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diff --git a/5938.txt b/5938.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ac9ceca --- /dev/null +++ b/5938.txt @@ -0,0 +1,1122 @@ +The Project Gutenberg EBook of The History of Don Quixote, Vol. II., Part +35, 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 35 + +Author: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra + +Release Date: July 25, 2004 [EBook #5938] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DON QUIXOTE, PART 35 *** + + + + +Produced by David Widger + + + + + + DON QUIXOTE + + Volume II. + + Part 35. + + by Miguel de Cervantes + + + Translated by John Ormsby + + + +CHAPTER LVIII. + +WHICH TELLS HOW ADVENTURES CAME CROWDING ON DON QUIXOTE IN SUCH NUMBERS +THAT THEY GAVE ONE ANOTHER NO BREATHING-TIME + + +When Don Quixote saw himself in open country, free, and relieved from the +attentions of Altisidora, he felt at his ease, and in fresh spirits to +take up the pursuit of chivalry once more; and turning to Sancho he said, +"Freedom, Sancho, is one of the most precious gifts that heaven has +bestowed upon men; no treasures that the earth holds buried or the sea +conceals can compare with it; for freedom, as for honour, life may and +should be ventured; and on the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil +that can fall to the lot of man. I say this, Sancho, because thou hast +seen the good cheer, the abundance we have enjoyed in this castle we are +leaving; well then, amid those dainty banquets and snow-cooled beverages +I felt as though I were undergoing the straits of hunger, because I did +not enjoy them with the same freedom as if they had been mine own; for +the sense of being under an obligation to return benefits and favours +received is a restraint that checks the independence of the spirit. Happy +he, to whom heaven has given a piece of bread for which he is not bound +to give thanks to any but heaven itself!" + +"For all your worship says," said Sancho, "it is not becoming that there +should be no thanks on our part for two hundred gold crowns that the +duke's majordomo has given me in a little purse which I carry next my +heart, like a warming plaster or comforter, to meet any chance calls; for +we shan't always find castles where they'll entertain us; now and then we +may light upon roadside inns where they'll cudgel us." + +In conversation of this sort the knight and squire errant were pursuing +their journey, when, after they had gone a little more than half a +league, they perceived some dozen men dressed like labourers stretched +upon their cloaks on the grass of a green meadow eating their dinner. +They had beside them what seemed to be white sheets concealing some +objects under them, standing upright or lying flat, and arranged at +intervals. Don Quixote approached the diners, and, saluting them +courteously first, he asked them what it was those cloths covered. +"Senor," answered one of the party, "under these cloths are some images +carved in relief intended for a retablo we are putting up in our village; +we carry them covered up that they may not be soiled, and on our +shoulders that they may not be broken." + +"With your good leave," said Don Quixote, "I should like to see them; for +images that are carried so carefully no doubt must be fine ones." + +"I should think they were!" said the other; "let the money they cost +speak for that; for as a matter of fact there is not one of them that +does not stand us in more than fifty ducats; and that your worship may +judge; wait a moment, and you shall see with your own eyes;" and getting +up from his dinner he went and uncovered the first image, which proved to +be one of Saint George on horseback with a serpent writhing at his feet +and the lance thrust down its throat with all that fierceness that is +usually depicted. The whole group was one blaze of gold, as the saying +is. On seeing it Don Quixote said, "That knight was one of the best +knights-errant the army of heaven ever owned; he was called Don Saint +George, and he was moreover a defender of maidens. Let us see this next +one." + +The man uncovered it, and it was seen to be that of Saint Martin on his +horse, dividing his cloak with the beggar. The instant Don Quixote saw it +he said, "This knight too was one of the Christian adventurers, but I +believe he was generous rather than valiant, as thou mayest perceive, +Sancho, by his dividing his cloak with the beggar and giving him half of +it; no doubt it was winter at the time, for otherwise he would have given +him the whole of it, so charitable was he." + +"It was not that, most likely," said Sancho, "but that he held with the +proverb that says, 'For giving and keeping there's need of brains.'" + +Don Quixote laughed, and asked them to take off the next cloth, +underneath which was seen the image of the patron saint of the Spains +seated on horseback, his sword stained with blood, trampling on Moors and +treading heads underfoot; and on seeing it Don Quixote exclaimed, "Ay, +this is a knight, and of the squadrons of Christ! This one is called Don +Saint James the Moorslayer, one of the bravest saints and knights the +world ever had or heaven has now." + +They then raised another cloth which it appeared covered Saint Paul +falling from his horse, with all the details that are usually given in +representations of his conversion. When Don Quixote saw