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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/5936-h.zip b/5936-h.zip Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..b03b629 --- /dev/null +++ b/5936-h.zip diff --git a/5936-h/5936-h.htm b/5936-h/5936-h.htm new file mode 100644 index 0000000..bd13d3c --- /dev/null +++ b/5936-h/5936-h.htm @@ -0,0 +1,2259 @@ +<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> +<html> +<head> +<title>THE HISTORY OF DON QUIXOTE, By Cervantes, Vol. II., Part 33.</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 33.</h2> +<pre> + +The Project Gutenberg EBook of The History of Don Quixote, Vol. II., Part +33, 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 33 + +Author: Miguel de Cervantes + +Release Date: July 25, 2004 [EBook #5936] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DON QUIXOTE, PART 33 *** + + + + +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 33 +<br><br> +Chapters 49-53 +</h3></center> + + +<br><br> +<center> +<img alt="bookcover.jpg (230K)" src="images/bookcover.jpg" height="842" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/bookcover.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"> +</a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center> +<img alt="spine.jpg (152K)" src="images/spine.jpg" height="842" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/spine.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"> +</a> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<center> +<h3>Ebook Editor's Note</h3> +</center> +<blockquote><blockquote><blockquote><blockquote> +<p> +The book cover and spine above and the images which follow were not part of the original Ormsby +translation—they are taken from the 1880 edition of J. W. Clark, illustrated by +Gustave Dore. Clark in his edition states that, "The English text of 'Don Quixote' +adopted in this edition is that of Jarvis, with occasional corrections from Motteaux." +See in the introduction below John Ormsby's critique of +both the Jarvis and Motteaux translations. It has been elected in the present Project Gutenberg edition +to attach the famous engravings of Gustave Dore to the Ormsby translation instead +of the Jarvis/Motteaux. The detail of many of the Dore engravings can be fully appreciated only +by utilizing the "Enlarge" button to expand them to their original dimensions. Ormsby +in his Preface has criticized the fanciful nature of Dore's illustrations; others feel +these woodcuts and steel engravings well match Quixote's dreams. + D.W.</p> +</blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<br><br><br><br> +<center> +<img alt="p003.jpg (307K)" src="images/p003.jpg" height="813" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p003.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"> +</a> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<center><h2>CONTENTS</h2></center> + + +<pre> + +<a href="#ch49b">CHAPTER XLIX</a> +OF WHAT HAPPENED SANCHO IN MAKING THE ROUND OF HIS ISLAND + +<a href="#ch50b">CHAPTER L</a> +WHEREIN IS SET FORTH WHO THE ENCHANTERS AND EXECUTIONERS +WERE WHO FLOGGED THE DUENNA AND PINCHED DON QUIXOTE, +AND ALSO WHAT BEFELL THE PAGE WHO CARRIED THE LETTER +TO TERESA PANZA, SANCHO PANZA'S WIFE + +<a href="#ch51b">CHAPTER LI</a> +OF THE PROGRESS OF SANCHO'S GOVERNMENT, AND OTHER SUCH +ENTERTAINING MATTERS + +<a href="#ch52b">CHAPTER LII</a> +WHEREIN IS RELATED THE ADVENTURE OF THE SECOND DISTRESSED +OR AFFLICTED DUENNA, OTHERWISE CALLED DONA RODRIGUEZ + +<a href="#ch53b">CHAPTER LIII</a> +OF THE TROUBLOUS END AND TERMINATION SANCHO PANZA'S +GOVERNMENT CAME TO + +</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="ch49b"></a>CHAPTER XLIX.</h2></center> +<br> +<center><h3>OF WHAT HAPPENED SANCHO IN MAKING THE ROUND OF HIS ISLAND +</h3></center> +<br> +<br> + +<center><a name="p49a"></a><img alt="p49a.jpg (170K)" src="images/p49a.jpg" height="450" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p49a.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<p>We left the great governor angered and irritated by that +portrait-painting rogue of a farmer who, instructed the majordomo, +as the majordomo was by the duke, tried to practise upon him; he +however, fool, boor, and clown as he was, held his own against them +all, saying to those round him and to Doctor Pedro Recio, who as +soon as the private business of the duke's letter was disposed of +had returned to the room, "Now I see plainly enough that judges and +governors ought to be and must be made of brass not to feel the +importunities of the applicants that at all times and all seasons +insist on being heard, and having their business despatched, and their +own affairs and no others attended to, come what may; and if the +poor judge does not hear them and settle the matter—either because he +cannot or because that is not the time set apart for hearing +them—forthwith they abuse him, and run him down, and gnaw at his bones, and +even pick holes in his pedigree. You silly, stupid applicant, don't be +in a hurry; wait for the proper time and season for doing business; +don't come at dinner-hour, or at bed-time; for judges are only flesh +and blood, and must give to Nature what she naturally demands of them; +all except myself, for in my case I give her nothing to eat, thanks to +Senor Doctor Pedro Recio Tirteafuera here, who would have me die of +hunger, and declares that death to be life; and the same sort of +life may God give him and all his kind—I mean the bad doctors; for +the good ones deserve palms and laurels."</p> + +<p>All who knew Sancho Panza were astonished to hear him speak so +elegantly, and did not know what to attribute it to unless it were +that office and grave responsibility either smarten or stupefy men's +wits. At last Doctor Pedro Recio Agilers of Tirteafuera promised to +let him have supper that night though it might be in contravention +of all the aphorisms of Hippocrates. With this the governor was +satisfied and looked forward to the approach of night and +supper-time with great anxiety; and though time, to his mind, stood +still and made no progress, nevertheless the hour he so longed for +came, and they gave him a beef salad with onions and some boiled +calves' feet rather far gone. At this he fell to with greater relish +than if they had given him francolins from Milan, pheasants from Rome, +veal from Sorrento, partridges from Moron, or geese from Lavajos, +and turning to the doctor at supper he said to him, "Look here, +senor doctor, for the future don't trouble yourself about giving me +dainty things or choice dishes to eat, for it will be only taking my +stomach off its hinges; it is accustomed to goat, cow, bacon, hung +beef, turnips and onions; and if by any chance it is given these +palace dishes, it receives them squeamishly, and sometimes with +loathing. What the head-carver had best do is to serve me with what +they call ollas podridas (and the rottener they are the better they +smell); and he can put whatever he likes into them, so long as it is +good to eat, and I'll be obliged to him, and will requite him some +day. But let nobody play pranks on me, for either we are or we are +not; let us live and eat in peace and good-fellowship, for when God +sends the dawn, he sends it for all. I mean to govern this island +without giving up a right or taking a bribe; let everyone keep his eye +open, and look out for the arrow; for I can tell them 'the devil's +in Cantillana,' and if they drive me to it they'll see something +that will astonish them. Nay! make yourself honey and the flies eat +you."</p> + +<p>"Of a truth, senor governor," said the carver, "your worship is in +the right of it in everything you have said; and I promise you in +the name of all the inhabitants of this island that they will serve +your worship with all zeal, affection, and good-will, for the mild +kind of government you have given a sample of to begin with, leaves +them no ground for doing or thinking anything to your worship's +disadvantage."</p> + +<p>"That I believe," said Sancho; "and they would be great fools if +they did or thought otherwise; once more I say, see to my feeding +and my Dapple's for that is the great point and what is most to the +purpose; and when the hour comes let us go the rounds, for it is my +intention to purge this island of all manner of uncleanness and of all +idle good-for-nothing vagabonds; for I would have you know that lazy +idlers are the same thing in a State as the drones in a hive, that eat +up the honey the industrious bees make. I mean to protect the +husbandman, to preserve to the gentleman his privileges, to reward the +virtuous, and above all to respect religion and honour its +ministers. What say you to that, my friends? Is there anything in what +I say, or am I talking to no purpose?"</p> + +<p>"There is so much in what your worship says, senor governor," said +the majordomo, "that I am filled with wonder when I see a man like +your worship, entirely without learning (for I believe you have none +at all), say such things, and so full of sound maxims and sage +remarks, very different from what was expected of your worship's +intelligence by those who sent us or by us who came here. Every day we +see something new in this world; jokes become realities, and the +jokers find the tables turned upon them."</p> + +<p>Night came, and with the permission of Doctor Pedro Recio, the +governor had supper. They then got ready to go the rounds, and he +started with the majordomo, the secretary, the head-carver, the +chronicler charged with recording his deeds, and alguacils and +notaries enough to form a fair-sized squadron. In the midst marched +Sancho with his staff, as fine a sight as one could wish to see, and +but a few streets of the town had been traversed when they heard a +noise as of a clashing of swords. They hastened to the spot, and found +that the combatants were but two, who seeing the authorities +approaching stood still, and one of them exclaimed, "Help, in the name +of God and the king! Are men to be allowed to rob in the middle of +this town, and rush out and attack people in the very streets?"</p> + +<p>"Be calm, my good man," said Sancho, "and tell me what the cause +of this quarrel is; for I am the governor."</p> + +<p>Said the other combatant, "Senor governor, I will tell you in a very +few words. Your worship must know that this gentleman has just now won +more than a thousand reals in that gambling house opposite, and God +knows how. I was there, and gave more than one doubtful point in his +favour, very much against what my conscience told me. He made off with +his winnings, and when I made sure he was going to give me a crown +or so at least by way of a present, as it is usual and customary to +give men of quality of my sort who stand by to see fair or foul +play, and back up swindles, and prevent quarrels, he pocketed his +money and left the house. Indignant at this I followed him, and +speaking him fairly and civilly asked him to give me if it were only +eight reals, for he knows I am an honest man and that I have neither +profession nor property, for my parents never brought me up to any +or left me any; but the rogue, who is a greater thief than Cacus and a +greater sharper than Andradilla, would not give me more than four +reals; so your worship may see how little shame and conscience he has. +But by my faith if you had not come up I'd have made him disgorge +his winnings, and he'd have learned what the range of the steel-yard +was."</p> + +<p>"What say you to this?" asked Sancho. The other replied that all his +antagonist said was true, and that he did not choose to give him +more than four reals because he very often gave him money; and that +those who expected presents ought to be civil and take what is given +them with a cheerful countenance, and not make any claim against +winners unless they know them for certain to be sharpers and their +winnings to be unfairly won; and that there could be no better proof +that he himself was an honest man than his having refused to give +anything; for sharpers always pay tribute to lookers-on who know them.</p> + +<p>"That is true," said the majordomo; "let your worship consider +what is to be done with these men."</p> + +<p>"What is to be done," said Sancho, "is this; you, the winner, be you +good, bad, or indifferent, give this assailant of yours a hundred +reals at once, and you must disburse thirty more for the poor +prisoners; and you who have neither profession nor property, and +hang about the island in idleness, take these hundred reals now, and +some time of the day to-morrow quit the island under sentence of +banishment for ten years, and under pain of completing it in another +life if you violate the sentence, for I'll hang you on a gibbet, or at +least the hangman will by my orders; not a word from either of you, or +I'll make him feel my hand."</p> + +<p>The one paid down the money and the other took it, and the latter +quitted the island, while the other went home; and then the governor +said, "Either I am not good for much, or I'll get rid of these +gambling houses, for it strikes me they are very mischievous."</p> + +<p>"This one at least," said one of the notaries, "your worship will +not be able to get rid of, for a great man owns it, and what he +loses every year is beyond all comparison more than what he makes by +the cards. On the minor gambling houses your worship may exercise your +power, and it is they that do most harm and shelter the most barefaced +practices; for in the houses of lords and gentlemen of quality the +notorious sharpers dare not attempt to play their tricks; and as the +vice of gambling has become common, it is better that men should +play in houses of repute than in some tradesman's, where they catch an +unlucky fellow in the small hours of the morning and skin him alive."</p> + +<p>"I know already, notary, that there is a good deal to be said on +that point," said Sancho.</p> + +<p>And now a tipstaff came up with a young man in his grasp, and +said, "Senor governor, this youth was coming towards us, and as soon +as he saw the officers of justice he turned about and ran like a deer, +a sure proof that he must be some evil-doer; I ran after him, and +had it not been that he stumbled and fell, I should never have +caught him."</p> + +<p>"What did you run for, fellow?" said Sancho.</p> + +<p>To which the young man replied, "Senor, it was to avoid answering +all the questions officers of justice put."</p> + +<p>"What are you by trade?"</p> + +<p>"A weaver."</p> + +<p>"And what do you weave?"</p> + +<p>"Lance heads, with your worship's good leave."</p> + +<p>"You're facetious with me! You plume yourself on being a wag? Very +good; and where were you going just now?"</p> + +<p>"To take the air, senor."</p> + +<p>"And where does one take the air in this island?"</p> + +<p>"Where it blows."</p> + +<p>"Good! your answers are very much to the point; you are a smart +youth; but take notice that I am the air, and that I blow upon you +a-stern, and send you to gaol. Ho there! lay hold of him and take +him off; I'll make him sleep there to-night without air."</p> + +<p>"By God," said the young man, "your worship will make me sleep in +gaol just as soon as make me king."</p> + +<p>"Why shan't I make thee sleep in gaol?" said Sancho. "Have I not the +power to arrest thee and release thee whenever I like?"</p> + +<p>"All the power your worship has," said the young man, "won't be able +to make me sleep in gaol."</p> + +<p>"How? not able!" said Sancho; "take him away at once where he'll see +his mistake with his own eyes, even if the gaoler is willing to +exert his interested generosity on his behalf; for I'll lay a +penalty of two thousand ducats on him if he allows him to stir a +step from the prison."</p> + +<p>"That's ridiculous," said the young man; "the fact is, all the men +on earth will not make me sleep in prison."</p> + +<p>"Tell me, you devil," said Sancho, "have you got any angel that will +deliver you, and take off the irons I am going to order them to put +upon you?"</p> + +<p>"Now, senor governor," said the young man in a sprightly manner, +"let us be reasonable and come to the point. Granted your worship +may order me to be taken to prison, and to have irons and chains put +on me, and to be shut up in a cell, and may lay heavy penalties on the +gaoler if he lets me out, and that he obeys your orders; still, if I +don't choose to sleep, and choose to remain awake all night without +closing an eye, will your worship with all your power be able to +make me sleep if I don't choose?"</p> + +<p>"No, truly," said the secretary, "and the fellow has made his +point."</p> + +<p>"So then," said Sancho, "it would be entirely of your own choice you +would keep from sleeping; not in opposition to my will?"</p> + +<p>"No, senor," said the youth, "certainly not."</p> + +<p>"Well then, go, and God be with you," said Sancho; "be off home to +sleep, and God give you sound sleep, for I don't want to rob you of +it; but for the future, let me advise you don't joke with the +authorities, because you may come across some one who will bring +down the joke on your own skull."</p> + +<p>The young man went his way, and the governor continued his round, +and shortly afterwards two tipstaffs came up with a man in custody, +and said, "Senor governor, this person, who seems to be a man, is +not so, but a woman, and not an ill-favoured one, in man's clothes." +They raised two or three lanterns to her face, and by their light they +distinguished the features of a woman to all appearance of the age +of sixteen or a little more, with her hair gathered into a gold and +green silk net, and fair as a thousand pearls. They scanned her from +head to foot, and observed that she had on red silk stockings with +garters of white taffety bordered with gold and pearl; her breeches +were of green and gold stuff, and under an open jacket or jerkin of +the same she wore a doublet of the finest white and gold cloth; her +shoes were white and such as men wear; she carried no sword at her +belt, but only a richly ornamented dagger, and on her fingers she +had several handsome rings. In short, the girl seemed fair to look +at in the eyes of all, and none of those who beheld her knew her, +the people of the town said they could not imagine who she was, and +those who were in the secret of the jokes that were to be practised +upon Sancho were the ones who were most surprised, for this incident +or discovery had not been arranged by them; and they watched anxiously +to see how the affair would end.</p> + +<p>Sancho was fascinated by the girl's beauty, and he asked her who she +was, where she was going, and what had induced her to dress herself in +that garb. She with her eyes fixed on the ground answered in modest +confusion, "I cannot tell you, senor, before so many people what it is +of such consequence to me to have kept secret; one thing I wish to +be known, that I am no thief or evildoer, but only an unhappy maiden +whom the power of jealousy has led to break through the respect that +is due to modesty."</p> + +<p>Hearing this the majordomo said to Sancho, "Make the people stand +back, senor governor, that this lady may say what she wishes with less +embarrassment."</p> + +<p>Sancho gave the order, and all except the majordomo, the +head-carver, and the secretary fell back. Finding herself then in +the presence of no more, the damsel went on to say, "I am the +daughter, sirs, of Pedro Perez Mazorca, the wool-farmer of this +town, who is in the habit of coming very often to my father's house."</p> + +<p>"That won't do, senora," said the majordomo; "for I know Pedro Perez +very well, and I know he has no child at all, either son or +daughter; and besides, though you say he is your father, you add +then that he comes very often to your father's house."</p> + +<p>"I had already noticed that," said Sancho.</p> + +<p>"I am confused just now, sirs," said the damsel, "and I don't know +what I am saying; but the truth is that I am the daughter of Diego +de la Llana, whom you must all know."</p> + +<p>"Ay, that will do," said the majordomo; "for I know Diego de la +Llana, and know that he is a gentleman of position and a rich man, and +that he has a son and a daughter, and that since he was left a widower +nobody in all this town can speak of having seen his daughter's +face; for he keeps her so closely shut up that he does not give even +the sun a chance of seeing her; and for all that report says she is +extremely beautiful."</p> + +<p>"It is true," said the damsel, "and I am that daughter; whether +report lies or not as to my beauty, you, sirs, will have decided by +this time, as you have seen me;" and with this she began to weep +bitterly.</p> + +<p>On seeing this the secretary leant over to the head-carver's ear, +and said to him in a low voice, "Something serious has no doubt +happened this poor maiden, that she goes wandering from home in such a +dress and at such an hour, and one of her rank too." "There can be +no doubt about it," returned the carver, "and moreover her tears +confirm your suspicion." Sancho gave her the best comfort he could, +and entreated her to tell them without any fear what had happened her, +as they would all earnestly and by every means in their power +endeavour to relieve her.</p> + +<p>"The fact is, sirs," said she, "that my father has kept me shut up +these ten years, for so long is it since the earth received my mother. +Mass is said at home in a sumptuous chapel, and all this time I have +seen but the sun in the heaven by day, and the moon and the stars by +night; nor do I know what streets are like, or plazas, or churches, or +even men, except my father and a brother I have, and Pedro Perez the +wool-farmer; whom, because he came frequently to our house, I took +it into my head to call my father, to avoid naming my own. This +seclusion and the restrictions laid upon my going out, were it only to +church, have been keeping me unhappy for many a day and month past; +I longed to see the world, or at least the town where I was born, +and it did not seem to me that this wish was inconsistent with the +respect maidens of good quality should have for themselves. When I +heard them talking of bull-fights taking place, and of javelin +games, and of acting plays, I asked my brother, who is a year +younger than myself, to tell me what sort of things these were, and +many more that I had never seen; he explained them to me as well as he +could, but the only effect was to kindle in me a still stronger desire +to see them. At last, to cut short the story of my ruin, I begged +and entreated my brother—O that I had never made such an entreaty-" +And once more she gave way to a burst of weeping.</p> + +<p>"Proceed, senora," said the majordomo, "and finish your story of +what has happened to you, for your words and tears are keeping us +all in suspense."</p> + +<p>"I have but little more to say, though many a tear to shed," said +the damsel; "for ill-placed desires can only be paid for in some +such way."