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+<div style='text-align:center; font-size:1.2em; font-weight:bold'>The Project Gutenberg eBook of The History of Don Quixote, Volume II., Complete, by Miguel de Cervantes</div>
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+<div style='display:block; margin-top:1em; margin-bottom:1em; margin-left:2em; text-indent:-2em'>Title: The History of Don Quixote, Volume II., Complete</div>
+<div style='display:block; margin-top:1em; margin-bottom:1em; margin-left:2em; text-indent:-2em'>Author: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra</div>
+<div style='display:block; margin-top:1em; margin-bottom:1em; margin-left:2em; text-indent:-2em'>Translator: John Ormsby</div>
+<div style='display:block; margin:1em 0'>Release Date: October 13, 2002 [eBook #5946]<br />
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+<div style='margin-top:2em; margin-bottom:4em'>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DON QUIXOTE, VOL. II. ***</div>
+
+<h1>DON QUIXOTE</h1>
+
+<h2>by Miguel de Cervantes</h2>
+
+<h2>Volume II</h2>
+
+<h3>Translated by John Ormsby</h3>
+
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="cover" src="images/cover.jpg"
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+      src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      Ebook Editor&rsquo;s Note
+    </h3>
+    <blockquote>
+      <p>
+        The book cover and spine above and the images which follow were not part
+        of the original Ormsby translation&mdash;they are taken from the 1880
+        edition of J. W. Clark, illustrated by Gustave Dore. Clark in his
+        edition states that, &ldquo;The English text of &lsquo;Don Quixote&rsquo;
+        adopted in this edition is that of Jarvis, with occasional corrections
+        from Motteaux.&rdquo; See in the introduction below John Ormsby&rsquo;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 &ldquo;Enlarge&rdquo; button to expand
+        them to their original dimensions. Ormsby in his Preface has criticized
+        the fanciful nature of Dore&rsquo;s illustrations; others feel these
+        woodcuts and steel engravings well match Quixote&rsquo;s dreams. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;D.W.
+      </p>
+    </blockquote>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p003.jpg (307K)" src="images/p003.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p003.jpg" style="width:100%;"><img alt="Full Size"
+      src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      CONTENTS
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br /><br /><a href="#ch1b">CHAPTER I</a> OF THE INTERVIEW THE CURATE AND
+      THE BARBER HAD WITH DON QUIXOTE ABOUT HIS MALADY <br /><br /><a href="#ch2b">CHAPTER
+      II</a> WHICH TREATS OF THE NOTABLE ALTERCATION WHICH SANCHO PANZA HAD WITH
+      DON QUIXOTE&rsquo;S NIECE, AND HOUSEKEEPER, TOGETHER WITH OTHER
+      DROLLMATTERS <br /><br /><a href="#ch3b">CHAPTER III</a> OF THE LAUGHABLE
+      CONVERSATION THAT PASSED BETWEEN DON QUIXOTE, SANCHO PANZA, AND THE
+      BACHELOR SAMSON CARRASCO <br /><br /><a href="#ch4b">CHAPTER IV</a> IN WHICH
+      SANCHO PANZA GIVES A SATISFACTORY REPLY TO THE DOUBTS AND QUESTIONS OF THE
+      BACHELOR SAMSON CARRASCO, TOGETHER WITH OTHER MATTERS WORTH KNOWING AND
+      TELLING <br /><br /><a href="#ch5b">CHAPTER V</a> OF THE SHREWD AND DROLL
+      CONVERSATION THAT PASSED BETWEEN SANCHO PANZA AND HIS WIFE TERESA PANZA,
+      AND OTHER MATTERS WORTHY OF BEING DULY RECORDED <br /><br /><a href="#ch6b">CHAPTER
+      VI</a> OF WHAT TOOK PLACE BETWEEN DON QUIXOTE AND HIS NIECE AND
+      HOUSEKEEPER; ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT CHAPTERS IN THE WHOLE HISTORY <br /><br /><a
+      href="#ch7b">CHAPTER VII</a> OF WHAT PASSED BETWEEN DON QUIXOTE AND HIS
+      SQUIRE, TOGETHER WITH OTHER VERY NOTABLE INCIDENTS <br /><br /><a
+      href="#ch8b">CHAPTER VIII</a> WHEREIN IS RELATED WHAT BEFELL DON QUIXOTE
+      ON HIS WAY TO SEE HIS LADY DULCINEA DEL TOBOSO <br /><br /><a href="#ch9b">CHAPTER
+      IX</a> WHEREIN IS RELATED WHAT WILL BE SEEN THERE <br /><br /><a
+      href="#ch10b">CHAPTER X</a> WHEREIN IS RELATED THE CRAFTY DEVICE SANCHO
+      ADOPTED TO ENCHANT THE LADY DULCINEA, AND OTHER INCIDENTS AS LUDICROUS AS
+      THEY ARE TRUE <br /><br /><a href="#ch11b">CHAPTER XI</a> OF THE STRANGE
+      ADVENTURE WHICH THE VALIANT DON QUIXOTE HAD WITH THE CAR OR CART OF
+      &ldquo;THE CORTES OF DEATH&rdquo; <br /><br /><a href="#ch12b">CHAPTER XII</a>
+      OF THE STRANGE ADVENTURE WHICH BEFELL THE VALIANT DON QUIXOTE WITH THE
+      BOLD KNIGHT OF THE MIRRORS <br /><br /><a href="#ch13b">CHAPTER XIII</a> IN
+      WHICH IS CONTINUED THE ADVENTURE OF THE KNIGHT OF THE GROVE, TOGETHER WITH
+      THE SENSIBLE, ORIGINAL, AND TRANQUIL COLLOQUY THAT PASSED BETWEEN THE TWO
+      SQUIRES <br /><br /><a href="#ch14b">CHAPTER XIV</a> WHEREIN IS CONTINUED
+      THE ADVENTURE OF THE KNIGHT OF THE GROVE <br /><br /><a href="#ch15b">CHAPTER
+      XV</a> WHEREIN IT IS TOLD AND KNOWN WHO THE KNIGHT OF THE MIRRORS AND HIS
+      SQUIRE WERE <br /><br /><a href="#ch16b">CHAPTER XVI</a> OF WHAT BEFELL DON
+      QUIXOTE WITH A DISCREET GENTLEMAN OF LA MANCHA <br /><br /><a href="#ch17b">CHAPTER
+      XVII</a> WHEREIN IS SHOWN THE FURTHEST AND HIGHEST POINT WHICH THE
+      UNEXAMPLEDCOURAGE OF DON QUIXOTE REACHED OR COULD REACH; TOGETHER WITH THE
+      HAPPILY ACHIEVED ADVENTURE OF THE LIONS <br /><br /><a href="#ch18b">CHAPTER
+      XVIII</a> OF WHAT HAPPENED DON QUIXOTE IN THE CASTLE OR HOUSE OF THE
+      KNIGHT OF THE GREEN GABAN, TOGETHER WITH OTHER MATTERS OUT OF THE COMMON
+      <br /><br /><a href="#ch19b">CHAPTER XIX</a> IN WHICH IS RELATED THE
+      ADVENTURE OF THE ENAMOURED SHEPHERD, TOGETHER WITH OTHER TRULY DROLL
+      INCIDENTS <br /><br /><a href="#ch20b">CHAPTER XX</a> WHEREIN AN ACCOUNT IS
+      GIVEN OF THE WEDDING OF CAMACHO THE RICH, TOGETHER WITH THE INCIDENT OF
+      BASILIO THE POOR <br /><br /><a href="#ch21b">CHAPTER XXI</a> IN WHICH
+      CAMACHO&rsquo;S WEDDING IS CONTINUED, WITH OTHER DELIGHTFUL INCIDENTS
+      <br /><br /><a href="#ch22b">CHAPTER XXII</a> WHEREIN IS RELATED THE GRAND
+      ADVENTURE OF THE CAVE OF MONTESINOS IN THE HEART OF LA MANCHA, WHICH THE
+      VALIANT DON QUIXOTE BROUGHT TO A HAPPY TERMINATION <br /><br /><a
+      href="#ch23b">CHAPTER XXIII</a> OF THE WONDERFUL THINGS THE INCOMPARABLE
+      DON QUIXOTE SAID HE SAW IN THE PROFOUND CAVE OF MONTESINOS, THE
+      IMPOSSIBILITY AND MAGNITUDE OF WHICH CAUSE THIS ADVENTURE TO BE DEEMED
+      APOCRYPHAL <br /><br /><a href="#ch24b">CHAPTER XXIV</a> WHEREIN ARE RELATED
+      A THOUSAND TRIFLING MATTERS, AS TRIVIAL AS THEY ARE NECESSARY TO THE RIGHT
+      UNDERSTANDING OF THIS GREAT HISTORY <br /><br /><a href="#ch25b">CHAPTER XXV</a>
+      WHEREIN IS SET DOWN THE BRAYING ADVENTURE, AND THE DROLL ONE OF THE
+      PUPPET-SHOWMAN, TOGETHER WITH THE MEMORABLE DIVINATIONS OF THE DIVINING
+      APE <br /><br /><a href="#ch26b">CHAPTER XXVI</a> WHEREIN IS CONTINUED THE
+      DROLL ADVENTURE OF THE PUPPET-SHOWMAN, TOGETHER WITH OTHER THINGS IN TRUTH
+      RIGHT GOOD <br /><br /><a href="#ch27b">CHAPTER XXVII</a> WHEREIN IT IS
+      SHOWN WHO MASTER PEDRO AND HIS APE WERE, TOGETHER WITH THE MISHAP DON
+      QUIXOTE HAD IN THE BRAYING ADVENTURE, WHICH HE DID NOT CONCLUDE AS HE
+      WOULD HAVE LIKED OR AS HE HAD EXPECTED <br /><br /><a href="#ch28b">CHAPTER
+      XXVIII</a> OF MATTERS THAT BENENGELI SAYS HE WHO READS THEM WILL KNOW, IF
+      HE READS THEM WITH ATTENTION <br /><br /><a href="#ch29b">CHAPTER XXIX</a>
+      OF THE FAMOUS ADVENTURE OF THE ENCHANTED BARK <br /><br /><a href="#ch30b">CHAPTER
+      XXX</a> OF DON QUIXOTE&rsquo;S ADVENTURE WITH A FAIR HUNTRESS <br /><br /><a
+      href="#ch31b">CHAPTER XXXI</a> WHICH TREATS OF MANY AND GREAT MATTERS
+      <br /><br /><a href="#ch32b">CHAPTER XXXII</a> OF THE REPLY DON QUIXOTE GAVE
+      HIS CENSURER, WITH OTHER INCIDENTS, GRAVE AND DROLL <br /><br /><a
+      href="#ch33b">CHAPTER XXXIII</a> OF THE DELECTABLE DISCOURSE WHICH THE
+      DUCHESS AND HER DAMSELS HELD WITH SANCHO PANZA, WELL WORTH READING AND
+      NOTING <br /><br /><a href="#ch34b">CHAPTER XXXIV</a> WHICH RELATES HOW THEY
+      LEARNED THE WAY IN WHICH THEY WERE TO DISENCHANT THE PEERLESS DULCINEA DEL
+      TOBOSO, WHICH IS ONE OF THE RAREST ADVENTURES IN THIS BOOK <br /><br /><a
+      href="#ch35b">CHAPTER XXXV</a> WHEREIN IS CONTINUED THE INSTRUCTION GIVEN
+      TO DON QUIXOTE TOUCHING THE DISENCHANTMENT OF DULCINEA, TOGETHER WITH
+      OTHER MARVELLOUS INCIDENTS <br /><br /><a href="#ch36b">CHAPTER XXXVI</a>
+      WHEREIN IS RELATED THE STRANGE AND UNDREAMT-OF ADVENTURE OF THE DISTRESSED
+      DUENNA, ALIAS THE COUNTESS TRIFALDI, TOGETHER WITH A LETTER WHICH SANCHO
+      PANZA WROTE TO HIS WIFE, TERESA PANZA <br /><br /><a href="#ch37b">CHAPTER
+      XXXVII</a> WHEREIN IS CONTINUED THE NOTABLE ADVENTURE OF THE DISTRESSED
+      DUENNA <br /><br /><a href="#ch38b">CHAPTER XXXVIII</a> WHEREIN IS TOLD THE
+      DISTRESSED DUENNA&rsquo;S TALE OF HER MISFORTUNES <br /><br /><a
+      href="#ch39b">CHAPTER XXXIX</a> IN WHICH THE TRIFALDI CONTINUES HER
+      MARVELLOUS AND MEMORABLE STORY <br /><br /><a href="#ch40b">CHAPTER XL</a>
+      OF MATTERS RELATING AND BELONGING TO THIS ADVENTURE AND TO THIS MEMORABLE
+      HISTORY <br /><br /><a href="#ch41b">CHAPTER XLI</a> OF THE ARRIVAL OF
+      CLAVILEÑO AND THE END OF THIS PROTRACTED ADVENTURE <br /><br /><a
+      href="#ch42b">CHAPTER XLII</a> OF THE COUNSELS WHICH DON QUIXOTE GAVE
+      SANCHO PANZA BEFORE HE SET OUT TO GOVERN THE ISLAND, TOGETHER WITH OTHER
+      WELL-CONSIDERED MATTERS <br /><br /><a href="#ch43b">CHAPTER XLIII</a> OF
+      THE SECOND SET OF COUNSELS DON QUIXOTE GAVE SANCHO PANZA <br /><br /><a
+      href="#ch44b">CHAPTER XLIV</a> HOW SANCHO PANZA WAS CONDUCTED TO HIS
+      GOVERNMENT, AND OF THE STRANGE ADVENTURE THAT BEFELL DON QUIXOTE IN THE
+      CASTLE <br /><br /><a href="#ch45b">CHAPTER XLV</a> OF HOW THE GREAT SANCHO
+      PANZA TOOK POSSESSION OF HIS ISLAND, AND OF HOW HE MADE A BEGINNING IN
+      GOVERNING <br /><br /><a href="#ch46b">CHAPTER XLVI</a> OF THE TERRIBLE BELL
+      AND CAT FRIGHT THAT DON QUIXOTE GOT IN THE COURSE OF THE ENAMOURED
+      ALTISIDORA&rsquo;S WOOING <br /><br /><a href="#ch47b">CHAPTER XLVII</a>
+      WHEREIN IS CONTINUED THE ACCOUNT OF HOW SANCHO PANZA CONDUCTED HIMSELF IN
+      HIS GOVERNMENT <br /><br /><a href="#ch48b">CHAPTER XLVIII</a> OF WHAT
+      BEFELL DON QUIXOTE WITH DONA RODRIGUEZ, THE DUCHESS&rsquo;S DUENNA,
+      TOGETHER WITH OTHER OCCURRENCES WORTHY OF RECORD AND ETERNAL REMEMBRANCE
+      <br /><br /><a href="#ch49b">CHAPTER XLIX</a> OF WHAT HAPPENED SANCHO IN
+      MAKING THE ROUND OF HIS ISLAND <br /><br /><a href="#ch50b">CHAPTER L</a>
+      WHEREIN IS SET FORTH WHO THE ENCHANTERS AND EXECUTIONERS WERE WHO FLOGGED
+      THE DUENNA AND PINCHED DON QUIXOTE, AND ALSO WHAT BEFELL THE PAGE WHO
+      CARRIED THE LETTER TO TERESA PANZA, SANCHO PANZA&rsquo;S WIFE <br /><br /><a
+      href="#ch51b">CHAPTER LI</a> OF THE PROGRESS OF SANCHO&rsquo;S GOVERNMENT,
+      AND OTHER SUCH ENTERTAINING MATTERS <br /><br /><a href="#ch52b">CHAPTER LII</a>
+      WHEREIN IS RELATED THE ADVENTURE OF THE SECOND DISTRESSED OR AFFLICTED
+      DUENNA, OTHERWISE CALLED DONA RODRIGUEZ <br /><br /><a href="#ch53b">CHAPTER
+      LIII</a> OF THE TROUBLOUS END AND TERMINATION SANCHO PANZA&rsquo;S
+      GOVERNMENT CAME TO <br /><br /><a href="#ch54b">CHAPTER LIV</a> WHICH DEALS
+      WITH MATTERS RELATING TO THIS HISTORY AND NO OTHER <br /><br /><a
+      href="#ch55b">CHAPTER LV</a> OF WHAT BEFELL SANCHO ON THE ROAD, AND OTHER
+      THINGS THAT CANNOT BE SURPASSED <br /><br /><a href="#ch56b">CHAPTER LVI</a>
+      OF THE PRODIGIOUS AND UNPARALLELED BATTLE THAT TOOK PLACE BETWEEN DON
+      QUIXOTE OF LA MANCHA AND THE LACQUEY TOSILOS IN DEFENCE OF THE DAUGHTER OF
+      DONA RODRIGUEZ <br /><br /><a href="#ch57b">CHAPTER LVII</a> WHICH TREATS OF
+      HOW DON QUIXOTE TOOK LEAVE OF THE DUKE, AND OF WHAT FOLLOWED WITH THE
+      WITTY AND IMPUDENT ALTISIDORA, ONE OF THE DUCHESS&rsquo;S DAMSELS <br /><br /><a
+      href="#ch58b">CHAPTER LVIII</a> WHICH TELLS HOW ADVENTURES CAME CROWDING
+      ON DON QUIXOTE IN SUCH NUMBERS THAT THEY GAVE ONE ANOTHER NO
+      BREATHING-TIME <br /><br /><a href="#ch59b">CHAPTER LIX</a> WHEREIN IS
+      RELATED THE STRANGE THING, WHICH MAY BE REGARDED AS AN ADVENTURE, THAT
+      HAPPENED DON QUIXOTE <br /><br /><a href="#ch60b">CHAPTER LX</a> OF WHAT
+      HAPPENED DON QUIXOTE ON HIS WAY TO BARCELONA <br /><br /><a href="#ch61b">CHAPTER
+      LXI</a> OF WHAT HAPPENED DON QUIXOTE ON ENTERING BARCELONA, TOGETHER WITH
+      OTHER MATTERS THAT PARTAKE OF THE TRUE RATHER THAN OF THE INGENIOUS <br /><br /><a
+      href="#ch62b">CHAPTER LXII</a> WHICH DEALS WITH THE ADVENTURE OF THE
+      ENCHANTED HEAD, TOGETHER WITH OTHER TRIVIAL MATTERS WHICH CANNOT BE LEFT
+      UNTOLD<br /><br /><a href="#ch63b">CHAPTER LXIII</a> OF THE MISHAP THAT
+      BEFELL SANCHO PANZA THROUGH THE VISIT TO THE GALLEYS, AND THE STRANGE
+      ADVENTURE OF THE FAIR MORISCO <br /><br /><a href="#ch64b">CHAPTER LXIV</a>
+      TREATING OF THE ADVENTURE WHICH GAVE DON QUIXOTE MORE UNHAPPINESS THAN ALL
+      THAT HAD HITHERTO BEFALLEN HIM <br /><br /><a href="#ch65b">CHAPTER LXV</a>
+      WHEREIN IS MADE KNOWN WHO THE KNIGHT OF THE WHITE MOON WAS; LIKEWISE DON
+      GREGORIO&rsquo;S RELEASE, AND OTHER EVENTS <br /><br /><a href="#ch66b">CHAPTER
+      LXVI</a> WHICH TREATS OF WHAT HE WHO READS WILL SEE, OR WHAT HE WHO HAS IT
+      READ TO HIM WILL HEAR<br /><br /><a href="#ch67b">CHAPTER LXVII</a> OF THE
+      RESOLUTION DON QUIXOTE FORMED TO TURN SHEPHERD AND TAKE TO A LIFE IN THE
+      FIELDS WHILE THE YEAR FOR WHICH HE HAD GIVEN HIS WORD WAS RUNNING ITS
+      COURSE; WITH OTHER EVENTS TRULY DELECTABLE AND HAPPY <br /><br /><a
+      href="#ch68b">CHAPTER LXVIII</a> OF THE BRISTLY ADVENTURE THAT BEFELL DON
+      QUIXOTE <br /><br /><a href="#ch69b">CHAPTER LXIX</a> OF THE STRANGEST AND
+      MOST EXTRAORDINARY ADVENTURE THAT BEFELL DON QUIXOTE IN THE WHOLE COURSE
+      OF THIS GREAT HISTORY <br /><br /><a href="#ch70b">CHAPTER LXX</a> WHICH
+      FOLLOWS SIXTY-NINE AND DEALS WITH MATTERS INDISPENSABLE FOR THE CLEAR
+      COMPREHENSION OF THIS HISTORY <br /><br /><a href="#ch71b">CHAPTER LXXI</a>
+      OF WHAT PASSED BETWEEN DON QUIXOTE AND HIS SQUIRE SANCHO ON THE WAY TO
+      THEIR VILLAGE <br /><br /><a href="#ch72b">CHAPTER LXXII</a> OF HOW DON
+      QUIXOTE AND SANCHO REACHED THEIR VILLAGE <br /><br /><a href="#ch73b">CHAPTER
+      LXXIII</a> OF THE OMENS DON QUIXOTE HAD AS HE ENTERED HIS OWN VILLAGE, AND
+      OTHER INCIDENTS THAT EMBELLISH AND GIVE A COLOUR TO THIS GREAT HISTORY
+      <br /><br /><a href="#ch74b">CHAPTER LXXIV</a> OF HOW DON QUIXOTE FELL SICK,
+      AND OF THE WILL HE MADE, AND HOW HE DIED <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>DON QUIXOTE</h2>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      Volume II.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      DEDICATION OF VOLUME II.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      TO THE COUNT OF LEMOS:
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      These days past, when sending Your Excellency my plays, that had appeared
+      in print before being shown on the stage, I said, if I remember well, that
+      Don Quixote was putting on his spurs to go and render homage to Your
+      Excellency. Now I say that &ldquo;with his spurs, he is on his way.&rdquo;
+      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, &ldquo;No, not even in
+      thought.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Then, brother,&rdquo; I replied, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Thus I gave him his leave and I beg mine from you, offering Your
+      Excellency the &ldquo;Trabajos de Persiles y Sigismunda,&rdquo; 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&rsquo;s most humble servant.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      From Madrid, this last day of October of the year one thousand six hundred
+      and fifteen.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      At the service of Your Excellency:
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      THE AUTHOR&rsquo;S PREFACE
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="part2" id="part2"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="part2.jpg (130K)" src="images/part2.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/part2.jpg" style="width:100%;"><img alt="Full Size"
+      src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      God bless me, gentle (or it may be plebeian) reader, how eagerly must thou
+      be looking forward to this preface, expecting to find there retaliation,
+      scolding, and abuse against the author of the second Don Quixote&mdash;I
+      mean him who was, they say, begotten at Tordesillas and born at Tarragona!
+      Well then, the truth is, I am not going to give thee that satisfaction;
+      for, though injuries stir up anger in humbler breasts, in mine the rule
+      must admit of an exception. Thou wouldst have me call him ass, fool, and
+      malapert, but I have no such intention; let his offence be his punishment,
+      with his bread let him eat it, and there&rsquo;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&rsquo;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&rsquo;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): &ldquo;Do your
+      worships think, now, that it is an easy thing to blow up a dog?&rdquo;&mdash;Does
+      your worship think now, that it is an easy thing to write a book?
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      And if this story does not suit him, you may, dear reader, tell him this
+      one, which is likewise of a madman and a dog.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      In Cordova there was another madman, whose way it was to carry a piece of
+      marble slab or a stone, not of the lightest, on his head, and when he came
+      upon any unwary dog he used to draw close to him and let the weight fall
+      right on top of him; on which the dog in a rage, barking and howling,
+      would run three streets without stopping. It so happened, however, that
+      one of the dogs he discharged his load upon was a cap-maker&rsquo;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, &ldquo;You dog, you thief! my lurcher! Don&rsquo;t you see, you
+      brute, that my dog is a lurcher?&rdquo; and so, repeating the word &ldquo;lurcher&rdquo;
+      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: &ldquo;This is a lurcher; ware!&rdquo; 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 &ldquo;The Perendenga,&rdquo; I say in answer to him,
+      &ldquo;Long life to my lord the Veintiquatro, and Christ be with us all.&rdquo;
+      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 &ldquo;Don Quixote&rdquo;
+      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 &ldquo;Persiles,&rdquo;
+      which I am now finishing, and also the Second Part of &ldquo;Galatea.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="part2e" id="part2e"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="part2e.jpg (37K)" src="images/part2e.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      <a name="ch1b" id="ch1b"></a>CHAPTER I.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      OF THE INTERVIEW THE CURATE AND THE BARBER HAD WITH DON QUIXOTE ABOUT HIS
+      MALADY
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <a name="p01a" id="p01a"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p01a.jpg (156K)" src="images/p01a.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p01a.jpg" style="width:100%;"><img alt="Full Size"
+      src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Cide Hamete Benengeli, in the Second Part of this history, and third sally
+      of Don Quixote, says that the curate and the barber remained nearly a
+      month without seeing him, lest they should recall or bring back to his
+      recollection what had taken place. They did not, however, omit to visit
+      his niece and housekeeper, and charge them to be careful to treat him with
+      attention, and give him comforting things to eat, and such as were good
+      for the heart and the brain, whence, it was plain to see, all his
+      misfortune proceeded. The niece and housekeeper replied that they did so,
+      and meant to do so with all possible care and assiduity, for they could
+      perceive that their master was now and then beginning to show signs of
+      being in his right mind. This gave great satisfaction to the curate and
+      the barber, for they concluded they had taken the right course in carrying
+      him off enchanted on the ox-cart, as has been described in the First Part
+      of this great as well as accurate history, in the last chapter thereof. So
+      they resolved to pay him a visit and test the improvement in his
+      condition, although they thought it almost impossible that there could be
+      any; and they agreed not to touch upon any point connected with
+      knight-errantry so as not to run the risk of reopening wounds which were
+      still so tender.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      They came to see him consequently, and found him sitting up in bed in a
+      green baize waistcoat and a red Toledo cap, and so withered and dried up
+      that he looked as if he had been turned into a mummy. They were very
+      cordially received by him; they asked him after his health, and he talked
+      to them about himself very naturally and in very well-chosen language. In
+      the course of their conversation they fell to discussing what they call
+      State-craft and systems of government, correcting this abuse and
+      condemning that, reforming one practice and abolishing another, each of
+      the three setting up for a new legislator, a modern Lycurgus, or a
+      brand-new Solon; and so completely did they remodel the State, that they
+      seemed to have thrust it into a furnace and taken out something quite
+      different from what they had put in; and on all the subjects they dealt
+      with, Don Quixote spoke with such good sense that the pair of examiners
+      were fully convinced that he was quite recovered and in his full senses.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The niece and housekeeper were present at the conversation and could not
+      find words enough to express their thanks to God at seeing their master so
+      clear in his mind; the curate, however, changing his original plan, which
+      was to avoid touching upon matters of chivalry, resolved to test Don
+      Quixote&rsquo;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, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The moment the curate heard this he said to himself, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </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>
+      &ldquo;Mine, master shaver,&rdquo; said Don Quixote, &ldquo;will not be
+      impertinent, but, on the contrary, pertinent.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t mean that,&rdquo; said the barber, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Mine, however,&rdquo; replied Don Quixote, &ldquo;is neither
+      impossible nor absurd, but the easiest, the most reasonable, the readiest
+      and most expeditious that could suggest itself to any projector&rsquo;s
+      mind.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;You take a long time to tell it, Señor Don Quixote,&rdquo; said the
+      curate.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t choose to tell it here, now,&rdquo; said Don Quixote,
+      &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;For my part,&rdquo; said the barber, &ldquo;I give my word here and
+      before God that I will not repeat what your worship says, to King, Rook or
+      earthly man&mdash;an oath I learned from the ballad of the curate, who, in
+      the prelude, told the king of the thief who had robbed him of the hundred
+      gold crowns and his pacing mule.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I am not versed in stories,&rdquo; said Don Quixote; &ldquo;but I
+      know the oath is a good one, because I know the barber to be an honest
+      fellow.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Even if he were not,&rdquo; said the curate, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;And who will be security for you, señor curate?&rdquo; said Don
+      Quixote.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;My profession,&rdquo; replied the curate, &ldquo;which is to keep
+      secrets.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Ods body!&rdquo; said Don Quixote at this, &ldquo;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&rsquo;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 to-day, and were to come face to face with
+      the Turk, by my faith, I would not give much for the Turk&rsquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Alas!&rdquo; exclaimed the niece at this, &ldquo;may I die if my
+      master does not want to turn knight-errant again;&rdquo; to which Don
+      Quixote replied, &ldquo;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.&rdquo; But here the barber said, &ldquo;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.&rdquo; Don Quixote gave him leave, and the
+      rest prepared to listen, and he began thus:
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;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&rsquo;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&rsquo;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, &lsquo;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&rsquo;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.&rsquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;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, &lsquo;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.&rsquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;&lsquo;Mind what you are saying, licentiate; don&rsquo;t let the
+      devil deceive you,&rsquo; replied the madman. &lsquo;Keep quiet, stay
+      where you are, and you will save yourself the trouble of coming back.&rsquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;&lsquo;I know I am cured,&rsquo; returned the licentiate, &lsquo;and
+      that I shall not have to go stations again.&rsquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;&lsquo;You cured!&rsquo; said the madman; &lsquo;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>
+      &ldquo;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, &lsquo;Be not uneasy, señor; 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.&rsquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;The governor and the bystanders laughed, and at their laughter the
+      chaplain was half ashamed, and he replied, &lsquo;For all that, Señor
+      Neptune, it will not do to vex Señor Jupiter; remain where you are, and
+      some other day, when there is a better opportunity and more time, we will
+      come back for you.&rsquo; So they stripped the licentiate, and he was left
+      where he was; and that&rsquo;s the end of the story.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;So that&rsquo;s the story, master barber,&rdquo; said Don Quixote,
+      &ldquo;which came in so pat to the purpose that you could not help telling
+      it? Master shaver, master shaver! how blind is he who cannot see through a
+      sieve. Is it possible that you do not know that comparisons of wit with
+      wit, valour with valour, beauty with beauty, birth with birth, are always
+      odious and unwelcome? I, master barber, am not Neptune, the god of the
+      waters, nor do I try to make anyone take me for an astute man, for I am
+      not one. My only endeavour is to convince the world of the mistake it
+      makes in not reviving in itself the happy time when the order of
+      knight-errantry was in the field. But our depraved age does not deserve to
+      enjoy such a blessing as those ages enjoyed when knights-errant took upon
+      their shoulders the defence of kingdoms, the protection of damsels, the
+      succour of orphans and minors, the chastisement of the proud, and the
+      recompense of the humble. With the knights of these days, for the most
+      part, it is the damask, brocade, and rich stuffs they wear, that rustle as
+      they go, not the chain mail of their armour; no knight now-a-days sleeps
+      in the open field exposed to the inclemency of heaven, and in full panoply
+      from head to foot; no one now takes a nap, as they call it, without
+      drawing his feet out of the stirrups, and leaning upon his lance, as the
+      knights-errant used to do; no one now, issuing from the wood, penetrates
+      yonder mountains, and then treads the barren, lonely shore of the sea&mdash;mostly
+      a tempestuous and stormy one&mdash;and finding on the beach a little bark
+      without oars, sail, mast, or tackling of any kind, in the intrepidity of
+      his heart flings himself into it and commits himself to the wrathful
+      billows of the deep sea, that one moment lift him up to heaven and the
+      next plunge him into the depths; and opposing his breast to the
+      irresistible gale, finds himself, when he least expects it, three thousand
+      leagues and more away from the place where he embarked; and leaping ashore
+      in a remote and unknown land has adventures that deserve to be written,
+      not on parchment, but on brass. But now sloth triumphs over energy,
+      indolence over exertion, vice over virtue, arrogance over courage, and
+      theory over practice in arms, which flourished and shone only in the
+      golden ages and in knights-errant. For tell me, who was more virtuous and
+      more valiant than the famous Amadis of Gaul? Who more discreet than
+      Palmerin of England? Who more gracious and easy than Tirante el Blanco?
+      Who more courtly than Lisuarte of Greece? Who more slashed or slashing
+      than Don Belianis? Who more intrepid than Perion of Gaul? Who more ready
+      to face danger than Felixmarte of Hircania? Who more sincere than
+      Esplandian? Who more impetuous than Don Cirongilio of Thrace? Who more
+      bold than Rodamonte? Who more prudent than King Sobrino? Who more daring
+      than Reinaldos? Who more invincible than Roland? and who more gallant and
+      courteous than Ruggiero, from whom the dukes of Ferrara of the present day
+      are descended, according to Turpin in his &lsquo;Cosmography.&rsquo; All
+      these knights, and many more that I could name, señor 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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Indeed, Señor Don Quixote,&rdquo; said the barber, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;As to whether I ought to be vexed or not,&rdquo; returned Don
+      Quixote, &ldquo;I myself am the best judge.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Hereupon the curate observed, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;The señor curate has leave for more than that,&rdquo; returned Don
+      Quixote, &ldquo;so he may declare his doubt, for it is not pleasant to
+      have a doubt on one&rsquo;s conscience.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Well then, with that permission,&rdquo; said the curate, &ldquo;I
+      say my doubt is that, all I can do, I cannot persuade myself that the
+      whole pack of knights-errant you, Señor 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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;That is another mistake,&rdquo; replied Don Quixote, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;How big, in your worship&rsquo;s opinion, may the giant Morgante
+      have been, Señor Don Quixote?&rdquo; asked the barber.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;With regard to giants,&rdquo; replied Don Quixote, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;That is true,&rdquo; 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>
+      &ldquo;As for Reinaldos,&rdquo; replied Don Quixote, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;If Roland was not a more graceful person than your worship has
+      described,&rdquo; said the curate, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;That Angelica, señor curate,&rdquo; returned Don Quixote, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Tell me, Señor Don Quixote,&rdquo; said the barber here, &ldquo;among
+      all those who praised her, has there been no poet to write a satire on
+      this Lady Angelica?&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I can well believe,&rdquo; replied Don Quixote, &ldquo;that if
+      Sacripante or Roland had been poets they would have given the damsel a
+      trimming; for it is naturally the way with poets who have been scorned and
+      rejected by their ladies, whether fictitious or not, in short by those
+      whom they select as the ladies of their thoughts, to avenge themselves in
+      satires and libels&mdash;a vengeance, to be sure, unworthy of generous
+      hearts; but up to the present I have not heard of any defamatory verse
+      against the Lady Angelica, who turned the world upside down.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Strange,&rdquo; said the curate; but at this moment they heard the
+      housekeeper and the niece, who had previously withdrawn from the
+      conversation, exclaiming aloud in the courtyard, and at the noise they all
+      ran out.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p01e" id="p01e"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p01e.jpg (15K)" src="images/p01e.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      <a name="ch2b" id="ch2b"></a>CHAPTER II.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      WHICH TREATS OF THE NOTABLE ALTERCATION WHICH SANCHO PANZA HAD WITH DON
+      QUIXOTE&rsquo;S NIECE, AND HOUSEKEEPER, TOGETHER WITH OTHER DROLL MATTERS
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <a name="p02a" id="p02a"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p02a.jpg (159K)" src="images/p02a.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p02a.jpg" style="width:100%;"><img alt="Full Size"
+      src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The history relates that the outcry Don Quixote, the curate, and the
+      barber heard came from the niece and the housekeeper exclaiming to Sancho,
+      who was striving to force his way in to see Don Quixote while they held
+      the door against him, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      To which Sancho replied, &ldquo;Devil&rsquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;May evil islands choke thee, thou detestable Sancho,&rdquo; said
+      the niece; &ldquo;What are islands? Is it something to eat, glutton and
+      gormandiser that thou art?&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;It is not something to eat,&rdquo; replied Sancho, &ldquo;but
+      something to govern and rule, and better than four cities or four
+      judgeships at court.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;For all that,&rdquo; said the housekeeper, &ldquo;you don&rsquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </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,
+      &ldquo;You will see, gossip, that when we are least thinking of it, our
+      gentleman will be off once more for another flight.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I have no doubt of it,&rdquo; returned the barber; &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;God help them,&rdquo; said the curate; &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;That is true,&rdquo; said the barber, &ldquo;and I should like very
+      much to know what the pair are talking about at this moment.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I promise you,&rdquo; said the curate, &ldquo;the niece or the
+      housekeeper will tell us by-and-by, for they are not the ones to forget to
+      listen.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Meanwhile Don Quixote shut himself up in his room with Sancho, and when
+      they were alone he said to him, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;That was only reasonable,&rdquo; replied Sancho, &ldquo;for, by
+      what your worship says, misfortunes belong more properly to knights-errant
+      than to their squires.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Thou art mistaken, Sancho,&rdquo; said Don Quixote, &ldquo;according
+      to the maxim quando caput dolet, etc.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t understand any language but my own,&rdquo; said
+      Sancho.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I mean to say,&rdquo; said Don Quixote, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;It should be so,&rdquo; said Sancho; &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Dost thou mean to say now, Sancho,&rdquo; said Don Quixote, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;That I will do with all my heart, master,&rdquo; replied Sancho,
+      &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I will not be vexed at all,&rdquo; returned Don Quixote; &ldquo;thou
+      mayest speak freely, Sancho, and without any beating about the bush.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Well then,&rdquo; said he, &ldquo;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 &lsquo;Don,&rsquo; 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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;That,&rdquo; said Don Quixote, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;As to your worship&rsquo;s valour, courtesy, accomplishments, and
+      task, there is a variety of opinions. Some say, &lsquo;mad but droll;&rsquo;
+      others, &lsquo;valiant but unlucky;&rsquo; others, &lsquo;courteous but
+      meddling,&rsquo; and then they go into such a number of things that they
+      don&rsquo;t leave a whole bone either in your worship or in myself.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Recollect, Sancho,&rdquo; said Don Quixote, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;That&rsquo;s just where it is, body of my father!&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Is there more, then?&rdquo; asked Don Quixote.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;There&rsquo;s the tail to be skinned yet,&rdquo; said Sancho;
+      &ldquo;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&rsquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I promise thee, Sancho,&rdquo; said Don Quixote, &ldquo;the author
+      of our history will be some sage enchanter; for to such nothing that they
+      choose to write about is hidden.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;What!&rdquo; said Sancho, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;That is a Moorish name,&rdquo; said Don Quixote.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;May be so,&rdquo; replied Sancho; &ldquo;for I have heard say that
+      the Moors are mostly great lovers of berengenas.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Thou must have mistaken the surname of this &lsquo;Cide&rsquo;&mdash;which
+      means in Arabic &lsquo;Lord&rsquo;&mdash;Sancho,&rdquo; observed Don
+      Quixote.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Very likely,&rdquo; replied Sancho, &ldquo;but if your worship
+      wishes me to fetch the bachelor I will go for him in a twinkling.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Thou wilt do me a great pleasure, my friend,&rdquo; said Don
+      Quixote, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Then I am off for him,&rdquo; said Sancho; and leaving his master
+      he went in quest of the bachelor, with whom he returned in a short time,
+      and, all three together, they had a very droll colloquy.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p02e" id="p02e"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p02e.jpg (23K)" src="images/p02e.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      <a name="ch3b" id="ch3b"></a>CHAPTER III.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      OF THE LAUGHABLE CONVERSATION THAT PASSED BETWEEN DON QUIXOTE, SANCHO
+      PANZA, AND THE BACHELOR SAMSON CARRASCO
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <a name="p03a" id="p03a"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p03a.jpg (131K)" src="images/p03a.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p03a.jpg" style="width:100%;"><img alt="Full Size"
+      src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Don Quixote remained very deep in thought, waiting for the bachelor
+      Carrasco, from whom he was to hear how he himself had been put into a book
+      as Sancho said; and he could not persuade himself that any such history
+      could be in existence, for the blood of the enemies he had slain was not
+      yet dry on the blade of his sword, and now they wanted to make out that
+      his mighty achievements were going about in print. For all that, he
+      fancied some sage, either a friend or an enemy, might, by the aid of
+      magic, have given them to the press; if a friend, in order to magnify and
+      exalt them above the most famous ever achieved by any knight-errant; if an
+      enemy, to bring them to naught and degrade them below the meanest ever
+      recorded of any low squire, though as he said to himself, the achievements
+      of squires never were recorded. If, however, it were the fact that such a
+      history were in existence, it must necessarily, being the story of a
+      knight-errant, be grandiloquent, lofty, imposing, grand and true. With
+      this he comforted himself somewhat, though it made him uncomfortable to
+      think that the author was a Moor, judging by the title of &ldquo;Cide;&rdquo;
+      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,
+      &ldquo;Let me kiss your mightiness&rsquo;s hand, Señor 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!&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Don Quixote made him rise, and said, &ldquo;So, then, it is true that
+      there is a history of me, and that it was a Moor and a sage who wrote it?&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;So true is it, señor,&rdquo; said Samson, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;One of the things,&rdquo; here observed Don Quixote, &ldquo;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&rsquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;If it goes by good name and fame,&rdquo; said the bachelor, &ldquo;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-&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I never heard my lady Dulcinea called Dona,&rdquo; observed Sancho
+      here; &ldquo;nothing more than the lady Dulcinea del Toboso; so here
+      already the history is wrong.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;That is not an objection of any importance,&rdquo; replied
+      Carrasco.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Certainly not,&rdquo; said Don Quixote; &ldquo;but tell me, señor
+      bachelor, what deeds of mine are they that are made most of in this
+      history?&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;On that point,&rdquo; replied the bachelor, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Tell me, señor bachelor,&rdquo; said Sancho at this point, &ldquo;does
+      the adventure with the Yanguesans come in, when our good Rocinante went
+      hankering after dainties?&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;The sage has left nothing in the ink-bottle,&rdquo; replied Samson;
+      &ldquo;he tells all and sets down everything, even to the capers that
+      worthy Sancho cut in the blanket.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I cut no capers in the blanket,&rdquo; returned Sancho; &ldquo;in
+      the air I did, and more of them than I liked.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;There is no human history in the world, I suppose,&rdquo; said Don
+      Quixote, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;For all that,&rdquo; replied the bachelor, &ldquo;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
+      Señor Don Quixote in various encounters.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;That&rsquo;s where the truth of the history comes in,&rdquo; said
+      Sancho.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;At the same time they might fairly have passed them over in
+      silence,&rdquo; observed Don Quixote; &ldquo;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. Æneas was not in truth
+      and earnest so pious as Virgil represents him, nor Ulysses so wise as
+      Homer describes him.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;That is true,&rdquo; said Samson; &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Well then,&rdquo; said Sancho, &ldquo;if this señor Moor goes in
+      for telling the truth, no doubt among my master&rsquo;s drubbings mine are
+      to be found; for they never took the measure of his worship&rsquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;You are a sly dog, Sancho,&rdquo; said Don Quixote; &ldquo;i&rsquo;
+      faith, you have no want of memory when you choose to remember.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;If I were to try to forget the thwacks they gave me,&rdquo; said
+      Sancho, &ldquo;my weals would not let me, for they are still fresh on my
+      ribs.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Hush, Sancho,&rdquo; said Don Quixote, &ldquo;and don&rsquo;t
+      interrupt the bachelor, whom I entreat to go on and tell all that is said
+      about me in this history.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;And about me,&rdquo; said Sancho, &ldquo;for they say, too, that I
+      am one of the principal presonages in it.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Personages, not presonages, friend Sancho,&rdquo; said Samson.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;What! Another word-catcher!&rdquo; said Sancho; &ldquo;if that&rsquo;s
+      to be the way we shall not make an end in a lifetime.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;May God shorten mine, Sancho,&rdquo; returned the bachelor, &ldquo;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 Señor Don Quixote.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;There is still sunshine on the wall,&rdquo; said Don Quixote;
+      &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;By God, master,&rdquo; said Sancho, &ldquo;the island that I cannot
+      govern with the years I have, I&rsquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Leave it to God, Sancho,&rdquo; said Don Quixote, &ldquo;for all
+      will be and perhaps better than you think; no leaf on the tree stirs but
+      by God&rsquo;s will.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;That is true,&rdquo; said Samson; &ldquo;and if it be God&rsquo;s
+      will, there will not be any want of a thousand islands, much less one, for
+      Sancho to govern.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I have seen governors in these parts,&rdquo; said Sancho, &ldquo;that
+      are not to be compared to my shoe-sole; and for all that they are called
+      &lsquo;your lordship&rsquo; and served on silver.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Those are not governors of islands,&rdquo; observed Samson, &ldquo;but
+      of other governments of an easier kind: those that govern islands must at
+      least know grammar.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I could manage the gram well enough,&rdquo; said Sancho; &ldquo;but
+      for the mar I have neither leaning nor liking, for I don&rsquo;t know what
+      it is; but leaving this matter of the government in God&rsquo;s hands, to
+      send me wherever it may be most to his service, I may tell you, señor
+      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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;That would be working miracles,&rdquo; said Samson.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Miracles or no miracles,&rdquo; said Sancho, &ldquo;let everyone
+      mind how he speaks or writes about people, and not set down at random the
+      first thing that comes into his head.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;One of the faults they find with this history,&rdquo; said the
+      bachelor, &ldquo;is that its author inserted in it a novel called &lsquo;The
+      Ill-advised Curiosity;&rsquo; 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
+      Señor Don Quixote.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I will bet the son of a dog has mixed the cabbages and the baskets,&rdquo;
+      said Sancho.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Then, I say,&rdquo; said Don Quixote, &ldquo;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, &lsquo;What it may turn out.&rsquo; Sometimes
+      he would paint a cock in such a fashion, and so unlike, that he had to
+      write alongside of it in Gothic letters, &lsquo;This is a cock;&rsquo;
+      and so it will be with my history, which will require a commentary to
+      make it intelligible.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;No fear of that,&rdquo; returned Samson, &ldquo;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, &lsquo;There
+      goes Rocinante.&rsquo; And those that are most given to reading it are the
+      pages, for there is not a lord&rsquo;s ante-chamber where there is not a
+      &lsquo;Don Quixote&rsquo; 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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;To write in any other way,&rdquo; said Don Quixote, &ldquo;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 &lsquo;with straw or with hay,
+      &amp;c.,&rsquo; 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, señor 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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;There is no book so bad but it has something good in it,&rdquo;
+      said the bachelor.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;No doubt of that,&rdquo; replied Don Quixote; &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;The reason of that,&rdquo; said Samson, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;That is no wonder,&rdquo; said Don Quixote; &ldquo;for there are
+      many divines who are no good for the pulpit, but excellent in detecting
+      the defects or excesses of those who preach.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;All that is true, Señor Don Quixote,&rdquo; said Carrasco; &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;That which treats of me must have pleased few,&rdquo; said Don
+      Quixote.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Quite the contrary,&rdquo; said the bachelor; &ldquo;for, as
+      stultorum infinitum est numerus, innumerable are those who have relished
+      the said history; but some have brought a charge against the author&rsquo;s
+      memory, inasmuch as he forgot to say who the thief was who stole Sancho&rsquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Señor Samson, I am not in a humour now for going into accounts or
+      explanations,&rdquo; said Sancho; &ldquo;for there&rsquo;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&rsquo;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;&rdquo; 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&rsquo;s humour, the banquet came to an end,
+      they took their afternoon sleep, Sancho returned, and their conversation
+      was resumed.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p03e" id="p03e"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p03e.jpg (49K)" src="images/p03e.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      <a name="ch4b" id="ch4b"></a>CHAPTER IV.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      IN WHICH SANCHO PANZA GIVES A SATISFACTORY REPLY TO THE DOUBTS AND
+      QUESTIONS OF THE BACHELOR SAMSON CARRASCO, TOGETHER WITH OTHER MATTERS
+      WORTH KNOWING AND TELLING
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <a name="p04a" id="p04a"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p04a.jpg (143K)" src="images/p04a.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p04a.jpg" style="width:100%;"><img alt="Full Size"
+      src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Sancho came back to Don Quixote&rsquo;s house, and returning to the late
+      subject of conversation, he said, &ldquo;As to what Señor 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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p04b" id="p04b"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p04b.jpg (270K)" src="images/p04b.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p04b.jpg" style="width:100%;"><img alt="Full Size"
+      src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;That is an easy matter,&rdquo; said Don Quixote, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Day came,&rdquo; continued Sancho, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;That is not where the mistake is,&rdquo; replied Samson; &ldquo;it
+      is, that before the ass has turned up, the author speaks of Sancho as
+      being mounted on it.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t know what to say to that,&rdquo; said Sancho, &ldquo;unless
+      that the historian made a mistake, or perhaps it might be a blunder of the
+      printer&rsquo;s.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;No doubt that&rsquo;s it,&rdquo; said Samson; &ldquo;but what
+      became of the hundred crowns? Did they vanish?&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      To which Sancho answered, &ldquo;I spent them for my own good, and my wife&rsquo;s,
+      and my children&rsquo;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&rsquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I will take care,&rdquo; said Carrasco, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Is there anything else to correct in the history, señor bachelor?&rdquo;
+      asked Don Quixote.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;No doubt there is,&rdquo; replied he; &ldquo;but not anything that
+      will be of the same importance as those I have mentioned.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Does the author promise a second part at all?&rdquo; said Don
+      Quixote.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;He does promise one,&rdquo; replied Samson; &ldquo;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, &lsquo;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.&rsquo;&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;And what does the author mean to do?&rdquo; said Don Quixote.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;What?&rdquo; replied Samson; &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Whereat Sancho observed, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </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>
+      &ldquo;There&rsquo;s where it is, what I abominate, Señor Samson,&rdquo;
+      said Sancho here; &ldquo;my master will attack a hundred armed men as a
+      greedy boy would half a dozen melons. Body of the world, señor bachelor!
+      there is a time to attack and a time to retreat, and it is not to be
+      always &lsquo;Santiago, and close Spain!&rsquo; 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&rsquo;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&rsquo;t set up to be a fighting man, Señor 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, &lsquo;when they offer
+      thee a heifer, run with a halter; and &lsquo;when good luck comes to thee,
+      take it in.&rsquo;&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Brother Sancho,&rdquo; said Carrasco, &ldquo;you have spoken like a
+      professor; but, for all that, put your trust in God and in Señor Don
+      Quixote, for he will give you a kingdom, not to say an island.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;It is all the same, be it more or be it less,&rdquo; replied
+      Sancho; &ldquo;though I can tell Señor 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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Take care, Sancho,&rdquo; said Samson; &ldquo;honours change
+      manners, and perhaps when you find yourself a governor you won&rsquo;t
+      know the mother that bore you.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;That may hold good of those that are born in the ditches,&rdquo;
+      said Sancho, &ldquo;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?&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;God grant it,&rdquo; said Don Quixote; &ldquo;we shall see when the
+      government comes; and I seem to see it already.&rdquo;
+    </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,
+      &ldquo;Dulcinea del Toboso&rdquo; 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 &ldquo;Dulcinea
+      del Toboso&rdquo; might be got into four ballad stanzas.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;It must be, by some means or other,&rdquo; said Don Quixote,
+      &ldquo;for unless the name stands there plain and manifest, no woman would
+      believe the verses were made for her.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      They agreed upon this, and that the departure should take place in three
+      days from that time. Don Quixote charged the bachelor to keep it a secret,
+      especially from the curate and Master Nicholas, and from his niece and the
+      housekeeper, lest they should prevent the execution of his praiseworthy
+      and valiant purpose. Carrasco promised all, and then took his leave,
+      charging Don Quixote to inform him of his good or evil fortunes whenever
+      he had an opportunity; and thus they bade each other farewell, and Sancho
+      went away to make the necessary preparations for their expedition.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p04e" id="p04e"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p04e.jpg (55K)" src="images/p04e.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      <a name="ch5b" id="ch5b"></a>CHAPTER V.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      OF THE SHREWD AND DROLL CONVERSATION THAT PASSED BETWEEN SANCHO PANZA AND
+      HIS WIFE TERESA PANZA, AND OTHER MATTERS WORTHY OF BEING DULY RECORDED
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <a name="p05a" id="p05a"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p05a.jpg (129K)" src="images/p05a.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p05a.jpg" style="width:100%;"><img alt="Full Size"
+      src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The translator of this history, when he comes to write this fifth chapter,
+      says that he considers it apocryphal, because in it Sancho Panza speaks in
+      a style unlike that which might have been expected from his limited
+      intelligence, and says things so subtle that he does not think it possible
+      he could have conceived them; however, desirous of doing what his task
+      imposed upon him, he was unwilling to leave it untranslated, and therefore
+      he went on to say:
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Sancho came home in such glee and spirits that his wife noticed his
+      happiness a bowshot off, so much so that it made her ask him, &ldquo;What
+      have you got, Sancho friend, that you are so glad?&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      To which he replied, &ldquo;Wife, if it were God&rsquo;s will, I should be
+      very glad not to be so well pleased as I show myself.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t understand you, husband,&rdquo; said she, &ldquo;and
+      I don&rsquo;t know what you mean by saying you would be glad, if it were
+      God&rsquo;s will, not to be well pleased; for, fool as I am, I don&rsquo;t
+      know how one can find pleasure in not having it.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Hark ye, Teresa,&rdquo; replied Sancho, &ldquo;I am glad because I
+      have made up my mind to go back to the service of my master Don Quixote,
+      who means to go out a third time to seek for adventures; and I am going
+      with him again, for my necessities will have it so, and also the hope that
+      cheers me with the thought that I may find another hundred crowns like
+      those we have spent; though it makes me sad to have to leave thee and the
+      children; and if God would be pleased to let me have my daily bread,
+      dry-shod and at home, without taking me out into the byways and
+      cross-roads&mdash;and he could do it at small cost by merely willing it&mdash;it
+      is clear my happiness would be more solid and lasting, for the happiness I
+      have is mingled with sorrow at leaving thee; so that I was right in saying
+      I would be glad, if it were God&rsquo;s will, not to be well pleased.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Look here, Sancho,&rdquo; said Teresa; &ldquo;ever since you joined
+      on to a knight-errant you talk in such a roundabout way that there is no
+      understanding you.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;It is enough that God understands me, wife,&rdquo; replied Sancho;
+      &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I know well enough, husband,&rdquo; said Teresa, &ldquo;that
+      squires-errant don&rsquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I can tell you, wife,&rdquo; said Sancho, &ldquo;if I did not
+      expect to see myself governor of an island before long, I would drop down
+      dead on the spot.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Nay, then, husband,&rdquo; said Teresa; &ldquo;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&rsquo;s womb without
+      a government, you have lived until now without a government, and when it
+      is God&rsquo;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&rsquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;By my faith,&rdquo; replied Sancho, &ldquo;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
+      &lsquo;my lady.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Nay, Sancho,&rdquo; returned Teresa; &ldquo;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 &lsquo;Marica&rsquo; and &lsquo;thou,&rsquo; into
+      &lsquo;Dona So-and-so&rsquo; and &lsquo;my lady,&rsquo; the girl won&rsquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Tut, you fool,&rdquo; said Sancho; &ldquo;it will be only to
+      practise it for two or three years; and then dignity and decorum will fit
+      her as easily as a glove; and if not, what matter? Let her be &lsquo;my
+      lady,&rsquo; and never mind what happens.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Keep to your own station, Sancho,&rdquo; replied Teresa; &ldquo;don&rsquo;t
+      try to raise yourself higher, and bear in mind the proverb that says,
+      &lsquo;wipe the nose of your neigbbour&rsquo;s son, and take him into your
+      house.&rsquo; 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&rsquo;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&rsquo;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&rsquo;t you go marrying her in those
+      courts and grand palaces where they won&rsquo;t know what to make of her,
+      or she what to make of herself.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Why, you idiot and wife for Barabbas,&rdquo; said Sancho, &ldquo;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
+      &lsquo;your lordship&rsquo;? 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.&rdquo;
+    </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>
+      &ldquo;Don&rsquo;t you see, you animal,&rdquo; continued Sancho, &ldquo;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 &lsquo;Dona Teresa Panza,&rsquo; and
+      sitting in church on a fine carpet and cushions and draperies, in spite
+      and in defiance of all the born ladies of the town? No, stay as you are,
+      growing neither greater nor less, like a tapestry figure&mdash;Let us say
+      no more about it, for Sanchica shall be a countess, say what you will.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Are you sure of all you say, husband?&rdquo; replied Teresa.
