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+      DON QUIXOTE
+    </h1>
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+
+The Project Gutenberg EBook of The History of Don Quixote, Volume II.,
+Complete, by Miguel de Cervantes
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+Title: The History of Don Quixote, Volume II., Complete
+
+Author: Miguel de Cervantes
+
+Release Date: July 26, 2004 [EBook #5946]
+Last Updated: October 19, 2012
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+Language: English
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+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h1>
+      DON QUIXOTE
+    </h1>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      by Miguel de Cervantes
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      Volume II
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      Translated by John Ormsby
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="bookcover.jpg (230K)" src="images/bookcover.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/bookcover.jpg"><img alt="Full Size"
+      src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="spine.jpg (152K)" src="images/spine.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/spine.jpg"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br />
+      <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      Ebook Editor's Note
+    </h3>
+    <blockquote>
+      <p>
+        The book cover and spine above and the images which follow were not part
+        of the original Ormsby translation&mdash;they are taken from the 1880
+        edition of J. W. Clark, illustrated by Gustave Dore. Clark in his
+        edition states that, "The English text of 'Don Quixote' adopted in this
+        edition is that of Jarvis, with occasional corrections from Motteaux."
+        See in the introduction below John Ormsby's critique of both the Jarvis
+        and Motteaux translations. It has been elected in the present Project
+        Gutenberg edition to attach the famous engravings of Gustave Dore to the
+        Ormsby translation instead of the Jarvis/Motteaux. The detail of many of
+        the Dore engravings can be fully appreciated only by utilizing the
+        "Enlarge" button to expand them to their original dimensions. Ormsby in
+        his Preface has criticized the fanciful nature of Dore's illustrations;
+        others feel these woodcuts and steel engravings well match Quixote's
+        dreams. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;D.W.
+      </p>
+    </blockquote>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p003.jpg (307K)" src="images/p003.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p003.jpg"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br />
+      <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      CONTENTS
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br /><a href="#ch1b">CHAPTER I</a> OF THE INTERVIEW THE CURATE AND
+      THE BARBER HAD WITH DON QUIXOTE ABOUT HIS MALADY <br /><br /><a href="#ch2b">CHAPTER
+      II</a> WHICH TREATS OF THE NOTABLE ALTERCATION WHICH SANCHO PANZA HAD WITH
+      DON QUIXOTE'S NIECE, AND HOUSEKEEPER, TOGETHER WITH OTHER DROLLMATTERS
+      <br /><br /><a href="#ch3b">CHAPTER III</a> OF THE LAUGHABLE CONVERSATION
+      THAT PASSED BETWEEN DON QUIXOTE, SANCHO PANZA, AND THE BACHELOR SAMSON
+      CARRASCO <br /><br /><a href="#ch4b">CHAPTER IV</a> IN WHICH SANCHO PANZA
+      GIVES A SATISFACTORY REPLY TO THE DOUBTS AND QUESTIONS OF THE BACHELOR
+      SAMSON CARRASCO, TOGETHER WITH OTHER MATTERS WORTH KNOWING AND TELLING
+      <br /><br /><a href="#ch5b">CHAPTER V</a> OF THE SHREWD AND DROLL
+      CONVERSATION THAT PASSED BETWEEN SANCHO PANZA AND HIS WIFE TERESA PANZA,
+      AND OTHER MATTERS WORTHY OF BEING DULY RECORDED <br /><br /><a href="#ch6b">CHAPTER
+      VI</a> OF WHAT TOOK PLACE BETWEEN DON QUIXOTE AND HIS NIECE AND
+      HOUSEKEEPER; ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT CHAPTERS IN THE WHOLE HISTORY <br /><br /><a
+      href="#ch7b">CHAPTER VII</a> OF WHAT PASSED BETWEEN DON QUIXOTE AND HIS
+      SQUIRE, TOGETHER WITH OTHER VERY NOTABLE INCIDENTS <br /><br /><a
+      href="#ch8b">CHAPTER VIII</a> WHEREIN IS RELATED WHAT BEFELL DON QUIXOTE
+      ON HIS WAY TO SEE HIS LADY DULCINEA DEL TOBOSO <br /><br /><a href="#ch9b">CHAPTER
+      IX</a> WHEREIN IS RELATED WHAT WILL BE SEEN THERE <br /><br /><a
+      href="#ch10b">CHAPTER X</a> WHEREIN IS RELATED THE CRAFTY DEVICE SANCHO
+      ADOPTED TO ENCHANT THE LADY DULCINEA, AND OTHER INCIDENTS AS LUDICROUS AS
+      THEY ARE TRUE <br /><br /><a href="#ch11b">CHAPTER XI</a> OF THE STRANGE
+      ADVENTURE WHICH THE VALIANT DON QUIXOTE HAD WITH THE CAR OR CART OF "THE
+      CORTES OF DEATH" <br /><br /><a href="#ch12b">CHAPTER XII</a> OF THE STRANGE
+      ADVENTURE WHICH BEFELL THE VALIANT DON QUIXOTE WITH THE BOLD KNIGHT OF THE
+      MIRRORS <br /><br /><a href="#ch13b">CHAPTER XIII</a> IN WHICH IS CONTINUED
+      THE ADVENTURE OF THE KNIGHT OF THE GROVE, TOGETHER WITH THE SENSIBLE,
+      ORIGINAL, AND TRANQUIL COLLOQUY THAT PASSED BETWEEN THE TWO SQUIRES <br /><br /><a
+      href="#ch14b">CHAPTER XIV</a> WHEREIN IS CONTINUED THE ADVENTURE OF THE
+      KNIGHT OF THE GROVE <br /><br /><a href="#ch15b">CHAPTER XV</a> WHEREIN IT
+      IS TOLD AND KNOWN WHO THE KNIGHT OF THE MIRRORS AND HIS SQUIRE WERE <br /><br /><a
+      href="#ch16b">CHAPTER XVI</a> OF WHAT BEFELL DON QUIXOTE WITH A DISCREET
+      GENTLEMAN OF LA MANCHA <br /><br /><a href="#ch17b">CHAPTER XVII</a> WHEREIN
+      IS SHOWN THE FURTHEST AND HIGHEST POINT WHICH THE UNEXAMPLEDCOURAGE OF DON
+      QUIXOTE REACHED OR COULD REACH; TOGETHER WITH THE HAPPILY ACHIEVED
+      ADVENTURE OF THE LIONS <br /><br /><a href="#ch18b">CHAPTER XVIII</a> OF
+      WHAT HAPPENED DON QUIXOTE IN THE CASTLE OR HOUSE OF THE KNIGHT OF THE
+      GREEN GABAN, TOGETHER WITH OTHER MATTERS OUT OF THE COMMON <br /><br /><a
+      href="#ch19b">CHAPTER XIX</a> IN WHICH IS RELATED THE ADVENTURE OF THE
+      ENAMOURED SHEPHERD, TOGETHER WITH OTHER TRULY DROLL INCIDENTS <br /><br /><a
+      href="#ch20b">CHAPTER XX</a> WHEREIN AN ACCOUNT IS GIVEN OF THE WEDDING OF
+      CAMACHO THE RICH, TOGETHER WITH THE INCIDENT OF BASILIO THE POOR <br /><br /><a
+      href="#ch21b">CHAPTER XXI</a> IN WHICH CAMACHO'S WEDDING IS CONTINUED,
+      WITH OTHER DELIGHTFUL INCIDENTS <br /><br /><a href="#ch22b">CHAPTER XXII</a>
+      WHERIN IS RELATED THE GRAND ADVENTURE OF THE CAVE OF MONTESINOS IN THE
+      HEART OF LA MANCHA, WHICH THE VALIANT DON QUIXOTE BROUGHT TO A HAPPY
+      TERMINATION <br /><br /><a href="#ch23b">CHAPTER XXIII</a> OF THE WONDERFUL
+      THINGS THE INCOMPARABLE DON QUIXOTE SAID HE SAW IN THE PROFOUND CAVE OF
+      MONTESINOS, THE IMPOSSIBILITY AND MAGNITUDE OF WHICH CAUSE THIS ADVENTURE
+      TO BE DEEMED APOCRYPHAL <br /><br /><a href="#ch24b">CHAPTER XXIV</a>
+      WHEREIN ARE RELATED A THOUSAND TRIFLING MATTERS, AS TRIVIAL AS THEY ARE
+      NECESSARY TO THE RIGHT UNDERSTANDING OF THIS GREAT HISTORY <br /><br /><a
+      href="#ch25b">CHAPTER XXV</a> WHEREIN IS SET DOWN THE BRAYING ADVENTURE,
+      AND THE DROLL ONE OF THE PUPPET-SHOWMAN, TOGETHER WITH THE MEMORABLE
+      DIVINATIONS OF THE DIVINING APE <br /><br /><a href="#ch26b">CHAPTER XXVI</a>
+      WHEREIN IS CONTINUED THE DROLL ADVENTURE OF THE PUPPET-SHOWMAN, TOGETHER
+      WITH OTHER THINGS IN TRUTH RIGHT GOOD <br /><br /><a href="#ch27b">CHAPTER
+      XXVII</a> WHEREIN IT IS SHOWN WHO MASTER PEDRO AND HIS APE WERE, TOGETHER
+      WITH THE MISHAP DON QUIXOTE HAD IN THE BRAYING ADVENTURE, WHICH HE DID NOT
+      CONCLUDE AS HE WOULD HAVE LIKED OR AS HE HAD EXPECTED <br /><br /><a
+      href="#ch28b">CHAPTER XXVIII</a> OF MATTERS THAT BENENGELI SAYS HE WHO
+      READS THEM WILL KNOW, IF HE READS THEM WITH ATTENTION <br /><br /><a
+      href="#ch29b">CHAPTER XXIX</a> OF THE FAMOUS ADVENTURE OF THE ENCHANTED
+      BARK <br /><br /><a href="#ch30b">CHAPTER XXX</a> OF DON QUIXOTE'S ADVENTURE
+      WITH A FAIR HUNTRESS <br /><br /><a href="#ch31b">CHAPTER XXXI</a> WHICH
+      TREATS OF MANY AND GREAT MATTERS <br /><br /><a href="#ch32b">CHAPTER XXXII</a>
+      OF THE REPLY DON QUIXOTE GAVE HIS CENSURER, WITH OTHER INCIDENTS, GRAVE
+      AND DROLL <br /><br /><a href="#ch33b">CHAPTER XXXIII</a> OF THE DELECTABLE
+      DISCOURSE WHICH THE DUCHESS AND HER DAMSELS HELD WITH SANCHO PANZA, WELL
+      WORTH READING AND NOTING <br /><br /><a href="#ch34b">CHAPTER XXXIV</a>
+      WHICH RELATES HOW THEY LEARNED THE WAY IN WHICH THEY WERE TO DISENCHANT
+      THE PEERLESS DULCINEA DEL TOBOSO, WHICH IS ONE OF THE RAREST ADVENTURES IN
+      THIS BOOK <br /><br /><a href="#ch35b">CHAPTER XXXV</a> WHEREIN IS CONTINUED
+      THE INSTRUCTION GIVEN TO DON QUIXOTE TOUCHING THE DISENCHANTMENT OF
+      DULCINEA, TOGETHER WITH OTHER MARVELLOUS INCIDENTS <br /><br /><a
+      href="#ch36b">CHAPTER XXXVI</a> WHEREIN IS RELATED THE STRANGE AND
+      UNDREAMT-OF ADVENTURE OF THE DISTRESSED DUENNA, ALIAS THE COUNTESS
+      TRIFALDI, TOGETHER WITH A LETTER WHICH SANCHO PANZA WROTE TO HIS WIFE,
+      TERESA PANZA <br /><br /><a href="#ch37b">CHAPTER XXXVII</a> WHEREIN IS
+      CONTINUED THE NOTABLE ADVENTURE OF THE DISTRESSED DUENNA <br /><br /><a
+      href="#ch38b">CHAPTER XXXVIII</a> WHEREIN IS TOLD THE DISTRESSED DUENNA'S
+      TALE OF HER MISFORTUNES <br /><br /><a href="#ch39b">CHAPTER XXXIX</a> IN
+      WHICH THE TRIFALDI CONTINUES HER MARVELLOUS AND MEMORABLE STORY <br /><br /><a
+      href="#ch40b">CHAPTER XL</a> OF MATTERS RELATING AND BELONGING TO THIS
+      ADVENTURE AND TO THIS MEMORABLE HISTORY <br /><br /><a href="#ch41b">CHAPTER
+      XLI</a> OF THE ARRIVAL OF CLAVILENO AND THE END OF THIS PROTRACTED
+      ADVENTURE <br /><br /><a href="#ch42b">CHAPTER XLII</a> OF THE COUNSELS
+      WHICH DON QUIXOTE GAVE SANCHO PANZA BEFORE HE SET OUT TO GOVERN THE
+      ISLAND, TOGETHER WITH OTHER WELL-CONSIDERED MATTERS <br /><br /><a
+      href="#ch43b">CHAPTER XLIII</a> OF THE SECOND SET OF COUNSELS DON QUIXOTE
+      GAVE SANCHO PANZA <br /><br /><a href="#ch44b">CHAPTER XLIV</a> HOW SANCHO
+      PANZA WAS CONDUCTED TO HIS GOVERNMENT, AND OF THE STRANGE ADVENTURE THAT
+      BEFELL DON QUIXOTE IN THE CASTLE <br /><br /><a href="#ch45b">CHAPTER XLV</a>
+      OF HOW THE GREAT SANCHO PANZA TOOK POSSESSION OF HIS ISLAND, AND OF HOW HE
+      MADE A BEGINNING IN GOVERNING <br /><br /><a href="#ch46b">CHAPTER XLVI</a>
+      OF THE TERRIBLE BELL AND CAT FRIGHT THAT DON QUIXOTE GOT IN THE COURSE OF
+      THE ENAMOURED ALTISIDORA'S WOOING <br /><br /><a href="#ch47b">CHAPTER XLVII</a>
+      WHEREIN IS CONTINUED THE ACCOUNT OF HOW SANCHO PANZA CONDUCTED HIMSELF IN
+      HIS GOVERNMENT <br /><br /><a href="#ch48b">CHAPTER XLVIII</a> OF WHAT
+      BEFELL DON QUIXOTE WITH DONA RODRIGUEZ, THE DUCHESS'S DUENNA, TOGETHER
+      WITH OTHER OCCURRENCES WORTHY OF RECORD AND ETERNAL REMEMBRANCE <br /><br /><a
+      href="#ch49b">CHAPTER XLIX</a> OF WHAT HAPPENED SANCHO IN MAKING THE ROUND
+      OF HIS ISLAND <br /><br /><a href="#ch50b">CHAPTER L</a> WHEREIN IS SET
+      FORTH WHO THE ENCHANTERS AND EXECUTIONERS WERE WHO FLOGGED THE DUENNA AND
+      PINCHED DON QUIXOTE, AND ALSO WHAT BEFELL THE PAGE WHO CARRIED THE LETTER
+      TO TERESA PANZA, SANCHO PANZA'S WIFE <br /><br /><a href="#ch51b">CHAPTER LI</a>
+      OF THE PROGRESS OF SANCHO'S GOVERNMENT, AND OTHER SUCH ENTERTAINING
+      MATTERS <br /><br /><a href="#ch52b">CHAPTER LII</a> WHEREIN IS RELATED THE
+      ADVENTURE OF THE SECOND DISTRESSED OR AFFLICTED DUENNA, OTHERWISE CALLED
+      DONA RODRIGUEZ <br /><br /><a href="#ch53b">CHAPTER LIII</a> OF THE
+      TROUBLOUS END AND TERMINATION SANCHO PANZA'S GOVERNMENT CAME TO <br /><br /><a
+      href="#ch54b">CHAPTER LIV</a> WHICH DEALS WITH MATTERS RELATING TO THIS
+      HISTORY AND NO OTHER <br /><br /><a href="#ch55b">CHAPTER LV</a> OF WHAT
+      BEFELL SANCHO ON THE ROAD, AND OTHER THINGS THAT CANNOT BE SURPASSED <br /><br /><a
+      href="#ch56b">CHAPTER LVI</a> 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 <br /><br /><a href="#ch57b">CHAPTER
+      LVII</a> 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 <br /><br /><a href="#ch58b">CHAPTER LVIII</a> WHICH TELLS HOW
+      ADVENTURES CAME CROWDING ON DON QUIXOTE IN SUCH NUMBERS THAT THEY GAVE ONE
+      ANOTHER NO BREATHING-TIME <br /><br /><a href="#ch59b">CHAPTER LIX</a>
+      WHEREIN IS RELATED THE STRANGE THING, WHICH MAY BE REGARDED AS AN
+      ADVENTURE, THAT HAPPENED DON QUIXOTE <br /><br /><a href="#ch60b">CHAPTER LX</a>
+      OF WHAT HAPPENED DON QUIXOTE ON HIS WAY TO BARCELONA <br /><br /><a
+      href="#ch61b">CHAPTER LXI</a> OF WHAT HAPPENED DON QUIXOTE ON ENTERING
+      BARCELONA, TOGETHER WITH OTHER MATTERS THAT PARTAKE OF THE TRUE RATHER
+      THAN OF THE INGENIOUS <br /><br /><a href="#ch62b">CHAPTER LXII</a> WHICH DEALS WITH THE ADVENTURE OF THE ENCHANTED HEAD, TOGETHER WITH OTHER
+      TRIVIAL MATTERS WHICH CANNOT BE LEFT UNTOLD<br /><br /><a href="#ch63b">CHAPTER LXIII</a> OF THE MISHAP THAT BEFELL SANCHO PANZA THROUGH THE VISIT TO THE GALLEYS,
+      AND THE STRANGE ADVENTURE OF THE FAIR MORISCO
+<br /><br /><a href="#ch64b">CHAPTER LXIV</a> TREATING OF THE ADVENTURE WHICH GAVE DON QUIXOTE MORE UNHAPPINESS THAN ALL THAT HAD HITHERTO BEFALLEN HIM
+<br /><br /><a href="#ch65b">CHAPTER
+      LXV</a> WHEREIN IS MADE KNOWN WHO THE KNIGHT OF THE WHITE MOON WAS; LIKEWISE DON
+      GREGORIO'S RELEASE, AND OTHER EVENTS
+<br /><br /><a href="#ch66b">CHAPTER LXVI</a> WHICH TREATS OF WHAT HE WHO READS WILL SEE, OR WHAT HE WHO HAS IT READ TO HIM WILL HEAR<br /><br /><a
+      href="#ch67b">CHAPTER LXVII</a> OF THE RESOLUTION DON QUIXOTE FORMED TO
+      TURN SHEPHERD AND TAKE TO A LIFE IN THE FIELDS WHILE THE YEAR FOR WHICH HE
+      HAD GIVEN HIS WORD WAS RUNNING ITS COURSE; WITH OTHER EVENTS TRULY
+      DELECTABLE AND HAPPY <br /><br /><a href="#ch68b">CHAPTER LXVIII</a> OF THE
+      BRISTLY ADVENTURE THAT BEFELL DON QUIXOTE <br /><br /><a href="#ch69b">CHAPTER
+      LXIX</a> OF THE STRANGEST AND MOST EXTRAORDINARY ADVENTURE THAT BEFELL DON
+      QUIXOTE IN THE WHOLE COURSE OF THIS GREAT HISTORY <br /><br /><a
+      href="#ch70b">CHAPTER LXX</a> WHICH FOLLOWS SIXTY-NINE AND DEALS WITH
+      MATTERS INDISPENSABLE FOR THE CLEAR COMPREHENSION OF THIS HISTORY <br /><br /><a
+      href="#ch71b">CHAPTER LXXI</a> OF WHAT PASSED BETWEEN DON QUIXOTE AND HIS
+      SQUIRE SANCHO ON THE WAY TO THEIR VILLAGE <br /><br /><a href="#ch72b">CHAPTER
+      LXXII</a> OF HOW DON QUIXOTE AND SANCHO REACHED THEIR VILLAGE <br /><br /><a
+      href="#ch73b">CHAPTER LXXIII</a> OF THE OMENS DON QUIXOTE HAD AS HE
+      ENTERED HIS OWN VILLAGE, AND OTHER INCIDENTS THAT EMBELLISH AND GIVE A
+      COLOUR TO THIS GREAT HISTORY <br /><br /><a href="#ch74b">CHAPTER LXXIV</a>
+      OF HOW DON QUIXOTE FELL SICK, AND OF THE WILL HE MADE, AND HOW HE DIED
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h1>
+      DON QUIXOTE
+    </h1>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      Volume II.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      DEDICATION OF VOLUME II.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      TO THE COUNT OF LEMOS:
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      These days past, when sending Your Excellency my plays, that had appeared
+      in print before being shown on the stage, I said, if I remember well, that
+      Don Quixote was putting on his spurs to go and render homage to Your
+      Excellency. Now I say that "with his spurs, he is on his way." Should he
+      reach destination methinks I shall have rendered some service to Your
+      Excellency, as from many parts I am urged to send him off, so as to dispel
+      the loathing and disgust caused by another Don Quixote who, under the name
+      of Second Part, has run masquerading through the whole world. And he who
+      has shown the greatest longing for him has been the great Emperor of
+      China, who wrote me a letter in Chinese a month ago and sent it by a
+      special courier. He asked me, or to be truthful, he begged me to send him
+      Don Quixote, for he intended to found a college where the Spanish tongue
+      would be taught, and it was his wish that the book to be read should be
+      the History of Don Quixote. He also added that I should go and be the
+      rector of this college. I asked the bearer if His Majesty had afforded a
+      sum in aid of my travel expenses. He answered, "No, not even in thought."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Then, brother," I replied, "you can return to your China, post haste or
+      at whatever haste you are bound to go, as I am not fit for so long a
+      travel and, besides being ill, I am very much without money, while Emperor
+      for Emperor and Monarch for Monarch, I have at Naples the great Count of
+      Lemos, who, without so many petty titles of colleges and rectorships,
+      sustains me, protects me and does me more favour than I can wish for."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Thus I gave him his leave and I beg mine from you, offering Your
+      Excellency the "Trabajos de Persiles y Sigismunda," a book I shall finish
+      within four months, Deo volente, and which will be either the worst or the
+      best that has been composed in our language, I mean of those intended for
+      entertainment; at which I repent of having called it the worst, for, in
+      the opinion of friends, it is bound to attain the summit of possible
+      quality. May Your Excellency return in such health that is wished you;
+      Persiles will be ready to kiss your hand and I your feet, being as I am,
+      Your Excellency's most humble servant.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      From Madrid, this last day of October of the year one thousand six hundred
+      and fifteen.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      At the service of Your Excellency:
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      THE AUTHOR'S PREFACE
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="part2" id="part2"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="part2.jpg (130K)" src="images/part2.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/part2.jpg"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br />
+      <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      God bless me, gentle (or it may be plebeian) reader, how eagerly must thou
+      be looking forward to this preface, expecting to find there retaliation,
+      scolding, and abuse against the author of the second Don Quixote&mdash;I
+      mean him who was, they say, begotten at Tordesillas and born at Tarragona!
+      Well then, the truth is, I am not going to give thee that satisfaction;
+      for, though injuries stir up anger in humbler breasts, in mine the rule
+      must admit of an exception. Thou wouldst have me call him ass, fool, and
+      malapert, but I have no such intention; let his offence be his punishment,
+      with his bread let him eat it, and there's an end of it. What I cannot
+      help taking amiss is that he charges me with being old and one-handed, as
+      if it had been in my power to keep time from passing over me, or as if the
+      loss of my hand had been brought about in some tavern, and not on the
+      grandest occasion the past or present has seen, or the future can hope to
+      see. If my wounds have no beauty to the beholder's eye, they are, at
+      least, honourable in the estimation of those who know where they were
+      received; for the soldier shows to greater advantage dead in battle than
+      alive in flight; and so strongly is this my feeling, that if now it were
+      proposed to perform an impossibility for me, I would rather have had my
+      share in that mighty action, than be free from my wounds this minute
+      without having been present at it. Those the soldier shows on his face and
+      breast are stars that direct others to the heaven of honour and ambition
+      of merited praise; and moreover it is to be observed that it is not with
+      grey hairs that one writes, but with the understanding, and that commonly
+      improves with years. I take it amiss, too, that he calls me envious, and
+      explains to me, as if I were ignorant, what envy is; for really and truly,
+      of the two kinds there are, I only know that which is holy, noble, and
+      high-minded; and if that be so, as it is, I am not likely to attack a
+      priest, above all if, in addition, he holds the rank of familiar of the
+      Holy Office. And if he said what he did on account of him on whose behalf
+      it seems he spoke, he is entirely mistaken; for I worship the genius of
+      that person, and admire his works and his unceasing and strenuous
+      industry. After all, I am grateful to this gentleman, the author, for
+      saying that my novels are more satirical than exemplary, but that they are
+      good; for they could not be that unless there was a little of everything
+      in them.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      I suspect thou wilt say that I am taking a very humble line, and keeping
+      myself too much within the bounds of my moderation, from a feeling that
+      additional suffering should not be inflicted upon a sufferer, and that
+      what this gentleman has to endure must doubtless be very great, as he does
+      not dare to come out into the open field and broad daylight, but hides his
+      name and disguises his country as if he had been guilty of some lese
+      majesty. If perchance thou shouldst come to know him, tell him from me
+      that I do not hold myself aggrieved; for I know well what the temptations
+      of the devil are, and that one of the greatest is putting it into a man's
+      head that he can write and print a book by which he will get as much fame
+      as money, and as much money as fame; and to prove it I will beg of you, in
+      your own sprightly, pleasant way, to tell him this story.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      There was a madman in Seville who took to one of the drollest absurdities
+      and vagaries that ever madman in the world gave way to. It was this: he
+      made a tube of reed sharp at one end, and catching a dog in the street, or
+      wherever it might be, he with his foot held one of its legs fast, and with
+      his hand lifted up the other, and as best he could fixed the tube where,
+      by blowing, he made the dog as round as a ball; then holding it in this
+      position, he gave it a couple of slaps on the belly, and let it go, saying
+      to the bystanders (and there were always plenty of them): "Do your
+      worships think, now, that it is an easy thing to blow up a dog?"&mdash;Does
+      your worship think now, that it is an easy thing to write a book?
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      And if this story does not suit him, you may, dear reader, tell him this
+      one, which is likewise of a madman and a dog.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      In Cordova there was another madman, whose way it was to carry a piece of
+      marble slab or a stone, not of the lightest, on his head, and when he came
+      upon any unwary dog he used to draw close to him and let the weight fall
+      right on top of him; on which the dog in a rage, barking and howling,
+      would run three streets without stopping. It so happened, however, that
+      one of the dogs he discharged his load upon was a cap-maker's dog, of
+      which his master was very fond. The stone came down hitting it on the
+      head, the dog raised a yell at the blow, the master saw the affair and was
+      wroth, and snatching up a measuring-yard rushed out at the madman and did
+      not leave a sound bone in his body, and at every stroke he gave him he
+      said, "You dog, you thief! my lurcher! Don't you see, you brute, that my
+      dog is a lurcher?" and so, repeating the word "lurcher" again and again,
+      he sent the madman away beaten to a jelly. The madman took the lesson to
+      heart, and vanished, and for more than a month never once showed himself
+      in public; but after that he came out again with his old trick and a
+      heavier load than ever. He came up to where there was a dog, and examining
+      it very carefully without venturing to let the stone fall, he said: "This
+      is a lurcher; ware!" In short, all the dogs he came across, be they
+      mastiffs or terriers, he said were lurchers; and he discharged no more
+      stones. Maybe it will be the same with this historian; that he will not
+      venture another time to discharge the weight of his wit in books, which,
+      being bad, are harder than stones. Tell him, too, that I do not care a
+      farthing for the threat he holds out to me of depriving me of my profit by
+      means of his book; for, to borrow from the famous interlude of "The
+      Perendenga," I say in answer to him, "Long life to my lord the
+      Veintiquatro, and Christ be with us all." Long life to the great Conde de
+      Lemos, whose Christian charity and well-known generosity support me
+      against all the strokes of my curst fortune; and long life to the supreme
+      benevolence of His Eminence of Toledo, Don Bernardo de Sandoval y Rojas;
+      and what matter if there be no printing-presses in the world, or if they
+      print more books against me than there are letters in the verses of Mingo
+      Revulgo! These two princes, unsought by any adulation or flattery of mine,
+      of their own goodness alone, have taken it upon them to show me kindness
+      and protect me, and in this I consider myself happier and richer than if
+      Fortune had raised me to her greatest height in the ordinary way. The poor
+      man may retain honour, but not the vicious; poverty may cast a cloud over
+      nobility, but cannot hide it altogether; and as virtue of itself sheds a
+      certain light, even though it be through the straits and chinks of penury,
+      it wins the esteem of lofty and noble spirits, and in consequence their
+      protection. Thou needst say no more to him, nor will I say anything more
+      to thee, save to tell thee to bear in mind that this Second Part of "Don
+      Quixote" which I offer thee is cut by the same craftsman and from the same
+      cloth as the First, and that in it I present thee Don Quixote continued,
+      and at length dead and buried, so that no one may dare to bring forward
+      any further evidence against him, for that already produced is sufficient;
+      and suffice it, too, that some reputable person should have given an
+      account of all these shrewd lunacies of his without going into the matter
+      again; for abundance, even of good things, prevents them from being
+      valued; and scarcity, even in the case of what is bad, confers a certain
+      value. I was forgetting to tell thee that thou mayest expect the
+      "Persiles," which I am now finishing, and also the Second Part of
+      "Galatea."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="part2e" id="part2e"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="part2e.jpg (37K)" src="images/part2e.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      <a name="ch1b" id="ch1b"></a>CHAPTER I.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      OF THE INTERVIEW THE CURATE AND THE BARBER HAD WITH DON QUIXOTE ABOUT HIS
+      MALADY
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <a name="p01a" id="p01a"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p01a.jpg (156K)" src="images/p01a.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p01a.jpg"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br />
+      <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Cide Hamete Benengeli, in the Second Part of this history, and third sally
+      of Don Quixote, says that the curate and the barber remained nearly a
+      month without seeing him, lest they should recall or bring back to his
+      recollection what had taken place. They did not, however, omit to visit
+      his niece and housekeeper, and charge them to be careful to treat him with
+      attention, and give him comforting things to eat, and such as were good
+      for the heart and the brain, whence, it was plain to see, all his
+      misfortune proceeded. The niece and housekeeper replied that they did so,
+      and meant to do so with all possible care and assiduity, for they could
+      perceive that their master was now and then beginning to show signs of
+      being in his right mind. This gave great satisfaction to the curate and
+      the barber, for they concluded they had taken the right course in carrying
+      him off enchanted on the ox-cart, as has been described in the First Part
+      of this great as well as accurate history, in the last chapter thereof. So
+      they resolved to pay him a visit and test the improvement in his
+      condition, although they thought it almost impossible that there could be
+      any; and they agreed not to touch upon any point connected with
+      knight-errantry so as not to run the risk of reopening wounds which were
+      still so tender.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      They came to see him consequently, and found him sitting up in bed in a
+      green baize waistcoat and a red Toledo cap, and so withered and dried up
+      that he looked as if he had been turned into a mummy. They were very
+      cordially received by him; they asked him after his health, and he talked
+      to them about himself very naturally and in very well-chosen language. In
+      the course of their conversation they fell to discussing what they call
+      State-craft and systems of government, correcting this abuse and
+      condemning that, reforming one practice and abolishing another, each of
+      the three setting up for a new legislator, a modern Lycurgus, or a
+      brand-new Solon; and so completely did they remodel the State, that they
+      seemed to have thrust it into a furnace and taken out something quite
+      different from what they had put in; and on all the subjects they dealt
+      with, Don Quixote spoke with such good sense that the pair of examiners
+      were fully convinced that he was quite recovered and in his full senses.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The niece and housekeeper were present at the conversation and could not
+      find words enough to express their thanks to God at seeing their master so
+      clear in his mind; the curate, however, changing his original plan, which
+      was to avoid touching upon matters of chivalry, resolved to test Don
+      Quixote's recovery thoroughly, and see whether it were genuine or not; and
+      so, from one subject to another, he came at last to talk of the news that
+      had come from the capital, and, among other things, he said it was
+      considered certain that the Turk was coming down with a powerful fleet,
+      and that no one knew what his purpose was, or when the great storm would
+      burst; and that all Christendom was in apprehension of this, which almost
+      every year calls us to arms, and that his Majesty had made provision for
+      the security of the coasts of Naples and Sicily and the island of Malta.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      To this Don Quixote replied, "His Majesty has acted like a prudent warrior
+      in providing for the safety of his realms in time, so that the enemy may
+      not find him unprepared; but if my advice were taken I would recommend him
+      to adopt a measure which at present, no doubt, his Majesty is very far
+      from thinking of."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The moment the curate heard this he said to himself, "God keep thee in his
+      hand, poor Don Quixote, for it seems to me thou art precipitating thyself
+      from the height of thy madness into the profound abyss of thy simplicity."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      But the barber, who had the same suspicion as the curate, asked Don
+      Quixote what would be his advice as to the measures that he said ought to
+      be adopted; for perhaps it might prove to be one that would have to be
+      added to the list of the many impertinent suggestions that people were in
+      the habit of offering to princes.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Mine, master shaver," said Don Quixote, "will not be impertinent, but, on
+      the contrary, pertinent."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I don't mean that," said the barber, "but that experience has shown that
+      all or most of the expedients which are proposed to his Majesty are either
+      impossible, or absurd, or injurious to the King and to the kingdom."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Mine, however," replied Don Quixote, "is neither impossible nor absurd,
+      but the easiest, the most reasonable, the readiest and most expeditious
+      that could suggest itself to any projector's mind."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "You take a long time to tell it, Senor Don Quixote," said the curate.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I don't choose to tell it here, now," said Don Quixote, "and have it
+      reach the ears of the lords of the council to-morrow morning, and some
+      other carry off the thanks and rewards of my trouble."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "For my part," said the barber, "I give my word here and before God that I
+      will not repeat what your worship says, to King, Rook or earthly man&mdash;an
+      oath I learned from the ballad of the curate, who, in the prelude, told
+      the king of the thief who had robbed him of the hundred gold crowns and
+      his pacing mule."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I am not versed in stories," said Don Quixote; "but I know the oath is a
+      good one, because I know the barber to be an honest fellow."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Even if he were not," said the curate, "I will go bail and answer for him
+      that in this matter he will be as silent as a dummy, under pain of paying
+      any penalty that may be pronounced."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "And who will be security for you, senor curate?" said Don Quixote.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "My profession," replied the curate, "which is to keep secrets."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Ods body!" said Don Quixote at this, "what more has his Majesty to do but
+      to command, by public proclamation, all the knights-errant that are
+      scattered over Spain to assemble on a fixed day in the capital, for even
+      if no more than half a dozen come, there may be one among them who alone
+      will suffice to destroy the entire might of the Turk. Give me your
+      attention and follow me. Is it, pray, any new thing for a single
+      knight-errant to demolish an army of two hundred thousand men, as if they
+      all had but one throat or were made of sugar paste? Nay, tell me, how many
+      histories are there filled with these marvels? If only (in an evil hour
+      for me: I don't speak for anyone else) the famous Don Belianis were alive
+      now, or any one of the innumerable progeny of Amadis of Gaul! If any these
+      were alive today, and were to come face to face with the Turk, by my
+      faith, I would not give much for the Turk's chance. But God will have
+      regard for his people, and will provide some one, who, if not so valiant
+      as the knights-errant of yore, at least will not be inferior to them in
+      spirit; but God knows what I mean, and I say no more."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Alas!" exclaimed the niece at this, "may I die if my master does not want
+      to turn knight-errant again;" to which Don Quixote replied, "A
+      knight-errant I shall die, and let the Turk come down or go up when he
+      likes, and in as strong force as he can, once more I say, God knows what I
+      mean." But here the barber said, "I ask your worships to give me leave to
+      tell a short story of something that happened in Seville, which comes so
+      pat to the purpose just now that I should like greatly to tell it." Don
+      Quixote gave him leave, and the rest prepared to listen, and he began
+      thus:
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "In the madhouse at Seville there was a man whom his relations had placed
+      there as being out of his mind. He was a graduate of Osuna in canon law;
+      but even if he had been of Salamanca, it was the opinion of most people
+      that he would have been mad all the same. This graduate, after some years
+      of confinement, took it into his head that he was sane and in his full
+      senses, and under this impression wrote to the Archbishop, entreating him
+      earnestly, and in very correct language, to have him released from the
+      misery in which he was living; for by God's mercy he had now recovered his
+      lost reason, though his relations, in order to enjoy his property, kept
+      him there, and, in spite of the truth, would make him out to be mad until
+      his dying day. The Archbishop, moved by repeated sensible, well-written
+      letters, directed one of his chaplains to make inquiry of the madhouse as
+      to the truth of the licentiate's statements, and to have an interview with
+      the madman himself, and, if it should appear that he was in his senses, to
+      take him out and restore him to liberty. The chaplain did so, and the
+      governor assured him that the man was still mad, and that though he often
+      spoke like a highly intelligent person, he would in the end break out into
+      nonsense that in quantity and quality counterbalanced all the sensible
+      things he had said before, as might be easily tested by talking to him.
+      The chaplain resolved to try the experiment, and obtaining access to the
+      madman conversed with him for an hour or more, during the whole of which
+      time he never uttered a word that was incoherent or absurd, but, on the
+      contrary, spoke so rationally that the chaplain was compelled to believe
+      him to be sane. Among other things, he said the governor was against him,
+      not to lose the presents his relations made him for reporting him still
+      mad but with lucid intervals; and that the worst foe he had in his
+      misfortune was his large property; for in order to enjoy it his enemies
+      disparaged and threw doubts upon the mercy our Lord had shown him in
+      turning him from a brute beast into a man. In short, he spoke in such a
+      way that he cast suspicion on the governor, and made his relations appear
+      covetous and heartless, and himself so rational that the chaplain
+      determined to take him away with him that the Archbishop might see him,
+      and ascertain for himself the truth of the matter. Yielding to this
+      conviction, the worthy chaplain begged the governor to have the clothes in
+      which the licentiate had entered the house given to him. The governor
+      again bade him beware of what he was doing, as the licentiate was beyond a
+      doubt still mad; but all his cautions and warnings were unavailing to
+      dissuade the chaplain from taking him away. The governor, seeing that it
+      was the order of the Archbishop, obeyed, and they dressed the licentiate
+      in his own clothes, which were new and decent. He, as soon as he saw
+      himself clothed like one in his senses, and divested of the appearance of
+      a madman, entreated the chaplain to permit him in charity to go and take
+      leave of his comrades the madmen. The chaplain said he would go with him
+      to see what madmen there were in the house; so they went upstairs, and
+      with them some of those who were present. Approaching a cage in which
+      there was a furious madman, though just at that moment calm and quiet, the
+      licentiate said to him, 'Brother, think if you have any commands for me,
+      for I am going home, as God has been pleased, in his infinite goodness and
+      mercy, without any merit of mine, to restore me my reason. I am now cured
+      and in my senses, for with God's power nothing is impossible. Have strong
+      hope and trust in him, for as he has restored me to my original condition,
+      so likewise he will restore you if you trust in him. I will take care to
+      send you some good things to eat; and be sure you eat them; for I would
+      have you know I am convinced, as one who has gone through it, that all
+      this madness of ours comes of having the stomach empty and the brains full
+      of wind. Take courage! take courage! for despondency in misfortune breaks
+      down health and brings on death.'
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "To all these words of the licentiate another madman in a cage opposite
+      that of the furious one was listening; and raising himself up from an old
+      mat on which he lay stark naked, he asked in a loud voice who it was that
+      was going away cured and in his senses. The licentiate answered, 'It is I,
+      brother, who am going; I have now no need to remain here any longer, for
+      which I return infinite thanks to Heaven that has had so great mercy upon
+      me.'
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "'Mind what you are saying, licentiate; don't let the devil deceive you,'
+      replied the madman. 'Keep quiet, stay where you are, and you will save
+      yourself the trouble of coming back.'
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "'I know I am cured,' returned the licentiate, 'and that I shall not have
+      to go stations again.'
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "'You cured!' said the madman; 'well, we shall see; God be with you; but I
+      swear to you by Jupiter, whose majesty I represent on earth, that for this
+      crime alone, which Seville is committing to-day in releasing you from this
+      house, and treating you as if you were in your senses, I shall have to
+      inflict such a punishment on it as will be remembered for ages and ages,
+      amen. Dost thou not know, thou miserable little licentiate, that I can do
+      it, being, as I say, Jupiter the Thunderer, who hold in my hands the fiery
+      bolts with which I am able and am wont to threaten and lay waste the
+      world? But in one way only will I punish this ignorant town, and that is
+      by not raining upon it, nor on any part of its district or territory, for
+      three whole years, to be reckoned from the day and moment when this threat
+      is pronounced. Thou free, thou cured, thou in thy senses! and I mad, I
+      disordered, I bound! I will as soon think of sending rain as of hanging
+      myself.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Those present stood listening to the words and exclamations of the
+      madman; but our licentiate, turning to the chaplain and seizing him by the
+      hands, said to him, 'Be not uneasy, senor; attach no importance to what
+      this madman has said; for if he is Jupiter and will not send rain, I, who
+      am Neptune, the father and god of the waters, will rain as often as it
+      pleases me and may be needful.'
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "The governor and the bystanders laughed, and at their laughter the
+      chaplain was half ashamed, and he replied, 'For all that, Senor Neptune,
+      it will not do to vex Senor Jupiter; remain where you are, and some other
+      day, when there is a better opportunity and more time, we will come back
+      for you.' So they stripped the licentiate, and he was left where he was;
+      and that's the end of the story."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "So that's the story, master barber," said Don Quixote, "which came in so
+      pat to the purpose that you could not help telling it? Master shaver,
+      master shaver! how blind is he who cannot see through a sieve. Is it
+      possible that you do not know that comparisons of wit with wit, valour
+      with valour, beauty with beauty, birth with birth, are always odious and
+      unwelcome? I, master barber, am not Neptune, the god of the waters, nor do
+      I try to make anyone take me for an astute man, for I am not one. My only
+      endeavour is to convince the world of the mistake it makes in not reviving
+      in itself the happy time when the order of knight-errantry was in the
+      field. But our depraved age does not deserve to enjoy such a blessing as
+      those ages enjoyed when knights-errant took upon their shoulders the
+      defence of kingdoms, the protection of damsels, the succour of orphans and
+      minors, the chastisement of the proud, and the recompense of the humble.
+      With the knights of these days, for the most part, it is the damask,
+      brocade, and rich stuffs they wear, that rustle as they go, not the chain
+      mail of their armour; no knight now-a-days sleeps in the open field
+      exposed to the inclemency of heaven, and in full panoply from head to
+      foot; no one now takes a nap, as they call it, without drawing his feet
+      out of the stirrups, and leaning upon his lance, as the knights-errant
+      used to do; no one now, issuing from the wood, penetrates yonder
+      mountains, and then treads the barren, lonely shore of the sea&mdash;mostly
+      a tempestuous and stormy one&mdash;and finding on the beach a little bark
+      without oars, sail, mast, or tackling of any kind, in the intrepidity of
+      his heart flings himself into it and commits himself to the wrathful
+      billows of the deep sea, that one moment lift him up to heaven and the
+      next plunge him into the depths; and opposing his breast to the
+      irresistible gale, finds himself, when he least expects it, three thousand
+      leagues and more away from the place where he embarked; and leaping ashore
+      in a remote and unknown land has adventures that deserve to be written,
+      not on parchment, but on brass. But now sloth triumphs over energy,
+      indolence over exertion, vice over virtue, arrogance over courage, and
+      theory over practice in arms, which flourished and shone only in the
+      golden ages and in knights-errant. For tell me, who was more virtuous and
+      more valiant than the famous Amadis of Gaul? Who more discreet than
+      Palmerin of England? Who more gracious and easy than Tirante el Blanco?
+      Who more courtly than Lisuarte of Greece? Who more slashed or slashing
+      than Don Belianis? Who more intrepid than Perion of Gaul? Who more ready
+      to face danger than Felixmarte of Hircania? Who more sincere than
+      Esplandian? Who more impetuous than Don Cirongilio of Thrace? Who more
+      bold than Rodamonte? Who more prudent than King Sobrino? Who more daring
+      than Reinaldos? Who more invincible than Roland? and who more gallant and
+      courteous than Ruggiero, from whom the dukes of Ferrara of the present day
+      are descended, according to Turpin in his 'Cosmography.' All these
+      knights, and many more that I could name, senor curate, were
+      knights-errant, the light and glory of chivalry. These, or such as these,
+      I would have to carry out my plan, and in that case his Majesty would find
+      himself well served and would save great expense, and the Turk would be
+      left tearing his beard. And so I will stay where I am, as the chaplain
+      does not take me away; and if Jupiter, as the barber has told us, will not
+      send rain, here am I, and I will rain when I please. I say this that
+      Master Basin may know that I understand him."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Indeed, Senor Don Quixote," said the barber, "I did not mean it in that
+      way, and, so help me God, my intention was good, and your worship ought
+      not to be vexed."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "As to whether I ought to be vexed or not," returned Don Quixote, "I
+      myself am the best judge."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Hereupon the curate observed, "I have hardly said a word as yet; and I
+      would gladly be relieved of a doubt, arising from what Don Quixote has
+      said, that worries and works my conscience."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "The senor curate has leave for more than that," returned Don Quixote, "so
+      he may declare his doubt, for it is not pleasant to have a doubt on one's
+      conscience."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Well then, with that permission," said the curate, "I say my doubt is
+      that, all I can do, I cannot persuade myself that the whole pack of
+      knights-errant you, Senor Don Quixote, have mentioned, were really and
+      truly persons of flesh and blood, that ever lived in the world; on the
+      contrary, I suspect it to be all fiction, fable, and falsehood, and dreams
+      told by men awakened from sleep, or rather still half asleep."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "That is another mistake," replied Don Quixote, "into which many have
+      fallen who do not believe that there ever were such knights in the world,
+      and I have often, with divers people and on divers occasions, tried to
+      expose this almost universal error to the light of truth. Sometimes I have
+      not been successful in my purpose, sometimes I have, supporting it upon
+      the shoulders of the truth; which truth is so clear that I can almost say
+      I have with my own eyes seen Amadis of Gaul, who was a man of lofty
+      stature, fair complexion, with a handsome though black beard, of a
+      countenance between gentle and stern in expression, sparing of words, slow
+      to anger, and quick to put it away from him; and as I have depicted
+      Amadis, so I could, I think, portray and describe all the knights-errant
+      that are in all the histories in the world; for by the perception I have
+      that they were what their histories describe, and by the deeds they did
+      and the dispositions they displayed, it is possible, with the aid of sound
+      philosophy, to deduce their features, complexion, and stature."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "How big, in your worship's opinion, may the giant Morgante have been,
+      Senor Don Quixote?" asked the barber.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "With regard to giants," replied Don Quixote, "opinions differ as to
+      whether there ever were any or not in the world; but the Holy Scripture,
+      which cannot err by a jot from the truth, shows us that there were, when
+      it gives us the history of that big Philistine, Goliath, who was seven
+      cubits and a half in height, which is a huge size. Likewise, in the island
+      of Sicily, there have been found leg-bones and arm-bones so large that
+      their size makes it plain that their owners were giants, and as tall as
+      great towers; geometry puts this fact beyond a doubt. But, for all that, I
+      cannot speak with certainty as to the size of Morgante, though I suspect
+      he cannot have been very tall; and I am inclined to be of this opinion
+      because I find in the history in which his deeds are particularly
+      mentioned, that he frequently slept under a roof and as he found houses to
+      contain him, it is clear that his bulk could not have been anything
+      excessive."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "That is true," said the curate, and yielding to the enjoyment of hearing
+      such nonsense, he asked him what was his notion of the features of
+      Reinaldos of Montalban, and Don Roland and the rest of the Twelve Peers of
+      France, for they were all knights-errant.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "As for Reinaldos," replied Don Quixote, "I venture to say that he was
+      broad-faced, of ruddy complexion, with roguish and somewhat prominent
+      eyes, excessively punctilious and touchy, and given to the society of
+      thieves and scapegraces. With regard to Roland, or Rotolando, or Orlando
+      (for the histories call him by all these names), I am of opinion, and
+      hold, that he was of middle height, broad-shouldered, rather bow-legged,
+      swarthy-complexioned, red-bearded, with a hairy body and a severe
+      expression of countenance, a man of few words, but very polite and
+      well-bred."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "If Roland was not a more graceful person than your worship has
+      described," said the curate, "it is no wonder that the fair Lady Angelica
+      rejected him and left him for the gaiety, liveliness, and grace of that
+      budding-bearded little Moor to whom she surrendered herself; and she
+      showed her sense in falling in love with the gentle softness of Medoro
+      rather than the roughness of Roland."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "That Angelica, senor curate," returned Don Quixote, "was a giddy damsel,
+      flighty and somewhat wanton, and she left the world as full of her
+      vagaries as of the fame of her beauty. She treated with scorn a thousand
+      gentlemen, men of valour and wisdom, and took up with a smooth-faced sprig
+      of a page, without fortune or fame, except such reputation for gratitude
+      as the affection he bore his friend got for him. The great poet who sang
+      her beauty, the famous Ariosto, not caring to sing her adventures after
+      her contemptible surrender (which probably were not over and above
+      creditable), dropped her where he says:
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      How she received the sceptre of Cathay, Some bard of defter quill may sing
+      some day;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      and this was no doubt a kind of prophecy, for poets are also called vates,
+      that is to say diviners; and its truth was made plain; for since then a
+      famous Andalusian poet has lamented and sung her tears, and another famous
+      and rare poet, a Castilian, has sung her beauty."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Tell me, Senor Don Quixote," said the barber here, "among all those who
+      praised her, has there been no poet to write a satire on this Lady
+      Angelica?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I can well believe," replied Don Quixote, "that if Sacripante or Roland
+      had been poets they would have given the damsel a trimming; for it is
+      naturally the way with poets who have been scorned and rejected by their
+      ladies, whether fictitious or not, in short by those whom they select as
+      the ladies of their thoughts, to avenge themselves in satires and libels&mdash;a
+      vengeance, to be sure, unworthy of generous hearts; but up to the present
+      I have not heard of any defamatory verse against the Lady Angelica, who
+      turned the world upside down."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Strange," said the curate; but at this moment they heard the housekeeper
+      and the niece, who had previously withdrawn from the conversation,
+      exclaiming aloud in the courtyard, and at the noise they all ran out.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p01e" id="p01e"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p01e.jpg (15K)" src="images/p01e.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      <a name="ch2b" id="ch2b"></a>CHAPTER II.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      WHICH TREATS OF THE NOTABLE ALTERCATION WHICH SANCHO PANZA HAD WITH DON
+      QUIXOTE'S NIECE, AND HOUSEKEEPER, TOGETHER WITH OTHER DROLL MATTERS
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <a name="p02a" id="p02a"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p02a.jpg (159K)" src="images/p02a.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p02a.jpg"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br />
+      <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The history relates that the outcry Don Quixote, the curate, and the
+      barber heard came from the niece and the housekeeper exclaiming to Sancho,
+      who was striving to force his way in to see Don Quixote while they held
+      the door against him, "What does the vagabond want in this house? Be off
+      to your own, brother, for it is you, and no one else, that delude my
+      master, and lead him astray, and take him tramping about the country."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      To which Sancho replied, "Devil's own housekeeper! it is I who am deluded,
+      and led astray, and taken tramping about the country, and not thy master!
+      He has carried me all over the world, and you are mightily mistaken. He
+      enticed me away from home by a trick, promising me an island, which I am
+      still waiting for."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "May evil islands choke thee, thou detestable Sancho," said the niece;
+      "What are islands? Is it something to eat, glutton and gormandiser that
+      thou art?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "It is not something to eat," replied Sancho, "but something to govern and
+      rule, and better than four cities or four judgeships at court."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "For all that," said the housekeeper, "you don't enter here, you bag of
+      mischief and sack of knavery; go govern your house and dig your
+      seed-patch, and give over looking for islands or shylands."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The curate and the barber listened with great amusement to the words of
+      the three; but Don Quixote, uneasy lest Sancho should blab and blurt out a
+      whole heap of mischievous stupidities, and touch upon points that might
+      not be altogether to his credit, called to him and made the other two hold
+      their tongues and let him come in. Sancho entered, and the curate and the
+      barber took their leave of Don Quixote, of whose recovery they despaired
+      when they saw how wedded he was to his crazy ideas, and how saturated with
+      the nonsense of his unlucky chivalry; and said the curate to the barber,
+      "You will see, gossip, that when we are least thinking of it, our
+      gentleman will be off once more for another flight."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I have no doubt of it," returned the barber; "but I do not wonder so much
+      at the madness of the knight as at the simplicity of the squire, who has
+      such a firm belief in all that about the island, that I suppose all the
+      exposures that could be imagined would not get it out of his head."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "God help them," said the curate; "and let us be on the look-out to see
+      what comes of all these absurdities of the knight and squire, for it seems
+      as if they had both been cast in the same mould, and the madness of the
+      master without the simplicity of the man would not be worth a farthing."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "That is true," said the barber, "and I should like very much to know what
+      the pair are talking about at this moment."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I promise you," said the curate, "the niece or the housekeeper will tell
+      us by-and-by, for they are not the ones to forget to listen."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Meanwhile Don Quixote shut himself up in his room with Sancho, and when
+      they were alone he said to him, "It grieves me greatly, Sancho, that thou
+      shouldst have said, and sayest, that I took thee out of thy cottage, when
+      thou knowest I did not remain in my house. We sallied forth together, we
+      took the road together, we wandered abroad together; we have had the same
+      fortune and the same luck; if they blanketed thee once, they belaboured me
+      a hundred times, and that is the only advantage I have of thee."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "That was only reasonable," replied Sancho, "for, by what your worship
+      says, misfortunes belong more properly to knights-errant than to their
+      squires."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Thou art mistaken, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "according to the maxim
+      quando caput dolet, etc."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I don't understand any language but my own," said Sancho.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I mean to say," said Don Quixote, "that when the head suffers all the
+      members suffer; and so, being thy lord and master, I am thy head, and thou
+      a part of me as thou art my servant; and therefore any evil that affects
+      or shall affect me should give thee pain, and what affects thee give pain
+      to me."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "It should be so," said Sancho; "but when I was blanketed as a member, my
+      head was on the other side of the wall, looking on while I was flying
+      through the air, and did not feel any pain whatever; and if the members
+      are obliged to feel the suffering of the head, it should be obliged to
+      feel their sufferings."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Dost thou mean to say now, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "that I did not
+      feel when they were blanketing thee? If thou dost, thou must not say so or
+      think so, for I felt more pain then in spirit than thou didst in body. But
+      let us put that aside for the present, for we shall have opportunities
+      enough for considering and settling the point; tell me, Sancho my friend,
+      what do they say about me in the village here? What do the common people
+      think of me? What do the hidalgos? What do the caballeros? What do they
+      say of my valour; of my achievements; of my courtesy? How do they treat
+      the task I have undertaken in reviving and restoring to the world the now
+      forgotten order of chivalry? In short, Sancho, I would have thee tell me
+      all that has come to thine ears on this subject; and thou art to tell me,
+      without adding anything to the good or taking away anything from the bad;
+      for it is the duty of loyal vassals to tell the truth to their lords just
+      as it is and in its proper shape, not allowing flattery to add to it or
+      any idle deference to lessen it. And I would have thee know, Sancho, that
+      if the naked truth, undisguised by flattery, came to the ears of princes,
+      times would be different, and other ages would be reckoned iron ages more
+      than ours, which I hold to be the golden of these latter days. Profit by
+      this advice, Sancho, and report to me clearly and faithfully the truth of
+      what thou knowest touching what I have demanded of thee."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "That I will do with all my heart, master," replied Sancho, "provided your
+      worship will not be vexed at what I say, as you wish me to say it out in
+      all its nakedness, without putting any more clothes on it than it came to
+      my knowledge in."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I will not be vexed at all," returned Don Quixote; "thou mayest speak
+      freely, Sancho, and without any beating about the bush."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Well then," said he, "first of all, I have to tell you that the common
+      people consider your worship a mighty great madman, and me no less a fool.
+      The hidalgos say that, not keeping within the bounds of your quality of
+      gentleman, you have assumed the 'Don,' and made a knight of yourself at a
+      jump, with four vine-stocks and a couple of acres of land, and never a
+      shirt to your back. The caballeros say they do not want to have hidalgos
+      setting up in opposition to them, particularly squire hidalgos who polish
+      their own shoes and darn their black stockings with green silk."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "That," said Don Quixote, "does not apply to me, for I always go well
+      dressed and never patched; ragged I may be, but ragged more from the wear
+      and tear of arms than of time."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "As to your worship's valour, courtesy, accomplishments, and task, there
+      is a variety of opinions. Some say, 'mad but droll;' others, 'valiant but
+      unlucky;' others, 'courteous but meddling,' and then they go into such a
+      number of things that they don't leave a whole bone either in your worship
+      or in myself."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Recollect, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "that wherever virtue exists in an
+      eminent degree it is persecuted. Few or none of the famous men that have
+      lived escaped being calumniated by malice. Julius Caesar, the boldest,
+      wisest, and bravest of captains, was charged with being ambitious, and not
+      particularly cleanly in his dress, or pure in his morals. Of Alexander,
+      whose deeds won him the name of Great, they say that he was somewhat of a
+      drunkard. Of Hercules, him of the many labours, it is said that he was
+      lewd and luxurious. Of Don Galaor, the brother of Amadis of Gaul, it was
+      whispered that he was over-quarrelsome, and of his brother that he was
+      lachrymose. So that, O Sancho, amongst all these calumnies against good
+      men, mine may be let pass, since they are no more than thou hast said."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "That's just where it is, body of my father!"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Is there more, then?" asked Don Quixote.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "There's the tail to be skinned yet," said Sancho; "all so far is cakes
+      and fancy bread; but if your worship wants to know all about the calumnies
+      they bring against you, I will fetch you one this instant who can tell you
+      the whole of them without missing an atom; for last night the son of
+      Bartholomew Carrasco, who has been studying at Salamanca, came home after
+      having been made a bachelor, and when I went to welcome him, he told me
+      that your worship's history is already abroad in books, with the title of
+      THE INGENIOUS GENTLEMAN DON QUIXOTE OF LA MANCHA; and he says they mention
+      me in it by my own name of Sancho Panza, and the lady Dulcinea del Toboso
+      too, and divers things that happened to us when we were alone; so that I
+      crossed myself in my wonder how the historian who wrote them down could
+      have known them."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I promise thee, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "the author of our history
+      will be some sage enchanter; for to such nothing that they choose to write
+      about is hidden."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "What!" said Sancho, "a sage and an enchanter! Why, the bachelor Samson
+      Carrasco (that is the name of him I spoke of) says the author of the
+      history is called Cide Hamete Berengena."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "That is a Moorish name," said Don Quixote.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "May be so," replied Sancho; "for I have heard say that the Moors are
+      mostly great lovers of berengenas."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Thou must have mistaken the surname of this 'Cide'&mdash;which means in
+      Arabic 'Lord'&mdash;Sancho," observed Don Quixote.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Very likely," replied Sancho, "but if your worship wishes me to fetch the
+      bachelor I will go for him in a twinkling."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Thou wilt do me a great pleasure, my friend," said Don Quixote, "for what
+      thou hast told me has amazed me, and I shall not eat a morsel that will
+      agree with me until I have heard all about it."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Then I am off for him," said Sancho; and leaving his master he went in
+      quest of the bachelor, with whom he returned in a short time, and, all
+      three together, they had a very droll colloquy.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p02e" id="p02e"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p02e.jpg (23K)" src="images/p02e.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      <a name="ch3b" id="ch3b"></a>CHAPTER III.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      OF THE LAUGHABLE CONVERSATION THAT PASSED BETWEEN DON QUIXOTE, SANCHO
+      PANZA, AND THE BACHELOR SAMSON CARRASCO
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <a name="p03a" id="p03a"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p03a.jpg (131K)" src="images/p03a.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p03a.jpg"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br />
+      <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Don Quixote remained very deep in thought, waiting for the bachelor
+      Carrasco, from whom he was to hear how he himself had been put into a book
+      as Sancho said; and he could not persuade himself that any such history
+      could be in existence, for the blood of the enemies he had slain was not
+      yet dry on the blade of his sword, and now they wanted to make out that
+      his mighty achievements were going about in print. For all that, he
+      fancied some sage, either a friend or an enemy, might, by the aid of
+      magic, have given them to the press; if a friend, in order to magnify and
+      exalt them above the most famous ever achieved by any knight-errant; if an
+      enemy, to bring them to naught and degrade them below the meanest ever
+      recorded of any low squire, though as he said to himself, the achievements
+      of squires never were recorded. If, however, it were the fact that such a
+      history were in existence, it must necessarily, being the story of a
+      knight-errant, be grandiloquent, lofty, imposing, grand and true. With
+      this he comforted himself somewhat, though it made him uncomfortable to
+      think that the author was a Moor, judging by the title of "Cide;" and that
+      no truth was to be looked for from Moors, as they are all impostors,
+      cheats, and schemers. He was afraid he might have dealt with his love
+      affairs in some indecorous fashion, that might tend to the discredit and
+      prejudice of the purity of his lady Dulcinea del Toboso; he would have had
+      him set forth the fidelity and respect he had always observed towards her,
+      spurning queens, empresses, and damsels of all sorts, and keeping in check
+      the impetuosity of his natural impulses. Absorbed and wrapped up in these
+      and divers other cogitations, he was found by Sancho and Carrasco, whom
+      Don Quixote received with great courtesy.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The bachelor, though he was called Samson, was of no great bodily size,
+      but he was a very great wag; he was of a sallow complexion, but very
+      sharp-witted, somewhere about four-and-twenty years of age, with a round
+      face, a flat nose, and a large mouth, all indications of a mischievous
+      disposition and a love of fun and jokes; and of this he gave a sample as
+      soon as he saw Don Quixote, by falling on his knees before him and saying,
+      "Let me kiss your mightiness's hand, Senor Don Quixote of La Mancha, for,
+      by the habit of St. Peter that I wear, though I have no more than the
+      first four orders, your worship is one of the most famous knights-errant
+      that have ever been, or will be, all the world over. A blessing on Cide
+      Hamete Benengeli, who has written the history of your great deeds, and a
+      double blessing on that connoisseur who took the trouble of having it
+      translated out of the Arabic into our Castilian vulgar tongue for the
+      universal entertainment of the people!"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Don Quixote made him rise, and said, "So, then, it is true that there is a
+      history of me, and that it was a Moor and a sage who wrote it?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "So true is it, senor," said Samson, "that my belief is there are more
+      than twelve thousand volumes of the said history in print this very day.
+      Only ask Portugal, Barcelona, and Valencia, where they have been printed,
+      and moreover there is a report that it is being printed at Antwerp, and I
+      am persuaded there will not be a country or language in which there will
+      not be a translation of it."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "One of the things," here observed Don Quixote, "that ought to give most
+      pleasure to a virtuous and eminent man is to find himself in his lifetime
+      in print and in type, familiar in people's mouths with a good name; I say
+      with a good name, for if it be the opposite, then there is no death to be
+      compared to it."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "If it goes by good name and fame," said the bachelor, "your worship alone
+      bears away the palm from all the knights-errant; for the Moor in his own
+      language, and the Christian in his, have taken care to set before us your
+      gallantry, your high courage in encountering dangers, your fortitude in
+      adversity, your patience under misfortunes as well as wounds, the purity
+      and continence of the platonic loves of your worship and my lady Dona
+      Dulcinea del Toboso-"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I never heard my lady Dulcinea called Dona," observed Sancho here;
+      "nothing more than the lady Dulcinea del Toboso; so here already the
+      history is wrong."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "That is not an objection of any importance," replied Carrasco.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Certainly not," said Don Quixote; "but tell me, senor bachelor, what
+      deeds of mine are they that are made most of in this history?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "On that point," replied the bachelor, "opinions differ, as tastes do;
+      some swear by the adventure of the windmills that your worship took to be
+      Briareuses and giants; others by that of the fulling mills; one cries up
+      the description of the two armies that afterwards took the appearance of
+      two droves of sheep; another that of the dead body on its way to be buried
+      at Segovia; a third says the liberation of the galley slaves is the best
+      of all, and a fourth that nothing comes up to the affair with the
+      Benedictine giants, and the battle with the valiant Biscayan."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Tell me, senor bachelor," said Sancho at this point, "does the adventure
+      with the Yanguesans come in, when our good Rocinante went hankering after
+      dainties?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "The sage has left nothing in the ink-bottle," replied Samson; "he tells
+      all and sets down everything, even to the capers that worthy Sancho cut in
+      the blanket."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I cut no capers in the blanket," returned Sancho; "in the air I did, and
+      more of them than I liked."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "There is no human history in the world, I suppose," said Don Quixote,
+      "that has not its ups and downs, but more than others such as deal with
+      chivalry, for they can never be entirely made up of prosperous
+      adventures."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "For all that," replied the bachelor, "there are those who have read the
+      history who say they would have been glad if the author had left out some
+      of the countless cudgellings that were inflicted on Senor Don Quixote in
+      various encounters."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "That's where the truth of the history comes in," said Sancho.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "At the same time they might fairly have passed them over in silence,"
+      observed Don Quixote; "for there is no need of recording events which do
+      not change or affect the truth of a history, if they tend to bring the
+      hero of it into contempt. AEneas was not in truth and earnest so pious as
+      Virgil represents him, nor Ulysses so wise as Homer describes him."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "That is true," said Samson; "but it is one thing to write as a poet,
+      another to write as a historian; the poet may describe or sing things, not
+      as they were, but as they ought to have been; but the historian has to
+      write them down, not as they ought to have been, but as they were, without
+      adding anything to the truth or taking anything from it."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Well then," said Sancho, "if this senor Moor goes in for telling the
+      truth, no doubt among my master's drubbings mine are to be found; for they
+      never took the measure of his worship's shoulders without doing the same
+      for my whole body; but I have no right to wonder at that, for, as my
+      master himself says, the members must share the pain of the head."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "You are a sly dog, Sancho," said Don Quixote; "i' faith, you have no want
+      of memory when you choose to remember."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "If I were to try to forget the thwacks they gave me," said Sancho, "my
+      weals would not let me, for they are still fresh on my ribs."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Hush, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "and don't interrupt the bachelor, whom
+      I entreat to go on and tell all that is said about me in this history."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "And about me," said Sancho, "for they say, too, that I am one of the
+      principal presonages in it."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Personages, not presonages, friend Sancho," said Samson.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "What! Another word-catcher!" said Sancho; "if that's to be the way we
+      shall not make an end in a lifetime."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "May God shorten mine, Sancho," returned the bachelor, "if you are not the
+      second person in the history, and there are even some who would rather
+      hear you talk than the cleverest in the whole book; though there are some,
+      too, who say you showed yourself over-credulous in believing there was any
+      possibility in the government of that island offered you by Senor Don
+      Quixote."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "There is still sunshine on the wall," said Don Quixote; "and when Sancho
+      is somewhat more advanced in life, with the experience that years bring,
+      he will be fitter and better qualified for being a governor than he is at
+      present."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "By God, master," said Sancho, "the island that I cannot govern with the
+      years I have, I'll not be able to govern with the years of Methuselah; the
+      difficulty is that the said island keeps its distance somewhere, I know
+      not where; and not that there is any want of head in me to govern it."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Leave it to God, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "for all will be and perhaps
+      better than you think; no leaf on the tree stirs but by God's will."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "That is true," said Samson; "and if it be God's will, there will not be
+      any want of a thousand islands, much less one, for Sancho to govern."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I have seen governors in these parts," said Sancho, "that are not to be
+      compared to my shoe-sole; and for all that they are called 'your lordship'
+      and served on silver."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Those are not governors of islands," observed Samson, "but of other
+      governments of an easier kind: those that govern islands must at least
+      know grammar."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I could manage the gram well enough," said Sancho; "but for the mar I
+      have neither leaning nor liking, for I don't know what it is; but leaving
+      this matter of the government in God's hands, to send me wherever it may
+      be most to his service, I may tell you, senor bachelor Samson Carrasco, it
+      has pleased me beyond measure that the author of this history should have
+      spoken of me in such a way that what is said of me gives no offence; for,
+      on the faith of a true squire, if he had said anything about me that was
+      at all unbecoming an old Christian, such as I am, the deaf would have
+      heard of it."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "That would be working miracles," said Samson.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Miracles or no miracles," said Sancho, "let everyone mind how he speaks
+      or writes about people, and not set down at random the first thing that
+      comes into his head."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "One of the faults they find with this history," said the bachelor, "is
+      that its author inserted in it a novel called 'The Ill-advised Curiosity;'
+      not that it is bad or ill-told, but that it is out of place and has
+      nothing to do with the history of his worship Senor Don Quixote."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I will bet the son of a dog has mixed the cabbages and the baskets," said
+      Sancho.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Then, I say," said Don Quixote, "the author of my history was no sage,
+      but some ignorant chatterer, who, in a haphazard and heedless way, set
+      about writing it, let it turn out as it might, just as Orbaneja, the
+      painter of Ubeda, used to do, who, when they asked him what he was
+      painting, answered, 'What it may turn out.' Sometimes he would paint a
+      cock in such a fashion, and so unlike, that he had to write alongside of
+      it in Gothic letters, 'This is a cock; and so it will be with my history,
+      which will require a commentary to make it intelligible."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "No fear of that," returned Samson, "for it is so plain that there is
+      nothing in it to puzzle over; the children turn its leaves, the young
+      people read it, the grown men understand it, the old folk praise it; in a
+      word, it is so thumbed, and read, and got by heart by people of all sorts,
+      that the instant they see any lean hack, they say, 'There goes Rocinante.'
+      And those that are most given to reading it are the pages, for there is
+      not a lord's ante-chamber where there is not a 'Don Quixote' to be found;
+      one takes it up if another lays it down; this one pounces upon it, and
+      that begs for it. In short, the said history is the most delightful and
+      least injurious entertainment that has been hitherto seen, for there is
+      not to be found in the whole of it even the semblance of an immodest word,
+      or a thought that is other than Catholic."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "To write in any other way," said Don Quixote, "would not be to write
+      truth, but falsehood, and historians who have recourse to falsehood ought
+      to be burned, like those who coin false money; and I know not what could
+      have led the author to have recourse to novels and irrelevant stories,
+      when he had so much to write about in mine; no doubt he must have gone by
+      the proverb 'with straw or with hay, etc,' for by merely setting forth my
+      thoughts, my sighs, my tears, my lofty purposes, my enterprises, he might
+      have made a volume as large, or larger than all the works of El Tostado
+      would make up. In fact, the conclusion I arrive at, senor bachelor, is,
+      that to write histories, or books of any kind, there is need of great
+      judgment and a ripe understanding. To give expression to humour, and write
+      in a strain of graceful pleasantry, is the gift of great geniuses. The
+      cleverest character in comedy is the clown, for he who would make people
+      take him for a fool, must not be one. History is in a measure a sacred
+      thing, for it should be true, and where the truth is, there God is; but
+      notwithstanding this, there are some who write and fling books broadcast
+      on the world as if they were fritters."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "There is no book so bad but it has something good in it," said the
+      bachelor.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "No doubt of that," replied Don Quixote; "but it often happens that those
+      who have acquired and attained a well-deserved reputation by their
+      writings, lose it entirely, or damage it in some degree, when they give
+      them to the press."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "The reason of that," said Samson, "is, that as printed works are examined
+      leisurely, their faults are easily seen; and the greater the fame of the
+      writer, the more closely are they scrutinised. Men famous for their
+      genius, great poets, illustrious historians, are always, or most commonly,
+      envied by those who take a particular delight and pleasure in criticising
+      the writings of others, without having produced any of their own."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "That is no wonder," said Don Quixote; "for there are many divines who are
+      no good for the pulpit, but excellent in detecting the defects or excesses
+      of those who preach."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "All that is true, Senor Don Quixote," said Carrasco; "but I wish such
+      fault-finders were more lenient and less exacting, and did not pay so much
+      attention to the spots on the bright sun of the work they grumble at; for
+      if aliquando bonus dormitat Homerus, they should remember how long he
+      remained awake to shed the light of his work with as little shade as
+      possible; and perhaps it may be that what they find fault with may be
+      moles, that sometimes heighten the beauty of the face that bears them; and
+      so I say very great is the risk to which he who prints a book exposes
+      himself, for of all impossibilities the greatest is to write one that will
+      satisfy and please all readers."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "That which treats of me must have pleased few," said Don Quixote.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Quite the contrary," said the bachelor; "for, as stultorum infinitum est
+      numerus, innumerable are those who have relished the said history; but
+      some have brought a charge against the author's memory, inasmuch as he
+      forgot to say who the thief was who stole Sancho's Dapple; for it is not
+      stated there, but only to be inferred from what is set down, that he was
+      stolen, and a little farther on we see Sancho mounted on the same ass,
+      without any reappearance of it. They say, too, that he forgot to state
+      what Sancho did with those hundred crowns that he found in the valise in
+      the Sierra Morena, as he never alludes to them again, and there are many
+      who would be glad to know what he did with them, or what he spent them on,
+      for it is one of the serious omissions of the work."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Senor Samson, I am not in a humour now for going into accounts or
+      explanations," said Sancho; "for there's a sinking of the stomach come
+      over me, and unless I doctor it with a couple of sups of the old stuff it
+      will put me on the thorn of Santa Lucia. I have it at home, and my old
+      woman is waiting for me; after dinner I'll come back, and will answer you
+      and all the world every question you may choose to ask, as well about the
+      loss of the ass as about the spending of the hundred crowns;" and without
+      another word or waiting for a reply he made off home.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Don Quixote begged and entreated the bachelor to stay and do penance with
+      him. The bachelor accepted the invitation and remained, a couple of young
+      pigeons were added to the ordinary fare, at dinner they talked chivalry,
+      Carrasco fell in with his host's humour, the banquet came to an end, they
+      took their afternoon sleep, Sancho returned, and their conversation was
+      resumed.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p03e" id="p03e"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p03e.jpg (49K)" src="images/p03e.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      <a name="ch4b" id="ch4b"></a>CHAPTER IV.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      IN WHICH SANCHO PANZA GIVES A SATISFACTORY REPLY TO THE DOUBTS AND
+      QUESTIONS OF THE BACHELOR SAMSON CARRASCO, TOGETHER WITH OTHER MATTERS
+      WORTH KNOWING AND TELLING
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <a name="p04a" id="p04a"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p04a.jpg (143K)" src="images/p04a.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p04a.jpg"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br />
+      <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Sancho came back to Don Quixote's house, and returning to the late subject
+      of conversation, he said, "As to what Senor Samson said, that he would
+      like to know by whom, or how, or when my ass was stolen, I say in reply
+      that the same night we went into the Sierra Morena, flying from the Holy
+      Brotherhood after that unlucky adventure of the galley slaves, and the
+      other of the corpse that was going to Segovia, my master and I ensconced
+      ourselves in a thicket, and there, my master leaning on his lance, and I
+      seated on my Dapple, battered and weary with the late frays we fell asleep
+      as if it had been on four feather mattresses; and I in particular slept so
+      sound, that, whoever he was, he was able to come and prop me up on four
+      stakes, which he put under the four corners of the pack-saddle in such a
+      way that he left me mounted on it, and took away Dapple from under me
+      without my feeling it."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p04b" id="p04b"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p04b.jpg (270K)" src="images/p04b.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p04b.jpg"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br />
+      <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "That is an easy matter," said Don Quixote, "and it is no new occurrence,
+      for the same thing happened to Sacripante at the siege of Albracca; the
+      famous thief, Brunello, by the same contrivance, took his horse from
+      between his legs."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Day came," continued Sancho, "and the moment I stirred the stakes gave
+      way and I fell to the ground with a mighty come down; I looked about for
+      the ass, but could not see him; the tears rushed to my eyes and I raised
+      such a lamentation that, if the author of our history has not put it in,
+      he may depend upon it he has left out a good thing. Some days after, I
+      know not how many, travelling with her ladyship the Princess Micomicona, I
+      saw my ass, and mounted upon him, in the dress of a gipsy, was that Gines
+      de Pasamonte, the great rogue and rascal that my master and I freed from
+      the chain."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "That is not where the mistake is," replied Samson; "it is, that before
+      the ass has turned up, the author speaks of Sancho as being mounted on
+      it."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I don't know what to say to that," said Sancho, "unless that the
+      historian made a mistake, or perhaps it might be a blunder of the
+      printer's."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "No doubt that's it," said Samson; "but what became of the hundred crowns?
+      Did they vanish?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      To which Sancho answered, "I spent them for my own good, and my wife's,
+      and my children's, and it is they that have made my wife bear so patiently
+      all my wanderings on highways and byways, in the service of my master, Don
+      Quixote; for if after all this time I had come back to the house without a
+      rap and without the ass, it would have been a poor look-out for me; and if
+      anyone wants to know anything more about me, here I am, ready to answer
+      the king himself in person; and it is no affair of anyone's whether I took
+      or did not take, whether I spent or did not spend; for the whacks that
+      were given me in these journeys were to be paid for in money, even if they
+      were valued at no more than four maravedis apiece, another hundred crowns
+      would not pay me for half of them. Let each look to himself and not try to
+      make out white black, and black white; for each of us is as God made him,
+      aye, and often worse."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I will take care," said Carrasco, "to impress upon the author of the
+      history that, if he prints it again, he must not forget what worthy Sancho
+      has said, for it will raise it a good span higher."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Is there anything else to correct in the history, senor bachelor?" asked
+      Don Quixote.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "No doubt there is," replied he; "but not anything that will be of the
+      same importance as those I have mentioned."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Does the author promise a second part at all?" said Don Quixote.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "He does promise one," replied Samson; "but he says he has not found it,
+      nor does he know who has got it; and we cannot say whether it will appear
+      or not; and so, on that head, as some say that no second part has ever
+      been good, and others that enough has been already written about Don
+      Quixote, it is thought there will be no second part; though some, who are
+      jovial rather than saturnine, say, 'Let us have more Quixotades, let Don
+      Quixote charge and Sancho chatter, and no matter what it may turn out, we
+      shall be satisfied with that.'"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "And what does the author mean to do?" said Don Quixote.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "What?" replied Samson; "why, as soon as he has found the history which he
+      is now searching for with extraordinary diligence, he will at once give it
+      to the press, moved more by the profit that may accrue to him from doing
+      so than by any thought of praise."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Whereat Sancho observed, "The author looks for money and profit, does he?
+      It will be a wonder if he succeeds, for it will be only hurry, hurry, with
+      him, like the tailor on Easter Eve; and works done in a hurry are never
+      finished as perfectly as they ought to be. Let master Moor, or whatever he
+      is, pay attention to what he is doing, and I and my master will give him
+      as much grouting ready to his hand, in the way of adventures and accidents
+      of all sorts, as would make up not only one second part, but a hundred.
+      The good man fancies, no doubt, that we are fast asleep in the straw here,
+      but let him hold up our feet to be shod and he will see which foot it is
+      we go lame on. All I say is, that if my master would take my advice, we
+      would be now afield, redressing outrages and righting wrongs, as is the
+      use and custom of good knights-errant."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Sancho had hardly uttered these words when the neighing of Rocinante fell
+      upon their ears, which neighing Don Quixote accepted as a happy omen, and
+      he resolved to make another sally in three or four days from that time.
+      Announcing his intention to the bachelor, he asked his advice as to the
+      quarter in which he ought to commence his expedition, and the bachelor
+      replied that in his opinion he ought to go to the kingdom of Aragon, and
+      the city of Saragossa, where there were to be certain solemn joustings at
+      the festival of St. George, at which he might win renown above all the
+      knights of Aragon, which would be winning it above all the knights of the
+      world. He commended his very praiseworthy and gallant resolution, but
+      admonished him to proceed with greater caution in encountering dangers,
+      because his life did not belong to him, but to all those who had need of
+      him to protect and aid them in their misfortunes.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "There's where it is, what I abominate, Senor Samson," said Sancho here;
+      "my master will attack a hundred armed men as a greedy boy would half a
+      dozen melons. Body of the world, senor bachelor! there is a time to attack
+      and a time to retreat, and it is not to be always 'Santiago, and close
+      Spain!' Moreover, I have heard it said (and I think by my master himself,
+      if I remember rightly) that the mean of valour lies between the extremes
+      of cowardice and rashness; and if that be so, I don't want him to fly
+      without having good reason, or to attack when the odds make it better not.
+      But, above all things, I warn my master that if he is to take me with him
+      it must be on the condition that he is to do all the fighting, and that I
+      am not to be called upon to do anything except what concerns keeping him
+      clean and comfortable; in this I will dance attendance on him readily; but
+      to expect me to draw sword, even against rascally churls of the hatchet
+      and hood, is idle. I don't set up to be a fighting man, Senor Samson, but
+      only the best and most loyal squire that ever served knight-errant; and if
+      my master Don Quixote, in consideration of my many faithful services, is
+      pleased to give me some island of the many his worship says one may
+      stumble on in these parts, I will take it as a great favour; and if he
+      does not give it to me, I was born like everyone else, and a man must not
+      live in dependence on anyone except God; and what is more, my bread will
+      taste as well, and perhaps even better, without a government than if I
+      were a governor; and how do I know but that in these governments the devil
+      may have prepared some trip for me, to make me lose my footing and fall
+      and knock my grinders out? Sancho I was born and Sancho I mean to die. But
+      for all that, if heaven were to make me a fair offer of an island or
+      something else of the kind, without much trouble and without much risk, I
+      am not such a fool as to refuse it; for they say, too, 'when they offer
+      thee a heifer, run with a halter; and 'when good luck comes to thee, take
+      it in.'"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Brother Sancho," said Carrasco, "you have spoken like a professor; but,
+      for all that, put your trust in God and in Senor Don Quixote, for he will
+      give you a kingdom, not to say an island."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "It is all the same, be it more or be it less," replied Sancho; "though I
+      can tell Senor Carrasco that my master would not throw the kingdom he
+      might give me into a sack all in holes; for I have felt my own pulse and I
+      find myself sound enough to rule kingdoms and govern islands; and I have
+      before now told my master as much."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Take care, Sancho," said Samson; "honours change manners, and perhaps
+      when you find yourself a governor you won't know the mother that bore
+      you."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "That may hold good of those that are born in the ditches," said Sancho,
+      "not of those who have the fat of an old Christian four fingers deep on
+      their souls, as I have. Nay, only look at my disposition, is that likely
+      to show ingratitude to anyone?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "God grant it," said Don Quixote; "we shall see when the government comes;
+      and I seem to see it already."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      He then begged the bachelor, if he were a poet, to do him the favour of
+      composing some verses for him conveying the farewell he meant to take of
+      his lady Dulcinea del Toboso, and to see that a letter of her name was
+      placed at the beginning of each line, so that, at the end of the verses,
+      "Dulcinea del Toboso" might be read by putting together the first letters.
+      The bachelor replied that although he was not one of the famous poets of
+      Spain, who were, they said, only three and a half, he would not fail to
+      compose the required verses; though he saw a great difficulty in the task,
+      as the letters which made up the name were seventeen; so, if he made four
+      ballad stanzas of four lines each, there would be a letter over, and if he
+      made them of five, what they called decimas or redondillas, there were
+      three letters short; nevertheless he would try to drop a letter as well as
+      he could, so that the name "Dulcinea del Toboso" might be got into four
+      ballad stanzas.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "It must be, by some means or other," said Don Quixote, "for unless the
+      name stands there plain and manifest, no woman would believe the verses
+      were made for her."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      They agreed upon this, and that the departure should take place in three
+      days from that time. Don Quixote charged the bachelor to keep it a secret,
+      especially from the curate and Master Nicholas, and from his niece and the
+      housekeeper, lest they should prevent the execution of his praiseworthy
+      and valiant purpose. Carrasco promised all, and then took his leave,
+      charging Don Quixote to inform him of his good or evil fortunes whenever
+      he had an opportunity; and thus they bade each other farewell, and Sancho
+      went away to make the necessary preparations for their expedition.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p04e" id="p04e"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p04e.jpg (55K)" src="images/p04e.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      <a name="ch5b" id="ch5b"></a>CHAPTER V.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      OF THE SHREWD AND DROLL CONVERSATION THAT PASSED BETWEEN SANCHO PANZA AND
+      HIS WIFE TERESA PANZA, AND OTHER MATTERS WORTHY OF BEING DULY RECORDED
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <a name="p05a" id="p05a"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p05a.jpg (129K)" src="images/p05a.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p05a.jpg"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br />
+      <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The translator of this history, when he comes to write this fifth chapter,
+      says that he considers it apocryphal, because in it Sancho Panza speaks in
+      a style unlike that which might have been expected from his limited
+      intelligence, and says things so subtle that he does not think it possible
+      he could have conceived them; however, desirous of doing what his task
+      imposed upon him, he was unwilling to leave it untranslated, and therefore
+      he went on to say:
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Sancho came home in such glee and spirits that his wife noticed his
+      happiness a bowshot off, so much so that it made her ask him, "What have
+      you got, Sancho friend, that you are so glad?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      To which he replied, "Wife, if it were God's will, I should be very glad
+      not to be so well pleased as I show myself."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I don't understand you, husband," said she, "and I don't know what you
+      mean by saying you would be glad, if it were God's will, not to be well
+      pleased; for, fool as I am, I don't know how one can find pleasure in not
+      having it."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Hark ye, Teresa," replied Sancho, "I am glad because I have made up my
+      mind to go back to the service of my master Don Quixote, who means to go
+      out a third time to seek for adventures; and I am going with him again,
+      for my necessities will have it so, and also the hope that cheers me with
+      the thought that I may find another hundred crowns like those we have
+      spent; though it makes me sad to have to leave thee and the children; and
+      if God would be pleased to let me have my daily bread, dry-shod and at
+      home, without taking me out into the byways and cross-roads&mdash;and he
+      could do it at small cost by merely willing it&mdash;it is clear my
+      happiness would be more solid and lasting, for the happiness I have is
+      mingled with sorrow at leaving thee; so that I was right in saying I would
+      be glad, if it were God's will, not to be well pleased."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Look here, Sancho," said Teresa; "ever since you joined on to a
+      knight-errant you talk in such a roundabout way that there is no
+      understanding you."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "It is enough that God understands me, wife," replied Sancho; "for he is
+      the understander of all things; that will do; but mind, sister, you must
+      look to Dapple carefully for the next three days, so that he may be fit to
+      take arms; double his feed, and see to the pack-saddle and other harness,
+      for it is not to a wedding we are bound, but to go round the world, and
+      play at give and take with giants and dragons and monsters, and hear
+      hissings and roarings and bellowings and howlings; and even all this would
+      be lavender, if we had not to reckon with Yanguesans and enchanted Moors."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I know well enough, husband," said Teresa, "that squires-errant don't eat
+      their bread for nothing, and so I will be always praying to our Lord to
+      deliver you speedily from all that hard fortune."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I can tell you, wife," said Sancho, "if I did not expect to see myself
+      governor of an island before long, I would drop down dead on the spot."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Nay, then, husband," said Teresa; "let the hen live, though it be with
+      her pip, live, and let the devil take all the governments in the world;
+      you came out of your mother's womb without a government, you have lived
+      until now without a government, and when it is God's will you will go, or
+      be carried, to your grave without a government. How many there are in the
+      world who live without a government, and continue to live all the same,
+      and are reckoned in the number of the people. The best sauce in the world
+      is hunger, and as the poor are never without that, they always eat with a
+      relish. But mind, Sancho, if by good luck you should find yourself with
+      some government, don't forget me and your children. Remember that Sanchico
+      is now full fifteen, and it is right he should go to school, if his uncle
+      the abbot has a mind to have him trained for the Church. Consider, too,
+      that your daughter Mari-Sancha will not die of grief if we marry her; for
+      I have my suspicions that she is as eager to get a husband as you to get a
+      government; and, after all, a daughter looks better ill married than well
+      whored."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "By my faith," replied Sancho, "if God brings me to get any sort of a
+      government, I intend, wife, to make such a high match for Mari-Sancha that
+      there will be no approaching her without calling her 'my lady."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Nay, Sancho," returned Teresa; "marry her to her equal, that is the
+      safest plan; for if you put her out of wooden clogs into high-heeled
+      shoes, out of her grey flannel petticoat into hoops and silk gowns, out of
+      the plain 'Marica' and 'thou,' into 'Dona So-and-so' and 'my lady,' the
+      girl won't know where she is, and at every turn she will fall into a
+      thousand blunders that will show the thread of her coarse homespun stuff."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Tut, you fool," said Sancho; "it will be only to practise it for two or
+      three years; and then dignity and decorum will fit her as easily as a
+      glove; and if not, what matter? Let her be 'my lady,' and never mind what
+      happens."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Keep to your own station, Sancho," replied Teresa; "don't try to raise
+      yourself higher, and bear in mind the proverb that says, 'wipe the nose of
+      your neigbbour's son, and take him into your house.' A fine thing it would
+      be, indeed, to marry our Maria to some great count or grand gentleman,
+      who, when the humour took him, would abuse her and call her clown-bred and
+      clodhopper's daughter and spinning wench. I have not been bringing up my
+      daughter for that all this time, I can tell you, husband. Do you bring
+      home money, Sancho, and leave marrying her to my care; there is Lope
+      Tocho, Juan Tocho's son, a stout, sturdy young fellow that we know, and I
+      can see he does not look sour at the girl; and with him, one of our own
+      sort, she will be well married, and we shall have her always under our
+      eyes, and be all one family, parents and children, grandchildren and
+      sons-in-law, and the peace and blessing of God will dwell among us; so
+      don't you go marrying her in those courts and grand palaces where they
+      won't know what to make of her, or she what to make of herself."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Why, you idiot and wife for Barabbas," said Sancho, "what do you mean by
+      trying, without why or wherefore, to keep me from marrying my daughter to
+      one who will give me grandchildren that will be called 'your lordship'?
+      Look ye, Teresa, I have always heard my elders say that he who does not
+      know how to take advantage of luck when it comes to him, has no right to
+      complain if it gives him the go-by; and now that it is knocking at our
+      door, it will not do to shut it out; let us go with the favouring breeze
+      that blows upon us."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      It is this sort of talk, and what Sancho says lower down, that made the
+      translator of the history say he considered this chapter apocryphal.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Don't you see, you animal," continued Sancho, "that it will be well for
+      me to drop into some profitable government that will lift us out of the
+      mire, and marry Mari-Sancha to whom I like; and you yourself will find
+      yourself called 'Dona Teresa Panza,' and sitting in church on a fine
+      carpet and cushions and draperies, in spite and in defiance of all the
+      born ladies of the town? No, stay as you are, growing neither greater nor
+      less, like a tapestry figure&mdash;Let us say no more about it, for
+      Sanchica shall be a countess, say what you will."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Are you sure of all you say, husband?" replied Teresa. "Well, for all
+      that, I am afraid this rank of countess for my daughter will be her ruin.
+      You do as you like, make a duchess or a princess of her, but I can tell
+      you it will not be with my will and consent. I was always a lover of
+      equality, brother, and I can't bear to see people give themselves airs
+      without any right. They called me Teresa at my baptism, a plain, simple
+      name, without any additions or tags or fringes of Dons or Donas; Cascajo
+      was my father's name, and as I am your wife, I am called Teresa Panza,
+      though by right I ought to be called Teresa Cascajo; but 'kings go where
+      laws like,' and I am content with this name without having the 'Don' put
+      on top of it to make it so heavy that I cannot carry it; and I don't want
+      to make people talk about me when they see me go dressed like a countess
+      or governor's wife; for they will say at once, 'See what airs the slut
+      gives herself! Only yesterday she was always spinning flax, and used to go
+      to mass with the tail of her petticoat over her head instead of a mantle,
+      and there she goes to-day in a hooped gown with her broaches and airs, as
+      if we didn't know her!' If God keeps me in my seven senses, or five, or
+      whatever number I have, I am not going to bring myself to such a pass; go
+      you, brother, and be a government or an island man, and swagger as much as
+      you like; for by the soul of my mother, neither my daughter nor I are
+      going to stir a step from our village; a respectable woman should have a
+      broken leg and keep at home; and to be busy at something is a virtuous
+      damsel's holiday; be off to your adventures along with your Don Quixote,
+      and leave us to our misadventures, for God will mend them for us according
+      as we deserve it. I don't know, I'm sure, who fixed the 'Don' to him, what
+      neither his father nor grandfather ever had."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I declare thou hast a devil of some sort in thy body!" said Sancho. "God
+      help thee, what a lot of things thou hast strung together, one after the
+      other, without head or tail! What have Cascajo, and the broaches and the
+      proverbs and the airs, to do with what I say? Look here, fool and dolt
+      (for so I may call you, when you don't understand my words, and run away
+      from good fortune), if I had said that my daughter was to throw herself
+      down from a tower, or go roaming the world, as the Infanta Dona Urraca
+      wanted to do, you would be right in not giving way to my will; but if in
+      an instant, in less than the twinkling of an eye, I put the 'Don' and 'my
+      lady' on her back, and take her out of the stubble, and place her under a
+      canopy, on a dais, and on a couch, with more velvet cushions than all the
+      Almohades of Morocco ever had in their family, why won't you consent and
+      fall in with my wishes?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Do you know why, husband?" replied Teresa; "because of the proverb that
+      says 'who covers thee, discovers thee.' At the poor man people only throw
+      a hasty glance; on the rich man they fix their eyes; and if the said rich
+      man was once on a time poor, it is then there is the sneering and the
+      tattle and spite of backbiters; and in the streets here they swarm as
+      thick as bees."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Look here, Teresa," said Sancho, "and listen to what I am now going to
+      say to you; maybe you never heard it in all your life; and I do not give
+      my own notions, for what I am about to say are the opinions of his
+      reverence the preacher, who preached in this town last Lent, and who said,
+      if I remember rightly, that all things present that our eyes behold, bring
+      themselves before us, and remain and fix themselves on our memory much
+      better and more forcibly than things past."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      These observations which Sancho makes here are the other ones on account
+      of which the translator says he regards this chapter as apocryphal,
+      inasmuch as they are beyond Sancho's capacity.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Whence it arises," he continued, "that when we see any person well
+      dressed and making a figure with rich garments and retinue of servants, it
+      seems to lead and impel us perforce to respect him, though memory may at
+      the same moment recall to us some lowly condition in which we have seen
+      him, but which, whether it may have been poverty or low birth, being now a
+      thing of the past, has no existence; while the only thing that has any
+      existence is what we see before us; and if this person whom fortune has
+      raised from his original lowly state (these were the very words the padre
+      used) to his present height of prosperity, be well bred, generous,
+      courteous to all, without seeking to vie with those whose nobility is of
+      ancient date, depend upon it, Teresa, no one will remember what he was,
+      and everyone will respect what he is, except indeed the envious, from whom
+      no fair fortune is safe."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I do not understand you, husband," replied Teresa; "do as you like, and
+      don't break my head with any more speechifying and rethoric; and if you
+      have revolved to do what you say-"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Resolved, you should say, woman," said Sancho, "not revolved."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Don't set yourself to wrangle with me, husband," said Teresa; "I speak as
+      God pleases, and don't deal in out-of-the-way phrases; and I say if you
+      are bent upon having a government, take your son Sancho with you, and
+      teach him from this time on how to hold a government; for sons ought to
+      inherit and learn the trades of their fathers."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "As soon as I have the government," said Sancho, "I will send for him by
+      post, and I will send thee money, of which I shall have no lack, for there
+      is never any want of people to lend it to governors when they have not got
+      it; and do thou dress him so as to hide what he is and make him look what
+      he is to be."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "You send the money," said Teresa, "and I'll dress him up for you as fine
+      as you please."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Then we are agreed that our daughter is to be a countess," said Sancho.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "The day that I see her a countess," replied Teresa, "it will be the same
+      to me as if I was burying her; but once more I say do as you please, for
+      we women are born to this burden of being obedient to our husbands, though
+      they be dogs;" and with this she began to weep in earnest, as if she
+      already saw Sanchica dead and buried.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Sancho consoled her by saying that though he must make her a countess, he
+      would put it off as long as possible. Here their conversation came to an
+      end, and Sancho went back to see Don Quixote, and make arrangements for
+      their departure.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p05e" id="p05e"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p05e.jpg (49K)" src="images/p05e.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p05e.jpg"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br />
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      <a name="ch6b" id="ch6b"></a>CHAPTER VI.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      OF WHAT TOOK PLACE BETWEEN DON QUIXOTE AND HIS NIECE AND HOUSEKEEPER; ONE
+      OF THE MOST IMPORTANT CHAPTERS IN THE WHOLE HISTORY
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <a name="p06a" id="p06a"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p06a.jpg (93K)" src="images/p06a.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p06a.jpg"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br />
+      <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      While Sancho Panza and his wife, Teresa Cascajo, held the above irrelevant
+      conversation, Don Quixote's niece and housekeeper were not idle, for by a
+      thousand signs they began to perceive that their uncle and master meant to
+      give them the slip the third time, and once more betake himself to his,
+      for them, ill-errant chivalry. They strove by all the means in their power
+      to divert him from such an unlucky scheme; but it was all preaching in the
+      desert and hammering cold iron. Nevertheless, among many other
+      representations made to him, the housekeeper said to him, "In truth,
+      master, if you do not keep still and stay quiet at home, and give over
+      roaming mountains and valleys like a troubled spirit, looking for what
+      they say are called adventures, but what I call misfortunes, I shall have
+      to make complaint to God and the king with loud supplication to send some
+      remedy."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      To which Don Quixote replied, "What answer God will give to your
+      complaints, housekeeper, I know not, nor what his Majesty will answer
+      either; I only know that if I were king I should decline to answer the
+      numberless silly petitions they present every day; for one of the greatest
+      among the many troubles kings have is being obliged to listen to all and
+      answer all, and therefore I should be sorry that any affairs of mine
+      should worry him."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Whereupon the housekeeper said, "Tell us, senor, at his Majesty's court
+      are there no knights?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "There are," replied Don Quixote, "and plenty of them; and it is right
+      there should be, to set off the dignity of the prince, and for the greater
+      glory of the king's majesty."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Then might not your worship," said she, "be one of those that, without
+      stirring a step, serve their king and lord in his court?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Recollect, my friend," said Don Quixote, "all knights cannot be
+      courtiers, nor can all courtiers be knights-errant, nor need they be.
+      There must be all sorts in the world; and though we may be all knights,
+      there is a great difference between one and another; for the courtiers,
+      without quitting their chambers, or the threshold of the court, range the
+      world over by looking at a map, without its costing them a farthing, and
+      without suffering heat or cold, hunger or thirst; but we, the true
+      knights-errant, measure the whole earth with our own feet, exposed to the
+      sun, to the cold, to the air, to the inclemencies of heaven, by day and
+      night, on foot and on horseback; nor do we only know enemies in pictures,
+      but in their own real shapes; and at all risks and on all occasions we
+      attack them, without any regard to childish points or rules of single
+      combat, whether one has or has not a shorter lance or sword, whether one
+      carries relics or any secret contrivance about him, whether or not the sun
+      is to be divided and portioned out, and other niceties of the sort that
+      are observed in set combats of man to man, that you know nothing about,
+      but I do. And you must know besides, that the true knight-errant, though
+      he may see ten giants, that not only touch the clouds with their heads but
+      pierce them, and that go, each of them, on two tall towers by way of legs,
+      and whose arms are like the masts of mighty ships, and each eye like a
+      great mill-wheel, and glowing brighter than a glass furnace, must not on
+      any account be dismayed by them. On the contrary, he must attack and fall
+      upon them with a gallant bearing and a fearless heart, and, if possible,
+      vanquish and destroy them, even though they have for armour the shells of
+      a certain fish, that they say are harder than diamonds, and in place of
+      swords wield trenchant blades of Damascus steel, or clubs studded with
+      spikes also of steel, such as I have more than once seen. All this I say,
+      housekeeper, that you may see the difference there is between the one sort
+      of knight and the other; and it would be well if there were no prince who
+      did not set a higher value on this second, or more properly speaking
+      first, kind of knights-errant; for, as we read in their histories, there
+      have been some among them who have been the salvation, not merely of one
+      kingdom, but of many."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Ah, senor," here exclaimed the niece, "remember that all this you are
+      saying about knights-errant is fable and fiction; and their histories, if
+      indeed they were not burned, would deserve, each of them, to have a
+      sambenito put on it, or some mark by which it might be known as infamous
+      and a corrupter of good manners."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "By the God that gives me life," said Don Quixote, "if thou wert not my
+      full niece, being daughter of my own sister, I would inflict a
+      chastisement upon thee for the blasphemy thou hast uttered that all the
+      world should ring with. What! can it be that a young hussy that hardly
+      knows how to handle a dozen lace-bobbins dares to wag her tongue and
+      criticise the histories of knights-errant? What would Senor Amadis say if
+      he heard of such a thing? He, however, no doubt would forgive thee, for he
+      was the most humble-minded and courteous knight of his time, and moreover
+      a great protector of damsels; but some there are that might have heard
+      thee, and it would not have been well for thee in that case; for they are
+      not all courteous or mannerly; some are ill-conditioned scoundrels; nor is
+      it everyone that calls himself a gentleman, that is so in all respects;
+      some are gold, others pinchbeck, and all look like gentlemen, but not all
+      can stand the touchstone of truth. There are men of low rank who strain
+      themselves to bursting to pass for gentlemen, and high gentlemen who, one
+      would fancy, were dying to pass for men of low rank; the former raise
+      themselves by their ambition or by their virtues, the latter debase
+      themselves by their lack of spirit or by their vices; and one has need of
+      experience and discernment to distinguish these two kinds of gentlemen, so
+      much alike in name and so different in conduct."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "God bless me!" said the niece, "that you should know so much, uncle&mdash;enough,
+      if need be, to get up into a pulpit and go preach in the streets&mdash;and
+      yet that you should fall into a delusion so great and a folly so manifest
+      as to try to make yourself out vigorous when you are old, strong when you
+      are sickly, able to put straight what is crooked when you yourself are
+      bent by age, and, above all, a caballero when you are not one; for though
+      gentlefolk may be so, poor men are nothing of the kind!"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "There is a great deal of truth in what you say, niece," returned Don
+      Quixote, "and I could tell you somewhat about birth that would astonish
+      you; but, not to mix up things human and divine, I refrain. Look you, my
+      dears, all the lineages in the world (attend to what I am saying) can be
+      reduced to four sorts, which are these: those that had humble beginnings,
+      and went on spreading and extending themselves until they attained
+      surpassing greatness; those that had great beginnings and maintained them,
+      and still maintain and uphold the greatness of their origin; those, again,
+      that from a great beginning have ended in a point like a pyramid, having
+      reduced and lessened their original greatness till it has come to nought,
+      like the point of a pyramid, which, relatively to its base or foundation,
+      is nothing; and then there are those&mdash;and it is they that are the
+      most numerous&mdash;that have had neither an illustrious beginning nor a
+      remarkable mid-course, and so will have an end without a name, like an
+      ordinary plebeian line. Of the first, those that had an humble origin and
+      rose to the greatness they still preserve, the Ottoman house may serve as
+      an example, which from an humble and lowly shepherd, its founder, has
+      reached the height at which we now see it. For examples of the second sort
+      of lineage, that began with greatness and maintains it still without
+      adding to it, there are the many princes who have inherited the dignity,
+      and maintain themselves in their inheritance, without increasing or
+      diminishing it, keeping peacefully within the limits of their states. Of
+      those that began great and ended in a point, there are thousands of
+      examples, for all the Pharaohs and Ptolemies of Egypt, the Caesars of
+      Rome, and the whole herd (if I may apply such a word to them) of countless
+      princes, monarchs, lords, Medes, Assyrians, Persians, Greeks, and
+      barbarians, all these lineages and lordships have ended in a point and
+      come to nothing, they themselves as well as their founders, for it would
+      be impossible now to find one of their descendants, and, even should we
+      find one, it would be in some lowly and humble condition. Of plebeian
+      lineages I have nothing to say, save that they merely serve to swell the
+      number of those that live, without any eminence to entitle them to any
+      fame or praise beyond this. From all I have said I would have you gather,
+      my poor innocents, that great is the confusion among lineages, and that
+      only those are seen to be great and illustrious that show themselves so by
+      the virtue, wealth, and generosity of their possessors. I have said
+      virtue, wealth, and generosity, because a great man who is vicious will be
+      a great example of vice, and a rich man who is not generous will be merely
+      a miserly beggar; for the possessor of wealth is not made happy by
+      possessing it, but by spending it, and not by spending as he pleases, but
+      by knowing how to spend it well. The poor gentleman has no way of showing
+      that he is a gentleman but by virtue, by being affable, well-bred,
+      courteous, gentle-mannered, and kindly, not haughty, arrogant, or
+      censorious, but above all by being charitable; for by two maravedis given
+      with a cheerful heart to the poor, he will show himself as generous as he
+      who distributes alms with bell-ringing, and no one that perceives him to
+      be endowed with the virtues I have named, even though he know him not,
+      will fail to recognise and set him down as one of good blood; and it would
+      be strange were it not so; praise has ever been the reward of virtue, and
+      those who are virtuous cannot fail to receive commendation. There are two
+      roads, my daughters, by which men may reach wealth and honours; one is
+      that of letters, the other that of arms. I have more of arms than of
+      letters in my composition, and, judging by my inclination to arms, was
+      born under the influence of the planet Mars. I am, therefore, in a measure
+      constrained to follow that road, and by it I must travel in spite of all
+      the world, and it will be labour in vain for you to urge me to resist what
+      heaven wills, fate ordains, reason requires, and, above all, my own
+      inclination favours; for knowing as I do the countless toils that are the
+      accompaniments of knight-errantry, I know, too, the infinite blessings
+      that are attained by it; I know that the path of virtue is very narrow,
+      and the road of vice broad and spacious; I know their ends and goals are
+      different, for the broad and easy road of vice ends in death, and the
+      narrow and toilsome one of virtue in life, and not transitory life, but in
+      that which has no end; I know, as our great Castilian poet says, that-
+    </p>
+<pre xml:space="preserve">
+It is by rugged paths like these they go
+That scale the heights of immortality,
+Unreached by those that falter here below."
+</pre>
+    <p>
+      "Woe is me!" exclaimed the niece, "my lord is a poet, too! He knows
+      everything, and he can do everything; I will bet, if he chose to turn
+      mason, he could make a house as easily as a cage."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I can tell you, niece," replied Don Quixote, "if these chivalrous
+      thoughts did not engage all my faculties, there would be nothing that I
+      could not do, nor any sort of knickknack that would not come from my
+      hands, particularly cages and tooth-picks."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      At this moment there came a knocking at the door, and when they asked who
+      was there, Sancho Panza made answer that it was he. The instant the
+      housekeeper knew who it was, she ran to hide herself so as not to see him;
+      in such abhorrence did she hold him. The niece let him in, and his master
+      Don Quixote came forward to receive him with open arms, and the pair shut
+      themselves up in his room, where they had another conversation not
+      inferior to the previous one.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p06e" id="p06e"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p06e.jpg (19K)" src="images/p06e.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      <a name="ch7b" id="ch7b"></a>CHAPTER VII.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      OF WHAT PASSED BETWEEN DON QUIXOTE AND HIS SQUIRE, TOGETHER WITH OTHER
+      VERY NOTABLE INCIDENTS
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <a name="p07a" id="p07a"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p07a.jpg (140K)" src="images/p07a.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p07a.jpg"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br />
+      <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The instant the housekeeper saw Sancho Panza shut himself in with her
+      master, she guessed what they were about; and suspecting that the result
+      of the consultation would be a resolve to undertake a third sally, she
+      seized her mantle, and in deep anxiety and distress, ran to find the
+      bachelor Samson Carrasco, as she thought that, being a well-spoken man,
+      and a new friend of her master's, he might be able to persuade him to give
+      up any such crazy notion. She found him pacing the patio of his house,
+      and, perspiring and flurried, she fell at his feet the moment she saw him.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Carrasco, seeing how distressed and overcome she was, said to her, "What
+      is this, mistress housekeeper? What has happened to you? One would think
+      you heart-broken."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Nothing, Senor Samson," said she, "only that my master is breaking out,
+      plainly breaking out."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Whereabouts is he breaking out, senora?" asked Samson; "has any part of
+      his body burst?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "He is only breaking out at the door of his madness," she replied; "I
+      mean, dear senor bachelor, that he is going to break out again (and this
+      will be the third time) to hunt all over the world for what he calls
+      ventures, though I can't make out why he gives them that name. The first
+      time he was brought back to us slung across the back of an ass, and
+      belaboured all over; and the second time he came in an ox-cart, shut up in
+      a cage, in which he persuaded himself he was enchanted, and the poor
+      creature was in such a state that the mother that bore him would not have
+      known him; lean, yellow, with his eyes sunk deep in the cells of his
+      skull; so that to bring him round again, ever so little, cost me more than
+      six hundred eggs, as God knows, and all the world, and my hens too, that
+      won't let me tell a lie."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "That I can well believe," replied the bachelor, "for they are so good and
+      so fat, and so well-bred, that they would not say one thing for another,
+      though they were to burst for it. In short then, mistress housekeeper,
+      that is all, and there is nothing the matter, except what it is feared Don
+      Quixote may do?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "No, senor," said she.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Well then," returned the bachelor, "don't be uneasy, but go home in
+      peace; get me ready something hot for breakfast, and while you are on the
+      way say the prayer of Santa Apollonia, that is if you know it; for I will
+      come presently and you will see miracles."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Woe is me," cried the housekeeper, "is it the prayer of Santa Apollonia
+      you would have me say? That would do if it was the toothache my master
+      had; but it is in the brains, what he has got."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I know what I am saying, mistress housekeeper; go, and don't set yourself
+      to argue with me, for you know I am a bachelor of Salamanca, and one can't
+      be more of a bachelor than that," replied Carrasco; and with this the
+      housekeeper retired, and the bachelor went to look for the curate, and
+      arrange with him what will be told in its proper place.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      While Don Quixote and Sancho were shut up together, they had a discussion
+      which the history records with great precision and scrupulous exactness.
+      Sancho said to his master, "Senor, I have educed my wife to let me go with
+      your worship wherever you choose to take me."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Induced, you should say, Sancho," said Don Quixote; "not educed."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Once or twice, as well as I remember," replied Sancho, "I have begged of
+      your worship not to mend my words, if so be as you understand what I mean
+      by them; and if you don't understand them to say 'Sancho,' or 'devil,' 'I
+      don't understand thee; and if I don't make my meaning plain, then you may
+      correct me, for I am so focile-"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I don't understand thee, Sancho," said Don Quixote at once; "for I know
+      not what 'I am so focile' means."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "'So focile' means I am so much that way," replied Sancho.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I understand thee still less now," said Don Quixote.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Well, if you can't understand me," said Sancho, "I don't know how to put
+      it; I know no more, God help me."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Oh, now I have hit it," said Don Quixote; "thou wouldst say thou art so
+      docile, tractable, and gentle that thou wilt take what I say to thee, and
+      submit to what I teach thee."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I would bet," said Sancho, "that from the very first you understood me,
+      and knew what I meant, but you wanted to put me out that you might hear me
+      make another couple of dozen blunders."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "May be so," replied Don Quixote; "but to come to the point, what does
+      Teresa say?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Teresa says," replied Sancho, "that I should make sure with your worship,
+      and 'let papers speak and beards be still,' for 'he who binds does not
+      wrangle,' since one 'take' is better than two 'I'll give thee's;' and I
+      say a woman's advice is no great thing, and he who won't take it is a
+      fool."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "And so say I," said Don Quixote; "continue, Sancho my friend; go on; you
+      talk pearls to-day."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "The fact is," continued Sancho, "that, as your worship knows better than
+      I do, we are all of us liable to death, and to-day we are, and to-morrow
+      we are not, and the lamb goes as soon as the sheep, and nobody can promise
+      himself more hours of life in this world than God may be pleased to give
+      him; for death is deaf, and when it comes to knock at our life's door, it
+      is always urgent, and neither prayers, nor struggles, nor sceptres, nor
+      mitres, can keep it back, as common talk and report say, and as they tell
+      us from the pulpits every day."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "All that is very true," said Don Quixote; "but I cannot make out what
+      thou art driving at."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "What I am driving at," said Sancho, "is that your worship settle some
+      fixed wages for me, to be paid monthly while I am in your service, and
+      that the same be paid me out of your estate; for I don't care to stand on
+      rewards which either come late, or ill, or never at all; God help me with
+      my own. In short, I would like to know what I am to get, be it much or
+      little; for the hen will lay on one egg, and many littles make a much, and
+      so long as one gains something there is nothing lost. To be sure, if it
+      should happen (what I neither believe nor expect) that your worship were
+      to give me that island you have promised me, I am not so ungrateful nor so
+      grasping but that I would be willing to have the revenue of such island
+      valued and stopped out of my wages in due promotion."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Sancho, my friend," replied Don Quixote, "sometimes proportion may be as
+      good as promotion."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I see," said Sancho; "I'll bet I ought to have said proportion, and not
+      promotion; but it is no matter, as your worship has understood me."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "And so well understood," returned Don Quixote, "that I have seen into the
+      depths of thy thoughts, and know the mark thou art shooting at with the
+      countless shafts of thy proverbs. Look here, Sancho, I would readily fix
+      thy wages if I had ever found any instance in the histories of the
+      knights-errant to show or indicate, by the slightest hint, what their
+      squires used to get monthly or yearly; but I have read all or the best
+      part of their histories, and I cannot remember reading of any
+      knight-errant having assigned fixed wages to his squire; I only know that
+      they all served on reward, and that when they least expected it, if good
+      luck attended their masters, they found themselves recompensed with an
+      island or something equivalent to it, or at the least they were left with
+      a title and lordship. If with these hopes and additional inducements you,
+      Sancho, please to return to my service, well and good; but to suppose that
+      I am going to disturb or unhinge the ancient usage of knight-errantry, is
+      all nonsense. And so, my Sancho, get you back to your house and explain my
+      intentions to your Teresa, and if she likes and you like to be on reward
+      with me, bene quidem; if not, we remain friends; for if the pigeon-house
+      does not lack food, it will not lack pigeons; and bear in mind, my son,
+      that a good hope is better than a bad holding, and a good grievance better
+      than a bad compensation. I speak in this way, Sancho, to show you that I
+      can shower down proverbs just as well as yourself; and in short, I mean to
+      say, and I do say, that if you don't like to come on reward with me, and
+      run the same chance that I run, God be with you and make a saint of you;
+      for I shall find plenty of squires more obedient and painstaking, and not
+      so thickheaded or talkative as you are."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      When Sancho heard his master's firm, resolute language, a cloud came over
+      the sky with him and the wings of his heart drooped, for he had made sure
+      that his master would not go without him for all the wealth of the world;
+      and as he stood there dumbfoundered and moody, Samson Carrasco came in
+      with the housekeeper and niece, who were anxious to hear by what arguments
+      he was about to dissuade their master from going to seek adventures. The
+      arch wag Samson came forward, and embracing him as he had done before,
+      said with a loud voice, "O flower of knight-errantry! O shining light of
+      arms! O honour and mirror of the Spanish nation! may God Almighty in his
+      infinite power grant that any person or persons, who would impede or
+      hinder thy third sally, may find no way out of the labyrinth of their
+      schemes, nor ever accomplish what they most desire!" And then, turning to
+      the housekeeper, he said, "Mistress housekeeper may just as well give over
+      saying the prayer of Santa Apollonia, for I know it is the positive
+      determination of the spheres that Senor Don Quixote shall proceed to put
+      into execution his new and lofty designs; and I should lay a heavy burden
+      on my conscience did I not urge and persuade this knight not to keep the
+      might of his strong arm and the virtue of his valiant spirit any longer
+      curbed and checked, for by his inactivity he is defrauding the world of
+      the redress of wrongs, of the protection of orphans, of the honour of
+      virgins, of the aid of widows, and of the support of wives, and other
+      matters of this kind appertaining, belonging, proper and peculiar to the
+      order of knight-errantry. On, then, my lord Don Quixote, beautiful and
+      brave, let your worship and highness set out to-day rather than to-morrow;
+      and if anything be needed for the execution of your purpose, here am I
+      ready in person and purse to supply the want; and were it requisite to
+      attend your magnificence as squire, I should esteem it the happiest good
+      fortune."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      At this, Don Quixote, turning to Sancho, said, "Did I not tell thee,
+      Sancho, there would be squires enough and to spare for me? See now who
+      offers to become one; no less than the illustrious bachelor Samson
+      Carrasco, the perpetual joy and delight of the courts of the Salamancan
+      schools, sound in body, discreet, patient under heat or cold, hunger or
+      thirst, with all the qualifications requisite to make a knight-errant's
+      squire! But heaven forbid that, to gratify my own inclination, I should
+      shake or shatter this pillar of letters and vessel of the sciences, and
+      cut down this towering palm of the fair and liberal arts. Let this new
+      Samson remain in his own country, and, bringing honour to it, bring honour
+      at the same time on the grey heads of his venerable parents; for I will be
+      content with any squire that comes to hand, as Sancho does not deign to
+      accompany me."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I do deign," said Sancho, deeply moved and with tears in his eyes; "it
+      shall not be said of me, master mine," he continued, "'the bread eaten and
+      the company dispersed.' Nay, I come of no ungrateful stock, for all the
+      world knows, but particularly my own town, who the Panzas from whom I am
+      descended were; and, what is more, I know and have learned, by many good
+      words and deeds, your worship's desire to show me favour; and if I have
+      been bargaining more or less about my wages, it was only to please my
+      wife, who, when she sets herself to press a point, no hammer drives the
+      hoops of a cask as she drives one to do what she wants; but, after all, a
+      man must be a man, and a woman a woman; and as I am a man anyhow, which I
+      can't deny, I will be one in my own house too, let who will take it amiss;
+      and so there's nothing more to do but for your worship to make your will
+      with its codicil in such a way that it can't be provoked, and let us set
+      out at once, to save Senor Samson's soul from suffering, as he says his
+      conscience obliges him to persuade your worship to sally out upon the
+      world a third time; so I offer again to serve your worship faithfully and
+      loyally, as well and better than all the squires that served
+      knights-errant in times past or present."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The bachelor was filled with amazement when he heard Sancho's phraseology
+      and style of talk, for though he had read the first part of his master's
+      history he never thought that he could be so droll as he was there
+      described; but now, hearing him talk of a "will and codicil that could not
+      be provoked," instead of "will and codicil that could not be revoked," he
+      believed all he had read of him, and set him down as one of the greatest
+      simpletons of modern times; and he said to himself that two such lunatics
+      as master and man the world had never seen. In fine, Don Quixote and
+      Sancho embraced one another and made friends, and by the advice and with
+      the approval of the great Carrasco, who was now their oracle, it was
+      arranged that their departure should take place three days thence, by
+      which time they could have all that was requisite for the journey ready,
+      and procure a closed helmet, which Don Quixote said he must by all means
+      take. Samson offered him one, as he knew a friend of his who had it would
+      not refuse it to him, though it was more dingy with rust and mildew than
+      bright and clean like burnished steel.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The curses which both housekeeper and niece poured out on the bachelor
+      were past counting; they tore their hair, they clawed their faces, and in
+      the style of the hired mourners that were once in fashion, they raised a
+      lamentation over the departure of their master and uncle, as if it had
+      been his death. Samson's intention in persuading him to sally forth once
+      more was to do what the history relates farther on; all by the advice of
+      the curate and barber, with whom he had previously discussed the subject.
