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diff --git a/5937.txt b/5937.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..de3ffff --- /dev/null +++ b/5937.txt @@ -0,0 +1,1295 @@ +The Project Gutenberg EBook of The History of Don Quixote, Vol. II., Part +34, 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 34 + +Author: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra + +Release Date: July 25, 2004 [EBook #5937] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DON QUIXOTE, PART 34 *** + + + + +Produced by David Widger + + + + + + DON QUIXOTE + + Volume II. + + Part 34. + + by Miguel de Cervantes + + + Translated by John Ormsby + + + +CHAPTER LIV. + +WHICH DEALS WITH MATTERS RELATING TO THIS HISTORY AND NO OTHER + + +The duke and duchess resolved that the challenge Don Quixote had, for the +reason already mentioned, given their vassal, should be proceeded with; +and as the young man was in Flanders, whither he had fled to escape +having Dona Rodriguez for a mother-in-law, they arranged to substitute +for him a Gascon lacquey, named Tosilos, first of all carefully +instructing him in all he had to do. Two days later the duke told Don +Quixote that in four days from that time his opponent would present +himself on the field of battle armed as a knight, and would maintain that +the damsel lied by half a beard, nay a whole beard, if she affirmed that +he had given her a promise of marriage. Don Quixote was greatly pleased +at the news, and promised himself to do wonders in the lists, and +reckoned it rare good fortune that an opportunity should have offered for +letting his noble hosts see what the might of his strong arm was capable +of; and so in high spirits and satisfaction he awaited the expiration of +the four days, which measured by his impatience seemed spinning +themselves out into four hundred ages. Let us leave them to pass as we do +other things, and go and bear Sancho company, as mounted on Dapple, half +glad, half sad, he paced along on his road to join his master, in whose +society he was happier than in being governor of all the islands in the +world. Well then, it so happened that before he had gone a great way from +the island of his government (and whether it was island, city, town, or +village that he governed he never troubled himself to inquire) he saw +coming along the road he was travelling six pilgrims with staves, +foreigners of that sort that beg for alms singing; who as they drew near +arranged themselves in a line and lifting up their voices all together +began to sing in their own language something that Sancho could not with +the exception of one word which sounded plainly "alms," from which he +gathered that it was alms they asked for in their song; and being, as +Cide Hamete says, remarkably charitable, he took out of his alforias the +half loaf and half cheese he had been provided with, and gave them to +them, explaining to them by signs that he had nothing else to give them. +They received them very gladly, but exclaimed, "Geld! Geld!" + +"I don't understand what you want of me, good people," said Sancho. + +On this one of them took a purse out of his bosom and showed it to +Sancho, by which he comprehended they were asking for money, and putting +his thumb to his throat and spreading his hand upwards he gave them to +understand that he had not the sign of a coin about him, and urging +Dapple forward he broke through them. But as he was passing, one of them +who had been examining him very closely rushed towards him, and flinging +his arms round him exclaimed in a loud voice and good Spanish, "God bless +me! What's this I see? Is it possible that I hold in my arms my dear +friend, my good neighbour Sancho Panza? But there's no doubt about it, +for I'm not asleep, nor am I drunk just now." + +Sancho was surprised to hear himself called by his name and find himself +embraced by a foreign pilgrim, and after regarding him steadily without +speaking he was still unable to recognise him; but the pilgrim perceiving +his perplexity cried, "What! and is it possible, Sancho Panza, that thou +dost not know thy neighbour Ricote, the Morisco shopkeeper of thy +village?" + +Sancho upon this looking at him more carefully began to recall his +features, and at last recognised him perfectly, and without getting off +the ass threw his arms round his neck saying, "Who the devil could have +known thee, Ricote, in this mummer's dress thou art in? Tell me, who bas +frenchified thee, and how dost thou dare to return to Spain, where if +they catch thee and recognise thee it will go hard enough with thee?" + +"If thou dost not betray me, Sancho," said the pilgrim, "I am safe; for +in this dress no one will recognise me; but let us turn aside out of the +road into that grove there where my comrades are going to eat and rest, +and thou shalt eat with them there, for they are very good fellows; I'll +have time enough to tell thee then all that has happened me since I left +our village in obedience to his Majesty's edict that threatened such +severities against the unfortunate people of my nation, as thou hast +heard." + +Sancho complied, and Ricote having spoken to the other pilgrims they +withdrew to the grove they saw, turning a considerable distance out of +the road. They threw down their staves, took off their pilgrim's cloaks +and remained in their under-clothing; they were all good-looking young +fellows, except Ricote, who was a man somewhat advanced in years. They +carried alforjas all of them, and all apparently well filled, at least +with things provocative of thirst, such as would summon it from two +leagues off. They stretched themselves on the ground, and making a +tablecloth of the grass they spread upon it bread, salt, knives, walnut, +scraps of cheese, and well-picked ham-bones which if they were past +gnawing were not past sucking. They also put down a black dainty called, +they say, caviar, and made of the eggs of fish, a great thirst-wakener. +Nor was there any lack of olives, dry, it is true, and without any +seasoning, but for all that toothsome and pleasant. But what made the +best show in the field of the banquet was half a dozen botas of wine, for +each of them produced his own from his alforjas; even the good Ricote, +who from a Morisco had transformed himself into a German or Dutchman, +took out his, which in size might have vied with the five others. They +then began to eat with very great relish and very leisurely, making the +most of each morsel--very small ones of everything--they