</p> + +<p>The maiden's beauty had made a deep impression on the +head-carver's heart, and he again raised his lantern for another +look at her, and thought they were not tears she was shedding, but +seed-pearl or dew of the meadow, nay, he exalted them still higher, +and made Oriental pearls of them, and fervently hoped her misfortune +might not be so great a one as her tears and sobs seemed to +indicate. The governor was losing patience at the length of time the +girl was taking to tell her story, and told her not to keep them +waiting any longer; for it was late, and there still remained a good +deal of the town to be gone over.</p> + +<p>She, with broken sobs and half-suppressed sighs, went on to say, "My +misfortune, my misadventure, is simply this, that I entreated my +brother to dress me up as a man in a suit of his clothes, and take +me some night, when our father was asleep, to see the whole town; +he, overcome by my entreaties, consented, and dressing me in this suit +and himself in clothes of mine that fitted him as if made for him (for +he has not a hair on his chin, and might pass for a very beautiful +young girl), to-night, about an hour ago, more or less, we left the +house, and guided by our youthful and foolish impulse we made the +circuit of the whole town, and then, as we were about to return +home, we saw a great troop of people coming, and my brother said to +me, 'Sister, this must be the round, stir your feet and put wings to +them, and follow me as fast as you can, lest they recognise us, for +that would be a bad business for us;' and so saying he turned about +and began, I cannot say to run but to fly; in less than six paces I +fell from fright, and then the officer of justice came up and +carried me before your worships, where I find myself put to shame +before all these people as whimsical and vicious."</p> + +<p>"So then, senora," said Sancho, "no other mishap has befallen you, +nor was it jealousy that made you leave home, as you said at the +beginning of your story?"</p> + +<p>"Nothing has happened me," said she, "nor was it jealousy that +brought me out, but merely a longing to see the world, which did not +go beyond seeing the streets of this town."</p> + +<p>The appearance of the tipstaffs with her brother in custody, whom +one of them had overtaken as he ran away from his sister, now fully +confirmed the truth of what the damsel said. He had nothing on but a +rich petticoat and a short blue damask cloak with fine gold lace, +and his head was uncovered and adorned only with its own hair, which +looked like rings of gold, so bright and curly was it. The governor, +the majordomo, and the carver went aside with him, and, unheard by his +sister, asked him how he came to be in that dress, and he with no less +shame and embarrassment told exactly the same story as his sister, +to the great delight of the enamoured carver; the governor, however, +said to them, "In truth, young lady and gentleman, this has been a +very childish affair, and to explain your folly and rashness there was +no necessity for all this delay and all these tears and sighs; for +if you had said we are so-and-so, and we escaped from our father's +house in this way in order to ramble about, out of mere curiosity +and with no other object, there would have been an end of the +matter, and none of these little sobs and tears and all the rest of +it."</p> + +<p>"That is true," said the damsel, "but you see the confusion I was in +was so great it did not let me behave as I ought."</p> + +<p>"No harm has been done," said Sancho; "come, we will leave you at +your father's house; perhaps they will not have missed you; and +another time don't be so childish or eager to see the world; for a +respectable damsel should have a broken leg and keep at home; and +the woman and the hen by gadding about are soon lost; and she who is +eager to see is also eager to be seen; I say no more."</p> + +<p>The youth thanked the governor for his kind offer to take them home, +and they directed their steps towards the house, which was not far +off. On reaching it the youth threw a pebble up at a grating, and +immediately a woman-servant who was waiting for them came down and +opened the door to them, and they went in, leaving the party +marvelling as much at their grace and beauty as at the fancy they +had for seeing the world by night and without quitting the village; +which, however, they set down to their youth.</p> + +<p>The head-carver was left with a heart pierced through and through, +and he made up his mind on the spot to demand the damsel in marriage +of her father on the morrow, making sure she would not be refused +him as he was a servant of the duke's; and even to Sancho ideas and +schemes of marrying the youth to his daughter Sanchica suggested +themselves, and he resolved to open the negotiation at the proper +season, persuading himself that no husband could be refused to a +governor's daughter. And so the night's round came to an end, and a +couple of days later the government, whereby all his plans were +overthrown and swept away, as will be seen farther on.</p> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p49e"></a><img alt="p49e.jpg (55K)" src="images/p49e.jpg" height="647" width="487"> +</center> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<br><br> +<center><h2><a name="ch50b"></a>CHAPTER L.</h2></center> +<br> +<center><h3>WHEREIN IS SET FORTH WHO THE ENCHANTERS AND EXECUTIONERS WERE WHO +FLOGGED THE DUENNA AND PINCHED DON QUIXOTE, AND ALSO WHAT BEFELL THE +PAGE WHO CARRIED THE LETTER TO TERESA PANZA, SANCHO PANZA'S WIFE +</h3></center> +<br> +<br> + +<center><a name="p50a"></a><img alt="p50a.jpg (104K)" src="images/p50a.jpg" height="386" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p50a.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<p>Cide Hamete, the painstaking investigator of the minute points of +this veracious history, says that when Dona Rodriguez left her own +room to go to Don Quixote's, another duenna who slept with her +observed her, and as all duennas are fond of prying, listening, and +sniffing, she followed her so silently that the good Rodriguez never +perceived it; and as soon as the duenna saw her enter Don Quixote's +room, not to fail in a duenna's invariable practice of tattling, she +hurried off that instant to report to the duchess how Dona Rodriguez +was closeted with Don Quixote. The duchess told the duke, and asked +him to let her and Altisidora go and see what the said duenna wanted +with Don Quixote. The duke gave them leave, and the pair cautiously +and quietly crept to the door of the room and posted themselves so +close to it that they could hear all that was said inside. But when +the duchess heard how the Rodriguez had made public the Aranjuez of +her issues she could not restrain herself, nor Altisidora either; +and so, filled with rage and thirsting for vengeance, they burst +into the room and tormented Don Quixote and flogged the duenna in +the manner already described; for indignities offered to their +charms and self-esteem mightily provoke the anger of women and make +them eager for revenge. The duchess told the duke what had happened, +and he was much amused by it; and she, in pursuance of her design of +making merry and diverting herself with Don Quixote, despatched the +page who had played the part of Dulcinea in the negotiations for her +disenchantment (which Sancho Panza in the cares of government had +forgotten all about) to Teresa Panza his wife with her husband's +letter and another from herself, and also a great string of fine coral +beads as a present.</p> + +<p>Now the history says this page was very sharp and quick-witted; +and eager to serve his lord and lady he set off very willingly for +Sancho's village. Before he entered it he observed a number of women +washing in a brook, and asked them if they could tell him whether +there lived there a woman of the name of Teresa Panza, wife of one +Sancho Panza, squire to a knight called Don Quixote of La Mancha. At +the question a young girl who was washing stood up and said, "Teresa +Panza is my mother, and that Sancho is my father, and that knight is +our master."</p> + +<p>"Well then, miss," said the page, "come and show me where your +mother is, for I bring her a letter and a present from your father."</p> + +<p>"That I will with all my heart, senor," said the girl, who seemed to +be about fourteen, more or less; and leaving the clothes she was +washing to one of her companions, and without putting anything on +her head or feet, for she was bare-legged and had her hair hanging +about her, away she skipped in front of the page's horse, saying, +"Come, your worship, our house is at the entrance of the town, and +my mother is there, sorrowful enough at not having had any news of +my father this ever so long."</p> + +<p>"Well," said the page, "I am bringing her such good news that she +will have reason to thank God."</p> + +<p>And then, skipping, running, and capering, the girl reached the +town, but before going into the house she called out at the door, +"Come out, mother Teresa, come out, come out; here's a gentleman +with letters and other things from my good father." At these words her +mother Teresa Panza came out spinning a bundle of flax, in a grey +petticoat (so short was it one would have fancied "they to her shame +had cut it short"), a grey bodice of the same stuff, and a smock. +She was not very old, though plainly past forty, strong, healthy, +vigorous, and sun-dried; and seeing her daughter and the page on +horseback, she exclaimed, "What's this, child? What gentleman is +this?"</p> + +<p>"A servant of my lady, Dona Teresa Panza," replied the page; and +suiting the action to the word he flung himself off his horse, and +with great humility advanced to kneel before the lady Teresa, +saying, "Let me kiss your hand, Senora Dona Teresa, as the lawful +and only wife of Senor Don Sancho Panza, rightful governor of the +island of Barataria."</p> + +<p>"Ah, senor, get up, do that," said Teresa; "for I'm not a bit of a +court lady, but only a poor country woman, the daughter of a +clodcrusher, and the wife of a squire-errant and not of any governor +at all."</p> + +<p>"You are," said the page, "the most worthy wife of a most +arch-worthy governor; and as a proof of what I say accept this +letter and this present;" and at the same time he took out of his +pocket a string of coral beads with gold clasps, and placed it on +her neck, and said, "This letter is from his lordship the governor, +and the other as well as these coral beads from my lady the duchess, +who sends me to your worship."</p> + +<p>Teresa stood lost in astonishment, and her daughter just as much, +and the girl said, "May I die but our master Don Quixote's at the +bottom of this; he must have given father the government or county +he so often promised him."</p> + +<p>"That is the truth," said the page; "for it is through Senor Don +Quixote that Senor Sancho is now governor of the island of +Barataria, as will be seen by this letter."</p> + +<p>"Will your worship read it to me, noble sir?" said Teresa; "for +though I can spin I can't read, not a scrap."</p> + +<p>"Nor I either," said Sanchica; "but wait a bit, and I'll go and +fetch some one who can read it, either the curate himself or the +bachelor Samson Carrasco, and they'll come gladly to hear any news +of my father."</p> + +<p>"There is no need to fetch anybody," said the page; "for though I +can't spin I can read, and I'll read it;" and so he read it through, +but as it has been already given it is not inserted here; and then +he took out the other one from the duchess, which ran as follows:</p> + +<blockquote><blockquote> +<p>Friend Teresa,—Your husband Sancho's good qualities, of heart as +well as of head, induced and compelled me to request my husband the +duke to give him the government of one of his many islands. I am +told he governs like a gerfalcon, of which I am very glad, and my lord +the duke, of course, also; and I am very thankful to heaven that I +have not made a mistake in choosing him for that same government; +for I would have Senora Teresa know that a good governor is hard to +find in this world and may God make me as good as Sancho's way of +governing. Herewith I send you, my dear, a string of coral beads +with gold clasps; I wish they were Oriental pearls; but "he who +gives thee a bone does not wish to see thee dead;" a time will come +when we shall become acquainted and meet one another, but God knows +the future. Commend me to your daughter Sanchica, and tell her from me +to hold herself in readiness, for I mean to make a high match for +her when she least expects it. They tell me there are big acorns in +your village; send me a couple of dozen or so, and I shall value +them greatly as coming from your hand; and write to me at length to +assure me of your health and well-being; and if there be anything +you stand in need of, it is but to open your mouth, and that shall +be the measure; and so God keep you.</p> + +<p>From this place. +Your loving friend, +THE DUCHESS.</p> +</blockquote></blockquote> + + +<p>"Ah, what a good, plain, lowly lady!" said Teresa when she heard the +letter; "that I may be buried with ladies of that sort, and not the +gentlewomen we have in this town, that fancy because they are +gentlewomen the wind must not touch them, and go to church with as +much airs as if they were queens, no less, and seem to think they +are disgraced if they look at a farmer's wife! And see here how this +good lady, for all she's a duchess, calls me 'friend,' and treats me +as if I was her equal—and equal may I see her with the tallest +church-tower in La Mancha! And as for the acorns, senor, I'll send her +ladyship a peck and such big ones that one might come to see them as a +show and a wonder. And now, Sanchica, see that the gentleman is +comfortable; put up his horse, and get some eggs out of the stable, +and cut plenty of bacon, and let's give him his dinner like a +prince; for the good news he has brought, and his own bonny face +deserve it all; and meanwhile I'll run out and give the neighbours the +news of our good luck, and father curate, and Master Nicholas the +barber, who are and always have been such friends of thy father's."</p> + +<p>"That I will, mother," said Sanchica; "but mind, you must give me +half of that string; for I don't think my lady the duchess could +have been so stupid as to send it all to you."</p> + +<p>"It is all for thee, my child," said Teresa; "but let me wear it +round my neck for a few days; for verily it seems to make my heart +glad."</p> + +<p>"You will be glad too," said the page, "when you see the bundle +there is in this portmanteau, for it is a suit of the finest cloth, +that the governor only wore one day out hunting and now sends, all for +Senora Sanchica."</p> + +<p>"May he live a thousand years," said Sanchica, "and the bearer as +many, nay two thousand, if needful."</p> + +<p>With this Teresa hurried out of the house with the letters, and with +the string of beads round her neck, and went along thrumming the +letters as if they were a tambourine, and by chance coming across +the curate and Samson Carrasco she began capering and saying, "None of +us poor now, faith! We've got a little government! Ay, let the +finest fine lady tackle me, and I'll give her a setting down!"</p> + +<p>"What's all this, Teresa Panza," said they; "what madness is this, +and what papers are those?"</p> + +<p>"The madness is only this," said she, "that these are the letters of +duchesses and governors, and these I have on my neck are fine coral +beads, with ave-marias and paternosters of beaten gold, and I am a +governess."</p> + +<p>"God help us," said the curate, "we don't understand you, Teresa, or +know what you are talking about."</p> + +<p>"There, you may see it yourselves," said Teresa, and she handed them +the letters.</p> + +<p>The curate read them out for Samson Carrasco to hear, and Samson and +he regarded one another with looks of astonishment at what they had +read, and the bachelor asked who had brought the letters. Teresa in +reply bade them come with her to her house and they would see the +messenger, a most elegant youth, who had brought another present which +was worth as much more. The curate took the coral beads from her +neck and examined them again and again, and having satisfied himself +as to their fineness he fell to wondering afresh, and said, "By the +gown I wear I don't know what to say or think of these letters and +presents; on the one hand I can see and feel the fineness of these +coral beads, and on the other I read how a duchess sends to beg for +a couple of dozen of acorns."</p> + +<p>"Square that if you can," said Carrasco; "well, let's go and see the +messenger, and from him we'll learn something about this mystery +that has turned up."</p> + +<p>They did so, and Teresa returned with them. They found the page +sifting a little barley for his horse, and Sanchica cutting a rasher +of bacon to be paved with eggs for his dinner. His looks and his +handsome apparel pleased them both greatly; and after they had saluted +him courteously, and he them, Samson begged him to give them his news, +as well of Don Quixote as of Sancho Panza, for, he said, though they +had read the letters from Sancho and her ladyship the duchess, they +were still puzzled and could not make out what was meant by Sancho's +government, and above all of an island, when all or most of those in +the Mediterranean belonged to his Majesty.</p> + +<p>To this the page replied, "As to Senor Sancho Panza's being a +governor there is no doubt whatever; but whether it is an island or +not that he governs, with that I have nothing to do; suffice it that +it is a town of more than a thousand inhabitants; with regard to the +acorns I may tell you my lady the duchess is so unpretending and +unassuming that, not to speak of sending to beg for acorns from a +peasant woman, she has been known to send to ask for the loan of a +comb from one of her neighbours; for I would have your worships know +that the ladies of Aragon, though they are just as illustrious, are +not so punctilious and haughty as the Castilian ladies; they treat +people with greater familiarity."</p> + +<p>In the middle of this conversation Sanchica came in with her skirt +full of eggs, and said she to the page, "Tell me, senor, does my +father wear trunk-hose since he has been governor?"</p> + +<p>"I have not noticed," said the page; "but no doubt he wears them."</p> + +<p>"Ah! my God!" said Sanchica, "what a sight it must be to see my +father in tights! Isn't it odd that ever since I was born I have had a +longing to see my father in trunk-hose?"</p> + +<p>"As things go you will see that if you live," said the page; "by God +he is in the way to take the road with a sunshade if the government +only lasts him two months more."</p> + +<p>The curate and the bachelor could see plainly enough that the page +spoke in a waggish vein; but the fineness of the coral beads, and +the hunting suit that Sancho sent (for Teresa had already shown it +to them) did away with the impression; and they could not help +laughing at Sanchica's wish, and still more when Teresa said, "Senor +curate, look about if there's anybody here going to Madrid or +Toledo, to buy me a hooped petticoat, a proper fashionable one of +the best quality; for indeed and indeed I must do honour to my +husband's government as well as I can; nay, if I am put to it and have +to, I'll go to Court and set a coach like all the world; for she who +has a governor for her husband may very well have one and keep one."</p> + +<p>"And why not, mother!" said Sanchica; "would to God it were to-day +instead of to-morrow, even though they were to say when they saw me +seated in the coach with my mother, 'See that rubbish, that +garlic-stuffed fellow's daughter, how she goes stretched at her ease +in a coach as if she was a she-pope!' But let them tramp through the +mud, and let me go in my coach with my feet off the ground. Bad luck +to backbiters all over the world; 'let me go warm and the people may +laugh.' Do I say right, mother?"</p> + +<p>"To be sure you do, my child," said Teresa; "and all this good luck, +and even more, my good Sancho foretold me; and thou wilt see, my +daughter, he won't stop till he has made me a countess; for to make +a beginning is everything in luck; and as I have heard thy good father +say many a time (for besides being thy father he's the father of +proverbs too), 'When they offer thee a heifer, run with a halter; when +they offer thee a government, take it; when they would give thee a +county, seize it; when they say, "Here, here!" to thee with +something good, swallow it.' Oh no! go to sleep, and don't answer +the strokes of good fortune and the lucky chances that are knocking at +the door of your house!"</p> + +<p>"And what do I care," added Sanchica, "whether anybody says when +he sees me holding my head up, 'The dog saw himself in hempen +breeches,' and the rest of it?"</p> + +<p>Hearing this the curate said, "I do believe that all this family +of the Panzas are born with a sackful of proverbs in their insides, +every one of them; I never saw one of them that does not pour them out +at all times and on all occasions."</p> + +<p>"That is true," said the page, "for Senor Governor Sancho utters +them at every turn; and though a great many of them are not to the +purpose, still they amuse one, and my lady the duchess and the duke +praise them highly."</p> + +<p>"Then you still maintain that all this about Sancho's government +is true, senor," said the bachelor, "and that there actually is a +duchess who sends him presents and writes to him? Because we, although +we have handled the present and read the letters, don't believe it and +suspect it to be something in the line of our fellow-townsman Don +Quixote, who fancies that everything is done by enchantment; and for +this reason I am almost ready to say that I'd like to touch and feel +your worship to see whether you are a mere ambassador of the +imagination or a man of flesh and blood."</p> + +<p>"All I know, sirs," replied the page, "is that I am a real +ambassador, and that Senor Sancho Panza is governor as a matter of +fact, and that my lord and lady the duke and duchess can give, and +have given him this same government, and that I have heard the said +Sancho Panza bears himself very stoutly therein; whether there be +any enchantment in all this or not, it is for your worships to settle +between you; for that's all I know by the oath I swear, and that is by +the life of my parents whom I have still alive, and love dearly."</p> + +<p>"It may be so," said the bachelor; "but dubitat Augustinus."</p> + +<p>"Doubt who will," said the page; "what I have told you is the truth, +and that will always rise above falsehood as oil above water; if not +operibus credite, et non verbis. Let one of you come with me, and he +will see with his eyes what he does not believe with his ears."</p> + +<p>"It's for me to make that trip," said Sanchica; "take me with you, +senor, behind you on your horse; for I'll go with all my heart to +see my father."</p> + +<p>"Governors' daughters," said the page, "must not travel along the +roads alone, but accompanied by coaches and litters and a great number +of attendants."