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diff --git a/5924.txt b/5924.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8e5b11e --- /dev/null +++ b/5924.txt @@ -0,0 +1,1541 @@ +The Project Gutenberg EBook of The History of Don Quixote, Vol. II., Part +21, 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 21 + +Author: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra + +Release Date: July 22, 2004 [EBook #5924] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DON QUIXOTE, PART 21 *** + + + + +Produced by David Widger + + + + + + DON QUIXOTE + + Volume II. + + Part 21. + + by Miguel de Cervantes + + + Translated by John Ormsby + + + +CHAPTER XI. + +OF THE STRANGE ADVENTURE WHICH THE VALIANT DON QUIXOTE HAD WITH THE CAR +OR CART OF "THE CORTES OF DEATH" + + +Dejected beyond measure did Don Quixote pursue his journey, turning over +in his mind the cruel trick the enchanters had played him in changing his +lady Dulcinea into the vile shape of the village lass, nor could he think +of any way of restoring her to her original form; and these reflections +so absorbed him, that without being aware of it he let go Rocinante's +bridle, and he, perceiving the liberty that was granted him, stopped at +every step to crop the fresh grass with which the plain abounded. + +Sancho recalled him from his reverie. "Melancholy, senor," said he, "was +made, not for beasts, but for men; but if men give way to it overmuch +they turn to beasts; control yourself, your worship; be yourself again; +gather up Rocinante's reins; cheer up, rouse yourself and show that +gallant spirit that knights-errant ought to have. What the devil is this? +What weakness is this? Are we here or in France? The devil fly away with +all the Dulcineas in the world; for the well-being of a single +knight-errant is of more consequence than all the enchantments and +transformations on earth." + +"Hush, Sancho," said Don Quixote in a weak and faint voice, "hush and +utter no blasphemies against that enchanted lady; for I alone am to blame +for her misfortune and hard fate; her calamity has come of the hatred the +wicked bear me." + +"So say I," returned Sancho; "his heart rend in twain, I trow, who saw +her once, to see her now." + +"Thou mayest well say that, Sancho," replied Don Quixote, "as thou sawest +her in the full perfection of her beauty; for the enchantment does not go +so far as to pervert thy vision or hide her loveliness from thee; against +me alone and against my eyes is the strength of its venom directed. +Nevertheless, there is one thing which has occurred to me, and that is +that thou didst ill describe her beauty to me, for, as well as I +recollect, thou saidst that her eyes were pearls; but eyes that are like +pearls are rather the eyes of a sea-bream than of a lady, and I am +persuaded that Dulcinea's must be green emeralds, full and soft, with two +rainbows for eyebrows; take away those pearls from her eyes and transfer +them to her teeth; for beyond a doubt, Sancho, thou hast taken the one +for the other, the eyes for the teeth." + +"Very likely," said Sancho; "for her beauty bewildered me as much as her +ugliness did your worship; but let us leave it all to God, who alone +knows what is to happen in this vale of tears, in this evil world of +ours, where there is hardly a thing to be found without some mixture of +wickedness, roguery, and rascality. But one thing, senor, troubles me +more than all the rest, and that is thinking what is to be done when your +worship conquers some giant, or some other knight, and orders him to go +and present himself before the beauty of the lady Dulcinea. Where is this +poor giant, or this poor wretch of a vanquished knight, to find her? I +think I can see them wandering all over El Toboso, looking like noddies, +and asking for my lady Dulcinea; and even if they meet her in the middle +of the street they won't know her any more than they would my father." + +"Perhaps, Sancho," returned Don Quixote, "the enchantment does not go so +far as to deprive conquered and presented giants and knights of the power +of recognising Dulcinea; we will try by experiment with one or two of the +first I vanquish and send to her, whether they see her or not, by +commanding them to return and give me an account of what happened to them +in this respect." + +"I declare, I think what your worship has proposed is excellent," said +Sancho; "and that by this plan we shall find out what we want to know; +and if it be that it is only from your worship she is hidden, the +misfortune will be more yours than hers; but so long as the lady Dulcinea +is well and happy, we on our part will make the best of it, and get on as +well as we can, seeking our adventures, and leaving Time to take his own +course; for he is the best physician for these and greater ailments." + +Don Quixote was about to reply to Sancho Panza, but he was prevented by a +cart crossing the road full of the most diverse and strange personages +and figures that could be imagined. He who led the mules and acted as +carter was a hideous demon; the cart was open to the sky, without a tilt +or cane roof, and the first figure that presented itself to Don Quixote's +eyes was that of Death itself with a human face; next to it was an angel +with large painted wings, and at one side an emperor, with a crown, to +all appearance of gold, on his head. At the feet of Death was the god +called Cupid, without his bandage, but with his bow, quiver, and arrows; +there was also a knight in full armour, except that he had no morion or +helmet, but only a hat decked with plumes of divers colours; and along +with these there were others with a variety of costumes and faces. All +this, unexpectedly encountered, took Don Quixote somewhat aback, and +struck terror into the heart of Sancho; but the next instant Don Quixote +was glad of it, believing that some new perilous adventure was presenting +itself to him, and under this impression, and with a spirit prepared to +face any danger, he planted himself in front of the cart, and in a loud +and menacing tone, exclaimed, "Carter, or coachman, or devil, or whatever +thou art, tell me at once who thou art, whither thou art going, and who +these folk are thou carriest in thy wagon, which looks more like Charon's +boat than an ordinary cart." + +To which the devil, stopping the cart, answered quietly, "Senor, we are +players of Angulo el Malo's company; we have been acting the play of 'The +Cortes of Death' this morning, which is the octave of Corpus Christi, in +a village behind that hill, and we have to act it this afternoon in that +village which you can see from this; and as it is so near, and to save +the trouble of undressing and dressing again, we go in the costumes in +which we perform. That lad there appears as Death, that other as an +angel, that woman, the manager's wife, plays the queen, this one the +soldier, that the emperor, and I the devil; and I am one of the principal +characters of the play, for in this company I take the leading parts. If +you want to know anything more about us, ask me and I will answer with +the utmost exactitude, for as I am a devil I am up to everything." + +"By the faith of a knight-errant," replied Don Quixote, "when I saw this +cart I fancied some great adventure was presenting itself to me; but I +declare one must touch with the hand what appears to the eye, if +illusions are to be avoided. God speed you, good people; keep your +festival, and remember, if you demand of me ought wherein I can render +you a service, I will do it gladly and willingly, for from a child I was +fond of the play, and in my youth a keen lover of the actor's art." + +While they were talking, fate so willed it that one of the company in a +mummers' dress with a great number of bells, and armed with three blown +ox-bladders at the end of a stick, joined them, and this merry-andrew +approaching Don Quixote, began flourishing his stick and banging the +ground with the bladders and cutting capers with great jingling of the +bells, which untoward apparition so startled Rocinante that, in spite of +Don Quixote's efforts to hold him in, taking