took up on the +point of the knife; and then all at the same moment raised their arms and +botas aloft, the mouths placed in their mouths, and all eyes fixed on +heaven just as if they were taking aim at it; and in this attitude they +remained ever so long, wagging their heads from side to side as if in +acknowledgment of the pleasure they were enjoying while they decanted the +bowels of the bottles into their own stomachs. + +Sancho beheld all, "and nothing gave him pain;" so far from that, acting +on the proverb he knew so well, "when thou art at Rome do as thou seest," +he asked Ricote for his bota and took aim like the rest of them, and with +not less enjoyment. Four times did the botas bear being uplifted, but the +fifth it was all in vain, for they were drier and more sapless than a +rush by that time, which made the jollity that had been kept up so far +begin to flag. + +Every now and then some one of them would grasp Sancho's right hand in +his own saying, "Espanoli y Tudesqui tuto uno: bon compano;" and Sancho +would answer, "Bon compano, jur a Di!" and then go off into a fit of +laughter that lasted an hour, without a thought for the moment of +anything that had befallen him in his government; for cares have very +little sway over us while we are eating and drinking. At length, the wine +having come to an end with them, drowsiness began to come over them, and +they dropped asleep on their very table and tablecloth. Ricote and Sancho +alone remained awake, for they had eaten more and drunk less, and Ricote +drawing Sancho aside, they seated themselves at the foot of a beech, +leaving the pilgrims buried in sweet sleep; and without once falling into +his own Morisco tongue Ricote spoke as follows in pure Castilian: + +"Thou knowest well, neighbour and friend Sancho Panza, how the +proclamation or edict his Majesty commanded to be issued against those of +my nation filled us all with terror and dismay; me at least it did, +insomuch that I think before the time granted us for quitting Spain was +out, the full force of the penalty had already fallen upon me and upon my +children. I decided, then, and I think wisely (just like one who knows +that at a certain date the house he lives in will be taken from him, and +looks out beforehand for another to change into), I decided, I say, to +leave the town myself, alone and without my family, and go to seek out +some place to remove them to comfortably and not in the hurried way in +which the others took their departure; for I saw very plainly, and so did +all the older men among us, that the proclamations were not mere threats, +as some said, but positive enactments which would be enforced at the +appointed time; and what made me believe this was what I knew of the base +and extravagant designs which our people harboured, designs of such a +nature that I think it was a divine inspiration that moved his Majesty to +carry out a resolution so spirited; not that we were all guilty, for some +there were true and steadfast Christians; but they were so few that they +could make no head against those who were not; and it was not prudent to +cherish a viper in the bosom by having enemies in the house. In short it +was with just cause that we were visited with the penalty of banishment, +a mild and lenient one in the eyes of some, but to us the most terrible +that could be inflicted upon us. Wherever we are we weep for Spain; for +after all we were born there and it is our natural fatherland. Nowhere do +we find the reception our unhappy condition needs; and in Barbary and all +the parts of Africa where we counted upon being received, succoured, and +welcomed, it is there they insult and ill-treat us most. We knew not our +good fortune until we lost it; and such is the longing we almost all of +us have to return to Spain, that most of those who like myself know the +language, and there are many who do, come back to it and leave their +wives and children forsaken yonder, so great is their love for it; and +now I know by experience the meaning of the saying, sweet is the love of +one's country. + +"I left our village, as I said, and went to France, but though they gave +us a kind reception there I was anxious to see all I could. I crossed +into Italy, and reached Germany, and there it seemed to me we might live +with more freedom, as the inhabitants do not pay any attention to +trifling points; everyone lives as he likes, for in most parts they enjoy +liberty of conscience. I took a house in a town near Augsburg, and then +joined these pilgrims, who are in the habit of coming to Spain in great +numbers every year to visit the shrines there, which they look upon as +their Indies and a sure and certain source of gain. They travel nearly +all over it, and there is no town out of which they do not go full up of +meat and drink, as the saying is, and with a real, at least, in money, +and they come off at the end of their travels with more than a hundred +crowns saved, which, changed into gold, they smuggle out of the kingdom +either in the hollow of their staves or in the patches of their pilgrim's +cloaks or by some device of their own, and carry to their own country in +spite of the guards at the posts and passes where they are searched. Now +my purpose is, Sancho, to carry away the treasure that I left buried, +which, as it is outside the town, I shall be able to do without risk, and +to write, or cross over from Valencia, to my daughter and wife, who I +know are at Algiers, and find some means of bringing them to some French +port and thence to Germany, there to await what it may be God's will to +do with us; for, after all, Sancho, I know well that Ricota my daughter +and Francisca Ricota my wife are Catholic Christians, and though I am not +so much so, still I am more of a Christian than a Moor, and it is always +my prayer to God that he will open the eyes of my understanding and show +me how I am to serve him; but what amazes me and I cannot understand is +why my wife and daughter should have gone to Barbary rather than to +France, where they could live as Christians." + +To this Sancho replied, "Remember, Ricote, that may not have been open to +them, for Juan Tiopieyo thy wife's brother took them, and being a true +Moor he went where he could go most easily; and another thing I can tell +thee, it is my belief thou art going in vain to look for what thou hast +left buried, for we heard they took from thy brother-in-law and thy wife +a great quantity of pearls and money in gold which they brought