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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net + + +Title: The History of Don Quixote, Volume II., Complete + +Author: Miguel de Cervantes + +Release Date: July 26, 2004 [EBook #5946] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DON QUIXOTE, VOL. II. *** + + + + +Produced by David Widger + + + + + +</pre> + + + + + + + +<center> +<h1>DON QUIXOTE</h1> +<br> +<h3>Volume II., Complete</h3> + + +<br> +<h2>by Miguel de Cervantes</h2> +<br> + +<h2>Illustrated by Gustave Dore</h2> +<br> + +<h3>Translated by John Ormsby</h3> +</center> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center> +<img alt="bookcover.jpg (230K)" src="images/bookcover.jpg" height="842" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/bookcover.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"> +</a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center> +<img alt="spine.jpg (152K)" src="images/spine.jpg" height="842" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/spine.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"> +</a> +<br><br><br><br> + + + +<h3>Ebook Editor's Note</h3> + +<blockquote><blockquote><blockquote><blockquote> +<p> +The book cover and spine above and the images which follow were not part of the original Ormsby +translation—they are taken from the 1880 edition of J. W. Clark, illustrated by +Gustave Dore. Clark in his edition states that, "The English text of 'Don Quixote' +adopted in this edition is that of Jarvis, with occasional corrections from Motteaux." +See in the introduction below John Ormsby's critique of +both the Jarvis and Motteaux translations. It has been elected in the present Project Gutenberg edition +to attach the famous engravings of Gustave Dore to the Ormsby translation instead +of the Jarvis/Motteaux. The detail of many of the Dore engravings can be fully appreciated only +by utilizing the "Enlarge" button to expand them to their original dimensions. Ormsby +in his Preface has criticized the fanciful nature of Dore's illustrations; others feel +these woodcuts and steel engravings well match Quixote's dreams. </p> + +<br><br> + +<h3>Note on the Images<br>Please use the "Enlarge" Link</h3> + +<p> +The images both woodcuts and steel-engravings are some of Gustave Dore's finest productions. +The pages of the printed edition measure 16 inches by 11 inches—images as first displayed here +have been reduced to one-fourth of the original +size. This severely deteriorates many of the illustrations which can only be appreciated when returned to +full size. All of the steel-engravings should be enlarged.<p> + + + + + D.W.</p> +</blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote> +<br><br><br><br> + + + + +<br><br> +<center> +<img alt="p003.jpg (307K)" src="images/p003.jpg" height="813" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p003.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"> +</a> +<br><br> + + +<br><br> + +<a name="contents"></a> +<center><h2>CONTENTS</h2></center> +<br> + +<center><h3>Volume II.</h3></center> + + +<pre> + +<a href="p19.htm#ch1b">CHAPTER I</a> +OF THE INTERVIEW THE CURATE AND THE BARBER HAD WITH DON QUIXOTE +ABOUT HIS MALADY + +<a href="p19.htm#ch2b">CHAPTER II</a> +WHICH TREATS OF THE NOTABLE ALTERCATION WHICH SANCHO PANZA HAD +WITH DON QUIXOTE'S NIECE, AND HOUSEKEEPER, TOGETHER WITH OTHER DROLL +MATTERS + +<a href="p19.htm#ch3b">CHAPTER III</a> +OF THE LAUGHABLE CONVERSATION THAT PASSED BETWEEN DON QUIXOTE, +SANCHO PANZA, AND THE BACHELOR SAMSON CARRASCO + +<a href="p19.htm#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 + +<a href="p19.htm#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 + + + +<a href="p20.htm#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 + +<a href="p20.htm#ch7b">CHAPTER VII</a> +OF WHAT PASSED BETWEEN DON QUIXOTE AND HIS SQUIRE, TOGETHER WITH +OTHER VERY NOTABLE INCIDENTS + +<a href="p20.htm#ch8b">CHAPTER VIII</a> +WHEREIN IS RELATED WHAT BEFELL DON QUIXOTE ON HIS WAY TO SEE HIS +LADY DULCINEA DEL TOBOSO + +<a href="p20.htm#ch9b">CHAPTER IX</a> +WHEREIN IS RELATED WHAT WILL BE SEEN THERE + +<a href="p20.htm#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 + + + +<a href="p21.htm#ch11b">CHAPTER XI</a> +OF THE STRANGE ADVENTURE WHICH THE VALIANT DON QUIXOTE HAD WITH +THE CAR OR CART OF "THE CORTES OF DEATH" + +<a href="p21.htm#ch12b">CHAPTER XII</a> +OF THE STRANGE ADVENTURE WHICH BEFELL THE VALIANT DON QUIXOTE WITH +THE BOLD KNIGHT OF THE MIRRORS + +<a href="p21.htm#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 + +<a href="p21.htm#ch14b">CHAPTER XIV</a> +WHEREIN IS CONTINUED THE ADVENTURE OF THE KNIGHT OF THE GROVE + + + +<a href="p22.htm#ch15b">CHAPTER XV</a> +WHEREIN IT IS TOLD AND KNOWN WHO THE KNIGHT OF THE MIRRORS AND HIS +SQUIRE WERE + +<a href="p22.htm#ch16b">CHAPTER XVI</a> +OF WHAT BEFELL DON QUIXOTE WITH A DISCREET GENTLEMAN OF LA MANCHA + +<a href="p22.htm#ch17b">CHAPTER XVII</a> +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 + +<a href="p22.htm#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 + + + +<a href="p23.htm#ch19b">CHAPTER XIX</a> +IN WHICH IS RELATED THE ADVENTURE OF THE ENAMOURED SHEPHERD, +TOGETHER WITH OTHER TRULY DROLL INCIDENTS + +<a href="p23.htm#ch20b">CHAPTER XX</a> +WHEREIN AN ACCOUNT IS GIVEN OF THE WEDDING OF CAMACHO THE RICH, +TOGETHER WITH THE INCIDENT OF BASILIO THE POOR + + + +<a href="p24.htm#ch21b">CHAPTER XXI</a> +IN WHICH CAMACHO'S WEDDING IS CONTINUED, WITH OTHER DELIGHTFUL INCIDENTS + + + +<a href="p25.htm#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 + + + +<a href="p26.htm#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 + +<a href="p26.htm#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 + +<a href="p26.htm#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 + + + +<a href="p27.htm#ch27b">CHAPTER XXVI</a> +WHEREIN IS CONTINUED THE DROLL ADVENTURE OF THE PUPPET-SHOWMAN, +TOGETHER WITH OTHER THINGS IN TRUTH RIGHT GOOD + +<a href="p27.htm#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 + +<a href="p27.htm#ch28b">CHAPTER XXVIII</a> +OF MATTERS THAT BENENGELI SAYS HE WHO READS THEM WILL KNOW, IF HE +READS THEM WITH ATTENTION + + + +<a href="p28.htm#ch29b">CHAPTER XXIX</a> +OF THE FAMOUS ADVENTURE OF THE ENCHANTED BARK + +<a href="p28.htm#ch30b">CHAPTER XXX</a> +OF DON QUIXOTE'S ADVENTURE WITH A FAIR HUNTRESS + +<a href="p28.htm#ch31b">CHAPTER XXXI</a> +WHICH TREATS OF MANY AND GREAT MATTERS + + + +<a href="p29.htm#ch32b">CHAPTER XXXII</a> +OF THE REPLY DON QUIXOTE GAVE HIS CENSURER, WITH OTHER INCIDENTS, +GRAVE AND DROLL + +<a href="p29.htm#ch33b">CHAPTER XXXIII</a> +OF THE DELECTABLE DISCOURSE WHICH THE DUCHESS AND HER DAMSELS HELD +WITH SANCHO PANZA, WELL WORTH READING AND NOTING + +<a href="p29.htm#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 + +<a href="p29.htm#ch35b">CHAPTER XXXV</a> +WHEREIN IS CONTINUED THE INSTRUCTION GIVEN TO DON QUIXOTE TOUCHING +THE DISENCHANTMENT OF DULCINEA, TOGETHER WITH OTHER MARVELLOUS INCIDENTS + + + +<a href="p30.htm#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 + +<a href="p30.htm#ch37b">CHAPTER XXXVII</a> +WHEREIN IS CONTINUED THE NOTABLE ADVENTURE OF THE DISTRESSED DUENNA + +<a href="p30.htm#ch38b">CHAPTER XXXVIII</a> +WHEREIN IS TOLD THE DISTRESSED DUENNA'S TALE OF HER MISFORTUNES + +<a href="p30.htm#ch39b">CHAPTER XXXIX</a> +IN WHICH THE TRIFALDI CONTINUES HER MARVELLOUS AND MEMORABLE STORY + +<a href="p30.htm#ch40b">CHAPTER XL</a> +OF MATTERS RELATING AND BELONGING TO THIS ADVENTURE AND TO THIS +MEMORABLE HISTORY + +<a href="p30.htm#ch41b">CHAPTER XLI</a> +OF THE ARRIVAL OF CLAVILENO AND THE END OF THIS PROTRACTED ADVENTURE + +<a href="p30.htm#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 + +<a href="p30.htm#ch43b">CHAPTER XLIII</a> +OF THE SECOND SET OF COUNSELS DON QUIXOTE GAVE SANCHO PANZA + + + +<a href="p31.htm#ch44b">CHAPTER XLIV</a> +HOW SANCHO PANZA WAS CONDUCTED TO HIS GOVERNMENT, AND OF THE STRANGE +ADVENTURE THAT BEFELL DON QUIXOTE IN THE CASTLE + +<a href="p31.htm#ch45b">CHAPTER XLV</a> +OF HOW THE GREAT SANCHO PANZA TOOK POSSESSION OF HIS ISLAND, AND +OF HOW HE MADE A BEGINNING IN GOVERNING + + + +<a href="p32.htm#ch46b">CHAPTER XLVI</a> +OF THE TERRIBLE BELL AND CAT FRIGHT THAT DON QUIXOTE GOT IN THE +COURSE OF THE ENAMOURED ALTISIDORA'S WOOING + +<a href="p32.htm#ch47b">CHAPTER XLVII</a> +WHEREIN IS CONTINUED THE ACCOUNT OF HOW SANCHO PANZA CONDUCTED +HIMSELF IN HIS GOVERNMENT + +<a href="p32.htm#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 + + + +<a href="p33.htm#ch49b">CHAPTER XLIX</a> +OF WHAT HAPPENED SANCHO IN MAKING THE ROUND OF HIS ISLAND + +<a href="p33.htm#ch50b">CHAPTER L</a> +WHEREIN IS SET FORTH WHO THE ENCHANTERS AND EXECUTIONERS WERE WHO +FLOGGED THE DUENNA AND PINCHED DON QUIXOTE, AND ALSO WHAT BEFELL THE +PAGE WHO CARRIED THE LETTER TO TERESA PANZA, SANCHO PANZA'S WIFE + +<a href="p33.htm#ch51b">CHAPTER LI</a> +OF THE PROGRESS OF SANCHO'S GOVERNMENT, AND OTHER SUCH +ENTERTAINING MATTERS + +<a href="p33.htm#ch52b">CHAPTER LII</a> +WHEREIN IS RELATED THE ADVENTURE OF THE SECOND DISTRESSED OR +AFFLICTED DUENNA, OTHERWISE CALLED DONA RODRIGUEZ + +<a href="p33.htm#ch53b">CHAPTER LIII</a> +OF THE TROUBLOUS END AND TERMINATION SANCHO PANZA'S GOVERNMENT CAME TO + + + +<a href="p34.htm#ch54b">CHAPTER LIV</a> +WHICH DEALS WITH MATTERS RELATING TO THIS HISTORY AND NO OTHER + +<a href="p34.htm#ch55b">CHAPTER LV</a> +OF WHAT BEFELL SANCHO ON THE ROAD, AND OTHER THINGS THAT CANNOT BE SURPASSED + +<a href="p34.htm#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 + +<a href="p34.htm#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 + + + +<a href="p35.htm#ch58b">CHAPTER LVIII</a> +WHICH TELLS HOW ADVENTURES CAME CROWDING ON DON QUIXOTE IN SUCH +NUMBERS THAT THEY GAVE ONE ANOTHER NO BREATHING-TIME + +<a href="p35.htm#ch59b">CHAPTER LIX</a> +WHEREIN IS RELATED THE STRANGE THING, WHICH MAY BE REGARDED AS AN +ADVENTURE, THAT HAPPENED DON QUIXOTE + + + +<a href="p36.htm#ch60b">CHAPTER LX</a> +OF WHAT HAPPENED DON QUIXOTE ON HIS WAY TO BARCELONA + + + +<a href="p37.htm#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 + + + +<a href="p38.htm#ch62b">CHAPTER LXII</a> +WHICH DEALS WITH THE ADVENTURE OF THE ENCHANTED HEAD, TOGETHER +WITH OTHER TRIVIAL MATTERS WHICH CANNOT BE LEFT UNTOLD + + + +<a href="p39.htm#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 + +<a href="p39.htm#ch64b">CHAPTER LXIV</a> +TREATING OF THE ADVENTURE WHICH GAVE DON QUIXOTE MORE UNHAPPINESS +THAN ALL THAT HAD HITHERTO BEFALLEN HIM + +<a href="p39.htm#ch65b">CHAPTER LXV</a> +WHEREIN IS MADE KNOWN WHO THE KNIGHT OF THE WHITE MOON WAS; LIKEWISE +DON GREGORIO'S RELEASE, AND OTHER EVENTS + +<a href="p39.htm#ch66b">CHAPTER LXVI</a> +WHICH TREATS OF WHAT HE WHO READS WILL SEE, OR WHAT HE WHO HAS IT +READ TO HIM WILL HEAR + + + +<a href="p40.htm#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 + +<a href="p40.htm#ch68b">CHAPTER LXVIII</a> +OF THE BRISTLY ADVENTURE THAT BEFELL DON QUIXOTE + +<a href="p40.htm#ch69b">CHAPTER LXIX</a> +OF THE STRANGEST AND MOST EXTRAORDINARY ADVENTURE THAT BEFELL DON +QUIXOTE IN THE WHOLE COURSE OF THIS GREAT HISTORY + +<a href="p40.htm#ch70b">CHAPTER LXX</a> +WHICH FOLLOWS SIXTY-NINE AND DEALS WITH MATTERS INDISPENSABLE FOR +THE CLEAR COMPREHENSION OF THIS HISTORY + + + +<a href="p41.htm#ch71b">CHAPTER LXXI</a> +OF WHAT PASSED BETWEEN DON QUIXOTE AND HIS SQUIRE SANCHO ON THE +WAY TO THEIR VILLAGE + +<a href="p41.htm#ch72b">CHAPTER LXXII</a> +OF HOW DON QUIXOTE AND SANCHO REACHED THEIR VILLAGE + + + +<a href="p42.htm#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 + +<a href="p42.htm#ch74b">CHAPTER LXXIV</a> +OF HOW DON QUIXOTE FELL SICK, AND OF THE WILL HE MADE, AND HOW HE DIED + +</pre> + + +<br><br> + +<center> +<table summary="" 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Cervantes + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net + + +Title: The History of Don Quixote, Volume II., Complete + +Author: Miguel de Cervantes + +Release Date: July 26, 2004 [EBook #5946] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DON QUIXOTE, VOL. II. *** + + + + +Produced by David Widger + + + + + +</pre> + + + + + + + +<center> +<h1>DON QUIXOTE</h1> +<br> +<h3>Volume II., Complete</h3> + + +<br> +<h2>by Miguel de Cervantes</h2> +<br> + +<h2>Illustrated by Gustave Dore</h2> +<br> + +<h3>Translated by John Ormsby</h3> +</center> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center> +<img alt="bookcover.jpg (230K)" src="images/bookcover.jpg" height="842" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/bookcover.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"> +</a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center> +<img alt="spine.jpg (152K)" src="images/spine.jpg" height="842" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/spine.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"> +</a> +<br><br><br><br> + + + +<h3>Ebook Editor's Note</h3> + +<blockquote><blockquote><blockquote><blockquote> +<p> +The book cover and spine above and the images which follow were not part of the original Ormsby +translation—they are taken from the 1880 edition of J. W. Clark, illustrated by +Gustave Dore. Clark in his edition states that, "The English text of 'Don Quixote' +adopted in this edition is that of Jarvis, with occasional corrections from Motteaux." +See in the introduction below John Ormsby's critique of +both the Jarvis and Motteaux translations. It has been elected in the present Project Gutenberg edition +to attach the famous engravings of Gustave Dore to the Ormsby translation instead +of the Jarvis/Motteaux. The detail of many of the Dore engravings can be fully appreciated only +by utilizing the "Enlarge" button to expand them to their original dimensions. Ormsby +in his Preface has criticized the fanciful nature of Dore's illustrations; others feel +these woodcuts and steel engravings well match Quixote's dreams. </p> + +<br><br> + +<h3>Note on the Images<br>Please use the "Enlarge" Link</h3> + +<p> +The images both woodcuts and steel-engravings are some of Gustave Dore's finest productions. +The pages of the printed edition measure 16 inches by 11 inches—images as first displayed here +have been reduced to one-fourth of the original +size. This severely deteriorates many of the illustrations which can only be appreciated when returned to +full size. All of the steel-engravings should be enlarged.<p> + + + + + D.W.</p> +</blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote> +<br><br><br><br> + + + + +<br><br> +<center> +<img alt="p003.jpg (307K)" src="images/p003.jpg" height="813" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p003.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"> +</a> +<br><br> + + +<br><br> + +<a name="contents"></a> +<center><h2>CONTENTS</h2></center> +<br> + +<center><h3>Volume II.</h3></center> + + +<pre> + +<a href="p19.htm#ch1b">CHAPTER I</a> +OF THE INTERVIEW THE CURATE AND THE BARBER HAD WITH DON QUIXOTE +ABOUT HIS MALADY + +<a href="p19.htm#ch2b">CHAPTER II</a> +WHICH TREATS OF THE NOTABLE ALTERCATION WHICH SANCHO PANZA HAD +WITH DON QUIXOTE'S NIECE, AND HOUSEKEEPER, TOGETHER WITH OTHER DROLL +MATTERS + +<a href="p19.htm#ch3b">CHAPTER III</a> +OF THE LAUGHABLE CONVERSATION THAT PASSED BETWEEN DON QUIXOTE, +SANCHO PANZA, AND THE BACHELOR SAMSON CARRASCO + +<a href="p19.htm#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 + +<a href="p19.htm#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 + + + +<a href="p20.htm#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 + +<a href="p20.htm#ch7b">CHAPTER VII</a> +OF WHAT PASSED BETWEEN DON QUIXOTE AND HIS SQUIRE, TOGETHER WITH +OTHER VERY NOTABLE INCIDENTS + +<a href="p20.htm#ch8b">CHAPTER VIII</a> +WHEREIN IS RELATED WHAT BEFELL DON QUIXOTE ON HIS WAY TO SEE HIS +LADY DULCINEA DEL TOBOSO + +<a href="p20.htm#ch9b">CHAPTER IX</a> +WHEREIN IS RELATED WHAT WILL BE SEEN THERE + +<a href="p20.htm#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 + + + +<a href="p21.htm#ch11b">CHAPTER XI</a> +OF THE STRANGE ADVENTURE WHICH THE VALIANT DON QUIXOTE HAD WITH +THE CAR OR CART OF "THE CORTES OF DEATH" + +<a href="p21.htm#ch12b">CHAPTER XII</a> +OF THE STRANGE ADVENTURE WHICH BEFELL THE VALIANT DON QUIXOTE WITH +THE BOLD KNIGHT OF THE MIRRORS + +<a href="p21.htm#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 + +<a href="p21.htm#ch14b">CHAPTER XIV</a> +WHEREIN IS CONTINUED THE ADVENTURE OF THE KNIGHT OF THE GROVE + + + +<a href="p22.htm#ch15b">CHAPTER XV</a> +WHEREIN IT IS TOLD AND KNOWN WHO THE KNIGHT OF THE MIRRORS AND HIS +SQUIRE WERE + +<a href="p22.htm#ch16b">CHAPTER XVI</a> +OF WHAT BEFELL DON QUIXOTE WITH A DISCREET GENTLEMAN OF LA MANCHA + +<a href="p22.htm#ch17b">CHAPTER XVII</a> +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 + +<a href="p22.htm#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 + + + +<a href="p23.htm#ch19b">CHAPTER XIX</a> +IN WHICH IS RELATED THE ADVENTURE OF THE ENAMOURED SHEPHERD, +TOGETHER WITH OTHER TRULY DROLL INCIDENTS + +<a href="p23.htm#ch20b">CHAPTER XX</a> +WHEREIN AN ACCOUNT IS GIVEN OF THE WEDDING OF CAMACHO THE RICH, +TOGETHER WITH THE INCIDENT OF BASILIO THE POOR + + + +<a href="p24.htm#ch21b">CHAPTER XXI</a> +IN WHICH CAMACHO'S WEDDING IS CONTINUED, WITH OTHER DELIGHTFUL INCIDENTS + + + +<a href="p25.htm#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 + + + +<a href="p26.htm#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 + +<a href="p26.htm#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 + +<a href="p26.htm#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 + + + +<a href="p27.htm#ch27b">CHAPTER XXVI</a> +WHEREIN IS CONTINUED THE DROLL ADVENTURE OF THE PUPPET-SHOWMAN, +TOGETHER WITH OTHER THINGS IN TRUTH RIGHT GOOD + +<a href="p27.htm#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 + +<a href="p27.htm#ch28b">CHAPTER XXVIII</a> +OF MATTERS THAT BENENGELI SAYS HE WHO READS THEM WILL KNOW, IF HE +READS THEM WITH ATTENTION + + + +<a href="p28.htm#ch29b">CHAPTER XXIX</a> +OF THE FAMOUS ADVENTURE OF THE ENCHANTED BARK + +<a href="p28.htm#ch30b">CHAPTER XXX</a> +OF DON QUIXOTE'S ADVENTURE WITH A FAIR HUNTRESS + +<a href="p28.htm#ch31b">CHAPTER XXXI</a> +WHICH TREATS OF MANY AND GREAT MATTERS + + + +<a href="p29.htm#ch32b">CHAPTER XXXII</a> +OF THE REPLY DON QUIXOTE GAVE HIS CENSURER, WITH OTHER INCIDENTS, +GRAVE AND DROLL + +<a href="p29.htm#ch33b">CHAPTER XXXIII</a> +OF THE DELECTABLE DISCOURSE WHICH THE DUCHESS AND HER DAMSELS HELD +WITH SANCHO PANZA, WELL WORTH READING AND NOTING + +<a href="p29.htm#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 + +<a href="p29.htm#ch35b">CHAPTER XXXV</a> +WHEREIN IS CONTINUED THE INSTRUCTION GIVEN TO DON QUIXOTE TOUCHING +THE DISENCHANTMENT OF DULCINEA, TOGETHER WITH OTHER MARVELLOUS INCIDENTS + + + +<a href="p30.htm#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 + +<a href="p30.htm#ch37b">CHAPTER XXXVII</a> +WHEREIN IS CONTINUED THE NOTABLE ADVENTURE OF THE DISTRESSED DUENNA + +<a href="p30.htm#ch38b">CHAPTER XXXVIII</a> +WHEREIN IS TOLD THE DISTRESSED DUENNA'S TALE OF HER MISFORTUNES + +<a href="p30.htm#ch39b">CHAPTER XXXIX</a> +IN WHICH THE TRIFALDI CONTINUES HER MARVELLOUS AND MEMORABLE STORY + +<a href="p30.htm#ch40b">CHAPTER XL</a> +OF MATTERS RELATING AND BELONGING TO THIS ADVENTURE AND TO THIS +MEMORABLE HISTORY + +<a href="p30.htm#ch41b">CHAPTER XLI</a> +OF THE ARRIVAL OF CLAVILENO AND THE END OF THIS PROTRACTED ADVENTURE + +<a href="p30.htm#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 + +<a href="p30.htm#ch43b">CHAPTER XLIII</a> +OF THE SECOND SET OF COUNSELS DON QUIXOTE GAVE SANCHO PANZA + + + +<a href="p31.htm#ch44b">CHAPTER XLIV</a> +HOW SANCHO PANZA WAS CONDUCTED TO HIS GOVERNMENT, AND OF THE STRANGE +ADVENTURE THAT BEFELL DON QUIXOTE IN THE CASTLE + +<a href="p31.htm#ch45b">CHAPTER XLV</a> +OF HOW THE GREAT SANCHO PANZA TOOK POSSESSION OF HIS ISLAND, AND +OF HOW HE MADE A BEGINNING IN GOVERNING + + + +<a href="p32.htm#ch46b">CHAPTER XLVI</a> +OF THE TERRIBLE BELL AND CAT FRIGHT THAT DON QUIXOTE GOT IN THE +COURSE OF THE ENAMOURED ALTISIDORA'S WOOING + +<a href="p32.htm#ch47b">CHAPTER XLVII</a> +WHEREIN IS CONTINUED THE ACCOUNT OF HOW SANCHO PANZA CONDUCTED +HIMSELF IN HIS GOVERNMENT + +<a href="p32.htm#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 + + + +<a href="p33.htm#ch49b">CHAPTER XLIX</a> +OF WHAT HAPPENED SANCHO IN MAKING THE ROUND OF HIS ISLAND + +<a href="p33.htm#ch50b">CHAPTER L</a> +WHEREIN IS SET FORTH WHO THE ENCHANTERS AND EXECUTIONERS WERE WHO +FLOGGED THE DUENNA AND PINCHED DON QUIXOTE, AND ALSO WHAT BEFELL THE +PAGE WHO CARRIED THE LETTER TO TERESA PANZA, SANCHO PANZA'S WIFE + +<a href="p33.htm#ch51b">CHAPTER LI</a> +OF THE PROGRESS OF SANCHO'S GOVERNMENT, AND OTHER SUCH +ENTERTAINING MATTERS + +<a href="p33.htm#ch52b">CHAPTER LII</a> +WHEREIN IS RELATED THE ADVENTURE OF THE SECOND DISTRESSED OR +AFFLICTED DUENNA, OTHERWISE CALLED DONA RODRIGUEZ + +<a href="p33.htm#ch53b">CHAPTER LIII</a> +OF THE TROUBLOUS END AND TERMINATION SANCHO PANZA'S GOVERNMENT CAME TO + + + +<a href="p34.htm#ch54b">CHAPTER LIV</a> +WHICH DEALS WITH MATTERS RELATING TO THIS HISTORY AND NO OTHER + +<a href="p34.htm#ch55b">CHAPTER LV</a> +OF WHAT BEFELL SANCHO ON THE ROAD, AND OTHER THINGS THAT CANNOT BE SURPASSED + +<a href="p34.htm#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 + +<a href="p34.htm#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 + + + +<a href="p35.htm#ch58b">CHAPTER LVIII</a> +WHICH TELLS HOW ADVENTURES CAME CROWDING ON DON QUIXOTE IN SUCH +NUMBERS THAT THEY GAVE ONE ANOTHER NO BREATHING-TIME + +<a href="p35.htm#ch59b">CHAPTER LIX</a> +WHEREIN IS RELATED THE STRANGE THING, WHICH MAY BE REGARDED AS AN +ADVENTURE, THAT HAPPENED DON QUIXOTE + + + +<a href="p36.htm#ch60b">CHAPTER LX</a> +OF WHAT HAPPENED DON QUIXOTE ON HIS WAY TO BARCELONA + + + +<a href="p37.htm#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 + + + +<a href="p38.htm#ch62b">CHAPTER LXII</a> +WHICH DEALS WITH THE ADVENTURE OF THE ENCHANTED HEAD, TOGETHER +WITH OTHER TRIVIAL MATTERS WHICH CANNOT BE LEFT UNTOLD + + + +<a href="p39.htm#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 + +<a href="p39.htm#ch64b">CHAPTER LXIV</a> +TREATING OF THE ADVENTURE WHICH GAVE DON QUIXOTE MORE UNHAPPINESS +THAN ALL THAT HAD HITHERTO BEFALLEN HIM + +<a href="p39.htm#ch65b">CHAPTER LXV</a> +WHEREIN IS MADE KNOWN WHO THE KNIGHT OF THE WHITE MOON WAS; LIKEWISE +DON GREGORIO'S RELEASE, AND OTHER EVENTS + +<a href="p39.htm#ch66b">CHAPTER LXVI</a> +WHICH TREATS OF WHAT HE WHO READS WILL SEE, OR WHAT HE WHO HAS IT +READ TO HIM WILL HEAR + + + +<a href="p40.htm#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 + +<a href="p40.htm#ch68b">CHAPTER LXVIII</a> +OF THE BRISTLY ADVENTURE THAT BEFELL DON QUIXOTE + +<a href="p40.htm#ch69b">CHAPTER LXIX</a> +OF THE STRANGEST AND MOST EXTRAORDINARY ADVENTURE THAT BEFELL DON +QUIXOTE IN THE WHOLE COURSE OF THIS GREAT HISTORY + +<a href="p40.htm#ch70b">CHAPTER LXX</a> +WHICH FOLLOWS SIXTY-NINE AND DEALS WITH MATTERS INDISPENSABLE FOR +THE CLEAR COMPREHENSION OF THIS HISTORY + + + +<a href="p41.htm#ch71b">CHAPTER LXXI</a> +OF WHAT PASSED BETWEEN DON QUIXOTE AND HIS SQUIRE SANCHO ON THE +WAY TO THEIR VILLAGE + +<a href="p41.htm#ch72b">CHAPTER LXXII</a> +OF HOW DON QUIXOTE AND SANCHO REACHED THEIR VILLAGE + + + +<a href="p42.htm#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 + +<a href="p42.htm#ch74b">CHAPTER LXXIV</a> +OF HOW DON QUIXOTE FELL SICK, AND OF THE WILL HE MADE, AND HOW HE DIED + +</pre> + + +<br><br> + +<center> +<table summary="" 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W. Clark, illustrated by +Gustave Dore. Clark in his edition states that, "The English text of 'Don Quixote' +adopted in this edition is that of Jarvis, with occasional corrections from Motteaux." +See in the introduction below John Ormsby's critique of +both the Jarvis and Motteaux translations. It has been elected in the present Project Gutenberg edition +to attach the famous engravings of Gustave Dore to the Ormsby translation instead +of the Jarvis/Motteaux. The detail of many of the Dore engravings can be fully appreciated only +by utilizing the "Enlarge" button to expand them to their original dimensions. Ormsby +in his Preface has criticized the fanciful nature of Dore's illustrations; others feel +these woodcuts and steel engravings well match Quixote's dreams. + D.W.</p> +</blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<br><br><br><br> +<center> +<img alt="p003.jpg (307K)" src="images/p003.jpg" height="813" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p003.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"> +</a> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<center><h2>CONTENTS</h2></center> + + +<pre> + +<a href="#ch1b">CHAPTER I</a> +OF THE INTERVIEW THE CURATE AND THE BARBER HAD +WITH DON QUIXOTE ABOUT HIS MALADY + +<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 + +<a href="#ch3b">CHAPTER III</a> +OF THE LAUGHABLE CONVERSATION THAT PASSED BETWEEN +DON QUIXOTE, SANCHO PANZA, AND THE BACHELOR SAMSON +CARRASCO + +<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 + +<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 + +</pre> + +<br><br><br><br> + + +<center><h1>DON QUIXOTE</h1></center> +<br><br> +<center><h2>Volume II.</h2></center> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> +<center> +<h2>DEDICATION OF VOLUME II.</h2> +</center> +<br> +<br> + +<h3>TO THE COUNT OF LEMOS:</h3> +<br> + +<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> + +<br> +<br> +<br> +<br> + +<center><h2>THE AUTHOR'S PREFACE</h2> +</center> +<br> + + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="part2"></a><img alt="part2.jpg (130K)" src="images/part2.jpg" height="448" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/part2.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<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—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?"—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> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="part2e"></a><img alt="part2e.jpg (37K)" src="images/part2e.jpg" height="413" width="650"> +</center> +<br><br><br><br> + +<br><br> +<center><h2><a name="ch1b"></a>CHAPTER I.</h2></center> +<br> +<center><h3>OF THE INTERVIEW THE CURATE AND THE BARBER HAD WITH DON QUIXOTE +ABOUT HIS MALADY +</h3></center> +<br> +<br> + +<center><a name="p01a"></a><img alt="p01a.jpg (156K)" src="images/p01a.jpg" height="455" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p01a.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<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—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—mostly a tempestuous and stormy one—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—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> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p01e"></a><img alt="p01e.jpg (15K)" src="images/p01e.jpg" height="433" width="319"> +</center> +<br><br><br><br> + + + +<br><br> +<center><h2><a name="ch2b"></a>CHAPTER II.</h2></center> +<br> +<center><h3>WHICH TREATS OF THE NOTABLE ALTERCATION WHICH SANCHO PANZA HAD +WITH DON QUIXOTE'S NIECE, AND HOUSEKEEPER, TOGETHER WITH OTHER DROLL +MATTERS +</h3></center> +<br> +<br> + +<center><a name="p02a"></a><img alt="p02a.jpg (159K)" src="images/p02a.jpg" height="429" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p02a.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<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'—which means +in Arabic 'Lord'—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> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p02e"></a><img alt="p02e.jpg (23K)" src="images/p02e.jpg" height="471" width="397"> +</center> +<br><br><br><br> +<br><br> + +<center><h2><a name="ch3b"></a>CHAPTER III.</h2></center> +<br> +<center><h3>OF THE LAUGHABLE CONVERSATION THAT PASSED BETWEEN DON QUIXOTE, +SANCHO PANZA, AND THE BACHELOR SAMSON CARRASCO +</h3></center> +<br> +<br> + +<center><a name="p03a"></a><img alt="p03a.jpg (131K)" src="images/p03a.jpg" height="445" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p03a.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<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> +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p03e"></a><img alt="p03e.jpg (49K)" src="images/p03e.jpg" height="491" width="637"> +</center> +<br><br><br><br> + +<br><br> +<center><h2><a name="ch4b"></a>CHAPTER IV.</h2></center> +<br> +<center><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></center> +<br> +<br> +<center><a name="p04a"></a><img alt="p04a.jpg (143K)" src="images/p04a.jpg" height="412" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p04a.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<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> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p04b"></a><img alt="p04b.jpg (270K)" src="images/p04b.jpg" height="820" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p04b.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<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> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p04e"></a><img alt="p04e.jpg (55K)" src="images/p04e.jpg" height="733" width="501"> +</center> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<br><br> +<center><h2><a name="ch5b"></a>CHAPTER V.</h2></center> +<br> +<center><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></center> +<br> +<br> + +<center><a name="p05a"></a><img alt="p05a.jpg (129K)" src="images/p05a.jpg" height="453" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p05a.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<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—and he could do it at small cost by +merely willing it—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 he '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—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> +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p05e"></a><img alt="p05e.jpg (49K)" src="images/p05e.jpg" height="438" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p05e.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> + + + + +<br> +<br> + + +<center> +<table summary="" cellPadding=4 border=3> +<tr><td> + <a href="p20.htm">Next Part</a> +</td><td> + <a href="5946-h.htm">Main Index</a> + </td></tr> +</table> +</center> +<br><br> + +</body> +</html> + + diff --git a/old/orig5946-h/p20.htm b/old/orig5946-h/p20.htm new file mode 100644 index 0000000..fef3422 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5946-h/p20.htm @@ -0,0 +1,1522 @@ +<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> +<html> +<head> +<title>THE HISTORY OF DON QUIXOTE, By Cervantes, Vol. II., Part 20.</title> +<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> + +<style type="text/css"> + <!-- + body {background:#faebd7; margin:10%; text-align:justify} + P { text-indent: 1em; + margin-top: .75em; + margin-bottom: .75em; } + H1,H2,H3,H4,H5,H6 { text-align: center; } + HR { width: 33%; text-align: center; } + blockquote {font-size: 97%; } + .figleft {float: left;} + .figright {float: right;} + .toc { margin-left: 15%; margin-bottom: 0em;} + CENTER { padding: 10px;} + PRE { font-family: Times; font-size: 97%; margin-left: 15%;} + // --> +</style> + + +</head> +<body> + +<center> +<table summary="" cellPadding=4 border=3> +<tr><td> + <a href="p19.htm">Previous Part</a> +</td><td> + <a href="5946-h.htm">Main Index</a> +</td><td> + <a href="p21.htm">Next Part</a> + </td></tr> +</table> +</center> +<br><br> + + + +<center> +<h1>DON QUIXOTE</h1> +<br> +<h2>by Miguel de Cervantes</h2> +<br> +<h3>Translated by John Ormsby</h3> +</center> + +<br><br> +<center><h3> +Volume II., Part 20. +<br><br> +Chapters 6-10 +</h3></center> + + +<br><br> +<center> +<img alt="bookcover.jpg (230K)" src="images/bookcover.jpg" height="842" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/bookcover.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"> +</a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center> +<img alt="spine.jpg (152K)" src="images/spine.jpg" height="842" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/spine.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"> +</a> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<h3>Ebook Editor's Note</h3> + +<blockquote><blockquote><blockquote><blockquote> +<p> +The book cover and spine above and the images which follow were not part of the original Ormsby +translation—they are taken from the 1880 edition of J. W. Clark, illustrated by +Gustave Dore. Clark in his edition states that, "The English text of 'Don Quixote' +adopted in this edition is that of Jarvis, with occasional corrections from Motteaux." +See in the introduction below John Ormsby's critique of +both the Jarvis and Motteaux translations. It has been elected in the present Project Gutenberg edition +to attach the famous engravings of Gustave Dore to the Ormsby translation instead +of the Jarvis/Motteaux. The detail of many of the Dore engravings can be fully appreciated only +by utilizing the "Enlarge" button to expand them to their original dimensions. Ormsby +in his Preface has criticized the fanciful nature of Dore's illustrations; others feel +these woodcuts and steel engravings well match Quixote's dreams. + D.W.</p> +</blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<br><br><br><br> +<center> +<img alt="p003.jpg (307K)" src="images/p003.jpg" height="813" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p003.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"> +</a> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<center><h2>CONTENTS</h2></center> +<br> + + +<pre> + +<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 + +<a href="#ch7b">CHAPTER VII</a> +OF WHAT PASSED BETWEEN DON QUIXOTE AND HIS SQUIRE, +TOGETHER WITH OTHER VERY NOTABLE INCIDENTS + +<a href="#ch8b">CHAPTER VIII</a> +WHEREIN IS RELATED WHAT BEFELL DON QUIXOTE ON HIS +WAY TO SEE HIS LADY DULCINEA DEL TOBOSO + +<a href="#ch9b">CHAPTER IX</a> +WHEREIN IS RELATED WHAT WILL BE SEEN THERE + +<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 + +</pre> + +<br><br><br><br> + + +<center><h1>DON QUIXOTE</h1></center> +<br><br> +<center><h2>Volume II.</h2></center> +<br> +<br> +<br> + + + + +<br><br> +<center><h2><a name="ch6b"></a>CHAPTER VI.</h2></center> +<br> +<center><h3>OF WHAT TOOK PLACE BETWEEN DON QUIXOTE AND HIS NIECE AND +HOUSEKEEPER; ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT CHAPTERS IN THE WHOLE HISTORY +</h3></center> +<br> +<br> + +<center><a name="p06a"></a><img alt="p06a.jpg (93K)" src="images/p06a.jpg" height="350" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p06a.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<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—enough, if need be, to get up into a pulpit and go preach in +the streets—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—and it is they that are the most +numerous—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 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> +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> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p06e"></a><img alt="p06e.jpg (19K)" src="images/p06e.jpg" height="407" width="261"> +</center> +<br><br><br><br> + +<br><br> +<center><h2><a name="ch7b"></a>CHAPTER VII.</h2></center> +<br> +<center><h3>OF WHAT PASSED BETWEEN DON QUIXOTE AND HIS SQUIRE, TOGETHER WITH +OTHER VERY NOTABLE INCIDENTS +</h3></center> +<br> +<br> + +<center><a name="p07a"></a><img alt="p07a.jpg (140K)" src="images/p07a.jpg" height="436" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p07a.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<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 he 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> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p07e"></a><img alt="p07e.jpg (24K)" src="images/p07e.jpg" height="471" width="361"> +</center> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<br><br> +<center><h2><a name="ch8b"></a>CHAPTER VIII.