles. What lame leg hast thou got by it, +what broken rib, what cracked head, that thou canst not forget that +jest? For jest and sport it was, properly regarded, and had I not seen +it in that light I would have returned and done more mischief in +revenging thee than the Greeks did for the rape of Helen, who, if +she were alive now, or if my Dulcinea had lived then, might depend +upon it she would not be so famous for her beauty as she is;" and here +he heaved a sigh and sent it aloft; and said Sancho, "Let it pass +for a jest as it cannot be revenged in earnest, but I know what sort +of jest and earnest it was, and I know it will never be rubbed out +of my memory any more than off my shoulders. But putting that aside, +will your worship tell me what are we to do with this dapple-grey +steed that looks like a grey ass, which that Martino that your worship +overthrew has left deserted here? for, from the way he took to his +heels and bolted, he is not likely ever to come back for it; and by my +beard but the grey is a good one."</p> + +<p>"I have never been in the habit," said Don Quixote, "of taking spoil +of those whom I vanquish, nor is it the practice of chivalry to take +away their horses and leave them to go on foot, unless indeed it be +that the victor have lost his own in the combat, in which case it is +lawful to take that of the vanquished as a thing won in lawful war; +therefore, Sancho, leave this horse, or ass, or whatever thou wilt +have it to be; for when its owner sees us gone hence he will come back +for it."</p> + +<p>"God knows I should like to take it," returned Sancho, "or at +least to change it for my own, which does not seem to me as good a +one: verily the laws of chivalry are strict, since they cannot be +stretched to let one ass be changed for another; I should like to know +if I might at least change trappings."</p> + +<p>"On that head I am not quite certain," answered Don Quixote, "and +the matter being doubtful, pending better information, I say thou +mayest change them, if so be thou hast urgent need of them."</p> + +<p>"So urgent is it," answered Sancho, "that if they were for my own +person I could not want them more;" and forthwith, fortified by this +licence, he effected the mutatio capparum, rigging out his beast to +the ninety-nines and making quite another thing of it. This done, they +broke their fast on the remains of the spoils of war plundered from +the sumpter mule, and drank of the brook that flowed from the +fulling mills, without casting a look in that direction, in such +loathing did they hold them for the alarm they had caused them; and, +all anger and gloom removed, they mounted and, without taking any +fixed road (not to fix upon any being the proper thing for true +knights-errant), they set out, guided by Rocinante's will, which +carried along with it that of his master, not to say that of the +ass, which always followed him wherever he led, lovingly and sociably; +nevertheless they returned to the high road, and pursued it at a +venture without any other aim.</p> + +<p>As they went along, then, in this way Sancho said to his master, +"Senor, would your worship give me leave to speak a little to you? For +since you laid that hard injunction of silence on me several things +have gone to rot in my stomach, and I have now just one on the tip +of my tongue that I don't want to be spoiled."</p> + +<p>"Say, on, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "and be brief in thy discourse, +for there is no pleasure in one that is long."</p> + +<p>"Well then, senor," returned Sancho, "I say that for some days +past I have been considering how little is got or gained by going in +search of these adventures that your worship seeks in these wilds +and cross-roads, where, even if the most perilous are victoriously +achieved, there is no one to see or know of them, and so they must +be left untold for ever, to the loss of your worship's object and +the credit they deserve; therefore it seems to me it would be better +(saving your worship's better judgment) if we were to go and serve +some emperor or other great prince who may have some war on hand, in +whose service your worship may prove the worth of your person, your +great might, and greater understanding, on perceiving which the lord +in whose service we may be will perforce have to reward us, each +according to his merits; and there you will not be at a loss for +some one to set down your achievements in writing so as to preserve +their memory for ever. Of my own I say nothing, as they will not go +beyond squirely limits, though I make bold to say that, if it be the +practice in chivalry to write the achievements of squires, I think +mine must not be left out."</p> + +<p>"Thou speakest not amiss, Sancho," answered Don Quixote, "but before +that point is reached it is requisite to roam the world, as it were on +probation, seeking adventures, in order that, by achieving some, +name and fame may be acquired, such that when he betakes himself to +the court of some great monarch the knight may be already known by his +deeds, and that the boys, the instant they see him enter the gate of +the city, may all follow him and surround him, crying, 'This is the +Knight of the Sun'-or the Serpent, or any other title under which he +may have achieved great deeds. 'This,' they will say, 'is he who +vanquished in single combat the gigantic Brocabruno of mighty +strength; he who delivered the great Mameluke of Persia out of the +long enchantment under which he had been for almost nine hundred +years.' So from one to another they will go proclaiming his +achievements; and presently at the tumult of the boys and the others +the king of that kingdom will appear at the windows of his royal +palace, and as soon as he beholds the knight, recognising him by his +arms and the device on his shield, he will as a matter of course +say, 'What ho! Forth all ye, the knights of my court, to receive the +flower of chivalry who cometh hither!' At which command all will issue +forth, and he himself, advancing half-way down the stairs, will +embrace him closely, and salute him, kissing him on the cheek, and +will then lead him to the queen's chamber, where the knight will +find her with the princess her daughter, who will be one of the most +beautiful and accomplished damsels that could with the utmost pains be +discovered anywhere in the known world. Straightway it will come to +pass that she will fix her eyes upon the knight and he his upon her, +and each will seem to the other something more divine than human, and, +without knowing how or why they will be taken and entangled in the +inextricable toils of love, and sorely distressed in their hearts +not to see any way of making their pains and sufferings known by +speech. Thence they will lead him, no doubt, to some richly adorned +chamber of the palace, where, having removed his armour, they will +bring him a rich mantle of scarlet wherewith to robe himself, and if +he looked noble in his armour he will look still more so in a doublet. +When night comes he will sup with the king, queen, and princess; and +all the time he will never take his eyes off her, stealing stealthy +glances, unnoticed by those present, and she will do the same, and +with equal cautiousness, being, as I have said, a damsel of great +discretion. The tables being removed, suddenly through the door of the +hall there will enter a hideous and diminutive dwarf followed by a +fair dame, between two giants, who comes with a certain adventure, the +work of an ancient sage; and he who shall achieve it shall be deemed +the best knight in the world.</p> + +<p>"The king will then command all those present to essay it, and +none will bring it to an end and conclusion save the stranger +knight, to the great enhancement of his fame, whereat the princess +will be overjoyed and will esteem herself happy and fortunate in +having fixed and placed her thoughts so high. And the best of it is +that this king, or prince, or whatever he is, is engaged in a very +bitter war with another as powerful as himself, and the stranger +knight, after having been some days at his court, requests leave +from him to go and serve him in the said war. The king will grant it +very readily, and the knight will courteously kiss his hands for the +favour done to him; and that night he will take leave of his lady +the princess at the grating of the chamber where she sleeps, which +looks upon a garden, and at which he has already many times +conversed with her, the go-between and confidante in the matter +being a damsel much trusted by the princess. He will sigh, she will +swoon, the damsel will fetch water, much distressed because morning +approaches, and for the honour of her lady he would not that they were +discovered; at last the princess will come to herself and will present +her white hands through the grating to the knight, who will kiss +them a thousand and a thousand times, bathing them with his tears. +It will be arranged between them how they are to inform each other +of their good or evil fortunes, and the princess will entreat him to +make his absence as short as possible, which he will promise to do +with many oaths; once more he kisses her hands, and takes his leave in +such grief that he is well-nigh ready to die. He betakes him thence to +his chamber, flings himself on his bed, cannot sleep for sorrow at +parting, rises early in the morning, goes to take leave of the king, +queen, and princess, and, as he takes his leave of the pair, it is +told him that the princess is indisposed and cannot receive a visit; +the knight thinks it is from grief at his departure, his heart is +pierced, and he is hardly able to keep from showing his pain. The +confidante is present, observes all, goes to tell her mistress, who +listens with tears and says that one of her greatest distresses is not +knowing who this knight is, and whether he is of kingly lineage or +not; the damsel assures her that so much courtesy, gentleness, and +gallantry of bearing as her knight possesses could not exist in any +save one who was royal and illustrious; her anxiety is thus +relieved, and she strives to be of good cheer lest she should excite +suspicion in her parents, and at the end of two days she appears in +public. Meanwhile the knight has taken his departure; he fights in the +war, conquers the king's enemy, wins many cities, triumphs in many +battles, returns to the court, sees his lady where he was wont to +see her, and it is agreed that he shall demand her in marriage of +her parents as the reward of his services; the king is unwilling to +give her, as he knows not who he is, but nevertheless, whether carried +off or in whatever other way it may be, the princess comes to be his +bride, and her father comes to regard it as very good fortune; for +it so happens that this knight is proved to be the son of a valiant +king of some kingdom, I know not what, for I fancy it is not likely to +be on the map. The father dies, the princess inherits, and in two +words the knight becomes king. And here comes in at once the +bestowal of rewards upon his squire and all who have aided him in +rising to so exalted a rank. He marries his squire to a damsel of +the princess's, who will be, no doubt, the one who was confidante in +their amour, and is daughter of a very great duke."</p> + +<p>"That's what I want, and no mistake about it!" said Sancho. +"That's what I'm waiting for; for all this, word for word, is in store +for your worship under the title of the Knight of the Rueful +Countenance."</p> + +<p>"Thou needst not doubt it, Sancho," replied Don Quixote, "for in the +same manner, and by the same steps as I have described here, +knights-errant rise and have risen to be kings and emperors; all we +want now is to find out what king, Christian or pagan, is at war and +has a beautiful daughter; but there will be time enough to think of +that, for, as I have told thee, fame must be won in other quarters +before repairing to the court. There is another thing, too, that is +wanting; for supposing we find a king who is at war and has a +beautiful daughter, and that I have won incredible fame throughout the +universe, I know not how it can be made out that I am of royal +lineage, or even second cousin to an emperor; for the king will not be +willing to give me his daughter in marriage unless he is first +thoroughly satisfied on this point, however much my famous deeds may +deserve it; so that by this deficiency I fear I shall lose what my arm +has fairly earned. True it is I am a gentleman of known house, of +estate and property, and entitled to the five hundred sueldos mulct; +and it may be that the sage who shall write my history will so clear +up my ancestry and pedigree that I may find myself fifth or sixth in +descent from a king; for I would have thee know, Sancho, that there +are two kinds of lineages in the world; some there be tracing and +deriving their descent from kings and princes, whom time has reduced +little by little until they end in a point like a pyramid upside down; +and others who spring from the common herd and go on rising step by +step until they come to be great lords; so that the difference is that +the one were what they no longer are, and the others are what they +formerly were not. And I may be of such that after investigation my +origin may prove great and famous, with which the king, my +father-in-law that is to be, ought to be satisfied; and should he +not be, the princess will so love me that even though she well knew me +to be the son of a water-carrier, she will take me for her lord and +husband in spite of her father; if not, then it comes to seizing her +and carrying her off where I please; for time or death will put an end +to the wrath of her parents."</p> + +<p>"It comes to this, too," said Sancho, "what some naughty people say, +'Never ask as a favour what thou canst take by force;' though it would +fit better to say, 'A clear escape is better than good men's prayers.' +I say so because if my lord the king, your worship's father-in-law, +will not condescend to give you my lady the princess, there is nothing +for it but, as your worship says, to seize her and transport her. +But the mischief is that until peace is made and you come into the +peaceful enjoyment of your kingdom, the poor squire is famishing as +far as rewards go, unless it be that the confidante damsel that is +to be his wife comes with the princess, and that with her he tides +over his bad luck until Heaven otherwise orders things; for his +master, I suppose, may as well give her to him at once for a lawful +wife."</p> + +<p>"Nobody can object to that," said Don Quixote.</p> + +<p>"Then since that may be," said Sancho, "there is nothing for it +but to commend ourselves to God, and let fortune take what course it +will."</p> + +<p>"God guide it according to my wishes and thy wants," said Don +Quixote, "and mean be he who thinks himself mean."</p> + +<p>"In God's name let him be so," said Sancho: "I am an old +Christian, and to fit me for a count that's enough."</p> + +<p>"And more than enough for thee," said Don Quixote; "and even wert +thou not, it would make no difference, because I being the king can +easily give thee nobility without purchase or service rendered by +thee, for when I make thee a count, then thou art at once a gentleman; +and they may say what they will, but by my faith they will have to +call thee 'your lordship,' whether they like it or not."</p> + +<p>"Not a doubt of it; and I'll know how to support the tittle," said +Sancho.</p> + +<p>"Title thou shouldst say, not tittle," said his master.</p> + +<p>"So be it," answered Sancho. "I say I will know how to behave, for +once in my life I was beadle of a brotherhood, and the beadle's gown +sat so well on me that all said I looked as if I was to be steward +of the same brotherhood. What will it be, then, when I put a duke's +robe on my back, or dress myself in gold and pearls like a count? I +believe they'll come a hundred leagues to see me."</p> + +<p>"Thou wilt look well," said Don Quixote, "but thou must shave thy +beard often, for thou hast it so thick and rough and unkempt, that +if thou dost not shave it every second day at least, they will see +what thou art at the distance of a musket shot."</p> + +<p>"What more will it be," said Sancho, "than having a barber, and +keeping him at wages in the house? and even if it be necessary, I will +make him go behind me like a nobleman's equerry."</p> + +<p>"Why, how dost thou know that noblemen have equerries behind +them?" asked Don Quixote.</p> + +<p>"I will tell you," answered Sancho. "Years ago I was for a month +at the capital and there I saw taking the air a very small gentleman +who they said was a very great man, and a man following him on +horseback in every turn he took, just as if he was his tail. I asked +why this man did not join the other man, instead of always going +behind him; they answered me that he was his equerry, and that it +was the custom with nobles to have such persons behind them, and +ever since then I know it, for I have never forgotten it."</p> + +<p>"Thou art right," said Don Quixote, "and in the same way thou mayest +carry thy barber with thee, for customs did not come into use all +together, nor were they all invented at once, and thou mayest be the +first count to have a barber to follow him; and, indeed, shaving one's +beard is a greater trust than saddling one's horse."</p> + +<p>"Let the barber business be my look-out," said Sancho; "and your +worship's be it to strive to become a king, and make me a count."</p> + +<p>"So it shall be," answered Don Quixote, and raising his eyes he +saw what will be told in the following chapter.</p> + + +<br> +<br><br><br> +<center><a name="c20e"></a><img alt="c20e.jpg (18K)" src="images/c20e.jpg" height="392" width="308"> +</center> +<br><br><br><br> + +<br><br> +<center><h2><a name="ch22"></a>CHAPTER XXII.</h2></center> +<br> +<center><h3>OF THE FREEDOM DON QUIXOTE CONFERRED ON SEVERAL UNFORTUNATES WHO +AGAINST THEIR WILL WERE BEING CARRIED WHERE THEY HAD NO WISH TO GO +</h3></center> +<br> +<br> + +<center><a name="c22a"></a><img alt="c22a.jpg (178K)" src="images/c22a.jpg" height="453" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/c22a.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<p>Cide Hamete Benengeli, the Arab and Manchegan author, relates in +this most grave, high-sounding, minute, delightful, and original +history that after the discussion between the famous Don Quixote of La +Mancha and his squire Sancho Panza which is set down at the end of +chapter twenty-one, Don Quixote raised his eyes and saw coming along +the road he was following some dozen men on foot strung together by +the neck, like beads, on a great iron chain, and all with manacles +on their hands. With them there came also two men on horseback and two +on foot; those on horseback with wheel-lock muskets, those on foot +with javelins and swords, and as soon as Sancho saw them he said:</p> + +<p>"That is a chain of galley slaves, on the way to the galleys by +force of the king's orders."</p> + +<p>"How by force?" asked Don Quixote; "is it possible that the king +uses force against anyone?"</p> + +<p>"I do not say that," answered Sancho, "but that these are people +condemned for their crimes to serve by force in the king's galleys."</p> + +<p>"In fact," replied Don Quixote, "however it may be, these people are +going where they are taking them by force, and not of their own will."</p> + +<p>"Just so," said Sancho.</p> + +<p>"Then if so," said Don Quixote, "here is a case for the exercise +of my office, to put down force and to succour and help the wretched."</p> + +<p>"Recollect, your worship," said Sancho, "Justice, which is the +king himself, is not using force or doing wrong to such persons, but +punishing them for their crimes."</p> + +<p>The chain of galley slaves had by this time come up, and Don Quixote +in very courteous language asked those who were in custody of it to be +good enough to tell him the reason or reasons for which they were +conducting these people in this manner. One of the guards on horseback +answered that they were galley slaves belonging to his majesty, that +they were going to the galleys, and that was all that was to be said +and all he had any business to know.</p> + + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="c22b"></a><img alt="c22b.jpg (298K)" src="images/c22b.jpg" height="819" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/c22b.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<p>"Nevertheless," replied Don Quixote, "I should like to know from +each of them separately the reason of his misfortune;" to this he +added more to the same effect to induce them to tell him what he +wanted so civilly that the other mounted guard said to him:</p> + +<p>"Though we have here the register and certificate of the sentence of +every one of these wretches, this is no time to take them out or +read them; come and ask themselves; they can tell if they choose, +and they will, for these fellows take a pleasure in doing and +talking about rascalities."</p> + +<p>With this permission, which Don Quixote would have taken even had +they not granted it, he approached the chain and asked the first for +what offences he was now in such a sorry case.</p> + +<p>He made answer that it was for being a lover.</p> + +<p>"For that only?" replied Don Quixote; "why, if for being lovers they +send people to the galleys I might have been rowing in them long ago."</p> + +<p>"The love is not the sort your worship is thinking of," said the +galley slave; "mine was that I loved a washerwoman's basket of clean +linen so well, and held it so close in my embrace, that if the arm +of the law had not forced it from me, I should never have let it go of +my own will to this moment; I was caught in the act, there was no +occasion for torture, the case was settled, they treated me to a +hundred lashes on the back, and three years of gurapas besides, and +that was the end of it."</p> + +<p>"What are gurapas?" asked Don Quixote.</p> + +<p>"Gurapas are galleys," answered the galley slave, who was a young +man of about four-and-twenty, and said he was a native of Piedrahita.</p> + +<p>Don Quixote asked the same question of the second, who made no +reply, so downcast and melancholy was he; but the first answered for +him, and said, "He, sir, goes as a canary, I mean as a musician and +a singer."</p> + +<p>"What!" said Don Quixote, "for being musicians and singers are +people sent to the galleys too?"</p> + +<p>"Yes, sir," answered the galley slave, "for there is nothing worse +than singing under suffering."</p> + +<p>"On the contrary, I have heard say," said Don Quixote, "that he +who sings scares away his woes."</p> + +<p>"Here it is the reverse," said the galley slave; "for he who sings +once weeps all his life."