to be +passed." + +"That may be," said Ricote; "but I know they did not touch my hoard, for +I did not tell them where it was, for fear of accidents; and so, if thou +wilt come with me, Sancho, and help me to take it away and conceal it, I +will give thee two hundred crowns wherewith thou mayest relieve thy +necessities, and, as thou knowest, I know they are many." + +"I would do it," said Sancho; "but I am not at all covetous, for I gave +up an office this morning in which, if I was, I might have made the walls +of my house of gold and dined off silver plates before six months were +over; and so for this reason, and because I feel I would be guilty of +treason to my king if I helped his enemies, I would not go with thee if +instead of promising me two hundred crowns thou wert to give me four +hundred here in hand." + +"And what office is this thou hast given up, Sancho?" asked Ricote. + +"I have given up being governor of an island," said Sancho, "and such a +one, faith, as you won't find the like of easily." + +"And where is this island?" said Ricote. + +"Where?" said Sancho; "two leagues from here, and it is called the island +of Barataria." + +"Nonsense! Sancho," said Ricote; "islands are away out in the sea; there +are no islands on the mainland." + +"What? No islands!" said Sancho; "I tell thee, friend Ricote, I left it +this morning, and yesterday I was governing there as I pleased like a +sagittarius; but for all that I gave it up, for it seemed to me a +dangerous office, a governor's." + +"And what hast thou gained by the government?" asked Ricote. + +"I have gained," said Sancho, "the knowledge that I am no good for +governing, unless it is a drove of cattle, and that the riches that are +to be got by these governments are got at the cost of one's rest and +sleep, ay and even one's food; for in islands the governors must eat +little, especially if they have doctors to look after their health." + +"I don't understand thee, Sancho," said Ricote; "but it seems to me all +nonsense thou art talking. Who would give thee islands to govern? Is +there any scarcity in the world of cleverer men than thou art for +governors? Hold thy peace, Sancho, and come back to thy senses, and +consider whether thou wilt come with me as I said to help me to take away +treasure I left buried (for indeed it may be called a treasure, it is so +large), and I will give thee wherewithal to keep thee, as I told thee." + +"And I have told thee already, Ricote, that I will not," said Sancho; +"let it content thee that by me thou shalt not be betrayed, and go thy +way in God's name and let me go mine; for I know that well-gotten gain +may be lost, but ill-gotten gain is lost, itself and its owner likewise." + +"I will not press thee, Sancho," said Ricote; "but tell me, wert thou in +our village when my wife and daughter and brother-in-law left it?" + +"I was so," said Sancho; "and I can tell thee thy daughter left it +looking so lovely that all the village turned out to see her, and +everybody said she was the fairest creature in the world. She wept as she +went, and embraced all her friends and acquaintances and those who came +out to see her, and she begged them all to commend her to God and Our +Lady his mother, and this in such a touching way that it made me weep +myself, though I'm not much given to tears commonly; and, faith, many a +one would have liked to hide her, or go out and carry her off on the +road; but the fear of going against the king's command kept them back. +The one who showed himself most moved was Don Pedro Gregorio, the rich +young heir thou knowest of, and they say he was deep in love with her; +and since she left he has not been seen in our village again, and we all +suspect he has gone after her to steal her away, but so far nothing has +been heard of it." + +"I always had a suspicion that gentleman had a passion for my daughter," +said Ricote; "but as I felt sure of my Ricota's virtue it gave me no +uneasiness to know that he loved her; for thou must have heard it said, +Sancho, that the Morisco women seldom or never engage in amours with the +old Christians; and my daughter, who I fancy thought more of being a +Christian than of lovemaking, would not trouble herself about the +attentions of this heir." + +"God grant it," said Sancho, "for it would be a bad business for both of +them; but now let me be off, friend Ricote, for I want to reach where my +master Don Quixote is to-night." + +"God be with thee, brother Sancho," said Ricote; "my comrades are +beginning to stir, and it is time, too, for us to continue our journey;" +and then they both embraced, and Sancho mounted Dapple, and Ricote leant +upon his staff, and so they parted. + + + + +CHAPTER LV. + +OF WHAT BEFELL SANCHO ON THE ROAD, AND OTHER THINGS THAT CANNOT BE +SURPASSED + + +The length of time he delayed with Ricote prevented Sancho from reaching +the duke's castle that day, though he was within half a league of it when +night, somewhat dark and cloudy, overtook him. This, however, as it was +summer time, did not give him much uneasiness, and he turned aside out of +the road intending to wait for morning; but his ill luck and hard fate so +willed it that as he was searching about for a place to make himself as +comfortable as possible, he and Dapple fell into a deep dark hole that +lay among some very old buildings. As he fell he commended himself with +all his heart to God, fancying he was not going to stop until he reached +the depths of the bottomless pit; but it did not turn out so, for at +little more than thrice a man's height Dapple touched bottom, and he +found himself sitting on him without having received any hurt or damage +whatever. He felt himself all over and held his breath to try whether he +was quite sound or had a hole made in him anywhere, and finding himself +all right and whole and in perfect health he was profuse in his thanks to +God our Lord for the mercy that had been shown him, for he made sure he +had been broken into a thousand pieces. He also felt along the sides of +the pit with his hands to see if it were possible to get out of it +without help, but he found they were quite smooth and afforded no hold +anywhere, at which he was greatly distressed, especially when he heard +how pathetically and dolefully Dapple was bemoaning himself, and no +wonder he complained, nor was it from ill-temper, for in truth he was not +in a very good case. "Alas," said Sancho, "what unexpected accidents +happen at every step to those who live in this miserable