</p> + +<p>"By God," said Sanchica, "I can go just as well mounted on a she-ass +as in a coach; what a dainty lass you must take me for!"</p> + +<p>"Hush, girl," said Teresa; "you don't know what you're talking +about; the gentleman is quite right, for 'as the time so the +behaviour;' when it was Sancho it was 'Sancha;' when it is governor +it's 'senora;' I don't know if I'm right."</p> + +<p>"Senora Teresa says more than she is aware of," said the page; +"and now give me something to eat and let me go at once, for I mean to +return this evening."</p> + +<p>"Come and do penance with me," said the curate at this; "for +Senora Teresa has more will than means to serve so worthy a guest."</p> + +<p>The page refused, but had to consent at last for his own sake; and +the curate took him home with him very gladly, in order to have an +opportunity of questioning him at leisure about Don Quixote and his +doings. The bachelor offered to write the letters in reply for Teresa; +but she did not care to let him mix himself up in her affairs, for she +thought him somewhat given to joking; and so she gave a cake and a +couple of eggs to a young acolyte who was a penman, and he wrote for +her two letters, one for her husband and the other for the duchess, +dictated out of her own head, which are not the worst inserted in this +great history, as will be seen farther on.</p> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p50e"></a><img alt="p50e.jpg (19K)" src="images/p50e.jpg" height="347" width="385"> +</center> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<br><br> +<center><h2><a name="ch51b"></a>CHAPTER LI.</h2></center> +<br> +<center><h3>OF THE PROGRESS OF SANCHO'S GOVERNMENT, AND OTHER SUCH +ENTERTAINING MATTERS +</h3></center> +<br> +<br> + +<center><a name="p51a"></a><img alt="p51a.jpg (188K)" src="images/p51a.jpg" height="434" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p51a.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<p>Day came after the night of the governor's round; a night which +the head-carver passed without sleeping, so were his thoughts of the +face and air and beauty of the disguised damsel, while the majordomo +spent what was left of it in writing an account to his lord and lady +of all Sancho said and did, being as much amazed at his sayings as +at his doings, for there was a mixture of shrewdness and simplicity in +all his words and deeds. The senor governor got up, and by Doctor +Pedro Recio's directions they made him break his fast on a little +conserve and four sups of cold water, which Sancho would have +readily exchanged for a piece of bread and a bunch of grapes; but +seeing there was no help for it, he submitted with no little sorrow of +heart and discomfort of stomach; Pedro Recio having persuaded him that +light and delicate diet enlivened the wits, and that was what was most +essential for persons placed in command and in responsible situations, +where they have to employ not only the bodily powers but those of +the mind also.</p> + +<p>By means of this sophistry Sancho was made to endure hunger, and +hunger so keen that in his heart he cursed the government, and even +him who had given it to him; however, with his hunger and his conserve +he undertook to deliver judgments that day, and the first thing that +came before him was a question that was submitted to him by a +stranger, in the presence of the majordomo and the other attendants, +and it was in these words: "Senor, a large river separated two +districts of one and the same lordship—will your worship please to +pay attention, for the case is an important and a rather knotty one? +Well then, on this river there was a bridge, and at one end of it a +gallows, and a sort of tribunal, where four judges commonly sat to +administer the law which the lord of river, bridge and the lordship +had enacted, and which was to this effect, 'If anyone crosses by +this bridge from one side to the other he shall declare on oath +where he is going to and with what object; and if he swears truly, +he shall be allowed to pass, but if falsely, he shall be put to +death for it by hanging on the gallows erected there, without any +remission.' Though the law and its severe penalty were known, many +persons crossed, but in their declarations it was easy to see at +once they were telling the truth, and the judges let them pass free. +It happened, however, that one man, when they came to take his +declaration, swore and said that by the oath he took he was going to +die upon that gallows that stood there, and nothing else. The judges +held a consultation over the oath, and they said, 'If we let this +man pass free he has sworn falsely, and by the law he ought to die; +but if we hang him, as he swore he was going to die on that gallows, +and therefore swore the truth, by the same law he ought to go free.' +It is asked of your worship, senor governor, what are the judges to do +with this man? For they are still in doubt and perplexity; and +having heard of your worship's acute and exalted intellect, they +have sent me to entreat your worship on their behalf to give your +opinion on this very intricate and puzzling case."</p> + +<p>To this Sancho made answer, "Indeed those gentlemen the judges +that send you to me might have spared themselves the trouble, for I +have more of the obtuse than the acute in me; but repeat the case over +again, so that I may understand it, and then perhaps I may be able +to hit the point."</p> + +<p>The querist repeated again and again what he had said before, and +then Sancho said, "It seems to me I can set the matter right in a +moment, and in this way; the man swears that he is going to die upon +the gallows; but if he dies upon it, he has sworn the truth, and by +the law enacted deserves to go free and pass over the bridge; but if +they don't hang him, then he has sworn falsely, and by the same law +deserves to be hanged."</p> + +<p>"It is as the senor governor says," said the messenger; "and as +regards a complete comprehension of the case, there is nothing left to +desire or hesitate about."</p> + +<p>"Well then I say," said Sancho, "that of this man they should let +pass the part that has sworn truly, and hang the part that has lied; +and in this way the conditions of the passage will be fully complied +with."</p> + +<p>"But then, senor governor," replied the querist, "the man will +have to be divided into two parts; and if he is divided of course he +will die; and so none of the requirements of the law will be carried +out, and it is absolutely necessary to comply with it."</p> + +<p>"Look here, my good sir," said Sancho; "either I'm a numskull or +else there is the same reason for this passenger dying as for his +living and passing over the bridge; for if the truth saves him the +falsehood equally condemns him; and that being the case it is my +opinion you should say to the gentlemen who sent you to me that as the +arguments for condemning him and for absolving him are exactly +balanced, they should let him pass freely, as it is always more +praiseworthy to do good than to do evil; this I would give signed with +my name if I knew how to sign; and what I have said in this case is +not out of my own head, but one of the many precepts my master Don +Quixote gave me the night before I left to become governor of this +island, that came into my mind, and it was this, that when there was +any doubt about the justice of a case I should lean to mercy; and it +is God's will that I should recollect it now, for it fits this case as +if it was made for it."</p> + +<p>"That is true," said the majordomo; "and I maintain that Lycurgus +himself, who gave laws to the Lacedemonians, could not have pronounced +a better decision than the great Panza has given; let the morning's +audience close with this, and I will see that the senor governor has +dinner entirely to his liking."</p> + +<p>"That's all I ask for—fair play," said Sancho; "give me my +dinner, and then let it rain cases and questions on me, and I'll +despatch them in a twinkling."</p> + +<p>The majordomo kept his word, for he felt it against his conscience +to kill so wise a governor by hunger; particularly as he intended to +have done with him that same night, playing off the last joke he was +commissioned to practise upon him.</p> + +<p>It came to pass, then, that after he had dined that day, in +opposition to the rules and aphorisms of Doctor Tirteafuera, as they +were taking away the cloth there came a courier with a letter from Don +Quixote for the governor. Sancho ordered the secretary to read it to +himself, and if there was nothing in it that demanded secrecy to +read it aloud. The secretary did so, and after he had skimmed the +contents he said, "It may well be read aloud, for what Senor Don +Quixote writes to your worship deserves to be printed or written in +letters of gold, and it is as follows."</p> + + +<blockquote><blockquote> +<p> +DON QUIXOTE OF LA MANCHA'S LETTER TO SANCHO PANZA, +GOVERNOR OF THE ISLAND OF BARATARIA.</p> + +<p> +When I was expecting to hear of thy stupidities and blunders, friend +Sancho, I have received intelligence of thy displays of good sense, +for which I give special thanks to heaven that can raise the poor from +the dunghill and of fools to make wise men. They tell me thou dost +govern as if thou wert a man, and art a man as if thou wert a beast, +so great is the humility wherewith thou dost comport thyself. But I +would have thee bear in mind, Sancho, that very often it is fitting +and necessary for the authority of office to resist the humility of +the heart; for the seemly array of one who is invested with grave +duties should be such as they require and not measured by what his own +humble tastes may lead him to prefer. Dress well; a stick dressed up +does not look like a stick; I do not say thou shouldst wear trinkets +or fine raiment, or that being a judge thou shouldst dress like a +soldier, but that thou shouldst array thyself in the apparel thy +office requires, and that at the same time it be neat and handsome. To +win the good-will of the people thou governest there are two things, +among others, that thou must do; one is to be civil to all (this, +however, I told thee before), and the other to take care that food +be abundant, for there is nothing that vexes the heart of the poor +more than hunger and high prices. Make not many proclamations; but +those thou makest take care that they be good ones, and above all that +they be observed and carried out; for proclamations that are not +observed are the same as if they did not exist; nay, they encourage +the idea that the prince who had the wisdom and authority to make them +had not the power to enforce them; and laws that threaten and are +not enforced come to be like the log, the king of the frogs, that +frightened them at first, but that in time they despised and mounted +upon. Be a father to virtue and a stepfather to vice. Be not always +strict, nor yet always lenient, but observe a mean between these two +extremes, for in that is the aim of wisdom. Visit the gaols, the +slaughter-houses, and the market-places; for the presence of the +governor is of great importance in such places; it comforts the +prisoners who are in hopes of a speedy release, it is the bugbear of +the butchers who have then to give just weight, and it is the terror +of the market-women for the same reason. Let it not be seen that +thou art (even if perchance thou art, which I do not believe) +covetous, a follower of women, or a glutton; for when the people and +those that have dealings with thee become aware of thy special +weakness they will bring their batteries to bear upon thee in that +quarter, till they have brought thee down to the depths of +perdition. Consider and reconsider, con and con over again the advices +and the instructions I gave thee before thy departure hence to thy +government, and thou wilt see that in them, if thou dost follow +them, thou hast a help at hand that will lighten for thee the troubles +and difficulties that beset governors at every step. Write to thy lord +and lady and show thyself grateful to them, for ingratitude is the +daughter of pride, and one of the greatest sins we know of; and he who +is grateful to those who have been good to him shows that he will be +so to God also who has bestowed and still bestows so many blessings +upon him.</p> + +<p>My lady the duchess sent off a messenger with thy suit and another +present to thy wife Teresa Panza; we expect the answer every moment. I +have been a little indisposed through a certain scratching I came in +for, not very much to the benefit of my nose; but it was nothing; +for if there are enchanters who maltreat me, there are also some who +defend me. Let me know if the majordomo who is with thee had any share +in the Trifaldi performance, as thou didst suspect; and keep me +informed of everything that happens thee, as the distance is so short; +all the more as I am thinking of giving over very shortly this idle +life I am now leading, for I was not born for it. A thing has occurred +to me which I am inclined to think will put me out of favour with +the duke and duchess; but though I am sorry for it I do not care, +for after all I must obey my calling rather than their pleasure, in +accordance with the common saying, amicus Plato, sed magis amica +veritas. I quote this Latin to thee because I conclude that since thou +hast been a governor thou wilt have learned it. Adieu; God keep thee +from being an object of pity to anyone.</p> + +<p>Thy friend, +DON QUIXOTE OF LA MANCHA.</p> +</blockquote></blockquote> + + +<p>Sancho listened to the letter with great attention, and it was +praised and considered wise by all who heard it; he then rose up +from table, and calling his secretary shut himself in with him in +his own room, and without putting it off any longer set about +answering his master Don Quixote at once; and he bade the secretary +write down what he told him without adding or suppressing anything, +which he did, and the answer was to the following effect.</p> + +<blockquote><blockquote> +<p> +SANCHO PANZA'S LETTER TO DON QUIXOTE OF LA MANCHA.</p> + +<p> +The pressure of business is so great upon me that I have no time +to scratch my head or even to cut my nails; and I have them so +long—God send a remedy for it. I say this, master of my soul, that you +may not be surprised if I have not until now sent you word of how I +fare, well or ill, in this government, in which I am suffering more +hunger than when we two were wandering through the woods and wastes.</p> + +<p>My lord the duke wrote to me the other day to warn me that certain +spies had got into this island to kill me; but up to the present I +have not found out any except a certain doctor who receives a salary +in this town for killing all the governors that come here; he is +called Doctor Pedro Recio, and is from Tirteafuera; so you see what +a name he has to make me dread dying under his hands. This doctor says +of himself that he does not cure diseases when there are any, but +prevents them coming, and the medicines he uses are diet and more diet +until he brings one down to bare bones; as if leanness was not worse +than fever.</p> + +<p>In short he is killing me with hunger, and I am dying myself of +vexation; for when I thought I was coming to this government to get my +meat hot and my drink cool, and take my ease between holland sheets on +feather beds, I find I have come to do penance as if I was a hermit; +and as I don't do it willingly I suspect that in the end the devil +will carry me off.</p> + +<p>So far I have not handled any dues or taken any bribes, and I +don't know what to think of it; for here they tell me that the +governors that come to this island, before entering it have plenty +of money either given to them or lent to them by the people of the +town, and that this is the usual custom not only here but with all who +enter upon governments.</p> + +<p>Last night going the rounds I came upon a fair damsel in man's +clothes, and a brother of hers dressed as a woman; my head-carver +has fallen in love with the girl, and has in his own mind chosen her +for a wife, so he says, and I have chosen youth for a son-in-law; +to-day we are going to explain our intentions to the father of the +pair, who is one Diego de la Llana, a gentleman and an old Christian +as much as you please.</p> + +<p>I have visited the market-places, as your worship advises me, and +yesterday I found a stall-keeper selling new hazel nuts and proved her +to have mixed a bushel of old empty rotten nuts with a bushel of +new; I confiscated the whole for the children of the charity-school, +who will know how to distinguish them well enough, and I sentenced her +not to come into the market-place for a fortnight; they told me I +did bravely. I can tell your worship it is commonly said in this +town that there are no people worse than the market-women, for they +are all barefaced, unconscionable, and impudent, and I can well +believe it from what I have seen of them in other towns.</p> + +<p>I am very glad my lady the duchess has written to my wife Teresa +Panza and sent her the present your worship speaks of; and I will +strive to show myself grateful when the time comes; kiss her hands for +me, and tell her I say she has not thrown it into a sack with a hole +in it, as she will see in the end. I should not like your worship to +have any difference with my lord and lady; for if you fall out with +them it is plain it must do me harm; and as you give me advice to be +grateful it will not do for your worship not to be so yourself to +those who have shown you such kindness, and by whom you have been +treated so hospitably in their castle.</p> + +<p>That about the scratching I don't understand; but I suppose it +must be one of the ill-turns the wicked enchanters are always doing +your worship; when we meet I shall know all about it. I wish I could +send your worship something; but I don't know what to send, unless +it be some very curious clyster pipes, to work with bladders, that +they make in this island; but if the office remains with me I'll +find out something to send, one way or another. If my wife Teresa +Panza writes to me, pay the postage and send me the letter, for I have +a very great desire to hear how my house and wife and children are +going on. And so, may God deliver your worship from evil-minded +enchanters, and bring me well and peacefully out of this government, +which I doubt, for I expect to take leave of it and my life +together, from the way Doctor Pedro Recio treats me.</p> + +<p>Your worship's servant +SANCHO PANZA THE GOVERNOR.</p> +</blockquote></blockquote> + + +<p>The secretary sealed the letter, and immediately dismissed the +courier; and those who were carrying on the joke against Sancho +putting their heads together arranged how he was to be dismissed +from the government. Sancho spent the afternoon in drawing up +certain ordinances relating to the good government of what he +fancied the island; and he ordained that there were to be no provision +hucksters in the State, and that men might import wine into it from +any place they pleased, provided they declared the quarter it came +from, so that a price might be put upon it according to its quality, +reputation, and the estimation it was held in; and he that watered his +wine, or changed the name, was to forfeit his life for it. He +reduced the prices of all manner of shoes, boots, and stockings, but +of shoes in particular, as they seemed to him to run extravagantly +high. He established a fixed rate for servants' wages, which were +becoming recklessly exorbitant. He laid extremely heavy penalties upon +those who sang lewd or loose songs either by day or night. He +decreed that no blind man should sing of any miracle in verse, +unless he could produce authentic evidence that it was true, for it +was his opinion that most of those the blind men sing are trumped +up, to the detriment of the true ones. He established and created an +alguacil of the poor, not to harass them, but to examine them and +see whether they really were so; for many a sturdy thief or drunkard +goes about under cover of a make-believe crippled limb or a sham sore. +In a word, he made so many good rules that to this day they are +preserved there, and are called The constitutions of the great +governor Sancho Panza.</p> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p51e"></a><img alt="p51e.jpg (32K)" src="images/p51e.jpg" height="513" width="487"> +</center> +<br><br><br><br> + + + +<br><br> +<center><h2><a name="ch52b"></a>CHAPTER LII.</h2></center> +<br> +<center><h3>WHEREIN IS RELATED THE ADVENTURE OF THE SECOND DISTRESSED OR +AFFLICTED DUENNA, OTHERWISE CALLED DONA RODRIGUEZ +</h3></center> +<br> +<br> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p52a"></a><img alt="p52a.jpg (131K)" src="images/p52a.jpg" height="461" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p52a.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<p>Cide Hamete relates that Don Quixote being now cured of his +scratches felt that the life he was leading in the castle was entirely +inconsistent with the order of chivalry he professed, so he determined +to ask the duke and duchess to permit him to take his departure for +Saragossa, as the time of the festival was now drawing near, and he +hoped to win there the suit of armour which is the prize at +festivals of the sort. But one day at table with the duke and duchess, +just as he was about to carry his resolution into effect and ask for +their permission, lo and behold suddenly there came in through the +door of the great hall two women, as they afterwards proved to be, +draped in mourning from head to foot, one of whom approaching Don +Quixote flung herself at full length at his feet, pressing her lips to +them, and uttering moans so sad, so deep, and so doleful that she +put all who heard and saw her into a state of perplexity; and though +the duke and duchess supposed it must be some joke their servants were +playing off upon Don Quixote, still the earnest way the woman sighed +and moaned and wept puzzled them and made them feel uncertain, until +Don Quixote, touched with compassion, raised her up and made her +unveil herself and remove the mantle from her tearful face. She +complied and disclosed what no one could have ever anticipated, for +she disclosed the countenance of Dona Rodriguez, the duenna of the +house; the other female in mourning being her daughter, who had been +made a fool of by the rich farmer's son. All who knew her were +filled with astonishment, and the duke and duchess more than any; +for though they thought her a simpleton and a weak creature, they +did not think her capable of crazy pranks. Dona Rodriguez, at +length, turning to her master and mistress said to them, "Will your +excellences be pleased to permit me to speak to this gentleman for a +moment, for it is requisite I should do so in order to get +successfully out of the business in which the boldness of an +evil-minded clown has involved me?"