+      &ldquo;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&rsquo;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&rsquo;s name, and as I
+      am your wife, I am called Teresa Panza, though by right I ought to be
+      called Teresa Cascajo; but &lsquo;kings go where laws like,&rsquo; and I
+      am content with this name without having the &lsquo;Don&rsquo; put on top
+      of it to make it so heavy that I cannot carry it; and I don&rsquo;t want
+      to make people talk about me when they see me go dressed like a countess
+      or governor&rsquo;s wife; for they will say at once, &lsquo;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&rsquo;t know her!&rsquo; 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&rsquo;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&rsquo;t know, I&rsquo;m
+      sure, who fixed the &lsquo;Don&rsquo; to him, what neither his father nor
+      grandfather ever had.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I declare thou hast a devil of some sort in thy body!&rdquo; said
+      Sancho. &ldquo;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&rsquo;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 &lsquo;Don&rsquo; and &lsquo;my lady&rsquo; 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&rsquo;t you consent and fall in
+      with my wishes?&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Do you know why, husband?&rdquo; replied Teresa; &ldquo;because of
+      the proverb that says &lsquo;who covers thee, discovers thee.&rsquo; 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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Look here, Teresa,&rdquo; said Sancho, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </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&rsquo;s capacity.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Whence it arises,&rdquo; he continued, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I do not understand you, husband,&rdquo; replied Teresa; &ldquo;do
+      as you like, and don&rsquo;t break my head with any more speechifying and
+      rethoric; and if you have revolved to do what you say-&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Resolved, you should say, woman,&rdquo; said Sancho, &ldquo;not
+      revolved.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Don&rsquo;t set yourself to wrangle with me, husband,&rdquo; said
+      Teresa; &ldquo;I speak as God pleases, and don&rsquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;As soon as I have the government,&rdquo; said Sancho, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;You send the money,&rdquo; said Teresa, &ldquo;and I&rsquo;ll dress
+      him up for you as fine as you please.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Then we are agreed that our daughter is to be a countess,&rdquo;
+      said Sancho.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;The day that I see her a countess,&rdquo; replied Teresa, &ldquo;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;&rdquo; and with this she began to weep in
+      earnest, as if she already saw Sanchica dead and buried.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Sancho consoled her by saying that though he must make her a countess, he
+      would put it off as long as possible. Here their conversation came to an
+      end, and Sancho went back to see Don Quixote, and make arrangements for
+      their departure.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p05e" id="p05e"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p05e.jpg (49K)" src="images/p05e.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p05e.jpg" style="width:100%;"><img alt="Full Size"
+      src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      <a name="ch6b" id="ch6b"></a>CHAPTER VI.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      OF WHAT TOOK PLACE BETWEEN DON QUIXOTE AND HIS NIECE AND HOUSEKEEPER; ONE
+      OF THE MOST IMPORTANT CHAPTERS IN THE WHOLE HISTORY
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <a name="p06a" id="p06a"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p06a.jpg (93K)" src="images/p06a.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p06a.jpg" style="width:100%;"><img alt="Full Size"
+      src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      While Sancho Panza and his wife, Teresa Cascajo, held the above irrelevant
+      conversation, Don Quixote&rsquo;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, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      To which Don Quixote replied, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Whereupon the housekeeper said, &ldquo;Tell us, señor, at his Majesty&rsquo;s
+      court are there no knights?&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;There are,&rdquo; replied Don Quixote, &ldquo;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&rsquo;s majesty.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Then might not your worship,&rdquo; said she, &ldquo;be one of
+      those that, without stirring a step, serve their king and lord in his
+      court?&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Recollect, my friend,&rdquo; said Don Quixote, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Ah, señor,&rdquo; here exclaimed the niece, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;By the God that gives me life,&rdquo; said Don Quixote, &ldquo;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 Señor 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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;God bless me!&rdquo; said the niece, &ldquo;that you should know so
+      much, uncle&mdash;enough, if need be, to get up into a pulpit and go
+      preach in the streets&mdash;and yet that you should fall into a delusion
+      so great and a folly so manifest as to try to make yourself out vigorous
+      when you are old, strong when you are sickly, able to put straight what is
+      crooked when you yourself are bent by age, and, above all, a caballero
+      when you are not one; for though gentlefolk may be so, poor men are
+      nothing of the kind!&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;There is a great deal of truth in what you say, niece,&rdquo;
+      returned Don Quixote, &ldquo;and I could tell you somewhat about birth
+      that would astonish you; but, not to mix up things human and divine, I
+      refrain. Look you, my dears, all the lineages in the world (attend to what
+      I am saying) can be reduced to four sorts, which are these: those that had
+      humble beginnings, and went on spreading and extending themselves until
+      they attained surpassing greatness; those that had great beginnings and
+      maintained them, and still maintain and uphold the greatness of their
+      origin; those, again, that from a great beginning have ended in a point
+      like a pyramid, having reduced and lessened their original greatness till
+      it has come to nought, like the point of a pyramid, which, relatively to
+      its base or foundation, is nothing; and then there are those&mdash;and it
+      is they that are the most numerous&mdash;that have had neither an
+      illustrious beginning nor a remarkable mid-course, and so will have an end
+      without a name, like an ordinary plebeian line. Of the first, those that
+      had an humble origin and rose to the greatness they still preserve, the
+      Ottoman house may serve as an example, which from an humble and lowly
+      shepherd, its founder, has reached the height at which we now see it. For
+      examples of the second sort of lineage, that began with greatness and
+      maintains it still without adding to it, there are the many princes who
+      have inherited the dignity, and maintain themselves in their inheritance,
+      without increasing or diminishing it, keeping peacefully within the limits
+      of their states. Of those that began great and ended in a point, there are
+      thousands of examples, for all the Pharaohs and Ptolemies of Egypt, the
+      Caesars of Rome, and the whole herd (if I may apply such a word to them)
+      of countless princes, monarchs, lords, Medes, Assyrians, Persians, Greeks,
+      and barbarians, all these lineages and lordships have ended in a point and
+      come to nothing, they themselves as well as their founders, for it would
+      be impossible now to find one of their descendants, and, even should we
+      find one, it would be in some lowly and humble condition. Of plebeian
+      lineages I have nothing to say, save that they merely serve to swell the
+      number of those that live, without any eminence to entitle them to any
+      fame or praise beyond this. From all I have said I would have you gather,
+      my poor innocents, that great is the confusion among lineages, and that
+      only those are seen to be great and illustrious that show themselves so by
+      the virtue, wealth, and generosity of their possessors. I have said
+      virtue, wealth, and generosity, because a great man who is vicious will be
+      a great example of vice, and a rich man who is not generous will be merely
+      a miserly beggar; for the possessor of wealth is not made happy by
+      possessing it, but by spending it, and not by spending as he pleases, but
+      by knowing how to spend it well. The poor gentleman has no way of showing
+      that he is a gentleman but by virtue, by being affable, well-bred,
+      courteous, gentle-mannered, and kindly, not haughty, arrogant, or
+      censorious, but above all by being charitable; for by two maravedis given
+      with a cheerful heart to the poor, he will show himself as generous as he
+      who distributes alms with bell-ringing, and no one that perceives him to
+      be endowed with the virtues I have named, even though he know him not,
+      will fail to recognise and set him down as one of good blood; and it would
+      be strange were it not so; praise has ever been the reward of virtue, and
+      those who are virtuous cannot fail to receive commendation. There are two
+      roads, my daughters, by which men may reach wealth and honours; one is
+      that of letters, the other that of arms. I have more of arms than of
+      letters in my composition, and, judging by my inclination to arms, was
+      born under the influence of the planet Mars. I am, therefore, in a measure
+      constrained to follow that road, and by it I must travel in spite of all
+      the world, and it will be labour in vain for you to urge me to resist what
+      heaven wills, fate ordains, reason requires, and, above all, my own
+      inclination favours; for knowing as I do the countless toils that are the
+      accompaniments of knight-errantry, I know, too, the infinite blessings
+      that are attained by it; I know that the path of virtue is very narrow,
+      and the road of vice broad and spacious; I know their ends and goals are
+      different, for the broad and easy road of vice ends in death, and the
+      narrow and toilsome one of virtue in life, and not transitory life, but in
+      that which has no end; I know, as our great Castilian poet says, that-
+    </p>
+<pre xml:space="preserve">
+It is by rugged paths like these they go
+That scale the heights of immortality,
+Unreached by those that falter here below.&rdquo;
+ </pre>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Woe is me!&rdquo; exclaimed the niece, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I can tell you, niece,&rdquo; replied Don Quixote, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      At this moment there came a knocking at the door, and when they asked who
+      was there, Sancho Panza made answer that it was he. The instant the
+      housekeeper knew who it was, she ran to hide herself so as not to see him;
+      in such abhorrence did she hold him. The niece let him in, and his master
+      Don Quixote came forward to receive him with open arms, and the pair shut
+      themselves up in his room, where they had another conversation not
+      inferior to the previous one.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p06e" id="p06e"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p06e.jpg (19K)" src="images/p06e.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      <a name="ch7b" id="ch7b"></a>CHAPTER VII.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      OF WHAT PASSED BETWEEN DON QUIXOTE AND HIS SQUIRE, TOGETHER WITH OTHER
+      VERY NOTABLE INCIDENTS
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <a name="p07a" id="p07a"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p07a.jpg (140K)" src="images/p07a.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p07a.jpg" style="width:100%;"><img alt="Full Size"
+      src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The instant the housekeeper saw Sancho Panza shut himself in with her
+      master, she guessed what they were about; and suspecting that the result
+      of the consultation would be a resolve to undertake a third sally, she
+      seized her mantle, and in deep anxiety and distress, ran to find the
+      bachelor Samson Carrasco, as she thought that, being a well-spoken man,
+      and a new friend of her master&rsquo;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, &ldquo;What
+      is this, mistress housekeeper? What has happened to you? One would think
+      you heart-broken.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Nothing, Señor Samson,&rdquo; said she, &ldquo;only that my master
+      is breaking out, plainly breaking out.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Whereabouts is he breaking out, señora?&rdquo; asked Samson;
+      &ldquo;has any part of his body burst?&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;He is only breaking out at the door of his madness,&rdquo; she
+      replied; &ldquo;I mean, dear señor 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&rsquo;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&rsquo;t let me tell a lie.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;That I can well believe,&rdquo; replied the bachelor, &ldquo;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?&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;No, señor,&rdquo; said she.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Well then,&rdquo; returned the bachelor, &ldquo;don&rsquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Woe is me,&rdquo; cried the housekeeper, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I know what I am saying, mistress housekeeper; go, and don&rsquo;t
+      set yourself to argue with me, for you know I am a bachelor of Salamanca,
+      and one can&rsquo;t be more of a bachelor than that,&rdquo; 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, &ldquo;Señor, I have educed my wife to let me
+      go with your worship wherever you choose to take me.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Induced, you should say, Sancho,&rdquo; said Don Quixote; &ldquo;not
+      educed.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Once or twice, as well as I remember,&rdquo; replied Sancho,
+      &ldquo;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&rsquo;t understand them to
+      say &lsquo;Sancho,&rsquo; or &lsquo;devil,&rsquo; &lsquo;I don&rsquo;t
+      understand thee; and if I don&rsquo;t make my meaning plain, then you may
+      correct me, for I am so focile-&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t understand thee, Sancho,&rdquo; said Don Quixote at
+      once; &ldquo;for I know not what &lsquo;I am so focile&rsquo; means.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;&lsquo;So focile&rsquo; means I am so much that way,&rdquo; replied
+      Sancho.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I understand thee still less now,&rdquo; said Don Quixote.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Well, if you can&rsquo;t understand me,&rdquo; said Sancho, &ldquo;I
+      don&rsquo;t know how to put it; I know no more, God help me.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Oh, now I have hit it,&rdquo; said Don Quixote; &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I would bet,&rdquo; said Sancho, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;May be so,&rdquo; replied Don Quixote; &ldquo;but to come to the
+      point, what does Teresa say?&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Teresa says,&rdquo; replied Sancho, &ldquo;that I should make sure
+      with your worship, and &lsquo;let papers speak and beards be still,&rsquo;
+      for &lsquo;he who binds does not wrangle,&rsquo; since one &lsquo;take&rsquo;
+      is better than two &lsquo;I&rsquo;ll give thee&rsquo;s;&rsquo; and I say a
+      woman&rsquo;s advice is no great thing, and he who won&rsquo;t take it is
+      a fool.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;And so say I,&rdquo; said Don Quixote; &ldquo;continue, Sancho my
+      friend; go on; you talk pearls to-day.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;The fact is,&rdquo; continued Sancho, &ldquo;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&rsquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;All that is very true,&rdquo; said Don Quixote; &ldquo;but I cannot
+      make out what thou art driving at.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;What I am driving at,&rdquo; said Sancho, &ldquo;is that your
+      worship settle some fixed wages for me, to be paid monthly while I am in
+      your service, and that the same be paid me out of your estate; for I don&rsquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Sancho, my friend,&rdquo; replied Don Quixote, &ldquo;sometimes
+      proportion may be as good as promotion.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I see,&rdquo; said Sancho; &ldquo;I&rsquo;ll bet I ought to have
+      said proportion, and not promotion; but it is no matter, as your worship
+      has understood me.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;And so well understood,&rdquo; returned Don Quixote, &ldquo;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&rsquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      When Sancho heard his master&rsquo;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, &ldquo;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!&rdquo; And then,
+      turning to the housekeeper, he said, &ldquo;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 Señor 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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      At this, Don Quixote, turning to Sancho, said, &ldquo;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&rsquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I do deign,&rdquo; said Sancho, deeply moved and with tears in his
+      eyes; &ldquo;it shall not be said of me, master mine,&rdquo; he continued,
+      &ldquo;&lsquo;the bread eaten and the company dispersed.&rsquo; 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&rsquo;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&rsquo;t deny, I will be one
+      in my own house too, let who will take it amiss; and so there&rsquo;s
+      nothing more to do but for your worship to make your will with its codicil
+      in such a way that it can&rsquo;t be provoked, and let us set out at once,
+      to save Señor Samson&rsquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The bachelor was filled with amazement when he heard Sancho&rsquo;s
+      phraseology and style of talk, for though he had read the first part of
+      his master&rsquo;s history he never thought that he could be so droll as
+      he was there described; but now, hearing him talk of a &ldquo;will and
+      codicil that could not be provoked,&rdquo; instead of &ldquo;will and
+      codicil that could not be revoked,&rdquo; 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&rsquo;s intention in persuading him to sally forth
+      once more was to do what the history relates farther on; all by the advice
+      of the curate and barber, with whom he had previously discussed the
+      subject. Finally, then, during those three days, Don Quixote and Sancho
+      provided themselves with what they considered necessary, and Sancho having
+      pacified his wife, and Don Quixote his niece and housekeeper, at
+      nightfall, unseen by anyone except the bachelor, who thought fit to
+      accompany them half a league out of the village, they set out for El
+      Toboso, Don Quixote on his good Rocinante and Sancho on his old Dapple,
+      his alforjas furnished with certain matters in the way of victuals, and
+      his purse with money that Don Quixote gave him to meet emergencies. Samson
+      embraced him, and entreated him to let him hear of his good or evil
+      fortunes, so that he might rejoice over the former or condole with him
+      over the latter, as the laws of friendship required. Don Quixote promised
+      him he would do so, and Samson returned to the village, and the other two
+      took the road for the great city of El Toboso.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p07e" id="p07e"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p07e.jpg (24K)" src="images/p07e.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      <a name="ch8b" id="ch8b"></a>CHAPTER VIII.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      WHEREIN IS RELATED WHAT BEFELL DON QUIXOTE ON HIS WAY TO SEE HIS LADY
+      DULCINEA DEL TOBOSO
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <a name="p08a" id="p08a"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p08a.jpg (65K)" src="images/p08a.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p08a.jpg" style="width:100%;"><img alt="Full Size"
+      src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Blessed be Allah the all-powerful!&rdquo; says Hamete Benengeli on
+      beginning this eighth chapter; &ldquo;blessed be Allah!&rdquo; 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, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p08b" id="p08b"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p08b.jpg (283K)" src="images/p08b.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p08b.jpg" style="width:100%;"><img alt="Full Size"
+      src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;So I believe,&rdquo; replied Sancho; &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Didst thou take that for a yard wall, Sancho,&rdquo; said Don
+      Quixote, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;It might have been all that,&rdquo; returned Sancho, &ldquo;but to
+      me it looked like a wall, unless I am short of memory.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;At all events, let us go there, Sancho,&rdquo; said Don Quixote;
+      &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Well, to tell the truth, señor,&rdquo; said Sancho, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;What! dost thou still persist, Sancho,&rdquo; said Don Quixote,
+      &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;So I say too,&rdquo; replied Sancho; &ldquo;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&rsquo;t care a fig,
+      let them say what they like of me.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;That, Sancho,&rdquo; returned Don Quixote, &ldquo;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 &lsquo;of all the gods,&rsquo; but now-a-days, by a
+      better nomenclature, &lsquo;of all the saints,&rsquo; 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, &lsquo;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.&rsquo; &lsquo;I am thankful to you for not
+      carrying such an evil thought into effect,&rsquo; said the emperor,
+      &lsquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;All that your worship has said so far,&rdquo; said Sancho, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Solve, thou meanest, Sancho,&rdquo; said Don Quixote; &ldquo;say
+      on, in God&rsquo;s name, and I will answer as well as I can.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Tell me, señor,&rdquo; Sancho went on to say, &ldquo;those Julys or
+      Augusts, and all those venturous knights that you say are now dead&mdash;where
+      are they now?&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;The heathens,&rdquo; replied Don Quixote, &ldquo;are, no doubt, in
+      hell; the Christians, if they were good Christians, are either in
+      purgatory or in heaven.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Very good,&rdquo; said Sancho; &ldquo;but now I want to know&mdash;the
+      tombs where the bodies of those great lords are, have they silver lamps
+      before them, or are the walls of their chapels ornamented with crutches,
+      winding-sheets, tresses of hair, legs and eyes in wax? Or what are they
+      ornamented with?&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      To which Don Quixote made answer: &ldquo;The tombs of the heathens were
+      generally sumptuous temples; the ashes of Julius Caesar&rsquo;s body were
+      placed on the top of a stone pyramid of vast size, which they now call in
+      Rome Saint Peter&rsquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;That&rsquo;s the point I&rsquo;m coming to,&rdquo; said Sancho;
+      &ldquo;and now tell me, which is the greater work, to bring a dead man to
+      life or to kill a giant?&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;The answer is easy,&rdquo; replied Don Quixote; &ldquo;it is a
+      greater work to bring to life a dead man.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Now I have got you,&rdquo; said Sancho; &ldquo;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?&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;That I grant, too,&rdquo; said Don Quixote.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Then this fame, these favours, these privileges, or whatever you
+      call it,&rdquo; said Sancho, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;What wouldst thou have me infer from all thou hast said, Sancho?&rdquo;
+      asked Don Quixote.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;My meaning is,&rdquo; said Sancho, &ldquo;let us set about becoming
+      saints, and we shall obtain more quickly the fair fame we are striving
+      after; for you know, señor, 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,
+      señor, 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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;All that is true,&rdquo; returned Don Quixote, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Yes,&rdquo; said Sancho, &ldquo;but I have heard say that there are
+      more friars in heaven than knights-errant.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;That,&rdquo; said Don Quixote, &ldquo;is because those in religious
+      orders are more numerous than knights.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;The errants are many,&rdquo; said Sancho.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Many,&rdquo; replied Don Quixote, &ldquo;but few they who deserve
+      the name of knights.&rdquo;
+    </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&rsquo;s spirits rose and Sancho&rsquo;s fell, for he did
+      not know Dulcinea&rsquo;s house, nor in all his life had he ever seen her,
+      any more than his master; so that they were both uneasy, the one to see
+      her, the other at not having seen her, and Sancho was at a loss to know
+      what he was to do when his master sent him to El Toboso. In the end, Don
+      Quixote made up his mind to enter the city at nightfall, and they waited
+      until the time came among some oak trees that were near El Toboso; and
+      when the moment they had agreed upon arrived, they made their entrance
+      into the city, where something happened them that may fairly be called
+      something.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p08e" id="p08e"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p08e.jpg (49K)" src="images/p08e.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p08e.jpg" style="width:100%;"><img alt="Full Size"
+      src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      <a name="ch9b" id="ch9b"></a>CHAPTER IX.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      WHEREIN IS RELATED WHAT WILL BE SEEN THERE
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <a name="p09a" id="p09a"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p09a.jpg (79K)" src="images/p09a.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p09a.jpg" style="width:100%;"><img alt="Full Size"
+      src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &lsquo;Twas at the very midnight hour&mdash;more or less&mdash;when Don
+      Quixote and Sancho quitted the wood and entered El Toboso. The town was in
+      deep silence, for all the inhabitants were asleep, and stretched on the
+      broad of their backs, as the saying is. The night was darkish, though
+      Sancho would have been glad had it been quite dark, so as to find in the
+      darkness an excuse for his blundering. All over the place nothing was to
+      be heard except the barking of dogs, which deafened the ears of Don
+      Quixote and troubled the heart of Sancho. Now and then an ass brayed, pigs
+      grunted, cats mewed, and the various noises they made seemed louder in the
+      silence of the night; all which the enamoured knight took to be of evil
+      omen; nevertheless he said to Sancho, &ldquo;Sancho, my son, lead on to
+      the palace of Dulcinea, it may be that we shall find her awake.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Body of the sun! what palace am I to lead to,&rdquo; said Sancho,
+      &ldquo;when what I saw her highness in was only a very little house?&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Most likely she had then withdrawn into some small apartment of her
+      palace,&rdquo; said Don Quixote, &ldquo;to amuse herself with damsels, as
+      great ladies and princesses are accustomed to do.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Señor,&rdquo; said Sancho, &ldquo;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?&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Let us first of all find out the palace for certain,&rdquo; replied
+      Don Quixote, &ldquo;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&rsquo;s palace.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Then let your worship lead the way,&rdquo; said Sancho, &ldquo;perhaps
+      it may be so; though I see it with my eyes and touch it with my hands, I&rsquo;ll
+      believe it as much as I believe it is daylight now.&rdquo;
+    </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, &ldquo;It&rsquo;s the
+      church we have lit upon, Sancho.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;So I see,&rdquo; said Sancho, &ldquo;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&rsquo;t mistake, that the house of this lady will be in an alley
+      without an outlet.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;The curse of God on thee for a blockhead!&rdquo; said Don Quixote;
+      &ldquo;where hast thou ever heard of castles and royal palaces being built
+      in alleys without an outlet?&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Señor,&rdquo; replied Sancho, &ldquo;every country has a way of its
+      own; perhaps here in El Toboso it is the way to build palaces and grand
+      buildings in alleys; so I entreat your worship to let me search about
+      among these streets or alleys before me, and perhaps, in some corner or
+      other, I may stumble on this palace&mdash;and I wish I saw the dogs eating
+      it for leading us such a dance.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Speak respectfully of what belongs to my lady, Sancho,&rdquo; said
+      Don Quixote; &ldquo;let us keep the feast in peace, and not throw the rope
+      after the bucket.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I&rsquo;ll hold my tongue,&rdquo; said Sancho, &ldquo;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&rsquo;t find it, who must have seen it
+      thousands of times?&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Thou wilt drive me to desperation, Sancho,&rdquo; said Don Quixote.
+      &ldquo;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?&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I hear it now,&rdquo; returned Sancho; &ldquo;and I may tell you
+      that if you have not seen her, no more have I.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;That cannot be,&rdquo; said Don Quixote, &ldquo;for, at any rate,
+      thou saidst, on bringing back the answer to the letter I sent by thee,
+      that thou sawest her sifting wheat.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Don&rsquo;t mind that, señor,&rdquo; said Sancho; &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Sancho, Sancho,&rdquo; said Don Quixote, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </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 class="poem">
+      Ill did ye fare, ye men of France,<br/>
+      In Roncesvalles chase&mdash;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;May I die, Sancho,&rdquo; said Don Quixote, when he heard him,
+      &ldquo;if any good will come to us to-night! Dost thou not hear what that
+      clown is singing?&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I do,&rdquo; said Sancho, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      By this time the labourer had come up, and Don Quixote asked him, &ldquo;Can
+      you tell me, worthy friend, and God speed you, whereabouts here is the
+      palace of the peerless princess Dona Dulcinea del Toboso?&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Señor,&rdquo; replied the lad, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Well, then, she I am inquiring for will be one of these, my friend,&rdquo;
+      said Don Quixote.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;May be so,&rdquo; replied the lad; &ldquo;God be with you, for here
+      comes the daylight;&rdquo; 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,
+      &ldquo;Señor, 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&rsquo;t leave a nook or
+      corner of the whole village that I won&rsquo;t search for the house,
+      castle, or palace, of my lady, and it will be hard luck for me if I don&rsquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Sancho,&rdquo; said Don Quixote, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Sancho was in a fever to get his master out of the town, lest he should
+      discover the falsehood of the reply he had brought to him in the Sierra
+      Morena on behalf of Dulcinea; so he hastened their departure, which they
+      took at once, and two miles out of the village they found a forest or
+      thicket wherein Don Quixote ensconced himself, while Sancho returned to
+      the city to speak to Dulcinea, in which embassy things befell him which
+      demand fresh attention and a new chapter.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p09e" id="p09e"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p09e.jpg (34K)" src="images/p09e.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      <a name="ch10b" id="ch10b"></a>CHAPTER X.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      WHEREIN IS RELATED THE CRAFTY DEVICE SANCHO ADOPTED TO ENCHANT THE LADY
+      DULCINEA, AND OTHER INCIDENTS AS LUDICROUS AS THEY ARE TRUE
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <a name="p10a" id="p10a"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p10a.jpg (142K)" src="images/p10a.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p10a.jpg" style="width:100%;"><img alt="Full Size"
+      src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      When the author of this great history comes to relate what is set down in
+      this chapter he says he would have preferred to pass it over in silence,
+      fearing it would not be believed, because here Don Quixote&rsquo;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>
+      &ldquo;Go, my son,&rdquo; said Don Quixote, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I will go and return quickly,&rdquo; said Sancho; &ldquo;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&rsquo;s
+      not looked for. I say this because, if we could not find my lady&rsquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Verily, Sancho,&rdquo; said Don Quixote, &ldquo;thou dost always
+      bring in thy proverbs happily, whatever we deal with; may God give me
+      better luck in what I am anxious about.&rdquo;
+    </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, &ldquo;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&rsquo;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&rsquo;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 &lsquo;you are a messenger, my friend, no blame belongs to you.&rsquo;
+      Don&rsquo;t you trust to that, Sancho, for the Manchegan folk are as
+      hot-tempered as they are honest, and won&rsquo;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!&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Such was the soliloquy Sancho held with himself, and all the conclusion he
+      could come to was to say to himself again, &ldquo;Well, there&rsquo;s
+      remedy for everything except death, under whose yoke we have all to pass,
+      whether we like it or not, when life&rsquo;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&rsquo;m a greater fool
+      than he is when I follow him and serve him, if there&rsquo;s any truth in
+      the proverb that says, &lsquo;Tell me what company thou keepest, and I&rsquo;ll
+      tell thee what thou art,&rsquo; or in that other, &lsquo;Not with whom
+      thou art bred, but with whom thou art fed.&rsquo; 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&rsquo; 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&rsquo;ll
+      swear it; and if he should swear, I&rsquo;ll swear again; and if he
+      persists I&rsquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      With this reflection Sancho made his mind easy, counting the business as
+      good as settled, and stayed there till the afternoon so as to make Don
+      Quixote think he had time enough to go to El Toboso and return; and things
+      turned out so luckily for him that as he got up to mount Dapple, he spied,
+      coming from El Toboso towards the spot where he stood, three peasant girls
+      on three colts, or fillies&mdash;for the author does not make the point
+      clear, though it is more likely they were she-asses, the usual mount with
+      village girls; but as it is of no great consequence, we need not stop to
+      prove it.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      To be brief, the instant Sancho saw the peasant girls, he returned full
+      speed to seek his master, and found him sighing and uttering a thousand
+      passionate lamentations. When Don Quixote saw him he exclaimed, &ldquo;What
+      news, Sancho, my friend? Am I to mark this day with a white stone or a
+      black?&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Your worship,&rdquo; replied Sancho, &ldquo;had better mark it with
+      ruddle, like the inscriptions on the walls of class rooms, that those who
+      see it may see it plain.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Then thou bringest good news,&rdquo; said Don Quixote.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;So good,&rdquo; replied Sancho, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Holy God! what art thou saying, Sancho, my friend?&rdquo; exclaimed
+      Don Quixote. &ldquo;Take care thou art not deceiving me, or seeking by
+      false joy to cheer my real sadness.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;What could I get by deceiving your worship,&rdquo; returned Sancho,
+      &ldquo;especially when it will so soon be shown whether I tell the truth
+      or not? Come, señor, push on, and you will see the princess our mistress
+      coming, robed and adorned&mdash;in fact, like what she is. Her damsels and
+      she are all one glow of gold, all bunches of pearls, all diamonds, all
+      rubies, all cloth of brocade of more than ten borders; with their hair
+      loose on their shoulders like so many sunbeams playing with the wind; and
+      moreover, they come mounted on three piebald cackneys, the finest sight
+      ever you saw.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Hackneys, you mean, Sancho,&rdquo; said Don Quixote.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;There is not much difference between cackneys and hackneys,&rdquo;
+      said Sancho; &ldquo;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&rsquo;s senses.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Let us go, Sancho, my son,&rdquo; said Don Quixote, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I&rsquo;ll take the foals,&rdquo; said Sancho; &ldquo;for it is not
+      quite certain that the spoils of the first adventure will be good ones.&rdquo;
+    </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>
+      &ldquo;How outside the city?&rdquo; returned Sancho. &ldquo;Are your
+      worship&rsquo;s eyes in the back of your head, that you can&rsquo;t see
+      that they are these who are coming here, shining like the very sun at
+      noonday?&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I see nothing, Sancho,&rdquo; said Don Quixote, &ldquo;but three
+      country girls on three jackasses.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Now, may God deliver me from the devil!&rdquo; said Sancho, &ldquo;and
+      can it be that your worship takes three hackneys&mdash;or whatever they&rsquo;re
+      called&mdash;as white as the driven snow, for jackasses? By the Lord, I
+      could tear my beard if that was the case!&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Well, I can only say, Sancho, my friend,&rdquo; said Don Quixote,
+      &ldquo;that it is as plain they are jackasses&mdash;or jennyasses&mdash;as
+      that I am Don Quixote, and thou Sancho Panza: at any rate, they seem to me
+      to be so.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Hush, señor,&rdquo; said Sancho, &ldquo;don&rsquo;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;&rdquo; 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, &ldquo;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 &lsquo;The Knight of the Rueful Countenance.&rsquo;&rdquo;
+    </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, &ldquo;Get out
+      of the way, bad luck to you, and let us pass, for we are in a hurry.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p10b" id="p10b"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p10b.jpg (319K)" src="images/p10b.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p10b.jpg" style="width:100%;"><img alt="Full Size"
+      src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      To which Sancho returned, &ldquo;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?&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      On hearing this, one of the others exclaimed, &ldquo;Woa then! why, I&rsquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Get up, Sancho,&rdquo; said Don Quixote at this; &ldquo;I see that
+      fortune, &lsquo;with evil done to me unsated still,&rsquo; has taken
+      possession of all the roads by which any comfort may reach &lsquo;this
+      wretched soul&rsquo; 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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Hey-day! My grandfather!&rdquo; cried the girl, &ldquo;much I care
+      for your love-making! Get out of the way and let us pass, and we&rsquo;ll
+      thank you.&rdquo;
+    </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 &ldquo;cackney&rdquo;
+      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&rsquo;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, &ldquo;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;&rdquo; 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, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;O scum of the earth!&rdquo; cried Sancho at this, &ldquo;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&rsquo;s eyes into oak
+      galls, and her hair of purest gold into the bristles of a red ox&rsquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;From the correspondence which exists between those of the face and
+      those of the body,&rdquo; said Don Quixote, &ldquo;Dulcinea must have
+      another mole resembling that on the thick of the thigh on that side on
+      which she has the one on her face; but hairs of the length thou hast
+      mentioned are very long for moles.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Well, all I can say is there they were as plain as could be,&rdquo;
+      replied Sancho.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I believe it, my friend,&rdquo; returned Don Quixote; &ldquo;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?&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;It was neither,&rdquo; replied Sancho, &ldquo;but a jineta saddle,
+      with a field covering worth half a kingdom, so rich is it.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;And that I could not see all this, Sancho!&rdquo; said Don Quixote;
+      &ldquo;once more I say, and will say a thousand times, I am the most
+      unfortunate of men.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Sancho, the rogue, had enough to do to hide his laughter, at hearing the
+      simplicity of the master he had so nicely befooled. At length, after a
+      good deal more conversation had passed between them, they remounted their
+      beasts, and followed the road to Saragossa, which they expected to reach
+      in time to take part in a certain grand festival which is held every year
+      in that illustrious city; but before they got there things happened to
+      them, so many, so important, and so strange, that they deserve to be
+      recorded and read, as will be seen farther on.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p10e" id="p10e"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p10e.jpg (56K)" src="images/p10e.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p10e.jpg" style="width:100%;"><img alt="Full Size"
+      src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      <a name="ch11b" id="ch11b"></a>CHAPTER XI.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      OF THE STRANGE ADVENTURE WHICH THE VALIANT DON QUIXOTE HAD WITH THE CAR OR
+      CART OF &ldquo;THE CORTES OF DEATH&rdquo;
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <a name="p11a" id="p11a"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p11a.jpg (172K)" src="images/p11a.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p11a.jpg" style="width:100%;"><img alt="Full Size"
+      src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Dejected beyond measure did Don Quixote pursue his journey, turning over
+      in his mind the cruel trick the enchanters had played him in changing his
+      lady Dulcinea into the vile shape of the village lass, nor could he think
+      of any way of restoring her to her original form; and these reflections so
+      absorbed him, that without being aware of it he let go Rocinante&rsquo;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. &ldquo;Melancholy, señor,&rdquo;
+      said he, &ldquo;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&rsquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Hush, Sancho,&rdquo; said Don Quixote in a weak and faint voice,
+      &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;So say I,&rdquo; returned Sancho; &ldquo;his heart rend in twain, I
+      trow, who saw her once, to see her now.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Thou mayest well say that, Sancho,&rdquo; replied Don Quixote,
+      &ldquo;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&rsquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Very likely,&rdquo; said Sancho; &ldquo;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, señor,
+      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&rsquo;t know her any more
+      than they would my father.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Perhaps, Sancho,&rdquo; returned Don Quixote, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I declare, I think what your worship has proposed is excellent,&rdquo;
+      said Sancho; &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </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&rsquo;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, &ldquo;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&rsquo;s boat than an ordinary cart.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      To which the devil, stopping the cart, answered quietly, &ldquo;Señor, we
+      are players of Angulo el Malo&rsquo;s company; we have been acting the
+      play of &lsquo;The Cortes of Death&rsquo; 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&rsquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;By the faith of a knight-errant,&rdquo; replied Don Quixote,
+      &ldquo;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&rsquo;s
+      art.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      While they were talking, fate so willed it that one of the company in a
+      mummers&rsquo; 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&rsquo;s efforts to hold him in, taking the
+      bit between his teeth he set off across the plain with greater speed than
+      the bones of his anatomy ever gave any promise of.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p11b" id="p11b"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p11b.jpg (327K)" src="images/p11b.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p11b.jpg" style="width:100%;"><img alt="Full Size"
+      src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Sancho, who thought his master was in danger of being thrown, jumped off
+      Dapple, and ran in all haste to help him; but by the time he reached him
+      he was already on the ground, and beside him was Rocinante, who had come
+      down with his master, the usual end and upshot of Rocinante&rsquo;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&rsquo;s career and his master&rsquo;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&rsquo;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, &ldquo;Señor, the devil has carried off my Dapple.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;What devil?&rdquo; asked Don Quixote.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;The one with the bladders,&rdquo; said Sancho.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Then I will recover him,&rdquo; said Don Quixote, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;You need not take the trouble, señor,&rdquo; said Sancho; &ldquo;keep
+      cool, for as I now see, the devil has let Dapple go and he is coming back
+      to his old quarters;&rdquo; 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>
+      &ldquo;For all that,&rdquo; said Don Quixote, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Don&rsquo;t think of it, your worship,&rdquo; returned Sancho;
+      &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Still, for all that,&rdquo; said Don Quixote, &ldquo;the player
+      devil must not go off boasting, even if the whole human race favours him.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      So saying, he made for the cart, which was now very near the town,
+      shouting out as he went, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </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&rsquo;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, &ldquo;It would be the
+      height of madness to attempt such an enterprise; remember, señor, 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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Now indeed thou hast hit the point, Sancho,&rdquo; said Don
+      Quixote, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;There is no occasion to take vengeance on anyone, señor,&rdquo;
+      replied Sancho; &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Well,&rdquo; said Don Quixote, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      He at once wheeled about, Sancho ran to take possession of his Dapple,
+      Death and his flying squadron returned to their cart and pursued their
+      journey, and thus the dread adventure of the cart of Death ended happily,
+      thanks to the advice Sancho gave his master; who had, the following day, a
+      fresh adventure, of no less thrilling interest than the last, with an
+      enamoured knight-errant.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p11e" id="p11e"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p11e.jpg (20K)" src="images/p11e.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      <a name="ch12b" id="ch12b"></a>CHAPTER XII.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      OF THE STRANGE ADVENTURE WHICH BEFELL THE VALIANT DON QUIXOTE WITH THE
+      BOLD KNIGHT OF THE MIRRORS
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <a name="p12a" id="p12a"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p12a.jpg (98K)" src="images/p12a.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p12a.jpg" style="width:100%;"><img alt="Full Size"
+      src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The night succeeding the day of the encounter with Death, Don Quixote and
+      his squire passed under some tall shady trees, and Don Quixote at Sancho&rsquo;s
+      persuasion ate a little from the store carried by Dapple, and over their
+      supper Sancho said to his master, &ldquo;Señor, 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,
+      &lsquo;a sparrow in the hand is better than a vulture on the wing.&rsquo;&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;At the same time, Sancho,&rdquo; replied Don Quixote, &ldquo;if
+      thou hadst let me attack them as I wanted, at the very least the emperor&rsquo;s
+      gold crown and Cupid&rsquo;s painted wings would have fallen to thee as
+      spoils, for I should have taken them by force and given them into thy
+      hands.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;The sceptres and crowns of those play-actor emperors,&rdquo; said
+      Sancho, &ldquo;were never yet pure gold, but only brass foil or tin.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;That is true,&rdquo; said Don Quixote, &ldquo;for it would not be
+      right that the accessories of the drama should be real, instead of being
+      mere fictions and semblances, like the drama itself; towards which, Sancho&mdash;and,
+      as a necessary consequence, towards those who represent and produce it&mdash;I
+      would that thou wert favourably disposed, for they are all instruments of
+      great good to the State, placing before us at every step a mirror in which
+      we may see vividly displayed what goes on in human life; nor is there any
+      similitude that shows us more faithfully what we are and ought to be than
+      the play and the players. Come, tell me, hast thou not seen a play acted
+      in which kings, emperors, pontiffs, knights, ladies, and divers other
+      personages were introduced? One plays the villain, another the knave, this
+      one the merchant, that the soldier, one the sharp-witted fool, another the
+      foolish lover; and when the play is over, and they have put off the
+      dresses they wore in it, all the actors become equal.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Yes, I have seen that,&rdquo; said Sancho.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Well then,&rdquo; said Don Quixote, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;A fine comparison!&rdquo; said Sancho; &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Thou art growing less doltish and more shrewd every day, Sancho,&rdquo;
+      said Don Quixote.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Ay,&rdquo; said Sancho; &ldquo;it must be that some of your worship&rsquo;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&rsquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Don Quixote laughed at Sancho&rsquo;s affected phraseology, and perceived
+      that what he said about his improvement was true, for now and then he
+      spoke in a way that surprised him; though always, or mostly, when Sancho
+      tried to talk fine and attempted polite language, he wound up by toppling
+      over from the summit of his simplicity into the abyss of his ignorance;
+      and where he showed his culture and his memory to the greatest advantage
+      was in dragging in proverbs, no matter whether they had any bearing or not
+      upon the subject in hand, as may have been seen already and will be
+      noticed in the course of this history.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p12b" id="p12b"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p12b.jpg (298K)" src="images/p12b.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p12b.jpg" style="width:100%;"><img alt="Full Size"
+      src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      In conversation of this kind they passed a good part of the night, but
+      Sancho felt a desire to let down the curtains of his eyes, as he used to
+      say when he wanted to go to sleep; and stripping Dapple he left him at
+      liberty to graze his fill. He did not remove Rocinante&rsquo;s saddle, as
+      his master&rsquo;s express orders were, that so long as they were in the
+      field or not sleeping under a roof Rocinante was not to be stripped&mdash;the
+      ancient usage established and observed by knights-errant being to take off
+      the bridle and hang it on the saddle-bow, but to remove the saddle from
+      the horse&mdash;never! Sancho acted accordingly, and gave him the same
+      liberty he had given Dapple, between whom and Rocinante there was a
+      friendship so unequalled and so strong, that it is handed down by
+      tradition from father to son, that the author of this veracious history
+      devoted some special chapters to it, which, in order to preserve the
+      propriety and decorum due to a history so heroic, he did not insert
+      therein; although at times he forgets this resolution of his and describes
+      how eagerly the two beasts would scratch one another when they were
+      together and how, when they were tired or full, Rocinante would lay his
+      neck across Dapple&rsquo;s, stretching half a yard or more on the other
+      side, and the pair would stand thus, gazing thoughtfully on the ground,
+      for three days, or at least so long as they were left alone, or hunger did
+      not drive them to go and look for food. I may add that they say the author
+      left it on record that he likened their friendship to that of Nisus and
+      Euryalus, and Pylades and Orestes; and if that be so, it may be perceived,
+      to the admiration of mankind, how firm the friendship must have been
+      between these two peaceful animals, shaming men, who preserve friendships
+      with one another so badly. This was why it was said-
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      For friend no longer is there friend; The reeds turn lances now.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      And some one else has sung&mdash;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Friend to friend the bug, etc.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      And let no one fancy that the author was at all astray when he compared
+      the friendship of these animals to that of men; for men have received many
+      lessons from beasts, and learned many important things, as, for example,
+      the clyster from the stork, vomit and gratitude from the dog, watchfulness
+      from the crane, foresight from the ant, modesty from the elephant, and
+      loyalty from the horse.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Sancho at last fell asleep at the foot of a cork tree, while Don Quixote
+      dozed at that of a sturdy oak; but a short time only had elapsed when a
+      noise he heard behind him awoke him, and rising up startled, he listened
+      and looked in the direction the noise came from, and perceived two men on
+      horseback, one of whom, letting himself drop from the saddle, said to the
+      other, &ldquo;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.&rdquo; 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, &ldquo;Brother Sancho, we have got
+      an adventure.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;God send us a good one,&rdquo; said Sancho; &ldquo;and where may
+      her ladyship the adventure be?&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Where, Sancho?&rdquo; replied Don Quixote; &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Well,&rdquo; said Sancho, &ldquo;how does your worship make out
+      that to be an adventure?&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I do not mean to say,&rdquo; returned Don Quixote, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Faith, you are right,&rdquo; said Sancho, &ldquo;and no doubt he is
+      some enamoured knight.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;There is no knight-errant that is not,&rdquo; said Don Quixote;
+      &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Sancho was about to reply to his master, but the Knight of the Grove&rsquo;s
+      voice, which was neither very bad nor very good, stopped him, and
+      listening attentively the pair heard him sing this
+    </p>
+<pre xml:space="preserve">
+SONNET
+
+Your pleasure, prithee, lady mine, unfold;
+Declare the terms that I am to obey;
+My will to yours submissively I mould,
+And from your law my feet shall never stray.
+Would you I die, to silent grief a prey?
+Then count me even now as dead and cold;
+Would you I tell my woes in some new way?
+Then shall my tale by Love itself be told.
+The unison of opposites to prove,
+Of the soft wax and diamond hard am I;
+But still, obedient to the laws of love,
+Here, hard or soft, I offer you my breast,
+Whate&rsquo;er you grave or stamp thereon shall rest
+Indelible for all eternity.
+
+</pre>
+    <p>
+      With an &ldquo;Ah me!&rdquo; 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,
+      &ldquo;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?&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Not so,&rdquo; said Don Quixote at this, &ldquo;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&rsquo;s
+      beauty; thou seest how this knight is raving, Sancho. But let us listen,
+      perhaps he will tell us more about himself.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;That he will,&rdquo; returned Sancho, &ldquo;for he seems in a mood
+      to bewail himself for a month at a stretch.&rdquo;
+    </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, &ldquo;Who goes there? What are you? Do you
+      belong to the number of the happy or of the miserable?&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Of the miserable,&rdquo; answered Don Quixote.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Then come to me,&rdquo; said he of the Grove, &ldquo;and rest
+      assured that it is to woe itself and affliction itself you come.&rdquo;
+    </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, &ldquo;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.&rdquo; To which Don made answer, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </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&rsquo;s heads.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Are you, sir knight, in love perchance?&rdquo; asked he of the
+      Grove of Don Quixote.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;By mischance I am,&rdquo; replied Don Quixote; &ldquo;though the
+      ills arising from well-bestowed affections should be esteemed favours
+      rather than misfortunes.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;That is true,&rdquo; returned he of the Grove, &ldquo;if scorn did
+      not unsettle our reason and understanding, for if it be excessive it looks
+      like revenge.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I was never scorned by my lady,&rdquo; said Don Quixote.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Certainly not,&rdquo; said Sancho, who stood close by, &ldquo;for
+      my lady is as a lamb, and softer than a roll of butter.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Is this your squire?&rdquo; asked he of the Grove.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;He is,&rdquo; said Don Quixote.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I never yet saw a squire,&rdquo; said he of the Grove, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;By my faith then,&rdquo; said Sancho, &ldquo;I have spoken, and am
+      fit to speak, in the presence of one as much, or even&mdash;but never mind&mdash;it
+      only makes it worse to stir it.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The squire of the Grove took Sancho by the arm, saying to him, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;So be it by all means,&rdquo; said Sancho; &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      With this the two squires withdrew to one side, and between them there
+      passed a conversation as droll as that which passed between their masters
+      was serious.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p12e" id="p12e"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p12e.jpg (15K)" src="images/p12e.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      <a name="ch13b" id="ch13b"></a>CHAPTER XIII.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      IN WHICH IS CONTINUED THE ADVENTURE OF THE KNIGHT OF THE GROVE, TOGETHER
+      WITH THE SENSIBLE, ORIGINAL, AND TRANQUIL COLLOQUY THAT PASSED BETWEEN THE
+      TWO SQUIRES
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <a name="p13a" id="p13a"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p13a.jpg (126K)" src="images/p13a.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p13a.jpg" style="width:100%;"><img alt="Full Size"
+      src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The knights and the squires made two parties, these telling the story of
+      their lives, the others the story of their loves; but the history relates
+      first of all the conversation of the servants, and afterwards takes up
+      that of the masters; and it says that, withdrawing a little from the
+      others, he of the Grove said to Sancho, &ldquo;A hard life it is we lead
+      and live, señor, 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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;It may be said, too,&rdquo; added Sancho, &ldquo;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&rsquo;s bread; but
+      sometimes we go a day or two without breaking our fast, except with the
+      wind that blows.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;All that,&rdquo; said he of the Grove, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I,&rdquo; said Sancho, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I,&rdquo; said he of the Grove, &ldquo;shall be satisfied with a
+      canonry for my services, and my master has already assigned me one.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Your master,&rdquo; said Sancho, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Well, then, you are wrong there,&rdquo; said he of the Grove;
+      &ldquo;for those island governments are not all satisfactory; some are
+      awkward, some are poor, some are dull, and, in short, the highest and
+      choicest brings with it a heavy burden of cares and troubles which the
+      unhappy wight to whose lot it has fallen bears upon his shoulders. Far
+      better would it be for us who have adopted this accursed service to go
+      back to our own houses, and there employ ourselves in pleasanter
+      occupations&mdash;in hunting or fishing, for instance; for what squire in
+      the world is there so poor as not to have a hack and a couple of
+      greyhounds and a fishingrod to amuse himself with in his own village?&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I am not in want of any of those things,&rdquo; said Sancho;
+      &ldquo;to be sure I have no hack, but I have an ass that is worth my
+      master&rsquo;s horse twice over; God send me a bad Easter, and that the
+      next one I am to see, if I would swap, even if I got four bushels of
+      barley to boot. You will laugh at the value I put on my Dapple&mdash;for
+      dapple is the colour of my beast. As to greyhounds, I can&rsquo;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&rsquo;s expense.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;In truth and earnest, sir squire,&rdquo; said he of the Grove,
+      &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I have two,&rdquo; said Sancho, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;And how old is this lady that is being bred up for a countess?&rdquo;
+      asked he of the Grove.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Fifteen, a couple of years more or less,&rdquo; answered Sancho;
+      &ldquo;but she is as tall as a lance, and as fresh as an April morning,
+      and as strong as a porter.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Those are gifts to fit her to be not only a countess but a nymph of
+      the greenwood,&rdquo; said he of the Grove; &ldquo;whoreson strumpet! what
+      pith the rogue must have!&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      To which Sancho made answer, somewhat sulkily, &ldquo;She&rsquo;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&rsquo;t seem to me to be very
+      becoming.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;O how little you know about compliments, sir squire,&rdquo;
+      returned he of the Grove. &ldquo;What! don&rsquo;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, &lsquo;Ha,
+      whoreson rip! how well he has done it!&rsquo; and that what seems to be
+      abuse in the expression is high praise? Disown sons and daughters, señor,
+      who don&rsquo;t do what deserves that compliments of this sort should be
+      paid to their parents.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I do disown them,&rdquo; replied Sancho, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;There&rsquo;s why they say that &lsquo;covetousness bursts the bag,&rsquo;&rdquo;
+      said he of the Grove; &ldquo;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, &lsquo;the cares of others kill the ass;&rsquo; 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.&rdquo; &ldquo;And is he in love perchance?&rdquo;
+      asked Sancho.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;He is,&rdquo; said of the Grove, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;There&rsquo;s no road so smooth but it has some hole or hindrance
+      in it,&rdquo; said Sancho; &ldquo;in other houses they cook beans, but in
+      mine it&rsquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Crazy but valiant,&rdquo; replied he of the Grove, &ldquo;and more
+      roguish than crazy or valiant.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Mine is not that,&rdquo; said Sancho; &ldquo;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&rsquo;t bring myself to leave him, let him do ever such foolish
+      things.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;For all that, brother and señor,&rdquo; said he of the Grove,
+      &ldquo;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&rsquo;t always find good ones.&rdquo;
+    </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,
+      &ldquo;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,&rdquo; 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, &ldquo;And do you carry this with
+      you, señor?&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Why, what are you thinking about?&rdquo; said the other; &ldquo;do
+      you take me for some paltry squire? I carry a better larder on my horse&rsquo;s
+      croup than a general takes with him when he goes on a march.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Sancho ate without requiring to be pressed, and in the dark bolted
+      mouthfuls like the knots on a tether, and said he, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;By my faith, brother,&rdquo; said he of the Grove, &ldquo;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;&rdquo; and so saying he thrust it
+      into Sancho&rsquo;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, &ldquo;Ah,
+      whoreson rogue, how catholic it is!&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;There, you see,&rdquo; said he of the Grove, hearing Sancho&rsquo;s
+      exclamation, &ldquo;how you have called this wine whoreson by way of
+      praise.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Well,&rdquo; said Sancho, &ldquo;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, señor, by what you love best, is this Ciudad Real wine?&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;O rare wine-taster!&rdquo; said he of the Grove; &ldquo;nowhere
+      else indeed does it come from, and it has some years&rsquo; age too.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Leave me alone for that,&rdquo; said Sancho; &ldquo;never fear but
+      I&rsquo;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&rsquo;s side, the two best wine-tasters
+      that have been known in La Mancha for many a long year, and to prove it I&rsquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Therefore, I say,&rdquo; said he of the Grove, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Until my master reaches Saragossa,&rdquo; said Sancho, &ldquo;I&rsquo;ll
+      remain in his service; after that we&rsquo;ll see.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The end of it was that the two squires talked so much and drank so much
+      that sleep had to tie their tongues and moderate their thirst, for to
+      quench it was impossible; and so the pair of them fell asleep clinging to
+      the now nearly empty bota and with half-chewed morsels in their mouths;
+      and there we will leave them for the present, to relate what passed
+      between the Knight of the Grove and him of the Rueful Countenance.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p13e" id="p13e"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p13e.jpg (43K)" src="images/p13e.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      <a name="ch14b" id="ch14b"></a>CHAPTER XIV.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      WHEREIN IS CONTINUED THE ADVENTURE OF THE KNIGHT OF THE GROVE
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <a name="p14a" id="p14a"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p14a.jpg (120K)" src="images/p14a.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p14a.jpg" style="width:100%;"><img alt="Full Size"
+      src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Among the things that passed between Don Quixote and the Knight of the
+      Wood, the history tells us he of the Grove said to Don Quixote, &ldquo;In
+      fine, sir knight, I would have you know that my destiny, or, more properly
+      speaking, my choice led me to fall in love with the peerless Casildea de
+      Vandalia. I call her peerless because she has no peer, whether it be in
+      bodily stature or in the supremacy of rank and beauty. This same Casildea,
+      then, that I speak of, requited my honourable passion and gentle
+      aspirations by compelling me, as his stepmother did Hercules, to engage in
+      many perils of various sorts, at the end of each promising me that, with
+      the end of the next, the object of my hopes should be attained; but my
+      labours have gone on increasing link by link until they are past counting,
+      nor do I know what will be the last one that is to be the beginning of the
+      accomplishment of my chaste desires. On one occasion she bade me go and
+      challenge the famous giantess of Seville, La Giralda by name, who is as
+      mighty and strong as if made of brass, and though never stirring from one
+      spot, is the most restless and changeable woman in the world. I came, I
+      saw, I conquered, and I made her stay quiet and behave herself, for
+      nothing but north winds blew for more than a week. Another time I was
+      ordered to lift those ancient stones, the mighty bulls of Guisando, an
+      enterprise that might more fitly be entrusted to porters than to knights.
+      Again, she bade me fling myself into the cavern of Cabra&mdash;an
+      unparalleled and awful peril&mdash;and bring her a minute account of all
+      that is concealed in those gloomy depths. I stopped the motion of the
+      Giralda, I lifted the bulls of Guisando, I flung myself into the cavern
+      and brought to light the secrets of its abyss; and my hopes are as dead as
+      dead can be, and her scorn and her commands as lively as ever. To be
+      brief, last of all she has commanded me to go through all the provinces of
+      Spain and compel all the knights-errant wandering therein to confess that
+      she surpasses all women alive to-day in beauty, and that I am the most
+      valiant and the most deeply enamoured knight on earth; in support of which
+      claim I have already travelled over the greater part of Spain, and have
+      there vanquished several knights who have dared to contradict me; but what
+      I most plume and pride myself upon is having vanquished in single combat
+      that so famous knight Don Quixote of La Mancha, and made him confess that
+      my Casildea is more beautiful than his Dulcinea; and in this one victory I
+      hold myself to have conquered all the knights in the world; for this Don
+      Quixote that I speak of has vanquished them all, and I having vanquished
+      him, his glory, his fame, and his honour have passed and are transferred
+      to my person; for
+    </p>
+<pre xml:space="preserve">
+The more the vanquished hath of fair renown,
+The greater glory gilds the victor&rsquo;s crown.