+      Finally, then, during those three days, Don Quixote and Sancho provided
+      themselves with what they considered necessary, and Sancho having pacified
+      his wife, and Don Quixote his niece and housekeeper, at nightfall, unseen
+      by anyone except the bachelor, who thought fit to accompany them half a
+      league out of the village, they set out for El Toboso, Don Quixote on his
+      good Rocinante and Sancho on his old Dapple, his alforjas furnished with
+      certain matters in the way of victuals, and his purse with money that Don
+      Quixote gave him to meet emergencies. Samson embraced him, and entreated
+      him to let him hear of his good or evil fortunes, so that he might rejoice
+      over the former or condole with him over the latter, as the laws of
+      friendship required. Don Quixote promised him he would do so, and Samson
+      returned to the village, and the other two took the road for the great
+      city of El Toboso.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p07e" id="p07e"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p07e.jpg (24K)" src="images/p07e.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      <a name="ch8b" id="ch8b"></a>CHAPTER VIII.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      WHEREIN IS RELATED WHAT BEFELL DON QUIXOTE ON HIS WAY TO SEE HIS LADY
+      DULCINEA DEL TOBOSO
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <a name="p08a" id="p08a"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p08a.jpg (65K)" src="images/p08a.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p08a.jpg"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br />
+      <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Blessed be Allah the all-powerful!" says Hamete Benengeli on beginning
+      this eighth chapter; "blessed be Allah!" he repeats three times; and he
+      says he utters these thanksgivings at seeing that he has now got Don
+      Quixote and Sancho fairly afield, and that the readers of his delightful
+      history may reckon that the achievements and humours of Don Quixote and
+      his squire are now about to begin; and he urges them to forget the former
+      chivalries of the ingenious gentleman and to fix their eyes on those that
+      are to come, which now begin on the road to El Toboso, as the others began
+      on the plains of Montiel; nor is it much that he asks in consideration of
+      all he promises, and so he goes on to say:
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Don Quixote and Sancho were left alone, and the moment Samson took his
+      departure, Rocinante began to neigh, and Dapple to sigh, which, by both
+      knight and squire, was accepted as a good sign and a very happy omen;
+      though, if the truth is to be told, the sighs and brays of Dapple were
+      louder than the neighings of the hack, from which Sancho inferred that his
+      good fortune was to exceed and overtop that of his master, building,
+      perhaps, upon some judicial astrology that he may have known, though the
+      history says nothing about it; all that can be said is, that when he
+      stumbled or fell, he was heard to say he wished he had not come out, for
+      by stumbling or falling there was nothing to be got but a damaged shoe or
+      a broken rib; and, fool as he was, he was not much astray in this.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Said Don Quixote, "Sancho, my friend, night is drawing on upon us as we
+      go, and more darkly than will allow us to reach El Toboso by daylight; for
+      there I am resolved to go before I engage in another adventure, and there
+      I shall obtain the blessing and generous permission of the peerless
+      Dulcinea, with which permission I expect and feel assured that I shall
+      conclude and bring to a happy termination every perilous adventure; for
+      nothing in life makes knights-errant more valorous than finding themselves
+      favoured by their ladies."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p08b" id="p08b"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p08b.jpg (283K)" src="images/p08b.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p08b.jpg"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br />
+      <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "So I believe," replied Sancho; "but I think it will be difficult for your
+      worship to speak with her or see her, at any rate where you will be able
+      to receive her blessing; unless, indeed, she throws it over the wall of
+      the yard where I saw her the time before, when I took her the letter that
+      told of the follies and mad things your worship was doing in the heart of
+      Sierra Morena."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Didst thou take that for a yard wall, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "where
+      or at which thou sawest that never sufficiently extolled grace and beauty?
+      It must have been the gallery, corridor, or portico of some rich and royal
+      palace."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "It might have been all that," returned Sancho, "but to me it looked like
+      a wall, unless I am short of memory."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "At all events, let us go there, Sancho," said Don Quixote; "for, so that
+      I see her, it is the same to me whether it be over a wall, or at a window,
+      or through the chink of a door, or the grate of a garden; for any beam of
+      the sun of her beauty that reaches my eyes will give light to my reason
+      and strength to my heart, so that I shall be unmatched and unequalled in
+      wisdom and valour."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Well, to tell the truth, senor," said Sancho, "when I saw that sun of the
+      lady Dulcinea del Toboso, it was not bright enough to throw out beams at
+      all; it must have been, that as her grace was sifting that wheat I told
+      you of, the thick dust she raised came before her face like a cloud and
+      dimmed it."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "What! dost thou still persist, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "in saying,
+      thinking, believing, and maintaining that my lady Dulcinea was sifting
+      wheat, that being an occupation and task entirely at variance with what is
+      and should be the employment of persons of distinction, who are
+      constituted and reserved for other avocations and pursuits that show their
+      rank a bowshot off? Thou hast forgotten, O Sancho, those lines of our poet
+      wherein he paints for us how, in their crystal abodes, those four nymphs
+      employed themselves who rose from their loved Tagus and seated themselves
+      in a verdant meadow to embroider those tissues which the ingenious poet
+      there describes to us, how they were worked and woven with gold and silk
+      and pearls; and something of this sort must have been the employment of my
+      lady when thou sawest her, only that the spite which some wicked enchanter
+      seems to have against everything of mine changes all those things that
+      give me pleasure, and turns them into shapes unlike their own; and so I
+      fear that in that history of my achievements which they say is now in
+      print, if haply its author was some sage who is an enemy of mine, he will
+      have put one thing for another, mingling a thousand lies with one truth,
+      and amusing himself by relating transactions which have nothing to do with
+      the sequence of a true history. O envy, root of all countless evils, and
+      cankerworm of the virtues! All the vices, Sancho, bring some kind of
+      pleasure with them; but envy brings nothing but irritation, bitterness,
+      and rage."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "So I say too," replied Sancho; "and I suspect in that legend or history
+      of us that the bachelor Samson Carrasco told us he saw, my honour goes
+      dragged in the dirt, knocked about, up and down, sweeping the streets, as
+      they say. And yet, on the faith of an honest man, I never spoke ill of any
+      enchanter, and I am not so well off that I am to be envied; to be sure, I
+      am rather sly, and I have a certain spice of the rogue in me; but all is
+      covered by the great cloak of my simplicity, always natural and never
+      acted; and if I had no other merit save that I believe, as I always do,
+      firmly and truly in God, and all the holy Roman Catholic Church holds and
+      believes, and that I am a mortal enemy of the Jews, the historians ought
+      to have mercy on me and treat me well in their writings. But let them say
+      what they like; naked was I born, naked I find myself, I neither lose nor
+      gain; nay, while I see myself put into a book and passed on from hand to
+      hand over the world, I don't care a fig, let them say what they like of
+      me."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "That, Sancho," returned Don Quixote, "reminds me of what happened to a
+      famous poet of our own day, who, having written a bitter satire against
+      all the courtesan ladies, did not insert or name in it a certain lady of
+      whom it was questionable whether she was one or not. She, seeing she was
+      not in the list of the poet, asked him what he had seen in her that he did
+      not include her in the number of the others, telling him he must add to
+      his satire and put her in the new part, or else look out for the
+      consequences. The poet did as she bade him, and left her without a shred
+      of reputation, and she was satisfied by getting fame though it was infamy.
+      In keeping with this is what they relate of that shepherd who set fire to
+      the famous temple of Diana, by repute one of the seven wonders of the
+      world, and burned it with the sole object of making his name live in after
+      ages; and, though it was forbidden to name him, or mention his name by
+      word of mouth or in writing, lest the object of his ambition should be
+      attained, nevertheless it became known that he was called Erostratus. And
+      something of the same sort is what happened in the case of the great
+      emperor Charles V and a gentleman in Rome. The emperor was anxious to see
+      that famous temple of the Rotunda, called in ancient times the temple 'of
+      all the gods,' but now-a-days, by a better nomenclature, 'of all the
+      saints,' which is the best preserved building of all those of pagan
+      construction in Rome, and the one which best sustains the reputation of
+      mighty works and magnificence of its founders. It is in the form of a half
+      orange, of enormous dimensions, and well lighted, though no light
+      penetrates it save that which is admitted by a window, or rather round
+      skylight, at the top; and it was from this that the emperor examined the
+      building. A Roman gentleman stood by his side and explained to him the
+      skilful construction and ingenuity of the vast fabric and its wonderful
+      architecture, and when they had left the skylight he said to the emperor,
+      'A thousand times, your Sacred Majesty, the impulse came upon me to seize
+      your Majesty in my arms and fling myself down from yonder skylight, so as
+      to leave behind me in the world a name that would last for ever.' 'I am
+      thankful to you for not carrying such an evil thought into effect,' said
+      the emperor, 'and I shall give you no opportunity in future of again
+      putting your loyalty to the test; and I therefore forbid you ever to speak
+      to me or to be where I am; and he followed up these words by bestowing a
+      liberal bounty upon him. My meaning is, Sancho, that the desire of
+      acquiring fame is a very powerful motive. What, thinkest thou, was it that
+      flung Horatius in full armour down from the bridge into the depths of the
+      Tiber? What burned the hand and arm of Mutius? What impelled Curtius to
+      plunge into the deep burning gulf that opened in the midst of Rome? What,
+      in opposition to all the omens that declared against him, made Julius
+      Caesar cross the Rubicon? And to come to more modern examples, what
+      scuttled the ships, and left stranded and cut off the gallant Spaniards
+      under the command of the most courteous Cortes in the New World? All these
+      and a variety of other great exploits are, were and will be, the work of
+      fame that mortals desire as a reward and a portion of the immortality
+      their famous deeds deserve; though we Catholic Christians and
+      knights-errant look more to that future glory that is everlasting in the
+      ethereal regions of heaven than to the vanity of the fame that is to be
+      acquired in this present transitory life; a fame that, however long it may
+      last, must after all end with the world itself, which has its own
+      appointed end. So that, O Sancho, in what we do we must not overpass the
+      bounds which the Christian religion we profess has assigned to us. We have
+      to slay pride in giants, envy by generosity and nobleness of heart, anger
+      by calmness of demeanour and equanimity, gluttony and sloth by the
+      spareness of our diet and the length of our vigils, lust and lewdness by
+      the loyalty we preserve to those whom we have made the mistresses of our
+      thoughts, indolence by traversing the world in all directions seeking
+      opportunities of making ourselves, besides Christians, famous knights.
+      Such, Sancho, are the means by which we reach those extremes of praise
+      that fair fame carries with it."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "All that your worship has said so far," said Sancho, "I have understood
+      quite well; but still I would be glad if your worship would dissolve a
+      doubt for me, which has just this minute come into my mind."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Solve, thou meanest, Sancho," said Don Quixote; "say on, in God's name,
+      and I will answer as well as I can."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Tell me, senor," Sancho went on to say, "those Julys or Augusts, and all
+      those venturous knights that you say are now dead&mdash;where are they
+      now?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "The heathens," replied Don Quixote, "are, no doubt, in hell; the
+      Christians, if they were good Christians, are either in purgatory or in
+      heaven."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Very good," said Sancho; "but now I want to know&mdash;the tombs where
+      the bodies of those great lords are, have they silver lamps before them,
+      or are the walls of their chapels ornamented with crutches,
+      winding-sheets, tresses of hair, legs and eyes in wax? Or what are they
+      ornamented with?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      To which Don Quixote made answer: "The tombs of the heathens were
+      generally sumptuous temples; the ashes of Julius Caesar's body were placed
+      on the top of a stone pyramid of vast size, which they now call in Rome
+      Saint Peter's needle. The emperor Hadrian had for a tomb a castle as large
+      as a good-sized village, which they called the Moles Adriani, and is now
+      the castle of St. Angelo in Rome. The queen Artemisia buried her husband
+      Mausolus in a tomb which was reckoned one of the seven wonders of the
+      world; but none of these tombs, or of the many others of the heathens,
+      were ornamented with winding-sheets or any of those other offerings and
+      tokens that show that they who are buried there are saints."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "That's the point I'm coming to," said Sancho; "and now tell me, which is
+      the greater work, to bring a dead man to life or to kill a giant?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "The answer is easy," replied Don Quixote; "it is a greater work to bring
+      to life a dead man."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Now I have got you," said Sancho; "in that case the fame of them who
+      bring the dead to life, who give sight to the blind, cure cripples,
+      restore health to the sick, and before whose tombs there are lamps
+      burning, and whose chapels are filled with devout folk on their knees
+      adoring their relics be a better fame in this life and in the other than
+      that which all the heathen emperors and knights-errant that have ever been
+      in the world have left or may leave behind them?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "That I grant, too," said Don Quixote.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Then this fame, these favours, these privileges, or whatever you call
+      it," said Sancho, "belong to the bodies and relics of the saints who, with
+      the approbation and permission of our holy mother Church, have lamps,
+      tapers, winding-sheets, crutches, pictures, eyes and legs, by means of
+      which they increase devotion and add to their own Christian reputation.
+      Kings carry the bodies or relics of saints on their shoulders, and kiss
+      bits of their bones, and enrich and adorn their oratories and favourite
+      altars with them."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "What wouldst thou have me infer from all thou hast said, Sancho?" asked
+      Don Quixote.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "My meaning is," said Sancho, "let us set about becoming saints, and we
+      shall obtain more quickly the fair fame we are striving after; for you
+      know, senor, yesterday or the day before yesterday (for it is so lately
+      one may say so) they canonised and beatified two little barefoot friars,
+      and it is now reckoned the greatest good luck to kiss or touch the iron
+      chains with which they girt and tortured their bodies, and they are held
+      in greater veneration, so it is said, than the sword of Roland in the
+      armoury of our lord the King, whom God preserve. So that, senor, it is
+      better to be an humble little friar of no matter what order, than a
+      valiant knight-errant; with God a couple of dozen of penance lashings are
+      of more avail than two thousand lance-thrusts, be they given to giants, or
+      monsters, or dragons."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "All that is true," returned Don Quixote, "but we cannot all be friars,
+      and many are the ways by which God takes his own to heaven; chivalry is a
+      religion, there are sainted knights in glory."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Yes," said Sancho, "but I have heard say that there are more friars in
+      heaven than knights-errant."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "That," said Don Quixote, "is because those in religious orders are more
+      numerous than knights."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "The errants are many," said Sancho.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Many," replied Don Quixote, "but few they who deserve the name of
+      knights."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      With these, and other discussions of the same sort, they passed that night
+      and the following day, without anything worth mention happening to them,
+      whereat Don Quixote was not a little dejected; but at length the next day,
+      at daybreak, they descried the great city of El Toboso, at the sight of
+      which Don Quixote's spirits rose and Sancho's fell, for he did not know
+      Dulcinea's house, nor in all his life had he ever seen her, any more than
+      his master; so that they were both uneasy, the one to see her, the other
+      at not having seen her, and Sancho was at a loss to know what he was to do
+      when his master sent him to El Toboso. In the end, Don Quixote made up his
+      mind to enter the city at nightfall, and they waited until the time came
+      among some oak trees that were near El Toboso; and when the moment they
+      had agreed upon arrived, they made their entrance into the city, where
+      something happened them that may fairly be called something.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p08e" id="p08e"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p08e.jpg (49K)" src="images/p08e.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p08e.jpg"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br />
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      <a name="ch9b" id="ch9b"></a>CHAPTER IX.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      WHEREIN IS RELATED WHAT WILL BE SEEN THERE
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <a name="p09a" id="p09a"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p09a.jpg (79K)" src="images/p09a.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p09a.jpg"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br />
+      <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      'Twas at the very midnight hour&mdash;more or less&mdash;when Don Quixote
+      and Sancho quitted the wood and entered El Toboso. The town was in deep
+      silence, for all the inhabitants were asleep, and stretched on the broad
+      of their backs, as the saying is. The night was darkish, though Sancho
+      would have been glad had it been quite dark, so as to find in the darkness
+      an excuse for his blundering. All over the place nothing was to be heard
+      except the barking of dogs, which deafened the ears of Don Quixote and
+      troubled the heart of Sancho. Now and then an ass brayed, pigs grunted,
+      cats mewed, and the various noises they made seemed louder in the silence
+      of the night; all which the enamoured knight took to be of evil omen;
+      nevertheless he said to Sancho, "Sancho, my son, lead on to the palace of
+      Dulcinea, it may be that we shall find her awake."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Body of the sun! what palace am I to lead to," said Sancho, "when what I
+      saw her highness in was only a very little house?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Most likely she had then withdrawn into some small apartment of her
+      palace," said Don Quixote, "to amuse herself with damsels, as great ladies
+      and princesses are accustomed to do."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Senor," said Sancho, "if your worship will have it in spite of me that
+      the house of my lady Dulcinea is a palace, is this an hour, think you, to
+      find the door open; and will it be right for us to go knocking till they
+      hear us and open the door; making a disturbance and confusion all through
+      the household? Are we going, do you fancy, to the house of our wenches,
+      like gallants who come and knock and go in at any hour, however late it
+      may be?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Let us first of all find out the palace for certain," replied Don
+      Quixote, "and then I will tell thee, Sancho, what we had best do; but
+      look, Sancho, for either I see badly, or that dark mass that one sees from
+      here should be Dulcinea's palace."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Then let your worship lead the way," said Sancho, "perhaps it may be so;
+      though I see it with my eyes and touch it with my hands, I'll believe it
+      as much as I believe it is daylight now."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Don Quixote took the lead, and having gone a matter of two hundred paces
+      he came upon the mass that produced the shade, and found it was a great
+      tower, and then he perceived that the building in question was no palace,
+      but the chief church of the town, and said he, "It's the church we have
+      lit upon, Sancho."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "So I see," said Sancho, "and God grant we may not light upon our graves;
+      it is no good sign to find oneself wandering in a graveyard at this time
+      of night; and that, after my telling your worship, if I don't mistake,
+      that the house of this lady will be in an alley without an outlet."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "The curse of God on thee for a blockhead!" said Don Quixote; "where hast
+      thou ever heard of castles and royal palaces being built in alleys without
+      an outlet?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Senor," replied Sancho, "every country has a way of its own; perhaps here
+      in El Toboso it is the way to build palaces and grand buildings in alleys;
+      so I entreat your worship to let me search about among these streets or
+      alleys before me, and perhaps, in some corner or other, I may stumble on
+      this palace&mdash;and I wish I saw the dogs eating it for leading us such
+      a dance."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Speak respectfully of what belongs to my lady, Sancho," said Don Quixote;
+      "let us keep the feast in peace, and not throw the rope after the bucket."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I'll hold my tongue," said Sancho, "but how am I to take it patiently
+      when your worship wants me, with only once seeing the house of our
+      mistress, to know always, and find it in the middle of the night, when
+      your worship can't find it, who must have seen it thousands of times?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Thou wilt drive me to desperation, Sancho," said Don Quixote. "Look here,
+      heretic, have I not told thee a thousand times that I have never once in
+      my life seen the peerless Dulcinea or crossed the threshold of her palace,
+      and that I am enamoured solely by hearsay and by the great reputation she
+      bears for beauty and discretion?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I hear it now," returned Sancho; "and I may tell you that if you have not
+      seen her, no more have I."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "That cannot be," said Don Quixote, "for, at any rate, thou saidst, on
+      bringing back the answer to the letter I sent by thee, that thou sawest
+      her sifting wheat."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Don't mind that, senor," said Sancho; "I must tell you that my seeing her
+      and the answer I brought you back were by hearsay too, for I can no more
+      tell who the lady Dulcinea is than I can hit the sky."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Sancho, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "there are times for jests and times
+      when jests are out of place; if I tell thee that I have neither seen nor
+      spoken to the lady of my heart, it is no reason why thou shouldst say thou
+      hast not spoken to her or seen her, when the contrary is the case, as thou
+      well knowest."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      While the two were engaged in this conversation, they perceived some one
+      with a pair of mules approaching the spot where they stood, and from the
+      noise the plough made, as it dragged along the ground, they guessed him to
+      be some labourer who had got up before daybreak to go to his work, and so
+      it proved to be. He came along singing the ballad that says-
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Ill did ye fare, ye men of France, In Roncesvalles chase-
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "May I die, Sancho," said Don Quixote, when he heard him, "if any good
+      will come to us tonight! Dost thou not hear what that clown is singing?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I do," said Sancho, "but what has Roncesvalles chase to do with what we
+      have in hand? He might just as well be singing the ballad of Calainos, for
+      any good or ill that can come to us in our business."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      By this time the labourer had come up, and Don Quixote asked him, "Can you
+      tell me, worthy friend, and God speed you, whereabouts here is the palace
+      of the peerless princess Dona Dulcinea del Toboso?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Senor," replied the lad, "I am a stranger, and I have been only a few
+      days in the town, doing farm work for a rich farmer. In that house
+      opposite there live the curate of the village and the sacristan, and both
+      or either of them will be able to give your worship some account of this
+      lady princess, for they have a list of all the people of El Toboso; though
+      it is my belief there is not a princess living in the whole of it; many
+      ladies there are, of quality, and in her own house each of them may be a
+      princess."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Well, then, she I am inquiring for will be one of these, my friend," said
+      Don Quixote.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "May be so," replied the lad; "God be with you, for here comes the
+      daylight;" and without waiting for any more of his questions, he whipped
+      on his mules.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Sancho, seeing his master downcast and somewhat dissatisfied, said to him,
+      "Senor, daylight will be here before long, and it will not do for us to
+      let the sun find us in the street; it will be better for us to quit the
+      city, and for your worship to hide in some forest in the neighbourhood,
+      and I will come back in the daytime, and I won't leave a nook or corner of
+      the whole village that I won't search for the house, castle, or palace, of
+      my lady, and it will be hard luck for me if I don't find it; and as soon
+      as I have found it I will speak to her grace, and tell her where and how
+      your worship is waiting for her to arrange some plan for you to see her
+      without any damage to her honour and reputation."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Sancho," said Don Quixote, "thou hast delivered a thousand sentences
+      condensed in the compass of a few words; I thank thee for the advice thou
+      hast given me, and take it most gladly. Come, my son, let us go look for
+      some place where I may hide, while thou dost return, as thou sayest, to
+      seek, and speak with my lady, from whose discretion and courtesy I look
+      for favours more than miraculous."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Sancho was in a fever to get his master out of the town, lest he should
+      discover the falsehood of the reply he had brought to him in the Sierra
+      Morena on behalf of Dulcinea; so he hastened their departure, which they
+      took at once, and two miles out of the village they found a forest or
+      thicket wherein Don Quixote ensconced himself, while Sancho returned to
+      the city to speak to Dulcinea, in which embassy things befell him which
+      demand fresh attention and a new chapter.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p09e" id="p09e"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p09e.jpg (34K)" src="images/p09e.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      <a name="ch10b" id="ch10b"></a>CHAPTER X.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      WHEREIN IS RELATED THE CRAFTY DEVICE SANCHO ADOPTED TO ENCHANT THE LADY
+      DULCINEA, AND OTHER INCIDENTS AS LUDICROUS AS THEY ARE TRUE
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <a name="p10a" id="p10a"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p10a.jpg (142K)" src="images/p10a.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p10a.jpg"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br />
+      <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      When the author of this great history comes to relate what is set down in
+      this chapter he says he would have preferred to pass it over in silence,
+      fearing it would not be believed, because here Don Quixote's madness
+      reaches the confines of the greatest that can be conceived, and even goes
+      a couple of bowshots beyond the greatest. But after all, though still
+      under the same fear and apprehension, he has recorded it without adding to
+      the story or leaving out a particle of the truth, and entirely
+      disregarding the charges of falsehood that might be brought against him;
+      and he was right, for the truth may run fine but will not break, and
+      always rises above falsehood as oil above water; and so, going on with his
+      story, he says that as soon as Don Quixote had ensconced himself in the
+      forest, oak grove, or wood near El Toboso, he bade Sancho return to the
+      city, and not come into his presence again without having first spoken on
+      his behalf to his lady, and begged of her that it might be her good
+      pleasure to permit herself to be seen by her enslaved knight, and deign to
+      bestow her blessing upon him, so that he might thereby hope for a happy
+      issue in all his encounters and difficult enterprises. Sancho undertook to
+      execute the task according to the instructions, and to bring back an
+      answer as good as the one he brought back before.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Go, my son," said Don Quixote, "and be not dazed when thou findest
+      thyself exposed to the light of that sun of beauty thou art going to seek.
+      Happy thou, above all the squires in the world! Bear in mind, and let it
+      not escape thy memory, how she receives thee; if she changes colour while
+      thou art giving her my message; if she is agitated and disturbed at
+      hearing my name; if she cannot rest upon her cushion, shouldst thou haply
+      find her seated in the sumptuous state chamber proper to her rank; and
+      should she be standing, observe if she poises herself now on one foot, now
+      on the other; if she repeats two or three times the reply she gives thee;
+      if she passes from gentleness to austerity, from asperity to tenderness;
+      if she raises her hand to smooth her hair though it be not disarranged. In
+      short, my son, observe all her actions and motions, for if thou wilt
+      report them to me as they were, I will gather what she hides in the
+      recesses of her heart as regards my love; for I would have thee know,
+      Sancho, if thou knowest it not, that with lovers the outward actions and
+      motions they give way to when their loves are in question are the faithful
+      messengers that carry the news of what is going on in the depths of their
+      hearts. Go, my friend, may better fortune than mine attend thee, and bring
+      thee a happier issue than that which I await in dread in this dreary
+      solitude."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I will go and return quickly," said Sancho; "cheer up that little heart
+      of yours, master mine, for at the present moment you seem to have got one
+      no bigger than a hazel nut; remember what they say, that a stout heart
+      breaks bad luck, and that where there are no fletches there are no pegs;
+      and moreover they say, the hare jumps up where it's not looked for. I say
+      this because, if we could not find my lady's palaces or castles to-night,
+      now that it is daylight I count upon finding them when I least expect it,
+      and once found, leave it to me to manage her."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Verily, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "thou dost always bring in thy
+      proverbs happily, whatever we deal with; may God give me better luck in
+      what I am anxious about."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      With this, Sancho wheeled about and gave Dapple the stick, and Don Quixote
+      remained behind, seated on his horse, resting in his stirrups and leaning
+      on the end of his lance, filled with sad and troubled forebodings; and
+      there we will leave him, and accompany Sancho, who went off no less
+      serious and troubled than he left his master; so much so, that as soon as
+      he had got out of the thicket, and looking round saw that Don Quixote was
+      not within sight, he dismounted from his ass, and seating himself at the
+      foot of a tree began to commune with himself, saying, "Now, brother
+      Sancho, let us know where your worship is going. Are you going to look for
+      some ass that has been lost? Not at all. Then what are you going to look
+      for? I am going to look for a princess, that's all; and in her for the sun
+      of beauty and the whole heaven at once. And where do you expect to find
+      all this, Sancho? Where? Why, in the great city of El Toboso. Well, and
+      for whom are you going to look for her? For the famous knight Don Quixote
+      of La Mancha, who rights wrongs, gives food to those who thirst and drink
+      to the hungry. That's all very well, but do you know her house, Sancho? My
+      master says it will be some royal palace or grand castle. And have you
+      ever seen her by any chance? Neither I nor my master ever saw her. And
+      does it strike you that it would be just and right if the El Toboso
+      people, finding out that you were here with the intention of going to
+      tamper with their princesses and trouble their ladies, were to come and
+      cudgel your ribs, and not leave a whole bone in you? They would, indeed,
+      have very good reason, if they did not see that I am under orders, and
+      that 'you are a messenger, my friend, no blame belongs to you.' Don't you
+      trust to that, Sancho, for the Manchegan folk are as hot-tempered as they
+      are honest, and won't put up with liberties from anybody. By the Lord, if
+      they get scent of you, it will be worse for you, I promise you. Be off,
+      you scoundrel! Let the bolt fall. Why should I go looking for three feet
+      on a cat, to please another man; and what is more, when looking for
+      Dulcinea will be looking for Marica in Ravena, or the bachelor in
+      Salamanca? The devil, the devil and nobody else, has mixed me up in this
+      business!"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Such was the soliloquy Sancho held with himself, and all the conclusion he
+      could come to was to say to himself again, "Well, there's remedy for
+      everything except death, under whose yoke we have all to pass, whether we
+      like it or not, when life's finished. I have seen by a thousand signs that
+      this master of mine is a madman fit to be tied, and for that matter, I
+      too, am not behind him; for I'm a greater fool than he is when I follow
+      him and serve him, if there's any truth in the proverb that says, 'Tell me
+      what company thou keepest, and I'll tell thee what thou art,' or in that
+      other, 'Not with whom thou art bred, but with whom thou art fed.' Well
+      then, if he be mad, as he is, and with a madness that mostly takes one
+      thing for another, and white for black, and black for white, as was seen
+      when he said the windmills were giants, and the monks' mules dromedaries,
+      flocks of sheep armies of enemies, and much more to the same tune, it will
+      not be very hard to make him believe that some country girl, the first I
+      come across here, is the lady Dulcinea; and if he does not believe it,
+      I'll swear it; and if he should swear, I'll swear again; and if he
+      persists I'll persist still more, so as, come what may, to have my quoit
+      always over the peg. Maybe, by holding out in this way, I may put a stop
+      to his sending me on messages of this kind another time; or maybe he will
+      think, as I suspect he will, that one of those wicked enchanters, who he
+      says have a spite against him, has changed her form for the sake of doing
+      him an ill turn and injuring him."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      With this reflection Sancho made his mind easy, counting the business as
+      good as settled, and stayed there till the afternoon so as to make Don
+      Quixote think he had time enough to go to El Toboso and return; and things
+      turned out so luckily for him that as he got up to mount Dapple, he spied,
+      coming from El Toboso towards the spot where he stood, three peasant girls
+      on three colts, or fillies&mdash;for the author does not make the point
+      clear, though it is more likely they were she-asses, the usual mount with
+      village girls; but as it is of no great consequence, we need not stop to
+      prove it.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      To be brief, the instant Sancho saw the peasant girls, he returned full
+      speed to seek his master, and found him sighing and uttering a thousand
+      passionate lamentations. When Don Quixote saw him he exclaimed, "What
+      news, Sancho, my friend? Am I to mark this day with a white stone or a
+      black?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Your worship," replied Sancho, "had better mark it with ruddle, like the
+      inscriptions on the walls of class rooms, that those who see it may see it
+      plain."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Then thou bringest good news," said Don Quixote.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "So good," replied Sancho, "that your worship has only to spur Rocinante
+      and get out into the open field to see the lady Dulcinea del Toboso, who,
+      with two others, damsels of hers, is coming to see your worship."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Holy God! what art thou saying, Sancho, my friend?" exclaimed Don
+      Quixote. "Take care thou art not deceiving me, or seeking by false joy to
+      cheer my real sadness."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "What could I get by deceiving your worship," returned Sancho, "especially
+      when it will so soon be shown whether I tell the truth or not? Come,
+      senor, push on, and you will see the princess our mistress coming, robed
+      and adorned&mdash;in fact, like what she is. Her damsels and she are all
+      one glow of gold, all bunches of pearls, all diamonds, all rubies, all
+      cloth of brocade of more than ten borders; with their hair loose on their
+      shoulders like so many sunbeams playing with the wind; and moreover, they
+      come mounted on three piebald cackneys, the finest sight ever you saw."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Hackneys, you mean, Sancho," said Don Quixote.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "There is not much difference between cackneys and hackneys," said Sancho;
+      "but no matter what they come on, there they are, the finest ladies one
+      could wish for, especially my lady the princess Dulcinea, who staggers
+      one's senses."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Let us go, Sancho, my son," said Don Quixote, "and in guerdon of this
+      news, as unexpected as it is good, I bestow upon thee the best spoil I
+      shall win in the first adventure I may have; or if that does not satisfy
+      thee, I promise thee the foals I shall have this year from my three mares
+      that thou knowest are in foal on our village common."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I'll take the foals," said Sancho; "for it is not quite certain that the
+      spoils of the first adventure will be good ones."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      By this time they had cleared the wood, and saw the three village lasses
+      close at hand. Don Quixote looked all along the road to El Toboso, and as
+      he could see nobody except the three peasant girls, he was completely
+      puzzled, and asked Sancho if it was outside the city he had left them.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "How outside the city?" returned Sancho. "Are your worship's eyes in the
+      back of your head, that you can't see that they are these who are coming
+      here, shining like the very sun at noonday?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I see nothing, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "but three country girls on
+      three jackasses."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Now, may God deliver me from the devil!" said Sancho, "and can it be that
+      your worship takes three hackneys&mdash;or whatever they're called&mdash;as
+      white as the driven snow, for jackasses? By the Lord, I could tear my
+      beard if that was the case!"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Well, I can only say, Sancho, my friend," said Don Quixote, "that it is
+      as plain they are jackasses&mdash;or jennyasses&mdash;as that I am Don
+      Quixote, and thou Sancho Panza: at any rate, they seem to me to be so."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Hush, senor," said Sancho, "don't talk that way, but open your eyes, and
+      come and pay your respects to the lady of your thoughts, who is close upon
+      us now;" and with these words he advanced to receive the three village
+      lasses, and dismounting from Dapple, caught hold of one of the asses of
+      the three country girls by the halter, and dropping on both knees on the
+      ground, he said, "Queen and princess and duchess of beauty, may it please
+      your haughtiness and greatness to receive into your favour and good-will
+      your captive knight who stands there turned into marble stone, and quite
+      stupefied and benumbed at finding himself in your magnificent presence. I
+      am Sancho Panza, his squire, and he the vagabond knight Don Quixote of La
+      Mancha, otherwise called 'The Knight of the Rueful Countenance.'"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Don Quixote had by this time placed himself on his knees beside Sancho,
+      and, with eyes starting out of his head and a puzzled gaze, was regarding
+      her whom Sancho called queen and lady; and as he could see nothing in her
+      except a village lass, and not a very well-favoured one, for she was
+      platter-faced and snub-nosed, he was perplexed and bewildered, and did not
+      venture to open his lips. The country girls, at the same time, were
+      astonished to see these two men, so different in appearance, on their
+      knees, preventing their companion from going on. She, however, who had
+      been stopped, breaking silence, said angrily and testily, "Get out of the
+      way, bad luck to you, and let us pass, for we are in a hurry."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p10b" id="p10b"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p10b.jpg (319K)" src="images/p10b.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p10b.jpg"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br />
+      <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      To which Sancho returned, "Oh, princess and universal lady of El Toboso,
+      is not your magnanimous heart softened by seeing the pillar and prop of
+      knight-errantry on his knees before your sublimated presence?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      On hearing this, one of the others exclaimed, "Woa then! why, I'm rubbing
+      thee down, she-ass of my father-in-law! See how the lordlings come to make
+      game of the village girls now, as if we here could not chaff as well as
+      themselves. Go your own way, and let us go ours, and it will be better for
+      you."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Get up, Sancho," said Don Quixote at this; "I see that fortune, 'with
+      evil done to me unsated still,' has taken possession of all the roads by
+      which any comfort may reach 'this wretched soul' that I carry in my flesh.
+      And thou, highest perfection of excellence that can be desired, utmost
+      limit of grace in human shape, sole relief of this afflicted heart that
+      adores thee, though the malign enchanter that persecutes me has brought
+      clouds and cataracts on my eyes, and to them, and them only, transformed
+      thy unparagoned beauty and changed thy features into those of a poor
+      peasant girl, if so be he has not at the same time changed mine into those
+      of some monster to render them loathsome in thy sight, refuse not to look
+      upon me with tenderness and love; seeing in this submission that I make on
+      my knees to thy transformed beauty the humility with which my soul adores
+      thee."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Hey-day! My grandfather!" cried the girl, "much I care for your
+      love-making! Get out of the way and let us pass, and we'll thank you."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Sancho stood aside and let her go, very well pleased to have got so well
+      out of the hobble he was in. The instant the village lass who had done
+      duty for Dulcinea found herself free, prodding her "cackney" with a spike
+      she had at the end of a stick, she set off at full speed across the field.
+      The she-ass, however, feeling the point more acutely than usual, began
+      cutting such capers, that it flung the lady Dulcinea to the ground; seeing
+      which, Don Quixote ran to raise her up, and Sancho to fix and girth the
+      pack-saddle, which also had slipped under the ass's belly. The pack-saddle
+      being secured, as Don Quixote was about to lift up his enchanted mistress
+      in his arms and put her upon her beast, the lady, getting up from the
+      ground, saved him the trouble, for, going back a little, she took a short
+      run, and putting both hands on the croup of the ass she dropped into the
+      saddle more lightly than a falcon, and sat astride like a man, whereat
+      Sancho said, "Rogue! but our lady is lighter than a lanner, and might
+      teach the cleverest Cordovan or Mexican how to mount; she cleared the back
+      of the saddle in one jump, and without spurs she is making the hackney go
+      like a zebra; and her damsels are no way behind her, for they all fly like
+      the wind;" which was the truth, for as soon as they saw Dulcinea mounted,
+      they pushed on after her, and sped away without looking back, for more
+      than half a league.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Don Quixote followed them with his eyes, and when they were no longer in
+      sight, he turned to Sancho and said, "How now, Sancho? thou seest how I am
+      hated by enchanters! And see to what a length the malice and spite they
+      bear me go, when they seek to deprive me of the happiness it would give me
+      to see my lady in her own proper form. The fact is I was born to be an
+      example of misfortune, and the target and mark at which the arrows of
+      adversity are aimed and directed. Observe too, Sancho, that these traitors
+      were not content with changing and transforming my Dulcinea, but they
+      transformed and changed her into a shape as mean and ill-favoured as that
+      of the village girl yonder; and at the same time they robbed her of that
+      which is such a peculiar property of ladies of distinction, that is to
+      say, the sweet fragrance that comes of being always among perfumes and
+      flowers. For I must tell thee, Sancho, that when I approached to put
+      Dulcinea upon her hackney (as thou sayest it was, though to me it appeared
+      a she-ass), she gave me a whiff of raw garlic that made my head reel, and
+      poisoned my very heart."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "O scum of the earth!" cried Sancho at this, "O miserable, spiteful
+      enchanters! O that I could see you all strung by the gills, like sardines
+      on a twig! Ye know a great deal, ye can do a great deal, and ye do a great
+      deal more. It ought to have been enough for you, ye scoundrels, to have
+      changed the pearls of my lady's eyes into oak galls, and her hair of
+      purest gold into the bristles of a red ox's tail, and in short, all her
+      features from fair to foul, without meddling with her smell; for by that
+      we might somehow have found out what was hidden underneath that ugly rind;
+      though, to tell the truth, I never perceived her ugliness, but only her
+      beauty, which was raised to the highest pitch of perfection by a mole she
+      had on her right lip, like a moustache, with seven or eight red hairs like
+      threads of gold, and more than a palm long."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "From the correspondence which exists between those of the face and those
+      of the body," said Don Quixote, "Dulcinea must have another mole
+      resembling that on the thick of the thigh on that side on which she has
+      the one on her face; but hairs of the length thou hast mentioned are very
+      long for moles."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Well, all I can say is there they were as plain as could be," replied
+      Sancho.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I believe it, my friend," returned Don Quixote; "for nature bestowed
+      nothing on Dulcinea that was not perfect and well-finished; and so, if she
+      had a hundred moles like the one thou hast described, in her they would
+      not be moles, but moons and shining stars. But tell me, Sancho, that which
+      seemed to me to be a pack-saddle as thou wert fixing it, was it a
+      flat-saddle or a side-saddle?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "It was neither," replied Sancho, "but a jineta saddle, with a field
+      covering worth half a kingdom, so rich is it."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "And that I could not see all this, Sancho!" said Don Quixote; "once more
+      I say, and will say a thousand times, I am the most unfortunate of men."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Sancho, the rogue, had enough to do to hide his laughter, at hearing the
+      simplicity of the master he had so nicely befooled. At length, after a
+      good deal more conversation had passed between them, they remounted their
+      beasts, and followed the road to Saragossa, which they expected to reach
+      in time to take part in a certain grand festival which is held every year
+      in that illustrious city; but before they got there things happened to
+      them, so many, so important, and so strange, that they deserve to be
+      recorded and read, as will be seen farther on.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p10e" id="p10e"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p10e.jpg (56K)" src="images/p10e.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p10e.jpg"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br />
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      <a name="ch11b" id="ch11b"></a>CHAPTER XI.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      OF THE STRANGE ADVENTURE WHICH THE VALIANT DON QUIXOTE HAD WITH THE CAR OR
+      CART OF "THE CORTES OF DEATH"
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <a name="p11a" id="p11a"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p11a.jpg (172K)" src="images/p11a.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p11a.jpg"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br />
+      <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Dejected beyond measure did Don Quixote pursue his journey, turning over
+      in his mind the cruel trick the enchanters had played him in changing his
+      lady Dulcinea into the vile shape of the village lass, nor could he think
+      of any way of restoring her to her original form; and these reflections so
+      absorbed him, that without being aware of it he let go Rocinante's bridle,
+      and he, perceiving the liberty that was granted him, stopped at every step
+      to crop the fresh grass with which the plain abounded.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Sancho recalled him from his reverie. "Melancholy, senor," said he, "was
+      made, not for beasts, but for men; but if men give way to it overmuch they
+      turn to beasts; control yourself, your worship; be yourself again; gather
+      up Rocinante's reins; cheer up, rouse yourself and show that gallant
+      spirit that knights-errant ought to have. What the devil is this? What
+      weakness is this? Are we here or in France? The devil fly away with all
+      the Dulcineas in the world; for the well-being of a single knight-errant
+      is of more consequence than all the enchantments and transformations on
+      earth."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Hush, Sancho," said Don Quixote in a weak and faint voice, "hush and
+      utter no blasphemies against that enchanted lady; for I alone am to blame
+      for her misfortune and hard fate; her calamity has come of the hatred the
+      wicked bear me."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "So say I," returned Sancho; "his heart rend in twain, I trow, who saw her
+      once, to see her now."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Thou mayest well say that, Sancho," replied Don Quixote, "as thou sawest
+      her in the full perfection of her beauty; for the enchantment does not go
+      so far as to pervert thy vision or hide her loveliness from thee; against
+      me alone and against my eyes is the strength of its venom directed.
+      Nevertheless, there is one thing which has occurred to me, and that is
+      that thou didst ill describe her beauty to me, for, as well as I
+      recollect, thou saidst that her eyes were pearls; but eyes that are like
+      pearls are rather the eyes of a sea-bream than of a lady, and I am
+      persuaded that Dulcinea's must be green emeralds, full and soft, with two
+      rainbows for eyebrows; take away those pearls from her eyes and transfer
+      them to her teeth; for beyond a doubt, Sancho, thou hast taken the one for
+      the other, the eyes for the teeth."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Very likely," said Sancho; "for her beauty bewildered me as much as her
+      ugliness did your worship; but let us leave it all to God, who alone knows
+      what is to happen in this vale of tears, in this evil world of ours, where
+      there is hardly a thing to be found without some mixture of wickedness,
+      roguery, and rascality. But one thing, senor, troubles me more than all
+      the rest, and that is thinking what is to be done when your worship
+      conquers some giant, or some other knight, and orders him to go and
+      present himself before the beauty of the lady Dulcinea. Where is this poor
+      giant, or this poor wretch of a vanquished knight, to find her? I think I
+      can see them wandering all over El Toboso, looking like noddies, and
+      asking for my lady Dulcinea; and even if they meet her in the middle of
+      the street they won't know her any more than they would my father."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Perhaps, Sancho," returned Don Quixote, "the enchantment does not go so
+      far as to deprive conquered and presented giants and knights of the power
+      of recognising Dulcinea; we will try by experiment with one or two of the
+      first I vanquish and send to her, whether they see her or not, by
+      commanding them to return and give me an account of what happened to them
+      in this respect."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I declare, I think what your worship has proposed is excellent," said
+      Sancho; "and that by this plan we shall find out what we want to know; and
+      if it be that it is only from your worship she is hidden, the misfortune
+      will be more yours than hers; but so long as the lady Dulcinea is well and
+      happy, we on our part will make the best of it, and get on as well as we
+      can, seeking our adventures, and leaving Time to take his own course; for
+      he is the best physician for these and greater ailments."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Don Quixote was about to reply to Sancho Panza, but he was prevented by a
+      cart crossing the road full of the most diverse and strange personages and
+      figures that could be imagined. He who led the mules and acted as carter
+      was a hideous demon; the cart was open to the sky, without a tilt or cane
+      roof, and the first figure that presented itself to Don Quixote's eyes was
+      that of Death itself with a human face; next to it was an angel with large
+      painted wings, and at one side an emperor, with a crown, to all appearance
+      of gold, on his head. At the feet of Death was the god called Cupid,
+      without his bandage, but with his bow, quiver, and arrows; there was also
+      a knight in full armour, except that he had no morion or helmet, but only
+      a hat decked with plumes of divers colours; and along with these there
+      were others with a variety of costumes and faces. All this, unexpectedly
+      encountered, took Don Quixote somewhat aback, and struck terror into the
+      heart of Sancho; but the next instant Don Quixote was glad of it,
+      believing that some new perilous adventure was presenting itself to him,
+      and under this impression, and with a spirit prepared to face any danger,
+      he planted himself in front of the cart, and in a loud and menacing tone,
+      exclaimed, "Carter, or coachman, or devil, or whatever thou art, tell me
+      at once who thou art, whither thou art going, and who these folk are thou
+      carriest in thy wagon, which looks more like Charon's boat than an
+      ordinary cart."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      To which the devil, stopping the cart, answered quietly, "Senor, we are
+      players of Angulo el Malo's company; we have been acting the play of 'The
+      Cortes of Death' this morning, which is the octave of Corpus Christi, in a
+      village behind that hill, and we have to act it this afternoon in that
+      village which you can see from this; and as it is so near, and to save the
+      trouble of undressing and dressing again, we go in the costumes in which
+      we perform. That lad there appears as Death, that other as an angel, that
+      woman, the manager's wife, plays the queen, this one the soldier, that the
+      emperor, and I the devil; and I am one of the principal characters of the
+      play, for in this company I take the leading parts. If you want to know
+      anything more about us, ask me and I will answer with the utmost
+      exactitude, for as I am a devil I am up to everything."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "By the faith of a knight-errant," replied Don Quixote, "when I saw this
+      cart I fancied some great adventure was presenting itself to me; but I
+      declare one must touch with the hand what appears to the eye, if illusions
+      are to be avoided. God speed you, good people; keep your festival, and
+      remember, if you demand of me ought wherein I can render you a service, I
+      will do it gladly and willingly, for from a child I was fond of the play,
+      and in my youth a keen lover of the actor's art."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      While they were talking, fate so willed it that one of the company in a
+      mummers' dress with a great number of bells, and armed with three blown
+      ox-bladders at the end of a stick, joined them, and this merry-andrew
+      approaching Don Quixote, began flourishing his stick and banging the
+      ground with the bladders and cutting capers with great jingling of the
+      bells, which untoward apparition so startled Rocinante that, in spite of
+      Don Quixote's efforts to hold him in, taking the bit between his teeth he
+      set off across the plain with greater speed than the bones of his anatomy
+      ever gave any promise of.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p11b" id="p11b"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p11b.jpg (327K)" src="images/p11b.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p11b.jpg"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br />
+      <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Sancho, who thought his master was in danger of being thrown, jumped off
+      Dapple, and ran in all haste to help him; but by the time he reached him
+      he was already on the ground, and beside him was Rocinante, who had come
+      down with his master, the usual end and upshot of Rocinante's vivacity and
+      high spirits. But the moment Sancho quitted his beast to go and help Don
+      Quixote, the dancing devil with the bladders jumped up on Dapple, and
+      beating him with them, more by the fright and the noise than by the pain
+      of the blows, made him fly across the fields towards the village where
+      they were going to hold their festival. Sancho witnessed Dapple's career
+      and his master's fall, and did not know which of the two cases of need he
+      should attend to first; but in the end, like a good squire and good
+      servant, he let his love for his master prevail over his affection for his
+      ass; though every time he saw the bladders rise in the air and come down
+      on the hind quarters of his Dapple he felt the pains and terrors of death,
+      and he would have rather had the blows fall on the apples of his own eyes
+      than on the least hair of his ass's tail. In this trouble and perplexity
+      he came to where Don Quixote lay in a far sorrier plight than he liked,
+      and having helped him to mount Rocinante, he said to him, "Senor, the
+      devil has carried off my Dapple."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "What devil?" asked Don Quixote.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "The one with the bladders," said Sancho.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Then I will recover him," said Don Quixote, "even if he be shut up with
+      him in the deepest and darkest dungeons of hell. Follow me, Sancho, for
+      the cart goes slowly, and with the mules of it I will make good the loss
+      of Dapple."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "You need not take the trouble, senor," said Sancho; "keep cool, for as I
+      now see, the devil has let Dapple go and he is coming back to his old
+      quarters;" and so it turned out, for, having come down with Dapple, in
+      imitation of Don Quixote and Rocinante, the devil made off on foot to the
+      town, and the ass came back to his master.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "For all that," said Don Quixote, "it will be well to visit the
+      discourtesy of that devil upon some of those in the cart, even if it were
+      the emperor himself."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Don't think of it, your worship," returned Sancho; "take my advice and
+      never meddle with actors, for they are a favoured class; I myself have
+      known an actor taken up for two murders, and yet come off scot-free;
+      remember that, as they are merry folk who give pleasure, everyone favours
+      and protects them, and helps and makes much of them, above all when they
+      are those of the royal companies and under patent, all or most of whom in
+      dress and appearance look like princes."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Still, for all that," said Don Quixote, "the player devil must not go off
+      boasting, even if the whole human race favours him."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      So saying, he made for the cart, which was now very near the town,
+      shouting out as he went, "Stay! halt! ye merry, jovial crew! I want to
+      teach you how to treat asses and animals that serve the squires of
+      knights-errant for steeds."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      So loud were the shouts of Don Quixote, that those in the cart heard and
+      understood them, and, guessing by the words what the speaker's intention
+      was, Death in an instant jumped out of the cart, and the emperor, the
+      devil carter and the angel after him, nor did the queen or the god Cupid
+      stay behind; and all armed themselves with stones and formed in line,
+      prepared to receive Don Quixote on the points of their pebbles. Don
+      Quixote, when he saw them drawn up in such a gallant array with uplifted
+      arms ready for a mighty discharge of stones, checked Rocinante and began
+      to consider in what way he could attack them with the least danger to
+      himself. As he halted Sancho came up, and seeing him disposed to attack
+      this well-ordered squadron, said to him, "It would be the height of
+      madness to attempt such an enterprise; remember, senor, that against sops
+      from the brook, and plenty of them, there is no defensive armour in the
+      world, except to stow oneself away under a brass bell; and besides, one
+      should remember that it is rashness, and not valour, for a single man to
+      attack an army that has Death in it, and where emperors fight in person,
+      with angels, good and bad, to help them; and if this reflection will not
+      make you keep quiet, perhaps it will to know for certain that among all
+      these, though they look like kings, princes, and emperors, there is not a
+      single knight-errant."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Now indeed thou hast hit the point, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "which may
+      and should turn me from the resolution I had already formed. I cannot and
+      must not draw sword, as I have many a time before told thee, against
+      anyone who is not a dubbed knight; it is for thee, Sancho, if thou wilt,
+      to take vengeance for the wrong done to thy Dapple; and I will help thee
+      from here by shouts and salutary counsels."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "There is no occasion to take vengeance on anyone, senor," replied Sancho;
+      "for it is not the part of good Christians to revenge wrongs; and besides,
+      I will arrange it with my ass to leave his grievance to my good-will and
+      pleasure, and that is to live in peace as long as heaven grants me life."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Well," said Don Quixote, "if that be thy determination, good Sancho,
+      sensible Sancho, Christian Sancho, honest Sancho, let us leave these
+      phantoms alone and turn to the pursuit of better and worthier adventures;
+      for, from what I see of this country, we cannot fail to find plenty of
+      marvellous ones in it."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      He at once wheeled about, Sancho ran to take possession of his Dapple,
+      Death and his flying squadron returned to their cart and pursued their
+      journey, and thus the dread adventure of the cart of Death ended happily,
+      thanks to the advice Sancho gave his master; who had, the following day, a
+      fresh adventure, of no less thrilling interest than the last, with an
+      enamoured knight-errant.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p11e" id="p11e"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p11e.jpg (20K)" src="images/p11e.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      <a name="ch12b" id="ch12b"></a>CHAPTER XII.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      OF THE STRANGE ADVENTURE WHICH BEFELL THE VALIANT DON QUIXOTE WITH THE
+      BOLD KNIGHT OF THE MIRRORS
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <a name="p12a" id="p12a"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p12a.jpg (98K)" src="images/p12a.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p12a.jpg"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br />
+      <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The night succeeding the day of the encounter with Death, Don Quixote and
+      his squire passed under some tall shady trees, and Don Quixote at Sancho's
+      persuasion ate a little from the store carried by Dapple, and over their
+      supper Sancho said to his master, "Senor, what a fool I should have looked
+      if I had chosen for my reward the spoils of the first adventure your
+      worship achieved, instead of the foals of the three mares. After all, 'a
+      sparrow in the hand is better than a vulture on the wing.'"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "At the same time, Sancho," replied Don Quixote, "if thou hadst let me
+      attack them as I wanted, at the very least the emperor's gold crown and
+      Cupid's painted wings would have fallen to thee as spoils, for I should
+      have taken them by force and given them into thy hands."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "The sceptres and crowns of those play-actor emperors," said Sancho, "were
+      never yet pure gold, but only brass foil or tin."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "That is true," said Don Quixote, "for it would not be right that the
+      accessories of the drama should be real, instead of being mere fictions
+      and semblances, like the drama itself; towards which, Sancho&mdash;and, as
+      a necessary consequence, towards those who represent and produce it&mdash;I
+      would that thou wert favourably disposed, for they are all instruments of
+      great good to the State, placing before us at every step a mirror in which
+      we may see vividly displayed what goes on in human life; nor is there any
+      similitude that shows us more faithfully what we are and ought to be than
+      the play and the players. Come, tell me, hast thou not seen a play acted
+      in which kings, emperors, pontiffs, knights, ladies, and divers other
+      personages were introduced? One plays the villain, another the knave, this
+      one the merchant, that the soldier, one the sharp-witted fool, another the
+      foolish lover; and when the play is over, and they have put off the
+      dresses they wore in it, all the actors become equal."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Yes, I have seen that," said Sancho.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Well then," said Don Quixote, "the same thing happens in the comedy and
+      life of this world, where some play emperors, others popes, and, in short,
+      all the characters that can be brought into a play; but when it is over,
+      that is to say when life ends, death strips them all of the garments that
+      distinguish one from the other, and all are equal in the grave."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "A fine comparison!" said Sancho; "though not so new but that I have heard
+      it many and many a time, as well as that other one of the game of chess;
+      how, so long as the game lasts, each piece has its own particular office,
+      and when the game is finished they are all mixed, jumbled up and shaken
+      together, and stowed away in the bag, which is much like ending life in
+      the grave."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Thou art growing less doltish and more shrewd every day, Sancho," said
+      Don Quixote.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Ay," said Sancho; "it must be that some of your worship's shrewdness
+      sticks to me; land that, of itself, is barren and dry, will come to yield
+      good fruit if you dung it and till it; what I mean is that your worship's
+      conversation has been the dung that has fallen on the barren soil of my
+      dry wit, and the time I have been in your service and society has been the
+      tillage; and with the help of this I hope to yield fruit in abundance that
+      will not fall away or slide from those paths of good breeding that your
+      worship has made in my parched understanding."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Don Quixote laughed at Sancho's affected phraseology, and perceived that
+      what he said about his improvement was true, for now and then he spoke in
+      a way that surprised him; though always, or mostly, when Sancho tried to
+      talk fine and attempted polite language, he wound up by toppling over from
+      the summit of his simplicity into the abyss of his ignorance; and where he
+      showed his culture and his memory to the greatest advantage was in
+      dragging in proverbs, no matter whether they had any bearing or not upon
+      the subject in hand, as may have been seen already and will be noticed in
+      the course of this history.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p12b" id="p12b"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p12b.jpg (298K)" src="images/p12b.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p12b.jpg"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br />
+      <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      In conversation of this kind they passed a good part of the night, but
+      Sancho felt a desire to let down the curtains of his eyes, as he used to
+      say when he wanted to go to sleep; and stripping Dapple he left him at
+      liberty to graze his fill. He did not remove Rocinante's saddle, as his
+      master's express orders were, that so long as they were in the field or
+      not sleeping under a roof Rocinante was not to be stripped&mdash;the
+      ancient usage established and observed by knights-errant being to take off
+      the bridle and hang it on the saddle-bow, but to remove the saddle from
+      the horse&mdash;never! Sancho acted accordingly, and gave him the same
+      liberty he had given Dapple, between whom and Rocinante there was a
+      friendship so unequalled and so strong, that it is handed down by
+      tradition from father to son, that the author of this veracious history
+      devoted some special chapters to it, which, in order to preserve the
+      propriety and decorum due to a history so heroic, he did not insert
+      therein; although at times he forgets this resolution of his and describes
+      how eagerly the two beasts would scratch one another when they were
+      together and how, when they were tired or full, Rocinante would lay his
+      neck across Dapple's, stretching half a yard or more on the other side,
+      and the pair would stand thus, gazing thoughtfully on the ground, for
+      three days, or at least so long as they were left alone, or hunger did not
+      drive them to go and look for food. I may add that they say the author
+      left it on record that he likened their friendship to that of Nisus and
+      Euryalus, and Pylades and Orestes; and if that be so, it may be perceived,
+      to the admiration of mankind, how firm the friendship must have been
+      between these two peaceful animals, shaming men, who preserve friendships
+      with one another so badly. This was why it was said-
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      For friend no longer is there friend; The reeds turn lances now.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      And some one else has sung&mdash;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Friend to friend the bug, etc.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      And let no one fancy that the author was at all astray when he compared
+      the friendship of these animals to that of men; for men have received many
+      lessons from beasts, and learned many important things, as, for example,
+      the clyster from the stork, vomit and gratitude from the dog, watchfulness
+      from the crane, foresight from the ant, modesty from the elephant, and
+      loyalty from the horse.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Sancho at last fell asleep at the foot of a cork tree, while Don Quixote
+      dozed at that of a sturdy oak; but a short time only had elapsed when a
+      noise he heard behind him awoke him, and rising up startled, he listened
+      and looked in the direction the noise came from, and perceived two men on
+      horseback, one of whom, letting himself drop from the saddle, said to the
+      other, "Dismount, my friend, and take the bridles off the horses, for, so
+      far as I can see, this place will furnish grass for them, and the solitude
+      and silence my love-sick thoughts need of." As he said this he stretched
+      himself upon the ground, and as he flung himself down, the armour in which
+      he was clad rattled, whereby Don Quixote perceived that he must be a
+      knight-errant; and going over to Sancho, who was asleep, he shook him by
+      the arm and with no small difficulty brought him back to his senses, and
+      said in a low voice to him, "Brother Sancho, we have got an adventure."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "God send us a good one," said Sancho; "and where may her ladyship the
+      adventure be?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Where, Sancho?" replied Don Quixote; "turn thine eyes and look, and thou
+      wilt see stretched there a knight-errant, who, it strikes me, is not over
+      and above happy, for I saw him fling himself off his horse and throw
+      himself on the ground with a certain air of dejection, and his armour
+      rattled as he fell."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Well," said Sancho, "how does your worship make out that to be an
+      adventure?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I do not mean to say," returned Don Quixote, "that it is a complete
+      adventure, but that it is the beginning of one, for it is in this way
+      adventures begin. But listen, for it seems he is tuning a lute or guitar,
+      and from the way he is spitting and clearing his chest he must be getting
+      ready to sing something."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Faith, you are right," said Sancho, "and no doubt he is some enamoured
+      knight."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "There is no knight-errant that is not," said Don Quixote; "but let us
+      listen to him, for, if he sings, by that thread we shall extract the ball
+      of his thoughts; because out of the abundance of the heart the mouth
+      speaketh."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Sancho was about to reply to his master, but the Knight of the Grove's
+      voice, which was neither very bad nor very good, stopped him, and
+      listening attentively the pair heard him sing this
+    </p>
+<pre xml:space="preserve">
+                SONNET
+
+Your pleasure, prithee, lady mine, unfold;
+  Declare the terms that I am to obey;
+My will to yours submissively I mould,
+  And from your law my feet shall never stray.
+  Would you I die, to silent grief a prey?
+Then count me even now as dead and cold;
+  Would you I tell my woes in some new way?
+Then shall my tale by Love itself be told.
+The unison of opposites to prove,
+  Of the soft wax and diamond hard am I;
+But still, obedient to the laws of love,
+  Here, hard or soft, I offer you my breast,
+  Whate'er you grave or stamp thereon shall rest
+    Indelible for all eternity.
+
+</pre>
+    <p>
+      With an "Ah me!" that seemed to be drawn from the inmost recesses of his
+      heart, the Knight of the Grove brought his lay to an end, and shortly
+      afterwards exclaimed in a melancholy and piteous voice, "O fairest and
+      most ungrateful woman on earth! What! can it be, most serene Casildea de
+      Vandalia, that thou wilt suffer this thy captive knight to waste away and
+      perish in ceaseless wanderings and rude and arduous toils? It is not
+      enough that I have compelled all the knights of Navarre, all the Leonese,
+      all the Tartesians, all the Castilians, and finally all the knights of La
+      Mancha, to confess thee the most beautiful in the world?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Not so," said Don Quixote at this, "for I am of La Mancha, and I have
+      never confessed anything of the sort, nor could I nor should I confess a
+      thing so much to the prejudice of my lady's beauty; thou seest how this
+      knight is raving, Sancho. But let us listen, perhaps he will tell us more
+      about himself."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "That he will," returned Sancho, "for he seems in a mood to bewail himself
+      for a month at a stretch."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      But this was not the case, for the Knight of the Grove, hearing voices
+      near him, instead of continuing his lamentation, stood up and exclaimed in
+      a distinct but courteous tone, "Who goes there? What are you? Do you
+      belong to the number of the happy or of the miserable?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Of the miserable," answered Don Quixote.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Then come to me," said he of the Grove, "and rest assured that it is to
+      woe itself and affliction itself you come."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Don Quixote, finding himself answered in such a soft and courteous manner,
+      went over to him, and so did Sancho.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The doleful knight took Don Quixote by the arm, saying, "Sit down here,
+      sir knight; for, that you are one, and of those that profess
+      knight-errantry, it is to me a sufficient proof to have found you in this
+      place, where solitude and night, the natural couch and proper retreat of
+      knights-errant, keep you company." To which Don made answer, "A knight I
+      am of the profession you mention, and though sorrows, misfortunes, and
+      calamities have made my heart their abode, the compassion I feel for the
+      misfortunes of others has not been thereby banished from it. From what you
+      have just now sung I gather that yours spring from love, I mean from the
+      love you bear that fair ingrate you named in your lament."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      In the meantime, they had seated themselves together on the hard ground
+      peaceably and sociably, just as if, as soon as day broke, they were not
+      going to break one another's heads.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Are you, sir knight, in love perchance?" asked he of the Grove of Don
+      Quixote.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "By mischance I am," replied Don Quixote; "though the ills arising from
+      well-bestowed affections should be esteemed favours rather than
+      misfortunes."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "That is true," returned he of the Grove, "if scorn did not unsettle our
+      reason and understanding, for if it be excessive it looks like revenge."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I was never scorned by my lady," said Don Quixote.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Certainly not," said Sancho, who stood close by, "for my lady is as a
+      lamb, and softer than a roll of butter."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Is this your squire?" asked he of the Grove.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "He is," said Don Quixote.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I never yet saw a squire," said he of the Grove, "who ventured to speak
+      when his master was speaking; at least, there is mine, who is as big as
+      his father, and it cannot be proved that he has ever opened his lips when
+      I am speaking."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "By my faith then," said Sancho, "I have spoken, and am fit to speak, in
+      the presence of one as much, or even&mdash;but never mind&mdash;it only
+      makes it worse to stir it."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The squire of the Grove took Sancho by the arm, saying to him, "Let us two
+      go where we can talk in squire style as much as we please, and leave these
+      gentlemen our masters to fight it out over the story of their loves; and,
+      depend upon it, daybreak will find them at it without having made an end
+      of it."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "So be it by all means," said Sancho; "and I will tell your worship who I
+      am, that you may see whether I am to be reckoned among the number of the
+      most talkative squires."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      With this the two squires withdrew to one side, and between them there
+      passed a conversation as droll as that which passed between their masters
+      was serious.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p12e" id="p12e"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p12e.jpg (15K)" src="images/p12e.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      <a name="ch13b" id="ch13b"></a>CHAPTER XIII.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      IN WHICH IS CONTINUED THE ADVENTURE OF THE KNIGHT OF THE GROVE, TOGETHER
+      WITH THE SENSIBLE, ORIGINAL, AND TRANQUIL COLLOQUY THAT PASSED BETWEEN THE
+      TWO SQUIRES
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <a name="p13a" id="p13a"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p13a.jpg (126K)" src="images/p13a.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p13a.jpg"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br />
+      <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The knights and the squires made two parties, these telling the story of
+      their lives, the others the story of their loves; but the history relates
+      first of all the conversation of the servants, and afterwards takes up
+      that of the masters; and it says that, withdrawing a little from the
+      others, he of the Grove said to Sancho, "A hard life it is we lead and
+      live, senor, we that are squires to knights-errant; verily, we eat our
+      bread in the sweat of our faces, which is one of the curses God laid on
+      our first parents."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "It may be said, too," added Sancho, "that we eat it in the chill of our
+      bodies; for who gets more heat and cold than the miserable squires of
+      knight-errantry? Even so it would not be so bad if we had something to
+      eat, for woes are lighter if there's bread; but sometimes we go a day or
+      two without breaking our fast, except with the wind that blows."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "All that," said he of the Grove, "may be endured and put up with when we
+      have hopes of reward; for, unless the knight-errant he serves is
+      excessively unlucky, after a few turns the squire will at least find
+      himself rewarded with a fine government of some island or some fair
+      county."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I," said Sancho, "have already told my master that I shall be content
+      with the government of some island, and he is so noble and generous that
+      he has promised it to me ever so many times."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I," said he of the Grove, "shall be satisfied with a canonry for my
+      services, and my master has already assigned me one."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Your master," said Sancho, "no doubt is a knight in the Church line, and
+      can bestow rewards of that sort on his good squire; but mine is only a
+      layman; though I remember some clever, but, to my mind, designing people,
+      strove to persuade him to try and become an archbishop. He, however, would
+      not be anything but an emperor; but I was trembling all the time lest he
+      should take a fancy to go into the Church, not finding myself fit to hold
+      office in it; for I may tell you, though I seem a man, I am no better than
+      a beast for the Church."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Well, then, you are wrong there," said he of the Grove; "for those island
+      governments are not all satisfactory; some are awkward, some are poor,
+      some are dull, and, in short, the highest and choicest brings with it a
+      heavy burden of cares and troubles which the unhappy wight to whose lot it
+      has fallen bears upon his shoulders. Far better would it be for us who
+      have adopted this accursed service to go back to our own houses, and there
+      employ ourselves in pleasanter occupations&mdash;in hunting or fishing,
+      for instance; for what squire in the world is there so poor as not to have
+      a hack and a couple of greyhounds and a fishingrod to amuse himself with
+      in his own village?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I am not in want of any of those things," said Sancho; "to be sure I have
+      no hack, but I have an ass that is worth my master's horse twice over; God
+      send me a bad Easter, and that the next one I am to see, if I would swap,
+      even if I got four bushels of barley to boot. You will laugh at the value
+      I put on my Dapple&mdash;for dapple is the colour of my beast. As to
+      greyhounds, I can't want for them, for there are enough and to spare in my
+      town; and, moreover, there is more pleasure in sport when it is at other
+      people's expense."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "In truth and earnest, sir squire," said he of the Grove, "I have made up
+      my mind and determined to have done with these drunken vagaries of these
+      knights, and go back to my village, and bring up my children; for I have
+      three, like three Oriental pearls."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I have two," said Sancho, "that might be presented before the Pope
+      himself, especially a girl whom I am breeding up for a countess, please
+      God, though in spite of her mother."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "And how old is this lady that is being bred up for a countess?" asked he
+      of the Grove.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Fifteen, a couple of years more or less," answered Sancho; "but she is as
+      tall as a lance, and as fresh as an April morning, and as strong as a
+      porter."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Those are gifts to fit her to be not only a countess but a nymph of the
+      greenwood," said he of the Grove; "whoreson strumpet! what pith the rogue
+      must have!"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      To which Sancho made answer, somewhat sulkily, "She's no strumpet, nor was
+      her mother, nor will either of them be, please God, while I live; speak
+      more civilly; for one bred up among knights-errant, who are courtesy
+      itself, your words don't seem to me to be very becoming."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "O how little you know about compliments, sir squire," returned he of the
+      Grove. "What! don't you know that when a horseman delivers a good lance
+      thrust at the bull in the plaza, or when anyone does anything very well,
+      the people are wont to say, 'Ha, whoreson rip! how well he has done it!'
+      and that what seems to be abuse in the expression is high praise? Disown
+      sons and daughters, senor, who don't do what deserves that compliments of
+      this sort should be paid to their parents."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I do disown them," replied Sancho, "and in this way, and by the same
+      reasoning, you might call me and my children and my wife all the strumpets
+      in the world, for all they do and say is of a kind that in the highest
+      degree deserves the same praise; and to see them again I pray God to
+      deliver me from mortal sin, or, what comes to the same thing, to deliver
+      me from this perilous calling of squire into which I have fallen a second
+      time, decayed and beguiled by a purse with a hundred ducats that I found
+      one day in the heart of the Sierra Morena; and the devil is always putting
+      a bag full of doubloons before my eyes, here, there, everywhere, until I
+      fancy at every stop I am putting my hand on it, and hugging it, and
+      carrying it home with me, and making investments, and getting interest,
+      and living like a prince; and so long as I think of this I make light of
+      all the hardships I endure with this simpleton of a master of mine, who, I
+      well know, is more of a madman than a knight."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "There's why they say that 'covetousness bursts the bag,'" said he of the
+      Grove; "but if you come to talk of that sort, there is not a greater one
+      in the world than my master, for he is one of those of whom they say, 'the
+      cares of others kill the ass;' for, in order that another knight may
+      recover the senses he has lost, he makes a madman of himself and goes
+      looking for what, when found, may, for all I know, fly in his own face."
+      "And is he in love perchance?" asked Sancho.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "He is," said of the Grove, "with one Casildea de Vandalia, the rawest and
+      best roasted lady the whole world could produce; but that rawness is not
+      the only foot he limps on, for he has greater schemes rumbling in his
+      bowels, as will be seen before many hours are over."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "There's no road so smooth but it has some hole or hindrance in it," said
+      Sancho; "in other houses they cook beans, but in mine it's by the potful;
+      madness will have more followers and hangers-on than sound sense; but if
+      there be any truth in the common saying, that to have companions in
+      trouble gives some relief, I may take consolation from you, inasmuch as
+      you serve a master as crazy as my own."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Crazy but valiant," replied he of the Grove, "and more roguish than crazy
+      or valiant."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Mine is not that," said Sancho; "I mean he has nothing of the rogue in
+      him; on the contrary, he has the soul of a pitcher; he has no thought of
+      doing harm to anyone, only good to all, nor has he any malice whatever in
+      him; a child might persuade him that it is night at noonday; and for this
+      simplicity I love him as the core of my heart, and I can't bring myself to
+      leave him, let him do ever such foolish things."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "For all that, brother and senor," said he of the Grove, "if the blind
+      lead the blind, both are in danger of falling into the pit. It is better
+      for us to beat a quiet retreat and get back to our own quarters; for those
+      who seek adventures don't always find good ones."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Sancho kept spitting from time to time, and his spittle seemed somewhat
+      ropy and dry, observing which the compassionate squire of the Grove said,
+      "It seems to me that with all this talk of ours our tongues are sticking
+      to the roofs of our mouths; but I have a pretty good loosener hanging from
+      the saddle-bow of my horse," and getting up he came back the next minute
+      with a large bota of wine and a pasty half a yard across; and this is no
+      exaggeration, for it was made of a house rabbit so big that Sancho, as he
+      handled it, took it to be made of a goat, not to say a kid, and looking at
+      it he said, "And do you carry this with you, senor?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Why, what are you thinking about?" said the other; "do you take me for
+      some paltry squire? I carry a better larder on my horse's croup than a
+      general takes with him when he goes on a march."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Sancho ate without requiring to be pressed, and in the dark bolted
+      mouthfuls like the knots on a tether, and said he, "You are a proper
+      trusty squire, one of the right sort, sumptuous and grand, as this banquet
+      shows, which, if it has not come here by magic art, at any rate has the
+      look of it; not like me, unlucky beggar, that have nothing more in my
+      alforjas than a scrap of cheese, so hard that one might brain a giant with
+      it, and, to keep it company, a few dozen carobs and as many more filberts
+      and walnuts; thanks to the austerity of my master, and the idea he has and
+      the rule he follows, that knights-errant must not live or sustain
+      themselves on anything except dried fruits and the herbs of the field."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "By my faith, brother," said he of the Grove, "my stomach is not made for
+      thistles, or wild pears, or roots of the woods; let our masters do as they
+      like, with their chivalry notions and laws, and eat what those enjoin; I
+      carry my prog-basket and this bota hanging to the saddle-bow, whatever
+      they may say; and it is such an object of worship with me, and I love it
+      so, that there is hardly a moment but I am kissing and embracing it over
+      and over again;" and so saying he thrust it into Sancho's hands, who
+      raising it aloft pointed to his mouth, gazed at the stars for a quarter of
+      an hour; and when he had done drinking let his head fall on one side, and
+      giving a deep sigh, exclaimed, "Ah, whoreson rogue, how catholic it is!"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "There, you see," said he of the Grove, hearing Sancho's exclamation, "how
+      you have called this wine whoreson by way of praise."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Well," said Sancho, "I own it, and I grant it is no dishonour to call
+      anyone whoreson when it is to be understood as praise. But tell me, senor,
+      by what you love best, is this Ciudad Real wine?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "O rare wine-taster!" said he of the Grove; "nowhere else indeed does it
+      come from, and it has some years' age too."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Leave me alone for that," said Sancho; "never fear but I'll hit upon the
+      place it came from somehow. What would you say, sir squire, to my having
+      such a great natural instinct in judging wines that you have only to let
+      me smell one and I can tell positively its country, its kind, its flavour
+      and soundness, the changes it will undergo, and everything that appertains
+      to a wine? But it is no wonder, for I have had in my family, on my
+      father's side, the two best wine-tasters that have been known in La Mancha
+      for many a long year, and to prove it I'll tell you now a thing that
+      happened them. They gave the two of them some wine out of a cask, to try,
+      asking their opinion as to the condition, quality, goodness or badness of
+      the wine. One of them tried it with the tip of his tongue, the other did
+      no more than bring it to his nose. The first said the wine had a flavour
+      of iron, the second said it had a stronger flavour of cordovan. The owner
+      said the cask was clean, and that nothing had been added to the wine from
+      which it could have got a flavour of either iron or leather. Nevertheless,
+      these two great wine-tasters held to what they had said. Time went by, the
+      wine was sold, and when they came to clean out the cask, they found in it
+      a small key hanging to a thong of cordovan; see now if one who comes of
+      the same stock has not a right to give his opinion in such like cases."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Therefore, I say," said he of the Grove, "let us give up going in quest
+      of adventures, and as we have loaves let us not go looking for cakes, but
+      return to our cribs, for God will find us there if it be his will."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Until my master reaches Saragossa," said Sancho, "I'll remain in his
+      service; after that we'll see."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The end of it was that the two squires talked so much and drank so much
+      that sleep had to tie their tongues and moderate their thirst, for to
+      quench it was impossible; and so the pair of them fell asleep clinging to
+      the now nearly empty bota and with half-chewed morsels in their mouths;
+      and there we will leave them for the present, to relate what passed
+      between the Knight of the Grove and him of the Rueful Countenance.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p13e" id="p13e"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p13e.jpg (43K)" src="images/p13e.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      <a name="ch14b" id="ch14b"></a>CHAPTER XIV.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      WHEREIN IS CONTINUED THE ADVENTURE OF THE KNIGHT OF THE GROVE
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <a name="p14a" id="p14a"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p14a.jpg (120K)" src="images/p14a.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p14a.jpg"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br />
+      <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Among the things that passed between Don Quixote and the Knight of the
+      Wood, the history tells us he of the Grove said to Don Quixote, "In fine,
+      sir knight, I would have you know that my destiny, or, more properly
+      speaking, my choice led me to fall in love with the peerless Casildea de
+      Vandalia. I call her peerless because she has no peer, whether it be in
+      bodily stature or in the supremacy of rank and beauty. This same Casildea,
+      then, that I speak of, requited my honourable passion and gentle
+      aspirations by compelling me, as his stepmother did Hercules, to engage in
+      many perils of various sorts, at the end of each promising me that, with
+      the end of the next, the object of my hopes should be attained; but my
+      labours have gone on increasing link by link until they are past counting,
+      nor do I know what will be the last one that is to be the beginning of the
+      accomplishment of my chaste desires. On one occasion she bade me go and
+      challenge the famous giantess of Seville, La Giralda by name, who is as
+      mighty and strong as if made of brass, and though never stirring from one
+      spot, is the most restless and changeable woman in the world. I came, I
+      saw, I conquered, and I made her stay quiet and behave herself, for
+      nothing but north winds blew for more than a week. Another time I was
+      ordered to lift those ancient stones, the mighty bulls of Guisando, an
+      enterprise that might more fitly be entrusted to porters than to knights.
+      Again, she bade me fling myself into the cavern of Cabra&mdash;an
+      unparalleled and awful peril&mdash;and bring her a minute account of all
+      that is concealed in those gloomy depths. I stopped the motion of the
+      Giralda, I lifted the bulls of Guisando, I flung myself into the cavern
+      and brought to light the secrets of its abyss; and my hopes are as dead as
+      dead can be, and her scorn and her commands as lively as ever. To be
+      brief, last of all she has commanded me to go through all the provinces of
+      Spain and compel all the knights-errant wandering therein to confess that
+      she surpasses all women alive to-day in beauty, and that I am the most
+      valiant and the most deeply enamoured knight on earth; in support of which
+      claim I have already travelled over the greater part of Spain, and have
+      there vanquished several knights who have dared to contradict me; but what
+      I most plume and pride myself upon is having vanquished in single combat
+      that so famous knight Don Quixote of La Mancha, and made him confess that
+      my Casildea is more beautiful than his Dulcinea; and in this one victory I
+      hold myself to have conquered all the knights in the world; for this Don
+      Quixote that I speak of has vanquished them all, and I having vanquished
+      him, his glory, his fame, and his honour have passed and are transferred
+      to my person; for
+    </p>
+<pre xml:space="preserve">
+The more the vanquished hath of fair renown,
+The greater glory gilds the victor's crown.
+</pre>
+    <p>
+      Thus the innumerable achievements of the said Don Quixote are now set down
+      to my account and have become mine."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Don Quixote was amazed when he heard the Knight of the Grove, and was a
+      thousand times on the point of telling him he lied, and had the lie direct
+      already on the tip of his tongue; but he restrained himself as well as he
+      could, in order to force him to confess the lie with his own lips; so he
+      said to him quietly, "As to what you say, sir knight, about having
+      vanquished most of the knights of Spain, or even of the whole world, I say
+      nothing; but that you have vanquished Don Quixote of La Mancha I consider
+      doubtful; it may have been some other that resembled him, although there
+      are few like him."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "How! not vanquished?" said he of the Grove; "by the heaven that is above
+      us I fought Don Quixote and overcame him and made him yield; and he is a
+      man of tall stature, gaunt features, long, lank limbs, with hair turning
+      grey, an aquiline nose rather hooked, and large black drooping moustaches;
+      he does battle under the name of 'The Countenance,' and he has for squire
+      a peasant called Sancho Panza; he presses the loins and rules the reins of
+      a famous steed called Rocinante; and lastly, he has for the mistress of
+      his will a certain Dulcinea del Toboso, once upon a time called Aldonza
+      Lorenzo, just as I call mine Casildea de Vandalia because her name is
+      Casilda and she is of Andalusia. If all these tokens are not enough to
+      vindicate the truth of what I say, here is my sword, that will compel
+      incredulity itself to give credence to it."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Calm yourself, sir knight," said Don Quixote, "and give ear to what I am
+      about to say to you. I would have you know that this Don Quixote you speak
+      of is the greatest friend I have in the world; so much so that I may say I
+      regard him in the same light as my own person; and from the precise and
+      clear indications you have given I cannot but think that he must be the
+      very one you have vanquished. On the other hand, I see with my eyes and
+      feel with my hands that it is impossible it can have been the same; unless
+      indeed it be that, as he has many enemies who are enchanters, and one in
+      particular who is always persecuting him, some one of these may have taken
+      his shape in order to allow himself to be vanquished, so as to defraud him
+      of the fame that his exalted achievements as a knight have earned and
+      acquired for him throughout the known world. And in confirmation of this,
+      I must tell you, too, that it is but ten hours since these said enchanters
+      his enemies transformed the shape and person of the fair Dulcinea del
+      Toboso into a foul and mean village lass, and in the same way they must
+      have transformed Don Quixote; and if all this does not suffice to convince
+      you of the truth of what I say, here is Don Quixote himself, who will
+      maintain it by arms, on foot or on horseback or in any way you please."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      And so saying he stood up and laid his hand on his sword, waiting to see
+      what the Knight of the Grove would do, who in an equally calm voice said
+      in reply, "Pledges don't distress a good payer; he who has succeeded in
+      vanquishing you once when transformed, Sir Don Quixote, may fairly hope to
+      subdue you in your own proper shape; but as it is not becoming for knights
+      to perform their feats of arms in the dark, like highwaymen and bullies,
+      let us wait till daylight, that the sun may behold our deeds; and the
+      conditions of our combat shall be that the vanquished shall be at the
+      victor's disposal, to do all that he may enjoin, provided the injunction
+      be such as shall be becoming a knight."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I am more than satisfied with these conditions and terms," replied Don
+      Quixote; and so saying, they betook themselves to where their squires lay,
+      and found them snoring, and in the same posture they were in when sleep
+      fell upon them. They roused them up, and bade them get the horses ready,
+      as at sunrise they were to engage in a bloody and arduous single combat;
+      at which intelligence Sancho was aghast and thunderstruck, trembling for
+      the safety of his master because of the mighty deeds he had heard the
+      squire of the Grove ascribe to his; but without a word the two squires
+      went in quest of their cattle; for by this time the three horses and the
+      ass had smelt one another out, and were all together.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      On the way, he of the Grove said to Sancho, "You must know, brother, that
+      it is the custom with the fighting men of Andalusia, when they are
+      godfathers in any quarrel, not to stand idle with folded arms while their
+      godsons fight; I say so to remind you that while our masters are fighting,
+      we, too, have to fight, and knock one another to shivers."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "That custom, sir squire," replied Sancho, "may hold good among those
+      bullies and fighting men you talk of, but certainly not among the squires
+      of knights-errant; at least, I have never heard my master speak of any
+      custom of the sort, and he knows all the laws of knight-errantry by heart;
+      but granting it true that there is an express law that squires are to
+      fight while their masters are fighting, I don't mean to obey it, but to
+      pay the penalty that may be laid on peacefully minded squires like myself;
+      for I am sure it cannot be more than two pounds of wax, and I would rather
+      pay that, for I know it will cost me less than the lint I shall be at the
+      expense of to mend my head, which I look upon as broken and split already;
+      there's another thing that makes it impossible for me to fight, that I
+      have no sword, for I never carried one in my life."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I know a good remedy for that," said he of the Grove; "I have here two
+      linen bags of the same size; you shall take one, and I the other, and we
+      will fight at bag blows with equal arms."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "If that's the way, so be it with all my heart," said Sancho, "for that
+      sort of battle will serve to knock the dust out of us instead of hurting
+      us."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "That will not do," said the other, "for we must put into the bags, to
+      keep the wind from blowing them away, half a dozen nice smooth pebbles,
+      all of the same weight; and in this way we shall be able to baste one
+      another without doing ourselves any harm or mischief."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Body of my father!" said Sancho, "see what marten and sable, and pads of
+      carded cotton he is putting into the bags, that our heads may not be
+      broken and our bones beaten to jelly! But even if they are filled with
+      toss silk, I can tell you, senor, I am not going to fight; let our masters
+      fight, that's their lookout, and let us drink and live; for time will take
+      care to ease us of our lives, without our going to look for fillips so
+      that they may be finished off before their proper time comes and they drop
+      from ripeness."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Still," returned he of the Grove, "we must fight, if it be only for half
+      an hour."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "By no means," said Sancho; "I am not going to be so discourteous or so
+      ungrateful as to have any quarrel, be it ever so small, with one I have
+      eaten and drunk with; besides, who the devil could bring himself to fight
+      in cold blood, without anger or provocation?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I can remedy that entirely," said he of the Grove, "and in this way:
+      before we begin the battle, I will come up to your worship fair and
+      softly, and give you three or four buffets, with which I shall stretch you
+      at my feet and rouse your anger, though it were sleeping sounder than a
+      dormouse."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "To match that plan," said Sancho, "I have another that is not a whit
+      behind it; I will take a cudgel, and before your worship comes near enough
+      to waken my anger I will send yours so sound to sleep with whacks, that it
+      won't waken unless it be in the other world, where it is known that I am
+      not a man to let my face be handled by anyone; let each look out for the
+      arrow&mdash;though the surer way would be to let everyone's anger sleep,
+      for nobody knows the heart of anyone, and a man may come for wool and go
+      back shorn; God gave his blessing to peace and his curse to quarrels; if a
+      hunted cat, surrounded and hard pressed, turns into a lion, God knows what
+      I, who am a man, may turn into; and so from this time forth I warn you,
+      sir squire, that all the harm and mischief that may come of our quarrel
+      will be put down to your account."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Very good," said he of the Grove; "God will send the dawn and we shall be
+      all right."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      And now gay-plumaged birds of all sorts began to warble in the trees, and
+      with their varied and gladsome notes seemed to welcome and salute the
+      fresh morn that was beginning to show the beauty of her countenance at the
+      gates and balconies of the east, shaking from her locks a profusion of
+      liquid pearls; in which dulcet moisture bathed, the plants, too, seemed to
+      shed and shower down a pearly spray, the willows distilled sweet manna,
+      the fountains laughed, the brooks babbled, the woods rejoiced, and the
+      meadows arrayed themselves in all their glory at her coming. But hardly
+      had the light of day made it possible to see and distinguish things, when
+      the first object that presented itself to the eyes of Sancho Panza was the
+      squire of the Grove's nose, which was so big that it almost overshadowed
+      his whole body. It is, in fact, stated, that it was of enormous size,
+      hooked in the middle, covered with warts, and of a mulberry colour like an
+      egg-plant; it hung down two fingers' length below his mouth, and the size,
+      the colour, the warts, and the bend of it, made his face so hideous, that
+      Sancho, as he looked at him, began to tremble hand and foot like a child
+      in convulsions, and he vowed in his heart to let himself be given two
+      hundred buffets, sooner than be provoked to fight that monster. Don
+      Quixote examined his adversary, and found that he already had his helmet
+      on and visor lowered, so that he could not see his face; he observed,
+      however, that he was a sturdily built man, but not very tall in stature.
+      Over his armour he wore a surcoat or cassock of what seemed to be the
+      finest cloth of gold, all bespangled with glittering mirrors like little
+      moons, which gave him an extremely gallant and splendid appearance; above
+      his helmet fluttered a great quantity of plumes, green, yellow, and white,
+      and his lance, which was leaning against a tree, was very long and stout,
+      and had a steel point more than a palm in length.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Don Quixote observed all, and took note of all, and from what he saw and
+      observed he concluded that the said knight must be a man of great
+      strength, but he did not for all that give way to fear, like Sancho Panza;
+      on the contrary, with a composed and dauntless air, he said to the Knight
+      of the Mirrors, "If, sir knight, your great eagerness to fight has not
+      banished your courtesy, by it I would entreat you to raise your visor a
+      little, in order that I may see if the comeliness of your countenance
+      corresponds with that of your equipment."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Whether you come victorious or vanquished out of this emprise, sir
+      knight," replied he of the Mirrors, "you will have more than enough time
+      and leisure to see me; and if now I do not comply with your request, it is
+      because it seems to me I should do a serious wrong to the fair Casildea de
+      Vandalia in wasting time while I stopped to raise my visor before
+      compelling you to confess what you are already aware I maintain."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Well then," said Don Quixote, "while we are mounting you can at least
+      tell me if I am that Don Quixote whom you said you vanquished."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "To that we answer you," said he of the Mirrors, "that you are as like the
+      very knight I vanquished as one egg is like another, but as you say
+      enchanters persecute you, I will not venture to say positively whether you
+      are the said person or not."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "That," said Don Quixote, "is enough to convince me that you are under a
+      deception; however, entirely to relieve you of it, let our horses be
+      brought, and in less time than it would take you to raise your visor, if
+      God, my lady, and my arm stand me in good stead, I shall see your face,
+      and you shall see that I am not the vanquished Don Quixote you take me to
+      be."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      With this, cutting short the colloquy, they mounted, and Don Quixote
+      wheeled Rocinante round in order to take a proper distance to charge back
+      upon his adversary, and he of the Mirrors did the same; but Don Quixote
+      had not moved away twenty paces when he heard himself called by the other,
+      and, each returning half-way, he of the Mirrors said to him, "Remember,
+      sir knight, that the terms of our combat are, that the vanquished, as I
+      said before, shall be at the victor's disposal."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I am aware of it already," said Don Quixote; "provided what is commanded
+      and imposed upon the vanquished be things that do not transgress the
+      limits of chivalry."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "That is understood," replied he of the Mirrors.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      At this moment the extraordinary nose of the squire presented itself to
+      Don Quixote's view, and he was no less amazed than Sancho at the sight;
+      insomuch that he set him down as a monster of some kind, or a human being
+      of some new species or unearthly breed. Sancho, seeing his master retiring
+      to run his course, did not like to be left alone with the nosy man,
+      fearing that with one flap of that nose on his own the battle would be all
+      over for him and he would be left stretched on the ground, either by the
+      blow or with fright; so he ran after his master, holding on to Rocinante's
+      stirrup-leather, and when it seemed to him time to turn about, he said, "I
+      implore of your worship, senor, before you turn to charge, to help me up
+      into this cork tree, from which I will be able to witness the gallant
+      encounter your worship is going to have with this knight, more to my taste
+      and better than from the ground."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "It seems to me rather, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "that thou wouldst
+      mount a scaffold in order to see the bulls without danger."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "To tell the truth," returned Sancho, "the monstrous nose of that squire
+      has filled me with fear and terror, and I dare not stay near him."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "It is," said Don Quixote, "such a one that were I not what I am it would
+      terrify me too; so, come, I will help thee up where thou wilt."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      While Don Quixote waited for Sancho to mount into the cork tree he of the
+      Mirrors took as much ground as he considered requisite, and, supposing Don
+      Quixote to have done the same, without waiting for any sound of trumpet or
+      other signal to direct them, he wheeled his horse, which was not more
+      agile or better-looking than Rocinante, and at his top speed, which was an
+      easy trot, he proceeded to charge his enemy; seeing him, however, engaged
+      in putting Sancho up, he drew rein, and halted in mid career, for which
+      his horse was very grateful, as he was already unable to go. Don Quixote,
+      fancying that his foe was coming down upon him flying, drove his spurs
+      vigorously into Rocinante's lean flanks and made him scud along in such
+      style that the history tells us that on this occasion only was he known to
+      make something like running, for on all others it was a simple trot with
+      him; and with this unparalleled fury he bore down where he of the Mirrors
+      stood digging his spurs into his horse up to buttons, without being able
+      to make him stir a finger's length from the spot where he had come to a
+      standstill in his course. At this lucky moment and crisis, Don Quixote
+      came upon his adversary, in trouble with his horse, and embarrassed with
+      his lance, which he either could not manage, or had no time to lay in
+      rest. Don Quixote, however, paid no attention to these difficulties, and
+      in perfect safety to himself and without any risk encountered him of the
+      Mirrors with such force that he brought him to the ground in spite of
+      himself over the haunches of his horse, and with so heavy a fall that he
+      lay to all appearance dead, not stirring hand or foot. The instant Sancho
+      saw him fall he slid down from the cork tree, and made all haste to where
+      his master was, who, dismounting from Rocinante, went and stood over him
+      of the Mirrors, and unlacing his helmet to see if he was dead, and to give
+      him air if he should happen to be alive, he saw&mdash;who can say what he
+      saw, without filling all who hear it with astonishment, wonder, and awe?
+      He saw, the history says, the very countenance, the very face, the very
+      look, the very physiognomy, the very effigy, the very image of the
+      bachelor Samson Carrasco! As soon as he saw it he called out in a loud
+      voice, "Make haste here, Sancho, and behold what thou art to see but not
+      to believe; quick, my son, and learn what magic can do, and wizards and
+      enchanters are capable of."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Sancho came up, and when he saw the countenance of the bachelor Carrasco,
+      he fell to crossing himself a thousand times, and blessing himself as many
+      more. All this time the prostrate knight showed no signs of life, and
+      Sancho said to Don Quixote, "It is my opinion, senor, that in any case
+      your worship should take and thrust your sword into the mouth of this one
+      here that looks like the bachelor Samson Carrasco; perhaps in him you will
+      kill one of your enemies, the enchanters."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Thy advice is not bad," said Don Quixote, "for of enemies the fewer the
+      better;" and he was drawing his sword to carry into effect Sancho's
+      counsel and suggestion, when the squire of the Mirrors came up, now
+      without the nose which had made him so hideous, and cried out in a loud
+      voice, "Mind what you are about, Senor Don Quixote; that is your friend,
+      the bachelor Samson Carrasco, you have at your feet, and I am his squire."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "And the nose?" said Sancho, seeing him without the hideous feature he had
+      before; to which he replied, "I have it here in my pocket," and putting
+      his hand into his right pocket, he pulled out a masquerade nose of
+      varnished pasteboard of the make already described; and Sancho, examining
+      him more and more closely, exclaimed aloud in a voice of amazement, "Holy
+      Mary be good to me! Isn't it Tom Cecial, my neighbour and gossip?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Why, to be sure I am!" returned the now unnosed squire; "Tom Cecial I am,
+      gossip and friend Sancho Panza; and I'll tell you presently the means and
+      tricks and falsehoods by which I have been brought here; but in the
+      meantime, beg and entreat of your master not to touch, maltreat, wound, or
+      slay the Knight of the Mirrors whom he has at his feet; because, beyond
+      all dispute, it is the rash and ill-advised bachelor Samson Carrasco, our
+      fellow townsman."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      At this moment he of the Mirrors came to himself, and Don Quixote
+      perceiving it, held the naked point of his sword over his face, and said
+      to him, "You are a dead man, knight, unless you confess that the peerless
+      Dulcinea del Toboso excels your Casildea de Vandalia in beauty; and in
+      addition to this you must promise, if you should survive this encounter
+      and fall, to go to the city of El Toboso and present yourself before her
+      on my behalf, that she deal with you according to her good pleasure; and
+      if she leaves you free to do yours, you are in like manner to return and
+      seek me out (for the trail of my mighty deeds will serve you as a guide to
+      lead you to where I may be), and tell me what may have passed between you
+      and her&mdash;conditions which, in accordance with what we stipulated
+      before our combat, do not transgress the just limits of knight-errantry."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I confess," said the fallen knight, "that the dirty tattered shoe of the
+      lady Dulcinea del Toboso is better than the ill-combed though clean beard
+      of Casildea; and I promise to go and to return from her presence to yours,
+      and to give you a full and particular account of all you demand of me."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "You must also confess and believe," added Don Quixote, "that the knight
+      you vanquished was not and could not be Don Quixote of La Mancha, but some
+      one else in his likeness, just as I confess and believe that you, though
+      you seem to be the bachelor Samson Carrasco, are not so, but some other
+      resembling him, whom my enemies have here put before me in his shape, in
+      order that I may restrain and moderate the vehemence of my wrath, and make
+      a gentle use of the glory of my victory."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I confess, hold, and think everything to be as you believe, hold, and
+      think it," the crippled knight; "let me rise, I entreat you; if, indeed,
+      the shock of my fall will allow me, for it has left me in a sorry plight
+      enough."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Don Quixote helped him to rise, with the assistance of his squire Tom
+      Cecial; from whom Sancho never took his eyes, and to whom he put
+      questions, the replies to which furnished clear proof that he was really
+      and truly the Tom Cecial he said; but the impression made on Sancho's mind
+      by what his master said about the enchanters having changed the face of
+      the Knight of the Mirrors into that of the bachelor Samson Carrasco, would
+      not permit him to believe what he saw with his eyes. In fine, both master
+      and man remained under the delusion; and, down in the mouth, and out of
+      luck, he of the Mirrors and his squire parted from Don Quixote and Sancho,
+      he meaning to go look for some village where he could plaster and strap
+      his ribs. Don Quixote and Sancho resumed their journey to Saragossa, and
+      on it the history leaves them in order that it may tell who the Knight of
+      the Mirrors and his long-nosed squire were.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p14e" id="p14e"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p14e.jpg (56K)" src="images/p14e.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      <a name="ch15b" id="ch15b"></a>CHAPTER XV.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      WHEREIN IT IS TOLD AND KNOWN WHO THE KNIGHT OF THE MIRRORS AND HIS SQUIRE
+      WERE
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <a name="p15a" id="p15a"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p15a.jpg (122K)" src="images/p15a.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p15a.jpg"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br />
+      <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Don Quixote went off satisfied, elated, and vain-glorious in the highest
+      degree at having won a victory over such a valiant knight as he fancied
+      him of the Mirrors to be, and one from whose knightly word he expected to
+      learn whether the enchantment of his lady still continued; inasmuch as the
+      said vanquished knight was bound, under the penalty of ceasing to be one,
+      to return and render him an account of what took place between him and
+      her. But Don Quixote was of one mind, he of the Mirrors of another, for he
+      just then had no thought of anything but finding some village where he
+      could plaster himself, as has been said already. The history goes on to
+      say, then, that when the bachelor Samson Carrasco recommended Don Quixote
+      to resume his knight-errantry which he had laid aside, it was in
+      consequence of having been previously in conclave with the curate and the
+      barber on the means to be adopted to induce Don Quixote to stay at home in
+      peace and quiet without worrying himself with his ill-starred adventures;
+      at which consultation it was decided by the unanimous vote of all, and on
+      the special advice of Carrasco, that Don Quixote should be allowed to go,
+      as it seemed impossible to restrain him, and that Samson should sally
+      forth to meet him as a knight-errant, and do battle with him, for there
+      would be no difficulty about a cause, and vanquish him, that being looked
+      upon as an easy matter; and that it should be agreed and settled that the
+      vanquished was to be at the mercy of the victor. Then, Don Quixote being
+      vanquished, the bachelor knight was to command him to return to his
+      village and his house, and not quit it for two years, or until he received
+      further orders from him; all which it was clear Don Quixote would
+      unhesitatingly obey, rather than contravene or fail to observe the laws of
+      chivalry; and during the period of his seclusion he might perhaps forget
+      his folly, or there might be an opportunity of discovering some ready
+      remedy for his madness. Carrasco undertook the task, and Tom Cecial, a
+      gossip and neighbour of Sancho Panza's, a lively, feather-headed fellow,
+      offered himself as his squire. Carrasco armed himself in the fashion
+      described, and Tom Cecial, that he might not be known by his gossip when
+      they met, fitted on over his own natural nose the false masquerade one
+      that has been mentioned; and so they followed the same route Don Quixote
+      took, and almost came up with him in time to be present at the adventure
+      of the cart of Death and finally encountered them in the grove, where all
+      that the sagacious reader has been reading about took place; and had it
+      not been for the extraordinary fancies of Don Quixote, and his conviction
+      that the bachelor was not the bachelor, senor bachelor would have been
+      incapacitated for ever from taking his degree of licentiate, all through
+      not finding nests where he thought to find birds.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Tom Cecial, seeing how ill they had succeeded, and what a sorry end their
+      expedition had come to, said to the bachelor, "Sure enough, Senor Samson
+      Carrasco, we are served right; it is easy enough to plan and set about an
+      enterprise, but it is often a difficult matter to come well out of it. Don
+      Quixote a madman, and we sane; he goes off laughing, safe, and sound, and
+      you are left sore and sorry! I'd like to know now which is the madder, he
+      who is so because he cannot help it, or he who is so of his own choice?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      To which Samson replied, "The difference between the two sorts of madmen
+      is, that he who is so will he nil he, will be one always, while he who is
+      so of his own accord can leave off being one whenever he likes."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "In that case," said Tom Cecial, "I was a madman of my own accord when I
+      volunteered to become your squire, and, of my own accord, I'll leave off
+      being one and go home."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "That's your affair," returned Samson, "but to suppose that I am going
+      home until I have given Don Quixote a thrashing is absurd; and it is not
+      any wish that he may recover his senses that will make me hunt him out
+      now, but a wish for the sore pain I am in with my ribs won't let me
+      entertain more charitable thoughts."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Thus discoursing, the pair proceeded until they reached a town where it
+      was their good luck to find a bone-setter, with whose help the unfortunate
+      Samson was cured. Tom Cecial left him and went home, while he stayed
+      behind meditating vengeance; and the history will return to him again at
+      the proper time, so as not to omit making merry with Don Quixote now.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p15e" id="p15e"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p15e.jpg (17K)" src="images/p15e.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      <a name="ch16b" id="ch16b"></a>CHAPTER XVI.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      OF WHAT BEFELL DON QUIXOTE WITH A DISCREET GENTLEMAN OF LA MANCHA
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <a name="p16a" id="p16a"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p16a.jpg (85K)" src="images/p16a.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p16a.jpg"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br />
+      <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Don Quixote pursued his journey in the high spirits, satisfaction, and
+      self-complacency already described, fancying himself the most valorous
+      knight-errant of the age in the world because of his late victory. All the
+      adventures that could befall him from that time forth he regarded as
+      already done and brought to a happy issue; he made light of enchantments
+      and enchanters; he thought no more of the countless drubbings that had
+      been administered to him in the course of his knight-errantry, nor of the
+      volley of stones that had levelled half his teeth, nor of the ingratitude
+      of the galley slaves, nor of the audacity of the Yanguesans and the shower
+      of stakes that fell upon him; in short, he said to himself that could he
+      discover any means, mode, or way of disenchanting his lady Dulcinea, he
+      would not envy the highest fortune that the most fortunate knight-errant
+      of yore ever reached or could reach.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      He was going along entirely absorbed in these fancies, when Sancho said to
+      him, "Isn't it odd, senor, that I have still before my eyes that monstrous
+      enormous nose of my gossip, Tom Cecial?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "And dost thou, then, believe, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "that the Knight
+      of the Mirrors was the bachelor Carrasco, and his squire Tom Cecial thy
+      gossip?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I don't know what to say to that," replied Sancho; "all I know is that
+      the tokens he gave me about my own house, wife and children, nobody else
+      but himself could have given me; and the face, once the nose was off, was
+      the very face of Tom Cecial, as I have seen it many a time in my town and
+      next door to my own house; and the sound of the voice was just the same."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Let us reason the matter, Sancho," said Don Quixote. "Come now, by what
+      process of thinking can it be supposed that the bachelor Samson Carrasco
+      would come as a knight-errant, in arms offensive and defensive, to fight
+      with me? Have I ever been by any chance his enemy? Have I ever given him
+      any occasion to owe me a grudge? Am I his rival, or does he profess arms,
+      that he should envy the fame I have acquired in them?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Well, but what are we to say, senor," returned Sancho, "about that
+      knight, whoever he is, being so like the bachelor Carrasco, and his squire
+      so like my gossip, Tom Cecial? And if that be enchantment, as your worship
+      says, was there no other pair in the world for them to take the likeness
+      of?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "It is all," said Don Quixote, "a scheme and plot of the malignant
+      magicians that persecute me, who, foreseeing that I was to be victorious
+      in the conflict, arranged that the vanquished knight should display the
+      countenance of my friend the bachelor, in order that the friendship I bear
+      him should interpose to stay the edge of my sword and might of my arm, and
+      temper the just wrath of my heart; so that he who sought to take my life
+      by fraud and falsehood should save his own. And to prove it, thou knowest
+      already, Sancho, by experience which cannot lie or deceive, how easy it is
+      for enchanters to change one countenance into another, turning fair into
+      foul, and foul into fair; for it is not two days since thou sawest with
+      thine own eyes the beauty and elegance of the peerless Dulcinea in all its
+      perfection and natural harmony, while I saw her in the repulsive and mean
+      form of a coarse country wench, with cataracts in her eyes and a foul
+      smell in her mouth; and when the perverse enchanter ventured to effect so
+      wicked a transformation, it is no wonder if he effected that of Samson
+      Carrasco and thy gossip in order to snatch the glory of victory out of my
+      grasp. For all that, however, I console myself, because, after all, in
+      whatever shape he may have been, I have been victorious over my enemy."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "God knows what's the truth of it all," said Sancho; and knowing as he did
+      that the transformation of Dulcinea had been a device and imposition of
+      his own, his master's illusions were not satisfactory to him; but he did
+      not like to reply lest he should say something that might disclose his
+      trickery.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      As they were engaged in this conversation they were overtaken by a man who
+      was following the same road behind them, mounted on a very handsome
+      flea-bitten mare, and dressed in a gaban of fine green cloth, with tawny
+      velvet facings, and a montera of the same velvet. The trappings of the
+      mare were of the field and jineta fashion, and of mulberry colour and
+      green. He carried a Moorish cutlass hanging from a broad green and gold
+      baldric; the buskins were of the same make as the baldric; the spurs were
+      not gilt, but lacquered green, and so brightly polished that, matching as
+      they did the rest of his apparel, they looked better than if they had been
+      of pure gold.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      When the traveller came up with them he saluted them courteously, and
+      spurring his mare was passing them without stopping, but Don Quixote
+      called out to him, "Gallant sir, if so be your worship is going our road,
+      and has no occasion for speed, it would be a pleasure to me if we were to
+      join company."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "In truth," replied he on the mare, "I would not pass you so hastily but
+      for fear that horse might turn restive in the company of my mare."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "You may safely hold in your mare, senor," said Sancho in reply to this,
+      "for our horse is the most virtuous and well-behaved horse in the world;
+      he never does anything wrong on such occasions, and the only time he
+      misbehaved, my master and I suffered for it sevenfold; I say again your
+      worship may pull up if you like; for if she was offered to him between two
+      plates the horse would not hanker after her."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The traveller drew rein, amazed at the trim and features of Don Quixote,
+      who rode without his helmet, which Sancho carried like a valise in front
+      of Dapple's pack-saddle; and if the man in green examined Don Quixote
+      closely, still more closely did Don Quixote examine the man in green, who
+      struck him as being a man of intelligence. In appearance he was about
+      fifty years of age, with but few grey hairs, an aquiline cast of features,
+      and an expression between grave and gay; and his dress and accoutrements
+      showed him to be a man of good condition. What he in green thought of Don
+      Quixote of La Mancha was that a man of that sort and shape he had never
+      yet seen; he marvelled at the length of his hair, his lofty stature, the
+      lankness and sallowness of his countenance, his armour, his bearing and
+      his gravity&mdash;a figure and picture such as had not been seen in those
+      regions for many a long day.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Don Quixote saw very plainly the attention with which the traveller was
+      regarding him, and read his curiosity in his astonishment; and courteous
+      as he was and ready to please everybody, before the other could ask him
+      any question he anticipated him by saying, "The appearance I present to
+      your worship being so strange and so out of the common, I should not be
+      surprised if it filled you with wonder; but you will cease to wonder when
+      I tell you, as I do, that I am one of those knights who, as people say, go
+      seeking adventures. I have left my home, I have mortgaged my estate, I
+      have given up my comforts, and committed myself to the arms of Fortune, to
+      bear me whithersoever she may please. My desire was to bring to life again
+      knight-errantry, now dead, and for some time past, stumbling here, falling
+      there, now coming down headlong, now raising myself up again, I have
+      carried out a great portion of my design, succouring widows, protecting
+      maidens, and giving aid to wives, orphans, and minors, the proper and
+      natural duty of knights-errant; and, therefore, because of my many valiant
+      and Christian achievements, I have been already found worthy to make my
+      way in print to well-nigh all, or most, of the nations of the earth.
+      Thirty thousand volumes of my history have been printed, and it is on the
+      high-road to be printed thirty thousand thousands of times, if heaven does
+      not put a stop to it. In short, to sum up all in a few words, or in a
+      single one, I may tell you I am Don Quixote of La Mancha, otherwise called
+      'The Knight of the Rueful Countenance;' for though self-praise is
+      degrading, I must perforce sound my own sometimes, that is to say, when
+      there is no one at hand to do it for me. So that, gentle sir, neither this
+      horse, nor this lance, nor this shield, nor this squire, nor all these
+      arms put together, nor the sallowness of my countenance, nor my gaunt
+      leanness, will henceforth astonish you, now that you know who I am and
+      what profession I follow."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      With these words Don Quixote held his peace, and, from the time he took to
+      answer, the man in green seemed to be at a loss for a reply; after a long
+      pause, however, he said to him, "You were right when you saw curiosity in
+      my amazement, sir knight; but you have not succeeded in removing the
+      astonishment I feel at seeing you; for although you say, senor, that
+      knowing who you are ought to remove it, it has not done so; on the
+      contrary, now that I know, I am left more amazed and astonished than
+      before. What! is it possible that there are knights-errant in the world in
+      these days, and histories of real chivalry printed? I cannot realise the
+      fact that there can be anyone on earth now-a-days who aids widows, or
+      protects maidens, or defends wives, or succours orphans; nor should I
+      believe it had I not seen it in your worship with my own eyes. Blessed be
+      heaven! for by means of this history of your noble and genuine chivalrous
+      deeds, which you say has been printed, the countless stories of fictitious
+      knights-errant with which the world is filled, so much to the injury of
+      morality and the prejudice and discredit of good histories, will have been
+      driven into oblivion."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "There is a good deal to be said on that point," said Don Quixote, "as to
+      whether the histories of the knights-errant are fiction or not."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Why, is there anyone who doubts that those histories are false?" said the
+      man in green.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I doubt it," said Don Quixote, "but never mind that just now; if our
+      journey lasts long enough, I trust in God I shall show your worship that
+      you do wrong in going with the stream of those who regard it as a matter
+      of certainty that they are not true."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      From this last observation of Don Quixote's, the traveller began to have a
+      suspicion that he was some crazy being, and was waiting for him to confirm it
+      by something further; but before they could turn to any new subject Don
+      Quixote begged him to tell him who he was, since he himself had rendered
+      account of his station and life. To this, he in the green gaban replied
+      "I, Sir Knight of the Rueful Countenance, am a gentleman by birth, native
+      of the village where, please God, we are going to dine today; I am more
+      than fairly well off, and my name is Don Diego de Miranda. I pass my life
+      with my wife, children, and friends; my pursuits are hunting and fishing,
+      but I keep neither hawks nor greyhounds, nothing but a tame partridge or a
+      bold ferret or two; I have six dozen or so of books, some in our mother
+      tongue, some Latin, some of them history, others devotional; those of
+      chivalry have not as yet crossed the threshold of my door; I am more given
+      to turning over the profane than the devotional, so long as they are books
+      of honest entertainment that charm by their style and attract and interest
+      by the invention they display, though of these there are very few in
+      Spain. Sometimes I dine with my neighbours and friends, and often invite
+      them; my entertainments are neat and well served without stint of
+      anything. I have no taste for tattle, nor do I allow tattling in my
+      presence; I pry not into my neighbours' lives, nor have I lynx-eyes for
+      what others do. I hear mass every day; I share my substance with the poor,
+      making no display of good works, lest I let hypocrisy and vainglory, those
+      enemies that subtly take possession of the most watchful heart, find an
+      entrance into mine. I strive to make peace between those whom I know to be
+      at variance; I am the devoted servant of Our Lady, and my trust is ever in
+      the infinite mercy of God our Lord."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Sancho listened with the greatest attention to the account of the
+      gentleman's life and occupation; and thinking it a good and a holy life,
+      and that he who led it ought to work miracles, he threw himself off
+      Dapple, and running in haste seized his right stirrup and kissed his foot
+      again and again with a devout heart and almost with tears.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Seeing this the gentleman asked him, "What are you about, brother? What
+      are these kisses for?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Let me kiss," said Sancho, "for I think your worship is the first saint
+      in the saddle I ever saw all the days of my life."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I am no saint," replied the gentleman, "but a great sinner; but you are,
+      brother, for you must be a good fellow, as your simplicity shows."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Sancho went back and regained his pack-saddle, having extracted a laugh
+      from his master's profound melancholy, and excited fresh amazement in Don
+      Diego. Don Quixote then asked him how many children he had, and observed
+      that one of the things wherein the ancient philosophers, who were without
+      the true knowledge of God, placed the summum bonum was in the gifts of
+      nature, in those of fortune, in having many friends, and many and good
+      children.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I, Senor Don Quixote," answered the gentleman, "have one son, without
+      whom, perhaps, I should count myself happier than I am, not because he is
+      a bad son, but because he is not so good as I could wish. He is eighteen
+      years of age; he has been for six at Salamanca studying Latin and Greek,
+      and when I wished him to turn to the study of other sciences I found him
+      so wrapped up in that of poetry (if that can be called a science) that
+      there is no getting him to take kindly to the law, which I wished him to
+      study, or to theology, the queen of them all. I would like him to be an
+      honour to his family, as we live in days when our kings liberally reward
+      learning that is virtuous and worthy; for learning without virtue is a
+      pearl on a dunghill. He spends the whole day in settling whether Homer
+      expressed himself correctly or not in such and such a line of the Iliad,
+      whether Martial was indecent or not in such and such an epigram, whether
+      such and such lines of Virgil are to be understood in this way or in that;
+      in short, all his talk is of the works of these poets, and those of
+      Horace, Perseus, Juvenal, and Tibullus; for of the moderns in our own
+      language he makes no great account; but with all his seeming indifference
+      to Spanish poetry, just now his thoughts are absorbed in making a gloss on
+      four lines that have been sent him from Salamanca, which I suspect are for
+      some poetical tournament."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      To all this Don Quixote said in reply, "Children, senor, are portions of
+      their parents' bowels, and therefore, be they good or bad, are to be loved
+      as we love the souls that give us life; it is for the parents to guide
+      them from infancy in the ways of virtue, propriety, and worthy Christian
+      conduct, so that when grown up they may be the staff of their parents' old
+      age, and the glory of their posterity; and to force them to study this or
+      that science I do not think wise, though it may be no harm to persuade
+      them; and when there is no need to study for the sake of pane lucrando,
+      and it is the student's good fortune that heaven has given him parents who
+      provide him with it, it would be my advice to them to let him pursue
+      whatever science they may see him most inclined to; and though that of
+      poetry is less useful than pleasurable, it is not one of those that bring
+      discredit upon the possessor. Poetry, gentle sir, is, as I take it, like a
+      tender young maiden of supreme beauty, to array, bedeck, and adorn whom is
+      the task of several other maidens, who are all the rest of the sciences;
+      and she must avail herself of the help of all, and all derive their lustre
+      from her. But this maiden will not bear to be handled, nor dragged through
+      the streets, nor exposed either at the corners of the market-places, or in
+      the closets of palaces. She is the product of an Alchemy of such virtue
+      that he who is able to practise it, will turn her into pure gold of
+      inestimable worth. He that possesses her must keep her within bounds, not
+      permitting her to break out in ribald satires or soulless sonnets. She
+      must on no account be offered for sale, unless, indeed, it be in heroic
+      poems, moving tragedies, or sprightly and ingenious comedies. She must not
+      be touched by the buffoons, nor by the ignorant vulgar, incapable of
+      comprehending or appreciating her hidden treasures. And do not suppose,
+      senor, that I apply the term vulgar here merely to plebeians and the lower
+      orders; for everyone who is ignorant, be he lord or prince, may and should
+      be included among the vulgar. He, then, who shall embrace and cultivate
+      poetry under the conditions I have named, shall become famous, and his
+      name honoured throughout all the civilised nations of the earth. And with
+      regard to what you say, senor, of your son having no great opinion of
+      Spanish poetry, I am inclined to think that he is not quite right there,
+      and for this reason: the great poet Homer did not write in Latin, because
+      he was a Greek, nor did Virgil write in Greek, because he was a Latin; in
+      short, all the ancient poets wrote in the language they imbibed with their
+      mother's milk, and never went in quest of foreign ones to express their
+      sublime conceptions; and that being so, the usage should in justice extend
+      to all nations, and the German poet should not be undervalued because he
+      writes in his own language, nor the Castilian, nor even the Biscayan, for
+      writing in his. But your son, senor, I suspect, is not prejudiced against
+      Spanish poetry, but against those poets who are mere Spanish verse
+      writers, without any knowledge of other languages or sciences to adorn and
+      give life and vigour to their natural inspiration; and yet even in this he
+      may be wrong; for, according to a true belief, a poet is born one; that is
+      to say, the poet by nature comes forth a poet from his mother's womb; and
+      following the bent that heaven has bestowed upon him, without the aid of
+      study or art, he produces things that show how truly he spoke who said,
+      'Est Deus in nobis,' etc. At the same time, I say that the poet by nature
+      who calls in art to his aid will be a far better poet, and will surpass
+      him who tries to be one relying upon his knowledge of art alone. The
+      reason is, that art does not surpass nature, but only brings it to
+      perfection; and thus, nature combined with art, and art with nature, will
+      produce a perfect poet. To bring my argument to a close, I would say then,
+      gentle sir, let your son go on as his star leads him, for being so
+      studious as he seems to be, and having already successfully surmounted the
+      first step of the sciences, which is that of the languages, with their
+      help he will by his own exertions reach the summit of polite literature,
+      which so well becomes an independent gentleman, and adorns, honours, and
+      distinguishes him, as much as the mitre does the bishop, or the gown the
+      learned counsellor. If your son write satires reflecting on the honour of
+      others, chide and correct him, and tear them up; but if he compose
+      discourses in which he rebukes vice in general, in the style of Horace,
+      and with elegance like his, commend him; for it is legitimate for a poet
+      to write against envy and lash the envious in his verse, and the other
+      vices too, provided he does not single out individuals; there are,
+      however, poets who, for the sake of saying something spiteful, would run
+      the risk of being banished to the coast of Pontus. If the poet be pure in
+      his morals, he will be pure in his verses too; the pen is the tongue of
+      the mind, and as the thought engendered there, so will be the things that
+      it writes down. And when kings and princes observe this marvellous science
+      of poetry in wise, virtuous, and thoughtful subjects, they honour, value,
+      exalt them, and even crown them with the leaves of that tree which the
+      thunderbolt strikes not, as if to show that they whose brows are honoured
+      and adorned with such a crown are not to be assailed by anyone."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      He of the green gaban was filled with astonishment at Don Quixote's
+      argument, so much so that he began to abandon the notion he had taken up
+      about his being crazy. But in the middle of the discourse, it being not
+      very much to his taste, Sancho had turned aside out of the road to beg a
+      little milk from some shepherds, who were milking their ewes hard by; and
+      just as the gentleman, highly pleased, was about to renew the
+      conversation, Don Quixote, raising his head, perceived a cart covered with
+      royal flags coming along the road they were travelling; and persuaded that
+      this must be some new adventure, he called aloud to Sancho to come and
+      bring him his helmet. Sancho, hearing himself called, quitted the
+      shepherds, and, prodding Dapple vigorously, came up to his master, to whom
+      there fell a terrific and desperate adventure.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p16e" id="p16e"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p16e.jpg (49K)" src="images/p16e.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      <a name="ch17b" id="ch17b"></a>CHAPTER XVII.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      WHEREIN IS SHOWN THE FURTHEST AND HIGHEST POINT WHICH THE UNEXAMPLED
+      COURAGE OF DON QUIXOTE REACHED OR COULD REACH; TOGETHER WITH THE HAPPILY
+      ACHIEVED ADVENTURE OF THE LIONS
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <a name="p17a" id="p17a"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p17a.jpg (137K)" src="images/p17a.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p17a.jpg"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br />
+      <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The history tells that when Don Quixote called out to Sancho to bring him
+      his helmet, Sancho was buying some curds the shepherds agreed to sell him,
+      and flurried by the great haste his master was in did not know what to do
+      with them or what to carry them in; so, not to lose them, for he had
+      already paid for them, he thought it best to throw them into his master's
+      helmet, and acting on this bright idea he went to see what his master
+      wanted with him. He, as he approached, exclaimed to him:
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Give me that helmet, my friend, for either I know little of adventures,
+      or what I observe yonder is one that will, and does, call upon me to arm
+      myself."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      He of the green gaban, on hearing this, looked in all directions, but
+      could perceive nothing, except a cart coming towards them with two or
+      three small flags, which led him to conclude it must be carrying treasure
+      of the King's, and he said so to Don Quixote. He, however, would not
+      believe him, being always persuaded and convinced that all that happened
+      to him must be adventures and still more adventures; so he replied to the
+      gentleman, "He who is prepared has his battle half fought; nothing is lost
+      by my preparing myself, for I know by experience that I have enemies,
+      visible and invisible, and I know not when, or where, or at what moment,
+      or in what shapes they will attack me;" and turning to Sancho, he called
+      for his helmet; and Sancho, as he had no time to take out the curds, had
+      to give it just as it was. Don Quixote took it, and without perceiving
+      what was in it thrust it down in hot haste upon his head; but as the curds
+      were pressed and squeezed the whey began to run all over his face and
+      beard, whereat he was so startled that he cried out to Sancho:
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Sancho, what's this? I think my head is softening, or my brains are
+      melting, or I am sweating from head to foot! If I am sweating it is not
+      indeed from fear. I am convinced beyond a doubt that the adventure which
+      is about to befall me is a terrible one. Give me something to wipe myself
+      with, if thou hast it, for this profuse sweat is blinding me."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Sancho held his tongue, and gave him a cloth, and gave thanks to God at
+      the same time that his master had not found out what was the matter. Don
+      Quixote then wiped himself, and took off his helmet to see what it was
+      that made his head feel so cool, and seeing all that white mash inside his
+      helmet he put it to his nose, and as soon as he had smelt it he exclaimed:
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "By the life of my lady Dulcinea del Toboso, but it is curds thou hast put
+      here, thou treacherous, impudent, ill-mannered squire!"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      To which, with great composure and pretended innocence, Sancho replied,
+      "If they are curds let me have them, your worship, and I'll eat them; but
+      let the devil eat them, for it must have been he who put them there. I
+      dare to dirty your helmet! You have guessed the offender finely! Faith,
+      sir, by the light God gives me, it seems I must have enchanters too, that
+      persecute me as a creature and limb of your worship, and they must have
+      put that nastiness there in order to provoke your patience to anger, and
+      make you baste my ribs as you are wont to do. Well, this time, indeed,
+      they have missed their aim, for I trust to my master's good sense to see
+      that I have got no curds or milk, or anything of the sort; and that if I
+      had it is in my stomach I would put it and not in the helmet."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "May be so," said Don Quixote. All this the gentleman was observing, and
+      with astonishment, more especially when, after having wiped himself clean,
+      his head, face, beard, and helmet, Don Quixote put it on, and settling
+      himself firmly in his stirrups, easing his sword in the scabbard, and
+      grasping his lance, he cried, "Now, come who will, here am I, ready to try
+      conclusions with Satan himself in person!"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      By this time the cart with the flags had come up, unattended by anyone
+      except the carter on a mule, and a man sitting in front. Don Quixote
+      planted himself before it and said, "Whither are you going, brothers? What
+      cart is this? What have you got in it? What flags are those?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      To this the carter replied, "The cart is mine; what is in it is a pair of
+      wild caged lions, which the governor of Oran is sending to court as a
+      present to his Majesty; and the flags are our lord the King's, to show
+      that what is here is his property."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "And are the lions large?" asked Don Quixote.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "So large," replied the man who sat at the door of the cart, "that larger,
+      or as large, have never crossed from Africa to Spain; I am the keeper, and
+      I have brought over others, but never any like these. They are male and
+      female; the male is in that first cage and the female in the one behind,
+      and they are hungry now, for they have eaten nothing to-day, so let your
+      worship stand aside, for we must make haste to the place where we are to
+      feed them."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Hereupon, smiling slightly, Don Quixote exclaimed, "Lion-whelps to me! to
+      me whelps of lions, and at such a time! Then, by God! those gentlemen who
+      send them here shall see if I am a man to be frightened by lions. Get
+      down, my good fellow, and as you are the keeper open the cages, and turn
+      me out those beasts, and in the midst of this plain I will let them know
+      who Don Quixote of La Mancha is, in spite and in the teeth of the
+      enchanters who send them to me."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "So, so," said the gentleman to himself at this; "our worthy knight has
+      shown of what sort he is; the curds, no doubt, have softened his skull and
+      brought his brains to a head."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      At this instant Sancho came up to him, saying, "Senor, for God's sake do
+      something to keep my master, Don Quixote, from tackling these lions; for
+      if he does they'll tear us all to pieces here."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Is your master then so mad," asked the gentleman, "that you believe and
+      are afraid he will engage such fierce animals?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "He is not mad," said Sancho, "but he is venturesome."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I will prevent it," said the gentleman; and going over to Don Quixote,
+      who was insisting upon the keeper's opening the cages, he said to him,
+      "Sir knight, knights-errant should attempt adventures which encourage the
+      hope of a successful issue, not those which entirely withhold it; for
+      valour that trenches upon temerity savours rather of madness than of
+      courage; moreover, these lions do not come to oppose you, nor do they
+      dream of such a thing; they are going as presents to his Majesty, and it
+      will not be right to stop them or delay their journey."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Gentle sir," replied Don Quixote, "you go and mind your tame partridge
+      and your bold ferret, and leave everyone to manage his own business; this
+      is mine, and I know whether these gentlemen the lions come to me or not;"
+      and then turning to the keeper he exclaimed, "By all that's good, sir
+      scoundrel, if you don't open the cages this very instant, I'll pin you to
+      the cart with this lance."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The carter, seeing the determination of this apparition in armour, said to
+      him, "Please your worship, for charity's sake, senor, let me unyoke the
+      mules and place myself in safety along with them before the lions are
+      turned out; for if they kill them on me I am ruined for life, for all I
+      possess is this cart and mules."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "O man of little faith," replied Don Quixote, "get down and unyoke; you
+      will soon see that you are exerting yourself for nothing, and that you
+      might have spared yourself the trouble."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The carter got down and with all speed unyoked the mules, and the keeper
+      called out at the top of his voice, "I call all here to witness that
+      against my will and under compulsion I open the cages and let the lions
+      loose, and that I warn this gentleman that he will be accountable for all
+      the harm and mischief which these beasts may do, and for my salary and
+      dues as well. You, gentlemen, place yourselves in safety before I open,
+      for I know they will do me no harm."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Once more the gentleman strove to persuade Don Quixote not to do such a
+      mad thing, as it was tempting God to engage in such a piece of folly. To
+      this, Don Quixote replied that he knew what he was about. The gentleman in
+      return entreated him to reflect, for he knew he was under a delusion.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Well, senor," answered Don Quixote, "if you do not like to be a spectator
+      of this tragedy, as in your opinion it will be, spur your flea-bitten
+      mare, and place yourself in safety."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Hearing this, Sancho with tears in his eyes entreated him to give up an
+      enterprise compared with which the one of the windmills, and the awful one
+      of the fulling mills, and, in fact, all the feats he had attempted in the
+      whole course of his life, were cakes and fancy bread. "Look ye, senor,"
+      said Sancho, "there's no enchantment here, nor anything of the sort, for
+      between the bars and chinks of the cage I have seen the paw of a real
+      lion, and judging by that I reckon the lion such a paw could belong to
+      must be bigger than a mountain."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Fear at any rate," replied Don Quixote, "will make him look bigger to
+      thee than half the world. Retire, Sancho, and leave me; and if I die here
+      thou knowest our old compact; thou wilt repair to Dulcinea&mdash;I say no
+      more." To these he added some further words that banished all hope of his
+      giving up his insane project. He of the green gaban would have offered
+      resistance, but he found himself ill-matched as to arms, and did not think
+      it prudent to come to blows with a madman, for such Don Quixote now showed
+      himself to be in every respect; and the latter, renewing his commands to
+      the keeper and repeating his threats, gave warning to the gentleman to
+      spur his mare, Sancho his Dapple, and the carter his mules, all striving
+      to get away from the cart as far as they could before the lions broke
+      loose. Sancho was weeping over his master's death, for this time he firmly
+      believed it was in store for him from the claws of the lions; and he
+      cursed his fate and called it an unlucky hour when he thought of taking
+      service with him again; but with all his tears and lamentations he did not
+      forget to thrash Dapple so as to put a good space between himself and the
+      cart. The keeper, seeing that the fugitives were now some distance off,
+      once more entreated and warned him as before; but he replied that he heard
+      him, and that he need not trouble himself with any further warnings or
+      entreaties, as they would be fruitless, and bade him make haste.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      During the delay that occurred while the keeper was opening the first
+      cage, Don Quixote was considering whether it would not be well to do
+      battle on foot, instead of on horseback, and finally resolved to fight on
+      foot, fearing that Rocinante might take fright at the sight of the lions;
+      he therefore sprang off his horse, flung his lance aside, braced his
+      buckler on his arm, and drawing his sword, advanced slowly with marvellous
+      intrepidity and resolute courage, to plant himself in front of the cart,
+      commending himself with all his heart to God and to his lady Dulcinea.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      It is to be observed, that on coming to this passage, the author of this
+      veracious history breaks out into exclamations. "O doughty Don Quixote!