it, rendered in +such lifelike style that one would have said Christ was speaking and Paul +answering, "This," he said, "was in his time the greatest enemy that the +Church of God our Lord had, and the greatest champion it will ever have; +a knight-errant in life, a steadfast saint in death, an untiring labourer +in the Lord's vineyard, a teacher of the Gentiles, whose school was +heaven, and whose instructor and master was Jesus Christ himself." + +There were no more images, so Don Quixote bade them cover them up again, +and said to those who had brought them, "I take it as a happy omen, +brothers, to have seen what I have; for these saints and knights were of +the same profession as myself, which is the calling of arms; only there +is this difference between them and me, that they were saints, and fought +with divine weapons, and I am a sinner and fight with human ones. They +won heaven by force of arms, for heaven suffereth violence; and I, so +far, know not what I have won by dint of my sufferings; but if my +Dulcinea del Toboso were to be released from hers, perhaps with mended +fortunes and a mind restored to itself I might direct my steps in a +better path than I am following at present." + +"May God hear and sin be deaf," said Sancho to this. + +The men were filled with wonder, as well at the figure as at the words of +Don Quixote, though they did not understand one half of what he meant by +them. They finished their dinner, took their images on their backs, and +bidding farewell to Don Quixote resumed their journey. + +Sancho was amazed afresh at the extent of his master's knowledge, as much +as if he had never known him, for it seemed to him that there was no +story or event in the world that he had not at his fingers' ends and +fixed in his memory, and he said to him, "In truth, master mine, if this +that has happened to us to-day is to be called an adventure, it has been +one of the sweetest and pleasantest that have befallen us in the whole +course of our travels; we have come out of it unbelaboured and +undismayed, neither have we drawn sword nor have we smitten the earth +with our bodies, nor have we been left famishing; blessed be God that he +has let me see such a thing with my own eyes!" + +"Thou sayest well, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "but remember all times are +not alike nor do they always run the same way; and these things the +vulgar commonly call omens, which are not based upon any natural reason, +will by him who is wise be esteemed and reckoned happy accidents merely. +One of these believers in omens will get up of a morning, leave his +house, and meet a friar of the order of the blessed Saint Francis, and, +as if he had met a griffin, he will turn about and go home. With another +Mendoza the salt is spilt on his table, and gloom is spilt over his +heart, as if nature was obliged to give warning of coming misfortunes by +means of such trivial things as these. The wise man and the Christian +should not trifle with what it may please heaven to do. Scipio on coming +to Africa stumbled as he leaped on shore; his soldiers took it as a bad +omen; but he, clasping the soil with his arms, exclaimed, 'Thou canst not +escape me, Africa, for I hold thee tight between my arms.' Thus, Sancho, +meeting those images has been to me a most happy occurrence." + +"I can well believe it," said Sancho; "but I wish your worship would tell +me what is the reason that the Spaniards, when they are about to give +battle, in calling on that Saint James the Moorslayer, say 'Santiago and +close Spain!' Is Spain, then, open, so that it is needful to close it; or +what is the meaning of this form?" + +"Thou art very simple, Sancho," said Don Quixote; "God, look you, gave +that great knight of the Red Cross to Spain as her patron saint and +protector, especially in those hard struggles the Spaniards had with the +Moors; and therefore they invoke and call upon him as their defender in +all their battles; and in these he has been many a time seen beating +down, trampling under foot, destroying and slaughtering the Hagarene +squadrons in the sight of all; of which fact I could give thee many +examples recorded in truthful Spanish histories." + +Sancho changed the subject, and said to his master, "I marvel, senor, at +the boldness of Altisidora, the duchess's handmaid; he whom they call +Love must have cruelly pierced and wounded her; they say he is a little +blind urchin who, though blear-eyed, or more properly speaking sightless, +if he aims at a heart, be it ever so small, hits it and pierces it +through and through with his arrows. I have heard it said too that the +arrows of Love are blunted and robbed of their points by maidenly modesty +and reserve; but with this Altisidora it seems they are sharpened rather +than blunted." + +"Bear in mind, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "that love is influenced by no +consideration, recognises no restraints of reason, and is of the same +nature as death, that assails alike the lofty palaces of kings and the +humble cabins of shepherds; and when it takes entire possession of a +heart, the first thing it does is to banish fear and shame from it; and +so without shame Altisidora declared her passion, which excited in my +mind embarrassment rather than commiseration." + +"Notable cruelty!" exclaimed Sancho; "unheard-of ingratitude! I can only +say for myself