</h2></center> +<br> +<center><h3>WHEREIN IS RELATED WHAT BEFELL DON QUIXOTE ON HIS WAY TO SEE HIS +LADY DULCINEA DEL TOBOSO +</h3></center> +<br> +<br> + +<center><a name="p08a"></a><img alt="p08a.jpg (65K)" src="images/p08a.jpg" height="278" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p08a.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<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> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p08b"></a><img alt="p08b.jpg (283K)" src="images/p08b.jpg" height="516" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p08b.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<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—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—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> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p08e"></a><img alt="p08e.jpg (49K)" src="images/p08e.jpg" height="411" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p08e.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<br><br> +<center><h2><a name="ch9b"></a>CHAPTER IX.</h2></center> +<br> +<center><h3>WHEREIN IS RELATED WHAT WILL BE SEEN THERE +</h3></center> +<br> +<br> + +<center><a name="p09a"></a><img alt="p09a.jpg (79K)" src="images/p09a.jpg" height="253" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p09a.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<p>'Twas at the very midnight hour—more or less—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—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> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p09e"></a><img alt="p09e.jpg (34K)" src="images/p09e.jpg" height="551" width="495"> +</center> +<br><br><br><br> + + + +<br><br> +<center><h2><a name="ch10b"></a>CHAPTER X.</h2></center> +<br> +<center><h3>WHEREIN IS RELATED THE CRAFTY DEVICE SANCHO ADOPTED TO ENCHANT THE +LADY DULCINEA, AND OTHER INCIDENTS AS LUDICROUS AS THEY ARE TRUE +</h3></center> +<br> +<br> + +<center><a name="p10a"></a><img alt="p10a.jpg (142K)" src="images/p10a.jpg" height="413" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p10a.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<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—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—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—or whatever they're +called—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—or jennyasses—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> + + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p10b"></a><img alt="p10b.jpg (319K)" src="images/p10b.jpg" height="511" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p10b.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<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 ace; 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> +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p10e"></a><img alt="p10e.jpg (56K)" src="images/p10e.jpg" height="307" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p10e.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> + + +<br> +<br> + +<center> +<table summary="" cellPadding=4 border=3> +<tr><td> + <a href="p19.htm">Previous Part</a> +</td><td> + <a href="5946-h.htm">Main Index</a> +</td><td> + <a href="p21.htm">Next Part</a> + </td></tr> +</table> +</center> + +</body> +</html> + diff --git a/old/orig5946-h/p21.htm b/old/orig5946-h/p21.htm new file mode 100644 index 0000000..66f0224 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5946-h/p21.htm @@ -0,0 +1,1412 @@ +<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> +<html> +<head> +<title>THE HISTORY OF DON QUIXOTE, By Cervantes, Vol. II., Part 21.</title> +<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> + +<style type="text/css"> + <!-- + body {background:#faebd7; margin:10%; text-align:justify} + P { text-indent: 1em; + margin-top: .75em; + margin-bottom: .75em; } + H1,H2,H3,H4,H5,H6 { text-align: center; } + HR { width: 33%; text-align: center; } + blockquote {font-size: 97%; } + .figleft {float: left;} + .figright {float: right;} + .toc { margin-left: 15%; margin-bottom: 0em;} + CENTER { padding: 10px;} + PRE { font-family: Times; font-size: 97%; margin-left: 15%;} + // --> +</style> + + +</head> +<body> +<center> +<table summary="" cellPadding=4 border=3> +<tr><td> + <a href="p20.htm">Previous Part</a> +</td><td> + <a href="5946-h.htm">Main Index</a> +</td><td> + <a href="p22.htm">Next Part</a> + </td></tr> +</table> +</center> +<br><br> + +<center> +<h1>DON QUIXOTE</h1> +<br> +<h2>by Miguel de Cervantes</h2> +<br> +<h3>Translated by John Ormsby</h3> +</center> + +<br><br> +<center><h3> +Volume II., Part 21. +<br><br> +Chapters 11-14 +</h3></center> + + +<br><br> +<center> +<img alt="bookcover.jpg (230K)" src="images/bookcover.jpg" height="842" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/bookcover.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"> +</a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center> +<img alt="spine.jpg (152K)" src="images/spine.jpg" height="842" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/spine.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"> +</a> +<br><br><br><br> + + + +<h3>Ebook Editor's Note</h3> + +<blockquote><blockquote><blockquote><blockquote> +<p> +The book cover and spine above and the images which follow were not part of the original Ormsby +translation—they are taken from the 1880 edition of J. W. Clark, illustrated by +Gustave Dore. Clark in his edition states that, "The English text of 'Don Quixote' +adopted in this edition is that of Jarvis, with occasional corrections from Motteaux." +See in the introduction below John Ormsby's critique of +both the Jarvis and Motteaux translations. It has been elected in the present Project Gutenberg edition +to attach the famous engravings of Gustave Dore to the Ormsby translation instead +of the Jarvis/Motteaux. The detail of many of the Dore engravings can be fully appreciated only +by utilizing the "Enlarge" button to expand them to their original dimensions. Ormsby +in his Preface has criticized the fanciful nature of Dore's illustrations; others feel +these woodcuts and steel engravings well match Quixote's dreams. + D.W.</p> +</blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<br><br><br><br> +<center> +<img alt="p003.jpg (307K)" src="images/p003.jpg" height="813" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p003.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"> +</a> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<center><h2>CONTENTS</h2></center> + +<pre> + +<a href="#ch11b">CHAPTER XI</a> +OF THE STRANGE ADVENTURE WHICH THE VALIANT +DON QUIXOTE HAD WITH THE CAR OR CART OF +"THE CORTES OF DEATH" + +<a href="#ch12b">CHAPTER XII</a> +OF THE STRANGE ADVENTURE WHICH BEFELL THE +VALIANT DON QUIXOTE WITH THE BOLD KNIGHT OF +THE MIRRORS + +<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 + +<a href="#ch14b">CHAPTER XIV</a> +WHEREIN IS CONTINUED THE ADVENTURE OF THE +KNIGHT OF THE GROVE + +</pre> + +<br><br><br><br> + + +<center><h1>DON QUIXOTE</h1></center> +<br><br> +<center><h2>Volume II.</h2></center> +<br> +<br> +<br> + + + +<br><br> +<center><h2><a name="ch11b"></a>CHAPTER XI.</h2></center> +<br> +<center><h3>OF THE STRANGE ADVENTURE WHICH THE VALIANT DON QUIXOTE HAD WITH +THE CAR OR CART OF "THE CORTES OF DEATH" +</h3></center> +<br> +<br> + +<center><a name="p11a"></a><img alt="p11a.jpg (172K)" src="images/p11a.jpg" height="422" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p11a.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<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> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p11b"></a><img alt="p11b.jpg (327K)" src="images/p11b.jpg" height="520" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p11b.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<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> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p11e"></a><img alt="p11e.jpg (20K)" src="images/p11e.jpg" height="263" width="359"> +</center> +<br><br><br><br> + +<br><br> +<center><h2><a name="ch12b"></a>CHAPTER XII.</h2></center> +<br> +<center><h3>OF THE STRANGE ADVENTURE WHICH BEFELL THE VALIANT DON QUIXOTE WITH +THE BOLD KNIGHT OF THE MIRRORS +</h3></center> +<br> +<br> + +<center><a name="p12a"></a><img alt="p12a.jpg (98K)" src="images/p12a.jpg" height="301" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p12a.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<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—and, as a necessary consequence, towards those who represent and +produce it—I would that thou wert favourably disposed, for they are +all instruments of great good to the State, placing before us at every +step a mirror in which we may see vividly displayed what goes on in +human life; nor is there any similitude that shows us more +faithfully what we are and ought to be than the play and the +players. Come, tell me, hast thou not seen a play acted in which +kings, emperors, pontiffs, knights, ladies, and divers other +personages were introduced? One plays the villain, another the +knave, this one the merchant, that the soldier, one the sharp-witted +fool, another the foolish lover; and when the play is over, and they +have put off the dresses they wore in it, all the actors become +equal."</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> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p12b"></a><img alt="p12b.jpg (298K)" src="images/p12b.jpg" height="812" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p12b.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<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—the ancient usage established and observed by knights-errant +being to take off the bridle and hang it on the saddle-bow, but to +remove the saddle from the horse—never! Sancho acted accordingly, and +gave him the same liberty he had given Dapple, between whom and +Rocinante there was a friendship so unequalled and so strong, that +it is handed down by tradition from father to son, that the author +of this veracious history devoted some special chapters to it, +which, in order to preserve the propriety and decorum due to a history +so heroic, he did not insert therein; although at times he forgets +this resolution of his and describes how eagerly the two beasts +would scratch one another when they were together and how, when they +were tired or full, Rocinante would lay his neck across Dapple's, +stretching half a yard or more on the other side, and the pair would +stand thus, gazing thoughtfully on the ground, for three days, or at +least so long as they were left alone, or hunger did not drive them to +go and look for food. I may add that they say the author left it on +record that he likened their friendship to that of Nisus and Euryalus, +and Pylades and Orestes; and if that be so, it may be perceived, to +the admiration of mankind, how firm the friendship must have been +between these two peaceful animals, shaming men, who preserve +friendships with one another so badly. This was why it was said-</p> + +<p> For friend no longer is there friend; + The reeds turn lances now.</p> + +<p>And some one else has sung—</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> + 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—but never mind—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> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p12e"></a><img alt="p12e.jpg (15K)" src="images/p12e.jpg" height="331" width="369"> +</center> +<br><br><br><br> + +<br><br> +<center><h2><a name="ch13b"></a>CHAPTER XIII.</h2></center> +<br> +<center><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></center> +<br> +<br> + +<center><a name="p13a"></a><img alt="p13a.jpg (126K)" src="images/p13a.jpg" height="375" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p13a.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<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—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—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> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p13e"></a><img alt="p13e.jpg (43K)" src="images/p13e.jpg" height="446" width="650"> +</center> +<br><br><br><br> + +<br><br> +<center><h2><a name="ch14b"></a>CHAPTER XIV.</h2></center> +<br> +<center><h3>WHEREIN IS CONTINUED THE ADVENTURE OF THE KNIGHT OF THE GROVE +</h3></center> +<br> +<br> + +<center><a name="p14a"></a><img alt="p14a.jpg (120K)" src="images/p14a.jpg" height="389" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p14a.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<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—an unparalleled and awful peril—and bring her a +minute account of all that is concealed in those gloomy depths. I +stopped the motion of the Giralda, I lifted the bulls of Guisando, I +flung myself into the cavern and brought to light the secrets of its +abyss; and my hopes are as dead as dead can be, and her scorn and +her commands as lively as ever. To be brief, last of all she has +commanded me to go through all the provinces of Spain and compel all +the knights-errant wandering therein to confess that she surpasses all +women alive to-day in beauty, and that I am the most valiant and the +most deeply enamoured knight on earth; in support of which claim I +have already travelled over the greater part of Spain, and have +there vanquished several knights who have dared to contradict me; +but what I most plume and pride myself upon is having vanquished in +single combat that so famous knight Don Quixote of La Mancha, and made +him confess that my Casildea is more beautiful than his Dulcinea; +and in this one victory I hold myself to have conquered all the +knights in the world; for this Don Quixote that I speak of has +vanquished them all, and I having vanquished him, his glory, his fame, +and his honour have passed and are transferred to my person; for</p> + +<pre> +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—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—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—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> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p14e"></a><img alt="p14e.jpg (56K)" src="images/p14e.jpg" height="721" width="557"> +</center> + + + + +<br> +<br> + +<center> +<table summary="" cellPadding=4 border=3> +<tr><td> + <a href="p20.htm">Previous Part</a> +</td><td> + <a href="5946-h.htm">Main Index</a> +</td><td> + <a href="p22.htm">Next Part</a> + </td></tr> +</table> +</center> + +</body> +</html> + + + diff --git a/old/orig5946-h/p22.htm b/old/orig5946-h/p22.htm new file mode 100644 index 0000000..537c38a --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5946-h/p22.htm @@ -0,0 +1,1417 @@ +<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> +<html> +<head> +<title>THE HISTORY OF DON QUIXOTE, By Cervantes, Vol. II., Part 22.</title> +<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> + +<style type="text/css"> + <!-- + body {background:#faebd7; margin:10%; text-align:justify} + P { text-indent: 1em; + margin-top: .75em; + margin-bottom: .75em; } + H1,H2,H3,H4,H5,H6 { text-align: center; } + HR { width: 33%; text-align: center; } + blockquote {font-size: 97%; } + .figleft {float: left;} + .figright {float: right;} + .toc { margin-left: 15%; margin-bottom: 0em;} + CENTER { padding: 10px;} + PRE { font-family: Times; font-size: 97%; margin-left: 15%;} + // --> +</style> + + +</head> +<body> + +<center> +<table summary="" cellPadding=4 border=3> +<tr><td> + <a href="p21.htm">Previous Part</a> +</td><td> + <a href="5946-h.htm">Main Index</a> +</td><td> + <a href="p23.htm">Next Part</a> + </td></tr> +</table> +</center> +<br><br> + + + +<center> +<h1>DON QUIXOTE</h1> +<br> +<h2>by Miguel de Cervantes</h2> +<br> +<h3>Translated by John Ormsby</h3> +</center> + +<br><br> +<center><h3> +Volume II., Part 22. +<br><br> +Chapters 15-18 +</h3></center> + + +<br><br> +<center> +<img alt="bookcover.jpg (230K)" src="images/bookcover.jpg" height="842" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/bookcover.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"> +</a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center> +<img alt="spine.jpg (152K)" src="images/spine.jpg" height="842" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/spine.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"> +</a> +<br><br><br><br> + + + +<h3>Ebook Editor's Note</h3> + +<blockquote><blockquote><blockquote><blockquote> +<p> +The book cover and spine above and the images which follow were not part of the original Ormsby +translation—they are taken from the 1880 edition of J. W. Clark, illustrated by +Gustave Dore. Clark in his edition states that, "The English text of 'Don Quixote' +adopted in this edition is that of Jarvis, with occasional corrections from Motteaux." +See in the introduction below John Ormsby's critique of +both the Jarvis and Motteaux translations. It has been elected in the present Project Gutenberg edition +to attach the famous engravings of Gustave Dore to the Ormsby translation instead +of the Jarvis/Motteaux. The detail of many of the Dore engravings can be fully appreciated only +by utilizing the "Enlarge" button to expand them to their original dimensions. Ormsby +in his Preface has criticized the fanciful nature of Dore's illustrations; others feel +these woodcuts and steel engravings well match Quixote's dreams. + D.W.</p> +</blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<br><br><br><br> +<center> +<img alt="p003.jpg (307K)" src="images/p003.jpg" height="813" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p003.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"> +</a> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<center><h2>CONTENTS</h2></center> + +<pre> + +<a href="#ch15b">CHAPTER XV</a> +WHEREIN IT IS TOLD AND KNOWN WHO THE KNIGHT OF THE +MIRRORS AND HIS SQUIRE WERE + +<a href="#ch16b">CHAPTER XVI</a> +OF WHAT BEFELL DON QUIXOTE WITH A DISCREET +GENTLEMAN OF LA MANCHA + +<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 + +<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 + +</pre> + +<br><br><br><br> + + +<center><h1>DON QUIXOTE</h1></center> +<br><br> +<center><h2>VOLUME II.</h2></center> +<br> +<br> +<br> + + +<br><br> +<center><h2><a name="ch15b"></a>CHAPTER XV.</h2></center> +<br> +<center><h3>WHEREIN IT IS TOLD AND KNOWN WHO THE KNIGHT OF THE MIRRORS AND HIS +SQUIRE WERE +</h3></center> +<br> +<br> + +<center><a name="p15a"></a><img alt="p15a.jpg (122K)" src="images/p15a.jpg" height="493" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p15a.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<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> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p15e"></a><img alt="p15e.jpg (17K)" src="images/p15e.jpg" height="339" width="431"> +</center> +<br><br><br><br> + +<br><br> +<center><h2><a name="ch16b"></a>CHAPTER XVI.</h2></center> +<br> +<center><h3>OF WHAT BEFELL DON QUIXOTE WITH A DISCREET GENTLEMAN OF LA MANCHA +</h3></center> +<br> +<br> + +<center><a name="p16a"></a><img alt="p16a.jpg (85K)" src="images/p16a.jpg" height="292" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p16a.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<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 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—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 +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> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p16e"></a><img alt="p16e.jpg (49K)" src="images/p16e.jpg" height="429" width="650"> +</center> +<br><br><br><br> + +<br><br> +<center><h2><a name="ch17b"></a>CHAPTER XVII.</h2></center> +<br> +<center><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></center> +<br> +<br> + +<center><a name="p17a"></a><img alt="p17a.jpg (137K)" src="images/p17a.jpg" height="406" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p17a.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<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—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> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p17b"></a><img alt="p17b.jpg (352K)" src="images/p17b.jpg" height="816" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p17b.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<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> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p17e"></a><img alt="p17e.jpg (76K)" src="images/p17e.jpg" height="741" width="509"> +</center> +<br><br><br><br> + +<br><br> +<center><h2><a name="ch18b"></a>CHAPTER XVIII.</h2></center> +<br> +<center><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></center> +<br> +<br> + +<center><a name="p18a"></a><img alt="p18a.jpg (133K)" src="images/p18a.jpg" height="392" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p18a.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<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> "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> + + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p18b"></a><img alt="p18b.jpg (300K)" src="images/p18b.jpg" height="817" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p18b.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<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> + 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!— + + + + 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—as a certain poet, God forgive him, +said—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—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> + + 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> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p18e"></a><img alt="p18e.jpg (18K)" src="images/p18e.jpg" height="359" width="335"> +</center> + + + +<br> +<br> + + +<center> +<table summary="" cellPadding=4 border=3> +<tr><td> + <a href="p21.htm">Previous Part</a> +</td><td> + <a href="5946-h.htm">Main Index</a> +</td><td> + <a href="p23.htm">Next Part</a> + </td></tr> +</table> +</center> +<br><br> + +</body> +</html> + diff --git a/old/orig5946-h/p23.htm b/old/orig5946-h/p23.htm new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9b0d53d --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5946-h/p23.htm @@ -0,0 +1,834 @@ +<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> +<html> +<head> +<title>THE HISTORY OF DON QUIXOTE, By Cervantes, Vol. II., Part 23.</title> +<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> + +<style type="text/css"> + <!-- + body {background:#faebd7; margin:10%; text-align:justify} + P { text-indent: 1em; + margin-top: .75em; + margin-bottom: .75em; } + H1,H2,H3,H4,H5,H6 { text-align: center; } + HR { width: 33%; text-align: center; } + blockquote {font-size: 97%; } + .figleft {float: left;} + .figright {float: right;} + .toc { margin-left: 15%; margin-bottom: 0em;} + CENTER { padding: 10px;} + PRE { font-family: Times; font-size: 97%; margin-left: 15%;} + // --> +</style> + + +</head> +<body> + + +<center> +<table summary="" cellPadding=4 border=3> +<tr><td> + <a href="p22.htm">Previous Part</a> +</td><td> + <a href="5946-h.htm">Main Index</a> +</td><td> + <a href="p24.htm">Next Part</a> + </td></tr> +</table> +</center> +<br><br> + + + +<center> +<h1>DON QUIXOTE</h1> +<br> +<h2>by Miguel de Cervantes</h2> +<br> +<h3>Translated by John Ormsby</h3> +</center> + +<br><br> +<center><h3> +Volume II., Part 23. +<br><br> +Chapters 19-20 +</h3></center> + + +<br><br> +<center> +<img alt="bookcover.jpg (230K)" src="images/bookcover.jpg" height="842" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/bookcover.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"> +</a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center> +<img alt="spine.jpg (152K)" src="images/spine.jpg" height="842" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/spine.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"> +</a> +<br><br><br><br> + + + +<h3>Ebook Editor's Note</h3> + +<blockquote><blockquote><blockquote><blockquote> +<p> +The book cover and spine above and the images which follow were not part of the original Ormsby +translation—they are taken from the 1880 edition of J. W. Clark, illustrated by +Gustave Dore. Clark in his edition states that, "The English text of 'Don Quixote' +adopted in this edition is that of Jarvis, with occasional corrections from Motteaux." +See in the introduction below John Ormsby's critique of +both the Jarvis and Motteaux translations. It has been elected in the present Project Gutenberg edition +to attach the famous engravings of Gustave Dore to the Ormsby translation instead +of the Jarvis/Motteaux. The detail of many of the Dore engravings can be fully appreciated only +by utilizing the "Enlarge" button to expand them to their original dimensions. Ormsby +in his Preface has criticized the fanciful nature of Dore's illustrations; others feel +these woodcuts and steel engravings well match Quixote's dreams. + D.W.</p> +</blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<br><br><br><br> +<center> +<img alt="p003.jpg (307K)" src="images/p003.jpg" height="813" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p003.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"> +</a> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<center><h2>CONTENTS</h2></center> + +<pre> + +<a href="#ch19b">CHAPTER XIX</a> +IN WHICH IS RELATED THE ADVENTURE OF THE ENAMOURED +SHEPHERD, TOGETHER WITH OTHER TRULY DROLL INCIDENTS + +<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 + +</pre> + +<br><br><br><br> + + +<center><h1>DON QUIXOTE</h1></center> +<br><br> +<center><h2>Volume II.</h2></center> +<br> +<br> +<br> + + +<br><br> +<center><h2><a name="ch19b"></a>CHAPTER XIX.</h2></center> +<br> +<center><h3>IN WHICH IS RELATED THE ADVENTURE OF THE ENAMOURED SHEPHERD, +TOGETHER WITH OTHER TRULY DROLL INCIDENTS +</h3></center> +<br> +<br> + +<center><a name="p19a"></a><img alt="p19a.jpg (131K)" src="images/p19a.jpg" height="416" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p19a.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<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—I meant to say the opposite—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 blear 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> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p19e"></a><img alt="p19e.jpg (29K)" src="images/p19e.jpg" height="611" width="469"> +</center> +<br><br><br><br> + +<br><br> +<center><h2><a name="ch20b"></a>CHAPTER XX.</h2></center> +<br> +<center><h3>WHEREIN AN ACCOUNT IS GIVEN OF THE WEDDING OF CAMACHO THE RICH, +TOGETHER WITH THE INCIDENT OF BASILIO THE POOR +</h3></center> +<br> +<br> + +<center><a name="p20a"></a><img alt="p20a.jpg (125K)" src="images/p20a.jpg" height="451" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p20a.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<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> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p20b"></a><img alt="p20b.jpg (365K)" src="images/p20b.jpg" height="821" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p20b.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<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> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p20c"></a><img alt="p20c.jpg (415K)" src="images/p20c.jpg" height="514" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p20c.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<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> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p20d"></a><img alt="p20d.jpg (351K)" src="images/p20d.jpg" height="819" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p20d.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<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> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p20e"></a><img alt="p20e.jpg (361K)" src="images/p20e.jpg" height="509" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p20e.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<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> +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> +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> +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> +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 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> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p20f"></a><img alt="p20f.jpg (41K)" src="images/p20f.jpg" height="503" width="525"> +</center> + + + + +<br> +<br> + + +<center> +<table summary="" cellPadding=4 border=3> +<tr><td> + <a href="p22.htm">Previous Part</a> +</td><td> + <a href="5946-h.htm">Main Index</a> +</td><td> + <a href="p24.htm">Next Part</a> + </td></tr> +</table> +</center> +<br><br> + +</body> +</html> + diff --git a/old/orig5946-h/p24.htm b/old/orig5946-h/p24.htm new file mode 100644 index 0000000..79aeff4 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5946-h/p24.htm @@ -0,0 +1,412 @@ +<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> +<html> +<head> +<title>THE HISTORY OF DON QUIXOTE, By Cervantes, Vol. II., Part 24.</title> +<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> + +<style type="text/css"> + <!-- + body {background:#faebd7; margin:10%; text-align:justify} + P { text-indent: 1em; + margin-top: .75em; + margin-bottom: .75em; } + H1,H2,H3,H4,H5,H6 { text-align: center; } + HR { width: 33%; text-align: center; } + blockquote {font-size: 97%; } + .figleft {float: left;} + .figright {float: right;} + .toc { margin-left: 15%; margin-bottom: 0em;} + CENTER { padding: 10px;} + PRE { font-family: Times; font-size: 97%; margin-left: 15%;} + // --> +</style> + + +</head> +<body> + + +<center> +<table summary="" cellPadding=4 border=3> +<tr><td> + <a href="p23.htm">Previous Part</a> +</td><td> + <a href="5946-h.htm">Main Index</a> +</td><td> + <a href="p25.htm">Next Part</a> + </td></tr> +</table> +</center> +<br><br> + + + +<center> +<h1>DON QUIXOTE</h1> +<br> +<h2>by Miguel de Cervantes</h2> +<br> +<h3>Translated by John Ormsby</h3> +</center> + +<br><br> +<center><h3> +Volume II., Part 24. +<br><br> +Chapter 21 +</h3></center> + + +<br><br> +<center> +<img alt="bookcover.jpg (230K)" src="images/bookcover.jpg" height="842" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/bookcover.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"> +</a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center> +<img alt="spine.jpg (152K)" src="images/spine.jpg" height="842" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/spine.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"> +</a> +<br><br><br><br> + + + +<h3>Ebook Editor's Note</h3> + +<blockquote><blockquote><blockquote><blockquote> +<p> +The book cover and spine above and the images which follow were not part of the original Ormsby +translation—they are taken from the 1880 edition of J. W. Clark, illustrated by +Gustave Dore. Clark in his edition states that, "The English text of 'Don Quixote' +adopted in this edition is that of Jarvis, with occasional corrections from Motteaux." +See in the introduction below John Ormsby's critique of +both the Jarvis and Motteaux translations. It has been elected in the present Project Gutenberg edition +to attach the famous engravings of Gustave Dore to the Ormsby translation instead +of the Jarvis/Motteaux. The detail of many of the Dore engravings can be fully appreciated only +by utilizing the "Enlarge" button to expand them to their original dimensions. Ormsby +in his Preface has criticized the fanciful nature of Dore's illustrations; others feel +these woodcuts and steel engravings well match Quixote's dreams. + D.W.</p> +</blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<br><br><br><br> +<center> +<img alt="p003.jpg (307K)" src="images/p003.jpg" height="813" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p003.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"> +</a> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<center><h2>CONTENTS</h2></center> + + +<pre> + +<a href="#ch21b">CHAPTER XXI</a> +IN WHICH CAMACHO'S WEDDING IS CONTINUED, WITH OTHER +DELIGHTFUL INCIDENTS + +</pre> + +<br><br><br><br> + + +<center><h1>DON QUIXOTE</h1></center> +<br><br> +<center><h2>Volume II.</h2></center> +<br> +<br> +<br> + + + + +<br><br> +<center><h2><a name="ch21b"></a>CHAPTER XXI.</h2></center> +<br> +<center><h3>IN WHICH CAMACHO'S WEDDING IS CONTINUED, +WITH OTHER DELIGHTFUL INCIDENTS +</h3></center> +<br> +<br> +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p21a"></a><img alt="p21a.jpg (118K)" src="images/p21a.jpg" height="412" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p21a.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<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—by +my oath, but it's satin! Look at her hands—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—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> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p21b"></a><img alt="p21b.jpg (374K)" src="images/p21b.jpg" height="512" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p21b.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<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> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p21c"></a><img alt="p21c.jpg (417K)" src="images/p21c.jpg" height="514" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p21c.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<center><a name="p21e"></a><img alt="p21e.jpg (49K)" src="images/p21e.jpg" height="739" width="525"> +</center> + + + +<br> +<br> + + +<center> +<table summary="" cellPadding=4 border=3> +<tr><td> + <a href="p23.htm">Previous Part</a> +</td><td> + <a href="5946-h.htm">Main Index</a> +</td><td> + <a href="p25.htm">Next Part</a> + </td></tr> +</table> +</center> +<br><br> + +</body> +</html> + + diff --git a/old/orig5946-h/p25.htm b/old/orig5946-h/p25.htm new file mode 100644 index 0000000..780f961 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5946-h/p25.htm @@ -0,0 +1,478 @@ +<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> +<html> +<head> +<title>THE HISTORY OF DON QUIXOTE, By Cervantes, Vol. II., Part 25.</title> +<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> + +<style type="text/css"> + <!-- + body {background:#faebd7; margin:10%; text-align:justify} + P { text-indent: 1em; + margin-top: .75em; + margin-bottom: .75em; } + H1,H2,H3,H4,H5,H6 { text-align: center; } + HR { width: 33%; text-align: center; } + blockquote {font-size: 97%; } + .figleft {float: left;} + .figright {float: right;} + .toc { margin-left: 15%; margin-bottom: 0em;} + CENTER { padding: 10px;} + PRE { font-family: Times; font-size: 97%; margin-left: 15%;} + // --> +</style> + + +</head> +<body> + + +<center> +<table summary="" cellPadding=4 border=3> +<tr><td> + <a href="p24.htm">Previous Part</a> +</td><td> + <a href="5946-h.htm">Main Index</a> +</td><td> + <a href="p26.htm">Next Part</a> + </td></tr> +</table> +</center> +<br><br> + + +<center> +<h1>DON QUIXOTE</h1> +<br> +<h2>by Miguel de Cervantes</h2> +<br> +<h3>Translated by John Ormsby</h3> +</center> + +<br><br> +<center><h3> +Volume II., Part 25. +<br><br> +Chapter 22 +</h3></center> + + +<br><br> +<center> +<img alt="bookcover.jpg (230K)" src="images/bookcover.jpg" height="842" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/bookcover.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"> +</a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center> +<img alt="spine.jpg (152K)" src="images/spine.jpg" height="842" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/spine.