+</pre>
+    <p>
+      Thus the innumerable achievements of the said Don Quixote are now set down
+      to my account and have become mine.&rdquo;
+    </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, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;How! not vanquished?&rdquo; said he of the Grove; &ldquo;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 &lsquo;The
+      Countenance,&rsquo; 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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Calm yourself, sir knight,&rdquo; said Don Quixote, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </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, &ldquo;Pledges don&rsquo;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&rsquo;s disposal, to do all that he may enjoin,
+      provided the injunction be such as shall be becoming a knight.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I am more than satisfied with these conditions and terms,&rdquo;
+      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, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;That custom, sir squire,&rdquo; replied Sancho, &ldquo;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&rsquo;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&rsquo;s another thing that
+      makes it impossible for me to fight, that I have no sword, for I never
+      carried one in my life.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I know a good remedy for that,&rdquo; said he of the Grove; &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;If that&rsquo;s the way, so be it with all my heart,&rdquo; said
+      Sancho, &ldquo;for that sort of battle will serve to knock the dust out of
+      us instead of hurting us.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;That will not do,&rdquo; said the other, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Body of my father!&rdquo; said Sancho, &ldquo;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, señor, I am not going to fight;
+      let our masters fight, that&rsquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Still,&rdquo; returned he of the Grove, &ldquo;we must fight, if it
+      be only for half an hour.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;By no means,&rdquo; said Sancho; &ldquo;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?&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I can remedy that entirely,&rdquo; said he of the Grove, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;To match that plan,&rdquo; said Sancho, &ldquo;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&rsquo;t waken unless it be in the other world,
+      where it is known that I am not a man to let my face be handled by anyone;
+      let each look out for the arrow&mdash;though the surer way would be to let
+      everyone&rsquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Very good,&rdquo; said he of the Grove; &ldquo;God will send the
+      dawn and we shall be all right.&rdquo;
+    </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&rsquo;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&rsquo; 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, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Whether you come victorious or vanquished out of this emprise, sir
+      knight,&rdquo; replied he of the Mirrors, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Well then,&rdquo; said Don Quixote, &ldquo;while we are mounting
+      you can at least tell me if I am that Don Quixote whom you said you
+      vanquished.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;To that we answer you,&rdquo; said he of the Mirrors, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;That,&rdquo; said Don Quixote, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </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, &ldquo;Remember,
+      sir knight, that the terms of our combat are, that the vanquished, as I
+      said before, shall be at the victor&rsquo;s disposal.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I am aware of it already,&rdquo; said Don Quixote; &ldquo;provided
+      what is commanded and imposed upon the vanquished be things that do not
+      transgress the limits of chivalry.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;That is understood,&rdquo; replied he of the Mirrors.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      At this moment the extraordinary nose of the squire presented itself to
+      Don Quixote&rsquo;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&rsquo;s stirrup-leather, and when it seemed to him time to turn
+      about, he said, &ldquo;I implore of your worship, señor, 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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;It seems to me rather, Sancho,&rdquo; said Don Quixote, &ldquo;that
+      thou wouldst mount a scaffold in order to see the bulls without danger.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;To tell the truth,&rdquo; returned Sancho, &ldquo;the monstrous
+      nose of that squire has filled me with fear and terror, and I dare not
+      stay near him.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;It is,&rdquo; said Don Quixote, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </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&rsquo;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&rsquo;s length from the spot where he
+      had come to a standstill in his course. At this lucky moment and crisis,
+      Don Quixote came upon his adversary, in trouble with his horse, and
+      embarrassed with his lance, which he either could not manage, or had no
+      time to lay in rest. Don Quixote, however, paid no attention to these
+      difficulties, and in perfect safety to himself and without any risk
+      encountered him of the Mirrors with such force that he brought him to the
+      ground in spite of himself over the haunches of his horse, and with so
+      heavy a fall that he lay to all appearance dead, not stirring hand or
+      foot. The instant Sancho saw him fall he slid down from the cork tree, and
+      made all haste to where his master was, who, dismounting from Rocinante,
+      went and stood over him of the Mirrors, and unlacing his helmet to see if
+      he was dead, and to give him air if he should happen to be alive, he saw&mdash;who
+      can say what he saw, without filling all who hear it with astonishment,
+      wonder, and awe? He saw, the history says, the very countenance, the very
+      face, the very look, the very physiognomy, the very effigy, the very image
+      of the bachelor Samson Carrasco! As soon as he saw it he called out in a
+      loud voice, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </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, &ldquo;It is my opinion, señor, 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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Thy advice is not bad,&rdquo; said Don Quixote, &ldquo;for of
+      enemies the fewer the better;&rdquo; and he was drawing his sword to carry
+      into effect Sancho&rsquo;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, &ldquo;Mind what you are about, Señor Don
+      Quixote; that is your friend, the bachelor Samson Carrasco, you have at
+      your feet, and I am his squire.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;And the nose?&rdquo; said Sancho, seeing him without the hideous
+      feature he had before; to which he replied, &ldquo;I have it here in my
+      pocket,&rdquo; 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, &ldquo;Holy Mary be good to me! Isn&rsquo;t it Tom Cecial, my
+      neighbour and gossip?&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Why, to be sure I am!&rdquo; returned the now unnosed squire;
+      &ldquo;Tom Cecial I am, gossip and friend Sancho Panza; and I&rsquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </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, &ldquo;You are a dead man, knight, unless you confess that the
+      peerless Dulcinea del Toboso excels your Casildea de Vandalia in beauty;
+      and in addition to this you must promise, if you should survive this
+      encounter and fall, to go to the city of El Toboso and present yourself
+      before her on my behalf, that she deal with you according to her good
+      pleasure; and if she leaves you free to do yours, you are in like manner
+      to return and seek me out (for the trail of my mighty deeds will serve you
+      as a guide to lead you to where I may be), and tell me what may have
+      passed between you and her&mdash;conditions which, in accordance with what
+      we stipulated before our combat, do not transgress the just limits of
+      knight-errantry.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I confess,&rdquo; said the fallen knight, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;You must also confess and believe,&rdquo; added Don Quixote,
+      &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I confess, hold, and think everything to be as you believe, hold,
+      and think it,&rdquo; the crippled knight; &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </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&rsquo;s
+      mind by what his master said about the enchanters having changed the face
+      of the Knight of the Mirrors into that of the bachelor Samson Carrasco,
+      would not permit him to believe what he saw with his eyes. In fine, both
+      master and man remained under the delusion; and, down in the mouth, and
+      out of luck, he of the Mirrors and his squire parted from Don Quixote and
+      Sancho, he meaning to go look for some village where he could plaster and
+      strap his ribs. Don Quixote and Sancho resumed their journey to Saragossa,
+      and on it the history leaves them in order that it may tell who the Knight
+      of the Mirrors and his long-nosed squire were.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p14e" id="p14e"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p14e.jpg (56K)" src="images/p14e.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      <a name="ch15b" id="ch15b"></a>CHAPTER XV.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      WHEREIN IT IS TOLD AND KNOWN WHO THE KNIGHT OF THE MIRRORS AND HIS SQUIRE
+      WERE
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <a name="p15a" id="p15a"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p15a.jpg (122K)" src="images/p15a.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p15a.jpg" style="width:100%;"><img alt="Full Size"
+      src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Don Quixote went off satisfied, elated, and vain-glorious in the highest
+      degree at having won a victory over such a valiant knight as he fancied
+      him of the Mirrors to be, and one from whose knightly word he expected to
+      learn whether the enchantment of his lady still continued; inasmuch as the
+      said vanquished knight was bound, under the penalty of ceasing to be one,
+      to return and render him an account of what took place between him and
+      her. But Don Quixote was of one mind, he of the Mirrors of another, for he
+      just then had no thought of anything but finding some village where he
+      could plaster himself, as has been said already. The history goes on to
+      say, then, that when the bachelor Samson Carrasco recommended Don Quixote
+      to resume his knight-errantry which he had laid aside, it was in
+      consequence of having been previously in conclave with the curate and the
+      barber on the means to be adopted to induce Don Quixote to stay at home in
+      peace and quiet without worrying himself with his ill-starred adventures;
+      at which consultation it was decided by the unanimous vote of all, and on
+      the special advice of Carrasco, that Don Quixote should be allowed to go,
+      as it seemed impossible to restrain him, and that Samson should sally
+      forth to meet him as a knight-errant, and do battle with him, for there
+      would be no difficulty about a cause, and vanquish him, that being looked
+      upon as an easy matter; and that it should be agreed and settled that the
+      vanquished was to be at the mercy of the victor. Then, Don Quixote being
+      vanquished, the bachelor knight was to command him to return to his
+      village and his house, and not quit it for two years, or until he received
+      further orders from him; all which it was clear Don Quixote would
+      unhesitatingly obey, rather than contravene or fail to observe the laws of
+      chivalry; and during the period of his seclusion he might perhaps forget
+      his folly, or there might be an opportunity of discovering some ready
+      remedy for his madness. Carrasco undertook the task, and Tom Cecial, a
+      gossip and neighbour of Sancho Panza&rsquo;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, señor 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, &ldquo;Sure enough, Señor
+      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&rsquo;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?&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      To which Samson replied, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;In that case,&rdquo; said Tom Cecial, &ldquo;I was a madman of my
+      own accord when I volunteered to become your squire, and, of my own
+      accord, I&rsquo;ll leave off being one and go home.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;That&rsquo;s your affair,&rdquo; returned Samson, &ldquo;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&rsquo;t let me entertain more charitable thoughts.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Thus discoursing, the pair proceeded until they reached a town where it
+      was their good luck to find a bone-setter, with whose help the unfortunate
+      Samson was cured. Tom Cecial left him and went home, while he stayed
+      behind meditating vengeance; and the history will return to him again at
+      the proper time, so as not to omit making merry with Don Quixote now.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p15e" id="p15e"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p15e.jpg (17K)" src="images/p15e.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      <a name="ch16b" id="ch16b"></a>CHAPTER XVI.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      OF WHAT BEFELL DON QUIXOTE WITH A DISCREET GENTLEMAN OF LA MANCHA
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <a name="p16a" id="p16a"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p16a.jpg (85K)" src="images/p16a.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p16a.jpg" style="width:100%;"><img alt="Full Size"
+      src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Don Quixote pursued his journey in the high spirits, satisfaction, and
+      self-complacency already described, fancying himself the most valorous
+      knight-errant of the age in the world because of his late victory. All the
+      adventures that could befall him from that time forth he regarded as
+      already done and brought to a happy issue; he made light of enchantments
+      and enchanters; he thought no more of the countless drubbings that had
+      been administered to him in the course of his knight-errantry, nor of the
+      volley of stones that had levelled half his teeth, nor of the ingratitude
+      of the galley slaves, nor of the audacity of the Yanguesans and the shower
+      of stakes that fell upon him; in short, he said to himself that could he
+      discover any means, mode, or way of disenchanting his lady Dulcinea, he
+      would not envy the highest fortune that the most fortunate knight-errant
+      of yore ever reached or could reach.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      He was going along entirely absorbed in these fancies, when Sancho said to
+      him, &ldquo;Isn&rsquo;t it odd, señor, that I have still before my eyes
+      that monstrous enormous nose of my gossip, Tom Cecial?&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;And dost thou, then, believe, Sancho,&rdquo; said Don Quixote,
+      &ldquo;that the Knight of the Mirrors was the bachelor Carrasco, and his
+      squire Tom Cecial thy gossip?&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t know what to say to that,&rdquo; replied Sancho;
+      &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Let us reason the matter, Sancho,&rdquo; said Don Quixote. &ldquo;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?&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Well, but what are we to say, señor,&rdquo; returned Sancho,
+      &ldquo;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?&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;It is all,&rdquo; said Don Quixote, &ldquo;a scheme and plot of the
+      malignant magicians that persecute me, who, foreseeing that I was to be
+      victorious in the conflict, arranged that the vanquished knight should
+      display the countenance of my friend the bachelor, in order that the
+      friendship I bear him should interpose to stay the edge of my sword and
+      might of my arm, and temper the just wrath of my heart; so that he who
+      sought to take my life by fraud and falsehood should save his own. And to
+      prove it, thou knowest already, Sancho, by experience which cannot lie or
+      deceive, how easy it is for enchanters to change one countenance into
+      another, turning fair into foul, and foul into fair; for it is not two
+      days since thou sawest with thine own eyes the beauty and elegance of the
+      peerless Dulcinea in all its perfection and natural harmony, while I saw
+      her in the repulsive and mean form of a coarse country wench, with
+      cataracts in her eyes and a foul smell in her mouth; and when the perverse
+      enchanter ventured to effect so wicked a transformation, it is no wonder
+      if he effected that of Samson Carrasco and thy gossip in order to snatch
+      the glory of victory out of my grasp. For all that, however, I console
+      myself, because, after all, in whatever shape he may have been, I have
+      been victorious over my enemy.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;God knows what&rsquo;s the truth of it all,&rdquo; said Sancho; and
+      knowing as he did that the transformation of Dulcinea had been a device
+      and imposition of his own, his master&rsquo;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, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;In truth,&rdquo; replied he on the mare, &ldquo;I would not pass
+      you so hastily but for fear that horse might turn restive in the company
+      of my mare.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;You may safely hold in your mare, señor,&rdquo; said Sancho in
+      reply to this, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </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&rsquo;s pack-saddle; and if the man in green examined Don
+      Quixote closely, still more closely did Don Quixote examine the man in
+      green, who struck him as being a man of intelligence. In appearance he was
+      about fifty years of age, with but few grey hairs, an aquiline cast of
+      features, and an expression between grave and gay; and his dress and
+      accoutrements showed him to be a man of good condition. What he in green
+      thought of Don Quixote of La Mancha was that a man of that sort and shape
+      he had never yet seen; he marvelled at the length of his hair, his lofty
+      stature, the lankness and sallowness of his countenance, his armour, his
+      bearing and his gravity&mdash;a figure and picture such as had not been
+      seen in those regions for many a long day.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Don Quixote saw very plainly the attention with which the traveller was
+      regarding him, and read his curiosity in his astonishment; and courteous
+      as he was and ready to please everybody, before the other could ask him
+      any question he anticipated him by saying, &ldquo;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
+      &lsquo;The Knight of the Rueful Countenance;&rsquo; 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.&rdquo;
+    </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, &ldquo;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,
+      señor, 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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;There is a good deal to be said on that point,&rdquo; said Don
+      Quixote, &ldquo;as to whether the histories of the knights-errant are
+      fiction or not.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Why, is there anyone who doubts that those histories are false?&rdquo;
+      said the man in green.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I doubt it,&rdquo; said Don Quixote, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      From this last observation of Don Quixote&rsquo;s, the traveller began to
+      have a suspicion that he was some crazy being, and was waiting for him to
+      confirm it by something further; but before they could turn to any new
+      subject Don Quixote begged him to tell him who he was, since he himself
+      had rendered account of his station and life. To this, he in the green
+      gaban replied &ldquo;I, Sir Knight of the Rueful Countenance, am a
+      gentleman by birth, native of the village where, please God, we are going
+      to dine to-day; 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&rsquo; 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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Sancho listened with the greatest attention to the account of the
+      gentleman&rsquo;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, &ldquo;What are you about, brother?
+      What are these kisses for?&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Let me kiss,&rdquo; said Sancho, &ldquo;for I think your worship is
+      the first saint in the saddle I ever saw all the days of my life.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I am no saint,&rdquo; replied the gentleman, &ldquo;but a great
+      sinner; but you are, brother, for you must be a good fellow, as your
+      simplicity shows.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Sancho went back and regained his pack-saddle, having extracted a laugh
+      from his master&rsquo;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>
+      &ldquo;I, Señor Don Quixote,&rdquo; answered the gentleman, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      To all this Don Quixote said in reply, &ldquo;Children, señor, are
+      portions of their parents&rsquo; 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&rsquo; 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&rsquo;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, señor, 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, señor, 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&rsquo;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, señor, 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&rsquo;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,
+      &lsquo;Est Deus in nobis,&rsquo; 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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      He of the green gaban was filled with astonishment at Don Quixote&rsquo;s
+      argument, so much so that he began to abandon the notion he had taken up
+      about his being crazy. But in the middle of the discourse, it being not
+      very much to his taste, Sancho had turned aside out of the road to beg a
+      little milk from some shepherds, who were milking their ewes hard by; and
+      just as the gentleman, highly pleased, was about to renew the
+      conversation, Don Quixote, raising his head, perceived a cart covered with
+      royal flags coming along the road they were travelling; and persuaded that
+      this must be some new adventure, he called aloud to Sancho to come and
+      bring him his helmet. Sancho, hearing himself called, quitted the
+      shepherds, and, prodding Dapple vigorously, came up to his master, to whom
+      there fell a terrific and desperate adventure.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p16e" id="p16e"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p16e.jpg (49K)" src="images/p16e.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      <a name="ch17b" id="ch17b"></a>CHAPTER XVII.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      WHEREIN IS SHOWN THE FURTHEST AND HIGHEST POINT WHICH THE UNEXAMPLED
+      COURAGE OF DON QUIXOTE REACHED OR COULD REACH; TOGETHER WITH THE HAPPILY
+      ACHIEVED ADVENTURE OF THE LIONS
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <a name="p17a" id="p17a"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p17a.jpg (137K)" src="images/p17a.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p17a.jpg" style="width:100%;"><img alt="Full Size"
+      src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The history tells that when Don Quixote called out to Sancho to bring him
+      his helmet, Sancho was buying some curds the shepherds agreed to sell him,
+      and flurried by the great haste his master was in did not know what to do
+      with them or what to carry them in; so, not to lose them, for he had
+      already paid for them, he thought it best to throw them into his master&rsquo;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>
+      &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </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&rsquo;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, &ldquo;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;&rdquo; 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>
+      &ldquo;Sancho, what&rsquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </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>
+      &ldquo;By the life of my lady Dulcinea del Toboso, but it is curds thou
+      hast put here, thou treacherous, impudent, ill-mannered squire!&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      To which, with great composure and pretended innocence, Sancho replied,
+      &ldquo;If they are curds let me have them, your worship, and I&rsquo;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&rsquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;May be so,&rdquo; 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, &ldquo;Now, come who will,
+      here am I, ready to try conclusions with Satan himself in person!&rdquo;
+    </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, &ldquo;Whither are you going,
+      brothers? What cart is this? What have you got in it? What flags are
+      those?&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      To this the carter replied, &ldquo;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&rsquo;s,
+      to show that what is here is his property.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;And are the lions large?&rdquo; asked Don Quixote.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;So large,&rdquo; replied the man who sat at the door of the cart,
+      &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Hereupon, smiling slightly, Don Quixote exclaimed, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;So, so,&rdquo; said the gentleman to himself at this; &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      At this instant Sancho came up to him, saying, &ldquo;Señor, for God&rsquo;s
+      sake do something to keep my master, Don Quixote, from tackling these
+      lions; for if he does they&rsquo;ll tear us all to pieces here.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Is your master then so mad,&rdquo; asked the gentleman, &ldquo;that
+      you believe and are afraid he will engage such fierce animals?&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;He is not mad,&rdquo; said Sancho, &ldquo;but he is venturesome.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I will prevent it,&rdquo; said the gentleman; and going over to Don
+      Quixote, who was insisting upon the keeper&rsquo;s opening the cages, he
+      said to him, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Gentle sir,&rdquo; replied Don Quixote, &ldquo;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;&rdquo; and then turning to the keeper he exclaimed, &ldquo;By
+      all that&rsquo;s good, sir scoundrel, if you don&rsquo;t open the cages
+      this very instant, I&rsquo;ll pin you to the cart with this lance.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The carter, seeing the determination of this apparition in armour, said to
+      him, &ldquo;Please your worship, for charity&rsquo;s sake, señor, 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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;O man of little faith,&rdquo; replied Don Quixote, &ldquo;get down
+      and unyoke; you will soon see that you are exerting yourself for nothing,
+      and that you might have spared yourself the trouble.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The carter got down and with all speed unyoked the mules, and the keeper
+      called out at the top of his voice, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </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>
+      &ldquo;Well, señor,&rdquo; answered Don Quixote, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </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. &ldquo;Look ye,
+      señor,&rdquo; said Sancho, &ldquo;there&rsquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Fear at any rate,&rdquo; replied Don Quixote, &ldquo;will make him
+      look bigger to thee than half the world. Retire, Sancho, and leave me; and
+      if I die here thou knowest our old compact; thou wilt repair to Dulcinea&mdash;I
+      say no more.&rdquo; 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&rsquo;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. &ldquo;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&rsquo;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!&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p17b" id="p17b"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p17b.jpg (352K)" src="images/p17b.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p17b.jpg" style="width:100%;"><img alt="Full Size"
+      src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Here the author&rsquo;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&rsquo;
+      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>
+      &ldquo;That I won&rsquo;t,&rdquo; said the keeper; &ldquo;for if I anger
+      him, the first he&rsquo;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&rsquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;That is true,&rdquo; said Don Quixote; &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </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, &ldquo;May
+      I die, if my master has not overcome the wild beasts, for he is calling to
+      us.&rdquo;
+    </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&rsquo;s
+      voice calling to them. They returned at length to the cart, and as they
+      came up, Don Quixote said to the carter, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;That will I give with all my heart,&rdquo; said Sancho; &ldquo;but
+      what has become of the lions? Are they dead or alive?&rdquo;
+    </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>
+      &ldquo;What dost thou think of this, Sancho?&rdquo; said Don Quixote.
+      &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Sancho paid the crowns, the carter put to, the keeper kissed Don Quixote&rsquo;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>
+      &ldquo;Then,&rdquo; said Don Quixote, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </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, &ldquo;What could be madder than
+      putting on a helmet full of curds, and then persuading oneself that
+      enchanters are softening one&rsquo;s skull; or what could be greater
+      rashness and folly than wanting to fight lions tooth and nail?&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Don Quixote roused him from these reflections and this soliloquy by
+      saying, &ldquo;No doubt, Señor 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&rsquo;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, Señor 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, &lsquo;such
+      a knight is rash and daring,&rsquo; sounds better than &lsquo;such a
+      knight is timid and cowardly.&rsquo;&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I protest, Señor Don Quixote,&rdquo; said Don Diego, &ldquo;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&rsquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I take the invitation as a great favour and honour, Señor Don
+      Diego,&rdquo; 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, &ldquo;The Knight of
+      the Green Gaban.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p17e" id="p17e"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p17e.jpg (76K)" src="images/p17e.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      <a name="ch18b" id="ch18b"></a>CHAPTER XVIII.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      OF WHAT HAPPENED DON QUIXOTE IN THE CASTLE OR HOUSE OF THE KNIGHT OF THE
+      GREEN GABAN, TOGETHER WITH OTHER MATTERS OUT OF THE COMMON
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <a name="p18a" id="p18a"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p18a.jpg (133K)" src="images/p18a.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p18a.jpg" style="width:100%;"><img alt="Full Size"
+      src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Don Quixote found Don Diego de Miranda&rsquo;s house built in village
+      style, with his arms in rough stone over the street door; in the patio was
+      the store-room, and at the entrance the cellar, with plenty of wine-jars
+      standing round, which, coming from El Toboso, brought back to his memory
+      his enchanted and transformed Dulcinea; and with a sigh, and not thinking
+      of what he was saying, or in whose presence he was, he exclaimed-
+    </p>
+<pre xml:space="preserve">
+&ldquo;O ye sweet treasures, to my sorrow found!
+Once sweet and welcome when &lsquo;twas heaven&rsquo;s good-will.
+
+&ldquo;O ye Tobosan jars, how ye bring back to my memory the
+sweet object of my bitter regrets!&rdquo;
+ </pre>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p18b" id="p18b"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p18b.jpg (300K)" src="images/p18b.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p18b.jpg" style="width:100%;"><img alt="Full Size"
+      src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The student poet, Don Diego&rsquo;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&rsquo;s hand, while Don Diego said, &ldquo;Señora,
+      pray receive with your wonted kindness Señor Don Quixote of La Mancha,
+      whom you see before you, a knight-errant, and the bravest and wisest in
+      the world.&rdquo;
+    </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&rsquo;s
+      mansion, putting before us in his picture the whole contents of a rich
+      gentleman-farmer&rsquo;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&rsquo;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&rsquo;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&rsquo;s
+      son was called) took the opportunity to say to his father, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t know what to say, my son,&rdquo; replied. Don Diego;
+      &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </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, &ldquo;Your father, Señor 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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;A poet, it may be,&rdquo; replied Don Lorenzo, &ldquo;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 &lsquo;great&rsquo;
+      which my father gives me.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I do not dislike that modesty,&rdquo; said Don Quixote; &ldquo;for
+      there is no poet who is not conceited and does not think he is the best
+      poet in the world.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;There is no rule without an exception,&rdquo; said Don Lorenzo;
+      &ldquo;there may be some who are poets and yet do not think they are.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Very few,&rdquo; said Don Quixote; &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;So far,&rdquo; said Don Lorenzo to himself, &ldquo;I should not
+      take you to be a madman; but let us go on.&rdquo; So he said to him,
+      &ldquo;Your worship has apparently attended the schools; what sciences
+      have you studied?&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;That of knight-errantry,&rdquo; said Don Quixote, &ldquo;which is
+      as good as that of poetry, and even a finger or two above it.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I do not know what science that is,&rdquo; said Don Lorenzo,
+      &ldquo;and until now I have never heard of it.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;It is a science,&rdquo; said Don Quixote, &ldquo;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,
+      Señor 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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;If that be so,&rdquo; replied Don Lorenzo, &ldquo;this science, I
+      protest, surpasses all.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;How, if that be so?&rdquo; said Don Quixote.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;What I mean to say,&rdquo; said Don Lorenzo, &ldquo;is, that I
+      doubt whether there are now, or ever were, any knights-errant, and adorned
+      with such virtues.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Many a time,&rdquo; replied Don Quixote, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Our guest has broken out on our hands,&rdquo; said Don Lorenzo to
+      himself at this point; &ldquo;but, for all that, he is a glorious madman,
+      and I should be a dull blockhead to doubt it.&rdquo;
+    </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, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </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, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;A discerning friend of mine,&rdquo; said Don Quixote, &ldquo;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 &lsquo;said he,&rsquo;
+      nor &lsquo;I say,&rsquo; 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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Verily, Señor Don Quixote,&rdquo; said Don Lorenzo, &ldquo;I wish I
+      could catch your worship tripping at a stretch, but I cannot, for you slip
+      through my fingers like an eel.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t understand what you say, or mean by slipping,&rdquo;
+      said Don Quixote.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I will explain myself another time,&rdquo; said Don Lorenzo;
+      &ldquo;for the present pray attend to the glossed verses and the gloss,
+      which run thus:
+    </p>
+<pre xml:space="preserve">
+Could &lsquo;was&rsquo; become an &lsquo;is&rsquo; for me,
+Then would I ask no more than this;
+Or could, for me, the time that is
+Become the time that is to be!&mdash;
+
+
+
+GLOSS
+
+Dame Fortune once upon a day
+To me was bountiful and kind;
+But all things change; she changed her mind,
+And what she gave she took away.
+O Fortune, long I&rsquo;ve sued to thee;
+The gifts thou gavest me restore,
+For, trust me, I would ask no more,
+Could &lsquo;was&rsquo; become an &lsquo;is&rsquo; 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
+&lsquo;Twixt hope and fear, is death, not life;
+&lsquo;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.&rdquo;
+ </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&rsquo;s
+      right hand in his, &ldquo;By the highest heavens, noble youth, but you are
+      the best poet on earth, and deserve to be crowned with laurel, not by
+      Cyprus or by Gaeta&mdash;as a certain poet, God forgive him, said&mdash;but
+      by the Academies of Athens, if they still flourished, and by those that
+      flourish now, Paris, Bologna, Salamanca. Heaven grant that the judges who
+      rob you of the first prize&mdash;that Phoebus may pierce them with his
+      arrows, and the Muses never cross the thresholds of their doors. Repeat me
+      some of your long-measure verses, señor, if you will be so good, for I
+      want thoroughly to feel the pulse of your rare genius.&rdquo;
+    </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&rsquo;s request and entreaty, and repeated to him this sonnet on
+      the fable or story of Pyramus and Thisbe.
+    </p>
+<pre xml:space="preserve">
+
+SONNET
+
+The lovely maid, she pierces now the wall;
+Heart-pierced by her young Pyramus doth lie;
+And Love spreads wing from Cyprus isle to fly,
+A chink to view so wondrous great and small.
+There silence speaketh, for no voice at all
+Can pass so strait a strait; but love will ply
+Where to all other power &lsquo;twere vain to try;
+For love will find a way whate&rsquo;er befall.
+Impatient of delay, with reckless pace
+The rash maid wins the fatal spot where she
+Sinks not in lover&rsquo;s arms but death&rsquo;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>
+      &ldquo;Blessed be God,&rdquo; said Don Quixote when he had heard Don
+      Lorenzo&rsquo;s sonnet, &ldquo;that among the hosts there are of irritable
+      poets I have found one consummate one, which, señor, the art of this
+      sonnet proves to me that you are!&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      For four days was Don Quixote most sumptuously entertained in Don Diego&rsquo;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&rsquo;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, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      In this speech Don Quixote wound up the evidence of his madness, but still
+      better in what he added when he said, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Both father and son were amazed afresh at the strange medley Don Quixote
+      talked, at one moment sense, at another nonsense, and at the pertinacity
+      and persistence he displayed in going through thick and thin in quest of
+      his unlucky adventures, which he made the end and aim of his desires.
+      There was a renewal of offers of service and civilities, and then, with
+      the gracious permission of the lady of the castle, they took their
+      departure, Don Quixote on Rocinante, and Sancho on Dapple.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p18e" id="p18e"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p18e.jpg (18K)" src="images/p18e.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      <a name="ch19b" id="ch19b"></a>CHAPTER XIX.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      IN WHICH IS RELATED THE ADVENTURE OF THE ENAMOURED SHEPHERD, TOGETHER WITH
+      OTHER TRULY DROLL INCIDENTS
+    </h3>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p19a.jpg (131K)" src="images/p19a.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p19a.jpg" style="width:100%;"><img alt="Full Size"
+      src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Don Quixote had gone but a short distance beyond Don Diego&rsquo;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&rsquo;s pate;
+      for all that, however, they regarded him with admiration and respect, and
+      one of them said to him, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Don Quixote asked him if it was some prince&rsquo;s, that he spoke of it
+      in this way. &ldquo;Not at all,&rdquo; said the student; &ldquo;it is the
+      wedding of a farmer and a farmer&rsquo;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&rsquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;For that excellence alone,&rdquo; said Don Quixote at this, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Say that to my wife,&rdquo; said Sancho, who had until now listened
+      in silence, &ldquo;for she won&rsquo;t hear of anything but each one
+      marrying his equal, holding with the proverb &lsquo;each ewe to her like.&rsquo;
+      What I would like is that this good Basilio (for I am beginning to take a
+      fancy to him already) should marry this lady Quiteria; and a blessing and
+      good luck&mdash;I meant to say the opposite&mdash;on people who would
+      prevent those who love one another from marrying.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;If all those who love one another were to marry,&rdquo; said Don
+      Quixote, &ldquo;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&rsquo;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&rsquo;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&rsquo;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
+      señor licentiate has anything more to tell about the story of Basilio.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      To this the student, bachelor, or, as Don Quixote called him, licentiate,
+      replied, &ldquo;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 &lsquo;yes,&rsquo; it will be his sentence of
+      death.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;God will guide it better,&rdquo; said Sancho, &ldquo;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&rsquo;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&rsquo;s
+      &lsquo;yes&rsquo; and &lsquo;no&rsquo; I wouldn&rsquo;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&rsquo;ll give him a bag of
+      good luck; for love, I have heard say, looks through spectacles that make
+      copper seem gold, poverty wealth, and bleary eyes pearls.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;What art thou driving at, Sancho? curses on thee!&rdquo; said Don
+      Quixote; &ldquo;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?&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Oh, if you don&rsquo;t understand me,&rdquo; replied Sancho,
+      &ldquo;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, señor, is always gravelling at
+      everything I say, nay, everything I do.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Cavilling, not gravelling,&rdquo; said Don Quixote, &ldquo;thou
+      prevaricator of honest language, God confound thee!&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Don&rsquo;t find fault with me, your worship,&rdquo; returned
+      Sancho, &ldquo;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&rsquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;That is true,&rdquo; said the licentiate, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;If you did not pique yourself more on your dexterity with those
+      foils you carry than on dexterity of tongue,&rdquo; said the other
+      student, &ldquo;you would have been head of the degrees, where you are now
+      tail.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Look here, bachelor Corchuelo,&rdquo; returned the licentiate,
+      &ldquo;you have the most mistaken idea in the world about skill with the
+      sword, if you think it useless.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;It is no idea on my part, but an established truth,&rdquo; replied
+      Corchuelo; &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;As to whether you turn your back or not, I do not concern myself,&rdquo;
+      replied the master of fence; &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;We shall soon see,&rdquo; replied Corchuelo, and getting off his
+      ass briskly, he drew out furiously one of the swords the licentiate
+      carried on his beast.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;It must not be that way,&rdquo; said Don Quixote at this point;
+      &ldquo;I will be the director of this fencing match, and judge of this
+      often disputed question;&rdquo; 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&rsquo;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, &ldquo;By my
+      faith, señor 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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I am satisfied with having tumbled off my donkey,&rdquo; said
+      Corchuelo, &ldquo;and with having had the truth I was so ignorant of
+      proved to me by experience;&rdquo; 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&rsquo;s will, as the good quarters he
+      had enjoyed in the castle or house of Don Diego came back to his mind.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p19e" id="p19e"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p19e.jpg (29K)" src="images/p19e.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      <a name="ch20b" id="ch20b"></a>CHAPTER XX.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      WHEREIN AN ACCOUNT IS GIVEN OF THE WEDDING OF CAMACHO THE RICH, TOGETHER
+      WITH THE INCIDENT OF BASILIO THE POOR
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <a name="p20a" id="p20a"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p20a.jpg (125K)" src="images/p20a.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p20a.jpg" style="width:100%;"><img alt="Full Size"
+      src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Scarce had the fair Aurora given bright Phoebus time to dry the liquid
+      pearls upon her golden locks with the heat of his fervent rays, when Don
+      Quixote, shaking off sloth from his limbs, sprang to his feet and called
+      to his squire Sancho, who was still snoring; seeing which Don Quixote ere
+      he roused him thus addressed him: &ldquo;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&rsquo;s food for thyself and thy needy little family, to
+      interfere with thy repose. Ambition breaks not thy rest, nor doth this
+      world&rsquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p20b" id="p20b"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p20b.jpg (365K)" src="images/p20b.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p20b.jpg" style="width:100%;"><img alt="Full Size"
+      src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      To all this Sancho made no reply because he was asleep, nor would he have
+      wakened up so soon as he did had not Don Quixote brought him to his senses
+      with the butt of his lance. He awoke at last, drowsy and lazy, and casting
+      his eyes about in every direction, observed, &ldquo;There comes, if I don&rsquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Have done, thou glutton,&rdquo; said Don Quixote; &ldquo;come, let
+      us go and witness this bridal, and see what the rejected Basilio does.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Let him do what he likes,&rdquo; returned Sancho; &ldquo;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, señor, it&rsquo;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&rsquo;s
+      bar-throwing and sword-play. They won&rsquo;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&rsquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;For God&rsquo;s sake, Sancho,&rdquo; said Don Quixote here, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;If your worship had a good memory,&rdquo; replied Sancho, &ldquo;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&rsquo;s authority;
+      and so far, it seems to me, I have not broken the said article.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I remember no such article, Sancho,&rdquo; said Don Quixote;
+      &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </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&rsquo;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&rsquo;s shop, served for cooking
+      fritters, which when fried were taken out with two mighty shovels, and
+      plunged into another cauldron of prepared honey that stood close by. Of
+      cooks and cook-maids there were over fifty, all clean, brisk, and blithe.
+      In the capacious belly of the ox were a dozen soft little sucking-pigs,
+      which, sewn up there, served to give it tenderness and flavour. The spices
+      of different kinds did not seem to have been bought by the pound but by
+      the quarter, and all lay open to view in a great chest. In short, all the
+      preparations made for the wedding were in rustic style, but abundant
+      enough to feed an army.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p20c" id="p20c"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p20c.jpg (415K)" src="images/p20c.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p20c.jpg" style="width:100%;"><img alt="Full Size"
+      src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Sancho observed all, contemplated all, and everything won his heart. The
+      first to captivate and take his fancy were the pots, out of which he would
+      have very gladly helped himself to a moderate pipkinful; then the wine
+      skins secured his affections; and lastly, the produce of the frying-pans,
+      if, indeed, such imposing cauldrons may be called frying-pans; and unable
+      to control himself or bear it any longer, he approached one of the busy
+      cooks and civilly but hungrily begged permission to soak a scrap of bread
+      in one of the pots; to which the cook made answer, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t see one,&rdquo; said Sancho.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Wait a bit,&rdquo; said the cook; &ldquo;sinner that I am! how
+      particular and bashful you are!&rdquo; 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, &ldquo;Fall to, friend, and take the edge
+      off your appetite with these skimmings until dinner-time comes.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p20d" id="p20d"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p20d.jpg (351K)" src="images/p20d.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p20d.jpg" style="width:100%;"><img alt="Full Size"
+      src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I have nothing to put them in,&rdquo; said Sancho.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Well then,&rdquo; said the cook, &ldquo;take spoon and all; for
+      Camacho&rsquo;s wealth and happiness furnish everything.&rdquo;
+    </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 &ldquo;Long live Camacho and Quiteria! he as
+      rich as she is fair; and she the fairest on earth!&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Hearing this, Don Quixote said to himself, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </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. &ldquo;As yet, thank God, no one has been wounded,&rdquo; said
+      he, &ldquo;we are all safe and sound;&rdquo; and he at once began to
+      execute complicated figures with the rest of his comrades, with so many
+      turns and so great dexterity, that although Don Quixote was well used to
+      see dances of the same kind, he thought he had never seen any so good as
+      this. He also admired another that came in composed of fair young maidens,
+      none of whom seemed to be under fourteen or over eighteen years of age,
+      all clad in green stuff, with their locks partly braided, partly flowing
+      loose, but all of such bright gold as to vie with the sunbeams, and over
+      them they wore garlands of jessamine, roses, amaranth, and honeysuckle. At
+      their head were a venerable old man and an ancient dame, more brisk and
+      active, however, than might have been expected from their years. The notes
+      of a Zamora bagpipe accompanied them, and with modesty in their
+      countenances and in their eyes, and lightness in their feet, they looked
+      the best dancers in the world.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p20e" id="p20e"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p20e.jpg (361K)" src="images/p20e.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p20e.jpg" style="width:100%;"><img alt="Full Size"
+      src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Following these there came an artistic dance of the sort they call &ldquo;speaking
+      dances.&rdquo; 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. &ldquo;Poetry&rdquo; was
+      the name of the first, &ldquo;Wit&rdquo; of the second, &ldquo;Birth&rdquo;
+      of the third, and &ldquo;Valour&rdquo; of the fourth. Those that followed
+      Interest were distinguished in the same way; the badge of the first
+      announced &ldquo;Liberality,&rdquo; that of the second &ldquo;Largess,&rdquo;
+      the third &ldquo;Treasure,&rdquo; and the fourth &ldquo;Peaceful
+      Possession.&rdquo; 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 &ldquo;Castle of
+      Caution.&rdquo; Four skillful tabor and flute players accompanied them,
+      and the dance having been opened, Cupid, after executing two figures,
+      raised his eyes and bent his bow against a damsel who stood between the
+      turrets of the castle, and thus addressed her:
+    </p>
+<pre xml:space="preserve">
+I am the mighty God whose sway
+Is potent over land and sea.
+The heavens above us own me; nay,
+The shades below acknowledge me.
+I know not fear, I have my will,
+Whate&rsquo;er my whim or fancy be;
+For me there&rsquo;s no impossible,
+I order, bind, forbid, set free.
+
+</pre>
+    <p>
+      Having concluded the stanza he discharged an arrow at the top of the
+      castle, and went back to his place. Interest then came forward and went
+      through two more figures, and as soon as the tabors ceased, he said:
+    </p>
+<pre xml:space="preserve">
+But mightier than Love am I,
+Though Love it be that leads me on,
+Than mine no lineage is more high,
+Or older, underneath the sun.
+To use me rightly few know how,
+To act without me fewer still,
+For I am Interest, and I vow
+For evermore to do thy will.
+
+</pre>
+    <p>
+      Interest retired, and Poetry came forward, and when she had gone through
+      her figures like the others, fixing her eyes on the damsel of the castle,
+      she said:
+    </p>
+<pre xml:space="preserve">
+With many a fanciful conceit,
+Fair Lady, winsome Poesy
+Her soul, an offering at thy feet,
+Presents in sonnets unto thee.
+If thou my homage wilt not scorn,
+Thy fortune, watched by envious eyes,
+On wings of poesy upborne
+Shall be exalted to the skies.
+
+</pre>
+    <p>
+      Poetry withdrew, and on the side of Interest Liberality advanced, and
+      after having gone through her figures, said:
+    </p>
+<pre xml:space="preserve">
+To give, while shunning each extreme,
+The sparing hand, the over-free,
+Therein consists, so wise men deem,
+The virtue Liberality.
+But thee, fair lady, to enrich,
+Myself a prodigal I&rsquo;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&rsquo;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. &ldquo;I will lay a wager,&rdquo;
+      said Don Quixote, &ldquo;that the same bachelor or beneficiary is a
+      greater friend of Camacho&rsquo;s than of Basilio&rsquo;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.&rdquo;
+      Sancho Panza, who was listening to all this, exclaimed, &ldquo;The king is
+      my cock; I stick to Camacho.&rdquo; &ldquo;It is easy to see thou art a
+      clown, Sancho,&rdquo; said Don Quixote, &ldquo;and one of that sort that
+      cry &lsquo;Long life to the conqueror.&rsquo;&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t know of what sort I am,&rdquo; returned Sancho,
+      &ldquo;but I know very well I&rsquo;ll never get such elegant skimmings
+      off Basilio&rsquo;s pots as these I have got off Camacho&rsquo;s;&rdquo;
+      and he showed him the bucketful of geese and hens, and seizing one began
+      to eat with great gaiety and appetite, saying, &ldquo;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&rsquo;ts; and she stuck to the Haves; and to this day, Señor Don
+      Quixote, people would sooner feel the pulse of &lsquo;Have,&rsquo; than of
+      &lsquo;Know;&rsquo; 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&rsquo;s, if any ever come to hand, or even to foot, they&rsquo;ll
+      be only rinsings.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Hast thou finished thy harangue, Sancho?&rdquo; said Don Quixote.
+      &ldquo;Of course I have finished it,&rdquo; replied Sancho, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;God grant I may see thee dumb before I die, Sancho,&rdquo; said Don
+      Quixote.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;At the rate we are going,&rdquo; said Sancho, &ldquo;I&rsquo;ll be
+      chewing clay before your worship dies; and then, maybe, I&rsquo;ll be so
+      dumb that I&rsquo;ll not say a word until the end of the world, or, at
+      least, till the day of judgment.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Even should that happen, O Sancho,&rdquo; said Don Quixote, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;In good faith, señor,&rdquo; replied Sancho, &ldquo;there&rsquo;s
+      no trusting that fleshless one, I mean Death, who devours the lamb as soon
+      as the sheep, and, as I have heard our curate say, treads with equal foot
+      upon the lofty towers of kings and the lowly huts of the poor. That lady
+      is more mighty than dainty, she is in no way squeamish, she devours all and
+      is ready for all, and fills her alforjas with people of all sorts, ages,
+      and ranks. She is no reaper that sleeps out the noontide; at all times she
+      is reaping and cutting down, as well the dry grass as the green; she never
+      seems to chew, but bolts and swallows all that is put before her, for she
+      has a canine appetite that is never satisfied; and though she has no
+      belly, she shows she has a dropsy and is athirst to drink the lives of all
+      that live, as one would drink a jug of cold water.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Say no more, Sancho,&rdquo; said Don Quixote at this; &ldquo;don&rsquo;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.&rdquo; &ldquo;He preaches well who lives well,&rdquo; said
+      Sancho, &ldquo;and I know no more theology than that.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Nor needst thou,&rdquo; said Don Quixote, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Pass judgment on your chivalries, señor,&rdquo; returned Sancho,
+      &ldquo;and don&rsquo;t set yourself up to judge of other men&rsquo;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;&rdquo; and so saying,
+      he began a fresh attack on the bucket, with such a hearty appetite that he
+      aroused Don Quixote&rsquo;s, who no doubt would have helped him had he not
+      been prevented by what must be told farther on.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p20f" id="p20f"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p20f.jpg (41K)" src="images/p20f.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      <a name="ch21b" id="ch21b"></a>CHAPTER XXI.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      IN WHICH CAMACHO&rsquo;S WEDDING IS CONTINUED, WITH OTHER DELIGHTFUL
+      INCIDENTS
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p21a" id="p21a"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p21a.jpg (118K)" src="images/p21a.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p21a.jpg" style="width:100%;"><img alt="Full Size"
+      src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      While Don Quixote and Sancho were engaged in the discussion set forth the
+      last chapter, they heard loud shouts and a great noise, which were uttered
+      and made by the men on the mares as they went at full gallop, shouting, to
+      receive the bride and bridegroom, who were approaching with musical
+      instruments and pageantry of all sorts around them, and accompanied by the
+      priest and the relatives of both, and all the most distinguished people of
+      the surrounding villages. When Sancho saw the bride, he exclaimed, &ldquo;By
+      my faith, she is not dressed like a country girl, but like some fine court
+      lady; egad, as well as I can make out, the patena she wears rich coral,
+      and her green Cuenca stuff is thirty-pile velvet; and then the white linen
+      trimming&mdash;by my oath, but it&rsquo;s satin! Look at her hands&mdash;jet
+      rings on them! May I never have luck if they&rsquo;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&rsquo;s head! Whoreson baggage, what hair she
+      has! if it&rsquo;s not a wig, I never saw longer or fairer all the days of
+      my life. See how bravely she bears herself&mdash;and her shape! Wouldn&rsquo;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 &lsquo;to pass over
+      the banks of Flanders.&rsquo;&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Don Quixote laughed at Sancho&rsquo;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, &ldquo;Wait a little, ye, as
+      inconsiderate as ye are hasty!&rdquo; 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>
+      &ldquo;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!&rdquo;
+    </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, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </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&rsquo;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&rsquo;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 Señor
+      Camacho&rsquo;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>
+      &ldquo;In this case,&rdquo; said he, &ldquo;it will be only to say &lsquo;yes,&rsquo;
+      and no consequences can follow the utterance of the word, for the nuptial
+      couch of this marriage must be the grave.&rdquo;
+    </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&rsquo;s
+      friends, imploring him to allow Quiteria to give him her hand, so that his
+      soul, quitting this life in despair, should not be lost, that they moved,
+      nay, forced him, to say that if Quiteria were willing to give it he was
+      satisfied, as it was only putting off the fulfillment of his wishes for a
+      moment. At once all assailed Quiteria and pressed her, some with prayers,
+      and others with tears, and others with persuasive arguments, to give her
+      hand to poor Basilio; but she, harder than marble and more unmoved than
+      any statue, seemed unable or unwilling to utter a word, nor would she have
+      given any reply had not the priest bade her decide quickly what she meant
+      to do, as Basilio now had his soul at his teeth, and there was no time for
+      hesitation.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p21b" id="p21b"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p21b.jpg (374K)" src="images/p21b.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p21b.jpg" style="width:100%;"><img alt="Full Size"
+      src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      On this the fair Quiteria, to all appearance distressed, grieved, and
+      repentant, advanced without a word to where Basilio lay, his eyes already
+      turned in his head, his breathing short and painful, murmuring the name of
+      Quiteria between his teeth, and apparently about to die like a heathen and
+      not like a Christian. Quiteria approached him, and kneeling, demanded his
+      hand by signs without speaking. Basilio opened his eyes and gazing fixedly
+      at her, said, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </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, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Yes, I give it,&rdquo; said Basilio, &ldquo;not agitated or
+      distracted, but with unclouded reason that heaven is pleased to grant me,
+      thus do I give myself to be thy husband.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;And I give myself to be thy wife,&rdquo; said Quiteria, &ldquo;whether
+      thou livest many years, or they carry thee from my arms to the grave.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;For one so badly wounded,&rdquo; observed Sancho at this point,
+      &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </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, &ldquo;A miracle, a miracle!&rdquo;
+      But Basilio replied, &ldquo;No miracle, no miracle; only a trick, a trick!&rdquo;
+      The priest, perplexed and amazed, made haste to examine the wound with
+      both hands, and found that the blade had passed, not through Basilio&rsquo;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>
+      &ldquo;Hold, sirs, hold!&rdquo; cried Don Quixote in a loud voice; &ldquo;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;&rdquo; 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&rsquo;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&rsquo;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&rsquo;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&rsquo;s
+      splendid feast and festival, which lasted until night; and thus dragged
+      away, he moodily followed his master, who accompanied Basilio&rsquo;s
+      party, and left behind him the flesh-pots of Egypt; though in his heart he
+      took them with him, and their now nearly finished skimmings that he
+      carried in the bucket conjured up visions before his eyes of the glory and
+      abundance of the good cheer he was losing. And so, vexed and dejected
+      though not hungry, without dismounting from Dapple he followed in the
+      footsteps of Rocinante.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p21c" id="p21c"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p21c.jpg (417K)" src="images/p21c.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p21c.jpg" style="width:100%;"><img alt="Full Size"
+      src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p21e"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p21e.jpg (49K)" src="images/p21e.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      <a name="ch22b" id="ch22b"></a>CHAPTER XXII.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      WHEREIN IS RELATED THE GRAND ADVENTURE OF THE CAVE OF MONTESINOS IN THE
+      HEART OF LA MANCHA, WHICH THE VALIANT DON QUIXOTE BROUGHT TO A HAPPY
+      TERMINATION
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <a name="p22a" id="p22a"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p22a.jpg (112K)" src="images/p22a.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p22a.jpg" style="width:100%;"><img alt="Full Size"
+      src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Many and great were the attentions shown to Don Quixote by the newly
+      married couple, who felt themselves under an obligation to him for coming
+      forward in defence of their cause; and they exalted his wisdom to the same
+      level with his courage, rating him as a Cid in arms, and a Cicero in
+      eloquence. Worthy Sancho enjoyed himself for three days at the expense of
+      the pair, from whom they learned that the sham wound was not a scheme
+      arranged with the fair Quiteria, but a device of Basilio&rsquo;s, who
+      counted on exactly the result they had seen; he confessed, it is true,
+      that he had confided his idea to some of his friends, so that at the
+      proper time they might aid him in his purpose and insure the success of
+      the deception.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p22b" id="p22b"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p22b.jpg (344K)" src="images/p22b.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p22b.jpg" style="width:100%;"><img alt="Full Size"
+      src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;That,&rdquo; said Don Quixote, &ldquo;is not and ought not to be
+      called deception which aims at virtuous ends;&rdquo; 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 Señor 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. &ldquo;Remember,
+      O prudent Basilio,&rdquo; added Don Quixote, &ldquo;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&rsquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Sancho, listening to all this, said to himself, &ldquo;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&rsquo;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&rsquo;t have a finger in.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Sancho muttered this somewhat aloud, and his master overheard him, and
+      asked, &ldquo;What art thou muttering there, Sancho?&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I&rsquo;m not saying anything or muttering anything,&rdquo; said
+      Sancho; &ldquo;I was only saying to myself that I wish I had heard what
+      your worship has said just now before I married; perhaps I&rsquo;d say
+      now, &lsquo;The ox that&rsquo;s loose licks himself well.&rsquo;&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Is thy Teresa so bad then, Sancho?&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;She is not very bad,&rdquo; replied Sancho; &ldquo;but she is not
+      very good; at least she is not as good as I could wish.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Thou dost wrong, Sancho,&rdquo; said Don Quixote, &ldquo;to speak
+      ill of thy wife; for after all she is the mother of thy children.&rdquo;
+      &ldquo;We are quits,&rdquo; returned Sancho; &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </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 &ldquo;The Book of Liveries,&rdquo; 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; &ldquo;for,&rdquo; said he,
+      &ldquo;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 &lsquo;Metamorphoses, or the Spanish Ovid,&rsquo; 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 &lsquo;The Supplement to Polydore Vergil,&rsquo; 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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Sancho, who had been very attentive to the cousin&rsquo;s words, said to
+      him, &ldquo;Tell me, señor&mdash;and God give you luck in printing your
+      books&mdash;can you tell me (for of course you know, as you know
+      everything) who was the first man that scratched his head? For to my
+      thinking it must have been our father Adam.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;So it must,&rdquo; replied the cousin; &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;So I think,&rdquo; said Sancho; &ldquo;but now tell me, who was the
+      first tumbler in the world?&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Really, brother,&rdquo; answered the cousin, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Look here, señor,&rdquo; said Sancho, &ldquo;don&rsquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;You are right, friend,&rdquo; said the cousin; and said Don
+      Quixote, &ldquo;Sancho, that question and answer are not thine own; thou
+      hast heard them from some one else.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Hold your peace, señor,&rdquo; said Sancho; &ldquo;faith, if I take
+      to asking questions and answering, I&rsquo;ll go on from this till
+      to-morrow morning. Nay! to ask foolish things and answer nonsense I needn&rsquo;t
+      go looking for help from my neighbours.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Thou hast said more than thou art aware of, Sancho,&rdquo; said Don
+      Quixote; &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </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,
+      &ldquo;Mind what you are about, master mine; don&rsquo;t go burying
+      yourself alive, or putting yourself where you&rsquo;ll be like a bottle
+      put to cool in a well; it&rsquo;s no affair or business of your worship&rsquo;s
+      to become the explorer of this, which must be worse than a Moorish
+      dungeon.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Tie me and hold thy peace,&rdquo; said Don Quixote, &ldquo;for an
+      emprise like this, friend Sancho, was reserved for me;&rdquo; and said the
+      guide, &ldquo;I beg of you, Señor 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 &lsquo;Transformations.&rsquo;&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;The drum is in hands that will know how to beat it well enough,&rdquo;
+      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, &ldquo;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&rsquo;s
+      hand be it to guide me;&rdquo; 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, &ldquo;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.&rdquo; 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, &ldquo;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;&rdquo; and the cousin offered up almost
+      the same prayers and supplications.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p22c" id="p22c"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p22c.jpg (365K)" src="images/p22c.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p22c.jpg" style="width:100%;"><img alt="Full Size"
+      src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Don Quixote kept calling to them to give him rope and more rope, and they
+      gave it out little by little, and by the time the calls, which came out of
+      the cave as out of a pipe, ceased to be heard they had let down the
+      hundred fathoms of rope. They were inclined to pull Don Quixote up again,
+      as they could give him no more rope; however, they waited about half an
+      hour, at the end of which time they began to gather in the rope again with
+      great ease and without feeling any weight, which made them fancy Don
+      Quixote was remaining below; and persuaded that it was so, Sancho wept
+      bitterly, and hauled away in great haste in order to settle the question.
+      When, however, they had come to, as it seemed, rather more than eighty
+      fathoms they felt a weight, at which they were greatly delighted; and at
+      last, at ten fathoms more, they saw Don Quixote distinctly, and Sancho
+      called out to him, saying, &ldquo;Welcome back, señor, for we had begun to
+      think you were going to stop there to found a family.&rdquo; 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, &ldquo;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!&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p22d" id="p22d"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p22d.jpg (318K)" src="images/p22d.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p22d.jpg" style="width:100%;"><img alt="Full Size"
+      src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The cousin and Sancho Panza listened with deep attention to the words of
+      Don Quixote, who uttered them as though with immense pain he drew them up
+      from his very bowels. They begged of him to explain himself, and tell them
+      what he had seen in that hell down there.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Hell do you call it?&rdquo; said Don Quixote; &ldquo;call it by no
+      such name, for it does not deserve it, as ye shall soon see.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      He then begged them to give him something to eat, as he was very hungry.