</p> + +<p>"I do not understand it," said Don Quixote; but one of the guards +said to him, "Sir, to sing under suffering means with the non sancta +fraternity to confess under torture; they put this sinner to the +torture and he confessed his crime, which was being a cuatrero, that +is a cattle-stealer, and on his confession they sentenced him to six +years in the galleys, besides two bundred lashes that he has already +had on the back; and he is always dejected and downcast because the +other thieves that were left behind and that march here ill-treat, and +snub, and jeer, and despise him for confessing and not having spirit +enough to say nay; for, say they, 'nay' has no more letters in it than +'yea,' and a culprit is well off when life or death with him depends +on his own tongue and not on that of witnesses or evidence; and to +my thinking they are not very far out."</p> + +<p>"And I think so too," answered Don Quixote; then passing on to the +third he asked him what he had asked the others, and the man +answered very readily and unconcernedly, "I am going for five years to +their ladyships the gurapas for the want of ten ducats."</p> + +<p>"I will give twenty with pleasure to get you out of that trouble," +said Don Quixote.</p> + +<p>"That," said the galley slave, "is like a man having money at sea +when he is dying of hunger and has no way of buying what he wants; I +say so because if at the right time I had had those twenty ducats that +your worship now offers me, I would have greased the notary's pen +and freshened up the attorney's wit with them, so that to-day I should +be in the middle of the plaza of the Zocodover at Toledo, and not on +this road coupled like a greyhound. But God is great; patience—there, +that's enough of it."</p> + +<p>Don Quixote passed on to the fourth, a man of venerable aspect +with a white beard falling below his breast, who on hearing himself +asked the reason of his being there began to weep without answering +a word, but the fifth acted as his tongue and said, "This worthy man +is going to the galleys for four years, after having gone the rounds +in ceremony and on horseback."</p> + +<p> "That means," said Sancho Panza, "as I take it, to have been +exposed to shame in public."</p> + +<p>"Just so," replied the galley slave, "and the offence for which they +gave him that punishment was having been an ear-broker, nay +body-broker; I mean, in short, that this gentleman goes as a pimp, and +for having besides a certain touch of the sorcerer about him."</p> + +<p>"If that touch had not been thrown in," said Don Quixote, "be +would not deserve, for mere pimping, to row in the galleys, but rather +to command and be admiral of them; for the office of pimp is no +ordinary one, being the office of persons of discretion, one very +necessary in a well-ordered state, and only to be exercised by persons +of good birth; nay, there ought to be an inspector and overseer of +them, as in other offices, and recognised number, as with the +brokers on change; in this way many of the evils would be avoided +which are caused by this office and calling being in the hands of +stupid and ignorant people, such as women more or less silly, and +pages and jesters of little standing and experience, who on the most +urgent occasions, and when ingenuity of contrivance is needed, let the +crumbs freeze on the way to their mouths, and know not which is +their right hand. I should like to go farther, and give reasons to +show that it is advisable to choose those who are to hold so necessary +an office in the state, but this is not the fit place for it; some day +I will expound the matter to some one able to see to and rectify it; +all I say now is, that the additional fact of his being a sorcerer has +removed the sorrow it gave me to see these white hairs and this +venerable countenance in so painful a position on account of his being +a pimp; though I know well there are no sorceries in the world that +can move or compel the will as some simple folk fancy, for our will is +free, nor is there herb or charm that can force it. All that certain +silly women and quacks do is to turn men mad with potions and poisons, +pretending that they have power to cause love, for, as I say, it is an +impossibility to compel the will."</p> + +<p>"It is true," said the good old man, "and indeed, sir, as far as the +charge of sorcery goes I was not guilty; as to that of being a pimp +I cannot deny it; but I never thought I was doing any harm by it, +for my only object was that all the world should enjoy itself and live +in peace and quiet, without quarrels or troubles; but my good +intentions were unavailing to save me from going where I never +expect to come back from, with this weight of years upon me and a +urinary ailment that never gives me a moment's ease;" and again he +fell to weeping as before, and such compassion did Sancho feel for him +that he took out a real of four from his bosom and gave it to him in +alms.</p> + +<p>Don Quixote went on and asked another what his crime was, and the +man answered with no less but rather much more sprightliness than +the last one.</p> + +<p>"I am here because I carried the joke too far with a couple of +cousins of mine, and with a couple of other cousins who were none of +mine; in short, I carried the joke so far with them all that it +ended in such a complicated increase of kindred that no accountant +could make it clear: it was all proved against me, I got no favour, +I had no money, I was near having my neck stretched, they sentenced me +to the galleys for six years, I accepted my fate, it is the punishment +of my fault; I am a young man; let life only last, and with that all +will come right. If you, sir, have anything wherewith to help the +poor, God will repay it to you in heaven, and we on earth will take +care in our petitions to him to pray for the life and health of your +worship, that they may be as long and as good as your amiable +appearance deserves."</p> + +<p>This one was in the dress of a student, and one of the guards said +he was a great talker and a very elegant Latin scholar.</p> + +<p>Behind all these there came a man of thirty, a very personable +fellow, except that when he looked, his eyes turned in a little one +towards the other. He was bound differently from the rest, for he +had to his leg a chain so long that it was wound all round his body, +and two rings on his neck, one attached to the chain, the other to +what they call a "keep-friend" or "friend's foot," from which hung two +irons reaching to his waist with two manacles fixed to them in which +his hands were secured by a big padlock, so that he could neither +raise his hands to his mouth nor lower his head to his hands. Don +Quixote asked why this man carried so many more chains than the +others. The guard replied that it was because he alone had committed +more crimes than all the rest put together, and was so daring and such +a villain, that though they marched him in that fashion they did not +feel sure of him, but were in dread of his making his escape.</p> + +<p>"What crimes can he have committed," said Don Quixote, "if they have +not deserved a heavier punishment than being sent to the galleys?"</p> + +<p>"He goes for ten years," replied the guard, "which is the same thing +as civil death, and all that need be said is that this good fellow +is the famous Gines de Pasamonte, otherwise called Ginesillo de +Parapilla."</p> + +<p>"Gently, senor commissary," said the galley slave at this, "let us +have no fixing of names or surnames; my name is Gines, not +Ginesillo, and my family name is Pasamonte, not Parapilla as you +say; let each one mind his own business, and he will be doing enough."</p> + +<p>"Speak with less impertinence, master thief of extra measure," +replied the commissary, "if you don't want me to make you hold your +tongue in spite of your teeth."</p> + +<p>"It is easy to see," returned the galley slave, "that man goes as +God pleases, but some one shall know some day whether I am called +Ginesillo de Parapilla or not."</p> + +<p>"Don't they call you so, you liar?" said the guard.</p> + +<p>"They do," returned Gines, "but I will make them give over calling +me so, or I will be shaved, where, I only say behind my teeth. If you, +sir, have anything to give us, give it to us at once, and God speed +you, for you are becoming tiresome with all this inquisitiveness about +the lives of others; if you want to know about mine, let me tell you I +am Gines de Pasamonte, whose life is written by these fingers."</p> + +<p>"He says true," said the commissary, "for he has himself written his +story as grand as you please, and has left the book in the prison in +pawn for two hundred reals."</p> + +<p>"And I mean to take it out of pawn," said Gines, "though it were +in for two hundred ducats."</p> + +<p>"Is it so good?" said Don Quixote.</p> + +<p>"So good is it," replied Gines, "that a fig for 'Lazarillo de +Tormes,' and all of that kind that have been written, or shall be +written compared with it: all I will say about it is that it deals +with facts, and facts so neat and diverting that no lies could match +them."</p> + +<p>"And how is the book entitled?" asked Don Quixote.</p> + +<p>"The 'Life of Gines de Pasamonte,'" replied the subject of it.</p> + +<p>"And is it finished?" asked Don Quixote.</p> + +<p>"How can it be finished," said the other, "when my life is not yet +finished? All that is written is from my birth down to the point +when they sent me to the galleys this last time."</p> + +<p>"Then you have been there before?" said Don Quixote.</p> + +<p>"In the service of God and the king I have been there for four years +before now, and I know by this time what the biscuit and courbash +are like," replied Gines; "and it is no great grievance to me to go +back to them, for there I shall have time to finish my book; I have +still many things left to say, and in the galleys of Spain there is +more than enough leisure; though I do not want much for what I have to +write, for I have it by heart."</p> + +<p>"You seem a clever fellow," said Don Quixote.</p> + +<p>"And an unfortunate one," replied Gines, "for misfortune always +persecutes good wit."</p> + +<p>"It persecutes rogues," said the commissary.</p> + +<p>"I told you already to go gently, master commissary," said +Pasamonte; "their lordships yonder never gave you that staff to +ill-treat us wretches here, but to conduct and take us where his +majesty orders you; if not, by the life of-never mind-; it may be that +some day the stains made in the inn will come out in the scouring; let +everyone hold his tongue and behave well and speak better; and now let +us march on, for we have had quite enough of this entertainment."</p> + +<p>The commissary lifted his staff to strike Pasamonte in return for +his threats, but Don Quixote came between them, and begged him not +to ill-use him, as it was not too much to allow one who had his +hands tied to have his tongue a trifle free; and turning to the +whole chain of them he said:</p> + +<p>"From all you have told me, dear brethren, make out clearly that +though they have punished you for your faults, the punishments you are +about to endure do not give you much pleasure, and that you go to them +very much against the grain and against your will, and that perhaps +this one's want of courage under torture, that one's want of money, +the other's want of advocacy, and lastly the perverted judgment of the +judge may have been the cause of your ruin and of your failure to +obtain the justice you had on your side. All which presents itself now +to my mind, urging, persuading, and even compelling me to +demonstrate in your case the purpose for which Heaven sent me into the +world and caused me to make profession of the order of chivalry to +which I belong, and the vow I took therein to give aid to those in +need and under the oppression of the strong. But as I know that it +is a mark of prudence not to do by foul means what may be done by +fair, I will ask these gentlemen, the guards and commissary, to be +so good as to release you and let you go in peace, as there will be no +lack of others to serve the king under more favourable +circumstances; for it seems to me a hard case to make slaves of +those whom God and nature have made free. Moreover, sirs of the +guard," added Don Quixote, "these poor fellows have done nothing to +you; let each answer for his own sins yonder; there is a God in Heaven +who will not forget to punish the wicked or reward the good; and it is +not fitting that honest men should be the instruments of punishment to +others, they being therein no way concerned. This request I make +thus gently and quietly, that, if you comply with it, I may have +reason for thanking you; and, if you will not voluntarily, this +lance and sword together with the might of my arm shall compel you +to comply with it by force."</p> + +<p>"Nice nonsense!" said the commissary; "a fine piece of pleasantry he +has come out with at last! He wants us to let the king's prisoners go, +as if we had any authority to release them, or he to order us to do +so! Go your way, sir, and good luck to you; put that basin straight +that you've got on your head, and don't go looking for three feet on a +cat."</p> + +<p>"'Tis you that are the cat, rat, and rascal," replied Don Quixote, +and acting on the word he fell upon him so suddenly that without +giving him time to defend himself he brought him to the ground +sorely wounded with a lance-thrust; and lucky it was for him that it +was the one that had the musket. The other guards stood +thunderstruck and amazed at this unexpected event, but recovering +presence of mind, those on horseback seized their swords, and those on +foot their javelins, and attacked Don Quixote, who was waiting for +them with great calmness; and no doubt it would have gone badly with +him if the galley slaves, seeing the chance before them of +liberating themselves, had not effected it by contriving to break +the chain on which they were strung. Such was the confusion, that +the guards, now rushing at the galley slaves who were breaking +loose, now to attack Don Quixote who was waiting for them, did nothing +at all that was of any use. Sancho, on his part, gave a helping hand +to release Gines de Pasamonte, who was the first to leap forth upon +the plain free and unfettered, and who, attacking the prostrate +commissary, took from him his sword and the musket, with which, aiming +at one and levelling at another, he, without ever discharging it, +drove every one of the guards off the field, for they took to +flight, as well to escape Pasamonte's musket, as the showers of stones +the now released galley slaves were raining upon them. Sancho was +greatly grieved at the affair, because he anticipated that those who +had fled would report the matter to the Holy Brotherhood, who at the +summons of the alarm-bell would at once sally forth in quest of the +offenders; and he said so to his master, and entreated him to leave +the place at once, and go into hiding in the sierra that was close by.</p> + +<p>"That is all very well," said Don Quixote, "but I know what must +be done now;" and calling together all the galley slaves, who were now +running riot, and had stripped the commissary to the skin, he +collected them round him to hear what he had to say, and addressed +them as follows: "To be grateful for benefits received is the part +of persons of good birth, and one of the sins most offensive to God is +ingratitude; I say so because, sirs, ye have already seen by +manifest proof the benefit ye have received of me; in return for which +I desire, and it is my good pleasure that, laden with that chain which +I have taken off your necks, ye at once set out and proceed to the +city of El Toboso, and there present yourselves before the lady +Dulcinea del Toboso, and say to her that her knight, he of the +Rueful Countenance, sends to commend himself to her; and that ye +recount to her in full detail all the particulars of this notable +adventure, up to the recovery of your longed-for liberty; and this +done ye may go where ye will, and good fortune attend you."</p> + +<p>Gines de Pasamonte made answer for all, saying, "That which you, +sir, our deliverer, demand of us, is of all impossibilities the most +impossible to comply with, because we cannot go together along the +roads, but only singly and separate, and each one his own way, +endeavouring to hide ourselves in the bowels of the earth to escape +the Holy Brotherhood, which, no doubt, will come out in search of +us. What your worship may do, and fairly do, is to change this service +and tribute as regards the lady Dulcinea del Toboso for a certain +quantity of ave-marias and credos which we will say for your worship's +intention, and this is a condition that can be complied with by +night as by day, running or resting, in peace or in war; but to +imagine that we are going now to return to the flesh-pots of Egypt, +I mean to take up our chain and set out for El Toboso, is to imagine +that it is now night, though it is not yet ten in the morning, and +to ask this of us is like asking pears of the elm tree."</p> + +<p>"Then by all that's good," said Don Quixote (now stirred to +wrath), "Don son of a bitch, Don Ginesillo de Paropillo, or whatever +your name is, you will have to go yourself alone, with your tail +between your legs and the whole chain on your back."</p> + +<p>Pasamonte, who was anything but meek (being by this time +thoroughly convinced that Don Quixote was not quite right in his +head as he had committed such a vagary as to set them free), finding +himself abused in this fashion, gave the wink to his companions, and +falling back they began to shower stones on Don Quixote at such a rate +that he was quite unable to protect himself with his buckler, and poor +Rocinante no more heeded the spur than if he had been made of brass. +Sancho planted himself behind his ass, and with him sheltered +himself from the hailstorm that poured on both of them. Don Quixote +was unable to shield himself so well but that more pebbles than I +could count struck him full on the body with such force that they +brought him to the ground; and the instant he fell the student pounced +upon him, snatched the basin from his head, and with it struck three +or four blows on his shoulders, and as many more on the ground, +knocking it almost to pieces. They then stripped him of a jacket +that he wore over his armour, and they would have stripped off his +stockings if his greaves had not prevented them. From Sancho they took +his coat, leaving him in his shirt-sleeves; and dividing among +themselves the remaining spoils of the battle, they went each one +his own way, more solicitous about keeping clear of the Holy +Brotherhood they dreaded, than about burdening themselves with the +chain, or going to present themselves before the lady Dulcinea del +Toboso. The ass and Rocinante, Sancho and Don Quixote, were all that +were left upon the spot; the ass with drooping head, serious, +shaking his ears from time to time as if he thought the storm of +stones that assailed them was not yet over; Rocinante stretched beside +his master, for he too had been brought to the ground by a stone; +Sancho stripped, and trembling with fear of the Holy Brotherhood; +and Don Quixote fuming to find himself so served by the very persons +for whom he had done so much.</p> + + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="c22e"></a><img alt="c22e.jpg (44K)" src="images/c22e.jpg" height="637" width="527"> +</center> + + + +<br> +<br> + + + +<center> +<table summary="" cellPadding=4 border=3> +<tr><td> + <a href="p6.htm">Previous Part</a> +</td><td> + <a href="5921-h.htm">Main Index</a> +</td><td> + <a href="p8.htm">Next Part</a> + </td></tr> +</table> +</center> +<br><br> + +</body> +</html> + diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/p8.htm b/old/orig5921-h/p8.htm new file mode 100644 index 0000000..58ba71f --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/p8.htm @@ -0,0 +1,664 @@ +<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> +<html> +<head> +<title>THE HISTORY OF DON QUIXOTE, By Cervantes, Vol. I., Part 8.</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> + +<center> +<table summary="" cellPadding=4 border=3> +<tr><td> + <a href="p7.htm">Previous Part</a> +</td><td> + <a href="5921-h.htm">Main Index</a> +</td><td> + <a href="p9.htm">Next Part</a> + </td></tr> +</table> +</center> +<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 8. +<br><br> +Chapter 23 +</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> + +<blockquote><blockquote><blockquote><blockquote> +<center> +<h3>Ebook Editor's Note</h3> +</center> + +<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="#ch23">CHAPTER XXIII</a> +OF WHAT BEFELL DON QUIXOTE IN THE SIERRA MORENA, +WHICH WAS ONE OF THE RAREST ADVENTURES RELATED +IN THIS VERACIOUS HISTORY + +</pre> + +<br><br><br><br> + + + +<br><br> +<center><h2><a name="ch23"></a>CHAPTER XXIII.</h2></center> +<br> +<center><h3>OF WHAT BEFELL DON QUIXOTE IN THE SIERRA MORENA, WHICH WAS ONE OF +THE RAREST ADVENTURES RELATED IN THIS VERACIOUS HISTORY +</h3></center> +<br> +<br> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="c23a"></a><img alt="c23a.jpg (148K)" src="images/c23a.jpg" height="404" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/c23a.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<p>Seeing himself served in this way, Don Quixote said to his squire, +"I have always heard it said, Sancho, that to do good to boors is to +throw water into the sea. If I had believed thy words, I should have +avoided this trouble; but it is done now, it is only to have +patience and take warning for the future."</p> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="c23b"></a><img alt="c23b.jpg (318K)" src="images/c23b.jpg" height="512" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/c23b.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<p>"Your worship will take warning as much as I am a Turk," returned +Sancho; "but, as you say this mischief might have been avoided if +you had believed me, believe me now, and a still greater one will be +avoided; for I tell you chivalry is of no account with the Holy +Brotherhood, and they don't care two maravedis for all the +knights-errant in the world; and I can tell you I fancy I hear their +arrows whistling past my ears this minute."</p> + +<p>"Thou art a coward by nature, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "but lest +thou shouldst say I am obstinate, and that I never do as thou dost +advise, this once I will take thy advice, and withdraw out of reach of +that fury thou so dreadest; but it must be on one condition, that +never, in life or in death, thou art to say to anyone that I retired +or withdrew from this danger out of fear, but only in compliance +with thy entreaties; for if thou sayest otherwise thou wilt lie +therein, and from this time to that, and from that to this, I give +thee lie, and say thou liest and wilt lie every time thou thinkest +or sayest it; and answer me not again; for at the mere thought that +I am withdrawing or retiring from any danger, above all from this, +which does seem to carry some little shadow of fear with it, I am +ready to take my stand here and await alone, not only that Holy +Brotherhood you talk of and dread, but the brothers of the twelve +tribes of Israel, and the Seven Maccabees, and Castor and Pollux, +and all the brothers and brotherhoods in the world."