</p> + +<p>The duke said that for his part he gave her leave, and that she +might speak with Senor Don Quixote as much as she liked.</p> + +<p>She then, turning to Don Quixote and addressing herself to him said, +"Some days since, valiant knight, I gave you an account of the +injustice and treachery of a wicked farmer to my dearly beloved +daughter, the unhappy damsel here before you, and you promised me to +take her part and right the wrong that has been done her; but now it +has come to my hearing that you are about to depart from this castle +in quest of such fair adventures as God may vouchsafe to you; +therefore, before you take the road, I would that you challenge this +froward rustic, and compel him to marry my daughter in fulfillment +of the promise he gave her to become her husband before he seduced +her; for to expect that my lord the duke will do me justice is to +ask pears from the elm tree, for the reason I stated privately to your +worship; and so may our Lord grant you good health and forsake us +not."</p> + +<p>To these words Don Quixote replied very gravely and solemnly, +"Worthy duenna, check your tears, or rather dry them, and spare your +sighs, for I take it upon myself to obtain redress for your +daughter, for whom it would have been better not to have been so ready +to believe lovers' promises, which are for the most part quickly +made and very slowly performed; and so, with my lord the duke's leave, +I will at once go in quest of this inhuman youth, and will find him +out and challenge him and slay him, if so be he refuses to keep his +promised word; for the chief object of my profession is to spare the +humble and chastise the proud; I mean, to help the distressed and +destroy the oppressors."</p> + +<p>"There is no necessity," said the duke, "for your worship to take +the trouble of seeking out the rustic of whom this worthy duenna +complains, nor is there any necessity, either, for asking my leave +to challenge him; for I admit him duly challenged, and will take +care that he is informed of the challenge, and accepts it, and comes +to answer it in person to this castle of mine, where I shall afford to +both a fair field, observing all the conditions which are usually +and properly observed in such trials, and observing too justice to +both sides, as all princes who offer a free field to combatants within +the limits of their lordships are bound to do."</p> + +<p>"Then with that assurance and your highness's good leave," said +Don Quixote, "I hereby for this once waive my privilege of gentle +blood, and come down and put myself on a level with the lowly birth of +the wrong-doer, making myself equal with him and enabling him to enter +into combat with me; and so, I challenge and defy him, though +absent, on the plea of his malfeasance in breaking faith with this +poor damsel, who was a maiden and now by his misdeed is none; and +say that he shall fulfill the promise he gave her to become her lawful +husband, or else stake his life upon the question."</p> + +<p>And then plucking off a glove he threw it down in the middle of +the hall, and the duke picked it up, saying, as he had said before, +that he accepted the challenge in the name of his vassal, and fixed +six days thence as the time, the courtyard of the castle as the place, +and for arms the customary ones of knights, lance and shield and +full armour, with all the other accessories, without trickery, +guile, or charms of any sort, and examined and passed by the judges of +the field. "But first of all," he said, "it is requisite that this +worthy duenna and unworthy damsel should place their claim for justice +in the hands of Don Quixote; for otherwise nothing can be done, nor +can the said challenge be brought to a lawful issue."</p> + +<p>"I do so place it," replied the duenna.</p> + +<p>"And I too," added her daughter, all in tears and covered with shame +and confusion.</p> + +<p>This declaration having been made, and the duke having settled in +his own mind what he would do in the matter, the ladies in black +withdrew, and the duchess gave orders that for the future they were +not to be treated as servants of hers, but as lady adventurers who +came to her house to demand justice; so they gave them a room to +themselves and waited on them as they would on strangers, to the +consternation of the other women-servants, who did not know where +the folly and imprudence of Dona Rodriguez and her unlucky daughter +would stop.</p> + +<p>And now, to complete the enjoyment of the feast and bring the dinner +to a satisfactory end, lo and behold the page who had carried the +letters and presents to Teresa Panza, the wife of the governor Sancho, +entered the hall; and the duke and duchess were very well pleased to +see him, being anxious to know the result of his journey; but when +they asked him the page said in reply that he could not give it before +so many people or in a few words, and begged their excellences to be +pleased to let it wait for a private opportunity, and in the +meantime amuse themselves with these letters; and taking out the +letters he placed them in the duchess's hand. One bore by way of +address, Letter for my lady the Duchess So-and-so, of I don't know +where; and the other To my husband Sancho Panza, governor of the +island of Barataria, whom God prosper longer than me. The duchess's +bread would not bake, as the saying is, until she had read her letter; +and having looked over it herself and seen that it might be read aloud +for the duke and all present to hear, she read out as follows.</p> + +<blockquote><blockquote> +<p> +TERESA PANZA'S LETTER TO THE DUCHESS.</p> + +<p>The letter your highness wrote me, my lady, gave me great +pleasure, for indeed I found it very welcome. The string of coral +beads is very fine, and my husband's hunting suit does not fall +short of it. All this village is very much pleased that your +ladyship has made a governor of my good man Sancho; though nobody will +believe it, particularly the curate, and Master Nicholas the barber, +and the bachelor Samson Carrasco; but I don't care for that, for so +long as it is true, as it is, they may all say what they like; though, +to tell the truth, if the coral beads and the suit had not come I +would not have believed it either; for in this village everybody +thinks my husband a numskull, and except for governing a flock of +goats, they cannot fancy what sort of government he can be fit for. +God grant it, and direct him according as he sees his children stand +in need of it. I am resolved with your worship's leave, lady of my +soul, to make the most of this fair day, and go to Court to stretch +myself at ease in a coach, and make all those I have envying me +already burst their eyes out; so I beg your excellence to order my +husband to send me a small trifle of money, and to let it be something +to speak of, because one's expenses are heavy at the Court; for a loaf +costs a real, and meat thirty maravedis a pound, which is beyond +everything; and if he does not want me to go let him tell me in +time, for my feet are on the fidgets to be off; and my friends and +neighbours tell me that if my daughter and I make a figure and a brave +show at Court, my husband will come to be known far more by me than +I by him, for of course plenty of people will ask, "Who are those +ladies in that coach?" and some servant of mine will answer, "The wife +and daughter of Sancho Panza, governor of the island of Barataria;" +and in this way Sancho will become known, and I'll be thought well of, +and "to Rome for everything." I am as vexed as vexed can be that +they have gathered no acorns this year in our village; for all that +I send your highness about half a peck that I went to the wood to +gather and pick out one by one myself, and I could find no bigger +ones; I wish they were as big as ostrich eggs.</p> + +<p>Let not your high mightiness forget to write to me; and I will +take care to answer, and let you know how I am, and whatever news +there may be in this place, where I remain, praying our Lord to have +your highness in his keeping and not to forget me.</p> + +<p>Sancha my daughter, and my son, kiss your worship's hands.</p> + +<p>She who would rather see your ladyship than write to you,</p> + +<p>Your servant, +<br>TERESA PANZA.</p> +</blockquote></blockquote> + + +<p>All were greatly amused by Teresa Panza's letter, but particularly +the duke and duchess; and the duchess asked Don Quixote's opinion +whether they might open the letter that had come for the governor, +which she suspected must be very good. Don Quixote said that to +gratify them he would open it, and did so, and found that it ran as +follows.</p> + +<blockquote><blockquote> +<p> +TERESA PANZA'S LETTER TO HER HUSBAND SANCHO PANZA.</p> + +<p>I got thy letter, Sancho of my soul, and I promise thee and swear as +a Catholic Christian that I was within two fingers' breadth of going +mad I was so happy. I can tell thee, brother, when I came to hear that +thou wert a governor I thought I should have dropped dead with pure +joy; and thou knowest they say sudden joy kills as well as great +sorrow; and as for Sanchica thy daughter, she leaked from sheer +happiness. I had before me the suit thou didst send me, and the +coral beads my lady the duchess sent me round my neck, and the letters +in my hands, and there was the bearer of them standing by, and in +spite of all this I verily believed and thought that what I saw and +handled was all a dream; for who could have thought that a goatherd +would come to be a governor of islands? Thou knowest, my friend, +what my mother used to say, that one must live long to see much; I say +it because I expect to see more if I live longer; for I don't expect +to stop until I see thee a farmer of taxes or a collector of +revenue, which are offices where, though the devil carries off those +who make a bad use of them, still they make and handle money. My +lady the duchess will tell thee the desire I have to go to the +Court; consider the matter and let me know thy pleasure; I will try to +do honour to thee by going in a coach.</p> + +<p>Neither the curate, nor the barber, nor the bachelor, nor even the +sacristan, can believe that thou art a governor, and they say the +whole thing is a delusion or an enchantment affair, like everything +belonging to thy master Don Quixote; and Samson says he must go in +search of thee and drive the government out of thy head and the +madness out of Don Quixote's skull; I only laugh, and look at my +string of beads, and plan out the dress I am going to make for our +daughter out of thy suit. I sent some acorns to my lady the duchess; I +wish they had been gold. Send me some strings of pearls if they are in +fashion in that island. Here is the news of the village; La Berrueca +has married her daughter to a good-for-nothing painter, who came +here to paint anything that might turn up. The council gave him an +order to paint his Majesty's arms over the door of the town-hall; he +asked two ducats, which they paid him in advance; he worked for +eight days, and at the end of them had nothing painted, and then +said he had no turn for painting such trifling things; he returned the +money, and for all that has married on the pretence of being a good +workman; to be sure he has now laid aside his paint-brush and taken +a spade in hand, and goes to the field like a gentleman. Pedro +Lobo's son has received the first orders and tonsure, with the +intention of becoming a priest. Minguilla, Mingo Silvato's +granddaughter, found it out, and has gone to law with him on the score +of having given her promise of marriage. Evil tongues say she is +with child by him, but he denies it stoutly. There are no olives +this year, and there is not a drop of vinegar to be had in the whole +village. A company of soldiers passed through here; when they left +they took away with them three of the girls of the village; I will not +tell thee who they are; perhaps they will come back, and they will +be sure to find those who will take them for wives with all their +blemishes, good or bad. Sanchica is making bonelace; she earns eight +maravedis a day clear, which she puts into a moneybox as a help +towards house furnishing; but now that she is a governor's daughter +thou wilt give her a portion without her working for it. The +fountain in the plaza has run dry. A flash of lightning struck the +gibbet, and I wish they all lit there. I look for an answer to this, +and to know thy mind about my going to the Court; and so, God keep +thee longer than me, or as long, for I would not leave thee in this +world without me.</p> + +<p>Thy wife, +<br>TERESA PANZA.</p> +</blockquote></blockquote> + +<p> +The letters were applauded, laughed over, relished, and admired; and +then, as if to put the seal to the business, the courier arrived, +bringing the one Sancho sent to Don Quixote, and this, too, was read +out, and it raised some doubts as to the governor's simplicity. The +duchess withdrew to hear from the page about his adventures in +Sancho's village, which he narrated at full length without leaving a +single circumstance unmentioned. He gave her the acorns, and also a +cheese which Teresa had given him as being particularly good and +superior to those of Tronchon. The duchess received it with greatest +delight, in which we will leave her, to describe the end of the +government of the great Sancho Panza, flower and mirror of all +governors of islands.</p> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p52e"></a><img alt="p52e.jpg (13K)" src="images/p52e.jpg" height="261" width="407"> +</center> +<br><br><br><br> + + + +<br><br> +<center><h2><a name="ch53b"></a>CHAPTER LIII.</h2></center> +<br> +<center><h3>OF THE TROUBLOUS END AND TERMINATION SANCHO PANZA'S GOVERNMENT CAME TO +</h3></center> +<br> +<br> + +<center><a name="p53a"></a><img alt="p53a.jpg (109K)" src="images/p53a.jpg" height="362" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p53a.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<p>To fancy that in this life anything belonging to it will remain +for ever in the same state is an idle fancy; on the contrary, in it +everything seems to go in a circle, I mean round and round. The spring +succeeds the summer, the summer the fall, the fall the autumn, the +autumn the winter, and the winter the spring, and so time rolls with +never-ceasing wheel. Man's life alone, swifter than time, speeds +onward to its end without any hope of renewal, save it be in that +other life which is endless and boundless. Thus saith Cide Hamete +the Mahometan philosopher; for there are many that by the light of +nature alone, without the light of faith, have a comprehension of +the fleeting nature and instability of this present life and the +endless duration of that eternal life we hope for; but our author is +here speaking of the rapidity with which Sancho's government came to +an end, melted away, disappeared, vanished as it were in smoke and +shadow. For as he lay in bed on the night of the seventh day of his +government, sated, not with bread and wine, but with delivering +judgments and giving opinions and making laws and proclamations, +just as sleep, in spite of hunger, was beginning to close his eyelids, +he heard such a noise of bell-ringing and shouting that one would have +fancied the whole island was going to the bottom. He sat up in bed and +remained listening intently to try if he could make out what could +be the cause of so great an uproar; not only, however, was he unable +to discover what it was, but as countless drums and trumpets now +helped to swell the din of the bells and shouts, he was more puzzled +than ever, and filled with fear and terror; and getting up he put on a +pair of slippers because of the dampness of the floor, and without +throwing a dressing gown or anything of the kind over him he rushed +out of the door of his room, just in time to see approaching along a +corridor a band of more than twenty persons with lighted torches and +naked swords in their hands, all shouting out, "To arms, to arms, +senor governor, to arms! The enemy is in the island in countless +numbers, and we are lost unless your skill and valour come to our +support."</p> + +<p>Keeping up this noise, tumult, and uproar, they came to where Sancho +stood dazed and bewildered by what he saw and heard, and as they +approached one of them called out to him, "Arm at once, your lordship, +if you would not have yourself destroyed and the whole island lost."</p> + +<p>"What have I to do with arming?" said Sancho. "What do I know +about arms or supports? Better leave all that to my master Don +Quixote, who will settle it and make all safe in a trice; for I, +sinner that I am, God help me, don't understand these scuffles."</p> + +<p>"Ah, senor governor," said another, "what slackness of mettle this +is! Arm yourself; here are arms for you, offensive and defensive; come +out to the plaza and be our leader and captain; it falls upon you by +right, for you are our governor."</p> + +<p>"Arm me then, in God's name," said Sancho, and they at once produced +two large shields they had come provided with, and placed them upon +him over his shirt, without letting him put on anything else, one +shield in front and the other behind, and passing his arms through +openings they had made, they bound him tight with ropes, so that there +he was walled and boarded up as straight as a spindle and unable to +bend his knees or stir a single step. In his hand they placed a lance, +on which he leant to keep himself from falling, and as soon as they +had him thus fixed they bade him march forward and lead them on and +give them all courage; for with him for their guide and lamp and +morning star, they were sure to bring their business to a successful +issue.</p> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p53b"></a><img alt="p53b.jpg (332K)" src="images/p53b.jpg" height="855" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p53b.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<p>"How am I to march, unlucky being that I am?" said Sancho, "when I +can't stir my knee-caps, for these boards I have bound so tight to +my body won't let me. What you must do is carry me in your arms, and +lay me across or set me upright in some postern, and I'll hold it +either with this lance or with my body."</p> + +<p>"On, senor governor!" cried another, "it is fear more than the +boards that keeps you from moving; make haste, stir yourself, for +there is no time to lose; the enemy is increasing in numbers, the +shouts grow louder, and the danger is pressing."</p> + +<p>Urged by these exhortations and reproaches the poor governor made an +attempt to advance, but fell to the ground with such a crash that he +fancied he had broken himself all to pieces. There he lay like a +tortoise enclosed in its shell, or a side of bacon between two +kneading-troughs, or a boat bottom up on the beach; nor did the gang +of jokers feel any compassion for him when they saw him down; so far +from that, extinguishing their torches they began to shout afresh +and to renew the calls to arms with such energy, trampling on poor +Sancho, and slashing at him over the shield with their swords in +such a way that, if he had not gathered himself together and made +himself small and drawn in his head between the shields, it would have +fared badly with the poor governor, as, squeezed into that narrow +compass, he lay, sweating and sweating again, and commending himself +with all his heart to God to deliver him from his present peril. +Some stumbled over him, others fell upon him, and one there was who +took up a position on top of him for some time, and from thence as +if from a watchtower issued orders to the troops, shouting out, "Here, +our side! Here the enemy is thickest! Hold the breach there! Shut that +gate! Barricade those ladders! Here with your stink-pots of pitch +and resin, and kettles of boiling oil! Block the streets with +feather beds!" In short, in his ardour he mentioned every little +thing, and every implement and engine of war by means of which an +assault upon a city is warded off, while the bruised and battered +Sancho, who heard and suffered all, was saying to himself, "O if it +would only please the Lord to let the island be lost at once, and I +could see myself either dead or out of this torture!" Heaven heard his +prayer, and when he least expected it he heard voices exclaiming, +"Victory, victory! The enemy retreats beaten! Come, senor governor, +get up, and come and enjoy the victory, and divide the spoils that +have been won from the foe by the might of that invincible arm."</p> + +<p>"Lift me up," said the wretched Sancho in a woebegone voice. They +helped him to rise, and as soon as he was on his feet said, "The enemy +I have beaten you may nail to my forehead; I don't want to divide +the spoils of the foe, I only beg and entreat some friend, if I have +one, to give me a sup of wine, for I'm parched with thirst, and wipe +me dry, for I'm turning to water."</p> + +<p>They rubbed him down, fetched him wine and unbound the shields, +and he seated himself upon his bed, and with fear, agitation, and +fatigue he fainted away. Those who had been concerned in the joke were +now sorry they had pushed it so far; however, the anxiety his fainting +away had caused them was relieved by his returning to himself. He +asked what o'clock it was; they told him it was just daybreak. He said +no more, and in silence began to dress himself, while all watched him, +waiting to see what the haste with which he was putting on his clothes +meant.</p> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p53c"></a><img alt="p53c.jpg (389K)" src="images/p53c.jpg" height="831" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p53c.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<p>He got himself dressed at last, and then, slowly, for he was +sorely bruised and could not go fast, he proceeded to the stable, +followed by all who were present, and going up to Dapple embraced +him and gave him a loving kiss on the forehead, and said to him, not +without tears in his eyes, "Come along, comrade and friend and partner +of my toils and sorrows; when I was with you and had no cares to +trouble me except mending your harness and feeding your little +carcass, happy were my hours, my days, and my years; but since I +left you, and mounted the towers of ambition and pride, a thousand +miseries, a thousand troubles, and four thousand anxieties have +entered into my soul;" and all the while he was speaking in this +strain he was fixing the pack-saddle on the ass, without a word from +anyone. Then having Dapple saddled, he, with great pain and +difficulty, got up on him, and addressing himself to the majordomo, +the secretary, the head-carver, and Pedro Recio the doctor and several +others who stood by, he said, "Make way, gentlemen, and let me go back +to my old freedom; let me go look for my past life, and raise myself +up from this present death. I was not born to be a governor or protect +islands or cities from the enemies that choose to attack them. +Ploughing and digging, vinedressing and pruning, are more in my way +than defending provinces or kingdoms. 