+      They spread the cousin&rsquo;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, &ldquo;Let no one
+      rise, and attend to me, my sons, both of you.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p22e" id="p22e"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p22e.jpg (48K)" src="images/p22e.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      <a name="ch23b" id="ch23b"></a>CHAPTER XXIII.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      OF THE WONDERFUL THINGS THE INCOMPARABLE DON QUIXOTE SAID HE SAW IN THE
+      PROFOUND CAVE OF MONTESINOS, THE IMPOSSIBILITY AND MAGNITUDE OF WHICH
+      CAUSE THIS ADVENTURE TO BE DEEMED APOCRYPHAL
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <a name="p23a" id="p23a"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p23a.jpg (148K)" src="images/p23a.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p23a.jpg" style="width:100%;"><img alt="Full Size"
+      src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      It was about four in the afternoon when the sun, veiled in clouds, with
+      subdued light and tempered beams, enabled Don Quixote to relate, without
+      heat or inconvenience, what he had seen in the cave of Montesinos to his
+      two illustrious hearers, and he began as follows:
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;A matter of some twelve or fourteen times a man&rsquo;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, &lsquo;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.&rsquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;That poniard must have been made by Ramon de Hoces the Sevillian,&rdquo;
+      said Sancho.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I do not know,&rdquo; said Don Quixote; &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;That is true,&rdquo; said the cousin; &ldquo;continue, Señor Don
+      Quixote, for I am listening to you with the greatest pleasure in the
+      world.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;And with no less do I tell the tale,&rdquo; said Don Quixote;
+      &ldquo;and so, to proceed&mdash;the venerable Montesinos led me into the
+      palace of crystal, where, in a lower chamber, strangely cool and entirely
+      of alabaster, was an elaborately wrought marble tomb, upon which I beheld,
+      stretched at full length, a knight, not of bronze, or marble, or jasper,
+      as are seen on other tombs, but of actual flesh and bone. His right hand
+      (which seemed to me somewhat hairy and sinewy, a sign of great strength in
+      its owner) lay on the side of his heart; but before I could put any
+      question to Montesinos, he, seeing me gazing at the tomb in amazement,
+      said to me, &lsquo;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&rsquo;s son; but my belief is, not that he was the
+      devil&rsquo;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?&rsquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p23b" id="p23b"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p23b.jpg (243K)" src="images/p23b.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p23b.jpg" style="width:100%;"><img alt="Full Size"
+      src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;As he said this, the wretched Durandarte cried out in a loud voice:
+    </p>
+<pre xml:space="preserve">
+O cousin Montesinos!
+&lsquo;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.&rdquo;
+
+</pre>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;On hearing which, the venerable Montesinos fell on his knees before
+      the unhappy knight, and with tearful eyes exclaimed, &lsquo;Long since,
+      Señor 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.&rsquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;&lsquo;And if that may not be,&rsquo; said the wretched Durandarte
+      in a low and feeble voice, &lsquo;if that may not be, then, my cousin, I
+      say &ldquo;patience and shuffle;&rdquo;&rsquo; and turning over on his
+      side, he relapsed into his former silence without uttering another word.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p23c" id="p23c"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p23c.jpg (331K)" src="images/p23c.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p23c.jpg" style="width:100%;"><img alt="Full Size"
+      src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;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; &lsquo;her sallowness, and the rings
+      round her eyes,&rsquo; said he, &lsquo;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.&rsquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;&lsquo;Hold hard!&rsquo; said I at this, &lsquo;tell your story as
+      you ought, Señor 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&rsquo;s enough.&rsquo;
+      To which he made answer, &lsquo;Forgive me, Señor 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.&rsquo;
+      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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Still I wonder,&rdquo; said Sancho, &ldquo;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&rsquo;t leave a hair in it.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Nay, Sancho, my friend,&rdquo; said Don Quixote, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I cannot understand, Señor Don Quixote,&rdquo; remarked the cousin
+      here, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;How long is it since I went down?&rdquo; asked Don Quixote.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Little better than an hour,&rdquo; replied Sancho.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;That cannot be,&rdquo; returned Don Quixote, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;My master must be right,&rdquo; replied Sancho; &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;That&rsquo;s it,&rdquo; said Don Quixote.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;And did your worship eat anything all that time, señor?&rdquo;
+      asked the cousin.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I never touched a morsel,&rdquo; answered Don Quixote, &ldquo;nor
+      did I feel hunger, or think of it.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;And do the enchanted eat?&rdquo; said the cousin.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;They neither eat,&rdquo; said Don Quixote; &ldquo;nor are they
+      subject to the greater excrements, though it is thought that their nails,
+      beards, and hair grow.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;And do the enchanted sleep, now, señor?&rdquo; asked Sancho.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Certainly not,&rdquo; replied Don Quixote; &ldquo;at least, during
+      those three days I was with them not one of them closed an eye, nor did I
+      either.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;The proverb, &lsquo;Tell me what company thou keepest and I&rsquo;ll
+      tell thee what thou art,&rsquo; is to the point here,&rdquo; said Sancho;
+      &ldquo;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, señor, if I say that of all
+      this you have told us now, may God take me&mdash;I was just going to say
+      the devil&mdash;if I believe a single particle.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;What!&rdquo; said the cousin, &ldquo;has Señor 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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t believe my master lies,&rdquo; said Sancho.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;If not, what dost thou believe?&rdquo; asked Don Quixote.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I believe,&rdquo; replied Sancho, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;All that might be, Sancho,&rdquo; replied Don Quixote; &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </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, &ldquo;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 Señor 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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;As I know thee, Sancho,&rdquo; said Don Quixote, &ldquo;I heed not
+      thy words.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Nor I your worship&rsquo;s,&rdquo; said Sancho, &ldquo;whether you
+      beat me or kill me for those I have spoken, and will speak if you don&rsquo;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?&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I recognised her,&rdquo; said Don Quixote, &ldquo;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, &lsquo;My lady Dulcinea del Toboso kisses
+      your worship&rsquo;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.&rsquo;
+      I was amazed and taken aback by such a message, and turning to Señor
+      Montesinos I asked him, &lsquo;Is it possible, Señor Montesinos, that
+      persons of distinction under enchantment can be in need?&rsquo; To which
+      he replied, &lsquo;Believe me, Señor 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.&rsquo; &lsquo;I will take
+      no pledge of her,&rsquo; I replied, &lsquo;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, &lsquo;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.&rsquo; &lsquo;All that and more, you owe my lady,&rsquo;
+      the damsel&rsquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;O blessed God!&rdquo; exclaimed Sancho aloud at this, &ldquo;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&rsquo;s
+      right senses into a craze so full of absurdity! O señor, señor, for God&rsquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Thou talkest in this way because thou lovest me, Sancho,&rdquo;
+      said Don Quixote; &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p23e" id="p23e"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p23e.jpg (54K)" src="images/p23e.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      <a name="ch24b" id="ch24b"></a>CHAPTER XXIV.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      WHEREIN ARE RELATED A THOUSAND TRIFLING MATTERS, AS TRIVIAL AS THEY ARE
+      NECESSARY TO THE RIGHT UNDERSTANDING OF THIS GREAT HISTORY
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <a name="p24a" id="p24a"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p24a.jpg (137K)" src="images/p24a.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p24a.jpg" style="width:100%;"><img alt="Full Size"
+      src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      He who translated this great history from the original written by its
+      first author, Cide Hamete Benengeli, says that on coming to the chapter
+      giving the adventures of the cave of Montesinos he found written on the
+      margin of it, in Hamete&rsquo;s own hand, these exact words:
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;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.&rdquo; And then he
+      goes on to say:
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The cousin was amazed as well at Sancho&rsquo;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, &ldquo;I, Señor 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, &lsquo;Patience and shuffle.&rsquo; 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 &lsquo;Supplement to Polydore
+      Vergil on the Invention of Antiquities;&rsquo; 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 Señor Durandarte. And the fourth
+      thing is, that I have ascertained the source of the river Guadiana,
+      heretofore unknown to mankind.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;You are right,&rdquo; said Don Quixote; &ldquo;but I should like to
+      know, if by God&rsquo;s favour they grant you a licence to print those
+      books of yours&mdash;which I doubt&mdash;to whom do you mean to dedicate
+      them?&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;There are lords and grandees in Spain to whom they can be
+      dedicated,&rdquo; said the cousin.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Not many,&rdquo; said Don Quixote; &ldquo;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&rsquo;s
+      labour and courtesy. One prince I know who makes up for all the rest, and
+      more&mdash;how much more, if I ventured to say, perhaps I should stir up
+      envy in many a noble breast; but let this stand over for some more
+      convenient time, and let us go and look for some place to shelter
+      ourselves in to-night.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Not far from this,&rdquo; said the cousin, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Has this hermit any hens, do you think?&rdquo; asked Sancho.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Few hermits are without them,&rdquo; said Don Quixote; &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </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, &ldquo;Stay, good fellow; you
+      seem to be making more haste than suits that mule.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I cannot stop, señor,&rdquo; answered the man; &ldquo;for the arms
+      you see I carry here are to be used to-morrow, 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;&rdquo; 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&rsquo;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>
+      &ldquo;If I found any in water,&rdquo; said Sancho, &ldquo;there are wells
+      along the road where I could have had enough of it. Ah, Camacho&rsquo;s
+      wedding, and plentiful house of Don Diego, how often do I miss you!&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Leaving the hermitage, they pushed on towards the inn, and a little
+      farther they came upon a youth who was pacing along in front of them at no
+      great speed, so that they overtook him. He carried a sword over his
+      shoulder, and slung on it a budget or bundle of his clothes apparently,
+      probably his breeches or pantaloons, and his cloak and a shirt or two; for
+      he had on a short jacket of velvet with a gloss like satin on it in
+      places, and had his shirt out; his stockings were of silk, and his shoes
+      square-toed as they wear them at court. His age might have been eighteen
+      or nineteen; he was of a merry countenance, and to all appearance of an
+      active habit, and he went along singing seguidillas to beguile the
+      wearisomeness of the road. As they came up with him he was just finishing
+      one, which the cousin got by heart and they say ran thus&mdash;
+    </p>
+<pre xml:space="preserve">
+I&rsquo;m off to the wars
+For the want of pence,
+Oh, had I but money
+I&rsquo;d show more sense.
+</pre>
+    <p>
+      The first to address him was Don Quixote, who said, &ldquo;You travel very
+      airily, sir gallant; whither bound, may we ask, if it is your pleasure to
+      tell us?&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      To which the youth replied, &ldquo;The heat and my poverty are the reason
+      of my travelling so airily, and it is to the wars that I am bound.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;How poverty?&rdquo; asked Don Quixote; &ldquo;the heat one can
+      understand.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Señor,&rdquo; replied the youth, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;And did you get any bounty, now?&rdquo; asked the cousin.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;If I had been in the service of some grandee of Spain or personage
+      of distinction,&rdquo; replied the youth, &ldquo;I should have been safe
+      to get it; for that is the advantage of serving good masters, that out of
+      the servants&rsquo; 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&rsquo;s collars; it would be a
+      miracle indeed if a page volunteer ever got anything like a reasonable
+      bounty.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;And tell me, for heaven&rsquo;s sake,&rdquo; asked Don Quixote,
+      &ldquo;is it possible, my friend, that all the time you served you never
+      got any livery?&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;They gave me two,&rdquo; replied the page; &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;What spilorceria!&mdash;as an Italian would say,&rdquo; said Don
+      Quixote; &ldquo;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&rsquo;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&rsquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </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, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      And now, just as night was falling, they reached the inn, and it was not
+      without satisfaction that Sancho perceived his master took it for a real
+      inn, and not for a castle as usual. The instant they entered Don Quixote
+      asked the landlord after the man with the lances and halberds, and was
+      told that he was in the stable seeing to his mule; which was what Sancho
+      and the cousin proceeded to do for their beasts, giving the best manger
+      and the best place in the stable to Rocinante.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p24e" id="p24e"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p24e.jpg (61K)" src="images/p24e.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      <a name="ch25b" id="ch25b"></a>CHAPTER XXV.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      WHEREIN IS SET DOWN THE BRAYING ADVENTURE, AND THE DROLL ONE OF THE
+      PUPPET-SHOWMAN, TOGETHER WITH THE MEMORABLE DIVINATIONS OF THE DIVINING
+      APE
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <a name="p25a" id="p25a"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p25a.jpg (154K)" src="images/p25a.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p25a.jpg" style="width:100%;"><img alt="Full Size"
+      src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Don Quixote&rsquo;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. &ldquo;The tale of my
+      wonders must be taken more leisurely and not standing,&rdquo; said the
+      man; &ldquo;let me finish foddering my beast, good sir; and then I&rsquo;ll
+      tell you things that will astonish you.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Don&rsquo;t wait for that,&rdquo; said Don Quixote; &ldquo;I&rsquo;ll
+      help you in everything,&rdquo; 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>
+      &ldquo;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&rsquo;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, &lsquo;Pay me for
+      good news, gossip; your ass has turned up.&rsquo; &lsquo;That I will, and
+      well, gossip,&rsquo; said the other; &lsquo;but tell us, where has he
+      turned up?&rsquo; &lsquo;In the forest,&rsquo; said the finder; &lsquo;I
+      saw him this morning without pack-saddle or harness of any sort, and so
+      lean that it went to one&rsquo;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&rsquo;ll be back at once.&rsquo; &lsquo;You
+      will be doing me a great kindness,&rsquo; said the owner of the ass,
+      &lsquo;and I&rsquo;ll try to pay it back in the same coin.&rsquo; 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,
+      &lsquo;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&rsquo;s as good as
+      done.&rsquo; &lsquo;Ever so little did you say, gossip?&rsquo; said the
+      other; &lsquo;by God, I&rsquo;ll not give in to anybody, not even to the
+      asses themselves.&rsquo; &lsquo;We&rsquo;ll soon see,&rsquo; said the
+      second regidor, &lsquo;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.&rsquo; To which the owner
+      of the ass replied, &lsquo;It&rsquo;s an excellent plan, I declare,
+      gossip, and worthy of your great genius;&rsquo; 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, &lsquo;Is it possible, gossip, that it was not my ass that brayed?&rsquo;
+      &lsquo;No, it was I,&rsquo; said the other. &lsquo;Well then, I can tell
+      you, gossip,&rsquo; said the ass&rsquo;s owner, &lsquo;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.&rsquo; &lsquo;Those
+      praises and compliments belong to you more justly than to me, gossip,&rsquo;
+      said the inventor of the plan; &lsquo;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.&rsquo; &lsquo;Well then,&rsquo; said the owner,
+      &lsquo;I&rsquo;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.&rsquo; &lsquo;And I say too,&rsquo; said the
+      second, &lsquo;that there are rare gifts going to loss in the world, and
+      that they are ill bestowed upon those who don&rsquo;t know how to make use
+      of them.&rsquo; &lsquo;Ours,&rsquo; said the owner of the ass, &lsquo;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.&rsquo; 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, &lsquo;I was wondering he did not answer, for
+      if he wasn&rsquo;t dead he&rsquo;d have brayed when he heard us, or he&rsquo;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.&rsquo; &lsquo;It&rsquo;s in a
+      good hand, gossip,&rsquo; said the other; &lsquo;if the abbot sings well,
+      the acolyte is not much behind him.&rsquo; 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&rsquo;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&rsquo;t think them so, I have got no others;&rdquo; 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, &ldquo;Señor host, have you room? Here&rsquo;s the divining ape and
+      the show of the Release of Melisendra just coming.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Ods body!&rdquo; said the landlord, &ldquo;why, it&rsquo;s Master
+      Pedro! We&rsquo;re in for a grand night!&rdquo; 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.
+      &ldquo;Your worship is welcome, Master Pedro,&rdquo; continued the
+      landlord; &ldquo;but where are the ape and the show, for I don&rsquo;t see
+      them?&rdquo; &ldquo;They are close at hand,&rdquo; said he in the chamois
+      leather, &ldquo;but I came on first to know if there was any room.&rdquo;
+      &ldquo;I&rsquo;d make the Duke of Alva himself clear out to make room for
+      Master Pedro,&rdquo; said the landlord; &ldquo;bring in the ape and the
+      show; there&rsquo;s company in the inn to-night that will pay to see that
+      and the cleverness of the ape.&rdquo; &ldquo;So be it by all means,&rdquo;
+      said the man with the patch; &ldquo;I&rsquo;ll lower the price, and be
+      well satisfied if I only pay my expenses; and now I&rsquo;ll go back and
+      hurry on the cart with the ape and the show;&rdquo; 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, &ldquo;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&rsquo;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 &lsquo;gallant man&rsquo; 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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Master Pedro now came back, and in a cart followed the show and the ape&mdash;a
+      big one, without a tail and with buttocks as bare as felt, but not
+      vicious-looking. As soon as Don Quixote saw him, he asked him, &ldquo;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,&rdquo; and he bade Sancho give them
+      to Master Pedro; but he answered for the ape and said, &ldquo;Señor, 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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Gad,&rdquo; said Sancho, &ldquo;I would not give a farthing to be
+      told what&rsquo;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?&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Master Pedro refused to take the money, saying, &ldquo;I will not receive
+      payment in advance or until the service has been first rendered;&rdquo;
+      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&rsquo;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, &ldquo;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!&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p25b" id="p25b"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p25b.jpg (373K)" src="images/p25b.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p25b.jpg" style="width:100%;"><img alt="Full Size"
+      src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Don Quixote was thunderstruck, Sancho astounded, the cousin staggered, the
+      page astonished, the man from the braying town agape, the landlord in
+      perplexity, and, in short, everyone amazed at the words of the
+      puppet-showman, who went on to say, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;That I can well believe,&rdquo; said Sancho. &ldquo;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&rsquo;s account was a very clever and
+      worthy woman; my Teresa is one of those that won&rsquo;t let themselves
+      want for anything, though their heirs may have to pay for it.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Now I declare,&rdquo; said Don Quixote, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;If I had money,&rdquo; said the page, &ldquo;I would ask señor ape
+      what will happen to me in the peregrination I am making.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      To this Master Pedro, who had by this time risen from Don Quixote&rsquo;s
+      feet, replied, &ldquo;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 Señor 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.&rdquo; 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, &ldquo;Look here, Sancho, I have been seriously
+      thinking over this ape&rsquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;If the packet is express from the devil,&rdquo; said Sancho,
+      &ldquo;it must be a very dirty packet no doubt; but what good can it do
+      Master Pedro to have such packets?&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Thou dost not understand me, Sancho,&rdquo; said Don Quixote;
+      &ldquo;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&rsquo;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 señor 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 señor planet-ruler had the
+      credit all over the place of being a most profound astrologer, as most of
+      these planet-rulers have.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Still,&rdquo; said Sancho, &ldquo;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&rsquo;s pardon,
+      I, for my part, take it to have been all flam and lies, or at any rate
+      something you dreamt.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;That may be,&rdquo; replied Don Quixote; &ldquo;however, I will do
+      what you suggest; though I have my own scruples about it.&rdquo;
+    </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:
+      &ldquo;See here, señor 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.&rdquo; 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, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Did I not say, señor,&rdquo; said Sancho, &ldquo;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?&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;The course of events will tell, Sancho,&rdquo; replied Don Quixote;
+      &ldquo;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&rsquo;s
+      show, for I am sure there must be something novel in it.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Something!&rdquo; said Master Pedro; &ldquo;this show of mine has
+      sixty thousand novel things in it; let me tell you, Señor 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&rsquo;s get to work, for it is growing
+      late, and we have a great deal to do and to say and show.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Don Quixote and Sancho obeyed him and went to where the show was already
+      put up and uncovered, set all around with lighted wax tapers which made it
+      look splendid and bright. When they came to it Master Pedro ensconced
+      himself inside it, for it was he who had to work the puppets, and a boy, a
+      servant of his, posted himself outside to act as showman and explain the
+      mysteries of the exhibition, having a wand in his hand to point to the
+      figures as they came out. And so, all who were in the inn being arranged
+      in front of the show, some of them standing, and Don Quixote, Sancho, the
+      page, and cousin, accommodated with the best places, the interpreter began
+      to say what he will hear or see who reads or hears the next chapter.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p25e" id="p25e"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p25e.jpg (28K)" src="images/p25e.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      <a name="ch26b" id="ch26b"></a>CHAPTER XXVI.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      WHEREIN IS CONTINUED THE DROLL ADVENTURE OF THE PUPPET-SHOWMAN, TOGETHER
+      WITH OTHER THINGS IN TRUTH RIGHT GOOD
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <a name="p26a" id="p26a"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p26a.jpg (157K)" src="images/p26a.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p26a.jpg" style="width:100%;"><img alt="Full Size"
+      src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      All were silent, Tyrians and Trojans; I mean all who were watching the
+      show were hanging on the lips of the interpreter of its wonders, when
+      drums and trumpets were heard to sound inside it and cannon to go off. The
+      noise was soon over, and then the boy lifted up his voice and said,
+      &ldquo;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&rsquo;s mouth, and in the mouth of the boys about the
+      streets. Its subject is the release by Señor 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&mdash;
+    </p>
+
+<p class="poem">
+At tables playing Don Gaiferos sits,<br/>
+For Melisendra is forgotten now.
+</p>
+
+    <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&rsquo;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 class="poem">
+      Enough I&rsquo;ve said, see to it now.
+    </p>
+
+<p class="noindent">
+      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&rsquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Here Don Quixote called out, &ldquo;Child, child, go straight on with your
+      story, and don&rsquo;t run into curves and slants, for to establish a fact
+      clearly there is need of a great deal of proof and confirmation;&rdquo;
+      and said Master Pedro from within, &ldquo;Boy, stick to your text and do
+      as the gentleman bids you; it&rsquo;s the best plan; keep to your plain
+      song, and don&rsquo;t attempt harmonies, for they are apt to break down
+      from being over fine.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I will,&rdquo; said the boy, and he went on to say, &ldquo;This
+      figure that you see here on horseback, covered with a Gascon cloak, is Don
+      Gaiferos himself, whom his wife, now avenged of the insult of the amorous
+      Moor, and taking her stand on the balcony of the tower with a calmer and
+      more tranquil countenance, has perceived without recognising him; and she
+      addresses her husband, supposing him to be some traveller, and holds with
+      him all that conversation and colloquy in the ballad that runs&mdash;
+    </p>
+<pre xml:space="preserve">
+If you, sir knight, to France are bound,
+Oh! for Gaiferos ask&mdash;
+
+</pre>
+    <p>
+      which I do not repeat here because prolixity begets disgust; suffice it to
+      observe how Don Gaiferos discovers himself, and that by her joyful
+      gestures Melisendra shows us she has recognised him; and what is more, we
+      now see she lowers herself from the balcony to place herself on the
+      haunches of her good husband&rsquo;s horse. But ah! unhappy lady, the edge
+      of her petticoat has caught on one of the bars of the balcony and she is
+      left hanging in the air, unable to reach the ground. But you see how
+      compassionate heaven sends aid in our sorest need; Don Gaiferos advances,
+      and without minding whether the rich petticoat is torn or not, he seizes
+      her and by force brings her to the ground, and then with one jerk places
+      her on the haunches of his horse, astraddle like a man, and bids her hold
+      on tight and clasp her arms round his neck, crossing them on his breast so
+      as not to fall, for the lady Melisendra was not used to that style of
+      riding. You see, too, how the neighing of the horse shows his satisfaction
+      with the gallant and beautiful burden he bears in his lord and lady. You
+      see how they wheel round and quit the city, and in joy and gladness take
+      the road to Paris. Go in peace, O peerless pair of true lovers! May you
+      reach your longed-for fatherland in safety, and may fortune interpose no
+      impediment to your prosperous journey; may the eyes of your friends and
+      kinsmen behold you enjoying in peace and tranquillity the remaining days
+      of your life&mdash;and that they may be as many as those of Nestor!&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Here Master Pedro called out again and said, &ldquo;Simplicity, boy! None
+      of your high flights; all affectation is bad.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The interpreter made no answer, but went on to say, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Nay, nay,&rdquo; said Don Quixote at this; &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      On hearing this, Master Pedro stopped ringing, and said, &ldquo;Don&rsquo;t
+      look into trifles, Señor 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&rsquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;True enough,&rdquo; said Don Quixote; and the boy went on: &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p26b" id="p26b"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p26b.jpg (342K)" src="images/p26b.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p26b.jpg" style="width:100%;"><img alt="Full Size"
+      src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Don Quixote, however, seeing such a swarm of Moors and hearing such a din,
+      thought it would be right to aid the fugitives, and standing up he
+      exclaimed in a loud voice, &ldquo;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!&rdquo; 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,
+      &ldquo;Hold hard! Señor Don Quixote! can&rsquo;t you see they&rsquo;re not
+      real Moors you&rsquo;re knocking down and killing and destroying, but only
+      little pasteboard figures! Look&mdash;sinner that I am!&mdash;how you&rsquo;re
+      wrecking and ruining all that I&rsquo;m worth!&rdquo; 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, &ldquo;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!&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Let it live, and welcome,&rdquo; said Master Pedro at this in a
+      feeble voice, &ldquo;and let me die, for I am so unfortunate that I can
+      say with King Don Rodrigo&mdash;
+    </p>
+<pre xml:space="preserve">
+Yesterday was I lord of Spain
+To-day I&rsquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Sancho Panza was touched by Master Pedro&rsquo;s words, and said to him,
+      &ldquo;Don&rsquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Only let Señor Don Quixote pay me for some part of the work he has
+      destroyed,&rdquo; said Master Pedro, &ldquo;and I would be content, and
+      his worship would ease his conscience, for he cannot be saved who keeps
+      what is another&rsquo;s against the owner&rsquo;s will, and makes no
+      restitution.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;That is true,&rdquo; said Don Quixote; &ldquo;but at present I am
+      not aware that I have got anything of yours, Master Pedro.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;What!&rdquo; returned Master Pedro; &ldquo;and these relics lying
+      here on the bare hard ground&mdash;what scattered and shattered them but
+      the invincible strength of that mighty arm? And whose were the bodies they
+      belonged to but mine? And what did I get my living by but by them?&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Now am I fully convinced,&rdquo; said Don Quixote, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Master Pedro made him a bow, saying, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </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, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Proceed,&rdquo; said Don Quixote.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Well then, for this cleavage from top to bottom,&rdquo; continued
+      Master Pedro, taking up the split Emperor Charlemagne, &ldquo;it would not
+      be much if I were to ask five reals and a quarter.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;It&rsquo;s not little,&rdquo; said Sancho.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Nor is it much,&rdquo; said the landlord; &ldquo;make it even, and
+      say five reals.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Let him have the whole five and a quarter,&rdquo; said Don Quixote;
+      &ldquo;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&rsquo;s
+      getting on to supper-time, and I have some hints of hunger.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;For this figure,&rdquo; said Master Pedro, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;The very devil must be in it,&rdquo; said Don Quixote, &ldquo;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&rsquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </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, &ldquo;This cannot be Melisendra, but must be one of the
+      damsels that waited on her; so if I&rsquo;m given sixty maravedis for her,
+      I&rsquo;ll be content and sufficiently paid.&rdquo;
+    </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>
+      &ldquo;Let him have them, Sancho,&rdquo; said Don Quixote; &ldquo;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 Señor Don Gaiferos were now in France and with their
+      own people.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;No one could tell us that better than my ape,&rdquo; said Master
+      Pedro; &ldquo;but there&rsquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      In short, the puppet-show storm passed off, and all supped in peace and
+      good fellowship at Don Quixote&rsquo;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&rsquo;s orders, paid him very liberally,
+      and taking leave of him they quitted the inn at about eight in the morning
+      and took to the road, where we will leave them to pursue their journey,
+      for this is necessary in order to allow certain other matters to be set
+      forth, which are required to clear up this famous history.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p26e" id="p26e"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p26e.jpg (34K)" src="images/p26e.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      <a name="ch27b" id="ch27b"></a>CHAPTER XXVII.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      WHEREIN IT IS SHOWN WHO MASTER PEDRO AND HIS APE WERE, TOGETHER WITH THE
+      MISHAP DON QUIXOTE HAD IN THE BRAYING ADVENTURE, WHICH HE DID NOT CONCLUDE
+      AS HE WOULD HAVE LIKED OR AS HE HAD EXPECTED
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <a name="p27a" id="p27a"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p27a.jpg (135K)" src="images/p27a.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p27a.jpg" style="width:100%;"><img alt="Full Size"
+      src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Cide Hamete, the chronicler of this great history, begins this chapter
+      with these words, &ldquo;I swear as a Catholic Christian;&rdquo; with
+      regard to which his translator says that Cide Hamete&rsquo;s swearing as a
+      Catholic Christian, he being&mdash;as no doubt he was&mdash;a Moor, only
+      meant that, just as a Catholic Christian taking an oath swears, or ought
+      to swear, what is true, and tell the truth in what he avers, so he was
+      telling the truth, as much as if he swore as a Catholic Christian, in all
+      he chose to write about Quixote, especially in declaring who Master Pedro
+      was and what was the divining ape that astonished all the villages with
+      his divinations. He says, then, that he who has read the First Part of
+      this history will remember well enough the Gines de Pasamonte whom, with
+      other galley slaves, Don Quixote set free in the Sierra Morena: a kindness
+      for which he afterwards got poor thanks and worse payment from that
+      evil-minded, ill-conditioned set. This Gines de Pasamonte&mdash;Don
+      Ginesillo de Parapilla, Don Quixote called him&mdash;it was that stole
+      Dapple from Sancho Panza; which, because by the fault of the printers
+      neither the how nor the when was stated in the First Part, has been a
+      puzzle to a good many people, who attribute to the bad memory of the
+      author what was the error of the press. In fact, however, Gines stole him
+      while Sancho Panza was asleep on his back, adopting the plan and device
+      that Brunello had recourse to when he stole Sacripante&rsquo;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&rsquo;s head and destroyed all his
+      horsemen, as related in the preceeding chapter.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      So much for Master Pedro and his ape; and now to return to Don Quixote of
+      La Mancha. After he had left the inn he determined to visit, first of all,
+      the banks of the Ebro and that neighbourhood, before entering the city of
+      Saragossa, for the ample time there was still to spare before the jousts
+      left him enough for all. With this object in view he followed the road and
+      travelled along it for two days, without meeting any adventure worth
+      committing to writing until on the third day, as he was ascending a hill,
+      he heard a great noise of drums, trumpets, and musket-shots. At first he
+      imagined some regiment of soldiers was passing that way, and to see them
+      he spurred Rocinante and mounted the hill. On reaching the top he saw at
+      the foot of it over two hundred men, as it seemed to him, armed with
+      weapons of various sorts, lances, crossbows, partisans, halberds, and
+      pikes, and a few muskets and a great many bucklers. He descended the slope
+      and approached the band near enough to see distinctly the flags, make out
+      the colours and distinguish the devices they bore, especially one on a
+      standard or ensign of white satin, on which there was painted in a very
+      life-like style an ass like a little sard, with its head up, its mouth
+      open and its tongue out, as if it were in the act and attitude of braying;
+      and round it were inscribed in large characters these two lines&mdash;
+    </p>
+<pre xml:space="preserve">
+They did not bray in vain,
+Our alcaldes twain.
+
+</pre>
+    <p>
+      From this device Don Quixote concluded that these people must be from the
+      braying town, and he said so to Sancho, explaining to him what was written
+      on the standard. At the same time be observed that the man who had told
+      them about the matter was wrong in saying that the two who brayed were
+      regidors, for according to the lines of the standard they were alcaldes.
+      To which Sancho replied, &ldquo;Señor, there&rsquo;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.&rdquo; 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&rsquo;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, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      They all bade him say what he liked, for they would listen to him
+      willingly.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p27b" id="p27b"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p27b.jpg (330K)" src="images/p27b.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p27b.jpg" style="width:100%;"><img alt="Full Size"
+      src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      With this permission Don Quixote went on to say, &ldquo;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, Señor 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&rsquo;s
+      no father, governor, or bridle to check the tongue. The case being, then,
+      that no one person can insult a kingdom, province, city, state, or entire
+      community, it is clear there is no reason for going out to avenge the
+      defiance of such an insult, inasmuch as it is not one. A fine thing it
+      would be if the people of the clock town were to be at loggerheads every
+      moment with everyone who called them by that name,&mdash;or the Cazoleros,
+      Berengeneros, Ballenatos, Jaboneros, or the bearers of all the other names
+      and titles that are always in the mouth of the boys and common people! It
+      would be a nice business indeed if all these illustrious cities were to
+      take huff and revenge themselves and go about perpetually making trombones
+      of their swords in every petty quarrel! No, no; God forbid! There are four
+      things for which sensible men and well-ordered States ought to take up
+      arms, draw their swords, and risk their persons, lives, and properties.
+      The first is to defend the Catholic faith; the second, to defend one&rsquo;s
+      life, which is in accordance with natural and divine law; the third, in
+      defence of one&rsquo;s honour, family, and property; the fourth, in the
+      service of one&rsquo;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&rsquo;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 be 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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;The devil take me,&rdquo; said Sancho to himself at this, &ldquo;but
+      this master of mine is a theologian; or, if not, faith, he&rsquo;s as like
+      one as one egg is like another.&rdquo;
+    </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, &ldquo;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&rsquo; 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;&rdquo;
+      and then, taking hold of his nose, he began to bray so vigorously that all
+      the valleys around rang again.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      One of those, however, that stood near him, fancying he was mocking them,
+      lifted up a long staff he had in his hand and smote him such a blow with
+      it that Sancho dropped helpless to the ground. Don Quixote, seeing him so
+      roughly handled, attacked the man who had struck him lance in hand, but so
+      many thrust themselves between them that he could not avenge him. Far from
+      it, finding a shower of stones rained upon him, and crossbows and muskets
+      unnumbered levelled at him, he wheeled Rocinante round and, as fast as his
+      best gallop could take him, fled from the midst of them, commending
+      himself to God with all his heart to deliver him out of this peril, in
+      dread every step of some ball coming in at his back and coming out at his
+      breast, and every minute drawing his breath to see whether it had gone
+      from him. The members of the band, however, were satisfied with seeing him
+      take to flight, and did not fire on him. They put up Sancho, scarcely
+      restored to his senses, on his ass, and let him go after his master; not
+      that he was sufficiently in his wits to guide the beast, but Dapple
+      followed the footsteps of Rocinante, from whom he could not remain a
+      moment separated. Don Quixote having got some way off looked back, and
+      seeing Sancho coming, waited for him, as he perceived that no one followed
+      him. The men of the troop stood their ground till night, and as the enemy
+      did not come out to battle, they returned to their town exulting; and had
+      they been aware of the ancient custom of the Greeks, they would have
+      erected a trophy on the spot.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p27e" id="p27e"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p27e.jpg (47K)" src="images/p27e.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p27e.jpg" style="width:100%;"><img alt="Full Size"
+      src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      <a name="ch28b" id="ch28b"></a>CHAPTER XXVIII.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      OF MATTERS THAT BENENGELI SAYS HE WHO READS THEM WILL KNOW, IF HE READS
+      THEM WITH ATTENTION
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <a name="p28a" id="p28a"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p28a.jpg (111K)" src="images/p28a.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p28a.jpg" style="width:100%;"><img alt="Full Size"
+      src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      When the brave man flees, treachery is manifest and it is for wise men to
+      reserve themselves for better occasions. This proved to be the case with
+      Don Quixote, who, giving way before the fury of the townsfolk and the
+      hostile intentions of the angry troop, took to flight and, without a
+      thought of Sancho or the danger in which he was leaving him, retreated to
+      such a distance as he thought made him safe. Sancho, lying across his ass,
+      followed him, as has been said, and at length came up, having by this time
+      recovered his senses, and on joining him let himself drop off Dapple at
+      Rocinante&rsquo;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, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I&rsquo;m not equal to answering,&rdquo; said Sancho, &ldquo;for I
+      feel as if I was speaking through my shoulders; let us mount and get away
+      from this; I&rsquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;He does not fly who retires,&rdquo; returned Don Quixote; &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </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>
+      &ldquo;The cause of that soreness,&rdquo; said Don Quixote, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;By God,&rdquo; said Sancho, &ldquo;your worship has relieved me of
+      a great doubt, and cleared up the point for me in elegant style! Body o&rsquo;
+      me! is the cause of my soreness such a mystery that there&rsquo;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&rsquo;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&rsquo;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&rsquo;s not enough
+      for you, take as many more, for you may have it all your own way and
+      stretch yourself to your heart&rsquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I would lay a good wager with you, Sancho,&rdquo; said Don Quixote,
+      &ldquo;that now that you are talking on without anyone to stop you, you
+      don&rsquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;When I worked for Tom Carrasco, the father of the bachelor Samson
+      Carrasco that your worship knows,&rdquo; replied Sancho, &ldquo;I used to
+      earn two ducats a month besides my food; I can&rsquo;t tell what I can
+      earn with your worship, though I know a knight-errant&rsquo;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&rsquo;s service, if it wasn&rsquo;t the short
+      time we were in Don Diego de Miranda&rsquo;s house, and the feast I had
+      with the skimmings I took off Camacho&rsquo;s pots, and what I ate, drank,
+      and slept in Basilio&rsquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I own, Sancho,&rdquo; said Don Quixote, &ldquo;that all thou sayest
+      is true; how much, thinkest thou, ought I to give thee over and above what
+      Tom Carrasco gave thee?&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I think,&rdquo; said Sancho, &ldquo;that if your worship was to add
+      on two reals a month I&rsquo;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&rsquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Very good,&rdquo; said Don Quixote; &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;O body o&rsquo; me!&rdquo; said Sancho, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Well, how long is it, Sancho, since I promised it to you?&rdquo;
+      said Don Quixote.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;If I remember rightly,&rdquo; said Sancho, &ldquo;it must be over
+      twenty years, three days more or less.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Don Quixote gave himself a great slap on the forehead and began to laugh
+      heartily, and said he, &ldquo;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&rsquo;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&rsquo;s squire made terms with his lord, &lsquo;you must
+      give me so much a month for serving you&rsquo;? Plunge, scoundrel, rogue,
+      monster&mdash;for such I take thee to be&mdash;plunge, I say, into the
+      mare magnum of their histories; and if thou shalt find that any squire
+      ever said or thought what thou hast said now, I will let thee nail it on
+      my forehead, and give me, over and above, four sound slaps in the face.
+      Turn the rein, or the halter, of thy Dapple, and begone home; for one
+      single step further thou shalt not make in my company. O bread thanklessly
+      received! O promises ill-bestowed! O man more beast than human being! Now,
+      when I was about to raise thee to such a position, that, in spite of thy
+      wife, they would call thee &lsquo;my lord,&rsquo; 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.&rdquo;
+    </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, &ldquo;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&rsquo;ll look on it as rightly placed, and I&rsquo;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&rsquo;s
+      more from infirmity than malice; but he who sins and mends commends
+      himself to God.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I should have been surprised, Sancho,&rdquo; said Don Quixote,
+      &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Sancho said he would do so, and keep up his heart as best he could. They
+      then entered the grove, and Don Quixote settled himself at the foot of an
+      elm, and Sancho at that of a beech, for trees of this kind and others like
+      them always have feet but no hands. Sancho passed the night in pain, for
+      with the evening dews the blow of the staff made itself felt all the more.
+      Don Quixote passed it in his never-failing meditations; but, for all that,
+      they had some winks of sleep, and with the appearance of daylight they
+      pursued their journey in quest of the banks of the famous Ebro, where that
+      befell them which will be told in the following chapter.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p28e" id="p28e"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p28e.jpg (36K)" src="images/p28e.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      <a name="ch29b" id="ch29b"></a>CHAPTER XXIX.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      OF THE FAMOUS ADVENTURE OF THE ENCHANTED BARK
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <a name="p29a" id="p29a"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p29a.jpg (127K)" src="images/p29a.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p29a.jpg" style="width:100%;"><img alt="Full Size"
+      src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      By stages as already described or left undescribed, two days after
+      quitting the grove Don Quixote and Sancho reached the river Ebro, and the
+      sight of it was a great delight to Don Quixote as he contemplated and
+      gazed upon the charms of its banks, the clearness of its stream, the
+      gentleness of its current and the abundance of its crystal waters; and the
+      pleasant view revived a thousand tender thoughts in his mind. Above all,
+      he dwelt upon what he had seen in the cave of Montesinos; for though
+      Master Pedro&rsquo;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&rsquo;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, &ldquo;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&rsquo;s hand be it to
+      guide us; for I would not hold back from embarking, though barefooted
+      friars were to beg me.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;As that&rsquo;s the case,&rdquo; said Sancho, &ldquo;and your
+      worship chooses to give in to these&mdash;I don&rsquo;t know if I may call
+      them absurdities&mdash;at every turn, there&rsquo;s nothing for it but to
+      obey and bow the head, bearing in mind the proverb, &lsquo;Do as thy
+      master bids thee, and sit down to table with him;&rsquo; 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.&rdquo;
+    </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, &ldquo;for he who
+      would carry themselves over such longinquous roads and regions would take
+      care to feed them.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t understand that logiquous,&rdquo; said Sancho,
+      &ldquo;nor have I ever heard the word all the days of my life.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Longinquous,&rdquo; replied Don Quixote, &ldquo;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&rsquo;t.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Now they are tied,&rdquo; said Sancho; &ldquo;what are we to do
+      next?&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;What?&rdquo; said Don Quixote, &ldquo;cross ourselves and weigh
+      anchor; I mean, embark and cut the moorings by which the bark is held;&rdquo;
+      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, &ldquo;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.&rdquo; And with this he
+      fell weeping so bitterly, that Don Quixote said to him, sharply and
+      angrily, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;And when we come to that line your worship speaks of,&rdquo; said
+      Sancho, &ldquo;how far shall we have gone?&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Very far,&rdquo; said Don Quixote, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;By God,&rdquo; said Sancho, &ldquo;your worship gives me a nice
+      authority for what you say, putrid Dolly something transmogrified, or
+      whatever it is.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Don Quixote laughed at the interpretation Sancho put upon &ldquo;computed,&rdquo;
+      and the name of the cosmographer Ptolemy, and said he, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t believe a bit of it,&rdquo; said Sancho; &ldquo;still,
+      I&rsquo;ll do as your worship bids me; though I don&rsquo;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&rsquo;s good, we are not stirring or moving at the pace of an
+      ant.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Try the test I told thee of, Sancho,&rdquo; said Don Quixote,
+      &ldquo;and don&rsquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </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, &ldquo;Either the
+      test is a false one, or we have not come to where your worship says, nor
+      within many leagues of it.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Why, how so?&rdquo; asked Don Quixote; &ldquo;hast thou come upon
+      aught?&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Ay, and aughts,&rdquo; 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, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;What the devil city, fortress, or castle is your worship talking
+      about, señor?&rdquo; said Sancho; &ldquo;don&rsquo;t you see that those
+      are mills that stand in the river to grind corn?&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Hold thy peace, Sancho,&rdquo; said Don Quixote; &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </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, &ldquo;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?&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Did I not tell thee, Sancho,&rdquo; said Don Quixote at this,
+      &ldquo;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!&rdquo; And then standing up in the
+      boat he began in a loud voice to hurl threats at the millers, exclaiming,
+      &ldquo;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;&rdquo; and so saying he drew his sword and began making passes
+      in the air at the millers, who, hearing but not understanding all this
+      nonsense, strove to stop the boat, which was now getting into the rushing
+      channel of the wheels. Sancho fell upon his knees devoutly appealing to
+      heaven to deliver him from such imminent peril; which it did by the
+      activity and quickness of the millers, who, pushing against the boat with
+      their poles, stopped it, not, however, without upsetting and throwing Don
+      Quixote and Sancho into the water; and lucky it was for Don Quixote that
+      he could swim like a goose, though the weight of his armour carried him
+      twice to the bottom; and had it not been for the millers, who plunged in
+      and hoisted them both out, it would have been Troy town with the pair of
+      them. As soon as, more drenched than thirsty, they were landed, Sancho
+      went down on his knees and with clasped hands and eyes raised to heaven,
+      prayed a long and fervent prayer to God to deliver him evermore from the
+      rash projects and attempts of his master. The fishermen, the owners of the
+      boat, which the mill-wheels had knocked to pieces, now came up, and seeing
+      it smashed they proceeded to strip Sancho and to demand payment for it
+      from Don Quixote; but he with great calmness, just as if nothing had
+      happened him, told the millers and fishermen that he would pay for the
+      bark most cheerfully, on condition that they delivered up to him, free and
+      unhurt, the person or persons that were in durance in that castle of
+      theirs.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p29b" id="p29b"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p29b.jpg (314K)" src="images/p29b.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p29b.jpg" style="width:100%;"><img alt="Full Size"
+      src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;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?&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;That&rsquo;s enough,&rdquo; said Don Quixote to himself, &ldquo;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.&rdquo; And then turning towards the mills he
+      said aloud, &ldquo;Friends, whoe&rsquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </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,
+      &ldquo;With a couple more bark businesses like this we shall have sunk our
+      whole capital.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The fishermen and the millers stood staring in amazement at the two
+      figures, so very different to all appearance from ordinary men, and were
+      wholly unable to make out the drift of the observations and questions Don
+      Quixote addressed to them; and coming to the conclusion that they were
+      madmen, they left them and betook themselves, the millers to their mills,
+      and the fishermen to their huts. Don Quixote and Sancho returned to their
+      beasts, and to their life of beasts, and so ended the adventure of the
+      enchanted bark.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p29e" id="p29e"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p29e.jpg (54K)" src="images/p29e.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      <a name="ch30b" id="ch30b"></a>CHAPTER XXX.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      OF DON QUIXOTE&rsquo;S ADVENTURE WITH A FAIR HUNTRESS
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <a name="p30a" id="p30a"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p30a.jpg (134K)" src="images/p30a.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p30a.jpg" style="width:100%;"><img alt="Full Size"
+      src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      They reached their beasts in low spirits and bad humour enough, knight and
+      squire, Sancho particularly, for with him what touched the stock of money
+      touched his heart, and when any was taken from him he felt as if he was
+      robbed of the apples of his eyes. In fine, without exchanging a word, they
+      mounted and quitted the famous river, Don Quixote absorbed in thoughts of
+      his love, Sancho in thinking of his advancement, which just then, it
+      seemed to him, he was very far from securing; for, fool as he was, he saw
+      clearly enough that his master&rsquo;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&rsquo;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, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p30b" id="p30b"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p30b.jpg (334K)" src="images/p30b.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p30b.jpg" style="width:100%;"><img alt="Full Size"
+      src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;You&rsquo;ve got a likely one here to thrust any in!&rdquo; said
+      Sancho; &ldquo;leave me alone for that! Why, this is not the first time in
+      my life I have carried messages to high and exalted ladies.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Except that thou didst carry to the lady Dulcinea,&rdquo; said Don
+      Quixote, &ldquo;I know not that thou hast carried any other, at least in
+      my service.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;That is true,&rdquo; replied Sancho; &ldquo;but pledges don&rsquo;t
+      distress a good payer, and in a house where there&rsquo;s plenty supper is
+      soon cooked; I mean there&rsquo;s no need of telling or warning me about
+      anything; for I&rsquo;m ready for everything and know a little of
+      everything.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;That I believe, Sancho,&rdquo; said Don Quixote; &ldquo;go and good
+      luck to thee, and God speed thee.&rdquo;
+    </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, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;You have indeed, squire,&rdquo; said the lady, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </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. &ldquo;Tell me, brother squire,&rdquo; asked the
+      duchess (whose title, however, is not known), &ldquo;this master of yours,
+      is he not one of whom there is a history extant in print, called &lsquo;The
+      Ingenious Gentleman, Don Quixote of La Mancha,&rsquo; who has for the lady
+      of his heart a certain Dulcinea del Toboso?&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;He is the same, señora,&rdquo; replied Sancho; &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I am rejoiced at all this,&rdquo; said the duchess; &ldquo;go,
+      brother Panza, and tell your master that he is welcome to my estate, and
+      that nothing could happen to me that could give me greater pleasure.&rdquo;
+    </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&rsquo;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&rsquo;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,
+      &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;That which has happened me in meeting you, mighty prince,&rdquo;
+      replied Don Quixote, &ldquo;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&rsquo;s
+      curse upon him, is better at unloosing his tongue in talking impertinence
+      than in tightening the girths of a saddle to keep it steady; but however I
+      may be, fallen or raised up, on foot or on horseback, I shall always be at
+      your service and that of my lady the duchess, your worthy consort, worthy
+      queen of beauty and paramount princess of courtesy.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Gently, Señor Don Quixote of La Mancha,&rdquo; said the duke;
+      &ldquo;where my lady Dona Dulcinea del Toboso is, it is not right that
+      other beauties should be praised.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Sancho, by this time released from his entanglement, was standing by, and
+      before his master could answer he said, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Don Quixote turned to the duchess and said, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      To which the duchess made answer, &ldquo;that worthy Sancho is droll I
+      consider a very good thing, because it is a sign that he is shrewd; for
+      drollery and sprightliness, Señor 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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;And talkative,&rdquo; added Don Quixote.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;So much the better,&rdquo; said the duke, &ldquo;for many droll
+      things cannot be said in few words; but not to lose time in talking, come,
+      great Knight of the Rueful Countenance-&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Of the Lions, your highness must say,&rdquo; said Sancho, &ldquo;for
+      there is no Rueful Countenance nor any such character now.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;He of the Lions be it,&rdquo; continued the duke; &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      By this time Sancho had fixed and girthed Rocinante&rsquo;s saddle, and
+      Don Quixote having got on his back and the duke mounted a fine horse, they
+      placed the duchess in the middle and set out for the castle. The duchess
+      desired Sancho to come to her side, for she found infinite enjoyment in
+      listening to his shrewd remarks. Sancho required no pressing, but pushed
+      himself in between them and the duke, who thought it rare good fortune to
+      receive such a knight-errant and such a homely squire in their castle.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p30e" id="p30e"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p30e.jpg (54K)" src="images/p30e.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      <a name="ch31b" id="ch31b"></a>CHAPTER XXXI.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      WHICH TREATS OF MANY AND GREAT MATTERS
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <a name="p31a" id="p31a"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p31a.jpg (155K)" src="images/p31a.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p31a.jpg" style="width:100%;"><img alt="Full Size"
+      src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Supreme was the satisfaction that Sancho felt at seeing himself, as it
+      seemed, an established favourite with the duchess, for he looked forward
+      to finding in her castle what he had found in Don Diego&rsquo;s house and
+      in Basilio&rsquo;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, &ldquo;Your highness should go and take my lady
+      the duchess off her horse.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p31b" id="p31b"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p31b.jpg (334K)" src="images/p31b.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p31b.jpg" style="width:100%;"><img alt="Full Size"
+      src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Don Quixote obeyed, and great bandying of compliments followed between the
+      two over the matter; but in the end the duchess&rsquo;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&rsquo;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, &ldquo;Welcome, flower and cream of
+      knight-errantry!&rdquo; 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, &ldquo;Señora Gonzalez, or
+      however your grace may be called&mdash;&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I am called Dona Rodriguez de Grijalba,&rdquo; replied the duenna;
+      &ldquo;what is your will, brother?&rdquo; To which Sancho made answer,
+      &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;If the master is as wise as the man,&rdquo; said the duenna,
+      &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Well then, in troth,&rdquo; returned Sancho, &ldquo;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&rsquo;t change
+      him for Señor Lancelot&rsquo;s hack.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;If you are a jester, brother,&rdquo; said the duenna, &ldquo;keep
+      your drolleries for some place where they&rsquo;ll pass muster and be paid
+      for; for you&rsquo;ll get nothing from me but a fig.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;At any rate, it will be a very ripe one,&rdquo; said Sancho,
+      &ldquo;for you won&rsquo;t lose the trick in years by a point too little.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Son of a bitch,&rdquo; said the duenna, all aglow with anger,
+      &ldquo;whether I&rsquo;m old or not, it&rsquo;s with God I have to reckon,
+      not with you, you garlic-stuffed scoundrel!&rdquo; 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>
+      &ldquo;With this good fellow here,&rdquo; said the duenna, &ldquo;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&rsquo;t know where&mdash;that some ladies waited on one
+      Lancelot, and duennas on his hack; and what is more, to wind up with, he
+      called me old.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;That,&rdquo; said the duchess, &ldquo;I should have considered the
+      greatest affront that could be offered me;&rdquo; and addressing Sancho,
+      she said to him, &ldquo;You must know, friend Sancho, that Dona Rodriguez
+      is very youthful, and that she wears that hood more for authority and
+      custom&rsquo;s sake than because of her years.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;May all the rest of mine be unlucky,&rdquo; said Sancho, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Don Quixote, who was listening, said to him, &ldquo;Is this proper
+      conversation for the place, Sancho?&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Señor,&rdquo; replied Sancho, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      On which the duke observed, &ldquo;Sancho is quite right, and there is no
+      reason at all to find fault with him; Dapple shall be fed to his heart&rsquo;s
+      content, and Sancho may rest easy, for he shall be treated like himself.&rdquo;
+    </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, &ldquo;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&rsquo;s sake, Sancho, restrain
+      thyself, and don&rsquo;t show the thread so as to let them see what a
+      coarse, boorish texture thou art of. Remember, sinner that thou art, the
+      master is the more esteemed the more respectable and well-bred his
+      servants are; and that one of the greatest advantages that princes have
+      over other men is that they have servants as good as themselves to wait on
+      them. Dost thou not see&mdash;shortsighted being that thou art, and
+      unlucky mortal that I am!&mdash;that if they perceive thee to be a coarse
+      clown or a dull blockhead, they will suspect me to be some impostor or
+      swindler? Nay, nay, Sancho friend, keep clear, oh, keep clear of these
+      stumbling-blocks; for he who falls into the way of being a chatterbox and
+      droll, drops into a wretched buffoon the first time he trips; bridle thy
+      tongue, consider and weigh thy words before they escape thy mouth, and
+      bear in mind we are now in quarters whence, by God&rsquo;s help, and the
+      strength of my arm, we shall come forth mightily advanced in fame and
+      fortune.&rdquo;
+    </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&rsquo;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, &ldquo;If your worship will give me leave I will tell you a story
+      of what happened in my village about this matter of seats.&rdquo;
+    </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, &ldquo;Don&rsquo;t be afraid of my going astray, señor, or
+      saying anything that won&rsquo;t be pat to the purpose; I haven&rsquo;t
+      forgotten the advice your worship gave me just now about talking much or
+      little, well or ill.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I have no recollection of anything, Sancho,&rdquo; said Don
+      Quixote; &ldquo;say what thou wilt, only say it quickly.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Well then,&rdquo; said Sancho, &ldquo;what I am going to say is so
+      true that my master Don Quixote, who is here present, will keep me from
+      lying.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Lie as much as thou wilt for all I care, Sancho,&rdquo; said Don
+      Quixote, &ldquo;for I am not going to stop thee, but consider what thou
+      art going to say.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I have so considered and reconsidered,&rdquo; said Sancho, &ldquo;that
+      the bell-ringer&rsquo;s in a safe berth; as will be seen by what follows.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;It would be well,&rdquo; said Don Quixote, &ldquo;if your
+      highnesses would order them to turn out this idiot, for he will talk a
+      heap of nonsense.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;By the life of the duke, Sancho shall not be taken away from me for
+      a moment,&rdquo; said the duchess; &ldquo;I am very fond of him, for I
+      know he is very discreet.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Discreet be the days of your holiness,&rdquo; said Sancho, &ldquo;for
+      the good opinion you have of my wit, though there&rsquo;s none in me; but
+      the story I want to tell is this. There was an invitation given by a
+      gentleman of my town, a very rich one, and one of quality, for he was one
+      of the Alamos of Medina del Campo, and married to Dona Mencia de Quinones,
+      the daughter of Don Alonso de Maranon, Knight of the Order of Santiago,
+      that was drowned at the Herradura&mdash;him there was that quarrel about
+      years ago in our village, that my master Don Quixote was mixed up in, to
+      the best of my belief, that Tomasillo the scapegrace, the son of Balbastro
+      the smith, was wounded in.&mdash;Isn&rsquo;t all this true, master mine?