the bit between his teeth he +set off across the plain with greater speed than the bones of his anatomy +ever gave any promise of. + +Sancho, who thought his master was in danger of being thrown, jumped off +Dapple, and ran in all haste to help him; but by the time he reached him +he was already on the ground, and beside him was Rocinante, who had come +down with his master, the usual end and upshot of Rocinante's vivacity +and high spirits. But the moment Sancho quitted his beast to go and help +Don Quixote, the dancing devil with the bladders jumped up on Dapple, and +beating him with them, more by the fright and the noise than by the pain +of the blows, made him fly across the fields towards the village where +they were going to hold their festival. Sancho witnessed Dapple's career +and his master's fall, and did not know which of the two cases of need he +should attend to first; but in the end, like a good squire and good +servant, he let his love for his master prevail over his affection for +his ass; though every time he saw the bladders rise in the air and come +down on the hind quarters of his Dapple he felt the pains and terrors of +death, and he would have rather had the blows fall on the apples of his +own eyes than on the least hair of his ass's tail. In this trouble and +perplexity he came to where Don Quixote lay in a far sorrier plight than +he liked, and having helped him to mount Rocinante, he said to him, +"Senor, the devil has carried off my Dapple." + +"What devil?" asked Don Quixote. + +"The one with the bladders," said Sancho. + +"Then I will recover him," said Don Quixote, "even if he be shut up with +him in the deepest and darkest dungeons of hell. Follow me, Sancho, for +the cart goes slowly, and with the mules of it I will make good the loss +of Dapple." + +"You need not take the trouble, senor," said Sancho; "keep cool, for as I +now see, the devil has let Dapple go and he is coming back to his old +quarters;" and so it turned out, for, having come down with Dapple, in +imitation of Don Quixote and Rocinante, the devil made off on foot to the +town, and the ass came back to his master. + +"For all that," said Don Quixote, "it will be well to visit the +discourtesy of that devil upon some of those in the cart, even if it were +the emperor himself." + +"Don't think of it, your worship," returned Sancho; "take my advice and +never meddle with actors, for they are a favoured class; I myself have +known an actor taken up for two murders, and yet come off scot-free; +remember that, as they are merry folk who give pleasure, everyone favours +and protects them, and helps and makes much of them, above all when they +are those of the royal companies and under patent, all or most of whom in +dress and appearance look like princes." + +"Still, for all that," said Don Quixote, "the player devil must not go +off boasting, even if the whole human race favours him." + +So saying, he made for the cart, which was now very near the town, +shouting out as he went, "Stay! halt! ye merry, jovial crew! I want to +teach you how to treat asses and animals that serve the squires of +knights-errant for steeds." + +So loud were the shouts of Don Quixote, that those in the cart heard and +understood them, and, guessing by the words what the speaker's intention +was, Death in an instant jumped out of the cart, and the emperor, the +devil carter and the angel after him, nor did the queen or the god Cupid +stay behind; and all armed themselves with stones and formed in line, +prepared to receive Don Quixote on the points of their pebbles. Don +Quixote, when he saw them drawn up in such a gallant array with uplifted +arms ready for a mighty discharge of stones, checked Rocinante and began +to consider in what way he could attack them with the least danger to +himself. As he halted Sancho came up, and seeing him disposed to attack +this well-ordered squadron, said to him, "It would be the height of +madness to attempt such an enterprise; remember, senor, that against sops +from the brook, and plenty of them, there is no defensive armour in the +world, except to stow oneself away under a brass bell; and besides, one +should remember that it is rashness, and not valour, for a single man to +attack an army that has Death in it, and where emperors fight in person, +with angels, good and bad, to help them; and if this reflection will not +make you keep quiet, perhaps it will to know for certain that among all +these, though they look like kings, princes, and emperors, there is not a +single knight-errant." + +"Now indeed thou hast hit the point, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "which +may and should turn me from the resolution I had already formed. I cannot +and must not draw sword, as I have many a time before told thee, against +anyone who is not a dubbed knight; it is for thee, Sancho, if thou wilt, +to take vengeance for the wrong done to thy Dapple; and I will help thee +from here by shouts and salutary counsels." + +"There is no occasion to take vengeance on anyone, senor," replied +Sancho; "for it is not the part of good Christians to revenge wrongs; and +besides, I will arrange it with my ass to leave his grievance to my +good-will and pleasure, and that is to live in peace as long as heaven +grants me life." + +"Well," said Don Quixote, "if that be thy determination, good Sancho, +sensible Sancho, Christian Sancho, honest Sancho, let us leave these +phantoms alone and turn to the pursuit of better and worthier adventures; +for, from what I see of this country, we cannot fail to find plenty of +marvellous ones in it." + +He at once wheeled about, Sancho ran to take possession of his Dapple, +Death and his flying squadron returned to their cart and pursued their +journey, and thus the dread adventure of the cart of Death ended happily, +thanks to the advice Sancho gave his master; who had, the following day, +a fresh adventure, of no less thrilling interest than the last, with an +enamoured knight-errant. + + + + +CHAPTER XII. + +OF THE STRANGE ADVENTURE WHICH BEFELL THE VALIANT DON QUIXOTE WITH THE +BOLD KNIGHT OF THE MIRRORS + + +The night succeeding the day of the encounter with Death, Don Quixote and +his squire passed under some tall shady trees, and Don Quixote at +Sancho's persuasion ate a little from the store carried by Dapple, and +over their supper Sancho said to his master, "Senor, what a fool I should +have looked if I had chosen for my reward the spoils of the first +adventure your worship achieved, instead of the foals of the three mares. +After all, 'a sparrow in the hand is better than a vulture on the wing.'" + +"At the same time, Sancho," replied Don Quixote, "if thou hadst let me +attack them as I wanted, at the very least the emperor's gold crown and +Cupid's painted wings would have fallen to thee as spoils, for I should +have taken them by force and given them into thy hands." + +"The sceptres and crowns of those play-actor emperors," said Sancho, +"were never yet pure gold, but only brass foil or tin." + +"That is true," said Don Quixote, "for it would not be right that the +accessories of the drama should be real, instead of being mere fictions +and semblances, like the drama itself; towards which, Sancho-and, as a +necessary consequence, towards those who represent and produce it--I +would that thou wert favourably disposed, for they are all instruments of +great good to the State, placing before us at every step a mirror in +which we may see vividly displayed what goes on in human life; nor is +there any similitude that shows us more faithfully what we are and ought +to be than the play and the players. Come, tell me, hast thou not seen a +play acted in which kings, emperors, pontiffs, knights, ladies, and +divers other personages were introduced? One plays the villain, another +the knave, this one the merchant, that the soldier, one the sharp-witted +fool, another the foolish lover; and when the play is over, and they have +put off the dresses they wore in it, all the actors become equal." + +"Yes, I have seen that," said Sancho. + +"Well then," said Don Quixote, "the same thing happens in the