'Saint Peter is very well at +Rome; I mean each of us is best following the trade he was born to. +A reaping-hook fits my hand better than a governor's sceptre; I'd +rather have my fill of gazpacho' than be subject to the misery of a +meddling doctor who me with hunger, and I'd rather lie in summer under +the shade of an oak, and in winter wrap myself in a double sheepskin +jacket in freedom, than go to bed between holland sheets and dress +in sables under the restraint of a government. God be with your +worships, and tell my lord the duke that 'naked I was born, naked I +find myself, I neither lose nor gain;' I mean that without a +farthing I came into this government, and without a farthing I go +out of it, very different from the way governors commonly leave +other islands. Stand aside and let me go; I have to plaster myself, +for I believe every one of my ribs is crushed, thanks to the enemies +that have been trampling over me to-night."</p> + +<p>"That is unnecessary, senor governor," said Doctor Recio, "for I +will give your worship a draught against falls and bruises that will +soon make you as sound and strong as ever; and as for your diet I +promise your worship to behave better, and let you eat plentifully +of whatever you like."</p> + +<p>"You spoke late," said Sancho. "I'd as soon turn Turk as stay any +longer. Those jokes won't pass a second time. By God I'd as soon +remain in this government, or take another, even if it was offered +me between two plates, as fly to heaven without wings. I am of the +breed of the Panzas, and they are every one of them obstinate, and +if they once say 'odds,' odds it must be, no matter if it is evens, in +spite of all the world. Here in this stable I leave the ant's wings +that lifted me up into the air for the swifts and other birds to eat +me, and let's take to level ground and our feet once more; and if +they're not shod in pinked shoes of cordovan, they won't want for +rough sandals of hemp; 'every ewe to her like,' 'and let no one +stretch his leg beyond the length of the sheet;' and now let me +pass, for it's growing late with me."</p> + +<p>To this the majordomo said, "Senor governor, we would let your +worship go with all our hearts, though it sorely grieves us to lose +you, for your wit and Christian conduct naturally make us regret +you; but it is well known that every governor, before he leaves the +place where he has been governing, is bound first of all to render +an account. Let your worship do so for the ten days you have held +the government, and then you may go and the peace of God go with you."</p> + +<p>"No one can demand it of me," said Sancho, "but he whom my lord +the duke shall appoint; I am going to meet him, and to him I will +render an exact one; besides, when I go forth naked as I do, there +is no other proof needed to show that I have governed like an angel."</p> + +<p>"By God the great Sancho is right," said Doctor Recio, "and we +should let him go, for the duke will be beyond measure glad to see +him."</p> + +<p>They all agreed to this, and allowed him to go, first offering to +bear him company and furnish him with all he wanted for his own +comfort or for the journey. Sancho said he did not want anything more +than a little barley for Dapple, and half a cheese and half a loaf +for himself; for the distance being so short there was no occasion for +any better or bulkier provant. They all embraced him, and he with +tears embraced all of them, and left them filled with admiration not +only at his remarks but at his firm and sensible resolution.</p> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p53e"></a><img alt="p53e.jpg (56K)" src="images/p53e.jpg" height="434" width="650"> +</center> + + + + +<br> +<br> +<hr> +<br><br> + + + + + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The History of Don Quixote, Vol. II., +Part 33, by Miguel de Cervantes + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DON QUIXOTE, PART 33 *** + +***** This file should be named 5936-h.htm or 5936-h.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/5/9/3/5936/ + +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 33 + +Author: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra + +Release Date: July 25, 2004 [EBook #5936] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DON QUIXOTE, PART 33 *** + + + + +Produced by David Widger + + + + + + DON QUIXOTE + + Volume II. + + Part 33. + + by Miguel de Cervantes + + + Translated by John Ormsby + + + +CHAPTER XLIX. + +OF WHAT HAPPENED SANCHO IN MAKING THE ROUND OF HIS ISLAND + + +We left the great governor angered and irritated by that +portrait-painting rogue of a farmer who, instructed the majordomo, as the +majordomo was by the duke, tried to practise upon him; he however, fool, +boor, and clown as he was, held his own against them all, saying to those +round him and to Doctor Pedro Recio, who as soon as the private business +of the duke's letter was disposed of had returned to the room, "Now I see +plainly enough that judges and governors ought to be and must be made of +brass not to feel the importunities of the applicants that at all times +and all seasons insist on being heard, and having their business +despatched, and their own affairs and no others attended to, come what +may; and if the poor judge does not hear them and settle the +matter--either because he cannot or because that is not the time set +apart for hearing them-forthwith they abuse him, and run him down, and +gnaw at his bones, and even pick holes in his pedigree. You silly, stupid +applicant, don't be in a hurry; wait for the proper time and season for +doing business; don't come at dinner-hour, or at bed-time; for judges are +only flesh and blood, and must give to Nature what she naturally demands +of them; all except myself, for in my case I give her nothing to eat, +thanks to Senor Doctor Pedro Recio Tirteafuera here, who would have me +die of hunger, and declares that death to be life; and the same sort of +life may God give him and all his kind--I mean the bad doctors; for the +good ones deserve palms and laurels." + +All who knew Sancho Panza were astonished to hear him speak so elegantly, +and did not know what to attribute it to unless it were that office and +grave responsibility either smarten or stupefy men's wits. At last Doctor +Pedro Recio Agilers of Tirteafuera promised to let him have supper that +night though it might be in contravention of all the aphorisms of +Hippocrates. With this the governor was satisfied and looked forward to +the approach of night and supper-time with great anxiety; and though +time, to his mind, stood still and made no progress, nevertheless the +hour he so longed for came, and they gave him a beef salad with onions +and some boiled calves' feet rather far gone. At this he fell to with +greater relish than if they had given him francolins from Milan, +pheasants from Rome, veal from Sorrento, partridges from Moron, or geese +from Lavajos, and turning to the doctor at supper he said to him, "Look +here, senor doctor, for the future don't trouble yourself about giving me +dainty things or choice dishes to eat, for it will be only taking my +stomach off its hinges; it is accustomed to goat, cow, bacon, hung beef, +turnips and onions; and if by any chance it is given these palace dishes, +it receives them squeamishly, and sometimes with loathing. What the +head-carver had best do is to serve me with what they call ollas podridas +(and the rottener they are the better they smell); and he can put +whatever he likes into them, so long as it is good to eat, and I'll be +obliged to him, and will requite him some day. But let nobody play pranks +on me, for either we are or we are not; let us live and eat in peace and +good-fellowship, for when God sends the dawn, he sends it for all. I mean +to govern this island without giving up a right or taking a bribe; let +everyone keep his eye open, and look out for the arrow; for I can tell +them 'the devil's in Cantillana,' and if they drive me to it they'll see +something that will astonish them. Nay! make yourself honey and the flies +eat you." + +"Of a truth, senor governor," said the carver, "your worship is in the +right of it in everything you have said; and I promise you in the name of +all the inhabitants of this island that they will serve your worship with +all zeal, affection, and good-will, for the mild kind of government you +have given a sample of to begin with, leaves them no ground for doing or +thinking anything to your worship's disadvantage." + +"That I believe," said Sancho; "and they would be great fools if they did +or thought otherwise; once more I say, see to my feeding and my Dapple's +for that is the great point and what is most to the purpose; and when the +hour comes let us go the rounds, for it is my intention to purge this +island of all manner of uncleanness and of all idle good-for-nothing +vagabonds; for I would have you know that lazy idlers are the same thing +in a State as the drones in a hive, that eat up the honey the industrious +bees make. I mean to protect the husbandman, to preserve to the gentleman +his privileges, to reward the virtuous, and above all to respect religion +and honour its ministers. What say you to that, my friends? Is there +anything in what I say, or am I talking to no purpose?" + +"There is so much in what your worship says, senor governor," said the +majordomo, "that I am filled with wonder when I see a man like your +worship, entirely without learning (for I believe you have none at all), +say such things, and so full of sound maxims and sage remarks, very +different from what was expected of your worship's intelligence by those +who sent us or by us who came here. Every day we see something new in +this world; jokes become realities, and the jokers find the tables turned +upon them." + +Night came, and with the permission of Doctor Pedro Recio, the governor +had supper. They then got ready to go the rounds, and he started with the +majordomo, the secretary, the head-carver, the chronicler charged with +recording his deeds, and alguacils and notaries enough to form a +fair-sized squadron. In the midst marched Sancho with his staff, as fine +a sight as one could wish to see, and but a few streets of the town had +been traversed when they heard a noise as of a clashing of swords. They +hastened to the spot, and found that the combatants were but two, who +seeing the authorities approaching stood still, and one of them +exclaimed, "Help, in the name of God and the king! Are men to be allowed +to rob in the middle of this town, and rush out and attack people in the +very streets?" + +"Be calm, my good man," said Sancho, "and tell me what the cause of this +quarrel is; for I am the governor." + +Said the other combatant, "Senor governor, I will tell you in a very few +words. Your worship must know that this gentleman has just now won more +than a thousand reals in that gambling house opposite, and God knows how. +I was there, and gave more than one doubtful point in his favour, very +much against what my conscience told me. He made off with his winnings, +and when I made sure he was going to give me a crown or so at least by +way of a present, as it is usual and customary to give men of quality of +my sort who stand by to see fair or foul play, and back up swindles, and +prevent quarrels, he pocketed his money and left the house. Indignant at +this I followed him, and speaking him fairly and civilly asked him to +give me if it were only eight reals, for he knows I am an honest man and +that I have neither profession nor property, for my parents never brought +me up to any or left me any; but the rogue, who is a greater thief than +Cacus and a greater sharper than Andradilla, would not give me more than +four reals; so your worship may see how little shame and conscience he +has. But by my faith if you had not come up I'd have made him disgorge +his winnings, and he'd have learned what the range of the steel-yard +was." + +"What say you to this?" asked Sancho. The other replied that all his +antagonist said was true, and that he did not choose to give him more +than four reals because he very often gave him money; and that those who +expected presents ought to be civil and take what is given them with a +cheerful countenance, and not make any claim against winners unless they +know them for certain to be sharpers and their winnings to be unfairly +won; and that there could be no better proof that he himself was an +honest man than his having refused to give anything; for sharpers always +pay tribute to lookers-on who know them. + +"That is true," said the majordomo; "let your worship consider what is to +be done with these men." + +"What is to be done," said Sancho, "is this; you, the winner, be you +good, bad, or indifferent, give this assailant of yours a hundred reals +at once, and you must disburse thirty more for the poor prisoners; and +you who have neither profession nor property, and hang about the island +in idleness, take these hundred reals now, and some time of the day +to-morrow quit the island under sentence of banishment for ten years, and +under pain of completing it in another life if you violate the sentence, +for I'll hang you on a gibbet, or at least the hangman will by my orders; +not a word from either of you, or I'll make him feel my hand." + +The one paid down the money and the other took it, and the latter quitted +the island, while the other went home; and then the governor said, +"Either I am not good for much, or I'll get rid of these gambling houses, +for it strikes me they are very mischievous." + +"This one at least," said one of the notaries, "your worship will not be +able to get rid of, for a great man owns it, and what he loses every year +is beyond all comparison more than what he makes by the cards. On the +minor gambling houses your worship may exercise your power, and it is +they that do most harm and shelter the most barefaced practices; for in +the houses of lords and gentlemen of quality the notorious sharpers dare +not attempt to play their tricks; and as the vice of gambling has become +common, it is better that men should play in houses of repute than in +some tradesman's, where they catch an unlucky fellow in the small hours +of the morning and skin him alive." + +"I know already, notary, that there is a good deal to be said on that +point," said Sancho. + +And now a tipstaff came up with a young man in his grasp, and said, +"Senor governor, this youth was coming towards us, and as soon as he saw +the officers of justice he turned about and ran like a deer, a sure proof +that he must be some evil-doer; I ran after him, and had it not been that +he stumbled and fell, I should never have caught him." + +"What did you run for, fellow?" said Sancho. + +To which the young man replied, "Senor, it was to avoid answering all the +questions officers of justice put." + +"What are you by trade?" + +"A weaver." + +"And what do you weave?" + +"Lance heads, with your worship's good leave." + +"You're facetious with me! You plume yourself on being a wag? Very good; +and where were you going just now?" + +"To take the air, senor." + +"And where does one take the air in this island?" + +"Where it blows." + +"Good! your answers are very much to the point; you are a smart youth; +but take notice that I am the air, and that I blow upon you a-stern, and +send you to gaol. Ho there! lay hold of him and take him off; I'll make +him sleep there to-night without air." + +"By God," said the young man, "your worship will make me sleep in gaol +just as soon as make me king." + +"Why shan't I make thee sleep in gaol?" said Sancho. "Have I not the +power to arrest thee and release thee whenever I like?" + +"All the power your worship has," said the young man, "won't be able to +make me sleep in gaol." + +"How? not able!" said Sancho; "take him away at once where he'll see his +mistake with his own eyes, even if the gaoler is willing to exert his +interested generosity on his behalf; for I'll lay a penalty of two +thousand ducats on him if he allows him to stir a step from the prison." + +"That's ridiculous," said the young man; "the fact is, all the men on +earth will not make me sleep in prison." + +"Tell me, you devil," said Sancho, "have you got any angel that will +deliver you, and take off the irons I am going to order them to put upon +you?" + +"Now, senor governor," said the young man in a sprightly manner, "let us +be reasonable and come to the point. Granted your worship may order me to +be taken to prison, and to have irons and chains put on me, and to be +shut up in a cell, and may lay heavy penalties on the gaoler if he lets +me out, and that he obeys your orders; still, if I don't choose to sleep, +and choose to remain awake all night without closing an eye, will your +worship with all your power be able to make me sleep if I don't choose?" + +"No, truly," said the secretary, "and the fellow has made his point." + +"So then," said Sancho, "it would be entirely of your own choice you +would keep from sleeping; not in opposition to my will?" + +"No, senor," said the youth, "certainly not." + +"Well then, go, and God be with you," said Sancho; "be off home to sleep, +and God give you sound sleep, for I don't want to rob you of it; but for +the future, let me advise you don't joke with the authorities, because +you may come across some one who will bring down the joke on your own +skull." + +The young man went his way, and the governor continued his round, and +shortly afterwards two tipstaffs came up with a man in custody, and said, +"Senor governor, this person, who seems to be a man, is not so, but a +woman, and not an ill-favoured one, in man's clothes." They raised two or +three lanterns to her face, and by their light they distinguished the +features of a woman to all appearance of the age of sixteen or a little +more, with her hair gathered into a gold and green silk net, and fair as +a thousand pearls. They scanned her from head to foot, and observed that +she had on red silk stockings with garters of white taffety bordered with +gold and pearl; her breeches were of green and gold stuff, and under an +open jacket or jerkin of the same she wore a doublet of the finest white +and gold cloth; her shoes were white and such as men wear; she carried no +sword at her belt, but only a richly ornamented dagger, and on her +fingers she had several handsome rings. In short, the girl seemed fair to +look at in the eyes of all, and none of those who beheld her knew her, +the people of the town said they could not imagine who she was, and those +who were in the secret of the jokes that were to be practised upon Sancho +were the ones who were most surprised, for this incident or discovery had +not been arranged by them; and they watched anxiously to see how the +affair would end. + +Sancho was fascinated by the girl's beauty, and he asked her who she was, +where she was going, and what had induced her to dress herself in that +garb. She with her eyes fixed on the ground answered in modest confusion, +"I cannot tell you, senor, before so many people what it is of such +consequence to me to have kept secret; one thing I wish to be known, that +I am no thief or evildoer, but only an unhappy maiden whom the power of +jealousy has led to break through the respect that is due to modesty." + +Hearing this the majordomo said to Sancho, "Make the people stand back, +senor governor, that this lady may say what she wishes with less +embarrassment." + +Sancho gave the order, and all except the majordomo, the head-carver, and +the secretary fell back. Finding herself then in the presence of no more, +the damsel went on to say, "I am the daughter, sirs, of Pedro Perez +Mazorca, the wool-farmer of this town, who is in the habit of coming very +often to my father's house." + +"That won't do, senora," said the majordomo; "for I know Pedro Perez very +well, and I know he has no child at all, either son or daughter; and +besides, though you say he is your father, you add then that he comes +very often to your father's house." + +"I had already noticed that," said Sancho. + +"I am confused just now, sirs," said the damsel, "and I don't know what I +am saying; but the truth is that I am the daughter of Diego de la Llana, +whom you must all know." + +"Ay, that will do," said the majordomo; "for I know Diego de la Llana, +and know that he is a gentleman of position and a rich man, and that he +has a son and a daughter, and that since he was left a widower nobody in +all this town can speak of having seen his daughter's face; for he keeps +her so closely shut up that he does not give even the sun a chance of +seeing her; and for all that report says she is extremely beautiful." + +"It is true," said the damsel, "and I am that daughter; whether report +lies or not as to my beauty, you, sirs, will have decided by this time, +as you have seen me;" and with this she began to weep bitterly. + +On seeing this the secretary leant over to the head-carver's ear, and +said to him in a low voice, "Something serious has no doubt happened this +poor maiden, that she goes wandering from home in such a dress and at +such an hour, and one of her rank too." "There can be no doubt about it," +returned the carver, "and moreover her tears confirm your suspicion." +Sancho gave her the best comfort he could, and entreated her to tell them +without any fear what had happened her, as they would all earnestly and +by every means in their power endeavour to relieve her. + +"The fact is, sirs," said she, "that my father has kept me shut up these +ten years, for so long is it since the earth received my mother. Mass is +said at home in a sumptuous chapel, and all this time I have seen but the +sun in the heaven by day, and the moon and the stars by night; nor do I +know what streets are like, or plazas, or churches, or even men, except +my father and a brother I have, and Pedro Perez the wool-farmer; whom, +because he came frequently to our house, I took it into my head to call +my father, to avoid naming my own. This seclusion and the restrictions +laid upon my going out, were it only to church, have been keeping me +unhappy for many a day and month past; I longed to see the world, or at +least the town where I was born, and it did not seem to me that this wish +was inconsistent with the respect maidens of good quality should have for +themselves. When I heard them talking of bull-fights taking place, and of +javelin games, and of acting plays, I asked my brother, who is a year +younger than myself, to tell me what sort of things these were, and many +more that I had never seen; he explained them to me as well as he could, +but the only effect was to kindle in me a still stronger desire to see +them. At last, to cut short the story of my ruin, I begged and entreated +my brother--O that I had never made such an entreaty-" And once more she +gave way to a burst of weeping. + +"Proceed, senora," said the majordomo, "and finish your story of what has +happened to you, for your words and tears are keeping us all in +suspense." + +"I have but little more to say, though many a tear to shed," said the +damsel; "for