</p> + +<p>"Senor," replied Sancho, "to retire is not to flee, and there is +no wisdom in waiting when danger outweighs hope, and it is the part of +wise men to preserve themselves to-day for to-morrow, and not risk all +in one day; and let me tell you, though I am a clown and a boor, I +have got some notion of what they call safe conduct; so repent not +of having taken my advice, but mount Rocinante if you can, and if +not I will help you; and follow me, for my mother-wit tells me we have +more need of legs than hands just now."</p> + +<p>Don Quixote mounted without replying, and, Sancho leading the way on +his ass, they entered the side of the Sierra Morena, which was close +by, as it was Sancho's design to cross it entirely and come out +again at El Viso or Almodovar del Campo, and hide for some days +among its crags so as to escape the search of the Brotherhood should +they come to look for them. He was encouraged in this by perceiving +that the stock of provisions carried by the ass had come safe out of +the fray with the galley slaves, a circumstance that he regarded as +a miracle, seeing how they pillaged and ransacked.</p> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="c23c"></a><img alt="c23c.jpg (297K)" src="images/c23c.jpg" height="503" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/c23c.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<p>That night they reached the very heart of the Sierra Morena, where +it seemed prudent to Sancho to pass the night and even some days, at +least as many as the stores he carried might last, and so they +encamped between two rocks and among some cork trees; but fatal +destiny, which, according to the opinion of those who have not the +light of the true faith, directs, arranges, and settles everything +in its own way, so ordered it that Gines de Pasamonte, the famous +knave and thief who by the virtue and madness of Don Quixote had +been released from the chain, driven by fear of the Holy +Brotherhood, which he had good reason to dread, resolved to take +hiding in the mountains; and his fate and fear led him to the same +spot to which Don Quixote and Sancho Panza had been led by theirs, +just in time to recognise them and leave them to fall asleep: and as +the wicked are always ungrateful, and necessity leads to evildoing, +and immediate advantage overcomes all considerations of the future, +Gines, who was neither grateful nor well-principled, made up his +mind to steal Sancho Panza's ass, not troubling himself about +Rocinante, as being a prize that was no good either to pledge or sell. +While Sancho slept he stole his ass, and before day dawned he was +far out of reach.</p> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="c23d"></a><img alt="c23d.jpg (256K)" src="images/c23d.jpg" height="858" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/c23d.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<p>Aurora made her appearance bringing gladness to the earth but +sadness to Sancho Panza, for he found that his Dapple was missing, and +seeing himself bereft of him he began the saddest and most doleful +lament in the world, so loud that Don Quixote awoke at his +exclamations and heard him saying, "O son of my bowels, born in my +very house, my children's plaything, my wife's joy, the envy of my +neighbours, relief of my burdens, and lastly, half supporter of +myself, for with the six-and-twenty maravedis thou didst earn me daily +I met half my charges."</p> + +<p>Don Quixote, when he heard the lament and learned the cause, +consoled Sancho with the best arguments he could, entreating him to be +patient, and promising to give him a letter of exchange ordering three +out of five ass-colts that he had at home to be given to him. Sancho +took comfort at this, dried his tears, suppressed his sobs, and +returned thanks for the kindness shown him by Don Quixote. He on his +part was rejoiced to the heart on entering the mountains, as they +seemed to him to be just the place for the adventures he was in +quest of. They brought back to his memory the marvellous adventures +that had befallen knights-errant in like solitudes and wilds, and he +went along reflecting on these things, so absorbed and carried away by +them that he had no thought for anything else.</p> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="c23e"></a><img alt="c23e.jpg (280K)" src="images/c23e.jpg" height="825" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/c23e.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<p>Nor had Sancho any +other care (now that he fancied he was travelling in a safe quarter) +than to satisfy his appetite with such remains as were left of the +clerical spoils, and so he marched behind his master laden with what +Dapple used to carry, emptying the sack and packing his paunch, and so +long as he could go that way, he would not have given a farthing to +meet with another adventure.</p> + +<p>While so engaged he raised his eyes and saw that his master had +halted, and was trying with the point of his pike to lift some bulky +object that lay upon the ground, on which he hastened to join him +and help him if it were needful, and reached him just as with the +point of the pike he was raising a saddle-pad with a valise attached +to it, half or rather wholly rotten and torn; but so heavy were they +that Sancho had to help to take them up, and his master directed him +to see what the valise contained. Sancho did so with great alacrity, +and though the valise was secured by a chain and padlock, from its +torn and rotten condition he was able to see its contents, which +were four shirts of fine holland, and other articles of linen no +less curious than clean; and in a handkerchief he found a good lot +of gold crowns, and as soon as he saw them he exclaimed:</p> + +<p>"Blessed be all Heaven for sending us an adventure that is good +for something!"</p> + +<p>Searching further he found a little memorandum book richly bound; +this Don Quixote asked of him, telling him to take the money and +keep it for himself. Sancho kissed his hands for the favour, and +cleared the valise of its linen, which he stowed away in the provision +sack. Considering the whole matter, Don Quixote observed:</p> + +<p>"It seems to me, Sancho—and it is impossible it can be +otherwise—that some strayed traveller must have crossed this sierra and been +attacked and slain by footpads, who brought him to this remote spot to +bury him."</p> + +<p>"That cannot be," answered Sancho, "because if they had been robbers +they would not have left this money."</p> + +<p>"Thou art right," said Don Quixote, "and I cannot guess or explain +what this may mean; but stay; let us see if in this memorandum book +there is anything written by which we may be able to trace out or +discover what we want to know."</p> + +<p>He opened it, and the first thing he found in it, written roughly +but in a very good hand, was a sonnet, and reading it aloud that +Sancho might hear it, he found that it ran as follows:</p> + +<blockquote><blockquote> +<pre> +SONNET + +Or Love is lacking in intelligence, + Or to the height of cruelty attains, + Or else it is my doom to suffer pains +Beyond the measure due to my offence. +But if Love be a God, it follows thence + That he knows all, and certain it remains + No God loves cruelty; then who ordains +This penance that enthrals while it torments? +It were a falsehood, Chloe, thee to name; + Such evil with such goodness cannot live; +And against Heaven I dare not charge the blame, + I only know it is my fate to die. + To him who knows not whence his malady + A miracle alone a cure can give.</pre> +</blockquote></blockquote> + + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="c23f"></a><img alt="c23f.jpg (344K)" src="images/c23f.jpg" height="816" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/c23f.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<p> +"There is nothing to be learned from that rhyme," said Sancho, +"unless by that clue there's in it, one may draw out the ball of the +whole matter."</p> + +<p>"What clue is there?" said Don Quixote.</p> + +<p>"I thought your worship spoke of a clue in it," said Sancho.</p> + +<p>"I only said Chloe," replied Don Quixote; "and that no doubt, is the +name of the lady of whom the author of the sonnet complains; and, +faith, he must be a tolerable poet, or I know little of the craft."</p> + +<p>"Then your worship understands rhyming too?"</p> + +<p>"And better than thou thinkest," replied Don Quixote, "as thou shalt +see when thou carriest a letter written in verse from beginning to end +to my lady Dulcinea del Toboso, for I would have thee know, Sancho, +that all or most of the knights-errant in days of yore were great +troubadours and great musicians, for both of these accomplishments, or +more properly speaking gifts, are the peculiar property of +lovers-errant: true it is that the verses of the knights of old have +more spirit than neatness in them."</p> + +<p>"Read more, your worship," said Sancho, "and you will find something +that will enlighten us."</p> + +<p>Don Quixote turned the page and said, "This is prose and seems to be +a letter."</p> + +<p>"A correspondence letter, senor?"</p> + +<p>"From the beginning it seems to be a love letter," replied Don +Quixote.</p> + +<p>"Then let your worship read it aloud," said Sancho, "for I am very +fond of love matters."</p> + +<p>"With all my heart," said Don Quixote, and reading it aloud as +Sancho had requested him, he found it ran thus:</p> + +<p> +Thy false promise and my sure misfortune carry me to a place +whence the news of my death will reach thy ears before the words of my +complaint. Ungrateful one, thou hast rejected me for one more wealthy, +but not more worthy; but if virtue were esteemed wealth I should +neither envy the fortunes of others nor weep for misfortunes of my +own. What thy beauty raised up thy deeds have laid low; by it I +believed thee to be an angel, by them I know thou art a woman. Peace +be with thee who hast sent war to me, and Heaven grant that the deceit +of thy husband be ever hidden from thee, so that thou repent not of +what thou hast done, and I reap not a revenge I would not have.</p> + +<p>When he had finished the letter, Don Quixote said, "There is less to +be gathered from this than from the verses, except that he who wrote +it is some rejected lover;" and turning over nearly all the pages of +the book he found more verses and letters, some of which he could +read, while others he could not; but they were all made up of +complaints, laments, misgivings, desires and aversions, favours and +rejections, some rapturous, some doleful. While Don Quixote examined +the book, Sancho examined the valise, not leaving a corner in the +whole of it or in the pad that he did not search, peer into, and +explore, or seam that he did not rip, or tuft of wool that he did +not pick to pieces, lest anything should escape for want of care and +pains; so keen was the covetousness excited in him by the discovery of +the crowns, which amounted to near a hundred; and though he found no +more booty, he held the blanket flights, balsam vomits, stake +benedictions, carriers' fisticuffs, missing alforjas, stolen coat, and +all the hunger, thirst, and weariness he had endured in the service of +his good master, cheap at the price; as he considered himself more +than fully indemnified for all by the payment he received in the +gift of the treasure-trove.</p> + +<p>The Knight of the Rueful Countenance was still very anxious to +find out who the owner of the valise could be, conjecturing from the +sonnet and letter, from the money in gold, and from the fineness of +the shirts, that he must be some lover of distinction whom the scorn +and cruelty of his lady had driven to some desperate course; but as in +that uninhabited and rugged spot there was no one to be seen of whom +he could inquire, he saw nothing else for it but to push on, taking +whatever road Rocinante chose—which was where he could make his +way—firmly persuaded that among these wilds he could not fail to meet +some rare adventure. As he went along, then, occupied with these +thoughts, he perceived on the summit of a height that rose before +their eyes a man who went springing from rock to rock and from tussock +to tussock with marvellous agility. As well as he could make out he +was unclad, with a thick black beard, long tangled hair, and bare legs +and feet, his thighs were covered by breeches apparently of tawny +velvet but so ragged that they showed his skin in several places.</p> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="c23g"></a><img alt="c23g.jpg (360K)" src="images/c23g.jpg" height="817" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/c23g.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<p>He was bareheaded, and notwithstanding the swiftness with which he passed +as has been described, the Knight of the Rueful Countenance observed +and noted all these trifles, and though he made the attempt, he was +unable to follow him, for it was not granted to the feebleness of +Rocinante to make way over such rough ground, he being, moreover, +slow-paced and sluggish by nature. Don Quixote at once came to the +conclusion that this was the owner of the saddle-pad and of the +valise, and made up his mind to go in search of him, even though he +should have to wander a year in those mountains before he found him, +and so he directed Sancho to take a short cut over one side of the +mountain, while he himself went by the other, and perhaps by this +means they might light upon this man who had passed so quickly out +of their sight.</p> + +<p>"I could not do that," said Sancho, "for when I separate from your +worship fear at once lays hold of me, and assails me with all sorts of +panics and fancies; and let what I now say be a notice that from +this time forth I am not going to stir a finger's width from your +presence."</p> + +<p>"It shall be so," said he of the Rueful Countenance, "and I am +very glad that thou art willing to rely on my courage, which will +never fail thee, even though the soul in thy body fail thee; so come +on now behind me slowly as well as thou canst, and make lanterns of +thine eyes; let us make the circuit of this ridge; perhaps we shall +light upon this man that we saw, who no doubt is no other than the +owner of what we found."</p> + +<p>To which Sancho made answer, "Far better would it be not to look for +him, for, if we find him, and he happens to be the owner of the money, +it is plain I must restore it; it would be better, therefore, that +without taking this needless trouble, I should keep possession of it +until in some other less meddlesome and officious way the real owner +may be discovered; and perhaps that will be when I shall have spent +it, and then the king will hold me harmless."</p> + +<p>"Thou art wrong there, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "for now that we +have a suspicion who the owner is, and have him almost before us, we +are bound to seek him and make restitution; and if we do not see +him, the strong suspicion we have as to his being the owner makes us +as guilty as if he were so; and so, friend Sancho, let not our +search for him give thee any uneasiness, for if we find him it will +relieve mine."</p> + +<p>And so saying he gave Rocinante the spur, and Sancho followed him on +foot and loaded, and after having partly made the circuit of the +mountain they found lying in a ravine, dead and half devoured by +dogs and pecked by jackdaws, a mule saddled and bridled, all which +still further strengthened their suspicion that he who had fled was +the owner of the mule and the saddle-pad.</p> + + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="c23h"></a><img alt="c23h.jpg (381K)" src="images/c23h.jpg" height="816" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/c23h.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<p>As they stood looking at it they heard a whistle like that of a +shepherd watching his flock, and suddenly on their left there appeared +a great number of goats and behind them on the summit of the +mountain the goatherd in charge of them, a man advanced in years. +Don Quixote called aloud to him and begged him to come down to where +they stood. He shouted in return, asking what had brought them to that +spot, seldom or never trodden except by the feet of goats, or of the +wolves and other wild beasts that roamed around. Sancho in return bade +him come down, and they would explain all to him.</p> + +<p>The goatherd descended, and reaching the place where Don Quixote +stood, he said, "I will wager you are looking at that hack mule that +lies dead in the hollow there, and, faith, it has been lying there now +these six months; tell me, have you come upon its master about here?"</p> + +<p>"We have come upon nobody," answered Don Quixote, "nor on anything +except a saddle-pad and a little valise that we found not far from +this."</p> + +<p>"I found it too," said the goatherd, "but I would not lift it nor go +near it for fear of some ill-luck or being charged with theft, for the +devil is crafty, and things rise up under one's feet to make one +fall without knowing why or wherefore."</p> + +<p>"That's exactly what I say," said Sancho; "I found it too, and I +would not go within a stone's throw of it; there I left it, and +there it lies just as it was, for I don't want a dog with a bell."</p> + +<p>"Tell me, good man," said Don Quixote, "do you know who is the owner +of this property?"</p> + +<p>"All I can tell you," said the goatherd, "is that about six months +ago, more or less, there arrived at a shepherd's hut three leagues, +perhaps, away from this, a youth of well-bred appearance and +manners, mounted on that same mule which lies dead here, and with +the same saddle-pad and valise which you say you found and did not +touch. He asked us what part of this sierra was the most rugged and +retired; we told him that it was where we now are; and so in truth +it is, for if you push on half a league farther, perhaps you will +not be able to find your way out; and I am wondering how you have +managed to come here, for there is no road or path that leads to +this spot. I say, then, that on hearing our answer the youth turned +about and made for the place we pointed out to him, leaving us all +charmed with his good looks, and wondering at his question and the +haste with which we saw him depart in the direction of the sierra; and +after that we saw him no more, until some days afterwards he crossed +the path of one of our shepherds, and without saying a word to him, +came up to him and gave him several cuffs and kicks, and then turned +to the ass with our provisions and took all the bread and cheese it +carried, and having done this made off back again into the sierra with +extraordinary swiftness. When some of us goatherds learned this we +went in search of him for about two days through the most remote +portion of this sierra, at the end of which we found him lodged in the +hollow of a large thick cork tree. He came out to meet us with great +gentleness, with his dress now torn and his face so disfigured and +burned by the sun, that we hardly recognised him but that his clothes, +though torn, convinced us, from the recollection we had of them, +that he was the person we were looking for. He saluted us courteously, +and in a few well-spoken words he told us not to wonder at seeing +him going about in this guise, as it was binding upon him in order +that he might work out a penance which for his many sins had been +imposed upon him. We asked him to tell us who he was, but we were +never able to find out from him: we begged of him too, when he was +in want of food, which he could not do without, to tell us where we +should find him, as we would bring it to him with all good-will and +readiness; or if this were not to his taste, at least to come and +ask it of us and not take it by force from the shepherds. He thanked +us for the offer, begged pardon for the late assault, and promised for +the future to ask it in God's name without offering violence to +anybody. As for fixed abode, he said he had no other than that which +chance offered wherever night might overtake him; and his words +ended in an outburst of weeping so bitter that we who listened to +him must have been very stones had we not joined him in it, +comparing what we saw of him the first time with what we saw now; for, +as I said, he was a graceful and gracious youth, and in his +courteous and polished language showed himself to be of good birth and +courtly breeding, and rustics as we were that listened to him, even to +our rusticity his gentle bearing sufficed to make it plain.</p> + +<p>"But in the midst of his conversation he stopped and became +silent, keeping his eyes fixed upon the ground for some time, during +which we stood still waiting anxiously to see what would come of +this abstraction; and with no little pity, for from his behaviour, now +staring at the ground with fixed gaze and eyes wide open without +moving an eyelid, again closing them, compressing his lips and raising +his eyebrows, we could perceive plainly that a fit of madness of +some kind had come upon him; and before long he showed that what we +imagined was the truth, for he arose in a fury from the ground where +he had thrown himself, and attacked the first he found near him with +such rage and fierceness that if we had not dragged him off him, he +would have beaten or bitten him to death, all the while exclaiming, +'Oh faithless Fernando, here, here shalt thou pay the penalty of the +wrong thou hast done me; these hands shall tear out that heart of +thine, abode and dwelling of all iniquity, but of deceit and fraud +above all; and to these he added other words all in effect +upbraiding this Fernando and charging him with treachery and +faithlessness.</p> + +<p>"We forced him to release his hold with no little difficulty, and +without another word he left us, and rushing off plunged in among +these brakes and brambles, so as to make it impossible for us to +follow him; from this we suppose that madness comes upon him from time +to time, and that some one called Fernando must have done him a +wrong of a grievous nature such as the condition to which it had +brought him seemed to show. All this has been since then confirmed +on those occasions, and they have been many, on which he has crossed +our path, at one time to beg the shepherds to give him some of the +food they carry, at another to take it from them by force; for when +there is a fit of madness upon him, even though the shepherds offer it +freely, he will not accept it but snatches it from them by dint of +blows; but when he is in his senses he begs it for the love of God, +courteously and civilly, and receives it with many thanks and not a +few tears. And to tell you the truth, sirs," continued the goatherd, +"it was yesterday that we resolved, I and four of the lads, two of +them our servants, and the other two friends of mine, to go in +search of him until we find him, and when we do to take him, whether +by force or of his own consent, to the town of Almodovar, which is +eight leagues from this, and there strive to cure him (if indeed his +malady admits of a cure), or learn when he is in his senses who he is, +and if he has relatives to whom we may give notice of his +misfortune. This, sirs, is all I can say in answer to what you have +asked me; and be sure that the owner of the articles you found is he +whom you saw pass by with such nimbleness and so naked."