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"> +</a> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<center> +<h3>Ebook Editor's Note</h3> +</center> +<blockquote><blockquote><blockquote><blockquote> +<p> +The book cover and spine above and the images which follow were not part of the original Ormsby +translation—they are taken from the 1880 edition of J. W. Clark, illustrated by +Gustave Dore. Clark in his edition states that, "The English text of 'Don Quixote' +adopted in this edition is that of Jarvis, with occasional corrections from Motteaux." +See in the introduction below John Ormsby's critique of +both the Jarvis and Motteaux translations. It has been elected in the present Project Gutenberg edition +to attach the famous engravings of Gustave Dore to the Ormsby translation instead +of the Jarvis/Motteaux. The detail of many of the Dore engravings can be fully appreciated only +by utilizing the "Enlarge" button to expand them to their original dimensions. Ormsby +in his Preface has criticized the fanciful nature of Dore's illustrations; others feel +these woodcuts and steel engravings well match Quixote's dreams. + D.W.</p> +</blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<br><br><br><br> +<center> +<img alt="p003.jpg (307K)" src="images/p003.jpg" height="813" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p003.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"> +</a> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<center><h2>CONTENTS</h2></center> + + +<pre> + +<a href="#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 + +</pre> + +<br><br><br><br> + + +<center><h1>DON QUIXOTE</h1></center> +<br><br> +<center><h2>Volume II.</h2></center> +<br> +<br> +<br> + + + +<br><br> +<center><h2><a name="ch22b"></a>CHAPTER XXII.</h2></center> +<br> +<center><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></center> +<br> +<br> + +<center><a name="p22a"></a><img alt="p22a.jpg (112K)" src="images/p22a.jpg" height="358" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p22a.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<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> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p22b"></a><img alt="p22b.jpg (344K)" src="images/p22b.jpg" height="822" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p22b.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<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—and God give you luck in printing your +books—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> + + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p22c"></a><img alt="p22c.jpg (365K)" src="images/p22c.jpg" height="819" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p22c.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<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> + + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p22d"></a><img alt="p22d.jpg (318K)" src="images/p22d.jpg" height="818" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p22d.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<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> + + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p22e"></a><img alt="p22e.jpg (48K)" src="images/p22e.jpg" height="741" width="433"> +</center> + + + + +<br> +<br> + + +<center> +<table summary="" cellPadding=4 border=3> +<tr><td> + <a href="p24.htm">Previous Part</a> +</td><td> + <a href="5946-h.htm">Main Index</a> +</td><td> + <a href="p26.htm">Next Part</a> + </td></tr> +</table> +</center> +<br><br> + +</body> +</html> + diff --git a/old/orig5946-h/p26.htm b/old/orig5946-h/p26.htm new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2b4bcfb --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5946-h/p26.htm @@ -0,0 +1,1201 @@ +<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> +<html> +<head> +<title>THE HISTORY OF DON QUIXOTE, By Cervantes, Vol. II. 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W. Clark, illustrated by +Gustave Dore. Clark in his edition states that, "The English text of 'Don Quixote' +adopted in this edition is that of Jarvis, with occasional corrections from Motteaux." +See in the introduction below John Ormsby's critique of +both the Jarvis and Motteaux translations. It has been elected in the present Project Gutenberg edition +to attach the famous engravings of Gustave Dore to the Ormsby translation instead +of the Jarvis/Motteaux. The detail of many of the Dore engravings can be fully appreciated only +by utilizing the "Enlarge" button to expand them to their original dimensions. Ormsby +in his Preface has criticized the fanciful nature of Dore's illustrations; others feel +these woodcuts and steel engravings well match Quixote's dreams. + D.W.</p> +</blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<br><br><br><br> +<center> +<img alt="p003.jpg (307K)" src="images/p003.jpg" height="813" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p003.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"> +</a> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<center><h2>CONTENTS</h2></center> + + +<pre> + +<a href="#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 + +<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 + +<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 + +</pre> + +<br><br><br><br> + + +<center><h1>DON QUIXOTE</h1></center> +<br><br> +<center><h2>Volume II.</h2></center> +<br> +<br> +<br> + + + +<br><br> +<center><h2><a name="ch23b"></a>CHAPTER XXIII.</h2></center> +<br> +<center><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></center> +<br> +<br> + +<center><a name="p23a"></a><img alt="p23a.jpg (148K)" src="images/p23a.jpg" height="353" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p23a.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<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—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> + + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p23b"></a><img alt="p23b.jpg (243K)" src="images/p23b.jpg" height="810" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p23b.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<p>"As he said this, the wretched Durandarte cried out in a loud voice:</p> + + +<pre>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> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p23c"></a><img alt="p23c.jpg (331K)" src="images/p23c.jpg" height="815" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p23c.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<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—I was just going to say +the devil—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> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p23e"></a><img alt="p23e.jpg (54K)" src="images/p23e.jpg" height="721" width="453"> +</center> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<br><br> +<center><h2><a name="ch24b"></a>CHAPTER XXIV.</h2></center> +<br> +<center><h3>WHEREIN ARE RELATED A THOUSAND TRIFLING MATTERS, AS TRIVIAL AS +THEY ARE NECESSARY TO THE RIGHT UNDERSTANDING OF THIS GREAT HISTORY +</h3></center> +<br> +<br> +<center><a name="p24a"></a><img alt="p24a.jpg (137K)" src="images/p24a.jpg" height="400" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p24a.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<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—which I doubt—to whom do you mean 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—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—</p> + +<pre>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!—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> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p24e"></a><img alt="p24e.jpg (61K)" src="images/p24e.jpg" height="442" width="650"> +</center> +<br><br><br><br> + + + +<br><br> +<center><h2><a name="ch25b"></a>CHAPTER XXV.</h2></center> +<br> +<center><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></center> +<br> +<br> + +<center><a name="p25a"></a><img alt="p25a.jpg (154K)" src="images/p25a.jpg" height="419" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p25a.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<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—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> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p25b"></a><img alt="p25b.jpg (373K)" src="images/p25b.jpg" height="831" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p25b.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<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 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> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p25e"></a><img alt="p25e.jpg (28K)" src="images/p25e.jpg" height="309" width="499"> +</center> + + + + +<br> +<br> + + +<center> +<table summary="" cellPadding=4 border=3> +<tr><td> + <a href="p25.htm">Previous Part</a> +</td><td> + <a href="5946-h.htm">Main Index</a> +</td><td> + <a href="p27.htm">Next Part</a> + </td></tr> +</table> +</center> +<br><br> + +</body> +</html> + diff --git a/old/orig5946-h/p27.htm b/old/orig5946-h/p27.htm new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9de4619 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5946-h/p27.htm @@ -0,0 +1,978 @@ +<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> +<html> +<head> +<title>THE HISTORY OF DON QUIXOTE, By Cervantes, Vol. II., Part 27.</title> +<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> + +<style type="text/css"> + <!-- + body {background:#faebd7; margin:10%; text-align:justify} + P { text-indent: 1em; + margin-top: .75em; + margin-bottom: .75em; } + H1,H2,H3,H4,H5,H6 { text-align: center; } + HR { width: 33%; text-align: center; } + blockquote {font-size: 97%; } + .figleft {float: left;} + .figright {float: right;} + .toc { margin-left: 15%; margin-bottom: 0em;} + CENTER { padding: 10px;} + PRE { font-family: Times; font-size: 97%; margin-left: 15%;} + // --> +</style> + + +</head> +<body> + + +<center> +<table summary="" cellPadding=4 border=3> +<tr><td> + <a href="p26.htm">Previous Part</a> +</td><td> + <a href="5946-h.htm">Main Index</a> +</td><td> + <a href="p28.htm">Next Part</a> + </td></tr> +</table> +</center> +<br><br> + + + + +<center> +<h1>DON QUIXOTE</h1> +<br> +<h2>by Miguel de Cervantes</h2> +<br> +<h3>Translated by John Ormsby</h3> +</center> + +<br><br> +<center><h3> +Volume II., Part 27 +<br><br> +Chapters 26-28 +</h3></center> + + +<br><br> +<center> +<img alt="bookcover.jpg (230K)" src="images/bookcover.jpg" height="842" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/bookcover.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"> +</a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center> +<img alt="spine.jpg (152K)" src="images/spine.jpg" height="842" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/spine.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"> +</a> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<center> +<h3>Ebook Editor's Note</h3> +</center> +<blockquote><blockquote><blockquote><blockquote> +<p> +The book cover and spine above and the images which follow were not part of the original Ormsby +translation—they are taken from the 1880 edition of J. W. Clark, illustrated by +Gustave Dore. Clark in his edition states that, "The English text of 'Don Quixote' +adopted in this edition is that of Jarvis, with occasional corrections from Motteaux." +See in the introduction below John Ormsby's critique of +both the Jarvis and Motteaux translations. It has been elected in the present Project Gutenberg edition +to attach the famous engravings of Gustave Dore to the Ormsby translation instead +of the Jarvis/Motteaux. The detail of many of the Dore engravings can be fully appreciated only +by utilizing the "Enlarge" button to expand them to their original dimensions. Ormsby +in his Preface has criticized the fanciful nature of Dore's illustrations; others feel +these woodcuts and steel engravings well match Quixote's dreams. + D.W.</p> +</blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<br><br><br><br> +<center> +<img alt="p003.jpg (307K)" src="images/p003.jpg" height="813" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p003.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"> +</a> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<center><h2>CONTENTS</h2></center> + +<pre> + +<a href="#ch26b">CHAPTER XXVI</a> +WHEREIN IS CONTINUED THE DROLL ADVENTURE OF THE +PUPPET-SHOWMAN, TOGETHER WITH OTHER THINGS IN TRUTH +RIGHT GOOD + +<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 + +<a href="#ch28b">CHAPTER XXVIII</a> +OF MATTERS THAT BENENGELI SAYS HE WHO READS THEM WILL +KNOW, IF HE READS THEM WITH ATTENTION + +</pre> + +<br><br><br><br> + + +<center><h1>DON QUIXOTE</h1></center> +<br><br> +<center><h2>Volume II.</h2></center> +<br> +<br> +<br> + + + +<br><br> +<center><h2><a name="ch26b"></a>CHAPTER XXVI.</h2></center> +<br> +<center><h3>WHEREIN IS CONTINUED THE DROLL ADVENTURE OF THE PUPPET-SHOWMAN, +TOGETHER WITH OTHER THINGS IN TRUTH RIGHT GOOD +</h3></center> +<br> +<br> + +<center><a name="p26a"></a><img alt="p26a.jpg (157K)" src="images/p26a.jpg" height="425" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p26a.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<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> +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—</p> + + +<pre> +If you, sir knight, to France are bound, +Oh! for Gaiferos ask— + +</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—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> + + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p26b"></a><img alt="p26b.jpg (342K)" src="images/p26b.jpg" height="829" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p26b.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<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—sinner that I am!—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—</p> + +<pre> +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—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> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p26e"></a><img alt="p26e.jpg (34K)" src="images/p26e.jpg" height="521" width="457"> +</center> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<br><br> +<center><h2><a name="ch27b"></a>CHAPTER XXVII.</h2></center> +<br> +<center><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></center> +<br> +<br> + +<center><a name="p27a"></a><img alt="p27a.jpg (135K)" src="images/p27a.jpg" height="390" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p27a.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<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—as no doubt he was—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—Don Ginesillo de Parapilla, Don Quixote +called him—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—</p> + +<pre> +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> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p27b"></a><img alt="p27b.jpg (330K)" src="images/p27b.jpg" height="814" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p27b.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<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,—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 tologian; 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> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p27e"></a><img alt="p27e.jpg (47K)" src="images/p27e.jpg" height="441" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p27e.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<br><br> +<center><h2><a name="ch28b"></a>CHAPTER XXVIII.</h2></center> +<br> +<center><h3>OF MATTERS THAT BENENGELI SAYS HE WHO READS THEM WILL KNOW, IF HE +READS THEM WITH ATTENTION +</h3></center> +<br> +<br> + +<center><a name="p28a"></a><img alt="p28a.jpg (111K)" src="images/p28a.jpg" height="391" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p28a.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<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—for such I take thee to be—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> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p28e"></a><img alt="p28e.jpg (36K)" src="images/p28e.jpg" height="671" width="465"> +</center> + + + + +<br> +<br> + + +<center> +<table summary="" cellPadding=4 border=3> +<tr><td> + <a href="p26.htm">Previous Part</a> +</td><td> + <a href="5946-h.htm">Main Index</a> +</td><td> + <a href="p28.htm">Next Part</a> + </td></tr> +</table> +</center> +<br><br> + +</body> +</html> + + diff --git a/old/orig5946-h/p28.htm b/old/orig5946-h/p28.htm new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1170b8d --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5946-h/p28.htm @@ -0,0 +1,980 @@ +<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> +<html> +<head> +<title>THE HISTORY OF DON QUIXOTE, By Cervantes, Vol. II., Part 28.</title> +<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> + +<style type="text/css"> + <!-- + body {background:#faebd7; margin:10%; text-align:justify} + P { text-indent: 1em; + margin-top: .75em; + margin-bottom: .75em; } + H1,H2,H3,H4,H5,H6 { text-align: center; } + HR { width: 33%; text-align: center; } + blockquote {font-size: 97%; } + .figleft {float: left;} + .figright {float: right;} + .toc { margin-left: 15%; margin-bottom: 0em;} + CENTER { padding: 10px;} + PRE { font-family: Times; font-size: 97%; margin-left: 15%;} + // --> +</style> + + +</head> +<body> + + +<center> +<table summary="" cellPadding=4 border=3> +<tr><td> + <a href="p27.htm">Previous Part</a> +</td><td> + <a href="5946-h.htm">Main Index</a> +</td><td> + <a href="p29.htm">Next Part</a> + </td></tr> +</table> +</center> +<br><br> + +<center> +<h1>DON QUIXOTE</h1> +<br> +<h2>by Miguel de Cervantes</h2> +<br> +<h3>Translated by John Ormsby</h3> +</center> + +<br><br> +<center><h3> +Volume II., Part 28 +<br><br> +Chapters 29-31 +</h3></center> + + +<br><br> +<center> +<img alt="bookcover.jpg (230K)" src="images/bookcover.jpg" height="842" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/bookcover.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"> +</a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center> +<img alt="spine.jpg (152K)" src="images/spine.jpg" height="842" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/spine.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"> +</a> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<center> +<h3>Ebook Editor's Note</h3> +</center> +<blockquote><blockquote><blockquote><blockquote> +<p> +The book cover and spine above and the images which follow were not part of the original Ormsby +translation—they are taken from the 1880 edition of J. W. Clark, illustrated by +Gustave Dore. Clark in his edition states that, "The English text of 'Don Quixote' +adopted in this edition is that of Jarvis, with occasional corrections from Motteaux." +See in the introduction below John Ormsby's critique of +both the Jarvis and Motteaux translations. It has been elected in the present Project Gutenberg edition +to attach the famous engravings of Gustave Dore to the Ormsby translation instead +of the Jarvis/Motteaux. The detail of many of the Dore engravings can be fully appreciated only +by utilizing the "Enlarge" button to expand them to their original dimensions. Ormsby +in his Preface has criticized the fanciful nature of Dore's illustrations; others feel +these woodcuts and steel engravings well match Quixote's dreams. + D.W.</p> +</blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<br><br><br><br> +<center> +<img alt="p003.jpg (307K)" src="images/p003.jpg" height="813" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p003.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"> +</a> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<center><h2>CONTENTS</h2></center> + + +<pre> + +<a href="#ch29b">CHAPTER XXIX</a> +OF THE FAMOUS ADVENTURE OF THE ENCHANTED BARK + +<a href="#ch30b">CHAPTER XXX</a> +OF DON QUIXOTE'S ADVENTURE WITH A FAIR HUNTRESS + +<a href="#ch31b">CHAPTER XXXI</a> +WHICH TREATS OF MANY AND GREAT MATTERS + +</pre> + +<br><br><br><br> + + +<center><h1>DON QUIXOTE</h1></center> +<br><br> +<center><h2>Volume II.</h2></center> +<br> +<br> +<br> + + +<br><br> +<center><h2><a name="ch29b"></a>CHAPTER XXIX.</h2></center> +<br> +<center><h3>OF THE FAMOUS ADVENTURE OF THE ENCHANTED BARK +</h3></center> +<br> +<br> + +<center><a name="p29a"></a><img alt="p29a.jpg (127K)" src="images/p29a.jpg" height="382" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p29a.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<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—I don't know if I may call them absurdities—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> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p29b"></a><img alt="p29b.jpg (314K)" src="images/p29b.jpg" height="833" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p29b.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<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> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p29e"></a><img alt="p29e.jpg (54K)" src="images/p29e.jpg" height="721" width="507"> +</center> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<br><br> +<center><h2><a name="ch30b"></a>CHAPTER XXX.</h2></center> +<br> +<center><h3>OF DON QUIXOTE'S ADVENTURE WITH A FAIR HUNTRESS +</h3></center> +<br> +<br> + +<center><a name="p30a"></a><img alt="p30a.jpg (134K)" src="images/p30a.jpg" height="415" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p30a.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<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> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p30b"></a><img alt="p30b.jpg (334K)" src="images/p30b.jpg" height="834" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p30b.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<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 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, allen 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> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p30e"></a><img alt="p30e.jpg (54K)" src="images/p30e.jpg" height="699" width="463"> +</center> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<br><br> +<center><h2><a name="ch31b"></a>CHAPTER XXXI.</h2></center> +<br> +<center><h3>WHICH TREATS OF MANY AND GREAT MATTERS +</h3></center> +<br> +<br> + +<center><a name="p31a"></a><img alt="p31a.jpg (155K)" src="images/p31a.jpg" height="428" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p31a.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<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> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p31b"></a><img alt="p31b.jpg (334K)" src="images/p31b.jpg" height="824" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p31b.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<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—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 +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—shortsighted being that thou +art, and unlucky mortal that I am!—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—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.—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—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—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—But the reply deserves +a chapter to itself.</p> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p31e"></a><img alt="p31e.jpg (46K)" src="images/p31e.jpg" height="617" width="429"> +</center> + + + + + +<br> +<br> + + +<center> +<table summary="" cellPadding=4 border=3> +<tr><td> + <a href="p27.htm">Previous Part</a> +</td><td> + <a href="5946-h.htm">Main Index</a> +</td><td> + <a href="p29.htm">Next Part</a> + </td></tr> +</table> +</center> +<br><br> + +</body> +</html> + diff --git a/old/orig5946-h/p29.htm b/old/orig5946-h/p29.htm new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6720e30 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5946-h/p29.htm @@ -0,0 +1,1581 @@ +<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> +<html> +<head> +<title>THE HISTORY OF DON QUIXOTE, By Cervantes, Vol. II., Part 29</title> +<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> + +<style type="text/css"> + <!-- + body {background:#faebd7; margin:10%; text-align:justify} + P { text-indent: 1em; + margin-top: .75em; + margin-bottom: .75em; } + H1,H2,H3,H4,H5,H6 { text-align: center; } + HR { width: 33%; text-align: center; } + blockquote {font-size: 97%; } + .figleft {float: left;} + .figright {float: right;} + .toc { margin-left: 15%; margin-bottom: 0em;} + CENTER { padding: 10px;} + PRE { font-family: Times; font-size: 97%; margin-left: 15%;} + // --> +</style> + + +</head> +<body> + + +<center> +<table summary="" cellPadding=4 border=3> +<tr><td> + <a href="p28.htm">Previous Part</a> +</td><td> + <a href="5946-h.htm">Main Index</a> +</td><td> + <a href="p30.htm">Next Part</a> + </td></tr> +</table> +</center> +<br><br> + + + +<center> +<h1>DON QUIXOTE</h1> +<br> +<h2>by Miguel de Cervantes</h2> +<br> +<h3>Translated by John Ormsby</h3> +</center> + +<br><br> +<center><h3> +Volume II., Part 29 +<br><br> +Chapters 32-35 +</h3></center> + + +<br><br> +<center> +<img alt="bookcover.jpg (230K)" src="images/bookcover.jpg" height="842" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/bookcover.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"> +</a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center> +<img alt="spine.jpg (152K)" src="images/spine.jpg" height="842" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/spine.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"> +</a> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<center> +<h3>Ebook Editor's Note</h3> +</center> +<blockquote><blockquote><blockquote><blockquote> +<p> +The book cover and spine above and the images which follow were not part of the original Ormsby +translation—they are taken from the 1880 edition of J. W. Clark, illustrated by +Gustave Dore. Clark in his edition states that, "The English text of 'Don Quixote' +adopted in this edition is that of Jarvis, with occasional corrections from Motteaux." +See in the introduction below John Ormsby's critique of +both the Jarvis and Motteaux translations. It has been elected in the present Project Gutenberg edition +to attach the famous engravings of Gustave Dore to the Ormsby translation instead +of the Jarvis/Motteaux. The detail of many of the Dore engravings can be fully appreciated only +by utilizing the "Enlarge" button to expand them to their original dimensions. Ormsby +in his Preface has criticized the fanciful nature of Dore's illustrations; others feel +these woodcuts and steel engravings well match Quixote's dreams. + D.W.</p> +</blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<br><br><br><br> +<center> +<img alt="p003.jpg (307K)" src="images/p003.jpg" height="813" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p003.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"> +</a> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<center><h2>CONTENTS</h2></center> + + +<pre> + +<a href="#ch32b">CHAPTER XXXII</a> +OF THE REPLY DON QUIXOTE GAVE HIS CENSURER, WITH OTHER +INCIDENTS, GRAVE AND DROLL + +<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 + +<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 + +<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 + +</pre> + +<br><br><br><br> + + +<center><h1>DON QUIXOTE</h1></center> +<br><br> +<center><h2>Volume II.</h2></center> +<br> +<br> +<br> + + +<br><br> +<center><h2><a name="ch32b"></a>CHAPTER XXXII.</h2></center> +<br> +<center><h3>OF THE REPLY DON QUIXOTE GAVE HIS CENSURER, WITH OTHER INCIDENTS, +GRAVE AND DROLL +</h3></center> +<br> +<br> + +<center><a name="p32a"></a><img alt="p32a.jpg (152K)" src="images/p32a.jpg" height="436" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p32a.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<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—'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—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—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> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p32e"></a><img alt="p32e.jpg (16K)" src="images/p32e.jpg" height="381" width="333"> +</center> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<br><br> +<center><h2><a name="ch33b"></a>CHAPTER XXXIII.</h2></center> +<br> +<center><h3>OF THE DELECTABLE DISCOURSE WHICH THE DUCHESS AND HER DAMSELS HELD +WITH SANCHO PANZA, WELL WORTH READING AND NOTING +</h3></center> +<br> +<br> + +<center><a name="p33a"></a><img alt="p33a.jpg (138K)" src="images/p33a.jpg" height="428" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p33a.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<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> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p33b"></a><img alt="p33b.jpg (326K)" src="images/p33b.jpg" height="828" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p33b.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<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—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> +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 he 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—'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> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p33e"></a><img alt="p33e.jpg (34K)" src="images/p33e.jpg" height="391" width="579"> +</center> +<br><br><br><br> + +<br><br> +<center><h2><a name="ch34b"></a>CHAPTER XXXIV.</h2></center> +<br> +<center><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></center> +<br> +<br> + +<center><a name="p34a"></a><img alt="p34a.jpg (141K)" src="images/p34a.jpg" height="404" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p34a.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<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 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> + 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—as I have +often said to thee—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—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> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p34e"></a><img alt="p34e.jpg (47K)" src="images/p34e.jpg" height="553" width="503"> +</center> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<br><br> +<center><h2><a name="ch35b"></a>CHAPTER XXXV.</h2></center> +<br> +<center><h3>WHEREIN IS CONTINUED THE INSTRUCTION GIVEN TO DON QUIXOTE TOUCHING +THE DISENCHANTMENT OF DULCINEA, TOGETHER WITH OTHER MARVELLOUS INCIDENTS +</h3></center> +<br> +<br> + +<center><a name="p35a"></a><img alt="p35a.jpg (108K)" src="images/p35a.jpg" height="324" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p35a.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<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> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p35b"></a><img alt="p35b.jpg (232K)" src="images/p35b.jpg" height="812" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p35b.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<pre> +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— +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—for, he's always calling her +'my life' and 'my soul,' and his stay and prop—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—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—still in its teens, for I am not +yet twenty—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—not that wear any—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—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—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—though I can't see it myself—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> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p35c"></a><img alt="p35c.jpg (284K)" src="images/p35c.jpg" height="842" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p35c.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<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> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p35e"></a><img alt="p35e.jpg (10K)" src="images/p35e.jpg" height="301" width="223"> +</center> + + + + +<br> +<br> + + + +<center> +<table summary="" cellPadding=4 border=3> +<tr><td> + <a href="p28.htm">Previous Part</a> +</td><td> + <a href="5946-h.htm">Main Index</a> +</td><td> + <a href="p30.htm">Next Part</a> + </td></tr> +</table> +</center> +<br><br> + +</body> +</html> + diff --git a/old/orig5946-h/p30.htm b/old/orig5946-h/p30.htm new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b75fa2b --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5946-h/p30.htm @@ -0,0 +1,1999 @@ +<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> +<html> +<head> +<title>THE HISTORY OF DON QUIXOTE, By Cervantes, Vol. II., Part 30.</title> +<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> + +<style type="text/css"> + <!-- + body {background:#faebd7; margin:10%; text-align:justify} + P { text-indent: 1em; + margin-top: .75em; + margin-bottom: .75em; } + H1,H2,H3,H4,H5,H6 { text-align: center; } + HR { width: 33%; text-align: center; } + blockquote {font-size: 97%; } + .figleft {float: left;} + .figright {float: right;} + .toc { margin-left: 15%; margin-bottom: 0em;} + CENTER { padding: 10px;} + PRE { font-family: Times; font-size: 97%; margin-left: 15%;} + // --> +</style> + + +</head> +<body> + + +<center> +<table summary="" cellPadding=4 border=3> +<tr><td> + <a href="p29.htm">Previous Part</a> +</td><td> + <a href="5946-h.htm">Main Index</a> +</td><td> + <a href="p31.htm">Next Part</a> + </td></tr> +</table> +</center> +<br><br> + + +<center> +<h1>DON QUIXOTE</h1> +<br> +<h2>by Miguel de Cervantes</h2> +<br> +<h3>Translated by John Ormsby</h3> +</center> + +<br><br> +<center><h3> +Volume II., Part 30 +<br><br> +Chapters 36-43 +</h3></center> + + +<br><br> +<center> +<img alt="bookcover.jpg (230K)" src="images/bookcover.jpg" height="842" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/bookcover.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"> +</a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center> +<img alt="spine.jpg (152K)" src="images/spine.jpg" height="842" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/spine.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"> +</a> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<center> +<h3>Ebook Editor's Note</h3> +</center> +<blockquote><blockquote><blockquote><blockquote> +<p> +The book cover and spine above and the images which follow were not part of the original Ormsby +translation—they are taken from the 1880 edition of J. W. Clark, illustrated by +Gustave Dore. Clark in his edition states that, "The English text of 'Don Quixote' +adopted in this edition is that of Jarvis, with occasional corrections from Motteaux." +See in the introduction below John Ormsby's critique of +both the Jarvis and Motteaux translations. It has been elected in the present Project Gutenberg edition +to attach the famous engravings of Gustave Dore to the Ormsby translation instead +of the Jarvis/Motteaux. The detail of many of the Dore engravings can be fully appreciated only +by utilizing the "Enlarge" button to expand them to their original dimensions. Ormsby +in his Preface has criticized the fanciful nature of Dore's illustrations; others feel +these woodcuts and steel engravings well match Quixote's dreams. + D.W.</p> +</blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<br><br><br><br> +<center> +<img alt="p003.jpg (307K)" src="images/p003.jpg" height="813" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p003.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"> +</a> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<center><h2>CONTENTS</h2></center> + + +<pre> + +<a href="#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 + +<a href="#ch37b">CHAPTER XXXVII</a> +WHEREIN IS CONTINUED THE NOTABLE ADVENTURE OF THE +DISTRESSED DUENNA + +<a href="#ch38b">CHAPTER XXXVIII</a> +WHEREIN IS TOLD THE DISTRESSED DUENNA'S TALE OF HER +MISFORTUNES + +<a href="#ch39b">CHAPTER XXXIX</a> +IN WHICH THE TRIFALDI CONTINUES HER MARVELLOUS AND +MEMORABLE STORY + +<a href="#ch40b">CHAPTER XL</a> +OF MATTERS RELATING AND BELONGING TO THIS ADVENTURE +AND TO THIS MEMORABLE HISTORY + +<a href="#ch41b">CHAPTER XLI</a> +OF THE ARRIVAL OF CLAVILENO AND THE END OF THIS +PROTRACTED ADVENTURE + +<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 + +<a href="#ch43b">CHAPTER XLIII</a> +OF THE SECOND SET OF COUNSELS DON QUIXOTE GAVE +SANCHO PANZA + +</pre> + +<br><br><br><br> + + +<center><h1>DON QUIXOTE</h1></center> +<br><br> +<center><h2>Volume II.