that the very smallest loving word of hers would have +subdued me and made a slave of me. The devil! What a heart of marble, +what bowels of brass, what a soul of mortar! But I can't imagine what it +is that this damsel saw in your worship that could have conquered and +captivated her so. What gallant figure was it, what bold bearing, what +sprightly grace, what comeliness of feature, which of these things by +itself, or what all together, could have made her fall in love with you? +For indeed and in truth many a time I stop to look at your worship from +the sole of your foot to the topmost hair of your head, and I see more to +frighten one than to make one fall in love; moreover I have heard say +that beauty is the first and main thing that excites love, and as your +worship has none at all, I don't know what the poor creature fell in love +with." + +"Recollect, Sancho," replied Don Quixote, "there are two sorts of beauty, +one of the mind, the other of the body; that of the mind displays and +exhibits itself in intelligence, in modesty, in honourable conduct, in +generosity, in good breeding; and all these qualities are possible and +may exist in an ugly man; and when it is this sort of beauty and not that +of the body that is the attraction, love is apt to spring up suddenly and +violently. I, Sancho, perceive clearly enough that I am not beautiful, +but at the same time I know I am not hideous; and it is enough for an +honest man not to be a monster to be an object of love, if only he +possesses the endowments of mind I have mentioned." + +While engaged in this discourse they were making their way through a wood +that lay beyond the road, when suddenly, without expecting anything of +the kind, Don Quixote found himself caught in some nets of green cord +stretched from one tree to another; and unable to conceive what it could +be, he said to Sancho, "Sancho, it strikes me this affair of these nets +will prove one of the strangest adventures imaginable. May I die if the +enchanters that persecute me are not trying to entangle me in them and +delay my journey, by way of revenge for my obduracy towards Altisidora. +Well then let me tell them that if these nets, instead of being green +cord, were made of the hardest diamonds, or stronger than that wherewith +the jealous god of blacksmiths enmeshed Venus and Mars, I would break +them as easily as if they were made of rushes or cotton threads." But +just as he was about to press forward and break through all, suddenly +from among some trees two shepherdesses of surpassing beauty presented +themselves to his sight--or at least damsels dressed like shepherdesses, +save that their jerkins and sayas were of fine brocade; that is to say, +the sayas were rich farthingales of gold embroidered tabby. Their hair, +that in its golden brightness vied with the beams of the sun itself, fell +loose upon their shoulders and was crowned with garlands twined with +green laurel and red everlasting; and their years to all appearance were +not under fifteen nor above eighteen. + +Such was the spectacle that filled Sancho with amazement, fascinated Don +Quixote, made the sun halt in his course to behold them, and held all +four in a strange silence. One of the shepherdesses, at length, was the +first to speak and said to Don Quixote, "Hold, sir knight, and do not +break these nets; for they are not spread here to do you any harm, but +only for our amusement; and as I know you will ask why they have been put +up, and who we are, I will tell you in a few words. In a village some two +leagues from this, where there are many people of quality and rich +gentlefolk, it was agreed upon by a number of friends and relations to +come with their wives, sons and daughters, neighbours, friends and +kinsmen, and make holiday in this spot, which is one of the pleasantest +in the whole neighbourhood, setting up a new pastoral Arcadia among +ourselves, we maidens dressing ourselves as shepherdesses and the youths +as shepherds. We have prepared two eclogues, one by the famous poet +Garcilasso, the other by the most excellent Camoens, in its own +Portuguese tongue, but we have not as yet acted them. Yesterday was the +first day of our coming here; we have a few of what they say are called +field-tents pitched among the trees on the bank of an ample brook that +fertilises all these meadows; last night we spread these nets in the +trees here to snare the silly little birds that startled by the noise we +make may fly into them. If you please to be our guest, senor, you will be +welcomed heartily and courteously, for here just now neither care nor +sorrow shall enter." + +She held her peace and said no more, and Don Quixote made answer, "Of a +truth, fairest lady, Actaeon when he unexpectedly beheld Diana bathing in +the stream could not have been more fascinated and wonderstruck than I at +the sight of your beauty. I commend your mode of entertainment, and thank +you for the kindness of your invitation; and if I can serve you, you may +command me with full confidence of being obeyed, for my profession is +none other than to show myself grateful, and ready to serve persons of +all conditions, but especially persons of quality such as your appearance +indicates; and if, instead of taking up, as they probably do, but a small +space, these nets took up the whole surface of the globe, I would seek +out new worlds through which to