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diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6833f05 --- /dev/null +++ b/.gitattributes @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +* text=auto +*.txt text +*.md text diff --git a/5923-h.zip b/5923-h.zip Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..45f3e90 --- /dev/null +++ b/5923-h.zip diff --git a/5923-h/5923-h.htm b/5923-h/5923-h.htm new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7cd4c59 --- /dev/null +++ b/5923-h/5923-h.htm @@ -0,0 +1,1924 @@ +<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> +<html> +<head> +<title>THE HISTORY OF DON QUIXOTE, By Cervantes, Vol. II., Part 20.</title> +<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> + +<style type="text/css"> + <!-- + body {background:#faebd7; margin:10%; text-align:justify} + P { text-indent: 1em; + margin-top: .75em; + margin-bottom: .75em; } + H1,H2,H3,H4,H5,H6 { text-align: center; } + HR { width: 33%; text-align: center; } + blockquote {font-size: 97%; } + .figleft {float: left;} + .figright {float: right;} + .toc { margin-left: 15%; margin-bottom: 0em;} + CENTER { padding: 10px;} + PRE { font-family: Times; font-size: 97%; margin-left: 15%;} + // --> +</style> + + +</head> +<body> + +<h2>THE HISTORY OF DON QUIXOTE, Vol. II., Part 20.</h2> +<pre> + +The Project Gutenberg EBook of The History of Don Quixote, Vol. II., Part +20, by Miguel de Cervantes + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: The History of Don Quixote, Vol. II., Part 20 + +Author: Miguel de Cervantes + +Release Date: July 21, 2004 [EBook #5923] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DON QUIXOTE, PART 20 *** + + + + +Produced by David Widger + + + + + +</pre> + + + + + + +<br> +<hr> +<br><br><br><br><br><br> + + + +<center> +<h1>DON QUIXOTE</h1> +<br> +<h2>by Miguel de Cervantes</h2> +<br> +<h3>Translated by John Ormsby</h3> +</center> + +<br><br> +<center><h3> +Volume II., Part 20. +<br><br> +Chapters 6-10 +</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> + +<center><h3>Part II.</h3></center> + + +<pre> + +<a href="#ch6b">CHAPTER VI</a> +OF WHAT TOOK PLACE BETWEEN DON QUIXOTE AND HIS +NIECE AND HOUSEKEEPER; ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT +CHAPTERS IN THE WHOLE HISTORY + +<a href="#ch7b">CHAPTER VII</a> +OF WHAT PASSED BETWEEN DON QUIXOTE AND HIS SQUIRE, +TOGETHER WITH OTHER VERY NOTABLE INCIDENTS + +<a href="#ch8b">CHAPTER VIII</a> +WHEREIN IS RELATED WHAT BEFELL DON QUIXOTE ON HIS +WAY TO SEE HIS LADY DULCINEA DEL TOBOSO + +<a href="#ch9b">CHAPTER IX</a> +WHEREIN IS RELATED WHAT WILL BE SEEN THERE + +<a href="#ch10b">CHAPTER X</a> +WHEREIN IS RELATED THE CRAFTY DEVICE SANCHO ADOPTED +TO ENCHANT THE LADY DULCINEA, AND OTHER INCIDENTS +AS LUDICROUS AS THEY ARE TRUE + +</pre> + +<br><br><br><br> + + +<center><h1>DON QUIXOTE</h1></center> +<br><br> +<center><h2>Volume II.</h2></center> +<br> +<br> +<br> + + + + +<br><br> +<center><h2><a name="ch6b"></a>CHAPTER VI.</h2></center> +<br> +<center><h3>OF WHAT TOOK PLACE BETWEEN DON QUIXOTE AND HIS NIECE AND +HOUSEKEEPER; ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT CHAPTERS IN THE WHOLE HISTORY +</h3></center> +<br> +<br> + +<center><a name="p06a"></a><img alt="p06a.jpg (93K)" src="images/p06a.jpg" height="350" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p06a.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<p>While Sancho Panza and his wife, Teresa Cascajo, held the above +irrelevant conversation, Don Quixote's niece and housekeeper were +not idle, for by a thousand signs they began to perceive that their +uncle and master meant to give them the slip the third time, and +once more betake himself to his, for them, ill-errant chivalry. They +strove by all the means in their power to divert him from such an +unlucky scheme; but it was all preaching in the desert and hammering +cold iron. Nevertheless, among many other representations made to him, +the housekeeper said to him, "In truth, master, if you do not keep +still and stay quiet at home, and give over roaming mountains and +valleys like a troubled spirit, looking for what they say are called +adventures, but what I call misfortunes, I shall have to make +complaint to God and the king with loud supplication to send some +remedy."</p> + +<p>To which Don Quixote replied, "What answer God will give to your +complaints, housekeeper, I know not, nor what his Majesty will +answer either; I only know that if I were king I should decline to +answer the numberless silly petitions they present every day; for +one of the greatest among the many troubles kings have is being +obliged to listen to all and answer all, and therefore I should be +sorry that any affairs of mine should worry him."</p> + +<p>Whereupon the housekeeper said, "Tell us, senor, at his Majesty's +court are there no knights?"</p> + +<p>"There are," replied Don Quixote, "and plenty of them; and it is +right there should be, to set off the dignity of the prince, and for +the greater glory of the king's majesty."</p> + +<p>"Then might not your worship," said she, "be one of those that, +without stirring a step, serve their king and lord in his court?"</p> + +<p>"Recollect, my friend," said Don Quixote, "all knights cannot be +courtiers, nor can all courtiers be knights-errant, nor need they +be. There must be all sorts in the world; and though we may be all +knights, there is a great difference between one and another; for +the courtiers, without quitting their chambers, or the threshold of +the court, range the world over by looking at a map, without its +costing them a farthing, and without suffering heat or cold, hunger or +thirst; but we, the true knights-errant, measure the whole earth +with our own feet, exposed to the sun, to the cold, to the air, to the +inclemencies of heaven, by day and night, on foot and on horseback; +nor do we only know enemies in pictures, but in their own real shapes; +and at all risks and on all occasions we attack them, without any +regard to childish points or rules of single combat, whether one has +or has not a shorter lance or sword, whether one carries relics or any +secret contrivance about him, whether or not the sun is to be +divided and portioned out, and other niceties of the sort that are +observed in set combats of man to man, that you know nothing about, +but I do. And you must know besides, that the true knight-errant, +though he may see ten giants, that not only touch the clouds with +their heads but pierce them, and that go, each of them, on two tall +towers by way of legs, and whose arms are like the masts of mighty +ships, and each eye like a great mill-wheel, and glowing brighter than +a glass furnace, must not on any account be dismayed by them. On the +contrary, he must attack and fall upon them with a gallant bearing and +a fearless heart, and, if possible, vanquish and destroy them, even +though they have for armour the shells of a certain fish, that they +say are harder than diamonds, and in place of swords wield trenchant +blades of Damascus steel, or clubs studded with spikes also of +steel, such as I have more than once seen. All this I say, +housekeeper, that you may see the difference there is between the +one sort of knight and the other; and it would be well if there were +no prince who did not set a higher value on this second, or more +properly speaking first, kind of knights-errant; for, as we read in +their histories, there have been some among them who have been the +salvation, not merely of one kingdom, but of many."</p> + +<p>"Ah, senor," here exclaimed the niece, "remember that all this you +are saying about knights-errant is fable and fiction; and their +histories, if indeed they were not burned, would deserve, each of +them, to have a sambenito put on it, or some mark by which it might be +known as infamous and a corrupter of good manners."</p> + +<p>"By the God that gives me life," said Don Quixote, "if thou wert not +my full niece, being daughter of my own sister, I would inflict a +chastisement upon thee for the blasphemy thou hast uttered that all +the world should ring with. What! can it be that a young hussy that +hardly knows how to handle a dozen lace-bobbins dares to wag her +tongue and criticise the histories of knights-errant? What would Senor +Amadis say if he heard of such a thing? He, however, no doubt would +forgive thee, for he was the most humble-minded and courteous knight +of his time, and moreover a great protector of damsels; but some there +are that might have heard thee, and it would not have been well for +thee in that case; for they are not all courteous or mannerly; some +are ill-conditioned scoundrels; nor is it everyone that calls +himself a gentleman, that is so in all respects; some are gold, others +pinchbeck, and all look like gentlemen, but not all can stand the +touchstone of truth. There are men of low rank who strain themselves +to bursting to pass for gentlemen, and high gentlemen who, one would +fancy, were dying to pass for men of low rank; the former raise +themselves by their ambition or by their virtues, the latter debase +themselves by their lack of spirit or by their vices; and one has need +of experience and discernment to distinguish these two kinds of +gentlemen, so much alike in name and so different in conduct."</p> + +<p>"God bless me!" said the niece, "that you should know so much, +uncle—enough, if need be, to get up into a pulpit and go preach in +the streets—and yet that you should fall into a delusion so great and +a folly so manifest as to try to make yourself out vigorous when you +are old, strong when you are sickly, able to put straight what is +crooked when you yourself are bent by age, and, above all, a caballero +when you are not one; for though gentlefolk may be so, poor men are +nothing of the kind!"</p> + +<p>"There is a great deal of truth in what you say, niece," returned +Don Quixote, "and I could tell you somewhat about birth that would +astonish you; but, not to mix up things human and divine, I refrain. +Look you, my dears, all the lineages in the world (attend to what I am +saying) can be reduced to four sorts, which are these: those that +had humble beginnings, and went on spreading and extending +themselves until they attained surpassing greatness; those that had +great beginnings and maintained them, and still maintain and uphold +the greatness of their origin; those, again, that from a great +beginning have ended in a point like a pyramid, having reduced and +lessened their original greatness till it has come to nought, like the +point of a pyramid, which, relatively to its base or foundation, is +nothing; and then there are those—and it is they that are the most +numerous—that have had neither an illustrious beginning nor a +remarkable mid-course, and so will have an end without a name, like an +ordinary plebeian line. Of the first, those that had an humble +origin and rose to the greatness they still preserve, the Ottoman +house may serve as an example, which from an humble and lowly +shepherd, its founder, has reached the height at which we now see +it. For examples of the second sort of lineage, that began with +greatness and maintains it still without adding to it, there are the +many princes who have inherited the dignity, and maintain themselves +in their inheritance, without increasing or diminishing it, keeping +peacefully within the limits of their states. Of those that began +great and ended in a point, there are thousands of examples, for all +the Pharaohs and Ptolemies of Egypt, the Caesars of Rome, and the +whole herd (if I may such a word to them) of countless princes, +monarchs, lords, Medes, Assyrians, Persians, Greeks, and barbarians, +all these lineages and lordships have ended in a point and come to +nothing, they themselves as well as their founders, for it would be +impossible now to find one of their descendants, and, even should we +find one, it would be in some lowly and humble condition. Of +plebeian lineages I have nothing to say, save that they merely serve +to swell the number of those that live, without any eminence to +entitle them to any fame or praise beyond this. From all I have said I +would have you gather, my poor innocents, that great is the +confusion among lineages, and that only those are seen to be great and +illustrious that show themselves so by the virtue, wealth, and +generosity of their possessors. I have said virtue, wealth, and +generosity, because a great man who is vicious will be a great example +of vice, and a rich man who is not generous will be merely a miserly +beggar; for the possessor of wealth is not made happy by possessing +it, but by spending it, and not by spending as he pleases, but by +knowing how to spend it well. The poor gentleman has no way of showing +that he is a gentleman but by virtue, by being affable, well-bred, +courteous, gentle-mannered, and kindly, not haughty, arrogant, or +censorious, but above all by being charitable; for by two maravedis +given with a cheerful heart to the poor, he will show himself as +generous as he who distributes alms with bell-ringing, and no one that +perceives him to be endowed with the virtues I have named, even though +he know him not, will fail to recognise and set him down as one of +good blood; and it would be strange were it not so; praise has ever +been the reward of virtue, and those who are virtuous cannot fail to +receive commendation. There are two roads, my daughters, by which +men may reach wealth and honours; one is that of letters, the other +that of arms. I have more of arms than of letters in my composition, +and, judging by my inclination to arms, was born under the influence +of the planet Mars. I am, therefore, in a measure constrained to +follow that road, and by it I must travel in spite of all the world, +and it will be labour in vain for you to urge me to resist what heaven +wills, fate ordains, reason requires, and, above all, my own +inclination favours; for knowing as I do the countless toils that +are the accompaniments of knight-errantry, I know, too, the infinite +blessings that are attained by it; I know that the path of virtue is +very narrow, and the road of vice broad and spacious; I know their +ends and goals are different, for the broad and easy road of vice ends +in death, and the narrow and toilsome one of virtue in life, and not +transitory life, but in that which has no end; I know, as our great +Castilian poet says, that-</p> + + +<pre> +It is by rugged paths like these they go +That scale the heights of immortality, +Unreached by those that falter here below." +</pre> + + +<p> +"Woe is me!" exclaimed the niece, "my lord is a poet, too! He +knows everything, and he can do everything; I will bet, if he chose to +turn mason, he could make a house as easily as a cage."</p> + +<p>"I can tell you, niece," replied Don Quixote, "if these chivalrous +thoughts did not engage all my faculties, there would be nothing +that I could not do, nor any sort of knickknack that would not come +from my hands, particularly cages and tooth-picks."</p> + +<p>At this moment there came a knocking at the door, and when they +asked who was there, Sancho Panza made answer that it was he. The +instant the housekeeper knew who it was, she ran to hide herself so as +not to see him; in such abhorrence did she hold him. The niece let him +in, and his master Don Quixote came forward to receive him with open +arms, and the pair shut themselves up in his room, where they had +another conversation not inferior to the previous one.</p> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p06e"></a><img alt="p06e.jpg (19K)" src="images/p06e.jpg" height="407" width="261"> +</center> +<br><br><br><br> + +<br><br> +<center><h2><a name="ch7b"></a>CHAPTER VII.</h2></center> +<br> +<center><h3>OF WHAT PASSED BETWEEN DON QUIXOTE AND HIS SQUIRE, TOGETHER WITH +OTHER VERY NOTABLE INCIDENTS +</h3></center> +<br> +<br> + +<center><a name="p07a"></a><img alt="p07a.jpg (140K)" src="images/p07a.jpg" height="436" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p07a.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<p>The instant the housekeeper saw Sancho Panza shut himself in with +her master, she guessed what they were about; and suspecting that +the result of the consultation would be a resolve to undertake a third +sally, she seized her mantle, and in deep anxiety and distress, ran to +find the bachelor Samson Carrasco, as she thought that, being a +well-spoken man, and a new friend of her master's, he might be able to +persuade him to give up any such crazy notion. She found him pacing +the patio of his house, and, perspiring and flurried, she fell at +his feet the moment she saw him.</p> + +<p>Carrasco, seeing how distressed and overcome she was, said to her, +"What is this, mistress housekeeper? What has happened to you? One +would think you heart-broken."</p> + +<p>"Nothing, Senor Samson," said she, "only that my master is +breaking out, plainly breaking out."</p> + +<p>"Whereabouts is he breaking out, senora?" asked Samson; "has any +part of his body burst?"</p> + +<p>"He is only breaking out at the door of his madness," she replied; +"I mean, dear senor bachelor, that he is going to break out again (and +this will be the third time) to hunt all over the world for what he +calls ventures, though I can't make out why he gives them that name. +The first time he was brought back to us slung across the back of an +ass, and belaboured all over; and the second time he came in an +ox-cart, shut up in a cage, in which he persuaded himself he was +enchanted, and the poor creature was in such a state that the mother +that bore him would not have known him; lean, yellow, with his eyes +sunk deep in the cells of his skull; so that to bring him round again, +ever so little, cost me more than six hundred eggs, as God knows, +and all the world, and my hens too, that won't let me tell a lie."</p> + +<p>"That I can well believe," replied the bachelor, "for they are so +good and so fat, and so well-bred, that they would not say one thing +for another, though they were to burst for it. In short then, mistress +housekeeper, that is all, and there is nothing the matter, except what +it is feared Don Quixote may do?"</p> + +<p>"No, senor," said she.</p> + +<p>"Well then," returned the bachelor, "don't be uneasy, but go home in +peace; get me ready something hot for breakfast, and while you are +on the way say the prayer of Santa Apollonia, that is if you know +it; for I will come presently and you will see miracles."</p> + +<p>"Woe is me," cried the housekeeper, "is it the prayer of Santa +Apollonia you would have me say? That would do if it was the toothache +my master had; but it is in the brains, what he has got."