world! Who would +have said that one who saw himself yesterday sitting on a throne, +governor of an island, giving orders to his servants and his vassals, +would see himself to-day buried in a pit without a soul to help him, or +servant or vassal to come to his relief? Here must we perish with hunger, +my ass and myself, if indeed we don't die first, he of his bruises and +injuries, and I of grief and sorrow. At any rate I'll not be as lucky as +my master Don Quixote of La Mancha, when he went down into the cave of +that enchanted Montesinos, where he found people to make more of him than +if he had been in his own house; for it seems he came in for a table laid +out and a bed ready made. There he saw fair and pleasant visions, but +here I'll see, I imagine, toads and adders. Unlucky wretch that I am, +what an end my follies and fancies have come to! They'll take up my bones +out of this, when it is heaven's will that I'm found, picked clean, white +and polished, and my good Dapple's with them, and by that, perhaps, it +will be found out who we are, at least by such as have heard that Sancho +Panza never separated from his ass, nor his ass from Sancho Panza. +Unlucky wretches, I say again, that our hard fate should not let us die +in our own country and among our own people, where if there was no help +for our misfortune, at any rate there would be some one to grieve for it +and to close our eyes as we passed away! O comrade and friend, how ill +have I repaid thy faithful services! Forgive me, and entreat Fortune, as +well as thou canst, to deliver us out of this miserable strait we are +both in; and I promise to put a crown of laurel on thy head, and make +thee look like a poet laureate, and give thee double feeds." + +In this strain did Sancho bewail himself, and his ass listened to him, +but answered him never a word, such was the distress and anguish the poor +beast found himself in. At length, after a night spent in bitter moanings +and lamentations, day came, and by its light Sancho perceived that it was +wholly impossible to escape out of that pit without help, and he fell to +bemoaning his fate and uttering loud shouts to find out if there was +anyone within hearing; but all his shouting was only crying in the +wilderness, for there was not a soul anywhere in the neighbourhood to +hear him, and then at last he gave himself up for dead. Dapple was lying +on his back, and Sancho helped him to his feet, which he was scarcely +able to keep; and then taking a piece of bread out of his alforjas which +had shared their fortunes in the fall, he gave it to the ass, to whom it +was not unwelcome, saying to him as if he understood him, "With bread all +sorrows are less." + +And now he perceived on one side of the pit a hole large enough to admit +a person if he stooped and squeezed himself into a small compass. Sancho +made for it, and entered it by creeping, and found it wide and spacious +on the inside, which he was able to see as a ray of sunlight that +penetrated what might be called the roof showed it all plainly. He +observed too that it opened and widened out into another spacious cavity; +seeing which he made his way back to where the ass was, and with a stone +began to pick away the clay from the hole until in a short time he had +made room for the beast to pass easily, and this accomplished, taking him +by the halter, he proceeded to traverse the cavern to see if there was +any outlet at the other end. He advanced, sometimes in the dark, +sometimes without light, but never without fear; "God Almighty help me!" +said he to himself; "this that is a misadventure to me would make a good +adventure for my master Don Quixote. He would have been sure to take +these depths and dungeons for flowery gardens or the palaces of Galiana, +and would have counted upon issuing out of this darkness and imprisonment +into some blooming meadow; but I, unlucky that I am, hopeless and +spiritless, expect at every step another pit deeper than the first to +open under my feet and swallow me up for good; 'welcome evil, if thou +comest alone.'" + +In this way and with these reflections he seemed to himself to have +travelled rather more than half a league, when at last he perceived a dim +light that looked like daylight and found its way in on one side, showing +that this road, which appeared to him the road to the other world, led to +some opening. + +Here Cide Hamete leaves him, and returns to Don Quixote, who in high +spirits and satisfaction was looking forward to the day fixed for the +battle he was to fight with him who had robbed Dona Rodriguez's daughter +of her honour, for whom he hoped to obtain satisfaction for the wrong and +injury shamefully done to her. It came to pass, then, that having sallied +forth one morning to practise and exercise himself in what he would have +to do in the encounter he expected to find himself engaged in the next +day, as he was putting Rocinante through his paces or pressing him to the +charge, he brought his feet so close to a pit that but for reining him in +tightly it would have been impossible for him to avoid falling into it. +He pulled him up, however, without a fall, and coming a little closer +examined the hole without dismounting; but as he was looking at it he +heard loud cries proceeding from it, and by listening attentively was +able to make out that he who uttered them was saying, "Ho, above there! +is there any Christian that hears me, or any charitable gentleman that +will take pity on a sinner buried alive, on an unfortunate disgoverned +governor?" + +It struck Don Quixote that it was the voice of Sancho Panza he heard, +whereat he was taken aback and amazed, and raising his own voice as much +as he could, he cried out, "Who is below there? Who is that complaining?" + +"Who should be here, or who should complain," was the answer, "but the +forlorn Sancho Panza, for his sins and for his ill-luck governor of the +island of Barataria, squire that was to the famous knight Don Quixote of +La Mancha?" + +When Don Quixote heard this his amazement was redoubled and his +perturbation grew greater than ever, for it suggested itself to his mind +that Sancho must be dead, and that his soul was in torment down there; +and carried away by this idea he exclaimed, "I conjure thee by everything +that as a Catholic Christian I can conjure thee by, tell me who thou art; +and if thou art a soul in torment, tell me what thou wouldst have me do +for thee; for as my profession is to give aid and succour to those that +need it