comedy and +life of this world, where some play emperors, others popes, and, in +short, all the characters that can be brought into a play; but when it is +over, that is to say when life ends, death strips them all of the +garments that distinguish one from the other, and all are equal in the +grave." + +"A fine comparison!" said Sancho; "though not so new but that I have +heard it many and many a time, as well as that other one of the game of +chess; how, so long as the game lasts, each piece has its own particular +office, and when the game is finished they are all mixed, jumbled up and +shaken together, and stowed away in the bag, which is much like ending +life in the grave." + +"Thou art growing less doltish and more shrewd every day, Sancho," said +Don Quixote. + +"Ay," said Sancho; "it must be that some of your worship's shrewdness +sticks to me; land that, of itself, is barren and dry, will come to yield +good fruit if you dung it and till it; what I mean is that your worship's +conversation has been the dung that has fallen on the barren soil of my +dry wit, and the time I have been in your service and society has been +the tillage; and with the help of this I hope to yield fruit in abundance +that will not fall away or slide from those paths of good breeding that +your worship has made in my parched understanding." + +Don Quixote laughed at Sancho's affected phraseology, and perceived that +what he said about his improvement was true, for now and then he spoke in +a way that surprised him; though always, or mostly, when Sancho tried to +talk fine and attempted polite language, he wound up by toppling over +from the summit of his simplicity into the abyss of his ignorance; and +where he showed his culture and his memory to the greatest advantage was +in dragging in proverbs, no matter whether they had any bearing or not +upon the subject in hand, as may have been seen already and will be +noticed in the course of this history. + +In conversation of this kind they passed a good part of the night, but +Sancho felt a desire to let down the curtains of his eyes, as he used to +say when he wanted to go to sleep; and stripping Dapple he left him at +liberty to graze his fill. He did not remove Rocinante's saddle, as his +master's express orders were, that so long as they were in the field or +not sleeping under a roof Rocinante was not to be stripped--the ancient +usage established and observed by knights-errant being to take off the +bridle and hang it on the saddle-bow, but to remove the saddle from the +horse--never! Sancho acted accordingly, and gave him the same liberty he +had given Dapple, between whom and Rocinante there was a friendship so +unequalled and so strong, that it is handed down by tradition from father +to son, that the author of this veracious history devoted some special +chapters to it, which, in order to preserve the propriety and decorum due +to a history so heroic, he did not insert therein; although at times he +forgets this resolution of his and describes how eagerly the two beasts +would scratch one another when they were together and how, when they were +tired or full, Rocinante would lay his neck across Dapple's, stretching +half a yard or more on the other side, and the pair would stand thus, +gazing thoughtfully on the ground, for three days, or at least so long as +they were left alone, or hunger did not drive them to go and look for +food. I may add that they say the author left it on record that he +likened their friendship to that of Nisus and Euryalus, and Pylades and +Orestes; and if that be so, it may be perceived, to the admiration of +mankind, how firm the friendship must have been between these two +peaceful animals, shaming men, who preserve friendships with one another +so badly. This was why it was said-- + +For friend no longer is there friend; +The reeds turn lances now. + +And some one else has sung-- + +Friend to friend the bug, etc. + +And let no one fancy that the author was at all astray when he compared +the friendship of these animals to that of men; for men have received +many lessons from beasts, and learned many important things, as, for +example, the clyster from the stork, vomit and gratitude from the dog, +watchfulness from the crane, foresight from the ant, modesty from the +elephant, and loyalty from the horse. + +Sancho at last fell asleep at the foot of a cork tree, while Don Quixote +dozed at that of a sturdy oak; but a short time only had elapsed when a +noise he heard behind him awoke him, and rising up startled, he listened +and looked in the direction the noise came from, and perceived two men on +horseback, one of whom, letting himself drop from the saddle, said to the +other, "Dismount, my friend, and take the bridles off the horses, for, so +far as I can see, this place will furnish grass for them, and the +solitude and silence my love-sick thoughts need of." As he said this he +stretched himself upon the ground, and as he flung himself down, the +armour in which he was clad rattled, whereby Don Quixote perceived that +he must be a knight-errant; and going over to Sancho, who was asleep, he +shook him by the arm and with no small difficulty brought him back to his +senses, and said in a low voice to him, "Brother Sancho, we have got an +adventure." + +"God send us a good one," said Sancho; "and where may her ladyship the +adventure be?" + +"Where, Sancho?" replied Don Quixote; "turn thine eyes and look, and thou +wilt see stretched there a knight-errant, who, it strikes me, is not over +and above happy, for I saw him fling himself off his horse and throw +himself on the ground with a certain air of dejection, and his armour +rattled as he fell." + +"Well," said Sancho, "how does your worship make out that to be an +adventure?" + +"I do not mean to say," returned Don Quixote, "that it is a complete +adventure, but that it is the beginning of one, for it is in this way +adventures begin. But listen, for it seems he is tuning a lute or guitar, +and from the way he is spitting and clearing his chest he must be getting +ready to sing something." + +"Faith, you are right," said Sancho, "and no doubt he is some enamoured +knight." + +"There is no knight-errant that is not," said Don Quixote; "but let us +listen to him, for, if he sings, by that thread we shall extract the ball +of his thoughts; because out of the abundance of the heart the mouth +speaketh." + +Sancho was about to reply to his master, but the Knight of the Grove's +voice, which was neither very bad nor very good, stopped him, and +listening attentively the pair heard him sing this + +SONNET + +Your pleasure, prithee, lady mine, unfold; + Declare the terms that I am to obey; +My will to yours submissively I mould, + And from your law my feet shall never stray. + Would you I die, to silent grief a prey? +Then count me even now as dead and cold; + Would you I tell my woes in some new way? +Then shall my tale by Love itself be told. +The unison of opposites to prove, + Of the soft wax and diamond hard am I; +But still, obedient to the laws of love, + Here, hard or soft, I offer you my breast, + Whate'er you grave or stamp thereon shall rest + Indelible for all eternity. + +With an "Ah me!" that seemed to be drawn from the inmost recesses of his +heart, the Knight of the Grove brought his lay to an end, and shortly +afterwards exclaimed in a melancholy and piteous voice, "O fairest and +most ungrateful woman on earth! What! can it be, most serene Casildea de +Vandalia, that thou wilt suffer this thy captive knight to waste away and +perish in ceaseless wanderings and rude and arduous toils? It is not +enough that I have compelled all the knights of Navarre, all the Leonese, +all the Tartesians, all the Castilians, and finally all the knights of La +Mancha, to confess thee the most beautiful in the world?" + +"Not so," said Don Quixote at this, "for I am of La Mancha, and I have +never confessed anything of the sort, nor could I nor should I confess a +thing so much to the prejudice of my lady's beauty; thou seest how this +knight is raving, Sancho. But let us listen, perhaps he will tell us more +about