</p> + +<p>For Don Quixote had already described how he had seen the man go +bounding along the mountain side, and he was now filled with amazement +at what he heard from the goatherd, and more eager than ever to +discover who the unhappy madman was; and in his heart he resolved, +as he had done before, to search for him all over the mountain, not +leaving a corner or cave unexamined until he had found him. But chance +arranged matters better than he expected or hoped, for at that very +moment, in a gorge on the mountain that opened where they stood, the +youth he wished to find made his appearance, coming along talking to +himself in a way that would have been unintelligible near at hand, +much more at a distance. His garb was what has been described, save +that as he drew near, Don Quixote perceived that a tattered doublet +which he wore was amber-tanned, from which he concluded that one who +wore such garments could not be of very low rank.</p> + +<p>Approaching them, the youth greeted them in a harsh and hoarse voice +but with great courtesy. Don Quixote returned his salutation with +equal politeness, and dismounting from Rocinante advanced with +well-bred bearing and grace to embrace him, and held him for some time +close in his arms as if he had known him for a long time. The other, +whom we may call the Ragged One of the Sorry Countenance, as Don +Quixote was of the Rueful, after submitting to the embrace pushed +him back a little and, placing his hands on Don Quixote's shoulders, +stood gazing at him as if seeking to see whether he knew him, not less +amazed, perhaps, at the sight of the face, figure, and armour of Don +Quixote than Don Quixote was at the sight of him. To be brief, the +first to speak after embracing was the Ragged One, and he said what +will be told farther on.</p> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="c23i"></a><img alt="c23i.jpg (53K)" src="images/c23i.jpg" height="443" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/c23i.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> + + +<br> +<br> + + +<center> +<table summary="" cellPadding=4 border=3> +<tr><td> + <a href="p7.htm">Previous Part</a> +</td><td> + <a href="5921-h.htm">Main Index</a> +</td><td> + <a href="p9.htm">Next Part</a> + </td></tr> +</table> +</center> +<br><br> + + +</body> +</html> + diff --git a/old/orig5921-h/p9.htm b/old/orig5921-h/p9.htm new file mode 100644 index 0000000..23292f5 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5921-h/p9.htm @@ -0,0 +1,2122 @@ +<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> +<html> +<head> +<title>THE HISTORY OF DON QUIXOTE, By Cervantes, Vol. I., Part 9.</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> + +<center> +<table summary="" cellPadding=4 border=3> +<tr><td> + <a href="p8.htm">Previous Part</a> +</td><td> + <a href="5921-h.htm">Main Index</a> +</td><td> + <a href="p10.htm">Next Part</a> + </td></tr> +</table> +</center> +<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 9. +<br><br> +Chapters 24-27 +</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> + + +<center> +<h3>Ebook Editor's Note</h3> +</center> +<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="#ch24">CHAPTER XXIV</a> +IN WHICH IS CONTINUED THE ADVENTURE OF THE SIERRA MORENA + +<a href="#ch25">CHAPTER XXV</a> +WHICH TREATS OF THE STRANGE THINGS THAT HAPPENED TO THE +STOUT KNIGHT OF LA MANCHA IN THE SIERRA MORENA, AND OF +HIS IMITATION OF THE PENANCE OF BELTENEBROS + +<a href="#ch26">CHAPTER XXVI</a> +IN WHICH ARE CONTINUED THE REFINEMENTS WHEREWITH DON +QUIXOTE PLAYED THE PART OF A LOVER IN THE SIERRA MORENA + +<a href="#ch27">CHAPTER XXVII</a> +OF HOW THE CURATE AND THE BARBER PROCEEDED WITH THEIR +SCHEME; TOGETHER WITH OTHER MATTERS WORTHY OF RECORD IN +THIS GREAT HISTORY + +</pre> + +<br><br><br><br> + + + +<br><br> +<center><h2><a name="ch24"></a>CHAPTER XXIV.</h2></center> +<br> +<center><h3>IN WHICH IS CONTINUED THE ADVENTURE OF THE SIERRA MORENA +</h3></center> +<br> +<br> + +<center><a name="c24a"></a><img alt="c24a.jpg (151K)" src="images/c24a.jpg" height="423" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/c24a.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<p>The history relates that it was with the greatest attention Don +Quixote listened to the ragged knight of the Sierra, who began by +saying:</p> + +<p>"Of a surety, senor, whoever you are, for I know you not, I thank +you for the proofs of kindness and courtesy you have shown me, and +would I were in a condition to requite with something more than +good-will that which you have displayed towards me in the cordial +reception you have given me; but my fate does not afford me any +other means of returning kindnesses done me save the hearty desire +to repay them."</p> + +<p>"Mine," replied Don Quixote, "is to be of service to you, so much so +that I had resolved not to quit these mountains until I had found you, +and learned of you whether there is any kind of relief to be found for +that sorrow under which from the strangeness of your life you seem +to labour; and to search for you with all possible diligence, if +search had been necessary. And if your misfortune should prove to be +one of those that refuse admission to any sort of consolation, it +was my purpose to join you in lamenting and mourning over it, so far +as I could; for it is still some comfort in misfortune to find one who +can feel for it. And if my good intentions deserve to be +acknowledged with any kind of courtesy, I entreat you, senor, by +that which I perceive you possess in so high a degree, and likewise +conjure you by whatever you love or have loved best in life, to tell +me who you are and the cause that has brought you to live or die in +these solitudes like a brute beast, dwelling among them in a manner so +foreign to your condition as your garb and appearance show. And I +swear," added Don Quixote, "by the order of knighthood which I have +received, and by my vocation of knight-errant, if you gratify me in +this, to serve you with all the zeal my calling demands of me, +either in relieving your misfortune if it admits of relief, or in +joining you in lamenting it as I promised to do."</p> + +<p>The Knight of the Thicket, hearing him of the Rueful Countenance +talk in this strain, did nothing but stare at him, and stare at him +again, and again survey him from head to foot; and when he had +thoroughly examined him, he said to him:</p> + +<p>"If you have anything to give me to eat, for God's sake give it +me, and after I have eaten I will do all you ask in acknowledgment +of the goodwill you have displayed towards me."</p> + +<p>Sancho from his sack, and the goatherd from his pouch, furnished the +Ragged One with the means of appeasing his hunger, and what they +gave him he ate like a half-witted being, so hastily that he took no +time between mouthfuls, gorging rather than swallowing; and while he +ate neither he nor they who observed him uttered a word. As soon as he +had done he made signs to them to follow him, which they did, and he +led them to a green plot which lay a little farther off round the +corner of a rock. On reaching it he stretched himself upon the +grass, and the others did the same, all keeping silence, until the +Ragged One, settling himself in his place, said:</p> + +<p>"If it is your wish, sirs, that I should disclose in a few words the +surpassing extent of my misfortunes, you must promise not to break the +thread of my sad story with any question or other interruption, for +the instant you do so the tale I tell will come to an end."</p> + +<p>These words of the Ragged One reminded Don Quixote of the tale his +squire had told him, when he failed to keep count of the goats that +had crossed the river and the story remained unfinished; but to return +to the Ragged One, he went on to say:</p> + +<p>"I give you this warning because I wish to pass briefly over the +story of my misfortunes, for recalling them to memory only serves to +add fresh ones, and the less you question me the sooner shall I make +an end of the recital, though I shall not omit to relate anything of +importance in order fully to satisfy your curiosity."</p> + +<p>Don Quixote gave the promise for himself and the others, and with +this assurance he began as follows:</p> + +<p>"My name is Cardenio, my birthplace one of the best cities of this +Andalusia, my family noble, my parents rich, my misfortune so great +that my parents must have wept and my family grieved over it without +being able by their wealth to lighten it; for the gifts of fortune can +do little to relieve reverses sent by Heaven. In that same country +there was a heaven in which love had placed all the glory I could +desire; such was the beauty of Luscinda, a damsel as noble and as rich +as I, but of happier fortunes, and of less firmness than was due to so +worthy a passion as mine. This Luscinda I loved, worshipped, and +adored from my earliest and tenderest years, and she loved me in all +the innocence and sincerity of childhood. Our parents were aware of +our feelings, and were not sorry to perceive them, for they saw +clearly that as they ripened they must lead at last to a marriage +between us, a thing that seemed almost prearranged by the equality +of our families and wealth. We grew up, and with our growth grew the +love between us, so that the father of Luscinda felt bound for +propriety's sake to refuse me admission to his house, in this +perhaps imitating the parents of that Thisbe so celebrated by the +poets, and this refusal but added love to love and flame to flame; for +though they enforced silence upon our tongues they could not impose it +upon our pens, which can make known the heart's secrets to a loved one +more freely than tongues; for many a time the presence of the object +of love shakes the firmest will and strikes dumb the boldest tongue. +Ah heavens! how many letters did I write her, and how many dainty +modest replies did I receive! how many ditties and love-songs did I +compose in which my heart declared and made known its feelings, +described its ardent longings, revelled in its recollections and +dallied with its desires! At length growing impatient and feeling my +heart languishing with longing to see her, I resolved to put into +execution and carry out what seemed to me the best mode of winning +my desired and merited reward, to ask her of her father for my +lawful wife, which I did. To this his answer was that he thanked me +for the disposition I showed to do honour to him and to regard +myself as honoured by the bestowal of his treasure; but that as my +father was alive it was his by right to make this demand, for if it +were not in accordance with his full will and pleasure, Luscinda was +not to be taken or given by stealth. I thanked him for his kindness, +reflecting that there was reason in what he said, and that my father +would assent to it as soon as I should tell him, and with that view +I went the very same instant to let him know what my desires were. +When I entered the room where he was I found him with an open letter +in his hand, which, before I could utter a word, he gave me, saying, +'By this letter thou wilt see, Cardenio, the disposition the Duke +Ricardo has to serve thee.' This Duke Ricardo, as you, sirs, +probably know already, is a grandee of Spain who has his seat in the +best part of this Andalusia. I took and read the letter, which was +couched in terms so flattering that even I myself felt it would be +wrong in my father not to comply with the request the duke made in it, +which was that he would send me immediately to him, as he wished me to +become the companion, not servant, of his eldest son, and would take +upon himself the charge of placing me in a position corresponding to +the esteem in which he held me. On reading the letter my voice +failed me, and still more when I heard my father say, 'Two days +hence thou wilt depart, Cardenio, in accordance with the duke's +wish, and give thanks to God who is opening a road to thee by which +thou mayest attain what I know thou dost deserve; and to these words +he added others of fatherly counsel. The time for my departure +arrived; I spoke one night to Luscinda, I told her all that had +occurred, as I did also to her father, entreating him to allow some +delay, and to defer the disposal of her hand until I should see what +the Duke Ricardo sought of me: he gave me the promise, and she +confirmed it with vows and swoonings unnumbered. Finally, I +presented myself to the duke, and was received and treated by him so +kindly that very soon envy began to do its work, the old servants +growing envious of me, and regarding the duke's inclination to show me +favour as an injury to themselves. But the one to whom my arrival gave +the greatest pleasure was the duke's second son, Fernando by name, a +gallant youth, of noble, generous, and amorous disposition, who very +soon made so intimate a friend of me that it was remarked by +everybody; for though the elder was attached to me, and showed me +kindness, he did not carry his affectionate treatment to the same +length as Don Fernando. It so happened, then, that as between +friends no secret remains unshared, and as the favour I enjoyed with +Don Fernando had grown into friendship, he made all his thoughts known +to me, and in particular a love affair which troubled his mind a +little. He was deeply in love with a peasant girl, a vassal of his +father's, the daughter of wealthy parents, and herself so beautiful, +modest, discreet, and virtuous, that no one who knew her was able to +decide in which of these respects she was most highly gifted or most +excelled. The attractions of the fair peasant raised the passion of +Don Fernando to such a point that, in order to gain his object and +overcome her virtuous resolutions, he determined to pledge his word to +her to become her husband, for to attempt it in any other way was to +attempt an impossibility. Bound to him as I was by friendship, I +strove by the best arguments and the most forcible examples I could +think of to restrain and dissuade him from such a course; but +perceiving I produced no effect I resolved to make the Duke Ricardo, +his father, acquainted with the matter; but Don Fernando, being +sharp-witted and shrewd, foresaw and apprehended this, perceiving that +by my duty as a good servant I was bound not to keep concealed a thing +so much opposed to the honour of my lord the duke; and so, to +mislead and deceive me, he told me he could find no better way of +effacing from his mind the beauty that so enslaved him than by +absenting himself for some months, and that he wished the absence to +be effected by our going, both of us, to my father's house under the +pretence, which he would make to the duke, of going to see and buy +some fine horses that there were in my city, which produces the best +in the world. When I heard him say so, even if his resolution had +not been so good a one I should have hailed it as one of the +happiest that could be imagined, prompted by my affection, seeing what +a favourable chance and opportunity it offered me of returning to +see my Luscinda. With this thought and wish I commended his idea and +encouraged his design, advising him to put it into execution as +quickly as possible, as, in truth, absence produced its effect in +spite of the most deeply rooted feelings. But, as afterwards appeared, +when he said this to me he had already enjoyed the peasant girl +under the title of husband, and was waiting for an opportunity of +making it known with safety to himself, being in dread of what his +father the duke would do when he came to know of his folly. It +happened, then, that as with young men love is for the most part +nothing more than appetite, which, as its final object is enjoyment, +comes to an end on obtaining it, and that which seemed to be love +takes to flight, as it cannot pass the limit fixed by nature, which +fixes no limit to true love—what I mean is that after Don Fernando +had enjoyed this peasant girl his passion subsided and his eagerness +cooled, and if at first he feigned a wish to absent himself in order +to cure his love, he was now in reality anxious to go to avoid keeping +his promise.</p> + +<p>"The duke gave him permission, and ordered me to accompany him; we +arrived at my city, and my father gave him the reception due to his +rank; I saw Luscinda without delay, and, though it had not been dead +or deadened, my love gathered fresh life. To my sorrow I told the +story of it to Don Fernando, for I thought that in virtue of the great +friendship he bore me I was bound to conceal nothing from him. I +extolled her beauty, her gaiety, her wit, so warmly, that my praises +excited in him a desire to see a damsel adorned by such attractions. +To my misfortune I yielded to it, showing her to him one night by +the light of a taper at a window where we used to talk to one another. +As she appeared to him in her dressing-gown, she drove all the +beauties he had seen until then out of his recollection; speech failed +him, his head turned, he was spell-bound, and in the end love-smitten, +as you will see in the course of the story of my misfortune; and to +inflame still further his passion, which he hid from me and revealed +to Heaven alone, it so happened that one day he found a note of hers +entreating me to demand her of her father in marriage, so delicate, so +modest, and so tender, that on reading it he told me that in +Luscinda alone were combined all the charms of beauty and +understanding that were distributed among all the other women in the +world. It is true, and I own it now, that though I knew what good +cause Don Fernando had to praise Luscinda, it gave me uneasiness to +hear these praises from his mouth, and I began to fear, and with +reason to feel distrust of him, for there was no moment when he was +not ready to talk of Luscinda, and he would start the subject +himself even though he dragged it in unseasonably, a circumstance that +aroused in me a certain amount of jealousy; not that I feared any +change in the constancy or faith of Luscinda; but still my fate led me +to forebode what she assured me against. Don Fernando contrived always +to read the letters I sent to Luscinda and her answers to me, under +the pretence that he enjoyed the wit and sense of both. It so +happened, then, that Luscinda having begged of me a book of chivalry +to read, one that she was very fond of, Amadis of Gaul-"</p> + +<p>Don Quixote no sooner heard a book of chivalry mentioned, than he +said:</p> + +<p>"Had your worship told me at the beginning of your story that the +Lady Luscinda was fond of books of chivalry, no other laudation +would have been requisite to impress upon me the superiority of her +understanding, for it could not have been of the excellence you +describe had a taste for such delightful reading been wanting; so, +as far as I am concerned, you need waste no more words in describing +her beauty, worth, and intelligence; for, on merely hearing what her +taste was, I declare her to be the most beautiful and the most +intelligent woman in the world; and I wish your worship had, along +with Amadis of Gaul, sent her the worthy Don Rugel of Greece, for I +know the Lady Luscinda would greatly relish Daraida and Garaya, and +the shrewd sayings of the shepherd Darinel, and the admirable verses +of his bucolics, sung and delivered by him with such sprightliness, +wit, and ease; but a time may come when this omission can be remedied, +and to rectify it nothing more is needed than for your worship to be +so good as to come with me to my village, for there I can give you +more than three hundred books which are the delight of my soul and the +entertainment of my life;—though it occurs to me that I have not +got one of them now, thanks to the spite of wicked and envious +enchanters;—but pardon me for having broken the promise we made not +to interrupt your discourse; for when I hear chivalry or +knights-errant mentioned, I can no more help talking about them than +the rays of the sun can help giving heat, or those of the moon +moisture; pardon me, therefore, and proceed, for that is more to the +purpose now."</p> + +<p>While Don Quixote was saying this, Cardenio allowed his head to fall +upon his breast, and seemed plunged in deep thought; and though +twice Don Quixote bade him go on with his story, he neither looked +up nor uttered a word in reply; but after some time he raised his head +and said, "I cannot get rid of the idea, nor will anyone in the +world remove it, or make me think otherwise—and he would be a +blockhead who would hold or believe anything else than that that +arrant knave Master Elisabad made free with Queen Madasima."</p> + +<p>"That is not true, by all that's good," said Don Quixote in high +wrath, turning upon him angrily, as his way was; "and it is a very +great slander, or rather villainy. Queen Madasima was a very +illustrious lady, and it is not to be supposed that so exalted a +princess would have made free with a quack; and whoever maintains +the contrary lies like a great scoundrel, and I will give him to +know it, on foot or on horseback, armed or unarmed, by night or by +day, or as he likes best."</p> + +<p>Cardenio was looking at him steadily, and his mad fit having now +come upon him, he had no disposition to go on with his story, nor +would Don Quixote have listened to it, so much had what he had heard +about Madasima disgusted him. Strange to say, he stood up for her as +if she were in earnest his veritable born lady; to such a pass had his +unholy books brought him. Cardenio, then, being, as I said, now mad, +when he heard himself given the lie, and called a scoundrel and +other insulting names, not relishing the jest, snatched up a stone +that he found near him, and with it delivered such a blow on Don +Quixote's breast that he laid him on his back. Sancho Panza, seeing +his master treated in this fashion, attacked the madman with his +closed fist; but the Ragged One received him in such a way that with a +blow of his fist he stretched him at his feet, and then mounting +upon him crushed his ribs to his own satisfaction; the goatherd, who +came to the rescue, shared the same fate; and having beaten and +pummelled them all he left them and quietly withdrew to his +hiding-place on the mountain. Sancho rose, and with the rage he felt +at finding himself so belaboured without deserving it, ran to take +vengeance on the goatherd, accusing him of not giving them warning +that this man was at times taken with a mad fit, for if they had known +it they would have been on their guard to protect themselves. The +goatherd replied that he had said so, and that if he had not heard +him, that was no fault of his. Sancho retorted, and the goatherd +rejoined, and the altercation ended in their seizing each other by the +beard, and exchanging such fisticuffs that if Don Quixote had not made +peace between them, they would have knocked one another to pieces.</p> + +<p>"Leave me alone, Sir Knight of the Rueful Countenance," said Sancho, +grappling with the goatherd, "for of this fellow, who is a clown +like myself, and no dubbed knight, I can safely take satisfaction +for the affront he has offered me, fighting with him hand to hand like +an honest man."</p> + +<p>"That is true," said Don Quixote, "but I know that he is not to +blame for what has happened."