+      As you live, say so, that these gentlefolk may not take me for some lying
+      chatterer.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;So far,&rdquo; said the ecclesiastic, &ldquo;I take you to be more
+      a chatterer than a liar; but I don&rsquo;t know what I shall take you for
+      by-and-by.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Thou citest so many witnesses and proofs, Sancho,&rdquo; said Don
+      Quixote, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;He is not to cut it short,&rdquo; said the duchess; &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Well then, sirs, I say,&rdquo; continued Sancho, &ldquo;that this
+      same gentleman, whom I know as well as I do my own hands, for it&rsquo;s
+      not a bowshot from my house to his, invited a poor but respectable
+      labourer&mdash;&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Get on, brother,&rdquo; said the churchman; &ldquo;at the rate you
+      are going you will not stop with your story short of the next world.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I&rsquo;ll stop less than half-way, please God,&rdquo; said Sancho;
+      &ldquo;and so I say this labourer, coming to the house of the gentleman I
+      spoke of that invited him&mdash;rest his soul, he is now dead; and more by
+      token he died the death of an angel, so they say; for I was not there, for
+      just at that time I had gone to reap at Tembleque&mdash;&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;As you live, my son,&rdquo; said the churchman, &ldquo;make haste
+      back from Tembleque, and finish your story without burying the gentleman,
+      unless you want to make more funerals.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Well then, it so happened,&rdquo; said Sancho, &ldquo;that as the
+      pair of them were going to sit down to table&mdash;and I think I can see
+      them now plainer than ever&mdash;&rdquo;
+    </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>
+      &ldquo;So, as I was saying,&rdquo; continued Sancho, &ldquo;as the pair of
+      them were going to sit down to table, as I said, the labourer insisted
+      upon the gentleman&rsquo;s taking the head of the table, and the gentleman
+      insisted upon the labourer&rsquo;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, &lsquo;Sit down, you stupid lout, for
+      wherever I sit will be the head to you; and that&rsquo;s the story, and,
+      troth, I think it hasn&rsquo;t been brought in amiss here.&rdquo;
+    </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&rsquo;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, &ldquo;Señora, 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?&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t know,&rdquo; said Sancho Panza; &ldquo;to me she
+      seems the fairest creature in the world; at any rate, in nimbleness and
+      jumping she won&rsquo;t give in to a tumbler; by my faith, señora duchess,
+      she leaps from the ground on to the back of an ass like a cat.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Have you seen her enchanted, Sancho?&rdquo; asked the duke.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;What, seen her!&rdquo; said Sancho; &ldquo;why, who the devil was
+      it but myself that first thought of the enchantment business? She is as
+      much enchanted as my father.&rdquo;
+    </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, &ldquo;Señor, 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.&rdquo; Then turning to address Don
+      Quixote he said, &ldquo;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&rsquo;t.
+      Where, in heaven&rsquo;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?&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Don Quixote listened attentively to the reverend gentleman&rsquo;s words,
+      and as soon as he perceived he had done speaking, regardless of the
+      presence of the duke and duchess, he sprang to his feet with angry looks
+      and an agitated countenance, and said&mdash;But the reply deserves a
+      chapter to itself.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p31e" id="p31e"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p31e.jpg (46K)" src="images/p31e.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      <a name="ch32b" id="ch32b"></a>CHAPTER XXXII.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      OF THE REPLY DON QUIXOTE GAVE HIS CENSURER, WITH OTHER INCIDENTS, GRAVE
+      AND DROLL
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <a name="p32a" id="p32a"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p32a.jpg (152K)" src="images/p32a.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p32a.jpg" style="width:100%;"><img alt="Full Size"
+      src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Don Quixote, then, having risen to his feet, trembling from head to foot
+      like a man dosed with mercury, said in a hurried, agitated voice, &ldquo;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&rsquo;s weapon is the
+      same as a woman&rsquo;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&rsquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Good, by God!&rdquo; cried Sancho; &ldquo;say no more in your own
+      defence, master mine, for there&rsquo;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?&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Perhaps, brother,&rdquo; said the ecclesiastic, &ldquo;you are that
+      Sancho Panza that is mentioned, to whom your master has promised an
+      island?&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Yes, I am,&rdquo; said Sancho, &ldquo;and what&rsquo;s more, I am
+      one who deserves it as much as anyone; I am one of the sort&mdash;&lsquo;Attach
+      thyself to the good, and thou wilt be one of them,&rsquo; and of those,
+      &lsquo;Not with whom thou art bred, but with whom thou art fed,&rsquo; and
+      of those, &lsquo;Who leans against a good tree, a good shade covers him;&rsquo;
+      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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;No, Sancho my friend, certainly not,&rdquo; said the duke, &ldquo;for
+      in the name of Señor Don Quixote I confer upon you the government of one
+      of no small importance that I have at my disposal.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Go down on thy knees, Sancho,&rdquo; said Don Quixote, &ldquo;and
+      kiss the feet of his excellence for the favour he has bestowed upon thee.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Sancho obeyed, and on seeing this the ecclesiastic stood up from table
+      completely out of temper, exclaiming, &ldquo;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;&rdquo; 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, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;That is true,&rdquo; said Don Quixote, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I will take my oath of that,&rdquo; said Sancho; &ldquo;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&rsquo;m certain if Reinaldos of
+      Montalvan had heard the little man&rsquo;s words he would have given him
+      such a spank on the mouth that he wouldn&rsquo;t have spoken for the next
+      three years; ay, let him tackle them, and he&rsquo;ll see how he&rsquo;ll
+      get out of their hands!&rdquo;
+    </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&rsquo;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&rsquo;s breadth deep in lather, pretended
+      that there was no more water, and bade the one with the jug go and fetch
+      some, while Señor 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, &ldquo;Come
+      and wash me, and take care that there is water enough.&rdquo; 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, &ldquo;God bless me, if it were only the custom in this country
+      to wash squires&rsquo; beards too as well as knights&rsquo;. For by God
+      and upon my soul I want it badly; and if they gave me a scrape of the
+      razor besides I&rsquo;d take it as a still greater kindness.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;What are you saying to yourself, Sancho?&rdquo; asked the duchess.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I was saying, señora,&rdquo; he replied, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Don&rsquo;t be uneasy, friend Sancho,&rdquo; said the duchess;
+      &ldquo;I will take care that my damsels wash you, and even put you in the
+      tub if necessary.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I&rsquo;ll be content with the beard,&rdquo; said Sancho, &ldquo;at
+      any rate for the present; and as for the future, God has decreed what is
+      to be.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Attend to worthy Sancho&rsquo;s request, seneschal,&rdquo; said the
+      duchess, &ldquo;and do exactly what he wishes.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The seneschal replied that Señor 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&rsquo;s request, and said,
+      &ldquo;If I could pluck out my heart, and lay it on a plate on this table
+      here before your highness&rsquo;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?&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;What does Demosthenian mean, Señor Don Quixote?&rdquo; said the
+      duchess; &ldquo;it is a word I never heard in all my life.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Demosthenian eloquence,&rdquo; said Don Quixote, &ldquo;means the
+      eloquence of Demosthenes, as Ciceronian means that of Cicero, who were the
+      two most eloquent orators in the world.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;True,&rdquo; said the duke; &ldquo;you must have lost your wits to
+      ask such a question. Nevertheless, Señor 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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I would do so certainly,&rdquo; said Don Quixote, &ldquo;had she
+      not been blurred to my mind&rsquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;God bless me!&rdquo; said the duke aloud at this, &ldquo;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?&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Who?&rdquo; replied Don Quixote; &ldquo;who could it be but some
+      malignant enchanter of the many that persecute me out of envy&mdash;that
+      accursed race born into the world to obscure and bring to naught the
+      achievements of the good, and glorify and exalt the deeds of the wicked?
+      Enchanters have persecuted me, enchanters persecute me still, and
+      enchanters will continue to persecute me until they have sunk me and my
+      lofty chivalry in the deep abyss of oblivion; and they injure and wound me
+      where they know I feel it most. For to deprive a knight-errant of his lady
+      is to deprive him of the eyes he sees with, of the sun that gives him
+      light, of the food whereby he lives. Many a time before have I said it,
+      and I say it now once more, a knight-errant without a lady is like a tree
+      without leaves, a building without a foundation, or a shadow without the
+      body that causes it.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;There is no denying it,&rdquo; said the duchess; &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;There is a good deal to be said on that point,&rdquo; said Don
+      Quixote; &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;That is true,&rdquo; said the duke; &ldquo;but Señor 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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;To that I may reply,&rdquo; said Don Quixote, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I protest, Señor Don Quixote,&rdquo; said the duchess, &ldquo;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 Señor 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&rsquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      To this Don Quixote made answer, &ldquo;Señora, 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&rsquo;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&rsquo;s benefit and the advantage of the
+      island he is to govern.&rdquo;
+    </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>
+      &ldquo;What is all this, brothers?&rdquo; asked the duchess. &ldquo;What
+      is it? What do you want to do to this good man? Do you forget he is a
+      governor-elect?&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      To which the barber kitchen-boy replied, &ldquo;The gentleman will not let
+      himself be washed as is customary, and as my lord and the señor his master
+      have been.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Yes, I will,&rdquo; said Sancho, in a great rage; &ldquo;but I&rsquo;d
+      like it to be with cleaner towels, clearer lye, and not such dirty hands;
+      for there&rsquo;s not so much difference between me and my master that he
+      should be washed with angels&rsquo; water and I with devil&rsquo;s lye.
+      The customs of countries and princes&rsquo; 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&rsquo;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&rsquo;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&rsquo;s host.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The duchess was ready to die with laughter when she saw Sancho&rsquo;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: &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Sancho took the word out of his mouth and went on, &ldquo;Nay, let them
+      come and try their jokes on the country bumpkin, for it&rsquo;s about as
+      likely I&rsquo;ll stand them as that it&rsquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Upon this, the duchess, laughing all the while, said, &ldquo;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&rsquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </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&rsquo;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, &ldquo;From great ladies great favours may be
+      looked for; this which your grace has done me to-day 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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;It is easy to see, Sancho,&rdquo; replied the duchess, &ldquo;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 Señor
+      Don Quixote, who is, of course, the cream of good breeding and flower of
+      ceremony&mdash;or cirimony, as you would say yourself. Fair be the
+      fortunes of such a master and such a servant, the one the cynosure of
+      knight-errantry, the other the star of squirely fidelity! Rise, Sancho, my
+      friend; I will repay your courtesy by taking care that my lord the duke
+      makes good to you the promised gift of the government as soon as possible.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      With this, the conversation came to an end, and Don Quixote retired to
+      take his midday sleep; but the duchess begged Sancho, unless he had a very
+      great desire to go to sleep, to come and spend the afternoon with her and
+      her damsels in a very cool chamber. Sancho replied that, though he
+      certainly had the habit of sleeping four or five hours in the heat of the
+      day in summer, to serve her excellence he would try with all his might not
+      to sleep even one that day, and that he would come in obedience to her
+      command, and with that he went off. The duke gave fresh orders with
+      respect to treating Don Quixote as a knight-errant, without departing even
+      in smallest particular from the style in which, as the stories tell us,
+      they used to treat the knights of old.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p32e" id="p32e"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p32e.jpg (16K)" src="images/p32e.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      <a name="ch33b" id="ch33b"></a>CHAPTER XXXIII.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      OF THE DELECTABLE DISCOURSE WHICH THE DUCHESS AND HER DAMSELS HELD WITH
+      SANCHO PANZA, WELL WORTH READING AND NOTING
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <a name="p33a" id="p33a"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p33a.jpg (138K)" src="images/p33a.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p33a.jpg" style="width:100%;"><img alt="Full Size"
+      src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The history records that Sancho did not sleep that afternoon, but in order
+      to keep his word came, before he had well done dinner, to visit the
+      duchess, who, finding enjoyment in listening to him, made him sit down
+      beside her on a low seat, though Sancho, out of pure good breeding, wanted
+      not to sit down; the duchess, however, told him he was to sit down as
+      governor and talk as squire, as in both respects he was worthy of even the
+      chair of the Cid Ruy Diaz the Campeador. Sancho shrugged his shoulders,
+      obeyed, and sat down, and all the duchess&rsquo;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>
+      &ldquo;Now that we are alone, and that there is nobody here to overhear
+      us, I should be glad if the señor 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&rsquo;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&rsquo;s good name, a thing that is not
+      at all becoming the character and fidelity of a good squire?&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p33b" id="p33b"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p33b.jpg (326K)" src="images/p33b.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p33b.jpg" style="width:100%;"><img alt="Full Size"
+      src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      At these words, Sancho, without uttering one in reply, got up from his
+      chair, and with noiseless steps, with his body bent and his finger on his
+      lips, went all round the room lifting up the hangings; and this done, he
+      came back to his seat and said, &ldquo;Now, señora, 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&rsquo;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&rsquo;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&rsquo;s no more truth in it than
+      over the hills of Ubeda.&rdquo;
+    </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,
+      &ldquo;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, &lsquo;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, señora
+      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?&rsquo;&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;By God, señora,&rdquo; said Sancho, &ldquo;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&rsquo;t
+      help it, I must follow him; we&rsquo;re from the same village, I&rsquo;ve
+      eaten his bread, I&rsquo;m fond of him, I&rsquo;m grateful, he gave me his
+      ass-colts, and above all I&rsquo;m faithful; so it&rsquo;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 &lsquo;to
+      her hurt the ant got wings,&rsquo; and it may be that Sancho the squire
+      will get to heaven sooner than Sancho the governor. &lsquo;They make as
+      good bread here as in France,&rsquo; and &lsquo;by night all cats are
+      grey,&rsquo; and &lsquo;a hard case enough his, who hasn&rsquo;t broken
+      his fast at two in the afternoon,&rsquo; and &lsquo;there&rsquo;s no
+      stomach a hand&rsquo;s breadth bigger than another,&rsquo; and the same
+      can be filled &lsquo;with straw or hay,&rsquo; as the saying is, and
+      &lsquo;the little birds of the field have God for their purveyor and
+      caterer,&rsquo; and &lsquo;four yards of Cuenca frieze keep one warmer
+      than four of Segovia broad-cloth,&rsquo; and &lsquo;when we quit this
+      world and are put underground the prince travels by as narrow a path as
+      the journeyman,&rsquo; and &lsquo;the Pope&rsquo;s body does not take up
+      more feet of earth than the sacristan&rsquo;s,&rsquo; for all that the one
+      is higher than the other; for when we go to our graves we all pack
+      ourselves up and make ourselves small, or rather they pack us up and make
+      us small in spite of us, and then&mdash;good night to us. And I say once
+      more, if your ladyship does not like to give me the island because I&rsquo;m
+      a fool, like a wise man I will take care to give myself no trouble about
+      it; I have heard say that &lsquo;behind the cross there&rsquo;s the devil,&rsquo;
+      and that &lsquo;all that glitters is not gold,&rsquo; 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&rsquo;t lie.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;To be sure they don&rsquo;t lie!&rdquo; exclaimed Dona Rodriguez,
+      the duenna, who was one of the listeners. &ldquo;Why, there&rsquo;s a
+      ballad that says they put King Rodrigo alive into a tomb full of toads,
+      and adders, and lizards, and that two days afterwards the king, in a
+      plaintive, feeble voice, cried out from within the tomb-
+    </p>
+<pre xml:space="preserve">
+They gnaw me now, they gnaw me now,
+There where I most did sin.
+
+</pre>
+    <p>
+      And according to that the gentleman has good reason to say he would rather
+      be a labouring man than a king, if vermin are to eat him.&rdquo;
+    </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,
+      &ldquo;Worthy Sancho knows very well that when once a knight has made a
+      promise he strives to keep it, though it should cost him his life. My lord
+      and husband the duke, though not one of the errant sort, is none the less
+      a knight for that reason, and will keep his word about the promised
+      island, in spite of the envy and malice of the world. Let Sancho be of
+      good cheer; for when he least expects it he will find himself seated on
+      the throne of his island and seat of dignity, and will take possession of
+      his government that he may discard it for another of three-bordered
+      brocade. The charge I give him is to be careful how he governs his
+      vassals, bearing in mind that they are all loyal and well-born.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;As to governing them well,&rdquo; said Sancho, &ldquo;there&rsquo;s
+      no need of charging me to do that, for I&rsquo;m kind-hearted by nature,
+      and full of compassion for the poor; there&rsquo;s no stealing the loaf
+      from him who kneads and bakes;&rsquo; and by my faith it won&rsquo;t do to
+      throw false dice with me; I am an old dog, and I know all about &lsquo;tus,
+      tus;&rsquo; I can be wide-awake if need be, and I don&rsquo;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&rsquo;ll take kindly to the work and know more about it than
+      the field labour I have been brought up to.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;You are right, Sancho,&rdquo; said the duchess, &ldquo;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&rsquo;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. Señor 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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;All that&rsquo;s very possible,&rdquo; said Sancho Panza; &ldquo;and
+      now I&rsquo;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, señora, 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&rsquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;That is true,&rdquo; said the duchess; &ldquo;but tell me, Sancho,
+      what is this you say about the cave of Montesinos, for I should like to
+      know.&rdquo;
+    </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, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;So I say,&rdquo; said Sancho, &ldquo;and if my lady Dulcinea is
+      enchanted, so much the worse for her, and I&rsquo;m not going to pick a
+      quarrel with my master&rsquo;s enemies, who seem to be many and spiteful.
+      The truth is that the one I saw was a country wench, and I set her down to
+      be a country wench; and if that was Dulcinea it must not be laid at my
+      door, nor should I be called to answer for it or take the consequences.
+      But they must go nagging at me at every step&mdash;&lsquo;Sancho said it,
+      Sancho did it, Sancho here, Sancho there,&rsquo; as if Sancho was nobody
+      at all, and not that same Sancho Panza that&rsquo;s now going all over the
+      world in books, so Samson Carrasco told me, and he&rsquo;s at any rate one
+      that&rsquo;s a bachelor of Salamanca; and people of that sort can&rsquo;t
+      lie, except when the whim seizes them or they have some very good reason
+      for it. So there&rsquo;s no occasion for anybody to quarrel with me; and
+      then I have a good character, and, as I have heard my master say, &lsquo;a
+      good name is better than great riches;&rsquo; let them only stick me into
+      this government and they&rsquo;ll see wonders, for one who has been a good
+      squire will be a good governor.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;All worthy Sancho&rsquo;s observations,&rdquo; said the duchess,
+      &ldquo;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, &lsquo;under a bad cloak there&rsquo;s often a good
+      drinker.&rsquo;&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Indeed, señora,&rdquo; said Sancho, &ldquo;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&rsquo;m inclined, or, if I&rsquo;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&rsquo;s health what heart can be
+      so hard as not to return it? But if I put on my shoes I don&rsquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;So I believe,&rdquo; said the duchess; &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Sancho once more kissed the duchess&rsquo;s hand, and entreated her to let
+      good care be taken of his Dapple, for he was the light of his eyes.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;What is Dapple?&rdquo; said the duchess.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;My ass,&rdquo; said Sancho, &ldquo;which, not to mention him by
+      that name, I&rsquo;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!&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;He must have been some clown,&rdquo; said Dona Rodriguez the
+      duenna; &ldquo;for if he had been a gentleman and well-born he would have
+      exalted them higher than the horns of the moon.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;That will do,&rdquo; said the duchess; &ldquo;no more of this;
+      hush, Dona Rodriguez, and let Señor Panza rest easy and leave the
+      treatment of Dapple in my charge, for as he is a treasure of Sancho&rsquo;s,
+      I&rsquo;ll put him on the apple of my eye.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;It will be enough for him to be in the stable,&rdquo; said Sancho,
+      &ldquo;for neither he nor I are worthy to rest a moment in the apple of
+      your highness&rsquo;s eye, and I&rsquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Take him to your government, Sancho,&rdquo; said the duchess,
+      &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Don&rsquo;t think, señora duchess, that you have said anything
+      absurd,&rdquo; said Sancho; &ldquo;I have seen more than two asses go to
+      governments, and for me to take mine with me would be nothing new.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Sancho&rsquo;s words made the duchess laugh again and gave her fresh
+      amusement, and dismissing him to sleep she went away to tell the duke the
+      conversation she had had with him, and between them they plotted and
+      arranged to play a joke upon Don Quixote that was to be a rare one and
+      entirely in knight-errantry style, and in that same style they practised
+      several upon him, so much in keeping and so clever that they form the best
+      adventures this great history contains.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p33e" id="p33e"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p33e.jpg (34K)" src="images/p33e.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      <a name="ch34b" id="ch34b"></a>CHAPTER XXXIV.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      WHICH RELATES HOW THEY LEARNED THE WAY IN WHICH THEY WERE TO DISENCHANT
+      THE PEERLESS DULCINEA DEL TOBOSO, WHICH IS ONE OF THE RAREST ADVENTURES IN
+      THIS BOOK
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <a name="p34a" id="p34a"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p34a.jpg (141K)" src="images/p34a.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p34a.jpg" style="width:100%;"><img alt="Full Size"
+      src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Great was the pleasure the duke and duchess took in the conversation of
+      Don Quixote and Sancho Panza; and, more bent than ever upon the plan they
+      had of practising some jokes upon them that should have the look and
+      appearance of adventures, they took as their basis of action what Don
+      Quixote had already told them about the cave of Montesinos, in order to
+      play him a famous one. But what the duchess marvelled at above all was
+      that Sancho&rsquo;s simplicity could be so great as to make him believe as
+      absolute truth that Dulcinea had been enchanted, when it was he himself
+      who had been the enchanter and trickster in the business. Having,
+      therefore, instructed their servants in everything they were to do, six
+      days afterwards they took him out to hunt, with as great a retinue of
+      huntsmen and beaters as a crowned king.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      They presented Don Quixote with a hunting suit, and Sancho with another of
+      the finest green cloth; but Don Quixote declined to put his on, saying
+      that he must soon return to the hard pursuit of arms, and could not carry
+      wardrobes or stores with him. Sancho, however, took what they gave him,
+      meaning to sell it at the first opportunity.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The appointed day having arrived, Don Quixote armed himself, and Sancho
+      arrayed himself, and mounted on his Dapple (for he would not give him up
+      though they offered him a horse), he placed himself in the midst of the
+      troop of huntsmen. The duchess came out splendidly attired, and Don
+      Quixote, in pure courtesy and politeness, held the rein of her palfrey,
+      though the duke wanted not to allow him; and at last they reached a wood
+      that lay between two high mountains, where, after occupying various posts,
+      ambushes, and paths, and distributing the party in different positions,
+      the hunt began with great noise, shouting, and hallooing, so that, between
+      the baying of the hounds and the blowing of the horns, they could not hear
+      one another. The duchess dismounted, and with a sharp boar-spear in her
+      hand posted herself where she knew the wild boars were in the habit of
+      passing. The duke and Don Quixote likewise dismounted and placed
+      themselves one at each side of her. Sancho took up a position in the rear
+      of all without dismounting from Dapple, whom he dared not desert lest some
+      mischief should befall him. Scarcely had they taken their stand in a line
+      with several of their servants, when they saw a huge boar, closely pressed
+      by the hounds and followed by the huntsmen, making towards them, grinding
+      his teeth and tusks, and scattering foam from his mouth. As soon as he saw
+      him Don Quixote, bracing his shield on his arm, and drawing his sword,
+      advanced to meet him; the duke with boar-spear did the same; but the
+      duchess would have gone in front of them all had not the duke prevented
+      her. Sancho alone, deserting Dapple at the sight of the mighty beast, took
+      to his heels as hard as he could and strove in vain to mount a tall oak.
+      As he was clinging to a branch, however, half-way up in his struggle to
+      reach the top, the bough, such was his ill-luck and hard fate, gave way,
+      and caught in his fall by a broken limb of the oak, he hung suspended in
+      the air unable to reach the ground. Finding himself in this position, and
+      that the green coat was beginning to tear, and reflecting that if the
+      fierce animal came that way he might be able to get at him, he began to
+      utter such cries, and call for help so earnestly, that all who heard him
+      and did not see him felt sure he must be in the teeth of some wild beast.
+      In the end the tusked boar fell pierced by the blades of the many spears
+      they held in front of him; and Don Quixote, turning round at the cries of
+      Sancho, for he knew by them that it was he, saw him hanging from the oak
+      head downwards, with Dapple, who did not forsake him in his distress,
+      close beside him; and Cide Hamete observes that he seldom saw Sancho Panza
+      without seeing Dapple, or Dapple without seeing Sancho Panza; such was
+      their attachment and loyalty one to the other. Don Quixote went over and
+      unhooked Sancho, who, as soon as he found himself on the ground, looked at
+      the rent in his huntingcoat and was grieved to the heart, for he thought
+      he had got a patrimonial estate in that suit.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Meanwhile they had slung the mighty boar across the back of a mule, and
+      having covered it with sprigs of rosemary and branches of myrtle, they
+      bore it away as the spoils of victory to some large field-tents which had
+      been pitched in the middle of the wood, where they found the tables laid
+      and dinner served, in such grand and sumptuous style that it was easy to
+      see the rank and magnificence of those who had provided it. Sancho, as he
+      showed the rents in his torn suit to the duchess, observed, &ldquo;If we
+      had been hunting hares, or after small birds, my coat would have been safe
+      from being in the plight it&rsquo;s in; I don&rsquo;t know what pleasure
+      one can find in lying in wait for an animal that may take your life with
+      his tusk if he gets at you. I recollect having heard an old ballad sung
+      that says,
+    </p>
+<pre xml:space="preserve">
+By bears be thou devoured, as erst
+Was famous Favila.&rdquo;
+
+
+</pre>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;That,&rdquo; said Don Quixote, &ldquo;was a Gothic king, who, going
+      a-hunting, was devoured by a bear.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Just so,&rdquo; said Sancho; &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Quite the contrary, Sancho; you are wrong there,&rdquo; said the
+      duke; &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Nay,&rdquo; said Sancho, &ldquo;the good governor should have a
+      broken leg and keep at home;&rdquo; 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, señor, 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&rsquo;t suit my condition or agree
+      with my conscience.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;God grant it may turn out so,&rdquo; said the duke; &ldquo;because
+      it&rsquo;s a long step from saying to doing.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Be that as it may,&rdquo; said Sancho, &ldquo;&lsquo;pledges don&rsquo;t
+      distress a good payer,&rsquo; and &lsquo;he whom God helps does better
+      than he who gets up early,&rsquo; and &lsquo;it&rsquo;s the tripes that
+      carry the feet and not the feet the tripes;&rsquo; I mean to say that if
+      God gives me help and I do my duty honestly, no doubt I&rsquo;ll govern
+      better than a gerfalcon. Nay, let them only put a finger in my mouth, and
+      they&rsquo;ll see whether I can bite or not.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;The curse of God and all his saints upon thee, thou accursed
+      Sancho!&rdquo; exclaimed Don Quixote; &ldquo;when will the day come&mdash;as
+      I have often said to thee&mdash;when I shall hear thee make one single
+      coherent, rational remark without proverbs? Pray, your highnesses, leave
+      this fool alone, for he will grind your souls between, not to say two, but
+      two thousand proverbs, dragged in as much in season, and as much to the
+      purpose as&mdash;may God grant as much health to him, or to me if I want
+      to listen to them!&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Sancho Panza&rsquo;s proverbs,&rdquo; said the duchess, &ldquo;though
+      more in number than the Greek Commander&rsquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </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>
+      &ldquo;Ho there! brother courier,&rdquo; cried the duke, &ldquo;who are
+      you? Where are you going? What troops are these that seem to be passing
+      through the wood?&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      To which the courier replied in a harsh, discordant voice, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;If you were the devil, as you say and as your appearance indicates,&rdquo;
+      said the duke, &ldquo;you would have known the said knight Don Quixote of
+      La Mancha, for you have him here before you.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;By God and upon my conscience,&rdquo; said the devil, &ldquo;I
+      never observed it, for my mind is occupied with so many different things
+      that I was forgetting the main thing I came about.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;This demon must be an honest fellow and a good Christian,&rdquo;
+      said Sancho; &ldquo;for if he wasn&rsquo;t he wouldn&rsquo;t swear by God
+      and his conscience; I feel sure now there must be good souls even in hell
+      itself.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Without dismounting, the demon then turned to Don Quixote and said,
+      &ldquo;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;&rdquo; 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, &ldquo;Do you mean
+      to wait, Señor Don Quixote?&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Why not?&rdquo; replied he; &ldquo;here will I wait, fearless and
+      firm, though all hell should come to attack me.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Well then, if I see another devil or hear another horn like the
+      last, I&rsquo;ll wait here as much as in Flanders,&rdquo; 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&rsquo;s gave way, and he fell fainting
+      on the skirt of the duchess&rsquo;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, &ldquo;I am the sage Lirgandeo,&rdquo;
+      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, &ldquo;I am the
+      sage Alquife, the great friend of Urganda the Unknown,&rdquo; 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, &ldquo;I am the enchanter Archelaus, the mortal enemy
+      of Amadis of Gaul and all his kindred,&rdquo; 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, &ldquo;Señora, where there&rsquo;s music
+      there can&rsquo;t be mischief.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Nor where there are lights and it is bright,&rdquo; said the
+      duchess; to which Sancho replied, &ldquo;Fire gives light, and it&rsquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;That remains to be seen,&rdquo; said Don Quixote, who was listening
+      to all that passed; and he was right, as is shown in the following
+      chapter.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p34e" id="p34e"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p34e.jpg (47K)" src="images/p34e.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      <a name="ch35b" id="ch35b"></a>CHAPTER XXXV.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      WHEREIN IS CONTINUED THE INSTRUCTION GIVEN TO DON QUIXOTE TOUCHING THE
+      DISENCHANTMENT OF DULCINEA, TOGETHER WITH OTHER MARVELLOUS INCIDENTS
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <a name="p35a" id="p35a"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p35a.jpg (108K)" src="images/p35a.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p35a.jpg" style="width:100%;"><img alt="Full Size"
+      src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      They saw advancing towards them, to the sound of this pleasing music, what
+      they call a triumphal car, drawn by six grey mules with white linen
+      housings, on each of which was mounted a penitent, robed also in white,
+      with a large lighted wax taper in his hand. The car was twice or, perhaps,
+      three times as large as the former ones, and in front and on the sides
+      stood twelve more penitents, all as white as snow and all with lighted
+      tapers, a spectacle to excite fear as well as wonder; and on a raised
+      throne was seated a nymph draped in a multitude of silver-tissue veils
+      with an embroidery of countless gold spangles glittering all over them,
+      that made her appear, if not richly, at least brilliantly, apparelled. She
+      had her face covered with thin transparent sendal, the texture of which
+      did not prevent the fair features of a maiden from being distinguished,
+      while the numerous lights made it possible to judge of her beauty and of
+      her years, which seemed to be not less than seventeen but not to have yet
+      reached twenty. Beside her was a figure in a robe of state, as they call
+      it, reaching to the feet, while the head was covered with a black veil.
+      But the instant the car was opposite the duke and duchess and Don Quixote
+      the music of the clarions ceased, and then that of the lutes and harps on
+      the car, and the figure in the robe rose up, and flinging it apart and
+      removing the veil from its face, disclosed to their eyes the shape of
+      Death itself, fleshless and hideous, at which sight Don Quixote felt
+      uneasy, Sancho frightened, and the duke and duchess displayed a certain
+      trepidation. Having risen to its feet, this living death, in a sleepy
+      voice and with a tongue hardly awake, held forth as follows:
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p35b" id="p35b"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p35b.jpg (232K)" src="images/p35b.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p35b.jpg" style="width:100%;"><img alt="Full Size"
+      src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+<pre xml:space="preserve">
+I am that Merlin who the legends say
+The devil had for father, and the lie
+Hath gathered credence with the lapse of time.
+Of magic prince, of Zoroastric lore
+Monarch and treasurer, with jealous eye
+I view the efforts of the age to hide
+The gallant deeds of doughty errant knights,
+Who are, and ever have been, dear to me.
+    Enchanters and magicians and their kind
+Are mostly hard of heart; not so am I;
+For mine is tender, soft, compassionate,
+And its delight is doing good to all.
+In the dim caverns of the gloomy Dis,
+Where, tracing mystic lines and characters,
+My soul abideth now, there came to me
+The sorrow-laden plaint of her, the fair,
+The peerless Dulcinea del Toboso.
+I knew of her enchantment and her fate,
+From high-born dame to peasant wench transformed
+And touched with pity, first I turned the leaves
+Of countless volumes of my devilish craft,
+And then, in this grim grisly skeleton
+Myself encasing, hither have I come
+To show where lies the fitting remedy
+To give relief in such a piteous case.
+    O thou, the pride and pink of all that I 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&rsquo;s lustre and Iberia&rsquo;s star,
+Don Quixote, wise as brave, to thee I say&mdash;
+For peerless Dulcinea del Toboso
+Her pristine form and beauty to regain,
+&lsquo;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>
+      &ldquo;By all that&rsquo;s good,&rdquo; exclaimed Sancho at this, &ldquo;I&rsquo;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&rsquo;t
+      see what my backside has got to do with enchantments. By God, if Señor
+      Merlin has not found out some other way of disenchanting the lady Dulcinea
+      del Toboso, she may go to her grave enchanted.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;But I&rsquo;ll take you, Don Clown stuffed with garlic,&rdquo; said
+      Don Quixote, &ldquo;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&rsquo;t
+      be got rid of if you try three thousand three hundred times; don&rsquo;t
+      answer me a word or I&rsquo;ll tear your soul out.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      On hearing this Merlin said, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Not a hand, my own or anybody else&rsquo;s, weighty or weighable,
+      shall touch me,&rdquo; said Sancho. &ldquo;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&rsquo;s a part of her&mdash;for, he&rsquo;s
+      always calling her &lsquo;my life&rsquo; and &lsquo;my soul,&rsquo; and
+      his stay and prop&mdash;may and ought to whip himself for her and take all
+      the trouble required for her disenchantment. But for me to whip myself!
+      Abernuncio!&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      As soon as Sancho had done speaking the nymph in silver that was at the
+      side of Merlin&rsquo;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&rsquo;s, addressing Sancho directly, said, &ldquo;Thou
+      wretched squire, soul of a pitcher, heart of a cork tree, with bowels of
+      flint and pebbles; if, thou impudent thief, they bade thee throw thyself
+      down from some lofty tower; if, enemy of mankind, they asked thee to
+      swallow a dozen of toads, two of lizards, and three of adders; if they
+      wanted thee to slay thy wife and children with a sharp murderous scimitar,
+      it would be no wonder for thee to show thyself stubborn and squeamish. But
+      to make a piece of work about three thousand three hundred lashes, what
+      every poor little charity-boy gets every month&mdash;it is enough to
+      amaze, astonish, astound the compassionate bowels of all who hear it, nay,
+      all who come to hear it in the course of time. Turn, O miserable,
+      hard-hearted animal, turn, I say, those timorous owl&rsquo;s eyes upon
+      these of mine that are compared to radiant stars, and thou wilt see them
+      weeping trickling streams and rills, and tracing furrows, tracks, and
+      paths over the fair fields of my cheeks. Let it move thee, crafty,
+      ill-conditioned monster, to see my blooming youth&mdash;still in its
+      teens, for I am not yet twenty&mdash;wasting and withering away beneath
+      the husk of a rude peasant wench; and if I do not appear in that shape
+      now, it is a special favour Señor 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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Don Quixote on hearing this felt his throat, and turning to the duke he
+      said, &ldquo;By God, señor, Dulcinea says true, I have my soul stuck here
+      in my throat like the nut of a crossbow.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;What say you to this, Sancho?&rdquo; said the duchess.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I say, señora,&rdquo; returned Sancho, &ldquo;what I said before;
+      as for the lashes, abernuncio!&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Abrenuncio, you should say, Sancho, and not as you do,&rdquo; said
+      the duke.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Let me alone, your highness,&rdquo; said Sancho. &ldquo;I&rsquo;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&rsquo;m to give myself, have so
+      upset me, that I don&rsquo;t know what I&rsquo;m saying or doing. But I&rsquo;d
+      like to know of this lady, my lady Dulcinea del Toboso, where she learned
+      this way she has of asking favours. She comes to ask me to score my flesh
+      with lashes, and she calls me soul of a pitcher, and great untamed brute,
+      and a string of foul names that the devil is welcome to. Is my flesh
+      brass? or is it anything to me whether she is enchanted or not? Does she
+      bring with her a basket of fair linen, shirts, kerchiefs, socks&mdash;not
+      that I wear any&mdash;to coax me? No, nothing but one piece of abuse after
+      another, though she knows the proverb they have here that &lsquo;an ass
+      loaded with gold goes lightly up a mountain,&rsquo; and that &lsquo;gifts
+      break rocks,&rsquo; and &lsquo;praying to God and plying the hammer,&rsquo;
+      and that &lsquo;one &ldquo;take&rdquo; is better than two &ldquo;I&rsquo;ll
+      give thee&rsquo;s.&rdquo;&rsquo; Then there&rsquo;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&rsquo;ll tie me naked to a tree and double
+      the tale of lashes on me. These tender-hearted gentry should consider that
+      it&rsquo;s not merely a squire, but a governor they are asking to whip
+      himself; just as if it was &lsquo;drink with cherries.&rsquo; 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&rsquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Well then, the fact is, friend Sancho,&rdquo; said the duke,
+      &ldquo;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&rsquo;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&rsquo;t be governor.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Señor,&rdquo; said Sancho, &ldquo;won&rsquo;t two days&rsquo; grace
+      be given me in which to consider what is best for me?&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;No, certainly not,&rdquo; said Merlin; &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Now then, Sancho!&rdquo; said the duchess, &ldquo;show courage, and
+      gratitude for your master Don Quixote&rsquo;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 &lsquo;a stout heart breaks bad
+      luck,&rsquo; as you very well know.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      To this Sancho replied with an irrelevant remark, which, addressing
+      Merlin, he made to him, &ldquo;Will your worship tell me, Señor Merlin&mdash;when
+      that courier devil came up he gave my master a message from Señor
+      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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      To which Merlin made answer, &ldquo;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&rsquo;s the tail to be skinned yet for him; if he owes you anything,
+      or you have any business to transact with him, I&rsquo;ll bring him to you
+      and put him where you choose; but for the present make up your mind to
+      consent to this penance, and believe me it will be very good for you, for
+      soul as well for body&mdash;for your soul because of the charity with
+      which you perform it, for your body because I know that you are of a
+      sanguine habit and it will do you no harm to draw a little blood.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;There are a great many doctors in the world; even the enchanters
+      are doctors,&rdquo; said Sancho; &ldquo;however, as everybody tells me the
+      same thing&mdash;though I can&rsquo;t see it myself&mdash;I say I am
+      willing to give myself the three thousand three hundred lashes, provided I
+      am to lay them on whenever I like, without any fixing of days or times;
+      and I&rsquo;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, Señor
+      Merlin, as he knows everything, is to keep count, and let me know how many
+      are still wanting or over the number.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;There will be no need to let you know of any over,&rdquo; said
+      Merlin, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Well then, in God&rsquo;s hands be it,&rdquo; said Sancho; &ldquo;in
+      the hard case I&rsquo;m in I give in; I say I accept the penance on the
+      conditions laid down.&rdquo;
+    </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&rsquo;s neck kissing him again and again on the
+      forehead and cheeks. The duchess and the duke expressed the greatest
+      satisfaction, the car began to move on, and as it passed the fair Dulcinea
+      bowed to the duke and duchess and made a low curtsey to Sancho.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p35c" id="p35c"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p35c.jpg (284K)" src="images/p35c.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p35c.jpg" style="width:100%;"><img alt="Full Size"
+      src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      And now bright smiling dawn came on apace; the flowers of the field,
+      revived, raised up their heads, and the crystal waters of the brooks,
+      murmuring over the grey and white pebbles, hastened to pay their tribute
+      to the expectant rivers; the glad earth, the unclouded sky, the fresh
+      breeze, the clear light, each and all showed that the day that came
+      treading on the skirts of morning would be calm and bright. The duke and
+      duchess, pleased with their hunt and at having carried out their plans so
+      cleverly and successfully, returned to their castle resolved to follow up
+      their joke; for to them there was no reality that could afford them more
+      amusement.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p35e" id="p35e"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p35e.jpg (10K)" src="images/p35e.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      <a name="ch36b" id="ch36b"></a>CHAPTER XXXVI.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      WHEREIN IS RELATED THE STRANGE AND UNDREAMT-OF ADVENTURE OF THE DISTRESSED
+      DUENNA, ALIAS THE COUNTESS TRIFALDI, TOGETHER WITH A LETTER WHICH SANCHO
+      PANZA WROTE TO HIS WIFE, TERESA PANZA
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <a name="p36a" id="p36a"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p36a.jpg (150K)" src="images/p36a.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p36a.jpg" style="width:100%;"><img alt="Full Size"
+      src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The duke had a majordomo of a very facetious and sportive turn, and he it
+      was that played the part of Merlin, made all the arrangements for the late
+      adventure, composed the verses, and got a page to represent Dulcinea; and
+      now, with the assistance of his master and mistress, he got up another of
+      the drollest and strangest contrivances that can be imagined.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The duchess asked Sancho the next day if he had made a beginning with his
+      penance task which he had to perform for the disenchantment of Dulcinea.
+      He said he had, and had given himself five lashes overnight.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The duchess asked him what he had given them with.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      He said with his hand.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;That,&rdquo; said the duchess, &ldquo;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&rsquo;-nine
+      tails, that will make itself felt; for it&rsquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      To which Sancho replied, &ldquo;If your ladyship will give me a proper
+      scourge or cord, I&rsquo;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&rsquo;t do for me to destroy myself for the good of anybody
+      else.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;So be it by all means,&rdquo; said the duchess; &ldquo;to-morrow I&rsquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Then said Sancho, &ldquo;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&rsquo;s nothing wanting but to put the address to it; I&rsquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;And who dictated it?&rdquo; asked the duchess.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Who should have dictated but myself, sinner as I am?&rdquo; said
+      Sancho.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;And did you write it yourself?&rdquo; said the duchess.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;That I didn&rsquo;t,&rdquo; said Sancho; &ldquo;for I can neither
+      read nor write, though I can sign my name.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Let us see it,&rdquo; said the duchess, &ldquo;for never fear but
+      you display in it the quality and quantity of your wit.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Sancho drew out an open letter from his bosom, and the duchess, taking it,
+      found it ran in this fashion:
+    </p>
+    <blockquote>
+      <p>
+        SANCHO PANZA&rsquo;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&rsquo;s wife; take care that nobody
+        speaks evil of thee behind thy back. I send thee here a green hunting
+        suit that my lady the duchess gave me; alter it so as to make a
+        petticoat and bodice for our daughter. Don Quixote, my master, if I am
+        to believe what I hear in these parts, is a madman of some sense, and a
+        droll blockhead, and I am in no way behind him. We have been in the cave
+        of Montesinos, and the sage Merlin has laid hold of me for the
+        disenchantment of Dulcinea del Toboso, her that is called Aldonza
+        Lorenzo over there. With three thousand three hundred lashes, less five,
+        that I&rsquo;m to give myself, she will be left as entirely disenchanted
+        as the mother that bore her. Say nothing of this to anyone; for, make
+        thy affairs public, and some will say they are white and others will say
+        they are black. I shall leave this in a few days for my government, to
+        which I am going with a mighty great desire to make money, for they tell
+        me all new governors set out with the same desire; I will feel the pulse
+        of it and will let thee know if thou art to come and live with me or
+        not. Dapple is well and sends many remembrances to thee; I am not going
+        to leave him behind though they took me away to be Grand Turk. My lady
+        the duchess kisses thy hands a thousand times; do thou make a return
+        with two thousand, for as my master says, nothing costs less or is
+        cheaper than civility. God has not been pleased to provide another
+        valise for me with another hundred crowns, like the one the other day;
+        but never mind, my Teresa, the bell-ringer is in safe quarters, and all
+        will come out in the scouring of the government; only it troubles me
+        greatly what they tell me&mdash;that once I have tasted it I will eat my
+        hands off after it; and if that is so it will not come very cheap to me;
+        though to be sure the maimed have a benefice of their own in the alms
+        they beg for; so that one way or another thou wilt be rich and in luck.
+        God give it to thee as he can, and keep me to serve thee. From this
+        castle, the 20th of July, 1614.
+      </p>
+      <p>
+        Thy husband, the governor.
+      </p>
+      <p>
+        SANCHO PANZA
+      </p>
+    </blockquote>
+    <p>
+      When she had done reading the letter the duchess said to Sancho, &ldquo;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 &lsquo;covetousness
+      bursts the bag,&rsquo; and the covetous governor does ungoverned justice.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t mean it that way, señora,&rdquo; said Sancho; &ldquo;and
+      if you think the letter doesn&rsquo;t run as it ought to do, it&rsquo;s
+      only to tear it up and make another; and maybe it will be a worse one if
+      it is left to my gumption.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;No, no,&rdquo; said the duchess, &ldquo;this one will do, and I
+      wish the duke to see it.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      With this they betook themselves to a garden where they were to dine, and
+      the duchess showed Sancho&rsquo;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&rsquo;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>
+      &ldquo;Most high and mighty señor, 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.&rdquo; 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: &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </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, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I wish, señor duke,&rdquo; replied Don Quixote, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p36e" id="p36e"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p36e.jpg (22K)" src="images/p36e.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      <a name="ch37b" id="ch37b"></a>CHAPTER XXXVII.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      WHEREIN IS CONTINUED THE NOTABLE ADVENTURE OF THE DISTRESSED DUENNA
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <a name="p37a" id="p37a"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p37a.jpg (94K)" src="images/p37a.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p37a.jpg" style="width:100%;"><img alt="Full Size"
+      src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The duke and duchess were extremely glad to see how readily Don Quixote
+      fell in with their scheme; but at this moment Sancho observed, &ldquo;I
+      hope this señora duenna won&rsquo;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&rsquo;m thinking is, if all duennas, of whatever sort or
+      condition they may be, are plagues and busybodies, what must they be that
+      are distressed, like this Countess Three-skirts or Three-tails!&mdash;for
+      in my country skirts or tails, tails or skirts, it&rsquo;s all one.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Hush, friend Sancho,&rdquo; said Don Quixote; &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      To this Dona Rodriguez, who was present, made answer, &ldquo;My lady the
+      duchess has duennas in her service that might be countesses if it was the
+      will of fortune; &lsquo;but laws go as kings like;&rsquo; 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 &lsquo;he who clipped us has kept the scissors.&rsquo;&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;For all that,&rdquo; said Sancho, &ldquo;there&rsquo;s so much to
+      be clipped about duennas, so my barber said, that &lsquo;it will be better
+      not to stir the rice even though it sticks.&rsquo;&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;These squires,&rdquo; returned Dona Rodriguez, &ldquo;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&rsquo;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&rsquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I have no doubt,&rdquo; said the duchess, &ldquo;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&rsquo;s mind.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      To which Sancho replied, &ldquo;Ever since I have sniffed the governorship
+      I have got rid of the humours of a squire, and I don&rsquo;t care a wild
+      fig for all the duennas in the world.&rdquo;
+    </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>
+      &ldquo;In respect of her being a countess,&rdquo; said Sancho, before the
+      duke could reply, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Who bade thee meddle in this, Sancho?&rdquo; said Don Quixote.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Who, señor?&rdquo; said Sancho; &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Sancho is right,&rdquo; said the duke; &ldquo;we&rsquo;ll see what
+      the countess is like, and by that measure the courtesy that is due to her.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      And now the drums and fife made their entrance as before; and here the
+      author brought this short chapter to an end and began the next, following
+      up the same adventure, which is one of the most notable in the history.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p37e" id="p37e"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p37e.jpg (21K)" src="images/p37e.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      <a name="ch38b" id="ch38b"></a>CHAPTER XXXVIII.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      WHEREIN IS TOLD THE DISTRESSED DUENNA&rsquo;S TALE OF HER MISFORTUNES
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <a name="p38a" id="p38a"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p38a.jpg (54K)" src="images/p38a.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p38a.jpg" style="width:100%;"><img alt="Full Size"
+      src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Following the melancholy musicians there filed into the garden as many as
+      twelve duennas, in two lines, all dressed in ample mourning robes
+      apparently of milled serge, with hoods of fine white gauze so long that
+      they allowed only the border of the robe to be seen. Behind them came the
+      Countess Trifaldi, the squire Trifaldin of the White Beard leading her by
+      the hand, clad in the finest unnapped black baize, such that, had it a
+      nap, every tuft would have shown as big as a Martos chickpea; the tail, or
+      skirt, or whatever it might be called, ended in three points which were
+      borne up by the hands of three pages, likewise dressed in mourning,
+      forming an elegant geometrical figure with the three acute angles made by
+      the three points, from which all who saw the peaked skirt concluded that
+      it must be because of it the countess was called Trifaldi, as though it
+      were Countess of the Three Skirts; and Benengeli says it was so, and that
+      by her right name she was called the Countess Lobuna, because wolves bred
+      in great numbers in her country; and if, instead of wolves, they had been
+      foxes, she would have been called the Countess Zorruna, as it was the
+      custom in those parts for lords to take distinctive titles from the thing
+      or things most abundant in their dominions; this countess, however, in
+      honour of the new fashion of her skirt, dropped Lobuna and took up
+      Trifaldi.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The twelve duennas and the lady came on at procession pace, their faces
+      being covered with black veils, not transparent ones like Trifaldin&rsquo;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, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;He would be wanting in wits, señora countess,&rdquo; said the duke,
+      &ldquo;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;&rdquo; 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: &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;The Panza is here,&rdquo; said Sancho, before anyone could reply,
+      &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      On this Don Quixote rose, and addressing the Distressed Duenna, said,
+      &ldquo;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,
+      señora, 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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      On hearing this, the Distressed Duenna made as though she would throw
+      herself at Don Quixote&rsquo;s feet, and actually did fall before them and
+      said, as she strove to embrace them, &ldquo;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!&rdquo;
+      Then turning from Don Quixote to Sancho Panza, and grasping his hands, she
+      said, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      To this Sancho made answer, &ldquo;As to my goodness, señora, being as
+      long and as great as your squire&rsquo;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&rsquo;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&rsquo;ll be all of one mind.&rdquo;
+    </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, &ldquo;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&rsquo;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>
+
+<p class="poem">
+From that sweet enemy of mine<br/>
+    My bleeding heart hath had its wound;<br/>
+    And to increase the pain I&rsquo;m bound<br/>
+To suffer and to make no sign.
+</p>
+
+    <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 &lsquo;The Marquis of Mantua,&rsquo;
+      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>
+
+<p class="poem">
+Come Death, so subtly veiled that I<br/>
+    Thy coming know not, how or when,<br/>
+    Lest it should give me life again<br/>
+To find how sweet it is to die.
+</p>
+
+<p class="noindent">
+      &mdash;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 &lsquo;in
+      death I live,&rsquo; &lsquo;in ice I burn,&rsquo; &lsquo;in flames I
+      shiver,&rsquo; &lsquo;hopeless I hope,&rsquo; &lsquo;I go and stay,&rsquo;
+      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&rsquo;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, I 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&rsquo;s confession; she confessed everything in full, and he ordered
+      her into the custody of a very worthy alguacil of the court.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Are there alguacils of the court in Kandy, too,&rdquo; said Sancho
+      at this, &ldquo;and poets, and seguidillas? I swear I think the world is
+      the same all over! But make haste, Señora Trifaldi; for it is late, and I
+      am dying to know the end of this long story.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I will,&rdquo; replied the countess.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p38e" id="p38e"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p38e.jpg (22K)" src="images/p38e.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      <a name="ch39b" id="ch39b"></a>CHAPTER XXXIX.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      IN WHICH THE TRIFALDI CONTINUES HER MARVELLOUS AND MEMORABLE STORY
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <a name="p39a" id="p39a"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p39a.jpg (96K)" src="images/p39a.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p39a.jpg" style="width:100%;"><img alt="Full Size"
+      src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      By every word that Sancho uttered, the duchess was as much delighted as
+      Don Quixote was driven to desperation. He bade him hold his tongue, and
+      the Distressed One went on to say: &ldquo;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&rsquo;s
+      mother, so took to heart, that within the space of three days we buried
+      her.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;She died, no doubt,&rdquo; said Sancho.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Of course,&rdquo; said Trifaldin; &ldquo;they don&rsquo;t bury
+      living people in Kandy, only the dead.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Señor Squire,&rdquo; said Sancho, &ldquo;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&rsquo;s
+      folly was not so great that she need feel it so keenly. If the lady had
+      married some page of hers, or some other servant of the house, as many
+      another has done, so I have heard say, then the mischief would have been
+      past curing. But to marry such an elegant accomplished gentleman as has
+      been just now described to us&mdash;indeed, indeed, though it was a folly,
+      it was not such a great one as you think; for according to the rules of my
+      master here&mdash;and he won&rsquo;t allow me to lie&mdash;as of men of
+      letters bishops are made, so of gentlemen knights, specially if they be
+      errant, kings and emperors may be made.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Thou art right, Sancho,&rdquo; said Don Quixote, &ldquo;for with a
+      knight-errant, if he has but two fingers&rsquo; breadth of good fortune,
+      it is on the cards to become the mightiest lord on earth. But let señora
+      the Distressed One proceed; for I suspect she has got yet to tell us the
+      bitter part of this so far sweet story.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;The bitter is indeed to come,&rdquo; said the countess; &ldquo;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&rsquo;s grave
+      there appeared, mounted upon a wooden horse, the giant Malambruno,
+      Maguncia&rsquo;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: &lsquo;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.&rsquo; 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.&rdquo;
+    </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: &ldquo;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 go 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 countenance 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!&rdquo; And as
+      she said this she showed signs of being about to faint.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p39e" id="p39e"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p39e.jpg (27K)" src="images/p39e.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      <a name="ch40b" id="ch40b"></a>CHAPTER XL.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      OF MATTERS RELATING AND BELONGING TO THIS ADVENTURE AND TO THIS MEMORABLE
+      HISTORY
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <a name="p40a" id="p40a"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p40a.jpg (129K)" src="images/p40a.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p40a.jpg" style="width:100%;"><img alt="Full Size"
+      src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Verily and truly all those who find pleasure in histories like this ought
+      show their gratitude to Cide Hamete, its original author, for the
+      scrupulous care he has taken to set before us all its minute particulars,
+      not leaving anything, however trifling it may be, that he does not make
+      clear and plain. He portrays the thoughts, he reveals the fancies, he
+      answers implied questions, clears up doubts, sets objections at rest, and,
+      in a word, makes plain the smallest points the most inquisitive can desire
+      to know. O renowned author! O happy Don Quixote! O famous famous droll
+      Sancho! All and each, may ye live countless ages for the delight and
+      amusement of the dwellers on earth!
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The history goes on to say that when Sancho saw the Distressed One faint
+      he exclaimed: &ldquo;I swear by the faith of an honest man and the shades
+      of all my ancestors the Panzas, that never I did see or hear of, nor has
+      my master related or conceived in his mind, such an adventure as this. A
+      thousand devils&mdash;not to curse thee&mdash;take thee, Malambruno, for
+      an enchanter and a giant! Couldst thou find no other sort of punishment
+      for these sinners but bearding them? Would it not have been better&mdash;it
+      would have been better for them&mdash;to have taken off half their noses
+      from the middle upwards, even though they&rsquo;d have snuffled when they
+      spoke, than to have put beards on them? I&rsquo;ll bet they have not the
+      means of paying anybody to shave them.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;That is the truth, señor,&rdquo; said one of the twelve; &ldquo;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
+      Señor Don Quixote we shall be carried to our graves with beards.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I will pluck out my own in the land of the Moors,&rdquo; said Don
+      Quixote, &ldquo;if I don&rsquo;t cure yours.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      At this instant the Trifaldi recovered from her swoon and said, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;There shall be no delay on my part,&rdquo; said Don Quixote.