</h2></center> +<br> +<br> +<br> + + +<br><br> +<center><h2><a name="ch36b"></a>CHAPTER XXXVI.</h2></center> +<br> +<center><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></center> +<br> +<br> + +<center><a name="p36a"></a><img alt="p36a.jpg (150K)" src="images/p36a.jpg" height="428" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p36a.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<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><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 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—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></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> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p36e"></a><img alt="p36e.jpg (22K)" src="images/p36e.jpg" height="501" width="403"> +</center> +<br><br><br><br> + +<br><br> +<center><h2><a name="ch37b"></a>CHAPTER XXXVII.</h2></center> +<br> +<center><h3>WHEREIN IS CONTINUED THE NOTABLE ADVENTURE OF THE DISTRESSED DUENNA +</h3></center> +<br> +<br> + +<center><a name="p37a"></a><img alt="p37a.jpg (94K)" src="images/p37a.jpg" height="295" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p37a.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<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!—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> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p37e"></a><img alt="p37e.jpg (21K)" src="images/p37e.jpg" height="349" width="363"> +</center> +<br><br><br><br> + +<br><br> +<center><h2><a name="ch38b"></a>CHAPTER XXXVIII.</h2></center> +<br> +<center><h3>WHEREIN IS TOLD THE DISTRESSED DUENNA'S TALE OF HER MISFORTUNES +</h3></center> +<br> +<br> + +<center><a name="p38a"></a><img alt="p38a.jpg (54K)" src="images/p38a.jpg" height="175" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p38a.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<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> +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> +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> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p38e"></a><img alt="p38e.jpg (22K)" src="images/p38e.jpg" height="415" width="431"> +</center> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<br><br> +<center><h2><a name="ch39b"></a>CHAPTER XXXIX.</h2></center> +<br> +<center><h3>IN WHICH THE TRIFALDI CONTINUES HER MARVELLOUS AND MEMORABLE STORY +</h3></center> +<br> +<br> + +<center><a name="p39a"></a><img alt="p39a.jpg (96K)" src="images/p39a.jpg" height="380" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p39a.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<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—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—and he won't allow me to +lie—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> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p39e"></a><img alt="p39e.jpg (27K)" src="images/p39e.jpg" height="673" width="395"> +</center> +<br><br><br><br> + +<br><br> +<center><h2><a name="ch40b"></a>CHAPTER XL.</h2></center> +<br> +<center><h3>OF MATTERS RELATING AND BELONGING TO THIS ADVENTURE AND TO THIS +MEMORABLE HISTORY +</h3></center> +<br> +<br> + +<center><a name="p40a"></a><img alt="p40a.jpg (129K)" src="images/p40a.jpg" height="443" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p40a.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<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—not to curse thee—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—it would have been better for them—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> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p40e"></a><img alt="p40e.jpg (13K)" src="images/p40e.jpg" height="273" width="345"> +</center> +<br><br><br><br> + +<br><br> +<center><h2><a name="ch41b"></a>CHAPTER XLI.</h2></center> +<br> +<center><h3>OF THE ARRIVAL OF CLAVILENO AND THE END OF THIS PROTRACTED ADVENTURE +</h3></center> +<br> +<br> + +<center><a name="p41a"></a><img alt="p41a.jpg (138K)" src="images/p41a.jpg" height="433" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p41a.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<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—which are like violets, like flowers—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> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p41e"></a><img alt="p41e.jpg (38K)" src="images/p41e.jpg" height="603" width="525"> +</center> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<br><br> +<center><h2><a name="ch42b"></a>CHAPTER XLII.</h2></center> +<br> +<center><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></center> +<br> +<br> + +<center><a name="p42a"></a><img alt="p42a.jpg (120K)" src="images/p42a.jpg" height="438" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p42a.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<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 he 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—a thing which may happen—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 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> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p42e"></a><img alt="p42e.jpg (17K)" src="images/p42e.jpg" height="381" width="317"> +</center> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<br><br> +<center><h2><a name="ch43b"></a>CHAPTER XLIII.</h2></center> +<br> +<center><h3>OF THE SECOND SET OF COUNSELS DON QUIXOTE GAVE SANCHO PANZA +</h3></center> +<br> +<br> + +<center><a name="p43a"></a><img alt="p43a.jpg (129K)" src="images/p43a.jpg" height="432" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p43a.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<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—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—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—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—and it is a good +one—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> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p43e"></a><img alt="p43e.jpg (41K)" src="images/p43e.jpg" height="693" width="475"> +</center> + + + + +<br> +<br> + + + +<center> +<table summary="" cellPadding=4 border=3> +<tr><td> + <a href="p29.htm">Previous Part</a> +</td><td> + <a href="5946-h.htm">Main Index</a> +</td><td> + <a href="p31.htm">Next Part</a> + </td></tr> +</table> +</center> +<br><br> + +</body> +</html> + diff --git a/old/orig5946-h/p31.htm b/old/orig5946-h/p31.htm new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e5a4272 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5946-h/p31.htm @@ -0,0 +1,859 @@ +<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> +<html> +<head> +<title>THE HISTORY OF DON QUIXOTE, By Cervantes, Vol. II., Part 31.</title> +<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> + +<style type="text/css"> + <!-- + body {background:#faebd7; margin:10%; text-align:justify} + P { text-indent: 1em; + margin-top: .75em; + margin-bottom: .75em; } + H1,H2,H3,H4,H5,H6 { text-align: center; } + HR { width: 33%; text-align: center; } + blockquote {font-size: 97%; } + .figleft {float: left;} + .figright {float: right;} + .toc { margin-left: 15%; margin-bottom: 0em;} + CENTER { padding: 10px;} + PRE { font-family: Times; font-size: 97%; margin-left: 15%;} + // --> +</style> + + +</head> +<body> + + +<center> +<table summary="" cellPadding=4 border=3> +<tr><td> + <a href="p30.htm">Previous Part</a> +</td><td> + <a href="5946-h.htm">Main Index</a> +</td><td> + <a href="p32.htm">Next Part</a> + </td></tr> +</table> +</center> +<br><br> + + +<center> +<h1>DON QUIXOTE</h1> +<br> +<h2>by Miguel de Cervantes</h2> +<br> +<h3>Translated by John Ormsby</h3> +</center> + +<br><br> +<center><h3> +Volume II., Part 31 +<br><br> +Chapters 44-45 +</h3></center> + + +<br><br> +<center> +<img alt="bookcover.jpg (230K)" src="images/bookcover.jpg" height="842" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/bookcover.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"> +</a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center> +<img alt="spine.jpg (152K)" src="images/spine.jpg" height="842" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/spine.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"> +</a> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<center> +<h3>Ebook Editor's Note</h3> +</center> +<blockquote><blockquote><blockquote><blockquote> +<p> +The book cover and spine above and the images which follow were not part of the original Ormsby +translation—they are taken from the 1880 edition of J. W. Clark, illustrated by +Gustave Dore. Clark in his edition states that, "The English text of 'Don Quixote' +adopted in this edition is that of Jarvis, with occasional corrections from Motteaux." +See in the introduction below John Ormsby's critique of +both the Jarvis and Motteaux translations. It has been elected in the present Project Gutenberg edition +to attach the famous engravings of Gustave Dore to the Ormsby translation instead +of the Jarvis/Motteaux. The detail of many of the Dore engravings can be fully appreciated only +by utilizing the "Enlarge" button to expand them to their original dimensions. Ormsby +in his Preface has criticized the fanciful nature of Dore's illustrations; others feel +these woodcuts and steel engravings well match Quixote's dreams. + D.W.</p> +</blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<br><br><br><br> +<center> +<img alt="p003.jpg (307K)" src="images/p003.jpg" height="813" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p003.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"> +</a> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<center><h2>CONTENTS</h2></center> + + +<pre> + +<a href="#ch44b">CHAPTER XLIV</a> +HOW SANCHO PANZA WAS CONDUCTED TO HIS GOVERNMENT, +AND OF THE STRANGE ADVENTURE THAT BEFELL DON QUIXOTE +IN THE CASTLE + +<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 + +</pre> + +<br><br><br><br> + + +<center><h1>DON QUIXOTE</h1></center> +<br><br> +<center><h2>Volume II.</h2></center> +<br> +<br> +<br> + + +<br><br> +<center><h2><a name="ch44b"></a>CHAPTER XLIV.</h2></center> +<br> +<center><h3>HOW SANCHO PANZA WAS CONDUCTED TO HIS GOVERNMENT, AND OF THE STRANGE +ADVENTURE THAT BEFELL DON QUIXOTE IN THE CASTLE +</h3></center> +<br> +<br> + +<center><a name="p44a"></a><img alt="p44a.jpg (140K)" src="images/p44a.jpg" height="425" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p44a.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<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—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—and there can be no humour without discretion—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—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> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p44b"></a><img alt="p44b.jpg (341K)" src="images/p44b.jpg" height="846" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p44b.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<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, is nearly +supper-time, and the duke is 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—O disaster unworthy of such a +personage!—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—for it is of thee I +am speaking now—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> +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,—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> + + + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p44c"></a><img alt="p44c.jpg (266K)" src="images/p44c.jpg" height="836" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p44c.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<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> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p44e"></a><img alt="p44e.jpg (145K)" src="images/p44e.jpg" height="421" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p44a.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<br><br> +<center><h2><a name="ch45b"></a>CHAPTER XLV.</h2></center> +<br> +<center><h3>OF HOW THE GREAT SANCHO PANZA TOOK POSSESSION OF HIS ISLAND, AND +OF HOW HE MADE A BEGINNING IN GOVERNING +</h3></center> +<br> +<br> + +<center><a name="p45a"></a><img alt="p45a.jpg (141K)" src="images/p45a.jpg" height="453" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p45a.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<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—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 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> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p45b"></a><img alt="p45b.jpg (400K)" src="images/p45b.jpg" height="856" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p45b.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<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—as I supposed, and I supposed right—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> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p45e"></a><img alt="p45e.jpg (11K)" src="images/p45e.jpg" height="265" width="263"> +</center> + + + + +<br> +<br> + + +<center> +<table summary="" cellPadding=4 border=3> +<tr><td> + <a href="p30.htm">Previous Part</a> +</td><td> + <a href="5946-h.htm">Main Index</a> +</td><td> + <a href="p32.htm">Next Part</a> + </td></tr> +</table> +</center> +<br><br> + +</body> +</html> + diff --git a/old/orig5946-h/p32.htm b/old/orig5946-h/p32.htm new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3f5ab1a --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5946-h/p32.htm @@ -0,0 +1,1033 @@ +<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> +<html> +<head> +<title>THE HISTORY OF DON QUIXOTE, By Cervantes, Vol. II., Part 32.</title> +<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> + +<style type="text/css"> + <!-- + body {background:#faebd7; margin:10%; text-align:justify} + P { text-indent: 1em; + margin-top: .75em; + margin-bottom: .75em; } + H1,H2,H3,H4,H5,H6 { text-align: center; } + HR { width: 33%; text-align: center; } + blockquote {font-size: 97%; } + .figleft {float: left;} + .figright {float: right;} + .toc { margin-left: 15%; margin-bottom: 0em;} + CENTER { padding: 10px;} + PRE { font-family: Times; font-size: 97%; margin-left: 15%;} + // --> +</style> + + +</head> +<body> + + +<center> +<table summary="" cellPadding=4 border=3> +<tr><td> + <a href="p31.htm">Previous Part</a> +</td><td> + <a href="5946-h.htm">Main Index</a> +</td><td> + <a href="p33.htm">Next Part</a> + </td></tr> +</table> +</center> +<br><br> + + +<center> +<h1>DON QUIXOTE</h1> +<br> +<h2>by Miguel de Cervantes</h2> +<br> +<h3>Translated by John Ormsby</h3> +</center> + +<br><br> +<center><h3> +Volume II., Part 32 +<br><br> +Chapters 46-48 +</h3></center> + + +<br><br> +<center> +<img alt="bookcover.jpg (230K)" src="images/bookcover.jpg" height="842" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/bookcover.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"> +</a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center> +<img alt="spine.jpg (152K)" src="images/spine.jpg" height="842" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/spine.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"> +</a> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<center> +<h3>Ebook Editor's Note</h3> +</center> +<blockquote><blockquote><blockquote><blockquote> +<p> +The book cover and spine above and the images which follow were not part of the original Ormsby +translation—they are taken from the 1880 edition of J. W. Clark, illustrated by +Gustave Dore. Clark in his edition states that, "The English text of 'Don Quixote' +adopted in this edition is that of Jarvis, with occasional corrections from Motteaux." +See in the introduction below John Ormsby's critique of +both the Jarvis and Motteaux translations. It has been elected in the present Project Gutenberg edition +to attach the famous engravings of Gustave Dore to the Ormsby translation instead +of the Jarvis/Motteaux. The detail of many of the Dore engravings can be fully appreciated only +by utilizing the "Full Size" button to expand them to their original dimensions. Ormsby +in his Preface has criticized the fanciful nature of Dore's illustrations; others feel that +these woodcuts and steel engravings well match the dreams of the man from La Mancha. + D.W.</p> +</blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<br><br><br><br> +<center> +<img alt="p003.jpg (307K)" src="images/p003.jpg" height="813" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p003.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"> +</a> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<center><h2>CONTENTS</h2></center> + + +<pre> + +<a href="#ch46b">CHAPTER XLVI</a> +OF THE TERRIBLE BELL AND CAT FRIGHT THAT DON QUIXOTE +GOT IN THE COURSE OF THE ENAMOURED ALTISIDORA'S WOOING + +<a href="#ch47b">CHAPTER XLVII</a> +WHEREIN IS CONTINUED THE ACCOUNT OF HOW SANCHO PANZA +CONDUCTED HIMSELF IN HIS GOVERNMENT + +<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 + +</pre> + +<br><br><br><br> + + +<center><h1>DON QUIXOTE</h1></center> +<br><br> +<center><h2>Volume II.</h2></center> +<br> +<br> +<br> + +<br><br> +<center><h2><a name="ch46b"></a>CHAPTER XLVI.</h2></center> +<br> +<center><h3>OF THE TERRIBLE BELL AND CAT FRIGHT THAT DON QUIXOTE GOT IN THE +COURSE OF THE ENAMOURED ALTISIDORA'S WOOING +</h3></center> +<br> +<br> + +<center><a name="p46a"></a><img alt="p46a.jpg (58K)" src="images/p46a.jpg" height="198" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p46a.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<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> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p46b"></a><img alt="p46b.jpg (320K)" src="images/p46b.jpg" height="846" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p46b.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<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> +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> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p46e"></a><img alt="p46e.jpg (65K)" src="images/p46e.jpg" height="775" width="577"> +</center> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<br><br> +<center><h2><a name="ch47b"></a>CHAPTER XLVII.</h2></center> +<br> +<center><h3>WHEREIN IS CONTINUED THE ACCOUNT OF HOW SANCHO PANZA CONDUCTED +HIMSELF IN HIS GOVERNMENT +</h3></center> +<br> +<br> + +<center><a name="p47a"></a><img alt="p47a.jpg (139K)" src="images/p47a.jpg" height="440" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p47a.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<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> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p47b"></a><img alt="p47b.jpg (372K)" src="images/p47b.jpg" height="852" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p47b.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<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 cat 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—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><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></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—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—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> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p47e"></a><img alt="p47e.jpg (12K)" src="images/p47e.jpg" height="301" width="273"> +</center> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<br><br> +<center><h2><a name="ch48b"></a>CHAPTER XLVIII.</h2></center> +<br> +<center><h3>OF WHAT BEFELL DON QUIXOTE WITH DONA RODRIGUEZ, THE DUCHESS'S +DUENNA, TOGETHER WITH OTHER OCCURRENCES WORTHY OF RECORD AND ETERNAL +REMEMBRANCE +</h3></center> +<br> +<br> + +<center><a name="p48a"></a><img alt="p48a.jpg (131K)" src="images/p48a.jpg" height="431" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p48a.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<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> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p48b"></a><img alt="p48b.jpg (316K)" src="images/p48b.jpg" height="840" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p48b.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<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> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p48c"></a><img alt="p48c.jpg (249K)" src="images/p48c.jpg" height="823" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p48c.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<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—if so be you are indeed Don Quixote—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'—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—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—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; 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> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p48e"></a><img alt="p48e.jpg (28K)" src="images/p48e.jpg" height="403" width="425"> +</center> + + + + +<br> +<br> + + +<center> +<table summary="" cellPadding=4 border=3> +<tr><td> + <a href="p31.htm">Previous Part</a> +</td><td> + <a href="5946-h.htm">Main Index</a> +</td><td> + <a href="p33.htm">Next Part</a> + </td></tr> +</table> +</center> +<br><br> + +</body> +</html> + + diff --git a/old/orig5946-h/p33.htm b/old/orig5946-h/p33.htm new file mode 100644 index 0000000..223547a --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5946-h/p33.htm @@ -0,0 +1,1858 @@ +<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> +<html> +<head> +<title>THE HISTORY OF DON QUIXOTE, By Cervantes, Vol. II., Part 33.</title> +<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> + +<style type="text/css"> + <!-- + body {background:#faebd7; margin:10%; text-align:justify} + P { text-indent: 1em; + margin-top: .75em; + margin-bottom: .75em; } + H1,H2,H3,H4,H5,H6 { text-align: center; } + HR { width: 33%; text-align: center; } + blockquote {font-size: 97%; } + .figleft {float: left;} + .figright {float: right;} + .toc { margin-left: 15%; margin-bottom: 0em;} + CENTER { padding: 10px;} + PRE { font-family: Times; font-size: 97%; margin-left: 15%;} + // --> +</style> + + +</head> +<body> + + +<center> +<table summary="" cellPadding=4 border=3> +<tr><td> + <a href="p32.htm">Previous Part</a> +</td><td> + <a href="5946-h.htm">Main Index</a> +</td><td> + <a href="p34.htm">Next Part</a> + </td></tr> +</table> +</center> +<br><br> + +<center> +<h1>DON QUIXOTE</h1> +<br> +<h2>by Miguel de Cervantes</h2> +<br> +<h3>Translated by John Ormsby</h3> +</center> + +<br><br> +<center><h3> +Volume II., Part 33 +<br><br> +Chapters 49-53 +</h3></center> + + +<br><br> +<center> +<img alt="bookcover.jpg (230K)" src="images/bookcover.jpg" height="842" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/bookcover.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"> +</a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center> +<img alt="spine.jpg (152K)" src="images/spine.jpg" height="842" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/spine.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"> +</a> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<center> +<h3>Ebook Editor's Note</h3> +</center> +<blockquote><blockquote><blockquote><blockquote> +<p> +The book cover and spine above and the images which follow were not part of the original Ormsby +translation—they are taken from the 1880 edition of J. W. Clark, illustrated by +Gustave Dore. Clark in his edition states that, "The English text of 'Don Quixote' +adopted in this edition is that of Jarvis, with occasional corrections from Motteaux." +See in the introduction below John Ormsby's critique of +both the Jarvis and Motteaux translations. It has been elected in the present Project Gutenberg edition +to attach the famous engravings of Gustave Dore to the Ormsby translation instead +of the Jarvis/Motteaux. The detail of many of the Dore engravings can be fully appreciated only +by utilizing the "Enlarge" button to expand them to their original dimensions. Ormsby +in his Preface has criticized the fanciful nature of Dore's illustrations; others feel +these woodcuts and steel engravings well match Quixote's dreams. + D.W.</p> +</blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<br><br><br><br> +<center> +<img alt="p003.jpg (307K)" src="images/p003.jpg" height="813" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p003.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"> +</a> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<center><h2>CONTENTS</h2></center> + +<pre> + +<a href="#ch49b">CHAPTER XLIX</a> +OF WHAT HAPPENED SANCHO IN MAKING THE ROUND OF HIS ISLAND + +<a href="#ch50b">CHAPTER L</a> +WHEREIN IS SET FORTH WHO THE ENCHANTERS AND EXECUTIONERS +WERE WHO FLOGGED THE DUENNA AND PINCHED DON QUIXOTE, +AND ALSO WHAT BEFELL THE PAGE WHO CARRIED THE LETTER +TO TERESA PANZA, SANCHO PANZA'S WIFE + +<a href="#ch51b">CHAPTER LI</a> +OF THE PROGRESS OF SANCHO'S GOVERNMENT, AND OTHER SUCH +ENTERTAINING MATTERS + +<a href="#ch52b">CHAPTER LII</a> +WHEREIN IS RELATED THE ADVENTURE OF THE SECOND DISTRESSED +OR AFFLICTED DUENNA, OTHERWISE CALLED DONA RODRIGUEZ + +<a href="#ch53b">CHAPTER LIII</a> +OF THE TROUBLOUS END AND TERMINATION SANCHO PANZA'S +GOVERNMENT CAME TO + +</pre> + +<br><br><br><br> + + +<center><h1>DON QUIXOTE</h1></center> +<br><br> +<center><h2>Volume II.</h2></center> +<br> +<br> +<br> + + +<br><br> +<center><h2><a name="ch49b"></a>CHAPTER XLIX.</h2></center> +<br> +<center><h3>OF WHAT HAPPENED SANCHO IN MAKING THE ROUND OF HIS ISLAND +</h3></center> +<br> +<br> + +<center><a name="p49a"></a><img alt="p49a.jpg (170K)" src="images/p49a.jpg" height="450" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p49a.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<p>We left the great governor angered and irritated by that +portrait-painting rogue of a farmer who, instructed the majordomo, +as the majordomo was by the duke, tried to practise upon him; he +however, fool, boor, and clown as he was, held his own against them +all, saying to those round him and to Doctor Pedro Recio, who as +soon as the private business of the duke's letter was disposed of +had returned to the room, "Now I see plainly enough that judges and +governors ought to be and must be made of brass not to feel the +importunities of the applicants that at all times and all seasons +insist on being heard, and having their business despatched, and their +own affairs and no others attended to, come what may; and if the +poor judge does not hear them and settle the matter—either because he +cannot or because that is not the time set apart for hearing +them—forthwith they abuse him, and run him down, and gnaw at his bones, and +even pick holes in his pedigree. You silly, stupid applicant, don't be +in a hurry; wait for the proper time and season for doing business; +don't come at dinner-hour, or at bed-time; for judges are only flesh +and blood, and must give to Nature what she naturally demands of them; +all except myself, for in my case I give her nothing to eat, thanks to +Senor Doctor Pedro Recio Tirteafuera here, who would have me die of +hunger, and declares that death to be life; and the same sort of +life may God give him and all his kind—I mean the bad doctors; for +the good ones deserve palms and laurels."</p> + +<p>All who knew Sancho Panza were astonished to hear him speak so +elegantly, and did not know what to attribute it to unless it were +that office and grave responsibility either smarten or stupefy men's +wits. At last Doctor Pedro Recio Agilers of Tirteafuera promised to +let him have supper that night though it might be in contravention +of all the aphorisms of Hippocrates. With this the governor was +satisfied and looked forward to the approach of night and +supper-time with great anxiety; and though time, to his mind, stood +still and made no progress, nevertheless the hour he so longed for +came, and they gave him a beef salad with onions and some boiled +calves' feet rather far gone. At this he fell to with greater relish +than if they had given him francolins from Milan, pheasants from Rome, +veal from Sorrento, partridges from Moron, or geese from Lavajos, +and turning to the doctor at supper he said to him, "Look here, +senor doctor, for the future don't trouble yourself about giving me +dainty things or choice dishes to eat, for it will be only taking my +stomach off its hinges; it is accustomed to goat, cow, bacon, hung +beef, turnips and onions; and if by any chance it is given these +palace dishes, it receives them squeamishly, and sometimes with +loathing. What the head-carver had best do is to serve me with what +they call ollas podridas (and the rottener they are the better they +smell); and he can put whatever he likes into them, so long as it is +good to eat, and I'll be obliged to him, and will requite him some +day. But let nobody play pranks on me, for either we are or we are +not; let us live and eat in peace and good-fellowship, for when God +sends the dawn, he sends it for all. I mean to govern this island +without giving up a right or taking a bribe; let everyone keep his eye +open, and look out for the arrow; for I can tell them 'the devil's +in Cantillana,' and if they drive me to it they'll see something +that will astonish them. Nay! make yourself honey and the flies eat +you."</p> + +<p>"Of a truth, senor governor," said the carver, "your worship is in +the right of it in everything you have said; and I promise you in +the name of all the inhabitants of this island that they will serve +your worship with all zeal, affection, and good-will, for the mild +kind of government you have given a sample of to begin with, leaves +them no ground for doing or thinking anything to your worship's +disadvantage."</p> + +<p>"That I believe," said Sancho; "and they would be great fools if +they did or thought otherwise; once more I say, see to my feeding +and my Dapple's for that is the great point and what is most to the +purpose; and when the hour comes let us go the rounds, for it is my +intention to purge this island of all manner of uncleanness and of all +idle good-for-nothing vagabonds; for I would have you know that lazy +idlers are the same thing in a State as the drones in a hive, that eat +up the honey the industrious bees make. I mean to protect the +husbandman, to preserve to the gentleman his privileges, to reward the +virtuous, and above all to respect religion and honour its +ministers. What say you to that, my friends? Is there anything in what +I say, or am I talking to no purpose?"</p> + +<p>"There is so much in what your worship says, senor governor," said +the majordomo, "that I am filled with wonder when I see a man like +your worship, entirely without learning (for I believe you have none +at all), say such things, and so full of sound maxims and sage +remarks, very different from what was expected of your worship's +intelligence by those who sent us or by us who came here. Every day we +see something new in this world; jokes become realities, and the +jokers find the tables turned upon them."</p> + +<p>Night came, and with the permission of Doctor Pedro Recio, the +governor had supper. They then got ready to go the rounds, and he +started with the majordomo, the secretary, the head-carver, the +chronicler charged with recording his deeds, and alguacils and +notaries enough to form a fair-sized squadron. In the midst marched +Sancho with his staff, as fine a sight as one could wish to see, and +but a few streets of the town had been traversed when they heard a +noise as of a clashing of swords. They hastened to the spot, and found +that the combatants were but two, who seeing the authorities +approaching stood still, and one of them exclaimed, "Help, in the name +of God and the king! Are men to be allowed to rob in the middle of +this town, and rush out and attack people in the very streets?"</p> + +<p>"Be calm, my good man," said Sancho, "and tell me what the cause +of this quarrel is; for I am the governor."</p> + +<p>Said the other combatant, "Senor governor, I will tell you in a very +few words. Your worship must know that this gentleman has just now won +more than a thousand reals in that gambling house opposite, and God +knows how. I was there, and gave more than one doubtful point in his +favour, very much against what my conscience told me. He made off with +his winnings, and when I made sure he was going to give me a crown +or so at least by way of a present, as it is usual and customary to +give men of quality of my sort who stand by to see fair or foul +play, and back up swindles, and prevent quarrels, he pocketed his +money and left the house. Indignant at this I followed him, and +speaking him fairly and civilly asked him to give me if it were only +eight reals, for he knows I am an honest man and that I have neither +profession nor property, for my parents never brought me up to any +or left me any; but the rogue, who is a greater thief than Cacus and a +greater sharper than Andradilla, would not give me more than four +reals; so your worship may see how little shame and conscience he has. +But by my faith if you had not come up I'd have made him disgorge +his winnings, and he'd have learned what the range of the steel-yard +was."</p> + +<p>"What say you to this?" asked Sancho. The other replied that all his +antagonist said was true, and that he did not choose to give him +more than four reals because he very often gave him money; and that +those who expected presents ought to be civil and take what is given +them with a cheerful countenance, and not make any claim against +winners unless they know them for certain to be sharpers and their +winnings to be unfairly won; and that there could be no better proof +that he himself was an honest man than his having refused to give +anything; for sharpers always pay tribute to lookers-on who know them.</p> + +<p>"That is true," said the majordomo; "let your worship consider +what is to be done with these men."</p> + +<p>"What is to be done," said Sancho, "is this; you, the winner, be you +good, bad, or indifferent, give this assailant of yours a hundred +reals at once, and you must disburse thirty more for the poor +prisoners; and you who have neither profession nor property, and +hang about the island in idleness, take these hundred reals now, and +some time of the day to-morrow quit the island under sentence of +banishment for ten years, and under pain of completing it in another +life if you violate the sentence, for I'll hang you on a gibbet, or at +least the hangman will by my orders; not a word from either of you, or +I'll make him feel my hand."</p> + +<p>The one paid down the money and the other took it, and the latter +quitted the island, while the other went home; and then the governor +said, "Either I am not good for much, or I'll get rid of these +gambling houses, for it strikes me they are very mischievous."</p> + +<p>"This one at least," said one of the notaries, "your worship will +not be able to get rid of, for a great man owns it, and what he +loses every year is beyond all comparison more than what he makes by +the cards. On the minor gambling houses your worship may exercise your +power, and it is they that do most harm and shelter the most barefaced +practices; for in the houses of lords and gentlemen of quality the +notorious sharpers dare not attempt to play their tricks; and as the +vice of gambling has become common, it is better that men should +play in houses of repute than in some tradesman's, where they catch an +unlucky fellow in the small hours of the morning and skin him alive."