himself." + +"That he will," returned Sancho, "for he seems in a mood to bewail +himself for a month at a stretch." + +But this was not the case, for the Knight of the Grove, hearing voices +near him, instead of continuing his lamentation, stood up and exclaimed +in a distinct but courteous tone, "Who goes there? What are you? Do you +belong to the number of the happy or of the miserable?" + +"Of the miserable," answered Don Quixote. + +"Then come to me," said he of the Grove, "and rest assured that it is to +woe itself and affliction itself you come." + +Don Quixote, finding himself answered in such a soft and courteous +manner, went over to him, and so did Sancho. + +The doleful knight took Don Quixote by the arm, saying, "Sit down here, +sir knight; for, that you are one, and of those that profess +knight-errantry, it is to me a sufficient proof to have found you in this +place, where solitude and night, the natural couch and proper retreat of +knights-errant, keep you company." To which Don made answer, "A knight I +am of the profession you mention, and though sorrows, misfortunes, and +calamities have made my heart their abode, the compassion I feel for the +misfortunes of others has not been thereby banished from it. From what +you have just now sung I gather that yours spring from love, I mean from +the love you bear that fair ingrate you named in your lament." + +In the meantime, they had seated themselves together on the hard ground +peaceably and sociably, just as if, as soon as day broke, they were not +going to break one another's heads. + +"Are you, sir knight, in love perchance?" asked he of the Grove of Don +Quixote. + +"By mischance I am," replied Don Quixote; "though the ills arising from +well-bestowed affections should be esteemed favours rather than +misfortunes." + +"That is true," returned he of the Grove, "if scorn did not unsettle our +reason and understanding, for if it be excessive it looks like revenge." + +"I was never scorned by my lady," said Don Quixote. + +"Certainly not," said Sancho, who stood close by, "for my lady is as a +lamb, and softer than a roll of butter." + +"Is this your squire?" asked he of the Grove. + +"He is," said Don Quixote. + +"I never yet saw a squire," said he of the Grove, "who ventured to speak +when his master was speaking; at least, there is mine, who is as big as +his father, and it cannot be proved that he has ever opened his lips when +I am speaking." + +"By my faith then," said Sancho, "I have spoken, and am fit to speak, in +the presence of one as much, or even--but never mind--it only makes it +worse to stir it." + +The squire of the Grove took Sancho by the arm, saying to him, "Let us +two go where we can talk in squire style as much as we please, and leave +these gentlemen our masters to fight it out over the story of their +loves; and, depend upon it, daybreak will find them at it without having +made an end of it." + +"So be it by all means," said Sancho; "and I will tell your worship who I +am, that you may see whether I am to be reckoned among the number of the +most talkative squires." + +With this the two squires withdrew to one side, and between them there +passed a conversation as droll as that which passed between their masters +was serious. + + + + +CHAPTER XIII. + +IN WHICH IS CONTINUED THE ADVENTURE OF THE KNIGHT OF THE GROVE, TOGETHER +WITH THE SENSIBLE, ORIGINAL, AND TRANQUIL COLLOQUY THAT PASSED BETWEEN +THE TWO SQUIRES + + +The knights and the squires made two parties, these telling the story of +their lives, the others the story of their loves; but the history relates +first of all the conversation of the servants, and afterwards takes up +that of the masters; and it says that, withdrawing a little from the +others, he of the Grove said to Sancho, "A hard life it is we lead and +live, senor, we that are squires to knights-errant; verily, we eat our +bread in the sweat of our faces, which is one of the curses God laid on +our first parents." + +"It may be said, too," added Sancho, "that we eat it in the chill of our +bodies; for who gets more heat and cold than the miserable squires of +knight-errantry? Even so it would not be so bad if we had something to +eat, for woes are lighter if there's bread; but sometimes we go a day or +two without breaking our fast, except with the wind that blows." + +"All that," said he of the Grove, "may be endured and put up with when we +have hopes of reward; for, unless the knight-errant he serves is +excessively unlucky, after a few turns the squire will at least find +himself rewarded with a fine government of some island or some fair +county." + +"I," said Sancho, "have already told my master that I shall be content +with the government of some island, and he is so noble and generous that +he has promised it to me ever so many times." + +"I," said he of the Grove, "shall be satisfied with a canonry for my +services, and my master has already assigned me one." + +"Your master," said Sancho, "no doubt is a knight in the Church line, and +can bestow rewards of that sort on his good squire; but mine is only a +layman; though I remember some clever, but, to my mind, designing people, +strove to persuade him to try and become an archbishop. He, however, +would not be anything but an emperor; but I was trembling all the time +lest he should take a fancy to go into the Church, not finding myself fit +to hold office in it; for I may tell you, though I seem a man, I am no +better than a beast for the Church." + +"Well, then, you are wrong there," said he of the Grove; "for those +island governments are not all satisfactory; some are awkward, some are +poor, some are dull, and, in short, the highest and choicest brings with +it a heavy burden of cares and troubles which the unhappy wight to whose +lot it has fallen bears upon his shoulders. Far better would it be for us +who have adopted this accursed service to go back to our own houses, and +there employ ourselves in pleasanter occupations--in hunting or fishing, +for instance; for what squire in the world is there so poor as not to +have a hack and a couple of greyhounds and a fishingrod to amuse himself +with in his own village?" + +"I am not in want of any of those things," said Sancho; "to be sure I +have no hack, but I have an ass that is worth my master's horse twice +over; God send me a bad Easter, and that the next one I am to see, if I +would swap, even if I got four bushels of barley to boot. You will laugh +at the value I put on my Dapple--for dapple is the colour of my beast. As +to greyhounds, I can't want for them, for there are enough and to spare +in my town; and, moreover, there is more pleasure in sport when it is at +other people's expense." + +"In truth and earnest, sir squire," said he of the Grove, "I have made up +my mind and determined to have done with these drunken vagaries of these +knights, and go back to my village, and bring up my children; for I have +three, like three Oriental pearls." + +"I have two," said Sancho, "that might be presented before the Pope +himself, especially a girl whom I am breeding up for a countess, please +God, though in spite of her mother." + +"And how old is this lady that is being bred up for a countess?" asked he +of the Grove. + +"Fifteen, a couple of years more or less," answered Sancho; "but she is +as tall as a lance, and as fresh as an April morning, and as strong as a +porter." + +"Those are gifts to fit her to be not only a countess but a nymph of the +greenwood," said he of the Grove; "whoreson strumpet! what pith the rogue +must have!" + +To which Sancho made answer, somewhat sulkily, "She's no strumpet, nor +was her mother, nor will either of them be, please God, while I live; +speak more civilly; for one bred up among knights-errant, who are +courtesy itself, your words don't seem to me to be very becoming." + +"O how little you know about compliments, sir squire," returned he of the +Grove. "What! don't you know that when a horseman delivers a good lance +thrust at the bull in the plaza, or when anyone does anything very well, +the people are wont to say, 'Ha, whoreson rip! how well he has done it!' +and that