+      high-mettled past extolling! Mirror, wherein all the heroes of the world
+      may see themselves! Second modern Don Manuel de Leon, once the glory and
+      honour of Spanish knighthood! In what words shall I describe this dread
+      exploit, by what language shall I make it credible to ages to come, what
+      eulogies are there unmeet for thee, though they be hyperboles piled on
+      hyperboles! On foot, alone, undaunted, high-souled, with but a simple
+      sword, and that no trenchant blade of the Perrillo brand, a shield, but no
+      bright polished steel one, there stoodst thou, biding and awaiting the two
+      fiercest lions that Africa's forests ever bred! Thy own deeds be thy
+      praise, valiant Manchegan, and here I leave them as they stand, wanting
+      the words wherewith to glorify them!"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p17b" id="p17b"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p17b.jpg (352K)" src="images/p17b.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p17b.jpg"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br />
+      <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Here the author's outburst came to an end, and he proceeded to take up the
+      thread of his story, saying that the keeper, seeing that Don Quixote had
+      taken up his position, and that it was impossible for him to avoid letting
+      out the male without incurring the enmity of the fiery and daring knight,
+      flung open the doors of the first cage, containing, as has been said, the
+      lion, which was now seen to be of enormous size, and grim and hideous
+      mien. The first thing he did was to turn round in the cage in which he
+      lay, and protrude his claws, and stretch himself thoroughly; he next
+      opened his mouth, and yawned very leisurely, and with near two palms'
+      length of tongue that he had thrust forth, he licked the dust out of his
+      eyes and washed his face; having done this, he put his head out of the
+      cage and looked all round with eyes like glowing coals, a spectacle and
+      demeanour to strike terror into temerity itself. Don Quixote merely
+      observed him steadily, longing for him to leap from the cart and come to
+      close quarters with him, when he hoped to hew him in pieces.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      So far did his unparalleled madness go; but the noble lion, more courteous
+      than arrogant, not troubling himself about silly bravado, after having
+      looked all round, as has been said, turned about and presented his
+      hind-quarters to Don Quixote, and very coolly and tranquilly lay down
+      again in the cage. Seeing this, Don Quixote ordered the keeper to take a
+      stick to him and provoke him to make him come out.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "That I won't," said the keeper; "for if I anger him, the first he'll tear
+      in pieces will be myself. Be satisfied, sir knight, with what you have
+      done, which leaves nothing more to be said on the score of courage, and do
+      not seek to tempt fortune a second time. The lion has the door open; he is
+      free to come out or not to come out; but as he has not come out so far, he
+      will not come out to-day. Your worship's great courage has been fully
+      manifested already; no brave champion, so it strikes me, is bound to do
+      more than challenge his enemy and wait for him on the field; if his
+      adversary does not come, on him lies the disgrace, and he who waits for
+      him carries off the crown of victory."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "That is true," said Don Quixote; "close the door, my friend, and let me
+      have, in the best form thou canst, what thou hast seen me do, by way of
+      certificate; to wit, that thou didst open for the lion, that I waited for
+      him, that he did not come out, that I still waited for him, and that still
+      he did not come out, and lay down again. I am not bound to do more;
+      enchantments avaunt, and God uphold the right, the truth, and true
+      chivalry! Close the door as I bade thee, while I make signals to the
+      fugitives that have left us, that they may learn this exploit from thy
+      lips."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The keeper obeyed, and Don Quixote, fixing on the point of his lance the
+      cloth he had wiped his face with after the deluge of curds, proceeded to
+      recall the others, who still continued to fly, looking back at every step,
+      all in a body, the gentleman bringing up the rear. Sancho, however,
+      happening to observe the signal of the white cloth, exclaimed, "May I die,
+      if my master has not overcome the wild beasts, for he is calling to us."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      They all stopped, and perceived that it was Don Quixote who was making
+      signals, and shaking off their fears to some extent, they approached
+      slowly until they were near enough to hear distinctly Don Quixote's voice
+      calling to them. They returned at length to the cart, and as they came up,
+      Don Quixote said to the carter, "Put your mules to once more, brother, and
+      continue your journey; and do thou, Sancho, give him two gold crowns for
+      himself and the keeper, to compensate for the delay they have incurred
+      through me."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "That will I give with all my heart," said Sancho; "but what has become of
+      the lions? Are they dead or alive?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The keeper, then, in full detail, and bit by bit, described the end of the
+      contest, exalting to the best of his power and ability the valour of Don
+      Quixote, at the sight of whom the lion quailed, and would not and dared
+      not come out of the cage, although he had held the door open ever so long;
+      and showing how, in consequence of his having represented to the knight
+      that it was tempting God to provoke the lion in order to force him out,
+      which he wished to have done, he very reluctantly, and altogether against
+      his will, had allowed the door to be closed.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "What dost thou think of this, Sancho?" said Don Quixote. "Are there any
+      enchantments that can prevail against true valour? The enchanters may be
+      able to rob me of good fortune, but of fortitude and courage they cannot."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Sancho paid the crowns, the carter put to, the keeper kissed Don Quixote's
+      hands for the bounty bestowed upon him, and promised to give an account of
+      the valiant exploit to the King himself, as soon as he saw him at court.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Then," said Don Quixote, "if his Majesty should happen to ask who
+      performed it, you must say THE KNIGHT OF THE LIONS; for it is my desire
+      that into this the name I have hitherto borne of Knight of the Rueful
+      Countenance be from this time forward changed, altered, transformed, and
+      turned; and in this I follow the ancient usage of knights-errant, who
+      changed their names when they pleased, or when it suited their purpose."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The cart went its way, and Don Quixote, Sancho, and he of the green gaban
+      went theirs. All this time, Don Diego de Miranda had not spoken a word,
+      being entirely taken up with observing and noting all that Don Quixote did
+      and said, and the opinion he formed was that he was a man of brains gone
+      mad, and a madman on the verge of rationality. The first part of his
+      history had not yet reached him, for, had he read it, the amazement with
+      which his words and deeds filled him would have vanished, as he would then
+      have understood the nature of his madness; but knowing nothing of it, he
+      took him to be rational one moment, and crazy the next, for what he said
+      was sensible, elegant, and well expressed, and what he did, absurd, rash,
+      and foolish; and said he to himself, "What could be madder than putting on
+      a helmet full of curds, and then persuading oneself that enchanters are
+      softening one's skull; or what could be greater rashness and folly than
+      wanting to fight lions tooth and nail?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Don Quixote roused him from these reflections and this soliloquy by
+      saying, "No doubt, Senor Don Diego de Miranda, you set me down in your
+      mind as a fool and a madman, and it would be no wonder if you did, for my
+      deeds do not argue anything else. But for all that, I would have you take
+      notice that I am neither so mad nor so foolish as I must have seemed to
+      you. A gallant knight shows to advantage bringing his lance to bear
+      adroitly upon a fierce bull under the eyes of his sovereign, in the midst
+      of a spacious plaza; a knight shows to advantage arrayed in glittering
+      armour, pacing the lists before the ladies in some joyous tournament, and
+      all those knights show to advantage that entertain, divert, and, if we may
+      say so, honour the courts of their princes by warlike exercises, or what
+      resemble them; but to greater advantage than all these does a
+      knight-errant show when he traverses deserts, solitudes, cross-roads,
+      forests, and mountains, in quest of perilous adventures, bent on bringing
+      them to a happy and successful issue, all to win a glorious and lasting
+      renown. To greater advantage, I maintain, does the knight-errant show
+      bringing aid to some widow in some lonely waste, than the court knight
+      dallying with some city damsel. All knights have their own special parts
+      to play; let the courtier devote himself to the ladies, let him add lustre
+      to his sovereign's court by his liveries, let him entertain poor gentlemen
+      with the sumptuous fare of his table, let him arrange joustings, marshal
+      tournaments, and prove himself noble, generous, and magnificent, and above
+      all a good Christian, and so doing he will fulfil the duties that are
+      especially his; but let the knight-errant explore the corners of the earth
+      and penetrate the most intricate labyrinths, at each step let him attempt
+      impossibilities, on desolate heaths let him endure the burning rays of the
+      midsummer sun, and the bitter inclemency of the winter winds and frosts;
+      let no lions daunt him, no monsters terrify him, no dragons make him
+      quail; for to seek these, to attack those, and to vanquish all, are in
+      truth his main duties. I, then, as it has fallen to my lot to be a member
+      of knight-errantry, cannot avoid attempting all that to me seems to come
+      within the sphere of my duties; thus it was my bounden duty to attack
+      those lions that I just now attacked, although I knew it to be the height
+      of rashness; for I know well what valour is, that it is a virtue that
+      occupies a place between two vicious extremes, cowardice and temerity; but
+      it will be a lesser evil for him who is valiant to rise till he reaches
+      the point of rashness, than to sink until he reaches the point of
+      cowardice; for, as it is easier for the prodigal than for the miser to
+      become generous, so it is easier for a rash man to prove truly valiant
+      than for a coward to rise to true valour; and believe me, Senor Don Diego,
+      in attempting adventures it is better to lose by a card too many than by a
+      card too few; for to hear it said, 'such a knight is rash and daring,'
+      sounds better than 'such a knight is timid and cowardly.'"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I protest, Senor Don Quixote," said Don Diego, "everything you have said
+      and done is proved correct by the test of reason itself; and I believe, if
+      the laws and ordinances of knight-errantry should be lost, they might be
+      found in your worship's breast as in their own proper depository and
+      muniment-house; but let us make haste, and reach my village, where you
+      shall take rest after your late exertions; for if they have not been of
+      the body they have been of the spirit, and these sometimes tend to produce
+      bodily fatigue."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I take the invitation as a great favour and honour, Senor Don Diego,"
+      replied Don Quixote; and pressing forward at a better pace than before, at
+      about two in the afternoon they reached the village and house of Don
+      Diego, or, as Don Quixote called him, "The Knight of the Green Gaban."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p17e" id="p17e"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p17e.jpg (76K)" src="images/p17e.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      <a name="ch18b" id="ch18b"></a>CHAPTER XVIII.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      OF WHAT HAPPENED DON QUIXOTE IN THE CASTLE OR HOUSE OF THE KNIGHT OF THE
+      GREEN GABAN, TOGETHER WITH OTHER MATTERS OUT OF THE COMMON
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <a name="p18a" id="p18a"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p18a.jpg (133K)" src="images/p18a.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p18a.jpg"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br />
+      <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Don Quixote found Don Diego de Miranda's house built in village style,
+      with his arms in rough stone over the street door; in the patio was the
+      store-room, and at the entrance the cellar, with plenty of wine-jars
+      standing round, which, coming from El Toboso, brought back to his memory
+      his enchanted and transformed Dulcinea; and with a sigh, and not thinking
+      of what he was saying, or in whose presence he was, he exclaimed-
+    </p>
+<pre xml:space="preserve">
+  "O ye sweet treasures, to my sorrow found!
+  Once sweet and welcome when 'twas heaven's good-will.
+
+"O ye Tobosan jars, how ye bring back to my memory the
+sweet object of my bitter regrets!"
+</pre>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p18b" id="p18b"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p18b.jpg (300K)" src="images/p18b.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p18b.jpg"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br />
+      <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The student poet, Don Diego's son, who had come out with his mother to
+      receive him, heard this exclamation, and both mother and son were filled
+      with amazement at the extraordinary figure he presented; he, however,
+      dismounting from Rocinante, advanced with great politeness to ask
+      permission to kiss the lady's hand, while Don Diego said, "Senora, pray
+      receive with your wonted kindness Senor Don Quixote of La Mancha, whom you
+      see before you, a knight-errant, and the bravest and wisest in the world."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The lady, whose name was Dona Christina, received him with every sign of
+      good-will and great courtesy, and Don Quixote placed himself at her
+      service with an abundance of well-chosen and polished phrases. Almost the
+      same civilities were exchanged between him and the student, who listening
+      to Don Quixote, took him to be a sensible, clear-headed person.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Here the author describes minutely everything belonging to Don Diego's
+      mansion, putting before us in his picture the whole contents of a rich
+      gentleman-farmer's house; but the translator of the history thought it
+      best to pass over these and other details of the same sort in silence, as
+      they are not in harmony with the main purpose of the story, the strong
+      point of which is truth rather than dull digressions.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      They led Don Quixote into a room, and Sancho removed his armour, leaving
+      him in loose Walloon breeches and chamois-leather doublet, all stained
+      with the rust of his armour; his collar was a falling one of scholastic
+      cut, without starch or lace, his buskins buff-coloured, and his shoes
+      polished. He wore his good sword, which hung in a baldric of sea-wolf's
+      skin, for he had suffered for many years, they say, from an ailment of the
+      kidneys; and over all he threw a long cloak of good grey cloth. But first
+      of all, with five or six buckets of water (for as regard the number of
+      buckets there is some dispute), he washed his head and face, and still the
+      water remained whey-coloured, thanks to Sancho's greediness and purchase
+      of those unlucky curds that turned his master so white. Thus arrayed, and
+      with an easy, sprightly, and gallant air, Don Quixote passed out into
+      another room, where the student was waiting to entertain him while the
+      table was being laid; for on the arrival of so distinguished a guest, Dona
+      Christina was anxious to show that she knew how and was able to give a
+      becoming reception to those who came to her house.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      While Don Quixote was taking off his armour, Don Lorenzo (for so Don
+      Diego's son was called) took the opportunity to say to his father, "What
+      are we to make of this gentleman you have brought home to us, sir? For his
+      name, his appearance, and your describing him as a knight-errant have
+      completely puzzled my mother and me."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I don't know what to say, my son," replied. Don Diego; "all I can tell
+      thee is that I have seen him act the acts of the greatest madman in the
+      world, and heard him make observations so sensible that they efface and
+      undo all he does; do thou talk to him and feel the pulse of his wits, and
+      as thou art shrewd, form the most reasonable conclusion thou canst as to
+      his wisdom or folly; though, to tell the truth, I am more inclined to take
+      him to be mad than sane."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      With this Don Lorenzo went away to entertain Don Quixote as has been said,
+      and in the course of the conversation that passed between them Don Quixote
+      said to Don Lorenzo, "Your father, Senor Don Diego de Miranda, has told me
+      of the rare abilities and subtle intellect you possess, and, above all,
+      that you are a great poet."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "A poet, it may be," replied Don Lorenzo, "but a great one, by no means.
+      It is true that I am somewhat given to poetry and to reading good poets,
+      but not so much so as to justify the title of 'great' which my father
+      gives me."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I do not dislike that modesty," said Don Quixote; "for there is no poet
+      who is not conceited and does not think he is the best poet in the world."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "There is no rule without an exception," said Don Lorenzo; "there may be
+      some who are poets and yet do not think they are."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Very few," said Don Quixote; "but tell me, what verses are those which
+      you have now in hand, and which your father tells me keep you somewhat
+      restless and absorbed? If it be some gloss, I know something about
+      glosses, and I should like to hear them; and if they are for a poetical
+      tournament, contrive to carry off the second prize; for the first always
+      goes by favour or personal standing, the second by simple justice; and so
+      the third comes to be the second, and the first, reckoning in this way,
+      will be third, in the same way as licentiate degrees are conferred at the
+      universities; but, for all that, the title of first is a great
+      distinction."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "So far," said Don Lorenzo to himself, "I should not take you to be a
+      madman; but let us go on." So he said to him, "Your worship has apparently
+      attended the schools; what sciences have you studied?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "That of knight-errantry," said Don Quixote, "which is as good as that of
+      poetry, and even a finger or two above it."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I do not know what science that is," said Don Lorenzo, "and until now I
+      have never heard of it."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "It is a science," said Don Quixote, "that comprehends in itself all or
+      most of the sciences in the world, for he who professes it must be a
+      jurist, and must know the rules of justice, distributive and equitable, so
+      as to give to each one what belongs to him and is due to him. He must be a
+      theologian, so as to be able to give a clear and distinctive reason for
+      the Christian faith he professes, wherever it may be asked of him. He must
+      be a physician, and above all a herbalist, so as in wastes and solitudes
+      to know the herbs that have the property of healing wounds, for a
+      knight-errant must not go looking for some one to cure him at every step.
+      He must be an astronomer, so as to know by the stars how many hours of the
+      night have passed, and what clime and quarter of the world he is in. He
+      must know mathematics, for at every turn some occasion for them will
+      present itself to him; and, putting it aside that he must be adorned with
+      all the virtues, cardinal and theological, to come down to minor
+      particulars, he must, I say, be able to swim as well as Nicholas or
+      Nicolao the Fish could, as the story goes; he must know how to shoe a
+      horse, and repair his saddle and bridle; and, to return to higher matters,
+      he must be faithful to God and to his lady; he must be pure in thought,
+      decorous in words, generous in works, valiant in deeds, patient in
+      suffering, compassionate towards the needy, and, lastly, an upholder of
+      the truth though its defence should cost him his life. Of all these
+      qualities, great and small, is a true knight-errant made up; judge then,
+      Senor Don Lorenzo, whether it be a contemptible science which the knight
+      who studies and professes it has to learn, and whether it may not compare
+      with the very loftiest that are taught in the schools."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "If that be so," replied Don Lorenzo, "this science, I protest, surpasses
+      all."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "How, if that be so?" said Don Quixote.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "What I mean to say," said Don Lorenzo, "is, that I doubt whether there
+      are now, or ever were, any knights-errant, and adorned with such virtues."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Many a time," replied Don Quixote, "have I said what I now say once more,
+      that the majority of the world are of opinion that there never were any
+      knights-errant in it; and as it is my opinion that, unless heaven by some
+      miracle brings home to them the truth that there were and are, all the
+      pains one takes will be in vain (as experience has often proved to me), I
+      will not now stop to disabuse you of the error you share with the
+      multitude. All I shall do is to pray to heaven to deliver you from it, and
+      show you how beneficial and necessary knights-errant were in days of yore,
+      and how useful they would be in these days were they but in vogue; but
+      now, for the sins of the people, sloth and indolence, gluttony and luxury
+      are triumphant."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Our guest has broken out on our hands," said Don Lorenzo to himself at
+      this point; "but, for all that, he is a glorious madman, and I should be a
+      dull blockhead to doubt it."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Here, being summoned to dinner, they brought their colloquy to a close.
+      Don Diego asked his son what he had been able to make out as to the wits
+      of their guest. To which he replied, "All the doctors and clever scribes
+      in the world will not make sense of the scrawl of his madness; he is a
+      madman full of streaks, full of lucid intervals."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      They went in to dinner, and the repast was such as Don Diego said on the
+      road he was in the habit of giving to his guests, neat, plentiful, and
+      tasty; but what pleased Don Quixote most was the marvellous silence that
+      reigned throughout the house, for it was like a Carthusian monastery.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      When the cloth had been removed, grace said and their hands washed, Don
+      Quixote earnestly pressed Don Lorenzo to repeat to him his verses for the
+      poetical tournament, to which he replied, "Not to be like those poets who,
+      when they are asked to recite their verses, refuse, and when they are not
+      asked for them vomit them up, I will repeat my gloss, for which I do not
+      expect any prize, having composed it merely as an exercise of ingenuity."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "A discerning friend of mine," said Don Quixote, "was of opinion that no
+      one ought to waste labour in glossing verses; and the reason he gave was
+      that the gloss can never come up to the text, and that often or most
+      frequently it wanders away from the meaning and purpose aimed at in the
+      glossed lines; and besides, that the laws of the gloss were too strict, as
+      they did not allow interrogations, nor 'said he,' nor 'I say,' nor turning
+      verbs into nouns, or altering the construction, not to speak of other
+      restrictions and limitations that fetter gloss-writers, as you no doubt
+      know."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Verily, Senor Don Quixote," said Don Lorenzo, "I wish I could catch your
+      worship tripping at a stretch, but I cannot, for you slip through my
+      fingers like an eel."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I don't understand what you say, or mean by slipping," said Don Quixote.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I will explain myself another time," said Don Lorenzo; "for the present
+      pray attend to the glossed verses and the gloss, which run thus:
+    </p>
+<pre xml:space="preserve">
+  Could 'was' become an 'is' for me,
+  Then would I ask no more than this;
+  Or could, for me, the time that is
+  Become the time that is to be!&mdash;
+
+
+
+             GLOSS
+
+Dame Fortune once upon a day
+  To me was bountiful and kind;
+  But all things change; she changed her mind,
+And what she gave she took away.
+O Fortune, long I've sued to thee;
+  The gifts thou gavest me restore,
+  For, trust me, I would ask no more,
+Could 'was' become an 'is' for me.
+
+No other prize I seek to gain,
+  No triumph, glory, or success,
+  Only the long-lost happiness,
+The memory whereof is pain.
+One taste, methinks, of bygone bliss
+  The heart-consuming fire might stay;
+  And, so it come without delay,
+Then would I ask no more than this.
+
+I ask what cannot be, alas!
+  That time should ever be, and then
+  Come back to us, and be again,
+No power on earth can bring to pass;
+For fleet of foot is he, I wis,
+  And idly, therefore, do we pray
+  That what for aye hath left us may
+Become for us the time that is.
+
+Perplexed, uncertain, to remain
+  'Twixt hope and fear, is death, not life;
+  'Twere better, sure, to end the strife,
+And dying, seek release from pain.
+And yet, thought were the best for me.
+  Anon the thought aside I fling,
+  And to the present fondly cling,
+And dread the time that is to be."
+</pre>
+    <p>
+      When Don Lorenzo had finished reciting his gloss, Don Quixote stood up,
+      and in a loud voice, almost a shout, exclaimed as he grasped Don Lorenzo's
+      right hand in his, "By the highest heavens, noble youth, but you are the
+      best poet on earth, and deserve to be crowned with laurel, not by Cyprus
+      or by Gaeta&mdash;as a certain poet, God forgive him, said&mdash;but by
+      the Academies of Athens, if they still flourished, and by those that
+      flourish now, Paris, Bologna, Salamanca. Heaven grant that the judges who
+      rob you of the first prize&mdash;that Phoebus may pierce them with his
+      arrows, and the Muses never cross the thresholds of their doors. Repeat me
+      some of your long-measure verses, senor, if you will be so good, for I
+      want thoroughly to feel the pulse of your rare genius."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Is there any need to say that Don Lorenzo enjoyed hearing himself praised
+      by Don Quixote, albeit he looked upon him as a madman? power of flattery,
+      how far-reaching art thou, and how wide are the bounds of thy pleasant
+      jurisdiction! Don Lorenzo gave a proof of it, for he complied with Don
+      Quixote's request and entreaty, and repeated to him this sonnet on the
+      fable or story of Pyramus and Thisbe.
+    </p>
+<pre xml:space="preserve">
+
+                    SONNET
+
+The lovely maid, she pierces now the wall;
+  Heart-pierced by her young Pyramus doth lie;
+  And Love spreads wing from Cyprus isle to fly,
+A chink to view so wondrous great and small.
+There silence speaketh, for no voice at all
+  Can pass so strait a strait; but love will ply
+  Where to all other power 'twere vain to try;
+For love will find a way whate'er befall.
+Impatient of delay, with reckless pace
+  The rash maid wins the fatal spot where she
+Sinks not in lover's arms but death's embrace.
+  So runs the strange tale, how the lovers twain
+One sword, one sepulchre, one memory,
+  Slays, and entombs, and brings to life again.
+
+</pre>
+    <p>
+      "Blessed be God," said Don Quixote when he had heard Don Lorenzo's sonnet,
+      "that among the hosts there are of irritable poets I have found one
+      consummate one, which, senor, the art of this sonnet proves to me that you
+      are!"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      For four days was Don Quixote most sumptuously entertained in Don Diego's
+      house, at the end of which time he asked his permission to depart, telling
+      him he thanked him for the kindness and hospitality he had received in his
+      house, but that, as it did not become knights-errant to give themselves up
+      for long to idleness and luxury, he was anxious to fulfill the duties of
+      his calling in seeking adventures, of which he was informed there was an
+      abundance in that neighbourhood, where he hoped to employ his time until
+      the day came round for the jousts at Saragossa, for that was his proper
+      destination; and that, first of all, he meant to enter the cave of
+      Montesinos, of which so many marvellous things were reported all through
+      the country, and at the same time to investigate and explore the origin
+      and true source of the seven lakes commonly called the lakes of Ruidera.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Don Diego and his son commended his laudable resolution, and bade him
+      furnish himself with all he wanted from their house and belongings, as
+      they would most gladly be of service to him; which, indeed, his personal
+      worth and his honourable profession made incumbent upon them.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The day of his departure came at length, as welcome to Don Quixote as it
+      was sad and sorrowful to Sancho Panza, who was very well satisfied with
+      the abundance of Don Diego's house, and objected to return to the
+      starvation of the woods and wilds and the short-commons of his ill-stocked
+      alforjas; these, however, he filled and packed with what he considered
+      needful. On taking leave, Don Quixote said to Don Lorenzo, "I know not
+      whether I have told you already, but if I have I tell you once more, that
+      if you wish to spare yourself fatigue and toil in reaching the
+      inaccessible summit of the temple of fame, you have nothing to do but to
+      turn aside out of the somewhat narrow path of poetry and take the still
+      narrower one of knight-errantry, wide enough, however, to make you an
+      emperor in the twinkling of an eye."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      In this speech Don Quixote wound up the evidence of his madness, but still
+      better in what he added when he said, "God knows, I would gladly take Don
+      Lorenzo with me to teach him how to spare the humble, and trample the
+      proud under foot, virtues that are part and parcel of the profession I
+      belong to; but since his tender age does not allow of it, nor his
+      praiseworthy pursuits permit it, I will simply content myself with
+      impressing it upon your worship that you will become famous as a poet if
+      you are guided by the opinion of others rather than by your own; because
+      no fathers or mothers ever think their own children ill-favoured, and this
+      sort of deception prevails still more strongly in the case of the children
+      of the brain."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Both father and son were amazed afresh at the strange medley Don Quixote
+      talked, at one moment sense, at another nonsense, and at the pertinacity
+      and persistence he displayed in going through thick and thin in quest of
+      his unlucky adventures, which he made the end and aim of his desires.
+      There was a renewal of offers of service and civilities, and then, with
+      the gracious permission of the lady of the castle, they took their
+      departure, Don Quixote on Rocinante, and Sancho on Dapple.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p18e" id="p18e"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p18e.jpg (18K)" src="images/p18e.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+
+<h2>
+      <a name="ch19b" id="ch19b"></a>CHAPTER XIX.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      IN WHICH IS RELATED THE ADVENTURE OF THE ENAMOURED SHEPHERD, TOGETHER WITH
+      OTHER TRULY DROLL INCIDENTS
+    </h3>
+
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p19a.jpg (131K)" src="images/p19a.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p19a.jpg"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br />
+      <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Don Quixote had gone but a short distance beyond Don Diego's village, when
+      he fell in with a couple of either priests or students, and a couple of
+      peasants, mounted on four beasts of the ass kind. One of the students
+      carried, wrapped up in a piece of green buckram by way of a portmanteau,
+      what seemed to be a little linen and a couple of pairs of ribbed
+      stockings; the other carried nothing but a pair of new fencing-foils with
+      buttons. The peasants carried divers articles that showed they were on
+      their way from some large town where they had bought them, and were taking
+      them home to their village; and both students and peasants were struck
+      with the same amazement that everybody felt who saw Don Quixote for the
+      first time, and were dying to know who this man, so different from
+      ordinary men, could be. Don Quixote saluted them, and after ascertaining
+      that their road was the same as his, made them an offer of his company,
+      and begged them to slacken their pace, as their young asses travelled
+      faster than his horse; and then, to gratify them, he told them in a few
+      words who he was and the calling and profession he followed, which was
+      that of a knight-errant seeking adventures in all parts of the world. He
+      informed them that his own name was Don Quixote of La Mancha, and that he
+      was called, by way of surname, the Knight of the Lions.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      All this was Greek or gibberish to the peasants, but not so to the
+      students, who very soon perceived the crack in Don Quixote's pate; for all
+      that, however, they regarded him with admiration and respect, and one of
+      them said to him, "If you, sir knight, have no fixed road, as it is the
+      way with those who seek adventures not to have any, let your worship come
+      with us; you will see one of the finest and richest weddings that up to
+      this day have ever been celebrated in La Mancha, or for many a league
+      round."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Don Quixote asked him if it was some prince's, that he spoke of it in this
+      way. "Not at all," said the student; "it is the wedding of a farmer and a
+      farmer's daughter, he the richest in all this country, and she the fairest
+      mortal ever set eyes on. The display with which it is to be attended will
+      be something rare and out of the common, for it will be celebrated in a
+      meadow adjoining the town of the bride, who is called, par excellence,
+      Quiteria the fair, as the bridegroom is called Camacho the rich. She is
+      eighteen, and he twenty-two, and they are fairly matched, though some
+      knowing ones, who have all the pedigrees in the world by heart, will have
+      it that the family of the fair Quiteria is better than Camacho's; but no
+      one minds that now-a-days, for wealth can solder a great many flaws. At
+      any rate, Camacho is free-handed, and it is his fancy to screen the whole
+      meadow with boughs and cover it in overhead, so that the sun will have
+      hard work if he tries to get in to reach the grass that covers the soil.
+      He has provided dancers too, not only sword but also bell-dancers, for in
+      his own town there are those who ring the changes and jingle the bells to
+      perfection; of shoe-dancers I say nothing, for of them he has engaged a
+      host. But none of these things, nor of the many others I have omitted to
+      mention, will do more to make this a memorable wedding than the part which
+      I suspect the despairing Basilio will play in it. This Basilio is a youth
+      of the same village as Quiteria, and he lived in the house next door to
+      that of her parents, of which circumstance Love took advantage to
+      reproduce to the word the long-forgotten loves of Pyramus and Thisbe; for
+      Basilio loved Quiteria from his earliest years, and she responded to his
+      passion with countless modest proofs of affection, so that the loves of
+      the two children, Basilio and Quiteria, were the talk and the amusement of
+      the town. As they grew up, the father of Quiteria made up his mind to
+      refuse Basilio his wonted freedom of access to the house, and to relieve
+      himself of constant doubts and suspicions, he arranged a match for his
+      daughter with the rich Camacho, as he did not approve of marrying her to
+      Basilio, who had not so large a share of the gifts of fortune as of
+      nature; for if the truth be told ungrudgingly, he is the most agile youth
+      we know, a mighty thrower of the bar, a first-rate wrestler, and a great
+      ball-player; he runs like a deer, and leaps better than a goat, bowls over
+      the nine-pins as if by magic, sings like a lark, plays the guitar so as to
+      make it speak, and, above all, handles a sword as well as the best."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "For that excellence alone," said Don Quixote at this, "the youth deserves
+      to marry, not merely the fair Quiteria, but Queen Guinevere herself, were
+      she alive now, in spite of Launcelot and all who would try to prevent it."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Say that to my wife," said Sancho, who had until now listened in silence,
+      "for she won't hear of anything but each one marrying his equal, holding
+      with the proverb 'each ewe to her like.' What I would like is that this
+      good Basilio (for I am beginning to take a fancy to him already) should
+      marry this lady Quiteria; and a blessing and good luck&mdash;I meant to
+      say the opposite&mdash;on people who would prevent those who love one
+      another from marrying."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "If all those who love one another were to marry," said Don Quixote, "it
+      would deprive parents of the right to choose, and marry their children to
+      the proper person and at the proper time; and if it was left to daughters
+      to choose husbands as they pleased, one would be for choosing her father's
+      servant, and another, some one she has seen passing in the street and
+      fancies gallant and dashing, though he may be a drunken bully; for love
+      and fancy easily blind the eyes of the judgment, so much wanted in
+      choosing one's way of life; and the matrimonial choice is very liable to
+      error, and it needs great caution and the special favour of heaven to make
+      it a good one. He who has to make a long journey, will, if he is wise,
+      look out for some trusty and pleasant companion to accompany him before he
+      sets out. Why, then, should not he do the same who has to make the whole
+      journey of life down to the final halting-place of death, more especially
+      when the companion has to be his companion in bed, at board, and
+      everywhere, as the wife is to her husband? The companionship of one's wife
+      is no article of merchandise, that, after it has been bought, may be
+      returned, or bartered, or changed; for it is an inseparable accident that
+      lasts as long as life lasts; it is a noose that, once you put it round
+      your neck, turns into a Gordian knot, which, if the scythe of Death does
+      not cut it, there is no untying. I could say a great deal more on this
+      subject, were I not prevented by the anxiety I feel to know if the senor
+      licentiate has anything more to tell about the story of Basilio."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      To this the student, bachelor, or, as Don Quixote called him, licentiate,
+      replied, "I have nothing whatever to say further, but that from the moment
+      Basilio learned that the fair Quiteria was to be married to Camacho the
+      rich, he has never been seen to smile, or heard to utter rational word,
+      and he always goes about moody and dejected, talking to himself in a way
+      that shows plainly he is out of his senses. He eats little and sleeps
+      little, and all he eats is fruit, and when he sleeps, if he sleeps at all,
+      it is in the field on the hard earth like a brute beast. Sometimes he
+      gazes at the sky, at other times he fixes his eyes on the earth in such an
+      abstracted way that he might be taken for a clothed statue, with its
+      drapery stirred by the wind. In short, he shows such signs of a heart
+      crushed by suffering, that all we who know him believe that when to-morrow
+      the fair Quiteria says 'yes,' it will be his sentence of death."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "God will guide it better," said Sancho, "for God who gives the wound
+      gives the salve; nobody knows what will happen; there are a good many
+      hours between this and to-morrow, and any one of them, or any moment, the
+      house may fall; I have seen the rain coming down and the sun shining all
+      at one time; many a one goes to bed in good health who can't stir the next
+      day. And tell me, is there anyone who can boast of having driven a nail
+      into the wheel of fortune? No, faith; and between a woman's 'yes' and 'no'
+      I wouldn't venture to put the point of a pin, for there would not be room
+      for it; if you tell me Quiteria loves Basilio heart and soul, then I'll
+      give him a bag of good luck; for love, I have heard say, looks through
+      spectacles that make copper seem gold, poverty wealth, and bleary eyes
+      pearls."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "What art thou driving at, Sancho? curses on thee!" said Don Quixote; "for
+      when thou takest to stringing proverbs and sayings together, no one can
+      understand thee but Judas himself, and I wish he had thee. Tell me, thou
+      animal, what dost thou know about nails or wheels, or anything else?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Oh, if you don't understand me," replied Sancho, "it is no wonder my
+      words are taken for nonsense; but no matter; I understand myself, and I
+      know I have not said anything very foolish in what I have said; only your
+      worship, senor, is always gravelling at everything I say, nay, everything
+      I do."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Cavilling, not gravelling," said Don Quixote, "thou prevaricator of
+      honest language, God confound thee!"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Don't find fault with me, your worship," returned Sancho, "for you know I
+      have not been bred up at court or trained at Salamanca, to know whether I
+      am adding or dropping a letter or so in my words. Why! God bless me, it's
+      not fair to force a Sayago-man to speak like a Toledan; maybe there are
+      Toledans who do not hit it off when it comes to polished talk."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "That is true," said the licentiate, "for those who have been bred up in
+      the Tanneries and the Zocodover cannot talk like those who are almost all
+      day pacing the cathedral cloisters, and yet they are all Toledans. Pure,
+      correct, elegant and lucid language will be met with in men of courtly
+      breeding and discrimination, though they may have been born in
+      Majalahonda; I say of discrimination, because there are many who are not
+      so, and discrimination is the grammar of good language, if it be
+      accompanied by practice. I, sirs, for my sins have studied canon law at
+      Salamanca, and I rather pique myself on expressing my meaning in clear,
+      plain, and intelligible language."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "If you did not pique yourself more on your dexterity with those foils you
+      carry than on dexterity of tongue," said the other student, "you would
+      have been head of the degrees, where you are now tail."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Look here, bachelor Corchuelo," returned the licentiate, "you have the
+      most mistaken idea in the world about skill with the sword, if you think
+      it useless."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "It is no idea on my part, but an established truth," replied Corchuelo;
+      "and if you wish me to prove it to you by experiment, you have swords
+      there, and it is a good opportunity; I have a steady hand and a strong
+      arm, and these joined with my resolution, which is not small, will make
+      you confess that I am not mistaken. Dismount and put in practice your
+      positions and circles and angles and science, for I hope to make you see
+      stars at noonday with my rude raw swordsmanship, in which, next to God, I
+      place my trust that the man is yet to be born who will make me turn my
+      back, and that there is not one in the world I will not compel to give
+      ground."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "As to whether you turn your back or not, I do not concern myself,"
+      replied the master of fence; "though it might be that your grave would be
+      dug on the spot where you planted your foot the first time; I mean that
+      you would be stretched dead there for despising skill with the sword."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "We shall soon see," replied Corchuelo, and getting off his ass briskly,
+      he drew out furiously one of the swords the licentiate carried on his
+      beast.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "It must not be that way," said Don Quixote at this point; "I will be the
+      director of this fencing match, and judge of this often disputed
+      question;" and dismounting from Rocinante and grasping his lance, he
+      planted himself in the middle of the road, just as the licentiate, with an
+      easy, graceful bearing and step, advanced towards Corchuelo, who came on
+      against him, darting fire from his eyes, as the saying is. The other two
+      of the company, the peasants, without dismounting from their asses, served
+      as spectators of the mortal tragedy. The cuts, thrusts, down strokes, back
+      strokes and doubles, that Corchuelo delivered were past counting, and came
+      thicker than hops or hail. He attacked like an angry lion, but he was met
+      by a tap on the mouth from the button of the licentiate's sword that
+      checked him in the midst of his furious onset, and made him kiss it as if
+      it were a relic, though not as devoutly as relics are and ought to be
+      kissed. The end of it was that the licentiate reckoned up for him by
+      thrusts every one of the buttons of the short cassock he wore, tore the
+      skirts into strips, like the tails of a cuttlefish, knocked off his hat
+      twice, and so completely tired him out, that in vexation, anger, and rage,
+      he took the sword by the hilt and flung it away with such force, that one
+      of the peasants that were there, who was a notary, and who went for it,
+      made an affidavit afterwards that he sent it nearly three-quarters of a
+      league, which testimony will serve, and has served, to show and establish
+      with all certainty that strength is overcome by skill.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Corchuelo sat down wearied, and Sancho approaching him said, "By my faith,
+      senor bachelor, if your worship takes my advice, you will never challenge
+      anyone to fence again, only to wrestle and throw the bar, for you have the
+      youth and strength for that; but as for these fencers as they call them, I
+      have heard say they can put the point of a sword through the eye of a
+      needle."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I am satisfied with having tumbled off my donkey," said Corchuelo, "and
+      with having had the truth I was so ignorant of proved to me by
+      experience;" and getting up he embraced the licentiate, and they were
+      better friends than ever; and not caring to wait for the notary who had
+      gone for the sword, as they saw he would be a long time about it, they
+      resolved to push on so as to reach the village of Quiteria, to which they
+      all belonged, in good time.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      During the remainder of the journey the licentiate held forth to them on
+      the excellences of the sword, with such conclusive arguments, and such
+      figures and mathematical proofs, that all were convinced of the value of
+      the science, and Corchuelo cured of his dogmatism.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      It grew dark; but before they reached the town it seemed to them all as if
+      there was a heaven full of countless glittering stars in front of it. They
+      heard, too, the pleasant mingled notes of a variety of instruments,
+      flutes, drums, psalteries, pipes, tabors, and timbrels, and as they drew
+      near they perceived that the trees of a leafy arcade that had been
+      constructed at the entrance of the town were filled with lights unaffected
+      by the wind, for the breeze at the time was so gentle that it had not
+      power to stir the leaves on the trees. The musicians were the life of the
+      wedding, wandering through the pleasant grounds in separate bands, some
+      dancing, others singing, others playing the various instruments already
+      mentioned. In short, it seemed as though mirth and gaiety were frisking
+      and gambolling all over the meadow. Several other persons were engaged in
+      erecting raised benches from which people might conveniently see the plays
+      and dances that were to be performed the next day on the spot dedicated to
+      the celebration of the marriage of Camacho the rich and the obsequies of
+      Basilio. Don Quixote would not enter the village, although the peasant as
+      well as the bachelor pressed him; he excused himself, however, on the
+      grounds, amply sufficient in his opinion, that it was the custom of
+      knights-errant to sleep in the fields and woods in preference to towns,
+      even were it under gilded ceilings; and so turned aside a little out of
+      the road, very much against Sancho's will, as the good quarters he had
+      enjoyed in the castle or house of Don Diego came back to his mind.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p19e" id="p19e"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p19e.jpg (29K)" src="images/p19e.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      <a name="ch20b" id="ch20b"></a>CHAPTER XX.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      WHEREIN AN ACCOUNT IS GIVEN OF THE WEDDING OF CAMACHO THE RICH, TOGETHER
+      WITH THE INCIDENT OF BASILIO THE POOR
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <a name="p20a" id="p20a"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p20a.jpg (125K)" src="images/p20a.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p20a.jpg"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br />
+      <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Scarce had the fair Aurora given bright Phoebus time to dry the liquid
+      pearls upon her golden locks with the heat of his fervent rays, when Don
+      Quixote, shaking off sloth from his limbs, sprang to his feet and called
+      to his squire Sancho, who was still snoring; seeing which Don Quixote ere
+      he roused him thus addressed him: "Happy thou, above all the dwellers on
+      the face of the earth, that, without envying or being envied, sleepest
+      with tranquil mind, and that neither enchanters persecute nor enchantments
+      affright. Sleep, I say, and will say a hundred times, without any jealous
+      thoughts of thy mistress to make thee keep ceaseless vigils, or any cares
+      as to how thou art to pay the debts thou owest, or find to-morrow's food
+      for thyself and thy needy little family, to interfere with thy repose.
+      Ambition breaks not thy rest, nor doth this world's empty pomp disturb
+      thee, for the utmost reach of thy anxiety is to provide for thy ass, since
+      upon my shoulders thou hast laid the support of thyself, the counterpoise
+      and burden that nature and custom have imposed upon masters. The servant
+      sleeps and the master lies awake thinking how he is to feed him, advance
+      him, and reward him. The distress of seeing the sky turn brazen, and
+      withhold its needful moisture from the earth, is not felt by the servant
+      but by the master, who in time of scarcity and famine must support him who
+      has served him in times of plenty and abundance."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p20b" id="p20b"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p20b.jpg (365K)" src="images/p20b.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p20b.jpg"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br />
+      <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      To all this Sancho made no reply because he was asleep, nor would he have
+      wakened up so soon as he did had not Don Quixote brought him to his senses
+      with the butt of his lance. He awoke at last, drowsy and lazy, and casting
+      his eyes about in every direction, observed, "There comes, if I don't
+      mistake, from the quarter of that arcade a steam and a smell a great deal
+      more like fried rashers than galingale or thyme; a wedding that begins
+      with smells like that, by my faith, ought to be plentiful and unstinting."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Have done, thou glutton," said Don Quixote; "come, let us go and witness
+      this bridal, and see what the rejected Basilio does."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Let him do what he likes," returned Sancho; "be he not poor, he would
+      marry Quiteria. To make a grand match for himself, and he without a
+      farthing; is there nothing else? Faith, senor, it's my opinion the poor
+      man should be content with what he can get, and not go looking for
+      dainties in the bottom of the sea. I will bet my arm that Camacho could
+      bury Basilio in reals; and if that be so, as no doubt it is, what a fool
+      Quiteria would be to refuse the fine dresses and jewels Camacho must have
+      given her and will give her, and take Basilio's bar-throwing and
+      sword-play. They won't give a pint of wine at the tavern for a good cast
+      of the bar or a neat thrust of the sword. Talents and accomplishments that
+      can't be turned into money, let Count Dirlos have them; but when such
+      gifts fall to one that has hard cash, I wish my condition of life was as
+      becoming as they are. On a good foundation you can raise a good building,
+      and the best foundation in the world is money."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "For God's sake, Sancho," said Don Quixote here, "stop that harangue; it
+      is my belief, if thou wert allowed to continue all thou beginnest every
+      instant, thou wouldst have no time left for eating or sleeping; for thou
+      wouldst spend it all in talking."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "If your worship had a good memory," replied Sancho, "you would remember
+      the articles of our agreement before we started from home this last time;
+      one of them was that I was to be let say all I liked, so long as it was
+      not against my neighbour or your worship's authority; and so far, it seems
+      to me, I have not broken the said article."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I remember no such article, Sancho," said Don Quixote; "and even if it
+      were so, I desire you to hold your tongue and come along; for the
+      instruments we heard last night are already beginning to enliven the
+      valleys again, and no doubt the marriage will take place in the cool of
+      the morning, and not in the heat of the afternoon."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Sancho did as his master bade him, and putting the saddle on Rocinante and
+      the pack-saddle on Dapple, they both mounted and at a leisurely pace
+      entered the arcade. The first thing that presented itself to Sancho's eyes
+      was a whole ox spitted on a whole elm tree, and in the fire at which it
+      was to be roasted there was burning a middling-sized mountain of faggots,
+      and six stewpots that stood round the blaze had not been made in the
+      ordinary mould of common pots, for they were six half wine-jars, each fit
+      to hold the contents of a slaughter-house; they swallowed up whole sheep
+      and hid them away in their insides without showing any more sign of them
+      than if they were pigeons. Countless were the hares ready skinned and the
+      plucked fowls that hung on the trees for burial in the pots, numberless
+      the wildfowl and game of various sorts suspended from the branches that
+      the air might keep them cool. Sancho counted more than sixty wine skins of
+      over six gallons each, and all filled, as it proved afterwards, with
+      generous wines. There were, besides, piles of the whitest bread, like the
+      heaps of corn one sees on the threshing-floors. There was a wall made of
+      cheeses arranged like open brick-work, and two cauldrons full of oil,
+      bigger than those of a dyer's shop, served for cooking fritters, which
+      when fried were taken out with two mighty shovels, and plunged into
+      another cauldron of prepared honey that stood close by. Of cooks and
+      cook-maids there were over fifty, all clean, brisk, and blithe. In the
+      capacious belly of the ox were a dozen soft little sucking-pigs, which,
+      sewn up there, served to give it tenderness and flavour. The spices of
+      different kinds did not seem to have been bought by the pound but by the
+      quarter, and all lay open to view in a great chest. In short, all the
+      preparations made for the wedding were in rustic style, but abundant
+      enough to feed an army.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p20c" id="p20c"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p20c.jpg (415K)" src="images/p20c.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p20c.jpg"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br />
+      <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Sancho observed all, contemplated all, and everything won his heart. The
+      first to captivate and take his fancy were the pots, out of which he would
+      have very gladly helped himself to a moderate pipkinful; then the wine
+      skins secured his affections; and lastly, the produce of the frying-pans,
+      if, indeed, such imposing cauldrons may be called frying-pans; and unable
+      to control himself or bear it any longer, he approached one of the busy
+      cooks and civilly but hungrily begged permission to soak a scrap of bread
+      in one of the pots; to which the cook made answer, "Brother, this is not a
+      day on which hunger is to have any sway, thanks to the rich Camacho; get
+      down and look about for a ladle and skim off a hen or two, and much good
+      may they do you."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I don't see one," said Sancho.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Wait a bit," said the cook; "sinner that I am! how particular and bashful
+      you are!" and so saying, he seized a bucket and plunging it into one of
+      the half jars took up three hens and a couple of geese, and said to
+      Sancho, "Fall to, friend, and take the edge off your appetite with these
+      skimmings until dinner-time comes."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p20d" id="p20d"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p20d.jpg (351K)" src="images/p20d.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p20d.jpg"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br />
+      <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I have nothing to put them in," said Sancho.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Well then," said the cook, "take spoon and all; for Camacho's wealth and
+      happiness furnish everything."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      While Sancho fared thus, Don Quixote was watching the entrance, at one end
+      of the arcade, of some twelve peasants, all in holiday and gala dress,
+      mounted on twelve beautiful mares with rich handsome field trappings and a
+      number of little bells attached to their petrals, who, marshalled in
+      regular order, ran not one but several courses over the meadow, with
+      jubilant shouts and cries of "Long live Camacho and Quiteria! he as rich
+      as she is fair; and she the fairest on earth!"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Hearing this, Don Quixote said to himself, "It is easy to see these folk
+      have never seen my Dulcinea del Toboso; for if they had they would be more
+      moderate in their praises of this Quiteria of theirs."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Shortly after this, several bands of dancers of various sorts began to
+      enter the arcade at different points, and among them one of sword-dancers
+      composed of some four-and-twenty lads of gallant and high-spirited mien,
+      clad in the finest and whitest of linen, and with handkerchiefs
+      embroidered in various colours with fine silk; and one of those on the
+      mares asked an active youth who led them if any of the dancers had been
+      wounded. "As yet, thank God, no one has been wounded," said he, "we are
+      all safe and sound;" and he at once began to execute complicated figures
+      with the rest of his comrades, with so many turns and so great dexterity,
+      that although Don Quixote was well used to see dances of the same kind, he
+      thought he had never seen any so good as this. He also admired another
+      that came in composed of fair young maidens, none of whom seemed to be
+      under fourteen or over eighteen years of age, all clad in green stuff,
+      with their locks partly braided, partly flowing loose, but all of such
+      bright gold as to vie with the sunbeams, and over them they wore garlands
+      of jessamine, roses, amaranth, and honeysuckle. At their head were a
+      venerable old man and an ancient dame, more brisk and active, however,
+      than might have been expected from their years. The notes of a Zamora
+      bagpipe accompanied them, and with modesty in their countenances and in
+      their eyes, and lightness in their feet, they looked the best dancers in
+      the world.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p20e" id="p20e"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p20e.jpg (361K)" src="images/p20e.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p20e.jpg"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br />
+      <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Following these there came an artistic dance of the sort they call
+      "speaking dances." It was composed of eight nymphs in two files, with the
+      god Cupid leading one and Interest the other, the former furnished with
+      wings, bow, quiver and arrows, the latter in a rich dress of gold and silk
+      of divers colours. The nymphs that followed Love bore their names written
+      on white parchment in large letters on their backs. "Poetry" was the name
+      of the first, "Wit" of the second, "Birth" of the third, and "Valour" of
+      the fourth. Those that followed Interest were distinguished in the same
+      way; the badge of the first announced "Liberality," that of the second
+      "Largess," the third "Treasure," and the fourth "Peaceful Possession." In
+      front of them all came a wooden castle drawn by four wild men, all clad in
+      ivy and hemp stained green, and looking so natural that they nearly
+      terrified Sancho. On the front of the castle and on each of the four sides
+      of its frame it bore the inscription "Castle of Caution." Four skillful
+      tabor and flute players accompanied them, and the dance having been
+      opened, Cupid, after executing two figures, raised his eyes and bent his
+      bow against a damsel who stood between the turrets of the castle, and thus
+      addressed her:
+    </p>
+<pre xml:space="preserve">
+I am the mighty God whose sway
+  Is potent over land and sea.
+The heavens above us own me; nay,
+  The shades below acknowledge me.
+I know not fear, I have my will,
+  Whate'er my whim or fancy be;
+For me there's no impossible,
+  I order, bind, forbid, set free.
+
+</pre>
+    <p>
+      Having concluded the stanza he discharged an arrow at the top of the
+      castle, and went back to his place. Interest then came forward and went
+      through two more figures, and as soon as the tabors ceased, he said:
+    </p>
+<pre xml:space="preserve">
+But mightier than Love am I,
+  Though Love it be that leads me on,
+Than mine no lineage is more high,
+  Or older, underneath the sun.
+To use me rightly few know how,
+  To act without me fewer still,
+For I am Interest, and I vow
+  For evermore to do thy will.
+
+</pre>
+    <p>
+      Interest retired, and Poetry came forward, and when she had gone through
+      her figures like the others, fixing her eyes on the damsel of the castle,
+      she said:
+    </p>
+<pre xml:space="preserve">
+With many a fanciful conceit,
+  Fair Lady, winsome Poesy
+Her soul, an offering at thy feet,
+  Presents in sonnets unto thee.
+If thou my homage wilt not scorn,
+  Thy fortune, watched by envious eyes,
+On wings of poesy upborne
+  Shall be exalted to the skies.
+
+</pre>
+    <p>
+      Poetry withdrew, and on the side of Interest Liberality advanced, and
+      after having gone through her figures, said:
+    </p>
+<pre xml:space="preserve">
+To give, while shunning each extreme,
+  The sparing hand, the over-free,
+Therein consists, so wise men deem,
+  The virtue Liberality.
+But thee, fair lady, to enrich,
+  Myself a prodigal I'll prove,
+A vice not wholly shameful, which
+  May find its fair excuse in love.
+
+</pre>
+    <p>
+      In the same manner all the characters of the two bands advanced and
+      retired, and each executed its figures, and delivered its verses, some of
+      them graceful, some burlesque, but Don Quixote's memory (though he had an
+      excellent one) only carried away those that have been just quoted. All
+      then mingled together, forming chains and breaking off again with
+      graceful, unconstrained gaiety; and whenever Love passed in front of the
+      castle he shot his arrows up at it, while Interest broke gilded pellets
+      against it. At length, after they had danced a good while, Interest drew
+      out a great purse, made of the skin of a large brindled cat and to all
+      appearance full of money, and flung it at the castle, and with the force
+      of the blow the boards fell asunder and tumbled down, leaving the damsel
+      exposed and unprotected. Interest and the characters of his band advanced,
+      and throwing a great chain of gold over her neck pretended to take her and
+      lead her away captive, on seeing which, Love and his supporters made as
+      though they would release her, the whole action being to the accompaniment
+      of the tabors and in the form of a regular dance. The wild men made peace
+      between them, and with great dexterity readjusted and fixed the boards of
+      the castle, and the damsel once more ensconced herself within; and with
+      this the dance wound up, to the great enjoyment of the beholders.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Don Quixote asked one of the nymphs who it was that had composed and
+      arranged it. She replied that it was a beneficiary of the town who had a
+      nice taste in devising things of the sort. "I will lay a wager," said Don
+      Quixote, "that the same bachelor or beneficiary is a greater friend of
+      Camacho's than of Basilio's, and that he is better at satire than at
+      vespers; he has introduced the accomplishments of Basilio and the riches
+      of Camacho very neatly into the dance." Sancho Panza, who was listening to
+      all this, exclaimed, "The king is my cock; I stick to Camacho." "It is
+      easy to see thou art a clown, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "and one of that
+      sort that cry 'Long life to the conqueror.'"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I don't know of what sort I am," returned Sancho, "but I know very well
+      I'll never get such elegant skimmings off Basilio's pots as these I have
+      got off Camacho's;" and he showed him the bucketful of geese and hens, and
+      seizing one began to eat with great gaiety and appetite, saying, "A fig
+      for the accomplishments of Basilio! As much as thou hast so much art thou
+      worth, and as much as thou art worth so much hast thou. As a grandmother
+      of mine used to say, there are only two families in the world, the Haves
+      and the Haven'ts; and she stuck to the Haves; and to this day, Senor Don
+      Quixote, people would sooner feel the pulse of 'Have,' than of 'Know;' an
+      ass covered with gold looks better than a horse with a pack-saddle. So
+      once more I say I stick to Camacho, the bountiful skimmings of whose pots
+      are geese and hens, hares and rabbits; but of Basilio's, if any ever come
+      to hand, or even to foot, they'll be only rinsings."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Hast thou finished thy harangue, Sancho?" said Don Quixote. "Of course I
+      have finished it," replied Sancho, "because I see your worship takes
+      offence at it; but if it was not for that, there was work enough cut out
+      for three days."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "God grant I may see thee dumb before I die, Sancho," said Don Quixote.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "At the rate we are going," said Sancho, "I'll be chewing clay before your
+      worship dies; and then, maybe, I'll be so dumb that I'll not say a word
+      until the end of the world, or, at least, till the day of judgment."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Even should that happen, O Sancho," said Don Quixote, "thy silence will
+      never come up to all thou hast talked, art talking, and wilt talk all thy
+      life; moreover, it naturally stands to reason, that my death will come
+      before thine; so I never expect to see thee dumb, not even when thou art
+      drinking or sleeping, and that is the utmost I can say."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "In good faith, senor," replied Sancho, "there's no trusting that
+      fleshless one, I mean Death, who devours the lamb as soon as the sheep,
+      and, as I have heard our curate say, treads with equal foot upon the lofty
+      towers of kings and the lowly huts of the poor. That lady is more mighty
+      than dainty, she is in no way squeamish, she devours all and is ready for
+      all, and fills her alforjas with people of all sorts, ages, and ranks. She
+      is no reaper that sleeps out the noontide; at all times she is reaping and
+      cutting down, as well the dry grass as the green; she never seems to chew,
+      but bolts and swallows all that is put before her, for she has a canine
+      appetite that is never satisfied; and though she has no belly, she shows
+      she has a dropsy and is athirst to drink the lives of all that live, as
+      one would drink a jug of cold water."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Say no more, Sancho," said Don Quixote at this; "don't try to better it,
+      and risk a fall; for in truth what thou hast said about death in thy
+      rustic phrase is what a good preacher might have said. I tell thee,
+      Sancho, if thou hadst discretion equal to thy mother wit, thou mightst
+      take a pulpit in hand, and go about the world preaching fine sermons." "He
+      preaches well who lives well," said Sancho, "and I know no more theology
+      than that."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Nor needst thou," said Don Quixote, "but I cannot conceive or make out
+      how it is that, the fear of God being the beginning of wisdom, thou, who
+      art more afraid of a lizard than of him, knowest so much."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Pass judgment on your chivalries, senor," returned Sancho, "and don't set
+      yourself up to judge of other men's fears or braveries, for I am as good a
+      fearer of God as my neighbours; but leave me to despatch these skimmings,
+      for all the rest is only idle talk that we shall be called to account for
+      in the other world;" and so saying, he began a fresh attack on the bucket,
+      with such a hearty appetite that he aroused Don Quixote's, who no doubt
+      would have helped him had he not been prevented by what must be told
+      farther on.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p20f" id="p20f"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p20f.jpg (41K)" src="images/p20f.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      <a name="ch21b" id="ch21b"></a>CHAPTER XXI.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      IN WHICH CAMACHO'S WEDDING IS CONTINUED, WITH OTHER DELIGHTFUL INCIDENTS
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p21a" id="p21a"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p21a.jpg (118K)" src="images/p21a.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p21a.jpg"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br />
+      <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      While Don Quixote and Sancho were engaged in the discussion set forth the
+      last chapter, they heard loud shouts and a great noise, which were uttered
+      and made by the men on the mares as they went at full gallop, shouting, to
+      receive the bride and bridegroom, who were approaching with musical
+      instruments and pageantry of all sorts around them, and accompanied by the
+      priest and the relatives of both, and all the most distinguished people of
+      the surrounding villages. When Sancho saw the bride, he exclaimed, "By my
+      faith, she is not dressed like a country girl, but like some fine court
+      lady; egad, as well as I can make out, the patena she wears rich coral,
+      and her green Cuenca stuff is thirty-pile velvet; and then the white linen
+      trimming&mdash;by my oath, but it's satin! Look at her hands&mdash;jet
+      rings on them! May I never have luck if they're not gold rings, and real
+      gold, and set with pearls as white as a curdled milk, and every one of
+      them worth an eye of one's head! Whoreson baggage, what hair she has! if
+      it's not a wig, I never saw longer or fairer all the days of my life. See
+      how bravely she bears herself&mdash;and her shape! Wouldn't you say she
+      was like a walking palm tree loaded with clusters of dates? for the
+      trinkets she has hanging from her hair and neck look just like them. I
+      swear in my heart she is a brave lass, and fit 'to pass over the banks of
+      Flanders.'"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Don Quixote laughed at Sancho's boorish eulogies and thought that, saving
+      his lady Dulcinea del Toboso, he had never seen a more beautiful woman.
+      The fair Quiteria appeared somewhat pale, which was, no doubt, because of
+      the bad night brides always pass dressing themselves out for their wedding
+      on the morrow. They advanced towards a theatre that stood on one side of
+      the meadow decked with carpets and boughs, where they were to plight their
+      troth, and from which they were to behold the dances and plays; but at the
+      moment of their arrival at the spot they heard a loud outcry behind them,
+      and a voice exclaiming, "Wait a little, ye, as inconsiderate as ye are
+      hasty!" At these words all turned round, and perceived that the speaker
+      was a man clad in what seemed to be a loose black coat garnished with
+      crimson patches like flames. He was crowned (as was presently seen) with a
+      crown of gloomy cypress, and in his hand he held a long staff. As he
+      approached he was recognised by everyone as the gay Basilio, and all
+      waited anxiously to see what would come of his words, in dread of some
+      catastrophe in consequence of his appearance at such a moment. He came up
+      at last weary and breathless, and planting himself in front of the bridal
+      pair, drove his staff, which had a steel spike at the end, into the
+      ground, and, with a pale face and eyes fixed on Quiteria, he thus
+      addressed her in a hoarse, trembling voice:
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Well dost thou know, ungrateful Quiteria, that according to the holy law
+      we acknowledge, so long as live thou canst take no husband; nor art thou
+      ignorant either that, in my hopes that time and my own exertions would
+      improve my fortunes, I have never failed to observe the respect due to thy
+      honour; but thou, casting behind thee all thou owest to my true love,
+      wouldst surrender what is mine to another whose wealth serves to bring him
+      not only good fortune but supreme happiness; and now to complete it (not
+      that I think he deserves it, but inasmuch as heaven is pleased to bestow
+      it upon him), I will, with my own hands, do away with the obstacle that
+      may interfere with it, and remove myself from between you. Long live the
+      rich Camacho! many a happy year may he live with the ungrateful Quiteria!
+      and let the poor Basilio die, Basilio whose poverty clipped the wings of
+      his happiness, and brought him to the grave!"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      And so saying, he seized the staff he had driven into the ground, and
+      leaving one half of it fixed there, showed it to be a sheath that
+      concealed a tolerably long rapier; and, what may be called its hilt being
+      planted in the ground, he swiftly, coolly, and deliberately threw himself
+      upon it, and in an instant the bloody point and half the steel blade
+      appeared at his back, the unhappy man falling to the earth bathed in his
+      blood, and transfixed by his own weapon.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      His friends at once ran to his aid, filled with grief at his misery and
+      sad fate, and Don Quixote, dismounting from Rocinante, hastened to support
+      him, and took him in his arms, and found he had not yet ceased to breathe.
+      They were about to draw out the rapier, but the priest who was standing by
+      objected to its being withdrawn before he had confessed him, as the
+      instant of its withdrawal would be that of this death. Basilio, however,
+      reviving slightly, said in a weak voice, as though in pain, "If thou
+      wouldst consent, cruel Quiteria, to give me thy hand as my bride in this
+      last fatal moment, I might still hope that my rashness would find pardon,
+      as by its means I attained the bliss of being thine."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Hearing this the priest bade him think of the welfare of his soul rather
+      than of the cravings of the body, and in all earnestness implore God's
+      pardon for his sins and for his rash resolve; to which Basilio replied
+      that he was determined not to confess unless Quiteria first gave him her
+      hand in marriage, for that happiness would compose his mind and give him
+      courage to make his confession.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Don Quixote hearing the wounded man's entreaty, exclaimed aloud that what
+      Basilio asked was just and reasonable, and moreover a request that might
+      be easily complied with; and that it would be as much to Senor Camacho's
+      honour to receive the lady Quiteria as the widow of the brave Basilio as
+      if he received her direct from her father.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "In this case," said he, "it will be only to say 'yes,' and no
+      consequences can follow the utterance of the word, for the nuptial couch
+      of this marriage must be the grave."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Camacho was listening to all this, perplexed and bewildered and not
+      knowing what to say or do; but so urgent were the entreaties of Basilio's
+      friends, imploring him to allow Quiteria to give him her hand, so that his
+      soul, quitting this life in despair, should not be lost, that they moved,
+      nay, forced him, to say that if Quiteria were willing to give it he was
+      satisfied, as it was only putting off the fulfillment of his wishes for a
+      moment. At once all assailed Quiteria and pressed her, some with prayers,
+      and others with tears, and others with persuasive arguments, to give her
+      hand to poor Basilio; but she, harder than marble and more unmoved than
+      any statue, seemed unable or unwilling to utter a word, nor would she have
+      given any reply had not the priest bade her decide quickly what she meant
+      to do, as Basilio now had his soul at his teeth, and there was no time for
+      hesitation.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p21b" id="p21b"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p21b.jpg (374K)" src="images/p21b.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p21b.jpg"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br />
+      <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      On this the fair Quiteria, to all appearance distressed, grieved, and
+      repentant, advanced without a word to where Basilio lay, his eyes already
+      turned in his head, his breathing short and painful, murmuring the name of
+      Quiteria between his teeth, and apparently about to die like a heathen and
+      not like a Christian. Quiteria approached him, and kneeling, demanded his
+      hand by signs without speaking. Basilio opened his eyes and gazing fixedly
+      at her, said, "O Quiteria, why hast thou turned compassionate at a moment
+      when thy compassion will serve as a dagger to rob me of life, for I have
+      not now the strength left either to bear the happiness thou givest me in
+      accepting me as thine, or to suppress the pain that is rapidly drawing the
+      dread shadow of death over my eyes? What I entreat of thee, O thou fatal
+      star to me, is that the hand thou demandest of me and wouldst give me, be
+      not given out of complaisance or to deceive me afresh, but that thou
+      confess and declare that without any constraint upon thy will thou givest
+      it to me as to thy lawful husband; for it is not meet that thou shouldst
+      trifle with me at such a moment as this, or have recourse to falsehoods
+      with one who has dealt so truly by thee."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      While uttering these words he showed such weakness that the bystanders
+      expected each return of faintness would take his life with it. Then
+      Quiteria, overcome with modesty and shame, holding in her right hand the
+      hand of Basilio, said, "No force would bend my will; as freely, therefore,
+      as it is possible for me to do so, I give thee the hand of a lawful wife,
+      and take thine if thou givest it to me of thine own free will, untroubled
+      and unaffected by the calamity thy hasty act has brought upon thee."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Yes, I give it," said Basilio, "not agitated or distracted, but with
+      unclouded reason that heaven is pleased to grant me, thus do I give myself
+      to be thy husband."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "And I give myself to be thy wife," said Quiteria, "whether thou livest
+      many years, or they carry thee from my arms to the grave."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "For one so badly wounded," observed Sancho at this point, "this young man
+      has a great deal to say; they should make him leave off billing and
+      cooing, and attend to his soul; for to my thinking he has it more on his
+      tongue than at his teeth."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Basilio and Quiteria having thus joined hands, the priest, deeply moved
+      and with tears in his eyes, pronounced the blessing upon them, and
+      implored heaven to grant an easy passage to the soul of the newly wedded
+      man, who, the instant he received the blessing, started nimbly to his feet
+      and with unparalleled effrontery pulled out the rapier that had been
+      sheathed in his body. All the bystanders were astounded, and some, more
+      simple than inquiring, began shouting, "A miracle, a miracle!" But Basilio
+      replied, "No miracle, no miracle; only a trick, a trick!" The priest,
+      perplexed and amazed, made haste to examine the wound with both hands, and
+      found that the blade had passed, not through Basilio's flesh and ribs, but
+      through a hollow iron tube full of blood, which he had adroitly fixed at
+      the place, the blood, as was afterwards ascertained, having been so
+      prepared as not to congeal. In short, the priest and Camacho and most of
+      those present saw they were tricked and made fools of. The bride showed no
+      signs of displeasure at the deception; on the contrary, hearing them say
+      that the marriage, being fraudulent, would not be valid, she said that she
+      confirmed it afresh, whence they all concluded that the affair had been
+      planned by agreement and understanding between the pair, whereat Camacho
+      and his supporters were so mortified that they proceeded to revenge
+      themselves by violence, and a great number of them drawing their swords
+      attacked Basilio, in whose protection as many more swords were in an
+      instant unsheathed, while Don Quixote taking the lead on horseback, with
+      his lance over his arm and well covered with his shield, made all give way
+      before him. Sancho, who never found any pleasure or enjoyment in such
+      doings, retreated to the wine-jars from which he had taken his delectable
+      skimmings, considering that, as a holy place, that spot would be
+      respected.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Hold, sirs, hold!" cried Don Quixote in a loud voice; "we have no right
+      to take vengeance for wrongs that love may do to us: remember love and war
+      are the same thing, and as in war it is allowable and common to make use
+      of wiles and stratagems to overcome the enemy, so in the contests and
+      rivalries of love the tricks and devices employed to attain the desired
+      end are justifiable, provided they be not to the discredit or dishonour of
+      the loved object. Quiteria belonged to Basilio and Basilio to Quiteria by
+      the just and beneficent disposal of heaven. Camacho is rich, and can
+      purchase his pleasure when, where, and as it pleases him. Basilio has but
+      this ewe-lamb, and no one, however powerful he may be, shall take her from
+      him; these two whom God hath joined man cannot separate; and he who
+      attempts it must first pass the point of this lance;" and so saying he
+      brandished it so stoutly and dexterously that he overawed all who did not
+      know him.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      But so deep an impression had the rejection of Quiteria made on Camacho's
+      mind that it banished her at once from his thoughts; and so the counsels
+      of the priest, who was a wise and kindly disposed man, prevailed with him,
+      and by their means he and his partisans were pacified and tranquillised,
+      and to prove it put up their swords again, inveighing against the pliancy
+      of Quiteria rather than the craftiness of Basilio; Camacho maintaining
+      that, if Quiteria as a maiden had such a love for Basilio, she would have
+      loved him too as a married woman, and that he ought to thank heaven more
+      for having taken her than for having given her.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Camacho and those of his following, therefore, being consoled and
+      pacified, those on Basilio's side were appeased; and the rich Camacho, to
+      show that he felt no resentment for the trick, and did not care about it,
+      desired the festival to go on just as if he were married in reality.
+      Neither Basilio, however, nor his bride, nor their followers would take
+      any part in it, and they withdrew to Basilio's village; for the poor, if
+      they are persons of virtue and good sense, have those who follow, honour,
+      and uphold them, just as the rich have those who flatter and dance
+      attendance on them. With them they carried Don Quixote, regarding him as a
+      man of worth and a stout one. Sancho alone had a cloud on his soul, for he
+      found himself debarred from waiting for Camacho's splendid feast and
+      festival, which lasted until night; and thus dragged away, he moodily
+      followed his master, who accompanied Basilio's party, and left behind him
+      the flesh-pots of Egypt; though in his heart he took them with him, and
+      their now nearly finished skimmings that he carried in the bucket conjured
+      up visions before his eyes of the glory and abundance of the good cheer he
+      was losing. And so, vexed and dejected though not hungry, without
+      dismounting from Dapple he followed in the footsteps of Rocinante.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p21c" id="p21c"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p21c.jpg (417K)" src="images/p21c.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p21c.jpg"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br />
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p21e" id="p21e"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p21e.jpg (49K)" src="images/p21e.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      <a name="ch22b" id="ch22b"></a>CHAPTER XXII.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      WHERIN IS RELATED THE GRAND ADVENTURE OF THE CAVE OF MONTESINOS IN THE
+      HEART OF LA MANCHA, WHICH THE VALIANT DON QUIXOTE BROUGHT TO A HAPPY
+      TERMINATION
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <a name="p22a" id="p22a"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p22a.jpg (112K)" src="images/p22a.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p22a.jpg"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br />
+      <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Many and great were the attentions shown to Don Quixote by the newly
+      married couple, who felt themselves under an obligation to him for coming
+      forward in defence of their cause; and they exalted his wisdom to the same
+      level with his courage, rating him as a Cid in arms, and a Cicero in
+      eloquence. Worthy Sancho enjoyed himself for three days at the expense of
+      the pair, from whom they learned that the sham wound was not a scheme
+      arranged with the fair Quiteria, but a device of Basilio's, who counted on
+      exactly the result they had seen; he confessed, it is true, that he had
+      confided his idea to some of his friends, so that at the proper time they
+      might aid him in his purpose and insure the success of the deception.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p22b" id="p22b"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p22b.jpg (344K)" src="images/p22b.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p22b.jpg"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br />
+      <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "That," said Don Quixote, "is not and ought not to be called deception
+      which aims at virtuous ends;" and the marriage of lovers he maintained to
+      be a most excellent end, reminding them, however, that love has no greater
+      enemy than hunger and constant want; for love is all gaiety, enjoyment,
+      and happiness, especially when the lover is in the possession of the
+      object of his love, and poverty and want are the declared enemies of all
+      these; which he said to urge Senor Basilio to abandon the practice of
+      those accomplishments he was skilled in, for though they brought him fame,
+      they brought him no money, and apply himself to the acquisition of wealth
+      by legitimate industry, which will never fail those who are prudent and
+      persevering. The poor man who is a man of honour (if indeed a poor man can
+      be a man of honour) has a jewel when he has a fair wife, and if she is
+      taken from him, his honour is taken from him and slain. The fair woman who
+      is a woman of honour, and whose husband is poor, deserves to be crowned
+      with the laurels and crowns of victory and triumph. Beauty by itself
+      attracts the desires of all who behold it, and the royal eagles and birds
+      of towering flight stoop on it as on a dainty lure; but if beauty be
+      accompanied by want and penury, then the ravens and the kites and other
+      birds of prey assail it, and she who stands firm against such attacks well
+      deserves to be called the crown of her husband. "Remember, O prudent
+      Basilio," added Don Quixote, "it was the opinion of a certain sage, I know
+      not whom, that there was not more than one good woman in the whole world;
+      and his advice was that each one should think and believe that this one
+      good woman was his own wife, and in this way he would live happy. I myself
+      am not married, nor, so far, has it ever entered my thoughts to be so;
+      nevertheless I would venture to give advice to anyone who might ask it, as
+      to the mode in which he should seek a wife such as he would be content to
+      marry. The first thing I would recommend him, would be to look to good
+      name rather than to wealth, for a good woman does not win a good name
+      merely by being good, but by letting it be seen that she is so, and open
+      looseness and freedom do much more damage to a woman's honour than secret
+      depravity. If you take a good woman into your house it will be an easy
+      matter to keep her good, and even to make her still better; but if you
+      take a bad one you will find it hard work to mend her, for it is no very
+      easy matter to pass from one extreme to another. I do not say it is
+      impossible, but I look upon it as difficult."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Sancho, listening to all this, said to himself, "This master of mine, when
+      I say anything that has weight and substance, says I might take a pulpit
+      in hand, and go about the world preaching fine sermons; but I say of him
+      that, when he begins stringing maxims together and giving advice not only
+      might he take a pulpit in hand, but two on each finger, and go into the
+      market-places to his heart's content. Devil take you for a knight-errant,
+      what a lot of things you know! I used to think in my heart that the only
+      thing he knew was what belonged to his chivalry; but there is nothing he
+      won't have a finger in."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Sancho muttered this somewhat aloud, and his master overheard him, and
+      asked, "What art thou muttering there, Sancho?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I'm not saying anything or muttering anything," said Sancho; "I was only
+      saying to myself that I wish I had heard what your worship has said just
+      now before I married; perhaps I'd say now, 'The ox that's loose licks
+      himself well.'"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Is thy Teresa so bad then, Sancho?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "She is not very bad," replied Sancho; "but she is not very good; at least
+      she is not as good as I could wish."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Thou dost wrong, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "to speak ill of thy wife;
+      for after all she is the mother of thy children." "We are quits," returned
+      Sancho; "for she speaks ill of me whenever she takes it into her head,
+      especially when she is jealous; and Satan himself could not put up with
+      her then."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      In fine, they remained three days with the newly married couple, by whom
+      they were entertained and treated like kings. Don Quixote begged the
+      fencing licentiate to find him a guide to show him the way to the cave of
+      Montesinos, as he had a great desire to enter it and see with his own eyes
+      if the wonderful tales that were told of it all over the country were
+      true. The licentiate said he would get him a cousin of his own, a famous
+      scholar, and one very much given to reading books of chivalry, who would
+      have great pleasure in conducting him to the mouth of the very cave, and
+      would show him the lakes of Ruidera, which were likewise famous all over
+      La Mancha, and even all over Spain; and he assured him he would find him
+      entertaining, for he was a youth who could write books good enough to be
+      printed and dedicated to princes. The cousin arrived at last, leading an
+      ass in foal, with a pack-saddle covered with a parti-coloured carpet or
+      sackcloth; Sancho saddled Rocinante, got Dapple ready, and stocked his
+      alforjas, along with which went those of the cousin, likewise well filled;
+      and so, commending themselves to God and bidding farewell to all, they set
+      out, taking the road for the famous cave of Montesinos.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      On the way Don Quixote asked the cousin of what sort and character his
+      pursuits, avocations, and studies were, to which he replied that he was by
+      profession a humanist, and that his pursuits and studies were making books
+      for the press, all of great utility and no less entertainment to the
+      nation. One was called "The Book of Liveries," in which he described seven
+      hundred and three liveries, with their colours, mottoes, and ciphers, from
+      which gentlemen of the court might pick and choose any they fancied for
+      festivals and revels, without having to go a-begging for them from anyone,
+      or puzzling their brains, as the saying is, to have them appropriate to
+      their objects and purposes; "for," said he, "I give the jealous, the
+      rejected, the forgotten, the absent, what will suit them, and fit them
+      without fail. I have another book, too, which I shall call 'Metamorphoses,
+      or the Spanish Ovid,' one of rare and original invention, for imitating
+      Ovid in burlesque style, I show in it who the Giralda of Seville and the
+      Angel of the Magdalena were, what the sewer of Vecinguerra at Cordova was,
+      what the bulls of Guisando, the Sierra Morena, the Leganitos and Lavapies
+      fountains at Madrid, not forgetting those of the Piojo, of the Cano
+      Dorado, and of the Priora; and all with their allegories, metaphors, and
+      changes, so that they are amusing, interesting, and instructive, all at
+      once. Another book I have which I call 'The Supplement to Polydore
+      Vergil,' which treats of the invention of things, and is a work of great
+      erudition and research, for I establish and elucidate elegantly some
+      things of great importance which Polydore omitted to mention. He forgot to
+      tell us who was the first man in the world that had a cold in his head,
+      and who was the first to try salivation for the French disease, but I give
+      it accurately set forth, and quote more than five-and-twenty authors in
+      proof of it, so you may perceive I have laboured to good purpose and that
+      the book will be of service to the whole world."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Sancho, who had been very attentive to the cousin's words, said to him,
+      "Tell me, senor&mdash;and God give you luck in printing your books&mdash;can
+      you tell me (for of course you know, as you know everything) who was the
+      first man that scratched his head? For to my thinking it must have been
+      our father Adam."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "So it must," replied the cousin; "for there is no doubt but Adam had a
+      head and hair; and being the first man in the world he would have
+      scratched himself sometimes."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "So I think," said Sancho; "but now tell me, who was the first tumbler in
+      the world?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Really, brother," answered the cousin, "I could not at this moment say
+      positively without having investigated it; I will look it up when I go
+      back to where I have my books, and will satisfy you the next time we meet,
+      for this will not be the last time."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Look here, senor," said Sancho, "don't give yourself any trouble about
+      it, for I have just this minute hit upon what I asked you. The first
+      tumbler in the world, you must know, was Lucifer, when they cast or
+      pitched him out of heaven; for he came tumbling into the bottomless pit."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "You are right, friend," said the cousin; and said Don Quixote, "Sancho,
+      that question and answer are not thine own; thou hast heard them from some
+      one else."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Hold your peace, senor," said Sancho; "faith, if I take to asking
+      questions and answering, I'll go on from this till to-morrow morning. Nay!
+      to ask foolish things and answer nonsense I needn't go looking for help
+      from my neighbours."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Thou hast said more than thou art aware of, Sancho," said Don Quixote;
+      "for there are some who weary themselves out in learning and proving
+      things that, after they are known and proved, are not worth a farthing to
+      the understanding or memory."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      In this and other pleasant conversation the day went by, and that night
+      they put up at a small hamlet whence it was not more than two leagues to
+      the cave of Montesinos, so the cousin told Don Quixote, adding, that if he
+      was bent upon entering it, it would be requisite for him to provide
+      himself with ropes, so that he might be tied and lowered into its depths.
+      Don Quixote said that even if it reached to the bottomless pit he meant to
+      see where it went to; so they bought about a hundred fathoms of rope, and
+      next day at two in the afternoon they arrived at the cave, the mouth of
+      which is spacious and wide, but full of thorn and wild-fig bushes and
+      brambles and briars, so thick and matted that they completely close it up
+      and cover it over.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      On coming within sight of it the cousin, Sancho, and Don Quixote
+      dismounted, and the first two immediately tied the latter very firmly with
+      the ropes, and as they were girding and swathing him Sancho said to him,
+      "Mind what you are about, master mine; don't go burying yourself alive, or
+      putting yourself where you'll be like a bottle put to cool in a well; it's
+      no affair or business of your worship's to become the explorer of this,
+      which must be worse than a Moorish dungeon."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Tie me and hold thy peace," said Don Quixote, "for an emprise like this,
+      friend Sancho, was reserved for me;" and said the guide, "I beg of you,
+      Senor Don Quixote, to observe carefully and examine with a hundred eyes
+      everything that is within there; perhaps there may be some things for me
+      to put into my book of 'Transformations.'"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "The drum is in hands that will know how to beat it well enough," said
+      Sancho Panza.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      When he had said this and finished the tying (which was not over the
+      armour but only over the doublet) Don Quixote observed, "It was careless
+      of us not to have provided ourselves with a small cattle-bell to be tied
+      on the rope close to me, the sound of which would show that I was still
+      descending and alive; but as that is out of the question now, in God's
+      hand be it to guide me;" and forthwith he fell on his knees and in a low
+      voice offered up a prayer to heaven, imploring God to aid him and grant
+      him success in this to all appearance perilous and untried adventure, and
+      then exclaimed aloud, "O mistress of my actions and movements, illustrious
+      and peerless Dulcinea del Toboso, if so be the prayers and supplications
+      of this fortunate lover can reach thy ears, by thy incomparable beauty I
+      entreat thee to listen to them, for they but ask thee not to refuse me thy
+      favour and protection now that I stand in such need of them. I am about to
+      precipitate, to sink, to plunge myself into the abyss that is here before
+      me, only to let the world know that while thou dost favour me there is no
+      impossibility I will not attempt and accomplish." With these words he
+      approached the cavern, and perceived that it was impossible to let himself
+      down or effect an entrance except by sheer force or cleaving a passage; so
+      drawing his sword he began to demolish and cut away the brambles at the
+      mouth of the cave, at the noise of which a vast multitude of crows and
+      choughs flew out of it so thick and so fast that they knocked Don Quixote
+      down; and if he had been as much of a believer in augury as he was a
+      Catholic Christian he would have taken it as a bad omen and declined to
+      bury himself in such a place. He got up, however, and as there came no
+      more crows, or night-birds like the bats that flew out at the same time
+      with the crows, the cousin and Sancho giving him rope, he lowered himself
+      into the depths of the dread cavern; and as he entered it Sancho sent his
+      blessing after him, making a thousand crosses over him and saying, "God,
+      and the Pena de Francia, and the Trinity of Gaeta guide thee, flower and
+      cream of knights-errant. There thou goest, thou dare-devil of the earth,
+      heart of steel, arm of brass; once more, God guide thee and send thee back
+      safe, sound, and unhurt to the light of this world thou art leaving to
+      bury thyself in the darkness thou art seeking there;" and the cousin
+      offered up almost the same prayers and supplications.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p22c" id="p22c"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p22c.jpg (365K)" src="images/p22c.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p22c.jpg"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br />
+      <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Don Quixote kept calling to them to give him rope and more rope, and they
+      gave it out little by little, and by the time the calls, which came out of
+      the cave as out of a pipe, ceased to be heard they had let down the
+      hundred fathoms of rope. They were inclined to pull Don Quixote up again,
+      as they could give him no more rope; however, they waited about half an
+      hour, at the end of which time they began to gather in the rope again with
+      great ease and without feeling any weight, which made them fancy Don
+      Quixote was remaining below; and persuaded that it was so, Sancho wept
+      bitterly, and hauled away in great haste in order to settle the question.
+      When, however, they had come to, as it seemed, rather more than eighty
+      fathoms they felt a weight, at which they were greatly delighted; and at
+      last, at ten fathoms more, they saw Don Quixote distinctly, and Sancho
+      called out to him, saying, "Welcome back, senor, for we had begun to think
+      you were going to stop there to found a family." But Don Quixote answered
+      not a word, and drawing him out entirely they perceived he had his eyes
+      shut and every appearance of being fast asleep.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      They stretched him on the ground and untied him, but still he did not
+      awake; however, they rolled him back and forwards and shook and pulled him
+      about, so that after some time he came to himself, stretching himself just
+      as if he were waking up from a deep and sound sleep, and looking about him
+      he said, "God forgive you, friends; ye have taken me away from the
+      sweetest and most delightful existence and spectacle that ever human being
+      enjoyed or beheld. Now indeed do I know that all the pleasures of this
+      life pass away like a shadow and a dream, or fade like the flower of the
+      field. O ill-fated Montesinos! O sore-wounded Durandarte! O unhappy
+      Belerma! O tearful Guadiana, and ye O hapless daughters of Ruidera who
+      show in your waves the tears that flowed from your beauteous eyes!"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p22d" id="p22d"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p22d.jpg (318K)" src="images/p22d.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p22d.jpg"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br />
+      <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The cousin and Sancho Panza listened with deep attention to the words of
+      Don Quixote, who uttered them as though with immense pain he drew them up
+      from his very bowels. They begged of him to explain himself, and tell them
+      what he had seen in that hell down there.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Hell do you call it?" said Don Quixote; "call it by no such name, for it
+      does not deserve it, as ye shall soon see."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      He then begged them to give him something to eat, as he was very hungry.
+      They spread the cousin's sackcloth on the grass, and put the stores of the
+      alforjas into requisition, and all three sitting down lovingly and
+      sociably, they made a luncheon and a supper of it all in one; and when the
+      sackcloth was removed, Don Quixote of La Mancha said, "Let no one rise,
+      and attend to me, my sons, both of you."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p22e" id="p22e"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p22e.jpg (48K)" src="images/p22e.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      <a name="ch23b" id="ch23b"></a>CHAPTER XXIII.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      OF THE WONDERFUL THINGS THE INCOMPARABLE DON QUIXOTE SAID HE SAW IN THE
+      PROFOUND CAVE OF MONTESINOS, THE IMPOSSIBILITY AND MAGNITUDE OF WHICH
+      CAUSE THIS ADVENTURE TO BE DEEMED APOCRYPHAL
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <a name="p23a" id="p23a"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p23a.jpg (148K)" src="images/p23a.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p23a.jpg"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br />
+      <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      It was about four in the afternoon when the sun, veiled in clouds, with
+      subdued light and tempered beams, enabled Don Quixote to relate, without
+      heat or inconvenience, what he had seen in the cave of Montesinos to his
+      two illustrious hearers, and he began as follows:
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "A matter of some twelve or fourteen times a man's height down in this
+      pit, on the right-hand side, there is a recess or space, roomy enough to
+      contain a large cart with its mules. A little light reaches it through
+      some chinks or crevices, communicating with it and open to the surface of
+      the earth. This recess or space I perceived when I was already growing
+      weary and disgusted at finding myself hanging suspended by the rope,
+      travelling downwards into that dark region without any certainty or
+      knowledge of where I was going, so I resolved to enter it and rest myself
+      for a while. I called out, telling you not to let out more rope until I
+      bade you, but you cannot have heard me. I then gathered in the rope you
+      were sending me, and making a coil or pile of it I seated myself upon it,
+      ruminating and considering what I was to do to lower myself to the bottom,
+      having no one to hold me up; and as I was thus deep in thought and
+      perplexity, suddenly and without provocation a profound sleep fell upon
+      me, and when I least expected it, I know not how, I awoke and found myself
+      in the midst of the most beautiful, delightful meadow that nature could
+      produce or the most lively human imagination conceive. I opened my eyes, I
+      rubbed them, and found I was not asleep but thoroughly awake.
+      Nevertheless, I felt my head and breast to satisfy myself whether it was I
+      myself who was there or some empty delusive phantom; but touch, feeling,
+      the collected thoughts that passed through my mind, all convinced me that
+      I was the same then and there that I am this moment. Next there presented
+      itself to my sight a stately royal palace or castle, with walls that
+      seemed built of clear transparent crystal; and through two great doors
+      that opened wide therein, I saw coming forth and advancing towards me a
+      venerable old man, clad in a long gown of mulberry-coloured serge that
+      trailed upon the ground. On his shoulders and breast he had a green satin
+      collegiate hood, and covering his head a black Milanese bonnet, and his
+      snow-white beard fell below his girdle. He carried no arms whatever,
+      nothing but a rosary of beads bigger than fair-sized filberts, each tenth
+      bead being like a moderate ostrich egg; his bearing, his gait, his dignity
+      and imposing presence held me spellbound and wondering. He approached me,
+      and the first thing he did was to embrace me closely, and then he said to
+      me, 'For a long time now, O valiant knight Don Quixote of La Mancha, we
+      who are here enchanted in these solitudes have been hoping to see thee,
+      that thou mayest make known to the world what is shut up and concealed in
+      this deep cave, called the cave of Montesinos, which thou hast entered, an
+      achievement reserved for thy invincible heart and stupendous courage alone
+      to attempt. Come with me, illustrious sir, and I will show thee the
+      marvels hidden within this transparent castle, whereof I am the alcaide
+      and perpetual warden; for I am Montesinos himself, from whom the cave
+      takes its name.'
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "The instant he told me he was Montesinos, I asked him if the story they
+      told in the world above here was true, that he had taken out the heart of
+      his great friend Durandarte from his breast with a little dagger, and
+      carried it to the lady Belerma, as his friend when at the point of death
+      had commanded him. He said in reply that they spoke the truth in every
+      respect except as to the dagger, for it was not a dagger, nor little, but
+      a burnished poniard sharper than an awl."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "That poniard must have been made by Ramon de Hoces the Sevillian," said
+      Sancho.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I do not know," said Don Quixote; "it could not have been by that poniard
+      maker, however, because Ramon de Hoces was a man of yesterday, and the
+      affair of Roncesvalles, where this mishap occurred, was long ago; but the
+      question is of no great importance, nor does it affect or make any
+      alteration in the truth or substance of the story."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "That is true," said the cousin; "continue, Senor Don Quixote, for I am
+      listening to you with the greatest pleasure in the world."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "And with no less do I tell the tale," said Don Quixote; "and so, to
+      proceed&mdash;the venerable Montesinos led me into the palace of crystal,
+      where, in a lower chamber, strangely cool and entirely of alabaster, was
+      an elaborately wrought marble tomb, upon which I beheld, stretched at full
+      length, a knight, not of bronze, or marble, or jasper, as are seen on
+      other tombs, but of actual flesh and bone. His right hand (which seemed to
+      me somewhat hairy and sinewy, a sign of great strength in its owner) lay
+      on the side of his heart; but before I could put any question to
+      Montesinos, he, seeing me gazing at the tomb in amazement, said to me,
+      'This is my friend Durandarte, flower and mirror of the true lovers and
+      valiant knights of his time. He is held enchanted here, as I myself and
+      many others are, by that French enchanter Merlin, who, they say, was the
+      devil's son; but my belief is, not that he was the devil's son, but that
+      he knew, as the saying is, a point more than the devil. How or why he
+      enchanted us, no one knows, but time will tell, and I suspect that time is
+      not far off. What I marvel at is, that I know it to be as sure as that it
+      is now day, that Durandarte ended his life in my arms, and that, after his
+      death, I took out his heart with my own hands; and indeed it must have
+      weighed more than two pounds, for, according to naturalists, he who has a
+      large heart is more largely endowed with valour than he who has a small
+      one. Then, as this is the case, and as the knight did really die, how
+      comes it that he now moans and sighs from time to time, as if he were
+      still alive?'
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p23b" id="p23b"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p23b.jpg (243K)" src="images/p23b.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p23b.jpg"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br />
+      <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "As he said this, the wretched Durandarte cried out in a loud voice:
+    </p>
+<pre xml:space="preserve">
+O cousin Montesinos!
+  'T was my last request of thee,
+When my soul hath left the body,
+  And that lying dead I be,
+With thy poniard or thy dagger
+  Cut the heart from out my breast,
+And bear it to Belerma.
+  This was my last request."
+
+</pre>
+    <p>
+      "On hearing which, the venerable Montesinos fell on his knees before the
+      unhappy knight, and with tearful eyes exclaimed, 'Long since, Senor
+      Durandarte, my beloved cousin, long since have I done what you bade me on
+      that sad day when I lost you; I took out your heart as well as I could,
+      not leaving an atom of it in your breast, I wiped it with a lace
+      handkerchief, and I took the road to France with it, having first laid you
+      in the bosom of the earth with tears enough to wash and cleanse my hands
+      of the blood that covered them after wandering among your bowels; and more
+      by token, O cousin of my soul, at the first village I came to after
+      leaving Roncesvalles, I sprinkled a little salt upon your heart to keep it
+      sweet, and bring it, if not fresh, at least pickled, into the presence of
+      the lady Belerma, whom, together with you, myself, Guadiana your squire,
+      the duenna Ruidera and her seven daughters and two nieces, and many more
+      of your friends and acquaintances, the sage Merlin has been keeping
+      enchanted here these many years; and although more than five hundred have
+      gone by, not one of us has died; Ruidera and her daughters and nieces
+      alone are missing, and these, because of the tears they shed, Merlin, out
+      of the compassion he seems to have felt for them, changed into so many
+      lakes, which to this day in the world of the living, and in the province
+      of La Mancha, are called the Lakes of Ruidera. The seven daughters belong
+      to the kings of Spain and the two nieces to the knights of a very holy
+      order called the Order of St. John. Guadiana your squire, likewise
+      bewailing your fate, was changed into a river of his own name, but when he
+      came to the surface and beheld the sun of another heaven, so great was his
+      grief at finding he was leaving you, that he plunged into the bowels of
+      the earth; however, as he cannot help following his natural course, he
+      from time to time comes forth and shows himself to the sun and the world.
+      The lakes aforesaid send him their waters, and with these, and others that
+      come to him, he makes a grand and imposing entrance into Portugal; but for
+      all that, go where he may, he shows his melancholy and sadness, and takes
+      no pride in breeding dainty choice fish, only coarse and tasteless sorts,
+      very different from those of the golden Tagus. All this that I tell you
+      now, O cousin mine, I have told you many times before, and as you make no
+      answer, I fear that either you believe me not, or do not hear me, whereat
+      I feel God knows what grief. I have now news to give you, which, if it
+      serves not to alleviate your sufferings, will not in any wise increase
+      them. Know that you have here before you (open your eyes and you will see)
+      that great knight of whom the sage Merlin has prophesied such great
+      things; that Don Quixote of La Mancha I mean, who has again, and to better
+      purpose than in past times, revived in these days knight-errantry, long
+      since forgotten, and by whose intervention and aid it may be we shall be
+      disenchanted; for great deeds are reserved for great men.'
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "'And if that may not be,' said the wretched Durandarte in a low and
+      feeble voice, 'if that may not be, then, my cousin, I say "patience and
+      shuffle;"' and turning over on his side, he relapsed into his former
+      silence without uttering another word.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p23c" id="p23c"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p23c.jpg (331K)" src="images/p23c.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p23c.jpg"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br />
+      <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "And now there was heard a great outcry and lamentation, accompanied by
+      deep sighs and bitter sobs. I looked round, and through the crystal wall I
+      saw passing through another chamber a procession of two lines of fair
+      damsels all clad in mourning, and with white turbans of Turkish fashion on
+      their heads. Behind, in the rear of these, there came a lady, for so from
+      her dignity she seemed to be, also clad in black, with a white veil so
+      long and ample that it swept the ground. Her turban was twice as large as
+      the largest of any of the others; her eyebrows met, her nose was rather
+      flat, her mouth was large but with ruddy lips, and her teeth, of which at
+      times she allowed a glimpse, were seen to be sparse and ill-set, though as
+      white as peeled almonds. She carried in her hands a fine cloth, and in it,
+      as well as I could make out, a heart that had been mummied, so parched and
+      dried was it. Montesinos told me that all those forming the procession
+      were the attendants of Durandarte and Belerma, who were enchanted there
+      with their master and mistress, and that the last, she who carried the
+      heart in the cloth, was the lady Belerma, who, with her damsels, four days
+      in the week went in procession singing, or rather weeping, dirges over the
+      body and miserable heart of his cousin; and that if she appeared to me
+      somewhat ill-favoured or not so beautiful as fame reported her, it was
+      because of the bad nights and worse days that she passed in that
+      enchantment, as I could see by the great dark circles round her eyes, and
+      her sickly complexion; 'her sallowness, and the rings round her eyes,'
+      said he, 'are not caused by the periodical ailment usual with women, for
+      it is many months and even years since she has had any, but by the grief
+      her own heart suffers because of that which she holds in her hand
+      perpetually, and which recalls and brings back to her memory the sad fate
+      of her lost lover; were it not for this, hardly would the great Dulcinea
+      del Toboso, so celebrated in all these parts, and even in the world, come
+      up to her for beauty, grace, and gaiety.'
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "'Hold hard!' said I at this, 'tell your story as you ought, Senor Don
+      Montesinos, for you know very well that all comparisons are odious, and
+      there is no occasion to compare one person with another; the peerless
+      Dulcinea del Toboso is what she is, and the lady Dona Belerma is what she
+      is and has been, and that's enough.' To which he made answer, 'Forgive me,
+      Senor Don Quixote; I own I was wrong and spoke unadvisedly in saying that
+      the lady Dulcinea could scarcely come up to the lady Belerma; for it were
+      enough for me to have learned, by what means I know not, that you are her
+      knight, to make me bite my tongue out before I compared her to anything
+      save heaven itself.' After this apology which the great Montesinos made
+      me, my heart recovered itself from the shock I had received in hearing my
+      lady compared with Belerma."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Still I wonder," said Sancho, "that your worship did not get upon the old
+      fellow and bruise every bone of him with kicks, and pluck his beard until
+      you didn't leave a hair in it."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Nay, Sancho, my friend," said Don Quixote, "it would not have been right
+      in me to do that, for we are all bound to pay respect to the aged, even
+      though they be not knights, but especially to those who are, and who are
+      enchanted; I only know I gave him as good as he brought in the many other
+      questions and answers we exchanged."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I cannot understand, Senor Don Quixote," remarked the cousin here, "how
+      it is that your worship, in such a short space of time as you have been
+      below there, could have seen so many things, and said and answered so
+      much."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "How long is it since I went down?" asked Don Quixote.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Little better than an hour," replied Sancho.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "That cannot be," returned Don Quixote, "because night overtook me while I
+      was there, and day came, and it was night again and day again three times;
+      so that, by my reckoning, I have been three days in those remote regions
+      beyond our ken."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "My master must be right," replied Sancho; "for as everything that has
+      happened to him is by enchantment, maybe what seems to us an hour would
+      seem three days and nights there."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "That's it," said Don Quixote.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "And did your worship eat anything all that time, senor?" asked the
+      cousin.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I never touched a morsel," answered Don Quixote, "nor did I feel hunger,
+      or think of it."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "And do the enchanted eat?" said the cousin.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "They neither eat," said Don Quixote; "nor are they subject to the greater
+      excrements, though it is thought that their nails, beards, and hair grow."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "And do the enchanted sleep, now, senor?" asked Sancho.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Certainly not," replied Don Quixote; "at least, during those three days I
+      was with them not one of them closed an eye, nor did I either."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "The proverb, 'Tell me what company thou keepest and I'll tell thee what
+      thou art,' is to the point here," said Sancho; "your worship keeps company
+      with enchanted people that are always fasting and watching; what wonder is
+      it, then, that you neither eat nor sleep while you are with them? But
+      forgive me, senor, if I say that of all this you have told us now, may God
+      take me&mdash;I was just going to say the devil&mdash;if I believe a
+      single particle."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "What!" said the cousin, "has Senor Don Quixote, then, been lying? Why,
+      even if he wished it he has not had time to imagine and put together such
+      a host of lies."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I don't believe my master lies," said Sancho.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "If not, what dost thou believe?" asked Don Quixote.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I believe," replied Sancho, "that this Merlin, or those enchanters who
+      enchanted the whole crew your worship says you saw and discoursed with
+      down there, stuffed your imagination or your mind with all this rigmarole
+      you have been treating us to, and all that is still to come."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "All that might be, Sancho," replied Don Quixote; "but it is not so, for
+      everything that I have told you I saw with my own eyes, and touched with
+      my own hands. But what will you say when I tell you now how, among the
+      countless other marvellous things Montesinos showed me (of which at
+      leisure and at the proper time I will give thee an account in the course
+      of our journey, for they would not be all in place here), he showed me
+      three country girls who went skipping and capering like goats over the
+      pleasant fields there, and the instant I beheld them I knew one to be the
+      peerless Dulcinea del Toboso, and the other two those same country girls
+      that were with her and that we spoke to on the road from El Toboso! I
+      asked Montesinos if he knew them, and he told me he did not, but he
+      thought they must be some enchanted ladies of distinction, for it was only
+      a few days before that they had made their appearance in those meadows;
+      but I was not to be surprised at that, because there were a great many
+      other ladies there of times past and present, enchanted in various strange
+      shapes, and among them he had recognised Queen Guinevere and her dame
+      Quintanona, she who poured out the wine for Lancelot when he came from
+      Britain."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      When Sancho Panza heard his master say this he was ready to take leave of
+      his senses, or die with laughter; for, as he knew the real truth about the
+      pretended enchantment of Dulcinea, in which he himself had been the
+      enchanter and concocter of all the evidence, he made up his mind at last
+      that, beyond all doubt, his master was out of his wits and stark mad, so
+      he said to him, "It was an evil hour, a worse season, and a sorrowful day,
+      when your worship, dear master mine, went down to the other world, and an
+      unlucky moment when you met with Senor Montesinos, who has sent you back
+      to us like this. You were well enough here above in your full senses, such
+      as God had given you, delivering maxims and giving advice at every turn,
+      and not as you are now, talking the greatest nonsense that can be
+      imagined."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "As I know thee, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "I heed not thy words."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Nor I your worship's," said Sancho, "whether you beat me or kill me for
+      those I have spoken, and will speak if you don't correct and mend your
+      own. But tell me, while we are still at peace, how or by what did you
+      recognise the lady our mistress; and if you spoke to her, what did you
+      say, and what did she answer?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I recognised her," said Don Quixote, "by her wearing the same garments
+      she wore when thou didst point her out to me. I spoke to her, but she did
+      not utter a word in reply; on the contrary, she turned her back on me and
+      took to flight, at such a pace that crossbow bolt could not have overtaken
+      her. I wished to follow her, and would have done so had not Montesinos
+      recommended me not to take the trouble as it would be useless,
+      particularly as the time was drawing near when it would be necessary for
+      me to quit the cavern. He told me, moreover, that in course of time he
+      would let me know how he and Belerma, and Durandarte, and all who were
+      there, were to be disenchanted. But of all I saw and observed down there,
+      what gave me most pain was, that while Montesinos was speaking to me, one
+      of the two companions of the hapless Dulcinea approached me on one without
+      my having seen her coming, and with tears in her eyes said to me, in a
+      low, agitated voice, 'My lady Dulcinea del Toboso kisses your worship's
+      hands, and entreats you to do her the favour of letting her know how you
+      are; and, being in great need, she also entreats your worship as earnestly
+      as she can to be so good as to lend her half a dozen reals, or as much as
+      you may have about you, on this new dimity petticoat that I have here; and
+      she promises to repay them very speedily.' I was amazed and taken aback by
+      such a message, and turning to Senor Montesinos I asked him, 'Is it
+      possible, Senor Montesinos, that persons of distinction under enchantment
+      can be in need?' To which he replied, 'Believe me, Senor Don Quixote, that
+      which is called need is to be met with everywhere, and penetrates all
+      quarters and reaches everyone, and does not spare even the enchanted; and
+      as the lady Dulcinea del Toboso sends to beg those six reals, and the
+      pledge is to all appearance a good one, there is nothing for it but to
+      give them to her, for no doubt she must be in some great strait.' 'I will
+      take no pledge of her,' I replied, 'nor yet can I give her what she asks,
+      for all I have is four reals; which I gave (they were those which thou,
+      Sancho, gavest me the other day to bestow in alms upon the poor I met
+      along the road), and I said, 'Tell your mistress, my dear, that I am
+      grieved to the heart because of her distresses, and wish I was a Fucar to
+      remedy them, and that I would have her know that I cannot be, and ought
+      not be, in health while deprived of the happiness of seeing her and
+      enjoying her discreet conversation, and that I implore her as earnestly as
+      I can, to allow herself to be seen and addressed by this her captive
+      servant and forlorn knight. Tell her, too, that when she least expects it
+      she will hear it announced that I have made an oath and vow after the
+      fashion of that which the Marquis of Mantua made to avenge his nephew
+      Baldwin, when he found him at the point of death in the heart of the
+      mountains, which was, not to eat bread off a tablecloth, and other
+      trifling matters which he added, until he had avenged him; and I will make
+      the same to take no rest, and to roam the seven regions of the earth more
+      thoroughly than the Infante Don Pedro of Portugal ever roamed them, until
+      I have disenchanted her.' 'All that and more, you owe my lady,' the
+      damsel's answer to me, and taking the four reals, instead of making me a
+      curtsey she cut a caper, springing two full yards into the air."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "O blessed God!" exclaimed Sancho aloud at this, "is it possible that such
+      things can be in the world, and that enchanters and enchantments can have
+      such power in it as to have changed my master's right senses into a craze
+      so full of absurdity! O senor, senor, for God's sake, consider yourself,
+      have a care for your honour, and give no credit to this silly stuff that
+      has left you scant and short of wits."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Thou talkest in this way because thou lovest me, Sancho," said Don
+      Quixote; "and not being experienced in the things of the world, everything
+      that has some difficulty about it seems to thee impossible; but time will
+      pass, as I said before, and I will tell thee some of the things I saw down
+      there which will make thee believe what I have related now, the truth of
+      which admits of neither reply nor question."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p23e" id="p23e"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p23e.jpg (54K)" src="images/p23e.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      <a name="ch24b" id="ch24b"></a>CHAPTER XXIV.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      WHEREIN ARE RELATED A THOUSAND TRIFLING MATTERS, AS TRIVIAL AS THEY ARE
+      NECESSARY TO THE RIGHT UNDERSTANDING OF THIS GREAT HISTORY
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <a name="p24a" id="p24a"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p24a.jpg (137K)" src="images/p24a.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p24a.jpg"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br />
+      <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      He who translated this great history from the original written by its
+      first author, Cide Hamete Benengeli, says that on coming to the chapter
+      giving the adventures of the cave of Montesinos he found written on the
+      margin of it, in Hamete's own hand, these exact words:
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I cannot convince or persuade myself that everything that is written in
+      the preceding chapter could have precisely happened to the valiant Don
+      Quixote; and for this reason, that all the adventures that have occurred
+      up to the present have been possible and probable; but as for this one of
+      the cave, I see no way of accepting it as true, as it passes all
+      reasonable bounds. For me to believe that Don Quixote could lie, he being
+      the most truthful gentleman and the noblest knight of his time, is
+      impossible; he would not have told a lie though he were shot to death with
+      arrows. On the other hand, I reflect that he related and told the story
+      with all the circumstances detailed, and that he could not in so short a
+      space have fabricated such a vast complication of absurdities; if, then,
+      this adventure seems apocryphal, it is no fault of mine; and so, without
+      affirming its falsehood or its truth, I write it down. Decide for thyself
+      in thy wisdom, reader; for I am not bound, nor is it in my power, to do
+      more; though certain it is they say that at the time of his death he
+      retracted, and said he had invented it, thinking it matched and tallied
+      with the adventures he had read of in his histories." And then he goes on
+      to say:
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The cousin was amazed as well at Sancho's boldness as at the patience of
+      his master, and concluded that the good temper the latter displayed arose
+      from the happiness he felt at having seen his lady Dulcinea, even
+      enchanted as she was; because otherwise the words and language Sancho had
+      addressed to him deserved a thrashing; for indeed he seemed to him to have
+      been rather impudent to his master, to whom he now observed, "I, Senor Don
+      Quixote of La Mancha, look upon the time I have spent in travelling with
+      your worship as very well employed, for I have gained four things in the
+      course of it; the first is that I have made your acquaintance, which I
+      consider great good fortune; the second, that I have learned what the cave
+      of Montesinos contains, together with the transformations of Guadiana and
+      of the lakes of Ruidera; which will be of use to me for the Spanish Ovid
+      that I have in hand; the third, to have discovered the antiquity of cards,
+      that they were in use at least in the time of Charlemagne, as may be
+      inferred from the words you say Durandarte uttered when, at the end of
+      that long spell while Montesinos was talking to him, he woke up and said,
+      'Patience and shuffle.' This phrase and expression he could not have
+      learned while he was enchanted, but only before he had become so, in
+      France, and in the time of the aforesaid emperor Charlemagne. And this
+      demonstration is just the thing for me for that other book I am writing,
+      the 'Supplement to Polydore Vergil on the Invention of Antiquities;' for I
+      believe he never thought of inserting that of cards in his book, as I mean
+      to do in mine, and it will be a matter of great importance, particularly
+      when I can cite so grave and veracious an authority as Senor Durandarte.