pass, so as not to break them; and that +ye may give some degree of credence to this exaggerated language of mine, +know that it is no less than Don Quixote of La Mancha that makes this +declaration to you, if indeed it be that such a name has reached your +ears." + +"Ah! friend of my soul," instantly exclaimed the other shepherdess, "what +great good fortune has befallen us! Seest thou this gentleman we have +before us? Well then let me tell thee he is the most valiant and the most +devoted and the most courteous gentleman in all the world, unless a +history of his achievements that has been printed and I have read is +telling lies and deceiving us. I will lay a wager that this good fellow +who is with him is one Sancho Panza his squire, whose drolleries none can +equal." + +"That's true," said Sancho; "I am that same droll and squire you speak +of, and this gentleman is my master Don Quixote of La Mancha, the same +that's in the history and that they talk about." + +"Oh, my friend," said the other, "let us entreat him to stay; for it will +give our fathers and brothers infinite pleasure; I too have heard just +what thou hast told me of the valour of the one and the drolleries of the +other; and what is more, of him they say that he is the most constant and +loyal lover that was ever heard of, and that his lady is one Dulcinea del +Toboso, to whom all over Spain the palm of beauty is awarded." + +"And justly awarded," said Don Quixote, "unless, indeed, your unequalled +beauty makes it a matter of doubt. But spare yourselves the trouble, +ladies, of pressing me to stay, for the urgent calls of my profession do +not allow me to take rest under any circumstances." + +At this instant there came up to the spot where the four stood a brother +of one of the two shepherdesses, like them in shepherd costume, and as +richly and gaily dressed as they were. They told him that their companion +was the valiant Don Quixote of La Mancha, and the other Sancho his +squire, of whom he knew already from having read their history. The gay +shepherd offered him his services and begged that he would accompany him +to their tents, and Don Quixote had to give way and comply. And now the +gave was started, and the nets were filled with a variety of birds that +deceived by the colour fell into the danger they were flying from. +Upwards of thirty persons, all gaily attired as shepherds and +shepherdesses, assembled on the spot, and were at once informed who Don +Quixote and his squire were, whereat they were not a little delighted, as +they knew of him already through his history. They repaired to the tents, +where they found tables laid out, and choicely, plentifully, and neatly +furnished. They treated Don Quixote as a person of distinction, giving +him the place of honour, and all observed him, and were full of +astonishment at the spectacle. At last the cloth being removed, Don +Quixote with great composure lifted up his voice and said: + +"One of the greatest sins that men are guilty of is--some will say +pride--but I say ingratitude, going by the common saying that hell is +full of ingrates. This sin, so far as it has lain in my power, I have +endeavoured to avoid ever since I have enjoyed the faculty of reason; and +if I am unable to requite good deeds that have been done me by other +deeds, I substitute the desire to do so; and if that be not enough I make +them known publicly; for he who declares and makes known the good deeds +done to him would repay them by others if it were in his power, and for +the most part those who receive are the inferiors of those who give. +Thus, God is superior to all because he is the supreme giver, and the +offerings of man fall short by an infinite distance of being a full +return for the gifts of God; but gratitude in some degree makes up for +this deficiency and shortcoming. I therefore, grateful for the favour +that has been extended to me here, and unable to make a return in the +same measure, restricted as I am by the narrow limits of my power, offer +what I can and what I have to offer in my own way; and so I declare that +for two full days I will maintain in the middle of this highway leading +to Saragossa, that these ladies disguised as shepherdesses, who are here +present, are the fairest and most courteous maidens in the world, +excepting only the peerless Dulcinea del Toboso, sole mistress of my +thoughts, be it said without offence to those who hear me, ladies and +gentlemen." + +On hearing this Sancho, who had been listening with great attention, +cried out in a loud voice, "Is it possible there is anyone in the world +who will dare to say and swear that this master of mine is a madman? Say, +gentlemen shepherds, is there a village priest, be he ever so wise or +learned, who could say what my master has said; or is there +knight-errant, whatever renown he may have as a man of valour, that could +offer what my master has offered now?" + +Don Quixote turned upon Sancho, and with a countenance glowing with anger +said to him, "Is it possible, Sancho, there is anyone in the whole world +who will say thou art not a fool, with a lining to match, and I know not +what trimmings of impertinence and roguery? Who asked thee to meddle in +my affairs, or to inquire whether I am a wise man or a blockhead? Hold +thy peace; answer me not a word; saddle Rocinante if he be unsaddled; and +let us go to put my offer into