+      &ldquo;Bethink you, señora, of what I must do, for my heart is most eager
+      to serve you.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;The fact is,&rdquo; replied the Distressed One, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;For going smoothly and easily,&rdquo; said Sancho at this, &ldquo;give
+      me my Dapple, though he can&rsquo;t go through the air; but on the ground
+      I&rsquo;ll back him against all the amblers in the world.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      They all laughed, and the Distressed One continued: &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;And how many is there room for on this horse?&rdquo; asked Sancho.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Two,&rdquo; said the Distressed One, &ldquo;one in the saddle, and
+      the other on the croup; and generally these two are knight and squire,
+      when there is no damsel that&rsquo;s being carried off.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I&rsquo;d like to know, Señora Distressed One,&rdquo; said Sancho,
+      &ldquo;what is the name of this horse?&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;His name,&rdquo; said the Distressed One, &ldquo;is not the same as
+      Bellerophon&rsquo;s horse that was called Pegasus, or Alexander the Great&rsquo;s,
+      called Bucephalus, or Orlando Furioso&rsquo;s, the name of which was
+      Brigliador, nor yet Bayard, the horse of Reinaldos of Montalvan, nor
+      Frontino like Ruggiero&rsquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I&rsquo;ll bet,&rdquo; said Sancho, &ldquo;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&rsquo;s Rocinante, which for being apt
+      surpasses all that have been mentioned.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;That is true,&rdquo; said the bearded countess, &ldquo;still it
+      fits him very well, for he is called Clavileño 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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I have nothing to say against his name,&rdquo; said Sancho; &ldquo;but
+      with what sort of bridle or halter is he managed?&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I have said already,&rdquo; said the Trifaldi, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I&rsquo;d like to see him,&rdquo; said Sancho; &ldquo;but to fancy
+      I&rsquo;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&rsquo;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&rsquo;s
+      beard; let each one shave himself as best he can; I&rsquo;m not going to
+      accompany my master on any such long journey; besides, I can&rsquo;t give
+      any help to the shaving of these beards as I can to the disenchantment of
+      my lady Dulcinea.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Yes, you can, my friend,&rdquo; replied the Trifaldi; &ldquo;and so
+      much, that without you, so I understand, we shall be able to do nothing.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;In the king&rsquo;s name!&rdquo; exclaimed Sancho, &ldquo;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&rsquo; me!
+      if the historians would only say, &lsquo;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;&rsquo;
+      but they write curtly, &ldquo;Don Paralipomenon of the Three Stars
+      accomplished the adventure of the six monsters;&rsquo; 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&rsquo;ll stay here in the company of my lady the
+      duchess; and maybe when he comes back, he will find the lady Dulcinea&rsquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;For all that you must go if it be necessary, my good Sancho,&rdquo;
+      said the duchess, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;In the king&rsquo;s name, once more!&rdquo; said Sancho; &ldquo;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&rsquo;d sooner see them all bearded, from the highest to
+      the lowest, and from the most prudish to the most affected.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;You are very hard on duennas, Sancho my friend,&rdquo; said the
+      duchess; &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Your excellence may say it if you like,&rdquo; said the Rodriguez;
+      &ldquo;for God knows the truth of everything; and whether we duennas are
+      good or bad, bearded or smooth, we are our mothers&rsquo; 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&rsquo;s beard.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Well, Señora Rodriguez, Señora Trifaldi, and present company,&rdquo;
+      said Don Quixote, &ldquo;I trust in Heaven that it will look with kindly
+      eyes upon your troubles, for Sancho will do as I bid him. Only let
+      Clavileño 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&rsquo;s head off his shoulders; for &lsquo;God bears with the
+      wicked, but not for ever.&rsquo;&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Ah!&rdquo; exclaimed the Distressed One at this, &ldquo;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 &lsquo;you&rsquo; 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 Clavileño, 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!&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The Trifaldi said this in such a pathetic way that she drew tears from the
+      eyes of all and even Sancho&rsquo;s filled up; and he resolved in his
+      heart to accompany his master to the uttermost ends of the earth, if so be
+      the removal of the wool from those venerable countenances depended upon
+      it.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p40e" id="p40e"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p40e.jpg (13K)" src="images/p40e.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      <a name="ch41b" id="ch41b"></a>CHAPTER XLI.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      OF THE ARRIVAL OF CLAVILEÑO AND THE END OF THIS PROTRACTED ADVENTURE
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <a name="p41a" id="p41a"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p41a.jpg (138K)" src="images/p41a.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p41a.jpg" style="width:100%;"><img alt="Full Size"
+      src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      And now night came, and with it the appointed time for the arrival of the
+      famous horse Clavileño, 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,
+      &ldquo;Let the knight who has heart for it mount this machine.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Here Sancho exclaimed, &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t mount, for neither have I the
+      heart nor am I a knight.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;And let the squire, if he has one,&rdquo; continued the wild-man,
+      &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      With these words, leaving Clavileño 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, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;That I will, Señora Countess Trifaldi,&rdquo; said Don Quixote,
+      &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;That I won&rsquo;t,&rdquo; said Sancho, &ldquo;with good-will or
+      bad-will, or any way at all; and if this shaving can&rsquo;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&rsquo;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&rsquo;ll be half a dozen years getting
+      back, and there won&rsquo;t be isle or island in the world that will know
+      me: and so, as it is a common saying &lsquo;in delay there&rsquo;s danger,&rsquo;
+      and &lsquo;when they offer thee a heifer run with a halter,&rsquo; these
+      ladies&rsquo; beards must excuse me; &lsquo;Saint Peter is very well in
+      Rome;&rsquo; 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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Friend Sancho,&rdquo; said the duke at this, &ldquo;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 Clavileño 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, Señor Sancho, for that would be grievously
+      wronging my disposition to serve you.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Say no more, señor,&rdquo; said Sancho; &ldquo;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&rsquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      To this the Trifaldi made answer, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Well then,&rdquo; said Sancho, &ldquo;God and the most holy Trinity
+      of Gaeta give me help!&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Since the memorable adventure of the fulling mills,&rdquo; said Don
+      Quixote, &ldquo;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;&rdquo; and drawing
+      Sancho aside among the trees of the garden and seizing both his hands he
+      said, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;By God,&rdquo; said Sancho, &ldquo;but your worship must be out of
+      your senses! This is like the common saying, &lsquo;You see me with child,
+      and you want me a virgin.&rsquo; Just as I&rsquo;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&rsquo;s
+      due as will satisfy your worship; I can&rsquo;t say more.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Well, I will comfort myself with that promise, my good Sancho,&rdquo;
+      replied Don Quixote, &ldquo;and I believe thou wilt keep it; for indeed
+      though stupid thou art veracious.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I&rsquo;m not voracious,&rdquo; said Sancho, &ldquo;only peckish;
+      but even if I was a little, still I&rsquo;d keep my word.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      With this they went back to mount Clavileño, and as they were about to do
+      so Don Quixote said, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Let us be off, señor,&rdquo; said Sancho, &ldquo;for I have taken
+      the beards and tears of these ladies deeply to heart, and I shan&rsquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;That is true,&rdquo; 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,
+      &ldquo;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
+      Clavileño has in his stomach.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;There is no occasion,&rdquo; said the Distressed One; &ldquo;I will
+      be bail for him, and I know that Malambruno has nothing tricky or
+      treacherous about him; you may mount without any fear, Señor Don Quixote;
+      on my head be it if any harm befalls you.&rdquo;
+    </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 Clavileño, 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 Clavileño 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, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Blindfold me,&rdquo; said Sancho; &ldquo;as you won&rsquo;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?&rdquo;
+    </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, &ldquo;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&rsquo;s who tried to
+      steer the chariot of his father the Sun!&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      As Sancho heard the voices, clinging tightly to his master and winding his
+      arms round him, he said, &ldquo;Señor, 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?&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Don&rsquo;t mind that, Sancho,&rdquo; said Don Quixote; &ldquo;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&rsquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;That&rsquo;s true,&rdquo; said Sancho, &ldquo;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;&rdquo; 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, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </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, &ldquo;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, señor, to uncover and see whereabouts
+      we are.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Do nothing of the kind,&rdquo; said Don Quixote; &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t know how that may be,&rdquo; said Sancho; &ldquo;all
+      I know is that if the Señora Magallanes or Magalona was satisfied with
+      this croup, she could not have been very tender of flesh.&rdquo;
+    </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 Clavileño&rsquo;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: &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </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, &ldquo;Be of good cheer, worthy sir, be of good cheer; it&rsquo;s
+      nothing at all; the adventure is now over and without any harm done, as
+      the inscription fixed on this post shows plainly.&rdquo;
+    </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 Clavileño
+      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, &ldquo;I felt, señora, 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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      To this the duchess said, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;That is true,&rdquo; said Sancho, &ldquo;but for all that I got a
+      glimpse of a bit of one side of it, and saw it all.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Take care, Sancho,&rdquo; said the duchess, &ldquo;with a bit of
+      one side one does not see the whole of what one looks at.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t understand that way of looking at things,&rdquo; said
+      Sancho; &ldquo;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&rsquo;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,
+      señora, 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&rsquo;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
+      Clavileño and amused myself with the goats&mdash;which are like violets,
+      like flowers&mdash;for nigh three-quarters of an hour; and Clavileño never
+      stirred or moved from one spot.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;And while the good Sancho was amusing himself with the goats,&rdquo;
+      said the duke, &ldquo;how did Señor Don Quixote amuse himself?&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      To which Don Quixote replied, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I am neither lying nor dreaming,&rdquo; said Sancho; &ldquo;only
+      ask me the tokens of those same goats, and you&rsquo;ll see by that
+      whether I&rsquo;m telling the truth or not.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Tell us them then, Sancho,&rdquo; said the duchess.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Two of them,&rdquo; said Sancho, &ldquo;are green, two blood-red,
+      two blue, and one a mixture of all colours.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;An odd sort of goat, that,&rdquo; said the duke; &ldquo;in this
+      earthly region of ours we have no such colours; I mean goats of such
+      colours.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;That&rsquo;s very plain,&rdquo; said Sancho; &ldquo;of course there
+      must be a difference between the goats of heaven and the goats of the
+      earth.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Tell me, Sancho,&rdquo; said the duke, &ldquo;did you see any
+      he-goat among those goats?&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;No, señor,&rdquo; said Sancho; &ldquo;but I have heard say that
+      none ever passed the horns of the moon.&rdquo;
+    </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, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p41e" id="p41e"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p41e.jpg (38K)" src="images/p41e.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      <a name="ch42b" id="ch42b"></a>CHAPTER XLII.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      OF THE COUNSELS WHICH DON QUIXOTE GAVE SANCHO PANZA BEFORE HE SET OUT TO
+      GOVERN THE ISLAND, TOGETHER WITH OTHER WELL-CONSIDERED MATTERS
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <a name="p42a" id="p42a"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p42a.jpg (120K)" src="images/p42a.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p42a.jpg" style="width:100%;"><img alt="Full Size"
+      src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The duke and duchess were so well pleased with the successful and droll
+      result of the adventure of the Distressed One, that they resolved to carry
+      on the joke, seeing what a fit subject they had to deal with for making it
+      all pass for reality. So having laid their plans and given instructions to
+      their servants and vassals how to behave to Sancho in his government of
+      the promised island, the next day, that following Clavileño&rsquo;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, &ldquo;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&rsquo;d rather have it than
+      the best island in the world.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Recollect, Sancho,&rdquo; said the duke, &ldquo;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&rsquo;s riches, gain
+      those of heaven.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Well then,&rdquo; said Sancho, &ldquo;let the island come; and I&rsquo;ll
+      try and be such a governor, that in spite of scoundrels I&rsquo;ll go to
+      heaven; and it&rsquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;If you once make trial of it, Sancho,&rdquo; said the duke, &ldquo;you&rsquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Señor,&rdquo; said Sancho, &ldquo;it is my belief it&rsquo;s a good
+      thing to be in command, if it&rsquo;s only over a drove of cattle.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;May I be buried with you, Sancho,&rdquo; said the duke, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Let them dress me as they like,&rdquo; said Sancho; &ldquo;however
+      I&rsquo;m dressed I&rsquo;ll be Sancho Panza.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;That&rsquo;s true,&rdquo; said the duke; &ldquo;but one&rsquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Of letters I know but little,&rdquo; said Sancho, &ldquo;for I don&rsquo;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&rsquo;ll handle those they
+      give me till I drop, and then, God be my help!&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;With so good a memory,&rdquo; said the duke, &ldquo;Sancho cannot
+      go wrong in anything.&rdquo;
+    </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&rsquo;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: &ldquo;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, &lsquo;There is good luck as well as bad luck in
+      suits,&rsquo; 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>
+      &ldquo;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>
+      &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;That&rsquo;s the truth,&rdquo; said Sancho; &ldquo;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&rsquo;t come of a kingly stock.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;True,&rdquo; said Don Quixote, &ldquo;and for that reason those who
+      are not of noble origin should take care that the dignity of the office
+      they hold be accompanied by a gentle suavity, which wisely managed will
+      save them from the sneers of malice that no station escapes.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;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>
+      &ldquo;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>
+      &ldquo;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>
+      &ldquo;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>
+      &ldquo;If perchance thou art left a widower&mdash;a thing which may happen&mdash;and
+      in virtue of thy office seekest a consort of higher degree, choose not one
+      to serve thee for a hook, or for a fishing-rod, or for the hood of thy
+      &lsquo;won&rsquo;t have it;&rsquo; for verily, I tell thee, for all the
+      judge&rsquo;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>
+      &ldquo;Never go by arbitrary law, which is so much favoured by ignorant
+      men who plume themselves on cleverness.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Let the tears of the poor man find with thee more compassion, but
+      not more justice, than the pleadings of the rich.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;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>
+      &ldquo;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>
+      &ldquo;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>
+      &ldquo;If it should happen to thee to give judgment in the cause of one
+      who is thine enemy, turn thy thoughts away from thy injury and fix them on
+      the justice of the case.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Let not thine own passion blind thee in another man&rsquo;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>
+      &ldquo;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>
+      &ldquo;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>
+      &ldquo;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>
+      &ldquo;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>
+      &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p42e" id="p42e"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p42e.jpg (17K)" src="images/p42e.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      <a name="ch43b" id="ch43b"></a>CHAPTER XLIII.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      OF THE SECOND SET OF COUNSELS DON QUIXOTE GAVE SANCHO PANZA
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <a name="p43a" id="p43a"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p43a.jpg (129K)" src="images/p43a.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p43a.jpg" style="width:100%;"><img alt="Full Size"
+      src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Who, hearing the foregoing discourse of Don Quixote, would not have set
+      him down for a person of great good sense and greater rectitude of
+      purpose? But, as has been frequently observed in the course of this great
+      history, he only talked nonsense when he touched on chivalry, and in
+      discussing all other subjects showed that he had a clear and unbiassed
+      understanding; so that at every turn his acts gave the lie to his
+      intellect, and his intellect to his acts; but in the case of these second
+      counsels that he gave Sancho, he showed himself to have a lively turn of
+      humour, and displayed conspicuously his wisdom, and also his folly.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Sancho listened to him with the deepest attention, and endeavoured to fix
+      his counsels in his memory, like one who meant to follow them and by their
+      means bring the full promise of his government to a happy issue. Don
+      Quixote, then, went on to say:
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;With regard to the mode in which thou shouldst govern thy person
+      and thy house, Sancho, the first charge I have to give thee is to be
+      clean, and to cut thy nails, not letting them grow as some do, whose
+      ignorance makes them fancy that long nails are an ornament to their hands,
+      as if those excrescences they neglect to cut were nails, and not the
+      talons of a lizard-catching kestrel&mdash;a filthy and unnatural abuse.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;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>
+      &ldquo;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>
+      &ldquo;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>
+      &ldquo;Dine sparingly and sup more sparingly still; for the health of the
+      whole body is forged in the workshop of the stomach.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Be temperate in drinking, bearing in mind that wine in excess keeps
+      neither secrets nor promises.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Take care, Sancho, not to chew on both sides, and not to eruct in
+      anybody&rsquo;s presence.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Eruct!&rdquo; said Sancho; &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t know what that
+      means.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;To eruct, Sancho,&rdquo; said Don Quixote, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;In truth, señor,&rdquo; said Sancho, &ldquo;one of the counsels and
+      cautions I mean to bear in mind shall be this, not to belch, for I&rsquo;m
+      constantly doing it.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Eruct, Sancho, not belch,&rdquo; said Don Quixote.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Eruct, I shall say henceforth, and I swear not to forget it,&rdquo;
+      said Sancho.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Likewise, Sancho,&rdquo; said Don Quixote, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;God alone can cure that,&rdquo; said Sancho; &ldquo;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&rsquo;s
+      why my tongue lets fly the first that come, though they may not be pat to
+      the purpose. But I&rsquo;ll take care henceforward to use such as befit
+      the dignity of my office; for &lsquo;in a house where there&rsquo;s
+      plenty, supper is soon cooked,&rsquo; and &lsquo;he who binds does not
+      wrangle,&rsquo; and &lsquo;the bell-ringer&rsquo;s in a safe berth,&rsquo;
+      and &lsquo;giving and keeping require brains.&rsquo;&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;That&rsquo;s it, Sancho!&rdquo; said Don Quixote; &ldquo;pack,
+      tack, string proverbs together; nobody is hindering thee! &lsquo;My mother
+      beats me, and I go on with my tricks.&rsquo; 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 &lsquo;over the
+      hills of Ubeda.&rsquo; 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>
+      &ldquo;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&rsquo;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>
+      &ldquo;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>
+      &ldquo;The last counsel I will give thee now, though it does not tend to
+      bodily improvement, I would have thee carry carefully in thy memory, for I
+      believe it will be no less useful to thee than those I have given thee
+      already, and it is this&mdash;never engage in a dispute about families, at
+      least in the way of comparing them one with another; for necessarily one
+      of those compared will be better than the other, and thou wilt be hated by
+      the one thou hast disparaged, and get nothing in any shape from the one
+      thou hast exalted.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;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>
+      &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Señor,&rdquo; said Sancho, &ldquo;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&rsquo;t remember one of them? To be
+      sure that about not letting my nails grow, and marrying again if I have
+      the chance, will not slip out of my head; but all that other hash, muddle,
+      and jumble&mdash;I don&rsquo;t and can&rsquo;t recollect any more of it
+      than of last year&rsquo;s clouds; so it must be given me in writing; for
+      though I can&rsquo;t either read or write, I&rsquo;ll give it to my
+      confessor, to drive it into me and remind me of it whenever it is
+      necessary.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Ah, sinner that I am!&rdquo; said Don Quixote, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I can sign my name well enough,&rdquo; said Sancho, &ldquo;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 &lsquo;there&rsquo;s a remedy for
+      everything except death;&rsquo; and as I shall be in command and hold the
+      staff, I can do as I like; moreover, &lsquo;he who has the alcalde for
+      his father&mdash;,&rsquo; and I&rsquo;ll be governor, and that&rsquo;s
+      higher than alcalde. Only come and see! Let them make light of me and
+      abuse me; &lsquo;they&rsquo;ll come for wool and go back shorn;&rsquo;
+      &lsquo;whom God loves, his house is known to Him;&rsquo; &lsquo;the silly
+      sayings of the rich pass for saws in the world;&rsquo; and as I&rsquo;ll
+      be rich, being a governor, and at the same time generous, as I mean to
+      be, no fault will be seen in me. &lsquo;Only make yourself honey and the
+      flies will suck you;&rsquo; &lsquo;as much as thou hast so much art thou
+      worth,&rsquo; as my grandmother used to say; and &lsquo;thou canst have
+      no revenge of a man of substance.&rsquo;&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Oh, God&rsquo;s curse upon thee, Sancho!&rdquo; here exclaimed Don
+      Quixote; &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;By God, master mine,&rdquo; said Sancho, &ldquo;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&rsquo;t repeat them, for &lsquo;sage silence is called
+      Sancho.&rsquo;&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;That, Sancho, thou art not,&rdquo; said Don Quixote; &ldquo;for not
+      only art thou not sage silence, but thou art pestilent prate and
+      perversity; still I would like to know what three proverbs have just now
+      come into thy memory, for I have been turning over mine own&mdash;and it
+      is a good one&mdash;and none occurs to me.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;What can be better,&rdquo; said Sancho, &ldquo;than &lsquo;never
+      put thy thumbs between two back teeth;&rsquo; and &lsquo;to &ldquo;get out
+      of my house&rdquo; and &ldquo;what do you want with my wife?&rdquo; there
+      is no answer;&rsquo; and &lsquo;whether the pitcher hits the stone, or the
+      stone the pitcher, it&rsquo;s a bad business for the pitcher;&rsquo; 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&rsquo;s no answer, any more than to &lsquo;get out of my house&rsquo;
+      and &lsquo;what do you want with my wife?&rsquo; and then, as for that
+      about the stone and the pitcher, a blind man could see that. So that he
+      &lsquo;who sees the mote in another&rsquo;s eye had need to see the beam
+      in his own,&rsquo; that it be not said of himself, &lsquo;the dead woman
+      was frightened at the one with her throat cut;&rsquo; and your worship
+      knows well that &lsquo;the fool knows more in his own house than the wise
+      man in another&rsquo;s.&rsquo;&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Nay, Sancho,&rdquo; said Don Quixote, &ldquo;the fool knows
+      nothing, either in his own house or in anybody else&rsquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Señor,&rdquo; said Sancho, &ldquo;if your worship thinks I&rsquo;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&rsquo;s more, while we&rsquo;re asleep we&rsquo;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&rsquo;s any reason to think that because of my being
+      a governor the devil will get hold of me, I&rsquo;d rather go Sancho to
+      heaven than governor to hell.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;By God, Sancho,&rdquo; said Don Quixote, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p43e" id="p43e"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p43e.jpg (41K)" src="images/p43e.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      <a name="ch44b" id="ch44b"></a>CHAPTER XLIV.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      HOW SANCHO PANZA WAS CONDUCTED TO HIS GOVERNMENT, AND OF THE STRANGE
+      ADVENTURE THAT BEFELL DON QUIXOTE IN THE CASTLE
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <a name="p44a" id="p44a"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p44a.jpg (140K)" src="images/p44a.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p44a.jpg" style="width:100%;"><img alt="Full Size"
+      src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      It is stated, they say, in the true original of this history, that when
+      Cide Hamete came to write this chapter, his interpreter did not translate
+      it as he wrote it&mdash;that is, as a kind of complaint the Moor made
+      against himself for having taken in hand a story so dry and of so little
+      variety as this of Don Quixote, for he found himself forced to speak
+      perpetually of him and Sancho, without venturing to indulge in digressions
+      and episodes more serious and more interesting. He said, too, that to go
+      on, mind, hand, pen always restricted to writing upon one single subject,
+      and speaking through the mouths of a few characters, was intolerable
+      drudgery, the result of which was never equal to the author&rsquo;s
+      labour, and that to avoid this he had in the First Part availed himself of
+      the device of novels, like &ldquo;The Ill-advised Curiosity,&rdquo; and
+      &ldquo;The Captive Captain,&rdquo; 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&rsquo;s, a man of
+      great discretion and humour&mdash;and there can be no humour without
+      discretion&mdash;and the same who played the part of the Countess Trifaldi
+      in the comical way that has been already described; and thus qualified,
+      and instructed by his master and mistress as to how to deal with Sancho,
+      he carried out their scheme admirably. Now it came to pass that as soon as
+      Sancho saw this majordomo he seemed in his features to recognise those of
+      the Trifaldi, and turning to his master, he said to him, &ldquo;Señor,
+      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&rsquo;s here is the very face of the Distressed One.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Don Quixote regarded the majordomo attentively, and having done so, said
+      to Sancho, &ldquo;There is no reason why the devil should carry thee off,
+      Sancho, either righteous or believing&mdash;and what thou meanest by that
+      I know not; the face of the Distressed One is that of the majordomo, but
+      for all that the majordomo is not the Distressed One; for his being so
+      would involve a mighty contradiction; but this is not the time for going
+      into questions of the sort, which would be involving ourselves in an
+      inextricable labyrinth. Believe me, my friend, we must pray earnestly to
+      our Lord that he deliver us both from wicked wizards and enchanters.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;It is no joke, señor,&rdquo; said Sancho, &ldquo;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&rsquo;ll hold my peace; but I&rsquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Thou wilt do well, Sancho,&rdquo; said Don Quixote, &ldquo;and thou
+      wilt let me know all thou discoverest, and all that befalls thee in thy
+      government.&rdquo;
+    </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&rsquo;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&rsquo;s blessing, which Don Quixote gave him with tears,
+      and he received blubbering.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p44b" id="p44b"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p44b.jpg (341K)" src="images/p44b.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p44b.jpg" style="width:100%;"><img alt="Full Size"
+      src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Let worthy Sancho go in peace, and good luck to him, Gentle Reader; and
+      look out for two bushels of laughter, which the account of how he behaved
+      himself in office will give thee. In the meantime turn thy attention to
+      what happened his master the same night, and if thou dost not laugh
+      thereat, at any rate thou wilt stretch thy mouth with a grin; for Don
+      Quixote&rsquo;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>
+      &ldquo;The truth is, señora,&rdquo; replied Don Quixote, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Indeed, Señor Don Quixote,&rdquo; said the duchess, &ldquo;that
+      must not be; four of my damsels, as beautiful as flowers, shall wait upon
+      you.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;To me,&rdquo; said Don Quixote, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Say no more, Señor Don Quixote, say no more,&rdquo; said the
+      duchess; &ldquo;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 Señor 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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      To which Don Quixote replied, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Well, well, Señor Don Quixote,&rdquo; said the duchess, it is
+      nearly supper-time, and the duke is probably waiting; come let us go to
+      supper, and retire to rest early, for the journey you made yesterday from
+      Kandy was not such a short one but that it must have caused you some
+      fatigue.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I feel none, señora,&rdquo; said Don Quixote, &ldquo;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 Clavileño; and I don&rsquo;t
+      know what could have induced Malambruno to discard a steed so swift and so
+      gentle, and burn it so recklessly as he did.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Probably,&rdquo; said the duchess, &ldquo;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 Clavileño 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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Don Quixote renewed his thanks to the duchess; and having supped, retired
+      to his chamber alone, refusing to allow anyone to enter with him to wait
+      on him, such was his fear of encountering temptations that might lead or
+      drive him to forget his chaste fidelity to his lady Dulcinea; for he had
+      always present to his mind the virtue of Amadis, that flower and mirror of
+      knights-errant. He locked the door behind him, and by the light of two wax
+      candles undressed himself, but as he was taking off his stockings&mdash;O
+      disaster unworthy of such a personage!&mdash;there came a burst, not of
+      sighs, or anything belying his delicacy or good breeding, but of some two
+      dozen stitches in one of his stockings, that made it look like a
+      window-lattice. The worthy gentleman was beyond measure distressed, and at
+      that moment he would have given an ounce of silver to have had half a
+      drachm of green silk there; I say green silk, because the stockings were
+      green.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Here Cide Hamete exclaimed as he was writing, &ldquo;O poverty, poverty! I
+      know not what could have possessed the great Cordovan poet to call thee
+      &lsquo;holy gift ungratefully received.&rsquo; 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, &lsquo;possess all things as
+      though ye possessed them not;&rsquo; which is what they call poverty in
+      spirit. But thou, that other poverty&mdash;for it is of thee I am speaking
+      now&mdash;why dost thou love to fall out with gentlemen and men of good
+      birth more than with other people? Why dost thou compel them to smear the
+      cracks in their shoes, and to have the buttons of their coats, one silk,
+      another hair, and another glass? Why must their ruffs be always crinkled
+      like endive leaves, and not crimped with a crimping iron?&rdquo; (From
+      this we may perceive the antiquity of starch and crimped ruffs.) Then he
+      goes on: &ldquo;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!&rdquo;
+    </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>
+      &ldquo;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 Æneas, who has come into my neighbourhood to flout me, sleeps on
+      and wakens not to hear it.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Heed not that, dear Altisidora,&rdquo; replied a voice; &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;That is not the point, Emerencia,&rdquo; replied Altisidora,
+      &ldquo;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;&rdquo; 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&rsquo;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>
+
+<p class="poem">
+O thou that art above in bed,<br/>
+    Between the holland sheets,<br/>
+A-lying there from night till morn,<br/>
+    With outstretched legs asleep;<br/>
+<br/>
+O thou, most valiant knight of all<br/>
+    The famed Manchegan breed,<br/>
+Of purity and virtue more<br/>
+    Than gold of Araby;<br/>
+<br/>
+Give ear unto a suffering maid,<br/>
+    Well-grown but evil-starr&rsquo;d,<br/>
+For those two suns of thine have lit<br/>
+    A fire within her heart.<br/>
+<br/>
+Adventures seeking thou dost rove,<br/>
+    To others bringing woe;<br/>
+Thou scatterest wounds, but, ah, the balm<br/>
+    To heal them dost withhold!<br/>
+<br/>
+Say, valiant youth, and so may God<br/>
+    Thy enterprises speed,<br/>
+Didst thou the light mid Libya&rsquo;s sands<br/>
+    Or Jaca&rsquo;s rocks first see?<br/>
+<br/>
+Did scaly serpents give thee suck?<br/>
+    Who nursed thee when a babe?<br/>
+Wert cradled in the forest rude,<br/>
+    Or gloomy mountain cave?<br/>
+<br/>
+O Dulcinea may be proud,<br/>
+    That plump and lusty maid;<br/>
+For she alone hath had the power<br/>
+    A tiger fierce to tame.<br/>
+<br/>
+And she for this shall famous be<br/>
+    From Tagus to Jarama,<br/>
+From Manzanares to Genil,<br/>
+    From Duero to Arlanza.<br/>
+<br/>
+Fain would I change with her, and give<br/>
+    A petticoat to boot,<br/>
+The best and bravest that I have,<br/>
+    All trimmed with gold galloon.<br/>
+<br/>
+O for to be the happy fair<br/>
+    Thy mighty arms enfold,<br/>
+Or even sit beside thy bed<br/>
+    And scratch thy dusty poll!<br/>
+<br/>
+I rave,&mdash;to favours such as these<br/>
+    Unworthy to aspire;<br/>
+Thy feet to tickle were enough<br/>
+    For one so mean as I.<br/>
+<br/>
+What caps, what slippers silver-laced,<br/>
+    Would I on thee bestow!<br/>
+What damask breeches make for thee;<br/>
+    What fine long holland cloaks!<br/>
+<br/>
+And I would give thee pearls that should<br/>
+    As big as oak-galls show;<br/>
+So matchless big that each might well<br/>
+    Be called the great &ldquo;Alone.&rdquo;<br/>
+<br/>
+Manchegan Nero, look not down<br/>
+    From thy Tarpeian Rock<br/>
+Upon this burning heart, nor add<br/>
+    The fuel of thy wrath.<br/>
+<br/>
+A virgin soft and young am I,<br/>
+    Not yet fifteen years old;<br/>
+(I&rsquo;m only three months past fourteen,<br/>
+    I swear upon my soul).<br/>
+<br/>
+I hobble not nor do I limp,<br/>
+    All blemish I&rsquo;m without,<br/>
+And as I walk my lily locks<br/>
+    Are trailing on the ground.<br/>
+<br/>
+And though my nose be rather flat,<br/>
+    And though my mouth be wide,<br/>
+My teeth like topazes exalt<br/>
+    My beauty to the sky.<br/>
+<br/>
+Thou knowest that my voice is sweet,<br/>
+    That is if thou dost hear;<br/>
+And I am moulded in a form<br/>
+    Somewhat below the mean.<br/>
+<br/>
+These charms, and many more, are thine,<br/>
+    Spoils to thy spear and bow all;<br/>
+A damsel of this house am I,<br/>
+    By name Altisidora.<br/>
+</p>
+
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p44c" id="p44c"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p44c.jpg (266K)" src="images/p44c.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p44c.jpg" style="width:100%;"><img alt="Full Size"
+      src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Here the lay of the heart-stricken Altisidora came to an end, while the
+      warmly wooed Don Quixote began to feel alarm; and with a deep sigh he said
+      to himself, &ldquo;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&rsquo;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&rsquo;s, boiled or roast, pure, courteous,
+      and chaste, in spite of all the magic-working powers on earth.&rdquo; And
+      with that he shut the window with a bang, and, as much out of temper and
+      out of sorts as if some great misfortune had befallen him, stretched
+      himself on his bed, where we will leave him for the present, as the great
+      Sancho Panza, who is about to set up his famous government, now demands
+      our attention.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p44e" id="p44e"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p44e.jpg (145K)" src="images/p44e.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p44a.jpg" style="width:100%;"><img alt="Full Size"
+      src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      <a name="ch45b" id="ch45b"></a>CHAPTER XLV.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      OF HOW THE GREAT SANCHO PANZA TOOK POSSESSION OF HIS ISLAND, AND OF HOW HE
+      MADE A BEGINNING IN GOVERNING
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <a name="p45a" id="p45a"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p45a.jpg (141K)" src="images/p45a.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p45a.jpg" style="width:100%;"><img alt="Full Size"
+      src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      O perpetual discoverer of the antipodes, torch of the world, eye of
+      heaven, sweet stimulator of the water-coolers! Thimbraeus here, Phoebus
+      there, now archer, now physician, father of poetry, inventor of music;
+      thou that always risest and, notwithstanding appearances, never settest!
+      To thee, O Sun, by whose aid man begetteth man, to thee I appeal to help
+      me and lighten the darkness of my wit that I may be able to proceed with
+      scrupulous exactitude in giving an account of the great Sancho Panza&rsquo;s
+      government; for without thee I feel myself weak, feeble, and uncertain.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      To come to the point, then&mdash;Sancho with all his attendants arrived at
+      a village of some thousand inhabitants, and one of the largest the duke
+      possessed. They informed him that it was called the island of Barataria,
+      either because the name of the village was Baratario, or because of the
+      joke by way of which the government had been conferred upon him. On
+      reaching the gates of the town, which was a walled one, the municipality
+      came forth to meet him, the bells rang out a peal, and the inhabitants
+      showed every sign of general satisfaction; and with great pomp they
+      conducted him to the principal church to give thanks to God, and then with
+      burlesque ceremonies they presented him with the keys of the town, and
+      acknowledged him as perpetual governor of the island of Barataria. The
+      costume, the beard, and the fat squat figure of the new governor
+      astonished all those who were not in on the secret, and even all who were,
+      and they were not a few. Finally, leading him out of the church they
+      carried him to the judgment seat and seated him on it, and the duke&rsquo;s
+      majordomo said to him, &ldquo;It is an ancient custom in this island,
+      señor 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&rsquo;s wit, and hail with joy or deplore
+      his arrival accordingly.&rdquo;
+    </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,
+      &ldquo;Señor, there is written and recorded the day on which your lordship
+      took possession of this island, and the inscription says, &lsquo;This day,
+      the so-and-so of such-and-such a month and year, Señor Don Sancho Panza
+      took possession of this island; many years may he enjoy it.&rsquo;&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;And whom do they call Don Sancho Panza?&rdquo; asked Sancho.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Your lordship,&rdquo; replied the majordomo; &ldquo;for no other
+      Panza but the one who is now seated in that chair has ever entered this
+      island.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Well then, let me tell you, brother,&rdquo; said Sancho, &ldquo;I
+      haven&rsquo;t got the &lsquo;Don,&rsquo; nor has any one of my family ever
+      had it; my name is plain Sancho Panza, and Sancho was my father&rsquo;s
+      name, and Sancho was my grandfather&rsquo;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&rsquo;ll weed out these Dons that
+      no doubt are as great a nuisance as the midges, they&rsquo;re so plenty.
+      Let the majordomo go on with his question, and I&rsquo;ll give the best
+      answer I can, whether the people deplore or not.&rdquo;
+    </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, &ldquo;Señor,
+      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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p45b" id="p45b"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p45b.jpg (400K)" src="images/p45b.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p45b.jpg" style="width:100%;"><img alt="Full Size"
+      src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;What say you to this, good old man, you with the stick?&rdquo; said
+      Sancho.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      To which the old man replied, &ldquo;I admit, señor, that he lent them to
+      me; but let your worship lower your staff, and as he leaves it to my oath,
+      I&rsquo;ll swear that I gave them back, and paid him really and truly.&rdquo;
+    </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,
+      &ldquo;Honest man, give me that stick, for I want it.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Willingly,&rdquo; said the old man; &ldquo;here it is señor,&rdquo;
+      and he put it into his hand.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Sancho took it and, handing it to the other old man, said to him, &ldquo;Go,
+      and God be with you; for now you are paid.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I, señor!&rdquo; returned the old man; &ldquo;why, is this cane
+      worth ten gold-crowns?&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Yes,&rdquo; said the governor, &ldquo;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;&rdquo; 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, &ldquo;Justice,
+      señor governor, justice! and if I don&rsquo;t get it on earth I&rsquo;ll
+      go look for it in heaven. Señor 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!&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;It remains to be proved whether this gallant has clean hands or
+      not,&rdquo; said Sancho; and turning to the man he asked him what he had
+      to say in answer to the woman&rsquo;s charge.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      He all in confusion made answer, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </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 señor 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,
+      &ldquo;Good fellow, go after that woman and take the purse from her, by
+      force even, and come back with it here;&rdquo; 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&rsquo;s defence, she all the while crying out, &ldquo;Justice
+      from God and the world! see here, señor 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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;And did he take it?&rdquo; asked the governor.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Take it!&rdquo; said the woman; &ldquo;I&rsquo;d let my life be
+      taken from me sooner than the purse. A pretty child I&rsquo;d be! It&rsquo;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&rsquo; claws; the soul from out of my body first!&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;She is right,&rdquo; said the man; &ldquo;I own myself beaten and
+      powerless; I confess I haven&rsquo;t the strength to take it from her;&rdquo;
+      and he let go his hold of her.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Upon this the governor said to the woman, &ldquo;Let me see that purse, my
+      worthy and sturdy friend.&rdquo; She handed it to him at once, and the
+      governor returned it to the man, and said to the unforced mistress of
+      force, &ldquo;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&rsquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The woman was cowed and went off disconsolately, hanging her head; and the
+      governor said to the man, &ldquo;Honest man, go home with your money, and
+      God speed you; and for the future, if you don&rsquo;t want to lose it, see
+      that you don&rsquo;t take it into your head to yoke with anybody.&rdquo;
+      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&rsquo;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, &ldquo;Señor governor, this labourer and I come before
+      your worship by reason of this honest man coming to my shop yesterday (for
+      saving everybody&rsquo;s presence I&rsquo;m a passed tailor, God be
+      thanked), and putting a piece of cloth into my hands and asking me,
+      &lsquo;Señor, will there be enough in this cloth to make me a cap?&rsquo;
+      Measuring the cloth I said there would. He probably suspected&mdash;as I
+      supposed, and I supposed right&mdash;that I wanted to steal some of the
+      cloth, led to think so by his own roguery and the bad opinion people have
+      of tailors; and he told me to see if there would be enough for two. I
+      guessed what he would be at, and I said &lsquo;yes.&rsquo; He, still
+      following up his original unworthy notion, went on adding cap after cap,
+      and I &lsquo;yes&rsquo; after &lsquo;yes,&rsquo; until we got as far as
+      five. He has just this moment come for them; I gave them to him, but he
+      won&rsquo;t pay me for the making; on the contrary, he calls upon me to
+      pay him, or else return his cloth.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Is all this true, brother?&rdquo; said Sancho.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Yes,&rdquo; replied the man; &ldquo;but will your worship make him
+      show the five caps he has made me?&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;With all my heart,&rdquo; said the tailor; and drawing his hand
+      from under his cloak he showed five caps stuck upon the five fingers of
+      it, and said, &ldquo;there are the caps this good man asks for; and by God
+      and upon my conscience I haven&rsquo;t a scrap of cloth left, and I&rsquo;ll
+      let the work be examined by the inspectors of the trade.&rdquo;
+    </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, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      If the previous decision about the cattle dealer&rsquo;s purse excited the
+      admiration of the bystanders, this provoked their laughter; however, the
+      governor&rsquo;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&rsquo;s
+      music, has pressing claims upon us now.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p45e" id="p45e"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p45e.jpg (11K)" src="images/p45e.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      <a name="ch46b" id="ch46b"></a>CHAPTER XLVI.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      OF THE TERRIBLE BELL AND CAT FRIGHT THAT DON QUIXOTE GOT IN THE COURSE OF
+      THE ENAMOURED ALTISIDORA&rsquo;S WOOING
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <a name="p46a" id="p46a"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p46a.jpg (58K)" src="images/p46a.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p46a.jpg" style="width:100%;"><img alt="Full Size"
+      src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      We left Don Quixote wrapped up in the reflections which the music of the
+      enamourned maid Altisidora had given rise to. He went to bed with them,
+      and just like fleas they would not let him sleep or get a moment&rsquo;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, &ldquo;I know very
+      well what this seizure arises from.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I know not from what,&rdquo; replied the friend, &ldquo;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, Señor Don
+      Quixote; for this poor child will not come to herself again so long as you
+      are here.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p46b" id="p46b"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p46b.jpg (320K)" src="images/p46b.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p46b.jpg" style="width:100%;"><img alt="Full Size"
+      src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      To which Don Quixote returned, &ldquo;Do me the favour, señora, 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;&rdquo; 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, &ldquo;The lute must be left, for no doubt Don Quixote
+      intends to give us some music; and being his it will not be bad.&rdquo;
+    </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&rsquo;clock came, Don Quixote found a guitar in his chamber;
+      he tried it, opened the window, and perceived that some persons were
+      walking in the garden; and having passed his fingers over the frets of the
+      guitar and tuned it as well as he could, he spat and cleared his chest,
+      and then with a voice a little hoarse but full-toned, he sang the
+      following ballad, which he had himself that day composed:
+    </p>
+<pre xml:space="preserve">
+Mighty Love the hearts of maidens
+Doth unsettle and perplex,
+And the instrument he uses
+Most of all is idleness.
+
+Sewing, stitching, any labour,
+Having always work to do,
+To the poison Love instilleth
+Is the antidote most sure.
+
+And to proper-minded maidens
+Who desire the matron&rsquo;s name
+Modesty&rsquo;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&rsquo;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&rsquo;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&rsquo;d.
+
+The quality of all in lovers
+Most esteemed is constancy;
+&lsquo;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&rsquo; end with
+      astonishment. Don Quixote sprang to his feet, and drawing his sword, began
+      making passes at the grating, shouting out, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+      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&rsquo;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, &ldquo;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.&rdquo; 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&rsquo;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. &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      To all this Don Quixote made no answer except to heave deep sighs, and
+      then stretched himself on his bed, thanking the duke and duchess for their
+      kindness, not because he stood in any fear of that bell-ringing rabble of
+      enchanters in cat shape, but because he recognised their good intentions
+      in coming to his rescue. The duke and duchess left him to repose and
+      withdrew greatly grieved at the unfortunate result of the joke; as they
+      never thought the adventure would have fallen so heavy on Don Quixote or
+      cost him so dear, for it cost him five days of confinement to his bed,
+      during which he had another adventure, pleasanter than the late one, which
+      his chronicler will not relate just now in order that he may turn his
+      attention to Sancho Panza, who was proceeding with great diligence and
+      drollery in his government.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p46e" id="p46e"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p46e.jpg (65K)" src="images/p46e.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      <a name="ch47b" id="ch47b"></a>CHAPTER XLVII.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      WHEREIN IS CONTINUED THE ACCOUNT OF HOW SANCHO PANZA CONDUCTED HIMSELF IN
+      HIS GOVERNMENT
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <a name="p47a" id="p47a"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p47a.jpg (139K)" src="images/p47a.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p47a.jpg" style="width:100%;"><img alt="Full Size"
+      src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The history says that from the justice court they carried Sancho to a
+      sumptuous palace, where in a spacious chamber there was a table laid out
+      with royal magnificence. The clarions sounded as Sancho entered the room,
+      and four pages came forward to present him with water for his hands, which
+      Sancho received with great dignity. The music ceased, and Sancho seated
+      himself at the head of the table, for there was only that seat placed, and
+      no more than one cover laid. A personage, who it appeared afterwards was a
+      physician, placed himself standing by his side with a whalebone wand in
+      his hand. They then lifted up a fine white cloth covering fruit and a
+      great variety of dishes of different sorts; one who looked like a student
+      said grace, and a page put a laced bib on Sancho, while another who played
+      the part of head carver placed a dish of fruit before him. But hardly had
+      he tasted a morsel when the man with the wand touched the plate with it,
+      and they took it away from before him with the utmost celerity. The
+      carver, however, brought him another dish, and Sancho proceeded to try it;
+      but before he could get at it, not to say taste it, already the wand had
+      touched it and a page had carried it off with the same promptitude as the
+      fruit. Sancho seeing this was puzzled, and looking from one to another
+      asked if this dinner was to be eaten after the fashion of a jugglery
+      trick.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      To this he with the wand replied, &ldquo;It is not to be eaten, señor
+      governor, except as is usual and customary in other islands where there
+      are governors. I, señor, 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&rsquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Well then,&rdquo; said Sancho, &ldquo;that dish of roast partridges
+      there that seems so savoury will not do me any harm.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      To this the physician replied, &ldquo;Of those my lord the governor shall
+      not eat so long as I live.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Why so?&rdquo; said Sancho.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Because,&rdquo; replied the doctor, &ldquo;our master Hippocrates,
+      the polestar and beacon of medicine, says in one of his aphorisms omnis
+      saturatio mala, perdicis autem pessima, which means &lsquo;all repletion
+      is bad, but that of partridge is the worst of all.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;In that case,&rdquo; said Sancho, &ldquo;let señor 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&rsquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Your worship is right, señor governor,&rdquo; said the physician;
+      &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;That big dish that is smoking farther off,&rdquo; said Sancho,
+      &ldquo;seems to me to be an olla podrida, and out of the diversity of
+      things in such ollas, I can&rsquo;t fail to light upon something tasty and
+      good for me.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p47b" id="p47b"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p47b.jpg (372K)" src="images/p47b.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p47b.jpg" style="width:100%;"><img alt="Full Size"
+      src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Absit,&rdquo; said the doctor; &ldquo;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&rsquo; weddings
+      with your ollas podridas, but let us have none of them on the tables of
+      governors, where everything that is present should be delicate and
+      refined; and the reason is, that always, everywhere and by everybody,
+      simple medicines are more esteemed than compound ones, for we cannot go
+      wrong in those that are simple, while in the compound we may, by merely
+      altering the quantity of the things composing them. But what I am of
+      opinion the governor should eat now in order to preserve and fortify his
+      health is a hundred or so of wafer cakes and a few thin slices of conserve
+      of quinces, which will settle his stomach and help his digestion.&rdquo;
+    </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, &ldquo;My name, señor 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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      To which Sancho, glowing all over with rage, returned, &ldquo;Then let
+      Doctor Pedro Recio de Malaguero, native of Tirteafuera, a place that&rsquo;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&rsquo;ll
+      take a cudgel, and by dint of blows, beginning with him, I&rsquo;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&rsquo;ll take this chair I am sitting on and break it
+      over his head. And if they call me to account for it, I&rsquo;ll clear
+      myself by saying I served God in killing a bad doctor&mdash;a general
+      executioner. And now give me something to eat, or else take your
+      government; for a trade that does not feed its master is not worth two
+      beans.&rdquo;
+    </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, &ldquo;It&rsquo;s a courier from my lord
+      the duke, no doubt with some despatch of importance.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The courier came in all sweating and flurried, and taking a paper from his
+      bosom, placed it in the governor&rsquo;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, &ldquo;Which of
+      you is my secretary?&rdquo; &ldquo;I am, señor,&rdquo; said one of those
+      present, &ldquo;for I can read and write, and am a Biscayan.&rdquo;
+      &ldquo;With that addition,&rdquo; said Sancho, &ldquo;you might be
+      secretary to the emperor himself; open this paper and see what it says.&rdquo;
+      The new-born secretary obeyed, and having read the contents said the
+      matter was one to be discussed in private. Sancho ordered the chamber to
+      be cleared, the majordomo and the carver only remaining; so the doctor and
+      the others withdrew, and then the secretary read the letter, which was as
+      follows:
+    </p>
+    <blockquote>
+      <p>
+        It has come to my knowledge, Señor Don Sancho Panza, that certain
+        enemies of mine and of the island are about to make a furious attack
+        upon it some night, I know not when. It behoves you to be on the alert
+        and keep watch, that they surprise you not. I also know by trustworthy
+        spies that four persons have entered the town in disguise in order to
+        take your life, because they stand in dread of your great capacity; keep
+        your eyes open and take heed who approaches you to address you, and eat
+        nothing that is presented to you. I will take care to send you aid if
+        you find yourself in difficulty, but in all things you will act as may
+        be expected of your judgment. From this place, the Sixteenth of August,
+        at four in the morning.
+      </p>
+      <p>
+        Your friend,
+      </p>
+      <p>
+        THE DUKE
+      </p>
+    </blockquote>
+    <p>
+      Sancho was astonished, and those who stood by made believe to be so too,
+      and turning to the majordomo he said to him, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Likewise,&rdquo; said the carver, &ldquo;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, &lsquo;behind the cross there&rsquo;s
+      the devil.&rsquo;&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t deny it,&rdquo; said Sancho; &ldquo;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&rsquo;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&rsquo;ll be ready to meet all the spies and assassins and
+      enchanters that may come against me or my island.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      At this instant a page entered saying, &ldquo;Here is a farmer on
+      business, who wants to speak to your lordship on a matter of great
+      importance, he says.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;It&rsquo;s very odd,&rdquo; said Sancho, &ldquo;the ways of these
+      men on business; is it possible they can be such fools as not to see that
+      an hour like this is no hour for coming on business? We who govern and we
+      who are judges&mdash;are we not men of flesh and blood, and are we not to
+      be allowed the time required for taking rest, unless they&rsquo;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&rsquo;t), I&rsquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;No, my lord,&rdquo; said the page, &ldquo;for he looks like a
+      simple fellow, and either I know very little or he is as good as good
+      bread.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;There is nothing to be afraid of,&rdquo; said the majordomo,
+      &ldquo;for we are all here.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Would it be possible, carver,&rdquo; said Sancho, &ldquo;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?&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;To-night at supper,&rdquo; said the carver, &ldquo;the shortcomings
+      of the dinner shall be made good, and your lordship shall be fully
+      contented.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;God grant it,&rdquo; 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, &ldquo;Which is the lord governor here?&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Which should it be,&rdquo; said the secretary, &ldquo;but he who is
+      seated in the chair?&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Then I humble myself before him,&rdquo; 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, &ldquo;I am a farmer, señor, a native of Miguelturra, a village two
+      leagues from Ciudad Real.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Another Tirteafuera!&rdquo; said Sancho; &ldquo;say on, brother; I
+      know Miguelturra very well I can tell you, for it&rsquo;s not very far
+      from my own town.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;The case is this, señor,&rdquo; continued the farmer, &ldquo;that
+      by God&rsquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;So that if your wife had not died, or had not been killed, you
+      would not now be a widower,&rdquo; said Sancho.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;No, señor, certainly not,&rdquo; said the farmer.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;We&rsquo;ve got that much settled,&rdquo; said Sancho; &ldquo;get
+      on, brother, for it&rsquo;s more bed-time than business-time.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Well then,&rdquo; said the farmer, &ldquo;this son of mine who is
+      going to be a bachelor, fell in love in the said town with a damsel called
+      Clara Perlerina, daughter of Andres Perlerino, a very rich farmer; and
+      this name of Perlerines does not come to them by ancestry or descent, but
+      because all the family are paralytics, and for a better name they call
+      them Perlerines; though to tell the truth the damsel is as fair as an
+      Oriental pearl, and like a flower of the field, if you look at her on the
+      right side; on the left not so much, for on that side she wants an eye
+      that she lost by small-pox; and though her face is thickly and deeply
+      pitted, those who love her say they are not pits that are there, but the
+      graves where the hearts of her lovers are buried. She is so cleanly that
+      not to soil her face she carries her nose turned up, as they say, so that
+      one would fancy it was running away from her mouth; and with all this she
+      looks extremely well, for she has a wide mouth; and but for wanting ten or
+      a dozen teeth and grinders she might compare and compete with the
+      comeliest. Of her lips I say nothing, for they are so fine and thin that,
+      if lips might be reeled, one might make a skein of them; but being of a
+      different colour from ordinary lips they are wonderful, for they are
+      mottled, blue, green, and purple&mdash;let my lord the governor pardon me
+      for painting so minutely the charms of her who some time or other will be
+      my daughter; for I love her, and I don&rsquo;t find her amiss.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Paint what you will,&rdquo; said Sancho; &ldquo;I enjoy your
+      painting, and if I had dined there could be no dessert more to my taste
+      than your portrait.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;That I have still to furnish,&rdquo; said the farmer; &ldquo;but a
+      time will come when we may be able if we are not now; and I can tell you,
+      señor, 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&rsquo;d knock her head against the ceiling; and she
+      would have given her hand to my bachelor ere this, only that she can&rsquo;t
+      stretch it out, for it&rsquo;s contracted; but still one can see its
+      elegance and fine make by its long furrowed nails.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;That will do, brother,&rdquo; said Sancho; &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I want your worship, señor,&rdquo; said the farmer, &ldquo;to do me
+      the favour of giving me a letter of recommendation to the girl&rsquo;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, señor 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&rsquo;d be a saint.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Is there anything else you want, good man?&rdquo; said Sancho.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;There&rsquo;s another thing I&rsquo;d like,&rdquo; said the farmer,
+      &ldquo;but I&rsquo;m afraid to mention it; however, out it must; for after
+      all I can&rsquo;t let it be rotting in my breast, come what may. I mean,
+      señor, that I&rsquo;d like your worship to give me three hundred or six
+      hundred ducats as a help to my bachelor&rsquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Just see if there&rsquo;s anything else you&rsquo;d like,&rdquo;
+      said Sancho, &ldquo;and don&rsquo;t hold back from mentioning it out of
+      bashfulness or modesty.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;No, indeed there is not,&rdquo; 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, &ldquo;By all that&rsquo;s good,
+      you ill-bred, boorish Don Bumpkin, if you don&rsquo;t get out of this at
+      once and hide yourself from my sight, I&rsquo;ll lay your head open with
+      this chair. You whoreson rascal, you devil&rsquo;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&rsquo;ll do as I said. You&rsquo;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!&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The carver made signs to the farmer to leave the room, which he did with
+      his head down, and to all appearance in terror lest the governor should
+      carry his threats into effect, for the rogue knew very well how to play
+      his part.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      But let us leave Sancho in his wrath, and peace be with them all; and let
+      us return to Don Quixote, whom we left with his face bandaged and doctored
+      after the cat wounds, of which he was not cured for eight days; and on one
+      of these there befell him what Cide Hamete promises to relate with that
+      exactitude and truth with which he is wont to set forth everything
+      connected with this great history, however minute it may be.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p47e" id="p47e"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p47e.jpg (12K)" src="images/p47e.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      <a name="ch48b" id="ch48b"></a>CHAPTER XLVIII.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      OF WHAT BEFELL DON QUIXOTE WITH DONA RODRIGUEZ, THE DUCHESS&rsquo;S
+      DUENNA, TOGETHER WITH OTHER OCCURRENCES WORTHY OF RECORD AND ETERNAL
+      REMEMBRANCE
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <a name="p48a" id="p48a"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p48a.jpg (131K)" src="images/p48a.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p48a.jpg" style="width:100%;"><img alt="Full Size"
+      src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Exceedingly moody and dejected was the sorely wounded Don Quixote, with
+      his face bandaged and marked, not by the hand of God, but by the claws of
+      a cat, mishaps incidental to knight-errantry.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p48b" id="p48b"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p48b.jpg (316K)" src="images/p48b.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p48b.jpg" style="width:100%;"><img alt="Full Size"
+      src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Six days he remained without appearing in public, and one night as he lay
+      awake thinking of his misfortunes and of Altisidora&rsquo;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. &ldquo;No,&rdquo;
+      said he, firmly persuaded of the truth of his idea (and he said it loud
+      enough to be heard), &ldquo;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; where&rsquo;er thou art, thou art mine, and where&rsquo;er
+      I am, must be thine.&rdquo; 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, &ldquo;Jesus!