in this world, it will also extend to aiding and succouring the +distressed of the other, who cannot help themselves." + +"In that case," answered the voice, "your worship who speaks to me must +be my master Don Quixote of La Mancha; nay, from the tone of the voice it +is plain it can be nobody else." + +"Don Quixote I am," replied Don Quixote, "he whose profession it is to +aid and succour the living and the dead in their necessities; wherefore +tell me who thou art, for thou art keeping me in suspense; because, if +thou art my squire Sancho Panza, and art dead, since the devils have not +carried thee off, and thou art by God's mercy in purgatory, our holy +mother the Roman Catholic Church has intercessory means sufficient to +release thee from the pains thou art in; and I for my part will plead +with her to that end, so far as my substance will go; without further +delay, therefore, declare thyself, and tell me who thou art." + +"By all that's good," was the answer, "and by the birth of whomsoever +your worship chooses, I swear, Senor Don Quixote of La Mancha, that I am +your squire Sancho Panza, and that I have never died all my life; but +that, having given up my government for reasons that would require more +time to explain, I fell last night into this pit where I am now, and +Dapple is witness and won't let me lie, for more by token he is here with +me." + +Nor was this all; one would have fancied the ass understood what Sancho +said, because that moment he began to bray so loudly that the whole cave +rang again. + +"Famous testimony!" exclaimed Don Quixote; "I know that bray as well as +if I was its mother, and thy voice too, my Sancho. Wait while I go to the +duke's castle, which is close by, and I will bring some one to take thee +out of this pit into which thy sins no doubt have brought thee." + +"Go, your worship," said Sancho, "and come back quick for God's sake; for +I cannot bear being buried alive any longer, and I'm dying of fear." + +Don Quixote left him, and hastened to the castle to tell the duke and +duchess what had happened Sancho, and they were not a little astonished +at it; they could easily understand his having fallen, from the +confirmatory circumstance of the cave which had been in existence there +from time immemorial; but they could not imagine how he had quitted the +government without their receiving any intimation of his coming. To be +brief, they fetched ropes and tackle, as the saying is, and by dint of +many hands and much labour they drew up Dapple and Sancho Panza out of +the darkness into the light of day. A student who saw him remarked, +"That's the way all bad governors should come out of their governments, +as this sinner comes out of the depths of the pit, dead with hunger, +pale, and I suppose without a farthing." + +Sancho overheard him and said, "It is eight or ten days, brother growler, +since I entered upon the government of the island they gave me, and all +that time I never had a bellyful of victuals, no not for an hour; doctors +persecuted me and enemies crushed my bones; nor had I any opportunity of +taking bribes or levying taxes; and if that be the case, as it is, I +don't deserve, I think, to come out in this fashion; but 'man proposes +and God disposes;' and God knows what is best, and what suits each one +best; and 'as the occasion, so the behaviour;' and 'let nobody say "I +won't drink of this water;"' and 'where one thinks there are flitches, +there are no pegs;' God knows my meaning and that's enough; I say no +more, though I could." + +"Be not angry or annoyed at what thou hearest, Sancho," said Don Quixote, +"or there will never be an end of it; keep a safe conscience and let them +say what they like; for trying to stop slanderers' tongues is like trying +to put gates to the open plain. If a governor comes out of his government +rich, they say he has been a thief; and if he comes out poor, that he has +been a noodle and a blockhead." + +"They'll be pretty sure this time," said Sancho, "to set me down for a +fool rather than a thief." + +Thus talking, and surrounded by boys and a crowd of people, they reached +the castle, where in one of the corridors the duke and duchess stood +waiting for them; but Sancho would not go up to see the duke until he had +first put up Dapple in the stable, for he said he had passed a very bad +night in his last quarters; then he went upstairs to see his lord and +lady, and kneeling before them he said, "Because it was your highnesses' +pleasure, not because of any desert of my own, I went to govern your +island of Barataria, which 'I entered naked, and naked I find myself; I +neither lose nor gain.' Whether I have governed well or ill, I have had +witnesses who will say what they think fit. I have answered questions, I +have decided causes, and always dying of hunger, for Doctor Pedro Recio +of Tirteafuera, the island and governor doctor, would have it so. Enemies +attacked us by night and put us in a great quandary, but the people of +the island say they came off safe and victorious by the might of my arm; +and may God give them as much health as there's truth in what they say. +In short, during that time I have weighed the cares and responsibilities +governing brings with it, and by my reckoning I find my shoulders can't +bear them, nor are they a load for my loins or arrows for my quiver; and +so, before the government threw me over I preferred to throw the +government over; and yesterday morning I left the island as I found it, +with the same streets, houses, and roofs it had when I entered it. I +asked no loan of anybody, nor did I try to fill my pocket; and though I +meant to make some useful laws, I made hardly any, as I was afraid they +would not be kept; for in that case it comes to the same thing to make +them or not to make them. I quitted the island, as I said, without any +escort except my ass; I fell into a pit, I pushed on through it, until +this morning by the light of the sun I saw an outlet, but not so easy a +one but that, had not heaven sent me my master Don Quixote, I'd have +stayed there till the end of the world. So now my lord and lady duke and +duchess, here is your governor Sancho Panza, who in the bare ten days he +has held the government has come by the knowledge that he would not give +anything to be governor, not to say of an island, but of the whole world; +and that point being settled, kissing your worships' feet, and imitating +the game of the boys when they say, 'leap thou, and give me one,' I take +a leap out