</p> + +<p>With this he pacified them, and again asked the goatherd if it would +be possible to find Cardenio, as he felt the greatest anxiety to +know the end of his story. The goatherd told him, as he had told him +before, that there was no knowing of a certainty where his lair was; +but that if he wandered about much in that neighbourhood he could +not fail to fall in with him either in or out of his senses.</p> + + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="c24e"></a><img alt="c24e.jpg (69K)" src="images/c24e.jpg" height="435" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/c24e.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<br><br> +<center><h2><a name="ch25"></a>CHAPTER XXV.</h2></center> +<br> +<center><h3>WHICH TREATS OF THE STRANGE THINGS THAT HAPPENED TO THE STOUT KNIGHT +OF LA MANCHA IN THE SIERRA MORENA, AND OF HIS IMITATION OF THE PENANCE +OF BELTENEBROS +</h3></center> +<br> +<br> + +<center><a name="c25a"></a><img alt="c25a.jpg (168K)" src="images/c25a.jpg" height="424" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/c25a.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<p>Don Quixote took leave of the goatherd, and once more mounting +Rocinante bade Sancho follow him, which he having no ass, did very +discontentedly. They proceeded slowly, making their way into the +most rugged part of the mountain, Sancho all the while dying to have a +talk with his master, and longing for him to begin, so that there +should be no breach of the injunction laid upon him; but unable to +keep silence so long he said to him:</p> + +<p>"Senor Don Quixote, give me your worship's blessing and dismissal, +for I'd like to go home at once to my wife and children with whom I +can at any rate talk and converse as much as I like; for to want me to +go through these solitudes day and night and not speak to you when I +have a mind is burying me alive. If luck would have it that animals +spoke as they did in the days of Guisopete, it would not be so bad, +because I could talk to Rocinante about whatever came into my head, +and so put up with my ill-fortune; but it is a hard case, and not to +be borne with patience, to go seeking adventures all one's life and +get nothing but kicks and blanketings, brickbats and punches, and with +all this to have to sew up one's mouth without daring to say what is +in one's heart, just as if one were dumb."</p> + +<p>"I understand thee, Sancho," replied Don Quixote; "thou art dying to +have the interdict I placed upon thy tongue removed; consider it +removed, and say what thou wilt while we are wandering in these +mountains."</p> + +<p>"So be it," said Sancho; "let me speak now, for God knows what +will happen by-and-by; and to take advantage of the permit at once, +I ask, what made your worship stand up so for that Queen Majimasa, +or whatever her name is, or what did it matter whether that abbot +was a friend of hers or not? for if your worship had let that +pass—and you were not a judge in the matter—it is my belief the madman +would have gone on with his story, and the blow of the stone, and +the kicks, and more than half a dozen cuffs would have been escaped."</p> + +<p>"In faith, Sancho," answered Don Quixote, "if thou knewest as I do +what an honourable and illustrious lady Queen Madasima was, I know +thou wouldst say I had great patience that I did not break in pieces +the mouth that uttered such blasphemies, for a very great blasphemy it +is to say or imagine that a queen has made free with a surgeon. The +truth of the story is that that Master Elisabad whom the madman +mentioned was a man of great prudence and sound judgment, and served +as governor and physician to the queen, but to suppose that she was +his mistress is nonsense deserving very severe punishment; and as a +proof that Cardenio did not know what he was saying, remember when +he said it he was out of his wits."</p> + +<p>"That is what I say," said Sancho; "there was no occasion for +minding the words of a madman; for if good luck had not helped your +worship, and he had sent that stone at your head instead of at your +breast, a fine way we should have been in for standing up for my +lady yonder, God confound her! And then, would not Cardenio have +gone free as a madman?"</p> + +<p>"Against men in their senses or against madmen," said Don Quixote, +"every knight-errant is bound to stand up for the honour of women, +whoever they may be, much more for queens of such high degree and +dignity as Queen Madasima, for whom I have a particular regard on +account of her amiable qualities; for, besides being extremely +beautiful, she was very wise, and very patient under her +misfortunes, of which she had many; and the counsel and society of the +Master Elisabad were a great help and support to her in enduring her +afflictions with wisdom and resignation; hence the ignorant and +ill-disposed vulgar took occasion to say and think that she was his +mistress; and they lie, I say it once more, and will lie two hundred +times more, all who think and say so."</p> + +<p>"I neither say nor think so," said Sancho; "let them look to it; +with their bread let them eat it; they have rendered account to God +whether they misbehaved or not; I come from my vineyard, I know +nothing; I am not fond of prying into other men's lives; he who buys +and lies feels it in his purse; moreover, naked was I born, naked I +find myself, I neither lose nor gain; but if they did, what is that to +me? many think there are flitches where there are no hooks; but who +can put gates to the open plain? moreover they said of God-"</p> + +<p>"God bless me," said Don Quixote, "what a set of absurdities thou +art stringing together! What has what we are talking about got to do +with the proverbs thou art threading one after the other? for God's +sake hold thy tongue, Sancho, and henceforward keep to prodding thy +ass and don't meddle in what does not concern thee; and understand +with all thy five senses that everything I have done, am doing, or +shall do, is well founded on reason and in conformity with the rules +of chivalry, for I understand them better than all the world that +profess them."</p> + +<p>"Senor," replied Sancho, "is it a good rule of chivalry that we +should go astray through these mountains without path or road, looking +for a madman who when he is found will perhaps take a fancy to +finish what he began, not his story, but your worship's head and my +ribs, and end by breaking them altogether for us?"</p> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="c25b"></a><img alt="c25b.jpg (330K)" src="images/c25b.jpg" height="817" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/c25b.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<p>"Peace, I say again, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "for let me tell +thee it is not so much the desire of finding that madman that leads me +into these regions as that which I have of performing among them an +achievement wherewith I shall win eternal name and fame throughout the +known world; and it shall be such that I shall thereby set the seal on +all that can make a knight-errant perfect and famous."</p> + +<p>"And is it very perilous, this achievement?"</p> + +<p>"No," replied he of the Rueful Countenance; "though it may be in the +dice that we may throw deuce-ace instead of sixes; but all will depend +on thy diligence."</p> + +<p>"On my diligence!" said Sancho.</p> + +<p>"Yes," said Don Quixote, "for if thou dost return soon from the +place where I mean to send thee, my penance will be soon over, and +my glory will soon begin. But as it is not right to keep thee any +longer in suspense, waiting to see what comes of my words, I would +have thee know, Sancho, that the famous Amadis of Gaul was one of +the most perfect knights-errant—I am wrong to say he was one; he +stood alone, the first, the only one, the lord of all that were in the +world in his time. A fig for Don Belianis, and for all who say he +equalled him in any respect, for, my oath upon it, they are +deceiving themselves! I say, too, that when a painter desires to +become famous in his art he endeavours to copy the originals of the +rarest painters that he knows; and the same rule holds good for all +the most important crafts and callings that serve to adorn a state; +thus must he who would be esteemed prudent and patient imitate +Ulysses, in whose person and labours Homer presents to us a lively +picture of prudence and patience; as Virgil, too, shows us in the +person of AEneas the virtue of a pious son and the sagacity of a brave +and skilful captain; not representing or describing them as they were, +but as they ought to be, so as to leave the example of their virtues +to posterity. In the same way Amadis was the polestar, day-star, sun +of valiant and devoted knights, whom all we who fight under the banner +of love and chivalry are bound to imitate. This, then, being so, I +consider, friend Sancho, that the knight-errant who shall imitate +him most closely will come nearest to reaching the perfection of +chivalry. Now one of the instances in which this knight most +conspicuously showed his prudence, worth, valour, endurance, +fortitude, and love, was when he withdrew, rejected by the Lady +Oriana, to do penance upon the Pena Pobre, changing his name into that +of Beltenebros, a name assuredly significant and appropriate to the +life which he had voluntarily adopted. So, as it is easier for me to +imitate him in this than in cleaving giants asunder, cutting off +serpents' heads, slaying dragons, routing armies, destroying fleets, +and breaking enchantments, and as this place is so well suited for a +similar purpose, I must not allow the opportunity to escape which +now so conveniently offers me its forelock."</p> + +<p>"What is it in reality," said Sancho, "that your worship means to do +in such an out-of-the-way place as this?"</p> + +<p>"Have I not told thee," answered Don Quixote, "that I mean to +imitate Amadis here, playing the victim of despair, the madman, the +maniac, so as at the same time to imitate the valiant Don Roland, when +at the fountain he had evidence of the fair Angelica having +disgraced herself with Medoro and through grief thereat went mad, +and plucked up trees, troubled the waters of the clear springs, slew +destroyed flocks, burned down huts, levelled houses, dragged mares +after him, and perpetrated a hundred thousand other outrages worthy of +everlasting renown and record? And though I have no intention of +imitating Roland, or Orlando, or Rotolando (for he went by all these +names), step by step in all the mad things he did, said, and +thought, I will make a rough copy to the best of my power of all +that seems to me most essential; but perhaps I shall content myself +with the simple imitation of Amadis, who without giving way to any +mischievous madness but merely to tears and sorrow, gained as much +fame as the most famous."</p> + +<p>"It seems to me," said Sancho, "that the knights who behaved in this +way had provocation and cause for those follies and penances; but what +cause has your worship for going mad? What lady has rejected you, or +what evidence have you found to prove that the lady Dulcinea del +Toboso has been trifling with Moor or Christian?"</p> + +<p>"There is the point," replied Don Quixote, "and that is the beauty +of this business of mine; no thanks to a knight-errant for going mad +when he has cause; the thing is to turn crazy without any provocation, +and let my lady know, if I do this in the dry, what I would do in +the moist; moreover I have abundant cause in the long separation I +have endured from my lady till death, Dulcinea del Toboso; for as thou +didst hear that shepherd Ambrosio say the other day, in absence all +ills are felt and feared; and so, friend Sancho, waste no time in +advising me against so rare, so happy, and so unheard-of an imitation; +mad I am, and mad I must be until thou returnest with the answer to +a letter that I mean to send by thee to my lady Dulcinea; and if it be +such as my constancy deserves, my insanity and penance will come to an +end; and if it be to the opposite effect, I shall become mad in +earnest, and, being so, I shall suffer no more; thus in whatever way +she may answer I shall escape from the struggle and affliction in +which thou wilt leave me, enjoying in my senses the boon thou +bearest me, or as a madman not feeling the evil thou bringest me. +But tell me, Sancho, hast thou got Mambrino's helmet safe? for I saw +thee take it up from the ground when that ungrateful wretch tried to +break it in pieces but could not, by which the fineness of its +temper may be seen."</p> + +<p>To which Sancho made answer, "By the living God, Sir Knight of the +Rueful Countenance, I cannot endure or bear with patience some of +the things that your worship says; and from them I begin to suspect +that all you tell me about chivalry, and winning kingdoms and empires, +and giving islands, and bestowing other rewards and dignities after +the custom of knights-errant, must be all made up of wind and lies, +and all pigments or figments, or whatever we may call them; for what +would anyone think that heard your worship calling a barber's basin +Mambrino's helmet without ever seeing the mistake all this time, but +that one who says and maintains such things must have his brains +addled? I have the basin in my sack all dinted, and I am taking it +home to have it mended, to trim my beard in it, if, by God's grace, +I am allowed to see my wife and children some day or other."</p> + +<p>"Look here, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "by him thou didst swear by +just now I swear thou hast the most limited understanding that any +squire in the world has or ever had. Is it possible that all this time +thou hast been going about with me thou hast never found out that +all things belonging to knights-errant seem to be illusions and +nonsense and ravings, and to go always by contraries? And not +because it really is so, but because there is always a swarm of +enchanters in attendance upon us that change and alter everything with +us, and turn things as they please, and according as they are disposed +to aid or destroy us; thus what seems to thee a barber's basin seems +to me Mambrino's helmet, and to another it will seem something else; +and rare foresight it was in the sage who is on my side to make what +is really and truly Mambrine's helmet seem a basin to everybody, +for, being held in such estimation as it is, all the world would +pursue me to rob me of it; but when they see it is only a barber's +basin they do not take the trouble to obtain it; as was plainly +shown by him who tried to break it, and left it on the ground +without taking it, for, by my faith, had he known it he would never +have left it behind. Keep it safe, my friend, for just now I have no +need of it; indeed, I shall have to take off all this armour and +remain as naked as I was born, if I have a mind to follow Roland +rather than Amadis in my penance."</p> + +<p>Thus talking they reached the foot of a high mountain which stood +like an isolated peak among the others that surrounded it. Past its +base there flowed a gentle brook, all around it spread a meadow so +green and luxuriant that it was a delight to the eyes to look upon it, +and forest trees in abundance, and shrubs and flowers, added to the +charms of the spot. Upon this place the Knight of the Rueful +Countenance fixed his choice for the performance of his penance, and +as he beheld it exclaimed in a loud voice as though he were out of his +senses:</p> + +<p>"This is the place, oh, ye heavens, that I select and choose for +bewailing the misfortune in which ye yourselves have plunged me: +this is the spot where the overflowings of mine eyes shall swell the +waters of yon little brook, and my deep and endless sighs shall stir +unceasingly the leaves of these mountain trees, in testimony and token +of the pain my persecuted heart is suffering. Oh, ye rural deities, +whoever ye be that haunt this lone spot, give ear to the complaint +of a wretched lover whom long absence and brooding jealousy have +driven to bewail his fate among these wilds and complain of the hard +heart of that fair and ungrateful one, the end and limit of all +human beauty! Oh, ye wood nymphs and dryads, that dwell in the +thickets of the forest, so may the nimble wanton satyrs by whom ye are +vainly wooed never disturb your sweet repose, help me to lament my +hard fate or at least weary not at listening to it! Oh, Dulcinea del +Toboso, day of my night, glory of my pain, guide of my path, star of +my fortune, so may Heaven grant thee in full all thou seekest of it, +bethink thee of the place and condition to which absence from thee has +brought me, and make that return in kindness that is due to my +fidelity! Oh, lonely trees, that from this day forward shall bear me +company in my solitude, give me some sign by the gentle movement of +your boughs that my presence is not distasteful to you! Oh, thou, my +squire, pleasant companion in my prosperous and adverse fortunes, +fix well in thy memory what thou shalt see me do here, so that thou +mayest relate and report it to the sole cause of all," and so saying +he dismounted from Rocinante, and in an instant relieved him of saddle +and bridle, and giving him a slap on the croup, said, "He gives thee +freedom who is bereft of it himself, oh steed as excellent in deed +as thou art unfortunate in thy lot; begone where thou wilt, for thou +bearest written on thy forehead that neither Astolfo's hippogriff, nor +the famed Frontino that cost Bradamante so dear, could equal thee in +speed."</p> + +<p>Seeing this Sancho said, "Good luck to him who has saved us the +trouble of stripping the pack-saddle off Dapple! By my faith he +would not have gone without a slap on the croup and something said +in his praise; though if he were here I would not let anyone strip +him, for there would be no occasion, as he had nothing of the lover or +victim of despair about him, inasmuch as his master, which I was while +it was God's pleasure, was nothing of the sort; and indeed, Sir Knight +of the Rueful Countenance, if my departure and your worship's +madness are to come off in earnest, it will be as well to saddle +Rocinante again in order that he may supply the want of Dapple, +because it will save me time in going and returning: for if I go on +foot I don't know when I shall get there or when I shall get back, +as I am, in truth, a bad walker."</p> + +<p>"I declare, Sancho," returned Don Quixote, "it shall be as thou +wilt, for thy plan does not seem to me a bad one, and three days hence +thou wilt depart, for I wish thee to observe in the meantime what I do +and say for her sake, that thou mayest be able to tell it."</p> + +<p>"But what more have I to see besides what I have seen?" said Sancho.</p> + +<p>"Much thou knowest about it!" said Don Quixote. "I have now got to +tear up my garments, to scatter about my armour, knock my head against +these rocks, and more of the same sort of thing, which thou must +witness."</p> + +<p>"For the love of God," said Sancho, "be careful, your worship, how +you give yourself those knocks on the head, for you may come across +such a rock, and in such a way, that the very first may put an end +to the whole contrivance of this penance; and I should think, if +indeed knocks on the head seem necessary to you, and this business +cannot be done without them, you might be content—as the whole +thing is feigned, and counterfeit, and in joke—you might be +content, I say, with giving them to yourself in the water, or +against something soft, like cotton; and leave it all to me; for +I'll tell my lady that your worship knocked your head against a +point of rock harder than a diamond."</p> + +<p>"I thank thee for thy good intentions, friend Sancho," answered +Don Quixote, "but I would have thee know that all these things I am +doing are not in joke, but very much in earnest, for anything else +would be a transgression of the ordinances of chivalry, which forbid +us to tell any lie whatever under the penalties due to apostasy; and +to do one thing instead of another is just the same as lying; so my +knocks on the head must be real, solid, and valid, without anything +sophisticated or fanciful about them, and it will be needful to +leave me some lint to dress my wounds, since fortune has compelled +us to do without the balsam we lost."</p> + +<p>"It was worse losing the ass," replied Sancho, "for with him lint +and all were lost; but I beg of your worship not to remind me again of +that accursed liquor, for my soul, not to say my stomach, turns at +hearing the very name of it; and I beg of you, too, to reckon as +past the three days you allowed me for seeing the mad things you do, +for I take them as seen already and pronounced upon, and I will tell +wonderful stories to my lady; so write the letter and send me off at +once, for I long to return and take your worship out of this purgatory +where I am leaving you."</p> + +<p>"Purgatory dost thou call it, Sancho?" said Don Quixote, "rather +call it hell, or even worse if there be anything worse."</p> + +<p>"For one who is in hell," said Sancho, "nulla est retentio, as I +have heard say."</p> + +<p>"I do not understand what retentio means," said Don Quixote.</p> + +<p>"Retentio," answered Sancho, "means that whoever is in hell never +comes nor can come out of it, which will be the opposite case with +your worship or my legs will be idle, that is if I have spurs to +enliven Rocinante: let me once get to El Toboso and into the +presence of my lady Dulcinea, and I will tell her such things of the +follies and madnesses (for it is all one) that your worship has done +and is still doing, that I will manage to make her softer than a glove +though I find her harder than a cork tree; and with her sweet and +honeyed answer I will come back through the air like a witch, and take +your worship out of this purgatory that seems to be hell but is not, +as there is hope of getting out of it; which, as I have said, those in +hell have not, and I believe your worship will not say anything to the +contrary."</p> + +<p>"That is true," said he of the Rueful Countenance, "but how shall we +manage to write the letter?"</p> + +<p>"And the ass-colt order too," added Sancho.</p> + +<p>"All shall be included," said Don Quixote; "and as there is no +paper, it would be well done to write it on the leaves of trees, as +the ancients did, or on tablets of wax; though that would be as hard +to find just now as paper. But it has just occurred to me how it may +be conveniently and even more than conveniently written, and that is +in the note-book that belonged to Cardenio, and thou wilt take care to +have it copied on paper, in a good hand, at the first village thou +comest to where there is a schoolmaster, or if not, any sacristan will +copy it; but see thou give it not to any notary to copy, for they +write a law hand that Satan could not make out."</p> + +<p>"But what is to be done about the signature?" said Sancho.</p> + +<p>"The letters of Amadis were never signed," said Don Quixote.</p> + +<p>"That is all very well," said Sancho, "but the order must needs be +signed, and if it is copied they will say the signature is false, +and I shall be left without ass-colts."