+      And the fourth thing is, that I have ascertained the source of the river
+      Guadiana, heretofore unknown to mankind."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "You are right," said Don Quixote; "but I should like to know, if by God's
+      favour they grant you a licence to print those books of yours&mdash;which
+      I doubt&mdash;to whom do you mean to dedicate them?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "There are lords and grandees in Spain to whom they can be dedicated,"
+      said the cousin.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Not many," said Don Quixote; "not that they are unworthy of it, but
+      because they do not care to accept books and incur the obligation of
+      making the return that seems due to the author's labour and courtesy. One
+      prince I know who makes up for all the rest, and more&mdash;how much more,
+      if I ventured to say, perhaps I should stir up envy in many a noble
+      breast; but let this stand over for some more convenient time, and let us
+      go and look for some place to shelter ourselves in to-night."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Not far from this," said the cousin, "there is a hermitage, where there
+      lives a hermit, who they say was a soldier, and who has the reputation of
+      being a good Christian and a very intelligent and charitable man. Close to
+      the hermitage he has a small house which he built at his own cost, but
+      though small it is large enough for the reception of guests."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Has this hermit any hens, do you think?" asked Sancho.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Few hermits are without them," said Don Quixote; "for those we see
+      now-a-days are not like the hermits of the Egyptian deserts who were clad
+      in palm-leaves, and lived on the roots of the earth. But do not think that
+      by praising these I am disparaging the others; all I mean to say is that
+      the penances of those of the present day do not come up to the asceticism
+      and austerity of former times; but it does not follow from this that they
+      are not all worthy; at least I think them so; and at the worst the
+      hypocrite who pretends to be good does less harm than the open sinner."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      At this point they saw approaching the spot where they stood a man on
+      foot, proceeding at a rapid pace, and beating a mule loaded with lances
+      and halberds. When he came up to them, he saluted them and passed on
+      without stopping. Don Quixote called to him, "Stay, good fellow; you seem
+      to be making more haste than suits that mule."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I cannot stop, senor," answered the man; "for the arms you see I carry
+      here are to be used tomorrow, so I must not delay; God be with you. But if
+      you want to know what I am carrying them for, I mean to lodge to-night at
+      the inn that is beyond the hermitage, and if you be going the same road
+      you will find me there, and I will tell you some curious things; once more
+      God be with you;" and he urged on his mule at such a pace that Don Quixote
+      had no time to ask him what these curious things were that he meant to
+      tell them; and as he was somewhat inquisitive, and always tortured by his
+      anxiety to learn something new, he decided to set out at once, and go and
+      pass the night at the inn instead of stopping at the hermitage, where the
+      cousin would have had them halt. Accordingly they mounted and all three
+      took the direct road for the inn, which they reached a little before
+      nightfall. On the road the cousin proposed they should go up to the
+      hermitage to drink a sup. The instant Sancho heard this he steered his
+      Dapple towards it, and Don Quixote and the cousin did the same; but it
+      seems Sancho's bad luck so ordered it that the hermit was not at home, for
+      so a sub-hermit they found in the hermitage told them. They called for
+      some of the best. She replied that her master had none, but that if they
+      liked cheap water she would give it with great pleasure.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "If I found any in water," said Sancho, "there are wells along the road
+      where I could have had enough of it. Ah, Camacho's wedding, and plentiful
+      house of Don Diego, how often do I miss you!"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Leaving the hermitage, they pushed on towards the inn, and a little
+      farther they came upon a youth who was pacing along in front of them at no
+      great speed, so that they overtook him. He carried a sword over his
+      shoulder, and slung on it a budget or bundle of his clothes apparently,
+      probably his breeches or pantaloons, and his cloak and a shirt or two; for
+      he had on a short jacket of velvet with a gloss like satin on it in
+      places, and had his shirt out; his stockings were of silk, and his shoes
+      square-toed as they wear them at court. His age might have been eighteen
+      or nineteen; he was of a merry countenance, and to all appearance of an
+      active habit, and he went along singing seguidillas to beguile the
+      wearisomeness of the road. As they came up with him he was just finishing
+      one, which the cousin got by heart and they say ran thus&mdash;
+    </p>
+<pre xml:space="preserve">
+I'm off to the wars
+  For the want of pence,
+Oh, had I but money
+  I'd show more sense.
+</pre>
+    <p>
+      The first to address him was Don Quixote, who said, "You travel very
+      airily, sir gallant; whither bound, may we ask, if it is your pleasure to
+      tell us?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      To which the youth replied, "The heat and my poverty are the reason of my
+      travelling so airily, and it is to the wars that I am bound."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "How poverty?" asked Don Quixote; "the heat one can understand."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Senor," replied the youth, "in this bundle I carry velvet pantaloons to
+      match this jacket; if I wear them out on the road, I shall not be able to
+      make a decent appearance in them in the city, and I have not the
+      wherewithal to buy others; and so for this reason, as well as to keep
+      myself cool, I am making my way in this fashion to overtake some companies
+      of infantry that are not twelve leagues off, in which I shall enlist, and
+      there will be no want of baggage trains to travel with after that to the
+      place of embarkation, which they say will be Carthagena; I would rather
+      have the King for a master, and serve him in the wars, than serve a court
+      pauper."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "And did you get any bounty, now?" asked the cousin.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "If I had been in the service of some grandee of Spain or personage of
+      distinction," replied the youth, "I should have been safe to get it; for
+      that is the advantage of serving good masters, that out of the servants'
+      hall men come to be ancients or captains, or get a good pension. But I, to
+      my misfortune, always served place-hunters and adventurers, whose keep and
+      wages were so miserable and scanty that half went in paying for the
+      starching of one's collars; it would be a miracle indeed if a page
+      volunteer ever got anything like a reasonable bounty."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "And tell me, for heaven's sake," asked Don Quixote, "is it possible, my
+      friend, that all the time you served you never got any livery?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "They gave me two," replied the page; "but just as when one quits a
+      religious community before making profession, they strip him of the dress
+      of the order and give him back his own clothes, so did my masters return
+      me mine; for as soon as the business on which they came to court was
+      finished, they went home and took back the liveries they had given merely
+      for show."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "What spilorceria!&mdash;as an Italian would say," said Don Quixote; "but
+      for all that, consider yourself happy in having left court with as worthy
+      an object as you have, for there is nothing on earth more honourable or
+      profitable than serving, first of all God, and then one's king and natural
+      lord, particularly in the profession of arms, by which, if not more
+      wealth, at least more honour is to be won than by letters, as I have said
+      many a time; for though letters may have founded more great houses than
+      arms, still those founded by arms have I know not what superiority over
+      those founded by letters, and a certain splendour belonging to them that
+      distinguishes them above all. And bear in mind what I am now about to say
+      to you, for it will be of great use and comfort to you in time of trouble;
+      it is, not to let your mind dwell on the adverse chances that may befall
+      you; for the worst of all is death, and if it be a good death, the best of
+      all is to die. They asked Julius Caesar, the valiant Roman emperor, what
+      was the best death. He answered, that which is unexpected, which comes
+      suddenly and unforeseen; and though he answered like a pagan, and one
+      without the knowledge of the true God, yet, as far as sparing our feelings
+      is concerned, he was right; for suppose you are killed in the first
+      engagement or skirmish, whether by a cannon ball or blown up by mine, what
+      matters it? It is only dying, and all is over; and according to Terence, a
+      soldier shows better dead in battle, than alive and safe in flight; and
+      the good soldier wins fame in proportion as he is obedient to his captains
+      and those in command over him. And remember, my son, that it is better for
+      the soldier to smell of gunpowder than of civet, and that if old age
+      should come upon you in this honourable calling, though you may be covered
+      with wounds and crippled and lame, it will not come upon you without
+      honour, and that such as poverty cannot lessen; especially now that
+      provisions are being made for supporting and relieving old and disabled
+      soldiers; for it is not right to deal with them after the fashion of those
+      who set free and get rid of their black slaves when they are old and
+      useless, and, turning them out of their houses under the pretence of
+      making them free, make them slaves to hunger, from which they cannot
+      expect to be released except by death. But for the present I won't say
+      more than get ye up behind me on my horse as far as the inn, and sup with
+      me there, and to-morrow you shall pursue your journey, and God give you as
+      good speed as your intentions deserve."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The page did not accept the invitation to mount, though he did that to
+      supper at the inn; and here they say Sancho said to himself, "God be with
+      you for a master; is it possible that a man who can say things so many and
+      so good as he has said just now, can say that he saw the impossible
+      absurdities he reports about the cave of Montesinos? Well, well, we shall
+      see."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      And now, just as night was falling, they reached the inn, and it was not
+      without satisfaction that Sancho perceived his master took it for a real
+      inn, and not for a castle as usual. The instant they entered Don Quixote
+      asked the landlord after the man with the lances and halberds, and was
+      told that he was in the stable seeing to his mule; which was what Sancho
+      and the cousin proceeded to do for their beasts, giving the best manger
+      and the best place in the stable to Rocinante.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p24e" id="p24e"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p24e.jpg (61K)" src="images/p24e.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      <a name="ch25b" id="ch25b"></a>CHAPTER XXV.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      WHEREIN IS SET DOWN THE BRAYING ADVENTURE, AND THE DROLL ONE OF THE
+      PUPPET-SHOWMAN, TOGETHER WITH THE MEMORABLE DIVINATIONS OF THE DIVINING
+      APE
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <a name="p25a" id="p25a"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p25a.jpg (154K)" src="images/p25a.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p25a.jpg"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br />
+      <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Don Quixote's bread would not bake, as the common saying is, until he had
+      heard and learned the curious things promised by the man who carried the
+      arms. He went to seek him where the innkeeper said he was and having found
+      him, bade him say now at any rate what he had to say in answer to the
+      question he had asked him on the road. "The tale of my wonders must be
+      taken more leisurely and not standing," said the man; "let me finish
+      foddering my beast, good sir; and then I'll tell you things that will
+      astonish you."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Don't wait for that," said Don Quixote; "I'll help you in everything,"
+      and so he did, sifting the barley for him and cleaning out the manger; a
+      degree of humility which made the other feel bound to tell him with a good
+      grace what he had asked; so seating himself on a bench, with Don Quixote
+      beside him, and the cousin, the page, Sancho Panza, and the landlord, for
+      a senate and an audience, he began his story in this way:
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "You must know that in a village four leagues and a half from this inn, it
+      so happened that one of the regidors, by the tricks and roguery of a
+      servant girl of his (it's too long a tale to tell), lost an ass; and
+      though he did all he possibly could to find it, it was all to no purpose.
+      A fortnight might have gone by, so the story goes, since the ass had been
+      missing, when, as the regidor who had lost it was standing in the plaza,
+      another regidor of the same town said to him, 'Pay me for good news,
+      gossip; your ass has turned up.' 'That I will, and well, gossip,' said the
+      other; 'but tell us, where has he turned up?' 'In the forest,' said the
+      finder; 'I saw him this morning without pack-saddle or harness of any
+      sort, and so lean that it went to one's heart to see him. I tried to drive
+      him before me and bring him to you, but he is already so wild and shy that
+      when I went near him he made off into the thickest part of the forest. If
+      you have a mind that we two should go back and look for him, let me put up
+      this she-ass at my house and I'll be back at once.' 'You will be doing me
+      a great kindness,' said the owner of the ass, 'and I'll try to pay it back
+      in the same coin.' It is with all these circumstances, and in the very
+      same way I am telling it now, that those who know all about the matter
+      tell the story. Well then, the two regidors set off on foot, arm in arm,
+      for the forest, and coming to the place where they hoped to find the ass
+      they could not find him, nor was he to be seen anywhere about, search as
+      they might. Seeing, then, that there was no sign of him, the regidor who
+      had seen him said to the other, 'Look here, gossip; a plan has occurred to
+      me, by which, beyond a doubt, we shall manage to discover the animal, even
+      if he is stowed away in the bowels of the earth, not to say the forest.
+      Here it is. I can bray to perfection, and if you can ever so little, the
+      thing's as good as done.' 'Ever so little did you say, gossip?' said the
+      other; 'by God, I'll not give in to anybody, not even to the asses
+      themselves.' 'We'll soon see,' said the second regidor, 'for my plan is
+      that you should go one side of the forest, and I the other, so as to go
+      all round about it; and every now and then you will bray and I will bray;
+      and it cannot be but that the ass will hear us, and answer us if he is in
+      the forest.' To which the owner of the ass replied, 'It's an excellent
+      plan, I declare, gossip, and worthy of your great genius;' and the two
+      separating as agreed, it so fell out that they brayed almost at the same
+      moment, and each, deceived by the braying of the other, ran to look,
+      fancying the ass had turned up at last. When they came in sight of one
+      another, said the loser, 'Is it possible, gossip, that it was not my ass
+      that brayed?' 'No, it was I,' said the other. 'Well then, I can tell you,
+      gossip,' said the ass's owner, 'that between you and an ass there is not
+      an atom of difference as far as braying goes, for I never in all my life
+      saw or heard anything more natural.' 'Those praises and compliments belong
+      to you more justly than to me, gossip,' said the inventor of the plan;
+      'for, by the God that made me, you might give a couple of brays odds to
+      the best and most finished brayer in the world; the tone you have got is
+      deep, your voice is well kept up as to time and pitch, and your finishing
+      notes come thick and fast; in fact, I own myself beaten, and yield the
+      palm to you, and give in to you in this rare accomplishment.' 'Well then,'
+      said the owner, 'I'll set a higher value on myself for the future, and
+      consider that I know something, as I have an excellence of some sort; for
+      though I always thought I brayed well, I never supposed I came up to the
+      pitch of perfection you say.' 'And I say too,' said the second, 'that
+      there are rare gifts going to loss in the world, and that they are ill
+      bestowed upon those who don't know how to make use of them.' 'Ours,' said
+      the owner of the ass, 'unless it is in cases like this we have now in
+      hand, cannot be of any service to us, and even in this God grant they may
+      be of some use.' So saying they separated, and took to their braying once
+      more, but every instant they were deceiving one another, and coming to
+      meet one another again, until they arranged by way of countersign, so as
+      to know that it was they and not the ass, to give two brays, one after the
+      other. In this way, doubling the brays at every step, they made the
+      complete circuit of the forest, but the lost ass never gave them an answer
+      or even the sign of one. How could the poor ill-starred brute have
+      answered, when, in the thickest part of the forest, they found him
+      devoured by wolves? As soon as he saw him his owner said, 'I was wondering
+      he did not answer, for if he wasn't dead he'd have brayed when he heard
+      us, or he'd have been no ass; but for the sake of having heard you bray to
+      such perfection, gossip, I count the trouble I have taken to look for him
+      well bestowed, even though I have found him dead.' 'It's in a good hand,
+      gossip,' said the other; 'if the abbot sings well, the acolyte is not much
+      behind him.' So they returned disconsolate and hoarse to their village,
+      where they told their friends, neighbours, and acquaintances what had
+      befallen them in their search for the ass, each crying up the other's
+      perfection in braying. The whole story came to be known and spread abroad
+      through the villages of the neighbourhood; and the devil, who never
+      sleeps, with his love for sowing dissensions and scattering discord
+      everywhere, blowing mischief about and making quarrels out of nothing,
+      contrived to make the people of the other towns fall to braying whenever
+      they saw anyone from our village, as if to throw the braying of our
+      regidors in our teeth. Then the boys took to it, which was the same thing
+      for it as getting into the hands and mouths of all the devils of hell; and
+      braying spread from one town to another in such a way that the men of the
+      braying town are as easy to be known as blacks are to be known from
+      whites, and the unlucky joke has gone so far that several times the
+      scoffed have come out in arms and in a body to do battle with the
+      scoffers, and neither king nor rook, fear nor shame, can mend matters.
+      To-morrow or the day after, I believe, the men of my town, that is, of the
+      braying town, are going to take the field against another village two
+      leagues away from ours, one of those that persecute us most; and that we
+      may turn out well prepared I have bought these lances and halberds you
+      have seen. These are the curious things I told you I had to tell, and if
+      you don't think them so, I have got no others;" and with this the worthy
+      fellow brought his story to a close.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Just at this moment there came in at the gate of the inn a man entirely
+      clad in chamois leather, hose, breeches, and doublet, who said in a loud
+      voice, "Senor host, have you room? Here's the divining ape and the show of
+      the Release of Melisendra just coming."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Ods body!" said the landlord, "why, it's Master Pedro! We're in for a
+      grand night!" I forgot to mention that the said Master Pedro had his left
+      eye and nearly half his cheek covered with a patch of green taffety,
+      showing that something ailed all that side. "Your worship is welcome,
+      Master Pedro," continued the landlord; "but where are the ape and the
+      show, for I don't see them?" "They are close at hand," said he in the
+      chamois leather, "but I came on first to know if there was any room." "I'd
+      make the Duke of Alva himself clear out to make room for Master Pedro,"
+      said the landlord; "bring in the ape and the show; there's company in the
+      inn to-night that will pay to see that and the cleverness of the ape." "So
+      be it by all means," said the man with the patch; "I'll lower the price,
+      and be well satisfied if I only pay my expenses; and now I'll go back and
+      hurry on the cart with the ape and the show;" and with this he went out of
+      the inn.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Don Quixote at once asked the landlord what this Master Pedro was, and
+      what was the show and what was the ape he had with him; which the landlord
+      replied, "This is a famous puppet-showman, who for some time past has been
+      going about this Mancha de Aragon, exhibiting a show of the release of
+      Melisendra by the famous Don Gaiferos, one of the best and
+      best-represented stories that have been seen in this part of the kingdom
+      for many a year; he has also with him an ape with the most extraordinary
+      gift ever seen in an ape or imagined in a human being; for if you ask him
+      anything, he listens attentively to the question, and then jumps on his
+      master's shoulder, and pressing close to his ear tells him the answer
+      which Master Pedro then delivers. He says a great deal more about things
+      past than about things to come; and though he does not always hit the
+      truth in every case, most times he is not far wrong, so that he makes us
+      fancy he has got the devil in him. He gets two reals for every question if
+      the ape answers; I mean if his master answers for him after he has
+      whispered into his ear; and so it is believed that this same Master Pedro
+      is very rich. He is a 'gallant man' as they say in Italy, and good
+      company, and leads the finest life in the world; talks more than six,
+      drinks more than a dozen, and all by his tongue, and his ape, and his
+      show."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Master Pedro now came back, and in a cart followed the show and the ape&mdash;a
+      big one, without a tail and with buttocks as bare as felt, but not
+      vicious-looking. As soon as Don Quixote saw him, he asked him, "Can you
+      tell me, sir fortune-teller, what fish do we catch, and how will it be
+      with us? See, here are my two reals," and he bade Sancho give them to
+      Master Pedro; but he answered for the ape and said, "Senor, this animal
+      does not give any answer or information touching things that are to come;
+      of things past he knows something, and more or less of things present."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Gad," said Sancho, "I would not give a farthing to be told what's past
+      with me, for who knows that better than I do myself? And to pay for being
+      told what I know would be mighty foolish. But as you know things present,
+      here are my two reals, and tell me, most excellent sir ape, what is my
+      wife Teresa Panza doing now, and what is she diverting herself with?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Master Pedro refused to take the money, saying, "I will not receive
+      payment in advance or until the service has been first rendered;" and then
+      with his right hand he gave a couple of slaps on his left shoulder, and
+      with one spring the ape perched himself upon it, and putting his mouth to
+      his master's ear began chattering his teeth rapidly; and having kept this
+      up as long as one would be saying a credo, with another spring he brought
+      himself to the ground, and the same instant Master Pedro ran in great
+      haste and fell upon his knees before Don Quixote, and embracing his legs
+      exclaimed, "These legs do I embrace as I would embrace the two pillars of
+      Hercules, O illustrious reviver of knight-errantry, so long consigned to
+      oblivion! O never yet duly extolled knight, Don Quixote of La Mancha,
+      courage of the faint-hearted, prop of the tottering, arm of the fallen,
+      staff and counsel of all who are unfortunate!"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p25b" id="p25b"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p25b.jpg (373K)" src="images/p25b.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p25b.jpg"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br />
+      <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Don Quixote was thunderstruck, Sancho astounded, the cousin staggered, the
+      page astonished, the man from the braying town agape, the landlord in
+      perplexity, and, in short, everyone amazed at the words of the
+      puppet-showman, who went on to say, "And thou, worthy Sancho Panza, the
+      best squire and squire to the best knight in the world! Be of good cheer,
+      for thy good wife Teresa is well, and she is at this moment hackling a
+      pound of flax; and more by token she has at her left hand a jug with a
+      broken spout that holds a good drop of wine, with which she solaces
+      herself at her work."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "That I can well believe," said Sancho. "She is a lucky one, and if it was
+      not for her jealousy I would not change her for the giantess Andandona,
+      who by my master's account was a very clever and worthy woman; my Teresa
+      is one of those that won't let themselves want for anything, though their
+      heirs may have to pay for it."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Now I declare," said Don Quixote, "he who reads much and travels much
+      sees and knows a great deal. I say so because what amount of persuasion
+      could have persuaded me that there are apes in the world that can divine
+      as I have seen now with my own eyes? For I am that very Don Quixote of La
+      Mancha this worthy animal refers to, though he has gone rather too far in
+      my praise; but whatever I may be, I thank heaven that it has endowed me
+      with a tender and compassionate heart, always disposed to do good to all
+      and harm to none."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "If I had money," said the page, "I would ask senor ape what will happen
+      to me in the peregrination I am making."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      To this Master Pedro, who had by this time risen from Don Quixote's feet,
+      replied, "I have already said that this little beast gives no answer as to
+      the future; but if he did, not having money would be of no consequence,
+      for to oblige Senor Don Quixote, here present, I would give up all the
+      profits in the world. And now, because I have promised it, and to afford
+      him pleasure, I will set up my show and offer entertainment to all who are
+      in the inn, without any charge whatever." As soon as he heard this, the
+      landlord, delighted beyond measure, pointed out a place where the show
+      might be fixed, which was done at once.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Don Quixote was not very well satisfied with the divinations of the ape,
+      as he did not think it proper that an ape should divine anything, either
+      past or future; so while Master Pedro was arranging the show, he retired
+      with Sancho into a corner of the stable, where, without being overheard by
+      anyone, he said to him, "Look here, Sancho, I have been seriously thinking
+      over this ape's extraordinary gift, and have come to the conclusion that
+      beyond doubt this Master Pedro, his master, has a pact, tacit or express,
+      with the devil."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "If the packet is express from the devil," said Sancho, "it must be a very
+      dirty packet no doubt; but what good can it do Master Pedro to have such
+      packets?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Thou dost not understand me, Sancho," said Don Quixote; "I only mean he
+      must have made some compact with the devil to infuse this power into the
+      ape, that he may get his living, and after he has grown rich he will give
+      him his soul, which is what the enemy of mankind wants; this I am led to
+      believe by observing that the ape only answers about things past or
+      present, and the devil's knowledge extends no further; for the future he
+      knows only by guesswork, and that not always; for it is reserved for God
+      alone to know the times and the seasons, and for him there is neither past
+      nor future; all is present. This being as it is, it is clear that this ape
+      speaks by the spirit of the devil; and I am astonished they have not
+      denounced him to the Holy Office, and put him to the question, and forced
+      it out of him by whose virtue it is that he divines; because it is certain
+      this ape is not an astrologer; neither his master nor he sets up, or knows
+      how to set up, those figures they call judiciary, which are now so common
+      in Spain that there is not a jade, or page, or old cobbler, that will not
+      undertake to set up a figure as readily as pick up a knave of cards from
+      the ground, bringing to nought the marvellous truth of the science by
+      their lies and ignorance. I know of a lady who asked one of these figure
+      schemers whether her little lap-dog would be in pup and would breed, and
+      how many and of what colour the little pups would be. To which senor
+      astrologer, after having set up his figure, made answer that the bitch
+      would be in pup, and would drop three pups, one green, another bright red,
+      and the third parti-coloured, provided she conceived between eleven and
+      twelve either of the day or night, and on a Monday or Saturday; but as
+      things turned out, two days after this the bitch died of a surfeit, and
+      senor planet-ruler had the credit all over the place of being a most
+      profound astrologer, as most of these planet-rulers have."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Still," said Sancho, "I would be glad if your worship would make Master
+      Pedro ask his ape whether what happened your worship in the cave of
+      Montesinos is true; for, begging your worship's pardon, I, for my part,
+      take it to have been all flam and lies, or at any rate something you
+      dreamt."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "That may be," replied Don Quixote; "however, I will do what you suggest;
+      though I have my own scruples about it."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      At this point Master Pedro came up in quest of Don Quixote, to tell him
+      the show was now ready and to come and see it, for it was worth seeing.
+      Don Quixote explained his wish, and begged him to ask his ape at once to
+      tell him whether certain things which had happened to him in the cave of
+      Montesinos were dreams or realities, for to him they appeared to partake
+      of both. Upon this Master Pedro, without answering, went back to fetch the
+      ape, and, having placed it in front of Don Quixote and Sancho, said: "See
+      here, senor ape, this gentleman wishes to know whether certain things
+      which happened to him in the cave called the cave of Montesinos were false
+      or true." On his making the usual sign the ape mounted on his left
+      shoulder and seemed to whisper in his ear, and Master Pedro said at once,
+      "The ape says that the things you saw or that happened to you in that cave
+      are, part of them false, part true; and that he only knows this and no
+      more as regards this question; but if your worship wishes to know more, on
+      Friday next he will answer all that may be asked him, for his virtue is at
+      present exhausted, and will not return to him till Friday, as he has
+      said."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Did I not say, senor," said Sancho, "that I could not bring myself to
+      believe that all your worship said about the adventures in the cave was
+      true, or even the half of it?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "The course of events will tell, Sancho," replied Don Quixote; "time, that
+      discloses all things, leaves nothing that it does not drag into the light
+      of day, though it be buried in the bosom of the earth. But enough of that
+      for the present; let us go and see Master Pedro's show, for I am sure
+      there must be something novel in it."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Something!" said Master Pedro; "this show of mine has sixty thousand
+      novel things in it; let me tell you, Senor Don Quixote, it is one of the
+      best-worth-seeing things in the world this day; but operibus credite et
+      non verbis, and now let's get to work, for it is growing late, and we have
+      a great deal to do and to say and show."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Don Quixote and Sancho obeyed him and went to where the show was already
+      put up and uncovered, set all around with lighted wax tapers which made it
+      look splendid and bright. When they came to it Master Pedro ensconced
+      himself inside it, for it was he who had to work the puppets, and a boy, a
+      servant of his, posted himself outside to act as showman and explain the
+      mysteries of the exhibition, having a wand in his hand to point to the
+      figures as they came out. And so, all who were in the inn being arranged
+      in front of the show, some of them standing, and Don Quixote, Sancho, the
+      page, and cousin, accommodated with the best places, the interpreter began
+      to say what he will hear or see who reads or hears the next chapter.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p25e" id="p25e"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p25e.jpg (28K)" src="images/p25e.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      <a name="ch26b" id="ch26b"></a>CHAPTER XXVI.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      WHEREIN IS CONTINUED THE DROLL ADVENTURE OF THE PUPPET-SHOWMAN, TOGETHER
+      WITH OTHER THINGS IN TRUTH RIGHT GOOD
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <a name="p26a" id="p26a"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p26a.jpg (157K)" src="images/p26a.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p26a.jpg"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br />
+      <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      All were silent, Tyrians and Trojans; I mean all who were watching the
+      show were hanging on the lips of the interpreter of its wonders, when
+      drums and trumpets were heard to sound inside it and cannon to go off. The
+      noise was soon over, and then the boy lifted up his voice and said, "This
+      true story which is here represented to your worships is taken word for
+      word from the French chronicles and from the Spanish ballads that are in
+      everybody's mouth, and in the mouth of the boys about the streets. Its
+      subject is the release by Senor Don Gaiferos of his wife Melisendra, when
+      a captive in Spain at the hands of the Moors in the city of Sansuena, for
+      so they called then what is now called Saragossa; and there you may see
+      how Don Gaiferos is playing at the tables, just as they sing it-
+    </p>
+<pre xml:space="preserve">
+At tables playing Don Gaiferos sits,
+For Melisendra is forgotten now.
+
+</pre>
+    <p>
+      And that personage who appears there with a crown on his head and a
+      sceptre in his hand is the Emperor Charlemagne, the supposed father of
+      Melisendra, who, angered to see his son-in-law's inaction and unconcern,
+      comes in to chide him; and observe with what vehemence and energy he
+      chides him, so that you would fancy he was going to give him half a dozen
+      raps with his sceptre; and indeed there are authors who say he did give
+      them, and sound ones too; and after having said a great deal to him about
+      imperilling his honour by not effecting the release of his wife, he said,
+      so the tale runs,
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Enough I've said, see to it now.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Observe, too, how the emperor turns away, and leaves Don Gaiferos fuming;
+      and you see now how in a burst of anger, he flings the table and the board
+      far from him and calls in haste for his armour, and asks his cousin Don
+      Roland for the loan of his sword, Durindana, and how Don Roland refuses to
+      lend it, offering him his company in the difficult enterprise he is
+      undertaking; but he, in his valour and anger, will not accept it, and says
+      that he alone will suffice to rescue his wife, even though she were
+      imprisoned deep in the centre of the earth, and with this he retires to
+      arm himself and set out on his journey at once. Now let your worships turn
+      your eyes to that tower that appears there, which is supposed to be one of
+      the towers of the alcazar of Saragossa, now called the Aljaferia; that
+      lady who appears on that balcony dressed in Moorish fashion is the
+      peerless Melisendra, for many a time she used to gaze from thence upon the
+      road to France, and seek consolation in her captivity by thinking of Paris
+      and her husband. Observe, too, a new incident which now occurs, such as,
+      perhaps, never was seen. Do you not see that Moor, who silently and
+      stealthily, with his finger on his lip, approaches Melisendra from behind?
+      Observe now how he prints a kiss upon her lips, and what a hurry she is in
+      to spit, and wipe them with the white sleeve of her smock, and how she
+      bewails herself, and tears her fair hair as though it were to blame for
+      the wrong. Observe, too, that the stately Moor who is in that corridor is
+      King Marsilio of Sansuena, who, having seen the Moor's insolence, at once
+      orders him (though his kinsman and a great favourite of his) to be seized
+      and given two hundred lashes, while carried through the streets of the
+      city according to custom, with criers going before him and officers of
+      justice behind; and here you see them come out to execute the sentence,
+      although the offence has been scarcely committed; for among the Moors
+      there are no indictments nor remands as with us."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Here Don Quixote called out, "Child, child, go straight on with your
+      story, and don't run into curves and slants, for to establish a fact
+      clearly there is need of a great deal of proof and confirmation;" and said
+      Master Pedro from within, "Boy, stick to your text and do as the gentleman
+      bids you; it's the best plan; keep to your plain song, and don't attempt
+      harmonies, for they are apt to break down from being over fine."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I will," said the boy, and he went on to say, "This figure that you see
+      here on horseback, covered with a Gascon cloak, is Don Gaiferos himself,
+      whom his wife, now avenged of the insult of the amorous Moor, and taking
+      her stand on the balcony of the tower with a calmer and more tranquil
+      countenance, has perceived without recognising him; and she addresses her
+      husband, supposing him to be some traveller, and holds with him all that
+      conversation and colloquy in the ballad that runs&mdash;
+    </p>
+<pre xml:space="preserve">
+If you, sir knight, to France are bound,
+Oh! for Gaiferos ask&mdash;
+
+</pre>
+    <p>
+      which I do not repeat here because prolixity begets disgust; suffice it to
+      observe how Don Gaiferos discovers himself, and that by her joyful
+      gestures Melisendra shows us she has recognised him; and what is more, we
+      now see she lowers herself from the balcony to place herself on the
+      haunches of her good husband's horse. But ah! unhappy lady, the edge of
+      her petticoat has caught on one of the bars of the balcony and she is left
+      hanging in the air, unable to reach the ground. But you see how
+      compassionate heaven sends aid in our sorest need; Don Gaiferos advances,
+      and without minding whether the rich petticoat is torn or not, he seizes
+      her and by force brings her to the ground, and then with one jerk places
+      her on the haunches of his horse, astraddle like a man, and bids her hold
+      on tight and clasp her arms round his neck, crossing them on his breast so
+      as not to fall, for the lady Melisendra was not used to that style of
+      riding. You see, too, how the neighing of the horse shows his satisfaction
+      with the gallant and beautiful burden he bears in his lord and lady. You
+      see how they wheel round and quit the city, and in joy and gladness take
+      the road to Paris. Go in peace, O peerless pair of true lovers! May you
+      reach your longed-for fatherland in safety, and may fortune interpose no
+      impediment to your prosperous journey; may the eyes of your friends and
+      kinsmen behold you enjoying in peace and tranquillity the remaining days
+      of your life&mdash;and that they may be as many as those of Nestor!"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Here Master Pedro called out again and said, "Simplicity, boy! None of
+      your high flights; all affectation is bad."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The interpreter made no answer, but went on to say, "There was no want of
+      idle eyes, that see everything, to see Melisendra come down and mount, and
+      word was brought to King Marsilio, who at once gave orders to sound the
+      alarm; and see what a stir there is, and how the city is drowned with the
+      sound of the bells pealing in the towers of all the mosques."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Nay, nay," said Don Quixote at this; "on that point of the bells Master
+      Pedro is very inaccurate, for bells are not in use among the Moors; only
+      kettledrums, and a kind of small trumpet somewhat like our clarion; to
+      ring bells this way in Sansuena is unquestionably a great absurdity."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      On hearing this, Master Pedro stopped ringing, and said, "Don't look into
+      trifles, Senor Don Quixote, or want to have things up to a pitch of
+      perfection that is out of reach. Are there not almost every day a thousand
+      comedies represented all round us full of thousands of inaccuracies and
+      absurdities, and, for all that, they have a successful run, and are
+      listened to not only with applause, but with admiration and all the rest
+      of it? Go on, boy, and don't mind; for so long as I fill my pouch, no
+      matter if I show as many inaccuracies as there are motes in a sunbeam."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "True enough," said Don Quixote; and the boy went on: "See what a numerous
+      and glittering crowd of horsemen issues from the city in pursuit of the
+      two faithful lovers, what a blowing of trumpets there is, what sounding of
+      horns, what beating of drums and tabors; I fear me they will overtake them
+      and bring them back tied to the tail of their own horse, which would be a
+      dreadful sight."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p26b" id="p26b"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p26b.jpg (342K)" src="images/p26b.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p26b.jpg"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br />
+      <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Don Quixote, however, seeing such a swarm of Moors and hearing such a din,
+      thought it would be right to aid the fugitives, and standing up he
+      exclaimed in a loud voice, "Never, while I live, will I permit foul play
+      to be practised in my presence on such a famous knight and fearless lover
+      as Don Gaiferos. Halt! ill-born rabble, follow him not nor pursue him, or
+      ye will have to reckon with me in battle!" and suiting the action to the
+      word, he drew his sword, and with one bound placed himself close to the
+      show, and with unexampled rapidity and fury began to shower down blows on
+      the puppet troop of Moors, knocking over some, decapitating others,
+      maiming this one and demolishing that; and among many more he delivered
+      one down stroke which, if Master Pedro had not ducked, made himself small,
+      and got out of the way, would have sliced off his head as easily as if it
+      had been made of almond-paste. Master Pedro kept shouting, "Hold hard!
+      Senor Don Quixote! can't you see they're not real Moors you're knocking
+      down and killing and destroying, but only little pasteboard figures! Look&mdash;sinner
+      that I am!&mdash;how you're wrecking and ruining all that I'm worth!" But
+      in spite of this, Don Quixote did not leave off discharging a continuous
+      rain of cuts, slashes, downstrokes, and backstrokes, and at length, in
+      less than the space of two credos, he brought the whole show to the
+      ground, with all its fittings and figures shivered and knocked to pieces,
+      King Marsilio badly wounded, and the Emperor Charlemagne with his crown
+      and head split in two. The whole audience was thrown into confusion, the
+      ape fled to the roof of the inn, the cousin was frightened, and even
+      Sancho Panza himself was in mighty fear, for, as he swore after the storm
+      was over, he had never seen his master in such a furious passion.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The complete destruction of the show being thus accomplished, Don Quixote
+      became a little calmer, said, "I wish I had here before me now all those
+      who do not or will not believe how useful knights-errant are in the world;
+      just think, if I had not been here present, what would have become of the
+      brave Don Gaiferos and the fair Melisendra! Depend upon it, by this time
+      those dogs would have overtaken them and inflicted some outrage upon them.
+      So, then, long live knight-errantry beyond everything living on earth this
+      day!"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Let it live, and welcome," said Master Pedro at this in a feeble voice,
+      "and let me die, for I am so unfortunate that I can say with King Don
+      Rodrigo&mdash;
+    </p>
+<pre xml:space="preserve">
+Yesterday was I lord of Spain
+To-day I've not a turret left
+That I may call mine own.
+
+</pre>
+    <p>
+      Not half an hour, nay, barely a minute ago, I saw myself lord of kings and
+      emperors, with my stables filled with countless horses, and my trunks and
+      bags with gay dresses unnumbered; and now I find myself ruined and laid
+      low, destitute and a beggar, and above all without my ape, for, by my
+      faith, my teeth will have to sweat for it before I have him caught; and
+      all through the reckless fury of sir knight here, who, they say, protects
+      the fatherless, and rights wrongs, and does other charitable deeds; but
+      whose generous intentions have been found wanting in my case only, blessed
+      and praised be the highest heavens! Verily, knight of the rueful figure he
+      must be to have disfigured mine."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Sancho Panza was touched by Master Pedro's words, and said to him, "Don't
+      weep and lament, Master Pedro; you break my heart; let me tell you my
+      master, Don Quixote, is so catholic and scrupulous a Christian that, if he
+      can make out that he has done you any wrong, he will own it, and be
+      willing to pay for it and make it good, and something over and above."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Only let Senor Don Quixote pay me for some part of the work he has
+      destroyed," said Master Pedro, "and I would be content, and his worship
+      would ease his conscience, for he cannot be saved who keeps what is
+      another's against the owner's will, and makes no restitution."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "That is true," said Don Quixote; "but at present I am not aware that I
+      have got anything of yours, Master Pedro."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "What!" returned Master Pedro; "and these relics lying here on the bare
+      hard ground&mdash;what scattered and shattered them but the invincible
+      strength of that mighty arm? And whose were the bodies they belonged to
+      but mine? And what did I get my living by but by them?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Now am I fully convinced," said Don Quixote, "of what I had many a time
+      before believed; that the enchanters who persecute me do nothing more than
+      put figures like these before my eyes, and then change and turn them into
+      what they please. In truth and earnest, I assure you gentlemen who now
+      hear me, that to me everything that has taken place here seemed to take
+      place literally, that Melisendra was Melisendra, Don Gaiferos Don
+      Gaiferos, Marsilio Marsilio, and Charlemagne Charlemagne. That was why my
+      anger was roused; and to be faithful to my calling as a knight-errant I
+      sought to give aid and protection to those who fled, and with this good
+      intention I did what you have seen. If the result has been the opposite of
+      what I intended, it is no fault of mine, but of those wicked beings that
+      persecute me; but, for all that, I am willing to condemn myself in costs
+      for this error of mine, though it did not proceed from malice; let Master
+      Pedro see what he wants for the spoiled figures, for I agree to pay it at
+      once in good and current money of Castile."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Master Pedro made him a bow, saying, "I expected no less of the rare
+      Christianity of the valiant Don Quixote of La Mancha, true helper and
+      protector of all destitute and needy vagabonds; master landlord here and
+      the great Sancho Panza shall be the arbitrators and appraisers between
+      your worship and me of what these dilapidated figures are worth or may be
+      worth."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The landlord and Sancho consented, and then Master Pedro picked up from
+      the ground King Marsilio of Saragossa with his head off, and said, "Here
+      you see how impossible it is to restore this king to his former state, so
+      I think, saving your better judgments, that for his death, decease, and
+      demise, four reals and a half may be given me."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Proceed," said Don Quixote.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Well then, for this cleavage from top to bottom," continued Master Pedro,
+      taking up the split Emperor Charlemagne, "it would not be much if I were
+      to ask five reals and a quarter."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "It's not little," said Sancho.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Nor is it much," said the landlord; "make it even, and say five reals."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Let him have the whole five and a quarter," said Don Quixote; "for the
+      sum total of this notable disaster does not stand on a quarter more or
+      less; and make an end of it quickly, Master Pedro, for it's getting on to
+      supper-time, and I have some hints of hunger."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "For this figure," said Master Pedro, "that is without a nose, and wants
+      an eye, and is the fair Melisendra, I ask, and I am reasonable in my
+      charge, two reals and twelve maravedis."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "The very devil must be in it," said Don Quixote, "if Melisendra and her
+      husband are not by this time at least on the French border, for the horse
+      they rode on seemed to me to fly rather than gallop; so you needn't try to
+      sell me the cat for the hare, showing me here a noseless Melisendra when
+      she is now, may be, enjoying herself at her ease with her husband in
+      France. God help every one to his own, Master Pedro, and let us all
+      proceed fairly and honestly; and now go on."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Master Pedro, perceiving that Don Quixote was beginning to wander, and
+      return to his original fancy, was not disposed to let him escape, so he
+      said to him, "This cannot be Melisendra, but must be one of the damsels
+      that waited on her; so if I'm given sixty maravedis for her, I'll be
+      content and sufficiently paid."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      And so he went on, putting values on ever so many more smashed figures,
+      which, after the two arbitrators had adjusted them to the satisfaction of
+      both parties, came to forty reals and three-quarters; and over and above
+      this sum, which Sancho at once disbursed, Master Pedro asked for two reals
+      for his trouble in catching the ape.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Let him have them, Sancho," said Don Quixote; "not to catch the ape, but
+      to get drunk; and two hundred would I give this minute for the good news,
+      to anyone who could tell me positively, that the lady Dona Melisandra and
+      Senor Don Gaiferos were now in France and with their own people."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "No one could tell us that better than my ape," said Master Pedro; "but
+      there's no devil that could catch him now; I suspect, however, that
+      affection and hunger will drive him to come looking for me to-night; but
+      to-morrow will soon be here and we shall see."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      In short, the puppet-show storm passed off, and all supped in peace and
+      good fellowship at Don Quixote's expense, for he was the height of
+      generosity. Before it was daylight the man with the lances and halberds
+      took his departure, and soon after daybreak the cousin and the page came
+      to bid Don Quixote farewell, the former returning home, the latter
+      resuming his journey, towards which, to help him, Don Quixote gave him
+      twelve reals. Master Pedro did not care to engage in any more palaver with
+      Don Quixote, whom he knew right well; so he rose before the sun, and
+      having got together the remains of his show and caught his ape, he too
+      went off to seek his adventures. The landlord, who did not know Don
+      Quixote, was as much astonished at his mad freaks as at his generosity. To
+      conclude, Sancho, by his master's orders, paid him very liberally, and
+      taking leave of him they quitted the inn at about eight in the morning and
+      took to the road, where we will leave them to pursue their journey, for
+      this is necessary in order to allow certain other matters to be set forth,
+      which are required to clear up this famous history.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p26e" id="p26e"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p26e.jpg (34K)" src="images/p26e.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      <a name="ch27b" id="ch27b"></a>CHAPTER XXVII.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      WHEREIN IT IS SHOWN WHO MASTER PEDRO AND HIS APE WERE, TOGETHER WITH THE
+      MISHAP DON QUIXOTE HAD IN THE BRAYING ADVENTURE, WHICH HE DID NOT CONCLUDE
+      AS HE WOULD HAVE LIKED OR AS HE HAD EXPECTED
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <a name="p27a" id="p27a"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p27a.jpg (135K)" src="images/p27a.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p27a.jpg"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br />
+      <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Cide Hamete, the chronicler of this great history, begins this chapter
+      with these words, "I swear as a Catholic Christian;" with regard to which
+      his translator says that Cide Hamete's swearing as a Catholic Christian,
+      he being&mdash;as no doubt he was&mdash;a Moor, only meant that, just as a
+      Catholic Christian taking an oath swears, or ought to swear, what is true,
+      and tell the truth in what he avers, so he was telling the truth, as much
+      as if he swore as a Catholic Christian, in all he chose to write about
+      Quixote, especially in declaring who Master Pedro was and what was the
+      divining ape that astonished all the villages with his divinations. He
+      says, then, that he who has read the First Part of this history will
+      remember well enough the Gines de Pasamonte whom, with other galley
+      slaves, Don Quixote set free in the Sierra Morena: a kindness for which he
+      afterwards got poor thanks and worse payment from that evil-minded,
+      ill-conditioned set. This Gines de Pasamonte&mdash;Don Ginesillo de
+      Parapilla, Don Quixote called him&mdash;it was that stole Dapple from
+      Sancho Panza; which, because by the fault of the printers neither the how
+      nor the when was stated in the First Part, has been a puzzle to a good
+      many people, who attribute to the bad memory of the author what was the
+      error of the press. In fact, however, Gines stole him while Sancho Panza
+      was asleep on his back, adopting the plan and device that Brunello had
+      recourse to when he stole Sacripante's horse from between his legs at the
+      siege of Albracca; and, as has been told, Sancho afterwards recovered him.
+      This Gines, then, afraid of being caught by the officers of justice, who
+      were looking for him to punish him for his numberless rascalities and
+      offences (which were so many and so great that he himself wrote a big book
+      giving an account of them), resolved to shift his quarters into the
+      kingdom of Aragon, and cover up his left eye, and take up the trade of a
+      puppet-showman; for this, as well as juggling, he knew how to practise to
+      perfection. From some released Christians returning from Barbary, it so
+      happened, he bought the ape, which he taught to mount upon his shoulder on
+      his making a certain sign, and to whisper, or seem to do so, in his ear.
+      Thus prepared, before entering any village whither he was bound with his
+      show and his ape, he used to inform himself at the nearest village, or
+      from the most likely person he could find, as to what particular things
+      had happened there, and to whom; and bearing them well in mind, the first
+      thing he did was to exhibit his show, sometimes one story, sometimes
+      another, but all lively, amusing, and familiar. As soon as the exhibition
+      was over he brought forward the accomplishments of his ape, assuring the
+      public that he divined all the past and the present, but as to the future
+      he had no skill. For each question answered he asked two reals, and for
+      some he made a reduction, just as he happened to feel the pulse of the
+      questioners; and when now and then he came to houses where things that he
+      knew of had happened to the people living there, even if they did not ask
+      him a question, not caring to pay for it, he would make the sign to the
+      ape and then declare that it had said so and so, which fitted the case
+      exactly. In this way he acquired a prodigious name and all ran after him;
+      on other occasions, being very crafty, he would answer in such a way that
+      the answers suited the questions; and as no one cross-questioned him or
+      pressed him to tell how his ape divined, he made fools of them all and
+      filled his pouch. The instant he entered the inn he knew Don Quixote and
+      Sancho, and with that knowledge it was easy for him to astonish them and
+      all who were there; but it would have cost him dear had Don Quixote
+      brought down his hand a little lower when he cut off King Marsilio's head
+      and destroyed all his horsemen, as related in the preceeding chapter.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      So much for Master Pedro and his ape; and now to return to Don Quixote of
+      La Mancha. After he had left the inn he determined to visit, first of all,
+      the banks of the Ebro and that neighbourhood, before entering the city of
+      Saragossa, for the ample time there was still to spare before the jousts
+      left him enough for all. With this object in view he followed the road and
+      travelled along it for two days, without meeting any adventure worth
+      committing to writing until on the third day, as he was ascending a hill,
+      he heard a great noise of drums, trumpets, and musket-shots. At first he
+      imagined some regiment of soldiers was passing that way, and to see them
+      he spurred Rocinante and mounted the hill. On reaching the top he saw at
+      the foot of it over two hundred men, as it seemed to him, armed with
+      weapons of various sorts, lances, crossbows, partisans, halberds, and
+      pikes, and a few muskets and a great many bucklers. He descended the slope
+      and approached the band near enough to see distinctly the flags, make out
+      the colours and distinguish the devices they bore, especially one on a
+      standard or ensign of white satin, on which there was painted in a very
+      life-like style an ass like a little sard, with its head up, its mouth
+      open and its tongue out, as if it were in the act and attitude of braying;
+      and round it were inscribed in large characters these two lines&mdash;
+    </p>
+<pre xml:space="preserve">
+They did not bray in vain,
+Our alcaldes twain.
+
+</pre>
+    <p>
+      From this device Don Quixote concluded that these people must be from the
+      braying town, and he said so to Sancho, explaining to him what was written
+      on the standard. At the same time be observed that the man who had told
+      them about the matter was wrong in saying that the two who brayed were
+      regidors, for according to the lines of the standard they were alcaldes.
+      To which Sancho replied, "Senor, there's nothing to stick at in that, for
+      maybe the regidors who brayed then came to be alcaldes of their town
+      afterwards, and so they may go by both titles; moreover, it has nothing to
+      do with the truth of the story whether the brayers were alcaldes or
+      regidors, provided at any rate they did bray; for an alcalde is just as
+      likely to bray as a regidor." They perceived, in short, clearly that the
+      town which had been twitted had turned out to do battle with some other
+      that had jeered it more than was fair or neighbourly.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Don Quixote proceeded to join them, not a little to Sancho's uneasiness,
+      for he never relished mixing himself up in expeditions of that sort. The
+      members of the troop received him into the midst of them, taking him to be
+      some one who was on their side. Don Quixote, putting up his visor,
+      advanced with an easy bearing and demeanour to the standard with the ass,
+      and all the chief men of the army gathered round him to look at him,
+      staring at him with the usual amazement that everybody felt on seeing him
+      for the first time. Don Quixote, seeing them examining him so attentively,
+      and that none of them spoke to him or put any question to him, determined
+      to take advantage of their silence; so, breaking his own, he lifted up his
+      voice and said, "Worthy sirs, I entreat you as earnestly as I can not to
+      interrupt an argument I wish to address to you, until you find it
+      displeases or wearies you; and if that come to pass, on the slightest hint
+      you give me I will put a seal upon my lips and a gag upon my tongue."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      They all bade him say what he liked, for they would listen to him
+      willingly.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p27b" id="p27b"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p27b.jpg (330K)" src="images/p27b.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p27b.jpg"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br />
+      <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      With this permission Don Quixote went on to say, "I, sirs, am a
+      knight-errant whose calling is that of arms, and whose profession is to
+      protect those who require protection, and give help to such as stand in
+      need of it. Some days ago I became acquainted with your misfortune and the
+      cause which impels you to take up arms again and again to revenge
+      yourselves upon your enemies; and having many times thought over your
+      business in my mind, I find that, according to the laws of combat, you are
+      mistaken in holding yourselves insulted; for a private individual cannot
+      insult an entire community; unless it be by defying it collectively as a
+      traitor, because he cannot tell who in particular is guilty of the treason
+      for which he defies it. Of this we have an example in Don Diego Ordonez de
+      Lara, who defied the whole town of Zamora, because he did not know that
+      Vellido Dolfos alone had committed the treachery of slaying his king; and
+      therefore he defied them all, and the vengeance and the reply concerned
+      all; though, to be sure, Senor Don Diego went rather too far, indeed very
+      much beyond the limits of a defiance; for he had no occasion to defy the
+      dead, or the waters, or the fishes, or those yet unborn, and all the rest
+      of it as set forth; but let that pass, for when anger breaks out there's
+      no father, governor, or bridle to check the tongue. The case being, then,
+      that no one person can insult a kingdom, province, city, state, or entire
+      community, it is clear there is no reason for going out to avenge the
+      defiance of such an insult, inasmuch as it is not one. A fine thing it
+      would be if the people of the clock town were to be at loggerheads every
+      moment with everyone who called them by that name,&mdash;or the Cazoleros,
+      Berengeneros, Ballenatos, Jaboneros, or the bearers of all the other names
+      and titles that are always in the mouth of the boys and common people! It
+      would be a nice business indeed if all these illustrious cities were to
+      take huff and revenge themselves and go about perpetually making trombones
+      of their swords in every petty quarrel! No, no; God forbid! There are four
+      things for which sensible men and well-ordered States ought to take up
+      arms, draw their swords, and risk their persons, lives, and properties.
+      The first is to defend the Catholic faith; the second, to defend one's
+      life, which is in accordance with natural and divine law; the third, in
+      defence of one's honour, family, and property; the fourth, in the service
+      of one's king in a just war; and if to these we choose to add a fifth
+      (which may be included in the second), in defence of one's country. To
+      these five, as it were capital causes, there may be added some others that
+      may be just and reasonable, and make it a duty to take up arms; but to
+      take them up for trifles and things to laugh at and he amused by rather
+      than offended, looks as though he who did so was altogether wanting in
+      common sense. Moreover, to take an unjust revenge (and there cannot be any
+      just one) is directly opposed to the sacred law that we acknowledge,
+      wherein we are commanded to do good to our enemies and to love them that
+      hate us; a command which, though it seems somewhat difficult to obey, is
+      only so to those who have in them less of God than of the world, and more
+      of the flesh than of the spirit; for Jesus Christ, God and true man, who
+      never lied, and could not and cannot lie, said, as our law-giver, that his
+      yoke was easy and his burden light; he would not, therefore, have laid any
+      command upon us that it was impossible to obey. Thus, sirs, you are bound
+      to keep quiet by human and divine law."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "The devil take me," said Sancho to himself at this, "but this master of
+      mine is a theologian; or, if not, faith, he's as like one as one egg is like
+      another."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Don Quixote stopped to take breath, and, observing that silence was still
+      preserved, had a mind to continue his discourse, and would have done so
+      had not Sancho interposed with his smartness; for he, seeing his master
+      pause, took the lead, saying, "My lord Don Quixote of La Mancha, who once
+      was called the Knight of the Rueful Countenance, but now is called the
+      Knight of the Lions, is a gentleman of great discretion who knows Latin
+      and his mother tongue like a bachelor, and in everything that he deals
+      with or advises proceeds like a good soldier, and has all the laws and
+      ordinances of what they call combat at his fingers' ends; so you have
+      nothing to do but to let yourselves be guided by what he says, and on my
+      head be it if it is wrong. Besides which, you have been told that it is
+      folly to take offence at merely hearing a bray. I remember when I was a
+      boy I brayed as often as I had a fancy, without anyone hindering me, and
+      so elegantly and naturally that when I brayed all the asses in the town
+      would bray; but I was none the less for that the son of my parents who
+      were greatly respected; and though I was envied because of the gift by
+      more than one of the high and mighty ones of the town, I did not care two
+      farthings for it; and that you may see I am telling the truth, wait a bit
+      and listen, for this art, like swimming, once learnt is never forgotten;"
+      and then, taking hold of his nose, he began to bray so vigorously that all
+      the valleys around rang again.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      One of those, however, that stood near him, fancying he was mocking them,
+      lifted up a long staff he had in his hand and smote him such a blow with
+      it that Sancho dropped helpless to the ground. Don Quixote, seeing him so
+      roughly handled, attacked the man who had struck him lance in hand, but so
+      many thrust themselves between them that he could not avenge him. Far from
+      it, finding a shower of stones rained upon him, and crossbows and muskets
+      unnumbered levelled at him, he wheeled Rocinante round and, as fast as his
+      best gallop could take him, fled from the midst of them, commending
+      himself to God with all his heart to deliver him out of this peril, in
+      dread every step of some ball coming in at his back and coming out at his
+      breast, and every minute drawing his breath to see whether it had gone
+      from him. The members of the band, however, were satisfied with seeing him
+      take to flight, and did not fire on him. They put up Sancho, scarcely
+      restored to his senses, on his ass, and let him go after his master; not
+      that he was sufficiently in his wits to guide the beast, but Dapple
+      followed the footsteps of Rocinante, from whom he could not remain a
+      moment separated. Don Quixote having got some way off looked back, and
+      seeing Sancho coming, waited for him, as he perceived that no one followed
+      him. The men of the troop stood their ground till night, and as the enemy
+      did not come out to battle, they returned to their town exulting; and had
+      they been aware of the ancient custom of the Greeks, they would have
+      erected a trophy on the spot.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p27e" id="p27e"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p27e.jpg (47K)" src="images/p27e.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p27e.jpg"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br />
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      <a name="ch28b" id="ch28b"></a>CHAPTER XXVIII.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      OF MATTERS THAT BENENGELI SAYS HE WHO READS THEM WILL KNOW, IF HE READS
+      THEM WITH ATTENTION
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <a name="p28a" id="p28a"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p28a.jpg (111K)" src="images/p28a.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p28a.jpg"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br />
+      <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      When the brave man flees, treachery is manifest and it is for wise men to
+      reserve themselves for better occasions. This proved to be the case with
+      Don Quixote, who, giving way before the fury of the townsfolk and the
+      hostile intentions of the angry troop, took to flight and, without a
+      thought of Sancho or the danger in which he was leaving him, retreated to
+      such a distance as he thought made him safe. Sancho, lying across his ass,
+      followed him, as has been said, and at length came up, having by this time
+      recovered his senses, and on joining him let himself drop off Dapple at
+      Rocinante's feet, sore, bruised, and belaboured. Don Quixote dismounted to
+      examine his wounds, but finding him whole from head to foot, he said to
+      him, angrily enough, "In an evil hour didst thou take to braying, Sancho!
+      Where hast thou learned that it is well done to mention the rope in the
+      house of the man that has been hanged? To the music of brays what
+      harmonies couldst thou expect to get but cudgels? Give thanks to God,
+      Sancho, that they signed the cross on thee just now with a stick, and did
+      not mark thee per signum crucis with a cutlass."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I'm not equal to answering," said Sancho, "for I feel as if I was
+      speaking through my shoulders; let us mount and get away from this; I'll
+      keep from braying, but not from saying that knights-errant fly and leave
+      their good squires to be pounded like privet, or made meal of at the hands
+      of their enemies."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "He does not fly who retires," returned Don Quixote; "for I would have
+      thee know, Sancho, that the valour which is not based upon a foundation of
+      prudence is called rashness, and the exploits of the rash man are to be
+      attributed rather to good fortune than to courage; and so I own that I
+      retired, but not that I fled; and therein I have followed the example of
+      many valiant men who have reserved themselves for better times; the
+      histories are full of instances of this, but as it would not be any good
+      to thee or pleasure to me, I will not recount them to thee now."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Sancho was by this time mounted with the help of Don Quixote, who then
+      himself mounted Rocinante, and at a leisurely pace they proceeded to take
+      shelter in a grove which was in sight about a quarter of a league off.
+      Every now and then Sancho gave vent to deep sighs and dismal groans, and
+      on Don Quixote asking him what caused such acute suffering, he replied
+      that, from the end of his back-bone up to the nape of his neck, he was so
+      sore that it nearly drove him out of his senses.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "The cause of that soreness," said Don Quixote, "will be, no doubt, that
+      the staff wherewith they smote thee being a very long one, it caught thee
+      all down the back, where all the parts that are sore are situated, and had
+      it reached any further thou wouldst be sorer still."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "By God," said Sancho, "your worship has relieved me of a great doubt, and
+      cleared up the point for me in elegant style! Body o' me! is the cause of
+      my soreness such a mystery that there's any need to tell me I am sore
+      everywhere the staff hit me? If it was my ankles that pained me there
+      might be something in going divining why they did, but it is not much to
+      divine that I'm sore where they thrashed me. By my faith, master mine, the
+      ills of others hang by a hair; every day I am discovering more and more
+      how little I have to hope for from keeping company with your worship; for
+      if this time you have allowed me to be drubbed, the next time, or a
+      hundred times more, we'll have the blanketings of the other day over
+      again, and all the other pranks which, if they have fallen on my shoulders
+      now, will be thrown in my teeth by-and-by. I would do a great deal better
+      (if I was not an ignorant brute that will never do any good all my life),
+      I would do a great deal better, I say, to go home to my wife and children
+      and support them and bring them up on what God may please to give me,
+      instead of following your worship along roads that lead nowhere and paths
+      that are none at all, with little to drink and less to eat. And then when
+      it comes to sleeping! Measure out seven feet on the earth, brother squire,
+      and if that's not enough for you, take as many more, for you may have it
+      all your own way and stretch yourself to your heart's content. Oh that I
+      could see burnt and turned to ashes the first man that meddled with
+      knight-errantry or at any rate the first who chose to be squire to such
+      fools as all the knights-errant of past times must have been! Of those of
+      the present day I say nothing, because, as your worship is one of them, I
+      respect them, and because I know your worship knows a point more than the
+      devil in all you say and think."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I would lay a good wager with you, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "that now
+      that you are talking on without anyone to stop you, you don't feel a pain
+      in your whole body. Talk away, my son, say whatever comes into your head
+      or mouth, for so long as you feel no pain, the irritation your
+      impertinences give me will be a pleasure to me; and if you are so anxious
+      to go home to your wife and children, God forbid that I should prevent
+      you; you have money of mine; see how long it is since we left our village
+      this third time, and how much you can and ought to earn every month, and
+      pay yourself out of your own hand."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "When I worked for Tom Carrasco, the father of the bachelor Samson
+      Carrasco that your worship knows," replied Sancho, "I used to earn two
+      ducats a month besides my food; I can't tell what I can earn with your
+      worship, though I know a knight-errant's squire has harder times of it
+      than he who works for a farmer; for after all, we who work for farmers,
+      however much we toil all day, at the worst, at night, we have our olla
+      supper and sleep in a bed, which I have not slept in since I have been in
+      your worship's service, if it wasn't the short time we were in Don Diego
+      de Miranda's house, and the feast I had with the skimmings I took off
+      Camacho's pots, and what I ate, drank, and slept in Basilio's house; all
+      the rest of the time I have been sleeping on the hard ground under the
+      open sky, exposed to what they call the inclemencies of heaven, keeping
+      life in me with scraps of cheese and crusts of bread, and drinking water
+      either from the brooks or from the springs we come to on these by-paths we
+      travel."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I own, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "that all thou sayest is true; how
+      much, thinkest thou, ought I to give thee over and above what Tom Carrasco
+      gave thee?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I think," said Sancho, "that if your worship was to add on two reals a
+      month I'd consider myself well paid; that is, as far as the wages of my
+      labour go; but to make up to me for your worship's pledge and promise to
+      me to give me the government of an island, it would be fair to add six
+      reals more, making thirty in all."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Very good," said Don Quixote; "it is twenty-five days since we left our
+      village, so reckon up, Sancho, according to the wages you have made out
+      for yourself, and see how much I owe you in proportion, and pay yourself,
+      as I said before, out of your own hand."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "O body o' me!" said Sancho, "but your worship is very much out in that
+      reckoning; for when it comes to the promise of the island we must count
+      from the day your worship promised it to me to this present hour we are at
+      now."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Well, how long is it, Sancho, since I promised it to you?" said Don
+      Quixote.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "If I remember rightly," said Sancho, "it must be over twenty years, three
+      days more or less."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Don Quixote gave himself a great slap on the forehead and began to laugh
+      heartily, and said he, "Why, I have not been wandering, either in the
+      Sierra Morena or in the whole course of our sallies, but barely two
+      months, and thou sayest, Sancho, that it is twenty years since I promised
+      thee the island. I believe now thou wouldst have all the money thou hast
+      of mine go in thy wages. If so, and if that be thy pleasure, I give it to
+      thee now, once and for all, and much good may it do thee, for so long as I
+      see myself rid of such a good-for-nothing squire I'll be glad to be left a
+      pauper without a rap. But tell me, thou perverter of the squirely rules of
+      knight-errantry, where hast thou ever seen or read that any
+      knight-errant's squire made terms with his lord, 'you must give me so much
+      a month for serving you'? Plunge, scoundrel, rogue, monster&mdash;for such
+      I take thee to be&mdash;plunge, I say, into the mare magnum of their
+      histories; and if thou shalt find that any squire ever said or thought
+      what thou hast said now, I will let thee nail it on my forehead, and give
+      me, over and above, four sound slaps in the face. Turn the rein, or the
+      halter, of thy Dapple, and begone home; for one single step further thou
+      shalt not make in my company. O bread thanklessly received! O promises
+      ill-bestowed! O man more beast than human being! Now, when I was about to
+      raise thee to such a position, that, in spite of thy wife, they would call
+      thee 'my lord,' thou art leaving me? Thou art going now when I had a firm
+      and fixed intention of making thee lord of the best island in the world?
+      Well, as thou thyself hast said before now, honey is not for the mouth of
+      the ass. Ass thou art, ass thou wilt be, and ass thou wilt end when the
+      course of thy life is run; for I know it will come to its close before
+      thou dost perceive or discern that thou art a beast."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Sancho regarded Don Quixote earnestly while he was giving him this rating,
+      and was so touched by remorse that the tears came to his eyes, and in a
+      piteous and broken voice he said to him, "Master mine, I confess that, to
+      be a complete ass, all I want is a tail; if your worship will only fix one
+      on to me, I'll look on it as rightly placed, and I'll serve you as an ass
+      all the remaining days of my life. Forgive me and have pity on my folly,
+      and remember I know but little, and, if I talk much, it's more from
+      infirmity than malice; but he who sins and mends commends himself to God."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I should have been surprised, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "if thou hadst
+      not introduced some bit of a proverb into thy speech. Well, well, I
+      forgive thee, provided thou dost mend and not show thyself in future so
+      fond of thine own interest, but try to be of good cheer and take heart,
+      and encourage thyself to look forward to the fulfillment of my promises,
+      which, by being delayed, does not become impossible."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Sancho said he would do so, and keep up his heart as best he could. They
+      then entered the grove, and Don Quixote settled himself at the foot of an
+      elm, and Sancho at that of a beech, for trees of this kind and others like
+      them always have feet but no hands. Sancho passed the night in pain, for
+      with the evening dews the blow of the staff made itself felt all the more.
+      Don Quixote passed it in his never-failing meditations; but, for all that,
+      they had some winks of sleep, and with the appearance of daylight they
+      pursued their journey in quest of the banks of the famous Ebro, where that
+      befell them which will be told in the following chapter.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p28e" id="p28e"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p28e.jpg (36K)" src="images/p28e.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+
+    <h2>
+      <a name="ch29b" id="ch29b"></a>CHAPTER XXIX.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      OF THE FAMOUS ADVENTURE OF THE ENCHANTED BARK
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <a name="p29a" id="p29a"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p29a.jpg (127K)" src="images/p29a.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p29a.jpg"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br />
+      <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      By stages as already described or left undescribed, two days after
+      quitting the grove Don Quixote and Sancho reached the river Ebro, and the
+      sight of it was a great delight to Don Quixote as he contemplated and
+      gazed upon the charms of its banks, the clearness of its stream, the
+      gentleness of its current and the abundance of its crystal waters; and the
+      pleasant view revived a thousand tender thoughts in his mind. Above all,
+      he dwelt upon what he had seen in the cave of Montesinos; for though
+      Master Pedro's ape had told him that of those things part was true, part
+      false, he clung more to their truth than to their falsehood, the very
+      reverse of Sancho, who held them all to be downright lies.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      As they were thus proceeding, then, they discovered a small boat, without
+      oars or any other gear, that lay at the water's edge tied to the stem of a
+      tree growing on the bank. Don Quixote looked all round, and seeing nobody,
+      at once, without more ado, dismounted from Rocinante and bade Sancho get
+      down from Dapple and tie both beasts securely to the trunk of a poplar or
+      willow that stood there. Sancho asked him the reason of this sudden
+      dismounting and tying. Don Quixote made answer, "Thou must know, Sancho,
+      that this bark is plainly, and without the possibility of any alternative,
+      calling and inviting me to enter it, and in it go to give aid to some
+      knight or other person of distinction in need of it, who is no doubt in
+      some sore strait; for this is the way of the books of chivalry and of the
+      enchanters who figure and speak in them. When a knight is involved in some
+      difficulty from which he cannot be delivered save by the hand of another
+      knight, though they may be at a distance of two or three thousand leagues
+      or more one from the other, they either take him up on a cloud, or they
+      provide a bark for him to get into, and in less than the twinkling of an
+      eye they carry him where they will and where his help is required; and so,
+      Sancho, this bark is placed here for the same purpose; this is as true as
+      that it is now day, and ere this one passes tie Dapple and Rocinante
+      together, and then in God's hand be it to guide us; for I would not hold
+      back from embarking, though barefooted friars were to beg me."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "As that's the case," said Sancho, "and your worship chooses to give in to
+      these&mdash;I don't know if I may call them absurdities&mdash;at every
+      turn, there's nothing for it but to obey and bow the head, bearing in mind
+      the proverb, 'Do as thy master bids thee, and sit down to table with him;'
+      but for all that, for the sake of easing my conscience, I warn your
+      worship that it is my opinion this bark is no enchanted one, but belongs
+      to some of the fishermen of the river, for they catch the best shad in the
+      world here."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      As Sancho said this, he tied the beasts, leaving them to the care and
+      protection of the enchanters with sorrow enough in his heart. Don Quixote
+      bade him not be uneasy about deserting the animals, "for he who would
+      carry themselves over such longinquous roads and regions would take care
+      to feed them."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I don't understand that logiquous," said Sancho, "nor have I ever heard
+      the word all the days of my life."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Longinquous," replied Don Quixote, "means far off; but it is no wonder
+      thou dost not understand it, for thou art not bound to know Latin, like
+      some who pretend to know it and don't."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Now they are tied," said Sancho; "what are we to do next?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "What?" said Don Quixote, "cross ourselves and weigh anchor; I mean,
+      embark and cut the moorings by which the bark is held;" and the bark began
+      to drift away slowly from the bank. But when Sancho saw himself somewhere
+      about two yards out in the river, he began to tremble and give himself up
+      for lost; but nothing distressed him more than hearing Dapple bray and
+      seeing Rocinante struggling to get loose, and said he to his master,
+      "Dapple is braying in grief at our leaving him, and Rocinante is trying to
+      escape and plunge in after us. O dear friends, peace be with you, and may
+      this madness that is taking us away from you, turned into sober sense,
+      bring us back to you." And with this he fell weeping so bitterly, that Don
+      Quixote said to him, sharply and angrily, "What art thou afraid of,
+      cowardly creature? What art thou weeping at, heart of butter-paste? Who
+      pursues or molests thee, thou soul of a tame mouse? What dost thou want,
+      unsatisfied in the very heart of abundance? Art thou, perchance, tramping
+      barefoot over the Riphaean mountains, instead of being seated on a bench
+      like an archduke on the tranquil stream of this pleasant river, from which
+      in a short space we shall come out upon the broad sea? But we must have
+      already emerged and gone seven hundred or eight hundred leagues; and if I
+      had here an astrolabe to take the altitude of the pole, I could tell thee
+      how many we have travelled, though either I know little, or we have
+      already crossed or shall shortly cross the equinoctial line which parts
+      the two opposite poles midway."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "And when we come to that line your worship speaks of," said Sancho, "how
+      far shall we have gone?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Very far," said Don Quixote, "for of the three hundred and sixty degrees
+      that this terraqueous globe contains, as computed by Ptolemy, the greatest
+      cosmographer known, we shall have travelled one-half when we come to the
+      line I spoke of."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "By God," said Sancho, "your worship gives me a nice authority for what
+      you say, putrid Dolly something transmogrified, or whatever it is."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Don Quixote laughed at the interpretation Sancho put upon "computed," and
+      the name of the cosmographer Ptolemy, and said he, "Thou must know,
+      Sancho, that with the Spaniards and those who embark at Cadiz for the East
+      Indies, one of the signs they have to show them when they have passed the
+      equinoctial line I told thee of, is, that the lice die upon everybody on
+      board the ship, and not a single one is left, or to be found in the whole
+      vessel if they gave its weight in gold for it; so, Sancho, thou mayest as
+      well pass thy hand down thy thigh, and if thou comest upon anything alive
+      we shall be no longer in doubt; if not, then we have crossed."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I don't believe a bit of it," said Sancho; "still, I'll do as your
+      worship bids me; though I don't know what need there is for trying these
+      experiments, for I can see with my own eyes that we have not moved five
+      yards away from the bank, or shifted two yards from where the animals
+      stand, for there are Rocinante and Dapple in the very same place where we
+      left them; and watching a point, as I do now, I swear by all that's good,
+      we are not stirring or moving at the pace of an ant."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Try the test I told thee of, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "and don't mind
+      any other, for thou knowest nothing about colures, lines, parallels,
+      zodiacs, ecliptics, poles, solstices, equinoxes, planets, signs, bearings,
+      the measures of which the celestial and terrestrial spheres are composed;
+      if thou wert acquainted with all these things, or any portion of them,
+      thou wouldst see clearly how many parallels we have cut, what signs we
+      have seen, and what constellations we have left behind and are now leaving
+      behind. But again I tell thee, feel and hunt, for I am certain thou art
+      cleaner than a sheet of smooth white paper."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Sancho felt, and passing his hand gently and carefully down to the hollow
+      of his left knee, he looked up at his master and said, "Either the test is
+      a false one, or we have not come to where your worship says, nor within
+      many leagues of it."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Why, how so?" asked Don Quixote; "hast thou come upon aught?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Ay, and aughts," replied Sancho; and shaking his fingers he washed his
+      whole hand in the river along which the boat was quietly gliding in
+      midstream, not moved by any occult intelligence or invisible enchanter,
+      but simply by the current, just there smooth and gentle.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      They now came in sight of some large water mills that stood in the middle
+      of the river, and the instant Don Quixote saw them he cried out, "Seest
+      thou there, my friend? there stands the castle or fortress, where there
+      is, no doubt, some knight in durance, or ill-used queen, or infanta, or
+      princess, in whose aid I am brought hither."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "What the devil city, fortress, or castle is your worship talking about,
+      senor?" said Sancho; "don't you see that those are mills that stand in the
+      river to grind corn?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Hold thy peace, Sancho," said Don Quixote; "though they look like mills
+      they are not so; I have already told thee that enchantments transform
+      things and change their proper shapes; I do not mean to say they really
+      change them from one form into another, but that it seems as though they
+      did, as experience proved in the transformation of Dulcinea, sole refuge
+      of my hopes."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      By this time, the boat, having reached the middle of the stream, began to
+      move less slowly than hitherto. The millers belonging to the mills, when
+      they saw the boat coming down the river, and on the point of being sucked
+      in by the draught of the wheels, ran out in haste, several of them, with
+      long poles to stop it, and being all mealy, with faces and garments
+      covered with flour, they presented a sinister appearance. They raised loud
+      shouts, crying, "Devils of men, where are you going to? Are you mad? Do
+      you want to drown yourselves, or dash yourselves to pieces among these
+      wheels?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Did I not tell thee, Sancho," said Don Quixote at this, "that we had
+      reached the place where I am to show what the might of my arm can do? See
+      what ruffians and villains come out against me; see what monsters oppose
+      me; see what hideous countenances come to frighten us! You shall soon see,
+      scoundrels!" And then standing up in the boat he began in a loud voice to
+      hurl threats at the millers, exclaiming, "Ill-conditioned and
+      worse-counselled rabble, restore to liberty and freedom the person ye hold
+      in durance in this your fortress or prison, high or low or of whatever
+      rank or quality he be, for I am Don Quixote of La Mancha, otherwise called
+      the Knight of the Lions, for whom, by the disposition of heaven above, it
+      is reserved to give a happy issue to this adventure;" and so saying he
+      drew his sword and began making passes in the air at the millers, who,
+      hearing but not understanding all this nonsense, strove to stop the boat,
+      which was now getting into the rushing channel of the wheels. Sancho fell
+      upon his knees devoutly appealing to heaven to deliver him from such
+      imminent peril; which it did by the activity and quickness of the millers,
+      who, pushing against the boat with their poles, stopped it, not, however,
+      without upsetting and throwing Don Quixote and Sancho into the water; and
+      lucky it was for Don Quixote that he could swim like a goose, though the
+      weight of his armour carried him twice to the bottom; and had it not been
+      for the millers, who plunged in and hoisted them both out, it would have
+      been Troy town with the pair of them. As soon as, more drenched than
+      thirsty, they were landed, Sancho went down on his knees and with clasped
+      hands and eyes raised to heaven, prayed a long and fervent prayer to God
+      to deliver him evermore from the rash projects and attempts of his master.
+      The fishermen, the owners of the boat, which the mill-wheels had knocked
+      to pieces, now came up, and seeing it smashed they proceeded to strip
+      Sancho and to demand payment for it from Don Quixote; but he with great
+      calmness, just as if nothing had happened him, told the millers and
+      fishermen that he would pay for the bark most cheerfully, on condition
+      that they delivered up to him, free and unhurt, the person or persons that
+      were in durance in that castle of theirs.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p29b" id="p29b"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p29b.jpg (314K)" src="images/p29b.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p29b.jpg"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br />
+      <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "What persons or what castle art thou talking of, madman? Art thou for
+      carrying off the people who come to grind corn in these mills?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "That's enough," said Don Quixote to himself, "it would be preaching in
+      the desert to attempt by entreaties to induce this rabble to do any
+      virtuous action. In this adventure two mighty enchanters must have
+      encountered one another, and one frustrates what the other attempts; one
+      provided the bark for me, and the other upset me; God help us, this world
+      is all machinations and schemes at cross purposes one with the other. I
+      can do no more." And then turning towards the mills he said aloud,
+      "Friends, whoe'er ye be that are immured in that prison, forgive me that,
+      to my misfortune and yours, I cannot deliver you from your misery; this
+      adventure is doubtless reserved and destined for some other knight."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      So saying he settled with the fishermen, and paid fifty reals for the
+      boat, which Sancho handed to them very much against the grain, saying,
+      "With a couple more bark businesses like this we shall have sunk our whole
+      capital."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The fishermen and the millers stood staring in amazement at the two
+      figures, so very different to all appearance from ordinary men, and were
+      wholly unable to make out the drift of the observations and questions Don
+      Quixote addressed to them; and coming to the conclusion that they were
+      madmen, they left them and betook themselves, the millers to their mills,
+      and the fishermen to their huts. Don Quixote and Sancho returned to their
+      beasts, and to their life of beasts, and so ended the adventure of the
+      enchanted bark.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p29e" id="p29e"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p29e.jpg (54K)" src="images/p29e.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      <a name="ch30b" id="ch30b"></a>CHAPTER XXX.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      OF DON QUIXOTE'S ADVENTURE WITH A FAIR HUNTRESS
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <a name="p30a" id="p30a"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p30a.jpg (134K)" src="images/p30a.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p30a.jpg"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br />
+      <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      They reached their beasts in low spirits and bad humour enough, knight and
+      squire, Sancho particularly, for with him what touched the stock of money
+      touched his heart, and when any was taken from him he felt as if he was
+      robbed of the apples of his eyes. In fine, without exchanging a word, they
+      mounted and quitted the famous river, Don Quixote absorbed in thoughts of
+      his love, Sancho in thinking of his advancement, which just then, it
+      seemed to him, he was very far from securing; for, fool as he was, he saw
+      clearly enough that his master's acts were all or most of them utterly
+      senseless; and he began to cast about for an opportunity of retiring from
+      his service and going home some day, without entering into any
+      explanations or taking any farewell of him. Fortune, however, ordered
+      matters after a fashion very much the opposite of what he contemplated.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      It so happened that the next day towards sunset, on coming out of a wood,
+      Don Quixote cast his eyes over a green meadow, and at the far end of it
+      observed some people, and as he drew nearer saw that it was a hawking
+      party. Coming closer, he distinguished among them a lady of graceful mien,
+      on a pure white palfrey or hackney caparisoned with green trappings and a
+      silver-mounted side-saddle. The lady was also in green, and so richly and
+      splendidly dressed that splendour itself seemed personified in her. On her
+      left hand she bore a hawk, a proof to Don Quixote's mind that she must be
+      some great lady and the mistress of the whole hunting party, which was the
+      fact; so he said to Sancho, "Run Sancho, my son, and say to that lady on
+      the palfrey with the hawk that I, the Knight of the Lions, kiss the hands
+      of her exalted beauty, and if her excellence will grant me leave I will go
+      and kiss them in person and place myself at her service for aught that may
+      be in my power and her highness may command; and mind, Sancho, how thou
+      speakest, and take care not to thrust in any of thy proverbs into thy
+      message."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p30b" id="p30b"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p30b.jpg (334K)" src="images/p30b.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p30b.jpg"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br />
+      <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "You've got a likely one here to thrust any in!" said Sancho; "leave me
+      alone for that! Why, this is not the first time in my life I have carried
+      messages to high and exalted ladies."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Except that thou didst carry to the lady Dulcinea," said Don Quixote, "I
+      know not that thou hast carried any other, at least in my service."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "That is true," replied Sancho; "but pledges don't distress a good payer,
+      and in a house where there's plenty supper is soon cooked; I mean there's
+      no need of telling or warning me about anything; for I'm ready for
+      everything and know a little of everything."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "That I believe, Sancho," said Don Quixote; "go and good luck to thee, and
+      God speed thee."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Sancho went off at top speed, forcing Dapple out of his regular pace, and
+      came to where the fair huntress was standing, and dismounting knelt before
+      her and said, "Fair lady, that knight that you see there, the Knight of
+      the Lions by name, is my master, and I am a squire of his, and at home
+      they call me Sancho Panza. This same Knight of the Lions, who was called
+      not long since the Knight of the Rueful Countenance, sends by me to say
+      may it please your highness to give him leave that, with your permission,
+      approbation, and consent, he may come and carry out his wishes, which are,
+      as he says and I believe, to serve your exalted loftiness and beauty; and
+      if you give it, your ladyship will do a thing which will redound to your
+      honour, and he will receive a most distinguished favour and happiness."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "You have indeed, squire," said the lady, "delivered your message with all
+      the formalities such messages require; rise up, for it is not right that
+      the squire of a knight so great as he of the Rueful Countenance, of whom
+      we have heard a great deal here, should remain on his knees; rise, my
+      friend, and bid your master welcome to the services of myself and the duke
+      my husband, in a country house we have here."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Sancho got up, charmed as much by the beauty of the good lady as by her
+      high-bred air and her courtesy, but, above all, by what she had said about
+      having heard of his master, the Knight of the Rueful Countenance; for if
+      she did not call him Knight of the Lions it was no doubt because he had so
+      lately taken the name. "Tell me, brother squire," asked the duchess (whose
+      title, however, is not known), "this master of yours, is he not one of
+      whom there is a history extant in print, called 'The Ingenious Gentleman,
+      Don Quixote of La Mancha,' who has for the lady of his heart a certain
+      Dulcinea del Toboso?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "He is the same, senora," replied Sancho; "and that squire of his who
+      figures, or ought to figure, in the said history under the name of Sancho
+      Panza, is myself, unless they have changed me in the cradle, I mean in the
+      press."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I am rejoiced at all this," said the duchess; "go, brother Panza, and
+      tell your master that he is welcome to my estate, and that nothing could
+      happen to me that could give me greater pleasure."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Sancho returned to his master mightily pleased with this gratifying
+      answer, and told him all the great lady had said to him, lauding to the
+      skies, in his rustic phrase, her rare beauty, her graceful gaiety, and her
+      courtesy. Don Quixote drew himself up briskly in his saddle, fixed himself
+      in his stirrups, settled his visor, gave Rocinante the spur, and with an
+      easy bearing advanced to kiss the hands of the duchess, who, having sent
+      to summon the duke her husband, told him while Don Quixote was approaching
+      all about the message; and as both of them had read the First Part of this
+      history, and from it were aware of Don Quixote's crazy turn, they awaited
+      him with the greatest delight and anxiety to make his acquaintance,
+      meaning to fall in with his humour and agree with everything he said, and,
+      so long as he stayed with them, to treat him as a knight-errant, with all
+      the ceremonies usual in the books of chivalry they had read, for they
+      themselves were very fond of them.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Don Quixote now came up with his visor raised, and as he seemed about to
+      dismount Sancho made haste to go and hold his stirrup for him; but in
+      getting down off Dapple he was so unlucky as to hitch his foot in one of
+      the ropes of the pack-saddle in such a way that he was unable to free it,
+      and was left hanging by it with his face and breast on the ground. Don
+      Quixote, who was not used to dismount without having the stirrup held,
+      fancying that Sancho had by this time come to hold it for him, threw
+      himself off with a lurch and brought Rocinante's saddle after him, which
+      was no doubt badly girthed, and saddle and he both came to the ground; not
+      without discomfiture to him and abundant curses muttered between his teeth
+      against the unlucky Sancho, who had his foot still in the shackles. The
+      duke ordered his huntsmen to go to the help of knight and squire, and they
+      raised Don Quixote, sorely shaken by his fall; and he, limping, advanced
+      as best he could to kneel before the noble pair. This, however, the duke
+      would by no means permit; on the contrary, dismounting from his horse, he
+      went and embraced Don Quixote, saying, "I am grieved, Sir Knight of the
+      Rueful Countenance, that your first experience on my ground should have
+      been such an unfortunate one as we have seen; but the carelessness of
+      squires is often the cause of worse accidents."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "That which has happened me in meeting you, mighty prince," replied Don
+      Quixote, "cannot be unfortunate, even if my fall had not stopped short of
+      the depths of the bottomless pit, for the glory of having seen you would
+      have lifted me up and delivered me from it. My squire, God's curse upon
+      him, is better at unloosing his tongue in talking impertinence than in
+      tightening the girths of a saddle to keep it steady; but however I may be,
+      fallen or raised up, on foot or on horseback, I shall always be at your
+      service and that of my lady the duchess, your worthy consort, worthy queen
+      of beauty and paramount princess of courtesy."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Gently, Senor Don Quixote of La Mancha," said the duke; "where my lady
+      Dona Dulcinea del Toboso is, it is not right that other beauties should be
+      praised."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Sancho, by this time released from his entanglement, was standing by, and
+      before his master could answer he said, "There is no denying, and it must
+      be maintained, that my lady Dulcinea del Toboso is very beautiful; but the
+      hare jumps up where one least expects it; and I have heard say that what
+      we call nature is like a potter that makes vessels of clay, and he who
+      makes one fair vessel can as well make two, or three, or a hundred; I say
+      so because, by my faith, my lady the duchess is in no way behind my
+      mistress the lady Dulcinea del Toboso."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Don Quixote turned to the duchess and said, "Your highness may conceive
+      that never had knight-errant in this world a more talkative or a droller
+      squire than I have, and he will prove the truth of what I say, if your
+      highness is pleased to accept of my services for a few days."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      To which the duchess made answer, "that worthy Sancho is droll I consider
+      a very good thing, because it is a sign that he is shrewd; for drollery
+      and sprightliness, Senor Don Quixote, as you very well know, do not take
+      up their abode with dull wits; and as good Sancho is droll and sprightly I
+      here set him down as shrewd."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "And talkative," added Don Quixote.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "So much the better," said the duke, "for many droll things cannot be said
+      in few words; but not to lose time in talking, come, great Knight of the
+      Rueful Countenance-"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Of the Lions, your highness must say," said Sancho, "for there is no
+      Rueful Countenance nor any such character now."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "He of the Lions be it," continued the duke; "I say, let Sir Knight of the
+      Lions come to a castle of mine close by, where he shall be given that
+      reception which is due to so exalted a personage, and which the duchess
+      and I are wont to give to all knights-errant who come there."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      By this time Sancho had fixed and girthed Rocinante's saddle, and Don
+      Quixote having got on his back and the duke mounted a fine horse, they
+      placed the duchess in the middle and set out for the castle. The duchess
+      desired Sancho to come to her side, for she found infinite enjoyment in
+      listening to his shrewd remarks. Sancho required no pressing, but pushed
+      himself in between them and the duke, who thought it rare good fortune to
+      receive such a knight-errant and such a homely squire in their castle.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p30e" id="p30e"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p30e.jpg (54K)" src="images/p30e.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      <a name="ch31b" id="ch31b"></a>CHAPTER XXXI.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      WHICH TREATS OF MANY AND GREAT MATTERS
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <a name="p31a" id="p31a"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p31a.jpg (155K)" src="images/p31a.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p31a.jpg"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br />
+      <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Supreme was the satisfaction that Sancho felt at seeing himself, as it
+      seemed, an established favourite with the duchess, for he looked forward
+      to finding in her castle what he had found in Don Diego's house and in
+      Basilio's; he was always fond of good living, and always seized by the
+      forelock any opportunity of feasting himself whenever it presented itself.
+      The history informs us, then, that before they reached the country house
+      or castle, the duke went on in advance and instructed all his servants how
+      they were to treat Don Quixote; and so the instant he came up to the
+      castle gates with the duchess, two lackeys or equerries, clad in what they
+      call morning gowns of fine crimson satin reaching to their feet, hastened
+      out, and catching Don Quixote in their arms before he saw or heard them,
+      said to him, "Your highness should go and take my lady the duchess off her
+      horse."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p31b" id="p31b"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p31b.jpg (334K)" src="images/p31b.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p31b.jpg"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br />
+      <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Don Quixote obeyed, and great bandying of compliments followed between the
+      two over the matter; but in the end the duchess's determination carried
+      the day, and she refused to get down or dismount from her palfrey except
+      in the arms of the duke, saying she did not consider herself worthy to
+      impose so unnecessary a burden on so great a knight. At length the duke
+      came out to take her down, and as they entered a spacious court two fair
+      damsels came forward and threw over Don Quixote's shoulders a large mantle
+      of the finest scarlet cloth, and at the same instant all the galleries of
+      the court were lined with the men-servants and women-servants of the
+      household, crying, "Welcome, flower and cream of knight-errantry!" while
+      all or most of them flung pellets filled with scented water over Don
+      Quixote and the duke and duchess; at all which Don Quixote was greatly
+      astonished, and this was the first time that he thoroughly felt and
+      believed himself to be a knight-errant in reality and not merely in fancy,
+      now that he saw himself treated in the same way as he had read of such
+      knights being treated in days of yore.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Sancho, deserting Dapple, hung on to the duchess and entered the castle,
+      but feeling some twinges of conscience at having left the ass alone, he
+      approached a respectable duenna who had come out with the rest to receive
+      the duchess, and in a low voice he said to her, "Senora Gonzalez, or
+      however your grace may be called-"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I am called Dona Rodriguez de Grijalba," replied the duenna; "what is
+      your will, brother?" To which Sancho made answer, "I should be glad if
+      your worship would do me the favour to go out to the castle gate, where
+      you will find a grey ass of mine; make them, if you please, put him in the
+      stable, or put him there yourself, for the poor little beast is rather
+      easily frightened, and cannot bear being alone at all."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "If the master is as wise as the man," said the duenna, "we have got a
+      fine bargain. Be off with you, brother, and bad luck to you and him who
+      brought you here; go, look after your ass, for we, the duennas of this
+      house, are not used to work of that sort."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Well then, in troth," returned Sancho, "I have heard my master, who is
+      the very treasure-finder of stories, telling the story of Lancelot when he
+      came from Britain, say that ladies waited upon him and duennas upon his
+      hack; and, if it comes to my ass, I wouldn't change him for Senor
+      Lancelot's hack."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "If you are a jester, brother," said the duenna, "keep your drolleries for
+      some place where they'll pass muster and be paid for; for you'll get
+      nothing from me but a fig."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "At any rate, it will be a very ripe one," said Sancho, "for you won't
+      lose the trick in years by a point too little."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Son of a bitch," said the duenna, all aglow with anger, "whether I'm old
+      or not, it's with God I have to reckon, not with you, you garlic-stuffed
+      scoundrel!" and she said it so loud, that the duchess heard it, and
+      turning round and seeing the duenna in such a state of excitement, and her
+      eyes flaming so, asked whom she was wrangling with.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "With this good fellow here," said the duenna, "who has particularly
+      requested me to go and put an ass of his that is at the castle gate into
+      the stable, holding it up to me as an example that they did the same I
+      don't know where&mdash;that some ladies waited on one Lancelot, and
+      duennas on his hack; and what is more, to wind up with, he called me old."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "That," said the duchess, "I should have considered the greatest affront
+      that could be offered me;" and addressing Sancho, she said to him, "You
+      must know, friend Sancho, that Dona Rodriguez is very youthful, and that
+      she wears that hood more for authority and custom's sake than because of her
+      years."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "May all the rest of mine be unlucky," said Sancho, "if I meant it that
+      way; I only spoke because the affection I have for my ass is so great, and
+      I thought I could not commend him to a more kind-hearted person than the
+      lady Dona Rodriguez."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Don Quixote, who was listening, said to him, "Is this proper conversation
+      for the place, Sancho?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Senor," replied Sancho, "every one must mention what he wants wherever he
+      may be; I thought of Dapple here, and I spoke of him here; if I had
+      thought of him in the stable I would have spoken there."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      On which the duke observed, "Sancho is quite right, and there is no reason
+      at all to find fault with him; Dapple shall be fed to his heart's content,
+      and Sancho may rest easy, for he shall be treated like himself."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      While this conversation, amusing to all except Don Quixote, was
+      proceeding, they ascended the staircase and ushered Don Quixote into a
+      chamber hung with rich cloth of gold and brocade; six damsels relieved him
+      of his armour and waited on him like pages, all of them prepared and
+      instructed by the duke and duchess as to what they were to do, and how
+      they were to treat Don Quixote, so that he might see and believe they were
+      treating him like a knight-errant. When his armour was removed, there
+      stood Don Quixote in his tight-fitting breeches and chamois doublet, lean,
+      lanky, and long, with cheeks that seemed to be kissing each other inside;
+      such a figure, that if the damsels waiting on him had not taken care to
+      check their merriment (which was one of the particular directions their
+      master and mistress had given them), they would have burst with laughter.
+      They asked him to let himself be stripped that they might put a shirt on
+      him, but he would not on any account, saying that modesty became
+      knights-errant just as much as valour. However, he said they might give
+      the shirt to Sancho; and shutting himself in with him in a room where
+      there was a sumptuous bed, he undressed and put on the shirt; and then,
+      finding himself alone with Sancho, he said to him, "Tell me, thou
+      new-fledged buffoon and old booby, dost thou think it right to offend and
+      insult a duenna so deserving of reverence and respect as that one just
+      now? Was that a time to bethink thee of thy Dapple, or are these noble
+      personages likely to let the beasts fare badly when they treat their
+      owners in such elegant style? For God's sake, Sancho, restrain thyself,
+      and don't show the thread so as to let them see what a coarse, boorish
+      texture thou art of. Remember, sinner that thou art, the master is the
+      more esteemed the more respectable and well-bred his servants are; and
+      that one of the greatest advantages that princes have over other men is
+      that they have servants as good as themselves to wait on them. Dost thou
+      not see&mdash;shortsighted being that thou art, and unlucky mortal that I
+      am!&mdash;that if they perceive thee to be a coarse clown or a dull
+      blockhead, they will suspect me to be some impostor or swindler? Nay, nay,
+      Sancho friend, keep clear, oh, keep clear of these stumbling-blocks; for
+      he who falls into the way of being a chatterbox and droll, drops into a
+      wretched buffoon the first time he trips; bridle thy tongue, consider and
+      weigh thy words before they escape thy mouth, and bear in mind we are now
+      in quarters whence, by God's help, and the strength of my arm, we shall
+      come forth mightily advanced in fame and fortune."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Sancho promised him with much earnestness to keep his mouth shut, and to
+      bite off his tongue before he uttered a word that was not altogether to
+      the purpose and well considered, and told him he might make his mind easy
+      on that point, for it should never be discovered through him what they
+      were.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Don Quixote dressed himself, put on his baldric with his sword, threw the
+      scarlet mantle over his shoulders, placed on his head a montera of green
+      satin that the damsels had given him, and thus arrayed passed out into the
+      large room, where he found the damsels drawn up in double file, the same
+      number on each side, all with the appliances for washing the hands, which
+      they presented to him with profuse obeisances and ceremonies. Then came
+      twelve pages, together with the seneschal, to lead him to dinner, as his
+      hosts were already waiting for him. They placed him in the midst of them,
+      and with much pomp and stateliness they conducted him into another room,
+      where there was a sumptuous table laid with but four covers. The duchess
+      and the duke came out to the door of the room to receive him, and with
+      them a grave ecclesiastic, one of those who rule noblemen's houses; one of
+      those who, not being born magnates themselves, never know how to teach
+      those who are how to behave as such; one of those who would have the
+      greatness of great folk measured by their own narrowness of mind; one of
+      those who, when they try to introduce economy into the household they
+      rule, lead it into meanness. One of this sort, I say, must have been the
+      grave churchman who came out with the duke and duchess to receive Don
+      Quixote.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      A vast number of polite speeches were exchanged, and at length, taking Don
+      Quixote between them, they proceeded to sit down to table. The duke
+      pressed Don Quixote to take the head of the table, and, though he refused,
+      the entreaties of the duke were so urgent that he had to accept it.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The ecclesiastic took his seat opposite to him, and the duke and duchess
+      those at the sides. All this time Sancho stood by, gaping with amazement
+      at the honour he saw shown to his master by these illustrious persons; and
+      observing all the ceremonious pressing that had passed between the duke
+      and Don Quixote to induce him to take his seat at the head of the table,
+      he said, "If your worship will give me leave I will tell you a story of
+      what happened in my village about this matter of seats."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The moment Sancho said this Don Quixote trembled, making sure that he was
+      about to say something foolish. Sancho glanced at him, and guessing his
+      thoughts, said, "Don't be afraid of my going astray, senor, or saying
+      anything that won't be pat to the purpose; I haven't forgotten the advice
+      your worship gave me just now about talking much or little, well or ill."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I have no recollection of anything, Sancho," said Don Quixote; "say what
+      thou wilt, only say it quickly."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Well then," said Sancho, "what I am going to say is so true that my
+      master Don Quixote, who is here present, will keep me from lying."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Lie as much as thou wilt for all I care, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "for
+      I am not going to stop thee, but consider what thou art going to say."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I have so considered and reconsidered," said Sancho, "that the
+      bell-ringer's in a safe berth; as will be seen by what follows."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "It would be well," said Don Quixote, "if your highnesses would order them
+      to turn out this idiot, for he will talk a heap of nonsense."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "By the life of the duke, Sancho shall not be taken away from me for a
+      moment," said the duchess; "I am very fond of him, for I know he is very
+      discreet."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Discreet be the days of your holiness," said Sancho, "for the good
+      opinion you have of my wit, though there's none in me; but the story I
+      want to tell is this. There was an invitation given by a gentleman of my
+      town, a very rich one, and one of quality, for he was one of the Alamos of
+      Medina del Campo, and married to Dona Mencia de Quinones, the daughter of
+      Don Alonso de Maranon, Knight of the Order of Santiago, that was drowned
+      at the Herradura&mdash;him there was that quarrel about years ago in our
+      village, that my master Don Quixote was mixed up in, to the best of my
+      belief, that Tomasillo the scapegrace, the son of Balbastro the smith, was
+      wounded in.&mdash;Isn't all this true, master mine? As you live, say so,
+      that these gentlefolk may not take me for some lying chatterer."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "So far," said the ecclesiastic, "I take you to be more a chatterer than a
+      liar; but I don't know what I shall take you for by-and-by."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Thou citest so many witnesses and proofs, Sancho," said Don Quixote,
+      "that I have no choice but to say thou must be telling the truth; go on,
+      and cut the story short, for thou art taking the way not to make an end
+      for two days to come."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "He is not to cut it short," said the duchess; "on the contrary, for my
+      gratification, he is to tell it as he knows it, though he should not
+      finish it these six days; and if he took so many they would be to me the
+      pleasantest I ever spent."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Well then, sirs, I say," continued Sancho, "that this same gentleman,
+      whom I know as well as I do my own hands, for it's not a bowshot from my
+      house to his, invited a poor but respectable labourer-"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Get on, brother," said the churchman; "at the rate you are going you will
+      not stop with your story short of the next world."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I'll stop less than half-way, please God," said Sancho; "and so I say
+      this labourer, coming to the house of the gentleman I spoke of that
+      invited him&mdash;rest his soul, he is now dead; and more by token he died
+      the death of an angel, so they say; for I was not there, for just at that
+      time I had gone to reap at Tembleque-"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "As you live, my son," said the churchman, "make haste back from
+      Tembleque, and finish your story without burying the gentleman, unless you
+      want to make more funerals."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Well then, it so happened," said Sancho, "that as the pair of them were
+      going to sit down to table&mdash;and I think I can see them now plainer
+      than ever-"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Great was the enjoyment the duke and duchess derived from the irritation
+      the worthy churchman showed at the long-winded, halting way Sancho had of
+      telling his story, while Don Quixote was chafing with rage and vexation.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "So, as I was saying," continued Sancho, "as the pair of them were going
+      to sit down to table, as I said, the labourer insisted upon the
+      gentleman's taking the head of the table, and the gentleman insisted upon
+      the labourer's taking it, as his orders should be obeyed in his house; but
+      the labourer, who plumed himself on his politeness and good breeding,
+      would not on any account, until the gentleman, out of patience, putting
+      his hands on his shoulders, compelled him by force to sit down, saying,
+      'Sit down, you stupid lout, for wherever I sit will be the head to you;
+      and that's the story, and, troth, I think it hasn't been brought in amiss
+      here."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Don Quixote turned all colours, which, on his sunburnt face, mottled it
+      till it looked like jasper. The duke and duchess suppressed their laughter
+      so as not altogether to mortify Don Quixote, for they saw through Sancho's
+      impertinence; and to change the conversation, and keep Sancho from
+      uttering more absurdities, the duchess asked Don Quixote what news he had
+      of the lady Dulcinea, and if he had sent her any presents of giants or
+      miscreants lately, for he could not but have vanquished a good many.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      To which Don Quixote replied, "Senora, my misfortunes, though they had a
+      beginning, will never have an end. I have vanquished giants and I have
+      sent her caitiffs and miscreants; but where are they to find her if she is
+      enchanted and turned into the most ill-favoured peasant wench that can be
+      imagined?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I don't know," said Sancho Panza; "to me she seems the fairest creature
+      in the world; at any rate, in nimbleness and jumping she won't give in to
+      a tumbler; by my faith, senora duchess, she leaps from the ground on to
+      the back of an ass like a cat."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Have you seen her enchanted, Sancho?" asked the duke.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "What, seen her!" said Sancho; "why, who the devil was it but myself that
+      first thought of the enchantment business? She is as much enchanted as my
+      father."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The ecclesiastic, when he heard them talking of giants and caitiffs and
+      enchantments, began to suspect that this must be Don Quixote of La Mancha,
+      whose story the duke was always reading; and he had himself often reproved
+      him for it, telling him it was foolish to read such fooleries; and
+      becoming convinced that his suspicion was correct, addressing the duke, he
+      said very angrily to him, "Senor, your excellence will have to give
+      account to God for what this good man does. This Don Quixote, or Don
+      Simpleton, or whatever his name is, cannot, I imagine, be such a blockhead
+      as your excellence would have him, holding out encouragement to him to go
+      on with his vagaries and follies." Then turning to address Don Quixote he
+      said, "And you, num-skull, who put it into your head that you are a
+      knight-errant, and vanquish giants and capture miscreants? Go your ways in
+      a good hour, and in a good hour be it said to you. Go home and bring up
+      your children if you have any, and attend to your business, and give over
+      going wandering about the world, gaping and making a laughing-stock of
+      yourself to all who know you and all who don't. Where, in heaven's name,
+      have you discovered that there are or ever were knights-errant? Where are
+      there giants in Spain or miscreants in La Mancha, or enchanted Dulcineas,
+      or all the rest of the silly things they tell about you?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Don Quixote listened attentively to the reverend gentleman's words, and as
+      soon as he perceived he had done speaking, regardless of the presence of
+      the duke and duchess, he sprang to his feet with angry looks and an
+      agitated countenance, and said&mdash;But the reply deserves a chapter to
+      itself.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p31e" id="p31e"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p31e.jpg (46K)" src="images/p31e.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      <a name="ch32b" id="ch32b"></a>CHAPTER XXXII.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      OF THE REPLY DON QUIXOTE GAVE HIS CENSURER, WITH OTHER INCIDENTS, GRAVE
+      AND DROLL
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <a name="p32a" id="p32a"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p32a.jpg (152K)" src="images/p32a.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p32a.jpg"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br />
+      <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Don Quixote, then, having risen to his feet, trembling from head to foot
+      like a man dosed with mercury, said in a hurried, agitated voice, "The
+      place I am in, the presence in which I stand, and the respect I have and
+      always have had for the profession to which your worship belongs, hold and
+      bind the hands of my just indignation; and as well for these reasons as
+      because I know, as everyone knows, that a gownsman's weapon is the same as
+      a woman's, the tongue, I will with mine engage in equal combat with your
+      worship, from whom one might have expected good advice instead of foul
+      abuse. Pious, well-meant reproof requires a different demeanour and
+      arguments of another sort; at any rate, to have reproved me in public, and
+      so roughly, exceeds the bounds of proper reproof, for that comes better
+      with gentleness than with rudeness; and it is not seemly to call the
+      sinner roundly blockhead and booby, without knowing anything of the sin
+      that is reproved. Come, tell me, for which of the stupidities you have
+      observed in me do you condemn and abuse me, and bid me go home and look
+      after my house and wife and children, without knowing whether I have any?
+      Is nothing more needed than to get a footing, by hook or by crook, in
+      other people's houses to rule over the masters (and that, perhaps, after
+      having been brought up in all the straitness of some seminary, and without
+      having ever seen more of the world than may lie within twenty or thirty
+      leagues round), to fit one to lay down the law rashly for chivalry, and
+      pass judgment on knights-errant? Is it, haply, an idle occupation, or is
+      the time ill-spent that is spent in roaming the world in quest, not of its
+      enjoyments, but of those arduous toils whereby the good mount upwards to
+      the abodes of everlasting life? If gentlemen, great lords, nobles, men of
+      high birth, were to rate me as a fool I should take it as an irreparable
+      insult; but I care not a farthing if clerks who have never entered upon or
+      trod the paths of chivalry should think me foolish. Knight I am, and
+      knight I will die, if such be the pleasure of the Most High. Some take the
+      broad road of overweening ambition; others that of mean and servile
+      flattery; others that of deceitful hypocrisy, and some that of true
+      religion; but I, led by my star, follow the narrow path of
+      knight-errantry, and in pursuit of that calling I despise wealth, but not
+      honour. I have redressed injuries, righted wrongs, punished insolences,
+      vanquished giants, and crushed monsters; I am in love, for no other reason
+      than that it is incumbent on knights-errant to be so; but though I am, I
+      am no carnal-minded lover, but one of the chaste, platonic sort. My
+      intentions are always directed to worthy ends, to do good to all and evil
+      to none; and if he who means this, does this, and makes this his practice
+      deserves to be called a fool, it is for your highnesses to say, O most
+      excellent duke and duchess."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Good, by God!" cried Sancho; "say no more in your own defence, master
+      mine, for there's nothing more in the world to be said, thought, or
+      insisted on; and besides, when this gentleman denies, as he has, that
+      there are or ever have been any knights-errant in the world, is it any
+      wonder if he knows nothing of what he has been talking about?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Perhaps, brother," said the ecclesiastic, "you are that Sancho Panza that
+      is mentioned, to whom your master has promised an island?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Yes, I am," said Sancho, "and what's more, I am one who deserves it as
+      much as anyone; I am one of the sort&mdash;'Attach thyself to the good,
+      and thou wilt be one of them,' and of those, 'Not with whom thou art bred,
+      but with whom thou art fed,' and of those, 'Who leans against a good tree,
+      a good shade covers him;' I have leant upon a good master, and I have been
+      for months going about with him, and please God I shall be just such
+      another; long life to him and long life to me, for neither will he be in
+      any want of empires to rule, or I of islands to govern."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "No, Sancho my friend, certainly not," said the duke, "for in the name of
+      Senor Don Quixote I confer upon you the government of one of no small
+      importance that I have at my disposal."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Go down on thy knees, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "and kiss the feet of
+      his excellence for the favour he has bestowed upon thee."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Sancho obeyed, and on seeing this the ecclesiastic stood up from table
+      completely out of temper, exclaiming, "By the gown I wear, I am almost
+      inclined to say that your excellence is as great a fool as these sinners.
+      No wonder they are mad, when people who are in their senses sanction their
+      madness! I leave your excellence with them, for so long as they are in the
+      house, I will remain in my own, and spare myself the trouble of reproving
+      what I cannot remedy;" and without uttering another word, or eating
+      another morsel, he went off, the entreaties of the duke and duchess being
+      entirely unavailing to stop him; not that the duke said much to him, for
+      he could not, because of the laughter his uncalled-for anger provoked.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      When he had done laughing, he said to Don Quixote, "You have replied on
+      your own behalf so stoutly, Sir Knight of the Lions, that there is no
+      occasion to seek further satisfaction for this, which, though it may look
+      like an offence, is not so at all, for, as women can give no offence, no
+      more can ecclesiastics, as you very well know."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "That is true," said Don Quixote, "and the reason is, that he who is not
+      liable to offence cannot give offence to anyone. Women, children, and
+      ecclesiastics, as they cannot defend themselves, though they may receive
+      offence cannot be insulted, because between the offence and the insult
+      there is, as your excellence very well knows, this difference: the insult
+      comes from one who is capable of offering it, and does so, and maintains
+      it; the offence may come from any quarter without carrying insult. To take
+      an example: a man is standing unsuspectingly in the street and ten others
+      come up armed and beat him; he draws his sword and quits himself like a
+      man, but the number of his antagonists makes it impossible for him to
+      effect his purpose and avenge himself; this man suffers an offence but not
+      an insult. Another example will make the same thing plain: a man is
+      standing with his back turned, another comes up and strikes him, and after
+      striking him takes to flight, without waiting an instant, and the other
+      pursues him but does not overtake him; he who received the blow received
+      an offence, but not an insult, because an insult must be maintained. If he
+      who struck him, though he did so sneakingly and treacherously, had drawn
+      his sword and stood and faced him, then he who had been struck would have
+      received offence and insult at the same time; offence because he was
+      struck treacherously, insult because he who struck him maintained what he
+      had done, standing his ground without taking to flight. And so, according
+      to the laws of the accursed duel, I may have received offence, but not
+      insult, for neither women nor children can maintain it, nor can they
+      wound, nor have they any way of standing their ground, and it is just the
+      same with those connected with religion; for these three sorts of persons
+      are without arms offensive or defensive, and so, though naturally they are
+      bound to defend themselves, they have no right to offend anybody; and
+      though I said just now I might have received offence, I say now certainly
+      not, for he who cannot receive an insult can still less give one; for
+      which reasons I ought not to feel, nor do I feel, aggrieved at what that
+      good man said to me; I only wish he had stayed a little longer, that I
+      might have shown him the mistake he makes in supposing and maintaining
+      that there are not and never have been any knights-errant in the world;
+      had Amadis or any of his countless descendants heard him say as much, I am
+      sure it would not have gone well with his worship."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I will take my oath of that," said Sancho; "they would have given him a
+      slash that would have slit him down from top to toe like a pomegranate or
+      a ripe melon; they were likely fellows to put up with jokes of that sort!
+      By my faith, I'm certain if Reinaldos of Montalvan had heard the little
+      man's words he would have given him such a spank on the mouth that he
+      wouldn't have spoken for the next three years; ay, let him tackle them,
+      and he'll see how he'll get out of their hands!"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The duchess, as she listened to Sancho, was ready to die with laughter,
+      and in her own mind she set him down as droller and madder than his
+      master; and there were a good many just then who were of the same opinion.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Don Quixote finally grew calm, and dinner came to an end, and as the cloth
+      was removed four damsels came in, one of them with a silver basin, another
+      with a jug also of silver, a third with two fine white towels on her
+      shoulder, and the fourth with her arms bared to the elbows, and in her
+      white hands (for white they certainly were) a round ball of Naples soap.
+      The one with the basin approached, and with arch composure and impudence,
+      thrust it under Don Quixote's chin, who, wondering at such a ceremony,
+      said never a word, supposing it to be the custom of that country to wash
+      beards instead of hands; he therefore stretched his out as far as he
+      could, and at the same instant the jug began to pour and the damsel with
+      the soap rubbed his beard briskly, raising snow-flakes, for the soap
+      lather was no less white, not only over the beard, but all over the face,
+      and over the eyes of the submissive knight, so that they were perforce
+      obliged to keep shut. The duke and duchess, who had not known anything
+      about this, waited to see what came of this strange washing. The barber
+      damsel, when she had him a hand's breadth deep in lather, pretended that
+      there was no more water, and bade the one with the jug go and fetch some,
+      while Senor Don Quixote waited. She did so, and Don Quixote was left the
+      strangest and most ludicrous figure that could be imagined. All those
+      present, and there were a good many, were watching him, and as they saw
+      him there with half a yard of neck, and that uncommonly brown, his eyes
+      shut, and his beard full of soap, it was a great wonder, and only by great
+      discretion, that they were able to restrain their laughter. The damsels,
+      the concocters of the joke, kept their eyes down, not daring to look at
+      their master and mistress; and as for them, laughter and anger struggled
+      within them, and they knew not what to do, whether to punish the audacity
+      of the girls, or to reward them for the amusement they had received from
+      seeing Don Quixote in such a plight.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      At length the damsel with the jug returned and they made an end of washing
+      Don Quixote, and the one who carried the towels very deliberately wiped
+      him and dried him; and all four together making him a profound obeisance
+      and curtsey, they were about to go, when the duke, lest Don Quixote should
+      see through the joke, called out to the one with the basin saying, "Come
+      and wash me, and take care that there is water enough." The girl,
+      sharp-witted and prompt, came and placed the basin for the duke as she had
+      done for Don Quixote, and they soon had him well soaped and washed, and
+      having wiped him dry they made their obeisance and retired. It appeared
+      afterwards that the duke had sworn that if they had not washed him as they
+      had Don Quixote he would have punished them for their impudence, which
+      they adroitly atoned for by soaping him as well.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Sancho observed the ceremony of the washing very attentively, and said to
+      himself, "God bless me, if it were only the custom in this country to wash
+      squires' beards too as well as knights'. For by God and upon my soul I
+      want it badly; and if they gave me a scrape of the razor besides I'd take
+      it as a still greater kindness."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "What are you saying to yourself, Sancho?" asked the duchess.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I was saying, senora," he replied, "that in the courts of other princes,
+      when the cloth is taken away, I have always heard say they give water for
+      the hands, but not lye for the beard; and that shows it is good to live
+      long that you may see much; to be sure, they say too that he who lives a
+      long life must undergo much evil, though to undergo a washing of that sort
+      is pleasure rather than pain."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Don't be uneasy, friend Sancho," said the duchess; "I will take care that
+      my damsels wash you, and even put you in the tub if necessary."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I'll be content with the beard," said Sancho, "at any rate for the
+      present; and as for the future, God has decreed what is to be."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Attend to worthy Sancho's request, seneschal," said the duchess, "and do
+      exactly what he wishes."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The seneschal replied that Senor Sancho should be obeyed in everything;
+      and with that he went away to dinner and took Sancho along with him, while
+      the duke and duchess and Don Quixote remained at table discussing a great
+      variety of things, but all bearing on the calling of arms and
+      knight-errantry.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The duchess begged Don Quixote, as he seemed to have a retentive memory,
+      to describe and portray to her the beauty and features of the lady
+      Dulcinea del Toboso, for, judging by what fame trumpeted abroad of her
+      beauty, she felt sure she must be the fairest creature in the world, nay,
+      in all La Mancha.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Don Quixote sighed on hearing the duchess's request, and said, "If I could
+      pluck out my heart, and lay it on a plate on this table here before your
+      highness's eyes, it would spare my tongue the pain of telling what can
+      hardly be thought of, for in it your excellence would see her portrayed in
+      full. But why should I attempt to depict and describe in detail, and
+      feature by feature, the beauty of the peerless Dulcinea, the burden being
+      one worthy of other shoulders than mine, an enterprise wherein the pencils
+      of Parrhasius, Timantes, and Apelles, and the graver of Lysippus ought to
+      be employed, to paint it in pictures and carve it in marble and bronze,
+      and Ciceronian and Demosthenian eloquence to sound its praises?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "What does Demosthenian mean, Senor Don Quixote?" said the duchess; "it is
+      a word I never heard in all my life."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Demosthenian eloquence," said Don Quixote, "means the eloquence of
+      Demosthenes, as Ciceronian means that of Cicero, who were the two most
+      eloquent orators in the world."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "True," said the duke; "you must have lost your wits to ask such a
+      question. Nevertheless, Senor Don Quixote would greatly gratify us if he
+      would depict her to us; for never fear, even in an outline or sketch she
+      will be something to make the fairest envious."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I would do so certainly," said Don Quixote, "had she not been blurred to
+      my mind's eye by the misfortune that fell upon her a short time since, one
+      of such a nature that I am more ready to weep over it than to describe it.
+      For your highnesses must know that, going a few days back to kiss her
+      hands and receive her benediction, approbation, and permission for this
+      third sally, I found her altogether a different being from the one I
+      sought; I found her enchanted and changed from a princess into a peasant,
+      from fair to foul, from an angel into a devil, from fragrant to
+      pestiferous, from refined to clownish, from a dignified lady into a
+      jumping tomboy, and, in a word, from Dulcinea del Toboso into a coarse
+      Sayago wench."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "God bless me!" said the duke aloud at this, "who can have done the world
+      such an injury? Who can have robbed it of the beauty that gladdened it, of
+      the grace and gaiety that charmed it, of the modesty that shed a lustre
+      upon it?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Who?" replied Don Quixote; "who could it be but some malignant enchanter
+      of the many that persecute me out of envy&mdash;that accursed race born
+      into the world to obscure and bring to naught the achievements of the
+      good, and glorify and exalt the deeds of the wicked? Enchanters have
+      persecuted me, enchanters persecute me still, and enchanters will continue
+      to persecute me until they have sunk me and my lofty chivalry in the deep
+      abyss of oblivion; and they injure and wound me where they know I feel it
+      most. For to deprive a knight-errant of his lady is to deprive him of the
+      eyes he sees with, of the sun that gives him light, of the food whereby he
+      lives. Many a time before have I said it, and I say it now once more, a
+      knight-errant without a lady is like a tree without leaves, a building
+      without a foundation, or a shadow without the body that causes it."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "There is no denying it," said the duchess; "but still, if we are to
+      believe the history of Don Quixote that has come out here lately with
+      general applause, it is to be inferred from it, if I mistake not, that you
+      never saw the lady Dulcinea, and that the said lady is nothing in the
+      world but an imaginary lady, one that you yourself begot and gave birth to
+      in your brain, and adorned with whatever charms and perfections you
+      chose."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "There is a good deal to be said on that point," said Don Quixote; "God
+      knows whether there be any Dulcinea or not in the world, or whether she is
+      imaginary or not imaginary; these are things the proof of which must not
+      be pushed to extreme lengths. I have not begotten nor given birth to my
+      lady, though I behold her as she needs must be, a lady who contains in
+      herself all the qualities to make her famous throughout the world,
+      beautiful without blemish, dignified without haughtiness, tender and yet
+      modest, gracious from courtesy and courteous from good breeding, and
+      lastly, of exalted lineage, because beauty shines forth and excels with a
+      higher degree of perfection upon good blood than in the fair of lowly
+      birth."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "That is true," said the duke; "but Senor Don Quixote will give me leave
+      to say what I am constrained to say by the story of his exploits that I
+      have read, from which it is to be inferred that, granting there is a
+      Dulcinea in El Toboso, or out of it, and that she is in the highest degree
+      beautiful as you have described her to us, as regards the loftiness of her
+      lineage she is not on a par with the Orianas, Alastrajareas, Madasimas, or
+      others of that sort, with whom, as you well know, the histories abound."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "To that I may reply," said Don Quixote, "that Dulcinea is the daughter of
+      her own works, and that virtues rectify blood, and that lowly virtue is
+      more to be regarded and esteemed than exalted vice. Dulcinea, besides, has
+      that within her that may raise her to be a crowned and sceptred queen; for
+      the merit of a fair and virtuous woman is capable of performing greater
+      miracles; and virtually, though not formally, she has in herself higher
+      fortunes."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I protest, Senor Don Quixote," said the duchess, "that in all you say,
+      you go most cautiously and lead in hand, as the saying is; henceforth I
+      will believe myself, and I will take care that everyone in my house
+      believes, even my lord the duke if needs be, that there is a Dulcinea in
+      El Toboso, and that she is living to-day, and that she is beautiful and
+      nobly born and deserves to have such a knight as Senor Don Quixote in her
+      service, and that is the highest praise that it is in my power to give her
+      or that I can think of. But I cannot help entertaining a doubt, and having
+      a certain grudge against Sancho Panza; the doubt is this, that the
+      aforesaid history declares that the said Sancho Panza, when he carried a
+      letter on your worship's behalf to the said lady Dulcinea, found her
+      sifting a sack of wheat; and more by token it says it was red wheat; a
+      thing which makes me doubt the loftiness of her lineage."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      To this Don Quixote made answer, "Senora, your highness must know that
+      everything or almost everything that happens me transcends the ordinary
+      limits of what happens to other knights-errant; whether it be that it is
+      directed by the inscrutable will of destiny, or by the malice of some
+      jealous enchanter. Now it is an established fact that all or most famous
+      knights-errant have some special gift, one that of being proof against
+      enchantment, another that of being made of such invulnerable flesh that he
+      cannot be wounded, as was the famous Roland, one of the twelve peers of
+      France, of whom it is related that he could not be wounded except in the
+      sole of his left foot, and that it must be with the point of a stout pin
+      and not with any other sort of weapon whatever; and so, when Bernardo del
+      Carpio slew him at Roncesvalles, finding that he could not wound him with
+      steel, he lifted him up from the ground in his arms and strangled him,
+      calling to mind seasonably the death which Hercules inflicted on Antaeus,
+      the fierce giant that they say was the son of Terra. I would infer from
+      what I have mentioned that perhaps I may have some gift of this kind, not
+      that of being invulnerable, because experience has many times proved to me
+      that I am of tender flesh and not at all impenetrable; nor that of being
+      proof against enchantment, for I have already seen myself thrust into a
+      cage, in which all the world would not have been able to confine me except
+      by force of enchantments. But as I delivered myself from that one, I am
+      inclined to believe that there is no other that can hurt me; and so, these
+      enchanters, seeing that they cannot exert their vile craft against my
+      person, revenge themselves on what I love most, and seek to rob me of life
+      by maltreating that of Dulcinea in whom I live; and therefore I am
+      convinced that when my squire carried my message to her, they changed her
+      into a common peasant girl, engaged in such a mean occupation as sifting
+      wheat; I have already said, however, that that wheat was not red wheat,
+      nor wheat at all, but grains of orient pearl. And as a proof of all this,
+      I must tell your highnesses that, coming to El Toboso a short time back, I
+      was altogether unable to discover the palace of Dulcinea; and that the
+      next day, though Sancho, my squire, saw her in her own proper shape, which
+      is the fairest in the world, to me she appeared to be a coarse,
+      ill-favoured farm-wench, and by no means a well-spoken one, she who is
+      propriety itself. And so, as I am not and, so far as one can judge, cannot
+      be enchanted, she it is that is enchanted, that is smitten, that is
+      altered, changed, and transformed; in her have my enemies revenged
+      themselves upon me, and for her shall I live in ceaseless tears, until I
+      see her in her pristine state. I have mentioned this lest anybody should
+      mind what Sancho said about Dulcinea's winnowing or sifting; for, as they
+      changed her to me, it is no wonder if they changed her to him. Dulcinea is
+      illustrious and well-born, and of one of the gentle families of El Toboso,
+      which are many, ancient, and good. Therein, most assuredly, not small is
+      the share of the peerless Dulcinea, through whom her town will be famous
+      and celebrated in ages to come, as Troy was through Helen, and Spain
+      through La Cava, though with a better title and tradition. For another
+      thing; I would have your graces understand that Sancho Panza is one of the
+      drollest squires that ever served knight-errant; sometimes there is a
+      simplicity about him so acute that it is an amusement to try and make out
+      whether he is simple or sharp; he has mischievous tricks that stamp him
+      rogue, and blundering ways that prove him a booby; he doubts everything
+      and believes everything; when I fancy he is on the point of coming down
+      headlong from sheer stupidity, he comes out with something shrewd that
+      sends him up to the skies. After all, I would not exchange him for another
+      squire, though I were given a city to boot, and therefore I am in doubt
+      whether it will be well to send him to the government your highness has
+      bestowed upon him; though I perceive in him a certain aptitude for the
+      work of governing, so that, with a little trimming of his understanding,
+      he would manage any government as easily as the king does his taxes; and
+      moreover, we know already ample experience that it does not require much
+      cleverness or much learning to be a governor, for there are a hundred
+      round about us that scarcely know how to read, and govern like gerfalcons.