</p> + +<p>"I know already, notary, that there is a good deal to be said on +that point," said Sancho.</p> + +<p>And now a tipstaff came up with a young man in his grasp, and +said, "Senor governor, this youth was coming towards us, and as soon +as he saw the officers of justice he turned about and ran like a deer, +a sure proof that he must be some evil-doer; I ran after him, and +had it not been that he stumbled and fell, I should never have +caught him."</p> + +<p>"What did you run for, fellow?" said Sancho.</p> + +<p>To which the young man replied, "Senor, it was to avoid answering +all the questions officers of justice put."</p> + +<p>"What are you by trade?"</p> + +<p>"A weaver."</p> + +<p>"And what do you weave?"</p> + +<p>"Lance heads, with your worship's good leave."</p> + +<p>"You're facetious with me! You plume yourself on being a wag? Very +good; and where were you going just now?"</p> + +<p>"To take the air, senor."</p> + +<p>"And where does one take the air in this island?"</p> + +<p>"Where it blows."</p> + +<p>"Good! your answers are very much to the point; you are a smart +youth; but take notice that I am the air, and that I blow upon you +a-stern, and send you to gaol. Ho there! lay hold of him and take +him off; I'll make him sleep there to-night without air."</p> + +<p>"By God," said the young man, "your worship will make me sleep in +gaol just as soon as make me king."</p> + +<p>"Why shan't I make thee sleep in gaol?" said Sancho. "Have I not the +power to arrest thee and release thee whenever I like?"</p> + +<p>"All the power your worship has," said the young man, "won't be able +to make me sleep in gaol."</p> + +<p>"How? not able!" said Sancho; "take him away at once where he'll see +his mistake with his own eyes, even if the gaoler is willing to +exert his interested generosity on his behalf; for I'll lay a +penalty of two thousand ducats on him if he allows him to stir a +step from the prison."</p> + +<p>"That's ridiculous," said the young man; "the fact is, all the men +on earth will not make me sleep in prison."</p> + +<p>"Tell me, you devil," said Sancho, "have you got any angel that will +deliver you, and take off the irons I am going to order them to put +upon you?"</p> + +<p>"Now, senor governor," said the young man in a sprightly manner, +"let us be reasonable and come to the point. Granted your worship +may order me to be taken to prison, and to have irons and chains put +on me, and to be shut up in a cell, and may lay heavy penalties on the +gaoler if he lets me out, and that he obeys your orders; still, if I +don't choose to sleep, and choose to remain awake all night without +closing an eye, will your worship with all your power be able to +make me sleep if I don't choose?"</p> + +<p>"No, truly," said the secretary, "and the fellow has made his +point."</p> + +<p>"So then," said Sancho, "it would be entirely of your own choice you +would keep from sleeping; not in opposition to my will?"</p> + +<p>"No, senor," said the youth, "certainly not."</p> + +<p>"Well then, go, and God be with you," said Sancho; "be off home to +sleep, and God give you sound sleep, for I don't want to rob you of +it; but for the future, let me advise you don't joke with the +authorities, because you may come across some one who will bring +down the joke on your own skull."</p> + +<p>The young man went his way, and the governor continued his round, +and shortly afterwards two tipstaffs came up with a man in custody, +and said, "Senor governor, this person, who seems to be a man, is +not so, but a woman, and not an ill-favoured one, in man's clothes." +They raised two or three lanterns to her face, and by their light they +distinguished the features of a woman to all appearance of the age +of sixteen or a little more, with her hair gathered into a gold and +green silk net, and fair as a thousand pearls. They scanned her from +head to foot, and observed that she had on red silk stockings with +garters of white taffety bordered with gold and pearl; her breeches +were of green and gold stuff, and under an open jacket or jerkin of +the same she wore a doublet of the finest white and gold cloth; her +shoes were white and such as men wear; she carried no sword at her +belt, but only a richly ornamented dagger, and on her fingers she +had several handsome rings. In short, the girl seemed fair to look +at in the eyes of all, and none of those who beheld her knew her, +the people of the town said they could not imagine who she was, and +those who were in the secret of the jokes that were to be practised +upon Sancho were the ones who were most surprised, for this incident +or discovery had not been arranged by them; and they watched anxiously +to see how the affair would end.</p> + +<p>Sancho was fascinated by the girl's beauty, and he asked her who she +was, where she was going, and what had induced her to dress herself in +that garb. She with her eyes fixed on the ground answered in modest +confusion, "I cannot tell you, senor, before so many people what it is +of such consequence to me to have kept secret; one thing I wish to +be known, that I am no thief or evildoer, but only an unhappy maiden +whom the power of jealousy has led to break through the respect that +is due to modesty."</p> + +<p>Hearing this the majordomo said to Sancho, "Make the people stand +back, senor governor, that this lady may say what she wishes with less +embarrassment."</p> + +<p>Sancho gave the order, and all except the majordomo, the +head-carver, and the secretary fell back. Finding herself then in +the presence of no more, the damsel went on to say, "I am the +daughter, sirs, of Pedro Perez Mazorca, the wool-farmer of this +town, who is in the habit of coming very often to my father's house."</p> + +<p>"That won't do, senora," said the majordomo; "for I know Pedro Perez +very well, and I know he has no child at all, either son or +daughter; and besides, though you say he is your father, you add +then that he comes very often to your father's house."</p> + +<p>"I had already noticed that," said Sancho.</p> + +<p>"I am confused just now, sirs," said the damsel, "and I don't know +what I am saying; but the truth is that I am the daughter of Diego +de la Llana, whom you must all know."</p> + +<p>"Ay, that will do," said the majordomo; "for I know Diego de la +Llana, and know that he is a gentleman of position and a rich man, and +that he has a son and a daughter, and that since he was left a widower +nobody in all this town can speak of having seen his daughter's +face; for he keeps her so closely shut up that he does not give even +the sun a chance of seeing her; and for all that report says she is +extremely beautiful."</p> + +<p>"It is true," said the damsel, "and I am that daughter; whether +report lies or not as to my beauty, you, sirs, will have decided by +this time, as you have seen me;" and with this she began to weep +bitterly.</p> + +<p>On seeing this the secretary leant over to the head-carver's ear, +and said to him in a low voice, "Something serious has no doubt +happened this poor maiden, that she goes wandering from home in such a +dress and at such an hour, and one of her rank too." "There can be +no doubt about it," returned the carver, "and moreover her tears +confirm your suspicion." Sancho gave her the best comfort he could, +and entreated her to tell them without any fear what had happened her, +as they would all earnestly and by every means in their power +endeavour to relieve her.</p> + +<p>"The fact is, sirs," said she, "that my father has kept me shut up +these ten years, for so long is it since the earth received my mother. +Mass is said at home in a sumptuous chapel, and all this time I have +seen but the sun in the heaven by day, and the moon and the stars by +night; nor do I know what streets are like, or plazas, or churches, or +even men, except my father and a brother I have, and Pedro Perez the +wool-farmer; whom, because he came frequently to our house, I took +it into my head to call my father, to avoid naming my own. This +seclusion and the restrictions laid upon my going out, were it only to +church, have been keeping me unhappy for many a day and month past; +I longed to see the world, or at least the town where I was born, +and it did not seem to me that this wish was inconsistent with the +respect maidens of good quality should have for themselves. When I +heard them talking of bull-fights taking place, and of javelin +games, and of acting plays, I asked my brother, who is a year +younger than myself, to tell me what sort of things these were, and +many more that I had never seen; he explained them to me as well as he +could, but the only effect was to kindle in me a still stronger desire +to see them. At last, to cut short the story of my ruin, I begged +and entreated my brother—O that I had never made such an entreaty-" +And once more she gave way to a burst of weeping.</p> + +<p>"Proceed, senora," said the majordomo, "and finish your story of +what has happened to you, for your words and tears are keeping us +all in suspense."</p> + +<p>"I have but little more to say, though many a tear to shed," said +the damsel; "for ill-placed desires can only be paid for in some +such way."</p> + +<p>The maiden's beauty had made a deep impression on the +head-carver's heart, and he again raised his lantern for another +look at her, and thought they were not tears she was shedding, but +seed-pearl or dew of the meadow, nay, he exalted them still higher, +and made Oriental pearls of them, and fervently hoped her misfortune +might not be so great a one as her tears and sobs seemed to +indicate. The governor was losing patience at the length of time the +girl was taking to tell her story, and told her not to keep them +waiting any longer; for it was late, and there still remained a good +deal of the town to be gone over.</p> + +<p>She, with broken sobs and half-suppressed sighs, went on to say, "My +misfortune, my misadventure, is simply this, that I entreated my +brother to dress me up as a man in a suit of his clothes, and take +me some night, when our father was asleep, to see the whole town; +he, overcome by my entreaties, consented, and dressing me in this suit +and himself in clothes of mine that fitted him as if made for him (for +he has not a hair on his chin, and might pass for a very beautiful +young girl), to-night, about an hour ago, more or less, we left the +house, and guided by our youthful and foolish impulse we made the +circuit of the whole town, and then, as we were about to return +home, we saw a great troop of people coming, and my brother said to +me, 'Sister, this must be the round, stir your feet and put wings to +them, and follow me as fast as you can, lest they recognise us, for +that would be a bad business for us;' and so saying he turned about +and began, I cannot say to run but to fly; in less than six paces I +fell from fright, and then the officer of justice came up and +carried me before your worships, where I find myself put to shame +before all these people as whimsical and vicious."</p> + +<p>"So then, senora," said Sancho, "no other mishap has befallen you, +nor was it jealousy that made you leave home, as you said at the +beginning of your story?"</p> + +<p>"Nothing has happened me," said she, "nor was it jealousy that +brought me out, but merely a longing to see the world, which did not +go beyond seeing the streets of this town."</p> + +<p>The appearance of the tipstaffs with her brother in custody, whom +one of them had overtaken as he ran away from his sister, now fully +confirmed the truth of what the damsel said. He had nothing on but a +rich petticoat and a short blue damask cloak with fine gold lace, +and his head was uncovered and adorned only with its own hair, which +looked like rings of gold, so bright and curly was it. The governor, +the majordomo, and the carver went aside with him, and, unheard by his +sister, asked him how he came to be in that dress, and he with no less +shame and embarrassment told exactly the same story as his sister, +to the great delight of the enamoured carver; the governor, however, +said to them, "In truth, young lady and gentleman, this has been a +very childish affair, and to explain your folly and rashness there was +no necessity for all this delay and all these tears and sighs; for +if you had said we are so-and-so, and we escaped from our father's +house in this way in order to ramble about, out of mere curiosity +and with no other object, there would have been an end of the +matter, and none of these little sobs and tears and all the rest of +it."</p> + +<p>"That is true," said the damsel, "but you see the confusion I was in +was so great it did not let me behave as I ought."</p> + +<p>"No harm has been done," said Sancho; "come, we will leave you at +your father's house; perhaps they will not have missed you; and +another time don't be so childish or eager to see the world; for a +respectable damsel should have a broken leg and keep at home; and +the woman and the hen by gadding about are soon lost; and she who is +eager to see is also eager to be seen; I say no more."</p> + +<p>The youth thanked the governor for his kind offer to take them home, +and they directed their steps towards the house, which was not far +off. On reaching it the youth threw a pebble up at a grating, and +immediately a woman-servant who was waiting for them came down and +opened the door to them, and they went in, leaving the party +marvelling as much at their grace and beauty as at the fancy they +had for seeing the world by night and without quitting the village; +which, however, they set down to their youth.</p> + +<p>The head-carver was left with a heart pierced through and through, +and he made up his mind on the spot to demand the damsel in marriage +of her father on the morrow, making sure she would not be refused +him as he was a servant of the duke's; and even to Sancho ideas and +schemes of marrying the youth to his daughter Sanchica suggested +themselves, and he resolved to open the negotiation at the proper +season, persuading himself that no husband could be refused to a +governor's daughter. And so the night's round came to an end, and a +couple of days later the government, whereby all his plans were +overthrown and swept away, as will be seen farther on.</p> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p49e"></a><img alt="p49e.jpg (55K)" src="images/p49e.jpg" height="647" width="487"> +</center> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<br><br> +<center><h2><a name="ch50b"></a>CHAPTER L.</h2></center> +<br> +<center><h3>WHEREIN IS SET FORTH WHO THE ENCHANTERS AND EXECUTIONERS WERE WHO +FLOGGED THE DUENNA AND PINCHED DON QUIXOTE, AND ALSO WHAT BEFELL THE +PAGE WHO CARRIED THE LETTER TO TERESA PANZA, SANCHO PANZA'S WIFE +</h3></center> +<br> +<br> + +<center><a name="p50a"></a><img alt="p50a.jpg (104K)" src="images/p50a.jpg" height="386" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p50a.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<p>Cide Hamete, the painstaking investigator of the minute points of +this veracious history, says that when Dona Rodriguez left her own +room to go to Don Quixote's, another duenna who slept with her +observed her, and as all duennas are fond of prying, listening, and +sniffing, she followed her so silently that the good Rodriguez never +perceived it; and as soon as the duenna saw her enter Don Quixote's +room, not to fail in a duenna's invariable practice of tattling, she +hurried off that instant to report to the duchess how Dona Rodriguez +was closeted with Don Quixote. The duchess told the duke, and asked +him to let her and Altisidora go and see what the said duenna wanted +with Don Quixote. The duke gave them leave, and the pair cautiously +and quietly crept to the door of the room and posted themselves so +close to it that they could hear all that was said inside. But when +the duchess heard how the Rodriguez had made public the Aranjuez of +her issues she could not restrain herself, nor Altisidora either; +and so, filled with rage and thirsting for vengeance, they burst +into the room and tormented Don Quixote and flogged the duenna in +the manner already described; for indignities offered to their +charms and self-esteem mightily provoke the anger of women and make +them eager for revenge. The duchess told the duke what had happened, +and he was much amused by it; and she, in pursuance of her design of +making merry and diverting herself with Don Quixote, despatched the +page who had played the part of Dulcinea in the negotiations for her +disenchantment (which Sancho Panza in the cares of government had +forgotten all about) to Teresa Panza his wife with her husband's +letter and another from herself, and also a great string of fine coral +beads as a present.</p> + +<p>Now the history says this page was very sharp and quick-witted; +and eager to serve his lord and lady he set off very willingly for +Sancho's village. Before he entered it he observed a number of women +washing in a brook, and asked them if they could tell him whether +there lived there a woman of the name of Teresa Panza, wife of one +Sancho Panza, squire to a knight called Don Quixote of La Mancha. At +the question a young girl who was washing stood up and said, "Teresa +Panza is my mother, and that Sancho is my father, and that knight is +our master."</p> + +<p>"Well then, miss," said the page, "come and show me where your +mother is, for I bring her a letter and a present from your father."</p> + +<p>"That I will with all my heart, senor," said the girl, who seemed to +be about fourteen, more or less; and leaving the clothes she was +washing to one of her companions, and without putting anything on +her head or feet, for she was bare-legged and had her hair hanging +about her, away she skipped in front of the page's horse, saying, +"Come, your worship, our house is at the entrance of the town, and +my mother is there, sorrowful enough at not having had any news of +my father this ever so long."</p> + +<p>"Well," said the page, "I am bringing her such good news that she +will have reason to thank God."</p> + +<p>And then, skipping, running, and capering, the girl reached the +town, but before going into the house she called out at the door, +"Come out, mother Teresa, come out, come out; here's a gentleman +with letters and other things from my good father." At these words her +mother Teresa Panza came out spinning a bundle of flax, in a grey +petticoat (so short was it one would have fancied "they to her shame +had cut it short"), a grey bodice of the same stuff, and a smock. +She was not very old, though plainly past forty, strong, healthy, +vigorous, and sun-dried; and seeing her daughter and the page on +horseback, she exclaimed, "What's this, child? What gentleman is +this?"</p> + +<p>"A servant of my lady, Dona Teresa Panza," replied the page; and +suiting the action to the word he flung himself off his horse, and +with great humility advanced to kneel before the lady Teresa, +saying, "Let me kiss your hand, Senora Dona Teresa, as the lawful +and only wife of Senor Don Sancho Panza, rightful governor of the +island of Barataria."</p> + +<p>"Ah, senor, get up, do that," said Teresa; "for I'm not a bit of a +court lady, but only a poor country woman, the daughter of a +clodcrusher, and the wife of a squire-errant and not of any governor +at all."</p> + +<p>"You are," said the page, "the most worthy wife of a most +arch-worthy governor; and as a proof of what I say accept this +letter and this present;" and at the same time he took out of his +pocket a string of coral beads with gold clasps, and placed it on +her neck, and said, "This letter is from his lordship the governor, +and the other as well as these coral beads from my lady the duchess, +who sends me to your worship."</p> + +<p>Teresa stood lost in astonishment, and her daughter just as much, +and the girl said, "May I die but our master Don Quixote's at the +bottom of this; he must have given father the government or county +he so often promised him."</p> + +<p>"That is the truth," said the page; "for it is through Senor Don +Quixote that Senor Sancho is now governor of the island of +Barataria, as will be seen by this letter."</p> + +<p>"Will your worship read it to me, noble sir?" said Teresa; "for +though I can spin I can't read, not a scrap."</p> + +<p>"Nor I either," said Sanchica; "but wait a bit, and I'll go and +fetch some one who can read it, either the curate himself or the +bachelor Samson Carrasco, and they'll come gladly to hear any news +of my father."</p> + +<p>"There is no need to fetch anybody," said the page; "for though I +can't spin I can read, and I'll read it;" and so he read it through, +but as it has been already given it is not inserted here; and then +he took out the other one from the duchess, which ran as follows:</p> + +<blockquote><blockquote> +<p>Friend Teresa,—Your husband Sancho's good qualities, of heart as +well as of head, induced and compelled me to request my husband the +duke to give him the government of one of his many islands. I am +told he governs like a gerfalcon, of which I am very glad, and my lord +the duke, of course, also; and I am very thankful to heaven that I +have not made a mistake in choosing him for that same government; +for I would have Senora Teresa know that a good governor is hard to +find in this world and may God make me as good as Sancho's way of +governing. Herewith I send you, my dear, a string of coral beads +with gold clasps; I wish they were Oriental pearls; but "he who +gives thee a bone does not wish to see thee dead;" a time will come +when we shall become acquainted and meet one another, but God knows +the future. Commend me to your daughter Sanchica, and tell her from me +to hold herself in readiness, for I mean to make a high match for +her when she least expects it. They tell me there are big acorns in +your village; send me a couple of dozen or so, and I shall value +them greatly as coming from your hand; and write to me at length to +assure me of your health and well-being; and if there be anything +you stand in need of, it is but to open your mouth, and that shall +be the measure; and so God keep you.</p> + +<p>From this place. +Your loving friend, +THE DUCHESS.</p> +</blockquote></blockquote> + + +<p>"Ah, what a good, plain, lowly lady!" said Teresa when she heard the +letter; "that I may be buried with ladies of that sort, and not the +gentlewomen we have in this town, that fancy because they are +gentlewomen the wind must not touch them, and go to church with as +much airs as if they were queens, no less, and seem to think they +are disgraced if they look at a farmer's wife! And see here how this +good lady, for all she's a duchess, calls me 'friend,' and treats me +as if I was her equal—and equal may I see her with the tallest +church-tower in La Mancha! And as for the acorns, senor, I'll send her +ladyship a peck and such big ones that one might come to see them as a +show and a wonder. And now, Sanchica, see that the gentleman is +comfortable; put up his horse, and get some eggs out of the stable, +and cut plenty of bacon, and let's give him his dinner like a +prince; for the good news he has brought, and his own bonny face +deserve it all; and meanwhile I'll run out and give the neighbours the +news of our good luck, and father curate, and Master Nicholas the +barber, who are and always have been such friends of thy father's."</p> + +<p>"That I will, mother," said Sanchica; "but mind, you must give me +half of that string; for I don't think my lady the duchess could +have been so stupid as to send it all to you."</p> + +<p>"It is all for thee, my child," said Teresa; "but let me wear it +round my neck for a few days; for verily it seems to make my heart +glad."</p> + +<p>"You will be glad too," said the page, "when you see the bundle +there is in this portmanteau, for it is a suit of the finest cloth, +that the governor only wore one day out hunting and now sends, all for +Senora Sanchica."</p> + +<p>"May he live a thousand years," said Sanchica, "and the bearer as +many, nay two thousand, if needful."</p> + +<p>With this Teresa hurried out of the house with the letters, and with +the string of beads round her neck, and went along thrumming the +letters as if they were a tambourine, and by chance coming across +the curate and Samson Carrasco she began capering and saying, "None of +us poor now, faith! We've got a little government! Ay, let the +finest fine lady tackle me, and I'll give her a setting down!"</p> + +<p>"What's all this, Teresa Panza," said they; "what madness is this, +and what papers are those?"</p> + +<p>"The madness is only this," said she, "that these are the letters of +duchesses and governors, and these I have on my neck are fine coral +beads, with ave-marias and paternosters of beaten gold, and I am a +governess."</p> + +<p>"God help us," said the curate, "we don't understand you, Teresa, or +know what you are talking about."</p> + +<p>"There, you may see it yourselves," said Teresa, and she handed them +the letters.</p> + +<p>The curate read them out for Samson Carrasco to hear, and Samson and +he regarded one another with looks of astonishment at what they had +read, and the bachelor asked who had brought the letters. Teresa in +reply bade them come with her to her house and they would see the +messenger, a most elegant youth, who had brought another present which +was worth as much more. The curate took the coral beads from her +neck and examined them again and again, and having satisfied himself +as to their fineness he fell to wondering afresh, and said, "By the +gown I wear I don't know what to say or think of these letters and +presents; on the one hand I can see and feel the fineness of these +coral beads, and on the other I read how a duchess sends to beg for +a couple of dozen of acorns."</p> + +<p>"Square that if you can," said Carrasco; "well, let's go and see the +messenger, and from him we'll learn something about this mystery +that has turned up."</p> + +<p>They did so, and Teresa returned with them. They found the page +sifting a little barley for his horse, and Sanchica cutting a rasher +of bacon to be paved with eggs for his dinner. His looks and his +handsome apparel pleased them both greatly; and after they had saluted +him courteously, and he them, Samson begged him to give them his news, +as well of Don Quixote as of Sancho Panza, for, he said, though they +had read the letters from Sancho and her ladyship the duchess, they +were still puzzled and could not make out what was meant by Sancho's +government, and above all of an island, when all or most of those in +the Mediterranean belonged to his Majesty.</p> + +<p>To this the page replied, "As to Senor Sancho Panza's being a +governor there is no doubt whatever; but whether it is an island or +not that he governs, with that I have nothing to do; suffice it that +it is a town of more than a thousand inhabitants; with regard to the +acorns I may tell you my lady the duchess is so unpretending and +unassuming that, not to speak of sending to beg for acorns from a +peasant woman, she has been known to send to ask for the loan of a +comb from one of her neighbours; for I would have your worships know +that the ladies of Aragon, though they are just as illustrious, are +not so punctilious and haughty as the Castilian ladies; they treat +people with greater familiarity."</p> + +<p>In the middle of this conversation Sanchica came in with her skirt +full of eggs, and said she to the page, "Tell me, senor, does my +father wear trunk-hose since he has been governor?"</p> + +<p>"I have not noticed," said the page; "but no doubt he wears them."</p> + +<p>"Ah! my God!" said Sanchica, "what a sight it must be to see my +father in tights! Isn't it odd that ever since I was born I have had a +longing to see my father in trunk-hose?"</p> + +<p>"As things go you will see that if you live," said the page; "by God +he is in the way to take the road with a sunshade if the government +only lasts him two months more."</p> + +<p>The curate and the bachelor could see plainly enough that the page +spoke in a waggish vein; but the fineness of the coral beads, and +the hunting suit that Sancho sent (for Teresa had already shown it +to them) did away with the impression; and they could not help +laughing at Sanchica's wish, and still more when Teresa said, "Senor +curate, look about if there's anybody here going to Madrid or +Toledo, to buy me a hooped petticoat, a proper fashionable one of +the best quality; for indeed and indeed I must do honour to my +husband's government as well as I can; nay, if I am put to it and have +to, I'll go to Court and set a coach like all the world; for she who +has a governor for her husband may very well have one and keep one."</p> + +<p>"And why not, mother!" said Sanchica; "would to God it were to-day +instead of to-morrow, even though they were to say when they saw me +seated in the coach with my mother, 'See that rubbish, that +garlic-stuffed fellow's daughter, how she goes stretched at her ease +in a coach as if she was a she-pope!' But let them tramp through the +mud, and let me go in my coach with my feet off the ground. Bad luck +to backbiters all over the world; 'let me go warm and the people may +laugh.' Do I say right, mother?"</p> + +<p>"To be sure you do, my child," said Teresa; "and all this good luck, +and even more, my good Sancho foretold me; and thou wilt see, my +daughter, he won't stop till he has made me a countess; for to make +a beginning is everything in luck; and as I have heard thy good father +say many a time (for besides being thy father he's the father of +proverbs too), 'When they offer thee a heifer, run with a halter; when +they offer thee a government, take it; when they would give thee a +county, seize it; when they say, "Here, here!" to thee with +something good, swallow it.' Oh no! go to sleep, and don't answer +the strokes of good fortune and the lucky chances that are knocking at +the door of your house!"</p> + +<p>"And what do I care," added Sanchica, "whether anybody says when +he sees me holding my head up, 'The dog saw himself in hempen +breeches,' and the rest of it?"</p> + +<p>Hearing this the curate said, "I do believe that all this family +of the Panzas are born with a sackful of proverbs in their insides, +every one of them; I never saw one of them that does not pour them out +at all times and on all occasions."</p> + +<p>"That is true," said the page, "for Senor Governor Sancho utters +them at every turn; and though a great many of them are not to the +purpose, still they amuse one, and my lady the duchess and the duke +praise them highly."</p> + +<p>"Then you still maintain that all this about Sancho's government +is true, senor," said the bachelor, "and that there actually is a +duchess who sends him presents and writes to him? Because we, although +we have handled the present and read the letters, don't believe it and +suspect it to be something in the line of our fellow-townsman Don +Quixote, who fancies that everything is done by enchantment; and for +this reason I am almost ready to say that I'd like to touch and feel +your worship to see whether you are a mere ambassador of the +imagination or a man of flesh and blood."</p> + +<p>"All I know, sirs," replied the page, "is that I am a real +ambassador, and that Senor Sancho Panza is governor as a matter of +fact, and that my lord and lady the duke and duchess can give, and +have given him this same government, and that I have heard the said +Sancho Panza bears himself very stoutly therein; whether there be +any enchantment in all this or not, it is for your worships to settle +between you; for that's all I know by the oath I swear, and that is by +the life of my parents whom I have still alive, and love dearly."</p> + +<p>"It may be so," said the bachelor; "but dubitat Augustinus."</p> + +<p>"Doubt who will," said the page; "what I have told you is the truth, +and that will always rise above falsehood as oil above water; if not +operibus credite, et non verbis. Let one of you come with me, and he +will see with his eyes what he does not believe with his ears."</p> + +<p>"It's for me to make that trip," said Sanchica; "take me with you, +senor, behind you on your horse; for I'll go with all my heart to +see my father."</p> + +<p>"Governors' daughters," said the page, "must not travel along the +roads alone, but accompanied by coaches and litters and a great number +of attendants."</p> + +<p>"By God," said Sanchica, "I can go just as well mounted on a she-ass +as in a coach; what a dainty lass you must take me for!"</p> + +<p>"Hush, girl," said Teresa; "you don't know what you're talking +about; the gentleman is quite right, for 'as the time so the +behaviour;' when it was Sancho it was 'Sancha;' when it is governor +it's 'senora;' I don't know if I'm right."</p> + +<p>"Senora Teresa says more than she is aware of," said the page; +"and now give me something to eat and let me go at once, for I mean to +return this evening."</p> + +<p>"Come and do penance with me," said the curate at this; "for +Senora Teresa has more will than means to serve so worthy a guest."</p> + +<p>The page refused, but had to consent at last for his own sake; and +the curate took him home with him very gladly, in order to have an +opportunity of questioning him at leisure about Don Quixote and his +doings. The bachelor offered to write the letters in reply for Teresa; +but she did not care to let him mix himself up in her affairs, for she +thought him somewhat given to joking; and so she gave a cake and a +couple of eggs to a young acolyte who was a penman, and he wrote for +her two letters, one for her husband and the other for the duchess, +dictated out of her own head, which are not the worst inserted in this +great history, as will be seen farther on.</p> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p50e"></a><img alt="p50e.jpg (19K)" src="images/p50e.jpg" height="347" width="385"> +</center> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<br><br> +<center><h2><a name="ch51b"></a>CHAPTER LI.</h2></center> +<br> +<center><h3>OF THE PROGRESS OF SANCHO'S GOVERNMENT, AND OTHER SUCH +ENTERTAINING MATTERS +</h3></center> +<br> +<br> + +<center><a name="p51a"></a><img alt="p51a.jpg (188K)" src="images/p51a.jpg" height="434" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p51a.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<p>Day came after the night of the governor's round; a night which +the head-carver passed without sleeping, so were his thoughts of the +face and air and beauty of the disguised damsel, while the majordomo +spent what was left of it in writing an account to his lord and lady +of all Sancho said and did, being as much amazed at his sayings as +at his doings, for there was a mixture of shrewdness and simplicity in +all his words and deeds. The senor governor got up, and by Doctor +Pedro Recio's directions they made him break his fast on a little +conserve and four sups of cold water, which Sancho would have +readily exchanged for a piece of bread and a bunch of grapes; but +seeing there was no help for it, he submitted with no little sorrow of +heart and discomfort of stomach; Pedro Recio having persuaded him that +light and delicate diet enlivened the wits, and that was what was most +essential for persons placed in command and in responsible situations, +where they have to employ not only the bodily powers but those of +the mind also.