execution; for with the right that I have +on my side thou mayest reckon as vanquished all who shall venture to +question it;" and in a great rage, and showing his anger plainly, he rose +from his seat, leaving the company lost in wonder, and making them feel +doubtful whether they ought to regard him as a madman or a rational +being. In the end, though they sought to dissuade him from involving +himself in such a challenge, assuring him they admitted his gratitude as +fully established, and needed no fresh proofs to be convinced of his +valiant spirit, as those related in the history of his exploits were +sufficient, still Don Quixote persisted in his resolve; and mounted on +Rocinante, bracing his buckler on his arm and grasping his lance, he +posted himself in the middle of a high road that was not far from the +green meadow. Sancho followed on Dapple, together with all the members of +the pastoral gathering, eager to see what would be the upshot of his +vainglorious and extraordinary proposal. + +Don Quixote, then, having, as has been said, planted himself in the +middle of the road, made the welkin ring with words to this effect: "Ho +ye travellers and wayfarers, knights, squires, folk on foot or on +horseback, who pass this way or shall pass in the course of the next two +days! Know that Don Quixote of La Mancha, knight-errant, is posted here +to maintain by arms that the beauty and courtesy enshrined in the nymphs +that dwell in these meadows and groves surpass all upon earth, putting +aside the lady of my heart, Dulcinea del Toboso. Wherefore, let him who +is of the opposite opinion come on, for here I await him." + +Twice he repeated the same words, and twice they fell unheard by any +adventurer; but fate, that was guiding affairs for him from better to +better, so ordered it that shortly afterwards there appeared on the road +a crowd of men on horseback, many of them with lances in their hands, all +riding in a compact body and in great haste. No sooner had those who were +with Don Quixote seen them than they turned about and withdrew to some +distance from the road, for they knew that if they stayed some harm might +come to them; but Don Quixote with intrepid heart stood his ground, and +Sancho Panza shielded himself with Rocinante's hind-quarters. The troop +of lancers came up, and one of them who was in advance began shouting to +Don Quixote, "Get out of the way, you son of the devil, or these bulls +will knock you to pieces!" + +"Rabble!" returned Don Quixote, "I care nothing for bulls, be they the +fiercest Jarama breeds on its banks. Confess at once, scoundrels, that +what I have declared is true; else ye have to deal with me in combat." + +The herdsman had no time to reply, nor Don Quixote to get out of the way +even if he wished; and so the drove of fierce bulls and tame bullocks, +together with the crowd of herdsmen and others who were taking them to be +penned up in a village where they were to be run the next day, passed +over Don Quixote and over Sancho, Rocinante and Dapple, hurling them all +to the earth and rolling them over on the ground. Sancho was left +crushed, Don Quixote scared, Dapple belaboured and Rocinante in no very +sound condition. + +They all got up, however, at length, and Don Quixote in great haste, +stumbling here and falling there, started off running after the drove, +shouting out, "Hold! stay! ye rascally rabble, a single knight awaits +you, and he is not of the temper or opinion of those who say, 'For a +flying enemy make a bridge of silver.'" The retreating party in their +haste, however, did not stop for that, or heed his menaces any more than +last year's clouds. Weariness brought Don Quixote to a halt, and more +enraged than avenged he sat down on the road to wait until Sancho, +Rocinante and Dapple came up. When they reached him master and man +mounted once more, and without going back to bid farewell to the mock or +imitation Arcadia, and more in humiliation than contentment, they +continued their journey. + + + + +CHAPTER LIX. + +WHEREIN IS RELATED THE STRANGE THING, WHICH MAY BE REGARDED AS AN +ADVENTURE, THAT HAPPENED DON QUIXOTE + + +A clear limpid spring which they discovered in a cool grove relieved Don +Quixote and Sancho of the dust and fatigue due to the unpolite behaviour +of the bulls, and by the side of this, having turned Dapple and Rocinante +loose without headstall or bridle, the forlorn pair, master and man, +seated themselves. Sancho had recourse to the larder of his alforjas and +took out of them what he called the prog; Don Quixote rinsed his mouth +and bathed his face, by which cooling process his flagging energies were +revived. Out of pure vexation he remained without eating, and out of pure +politeness Sancho did not venture to touch a morsel of what was before +him, but waited for his master to act as taster. Seeing, however, that, +absorbed in thought, he was forgetting to carry the bread to his mouth, +he said never a word, and trampling every sort of good breeding under +foot, began to stow away in his paunch the bread and cheese that came to +his hand. + +"Eat, Sancho my friend," said Don Quixote; "support life, which is of +more consequence to thee than to me, and leave me to die under the pain +of my thoughts and pressure of my misfortunes. I was born, Sancho, to +live dying, and thou to die eating; and to prove the truth of what I say, +look at me, printed