</p> + +<p>"The order shall go signed in the same book," said Don Quixote, "and +on seeing it my niece will make no difficulty about obeying it; as +to the loveletter thou canst put by way of signature, 'Yours till +death, the Knight of the Rueful Countenance.' And it will be no +great matter if it is in some other person's hand, for as well as I +recollect Dulcinea can neither read nor write, nor in the whole course +of her life has she seen handwriting or letter of mine, for my love +and hers have been always platonic, not going beyond a modest look, +and even that so seldom that I can safely swear I have not seen her +four times in all these twelve years I have been loving her more +than the light of these eyes that the earth will one day devour; and +perhaps even of those four times she has not once perceived that I was +looking at her: such is the retirement and seclusion in which her +father Lorenzo Corchuelo and her mother Aldonza Nogales have brought +her up."</p> + +<p>"So, so!" said Sancho; "Lorenzo Corchuelo's daughter is the lady +Dulcinea del Toboso, otherwise called Aldonza Lorenzo?"</p> + +<p>"She it is," said Don Quixote, "and she it is that is worthy to be +lady of the whole universe."</p> + +<p>"I know her well," said Sancho, "and let me tell you she can fling a +crowbar as well as the lustiest lad in all the town. Giver of all +good! but she is a brave lass, and a right and stout one, and fit to +be helpmate to any knight-errant that is or is to be, who may make her +his lady: the whoreson wench, what sting she has and what a voice! I +can tell you one day she posted herself on the top of the belfry of +the village to call some labourers of theirs that were in a ploughed +field of her father's, and though they were better than half a +league off they heard her as well as if they were at the foot of the +tower; and the best of her is that she is not a bit prudish, for she +has plenty of affability, and jokes with everybody, and has a grin and +a jest for everything. So, Sir Knight of the Rueful Countenance, I say +you not only may and ought to do mad freaks for her sake, but you have +a good right to give way to despair and hang yourself; and no one +who knows of it but will say you did well, though the devil should +take you; and I wish I were on my road already, simply to see her, for +it is many a day since I saw her, and she must be altered by this +time, for going about the fields always, and the sun and the air spoil +women's looks greatly. But I must own the truth to your worship, Senor +Don Quixote; until now I have been under a great mistake, for I +believed truly and honestly that the lady Dulcinea must be some +princess your worship was in love with, or some person great enough to +deserve the rich presents you have sent her, such as the Biscayan +and the galley slaves, and many more no doubt, for your worship must +have won many victories in the time when I was not yet your squire. +But all things considered, what good can it do the lady Aldonza +Lorenzo, I mean the lady Dulcinea del Toboso, to have the vanquished +your worship sends or will send coming to her and going down on +their knees before her? Because may be when they came she'd be +hackling flax or threshing on the threshing floor, and they'd be +ashamed to see her, and she'd laugh, or resent the present."</p> + +<p>"I have before now told thee many times, Sancho," said Don +Quixote, "that thou art a mighty great chatterer, and that with a +blunt wit thou art always striving at sharpness; but to show thee what +a fool thou art and how rational I am, I would have thee listen to a +short story. Thou must know that a certain widow, fair, young, +independent, and rich, and above all free and easy, fell in love +with a sturdy strapping young lay-brother; his superior came to know +of it, and one day said to the worthy widow by way of brotherly +remonstrance, 'I am surprised, senora, and not without good reason, +that a woman of such high standing, so fair, and so rich as you are, +should have fallen in love with such a mean, low, stupid fellow as +So-and-so, when in this house there are so many masters, graduates, +and divinity students from among whom you might choose as if they were +a lot of pears, saying this one I'll take, that I won't take;' but she +replied to him with great sprightliness and candour, 'My dear sir, you +are very much mistaken, and your ideas are very old-fashioned, if +you think that I have made a bad choice in So-and-so, fool as he +seems; because for all I want with him he knows as much and more +philosophy than Aristotle.' In the same way, Sancho, for all I want +with Dulcinea del Toboso she is just as good as the most exalted +princess on earth. It is not to be supposed that all those poets who +sang the praises of ladies under the fancy names they give them, had +any such mistresses. Thinkest thou that the Amarillises, the +Phillises, the Sylvias, the Dianas, the Galateas, the Filidas, and all +the rest of them, that the books, the ballads, the barber's shops, the +theatres are full of, were really and truly ladies of flesh and blood, +and mistresses of those that glorify and have glorified them? +Nothing of the kind; they only invent them for the most part to +furnish a subject for their verses, and that they may pass for lovers, +or for men valiant enough to be so; and so it suffices me to think and +believe that the good Aldonza Lorenzo is fair and virtuous; and as +to her pedigree it is very little matter, for no one will examine into +it for the purpose of conferring any order upon her, and I, for my +part, reckon her the most exalted princess in the world. For thou +shouldst know, Sancho, if thou dost not know, that two things alone +beyond all others are incentives to love, and these are great beauty +and a good name, and these two things are to be found in Dulcinea in +the highest degree, for in beauty no one equals her and in good name +few approach her; and to put the whole thing in a nutshell, I persuade +myself that all I say is as I say, neither more nor less, and I +picture her in my imagination as I would have her to be, as well in +beauty as in condition; Helen approaches her not nor does Lucretia +come up to her, nor any other of the famous women of times past, +Greek, Barbarian, or Latin; and let each say what he will, for if in +this I am taken to task by the ignorant, I shall not be censured by +the critical."</p> + +<p>"I say that your worship is entirely right," said Sancho, "and +that I am an ass. But I know not how the name of ass came into my +mouth, for a rope is not to be mentioned in the house of him who has +been hanged; but now for the letter, and then, God be with you, I am +off."</p> + +<p>Don Quixote took out the note-book, and, retiring to one side, +very deliberately began to write the letter, and when he had +finished it he called to Sancho, saying he wished to read it to him, +so that he might commit it to memory, in case of losing it on the +road; for with evil fortune like his anything might be apprehended. To +which Sancho replied, "Write it two or three times there in the book +and give it to me, and I will carry it very carefully, because to +expect me to keep it in my memory is all nonsense, for I have such a +bad one that I often forget my own name; but for all that repeat it to +me, as I shall like to hear it, for surely it will run as if it was in +print."</p> + +<p>"Listen," said Don Quixote, "this is what it says:</p> + +<pre> +"DON QUIXOTE'S LETTER TO DULCINEA DEL TOBOSO + +"Sovereign and exalted Lady,—The pierced by the point of absence, +the wounded to the heart's core, sends thee, sweetest Dulcinea del +Toboso, the health that he himself enjoys not. If thy beauty +despises me, if thy worth is not for me, if thy scorn is my +affliction, though I be sufficiently long-suffering, hardly shall I +endure this anxiety, which, besides being oppressive, is protracted. +My good squire Sancho will relate to thee in full, fair ingrate, +dear enemy, the condition to which I am reduced on thy account: if +it be thy pleasure to give me relief, I am thine; if not, do as may be +pleasing to thee; for by ending my life I shall satisfy thy cruelty +and my desire. + +"Thine till death, + +"The Knight of the Rueful Countenance." +</pre> + + + +<p>"By the life of my father," said Sancho, when he heard the letter, +"it is the loftiest thing I ever heard. Body of me! how your worship +says everything as you like in it! And how well you fit in 'The Knight +of the Rueful Countenance' into the signature. I declare your worship +is indeed the very devil, and there is nothing you don't know."</p> + +<p>"Everything is needed for the calling I follow," said Don Quixote.</p> + +<p>"Now then," said Sancho, "let your worship put the order for the +three ass-colts on the other side, and sign it very plainly, that they +may recognise it at first sight."</p> + +<p>"With all my heart," said Don Quixote, and as he had written it he +read it to this effect:</p> + +<p>"Mistress Niece,—By this first of ass-colts please pay to Sancho +Panza, my squire, three of the five I left at home in your charge: +said three ass-colts to be paid and delivered for the same number +received here in hand, which upon this and upon his receipt shall be +duly paid. Done in the heart of the Sierra Morena, the +twenty-seventh of August of this present year."</p> + +<p>"That will do," said Sancho; "now let your worship sign it."</p> + +<p>"There is no need to sign it," said Don Quixote, "but merely to +put my flourish, which is the same as a signature, and enough for +three asses, or even three hundred."</p> + +<p>"I can trust your worship," returned Sancho; "let me go and saddle +Rocinante, and be ready to give me your blessing, for I mean to go +at once without seeing the fooleries your worship is going to do; I'll +say I saw you do so many that she will not want any more."</p> + +<p>"At any rate, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "I should like—and there +is reason for it—I should like thee, I say, to see me stripped to the +skin and performing a dozen or two of insanities, which I can get done +in less than half an hour; for having seen them with thine own eyes, +thou canst then safely swear to the rest that thou wouldst add; and +I promise thee thou wilt not tell of as many as I mean to perform."</p> + +<p>"For the love of God, master mine," said Sancho, "let me not see +your worship stripped, for it will sorely grieve me, and I shall not +be able to keep from tears, and my head aches so with all I shed +last night for Dapple, that I am not fit to begin any fresh weeping; +but if it is your worship's pleasure that I should see some +insanities, do them in your clothes, short ones, and such as come +readiest to hand; for I myself want nothing of the sort, and, as I +have said, it will be a saving of time for my return, which will be +with the news your worship desires and deserves. If not, let the +lady Dulcinea look to it; if she does not answer reasonably, I swear +as solemnly as I can that I will fetch a fair answer out of her +stomach with kicks and cuffs; for why should it be borne that a +knight-errant as famous as your worship should go mad without rhyme or +reason for a—? Her ladyship had best not drive me to say it, for by +God I will speak out and let off everything cheap, even if it +doesn't sell: I am pretty good at that! she little knows me; faith, if +she knew me she'd be in awe of me."</p> + +<p>"In faith, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "to all appearance thou art no +sounder in thy wits than I."</p> + +<p>"I am not so mad," answered Sancho, "but I am more peppery; but +apart from all this, what has your worship to eat until I come back? +Will you sally out on the road like Cardenio to force it from the +shepherds?"</p> + +<p>"Let not that anxiety trouble thee," replied Don Quixote, "for +even if I had it I should not eat anything but the herbs and the +fruits which this meadow and these trees may yield me; the beauty of +this business of mine lies in not eating, and in performing other +mortifications."</p> + +<p>"Do you know what I am afraid of?" said Sancho upon this; "that I +shall not be able to find my way back to this spot where I am +leaving you, it is such an out-of-the-way place."</p> + +<p>"Observe the landmarks well," said Don Quixote, "for I will try +not to go far from this neighbourhood, and I will even take care to +mount the highest of these rocks to see if I can discover thee +returning; however, not to miss me and lose thyself, the best plan +will be to cut some branches of the broom that is so abundant about +here, and as thou goest to lay them at intervals until thou hast +come out upon the plain; these will serve thee, after the fashion of +the clue in the labyrinth of Theseus, as marks and signs for finding +me on thy return."</p> + +<p>"So I will," said Sancho Panza, and having cut some, he asked his +master's blessing, and not without many tears on both sides, took +his leave of him, and mounting Rocinante, of whom Don Quixote +charged him earnestly to have as much care as of his own person, he +set out for the plain, strewing at intervals the branches of broom +as his master had recommended him; and so he went his way, though +Don Quixote still entreated him to see him do were it only a couple of +mad acts. He had not gone a hundred paces, however, when he returned +and said:</p> + +<p>"I must say, senor, your worship said quite right, that in order +to be able to swear without a weight on my conscience that I had +seen you do mad things, it would be well for me to see if it were only +one; though in your worship's remaining here I have seen a very +great one."</p> + + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="c25c"></a><img alt="c25c.jpg (261K)" src="images/c25c.jpg" height="814" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/c25c.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<p>"Did I not tell thee so?" said Don Quixote. "Wait, Sancho, and I +will do them in the saying of a credo," and pulling off his breeches +in all haste he stripped himself to his skin and his shirt, and +then, without more ado, he cut a couple of gambados in the air, and +a couple of somersaults, heels over head, making such a display +that, not to see it a second time, Sancho wheeled Rocinante round, and +felt easy, and satisfied in his mind that he could swear he had left +his master mad; and so we will leave him to follow his road until +his return, which was a quick one.</p> + + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="c25e"></a><img alt="c25e.jpg (20K)" src="images/c25e.jpg" height="327" width="411"> +</center> +<br><br><br><br> + + + +<br><br> +<center><h2><a name="ch26"></a>CHAPTER XXVI.</h2></center> +<br> +<center><h3>IN WHICH ARE CONTINUED THE REFINEMENTS WHEREWITH DON QUIXOTE +PLAYED THE PART OF A LOVER IN THE SIERRA MORENA +</h3></center> +<br> +<br> + +<center><a name="c26a"></a><img alt="c26a.jpg (111K)" src="images/c26a.jpg" height="353" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/c26a.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<p>Returning to the proceedings of him of the Rueful Countenance when +he found himself alone, the history says that when Don Quixote had +completed the performance of the somersaults or capers, naked from the +waist down and clothed from the waist up, and saw that Sancho had gone +off without waiting to see any more crazy feats, he climbed up to +the top of a high rock, and there set himself to consider what he +had several times before considered without ever coming to any +conclusion on the point, namely whether it would be better and more to +his purpose to imitate the outrageous madness of Roland, or the +melancholy madness of Amadis; and communing with himself he said:</p> + +<p>"What wonder is it if Roland was so good a knight and so valiant +as everyone says he was, when, after all, he was enchanted, and nobody +could kill him save by thrusting a corking pin into the sole of his +foot, and he always wore shoes with seven iron soles? Though cunning +devices did not avail him against Bernardo del Carpio, who knew all +about them, and strangled him in his arms at Roncesvalles. But putting +the question of his valour aside, let us come to his losing his +wits, for certain it is that he did lose them in consequence of the +proofs he discovered at the fountain, and the intelligence the +shepherd gave him of Angelica having slept more than two siestas +with Medoro, a little curly-headed Moor, and page to Agramante. If +he was persuaded that this was true, and that his lady had wronged +him, it is no wonder that he should have gone mad; but I, how am I +to imitate him in his madness, unless I can imitate him in the cause +of it? For my Dulcinea, I will venture to swear, never saw a Moor in +her life, as he is, in his proper costume, and she is this day as +the mother that bore her, and I should plainly be doing her a wrong +if, fancying anything else, I were to go mad with the same kind of +madness as Roland the Furious. On the other hand, I see that Amadis of +Gaul, without losing his senses and without doing anything mad, +acquired as a lover as much fame as the most famous; for, according to +his history, on finding himself rejected by his lady Oriana, who had +ordered him not to appear in her presence until it should be her +pleasure, all he did was to retire to the Pena Pobre in company with a +hermit, and there he took his fill of weeping until Heaven sent him +relief in the midst of his great grief and need. And if this be +true, as it is, why should I now take the trouble to strip stark +naked, or do mischief to these trees which have done me no harm, or +why am I to disturb the clear waters of these brooks which will give +me to drink whenever I have a mind? Long live the memory of Amadis and +let him be imitated so far as is possible by Don Quixote of La Mancha, +of whom it will be said, as was said of the other, that if he did +not achieve great things, he died in attempting them; and if I am +not repulsed or rejected by my Dulcinea, it is enough for me, as I +have said, to be absent from her. And so, now to business; come to +my memory ye deeds of Amadis, and show me how I am to begin to imitate +you. I know already that what he chiefly did was to pray and commend +himself to God; but what am I to do for a rosary, for I have not got +one?"</p> + +<p>And then it occurred to him how he might make one, and that was by +tearing a great strip off the tail of his shirt which hung down, and +making eleven knots on it, one bigger than the rest, and this served +him for a rosary all the time he was there, during which he repeated +countless ave-marias. But what distressed him greatly was not having +another hermit there to confess him and receive consolation from; +and so he solaced himself with pacing up and down the little meadow, +and writing and carving on the bark of the trees and on the fine +sand a multitude of verses all in harmony with his sadness, and some +in praise of Dulcinea; but, when he was found there afterwards, the +only ones completely legible that could be discovered were those +that follow here:</p> + +<blockquote><blockquote> +<pre>Ye on the mountain side that grow, + Ye green things all, trees, shrubs, and bushes, +Are ye aweary of the woe + That this poor aching bosom crushes? +If it disturb you, and I owe + Some reparation, it may be a +Defence for me to let you know +Don Quixote's tears are on the flow, + And all for distant Dulcinea + Del Toboso. + +The lealest lover time can show, + Doomed for a lady-love to languish, +Among these solitudes doth go, + A prey to every kind of anguish. +Why Love should like a spiteful foe + Thus use him, he hath no idea, +But hogsheads full—this doth he know— +Don Quixote's tears are on the flow, + And all for distant Dulcinea + Del Toboso. + +Adventure-seeking doth he go + Up rugged heights, down rocky valleys, +But hill or dale, or high or low, + Mishap attendeth all his sallies: +Love still pursues him to and fro, + And plies his cruel scourge—ah me! a +Relentless fate, an endless woe; +Don Quixote's tears are on the flow, + And all for distant Dulcinea + Del Toboso. +</pre> +</blockquote></blockquote> + +<p> +The addition of "Del Toboso" to Dulcinea's name gave rise to no +little laughter among those who found the above lines, for they +suspected Don Quixote must have fancied that unless he added "del +Toboso" when he introduced the name of Dulcinea the verse would be +unintelligible; which was indeed the fact, as he himself afterwards +admitted. He wrote many more, but, as has been said, these three +verses were all that could be plainly and perfectly deciphered. In +this way, and in sighing and calling on the fauns and satyrs of the +woods and the nymphs of the streams, and Echo, moist and mournful, +to answer, console, and hear him, as well as in looking for herbs to +sustain him, he passed his time until Sancho's return; and had that +been delayed three weeks, as it was three days, the Knight of the +Rueful Countenance would have worn such an altered countenance that +the mother that bore him would not have known him: and here it will be +well to leave him, wrapped up in sighs and verses, to relate how +Sancho Panza fared on his mission.</p> + +<p>As for him, coming out upon the high road, he made for El Toboso, +and the next day reached the inn where the mishap of the blanket had +befallen him. As soon as he recognised it he felt as if he were once +more living through the air, and he could not bring himself to enter +it though it was an hour when he might well have done so, for it was +dinner-time, and he longed to taste something hot as it had been all +cold fare with him for many days past. This craving drove him to +draw near to the inn, still undecided whether to go in or not, and +as he was hesitating there came out two persons who at once recognised +him, and said one to the other:</p> + +<p>"Senor licentiate, is not he on the horse there Sancho Panza who, +our adventurer's housekeeper told us, went off with her master as +esquire?"</p> + +<p>"So it is," said the licentiate, "and that is our friend Don +Quixote's horse;" and if they knew him so well it was because they +were the curate and the barber of his own village, the same who had +carried out the scrutiny and sentence upon the books; and as soon as +they recognised Sancho Panza and Rocinante, being anxious to hear of +Don Quixote, they approached, and calling him by his name the curate +said, "Friend Sancho Panza, where is your master?"</p> + +<p>Sancho recognised them at once, and determined to keep secret the +place and circumstances where and under which he had left his +master, so he replied that his master was engaged in a certain quarter +on a certain matter of great importance to him which he could not +disclose for the eyes in his head.</p> + +<p>"Nay, nay," said the barber, "if you don't tell us where he is, +Sancho Panza, we will suspect as we suspect already, that you have +murdered and robbed him, for here you are mounted on his horse; in +fact, you must produce the master of the hack, or else take the +consequences."