</p> + +<p>By means of this sophistry Sancho was made to endure hunger, and +hunger so keen that in his heart he cursed the government, and even +him who had given it to him; however, with his hunger and his conserve +he undertook to deliver judgments that day, and the first thing that +came before him was a question that was submitted to him by a +stranger, in the presence of the majordomo and the other attendants, +and it was in these words: "Senor, a large river separated two +districts of one and the same lordship—will your worship please to +pay attention, for the case is an important and a rather knotty one? +Well then, on this river there was a bridge, and at one end of it a +gallows, and a sort of tribunal, where four judges commonly sat to +administer the law which the lord of river, bridge and the lordship +had enacted, and which was to this effect, 'If anyone crosses by +this bridge from one side to the other he shall declare on oath +where he is going to and with what object; and if he swears truly, +he shall be allowed to pass, but if falsely, he shall be put to +death for it by hanging on the gallows erected there, without any +remission.' Though the law and its severe penalty were known, many +persons crossed, but in their declarations it was easy to see at +once they were telling the truth, and the judges let them pass free. +It happened, however, that one man, when they came to take his +declaration, swore and said that by the oath he took he was going to +die upon that gallows that stood there, and nothing else. The judges +held a consultation over the oath, and they said, 'If we let this +man pass free he has sworn falsely, and by the law he ought to die; +but if we hang him, as he swore he was going to die on that gallows, +and therefore swore the truth, by the same law he ought to go free.' +It is asked of your worship, senor governor, what are the judges to do +with this man? For they are still in doubt and perplexity; and +having heard of your worship's acute and exalted intellect, they +have sent me to entreat your worship on their behalf to give your +opinion on this very intricate and puzzling case."</p> + +<p>To this Sancho made answer, "Indeed those gentlemen the judges +that send you to me might have spared themselves the trouble, for I +have more of the obtuse than the acute in me; but repeat the case over +again, so that I may understand it, and then perhaps I may be able +to hit the point."</p> + +<p>The querist repeated again and again what he had said before, and +then Sancho said, "It seems to me I can set the matter right in a +moment, and in this way; the man swears that he is going to die upon +the gallows; but if he dies upon it, he has sworn the truth, and by +the law enacted deserves to go free and pass over the bridge; but if +they don't hang him, then he has sworn falsely, and by the same law +deserves to be hanged."</p> + +<p>"It is as the senor governor says," said the messenger; "and as +regards a complete comprehension of the case, there is nothing left to +desire or hesitate about."</p> + +<p>"Well then I say," said Sancho, "that of this man they should let +pass the part that has sworn truly, and hang the part that has lied; +and in this way the conditions of the passage will be fully complied +with."</p> + +<p>"But then, senor governor," replied the querist, "the man will +have to be divided into two parts; and if he is divided of course he +will die; and so none of the requirements of the law will be carried +out, and it is absolutely necessary to comply with it."</p> + +<p>"Look here, my good sir," said Sancho; "either I'm a numskull or +else there is the same reason for this passenger dying as for his +living and passing over the bridge; for if the truth saves him the +falsehood equally condemns him; and that being the case it is my +opinion you should say to the gentlemen who sent you to me that as the +arguments for condemning him and for absolving him are exactly +balanced, they should let him pass freely, as it is always more +praiseworthy to do good than to do evil; this I would give signed with +my name if I knew how to sign; and what I have said in this case is +not out of my own head, but one of the many precepts my master Don +Quixote gave me the night before I left to become governor of this +island, that came into my mind, and it was this, that when there was +any doubt about the justice of a case I should lean to mercy; and it +is God's will that I should recollect it now, for it fits this case as +if it was made for it."</p> + +<p>"That is true," said the majordomo; "and I maintain that Lycurgus +himself, who gave laws to the Lacedemonians, could not have pronounced +a better decision than the great Panza has given; let the morning's +audience close with this, and I will see that the senor governor has +dinner entirely to his liking."</p> + +<p>"That's all I ask for—fair play," said Sancho; "give me my +dinner, and then let it rain cases and questions on me, and I'll +despatch them in a twinkling."</p> + +<p>The majordomo kept his word, for he felt it against his conscience +to kill so wise a governor by hunger; particularly as he intended to +have done with him that same night, playing off the last joke he was +commissioned to practise upon him.</p> + +<p>It came to pass, then, that after he had dined that day, in +opposition to the rules and aphorisms of Doctor Tirteafuera, as they +were taking away the cloth there came a courier with a letter from Don +Quixote for the governor. Sancho ordered the secretary to read it to +himself, and if there was nothing in it that demanded secrecy to +read it aloud. The secretary did so, and after he had skimmed the +contents he said, "It may well be read aloud, for what Senor Don +Quixote writes to your worship deserves to be printed or written in +letters of gold, and it is as follows."</p> + + +<blockquote><blockquote> +<p> +DON QUIXOTE OF LA MANCHA'S LETTER TO SANCHO PANZA, +GOVERNOR OF THE ISLAND OF BARATARIA.</p> + +<p> +When I was expecting to hear of thy stupidities and blunders, friend +Sancho, I have received intelligence of thy displays of good sense, +for which I give special thanks to heaven that can raise the poor from +the dunghill and of fools to make wise men. They tell me thou dost +govern as if thou wert a man, and art a man as if thou wert a beast, +so great is the humility wherewith thou dost comport thyself. But I +would have thee bear in mind, Sancho, that very often it is fitting +and necessary for the authority of office to resist the humility of +the heart; for the seemly array of one who is invested with grave +duties should be such as they require and not measured by what his own +humble tastes may lead him to prefer. Dress well; a stick dressed up +does not look like a stick; I do not say thou shouldst wear trinkets +or fine raiment, or that being a judge thou shouldst dress like a +soldier, but that thou shouldst array thyself in the apparel thy +office requires, and that at the same time it be neat and handsome. To +win the good-will of the people thou governest there are two things, +among others, that thou must do; one is to be civil to all (this, +however, I told thee before), and the other to take care that food +be abundant, for there is nothing that vexes the heart of the poor +more than hunger and high prices. Make not many proclamations; but +those thou makest take care that they be good ones, and above all that +they be observed and carried out; for proclamations that are not +observed are the same as if they did not exist; nay, they encourage +the idea that the prince who had the wisdom and authority to make them +had not the power to enforce them; and laws that threaten and are +not enforced come to be like the log, the king of the frogs, that +frightened them at first, but that in time they despised and mounted +upon. Be a father to virtue and a stepfather to vice. Be not always +strict, nor yet always lenient, but observe a mean between these two +extremes, for in that is the aim of wisdom. Visit the gaols, the +slaughter-houses, and the market-places; for the presence of the +governor is of great importance in such places; it comforts the +prisoners who are in hopes of a speedy release, it is the bugbear of +the butchers who have then to give just weight, and it is the terror +of the market-women for the same reason. Let it not be seen that +thou art (even if perchance thou art, which I do not believe) +covetous, a follower of women, or a glutton; for when the people and +those that have dealings with thee become aware of thy special +weakness they will bring their batteries to bear upon thee in that +quarter, till they have brought thee down to the depths of +perdition. Consider and reconsider, con and con over again the advices +and the instructions I gave thee before thy departure hence to thy +government, and thou wilt see that in them, if thou dost follow +them, thou hast a help at hand that will lighten for thee the troubles +and difficulties that beset governors at every step. Write to thy lord +and lady and show thyself grateful to them, for ingratitude is the +daughter of pride, and one of the greatest sins we know of; and he who +is grateful to those who have been good to him shows that he will be +so to God also who has bestowed and still bestows so many blessings +upon him.</p> + +<p>My lady the duchess sent off a messenger with thy suit and another +present to thy wife Teresa Panza; we expect the answer every moment. I +have been a little indisposed through a certain scratching I came in +for, not very much to the benefit of my nose; but it was nothing; +for if there are enchanters who maltreat me, there are also some who +defend me. Let me know if the majordomo who is with thee had any share +in the Trifaldi performance, as thou didst suspect; and keep me +informed of everything that happens thee, as the distance is so short; +all the more as I am thinking of giving over very shortly this idle +life I am now leading, for I was not born for it. A thing has occurred +to me which I am inclined to think will put me out of favour with +the duke and duchess; but though I am sorry for it I do not care, +for after all I must obey my calling rather than their pleasure, in +accordance with the common saying, amicus Plato, sed magis amica +veritas. I quote this Latin to thee because I conclude that since thou +hast been a governor thou wilt have learned it. Adieu; God keep thee +from being an object of pity to anyone.</p> + +<p>Thy friend, +DON QUIXOTE OF LA MANCHA.</p> +</blockquote></blockquote> + + +<p>Sancho listened to the letter with great attention, and it was +praised and considered wise by all who heard it; he then rose up +from table, and calling his secretary shut himself in with him in +his own room, and without putting it off any longer set about +answering his master Don Quixote at once; and he bade the secretary +write down what he told him without adding or suppressing anything, +which he did, and the answer was to the following effect.</p> + +<blockquote><blockquote> +<p> +SANCHO PANZA'S LETTER TO DON QUIXOTE OF LA MANCHA.</p> + +<p> +The pressure of business is so great upon me that I have no time +to scratch my head or even to cut my nails; and I have them so +long—God send a remedy for it. I say this, master of my soul, that you +may not be surprised if I have not until now sent you word of how I +fare, well or ill, in this government, in which I am suffering more +hunger than when we two were wandering through the woods and wastes.</p> + +<p>My lord the duke wrote to me the other day to warn me that certain +spies had got into this island to kill me; but up to the present I +have not found out any except a certain doctor who receives a salary +in this town for killing all the governors that come here; he is +called Doctor Pedro Recio, and is from Tirteafuera; so you see what +a name he has to make me dread dying under his hands. This doctor says +of himself that he does not cure diseases when there are any, but +prevents them coming, and the medicines he uses are diet and more diet +until he brings one down to bare bones; as if leanness was not worse +than fever.</p> + +<p>In short he is killing me with hunger, and I am dying myself of +vexation; for when I thought I was coming to this government to get my +meat hot and my drink cool, and take my ease between holland sheets on +feather beds, I find I have come to do penance as if I was a hermit; +and as I don't do it willingly I suspect that in the end the devil +will carry me off.</p> + +<p>So far I have not handled any dues or taken any bribes, and I +don't know what to think of it; for here they tell me that the +governors that come to this island, before entering it have plenty +of money either given to them or lent to them by the people of the +town, and that this is the usual custom not only here but with all who +enter upon governments.</p> + +<p>Last night going the rounds I came upon a fair damsel in man's +clothes, and a brother of hers dressed as a woman; my head-carver +has fallen in love with the girl, and has in his own mind chosen her +for a wife, so he says, and I have chosen youth for a son-in-law; +to-day we are going to explain our intentions to the father of the +pair, who is one Diego de la Llana, a gentleman and an old Christian +as much as you please.</p> + +<p>I have visited the market-places, as your worship advises me, and +yesterday I found a stall-keeper selling new hazel nuts and proved her +to have mixed a bushel of old empty rotten nuts with a bushel of +new; I confiscated the whole for the children of the charity-school, +who will know how to distinguish them well enough, and I sentenced her +not to come into the market-place for a fortnight; they told me I +did bravely. I can tell your worship it is commonly said in this +town that there are no people worse than the market-women, for they +are all barefaced, unconscionable, and impudent, and I can well +believe it from what I have seen of them in other towns.</p> + +<p>I am very glad my lady the duchess has written to my wife Teresa +Panza and sent her the present your worship speaks of; and I will +strive to show myself grateful when the time comes; kiss her hands for +me, and tell her I say she has not thrown it into a sack with a hole +in it, as she will see in the end. I should not like your worship to +have any difference with my lord and lady; for if you fall out with +them it is plain it must do me harm; and as you give me advice to be +grateful it will not do for your worship not to be so yourself to +those who have shown you such kindness, and by whom you have been +treated so hospitably in their castle.</p> + +<p>That about the scratching I don't understand; but I suppose it +must be one of the ill-turns the wicked enchanters are always doing +your worship; when we meet I shall know all about it. I wish I could +send your worship something; but I don't know what to send, unless +it be some very curious clyster pipes, to work with bladders, that +they make in this island; but if the office remains with me I'll +find out something to send, one way or another. If my wife Teresa +Panza writes to me, pay the postage and send me the letter, for I have +a very great desire to hear how my house and wife and children are +going on. And so, may God deliver your worship from evil-minded +enchanters, and bring me well and peacefully out of this government, +which I doubt, for I expect to take leave of it and my life +together, from the way Doctor Pedro Recio treats me.</p> + +<p>Your worship's servant +SANCHO PANZA THE GOVERNOR.</p> +</blockquote></blockquote> + + +<p>The secretary sealed the letter, and immediately dismissed the +courier; and those who were carrying on the joke against Sancho +putting their heads together arranged how he was to be dismissed +from the government. Sancho spent the afternoon in drawing up +certain ordinances relating to the good government of what he +fancied the island; and he ordained that there were to be no provision +hucksters in the State, and that men might import wine into it from +any place they pleased, provided they declared the quarter it came +from, so that a price might be put upon it according to its quality, +reputation, and the estimation it was held in; and he that watered his +wine, or changed the name, was to forfeit his life for it. He +reduced the prices of all manner of shoes, boots, and stockings, but +of shoes in particular, as they seemed to him to run extravagantly +high. He established a fixed rate for servants' wages, which were +becoming recklessly exorbitant. He laid extremely heavy penalties upon +those who sang lewd or loose songs either by day or night. He +decreed that no blind man should sing of any miracle in verse, +unless he could produce authentic evidence that it was true, for it +was his opinion that most of those the blind men sing are trumped +up, to the detriment of the true ones. He established and created an +alguacil of the poor, not to harass them, but to examine them and +see whether they really were so; for many a sturdy thief or drunkard +goes about under cover of a make-believe crippled limb or a sham sore. +In a word, he made so many good rules that to this day they are +preserved there, and are called The constitutions of the great +governor Sancho Panza.</p> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p51e"></a><img alt="p51e.jpg (32K)" src="images/p51e.jpg" height="513" width="487"> +</center> +<br><br><br><br> + + + +<br><br> +<center><h2><a name="ch52b"></a>CHAPTER LII.</h2></center> +<br> +<center><h3>WHEREIN IS RELATED THE ADVENTURE OF THE SECOND DISTRESSED OR +AFFLICTED DUENNA, OTHERWISE CALLED DONA RODRIGUEZ +</h3></center> +<br> +<br> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p52a"></a><img alt="p52a.jpg (131K)" src="images/p52a.jpg" height="461" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p52a.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<p>Cide Hamete relates that Don Quixote being now cured of his +scratches felt that the life he was leading in the castle was entirely +inconsistent with the order of chivalry he professed, so he determined +to ask the duke and duchess to permit him to take his departure for +Saragossa, as the time of the festival was now drawing near, and he +hoped to win there the suit of armour which is the prize at +festivals of the sort. But one day at table with the duke and duchess, +just as he was about to carry his resolution into effect and ask for +their permission, lo and behold suddenly there came in through the +door of the great hall two women, as they afterwards proved to be, +draped in mourning from head to foot, one of whom approaching Don +Quixote flung herself at full length at his feet, pressing her lips to +them, and uttering moans so sad, so deep, and so doleful that she +put all who heard and saw her into a state of perplexity; and though +the duke and duchess supposed it must be some joke their servants were +playing off upon Don Quixote, still the earnest way the woman sighed +and moaned and wept puzzled them and made them feel uncertain, until +Don Quixote, touched with compassion, raised her up and made her +unveil herself and remove the mantle from her tearful face. She +complied and disclosed what no one could have ever anticipated, for +she disclosed the countenance of Dona Rodriguez, the duenna of the +house; the other female in mourning being her daughter, who had been +made a fool of by the rich farmer's son. All who knew her were +filled with astonishment, and the duke and duchess more than any; +for though they thought her a simpleton and a weak creature, they +did not think her capable of crazy pranks. Dona Rodriguez, at +length, turning to her master and mistress said to them, "Will your +excellences be pleased to permit me to speak to this gentleman for a +moment, for it is requisite I should do so in order to get +successfully out of the business in which the boldness of an +evil-minded clown has involved me?"</p> + +<p>The duke said that for his part he gave her leave, and that she +might speak with Senor Don Quixote as much as she liked.</p> + +<p>She then, turning to Don Quixote and addressing herself to him said, +"Some days since, valiant knight, I gave you an account of the +injustice and treachery of a wicked farmer to my dearly beloved +daughter, the unhappy damsel here before you, and you promised me to +take her part and right the wrong that has been done her; but now it +has come to my hearing that you are about to depart from this castle +in quest of such fair adventures as God may vouchsafe to you; +therefore, before you take the road, I would that you challenge this +froward rustic, and compel him to marry my daughter in fulfillment +of the promise he gave her to become her husband before he seduced +her; for to expect that my lord the duke will do me justice is to +ask pears from the elm tree, for the reason I stated privately to your +worship; and so may our Lord grant you good health and forsake us +not."</p> + +<p>To these words Don Quixote replied very gravely and solemnly, +"Worthy duenna, check your tears, or rather dry them, and spare your +sighs, for I take it upon myself to obtain redress for your +daughter, for whom it would have been better not to have been so ready +to believe lovers' promises, which are for the most part quickly +made and very slowly performed; and so, with my lord the duke's leave, +I will at once go in quest of this inhuman youth, and will find him +out and challenge him and slay him, if so be he refuses to keep his +promised word; for the chief object of my profession is to spare the +humble and chastise the proud; I mean, to help the distressed and +destroy the oppressors."</p> + +<p>"There is no necessity," said the duke, "for your worship to take +the trouble of seeking out the rustic of whom this worthy duenna +complains, nor is there any necessity, either, for asking my leave +to challenge him; for I admit him duly challenged, and will take +care that he is informed of the challenge, and accepts it, and comes +to answer it in person to this castle of mine, where I shall afford to +both a fair field, observing all the conditions which are usually +and properly observed in such trials, and observing too justice to +both sides, as all princes who offer a free field to combatants within +the limits of their lordships are bound to do."</p> + +<p>"Then with that assurance and your highness's good leave," said +Don Quixote, "I hereby for this once waive my privilege of gentle +blood, and come down and put myself on a level with the lowly birth of +the wrong-doer, making myself equal with him and enabling him to enter +into combat with me; and so, I challenge and defy him, though +absent, on the plea of his malfeasance in breaking faith with this +poor damsel, who was a maiden and now by his misdeed is none; and +say that he shall fulfill the promise he gave her to become her lawful +husband, or else stake his life upon the question."</p> + +<p>And then plucking off a glove he threw it down in the middle of +the hall, and the duke picked it up, saying, as he had said before, +that he accepted the challenge in the name of his vassal, and fixed +six days thence as the time, the courtyard of the castle as the place, +and for arms the customary ones of knights, lance and shield and +full armour, with all the other accessories, without trickery, +guile, or charms of any sort, and examined and passed by the judges of +the field. "But first of all," he said, "it is requisite that this +worthy duenna and unworthy damsel should place their claim for justice +in the hands of Don Quixote; for otherwise nothing can be done, nor +can the said challenge be brought to a lawful issue."</p> + +<p>"I do so place it," replied the duenna.</p> + +<p>"And I too," added her daughter, all in tears and covered with shame +and confusion.</p> + +<p>This declaration having been made, and the duke having settled in +his own mind what he would do in the matter, the ladies in black +withdrew, and the duchess gave orders that for the future they were +not to be treated as servants of hers, but as lady adventurers who +came to her house to demand justice; so they gave them a room to +themselves and waited on them as they would on strangers, to the +consternation of the other women-servants, who did not know where +the folly and imprudence of Dona Rodriguez and her unlucky daughter +would stop.</p> + +<p>And now, to complete the enjoyment of the feast and bring the dinner +to a satisfactory end, lo and behold the page who had carried the +letters and presents to Teresa Panza, the wife of the governor Sancho, +entered the hall; and the duke and duchess were very well pleased to +see him, being anxious to know the result of his journey; but when +they asked him the page said in reply that he could not give it before +so many people or in a few words, and begged their excellences to be +pleased to let it wait for a private opportunity, and in the +meantime amuse themselves with these letters; and taking out the +letters he placed them in the duchess's hand. One bore by way of +address, Letter for my lady the Duchess So-and-so, of I don't know +where; and the other To my husband Sancho Panza, governor of the +island of Barataria, whom God prosper longer than me. The duchess's +bread would not bake, as the saying is, until she had read her letter; +and having looked over it herself and seen that it might be read aloud +for the duke and all present to hear, she read out as follows.</p> + +<blockquote><blockquote> +<p> +TERESA PANZA'S LETTER TO THE DUCHESS.</p> + +<p>The letter your highness wrote me, my lady, gave me great +pleasure, for indeed I found it very welcome. The string of coral +beads is very fine, and my husband's hunting suit does not fall +short of it. All this village is very much pleased that your +ladyship has made a governor of my good man Sancho; though nobody will +believe it, particularly the curate, and Master Nicholas the barber, +and the bachelor Samson Carrasco; but I don't care for that, for so +long as it is true, as it is, they may all say what they like; though, +to tell the truth, if the coral beads and the suit had not come I +would not have believed it either; for in this village everybody +thinks my husband a numskull, and except for governing a flock of +goats, they cannot fancy what sort of government he can be fit for. +God grant it, and direct him according as he sees his children stand +in need of it. I am resolved with your worship's leave, lady of my +soul, to make the most of this fair day, and go to Court to stretch +myself at ease in a coach, and make all those I have envying me +already burst their eyes out; so I beg your excellence to order my +husband to send me a small trifle of money, and to let it be something +to speak of, because one's expenses are heavy at the Court; for a loaf +costs a real, and meat thirty maravedis a pound, which is beyond +everything; and if he does not want me to go let him tell me in +time, for my feet are on the fidgets to be off; and my friends and +neighbours tell me that if my daughter and I make a figure and a brave +show at Court, my husband will come to be known far more by me than +I by him, for of course plenty of people will ask, "Who are those +ladies in that coach?" and some servant of mine will answer, "The wife +and daughter of Sancho Panza, governor of the island of Barataria;" +and in this way Sancho will become known, and I'll be thought well of, +and "to Rome for everything." I am as vexed as vexed can be that +they have gathered no acorns this year in our village; for all that +I send your highness about half a peck that I went to the wood to +gather and pick out one by one myself, and I could find no bigger +ones; I wish they were as big as ostrich eggs.</p> + +<p>Let not your high mightiness forget to write to me; and I will +take care to answer, and let you know how I am, and whatever news +there may be in this place, where I remain, praying our Lord to have +your highness in his keeping and not to forget me.</p> + +<p>Sancha my daughter, and my son, kiss your worship's hands.</p> + +<p>She who would rather see your ladyship than write to you,</p> + +<p>Your servant, +<br>TERESA PANZA.</p> +</blockquote></blockquote> + + +<p>All were greatly amused by Teresa Panza's letter, but particularly +the duke and duchess; and the duchess asked Don Quixote's opinion +whether they might open the letter that had come for the governor, +which she suspected must be very good. Don Quixote said that to +gratify them he would open it, and did so, and found that it ran as +follows.</p> + +<blockquote><blockquote> +<p> +TERESA PANZA'S LETTER TO HER HUSBAND SANCHO PANZA.</p> + +<p>I got thy letter, Sancho of my soul, and I promise thee and swear as +a Catholic Christian that I was within two fingers' breadth of going +mad I was so happy. I can tell thee, brother, when I came to hear that +thou wert a governor I thought I should have dropped dead with pure +joy; and thou knowest they say sudden joy kills as well as great +sorrow; and as for Sanchica thy daughter, she leaked from sheer +happiness. I had before me the suit thou didst send me, and the +coral beads my lady the duchess sent me round my neck, and the letters +in my hands, and there was the bearer of them standing by, and in +spite of all this I verily believed and thought that what I saw and +handled was all a dream; for who could have thought that a goatherd +would come to be a governor of islands? Thou knowest, my friend, +what my mother used to say, that one must live long to see much; I say +it because I expect to see more if I live longer; for I don't expect +to stop until I see thee a farmer of taxes or a collector of +revenue, which are offices where, though the devil carries off those +who make a bad use of them, still they make and handle money. My +lady the duchess will tell thee the desire I have to go to the +Court; consider the matter and let me know thy pleasure; I will try to +do honour to thee by going in a coach.</p> + +<p>Neither the curate, nor the barber, nor the bachelor, nor even the +sacristan, can believe that thou art a governor, and they say the +whole thing is a delusion or an enchantment affair, like everything +belonging to thy master Don Quixote; and Samson says he must go in +search of thee and drive the government out of thy head and the +madness out of Don Quixote's skull; I only laugh, and look at my +string of beads, and plan out the dress I am going to make for our +daughter out of thy suit. I sent some acorns to my lady the duchess; I +wish they had been gold. Send me some strings of pearls if they are in +fashion in that island. Here is the news of the village; La Berrueca +has married her daughter to a good-for-nothing painter, who came +here to paint anything that might turn up. The council gave him an +order to paint his Majesty's arms over the door of the town-hall; he +asked two ducats, which they paid him in advance; he worked for +eight days, and at the end of them had nothing painted, and then +said he had no turn for painting such trifling things; he returned the +money, and for all that has married on the pretence of being a good +workman; to be sure he has now laid aside his paint-brush and taken +a spade in hand, and goes to the field like a gentleman. Pedro +Lobo's son has received the first orders and tonsure, with the +intention of becoming a priest. Minguilla, Mingo Silvato's +granddaughter, found it out, and has gone to law with him on the score +of having given her promise of marriage. Evil tongues say she is +with child by him, but he denies it stoutly. There are no olives +this year, and there is not a drop of vinegar to be had in the whole +village. A company of soldiers passed through here; when they left +they took away with them three of the girls of the village; I will not +tell thee who they are; perhaps they will come back, and they will +be sure to find those who will take them for wives with all their +blemishes, good or bad. Sanchica is making bonelace; she earns eight +maravedis a day clear, which she puts into a moneybox as a help +towards house furnishing; but now that she is a governor's daughter +thou wilt give her a portion without her working for it. The +fountain in the plaza has run dry. A flash of lightning struck the +gibbet, and I wish they all lit there. I look for an answer to this, +and to know thy mind about my going to the Court; and so, God keep +thee longer than me, or as long, for I would not leave thee in this +world without me.</p> + +<p>Thy wife, +<br>TERESA PANZA.</p> +</blockquote></blockquote> + +<p> +The letters were applauded, laughed over, relished, and admired; and +then, as if to put the seal to the business, the courier arrived, +bringing the one Sancho sent to Don Quixote, and this, too, was read +out, and it raised some doubts as to the governor's simplicity. The +duchess withdrew to hear from the page about his adventures in +Sancho's village, which he narrated at full length without leaving a +single circumstance unmentioned. He gave her the acorns, and also a +cheese which Teresa had given him as being particularly good and +superior to those of Tronchon. The duchess received it with greatest +delight, in which we will leave her, to describe the end of the +government of the great Sancho Panza, flower and mirror of all +governors of islands.</p> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p52e"></a><img alt="p52e.jpg (13K)" src="images/p52e.jpg" height="261" width="407"> +</center> +<br><br><br><br> + + + +<br><br> +<center><h2><a name="ch53b"></a>CHAPTER LIII.</h2></center> +<br> +<center><h3>OF THE TROUBLOUS END AND TERMINATION SANCHO PANZA'S GOVERNMENT CAME TO +</h3></center> +<br> +<br> + +<center><a name="p53a"></a><img alt="p53a.jpg (109K)" src="images/p53a.jpg" height="362" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p53a.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<p>To fancy that in this life anything belonging to it will remain +for ever in the same state is an idle fancy; on the contrary, in it +everything seems to go in a circle, I mean round and round. The spring +succeeds the summer, the summer the fall, the fall the autumn, the +autumn the winter, and the winter the spring, and so time rolls with +never-ceasing wheel. Man's life alone, swifter than time, speeds +onward to its end without any hope of renewal, save it be in that +other life which is endless and boundless. Thus saith Cide Hamete +the Mahometan philosopher; for there are many that by the light of +nature alone, without the light of faith, have a comprehension of +the fleeting nature and instability of this present life and the +endless duration of that eternal life we hope for; but our author is +here speaking of the rapidity with which Sancho's government came to +an end, melted away, disappeared, vanished as it were in smoke and +shadow. For as he lay in bed on the night of the seventh day of his +government, sated, not with bread and wine, but with delivering +judgments and giving opinions and making laws and proclamations, +just as sleep, in spite of hunger, was beginning to close his eyelids, +he heard such a noise of bell-ringing and shouting that one would have +fancied the whole island was going to the bottom. He sat up in bed and +remained listening intently to try if he could make out what could +be the cause of so great an uproar; not only, however, was he unable +to discover what it was, but as countless drums and trumpets now +helped to swell the din of the bells and shouts, he was more puzzled +than ever, and filled with fear and terror; and getting up he put on a +pair of slippers because of the dampness of the floor, and without +throwing a dressing gown or anything of the kind over him he rushed +out of the door of his room, just in time to see approaching along a +corridor a band of more than twenty persons with lighted torches and +naked swords in their hands, all shouting out, "To arms, to arms, +senor governor, to arms! The enemy is in the island in countless +numbers, and we are lost unless your skill and valour come to our +support."