in histories, famed in arms, courteous in behaviour, +honoured by princes, courted by maidens; and after all, when I looked +forward to palms, triumphs, and crowns, won and earned by my valiant +deeds, I have this morning seen myself trampled on, kicked, and crushed +by the feet of unclean and filthy animals. This thought blunts my teeth, +paralyses my jaws, cramps my hands, and robs me of all appetite for food; +so much so that I have a mind to let myself die of hunger, the cruelest +death of all deaths." + +"So then," said Sancho, munching hard all the time, "your worship does +not agree with the proverb that says, 'Let Martha die, but let her die +with a full belly.' I, at any rate, have no mind to kill myself; so far +from that, I mean to do as the cobbler does, who stretches the leather +with his teeth until he makes it reach as far as he wants. I'll stretch +out my life by eating until it reaches the end heaven has fixed for it; +and let me tell you, senor, there's no greater folly than to think of +dying of despair as your worship does; take my advice, and after eating +lie down and sleep a bit on this green grass-mattress, and you will see +that when you awake you'll feel something better." + +Don Quixote did as he recommended, for it struck him that Sancho's +reasoning was more like a philosopher's than a blockhead's, and said he, +"Sancho, if thou wilt do for me what I am going to tell thee my ease of +mind would be more assured and my heaviness of heart not so great; and it +is this; to go aside a little while I am sleeping in accordance with thy +advice, and, making bare thy carcase to the air, to give thyself three or +four hundred lashes with Rocinante's reins, on account of the three +thousand and odd thou art to give thyself for the disenchantment of +Dulcinea; for it is a great pity that the poor lady should be left +enchanted through thy carelessness and negligence." + +"There is a good deal to be said on that point," said Sancho; "let us +both go to sleep now, and after that, God has decreed what will happen. +Let me tell your worship that for a man to whip himself in cold blood is +a hard thing, especially if the stripes fall upon an ill-nourished and +worse-fed body. Let my lady Dulcinea have patience, and when she is least +expecting it, she will see me made a riddle of with whipping, and 'until +death it's all life;' I mean that I have still life in me, and the desire +to make good what I have promised." + +Don Quixote thanked him, and ate a little, and Sancho a good deal, and +then they both lay down to sleep, leaving those two inseparable friends +and comrades, Rocinante and Dapple, to their own devices and to feed +unrestrained upon the abundant grass with which the meadow was furnished. +They woke up rather late, mounted once more and resumed their journey, +pushing on to reach an inn which was in sight, apparently a league off. I +say an inn, because Don Quixote called it so, contrary to his usual +practice of calling all inns castles. They reached it, and asked the +landlord if they could put up there. He said yes, with as much comfort +and as good fare as they could find in Saragossa. They dismounted, and +Sancho stowed away his larder in a room of which the landlord gave him +the key. He took the beasts to the stable, fed them, and came back to see +what orders Don Quixote, who was seated on a bench at the door, had for +him, giving special thanks to heaven that this inn had not been taken for +a castle by his master. Supper-time came, and they repaired to their +room, and Sancho asked the landlord what he had to give them for supper. +To this the landlord replied that his mouth should be the measure; he had +only to ask what he would; for that inn was provided with the birds of +the air and the fowls of the earth and the fish of the sea. + +"There's no need of all that," said Sancho; "if they'll roast us a couple +of chickens we'll be satisfied, for my master is delicate and eats +little, and I'm not over and above gluttonous." + +The landlord replied he had no chickens, for the kites had stolen them. + +"Well then," said Sancho, "let senor landlord tell them to roast a +pullet, so that it is a tender one." + +"Pullet! My father!" said the landlord; "indeed and in truth it's only +yesterday I sent over fifty to the city to sell; but saving pullets ask +what you will." + +"In that case," said Sancho, "you will not be without veal or kid." + +"Just now," said the landlord, "there's none in the house, for it's all +finished; but next week there will be enough and to spare." + +"Much good that does us," said Sancho; "I'll lay a bet that all these +short-comings are going to wind up in plenty of bacon and eggs." + +"By God," said the landlord, "my guest's wits must be precious dull; I +tell him I have neither pullets nor hens, and he wants me to have eggs! +Talk of other dainties, if you please, and don't ask for hens again." + +"Body o' me!" said Sancho, "let's settle the matter; say at once what you +have got, and let us have no more words about it." + +"In truth and earnest, senor guest," said the landlord, "all I have is a +couple of cow-heels like calves' feet, or a couple of calves' feet like +cowheels; they are boiled with chick-peas, onions, and bacon, and at this +moment they are crying 'Come eat me, come eat me." + +"I mark them for mine on the spot," said Sancho; "let nobody touch them; +I'll