</p> + +<p>"I know what I am saying, mistress housekeeper; go, and don't set +yourself to argue with me, for you know I am a bachelor of +Salamanca, and one can't be more of a bachelor than that," replied +Carrasco; and with this the housekeeper retired, and the bachelor went +to look for the curate, and arrange with him what will be told in +its proper place.</p> + +<p>While Don Quixote and Sancho were shut up together, they had a +discussion which the history records with great precision and +scrupulous exactness. Sancho said to his master, "Senor, I have educed +my wife to let me go with your worship wherever you choose to take +me."</p> + +<p>"Induced, you should say, Sancho," said Don Quixote; "not educed."</p> + +<p>"Once or twice, as well as I remember," replied Sancho, "I have +begged of your worship not to mend my words, if so be as you +understand what I mean by them; and if you don't understand them to +say 'Sancho,' or 'devil,' 'I don't understand thee; and if I don't +make my meaning plain, then you may correct me, for I am so focile-"</p> + +<p>"I don't understand thee, Sancho," said Don Quixote at once; "for +I know not what 'I am so focile' means."</p> + +<p>"'So focile' means I am so much that way," replied Sancho.</p> + +<p>"I understand thee still less now," said Don Quixote.</p> + +<p>"Well, if you can't understand me," said Sancho, "I don't know how +to put it; I know no more, God help me."</p> + +<p>"Oh, now I have hit it," said Don Quixote; "thou wouldst say thou +art so docile, tractable, and gentle that thou wilt take what I say to +thee, and submit to what I teach thee."</p> + +<p>"I would bet," said Sancho, "that from the very first you understood +me, and knew what I meant, but you wanted to put me out that you might +hear me make another couple of dozen blunders."</p> + +<p>"May be so," replied Don Quixote; "but to come to the point, what +does Teresa say?"</p> + +<p>"Teresa says," replied Sancho, "that I should make sure with your +worship, and 'let papers speak and beards be still,' for 'he who binds +does not wrangle,' since one 'take' is better than two 'I'll give +thee's;' and I say a woman's advice is no great thing, and he who +won't take it is a fool."</p> + +<p>"And so say I," said Don Quixote; "continue, Sancho my friend; go +on; you talk pearls to-day."</p> + +<p>"The fact is," continued Sancho, "that, as your worship knows better +than I do, we are all of us liable to death, and to-day we are, and +to-morrow we are not, and the lamb goes as soon as the sheep, and +nobody can promise himself more hours of life in this world than God +may be pleased to give him; for death is deaf, and when it comes to +knock at our life's door, it is always urgent, and neither prayers, +nor struggles, nor sceptres, nor mitres, can keep it back, as common +talk and report say, and as they tell us from the pulpits every day."</p> + +<p>"All that is very true," said Don Quixote; "but I cannot make out +what thou art driving at."</p> + +<p>"What I am driving at," said Sancho, "is that your worship settle +some fixed wages for me, to be paid monthly while I am in your +service, and that the same he paid me out of your estate; for I +don't care to stand on rewards which either come late, or ill, or +never at all; God help me with my own. In short, I would like to +know what I am to get, be it much or little; for the hen will lay on +one egg, and many littles make a much, and so long as one gains +something there is nothing lost. To be sure, if it should happen (what +I neither believe nor expect) that your worship were to give me that +island you have promised me, I am not so ungrateful nor so grasping +but that I would be willing to have the revenue of such island +valued and stopped out of my wages in due promotion."</p> + +<p>"Sancho, my friend," replied Don Quixote, "sometimes proportion +may be as good as promotion."</p> + +<p>"I see," said Sancho; "I'll bet I ought to have said proportion, and +not promotion; but it is no matter, as your worship has understood +me."</p> + +<p>"And so well understood," returned Don Quixote, "that I have seen +into the depths of thy thoughts, and know the mark thou art shooting +at with the countless shafts of thy proverbs. Look here, Sancho, I +would readily fix thy wages if I had ever found any instance in the +histories of the knights-errant to show or indicate, by the +slightest hint, what their squires used to get monthly or yearly; +but I have read all or the best part of their histories, and I +cannot remember reading of any knight-errant having assigned fixed +wages to his squire; I only know that they all served on reward, and +that when they least expected it, if good luck attended their masters, +they found themselves recompensed with an island or something +equivalent to it, or at the least they were left with a title and +lordship. If with these hopes and additional inducements you, +Sancho, please to return to my service, well and good; but to +suppose that I am going to disturb or unhinge the ancient usage of +knight-errantry, is all nonsense. And so, my Sancho, get you back to +your house and explain my intentions to your Teresa, and if she +likes and you like to be on reward with me, bene quidem; if not, we +remain friends; for if the pigeon-house does not lack food, it will +not lack pigeons; and bear in mind, my son, that a good hope is better +than a bad holding, and a good grievance better than a bad +compensation. I speak in this way, Sancho, to show you that I can +shower down proverbs just as well as yourself; and in short, I mean to +say, and I do say, that if you don't like to come on reward with me, +and run the same chance that I run, God be with you and make a saint +of you; for I shall find plenty of squires more obedient and +painstaking, and not so thickheaded or talkative as you are."</p> + +<p>When Sancho heard his master's firm, resolute language, a cloud came +over the sky with him and the wings of his heart drooped, for he had +made sure that his master would not go without him for all the +wealth of the world; and as he stood there dumbfoundered and moody, +Samson Carrasco came in with the housekeeper and niece, who were +anxious to hear by what arguments he was about to dissuade their +master from going to seek adventures. The arch wag Samson came +forward, and embracing him as he had done before, said with a loud +voice, "O flower of knight-errantry! O shining light of arms! O honour +and mirror of the Spanish nation! may God Almighty in his infinite +power grant that any person or persons, who would impede or hinder thy +third sally, may find no way out of the labyrinth of their schemes, +nor ever accomplish what they most desire!" And then, turning to the +housekeeper, he said, "Mistress housekeeper may just as well give over +saying the prayer of Santa Apollonia, for I know it is the positive +determination of the spheres that Senor Don Quixote shall proceed to +put into execution his new and lofty designs; and I should lay a heavy +burden on my conscience did I not urge and persuade this knight not to +keep the might of his strong arm and the virtue of his valiant +spirit any longer curbed and checked, for by his inactivity he is +defrauding the world of the redress of wrongs, of the protection of +orphans, of the honour of virgins, of the aid of widows, and of the +support of wives, and other matters of this kind appertaining, +belonging, proper and peculiar to the order of knight-errantry. On, +then, my lord Don Quixote, beautiful and brave, let your worship and +highness set out to-day rather than to-morrow; and if anything be +needed for the execution of your purpose, here am I ready in person +and purse to supply the want; and were it requisite to attend your +magnificence as squire, I should esteem it the happiest good fortune."</p> + +<p>At this, Don Quixote, turning to Sancho, said, "Did I not tell thee, +Sancho, there would be squires enough and to spare for me? See now who +offers to become one; no less than the illustrious bachelor Samson +Carrasco, the perpetual joy and delight of the courts of the +Salamancan schools, sound in body, discreet, patient under heat or +cold, hunger or thirst, with all the qualifications requisite to +make a knight-errant's squire! But heaven forbid that, to gratify my +own inclination, I should shake or shatter this pillar of letters +and vessel of the sciences, and cut down this towering palm of the +fair and liberal arts. Let this new Samson remain in his own +country, and, bringing honour to it, bring honour at the same time +on the grey heads of his venerable parents; for I will be content with +any squire that comes to hand, as Sancho does not deign to accompany +me."</p> + +<p>"I do deign," said Sancho, deeply moved and with tears in his +eyes; "it shall not be said of me, master mine," he continued, "'the +bread eaten and the company dispersed.' Nay, I come of no ungrateful +stock, for all the world knows, but particularly my own town, who +the Panzas from whom I am descended were; and, what is more, I know +and have learned, by many good words and deeds, your worship's +desire to show me favour; and if I have been bargaining more or less +about my wages, it was only to please my wife, who, when she sets +herself to press a point, no hammer drives the hoops of a cask as +she drives one to do what she wants; but, after all, a man must be a +man, and a woman a woman; and as I am a man anyhow, which I can't +deny, I will be one in my own house too, let who will take it amiss; +and so there's nothing more to do but for your worship to make your +will with its codicil in such a way that it can't be provoked, and let +us set out at once, to save Senor Samson's soul from suffering, as +he says his conscience obliges him to persuade your worship to sally +out upon the world a third time; so I offer again to serve your +worship faithfully and loyally, as well and better than all the +squires that served knights-errant in times past or present."</p> + +<p>The bachelor was filled with amazement when he heard Sancho's +phraseology and style of talk, for though he had read the first part +of his master's history he never thought that he could be so droll +as he was there described; but now, hearing him talk of a "will and +codicil that could not be provoked," instead of "will and codicil that +could not be revoked," he believed all he had read of him, and set him +down as one of the greatest simpletons of modern times; and he said to +himself that two such lunatics as master and man the world had never +seen. In fine, Don Quixote and Sancho embraced one another and made +friends, and by the advice and with the approval of the great +Carrasco, who was now their oracle, it was arranged that their +departure should take place three days thence, by which time they +could have all that was requisite for the journey ready, and procure a +closed helmet, which Don Quixote said he must by all means take. +Samson offered him one, as he knew a friend of his who had it would +not refuse it to him, though it was more dingy with rust and mildew +than bright and clean like burnished steel.</p> + +<p>The curses which both housekeeper and niece poured out on the +bachelor were past counting; they tore their hair, they clawed their +faces, and in the style of the hired mourners that were once in +fashion, they raised a lamentation over the departure of their +master and uncle, as if it had been his death. Samson's intention in +persuading him to sally forth once more was to do what the history +relates farther on; all by the advice of the curate and barber, with +whom he had previously discussed the subject. Finally, then, during +those three days, Don Quixote and Sancho provided themselves with what +they considered necessary, and Sancho having pacified his wife, and +Don Quixote his niece and housekeeper, at nightfall, unseen by +anyone except the bachelor, who thought fit to accompany them half a +league out of the village, they set out for El Toboso, Don Quixote +on his good Rocinante and Sancho on his old Dapple, his alforjas +furnished with certain matters in the way of victuals, and his purse +with money that Don Quixote gave him to meet emergencies. Samson +embraced him, and entreated him to let him hear of his good or evil +fortunes, so that he might rejoice over the former or condole with him +over the latter, as the laws of friendship required. Don Quixote +promised him he would do so, and Samson returned to the village, and +the other two took the road for the great city of El Toboso.</p> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p07e"></a><img alt="p07e.jpg (24K)" src="images/p07e.jpg" height="471" width="361"> +</center> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<br><br> +<center><h2><a name="ch8b"></a>CHAPTER VIII.</h2></center> +<br> +<center><h3>WHEREIN IS RELATED WHAT BEFELL DON QUIXOTE ON HIS WAY TO SEE HIS +LADY DULCINEA DEL TOBOSO +</h3></center> +<br> +<br> + +<center><a name="p08a"></a><img alt="p08a.jpg (65K)" src="images/p08a.jpg" height="278" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p08a.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<p>"Blessed be Allah the all-powerful!" says Hamete Benengeli on +beginning this eighth chapter; "blessed be Allah!" he repeats three +times; and he says he utters these thanksgivings at seeing that he has +now got Don Quixote and Sancho fairly afield, and that the readers +of his delightful history may reckon that the achievements and humours +of Don Quixote and his squire are now about to begin; and he urges +them to forget the former chivalries of the ingenious gentleman and to +fix their eyes on those that are to come, which now begin on the +road to El Toboso, as the others began on the plains of Montiel; nor +is it much that he asks in consideration of all he promises, and so he +goes on to say:</p> + +<p>Don Quixote and Sancho were left alone, and the moment Samson took +his departure, Rocinante began to neigh, and Dapple to sigh, which, by +both knight and squire, was accepted as a good sign and a very happy +omen; though, if the truth is to be told, the sighs and brays of +Dapple were louder than the neighings of the hack, from which Sancho +inferred that his good fortune was to exceed and overtop that of his +master, building, perhaps, upon some judicial astrology that he may +have known, though the history says nothing about it; all that can +be said is, that when he stumbled or fell, he was heard to say he +wished he had not come out, for by stumbling or falling there was +nothing to be got but a damaged shoe or a broken rib; and, fool as +he was, he was not much astray in this.</p> + +<p>Said Don Quixote, "Sancho, my friend, night is drawing on upon us as +we go, and more darkly than will allow us to reach El Toboso by +daylight; for there I am resolved to go before I engage in another +adventure, and there I shall obtain the blessing and generous +permission of the peerless Dulcinea, with which permission I expect +and feel assured that I shall conclude and bring to a happy +termination every perilous adventure; for nothing in life makes +knights-errant more valorous than finding themselves favoured by their +ladies."</p> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p08b"></a><img alt="p08b.jpg (283K)" src="images/p08b.jpg" height="516" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p08b.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<p>"So I believe," replied Sancho; "but I think it will be difficult +for your worship to speak with her or see her, at any rate where you +will be able to receive her blessing; unless, indeed, she throws it +over the wall of the yard where I saw her the time before, when I took +her the letter that told of the follies and mad things your worship +was doing in the heart of Sierra Morena."</p> + +<p>"Didst thou take that for a yard wall, Sancho," said Don Quixote, +"where or at which thou sawest that never sufficiently extolled +grace and beauty? It must have been the gallery, corridor, or +portico of some rich and royal palace."</p> + +<p>"It might have been all that," returned Sancho, "but to me it looked +like a wall, unless I am short of memory."</p> + +<p>"At all events, let us go there, Sancho," said Don Quixote; "for, so +that I see her, it is the same to me whether it be over a wall, or +at a window, or through the chink of a door, or the grate of a garden; +for any beam of the sun of her beauty that reaches my eyes will give +light to my reason and strength to my heart, so that I shall be +unmatched and unequalled in wisdom and valour."</p> + +<p>"Well, to tell the truth, senor," said Sancho, "when I saw that +sun of the lady Dulcinea del Toboso, it was not bright enough to throw +out beams at all; it must have been, that as her grace was sifting +that wheat I told you of, the thick dust she raised came before her +face like a cloud and dimmed it."</p> + +<p>"What! dost thou still persist, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "in +saying, thinking, believing, and maintaining that my lady Dulcinea was +sifting wheat, that being an occupation and task entirely at +variance with what is and should be the employment of persons of +distinction, who are constituted and reserved for other avocations and +pursuits that show their rank a bowshot off? Thou hast forgotten, O +Sancho, those lines of our poet wherein he paints for us how, in their +crystal abodes, those four nymphs employed themselves who rose from +their loved Tagus and seated themselves in a verdant meadow to +embroider those tissues which the ingenious poet there describes to +us, how they were worked and woven with gold and silk and pearls; +and something of this sort must have been the employment of my lady +when thou sawest her, only that the spite which some wicked +enchanter seems to have against everything of mine changes all those +things that give me pleasure, and turns them into shapes unlike +their own; and so I fear that in that history of my achievements which +they say is now in print, if haply its author was some sage who is +an enemy of mine, he will have put one thing for another, mingling a +thousand lies with one truth, and amusing himself by relating +transactions which have nothing to do with the sequence of a true +history. O envy, root of all countless evils, and cankerworm of the +virtues! All the vices, Sancho, bring some kind of pleasure with them; +but envy brings nothing but irritation, bitterness, and rage."