</p> + +<p>Keeping up this noise, tumult, and uproar, they came to where Sancho +stood dazed and bewildered by what he saw and heard, and as they +approached one of them called out to him, "Arm at once, your lordship, +if you would not have yourself destroyed and the whole island lost."</p> + +<p>"What have I to do with arming?" said Sancho. "What do I know +about arms or supports? Better leave all that to my master Don +Quixote, who will settle it and make all safe in a trice; for I, +sinner that I am, God help me, don't understand these scuffles."</p> + +<p>"Ah, senor governor," said another, "what slackness of mettle this +is! Arm yourself; here are arms for you, offensive and defensive; come +out to the plaza and be our leader and captain; it falls upon you by +right, for you are our governor."</p> + +<p>"Arm me then, in God's name," said Sancho, and they at once produced +two large shields they had come provided with, and placed them upon +him over his shirt, without letting him put on anything else, one +shield in front and the other behind, and passing his arms through +openings they had made, they bound him tight with ropes, so that there +he was walled and boarded up as straight as a spindle and unable to +bend his knees or stir a single step. In his hand they placed a lance, +on which he leant to keep himself from falling, and as soon as they +had him thus fixed they bade him march forward and lead them on and +give them all courage; for with him for their guide and lamp and +morning star, they were sure to bring their business to a successful +issue.</p> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p53b"></a><img alt="p53b.jpg (332K)" src="images/p53b.jpg" height="855" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p53b.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<p>"How am I to march, unlucky being that I am?" said Sancho, "when I +can't stir my knee-caps, for these boards I have bound so tight to +my body won't let me. What you must do is carry me in your arms, and +lay me across or set me upright in some postern, and I'll hold it +either with this lance or with my body."</p> + +<p>"On, senor governor!" cried another, "it is fear more than the +boards that keeps you from moving; make haste, stir yourself, for +there is no time to lose; the enemy is increasing in numbers, the +shouts grow louder, and the danger is pressing."</p> + +<p>Urged by these exhortations and reproaches the poor governor made an +attempt to advance, but fell to the ground with such a crash that he +fancied he had broken himself all to pieces. There he lay like a +tortoise enclosed in its shell, or a side of bacon between two +kneading-troughs, or a boat bottom up on the beach; nor did the gang +of jokers feel any compassion for him when they saw him down; so far +from that, extinguishing their torches they began to shout afresh +and to renew the calls to arms with such energy, trampling on poor +Sancho, and slashing at him over the shield with their swords in +such a way that, if he had not gathered himself together and made +himself small and drawn in his head between the shields, it would have +fared badly with the poor governor, as, squeezed into that narrow +compass, he lay, sweating and sweating again, and commending himself +with all his heart to God to deliver him from his present peril. +Some stumbled over him, others fell upon him, and one there was who +took up a position on top of him for some time, and from thence as +if from a watchtower issued orders to the troops, shouting out, "Here, +our side! Here the enemy is thickest! Hold the breach there! Shut that +gate! Barricade those ladders! Here with your stink-pots of pitch +and resin, and kettles of boiling oil! Block the streets with +feather beds!" In short, in his ardour he mentioned every little +thing, and every implement and engine of war by means of which an +assault upon a city is warded off, while the bruised and battered +Sancho, who heard and suffered all, was saying to himself, "O if it +would only please the Lord to let the island be lost at once, and I +could see myself either dead or out of this torture!" Heaven heard his +prayer, and when he least expected it he heard voices exclaiming, +"Victory, victory! The enemy retreats beaten! Come, senor governor, +get up, and come and enjoy the victory, and divide the spoils that +have been won from the foe by the might of that invincible arm."</p> + +<p>"Lift me up," said the wretched Sancho in a woebegone voice. They +helped him to rise, and as soon as he was on his feet said, "The enemy +I have beaten you may nail to my forehead; I don't want to divide +the spoils of the foe, I only beg and entreat some friend, if I have +one, to give me a sup of wine, for I'm parched with thirst, and wipe +me dry, for I'm turning to water."</p> + +<p>They rubbed him down, fetched him wine and unbound the shields, +and he seated himself upon his bed, and with fear, agitation, and +fatigue he fainted away. Those who had been concerned in the joke were +now sorry they had pushed it so far; however, the anxiety his fainting +away had caused them was relieved by his returning to himself. He +asked what o'clock it was; they told him it was just daybreak. He said +no more, and in silence began to dress himself, while all watched him, +waiting to see what the haste with which he was putting on his clothes +meant.</p> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p53c"></a><img alt="p53c.jpg (389K)" src="images/p53c.jpg" height="831" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p53c.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<p>He got himself dressed at last, and then, slowly, for he was +sorely bruised and could not go fast, he proceeded to the stable, +followed by all who were present, and going up to Dapple embraced +him and gave him a loving kiss on the forehead, and said to him, not +without tears in his eyes, "Come along, comrade and friend and partner +of my toils and sorrows; when I was with you and had no cares to +trouble me except mending your harness and feeding your little +carcass, happy were my hours, my days, and my years; but since I +left you, and mounted the towers of ambition and pride, a thousand +miseries, a thousand troubles, and four thousand anxieties have +entered into my soul;" and all the while he was speaking in this +strain he was fixing the pack-saddle on the ass, without a word from +anyone. Then having Dapple saddled, he, with great pain and +difficulty, got up on him, and addressing himself to the majordomo, +the secretary, the head-carver, and Pedro Recio the doctor and several +others who stood by, he said, "Make way, gentlemen, and let me go back +to my old freedom; let me go look for my past life, and raise myself +up from this present death. I was not born to be a governor or protect +islands or cities from the enemies that choose to attack them. +Ploughing and digging, vinedressing and pruning, are more in my way +than defending provinces or kingdoms. 'Saint Peter is very well at +Rome; I mean each of us is best following the trade he was born to. +A reaping-hook fits my hand better than a governor's sceptre; I'd +rather have my fill of gazpacho' than be subject to the misery of a +meddling doctor who me with hunger, and I'd rather lie in summer under +the shade of an oak, and in winter wrap myself in a double sheepskin +jacket in freedom, than go to bed between holland sheets and dress +in sables under the restraint of a government. God be with your +worships, and tell my lord the duke that 'naked I was born, naked I +find myself, I neither lose nor gain;' I mean that without a +farthing I came into this government, and without a farthing I go +out of it, very different from the way governors commonly leave +other islands. Stand aside and let me go; I have to plaster myself, +for I believe every one of my ribs is crushed, thanks to the enemies +that have been trampling over me to-night."</p> + +<p>"That is unnecessary, senor governor," said Doctor Recio, "for I +will give your worship a draught against falls and bruises that will +soon make you as sound and strong as ever; and as for your diet I +promise your worship to behave better, and let you eat plentifully +of whatever you like."</p> + +<p>"You spoke late," said Sancho. "I'd as soon turn Turk as stay any +longer. Those jokes won't pass a second time. By God I'd as soon +remain in this government, or take another, even if it was offered +me between two plates, as fly to heaven without wings. I am of the +breed of the Panzas, and they are every one of them obstinate, and +if they once say 'odds,' odds it must be, no matter if it is evens, in +spite of all the world. Here in this stable I leave the ant's wings +that lifted me up into the air for the swifts and other birds to eat +me, and let's take to level ground and our feet once more; and if +they're not shod in pinked shoes of cordovan, they won't want for +rough sandals of hemp; 'every ewe to her like,' 'and let no one +stretch his leg beyond the length of the sheet;' and now let me +pass, for it's growing late with me."</p> + +<p>To this the majordomo said, "Senor governor, we would let your +worship go with all our hearts, though it sorely grieves us to lose +you, for your wit and Christian conduct naturally make us regret +you; but it is well known that every governor, before he leaves the +place where he has been governing, is bound first of all to render +an account. Let your worship do so for the ten days you have held +the government, and then you may go and the peace of God go with you."</p> + +<p>"No one can demand it of me," said Sancho, "but he whom my lord +the duke shall appoint; I am going to meet him, and to him I will +render an exact one; besides, when I go forth naked as I do, there +is no other proof needed to show that I have governed like an angel."</p> + +<p>"By God the great Sancho is right," said Doctor Recio, "and we +should let him go, for the duke will be beyond measure glad to see +him."</p> + +<p>They all agreed to this, and allowed him to go, first offering to +bear him company and furnish him with all he wanted for his own +comfort or for the journey. Sancho said he did not want anything more +than a little barley for Dapple, and half a cheese and half a loaf +for himself; for the distance being so short there was no occasion for +any better or bulkier provant. They all embraced him, and he with +tears embraced all of them, and left them filled with admiration not +only at his remarks but at his firm and sensible resolution.</p> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p53e"></a><img alt="p53e.jpg (56K)" src="images/p53e.jpg" height="434" width="650"> +</center> + + + + +<br> +<br> + + + +<center> +<table summary="" cellPadding=4 border=3> +<tr><td> + <a href="p32.htm">Previous Part</a> +</td><td> + <a href="5946-h.htm">Main Index</a> +</td><td> + <a href="p34.htm">Next Part</a> + </td></tr> +</table> +</center> +<br><br> + +</body> +</html> + diff --git a/old/orig5946-h/p34.htm b/old/orig5946-h/p34.htm new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6010feb --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5946-h/p34.htm @@ -0,0 +1,1166 @@ +<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> +<html> +<head> +<title>THE HISTORY OF DON QUIXOTE, By Cervantes, Vol. II., Part 34.</title> +<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> + +<style type="text/css"> + <!-- + body {background:#faebd7; margin:10%; text-align:justify} + P { text-indent: 1em; + margin-top: .75em; + margin-bottom: .75em; } + H1,H2,H3,H4,H5,H6 { text-align: center; } + HR { width: 33%; text-align: center; } + blockquote {font-size: 97%; } + .figleft {float: left;} + .figright {float: right;} + .toc { margin-left: 15%; margin-bottom: 0em;} + CENTER { padding: 10px;} + PRE { font-family: Times; font-size: 97%; margin-left: 15%;} + // --> +</style> + + +</head> +<body> + + +<center> +<table summary="" cellPadding=4 border=3> +<tr><td> + <a href="p33.htm">Previous Part</a> +</td><td> + <a href="5946-h.htm">Main Index</a> +</td><td> + <a href="p35.htm">Next Part</a> + </td></tr> +</table> +</center> +<br><br> + + + +<center> +<h1>DON QUIXOTE</h1> +<br> +<h2>by Miguel de Cervantes</h2> +<br> +<h3>Translated by John Ormsby</h3> +</center> + +<br><br> +<center><h3> +Volume II., Part 34 +<br><br> +Chapters 54-57 +</h3></center> + + +<br><br> +<center> +<img alt="bookcover.jpg (230K)" src="images/bookcover.jpg" height="842" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/bookcover.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"> +</a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center> +<img alt="spine.jpg (152K)" src="images/spine.jpg" height="842" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/spine.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"> +</a> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<center> +<h3>Ebook Editor's Note</h3> +</center> +<blockquote><blockquote><blockquote><blockquote> +<p> +The book cover and spine above and the images which follow were not part of the original Ormsby +translation—they are taken from the 1880 edition of J. W. Clark, illustrated by +Gustave Dore. Clark in his edition states that, "The English text of 'Don Quixote' +adopted in this edition is that of Jarvis, with occasional corrections from Motteaux." +See in the introduction below John Ormsby's critique of +both the Jarvis and Motteaux translations. It has been elected in the present Project Gutenberg edition +to attach the famous engravings of Gustave Dore to the Ormsby translation instead +of the Jarvis/Motteaux. The detail of many of the Dore engravings can be fully appreciated only +by utilizing the "Enlarge" button to expand them to their original dimensions. Ormsby +in his Preface has criticized the fanciful nature of Dore's illustrations; others feel +these woodcuts and steel engravings well match Quixote's dreams. + D.W.</p> +</blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<br><br><br><br> +<center> +<img alt="p003.jpg (307K)" src="images/p003.jpg" height="813" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p003.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"> +</a> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<center><h2>CONTENTS</h2></center> + + +<pre> + +<a href="#ch54b">CHAPTER LIV</a> +WHICH DEALS WITH MATTERS RELATING TO THIS HISTORY +AND NO OTHER + +<a href="#ch55b">CHAPTER LV</a> +OF WHAT BEFELL SANCHO ON THE ROAD, AND OTHER THINGS +THAT CANNOT BE SURPASSED + +<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 + +<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 + +</pre> + +<br><br><br><br> + + +<center><h1>DON QUIXOTE</h1></center> +<br><br> +<center><h2>Volume II.</h2></center> +<br> +<br> +<br> + + +<br><br> +<center><h2><a name="ch54b"></a>CHAPTER LIV.</h2></center> +<br> +<center><h3>WHICH DEALS WITH MATTERS RELATING TO THIS HISTORY AND NO OTHER +</h3></center> +<br> +<br> + +<center><a name="p54a"></a><img alt="p54a.jpg (109K)" src="images/p54a.jpg" height="371" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p54a.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<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 bas frenchified thee, and how dost thou dare to return to +Spain, where if they catch thee and recognise thee it will go hard +enough with thee?"</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—very small ones of everything—they took up on +the point of the knife; and then all at the same moment raised their +arms and botas aloft, the mouths placed in their mouths, and all +eyes fixed on heaven just as if they were taking aim at it; and in +this attitude they remained ever so long, wagging their heads from +side to side as if in acknowledgment of the pleasure they were +enjoying while they decanted the bowels of the bottles into their +own stomachs.</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> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p54e"></a><img alt="p54e.jpg (40K)" src="images/p54e.jpg" height="365" width="650"> +</center> +<br><br><br><br> + + + +<br><br> +<center><h2><a name="ch55b"></a>CHAPTER LV.</h2></center> +<br> +<center><h3>OF WHAT BEFELL SANCHO ON THE ROAD, AND OTHER THINGS THAT CANNOT BE SURPASSED +</h3></center> +<br> +<br> + +<center><a name="p55a"></a><img alt="p55a.jpg (126K)" src="images/p55a.jpg" height="373" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p55a.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<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> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p55b"></a><img alt="p55b.jpg (273K)" src="images/p55b.jpg" height="838" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p55b.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<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> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p55e"></a><img alt="p55e.jpg (18K)" src="images/p55e.jpg" height="361" width="303"> +</center> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<br><br> +<center><h2><a name="ch56b"></a>CHAPTER LVI.</h2></center> +<br> +<center><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></center> +<br> +<br> + +<center><a name="p56a"></a><img alt="p56a.jpg (158K)" src="images/p56a.jpg" height="432" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p56a.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<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> + + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p56e"></a><img alt="p56e.jpg (46K)" src="images/p56e.jpg" height="517" width="607"> +</center> +<br><br><br><br> + +<br><br> +<center><h2><a name="ch57b"></a>CHAPTER LVII.</h2></center> +<br> +<center><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></center> +<br> +<br> + +<center><a name="p57a"></a><img alt="p57a.jpg (119K)" src="images/p57a.jpg" height="451" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p57a.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<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> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p57b"></a><img alt="p57b.jpg (370K)" src="images/p57b.jpg" height="840" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p57b.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<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—and that's no small matter—'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> +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> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p57e"></a><img alt="p57e.jpg (71K)" src="images/p57e.jpg" height="745" width="607"> +</center> + + + + +<br> +<br> + + + + +<center> +<table summary="" cellPadding=4 border=3> +<tr><td> + <a href="p33.htm">Previous Part</a> +</td><td> + <a href="5946-h.htm">Main Index</a> +</td><td> + <a href="p35.htm">Next Part</a> + </td></tr> +</table> +</center> +<br><br> + +</body> +</html> + diff --git a/old/orig5946-h/p35.htm b/old/orig5946-h/p35.htm new file mode 100644 index 0000000..32e3b5c --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5946-h/p35.htm @@ -0,0 +1,960 @@ +<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> +<html> +<head> +<title>THE HISTORY OF DON QUIXOTE, By Cervantes, Vol. II., Part 35.</title> +<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> + +<style type="text/css"> + <!-- + body {background:#faebd7; margin:10%; text-align:justify} + P { text-indent: 1em; + margin-top: .75em; + margin-bottom: .75em; } + H1,H2,H3,H4,H5,H6 { text-align: center; } + HR { width: 33%; text-align: center; } + blockquote {font-size: 97%; } + .figleft {float: left;} + .figright {float: right;} + .toc { margin-left: 15%; margin-bottom: 0em;} + CENTER { padding: 10px;} + PRE { font-family: Times; font-size: 97%; margin-left: 15%;} + // --> +</style> + + +</head> +<body> + + +<center> +<table summary="" cellPadding=4 border=3> +<tr><td> + <a href="p34.htm">Previous Part</a> +</td><td> + <a href="5946-h.htm">Main Index</a> +</td><td> + <a href="p36.htm">Next Part</a> + </td></tr> +</table> +</center> +<br><br> + + +<center> +<h1>DON QUIXOTE</h1> +<br> +<h2>by Miguel de Cervantes</h2> +<br> +<h3>Translated by John Ormsby</h3> +</center> + +<br><br> +<center><h3> +Volume II., Part 35 +<br><br> +Chapters 58-59 +</h3></center> + + +<br><br> +<center> +<img alt="bookcover.jpg (230K)" src="images/bookcover.jpg" height="842" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/bookcover.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"> +</a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center> +<img alt="spine.jpg (152K)" src="images/spine.jpg" height="842" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/spine.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"> +</a> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<center> +<h3>Ebook Editor's Note</h3> +</center> +<blockquote><blockquote><blockquote><blockquote> +<p> +The book cover and spine above and the images which follow were not part of the original Ormsby +translation—they are taken from the 1880 edition of J. W. Clark, illustrated by +Gustave Dore. Clark in his edition states that, "The English text of 'Don Quixote' +adopted in this edition is that of Jarvis, with occasional corrections from Motteaux." +See in the introduction below John Ormsby's critique of +both the Jarvis and Motteaux translations. It has been elected in the present Project Gutenberg edition +to attach the famous engravings of Gustave Dore to the Ormsby translation instead +of the Jarvis/Motteaux. The detail of many of the Dore engravings can be fully appreciated only +by utilizing the "Enlarge" button to expand them to their original dimensions. Ormsby +in his Preface has criticized the fanciful nature of Dore's illustrations; others feel +these woodcuts and steel engravings well match Quixote's dreams. + D.W.</p> +</blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<br><br><br><br> +<center> +<img alt="p003.jpg (307K)" src="images/p003.jpg" height="813" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p003.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"> +</a> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<center><h2>CONTENTS</h2></center> + + +<pre> + +<a href="#ch58b">CHAPTER LVIII</a> +WHICH TELLS HOW ADVENTURES CAME CROWDING ON DON +QUIXOTE IN SUCH NUMBERS THAT THEY GAVE ONE ANOTHER +NO BREATHING-TIME + +<a href="#ch59b">CHAPTER LIX</a> +WHEREIN IS RELATED THE STRANGE THING, WHICH MAY BE +REGARDED AS AN ADVENTURE, THAT HAPPENED DON QUIXOTE + +</pre> + +<br><br><br><br> + + +<center><h1>DON QUIXOTE</h1></center> +<br><br> +<center><h2>Volume II.</h2></center> +<br> +<br> +<br> + + +<br><br> +<center><h2><a name="ch58b"></a>CHAPTER LVIII.</h2></center> +<br> +<center><h3>WHICH TELLS HOW ADVENTURES CAME CROWDING ON DON QUIXOTE IN SUCH +NUMBERS THAT THEY GAVE ONE ANOTHER NO BREATHING-TIME +</h3></center> +<br> +<br> + +<center><a name="p58a"></a><img alt="p58a.jpg (105K)" src="images/p58a.jpg" height="436" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p58a.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<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—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> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p58b"></a><img alt="p58b.jpg (452K)" src="images/p58b.jpg" height="853" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p58b.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<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 gave was started, and the nets were +filled with a variety of birds that deceived by the colour fell into +the danger they were flying from. Upwards of thirty persons, all gaily +attired as shepherds and shepherdesses, assembled on the spot, and +were at once informed who Don Quixote and his squire were, whereat +they were not a little delighted, as they knew of him already +through his history. They repaired to the tents, where they found +tables laid out, and choicely, plentifully, and neatly furnished. They +treated Don Quixote as a person of distinction, giving him the place +of honour, and all observed him, and were full of astonishment at +the spectacle. At last the cloth being removed, Don Quixote with great +composure lifted up his voice and said:</p> + +<p>"One of the greatest sins that men are guilty of is—some will say +pride—but I say ingratitude, going by the common saying that hell +is full of ingrates. This sin, so far as it has lain in my power, I +have endeavoured to avoid ever since I have enjoyed the faculty of +reason; and if I am unable to requite good deeds that have been done +me by other deeds, I substitute the desire to do so; and if that be +not enough I make them known publicly; for he who declares and makes +known the good deeds done to him would repay them by others if it were +in his power, and for the most part those who receive are the +inferiors of those who give. Thus, God is superior to all because he +is the supreme giver, and the offerings of man fall short by an +infinite distance of being a full return for the gifts of God; but +gratitude in some degree makes up for this deficiency and shortcoming. +I therefore, grateful for the favour that has been extended to me +here, and unable to make a return in the same measure, restricted as I +am by the narrow limits of my power, offer what I can and what I +have to offer in my own way; and so I declare that for two full days I +will maintain in the middle of this highway leading to Saragossa, that +these ladies disguised as shepherdesses, who are here present, are the +fairest and most courteous maidens in the world, excepting only the +peerless Dulcinea del Toboso, sole mistress of my thoughts, be it said +without offence to those who hear me, ladies and gentlemen."</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> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p58c"></a><img alt="p58c.jpg (399K)" src="images/p58c.jpg" height="826" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p58c.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<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> + + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p58e"></a><img alt="p58e.jpg (68K)" src="images/p58e.jpg" height="407" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p58e.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<br><br> +<center><h2><a name="ch59b"></a>CHAPTER LIX.</h2></center> +<br> +<center><h3>WHEREIN IS RELATED THE STRANGE THING, WHICH MAY BE REGARDED AS AN +ADVENTURE, THAT HAPPENED DON QUIXOTE +</h3></center> +<br> +<br> + +<center><a name="p59a"></a><img alt="p59a.jpg (126K)" src="images/p59a.jpg" height="410" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p59a.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<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> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p59b"></a><img alt="p59b.jpg (370K)" src="images/p59b.jpg" height="828" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p59b.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<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 be started to his feet +and listened with open ears to catch what they said about him, and +heard the Don Jeronimo who had been addressed say in reply, "Why would +you have us read that absurd stuff, Don Juan, when it is impossible +for anyone who has read the First Part of the history of 'Don +Quixote of La Mancha' to take any pleasure in reading this Second +Part?"</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> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p60b"></a><img alt="p60b.jpg (336K)" src="images/p60b.jpg" height="832" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p60b.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<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> + + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p59e"></a><img alt="p59e.jpg (48K)" src="images/p59e.jpg" height="709" width="537"> +</center> + + + + +<br> +<br> + + + +<center> +<table summary="" cellPadding=4 border=3> +<tr><td> + <a href="p34.htm">Previous Part</a> +</td><td> + <a href="5946-h.htm">Main Index</a> +</td><td> + <a href="p36.htm">Next Part</a> + </td></tr> +</table> +</center> +<br><br> + +</body> +</html> + + diff --git a/old/orig5946-h/p36.htm b/old/orig5946-h/p36.htm new file mode 100644 index 0000000..01dc159 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5946-h/p36.htm @@ -0,0 +1,666 @@ +<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> +<html> +<head> +<title>THE HISTORY OF DON QUIXOTE, By Cervantes, Vol. II., Part 36.</title> +<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> + +<style type="text/css"> + <!-- + body {background:#faebd7; margin:10%; text-align:justify} + P { text-indent: 1em; + margin-top: .75em; + margin-bottom: .75em; } + H1,H2,H3,H4,H5,H6 { text-align: center; } + HR { width: 33%; text-align: center; } + blockquote {font-size: 97%; } + .figleft {float: left;} + .figright {float: right;} + .toc { margin-left: 15%; margin-bottom: 0em;} + CENTER { padding: 10px;} + PRE { font-family: Times; font-size: 97%; margin-left: 15%;} + // --> +</style> + + +</head> +<body> + + +<center> +<table summary="" cellPadding=4 border=3> +<tr><td> + <a href="p35.htm">Previous Part</a> +</td><td> + <a href="5946-h.htm">Main Index</a> +</td><td> + <a href="p37.htm">Next Part</a> + </td></tr> +</table> +</center> +<br><br> + + +<center> +<h1>DON QUIXOTE</h1> +<br> +<h2>by Miguel de Cervantes</h2> +<br> +<h3>Translated by John Ormsby</h3> +</center> + +<br><br> +<center><h3> +Volume II., Part 36 +<br><br> +Chapter 60 +</h3></center> + + +<br><br> +<center> +<img alt="bookcover.jpg (230K)" src="images/bookcover.jpg" height="842" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/bookcover.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"> +</a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center> +<img alt="spine.jpg (152K)" src="images/spine.jpg" height="842" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/spine.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"> +</a> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<center> +<h3>Ebook Editor's Note</h3> +</center> +<blockquote><blockquote><blockquote><blockquote> +<p> +The book cover and spine above and the images which follow were not part of the original Ormsby +translation—they are taken from the 1880 edition of J. W. Clark, illustrated by +Gustave Dore. Clark in his edition states that, "The English text of 'Don Quixote' +adopted in this edition is that of Jarvis, with occasional corrections from Motteaux." +See in the introduction below John Ormsby's critique of +both the Jarvis and Motteaux translations. It has been elected in the present Project Gutenberg edition +to attach the famous engravings of Gustave Dore to the Ormsby translation instead +of the Jarvis/Motteaux. The detail of many of the Dore engravings can be fully appreciated only +by utilizing the "Enlarge" button to expand them to their original dimensions. Ormsby +in his Preface has criticized the fanciful nature of Dore's illustrations; others feel +these woodcuts and steel engravings well match Quixote's dreams. + D.W.</p> +</blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<br><br><br><br> +<center> +<img alt="p003.jpg (307K)" src="images/p003.jpg" height="813" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p003.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"> +</a> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<center><h2>CONTENTS</h2></center> + +<pre> + +<a href="#ch60b">CHAPTER LX</a> +OF WHAT HAPPENED DON QUIXOTE ON HIS WAY TO BARCELONA + +</pre> + +<br><br><br><br> + + +<center><h1>DON QUIXOTE</h1></center> +<br><br> +<center><h2>Volume II.</h2></center> +<br> +<br> +<br> + + +<br><br> +<center><h2><a name="ch60b"></a>CHAPTER LX.</h2></center> +<br> +<center><h3>OF WHAT HAPPENED DON QUIXOTE ON HIS WAY TO BARCELONA +</h3></center> +<br> +<br> + +<center><a name="p60a"></a><img alt="p60a.jpg (129K)" src="images/p60a.jpg" height="414" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p60a.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<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—</p> + +<pre> +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> + + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p60c"></a><img alt="p60c.jpg (250K)" src="images/p60c.jpg" height="822" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p60c.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<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> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p60d"></a><img alt="p60d.jpg (439K)" src="images/p60d.jpg" height="821" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p60d.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<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> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p60e"></a><img alt="p60e.jpg (420K)" src="images/p60e.jpg" height="848" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p60e.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<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> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p60f"></a><img alt="p60f.jpg (426K)" src="images/p60f.jpg" height="834" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p60f.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<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> + + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p60g"></a><img alt="p60g.jpg (42K)" src="images/p60g.jpg" height="412" width="650"> +</center> + + + + + +<br> +<br> + + +<center> +<table summary="" cellPadding=4 border=3> +<tr><td> + <a href="p35.htm">Previous Part</a> +</td><td> + <a href="5946-h.htm">Main Index</a> +</td><td> + <a href="p37.htm">Next Part</a> + </td></tr> +</table> +</center> +<br><br> + +</body> +</html> + diff --git a/old/orig5946-h/p37.htm b/old/orig5946-h/p37.htm new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3e9ca56 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5946-h/p37.htm @@ -0,0 +1,278 @@ +<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> +<html> +<head> +<title>THE HISTORY OF DON QUIXOTE, By Cervantes, Vol. II., Part 37.</title> +<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> + +<style type="text/css"> + <!-- + body {background:#faebd7; margin:10%; text-align:justify} + P { text-indent: 1em; + margin-top: .75em; + margin-bottom: .75em; } + H1,H2,H3,H4,H5,H6 { text-align: center; } + HR { width: 33%; text-align: center; } + blockquote {font-size: 97%; } + .figleft {float: left;} + .figright {float: right;} + .toc { margin-left: 15%; margin-bottom: 0em;} + CENTER { padding: 10px;} + PRE { font-family: Times; font-size: 97%; margin-left: 15%;} + // --> +</style> + + +</head> +<body> + + +<center> +<table summary="" cellPadding=4 border=3> +<tr><td> + <a href="p36.htm">Previous Part</a> +</td><td> + <a href="5946-h.htm">Main Index</a> +</td><td> + <a href="p38.htm">Next Part</a> + </td></tr> +</table> +</center> +<br><br> + + +<center> +<h1>DON QUIXOTE</h1> +<br> +<h2>by Miguel de Cervantes</h2> +<br> +<h3>Translated by John Ormsby</h3> +</center> + +<br><br> +<center><h3> +Volume II., Part 37 +<br><br> +Chapter 61 +</h3></center> + + +<br><br> +<center> +<img alt="bookcover.jpg (230K)" src="images/bookcover.jpg" height="842" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/bookcover.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"> +</a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center> +<img alt="spine.jpg (152K)" src="images/spine.jpg" height="842" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/spine.