of the government and pass into the service of my master Don +Quixote; for after all, though in it I eat my bread in fear and +trembling, at any rate I take my fill; and for my part, so long as I'm +full, it's all alike to me whether it's with carrots or with partridges." + +Here Sancho brought his long speech to an end, Don Quixote having been +the whole time in dread of his uttering a host of absurdities; and when +he found him leave off with so few, he thanked heaven in his heart. The +duke embraced Sancho and told him he was heartily sorry he had given up +the government so soon, but that he would see that he was provided with +some other post on his estate less onerous and more profitable. The +duchess also embraced him, and gave orders that he should be taken good +care of, as it was plain to see he had been badly treated and worse +bruised. + + + + +CHAPTER LVI. + +OF THE PRODIGIOUS AND UNPARALLELED BATTLE THAT TOOK PLACE BETWEEN DON +QUIXOTE OF LA MANCHA AND THE LACQUEY TOSILOS IN DEFENCE OF THE DAUGHTER +OF DONA RODRIGUEZ + + +The duke and duchess had no reason to regret the joke that had been +played upon Sancho Panza in giving him the government; especially as +their majordomo returned the same day, and gave them a minute account of +almost every word and deed that Sancho uttered or did during the time; +and to wind up with, eloquently described to them the attack upon the +island and Sancho's fright and departure, with which they were not a +little amused. After this the history goes on to say that the day fixed +for the battle arrived, and that the duke, after having repeatedly +instructed his lacquey Tosilos how to deal with Don Quixote so as to +vanquish him without killing or wounding him, gave orders to have the +heads removed from the lances, telling Don Quixote that Christian +charity, on which he plumed himself, could not suffer the battle to be +fought with so much risk and danger to life; and that he must be content +with the offer of a battlefield on his territory (though that was against +the decree of the holy Council, which prohibits all challenges of the +sort) and not push such an arduous venture to its extreme limits. Don +Quixote bade his excellence arrange all matters connected with the affair +as he pleased, as on his part he would obey him in everything. The dread +day, then, having arrived, and the duke having ordered a spacious stand +to be erected facing the court of the castle for the judges of the field +and the appellant duennas, mother and daughter, vast crowds flocked from +all the villages and hamlets of the neighbourhood to see the novel +spectacle of the battle; nobody, dead or alive, in those parts having +ever seen or heard of such a one. + +The first person to enter the-field and the lists was the master of the +ceremonies, who surveyed and paced the whole ground to see that there was +nothing unfair and nothing concealed to make the combatants stumble or +fall; then the duennas entered and seated themselves, enveloped in +mantles covering their eyes, nay even their bosoms, and displaying no +slight emotion as Don Quixote appeared in the lists. Shortly afterwards, +accompanied by several trumpets and mounted on a powerful steed that +threatened to crush the whole place, the great lacquey Tosilos made his +appearance on one side of the courtyard with his visor down and stiffly +cased in a suit of stout shining armour. The horse was a manifest +Frieslander, broad-backed and flea-bitten, and with half a hundred of +wool hanging to each of his fetlocks. The gallant combatant came well +primed by his master the duke as to how he was to bear himself against +the valiant Don Quixote of La Mancha; being warned that he must on no +account slay him, but strive to shirk the first encounter so as to avoid +the risk of killing him, as he was sure to do if he met him full tilt. He +crossed the courtyard at a walk, and coming to where the duennas were +placed stopped to look at her who demanded him for a husband; the marshal +of the field summoned Don Quixote, who had already presented himself in +the courtyard, and standing by the side of Tosilos he addressed the +duennas, and asked them if they consented that Don Quixote of La Mancha +should do battle for their right. They said they did, and that whatever +he should do in that behalf they declared rightly done, final and valid. +By this time the duke and duchess had taken their places in a gallery +commanding the enclosure, which was filled to overflowing with a +multitude of people eager to see this perilous and unparalleled +encounter. The conditions of the combat were that if Don Quixote proved +the victor his antagonist was to marry the daughter of Dona Rodriguez; +but if he should be vanquished his opponent was released from the promise +that was claimed against him and from all obligations to give +satisfaction. The master of the ceremonies apportioned the sun to them, +and stationed them, each on the spot where he was to stand. The drums +beat, the sound of the trumpets filled the air, the earth trembled under +foot, the hearts of the gazing crowd were full of anxiety, some hoping +for a happy issue, some apprehensive of an untoward ending to the affair, +and lastly, Don Quixote, commending himself with all his heart to God our +Lord and to the lady Dulcinea del Toboso, stood waiting for them to give +the necessary signal for the onset. Our lacquey, however, was thinking of +something very different; he only thought of what I am now going to +mention. + +It seems that as he stood contemplating his enemy she struck him as the +most beautiful woman he had ever seen all his life; and the little blind +boy whom in our streets they commonly call Love had no mind to let slip +the chance of triumphing over a lacquey heart, and adding it to the list +of his trophies; and so, stealing gently upon him unseen, he drove a dart +two yards long into the poor lacquey's left side and pierced his heart +through and through; which he was able to do quite at his ease, for Love +is invisible, and comes in and goes out as he likes, without anyone +calling him to account for what he does. Well then, when they gave the +signal for the onset our lacquey was in an ecstasy, musing upon the +beauty of her whom he had already made mistress of his liberty, and so he +paid no attention to the sound of the trumpet, unlike Don Quixote, who +was off the instant he heard it, and, at the highest speed Rocinante was +capable of, set out to meet his enemy, his good squire Sancho shouting +lustily as he saw him start, "God guide thee, cream and flower of +knights-errant! God give thee the victory, for thou hast the right on thy +side!" But though Tosilos saw Don Quixote coming at him he never stirred +a step from the spot where he was posted; and instead of doing so called +loudly to the marshal of the field, to whom when he came up to see what +he wanted he said, "Senor, is not this battle to decide whether I marry +or do not marry that lady?" "Just so," was the answer. "Well then," said +the lacquey, "I feel qualms of conscience, and I should lay a-heavy +burden upon it if I were to proceed any further with the combat; I +therefore declare that I yield myself vanquished, and that I am willing +to marry the lady at once." + +The marshal of the field was lost in astonishment at the words of +Tosilos; and as he was one of those who were privy to the arrangement of +the affair he knew not what to say in reply. Don Quixote pulled up in mid +career when he saw that his enemy was not coming on to the attack. The +duke could not make out the reason why the battle did not go on; but the +marshal of the field hastened to him to let him know what Tosilos said, +and he was amazed and extremely angry at it. In the meantime Tosilos +advanced to where Dona Rodriguez sat and said in a loud voice, "Senora, I +am willing to marry your daughter, and I have no wish to obtain by strife +and fighting what I can obtain in peace and without any risk to my life." + +The valiant Don Quixote heard him, and said, "As that is the case I am +released and absolved from my promise; let them marry by all means, and +as 'God our Lord has given her, may Saint Peter add his blessing.'" + +The duke had now descended to the courtyard of the castle, and going up +to Tosilos he said to him, "Is it true, sir knight, that you yield +yourself vanquished, and that moved by scruples of conscience you wish to +marry this damsel?" + +"It is, senor," replied Tosilos. + +"And he does well," said Sancho, "for what thou hast to give to the +mouse, give to the cat, and it will save thee all trouble." + +Tosilos meanwhile was trying to unlace his helmet, and he begged them to +come to his help at once, as his power of breathing was failing him, and +he could not remain so long shut up in that confined space. They removed +it in all haste, and his lacquey features were revealed to public gaze. +At this sight Dona Rodriguez and her daughter raised a mighty outcry, +exclaiming, "This is a trick! This is a trick! They have put Tosilos, my +lord the duke's lacquey, upon us in place of the real husband. The +justice of God and the king against such trickery, not to say roguery!" + +"Do not distress yourselves, ladies," said Don Quixote; "for this is no +trickery or roguery; or if it is, it is not the duke who is at the bottom +of it, but those wicked enchanters who persecute me, and who, jealous of +my reaping the glory of this victory, have turned your husband's features +into those of this person, who you say is a lacquey of the duke's; take +my advice, and notwithstanding the malice of my enemies marry him, for +beyond a doubt he is the one you wish for a husband." + +When the duke heard this all his anger was near vanishing in a fit of +laughter, and he said, "The things that happen to Senor Don Quixote are +so extraordinary that I am ready to believe this lacquey of mine is not +one; but let us adopt this plan and device; let us put off the marriage +for, say, a fortnight, and let us keep this person about whom we are +uncertain in close confinement, and perhaps in the course of that time he +may return to his original shape; for the spite which the enchanters +entertain against Senor Don Quixote cannot last so long, especially as it +is of so little advantage to them to practise these deceptions and +transformations." + +"Oh, senor," said Sancho, "those scoundrels are well used to changing +whatever concerns my master from one thing into another. A knight that he +overcame some time back, called the Knight of the Mirrors, they turned +into the shape of the bachelor Samson Carrasco of our town and a great +friend of ours; and my lady Dulcinea del Toboso they have turned into a +common country wench; so I suspect this lacquey will have to live and die +a lacquey all the days of his life." + +Here the Rodriguez's daughter exclaimed, "Let him be who he may, this man +that claims me for a wife; I am thankful to him for the same, for I had +rather be the lawful wife of a lacquey than the cheated mistress of a +gentleman; though he who played me false is nothing of the kind." + +To be brief, all the talk and all that had happened ended in Tosilos +being shut up until it was seen how his transformation turned out. All +hailed Don Quixote as victor, but the greater number were vexed and +disappointed at finding that the combatants they had been so anxiously +waiting for had not battered one another to pieces, just as the boys are +disappointed when the man they are waiting to see hanged does not come +out, because the prosecution or the court has pardoned him. The people +dispersed, the duke and Don Quixote returned to the castle, they locked +up Tosilos, Dona Rodriguez and her daughter remained perfectly contented +when they saw that any way the affair must end in marriage, and Tosilos +wanted nothing else. + + + + +CHAPTER LVII. + +WHICH TREATS OF HOW DON QUIXOTE TOOK LEAVE OF THE DUKE, AND OF WHAT +FOLLOWED WITH THE WITTY AND IMPUDENT ALTISIDORA, ONE OF THE DUCHESS'S +DAMSELS + + +Don Quixote now felt it right to quit a life of such idleness as he was +leading in the castle; for he fancied that he was making himself sorely +missed by suffering himself to remain shut up and inactive amid the +countless luxuries and enjoyments his hosts lavished upon him as a +knight, and he felt too that he would have to render a strict account to +heaven of that indolence and seclusion; and so one day he asked the duke +and duchess to grant him permission to take his departure. They gave it, +showing at the same time that they were very sorry he was leaving them. + +The duchess gave his wife's letters to Sancho Panza, who shed tears over +them, saying, "Who would have thought that such grand hopes as the news +of my government bred in my wife Teresa Panza's breast would end in my +going back now to the vagabond adventures of my master Don Quixote of La +Mancha? Still I'm glad to see my Teresa behaved as she ought in sending +the acorns, for if she had not sent them I'd have been sorry, and