ill-placed desires can only be paid for in some such way." + +The maiden's beauty had made a deep impression on the head-carver's +heart, and he again raised his lantern for another look at her, and +thought they were not tears she was shedding, but seed-pearl or dew of +the meadow, nay, he exalted them still higher, and made Oriental pearls +of them, and fervently hoped her misfortune might not be so great a one +as her tears and sobs seemed to indicate. The governor was losing +patience at the length of time the girl was taking to tell her story, and +told her not to keep them waiting any longer; for it was late, and there +still remained a good deal of the town to be gone over. + +She, with broken sobs and half-suppressed sighs, went on to say, "My +misfortune, my misadventure, is simply this, that I entreated my brother +to dress me up as a man in a suit of his clothes, and take me some night, +when our father was asleep, to see the whole town; he, overcome by my +entreaties, consented, and dressing me in this suit and himself in +clothes of mine that fitted him as if made for him (for he has not a hair +on his chin, and might pass for a very beautiful young girl), to-night, +about an hour ago, more or less, we left the house, and guided by our +youthful and foolish impulse we made the circuit of the whole town, and +then, as we were about to return home, we saw a great troop of people +coming, and my brother said to me, 'Sister, this must be the round, stir +your feet and put wings to them, and follow me as fast as you can, lest +they recognise us, for that would be a bad business for us;' and so +saying he turned about and began, I cannot say to run but to fly; in less +than six paces I fell from fright, and then the officer of justice came +up and carried me before your worships, where I find myself put to shame +before all these people as whimsical and vicious." + +"So then, senora," said Sancho, "no other mishap has befallen you, nor +was it jealousy that made you leave home, as you said at the beginning of +your story?" + +"Nothing has happened me," said she, "nor was it jealousy that brought me +out, but merely a longing to see the world, which did not go beyond +seeing the streets of this town." + +The appearance of the tipstaffs with her brother in custody, whom one of +them had overtaken as he ran away from his sister, now fully confirmed +the truth of what the damsel said. He had nothing on but a rich petticoat +and a short blue damask cloak with fine gold lace, and his head was +uncovered and adorned only with its own hair, which looked like rings of +gold, so bright and curly was it. The governor, the majordomo, and the +carver went aside with him, and, unheard by his sister, asked him how he +came to be in that dress, and he with no less shame and embarrassment +told exactly the same story as his sister, to the great delight of the +enamoured carver; the governor, however, said to them, "In truth, young +lady and gentleman, this has been a very childish affair, and to explain +your folly and rashness there was no necessity for all this delay and all +these tears and sighs; for if you had said we are so-and-so, and we +escaped from our father's house in this way in order to ramble about, out +of mere curiosity and with no other object, there would have been an end +of the matter, and none of these little sobs and tears and all the rest +of it." + +"That is true," said the damsel, "but you see the confusion I was in was +so great it did not let me behave as I ought." + +"No harm has been done," said Sancho; "come, we will leave you at your +father's house; perhaps they will not have missed you; and another time +don't be so childish or eager to see the world; for a respectable damsel +should have a broken leg and keep at home; and the woman and the hen by +gadding about are soon lost; and she who is eager to see is also eager to +be seen; I say no more." + +The youth thanked the governor for his kind offer to take them home, and +they directed their steps towards the house, which was not far off. On +reaching it the youth threw a pebble up at a grating, and immediately a +woman-servant who was waiting for them came down and opened the door to +them, and they went in, leaving the party marvelling as much at their +grace and beauty as at the fancy they had for seeing the world by night +and without quitting the village; which, however, they set down to their +youth. + +The head-carver was left with a heart pierced through and through, and he +made up his mind on the spot to demand the damsel in marriage of her +father on the morrow, making sure she would not be refused him as he was +a servant of the duke's; and even to Sancho ideas and schemes of marrying +the youth to his daughter Sanchica suggested themselves, and he resolved +to open the negotiation at the proper season, persuading himself that no +husband could be refused to a governor's daughter. And so the night's +round came to an end, and a couple of days later the government, whereby +all his plans were overthrown and swept away, as will be seen farther on. + + + + +CHAPTER L. + +WHEREIN IS SET FORTH WHO THE ENCHANTERS AND EXECUTIONERS WERE WHO FLOGGED +THE DUENNA AND PINCHED DON QUIXOTE, AND ALSO WHAT BEFELL THE PAGE WHO +CARRIED THE LETTER TO TERESA PANZA, SANCHO PANZA'S WIFE + + +Cide Hamete, the painstaking investigator of the minute points of this +veracious history, says that when Dona Rodriguez left her own room to go +to Don Quixote's, another duenna who slept with her observed her, and as +all duennas are fond of prying, listening, and sniffing, she followed her +so silently that the good Rodriguez never perceived it; and as soon as +the duenna saw her enter Don Quixote's room, not to fail in a duenna's +invariable practice of tattling, she hurried off that instant to report +to the duchess how Dona Rodriguez was closeted with Don Quixote. The +duchess told the duke, and asked him to let her and Altisidora go and see +what the said duenna wanted with Don Quixote. The duke gave them leave, +and the pair cautiously and quietly crept to the door of the room and +posted themselves so close to it that they could hear all that was said +inside. But when the duchess heard how the Rodriguez had made public the +Aranjuez of her issues she could not restrain herself, nor Altisidora +either; and so, filled with rage and thirsting for vengeance, they burst +into the room and tormented Don Quixote and flogged the duenna in the +manner already described; for indignities offered to their charms and +self-esteem mightily provoke the anger of women and make them eager for +revenge. The duchess told the duke what had happened, and he was much +amused by it; and she, in pursuance of her design of making merry and +diverting herself with Don Quixote, despatched the page who had played +the part of Dulcinea in the negotiations for her disenchantment (which +Sancho Panza in the cares of government had forgotten all about) to +Teresa Panza his wife with her husband's letter and another from herself, +and also a great string of fine coral beads as a present. + +Now the history says this page was very sharp and quick-witted; and eager +to serve his lord and lady he set off very willingly for Sancho's +village. Before he entered it he observed a number of women washing in a +brook, and asked them if they could tell him whether there lived there a +woman of the name of Teresa Panza, wife of one Sancho Panza, squire to a +knight called Don Quixote of La Mancha. At the question a young girl who +was washing stood up and said, "Teresa Panza is my mother, and that +Sancho is my father, and that knight is our master." + +"Well then, miss," said the page, "come and show me where your mother is, +for I bring her a letter and a present from your father." + +"That I will with all my heart, senor," said the girl, who seemed to be +about fourteen, more or less; and leaving the clothes she was washing to +one of her companions, and without putting anything on her head or feet, +for she was bare-legged and had her hair hanging about her, away she +skipped in front of the page's horse, saying, "Come, your worship, our +house is at the entrance of the town, and my mother is there, sorrowful +enough at not having had any news of my father this ever so long." + +"Well," said the page, "I am bringing her such good news that she will +have reason to thank God." + +And then, skipping, running, and capering, the girl reached the town, but +before going into the house she called out at the door, "Come out, mother +Teresa, come out, come out; here's a gentleman with letters and other +things from my good father." At these words her mother Teresa Panza came +out spinning a bundle of flax, in a grey petticoat (so short was it one +would have fancied "they to her shame had cut it short"), a grey bodice +of the same stuff, and a smock. She was not very old, though plainly past +forty, strong, healthy, vigorous, and sun-dried; and seeing her daughter +and the page on horseback, she exclaimed, "What's this, child? What +gentleman is this?" + +"A servant of my lady, Dona Teresa Panza," replied the page; and suiting +the action to the word he flung himself off his horse, and with great +humility advanced to kneel before the lady Teresa, saying, "Let me kiss +your hand, Senora Dona Teresa, as the lawful and only wife of Senor Don +Sancho Panza, rightful governor of the island of Barataria." + +"Ah, senor, get up, do that," said Teresa; "for I'm not a bit of a court +lady, but only a poor country woman, the daughter of a clodcrusher, and +the wife of a squire-errant and not of any governor at all." + +"You are," said the page, "the most worthy wife of a most arch-worthy +governor; and as a proof of what I say accept this letter and this +present;" and at the same time he took out of his pocket a string of +coral beads with gold clasps, and placed it on her neck, and said, "This +letter is from his lordship the governor, and the other as well as these +coral beads from my lady the duchess, who sends me to your worship." + +Teresa stood lost in astonishment, and her daughter just as much, and the +girl said, "May I die but our master Don Quixote's at the bottom of this; +he must have given father the government or county he so often promised +him." + +"That is the truth," said the page; "for it is through Senor Don Quixote +that Senor Sancho is now governor of the island of Barataria, as will be +seen by this letter." + +"Will your worship read it to me, noble sir?" said Teresa; "for though I +can spin I can't read, not a scrap." + +"Nor I either," said Sanchica; "but wait a bit, and I'll go and fetch +some one who can read it, either the curate himself or the bachelor +Samson Carrasco, and they'll come gladly to hear any news of my father." + +"There is no need to fetch anybody," said the page; "for though I can't +spin I can read, and I'll read it;" and so he read it through, but as it +has been already given it is not inserted here; and then he took out the +other one from the duchess, which ran as follows: + +Friend Teresa,--Your husband Sancho's good qualities, of heart as well as +of head, induced and compelled me to request my husband the duke to give +him the government of one of his many islands. I am told he governs like +a gerfalcon, of which I am very glad, and my lord the duke, of course, +also; and I am very thankful to heaven that I have not made a mistake in +choosing him for that same government; for I would have Senora Teresa +know that a good governor is hard to find in this world and may God make +me as good as Sancho's way of governing. Herewith I send you, my dear, a +string of coral beads with gold clasps; I wish they were Oriental pearls; +but "he who gives thee a bone does not wish to see thee dead;" a time +will come when we shall become acquainted and meet one another, but God +knows the future. Commend me to your daughter Sanchica, and tell her from +me to hold herself in readiness, for I mean to make a high match for her +when she least expects it. They tell me there are big acorns in your +village; send me a couple of dozen or so, and I shall value them greatly +as coming from your hand; and write to me at length to assure me of your +health and well-being; and if there be anything you stand in need of, it +is but to open your mouth, and that shall be the measure; and so God keep +you. + +From this place. Your loving friend, THE DUCHESS. + +"Ah, what a good, plain, lowly lady!" said Teresa when she heard the +letter; "that I may be buried with ladies of that sort, and not the +gentlewomen we have in this town, that fancy because they are gentlewomen +the wind must not touch them, and go to church with as much airs as if +they were queens, no less, and seem to think they are disgraced if they +look at a farmer's wife! And see here how this good lady, for all she's a +duchess, calls me 'friend,' and treats me as if I was her equal--and +equal may I see her with the tallest church-tower in La Mancha! And as +for the acorns, senor, I'll send her ladyship a peck and such big ones +that one might come to see them as a show and a wonder. And now, +Sanchica, see that the gentleman is comfortable; put up his horse, and +get some eggs out of the stable, and cut plenty of bacon, and let's give +him his dinner like a prince; for the good news he has brought, and his +own bonny face deserve it all; and meanwhile I'll run out and give the +neighbours the news of our good luck, and father curate, and Master +Nicholas the barber, who are and always have been such friends of thy +father's." + +"That I will, mother," said Sanchica; "but mind, you must give me half of +that string; for I don't think my lady the duchess could have been so +stupid as to send it all to you." + +"It is all for thee, my child," said Teresa; "but let me wear it round my +neck for a few days; for verily it seems to make my heart glad." + +"You will be glad too," said the page, "when you see the bundle there is +in this portmanteau, for it is a suit of the finest cloth, that the +governor only wore one day out hunting and now sends, all for Senora +Sanchica." + +"May he live a thousand years," said Sanchica, "and the bearer as many, +nay two thousand, if needful." + +With this Teresa hurried out of the house with the letters, and with the +string of beads round her neck, and went along thrumming the letters as +if they were a tambourine, and by chance coming across the curate and +Samson Carrasco she began capering and saying, "None of us poor now, +faith! We've got a little government! Ay, let the finest fine lady tackle +me, and I'll give her a setting down!" + +"What's all this, Teresa Panza," said they; "what madness is this, and +what papers are those?" + +"The madness is only this," said she, "that these are the letters of +duchesses and governors, and these I have on my neck are fine coral +beads, with ave-marias and paternosters of beaten gold, and I am a +governess." + +"God help us," said the curate, "we don't understand you, Teresa, or know +what you are talking about." + +"There, you may see it yourselves," said Teresa, and she handed them the +letters. + +The curate read them out for Samson Carrasco to hear, and Samson and he +regarded one another with looks of astonishment at what they had read, +and the bachelor asked who had brought the letters. Teresa in reply bade +them come with her to her house and they would see the messenger, a most +elegant youth, who had brought another present which was worth as much +more. The curate took the coral beads from her neck and examined them +again and again, and having satisfied himself as to their fineness he +fell to wondering afresh, and said, "By the gown I wear I don't know what +to say or think of these letters and presents; on the one hand I can see +and feel the fineness of these coral beads, and on the other I read how a +duchess sends to beg for a couple of dozen of acorns." + +"Square that if you can," said Carrasco; "well, let's go and see the +messenger, and from him we'll learn something about this mystery that has +turned up." + +They did so, and Teresa returned with them. They found the page sifting a +little barley for his horse, and Sanchica cutting a rasher of bacon to be +paved with eggs for his dinner. His looks and his handsome apparel +pleased them both greatly; and after they had saluted him courteously, +and he them, Samson begged him to give them his news, as well of Don +Quixote as of Sancho Panza, for, he said, though they had read the +letters from Sancho and her ladyship the duchess, they were still puzzled +and could not make out what was meant by Sancho's government, and above +all of an island, when all or most of those in the Mediterranean belonged +to his Majesty. + +To this the page replied, "As to Senor Sancho Panza's being a governor +there is no doubt whatever; but whether it is an island or not that he +governs, with that I have nothing to do; suffice it that it is a town of +more than a thousand inhabitants; with regard to the acorns I may tell +you my lady the duchess is so unpretending and unassuming that, not to +speak of sending to beg for acorns from a peasant woman, she has been +known to send to ask for the loan of a comb from one of her neighbours; +for I would have your worships know that the ladies of Aragon, though +they are just as illustrious, are not so punctilious and haughty as the +Castilian ladies; they treat people with greater familiarity." + +In the middle of this conversation Sanchica came in with her skirt full +of eggs, and said she to the page, "Tell me, senor, does my father wear +trunk-hose since he has been governor?" + +"I have not noticed," said the page; "but no doubt he wears them." + +"Ah! my God!" said Sanchica, "what a sight it must be to see my father in +tights! Isn't it odd that ever since I was born I have had a longing to +see my father in trunk-hose?" + +"As things go you will see that if you live," said the page; "by God he +is in the way to take the road with a sunshade if the government only +lasts him two months more." + +The curate and the bachelor could see plainly enough that the page spoke +in a waggish vein; but the fineness of the coral beads, and the hunting +suit that Sancho sent (for Teresa had already shown it to them) did away +with the impression; and they could not help laughing at Sanchica's wish, +and still more when Teresa said, "Senor curate, look about if there's +anybody here going to Madrid or Toledo, to buy me a hooped petticoat, a +proper fashionable one of the best quality; for indeed and indeed I must +do honour to my husband's government as well as I can; nay, if I am put +to it and have to, I'll go to Court and set a coach like all the world; +for she who has a governor for her husband may very well have one and +keep one." + +"And why not, mother!" said Sanchica; "would to God it were to-day +instead of to-morrow, even though they were to say when they saw me +seated in the coach with my mother, 'See that rubbish, that +garlic-stuffed fellow's daughter, how she goes stretched at her ease in a +coach as if she was a she-pope!' But let them tramp through the mud, and +let me go in my coach with my feet off the ground. Bad luck to backbiters +all over the world; 'let me go warm and the people may laugh.' Do I say +right, mother?" + +"To be sure you do, my child," said Teresa; "and all this good luck, and +even more, my good Sancho foretold me; and thou wilt see, my daughter, he +won't stop till he has made me a countess; for to make a beginning is +everything in luck; and as I have heard thy good father say many a time +(for besides being thy father he's the father of proverbs too), 'When +they offer thee a heifer, run with a halter; when they offer thee a +government, take it; when they would give thee a county, seize it; when +they say, "Here, here!" to thee with something good, swallow it.' Oh no! +go to sleep, and don't answer the strokes of good fortune and the lucky +chances that are knocking at the door of your house!" + +"And what do I care," added Sanchica, "whether anybody says when he sees +me holding my head up, 'The dog saw himself in hempen breeches,' and the +rest of it?" + +Hearing this the curate said, "I do believe that all this family of the +Panzas are born with a sackful of proverbs in their insides, every one of +them; I never saw one of them that does not pour them out at all times +and on all occasions." + +"That is true," said the page, "for Senor Governor Sancho utters them at +every turn; and though a great many of them are not to the purpose, still +they amuse one, and my lady the duchess and the duke praise them highly." + +"Then you still maintain that all this about Sancho's government is true, +senor," said the bachelor, "and that there actually is a duchess who +sends him presents and writes to him? Because we, although we have +handled the present and read the letters, don't believe it and suspect it +to be something in the line of our fellow-townsman Don Quixote, who +fancies that everything is done by enchantment; and for this reason I am +almost ready to say that I'd like to touch and feel your worship to see +whether you are a mere ambassador of the imagination or a man of flesh +and blood." + +"All I know, sirs," replied the page, "is that I am a real ambassador, +and that Senor Sancho Panza is governor as a matter of fact, and that my +lord and lady the duke and duchess can give, and have given him this same +government, and that I have heard the said Sancho Panza bears himself +very stoutly therein; whether there be any enchantment in all this or +not, it is for your worships to settle between you; for that's all I know +by the oath I swear, and that is by the life of my parents whom I have +still alive, and love dearly." + +"It may be so," said the bachelor; "but dubitat Augustinus." + +"Doubt who will," said the page; "what I have told you is the truth, and +that will always rise above falsehood as oil above water; if not operibus +credite, et non verbis. Let one of you come with me, and he will see with +his eyes what he does not believe with his ears." + +"It's for me to make that trip," said Sanchica; "take me with you, senor, +behind you on your horse; for I'll go with all my heart to see my +father." + +"Governors' daughters," said the page, "must not travel along the roads +alone, but accompanied by coaches and litters and a great number of +attendants." + +"By God," said Sanchica, "I can go just as well mounted on a she-ass as +in a coach; what a dainty lass you must take me for!" + +"Hush, girl," said Teresa; "you don't know what you're talking about; the +gentleman is quite right, for 'as the time so the behaviour;' when it was +Sancho it was 'Sancha;' when it is governor it's 'senora;' I don't know +if I'm right." + +"Senora Teresa says more than she is aware of," said the page; "and now +give me something to eat and let me go at once, for I mean to return this +evening." + +"Come and do penance with me," said the curate at this; "for Senora +Teresa has more will than means to serve so worthy a guest." + +The page refused, but had to consent at