+      The main point is that they should have good intentions and be desirous of
+      doing right in all things, for they will never be at a loss for persons to
+      advise and direct them in what they have to do, like those
+      knight-governors who, being no lawyers, pronounce sentences with the aid
+      of an assessor. My advice to him will be to take no bribe and surrender no
+      right, and I have some other little matters in reserve, that shall be
+      produced in due season for Sancho's benefit and the advantage of the
+      island he is to govern."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The duke, duchess, and Don Quixote had reached this point in their
+      conversation, when they heard voices and a great hubbub in the palace, and
+      Sancho burst abruptly into the room all glowing with anger, with a
+      straining-cloth by way of a bib, and followed by several servants, or,
+      more properly speaking, kitchen-boys and other underlings, one of whom
+      carried a small trough full of water, that from its colour and impurity
+      was plainly dishwater. The one with the trough pursued him and followed
+      him everywhere he went, endeavouring with the utmost persistence to thrust
+      it under his chin, while another kitchen-boy seemed anxious to wash his
+      beard.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "What is all this, brothers?" asked the duchess. "What is it? What do you
+      want to do to this good man? Do you forget he is a governor-elect?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      To which the barber kitchen-boy replied, "The gentleman will not let
+      himself be washed as is customary, and as my lord and the senor his master
+      have been."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Yes, I will," said Sancho, in a great rage; "but I'd like it to be with
+      cleaner towels, clearer lye, and not such dirty hands; for there's not so
+      much difference between me and my master that he should be washed with
+      angels' water and I with devil's lye. The customs of countries and
+      princes' palaces are only good so long as they give no annoyance; but the
+      way of washing they have here is worse than doing penance. I have a clean
+      beard, and I don't require to be refreshed in that fashion, and whoever
+      comes to wash me or touch a hair of my head, I mean to say my beard, with
+      all due respect be it said, I'll give him a punch that will leave my fist
+      sunk in his skull; for cirimonies and soapings of this sort are more like
+      jokes than the polite attentions of one's host."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The duchess was ready to die with laughter when she saw Sancho's rage and
+      heard his words; but it was no pleasure to Don Quixote to see him in such
+      a sorry trim, with the dingy towel about him, and the hangers-on of the
+      kitchen all round him; so making a low bow to the duke and duchess, as if
+      to ask their permission to speak, he addressed the rout in a dignified
+      tone: "Holloa, gentlemen! you let that youth alone, and go back to where
+      you came from, or anywhere else if you like; my squire is as clean as any
+      other person, and those troughs are as bad as narrow thin-necked jars to
+      him; take my advice and leave him alone, for neither he nor I understand
+      joking."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Sancho took the word out of his mouth and went on, "Nay, let them come and
+      try their jokes on the country bumpkin, for it's about as likely I'll
+      stand them as that it's now midnight! Let them bring me a comb here, or
+      what they please, and curry this beard of mine, and if they get anything
+      out of it that offends against cleanliness, let them clip me to the skin."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Upon this, the duchess, laughing all the while, said, "Sancho Panza is
+      right, and always will be in all he says; he is clean, and, as he says
+      himself, he does not require to be washed; and if our ways do not please
+      him, he is free to choose. Besides, you promoters of cleanliness have been
+      excessively careless and thoughtless, I don't know if I ought not to say
+      audacious, to bring troughs and wooden utensils and kitchen dishclouts,
+      instead of basins and jugs of pure gold and towels of holland, to such a
+      person and such a beard; but, after all, you are ill-conditioned and
+      ill-bred, and spiteful as you are, you cannot help showing the grudge you
+      have against the squires of knights-errant."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The impudent servitors, and even the seneschal who came with them, took
+      the duchess to be speaking in earnest, so they removed the straining-cloth
+      from Sancho's neck, and with something like shame and confusion of face
+      went off all of them and left him; whereupon he, seeing himself safe out
+      of that extreme danger, as it seemed to him, ran and fell on his knees
+      before the duchess, saying, "From great ladies great favours may be looked
+      for; this which your grace has done me today cannot be requited with less
+      than wishing I was dubbed a knight-errant, to devote myself all the days
+      of my life to the service of so exalted a lady. I am a labouring man, my
+      name is Sancho Panza, I am married, I have children, and I am serving as a
+      squire; if in any one of these ways I can serve your highness, I will not
+      be longer in obeying than your grace in commanding."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "It is easy to see, Sancho," replied the duchess, "that you have learned
+      to be polite in the school of politeness itself; I mean to say it is easy
+      to see that you have been nursed in the bosom of Senor Don Quixote, who
+      is, of course, the cream of good breeding and flower of ceremony&mdash;or
+      cirimony, as you would say yourself. Fair be the fortunes of such a master
+      and such a servant, the one the cynosure of knight-errantry, the other the
+      star of squirely fidelity! Rise, Sancho, my friend; I will repay your
+      courtesy by taking care that my lord the duke makes good to you the
+      promised gift of the government as soon as possible."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      With this, the conversation came to an end, and Don Quixote retired to
+      take his midday sleep; but the duchess begged Sancho, unless he had a very
+      great desire to go to sleep, to come and spend the afternoon with her and
+      her damsels in a very cool chamber. Sancho replied that, though he
+      certainly had the habit of sleeping four or five hours in the heat of the
+      day in summer, to serve her excellence he would try with all his might not
+      to sleep even one that day, and that he would come in obedience to her
+      command, and with that he went off. The duke gave fresh orders with
+      respect to treating Don Quixote as a knight-errant, without departing even
+      in smallest particular from the style in which, as the stories tell us,
+      they used to treat the knights of old.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p32e" id="p32e"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p32e.jpg (16K)" src="images/p32e.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      <a name="ch33b" id="ch33b"></a>CHAPTER XXXIII.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      OF THE DELECTABLE DISCOURSE WHICH THE DUCHESS AND HER DAMSELS HELD WITH
+      SANCHO PANZA, WELL WORTH READING AND NOTING
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <a name="p33a" id="p33a"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p33a.jpg (138K)" src="images/p33a.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p33a.jpg"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br />
+      <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The history records that Sancho did not sleep that afternoon, but in order
+      to keep his word came, before he had well done dinner, to visit the
+      duchess, who, finding enjoyment in listening to him, made him sit down
+      beside her on a low seat, though Sancho, out of pure good breeding, wanted
+      not to sit down; the duchess, however, told him he was to sit down as
+      governor and talk as squire, as in both respects he was worthy of even the
+      chair of the Cid Ruy Diaz the Campeador. Sancho shrugged his shoulders,
+      obeyed, and sat down, and all the duchess's damsels and duennas gathered
+      round him, waiting in profound silence to hear what he would say. It was
+      the duchess, however, who spoke first, saying:
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Now that we are alone, and that there is nobody here to overhear us, I
+      should be glad if the senor governor would relieve me of certain doubts I
+      have, rising out of the history of the great Don Quixote that is now in
+      print. One is: inasmuch as worthy Sancho never saw Dulcinea, I mean the
+      lady Dulcinea del Toboso, nor took Don Quixote's letter to her, for it was
+      left in the memorandum book in the Sierra Morena, how did he dare to
+      invent the answer and all that about finding her sifting wheat, the whole
+      story being a deception and falsehood, and so much to the prejudice of the
+      peerless Dulcinea's good name, a thing that is not at all becoming the
+      character and fidelity of a good squire?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p33b" id="p33b"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p33b.jpg (326K)" src="images/p33b.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p33b.jpg"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br />
+      <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      At these words, Sancho, without uttering one in reply, got up from his
+      chair, and with noiseless steps, with his body bent and his finger on his
+      lips, went all round the room lifting up the hangings; and this done, he
+      came back to his seat and said, "Now, senora, that I have seen that there
+      is no one except the bystanders listening to us on the sly, I will answer
+      what you have asked me, and all you may ask me, without fear or dread. And
+      the first thing I have got to say is, that for my own part I hold my
+      master Don Quixote to be stark mad, though sometimes he says things that,
+      to my mind, and indeed everybody's that listens to him, are so wise, and
+      run in such a straight furrow, that Satan himself could not have said them
+      better; but for all that, really, and beyond all question, it's my firm
+      belief he is cracked. Well, then, as this is clear to my mind, I can
+      venture to make him believe things that have neither head nor tail, like
+      that affair of the answer to the letter, and that other of six or eight
+      days ago, which is not yet in history, that is to say, the affair of the
+      enchantment of my lady Dulcinea; for I made him believe she is enchanted,
+      though there's no more truth in it than over the hills of Ubeda."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The duchess begged him to tell her about the enchantment or deception, so
+      Sancho told the whole story exactly as it had happened, and his hearers
+      were not a little amused by it; and then resuming, the duchess said, "In
+      consequence of what worthy Sancho has told me, a doubt starts up in my
+      mind, and there comes a kind of whisper to my ear that says, 'If Don
+      Quixote be mad, crazy, and cracked, and Sancho Panza his squire knows it,
+      and, notwithstanding, serves and follows him, and goes trusting to his
+      empty promises, there can be no doubt he must be still madder and sillier
+      than his master; and that being so, it will be cast in your teeth, senora
+      duchess, if you give the said Sancho an island to govern; for how will he
+      who does not know how to govern himself know how to govern others?'"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "By God, senora," said Sancho, "but that doubt comes timely; but your
+      grace may say it out, and speak plainly, or as you like; for I know what
+      you say is true, and if I were wise I should have left my master long ago;
+      but this was my fate, this was my bad luck; I can't help it, I must follow
+      him; we're from the same village, I've eaten his bread, I'm fond of him,
+      I'm grateful, he gave me his ass-colts, and above all I'm faithful; so
+      it's quite impossible for anything to separate us, except the pickaxe and
+      shovel. And if your highness does not like to give me the government you
+      promised, God made me without it, and maybe your not giving it to me will
+      be all the better for my conscience, for fool as I am I know the proverb
+      'to her hurt the ant got wings,' and it may be that Sancho the squire will
+      get to heaven sooner than Sancho the governor. 'They make as good bread
+      here as in France,' and 'by night all cats are grey,' and 'a hard case
+      enough his, who hasn't broken his fast at two in the afternoon,' and
+      'there's no stomach a hand's breadth bigger than another,' and the same
+      can be filled 'with straw or hay,' as the saying is, and 'the little birds
+      of the field have God for their purveyor and caterer,' and 'four yards of
+      Cuenca frieze keep one warmer than four of Segovia broad-cloth,' and 'when
+      we quit this world and are put underground the prince travels by as narrow
+      a path as the journeyman,' and 'the Pope's body does not take up more feet
+      of earth than the sacristan's,' for all that the one is higher than the
+      other; for when we go to our graves we all pack ourselves up and make
+      ourselves small, or rather they pack us up and make us small in spite of
+      us, and then&mdash;good night to us. And I say once more, if your ladyship
+      does not like to give me the island because I'm a fool, like a wise man I
+      will take care to give myself no trouble about it; I have heard say that
+      'behind the cross there's the devil,' and that 'all that glitters is not
+      gold,' and that from among the oxen, and the ploughs, and the yokes, Wamba
+      the husbandman was taken to be made King of Spain, and from among
+      brocades, and pleasures, and riches, Roderick was taken to be devoured by
+      adders, if the verses of the old ballads don't lie."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "To be sure they don't lie!" exclaimed Dona Rodriguez, the duenna, who was
+      one of the listeners. "Why, there's a ballad that says they put King
+      Rodrigo alive into a tomb full of toads, and adders, and lizards, and that
+      two days afterwards the king, in a plaintive, feeble voice, cried out from
+      within the tomb-
+    </p>
+<pre xml:space="preserve">
+They gnaw me now, they gnaw me now,
+There where I most did sin.
+
+</pre>
+    <p>
+      And according to that the gentleman has good reason to say he would rather
+      be a labouring man than a king, if vermin are to eat him."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The duchess could not help laughing at the simplicity of her duenna, or
+      wondering at the language and proverbs of Sancho, to whom she said,
+      "Worthy Sancho knows very well that when once a knight has made a promise
+      he strives to keep it, though it should cost him his life. My lord and
+      husband the duke, though not one of the errant sort, is none the less a
+      knight for that reason, and will keep his word about the promised island,
+      in spite of the envy and malice of the world. Let Sancho be of good cheer;
+      for when he least expects it he will find himself seated on the throne of
+      his island and seat of dignity, and will take possession of his government
+      that he may discard it for another of three-bordered brocade. The charge I
+      give him is to be careful how he governs his vassals, bearing in mind that
+      they are all loyal and well-born."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "As to governing them well," said Sancho, "there's no need of charging me
+      to do that, for I'm kind-hearted by nature, and full of compassion for the
+      poor; there's no stealing the loaf from him who kneads and bakes;' and by
+      my faith it won't do to throw false dice with me; I am an old dog, and I
+      know all about 'tus, tus;' I can be wide-awake if need be, and I don't let
+      clouds come before my eyes, for I know where the shoe pinches me; I say
+      so, because with me the good will have support and protection, and the bad
+      neither footing nor access. And it seems to me that, in governments, to
+      make a beginning is everything; and maybe, after having been governor a
+      fortnight, I'll take kindly to the work and know more about it than the
+      field labour I have been brought up to."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "You are right, Sancho," said the duchess, "for no one is born ready
+      taught, and the bishops are made out of men and not out of stones. But to
+      return to the subject we were discussing just now, the enchantment of the
+      lady Dulcinea, I look upon it as certain, and something more than evident,
+      that Sancho's idea of practising a deception upon his master, making him
+      believe that the peasant girl was Dulcinea and that if he did not
+      recognise her it must be because she was enchanted, was all a device of
+      one of the enchanters that persecute Don Quixote. For in truth and
+      earnest, I know from good authority that the coarse country wench who
+      jumped up on the ass was and is Dulcinea del Toboso, and that worthy
+      Sancho, though he fancies himself the deceiver, is the one that is
+      deceived; and that there is no more reason to doubt the truth of this,
+      than of anything else we never saw. Senor Sancho Panza must know that we
+      too have enchanters here that are well disposed to us, and tell us what
+      goes on in the world, plainly and distinctly, without subterfuge or
+      deception; and believe me, Sancho, that agile country lass was and is
+      Dulcinea del Toboso, who is as much enchanted as the mother that bore her;
+      and when we least expect it, we shall see her in her own proper form, and
+      then Sancho will be disabused of the error he is under at present."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "All that's very possible," said Sancho Panza; "and now I'm willing to
+      believe what my master says about what he saw in the cave of Montesinos,
+      where he says he saw the lady Dulcinea del Toboso in the very same dress
+      and apparel that I said I had seen her in when I enchanted her all to
+      please myself. It must be all exactly the other way, as your ladyship
+      says; because it is impossible to suppose that out of my poor wit such a
+      cunning trick could be concocted in a moment, nor do I think my master is
+      so mad that by my weak and feeble persuasion he could be made to believe a
+      thing so out of all reason. But, senora, your excellence must not
+      therefore think me ill-disposed, for a dolt like me is not bound to see
+      into the thoughts and plots of those vile enchanters. I invented all that
+      to escape my master's scolding, and not with any intention of hurting him;
+      and if it has turned out differently, there is a God in heaven who judges
+      our hearts."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "That is true," said the duchess; "but tell me, Sancho, what is this you
+      say about the cave of Montesinos, for I should like to know."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Sancho upon this related to her, word for word, what has been said already
+      touching that adventure, and having heard it the duchess said, "From this
+      occurrence it may be inferred that, as the great Don Quixote says he saw
+      there the same country wench Sancho saw on the way from El Toboso, it is,
+      no doubt, Dulcinea, and that there are some very active and exceedingly
+      busy enchanters about."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "So I say," said Sancho, "and if my lady Dulcinea is enchanted, so much
+      the worse for her, and I'm not going to pick a quarrel with my master's
+      enemies, who seem to be many and spiteful. The truth is that the one I saw
+      was a country wench, and I set her down to be a country wench; and if that
+      was Dulcinea it must not be laid at my door, nor should I be called to
+      answer for it or take the consequences. But they must go nagging at me at
+      every step&mdash;'Sancho said it, Sancho did it, Sancho here, Sancho
+      there,' as if Sancho was nobody at all, and not that same Sancho Panza
+      that's now going all over the world in books, so Samson Carrasco told me,
+      and he's at any rate one that's a bachelor of Salamanca; and people of
+      that sort can't lie, except when the whim seizes them or they have some
+      very good reason for it. So there's no occasion for anybody to quarrel
+      with me; and then I have a good character, and, as I have heard my master
+      say, 'a good name is better than great riches;' let them only stick me
+      into this government and they'll see wonders, for one who has been a good
+      squire will be a good governor."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "All worthy Sancho's observations," said the duchess, "are Catonian
+      sentences, or at any rate out of the very heart of Michael Verino himself,
+      who florentibus occidit annis. In fact, to speak in his own style, 'under
+      a bad cloak there's often a good drinker.'"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Indeed, senora," said Sancho, "I never yet drank out of wickedness; from
+      thirst I have very likely, for I have nothing of the hypocrite in me; I
+      drink when I'm inclined, or, if I'm not inclined, when they offer it to
+      me, so as not to look either strait-laced or ill-bred; for when a friend
+      drinks one's health what heart can be so hard as not to return it? But if
+      I put on my shoes I don't dirty them; besides, squires to knights-errant
+      mostly drink water, for they are always wandering among woods, forests and
+      meadows, mountains and crags, without a drop of wine to be had if they
+      gave their eyes for it."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "So I believe," said the duchess; "and now let Sancho go and take his
+      sleep, and we will talk by-and-by at greater length, and settle how he may
+      soon go and stick himself into the government, as he says."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Sancho once more kissed the duchess's hand, and entreated her to let good
+      care be taken of his Dapple, for he was the light of his eyes.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "What is Dapple?" said the duchess.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "My ass," said Sancho, "which, not to mention him by that name, I'm
+      accustomed to call Dapple; I begged this lady duenna here to take care of
+      him when I came into the castle, and she got as angry as if I had said she
+      was ugly or old, though it ought to be more natural and proper for duennas
+      to feed asses than to ornament chambers. God bless me! what a spite a
+      gentleman of my village had against these ladies!"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "He must have been some clown," said Dona Rodriguez the duenna; "for if he
+      had been a gentleman and well-born he would have exalted them higher than
+      the horns of the moon."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "That will do," said the duchess; "no more of this; hush, Dona Rodriguez,
+      and let Senor Panza rest easy and leave the treatment of Dapple in my
+      charge, for as he is a treasure of Sancho's, I'll put him on the apple of
+      my eye."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "It will be enough for him to be in the stable," said Sancho, "for neither
+      he nor I are worthy to rest a moment in the apple of your highness's eye,
+      and I'd as soon stab myself as consent to it; for though my master says
+      that in civilities it is better to lose by a card too many than a card too
+      few, when it comes to civilities to asses we must mind what we are about
+      and keep within due bounds."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Take him to your government, Sancho," said the duchess, "and there you
+      will be able to make as much of him as you like, and even release him from
+      work and pension him off."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Don't think, senora duchess, that you have said anything absurd," said
+      Sancho; "I have seen more than two asses go to governments, and for me to
+      take mine with me would be nothing new."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Sancho's words made the duchess laugh again and gave her fresh amusement,
+      and dismissing him to sleep she went away to tell the duke the
+      conversation she had had with him, and between them they plotted and
+      arranged to play a joke upon Don Quixote that was to be a rare one and
+      entirely in knight-errantry style, and in that same style they practised
+      several upon him, so much in keeping and so clever that they form the best
+      adventures this great history contains.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p33e" id="p33e"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p33e.jpg (34K)" src="images/p33e.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      <a name="ch34b" id="ch34b"></a>CHAPTER XXXIV.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      WHICH RELATES HOW THEY LEARNED THE WAY IN WHICH THEY WERE TO DISENCHANT
+      THE PEERLESS DULCINEA DEL TOBOSO, WHICH IS ONE OF THE RAREST ADVENTURES IN
+      THIS BOOK
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <a name="p34a" id="p34a"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p34a.jpg (141K)" src="images/p34a.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p34a.jpg"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br />
+      <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Great was the pleasure the duke and duchess took in the conversation of
+      Don Quixote and Sancho Panza; and, more bent than ever upon the plan they
+      had of practising some jokes upon them that should have the look and
+      appearance of adventures, they took as their basis of action what Don
+      Quixote had already told them about the cave of Montesinos, in order to
+      play him a famous one. But what the duchess marvelled at above all was
+      that Sancho's simplicity could be so great as to make him believe as
+      absolute truth that Dulcinea had been enchanted, when it was he himself
+      who had been the enchanter and trickster in the business. Having,
+      therefore, instructed their servants in everything they were to do, six
+      days afterwards they took him out to hunt, with as great a retinue of
+      huntsmen and beaters as a crowned king.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      They presented Don Quixote with a hunting suit, and Sancho with another of
+      the finest green cloth; but Don Quixote declined to put his on, saying
+      that he must soon return to the hard pursuit of arms, and could not carry
+      wardrobes or stores with him. Sancho, however, took what they gave him,
+      meaning to sell it at the first opportunity.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The appointed day having arrived, Don Quixote armed himself, and Sancho
+      arrayed himself, and mounted on his Dapple (for he would not give him up
+      though they offered him a horse), he placed himself in the midst of the
+      troop of huntsmen. The duchess came out splendidly attired, and Don
+      Quixote, in pure courtesy and politeness, held the rein of her palfrey,
+      though the duke wanted not to allow him; and at last they reached a wood
+      that lay between two high mountains, where, after occupying various posts,
+      ambushes, and paths, and distributing the party in different positions,
+      the hunt began with great noise, shouting, and hallooing, so that, between
+      the baying of the hounds and the blowing of the horns, they could not hear
+      one another. The duchess dismounted, and with a sharp boar-spear in her
+      hand posted herself where she knew the wild boars were in the habit of
+      passing. The duke and Don Quixote likewise dismounted and placed
+      themselves one at each side of her. Sancho took up a position in the rear
+      of all without dismounting from Dapple, whom he dared not desert lest some
+      mischief should befall him. Scarcely had they taken their stand in a line
+      with several of their servants, when they saw a huge boar, closely pressed
+      by the hounds and followed by the huntsmen, making towards them, grinding
+      his teeth and tusks, and scattering foam from his mouth. As soon as he saw
+      him Don Quixote, bracing his shield on his arm, and drawing his sword,
+      advanced to meet him; the duke with boar-spear did the same; but the
+      duchess would have gone in front of them all had not the duke prevented
+      her. Sancho alone, deserting Dapple at the sight of the mighty beast, took
+      to his heels as hard as he could and strove in vain to mount a tall oak.
+      As he was clinging to a branch, however, half-way up in his struggle to
+      reach the top, the bough, such was his ill-luck and hard fate, gave way,
+      and caught in his fall by a broken limb of the oak, he hung suspended in
+      the air unable to reach the ground. Finding himself in this position, and
+      that the green coat was beginning to tear, and reflecting that if the
+      fierce animal came that way he might be able to get at him, he began to
+      utter such cries, and call for help so earnestly, that all who heard him
+      and did not see him felt sure he must be in the teeth of some wild beast.
+      In the end the tusked boar fell pierced by the blades of the many spears
+      they held in front of him; and Don Quixote, turning round at the cries of
+      Sancho, for he knew by them that it was he, saw him hanging from the oak
+      head downwards, with Dapple, who did not forsake him in his distress,
+      close beside him; and Cide Hamete observes that he seldom saw Sancho Panza
+      without seeing Dapple, or Dapple without seeing Sancho Panza; such was
+      their attachment and loyalty one to the other. Don Quixote went over and
+      unhooked Sancho, who, as soon as he found himself on the ground, looked at
+      the rent in his huntingcoat and was grieved to the heart, for he thought
+      he had got a patrimonial estate in that suit.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Meanwhile they had slung the mighty boar across the back of a mule, and
+      having covered it with sprigs of rosemary and branches of myrtle, they
+      bore it away as the spoils of victory to some large field-tents which had
+      been pitched in the middle of the wood, where they found the tables laid
+      and dinner served, in such grand and sumptuous style that it was easy to
+      see the rank and magnificence of those who had provided it. Sancho, as he
+      showed the rents in his torn suit to the duchess, observed, "If we had
+      been hunting hares, or after small birds, my coat would have been safe
+      from being in the plight it's in; I don't know what pleasure one can find
+      in lying in wait for an animal that may take your life with his tusk if he
+      gets at you. I recollect having heard an old ballad sung that says,
+    </p>
+<pre xml:space="preserve">
+  By bears be thou devoured, as erst
+  Was famous Favila."
+
+
+</pre>
+    <p>
+      "That," said Don Quixote, "was a Gothic king, who, going a-hunting, was
+      devoured by a bear."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Just so," said Sancho; "and I would not have kings and princes expose
+      themselves to such dangers for the sake of a pleasure which, to my mind,
+      ought not to be one, as it consists in killing an animal that has done no
+      harm whatever."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Quite the contrary, Sancho; you are wrong there," said the duke; "for
+      hunting is more suitable and requisite for kings and princes than for
+      anybody else. The chase is the emblem of war; it has stratagems, wiles,
+      and crafty devices for overcoming the enemy in safety; in it extreme cold
+      and intolerable heat have to be borne, indolence and sleep are despised,
+      the bodily powers are invigorated, the limbs of him who engages in it are
+      made supple, and, in a word, it is a pursuit which may be followed without
+      injury to anyone and with enjoyment to many; and the best of it is, it is
+      not for everybody, as field-sports of other sorts are, except hawking,
+      which also is only for kings and great lords. Reconsider your opinion
+      therefore, Sancho, and when you are governor take to hunting, and you will
+      find the good of it."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Nay," said Sancho, "the good governor should have a broken leg and keep
+      at home;" it would be a nice thing if, after people had been at the
+      trouble of coming to look for him on business, the governor were to be
+      away in the forest enjoying himself; the government would go on badly in
+      that fashion. By my faith, senor, hunting and amusements are more fit for
+      idlers than for governors; what I intend to amuse myself with is playing
+      all fours at Eastertime, and bowls on Sundays and holidays; for these
+      huntings don't suit my condition or agree with my conscience."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "God grant it may turn out so," said the duke; "because it's a long step
+      from saying to doing."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Be that as it may," said Sancho, "'pledges don't distress a good payer,'
+      and 'he whom God helps does better than he who gets up early,' and 'it's
+      the tripes that carry the feet and not the feet the tripes;' I mean to say
+      that if God gives me help and I do my duty honestly, no doubt I'll govern
+      better than a gerfalcon. Nay, let them only put a finger in my mouth, and
+      they'll see whether I can bite or not."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "The curse of God and all his saints upon thee, thou accursed Sancho!"
+      exclaimed Don Quixote; "when will the day come&mdash;as I have often said
+      to thee&mdash;when I shall hear thee make one single coherent, rational
+      remark without proverbs? Pray, your highnesses, leave this fool alone, for
+      he will grind your souls between, not to say two, but two thousand
+      proverbs, dragged in as much in season, and as much to the purpose as&mdash;may
+      God grant as much health to him, or to me if I want to listen to them!"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Sancho Panza's proverbs," said the duchess, "though more in number than
+      the Greek Commander's, are not therefore less to be esteemed for the
+      conciseness of the maxims. For my own part, I can say they give me more
+      pleasure than others that may be better brought in and more seasonably
+      introduced."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      In pleasant conversation of this sort they passed out of the tent into the
+      wood, and the day was spent in visiting some of the posts and
+      hiding-places, and then night closed in, not, however, as brilliantly or
+      tranquilly as might have been expected at the season, for it was then
+      midsummer; but bringing with it a kind of haze that greatly aided the
+      project of the duke and duchess; and thus, as night began to fall, and a
+      little after twilight set in, suddenly the whole wood on all four sides
+      seemed to be on fire, and shortly after, here, there, on all sides, a vast
+      number of trumpets and other military instruments were heard, as if
+      several troops of cavalry were passing through the wood. The blaze of the
+      fire and the noise of the warlike instruments almost blinded the eyes and
+      deafened the ears of those that stood by, and indeed of all who were in
+      the wood. Then there were heard repeated lelilies after the fashion of the
+      Moors when they rush to battle; trumpets and clarions brayed, drums beat,
+      fifes played, so unceasingly and so fast that he could not have had any
+      senses who did not lose them with the confused din of so many instruments.
+      The duke was astounded, the duchess amazed, Don Quixote wondering, Sancho
+      Panza trembling, and indeed, even they who were aware of the cause were
+      frightened. In their fear, silence fell upon them, and a postillion, in
+      the guise of a demon, passed in front of them, blowing, in lieu of a
+      bugle, a huge hollow horn that gave out a horrible hoarse note.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Ho there! brother courier," cried the duke, "who are you? Where are you
+      going? What troops are these that seem to be passing through the wood?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      To which the courier replied in a harsh, discordant voice, "I am the
+      devil; I am in search of Don Quixote of La Mancha; those who are coming
+      this way are six troops of enchanters, who are bringing on a triumphal car
+      the peerless Dulcinea del Toboso; she comes under enchantment, together
+      with the gallant Frenchman Montesinos, to give instructions to Don Quixote
+      as to how, she the said lady, may be disenchanted."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "If you were the devil, as you say and as your appearance indicates," said
+      the duke, "you would have known the said knight Don Quixote of La Mancha,
+      for you have him here before you."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "By God and upon my conscience," said the devil, "I never observed it, for
+      my mind is occupied with so many different things that I was forgetting
+      the main thing I came about."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "This demon must be an honest fellow and a good Christian," said Sancho;
+      "for if he wasn't he wouldn't swear by God and his conscience; I feel sure
+      now there must be good souls even in hell itself."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Without dismounting, the demon then turned to Don Quixote and said, "The
+      unfortunate but valiant knight Montesinos sends me to thee, the Knight of
+      the Lions (would that I saw thee in their claws), bidding me tell thee to
+      wait for him wherever I may find thee, as he brings with him her whom they
+      call Dulcinea del Toboso, that he may show thee what is needful in order
+      to disenchant her; and as I came for no more I need stay no longer; demons
+      of my sort be with thee, and good angels with these gentles;" and so
+      saying he blew his huge horn, turned about and went off without waiting
+      for a reply from anyone.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      They all felt fresh wonder, but particularly Sancho and Don Quixote;
+      Sancho to see how, in defiance of the truth, they would have it that
+      Dulcinea was enchanted; Don Quixote because he could not feel sure whether
+      what had happened to him in the cave of Montesinos was true or not; and as
+      he was deep in these cogitations the duke said to him, "Do you mean to
+      wait, Senor Don Quixote?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Why not?" replied he; "here will I wait, fearless and firm, though all
+      hell should come to attack me."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Well then, if I see another devil or hear another horn like the last,
+      I'll wait here as much as in Flanders," said Sancho.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Night now closed in more completely, and many lights began to flit through
+      the wood, just as those fiery exhalations from the earth, that look like
+      shooting-stars to our eyes, flit through the heavens; a frightful noise,
+      too, was heard, like that made by the solid wheels the ox-carts usually
+      have, by the harsh, ceaseless creaking of which, they say, the bears and
+      wolves are put to flight, if there happen to be any where they are
+      passing. In addition to all this commotion, there came a further
+      disturbance to increase the tumult, for now it seemed as if in truth, on
+      all four sides of the wood, four encounters or battles were going on at
+      the same time; in one quarter resounded the dull noise of a terrible
+      cannonade, in another numberless muskets were being discharged, the shouts
+      of the combatants sounded almost close at hand, and farther away the
+      Moorish lelilies were raised again and again. In a word, the bugles, the
+      horns, the clarions, the trumpets, the drums, the cannon, the musketry,
+      and above all the tremendous noise of the carts, all made up together a
+      din so confused and terrific that Don Quixote had need to summon up all
+      his courage to brave it; but Sancho's gave way, and he fell fainting on
+      the skirt of the duchess's robe, who let him lie there and promptly bade
+      them throw water in his face. This was done, and he came to himself by the
+      time that one of the carts with the creaking wheels reached the spot. It
+      was drawn by four plodding oxen all covered with black housings; on each
+      horn they had fixed a large lighted wax taper, and on the top of the cart
+      was constructed a raised seat, on which sat a venerable old man with a
+      beard whiter than the very snow, and so long that it fell below his waist;
+      he was dressed in a long robe of black buckram; for as the cart was
+      thickly set with a multitude of candles it was easy to make out everything
+      that was on it. Leading it were two hideous demons, also clad in buckram,
+      with countenances so frightful that Sancho, having once seen them, shut
+      his eyes so as not to see them again. As soon as the cart came opposite
+      the spot the old man rose from his lofty seat, and standing up said in a
+      loud voice, "I am the sage Lirgandeo," and without another word the cart
+      then passed on. Behind it came another of the same form, with another aged
+      man enthroned, who, stopping the cart, said in a voice no less solemn than
+      that of the first, "I am the sage Alquife, the great friend of Urganda the
+      Unknown," and passed on. Then another cart came by at the same pace, but
+      the occupant of the throne was not old like the others, but a man stalwart
+      and robust, and of a forbidding countenance, who as he came up said in a
+      voice far hoarser and more devilish, "I am the enchanter Archelaus, the
+      mortal enemy of Amadis of Gaul and all his kindred," and then passed on.
+      Having gone a short distance the three carts halted and the monotonous
+      noise of their wheels ceased, and soon after they heard another, not
+      noise, but sound of sweet, harmonious music, of which Sancho was very
+      glad, taking it to be a good sign; and said he to the duchess, from whom
+      he did not stir a step, or for a single instant, "Senora, where there's
+      music there can't be mischief."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Nor where there are lights and it is bright," said the duchess; to which
+      Sancho replied, "Fire gives light, and it's bright where there are
+      bonfires, as we see by those that are all round us and perhaps may burn
+      us; but music is a sign of mirth and merrymaking."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "That remains to be seen," said Don Quixote, who was listening to all that
+      passed; and he was right, as is shown in the following chapter.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p34e" id="p34e"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p34e.jpg (47K)" src="images/p34e.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      <a name="ch35b" id="ch35b"></a>CHAPTER XXXV.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      WHEREIN IS CONTINUED THE INSTRUCTION GIVEN TO DON QUIXOTE TOUCHING THE
+      DISENCHANTMENT OF DULCINEA, TOGETHER WITH OTHER MARVELLOUS INCIDENTS
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <a name="p35a" id="p35a"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p35a.jpg (108K)" src="images/p35a.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p35a.jpg"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br />
+      <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      They saw advancing towards them, to the sound of this pleasing music, what
+      they call a triumphal car, drawn by six grey mules with white linen
+      housings, on each of which was mounted a penitent, robed also in white,
+      with a large lighted wax taper in his hand. The car was twice or, perhaps,
+      three times as large as the former ones, and in front and on the sides
+      stood twelve more penitents, all as white as snow and all with lighted
+      tapers, a spectacle to excite fear as well as wonder; and on a raised
+      throne was seated a nymph draped in a multitude of silver-tissue veils
+      with an embroidery of countless gold spangles glittering all over them,
+      that made her appear, if not richly, at least brilliantly, apparelled. She
+      had her face covered with thin transparent sendal, the texture of which
+      did not prevent the fair features of a maiden from being distinguished,
+      while the numerous lights made it possible to judge of her beauty and of
+      her years, which seemed to be not less than seventeen but not to have yet
+      reached twenty. Beside her was a figure in a robe of state, as they call
+      it, reaching to the feet, while the head was covered with a black veil.
+      But the instant the car was opposite the duke and duchess and Don Quixote
+      the music of the clarions ceased, and then that of the lutes and harps on
+      the car, and the figure in the robe rose up, and flinging it apart and
+      removing the veil from its face, disclosed to their eyes the shape of
+      Death itself, fleshless and hideous, at which sight Don Quixote felt
+      uneasy, Sancho frightened, and the duke and duchess displayed a certain
+      trepidation. Having risen to its feet, this living death, in a sleepy
+      voice and with a tongue hardly awake, held forth as follows:
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p35b" id="p35b"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p35b.jpg (232K)" src="images/p35b.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p35b.jpg"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br />
+      <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+<pre xml:space="preserve">
+I am that Merlin who the legends say
+The devil had for father, and the lie
+Hath gathered credence with the lapse of time.
+Of magic prince, of Zoroastric lore
+Monarch and treasurer, with jealous eye
+I view the efforts of the age to hide
+The gallant deeds of doughty errant knights,
+Who are, and ever have been, dear to me.
+  Enchanters and magicians and their kind
+
+Are mostly hard of heart; not so am I;
+For mine is tender, soft, compassionate,
+And its delight is doing good to all.
+In the dim caverns of the gloomy Dis,
+Where, tracing mystic lines and characters,
+My soul abideth now, there came to me
+The sorrow-laden plaint of her, the fair,
+The peerless Dulcinea del Toboso.
+I knew of her enchantment and her fate,
+From high-born dame to peasant wench transformed
+And touched with pity, first I turned the leaves
+Of countless volumes of my devilish craft,
+And then, in this grim grisly skeleton
+Myself encasing, hither have I come
+To show where lies the fitting remedy
+To give relief in such a piteous case.
+  O thou, the pride and pink of all that wear
+
+The adamantine steel! O shining light,
+O beacon, polestar, path and guide of all
+Who, scorning slumber and the lazy down,
+Adopt the toilsome life of bloodstained arms!
+To thee, great hero who all praise transcends,
+La Mancha's lustre and Iberia's star,
+Don Quixote, wise as brave, to thee I say&mdash;
+For peerless Dulcinea del Toboso
+Her pristine form and beauty to regain,
+'T is needful that thy esquire Sancho shall,
+On his own sturdy buttocks bared to heaven,
+Three thousand and three hundred lashes lay,
+And that they smart and sting and hurt him well.
+Thus have the authors of her woe resolved.
+And this is, gentles, wherefore I have come.
+
+</pre>
+    <p>
+      "By all that's good," exclaimed Sancho at this, "I'll just as soon give
+      myself three stabs with a dagger as three, not to say three thousand,
+      lashes. The devil take such a way of disenchanting! I don't see what my
+      backside has got to do with enchantments. By God, if Senor Merlin has not
+      found out some other way of disenchanting the lady Dulcinea del Toboso,
+      she may go to her grave enchanted."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "But I'll take you, Don Clown stuffed with garlic," said Don Quixote, "and
+      tie you to a tree as naked as when your mother brought you forth, and give
+      you, not to say three thousand three hundred, but six thousand six hundred
+      lashes, and so well laid on that they won't be got rid of if you try three
+      thousand three hundred times; don't answer me a word or I'll tear your
+      soul out."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      On hearing this Merlin said, "That will not do, for the lashes worthy
+      Sancho has to receive must be given of his own free will and not by force,
+      and at whatever time he pleases, for there is no fixed limit assigned to
+      him; but it is permitted him, if he likes to commute by half the pain of
+      this whipping, to let them be given by the hand of another, though it may
+      be somewhat weighty."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Not a hand, my own or anybody else's, weighty or weighable, shall touch
+      me," said Sancho. "Was it I that gave birth to the lady Dulcinea del
+      Toboso, that my backside is to pay for the sins of her eyes? My master,
+      indeed, that's a part of her&mdash;for, he's always calling her 'my life'
+      and 'my soul,' and his stay and prop&mdash;may and ought to whip himself
+      for her and take all the trouble required for her disenchantment. But for
+      me to whip myself! Abernuncio!"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      As soon as Sancho had done speaking the nymph in silver that was at the
+      side of Merlin's ghost stood up, and removing the thin veil from her face
+      disclosed one that seemed to all something more than exceedingly
+      beautiful; and with a masculine freedom from embarrassment and in a voice
+      not very like a lady's, addressing Sancho directly, said, "Thou wretched
+      squire, soul of a pitcher, heart of a cork tree, with bowels of flint and
+      pebbles; if, thou impudent thief, they bade thee throw thyself down from
+      some lofty tower; if, enemy of mankind, they asked thee to swallow a dozen
+      of toads, two of lizards, and three of adders; if they wanted thee to slay
+      thy wife and children with a sharp murderous scimitar, it would be no
+      wonder for thee to show thyself stubborn and squeamish. But to make a
+      piece of work about three thousand three hundred lashes, what every poor
+      little charity-boy gets every month&mdash;it is enough to amaze, astonish,
+      astound the compassionate bowels of all who hear it, nay, all who come to
+      hear it in the course of time. Turn, O miserable, hard-hearted animal,
+      turn, I say, those timorous owl's eyes upon these of mine that are
+      compared to radiant stars, and thou wilt see them weeping trickling
+      streams and rills, and tracing furrows, tracks, and paths over the fair
+      fields of my cheeks. Let it move thee, crafty, ill-conditioned monster, to
+      see my blooming youth&mdash;still in its teens, for I am not yet twenty&mdash;wasting
+      and withering away beneath the husk of a rude peasant wench; and if I do
+      not appear in that shape now, it is a special favour Senor Merlin here has
+      granted me, to the sole end that my beauty may soften thee; for the tears
+      of beauty in distress turn rocks into cotton and tigers into ewes. Lay on
+      to that hide of thine, thou great untamed brute, rouse up thy lusty vigour
+      that only urges thee to eat and eat, and set free the softness of my
+      flesh, the gentleness of my nature, and the fairness of my face. And if
+      thou wilt not relent or come to reason for me, do so for the sake of that
+      poor knight thou hast beside thee; thy master I mean, whose soul I can
+      this moment see, how he has it stuck in his throat not ten fingers from
+      his lips, and only waiting for thy inflexible or yielding reply to make
+      its escape by his mouth or go back again into his stomach."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Don Quixote on hearing this felt his throat, and turning to the duke he
+      said, "By God, senor, Dulcinea says true, I have my soul stuck here in my
+      throat like the nut of a crossbow."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "What say you to this, Sancho?" said the duchess.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I say, senora," returned Sancho, "what I said before; as for the lashes,
+      abernuncio!"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Abrenuncio, you should say, Sancho, and not as you do," said the duke.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Let me alone, your highness," said Sancho. "I'm not in a humour now to
+      look into niceties or a letter more or less, for these lashes that are to
+      be given me, or I'm to give myself, have so upset me, that I don't know
+      what I'm saying or doing. But I'd like to know of this lady, my lady
+      Dulcinea del Toboso, where she learned this way she has of asking favours.
+      She comes to ask me to score my flesh with lashes, and she calls me soul
+      of a pitcher, and great untamed brute, and a string of foul names that the
+      devil is welcome to. Is my flesh brass? or is it anything to me whether
+      she is enchanted or not? Does she bring with her a basket of fair linen,
+      shirts, kerchiefs, socks&mdash;not that I wear any&mdash;to coax me? No,
+      nothing but one piece of abuse after another, though she knows the proverb
+      they have here that 'an ass loaded with gold goes lightly up a mountain,'
+      and that 'gifts break rocks,' and 'praying to God and plying the hammer,'
+      and that 'one "take" is better than two "I'll give thee's."' Then there's
+      my master, who ought to stroke me down and pet me to make me turn wool and
+      carded cotton; he says if he gets hold of me he'll tie me naked to a tree
+      and double the tale of lashes on me. These tender-hearted gentry should
+      consider that it's not merely a squire, but a governor they are asking to
+      whip himself; just as if it was 'drink with cherries.' Let them learn,
+      plague take them, the right way to ask, and beg, and behave themselves;
+      for all times are not alike, nor are people always in good humour. I'm now
+      ready to burst with grief at seeing my green coat torn, and they come to
+      ask me to whip myself of my own free will, I having as little fancy for it
+      as for turning cacique."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Well then, the fact is, friend Sancho," said the duke, "that unless you
+      become softer than a ripe fig, you shall not get hold of the government.
+      It would be a nice thing for me to send my islanders a cruel governor with
+      flinty bowels, who won't yield to the tears of afflicted damsels or to the
+      prayers of wise, magisterial, ancient enchanters and sages. In short,
+      Sancho, either you must be whipped by yourself, or they must whip you, or
+      you shan't be governor."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Senor," said Sancho, "won't two days' grace be given me in which to
+      consider what is best for me?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "No, certainly not," said Merlin; "here, this minute, and on the spot, the
+      matter must be settled; either Dulcinea will return to the cave of
+      Montesinos and to her former condition of peasant wench, or else in her
+      present form shall be carried to the Elysian fields, where she will remain
+      waiting until the number of stripes is completed."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Now then, Sancho!" said the duchess, "show courage, and gratitude for
+      your master Don Quixote's bread that you have eaten; we are all bound to
+      oblige and please him for his benevolent disposition and lofty chivalry.
+      Consent to this whipping, my son; to the devil with the devil, and leave
+      fear to milksops, for 'a stout heart breaks bad luck,' as you very well
+      know."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      To this Sancho replied with an irrelevant remark, which, addressing
+      Merlin, he made to him, "Will your worship tell me, Senor Merlin&mdash;when
+      that courier devil came up he gave my master a message from Senor
+      Montesinos, charging him to wait for him here, as he was coming to arrange
+      how the lady Dona Dulcinea del Toboso was to be disenchanted; but up to
+      the present we have not seen Montesinos, nor anything like him."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      To which Merlin made answer, "The devil, Sancho, is a blockhead and a
+      great scoundrel; I sent him to look for your master, but not with a
+      message from Montesinos but from myself; for Montesinos is in his cave
+      expecting, or more properly speaking, waiting for his disenchantment; for
+      there's the tail to be skinned yet for him; if he owes you anything, or
+      you have any business to transact with him, I'll bring him to you and put
+      him where you choose; but for the present make up your mind to consent to
+      this penance, and believe me it will be very good for you, for soul as
+      well for body&mdash;for your soul because of the charity with which you
+      perform it, for your body because I know that you are of a sanguine habit
+      and it will do you no harm to draw a little blood."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "There are a great many doctors in the world; even the enchanters are
+      doctors," said Sancho; "however, as everybody tells me the same thing&mdash;though
+      I can't see it myself&mdash;I say I am willing to give myself the three
+      thousand three hundred lashes, provided I am to lay them on whenever I
+      like, without any fixing of days or times; and I'll try and get out of
+      debt as quickly as I can, that the world may enjoy the beauty of the lady
+      Dulcinea del Toboso; as it seems, contrary to what I thought, that she is
+      beautiful after all. It must be a condition, too, that I am not to be
+      bound to draw blood with the scourge, and that if any of the lashes happen
+      to be fly-flappers they are to count. Item, that, in case I should make
+      any mistake in the reckoning, Senor Merlin, as he knows everything, is to
+      keep count, and let me know how many are still wanting or over the
+      number."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "There will be no need to let you know of any over," said Merlin,
+      "because, when you reach the full number, the lady Dulcinea will at once,
+      and that very instant, be disenchanted, and will come in her gratitude to
+      seek out the worthy Sancho, and thank him, and even reward him for the
+      good work. So you have no cause to be uneasy about stripes too many or too
+      few; heaven forbid I should cheat anyone of even a hair of his head."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Well then, in God's hands be it," said Sancho; "in the hard case I'm in I
+      give in; I say I accept the penance on the conditions laid down."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The instant Sancho uttered these last words the music of the clarions
+      struck up once more, and again a host of muskets were discharged, and Don
+      Quixote hung on Sancho's neck kissing him again and again on the forehead
+      and cheeks. The duchess and the duke expressed the greatest satisfaction,
+      the car began to move on, and as it passed the fair Dulcinea bowed to the
+      duke and duchess and made a low curtsey to Sancho.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p35c" id="p35c"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p35c.jpg (284K)" src="images/p35c.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p35c.jpg"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br />
+      <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      And now bright smiling dawn came on apace; the flowers of the field,
+      revived, raised up their heads, and the crystal waters of the brooks,
+      murmuring over the grey and white pebbles, hastened to pay their tribute
+      to the expectant rivers; the glad earth, the unclouded sky, the fresh
+      breeze, the clear light, each and all showed that the day that came
+      treading on the skirts of morning would be calm and bright. The duke and
+      duchess, pleased with their hunt and at having carried out their plans so
+      cleverly and successfully, returned to their castle resolved to follow up
+      their joke; for to them there was no reality that could afford them more
+      amusement.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p35e" id="p35e"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p35e.jpg (10K)" src="images/p35e.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      <a name="ch36b" id="ch36b"></a>CHAPTER XXXVI.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      WHEREIN IS RELATED THE STRANGE AND UNDREAMT-OF ADVENTURE OF THE DISTRESSED
+      DUENNA, ALIAS THE COUNTESS TRIFALDI, TOGETHER WITH A LETTER WHICH SANCHO
+      PANZA WROTE TO HIS WIFE, TERESA PANZA
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <a name="p36a" id="p36a"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p36a.jpg (150K)" src="images/p36a.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p36a.jpg"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br />
+      <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The duke had a majordomo of a very facetious and sportive turn, and he it
+      was that played the part of Merlin, made all the arrangements for the late
+      adventure, composed the verses, and got a page to represent Dulcinea; and
+      now, with the assistance of his master and mistress, he got up another of
+      the drollest and strangest contrivances that can be imagined.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The duchess asked Sancho the next day if he had made a beginning with his
+      penance task which he had to perform for the disenchantment of Dulcinea.
+      He said he had, and had given himself five lashes overnight.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The duchess asked him what he had given them with.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      He said with his hand.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "That," said the duchess, "is more like giving oneself slaps than lashes;
+      I am sure the sage Merlin will not be satisfied with such tenderness;
+      worthy Sancho must make a scourge with claws, or a cat-o'-nine tails, that
+      will make itself felt; for it's with blood that letters enter, and the
+      release of so great a lady as Dulcinea will not be granted so cheaply, or
+      at such a paltry price; and remember, Sancho, that works of charity done
+      in a lukewarm and half-hearted way are without merit and of no avail."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      To which Sancho replied, "If your ladyship will give me a proper scourge
+      or cord, I'll lay on with it, provided it does not hurt too much; for you
+      must know, boor as I am, my flesh is more cotton than hemp, and it won't
+      do for me to destroy myself for the good of anybody else."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "So be it by all means," said the duchess; "tomorrow I'll give you a
+      scourge that will be just the thing for you, and will accommodate itself
+      to the tenderness of your flesh, as if it was its own sister."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Then said Sancho, "Your highness must know, dear lady of my soul, that I
+      have a letter written to my wife, Teresa Panza, giving her an account of
+      all that has happened me since I left her; I have it here in my bosom, and
+      there's nothing wanting but to put the address to it; I'd be glad if your
+      discretion would read it, for I think it runs in the governor style; I
+      mean the way governors ought to write."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "And who dictated it?" asked the duchess.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Who should have dictated but myself, sinner as I am?" said Sancho.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "And did you write it yourself?" said the duchess.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "That I didn't," said Sancho; "for I can neither read nor write, though I
+      can sign my name."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Let us see it," said the duchess, "for never fear but you display in it
+      the quality and quantity of your wit."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Sancho drew out an open letter from his bosom, and the duchess, taking it,
+      found it ran in this fashion:
+    </p>
+    <blockquote>
+      <p>
+        SANCHO PANZA'S LETTER TO HIS WIFE, TERESA PANZA
+      </p>
+      <p>
+        If I was well whipped I went mounted like a gentleman; if I have got a
+        good government it is at the cost of a good whipping. Thou wilt not
+        understand this just now, my Teresa; by-and-by thou wilt know what it
+        means. I may tell thee, Teresa, I mean thee to go in a coach, for that
+        is a matter of importance, because every other way of going is going on
+        all-fours. Thou art a governor's wife; take care that nobody speaks evil
+        of thee behind thy back. I send thee here a green hunting suit that my
+        lady the duchess gave me; alter it so as to make a petticoat and bodice
+        for our daughter. Don Quixote, my master, if I am to believe what I hear
+        in these parts, is a madman of some sense, and a droll blockhead, and I
+        am in no way behind him. We have been in the cave of Montesinos, and the
+        sage Merlin has laid hold of me for the disenchantment of Dulcinea del
+        Toboso, her that is called Aldonza Lorenzo over there. With three
+        thousand three hundred lashes, less five, that I'm to give myself, she
+        will be left as entirely disenchanted as the mother that bore her. Say
+        nothing of this to anyone; for, make thy affairs public, and some will
+        say they are white and others will say they are black. I shall leave
+        this in a few days for my government, to which I am going with a mighty
+        great desire to make money, for they tell me all new governors set out
+        with the same desire; I will feel the pulse of it and will let thee know
+        if thou art to come and live with me or not. Dapple is well and sends
+        many remembrances to thee; I am not going to leave him behind though
+        they took me away to be Grand Turk. My lady the duchess kisses thy hands
+        a thousand times; do thou make a return with two thousand, for as my
+        master says, nothing costs less or is cheaper than civility. God has not
+        been pleased to provide another valise for me with another hundred
+        crowns, like the one the other day; but never mind, my Teresa, the
+        bell-ringer is in safe quarters, and all will come out in the scouring
+        of the government; only it troubles me greatly what they tell me&mdash;that
+        once I have tasted it I will eat my hands off after it; and if that is
+        so it will not come very cheap to me; though to be sure the maimed have
+        a benefice of their own in the alms they beg for; so that one way or
+        another thou wilt be rich and in luck. God give it to thee as he can,
+        and keep me to serve thee. From this castle, the 20th of July, 1614.
+      </p>
+      <p>
+        Thy husband, the governor.
+      </p>
+      <p>
+        SANCHO PANZA
+      </p>
+    </blockquote>
+    <p>
+      When she had done reading the letter the duchess said to Sancho, "On two
+      points the worthy governor goes rather astray; one is in saying or hinting
+      that this government has been bestowed upon him for the lashes that he is
+      to give himself, when he knows (and he cannot deny it) that when my lord
+      the duke promised it to him nobody ever dreamt of such a thing as lashes;
+      the other is that he shows himself here to be very covetous; and I would
+      not have him a money-seeker, for 'covetousness bursts the bag,' and the
+      covetous governor does ungoverned justice."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I don't mean it that way, senora," said Sancho; "and if you think the
+      letter doesn't run as it ought to do, it's only to tear it up and make
+      another; and maybe it will be a worse one if it is left to my gumption."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "No, no," said the duchess, "this one will do, and I wish the duke to see
+      it."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      With this they betook themselves to a garden where they were to dine, and
+      the duchess showed Sancho's letter to the duke, who was highly delighted
+      with it. They dined, and after the cloth had been removed and they had
+      amused themselves for a while with Sancho's rich conversation, the
+      melancholy sound of a fife and harsh discordant drum made itself heard.
+      All seemed somewhat put out by this dull, confused, martial harmony,
+      especially Don Quixote, who could not keep his seat from pure disquietude;
+      as to Sancho, it is needless to say that fear drove him to his usual
+      refuge, the side or the skirts of the duchess; and indeed and in truth the
+      sound they heard was a most doleful and melancholy one. While they were
+      still in uncertainty they saw advancing towards them through the garden
+      two men clad in mourning robes so long and flowing that they trailed upon
+      the ground. As they marched they beat two great drums which were likewise
+      draped in black, and beside them came the fife player, black and sombre
+      like the others. Following these came a personage of gigantic stature
+      enveloped rather than clad in a gown of the deepest black, the skirt of
+      which was of prodigious dimensions. Over the gown, girdling or crossing
+      his figure, he had a broad baldric which was also black, and from which
+      hung a huge scimitar with a black scabbard and furniture. He had his face
+      covered with a transparent black veil, through which might be descried a
+      very long beard as white as snow. He came on keeping step to the sound of
+      the drums with great gravity and dignity; and, in short, his stature, his
+      gait, the sombreness of his appearance and his following might well have
+      struck with astonishment, as they did, all who beheld him without knowing
+      who he was. With this measured pace and in this guise he advanced to kneel
+      before the duke, who, with the others, awaited him standing. The duke,
+      however, would not on any account allow him to speak until he had risen.
+      The prodigious scarecrow obeyed, and standing up, removed the veil from
+      his face and disclosed the most enormous, the longest, the whitest and the
+      thickest beard that human eyes had ever beheld until that moment, and then
+      fetching up a grave, sonorous voice from the depths of his broad,
+      capacious chest, and fixing his eyes on the duke, he said:
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Most high and mighty senor, my name is Trifaldin of the White Beard; I am
+      squire to the Countess Trifaldi, otherwise called the Distressed Duenna,
+      on whose behalf I bear a message to your highness, which is that your
+      magnificence will be pleased to grant her leave and permission to come and
+      tell you her trouble, which is one of the strangest and most wonderful
+      that the mind most familiar with trouble in the world could have imagined;
+      but first she desires to know if the valiant and never vanquished knight,
+      Don Quixote of La Mancha, is in this your castle, for she has come in
+      quest of him on foot and without breaking her fast from the kingdom of
+      Kandy to your realms here; a thing which may and ought to be regarded as a
+      miracle or set down to enchantment; she is even now at the gate of this
+      fortress or plaisance, and only waits for your permission to enter. I have
+      spoken." And with that he coughed, and stroked down his beard with both
+      his hands, and stood very tranquilly waiting for the response of the duke,
+      which was to this effect: "Many days ago, worthy squire Trifaldin of the
+      White Beard, we heard of the misfortune of my lady the Countess Trifaldi,
+      whom the enchanters have caused to be called the Distressed Duenna. Bid
+      her enter, O stupendous squire, and tell her that the valiant knight Don
+      Quixote of La Mancha is here, and from his generous disposition she may
+      safely promise herself every protection and assistance; and you may tell
+      her, too, that if my aid be necessary it will not be withheld, for I am
+      bound to give it to her by my quality of knight, which involves the
+      protection of women of all sorts, especially widowed, wronged, and
+      distressed dames, such as her ladyship seems to be."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      On hearing this Trifaldin bent the knee to the ground, and making a sign
+      to the fifer and drummers to strike up, he turned and marched out of the
+      garden to the same notes and at the same pace as when he entered, leaving
+      them all amazed at his bearing and solemnity. Turning to Don Quixote, the
+      duke said, "After all, renowned knight, the mists of malice and ignorance
+      are unable to hide or obscure the light of valour and virtue. I say so,
+      because your excellence has been barely six days in this castle, and
+      already the unhappy and the afflicted come in quest of you from lands far
+      distant and remote, and not in coaches or on dromedaries, but on foot and
+      fasting, confident that in that mighty arm they will find a cure for their
+      sorrows and troubles; thanks to your great achievements, which are
+      circulated all over the known earth."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I wish, senor duke," replied Don Quixote, "that blessed ecclesiastic, who
+      at table the other day showed such ill-will and bitter spite against
+      knights-errant, were here now to see with his own eyes whether knights of
+      the sort are needed in the world; he would at any rate learn by experience
+      that those suffering any extraordinary affliction or sorrow, in extreme
+      cases and unusual misfortunes do not go to look for a remedy to the houses
+      of jurists or village sacristans, or to the knight who has never attempted
+      to pass the bounds of his own town, or to the indolent courtier who only
+      seeks for news to repeat and talk of, instead of striving to do deeds and
+      exploits for others to relate and record. Relief in distress, help in
+      need, protection for damsels, consolation for widows, are to be found in
+      no sort of persons better than in knights-errant; and I give unceasing
+      thanks to heaven that I am one, and regard any misfortune or suffering
+      that may befall me in the pursuit of so honourable a calling as endured to
+      good purpose. Let this duenna come and ask what she will, for I will
+      effect her relief by the might of my arm and the dauntless resolution of
+      my bold heart."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p36e" id="p36e"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p36e.jpg (22K)" src="images/p36e.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      <a name="ch37b" id="ch37b"></a>CHAPTER XXXVII.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      WHEREIN IS CONTINUED THE NOTABLE ADVENTURE OF THE DISTRESSED DUENNA
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <a name="p37a" id="p37a"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p37a.jpg (94K)" src="images/p37a.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p37a.jpg"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br />
+      <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The duke and duchess were extremely glad to see how readily Don Quixote
+      fell in with their scheme; but at this moment Sancho observed, "I hope
+      this senora duenna won't be putting any difficulties in the way of the
+      promise of my government; for I have heard a Toledo apothecary, who talked
+      like a goldfinch, say that where duennas were mixed up nothing good could
+      happen. God bless me, how he hated them, that same apothecary! And so what
+      I'm thinking is, if all duennas, of whatever sort or condition they may
+      be, are plagues and busybodies, what must they be that are distressed,
+      like this Countess Three-skirts or Three-tails!&mdash;for in my country
+      skirts or tails, tails or skirts, it's all one."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Hush, friend Sancho," said Don Quixote; "since this lady duenna comes in
+      quest of me from such a distant land she cannot be one of those the
+      apothecary meant; moreover this is a countess, and when countesses serve
+      as duennas it is in the service of queens and empresses, for in their own
+      houses they are mistresses paramount and have other duennas to wait on
+      them."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      To this Dona Rodriguez, who was present, made answer, "My lady the duchess
+      has duennas in her service that might be countesses if it was the will of
+      fortune; 'but laws go as kings like;' let nobody speak ill of duennas,
+      above all of ancient maiden ones; for though I am not one myself, I know
+      and am aware of the advantage a maiden duenna has over one that is a
+      widow; but 'he who clipped us has kept the scissors.'"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "For all that," said Sancho, "there's so much to be clipped about duennas,
+      so my barber said, that 'it will be better not to stir the rice even
+      though it sticks.'"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "These squires," returned Dona Rodriguez, "are always our enemies; and as
+      they are the haunting spirits of the antechambers and watch us at every
+      step, whenever they are not saying their prayers (and that's often enough)
+      they spend their time in tattling about us, digging up our bones and
+      burying our good name. But I can tell these walking blocks that we will
+      live in spite of them, and in great houses too, though we die of hunger
+      and cover our flesh, be it delicate or not, with widow's weeds, as one
+      covers or hides a dunghill on a procession day. By my faith, if it were
+      permitted me and time allowed, I could prove, not only to those here
+      present, but to all the world, that there is no virtue that is not to be
+      found in a duenna."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I have no doubt," said the duchess, "that my good Dona Rodriguez is
+      right, and very much so; but she had better bide her time for fighting her
+      own battle and that of the rest of the duennas, so as to crush the calumny
+      of that vile apothecary, and root out the prejudice in the great Sancho
+      Panza's mind."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      To which Sancho replied, "Ever since I have sniffed the governorship I
+      have got rid of the humours of a squire, and I don't care a wild fig for
+      all the duennas in the world."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      They would have carried on this duenna dispute further had they not heard
+      the notes of the fife and drums once more, from which they concluded that
+      the Distressed Duenna was making her entrance. The duchess asked the duke
+      if it would be proper to go out to receive her, as she was a countess and
+      a person of rank.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "In respect of her being a countess," said Sancho, before the duke could
+      reply, "I am for your highnesses going out to receive her; but in respect
+      of her being a duenna, it is my opinion you should not stir a step."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Who bade thee meddle in this, Sancho?" said Don Quixote.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Who, senor?" said Sancho; "I meddle for I have a right to meddle, as a
+      squire who has learned the rules of courtesy in the school of your
+      worship, the most courteous and best-bred knight in the whole world of
+      courtliness; and in these things, as I have heard your worship say, as
+      much is lost by a card too many as by a card too few, and to one who has
+      his ears open, few words."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Sancho is right," said the duke; "we'll see what the countess is like,
+      and by that measure the courtesy that is due to her."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      And now the drums and fife made their entrance as before; and here the
+      author brought this short chapter to an end and began the next, following
+      up the same adventure, which is one of the most notable in the history.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p37e" id="p37e"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p37e.jpg (21K)" src="images/p37e.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      <a name="ch38b" id="ch38b"></a>CHAPTER XXXVIII.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      WHEREIN IS TOLD THE DISTRESSED DUENNA'S TALE OF HER MISFORTUNES
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <a name="p38a" id="p38a"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p38a.jpg (54K)" src="images/p38a.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p38a.jpg"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br />
+      <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Following the melancholy musicians there filed into the garden as many as
+      twelve duennas, in two lines, all dressed in ample mourning robes
+      apparently of milled serge, with hoods of fine white gauze so long that
+      they allowed only the border of the robe to be seen. Behind them came the
+      Countess Trifaldi, the squire Trifaldin of the White Beard leading her by
+      the hand, clad in the finest unnapped black baize, such that, had it a
+      nap, every tuft would have shown as big as a Martos chickpea; the tail, or
+      skirt, or whatever it might be called, ended in three points which were
+      borne up by the hands of three pages, likewise dressed in mourning,
+      forming an elegant geometrical figure with the three acute angles made by
+      the three points, from which all who saw the peaked skirt concluded that
+      it must be because of it the countess was called Trifaldi, as though it
+      were Countess of the Three Skirts; and Benengeli says it was so, and that
+      by her right name she was called the Countess Lobuna, because wolves bred
+      in great numbers in her country; and if, instead of wolves, they had been
+      foxes, she would have been called the Countess Zorruna, as it was the
+      custom in those parts for lords to take distinctive titles from the thing
+      or things most abundant in their dominions; this countess, however, in
+      honour of the new fashion of her skirt, dropped Lobuna and took up
+      Trifaldi.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The twelve duennas and the lady came on at procession pace, their faces
+      being covered with black veils, not transparent ones like Trifaldin's, but
+      so close that they allowed nothing to be seen through them. As soon as the
+      band of duennas was fully in sight, the duke, the duchess, and Don Quixote
+      stood up, as well as all who were watching the slow-moving procession. The
+      twelve duennas halted and formed a lane, along which the Distressed One
+      advanced, Trifaldin still holding her hand. On seeing this the duke, the
+      duchess, and Don Quixote went some twelve paces forward to meet her. She
+      then, kneeling on the ground, said in a voice hoarse and rough, rather
+      than fine and delicate, "May it please your highnesses not to offer such
+      courtesies to this your servant, I should say to this your handmaid, for I
+      am in such distress that I shall never be able to make a proper return,
+      because my strange and unparalleled misfortune has carried off my wits,
+      and I know not whither; but it must be a long way off, for the more I look
+      for them the less I find them."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "He would be wanting in wits, senora countess," said the duke, "who did
+      not perceive your worth by your person, for at a glance it may be seen it
+      deserves all the cream of courtesy and flower of polite usage;" and
+      raising her up by the hand he led her to a seat beside the duchess, who
+      likewise received her with great urbanity. Don Quixote remained silent,
+      while Sancho was dying to see the features of Trifaldi and one or two of
+      her many duennas; but there was no possibility of it until they themselves
+      displayed them of their own accord and free will.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      All kept still, waiting to see who would break silence, which the
+      Distressed Duenna did in these words: "I am confident, most mighty lord,
+      most fair lady, and most discreet company, that my most miserable misery
+      will be accorded a reception no less dispassionate than generous and
+      condolent in your most valiant bosoms, for it is one that is enough to
+      melt marble, soften diamonds, and mollify the steel of the most hardened
+      hearts in the world; but ere it is proclaimed to your hearing, not to say
+      your ears, I would fain be enlightened whether there be present in this
+      society, circle, or company, that knight immaculatissimus, Don Quixote de
+      la Manchissima, and his squirissimus Panza."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "The Panza is here," said Sancho, before anyone could reply, "and Don
+      Quixotissimus too; and so, most distressedest Duenissima, you may say what
+      you willissimus, for we are all readissimus to do you any servissimus."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      On this Don Quixote rose, and addressing the Distressed Duenna, said, "If
+      your sorrows, afflicted lady, can indulge in any hope of relief from the
+      valour or might of any knight-errant, here are mine, which, feeble and
+      limited though they be, shall be entirely devoted to your service. I am
+      Don Quixote of La Mancha, whose calling it is to give aid to the needy of
+      all sorts; and that being so, it is not necessary for you, senora, to make
+      any appeal to benevolence, or deal in preambles, only to tell your woes
+      plainly and straightforwardly: for you have hearers that will know how, if
+      not to remedy them, to sympathise with them."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      On hearing this, the Distressed Duenna made as though she would throw
+      herself at Don Quixote's feet, and actually did fall before them and said,
+      as she strove to embrace them, "Before these feet and legs I cast myself,
+      O unconquered knight, as before, what they are, the foundations and
+      pillars of knight-errantry; these feet I desire to kiss, for upon their
+      steps hangs and depends the sole remedy for my misfortune, O valorous
+      errant, whose veritable achievements leave behind and eclipse the fabulous
+      ones of the Amadises, Esplandians, and Belianises!" Then turning from Don
+      Quixote to Sancho Panza, and grasping his hands, she said, "O thou, most
+      loyal squire that ever served knight-errant in this present age or ages
+      past, whose goodness is more extensive than the beard of Trifaldin my
+      companion here of present, well mayest thou boast thyself that, in serving
+      the great Don Quixote, thou art serving, summed up in one, the whole host
+      of knights that have ever borne arms in the world. I conjure thee, by what
+      thou owest to thy most loyal goodness, that thou wilt become my kind
+      intercessor with thy master, that he speedily give aid to this most humble
+      and most unfortunate countess."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      To this Sancho made answer, "As to my goodness, senora, being as long and
+      as great as your squire's beard, it matters very little to me; may I have
+      my soul well bearded and moustached when it comes to quit this life,
+      that's the point; about beards here below I care little or nothing; but
+      without all these blandishments and prayers, I will beg my master (for I
+      know he loves me, and, besides, he has need of me just now for a certain
+      business) to help and aid your worship as far as he can; unpack your woes
+      and lay them before us, and leave us to deal with them, for we'll be all
+      of one mind."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The duke and duchess, as it was they who had made the experiment of this
+      adventure, were ready to burst with laughter at all this, and between
+      themselves they commended the clever acting of the Trifaldi, who,
+      returning to her seat, said, "Queen Dona Maguncia reigned over the famous
+      kingdom of Kandy, which lies between the great Trapobana and the Southern
+      Sea, two leagues beyond Cape Comorin. She was the widow of King
+      Archipiela, her lord and husband, and of their marriage they had issue the
+      Princess Antonomasia, heiress of the kingdom; which Princess Antonomasia
+      was reared and brought up under my care and direction, I being the oldest
+      and highest in rank of her mother's duennas. Time passed, and the young
+      Antonomasia reached the age of fourteen, and such a perfection of beauty,
+      that nature could not raise it higher. Then, it must not be supposed her
+      intelligence was childish; she was as intelligent as she was fair, and she
+      was fairer than all the world; and is so still, unless the envious fates
+      and hard-hearted sisters three have cut for her the thread of life. But
+      that they have not, for Heaven will not suffer so great a wrong to Earth,
+      as it would be to pluck unripe the grapes of the fairest vineyard on its
+      surface. Of this beauty, to which my poor feeble tongue has failed to do
+      justice, countless princes, not only of that country, but of others, were
+      enamoured, and among them a private gentleman, who was at the court, dared
+      to raise his thoughts to the heaven of so great beauty, trusting to his
+      youth, his gallant bearing, his numerous accomplishments and graces, and
+      his quickness and readiness of wit; for I may tell your highnesses, if I
+      am not wearying you, that he played the guitar so as to make it speak, and
+      he was, besides, a poet and a great dancer, and he could make birdcages so
+      well, that by making them alone he might have gained a livelihood, had he
+      found himself reduced to utter poverty; and gifts and graces of this kind
+      are enough to bring down a mountain, not to say a tender young girl. But
+      all his gallantry, wit, and gaiety, all his graces and accomplishments,
+      would have been of little or no avail towards gaining the fortress of my
+      pupil, had not the impudent thief taken the precaution of gaining me over
+      first. First, the villain and heartless vagabond sought to win my
+      good-will and purchase my compliance, so as to get me, like a treacherous
+      warder, to deliver up to him the keys of the fortress I had in charge. In
+      a word, he gained an influence over my mind, and overcame my resolutions
+      with I know not what trinkets and jewels he gave me; but it was some
+      verses I heard him singing one night from a grating that opened on the
+      street where he lived, that, more than anything else, made me give way and
+      led to my fall; and if I remember rightly they ran thus:
+    </p>
+<pre xml:space="preserve">
+From that sweet enemy of mine
+  My bleeding heart hath had its wound;
+  And to increase the pain I'm bound
+To suffer and to make no sign.
+
+</pre>
+    <p>
+      The lines seemed pearls to me and his voice sweet as syrup; and
+      afterwards, I may say ever since then, looking at the misfortune into
+      which I have fallen, I have thought that poets, as Plato advised, ought to
+      be banished from all well-ordered States; at least the amatory ones, for
+      they write verses, not like those of 'The Marquis of Mantua,' that delight
+      and draw tears from the women and children, but sharp-pointed conceits
+      that pierce the heart like soft thorns, and like the lightning strike it,
+      leaving the raiment uninjured. Another time he sang:
+    </p>
+<pre xml:space="preserve">
+Come Death, so subtly veiled that I
+  Thy coming know not, how or when,
+  Lest it should give me life again
+To find how sweet it is to die.
+
+</pre>
+    <p>
+      -and other verses and burdens of the same sort, such as enchant when sung
+      and fascinate when written. And then, when they condescend to compose a
+      sort of verse that was at that time in vogue in Kandy, which they call
+      seguidillas! Then it is that hearts leap and laughter breaks forth, and
+      the body grows restless and all the senses turn quicksilver. And so I say,
+      sirs, that these troubadours richly deserve to be banished to the isles of
+      the lizards. Though it is not they that are in fault, but the simpletons
+      that extol them, and the fools that believe in them; and had I been the
+      faithful duenna I should have been, his stale conceits would have never
+      moved me, nor should I have been taken in by such phrases as 'in death I
+      live,' 'in ice I burn,' 'in flames I shiver,' 'hopeless I hope,' 'I go and
+      stay,' and paradoxes of that sort which their writings are full of. And
+      then when they promise the Phoenix of Arabia, the crown of Ariadne, the
+      horses of the Sun, the pearls of the South, the gold of Tibar, and the
+      balsam of Panchaia! Then it is they give a loose to their pens, for it
+      costs them little to make promises they have no intention or power of
+      fulfilling. But where am I wandering to? Woe is me, unfortunate being!
+      What madness or folly leads me to speak of the faults of others, when
+      there is so much to be said about my own? Again, woe is me, hapless that I
+      am! it was not verses that conquered me, but my own simplicity; it was not
+      music made me yield, but my own imprudence; my own great ignorance and
+      little caution opened the way and cleared the path for Don Clavijo's
+      advances, for that was the name of the gentleman I have referred to; and
+      so, with my help as go-between, he found his way many a time into the
+      chamber of the deceived Antonomasia (deceived not by him but by me) under
+      the title of a lawful husband; for, sinner though I was, would not have
+      allowed him to approach the edge of her shoe-sole without being her
+      husband. No, no, not that; marriage must come first in any business of
+      this sort that I take in hand. But there was one hitch in this case, which
+      was that of inequality of rank, Don Clavijo being a private gentleman, and
+      the Princess Antonomasia, as I said, heiress to the kingdom. The
+      entanglement remained for some time a secret, kept hidden by my cunning
+      precautions, until I perceived that a certain expansion of waist in
+      Antonomasia must before long disclose it, the dread of which made us all
+      there take counsel together, and it was agreed that before the mischief
+      came to light, Don Clavijo should demand Antonomasia as his wife before
+      the Vicar, in virtue of an agreement to marry him made by the princess,
+      and drafted by my wit in such binding terms that the might of Samson could
+      not have broken it. The necessary steps were taken; the Vicar saw the
+      agreement, and took the lady's confession; she confessed everything in
+      full, and he ordered her into the custody of a very worthy alguacil of the
+      court."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Are there alguacils of the court in Kandy, too," said Sancho at this,
+      "and poets, and seguidillas? I swear I think the world is the same all
+      over! But make haste, Senora Trifaldi; for it is late, and I am dying to
+      know the end of this long story."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I will," replied the countess.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p38e" id="p38e"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p38e.jpg (22K)" src="images/p38e.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      <a name="ch39b" id="ch39b"></a>CHAPTER XXXIX.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      IN WHICH THE TRIFALDI CONTINUES HER MARVELLOUS AND MEMORABLE STORY
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <a name="p39a" id="p39a"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p39a.jpg (96K)" src="images/p39a.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p39a.jpg"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br />
+      <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      By every word that Sancho uttered, the duchess was as much delighted as
+      Don Quixote was driven to desperation. He bade him hold his tongue, and
+      the Distressed One went on to say: "At length, after much questioning and
+      answering, as the princess held to her story, without changing or varying
+      her previous declaration, the Vicar gave his decision in favour of Don
+      Clavijo, and she was delivered over to him as his lawful wife; which the
+      Queen Dona Maguncia, the Princess Antonomasia's mother, so took to heart,
+      that within the space of three days we buried her."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "She died, no doubt," said Sancho.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Of course," said Trifaldin; "they don't bury living people in Kandy, only
+      the dead."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Senor Squire," said Sancho, "a man in a swoon has been known to be buried
+      before now, in the belief that he was dead; and it struck me that Queen
+      Maguncia ought to have swooned rather than died; because with life a great
+      many things come right, and the princess's folly was not so great that she
+      need feel it so keenly. If the lady had married some page of hers, or some
+      other servant of the house, as many another has done, so I have heard say,
+      then the mischief would have been past curing. But to marry such an
+      elegant accomplished gentleman as has been just now described to us&mdash;indeed,
+      indeed, though it was a folly, it was not such a great one as you think;
+      for according to the rules of my master here&mdash;and he won't allow me
+      to lie&mdash;as of men of letters bishops are made, so of gentlemen
+      knights, specially if they be errant, kings and emperors may be made."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Thou art right, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "for with a knight-errant, if
+      he has but two fingers' breadth of good fortune, it is on the cards to
+      become the mightiest lord on earth. But let senora the Distressed One
+      proceed; for I suspect she has got yet to tell us the bitter part of this
+      so far sweet story."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "The bitter is indeed to come," said the countess; "and such bitter that
+      colocynth is sweet and oleander toothsome in comparison. The queen, then,
+      being dead, and not in a swoon, we buried her; and hardly had we covered
+      her with earth, hardly had we said our last farewells, when, quis talia
+      fando temperet a lachrymis? over the queen's grave there appeared, mounted
+      upon a wooden horse, the giant Malambruno, Maguncia's first cousin, who
+      besides being cruel is an enchanter; and he, to revenge the death of his
+      cousin, punish the audacity of Don Clavijo, and in wrath at the contumacy
+      of Antonomasia, left them both enchanted by his art on the grave itself;
+      she being changed into an ape of brass, and he into a horrible crocodile
+      of some unknown metal; while between the two there stands a pillar, also
+      of metal, with certain characters in the Syriac language inscribed upon
+      it, which, being translated into Kandian, and now into Castilian, contain
+      the following sentence: 'These two rash lovers shall not recover their
+      former shape until the valiant Manchegan comes to do battle with me in
+      single combat; for the Fates reserve this unexampled adventure for his
+      mighty valour alone.' This done, he drew from its sheath a huge broad
+      scimitar, and seizing me by the hair he made as though he meant to cut my
+      throat and shear my head clean off. I was terror-stricken, my voice stuck
+      in my throat, and I was in the deepest distress; nevertheless I summoned
+      up my strength as well as I could, and in a trembling and piteous voice I
+      addressed such words to him as induced him to stay the infliction of a
+      punishment so severe. He then caused all the duennas of the palace, those
+      that are here present, to be brought before him; and after having dwelt
+      upon the enormity of our offence, and denounced duennas, their characters,
+      their evil ways and worse intrigues, laying to the charge of all what I
+      alone was guilty of, he said he would not visit us with capital
+      punishment, but with others of a slow nature which would be in effect
+      civil death for ever; and the very instant he ceased speaking we all felt
+      the pores of our faces opening, and pricking us, as if with the points of
+      needles. We at once put our hands up to our faces and found ourselves in
+      the state you now see."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Here the Distressed One and the other duennas raised the veils with which
+      they were covered, and disclosed countenances all bristling with beards,
+      some red, some black, some white, and some grizzled, at which spectacle
+      the duke and duchess made a show of being filled with wonder. Don Quixote
+      and Sancho were overwhelmed with amazement, and the bystanders lost in
+      astonishment, while the Trifaldi went on to say: "Thus did that malevolent
+      villain Malambruno punish us, covering the tenderness and softness of our
+      faces with these rough bristles! Would to heaven that he had swept off our
+      heads with his enormous scimitar instead of obscuring the light of our
+      countenances with these wool-combings that cover us! For if we look into
+      the matter, sirs (and what I am now going to say I would say with eyes
+      flowing like fountains, only that the thought of our misfortune and the
+      oceans they have already wept, keep them as dry as barley spears, and so I
+      say it without tears), where, I ask, can a duenna with a beard to to? What
+      father or mother will feel pity for her? Who will help her? For, if even
+      when she has a smooth skin, and a face tortured by a thousand kinds of
+      washes and cosmetics, she can hardly get anybody to love her, what will
+      she do when she shows a countenace turned into a thicket? Oh duennas,
+      companions mine! it was an unlucky moment when we were born and an
+      ill-starred hour when our fathers begot us!" And as she said this she
+      showed signs of being about to faint.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p39e" id="p39e"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p39e.jpg (27K)" src="images/p39e.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      <a name="ch40b" id="ch40b"></a>CHAPTER XL.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      OF MATTERS RELATING AND BELONGING TO THIS ADVENTURE AND TO THIS MEMORABLE
+      HISTORY
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <a name="p40a" id="p40a"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p40a.jpg (129K)" src="images/p40a.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p40a.jpg"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br />
+      <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Verily and truly all those who find pleasure in histories like this ought
+      show their gratitude to Cide Hamete, its original author, for the
+      scrupulous care he has taken to set before us all its minute particulars,
+      not leaving anything, however trifling it may be, that he does not make
+      clear and plain. He portrays the thoughts, he reveals the fancies, he
+      answers implied questions, clears up doubts, sets objections at rest, and,
+      in a word, makes plain the smallest points the most inquisitive can desire
+      to know. O renowned author! O happy Don Quixote! O famous famous droll
+      Sancho! All and each, may ye live countless ages for the delight and
+      amusement of the dwellers on earth!
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The history goes on to say that when Sancho saw the Distressed One faint
+      he exclaimed: "I swear by the faith of an honest man and the shades of all
+      my ancestors the Panzas, that never I did see or hear of, nor has my
+      master related or conceived in his mind, such an adventure as this. A
+      thousand devils&mdash;not to curse thee&mdash;take thee, Malambruno, for
+      an enchanter and a giant! Couldst thou find no other sort of punishment
+      for these sinners but bearding them? Would it not have been better&mdash;it
+      would have been better for them&mdash;to have taken off half their noses
+      from the middle upwards, even though they'd have snuffled when they spoke,
+      than to have put beards on them? I'll bet they have not the means of
+      paying anybody to shave them."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "That is the truth, senor," said one of the twelve; "we have not the money
+      to get ourselves shaved, and so we have, some of us, taken to using
+      sticking-plasters by way of an economical remedy, for by applying them to
+      our faces and plucking them off with a jerk we are left as bare and smooth
+      as the bottom of a stone mortar. There are, to be sure, women in Kandy
+      that go about from house to house to remove down, and trim eyebrows, and
+      make cosmetics for the use of the women, but we, the duennas of my lady,
+      would never let them in, for most of them have a flavour of agents that
+      have ceased to be principals; and if we are not relieved by Senor Don
+      Quixote we shall be carried to our graves with beards."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I will pluck out my own in the land of the Moors," said Don Quixote, "if
+      I don't cure yours."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      At this instant the Trifaldi recovered from her swoon and said, "The chink
+      of that promise, valiant knight, reached my ears in the midst of my swoon,
+      and has been the means of reviving me and bringing back my senses; and so
+      once more I implore you, illustrious errant, indomitable sir, to let your
+      gracious promises be turned into deeds."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "There shall be no delay on my part," said Don Quixote. "Bethink you,
+      senora, of what I must do, for my heart is most eager to serve you."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "The fact is," replied the Distressed One, "it is five thousand leagues, a
+      couple more or less, from this to the kingdom of Kandy, if you go by land;
+      but if you go through the air and in a straight line, it is three thousand
+      two hundred and twenty-seven. You must know, too, that Malambruno told me
+      that, whenever fate provided the knight our deliverer, he himself would
+      send him a steed far better and with less tricks than a post-horse; for he
+      will be that same wooden horse on which the valiant Pierres carried off
+      the fair Magalona; which said horse is guided by a peg he has in his
+      forehead that serves for a bridle, and flies through the air with such
+      rapidity that you would fancy the very devils were carrying him. This
+      horse, according to ancient tradition, was made by Merlin. He lent him to
+      Pierres, who was a friend of his, and who made long journeys with him,
+      and, as has been said, carried off the fair Magalona, bearing her through
+      the air on its haunches and making all who beheld them from the earth gape
+      with astonishment; and he never lent him save to those whom he loved or
+      those who paid him well; and since the great Pierres we know of no one
+      having mounted him until now. From him Malambruno stole him by his magic
+      art, and he has him now in his possession, and makes use of him in his
+      journeys which he constantly makes through different parts of the world;
+      he is here to-day, to-morrow in France, and the next day in Potosi; and
+      the best of it is the said horse neither eats nor sleeps nor wears out
+      shoes, and goes at an ambling pace through the air without wings, so that
+      he whom he has mounted upon him can carry a cup full of water in his hand
+      without spilling a drop, so smoothly and easily does he go, for which
+      reason the fair Magalona enjoyed riding him greatly."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "For going smoothly and easily," said Sancho at this, "give me my Dapple,
+      though he can't go through the air; but on the ground I'll back him
+      against all the amblers in the world."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      They all laughed, and the Distressed One continued: "And this same horse,
+      if so be that Malambruno is disposed to put an end to our sufferings, will
+      be here before us ere the night shall have advanced half an hour; for he
+      announced to me that the sign he would give me whereby I might know that I
+      had found the knight I was in quest of, would be to send me the horse
+      wherever he might be, speedily and promptly."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "And how many is there room for on this horse?" asked Sancho.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Two," said the Distressed One, "one in the saddle, and the other on the
+      croup; and generally these two are knight and squire, when there is no
+      damsel that's being carried off."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I'd like to know, Senora Distressed One," said Sancho, "what is the name
+      of this horse?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "His name," said the Distressed One, "is not the same as Bellerophon's
+      horse that was called Pegasus, or Alexander the Great's, called
+      Bucephalus, or Orlando Furioso's, the name of which was Brigliador, nor
+      yet Bayard, the horse of Reinaldos of Montalvan, nor Frontino like
+      Ruggiero's, nor Bootes or Peritoa, as they say the horses of the sun were
+      called, nor is he called Orelia, like the horse on which the unfortunate
+      Rodrigo, the last king of the Goths, rode to the battle where he lost his
+      life and his kingdom."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I'll bet," said Sancho, "that as they have given him none of these famous
+      names of well-known horses, no more have they given him the name of my
+      master's Rocinante, which for being apt surpasses all that have been
+      mentioned."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "That is true," said the bearded countess, "still it fits him very well,
+      for he is called Clavileno the Swift, which name is in accordance with his
+      being made of wood, with the peg he has in his forehead, and with the
+      swift pace at which he travels; and so, as far as name goes, he may
+      compare with the famous Rocinante."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I have nothing to say against his name," said Sancho; "but with what sort
+      of bridle or halter is he managed?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I have said already," said the Trifaldi, "that it is with a peg, by
+      turning which to one side or the other the knight who rides him makes him
+      go as he pleases, either through the upper air, or skimming and almost
+      sweeping the earth, or else in that middle course that is sought and
+      followed in all well-regulated proceedings."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I'd like to see him," said Sancho; "but to fancy I'm going to mount him,
+      either in the saddle or on the croup, is to ask pears of the elm tree. A
+      good joke indeed! I can hardly keep my seat upon Dapple, and on a
+      pack-saddle softer than silk itself, and here they'd have me hold on upon
+      haunches of plank without pad or cushion of any sort! Gad, I have no
+      notion of bruising myself to get rid of anyone's beard; let each one shave
+      himself as best he can; I'm not going to accompany my master on any such
+      long journey; besides, I can't give any help to the shaving of these
+      beards as I can to the disenchantment of my lady Dulcinea."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Yes, you can, my friend," replied the Trifaldi; "and so much, that
+      without you, so I understand, we shall be able to do nothing."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "In the king's name!" exclaimed Sancho, "what have squires got to do with
+      the adventures of their masters? Are they to have the fame of such as they
+      go through, and we the labour? Body o' me! if the historians would only
+      say, 'Such and such a knight finished such and such an adventure, but with
+      the help of so and so, his squire, without which it would have been
+      impossible for him to accomplish it;' but they write curtly, "Don
+      Paralipomenon of the Three Stars accomplished the adventure of the six
+      monsters;' without mentioning such a person as his squire, who was there
+      all the time, just as if there was no such being. Once more, sirs, I say
+      my master may go alone, and much good may it do him; and I'll stay here in
+      the company of my lady the duchess; and maybe when he comes back, he will
+      find the lady Dulcinea's affair ever so much advanced; for I mean in
+      leisure hours, and at idle moments, to give myself a spell of whipping
+      without so much as a hair to cover me."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "For all that you must go if it be necessary, my good Sancho," said the
+      duchess, "for they are worthy folk who ask you; and the faces of these
+      ladies must not remain overgrown in this way because of your idle fears;
+      that would be a hard case indeed."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "In the king's name, once more!" said Sancho; "If this charitable work
+      were to be done for the sake of damsels in confinement or charity-girls, a
+      man might expose himself to some hardships; but to bear it for the sake of
+      stripping beards off duennas! Devil take it! I'd sooner see them all
+      bearded, from the highest to the lowest, and from the most prudish to the
+      most affected."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "You are very hard on duennas, Sancho my friend," said the duchess; "you
+      incline very much to the opinion of the Toledo apothecary. But indeed you
+      are wrong; there are duennas in my house that may serve as patterns of
+      duennas; and here is my Dona Rodriguez, who will not allow me to say
+      otherwise."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Your excellence may say it if you like," said the Rodriguez; "for God
+      knows the truth of everything; and whether we duennas are good or bad,
+      bearded or smooth, we are our mothers' daughters like other women; and as
+      God sent us into the world, he knows why he did, and on his mercy I rely,
+      and not on anybody's beard."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Well, Senora Rodriguez, Senora Trifaldi, and present company," said Don
+      Quixote, "I trust in Heaven that it will look with kindly eyes upon your
+      troubles, for Sancho will do as I bid him. Only let Clavileno come and let
+      me find myself face to face with Malambruno, and I am certain no razor
+      will shave you more easily than my sword shall shave Malambruno's head off
+      his shoulders; for 'God bears with the wicked, but not for ever."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Ah!" exclaimed the Distressed One at this, "may all the stars of the
+      celestial regions look down upon your greatness with benign eyes, valiant
+      knight, and shed every prosperity and valour upon your heart, that it may
+      be the shield and safeguard of the abused and downtrodden race of duennas,
+      detested by apothecaries, sneered at by squires, and made game of by
+      pages. Ill betide the jade that in the flower of her youth would not
+      sooner become a nun than a duenna! Unfortunate beings that we are, we
+      duennas! Though we may be descended in the direct male line from Hector of
+      Troy himself, our mistresses never fail to address us as 'you' if they
+      think it makes queens of them. O giant Malambruno, though thou art an
+      enchanter, thou art true to thy promises. Send us now the peerless
+      Clavileno, that our misfortune may be brought to an end; for if the hot
+      weather sets in and these beards of ours are still there, alas for our
+      lot!"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The Trifaldi said this in such a pathetic way that she drew tears from the
+      eyes of all and even Sancho's filled up; and he resolved in his heart to
+      accompany his master to the uttermost ends of the earth, if so be the
+      removal of the wool from those venerable countenances depended upon it.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p40e" id="p40e"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p40e.jpg (13K)" src="images/p40e.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      <a name="ch41b" id="ch41b"></a>CHAPTER XLI.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      OF THE ARRIVAL OF CLAVILENO AND THE END OF THIS PROTRACTED ADVENTURE
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <a name="p41a" id="p41a"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p41a.jpg (138K)" src="images/p41a.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p41a.jpg"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br />
+      <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      And now night came, and with it the appointed time for the arrival of the
+      famous horse Clavileno, the non-appearance of which was already beginning
+      to make Don Quixote uneasy, for it struck him that, as Malambruno was so
+      long about sending it, either he himself was not the knight for whom the
+      adventure was reserved, or else Malambruno did not dare to meet him in
+      single combat. But lo! suddenly there came into the garden four wild-men
+      all clad in green ivy bearing on their shoulders a great wooden horse.
+      They placed it on its feet on the ground, and one of the wild-men said,
+      "Let the knight who has heart for it mount this machine."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Here Sancho exclaimed, "I don't mount, for neither have I the heart nor am
+      I a knight."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "And let the squire, if he has one," continued the wild-man, "take his
+      seat on the croup, and let him trust the valiant Malambruno; for by no
+      sword save his, nor by the malice of any other, shall he be assailed. It
+      is but to turn this peg the horse has in his neck, and he will bear them
+      through the air to where Malambruno awaits them; but lest the vast
+      elevation of their course should make them giddy, their eyes must be
+      covered until the horse neighs, which will be the sign of their having
+      completed their journey."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      With these words, leaving Clavileno behind them, they retired with easy
+      dignity the way they came. As soon as the Distressed One saw the horse,
+      almost in tears she exclaimed to Don Quixote, "Valiant knight, the promise
+      of Malambruno has proved trustworthy; the horse has come, our beards are
+      growing, and by every hair in them all of us implore thee to shave and
+      shear us, as it is only mounting him with thy squire and making a happy
+      beginning with your new journey."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "That I will, Senora Countess Trifaldi," said Don Quixote, "most gladly
+      and with right goodwill, without stopping to take a cushion or put on my
+      spurs, so as not to lose time, such is my desire to see you and all these
+      duennas shaved clean."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "That I won't," said Sancho, "with good-will or bad-will, or any way at
+      all; and if this shaving can't be done without my mounting on the croup,
+      my master had better look out for another squire to go with him, and these
+      ladies for some other way of making their faces smooth; I'm no witch to
+      have a taste for travelling through the air. What would my islanders say
+      when they heard their governor was going, strolling about on the winds?
+      And another thing, as it is three thousand and odd leagues from this to
+      Kandy, if the horse tires, or the giant takes huff, we'll be half a dozen
+      years getting back, and there won't be isle or island in the world that
+      will know me: and so, as it is a common saying 'in delay there's danger,'
+      and 'when they offer thee a heifer run with a halter,' these ladies'
+      beards must excuse me; 'Saint Peter is very well in Rome;' I mean I am
+      very well in this house where so much is made of me, and I hope for such a
+      good thing from the master as to see myself a governor."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Friend Sancho," said the duke at this, "the island that I have promised
+      you is not a moving one, or one that will run away; it has roots so deeply
+      buried in the bowels of the earth that it will be no easy matter to pluck
+      it up or shift it from where it is; you know as well as I do that there is
+      no sort of office of any importance that is not obtained by a bribe of
+      some kind, great or small; well then, that which I look to receive for
+      this government is that you go with your master Don Quixote, and bring
+      this memorable adventure to a conclusion; and whether you return on
+      Clavileno as quickly as his speed seems to promise, or adverse fortune
+      brings you back on foot travelling as a pilgrim from hostel to hostel and
+      from inn to inn, you will always find your island on your return where you
+      left it, and your islanders with the same eagerness they have always had
+      to receive you as their governor, and my good-will will remain the same;
+      doubt not the truth of this, Senor Sancho, for that would be grievously
+      wronging my disposition to serve you."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Say no more, senor," said Sancho; "I am a poor squire and not equal to
+      carrying so much courtesy; let my master mount; bandage my eyes and commit
+      me to God's care, and tell me if I may commend myself to our Lord or call
+      upon the angels to protect me when we go towering up there."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      To this the Trifaldi made answer, "Sancho, you may freely commend yourself
+      to God or whom you will; for Malambruno though an enchanter is a
+      Christian, and works his enchantments with great circumspection, taking
+      very good care not to fall out with anyone."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Well then," said Sancho, "God and the most holy Trinity of Gaeta give me
+      help!"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Since the memorable adventure of the fulling mills," said Don Quixote, "I
+      have never seen Sancho in such a fright as now; were I as superstitious as
+      others his abject fear would cause me some little trepidation of spirit.
+      But come here, Sancho, for with the leave of these gentles I would say a
+      word or two to thee in private;" and drawing Sancho aside among the trees
+      of the garden and seizing both his hands he said, "Thou seest, brother
+      Sancho, the long journey we have before us, and God knows when we shall
+      return, or what leisure or opportunities this business will allow us; I
+      wish thee therefore to retire now to thy chamber, as though thou wert
+      going to fetch something required for the road, and in a trice give
+      thyself if it be only five hundred lashes on account of the three thousand
+      three hundred to which thou art bound; it will be all to the good, and to
+      make a beginning with a thing is to have it half finished."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "By God," said Sancho, "but your worship must be out of your senses! This
+      is like the common saying, 'You see me with child, and you want me a
+      virgin.' Just as I'm about to go sitting on a bare board, your worship
+      would have me score my backside! Indeed, your worship is not reasonable.
+      Let us be off to shave these duennas; and on our return I promise on my
+      word to make such haste to wipe off all that's due as will satisfy your
+      worship; I can't say more."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Well, I will comfort myself with that promise, my good Sancho," replied
+      Don Quixote, "and I believe thou wilt keep it; for indeed though stupid
+      thou art veracious."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I'm not voracious," said Sancho, "only peckish; but even if I was a
+      little, still I'd keep my word."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      With this they went back to mount Clavileno, and as they were about to do
+      so Don Quixote said, "Cover thine eyes, Sancho, and mount; for one who
+      sends for us from lands so far distant cannot mean to deceive us for the
+      sake of the paltry glory to be derived from deceiving persons who trust in
+      him; though all should turn out the contrary of what I hope, no malice
+      will be able to dim the glory of having undertaken this exploit."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Let us be off, senor," said Sancho, "for I have taken the beards and
+      tears of these ladies deeply to heart, and I shan't eat a bit to relish it
+      until I have seen them restored to their former smoothness. Mount, your
+      worship, and blindfold yourself, for if I am to go on the croup, it is
+      plain the rider in the saddle must mount first."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "That is true," said Don Quixote, and, taking a handkerchief out of his
+      pocket, he begged the Distressed One to bandage his eyes very carefully;
+      but after having them bandaged he uncovered them again, saying, "If my
+      memory does not deceive me, I have read in Virgil of the Palladium of
+      Troy, a wooden horse the Greeks offered to the goddess Pallas, which was
+      big with armed knights, who were afterwards the destruction of Troy; so it
+      would be as well to see, first of all, what Clavileno has in his stomach."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "There is no occasion," said the Distressed One; "I will be bail for him,
+      and I know that Malambruno has nothing tricky or treacherous about him;
+      you may mount without any fear, Senor Don Quixote; on my head be it if any
+      harm befalls you."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Don Quixote thought that to say anything further with regard to his safety
+      would be putting his courage in an unfavourable light; and so, without
+      more words, he mounted Clavileno, and tried the peg, which turned easily;
+      and as he had no stirrups and his legs hung down, he looked like nothing
+      so much as a figure in some Roman triumph painted or embroidered on a
+      Flemish tapestry.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Much against the grain, and very slowly, Sancho proceeded to mount, and,
+      after settling himself as well as he could on the croup, found it rather
+      hard, and not at all soft, and asked the duke if it would be possible to
+      oblige him with a pad of some kind, or a cushion; even if it were off the
+      couch of his lady the duchess, or the bed of one of the pages; as the
+      haunches of that horse were more like marble than wood. On this the
+      Trifaldi observed that Clavileno would not bear any kind of harness or
+      trappings, and that his best plan would be to sit sideways like a woman,
+      as in that way he would not feel the hardness so much.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Sancho did so, and, bidding them farewell, allowed his eyes to be
+      bandaged, but immediately afterwards uncovered them again, and looking
+      tenderly and tearfully on those in the garden, bade them help him in his
+      present strait with plenty of Paternosters and Ave Marias, that God might
+      provide some one to say as many for them, whenever they found themselves
+      in a similar emergency.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      At this Don Quixote exclaimed, "Art thou on the gallows, thief, or at thy
+      last moment, to use pitiful entreaties of that sort? Cowardly, spiritless
+      creature, art thou not in the very place the fair Magalona occupied, and
+      from which she descended, not into the grave, but to become Queen of
+      France; unless the histories lie? And I who am here beside thee, may I not
+      put myself on a par with the valiant Pierres, who pressed this very spot
+      that I now press? Cover thine eyes, cover thine eyes, abject animal, and
+      let not thy fear escape thy lips, at least in my presence."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Blindfold me," said Sancho; "as you won't let me commend myself or be
+      commended to God, is it any wonder if I am afraid there is a region of
+      devils about here that will carry us off to Peralvillo?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      They were then blindfolded, and Don Quixote, finding himself settled to
+      his satisfaction, felt for the peg, and the instant he placed his fingers
+      on it, all the duennas and all who stood by lifted up their voices
+      exclaiming, "God guide thee, valiant knight! God be with thee, intrepid
+      squire! Now, now ye go cleaving the air more swiftly than an arrow! Now ye
+      begin to amaze and astonish all who are gazing at you from the earth! Take
+      care not to wobble about, valiant Sancho! Mind thou fall not, for thy fall
+      will be worse than that rash youth's who tried to steer the chariot of his
+      father the Sun!"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      As Sancho heard the voices, clinging tightly to his master and winding his
+      arms round him, he said, "Senor, how do they make out we are going up so
+      high, if their voices reach us here and they seem to be speaking quite
+      close to us?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Don't mind that, Sancho," said Don Quixote; "for as affairs of this sort,
+      and flights like this are out of the common course of things, you can see
+      and hear as much as you like a thousand leagues off; but don't squeeze me
+      so tight or thou wilt upset me; and really I know not what thou hast to be
+      uneasy or frightened at, for I can safely swear I never mounted a
+      smoother-going steed all the days of my life; one would fancy we never
+      stirred from one place. Banish fear, my friend, for indeed everything is
+      going as it ought, and we have the wind astern."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "That's true," said Sancho, "for such a strong wind comes against me on
+      this side, that it seems as if people were blowing on me with a thousand
+      pair of bellows;" which was the case; they were puffing at him with a
+      great pair of bellows; for the whole adventure was so well planned by the
+      duke, the duchess, and their majordomo, that nothing was omitted to make
+      it perfectly successful.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Don Quixote now, feeling the blast, said, "Beyond a doubt, Sancho, we must
+      have already reached the second region of the air, where the hail and snow
+      are generated; the thunder, the lightning, and the thunderbolts are
+      engendered in the third region, and if we go on ascending at this rate, we
+      shall shortly plunge into the region of fire, and I know not how to
+      regulate this peg, so as not to mount up where we shall be burned."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      And now they began to warm their faces, from a distance, with tow that
+      could be easily set on fire and extinguished again, fixed on the end of a
+      cane. On feeling the heat Sancho said, "May I die if we are not already in
+      that fire place, or very near it, for a good part of my beard has been
+      singed, and I have a mind, senor, to uncover and see whereabouts we are."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Do nothing of the kind," said Don Quixote; "remember the true story of
+      the licentiate Torralva that the devils carried flying through the air
+      riding on a stick with his eyes shut; who in twelve hours reached Rome and
+      dismounted at Torre di Nona, which is a street of the city, and saw the
+      whole sack and storming and the death of Bourbon, and was back in Madrid
+      the next morning, where he gave an account of all he had seen; and he said
+      moreover that as he was going through the air, the devil bade him open his
+      eyes, and he did so, and saw himself so near the body of the moon, so it
+      seemed to him, that he could have laid hold of it with his hand, and that
+      he did not dare to look at the earth lest he should be seized with
+      giddiness. So that, Sancho, it will not do for us to uncover ourselves,
+      for he who has us in charge will be responsible for us; and perhaps we are
+      gaining an altitude and mounting up to enable us to descend at one swoop
+      on the kingdom of Kandy, as the saker or falcon does on the heron, so as
+      to seize it however high it may soar; and though it seems to us not half
+      an hour since we left the garden, believe me we must have travelled a
+      great distance."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I don't know how that may be," said Sancho; "all I know is that if the
+      Senora Magallanes or Magalona was satisfied with this croup, she could not
+      have been very tender of flesh."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The duke, the duchess, and all in the garden were listening to the
+      conversation of the two heroes, and were beyond measure amused by it; and
+      now, desirous of putting a finishing touch to this rare and well-contrived
+      adventure, they applied a light to Clavileno's tail with some tow, and the
+      horse, being full of squibs and crackers, immediately blew up with a
+      prodigious noise, and brought Don Quixote and Sancho Panza to the ground
+      half singed. By this time the bearded band of duennas, the Trifaldi and
+      all, had vanished from the garden, and those that remained lay stretched
+      on the ground as if in a swoon. Don Quixote and Sancho got up rather
+      shaken, and, looking about them, were filled with amazement at finding
+      themselves in the same garden from which they had started, and seeing such
+      a number of people stretched on the ground; and their astonishment was
+      increased when at one side of the garden they perceived a tall lance
+      planted in the ground, and hanging from it by two cords of green silk a
+      smooth white parchment on which there was the following inscription in
+      large gold letters: "The illustrious knight Don Quixote of La Mancha has,
+      by merely attempting it, finished and concluded the adventure of the
+      Countess Trifaldi, otherwise called the Distressed Duenna; Malambruno is
+      now satisfied on every point, the chins of the duennas are now smooth and
+      clean, and King Don Clavijo and Queen Antonomasia in their original form;
+      and when the squirely flagellation shall have been completed, the white
+      dove shall find herself delivered from the pestiferous gerfalcons that
+      persecute her, and in the arms of her beloved mate; for such is the decree
+      of the sage Merlin, arch-enchanter of enchanters."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      As soon as Don Quixote had read the inscription on the parchment he
+      perceived clearly that it referred to the disenchantment of Dulcinea, and
+      returning hearty thanks to heaven that he had with so little danger
+      achieved so grand an exploit as to restore to their former complexion the
+      countenances of those venerable duennas, he advanced towards the duke and
+      duchess, who had not yet come to themselves, and taking the duke by the
+      hand he said, "Be of good cheer, worthy sir, be of good cheer; it's
+      nothing at all; the adventure is now over and without any harm done, as
+      the inscription fixed on this post shows plainly."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The duke came to himself slowly and like one recovering consciousness
+      after a heavy sleep, and the duchess and all who had fallen prostrate
+      about the garden did the same, with such demonstrations of wonder and
+      amazement that they would have almost persuaded one that what they
+      pretended so adroitly in jest had happened to them in reality. The duke
+      read the placard with half-shut eyes, and then ran to embrace Don Quixote
+      with open arms, declaring him to be the best knight that had ever been
+      seen in any age. Sancho kept looking about for the Distressed One, to see
+      what her face was like without the beard, and if she was as fair as her
+      elegant person promised; but they told him that, the instant Clavileno
+      descended flaming through the air and came to the ground, the whole band
+      of duennas with the Trifaldi vanished, and that they were already shaved
+      and without a stump left.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The duchess asked Sancho how he had fared on that long journey, to which
+      Sancho replied, "I felt, senora, that we were flying through the region of
+      fire, as my master told me, and I wanted to uncover my eyes for a bit; but
+      my master, when I asked leave to uncover myself, would not let me; but as
+      I have a little bit of curiosity about me, and a desire to know what is
+      forbidden and kept from me, quietly and without anyone seeing me I drew
+      aside the handkerchief covering my eyes ever so little, close to my nose,
+      and from underneath looked towards the earth, and it seemed to me that it
+      was altogether no bigger than a grain of mustard seed, and that the men
+      walking on it were little bigger than hazel nuts; so you may see how high
+      we must have got to then."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      To this the duchess said, "Sancho, my friend, mind what you are saying; it
+      seems you could not have seen the earth, but only the men walking on it;
+      for if the earth looked to you like a grain of mustard seed, and each man
+      like a hazel nut, one man alone would have covered the whole earth."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "That is true," said Sancho, "but for all that I got a glimpse of a bit of
+      one side of it, and saw it all."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Take care, Sancho," said the duchess, "with a bit of one side one does
+      not see the whole of what one looks at."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I don't understand that way of looking at things," said Sancho; "I only
+      know that your ladyship will do well to bear in mind that as we were
+      flying by enchantment so I might have seen the whole earth and all the men
+      by enchantment whatever way I looked; and if you won't believe this, no
+      more will you believe that, uncovering myself nearly to the eyebrows, I
+      saw myself so close to the sky that there was not a palm and a half
+      between me and it; and by everything that I can swear by, senora, it is
+      mighty great! And it so happened we came by where the seven goats are, and
+      by God and upon my soul, as in my youth I was a goatherd in my own
+      country, as soon as I saw them I felt a longing to be among them for a
+      little, and if I had not given way to it I think I'd have burst. So I come
+      and take, and what do I do? without saying anything to anybody, not even
+      to my master, softly and quietly I got down from Clavileno and amused
+      myself with the goats&mdash;which are like violets, like flowers&mdash;for
+      nigh three-quarters of an hour; and Clavileno never stirred or moved from
+      one spot."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "And while the good Sancho was amusing himself with the goats," said the
+      duke, "how did Senor Don Quixote amuse himself?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      To which Don Quixote replied, "As all these things and such like
+      occurrences are out of the ordinary course of nature, it is no wonder that
+      Sancho says what he does; for my own part I can only say that I did not
+      uncover my eyes either above or below, nor did I see sky or earth or sea
+      or shore. It is true I felt that I was passing through the region of the
+      air, and even that I touched that of fire; but that we passed farther I
+      cannot believe; for the region of fire being between the heaven of the
+      moon and the last region of the air, we could not have reached that heaven
+      where the seven goats Sancho speaks of are without being burned; and as we
+      were not burned, either Sancho is lying or Sancho is dreaming."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I am neither lying nor dreaming," said Sancho; "only ask me the tokens of
+      those same goats, and you'll see by that whether I'm telling the truth or
+      not."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Tell us them then, Sancho," said the duchess.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Two of them," said Sancho, "are green, two blood-red, two blue, and one a
+      mixture of all colours."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "An odd sort of goat, that," said the duke; "in this earthly region of
+      ours we have no such colours; I mean goats of such colours."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "That's very plain," said Sancho; "of course there must be a difference
+      between the goats of heaven and the goats of the earth."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Tell me, Sancho," said the duke, "did you see any he-goat among those
+      goats?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "No, senor," said Sancho; "but I have heard say that none ever passed the
+      horns of the moon."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      They did not care to ask him anything more about his journey, for they saw
+      he was in the vein to go rambling all over the heavens giving an account
+      of everything that went on there, without having ever stirred from the
+      garden. Such, in short, was the end of the adventure of the Distressed
+      Duenna, which gave the duke and duchess laughing matter not only for the
+      time being, but for all their lives, and Sancho something to talk about
+      for ages, if he lived so long; but Don Quixote, coming close to his ear,
+      said to him, "Sancho, as you would have us believe what you saw in heaven,
+      I require you to believe me as to what I saw in the cave of Montesinos; I
+      say no more."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p41e" id="p41e"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p41e.jpg (38K)" src="images/p41e.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      <a name="ch42b" id="ch42b"></a>CHAPTER XLII.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      OF THE COUNSELS WHICH DON QUIXOTE GAVE SANCHO PANZA BEFORE HE SET OUT TO
+      GOVERN THE ISLAND, TOGETHER WITH OTHER WELL-CONSIDERED MATTERS
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <a name="p42a" id="p42a"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p42a.jpg (120K)" src="images/p42a.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p42a.jpg"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br />
+      <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The duke and duchess were so well pleased with the successful and droll
+      result of the adventure of the Distressed One, that they resolved to carry
+      on the joke, seeing what a fit subject they had to deal with for making it
+      all pass for reality. So having laid their plans and given instructions to
+      their servants and vassals how to behave to Sancho in his government of
+      the promised island, the next day, that following Clavileno's flight, the
+      duke told Sancho to prepare and get ready to go and be governor, for his
+      islanders were already looking out for him as for the showers of May.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Sancho made him an obeisance, and said, "Ever since I came down from
+      heaven, and from the top of it beheld the earth, and saw how little it is,
+      the great desire I had to be a governor has been partly cooled in me; for
+      what is there grand in being ruler on a grain of mustard seed, or what
+      dignity or authority in governing half a dozen men about as big as hazel
+      nuts; for, so far as I could see, there were no more on the whole earth?