</p> + +<p>"So I say too," replied Sancho; "and I suspect in that legend or +history of us that the bachelor Samson Carrasco told us he saw, my +honour goes dragged in the dirt, knocked about, up and down, +sweeping the streets, as they say. And yet, on the faith of an +honest man, I never spoke ill of any enchanter, and I am not so well +off that I am to be envied; to be sure, I am rather sly, and I have +a certain spice of the rogue in me; but all is covered by the great +cloak of my simplicity, always natural and never acted; and if I had +no other merit save that I believe, as I always do, firmly and truly +in God, and all the holy Roman Catholic Church holds and believes, and +that I am a mortal enemy of the Jews, the historians ought to have +mercy on me and treat me well in their writings. But let them say what +they like; naked was I born, naked I find myself, I neither lose nor +gain; nay, while I see myself put into a book and passed on from +hand to hand over the world, I don't care a fig, let them say what +they like of me."</p> + +<p>"That, Sancho," returned Don Quixote, "reminds me of what happened +to a famous poet of our own day, who, having written a bitter satire +against all the courtesan ladies, did not insert or name in it a +certain lady of whom it was questionable whether she was one or not. +She, seeing she was not in the list of the poet, asked him what he had +seen in her that he did not include her in the number of the others, +telling him he must add to his satire and put her in the new part, +or else look out for the consequences. The poet did as she bade him, +and left her without a shred of reputation, and she was satisfied by +getting fame though it was infamy. In keeping with this is what they +relate of that shepherd who set fire to the famous temple of Diana, by +repute one of the seven wonders of the world, and burned it with the +sole object of making his name live in after ages; and, though it +was forbidden to name him, or mention his name by word of mouth or +in writing, lest the object of his ambition should be attained, +nevertheless it became known that he was called Erostratus. And +something of the same sort is what happened in the case of the great +emperor Charles V and a gentleman in Rome. The emperor was anxious +to see that famous temple of the Rotunda, called in ancient times +the temple 'of all the gods,' but now-a-days, by a better +nomenclature, 'of all the saints,' which is the best preserved +building of all those of pagan construction in Rome, and the one which +best sustains the reputation of mighty works and magnificence of its +founders. It is in the form of a half orange, of enormous +dimensions, and well lighted, though no light penetrates it save +that which is admitted by a window, or rather round skylight, at the +top; and it was from this that the emperor examined the building. A +Roman gentleman stood by his side and explained to him the skilful +construction and ingenuity of the vast fabric and its wonderful +architecture, and when they had left the skylight he said to the +emperor, 'A thousand times, your Sacred Majesty, the impulse came upon +me to seize your Majesty in my arms and fling myself down from +yonder skylight, so as to leave behind me in the world a name that +would last for ever.' 'I am thankful to you for not carrying such an +evil thought into effect,' said the emperor, 'and I shall give you +no opportunity in future of again putting your loyalty to the test; +and I therefore forbid you ever to speak to me or to be where I am; +and he followed up these words by bestowing a liberal bounty upon him. +My meaning is, Sancho, that the desire of acquiring fame is a very +powerful motive. What, thinkest thou, was it that flung Horatius in +full armour down from the bridge into the depths of the Tiber? What +burned the hand and arm of Mutius? What impelled Curtius to plunge +into the deep burning gulf that opened in the midst of Rome? What, +in opposition to all the omens that declared against him, made +Julius Caesar cross the Rubicon? And to come to more modern +examples, what scuttled the ships, and left stranded and cut off the +gallant Spaniards under the command of the most courteous Cortes in +the New World? All these and a variety of other great exploits are, +were and will be, the work of fame that mortals desire as a reward and +a portion of the immortality their famous deeds deserve; though we +Catholic Christians and knights-errant look more to that future +glory that is everlasting in the ethereal regions of heaven than to +the vanity of the fame that is to be acquired in this present +transitory life; a fame that, however long it may last, must after all +end with the world itself, which has its own appointed end. So that, O +Sancho, in what we do we must not overpass the bounds which the +Christian religion we profess has assigned to us. We have to slay +pride in giants, envy by generosity and nobleness of heart, anger by +calmness of demeanour and equanimity, gluttony and sloth by the +spareness of our diet and the length of our vigils, lust and +lewdness by the loyalty we preserve to those whom we have made the +mistresses of our thoughts, indolence by traversing the world in all +directions seeking opportunities of making ourselves, besides +Christians, famous knights. Such, Sancho, are the means by which we +reach those extremes of praise that fair fame carries with it."</p> + +<p>"All that your worship has said so far," said Sancho, "I have +understood quite well; but still I would be glad if your worship would +dissolve a doubt for me, which has just this minute come into my +mind."</p> + +<p>"Solve, thou meanest, Sancho," said Don Quixote; "say on, in God's +name, and I will answer as well as I can."</p> + +<p>"Tell me, senor," Sancho went on to say, "those Julys or Augusts, +and all those venturous knights that you say are now dead—where are +they now?"</p> + +<p>"The heathens," replied Don Quixote, "are, no doubt, in hell; the +Christians, if they were good Christians, are either in purgatory or +in heaven."</p> + +<p>"Very good," said Sancho; "but now I want to know—the tombs where +the bodies of those great lords are, have they silver lamps before +them, or are the walls of their chapels ornamented with crutches, +winding-sheets, tresses of hair, legs and eyes in wax? Or what are +they ornamented with?"</p> + +<p>To which Don Quixote made answer: "The tombs of the heathens were +generally sumptuous temples; the ashes of Julius Caesar's body were +placed on the top of a stone pyramid of vast size, which they now call +in Rome Saint Peter's needle. The emperor Hadrian had for a tomb a +castle as large as a good-sized village, which they called the Moles +Adriani, and is now the castle of St. Angelo in Rome. The queen +Artemisia buried her husband Mausolus in a tomb which was reckoned one +of the seven wonders of the world; but none of these tombs, or of +the many others of the heathens, were ornamented with winding-sheets +or any of those other offerings and tokens that show that they who are +buried there are saints."</p> + +<p>"That's the point I'm coming to," said Sancho; "and now tell me, +which is the greater work, to bring a dead man to life or to kill a +giant?"</p> + +<p>"The answer is easy," replied Don Quixote; "it is a greater work +to bring to life a dead man."</p> + +<p>"Now I have got you," said Sancho; "in that case the fame of them +who bring the dead to life, who give sight to the blind, cure +cripples, restore health to the sick, and before whose tombs there are +lamps burning, and whose chapels are filled with devout folk on +their knees adoring their relics be a better fame in this life and +in the other than that which all the heathen emperors and +knights-errant that have ever been in the world have left or may leave +behind them?"</p> + +<p>"That I grant, too," said Don Quixote.</p> + +<p>"Then this fame, these favours, these privileges, or whatever you +call it," said Sancho, "belong to the bodies and relics of the +saints who, with the approbation and permission of our holy mother +Church, have lamps, tapers, winding-sheets, crutches, pictures, eyes +and legs, by means of which they increase devotion and add to their +own Christian reputation. Kings carry the bodies or relics of saints +on their shoulders, and kiss bits of their bones, and enrich and adorn +their oratories and favourite altars with them."</p> + +<p>"What wouldst thou have me infer from all thou hast said, Sancho?" +asked Don Quixote.</p> + +<p>"My meaning is," said Sancho, "let us set about becoming saints, and +we shall obtain more quickly the fair fame we are striving after; +for you know, senor, yesterday or the day before yesterday (for it +is so lately one may say so) they canonised and beatified two little +barefoot friars, and it is now reckoned the greatest good luck to kiss +or touch the iron chains with which they girt and tortured their +bodies, and they are held in greater veneration, so it is said, than +the sword of Roland in the armoury of our lord the King, whom God +preserve. So that, senor, it is better to be an humble little friar of +no matter what order, than a valiant knight-errant; with God a +couple of dozen of penance lashings are of more avail than two +thousand lance-thrusts, be they given to giants, or monsters, or +dragons."</p> + +<p>"All that is true," returned Don Quixote, "but we cannot all be +friars, and many are the ways by which God takes his own to heaven; +chivalry is a religion, there are sainted knights in glory."</p> + +<p>"Yes," said Sancho, "but I have heard say that there are more friars +in heaven than knights-errant."</p> + +<p>"That," said Don Quixote, "is because those in religious orders +are more numerous than knights."</p> + +<p>"The errants are many," said Sancho.</p> + +<p>"Many," replied Don Quixote, "but few they who deserve the name of +knights."</p> + +<p>With these, and other discussions of the same sort, they passed that +night and the following day, without anything worth mention +happening to them, whereat Don Quixote was not a little dejected; +but at length the next day, at daybreak, they descried the great +city of El Toboso, at the sight of which Don Quixote's spirits rose +and Sancho's fell, for he did not know Dulcinea's house, nor in all +his life had he ever seen her, any more than his master; so that +they were both uneasy, the one to see her, the other at not having +seen her, and Sancho was at a loss to know what he was to do when +his master sent him to El Toboso. In the end, Don Quixote made up +his mind to enter the city at nightfall, and they waited until the +time came among some oak trees that were near El Toboso; and when +the moment they had agreed upon arrived, they made their entrance into +the city, where something happened them that may fairly be called +something.</p> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p08e"></a><img alt="p08e.jpg (49K)" src="images/p08e.jpg" height="411" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p08e.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<br><br> +<center><h2><a name="ch9b"></a>CHAPTER IX.</h2></center> +<br> +<center><h3>WHEREIN IS RELATED WHAT WILL BE SEEN THERE +</h3></center> +<br> +<br> + +<center><a name="p09a"></a><img alt="p09a.jpg (79K)" src="images/p09a.jpg" height="253" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p09a.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<p>'Twas at the very midnight hour—more or less—when Don Quixote +and Sancho quitted the wood and entered El Toboso. The town was in +deep silence, for all the inhabitants were asleep, and stretched on +the broad of their backs, as the saying is. The night was darkish, +though Sancho would have been glad had it been quite dark, so as to +find in the darkness an excuse for his blundering. All over the +place nothing was to be heard except the barking of dogs, which +deafened the ears of Don Quixote and troubled the heart of Sancho. Now +and then an ass brayed, pigs grunted, cats mewed, and the various +noises they made seemed louder in the silence of the night; all +which the enamoured knight took to be of evil omen; nevertheless he +said to Sancho, "Sancho, my son, lead on to the palace of Dulcinea, it +may be that we shall find her awake."</p> + +<p>"Body of the sun! what palace am I to lead to," said Sancho, "when +what I saw her highness in was only a very little house?"</p> + +<p>"Most likely she had then withdrawn into some small apartment of her +palace," said Don Quixote, "to amuse herself with damsels, as great +ladies and princesses are accustomed to do."</p> + +<p>"Senor," said Sancho, "if your worship will have it in spite of me +that the house of my lady Dulcinea is a palace, is this an hour, think +you, to find the door open; and will it be right for us to go knocking +till they hear us and open the door; making a disturbance and +confusion all through the household? Are we going, do you fancy, to +the house of our wenches, like gallants who come and knock and go in +at any hour, however late it may be?"</p> + +<p>"Let us first of all find out the palace for certain," replied Don +Quixote, "and then I will tell thee, Sancho, what we had best do; +but look, Sancho, for either I see badly, or that dark mass that one +sees from here should be Dulcinea's palace."</p> + +<p>"Then let your worship lead the way," said Sancho, "perhaps it may +be so; though I see it with my eyes and touch it with my hands, I'll +believe it as much as I believe it is daylight now."</p> + +<p>Don Quixote took the lead, and having gone a matter of two hundred +paces he came upon the mass that produced the shade, and found it +was a great tower, and then he perceived that the building in question +was no palace, but the chief church of the town, and said he, "It's +the church we have lit upon, Sancho."</p> + +<p>"So I see," said Sancho, "and God grant we may not light upon our +graves; it is no good sign to find oneself wandering in a graveyard at +this time of night; and that, after my telling your worship, if I +don't mistake, that the house of this lady will be in an alley without +an outlet."</p> + +<p>"The curse of God on thee for a blockhead!" said Don Quixote; "where +hast thou ever heard of castles and royal palaces being built in +alleys without an outlet?"</p> + +<p>"Senor," replied Sancho, "every country has a way of its own; +perhaps here in El Toboso it is the way to build palaces and grand +buildings in alleys; so I entreat your worship to let me search +about among these streets or alleys before me, and perhaps, in some +corner or other, I may stumble on this palace—and I wish I saw the +dogs eating it for leading us such a dance."</p> + +<p>"Speak respectfully of what belongs to my lady, Sancho," said Don +Quixote; "let us keep the feast in peace, and not throw the rope after +the bucket."</p> + +<p>"I'll hold my tongue," said Sancho, "but how am I to take it +patiently when your worship wants me, with only once seeing the +house of our mistress, to know always, and find it in the middle of +the night, when your worship can't find it, who must have seen it +thousands of times?"</p> + +<p>"Thou wilt drive me to desperation, Sancho," said Don Quixote. "Look +here, heretic, have I not told thee a thousand times that I have never +once in my life seen the peerless Dulcinea or crossed the threshold of +her palace, and that I am enamoured solely by hearsay and by the great +reputation she bears for beauty and discretion?"</p> + +<p>"I hear it now," returned Sancho; "and I may tell you that if you +have not seen her, no more have I."</p> + +<p>"That cannot be," said Don Quixote, "for, at any rate, thou +saidst, on bringing back the answer to the letter I sent by thee, that +thou sawest her sifting wheat."</p> + +<p>"Don't mind that, senor," said Sancho; "I must tell you that my +seeing her and the answer I brought you back were by hearsay too, +for I can no more tell who the lady Dulcinea is than I can hit the +sky."</p> + +<p>"Sancho, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "there are times for jests and +times when jests are out of place; if I tell thee that I have +neither seen nor spoken to the lady of my heart, it is no reason why +thou shouldst say thou hast not spoken to her or seen her, when the +contrary is the case, as thou well knowest."</p> + +<p>While the two were engaged in this conversation, they perceived some +one with a pair of mules approaching the spot where they stood, and +from the noise the plough made, as it dragged along the ground, they +guessed him to be some labourer who had got up before daybreak to go +to his work, and so it proved to be. He came along singing the +ballad that says-</p> + +<p>Ill did ye fare, ye men of France, + In Roncesvalles chase-</p> + +<p> +"May I die, Sancho," said Don Quixote, when he heard him, "if any +good will come to us tonight! Dost thou not hear what that clown is +singing?"</p> + +<p>"I do," said Sancho, "but what has Roncesvalles chase to do with +what we have in hand? He might just as well be singing the ballad of +Calainos, for any good or ill that can come to us in our business."</p> + +<p>By this time the labourer had come up, and Don Quixote asked him, +"Can you tell me, worthy friend, and God speed you, whereabouts here +is the palace of the peerless princess Dona Dulcinea del Toboso?"</p> + +<p>"Senor," replied the lad, "I am a stranger, and I have been only a +few days in the town, doing farm work for a rich farmer. In that house +opposite there live the curate of the village and the sacristan, and +both or either of them will be able to give your worship some +account of this lady princess, for they have a list of all the +people of El Toboso; though it is my belief there is not a princess +living in the whole of it; many ladies there are, of quality, and in +her own house each of them may be a princess."</p> + +<p>"Well, then, she I am inquiring for will be one of these, my +friend," said Don Quixote.</p> + +<p>"May be so," replied the lad; "God be with you, for here comes the +daylight;" and without waiting for any more of his questions, he +whipped on his mules.</p> + +<p>Sancho, seeing his master downcast and somewhat dissatisfied, said +to him, "Senor, daylight will be here before long, and it will not +do for us to let the sun find us in the street; it will be better +for us to quit the city, and for your worship to hide in some forest +in the neighbourhood, and I will come back in the daytime, and I won't +leave a nook or corner of the whole village that I won't search for +the house, castle, or palace, of my lady, and it will be hard luck for +me if I don't find it; and as soon as I have found it I will speak +to her grace, and tell her where and how your worship is waiting for +her to arrange some plan for you to see her without any damage to +her honour and reputation."