+      what&rsquo;s this I see?&rdquo; let fall the candle in her fright, and
+      then finding herself in the dark, turned about to make off, but stumbling
+      on her skirts in her consternation, she measured her length with a mighty
+      fall.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p48c" id="p48c"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p48c.jpg (249K)" src="images/p48c.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p48c.jpg" style="width:100%;"><img alt="Full Size"
+      src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Don Quixote in his trepidation began saying, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The unfortunate duenna hearing herself thus conjured, by her own fear
+      guessed Don Quixote&rsquo;s and in a low plaintive voice answered, &ldquo;Señor
+      Don Quixote&mdash;if so be you are indeed Don Quixote&mdash;I am no
+      phantom or spectre or soul in purgatory, as you seem to think, but Dona
+      Rodriguez, duenna of honour to my lady the duchess, and I come to you with
+      one of those grievances your worship is wont to redress.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Tell me, Señora Dona Rodriguez,&rdquo; said Don Quixote, &ldquo;do
+      you perchance come to transact any go-between business? Because I must
+      tell you I am not available for anybody&rsquo;s purpose, thanks to the
+      peerless beauty of my lady Dulcinea del Toboso. In short, Señora 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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I carry nobody&rsquo;s messages, señor,&rdquo; said the duenna;
+      &ldquo;little you know me. Nay, I&rsquo;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;&rdquo; 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, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      So saying he leaped off the bed, intending to close the door and not allow
+      Señora Rodriguez to enter; but as he went to shut it Señora 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, &ldquo;Am
+      I safe, sir knight? for I don&rsquo;t look upon it as a sign of very great
+      virtue that your worship should have got up out of bed.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I may well ask the same, señora,&rdquo; said Don Quixote; &ldquo;and
+      I do ask whether I shall be safe from being assailed and forced?&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Of whom and against whom do you demand that security, sir knight?&rdquo;
+      said the duenna.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Of you and against you I ask it,&rdquo; said Don Quixote; &ldquo;for
+      I am not marble, nor are you brass, nor is it now ten o&rsquo;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 Æneas enjoyed the fair soft-hearted Dido. But give
+      me your hand, señora; 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;&rdquo; 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, &ldquo;Now, Señora 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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I believe it,&rdquo; replied the duenna; &ldquo;from your worship&rsquo;s
+      gentle and winning presence only such a Christian answer could be
+      expected. The fact is, then, Señor 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;&rdquo; and here she began to
+      weep bitterly and said, &ldquo;Pardon me, Señor 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, &lsquo;What are you about, you sneak, don&rsquo;t you see that I am
+      here?&rsquo; The alcalde like a polite man pulled up his horse and said to
+      him, &lsquo;Proceed, señor, for it is I, rather, who ought to accompany my
+      lady Dona Casilda&rsquo;&mdash;for that was my mistress&rsquo;s name.
+      Still my husband, cap in hand, persisted in trying to accompany the
+      alcalde, and seeing this my lady, filled with rage and vexation, pulled
+      out a big pin, or, I rather think, a bodkin, out of her needle-case and
+      drove it into his back with such force that my husband gave a loud yell,
+      and writhing fell to the ground with his lady. Her two lacqueys ran to
+      rise her up, and the alcalde and the alguacils did the same; the
+      Guadalajara gate was all in commotion&mdash;I mean the idlers congregated
+      there; my mistress came back on foot, and my husband hurried away to a
+      barber&rsquo;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&rsquo;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&rsquo;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, señor, 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, señor, all is not gold that glitters,
+      and that same little Altisidora has more forwardness than good looks, and
+      more impudence than modesty; besides being not very sound, for she has
+      such a disagreeable breath that one cannot bear to be near her for a
+      moment; and even my lady the duchess&mdash;but I&rsquo;ll hold my tongue,
+      for they say that walls have ears.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;For heaven&rsquo;s sake, Dona Rodriguez, what ails my lady the
+      duchess?&rdquo; asked Don Quixote.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Adjured in that way,&rdquo; replied the duenna, &ldquo;I cannot
+      help answering the question and telling the whole truth. Señor 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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Blessed Virgin!&rdquo; exclaimed Don Quixote; &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </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&rsquo;s
+      mouth, as the saying is. Suddenly the poor duenna felt two hands seize her
+      by the throat, so tightly that she could not croak, while some one else,
+      without uttering a word, very briskly hoisted up her petticoats, and with
+      what seemed to be a slipper began to lay on so heartily that anyone would
+      have felt pity for her; but although Don Quixote felt it he never stirred
+      from his bed, but lay quiet and silent, nay apprehensive that his turn for
+      a drubbing might be coming. Nor was the apprehension an idle one; for
+      leaving the duenna (who did not dare to cry out) well basted, the silent
+      executioners fell upon Don Quixote, and stripping him of the sheet and the
+      coverlet, they pinched him so fast and so hard that he was driven to
+      defend himself with his fists, and all this in marvellous silence. The
+      battle lasted nearly half an hour, and then the phantoms fled; Dona
+      Rodriguez gathered up her skirts, and bemoaning her fate went out without
+      saying a word to Don Quixote, and he, sorely pinched, puzzled, and
+      dejected, remained alone, and there we will leave him, wondering who could
+      have been the perverse enchanter who had reduced him to such a state; but
+      that shall be told in due season, for Sancho claims our attention, and the
+      methodical arrangement of the story demands it.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p48e" id="p48e"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
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+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      <a name="ch49b" id="ch49b"></a>CHAPTER XLIX.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      OF WHAT HAPPENED SANCHO IN MAKING THE ROUND OF HIS ISLAND
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <a name="p49a" id="p49a"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p49a.jpg (170K)" src="images/p49a.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
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+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p49a.jpg" style="width:100%;"><img alt="Full Size"
+      src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      We left the great governor angered and irritated by that
+      portrait-painting rogue of a farmer who, instructed by 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&rsquo;s letter was disposed of had returned to the
+      room, &ldquo;Now I see plainly enough that judges and governors ought to
+      be and must be made of brass not to feel the importunities of the
+      applicants that at all times and all seasons insist on being heard, and
+      having their business despatched, and their own affairs and no others
+      attended to, come what may; and if the poor judge does not hear them and
+      settle the matter&mdash;either because he cannot or because that is not
+      the time set apart for hearing them&mdash;forthwith they abuse him, and
+      run him down, and gnaw at his bones, and even pick holes in his pedigree.
+      You silly, stupid applicant, don&rsquo;t be in a hurry; wait for the
+      proper time and season for doing business; don&rsquo;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 Señor Doctor
+      Pedro Recio Tirteafuera here, who would have me die of hunger, and
+      declares that death to be life; and the same sort of life may God give
+      him and all his kind&mdash;I mean the bad doctors; for the good ones
+      deserve palms and laurels.&rdquo;
+    </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&rsquo;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&rsquo; 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, &ldquo;Look here,
+      señor doctor, for the future don&rsquo;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&rsquo;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 &lsquo;the devil&rsquo;s in Cantillana,&rsquo; and if they drive me
+      to it they&rsquo;ll see something that will astonish them. Nay! make
+      yourself honey and the flies eat you.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Of a truth, señor governor,&rdquo; said the carver, &ldquo;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&rsquo;s disadvantage.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;That I believe,&rdquo; said Sancho; &ldquo;and they would be great
+      fools if they did or thought otherwise; once more I say, see to my feeding
+      and my Dapple&rsquo;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?&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;There is so much in what your worship says, señor governor,&rdquo;
+      said the majordomo, &ldquo;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&rsquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </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,
+      &ldquo;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?&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Be calm, my good man,&rdquo; said Sancho, &ldquo;and tell me what
+      the cause of this quarrel is; for I am the governor.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Said the other combatant, &ldquo;Señor governor, I will tell you in a very
+      few words. Your worship must know that this gentleman has just now won
+      more than a thousand reals in that gambling house opposite, and God knows
+      how. I was there, and gave more than one doubtful point in his favour,
+      very much against what my conscience told me. He made off with his
+      winnings, and when I made sure he was going to give me a crown or so at
+      least by way of a present, as it is usual and customary to give men of
+      quality of my sort who stand by to see fair or foul play, and back up
+      swindles, and prevent quarrels, he pocketed his money and left the house.
+      Indignant at this I followed him, and speaking to him fairly and civilly
+      asked him to give me if it were only eight reals, for he knows I am an
+      honest man and that I have neither profession nor property, for my parents
+      never brought me up to any or left me any; but the rogue, who is a greater
+      thief than Cacus and a greater sharper than Andradilla, would not give me
+      more than four reals; so your worship may see how little shame and
+      conscience he has. But by my faith if you had not come up I&rsquo;d have
+      made him disgorge his winnings, and he&rsquo;d have learned what the range
+      of the steel-yard was.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;What say you to this?&rdquo; 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>
+      &ldquo;That is true,&rdquo; said the majordomo; &ldquo;let your worship
+      consider what is to be done with these men.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;What is to be done,&rdquo; said Sancho, &ldquo;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&rsquo;ll hang you on a gibbet, or at least the hangman
+      will by my orders; not a word from either of you, or I&rsquo;ll make him
+      feel my hand.&rdquo;
+    </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, &ldquo;Either
+      I am not good for much, or I&rsquo;ll get rid of these gambling houses,
+      for it strikes me they are very mischievous.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;This one at least,&rdquo; said one of the notaries, &ldquo;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&rsquo;s, where they catch an unlucky
+      fellow in the small hours of the morning and skin him alive.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I know already, notary, that there is a good deal to be said on
+      that point,&rdquo; said Sancho.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      And now a tipstaff came up with a young man in his grasp, and said,
+      &ldquo;Señor 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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;What did you run for, fellow?&rdquo; said Sancho.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      To which the young man replied, &ldquo;Señor, it was to avoid answering
+      all the questions officers of justice put.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;What are you by trade?&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;A weaver.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;And what do you weave?&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Lance heads, with your worship&rsquo;s good leave.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;You&rsquo;re facetious with me! You plume yourself on being a wag?
+      Very good; and where were you going just now?&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;To take the air, señor.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;And where does one take the air in this island?&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Where it blows.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;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&rsquo;ll make him sleep there to-night without air.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;By God,&rdquo; said the young man, &ldquo;your worship will make me
+      sleep in gaol just as soon as make me king.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Why shan&rsquo;t I make thee sleep in gaol?&rdquo; said Sancho.
+      &ldquo;Have I not the power to arrest thee and release thee whenever I
+      like?&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;All the power your worship has,&rdquo; said the young man, &ldquo;won&rsquo;t
+      be able to make me sleep in gaol.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;How? not able!&rdquo; said Sancho; &ldquo;take him away at once
+      where he&rsquo;ll see his mistake with his own eyes, even if the gaoler is
+      willing to exert his interested generosity on his behalf; for I&rsquo;ll
+      lay a penalty of two thousand ducats on him if he allows him to stir a
+      step from the prison.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;That&rsquo;s ridiculous,&rdquo; said the young man; &ldquo;the fact
+      is, all the men on earth will not make me sleep in prison.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Tell me, you devil,&rdquo; said Sancho, &ldquo;have you got any
+      angel that will deliver you, and take off the irons I am going to order
+      them to put upon you?&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Now, señor governor,&rdquo; said the young man in a sprightly
+      manner, &ldquo;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&rsquo;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&rsquo;t choose?&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;No, truly,&rdquo; said the secretary, &ldquo;and the fellow has
+      made his point.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;So then,&rdquo; said Sancho, &ldquo;it would be entirely of your
+      own choice you would keep from sleeping; not in opposition to my will?&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;No, señor,&rdquo; said the youth, &ldquo;certainly not.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Well then, go, and God be with you,&rdquo; said Sancho; &ldquo;be
+      off home to sleep, and God give you sound sleep, for I don&rsquo;t want to
+      rob you of it; but for the future, let me advise you don&rsquo;t joke with
+      the authorities, because you may come across some one who will bring down
+      the joke on your own skull.&rdquo;
+    </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,
+      &ldquo;Señor governor, this person, who seems to be a man, is not so, but
+      a woman, and not an ill-favoured one, in man&rsquo;s clothes.&rdquo; They
+      raised two or three lanterns to her face, and by their light they
+      distinguished the features of a woman to all appearance of the age of
+      sixteen or a little more, with her hair gathered into a gold and green
+      silk net, and fair as a thousand pearls. They scanned her from head to
+      foot, and observed that she had on red silk stockings with garters of
+      white taffety bordered with gold and pearl; her breeches were of green and
+      gold stuff, and under an open jacket or jerkin of the same she wore a
+      doublet of the finest white and gold cloth; her shoes were white and such
+      as men wear; she carried no sword at her belt, but only a richly
+      ornamented dagger, and on her fingers she had several handsome rings. In
+      short, the girl seemed fair to look at in the eyes of all, and none of
+      those who beheld her knew her, the people of the town said they could not
+      imagine who she was, and those who were in on the secret of the jokes that
+      were to be practised upon Sancho were the ones who were most surprised,
+      for this incident or discovery had not been arranged by them; and they
+      watched anxiously to see how the affair would end.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Sancho was fascinated by the girl&rsquo;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, &ldquo;I cannot tell you, señor, 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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Hearing this the majordomo said to Sancho, &ldquo;Make the people stand
+      back, señor governor, that this lady may say what she wishes with less
+      embarrassment.&rdquo;
+    </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, &ldquo;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&rsquo;s house.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;That won&rsquo;t do, señora,&rdquo; said the majordomo; &ldquo;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&rsquo;s house.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I had already noticed that,&rdquo; said Sancho.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I am confused just now, sirs,&rdquo; said the damsel, &ldquo;and I
+      don&rsquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Ay, that will do,&rdquo; said the majordomo; &ldquo;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&rsquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;It is true,&rdquo; said the damsel, &ldquo;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;&rdquo; and with this she began to weep
+      bitterly.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      On seeing this the secretary leant over to the head-carver&rsquo;s ear,
+      and said to him in a low voice, &ldquo;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.&rdquo; &ldquo;There
+      can be no doubt about it,&rdquo; returned the carver, &ldquo;and moreover
+      her tears confirm your suspicion.&rdquo; 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>
+      &ldquo;The fact is, sirs,&rdquo; said she, &ldquo;that my father has kept
+      me shut up these ten years, for so long is it since the earth received my
+      mother. Mass is said at home in a sumptuous chapel, and all this time I
+      have seen but the sun in the heaven by day, and the moon and the stars by
+      night; nor do I know what streets are like, or plazas, or churches, or
+      even men, except my father and a brother I have, and Pedro Perez the
+      wool-farmer; whom, because he came frequently to our house, I took it into
+      my head to call my father, to avoid naming my own. This seclusion and the
+      restrictions laid upon my going out, were it only to church, have been
+      keeping me unhappy for many a day and month past; I longed to see the
+      world, or at least the town where I was born, and it did not seem to me
+      that this wish was inconsistent with the respect maidens of good quality
+      should have for themselves. When I heard them talking of bull-fights
+      taking place, and of javelin games, and of acting plays, I asked my
+      brother, who is a year younger than myself, to tell me what sort of things
+      these were, and many more that I had never seen; he explained them to me
+      as well as he could, but the only effect was to kindle in me a still
+      stronger desire to see them. At last, to cut short the story of my ruin, I
+      begged and entreated my brother&mdash;O that I had never made such an
+      entreaty&mdash;&rdquo; And once more she gave way to a burst of weeping.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Proceed, señora,&rdquo; said the majordomo, &ldquo;and finish your
+      story of what has happened to you, for your words and tears are keeping us
+      all in suspense.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I have but little more to say, though many a tear to shed,&rdquo;
+      said the damsel; &ldquo;for ill-placed desires can only be paid for in
+      some such way.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The maiden&rsquo;s beauty had made a deep impression on the head-carver&rsquo;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, &ldquo;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, &lsquo;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;&rsquo; 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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;So then, señora,&rdquo; said Sancho, &ldquo;no other mishap has
+      befallen you, nor was it jealousy that made you leave home, as you said at
+      the beginning of your story?&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Nothing has happened me,&rdquo; said she, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </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, &ldquo;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&rsquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;That is true,&rdquo; said the damsel, &ldquo;but you see the
+      confusion I was in was so great it did not let me behave as I ought.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;No harm has been done,&rdquo; said Sancho; &ldquo;come, we will
+      leave you at your father&rsquo;s house; perhaps they will not have missed
+      you; and another time don&rsquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </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&rsquo;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&rsquo;s daughter. And so
+      the night&rsquo;s round came to an end, and a couple of days later the
+      government, whereby all his plans were overthrown and swept away, as will
+      be seen farther on.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p49e" id="p49e"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p49e.jpg (55K)" src="images/p49e.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      <a name="ch50b" id="ch50b"></a>CHAPTER L.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      WHEREIN IS SET FORTH WHO THE ENCHANTERS AND EXECUTIONERS WERE WHO FLOGGED
+      THE DUENNA AND PINCHED DON QUIXOTE, AND ALSO WHAT BEFELL THE PAGE WHO
+      CARRIED THE LETTER TO TERESA PANZA, SANCHO PANZA&rsquo;S WIFE
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <a name="p50a" id="p50a"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p50a.jpg (104K)" src="images/p50a.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p50a.jpg" style="width:100%;"><img alt="Full Size"
+      src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Cide Hamete, the painstaking investigator of the minute points of this
+      veracious history, says that when Dona Rodriguez left her own room to go
+      to Don Quixote&rsquo;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&rsquo;s room, not to fail
+      in a duenna&rsquo;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&rsquo;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&rsquo;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, &ldquo;Teresa Panza is my mother, and that
+      Sancho is my father, and that knight is our master.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Well then, miss,&rdquo; said the page, &ldquo;come and show me
+      where your mother is, for I bring her a letter and a present from your
+      father.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;That I will with all my heart, señor,&rdquo; 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&rsquo;s horse, saying, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Well,&rdquo; said the page, &ldquo;I am bringing her such good news
+      that she will have reason to thank God.&rdquo;
+    </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, &ldquo;Come out,
+      mother Teresa, come out, come out; here&rsquo;s a gentleman with letters
+      and other things from my good father.&rdquo; 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 &ldquo;they to her shame had cut it
+      short&rdquo;), 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, &ldquo;What&rsquo;s this, child? What gentleman is this?&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;A servant of my lady, Dona Teresa Panza,&rdquo; 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,
+      &ldquo;Let me kiss your hand, Señora Dona Teresa, as the lawful and only
+      wife of Señor Don Sancho Panza, rightful governor of the island of
+      Barataria.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Ah, señor, get up, do that,&rdquo; said Teresa; &ldquo;for I&rsquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;You are,&rdquo; said the page, &ldquo;the most worthy wife of a
+      most arch-worthy governor; and as a proof of what I say accept this letter
+      and this present;&rdquo; 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, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Teresa stood lost in astonishment, and her daughter just as much, and the
+      girl said, &ldquo;May I die but our master Don Quixote&rsquo;s at the
+      bottom of this; he must have given father the government or county he so
+      often promised him.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;That is the truth,&rdquo; said the page; &ldquo;for it is through
+      Señor Don Quixote that Señor Sancho is now governor of the island of
+      Barataria, as will be seen by this letter.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Will your worship read it to me, noble sir?&rdquo; said Teresa;
+      &ldquo;for though I can spin I can&rsquo;t read, not a scrap.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Nor I either,&rdquo; said Sanchica; &ldquo;but wait a bit, and I&rsquo;ll
+      go and fetch some one who can read it, either the curate himself or the
+      bachelor Samson Carrasco, and they&rsquo;ll come gladly to hear any news
+      of my father.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;There is no need to fetch anybody,&rdquo; said the page; &ldquo;for
+      though I can&rsquo;t spin I can read, and I&rsquo;ll read it;&rdquo; and
+      so he read it through, but as it has been already given it is not inserted
+      here; and then he took out the other one from the duchess, which ran as
+      follows:
+    </p>
+    <blockquote>
+      <p>
+        Friend Teresa,&mdash;Your husband Sancho&rsquo;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 Señora Teresa know that a good governor is hard to find in this
+        world and may God make me as good as Sancho&rsquo;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 &ldquo;he who gives thee a bone
+        does not wish to see thee dead;&rdquo; a time will come when we shall
+        become acquainted and meet one another, but God knows the future.
+        Commend me to your daughter Sanchica, and tell her from me to hold
+        herself in readiness, for I mean to make a high match for her when she
+        least expects it. They tell me there are big acorns in your village;
+        send me a couple of dozen or so, and I shall value them greatly as
+        coming from your hand; and write to me at length to assure me of your
+        health and well-being; and if there be anything you stand in need of, it
+        is but to open your mouth, and that shall be the measure; and so God
+        keep you.
+      </p>
+      <p>
+        From this place. Your loving friend, THE DUCHESS.
+      </p>
+    </blockquote>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Ah, what a good, plain, lowly lady!&rdquo; said Teresa when she
+      heard the letter; &ldquo;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&rsquo;s wife! And see here how this good lady,
+      for all she&rsquo;s a duchess, calls me &lsquo;friend,&rsquo; and treats
+      me as if I was her equal&mdash;and equal may I see her with the tallest
+      church-tower in La Mancha! And as for the acorns, señor, I&rsquo;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&rsquo;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&rsquo;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&rsquo;s.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;That I will, mother,&rdquo; said Sanchica; &ldquo;but mind, you
+      must give me half of that string; for I don&rsquo;t think my lady the
+      duchess could have been so stupid as to send it all to you.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;It is all for thee, my child,&rdquo; said Teresa; &ldquo;but let me
+      wear it round my neck for a few days; for verily it seems to make my heart
+      glad.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;You will be glad too,&rdquo; said the page, &ldquo;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
+      Señora Sanchica.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;May he live a thousand years,&rdquo; said Sanchica, &ldquo;and the
+      bearer as many, nay two thousand, if needful.&rdquo;
+    </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, &ldquo;None of us poor now, faith!
+      We&rsquo;ve got a little government! Ay, let the finest fine lady tackle
+      me, and I&rsquo;ll give her a setting down!&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;What&rsquo;s all this, Teresa Panza,&rdquo; said they; &ldquo;what
+      madness is this, and what papers are those?&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;The madness is only this,&rdquo; said she, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;God help us,&rdquo; said the curate, &ldquo;we don&rsquo;t
+      understand you, Teresa, or know what you are talking about.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;There, you may see it yourselves,&rdquo; 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, &ldquo;By the gown I wear I don&rsquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Square that if you can,&rdquo; said Carrasco; &ldquo;well, let&rsquo;s
+      go and see the messenger, and from him we&rsquo;ll learn something about
+      this mystery that has turned up.&rdquo;
+    </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&rsquo;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, &ldquo;As to Señor Sancho Panza&rsquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      In the middle of this conversation Sanchica came in with her skirt full of
+      eggs, and said she to the page, &ldquo;Tell me, señor, does my father wear
+      trunk-hose since he has been governor?&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I have not noticed,&rdquo; said the page; &ldquo;but no doubt he
+      wears them.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Ah! my God!&rdquo; said Sanchica, &ldquo;what a sight it must be to
+      see my father in tights! Isn&rsquo;t it odd that ever since I was born I
+      have had a longing to see my father in trunk-hose?&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;As things go you will see that if you live,&rdquo; said the page;
+      &ldquo;by God he is in the way to take the road with a sunshade if the
+      government only lasts him two months more.&rdquo;
+    </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&rsquo;s
+      wish, and still more when Teresa said, &ldquo;Señor curate, look about if
+      there&rsquo;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&rsquo;s government as well as I can;
+      nay, if I am put to it and have to, I&rsquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;And why not, mother!&rdquo; said Sanchica; &ldquo;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, &lsquo;See that rubbish, that
+      garlic-stuffed fellow&rsquo;s daughter, how she goes stretched at her ease
+      in a coach as if she was a she-pope!&rsquo; 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; &lsquo;let me go warm and the people may
+      laugh.&rsquo; Do I say right, mother?&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;To be sure you do, my child,&rdquo; said Teresa; &ldquo;and all
+      this good luck, and even more, my good Sancho foretold me; and thou wilt
+      see, my daughter, he won&rsquo;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&rsquo;s the father
+      of proverbs too), &lsquo;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, &ldquo;Here, here!&rdquo; to thee with
+      something good, swallow it.&rsquo; Oh no! go to sleep, and don&rsquo;t
+      answer the strokes of good fortune and the lucky chances that are knocking
+      at the door of your house!&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;And what do I care,&rdquo; added Sanchica, &ldquo;whether anybody
+      says when he sees me holding my head up, &lsquo;The dog saw himself in
+      hempen breeches,&rsquo; and the rest of it?&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Hearing this the curate said, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;That is true,&rdquo; said the page, &ldquo;for Señor 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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Then you still maintain that all this about Sancho&rsquo;s
+      government is true, señor,&rdquo; said the bachelor, &ldquo;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&rsquo;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&rsquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;All I know, sirs,&rdquo; replied the page, &ldquo;is that I am a
+      real ambassador, and that Señor Sancho Panza is governor as a matter of
+      fact, and that my lord and lady the duke and duchess can give, and have
+      given him this same government, and that I have heard it said Sancho Panza
+      bears himself very stoutly therein; whether there be any enchantment in
+      all this or not, it is for your worships to settle between you; for that&rsquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;It may be so,&rdquo; said the bachelor; &ldquo;but dubitat
+      Augustinus.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Doubt who will,&rdquo; said the page; &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;It&rsquo;s for me to make that trip,&rdquo; said Sanchica; &ldquo;take
+      me with you, señor, behind you on your horse; for I&rsquo;ll go with all
+      my heart to see my father.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Governors&rsquo; daughters,&rdquo; said the page, &ldquo;must not
+      travel along the roads alone, but accompanied by coaches and litters and a
+      great number of attendants.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;By God,&rdquo; said Sanchica, &ldquo;I can go just as well mounted
+      on a she-ass as in a coach; what a dainty lass you must take me for!&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Hush, girl,&rdquo; said Teresa; &ldquo;you don&rsquo;t know what
+      you&rsquo;re talking about; the gentleman is quite right, for &lsquo;as
+      the time so the behaviour;&rsquo; when it was Sancho it was &lsquo;Sancha;&rsquo;
+      when it is governor it&rsquo;s &lsquo;señora;&rsquo; I don&rsquo;t know if
+      I&rsquo;m right.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Señora Teresa says more than she is aware of,&rdquo; said the page;
+      &ldquo;and now give me something to eat and let me go at once, for I mean
+      to return this evening.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Come and do penance with me,&rdquo; said the curate at this;
+      &ldquo;for Señora Teresa has more will than means to serve so worthy a
+      guest.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The page refused, but had to consent at last for his own sake; and the
+      curate took him home with him very gladly, in order to have an opportunity
+      of questioning him at leisure about Don Quixote and his doings. The
+      bachelor offered to write the letters in reply for Teresa; but she did not
+      care to let him mix himself up in her affairs, for she thought him
+      somewhat given to joking; and so she gave a cake and a couple of eggs to a
+      young acolyte who was a penman, and he wrote for her two letters, one for
+      her husband and the other for the duchess, dictated out of her own head,
+      which are not the worst inserted in this great history, as will be seen
+      farther on.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p50e" id="p50e"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p50e.jpg (19K)" src="images/p50e.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      <a name="ch51b" id="ch51b"></a>CHAPTER LI.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      OF THE PROGRESS OF SANCHO&rsquo;S GOVERNMENT, AND OTHER SUCH ENTERTAINING
+      MATTERS
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <a name="p51a" id="p51a"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p51a.jpg (188K)" src="images/p51a.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p51a.jpg" style="width:100%;"><img alt="Full Size"
+      src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Day came after the night of the governor&rsquo;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
+      señor governor got up, and by Doctor Pedro Recio&rsquo;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: &ldquo;Señor,
+      a large river separated two districts of one and the same lordship&mdash;will
+      your worship please to pay attention, for the case is an important and a
+      rather knotty one? Well then, on this river there was a bridge, and at one
+      end of it a gallows, and a sort of tribunal, where four judges commonly
+      sat to administer the law which the lord of river, bridge and the lordship
+      had enacted, and which was to this effect, &lsquo;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.&rsquo; 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, &lsquo;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.&rsquo;
+      It is asked of your worship, señor governor, what are the judges to do
+      with this man? For they are still in doubt and perplexity; and having
+      heard of your worship&rsquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      To this Sancho made answer, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The querist repeated again and again what he had said before, and then
+      Sancho said, &ldquo;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&rsquo;t hang
+      him, then he has sworn falsely, and by the same law deserves to be hanged.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;It is as the señor governor says,&rdquo; said the messenger;
+      &ldquo;and as regards a complete comprehension of the case, there is
+      nothing left to desire or hesitate about.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Well then I say,&rdquo; said Sancho, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;But then, señor governor,&rdquo; replied the querist, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Look here, my good sir,&rdquo; said Sancho; &ldquo;either I&rsquo;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&rsquo;s will that I should recollect it now, for it
+      fits this case as if it was made for it.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;That is true,&rdquo; said the majordomo; &ldquo;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&rsquo;s audience close with this, and I will see that the señor
+      governor has dinner entirely to his liking.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;That&rsquo;s all I ask for&mdash;fair play,&rdquo; said Sancho;
+      &ldquo;give me my dinner, and then let it rain cases and questions on me,
+      and I&rsquo;ll despatch them in a twinkling.&rdquo;
+    </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, &ldquo;It may well
+      be read aloud, for what Señor Don Quixote writes to your worship deserves
+      to be printed or written in letters of gold, and it is as follows.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <blockquote>
+      <p>
+        DON QUIXOTE OF LA MANCHA&rsquo;S LETTER TO SANCHO PANZA, GOVERNOR OF THE
+        ISLAND OF BARATARIA.
+      </p>
+      <p>
+        When I was expecting to hear of thy stupidities and blunders, friend
+        Sancho, I have received intelligence of thy displays of good sense, for
+        which I give special thanks to heaven that can raise the poor from the
+        dunghill and of fools to make wise men. They tell me thou dost govern as
+        if thou wert a man, and art a man as if thou wert a beast, so great is
+        the humility wherewith thou dost comport thyself. But I would have thee
+        bear in mind, Sancho, that very often it is fitting and necessary for
+        the authority of office to resist the humility of the heart; for the
+        seemly array of one who is invested with grave duties should be such as
+        they require and not measured by what his own humble tastes may lead him
+        to prefer. Dress well; a stick dressed up does not look like a stick; I
+        do not say thou shouldst wear trinkets or fine raiment, or that being a
+        judge thou shouldst dress like a soldier, but that thou shouldst array
+        thyself in the apparel thy office requires, and that at the same time it
+        be neat and handsome. To win the good-will of the people thou governest
+        there are two things, among others, that thou must do; one is to be
+        civil to all (this, however, I told thee before), and the other to take
+        care that food be abundant, for there is nothing that vexes the heart of
+        the poor more than hunger and high prices. Make not many proclamations;
+        but those thou makest take care that they be good ones, and above all
+        that they be observed and carried out; for proclamations that are not
+        observed are the same as if they did not exist; nay, they encourage the
+        idea that the prince who had the wisdom and authority to make them had
+        not the power to enforce them; and laws that threaten and are not
+        enforced come to be like the log, the king of the frogs, that frightened
+        them at first, but that in time they despised and mounted upon. Be a
+        father to virtue and a stepfather to vice. Be not always strict, nor yet
+        always lenient, but observe a mean between these two extremes, for in
+        that is the aim of wisdom. Visit the gaols, the slaughter-houses, and
+        the market-places; for the presence of the governor is of great
+        importance in such places; it comforts the prisoners who are in hopes of
+        a speedy release, it is the bugbear of the butchers who have then to
+        give just weight, and it is the terror of the market-women for the same
+        reason. Let it not be seen that thou art (even if perchance thou art,
+        which I do not believe) covetous, a follower of women, or a glutton; for
+        when the people and those that have dealings with thee become aware of
+        thy special weakness they will bring their batteries to bear upon thee
+        in that quarter, till they have brought thee down to the depths of
+        perdition. Consider and reconsider, con and con over again the advices
+        and the instructions I gave thee before thy departure hence to thy
+        government, and thou wilt see that in them, if thou dost follow them,
+        thou hast a help at hand that will lighten for thee the troubles and
+        difficulties that beset governors at every step. Write to thy lord and
+        lady and show thyself grateful to them, for ingratitude is the daughter
+        of pride, and one of the greatest sins we know of; and he who is
+        grateful to those who have been good to him shows that he will be so to
+        God also who has bestowed and still bestows so many blessings upon him.
+      </p>
+      <p>
+        My lady the duchess sent off a messenger with thy suit and another
+        present to thy wife Teresa Panza; we expect the answer every moment. I
+        have been a little indisposed through a certain scratching I came in
+        for, not very much to the benefit of my nose; but it was nothing; for if
+        there are enchanters who maltreat me, there are also some who defend me.
+        Let me know if the majordomo who is with thee had any share in the
+        Trifaldi performance, as thou didst suspect; and keep me informed of
+        everything that happens thee, as the distance is so short; all the more
+        as I am thinking of giving over very shortly this idle life I am now
+        leading, for I was not born for it. A thing has occurred to me which I
+        am inclined to think will put me out of favour with the duke and
+        duchess; but though I am sorry for it I do not care, for after all I
+        must obey my calling rather than their pleasure, in accordance with the
+        common saying, amicus Plato, sed magis amica veritas. I quote this Latin
+        to thee because I conclude that since thou hast been a governor thou
+        wilt have learned it. Adieu; God keep thee from being an object of pity
+        to anyone.
+      </p>
+      <p>
+        Thy friend, DON QUIXOTE OF LA MANCHA.
+      </p>
+    </blockquote>
+    <p>
+      Sancho listened to the letter with great attention, and it was praised and
+      considered wise by all who heard it; he then rose up from table, and
+      calling his secretary shut himself in with him in his own room, and
+      without putting it off any longer set about answering his master Don
+      Quixote at once; and he bade the secretary write down what he told him
+      without adding or suppressing anything, which he did, and the answer was
+      to the following effect.
+    </p>
+    <blockquote>
+      <p>
+        SANCHO PANZA&rsquo;S LETTER TO DON QUIXOTE OF LA MANCHA.
+      </p>
+      <p>
+        The pressure of business is so great upon me that I have no time to
+        scratch my head or even to cut my nails; and I have them so long&mdash;God
+        send a remedy for it. I say this, master of my soul, that you may not be
+        surprised if I have not until now sent you word of how I fare, well or
+        ill, in this government, in which I am suffering more hunger than when
+        we two were wandering through the woods and wastes.
+      </p>
+      <p>
+        My lord the duke wrote to me the other day to warn me that certain spies
+        had got into this island to kill me; but up to the present I have not
+        found out any except a certain doctor who receives a salary in this town
+        for killing all the governors that come here; he is called Doctor Pedro
+        Recio, and is from Tirteafuera; so you see what a name he has to make me
+        dread dying under his hands. This doctor says of himself that he does
+        not cure diseases when there are any, but prevents them coming, and the
+        medicines he uses are diet and more diet until he brings one down to
+        bare bones; as if leanness was not worse than fever.
+      </p>
+      <p>
+        In short he is killing me with hunger, and I am dying myself of
+        vexation; for when I thought I was coming to this government to get my
+        meat hot and my drink cool, and take my ease between holland sheets on
+        feather beds, I find I have come to do penance as if I was a hermit; and
+        as I don&rsquo;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&rsquo;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&rsquo;s
+        clothes, and a brother of hers dressed as a woman; my head-carver has
+        fallen in love with the girl, and has in his own mind chosen her for a
+        wife, so he says, and I have chosen the youth for a son-in-law; to-day
+        we are going to explain our intentions to the father of the pair, who is
+        one Diego de la Llana, a gentleman and an old Christian as much as you
+        please.
+      </p>
+      <p>
+        I have visited the market-places, as your worship advises me, and
+        yesterday I found a stall-keeper selling new hazel nuts and proved her
+        to have mixed a bushel of old empty rotten nuts with a bushel of new; I
+        confiscated the whole for the children of the charity-school, who will
+        know how to distinguish them well enough, and I sentenced her not to
+        come into the market-place for a fortnight; they told me I did bravely.
+        I can tell your worship it is commonly said in this town that there are
+        no people worse than the market-women, for they are all barefaced,
+        unconscionable, and impudent, and I can well believe it from what I have
+        seen of them in other towns.
+      </p>
+      <p>
+        I am very glad my lady the duchess has written to my wife Teresa Panza
+        and sent her the present your worship speaks of; and I will strive to
+        show myself grateful when the time comes; kiss her hands for me, and
+        tell her I say she has not thrown it into a sack with a hole in it, as
+        she will see in the end. I should not like your worship to have any
+        difference with my lord and lady; for if you fall out with them it is
+        plain it must do me harm; and as you give me advice to be grateful it
+        will not do for your worship not to be so yourself to those who have
+        shown you such kindness, and by whom you have been treated so hospitably
+        in their castle.
+      </p>
+      <p>
+        That about the scratching I don&rsquo;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&rsquo;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&rsquo;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&rsquo;s servant SANCHO PANZA THE GOVERNOR.
+      </p>
+    </blockquote>
+    <p>
+      The secretary sealed the letter, and immediately dismissed the courier;
+      and those who were carrying on the joke against Sancho putting their heads
+      together arranged how he was to be dismissed from the government. Sancho
+      spent the afternoon in drawing up certain ordinances relating to the good
+      government of what he fancied the island; and he ordained that there were
+      to be no provision hucksters in the State, and that men might import wine
+      into it from any place they pleased, provided they declared the quarter it
+      came from, so that a price might be put upon it according to its quality,
+      reputation, and the estimation it was held in; and he that watered his
+      wine, or changed the name, was to forfeit his life for it. He reduced the
+      prices of all manner of shoes, boots, and stockings, but of shoes in
+      particular, as they seemed to him to run extravagantly high. He
+      established a fixed rate for servants&rsquo; wages, which were becoming
+      recklessly exorbitant. He laid extremely heavy penalties upon those who
+      sang lewd or loose songs either by day or night. He decreed that no blind
+      man should sing of any miracle in verse, unless he could produce authentic
+      evidence that it was true, for it was his opinion that most of those the
+      blind men sing are trumped up, to the detriment of the true ones. He
+      established and created an alguacil of the poor, not to harass them, but
+      to examine them and see whether they really were so; for many a sturdy
+      thief or drunkard goes about under cover of a make-believe crippled limb
+      or a sham sore. In a word, he made so many good rules that to this day
+      they are preserved there, and are called The constitutions of the great
+      governor Sancho Panza.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p51e" id="p51e"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p51e.jpg (32K)" src="images/p51e.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      <a name="ch52b" id="ch52b"></a>CHAPTER LII.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      WHEREIN IS RELATED THE ADVENTURE OF THE SECOND DISTRESSED OR AFFLICTED
+      DUENNA, OTHERWISE CALLED DONA RODRIGUEZ
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p52a" id="p52a"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p52a.jpg (131K)" src="images/p52a.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p52a.jpg" style="width:100%;"><img alt="Full Size"
+      src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Cide Hamete relates that Don Quixote being now cured of his scratches felt
+      that the life he was leading in the castle was entirely inconsistent with
+      the order of chivalry he professed, so he determined to ask the duke and
+      duchess to permit him to take his departure for Saragossa, as the time of
+      the festival was now drawing near, and he hoped to win there the suit of
+      armour which is the prize at festivals of the sort. But one day at table
+      with the duke and duchess, just as he was about to carry his resolution
+      into effect and ask for their permission, lo and behold suddenly there
+      came in through the door of the great hall two women, as they afterwards
+      proved to be, draped in mourning from head to foot, one of whom
+      approaching Don Quixote flung herself at full length at his feet, pressing
+      her lips to them, and uttering moans so sad, so deep, and so doleful that
+      she put all who heard and saw her into a state of perplexity; and though
+      the duke and duchess supposed it must be some joke their servants were
+      playing off upon Don Quixote, still the earnest way the woman sighed and
+      moaned and wept puzzled them and made them feel uncertain, until Don
+      Quixote, touched with compassion, raised her up and made her unveil
+      herself and remove the mantle from her tearful face. She complied and
+      disclosed what no one could have ever anticipated, for she disclosed the
+      countenance of Dona Rodriguez, the duenna of the house; the other female
+      in mourning being her daughter, who had been made a fool of by the rich
+      farmer&rsquo;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, &ldquo;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?&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The duke said that for his part he gave her leave, and that she might
+      speak with Señor Don Quixote as much as she liked.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      She then, turning to Don Quixote and addressing herself to him said,
+      &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      To these words Don Quixote replied very gravely and solemnly, &ldquo;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&rsquo;
+      promises, which are for the most part quickly made and very slowly
+      performed; and so, with my lord the duke&rsquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;There is no necessity,&rdquo; said the duke, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Then with that assurance and your highness&rsquo;s good leave,&rdquo;
+      said Don Quixote, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </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. &ldquo;But first of all,&rdquo; he
+      said, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I do so place it,&rdquo; replied the duenna.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;And I too,&rdquo; 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&rsquo;s
+      hand. One bore by way of address, Letter for my lady the Duchess
+      So-and-so, of I don&rsquo;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&rsquo;s bread would not bake, as the saying is, until she
+      had read her letter; and having looked over it herself and seen that it
+      might be read aloud for the duke and all present to hear, she read out as
+      follows.
+    </p>
+    <blockquote>
+      <p>
+        TERESA PANZA&rsquo;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&rsquo;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&rsquo;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&rsquo;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&rsquo;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, &ldquo;Who
+        are those ladies in that coach?&rdquo; and some servant of mine will
+        answer, &ldquo;The wife and daughter of Sancho Panza, governor of the
+        island of Barataria;&rdquo; and in this way Sancho will become known,
+        and I&rsquo;ll be thought well of, and &ldquo;to Rome for everything.&rdquo;
+        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&rsquo;s hands.
+      </p>
+      <p>
+        She who would rather see your ladyship than write to you,
+      </p>
+      <p>
+        Your servant,<br /> TERESA PANZA.
+      </p>
+    </blockquote>
+    <p>
+      All were greatly amused by Teresa Panza&rsquo;s letter, but particularly
+      the duke and duchess; and the duchess asked Don Quixote&rsquo;s opinion
+      whether they might open the letter that had come for the governor, which
+      she suspected must be very good. Don Quixote said that to gratify them he
+      would open it, and did so, and found that it ran as follows.
+    </p>
+    <blockquote>
+      <p>
+        TERESA PANZA&rsquo;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&rsquo; 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&rsquo;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&rsquo;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&rsquo;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&rsquo;s son has received the first orders and tonsure, with the
+        intention of becoming a priest. Minguilla, Mingo Silvato&rsquo;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&rsquo;s daughter thou wilt give her a portion
+        without her working for it. The fountain in the plaza has run dry. A
+        flash of lightning struck the gibbet, and I wish they all lit there. I
+        look for an answer to this, and to know thy mind about my going to the
+        Court; and so, God keep thee longer than me, or as long, for I would not
+        leave thee in this world without me.
+      </p>
+      <p>
+        Thy wife,<br /> TERESA PANZA.
+      </p>
+    </blockquote>
+    <p>
+      The letters were applauded, laughed over, relished, and admired; and then,
+      as if to put the seal to the business, the courier arrived, bringing the
+      one Sancho sent to Don Quixote, and this, too, was read out, and it raised
+      some doubts as to the governor&rsquo;s simplicity. The duchess withdrew to
+      hear from the page about his adventures in Sancho&rsquo;s village, which
+      he narrated at full length without leaving a single circumstance
+      unmentioned. He gave her the acorns, and also a cheese which Teresa had
+      given him as being particularly good and superior to those of Tronchon.
+      The duchess received it with greatest delight, in which we will leave her,
+      to describe the end of the government of the great Sancho Panza, flower
+      and mirror of all governors of islands.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p52e" id="p52e"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p52e.jpg (13K)" src="images/p52e.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      <a name="ch53b" id="ch53b"></a>CHAPTER LIII.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      OF THE TROUBLOUS END AND TERMINATION SANCHO PANZA&rsquo;S GOVERNMENT CAME
+      TO
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <a name="p53a" id="p53a"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p53a.jpg (109K)" src="images/p53a.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p53a.jpg" style="width:100%;"><img alt="Full Size"
+      src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      To fancy that in this life anything belonging to it will remain for ever
+      in the same state is an idle fancy; on the contrary, in it everything
+      seems to go in a circle, I mean round and round. The spring succeeds the
+      summer, the summer the fall, the fall the autumn, the autumn the winter,
+      and the winter the spring, and so time rolls with never-ceasing wheel. Man&rsquo;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&rsquo;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, &ldquo;To arms, to arms,
+      señor 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.&rdquo;
+    </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, &ldquo;Arm at once, your lordship, if you would
+      not have yourself destroyed and the whole island lost.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;What have I to do with arming?&rdquo; said Sancho. &ldquo;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&rsquo;t understand these scuffles.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Ah, señor governor,&rdquo; said another, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Arm me then, in God&rsquo;s name,&rdquo; said Sancho, and they at
+      once produced two large shields they had come provided with, and placed
+      them upon him over his shirt, without letting him put on anything else,
+      one shield in front and the other behind, and passing his arms through
+      openings they had made, they bound him tight with ropes, so that there he
+      was walled and boarded up as straight as a spindle and unable to bend his
+      knees or stir a single step. In his hand they placed a lance, on which he
+      leant to keep himself from falling, and as soon as they had him thus fixed
+      they bade him march forward and lead them on and give them all courage;
+      for with him for their guide and lamp and morning star, they were sure to
+      bring their business to a successful issue.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p53b" id="p53b"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p53b.jpg (332K)" src="images/p53b.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p53b.jpg" style="width:100%;"><img alt="Full Size"
+      src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;How am I to march, unlucky being that I am?&rdquo; said Sancho,
+      &ldquo;when I can&rsquo;t stir my knee-caps, for these boards I have bound
+      so tight to my body won&rsquo;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&rsquo;ll
+      hold it either with this lance or with my body.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;On, señor governor!&rdquo; cried another, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </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, &ldquo;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!&rdquo;
+      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, &ldquo;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!&rdquo; Heaven heard his prayer, and when he least
+      expected it he heard voices exclaiming, &ldquo;Victory, victory! The enemy
+      retreats beaten! Come, señor 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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Lift me up,&rdquo; said the wretched Sancho in a woebegone voice.
+      They helped him to rise, and as soon as he was on his feet said, &ldquo;The
+      enemy I have beaten you may nail to my forehead; I don&rsquo;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&rsquo;m parched with thirst, and
+      wipe me dry, for I&rsquo;m turning to water.&rdquo;
+    </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&rsquo;clock
+      it was; they told him it was just daybreak. He said no more, and in
+      silence began to dress himself, while all watched him, waiting to see what
+      the haste with which he was putting on his clothes meant.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p53c" id="p53c"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p53c.jpg (389K)" src="images/p53c.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p53c.jpg" style="width:100%;"><img alt="Full Size"
+      src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      He got himself dressed at last, and then, slowly, for he was sorely
+      bruised and could not go fast, he proceeded to the stable, followed by all
+      who were present, and going up to Dapple embraced him and gave him a
+      loving kiss on the forehead, and said to him, not without tears in his
+      eyes, &ldquo;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;&rdquo; 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, &ldquo;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&rsquo;s sceptre; I&rsquo;d
+      rather have my fill of gazpacho than be subject to the misery of a
+      meddling doctor who kills me with hunger, and I&rsquo;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 &lsquo;naked I was born, naked I
+      find myself, I neither lose nor gain;&rsquo; 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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;That is unnecessary, señor governor,&rdquo; said Doctor Recio,
+      &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;You spoke late,&rdquo; said Sancho. &ldquo;I&rsquo;d as soon turn
+      Turk as stay any longer. Those jokes won&rsquo;t pass a second time. By
+      God I&rsquo;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 &lsquo;odds,&rsquo; odds it must be, no matter if it is
+      evens, in spite of all the world. Here in this stable I leave the ant&rsquo;s
+      wings that lifted me up into the air for the swifts and other birds to eat
+      me, and let&rsquo;s take to level ground and our feet once more; and if
+      they&rsquo;re not shod in pinked shoes of cordovan, they won&rsquo;t want
+      for rough sandals of hemp; &lsquo;every ewe to her like,&rsquo; &lsquo;and
+      let no one stretch his leg beyond the length of the sheet;&rsquo; and now
+      let me pass, for it&rsquo;s growing late with me.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      To this the majordomo said, &ldquo;Señor 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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;No one can demand it of me,&rdquo; said Sancho, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;By God the great Sancho is right,&rdquo; said Doctor Recio, &ldquo;and
+      we should let him go, for the duke will be beyond measure glad to see him.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      They all agreed to this, and allowed him to go, first offering to bear him
+      company and furnish him with all he wanted for his own comfort or for the
+      journey. Sancho said he did not want anything more than a little barley
+      for Dapple, and half a cheese and half a loaf for himself; for the
+      distance being so short there was no occasion for any better or bulkier
+      provant. They all embraced him, and he with tears embraced all of them,
+      and left them filled with admiration not only at his remarks but at his
+      firm and sensible resolution.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p53e" id="p53e"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p53e.jpg (56K)" src="images/p53e.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      <a name="ch54b" id="ch54b"></a>CHAPTER LIV.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      WHICH DEALS WITH MATTERS RELATING TO THIS HISTORY AND NO OTHER
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <a name="p54a" id="p54a"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p54a.jpg (109K)" src="images/p54a.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p54a.jpg" style="width:100%;"><img alt="Full Size"
+      src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The duke and duchess resolved that the challenge Don Quixote had, for the
+      reason already mentioned, given their vassal, should be proceeded with;
+      and as the young man was in Flanders, whither he had fled to escape having
+      Dona Rodriguez for a mother-in-law, they arranged to substitute for him a
+      Gascon lacquey, named Tosilos, first of all carefully instructing him in
+      all he had to do. Two days later the duke told Don Quixote that in four
+      days from that time his opponent would present himself on the field of
+      battle armed as a knight, and would maintain that the damsel lied by half
+      a beard, nay a whole beard, if she affirmed that he had given her a
+      promise of marriage. Don Quixote was greatly pleased at the news, and
+      promised himself to do wonders in the lists, and reckoned it rare good
+      fortune that an opportunity should have offered for letting his noble
+      hosts see what the might of his strong arm was capable of; and so in high
+      spirits and satisfaction he awaited the expiration of the four days, which
+      measured by his impatience seemed spinning themselves out into four
+      hundred ages. Let us leave them to pass as we do other things, and go and
+      bear Sancho company, as mounted on Dapple, half glad, half sad, he paced
+      along on his road to join his master, in whose society he was happier than
+      in being governor of all the islands in the world. Well then, it so
+      happened that before he had gone a great way from the island of his
+      government (and whether it was island, city, town, or village that he
+      governed he never troubled himself to inquire) he saw coming along the
+      road he was travelling six pilgrims with staves, foreigners of that sort
+      that beg for alms singing; who as they drew near arranged themselves in a
+      line and lifting up their voices all together began to sing in their own
+      language something that Sancho could not understand, with the exception of one word
+      which sounded plainly &ldquo;alms,&rdquo; 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 alforjas 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, &ldquo;Geld! Geld!&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t understand what you want of me, good people,&rdquo;
+      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, &ldquo;God bless me! What&rsquo;s
+      this I see? Is it possible that I hold in my arms my dear friend, my good
+      neighbour Sancho Panza? But there&rsquo;s no doubt about it, for I&rsquo;m
+      not asleep, nor am I drunk just now.&rdquo;
+    </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, &ldquo;What! and is it possible, Sancho Panza, that
+      thou dost not know thy neighbour Ricote, the Morisco shopkeeper of thy
+      village?&rdquo;
+    </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, &ldquo;Who the devil could
+      have known thee, Ricote, in this mummer&rsquo;s dress thou art in? Tell
+      me, who has frenchified thee, and how dost thou dare to return to Spain,
+      where if they catch thee and recognise thee it will go hard enough with
+      thee?&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;If thou dost not betray me, Sancho,&rdquo; said the pilgrim,
+      &ldquo;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&rsquo;ll have time enough to tell thee then all that
+      has happened me since I left our village in obedience to his Majesty&rsquo;s
+      edict that threatened such severities against the unfortunate people of my
+      nation, as thou hast heard.&rdquo;
+    </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&rsquo;s cloaks
+      and remained in their under-clothing; they were all good-looking young
+      fellows, except Ricote, who was a man somewhat advanced in years. They
+      carried alforjas all of them, and all apparently well filled, at least
+      with things provocative of thirst, such as would summon it from two
+      leagues off. They stretched themselves on the ground, and making a
+      tablecloth of the grass they spread upon it bread, salt, knives, walnut,
+      scraps of cheese, and well-picked ham-bones which if they were past
+      gnawing were not past sucking. They also put down a black dainty called,
+      they say, caviar, and made of the eggs of fish, a great thirst-wakener.