+      If your lordship would be so good as to give me ever so small a bit of
+      heaven, were it no more than half a league, I'd rather have it than the
+      best island in the world."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Recollect, Sancho," said the duke, "I cannot give a bit of heaven, no not
+      so much as the breadth of my nail, to anyone; rewards and favours of that
+      sort are reserved for God alone. What I can give I give you, and that is a
+      real, genuine island, compact, well proportioned, and uncommonly fertile
+      and fruitful, where, if you know how to use your opportunities, you may,
+      with the help of the world's riches, gain those of heaven."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Well then," said Sancho, "let the island come; and I'll try and be such a
+      governor, that in spite of scoundrels I'll go to heaven; and it's not from
+      any craving to quit my own humble condition or better myself, but from the
+      desire I have to try what it tastes like to be a governor."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "If you once make trial of it, Sancho," said the duke, "you'll eat your
+      fingers off after the government, so sweet a thing is it to command and be
+      obeyed. Depend upon it when your master comes to be emperor (as he will
+      beyond a doubt from the course his affairs are taking), it will be no easy
+      matter to wrest the dignity from him, and he will be sore and sorry at
+      heart to have been so long without becoming one."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Senor," said Sancho, "it is my belief it's a good thing to be in command,
+      if it's only over a drove of cattle."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "May I be buried with you, Sancho," said the duke, "but you know
+      everything; I hope you will make as good a governor as your sagacity
+      promises; and that is all I have to say; and now remember to-morrow is the
+      day you must set out for the government of the island, and this evening
+      they will provide you with the proper attire for you to wear, and all
+      things requisite for your departure."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Let them dress me as they like," said Sancho; "however I'm dressed I'll
+      be Sancho Panza."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "That's true," said the duke; "but one's dress must be suited to the
+      office or rank one holds; for it would not do for a jurist to dress like a
+      soldier, or a soldier like a priest. You, Sancho, shall go partly as a
+      lawyer, partly as a captain, for, in the island I am giving you, arms are
+      needed as much as letters, and letters as much as arms."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Of letters I know but little," said Sancho, "for I don't even know the A
+      B C; but it is enough for me to have the Christus in my memory to be a
+      good governor. As for arms, I'll handle those they give me till I drop,
+      and then, God be my help!"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "With so good a memory," said the duke, "Sancho cannot go wrong in
+      anything."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Here Don Quixote joined them; and learning what passed, and how soon
+      Sancho was to go to his government, he with the duke's permission took him
+      by the hand, and retired to his room with him for the purpose of giving
+      him advice as to how he was to demean himself in his office. As soon as
+      they had entered the chamber he closed the door after him, and almost by
+      force made Sancho sit down beside him, and in a quiet tone thus addressed
+      him: "I give infinite thanks to heaven, friend Sancho, that, before I have
+      met with any good luck, fortune has come forward to meet thee. I who
+      counted upon my good fortune to discharge the recompense of thy services,
+      find myself still waiting for advancement, while thou, before the time,
+      and contrary to all reasonable expectation, seest thyself blessed in the
+      fulfillment of thy desires. Some will bribe, beg, solicit, rise early,
+      entreat, persist, without attaining the object of their suit; while
+      another comes, and without knowing why or wherefore, finds himself
+      invested with the place or office so many have sued for; and here it is
+      that the common saying, 'There is good luck as well as bad luck in suits,'
+      applies. Thou, who, to my thinking, art beyond all doubt a dullard,
+      without early rising or night watching or taking any trouble, with the
+      mere breath of knight-errantry that has breathed upon thee, seest thyself
+      without more ado governor of an island, as though it were a mere matter of
+      course. This I say, Sancho, that thou attribute not the favour thou hast
+      received to thine own merits, but give thanks to heaven that disposes
+      matters beneficently, and secondly thanks to the great power the
+      profession of knight-errantry contains in itself. With a heart, then,
+      inclined to believe what I have said to thee, attend, my son, to thy Cato
+      here who would counsel thee and be thy polestar and guide to direct and
+      pilot thee to a safe haven out of this stormy sea wherein thou art about
+      to ingulf thyself; for offices and great trusts are nothing else but a
+      mighty gulf of troubles.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "First of all, my son, thou must fear God, for in the fear of him is
+      wisdom, and being wise thou canst not err in aught.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Secondly, thou must keep in view what thou art, striving to know thyself,
+      the most difficult thing to know that the mind can imagine. If thou
+      knowest thyself, it will follow thou wilt not puff thyself up like the
+      frog that strove to make himself as large as the ox; if thou dost, the
+      recollection of having kept pigs in thine own country will serve as the
+      ugly feet for the wheel of thy folly."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "That's the truth," said Sancho; "but that was when I was a boy;
+      afterwards when I was something more of a man it was geese I kept, not
+      pigs. But to my thinking that has nothing to do with it; for all who are
+      governors don't come of a kingly stock."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "True," said Don Quixote, "and for that reason those who are not of noble
+      origin should take care that the dignity of the office they hold be
+      accompanied by a gentle suavity, which wisely managed will save them from
+      the sneers of malice that no station escapes.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Glory in thy humble birth, Sancho, and be not ashamed of saying thou art
+      peasant-born; for when it is seen thou art not ashamed no one will set
+      himself to put thee to the blush; and pride thyself rather upon being one
+      of lowly virtue than a lofty sinner. Countless are they who, born of mean
+      parentage, have risen to the highest dignities, pontifical and imperial,
+      and of the truth of this I could give thee instances enough to weary thee.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Remember, Sancho, if thou make virtue thy aim, and take a pride in doing
+      virtuous actions, thou wilt have no cause to envy those who have princely
+      and lordly ones, for blood is an inheritance, but virtue an acquisition,
+      and virtue has in itself alone a worth that blood does not possess.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "This being so, if perchance anyone of thy kinsfolk should come to see
+      thee when thou art in thine island, thou art not to repel or slight him,
+      but on the contrary to welcome him, entertain him, and make much of him;
+      for in so doing thou wilt be approved of heaven (which is not pleased that
+      any should despise what it hath made), and wilt comply with the laws of
+      well-ordered nature.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "If thou carriest thy wife with thee (and it is not well for those that
+      administer governments to be long without their wives), teach and instruct
+      her, and strive to smooth down her natural roughness; for all that may be
+      gained by a wise governor may be lost and wasted by a boorish stupid wife.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "If perchance thou art left a widower&mdash;a thing which may happen&mdash;and
+      in virtue of thy office seekest a consort of higher degree, choose not one
+      to serve thee for a hook, or for a fishing-rod, or for the hood of thy
+      'won't have it;' for verily, I tell thee, for all the judge's wife
+      receives, the husband will be held accountable at the general calling to
+      account; where he will have repay in death fourfold, items that in life he
+      regarded as naught.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Never go by arbitrary law, which is so much favoured by ignorant men who
+      plume themselves on cleverness.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Let the tears of the poor man find with thee more compassion, but not
+      more justice, than the pleadings of the rich.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Strive to lay bare the truth, as well amid the promises and presents of
+      the rich man, as amid the sobs and entreaties of the poor.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "When equity may and should be brought into play, press not the utmost
+      rigour of the law against the guilty; for the reputation of the stern
+      judge stands not higher than that of the compassionate.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "If perchance thou permittest the staff of justice to swerve, let it be
+      not by the weight of a gift, but by that of mercy.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "If it should happen to thee to give judgment in the cause of one who is
+      thine enemy, turn thy thoughts away from thy injury and fix them on the
+      justice of the case.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Let not thine own passion blind thee in another man's cause; for the
+      errors thou wilt thus commit will be most frequently irremediable; or if
+      not, only to be remedied at the expense of thy good name and even of thy
+      fortune.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "If any handsome woman come to seek justice of thee, turn away thine eyes
+      from her tears and thine ears from her lamentations, and consider
+      deliberately the merits of her demand, if thou wouldst not have thy reason
+      swept away by her weeping, and thy rectitude by her sighs.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Abuse not by word him whom thou hast to punish in deed, for the pain of
+      punishment is enough for the unfortunate without the addition of thine
+      objurgations.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Bear in mind that the culprit who comes under thy jurisdiction is but a
+      miserable man subject to all the propensities of our depraved nature, and
+      so far as may be in thy power show thyself lenient and forbearing; for
+      though the attributes of God are all equal, to our eyes that of mercy is
+      brighter and loftier than that of justice.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "If thou followest these precepts and rules, Sancho, thy days will be
+      long, thy fame eternal, thy reward abundant, thy felicity unutterable;
+      thou wilt marry thy children as thou wouldst; they and thy grandchildren
+      will bear titles; thou wilt live in peace and concord with all men; and,
+      when life draws to a close, death will come to thee in calm and ripe old
+      age, and the light and loving hands of thy great-grandchildren will close
+      thine eyes.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "What I have thus far addressed to thee are instructions for the adornment
+      of thy mind; listen now to those which tend to that of the body."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p42e" id="p42e"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p42e.jpg (17K)" src="images/p42e.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      <a name="ch43b" id="ch43b"></a>CHAPTER XLIII.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      OF THE SECOND SET OF COUNSELS DON QUIXOTE GAVE SANCHO PANZA
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <a name="p43a" id="p43a"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p43a.jpg (129K)" src="images/p43a.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p43a.jpg"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br />
+      <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Who, hearing the foregoing discourse of Don Quixote, would not have set
+      him down for a person of great good sense and greater rectitude of
+      purpose? But, as has been frequently observed in the course of this great
+      history, he only talked nonsense when he touched on chivalry, and in
+      discussing all other subjects showed that he had a clear and unbiassed
+      understanding; so that at every turn his acts gave the lie to his
+      intellect, and his intellect to his acts; but in the case of these second
+      counsels that he gave Sancho, he showed himself to have a lively turn of
+      humour, and displayed conspicuously his wisdom, and also his folly.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Sancho listened to him with the deepest attention, and endeavoured to fix
+      his counsels in his memory, like one who meant to follow them and by their
+      means bring the full promise of his government to a happy issue. Don
+      Quixote, then, went on to say:
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "With regard to the mode in which thou shouldst govern thy person and thy
+      house, Sancho, the first charge I have to give thee is to be clean, and to
+      cut thy nails, not letting them grow as some do, whose ignorance makes
+      them fancy that long nails are an ornament to their hands, as if those
+      excrescences they neglect to cut were nails, and not the talons of a
+      lizard-catching kestrel&mdash;a filthy and unnatural abuse.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Go not ungirt and loose, Sancho; for disordered attire is a sign of an
+      unstable mind, unless indeed the slovenliness and slackness is to be set
+      down to craft, as was the common opinion in the case of Julius Caesar.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Ascertain cautiously what thy office may be worth; and if it will allow
+      thee to give liveries to thy servants, give them respectable and
+      serviceable, rather than showy and gay ones, and divide them between thy
+      servants and the poor; that is to say, if thou canst clothe six pages,
+      clothe three and three poor men, and thus thou wilt have pages for heaven
+      and pages for earth; the vainglorious never think of this new mode of
+      giving liveries.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Eat not garlic nor onions, lest they find out thy boorish origin by the
+      smell; walk slowly and speak deliberately, but not in such a way as to
+      make it seem thou art listening to thyself, for all affectation is bad.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Dine sparingly and sup more sparingly still; for the health of the whole
+      body is forged in the workshop of the stomach.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Be temperate in drinking, bearing in mind that wine in excess keeps
+      neither secrets nor promises.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Take care, Sancho, not to chew on both sides, and not to eruct in
+      anybody's presence."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Eruct!" said Sancho; "I don't know what that means."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "To eruct, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "means to belch, and that is one of
+      the filthiest words in the Spanish language, though a very expressive one;
+      and therefore nice folk have had recourse to the Latin, and instead of
+      belch say eruct, and instead of belches say eructations; and if some do
+      not understand these terms it matters little, for custom will bring them
+      into use in the course of time, so that they will be readily understood;
+      this is the way a language is enriched; custom and the public are
+      all-powerful there."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "In truth, senor," said Sancho, "one of the counsels and cautions I mean
+      to bear in mind shall be this, not to belch, for I'm constantly doing it."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Eruct, Sancho, not belch," said Don Quixote.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Eruct, I shall say henceforth, and I swear not to forget it," said
+      Sancho.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Likewise, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "thou must not mingle such a
+      quantity of proverbs in thy discourse as thou dost; for though proverbs
+      are short maxims, thou dost drag them in so often by the head and
+      shoulders that they savour more of nonsense than of maxims."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "God alone can cure that," said Sancho; "for I have more proverbs in me
+      than a book, and when I speak they come so thick together into my mouth
+      that they fall to fighting among themselves to get out; that's why my
+      tongue lets fly the first that come, though they may not be pat to the
+      purpose. But I'll take care henceforward to use such as befit the dignity
+      of my office; for 'in a house where there's plenty, supper is soon
+      cooked,' and 'he who binds does not wrangle,' and 'the bell-ringer's in a
+      safe berth,' and 'giving and keeping require brains.'"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "That's it, Sancho!" said Don Quixote; "pack, tack, string proverbs
+      together; nobody is hindering thee! 'My mother beats me, and I go on with
+      my tricks.' I am bidding thee avoid proverbs, and here in a second thou
+      hast shot out a whole litany of them, which have as much to do with what
+      we are talking about as 'over the hills of Ubeda.' Mind, Sancho, I do not
+      say that a proverb aptly brought in is objectionable; but to pile up and
+      string together proverbs at random makes conversation dull and vulgar.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "When thou ridest on horseback, do not go lolling with thy body on the
+      back of the saddle, nor carry thy legs stiff or sticking out from the
+      horse's belly, nor yet sit so loosely that one would suppose thou wert on
+      Dapple; for the seat on a horse makes gentlemen of some and grooms of
+      others.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Be moderate in thy sleep; for he who does not rise early does not get the
+      benefit of the day; and remember, Sancho, diligence is the mother of good
+      fortune, and indolence, its opposite, never yet attained the object of an
+      honest ambition.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "The last counsel I will give thee now, though it does not tend to bodily
+      improvement, I would have thee carry carefully in thy memory, for I
+      believe it will be no less useful to thee than those I have given thee
+      already, and it is this&mdash;never engage in a dispute about families, at
+      least in the way of comparing them one with another; for necessarily one
+      of those compared will be better than the other, and thou wilt be hated by
+      the one thou hast disparaged, and get nothing in any shape from the one
+      thou hast exalted.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Thy attire shall be hose of full length, a long jerkin, and a cloak a
+      trifle longer; loose breeches by no means, for they are becoming neither
+      for gentlemen nor for governors.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "For the present, Sancho, this is all that has occurred to me to advise
+      thee; as time goes by and occasions arise my instructions shall follow, if
+      thou take care to let me know how thou art circumstanced."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Senor," said Sancho, "I see well enough that all these things your
+      worship has said to me are good, holy, and profitable; but what use will
+      they be to me if I don't remember one of them? To be sure that about not
+      letting my nails grow, and marrying again if I have the chance, will not
+      slip out of my head; but all that other hash, muddle, and jumble&mdash;I
+      don't and can't recollect any more of it than of last year's clouds; so it
+      must be given me in writing; for though I can't either read or write, I'll
+      give it to my confessor, to drive it into me and remind me of it whenever
+      it is necessary."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Ah, sinner that I am!" said Don Quixote, "how bad it looks in governors
+      not to know how to read or write; for let me tell thee, Sancho, when a man
+      knows not how to read, or is left-handed, it argues one of two things;
+      either that he was the son of exceedingly mean and lowly parents, or that
+      he himself was so incorrigible and ill-conditioned that neither good
+      company nor good teaching could make any impression on him. It is a great
+      defect that thou labourest under, and therefore I would have thee learn at
+      any rate to sign thy name." "I can sign my name well enough," said Sancho,
+      "for when I was steward of the brotherhood in my village I learned to make
+      certain letters, like the marks on bales of goods, which they told me made
+      out my name. Besides I can pretend my right hand is disabled and make some
+      one else sign for me, for 'there's a remedy for everything except death;'
+      and as I shall be in command and hold the staff, I can do as I like;
+      moreover, 'he who has the alcalde for his father-,' and I'll be governor,
+      and that's higher than alcalde. Only come and see! Let them make light of
+      me and abuse me; 'they'll come for wool and go back shorn;' 'whom God
+      loves, his house is known to Him;' 'the silly sayings of the rich pass for
+      saws in the world;' and as I'll be rich, being a governor, and at the same
+      time generous, as I mean to be, no fault will be seen in me. 'Only make
+      yourself honey and the flies will suck you;' 'as much as thou hast so much
+      art thou worth,' as my grandmother used to say; and 'thou canst have no
+      revenge of a man of substance.'"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Oh, God's curse upon thee, Sancho!" here exclaimed Don Quixote; "sixty
+      thousand devils fly away with thee and thy proverbs! For the last hour
+      thou hast been stringing them together and inflicting the pangs of torture
+      on me with every one of them. Those proverbs will bring thee to the
+      gallows one day, I promise thee; thy subjects will take the government
+      from thee, or there will be revolts among them. Tell me, where dost thou
+      pick them up, thou booby? How dost thou apply them, thou blockhead? For
+      with me, to utter one and make it apply properly, I have to sweat and
+      labour as if I were digging."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "By God, master mine," said Sancho, "your worship is making a fuss about
+      very little. Why the devil should you be vexed if I make use of what is my
+      own? And I have got nothing else, nor any other stock in trade except
+      proverbs and more proverbs; and here are three just this instant come into
+      my head, pat to the purpose and like pears in a basket; but I won't repeat
+      them, for 'sage silence is called Sancho.'"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "That, Sancho, thou art not," said Don Quixote; "for not only art thou not
+      sage silence, but thou art pestilent prate and perversity; still I would
+      like to know what three proverbs have just now come into thy memory, for I
+      have been turning over mine own&mdash;and it is a good one&mdash;and none
+      occurs to me."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "What can be better," said Sancho, "than 'never put thy thumbs between two
+      back teeth;' and 'to "get out of my house" and "what do you want with my
+      wife?" there is no answer;' and 'whether the pitcher hits the stove, or
+      the stove the pitcher, it's a bad business for the pitcher;' all which fit
+      to a hair? For no one should quarrel with his governor, or him in
+      authority over him, because he will come off the worst, as he does who
+      puts his finger between two back and if they are not back teeth it makes
+      no difference, so long as they are teeth; and to whatever the governor may
+      say there's no answer, any more than to 'get out of my house' and 'what do
+      you want with my wife?' and then, as for that about the stone and the
+      pitcher, a blind man could see that. So that he 'who sees the mote in
+      another's eye had need to see the beam in his own,' that it be not said of
+      himself, 'the dead woman was frightened at the one with her throat cut;'
+      and your worship knows well that 'the fool knows more in his own house
+      than the wise man in another's.'"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Nay, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "the fool knows nothing, either in his
+      own house or in anybody else's, for no wise structure of any sort can
+      stand on a foundation of folly; but let us say no more about it, Sancho,
+      for if thou governest badly, thine will be the fault and mine the shame;
+      but I comfort myself with having done my duty in advising thee as
+      earnestly and as wisely as I could; and thus I am released from my
+      obligations and my promise. God guide thee, Sancho, and govern thee in thy
+      government, and deliver me from the misgiving I have that thou wilt turn
+      the whole island upside down, a thing I might easily prevent by explaining
+      to the duke what thou art and telling him that all that fat little person
+      of thine is nothing else but a sack full of proverbs and sauciness."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Senor," said Sancho, "if your worship thinks I'm not fit for this
+      government, I give it up on the spot; for the mere black of the nail of my
+      soul is dearer to me than my whole body; and I can live just as well,
+      simple Sancho, on bread and onions, as governor, on partridges and capons;
+      and what's more, while we're asleep we're all equal, great and small, rich
+      and poor. But if your worship looks into it, you will see it was your
+      worship alone that put me on to this business of governing; for I know no
+      more about the government of islands than a buzzard; and if there's any
+      reason to think that because of my being a governor the devil will get
+      hold of me, I'd rather go Sancho to heaven than governor to hell."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "By God, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "for those last words thou hast
+      uttered alone, I consider thou deservest to be governor of a thousand
+      islands. Thou hast good natural instincts, without which no knowledge is
+      worth anything; commend thyself to God, and try not to swerve in the
+      pursuit of thy main object; I mean, always make it thy aim and fixed
+      purpose to do right in all matters that come before thee, for heaven
+      always helps good intentions; and now let us go to dinner, for I think my
+      lord and lady are waiting for us."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p43e" id="p43e"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p43e.jpg (41K)" src="images/p43e.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      <a name="ch44b" id="ch44b"></a>CHAPTER XLIV.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      HOW SANCHO PANZA WAS CONDUCTED TO HIS GOVERNMENT, AND OF THE STRANGE
+      ADVENTURE THAT BEFELL DON QUIXOTE IN THE CASTLE
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <a name="p44a" id="p44a"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p44a.jpg (140K)" src="images/p44a.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p44a.jpg"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br />
+      <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      It is stated, they say, in the true original of this history, that when
+      Cide Hamete came to write this chapter, his interpreter did not translate
+      it as he wrote it&mdash;that is, as a kind of complaint the Moor made
+      against himself for having taken in hand a story so dry and of so little
+      variety as this of Don Quixote, for he found himself forced to speak
+      perpetually of him and Sancho, without venturing to indulge in digressions
+      and episodes more serious and more interesting. He said, too, that to go
+      on, mind, hand, pen always restricted to writing upon one single subject,
+      and speaking through the mouths of a few characters, was intolerable
+      drudgery, the result of which was never equal to the author's labour, and
+      that to avoid this he had in the First Part availed himself of the device
+      of novels, like "The Ill-advised Curiosity," and "The Captive Captain,"
+      which stand, as it were, apart from the story; the others are given there
+      being incidents which occurred to Don Quixote himself and could not be
+      omitted. He also thought, he says, that many, engrossed by the interest
+      attaching to the exploits of Don Quixote, would take none in the novels,
+      and pass them over hastily or impatiently without noticing the elegance
+      and art of their composition, which would be very manifest were they
+      published by themselves and not as mere adjuncts to the crazes of Don
+      Quixote or the simplicities of Sancho. Therefore in this Second Part he
+      thought it best not to insert novels, either separate or interwoven, but
+      only episodes, something like them, arising out of the circumstances the
+      facts present; and even these sparingly, and with no more words than
+      suffice to make them plain; and as he confines and restricts himself to
+      the narrow limits of the narrative, though he has ability; capacity, and
+      brains enough to deal with the whole universe, he requests that his
+      labours may not be despised, and that credit be given him, not alone for
+      what he writes, but for what he has refrained from writing.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      And so he goes on with his story, saying that the day Don Quixote gave the
+      counsels to Sancho, the same afternoon after dinner he handed them to him
+      in writing so that he might get some one to read them to him. They had
+      scarcely, however, been given to him when he let them drop, and they fell
+      into the hands of the duke, who showed them to the duchess and they were
+      both amazed afresh at the madness and wit of Don Quixote. To carry on the
+      joke, then, the same evening they despatched Sancho with a large following
+      to the village that was to serve him for an island. It happened that the
+      person who had him in charge was a majordomo of the duke's, a man of great
+      discretion and humour&mdash;and there can be no humour without discretion&mdash;and
+      the same who played the part of the Countess Trifaldi in the comical way
+      that has been already described; and thus qualified, and instructed by his
+      master and mistress as to how to deal with Sancho, he carried out their
+      scheme admirably. Now it came to pass that as soon as Sancho saw this
+      majordomo he seemed in his features to recognise those of the Trifaldi,
+      and turning to his master, he said to him, "Senor, either the devil will
+      carry me off, here on this spot, righteous and believing, or your worship
+      will own to me that the face of this majordomo of the duke's here is the
+      very face of the Distressed One."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Don Quixote regarded the majordomo attentively, and having done so, said
+      to Sancho, "There is no reason why the devil should carry thee off,
+      Sancho, either righteous or believing&mdash;and what thou meanest by that
+      I know not; the face of the Distressed One is that of the majordomo, but
+      for all that the majordomo is not the Distressed One; for his being so
+      would involve a mighty contradiction; but this is not the time for going
+      into questions of the sort, which would be involving ourselves in an
+      inextricable labyrinth. Believe me, my friend, we must pray earnestly to
+      our Lord that he deliver us both from wicked wizards and enchanters."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "It is no joke, senor," said Sancho, "for before this I heard him speak,
+      and it seemed exactly as if the voice of the Trifaldi was sounding in my
+      ears. Well, I'll hold my peace; but I'll take care to be on the look-out
+      henceforth for any sign that may be seen to confirm or do away with this
+      suspicion."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Thou wilt do well, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "and thou wilt let me know
+      all thou discoverest, and all that befalls thee in thy government."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Sancho at last set out attended by a great number of people. He was
+      dressed in the garb of a lawyer, with a gaban of tawny watered camlet over
+      all and a montera cap of the same material, and mounted a la gineta upon a
+      mule. Behind him, in accordance with the duke's orders, followed Dapple
+      with brand new ass-trappings and ornaments of silk, and from time to time
+      Sancho turned round to look at his ass, so well pleased to have him with
+      him that he would not have changed places with the emperor of Germany. On
+      taking leave he kissed the hands of the duke and duchess and got his
+      master's blessing, which Don Quixote gave him with tears, and he received
+      blubbering.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p44b" id="p44b"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p44b.jpg (341K)" src="images/p44b.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p44b.jpg"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br />
+      <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Let worthy Sancho go in peace, and good luck to him, Gentle Reader; and
+      look out for two bushels of laughter, which the account of how he behaved
+      himself in office will give thee. In the meantime turn thy attention to
+      what happened his master the same night, and if thou dost not laugh
+      thereat, at any rate thou wilt stretch thy mouth with a grin; for Don
+      Quixote's adventures must be honoured either with wonder or with laughter.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      It is recorded, then, that as soon as Sancho had gone, Don Quixote felt
+      his loneliness, and had it been possible for him to revoke the mandate and
+      take away the government from him he would have done so. The duchess
+      observed his dejection and asked him why he was melancholy; because, she
+      said, if it was for the loss of Sancho, there were squires, duennas, and
+      damsels in her house who would wait upon him to his full satisfaction.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "The truth is, senora," replied Don Quixote, "that I do feel the loss of
+      Sancho; but that is not the main cause of my looking sad; and of all the
+      offers your excellence makes me, I accept only the good-will with which
+      they are made, and as to the remainder I entreat of your excellence to
+      permit and allow me alone to wait upon myself in my chamber."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Indeed, Senor Don Quixote," said the duchess, "that must not be; four of
+      my damsels, as beautiful as flowers, shall wait upon you."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "To me," said Don Quixote, "they will not be flowers, but thorns to pierce
+      my heart. They, or anything like them, shall as soon enter my chamber as
+      fly. If your highness wishes to gratify me still further, though I deserve
+      it not, permit me to please myself, and wait upon myself in my own room;
+      for I place a barrier between my inclinations and my virtue, and I do not
+      wish to break this rule through the generosity your highness is disposed
+      to display towards me; and, in short, I will sleep in my clothes, sooner
+      than allow anyone to undress me."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Say no more, Senor Don Quixote, say no more," said the duchess; "I assure
+      you I will give orders that not even a fly, not to say a damsel, shall
+      enter your room. I am not the one to undermine the propriety of Senor Don
+      Quixote, for it strikes me that among his many virtues the one that is
+      pre-eminent is that of modesty. Your worship may undress and dress in
+      private and in your own way, as you please and when you please, for there
+      will be no one to hinder you; and in your chamber you will find all the
+      utensils requisite to supply the wants of one who sleeps with his door
+      locked, to the end that no natural needs compel you to open it. May the
+      great Dulcinea del Toboso live a thousand years, and may her fame extend
+      all over the surface of the globe, for she deserves to be loved by a
+      knight so valiant and so virtuous; and may kind heaven infuse zeal into
+      the heart of our governor Sancho Panza to finish off his discipline
+      speedily, so that the world may once more enjoy the beauty of so grand a
+      lady."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      To which Don Quixote replied, "Your highness has spoken like what you are;
+      from the mouth of a noble lady nothing bad can come; and Dulcinea will be
+      more fortunate, and better known to the world by the praise of your
+      highness than by all the eulogies the greatest orators on earth could
+      bestow upon her."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Well, well, Senor Don Quixote," said the duchess, it is nearly supper-time,
+      and the duke is probably waiting; come let us go to supper, and retire
+      to rest early, for the journey you made yesterday from Kandy was not such
+      a short one but that it must have caused you some fatigue."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I feel none, senora," said Don Quixote, "for I would go so far as to
+      swear to your excellence that in all my life I never mounted a quieter
+      beast, or a pleasanter paced one, than Clavileno; and I don't know what
+      could have induced Malambruno to discard a steed so swift and so gentle,
+      and burn it so recklessly as he did."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Probably," said the duchess, "repenting of the evil he had done to the
+      Trifaldi and company, and others, and the crimes he must have committed as
+      a wizard and enchanter, he resolved to make away with all the instruments
+      of his craft; and so burned Clavileno as the chief one, and that which
+      mainly kept him restless, wandering from land to land; and by its ashes
+      and the trophy of the placard the valour of the great Don Quixote of La
+      Mancha is established for ever."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Don Quixote renewed his thanks to the duchess; and having supped, retired
+      to his chamber alone, refusing to allow anyone to enter with him to wait
+      on him, such was his fear of encountering temptations that might lead or
+      drive him to forget his chaste fidelity to his lady Dulcinea; for he had
+      always present to his mind the virtue of Amadis, that flower and mirror of
+      knights-errant. He locked the door behind him, and by the light of two wax
+      candles undressed himself, but as he was taking off his stockings&mdash;O
+      disaster unworthy of such a personage!&mdash;there came a burst, not of
+      sighs, or anything belying his delicacy or good breeding, but of some two
+      dozen stitches in one of his stockings, that made it look like a
+      window-lattice. The worthy gentleman was beyond measure distressed, and at
+      that moment he would have given an ounce of silver to have had half a
+      drachm of green silk there; I say green silk, because the stockings were
+      green.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Here Cide Hamete exclaimed as he was writing, "O poverty, poverty! I know
+      not what could have possessed the great Cordovan poet to call thee 'holy
+      gift ungratefully received.' Although a Moor, I know well enough from the
+      intercourse I have had with Christians that holiness consists in charity,
+      humility, faith, obedience, and poverty; but for all that, I say he must
+      have a great deal of godliness who can find any satisfaction in being
+      poor; unless, indeed, it be the kind of poverty one of their greatest
+      saints refers to, saying, 'possess all things as though ye possessed them
+      not;' which is what they call poverty in spirit. But thou, that other
+      poverty&mdash;for it is of thee I am speaking now&mdash;why dost thou love
+      to fall out with gentlemen and men of good birth more than with other
+      people? Why dost thou compel them to smear the cracks in their shoes, and
+      to have the buttons of their coats, one silk, another hair, and another
+      glass? Why must their ruffs be always crinkled like endive leaves, and not
+      crimped with a crimping iron?" (From this we may perceive the antiquity of
+      starch and crimped ruffs.) Then he goes on: "Poor gentleman of good
+      family! always cockering up his honour, dining miserably and in secret,
+      and making a hypocrite of the toothpick with which he sallies out into the
+      street after eating nothing to oblige him to use it! Poor fellow, I say,
+      with his nervous honour, fancying they perceive a league off the patch on
+      his shoe, the sweat-stains on his hat, the shabbiness of his cloak, and
+      the hunger of his stomach!"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      All this was brought home to Don Quixote by the bursting of his stitches;
+      however, he comforted himself on perceiving that Sancho had left behind a
+      pair of travelling boots, which he resolved to wear the next day. At last
+      he went to bed, out of spirits and heavy at heart, as much because he
+      missed Sancho as because of the irreparable disaster to his stockings, the
+      stitches of which he would have even taken up with silk of another colour,
+      which is one of the greatest signs of poverty a gentleman can show in the
+      course of his never-failing embarrassments. He put out the candles; but
+      the night was warm and he could not sleep; he rose from his bed and opened
+      slightly a grated window that looked out on a beautiful garden, and as he
+      did so he perceived and heard people walking and talking in the garden. He
+      set himself to listen attentively, and those below raised their voices so
+      that he could hear these words:
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Urge me not to sing, Emerencia, for thou knowest that ever since this
+      stranger entered the castle and my eyes beheld him, I cannot sing but only
+      weep; besides my lady is a light rather than a heavy sleeper, and I would
+      not for all the wealth of the world that she found us here; and even if
+      she were asleep and did not waken, my singing would be in vain, if this
+      strange AEneas, who has come into my neighbourhood to flout me, sleeps on
+      and wakens not to hear it."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Heed not that, dear Altisidora," replied a voice; "the duchess is no
+      doubt asleep, and everybody in the house save the lord of thy heart and
+      disturber of thy soul; for just now I perceived him open the grated window
+      of his chamber, so he must be awake; sing, my poor sufferer, in a low
+      sweet tone to the accompaniment of thy harp; and even if the duchess hears
+      us we can lay the blame on the heat of the night."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "That is not the point, Emerencia," replied Altisidora, "it is that I
+      would not that my singing should lay bare my heart, and that I should be
+      thought a light and wanton maiden by those who know not the mighty power
+      of love; but come what may; better a blush on the cheeks than a sore in
+      the heart;" and here a harp softly touched made itself heard. As he
+      listened to all this Don Quixote was in a state of breathless amazement,
+      for immediately the countless adventures like this, with windows,
+      gratings, gardens, serenades, lovemakings, and languishings, that he had
+      read of in his trashy books of chivalry, came to his mind. He at once
+      concluded that some damsel of the duchess's was in love with him, and that
+      her modesty forced her to keep her passion secret. He trembled lest he
+      should fall, and made an inward resolution not to yield; and commending
+      himself with all his might and soul to his lady Dulcinea he made up his
+      mind to listen to the music; and to let them know he was there he gave a
+      pretended sneeze, at which the damsels were not a little delighted, for
+      all they wanted was that Don Quixote should hear them. So having tuned the
+      harp, Altisidora, running her hand across the strings, began this ballad:
+    </p>
+<pre xml:space="preserve">
+O thou that art above in bed,
+  Between the holland sheets,
+A-lying there from night till morn,
+  With outstretched legs asleep;
+
+O thou, most valiant knight of all
+  The famed Manchegan breed,
+Of purity and virtue more
+  Than gold of Araby;
+
+Give ear unto a suffering maid,
+  Well-grown but evil-starr'd,
+For those two suns of thine have lit
+  A fire within her heart.
+
+Adventures seeking thou dost rove,
+  To others bringing woe;
+Thou scatterest wounds, but, ah, the balm
+  To heal them dost withhold!
+
+Say, valiant youth, and so may God
+  Thy enterprises speed,
+Didst thou the light mid Libya's sands
+  Or Jaca's rocks first see?
+
+Did scaly serpents give thee suck?
+  Who nursed thee when a babe?
+Wert cradled in the forest rude,
+  Or gloomy mountain cave?
+
+O Dulcinea may be proud,
+  That plump and lusty maid;
+For she alone hath had the power
+  A tiger fierce to tame.
+
+And she for this shall famous be
+  From Tagus to Jarama,
+From Manzanares to Genil,
+  From Duero to Arlanza.
+
+Fain would I change with her, and give
+  A petticoat to boot,
+The best and bravest that I have,
+  All trimmed with gold galloon.
+
+O for to be the happy fair
+  Thy mighty arms enfold,
+Or even sit beside thy bed
+  And scratch thy dusty poll!
+
+I rave,&mdash;to favours such as these
+  Unworthy to aspire;
+Thy feet to tickle were enough
+  For one so mean as I.
+
+What caps, what slippers silver-laced,
+  Would I on thee bestow!
+What damask breeches make for thee;
+  What fine long holland cloaks!
+
+And I would give thee pearls that should
+  As big as oak-galls show;
+So matchless big that each might well
+  Be called the great "Alone."
+
+Manchegan Nero, look not down
+  From thy Tarpeian Rock
+Upon this burning heart, nor add
+  The fuel of thy wrath.
+
+A virgin soft and young am I,
+  Not yet fifteen years old;
+(I'm only three months past fourteen,
+  I swear upon my soul).
+I hobble not nor do I limp,
+  All blemish I'm without,
+And as I walk my lily locks
+  Are trailing on the ground.
+
+And though my nose be rather flat,
+  And though my mouth be wide,
+My teeth like topazes exalt
+  My beauty to the sky.
+
+Thou knowest that my voice is sweet,
+  That is if thou dost hear;
+And I am moulded in a form
+  Somewhat below the mean.
+
+These charms, and many more, are thine,
+  Spoils to thy spear and bow all;
+A damsel of this house am I,
+  By name Altisidora.
+
+</pre>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p44c" id="p44c"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p44c.jpg (266K)" src="images/p44c.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p44c.jpg"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br />
+      <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Here the lay of the heart-stricken Altisidora came to an end, while the
+      warmly wooed Don Quixote began to feel alarm; and with a deep sigh he said
+      to himself, "O that I should be such an unlucky knight that no damsel can
+      set eyes on me but falls in love with me! O that the peerless Dulcinea
+      should be so unfortunate that they cannot let her enjoy my incomparable
+      constancy in peace! What would ye with her, ye queens? Why do ye persecute
+      her, ye empresses? Why ye pursue her, ye virgins of from fourteen to
+      fifteen? Leave the unhappy being to triumph, rejoice and glory in the lot
+      love has been pleased to bestow upon her in surrendering my heart and
+      yielding up my soul to her. Ye love-smitten host, know that to Dulcinea
+      only I am dough and sugar-paste, flint to all others; for her I am honey,
+      for you aloes. For me Dulcinea alone is beautiful, wise, virtuous,
+      graceful, and high-bred, and all others are ill-favoured, foolish, light,
+      and low-born. Nature sent me into the world to be hers and no other's;
+      Altisidora may weep or sing, the lady for whose sake they belaboured me in
+      the castle of the enchanted Moor may give way to despair, but I must be
+      Dulcinea's, boiled or roast, pure, courteous, and chaste, in spite of all
+      the magic-working powers on earth." And with that he shut the window with
+      a bang, and, as much out of temper and out of sorts as if some great
+      misfortune had befallen him, stretched himself on his bed, where we will
+      leave him for the present, as the great Sancho Panza, who is about to set
+      up his famous government, now demands our attention.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p44e" id="p44e"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p44e.jpg (145K)" src="images/p44e.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p44a.jpg"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br />
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      <a name="ch45b" id="ch45b"></a>CHAPTER XLV.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      OF HOW THE GREAT SANCHO PANZA TOOK POSSESSION OF HIS ISLAND, AND OF HOW HE
+      MADE A BEGINNING IN GOVERNING
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <a name="p45a" id="p45a"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p45a.jpg (141K)" src="images/p45a.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p45a.jpg"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br />
+      <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      O perpetual discoverer of the antipodes, torch of the world, eye of
+      heaven, sweet stimulator of the water-coolers! Thimbraeus here, Phoebus
+      there, now archer, now physician, father of poetry, inventor of music;
+      thou that always risest and, notwithstanding appearances, never settest!
+      To thee, O Sun, by whose aid man begetteth man, to thee I appeal to help
+      me and lighten the darkness of my wit that I may be able to proceed with
+      scrupulous exactitude in giving an account of the great Sancho Panza's
+      government; for without thee I feel myself weak, feeble, and uncertain.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      To come to the point, then&mdash;Sancho with all his attendants arrived at
+      a village of some thousand inhabitants, and one of the largest the duke
+      possessed. They informed him that it was called the island of Barataria,
+      either because the name of the village was Baratario, or because of the
+      joke by way of which the government had been conferred upon him. On
+      reaching the gates of the town, which was a walled one, the municipality
+      came forth to meet him, the bells rang out a peal, and the inhabitants
+      showed every sign of general satisfaction; and with great pomp they
+      conducted him to the principal church to give thanks to God, and then with
+      burlesque ceremonies they presented him with the keys of the town, and
+      acknowledged him as perpetual governor of the island of Barataria. The
+      costume, the beard, and the fat squat figure of the new governor
+      astonished all those who were not in on the secret, and even all who were,
+      and they were not a few. Finally, leading him out of the church they
+      carried him to the judgment seat and seated him on it, and the duke's
+      majordomo said to him, "It is an ancient custom in this island, senor
+      governor, that he who comes to take possession of this famous island is
+      bound to answer a question which shall be put to him, and which must be a
+      somewhat knotty and difficult one; and by his answer the people take the
+      measure of their new governor's wit, and hail with joy or deplore his
+      arrival accordingly."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      While the majordomo was making this speech Sancho was gazing at several
+      large letters inscribed on the wall opposite his seat, and as he could not
+      read he asked what that was that was painted on the wall. The answer was,
+      "Senor, there is written and recorded the day on which your lordship took
+      possession of this island, and the inscription says, 'This day, the
+      so-and-so of such-and-such a month and year, Senor Don Sancho Panza took
+      possession of this island; many years may he enjoy it.'"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "And whom do they call Don Sancho Panza?" asked Sancho.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Your lordship," replied the majordomo; "for no other Panza but the one
+      who is now seated in that chair has ever entered this island."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Well then, let me tell you, brother," said Sancho, "I haven't got the
+      'Don,' nor has any one of my family ever had it; my name is plain Sancho
+      Panza, and Sancho was my father's name, and Sancho was my grandfather's
+      and they were all Panzas, without any Dons or Donas tacked on; I suspect
+      that in this island there are more Dons than stones; but never mind; God
+      knows what I mean, and maybe if my government lasts four days I'll weed
+      out these Dons that no doubt are as great a nuisance as the midges,
+      they're so plenty. Let the majordomo go on with his question, and I'll
+      give the best answer I can, whether the people deplore or not."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      At this instant there came into court two old men, one carrying a cane by
+      way of a walking-stick, and the one who had no stick said, "Senor, some
+      time ago I lent this good man ten gold-crowns in gold to gratify him and
+      do him a service, on the condition that he was to return them to me
+      whenever I should ask for them. A long time passed before I asked for
+      them, for I would not put him to any greater straits to return them than
+      he was in when I lent them to him; but thinking he was growing careless
+      about payment I asked for them once and several times; and not only will
+      he not give them back, but he denies that he owes them, and says I never
+      lent him any such crowns; or if I did, that he repaid them; and I have no
+      witnesses either of the loan, or the payment, for he never paid me; I want
+      your worship to put him to his oath, and if he swears he returned them to
+      me I forgive him the debt here and before God."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p45b" id="p45b"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p45b.jpg (400K)" src="images/p45b.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p45b.jpg"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br />
+      <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "What say you to this, good old man, you with the stick?" said Sancho.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      To which the old man replied, "I admit, senor, that he lent them to me;
+      but let your worship lower your staff, and as he leaves it to my oath,
+      I'll swear that I gave them back, and paid him really and truly."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The governor lowered the staff, and as he did so the old man who had the
+      stick handed it to the other old man to hold for him while he swore, as if
+      he found it in his way; and then laid his hand on the cross of the staff,
+      saying that it was true the ten crowns that were demanded of him had been
+      lent him; but that he had with his own hand given them back into the hand
+      of the other, and that he, not recollecting it, was always asking for
+      them.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Seeing this the great governor asked the creditor what answer he had to
+      make to what his opponent said. He said that no doubt his debtor had told
+      the truth, for he believed him to be an honest man and a good Christian,
+      and he himself must have forgotten when and how he had given him back the
+      crowns; and that from that time forth he would make no further demand upon
+      him.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The debtor took his stick again, and bowing his head left the court.
+      Observing this, and how, without another word, he made off, and observing
+      too the resignation of the plaintiff, Sancho buried his head in his bosom
+      and remained for a short space in deep thought, with the forefinger of his
+      right hand on his brow and nose; then he raised his head and bade them
+      call back the old man with the stick, for he had already taken his
+      departure. They brought him back, and as soon as Sancho saw him he said,
+      "Honest man, give me that stick, for I want it."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Willingly," said the old man; "here it is senor," and he put it into his
+      hand.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Sancho took it and, handing it to the other old man, said to him, "Go, and
+      God be with you; for now you are paid."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I, senor!" returned the old man; "why, is this cane worth ten
+      gold-crowns?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Yes," said the governor, "or if not I am the greatest dolt in the world;
+      now you will see whether I have got the headpiece to govern a whole
+      kingdom;" and he ordered the cane to be broken in two, there, in the
+      presence of all. It was done, and in the middle of it they found ten
+      gold-crowns. All were filled with amazement, and looked upon their
+      governor as another Solomon. They asked him how he had come to the
+      conclusion that the ten crowns were in the cane; he replied, that
+      observing how the old man who swore gave the stick to his opponent while
+      he was taking the oath, and swore that he had really and truly given him
+      the crowns, and how as soon as he had done swearing he asked for the stick
+      again, it came into his head that the sum demanded must be inside it; and
+      from this he said it might be seen that God sometimes guides those who
+      govern in their judgments, even though they may be fools; besides he had
+      himself heard the curate of his village mention just such another case,
+      and he had so good a memory, that if it was not that he forgot everything
+      he wished to remember, there would not be such a memory in all the island.
+      To conclude, the old men went off, one crestfallen, and the other in high
+      contentment, all who were present were astonished, and he who was
+      recording the words, deeds, and movements of Sancho could not make up his
+      mind whether he was to look upon him and set him down as a fool or as a
+      man of sense.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      As soon as this case was disposed of, there came into court a woman
+      holding on with a tight grip to a man dressed like a well-to-do cattle
+      dealer, and she came forward making a great outcry and exclaiming,
+      "Justice, senor governor, justice! and if I don't get it on earth I'll go
+      look for it in heaven. Senor governor of my soul, this wicked man caught
+      me in the middle of the fields here and used my body as if it was an
+      ill-washed rag, and, woe is me! got from me what I had kept these
+      three-and-twenty years and more, defending it against Moors and
+      Christians, natives and strangers; and I always as hard as an oak, and
+      keeping myself as pure as a salamander in the fire, or wool among the
+      brambles, for this good fellow to come now with clean hands to handle me!"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "It remains to be proved whether this gallant has clean hands or not,"
+      said Sancho; and turning to the man he asked him what he had to say in
+      answer to the woman's charge.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      He all in confusion made answer, "Sirs, I am a poor pig dealer, and this
+      morning I left the village to sell (saving your presence) four pigs, and
+      between dues and cribbings they got out of me little less than the worth
+      of them. As I was returning to my village I fell in on the road with this
+      good dame, and the devil who makes a coil and a mess out of everything,
+      yoked us together. I paid her fairly, but she not contented laid hold of
+      me and never let go until she brought me here; she says I forced her, but
+      she lies by the oath I swear or am ready to swear; and this is the whole
+      truth and every particle of it."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The governor on this asked him if he had any money in silver about him; he
+      said he had about twenty ducats in a leather purse in his bosom. The
+      governor bade him take it out and hand it to the complainant; he obeyed
+      trembling; the woman took it, and making a thousand salaams to all and
+      praying to God for the long life and health of the senor governor who had
+      such regard for distressed orphans and virgins, she hurried out of court
+      with the purse grasped in both her hands, first looking, however, to see
+      if the money it contained was silver.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      As soon as she was gone Sancho said to the cattle dealer, whose tears were
+      already starting and whose eyes and heart were following his purse, "Good
+      fellow, go after that woman and take the purse from her, by force even,
+      and come back with it here;" and he did not say it to one who was a fool
+      or deaf, for the man was off like a flash of lightning, and ran to do as
+      he was bid.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      All the bystanders waited anxiously to see the end of the case, and
+      presently both man and woman came back at even closer grips than before,
+      she with her petticoat up and the purse in the lap of it, and he
+      struggling hard to take it from her, but all to no purpose, so stout was
+      the woman's defence, she all the while crying out, "Justice from God and
+      the world! see here, senor governor, the shamelessness and boldness of
+      this villain, who in the middle of the town, in the middle of the street,
+      wanted to take from me the purse your worship bade him give me."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "And did he take it?" asked the governor.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Take it!" said the woman; "I'd let my life be taken from me sooner than
+      the purse. A pretty child I'd be! It's another sort of cat they must throw
+      in my face, and not that poor scurvy knave. Pincers and hammers, mallets
+      and chisels would not get it out of my grip; no, nor lions' claws; the
+      soul from out of my body first!"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "She is right," said the man; "I own myself beaten and powerless; I
+      confess I haven't the strength to take it from her;" and he let go his
+      hold of her.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Upon this the governor said to the woman, "Let me see that purse, my
+      worthy and sturdy friend." She handed it to him at once, and the governor
+      returned it to the man, and said to the unforced mistress of force,
+      "Sister, if you had shown as much, or only half as much, spirit and vigour
+      in defending your body as you have shown in defending that purse, the
+      strength of Hercules could not have forced you. Be off, and God speed you,
+      and bad luck to you, and don't show your face in all this island, or
+      within six leagues of it on any side, under pain of two hundred lashes; be
+      off at once, I say, you shameless, cheating shrew."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The woman was cowed and went off disconsolately, hanging her head; and the
+      governor said to the man, "Honest man, go home with your money, and God
+      speed you; and for the future, if you don't want to lose it, see that you
+      don't take it into your head to yoke with anybody." The man thanked him as
+      clumsily as he could and went his way, and the bystanders were again
+      filled with admiration at their new governor's judgments and sentences.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Next, two men, one apparently a farm labourer, and the other a tailor, for
+      he had a pair of shears in his hand, presented themselves before him, and
+      the tailor said, "Senor governor, this labourer and I come before your
+      worship by reason of this honest man coming to my shop yesterday (for
+      saving everybody's presence I'm a passed tailor, God be thanked), and
+      putting a piece of cloth into my hands and asking me, 'Senor, will there
+      be enough in this cloth to make me a cap?' Measuring the cloth I said
+      there would. He probably suspected&mdash;as I supposed, and I supposed
+      right&mdash;that I wanted to steal some of the cloth, led to think so by
+      his own roguery and the bad opinion people have of tailors; and he told me
+      to see if there would be enough for two. I guessed what he would be at,
+      and I said 'yes.' He, still following up his original unworthy notion,
+      went on adding cap after cap, and I 'yes' after 'yes,' until we got as far
+      as five. He has just this moment come for them; I gave them to him, but he
+      won't pay me for the making; on the contrary, he calls upon me to pay him,
+      or else return his cloth."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Is all this true, brother?" said Sancho.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Yes," replied the man; "but will your worship make him show the five caps
+      he has made me?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "With all my heart," said the tailor; and drawing his hand from under his
+      cloak he showed five caps stuck upon the five fingers of it, and said,
+      "there are the caps this good man asks for; and by God and upon my
+      conscience I haven't a scrap of cloth left, and I'll let the work be
+      examined by the inspectors of the trade."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      All present laughed at the number of caps and the novelty of the suit;
+      Sancho set himself to think for a moment, and then said, "It seems to me
+      that in this case it is not necessary to deliver long-winded arguments,
+      but only to give off-hand the judgment of an honest man; and so my
+      decision is that the tailor lose the making and the labourer the cloth,
+      and that the caps go to the prisoners in the gaol, and let there be no
+      more about it."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      If the previous decision about the cattle dealer's purse excited the
+      admiration of the bystanders, this provoked their laughter; however, the
+      governor's orders were after all executed. All this, having been taken
+      down by his chronicler, was at once despatched to the duke, who was
+      looking out for it with great eagerness; and here let us leave the good
+      Sancho; for his master, sorely troubled in mind by Altisidora's music, has
+      pressing claims upon us now.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p45e" id="p45e"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p45e.jpg (11K)" src="images/p45e.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      <a name="ch46b" id="ch46b"></a>CHAPTER XLVI.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      OF THE TERRIBLE BELL AND CAT FRIGHT THAT DON QUIXOTE GOT IN THE COURSE OF
+      THE ENAMOURED ALTISIDORA'S WOOING
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <a name="p46a" id="p46a"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p46a.jpg (58K)" src="images/p46a.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p46a.jpg"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br />
+      <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      We left Don Quixote wrapped up in the reflections which the music of the
+      enamourned maid Altisidora had given rise to. He went to bed with them,
+      and just like fleas they would not let him sleep or get a moment's rest,
+      and the broken stitches of his stockings helped them. But as Time is fleet
+      and no obstacle can stay his course, he came riding on the hours, and
+      morning very soon arrived. Seeing which Don Quixote quitted the soft down,
+      and, nowise slothful, dressed himself in his chamois suit and put on his
+      travelling boots to hide the disaster to his stockings. He threw over him
+      his scarlet mantle, put on his head a montera of green velvet trimmed with
+      silver edging, flung across his shoulder the baldric with his good
+      trenchant sword, took up a large rosary that he always carried with him,
+      and with great solemnity and precision of gait proceeded to the
+      antechamber where the duke and duchess were already dressed and waiting
+      for him. But as he passed through a gallery, Altisidora and the other
+      damsel, her friend, were lying in wait for him, and the instant Altisidora
+      saw him she pretended to faint, while her friend caught her in her lap,
+      and began hastily unlacing the bosom of her dress.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Don Quixote observed it, and approaching them said, "I know very well what
+      this seizure arises from."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I know not from what," replied the friend, "for Altisidora is the
+      healthiest damsel in all this house, and I have never heard her complain
+      all the time I have known her. A plague on all the knights-errant in the
+      world, if they be all ungrateful! Go away, Senor Don Quixote; for this
+      poor child will not come to herself again so long as you are here."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p46b" id="p46b"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p46b.jpg (320K)" src="images/p46b.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p46b.jpg"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br />
+      <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      To which Don Quixote returned, "Do me the favour, senora, to let a lute be
+      placed in my chamber to-night; and I will comfort this poor maiden to the
+      best of my power; for in the early stages of love a prompt disillusion is
+      an approved remedy;" and with this he retired, so as not to be remarked by
+      any who might see him there.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      He had scarcely withdrawn when Altisidora, recovering from her swoon, said
+      to her companion, "The lute must be left, for no doubt Don Quixote intends
+      to give us some music; and being his it will not be bad."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      They went at once to inform the duchess of what was going on, and of the
+      lute Don Quixote asked for, and she, delighted beyond measure, plotted
+      with the duke and her two damsels to play him a trick that should be
+      amusing but harmless; and in high glee they waited for night, which came
+      quickly as the day had come; and as for the day, the duke and duchess
+      spent it in charming conversation with Don Quixote.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      When eleven o'clock came, Don Quixote found a guitar in his chamber; he
+      tried it, opened the window, and perceived that some persons were walking
+      in the garden; and having passed his fingers over the frets of the guitar
+      and tuned it as well as he could, he spat and cleared his chest, and then
+      with a voice a little hoarse but full-toned, he sang the following ballad,
+      which he had himself that day composed:
+    </p>
+<pre xml:space="preserve">
+Mighty Love the hearts of maidens
+  Doth unsettle and perplex,
+And the instrument he uses
+  Most of all is idleness.
+
+Sewing, stitching, any labour,
+  Having always work to do,
+To the poison Love instilleth
+  Is the antidote most sure.
+
+And to proper-minded maidens
+  Who desire the matron's name
+Modesty's a marriage portion,
+  Modesty their highest praise.
+
+Men of prudence and discretion,
+  Courtiers gay and gallant knights,
+With the wanton damsels dally,
+  But the modest take to wife.
+There are passions, transient, fleeting,
+  Loves in hostelries declar'd,
+Sunrise loves, with sunset ended,
+  When the guest hath gone his way.
+
+Love that springs up swift and sudden,
+  Here to-day, to-morrow flown,
+Passes, leaves no trace behind it,
+  Leaves no image on the soul.
+
+Painting that is laid on painting
+  Maketh no display or show;
+Where one beauty's in possession
+  There no other can take hold.
+
+Dulcinea del Toboso
+  Painted on my heart I wear;
+Never from its tablets, never,
+  Can her image be eras'd.
+
+The quality of all in lovers
+  Most esteemed is constancy;
+'T is by this that love works wonders,
+  This exalts them to the skies.
+
+</pre>
+    <p>
+      Don Quixote had got so far with his song, to which the duke, the duchess,
+      Altisidora, and nearly the whole household of the castle were listening,
+      when all of a sudden from a gallery above that was exactly over his window
+      they let down a cord with more than a hundred bells attached to it, and
+      immediately after that discharged a great sack full of cats, which also
+      had bells of smaller size tied to their tails. Such was the din of the
+      bells and the squalling of the cats, that though the duke and duchess were
+      the contrivers of the joke they were startled by it, while Don Quixote
+      stood paralysed with fear; and as luck would have it, two or three of the
+      cats made their way in through the grating of his chamber, and flying from
+      one side to the other, made it seem as if there was a legion of devils at
+      large in it. They extinguished the candles that were burning in the room,
+      and rushed about seeking some way of escape; the cord with the large bells
+      never ceased rising and falling; and most of the people of the castle, not
+      knowing what was really the matter, were at their wits' end with
+      astonishment. Don Quixote sprang to his feet, and drawing his sword, began
+      making passes at the grating, shouting out, "Avaunt, malignant enchanters!
+      avaunt, ye witchcraft-working rabble! I am Don Quixote of La Mancha,
+      against whom your evil machinations avail not nor have any power." And
+      turning upon the cats that were running about the room, he made several
+      cuts at them. They dashed at the grating and escaped by it, save one that,
+      finding itself hard pressed by the slashes of Don Quixote's sword, flew at
+      his face and held on to his nose tooth and nail, with the pain of which he
+      began to shout his loudest. The duke and duchess hearing this, and
+      guessing what it was, ran with all haste to his room, and as the poor
+      gentleman was striving with all his might to detach the cat from his face,
+      they opened the door with a master-key and went in with lights and
+      witnessed the unequal combat. The duke ran forward to part the combatants,
+      but Don Quixote cried out aloud, "Let no one take him from me; leave me
+      hand to hand with this demon, this wizard, this enchanter; I will teach
+      him, I myself, who Don Quixote of La Mancha is." The cat, however, never
+      minding these threats, snarled and held on; but at last the duke pulled it
+      off and flung it out of the window. Don Quixote was left with a face as
+      full of holes as a sieve and a nose not in very good condition, and
+      greatly vexed that they did not let him finish the battle he had been so
+      stoutly fighting with that villain of an enchanter. They sent for some oil
+      of John's wort, and Altisidora herself with her own fair hands bandaged
+      all the wounded parts; and as she did so she said to him in a low voice.
+      "All these mishaps have befallen thee, hardhearted knight, for the sin of
+      thy insensibility and obstinacy; and God grant thy squire Sancho may
+      forget to whip himself, so that that dearly beloved Dulcinea of thine may
+      never be released from her enchantment, that thou mayest never come to her
+      bed, at least while I who adore thee am alive."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      To all this Don Quixote made no answer except to heave deep sighs, and
+      then stretched himself on his bed, thanking the duke and duchess for their
+      kindness, not because he stood in any fear of that bell-ringing rabble of
+      enchanters in cat shape, but because he recognised their good intentions
+      in coming to his rescue. The duke and duchess left him to repose and
+      withdrew greatly grieved at the unfortunate result of the joke; as they
+      never thought the adventure would have fallen so heavy on Don Quixote or
+      cost him so dear, for it cost him five days of confinement to his bed,
+      during which he had another adventure, pleasanter than the late one, which
+      his chronicler will not relate just now in order that he may turn his
+      attention to Sancho Panza, who was proceeding with great diligence and
+      drollery in his government.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p46e" id="p46e"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p46e.jpg (65K)" src="images/p46e.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      <a name="ch47b" id="ch47b"></a>CHAPTER XLVII.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      WHEREIN IS CONTINUED THE ACCOUNT OF HOW SANCHO PANZA CONDUCTED HIMSELF IN
+      HIS GOVERNMENT
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <a name="p47a" id="p47a"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p47a.jpg (139K)" src="images/p47a.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p47a.jpg"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br />
+      <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The history says that from the justice court they carried Sancho to a
+      sumptuous palace, where in a spacious chamber there was a table laid out
+      with royal magnificence. The clarions sounded as Sancho entered the room,
+      and four pages came forward to present him with water for his hands, which
+      Sancho received with great dignity. The music ceased, and Sancho seated
+      himself at the head of the table, for there was only that seat placed, and
+      no more than one cover laid. A personage, who it appeared afterwards was a
+      physician, placed himself standing by his side with a whalebone wand in
+      his hand. They then lifted up a fine white cloth covering fruit and a
+      great variety of dishes of different sorts; one who looked like a student
+      said grace, and a page put a laced bib on Sancho, while another who played
+      the part of head carver placed a dish of fruit before him. But hardly had
+      he tasted a morsel when the man with the wand touched the plate with it,
+      and they took it away from before him with the utmost celerity. The
+      carver, however, brought him another dish, and Sancho proceeded to try it;
+      but before he could get at it, not to say taste it, already the wand had
+      touched it and a page had carried it off with the same promptitude as the
+      fruit. Sancho seeing this was puzzled, and looking from one to another
+      asked if this dinner was to be eaten after the fashion of a jugglery
+      trick.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      To this he with the wand replied, "It is not to be eaten, senor governor,
+      except as is usual and customary in other islands where there are
+      governors. I, senor, am a physician, and I am paid a salary in this island
+      to serve its governors as such, and I have a much greater regard for their
+      health than for my own, studying day and night and making myself
+      acquainted with the governor's constitution, in order to be able to cure
+      him when he falls sick. The chief thing I have to do is to attend at his
+      dinners and suppers and allow him to eat what appears to me to be fit for
+      him, and keep from him what I think will do him harm and be injurious to
+      his stomach; and therefore I ordered that plate of fruit to be removed as
+      being too moist, and that other dish I ordered to be removed as being too
+      hot and containing many spices that stimulate thirst; for he who drinks
+      much kills and consumes the radical moisture wherein life consists."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Well then," said Sancho, "that dish of roast partridges there that seems
+      so savoury will not do me any harm."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      To this the physician replied, "Of those my lord the governor shall not
+      eat so long as I live."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Why so?" said Sancho.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Because," replied the doctor, "our master Hippocrates, the polestar and
+      beacon of medicine, says in one of his aphorisms omnis saturatio mala,
+      perdicis autem pessima, which means 'all repletion is bad, but that of
+      partridge is the worst of all."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "In that case," said Sancho, "let senor doctor see among the dishes that
+      are on the table what will do me most good and least harm, and let me eat
+      it, without tapping it with his stick; for by the life of the governor,
+      and so may God suffer me to enjoy it, but I'm dying of hunger; and in
+      spite of the doctor and all he may say, to deny me food is the way to take
+      my life instead of prolonging it."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Your worship is right, senor governor," said the physician; "and
+      therefore your worship, I consider, should not eat of those stewed rabbits
+      there, because it is a furry kind of food; if that veal were not roasted
+      and served with pickles, you might try it; but it is out of the question."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "That big dish that is smoking farther off," said Sancho, "seems to me to
+      be an olla podrida, and out of the diversity of things in such ollas, I
+      can't fail to light upon something tasty and good for me."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p47b" id="p47b"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p47b.jpg (372K)" src="images/p47b.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p47b.jpg"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br />
+      <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Absit," said the doctor; "far from us be any such base thought! There is
+      nothing in the world less nourishing than an olla podrida; to canons, or
+      rectors of colleges, or peasants' weddings with your ollas podridas, but
+      let us have none of them on the tables of governors, where everything that
+      is present should be delicate and refined; and the reason is, that always,
+      everywhere and by everybody, simple medicines are more esteemed than
+      compound ones, for we cannot go wrong in those that are simple, while in
+      the compound we may, by merely altering the quantity of the things
+      composing them. But what I am of opinion the governor should eat now in
+      order to preserve and fortify his health is a hundred or so of wafer cakes
+      and a few thin slices of conserve of quinces, which will settle his
+      stomach and help his digestion."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Sancho on hearing this threw himself back in his chair and surveyed the
+      doctor steadily, and in a solemn tone asked him what his name was and
+      where he had studied.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      He replied, "My name, senor governor, is Doctor Pedro Recio de Aguero I am
+      a native of a place called Tirteafuera which lies between Caracuel and
+      Almodovar del Campo, on the right-hand side, and I have the degree of
+      doctor from the university of Osuna."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      To which Sancho, glowing all over with rage, returned, "Then let Doctor
+      Pedro Recio de Malaguero, native of Tirteafuera, a place that's on the
+      right-hand side as we go from Caracuel to Almodovar del Campo, graduate of
+      Osuna, get out of my presence at once; or I swear by the sun I'll take a
+      cudgel, and by dint of blows, beginning with him, I'll not leave a doctor
+      in the whole island; at least of those I know to be ignorant; for as to
+      learned, wise, sensible physicians, them I will reverence and honour as
+      divine persons. Once more I say let Pedro Recio get out of this or I'll
+      take this chair I am sitting on and break it over his head. And if they
+      call me to account for it, I'll clear myself by saying I served God in
+      killing a bad doctor&mdash;a general executioner. And now give me
+      something to eat, or else take your government; for a trade that does not
+      feed its master is not worth two beans."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The doctor was dismayed when he saw the governor in such a passion, and he
+      would have made a Tirteafuera out of the room but that the same instant a
+      post-horn sounded in the street; and the carver putting his head out of
+      the window turned round and said, "It's a courier from my lord the duke,
+      no doubt with some despatch of importance."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The courier came in all sweating and flurried, and taking a paper from his
+      bosom, placed it in the governor's hands. Sancho handed it to the
+      majordomo and bade him read the superscription, which ran thus: To Don
+      Sancho Panza, Governor of the Island of Barataria, into his own hands or
+      those of his secretary. Sancho when he heard this said, "Which of you is
+      my secretary?" "I am, senor," said one of those present, "for I can read
+      and write, and am a Biscayan." "With that addition," said Sancho, "you
+      might be secretary to the emperor himself; open this paper and see what it
+      says." The new-born secretary obeyed, and having read the contents said
+      the matter was one to be discussed in private. Sancho ordered the chamber
+      to be cleared, the majordomo and the carver only remaining; so the doctor
+      and the others withdrew, and then the secretary read the letter, which was
+      as follows:
+    </p>
+    <blockquote>
+      <p>
+        It has come to my knowledge, Senor Don Sancho Panza, that certain
+        enemies of mine and of the island are about to make a furious attack
+        upon it some night, I know not when. It behoves you to be on the alert
+        and keep watch, that they surprise you not. I also know by trustworthy
+        spies that four persons have entered the town in disguise in order to
+        take your life, because they stand in dread of your great capacity; keep
+        your eyes open and take heed who approaches you to address you, and eat
+        nothing that is presented to you. I will take care to send you aid if
+        you find yourself in difficulty, but in all things you will act as may
+        be expected of your judgment. From this place, the Sixteenth of August,
+        at four in the morning.
+      </p>
+      <p>
+        Your friend,
+      </p>
+      <p>
+        THE DUKE
+      </p>
+    </blockquote>
+    <p>
+      Sancho was astonished, and those who stood by made believe to be so too,
+      and turning to the majordomo he said to him, "What we have got to do
+      first, and it must be done at once, is to put Doctor Recio in the lock-up;
+      for if anyone wants to kill me it is he, and by a slow death and the worst
+      of all, which is hunger."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Likewise," said the carver, "it is my opinion your worship should not eat
+      anything that is on this table, for the whole was a present from some
+      nuns; and as they say, 'behind the cross there's the devil.'"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I don't deny it," said Sancho; "so for the present give me a piece of
+      bread and four pounds or so of grapes; no poison can come in them; for the
+      fact is I can't go on without eating; and if we are to be prepared for
+      these battles that are threatening us we must be well provisioned; for it
+      is the tripes that carry the heart and not the heart the tripes. And you,
+      secretary, answer my lord the duke and tell him that all his commands
+      shall be obeyed to the letter, as he directs; and say from me to my lady
+      the duchess that I kiss her hands, and that I beg of her not to forget to
+      send my letter and bundle to my wife Teresa Panza by a messenger; and I
+      will take it as a great favour and will not fail to serve her in all that
+      may lie within my power; and as you are about it you may enclose a kiss of
+      the hand to my master Don Quixote that he may see I am grateful bread; and
+      as a good secretary and a good Biscayan you may add whatever you like and
+      whatever will come in best; and now take away this cloth and give me
+      something to eat, and I'll be ready to meet all the spies and assassins
+      and enchanters that may come against me or my island."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      At this instant a page entered saying, "Here is a farmer on business, who
+      wants to speak to your lordship on a matter of great importance, he says."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "It's very odd," said Sancho, "the ways of these men on business; is it
+      possible they can be such fools as not to see that an hour like this is no
+      hour for coming on business? We who govern and we who are judges&mdash;are
+      we not men of flesh and blood, and are we not to be allowed the time
+      required for taking rest, unless they'd have us made of marble? By God and
+      on my conscience, if the government remains in my hands (which I have a
+      notion it won't), I'll bring more than one man on business to order.
+      However, tell this good man to come in; but take care first of all that he
+      is not some spy or one of my assassins."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "No, my lord," said the page, "for he looks like a simple fellow, and
+      either I know very little or he is as good as good bread."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "There is nothing to be afraid of," said the majordomo, "for we are all
+      here."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Would it be possible, carver," said Sancho, "now that Doctor Pedro Recio
+      is not here, to let me eat something solid and substantial, if it were
+      even a piece of bread and an onion?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "To-night at supper," said the carver, "the shortcomings of the dinner
+      shall be made good, and your lordship shall be fully contented."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "God grant it," said Sancho.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The farmer now came in, a well-favoured man that one might see a thousand
+      leagues off was an honest fellow and a good soul. The first thing he said
+      was, "Which is the lord governor here?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Which should it be," said the secretary, "but he who is seated in the
+      chair?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Then I humble myself before him," said the farmer; and going on his knees
+      he asked for his hand, to kiss it. Sancho refused it, and bade him stand
+      up and say what he wanted. The farmer obeyed, and then said, "I am a
+      farmer, senor, a native of Miguelturra, a village two leagues from Ciudad
+      Real."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Another Tirteafuera!" said Sancho; "say on, brother; I know Miguelturra
+      very well I can tell you, for it's not very far from my own town."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "The case is this, senor," continued the farmer, "that by God's mercy I am
+      married with the leave and licence of the holy Roman Catholic Church; I
+      have two sons, students, and the younger is studying to become bachelor,
+      and the elder to be licentiate; I am a widower, for my wife died, or more
+      properly speaking, a bad doctor killed her on my hands, giving her a purge
+      when she was with child; and if it had pleased God that the child had been
+      born, and was a boy, I would have put him to study for doctor, that he
+      might not envy his brothers the bachelor and the licentiate."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "So that if your wife had not died, or had not been killed, you would not
+      now be a widower," said Sancho.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "No, senor, certainly not," said the farmer.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "We've got that much settled," said Sancho; "get on, brother, for it's
+      more bed-time than business-time."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Well then," said the farmer, "this son of mine who is going to be a
+      bachelor, fell in love in the said town with a damsel called Clara
+      Perlerina, daughter of Andres Perlerino, a very rich farmer; and this name
+      of Perlerines does not come to them by ancestry or descent, but because
+      all the family are paralytics, and for a better name they call them
+      Perlerines; though to tell the truth the damsel is as fair as an Oriental
+      pearl, and like a flower of the field, if you look at her on the right
+      side; on the left not so much, for on that side she wants an eye that she
+      lost by small-pox; and though her face is thickly and deeply pitted, those
+      who love her say they are not pits that are there, but the graves where
+      the hearts of her lovers are buried. She is so cleanly that not to soil
+      her face she carries her nose turned up, as they say, so that one would
+      fancy it was running away from her mouth; and with all this she looks
+      extremely well, for she has a wide mouth; and but for wanting ten or a
+      dozen teeth and grinders she might compare and compete with the comeliest.
+      Of her lips I say nothing, for they are so fine and thin that, if lips
+      might be reeled, one might make a skein of them; but being of a different
+      colour from ordinary lips they are wonderful, for they are mottled, blue,
+      green, and purple&mdash;let my lord the governor pardon me for painting so
+      minutely the charms of her who some time or other will be my daughter; for
+      I love her, and I don't find her amiss."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Paint what you will," said Sancho; "I enjoy your painting, and if I had
+      dined there could be no dessert more to my taste than your portrait."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "That I have still to furnish," said the farmer; "but a time will come
+      when we may be able if we are not now; and I can tell you, senor, if I
+      could paint her gracefulness and her tall figure, it would astonish you;
+      but that is impossible because she is bent double with her knees up to her
+      mouth; but for all that it is easy to see that if she could stand up she'd
+      knock her head against the ceiling; and she would have given her hand to
+      my bachelor ere this, only that she can't stretch it out, for it's
+      contracted; but still one can see its elegance and fine make by its long
+      furrowed nails."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "That will do, brother," said Sancho; "consider you have painted her from
+      head to foot; what is it you want now? Come to the point without all this
+      beating about the bush, and all these scraps and additions."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I want your worship, senor," said the farmer, "to do me the favour of
+      giving me a letter of recommendation to the girl's father, begging him to
+      be so good as to let this marriage take place, as we are not ill-matched
+      either in the gifts of fortune or of nature; for to tell the truth, senor
+      governor, my son is possessed of a devil, and there is not a day but the
+      evil spirits torment him three or four times; and from having once fallen
+      into the fire, he has his face puckered up like a piece of parchment, and
+      his eyes watery and always running; but he has the disposition of an
+      angel, and if it was not for belabouring and pummelling himself he'd be a
+      saint."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Is there anything else you want, good man?" said Sancho.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "There's another thing I'd like," said the farmer, "but I'm afraid to
+      mention it; however, out it must; for after all I can't let it be rotting
+      in my breast, come what may. I mean, senor, that I'd like your worship to
+      give me three hundred or six hundred ducats as a help to my bachelor's
+      portion, to help him in setting up house; for they must, in short, live by
+      themselves, without being subject to the interferences of their
+      fathers-in-law."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Just see if there's anything else you'd like," said Sancho, "and don't
+      hold back from mentioning it out of bashfulness or modesty."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "No, indeed there is not," said the farmer.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The moment he said this the governor started to his feet, and seizing the
+      chair he had been sitting on exclaimed, "By all that's good, you ill-bred,
+      boorish Don Bumpkin, if you don't get out of this at once and hide
+      yourself from my sight, I'll lay your head open with this chair. You
+      whoreson rascal, you devil's own painter, and is it at this hour you come
+      to ask me for six hundred ducats! How should I have them, you stinking
+      brute? And why should I give them to you if I had them, you knave and
+      blockhead? What have I to do with Miguelturra or the whole family of the
+      Perlerines? Get out I say, or by the life of my lord the duke I'll do as I
+      said. You're not from Miguelturra, but some knave sent here from hell to
+      tempt me. Why, you villain, I have not yet had the government half a day,
+      and you want me to have six hundred ducats already!"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The carver made signs to the farmer to leave the room, which he did with
+      his head down, and to all appearance in terror lest the governor should
+      carry his threats into effect, for the rogue knew very well how to play
+      his part.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      But let us leave Sancho in his wrath, and peace be with them all; and let
+      us return to Don Quixote, whom we left with his face bandaged and doctored
+      after the cat wounds, of which he was not cured for eight days; and on one
+      of these there befell him what Cide Hamete promises to relate with that
+      exactitude and truth with which he is wont to set forth everything
+      connected with this great history, however minute it may be.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p47e" id="p47e"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p47e.jpg (12K)" src="images/p47e.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      <a name="ch48b" id="ch48b"></a>CHAPTER XLVIII.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      OF WHAT BEFELL DON QUIXOTE WITH DONA RODRIGUEZ, THE DUCHESS'S DUENNA,
+      TOGETHER WITH OTHER OCCURRENCES WORTHY OF RECORD AND ETERNAL REMEMBRANCE
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <a name="p48a" id="p48a"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p48a.jpg (131K)" src="images/p48a.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p48a.jpg"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br />
+      <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Exceedingly moody and dejected was the sorely wounded Don Quixote, with
+      his face bandaged and marked, not by the hand of God, but by the claws of
+      a cat, mishaps incidental to knight-errantry.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p48b" id="p48b"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p48b.jpg (316K)" src="images/p48b.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p48b.jpg"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br />
+      <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Six days he remained without appearing in public, and one night as he lay
+      awake thinking of his misfortunes and of Altisidora's pursuit of him, he
+      perceived that some one was opening the door of his room with a key, and
+      he at once made up his mind that the enamoured damsel was coming to make
+      an assault upon his chastity and put him in danger of failing in the
+      fidelity he owed to his lady Dulcinea del Toboso. "No," said he, firmly
+      persuaded of the truth of his idea (and he said it loud enough to be
+      heard), "the greatest beauty upon earth shall not avail to make me
+      renounce my adoration of her whom I bear stamped and graved in the core of
+      my heart and the secret depths of my bowels; be thou, lady mine,
+      transformed into a clumsy country wench, or into a nymph of golden Tagus
+      weaving a web of silk and gold, let Merlin or Montesinos hold thee captive
+      where they will; whereer thou art, thou art mine, and where'er I am, must
+      be thine." The very instant he had uttered these words, the door opened.
+      He stood up on the bed wrapped from head to foot in a yellow satin
+      coverlet, with a cap on his head, and his face and his moustaches tied up,
+      his face because of the scratches, and his moustaches to keep them from
+      drooping and falling down, in which trim he looked the most extraordinary
+      scarecrow that could be conceived. He kept his eyes fixed on the door, and
+      just as he was expecting to see the love-smitten and unhappy Altisidora
+      make her appearance, he saw coming in a most venerable duenna, in a long
+      white-bordered veil that covered and enveloped her from head to foot.
+      Between the fingers of her left hand she held a short lighted candle,
+      while with her right she shaded it to keep the light from her eyes, which
+      were covered by spectacles of great size, and she advanced with noiseless
+      steps, treading very softly.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Don Quixote kept an eye upon her from his watchtower, and observing her
+      costume and noting her silence, he concluded that it must be some witch or
+      sorceress that was coming in such a guise to work him some mischief, and
+      he began crossing himself at a great rate. The spectre still advanced, and
+      on reaching the middle of the room, looked up and saw the energy with
+      which Don Quixote was crossing himself; and if he was scared by seeing
+      such a figure as hers, she was terrified at the sight of his; for the
+      moment she saw his tall yellow form with the coverlet and the bandages
+      that disfigured him, she gave a loud scream, and exclaiming, "Jesus!
+      what's this I see?" let fall the candle in her fright, and then finding
+      herself in the dark, turned about to make off, but stumbling on her skirts
+      in her consternation, she measured her length with a mighty fall.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p48c" id="p48c"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p48c.jpg (249K)" src="images/p48c.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p48c.jpg"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br />
+      <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Don Quixote in his trepidation began saying, "I conjure thee, phantom, or
+      whatever thou art, tell me what thou art and what thou wouldst with me. If
+      thou art a soul in torment, say so, and all that my powers can do I will
+      do for thee; for I am a Catholic Christian and love to do good to all the
+      world, and to this end I have embraced the order of knight-errantry to
+      which I belong, the province of which extends to doing good even to souls
+      in purgatory."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The unfortunate duenna hearing herself thus conjured, by her own fear
+      guessed Don Quixote's and in a low plaintive voice answered, "Senor Don
+      Quixote&mdash;if so be you are indeed Don Quixote&mdash;I am no phantom or
+      spectre or soul in purgatory, as you seem to think, but Dona Rodriguez,
+      duenna of honour to my lady the duchess, and I come to you with one of
+      those grievances your worship is wont to redress."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Tell me, Senora Dona Rodriguez," said Don Quixote, "do you perchance come
+      to transact any go-between business? Because I must tell you I am not
+      available for anybody's purpose, thanks to the peerless beauty of my lady
+      Dulcinea del Toboso. In short, Senora Dona Rodriguez, if you will leave
+      out and put aside all love messages, you may go and light your candle and
+      come back, and we will discuss all the commands you have for me and
+      whatever you wish, saving only, as I said, all seductive communications."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I carry nobody's messages, senor," said the duenna; "little you know me.
+      Nay, I'm not far enough advanced in years to take to any such childish
+      tricks. God be praised I have a soul in my body still, and all my teeth
+      and grinders in my mouth, except one or two that the colds, so common in
+      this Aragon country, have robbed me of. But wait a little, while I go and
+      light my candle, and I will return immediately and lay my sorrows before
+      you as before one who relieves those of all the world;" and without
+      staying for an answer she quitted the room and left Don Quixote tranquilly
+      meditating while he waited for her. A thousand thoughts at once suggested
+      themselves to him on the subject of this new adventure, and it struck him
+      as being ill done and worse advised in him to expose himself to the danger
+      of breaking his plighted faith to his lady; and said he to himself, "Who
+      knows but that the devil, being wily and cunning, may be trying now to
+      entrap me with a duenna, having failed with empresses, queens, duchesses,
+      marchionesses, and countesses? Many a time have I heard it said by many a
+      man of sense that he will sooner offer you a flat-nosed wench than a
+      roman-nosed one; and who knows but this privacy, this opportunity, this
+      silence, may awaken my sleeping desires, and lead me in these my latter
+      years to fall where I have never tripped? In cases of this sort it is
+      better to flee than to await the battle. But I must be out of my senses to
+      think and utter such nonsense; for it is impossible that a long,
+      white-hooded spectacled duenna could stir up or excite a wanton thought in
+      the most graceless bosom in the world. Is there a duenna on earth that has
+      fair flesh? Is there a duenna in the world that escapes being
+      ill-tempered, wrinkled, and prudish? Avaunt, then, ye duenna crew,
+      undelightful to all mankind. Oh, but that lady did well who, they say, had
+      at the end of her reception room a couple of figures of duennas with
+      spectacles and lace-cushions, as if at work, and those statues served
+      quite as well to give an air of propriety to the room as if they had been
+      real duennas."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      So saying he leaped off the bed, intending to close the door and not allow
+      Senora Rodriguez to enter; but as he went to shut it Senora Rodriguez
+      returned with a wax candle lighted, and having a closer view of Don
+      Quixote, with the coverlet round him, and his bandages and night-cap, she
+      was alarmed afresh, and retreating a couple of paces, exclaimed, "Am I
+      safe, sir knight? for I don't look upon it as a sign of very great virtue
+      that your worship should have got up out of bed."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I may well ask the same, senora," said Don Quixote; "and I do ask whether
+      I shall be safe from being assailed and forced?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Of whom and against whom do you demand that security, sir knight?" said
+      the duenna.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Of you and against you I ask it," said Don Quixote; "for I am not marble,
+      nor are you brass, nor is it now ten o'clock in the morning, but midnight,
+      or a trifle past it I fancy, and we are in a room more secluded and
+      retired than the cave could have been where the treacherous and daring
+      AEneas enjoyed the fair soft-hearted Dido. But give me your hand, senora;
+      I require no better protection than my own continence, and my own sense of
+      propriety; as well as that which is inspired by that venerable
+      head-dress;" and so saying he kissed her right hand and took it in his
+      own, she yielding it to him with equal ceremoniousness. And here Cide
+      Hamete inserts a parenthesis in which he says that to have seen the pair
+      marching from the door to the bed, linked hand in hand in this way, he
+      would have given the best of the two tunics he had.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Don Quixote finally got into bed, and Dona Rodriguez took her seat on a
+      chair at some little distance from his couch, without taking off her
+      spectacles or putting aside the candle. Don Quixote wrapped the bedclothes
+      round him and covered himself up completely, leaving nothing but his face
+      visible, and as soon as they had both regained their composure he broke
+      silence, saying, "Now, Senora Dona Rodriguez, you may unbosom yourself and
+      out with everything you have in your sorrowful heart and afflicted bowels;
+      and by me you shall be listened to with chaste ears, and aided by
+      compassionate exertions."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I believe it," replied the duenna; "from your worship's gentle and
+      winning presence only such a Christian answer could be expected. The fact
+      is, then, Senor Don Quixote, that though you see me seated in this chair,
+      here in the middle of the kingdom of Aragon, and in the attire of a
+      despised outcast duenna, I am from the Asturias of Oviedo, and of a family
+      with which many of the best of the province are connected by blood; but my
+      untoward fate and the improvidence of my parents, who, I know not how,
+      were unseasonably reduced to poverty, brought me to the court of Madrid,
+      where as a provision and to avoid greater misfortunes, my parents placed
+      me as seamstress in the service of a lady of quality, and I would have you
+      know that for hemming and sewing I have never been surpassed by any all my
+      life. My parents left me in service and returned to their own country, and
+      a few years later went, no doubt, to heaven, for they were excellent good
+      Catholic Christians. I was left an orphan with nothing but the miserable
+      wages and trifling presents that are given to servants of my sort in
+      palaces; but about this time, without any encouragement on my part, one of
+      the esquires of the household fell in love with me, a man somewhat
+      advanced in years, full-bearded and personable, and above all as good a
+      gentleman as the king himself, for he came of a mountain stock. We did not
+      carry on our loves with such secrecy but that they came to the knowledge
+      of my lady, and she, not to have any fuss about it, had us married with
+      the full sanction of the holy mother Roman Catholic Church, of which
+      marriage a daughter was born to put an end to my good fortune, if I had
+      any; not that I died in childbirth, for I passed through it safely and in
+      due season, but because shortly afterwards my husband died of a certain
+      shock he received, and had I time to tell you of it I know your worship
+      would be surprised;" and here she began to weep bitterly and said, "Pardon
+      me, Senor Don Quixote, if I am unable to control myself, for every time I
+      think of my unfortunate husband my eyes fill up with tears. God bless me,
+      with what an air of dignity he used to carry my lady behind him on a stout
+      mule as black as jet! for in those days they did not use coaches or
+      chairs, as they say they do now, and ladies rode behind their squires.
+      This much at least I cannot help telling you, that you may observe the
+      good breeding and punctiliousness of my worthy husband. As he was turning
+      into the Calle de Santiago in Madrid, which is rather narrow, one of the
+      alcaldes of the Court, with two alguacils before him, was coming out of
+      it, and as soon as my good squire saw him he wheeled his mule about and
+      made as if he would turn and accompany him. My lady, who was riding behind
+      him, said to him in a low voice, 'What are you about, you sneak, don't you
+      see that I am here?' The alcalde like a polite man pulled up his horse and
+      said to him, 'Proceed, senor, for it is I, rather, who ought to accompany
+      my lady Dona Casilda'&mdash;for that was my mistress's name. Still my
+      husband, cap in hand, persisted in trying to accompany the alcalde, and
+      seeing this my lady, filled with rage and vexation, pulled out a big pin,
+      or, I rather think, a bodkin, out of her needle-case and drove it into his
+      back with such force that my husband gave a loud yell, and writhing fell
+      to the ground with his lady. Her two lacqueys ran to rise her up, and the
+      alcalde and the alguacils did the same; the Guadalajara gate was all in
+      commotion&mdash;I mean the idlers congregated there; my mistress came back
+      on foot, and my husband hurried away to a barber's shop protesting that he
+      was run right through the guts. The courtesy of my husband was noised
+      abroad to such an extent, that the boys gave him no peace in the street;
+      and on this account, and because he was somewhat shortsighted, my lady
+      dismissed him; and it was chagrin at this I am convinced beyond a doubt
+      that brought on his death. I was left a helpless widow, with a daughter on
+      my hands growing up in beauty like the sea-foam; at length, however, as I
+      had the character of being an excellent needlewoman, my lady the duchess,
+      then lately married to my lord the duke, offered to take me with her to
+      this kingdom of Aragon, and my daughter also, and here as time went by my
+      daughter grew up and with her all the graces in the world; she sings like
+      a lark, dances quick as thought, foots it like a gipsy, reads and writes
+      like a schoolmaster, and does sums like a miser; of her neatness I say
+      nothing, for the running water is not purer, and her age is now, if my
+      memory serves me, sixteen years five months and three days, one more or
+      less. To come to the point, the son of a very rich farmer, living in a
+      village of my lord the duke's not very far from here, fell in love with
+      this girl of mine; and in short, how I know not, they came together, and
+      under the promise of marrying her he made a fool of my daughter, and will
+      not keep his word. And though my lord the duke is aware of it (for I have
+      complained to him, not once but many and many a time, and entreated him to
+      order the farmer to marry my daughter), he turns a deaf ear and will
+      scarcely listen to me; the reason being that as the deceiver's father is
+      so rich, and lends him money, and is constantly going security for his
+      debts, he does not like to offend or annoy him in any way. Now, senor, I
+      want your worship to take it upon yourself to redress this wrong either by
+      entreaty or by arms; for by what all the world says you came into it to
+      redress grievances and right wrongs and help the unfortunate. Let your
+      worship put before you the unprotected condition of my daughter, her
+      youth, and all the perfections I have said she possesses; and before God
+      and on my conscience, out of all the damsels my lady has, there is not one
+      that comes up to the sole of her shoe, and the one they call Altisidora,
+      and look upon as the boldest and gayest of them, put in comparison with my
+      daughter, does not come within two leagues of her. For I would have you
+      know, senor, all is not gold that glitters, and that same little
+      Altisidora has more forwardness than good looks, and more impudence than
+      modesty; besides being not very sound, for she has such a disagreeable
+      breath that one cannot bear to be near her for a moment; and even my lady
+      the duchess&mdash;but I'll hold my tongue, for they say that walls have
+      ears."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "For heaven's sake, Dona Rodriguez, what ails my lady the duchess?" asked
+      Don Quixote.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Adjured in that way," replied the duenna, "I cannot help answering the
+      question and telling the whole truth. Senor Don Quixote, have you observed
+      the comeliness of my lady the duchess, that smooth complexion of hers like
+      a burnished polished sword, those two cheeks of milk and carmine, that gay
+      lively step with which she treads or rather seems to spurn the earth, so
+      that one would fancy she went radiating health wherever she passed? Well
+      then, let me tell you she may thank, first of all God, for this, and next,
+      two issues that she has, one in each leg, by which all the evil humours,
+      of which the doctors say she is full, are discharged."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Blessed Virgin!" exclaimed Don Quixote; "and is it possible that my lady
+      the duchess has drains of that sort? I would not have believed it if the
+      barefoot friars had told it me; but as the lady Dona Rodriguez says so, it
+      must be so. But surely such issues, and in such places, do not discharge
+      humours, but liquid amber. Verily, I do believe now that this practice of
+      opening issues is a very important matter for the health."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Don Quixote had hardly said this, when the chamber door flew open with a
+      loud bang, and with the start the noise gave her Dona Rodriguez let the
+      candle fall from her hand, and the room was left as dark as a wolf's
+      mouth, as the saying is. Suddenly the poor duenna felt two hands seize her
+      by the throat, so tightly that she could not croak, while some one else,
+      without uttering a word, very briskly hoisted up her petticoats, and with
+      what seemed to be a slipper began to lay on so heartily that anyone would
+      have felt pity for her; but although Don Quixote felt it he never stirred
+      from his bed, but lay quiet and silent, nay apprehensive that his turn for
+      a drubbing might be coming. Nor was the apprehension an idle one; for
+      leaving the duenna (who did not dare to cry out) well basted, the silent
+      executioners fell upon Don Quixote, and stripping him of the sheet and the
+      coverlet, they pinched him so fast and so hard that he was driven to
+      defend himself with his fists, and all this in marvellous silence. The
+      battle lasted nearly half an hour, and then the phantoms fled; Dona
+      Rodriguez gathered up her skirts, and bemoaning her fate went out without
+      saying a word to Don Quixote, and he, sorely pinched, puzzled, and
+      dejected, remained alone, and there we will leave him, wondering who could
+      have been the perverse enchanter who had reduced him to such a state; but
+      that shall be told in due season, for Sancho claims our attention, and the
+      methodical arrangement of the story demands it.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p48e" id="p48e"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p48e.jpg (28K)" src="images/p48e.jpg" width="100%" />
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+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      <a name="ch49b" id="ch49b"></a>CHAPTER XLIX.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      OF WHAT HAPPENED SANCHO IN MAKING THE ROUND OF HIS ISLAND
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <a name="p49a" id="p49a"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p49a.jpg (170K)" src="images/p49a.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p49a.jpg"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br />
+      <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      We left the great governor angered and irritated by that portrait-painting
+      rogue of a farmer who, instructed the majordomo, as the majordomo was by
+      the duke, tried to practise upon him; he however, fool, boor, and clown as
+      he was, held his own against them all, saying to those round him and to
+      Doctor Pedro Recio, who as soon as the private business of the duke's
+      letter was disposed of had returned to the room, "Now I see plainly enough
+      that judges and governors ought to be and must be made of brass not to
+      feel the importunities of the applicants that at all times and all seasons
+      insist on being heard, and having their business despatched, and their own
+      affairs and no others attended to, come what may; and if the poor judge
+      does not hear them and settle the matter&mdash;either because he cannot or
+      because that is not the time set apart for hearing them&mdash;forthwith
+      they abuse him, and run him down, and gnaw at his bones, and even pick
+      holes in his pedigree. You silly, stupid applicant, don't be in a hurry;
+      wait for the proper time and season for doing business; don't come at
+      dinner-hour, or at bed-time; for judges are only flesh and blood, and must
+      give to Nature what she naturally demands of them; all except myself, for
+      in my case I give her nothing to eat, thanks to Senor Doctor Pedro Recio
+      Tirteafuera here, who would have me die of hunger, and declares that death
+      to be life; and the same sort of life may God give him and all his kind&mdash;I
+      mean the bad doctors; for the good ones deserve palms and laurels."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      All who knew Sancho Panza were astonished to hear him speak so elegantly,
+      and did not know what to attribute it to unless it were that office and
+      grave responsibility either smarten or stupefy men's wits. At last Doctor
+      Pedro Recio Agilers of Tirteafuera promised to let him have supper that
+      night though it might be in contravention of all the aphorisms of
+      Hippocrates. With this the governor was satisfied and looked forward to
+      the approach of night and supper-time with great anxiety; and though time,
+      to his mind, stood still and made no progress, nevertheless the hour he so
+      longed for came, and they gave him a beef salad with onions and some
+      boiled calves' feet rather far gone. At this he fell to with greater
+      relish than if they had given him francolins from Milan, pheasants from
+      Rome, veal from Sorrento, partridges from Moron, or geese from Lavajos,
+      and turning to the doctor at supper he said to him, "Look here, senor
+      doctor, for the future don't trouble yourself about giving me dainty
+      things or choice dishes to eat, for it will be only taking my stomach off
+      its hinges; it is accustomed to goat, cow, bacon, hung beef, turnips and
+      onions; and if by any chance it is given these palace dishes, it receives
+      them squeamishly, and sometimes with loathing. What the head-carver had
+      best do is to serve me with what they call ollas podridas (and the
+      rottener they are the better they smell); and he can put whatever he likes
+      into them, so long as it is good to eat, and I'll be obliged to him, and
+      will requite him some day. But let nobody play pranks on me, for either we
+      are or we are not; let us live and eat in peace and good-fellowship, for
+      when God sends the dawn, he sends it for all. I mean to govern this island
+      without giving up a right or taking a bribe; let everyone keep his eye
+      open, and look out for the arrow; for I can tell them 'the devil's in
+      Cantillana,' and if they drive me to it they'll see something that will
+      astonish them. Nay! make yourself honey and the flies eat you."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Of a truth, senor governor," said the carver, "your worship is in the
+      right of it in everything you have said; and I promise you in the name of
+      all the inhabitants of this island that they will serve your worship with
+      all zeal, affection, and good-will, for the mild kind of government you
+      have given a sample of to begin with, leaves them no ground for doing or
+      thinking anything to your worship's disadvantage."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "That I believe," said Sancho; "and they would be great fools if they did
+      or thought otherwise; once more I say, see to my feeding and my Dapple's
+      for that is the great point and what is most to the purpose; and when the
+      hour comes let us go the rounds, for it is my intention to purge this
+      island of all manner of uncleanness and of all idle good-for-nothing
+      vagabonds; for I would have you know that lazy idlers are the same thing
+      in a State as the drones in a hive, that eat up the honey the industrious
+      bees make. I mean to protect the husbandman, to preserve to the gentleman
+      his privileges, to reward the virtuous, and above all to respect religion
+      and honour its ministers. What say you to that, my friends? Is there
+      anything in what I say, or am I talking to no purpose?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "There is so much in what your worship says, senor governor," said the
+      majordomo, "that I am filled with wonder when I see a man like your
+      worship, entirely without learning (for I believe you have none at all),
+      say such things, and so full of sound maxims and sage remarks, very
+      different from what was expected of your worship's intelligence by those
+      who sent us or by us who came here. Every day we see something new in this
+      world; jokes become realities, and the jokers find the tables turned upon
+      them."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Night came, and with the permission of Doctor Pedro Recio, the governor
+      had supper. They then got ready to go the rounds, and he started with the
+      majordomo, the secretary, the head-carver, the chronicler charged with
+      recording his deeds, and alguacils and notaries enough to form a
+      fair-sized squadron. In the midst marched Sancho with his staff, as fine a
+      sight as one could wish to see, and but a few streets of the town had been
+      traversed when they heard a noise as of a clashing of swords. They
+      hastened to the spot, and found that the combatants were but two, who
+      seeing the authorities approaching stood still, and one of them exclaimed,
+      "Help, in the name of God and the king! Are men to be allowed to rob in
+      the middle of this town, and rush out and attack people in the very
+      streets?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Be calm, my good man," said Sancho, "and tell me what the cause of this
+      quarrel is; for I am the governor."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Said the other combatant, "Senor governor, I will tell you in a very few
+      words. Your worship must know that this gentleman has just now won more
+      than a thousand reals in that gambling house opposite, and God knows how.
+      I was there, and gave more than one doubtful point in his favour, very
+      much against what my conscience told me. He made off with his winnings,
+      and when I made sure he was going to give me a crown or so at least by way
+      of a present, as it is usual and customary to give men of quality of my
+      sort who stand by to see fair or foul play, and back up swindles, and
+      prevent quarrels, he pocketed his money and left the house. Indignant at
+      this I followed him, and speaking to him fairly and civilly asked him to give
+      me if it were only eight reals, for he knows I am an honest man and that I
+      have neither profession nor property, for my parents never brought me up
+      to any or left me any; but the rogue, who is a greater thief than Cacus
+      and a greater sharper than Andradilla, would not give me more than four
+      reals; so your worship may see how little shame and conscience he has. But
+      by my faith if you had not come up I'd have made him disgorge his
+      winnings, and he'd have learned what the range of the steel-yard was."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "What say you to this?" asked Sancho. The other replied that all his
+      antagonist said was true, and that he did not choose to give him more than
+      four reals because he very often gave him money; and that those who
+      expected presents ought to be civil and take what is given them with a
+      cheerful countenance, and not make any claim against winners unless they
+      know them for certain to be sharpers and their winnings to be unfairly
+      won; and that there could be no better proof that he himself was an honest
+      man than his having refused to give anything; for sharpers always pay
+      tribute to lookers-on who know them.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "That is true," said the majordomo; "let your worship consider what is to
+      be done with these men."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "What is to be done," said Sancho, "is this; you, the winner, be you good,
+      bad, or indifferent, give this assailant of yours a hundred reals at once,
+      and you must disburse thirty more for the poor prisoners; and you who have
+      neither profession nor property, and hang about the island in idleness,
+      take these hundred reals now, and some time of the day to-morrow quit the
+      island under sentence of banishment for ten years, and under pain of
+      completing it in another life if you violate the sentence, for I'll hang
+      you on a gibbet, or at least the hangman will by my orders; not a word
+      from either of you, or I'll make him feel my hand."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The one paid down the money and the other took it, and the latter quitted
+      the island, while the other went home; and then the governor said, "Either
+      I am not good for much, or I'll get rid of these gambling houses, for it
+      strikes me they are very mischievous."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "This one at least," said one of the notaries, "your worship will not be
+      able to get rid of, for a great man owns it, and what he loses every year
+      is beyond all comparison more than what he makes by the cards. On the
+      minor gambling houses your worship may exercise your power, and it is they
+      that do most harm and shelter the most barefaced practices; for in the
+      houses of lords and gentlemen of quality the notorious sharpers dare not
+      attempt to play their tricks; and as the vice of gambling has become
+      common, it is better that men should play in houses of repute than in some
+      tradesman's, where they catch an unlucky fellow in the small hours of the
+      morning and skin him alive."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I know already, notary, that there is a good deal to be said on that
+      point," said Sancho.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      And now a tipstaff came up with a young man in his grasp, and said, "Senor
+      governor, this youth was coming towards us, and as soon as he saw the
+      officers of justice he turned about and ran like a deer, a sure proof that
+      he must be some evil-doer; I ran after him, and had it not been that he
+      stumbled and fell, I should never have caught him."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "What did you run for, fellow?" said Sancho.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      To which the young man replied, "Senor, it was to avoid answering all the
+      questions officers of justice put."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "What are you by trade?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "A weaver."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "And what do you weave?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Lance heads, with your worship's good leave."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "You're facetious with me! You plume yourself on being a wag? Very good;
+      and where were you going just now?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "To take the air, senor."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "And where does one take the air in this island?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Where it blows."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Good! your answers are very much to the point; you are a smart youth; but
+      take notice that I am the air, and that I blow upon you a-stern, and send
+      you to gaol. Ho there! lay hold of him and take him off; I'll make him
+      sleep there to-night without air."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "By God," said the young man, "your worship will make me sleep in gaol
+      just as soon as make me king."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Why shan't I make thee sleep in gaol?" said Sancho. "Have I not the power
+      to arrest thee and release thee whenever I like?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "All the power your worship has," said the young man, "won't be able to
+      make me sleep in gaol."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "How? not able!" said Sancho; "take him away at once where he'll see his
+      mistake with his own eyes, even if the gaoler is willing to exert his
+      interested generosity on his behalf; for I'll lay a penalty of two
+      thousand ducats on him if he allows him to stir a step from the prison."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "That's ridiculous," said the young man; "the fact is, all the men on
+      earth will not make me sleep in prison."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Tell me, you devil," said Sancho, "have you got any angel that will
+      deliver you, and take off the irons I am going to order them to put upon
+      you?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Now, senor governor," said the young man in a sprightly manner, "let us
+      be reasonable and come to the point. Granted your worship may order me to
+      be taken to prison, and to have irons and chains put on me, and to be shut
+      up in a cell, and may lay heavy penalties on the gaoler if he lets me out,
+      and that he obeys your orders; still, if I don't choose to sleep, and
+      choose to remain awake all night without closing an eye, will your worship
+      with all your power be able to make me sleep if I don't choose?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "No, truly," said the secretary, "and the fellow has made his point."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "So then," said Sancho, "it would be entirely of your own choice you would
+      keep from sleeping; not in opposition to my will?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "No, senor," said the youth, "certainly not."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Well then, go, and God be with you," said Sancho; "be off home to sleep,
+      and God give you sound sleep, for I don't want to rob you of it; but for
+      the future, let me advise you don't joke with the authorities, because you
+      may come across some one who will bring down the joke on your own skull."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The young man went his way, and the governor continued his round, and
+      shortly afterwards two tipstaffs came up with a man in custody, and said,
+      "Senor governor, this person, who seems to be a man, is not so, but a
+      woman, and not an ill-favoured one, in man's clothes." They raised two or
+      three lanterns to her face, and by their light they distinguished the
+      features of a woman to all appearance of the age of sixteen or a little
+      more, with her hair gathered into a gold and green silk net, and fair as a
+      thousand pearls. They scanned her from head to foot, and observed that she
+      had on red silk stockings with garters of white taffety bordered with gold
+      and pearl; her breeches were of green and gold stuff, and under an open
+      jacket or jerkin of the same she wore a doublet of the finest white and
+      gold cloth; her shoes were white and such as men wear; she carried no
+      sword at her belt, but only a richly ornamented dagger, and on her fingers
+      she had several handsome rings. In short, the girl seemed fair to look at
+      in the eyes of all, and none of those who beheld her knew her, the people
+      of the town said they could not imagine who she was, and those who were in on
+      the secret of the jokes that were to be practised upon Sancho were the
+      ones who were most surprised, for this incident or discovery had not been
+      arranged by them; and they watched anxiously to see how the affair would
+      end.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Sancho was fascinated by the girl's beauty, and he asked her who she was,
+      where she was going, and what had induced her to dress herself in that
+      garb. She with her eyes fixed on the ground answered in modest confusion,
+      "I cannot tell you, senor, before so many people what it is of such
+      consequence to me to have kept secret; one thing I wish to be known, that
+      I am no thief or evildoer, but only an unhappy maiden whom the power of
+      jealousy has led to break through the respect that is due to modesty."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Hearing this the majordomo said to Sancho, "Make the people stand back,
+      senor governor, that this lady may say what she wishes with less
+      embarrassment."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Sancho gave the order, and all except the majordomo, the head-carver, and
+      the secretary fell back. Finding herself then in the presence of no more,
+      the damsel went on to say, "I am the daughter, sirs, of Pedro Perez
+      Mazorca, the wool-farmer of this town, who is in the habit of coming very
+      often to my father's house."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "That won't do, senora," said the majordomo; "for I know Pedro Perez very
+      well, and I know he has no child at all, either son or daughter; and
+      besides, though you say he is your father, you add then that he comes very
+      often to your father's house."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I had already noticed that," said Sancho.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I am confused just now, sirs," said the damsel, "and I don't know what I
+      am saying; but the truth is that I am the daughter of Diego de la Llana,
+      whom you must all know."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Ay, that will do," said the majordomo; "for I know Diego de la Llana, and
+      know that he is a gentleman of position and a rich man, and that he has a
+      son and a daughter, and that since he was left a widower nobody in all
+      this town can speak of having seen his daughter's face; for he keeps her
+      so closely shut up that he does not give even the sun a chance of seeing
+      her; and for all that report says she is extremely beautiful."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "It is true," said the damsel, "and I am that daughter; whether report
+      lies or not as to my beauty, you, sirs, will have decided by this time, as
+      you have seen me;" and with this she began to weep bitterly.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      On seeing this the secretary leant over to the head-carver's ear, and said
+      to him in a low voice, "Something serious has no doubt happened this poor
+      maiden, that she goes wandering from home in such a dress and at such an
+      hour, and one of her rank too." "There can be no doubt about it," returned
+      the carver, "and moreover her tears confirm your suspicion." Sancho gave
+      her the best comfort he could, and entreated her to tell them without any
+      fear what had happened her, as they would all earnestly and by every means
+      in their power endeavour to relieve her.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "The fact is, sirs," said she, "that my father has kept me shut up these
+      ten years, for so long is it since the earth received my mother. Mass is
+      said at home in a sumptuous chapel, and all this time I have seen but the
+      sun in the heaven by day, and the moon and the stars by night; nor do I
+      know what streets are like, or plazas, or churches, or even men, except my
+      father and a brother I have, and Pedro Perez the wool-farmer; whom,
+      because he came frequently to our house, I took it into my head to call my
+      father, to avoid naming my own. This seclusion and the restrictions laid
+      upon my going out, were it only to church, have been keeping me unhappy
+      for many a day and month past; I longed to see the world, or at least the
+      town where I was born, and it did not seem to me that this wish was
+      inconsistent with the respect maidens of good quality should have for
+      themselves. When I heard them talking of bull-fights taking place, and of
+      javelin games, and of acting plays, I asked my brother, who is a year
+      younger than myself, to tell me what sort of things these were, and many
+      more that I had never seen; he explained them to me as well as he could,
+      but the only effect was to kindle in me a still stronger desire to see
+      them. At last, to cut short the story of my ruin, I begged and entreated
+      my brother&mdash;O that I had never made such an entreaty-" And once more
+      she gave way to a burst of weeping.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Proceed, senora," said the majordomo, "and finish your story of what has
+      happened to you, for your words and tears are keeping us all in suspense."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I have but little more to say, though many a tear to shed," said the
+      damsel; "for ill-placed desires can only be paid for in some such way."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The maiden's beauty had made a deep impression on the head-carver's heart,
+      and he again raised his lantern for another look at her, and thought they
+      were not tears she was shedding, but seed-pearl or dew of the meadow, nay,
+      he exalted them still higher, and made Oriental pearls of them, and
+      fervently hoped her misfortune might not be so great a one as her tears
+      and sobs seemed to indicate. The governor was losing patience at the
+      length of time the girl was taking to tell her story, and told her not to
+      keep them waiting any longer; for it was late, and there still remained a
+      good deal of the town to be gone over.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      She, with broken sobs and half-suppressed sighs, went on to say, "My
+      misfortune, my misadventure, is simply this, that I entreated my brother
+      to dress me up as a man in a suit of his clothes, and take me some night,
+      when our father was asleep, to see the whole town; he, overcome by my
+      entreaties, consented, and dressing me in this suit and himself in clothes
+      of mine that fitted him as if made for him (for he has not a hair on his
+      chin, and might pass for a very beautiful young girl), to-night, about an
+      hour ago, more or less, we left the house, and guided by our youthful and
+      foolish impulse we made the circuit of the whole town, and then, as we
+      were about to return home, we saw a great troop of people coming, and my
+      brother said to me, 'Sister, this must be the round, stir your feet and
+      put wings to them, and follow me as fast as you can, lest they recognise
+      us, for that would be a bad business for us;' and so saying he turned
+      about and began, I cannot say to run but to fly; in less than six paces I
+      fell from fright, and then the officer of justice came up and carried me
+      before your worships, where I find myself put to shame before all these
+      people as whimsical and vicious."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "So then, senora," said Sancho, "no other mishap has befallen you, nor was
+      it jealousy that made you leave home, as you said at the beginning of your
+      story?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Nothing has happened me," said she, "nor was it jealousy that brought me
+      out, but merely a longing to see the world, which did not go beyond seeing
+      the streets of this town."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The appearance of the tipstaffs with her brother in custody, whom one of
+      them had overtaken as he ran away from his sister, now fully confirmed the
+      truth of what the damsel said. He had nothing on but a rich petticoat and
+      a short blue damask cloak with fine gold lace, and his head was uncovered
+      and adorned only with its own hair, which looked like rings of gold, so
+      bright and curly was it. The governor, the majordomo, and the carver went
+      aside with him, and, unheard by his sister, asked him how he came to be in
+      that dress, and he with no less shame and embarrassment told exactly the
+      same story as his sister, to the great delight of the enamoured carver;
+      the governor, however, said to them, "In truth, young lady and gentleman,
+      this has been a very childish affair, and to explain your folly and
+      rashness there was no necessity for all this delay and all these tears and
+      sighs; for if you had said we are so-and-so, and we escaped from our
+      father's house in this way in order to ramble about, out of mere curiosity
+      and with no other object, there would have been an end of the matter, and
+      none of these little sobs and tears and all the rest of it."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "That is true," said the damsel, "but you see the confusion I was in was
+      so great it did not let me behave as I ought."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "No harm has been done," said Sancho; "come, we will leave you at your
+      father's house; perhaps they will not have missed you; and another time
+      don't be so childish or eager to see the world; for a respectable damsel
+      should have a broken leg and keep at home; and the woman and the hen by
+      gadding about are soon lost; and she who is eager to see is also eager to
+      be seen; I say no more."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The youth thanked the governor for his kind offer to take them home, and
+      they directed their steps towards the house, which was not far off. On
+      reaching it the youth threw a pebble up at a grating, and immediately a
+      woman-servant who was waiting for them came down and opened the door to
+      them, and they went in, leaving the party marvelling as much at their
+      grace and beauty as at the fancy they had for seeing the world by night
+      and without quitting the village; which, however, they set down to their
+      youth.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The head-carver was left with a heart pierced through and through, and he
+      made up his mind on the spot to demand the damsel in marriage of her
+      father on the morrow, making sure she would not be refused him as he was a
+      servant of the duke's; and even to Sancho ideas and schemes of marrying
+      the youth to his daughter Sanchica suggested themselves, and he resolved
+      to open the negotiation at the proper season, persuading himself that no
+      husband could be refused to a governor's daughter. And so the night's
+      round came to an end, and a couple of days later the government, whereby
+      all his plans were overthrown and swept away, as will be seen farther on.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p49e" id="p49e"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p49e.jpg (55K)" src="images/p49e.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      <a name="ch50b" id="ch50b"></a>CHAPTER L.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      WHEREIN IS SET FORTH WHO THE ENCHANTERS AND EXECUTIONERS WERE WHO FLOGGED
+      THE DUENNA AND PINCHED DON QUIXOTE, AND ALSO WHAT BEFELL THE PAGE WHO
+      CARRIED THE LETTER TO TERESA PANZA, SANCHO PANZA'S WIFE
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <a name="p50a" id="p50a"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p50a.jpg (104K)" src="images/p50a.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p50a.jpg"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br />
+      <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Cide Hamete, the painstaking investigator of the minute points of this
+      veracious history, says that when Dona Rodriguez left her own room to go
+      to Don Quixote's, another duenna who slept with her observed her, and as
+      all duennas are fond of prying, listening, and sniffing, she followed her
+      so silently that the good Rodriguez never perceived it; and as soon as the
+      duenna saw her enter Don Quixote's room, not to fail in a duenna's
+      invariable practice of tattling, she hurried off that instant to report to
+      the duchess how Dona Rodriguez was closeted with Don Quixote. The duchess
+      told the duke, and asked him to let her and Altisidora go and see what the
+      said duenna wanted with Don Quixote. The duke gave them leave, and the
+      pair cautiously and quietly crept to the door of the room and posted
+      themselves so close to it that they could hear all that was said inside.
+      But when the duchess heard how the Rodriguez had made public the Aranjuez
+      of her issues she could not restrain herself, nor Altisidora either; and
+      so, filled with rage and thirsting for vengeance, they burst into the room
+      and tormented Don Quixote and flogged the duenna in the manner already
+      described; for indignities offered to their charms and self-esteem
+      mightily provoke the anger of women and make them eager for revenge. The
+      duchess told the duke what had happened, and he was much amused by it; and
+      she, in pursuance of her design of making merry and diverting herself with
+      Don Quixote, despatched the page who had played the part of Dulcinea in
+      the negotiations for her disenchantment (which Sancho Panza in the cares
+      of government had forgotten all about) to Teresa Panza his wife with her
+      husband's letter and another from herself, and also a great string of fine
+      coral beads as a present.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Now the history says this page was very sharp and quick-witted; and eager
+      to serve his lord and lady he set off very willingly for Sancho's village.
+      Before he entered it he observed a number of women washing in a brook, and
+      asked them if they could tell him whether there lived there a woman of the
+      name of Teresa Panza, wife of one Sancho Panza, squire to a knight called
+      Don Quixote of La Mancha. At the question a young girl who was washing
+      stood up and said, "Teresa Panza is my mother, and that Sancho is my
+      father, and that knight is our master."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Well then, miss," said the page, "come and show me where your mother is,
+      for I bring her a letter and a present from your father."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "That I will with all my heart, senor," said the girl, who seemed to be
+      about fourteen, more or less; and leaving the clothes she was washing to
+      one of her companions, and without putting anything on her head or feet,
+      for she was bare-legged and had her hair hanging about her, away she
+      skipped in front of the page's horse, saying, "Come, your worship, our
+      house is at the entrance of the town, and my mother is there, sorrowful
+      enough at not having had any news of my father this ever so long."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Well," said the page, "I am bringing her such good news that she will
+      have reason to thank God."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      And then, skipping, running, and capering, the girl reached the town, but
+      before going into the house she called out at the door, "Come out, mother
+      Teresa, come out, come out; here's a gentleman with letters and other
+      things from my good father." At these words her mother Teresa Panza came
+      out spinning a bundle of flax, in a grey petticoat (so short was it one
+      would have fancied "they to her shame had cut it short"), a grey bodice of
+      the same stuff, and a smock. She was not very old, though plainly past
+      forty, strong, healthy, vigorous, and sun-dried; and seeing her daughter
+      and the page on horseback, she exclaimed, "What's this, child? What
+      gentleman is this?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "A servant of my lady, Dona Teresa Panza," replied the page; and suiting
+      the action to the word he flung himself off his horse, and with great
+      humility advanced to kneel before the lady Teresa, saying, "Let me kiss
+      your hand, Senora Dona Teresa, as the lawful and only wife of Senor Don
+      Sancho Panza, rightful governor of the island of Barataria."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Ah, senor, get up, do that," said Teresa; "for I'm not a bit of a court
+      lady, but only a poor country woman, the daughter of a clodcrusher, and
+      the wife of a squire-errant and not of any governor at all."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "You are," said the page, "the most worthy wife of a most arch-worthy
+      governor; and as a proof of what I say accept this letter and this
+      present;" and at the same time he took out of his pocket a string of coral
+      beads with gold clasps, and placed it on her neck, and said, "This letter
+      is from his lordship the governor, and the other as well as these coral
+      beads from my lady the duchess, who sends me to your worship."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Teresa stood lost in astonishment, and her daughter just as much, and the
+      girl said, "May I die but our master Don Quixote's at the bottom of this;
+      he must have given father the government or county he so often promised
+      him."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "That is the truth," said the page; "for it is through Senor Don Quixote
+      that Senor Sancho is now governor of the island of Barataria, as will be
+      seen by this letter."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Will your worship read it to me, noble sir?" said Teresa; "for though I
+      can spin I can't read, not a scrap."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Nor I either," said Sanchica; "but wait a bit, and I'll go and fetch some
+      one who can read it, either the curate himself or the bachelor Samson
+      Carrasco, and they'll come gladly to hear any news of my father."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "There is no need to fetch anybody," said the page; "for though I can't
+      spin I can read, and I'll read it;" and so he read it through, but as it
+      has been already given it is not inserted here; and then he took out the
+      other one from the duchess, which ran as follows:
+    </p>
+    <blockquote>
+      <p>
+        Friend Teresa,&mdash;Your husband Sancho's good qualities, of heart as
+        well as of head, induced and compelled me to request my husband the duke
+        to give him the government of one of his many islands. I am told he
+        governs like a gerfalcon, of which I am very glad, and my lord the duke,
+        of course, also; and I am very thankful to heaven that I have not made a
+        mistake in choosing him for that same government; for I would have
+        Senora Teresa know that a good governor is hard to find in this world
+        and may God make me as good as Sancho's way of governing. Herewith I
+        send you, my dear, a string of coral beads with gold clasps; I wish they
+        were Oriental pearls; but "he who gives thee a bone does not wish to see
+        thee dead;" a time will come when we shall become acquainted and meet
+        one another, but God knows the future. Commend me to your daughter
+        Sanchica, and tell her from me to hold herself in readiness, for I mean
+        to make a high match for her when she least expects it. They tell me
+        there are big acorns in your village; send me a couple of dozen or so,
+        and I shall value them greatly as coming from your hand; and write to me
+        at length to assure me of your health and well-being; and if there be
+        anything you stand in need of, it is but to open your mouth, and that
+        shall be the measure; and so God keep you.
+      </p>
+      <p>
+        From this place. Your loving friend, THE DUCHESS.