</p> + +<p>"Sancho," said Don Quixote, "thou hast delivered a thousand +sentences condensed in the compass of a few words; I thank thee for +the advice thou hast given me, and take it most gladly. Come, my +son, let us go look for some place where I may hide, while thou dost +return, as thou sayest, to seek, and speak with my lady, from whose +discretion and courtesy I look for favours more than miraculous."</p> + +<p> Sancho was in a fever to get his master out of the town, lest he +should discover the falsehood of the reply he had brought to him in +the Sierra Morena on behalf of Dulcinea; so he hastened their +departure, which they took at once, and two miles out of the village +they found a forest or thicket wherein Don Quixote ensconced +himself, while Sancho returned to the city to speak to Dulcinea, in +which embassy things befell him which demand fresh attention and a new +chapter.</p> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p09e"></a><img alt="p09e.jpg (34K)" src="images/p09e.jpg" height="551" width="495"> +</center> +<br><br><br><br> + + + +<br><br> +<center><h2><a name="ch10b"></a>CHAPTER X.</h2></center> +<br> +<center><h3>WHEREIN IS RELATED THE CRAFTY DEVICE SANCHO ADOPTED TO ENCHANT THE +LADY DULCINEA, AND OTHER INCIDENTS AS LUDICROUS AS THEY ARE TRUE +</h3></center> +<br> +<br> + +<center><a name="p10a"></a><img alt="p10a.jpg (142K)" src="images/p10a.jpg" height="413" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p10a.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<p>When the author of this great history comes to relate what is set +down in this chapter he says he would have preferred to pass it over +in silence, fearing it would not be believed, because here Don +Quixote's madness reaches the confines of the greatest that can be +conceived, and even goes a couple of bowshots beyond the greatest. But +after all, though still under the same fear and apprehension, he has +recorded it without adding to the story or leaving out a particle of +the truth, and entirely disregarding the charges of falsehood that +might be brought against him; and he was right, for the truth may +run fine but will not break, and always rises above falsehood as oil +above water; and so, going on with his story, he says that as soon +as Don Quixote had ensconced himself in the forest, oak grove, or wood +near El Toboso, he bade Sancho return to the city, and not come into +his presence again without having first spoken on his behalf to his +lady, and begged of her that it might be her good pleasure to permit +herself to be seen by her enslaved knight, and deign to bestow her +blessing upon him, so that he might thereby hope for a happy issue +in all his encounters and difficult enterprises. Sancho undertook to +execute the task according to the instructions, and to bring back an +answer as good as the one he brought back before.</p> + +<p>"Go, my son," said Don Quixote, "and be not dazed when thou +findest thyself exposed to the light of that sun of beauty thou art +going to seek. Happy thou, above all the squires in the world! Bear in +mind, and let it not escape thy memory, how she receives thee; if +she changes colour while thou art giving her my message; if she is +agitated and disturbed at hearing my name; if she cannot rest upon her +cushion, shouldst thou haply find her seated in the sumptuous state +chamber proper to her rank; and should she be standing, observe if she +poises herself now on one foot, now on the other; if she repeats two +or three times the reply she gives thee; if she passes from gentleness +to austerity, from asperity to tenderness; if she raises her hand to +smooth her hair though it be not disarranged. In short, my son, +observe all her actions and motions, for if thou wilt report them to +me as they were, I will gather what she hides in the recesses of her +heart as regards my love; for I would have thee know, Sancho, if +thou knowest it not, that with lovers the outward actions and +motions they give way to when their loves are in question are the +faithful messengers that carry the news of what is going on in the +depths of their hearts. Go, my friend, may better fortune than mine +attend thee, and bring thee a happier issue than that which I await in +dread in this dreary solitude."</p> + +<p>"I will go and return quickly," said Sancho; "cheer up that little +heart of yours, master mine, for at the present moment you seem to +have got one no bigger than a hazel nut; remember what they say, +that a stout heart breaks bad luck, and that where there are no +fletches there are no pegs; and moreover they say, the hare jumps up +where it's not looked for. I say this because, if we could not find my +lady's palaces or castles to-night, now that it is daylight I count +upon finding them when I least expect it, and once found, leave it +to me to manage her."</p> + +<p>"Verily, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "thou dost always bring in thy +proverbs happily, whatever we deal with; may God give me better luck +in what I am anxious about."</p> + +<p>With this, Sancho wheeled about and gave Dapple the stick, and Don +Quixote remained behind, seated on his horse, resting in his +stirrups and leaning on the end of his lance, filled with sad and +troubled forebodings; and there we will leave him, and accompany +Sancho, who went off no less serious and troubled than he left his +master; so much so, that as soon as he had got out of the thicket, and +looking round saw that Don Quixote was not within sight, he dismounted +from his ass, and seating himself at the foot of a tree began to +commune with himself, saying, "Now, brother Sancho, let us know +where your worship is going. Are you going to look for some ass that +has been lost? Not at all. Then what are you going to look for? I am +going to look for a princess, that's all; and in her for the sun of +beauty and the whole heaven at once. And where do you expect to find +all this, Sancho? Where? Why, in the great city of El Toboso. Well, +and for whom are you going to look for her? For the famous knight +Don Quixote of La Mancha, who rights wrongs, gives food to those who +thirst and drink to the hungry. That's all very well, but do you +know her house, Sancho? My master says it will be some royal palace or +grand castle. And have you ever seen her by any chance? Neither I +nor my master ever saw her. And does it strike you that it would be +just and right if the El Toboso people, finding out that you were here +with the intention of going to tamper with their princesses and +trouble their ladies, were to come and cudgel your ribs, and not leave +a whole bone in you? They would, indeed, have very good reason, if +they did not see that I am under orders, and that 'you are a +messenger, my friend, no blame belongs to you.' Don't you trust to +that, Sancho, for the Manchegan folk are as hot-tempered as they are +honest, and won't put up with liberties from anybody. By the Lord, +if they get scent of you, it will be worse for you, I promise you. +Be off, you scoundrel! Let the bolt fall. Why should I go looking +for three feet on a cat, to please another man; and what is more, when +looking for Dulcinea will be looking for Marica in Ravena, or the +bachelor in Salamanca? The devil, the devil and nobody else, has mixed +me up in this business!"</p> + +<p>Such was the soliloquy Sancho held with himself, and all the +conclusion he could come to was to say to himself again, "Well, +there's remedy for everything except death, under whose yoke we have +all to pass, whether we like it or not, when life's finished. I have +seen by a thousand signs that this master of mine is a madman fit to +be tied, and for that matter, I too, am not behind him; for I'm a +greater fool than he is when I follow him and serve him, if there's +any truth in the proverb that says, 'Tell me what company thou +keepest, and I'll tell thee what thou art,' or in that other, 'Not +with whom thou art bred, but with whom thou art fed.' Well then, if he +be mad, as he is, and with a madness that mostly takes one thing for +another, and white for black, and black for white, as was seen when he +said the windmills were giants, and the monks' mules dromedaries, +flocks of sheep armies of enemies, and much more to the same tune, +it will not be very hard to make him believe that some country girl, +the first I come across here, is the lady Dulcinea; and if he does not +believe it, I'll swear it; and if he should swear, I'll swear again; +and if he persists I'll persist still more, so as, come what may, to +have my quoit always over the peg. Maybe, by holding out in this +way, I may put a stop to his sending me on messages of this kind +another time; or maybe he will think, as I suspect he will, that one +of those wicked enchanters, who he says have a spite against him, +has changed her form for the sake of doing him an ill turn and +injuring him."</p> + +<p>With this reflection Sancho made his mind easy, counting the +business as good as settled, and stayed there till the afternoon so as +to make Don Quixote think he had time enough to go to El Toboso and +return; and things turned out so luckily for him that as he got up +to mount Dapple, he spied, coming from El Toboso towards the spot +where he stood, three peasant girls on three colts, or fillies—for +the author does not make the point clear, though it is more likely +they were she-asses, the usual mount with village girls; but as it +is of no great consequence, we need not stop to prove it.</p> + +<p>To be brief, the instant Sancho saw the peasant girls, he returned +full speed to seek his master, and found him sighing and uttering a +thousand passionate lamentations. When Don Quixote saw him he +exclaimed, "What news, Sancho, my friend? Am I to mark this day with a +white stone or a black?"</p> + +<p>"Your worship," replied Sancho, "had better mark it with ruddle, +like the inscriptions on the walls of class rooms, that those who +see it may see it plain."</p> + +<p>"Then thou bringest good news," said Don Quixote.</p> + +<p>"So good," replied Sancho, "that your worship has only to spur +Rocinante and get out into the open field to see the lady Dulcinea del +Toboso, who, with two others, damsels of hers, is coming to see your +worship."</p> + +<p>"Holy God! what art thou saying, Sancho, my friend?" exclaimed Don +Quixote. "Take care thou art not deceiving me, or seeking by false joy +to cheer my real sadness."</p> + +<p>"What could I get by deceiving your worship," returned Sancho, +"especially when it will so soon be shown whether I tell the truth +or not? Come, senor, push on, and you will see the princess our +mistress coming, robed and adorned—in fact, like what she is. Her +damsels and she are all one glow of gold, all bunches of pearls, all +diamonds, all rubies, all cloth of brocade of more than ten borders; +with their hair loose on their shoulders like so many sunbeams playing +with the wind; and moreover, they come mounted on three piebald +cackneys, the finest sight ever you saw."</p> + +<p>"Hackneys, you mean, Sancho," said Don Quixote.</p> + +<p>"There is not much difference between cackneys and hackneys," said +Sancho; "but no matter what they come on, there they are, the finest +ladies one could wish for, especially my lady the princess Dulcinea, +who staggers one's senses."</p> + +<p>"Let us go, Sancho, my son," said Don Quixote, "and in guerdon of +this news, as unexpected as it is good, I bestow upon thee the best +spoil I shall win in the first adventure I may have; or if that does +not satisfy thee, I promise thee the foals I shall have this year from +my three mares that thou knowest are in foal on our village common."</p> + +<p>"I'll take the foals," said Sancho; "for it is not quite certain +that the spoils of the first adventure will be good ones."</p> + +<p>By this time they had cleared the wood, and saw the three village +lasses close at hand. Don Quixote looked all along the road to El +Toboso, and as he could see nobody except the three peasant girls, +he was completely puzzled, and asked Sancho if it was outside the city +he had left them.</p> + +<p>"How outside the city?" returned Sancho. "Are your worship's eyes in +the back of your head, that you can't see that they are these who +are coming here, shining like the very sun at noonday?"</p> + +<p>"I see nothing, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "but three country +girls on three jackasses."</p> + +<p>"Now, may God deliver me from the devil!" said Sancho, "and can it +be that your worship takes three hackneys—or whatever they're +called—as white as the driven snow, for jackasses? By the Lord, I could +tear my beard if that was the case!"</p> + +<p>"Well, I can only say, Sancho, my friend," said Don Quixote, "that +it is as plain they are jackasses—or jennyasses—as that I am Don +Quixote, and thou Sancho Panza: at any rate, they seem to me to be +so."</p> + +<p>"Hush, senor," said Sancho, "don't talk that way, but open your +eyes, and come and pay your respects to the lady of your thoughts, who +is close upon us now;" and with these words he advanced to receive the +three village lasses, and dismounting from Dapple, caught hold of +one of the asses of the three country girls by the halter, and +dropping on both knees on the ground, he said, "Queen and princess and +duchess of beauty, may it please your haughtiness and greatness to +receive into your favour and good-will your captive knight who +stands there turned into marble stone, and quite stupefied and +benumbed at finding himself in your magnificent presence. I am +Sancho Panza, his squire, and he the vagabond knight Don Quixote of La +Mancha, otherwise called 'The Knight of the Rueful Countenance.'"</p> + +<p>Don Quixote had by this time placed himself on his knees beside +Sancho, and, with eyes starting out of his head and a puzzled gaze, +was regarding her whom Sancho called queen and lady; and as he could +see nothing in her except a village lass, and not a very well-favoured +one, for she was platter-faced and snub-nosed, he was perplexed and +bewildered, and did not venture to open his lips. The country girls, +at the same time, were astonished to see these two men, so different +in appearance, on their knees, preventing their companion from going +on. She, however, who had been stopped, breaking silence, said angrily +and testily, "Get out of the way, bad luck to you, and let us pass, +for we are in a hurry."</p> + + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p10b"></a><img alt="p10b.jpg (319K)" src="images/p10b.jpg" height="511" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p10b.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<p>To which Sancho returned, "Oh, princess and universal lady of El +Toboso, is not your magnanimous heart softened by seeing the pillar +and prop of knight-errantry on his knees before your sublimated +presence?"</p> + +<p>On hearing this, one of the others exclaimed, "Woa then! why, I'm +rubbing thee down, she-ass of my father-in-law! See how the +lordlings come to make game of the village girls now, as if we here +could not chaff as well as themselves. Go your own way, and let us +go ours, and it will be better for you."</p> + +<p>"Get up, Sancho," said Don Quixote at this; "I see that fortune, +'with evil done to me unsated still,' has taken possession of all +the roads by which any comfort may reach 'this wretched soul' that I +carry in my flesh. And thou, highest perfection of excellence that can +be desired, utmost limit of grace in human shape, sole relief of +this afflicted heart that adores thee, though the malign enchanter +that persecutes me has brought clouds and cataracts on my eyes, and to +them, and them only, transformed thy unparagoned beauty and changed +thy features into those of a poor peasant girl, if so be he has not at +the same time changed mine into those of some monster to render them +loathsome in thy sight, refuse not to look upon me with tenderness and +love; seeing in this submission that I make on my knees to thy +transformed beauty the humility with which my soul adores thee."</p> + +<p>"Hey-day! My grandfather!" cried the girl, "much I care for your +love-making! Get out of the way and let us pass, and we'll thank you."</p> + +<p>Sancho stood aside and let her go, very well pleased to have got +so well out of the hobble he was in. The instant the village lass +who had done duty for Dulcinea found herself free, prodding her +"cackney" with a spike she had at the end of a stick, she set off at +full speed across the field. The she-ass, however, feeling the point +more acutely than usual, began cutting such capers, that it flung +the lady Dulcinea to the ground; seeing which, Don Quixote ran to +raise her up, and Sancho to fix and girth the pack-saddle, which +also had slipped under the ass's belly. The pack-saddle being secured, +as Don Quixote was about to lift up his enchanted mistress in his arms +and put her upon her beast, the lady, getting up from the ground, +saved him the trouble, for, going back a little, she took a short run, +and putting both hands on the croup of the ass she dropped into the +saddle more lightly than a falcon, and sat astride like a man, whereat +Sancho said, "Rogue! but our lady is lighter than a lanner, and might +teach the cleverest Cordovan or Mexican how to mount; she cleared +the back of the saddle in one jump, and without spurs she is making +the hackney go like a zebra; and her damsels are no way behind her, +for they all fly like the wind;" which was the truth, for as soon as +they saw Dulcinea mounted, they pushed on after her, and sped away +without looking back, for more than half a league.</p> + +<p>Don Quixote followed them with his eyes, and when they were no +longer in sight, he turned to Sancho and said, "How now, Sancho? +thou seest how I am hated by enchanters! And see to what a length +the malice and spite they bear me go, when they seek to deprive me +of the happiness it would give me to see my lady in her own proper +form. The fact is I was born to be an example of misfortune, and the +target and mark at which the arrows of adversity are aimed and +directed. Observe too, Sancho, that these traitors were not content +with changing and transforming my Dulcinea, but they transformed and +changed her into a shape as mean and ill-favoured as that of the +village girl yonder; and at the same time they robbed her of that +which is such a peculiar property of ladies of distinction, that is to +say, the sweet fragrance that comes of being always among perfumes and +flowers. For I must tell thee, Sancho, that when I approached to put +Dulcinea upon her hackney (as thou sayest it was, though to me it +appeared a she-ass), she gave me a whiff of raw garlic that made my +head reel, and poisoned my very heart."