what seems to be abuse in the expression is high praise? Disown +sons and daughters, senor, who don't do what deserves that compliments of +this sort should be paid to their parents." + +"I do disown them," replied Sancho, "and in this way, and by the same +reasoning, you might call me and my children and my wife all the +strumpets in the world, for all they do and say is of a kind that in the +highest degree deserves the same praise; and to see them again I pray God +to deliver me from mortal sin, or, what comes to the same thing, to +deliver me from this perilous calling of squire into which I have fallen +a second time, decayed and beguiled by a purse with a hundred ducats that +I found one day in the heart of the Sierra Morena; and the devil is +always putting a bag full of doubloons before my eyes, here, there, +everywhere, until I fancy at every stop I am putting my hand on it, and +hugging it, and carrying it home with me, and making investments, and +getting interest, and living like a prince; and so long as I think of +this I make light of all the hardships I endure with this simpleton of a +master of mine, who, I well know, is more of a madman than a knight." + +"There's why they say that 'covetousness bursts the bag,'" said he of the +Grove; "but if you come to talk of that sort, there is not a greater one +in the world than my master, for he is one of those of whom they say, +'the cares of others kill the ass;' for, in order that another knight may +recover the senses he has lost, he makes a madman of himself and goes +looking for what, when found, may, for all I know, fly in his own face." +"And is he in love perchance?" asked Sancho. + +"He is," said of the Grove, "with one Casildea de Vandalia, the rawest +and best roasted lady the whole world could produce; but that rawness is +not the only foot he limps on, for he has greater schemes rumbling in his +bowels, as will be seen before many hours are over." + +"There's no road so smooth but it has some hole or hindrance in it," said +Sancho; "in other houses they cook beans, but in mine it's by the potful; +madness will have more followers and hangers-on than sound sense; but if +there be any truth in the common saying, that to have companions in +trouble gives some relief, I may take consolation from you, inasmuch as +you serve a master as crazy as my own." + +"Crazy but valiant," replied he of the Grove, "and more roguish than +crazy or valiant." + +"Mine is not that," said Sancho; "I mean he has nothing of the rogue in +him; on the contrary, he has the soul of a pitcher; he has no thought of +doing harm to anyone, only good to all, nor has he any malice whatever in +him; a child might persuade him that it is night at noonday; and for this +simplicity I love him as the core of my heart, and I can't bring myself +to leave him, let him do ever such foolish things." + +"For all that, brother and senor," said he of the Grove, "if the blind +lead the blind, both are in danger of falling into the pit. It is better +for us to beat a quiet retreat and get back to our own quarters; for +those who seek adventures don't always find good ones." + +Sancho kept spitting from time to time, and his spittle seemed somewhat +ropy and dry, observing which the compassionate squire of the Grove said, +"It seems to me that with all this talk of ours our tongues are sticking +to the roofs of our mouths; but I have a pretty good loosener hanging +from the saddle-bow of my horse," and getting up he came back the next +minute with a large bota of wine and a pasty half a yard across; and this +is no exaggeration, for it was made of a house rabbit so big that Sancho, +as he handled it, took it to be made of a goat, not to say a kid, and +looking at it he said, "And do you carry this with you, senor?" + +"Why, what are you thinking about?" said the other; "do you take me for +some paltry squire? I carry a better larder on my horse's croup than a +general takes with him when he goes on a march." + +Sancho ate without requiring to be pressed, and in the dark bolted +mouthfuls like the knots on a tether, and said he, "You are a proper +trusty squire, one of the right sort, sumptuous and grand, as this +banquet shows, which, if it has not come here by magic art, at any rate +has the look of it; not like me, unlucky beggar, that have nothing more +in my alforjas than a scrap of cheese, so hard that one might brain a +giant with it, and, to keep it company, a few dozen carobs and as many +more filberts and walnuts; thanks to the austerity of my master, and the +idea he has and the rule he follows, that knights-errant must not live or +sustain themselves on anything except dried fruits and the herbs of the +field." + +"By my faith, brother," said he of the Grove, "my stomach is not made for +thistles, or wild pears, or roots of the woods; let our masters do as +they like, with their chivalry notions and laws, and eat what those +enjoin; I carry my prog-basket and this bota hanging to the saddle-bow, +whatever they may say; and it is such an object of worship with me, and I +love it so, that there is hardly a moment but I am kissing and embracing +it over and over again;" and so saying he thrust it into Sancho's hands, +who raising it aloft pointed to his mouth, gazed at the stars for a +quarter of an hour; and when he had done drinking let his head fall on +one side, and giving a deep sigh, exclaimed, "Ah, whoreson rogue, how +catholic it is!" + +"There, you see," said he of the Grove, hearing Sancho's exclamation, +"how you have called this wine whoreson by way of praise." + +"Well," said Sancho, "I own it, and I grant it is no dishonour to call +anyone whoreson when it is to be understood as praise. But tell me, +senor, by what you love best, is this Ciudad Real wine?" + +"O rare wine-taster!" said he of the Grove; "nowhere else indeed does it +come from, and it has some years' age too." + +"Leave me alone for that," said Sancho; "never fear but I'll hit upon the +place it came from somehow. What would you say, sir squire, to my having +such a great natural instinct in judging wines that you have only to let +me smell one and I can tell positively its country, its kind, its flavour +and soundness, the changes it will undergo, and everything that +appertains to a wine? But it is no wonder, for I have had in my family, +on my father's side, the two best wine-tasters that have been known in La +Mancha for many a long year, and to prove it I'll tell you now a thing +that happened them. They gave the two of them some wine out of a cask, to +try, asking their opinion as to the condition, quality, goodness or +badness of the wine. One of them tried it with the tip of his tongue, the +other did no more than bring it to his nose. The first said the wine had +a flavour of iron, the second said it had a stronger flavour of cordovan. +The owner said the cask was clean, and that nothing had been added to the +wine from which it could have got a flavour of either iron or leather. +Nevertheless, these two great wine-tasters held to what they had said. +Time went by, the wine was sold, and when they came to clean out the +cask, they found in it a small key hanging to a thong of cordovan; see +now if one who comes of the same stock has not a right to give his +opinion in such like cases." + +"Therefore, I say," said he of the Grove, "let us give up going in quest +of adventures, and as we have loaves let us not go looking for cakes, but +return to our cribs, for God will find us there if it be his will." + +"Until my master reaches Saragossa," said Sancho, "I'll remain in his +service; after that we'll see." + +The end of it was that the two squires talked so much and drank so much +that sleep had to tie their tongues and moderate their thirst, for to +quench it was impossible; and so the pair of them fell asleep clinging to +the now nearly empty bota and with half-chewed morsels in their mouths; +and there we will leave them for the present, to relate what passed +between the Knight of the Grove and him of the Rueful Countenance. + + + + +CHAPTER XIV. + +WHEREIN IS CONTINUED THE ADVENTURE OF THE KNIGHT OF THE GROVE + + +Among