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"> +</a> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<center> +<h3>Ebook Editor's Note</h3> +</center> +<blockquote><blockquote><blockquote><blockquote> +<p> +The book cover and spine above and the images which follow were not part of the original Ormsby +translation—they are taken from the 1880 edition of J. W. Clark, illustrated by +Gustave Dore. Clark in his edition states that, "The English text of 'Don Quixote' +adopted in this edition is that of Jarvis, with occasional corrections from Motteaux." +See in the introduction below John Ormsby's critique of +both the Jarvis and Motteaux translations. It has been elected in the present Project Gutenberg edition +to attach the famous engravings of Gustave Dore to the Ormsby translation instead +of the Jarvis/Motteaux. The detail of many of the Dore engravings can be fully appreciated only +by utilizing the "Enlarge" button to expand them to their original dimensions. Ormsby +in his Preface has criticized the fanciful nature of Dore's illustrations; others feel +these woodcuts and steel engravings well match Quixote's dreams. + D.W.</p> +</blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<br><br><br><br> +<center> +<img alt="p003.jpg (307K)" src="images/p003.jpg" height="813" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p003.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"> +</a> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<center><h2>CONTENTS</h2></center> + + +<pre> + +<a href="#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 + +</pre> + +<br><br><br><br> + + +<center><h1>DON QUIXOTE</h1></center> +<br><br> +<center><h2>Volume II.</h2></center> +<br> +<br> +<br> + +<br><br> +<center><h2><a name="ch61b"></a>CHAPTER LXI.</h2></center> +<br> +<center><h3>OF WHAT HAPPENED DON QUIXOTE ON ENTERING BARCELONA, TOGETHER WITH +OTHER MATTERS THAT PARTAKE OF THE TRUE RATHER THAN OF THE INGENIOUS +</h3></center> +<br> +<br> + +<center><a name="p61a"></a><img alt="p61a.jpg (143K)" src="images/p61a.jpg" height="435" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p61a.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<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> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p61b"></a><img alt="p61b.jpg (271K)" src="images/p61b.jpg" height="824" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p61b.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<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—though at times darkened by the smoke of the guns—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> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p61c"></a><img alt="p61c.jpg (448K)" src="images/p61c.jpg" height="834" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p61c.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<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> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p61e"></a><img alt="p61e.jpg (32K)" src="images/p61e.jpg" height="475" width="565"> +</center> + + + + +<br> +<br> + + +<center> +<table summary="" cellPadding=4 border=3> +<tr><td> + <a href="p36.htm">Previous Part</a> +</td><td> + <a href="5946-h.htm">Main Index</a> +</td><td> + <a href="p38.htm">Next Part</a> + </td></tr> +</table> +</center> +<br><br> + +</body> +</html> + diff --git a/old/orig5946-h/p38.htm b/old/orig5946-h/p38.htm new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5aa7f52 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5946-h/p38.htm @@ -0,0 +1,651 @@ +<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> +<html> +<head> +<title>THE HISTORY OF DON QUIXOTE, By Cervantes, Vol. II., Part 38.</title> +<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> + +<style type="text/css"> + <!-- + body {background:#faebd7; margin:10%; text-align:justify} + P { text-indent: 1em; + margin-top: .75em; + margin-bottom: .75em; } + H1,H2,H3,H4,H5,H6 { text-align: center; } + HR { width: 33%; text-align: center; } + blockquote {font-size: 97%; } + .figleft {float: left;} + .figright {float: right;} + .toc { margin-left: 15%; margin-bottom: 0em;} + CENTER { padding: 10px;} + PRE { font-family: Times; font-size: 97%; margin-left: 15%;} + // --> +</style> + + +</head> +<body> + + +<center> +<table summary="" cellPadding=4 border=3> +<tr><td> + <a href="p37.htm">Previous Part</a> +</td><td> + <a href="5946-h.htm">Main Index</a> +</td><td> + <a href="p39.htm">Next Part</a> + </td></tr> +</table> +</center> +<br><br> + + +<center> +<h1>DON QUIXOTE</h1> +<br> +<h2>by Miguel de Cervantes</h2> +<br> +<h3>Translated by John Ormsby</h3> +</center> + +<br><br> +<center><h3> +Volume II., Part 38 +<br><br> +Chapter 62 +</h3></center> + + +<br><br> +<center> +<img alt="bookcover.jpg (230K)" src="images/bookcover.jpg" height="842" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/bookcover.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"> +</a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center> +<img alt="spine.jpg (152K)" src="images/spine.jpg" height="842" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/spine.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"> +</a> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<center> +<h3>Ebook Editor's Note</h3> +</center> +<blockquote><blockquote><blockquote><blockquote> +<p> +The book cover and spine above and the images which follow were not part of the original Ormsby +translation—they are taken from the 1880 edition of J. W. Clark, illustrated by +Gustave Dore. Clark in his edition states that, "The English text of 'Don Quixote' +adopted in this edition is that of Jarvis, with occasional corrections from Motteaux." +See in the introduction below John Ormsby's critique of +both the Jarvis and Motteaux translations. It has been elected in the present Project Gutenberg edition +to attach the famous engravings of Gustave Dore to the Ormsby translation instead +of the Jarvis/Motteaux. The detail of many of the Dore engravings can be fully appreciated only +by utilizing the "Enlarge" button to expand them to their original dimensions. Ormsby +in his Preface has criticized the fanciful nature of Dore's illustrations; others feel +these woodcuts and steel engravings well match Quixote's dreams. + D.W.</p> +</blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<br><br><br><br> +<center> +<img alt="p003.jpg (307K)" src="images/p003.jpg" height="813" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p003.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"> +</a> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<center><h2>CONTENTS</h2></center> + +<pre> + +<a href="#ch62b">CHAPTER LII</a> +WHEREIN IS RELATED THE ADVENTURE OF THE SECOND +DISTRESSED OR AFFLICTED DUENNA, OTHERWISE CALLED +DONA RODRIGUEZ + +</pre> + +<br><br><br><br> + + +<center><h1>DON QUIXOTE</h1></center> +<br><br> +<center><h2>Volume II.</h2></center> +<br> +<br> +<br> + + +<br><br> +<center><h2><a name="ch62b"></a>CHAPTER LXII.</h2></center> +<br> +<center><h3>WHICH DEALS WITH THE ADVENTURE OF THE ENCHANTED HEAD, TOGETHER +WITH OTHER TRIVIAL MATTERS WHICH CANNOT BE LEFT UNTOLD +</h3></center> +<br> +<br> + +<center><a name="p62a"></a><img alt="p62a.jpg (156K)" src="images/p62a.jpg" height="432" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p62a.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<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> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p62b"></a><img alt="p62b.jpg (373K)" src="images/p62b.jpg" height="816" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p62b.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<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 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> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p62c"></a><img alt="p62c.jpg (342K)" src="images/p62c.jpg" height="830" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p62c.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<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> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p62d"></a><img alt="p62d.jpg (391K)" src="images/p62d.jpg" height="831" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p62d.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<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—I do not say this to test your ability, but merely out of +curiosity—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> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p62e"></a><img alt="p62e.jpg (18K)" src="images/p62e.jpg" height="291" width="423"> +</center> + + + + +<br> +<br> + + +<center> +<table summary="" cellPadding=4 border=3> +<tr><td> + <a href="p37.htm">Previous Part</a> +</td><td> + <a href="5946-h.htm">Main Index</a> +</td><td> + <a href="p39.htm">Next Part</a> + </td></tr> +</table> +</center> +<br><br> + +</body> +</html> + diff --git a/old/orig5946-h/p39.htm b/old/orig5946-h/p39.htm new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9600603 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5946-h/p39.htm @@ -0,0 +1,1158 @@ +<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> +<html> +<head> +<title>THE HISTORY OF DON QUIXOTE, By Cervantes, Vol. II., Part 39.</title> +<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> + +<style type="text/css"> + <!-- + body {background:#faebd7; margin:10%; text-align:justify} + P { text-indent: 1em; + margin-top: .75em; + margin-bottom: .75em; } + H1,H2,H3,H4,H5,H6 { text-align: center; } + HR { width: 33%; text-align: center; } + blockquote {font-size: 97%; } + .figleft {float: left;} + .figright {float: right;} + .toc { margin-left: 15%; margin-bottom: 0em;} + CENTER { padding: 10px;} + PRE { font-family: Times; font-size: 97%; margin-left: 15%;} + // --> +</style> + + +</head> +<body> + + +<center> +<table summary="" cellPadding=4 border=3> +<tr><td> + <a href="p38.htm">Previous Part</a> +</td><td> + <a href="5946-h.htm">Main Index</a> +</td><td> + <a href="p40.htm">Next Part</a> + </td></tr> +</table> +</center> +<br><br> + + + +<center> +<h1>DON QUIXOTE</h1> +<br> +<h2>by Miguel de Cervantes</h2> +<br> +<h3>Translated by John Ormsby</h3> +</center> + +<br><br> +<center><h3> +Volume II., Part 39 +<br><br> +Chapters 63-66 +</h3></center> + + +<br><br> +<center> +<img alt="bookcover.jpg (230K)" src="images/bookcover.jpg" height="842" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/bookcover.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"> +</a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center> +<img alt="spine.jpg (152K)" src="images/spine.jpg" height="842" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/spine.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"> +</a> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<center> +<h3>Ebook Editor's Note</h3> +</center> +<blockquote><blockquote><blockquote><blockquote> +<p> +The book cover and spine above and the images which follow were not part of the original Ormsby +translation—they are taken from the 1880 edition of J. W. Clark, illustrated by +Gustave Dore. Clark in his edition states that, "The English text of 'Don Quixote' +adopted in this edition is that of Jarvis, with occasional corrections from Motteaux." +See in the introduction below John Ormsby's critique of +both the Jarvis and Motteaux translations. It has been elected in the present Project Gutenberg edition +to attach the famous engravings of Gustave Dore to the Ormsby translation instead +of the Jarvis/Motteaux. The detail of many of the Dore engravings can be fully appreciated only +by utilizing the "Enlarge" button to expand them to their original dimensions. Ormsby +in his Preface has criticized the fanciful nature of Dore's illustrations; others feel +these woodcuts and steel engravings well match Quixote's dreams. + D.W.</p> +</blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<br><br><br><br> +<center> +<img alt="p003.jpg (307K)" src="images/p003.jpg" height="813" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p003.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"> +</a> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<center><h2>CONTENTS</h2></center> + +<pre> + +<a href="#ch63b">CHAPTER LIII</a> +OF THE TROUBLOUS END AND TERMINATION SANCHO PANZA'S +GOVERNMENT CAME TO + +<a href="#ch64b">CHAPTER LIV</a> +WHICH DEALS WITH MATTERS RELATING TO THIS HISTORY +AND NO OTHER + +<a href="#ch65b">CHAPTER LV</a> +OF WHAT BEFELL SANCHO ON THE ROAD, AND OTHER THINGS +THAT CANNOT BE SURPASSED + +<a href="#ch66b">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 + +</pre> + +<br><br><br><br> + + +<center><h1>DON QUIXOTE</h1></center> +<br><br> +<center><h2>Volume II.</h2></center> +<br> +<br> +<br> + + +<br><br> +<center><h2><a name="ch63b"></a>CHAPTER LXIII.</h2></center> +<br> +<center><h3>OF THE MISHAP THAT BEFELL SANCHO PANZA THROUGH THE VISIT TO THE +GALLEYS, AND THE STRANGE ADVENTURE OF THE FAIR MORISCO +</h3></center> +<br> +<br> + +<center><a name="p63a"></a><img alt="p63a.jpg (151K)" src="images/p63a.jpg" height="440" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p63a.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<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"—and here she pointed to him who had first spoken—"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> + + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p63e"></a><img alt="p63e.jpg (23K)" src="images/p63e.jpg" height="437" width="425"> +</center> +<br><br><br><br> + +<br><br> +<center><h2><a name="ch64b"></a>CHAPTER LXIV.</h2></center> +<br> +<center><h3>TREATING OF THE ADVENTURE WHICH GAVE DON QUIXOTE MORE UNHAPPINESS +THAN ALL THAT HAD HITHERTO BEFALLEN HIM +</h3></center> +<br> +<br> + +<center><a name="p64a"></a><img alt="p64a.jpg (80K)" src="images/p64a.jpg" height="221" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p64a.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<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> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p64b"></a><img alt="p64b.jpg (344K)" src="images/p64b.jpg" height="822" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p64b.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<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, cager to ascertain +who this Knight of the White Moon was who had left Don Quixote in such +a sad plight.</p> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p64e"></a><img alt="p64e.jpg (44K)" src="images/p64e.jpg" height="280" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p64e.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<br><br> +<center><h2><a name="ch65b"></a>CHAPTER LXV.</h2></center> +<br> +<center><h3>WHEREIN IS MADE KNOWN WHO THE KNIGHT OF THE WHITE MOON WAS; LIKEWISE +DON GREGORIO'S RELEASE, AND OTHER EVENTS +</h3></center> +<br> +<br> + +<center><a name="p65a"></a><img alt="p65a.jpg (149K)" src="images/p65a.jpg" height="416" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p65a.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<p> +Don Antonia 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—were +he only rid of the fooleries of chivalry—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—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> + + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p65e"></a><img alt="p65e.jpg (43K)" src="images/p65e.jpg" height="433" width="635"> +</center> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<br><br> +<center><h2><a name="ch66b"></a>CHAPTER LXVI.</h2></center> +<br> +<center><h3>WHICH TREATS OF WHAT HE WHO READS WILL SEE, OR WHAT HE WHO HAS IT +READ TO HIM WILL HEAR +</h3></center> +<br> +<br> + +<center><a name="p66a"></a><img alt="p66a.jpg (125K)" src="images/p66a.jpg" height="396" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p66a.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<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> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p66b"></a><img alt="p66b.jpg (251K)" src="images/p66b.jpg" height="524" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p66b.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<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> + +<center> +<p> These let none move +<br> Who dareth not his might with Roland prove."</p> +</center> + +<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> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p66c"></a><img alt="p66c.jpg (389K)" src="images/p66c.jpg" height="816" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p66c.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<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—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> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p66e"></a><img alt="p66e.jpg (29K)" src="images/p66e.jpg" height="431" width="421"> +</center> + + + + +<br> +<br> + + +<center> +<table summary="" cellPadding=4 border=3> +<tr><td> + <a href="p38.htm">Previous Part</a> +</td><td> + <a href="5946-h.htm">Main Index</a> +</td><td> + <a href="p40.htm">Next Part</a> + </td></tr> +</table> +</center> +<br><br> + +</body> +</html> + diff --git a/old/orig5946-h/p40.htm b/old/orig5946-h/p40.htm new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f6a5ab3 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5946-h/p40.htm @@ -0,0 +1,1088 @@ +<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> +<html> +<head> +<title>THE HISTORY OF DON QUIXOTE, By Cervantes, Vol. II., Part 40.</title> +<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> + +<style type="text/css"> + <!-- + body {background:#faebd7; margin:10%; text-align:justify} + P { text-indent: 1em; + margin-top: .75em; + margin-bottom: .75em; } + H1,H2,H3,H4,H5,H6 { text-align: center; } + HR { width: 33%; text-align: center; } + blockquote {font-size: 97%; } + .figleft {float: left;} + .figright {float: right;} + .toc { margin-left: 15%; margin-bottom: 0em;} + CENTER { padding: 10px;} + PRE { font-family: Times; font-size: 97%; margin-left: 15%;} + // --> +</style> + + +</head> +<body> + + +<center> +<table summary="" cellPadding=4 border=3> +<tr><td> + <a href="p39.htm">Previous Part</a> +</td><td> + <a href="5946-h.htm">Main Index</a> +</td><td> + <a href="p41.htm">Next Part</a> + </td></tr> +</table> +</center> +<br><br> + + +<center> +<h1>DON QUIXOTE</h1> +<br> +<h2>by Miguel de Cervantes</h2> +<br> +<h3>Translated by John Ormsby</h3> +</center> + +<br><br> +<center><h3> +Volume II., Part 40 +<br><br> +Chapters 67-70 +</h3></center> + + +<br><br> +<center> +<img alt="bookcover.jpg (230K)" src="images/bookcover.jpg" height="842" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/bookcover.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"> +</a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center> +<img alt="spine.jpg (152K)" src="images/spine.jpg" height="842" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/spine.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"> +</a> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<center> +<h3>Ebook Editor's Note</h3> +</center> +<blockquote><blockquote><blockquote><blockquote> +<p> +The book cover and spine above and the images which follow were not part of the original Ormsby +translation—they are taken from the 1880 edition of J. W. Clark, illustrated by +Gustave Dore. Clark in his edition states that, "The English text of 'Don Quixote' +adopted in this edition is that of Jarvis, with occasional corrections from Motteaux." +See in the introduction below John Ormsby's critique of +both the Jarvis and Motteaux translations. It has been elected in the present Project Gutenberg edition +to attach the famous engravings of Gustave Dore to the Ormsby translation instead +of the Jarvis/Motteaux. The detail of many of the Dore engravings can be fully appreciated only +by utilizing the "Enlarge" button to expand them to their original dimensions. Ormsby +in his Preface has criticized the fanciful nature of Dore's illustrations; others feel +these woodcuts and steel engravings well match Quixote's dreams. + D.W.</p> +</blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<br><br><br><br> +<center> +<img alt="p003.jpg (307K)" src="images/p003.jpg" height="813" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p003.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"> +</a> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<center><h2>CONTENTS</h2></center> + +<pre> + +<a href="#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 + +<a href="#ch68b">CHAPTER LXVIII</a> +OF THE BRISTLY ADVENTURE THAT BEFELL DON QUIXOTE + +<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 + +<a href="#ch70b">CHAPTER LXX</a> +WHICH FOLLOWS SIXTY-NINE AND DEALS WITH MATTERS +INDISPENSABLE FOR THE CLEAR COMPREHENSION OF THIS HISTORY + +</pre> + +<br><br><br><br> + + +<center><h1>DON QUIXOTE</h1></center> +<br><br> +<center><h2>Volume II.</h2></center> +<br> +<br> +<br> + + + +<br><br> +<center><h2><a name="ch67b"></a>CHAPTER LXVII.</h2></center> +<br> +<center><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></center> +<br> +<br> + +<center><a name="p67a"></a><img alt="p67a.jpg (145K)" src="images/p67a.jpg" height="437" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p67a.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<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—would that I saw it eaten by wolves—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 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—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> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p67e"></a><img alt="p67e.jpg (55K)" src="images/p67e.jpg" height="631" width="563"> +</center> +<br><br><br><br> + + + +<br><br> +<center><h2><a name="ch68b"></a>CHAPTER LXVIII.</h2></center> +<br> +<center><h3>OF THE BRISTLY ADVENTURE THAT BEFELL DON QUIXOTE +</h3></center> +<br> +<br> + +<center><a name="p68a"></a><img alt="p68a.jpg (119K)" src="images/p68a.jpg" height="435" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p68a.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<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—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> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p68b"></a><img alt="p68b.jpg (345K)" src="images/p68b.jpg" height="813" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p68b.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<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—for Cide Hamete does not specify what kind of +tree it was—sang in this strain to the accompaniment of his own +sighs:</p> + + +<pre> + 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—"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> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p68e"></a><img alt="p68e.jpg (49K)" src="images/p68e.jpg" height="583" width="487"> +</center> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<br><br> +<center><h2><a name="ch69b"></a>CHAPTER LXIX.</h2></center> +<br> +<center><h3>OF THE STRANGEST AND MOST EXTRAORDINARY ADVENTURE THAT BEFELL DON +QUIXOTE IN THE WHOLE COURSE OF THIS GREAT HISTORY +</h3></center> +<br> +<br> + +<center><a name="p69a"></a><img alt="p69a.jpg (141K)" src="images/p69a.jpg" height="419" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p69a.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<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 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> +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—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 fine, 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> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p69e"></a><img alt="p69e.jpg (60K)" src="images/p69e.jpg" height="789" width="491"> +</center> +<br><br><br><br> + +<br><br> +<center><h2><a name="ch70b"></a>CHAPTER LXX.</h2></center> +<br> +<center><h3>WHICH FOLLOWS SIXTY-NINE AND DEALS WITH MATTERS INDISPENSABLE FOR +THE CLEAR COMPREHENSION OF THIS HISTORY +</h3></center> +<br> +<br> + +<center><a name="p70a"></a><img alt="p70a.jpg (131K)" src="images/p70a.jpg" height="391" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p70a.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<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—and may heaven send you a tenderer lover than my +master—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—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> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p70e"></a><img alt="p70e.jpg (73K)" src="images/p70e.jpg" height="479" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p70e.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> + + + + +<br> +<br> + + +<center> +<table summary="" cellPadding=4 border=3> +<tr><td> + <a href="p39.htm">Previous Part</a> +</td><td> + <a href="5946-h.htm">Main Index</a> +</td><td> + <a href="p41.htm">Next Part</a> + </td></tr> +</table> +</center> +<br><br> + +</body> +</html> + diff --git a/old/orig5946-h/p41.htm b/old/orig5946-h/p41.htm new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6fc8d4b --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5946-h/p41.htm @@ -0,0 +1,609 @@ +<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> +<html> +<head> +<title>THE HISTORY OF DON QUIXOTE, By Cervantes, Vol. II., Part 41.</title> +<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> + +<style type="text/css"> + <!-- + body {background:#faebd7; margin:10%; text-align:justify} + P { text-indent: 1em; + margin-top: .75em; + margin-bottom: .75em; } + H1,H2,H3,H4,H5,H6 { text-align: center; } + HR { width: 33%; text-align: center; } + blockquote {font-size: 97%; } + .figleft {float: left;} + .figright {float: right;} + .toc { margin-left: 15%; margin-bottom: 0em;} + CENTER { padding: 10px;} + PRE { font-family: Times; font-size: 97%; margin-left: 15%;} + // --> +</style> + + +</head> +<body> + + +<center> +<table summary="" cellPadding=4 border=3> +<tr><td> + <a href="p40.htm">Previous Part</a> +</td><td> + <a href="5946-h.htm">Main Index</a> +</td><td> + <a href="p42.htm">Next Part</a> + </td></tr> +</table> +</center> +<br><br> + + +<center> +<h1>DON QUIXOTE</h1> +<br> +<h2>by Miguel de Cervantes</h2> +<br> +<h3>Translated by John Ormsby</h3> +</center> + +<br><br> +<center><h3> +Volume II., Part 41 +<br><br> +Chapters 71-72 +</h3></center> + + +<br><br> +<center> +<img alt="bookcover.jpg (230K)" src="images/bookcover.jpg" height="842" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/bookcover.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"> +</a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center> +<img alt="spine.jpg (152K)" src="images/spine.jpg" height="842" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/spine.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"> +</a> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<center> +<h3>Ebook Editor's Note</h3> +</center> +<blockquote><blockquote><blockquote><blockquote> +<p> +The book cover and spine above and the images which follow were not part of the original Ormsby +translation—they are taken from the 1880 edition of J. W. Clark, illustrated by +Gustave Dore. Clark in his edition states that, "The English text of 'Don Quixote' +adopted in this edition is that of Jarvis, with occasional corrections from Motteaux." +See in the introduction below John Ormsby's critique of +both the Jarvis and Motteaux translations. It has been elected in the present Project Gutenberg edition +to attach the famous engravings of Gustave Dore to the Ormsby translation instead +of the Jarvis/Motteaux. The detail of many of the Dore engravings can be fully appreciated only +by utilizing the "Enlarge" button to expand them to their original dimensions. Ormsby +in his Preface has criticized the fanciful nature of Dore's illustrations; others feel +these woodcuts and steel engravings well match Quixote's dreams. + D.W.</p> +</blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<br><br><br><br> +<center> +<img alt="p003.jpg (307K)" src="images/p003.jpg" height="813" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p003.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"> +</a> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<center><h2>CONTENTS</h2></center> + +<pre> + +<a href="#ch71b">CHAPTER LXXI</a> +OF WHAT PASSED BETWEEN DON QUIXOTE AND HIS SQUIRE SANCHO +ON THE WAY TO THEIR VILLAGE + +<a href="#ch72b">CHAPTER LXXII</a> +OF HOW DON QUIXOTE AND SANCHO REACHED THEIR VILLAGE + +</pre> + +<br><br><br><br> + + +<center><h1>DON QUIXOTE</h1></center> +<br><br> +<center><h2>Volume II.</h2></center> +<br> +<br> +<br> + +<br><br> +<center><h2><a name="ch71b"></a>CHAPTER LXXI.</h2></center> +<br> +<center><h3>OF WHAT PASSED BETWEEN DON QUIXOTE AND HIS SQUIRE SANCHO ON THE +WAY TO THEIR VILLAGE +</h3></center> +<br> +<br> + +<center><a name="p71a"></a><img alt="p71a.jpg (82K)" src="images/p71a.jpg" height="341" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p71a.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<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—as it +has cost thee no study whatever, any more than such study as thy +personal sufferings may be—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'—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> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p71b"></a><img alt="p71b.jpg (349K)" src="images/p71b.jpg" height="828" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p71b.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<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," argument to my mind; +however, I mean to mend 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> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p71e"></a><img alt="p71e.jpg (42K)" src="images/p71e.jpg" height="505" width="493"> +</center> +<br><br><br><br> + +<br><br> +<center><h2><a name="ch72b"></a>CHAPTER LXXII.</h2></center> +<br> +<center><h3>OF HOW DON QUIXOTE AND SANCHO REACHED THEIR VILLAGE +</h3></center> +<br> +<br> + +<center><a name="p72a"></a><img alt="p72a.jpg (155K)" src="images/p72a.jpg" height="388" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p72a.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<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 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 +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> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p72b"></a><img alt="p72b.jpg (375K)" src="images/p72b.jpg" height="815" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p72b.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<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> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p72e"></a><img alt="p72e.jpg (35K)" src="images/p72e.jpg" height="651" width="425"> +</center> + + + + +<br> +<br> + + + +<center> +<table summary="" cellPadding=4 border=3> +<tr><td> + <a href="p40.htm">Previous Part</a> +</td><td> + <a href="5946-h.htm">Main Index</a> +</td><td> + <a href="p42.htm">Next Part</a> + </td></tr> +</table> +</center> +<br><br> + +</body> +</html> + + diff --git a/old/orig5946-h/p42.htm b/old/orig5946-h/p42.htm new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d30e558 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/orig5946-h/p42.htm @@ -0,0 +1,635 @@ +<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> +<html> +<head> +<title>THE HISTORY OF DON QUIXOTE, By Cervantes, Vol. II., Part 42.</title> +<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> + +<style type="text/css"> + <!-- + body {background:#faebd7; margin:10%; text-align:justify} + P { text-indent: 1em; + margin-top: .75em; + margin-bottom: .75em; } + H1,H2,H3,H4,H5,H6 { text-align: center; } + HR { width: 33%; text-align: center; } + blockquote {font-size: 97%; } + .figleft {float: left;} + .figright {float: right;} + .toc { margin-left: 15%; margin-bottom: 0em;} + CENTER { padding: 10px;} + PRE { font-family: Times; font-size: 97%; margin-left: 15%;} + // --> +</style> + + +</head> +<body> + + +<center> +<table summary="" cellPadding=4 border=3> +<tr><td> + <a href="p41.htm">Previous Part</a> +</td><td> + <a href="5946-h.htm">Main Index</a> + </td></tr> +</table> +</center> +<br><br> + + +<center> +<h1>DON QUIXOTE</h1> +<br> +<h2>by Miguel de Cervantes</h2> +<br> +<h3>Translated by John Ormsby</h3> +</center> + +<br><br> +<center> +<h3> +Volume II., Part 42 +<br><br> +Chapters 73-74 +</h3></center> + + + + + +<br><br> +<center> +<img alt="bookcover.jpg (230K)" src="images/bookcover.jpg" height="842" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/bookcover.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"> +</a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center> +<img alt="spine.jpg (152K)" src="images/spine.jpg" height="842" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/spine.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"> +</a> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<center> +<h3>Ebook Editor's Note</h3> +</center> +<blockquote><blockquote><blockquote><blockquote> +<p> +The book cover and spine above and the images which follow were not part of the original Ormsby +translation--they are taken from the 1880 edition of J. W. Clark, illustrated by +Gustave Dore. Clark in his edition states that, "The English text of 'Don Quixote' +adopted in this edition is that of Jarvis, with occasional corrections from Motteaux." +See in the introduction below John Ormsby's critique of +both the Jarvis and Motteaux translations. It has been elected in the present Project Gutenberg edition +to attach the famous engravings of Gustave Dore to the Ormsby translation instead +of the Jarvis/Motteaux. The detail of many of the Dore engravings can be fully appreciated only +by utilizing the "Enlarge" button to expand them to their original dimensions. Ormsby +in his Preface has criticized the fanciful nature of Dore's illustrations; others feel +these woodcuts and steel engravings well match Quixote's dreams. + D.W.</p> +</blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<br><br><br><br> +<center> +<img alt="p003.jpg (307K)" src="images/p003.jpg" height="813" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p003.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"> +</a> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<center><h2>CONTENTS</h2></center> + +<pre> + +<a href="#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 + +<a href="#ch74b">CHAPTER LXXIV</a> +OF HOW DON QUIXOTE FELL SICK, AND OF THE WILL HE MADE, +AND HOW HE DIED + +</pre> + +<br><br><br><br> + + +<center><h1>DON QUIXOTE</h1></center> +<br><br> +<center><h2>Volume II.</h2></center> +<br> +<br> +<br> + + +<br><br> +<center><h2><a name="ch73b"></a>CHAPTER LXXIII.</h2></center> +<br> +<center><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></center> +<br> +<br> + +<center><a name="p73a"></a><img alt="p73a.jpg (141K)" src="images/p73a.jpg" height="443" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p73a.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<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> + + +<br><br> +<center><h2><a name="ch74b"></a>CHAPTER LXXIV.</h2></center> +<br> +<center><h3>OF HOW DON QUIXOTE FELL SICK, AND OF THE WILL HE MADE, AND HOW HE DIED +</h3></center> +<br> +<br> + +<center><a name="p74a"></a><img alt="p74a.jpg (96K)" src="images/p74a.jpg" height="349" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p74a.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<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 +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> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p74b"></a><img alt="p74b.jpg (391K)" src="images/p74b.jpg" height="828" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p74b.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<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> +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> +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> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p74e"></a><img alt="p74e.jpg (49K)" src="images/p74e.jpg" height="285" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p74e.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> + + + + +<br> +<br> + + +<center> +<table summary="" cellPadding=4 border=3> +<tr><td> + <a href="p41.htm">Previous Part</a> +</td><td> + <a href="5946-h.htm">Main Index</a> + </td></tr> +</table> +</center> +<br><br> + +</body> +</html> + + |