last for his own sake; and the +curate took him home with him very gladly, in order to have an +opportunity of questioning him at leisure about Don Quixote and his +doings. The bachelor offered to write the letters in reply for Teresa; +but she did not care to let him mix himself up in her affairs, for she +thought him somewhat given to joking; and so she gave a cake and a couple +of eggs to a young acolyte who was a penman, and he wrote for her two +letters, one for her husband and the other for the duchess, dictated out +of her own head, which are not the worst inserted in this great history, +as will be seen farther on. + + + + +CHAPTER LI. + +OF THE PROGRESS OF SANCHO'S GOVERNMENT, AND OTHER SUCH ENTERTAINING +MATTERS + + +Day came after the night of the governor's round; a night which the +head-carver passed without sleeping, so were his thoughts of the face and +air and beauty of the disguised damsel, while the majordomo spent what +was left of it in writing an account to his lord and lady of all Sancho +said and did, being as much amazed at his sayings as at his doings, for +there was a mixture of shrewdness and simplicity in all his words and +deeds. The senor governor got up, and by Doctor Pedro Recio's directions +they made him break his fast on a little conserve and four sups of cold +water, which Sancho would have readily exchanged for a piece of bread and +a bunch of grapes; but seeing there was no help for it, he submitted with +no little sorrow of heart and discomfort of stomach; Pedro Recio having +persuaded him that light and delicate diet enlivened the wits, and that +was what was most essential for persons placed in command and in +responsible situations, where they have to employ not only the bodily +powers but those of the mind also. + +By means of this sophistry Sancho was made to endure hunger, and hunger +so keen that in his heart he cursed the government, and even him who had +given it to him; however, with his hunger and his conserve he undertook +to deliver judgments that day, and the first thing that came before him +was a question that was submitted to him by a stranger, in the presence +of the majordomo and the other attendants, and it was in these words: +"Senor, a large river separated two districts of one and the same +lordship--will your worship please to pay attention, for the case is an +important and a rather knotty one? Well then, on this river there was a +bridge, and at one end of it a gallows, and a sort of tribunal, where +four judges commonly sat to administer the law which the lord of river, +bridge and the lordship had enacted, and which was to this effect, 'If +anyone crosses by this bridge from one side to the other he shall declare +on oath where he is going to and with what object; and if he swears +truly, he shall be allowed to pass, but if falsely, he shall be put to +death for it by hanging on the gallows erected there, without any +remission.' Though the law and its severe penalty were known, many +persons crossed, but in their declarations it was easy to see at once +they were telling the truth, and the judges let them pass free. It +happened, however, that one man, when they came to take his declaration, +swore and said that by the oath he took he was going to die upon that +gallows that stood there, and nothing else. The judges held a +consultation over the oath, and they said, 'If we let this man pass free +he has sworn falsely, and by the law he ought to die; but if we hang him, +as he swore he was going to die on that gallows, and therefore swore the +truth, by the same law he ought to go free.' It is asked of your worship, +senor governor, what are the judges to do with this man? For they are +still in doubt and perplexity; and having heard of your worship's acute +and exalted intellect, they have sent me to entreat your worship on their +behalf to give your opinion on this very intricate and puzzling case." + +To this Sancho made answer, "Indeed those gentlemen the judges that send +you to me might have spared themselves the trouble, for I have more of +the obtuse than the acute in me; but repeat the case over again, so that +I may understand it, and then perhaps I may be able to hit the point." + +The querist repeated again and again what he had said before, and then +Sancho said, "It seems to me I can set the matter right in a moment, and +in this way; the man swears that he is going to die upon the gallows; but +if he dies upon it, he has sworn the truth, and by the law enacted +deserves to go free and pass over the bridge; but if they don't hang him, +then he has sworn falsely, and by the same law deserves to be hanged." + +"It is as the senor governor says," said the messenger; "and as regards a +complete comprehension of the case, there is nothing left to desire or +hesitate about." + +"Well then I say," said Sancho, "that of this man they should let pass +the part that has sworn truly, and hang the part that has lied; and in +this way the conditions of the passage will be fully complied with." + +"But then, senor governor," replied the querist, "the man will have to be +divided into two parts; and if he is divided of course he will die; and +so none of the requirements of the law will be carried out, and it is +absolutely necessary to comply with it." + +"Look here, my good sir," said Sancho; "either I'm a numskull or else +there is the same reason for this passenger dying as for his living and +passing over the bridge; for if the truth saves him the falsehood equally +condemns him; and that being the case it is my opinion you should say to +the gentlemen who sent you to me that as the arguments for condemning him +and for absolving him are exactly balanced, they should let him pass +freely, as it is always more praiseworthy to do good than to do evil; +this I would give signed with my name if I knew how to sign; and what I +have said in this case is not out of my own head, but one of the many +precepts my master Don Quixote gave me the night before I left to become +governor of this island, that came into my mind, and it was this, that +when there was any doubt about the justice of a case I should lean to +mercy; and it is God's will that I should recollect it now, for it fits +this case as if it was made for it." + +"That is true," said the majordomo; "and I maintain that Lycurgus +himself, who gave laws to the Lacedemonians, could not have pronounced a +better decision than the great Panza has given; let the morning's +audience close with this, and I will see that the senor governor has +dinner entirely to his liking." + +"That's all I ask for--fair play," said Sancho; "give me my dinner, and +then let it rain cases and questions on me, and I'll despatch them in a +twinkling." + +The majordomo kept his word, for he felt it against his conscience to +kill so wise a governor by hunger; particularly as he intended to have +done with him that same night, playing off the last joke he was +commissioned to practise upon him. + +It came to pass, then, that after he had dined that day, in opposition to +the rules and aphorisms of Doctor Tirteafuera, as they were taking away +the cloth there came a courier with a letter from Don Quixote for the +governor. Sancho ordered the secretary to read it to himself, and if +there was nothing in it that demanded secrecy to read it aloud. The +secretary did so, and after he had skimmed the contents he said, "It may +well be read aloud, for what Senor Don Quixote writes to your worship +deserves to be printed or written in letters of gold, and it is as +follows." + + +DON QUIXOTE OF LA MANCHA'S LETTER TO SANCHO PANZA, GOVERNOR OF THE ISLAND +OF BARATARIA. + +When I was expecting to hear of thy stupidities and blunders, friend +Sancho, I have received intelligence of thy displays of good sense, for +which I give special thanks to heaven that can raise the poor from the +dunghill and of fools to make wise men. They tell me thou dost govern as +if thou wert a man, and art a man as if thou wert a beast, so great is +the humility wherewith thou dost comport thyself. But I would have thee +bear in mind, Sancho, that very often it is fitting and necessary for the +authority of office to resist the humility of the heart; for the seemly +array of one who is invested with grave duties should be such as they +require and not measured by what his own humble tastes may lead him to +prefer. Dress well; a stick dressed up does not look like a stick; I do +not say thou shouldst wear trinkets or fine raiment, or that being a +judge thou shouldst dress like a soldier, but that thou shouldst array +thyself in the apparel thy office requires, and that at the same time it +be neat and handsome. To win the good-will of the people thou governest +there are two things, among others, that thou must do; one is to be civil +to all (this, however, I told thee before), and the other to take care +that food be abundant, for there is nothing that vexes the heart of the +poor more than hunger and high prices. Make not many proclamations; but +those thou makest take care that they be good ones, and above all that +they be observed and carried out; for proclamations that are not observed +are the same as if they did not exist; nay, they encourage the idea that +the prince who had the wisdom and authority to make them had not the +power to enforce them; and laws that threaten and are not enforced come +to be like the log, the king of the frogs, that frightened them at first, +but that in time they despised and mounted upon. Be a father to virtue +and a stepfather to vice. Be not always strict, nor yet always lenient, +but observe a mean between these two extremes, for in that is the aim of +wisdom. Visit the gaols, the slaughter-houses, and the market-places; for +the presence of the governor is of great importance in such places; it +comforts the prisoners who are in hopes of a speedy release, it is the +bugbear of the butchers who have then to give just weight, and it is the +terror of the market-women for the same reason. Let it not be seen that +thou art (even if perchance thou art, which I do not believe) covetous, a +follower of women, or a glutton; for when the people and those that have +dealings with thee become aware of thy special weakness they will bring +their batteries to bear upon thee in that quarter, till they have brought +thee down to the depths of perdition. Consider and reconsider, con and +con over again the advices and the instructions I gave thee before thy +departure hence to thy government, and thou wilt see that in them, if +thou dost follow them, thou hast a help at hand that will lighten for +thee the troubles and difficulties that beset governors at every step. +Write to thy lord and lady and show thyself grateful to them, for +ingratitude is the daughter of pride, and one of the greatest sins we +know of; and he who is grateful to those who have been good to him shows +that he will be so to God also who has bestowed and still bestows so many +blessings upon him. + +My lady the duchess sent off a messenger with thy suit and another +present to thy wife Teresa Panza; we expect the answer every moment. I +have been a little indisposed through a certain scratching I came in for, +not very much to the benefit of my nose; but it was nothing; for if there +are enchanters who maltreat me, there are also some who defend me. Let me +know if the majordomo who is with thee had any share in the Trifaldi +performance, as thou didst suspect; and keep me informed of everything +that happens thee, as the distance is so short; all the more as I am +thinking of giving over very shortly this idle life I am now leading, for +I was not born for it. A thing has occurred to me which I am inclined to +think will put me out of favour with the duke and duchess; but though I +am sorry for it I do not care, for after all I must obey my calling +rather than their pleasure, in accordance with the common saying, amicus +Plato, sed magis amica veritas. I quote this Latin to thee because I +conclude that since thou hast been a governor thou wilt have learned it. +Adieu; God keep thee from being an object of pity to anyone. + +Thy friend, DON QUIXOTE OF LA MANCHA. + + +Sancho listened to the letter with great attention, and it was praised +and considered wise by all who heard it; he then rose up from table, and +calling his secretary shut himself in with him in his own room, and +without putting it off any longer set about answering his master Don +Quixote at once; and he bade the secretary write down what he told him +without adding or suppressing anything, which he did, and the answer was +to the following effect. + + +SANCHO PANZA'S LETTER TO DON QUIXOTE OF LA MANCHA. + +The pressure of business is so great upon me that I have no time to +scratch my head or even to cut my nails; and I have them so long-God send +a remedy for it. I say this, master of my soul, that you may not be +surprised if I have not until now sent you word of how I fare, well or +ill, in this government, in which I am suffering more hunger than when we +two were wandering through the woods and wastes. + +My lord the duke wrote to me the other day to warn me that certain spies +had got into this island to kill me; but up to the present I have not +found out any except a certain doctor who receives a salary in this town +for killing all the governors that come here; he is called Doctor Pedro +Recio, and is from Tirteafuera; so you see what a name he has to make me +dread dying under his hands. This doctor says of himself that he does not +cure diseases when there are any, but prevents them coming, and the +medicines he uses are diet and more diet until he brings one down to bare +bones; as if leanness was not worse than fever. + +In short he is killing me with hunger, and I am dying myself of vexation; +for when I thought I was coming to this government to get my meat hot and +my drink cool, and take my ease between holland sheets on feather beds, I +find I have come to do penance as if I was a hermit; and as I don't do it +willingly I suspect that in the end the devil will carry me off. + +So far I have not handled any dues or taken any bribes, and I don't know +what to think of it; for here they tell me that the governors that come +to this island, before entering it have plenty of money either given to +them or lent to them by the people of the town, and that this is the +usual custom not only here but with all who enter upon governments. + +Last night going the rounds I came upon a fair damsel in man's clothes, +and a brother of hers dressed as a woman; my head-carver has fallen in +love with the girl, and has in his own mind chosen her for a wife, so he +says, and I have chosen youth for a son-in-law; to-day we are going to +explain our intentions to the father of the pair, who is one Diego de la +Llana, a gentleman and an old Christian as much as you please. + +I have visited the market-places, as your worship advises me, and +yesterday I found a stall-keeper selling new hazel nuts and proved her to +have mixed a bushel of old empty rotten nuts with a bushel of new; I +confiscated the whole for the children of the charity-school, who will +know how to distinguish them well enough, and I sentenced her not to come +into the market-place for a fortnight; they told me I did bravely. I can +tell your worship it is commonly said in this town that there are no +people worse than the market-women, for they are all barefaced, +unconscionable, and impudent, and I can well believe it from what I have +seen of them in other towns. + +I am very glad my lady the duchess has written to my wife Teresa Panza +and sent her the present your worship speaks of; and I will strive to +show myself grateful when the time comes; kiss her hands for me, and tell +her I say she has not thrown it into a sack with a hole in it, as she +will see in the end. I should not like your worship to have any +difference with my lord and lady; for if you fall out with them it is +plain it must do me harm; and as you give me advice to be grateful it +will not do for your worship not to be so yourself to those who have +shown you such kindness, and by whom you have been treated so hospitably +in their castle. + +That about the scratching I don't understand; but I suppose it must be +one of the ill-turns the wicked enchanters are always doing your worship; +when we meet I shall know all about it. I wish I could send your worship +something; but I don't know what to send, unless it be some very curious +clyster pipes, to work with bladders, that they make in this island; but +if the office remains with me I'll find out something to send, one way or +another. If my wife Teresa Panza writes to me, pay the postage and send +me the letter, for I have a very great desire to hear how my house and +wife and children are going on. And so, may God deliver your worship from +evil-minded enchanters, and bring me well and peacefully out of this +government, which I doubt, for I expect to take leave of it and my life +together, from the way Doctor Pedro Recio treats me. + +Your worship's servant + +SANCHO PANZA THE GOVERNOR. + + +The secretary sealed the letter, and immediately dismissed the courier; +and those who were carrying on the joke against Sancho putting their +heads together arranged how he was to be dismissed from the government. +Sancho spent the afternoon in drawing up certain ordinances relating to +the good government of what he fancied the island; and he ordained that +there were to be no provision hucksters in the State, and that men might +import wine into it from any place they pleased, provided they declared +the quarter it came from, so that a price might be put upon it according +to its quality, reputation, and the estimation it was held in; and he +that watered his wine, or changed the name, was to forfeit his life for +it. He reduced the prices of all manner of shoes, boots, and stockings, +but of shoes in particular, as they seemed to him to run extravagantly +high. He established a fixed rate for servants' wages, which were +becoming recklessly exorbitant. He laid extremely heavy penalties upon +those who sang lewd or loose songs either by day or night. He decreed +that no blind man should sing of any miracle in verse, unless he could +produce authentic evidence that it was true, for it was his opinion that +most of those the blind men sing are trumped up, to the detriment of the +true ones. He established and created an alguacil of the poor, not to +harass them, but to examine them and see whether they really were so; for +many a sturdy thief or drunkard goes about under cover of a make-believe +crippled limb or a sham sore. In a word, he made so many good rules that +to this day they are preserved there, and are called The constitutions of +the great governor Sancho Panza. + + + + +CHAPTER LII. + +WHEREIN IS RELATED THE ADVENTURE OF THE SECOND DISTRESSED OR AFFLICTED +DUENNA, OTHERWISE CALLED DONA RODRIGUEZ + + +Cide Hamete relates that Don Quixote being now cured of his scratches +felt that the life he was leading in the castle was entirely inconsistent +with the order of chivalry he professed, so he determined to ask the duke +and duchess to permit him to take his departure for Saragossa, as the +time of the festival was now drawing near, and he hoped to win there the +suit of armour which is the prize at festivals of the sort. But one day +at table with the duke and duchess, just as he was about to carry his +resolution into effect and ask for their permission, lo and behold +suddenly there came in through the door of the great hall two women, as +they afterwards proved to be, draped in mourning from head to foot, one +of whom approaching Don Quixote flung herself at full length at his feet, +pressing her lips to them, and uttering moans so sad, so deep, and so +doleful that she put all who heard and saw her into a state of +perplexity; and though the duke and duchess supposed it must be some joke +their servants were playing off upon Don Quixote, still the earnest way +the woman sighed and moaned and wept puzzled them and made them feel +uncertain, until Don Quixote, touched with compassion, raised her up and +made her unveil herself and remove the mantle from her tearful face. She +complied and disclosed what no one could have ever anticipated, for she +disclosed the countenance of Dona Rodriguez, the duenna of the house; the +other female in mourning being her daughter, who had been made a fool of +by the rich farmer's son. All who knew her were filled with astonishment, +and the duke and duchess more than any; for though they thought her a +simpleton and a weak creature, they did not think her capable of crazy +pranks. Dona Rodriguez, at length, turning to her master and mistress +said to them, "Will your excellences be pleased to permit me to speak to +this gentleman for a moment, for it is requisite I should do so in order +to get successfully out of the business in which the boldness of an +evil-minded clown has involved me?" + +The duke said that for his part he gave her leave, and that she might +speak with Senor Don Quixote as much as she liked. + +She then, turning to Don Quixote and addressing herself to him said, +"Some days since, valiant knight, I gave you an account of the injustice +and treachery of a wicked farmer to my dearly beloved daughter, the +unhappy damsel here before you, and you promised me to take her part and +right the wrong that has been done her; but now it has come to my hearing +that you are about to depart from this castle in quest of such fair +adventures as God may vouchsafe to you; therefore, before you take the +road, I would that you challenge this froward rustic, and compel him to +marry my daughter in fulfillment of the promise he gave her to become her +husband before he seduced her; for to expect that my lord the duke will +do me justice is to ask pears from the elm tree, for the reason I stated +privately to your worship; and so may our Lord grant you good health and +forsake us not." + +To these words Don Quixote replied very gravely and solemnly, "Worthy +duenna, check your tears, or rather dry them, and spare your sighs, for I +take it upon myself to obtain redress for your daughter, for whom it +would have been better not to have been so ready to believe lovers' +promises, which are for the most part quickly made and very slowly +performed; and so, with my lord the duke's leave, I will at once go in +quest of this inhuman youth, and will find him out and challenge him and +slay him, if so be he refuses to keep his promised word; for the chief +object of my profession is to spare the humble and chastise the proud; I +mean, to help the distressed and destroy the oppressors." + +"There is no necessity," said the duke, "for your worship to take the +trouble of seeking out the rustic of whom this worthy duenna complains, +nor is there any necessity, either, for asking my leave to challenge him; +for I admit him duly challenged, and will take care that he is informed +of the challenge, and accepts it, and comes to answer it in person to +this castle of mine, where I shall afford to both a fair field, observing +all the