</p> + +<p>"There is no need of threats with me," said Sancho, "for I am not +a man to rob or murder anybody; let his own fate, or God who made him, +kill each one; my master is engaged very much to his taste doing +penance in the midst of these mountains;" and then, offhand and without +stopping, he told them how he had left him, what adventures had +befallen him, and how he was carrying a letter to the lady Dulcinea +del Toboso, the daughter of Lorenzo Corchuelo, with whom he was over +head and ears in love. They were both amazed at what Sancho Panza told +them; for though they were aware of Don Quixote's madness and the +nature of it, each time they heard of it they were filled with fresh +wonder. They then asked Sancho Panza to show them the letter he was +carrying to the lady Dulcinea del Toboso. He said it was written in +a note-book, and that his master's directions were that he should have +it copied on paper at the first village he came to. On this the curate +said if he showed it to him, he himself would make a fair copy of +it. Sancho put his hand into his bosom in search of the note-book +but could not find it, nor, if he had been searching until now, +could he have found it, for Don Quixote had kept it, and had never +given it to him, nor had he himself thought of asking for it. When +Sancho discovered he could not find the book his face grew deadly +pale, and in great haste he again felt his body all over, and seeing +plainly it was not to be found, without more ado he seized his beard +with both hands and plucked away half of it, and then, as quick as +he could and without stopping, gave himself half a dozen cuffs on +the face and nose till they were bathed in blood.</p> + +<p>Seeing this, the curate and the barber asked him what had happened +him that he gave himself such rough treatment.</p> + +<p>"What should happen me?" replied Sancho, "but to have lost from +one hand to the other, in a moment, three ass-colts, each of them like +a castle?"</p> + +<p>"How is that?" said the barber.</p> + +<p>"I have lost the note-book," said Sancho, "that contained the letter +to Dulcinea, and an order signed by my master in which he directed his +niece to give me three ass-colts out of four or five he had at +home;" and he then told them about the loss of Dapple.</p> + +<p>The curate consoled him, telling him that when his master was +found he would get him to renew the order, and make a fresh draft on +paper, as was usual and customary; for those made in notebooks were +never accepted or honoured.</p> + +<p>Sancho comforted himself with this, and said if that were so the +loss of Dulcinea's letter did not trouble him much, for he had it +almost by heart, and it could be taken down from him wherever and +whenever they liked.</p> + +<p>"Repeat it then, Sancho," said the barber, "and we will write it +down afterwards."</p> + +<p>Sancho Panza stopped to scratch his head to bring back the letter to +his memory, and balanced himself now on one foot, now the other, one +moment staring at the ground, the next at the sky, and after having +half gnawed off the end of a finger and kept them in suspense +waiting for him to begin, he said, after a long pause, "By God, +senor licentiate, devil a thing can I recollect of the letter; but +it said at the beginning, 'Exalted and scrubbing Lady.'"</p> + +<p>"It cannot have said 'scrubbing,'" said the barber, "but +'superhuman' or 'sovereign.'"</p> + +<p>"That is it," said Sancho; "then, as well as I remember, it went on, +'The wounded, and wanting of sleep, and the pierced, kisses your +worship's hands, ungrateful and very unrecognised fair one; and it +said something or other about health and sickness that he was +sending her; and from that it went tailing off until it ended with +'Yours till death, the Knight of the Rueful Countenance."</p> + +<p>It gave them no little amusement, both of them, to see what a good +memory Sancho had, and they complimented him greatly upon it, and +begged him to repeat the letter a couple of times more, so that they +too might get it by heart to write it out by-and-by. Sancho repeated +it three times, and as he did, uttered three thousand more +absurdities; then he told them more about his master but he never said +a word about the blanketing that had befallen himself in that inn, +into which he refused to enter. He told them, moreover, how his +lord, if he brought him a favourable answer from the lady Dulcinea del +Toboso, was to put himself in the way of endeavouring to become an +emperor, or at least a monarch; for it had been so settled between +them, and with his personal worth and the might of his arm it was an +easy matter to come to be one: and how on becoming one his lord was to +make a marriage for him (for he would be a widower by that time, as +a matter of course) and was to give him as a wife one of the damsels +of the empress, the heiress of some rich and grand state on the +mainland, having nothing to do with islands of any sort, for he did +not care for them now. All this Sancho delivered with so much +composure—wiping his nose from time to time—and with so little +common-sense that his two hearers were again filled with wonder at the +force of Don Quixote's madness that could run away with this poor +man's reason. They did not care to take the trouble of disabusing +him of his error, as they considered that since it did not in any +way hurt his conscience it would be better to leave him in it, and +they would have all the more amusement in listening to his +simplicities; and so they bade him pray to God for his lord's +health, as it was a very likely and a very feasible thing for him in +course of time to come to be an emperor, as he said, or at least an +archbishop or some other dignitary of equal rank.</p> + +<p>To which Sancho made answer, "If fortune, sirs, should bring +things about in such a way that my master should have a mind, +instead of being an emperor, to be an archbishop, I should like to +know what archbishops-errant commonly give their squires?"</p> + +<p>"They commonly give them," said the curate, some simple benefice +or cure, or some place as sacristan which brings them a good fixed +income, not counting the altar fees, which may be reckoned at as +much more."</p> + +<p>"But for that," said Sancho, "the squire must be unmarried, and must +know, at any rate, how to help at mass, and if that be so, woe is +me, for I am married already and I don't know the first letter of +the A B C. What will become of me if my master takes a fancy to be +an archbishop and not an emperor, as is usual and customary with +knights-errant?"</p> + +<p>"Be not uneasy, friend Sancho," said the barber, "for we will +entreat your master, and advise him, even urging it upon him as a case +of conscience, to become an emperor and not an archbishop, because +it will be easier for him as he is more valiant than lettered."</p> + +<p>"So I have thought," said Sancho; "though I can tell you he is fit +for anything: what I mean to do for my part is to pray to our Lord +to place him where it may be best for him, and where he may be able to +bestow most favours upon me."</p> + +<p>"You speak like a man of sense," said the curate, "and you will be +acting like a good Christian; but what must now be done is to take +steps to coax your master out of that useless penance you say he is +performing; and we had best turn into this inn to consider what plan +to adopt, and also to dine, for it is now time."</p> + +<p>Sancho said they might go in, but that he would wait there +outside, and that he would tell them afterwards the reason why he +was unwilling, and why it did not suit him to enter it; but he +begged them to bring him out something to eat, and to let it be hot, +and also to bring barley for Rocinante. They left him and went in, and +presently the barber brought him out something to eat. By-and-by, +after they had between them carefully thought over what they should do +to carry out their object, the curate hit upon an idea very well +adapted to humour Don Quixote, and effect their purpose; and his +notion, which he explained to the barber, was that he himself should +assume the disguise of a wandering damsel, while the other should +try as best he could to pass for a squire, and that they should thus +proceed to where Don Quixote was, and he, pretending to be an +aggrieved and distressed damsel, should ask a favour of him, which +as a valiant knight-errant he could not refuse to grant; and the +favour he meant to ask him was that he should accompany her whither +she would conduct him, in order to redress a wrong which a wicked +knight had done her, while at the same time she should entreat him not +to require her to remove her mask, nor ask her any question touching +her circumstances until he had righted her with the wicked knight. And +he had no doubt that Don Quixote would comply with any request made in +these terms, and that in this way they might remove him and take him +to his own village, where they would endeavour to find out if his +extraordinary madness admitted of any kind of remedy.</p> + + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="c26e"></a><img alt="c26e.jpg (48K)" src="images/c26e.jpg" height="501" width="631"> +</center> +<br><br><br><br> + + + +<br><br> +<center><h2><a name="ch27"></a>CHAPTER XXVII.</h2></center> +<br> +<center><h3>OF HOW THE CURATE AND THE BARBER PROCEEDED WITH THEIR SCHEME; +TOGETHER WITH OTHER MATTERS WORTHY OF RECORD IN THIS GREAT HISTORY +</h3></center> +<br> +<br> + +<center><a name="c27a"></a><img alt="c27a.jpg (169K)" src="images/c27a.jpg" height="437" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/c27a.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<p>The curate's plan did not seem a bad one to the barber, but on the +contrary so good that they immediately set about putting it in +execution. They begged a petticoat and hood of the landlady, leaving +her in pledge a new cassock of the curate's; and the barber made a +beard out of a grey-brown or red ox-tail in which the landlord used to +stick his comb. The landlady asked them what they wanted these +things for, and the curate told her in a few words about the madness +of Don Quixote, and how this disguise was intended to get him away +from the mountain where he then was. The landlord and landlady +immediately came to the conclusion that the madman was their guest, +the balsam man and master of the blanketed squire, and they told the +curate all that had passed between him and them, not omitting what +Sancho had been so silent about. Finally the landlady dressed up the +curate in a style that left nothing to be desired; she put on him a +cloth petticoat with black velvet stripes a palm broad, all slashed, +and a bodice of green velvet set off by a binding of white satin, +which as well as the petticoat must have been made in the time of king +Wamba. The curate would not let them hood him, but put on his head a +little quilted linen cap which he used for a night-cap, and bound +his forehead with a strip of black silk, while with another he made +a mask with which he concealed his beard and face very well. He then +put on his hat, which was broad enough to serve him for an umbrella, +and enveloping himself in his cloak seated himself woman-fashion on +his mule, while the barber mounted his with a beard down to the +waist of mingled red and white, for it was, as has been said, the tail +of a clay-red ox.</p> + +<p>They took leave of all, and of the good Maritornes, who, sinner as +she was, promised to pray a rosary of prayers that God might grant +them success in such an arduous and Christian undertaking as that they +had in hand. But hardly had he sallied forth from the inn when it +struck the curate that he was doing wrong in rigging himself out in +that fashion, as it was an indecorous thing for a priest to dress +himself that way even though much might depend upon it; and saying +so to the barber he begged him to change dresses, as it was fitter +he should be the distressed damsel, while he himself would play the +squire's part, which would be less derogatory to his dignity; +otherwise he was resolved to have nothing more to do with the +matter, and let the devil take Don Quixote. Just at this moment Sancho +came up, and on seeing the pair in such a costume he was unable to +restrain his laughter; the barber, however, agreed to do as the curate +wished, and, altering their plan, the curate went on to instruct him +how to play his part and what to say to Don Quixote to induce and +compel him to come with them and give up his fancy for the place he +had chosen for his idle penance. The barber told him he could manage +it properly without any instruction, and as he did not care to dress +himself up until they were near where Don Quixote was, he folded up +the garments, and the curate adjusted his beard, and they set out +under the guidance of Sancho Panza, who went along telling them of the +encounter with the madman they met in the Sierra, saying nothing, +however, about the finding of the valise and its contents; for with +all his simplicity the lad was a trifle covetous.</p> + +<p>The next day they reached the place where Sancho had laid the +broom-branches as marks to direct him to where he had left his master, +and recognising it he told them that here was the entrance, and that +they would do well to dress themselves, if that was required to +deliver his master; for they had already told him that going in this +guise and dressing in this way were of the highest importance in order +to rescue his master from the pernicious life he had adopted; and they +charged him strictly not to tell his master who they were, or that +he knew them, and should he ask, as ask he would, if he had given +the letter to Dulcinea, to say that he had, and that, as she did not +know how to read, she had given an answer by word of mouth, saying +that she commanded him, on pain of her displeasure, to come and see +her at once; and it was a very important matter for himself, because +in this way and with what they meant to say to him they felt sure of +bringing him back to a better mode of life and inducing him to take +immediate steps to become an emperor or monarch, for there was no fear +of his becoming an archbishop. All this Sancho listened to and fixed +it well in his memory, and thanked them heartily for intending to +recommend his master to be an emperor instead of an archbishop, for he +felt sure that in the way of bestowing rewards on their squires +emperors could do more than archbishops-errant. He said, too, that +it would be as well for him to go on before them to find him, and give +him his lady's answer; for that perhaps might be enough to bring him +away from the place without putting them to all this trouble. They +approved of what Sancho proposed, and resolved to wait for him until +he brought back word of having found his master.</p> + +<p>Sancho pushed on into the glens of the Sierra, leaving them in one +through which there flowed a little gentle rivulet, and where the +rocks and trees afforded a cool and grateful shade. It was an August +day with all the heat of one, and the heat in those parts is +intense, and the hour was three in the afternoon, all which made the +spot the more inviting and tempted them to wait there for Sancho's +return, which they did. They were reposing, then, in the shade, when a +voice unaccompanied by the notes of any instrument, but sweet and +pleasing in its tone, reached their ears, at which they were not a +little astonished, as the place did not seem to them likely quarters +for one who sang so well; for though it is often said that shepherds +of rare voice are to be found in the woods and fields, this is +rather a flight of the poet's fancy than the truth. And still more +surprised were they when they perceived that what they heard sung were +the verses not of rustic shepherds, but of the polished wits of the +city; and so it proved, for the verses they heard were these:</p> + + +<blockquote><blockquote> +<pre>What makes my quest of happiness seem vain? + Disdain. +What bids me to abandon hope of ease? + Jealousies. +What holds my heart in anguish of suspense? + Absence. + If that be so, then for my grief + Where shall I turn to seek relief, + When hope on every side lies slain + By Absence, Jealousies, Disdain? + +What the prime cause of all my woe doth prove? + Love. +What at my glory ever looks askance? + Chance. +Whence is permission to afflict me given? + Heaven. + If that be so, I but await + The stroke of a resistless fate, + Since, working for my woe, these three, + Love, Chance and Heaven, in league I see. + +What must I do to find a remedy? + Die. +What is the lure for love when coy and strange? + Change. +What, if all fail, will cure the heart of sadness? + Madness. + If that be so, it is but folly + To seek a cure for melancholy: + Ask where it lies; the answer saith + In Change, in Madness, or in Death. +</pre> +</blockquote></blockquote> + +<p> +The hour, the summer season, the solitary place, the voice and skill +of the singer, all contributed to the wonder and delight of the two +listeners, who remained still waiting to hear something more; finding, +however, that the silence continued some little time, they resolved to +go in search of the musician who sang with so fine a voice; but just +as they were about to do so they were checked by the same voice, which +once more fell upon their ears, singing this</p> + +<blockquote><blockquote> +<pre> +SONNET + +When heavenward, holy Friendship, thou didst go + Soaring to seek thy home beyond the sky, + And take thy seat among the saints on high, +It was thy will to leave on earth below +Thy semblance, and upon it to bestow + Thy veil, wherewith at times hypocrisy, + Parading in thy shape, deceives the eye, +And makes its vileness bright as virtue show. +Friendship, return to us, or force the cheat + That wears it now, thy livery to restore, + By aid whereof sincerity is slain. +If thou wilt not unmask thy counterfeit, + This earth will be the prey of strife once more, + As when primaeval discord held its reign. + </pre> +</blockquote></blockquote> +<p> +The song ended with a deep sigh, and again the listeners remained +waiting attentively for the singer to resume; but perceiving that +the music had now turned to sobs and heart-rending moans they +determined to find out who the unhappy being could be whose voice +was as rare as his sighs were piteous, and they had not proceeded +far when on turning the corner of a rock they discovered a man of +the same aspect and appearance as Sancho had described to them when he +told them the story of Cardenio. He, showing no astonishment when he +saw them, stood still with his head bent down upon his breast like one +in deep thought, without raising his eyes to look at them after the +first glance when they suddenly came upon him. The curate, who was +aware of his misfortune and recognised him by the description, being a +man of good address, approached him and in a few sensible words +entreated and urged him to quit a life of such misery, lest he +should end it there, which would be the greatest of all misfortunes. +Cardenio was then in his right mind, free from any attack of that +madness which so frequently carried him away, and seeing them +dressed in a fashion so unusual among the frequenters of those +wilds, could not help showing some surprise, especially when he +heard them speak of his case as if it were a well-known matter (for +the curate's words gave him to understand as much) so he replied to +them thus:</p> + +<p>"I see plainly, sirs, whoever you may be, that Heaven, whose care it +is to succour the good, and even the wicked very often, here, in +this remote spot, cut off from human intercourse, sends me, though I +deserve it not, those who seek to draw me away from this to some +better retreat, showing me by many and forcible arguments how +unreasonably I act in leading the life I do; but as they know, that if +I escape from this evil I shall fall into another still greater, +perhaps they will set me down as a weak-minded man, or, what is worse, +one devoid of reason; nor would it be any wonder, for I myself can +perceive that the effect of the recollection of my misfortunes is so +great and works so powerfully to my ruin, that in spite of myself I +become at times like a stone, without feeling or consciousness; and +I come to feel the truth of it when they tell me and show me proofs of +the things I have done when the terrible fit overmasters me; and all I +can do is bewail my lot in vain, and idly curse my destiny, and +plead for my madness by telling how it was caused, to any that care to +hear it; for no reasonable beings on learning the cause will wonder at +the effects; and if they cannot help me at least they will not blame +me, and the repugnance they feel at my wild ways will turn into pity +for my woes. If it be, sirs, that you are here with the same design as +others have come wah, before you proceed with your wise arguments, I +entreat you to hear the story of my countless misfortunes, for perhaps +when you have heard it you will spare yourselves the trouble you would +take in offering consolation to grief that is beyond the reach of it."</p> + +<p>As they, both of them, desired nothing more than to hear from his +own lips the cause of his suffering, they entreated him to tell it, +promising not to do anything for his relief or comfort that he did not +wish; and thereupon the unhappy gentleman began his sad story in +nearly the same words and manner in which he had related it to Don +Quixote and the goatherd a few days before, when, through Master +Elisabad, and Don Quixote's scrupulous observance of what was due to +chivalry, the tale was left unfinished, as this history has already +recorded; but now fortunately the mad fit kept off, allowed him to +tell it to the end; and so, coming to the incident of the note which +Don Fernando had found in the volume of "Amadis of Gaul," Cardenio +said that he remembered it perfectly and that it was in these words:</p> + +<blockquote><blockquote> +<p> +"Luscinda to Cardenio.</p> + +<p> +"Every day I discover merits in you that oblige and compel me to +hold you in higher estimation; so if you desire to relieve me of +this obligation without cost to my honour, you may easily do so. I +have a father who knows you and loves me dearly, who without putting +any constraint on my inclination will grant what will be reasonable +for you to have, if it be that you value me as you say and as I +believe you do."