</p> + +<p>"O scum of the earth!" cried Sancho at this, "O miserable, +spiteful enchanters! O that I could see you all strung by the gills, +like sardines on a twig! Ye know a great deal, ye can do a great deal, +and ye do a great deal more. It ought to have been enough for you, +ye scoundrels, to have changed the pearls of my lady's eyes into oak +galls, and her hair of purest gold into the bristles of a red ox's +tail, and in short, all her features from fair to foul, without +meddling with her smell; for by that we might somehow have found out +what was hidden underneath that ugly rind; though, to tell the +truth, I never perceived her ugliness, but only her beauty, which +was raised to the highest pitch of perfection by a mole she had on her +right lip, like a moustache, with seven or eight red hairs like +threads of gold, and more than a palm long."</p> + +<p>"From the correspondence which exists between those of the face +and those of the body," said Don Quixote, "Dulcinea must have +another mole resembling that on the thick of the thigh on that side on +which she has the one on her ace; but hairs of the length thou hast +mentioned are very long for moles."</p> + +<p>"Well, all I can say is there they were as plain as could be," +replied Sancho.</p> + +<p>"I believe it, my friend," returned Don Quixote; "for nature +bestowed nothing on Dulcinea that was not perfect and well-finished; +and so, if she had a hundred moles like the one thou hast described, +in her they would not be moles, but moons and shining stars. But +tell me, Sancho, that which seemed to me to be a pack-saddle as thou +wert fixing it, was it a flat-saddle or a side-saddle?"</p> + +<p>"It was neither," replied Sancho, "but a jineta saddle, with a field +covering worth half a kingdom, so rich is it."</p> + +<p>"And that I could not see all this, Sancho!" said Don Quixote; "once +more I say, and will say a thousand times, I am the most unfortunate +of men."</p> + +<p>Sancho, the rogue, had enough to do to hide his laughter, at hearing +the simplicity of the master he had so nicely befooled. At length, +after a good deal more conversation had passed between them, they +remounted their beasts, and followed the road to Saragossa, which they +expected to reach in time to take part in a certain grand festival +which is held every year in that illustrious city; but before they got +there things happened to them, so many, so important, and so +strange, that they deserve to be recorded and read, as will be seen +farther on.</p> +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p10e"></a><img alt="p10e.jpg (56K)" src="images/p10e.jpg" height="307" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p10e.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> + + +<br> +<br> +<hr> +<br><br> + + + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The History of Don Quixote, Vol. II., +Part 20, by Miguel de Cervantes + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DON QUIXOTE, PART 20 *** + +***** This file should be named 5923-h.htm or 5923-h.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/5/9/2/5923/ + +Produced by David Widger + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: The History of Don Quixote, Vol. II., Part 20 + +Author: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra + +Release Date: July 21, 2004 [EBook #5923] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DON QUIXOTE, PART 20 *** + + + + +Produced by David Widger + + + + + + DON QUIXOTE + + Volume II. + + Part 20. + + by Miguel de Cervantes + + + Translated by John Ormsby + + + +CHAPTER VI. + +OF WHAT TOOK PLACE BETWEEN DON QUIXOTE AND HIS NIECE AND HOUSEKEEPER; ONE +OF THE MOST IMPORTANT CHAPTERS IN THE WHOLE HISTORY + + +While Sancho Panza and his wife, Teresa Cascajo, held the above +irrelevant conversation, Don Quixote's niece and housekeeper were not +idle, for by a thousand signs they began to perceive that their uncle and +master meant to give them the slip the third time, and once more betake +himself to his, for them, ill-errant chivalry. They strove by all the +means in their power to divert him from such an unlucky scheme; but it +was all preaching in the desert and hammering cold iron. Nevertheless, +among many other representations made to him, the housekeeper said to +him, "In truth, master, if you do not keep still and stay quiet at home, +and give over roaming mountains and valleys like a troubled spirit, +looking for what they say are called adventures, but what I call +misfortunes, I shall have to make complaint to God and the king with loud +supplication to send some remedy." + +To which Don Quixote replied, "What answer God will give to your +complaints, housekeeper, I know not, nor what his Majesty will answer +either; I only know that if I were king I should decline to answer the +numberless silly petitions they present every day; for one of the +greatest among the many troubles kings have is being obliged to listen to +all and answer all, and therefore I should be sorry that any affairs of +mine should worry him." + +Whereupon the housekeeper said, "Tell us, senor, at his Majesty's court +are there no knights?" + +"There are," replied Don Quixote, "and plenty of them; and it is right +there should be, to set off the dignity of the prince, and for the +greater glory of the king's majesty." + +"Then might not your worship," said she, "be one of those that, without +stirring a step, serve their king and lord in his court?" + +"Recollect, my friend," said Don Quixote, "all knights cannot be +courtiers, nor can all courtiers be knights-errant, nor need they be. +There must be all sorts in the world; and though we may be all knights, +there is a great difference between one and another; for the courtiers, +without quitting their chambers, or the threshold of the court, range the +world over by looking at a map, without its costing them a farthing, and +without suffering heat or cold, hunger or thirst; but we, the true +knights-errant, measure the whole earth with our own feet, exposed to the +sun, to the cold, to the air, to the inclemencies of heaven, by day and +night, on foot and on horseback; nor do we only know enemies in pictures, +but in their own real shapes; and at all risks and on all occasions we +attack them, without any regard to childish points or rules of single +combat, whether one has or has not a shorter lance or sword, whether one +carries relics or any secret contrivance about him, whether or not the +sun is to be divided and portioned out, and other niceties of the sort +that are observed in set combats of man to man, that you know nothing +about, but I do. And you must know besides, that the true knight-errant, +though he may see ten giants, that not only touch the clouds with their +heads but pierce them, and that go, each of them, on two tall towers by +way of legs, and whose arms are like the masts of mighty ships, and each +eye like a great mill-wheel, and glowing brighter than a glass furnace, +must not on any account be dismayed by them. On the contrary, he must +attack and fall upon them with a gallant bearing and a fearless heart, +and, if possible, vanquish and destroy them, even though they have for +armour the shells of a certain fish, that they say are harder than +diamonds, and in place of swords wield trenchant blades of Damascus +steel, or clubs studded with spikes also of steel, such as I have more +than once seen. All this I say, housekeeper, that you may see the +difference there is between the one sort of knight and the other; and it +would be well if there were no prince who did not set a higher value on +this second, or more properly speaking first, kind of knights-errant; +for, as we read in their histories, there have been some among them who +have been the salvation, not merely of one kingdom, but of many." + +"Ah, senor," here exclaimed the niece, "remember that all this you are +saying about knights-errant is fable and fiction; and their histories, if +indeed they were not burned, would deserve, each of them, to have a +sambenito put on it, or some mark by which it might be known as infamous +and a corrupter of good manners." + +"By the God that gives me life," said Don Quixote, "if thou wert not my +full niece, being daughter of my own sister, I would inflict a +chastisement upon thee for the blasphemy thou hast uttered that all the +world should ring with. What! can it be that a young hussy that hardly +knows how to handle a dozen lace-bobbins dares to wag her tongue and +criticise the histories of knights-errant? What would Senor Amadis say if +he heard of such a thing? He, however, no doubt would forgive thee, for +he was the most humble-minded and courteous knight of his time, and +moreover a great protector of damsels; but some there are that might have +heard thee, and it would not have been well for thee in that case; for +they are not all courteous or mannerly; some are ill-conditioned +scoundrels; nor is it everyone that calls himself a gentleman, that is so +in all respects; some are gold, others pinchbeck, and all look like +gentlemen, but not all can stand the touchstone of truth. There are men +of low rank who strain themselves to bursting to pass for gentlemen, and +high gentlemen who, one would fancy, were dying to pass for men of low +rank; the former raise themselves by their ambition or by their virtues, +the latter debase themselves by their lack of spirit or by their vices; +and one has need of experience and discernment to distinguish these two +kinds of gentlemen, so much alike in name and so different in conduct." + +"God bless me!" said the niece, "that you should know so much, +uncle--enough, if need be, to get up into a pulpit and go preach in the +streets--and yet that you should fall into a delusion so great and a +folly so manifest as to try to make yourself out vigorous when you are +old, strong when you are sickly, able to put straight what is crooked +when you yourself are bent by age, and, above all, a caballero when you +are not one; for though gentlefolk may be so, poor men are nothing of the +kind!" + +"There is a great deal of truth in what you say, niece," returned Don +Quixote, "and I could tell you somewhat about birth that would astonish +you; but, not to mix up things human and divine, I refrain. Look you, my +dears, all the lineages in the world (attend to what I am saying) can be +reduced to four sorts, which are these: those that had humble beginnings, +and went on spreading and extending themselves until they attained +surpassing greatness; those that had great beginnings and maintained +them, and still maintain and uphold the greatness of their origin; those, +again, that from a great beginning have ended in a point like a pyramid, +having reduced and lessened their original greatness till it has come to +nought, like the point of a pyramid, which, relatively to its base or +foundation, is nothing; and then there are those--and it is they that are +the most numerous--that have had neither an illustrious beginning nor a +remarkable mid-course, and so will have an end without a name, like an +ordinary plebeian line. Of the first, those that had an humble origin and +rose to the greatness they still preserve, the Ottoman house may serve as +an example, which from an humble and lowly shepherd, its founder, has +reached the height at which we now see it. For examples of the second +sort of lineage, that began with greatness and maintains it still without +adding to it, there are the many princes who have inherited the dignity, +and maintain themselves in their inheritance, without increasing or +diminishing it, keeping peacefully within the limits of their states. Of +those that began great and ended in a point, there are thousands of +examples, for all the Pharaohs and Ptolemies of Egypt, the Caesars of +Rome, and the whole herd (if I may such a word to them) of countless +princes, monarchs, lords, Medes, Assyrians, Persians, Greeks, and +barbarians, all these lineages and lordships have ended in a point and +come to nothing, they themselves as well as their founders, for it would +be impossible now to find one of their descendants, and, even should we +find one, it would be in some lowly and humble condition. Of plebeian +lineages I have nothing to say, save that they merely serve to swell the +number of those that live, without any eminence to entitle them to any +fame or praise beyond this. From all I have said I would have you gather, +my poor innocents, that great is the confusion among lineages, and that +only those are seen to be great and illustrious that show themselves so +by the virtue, wealth, and generosity of their possessors. I have said +virtue, wealth, and generosity, because a great man who is vicious will +be a great example of vice, and a rich man who is not generous will be +merely a miserly beggar; for the possessor of wealth is not made happy by +possessing it, but by spending it, and not by spending as he pleases, but +by knowing how to spend it well. The poor gentleman has no way of showing +that he is a gentleman but by virtue, by being affable, well-bred, +courteous, gentle-mannered, and kindly, not haughty, arrogant, or +censorious, but above all by being charitable; for by two maravedis given +with a cheerful heart to the poor, he will show himself as generous as he +who distributes alms with bell-ringing, and no one that perceives him to +be endowed with the virtues I have named, even though he know him not, +will fail to recognise and set him down as one of good blood; and it +would be strange were it not so; praise has ever been the reward of +virtue, and those who are virtuous cannot fail to receive commendation. +There are two roads, my daughters, by which men may reach wealth and +honours; one is that of letters, the other that of arms. I have more of +arms than of letters in my composition, and, judging by my inclination to +arms, was born under the influence of the planet Mars. I am, therefore, +in a measure constrained to follow that road, and by it I must travel in +spite of all the world, and it will be labour in vain for you to urge me +to resist what heaven wills, fate ordains, reason requires, and, above +all, my own inclination favours; for knowing as I do the countless toils +that are the accompaniments of knight-errantry, I know, too, the infinite +blessings that are attained by it; I know that the path of virtue is very +narrow, and the road of vice broad and spacious; I know their ends and +goals are different, for the broad and easy road of vice ends in death, +and the narrow and toilsome one of virtue in life, and not transitory +life, but in that which has no end; I know, as our great Castilian poet +says, that-- + +It is by rugged paths like these they go +That scale the heights of immortality, +Unreached by those that falter here below." + +"Woe is me!" exclaimed the niece, "my lord is a poet, too! He knows +everything, and he can do everything; I will bet, if he chose to turn +mason, he could make a house as easily as a cage." + +"I can tell you, niece," replied Don Quixote, "if these chivalrous +thoughts did not engage all my faculties, there would be nothing that I +could not do, nor any sort of knickknack that would not come from my +hands, particularly cages and tooth-picks." + +At this moment there came a knocking at the door, and when they asked who +was there, Sancho Panza made answer that it was he. The instant the +housekeeper knew who it was, she ran to hide herself so as not to see +him; in such abhorrence did she hold him. The niece let him in, and his +master Don Quixote came forward to receive him with open arms, and the +pair shut themselves up in his room, where they had another conversation +not inferior to the previous one. + + + + +CHAPTER VII. + +OF WHAT PASSED BETWEEN DON QUIXOTE AND HIS SQUIRE, TOGETHER WITH OTHER +VERY NOTABLE INCIDENTS + + +The instant the housekeeper saw Sancho Panza shut himself in with her +master, she guessed what they were about; and suspecting that the result +of the consultation would be a resolve to undertake a third sally, she +seized her mantle, and in deep anxiety and distress, ran to find the +bachelor Samson Carrasco, as she thought that, being a well-spoken man, +and a new friend of her master's, he might be able to persuade him to +give up any such crazy notion. She found him pacing the patio of his +house, and, perspiring and flurried, she fell at his feet the moment she +saw him. + +Carrasco, seeing how distressed and overcome she was, said to her, "What +is this, mistress housekeeper? What has happened to you? One would think +you heart-broken." + +"Nothing, Senor Samson," said she, "only that my master is breaking out, +plainly breaking out." + +"Whereabouts is he breaking out, senora?" asked Samson; "has any part of +his body burst?" + +"He is only breaking out at the door of his madness," she replied; "I +mean, dear senor bachelor, that he is going to break out again (and this +will be the third time) to hunt all over the world for what he calls +ventures, though I can't make out why he gives them that name. The first +time he was brought back to us slung across the back of an ass, and +belaboured all over; and the second time he came in an ox-cart, shut up +in a cage, in which he persuaded himself he was enchanted, and the poor +creature was in such a state that the mother that bore him would not have +known him; lean, yellow, with his eyes sunk deep in the cells of his +skull; so that to bring him round again, ever so little, cost me more +than six hundred eggs, as God knows, and all the world, and my hens too, +that won't let me tell a lie." + +"That I can well believe," replied the bachelor, "for they are so good +and so fat, and so well-bred, that they would not say one thing for +another, though they were to burst for it. In short then, mistress +housekeeper, that is all, and there is nothing the matter, except what it +is feared Don Quixote may do?" + +"No, senor," said she. + +"Well then," returned the bachelor, "don't be uneasy, but go home in +peace; get me ready something hot for breakfast, and while you are on the +way say the prayer of Santa Apollonia, that is if you know it; for I will +come presently and you will see miracles." + +"Woe is me," cried the housekeeper, "is it the prayer of Santa Apollonia +you would have me say? That would do if it was the toothache my master +had; but it is in the brains, what he has got." + +"I know what I am saying, mistress housekeeper; go, and don't set +yourself to argue with me, for you know I am a bachelor of Salamanca, and +one can't be more of a bachelor than that," replied Carrasco; and with +this the housekeeper retired, and