+      </p>
+    </blockquote>
+    <p>
+      "Ah, what a good, plain, lowly lady!" said Teresa when she heard the
+      letter; "that I may be buried with ladies of that sort, and not the
+      gentlewomen we have in this town, that fancy because they are gentlewomen
+      the wind must not touch them, and go to church with as much airs as if
+      they were queens, no less, and seem to think they are disgraced if they
+      look at a farmer's wife! And see here how this good lady, for all she's a
+      duchess, calls me 'friend,' and treats me as if I was her equal&mdash;and
+      equal may I see her with the tallest church-tower in La Mancha! And as for
+      the acorns, senor, I'll send her ladyship a peck and such big ones that
+      one might come to see them as a show and a wonder. And now, Sanchica, see
+      that the gentleman is comfortable; put up his horse, and get some eggs out
+      of the stable, and cut plenty of bacon, and let's give him his dinner like
+      a prince; for the good news he has brought, and his own bonny face deserve
+      it all; and meanwhile I'll run out and give the neighbours the news of our
+      good luck, and father curate, and Master Nicholas the barber, who are and
+      always have been such friends of thy father's."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "That I will, mother," said Sanchica; "but mind, you must give me half of
+      that string; for I don't think my lady the duchess could have been so
+      stupid as to send it all to you."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "It is all for thee, my child," said Teresa; "but let me wear it round my
+      neck for a few days; for verily it seems to make my heart glad."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "You will be glad too," said the page, "when you see the bundle there is
+      in this portmanteau, for it is a suit of the finest cloth, that the
+      governor only wore one day out hunting and now sends, all for Senora
+      Sanchica."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "May he live a thousand years," said Sanchica, "and the bearer as many,
+      nay two thousand, if needful."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      With this Teresa hurried out of the house with the letters, and with the
+      string of beads round her neck, and went along thrumming the letters as if
+      they were a tambourine, and by chance coming across the curate and Samson
+      Carrasco she began capering and saying, "None of us poor now, faith! We've
+      got a little government! Ay, let the finest fine lady tackle me, and I'll
+      give her a setting down!"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "What's all this, Teresa Panza," said they; "what madness is this, and
+      what papers are those?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "The madness is only this," said she, "that these are the letters of
+      duchesses and governors, and these I have on my neck are fine coral beads,
+      with ave-marias and paternosters of beaten gold, and I am a governess."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "God help us," said the curate, "we don't understand you, Teresa, or know
+      what you are talking about."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "There, you may see it yourselves," said Teresa, and she handed them the
+      letters.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The curate read them out for Samson Carrasco to hear, and Samson and he
+      regarded one another with looks of astonishment at what they had read, and
+      the bachelor asked who had brought the letters. Teresa in reply bade them
+      come with her to her house and they would see the messenger, a most
+      elegant youth, who had brought another present which was worth as much
+      more. The curate took the coral beads from her neck and examined them
+      again and again, and having satisfied himself as to their fineness he fell
+      to wondering afresh, and said, "By the gown I wear I don't know what to
+      say or think of these letters and presents; on the one hand I can see and
+      feel the fineness of these coral beads, and on the other I read how a
+      duchess sends to beg for a couple of dozen of acorns."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Square that if you can," said Carrasco; "well, let's go and see the
+      messenger, and from him we'll learn something about this mystery that has
+      turned up."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      They did so, and Teresa returned with them. They found the page sifting a
+      little barley for his horse, and Sanchica cutting a rasher of bacon to be
+      paved with eggs for his dinner. His looks and his handsome apparel pleased
+      them both greatly; and after they had saluted him courteously, and he
+      them, Samson begged him to give them his news, as well of Don Quixote as
+      of Sancho Panza, for, he said, though they had read the letters from
+      Sancho and her ladyship the duchess, they were still puzzled and could not
+      make out what was meant by Sancho's government, and above all of an
+      island, when all or most of those in the Mediterranean belonged to his
+      Majesty.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      To this the page replied, "As to Senor Sancho Panza's being a governor
+      there is no doubt whatever; but whether it is an island or not that he
+      governs, with that I have nothing to do; suffice it that it is a town of
+      more than a thousand inhabitants; with regard to the acorns I may tell you
+      my lady the duchess is so unpretending and unassuming that, not to speak
+      of sending to beg for acorns from a peasant woman, she has been known to
+      send to ask for the loan of a comb from one of her neighbours; for I would
+      have your worships know that the ladies of Aragon, though they are just as
+      illustrious, are not so punctilious and haughty as the Castilian ladies;
+      they treat people with greater familiarity."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      In the middle of this conversation Sanchica came in with her skirt full of
+      eggs, and said she to the page, "Tell me, senor, does my father wear
+      trunk-hose since he has been governor?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I have not noticed," said the page; "but no doubt he wears them."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Ah! my God!" said Sanchica, "what a sight it must be to see my father in
+      tights! Isn't it odd that ever since I was born I have had a longing to
+      see my father in trunk-hose?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "As things go you will see that if you live," said the page; "by God he is
+      in the way to take the road with a sunshade if the government only lasts
+      him two months more."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The curate and the bachelor could see plainly enough that the page spoke
+      in a waggish vein; but the fineness of the coral beads, and the hunting
+      suit that Sancho sent (for Teresa had already shown it to them) did away
+      with the impression; and they could not help laughing at Sanchica's wish,
+      and still more when Teresa said, "Senor curate, look about if there's
+      anybody here going to Madrid or Toledo, to buy me a hooped petticoat, a
+      proper fashionable one of the best quality; for indeed and indeed I must
+      do honour to my husband's government as well as I can; nay, if I am put to
+      it and have to, I'll go to Court and set a coach like all the world; for
+      she who has a governor for her husband may very well have one and keep
+      one."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "And why not, mother!" said Sanchica; "would to God it were to-day instead
+      of to-morrow, even though they were to say when they saw me seated in the
+      coach with my mother, 'See that rubbish, that garlic-stuffed fellow's
+      daughter, how she goes stretched at her ease in a coach as if she was a
+      she-pope!' But let them tramp through the mud, and let me go in my coach
+      with my feet off the ground. Bad luck to backbiters all over the world;
+      'let me go warm and the people may laugh.' Do I say right, mother?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "To be sure you do, my child," said Teresa; "and all this good luck, and
+      even more, my good Sancho foretold me; and thou wilt see, my daughter, he
+      won't stop till he has made me a countess; for to make a beginning is
+      everything in luck; and as I have heard thy good father say many a time
+      (for besides being thy father he's the father of proverbs too), 'When they
+      offer thee a heifer, run with a halter; when they offer thee a government,
+      take it; when they would give thee a county, seize it; when they say,
+      "Here, here!" to thee with something good, swallow it.' Oh no! go to
+      sleep, and don't answer the strokes of good fortune and the lucky chances
+      that are knocking at the door of your house!"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "And what do I care," added Sanchica, "whether anybody says when he sees
+      me holding my head up, 'The dog saw himself in hempen breeches,' and the
+      rest of it?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Hearing this the curate said, "I do believe that all this family of the
+      Panzas are born with a sackful of proverbs in their insides, every one of
+      them; I never saw one of them that does not pour them out at all times and
+      on all occasions."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "That is true," said the page, "for Senor Governor Sancho utters them at
+      every turn; and though a great many of them are not to the purpose, still
+      they amuse one, and my lady the duchess and the duke praise them highly."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Then you still maintain that all this about Sancho's government is true,
+      senor," said the bachelor, "and that there actually is a duchess who sends
+      him presents and writes to him? Because we, although we have handled the
+      present and read the letters, don't believe it and suspect it to be
+      something in the line of our fellow-townsman Don Quixote, who fancies that
+      everything is done by enchantment; and for this reason I am almost ready
+      to say that I'd like to touch and feel your worship to see whether you are
+      a mere ambassador of the imagination or a man of flesh and blood."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "All I know, sirs," replied the page, "is that I am a real ambassador, and
+      that Senor Sancho Panza is governor as a matter of fact, and that my lord
+      and lady the duke and duchess can give, and have given him this same
+      government, and that I have heard it said Sancho Panza bears himself very
+      stoutly therein; whether there be any enchantment in all this or not, it
+      is for your worships to settle between you; for that's all I know by the
+      oath I swear, and that is by the life of my parents whom I have still
+      alive, and love dearly."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "It may be so," said the bachelor; "but dubitat Augustinus."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Doubt who will," said the page; "what I have told you is the truth, and
+      that will always rise above falsehood as oil above water; if not operibus
+      credite, et non verbis. Let one of you come with me, and he will see with
+      his eyes what he does not believe with his ears."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "It's for me to make that trip," said Sanchica; "take me with you, senor,
+      behind you on your horse; for I'll go with all my heart to see my father."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Governors' daughters," said the page, "must not travel along the roads
+      alone, but accompanied by coaches and litters and a great number of
+      attendants."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "By God," said Sanchica, "I can go just as well mounted on a she-ass as in
+      a coach; what a dainty lass you must take me for!"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Hush, girl," said Teresa; "you don't know what you're talking about; the
+      gentleman is quite right, for 'as the time so the behaviour;' when it was
+      Sancho it was 'Sancha;' when it is governor it's 'senora;' I don't know if
+      I'm right."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Senora Teresa says more than she is aware of," said the page; "and now
+      give me something to eat and let me go at once, for I mean to return this
+      evening."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Come and do penance with me," said the curate at this; "for Senora Teresa
+      has more will than means to serve so worthy a guest."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The page refused, but had to consent at last for his own sake; and the
+      curate took him home with him very gladly, in order to have an opportunity
+      of questioning him at leisure about Don Quixote and his doings. The
+      bachelor offered to write the letters in reply for Teresa; but she did not
+      care to let him mix himself up in her affairs, for she thought him
+      somewhat given to joking; and so she gave a cake and a couple of eggs to a
+      young acolyte who was a penman, and he wrote for her two letters, one for
+      her husband and the other for the duchess, dictated out of her own head,
+      which are not the worst inserted in this great history, as will be seen
+      farther on.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p50e" id="p50e"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p50e.jpg (19K)" src="images/p50e.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      <a name="ch51b" id="ch51b"></a>CHAPTER LI.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      OF THE PROGRESS OF SANCHO'S GOVERNMENT, AND OTHER SUCH ENTERTAINING
+      MATTERS
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <a name="p51a" id="p51a"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p51a.jpg (188K)" src="images/p51a.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p51a.jpg"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br />
+      <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Day came after the night of the governor's round; a night which the
+      head-carver passed without sleeping, so were his thoughts of the face and
+      air and beauty of the disguised damsel, while the majordomo spent what was
+      left of it in writing an account to his lord and lady of all Sancho said
+      and did, being as much amazed at his sayings as at his doings, for there
+      was a mixture of shrewdness and simplicity in all his words and deeds. The
+      senor governor got up, and by Doctor Pedro Recio's directions they made
+      him break his fast on a little conserve and four sups of cold water, which
+      Sancho would have readily exchanged for a piece of bread and a bunch of
+      grapes; but seeing there was no help for it, he submitted with no little
+      sorrow of heart and discomfort of stomach; Pedro Recio having persuaded
+      him that light and delicate diet enlivened the wits, and that was what was
+      most essential for persons placed in command and in responsible
+      situations, where they have to employ not only the bodily powers but those
+      of the mind also.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      By means of this sophistry Sancho was made to endure hunger, and hunger so
+      keen that in his heart he cursed the government, and even him who had
+      given it to him; however, with his hunger and his conserve he undertook to
+      deliver judgments that day, and the first thing that came before him was a
+      question that was submitted to him by a stranger, in the presence of the
+      majordomo and the other attendants, and it was in these words: "Senor, a
+      large river separated two districts of one and the same lordship&mdash;will
+      your worship please to pay attention, for the case is an important and a
+      rather knotty one? Well then, on this river there was a bridge, and at one
+      end of it a gallows, and a sort of tribunal, where four judges commonly
+      sat to administer the law which the lord of river, bridge and the lordship
+      had enacted, and which was to this effect, 'If anyone crosses by this
+      bridge from one side to the other he shall declare on oath where he is
+      going to and with what object; and if he swears truly, he shall be allowed
+      to pass, but if falsely, he shall be put to death for it by hanging on the
+      gallows erected there, without any remission.' Though the law and its
+      severe penalty were known, many persons crossed, but in their declarations
+      it was easy to see at once they were telling the truth, and the judges let
+      them pass free. It happened, however, that one man, when they came to take
+      his declaration, swore and said that by the oath he took he was going to
+      die upon that gallows that stood there, and nothing else. The judges held
+      a consultation over the oath, and they said, 'If we let this man pass free
+      he has sworn falsely, and by the law he ought to die; but if we hang him,
+      as he swore he was going to die on that gallows, and therefore swore the
+      truth, by the same law he ought to go free.' It is asked of your worship,
+      senor governor, what are the judges to do with this man? For they are
+      still in doubt and perplexity; and having heard of your worship's acute
+      and exalted intellect, they have sent me to entreat your worship on their
+      behalf to give your opinion on this very intricate and puzzling case."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      To this Sancho made answer, "Indeed those gentlemen the judges that send
+      you to me might have spared themselves the trouble, for I have more of the
+      obtuse than the acute in me; but repeat the case over again, so that I may
+      understand it, and then perhaps I may be able to hit the point."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The querist repeated again and again what he had said before, and then
+      Sancho said, "It seems to me I can set the matter right in a moment, and
+      in this way; the man swears that he is going to die upon the gallows; but
+      if he dies upon it, he has sworn the truth, and by the law enacted
+      deserves to go free and pass over the bridge; but if they don't hang him,
+      then he has sworn falsely, and by the same law deserves to be hanged."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "It is as the senor governor says," said the messenger; "and as regards a
+      complete comprehension of the case, there is nothing left to desire or
+      hesitate about."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Well then I say," said Sancho, "that of this man they should let pass the
+      part that has sworn truly, and hang the part that has lied; and in this
+      way the conditions of the passage will be fully complied with."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "But then, senor governor," replied the querist, "the man will have to be
+      divided into two parts; and if he is divided of course he will die; and so
+      none of the requirements of the law will be carried out, and it is
+      absolutely necessary to comply with it."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Look here, my good sir," said Sancho; "either I'm a numskull or else
+      there is the same reason for this passenger dying as for his living and
+      passing over the bridge; for if the truth saves him the falsehood equally
+      condemns him; and that being the case it is my opinion you should say to
+      the gentlemen who sent you to me that as the arguments for condemning him
+      and for absolving him are exactly balanced, they should let him pass
+      freely, as it is always more praiseworthy to do good than to do evil; this
+      I would give signed with my name if I knew how to sign; and what I have
+      said in this case is not out of my own head, but one of the many precepts
+      my master Don Quixote gave me the night before I left to become governor
+      of this island, that came into my mind, and it was this, that when there
+      was any doubt about the justice of a case I should lean to mercy; and it
+      is God's will that I should recollect it now, for it fits this case as if
+      it was made for it."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "That is true," said the majordomo; "and I maintain that Lycurgus himself,
+      who gave laws to the Lacedemonians, could not have pronounced a better
+      decision than the great Panza has given; let the morning's audience close
+      with this, and I will see that the senor governor has dinner entirely to
+      his liking."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "That's all I ask for&mdash;fair play," said Sancho; "give me my dinner,
+      and then let it rain cases and questions on me, and I'll despatch them in
+      a twinkling."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The majordomo kept his word, for he felt it against his conscience to kill
+      so wise a governor by hunger; particularly as he intended to have done
+      with him that same night, playing off the last joke he was commissioned to
+      practise upon him.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      It came to pass, then, that after he had dined that day, in opposition to
+      the rules and aphorisms of Doctor Tirteafuera, as they were taking away
+      the cloth there came a courier with a letter from Don Quixote for the
+      governor. Sancho ordered the secretary to read it to himself, and if there
+      was nothing in it that demanded secrecy to read it aloud. The secretary
+      did so, and after he had skimmed the contents he said, "It may well be
+      read aloud, for what Senor Don Quixote writes to your worship deserves to
+      be printed or written in letters of gold, and it is as follows."
+    </p>
+    <blockquote>
+      <p>
+        DON QUIXOTE OF LA MANCHA'S LETTER TO SANCHO PANZA, GOVERNOR OF THE
+        ISLAND OF BARATARIA.
+      </p>
+      <p>
+        When I was expecting to hear of thy stupidities and blunders, friend
+        Sancho, I have received intelligence of thy displays of good sense, for
+        which I give special thanks to heaven that can raise the poor from the
+        dunghill and of fools to make wise men. They tell me thou dost govern as
+        if thou wert a man, and art a man as if thou wert a beast, so great is
+        the humility wherewith thou dost comport thyself. But I would have thee
+        bear in mind, Sancho, that very often it is fitting and necessary for
+        the authority of office to resist the humility of the heart; for the
+        seemly array of one who is invested with grave duties should be such as
+        they require and not measured by what his own humble tastes may lead him
+        to prefer. Dress well; a stick dressed up does not look like a stick; I
+        do not say thou shouldst wear trinkets or fine raiment, or that being a
+        judge thou shouldst dress like a soldier, but that thou shouldst array
+        thyself in the apparel thy office requires, and that at the same time it
+        be neat and handsome. To win the good-will of the people thou governest
+        there are two things, among others, that thou must do; one is to be
+        civil to all (this, however, I told thee before), and the other to take
+        care that food be abundant, for there is nothing that vexes the heart of
+        the poor more than hunger and high prices. Make not many proclamations;
+        but those thou makest take care that they be good ones, and above all
+        that they be observed and carried out; for proclamations that are not
+        observed are the same as if they did not exist; nay, they encourage the
+        idea that the prince who had the wisdom and authority to make them had
+        not the power to enforce them; and laws that threaten and are not
+        enforced come to be like the log, the king of the frogs, that frightened
+        them at first, but that in time they despised and mounted upon. Be a
+        father to virtue and a stepfather to vice. Be not always strict, nor yet
+        always lenient, but observe a mean between these two extremes, for in
+        that is the aim of wisdom. Visit the gaols, the slaughter-houses, and
+        the market-places; for the presence of the governor is of great
+        importance in such places; it comforts the prisoners who are in hopes of
+        a speedy release, it is the bugbear of the butchers who have then to
+        give just weight, and it is the terror of the market-women for the same
+        reason. Let it not be seen that thou art (even if perchance thou art,
+        which I do not believe) covetous, a follower of women, or a glutton; for
+        when the people and those that have dealings with thee become aware of
+        thy special weakness they will bring their batteries to bear upon thee
+        in that quarter, till they have brought thee down to the depths of
+        perdition. Consider and reconsider, con and con over again the advices
+        and the instructions I gave thee before thy departure hence to thy
+        government, and thou wilt see that in them, if thou dost follow them,
+        thou hast a help at hand that will lighten for thee the troubles and
+        difficulties that beset governors at every step. Write to thy lord and
+        lady and show thyself grateful to them, for ingratitude is the daughter
+        of pride, and one of the greatest sins we know of; and he who is
+        grateful to those who have been good to him shows that he will be so to
+        God also who has bestowed and still bestows so many blessings upon him.
+      </p>
+      <p>
+        My lady the duchess sent off a messenger with thy suit and another
+        present to thy wife Teresa Panza; we expect the answer every moment. I
+        have been a little indisposed through a certain scratching I came in
+        for, not very much to the benefit of my nose; but it was nothing; for if
+        there are enchanters who maltreat me, there are also some who defend me.
+        Let me know if the majordomo who is with thee had any share in the
+        Trifaldi performance, as thou didst suspect; and keep me informed of
+        everything that happens thee, as the distance is so short; all the more
+        as I am thinking of giving over very shortly this idle life I am now
+        leading, for I was not born for it. A thing has occurred to me which I
+        am inclined to think will put me out of favour with the duke and
+        duchess; but though I am sorry for it I do not care, for after all I
+        must obey my calling rather than their pleasure, in accordance with the
+        common saying, amicus Plato, sed magis amica veritas. I quote this Latin
+        to thee because I conclude that since thou hast been a governor thou
+        wilt have learned it. Adieu; God keep thee from being an object of pity
+        to anyone.
+      </p>
+      <p>
+        Thy friend, DON QUIXOTE OF LA MANCHA.
+      </p>
+    </blockquote>
+    <p>
+      Sancho listened to the letter with great attention, and it was praised and
+      considered wise by all who heard it; he then rose up from table, and
+      calling his secretary shut himself in with him in his own room, and
+      without putting it off any longer set about answering his master Don
+      Quixote at once; and he bade the secretary write down what he told him
+      without adding or suppressing anything, which he did, and the answer was
+      to the following effect.
+    </p>
+    <blockquote>
+      <p>
+        SANCHO PANZA'S LETTER TO DON QUIXOTE OF LA MANCHA.
+      </p>
+      <p>
+        The pressure of business is so great upon me that I have no time to
+        scratch my head or even to cut my nails; and I have them so long&mdash;God
+        send a remedy for it. I say this, master of my soul, that you may not be
+        surprised if I have not until now sent you word of how I fare, well or
+        ill, in this government, in which I am suffering more hunger than when
+        we two were wandering through the woods and wastes.
+      </p>
+      <p>
+        My lord the duke wrote to me the other day to warn me that certain spies
+        had got into this island to kill me; but up to the present I have not
+        found out any except a certain doctor who receives a salary in this town
+        for killing all the governors that come here; he is called Doctor Pedro
+        Recio, and is from Tirteafuera; so you see what a name he has to make me
+        dread dying under his hands. This doctor says of himself that he does
+        not cure diseases when there are any, but prevents them coming, and the
+        medicines he uses are diet and more diet until he brings one down to
+        bare bones; as if leanness was not worse than fever.
+      </p>
+      <p>
+        In short he is killing me with hunger, and I am dying myself of
+        vexation; for when I thought I was coming to this government to get my
+        meat hot and my drink cool, and take my ease between holland sheets on
+        feather beds, I find I have come to do penance as if I was a hermit; and
+        as I don't do it willingly I suspect that in the end the devil will
+        carry me off.
+      </p>
+      <p>
+        So far I have not handled any dues or taken any bribes, and I don't know
+        what to think of it; for here they tell me that the governors that come
+        to this island, before entering it have plenty of money either given to
+        them or lent to them by the people of the town, and that this is the
+        usual custom not only here but with all who enter upon governments.
+      </p>
+      <p>
+        Last night going the rounds I came upon a fair damsel in man's clothes,
+        and a brother of hers dressed as a woman; my head-carver has fallen in
+        love with the girl, and has in his own mind chosen her for a wife, so he
+        says, and I have chosen the youth for a son-in-law; to-day we are going to
+        explain our intentions to the father of the pair, who is one Diego de la
+        Llana, a gentleman and an old Christian as much as you please.
+      </p>
+      <p>
+        I have visited the market-places, as your worship advises me, and
+        yesterday I found a stall-keeper selling new hazel nuts and proved her
+        to have mixed a bushel of old empty rotten nuts with a bushel of new; I
+        confiscated the whole for the children of the charity-school, who will
+        know how to distinguish them well enough, and I sentenced her not to
+        come into the market-place for a fortnight; they told me I did bravely.
+        I can tell your worship it is commonly said in this town that there are
+        no people worse than the market-women, for they are all barefaced,
+        unconscionable, and impudent, and I can well believe it from what I have
+        seen of them in other towns.
+      </p>
+      <p>
+        I am very glad my lady the duchess has written to my wife Teresa Panza
+        and sent her the present your worship speaks of; and I will strive to
+        show myself grateful when the time comes; kiss her hands for me, and
+        tell her I say she has not thrown it into a sack with a hole in it, as
+        she will see in the end. I should not like your worship to have any
+        difference with my lord and lady; for if you fall out with them it is
+        plain it must do me harm; and as you give me advice to be grateful it
+        will not do for your worship not to be so yourself to those who have
+        shown you such kindness, and by whom you have been treated so hospitably
+        in their castle.
+      </p>
+      <p>
+        That about the scratching I don't understand; but I suppose it must be
+        one of the ill-turns the wicked enchanters are always doing your
+        worship; when we meet I shall know all about it. I wish I could send
+        your worship something; but I don't know what to send, unless it be some
+        very curious clyster pipes, to work with bladders, that they make in
+        this island; but if the office remains with me I'll find out something
+        to send, one way or another. If my wife Teresa Panza writes to me, pay
+        the postage and send me the letter, for I have a very great desire to
+        hear how my house and wife and children are going on. And so, may God
+        deliver your worship from evil-minded enchanters, and bring me well and
+        peacefully out of this government, which I doubt, for I expect to take
+        leave of it and my life together, from the way Doctor Pedro Recio treats
+        me.
+      </p>
+      <p>
+        Your worship's servant SANCHO PANZA THE GOVERNOR.
+      </p>
+    </blockquote>
+    <p>
+      The secretary sealed the letter, and immediately dismissed the courier;
+      and those who were carrying on the joke against Sancho putting their heads
+      together arranged how he was to be dismissed from the government. Sancho
+      spent the afternoon in drawing up certain ordinances relating to the good
+      government of what he fancied the island; and he ordained that there were
+      to be no provision hucksters in the State, and that men might import wine
+      into it from any place they pleased, provided they declared the quarter it
+      came from, so that a price might be put upon it according to its quality,
+      reputation, and the estimation it was held in; and he that watered his
+      wine, or changed the name, was to forfeit his life for it. He reduced the
+      prices of all manner of shoes, boots, and stockings, but of shoes in
+      particular, as they seemed to him to run extravagantly high. He
+      established a fixed rate for servants' wages, which were becoming
+      recklessly exorbitant. He laid extremely heavy penalties upon those who
+      sang lewd or loose songs either by day or night. He decreed that no blind
+      man should sing of any miracle in verse, unless he could produce authentic
+      evidence that it was true, for it was his opinion that most of those the
+      blind men sing are trumped up, to the detriment of the true ones. He
+      established and created an alguacil of the poor, not to harass them, but
+      to examine them and see whether they really were so; for many a sturdy
+      thief or drunkard goes about under cover of a make-believe crippled limb
+      or a sham sore. In a word, he made so many good rules that to this day
+      they are preserved there, and are called The constitutions of the great
+      governor Sancho Panza.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p51e" id="p51e"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p51e.jpg (32K)" src="images/p51e.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      <a name="ch52b" id="ch52b"></a>CHAPTER LII.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      WHEREIN IS RELATED THE ADVENTURE OF THE SECOND DISTRESSED OR AFFLICTED
+      DUENNA, OTHERWISE CALLED DONA RODRIGUEZ
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p52a" id="p52a"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p52a.jpg (131K)" src="images/p52a.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p52a.jpg"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br />
+      <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Cide Hamete relates that Don Quixote being now cured of his scratches felt
+      that the life he was leading in the castle was entirely inconsistent with
+      the order of chivalry he professed, so he determined to ask the duke and
+      duchess to permit him to take his departure for Saragossa, as the time of
+      the festival was now drawing near, and he hoped to win there the suit of
+      armour which is the prize at festivals of the sort. But one day at table
+      with the duke and duchess, just as he was about to carry his resolution
+      into effect and ask for their permission, lo and behold suddenly there
+      came in through the door of the great hall two women, as they afterwards
+      proved to be, draped in mourning from head to foot, one of whom
+      approaching Don Quixote flung herself at full length at his feet, pressing
+      her lips to them, and uttering moans so sad, so deep, and so doleful that
+      she put all who heard and saw her into a state of perplexity; and though
+      the duke and duchess supposed it must be some joke their servants were
+      playing off upon Don Quixote, still the earnest way the woman sighed and
+      moaned and wept puzzled them and made them feel uncertain, until Don
+      Quixote, touched with compassion, raised her up and made her unveil
+      herself and remove the mantle from her tearful face. She complied and
+      disclosed what no one could have ever anticipated, for she disclosed the
+      countenance of Dona Rodriguez, the duenna of the house; the other female
+      in mourning being her daughter, who had been made a fool of by the rich
+      farmer's son. All who knew her were filled with astonishment, and the duke
+      and duchess more than any; for though they thought her a simpleton and a
+      weak creature, they did not think her capable of crazy pranks. Dona
+      Rodriguez, at length, turning to her master and mistress said to them,
+      "Will your excellences be pleased to permit me to speak to this gentleman
+      for a moment, for it is requisite I should do so in order to get
+      successfully out of the business in which the boldness of an evil-minded
+      clown has involved me?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The duke said that for his part he gave her leave, and that she might
+      speak with Senor Don Quixote as much as she liked.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      She then, turning to Don Quixote and addressing herself to him said, "Some
+      days since, valiant knight, I gave you an account of the injustice and
+      treachery of a wicked farmer to my dearly beloved daughter, the unhappy
+      damsel here before you, and you promised me to take her part and right the
+      wrong that has been done her; but now it has come to my hearing that you
+      are about to depart from this castle in quest of such fair adventures as
+      God may vouchsafe to you; therefore, before you take the road, I would
+      that you challenge this froward rustic, and compel him to marry my
+      daughter in fulfillment of the promise he gave her to become her husband
+      before he seduced her; for to expect that my lord the duke will do me
+      justice is to ask pears from the elm tree, for the reason I stated
+      privately to your worship; and so may our Lord grant you good health and
+      forsake us not."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      To these words Don Quixote replied very gravely and solemnly, "Worthy
+      duenna, check your tears, or rather dry them, and spare your sighs, for I
+      take it upon myself to obtain redress for your daughter, for whom it would
+      have been better not to have been so ready to believe lovers' promises,
+      which are for the most part quickly made and very slowly performed; and
+      so, with my lord the duke's leave, I will at once go in quest of this
+      inhuman youth, and will find him out and challenge him and slay him, if so
+      be he refuses to keep his promised word; for the chief object of my
+      profession is to spare the humble and chastise the proud; I mean, to help
+      the distressed and destroy the oppressors."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "There is no necessity," said the duke, "for your worship to take the
+      trouble of seeking out the rustic of whom this worthy duenna complains,
+      nor is there any necessity, either, for asking my leave to challenge him;
+      for I admit him duly challenged, and will take care that he is informed of
+      the challenge, and accepts it, and comes to answer it in person to this
+      castle of mine, where I shall afford to both a fair field, observing all
+      the conditions which are usually and properly observed in such trials, and
+      observing too justice to both sides, as all princes who offer a free field
+      to combatants within the limits of their lordships are bound to do."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Then with that assurance and your highness's good leave," said Don
+      Quixote, "I hereby for this once waive my privilege of gentle blood, and
+      come down and put myself on a level with the lowly birth of the
+      wrong-doer, making myself equal with him and enabling him to enter into
+      combat with me; and so, I challenge and defy him, though absent, on the
+      plea of his malfeasance in breaking faith with this poor damsel, who was a
+      maiden and now by his misdeed is none; and say that he shall fulfill the
+      promise he gave her to become her lawful husband, or else stake his life
+      upon the question."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      And then plucking off a glove he threw it down in the middle of the hall,
+      and the duke picked it up, saying, as he had said before, that he accepted
+      the challenge in the name of his vassal, and fixed six days thence as the
+      time, the courtyard of the castle as the place, and for arms the customary
+      ones of knights, lance and shield and full armour, with all the other
+      accessories, without trickery, guile, or charms of any sort, and examined
+      and passed by the judges of the field. "But first of all," he said, "it is
+      requisite that this worthy duenna and unworthy damsel should place their
+      claim for justice in the hands of Don Quixote; for otherwise nothing can
+      be done, nor can the said challenge be brought to a lawful issue."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I do so place it," replied the duenna.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "And I too," added her daughter, all in tears and covered with shame and
+      confusion.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      This declaration having been made, and the duke having settled in his own
+      mind what he would do in the matter, the ladies in black withdrew, and the
+      duchess gave orders that for the future they were not to be treated as
+      servants of hers, but as lady adventurers who came to her house to demand
+      justice; so they gave them a room to themselves and waited on them as they
+      would on strangers, to the consternation of the other women-servants, who
+      did not know where the folly and imprudence of Dona Rodriguez and her
+      unlucky daughter would stop.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      And now, to complete the enjoyment of the feast and bring the dinner to a
+      satisfactory end, lo and behold the page who had carried the letters and
+      presents to Teresa Panza, the wife of the governor Sancho, entered the
+      hall; and the duke and duchess were very well pleased to see him, being
+      anxious to know the result of his journey; but when they asked him the
+      page said in reply that he could not give it before so many people or in a
+      few words, and begged their excellences to be pleased to let it wait for a
+      private opportunity, and in the meantime amuse themselves with these
+      letters; and taking out the letters he placed them in the duchess's hand.
+      One bore by way of address, Letter for my lady the Duchess So-and-so, of I
+      don't know where; and the other To my husband Sancho Panza, governor of
+      the island of Barataria, whom God prosper longer than me. The duchess's
+      bread would not bake, as the saying is, until she had read her letter; and
+      having looked over it herself and seen that it might be read aloud for the
+      duke and all present to hear, she read out as follows.
+    </p>
+    <blockquote>
+      <p>
+        TERESA PANZA'S LETTER TO THE DUCHESS.
+      </p>
+      <p>
+        The letter your highness wrote me, my lady, gave me great pleasure, for
+        indeed I found it very welcome. The string of coral beads is very fine,
+        and my husband's hunting suit does not fall short of it. All this
+        village is very much pleased that your ladyship has made a governor of
+        my good man Sancho; though nobody will believe it, particularly the
+        curate, and Master Nicholas the barber, and the bachelor Samson
+        Carrasco; but I don't care for that, for so long as it is true, as it
+        is, they may all say what they like; though, to tell the truth, if the
+        coral beads and the suit had not come I would not have believed it
+        either; for in this village everybody thinks my husband a numskull, and
+        except for governing a flock of goats, they cannot fancy what sort of
+        government he can be fit for. God grant it, and direct him according as
+        he sees his children stand in need of it. I am resolved with your
+        worship's leave, lady of my soul, to make the most of this fair day, and
+        go to Court to stretch myself at ease in a coach, and make all those I
+        have envying me already burst their eyes out; so I beg your excellence
+        to order my husband to send me a small trifle of money, and to let it be
+        something to speak of, because one's expenses are heavy at the Court;
+        for a loaf costs a real, and meat thirty maravedis a pound, which is
+        beyond everything; and if he does not want me to go let him tell me in
+        time, for my feet are on the fidgets to be off; and my friends and
+        neighbours tell me that if my daughter and I make a figure and a brave
+        show at Court, my husband will come to be known far more by me than I by
+        him, for of course plenty of people will ask, "Who are those ladies in
+        that coach?" and some servant of mine will answer, "The wife and
+        daughter of Sancho Panza, governor of the island of Barataria;" and in
+        this way Sancho will become known, and I'll be thought well of, and "to
+        Rome for everything." I am as vexed as vexed can be that they have
+        gathered no acorns this year in our village; for all that I send your
+        highness about half a peck that I went to the wood to gather and pick
+        out one by one myself, and I could find no bigger ones; I wish they were
+        as big as ostrich eggs.
+      </p>
+      <p>
+        Let not your high mightiness forget to write to me; and I will take care
+        to answer, and let you know how I am, and whatever news there may be in
+        this place, where I remain, praying our Lord to have your highness in
+        his keeping and not to forget me.
+      </p>
+      <p>
+        Sancha my daughter, and my son, kiss your worship's hands.
+      </p>
+      <p>
+        She who would rather see your ladyship than write to you,
+      </p>
+      <p>
+        Your servant,<br /> TERESA PANZA.
+      </p>
+    </blockquote>
+    <p>
+      All were greatly amused by Teresa Panza's letter, but particularly the
+      duke and duchess; and the duchess asked Don Quixote's opinion whether they
+      might open the letter that had come for the governor, which she suspected
+      must be very good. Don Quixote said that to gratify them he would open it,
+      and did so, and found that it ran as follows.
+    </p>
+    <blockquote>
+      <p>
+        TERESA PANZA'S LETTER TO HER HUSBAND SANCHO PANZA.
+      </p>
+      <p>
+        I got thy letter, Sancho of my soul, and I promise thee and swear as a
+        Catholic Christian that I was within two fingers' breadth of going mad I
+        was so happy. I can tell thee, brother, when I came to hear that thou
+        wert a governor I thought I should have dropped dead with pure joy; and
+        thou knowest they say sudden joy kills as well as great sorrow; and as
+        for Sanchica thy daughter, she leaked from sheer happiness. I had before
+        me the suit thou didst send me, and the coral beads my lady the duchess
+        sent me round my neck, and the letters in my hands, and there was the
+        bearer of them standing by, and in spite of all this I verily believed
+        and thought that what I saw and handled was all a dream; for who could
+        have thought that a goatherd would come to be a governor of islands?
+        Thou knowest, my friend, what my mother used to say, that one must live
+        long to see much; I say it because I expect to see more if I live
+        longer; for I don't expect to stop until I see thee a farmer of taxes or
+        a collector of revenue, which are offices where, though the devil
+        carries off those who make a bad use of them, still they make and handle
+        money. My lady the duchess will tell thee the desire I have to go to the
+        Court; consider the matter and let me know thy pleasure; I will try to
+        do honour to thee by going in a coach.
+      </p>
+      <p>
+        Neither the curate, nor the barber, nor the bachelor, nor even the
+        sacristan, can believe that thou art a governor, and they say the whole
+        thing is a delusion or an enchantment affair, like everything belonging
+        to thy master Don Quixote; and Samson says he must go in search of thee
+        and drive the government out of thy head and the madness out of Don
+        Quixote's skull; I only laugh, and look at my string of beads, and plan
+        out the dress I am going to make for our daughter out of thy suit. I
+        sent some acorns to my lady the duchess; I wish they had been gold. Send
+        me some strings of pearls if they are in fashion in that island. Here is
+        the news of the village; La Berrueca has married her daughter to a
+        good-for-nothing painter, who came here to paint anything that might
+        turn up. The council gave him an order to paint his Majesty's arms over
+        the door of the town-hall; he asked two ducats, which they paid him in
+        advance; he worked for eight days, and at the end of them had nothing
+        painted, and then said he had no turn for painting such trifling things;
+        he returned the money, and for all that has married on the pretence of
+        being a good workman; to be sure he has now laid aside his paint-brush
+        and taken a spade in hand, and goes to the field like a gentleman. Pedro
+        Lobo's son has received the first orders and tonsure, with the intention
+        of becoming a priest. Minguilla, Mingo Silvato's granddaughter, found it
+        out, and has gone to law with him on the score of having given her
+        promise of marriage. Evil tongues say she is with child by him, but he
+        denies it stoutly. There are no olives this year, and there is not a
+        drop of vinegar to be had in the whole village. A company of soldiers
+        passed through here; when they left they took away with them three of
+        the girls of the village; I will not tell thee who they are; perhaps
+        they will come back, and they will be sure to find those who will take
+        them for wives with all their blemishes, good or bad. Sanchica is making
+        bonelace; she earns eight maravedis a day clear, which she puts into a
+        moneybox as a help towards house furnishing; but now that she is a
+        governor's daughter thou wilt give her a portion without her working for
+        it. The fountain in the plaza has run dry. A flash of lightning struck
+        the gibbet, and I wish they all lit there. I look for an answer to this,
+        and to know thy mind about my going to the Court; and so, God keep thee
+        longer than me, or as long, for I would not leave thee in this world
+        without me.
+      </p>
+      <p>
+        Thy wife,<br /> TERESA PANZA.
+      </p>
+    </blockquote>
+    <p>
+      The letters were applauded, laughed over, relished, and admired; and then,
+      as if to put the seal to the business, the courier arrived, bringing the
+      one Sancho sent to Don Quixote, and this, too, was read out, and it raised
+      some doubts as to the governor's simplicity. The duchess withdrew to hear
+      from the page about his adventures in Sancho's village, which he narrated
+      at full length without leaving a single circumstance unmentioned. He gave
+      her the acorns, and also a cheese which Teresa had given him as being
+      particularly good and superior to those of Tronchon. The duchess received
+      it with greatest delight, in which we will leave her, to describe the end
+      of the government of the great Sancho Panza, flower and mirror of all
+      governors of islands.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p52e" id="p52e"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p52e.jpg (13K)" src="images/p52e.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      <a name="ch53b" id="ch53b"></a>CHAPTER LIII.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      OF THE TROUBLOUS END AND TERMINATION SANCHO PANZA'S GOVERNMENT CAME TO
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <a name="p53a" id="p53a"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p53a.jpg (109K)" src="images/p53a.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p53a.jpg"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br />
+      <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      To fancy that in this life anything belonging to it will remain for ever
+      in the same state is an idle fancy; on the contrary, in it everything
+      seems to go in a circle, I mean round and round. The spring succeeds the
+      summer, the summer the fall, the fall the autumn, the autumn the winter,
+      and the winter the spring, and so time rolls with never-ceasing wheel.
+      Man's life alone, swifter than time, speeds onward to its end without any
+      hope of renewal, save it be in that other life which is endless and
+      boundless. Thus saith Cide Hamete the Mahometan philosopher; for there are
+      many that by the light of nature alone, without the light of faith, have a
+      comprehension of the fleeting nature and instability of this present life
+      and the endless duration of that eternal life we hope for; but our author
+      is here speaking of the rapidity with which Sancho's government came to an
+      end, melted away, disappeared, vanished as it were in smoke and shadow.
+      For as he lay in bed on the night of the seventh day of his government,
+      sated, not with bread and wine, but with delivering judgments and giving
+      opinions and making laws and proclamations, just as sleep, in spite of
+      hunger, was beginning to close his eyelids, he heard such a noise of
+      bell-ringing and shouting that one would have fancied the whole island was
+      going to the bottom. He sat up in bed and remained listening intently to
+      try if he could make out what could be the cause of so great an uproar;
+      not only, however, was he unable to discover what it was, but as countless
+      drums and trumpets now helped to swell the din of the bells and shouts, he
+      was more puzzled than ever, and filled with fear and terror; and getting
+      up he put on a pair of slippers because of the dampness of the floor, and
+      without throwing a dressing gown or anything of the kind over him he
+      rushed out of the door of his room, just in time to see approaching along
+      a corridor a band of more than twenty persons with lighted torches and
+      naked swords in their hands, all shouting out, "To arms, to arms, senor
+      governor, to arms! The enemy is in the island in countless numbers, and we
+      are lost unless your skill and valour come to our support."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Keeping up this noise, tumult, and uproar, they came to where Sancho stood
+      dazed and bewildered by what he saw and heard, and as they approached one
+      of them called out to him, "Arm at once, your lordship, if you would not
+      have yourself destroyed and the whole island lost."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "What have I to do with arming?" said Sancho. "What do I know about arms
+      or supports? Better leave all that to my master Don Quixote, who will
+      settle it and make all safe in a trice; for I, sinner that I am, God help
+      me, don't understand these scuffles."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Ah, senor governor," said another, "what slackness of mettle this is! Arm
+      yourself; here are arms for you, offensive and defensive; come out to the
+      plaza and be our leader and captain; it falls upon you by right, for you
+      are our governor."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Arm me then, in God's name," said Sancho, and they at once produced two
+      large shields they had come provided with, and placed them upon him over
+      his shirt, without letting him put on anything else, one shield in front
+      and the other behind, and passing his arms through openings they had made,
+      they bound him tight with ropes, so that there he was walled and boarded
+      up as straight as a spindle and unable to bend his knees or stir a single
+      step. In his hand they placed a lance, on which he leant to keep himself
+      from falling, and as soon as they had him thus fixed they bade him march
+      forward and lead them on and give them all courage; for with him for their
+      guide and lamp and morning star, they were sure to bring their business to
+      a successful issue.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p53b" id="p53b"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p53b.jpg (332K)" src="images/p53b.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p53b.jpg"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br />
+      <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "How am I to march, unlucky being that I am?" said Sancho, "when I can't
+      stir my knee-caps, for these boards I have bound so tight to my body won't
+      let me. What you must do is carry me in your arms, and lay me across or
+      set me upright in some postern, and I'll hold it either with this lance or
+      with my body."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "On, senor governor!" cried another, "it is fear more than the boards that
+      keeps you from moving; make haste, stir yourself, for there is no time to
+      lose; the enemy is increasing in numbers, the shouts grow louder, and the
+      danger is pressing."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Urged by these exhortations and reproaches the poor governor made an
+      attempt to advance, but fell to the ground with such a crash that he
+      fancied he had broken himself all to pieces. There he lay like a tortoise
+      enclosed in its shell, or a side of bacon between two kneading-troughs, or
+      a boat bottom up on the beach; nor did the gang of jokers feel any
+      compassion for him when they saw him down; so far from that, extinguishing
+      their torches they began to shout afresh and to renew the calls to arms
+      with such energy, trampling on poor Sancho, and slashing at him over the
+      shield with their swords in such a way that, if he had not gathered
+      himself together and made himself small and drawn in his head between the
+      shields, it would have fared badly with the poor governor, as, squeezed
+      into that narrow compass, he lay, sweating and sweating again, and
+      commending himself with all his heart to God to deliver him from his
+      present peril. Some stumbled over him, others fell upon him, and one there
+      was who took up a position on top of him for some time, and from thence as
+      if from a watchtower issued orders to the troops, shouting out, "Here, our
+      side! Here the enemy is thickest! Hold the breach there! Shut that gate!
+      Barricade those ladders! Here with your stink-pots of pitch and resin, and
+      kettles of boiling oil! Block the streets with feather beds!" In short, in
+      his ardour he mentioned every little thing, and every implement and engine
+      of war by means of which an assault upon a city is warded off, while the
+      bruised and battered Sancho, who heard and suffered all, was saying to
+      himself, "O if it would only please the Lord to let the island be lost at
+      once, and I could see myself either dead or out of this torture!" Heaven
+      heard his prayer, and when he least expected it he heard voices
+      exclaiming, "Victory, victory! The enemy retreats beaten! Come, senor
+      governor, get up, and come and enjoy the victory, and divide the spoils
+      that have been won from the foe by the might of that invincible arm."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Lift me up," said the wretched Sancho in a woebegone voice. They helped
+      him to rise, and as soon as he was on his feet said, "The enemy I have
+      beaten you may nail to my forehead; I don't want to divide the spoils of
+      the foe, I only beg and entreat some friend, if I have one, to give me a
+      sup of wine, for I'm parched with thirst, and wipe me dry, for I'm turning
+      to water."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      They rubbed him down, fetched him wine and unbound the shields, and he
+      seated himself upon his bed, and with fear, agitation, and fatigue he
+      fainted away. Those who had been concerned in the joke were now sorry they
+      had pushed it so far; however, the anxiety his fainting away had caused
+      them was relieved by his returning to himself. He asked what o'clock it
+      was; they told him it was just daybreak. He said no more, and in silence
+      began to dress himself, while all watched him, waiting to see what the
+      haste with which he was putting on his clothes meant.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p53c" id="p53c"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p53c.jpg (389K)" src="images/p53c.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p53c.jpg"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br />
+      <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      He got himself dressed at last, and then, slowly, for he was sorely
+      bruised and could not go fast, he proceeded to the stable, followed by all
+      who were present, and going up to Dapple embraced him and gave him a
+      loving kiss on the forehead, and said to him, not without tears in his
+      eyes, "Come along, comrade and friend and partner of my toils and sorrows;
+      when I was with you and had no cares to trouble me except mending your
+      harness and feeding your little carcass, happy were my hours, my days, and
+      my years; but since I left you, and mounted the towers of ambition and
+      pride, a thousand miseries, a thousand troubles, and four thousand
+      anxieties have entered into my soul;" and all the while he was speaking in
+      this strain he was fixing the pack-saddle on the ass, without a word from
+      anyone. Then having Dapple saddled, he, with great pain and difficulty,
+      got up on him, and addressing himself to the majordomo, the secretary, the
+      head-carver, and Pedro Recio the doctor and several others who stood by,
+      he said, "Make way, gentlemen, and let me go back to my old freedom; let
+      me go look for my past life, and raise myself up from this present death.
+      I was not born to be a governor or protect islands or cities from the
+      enemies that choose to attack them. Ploughing and digging, vinedressing
+      and pruning, are more in my way than defending provinces or kingdoms.
+      'Saint Peter is very well at Rome; I mean each of us is best following the
+      trade he was born to. A reaping-hook fits my hand better than a governor's
+      sceptre; I'd rather have my fill of gazpacho' than be subject to the
+      misery of a meddling doctor who tortures me with hunger, and I'd rather lie in
+      summer under the shade of an oak, and in winter wrap myself in a double
+      sheepskin jacket in freedom, than go to bed between holland sheets and
+      dress in sables under the restraint of a government. God be with your
+      worships, and tell my lord the duke that 'naked I was born, naked I find
+      myself, I neither lose nor gain;' I mean that without a farthing I came
+      into this government, and without a farthing I go out of it, very
+      different from the way governors commonly leave other islands. Stand aside
+      and let me go; I have to plaster myself, for I believe every one of my
+      ribs is crushed, thanks to the enemies that have been trampling over me
+      to-night."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "That is unnecessary, senor governor," said Doctor Recio, "for I will give
+      your worship a draught against falls and bruises that will soon make you
+      as sound and strong as ever; and as for your diet I promise your worship
+      to behave better, and let you eat plentifully of whatever you like."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "You spoke late," said Sancho. "I'd as soon turn Turk as stay any longer.
+      Those jokes won't pass a second time. By God I'd as soon remain in this
+      government, or take another, even if it was offered me between two plates,
+      as fly to heaven without wings. I am of the breed of the Panzas, and they
+      are every one of them obstinate, and if they once say 'odds,' odds it must
+      be, no matter if it is evens, in spite of all the world. Here in this
+      stable I leave the ant's wings that lifted me up into the air for the
+      swifts and other birds to eat me, and let's take to level ground and our
+      feet once more; and if they're not shod in pinked shoes of cordovan, they
+      won't want for rough sandals of hemp; 'every ewe to her like,' 'and let no
+      one stretch his leg beyond the length of the sheet;' and now let me pass,
+      for it's growing late with me."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      To this the majordomo said, "Senor governor, we would let your worship go
+      with all our hearts, though it sorely grieves us to lose you, for your wit
+      and Christian conduct naturally make us regret you; but it is well known
+      that every governor, before he leaves the place where he has been
+      governing, is bound first of all to render an account. Let your worship do
+      so for the ten days you have held the government, and then you may go and
+      the peace of God go with you."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "No one can demand it of me," said Sancho, "but he whom my lord the duke
+      shall appoint; I am going to meet him, and to him I will render an exact
+      one; besides, when I go forth naked as I do, there is no other proof
+      needed to show that I have governed like an angel."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "By God the great Sancho is right," said Doctor Recio, "and we should let
+      him go, for the duke will be beyond measure glad to see him."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      They all agreed to this, and allowed him to go, first offering to bear him
+      company and furnish him with all he wanted for his own comfort or for the
+      journey. Sancho said he did not want anything more than a little barley
+      for Dapple, and half a cheese and half a loaf for himself; for the
+      distance being so short there was no occasion for any better or bulkier
+      provant. They all embraced him, and he with tears embraced all of them,
+      and left them filled with admiration not only at his remarks but at his
+      firm and sensible resolution.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p53e" id="p53e"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p53e.jpg (56K)" src="images/p53e.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      <a name="ch54b" id="ch54b"></a>CHAPTER LIV.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      WHICH DEALS WITH MATTERS RELATING TO THIS HISTORY AND NO OTHER
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <a name="p54a" id="p54a"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p54a.jpg (109K)" src="images/p54a.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p54a.jpg"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br />
+      <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      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!"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I don't understand what you want of me, good people," said Sancho.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      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."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      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?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      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 has
+      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?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "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."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      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&mdash;very
+      small ones of everything&mdash;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.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      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.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      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:
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "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.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "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."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      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."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "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."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "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."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "And what office is this thou hast given up, Sancho?" asked Ricote.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "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."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "And where is this island?" said Ricote.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Where?" said Sancho; "two leagues from here, and it is called the island
+      of Barataria."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Nonsense! Sancho," said Ricote; "islands are away out in the sea; there
+      are no islands on the mainland."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "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."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "And what hast thou gained by the government?" asked Ricote.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "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."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "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."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "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."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "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?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "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."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "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."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "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."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "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.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p54e" id="p54e"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p54e.jpg (40K)" src="images/p54e.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      <a name="ch55b" id="ch55b"></a>CHAPTER LV.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      OF WHAT BEFELL SANCHO ON THE ROAD, AND OTHER THINGS THAT CANNOT BE
+      SURPASSED
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <a name="p55a" id="p55a"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p55a.jpg (126K)" src="images/p55a.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p55a.jpg"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br />
+      <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      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."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p55b" id="p55b"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p55b.jpg (273K)" src="images/p55b.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p55b.jpg"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br />
+      <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      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."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      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.'"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      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.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      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?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      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?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "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?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      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."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "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."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "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."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "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."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      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.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "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."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "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."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      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."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      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."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "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."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "They'll be pretty sure this time," said Sancho, "to set me down for a
+      fool rather than a thief."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      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."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      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.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p55e" id="p55e"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p55e.jpg (18K)" src="images/p55e.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      <a name="ch56b" id="ch56b"></a>CHAPTER LVI.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      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
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <a name="p56a" id="p56a"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p56a.jpg (158K)" src="images/p56a.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p56a.jpg"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br />
+      <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      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.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      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.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      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."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      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."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      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.'"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      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?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "It is, senor," replied Tosilos.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "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."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      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!"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "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."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      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."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "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."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      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."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      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.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p56e" id="p56e"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p56e.jpg (46K)" src="images/p56e.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      <a name="ch57b" id="ch57b"></a>CHAPTER LVII.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      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
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <a name="p57a" id="p57a"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p57a.jpg (119K)" src="images/p57a.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p57a.jpg"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br />
+      <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      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.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p57b" id="p57b"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p57b.jpg (370K)" src="images/p57b.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p57b.jpg"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br />
+      <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      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&mdash;and that's no small matter&mdash;'naked I was born,
+      naked I find myself, I neither lose nor gain.'"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      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:
+    </p>
+<pre xml:space="preserve">
+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!
+
+</pre>
+    <p>
+      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?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      To this Sancho made answer, "The three kerchiefs I have; but the garters,
+      as much as 'over the hills of Ubeda.'"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      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."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "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."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "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."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "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."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "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."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      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.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p57e" id="p57e"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p57e.jpg (71K)" src="images/p57e.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      <a name="ch58b" id="ch58b"></a>CHAPTER LVIII.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      WHICH TELLS HOW ADVENTURES CAME CROWDING ON DON QUIXOTE IN SUCH NUMBERS
+      THAT THEY GAVE ONE ANOTHER NO BREATHING-TIME
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <a name="p58a" id="p58a"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p58a.jpg (105K)" src="images/p58a.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p58a.jpg"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br />
+      <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      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!"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "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."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      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."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "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."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "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."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      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."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "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.'"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      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."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      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."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      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."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "May God hear and sin be deaf," said Sancho to this.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      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.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      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!"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "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."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "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?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "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."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      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."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "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."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "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."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "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."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      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&mdash;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.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p58b" id="p58b"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p58b.jpg (452K)" src="images/p58b.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p58b.jpg"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br />
+      <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      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."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      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."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "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."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "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."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "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."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "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."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      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 game 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:
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "One of the greatest sins that men are guilty of is&mdash;some will say
+      pride&mdash;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."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      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?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      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.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      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."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      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!"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "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."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      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.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p58c" id="p58c"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p58c.jpg (399K)" src="images/p58c.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p58c.jpg"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br />
+      <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      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.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p58e" id="p58e"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p58e.jpg (68K)" src="images/p58e.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p58e.jpg"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br />
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      <a name="ch59b" id="ch59b"></a>CHAPTER LIX.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      WHEREIN IS RELATED THE STRANGE THING, WHICH MAY BE REGARDED AS AN
+      ADVENTURE, THAT HAPPENED DON QUIXOTE
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <a name="p59a" id="p59a"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p59a.jpg (126K)" src="images/p59a.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p59a.jpg"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br />
+      <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      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.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p59b" id="p59b"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p59b.jpg (370K)" src="images/p59b.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p59b.jpg"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br />
+      <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "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."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "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."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      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."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "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."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      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.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "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."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The landlord replied he had no chickens, for the kites had stolen them.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Well then," said Sancho, "let senor landlord tell them to roast a pullet,
+      so that it is a tender one."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "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."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "In that case," said Sancho, "you will not be without veal or kid."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "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."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "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."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "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."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "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."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "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."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "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."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "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."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "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."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      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.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      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.'"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The instant Don Quixote heard his own name he 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?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "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."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      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."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Who is this that answers us?" said they in the next room.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "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."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      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."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "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."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "From your talk, friend," said Don Jeronimo, "no doubt you are Sancho
+      Panza, Senor Don Quixote's squire."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Yes, I am," said Sancho; "and I'm proud of it."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "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."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "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.'"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      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.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      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?
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      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.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      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.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      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."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "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."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "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."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "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."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p60b" id="p60b"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p60b.jpg (336K)" src="images/p60b.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p60b.jpg"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br />
+      <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "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."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "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."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      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.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      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.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "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."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "You will do quite right," said Don Jeronimo; "and there are other jousts
+      at Barcelona in which Senor Don Quixote may display his prowess."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "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."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "And me too," said Sancho; "maybe I'll be good for something."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      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.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p59e" id="p59e"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p59e.jpg (48K)" src="images/p59e.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      <a name="ch60b" id="ch60b"></a>CHAPTER LX.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      OF WHAT HAPPENED DON QUIXOTE ON HIS WAY TO BARCELONA
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <a name="p60a" id="p60a"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p60a.jpg (129K)" src="images/p60a.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p60a.jpg"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br />
+      <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      It was a fresh morning giving promise of a cool day as Don Quixote quitted
+      the inn, first of all taking care to ascertain the most direct road to
+      Barcelona without touching upon Saragossa; so anxious was he to make out
+      this new historian, who they said abused him so, to be a liar. Well, as it
+      fell out, nothing worthy of being recorded happened him for six days, at
+      the end of which, having turned aside out of the road, he was overtaken by
+      night in a thicket of oak or cork trees; for on this point Cide Hamete is
+      not as precise as he usually is on other matters.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Master and man dismounted from their beasts, and as soon as they had
+      settled themselves at the foot of the trees, Sancho, who had had a good
+      noontide meal that day, let himself, without more ado, pass the gates of
+      sleep. But Don Quixote, whom his thoughts, far more than hunger, kept
+      awake, could not close an eye, and roamed in fancy to and fro through all
+      sorts of places. At one moment it seemed to him that he was in the cave of
+      Montesinos and saw Dulcinea, transformed into a country wench, skipping
+      and mounting upon her she-ass; again that the words of the sage Merlin
+      were sounding in his ears, setting forth the conditions to be observed and
+      the exertions to be made for the disenchantment of Dulcinea. He lost all
+      patience when he considered the laziness and want of charity of his squire
+      Sancho; for to the best of his belief he had only given himself five
+      lashes, a number paltry and disproportioned to the vast number required.
+      At this thought he felt such vexation and anger that he reasoned the
+      matter thus: "If Alexander the Great cut the Gordian knot, saying, 'To cut
+      comes to the same thing as to untie,' and yet did not fail to become lord
+      paramount of all Asia, neither more nor less could happen now in
+      Dulcinea's disenchantment if I scourge Sancho against his will; for, if it
+      is the condition of the remedy that Sancho shall receive three thousand
+      and odd lashes, what does it matter to me whether he inflicts them
+      himself, or some one else inflicts them, when the essential point is that
+      he receives them, let them come from whatever quarter they may?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      With this idea he went over to Sancho, having first taken Rocinante's
+      reins and arranged them so as to be able to flog him with them, and began
+      to untie the points (the common belief is he had but one in front) by
+      which his breeches were held up; but the instant he approached him Sancho
+      woke up in his full senses and cried out, "What is this? Who is touching
+      me and untrussing me?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "It is I," said Don Quixote, "and I come to make good thy shortcomings and
+      relieve my own distresses; I come to whip thee, Sancho, and wipe off some
+      portion of the debt thou hast undertaken. Dulcinea is perishing, thou art
+      living on regardless, I am dying of hope deferred; therefore untruss
+      thyself with a good will, for mine it is, here, in this retired spot, to
+      give thee at least two thousand lashes."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Not a bit of it," said Sancho; "let your worship keep quiet, or else by
+      the living God the deaf shall hear us; the lashes I pledged myself to must
+      be voluntary and not forced upon me, and just now I have no fancy to whip
+      myself; it is enough if I give you my word to flog and flap myself when I
+      have a mind."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "It will not do to leave it to thy courtesy, Sancho," said Don Quixote,
+      "for thou art hard of heart and, though a clown, tender of flesh;" and at
+      the same time he strove and struggled to untie him.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Seeing this Sancho got up, and grappling with his master he gripped him
+      with all his might in his arms, giving him a trip with the heel stretched
+      him on the ground on his back, and pressing his right knee on his chest
+      held his hands in his own so that he could neither move nor breathe.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "How now, traitor!" exclaimed Don Quixote. "Dost thou revolt against thy
+      master and natural lord? Dost thou rise against him who gives thee his
+      bread?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I neither put down king, nor set up king," said Sancho; "I only stand up
+      for myself who am my own lord; if your worship promises me to be quiet,
+      and not to offer to whip me now, I'll let you go free and unhindered; if
+      not&mdash;
+    </p>
+<pre xml:space="preserve">
+Traitor and Dona Sancha's foe,
+Thou diest on the spot."
+
+</pre>
+    <p>
+      Don Quixote gave his promise, and swore by the life of his thoughts not to
+      touch so much as a hair of his garments, and to leave him entirely free
+      and to his own discretion to whip himself whenever he pleased.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p60c" id="p60c"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p60c.jpg (250K)" src="images/p60c.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p60c.jpg"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br />
+      <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Sancho rose and removed some distance from the spot, but as he was about
+      to place himself leaning against another tree he felt something touch his
+      head, and putting up his hands encountered somebody's two feet with shoes
+      and stockings on them. He trembled with fear and made for another tree,
+      where the very same thing happened to him, and he fell a-shouting, calling
+      upon Don Quixote to come and protect him. Don Quixote did so, and asked
+      him what had happened to him, and what he was afraid of. Sancho replied
+      that all the trees were full of men's feet and legs. Don Quixote felt
+      them, and guessed at once what it was, and said to Sancho, "Thou hast
+      nothing to be afraid of, for these feet and legs that thou feelest but
+      canst not see belong no doubt to some outlaws and freebooters that have
+      been hanged on these trees; for the authorities in these parts are wont to
+      hang them up by twenties and thirties when they catch them; whereby I
+      conjecture that I must be near Barcelona;" and it was, in fact, as he
+      supposed; with the first light they looked up and saw that the fruit
+      hanging on those trees were freebooters' bodies.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      And now day dawned; and if the dead freebooters had scared them, their
+      hearts were no less troubled by upwards of forty living ones, who all of a
+      sudden surrounded them, and in the Catalan tongue bade them stand and wait
+      until their captain came up. Don Quixote was on foot with his horse
+      unbridled and his lance leaning against a tree, and in short completely
+      defenceless; he thought it best therefore to fold his arms and bow his
+      head and reserve himself for a more favourable occasion and opportunity.
+      The robbers made haste to search Dapple, and did not leave him a single
+      thing of all he carried in the alforjas and in the valise; and lucky it
+      was for Sancho that the duke's crowns and those he brought from home were
+      in a girdle that he wore round him; but for all that these good folk would
+      have stripped him, and even looked to see what he had hidden between the
+      skin and flesh, but for the arrival at that moment of their captain, who
+      was about thirty-four years of age apparently, strongly built, above the
+      middle height, of stern aspect and swarthy complexion. He was mounted upon
+      a powerful horse, and had on a coat of mail, with four of the pistols they
+      call petronels in that country at his waist. He saw that his squires (for
+      so they call those who follow that trade) were about to rifle Sancho
+      Panza, but he ordered them to desist and was at once obeyed, so the girdle
+      escaped. He wondered to see the lance leaning against the tree, the shield
+      on the ground, and Don Quixote in armour and dejected, with the saddest
+      and most melancholy face that sadness itself could produce; and going up
+      to him he said, "Be not so cast down, good man, for you have not fallen
+      into the hands of any inhuman Busiris, but into Roque Guinart's, which are
+      more merciful than cruel."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "The cause of my dejection," returned Don Quixote, "is not that I have
+      fallen into thy hands, O valiant Roque, whose fame is bounded by no limits
+      on earth, but that my carelessness should have been so great that thy
+      soldiers should have caught me unbridled, when it is my duty, according to
+      the rule of knight-errantry which I profess, to be always on the alert and
+      at all times my own sentinel; for let me tell thee, great Roque, had they
+      found me on my horse, with my lance and shield, it would not have been
+      very easy for them to reduce me to submission, for I am Don Quixote of La
+      Mancha, he who hath filled the whole world with his achievements."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Roque Guinart at once perceived that Don Quixote's weakness was more akin
+      to madness than to swagger; and though he had sometimes heard him spoken
+      of, he never regarded the things attributed to him as true, nor could he
+      persuade himself that such a humour could become dominant in the heart of
+      man; he was extremely glad, therefore, to meet him and test at close
+      quarters what he had heard of him at a distance; so he said to him,
+      "Despair not, valiant knight, nor regard as an untoward fate the position
+      in which thou findest thyself; it may be that by these slips thy crooked
+      fortune will make itself straight; for heaven by strange circuitous ways,
+      mysterious and incomprehensible to man, raises up the fallen and makes
+      rich the poor."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Don Quixote was about to thank him, when they heard behind them a noise as
+      of a troop of horses; there was, however, but one, riding on which at a
+      furious pace came a youth, apparently about twenty years of age, clad in
+      green damask edged with gold and breeches and a loose frock, with a hat
+      looped up in the Walloon fashion, tight-fitting polished boots, gilt
+      spurs, dagger and sword, and in his hand a musketoon, and a pair of
+      pistols at his waist.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Roque turned round at the noise and perceived this comely figure, which
+      drawing near thus addressed him, "I came in quest of thee, valiant Roque,
+      to find in thee if not a remedy at least relief in my misfortune; and not
+      to keep thee in suspense, for I see thou dost not recognise me, I will
+      tell thee who I am; I am Claudia Jeronima, the daughter of Simon Forte,
+      thy good friend, and special enemy of Clauquel Torrellas, who is thine
+      also as being of the faction opposed to thee. Thou knowest that this
+      Torrellas has a son who is called, or at least was not two hours since,
+      Don Vicente Torrellas. Well, to cut short the tale of my misfortune, I
+      will tell thee in a few words what this youth has brought upon me. He saw
+      me, he paid court to me, I listened to him, and, unknown to my father, I
+      loved him; for there is no woman, however secluded she may live or close
+      she may be kept, who will not have opportunities and to spare for
+      following her headlong impulses. In a word, he pledged himself to be mine,
+      and I promised to be his, without carrying matters any further. Yesterday
+      I learned that, forgetful of his pledge to me, he was about to marry
+      another, and that he was to go this morning to plight his troth,
+      intelligence which overwhelmed and exasperated me; my father not being at
+      home I was able to adopt this costume you see, and urging my horse to
+      speed I overtook Don Vicente about a league from this, and without waiting
+      to utter reproaches or hear excuses I fired this musket at him, and these
+      two pistols besides, and to the best of my belief I must have lodged more
+      than two bullets in his body, opening doors to let my honour go free,
+      enveloped in his blood. I left him there in the hands of his servants, who
+      did not dare and were not able to interfere in his defence, and I come to
+      seek from thee a safe-conduct into France, where I have relatives with
+      whom I can live; and also to implore thee to protect my father, so that
+      Don Vicente's numerous kinsmen may not venture to wreak their lawless
+      vengeance upon him."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Roque, filled with admiration at the gallant bearing, high spirit, comely
+      figure, and adventure of the fair Claudia, said to her, "Come, senora, let
+      us go and see if thy enemy is dead; and then we will consider what will be
+      best for thee." Don Quixote, who had been listening to what Claudia said
+      and Roque Guinart said in reply to her, exclaimed, "Nobody need trouble
+      himself with the defence of this lady, for I take it upon myself. Give me
+      my horse and arms, and wait for me here; I will go in quest of this
+      knight, and dead or alive I will make him keep his word plighted to so
+      great beauty."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Nobody need have any doubt about that," said Sancho, "for my master has a
+      very happy knack of matchmaking; it's not many days since he forced
+      another man to marry, who in the same way backed out of his promise to
+      another maiden; and if it had not been for his persecutors the enchanters
+      changing the man's proper shape into a lacquey's the said maiden would not
+      be one this minute."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Roque, who was paying more attention to the fair Claudia's adventure than
+      to the words of master or man, did not hear them; and ordering his squires
+      to restore to Sancho everything they had stripped Dapple of, he directed
+      them to return to the place where they had been quartered during the
+      night, and then set off with Claudia at full speed in search of the
+      wounded or slain Don Vicente. They reached the spot where Claudia met him,
+      but found nothing there save freshly spilt blood; looking all round,
+      however, they descried some people on the slope of a hill above them, and
+      concluded, as indeed it proved to be, that it was Don Vicente, whom either
+      dead or alive his servants were removing to attend to his wounds or to
+      bury him. They made haste to overtake them, which, as the party moved
+      slowly, they were able to do with ease. They found Don Vicente in the arms
+      of his servants, whom he was entreating in a broken feeble voice to leave
+      him there to die, as the pain of his wounds would not suffer him to go any
+      farther. Claudia and Roque threw themselves off their horses and advanced
+      towards him; the servants were overawed by the appearance of Roque, and
+      Claudia was moved by the sight of Don Vicente, and going up to him half
+      tenderly half sternly, she seized his hand and said to him, "Hadst thou
+      given me this according to our compact thou hadst never come to this
+      pass."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The wounded gentleman opened his all but closed eyes, and recognising
+      Claudia said, "I see clearly, fair and mistaken lady, that it is thou that
+      hast slain me, a punishment not merited or deserved by my feelings towards
+      thee, for never did I mean to, nor could I, wrong thee in thought or
+      deed."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "It is not true, then," said Claudia, "that thou wert going this morning
+      to marry Leonora the daughter of the rich Balvastro?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Assuredly not," replied Don Vicente; "my cruel fortune must have carried
+      those tidings to thee to drive thee in thy jealousy to take my life; and
+      to assure thyself of this, press my hands and take me for thy husband if
+      thou wilt; I have no better satisfaction to offer thee for the wrong thou
+      fanciest thou hast received from me."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Claudia wrung his hands, and her own heart was so wrung that she lay
+      fainting on the bleeding breast of Don Vicente, whom a death spasm seized
+      the same instant. Roque was in perplexity and knew not what to do; the
+      servants ran to fetch water to sprinkle their faces, and brought some and
+      bathed them with it. Claudia recovered from her fainting fit, but not so
+      Don Vicente from the paroxysm that had overtaken him, for his life had
+      come to an end. On perceiving this, Claudia, when she had convinced
+      herself that her beloved husband was no more, rent the air with her sighs
+      and made the heavens ring with her lamentations; she tore her hair and
+      scattered it to the winds, she beat her face with her hands and showed all
+      the signs of grief and sorrow that could be conceived to come from an
+      afflicted heart. "Cruel, reckless woman!" she cried, "how easily wert thou
+      moved to carry out a thought so wicked! O furious force of jealousy, to
+      what desperate lengths dost thou lead those that give thee lodging in
+      their bosoms! O husband, whose unhappy fate in being mine hath borne thee
+      from the marriage bed to the grave!"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      So vehement and so piteous were the lamentations of Claudia that they drew
+      tears from Roque's eyes, unused as they were to shed them on any occasion.
+      The servants wept, Claudia swooned away again and again, and the whole
+      place seemed a field of sorrow and an abode of misfortune. In the end
+      Roque Guinart directed Don Vicente's servants to carry his body to his
+      father's village, which was close by, for burial. Claudia told him she
+      meant to go to a monastery of which an aunt of hers was abbess, where she
+      intended to pass her life with a better and everlasting spouse. He
+      applauded her pious resolution, and offered to accompany her whithersoever
+      she wished, and to protect her father against the kinsmen of Don Vicente
+      and all the world, should they seek to injure him. Claudia would not on
+      any account allow him to accompany her; and thanking him for his offers as
+      well as she could, took leave of him in tears. The servants of Don Vicente
+      carried away his body, and Roque returned to his comrades, and so ended
+      the love of Claudia Jeronima; but what wonder, when it was the insuperable
+      and cruel might of jealousy that wove the web of her sad story?
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p60d" id="p60d"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p60d.jpg (439K)" src="images/p60d.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p60d.jpg"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br />
+      <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Roque Guinart found his squires at the place to which he had ordered them,
+      and Don Quixote on Rocinante in the midst of them delivering a harangue to
+      them in which he urged them to give up a mode of life so full of peril, as
+      well to the soul as to the body; but as most of them were Gascons, rough
+      lawless fellows, his speech did not make much impression on them. Roque on
+      coming up asked Sancho if his men had returned and restored to him the
+      treasures and jewels they had stripped off Dapple. Sancho said they had,
+      but that three kerchiefs that were worth three cities were missing.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "What are you talking about, man?" said one of the bystanders; "I have got
+      them, and they are not worth three reals."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "That is true," said Don Quixote; "but my squire values them at the rate
+      he says, as having been given me by the person who gave them."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Roque Guinart ordered them to be restored at once; and making his men fall
+      in in line he directed all the clothing, jewellery, and money that they
+      had taken since the last distribution to be produced; and making a hasty
+      valuation, and reducing what could not be divided into money, he made
+      shares for the whole band so equitably and carefully, that in no case did
+      he exceed or fall short of strict distributive justice.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      When this had been done, and all left satisfied, Roque observed to Don
+      Quixote, "If this scrupulous exactness were not observed with these
+      fellows there would be no living with them."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Upon this Sancho remarked, "From what I have seen here, justice is such a
+      good thing that there is no doing without it, even among the thieves
+      themselves."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      One of the squires heard this, and raising the butt-end of his harquebuss
+      would no doubt have broken Sancho's head with it had not Roque Guinart
+      called out to him to hold his hand. Sancho was frightened out of his wits,
+      and vowed not to open his lips so long as he was in the company of these
+      people.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      At this instant one or two of those squires who were posted as sentinels
+      on the roads, to watch who came along them and report what passed to their
+      chief, came up and said, "Senor, there is a great troop of people not far
+      off coming along the road to Barcelona."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      To which Roque replied, "Hast thou made out whether they are of the sort
+      that are after us, or of the sort we are after?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "The sort we are after," said the squire.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Well then, away with you all," said Roque, "and bring them here to me at
+      once without letting one of them escape."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p60e" id="p60e"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p60e.jpg (420K)" src="images/p60e.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p60e.jpg"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br />
+      <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      They obeyed, and Don Quixote, Sancho, and Roque, left by themselves,
+      waited to see what the squires brought, and while they were waiting Roque
+      said to Don Quixote, "It must seem a strange sort of life to Senor Don
+      Quixote, this of ours, strange adventures, strange incidents, and all full
+      of danger; and I do not wonder that it should seem so, for in truth I must
+      own there is no mode of life more restless or anxious than ours. What led
+      me into it was a certain thirst for vengeance, which is strong enough to
+      disturb the quietest hearts. I am by nature tender-hearted and kindly,
+      but, as I said, the desire to revenge myself for a wrong that was done me
+      so overturns all my better impulses that I keep on in this way of life in
+      spite of what conscience tells me; and as one depth calls to another, and
+      one sin to another sin, revenges have linked themselves together, and I
+      have taken upon myself not only my own but those of others: it pleases
+      God, however, that, though I see myself in this maze of entanglements, I
+      do not lose all hope of escaping from it and reaching a safe port."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Don Quixote was amazed to hear Roque utter such excellent and just
+      sentiments, for he did not think that among those who followed such trades
+      as robbing, murdering, and waylaying, there could be anyone capable of a
+      virtuous thought, and he said in reply, "Senor Roque, the beginning of
+      health lies in knowing the disease and in the sick man's willingness to
+      take the medicines which the physician prescribes; you are sick, you know
+      what ails you, and heaven, or more properly speaking God, who is our
+      physician, will administer medicines that will cure you, and cure
+      gradually, and not of a sudden or by a miracle; besides, sinners of
+      discernment are nearer amendment than those who are fools; and as your
+      worship has shown good sense in your remarks, all you have to do is to
+      keep up a good heart and trust that the weakness of your conscience will
+      be strengthened. And if you have any desire to shorten the journey and put
+      yourself easily in the way of salvation, come with me, and I will show you
+      how to become a knight-errant, a calling wherein so many hardships and
+      mishaps are encountered that if they be taken as penances they will lodge
+      you in heaven in a trice."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Roque laughed at Don Quixote's exhortation, and changing the conversation
+      he related the tragic affair of Claudia Jeronima, at which Sancho was
+      extremely grieved; for he had not found the young woman's beauty,
+      boldness, and spirit at all amiss.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      And now the squires despatched to make the prize came up, bringing with
+      them two gentlemen on horseback, two pilgrims on foot, and a coach full of
+      women with some six servants on foot and on horseback in attendance on
+      them, and a couple of muleteers whom the gentlemen had with them. The
+      squires made a ring round them, both victors and vanquished maintaining
+      profound silence, waiting for the great Roque Guinart to speak. He asked
+      the gentlemen who they were, whither they were going, and what money they
+      carried with them; "Senor," replied one of them, "we are two captains of
+      Spanish infantry; our companies are at Naples, and we are on our way to
+      embark in four galleys which they say are at Barcelona under orders for
+      Sicily; and we have about two or three hundred crowns, with which we are,
+      according to our notions, rich and contented, for a soldier's poverty does
+      not allow a more extensive hoard."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Roque asked the pilgrims the same questions he had put to the captains,
+      and was answered that they were going to take ship for Rome, and that
+      between them they might have about sixty reals. He asked also who was in
+      the coach, whither they were bound and what money they had, and one of the
+      men on horseback replied, "The persons in the coach are my lady Dona
+      Guiomar de Quinones, wife of the regent of the Vicaria at Naples, her
+      little daughter, a handmaid and a duenna; we six servants are in
+      attendance upon her, and the money amounts to six hundred crowns."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "So then," said Roque Guinart, "we have got here nine hundred crowns and
+      sixty reals; my soldiers must number some sixty; see how much there falls
+      to each, for I am a bad arithmetician." As soon as the robbers heard this
+      they raised a shout of "Long life to Roque Guinart, in spite of the
+      lladres that seek his ruin!"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The captains showed plainly the concern they felt, the regent's lady was
+      downcast, and the pilgrims did not at all enjoy seeing their property
+      confiscated. Roque kept them in suspense in this way for a while; but he
+      had no desire to prolong their distress, which might be seen a bowshot
+      off, and turning to the captains he said, "Sirs, will your worships be
+      pleased of your courtesy to lend me sixty crowns, and her ladyship the
+      regent's wife eighty, to satisfy this band that follows me, for 'it is by
+      his singing the abbot gets his dinner;' and then you may at once proceed
+      on your journey, free and unhindered, with a safe-conduct which I shall
+      give you, so that if you come across any other bands of mine that I have
+      scattered in these parts, they may do you no harm; for I have no intention
+      of doing injury to soldiers, or to any woman, especially one of quality."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Profuse and hearty were the expressions of gratitude with which the
+      captains thanked Roque for his courtesy and generosity; for such they
+      regarded his leaving them their own money. Senora Dona Guiomar de Quinones
+      wanted to throw herself out of the coach to kiss the feet and hands of the
+      great Roque, but he would not suffer it on any account; so far from that,
+      he begged her pardon for the wrong he had done her under pressure of the
+      inexorable necessities of his unfortunate calling. The regent's lady
+      ordered one of her servants to give the eighty crowns that had been
+      assessed as her share at once, for the captains had already paid down
+      their sixty. The pilgrims were about to give up the whole of their little
+      hoard, but Roque bade them keep quiet, and turning to his men he said, "Of
+      these crowns two fall to each man and twenty remain over; let ten be given
+      to these pilgrims, and the other ten to this worthy squire that he may be
+      able to speak favourably of this adventure;" and then having writing
+      materials, with which he always went provided, brought to him, he gave
+      them in writing a safe-conduct to the leaders of his bands; and bidding
+      them farewell let them go free and filled with admiration at his
+      magnanimity, his generous disposition, and his unusual conduct, and
+      inclined to regard him as an Alexander the Great rather than a notorious
+      robber.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      One of the squires observed in his mixture of Gascon and Catalan, "This
+      captain of ours would make a better friar than highwayman; if he wants to
+      be so generous another time, let it be with his own property and not
+      ours."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p60f" id="p60f"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p60f.jpg (426K)" src="images/p60f.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p60f.jpg"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br />
+      <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The unlucky wight did not speak so low but that Roque overheard him, and
+      drawing his sword almost split his head in two, saying, "That is the way I
+      punish impudent saucy fellows." They were all taken aback, and not one of
+      them dared to utter a word, such deference did they pay him. Roque then
+      withdrew to one side and wrote a letter to a friend of his at Barcelona,
+      telling him that the famous Don Quixote of La Mancha, the knight-errant of
+      whom there was so much talk, was with him, and was, he assured him, the
+      drollest and wisest man in the world; and that in four days from that
+      date, that is to say, on Saint John the Baptist's Day, he was going to
+      deposit him in full armour mounted on his horse Rocinante, together with
+      his squire Sancho on an ass, in the middle of the strand of the city; and
+      bidding him give notice of this to his friends the Niarros, that they
+      might divert themselves with him. He wished, he said, his enemies the
+      Cadells could be deprived of this pleasure; but that was impossible,
+      because the crazes and shrewd sayings of Don Quixote and the humours of
+      his squire Sancho Panza could not help giving general pleasure to all the
+      world. He despatched the letter by one of his squires, who, exchanging the
+      costume of a highwayman for that of a peasant, made his way into Barcelona
+      and gave it to the person to whom it was directed.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p60g" id="p60g"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p60g.jpg (42K)" src="images/p60g.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      <a name="ch61b" id="ch61b"></a>CHAPTER LXI.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      OF WHAT HAPPENED DON QUIXOTE ON ENTERING BARCELONA, TOGETHER WITH OTHER
+      MATTERS THAT PARTAKE OF THE TRUE RATHER THAN OF THE INGENIOUS
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <a name="p61a" id="p61a"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p61a.jpg (143K)" src="images/p61a.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p61a.jpg"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br />
+      <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Don Quixote passed three days and three nights with Roque, and had he
+      passed three hundred years he would have found enough to observe and
+      wonder at in his mode of life. At daybreak they were in one spot, at
+      dinner-time in another; sometimes they fled without knowing from whom, at
+      other times they lay in wait, not knowing for what. They slept standing,
+      breaking their slumbers to shift from place to place. There was nothing
+      but sending out spies and scouts, posting sentinels and blowing the
+      matches of harquebusses, though they carried but few, for almost all used
+      flintlocks. Roque passed his nights in some place or other apart from his
+      men, that they might not know where he was, for the many proclamations the
+      viceroy of Barcelona had issued against his life kept him in fear and
+      uneasiness, and he did not venture to trust anyone, afraid that even his
+      own men would kill him or deliver him up to the authorities; of a truth, a
+      weary miserable life! At length, by unfrequented roads, short cuts, and
+      secret paths, Roque, Don Quixote, and Sancho, together with six squires,
+      set out for Barcelona. They reached the strand on Saint John's Eve during
+      the night; and Roque, after embracing Don Quixote and Sancho (to whom he
+      presented the ten crowns he had promised but had not until then given),
+      left them with many expressions of good-will on both sides.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Roque went back, while Don Quixote remained on horseback, just as he was,
+      waiting for day, and it was not long before the countenance of the fair
+      Aurora began to show itself at the balconies of the east, gladdening the
+      grass and flowers, if not the ear, though to gladden that too there came
+      at the same moment a sound of clarions and drums, and a din of bells, and
+      a tramp, tramp, and cries of "Clear the way there!" of some runners, that
+      seemed to issue from the city.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p61b" id="p61b"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p61b.jpg (271K)" src="images/p61b.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p61b.jpg"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br />
+      <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The dawn made way for the sun that with a face broader than a buckler
+      began to rise slowly above the low line of the horizon; Don Quixote and
+      Sancho gazed all round them; they beheld the sea, a sight until then
+      unseen by them; it struck them as exceedingly spacious and broad, much
+      more so than the lakes of Ruidera which they had seen in La Mancha. They
+      saw the galleys along the beach, which, lowering their awnings, displayed
+      themselves decked with streamers and pennons that trembled in the breeze
+      and kissed and swept the water, while on board the bugles, trumpets, and
+      clarions were sounding and filling the air far and near with melodious
+      warlike notes. Then they began to move and execute a kind of skirmish upon
+      the calm water, while a vast number of horsemen on fine horses and in
+      showy liveries, issuing from the city, engaged on their side in a somewhat
+      similar movement. The soldiers on board the galleys kept up a ceaseless
+      fire, which they on the walls and forts of the city returned, and the
+      heavy cannon rent the air with the tremendous noise they made, to which
+      the gangway guns of the galleys replied. The bright sea, the smiling
+      earth, the clear air&mdash;though at times darkened by the smoke of the
+      guns&mdash;all seemed to fill the whole multitude with unexpected delight.
+      Sancho could not make out how it was that those great masses that moved
+      over the sea had so many feet.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      And now the horsemen in livery came galloping up with shouts and
+      outlandish cries and cheers to where Don Quixote stood amazed and
+      wondering; and one of them, he to whom Roque had sent word, addressing him
+      exclaimed, "Welcome to our city, mirror, beacon, star and cynosure of all
+      knight-errantry in its widest extent! Welcome, I say, valiant Don Quixote
+      of La Mancha; not the false, the fictitious, the apocryphal, that these
+      latter days have offered us in lying histories, but the true, the
+      legitimate, the real one that Cide Hamete Benengeli, flower of historians,
+      has described to us!"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Don Quixote made no answer, nor did the horsemen wait for one, but
+      wheeling again with all their followers, they began curvetting round Don
+      Quixote, who, turning to Sancho, said, "These gentlemen have plainly
+      recognised us; I will wager they have read our history, and even that
+      newly printed one by the Aragonese."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The cavalier who had addressed Don Quixote again approached him and said,
+      "Come with us, Senor Don Quixote, for we are all of us your servants and
+      great friends of Roque Guinart's;" to which Don Quixote returned, "If
+      courtesy breeds courtesy, yours, sir knight, is daughter or very nearly
+      akin to the great Roque's; carry me where you please; I will have no will
+      but yours, especially if you deign to employ it in your service."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p61c" id="p61c"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p61c.jpg (448K)" src="images/p61c.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p61c.jpg"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br />
+      <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The cavalier replied with words no less polite, and then, all closing in
+      around him, they set out with him for the city, to the music of the
+      clarions and the drums. As they were entering it, the wicked one, who is
+      the author of all mischief, and the boys who are wickeder than the wicked
+      one, contrived that a couple of these audacious irrepressible urchins
+      should force their way through the crowd, and lifting up, one of them
+      Dapple's tail and the other Rocinante's, insert a bunch of furze under
+      each. The poor beasts felt the strange spurs and added to their anguish by
+      pressing their tails tight, so much so that, cutting a multitude of
+      capers, they flung their masters to the ground. Don Quixote, covered with
+      shame and out of countenance, ran to pluck the plume from his poor jade's
+      tail, while Sancho did the same for Dapple. His conductors tried to punish
+      the audacity of the boys, but there was no possibility of doing so, for
+      they hid themselves among the hundreds of others that were following them.
+      Don Quixote and Sancho mounted once more, and with the same music and
+      acclamations reached their conductor's house, which was large and stately,
+      that of a rich gentleman, in short; and there for the present we will
+      leave them, for such is Cide Hamete's pleasure.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p61e" id="p61e"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p61e.jpg (32K)" src="images/p61e.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      <a name="ch62b" id="ch62b"></a>CHAPTER LXII.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      WHICH DEALS WITH THE ADVENTURE OF THE ENCHANTED HEAD, TOGETHER WITH OTHER
+      TRIVIAL MATTERS WHICH CANNOT BE LEFT UNTOLD
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <a name="p62a" id="p62a"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p62a.jpg (156K)" src="images/p62a.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p62a.jpg"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br />
+      <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Don Quixote's host was one Don Antonio Moreno by name, a gentleman of
+      wealth and intelligence, and very fond of diverting himself in any fair
+      and good-natured way; and having Don Quixote in his house he set about
+      devising modes of making him exhibit his mad points in some harmless
+      fashion; for jests that give pain are no jests, and no sport is worth
+      anything if it hurts another. The first thing he did was to make Don
+      Quixote take off his armour, and lead him, in that tight chamois suit we
+      have already described and depicted more than once, out on a balcony
+      overhanging one of the chief streets of the city, in full view of the
+      crowd and of the boys, who gazed at him as they would at a monkey. The
+      cavaliers in livery careered before him again as though it were for him
+      alone, and not to enliven the festival of the day, that they wore it, and
+      Sancho was in high delight, for it seemed to him that, how he knew not, he
+      had fallen upon another Camacho's wedding, another house like Don Diego de
+      Miranda's, another castle like the duke's. Some of Don Antonio's friends
+      dined with him that day, and all showed honour to Don Quixote and treated
+      him as a knight-errant, and he becoming puffed up and exalted in
+      consequence could not contain himself for satisfaction. Such were the
+      drolleries of Sancho that all the servants of the house, and all who heard
+      him, were kept hanging upon his lips. While at table Don Antonio said to
+      him, "We hear, worthy Sancho, that you are so fond of manjar blanco and
+      forced-meat balls, that if you have any left, you keep them in your bosom
+      for the next day."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "No, senor, that's not true," said Sancho, "for I am more cleanly than
+      greedy, and my master Don Quixote here knows well that we two are used to
+      live for a week on a handful of acorns or nuts. To be sure, if it so
+      happens that they offer me a heifer, I run with a halter; I mean, I eat
+      what I'm given, and make use of opportunities as I find them; but whoever
+      says that I'm an out-of-the-way eater or not cleanly, let me tell him that
+      he is wrong; and I'd put it in a different way if I did not respect the
+      honourable beards that are at the table."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Indeed," said Don Quixote, "Sancho's moderation and cleanliness in eating
+      might be inscribed and graved on plates of brass, to be kept in eternal
+      remembrance in ages to come. It is true that when he is hungry there is a
+      certain appearance of voracity about him, for he eats at a great pace and
+      chews with both jaws; but cleanliness he is always mindful of; and when he
+      was governor he learned how to eat daintily, so much so that he eats
+      grapes, and even pomegranate pips, with a fork."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "What!" said Don Antonio, "has Sancho been a governor?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Ay," said Sancho, "and of an island called Barataria. I governed it to
+      perfection for ten days; and lost my rest all the time; and learned to
+      look down upon all the governments in the world; I got out of it by taking
+      to flight, and fell into a pit where I gave myself up for dead, and out of
+      which I escaped alive by a miracle."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Don Quixote then gave them a minute account of the whole affair of
+      Sancho's government, with which he greatly amused his hearers.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      On the cloth being removed Don Antonio, taking Don Quixote by the hand,
+      passed with him into a distant room in which there was nothing in the way
+      of furniture except a table, apparently of jasper, resting on a pedestal
+      of the same, upon which was set up, after the fashion of the busts of the
+      Roman emperors, a head which seemed to be of bronze. Don Antonio traversed
+      the whole apartment with Don Quixote and walked round the table several
+      times, and then said, "Now, Senor Don Quixote, that I am satisfied that no
+      one is listening to us, and that the door is shut, I will tell you of one
+      of the rarest adventures, or more properly speaking strange things, that
+      can be imagined, on condition that you will keep what I say to you in the
+      remotest recesses of secrecy."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I swear it," said Don Quixote, "and for greater security I will put a
+      flag-stone over it; for I would have you know, Senor Don Antonio" (he had
+      by this time learned his name), "that you are addressing one who, though
+      he has ears to hear, has no tongue to speak; so that you may safely
+      transfer whatever you have in your bosom into mine, and rely upon it that
+      you have consigned it to the depths of silence."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "In reliance upon that promise," said Don Antonio, "I will astonish you
+      with what you shall see and hear, and relieve myself of some of the
+      vexation it gives me to have no one to whom I can confide my secrets, for
+      they are not of a sort to be entrusted to everybody."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Don Quixote was puzzled, wondering what could be the object of such
+      precautions; whereupon Don Antonio taking his hand passed it over the
+      bronze head and the whole table and the pedestal of jasper on which it
+      stood, and then said, "This head, Senor Don Quixote, has been made and
+      fabricated by one of the greatest magicians and wizards the world ever
+      saw, a Pole, I believe, by birth, and a pupil of the famous Escotillo of
+      whom such marvellous stories are told. He was here in my house, and for a
+      consideration of a thousand crowns that I gave him he constructed this
+      head, which has the property and virtue of answering whatever questions
+      are put to its ear. He observed the points of the compass, he traced
+      figures, he studied the stars, he watched favourable moments, and at
+      length brought it to the perfection we shall see to-morrow, for on Fridays
+      it is mute, and this being Friday we must wait till the next day. In the
+      interval your worship may consider what you would like to ask it; and I
+      know by experience that in all its answers it tells the truth."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Don Quixote was amazed at the virtue and property of the head, and was
+      inclined to disbelieve Don Antonio; but seeing what a short time he had to
+      wait to test the matter, he did not choose to say anything except that he
+      thanked him for having revealed to him so mighty a secret. They then
+      quitted the room, Don Antonio locked the door, and they repaired to the
+      chamber where the rest of the gentlemen were assembled. In the meantime
+      Sancho had recounted to them several of the adventures and accidents that
+      had happened his master.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      That afternoon they took Don Quixote out for a stroll, not in his armour
+      but in street costume, with a surcoat of tawny cloth upon him, that at
+      that season would have made ice itself sweat. Orders were left with the
+      servants to entertain Sancho so as not to let him leave the house. Don
+      Quixote was mounted, not on Rocinante, but upon a tall mule of easy pace
+      and handsomely caparisoned. They put the surcoat on him, and on the back,
+      without his perceiving it, they stitched a parchment on which they wrote
+      in large letters, "This is Don Quixote of La Mancha." As they set out upon
+      their excursion the placard attracted the eyes of all who chanced to see
+      him, and as they read out, "This is Don Quixote of La Mancha," Don Quixote
+      was amazed to see how many people gazed at him, called him by his name,
+      and recognised him, and turning to Don Antonio, who rode at his side, he
+      observed to him, "Great are the privileges knight-errantry involves, for
+      it makes him who professes it known and famous in every region of the
+      earth; see, Don Antonio, even the very boys of this city know me without
+      ever having seen me."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "True, Senor Don Quixote," returned Don Antonio; "for as fire cannot be
+      hidden or kept secret, virtue cannot escape being recognised; and that
+      which is attained by the profession of arms shines distinguished above all
+      others."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      It came to pass, however, that as Don Quixote was proceeding amid the
+      acclamations that have been described, a Castilian, reading the
+      inscription on his back, cried out in a loud voice, "The devil take thee
+      for a Don Quixote of La Mancha! What! art thou here, and not dead of the
+      countless drubbings that have fallen on thy ribs? Thou art mad; and if
+      thou wert so by thyself, and kept thyself within thy madness, it would not
+      be so bad; but thou hast the gift of making fools and blockheads of all
+      who have anything to do with thee or say to thee. Why, look at these
+      gentlemen bearing thee company! Get thee home, blockhead, and see after
+      thy affairs, and thy wife and children, and give over these fooleries that
+      are sapping thy brains and skimming away thy wits."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Go your own way, brother," said Don Antonio, "and don't offer advice to
+      those who don't ask you for it. Senor Don Quixote is in his full senses,
+      and we who bear him company are not fools; virtue is to be honoured
+      wherever it may be found; go, and bad luck to you, and don't meddle where
+      you are not wanted."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "By God, your worship is right," replied the Castilian; "for to advise
+      this good man is to kick against the pricks; still for all that it fills
+      me with pity that the sound wit they say the blockhead has in everything
+      should dribble away by the channel of his knight-errantry; but may the bad
+      luck your worship talks of follow me and all my descendants, if, from this
+      day forth, though I should live longer than Methuselah, I ever give advice
+      to anybody even if he asks me for it."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The advice-giver took himself off, and they continued their stroll; but so
+      great was the press of the boys and people to read the placard, that Don
+      Antonio was forced to remove it as if he were taking off something else.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p62b" id="p62b"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p62b.jpg (373K)" src="images/p62b.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p62b.jpg"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br />
+      <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Night came and they went home, and there was a ladies' dancing party, for
+      Don Antonio's wife, a lady of rank and gaiety, beauty and wit, had invited
+      some friends of hers to come and do honour to her guest and amuse
+      themselves with his strange delusions. Several of them came, they supped
+      sumptuously, the dance began at about ten o'clock. Among the ladies were
+      two of a mischievous and frolicsome turn, and, though perfectly modest,
+      somewhat free in playing tricks for harmless diversion's sake. These two
+      were so indefatigable in taking Don Quixote out to dance that they tired
+      him down, not only in body but in spirit. It was a sight to see the figure
+      Don Quixote made, long, lank, lean, and yellow, his garments clinging
+      tight to him, ungainly, and above all anything but agile.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p62c" id="p62c"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p62c.jpg (342K)" src="images/p62c.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p62c.jpg"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br />
+      <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The gay ladies made secret love to him, and he on his part secretly
+      repelled them, but finding himself hard pressed by their blandishments he
+      lifted up his voice and exclaimed, "Fugite, partes adversae! Leave me in
+      peace, unwelcome overtures; avaunt, with your desires, ladies, for she who
+      is queen of mine, the peerless Dulcinea del Toboso, suffers none but hers
+      to lead me captive and subdue me;" and so saying he sat down on the floor
+      in the middle of the room, tired out and broken down by all this exertion
+      in the dance.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Don Antonio directed him to be taken up bodily and carried to bed, and the
+      first that laid hold of him was Sancho, saying as he did so, "In an evil
+      hour you took to dancing, master mine; do you fancy all mighty men of
+      valour are dancers, and all knights-errant given to capering? If you do, I
+      can tell you you are mistaken; there's many a man would rather undertake
+      to kill a giant than cut a caper. If it had been the shoe-fling you were
+      at I could take your place, for I can do the shoe-fling like a gerfalcon;
+      but I'm no good at dancing."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      With these and other observations Sancho set the whole ball-room laughing,
+      and then put his master to bed, covering him up well so that he might
+      sweat out any chill caught after his dancing.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The next day Don Antonio thought he might as well make trial of the
+      enchanted head, and with Don Quixote, Sancho, and two others, friends of
+      his, besides the two ladies that had tired out Don Quixote at the ball,
+      who had remained for the night with Don Antonio's wife, he locked himself
+      up in the chamber where the head was. He explained to them the property it
+      possessed and entrusted the secret to them, telling them that now for the
+      first time he was going to try the virtue of the enchanted head; but
+      except Don Antonio's two friends no one else was privy to the mystery of
+      the enchantment, and if Don Antonio had not first revealed it to them they
+      would have been inevitably reduced to the same state of amazement as the
+      rest, so artfully and skilfully was it contrived.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The first to approach the ear of the head was Don Antonio himself, and in
+      a low voice but not so low as not to be audible to all, he said to it,
+      "Head, tell me by the virtue that lies in thee what am I at this moment
+      thinking of?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The head, without any movement of the lips, answered in a clear and
+      distinct voice, so as to be heard by all, "I cannot judge of thoughts."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      All were thunderstruck at this, and all the more so as they saw that there
+      was nobody anywhere near the table or in the whole room that could have
+      answered. "How many of us are here?" asked Don Antonio once more; and it
+      was answered him in the same way softly, "Thou and thy wife, with two
+      friends of thine and two of hers, and a famous knight called Don Quixote
+      of La Mancha, and a squire of his, Sancho Panza by name."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Now there was fresh astonishment; now everyone's hair was standing on end
+      with awe; and Don Antonio retiring from the head exclaimed, "This suffices
+      to show me that I have not been deceived by him who sold thee to me, O
+      sage head, talking head, answering head, wonderful head! Let some one else
+      go and put what question he likes to it."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      And as women are commonly impulsive and inquisitive, the first to come
+      forward was one of the two friends of Don Antonio's wife, and her question
+      was, "Tell me, Head, what shall I do to be very beautiful?" and the answer
+      she got was, "Be very modest."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I question thee no further," said the fair querist.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Her companion then came up and said, "I should like to know, Head, whether
+      my husband loves me or not;" the answer given to her was, "Think how he
+      uses thee, and thou mayest guess;" and the married lady went off saying,
+      "That answer did not need a question; for of course the treatment one
+      receives shows the disposition of him from whom it is received."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Then one of Don Antonio's two friends advanced and asked it, "Who am I?"
+      "Thou knowest," was the answer. "That is not what I ask thee," said the
+      gentleman, "but to tell me if thou knowest me." "Yes, I know thee, thou
+      art Don Pedro Noriz," was the reply.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I do not seek to know more," said the gentleman, "for this is enough to
+      convince me, O Head, that thou knowest everything;" and as he retired the
+      other friend came forward and asked it, "Tell me, Head, what are the
+      wishes of my eldest son?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I have said already," was the answer, "that I cannot judge of wishes;
+      however, I can tell thee the wish of thy son is to bury thee."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "That's 'what I see with my eyes I point out with my finger,'" said the
+      gentleman, "so I ask no more."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Don Antonio's wife came up and said, "I know not what to ask thee, Head; I
+      would only seek to know of thee if I shall have many years of enjoyment of
+      my good husband;" and the answer she received was, "Thou shalt, for his
+      vigour and his temperate habits promise many years of life, which by their
+      intemperance others so often cut short."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Then Don Quixote came forward and said, "Tell me, thou that answerest, was
+      that which I describe as having happened to me in the cave of Montesinos
+      the truth or a dream? Will Sancho's whipping be accomplished without fail?
+      Will the disenchantment of Dulcinea be brought about?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p62d" id="p62d"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p62d.jpg (391K)" src="images/p62d.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p62d.jpg"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br />
+      <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "As to the question of the cave," was the reply, "there is much to be
+      said; there is something of both in it. Sancho's whipping will proceed
+      leisurely. The disenchantment of Dulcinea will attain its due
+      consummation."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I seek to know no more," said Don Quixote; "let me but see Dulcinea
+      disenchanted, and I will consider that all the good fortune I could wish
+      for has come upon me all at once."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The last questioner was Sancho, and his questions were, "Head, shall I by
+      any chance have another government? Shall I ever escape from the hard life
+      of a squire? Shall I get back to see my wife and children?" To which the
+      answer came, "Thou shalt govern in thy house; and if thou returnest to it
+      thou shalt see thy wife and children; and on ceasing to serve thou shalt
+      cease to be a squire."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Good, by God!" said Sancho Panza; "I could have told myself that; the
+      prophet Perogrullo could have said no more."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "What answer wouldst thou have, beast?" said Don Quixote; "is it not
+      enough that the replies this head has given suit the questions put to it?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Yes, it is enough," said Sancho; "but I should have liked it to have made
+      itself plainer and told me more."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The questions and answers came to an end here, but not the wonder with
+      which all were filled, except Don Antonio's two friends who were in the
+      secret. This Cide Hamete Benengeli thought fit to reveal at once, not to
+      keep the world in suspense, fancying that the head had some strange
+      magical mystery in it. He says, therefore, that on the model of another
+      head, the work of an image maker, which he had seen at Madrid, Don Antonio
+      made this one at home for his own amusement and to astonish ignorant
+      people; and its mechanism was as follows. The table was of wood painted
+      and varnished to imitate jasper, and the pedestal on which it stood was of
+      the same material, with four eagles' claws projecting from it to support
+      the weight more steadily. The head, which resembled a bust or figure of a
+      Roman emperor, and was coloured like bronze, was hollow throughout, as was
+      the table, into which it was fitted so exactly that no trace of the
+      joining was visible. The pedestal of the table was also hollow and
+      communicated with the throat and neck of the head, and the whole was in
+      communication with another room underneath the chamber in which the head
+      stood. Through the entire cavity in the pedestal, table, throat and neck
+      of the bust or figure, there passed a tube of tin carefully adjusted and
+      concealed from sight. In the room below corresponding to the one above was
+      placed the person who was to answer, with his mouth to the tube, and the
+      voice, as in an ear-trumpet, passed from above downwards, and from below
+      upwards, the words coming clearly and distinctly; it was impossible, thus,
+      to detect the trick. A nephew of Don Antonio's, a smart sharp-witted
+      student, was the answerer, and as he had been told beforehand by his uncle
+      who the persons were that would come with him that day into the chamber
+      where the head was, it was an easy matter for him to answer the first
+      question at once and correctly; the others he answered by guess-work, and,
+      being clever, cleverly. Cide Hamete adds that this marvellous contrivance
+      stood for some ten or twelve days; but that, as it became noised abroad
+      through the city that he had in his house an enchanted head that answered
+      all who asked questions of it, Don Antonio, fearing it might come to the
+      ears of the watchful sentinels of our faith, explained the matter to the
+      inquisitors, who commanded him to break it up and have done with it, lest
+      the ignorant vulgar should be scandalised. By Don Quixote, however, and by
+      Sancho the head was still held to be an enchanted one, and capable of
+      answering questions, though more to Don Quixote's satisfaction than
+      Sancho's.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The gentlemen of the city, to gratify Don Antonio and also to do the
+      honours to Don Quixote, and give him an opportunity of displaying his
+      folly, made arrangements for a tilting at the ring in six days from that
+      time, which, however, for reason that will be mentioned hereafter, did not
+      take place.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Don Quixote took a fancy to stroll about the city quietly and on foot, for
+      he feared that if he went on horseback the boys would follow him; so he
+      and Sancho and two servants that Don Antonio gave him set out for a walk.
+      Thus it came to pass that going along one of the streets Don Quixote
+      lifted up his eyes and saw written in very large letters over a door,
+      "Books printed here," at which he was vastly pleased, for until then he
+      had never seen a printing office, and he was curious to know what it was
+      like. He entered with all his following, and saw them drawing sheets in
+      one place, correcting in another, setting up type here, revising there; in
+      short all the work that is to be seen in great printing offices. He went
+      up to one case and asked what they were about there; the workmen told him,
+      he watched them with wonder, and passed on. He approached one man, among
+      others, and asked him what he was doing. The workman replied, "Senor, this
+      gentleman here" (pointing to a man of prepossessing appearance and a
+      certain gravity of look) "has translated an Italian book into our Spanish
+      tongue, and I am setting it up in type for the press."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "What is the title of the book?" asked Don Quixote; to which the author
+      replied, "Senor, in Italian the book is called Le Bagatelle."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "And what does Le Bagatelle import in our Spanish?" asked Don Quixote.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Le Bagatelle," said the author, "is as though we should say in Spanish
+      Los Juguetes; but though the book is humble in name it has good solid
+      matter in it."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I," said Don Quixote, "have some little smattering of Italian, and I
+      plume myself on singing some of Ariosto's stanzas; but tell me, senor&mdash;I
+      do not say this to test your ability, but merely out of curiosity&mdash;have
+      you ever met with the word pignatta in your book?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Yes, often," said the author.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "And how do you render that in Spanish?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "How should I render it," returned the author, "but by olla?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Body o' me," exclaimed Don Quixote, "what a proficient you are in the
+      Italian language! I would lay a good wager that where they say in Italian
+      piace you say in Spanish place, and where they say piu you say mas, and
+      you translate su by arriba and giu by abajo."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I translate them so of course," said the author, "for those are their
+      proper equivalents."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I would venture to swear," said Don Quixote, "that your worship is not
+      known in the world, which always begrudges their reward to rare wits and
+      praiseworthy labours. What talents lie wasted there! What genius thrust
+      away into corners! What worth left neglected! Still it seems to me that
+      translation from one language into another, if it be not from the queens
+      of languages, the Greek and the Latin, is like looking at Flemish tapestries
+      on the wrong side; for though the figures are visible, they are full of
+      threads that make them indistinct, and they do not show with the
+      smoothness and brightness of the right side; and translation from easy
+      languages argues neither ingenuity nor command of words, any more than
+      transcribing or copying out one document from another. But I do not mean
+      by this to draw the inference that no credit is to be allowed for the work
+      of translating, for a man may employ himself in ways worse and less
+      profitable to himself. This estimate does not include two famous
+      translators, Doctor Cristobal de Figueroa, in his Pastor Fido, and Don
+      Juan de Jauregui, in his Aminta, wherein by their felicity they leave it
+      in doubt which is the translation and which the original. But tell me, are
+      you printing this book at your own risk, or have you sold the copyright to
+      some bookseller?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I print at my own risk," said the author, "and I expect to make a
+      thousand ducats at least by this first edition, which is to be of two
+      thousand copies that will go off in a twinkling at six reals apiece."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "A fine calculation you are making!" said Don Quixote; "it is plain you
+      don't know the ins and outs of the printers, and how they play into one
+      another's hands. I promise you when you find yourself saddled with two
+      thousand copies you will feel so sore that it will astonish you,
+      particularly if the book is a little out of the common and not in any way
+      highly spiced."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "What!" said the author, "would your worship, then, have me give it to a
+      bookseller who will give three maravedis for the copyright and think he is
+      doing me a favour? I do not print my books to win fame in the world, for I
+      am known in it already by my works; I want to make money, without which
+      reputation is not worth a rap."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "God send your worship good luck," said Don Quixote; and he moved on to
+      another case, where he saw them correcting a sheet of a book with the
+      title of "Light of the Soul;" noticing it he observed, "Books like this,
+      though there are many of the kind, are the ones that deserve to be
+      printed, for many are the sinners in these days, and lights unnumbered are
+      needed for all that are in darkness."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      He passed on, and saw they were also correcting another book, and when he
+      asked its title they told him it was called, "The Second Part of the
+      Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha," by one of Tordesillas.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I have heard of this book already," said Don Quixote, "and verily and on
+      my conscience I thought it had been by this time burned to ashes as a
+      meddlesome intruder; but its Martinmas will come to it as it does to every
+      pig; for fictions have the more merit and charm about them the more nearly
+      they approach the truth or what looks like it; and true stories, the truer
+      they are the better they are;" and so saying he walked out of the printing
+      office with a certain amount of displeasure in his looks. That same day
+      Don Antonio arranged to take him to see the galleys that lay at the beach,
+      whereat Sancho was in high delight, as he had never seen any all his life.
+      Don Antonio sent word to the commandant of the galleys that he intended to
+      bring his guest, the famous Don Quixote of La Mancha, of whom the
+      commandant and all the citizens had already heard, that afternoon to see
+      them; and what happened on board of them will be told in the next chapter.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p62e" id="p62e"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p62e.jpg (18K)" src="images/p62e.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      <a name="ch63b" id="ch63b"></a>CHAPTER LXIII.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      OF THE MISHAP THAT BEFELL SANCHO PANZA THROUGH THE VISIT TO THE GALLEYS,
+      AND THE STRANGE ADVENTURE OF THE FAIR MORISCO
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <a name="p63a" id="p63a"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p63a.jpg (151K)" src="images/p63a.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p63a.jpg"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br />
+      <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Profound were Don Quixote's reflections on the reply of the enchanted
+      head, not one of them, however, hitting on the secret of the trick, but
+      all concentrated on the promise, which he regarded as a certainty, of
+      Dulcinea's disenchantment. This he turned over in his mind again and again
+      with great satisfaction, fully persuaded that he would shortly see its
+      fulfillment; and as for Sancho, though, as has been said, he hated being a
+      governor, still he had a longing to be giving orders and finding himself
+      obeyed once more; this is the misfortune that being in authority, even in
+      jest, brings with it.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      To resume; that afternoon their host Don Antonio Moreno and his two
+      friends, with Don Quixote and Sancho, went to the galleys. The commandant
+      had been already made aware of his good fortune in seeing two such famous
+      persons as Don Quixote and Sancho, and the instant they came to the shore
+      all the galleys struck their awnings and the clarions rang out. A skiff
+      covered with rich carpets and cushions of crimson velvet was immediately
+      lowered into the water, and as Don Quixote stepped on board of it, the
+      leading galley fired her gangway gun, and the other galleys did the same;
+      and as he mounted the starboard ladder the whole crew saluted him (as is
+      the custom when a personage of distinction comes on board a galley) by
+      exclaiming "Hu, hu, hu," three times. The general, for so we shall call
+      him, a Valencian gentleman of rank, gave him his hand and embraced him,
+      saying, "I shall mark this day with a white stone as one of the happiest I
+      can expect to enjoy in my lifetime, since I have seen Senor Don Quixote of
+      La Mancha, pattern and image wherein we see contained and condensed all
+      that is worthy in knight-errantry."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Don Quixote delighted beyond measure with such a lordly reception, replied
+      to him in words no less courteous. All then proceeded to the poop, which
+      was very handsomely decorated, and seated themselves on the bulwark
+      benches; the boatswain passed along the gangway and piped all hands to
+      strip, which they did in an instant. Sancho, seeing such a number of men
+      stripped to the skin, was taken aback, and still more when he saw them
+      spread the awning so briskly that it seemed to him as if all the devils
+      were at work at it; but all this was cakes and fancy bread to what I am
+      going to tell now. Sancho was seated on the captain's stage, close to the
+      aftermost rower on the right-hand side. He, previously instructed in what
+      he was to do, laid hold of Sancho, hoisting him up in his arms, and the
+      whole crew, who were standing ready, beginning on the right, proceeded to
+      pass him on, whirling him along from hand to hand and from bench to bench
+      with such rapidity that it took the sight out of poor Sancho's eyes, and
+      he made quite sure that the devils themselves were flying away with him;
+      nor did they leave off with him until they had sent him back along the
+      left side and deposited him on the poop; and the poor fellow was left
+      bruised and breathless and all in a sweat, and unable to comprehend what
+      it was that had happened to him.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Don Quixote when he saw Sancho's flight without wings asked the general if
+      this was a usual ceremony with those who came on board the galleys for the
+      first time; for, if so, as he had no intention of adopting them as a
+      profession, he had no mind to perform such feats of agility, and if anyone
+      offered to lay hold of him to whirl him about, he vowed to God he would
+      kick his soul out; and as he said this he stood up and clapped his hand
+      upon his sword. At this instant they struck the awning and lowered the
+      yard with a prodigious rattle. Sancho thought heaven was coming off its
+      hinges and going to fall on his head, and full of terror he ducked it and
+      buried it between his knees; nor were Don Quixote's knees altogether under
+      control, for he too shook a little, squeezed his shoulders together and
+      lost colour. The crew then hoisted the yard with the same rapidity and
+      clatter as when they lowered it, all the while keeping silence as though
+      they had neither voice nor breath. The boatswain gave the signal to weigh
+      anchor, and leaping upon the middle of the gangway began to lay on to the
+      shoulders of the crew with his courbash or whip, and to haul out gradually
+      to sea.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      When Sancho saw so many red feet (for such he took the oars to be) moving
+      all together, he said to himself, "It's these that are the real chanted
+      things, and not the ones my master talks of. What can those wretches have
+      done to be so whipped; and how does that one man who goes along there
+      whistling dare to whip so many? I declare this is hell, or at least
+      purgatory!"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Don Quixote, observing how attentively Sancho regarded what was going on,
+      said to him, "Ah, Sancho my friend, how quickly and cheaply might you
+      finish off the disenchantment of Dulcinea, if you would strip to the waist
+      and take your place among those gentlemen! Amid the pain and sufferings of
+      so many you would not feel your own much; and moreover perhaps the sage
+      Merlin would allow each of these lashes, being laid on with a good hand,
+      to count for ten of those which you must give yourself at last."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The general was about to ask what these lashes were, and what was
+      Dulcinea's disenchantment, when a sailor exclaimed, "Monjui signals that
+      there is an oared vessel off the coast to the west."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      On hearing this the general sprang upon the gangway crying, "Now then, my
+      sons, don't let her give us the slip! It must be some Algerine corsair
+      brigantine that the watchtower signals to us." The three others
+      immediately came alongside the chief galley to receive their orders. The
+      general ordered two to put out to sea while he with the other kept in
+      shore, so that in this way the vessel could not escape them. The crews
+      plied the oars driving the galleys so furiously that they seemed to fly.
+      The two that had put out to sea, after a couple of miles sighted a vessel
+      which, so far as they could make out, they judged to be one of fourteen or
+      fifteen banks, and so she proved. As soon as the vessel discovered the
+      galleys she went about with the object and in the hope of making her
+      escape by her speed; but the attempt failed, for the chief galley was one
+      of the fastest vessels afloat, and overhauled her so rapidly that they on
+      board the brigantine saw clearly there was no possibility of escaping, and
+      the rais therefore would have had them drop their oars and give themselves
+      up so as not to provoke the captain in command of our galleys to anger.
+      But chance, directing things otherwise, so ordered it that just as the
+      chief galley came close enough for those on board the vessel to hear the
+      shouts from her calling on them to surrender, two Toraquis, that is to say
+      two Turks, both drunken, that with a dozen more were on board the
+      brigantine, discharged their muskets, killing two of the soldiers that
+      lined the sides of our vessel. Seeing this the general swore he would not
+      leave one of those he found on board the vessel alive, but as he bore down
+      furiously upon her she slipped away from him underneath the oars. The
+      galley shot a good way ahead; those on board the vessel saw their case was
+      desperate, and while the galley was coming about they made sail, and by
+      sailing and rowing once more tried to sheer off; but their activity did
+      not do them as much good as their rashness did them harm, for the galley
+      coming up with them in a little more than half a mile threw her oars over
+      them and took the whole of them alive. The other two galleys now joined
+      company and all four returned with the prize to the beach, where a vast
+      multitude stood waiting for them, eager to see what they brought back. The
+      general anchored close in, and perceived that the viceroy of the city was
+      on the shore. He ordered the skiff to push off to fetch him, and the yard
+      to be lowered for the purpose of hanging forthwith the rais and the rest
+      of the men taken on board the vessel, about six-and-thirty in number, all
+      smart fellows and most of them Turkish musketeers. He asked which was the
+      rais of the brigantine, and was answered in Spanish by one of the
+      prisoners (who afterwards proved to be a Spanish renegade), "This young
+      man, senor that you see here is our rais," and he pointed to one of the
+      handsomest and most gallant-looking youths that could be imagined. He did
+      not seem to be twenty years of age.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Tell me, dog," said the general, "what led thee to kill my soldiers, when
+      thou sawest it was impossible for thee to escape? Is that the way to
+      behave to chief galleys? Knowest thou not that rashness is not valour?
+      Faint prospects of success should make men bold, but not rash."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The rais was about to reply, but the general could not at that moment
+      listen to him, as he had to hasten to receive the viceroy, who was now
+      coming on board the galley, and with him certain of his attendants and
+      some of the people.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "You have had a good chase, senor general," said the viceroy.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Your excellency shall soon see how good, by the game strung up to this
+      yard," replied the general.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "How so?" returned the viceroy.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Because," said the general, "against all law, reason, and usages of war
+      they have killed on my hands two of the best soldiers on board these
+      galleys, and I have sworn to hang every man that I have taken, but above
+      all this youth who is the rais of the brigantine," and he pointed to him
+      as he stood with his hands already bound and the rope round his neck,
+      ready for death.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The viceroy looked at him, and seeing him so well-favoured, so graceful,
+      and so submissive, he felt a desire to spare his life, the comeliness of
+      the youth furnishing him at once with a letter of recommendation. He
+      therefore questioned him, saying, "Tell me, rais, art thou Turk, Moor, or
+      renegade?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      To which the youth replied, also in Spanish, "I am neither Turk, nor Moor,
+      nor renegade."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "What art thou, then?" said the viceroy.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "A Christian woman," replied the youth.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "A woman and a Christian, in such a dress and in such circumstances! It is
+      more marvellous than credible," said the viceroy.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Suspend the execution of the sentence," said the youth; "your vengeance
+      will not lose much by waiting while I tell you the story of my life."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      What heart could be so hard as not to be softened by these words, at any
+      rate so far as to listen to what the unhappy youth had to say? The general
+      bade him say what he pleased, but not to expect pardon for his flagrant
+      offence. With this permission the youth began in these words.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Born of Morisco parents, I am of that nation, more unhappy than wise,
+      upon which of late a sea of woes has poured down. In the course of our
+      misfortune I was carried to Barbary by two uncles of mine, for it was in
+      vain that I declared I was a Christian, as in fact I am, and not a mere
+      pretended one, or outwardly, but a true Catholic Christian. It availed me
+      nothing with those charged with our sad expatriation to protest this, nor
+      would my uncles believe it; on the contrary, they treated it as an untruth
+      and a subterfuge set up to enable me to remain behind in the land of my
+      birth; and so, more by force than of my own will, they took me with them.
+      I had a Christian mother, and a father who was a man of sound sense and a
+      Christian too; I imbibed the Catholic faith with my mother's milk, I was
+      well brought up, and neither in word nor in deed did I, I think, show any
+      sign of being a Morisco. To accompany these virtues, for such I hold them,
+      my beauty, if I possess any, grew with my growth; and great as was the
+      seclusion in which I lived it was not so great but that a young gentleman,
+      Don Gaspar Gregorio by name, eldest son of a gentleman who is lord of a
+      village near ours, contrived to find opportunities of seeing me. How he
+      saw me, how we met, how his heart was lost to me, and mine not kept from
+      him, would take too long to tell, especially at a moment when I am in
+      dread of the cruel cord that threatens me interposing between tongue and
+      throat; I will only say, therefore, that Don Gregorio chose to accompany
+      me in our banishment. He joined company with the Moriscoes who were going
+      forth from other villages, for he knew their language very well, and on
+      the voyage he struck up a friendship with my two uncles who were carrying
+      me with them; for my father, like a wise and far-sighted man, as soon as
+      he heard the first edict for our expulsion, quitted the village and
+      departed in quest of some refuge for us abroad. He left hidden and buried,
+      at a spot of which I alone have knowledge, a large quantity of pearls and
+      precious stones of great value, together with a sum of money in gold
+      cruzadoes and doubloons. He charged me on no account to touch the
+      treasure, if by any chance they expelled us before his return. I obeyed
+      him, and with my uncles, as I have said, and others of our kindred and
+      neighbours, passed over to Barbary, and the place where we took up our
+      abode was Algiers, much the same as if we had taken it up in hell itself.
+      The king heard of my beauty, and report told him of my wealth, which was
+      in some degree fortunate for me. He summoned me before him, and asked me
+      what part of Spain I came from, and what money and jewels I had. I
+      mentioned the place, and told him the jewels and money were buried there;
+      but that they might easily be recovered if I myself went back for them.