</p> +</blockquote></blockquote> + +<p> +"By this letter I was induced, as I told you, to demand Luscinda for +my wife, and it was through it that Luscinda came to be regarded by +Don Fernando as one of the most discreet and prudent women of the day, +and this letter it was that suggested his design of ruining me +before mine could be carried into effect. I told Don Fernando that all +Luscinda's father was waiting for was that mine should ask her of him, +which I did not dare to suggest to him, fearing that he would not +consent to do so; not because he did not know perfectly well the rank, +goodness, virtue, and beauty of Luscinda, and that she had qualities +that would do honour to any family in Spain, but because I was aware +that he did not wish me to marry so soon, before seeing what the +Duke Ricardo would do for me. In short, I told him I did not venture +to mention it to my father, as well on account of that difficulty, +as of many others that discouraged me though I knew not well what they +were, only that it seemed to me that what I desired was never to +come to pass. To all this Don Fernando answered that he would take +it upon himself to speak to my father, and persuade him to speak to +Luscinda's father. O, ambitious Marius! O, cruel Catiline! O, wicked +Sylla! O, perfidious Ganelon! O, treacherous Vellido! O, vindictive +Julian! O, covetous Judas! Traitor, cruel, vindictive, and perfidious, +wherein had this poor wretch failed in his fidelity, who with such +frankness showed thee the secrets and the joys of his heart? What +offence did I commit? What words did I utter, or what counsels did I +give that had not the furtherance of thy honour and welfare for +their aim? But, woe is me, wherefore do I complain? for sure it is +that when misfortunes spring from the stars, descending from on high +they fall upon us with such fury and violence that no power on earth +can check their course nor human device stay their coming. Who could +have thought that Don Fernando, a highborn gentleman, intelligent, +bound to me by gratitude for my services, one that could win the +object of his love wherever he might set his affections, could have +become so obdurate, as they say, as to rob me of my one ewe lamb +that was not even yet in my possession? But laying aside these useless +and unavailing reflections, let us take up the broken thread of my +unhappy story.</p> + +<p>"To proceed, then: Don Fernando finding my presence an obstacle to +the execution of his treacherous and wicked design, resolved to send +me to his elder brother under the pretext of asking money from him +to pay for six horses which, purposely, and with the sole object of +sending me away that he might the better carry out his infernal +scheme, he had purchased the very day he offered to speak to my +father, and the price of which he now desired me to fetch. Could I +have anticipated this treachery? Could I by any chance have +suspected it? Nay; so far from that, I offered with the greatest +pleasure to go at once, in my satisfaction at the good bargain that +had been made. That night I spoke with Luscinda, and told her what had +been agreed upon with Don Fernando, and how I had strong hopes of +our fair and reasonable wishes being realised. She, as unsuspicious as +I was of the treachery of Don Fernando, bade me try to return +speedily, as she believed the fulfilment of our desires would be +delayed only so long as my father put off speaking to hers. I know not +why it was that on saying this to me her eyes filled with tears, and +there came a lump in her throat that prevented her from uttering a +word of many more that it seemed to me she was striving to say to +me. I was astonished at this unusual turn, which I never before +observed in her. for we always conversed, whenever good fortune and my +ingenuity gave us the chance, with the greatest gaiety and +cheerfulness, mingling tears, sighs, jealousies, doubts, or fears with +our words; it was all on my part a eulogy of my good fortune that +Heaven should have given her to me for my mistress; I glorified her +beauty, I extolled her worth and her understanding; and she paid me +back by praising in me what in her love for me she thought worthy of +praise; and besides we had a hundred thousand trifles and doings of +our neighbours and acquaintances to talk about, and the utmost +extent of my boldness was to take, almost by force, one of her fair +white hands and carry it to my lips, as well as the closeness of the +low grating that separated us allowed me. But the night before the +unhappy day of my departure she wept, she moaned, she sighed, and +she withdrew leaving me filled with perplexity and amazement, +overwhelmed at the sight of such strange and affecting signs of +grief and sorrow in Luscinda; but not to dash my hopes I ascribed it +all to the depth of her love for me and the pain that separation gives +those who love tenderly. At last I took my departure, sad and +dejected, my heart filled with fancies and suspicions, but not knowing +well what it was I suspected or fancied; plain omens pointing to the +sad event and misfortune that was awaiting me.</p> + +<p>"I reached the place whither I had been sent, gave the letter to Don +Fernando's brother, and was kindly received but not promptly +dismissed, for he desired me to wait, very much against my will, eight +days in some place where the duke his father was not likely to see me, +as his brother wrote that the money was to be sent without his +knowledge; all of which was a scheme of the treacherous Don +Fernando, for his brother had no want of money to enable him to +despatch me at once.</p> + +<p>"The command was one that exposed me to the temptation of disobeying +it, as it seemed to me impossible to endure life for so many days +separated from Luscinda, especially after leaving her in the sorrowful +mood I have described to you; nevertheless as a dutiful servant I +obeyed, though I felt it would be at the cost of my well-being. But +four days later there came a man in quest of me with a letter which he +gave me, and which by the address I perceived to be from Luscinda, +as the writing was hers. I opened it with fear and trepidation, +persuaded that it must be something serious that had impelled her to +write to me when at a distance, as she seldom did so when I was +near. Before reading it I asked the man who it was that had given it +to him, and how long he had been upon the road; he told me that as +he happened to be passing through one of the streets of the city at +the hour of noon, a very beautiful lady called to him from a window, +and with tears in her eyes said to him hurriedly, 'Brother, if you +are, as you seem to be, a Christian, for the love of God I entreat you +to have this letter despatched without a moment's delay to the place +and person named in the address, all which is well known, and by +this you will render a great service to our Lord; and that you may +be at no inconvenience in doing so take what is in this handkerchief;' +and said he, 'with this she threw me a handkerchief out of the +window in which were tied up a hundred reals and this gold ring +which I bring here together with the letter I have given you. And then +without waiting for any answer she left the window, though not +before she saw me take the letter and the handkerchief, and I had by +signs let her know that I would do as she bade me; and so, seeing +myself so well paid for the trouble I would have in bringing it to +you, and knowing by the address that it was to you it was sent (for, +senor, I know you very well), and also unable to resist that beautiful +lady's tears, I resolved to trust no one else, but to come myself +and give it to you, and in sixteen hours from the time when it was +given me I have made the journey, which, as you know, is eighteen +leagues.'</p> + +<p>"All the while the good-natured improvised courier was telling me +this, I hung upon his words, my legs trembling under me so that I +could scarcely stand. However, I opened the letter and read these +words:</p> + +<p> +"'The promise Don Fernando gave you to urge your father to speak +to mine, he has fulfilled much more to his own satisfaction than to +your advantage. I have to tell you, senor, that he has demanded me for +a wife, and my father, led away by what he considers Don Fernando's +superiority over you, has favoured his suit so cordially, that in +two days hence the betrothal is to take place with such secrecy and so +privately that the only witnesses are to be the Heavens above and a +few of the household. Picture to yourself the state I am in; judge +if it be urgent for you to come; the issue of the affair will show you +whether I love you or not. God grant this may come to your hand before +mine shall be forced to link itself with his who keeps so ill the +faith that he has pledged.'</p> + +<p> +"Such, in brief, were the words of the letter, words that made me +set out at once without waiting any longer for reply or money; for I +now saw clearly that it was not the purchase of horses but of his +own pleasure that had made Don Fernando send me to his brother. The +exasperation I felt against Don Fernando, joined with the fear of +losing the prize I had won by so many years of love and devotion, lent +me wings; so that almost flying I reached home the same day, by the +hour which served for speaking with Luscinda. I arrived unobserved, +and left the mule on which I had come at the house of the worthy man +who had brought me the letter, and fortune was pleased to be for +once so kind that I found Luscinda at the grating that was the witness +of our loves. She recognised me at once, and I her, but not as she +ought to have recognised me, or I her. But who is there in the world +that can boast of having fathomed or understood the wavering mind +and unstable nature of a woman? Of a truth no one. To proceed: as soon +as Luscinda saw me she said, 'Cardenio, I am in my bridal dress, and +the treacherous Don Fernando and my covetous father are waiting for me +in the hall with the other witnesses, who shall be the witnesses of my +death before they witness my betrothal. Be not distressed, my +friend, but contrive to be present at this sacrifice, and if that +cannot be prevented by my words, I have a dagger concealed which +will prevent more deliberate violence, putting an end to my life and +giving thee a first proof of the love I have borne and bear thee.' I +replied to her distractedly and hastily, in fear lest I should not +have time to reply, 'May thy words be verified by thy deeds, lady; and +if thou hast a dagger to save thy honour, I have a sword to defend +thee or kill myself if fortune be against us.'</p> + +<p>"I think she could not have heard all these words, for I perceived +that they called her away in haste, as the bridegroom was waiting. Now +the night of my sorrow set in, the sun of my happiness went down, I +felt my eyes bereft of sight, my mind of reason. I could not enter the +house, nor was I capable of any movement; but reflecting how important +it was that I should be present at what might take place on the +occasion, I nerved myself as best I could and went in, for I well knew +all the entrances and outlets; and besides, with the confusion that in +secret pervaded the house no one took notice of me, so, without +being seen, I found an opportunity of placing myself in the recess +formed by a window of the hall itself, and concealed by the ends and +borders of two tapestries, from between which I could, without being +seen, see all that took place in the room. Who could describe the +agitation of heart I suffered as I stood there—the thoughts that came +to me—the reflections that passed through my mind? They were such +as cannot be, nor were it well they should be, told. Suffice it to say +that the bridegroom entered the hall in his usual dress, without +ornament of any kind; as groomsman he had with him a cousin of +Luscinda's and except the servants of the house there was no one +else in the chamber. Soon afterwards Luscinda came out from an +antechamber, attended by her mother and two of her damsels, arrayed +and adorned as became her rank and beauty, and in full festival and +ceremonial attire. My anxiety and distraction did not allow me to +observe or notice particularly what she wore; I could only perceive +the colours, which were crimson and white, and the glitter of the gems +and jewels on her head dress and apparel, surpassed by the rare beauty +of her lovely auburn hair that vying with the precious stones and +the light of the four torches that stood in the hall shone with a +brighter gleam than all. Oh memory, mortal foe of my peace! why +bring before me now the incomparable beauty of that adored enemy of +mine? Were it not better, cruel memory, to remind me and recall what +she then did, that stirred by a wrong so glaring I may seek, if not +vengeance now, at least to rid myself of life? Be not weary, sirs, +of listening to these digressions; my sorrow is not one of those +that can or should be told tersely and briefly, for to me each +incident seems to call for many words."</p> + +<p>To this the curate replied that not only were they not weary of +listening to him, but that the details he mentioned interested them +greatly, being of a kind by no means to be omitted and deserving of +the same attention as the main story.</p> + +<p>"To proceed, then," continued Cardenio: "all being assembled in +the hall, the priest of the parish came in and as he took the pair +by the hand to perform the requisite ceremony, at the words, 'Will +you, Senora Luscinda, take Senor Don Fernando, here present, for +your lawful husband, as the holy Mother Church ordains?' I thrust my +head and neck out from between the tapestries, and with eager ears and +throbbing heart set myself to listen to Luscinda's answer, awaiting in +her reply the sentence of death or the grant of life. Oh, that I had +but dared at that moment to rush forward crying aloud, 'Luscinda, +Luscinda! have a care what thou dost; remember what thou owest me; +bethink thee thou art mine and canst not be another's; reflect that +thy utterance of "Yes" and the end of my life will come at the same +instant. O, treacherous Don Fernando! robber of my glory, death of +my life! What seekest thou? Remember that thou canst not as a +Christian attain the object of thy wishes, for Luscinda is my bride, +and I am her husband!' Fool that I am! now that I am far away, and out +of danger, I say I should have done what I did not do: now that I have +allowed my precious treasure to be robbed from me, I curse the robber, +on whom I might have taken vengeance had I as much heart for it as I +have for bewailing my fate; in short, as I was then a coward and a +fool, little wonder is it if I am now dying shame-stricken, +remorseful, and mad.</p> + +<p>"The priest stood waiting for the answer of Luscinda, who for a long +time withheld it; and just as I thought she was taking out the +dagger to save her honour, or struggling for words to make some +declaration of the truth on my behalf, I heard her say in a faint +and feeble voice, 'I will:' Don Fernando said the same, and giving her +the ring they stood linked by a knot that could never be loosed. The +bridegroom then approached to embrace his bride; and she, pressing her +hand upon her heart, fell fainting in her mother's arms. It only +remains now for me to tell you the state I was in when in that consent +that I heard I saw all my hopes mocked, the words and promises of +Luscinda proved falsehoods, and the recovery of the prize I had that +instant lost rendered impossible for ever. I stood stupefied, wholly +abandoned, it seemed, by Heaven, declared the enemy of the earth +that bore me, the air refusing me breath for my sighs, the water +moisture for my tears; it was only the fire that gathered strength +so that my whole frame glowed with rage and jealousy. They were all +thrown into confusion by Luscinda's fainting, and as her mother was +unlacing her to give her air a sealed paper was discovered in her +bosom which Don Fernando seized at once and began to read by the light +of one of the torches. As soon as he had read it he seated himself +in a chair, leaning his cheek on his hand in the attitude of one +deep in thought, without taking any part in the efforts that were +being made to recover his bride from her fainting fit.</p> + +<p>"Seeing all the household in confusion, I ventured to come out +regardless whether I were seen or not, and determined, if I were, to +do some frenzied deed that would prove to all the world the +righteous indignation of my breast in the punishment of the +treacherous Don Fernando, and even in that of the fickle fainting +traitress. But my fate, doubtless reserving me for greater sorrows, if +such there be, so ordered it that just then I had enough and to +spare of that reason which has since been wanting to me; and so, +without seeking to take vengeance on my greatest enemies (which +might have been easily taken, as all thought of me was so far from +their minds), I resolved to take it upon myself, and on myself to +inflict the pain they deserved, perhaps with even greater severity +than I should have dealt out to them had I then slain them; for sudden +pain is soon over, but that which is protracted by tortures is ever +slaying without ending life. In a word, I quitted the house and +reached that of the man with whom I had left my mule; I made him +saddle it for me, mounted without bidding him farewell, and rode out +of the city, like another Lot, not daring to turn my head to look back +upon it; and when I found myself alone in the open country, screened +by the darkness of the night, and tempted by the stillness to give +vent to my grief without apprehension or fear of being heard or +seen, then I broke silence and lifted up my voice in maledictions upon +Luscinda and Don Fernando, as if I could thus avenge the wrong they +had done me. I called her cruel, ungrateful, false, thankless, but +above all covetous, since the wealth of my enemy had blinded the +eyes of her affection, and turned it from me to transfer it to one +to whom fortune had been more generous and liberal. And yet, in the +midst of this outburst of execration and upbraiding, I found excuses +for her, saying it was no wonder that a young girl in the seclusion of +her parents' house, trained and schooled to obey them always, should +have been ready to yield to their wishes when they offered her for a +husband a gentleman of such distinction, wealth, and noble birth, that +if she had refused to accept him she would have been thought out of +her senses, or to have set her affection elsewhere, a suspicion +injurious to her fair name and fame. But then again, I said, had she +declared I was her husband, they would have seen that in choosing me +she had not chosen so ill but that they might excuse her, for before +Don Fernando had made his offer, they themselves could not have +desired, if their desires had been ruled by reason, a more eligible +husband for their daughter than I was; and she, before taking the last +fatal step of giving her hand, might easily have said that I had +already given her mine, for I should have come forward to support +any assertion of hers to that effect. In short, I came to the +conclusion that feeble love, little reflection, great ambition, and +a craving for rank, had made her forget the words with which she had +deceived me, encouraged and supported by my firm hopes and +honourable passion.</p> + +<p>"Thus soliloquising and agitated, I journeyed onward for the +remainder of the night, and by daybreak I reached one of the passes of +these mountains, among which I wandered for three days more without +taking any path or road, until I came to some meadows lying on I +know not which side of the mountains, and there I inquired of some +herdsmen in what direction the most rugged part of the range lay. They +told me that it was in this quarter, and I at once directed my +course hither, intending to end my life here; but as I was making my +way among these crags, my mule dropped dead through fatigue and +hunger, or, as I think more likely, in order to have done with such +a worthless burden as it bore in me. I was left on foot, worn out, +famishing, without anyone to help me or any thought of seeking help: +and so thus I lay stretched on the ground, how long I know not, +after which I rose up free from hunger, and found beside me some +goatherds, who no doubt were the persons who had relieved me in my +need, for they told me how they had found me, and how I had been +uttering ravings that showed plainly I had lost my reason; and since +then I am conscious that I am not always in full possession of it, but +at times so deranged and crazed that I do a thousand mad things, +tearing my clothes, crying aloud in these solitudes, cursing my +fate, and idly calling on the dear name of her who is my enemy, and +only seeking to end my life in lamentation; and when I recover my +senses I find myself so exhausted and weary that I can scarcely +move. Most commonly my dwelling is the hollow of a cork tree large +enough to shelter this miserable body; the herdsmen and goatherds +who frequent these mountains, moved by compassion, furnish me with +food, leaving it by the wayside or on the rocks, where they think I +may perhaps pass and find it; and so, even though I may be then out of +my senses, the wants of nature teach me what is required to sustain +me, and make me crave it and eager to take it. At other times, so they +tell me when they find me in a rational mood, I sally out upon the +road, and though they would gladly give it me, I snatch food by +force from the shepherds bringing it from the village to their huts. +Thus do pass the wretched life that remains to me, until it be +Heaven's will to bring it to a close, or so to order my memory that +I no longer recollect the beauty and treachery of Luscinda, or the +wrong done me by Don Fernando; for if it will do this without +depriving me of life, I will turn my thoughts into some better +channel; if not, I can only implore it to have full mercy on my +soul, for in myself I feel no power or strength to release my body +from this strait in which I have of my own accord chosen to place it.</p> + +<p>"Such, sirs, is the dismal story of my misfortune: say if it be +one that can be told with less emotion than you have seen in me; and +do not trouble yourselves with urging or pressing upon me what +reason suggests as likely to serve for my relief, for it will avail me +as much as the medicine prescribed by a wise physician avails the sick +man who will not take it. I have no wish for health without +Luscinda; and since it is her pleasure to be another's, when she is or +should be mine, let it be mine to be a prey to misery when I might +have enjoyed happiness. She by her fickleness strove to make my ruin +irretrievable; I will strive to gratify her wishes by seeking +destruction; and it will show generations to come that I alone was +deprived of that of which all others in misfortune have a +superabundance, for to them the impossibility of being consoled is +itself a consolation, while to me it is the cause of greater sorrows +and sufferings, for I think that even in death there will not be an +end of them."</p> + +<p>Here Cardenio brought to a close his long discourse and story, as +full of misfortune as it was of love; but just as the curate was going +to address some words of comfort to him, he was stopped by a voice +that reached his ear, saying in melancholy tones what will be told +in the Fourth Part of this narrative; for at this point the sage and +sagacious historian, Cide Hamete Benengeli, brought the Third to a +conclusion.</p> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="c27e"></a><img alt="c27e.jpg (65K)" src="images/c27e.jpg" height="679" width="495"> +</center> + + +<br> +<br> + + +<center> +<table summary="" cellPadding=4 border=3> +<tr><td> + <a href="p8.htm">Previous Part</a> +</td><td> + <a href="5921-h.htm">Main Index</a> +</td><td> + <a href="p10.htm">Next Part</a> + </td></tr> +</table> +</center> +<br><br> + +</body> +</html> + |