the bachelor went to look for the +curate, and arrange with him what will be told in its proper place. + +While Don Quixote and Sancho were shut up together, they had a discussion +which the history records with great precision and scrupulous exactness. +Sancho said to his master, "Senor, I have educed my wife to let me go +with your worship wherever you choose to take me." + +"Induced, you should say, Sancho," said Don Quixote; "not educed." + +"Once or twice, as well as I remember," replied Sancho, "I have begged of +your worship not to mend my words, if so be as you understand what I mean +by them; and if you don't understand them to say 'Sancho,' or 'devil,' 'I +don't understand thee; and if I don't make my meaning plain, then you may +correct me, for I am so focile-" + +"I don't understand thee, Sancho," said Don Quixote at once; "for I know +not what 'I am so focile' means." + +"'So focile' means I am so much that way," replied Sancho. + +"I understand thee still less now," said Don Quixote. + +"Well, if you can't understand me," said Sancho, "I don't know how to put +it; I know no more, God help me." + +"Oh, now I have hit it," said Don Quixote; "thou wouldst say thou art so +docile, tractable, and gentle that thou wilt take what I say to thee, and +submit to what I teach thee." + +"I would bet," said Sancho, "that from the very first you understood me, +and knew what I meant, but you wanted to put me out that you might hear +me make another couple of dozen blunders." + +"May be so," replied Don Quixote; "but to come to the point, what does +Teresa say?" + +"Teresa says," replied Sancho, "that I should make sure with your +worship, and 'let papers speak and beards be still,' for 'he who binds +does not wrangle,' since one 'take' is better than two 'I'll give +thee's;' and I say a woman's advice is no great thing, and he who won't +take it is a fool." + +"And so say I," said Don Quixote; "continue, Sancho my friend; go on; you +talk pearls to-day." + +"The fact is," continued Sancho, "that, as your worship knows better than +I do, we are all of us liable to death, and to-day we are, and to-morrow +we are not, and the lamb goes as soon as the sheep, and nobody can +promise himself more hours of life in this world than God may be pleased +to give him; for death is deaf, and when it comes to knock at our life's +door, it is always urgent, and neither prayers, nor struggles, nor +sceptres, nor mitres, can keep it back, as common talk and report say, +and as they tell us from the pulpits every day." + +"All that is very true," said Don Quixote; "but I cannot make out what +thou art driving at." + +"What I am driving at," said Sancho, "is that your worship settle some +fixed wages for me, to be paid monthly while I am in your service, and +that the same he paid me out of your estate; for I don't care to stand on +rewards which either come late, or ill, or never at all; God help me with +my own. In short, I would like to know what I am to get, be it much or +little; for the hen will lay on one egg, and many littles make a much, +and so long as one gains something there is nothing lost. To be sure, if +it should happen (what I neither believe nor expect) that your worship +were to give me that island you have promised me, I am not so ungrateful +nor so grasping but that I would be willing to have the revenue of such +island valued and stopped out of my wages in due promotion." + +"Sancho, my friend," replied Don Quixote, "sometimes proportion may be as +good as promotion." + +"I see," said Sancho; "I'll bet I ought to have said proportion, and not +promotion; but it is no matter, as your worship has understood me." + +"And so well understood," returned Don Quixote, "that I have seen into +the depths of thy thoughts, and know the mark thou art shooting at with +the countless shafts of thy proverbs. Look here, Sancho, I would readily +fix thy wages if I had ever found any instance in the histories of the +knights-errant to show or indicate, by the slightest hint, what their +squires used to get monthly or yearly; but I have read all or the best +part of their histories, and I cannot remember reading of any +knight-errant having assigned fixed wages to his squire; I only know that +they all served on reward, and that when they least expected it, if good +luck attended their masters, they found themselves recompensed with an +island or something equivalent to it, or at the least they were left with +a title and lordship. If with these hopes and additional inducements you, +Sancho, please to return to my service, well and good; but to suppose +that I am going to disturb or unhinge the ancient usage of +knight-errantry, is all nonsense. And so, my Sancho, get you back to your +house and explain my intentions to your Teresa, and if she likes and you +like to be on reward with me, bene quidem; if not, we remain friends; for +if the pigeon-house does not lack food, it will not lack pigeons; and +bear in mind, my son, that a good hope is better than a bad holding, and +a good grievance better than a bad compensation. I speak in this way, +Sancho, to show you that I can shower down proverbs just as well as +yourself; and in short, I mean to say, and I do say, that if you don't +like to come on reward with me, and run the same chance that I run, God +be with you and make a saint of you; for I shall find plenty of squires +more obedient and painstaking, and not so thickheaded or talkative as you +are." + +When Sancho heard his master's firm, resolute language, a cloud came over +the sky with him and the wings of his heart drooped, for he had made sure +that his master would not go without him for all the wealth of the world; +and as he stood there dumbfoundered and moody, Samson Carrasco came in +with the housekeeper and niece, who were anxious to hear by what +arguments he was about to dissuade their master from going to seek +adventures. The arch wag Samson came forward, and embracing him as he had +done before, said with a loud voice, "O flower of knight-errantry! O +shining light of arms! O honour and mirror of the Spanish nation! may God +Almighty in his infinite power grant that any person or persons, who +would impede or hinder thy third sally, may find no way out of the +labyrinth of their schemes, nor ever accomplish what they most desire!" +And then, turning to the housekeeper, he said, "Mistress housekeeper may +just as well give over saying the prayer of Santa Apollonia, for I know +it is the positive determination of the spheres that Senor Don Quixote +shall proceed to put into execution his new and lofty designs; and I +should lay a heavy burden on my conscience did I not urge and persuade +this knight not to keep the might of his strong arm and the virtue of his +valiant spirit any longer curbed and checked, for by his inactivity he is +defrauding the world of the redress of wrongs, of the protection of +orphans, of the honour of virgins, of the aid of widows, and of the +support of wives, and other matters of this kind appertaining, belonging, +proper and peculiar to the order of knight-errantry. On, then, my lord +Don Quixote, beautiful and brave, let your worship and highness set out +to-day rather than to-morrow; and if anything be needed for the execution +of your purpose, here am I ready in person and purse to supply the want; +and were it requisite to attend your magnificence as squire, I should +esteem it the happiest good fortune." + +At this, Don Quixote, turning to Sancho, said, "Did I not tell thee, +Sancho, there would be squires enough and to spare for me? See now who +offers to become one; no less than the illustrious bachelor Samson +Carrasco, the perpetual joy and delight of the courts of the Salamancan +schools, sound in body, discreet, patient under heat or cold, hunger or +thirst, with all the qualifications requisite to make a knight-errant's +squire! But heaven forbid that, to gratify my own inclination, I should +shake or shatter this pillar of letters and vessel of the sciences, and +cut down this towering palm of the fair and liberal arts. Let this new +Samson remain in his own country, and, bringing honour to it, bring +honour at the same time on the grey heads of his venerable parents; for I +will be content with any squire that comes to hand, as Sancho does not +deign to accompany me." + +"I do deign," said Sancho, deeply moved and with tears in his eyes; "it +shall not be said of me, master mine," he continued, "'the bread eaten +and the company dispersed.' Nay, I come of no ungrateful stock, for all +the world knows, but particularly my own town, who the Panzas from whom I +am descended were; and, what is more, I know and have learned, by many +good words and deeds, your worship's desire to show me favour; and if I +have been bargaining more or less about my wages, it was only to please +my wife, who, when she sets herself to press a point, no hammer drives +the hoops of a cask as she drives one to do what she wants; but, after +all, a man must be a man, and a woman a woman; and as I am a man anyhow, +which I can't deny, I will be one in my own house too, let who will take +it amiss; and so there's nothing more to do but for your worship to make +your will with its codicil in such a way that it can't be provoked, and +let us set out at once, to save Senor Samson's soul from suffering, as he +says his conscience obliges him to persuade your worship to sally out +upon the world a third time; so I offer again to serve your worship +faithfully and loyally, as well and better than all the squires that +served knights-errant in times past or present." + +The bachelor was filled with amazement when he heard Sancho's phraseology +and style of talk, for though he had read the first part of his master's +history he never thought that he could be so droll as he was there +described; but now, hearing him talk of a "will and codicil that could +not be provoked," instead of "will and codicil that could not be +revoked," he believed all he had read of him, and set him down as one of +the greatest simpletons of modern times; and he said to himself that two +such lunatics as master and man the world had never seen. In fine, Don +Quixote and Sancho embraced one another and made friends, and by the +advice and with the approval of the great Carrasco, who was now their +oracle, it was arranged that their departure should take place three days +thence, by which time they could have all that was requisite for the +journey ready, and procure a closed helmet, which Don Quixote said he +must by all means take. Samson offered him one, as he knew a friend of +his who had it would not refuse it to him, though it was more dingy with +rust and mildew than bright and clean like burnished steel. + +The curses which both housekeeper and niece poured out on the bachelor +were past counting; they tore their hair, they clawed their faces, and in +the style of the hired mourners that were once in fashion, they raised a +lamentation over the departure of their master and uncle, as if it had +been his death. Samson's intention in persuading him to sally forth once +more was to do what the history relates farther on; all by the advice of +the curate and barber, with whom he had previously discussed the subject. +Finally, then, during those three days, Don Quixote and Sancho provided +themselves with what they considered necessary, and Sancho having +pacified his wife, and Don Quixote his niece and housekeeper, at +nightfall, unseen by anyone except the bachelor, who thought fit to +accompany them half a league out of the village, they set out for El +Toboso, Don Quixote on his good Rocinante and Sancho on his old Dapple, +his alforjas furnished with certain matters in the way of victuals, and +his purse with money that Don Quixote gave him to meet emergencies. +Samson embraced him, and entreated him to let him hear of his good or +evil fortunes, so that he might rejoice over the former or condole with +him over the latter, as the laws of friendship required. Don Quixote +promised him he would do so, and Samson returned to the village, and the +other two took the road for the great city of El Toboso. + + + + +CHAPTER VIII. + +WHEREIN IS RELATED WHAT BEFELL DON QUIXOTE ON HIS WAY TO SEE HIS LADY +DULCINEA DEL TOBOSO + + +"Blessed be Allah the all-powerful!" says Hamete Benengeli on beginning +this eighth chapter; "blessed be Allah!" he repeats three times; and he +says he utters these thanksgivings at seeing that he has now got Don +Quixote and Sancho fairly afield, and that the readers of his delightful +history may reckon that the achievements and humours of Don Quixote and +his squire are now about to begin; and he urges them to forget the former +chivalries of the ingenious gentleman and to fix their eyes on those that +are to come, which now begin on the road to El Toboso, as the others +began on the plains of Montiel; nor is it much that he asks in +consideration of all he promises, and so he goes on to say: + +Don Quixote and Sancho were left alone, and the moment Samson took his +departure, Rocinante began to neigh, and Dapple to sigh, which, by both +knight and squire, was accepted as a good sign and a very happy omen; +though, if the truth is to be told, the sighs and brays of Dapple were +louder than the neighings of the hack, from which Sancho inferred that +his good fortune was to exceed and overtop that of his master, building, +perhaps, upon some judicial astrology that he may have known, though the +history says nothing about it; all that can be said is, that when he +stumbled or fell, he was heard to say he wished he had not come out, for +by stumbling or falling there was nothing to be got but a damaged shoe or +a broken rib; and, fool as he was, he was not much astray in this. + +Said Don Quixote, "Sancho, my friend, night is drawing on upon us as we +go, and more darkly than will allow us to reach El Toboso by daylight; +for there I am resolved to go before I engage in another adventure, and +there I shall obtain the blessing and generous permission of the peerless +Dulcinea, with which permission I expect and feel assured that I shall +conclude and bring to a happy termination every perilous adventure; for +nothing in life makes knights-errant more valorous than finding +themselves favoured by their ladies." + +"So I believe," replied Sancho; "but I think it will be difficult for +your worship to speak with her or see her, at any rate where you will be +able to receive her blessing; unless, indeed, she throws it over the wall +of the yard where I saw her the time before, when I took her the letter +that told of the follies and mad things your worship was doing in the +heart of Sierra Morena." + +"Didst thou take that for a yard wall, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "where +or at which thou sawest that never sufficiently extolled grace and +beauty? It must have been the gallery, corridor, or portico of some rich +and royal palace." + +"It might have been all that," returned Sancho, "but to me it looked like +a wall, unless I am short of memory." + +"At all events, let us go there, Sancho," said Don Quixote; "for, so that +I see her, it is the same to me whether it be over a wall, or at a +window, or through the chink of a door, or the grate of a garden; for any +beam of the sun of her beauty that reaches my eyes will give light to my +reason and strength to my heart, so that I shall be unmatched and +unequalled in wisdom and valour." + +"Well, to tell the truth, senor," said Sancho, "when I saw that sun of +the lady Dulcinea del Toboso, it was not bright enough to throw out beams +at all; it must have been, that as her grace was sifting that wheat I +told you of, the thick dust she raised came before her face like a cloud +and dimmed it." + +"What! dost thou still persist, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "in saying, +thinking, believing, and maintaining that my lady Dulcinea was sifting +wheat, that being an occupation and task entirely at variance with what +is and should be the employment of persons of distinction, who are +constituted and reserved for other avocations and pursuits that show +their rank a bowshot off? Thou hast forgotten, O Sancho, those lines of +our poet wherein he paints for us how, in their crystal abodes, those +four nymphs employed themselves who rose from their loved Tagus and +seated themselves in a verdant meadow to embroider those tissues which +the ingenious poet there describes to us, how they were worked and woven +with gold and silk and pearls; and something of this sort must have been +the employment of my lady when thou sawest her, only that the spite which +some wicked enchanter seems to have against everything of mine changes +all those things that give me pleasure, and turns them into shapes unlike +their own; and so I fear that in that history of my achievements which +they say is now in print, if haply its author was some sage who is an +enemy of mine, he will have put one thing for another, mingling a +thousand lies with one truth, and amusing himself by relating +transactions which have nothing to do with the sequence of a true +history. O envy, root of all countless evils, and cankerworm of the +virtues! All the vices, Sancho, bring some kind of pleasure with them; +but envy brings nothing but irritation, bitterness, and rage." + +"So I say too," replied Sancho; "and I suspect in that legend or history +of us that the bachelor Samson Carrasco told us he saw, my honour goes +dragged in the dirt, knocked about, up and down, sweeping the streets, as +they say. And yet, on the faith of an honest man, I never spoke ill of +any enchanter, and I am not so well off that I am to be envied; to be +sure, I am rather sly, and I have a certain spice of the rogue in me; but +all is covered by the great cloak of my simplicity, always natural and +never acted; and if I had no other merit save that I believe, as I always +do, firmly and truly in God, and all the holy Roman Catholic Church holds +and believes, and that I am a mortal enemy of the Jews, the historians +ought to have mercy on me and treat me well in their writings. But let +them say what they like; naked was I born, naked I find myself, I neither +lose nor gain; nay, while I see myself put into a book and passed on from +hand to hand over the world, I don't care a fig, let them say what they +like of me." + +"That, Sancho," returned Don Quixote, "reminds me of what happened to a +famous poet of our own day, who, having written a bitter satire against +all the courtesan ladies, did not insert or name in it a certain lady of +whom it was questionable whether she was one or not. She, seeing she was +not in the list of the poet, asked him what he had seen in her that he +did not include her in the number of the others, telling him he must add +to his satire and put her in the new part, or else look out for the +consequences. The poet did as she bade him, and left her without a shred +of reputation, and she was satisfied by getting fame though it was +infamy. In keeping with this is what they relate of that shepherd who set +fire to the famous temple of Diana, by repute one of the seven wonders of +the world, and burned it with the sole object of making his name live in +after ages; and, though it was forbidden to name him, or mention his name +by word of mouth or in writing, lest the object of his ambition should be +attained, nevertheless it became known that he was called Erostratus. And +something of the same sort is what happened in the case of the great +emperor Charles V and a gentleman in Rome. The emperor was anxious to see +that famous temple of the Rotunda, called in ancient times the temple 'of +all the gods,' but now-a-days, by a better nomenclature, 'of all the +saints,' which is the best preserved building of all those of pagan +construction in Rome, and the one which best sustains the reputation of +mighty works and magnificence of its founders. It is in the form of a +half orange, of enormous dimensions, and well lighted, though no light +penetrates it save that which is admitted by a window, or rather round +skylight, at the top; and it was from this that the emperor examined the +building. A Roman gentleman stood by his side and explained to him the +skilful construction and ingenuity of the vast fabric and its wonderful +architecture, and when they had left the skylight he said to the emperor, +'A thousand times, your Sacred Majesty, the impulse came upon me to seize +your Majesty in my arms and fling myself down from yonder skylight, so as +to leave behind me in the world a name that would last for ever.' 