conditions which are usually and properly observed in such +trials, and observing too justice to both sides, as all princes who offer +a free field to combatants within the limits of their lordships are bound +to do." + +"Then with that assurance and your highness's good leave," said Don +Quixote, "I hereby for this once waive my privilege of gentle blood, and +come down and put myself on a level with the lowly birth of the +wrong-doer, making myself equal with him and enabling him to enter into +combat with me; and so, I challenge and defy him, though absent, on the +plea of his malfeasance in breaking faith with this poor damsel, who was +a maiden and now by his misdeed is none; and say that he shall fulfill +the promise he gave her to become her lawful husband, or else stake his +life upon the question." + +And then plucking off a glove he threw it down in the middle of the hall, +and the duke picked it up, saying, as he had said before, that he +accepted the challenge in the name of his vassal, and fixed six days +thence as the time, the courtyard of the castle as the place, and for +arms the customary ones of knights, lance and shield and full armour, +with all the other accessories, without trickery, guile, or charms of any +sort, and examined and passed by the judges of the field. "But first of +all," he said, "it is requisite that this worthy duenna and unworthy +damsel should place their claim for justice in the hands of Don Quixote; +for otherwise nothing can be done, nor can the said challenge be brought +to a lawful issue." + +"I do so place it," replied the duenna. + +"And I too," added her daughter, all in tears and covered with shame and +confusion. + +This declaration having been made, and the duke having settled in his own +mind what he would do in the matter, the ladies in black withdrew, and +the duchess gave orders that for the future they were not to be treated +as servants of hers, but as lady adventurers who came to her house to +demand justice; so they gave them a room to themselves and waited on them +as they would on strangers, to the consternation of the other +women-servants, who did not know where the folly and imprudence of Dona +Rodriguez and her unlucky daughter would stop. + +And now, to complete the enjoyment of the feast and bring the dinner to a +satisfactory end, lo and behold the page who had carried the letters and +presents to Teresa Panza, the wife of the governor Sancho, entered the +hall; and the duke and duchess were very well pleased to see him, being +anxious to know the result of his journey; but when they asked him the +page said in reply that he could not give it before so many people or in +a few words, and begged their excellences to be pleased to let it wait +for a private opportunity, and in the meantime amuse themselves with +these letters; and taking out the letters he placed them in the duchess's +hand. One bore by way of address, Letter for my lady the Duchess +So-and-so, of I don't know where; and the other To my husband Sancho +Panza, governor of the island of Barataria, whom God prosper longer than +me. The duchess's bread would not bake, as the saying is, until she had +read her letter; and having looked over it herself and seen that it might +be read aloud for the duke and all present to hear, she read out as +follows. + + +TERESA PANZA'S LETTER TO THE DUCHESS. + +The letter your highness wrote me, my lady, gave me great pleasure, for +indeed I found it very welcome. The string of coral beads is very fine, +and my husband's hunting suit does not fall short of it. All this village +is very much pleased that your ladyship has made a governor of my good +man Sancho; though nobody will believe it, particularly the curate, and +Master Nicholas the barber, and the bachelor Samson Carrasco; but I don't +care for that, for so long as it is true, as it is, they may all say what +they like; though, to tell the truth, if the coral beads and the suit had +not come I would not have believed it either; for in this village +everybody thinks my husband a numskull, and except for governing a flock +of goats, they cannot fancy what sort of government he can be fit for. +God grant it, and direct him according as he sees his children stand in +need of it. I am resolved with your worship's leave, lady of my soul, to +make the most of this fair day, and go to Court to stretch myself at ease +in a coach, and make all those I have envying me already burst their eyes +out; so I beg your excellence to order my husband to send me a small +trifle of money, and to let it be something to speak of, because one's +expenses are heavy at the Court; for a loaf costs a real, and meat thirty +maravedis a pound, which is beyond everything; and if he does not want me +to go let him tell me in time, for my feet are on the fidgets to be off; +and my friends and neighbours tell me that if my daughter and I make a +figure and a brave show at Court, my husband will come to be known far +more by me than I by him, for of course plenty of people will ask, "Who +are those ladies in that coach?" and some servant of mine will answer, +"The wife and daughter of Sancho Panza, governor of the island of +Barataria;" and in this way Sancho will become known, and I'll be thought +well of, and "to Rome for everything." I am as vexed as vexed can be that +they have gathered no acorns this year in our village; for all that I +send your highness about half a peck that I went to the wood to gather +and pick out one by one myself, and I could find no bigger ones; I wish +they were as big as ostrich eggs. + +Let not your high mightiness forget to write to me; and I will take care +to answer, and let you know how I am, and whatever news there may be in +this place, where I remain, praying our Lord to have your highness in his +keeping and not to forget me. + +Sancha my daughter, and my son, kiss your worship's hands. + +She who would rather see your ladyship than write to you, + +Your servant, + +TERESA PANZA. + + +All were greatly amused by Teresa Panza's letter, but particularly the +duke and duchess; and the duchess asked Don Quixote's opinion whether +they might open the letter that had come for the governor, which she +suspected must be very good. Don Quixote said that to gratify them he +would open it, and did so, and found that it ran as follows. + + +TERESA PANZA'S LETTER TO HER HUSBAND SANCHO PANZA. + +I got thy letter, Sancho of my soul, and I promise thee and swear as a +Catholic Christian that I was within two fingers' breadth of going mad I +was so happy. I can tell thee, brother, when I came to hear that thou +wert a governor I thought I should have dropped dead with pure joy; and +thou knowest they say sudden joy kills as well as great sorrow; and as +for Sanchica thy daughter, she leaked from sheer happiness. I had before +me the suit thou didst send me, and the coral beads my lady the duchess +sent me round my neck, and the letters in my hands, and there was the +bearer of them standing by, and in spite of all this I verily believed +and thought that what I saw and handled was all a dream; for who could +have thought that a goatherd would come to be a governor of islands? Thou +knowest, my friend, what my mother used to say, that one must live long +to see much; I say it because I expect to see more if I live longer; for +I don't expect to stop until I see thee a farmer of taxes or a collector +of revenue, which are offices where, though the devil carries off those +who make a bad use of them, still they make and handle money. My lady the +duchess will tell thee the desire I have to go to the Court; consider the +matter and let me know thy pleasure; I will try to do honour to thee by +going in a coach. + +Neither the curate, nor the barber, nor the bachelor, nor even the +sacristan, can believe that thou art a governor, and they say the whole +thing is a delusion or an enchantment affair, like everything belonging +to thy master Don Quixote; and Samson says he must go in search of thee +and drive the government out of thy head and the madness out of Don +Quixote's skull; I only laugh, and look at my string of beads, and plan +out the dress I am going to make for our daughter out of thy suit. I sent +some acorns to my lady the duchess; I wish they had been gold. Send me +some strings of pearls if they are in fashion in that island. Here is the +news of the village; La Berrueca has married her daughter to a +good-for-nothing painter, who came here to paint anything that might turn +up. The council gave him an order to paint his Majesty's arms over the +door of the town-hall; he asked two ducats, which they paid him in +advance; he worked for eight days, and at the end of them had nothing +painted, and then said he had no turn for painting such trifling things; +he returned the money, and for all that has married on the pretence of +being a good workman; to be sure he has now laid aside his paint-brush +and taken a spade in hand, and goes to the field like a gentleman. Pedro +Lobo's son has received the first orders and tonsure, with the intention +of becoming a priest. Minguilla, Mingo Silvato's granddaughter, found it +out, and has gone to law with him on the score of having given her +promise of marriage. Evil tongues say she is with child by him, but he +denies it stoutly. There are no olives this year, and there is not a drop +of vinegar to be had in the whole village. A company of soldiers passed +through here; when they left they took away with them three of the girls +of the village; I will not tell thee who they are; perhaps they will come +back, and they will be sure to find those who will take them for wives +with all their blemishes, good or bad. Sanchica is making bonelace; she +earns eight maravedis a day clear, which she puts into a moneybox as a +help towards house furnishing; but now that she is a governor's daughter +thou wilt give her a portion without her working for it. The fountain in +the plaza has run dry. A flash of lightning struck the gibbet, and I wish +they all lit there. I look for an answer to this, and to know thy mind +about my going to the Court; and so, God keep thee longer than me, or as +long, for I would not leave thee in this world without me. + +Thy wife, + +TERESA PANZA. + + +The letters were applauded, laughed over, relished, and admired; and +then, as if to put the seal to the business, the courier arrived, +bringing the one Sancho sent to Don Quixote, and this, too, was read out, +and it raised some doubts as to the governor's simplicity. The duchess +withdrew to hear from the page about his adventures in Sancho's village, +which he narrated at full length without leaving a single circumstance +unmentioned. He gave her the acorns, and also a cheese which Teresa had +given him as being particularly good and superior to those of Tronchon. +The duchess received it with greatest delight, in which we will leave +her, to describe the end of the government of the great Sancho Panza, +flower and mirror of all governors of islands. + + + + +CHAPTER LIII. + +OF THE TROUBLOUS END AND TERMINATION SANCHO PANZA'S GOVERNMENT CAME TO + + +To fancy that in this life anything belonging to it will remain for ever +in the same state is an idle fancy; on the contrary, in it everything +seems to go in a circle, I mean round and round. The spring succeeds the +summer, the summer the fall, the fall the autumn, the autumn the winter, +and the winter the spring, and so time rolls with never-ceasing wheel. +Man's life alone, swifter than time, speeds onward to its end without any +hope of renewal, save it be in that other life which is endless and +boundless. Thus saith Cide Hamete the Mahometan philosopher; for there +are many that by the light of nature alone, without the light of faith, +have a comprehension of the fleeting nature and instability of this +present life and the endless duration of that eternal life we hope for; +but our author is here speaking of the rapidity with which Sancho's +government came to an end, melted away, disappeared, vanished as it were +in smoke and shadow. For as he lay in bed on the night of the seventh day +of his government, sated, not with bread and wine, but with delivering +judgments and giving opinions and making laws and proclamations, just as +sleep, in spite of hunger, was beginning to close his eyelids, he heard +such a noise of bell-ringing and shouting that one would have fancied the +whole island was going to the bottom. He sat up in bed and remained +listening intently to try if he could make out what could be the cause of +so great an uproar; not only, however, was he unable to discover what it +was, but as countless drums and trumpets now helped to swell the din of +the bells and shouts, he was more puzzled than ever, and filled with fear +and terror; and getting up he put on a pair of slippers because of the +dampness of the floor, and without throwing a dressing gown or anything +of the kind over him he rushed out of the door of his room, just in time +to see approaching along a corridor a band of more than twenty persons +with lighted torches and naked swords in their hands, all shouting out, +"To arms, to arms, senor governor, to arms! The enemy is in the island in +countless numbers, and we are lost unless your skill and valour come to +our support." + +Keeping up this noise, tumult, and uproar, they came to where Sancho +stood dazed and bewildered by what he saw and heard, and as they +approached one of them called out to him, "Arm at once, your lordship, if +you would not have yourself destroyed and the whole island lost." + +"What have I to do with arming?" said Sancho. "What do I know about arms +or supports? Better leave all that to my master Don Quixote, who will +settle it and make all safe in a trice; for I, sinner that I am, God help +me, don't understand these scuffles." + +"Ah, senor governor," said another, "what slackness of mettle this is! +Arm yourself; here are arms for you, offensive and defensive; come out to +the plaza and be our leader and captain; it falls upon you by right, for +you are our governor." + +"Arm me then, in God's name," said Sancho, and they at once produced two +large shields they had come provided with, and placed them upon him over +his shirt, without letting him put on anything else, one shield in front +and the other behind, and passing his arms through openings they had +made, they bound him tight with ropes, so that there he was walled and +boarded up as straight as a spindle and unable to bend his knees or stir +a single step. In his hand they placed a lance, on which he leant to keep +himself from falling, and as soon as they had him thus fixed they bade +him march forward and lead them on and give them all courage; for with +him for their guide and lamp and morning star, they were sure to bring +their business to a successful issue. + +"How am I to march, unlucky being that I am?" said Sancho, "when I can't +stir my knee-caps, for these boards I have bound so tight to my body +won't let me. What you must do is carry me in your arms, and lay me +across or set me upright in some postern, and I'll hold it either with +this lance or with my body." + +"On, senor governor!" cried another, "it is fear more than the boards +that keeps you from moving; make haste, stir yourself, for there is no +time to lose; the enemy is increasing in numbers, the shouts grow louder, +and the danger is pressing." + +Urged by these exhortations and reproaches the poor governor made an +attempt to advance, but fell to the ground with such a crash that he +fancied he had broken himself all to pieces. There he lay like a tortoise +enclosed in its shell, or a side of bacon between two kneading-troughs, +or a boat bottom up on the beach; nor did the gang of jokers feel any +compassion for him when they saw him down; so far from that, +extinguishing their torches they began to shout afresh and to renew the +calls to arms with such energy, trampling on poor Sancho, and slashing at +him over the shield with their swords in such a way that, if he had not +gathered himself together and made himself small and drawn in his head +between the shields, it would have fared badly with the poor governor, +as, squeezed into that narrow compass, he lay, sweating and sweating +again, and commending himself with all his heart to God to deliver him +from his present peril. Some stumbled over him, others fell upon him, and +one there was who took up a position on top of him for some time, and +from thence as if from a watchtower issued orders to the troops, shouting +out, "Here, our side! Here the enemy is thickest! Hold the breach there! +Shut that gate! Barricade those ladders! Here with your stink-pots of +pitch and resin, and kettles of boiling oil! Block the streets with +feather beds!" In short, in his ardour he mentioned every little thing, +and every implement and engine of war by means of which an assault upon a +city is warded off, while the bruised and battered Sancho, who heard and +suffered all, was saying to himself, "O if it would only please the Lord +to let the island be lost at once, and I could see myself either dead or +out of this torture!" Heaven heard his prayer, and when he least expected +it he heard voices exclaiming, "Victory, victory! The enemy retreats +beaten! Come, senor governor, get up, and come and enjoy the victory, and +divide the spoils that have been won from the foe by the might of that +invincible arm." + +"Lift me up," said the wretched Sancho in a woebegone voice. They helped +him to rise, and as soon as he was on his feet said, "The enemy I have +beaten you may nail to my forehead; I don't want to divide the spoils of +the foe, I only beg and entreat some friend, if I have one, to give me a +sup of wine, for I'm parched with thirst, and wipe me dry, for I'm +turning to water." + +They rubbed him down, fetched him wine and unbound the shields, and he +seated himself upon his bed, and with fear, agitation, and fatigue he +fainted away. Those who had been concerned in the joke were now sorry +they had pushed it so far; however, the anxiety his fainting away had +caused them was relieved by his returning to himself. He asked what +o'clock it was; they told him it was just daybreak. He said no more, and +in silence began to dress himself, while all watched him, waiting to see +what the haste with which he was putting on his clothes meant. + +He got himself dressed at last, and then, slowly, for he was sorely +bruised and could not go fast, he proceeded to the stable, followed by +all who were present, and going up to Dapple embraced him and gave him a +loving kiss on the forehead, and said to him, not without tears in his +eyes, "Come along, comrade and friend and partner of my toils and +sorrows; when I was with you and had no cares to trouble me except +mending your harness and feeding your little carcass, happy were my +hours, my days, and my years; but since I left you, and mounted the +towers of ambition and pride, a thousand miseries, a thousand troubles, +and four thousand anxieties have entered into my soul;" and all the while +he was speaking in this strain he was fixing the pack-saddle on the ass, +without a word from anyone. Then having Dapple saddled, he, with great +pain and difficulty, got up on him, and addressing himself to the +majordomo, the secretary, the head-carver, and Pedro Recio the doctor and +several others who stood by, he said, "Make way, gentlemen, and let me go +back to my old freedom; let me go look for my past life, and raise myself +up from this present death. I was not born to be a governor or protect +islands or cities from the enemies that choose to attack them. Ploughing +and digging, vinedressing and pruning, are more in my way than defending +provinces or kingdoms. 'Saint Peter is very well at Rome; I mean each of +us is best following the trade he was born to. A reaping-hook fits my +hand better than a governor's sceptre; I'd rather have my fill of +gazpacho' than be subject to the misery of a meddling doctor who me with +hunger, and I'd rather lie in summer under the shade of an oak, and in +winter wrap myself in a double sheepskin jacket in freedom, than go to +bed between holland sheets and dress in sables under the restraint of a +government. God be with your worships, and tell my lord the duke that +'naked I was born, naked I find myself, I neither lose nor gain;' I mean +that without a farthing I came into this government, and without a +farthing I go out of it, very different from the way governors commonly +leave other islands. Stand aside and let me go; I have to plaster myself, +for I believe every one of my ribs is crushed, thanks to the enemies that +have been trampling over me to-night." + +"That is unnecessary, senor governor," said Doctor Recio, "for I will +give your worship a draught against falls and bruises that will soon make +you as sound and strong as ever; and as for your diet I promise your +worship to behave better, and let you eat plentifully of whatever you +like." + +"You spoke late," said Sancho. "I'd as soon turn Turk as stay any longer. +Those jokes won't pass a second time. By God I'd as soon remain in this +government, or take another, even if it was offered me between two +plates, as fly to heaven without wings. I am of the breed of the Panzas, +and they are every one of them obstinate, and if they once say 'odds,' +odds it must be, no matter if it is evens, in spite of all the world. +Here in this stable I leave the ant's wings that lifted me up into the +air for the swifts and other birds to eat me, and let's take to level +ground and our feet once more; and if they're not shod in pinked shoes of +cordovan, they won't want for rough sandals of hemp; 'every ewe to her +like,' 'and let no one stretch his leg beyond the length of the sheet;' +and now let me pass, for it's growing late with me." + +To this the majordomo said, "Senor governor, we would let your worship go +with all our hearts, though it sorely grieves us to lose you, for your +wit and Christian conduct naturally make us regret you; but it is well +known that every governor, before he leaves the place where he has been +governing, is bound first of all to render an account. Let your worship +do so for the ten days you have held the government, and then you may go +and the peace of God go with you." + +"No one can demand it of me," said Sancho, "but he whom my lord the duke +shall appoint; I am going to meet him, and to him I will render an exact +one; besides, when I go forth naked as I do, there is no other proof +needed to show that I have governed like an angel." + +"By God the great Sancho is right," said Doctor Recio, "and we should let +him go, for the duke will be beyond measure glad to see him." + +They all agreed to this, and allowed him to go, first offering to bear +him company and furnish him with all he wanted for his own comfort or for +the journey. Sancho said he did not want anything more than a little +barley for Dapple, and half a cheese and half a loaf for himself; for the +distance being so short there was no occasion for any better or bulkier +provant. 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