the things that passed between Don Quixote and the Knight of the +Wood, the history tells us he of the Grove said to Don Quixote, "In fine, +sir knight, I would have you know that my destiny, or, more properly +speaking, my choice led me to fall in love with the peerless Casildea de +Vandalia. I call her peerless because she has no peer, whether it be in +bodily stature or in the supremacy of rank and beauty. This same +Casildea, then, that I speak of, requited my honourable passion and +gentle aspirations by compelling me, as his stepmother did Hercules, to +engage in many perils of various sorts, at the end of each promising me +that, with the end of the next, the object of my hopes should be +attained; but my labours have gone on increasing link by link until they +are past counting, nor do I know what will be the last one that is to be +the beginning of the accomplishment of my chaste desires. On one occasion +she bade me go and challenge the famous giantess of Seville, La Giralda +by name, who is as mighty and strong as if made of brass, and though +never stirring from one spot, is the most restless and changeable woman +in the world. I came, I saw, I conquered, and I made her stay quiet and +behave herself, for nothing but north winds blew for more than a week. +Another time I was ordered to lift those ancient stones, the mighty bulls +of Guisando, an enterprise that might more fitly be entrusted to porters +than to knights. Again, she bade me fling myself into the cavern of +Cabra--an unparalleled and awful peril--and bring her a minute account of +all that is concealed in those gloomy depths. I stopped the motion of the +Giralda, I lifted the bulls of Guisando, I flung myself into the cavern +and brought to light the secrets of its abyss; and my hopes are as dead +as dead can be, and her scorn and her commands as lively as ever. To be +brief, last of all she has commanded me to go through all the provinces +of Spain and compel all the knights-errant wandering therein to confess +that she surpasses all women alive to-day in beauty, and that I am the +most valiant and the most deeply enamoured knight on earth; in support of +which claim I have already travelled over the greater part of Spain, and +have there vanquished several knights who have dared to contradict me; +but what I most plume and pride myself upon is having vanquished in +single combat that so famous knight Don Quixote of La Mancha, and made +him confess that my Casildea is more beautiful than his Dulcinea; and in +this one victory I hold myself to have conquered all the knights in the +world; for this Don Quixote that I speak of has vanquished them all, and +I having vanquished him, his glory, his fame, and his honour have passed +and are transferred to my person; for + + The more the vanquished hath of fair renown, + The greater glory gilds the victor's crown. + +Thus the innumerable achievements of the said Don Quixote are now set +down to my account and have become mine." + +Don Quixote was amazed when he heard the Knight of the Grove, and was a +thousand times on the point of telling him he lied, and had the lie +direct already on the tip of his tongue; but he restrained himself as +well as he could, in order to force him to confess the lie with his own +lips; so he said to him quietly, "As to what you say, sir knight, about +having vanquished most of the knights of Spain, or even of the whole +world, I say nothing; but that you have vanquished Don Quixote of La +Mancha I consider doubtful; it may have been some other that resembled +him, although there are few like him." + +"How! not vanquished?" said he of the Grove; "by the heaven that is above +us I fought Don Quixote and overcame him and made him yield; and he is a +man of tall stature, gaunt features, long, lank limbs, with hair turning +grey, an aquiline nose rather hooked, and large black drooping +moustaches; he does battle under the name of 'The Countenance,' and he +has for squire a peasant called Sancho Panza; he presses the loins and +rules the reins of a famous steed called Rocinante; and lastly, he has +for the mistress of his will a certain Dulcinea del Toboso, once upon a +time called Aldonza Lorenzo, just as I call mine Casildea de Vandalia +because her name is Casilda and she is of Andalusia. If all these tokens +are not enough to vindicate the truth of what I say, here is my sword, +that will compel incredulity itself to give credence to it." + +"Calm yourself, sir knight," said Don Quixote, "and give ear to what I am +about to say to you. I would have you know that this Don Quixote you +speak of is the greatest friend I have in the world; so much so that I +may say I regard him in the same light as my own person; and from the +precise and clear indications you have given I cannot but think that he +must be the very one you have vanquished. On the other hand, I see with +my eyes and feel with my hands that it is impossible it can have been the +same; unless indeed it be that, as he has many enemies who are +enchanters, and one in particular who is always persecuting him, some one +of these may have taken his shape in order to allow himself to be +vanquished, so as to defraud him of the fame that his exalted +achievements as a knight have earned and acquired for him throughout the +known world. And in confirmation of this, I must tell you, too, that it +is but ten hours since these said enchanters his enemies transformed the +shape and person of the fair Dulcinea del Toboso into a foul and mean +village lass, and in the same way they must have transformed Don Quixote; +and if all this does not suffice to convince you of the truth of what I +say, here is Don Quixote himself, who will maintain it by arms, on foot +or on horseback or in any way you please." + +And so saying he stood up and laid his hand on his sword, waiting to see +what the Knight of the Grove would do, who in an equally calm voice said +in reply, "Pledges don't distress a good payer; he who has succeeded in +vanquishing you once when transformed, Sir Don Quixote, may fairly hope +to subdue you in your own proper shape; but as it is not becoming for +knights to perform their feats of arms in the dark, like highwaymen and +bullies, let us wait till daylight, that the sun may behold our deeds; +and the conditions of our combat shall be that the vanquished shall be at +the victor's disposal, to do all that he may enjoin, provided the +injunction be such as shall be becoming a knight." + +"I am more than satisfied with these conditions and terms," replied Don +Quixote; and so saying, they betook themselves to where their squires +lay, and found them snoring, and in the same posture they were in when +sleep fell upon them. They roused them up, and bade them get the horses +ready, as at sunrise they were to engage in a bloody and arduous single +combat; at which intelligence Sancho was aghast and thunderstruck, +trembling for the safety of his master because of the mighty deeds he had +heard the squire of the Grove ascribe to his; but without a word the two +squires went in quest of their cattle; for by this time the three horses +and the ass had smelt one another out, and were all together. + +On the way, he of the Grove said to Sancho, "You must know, brother, that +it is the custom with the fighting men of Andalusia, when they are +godfathers in any quarrel, not to stand idle with folded arms while their +godsons fight; I say so to remind you that while our masters are +fighting, we, too, have to fight, and knock one another to shivers." + +"That custom, sir squire," replied Sancho, "may hold good among those +bullies and fighting men you talk of, but certainly not among the squires +of knights-errant; at least, I have never heard my master speak of any +custom of the sort, and he knows all the laws of knight-errantry by +heart; but granting it true that there is an express law that squires are +to fight while their masters are fighting, I don't mean to obey it, but +to pay the penalty that may be laid on peacefully minded squires like +myself; for I am sure it cannot be more than two pounds of wax, and I +would rather pay