'I am +thankful to you for not carrying such an evil thought into effect,' said +the emperor, 'and I shall give you no opportunity in future of again +putting your loyalty to the test; and I therefore forbid you ever to +speak to me or to be where I am; and he followed up these words by +bestowing a liberal bounty upon him. My meaning is, Sancho, that the +desire of acquiring fame is a very powerful motive. What, thinkest thou, +was it that flung Horatius in full armour down from the bridge into the +depths of the Tiber? What burned the hand and arm of Mutius? What +impelled Curtius to plunge into the deep burning gulf that opened in the +midst of Rome? What, in opposition to all the omens that declared against +him, made Julius Caesar cross the Rubicon? And to come to more modern +examples, what scuttled the ships, and left stranded and cut off the +gallant Spaniards under the command of the most courteous Cortes in the +New World? All these and a variety of other great exploits are, were and +will be, the work of fame that mortals desire as a reward and a portion +of the immortality their famous deeds deserve; though we Catholic +Christians and knights-errant look more to that future glory that is +everlasting in the ethereal regions of heaven than to the vanity of the +fame that is to be acquired in this present transitory life; a fame that, +however long it may last, must after all end with the world itself, which +has its own appointed end. So that, O Sancho, in what we do we must not +overpass the bounds which the Christian religion we profess has assigned +to us. We have to slay pride in giants, envy by generosity and nobleness +of heart, anger by calmness of demeanour and equanimity, gluttony and +sloth by the spareness of our diet and the length of our vigils, lust and +lewdness by the loyalty we preserve to those whom we have made the +mistresses of our thoughts, indolence by traversing the world in all +directions seeking opportunities of making ourselves, besides Christians, +famous knights. Such, Sancho, are the means by which we reach those +extremes of praise that fair fame carries with it." + +"All that your worship has said so far," said Sancho, "I have understood +quite well; but still I would be glad if your worship would dissolve a +doubt for me, which has just this minute come into my mind." + +"Solve, thou meanest, Sancho," said Don Quixote; "say on, in God's name, +and I will answer as well as I can." + +"Tell me, senor," Sancho went on to say, "those Julys or Augusts, and all +those venturous knights that you say are now dead--where are they now?" + +"The heathens," replied Don Quixote, "are, no doubt, in hell; the +Christians, if they were good Christians, are either in purgatory or in +heaven." + +"Very good," said Sancho; "but now I want to know--the tombs where the +bodies of those great lords are, have they silver lamps before them, or +are the walls of their chapels ornamented with crutches, winding-sheets, +tresses of hair, legs and eyes in wax? Or what are they ornamented with?" + +To which Don Quixote made answer: "The tombs of the heathens were +generally sumptuous temples; the ashes of Julius Caesar's body were +placed on the top of a stone pyramid of vast size, which they now call in +Rome Saint Peter's needle. The emperor Hadrian had for a tomb a castle as +large as a good-sized village, which they called the Moles Adriani, and +is now the castle of St. Angelo in Rome. The queen Artemisia buried her +husband Mausolus in a tomb which was reckoned one of the seven wonders of +the world; but none of these tombs, or of the many others of the +heathens, were ornamented with winding-sheets or any of those other +offerings and tokens that show that they who are buried there are +saints." + +"That's the point I'm coming to," said Sancho; "and now tell me, which is +the greater work, to bring a dead man to life or to kill a giant?" + +"The answer is easy," replied Don Quixote; "it is a greater work to bring +to life a dead man." + +"Now I have got you," said Sancho; "in that case the fame of them who +bring the dead to life, who give sight to the blind, cure cripples, +restore health to the sick, and before whose tombs there are lamps +burning, and whose chapels are filled with devout folk on their knees +adoring their relics be a better fame in this life and in the other than +that which all the heathen emperors and knights-errant that have ever +been in the world have left or may leave behind them?" + +"That I grant, too," said Don Quixote. + +"Then this fame, these favours, these privileges, or whatever you call +it," said Sancho, "belong to the bodies and relics of the saints who, +with the approbation and permission of our holy mother Church, have +lamps, tapers, winding-sheets, crutches, pictures, eyes and legs, by +means of which they increase devotion and add to their own Christian +reputation. Kings carry the bodies or relics of saints on their +shoulders, and kiss bits of their bones, and enrich and adorn their +oratories and favourite altars with them." + +"What wouldst thou have me infer from all thou hast said, Sancho?" asked +Don Quixote. + +"My meaning is," said Sancho, "let us set about becoming saints, and we +shall obtain more quickly the fair fame we are striving after; for you +know, senor, yesterday or the day before yesterday (for it is so lately +one may say so) they canonised and beatified two little barefoot friars, +and it is now reckoned the greatest good luck to kiss or touch the iron +chains with which they girt and tortured their bodies, and they are held +in greater veneration, so it is said, than the sword of Roland in the +armoury of our lord the King, whom God preserve. So that, senor, it is +better to be an humble little friar of no matter what order, than a +valiant knight-errant; with God a couple of dozen of penance lashings are +of more avail than two thousand lance-thrusts, be they given to giants, +or monsters, or dragons." + +"All that is true," returned Don Quixote, "but we cannot all be friars, +and many are the ways by which God takes his own to heaven; chivalry is a +religion, there are sainted knights in glory." + +"Yes," said Sancho, "but I have heard say that there are more friars in +heaven than knights-errant." + +"That," said Don Quixote, "is because those in religious orders are more +numerous than knights." + +"The errants are many," said Sancho. + +"Many," replied Don Quixote, "but few they who deserve the name of +knights." + +With these, and other discussions of the same sort, they passed that +night and the following day, without anything worth mention happening to +them, whereat Don Quixote was not a little dejected; but at length the +next day, at daybreak, they descried the great city of El Toboso, at the +sight of which Don Quixote's spirits rose and Sancho's fell, for he did +not know Dulcinea's house, nor in all his life had he ever seen her, any +more than his master; so that they were both uneasy, the one to see her, +the other at not having seen her, and Sancho was at a loss to know what +he was to do when his master sent him to El Toboso. In the end, Don +Quixote made up his mind to enter the city at nightfall, and they waited +until the time came among some oak trees that were near El Toboso; and +when the moment they had agreed upon arrived, they made their entrance +into the city, where something happened them that may fairly be called +something. + + + + +CHAPTER IX. + +WHEREIN IS RELATED WHAT WILL BE SEEN THERE + + +'Twas at the very midnight hour--more or less--when Don Quixote and +Sancho quitted the wood and entered El Toboso. The town was in deep +silence, for all the inhabitants were asleep, and stretched on the broad +of their backs, as the saying is. The night was darkish, though Sancho +would have been glad had it been quite dark, so as to find in the +darkness an excuse for his blundering. All over the place nothing was to +be heard except the barking of dogs, which deafened the ears of Don +Quixote and troubled the heart of Sancho. Now and then an ass brayed, +pigs grunted, cats mewed, and the various noises they made seemed louder +in the silence of the night; all which the enamoured knight took to be of +evil omen; nevertheless he said to Sancho, "Sancho, my son, lead on to +the palace of Dulcinea, it may be that we shall find her awake." + +"Body of the sun! what palace am I to lead to," said Sancho, "when what I +saw her highness in was only a very little house?" + +"Most likely she had then withdrawn into some small apartment of her +palace," said Don Quixote, "to amuse herself with damsels, as great +ladies and princesses are accustomed to do." + +"Senor," said Sancho, "if your worship will have it in spite of me that +the house of my lady Dulcinea is a palace, is this an hour, think you, to +find the door open; and will it be right for us to go knocking till they +hear us and open the door; making a disturbance and confusion all through +the household? Are we going, do you fancy, to the house of our wenches, +like gallants who come and knock and go in at any hour, however late it +may be?" + +"Let us first of all find out the palace for certain," replied Don +Quixote, "and then I will tell thee, Sancho, what we had best do; but +look, Sancho, for either I see badly, or that dark mass that one sees +from here should be Dulcinea's palace." + +"Then let your worship lead the way," said Sancho, "perhaps it may be so; +though I see it with my eyes and touch it with my hands, I'll believe it +as much as I believe it is daylight now." + +Don Quixote took the lead, and having gone a matter of two hundred paces +he came upon the mass that produced the shade, and found it was a great +tower, and then he perceived that the building in question was no palace, +but the chief church of the town, and said he, "It's the church we have +lit upon, Sancho." + +"So I see," said Sancho, "and God grant we may not light upon our graves; +it is no good sign to find oneself wandering in a graveyard at this time +of night; and that, after my telling your worship, if I don't mistake, +that the house of this lady will be in an alley without an outlet." + +"The curse of God on thee for a blockhead!" said Don Quixote; "where hast +thou ever heard of castles and royal palaces being built in alleys +without an outlet?" + +"Senor," replied Sancho, "every country has a way of its own; perhaps +here in El Toboso it is the way to build palaces and grand buildings in +alleys; so I entreat your worship to let me search about among these +streets or alleys before me, and perhaps, in some corner or other, I may +stumble on this palace--and I wish I saw the dogs eating it for leading +us such a dance." + +"Speak respectfully of what belongs to my lady, Sancho," said Don +Quixote; "let us keep the feast in peace, and not throw the rope after +the bucket." + +"I'll hold my tongue," said Sancho, "but how am I to take it patiently +when your worship wants me, with only once seeing the house of our +mistress, to know always, and find it in the middle of the night, when +your worship can't find it, who must have seen it thousands of times?" + +"Thou wilt drive me to desperation, Sancho," said Don Quixote. "Look +here, heretic, have I not told thee a thousand times that I have never +once in my life seen the peerless Dulcinea or crossed the threshold of +her palace, and that I am enamoured solely by hearsay and by the great +reputation she bears for beauty and discretion?" + +"I hear it now," returned Sancho; "and I may tell you that if you have +not seen her, no more have I." + +"That cannot be," said Don Quixote, "for, at any rate, thou saidst, on +bringing back the answer to the letter I sent by thee, that thou sawest +her sifting wheat." + +"Don't mind that, senor," said Sancho; "I must tell you that my seeing +her and the answer I brought you back were by hearsay too, for I can no +more tell who the lady Dulcinea is than I can hit the sky." + +"Sancho, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "there are times for jests and times +when jests are out of place; if I tell thee that I have neither seen nor +spoken to the lady of my heart, it is no reason why thou shouldst say +thou hast not spoken to her or seen her, when the contrary is the case, +as thou well knowest." + +While the two were engaged in this conversation, they perceived some one +with a pair of mules approaching the spot where they stood, and from the +noise the plough made, as it dragged along the ground, they guessed him +to be some labourer who had got up before daybreak to go to his work, and +so it proved to be. He came along singing the ballad that says-- + +Ill did ye fare, ye men of France, In Roncesvalles chase-- + +"May I die, Sancho," said Don Quixote, when he heard him, "if any good +will come to us tonight! Dost thou not hear what that clown is singing?" + +"I do," said Sancho, "but what has Roncesvalles chase to do with what we +have in hand? He might just as well be singing the ballad of Calainos, +for any good or ill that can come to us in our business." + +By this time the labourer had come up, and Don Quixote asked him, "Can +you tell me, worthy friend, and God speed you, whereabouts here is the +palace of the peerless princess Dona Dulcinea del Toboso?" + +"Senor," replied the lad, "I am a stranger, and I have been only a few +days in the town, doing farm work for a rich farmer. In that house +opposite there live the curate of the village and the sacristan, and both +or either of them will be able to give your worship some account of this +lady princess, for they have a list of all the people of El Toboso; +though it is my belief there is not a princess living in the whole of it; +many ladies there are, of quality, and in her own house each of them may +be a princess." + +"Well, then, she I am inquiring for will be one of these, my friend," +said Don Quixote. + +"May be so," replied the lad; "God be with you, for here comes the +daylight;" and without waiting for any more of his questions, he whipped +on his mules. + +Sancho, seeing his master downcast and somewhat dissatisfied, said to +him, "Senor, daylight will be here before long, and it will not do for us +to let the sun find us in the street; it will be better for us to quit +the city, and for your worship to hide in some forest in the +neighbourhood, and I will come back in the daytime, and I won't leave a +nook or corner of the whole village that I won't search for the house, +castle, or palace, of my lady, and it will be hard luck for me if I don't +find it; and as soon as I have found it I will speak to her grace, and +tell her where and how your worship is waiting for her to arrange some +plan for you to see her without any damage to her honour and reputation." + +"Sancho," said Don Quixote, "thou hast delivered a thousand sentences +condensed in the compass of a few words; I thank thee for the advice thou +hast given me, and take it most gladly. Come, my son, let us go look for +some place where I may hide, while thou dost return, as thou sayest, to +seek, and speak with my lady, from whose discretion and courtesy I look +for favours more than miraculous." + +Sancho was in a fever to get his master out of the town, lest he should +discover the falsehood of the reply he had brought to him in the Sierra +Morena on behalf of Dulcinea; so he hastened their departure, which they +took at once, and two miles out of the village they found a forest or +thicket wherein Don Quixote ensconced himself, while Sancho returned to +the city to speak to Dulcinea, in which embassy things befell him which +demand fresh attention and a new chapter. + + + + +CHAPTER X. + +WHEREIN IS RELATED THE CRAFTY DEVICE SANCHO ADOPTED TO ENCHANT THE LADY +DULCINEA, AND OTHER INCIDENTS AS LUDICROUS AS THEY ARE TRUE + + +When the author of this great history comes to relate what is set down in +this chapter he says he would have preferred to pass it over in silence, +fearing it would not be believed, because here Don Quixote's madness +reaches the confines of the greatest that can be conceived, and even goes +a couple of bowshots beyond the greatest. But after all, though still +under the same fear and apprehension, he has recorded it without adding +to the story or leaving out a particle of the truth, and entirely +disregarding the charges of falsehood that might be brought against him; +and he was right, for the truth may run fine but will not break, and +always rises above falsehood as oil above water; and so, going on with +his story, he says that as soon as Don Quixote had ensconced himself in +the forest, oak grove, or wood near El Toboso, he bade Sancho return to +the city, and not come into his presence again without having first +spoken on his behalf to his lady, and begged of her that it might be her +good pleasure to permit herself to be