pay better for them than anyone else, for I could not wish for +anything more to my taste; and I don't care a pin whether they are feet +or heels." + +"Nobody shall touch them," said the landlord; "for the other guests I +have, being persons of high quality, bring their own cook and caterer and +larder with them." + +"If you come to people of quality," said Sancho, "there's nobody more so +than my master; but the calling he follows does not allow of larders or +store-rooms; we lay ourselves down in the middle of a meadow, and fill +ourselves with acorns or medlars." + +Here ended Sancho's conversation with the landlord, Sancho not caring to +carry it any farther by answering him; for he had already asked him what +calling or what profession it was his master was of. + +Supper-time having come, then, Don Quixote betook himself to his room, +the landlord brought in the stew-pan just as it was, and he sat himself +down to sup very resolutely. It seems that in another room, which was +next to Don Quixote's, with nothing but a thin partition to separate it, +he overheard these words, "As you live, Senor Don Jeronimo, while they +are bringing supper, let us read another chapter of the Second Part of +'Don Quixote of La Mancha.'" + +The instant Don Quixote heard his own name be started to his feet and +listened with open ears to catch what they said about him, and heard the +Don Jeronimo who had been addressed say in reply, "Why would you have us +read that absurd stuff, Don Juan, when it is impossible for anyone who +has read the First Part of the history of 'Don Quixote of La Mancha' to +take any pleasure in reading this Second Part?" + +"For all that," said he who was addressed as Don Juan, "we shall do well +to read it, for there is no book so bad but it has something good in it. +What displeases me most in it is that it represents Don Quixote as now +cured of his love for Dulcinea del Toboso." + +On hearing this Don Quixote, full of wrath and indignation, lifted up his +voice and said, "Whoever he may be who says that Don Quixote of La Mancha +has forgotten or can forget Dulcinea del Toboso, I will teach him with +equal arms that what he says is very far from the truth; for neither can +the peerless Dulcinea del Toboso be forgotten, nor can forgetfulness have +a place in Don Quixote; his motto is constancy, and his profession to +maintain the same with his life and never wrong it." + +"Who is this that answers us?" said they in the next room. + +"Who should it be," said Sancho, "but Don Quixote of La Mancha himself, +who will make good all he has said and all he will say; for pledges don't +trouble a good payer." + +Sancho had hardly uttered these words when two gentlemen, for such they +seemed to be, entered the room, and one of them, throwing his arms round +Don Quixote's neck, said to him, "Your appearance cannot leave any +question as to your name, nor can your name fail to identify your +appearance; unquestionably, senor, you are the real Don Quixote of La +Mancha, cynosure and morning star of knight-errantry, despite and in +defiance of him who has sought to usurp your name and bring to naught +your achievements, as the author of this book which I here present to you +has done;" and with this he put a book which his companion carried into +the hands of Don Quixote, who took it, and without replying began to run +his eye over it; but he presently returned it saying, "In the little I +have seen I have discovered three things in this author that deserve to +be censured. The first is some words that I have read in the preface; the +next that the language is Aragonese, for sometimes he writes without +articles; and the third, which above all stamps him as ignorant, is that +he goes wrong and departs from the truth in the most important part of +the history, for here he says that my squire Sancho Panza's wife is +called Mari Gutierrez, when she is called nothing of the sort, but Teresa +Panza; and when a man errs on such an important point as this there is +good reason to fear that he is in error on every other point in the +history." + +"A nice sort of historian, indeed!" exclaimed Sancho at this; "he must +know a deal about our affairs when he calls my wife Teresa Panza, Mari +Gutierrez; take the book again, senor, and see if I am in it and if he +has changed my name." + +"From your talk, friend," said Don Jeronimo, "no doubt you are Sancho +Panza, Senor Don Quixote's squire." + +"Yes, I am," said Sancho; "and I'm proud of it." + +"Faith, then," said the gentleman, "this new author does not handle you +with the decency that displays itself in your person; he makes you out a +heavy feeder and a fool, and not in the least droll, and a very different +being from the Sancho described in the First Part of your master's +history." + +"God forgive him," said Sancho; "he might have left me in my corner +without troubling his head about me; 'let him who knows how ring the +bells; 'Saint Peter is very well in Rome.'" + +The two gentlemen pressed Don Quixote to come into their room and have +supper with them, as they knew very well there was nothing in that inn +fit for one of his sort. Don Quixote, who was always polite, yielded to +their request and supped with them. Sancho stayed behind with the stew. +and invested with plenary delegated authority seated himself at the head +of the table, and the landlord sat down with him, for he was