that, for I know it will cost me less than the lint I +shall be at the expense of to mend my head, which I look upon as broken +and split already; there's another thing that makes it impossible for me +to fight, that I have no sword, for I never carried one in my life." + +"I know a good remedy for that," said he of the Grove; "I have here two +linen bags of the same size; you shall take one, and I the other, and we +will fight at bag blows with equal arms." + +"If that's the way, so be it with all my heart," said Sancho, "for that +sort of battle will serve to knock the dust out of us instead of hurting +us." + +"That will not do," said the other, "for we must put into the bags, to +keep the wind from blowing them away, half a dozen nice smooth pebbles, +all of the same weight; and in this way we shall be able to baste one +another without doing ourselves any harm or mischief." + +"Body of my father!" said Sancho, "see what marten and sable, and pads of +carded cotton he is putting into the bags, that our heads may not be +broken and our bones beaten to jelly! But even if they are filled with +toss silk, I can tell you, senor, I am not going to fight; let our +masters fight, that's their lookout, and let us drink and live; for time +will take care to ease us of our lives, without our going to look for +fillips so that they may be finished off before their proper time comes +and they drop from ripeness." + +"Still," returned he of the Grove, "we must fight, if it be only for half +an hour." + +"By no means," said Sancho; "I am not going to be so discourteous or so +ungrateful as to have any quarrel, be it ever so small, with one I have +eaten and drunk with; besides, who the devil could bring himself to fight +in cold blood, without anger or provocation?" + +"I can remedy that entirely," said he of the Grove, "and in this way: +before we begin the battle, I will come up to your worship fair and +softly, and give you three or four buffets, with which I shall stretch +you at my feet and rouse your anger, though it were sleeping sounder than +a dormouse." + +"To match that plan," said Sancho, "I have another that is not a whit +behind it; I will take a cudgel, and before your worship comes near +enough to waken my anger I will send yours so sound to sleep with whacks, +that it won't waken unless it be in the other world, where it is known +that I am not a man to let my face be handled by anyone; let each look +out for the arrow--though the surer way would be to let everyone's anger +sleep, for nobody knows the heart of anyone, and a man may come for wool +and go back shorn; God gave his blessing to peace and his curse to +quarrels; if a hunted cat, surrounded and hard pressed, turns into a +lion, God knows what I, who am a man, may turn into; and so from this +time forth I warn you, sir squire, that all the harm and mischief that +may come of our quarrel will be put down to your account." + +"Very good," said he of the Grove; "God will send the dawn and we shall +be all right." + +And now gay-plumaged birds of all sorts began to warble in the trees, and +with their varied and gladsome notes seemed to welcome and salute the +fresh morn that was beginning to show the beauty of her countenance at +the gates and balconies of the east, shaking from her locks a profusion +of liquid pearls; in which dulcet moisture bathed, the plants, too, +seemed to shed and shower down a pearly spray, the willows distilled +sweet manna, the fountains laughed, the brooks babbled, the woods +rejoiced, and the meadows arrayed themselves in all their glory at her +coming. But hardly had the light of day made it possible to see and +distinguish things, when the first object that presented itself to the +eyes of Sancho Panza was the squire of the Grove's nose, which was so big +that it almost overshadowed his whole body. It is, in fact, stated, that +it was of enormous size, hooked in the middle, covered with warts, and of +a mulberry colour like an egg-plant; it hung down two fingers' length +below his mouth, and the size, the colour, the warts, and the bend of it, +made his face so hideous, that Sancho, as he looked at him, began to +tremble hand and foot like a child in convulsions, and he vowed in his +heart to let himself be given two hundred buffets, sooner than be +provoked to fight that monster. Don Quixote examined his adversary, and +found that he already had his helmet on and visor lowered, so that he +could not see his face; he observed, however, that he was a sturdily +built man, but not very tall in stature. Over his armour he wore a +surcoat or cassock of what seemed to be the finest cloth of gold, all +bespangled with glittering mirrors like little moons, which gave him an +extremely gallant and splendid appearance; above his helmet fluttered a +great quantity of plumes, green, yellow, and white, and his lance, which +was leaning against a tree, was very long and stout, and had a steel +point more than a palm in length. + +Don Quixote observed all, and took note of all, and from what he saw and +observed he concluded that the said knight must be a man of great +strength, but he did not for all that give way to fear, like Sancho +Panza; on the contrary, with a composed and dauntless air, he said to the +Knight of the Mirrors, "If, sir knight, your great eagerness to fight has +not banished your courtesy, by it I would entreat you to raise your visor +a little, in order that I may see if the comeliness of your countenance +corresponds with that of your equipment." + +"Whether you come victorious or vanquished out of this emprise, sir +knight," replied he of the Mirrors, "you will have more than enough time +and leisure to see me; and if now I do not comply with your request, it +is because it seems to me I should do a serious wrong to the fair +Casildea de Vandalia in wasting time while I stopped to raise my visor +before compelling you to confess what you are already aware I maintain." + +"Well then," said Don Quixote, "while we are mounting you can at least +tell me if I am that Don Quixote whom you said you vanquished." + +"To that we answer you," said he of the Mirrors, "that you are as like +the very knight I vanquished as one egg is like another, but as you say +enchanters persecute you, I will not venture to say positively whether +you are the said person or not." + +"That," said Don Quixote, "is enough to convince me that you are under a +deception; however, entirely to relieve you of it, let our horses be +brought, and in less time than it would take you to raise your visor, if +God, my lady, and my arm stand me in good stead, I shall see your face, +and you shall see that I am not the vanquished Don Quixote you take me to +be." + +With this, cutting short the colloquy, they mounted, and Don Quixote +wheeled Rocinante round in order to take a proper distance to charge back +upon his adversary, and he of the Mirrors did the same; but Don Quixote +had not moved away twenty paces when he heard himself called by the +other, and, each returning half-way, he of the Mirrors said to him, +"Remember, sir knight, that the terms of our combat are, that the +vanquished, as I said before, shall be at the victor's disposal." + +"I am aware of it already," said Don Quixote; "provided what is commanded +and imposed upon the vanquished be things that do not transgress the +limits of chivalry." + +"That is understood," replied he of the Mirrors. + +At this moment the extraordinary nose of the squire presented itself to +Don Quixote's view, and he was no less amazed than Sancho at the sight; +insomuch that he set him down as a monster of some kind, or a human being +of some new species or unearthly breed. Sancho, seeing his master +retiring to run his course, did not like to be left alone with the nosy +man, fearing that with one flap of that nose on his own the battle would +be all over for him and he would be left stretched on the ground, either +by the blow or with fright; so he ran after his master, holding on to +Rocinante's stirrup-leather, and when it seemed to him time to turn +about, he said, "I implore of your worship, senor, before you turn to +charge, to