seen by her enslaved knight, and +deign to bestow her blessing upon him, so that he might thereby hope for +a happy issue in all his encounters and difficult enterprises. Sancho +undertook to execute the task according to the instructions, and to bring +back an answer as good as the one he brought back before. + +"Go, my son," said Don Quixote, "and be not dazed when thou findest +thyself exposed to the light of that sun of beauty thou art going to +seek. Happy thou, above all the squires in the world! Bear in mind, and +let it not escape thy memory, how she receives thee; if she changes +colour while thou art giving her my message; if she is agitated and +disturbed at hearing my name; if she cannot rest upon her cushion, +shouldst thou haply find her seated in the sumptuous state chamber proper +to her rank; and should she be standing, observe if she poises herself +now on one foot, now on the other; if she repeats two or three times the +reply she gives thee; if she passes from gentleness to austerity, from +asperity to tenderness; if she raises her hand to smooth her hair though +it be not disarranged. In short, my son, observe all her actions and +motions, for if thou wilt report them to me as they were, I will gather +what she hides in the recesses of her heart as regards my love; for I +would have thee know, Sancho, if thou knowest it not, that with lovers +the outward actions and motions they give way to when their loves are in +question are the faithful messengers that carry the news of what is going +on in the depths of their hearts. Go, my friend, may better fortune than +mine attend thee, and bring thee a happier issue than that which I await +in dread in this dreary solitude." + +"I will go and return quickly," said Sancho; "cheer up that little heart +of yours, master mine, for at the present moment you seem to have got one +no bigger than a hazel nut; remember what they say, that a stout heart +breaks bad luck, and that where there are no fletches there are no pegs; +and moreover they say, the hare jumps up where it's not looked for. I say +this because, if we could not find my lady's palaces or castles to-night, +now that it is daylight I count upon finding them when I least expect it, +and once found, leave it to me to manage her." + +"Verily, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "thou dost always bring in thy +proverbs happily, whatever we deal with; may God give me better luck in +what I am anxious about." + +With this, Sancho wheeled about and gave Dapple the stick, and Don +Quixote remained behind, seated on his horse, resting in his stirrups and +leaning on the end of his lance, filled with sad and troubled +forebodings; and there we will leave him, and accompany Sancho, who went +off no less serious and troubled than he left his master; so much so, +that as soon as he had got out of the thicket, and looking round saw that +Don Quixote was not within sight, he dismounted from his ass, and seating +himself at the foot of a tree began to commune with himself, saying, +"Now, brother Sancho, let us know where your worship is going. Are you +going to look for some ass that has been lost? Not at all. Then what are +you going to look for? I am going to look for a princess, that's all; and +in her for the sun of beauty and the whole heaven at once. And where do +you expect to find all this, Sancho? Where? Why, in the great city of El +Toboso. Well, and for whom are you going to look for her? For the famous +knight Don Quixote of La Mancha, who rights wrongs, gives food to those +who thirst and drink to the hungry. That's all very well, but do you know +her house, Sancho? My master says it will be some royal palace or grand +castle. And have you ever seen her by any chance? Neither I nor my master +ever saw her. And does it strike you that it would be just and right if +the El Toboso people, finding out that you were here with the intention +of going to tamper with their princesses and trouble their ladies, were +to come and cudgel your ribs, and not leave a whole bone in you? They +would, indeed, have very good reason, if they did not see that I am under +orders, and that 'you are a messenger, my friend, no blame belongs to +you.' Don't you trust to that, Sancho, for the Manchegan folk are as +hot-tempered as they are honest, and won't put up with liberties from +anybody. By the Lord, if they get scent of you, it will be worse for you, +I promise you. Be off, you scoundrel! Let the bolt fall. Why should I go +looking for three feet on a cat, to please another man; and what is more, +when looking for Dulcinea will be looking for Marica in Ravena, or the +bachelor in Salamanca? The devil, the devil and nobody else, has mixed me +up in this business!" + +Such was the soliloquy Sancho held with himself, and all the conclusion +he could come to was to say to himself again, "Well, there's remedy for +everything except death, under whose yoke we have all to pass, whether we +like it or not, when life's finished. I have seen by a thousand signs +that this master of mine is a madman fit to be tied, and for that matter, +I too, am not behind him; for I'm a greater fool than he is when I follow +him and serve him, if there's any truth in the proverb that says, 'Tell +me what company thou keepest, and I'll tell thee what thou art,' or in +that other, 'Not with whom thou art bred, but with whom thou art fed.' +Well then, if he be mad, as he is, and with a madness that mostly takes +one thing for another, and white for black, and black for white, as was +seen when he said the windmills were giants, and the monks' mules +dromedaries, flocks of sheep armies of enemies, and much more to the same +tune, it will not be very hard to make him believe that some country +girl, the first I come across here, is the lady Dulcinea; and if he does +not believe it, I'll swear it; and if he should swear, I'll swear again; +and if he persists I'll persist still more, so as, come what may, to have +my quoit always over the peg. Maybe, by holding out in this way, I may +put a stop to his sending me on messages of this kind another time; or +maybe he will think, as I suspect he will, that one of those wicked +enchanters, who he says have a spite against him, has changed her form +for the sake of doing him an ill turn and injuring him." + +With this reflection Sancho made his mind easy, counting the business as +good as settled, and stayed there till the afternoon so as to make Don +Quixote think he had time enough to go to El Toboso and return; and +things turned out so luckily for him that as he got up to mount Dapple, +he spied, coming from El Toboso towards the spot where he stood, three +peasant girls on three colts, or fillies--for the author does not make +the point clear, though it is more likely they were she-asses, the usual +mount with village girls; but as it is of no great consequence, we need +not stop to prove it. + +To be brief, the instant Sancho saw the peasant girls, he returned full +speed to seek his master, and found him sighing and uttering a thousand +passionate lamentations. When Don Quixote saw him he exclaimed, "What +news, Sancho, my friend? Am I to mark this day with a white stone or a +black?" + +"Your worship," replied Sancho, "had better mark it with ruddle, like the +inscriptions on the walls of class rooms, that those who see it may see +it plain." + +"Then thou bringest good news," said Don Quixote. + +"So good," replied Sancho, "that your worship has only to spur Rocinante +and get out into the open field to see the lady Dulcinea del Toboso, who, +with two others, damsels of hers, is coming to see your worship." + +"Holy God! what art thou saying, Sancho, my friend?" exclaimed Don +Quixote. "Take care thou art not deceiving me, or seeking by false joy to +cheer my real sadness." + +"What could I get by deceiving your worship," returned Sancho, +"especially when it will so soon be shown whether I tell the truth or +not? Come, senor, push on, and you will see the princess our mistress +coming, robed and adorned--in fact, like what she is. Her damsels and she +are all one glow of gold, all bunches of pearls, all diamonds, all +rubies, all cloth of brocade of more than ten borders; with their hair +loose on their shoulders like so many sunbeams playing with the wind; and +moreover, they come mounted on three piebald cackneys, the finest sight +ever you saw." + +"Hackneys, you mean, Sancho," said Don Quixote. + +"There is not much difference between cackneys and hackneys," said +Sancho; "but no matter what they come on, there they are, the finest +ladies one could wish for, especially my lady the princess Dulcinea, who +staggers one's senses." + +"Let us go, Sancho, my son," said Don Quixote, "and in guerdon of this +news, as unexpected as it is good, I bestow upon thee the best spoil I +shall win in the first adventure I may have; or if that does not satisfy +thee, I promise thee the foals I shall have this year from my three mares +that thou knowest are in foal on our village common." + +"I'll take the foals," said Sancho; "for it is not quite certain that the +spoils of the first adventure will be good ones." + +By this time they had cleared the wood, and saw the three village lasses +close at hand. Don Quixote looked all along the road to El Toboso, and as +he could see nobody except the three peasant girls, he was completely +puzzled, and asked Sancho if it was outside the city he had left them. + +"How outside the city?" returned Sancho. "Are your worship's eyes in the +back of your head, that you can't see that they are these who are coming +here, shining like the very sun at noonday?" + +"I see nothing, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "but three country girls on +three jackasses." + +"Now, may God deliver me from the devil!" said Sancho, "and can it be +that your worship takes three hackneys--or whatever they're called-as +white as the driven snow, for jackasses? By the Lord, I could tear my +beard if that was the case!" + +"Well, I can only say, Sancho, my friend," said Don Quixote, "that it is +as plain they are jackasses--or jennyasses--as that I am Don Quixote, and +thou Sancho Panza: at any rate, they seem to me to be so." + +"Hush, senor," said Sancho, "don't talk that way, but open your eyes, and +come and pay your respects to the lady of your thoughts, who is close +upon us now;" and with these words he advanced to receive the three +village lasses, and dismounting from Dapple, caught hold of one of the +asses of the three country girls by the halter, and dropping on both +knees on the ground, he said, "Queen and princess and duchess of beauty, +may it please your haughtiness and greatness to receive into your favour +and good-will your captive knight who stands there turned into marble +stone, and quite stupefied and benumbed at finding himself in your +magnificent presence. I am Sancho Panza, his squire, and he the vagabond +knight Don Quixote of La Mancha, otherwise called 'The Knight of the +Rueful Countenance.'" + +Don Quixote had by this time placed himself on his knees beside Sancho, +and, with eyes starting out of his head and a puzzled gaze, was regarding +her whom Sancho called queen and lady; and as he could see nothing in her +except a village lass, and not a very well-favoured one, for she was +platter-faced and snub-nosed, he was perplexed and bewildered, and did +not venture to open his lips. The country girls, at the same time, were +astonished to see these two men, so different in appearance, on their +knees, preventing their companion from going on. She, however, who had +been stopped, breaking silence, said angrily and testily, "Get out of the +way, bad luck to you, and let us pass, for we are in a hurry." + +To which Sancho returned, "Oh, princess and universal lady of El Toboso, +is not your magnanimous heart softened by seeing the pillar and prop of +knight-errantry on his knees before your sublimated presence?" + +On hearing this, one of the others exclaimed, "Woa then! why, I'm rubbing +thee down, she-ass of my father-in-law! See how the lordlings come to +make game of the village girls now, as if we here could not chaff as well +as themselves. Go your own way, and let us go ours, and it will be better +for you." + +"Get up, Sancho," said Don Quixote at this; "I see that fortune, 'with +evil done to me unsated still,' has taken possession of all the roads by +which any comfort may reach 'this wretched soul' that I carry in my +flesh. And thou, highest perfection of excellence that can be desired, +utmost limit of grace in human shape, sole relief of this afflicted heart +that adores thee, though the malign enchanter that persecutes me has +brought clouds and cataracts on my eyes, and to them, and them only, +transformed thy unparagoned beauty and changed thy features into those of +a poor peasant girl, if so be he has not at the same time changed mine +into those of some monster to render them loathsome in thy sight, refuse +not to look upon me with tenderness and love; seeing in this submission +that I make on my knees to thy transformed beauty the humility with which +my soul adores thee." + +"Hey-day! My grandfather!" cried the girl, "much I care for your +love-making! Get out of the way and let us pass, and we'll thank you." + +Sancho stood aside and let her go, very well pleased to have got so well +out of the hobble he was in. The instant the village lass who had done +duty for Dulcinea found herself free, prodding her "cackney" with a spike +she had at the end of a stick, she set off at full speed across the +field. The she-ass, however, feeling the point more acutely than usual, +began cutting such capers, that it flung the lady Dulcinea to the ground; +seeing which, Don Quixote ran to raise her up, and Sancho to fix and +girth the pack-saddle, which also had slipped under the ass's belly. The +pack-saddle being secured, as Don Quixote was about to lift up his +enchanted mistress in his arms and put her upon her beast, the lady, +getting up from the ground, saved him the trouble, for, going back a +little, she took a short run, and putting both hands on the croup of the +ass she dropped into the saddle more lightly than a falcon, and sat +astride like a man, whereat Sancho said, "Rogue! but our lady is lighter +than a lanner, and might teach the cleverest Cordovan or Mexican how to +mount; she cleared the back of the saddle in one jump, and without spurs +she is making the hackney go like a zebra; and her damsels are no way +behind her, for they all fly like the wind;" which was the truth, for as +soon as they saw Dulcinea mounted, they pushed on after her, and sped +away without looking back, for more than half a league. + +Don Quixote followed them with his eyes, and when they were no longer in +sight, he turned to Sancho and said, "How now, Sancho? thou seest how I +am hated by enchanters! And see to what a length the malice and spite +they bear me go, when they seek to deprive me of the happiness it would +give me to see my lady in her own proper form. The fact is I was born to +be an example of misfortune, and the target and mark at which the arrows +of adversity are aimed and directed. Observe too, Sancho, that these +traitors were not content with changing and transforming my Dulcinea, but +they transformed and changed her into a shape as mean and ill-favoured as +that of the village girl yonder; and at the same time they robbed her of +that which is such a peculiar property of ladies of distinction, that is +to say, the sweet fragrance that comes of being always among perfumes and +flowers. For I must tell thee, Sancho, that when I approached to put +Dulcinea upon her hackney (as thou sayest it was, though to me it +appeared a she-ass), she gave me a whiff of raw garlic that made my head +reel, and poisoned my very heart." + +"O scum of the earth!" cried Sancho at this, "O miserable, spiteful +enchanters! O that I could see you all strung by the gills, like sardines +on a twig! Ye know a great deal, ye can do a great deal, and ye do a +great deal more. It ought to have been enough for you, ye scoundrels, to +have changed the pearls of my lady's eyes into oak galls, and her hair of +purest gold into the bristles of a red ox's tail, and in short, all her +features from fair to foul, without meddling with her smell; for by that +we might somehow have found out what was hidden underneath that ugly +rind; though, to tell the truth, I never perceived her ugliness, but only +her beauty, which was raised to the highest pitch of perfection by a mole +she had on her right lip, like a moustache, with seven or eight red hairs +like threads of gold, and more than a palm long." + +"From the correspondence which exists between those of the face and those +of the body," said Don Quixote, "Dulcinea must have another mole +resembling that on the thick of the thigh on that side on which she has +the one on her ace; but hairs of the length thou hast mentioned are very +long for moles." + +"Well, all I can say is there they were as plain as could be," replied +Sancho. + +"I believe it, my friend," returned Don Quixote; "for nature bestowed +nothing on Dulcinea that was not perfect and well-finished; and so, if +she had a hundred moles like the one thou hast described, in her they +would not be moles, but moons and shining stars. But tell me, Sancho, +that which seemed to me to be a pack-saddle as thou wert fixing it, was +it a flat-saddle or a side-saddle?" + +"It was neither," replied Sancho, "but a jineta saddle, with a field +covering worth half a kingdom, so rich is it." + +"And that I could not see all this, Sancho!" said Don Quixote; "once more +I say, and will say a thousand times, I am the most unfortunate of men." + +Sancho, the rogue, had enough to do to hide his laughter, at hearing the +simplicity of the master he had so nicely befooled. At length, after a +good deal more conversation had passed between them, they remounted their +beasts, and followed the road to Saragossa, which they expected to reach +in time to take part in a certain grand festival which is held every year +in that illustrious city; but before they got there things happened to +them, so many, so important, and so strange, that they deserve to be +recorded and read, as will be seen farther on. + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The History of Don Quixote, Vol. II., +Part 20, by Miguel de Cervantes + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DON QUIXOTE, PART 20 *** + +***** This file should be named 5923.txt or 5923.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/5/9/2/5923/ + +Produced by David Widger + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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