no less fond +of cow-heel and calves' feet than Sancho was. + +While at supper Don Juan asked Don Quixote what news he had of the lady +Dulcinea del Toboso, was she married, had she been brought to bed, or was +she with child, or did she in maidenhood, still preserving her modesty +and delicacy, cherish the remembrance of the tender passion of Senor Don +Quixote? + +To this he replied, "Dulcinea is a maiden still, and my passion more +firmly rooted than ever, our intercourse unsatisfactory as before, and +her beauty transformed into that of a foul country wench;" and then he +proceeded to give them a full and particular account of the enchantment +of Dulcinea, and of what had happened him in the cave of Montesinos, +together with what the sage Merlin had prescribed for her disenchantment, +namely the scourging of Sancho. + +Exceedingly great was the amusement the two gentlemen derived from +hearing Don Quixote recount the strange incidents of his history; and if +they were amazed by his absurdities they were equally amazed by the +elegant style in which he delivered them. On the one hand they regarded +him as a man of wit and sense, and on the other he seemed to them a +maundering blockhead, and they could not make up their minds whereabouts +between wisdom and folly they ought to place him. + +Sancho having finished his supper, and left the landlord in the X +condition, repaired to the room where his master was, and as he came in +said, "May I die, sirs, if the author of this book your worships have got +has any mind that we should agree; as he calls me glutton (according to +what your worships say) I wish he may not call me drunkard too." + +"But he does," said Don Jeronimo; "I cannot remember, however, in what +way, though I know his words are offensive, and what is more, lying, as I +can see plainly by the physiognomy of the worthy Sancho before me." + +"Believe me," said Sancho, "the Sancho and the Don Quixote of this +history must be different persons from those that appear in the one Cide +Hamete Benengeli wrote, who are ourselves; my master valiant, wise, and +true in love, and I simple, droll, and neither glutton nor drunkard." + +"I believe it," said Don Juan; "and were it possible, an order should be +issued that no one should have the presumption to deal with anything +relating to Don Quixote, save his original author Cide Hamete; just as +Alexander commanded that no one should presume to paint his portrait save +Apelles." + +"Let him who will paint me," said Don Quixote; "but let him not abuse me; +for patience will often break down when they heap insults upon it." + +"None can be offered to Senor Don Quixote," said Don Juan, "that he +himself will not be able to avenge, if he does not ward it off with the +shield of his patience, which, I take it, is great and strong." + +A considerable portion of the night passed in conversation of this sort, +and though Don Juan wished Don Quixote to read more of the book to see +what it was all about, he was not to be prevailed upon, saying that he +treated it as read and pronounced it utterly silly; and, if by any chance +it should come to its author's ears that he had it in his hand, he did +not want him to flatter himself with the idea that he had read it; for +our thoughts, and still more our eyes, should keep themselves aloof from +what is obscene and filthy. + +They asked him whither he meant to direct his steps. He replied, to +Saragossa, to take part in the harness jousts which were held in that +city every year. Don Juan told him that the new history described how Don +Quixote, let him be who he might, took part there in a tilting at the +ring, utterly devoid of invention, poor in mottoes, very poor in costume, +though rich in sillinesses. + +"For that very reason," said Don Quixote, "I will not set foot in +Saragossa; and by that means I shall expose to the world the lie of this +new history writer, and people will see that I am not the Don Quixote he +speaks of." + +"You will do quite right," said Don Jeronimo; "and there are other jousts +at Barcelona in which Senor Don Quixote may display his prowess." + +"That is what I mean to do," said Don Quixote; "and as it is now time, I +pray your worships to give me leave to retire to bed, and to place and +retain me among the number of your greatest friends and servants." + +"And me too," said Sancho; "maybe I'll be good for something." + +With this they exchanged farewells, and Don Quixote and Sancho retired to +their room, leaving Don Juan and Don Jeronimo amazed to see the medley he +made of his good sense and his craziness; and they felt thoroughly +convinced that these, and not those their Aragonese author described, +were the genuine Don Quixote and Sancho. Don Quixote rose betimes, and +bade adieu to his hosts by knocking at the partition of the other room. +Sancho paid the landlord magnificently, and recommended him either to say +less about the providing of his inn or to keep it better provided. + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The History of Don Quixote, Vol. II., +Part 35, by Miguel de Cervantes + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DON QUIXOTE, PART 35 *** + +***** This file should be named 5938.txt or 5938.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/5/9/3/5938/ + +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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