help me up into this cork tree, from which I will be able to +witness the gallant encounter your worship is going to have with this +knight, more to my taste and better than from the ground." + +"It seems to me rather, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "that thou wouldst +mount a scaffold in order to see the bulls without danger." + +"To tell the truth," returned Sancho, "the monstrous nose of that squire +has filled me with fear and terror, and I dare not stay near him." + +"It is," said Don Quixote, "such a one that were I not what I am it would +terrify me too; so, come, I will help thee up where thou wilt." + +While Don Quixote waited for Sancho to mount into the cork tree he of the +Mirrors took as much ground as he considered requisite, and, supposing +Don Quixote to have done the same, without waiting for any sound of +trumpet or other signal to direct them, he wheeled his horse, which was +not more agile or better-looking than Rocinante, and at his top speed, +which was an easy trot, he proceeded to charge his enemy; seeing him, +however, engaged in putting Sancho up, he drew rein, and halted in mid +career, for which his horse was very grateful, as he was already unable +to go. Don Quixote, fancying that his foe was coming down upon him +flying, drove his spurs vigorously into Rocinante's lean flanks and made +him scud along in such style that the history tells us that on this +occasion only was he known to make something like running, for on all +others it was a simple trot with him; and with this unparalleled fury he +bore down where he of the Mirrors stood digging his spurs into his horse +up to buttons, without being able to make him stir a finger's length from +the spot where he had come to a standstill in his course. At this lucky +moment and crisis, Don Quixote came upon his adversary, in trouble with +his horse, and embarrassed with his lance, which he either could not +manage, or had no time to lay in rest. Don Quixote, however, paid no +attention to these difficulties, and in perfect safety to himself and +without any risk encountered him of the Mirrors with such force that he +brought him to the ground in spite of himself over the haunches of his +horse, and with so heavy a fall that he lay to all appearance dead, not +stirring hand or foot. The instant Sancho saw him fall he slid down from +the cork tree, and made all haste to where his master was, who, +dismounting from Rocinante, went and stood over him of the Mirrors, and +unlacing his helmet to see if he was dead, and to give him air if he +should happen to be alive, he saw--who can say what he saw, without +filling all who hear it with astonishment, wonder, and awe? He saw, the +history says, the very countenance, the very face, the very look, the +very physiognomy, the very effigy, the very image of the bachelor Samson +Carrasco! As soon as he saw it he called out in a loud voice, "Make haste +here, Sancho, and behold what thou art to see but not to believe; quick, +my son, and learn what magic can do, and wizards and enchanters are +capable of." + +Sancho came up, and when he saw the countenance of the bachelor Carrasco, +he fell to crossing himself a thousand times, and blessing himself as +many more. All this time the prostrate knight showed no signs of life, +and Sancho said to Don Quixote, "It is my opinion, senor, that in any +case your worship should take and thrust your sword into the mouth of +this one here that looks like the bachelor Samson Carrasco; perhaps in +him you will kill one of your enemies, the enchanters." + +"Thy advice is not bad," said Don Quixote, "for of enemies the fewer the +better;" and he was drawing his sword to carry into effect Sancho's +counsel and suggestion, when the squire of the Mirrors came up, now +without the nose which had made him so hideous, and cried out in a loud +voice, "Mind what you are about, Senor Don Quixote; that is your friend, +the bachelor Samson Carrasco, you have at your feet, and I am his +squire." + +"And the nose?" said Sancho, seeing him without the hideous feature he +had before; to which he replied, "I have it here in my pocket," and +putting his hand into his right pocket, he pulled out a masquerade nose +of varnished pasteboard of the make already described; and Sancho, +examining him more and more closely, exclaimed aloud in a voice of +amazement, "Holy Mary be good to me! Isn't it Tom Cecial, my neighbour +and gossip?" + +"Why, to be sure I am!" returned the now unnosed squire; "Tom Cecial I +am, gossip and friend Sancho Panza; and I'll tell you presently the means +and tricks and falsehoods by which I have been brought here; but in the +meantime, beg and entreat of your master not to touch, maltreat, wound, +or slay the Knight of the Mirrors whom he has at his feet; because, +beyond all dispute, it is the rash and ill-advised bachelor Samson +Carrasco, our fellow townsman." + +At this moment he of the Mirrors came to himself, and Don Quixote +perceiving it, held the naked point of his sword over his face, and said +to him, "You are a dead man, knight, unless you confess that the peerless +Dulcinea del Toboso excels your Casildea de Vandalia in beauty; and in +addition to this you must promise, if you should survive this encounter +and fall, to go to the city of El Toboso and present yourself before her +on my behalf, that she deal with you according to her good pleasure; and +if she leaves you free to do yours, you are in like manner to return and +seek me out (for the trail of my mighty deeds will serve you as a guide +to lead you to where I may be), and tell me what may have passed between +you and her-conditions which, in accordance with what we stipulated +before our combat, do not transgress the just limits of knight-errantry." + +"I confess," said the fallen knight, "that the dirty tattered shoe of the +lady Dulcinea del Toboso is better than the ill-combed though clean beard +of Casildea; and I promise to go and to return from her presence to +yours, and to give you a full and particular account of all you demand of +me." + +"You must also confess and believe," added Don Quixote, "that the knight +you vanquished was not and could not be Don Quixote of La Mancha, but +some one else in his likeness, just as I confess and believe that you, +though you seem to be the bachelor Samson Carrasco, are not so, but some +other resembling him, whom my enemies have here put before me in his +shape, in order that I may restrain and moderate the vehemence of my +wrath, and make a gentle use of the glory of my victory." + +"I confess, hold, and think everything to be as you believe, hold, and +think it," the crippled knight; "let me rise, I entreat you; if, indeed, +the shock of my fall will allow me, for it has left me in a sorry plight +enough." + +Don Quixote helped him to rise, with the assistance of his squire Tom +Cecial; from whom Sancho never took his eyes, and to whom he put +questions, the replies to which furnished clear proof that he was really +and truly the Tom Cecial he said; but the impression made on Sancho's +mind by what his master said about the enchanters having changed the face +of the Knight of the Mirrors into that of the bachelor Samson Carrasco, +would not permit him to believe what he saw with his eyes. In fine, both +master and man remained under the delusion; and, down in the mouth, and +out of luck, he of the Mirrors and his squire parted from Don Quixote and +Sancho, he meaning to go look for some village where he could plaster and +strap his ribs. Don Quixote and Sancho resumed their journey to +Saragossa, and on it the history leaves them in order that it may tell +who the Knight of the Mirrors and his long-nosed squire were. + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The History of Don Quixote, Vol. II., +Part 21, by Miguel de Cervantes + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DON QUIXOTE, PART 21 *** + +***** This file should be named 5924.txt or 5924.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/5/9/2/5924/ + +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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