she'd +have shown herself ungrateful. It is a comfort to me that they can't call +that present a bribe; for I had got the government already when she sent +them, and it's but reasonable that those who have had a good turn done +them should show their gratitude, if it's only with a trifle. After all I +went into the government naked, and I come out of it naked; so I can say +with a safe conscience--and that's no small matter--'naked I was born, +naked I find myself, I neither lose nor gain.'" + +Thus did Sancho soliloquise on the day of their departure, as Don +Quixote, who had the night before taken leave of the duke and duchess, +coming out made his appearance at an early hour in full armour in the +courtyard of the castle. The whole household of the castle were watching +him from the corridors, and the duke and duchess, too, came out to see +him. Sancho was mounted on his Dapple, with his alforjas, valise, and +proven, supremely happy because the duke's majordomo, the same that had +acted the part of the Trifaldi, had given him a little purse with two +hundred gold crowns to meet the necessary expenses of the road, but of +this Don Quixote knew nothing as yet. While all were, as has been said, +observing him, suddenly from among the duennas and handmaidens the +impudent and witty Altisidora lifted up her voice and said in pathetic +tones: + +Give ear, cruel knight; + Draw rein; where's the need +Of spurring the flanks + Of that ill-broken steed? +From what art thou flying? + No dragon I am, +Not even a sheep, + But a tender young lamb. +Thou hast jilted a maiden + As fair to behold +As nymph of Diana + Or Venus of old. + +Bireno, AEneas, what worse shall I call thee? + +Barabbas go with thee! All evil befall thee! + +In thy claws, ruthless robber, + Thou bearest away +The heart of a meek + Loving maid for thy prey, +Three kerchiefs thou stealest, + And garters a pair, +From legs than the whitest + Of marble more fair; +And the sighs that pursue thee + Would burn to the ground +Two thousand Troy Towns, + If so many were found. + +Bireno, AEneas, what worse shall I call thee? + +Barabbas go with thee! All evil befall thee! + +May no bowels of mercy + To Sancho be granted, +And thy Dulcinea + Be left still enchanted, +May thy falsehood to me + Find its punishment in her, +For in my land the just + Often pays for the sinner. +May thy grandest adventures + Discomfitures prove, +May thy joys be all dreams, + And forgotten thy love. + +Bireno, AEneas, what worse shall I call thee? + +Barabbas go with thee! All evil befall thee! + +May thy name be abhorred + For thy conduct to ladies, +From London to England, + From Seville to Cadiz; +May thy cards be unlucky, + Thy hands contain ne'er a +King, seven, or ace + When thou playest primera; +When thy corns are cut + May it be to the quick; +When thy grinders are drawn + May the roots of them stick. + +Bireno, AEneas, what worse shall I call thee? + +Barabbas go with thee! All evil befall thee! + +All the while the unhappy Altisidora was bewailing herself in the above +strain Don Quixote stood staring at her; and without uttering a word in +reply to her he turned round to Sancho and said, "Sancho my friend, I +conjure thee by the life of thy forefathers tell me the truth; say, hast +thou by any chance taken the three kerchiefs and the garters this +love-sick maid speaks of?" + +To this Sancho made answer, "The three kerchiefs I have; but the garters, +as much as 'over the hills of Ubeda.'" + +The duchess was amazed at Altisidora's assurance; she knew that she was +bold, lively, and impudent, but not so much so as to venture to make free +in this fashion; and not being prepared for the joke, her astonishment +was all the greater. The duke had a mind to keep up the sport, so he +said, "It does not seem to me well done in you, sir knight, that after +having received the hospitality that has been offered you in this very +castle, you should have ventured to carry off even three kerchiefs, not +to say my handmaid's garters. It shows a bad heart and does not tally +with your reputation. Restore her garters, or else I defy you to mortal +combat, for I am not afraid of rascally enchanters changing or altering +my features as they changed his who encountered you into those of my +lacquey, Tosilos." + +"God forbid," said Don Quixote, "that I should draw my sword against your +illustrious person from which I have received such great favours. The +kerchiefs I will restore, as Sancho says he has them; as to the garters +that is impossible, for I have not got them, neither has he; and if your +handmaiden here will look in her hiding-places, depend upon it she will +find them. I have never been a thief, my lord duke, nor do I mean to be +so long as I live, if God cease not to have me in his keeping. This +damsel by her own confession speaks as one in love, for which I am not to +blame, and therefore need not ask pardon, either of her or of your +excellence, whom I entreat to have a better opinion of me, and once more +to give me leave to pursue my journey." + +"And may God so prosper it, Senor Don Quixote," said the duchess, "that +we may always hear good news of your exploits; God speed you; for the +longer you stay, the more you inflame the hearts of the damsels who +behold you; and as for this one of mine, I will so chastise her that she +will not transgress again, either with her eyes or with her words." + +"One word and no more, O valiant Don Quixote, I ask you to hear," said +Altisidora, "and that is that I beg your pardon about the theft of the +garters; for by God and upon my soul I have got them on, and I have +fallen into the same blunder as he did who went looking for his ass being +all the while mounted on it." + +"Didn't I say so?" said Sancho. "I'm a likely one to hide thefts! Why if +I wanted to deal in them, opportunities came ready enough to me in my +government." + +Don Quixote bowed his head, and saluted the duke and duchess and all the +bystanders, and wheeling Rocinante round, Sancho following him on Dapple, +he rode out of the castle, shaping his course for Saragossa. + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The History of Don Quixote, Vol. II., +Part 34, by Miguel de Cervantes + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DON QUIXOTE, PART 34 *** + +***** This file should be named 5937.txt or 5937.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/5/9/3/5937/ + +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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