+      All this I told him, in dread lest my beauty and not his own covetousness
+      should influence him. While he was engaged in conversation with me, they
+      brought him word that in company with me was one of the handsomest and
+      most graceful youths that could be imagined. I knew at once that they were
+      speaking of Don Gaspar Gregorio, whose comeliness surpasses the most
+      highly vaunted beauty. I was troubled when I thought of the danger he was
+      in, for among those barbarous Turks a fair youth is more esteemed than a
+      woman, be she ever so beautiful. The king immediately ordered him to be
+      brought before him that he might see him, and asked me if what they said
+      about the youth was true. I then, almost as if inspired by heaven, told
+      him it was, but that I would have him to know it was not a man, but a
+      woman like myself, and I entreated him to allow me to go and dress her in
+      the attire proper to her, so that her beauty might be seen to perfection,
+      and that she might present herself before him with less embarrassment. He
+      bade me go by all means, and said that the next day we should discuss the
+      plan to be adopted for my return to Spain to carry away the hidden
+      treasure. I saw Don Gaspar, I told him the danger he was in if he let it
+      be seen he was a man, I dressed him as a Moorish woman, and that same
+      afternoon I brought him before the king, who was charmed when he saw him,
+      and resolved to keep the damsel and make a present of her to the Grand
+      Signor; and to avoid the risk she might run among the women of his
+      seraglio, and distrustful of himself, he commanded her to be placed in the
+      house of some Moorish ladies of rank who would protect and attend to her;
+      and thither he was taken at once. What we both suffered (for I cannot deny
+      that I love him) may be left to the imagination of those who are separated
+      if they love one another dearly. The king then arranged that I should
+      return to Spain in this brigantine, and that two Turks, those who killed
+      your soldiers, should accompany me. There also came with me this Spanish
+      renegade"&mdash;and here she pointed to him who had first spoken&mdash;"whom
+      I know to be secretly a Christian, and to be more desirous of being left
+      in Spain than of returning to Barbary. The rest of the crew of the
+      brigantine are Moors and Turks, who merely serve as rowers. The two Turks,
+      greedy and insolent, instead of obeying the orders we had to land me and
+      this renegade in Christian dress (with which we came provided) on the
+      first Spanish ground we came to, chose to run along the coast and make
+      some prize if they could, fearing that if they put us ashore first, we
+      might, in case of some accident befalling us, make it known that the
+      brigantine was at sea, and thus, if there happened to be any galleys on
+      the coast, they might be taken. We sighted this shore last night, and
+      knowing nothing of these galleys, we were discovered, and the result was
+      what you have seen. To sum up, there is Don Gregorio in woman's dress,
+      among women, in imminent danger of his life; and here am I, with hands
+      bound, in expectation, or rather in dread, of losing my life, of which I
+      am already weary. Here, sirs, ends my sad story, as true as it is unhappy;
+      all I ask of you is to allow me to die like a Christian, for, as I have
+      already said, I am not to be charged with the offence of which those of my
+      nation are guilty;" and she stood silent, her eyes filled with moving
+      tears, accompanied by plenty from the bystanders. The viceroy, touched
+      with compassion, went up to her without speaking and untied the cord that
+      bound the hands of the Moorish girl.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      But all the while the Morisco Christian was telling her strange story, an
+      elderly pilgrim, who had come on board of the galley at the same time as
+      the viceroy, kept his eyes fixed upon her; and the instant she ceased
+      speaking he threw himself at her feet, and embracing them said in a voice
+      broken by sobs and sighs, "O Ana Felix, my unhappy daughter, I am thy
+      father Ricote, come back to look for thee, unable to live without thee, my
+      soul that thou art!"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      At these words of his, Sancho opened his eyes and raised his head, which
+      he had been holding down, brooding over his unlucky excursion; and looking
+      at the pilgrim he recognised in him that same Ricote he met the day he
+      quitted his government, and felt satisfied that this was his daughter. She
+      being now unbound embraced her father, mingling her tears with his, while
+      he addressing the general and the viceroy said, "This, sirs, is my
+      daughter, more unhappy in her adventures than in her name. She is Ana
+      Felix, surnamed Ricote, celebrated as much for her own beauty as for my
+      wealth. I quitted my native land in search of some shelter or refuge for
+      us abroad, and having found one in Germany I returned in this pilgrim's
+      dress, in the company of some other German pilgrims, to seek my daughter
+      and take up a large quantity of treasure I had left buried. My daughter I
+      did not find, the treasure I found and have with me; and now, in this
+      strange roundabout way you have seen, I find the treasure that more than
+      all makes me rich, my beloved daughter. If our innocence and her tears and
+      mine can with strict justice open the door to clemency, extend it to us,
+      for we never had any intention of injuring you, nor do we sympathise with
+      the aims of our people, who have been justly banished."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I know Ricote well," said Sancho at this, "and I know too that what he
+      says about Ana Felix being his daughter is true; but as to those other
+      particulars about going and coming, and having good or bad intentions, I
+      say nothing."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      While all present stood amazed at this strange occurrence the general
+      said, "At any rate your tears will not allow me to keep my oath; live,
+      fair Ana Felix, all the years that heaven has allotted you; but these rash
+      insolent fellows must pay the penalty of the crime they have committed;"
+      and with that he gave orders to have the two Turks who had killed his two
+      soldiers hanged at once at the yard-arm. The viceroy, however, begged him
+      earnestly not to hang them, as their behaviour savoured rather of madness
+      than of bravado. The general yielded to the viceroy's request, for revenge
+      is not easily taken in cold blood. They then tried to devise some scheme
+      for rescuing Don Gaspar Gregorio from the danger in which he had been
+      left. Ricote offered for that object more than two thousand ducats that he
+      had in pearls and gems; they proposed several plans, but none so good as
+      that suggested by the renegade already mentioned, who offered to return to
+      Algiers in a small vessel of about six banks, manned by Christian rowers,
+      as he knew where, how, and when he could and should land, nor was he
+      ignorant of the house in which Don Gaspar was staying. The general and the
+      viceroy had some hesitation about placing confidence in the renegade and
+      entrusting him with the Christians who were to row, but Ana Felix said she
+      could answer for him, and her father offered to go and pay the ransom of
+      the Christians if by any chance they should not be forthcoming. This,
+      then, being agreed upon, the viceroy landed, and Don Antonio Moreno took
+      the fair Morisco and her father home with him, the viceroy charging him to
+      give them the best reception and welcome in his power, while on his own
+      part he offered all that house contained for their entertainment; so great
+      was the good-will and kindliness the beauty of Ana Felix had infused into
+      his heart.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p63e" id="p63e"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p63e.jpg (23K)" src="images/p63e.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      <a name="ch64b" id="ch64b"></a>CHAPTER LXIV.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      TREATING OF THE ADVENTURE WHICH GAVE DON QUIXOTE MORE UNHAPPINESS THAN ALL
+      THAT HAD HITHERTO BEFALLEN HIM
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <a name="p64a" id="p64a"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p64a.jpg (80K)" src="images/p64a.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p64a.jpg"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br />
+      <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The wife of Don Antonio Moreno, so the history says, was extremely happy
+      to see Ana Felix in her house. She welcomed her with great kindness,
+      charmed as well by her beauty as by her intelligence; for in both respects
+      the fair Morisco was richly endowed, and all the people of the city
+      flocked to see her as though they had been summoned by the ringing of the
+      bells.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Don Quixote told Don Antonio that the plan adopted for releasing Don
+      Gregorio was not a good one, for its risks were greater than its
+      advantages, and that it would be better to land himself with his arms and
+      horse in Barbary; for he would carry him off in spite of the whole Moorish
+      host, as Don Gaiferos carried off his wife Melisendra.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Remember, your worship," observed Sancho on hearing him say so, "Senor
+      Don Gaiferos carried off his wife from the mainland, and took her to
+      France by land; but in this case, if by chance we carry off Don Gregorio,
+      we have no way of bringing him to Spain, for there's the sea between."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "There's a remedy for everything except death," said Don Quixote; "if they
+      bring the vessel close to the shore we shall be able to get on board
+      though all the world strive to prevent us."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Your worship hits it off mighty well and mighty easy," said Sancho; "but
+      'it's a long step from saying to doing;' and I hold to the renegade, for
+      he seems to me an honest good-hearted fellow."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Don Antonio then said that if the renegade did not prove successful, the
+      expedient of the great Don Quixote's expedition to Barbary should be
+      adopted. Two days afterwards the renegade put to sea in a light vessel of
+      six oars a-side manned by a stout crew, and two days later the galleys
+      made sail eastward, the general having begged the viceroy to let him know
+      all about the release of Don Gregorio and about Ana Felix, and the viceroy
+      promised to do as he requested.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      One morning as Don Quixote went out for a stroll along the beach, arrayed
+      in full armour (for, as he often said, that was "his only gear, his only
+      rest the fray," and he never was without it for a moment), he saw coming
+      towards him a knight, also in full armour, with a shining moon painted on
+      his shield, who, on approaching sufficiently near to be heard, said in a
+      loud voice, addressing himself to Don Quixote, "Illustrious knight, and
+      never sufficiently extolled Don Quixote of La Mancha, I am the Knight of
+      the White Moon, whose unheard-of achievements will perhaps have recalled
+      him to thy memory. I come to do battle with thee and prove the might of
+      thy arm, to the end that I make thee acknowledge and confess that my lady,
+      let her be who she may, is incomparably fairer than thy Dulcinea del
+      Toboso. If thou dost acknowledge this fairly and openly, thou shalt escape
+      death and save me the trouble of inflicting it upon thee; if thou fightest
+      and I vanquish thee, I demand no other satisfaction than that, laying
+      aside arms and abstaining from going in quest of adventures, thou withdraw
+      and betake thyself to thine own village for the space of a year, and live
+      there without putting hand to sword, in peace and quiet and beneficial
+      repose, the same being needful for the increase of thy substance and the
+      salvation of thy soul; and if thou dost vanquish me, my head shall be at
+      thy disposal, my arms and horse thy spoils, and the renown of my deeds
+      transferred and added to thine. Consider which will be thy best course,
+      and give me thy answer speedily, for this day is all the time I have for
+      the despatch of this business."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Don Quixote was amazed and astonished, as well at the Knight of the White
+      Moon's arrogance, as at his reason for delivering the defiance, and with
+      calm dignity he answered him, "Knight of the White Moon, of whose
+      achievements I have never heard until now, I will venture to swear you
+      have never seen the illustrious Dulcinea; for had you seen her I know you
+      would have taken care not to venture yourself upon this issue, because the
+      sight would have removed all doubt from your mind that there ever has been
+      or can be a beauty to be compared with hers; and so, not saying you lie,
+      but merely that you are not correct in what you state, I accept your
+      challenge, with the conditions you have proposed, and at once, that the
+      day you have fixed may not expire; and from your conditions I except only
+      that of the renown of your achievements being transferred to me, for I
+      know not of what sort they are nor what they may amount to; I am satisfied
+      with my own, such as they be. Take, therefore, the side of the field you
+      choose, and I will do the same; and to whom God shall give it may Saint
+      Peter add his blessing."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The Knight of the White Moon had been seen from the city, and it was told
+      the viceroy how he was in conversation with Don Quixote. The viceroy,
+      fancying it must be some fresh adventure got up by Don Antonio Moreno or
+      some other gentleman of the city, hurried out at once to the beach
+      accompanied by Don Antonio and several other gentlemen, just as Don
+      Quixote was wheeling Rocinante round in order to take up the necessary
+      distance. The viceroy upon this, seeing that the pair of them were
+      evidently preparing to come to the charge, put himself between them,
+      asking them what it was that led them to engage in combat all of a sudden
+      in this way. The Knight of the White Moon replied that it was a question
+      of precedence of beauty; and briefly told him what he had said to Don
+      Quixote, and how the conditions of the defiance agreed upon on both sides
+      had been accepted. The viceroy went over to Don Antonio, and asked in a
+      low voice did he know who the Knight of the White Moon was, or was it some
+      joke they were playing on Don Quixote. Don Antonio replied that he neither
+      knew who he was nor whether the defiance was in joke or in earnest. This
+      answer left the viceroy in a state of perplexity, not knowing whether he
+      ought to let the combat go on or not; but unable to persuade himself that
+      it was anything but a joke he fell back, saying, "If there be no other way
+      out of it, gallant knights, except to confess or die, and Don Quixote is
+      inflexible, and your worship of the White Moon still more so, in God's
+      hand be it, and fall on."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      He of the White Moon thanked the viceroy in courteous and well-chosen
+      words for the permission he gave them, and so did Don Quixote, who then,
+      commending himself with all his heart to heaven and to his Dulcinea, as
+      was his custom on the eve of any combat that awaited him, proceeded to
+      take a little more distance, as he saw his antagonist was doing the same;
+      then, without blast of trumpet or other warlike instrument to give them
+      the signal to charge, both at the same instant wheeled their horses; and
+      he of the White Moon, being the swifter, met Don Quixote after having
+      traversed two-thirds of the course, and there encountered him with such
+      violence that, without touching him with his lance (for he held it high,
+      to all appearance purposely), he hurled Don Quixote and Rocinante to the
+      earth, a perilous fall. He sprang upon him at once, and placing the lance
+      over his visor said to him, "You are vanquished, sir knight, nay dead
+      unless you admit the conditions of our defiance."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Don Quixote, bruised and stupefied, without raising his visor said in a
+      weak feeble voice as if he were speaking out of a tomb, "Dulcinea del
+      Toboso is the fairest woman in the world, and I the most unfortunate
+      knight on earth; it is not fitting that this truth should suffer by my
+      feebleness; drive your lance home, sir knight, and take my life, since you
+      have taken away my honour."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "That will I not, in sooth," said he of the White Moon; "live the fame of
+      the lady Dulcinea's beauty undimmed as ever; all I require is that the
+      great Don Quixote retire to his own home for a year, or for so long a time
+      as shall by me be enjoined upon him, as we agreed before engaging in this
+      combat."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The viceroy, Don Antonio, and several others who were present heard all
+      this, and heard too how Don Quixote replied that so long as nothing in
+      prejudice of Dulcinea was demanded of him, he would observe all the rest
+      like a true and loyal knight. The engagement given, he of the White Moon
+      wheeled about, and making obeisance to the viceroy with a movement of the
+      head, rode away into the city at a half gallop. The viceroy bade Don
+      Antonio hasten after him, and by some means or other find out who he was.
+      They raised Don Quixote up and uncovered his face, and found him pale and
+      bathed with sweat.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p64b" id="p64b"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p64b.jpg (344K)" src="images/p64b.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p64b.jpg"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br />
+      <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Rocinante from the mere hard measure he had received lay unable to stir
+      for the present. Sancho, wholly dejected and woebegone, knew not what to
+      say or do. He fancied that all was a dream, that the whole business was a
+      piece of enchantment. Here was his master defeated, and bound not to take
+      up arms for a year. He saw the light of the glory of his achievements
+      obscured; the hopes of the promises lately made him swept away like smoke
+      before the wind; Rocinante, he feared, was crippled for life, and his
+      master's bones out of joint; for if he were only shaken out of his madness
+      it would be no small luck. In the end they carried him into the city in a
+      hand-chair which the viceroy sent for, and thither the viceroy himself
+      returned, eager to ascertain who this Knight of the White Moon was who had
+      left Don Quixote in such a sad plight.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p64e" id="p64e"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p64e.jpg (44K)" src="images/p64e.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p64e.jpg"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br />
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      <a name="ch65b" id="ch65b"></a>CHAPTER LXV.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      WHEREIN IS MADE KNOWN WHO THE KNIGHT OF THE WHITE MOON WAS; LIKEWISE DON
+      GREGORIO'S RELEASE, AND OTHER EVENTS
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <a name="p65a" id="p65a"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p65a.jpg (149K)" src="images/p65a.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p65a.jpg"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br />
+      <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Don Antonio Moreno followed the Knight of the White Moon, and a number of
+      boys followed him too, nay pursued him, until they had him fairly housed
+      in a hostel in the heart of the city. Don Antonio, eager to make his
+      acquaintance, entered also; a squire came out to meet him and remove his
+      armour, and he shut himself into a lower room, still attended by Don
+      Antonio, whose bread would not bake until he had found out who he was. He
+      of the White Moon, seeing then that the gentleman would not leave him,
+      said, "I know very well, senor, what you have come for; it is to find out
+      who I am; and as there is no reason why I should conceal it from you,
+      while my servant here is taking off my armour I will tell you the true
+      state of the case, without leaving out anything. You must know, senor,
+      that I am called the bachelor Samson Carrasco. I am of the same village as
+      Don Quixote of La Mancha, whose craze and folly make all of us who know
+      him feel pity for him, and I am one of those who have felt it most; and
+      persuaded that his chance of recovery lay in quiet and keeping at home and
+      in his own house, I hit upon a device for keeping him there. Three months
+      ago, therefore, I went out to meet him as a knight-errant, under the
+      assumed name of the Knight of the Mirrors, intending to engage him in
+      combat and overcome him without hurting him, making it the condition of
+      our combat that the vanquished should be at the disposal of the victor.
+      What I meant to demand of him (for I regarded him as vanquished already)
+      was that he should return to his own village, and not leave it for a whole
+      year, by which time he might be cured. But fate ordered it otherwise, for
+      he vanquished me and unhorsed me, and so my plan failed. He went his way,
+      and I came back conquered, covered with shame, and sorely bruised by my
+      fall, which was a particularly dangerous one. But this did not quench my
+      desire to meet him again and overcome him, as you have seen to-day. And as
+      he is so scrupulous in his observance of the laws of knight-errantry, he
+      will, no doubt, in order to keep his word, obey the injunction I have laid
+      upon him. This, senor, is how the matter stands, and I have nothing more
+      to tell you. I implore of you not to betray me, or tell Don Quixote who I
+      am; so that my honest endeavours may be successful, and that a man of
+      excellent wits&mdash;were he only rid of the fooleries of chivalry&mdash;may
+      get them back again."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "O senor," said Don Antonio, "may God forgive you the wrong you have done
+      the whole world in trying to bring the most amusing madman in it back to
+      his senses. Do you not see, senor, that the gain by Don Quixote's sanity
+      can never equal the enjoyment his crazes give? But my belief is that all
+      the senor bachelor's pains will be of no avail to bring a man so
+      hopelessly cracked to his senses again; and if it were not uncharitable, I
+      would say may Don Quixote never be cured, for by his recovery we lose not
+      only his own drolleries, but his squire Sancho Panza's too, any one of
+      which is enough to turn melancholy itself into merriment. However, I'll
+      hold my peace and say nothing to him, and we'll see whether I am right in
+      my suspicion that Senor Carrasco's efforts will be fruitless."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The bachelor replied that at all events the affair promised well, and he
+      hoped for a happy result from it; and putting his services at Don
+      Antonio's commands he took his leave of him; and having had his armour
+      packed at once upon a mule, he rode away from the city the same day on the
+      horse he rode to battle, and returned to his own country without meeting
+      any adventure calling for record in this veracious history.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Don Antonio reported to the viceroy what Carrasco told him, and the
+      viceroy was not very well pleased to hear it, for with Don Quixote's
+      retirement there was an end to the amusement of all who knew anything of
+      his mad doings.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Six days did Don Quixote keep his bed, dejected, melancholy, moody and out
+      of sorts, brooding over the unhappy event of his defeat. Sancho strove to
+      comfort him, and among other things he said to him, "Hold up your head,
+      senor, and be of good cheer if you can, and give thanks to heaven that if
+      you have had a tumble to the ground you have not come off with a broken
+      rib; and, as you know that 'where they give they take,' and that 'there
+      are not always fletches where there are pegs,' a fig for the doctor, for
+      there's no need of him to cure this ailment. Let us go home, and give over
+      going about in search of adventures in strange lands and places; rightly
+      looked at, it is I that am the greater loser, though it is your worship
+      that has had the worse usage. With the government I gave up all wish to be
+      a governor again, but I did not give up all longing to be a count; and
+      that will never come to pass if your worship gives up becoming a king by
+      renouncing the calling of chivalry; and so my hopes are going to turn into
+      smoke."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Peace, Sancho," said Don Quixote; "thou seest my suspension and
+      retirement is not to exceed a year; I shall soon return to my honoured
+      calling, and I shall not be at a loss for a kingdom to win and a county to
+      bestow on thee."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "May God hear it and sin be deaf," said Sancho; "I have always heard say
+      that 'a good hope is better than a bad holding."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      As they were talking Don Antonio came in looking extremely pleased and
+      exclaiming, "Reward me for my good news, Senor Don Quixote! Don Gregorio
+      and the renegade who went for him have come ashore&mdash;ashore do I say?
+      They are by this time in the viceroy's house, and will be here
+      immediately."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Don Quixote cheered up a little and said, "Of a truth I am almost ready to
+      say I should have been glad had it turned out just the other way, for it
+      would have obliged me to cross over to Barbary, where by the might of my
+      arm I should have restored to liberty, not only Don Gregorio, but all the
+      Christian captives there are in Barbary. But what am I saying, miserable
+      being that I am? Am I not he that has been conquered? Am I not he that has
+      been overthrown? Am I not he who must not take up arms for a year? Then
+      what am I making professions for; what am I bragging about; when it is
+      fitter for me to handle the distaff than the sword?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "No more of that, senor," said Sancho; "'let the hen live, even though it
+      be with her pip; 'today for thee and to-morrow for me;' in these affairs
+      of encounters and whacks one must not mind them, for he that falls to-day
+      may get up to-morrow; unless indeed he chooses to lie in bed, I mean gives
+      way to weakness and does not pluck up fresh spirit for fresh battles; let
+      your worship get up now to receive Don Gregorio; for the household seems
+      to be in a bustle, and no doubt he has come by this time;" and so it
+      proved, for as soon as Don Gregorio and the renegade had given the viceroy
+      an account of the voyage out and home, Don Gregorio, eager to see Ana
+      Felix, came with the renegade to Don Antonio's house. When they carried
+      him away from Algiers he was in woman's dress; on board the vessel,
+      however, he exchanged it for that of a captive who escaped with him; but
+      in whatever dress he might be he looked like one to be loved and served
+      and esteemed, for he was surpassingly well-favoured, and to judge by
+      appearances some seventeen or eighteen years of age. Ricote and his
+      daughter came out to welcome him, the father with tears, the daughter with
+      bashfulness. They did not embrace each other, for where there is deep love
+      there will never be overmuch boldness. Seen side by side, the comeliness
+      of Don Gregorio and the beauty of Ana Felix were the admiration of all who
+      were present. It was silence that spoke for the lovers at that moment, and
+      their eyes were the tongues that declared their pure and happy feelings.
+      The renegade explained the measures and means he had adopted to rescue Don
+      Gregorio, and Don Gregorio at no great length, but in a few words, in
+      which he showed that his intelligence was in advance of his years,
+      described the peril and embarrassment he found himself in among the women
+      with whom he had sojourned. To conclude, Ricote liberally recompensed and
+      rewarded as well the renegade as the men who had rowed; and the renegade
+      effected his readmission into the body of the Church and was reconciled
+      with it, and from a rotten limb became by penance and repentance a clean
+      and sound one.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Two days later the viceroy discussed with Don Antonio the steps they
+      should take to enable Ana Felix and her father to stay in Spain, for it
+      seemed to them there could be no objection to a daughter who was so good a
+      Christian and a father to all appearance so well disposed remaining there.
+      Don Antonio offered to arrange the matter at the capital, whither he was
+      compelled to go on some other business, hinting that many a difficult
+      affair was settled there with the help of favour and bribes.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Nay," said Ricote, who was present during the conversation, "it will not
+      do to rely upon favour or bribes, because with the great Don Bernardino de
+      Velasco, Conde de Salazar, to whom his Majesty has entrusted our
+      expulsion, neither entreaties nor promises, bribes nor appeals to
+      compassion, are of any use; for though it is true he mingles mercy with
+      justice, still, seeing that the whole body of our nation is tainted and
+      corrupt, he applies to it the cautery that burns rather than the salve
+      that soothes; and thus, by prudence, sagacity, care and the fear he
+      inspires, he has borne on his mighty shoulders the weight of this great
+      policy and carried it into effect, all our schemes and plots,
+      importunities and wiles, being ineffectual to blind his Argus eyes, ever
+      on the watch lest one of us should remain behind in concealment, and like
+      a hidden root come in course of time to sprout and bear poisonous fruit in
+      Spain, now cleansed, and relieved of the fear in which our vast numbers
+      kept it. Heroic resolve of the great Philip the Third, and unparalleled
+      wisdom to have entrusted it to the said Don Bernardino de Velasco!"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "At any rate," said Don Antonio, "when I am there I will make all possible
+      efforts, and let heaven do as pleases it best; Don Gregorio will come with
+      me to relieve the anxiety which his parents must be suffering on account
+      of his absence; Ana Felix will remain in my house with my wife, or in a
+      monastery; and I know the viceroy will be glad that the worthy Ricote
+      should stay with him until we see what terms I can make."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The viceroy agreed to all that was proposed; but Don Gregorio on learning
+      what had passed declared he could not and would not on any account leave
+      Ana Felix; however, as it was his purpose to go and see his parents and
+      devise some way of returning for her, he fell in with the proposed
+      arrangement. Ana Felix remained with Don Antonio's wife, and Ricote in the
+      viceroy's house.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The day for Don Antonio's departure came; and two days later that for Don
+      Quixote's and Sancho's, for Don Quixote's fall did not suffer him to take
+      the road sooner. There were tears and sighs, swoonings and sobs, at the
+      parting between Don Gregorio and Ana Felix. Ricote offered Don Gregorio a
+      thousand crowns if he would have them, but he would not take any save five
+      which Don Antonio lent him and he promised to repay at the capital. So the
+      two of them took their departure, and Don Quixote and Sancho afterwards,
+      as has been already said, Don Quixote without his armour and in travelling
+      gear, and Sancho on foot, Dapple being loaded with the armour.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p65e" id="p65e"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p65e.jpg (43K)" src="images/p65e.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      <a name="ch66b" id="ch66b"></a>CHAPTER LXVI.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      WHICH TREATS OF WHAT HE WHO READS WILL SEE, OR WHAT HE WHO HAS IT READ TO
+      HIM WILL HEAR
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <a name="p66a" id="p66a"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p66a.jpg (125K)" src="images/p66a.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p66a.jpg"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br />
+      <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      As he left Barcelona, Don Quixote turned gaze upon the spot where he had
+      fallen. "Here Troy was," said he; "here my ill-luck, not my cowardice,
+      robbed me of all the glory I had won; here Fortune made me the victim of
+      her caprices; here the lustre of my achievements was dimmed; here, in a
+      word, fell my happiness never to rise again."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p66b" id="p66b"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p66b.jpg (251K)" src="images/p66b.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p66b.jpg"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br />
+      <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Senor," said Sancho on hearing this, "it is the part of brave hearts to
+      be patient in adversity just as much as to be glad in prosperity; I judge
+      by myself, for, if when I was a governor I was glad, now that I am a
+      squire and on foot I am not sad; and I have heard say that she whom
+      commonly they call Fortune is a drunken whimsical jade, and, what is more,
+      blind, and therefore neither sees what she does, nor knows whom she casts
+      down or whom she sets up."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Thou art a great philosopher, Sancho," said Don Quixote; "thou speakest
+      very sensibly; I know not who taught thee. But I can tell thee there is no
+      such thing as Fortune in the world, nor does anything which takes place
+      there, be it good or bad, come about by chance, but by the special
+      preordination of heaven; and hence the common saying that 'each of us is
+      the maker of his own Fortune.' I have been that of mine; but not with the
+      proper amount of prudence, and my self-confidence has therefore made me
+      pay dearly; for I ought to have reflected that Rocinante's feeble strength
+      could not resist the mighty bulk of the Knight of the White Moon's horse.
+      In a word, I ventured it, I did my best, I was overthrown, but though I
+      lost my honour I did not lose nor can I lose the virtue of keeping my
+      word. When I was a knight-errant, daring and valiant, I supported my
+      achievements by hand and deed, and now that I am a humble squire I will
+      support my words by keeping the promise I have given. Forward then, Sancho
+      my friend, let us go to keep the year of the novitiate in our own country,
+      and in that seclusion we shall pick up fresh strength to return to the by
+      me never-forgotten calling of arms."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Senor," returned Sancho, "travelling on foot is not such a pleasant thing
+      that it makes me feel disposed or tempted to make long marches. Let us
+      leave this armour hung up on some tree, instead of some one that has been
+      hanged; and then with me on Dapple's back and my feet off the ground we
+      will arrange the stages as your worship pleases to measure them out; but
+      to suppose that I am going to travel on foot, and make long ones, is to
+      suppose nonsense."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Thou sayest well, Sancho," said Don Quixote; "let my armour be hung up
+      for a trophy, and under it or round it we will carve on the trees what was
+      inscribed on the trophy of Roland's armour-
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      These let none move<br /> Who dareth not his might with Roland prove."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "That's the very thing," said Sancho; "and if it was not that we should
+      feel the want of Rocinante on the road, it would be as well to leave him
+      hung up too."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "And yet, I had rather not have either him or the armour hung up," said
+      Don Quixote, "that it may not be said, 'for good service a bad return.'"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Your worship is right," said Sancho; "for, as sensible people hold, 'the
+      fault of the ass must not be laid on the pack-saddle;' and, as in this
+      affair the fault is your worship's, punish yourself and don't let your
+      anger break out against the already battered and bloody armour, or the
+      meekness of Rocinante, or the tenderness of my feet, trying to make them
+      travel more than is reasonable."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p66c" id="p66c"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p66c.jpg (389K)" src="images/p66c.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p66c.jpg"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br />
+      <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      In converse of this sort the whole of that day went by, as did the four
+      succeeding ones, without anything occurring to interrupt their journey,
+      but on the fifth as they entered a village they found a great number of
+      people at the door of an inn enjoying themselves, as it was a holiday.
+      Upon Don Quixote's approach a peasant called out, "One of these two
+      gentlemen who come here, and who don't know the parties, will tell us what
+      we ought to do about our wager."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "That I will, certainly," said Don Quixote, "and according to the rights
+      of the case, if I can manage to understand it."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Well, here it is, worthy sir," said the peasant; "a man of this village
+      who is so fat that he weighs twenty stone challenged another, a neighbour
+      of his, who does not weigh more than nine, to run a race. The agreement
+      was that they were to run a distance of a hundred paces with equal
+      weights; and when the challenger was asked how the weights were to be
+      equalised he said that the other, as he weighed nine stone, should put
+      eleven in iron on his back, and that in this way the twenty stone of the
+      thin man would equal the twenty stone of the fat one."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Not at all," exclaimed Sancho at once, before Don Quixote could answer;
+      "it's for me, that only a few days ago left off being a governor and a
+      judge, as all the world knows, to settle these doubtful questions and give
+      an opinion in disputes of all sorts."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Answer in God's name, Sancho my friend," said Don Quixote, "for I am not
+      fit to give crumbs to a cat, my wits are so confused and upset."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      With this permission Sancho said to the peasants who stood clustered round
+      him, waiting with open mouths for the decision to come from his,
+      "Brothers, what the fat man requires is not in reason, nor has it a shadow
+      of justice in it; because, if it be true, as they say, that the challenged
+      may choose the weapons, the other has no right to choose such as will
+      prevent and keep him from winning. My decision, therefore, is that the fat
+      challenger prune, peel, thin, trim and correct himself, and take eleven
+      stone of his flesh off his body, here or there, as he pleases, and as
+      suits him best; and being in this way reduced to nine stone weight, he
+      will make himself equal and even with nine stone of his opponent, and they
+      will be able to run on equal terms."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "By all that's good," said one of the peasants as he heard Sancho's
+      decision, "but the gentleman has spoken like a saint, and given judgment
+      like a canon! But I'll be bound the fat man won't part with an ounce of
+      his flesh, not to say eleven stone."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "The best plan will be for them not to run," said another, "so that
+      neither the thin man break down under the weight, nor the fat one strip
+      himself of his flesh; let half the wager be spent in wine, and let's take
+      these gentlemen to the tavern where there's the best, and 'over me be the
+      cloak when it rains."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I thank you, sirs," said Don Quixote; "but I cannot stop for an instant,
+      for sad thoughts and unhappy circumstances force me to seem discourteous
+      and to travel apace;" and spurring Rocinante he pushed on, leaving them
+      wondering at what they had seen and heard, at his own strange figure and
+      at the shrewdness of his servant, for such they took Sancho to be; and
+      another of them observed, "If the servant is so clever, what must the
+      master be? I'll bet, if they are going to Salamanca to study, they'll come
+      to be alcaldes of the Court in a trice; for it's a mere joke&mdash;only to
+      read and read, and have interest and good luck; and before a man knows
+      where he is he finds himself with a staff in his hand or a mitre on his
+      head."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      That night master and man passed out in the fields in the open air, and
+      the next day as they were pursuing their journey they saw coming towards
+      them a man on foot with alforjas at the neck and a javelin or spiked staff
+      in his hand, the very cut of a foot courier; who, as soon as he came close
+      to Don Quixote, increased his pace and half running came up to him, and
+      embracing his right thigh, for he could reach no higher, exclaimed with
+      evident pleasure, "O Senor Don Quixote of La Mancha, what happiness it
+      will be to the heart of my lord the duke when he knows your worship is
+      coming back to his castle, for he is still there with my lady the
+      duchess!"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I do not recognise you, friend," said Don Quixote, "nor do I know who you
+      are, unless you tell me."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I am Tosilos, my lord the duke's lacquey, Senor Don Quixote," replied the
+      courier; "he who refused to fight your worship about marrying the daughter
+      of Dona Rodriguez."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "God bless me!" exclaimed Don Quixote; "is it possible that you are the
+      one whom mine enemies the enchanters changed into the lacquey you speak of
+      in order to rob me of the honour of that battle?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Nonsense, good sir!" said the messenger; "there was no enchantment or
+      transformation at all; I entered the lists just as much lacquey Tosilos as
+      I came out of them lacquey Tosilos. I thought to marry without fighting,
+      for the girl had taken my fancy; but my scheme had a very different
+      result, for as soon as your worship had left the castle my lord the duke
+      had a hundred strokes of the stick given me for having acted contrary to
+      the orders he gave me before engaging in the combat; and the end of the
+      whole affair is that the girl has become a nun, and Dona Rodriguez has
+      gone back to Castile, and I am now on my way to Barcelona with a packet of
+      letters for the viceroy which my master is sending him. If your worship
+      would like a drop, sound though warm, I have a gourd here full of the
+      best, and some scraps of Tronchon cheese that will serve as a provocative
+      and wakener of your thirst if so be it is asleep."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I take the offer," said Sancho; "no more compliments about it; pour out,
+      good Tosilos, in spite of all the enchanters in the Indies."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Thou art indeed the greatest glutton in the world, Sancho," said Don
+      Quixote, "and the greatest booby on earth, not to be able to see that this
+      courier is enchanted and this Tosilos a sham one; stop with him and take
+      thy fill; I will go on slowly and wait for thee to come up with me."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The lacquey laughed, unsheathed his gourd, unwalletted his scraps, and
+      taking out a small loaf of bread he and Sancho seated themselves on the
+      green grass, and in peace and good fellowship finished off the contents of
+      the alforjas down to the bottom, so resolutely that they licked the
+      wrapper of the letters, merely because it smelt of cheese.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Said Tosilos to Sancho, "Beyond a doubt, Sancho my friend, this master of
+      thine ought to be a madman."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Ought!" said Sancho; "he owes no man anything; he pays for everything,
+      particularly when the coin is madness. I see it plain enough, and I tell
+      him so plain enough; but what's the use? especially now that it is all
+      over with him, for here he is beaten by the Knight of the White Moon."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Tosilos begged him to explain what had happened him, but Sancho replied
+      that it would not be good manners to leave his master waiting for him; and
+      that some other day if they met there would be time enough for that; and
+      then getting up, after shaking his doublet and brushing the crumbs out of
+      his beard, he drove Dapple on before him, and bidding adieu to Tosilos
+      left him and rejoined his master, who was waiting for him under the shade
+      of a tree.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p66e" id="p66e"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p66e.jpg (29K)" src="images/p66e.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      <a name="ch67b" id="ch67b"></a>CHAPTER LXVII.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      OF THE RESOLUTION DON QUIXOTE FORMED TO TURN SHEPHERD AND TAKE TO A LIFE
+      IN THE FIELDS WHILE THE YEAR FOR WHICH HE HAD GIVEN HIS WORD WAS RUNNING
+      ITS COURSE; WITH OTHER EVENTS TRULY DELECTABLE AND HAPPY
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <a name="p67a" id="p67a"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p67a.jpg (145K)" src="images/p67a.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p67a.jpg"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br />
+      <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      If a multitude of reflections used to harass Don Quixote before he had
+      been overthrown, a great many more harassed him since his fall. He was
+      under the shade of a tree, as has been said, and there, like flies on
+      honey, thoughts came crowding upon him and stinging him. Some of them
+      turned upon the disenchantment of Dulcinea, others upon the life he was
+      about to lead in his enforced retirement. Sancho came up and spoke in high
+      praise of the generous disposition of the lacquey Tosilos.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Is it possible, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "that thou dost still think
+      that he yonder is a real lacquey? Apparently it has escaped thy memory
+      that thou hast seen Dulcinea turned and transformed into a peasant wench,
+      and the Knight of the Mirrors into the bachelor Carrasco; all the work of
+      the enchanters that persecute me. But tell me now, didst thou ask this
+      Tosilos, as thou callest him, what has become of Altisidora, did she weep
+      over my absence, or has she already consigned to oblivion the love
+      thoughts that used to afflict her when I was present?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "The thoughts that I had," said Sancho, "were not such as to leave time
+      for asking fool's questions. Body o' me, senor! is your worship in a
+      condition now to inquire into other people's thoughts, above all love
+      thoughts?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Look ye, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "there is a great difference between
+      what is done out of love and what is done out of gratitude. A knight may
+      very possibly be proof against love; but it is impossible, strictly
+      speaking, for him to be ungrateful. Altisidora, to all appearance, loved
+      me truly; she gave me the three kerchiefs thou knowest of; she wept at my
+      departure, she cursed me, she abused me, casting shame to the winds she
+      bewailed herself in public; all signs that she adored me; for the wrath of
+      lovers always ends in curses. I had no hopes to give her, nor treasures to
+      offer her, for mine are given to Dulcinea, and the treasures of
+      knights-errant are like those of the fairies,' illusory and deceptive; all
+      I can give her is the place in my memory I keep for her, without
+      prejudice, however, to that which I hold devoted to Dulcinea, whom thou
+      art wronging by thy remissness in whipping thyself and scourging that
+      flesh&mdash;would that I saw it eaten by wolves&mdash;which would rather
+      keep itself for the worms than for the relief of that poor lady."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Senor," replied Sancho, "if the truth is to be told, I cannot persuade
+      myself that the whipping of my backside has anything to do with the
+      disenchantment of the enchanted; it is like saying, 'If your head aches
+      rub ointment on your knees;' at any rate I'll make bold to swear that in
+      all the histories dealing with knight-errantry that your worship has read
+      you have never come across anybody disenchanted by whipping; but whether
+      or no I'll whip myself when I have a fancy for it, and the opportunity
+      serves for scourging myself comfortably."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "God grant it," said Don Quixote; "and heaven give thee grace to take it
+      to heart and own the obligation thou art under to help my lady, who is
+      thine also, inasmuch as thou art mine."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      As they pursued their journey talking in this way they came to the very
+      same spot where they had been trampled on by the bulls. Don Quixote
+      recognised it, and said he to Sancho, "This is the meadow where we came
+      upon those gay shepherdesses and gallant shepherds who were trying to
+      revive and imitate the pastoral Arcadia there, an idea as novel as it was
+      happy, in emulation whereof, if so be thou dost approve of it, Sancho, I
+      would have ourselves turn shepherds, at any rate for the time I have to
+      live in retirement. I will buy some ewes and everything else requisite for
+      the pastoral calling; and, I under the name of the shepherd Quixotize and
+      thou as the shepherd Panzino, we will roam the woods and groves and
+      meadows singing songs here, lamenting in elegies there, drinking of the
+      crystal waters of the springs or limpid brooks or flowing rivers. The oaks
+      will yield us their sweet fruit with bountiful hand, the trunks of the
+      hard cork trees a seat, the willows shade, the roses perfume, the
+      widespread meadows carpets tinted with a thousand dyes; the clear pure air
+      will give us breath, the moon and stars lighten the darkness of the night
+      for us, song shall be our delight, lamenting our joy, Apollo will supply
+      us with verses, and love with conceits whereby we shall make ourselves
+      famed for ever, not only in this but in ages to come."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Egad," said Sancho, "but that sort of life squares, nay corners, with my
+      notions; and what is more the bachelor Samson Carrasco and Master Nicholas
+      the barber won't have well seen it before they'll want to follow it and
+      turn shepherds along with us; and God grant it may not come into the
+      curate's head to join the sheepfold too, he's so jovial and fond of
+      enjoying himself."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Thou art in the right of it, Sancho," said Don Quixote; "and the bachelor
+      Samson Carrasco, if he enters the pastoral fraternity, as no doubt he
+      will, may call himself the shepherd Samsonino, or perhaps the shepherd
+      Carrascon; Nicholas the barber may call himself Niculoso, as old Boscan
+      formerly was called Nemoroso; as for the curate I don't know what name we
+      can fit to him unless it be something derived from his title, and we call
+      him the shepherd Curiambro. For the shepherdesses whose lovers we shall
+      be, we can pick names as we would pears; and as my lady's name does just
+      as well for a shepherdess's as for a princess's, I need not trouble myself
+      to look for one that will suit her better; to thine, Sancho, thou canst
+      give what name thou wilt."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I don't mean to give her any but Teresona," said Sancho, "which will go
+      well with her stoutness and with her own right name, as she is called
+      Teresa; and then when I sing her praises in my verses I'll show how chaste
+      my passion is, for I'm not going to look 'for better bread than ever came
+      from wheat' in other men's houses. It won't do for the curate to have a
+      shepherdess, for the sake of good example; and if the bachelor chooses to
+      have one, that is his look-out."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "God bless me, Sancho my friend!" said Don Quixote, "what a life we shall
+      lead! What hautboys and Zamora bagpipes we shall hear, what tabors,
+      timbrels, and rebecks! And then if among all these different sorts of
+      music that of the albogues is heard, almost all the pastoral instruments
+      will be there."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "What are albogues?" asked Sancho, "for I never in my life heard tell of
+      them or saw them."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Albogues," said Don Quixote, "are brass plates like candlesticks that
+      struck against one another on the hollow side make a noise which, if not
+      very pleasing or harmonious, is not disagreeable and accords very well
+      with the rude notes of the bagpipe and tabor. The word albogue is Morisco,
+      as are all those in our Spanish tongue that begin with al; for example,
+      almohaza, almorzar, alhombra, alguacil, alhucema, almacen, alcancia, and
+      others of the same sort, of which there are not many more; our language
+      has only three that are Morisco and end in i, which are borcegui,
+      zaquizami, and maravedi. Alheli and alfaqui are seen to be Arabic, as well
+      by the "al" at the beginning as by the "i" they end with. I mention this
+      incidentally, the chance allusion to albogues having reminded me of it;
+      and it will be of great assistance to us in the perfect practice of this
+      calling that I am something of a poet, as thou knowest, and that besides
+      the bachelor Samson Carrasco is an accomplished one. Of the curate I say
+      nothing; but I will wager he has some spice of the poet in him, and no
+      doubt Master Nicholas too, for all barbers, or most of them, are guitar
+      players and stringers of verses. I will bewail my separation; thou shalt
+      glorify thyself as a constant lover; the shepherd Carrascon will figure as
+      a rejected one, and the curate Curiambro as whatever may please him best;
+      and so all will go as gaily as heart could wish."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      To this Sancho made answer, "I am so unlucky, senor, that I'm afraid the
+      day will never come when I'll see myself at such a calling. O what neat
+      spoons I'll make when I'm a shepherd! What messes, creams, garlands,
+      pastoral odds and ends! And if they don't get me a name for wisdom,
+      they'll not fail to get me one for ingenuity. My daughter Sanchica will
+      bring us our dinner to the pasture. But stay&mdash;she's good-looking, and
+      shepherds there are with more mischief than simplicity in them; I would
+      not have her 'come for wool and go back shorn;' love-making and lawless
+      desires are just as common in the fields as in the cities, and in
+      shepherds' shanties as in royal palaces; 'do away with the cause, you do
+      away with the sin;' 'if eyes don't see hearts don't break' and 'better a
+      clear escape than good men's prayers.'"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "A truce to thy proverbs, Sancho," exclaimed Don Quixote; "any one of
+      those thou hast uttered would suffice to explain thy meaning; many a time
+      have I recommended thee not to be so lavish with proverbs and to exercise
+      some moderation in delivering them; but it seems to me it is only
+      'preaching in the desert;' 'my mother beats me and I go on with my
+      tricks."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "It seems to me," said Sancho, "that your worship is like the common
+      saying, 'Said the frying-pan to the kettle, Get away, blackbreech.' You
+      chide me for uttering proverbs, and you string them in couples yourself."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Observe, Sancho," replied Don Quixote, "I bring in proverbs to the
+      purpose, and when I quote them they fit like a ring to the finger; thou
+      bringest them in by the head and shoulders, in such a way that thou dost
+      drag them in, rather than introduce them; if I am not mistaken, I have
+      told thee already that proverbs are short maxims drawn from the experience
+      and observation of our wise men of old; but the proverb that is not to the
+      purpose is a piece of nonsense and not a maxim. But enough of this; as
+      nightfall is drawing on let us retire some little distance from the high
+      road to pass the night; what is in store for us to-morrow God knoweth."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      They turned aside, and supped late and poorly, very much against Sancho's
+      will, who turned over in his mind the hardships attendant upon
+      knight-errantry in woods and forests, even though at times plenty
+      presented itself in castles and houses, as at Don Diego de Miranda's, at
+      the wedding of Camacho the Rich, and at Don Antonio Moreno's; he
+      reflected, however, that it could not be always day, nor always night; and
+      so that night he passed in sleeping, and his master in waking.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p67e" id="p67e"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p67e.jpg (55K)" src="images/p67e.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      <a name="ch68b" id="ch68b"></a>CHAPTER LXVIII.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      OF THE BRISTLY ADVENTURE THAT BEFELL DON QUIXOTE
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <a name="p68a" id="p68a"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p68a.jpg (119K)" src="images/p68a.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p68a.jpg"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br />
+      <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The night was somewhat dark, for though there was a moon in the sky it was
+      not in a quarter where she could be seen; for sometimes the lady Diana
+      goes on a stroll to the antipodes, and leaves the mountains all black and
+      the valleys in darkness. Don Quixote obeyed nature so far as to sleep his
+      first sleep, but did not give way to the second, very different from
+      Sancho, who never had any second, because with him sleep lasted from night
+      till morning, wherein he showed what a sound constitution and few cares he
+      had. Don Quixote's cares kept him restless, so much so that he awoke
+      Sancho and said to him, "I am amazed, Sancho, at the unconcern of thy
+      temperament. I believe thou art made of marble or hard brass, incapable of
+      any emotion or feeling whatever. I lie awake while thou sleepest, I weep
+      while thou singest, I am faint with fasting while thou art sluggish and
+      torpid from pure repletion. It is the duty of good servants to share the
+      sufferings and feel the sorrows of their masters, if it be only for the
+      sake of appearances. See the calmness of the night, the solitude of the
+      spot, inviting us to break our slumbers by a vigil of some sort. Rise as
+      thou livest, and retire a little distance, and with a good heart and
+      cheerful courage give thyself three or four hundred lashes on account of
+      Dulcinea's disenchantment score; and this I entreat of thee, making it a
+      request, for I have no desire to come to grips with thee a second time, as
+      I know thou hast a heavy hand. As soon as thou hast laid them on we will
+      pass the rest of the night, I singing my separation, thou thy constancy,
+      making a beginning at once with the pastoral life we are to follow at our
+      village."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Senor," replied Sancho, "I'm no monk to get up out of the middle of my
+      sleep and scourge myself, nor does it seem to me that one can pass from
+      one extreme of the pain of whipping to the other of music. Will your
+      worship let me sleep, and not worry me about whipping myself? or you'll
+      make me swear never to touch a hair of my doublet, not to say my flesh."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "O hard heart!" said Don Quixote, "O pitiless squire! O bread ill-bestowed
+      and favours ill-acknowledged, both those I have done thee and those I mean
+      to do thee! Through me hast thou seen thyself a governor, and through me
+      thou seest thyself in immediate expectation of being a count, or obtaining
+      some other equivalent title, for I&mdash;post tenebras spero lucem."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I don't know what that is," said Sancho; "all I know is that so long as I
+      am asleep I have neither fear nor hope, trouble nor glory; and good luck
+      betide him that invented sleep, the cloak that covers over all a man's
+      thoughts, the food that removes hunger, the drink that drives away thirst,
+      the fire that warms the cold, the cold that tempers the heat, and, to wind
+      up with, the universal coin wherewith everything is bought, the weight and
+      balance that makes the shepherd equal with the king and the fool with the
+      wise man. Sleep, I have heard say, has only one fault, that it is like
+      death; for between a sleeping man and a dead man there is very little
+      difference."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Never have I heard thee speak so elegantly as now, Sancho," said Don
+      Quixote; "and here I begin to see the truth of the proverb thou dost
+      sometimes quote, 'Not with whom thou art bred, but with whom thou art
+      fed.'"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Ha, by my life, master mine," said Sancho, "it's not I that am stringing
+      proverbs now, for they drop in pairs from your worship's mouth faster than
+      from mine; only there is this difference between mine and yours, that
+      yours are well-timed and mine are untimely; but anyhow, they are all
+      proverbs."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      At this point they became aware of a harsh indistinct noise that seemed to
+      spread through all the valleys around. Don Quixote stood up and laid his
+      hand upon his sword, and Sancho ensconced himself under Dapple and put the
+      bundle of armour on one side of him and the ass's pack-saddle on the
+      other, in fear and trembling as great as Don Quixote's perturbation. Each
+      instant the noise increased and came nearer to the two terrified men, or
+      at least to one, for as to the other, his courage is known to all. The
+      fact of the matter was that some men were taking above six hundred pigs to
+      sell at a fair, and were on their way with them at that hour, and so great
+      was the noise they made and their grunting and blowing, that they deafened
+      the ears of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, and they could not make out what
+      it was. The wide-spread grunting drove came on in a surging mass, and
+      without showing any respect for Don Quixote's dignity or Sancho's, passed
+      right over the pair of them, demolishing Sancho's entrenchments, and not
+      only upsetting Don Quixote but sweeping Rocinante off his feet into the
+      bargain; and what with the trampling and the grunting, and the pace at
+      which the unclean beasts went, pack-saddle, armour, Dapple and Rocinante
+      were left scattered on the ground and Sancho and Don Quixote at their
+      wits' end.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Sancho got up as well as he could and begged his master to give him his
+      sword, saying he wanted to kill half a dozen of those dirty unmannerly
+      pigs, for he had by this time found out that that was what they were.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Let them be, my friend," said Don Quixote; "this insult is the penalty of
+      my sin; and it is the righteous chastisement of heaven that jackals should
+      devour a vanquished knight, and wasps sting him and pigs trample him under
+      foot."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I suppose it is the chastisement of heaven, too," said Sancho, "that
+      flies should prick the squires of vanquished knights, and lice eat them,
+      and hunger assail them. If we squires were the sons of the knights we
+      serve, or their very near relations, it would be no wonder if the penalty
+      of their misdeeds overtook us, even to the fourth generation. But what
+      have the Panzas to do with the Quixotes? Well, well, let's lie down again
+      and sleep out what little of the night there's left, and God will send us
+      dawn and we shall be all right."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p68b" id="p68b"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p68b.jpg (345K)" src="images/p68b.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p68b.jpg"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br />
+      <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Sleep thou, Sancho," returned Don Quixote, "for thou wast born to sleep
+      as I was born to watch; and during the time it now wants of dawn I will
+      give a loose rein to my thoughts, and seek a vent for them in a little
+      madrigal which, unknown to thee, I composed in my head last night."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I should think," said Sancho, "that the thoughts that allow one to make
+      verses cannot be of great consequence; let your worship string verses as
+      much as you like and I'll sleep as much as I can;" and forthwith, taking
+      the space of ground he required, he muffled himself up and fell into a
+      sound sleep, undisturbed by bond, debt, or trouble of any sort. Don
+      Quixote, propped up against the trunk of a beech or a cork tree&mdash;for
+      Cide Hamete does not specify what kind of tree it was&mdash;sang in this
+      strain to the accompaniment of his own sighs:
+    </p>
+<pre xml:space="preserve">
+  When in my mind
+I muse, O Love, upon thy cruelty,
+  To death I flee,
+In hope therein the end of all to find.
+
+  But drawing near
+That welcome haven in my sea of woe,
+  Such joy I know,
+That life revives, and still I linger here.
+
+  Thus life doth slay,
+And death again to life restoreth me;
+  Strange destiny,
+That deals with life and death as with a play!
+
+</pre>
+    <p>
+      He accompanied each verse with many sighs and not a few tears, just like
+      one whose heart was pierced with grief at his defeat and his separation
+      from Dulcinea.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      And now daylight came, and the sun smote Sancho on the eyes with his
+      beams. He awoke, roused himself up, shook himself and stretched his lazy
+      limbs, and seeing the havoc the pigs had made with his stores he cursed
+      the drove, and more besides. Then the pair resumed their journey, and as
+      evening closed in they saw coming towards them some ten men on horseback
+      and four or five on foot. Don Quixote's heart beat quick and Sancho's
+      quailed with fear, for the persons approaching them carried lances and
+      bucklers, and were in very warlike guise. Don Quixote turned to Sancho and
+      said, "If I could make use of my weapons, and my promise had not tied my
+      hands, I would count this host that comes against us but cakes and fancy
+      bread; but perhaps it may prove something different from what we
+      apprehend." The men on horseback now came up, and raising their lances
+      surrounded Don Quixote in silence, and pointed them at his back and
+      breast, menacing him with death. One of those on foot, putting his finger
+      to his lips as a sign to him to be silent, seized Rocinante's bridle and
+      drew him out of the road, and the others driving Sancho and Dapple before
+      them, and all maintaining a strange silence, followed in the steps of the
+      one who led Don Quixote. The latter two or three times attempted to ask
+      where they were taking him to and what they wanted, but the instant he
+      began to open his lips they threatened to close them with the points of
+      their lances; and Sancho fared the same way, for the moment he seemed
+      about to speak one of those on foot punched him with a goad, and Dapple
+      likewise, as if he too wanted to talk. Night set in, they quickened their
+      pace, and the fears of the two prisoners grew greater, especially as they
+      heard themselves assailed with&mdash;"Get on, ye Troglodytes;" "Silence,
+      ye barbarians;" "March, ye cannibals;" "No murmuring, ye Scythians;"
+      "Don't open your eyes, ye murderous Polyphemes, ye blood-thirsty lions,"
+      and suchlike names with which their captors harassed the ears of the
+      wretched master and man. Sancho went along saying to himself, "We,
+      tortolites, barbers, animals! I don't like those names at all; 'it's in a
+      bad wind our corn is being winnowed;' 'misfortune comes upon us all at
+      once like sticks on a dog,' and God grant it may be no worse than them
+      that this unlucky adventure has in store for us."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Don Quixote rode completely dazed, unable with the aid of all his wits to
+      make out what could be the meaning of these abusive names they called
+      them, and the only conclusion he could arrive at was that there was no
+      good to be hoped for and much evil to be feared. And now, about an hour
+      after midnight, they reached a castle which Don Quixote saw at once was
+      the duke's, where they had been but a short time before. "God bless me!"
+      said he, as he recognised the mansion, "what does this mean? It is all
+      courtesy and politeness in this house; but with the vanquished good turns
+      into evil, and evil into worse."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      They entered the chief court of the castle and found it prepared and
+      fitted up in a style that added to their amazement and doubled their
+      fears, as will be seen in the following chapter.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p68e" id="p68e"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p68e.jpg (49K)" src="images/p68e.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      <a name="ch69b" id="ch69b"></a>CHAPTER LXIX.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      OF THE STRANGEST AND MOST EXTRAORDINARY ADVENTURE THAT BEFELL DON QUIXOTE
+      IN THE WHOLE COURSE OF THIS GREAT HISTORY
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <a name="p69a" id="p69a"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p69a.jpg (141K)" src="images/p69a.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p69a.jpg"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br />
+      <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The horsemen dismounted, and, together with the men on foot, without a
+      moment's delay taking up Sancho and Don Quixote bodily, they carried them
+      into the court, all round which near a hundred torches fixed in sockets
+      were burning, besides above five hundred lamps in the corridors, so that
+      in spite of the night, which was somewhat dark, the want of daylight could
+      not be perceived. In the middle of the court was a catafalque, raised
+      about two yards above the ground and covered completely by an immense
+      canopy of black velvet, and on the steps all round it white wax tapers
+      burned in more than a hundred silver candlesticks. Upon the catafalque was
+      seen the dead body of a damsel so lovely that by her beauty she made death
+      itself look beautiful. She lay with her head resting upon a cushion of
+      brocade and crowned with a garland of sweet-smelling flowers of divers
+      sorts, her hands crossed upon her bosom, and between them a branch of
+      yellow palm of victory. On one side of the court was erected a stage,
+      where upon two chairs were seated two persons who from having crowns on
+      their heads and sceptres in their hands appeared to be kings of some sort,
+      whether real or mock ones. By the side of this stage, which was reached by
+      steps, were two other chairs on which the men carrying the prisoners
+      seated Don Quixote and Sancho, all in silence, and by signs giving them to
+      understand that they too were to be silent; which, however, they would
+      have been without any signs, for their amazement at all they saw held them
+      tongue-tied. And now two persons of distinction, who were at once
+      recognised by Don Quixote as his hosts the duke and duchess, ascended the
+      stage attended by a numerous suite, and seated themselves on two gorgeous
+      chairs close to the two kings, as they seemed to be. Who would not have
+      been amazed at this? Nor was this all, for Don Quixote had perceived that
+      the dead body on the catafalque was that of the fair Altisidora. As the
+      duke and duchess mounted the stage Don Quixote and Sancho rose and made
+      them a profound obeisance, which they returned by bowing their heads
+      slightly. At this moment an official crossed over, and approaching Sancho
+      threw over him a robe of black buckram painted all over with flames of
+      fire, and taking off his cap put upon his head a mitre such as those
+      undergoing the sentence of the Holy Office wear; and whispered in his ear
+      that he must not open his lips, or they would put a gag upon him, or take
+      his life. Sancho surveyed himself from head to foot and saw himself all
+      ablaze with flames; but as they did not burn him, he did not care two
+      farthings for them. He took off the mitre and seeing it painted with devils
+      he put it on again, saying to himself, "Well, so far those don't burn me
+      nor do these carry me off." Don Quixote surveyed him too, and though fear
+      had got the better of his faculties, he could not help smiling to see the
+      figure Sancho presented. And now from underneath the catafalque, so it
+      seemed, there rose a low sweet sound of flutes, which, coming unbroken by
+      human voice (for there silence itself kept silence), had a soft and
+      languishing effect. Then, beside the pillow of what seemed to be the dead
+      body, suddenly appeared a fair youth in a Roman habit, who, to the
+      accompaniment of a harp which he himself played, sang in a sweet and clear
+      voice these two stanzas:
+    </p>
+<pre xml:space="preserve">
+While fair Altisidora, who the sport
+  Of cold Don Quixote's cruelty hath been,
+Returns to life, and in this magic court
+  The dames in sables come to grace the scene,
+And while her matrons all in seemly sort
+  My lady robes in baize and bombazine,
+Her beauty and her sorrows will I sing
+With defter quill than touched the Thracian string.
+
+But not in life alone, methinks, to me
+  Belongs the office; Lady, when my tongue
+Is cold in death, believe me, unto thee
+  My voice shall raise its tributary song.
+My soul, from this strait prison-house set free,
+  As o'er the Stygian lake it floats along,
+Thy praises singing still shall hold its way,
+And make the waters of oblivion stay.
+
+</pre>
+    <p>
+      At this point one of the two that looked like kings exclaimed, "Enough,
+      enough, divine singer! It would be an endless task to put before us now
+      the death and the charms of the peerless Altisidora, not dead as the
+      ignorant world imagines, but living in the voice of fame and in the
+      penance which Sancho Panza, here present, has to undergo to restore her to
+      the long-lost light. Do thou, therefore, O Rhadamanthus, who sittest in
+      judgment with me in the murky caverns of Dis, as thou knowest all that the
+      inscrutable fates have decreed touching the resuscitation of this damsel,
+      announce and declare it at once, that the happiness we look forward to
+      from her restoration be no longer deferred."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      No sooner had Minos the fellow judge of Rhadamanthus said this, than
+      Rhadamanthus rising up said:
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Ho, officials of this house, high and low, great and small, make haste
+      hither one and all, and print on Sancho's face four-and-twenty smacks, and
+      give him twelve pinches and six pin thrusts in the back and arms; for upon
+      this ceremony depends the restoration of Altisidora."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      On hearing this Sancho broke silence and cried out, "By all that's good,
+      I'll as soon let my face be smacked or handled as turn Moor. Body o' me!
+      What has handling my face got to do with the resurrection of this damsel?
+      'The old woman took kindly to the blits; they enchant Dulcinea, and whip
+      me in order to disenchant her; Altisidora dies of ailments God was pleased
+      to send her, and to bring her to life again they must give me
+      four-and-twenty smacks, and prick holes in my body with pins, and raise
+      weals on my arms with pinches! Try those jokes on a brother-in-law; 'I'm
+      an old dog, and "tus, tus" is no use with me.'"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Thou shalt die," said Rhadamanthus in a loud voice; "relent, thou tiger;
+      humble thyself, proud Nimrod; suffer and he silent, for no impossibilities
+      are asked of thee; it is not for thee to inquire into the difficulties in
+      this matter; smacked thou must be, pricked thou shalt see thyself, and
+      with pinches thou must be made to howl. Ho, I say, officials, obey my
+      orders; or by the word of an honest man, ye shall see what ye were born
+      for."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      At this some six duennas, advancing across the court, made their
+      appearance in procession, one after the other, four of them with
+      spectacles, and all with their right hands uplifted, showing four fingers
+      of wrist to make their hands look longer, as is the fashion now-a-days. No
+      sooner had Sancho caught sight of them than, bellowing like a bull, he
+      exclaimed, "I might let myself be handled by all the world; but allow
+      duennas to touch me&mdash;not a bit of it! Scratch my face, as my master
+      was served in this very castle; run me through the body with burnished
+      daggers; pinch my arms with red-hot pincers; I'll bear all in patience to
+      serve these gentlefolk; but I won't let duennas touch me, though the devil
+      should carry me off!"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Here Don Quixote, too, broke silence, saying to Sancho, "Have patience, my
+      son, and gratify these noble persons, and give all thanks to heaven that
+      it has infused such virtue into thy person, that by its sufferings thou
+      canst disenchant the enchanted and restore to life the dead."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The duennas were now close to Sancho, and he, having become more tractable
+      and reasonable, settling himself well in his chair presented his face and
+      beard to the first, who delivered him a smack very stoutly laid on, and
+      then made him a low curtsey.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Less politeness and less paint, senora duenna," said Sancho; "by God your
+      hands smell of vinegar-wash."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      In line, all the duennas smacked him and several others of the household
+      pinched him; but what he could not stand was being pricked by the pins;
+      and so, apparently out of patience, he started up out of his chair, and
+      seizing a lighted torch that stood near him fell upon the duennas and the
+      whole set of his tormentors, exclaiming, "Begone, ye ministers of hell;
+      I'm not made of brass not to feel such out-of-the-way tortures."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      At this instant Altisidora, who probably was tired of having been so long
+      lying on her back, turned on her side; seeing which the bystanders cried
+      out almost with one voice, "Altisidora is alive! Altisidora lives!"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Rhadamanthus bade Sancho put away his wrath, as the object they had in
+      view was now attained. When Don Quixote saw Altisidora move, he went on
+      his knees to Sancho saying to him, "Now is the time, son of my bowels, not
+      to call thee my squire, for thee to give thyself some of those lashes thou
+      art bound to lay on for the disenchantment of Dulcinea. Now, I say, is the
+      time when the virtue that is in thee is ripe, and endowed with efficacy to
+      work the good that is looked for from thee."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      To which Sancho made answer, "That's trick upon trick, I think, and not
+      honey upon pancakes; a nice thing it would be for a whipping to come now,
+      on the top of pinches, smacks, and pin-proddings! You had better take a
+      big stone and tie it round my neck, and pitch me into a well; I should not
+      mind it much, if I'm to be always made the cow of the wedding for the cure
+      of other people's ailments. Leave me alone; or else by God I'll fling the
+      whole thing to the dogs, let come what may."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Altisidora had by this time sat up on the catafalque, and as she did so
+      the clarions sounded, accompanied by the flutes, and the voices of all
+      present exclaiming, "Long life to Altisidora! long life to Altisidora!"
+      The duke and duchess and the kings Minos and Rhadamanthus stood up, and
+      all, together with Don Quixote and Sancho, advanced to receive her and
+      take her down from the catafalque; and she, making as though she were
+      recovering from a swoon, bowed her head to the duke and duchess and to the
+      kings, and looking sideways at Don Quixote, said to him, "God forgive
+      thee, insensible knight, for through thy cruelty I have been, to me it
+      seems, more than a thousand years in the other world; and to thee, the
+      most compassionate upon earth, I render thanks for the life I am now in
+      possession of. From this day forth, friend Sancho, count as thine six
+      smocks of mine which I bestow upon thee, to make as many shirts for
+      thyself, and if they are not all quite whole, at any rate they are all
+      clean."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Sancho kissed her hands in gratitude, kneeling, and with the mitre in his
+      hand. The duke bade them take it from him, and give him back his cap and
+      doublet and remove the flaming robe. Sancho begged the duke to let them
+      leave him the robe and mitre; as he wanted to take them home for a token
+      and memento of that unexampled adventure. The duchess said they must leave
+      them with him; for he knew already what a great friend of his she was. The
+      duke then gave orders that the court should be cleared, and that all
+      should retire to their chambers, and that Don Quixote and Sancho should be
+      conducted to their old quarters.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p69e" id="p69e"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p69e.jpg (60K)" src="images/p69e.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      <a name="ch70b" id="ch70b"></a>CHAPTER LXX.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      WHICH FOLLOWS SIXTY-NINE AND DEALS WITH MATTERS INDISPENSABLE FOR THE
+      CLEAR COMPREHENSION OF THIS HISTORY
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <a name="p70a" id="p70a"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p70a.jpg (131K)" src="images/p70a.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p70a.jpg"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br />
+      <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Sancho slept that night in a cot in the same chamber with Don Quixote, a
+      thing he would have gladly excused if he could for he knew very well that
+      with questions and answers his master would not let him sleep, and he was
+      in no humour for talking much, as he still felt the pain of his late
+      martyrdom, which interfered with his freedom of speech; and it would have
+      been more to his taste to sleep in a hovel alone, than in that luxurious
+      chamber in company. And so well founded did his apprehension prove, and so
+      correct was his anticipation, that scarcely had his master got into bed
+      when he said, "What dost thou think of tonight's adventure, Sancho? Great
+      and mighty is the power of cold-hearted scorn, for thou with thine own
+      eyes hast seen Altisidora slain, not by arrows, nor by the sword, nor by
+      any warlike weapon, nor by deadly poisons, but by the thought of the
+      sternness and scorn with which I have always treated her."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "She might have died and welcome," said Sancho, "when she pleased and how
+      she pleased; and she might have left me alone, for I never made her fall
+      in love or scorned her. I don't know nor can I imagine how the recovery of
+      Altisidora, a damsel more fanciful than wise, can have, as I have said
+      before, anything to do with the sufferings of Sancho Panza. Now I begin to
+      see plainly and clearly that there are enchanters and enchanted people in
+      the world; and may God deliver me from them, since I can't deliver myself;
+      and so I beg of your worship to let me sleep and not ask me any more
+      questions, unless you want me to throw myself out of the window."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Sleep, Sancho my friend," said Don Quixote, "if the pinprodding and
+      pinches thou hast received and the smacks administered to thee will let
+      thee."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "No pain came up to the insult of the smacks," said Sancho, "for the
+      simple reason that it was duennas, confound them, that gave them to me;
+      but once more I entreat your worship to let me sleep, for sleep is relief
+      from misery to those who are miserable when awake."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Be it so, and God be with thee," said Don Quixote.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      They fell asleep, both of them, and Cide Hamete, the author of this great
+      history, took this opportunity to record and relate what it was that
+      induced the duke and duchess to get up the elaborate plot that has been
+      described. The bachelor Samson Carrasco, he says, not forgetting how he as
+      the Knight of the Mirrors had been vanquished and overthrown by Don
+      Quixote, which defeat and overthrow upset all his plans, resolved to try
+      his hand again, hoping for better luck than he had before; and so, having
+      learned where Don Quixote was from the page who brought the letter and
+      present to Sancho's wife, Teresa Panza, he got himself new armour and
+      another horse, and put a white moon upon his shield, and to carry his arms
+      he had a mule led by a peasant, not by Tom Cecial his former squire for
+      fear he should be recognised by Sancho or Don Quixote. He came to the
+      duke's castle, and the duke informed him of the road and route Don Quixote
+      had taken with the intention of being present at the jousts at Saragossa.
+      He told him, too, of the jokes he had practised upon him, and of the
+      device for the disenchantment of Dulcinea at the expense of Sancho's
+      backside; and finally he gave him an account of the trick Sancho had
+      played upon his master, making him believe that Dulcinea was enchanted and
+      turned into a country wench; and of how the duchess, his wife, had
+      persuaded Sancho that it was he himself who was deceived, inasmuch as
+      Dulcinea was really enchanted; at which the bachelor laughed not a little,
+      and marvelled as well at the sharpness and simplicity of Sancho as at the
+      length to which Don Quixote's madness went. The duke begged of him if he
+      found him (whether he overcame him or not) to return that way and let him
+      know the result. This the bachelor did; he set out in quest of Don
+      Quixote, and not finding him at Saragossa, he went on, and how he fared
+      has been already told. He returned to the duke's castle and told him all,
+      what the conditions of the combat were, and how Don Quixote was now, like
+      a loyal knight-errant, returning to keep his promise of retiring to his
+      village for a year, by which time, said the bachelor, he might perhaps be
+      cured of his madness; for that was the object that had led him to adopt
+      these disguises, as it was a sad thing for a gentleman of such good parts
+      as Don Quixote to be a madman. And so he took his leave of the duke, and
+      went home to his village to wait there for Don Quixote, who was coming
+      after him. Thereupon the duke seized the opportunity of practising this
+      mystification upon him; so much did he enjoy everything connected with
+      Sancho and Don Quixote. He had the roads about the castle far and near,
+      everywhere he thought Don Quixote was likely to pass on his return,
+      occupied by large numbers of his servants on foot and on horseback, who
+      were to bring him to the castle, by fair means or foul, if they met him.
+      They did meet him, and sent word to the duke, who, having already settled
+      what was to be done, as soon as he heard of his arrival, ordered the
+      torches and lamps in the court to be lit and Altisidora to be placed on
+      the catafalque with all the pomp and ceremony that has been described, the
+      whole affair being so well arranged and acted that it differed but little
+      from reality. And Cide Hamete says, moreover, that for his part he
+      considers the concocters of the joke as crazy as the victims of it, and
+      that the duke and duchess were not two fingers' breadth removed from being
+      something like fools themselves when they took such pains to make game of
+      a pair of fools.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      As for the latter, one was sleeping soundly and the other lying awake
+      occupied with his desultory thoughts, when daylight came to them bringing
+      with it the desire to rise; for the lazy down was never a delight to Don
+      Quixote, victor or vanquished. Altisidora, come back from death to life as
+      Don Quixote fancied, following up the freak of her lord and lady, entered
+      the chamber, crowned with the garland she had worn on the catafalque and
+      in a robe of white taffeta embroidered with gold flowers, her hair flowing
+      loose over her shoulders, and leaning upon a staff of fine black ebony.
+      Don Quixote, disconcerted and in confusion at her appearance, huddled
+      himself up and well-nigh covered himself altogether with the sheets and
+      counterpane of the bed, tongue-tied, and unable to offer her any civility.
+      Altisidora seated herself on a chair at the head of the bed, and, after a
+      deep sigh, said to him in a feeble, soft voice, "When women of rank and
+      modest maidens trample honour under foot, and give a loose to the tongue
+      that breaks through every impediment, publishing abroad the inmost secrets
+      of their hearts, they are reduced to sore extremities. Such a one am I,
+      Senor Don Quixote of La Mancha, crushed, conquered, love-smitten, but yet
+      patient under suffering and virtuous, and so much so that my heart broke
+      with grief and I lost my life. For the last two days I have been dead,
+      slain by the thought of the cruelty with which thou hast treated me,
+      obdurate knight,
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      O harder thou than marble to my plaint;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      or at least believed to be dead by all who saw me; and had it not been
+      that Love, taking pity on me, let my recovery rest upon the sufferings of
+      this good squire, there I should have remained in the other world."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Love might very well have let it rest upon the sufferings of my ass, and
+      I should have been obliged to him," said Sancho. "But tell me, senora&mdash;and
+      may heaven send you a tenderer lover than my master&mdash;what did you see
+      in the other world? What goes on in hell? For of course that's where one
+      who dies in despair is bound for."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "To tell you the truth," said Altisidora, "I cannot have died outright,
+      for I did not go into hell; had I gone in, it is very certain I should
+      never have come out again, do what I might. The truth is, I came to the
+      gate, where some dozen or so of devils were playing tennis, all in
+      breeches and doublets, with falling collars trimmed with Flemish bonelace,
+      and ruffles of the same that served them for wristbands, with four
+      fingers' breadth of the arms exposed to make their hands look longer; in
+      their hands they held rackets of fire; but what amazed me still more was
+      that books, apparently full of wind and rubbish, served them for tennis
+      balls, a strange and marvellous thing; this, however, did not astonish me
+      so much as to observe that, although with players it is usual for the
+      winners to be glad and the losers sorry, there in that game all were
+      growling, all were snarling, and all were cursing one another." "That's no
+      wonder," said Sancho; "for devils, whether playing or not, can never be
+      content, win or lose."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Very likely," said Altisidora; "but there is another thing that surprises
+      me too, I mean surprised me then, and that was that no ball outlasted the
+      first throw or was of any use a second time; and it was wonderful the
+      constant succession there was of books, new and old. To one of them, a
+      brand-new, well-bound one, they gave such a stroke that they knocked the
+      guts out of it and scattered the leaves about. 'Look what book that is,'
+      said one devil to another, and the other replied, 'It is the "Second Part
+      of the History of Don Quixote of La Mancha," not by Cide Hamete, the
+      original author, but by an Aragonese who by his own account is of
+      Tordesillas.' 'Out of this with it,' said the first, 'and into the depths
+      of hell with it out of my sight.' 'Is it so bad?' said the other. 'So bad
+      is it,' said the first, 'that if I had set myself deliberately to make a
+      worse, I could not have done it.' They then went on with their game,
+      knocking other books about; and I, having heard them mention the name of
+      Don Quixote whom I love and adore so, took care to retain this vision in
+      my memory."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "A vision it must have been, no doubt," said Don Quixote, "for there is no
+      other I in the world; this history has been going about here for some time
+      from hand to hand, but it does not stay long in any, for everybody gives
+      it a taste of his foot. I am not disturbed by hearing that I am wandering
+      in a fantastic shape in the darkness of the pit or in the daylight above,
+      for I am not the one that history treats of. If it should be good,
+      faithful, and true, it will have ages of life; but if it should be bad,
+      from its birth to its burial will not be a very long journey."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Altisidora was about to proceed with her complaint against Don Quixote,
+      when he said to her, "I have several times told you, senora that it
+      grieves me you should have set your affections upon me, as from mine they
+      can only receive gratitude, but no return. I was born to belong to
+      Dulcinea del Toboso, and the fates, if there are any, dedicated me to her;
+      and to suppose that any other beauty can take the place she occupies in my
+      heart is to suppose an impossibility. This frank declaration should
+      suffice to make you retire within the bounds of your modesty, for no one
+      can bind himself to do impossibilities."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Hearing this, Altisidora, with a show of anger and agitation, exclaimed,
+      "God's life! Don Stockfish, soul of a mortar, stone of a date, more
+      obstinate and obdurate than a clown asked a favour when he has his mind
+      made up, if I fall upon you I'll tear your eyes out! Do you fancy, Don
+      Vanquished, Don Cudgelled, that I died for your sake? All that you have
+      seen to-night has been make-believe; I'm not the woman to let the black of
+      my nail suffer for such a camel, much less die!"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "That I can well believe," said Sancho; "for all that about lovers pining
+      to death is absurd; they may talk of it, but as for doing it&mdash;Judas
+      may believe that!"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      While they were talking, the musician, singer, and poet, who had sung the
+      two stanzas given above came in, and making a profound obeisance to Don
+      Quixote said, "Will your worship, sir knight, reckon and retain me in the
+      number of your most faithful servants, for I have long been a great
+      admirer of yours, as well because of your fame as because of your
+      achievements?" "Will your worship tell me who you are," replied Don
+      Quixote, "so that my courtesy may be answerable to your deserts?" The
+      young man replied that he was the musician and songster of the night
+      before. "Of a truth," said Don Quixote, "your worship has a most excellent
+      voice; but what you sang did not seem to me very much to the purpose; for
+      what have Garcilasso's stanzas to do with the death of this lady?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Don't be surprised at that," returned the musician; "for with the callow
+      poets of our day the way is for every one to write as he pleases and
+      pilfer where he chooses, whether it be germane to the matter or not, and
+      now-a-days there is no piece of silliness they can sing or write that is
+      not set down to poetic licence."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Don Quixote was about to reply, but was prevented by the duke and duchess,
+      who came in to see him, and with them there followed a long and delightful
+      conversation, in the course of which Sancho said so many droll and saucy
+      things that he left the duke and duchess wondering not only at his
+      simplicity but at his sharpness. Don Quixote begged their permission to
+      take his departure that same day, inasmuch as for a vanquished knight like
+      himself it was fitter he should live in a pig-sty than in a royal palace.
+      They gave it very readily, and the duchess asked him if Altisidora was in
+      his good graces.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      He replied, "Senora, let me tell your ladyship that this damsel's ailment
+      comes entirely of idleness, and the cure for it is honest and constant
+      employment. She herself has told me that lace is worn in hell; and as she
+      must know how to make it, let it never be out of her hands; for when she
+      is occupied in shifting the bobbins to and fro, the image or images of
+      what she loves will not shift to and fro in her thoughts; this is the
+      truth, this is my opinion, and this is my advice."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "And mine," added Sancho; "for I never in all my life saw a lace-maker
+      that died for love; when damsels are at work their minds are more set on
+      finishing their tasks than on thinking of their loves. I speak from my own
+      experience; for when I'm digging I never think of my old woman; I mean my
+      Teresa Panza, whom I love better than my own eyelids." "You say well,
+      Sancho," said the duchess, "and I will take care that my Altisidora
+      employs herself henceforward in needlework of some sort; for she is
+      extremely expert at it." "There is no occasion to have recourse to that
+      remedy, senora," said Altisidora; "for the mere thought of the cruelty
+      with which this vagabond villain has treated me will suffice to blot him
+      out of my memory without any other device; with your highness's leave I
+      will retire, not to have before my eyes, I won't say his rueful
+      countenance, but his abominable, ugly looks." "That reminds me of the
+      common saying, that 'he that rails is ready to forgive,'" said the duke.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Altisidora then, pretending to wipe away her tears with a handkerchief,
+      made an obeisance to her master and mistress and quitted the room.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Ill luck betide thee, poor damsel," said Sancho, "ill luck betide thee!
+      Thou hast fallen in with a soul as dry as a rush and a heart as hard as
+      oak; had it been me, i'faith 'another cock would have crowed to thee.'"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      So the conversation came to an end, and Don Quixote dressed himself and
+      dined with the duke and duchess, and set out the same evening.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p70e" id="p70e"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p70e.jpg (73K)" src="images/p70e.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p70e.jpg"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br />
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      <a name="ch71b" id="ch71b"></a>CHAPTER LXXI.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      OF WHAT PASSED BETWEEN DON QUIXOTE AND HIS SQUIRE SANCHO ON THE WAY TO
+      THEIR VILLAGE
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <a name="p71a" id="p71a"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p71a.jpg (82K)" src="images/p71a.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p71a.jpg"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br />
+      <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The vanquished and afflicted Don Quixote went along very downcast in one
+      respect and very happy in another. His sadness arose from his defeat, and
+      his satisfaction from the thought of the virtue that lay in Sancho, as had
+      been proved by the resurrection of Altisidora; though it was with
+      difficulty he could persuade himself that the love-smitten damsel had been
+      really dead. Sancho went along anything but cheerful, for it grieved him
+      that Altisidora had not kept her promise of giving him the smocks; and
+      turning this over in his mind he said to his master, "Surely, senor, I'm
+      the most unlucky doctor in the world; there's many a physician that, after
+      killing the sick man he had to cure, requires to be paid for his work,
+      though it is only signing a bit of a list of medicines, that the
+      apothecary and not he makes up, and, there, his labour is over; but with
+      me though to cure somebody else costs me drops of blood, smacks, pinches,
+      pinproddings, and whippings, nobody gives me a farthing. Well, I swear by
+      all that's good if they put another patient into my hands, they'll have to
+      grease them for me before I cure him; for, as they say, 'it's by his
+      singing the abbot gets his dinner,' and I'm not going to believe that
+      heaven has bestowed upon me the virtue I have, that I should be dealing it
+      out to others all for nothing."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Thou art right, Sancho my friend," said Don Quixote, "and Altisidora has
+      behaved very badly in not giving thee the smocks she promised; and
+      although that virtue of thine is gratis data&mdash;as it has cost thee no
+      study whatever, any more than such study as thy personal sufferings may be&mdash;I
+      can say for myself that if thou wouldst have payment for the lashes on
+      account of the disenchant of Dulcinea, I would have given it to thee
+      freely ere this. I am not sure, however, whether payment will comport with
+      the cure, and I would not have the reward interfere with the medicine. I
+      think there will be nothing lost by trying it; consider how much thou
+      wouldst have, Sancho, and whip thyself at once, and pay thyself down with
+      thine own hand, as thou hast money of mine."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      At this proposal Sancho opened his eyes and his ears a palm's breadth
+      wide, and in his heart very readily acquiesced in whipping himself, and
+      said he to his master, "Very well then, senor, I'll hold myself in
+      readiness to gratify your worship's wishes if I'm to profit by it; for the
+      love of my wife and children forces me to seem grasping. Let your worship
+      say how much you will pay me for each lash I give myself."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "If Sancho," replied Don Quixote, "I were to requite thee as the
+      importance and nature of the cure deserves, the treasures of Venice, the
+      mines of Potosi, would be insufficient to pay thee. See what thou hast of
+      mine, and put a price on each lash."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Of them," said Sancho, "there are three thousand three hundred and odd;
+      of these I have given myself five, the rest remain; let the five go for
+      the odd ones, and let us take the three thousand three hundred, which at a
+      quarter real apiece (for I will not take less though the whole world
+      should bid me) make three thousand three hundred quarter reals; the three
+      thousand are one thousand five hundred half reals, which make seven
+      hundred and fifty reals; and the three hundred make a hundred and fifty
+      half reals, which come to seventy-five reals, which added to the seven
+      hundred and fifty make eight hundred and twenty-five reals in all. These I
+      will stop out of what I have belonging to your worship, and I'll return
+      home rich and content, though well whipped, for 'there's no taking trout'&mdash;but
+      I say no more."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "O blessed Sancho! O dear Sancho!" said Don Quixote; "how we shall be
+      bound to serve thee, Dulcinea and I, all the days of our lives that heaven
+      may grant us! If she returns to her lost shape (and it cannot be but that
+      she will) her misfortune will have been good fortune, and my defeat a most
+      happy triumph. But look here, Sancho; when wilt thou begin the scourging?
+      For if thou wilt make short work of it, I will give thee a hundred reals
+      over and above."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "When?" said Sancho; "this night without fail. Let your worship order it
+      so that we pass it out of doors and in the open air, and I'll scarify
+      myself."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Night, longed for by Don Quixote with the greatest anxiety in the world,
+      came at last, though it seemed to him that the wheels of Apollo's car had
+      broken down, and that the day was drawing itself out longer than usual,
+      just as is the case with lovers, who never make the reckoning of their
+      desires agree with time. They made their way at length in among some
+      pleasant trees that stood a little distance from the road, and there
+      vacating Rocinante's saddle and Dapple's pack-saddle, they stretched
+      themselves on the green grass and made their supper off Sancho's stores,
+      and he making a powerful and flexible whip out of Dapple's halter and
+      headstall retreated about twenty paces from his master among some beech
+      trees. Don Quixote seeing him march off with such resolution and spirit,
+      said to him, "Take care, my friend, not to cut thyself to pieces; allow
+      the lashes to wait for one another, and do not be in so great a hurry as
+      to run thyself out of breath midway; I mean, do not lay on so strenuously
+      as to make thy life fail thee before thou hast reached the desired number;
+      and that thou mayest not lose by a card too much or too little, I will
+      station myself apart and count on my rosary here the lashes thou givest
+      thyself. May heaven help thee as thy good intention deserves."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "'Pledges don't distress a good payer,'" said Sancho; "I mean to lay on in
+      such a way as without killing myself to hurt myself, for in that, no
+      doubt, lies the essence of this miracle."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      He then stripped himself from the waist upwards, and snatching up the rope
+      he began to lay on and Don Quixote to count the lashes. He might have
+      given himself six or eight when he began to think the joke no trifle, and
+      its price very low; and holding his hand for a moment, he told his master
+      that he cried off on the score of a blind bargain, for each of those
+      lashes ought to be paid for at the rate of half a real instead of a
+      quarter.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Go on, Sancho my friend, and be not disheartened," said Don Quixote; "for
+      I double the stakes as to price."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "In that case," said Sancho, "in God's hand be it, and let it rain
+      lashes." But the rogue no longer laid them on his shoulders, but laid on
+      to the trees, with such groans every now and then, that one would have
+      thought at each of them his soul was being plucked up by the roots. Don
+      Quixote, touched to the heart, and fearing he might make an end of
+      himself, and that through Sancho's imprudence he might miss his own
+      object, said to him, "As thou livest, my friend, let the matter rest where
+      it is, for the remedy seems to me a very rough one, and it will be well to
+      have patience; 'Zamora was not won in an hour.' If I have not reckoned
+      wrong thou hast given thyself over a thousand lashes; that is enough for
+      the present; 'for the ass,' to put it in homely phrase, 'bears the load,
+      but not the overload.'"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "No, no, senor," replied Sancho; "it shall never be said of me, 'The money
+      paid, the arms broken;' go back a little further, your worship, and let me
+      give myself at any rate a thousand lashes more; for in a couple of bouts
+      like this we shall have finished off the lot, and there will be even cloth
+      to spare."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "As thou art in such a willing mood," said Don Quixote, "may heaven aid
+      thee; lay on and I'll retire."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Sancho returned to his task with so much resolution that he soon had the
+      bark stripped off several trees, such was the severity with which he
+      whipped himself; and one time, raising his voice, and giving a beech a
+      tremendous lash, he cried out, "Here dies Samson, and all with him!"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p71b" id="p71b"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p71b.jpg (349K)" src="images/p71b.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p71b.jpg"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br />
+      <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      At the sound of his piteous cry and of the stroke of the cruel lash, Don
+      Quixote ran to him at once, and seizing the twisted halter that served him
+      for a courbash, said to him, "Heaven forbid, Sancho my friend, that to
+      please me thou shouldst lose thy life, which is needed for the support of
+      thy wife and children; let Dulcinea wait for a better opportunity, and I
+      will content myself with a hope soon to be realised, and have patience
+      until thou hast gained fresh strength so as to finish off this business to
+      the satisfaction of everybody."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "As your worship will have it so, senor," said Sancho, "so be it; but
+      throw your cloak over my shoulders, for I'm sweating and I don't want to
+      take cold; it's a risk that novice disciplinants run."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Don Quixote obeyed, and stripping himself covered Sancho, who slept until
+      the sun woke him; they then resumed their journey, which for the time
+      being they brought to an end at a village that lay three leagues farther
+      on. They dismounted at a hostelry which Don Quixote recognised as such and
+      did not take to be a castle with moat, turrets, portcullis, and
+      drawbridge; for ever since he had been vanquished he talked more
+      rationally about everything, as will be shown presently. They quartered
+      him in a room on the ground floor, where in place of leather hangings
+      there were pieces of painted serge such as they commonly use in villages.
+      On one of them was painted by some very poor hand the Rape of Helen, when
+      the bold guest carried her off from Menelaus, and on the other was the
+      story of Dido and AEneas, she on a high tower, as though she were making
+      signals with a half sheet to her fugitive guest who was out at sea flying
+      in a frigate or brigantine. He noticed in the two stories that Helen did
+      not go very reluctantly, for she was laughing slyly and roguishly; but the
+      fair Dido was shown dropping tears the size of walnuts from her eyes. Don
+      Quixote as he looked at them observed, "Those two ladies were very
+      unfortunate not to have been born in this age, and I unfortunate above all
+      men not to have been born in theirs. Had I fallen in with those gentlemen,
+      Troy would not have been burned or Carthage destroyed, for it would have
+      been only for me to slay Paris, and all these misfortunes would have been
+      avoided."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I'll lay a bet," said Sancho, "that before long there won't be a tavern,
+      roadside inn, hostelry, or barber's shop where the story of our doings
+      won't be painted up; but I'd like it painted by the hand of a better
+      painter than painted these."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Thou art right, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "for this painter is like
+      Orbaneja, a painter there was at Ubeda, who when they asked him what he
+      was painting, used to say, 'Whatever it may turn out; and if he chanced to
+      paint a cock he would write under it, 'This is a cock,' for fear they
+      might think it was a fox. The painter or writer, for it's all the same,
+      who published the history of this new Don Quixote that has come out, must
+      have been one of this sort I think, Sancho, for he painted or wrote
+      'whatever it might turn out;' or perhaps he is like a poet called Mauleon
+      that was about the Court some years ago, who used to answer at haphazard
+      whatever he was asked, and on one asking him what Deum de Deo meant, he
+      replied De donde diere. But, putting this aside, tell me, Sancho, hast
+      thou a mind to have another turn at thyself to-night, and wouldst thou
+      rather have it indoors or in the open air?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Egad, senor," said Sancho, "for what I'm going to give myself, it comes
+      all the same to me whether it is in a house or in the fields; still I'd
+      like it to be among trees; for I think they are company for me and help me
+      to bear my pain wonderfully."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "And yet it must not be, Sancho my friend," said Don Quixote; "but, to
+      enable thee to recover strength, we must keep it for our own village; for
+      at the latest we shall get there the day after tomorrow."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Sancho said he might do as he pleased; but that for his own part he would
+      like to finish off the business quickly before his blood cooled and while
+      he had an appetite, because "in delay there is apt to be danger" very
+      often, and "praying to God and plying the hammer," and "one take was
+      better than two I'll give thee's," and "a sparrow in the hand than a
+      vulture on the wing."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "For God's sake, Sancho, no more proverbs!" exclaimed Don Quixote; "it
+      seems to me thou art becoming sicut erat again; speak in a plain, simple,
+      straight-forward way, as I have often told thee, and thou wilt find the
+      good of it."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I don't know what bad luck it is of mine," said Sancho, "but I can't
+      utter a word without a proverb that is not as good as an argument to my
+      mind; however, I mean to mend if I can;" and so for the present the
+      conversation ended.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p71e" id="p71e"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p71e.jpg (42K)" src="images/p71e.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      <a name="ch72b" id="ch72b"></a>CHAPTER LXXII.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      OF HOW DON QUIXOTE AND SANCHO REACHED THEIR VILLAGE
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <a name="p72a" id="p72a"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p72a.jpg (155K)" src="images/p72a.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p72a.jpg"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br />
+      <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      All that day Don Quixote and Sancho remained in the village and inn
+      waiting for night, the one to finish off his task of scourging in the open
+      country, the other to see it accomplished, for therein lay the
+      accomplishment of his wishes. Meanwhile there arrived at the hostelry a
+      traveller on horseback with three or four servants, one of whom said to
+      him who appeared to be the master, "Here, Senor Don Alvaro Tarfe, your
+      worship may take your siesta to-day; the quarters seem clean and cool."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      When he heard this Don Quixote said to Sancho, "Look here, Sancho; on
+      turning over the leaves of that book of the Second Part of my history I
+      think I came casually upon this name of Don Alvaro Tarfe."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Very likely," said Sancho; "we had better let him dismount, and by-and-by
+      we can ask about it."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The gentleman dismounted, and the landlady gave him a room on the ground
+      floor opposite Don Quixote's and adorned with painted serge hangings of
+      the same sort. The newly arrived gentleman put on a summer coat, and
+      coming out to the gateway of the hostelry, which was wide and cool,
+      addressing Don Quixote, who was pacing up and down there, he asked, "In
+      what direction is your worship bound, gentle sir?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "To a village near this which is my own village," replied Don Quixote;
+      "and your worship, where are you bound for?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I am going to Granada, senor," said the gentleman, "to my own country."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "And a goodly country," said Don Quixote; "but will your worship do me the
+      favour of telling me your name, for it strikes me it is of more importance
+      to me to know it than I can tell you."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "My name is Don Alvaro Tarfe," replied the traveller.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      To which Don Quixote returned, "I have no doubt whatever that your worship
+      is that Don Alvaro Tarfe who appears in print in the Second Part of the
+      history of Don Quixote of La Mancha, lately printed and published by a new
+      author."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I am the same," replied the gentleman; "and that same Don Quixote, the
+      principal personage in the said history, was a very great friend of mine,
+      and it was I who took him away from home, or at least induced him to come
+      to some jousts that were to be held at Saragossa, whither I was going
+      myself; indeed, I showed him many kindnesses, and saved him from having
+      his shoulders touched up by the executioner because of his extreme
+      rashness."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Tell me, Senor Don Alvaro," said Don Quixote, "am I at all like that Don
+      Quixote you talk of?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "No indeed," replied the traveller, "not a bit."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "And that Don Quixote-" said our one, "had he with him a squire called
+      Sancho Panza?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "He had," said Don Alvaro; "but though he had the name of being very
+      droll, I never heard him say anything that had any drollery in it."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "That I can well believe," said Sancho at this, "for to come out with
+      drolleries is not in everybody's line; and that Sancho your worship speaks
+      of, gentle sir, must be some great scoundrel, dunderhead, and thief, all
+      in one; for I am the real Sancho Panza, and I have more drolleries than if
+      it rained them; let your worship only try; come along with me for a year
+      or so, and you will find they fall from me at every turn, and so rich and
+      so plentiful that though mostly I don't know what I am saying I make
+      everybody that hears me laugh. And the real Don Quixote of La Mancha, the
+      famous, the valiant, the wise, the lover, the righter of wrongs, the
+      guardian of minors and orphans, the protector of widows, the killer of
+      damsels, he who has for his sole mistress the peerless Dulcinea del
+      Toboso, is this gentleman before you, my master; all other Don Quixotes
+      and all other Sancho Panzas are dreams and mockeries."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "By God I believe it," said Don Alvaro; "for you have uttered more
+      drolleries, my friend, in the few words you have spoken than the other
+      Sancho Panza in all I ever heard from him, and they were not a few. He was
+      more greedy than well-spoken, and more dull than droll; and I am convinced
+      that the enchanters who persecute Don Quixote the Good have been trying to
+      persecute me with Don Quixote the Bad. But I don't know what to say, for I
+      am ready to swear I left him shut up in the Casa del Nuncio at Toledo, and
+      here another Don Quixote turns up, though a very different one from mine."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I don't know whether I am good," said Don Quixote, "but I can safely say
+      I am not 'the Bad;' and to prove it, let me tell you, Senor Don Alvaro
+      Tarfe, I have never in my life been in Saragossa; so far from that, when
+      it was told me that this imaginary Don Quixote had been present at the
+      jousts in that city, I declined to enter it, in order to drag his
+      falsehood before the face of the world; and so I went on straight to
+      Barcelona, the treasure-house of courtesy, haven of strangers, asylum of
+      the poor, home of the valiant, champion of the wronged, pleasant exchange
+      of firm friendships, and city unrivalled in site and beauty. And though
+      the adventures that befell me there are not by any means matters of
+      enjoyment, but rather of regret, I do not regret them, simply because I
+      have seen it. In a word, Senor Don Alvaro Tarfe, I am Don Quixote of La
+      Mancha, the one that fame speaks of, and not the unlucky one that has
+      attempted to usurp my name and deck himself out in my ideas. I entreat
+      your worship by your devoir as a gentleman to be so good as to make a
+      declaration before the alcalde of this village that you never in all your
+      life saw me until now, and that neither am I the Don Quixote in print in
+      the Second Part, nor this Sancho Panza, my squire, the one your worship
+      knew."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "That I will do most willingly," replied Don Alvaro; "though it amazes me
+      to find two Don Quixotes and two Sancho Panzas at once, as much alike in
+      name as they differ in demeanour; and again I say and declare that what I
+      saw I cannot have seen, and that what happened me cannot have happened."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "No doubt your worship is enchanted, like my lady Dulcinea del Toboso,"
+      said Sancho; "and would to heaven your disenchantment rested on my giving
+      myself another three thousand and odd lashes like what I'm giving myself
+      for her, for I'd lay them on without looking for anything."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "I don't understand that about the lashes," said Don Alvaro. Sancho
+      replied that it was a long story to tell, but he would tell him if they
+      happened to be going the same road.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      By this dinner-time arrived, and Don Quixote and Don Alvaro dined
+      together. The alcalde of the village came by chance into the inn together
+      with a notary, and Don Quixote laid a petition before him, showing that it
+      was requisite for his rights that Don Alvaro Tarfe, the gentleman there
+      present, should make a declaration before him that he did not know Don
+      Quixote of La Mancha, also there present, and that he was not the one that
+      was in print in a history entitled "Second Part of Don Quixote of La
+      Mancha, by one Avellaneda of Tordesillas." The alcalde finally put it in
+      legal form, and the declaration was made with all the formalities required
+      in such cases, at which Don Quixote and Sancho were in high delight, as if
+      a declaration of the sort was of any great importance to them, and as if
+      their words and deeds did not plainly show the difference between the two
+      Don Quixotes and the two Sanchos. Many civilities and offers of service
+      were exchanged by Don Alvaro and Don Quixote, in the course of which the
+      great Manchegan displayed such good taste that he disabused Don Alvaro of
+      the error he was under; and he, on his part, felt convinced he must have
+      been enchanted, now that he had been brought in contact with two such
+      opposite Don Quixotes.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Evening came, they set out from the village, and after about half a league
+      two roads branched off, one leading to Don Quixote's village, the other
+      the road Don Alvaro was to follow. In this short interval Don Quixote told
+      him of his unfortunate defeat, and of Dulcinea's enchantment and the
+      remedy, all which threw Don Alvaro into fresh amazement, and embracing Don
+      Quixote and Sancho, he went his way, and Don Quixote went his. That night
+      he passed among trees again in order to give Sancho an opportunity of
+      working out his penance, which he did in the same fashion as the night
+      before, at the expense of the bark of the beech trees much more than of
+      his back, of which he took such good care that the lashes would not have
+      knocked off a fly had there been one there. The duped Don Quixote did not
+      miss a single stroke of the count, and he found that together with those
+      of the night before they made up three thousand and twenty-nine. The sun
+      apparently had got up early to witness the sacrifice, and with his light
+      they resumed their journey, discussing the deception practised on Don
+      Alvaro, and saying how well done it was to have taken his declaration
+      before a magistrate in such an unimpeachable form. That day and night they
+      travelled on, nor did anything worth mention happen to them, unless it was
+      that in the course of the night Sancho finished off his task, whereat Don
+      Quixote was beyond measure joyful. He watched for daylight, to see if
+      along the road he should fall in with his already disenchanted lady
+      Dulcinea; and as he pursued his journey there was no woman he met that he
+      did not go up to, to see if she was Dulcinea del Toboso, as he held it
+      absolutely certain that Merlin's promises could not lie. Full of these
+      thoughts and anxieties, they ascended a rising ground wherefrom they
+      descried their own village, at the sight of which Sancho fell on his knees
+      exclaiming, "Open thine eyes, longed-for home, and see how thy son Sancho
+      Panza comes back to thee, if not very rich, very well whipped! Open thine
+      arms and receive, too, thy son Don Quixote, who, if he comes vanquished by
+      the arm of another, comes victor over himself, which, as he himself has
+      told me, is the greatest victory anyone can desire. I'm bringing back
+      money, for if I was well whipped, I went mounted like a gentleman."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p72b" id="p72b"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p72b.jpg (375K)" src="images/p72b.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p72b.jpg"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br />
+      <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Have done with these fooleries," said Don Quixote; "let us push on
+      straight and get to our own place, where we will give free range to our
+      fancies, and settle our plans for our future pastoral life."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      With this they descended the slope and directed their steps to their
+      village.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p72e" id="p72e"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p72e.jpg (35K)" src="images/p72e.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      <a name="ch73b" id="ch73b"></a>CHAPTER LXXIII.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      OF THE OMENS DON QUIXOTE HAD AS HE ENTERED HIS OWN VILLAGE, AND OTHER
+      INCIDENTS THAT EMBELLISH AND GIVE A COLOUR TO THIS GREAT HISTORY
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <a name="p73a" id="p73a"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p73a.jpg (141K)" src="images/p73a.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p73a.jpg"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br />
+      <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      At the entrance of the village, so says Cide Hamete, Don Quixote saw two
+      boys quarrelling on the village threshing-floor one of whom said to the
+      other, "Take it easy, Periquillo; thou shalt never see it again as long as
+      thou livest."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Don Quixote heard this, and said he to Sancho, "Dost thou not mark,
+      friend, what that boy said, 'Thou shalt never see it again as long as thou
+      livest'?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Well," said Sancho, "what does it matter if the boy said so?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "What!" said Don Quixote, "dost thou not see that, applied to the object
+      of my desires, the words mean that I am never to see Dulcinea more?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Sancho was about to answer, when his attention was diverted by seeing a
+      hare come flying across the plain pursued by several greyhounds and
+      sportsmen. In its terror it ran to take shelter and hide itself under
+      Dapple. Sancho caught it alive and presented it to Don Quixote, who was
+      saying, "Malum signum, malum signum! a hare flies, greyhounds chase it,
+      Dulcinea appears not."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Your worship's a strange man," said Sancho; "let's take it for granted
+      that this hare is Dulcinea, and these greyhounds chasing it the malignant
+      enchanters who turned her into a country wench; she flies, and I catch her
+      and put her into your worship's hands, and you hold her in your arms and
+      cherish her; what bad sign is that, or what ill omen is there to be found
+      here?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The two boys who had been quarrelling came over to look at the hare, and
+      Sancho asked one of them what their quarrel was about. He was answered by
+      the one who had said, "Thou shalt never see it again as long as thou
+      livest," that he had taken a cage full of crickets from the other boy, and
+      did not mean to give it back to him as long as he lived. Sancho took out
+      four cuartos from his pocket and gave them to the boy for the cage, which
+      he placed in Don Quixote's hands, saying, "There, senor! there are the
+      omens broken and destroyed, and they have no more to do with our affairs,
+      to my thinking, fool as I am, than with last year's clouds; and if I
+      remember rightly I have heard the curate of our village say that it does
+      not become Christians or sensible people to give any heed to these silly
+      things; and even you yourself said the same to me some time ago, telling
+      me that all Christians who minded omens were fools; but there's no need of
+      making words about it; let us push on and go into our village."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The sportsmen came up and asked for their hare, which Don Quixote gave
+      them. They then went on, and upon the green at the entrance of the town
+      they came upon the curate and the bachelor Samson Carrasco busy with their
+      breviaries. It should be mentioned that Sancho had thrown, by way of a
+      sumpter-cloth, over Dapple and over the bundle of armour, the buckram robe
+      painted with flames which they had put upon him at the duke's castle the
+      night Altisidora came back to life. He had also fixed the mitre on
+      Dapple's head, the oddest transformation and decoration that ever ass in
+      the world underwent. They were at once recognised by both the curate and
+      the bachelor, who came towards them with open arms. Don Quixote dismounted
+      and received them with a close embrace; and the boys, who are lynxes that
+      nothing escapes, spied out the ass's mitre and came running to see it,
+      calling out to one another, "Come here, boys, and see Sancho Panza's ass
+      figged out finer than Mingo, and Don Quixote's beast leaner than ever."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      So at length, with the boys capering round them, and accompanied by the
+      curate and the bachelor, they made their entrance into the town, and
+      proceeded to Don Quixote's house, at the door of which they found his
+      housekeeper and niece, whom the news of his arrival had already reached.
+      It had been brought to Teresa Panza, Sancho's wife, as well, and she with
+      her hair all loose and half naked, dragging Sanchica her daughter by the
+      hand, ran out to meet her husband; but seeing him coming in by no means as
+      good case as she thought a governor ought to be, she said to him, "How is
+      it you come this way, husband? It seems to me you come tramping and
+      footsore, and looking more like a disorderly vagabond than a governor."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Hold your tongue, Teresa," said Sancho; "often 'where there are pegs
+      there are no flitches;' let's go into the house and there you'll hear
+      strange things. I bring money, and that's the main thing, got by my own
+      industry without wronging anybody."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "You bring the money, my good husband," said Teresa, "and no matter
+      whether it was got this way or that; for, however you may have got it,
+      you'll not have brought any new practice into the world."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Sanchica embraced her father and asked him if he brought her anything, for
+      she had been looking out for him as for the showers of May; and she taking
+      hold of him by the girdle on one side, and his wife by the hand, while the
+      daughter led Dapple, they made for their house, leaving Don Quixote in
+      his, in the hands of his niece and housekeeper, and in the company of the
+      curate and the bachelor.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Don Quixote at once, without any regard to time or season, withdrew in
+      private with the bachelor and the curate, and in a few words told them of
+      his defeat, and of the engagement he was under not to quit his village for
+      a year, which he meant to keep to the letter without departing a hair's
+      breadth from it, as became a knight-errant bound by scrupulous good faith
+      and the laws of knight-errantry; and of how he thought of turning shepherd
+      for that year, and taking his diversion in the solitude of the fields,
+      where he could with perfect freedom give range to his thoughts of love
+      while he followed the virtuous pastoral calling; and he besought them, if
+      they had not a great deal to do and were not prevented by more important
+      business, to consent to be his companions, for he would buy sheep enough
+      to qualify them for shepherds; and the most important point of the whole
+      affair, he could tell them, was settled, for he had given them names that
+      would fit them to a T. The curate asked what they were. Don Quixote
+      replied that he himself was to be called the shepherd Quixotize and the
+      bachelor the shepherd Carrascon, and the curate the shepherd Curambro, and
+      Sancho Panza the shepherd Pancino.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Both were astounded at Don Quixote's new craze; however, lest he should
+      once more make off out of the village from them in pursuit of his
+      chivalry, they trusting that in the course of the year he might be cured,
+      fell in with his new project, applauded his crazy idea as a bright one,
+      and offered to share the life with him. "And what's more," said Samson
+      Carrasco, "I am, as all the world knows, a very famous poet, and I'll be
+      always making verses, pastoral, or courtly, or as it may come into my
+      head, to pass away our time in those secluded regions where we shall be
+      roaming. But what is most needful, sirs, is that each of us should choose
+      the name of the shepherdess he means to glorify in his verses, and that we
+      should not leave a tree, be it ever so hard, without writing up and
+      carving her name on it, as is the habit and custom of love-smitten
+      shepherds."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "That's the very thing," said Don Quixote; "though I am relieved from
+      looking for the name of an imaginary shepherdess, for there's the peerless
+      Dulcinea del Toboso, the glory of these brooksides, the ornament of these
+      meadows, the mainstay of beauty, the cream of all the graces, and, in a
+      word, the being to whom all praise is appropriate, be it ever so
+      hyperbolical."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Very true," said the curate; "but we the others must look about for
+      accommodating shepherdesses that will answer our purpose one way or
+      another."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "And," added Samson Carrasco, "if they fail us, we can call them by the
+      names of the ones in print that the world is filled with, Filidas,
+      Amarilises, Dianas, Fleridas, Galateas, Belisardas; for as they sell them
+      in the market-places we may fairly buy them and make them our own. If my
+      lady, or I should say my shepherdess, happens to be called Ana, I'll sing
+      her praises under the name of Anarda, and if Francisca, I'll call her
+      Francenia, and if Lucia, Lucinda, for it all comes to the same thing; and
+      Sancho Panza, if he joins this fraternity, may glorify his wife Teresa
+      Panza as Teresaina."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Don Quixote laughed at the adaptation of the name, and the curate bestowed
+      vast praise upon the worthy and honourable resolution he had made, and
+      again offered to bear him company all the time that he could spare from
+      his imperative duties. And so they took their leave of him, recommending
+      and beseeching him to take care of his health and treat himself to a
+      suitable diet.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      It so happened his niece and the housekeeper overheard all the three of
+      them said; and as soon as they were gone they both of them came in to Don
+      Quixote, and said the niece, "What's this, uncle? Now that we were
+      thinking you had come back to stay at home and lead a quiet respectable
+      life there, are you going to get into fresh entanglements, and turn 'young
+      shepherd, thou that comest here, young shepherd going there?' Nay! indeed
+      'the straw is too hard now to make pipes of.'"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "And," added the housekeeper, "will your worship be able to bear, out in
+      the fields, the heats of summer, and the chills of winter, and the howling
+      of the wolves? Not you; for that's a life and a business for hardy men,
+      bred and seasoned to such work almost from the time they were in
+      swaddling-clothes. Why, to make choice of evils, it's better to be a
+      knight-errant than a shepherd! Look here, senor; take my advice--and I'm
+      not giving it to you full of bread and wine, but fasting, and with fifty
+      years upon my head--stay at home, look after your affairs, go often to
+      confession, be good to the poor, and upon my soul be it if any evil comes
+      to you."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Hold your peace, my daughters," said Don Quixote; "I know very well what
+      my duty is; help me to bed, for I don't feel very well; and rest assured
+      that, knight-errant now or wandering shepherd to be, I shall never fail to
+      have a care for your interests, as you will see in the end." And the good
+      wenches (for that they undoubtedly were), the housekeeper and niece,
+      helped him to bed, where they gave him something to eat and made him as
+      comfortable as possible.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      <a name="ch74b" id="ch74b"></a>CHAPTER LXXIV.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      OF HOW DON QUIXOTE FELL SICK, AND OF THE WILL HE MADE, AND HOW HE DIED
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <a name="p74a" id="p74a"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p74a.jpg (96K)" src="images/p74a.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p74a.jpg"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br />
+      <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      As nothing that is man's can last for ever, but all tends ever downwards
+      from its beginning to its end, and above all man's life, and as Don
+      Quixote's enjoyed no special dispensation from heaven to stay its course,
+      its end and close came when he least looked for it. For--whether it was of
+      the dejection the thought of his defeat produced, or of heaven's will that
+      so ordered it--a fever settled upon him and kept him in his bed for six
+      days, during which he was often visited by his friends the curate, the
+      bachelor, and the barber, while his good squire Sancho Panza never quitted
+      his bedside. They, persuaded that it was grief at finding himself
+      vanquished, and the object of his heart, the liberation and disenchantment
+      of Dulcinea, unattained, that kept him in this state, strove by all the
+      means in their power to cheer him up; the bachelor bidding him take heart
+      and get up to begin his pastoral life, for which he himself, he said, had
+      already composed an eclogue that would take the shine out of all Sannazaro
+      had ever written, and had bought with his own money two famous dogs to
+      guard the flock, one called Barcino and the other Butron, which a herdsman
+      of Quintanar had sold him.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      But for all this Don Quixote could not shake off his sadness. His friends
+      called in the doctor, who felt his pulse and was not very well satisfied
+      with it, and said that in any case it would be well for him to attend to
+      the health of his soul, as that of his body was in a bad way. Don Quixote
+      heard this calmly; but not so his housekeeper, his niece, and his squire,
+      who fell weeping bitterly, as if they had him lying dead before them. The
+      doctor's opinion was that melancholy and depression were bringing him to
+      his end. Don Quixote begged them to leave him to himself, as he had a wish
+      to sleep a little. They obeyed, and he slept at one stretch, as the saying
+      is, more than six hours, so that the housekeeper and niece thought he was
+      going to sleep for ever. But at the end of that time he woke up, and in a
+      loud voice exclaimed, "Blessed be Almighty God, who has shown me such
+      goodness. In truth his mercies are boundless, and the sins of men can
+      neither limit them nor keep them back!"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The niece listened with attention to her uncle's words, and they struck
+      her as more coherent than what usually fell from him, at least during his
+      illness, so she asked, "What are you saying, senor? Has anything strange
+      occurred? What mercies or what sins of men are you talking of?"
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "The mercies, niece," said Don Quixote, "are those that God has this
+      moment shown me, and with him, as I said, my sins are no impediment to
+      them. My reason is now free and clear, rid of the dark shadows of
+      ignorance that my unhappy constant study of those detestable books of
+      chivalry cast over it. Now I see through their absurdities and deceptions,
+      and it only grieves me that this destruction of my illusions has come so
+      late that it leaves me no time to make some amends by reading other books
+      that might be a light to my soul. Niece, I feel myself at the point of
+      death, and I would fain meet it in such a way as to show that my life has
+      not been so ill that I should leave behind me the name of a madman; for
+      though I have been one, I would not that the fact should be made plainer
+      at my death. Call in to me, my dear, my good friends the curate, the
+      bachelor Samson Carrasco, and Master Nicholas the barber, for I wish to
+      confess and make my will." But his niece was saved the trouble by the
+      entrance of the three. The instant Don Quixote saw them he exclaimed,
+      "Good news for you, good sirs, that I am no longer Don Quixote of La
+      Mancha, but Alonso Quixano, whose way of life won for him the name of
+      Good. Now am I the enemy of Amadis of Gaul and of the whole countless
+      troop of his descendants; odious to me now are all the profane stories of
+      knight-errantry; now I perceive my folly, and the peril into which reading
+      them brought me; now, by God's mercy schooled into my right senses, I
+      loathe them."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      When the three heard him speak in this way, they had no doubt whatever
+      that some new craze had taken possession of him; and said Samson, "What?
+      Senor Don Quixote! Now that we have intelligence of the lady Dulcinea
+      being disenchanted, are you taking this line; now, just as we are on the
+      point of becoming shepherds, to pass our lives singing, like princes, are
+      you thinking of turning hermit? Hush, for heaven's sake, be rational and
+      let's have no more nonsense."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "All that nonsense," said Don Quixote, "that until now has been a reality
+      to my hurt, my death will, with heaven's help, turn to my good. I feel,
+      sirs, that I am rapidly drawing near death; a truce to jesting; let me
+      have a confessor to confess me, and a notary to make my will; for in
+      extremities like this, man must not trifle with his soul; and while the
+      curate is confessing me let some one, I beg, go for the notary."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      They looked at one another, wondering at Don Quixote's words; but, though
+      uncertain, they were inclined to believe him, and one of the signs by
+      which they came to the conclusion he was dying was this so sudden and
+      complete return to his senses after having been mad; for to the words
+      already quoted he added much more, so well expressed, so devout, and so
+      rational, as to banish all doubt and convince them that he was sound of
+      mind. The curate turned them all out, and left alone with him confessed
+      him. The bachelor went for the notary and returned shortly afterwards with
+      him and with Sancho, who, having already learned from the bachelor the
+      condition his master was in, and finding the housekeeper and niece
+      weeping, began to blubber and shed tears.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The confession over, the curate came out saying, "Alonso Quixano the Good
+      is indeed dying, and is indeed in his right mind; we may now go in to him
+      while he makes his will."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      This news gave a tremendous impulse to the brimming eyes of the
+      housekeeper, niece, and Sancho Panza his good squire, making the tears
+      burst from their eyes and a host of sighs from their hearts; for of a
+      truth, as has been said more than once, whether as plain Alonso Quixano
+      the Good, or as Don Quixote of La Mancha, Don Quixote was always of a
+      gentle disposition and kindly in all his ways, and hence he was beloved,
+      not only by those of his own house, but by all who knew him.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The notary came in with the rest, and as soon as the preamble of the will
+      had been set out and Don Quixote had commended his soul to God with all
+      the devout formalities that are usual, coming to the bequests, he said,
+      "Item, it is my will that, touching certain moneys in the hands of Sancho
+      Panza (whom in my madness I made my squire), inasmuch as between him and
+      me there have been certain accounts and debits and credits, no claim be
+      made against him, nor any account demanded of him in respect of them; but
+      that if anything remain over and above, after he has paid himself what I
+      owe him, the balance, which will be but little, shall be his, and much
+      good may it do him; and if, as when I was mad I had a share in giving him
+      the government of an island, so, now that I am in my senses, I could give
+      him that of a kingdom, it should be his, for the simplicity of his
+      character and the fidelity of his conduct deserve it." And then, turning
+      to Sancho, he said, "Forgive me, my friend, that I led thee to seem as mad
+      as myself, making thee fall into the same error I myself fell into, that
+      there were and still are knights-errant in the world."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Ah!" said Sancho weeping, "don't die, master, but take my advice and live
+      many years; for the foolishest thing a man can do in this life is to let
+      himself die without rhyme or reason, without anybody killing him, or any
+      hands but melancholy's making an end of him. Come, don't be lazy, but get
+      up from your bed and let us take to the fields in shepherd's trim as we
+      agreed. Perhaps behind some bush we shall find the lady Dulcinea
+      disenchanted, as fine as fine can be. If it be that you are dying of
+      vexation at having been vanquished, lay the blame on me, and say you were
+      overthrown because I had girthed Rocinante badly; besides you must have
+      seen in your books of chivalry that it is a common thing for knights to
+      upset one another, and for him who is conquered to-day to be conqueror
+      tomorrow."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Very true," said Samson, "and good Sancho Panza's view of these cases is
+      quite right."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Sirs, not so fast," said Don Quixote, "'in last year's nests there are no
+      birds this year.' I was mad, now I am in my senses; I was Don Quixote of
+      La Mancha, I am now, as I said, Alonso Quixano the Good; and may my
+      repentance and sincerity restore me to the esteem you used to have for me;
+      and now let Master Notary proceed.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Item, I leave all my property absolutely to Antonia Quixana my niece,
+      here present, after all has been deducted from the most available portion
+      of it that may be required to satisfy the bequests I have made. And the
+      first disbursement I desire to be made is the payment of the wages I owe
+      for the time my housekeeper has served me, with twenty ducats, over and
+      above, for a gown. The curate and the bachelor Samson Carrasco, now
+      present, I appoint my executors.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Item, it is my wish that if Antonia Quixana, my niece, desires to marry,
+      she shall marry a man of whom it shall be first of all ascertained by
+      information taken that he does not know what books of chivalry are; and if
+      it should be proved that he does, and if, in spite of this, my niece
+      insists upon marrying him, and does marry him, then that she shall forfeit
+      the whole of what I have left her, which my executors shall devote to
+      works of charity as they please.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      "Item, I entreat the aforesaid gentlemen my executors, that, if any happy
+      chance should lead them to discover the author who is said to have written
+      a history now going about under the title of 'Second Part of the
+      Achievements of Don Quixote of La Mancha,' they beg of him on my behalf as
+      earnestly as they can to forgive me for having been, without intending it,
+      the cause of his writing so many and such monstrous absurdities as he has
+      written in it; for I am leaving the world with a feeling of compunction at
+      having provoked him to write them."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      With this he closed his will, and a faintness coming over him he stretched
+      himself out at full length on the bed. All were in a flutter and made
+      haste to relieve him, and during the three days he lived after that on
+      which he made his will he fainted away very often. The house was all in
+      confusion; but still the niece ate and the housekeeper drank and Sancho
+      Panza enjoyed himself; for inheriting property wipes out or softens down
+      in the heir the feeling of grief the dead man might be expected to leave
+      behind him.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p74b" id="p74b"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p74b.jpg (391K)" src="images/p74b.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p74b.jpg"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br />
+      <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      At last Don Quixote's end came, after he had received all the sacraments,
+      and had in full and forcible terms expressed his detestation of books of
+      chivalry. The notary was there at the time, and he said that in no book of
+      chivalry had he ever read of any knight-errant dying in his bed so calmly
+      and so like a Christian as Don Quixote, who amid the tears and
+      lamentations of all present yielded up his spirit, that is to say died. On
+      perceiving it the curate begged the notary to bear witness that Alonso
+      Quixano the Good, commonly called Don Quixote of La Mancha, had passed
+      away from this present life, and died naturally; and said he desired this
+      testimony in order to remove the possibility of any other author save Cide
+      Hamete Benengeli bringing him to life again falsely and making
+      interminable stories out of his achievements.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Such was the end of the Ingenious Gentleman of La Mancha, whose village
+      Cide Hamete would not indicate precisely, in order to leave all the towns
+      and villages of La Mancha to contend among themselves for the right to
+      adopt him and claim him as a son, as the seven cities of Greece contended
+      for Homer. The lamentations of Sancho and the niece and housekeeper are
+      omitted here, as well as the new epitaphs upon his tomb; Samson Carrasco,
+      however, put the following lines:
+    </p>
+<pre xml:space="preserve">
+A doughty gentleman lies here;
+A stranger all his life to fear;
+Nor in his death could Death prevail,
+In that last hour, to make him quail.
+He for the world but little cared;
+And at his feats the world was scared;
+A crazy man his life he passed,
+But in his senses died at last.
+
+</pre>
+    <p>
+      And said most sage Cide Hamete to his pen, "Rest here, hung up by this
+      brass wire, upon this shelf, O my pen, whether of skilful make or clumsy
+      cut I know not; here shalt thou remain long ages hence, unless
+      presumptuous or malignant story-tellers take thee down to profane thee.
+      But ere they touch thee warn them, and, as best thou canst, say to them:
+    </p>
+<pre xml:space="preserve">
+Hold off! ye weaklings; hold your hands!
+  Adventure it let none,
+For this emprise, my lord the king,
+  Was meant for me alone.
+
+</pre>
+    <p>
+      For me alone was Don Quixote born, and I for him; it was his to act, mine
+      to write; we two together make but one, notwithstanding and in spite of
+      that pretended Tordesillesque writer who has ventured or would venture
+      with his great, coarse, ill-trimmed ostrich quill to write the
+      achievements of my valiant knight;--no burden for his shoulders, nor
+      subject for his frozen wit: whom, if perchance thou shouldst come to know
+      him, thou shalt warn to leave at rest where they lie the weary mouldering
+      bones of Don Quixote, and not to attempt to carry him off, in opposition
+      to all the privileges of death, to Old Castile, making him rise from the
+      grave where in reality and truth he lies stretched at full length,
+      powerless to make any third expedition or new sally; for the two that he
+      has already made, so much to the enjoyment and approval of everybody to
+      whom they have become known, in this as well as in foreign countries, are
+      quite sufficient for the purpose of turning into ridicule the whole of
+      those made by the whole set of the knights-errant; and so doing shalt thou
+      discharge thy Christian calling, giving good counsel to one that bears
+      ill-will to thee. And I shall remain satisfied, and proud to have been the
+      first who has ever enjoyed the fruit of his writings as fully as he could
+      desire; for my desire has been no other than to deliver over to the
+      detestation of mankind the false and foolish tales of the books of
+      chivalry, which, thanks to that of my true Don Quixote, are even now
+      tottering, and doubtless doomed to fall for ever. Farewell."
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p74e" id="p74e"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig">
+      <img alt="p74e.jpg (49K)" src="images/p74e.jpg" width="100%" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p74e.jpg"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br />
+      <br />
+    </p>
+<pre xml:space="preserve">
+
+
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