+      Nor was there any lack of olives, dry, it is true, and without any
+      seasoning, but for all that toothsome and pleasant. But what made the best
+      show in the field of the banquet was half a dozen botas of wine, for each
+      of them produced his own from his alforjas; even the good Ricote, who from
+      a Morisco had transformed himself into a German or Dutchman, took out his,
+      which in size might have vied with the five others. They then began to eat
+      with very great relish and very leisurely, making the most of each morsel&mdash;very
+      small ones of everything&mdash;they took up on the point of the knife; and
+      then all at the same moment raised their arms and botas aloft, the mouths
+      placed in their mouths, and all eyes fixed on heaven just as if they were
+      taking aim at it; and in this attitude they remained ever so long, wagging
+      their heads from side to side as if in acknowledgment of the pleasure they
+      were enjoying while they decanted the bowels of the bottles into their own
+      stomachs.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Sancho beheld all, &ldquo;and nothing gave him pain;&rdquo; so far from
+      that, acting on the proverb he knew so well, &ldquo;when thou art at Rome
+      do as thou seest,&rdquo; 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&rsquo;s right hand
+      in his own saying, &ldquo;Espanoli y Tudesqui tuto uno: bon compano;&rdquo;
+      and Sancho would answer, &ldquo;Bon compano, jur a Di!&rdquo; 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>
+      &ldquo;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&rsquo;s
+      country.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;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&rsquo;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&rsquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      To this Sancho replied, &ldquo;Remember, Ricote, that may not have been
+      open to them, for Juan Tiopieyo thy wife&rsquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;That may be,&rdquo; said Ricote; &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I would do it,&rdquo; said Sancho; &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;And what office is this thou hast given up, Sancho?&rdquo; asked
+      Ricote.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I have given up being governor of an island,&rdquo; said Sancho,
+      &ldquo;and such a one, faith, as you won&rsquo;t find the like of easily.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;And where is this island?&rdquo; said Ricote.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Where?&rdquo; said Sancho; &ldquo;two leagues from here, and it is
+      called the island of Barataria.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Nonsense! Sancho,&rdquo; said Ricote; &ldquo;islands are away out
+      in the sea; there are no islands on the mainland.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;What? No islands!&rdquo; said Sancho; &ldquo;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&rsquo;s.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;And what hast thou gained by the government?&rdquo; asked Ricote.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I have gained,&rdquo; said Sancho, &ldquo;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&rsquo;s
+      rest and sleep, ay and even one&rsquo;s food; for in islands the governors
+      must eat little, especially if they have doctors to look after their
+      health.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t understand thee, Sancho,&rdquo; said Ricote; &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;And I have told thee already, Ricote, that I will not,&rdquo; said
+      Sancho; &ldquo;let it content thee that by me thou shalt not be betrayed,
+      and go thy way in God&rsquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I will not press thee, Sancho,&rdquo; said Ricote; &ldquo;but tell
+      me, wert thou in our village when my wife and daughter and brother-in-law
+      left it?&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I was so,&rdquo; said Sancho; &ldquo;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&rsquo;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&rsquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I always had a suspicion that gentleman had a passion for my
+      daughter,&rdquo; said Ricote; &ldquo;but as I felt sure of my Ricota&rsquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;God grant it,&rdquo; said Sancho, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;God be with thee, brother Sancho,&rdquo; said Ricote; &ldquo;my
+      comrades are beginning to stir, and it is time, too, for us to continue
+      our journey;&rdquo; and then they both embraced, and Sancho mounted
+      Dapple, and Ricote leant upon his staff, and so they parted.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p54e" id="p54e"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p54e.jpg (40K)" src="images/p54e.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      <a name="ch55b" id="ch55b"></a>CHAPTER LV.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      OF WHAT BEFELL SANCHO ON THE ROAD, AND OTHER THINGS THAT CANNOT BE
+      SURPASSED
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <a name="p55a" id="p55a"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p55a.jpg (126K)" src="images/p55a.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p55a.jpg" style="width:100%;"><img alt="Full Size"
+      src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The length of time he delayed with Ricote prevented Sancho from reaching
+      the duke&rsquo;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&rsquo;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. &ldquo;Alas,&rdquo; said Sancho, &ldquo;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&rsquo;t die first, he of his
+      bruises and injuries, and I of grief and sorrow. At any rate I&rsquo;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&rsquo;ll see, I imagine, toads and adders. Unlucky
+      wretch that I am, what an end my follies and fancies have come to! They&rsquo;ll
+      take up my bones out of this, when it is heaven&rsquo;s will that I&rsquo;m
+      found, picked clean, white and polished, and my good Dapple&rsquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p55b" id="p55b"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p55b.jpg (273K)" src="images/p55b.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p55b.jpg" style="width:100%;"><img alt="Full Size"
+      src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      In this strain did Sancho bewail himself, and his ass listened to him, but
+      answered him never a word, such was the distress and anguish the poor
+      beast found himself in. At length, after a night spent in bitter moanings
+      and lamentations, day came, and by its light Sancho perceived that it was
+      wholly impossible to escape out of that pit without help, and he fell to
+      bemoaning his fate and uttering loud shouts to find out if there was
+      anyone within hearing; but all his shouting was only crying in the
+      wilderness, for there was not a soul anywhere in the neighbourhood to hear
+      him, and then at last he gave himself up for dead. Dapple was lying on his
+      back, and Sancho helped him to his feet, which he was scarcely able to
+      keep; and then taking a piece of bread out of his alforjas which had
+      shared their fortunes in the fall, he gave it to the ass, to whom it was
+      not unwelcome, saying to him as if he understood him, &ldquo;With bread
+      all sorrows are less.&rdquo;
+    </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; &ldquo;God Almighty help me!&rdquo; said he to
+      himself; &ldquo;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; &lsquo;welcome evil, if thou comest
+      alone.&rsquo;&rdquo;
+    </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&rsquo;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, &ldquo;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?&rdquo;
+    </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, &ldquo;Who is below there? Who is that
+      complaining?&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Who should be here, or who should complain,&rdquo; was the answer,
+      &ldquo;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?&rdquo;
+    </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, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;In that case,&rdquo; answered the voice, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Don Quixote I am,&rdquo; replied Don Quixote, &ldquo;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&rsquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;By all that&rsquo;s good,&rdquo; was the answer, &ldquo;and by the
+      birth of whomsoever your worship chooses, I swear, Señor 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&rsquo;t let me lie, for more by token
+      he is here with me.&rdquo;
+    </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>
+      &ldquo;Famous testimony!&rdquo; exclaimed Don Quixote; &ldquo;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&rsquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Go, your worship,&rdquo; said Sancho, &ldquo;and come back quick
+      for God&rsquo;s sake; for I cannot bear being buried alive any longer, and
+      I&rsquo;m dying of fear.&rdquo;
+    </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, &ldquo;That&rsquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Sancho overheard him and said, &ldquo;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&rsquo;t deserve, I think, to come out in this fashion; but
+      &lsquo;man proposes and God disposes;&rsquo; and God knows what is best,
+      and what suits each one best; and &lsquo;as the occasion, so the
+      behaviour;&rsquo; and &lsquo;let nobody say &ldquo;I won&rsquo;t drink of
+      this water;&rdquo;&rsquo; and &lsquo;where one thinks there are flitches,
+      there are no pegs;&rsquo; God knows my meaning and that&rsquo;s enough; I
+      say no more, though I could.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Be not angry or annoyed at what thou hearest, Sancho,&rdquo; said
+      Don Quixote, &ldquo;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&rsquo;
+      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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;They&rsquo;ll be pretty sure this time,&rdquo; said Sancho, &ldquo;to
+      set me down for a fool rather than a thief.&rdquo;
+    </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, &ldquo;Because it was your
+      highnesses&rsquo; pleasure, not because of any desert of my own, I went to
+      govern your island of Barataria, which &lsquo;I entered naked, and naked I
+      find myself; I neither lose nor gain.&rsquo; 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&rsquo;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&rsquo;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&rsquo;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&rsquo; feet, and
+      imitating the game of the boys when they say, &lsquo;leap thou, and give
+      me one,&rsquo; 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&rsquo;m full, it&rsquo;s all alike to me whether it&rsquo;s
+      with carrots or with partridges.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Here Sancho brought his long speech to an end, Don Quixote having been the
+      whole time in dread of his uttering a host of absurdities; and when he
+      found him leave off with so few, he thanked heaven in his heart. The duke
+      embraced Sancho and told him he was heartily sorry he had given up the
+      government so soon, but that he would see that he was provided with some
+      other post on his estate less onerous and more profitable. The duchess
+      also embraced him, and gave orders that he should be taken good care of,
+      as it was plain to see he had been badly treated and worse bruised.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p55e" id="p55e"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p55e.jpg (18K)" src="images/p55e.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      <a name="ch56b" id="ch56b"></a>CHAPTER LVI.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      OF THE PRODIGIOUS AND UNPARALLELED BATTLE THAT TOOK PLACE BETWEEN DON
+      QUIXOTE OF LA MANCHA AND THE LACQUEY TOSILOS IN DEFENCE OF THE DAUGHTER OF
+      DONA RODRIGUEZ
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <a name="p56a" id="p56a"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p56a.jpg (158K)" src="images/p56a.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p56a.jpg" style="width:100%;"><img alt="Full Size"
+      src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The duke and duchess had no reason to regret the joke that had been played
+      upon Sancho Panza in giving him the government; especially as their
+      majordomo returned the same day, and gave them a minute account of almost
+      every word and deed that Sancho uttered or did during the time; and to
+      wind up with, eloquently described to them the attack upon the island and
+      Sancho&rsquo;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&rsquo;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, &ldquo;God guide thee, cream and flower of knights-errant!
+      God give thee the victory, for thou hast the right on thy side!&rdquo; 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, &ldquo;Señor, is not this battle to decide whether I marry or do not
+      marry that lady?&rdquo; &ldquo;Just so,&rdquo; was the answer. &ldquo;Well
+      then,&rdquo; said the lacquey, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </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, &ldquo;Señora, 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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The valiant Don Quixote heard him, and said, &ldquo;As that is the case I
+      am released and absolved from my promise; let them marry by all means, and
+      as &lsquo;God our Lord has given her, may Saint Peter add his blessing.&rsquo;&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The duke had now descended to the courtyard of the castle, and going up to
+      Tosilos he said to him, &ldquo;Is it true, sir knight, that you yield
+      yourself vanquished, and that moved by scruples of conscience you wish to
+      marry this damsel?&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;It is, señor,&rdquo; replied Tosilos.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;And he does well,&rdquo; said Sancho, &ldquo;for what thou hast to
+      give to the mouse, give to the cat, and it will save thee all trouble.&rdquo;
+    </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, &ldquo;This is a trick! This is a trick! They have put
+      Tosilos, my lord the duke&rsquo;s lacquey, upon us in place of the real
+      husband. The justice of God and the king against such trickery, not to say
+      roguery!&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Do not distress yourselves, ladies,&rdquo; said Don Quixote;
+      &ldquo;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&rsquo;s features into those of this person, who you say is a
+      lacquey of the duke&rsquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      When the duke heard this all his anger was near vanishing in a fit of
+      laughter, and he said, &ldquo;The things that happen to Señor 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 Señor Don Quixote cannot last so long, especially as it
+      is of so little advantage to them to practise these deceptions and
+      transformations.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Oh, señor,&rdquo; said Sancho, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Here the Rodriguez&rsquo;s daughter exclaimed, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      To be brief, all the talk and all that had happened ended in Tosilos being
+      shut up until it was seen how his transformation turned out. All hailed
+      Don Quixote as victor, but the greater number were vexed and disappointed
+      at finding that the combatants they had been so anxiously waiting for had
+      not battered one another to pieces, just as the boys are disappointed when
+      the man they are waiting to see hanged does not come out, because the
+      prosecution or the court has pardoned him. The people dispersed, the duke
+      and Don Quixote returned to the castle, they locked up Tosilos, Dona
+      Rodriguez and her daughter remained perfectly contented when they saw that
+      any way the affair must end in marriage, and Tosilos wanted nothing else.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p56e" id="p56e"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p56e.jpg (46K)" src="images/p56e.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      <a name="ch57b" id="ch57b"></a>CHAPTER LVII.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      WHICH TREATS OF HOW DON QUIXOTE TOOK LEAVE OF THE DUKE, AND OF WHAT
+      FOLLOWED WITH THE WITTY AND IMPUDENT ALTISIDORA, ONE OF THE DUCHESS&rsquo;S
+      DAMSELS
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <a name="p57a" id="p57a"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p57a.jpg (119K)" src="images/p57a.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p57a.jpg" style="width:100%;"><img alt="Full Size"
+      src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Don Quixote now felt it right to quit a life of such idleness as he was
+      leading in the castle; for he fancied that he was making himself sorely
+      missed by suffering himself to remain shut up and inactive amid the
+      countless luxuries and enjoyments his hosts lavished upon him as a knight,
+      and he felt too that he would have to render a strict account to heaven of
+      that indolence and seclusion; and so one day he asked the duke and duchess
+      to grant him permission to take his departure. They gave it, showing at
+      the same time that they were very sorry he was leaving them.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p57b" id="p57b"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p57b.jpg (370K)" src="images/p57b.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p57b.jpg" style="width:100%;"><img alt="Full Size"
+      src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The duchess gave his wife&rsquo;s letters to Sancho Panza, who shed tears
+      over them, saying, &ldquo;Who would have thought that such grand hopes as
+      the news of my government bred in my wife Teresa Panza&rsquo;s breast
+      would end in my going back now to the vagabond adventures of my master Don
+      Quixote of La Mancha? Still I&rsquo;m glad to see my Teresa behaved as she
+      ought in sending the acorns, for if she had not sent them I&rsquo;d have
+      been sorry, and she&rsquo;d have shown herself ungrateful. It is a comfort
+      to me that they can&rsquo;t call that present a bribe; for I had got the
+      government already when she sent them, and it&rsquo;s but reasonable that
+      those who have had a good turn done them should show their gratitude, if
+      it&rsquo;s only with a trifle. After all I went into the government naked,
+      and I come out of it naked; so I can say with a safe conscience&mdash;and
+      that&rsquo;s no small matter&mdash;&lsquo;naked I was born, naked I find
+      myself, I neither lose nor gain.&rsquo;&rdquo;
+    </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&rsquo;s majordomo, the same that had acted the part
+      of the Trifaldi, had given him a little purse with two hundred gold crowns
+      to meet the necessary expenses of the road, but of this Don Quixote knew
+      nothing as yet. While all were, as has been said, observing him, suddenly
+      from among the duennas and handmaidens the impudent and witty Altisidora
+      lifted up her voice and said in pathetic tones:
+    </p>
+<pre xml:space="preserve">
+Give ear, cruel knight;
+Draw rein; where&rsquo;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, Æneas, 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, Æneas, 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, Æneas, 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&rsquo;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, Æneas, 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, &ldquo;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?&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      To this Sancho made answer, &ldquo;The three kerchiefs I have; but the
+      garters, as much as &lsquo;over the hills of Ubeda.&rsquo;&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The duchess was amazed at Altisidora&rsquo;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, &ldquo;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&rsquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;God forbid,&rdquo; said Don Quixote, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;And may God so prosper it, Señor Don Quixote,&rdquo; said the
+      duchess, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;One word and no more, O valiant Don Quixote, I ask you to hear,&rdquo;
+      said Altisidora, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Didn&rsquo;t I say so?&rdquo; said Sancho. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m a
+      likely one to hide thefts! Why if I wanted to deal in them, opportunities
+      came ready enough to me in my government.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Don Quixote bowed his head, and saluted the duke and duchess and all the
+      bystanders, and wheeling Rocinante round, Sancho following him on Dapple,
+      he rode out of the castle, shaping his course for Saragossa.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p57e" id="p57e"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p57e.jpg (71K)" src="images/p57e.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      <a name="ch58b" id="ch58b"></a>CHAPTER LVIII.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      WHICH TELLS HOW ADVENTURES CAME CROWDING ON DON QUIXOTE IN SUCH NUMBERS
+      THAT THEY GAVE ONE ANOTHER NO BREATHING-TIME
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <a name="p58a" id="p58a"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p58a.jpg (105K)" src="images/p58a.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p58a.jpg" style="width:100%;"><img alt="Full Size"
+      src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      When Don Quixote saw himself in open country, free, and relieved from the
+      attentions of Altisidora, he felt at his ease, and in fresh spirits to
+      take up the pursuit of chivalry once more; and turning to Sancho, he said,
+      &ldquo;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!&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;For all your worship says,&rdquo; said Sancho, &ldquo;it is not
+      becoming that there should be no thanks on our part for two hundred gold
+      crowns that the duke&rsquo;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&rsquo;t always find castles where they&rsquo;ll
+      entertain us; now and then we may light upon roadside inns where they&rsquo;ll
+      cudgel us.&rdquo;
+    </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. &ldquo;Señor,&rdquo; answered one of the
+      party, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;With your good leave,&rdquo; said Don Quixote, &ldquo;I should like
+      to see them; for images that are carried so carefully no doubt must be
+      fine ones.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I should think they were!&rdquo; said the other; &ldquo;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;&rdquo;
+      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, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </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, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;It was not that, most likely,&rdquo; said Sancho, &ldquo;but that
+      he held with the proverb that says, &lsquo;For giving and keeping there&rsquo;s
+      need of brains.&rsquo;&rdquo;
+    </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, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </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, &ldquo;This,&rdquo; he said, &ldquo;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&rsquo;s vineyard, a teacher of the
+      Gentiles, whose school was heaven, and whose instructor and master was
+      Jesus Christ himself.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      There were no more images, so Don Quixote bade them cover them up again,
+      and said to those who had brought them, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;May God hear and sin be deaf,&rdquo; 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&rsquo;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&rsquo; ends and
+      fixed in his memory, and he said to him, &ldquo;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!&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Thou sayest well, Sancho,&rdquo; said Don Quixote, &ldquo;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, &lsquo;Thou
+      canst not escape me, Africa, for I hold thee tight between my arms.&rsquo;
+      Thus, Sancho, meeting those images has been to me a most happy occurrence.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I can well believe it,&rdquo; said Sancho; &ldquo;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
+      &lsquo;Santiago and close Spain!&rsquo; Is Spain, then, open, so that it
+      is needful to close it; or what is the meaning of this form?&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Thou art very simple, Sancho,&rdquo; said Don Quixote; &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Sancho changed the subject, and said to his master, &ldquo;I marvel,
+      señor, at the boldness of Altisidora, the duchess&rsquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Bear in mind, Sancho,&rdquo; said Don Quixote, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Notable cruelty!&rdquo; exclaimed Sancho; &ldquo;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&rsquo;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&rsquo;t know what the poor creature
+      fell in love with.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Recollect, Sancho,&rdquo; replied Don Quixote, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </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, &ldquo;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.&rdquo; But
+      just as he was about to press forward and break through all, suddenly from
+      among some trees two shepherdesses of surpassing beauty presented
+      themselves to his sight&mdash;or at least damsels dressed like
+      shepherdesses, save that their jerkins and sayas were of fine brocade;
+      that is to say, the sayas were rich farthingales of gold embroidered
+      tabby. Their hair, that in its golden brightness vied with the beams of
+      the sun itself, fell loose upon their shoulders and was crowned with
+      garlands twined with green laurel and red everlasting; and their years to
+      all appearance were not under fifteen nor above eighteen.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p58b" id="p58b"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p58b.jpg (452K)" src="images/p58b.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p58b.jpg" style="width:100%;"><img alt="Full Size"
+      src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Such was the spectacle that filled Sancho with amazement, fascinated Don
+      Quixote, made the sun halt in his course to behold them, and held all four
+      in a strange silence. One of the shepherdesses, at length, was the first
+      to speak and said to Don Quixote, &ldquo;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, señor, you will be welcomed heartily
+      and courteously, for here just now neither care nor sorrow shall enter.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      She held her peace and said no more, and Don Quixote made answer, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Ah! friend of my soul,&rdquo; instantly exclaimed the other
+      shepherdess, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;That&rsquo;s true,&rdquo; said Sancho; &ldquo;I am that same droll
+      and squire you speak of, and this gentleman is my master Don Quixote of La
+      Mancha, the same that&rsquo;s in the history and that they talk about.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Oh, my friend,&rdquo; said the other, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;And justly awarded,&rdquo; said Don Quixote, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      At this instant there came up to the spot where the four stood a brother
+      of one of the two shepherdesses, like them in shepherd costume, and as
+      richly and gaily dressed as they were. They told him that their companion
+      was the valiant Don Quixote of La Mancha, and the other Sancho his squire,
+      of whom he knew already from having read their history. The gay shepherd
+      offered him his services and begged that he would accompany him to their
+      tents, and Don Quixote had to give way and comply. And now the game was
+      started, and the nets were filled with a variety of birds that deceived by
+      the colour fell into the danger they were flying from. Upwards of thirty
+      persons, all gaily attired as shepherds and shepherdesses, assembled on
+      the spot, and were at once informed who Don Quixote and his squire were,
+      whereat they were not a little delighted, as they knew of him already
+      through his history. They repaired to the tents, where they found tables
+      laid out, and choicely, plentifully, and neatly furnished. They treated
+      Don Quixote as a person of distinction, giving him the place of honour,
+      and all observed him, and were full of astonishment at the spectacle. At
+      last the cloth being removed, Don Quixote with great composure lifted up
+      his voice and said:
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;One of the greatest sins that men are guilty of is&mdash;some will
+      say pride&mdash;but I say ingratitude, going by the common saying that
+      hell is full of ingrates. This sin, so far as it has lain in my power, I
+      have endeavoured to avoid ever since I have enjoyed the faculty of reason;
+      and if I am unable to requite good deeds that have been done me by other
+      deeds, I substitute the desire to do so; and if that be not enough I make
+      them known publicly; for he who declares and makes known the good deeds
+      done to him would repay them by others if it were in his power, and for
+      the most part those who receive are the inferiors of those who give. Thus,
+      God is superior to all because he is the supreme giver, and the offerings
+      of man fall short by an infinite distance of being a full return for the
+      gifts of God; but gratitude in some degree makes up for this deficiency
+      and shortcoming. I therefore, grateful for the favour that has been
+      extended to me here, and unable to make a return in the same measure,
+      restricted as I am by the narrow limits of my power, offer what I can and
+      what I have to offer in my own way; and so I declare that for two full
+      days I will maintain in the middle of this highway leading to Saragossa,
+      that these ladies disguised as shepherdesses, who are here present, are
+      the fairest and most courteous maidens in the world, excepting only the
+      peerless Dulcinea del Toboso, sole mistress of my thoughts, be it said
+      without offence to those who hear me, ladies and gentlemen.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      On hearing this Sancho, who had been listening with great attention, cried
+      out in a loud voice, &ldquo;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?&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Don Quixote turned upon Sancho, and with a countenance glowing with anger
+      said to him, &ldquo;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;&rdquo; 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: &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </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&rsquo;s hind-quarters. The
+      troop of lancers came up, and one of them who was in advance began
+      shouting to Don Quixote, &ldquo;Get out of the way, you son of the devil,
+      or these bulls will knock you to pieces!&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Rabble!&rdquo; returned Don Quixote, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The herdsman had no time to reply, nor Don Quixote to get out of the way
+      even if he wished; and so the drove of fierce bulls and tame bullocks,
+      together with the crowd of herdsmen and others who were taking them to be
+      penned up in a village where they were to be run the next day, passed over
+      Don Quixote and over Sancho, Rocinante and Dapple, hurling them all to the
+      earth and rolling them over on the ground. Sancho was left crushed, Don
+      Quixote scared, Dapple belaboured and Rocinante in no very sound
+      condition.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p58c" id="p58c"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p58c.jpg (399K)" src="images/p58c.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p58c.jpg" style="width:100%;"><img alt="Full Size"
+      src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      They all got up, however, at length, and Don Quixote in great haste,
+      stumbling here and falling there, started off running after the drove,
+      shouting out, &ldquo;Hold! stay! ye rascally rabble, a single knight
+      awaits you, and he is not of the temper or opinion of those who say,
+      &lsquo;For a flying enemy make a bridge of silver.&rsquo;&rdquo; The
+      retreating party in their haste, however, did not stop for that, or heed
+      his menaces any more than last year&rsquo;s clouds. Weariness brought Don
+      Quixote to a halt, and more enraged than avenged he sat down on the road
+      to wait until Sancho, Rocinante and Dapple came up. When they reached him
+      master and man mounted once more, and without going back to bid farewell
+      to the mock or imitation Arcadia, and more in humiliation than
+      contentment, they continued their journey.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p58e" id="p58e"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p58e.jpg (68K)" src="images/p58e.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p58e.jpg" style="width:100%;"><img alt="Full Size"
+      src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      <a name="ch59b" id="ch59b"></a>CHAPTER LIX.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      WHEREIN IS RELATED THE STRANGE THING, WHICH MAY BE REGARDED AS AN
+      ADVENTURE, THAT HAPPENED DON QUIXOTE
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <a name="p59a" id="p59a"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p59a.jpg (126K)" src="images/p59a.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p59a.jpg" style="width:100%;"><img alt="Full Size"
+      src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      A clear limpid spring which they discovered in a cool grove relieved Don
+      Quixote and Sancho of the dust and fatigue due to the unpolite behaviour
+      of the bulls, and by the side of this, having turned Dapple and Rocinante
+      loose without headstall or bridle, the forlorn pair, master and man,
+      seated themselves. Sancho had recourse to the larder of his alforjas and
+      took out of them what he called the prog; Don Quixote rinsed his mouth and
+      bathed his face, by which cooling process his flagging energies were
+      revived. Out of pure vexation he remained without eating, and out of pure
+      politeness Sancho did not venture to touch a morsel of what was before
+      him, but waited for his master to act as taster. Seeing, however, that,
+      absorbed in thought, he was forgetting to carry the bread to his mouth, he
+      said never a word, and trampling every sort of good breeding under foot,
+      began to stow away in his paunch the bread and cheese that came to his
+      hand.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p59b" id="p59b"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p59b.jpg (370K)" src="images/p59b.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p59b.jpg" style="width:100%;"><img alt="Full Size"
+      src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Eat, Sancho my friend,&rdquo; said Don Quixote; &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;So then,&rdquo; said Sancho, munching hard all the time, &ldquo;your
+      worship does not agree with the proverb that says, &lsquo;Let Martha die,
+      but let her die with a full belly.&rsquo; 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&rsquo;ll stretch out my life by eating until it reaches the end
+      heaven has fixed for it; and let me tell you, señor, there&rsquo;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&rsquo;ll feel
+      something better.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Don Quixote did as he recommended, for it struck him that Sancho&rsquo;s
+      reasoning was more like a philosopher&rsquo;s than a blockhead&rsquo;s,
+      and said he, &ldquo;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&rsquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;There is a good deal to be said on that point,&rdquo; said Sancho;
+      &ldquo;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 &lsquo;until death it&rsquo;s all life;&rsquo; I mean that I
+      have still life in me, and the desire to make good what I have promised.&rdquo;
+    </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>
+      &ldquo;There&rsquo;s no need of all that,&rdquo; said Sancho; &ldquo;if
+      they&rsquo;ll roast us a couple of chickens we&rsquo;ll be satisfied, for
+      my master is delicate and eats little, and I&rsquo;m not over and above
+      gluttonous.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The landlord replied he had no chickens, for the kites had stolen them.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Well then,&rdquo; said Sancho, &ldquo;let señor landlord tell them
+      to roast a pullet, so that it is a tender one.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Pullet! My father!&rdquo; said the landlord; &ldquo;indeed and in
+      truth it&rsquo;s only yesterday I sent over fifty to the city to sell; but
+      saving pullets ask what you will.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;In that case,&rdquo; said Sancho, &ldquo;you will not be without
+      veal or kid.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Just now,&rdquo; said the landlord, &ldquo;there&rsquo;s none in
+      the house, for it&rsquo;s all finished; but next week there will be enough
+      and to spare.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Much good that does us,&rdquo; said Sancho; &ldquo;I&rsquo;ll lay a
+      bet that all these short-comings are going to wind up in plenty of bacon
+      and eggs.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;By God,&rdquo; said the landlord, &ldquo;my guest&rsquo;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&rsquo;t
+      ask for hens again.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Body o&rsquo; me!&rdquo; said Sancho, &ldquo;let&rsquo;s settle the
+      matter; say at once what you have got, and let us have no more words about
+      it.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;In truth and earnest, señor guest,&rdquo; said the landlord,
+      &ldquo;all I have is a couple of cow-heels like calves&rsquo; feet, or a
+      couple of calves&rsquo; feet like cowheels; they are boiled with
+      chick-peas, onions, and bacon, and at this moment they are crying &lsquo;Come
+      eat me, come eat me.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I mark them for mine on the spot,&rdquo; said Sancho; &ldquo;let
+      nobody touch them; I&rsquo;ll pay better for them than anyone else, for I
+      could not wish for anything more to my taste; and I don&rsquo;t care a pin
+      whether they are feet or heels.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Nobody shall touch them,&rdquo; said the landlord; &ldquo;for the
+      other guests I have, being persons of high quality, bring their own cook
+      and caterer and larder with them.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;If you come to people of quality,&rdquo; said Sancho, &ldquo;there&rsquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Here ended Sancho&rsquo;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&rsquo;s, with nothing but a thin partition to separate it, he
+      overheard these words, &ldquo;As you live, Señor Don Jeronimo, while they
+      are bringing supper, let us read another chapter of the Second Part of
+      &lsquo;Don Quixote of La Mancha.&rsquo;&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The instant Don Quixote heard his own name he started to his feet and
+      listened with open ears to catch what they said about him, and heard the
+      Don Jeronimo who had been addressed say in reply, &ldquo;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 &lsquo;Don Quixote of La
+      Mancha&rsquo; to take any pleasure in reading this Second Part?&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;For all that,&rdquo; said he who was addressed as Don Juan, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      On hearing this Don Quixote, full of wrath and indignation, lifted up his
+      voice and said, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Who is this that answers us?&rdquo; said they in the next room.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Who should it be,&rdquo; said Sancho, &ldquo;but Don Quixote of La
+      Mancha himself, who will make good all he has said and all he will say;
+      for pledges don&rsquo;t trouble a good payer.&rdquo;
+    </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&rsquo;s neck, said to him, &ldquo;Your appearance cannot leave
+      any question as to your name, nor can your name fail to identify your
+      appearance; unquestionably, señor, 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;&rdquo; 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, &ldquo;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&rsquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;A nice sort of historian, indeed!&rdquo; exclaimed Sancho at this;
+      &ldquo;he must know a deal about our affairs when he calls my wife Teresa
+      Panza, Mari Gutierrez; take the book again, señor, and see if I am in it
+      and if he has changed my name.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;From your talk, friend,&rdquo; said Don Jeronimo, &ldquo;no doubt
+      you are Sancho Panza, Señor Don Quixote&rsquo;s squire.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Yes, I am,&rdquo; said Sancho; &ldquo;and I&rsquo;m proud of it.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Faith, then,&rdquo; said the gentleman, &ldquo;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&rsquo;s history.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;God forgive him,&rdquo; said Sancho; &ldquo;he might have left me
+      in my corner without troubling his head about me; &lsquo;let him who knows
+      how ring the bells; &lsquo;Saint Peter is very well in Rome.&rsquo;&rdquo;
+    </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&rsquo; 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 Señor Don
+      Quixote?
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      To this he replied, &ldquo;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;&rdquo; 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, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;But he does,&rdquo; said Don Jeronimo; &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Believe me,&rdquo; said Sancho, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I believe it,&rdquo; said Don Juan; &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p60b" id="p60b"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p60b.jpg (336K)" src="images/p60b.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p60b.jpg" style="width:100%;"><img alt="Full Size"
+      src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Let him who will paint me,&rdquo; said Don Quixote; &ldquo;but let
+      him not abuse me; for patience will often break down when they heap
+      insults upon it.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;None can be offered to Señor Don Quixote,&rdquo; said Don Juan,
+      &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </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&rsquo;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>
+      &ldquo;For that very reason,&rdquo; said Don Quixote, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;You will do quite right,&rdquo; said Don Jeronimo; &ldquo;and there
+      are other jousts at Barcelona in which Señor Don Quixote may display his
+      prowess.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;That is what I mean to do,&rdquo; said Don Quixote; &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;And me too,&rdquo; said Sancho; &ldquo;maybe I&rsquo;ll be good for
+      something.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      With this they exchanged farewells, and Don Quixote and Sancho retired to
+      their room, leaving Don Juan and Don Jeronimo amazed to see the medley he
+      made of his good sense and his craziness; and they felt thoroughly
+      convinced that these, and not those their Aragonese author described, were
+      the genuine Don Quixote and Sancho. Don Quixote rose betimes, and bade
+      adieu to his hosts by knocking at the partition of the other room. Sancho
+      paid the landlord magnificently, and recommended him either to say less
+      about the providing of his inn or to keep it better provided.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p59e" id="p59e"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p59e.jpg (48K)" src="images/p59e.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      <a name="ch60b" id="ch60b"></a>CHAPTER LX.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      OF WHAT HAPPENED DON QUIXOTE ON HIS WAY TO BARCELONA
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <a name="p60a" id="p60a"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p60a.jpg (129K)" src="images/p60a.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p60a.jpg" style="width:100%;"><img alt="Full Size"
+      src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      It was a fresh morning giving promise of a cool day as Don Quixote quitted
+      the inn, first of all taking care to ascertain the most direct road to
+      Barcelona without touching upon Saragossa; so anxious was he to make out
+      this new historian, who they said abused him so, to be a liar. Well, as it
+      fell out, nothing worthy of being recorded happened him for six days, at
+      the end of which, having turned aside out of the road, he was overtaken by
+      night in a thicket of oak or cork trees; for on this point Cide Hamete is
+      not as precise as he usually is on other matters.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Master and man dismounted from their beasts, and as soon as they had
+      settled themselves at the foot of the trees, Sancho, who had had a good
+      noontide meal that day, let himself, without more ado, pass the gates of
+      sleep. But Don Quixote, whom his thoughts, far more than hunger, kept
+      awake, could not close an eye, and roamed in fancy to and fro through all
+      sorts of places. At one moment it seemed to him that he was in the cave of
+      Montesinos and saw Dulcinea, transformed into a country wench, skipping
+      and mounting upon her she-ass; again that the words of the sage Merlin
+      were sounding in his ears, setting forth the conditions to be observed and
+      the exertions to be made for the disenchantment of Dulcinea. He lost all
+      patience when he considered the laziness and want of charity of his squire
+      Sancho; for to the best of his belief he had only given himself five
+      lashes, a number paltry and disproportioned to the vast number required.
+      At this thought he felt such vexation and anger that he reasoned the
+      matter thus: &ldquo;If Alexander the Great cut the Gordian knot, saying,
+      &lsquo;To cut comes to the same thing as to untie,&rsquo; and yet did not
+      fail to become lord paramount of all Asia, neither more nor less could
+      happen now in Dulcinea&rsquo;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?&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      With this idea he went over to Sancho, having first taken Rocinante&rsquo;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, &ldquo;What is this? Who is
+      touching me and untrussing me?&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;It is I,&rdquo; said Don Quixote, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Not a bit of it,&rdquo; said Sancho; &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;It will not do to leave it to thy courtesy, Sancho,&rdquo; said Don
+      Quixote, &ldquo;for thou art hard of heart and, though a clown, tender of
+      flesh;&rdquo; 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>
+      &ldquo;How now, traitor!&rdquo; exclaimed Don Quixote. &ldquo;Dost thou
+      revolt against thy master and natural lord? Dost thou rise against him who
+      gives thee his bread?&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I neither put down king, nor set up king,&rdquo; said Sancho;
+      &ldquo;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&rsquo;ll let
+      you go free and unhindered; if not&mdash;
+    </p>
+<pre xml:space="preserve">
+Traitor and Dona Sancha&rsquo;s foe,
+Thou diest on the spot.&rdquo;
+
+</pre>
+    <p>
+      Don Quixote gave his promise, and swore by the life of his thoughts not to
+      touch so much as a hair of his garments, and to leave him entirely free
+      and to his own discretion to whip himself whenever he pleased.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p60c" id="p60c"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p60c.jpg (250K)" src="images/p60c.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p60c.jpg" style="width:100%;"><img alt="Full Size"
+      src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Sancho rose and removed some distance from the spot, but as he was about
+      to place himself leaning against another tree he felt something touch his
+      head, and putting up his hands encountered somebody&rsquo;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&rsquo;s feet and legs. Don
+      Quixote felt them, and guessed at once what it was, and said to Sancho,
+      &ldquo;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;&rdquo; 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&rsquo; 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&rsquo;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, &ldquo;Be not so cast down, good man, for you have not
+      fallen into the hands of any inhuman Busiris, but into Roque Guinart&rsquo;s,
+      which are more merciful than cruel.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;The cause of my dejection,&rdquo; returned Don Quixote, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Roque Guinart at once perceived that Don Quixote&rsquo;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,
+      &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </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, &ldquo;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&rsquo;s numerous kinsmen may not venture to wreak their
+      lawless vengeance upon him.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Roque, filled with admiration at the gallant bearing, high spirit, comely
+      figure, and adventure of the fair Claudia, said to her, &ldquo;Come,
+      señora, let us go and see if thy enemy is dead; and then we will consider
+      what will be best for thee.&rdquo; Don Quixote, who had been listening to
+      what Claudia said and Roque Guinart said in reply to her, exclaimed,
+      &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Nobody need have any doubt about that,&rdquo; said Sancho, &ldquo;for
+      my master has a very happy knack of matchmaking; it&rsquo;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&rsquo;s proper shape into a lacquey&rsquo;s
+      the said maiden would not be one this minute.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Roque, who was paying more attention to the fair Claudia&rsquo;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, &ldquo;Hadst
+      thou given me this according to our compact thou hadst never come to this
+      pass.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The wounded gentleman opened his all but closed eyes, and recognising
+      Claudia said, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;It is not true, then,&rdquo; said Claudia, &ldquo;that thou wert
+      going this morning to marry Leonora the daughter of the rich Balvastro?&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Assuredly not,&rdquo; replied Don Vicente; &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </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. &ldquo;Cruel, reckless woman!&rdquo; she cried, &ldquo;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!&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      So vehement and so piteous were the lamentations of Claudia that they drew
+      tears from Roque&rsquo;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&rsquo;s servants to carry his body
+      to his father&rsquo;s village, which was close by, for burial. Claudia
+      told him she meant to go to a monastery of which an aunt of hers was
+      abbess, where she intended to pass her life with a better and everlasting
+      spouse. He applauded her pious resolution, and offered to accompany her
+      whithersoever she wished, and to protect her father against the kinsmen of
+      Don Vicente and all the world, should they seek to injure him. Claudia
+      would not on any account allow him to accompany her; and thanking him for
+      his offers as well as she could, took leave of him in tears. The servants
+      of Don Vicente carried away his body, and Roque returned to his comrades,
+      and so ended the love of Claudia Jeronima; but what wonder, when it was
+      the insuperable and cruel might of jealousy that wove the web of her sad
+      story?
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p60d" id="p60d"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p60d.jpg (439K)" src="images/p60d.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p60d.jpg" style="width:100%;"><img alt="Full Size"
+      src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Roque Guinart found his squires at the place to which he had ordered them,
+      and Don Quixote on Rocinante in the midst of them delivering a harangue to
+      them in which he urged them to give up a mode of life so full of peril, as
+      well to the soul as to the body; but as most of them were Gascons, rough
+      lawless fellows, his speech did not make much impression on them. Roque on
+      coming up asked Sancho if his men had returned and restored to him the
+      treasures and jewels they had stripped off Dapple. Sancho said they had,
+      but that three kerchiefs that were worth three cities were missing.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;What are you talking about, man?&rdquo; said one of the bystanders;
+      &ldquo;I have got them, and they are not worth three reals.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;That is true,&rdquo; said Don Quixote; &ldquo;but my squire values
+      them at the rate he says, as having been given me by the person who gave
+      them.&rdquo;
+    </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, &ldquo;If this scrupulous exactness were not observed with these
+      fellows there would be no living with them.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Upon this Sancho remarked, &ldquo;From what I have seen here, justice is
+      such a good thing that there is no doing without it, even among the
+      thieves themselves.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      One of the squires heard this, and raising the butt-end of his harquebuss
+      would no doubt have broken Sancho&rsquo;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, &ldquo;Señor, there is a great troop of people
+      not far off coming along the road to Barcelona.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      To which Roque replied, &ldquo;Hast thou made out whether they are of the
+      sort that are after us, or of the sort we are after?&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;The sort we are after,&rdquo; said the squire.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Well then, away with you all,&rdquo; said Roque, &ldquo;and bring
+      them here to me at once without letting one of them escape.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p60e" id="p60e"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p60e.jpg (420K)" src="images/p60e.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p60e.jpg" style="width:100%;"><img alt="Full Size"
+      src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      They obeyed, and Don Quixote, Sancho, and Roque, left by themselves,
+      waited to see what the squires brought, and while they were waiting Roque
+      said to Don Quixote, &ldquo;It must seem a strange sort of life to Señor
+      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.&rdquo;
+    </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, &ldquo;Señor Roque, the beginning
+      of health lies in knowing the disease and in the sick man&rsquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Roque laughed at Don Quixote&rsquo;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&rsquo;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; &ldquo;Señor,&rdquo; replied one of them, &ldquo;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&rsquo;s
+      poverty does not allow a more extensive hoard.&rdquo;
+    </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, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;So then,&rdquo; said Roque Guinart, &ldquo;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.&rdquo; As soon
+      as the robbers heard this they raised a shout of &ldquo;Long life to Roque
+      Guinart, in spite of the lladres that seek his ruin!&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The captains showed plainly the concern they felt, the regent&rsquo;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, &ldquo;Sirs, will your worships
+      be pleased of your courtesy to lend me sixty crowns, and her ladyship the
+      regent&rsquo;s wife eighty, to satisfy this band that follows me, for
+      &lsquo;it is by his singing the abbot gets his dinner;&rsquo; 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.&rdquo;
+    </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. Señora 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&rsquo;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,
+      &ldquo;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;&rdquo; 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, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p60f" id="p60f"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p60f.jpg (426K)" src="images/p60f.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p60f.jpg" style="width:100%;"><img alt="Full Size"
+      src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The unlucky wight did not speak so low but that Roque overheard him, and
+      drawing his sword almost split his head in two, saying, &ldquo;That is the
+      way I punish impudent saucy fellows.&rdquo; 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&rsquo;s
+      Day, he was going to deposit him in full armour mounted on his horse
+      Rocinante, together with his squire Sancho on an ass, in the middle of the
+      strand of the city; and bidding him give notice of this to his friends the
+      Niarros, that they might divert themselves with him. He wished, he said,
+      his enemies the Cadells could be deprived of this pleasure; but that was
+      impossible, because the crazes and shrewd sayings of Don Quixote and the
+      humours of his squire Sancho Panza could not help giving general pleasure
+      to all the world. He despatched the letter by one of his squires, who,
+      exchanging the costume of a highwayman for that of a peasant, made his way
+      into Barcelona and gave it to the person to whom it was directed.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p60g" id="p60g"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p60g.jpg (42K)" src="images/p60g.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      <a name="ch61b" id="ch61b"></a>CHAPTER LXI.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      OF WHAT HAPPENED DON QUIXOTE ON ENTERING BARCELONA, TOGETHER WITH OTHER
+      MATTERS THAT PARTAKE OF THE TRUE RATHER THAN OF THE INGENIOUS
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <a name="p61a" id="p61a"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p61a.jpg (143K)" src="images/p61a.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p61a.jpg" style="width:100%;"><img alt="Full Size"
+      src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Don Quixote passed three days and three nights with Roque, and had he
+      passed three hundred years he would have found enough to observe and
+      wonder at in his mode of life. At daybreak they were in one spot, at
+      dinner-time in another; sometimes they fled without knowing from whom, at
+      other times they lay in wait, not knowing for what. They slept standing,
+      breaking their slumbers to shift from place to place. There was nothing
+      but sending out spies and scouts, posting sentinels and blowing the
+      matches of harquebusses, though they carried but few, for almost all used
+      flintlocks. Roque passed his nights in some place or other apart from his
+      men, that they might not know where he was, for the many proclamations the
+      viceroy of Barcelona had issued against his life kept him in fear and
+      uneasiness, and he did not venture to trust anyone, afraid that even his
+      own men would kill him or deliver him up to the authorities; of a truth, a
+      weary miserable life! At length, by unfrequented roads, short cuts, and
+      secret paths, Roque, Don Quixote, and Sancho, together with six squires,
+      set out for Barcelona. They reached the strand on Saint John&rsquo;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 &ldquo;Clear the way there!&rdquo; of some
+      runners, that seemed to issue from the city.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p61b" id="p61b"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p61b.jpg (271K)" src="images/p61b.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p61b.jpg" style="width:100%;"><img alt="Full Size"
+      src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The dawn made way for the sun that with a face broader than a buckler
+      began to rise slowly above the low line of the horizon; Don Quixote and
+      Sancho gazed all round them; they beheld the sea, a sight until then
+      unseen by them; it struck them as exceedingly spacious and broad, much
+      more so than the lakes of Ruidera which they had seen in La Mancha. They
+      saw the galleys along the beach, which, lowering their awnings, displayed
+      themselves decked with streamers and pennons that trembled in the breeze
+      and kissed and swept the water, while on board the bugles, trumpets, and
+      clarions were sounding and filling the air far and near with melodious
+      warlike notes. Then they began to move and execute a kind of skirmish upon
+      the calm water, while a vast number of horsemen on fine horses and in
+      showy liveries, issuing from the city, engaged on their side in a somewhat
+      similar movement. The soldiers on board the galleys kept up a ceaseless
+      fire, which they on the walls and forts of the city returned, and the
+      heavy cannon rent the air with the tremendous noise they made, to which
+      the gangway guns of the galleys replied. The bright sea, the smiling
+      earth, the clear air&mdash;though at times darkened by the smoke of the
+      guns&mdash;all seemed to fill the whole multitude with unexpected delight.
+      Sancho could not make out how it was that those great masses that moved
+      over the sea had so many feet.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      And now the horsemen in livery came galloping up with shouts and
+      outlandish cries and cheers to where Don Quixote stood amazed and
+      wondering; and one of them, he to whom Roque had sent word, addressing him
+      exclaimed, &ldquo;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!&rdquo;
+    </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, &ldquo;These gentlemen have plainly
+      recognised us; I will wager they have read our history, and even that
+      newly printed one by the Aragonese.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The cavalier who had addressed Don Quixote again approached him and said,
+      &ldquo;Come with us, Señor Don Quixote, for we are all of us your servants
+      and great friends of Roque Guinart&rsquo;s;&rdquo; to which Don Quixote
+      returned, &ldquo;If courtesy breeds courtesy, yours, sir knight, is
+      daughter or very nearly akin to the great Roque&rsquo;s; carry me where
+      you please; I will have no will but yours, especially if you deign to
+      employ it in your service.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p61c" id="p61c"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p61c.jpg (448K)" src="images/p61c.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p61c.jpg" style="width:100%;"><img alt="Full Size"
+      src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The cavalier replied with words no less polite, and then, all closing in
+      around him, they set out with him for the city, to the music of the
+      clarions and the drums. As they were entering it, the wicked one, who is
+      the author of all mischief, and the boys who are wickeder than the wicked
+      one, contrived that a couple of these audacious irrepressible urchins
+      should force their way through the crowd, and lifting up, one of them
+      Dapple&rsquo;s tail and the other Rocinante&rsquo;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&rsquo;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&rsquo;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&rsquo;s
+      pleasure.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p61e" id="p61e"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p61e.jpg (32K)" src="images/p61e.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      <a name="ch62b" id="ch62b"></a>CHAPTER LXII.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      WHICH DEALS WITH THE ADVENTURE OF THE ENCHANTED HEAD, TOGETHER WITH OTHER
+      TRIVIAL MATTERS WHICH CANNOT BE LEFT UNTOLD
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <a name="p62a" id="p62a"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p62a.jpg (156K)" src="images/p62a.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p62a.jpg" style="width:100%;"><img alt="Full Size"
+      src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Don Quixote&rsquo;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&rsquo;s wedding, another house like Don
+      Diego de Miranda&rsquo;s, another castle like the duke&rsquo;s. Some of
+      Don Antonio&rsquo;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, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;No, señor, that&rsquo;s not true,&rdquo; said Sancho, &ldquo;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&rsquo;m given, and make use of opportunities
+      as I find them; but whoever says that I&rsquo;m an out-of-the-way eater or
+      not cleanly, let me tell him that he is wrong; and I&rsquo;d put it in a
+      different way if I did not respect the honourable beards that are at the
+      table.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Indeed,&rdquo; said Don Quixote, &ldquo;Sancho&rsquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;What!&rdquo; said Don Antonio, &ldquo;has Sancho been a governor?&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Ay,&rdquo; said Sancho, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Don Quixote then gave them a minute account of the whole affair of Sancho&rsquo;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, &ldquo;Now, Señor 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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I swear it,&rdquo; said Don Quixote, &ldquo;and for greater
+      security I will put a flag-stone over it; for I would have you know, Señor
+      Don Antonio&rdquo; (he had by this time learned his name), &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;In reliance upon that promise,&rdquo; said Don Antonio, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </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, &ldquo;This head, Señor 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.&rdquo;
+    </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, &ldquo;This is Don Quixote of La Mancha.&rdquo; As they
+      set out upon their excursion the placard attracted the eyes of all who
+      chanced to see him, and as they read out, &ldquo;This is Don Quixote of La
+      Mancha,&rdquo; 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, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;True, Señor Don Quixote,&rdquo; returned Don Antonio; &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </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, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Go your own way, brother,&rdquo; said Don Antonio, &ldquo;and don&rsquo;t
+      offer advice to those who don&rsquo;t ask you for it. Señor 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&rsquo;t
+      meddle where you are not wanted.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;By God, your worship is right,&rdquo; replied the Castilian;
+      &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The advice-giver took himself off, and they continued their stroll; but so
+      great was the press of the boys and people to read the placard, that Don
+      Antonio was forced to remove it as if he were taking off something else.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p62b" id="p62b"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p62b.jpg (373K)" src="images/p62b.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p62b.jpg" style="width:100%;"><img alt="Full Size"
+      src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Night came and they went home, and there was a ladies&rsquo; dancing
+      party, for Don Antonio&rsquo;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&rsquo;clock. Among
+      the ladies were two of a mischievous and frolicsome turn, and, though
+      perfectly modest, somewhat free in playing tricks for harmless diversion&rsquo;s
+      sake. These two were so indefatigable in taking Don Quixote out to dance
+      that they tired him down, not only in body but in spirit. It was a sight
+      to see the figure Don Quixote made, long, lank, lean, and yellow, his
+      garments clinging tight to him, ungainly, and above all anything but
+      agile.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p62c" id="p62c"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p62c.jpg (342K)" src="images/p62c.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p62c.jpg" style="width:100%;"><img alt="Full Size"
+      src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The gay ladies made secret love to him, and he on his part secretly
+      repelled them, but finding himself hard pressed by their blandishments he
+      lifted up his voice and exclaimed, &ldquo;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;&rdquo; 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, &ldquo;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&rsquo;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&rsquo;m no good at dancing.&rdquo;
+    </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&rsquo;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&rsquo;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,
+      &ldquo;Head, tell me by the virtue that lies in thee what am I at this
+      moment thinking of?&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The head, without any movement of the lips, answered in a clear and
+      distinct voice, so as to be heard by all, &ldquo;I cannot judge of
+      thoughts.&rdquo;
+    </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. &ldquo;How many of us are here?&rdquo; asked Don Antonio once
+      more; and it was answered him in the same way softly, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Now there was fresh astonishment; now everyone&rsquo;s hair was standing
+      on end with awe; and Don Antonio retiring from the head exclaimed, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      And as women are commonly impulsive and inquisitive, the first to come
+      forward was one of the two friends of Don Antonio&rsquo;s wife, and her
+      question was, &ldquo;Tell me, Head, what shall I do to be very beautiful?&rdquo;
+      and the answer she got was, &ldquo;Be very modest.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I question thee no further,&rdquo; said the fair querist.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Her companion then came up and said, &ldquo;I should like to know, Head,
+      whether my husband loves me or not;&rdquo; the answer given to her was,
+      &ldquo;Think how he uses thee, and thou mayest guess;&rdquo; and the
+      married lady went off saying, &ldquo;That answer did not need a question;
+      for of course the treatment one receives shows the disposition of him from
+      whom it is received.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Then one of Don Antonio&rsquo;s two friends advanced and asked it, &ldquo;Who
+      am I?&rdquo; &ldquo;Thou knowest,&rdquo; was the answer. &ldquo;That is
+      not what I ask thee,&rdquo; said the gentleman, &ldquo;but to tell me if
+      thou knowest me.&rdquo; &ldquo;Yes, I know thee, thou art Don Pedro Noriz,&rdquo;
+      was the reply.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I do not seek to know more,&rdquo; said the gentleman, &ldquo;for
+      this is enough to convince me, O Head, that thou knowest everything;&rdquo;
+      and as he retired the other friend came forward and asked it, &ldquo;Tell
+      me, Head, what are the wishes of my eldest son?&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I have said already,&rdquo; was the answer, &ldquo;that I cannot
+      judge of wishes; however, I can tell thee the wish of thy son is to bury
+      thee.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;That&rsquo;s &lsquo;what I see with my eyes I point out with my
+      finger,&rsquo;&rdquo; said the gentleman, &ldquo;so I ask no more.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Don Antonio&rsquo;s wife came up and said, &ldquo;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;&rdquo; and the answer she received was,
+      &ldquo;Thou shalt, for his vigour and his temperate habits promise many
+      years of life, which by their intemperance others so often cut short.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Then Don Quixote came forward and said, &ldquo;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&rsquo;s whipping be
+      accomplished without fail? Will the disenchantment of Dulcinea be brought
+      about?&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p62d" id="p62d"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p62d.jpg (391K)" src="images/p62d.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p62d.jpg" style="width:100%;"><img alt="Full Size"
+      src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;As to the question of the cave,&rdquo; was the reply, &ldquo;there
+      is much to be said; there is something of both in it. Sancho&rsquo;s
+      whipping will proceed leisurely. The disenchantment of Dulcinea will
+      attain its due consummation.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I seek to know no more,&rdquo; said Don Quixote; &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The last questioner was Sancho, and his questions were, &ldquo;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?&rdquo; To
+      which the answer came, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Good, by God!&rdquo; said Sancho Panza; &ldquo;I could have told
+      myself that; the prophet Perogrullo could have said no more.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;What answer wouldst thou have, beast?&rdquo; said Don Quixote;
+      &ldquo;is it not enough that the replies this head has given suit the
+      questions put to it?&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Yes, it is enough,&rdquo; said Sancho; &ldquo;but I should have
+      liked it to have made itself plainer and told me more.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The questions and answers came to an end here, but not the wonder with
+      which all were filled, except Don Antonio&rsquo;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&rsquo; 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&rsquo;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&rsquo;s satisfaction than Sancho&rsquo;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,
+      &ldquo;Books printed here,&rdquo; 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,
+      &ldquo;Señor, this gentleman here&rdquo; (pointing to a man of
+      prepossessing appearance and a certain gravity of look) &ldquo;has
+      translated an Italian book into our Spanish tongue, and I am setting it up
+      in type for the press.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;What is the title of the book?&rdquo; asked Don Quixote; to which
+      the author replied, &ldquo;Señor, in Italian the book is called Le
+      Bagatelle.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;And what does Le Bagatelle import in our Spanish?&rdquo; asked Don
+      Quixote.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Le Bagatelle,&rdquo; said the author, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I,&rdquo; said Don Quixote, &ldquo;have some little smattering of
+      Italian, and I plume myself on singing some of Ariosto&rsquo;s stanzas;
+      but tell me, señor&mdash;I do not say this to test your ability, but
+      merely out of curiosity&mdash;have you ever met with the word pignatta in
+      your book?&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Yes, often,&rdquo; said the author.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;And how do you render that in Spanish?&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;How should I render it,&rdquo; returned the author, &ldquo;but by
+      olla?&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Body o&rsquo; me,&rdquo; exclaimed Don Quixote, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I translate them so of course,&rdquo; said the author, &ldquo;for
+      those are their proper equivalents.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I would venture to swear,&rdquo; said Don Quixote, &ldquo;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?&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I print at my own risk,&rdquo; said the author, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;A fine calculation you are making!&rdquo; said Don Quixote; &ldquo;it
+      is plain you don&rsquo;t know the ins and outs of the printers, and how
+      they play into one another&rsquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;What!&rdquo; said the author, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;God send your worship good luck,&rdquo; said Don Quixote; and he
+      moved on to another case, where he saw them correcting a sheet of a book
+      with the title of &ldquo;Light of the Soul;&rdquo; noticing it he
+      observed, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </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, &ldquo;The Second Part of the
+      Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha,&rdquo; by one of
+      Tordesillas.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I have heard of this book already,&rdquo; said Don Quixote, &ldquo;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;&rdquo; and so saying he
+      walked out of the printing office with a certain amount of displeasure in
+      his looks. That same day Don Antonio arranged to take him to see the
+      galleys that lay at the beach, whereat Sancho was in high delight, as he
+      had never seen any all his life. Don Antonio sent word to the commandant
+      of the galleys that he intended to bring his guest, the famous Don Quixote
+      of La Mancha, of whom the commandant and all the citizens had already
+      heard, that afternoon to see them; and what happened on board of them will
+      be told in the next chapter.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p62e" id="p62e"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p62e.jpg (18K)" src="images/p62e.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      <a name="ch63b" id="ch63b"></a>CHAPTER LXIII.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      OF THE MISHAP THAT BEFELL SANCHO PANZA THROUGH THE VISIT TO THE GALLEYS,
+      AND THE STRANGE ADVENTURE OF THE FAIR MORISCO
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <a name="p63a" id="p63a"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p63a.jpg (151K)" src="images/p63a.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p63a.jpg" style="width:100%;"><img alt="Full Size"
+      src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Profound were Don Quixote&rsquo;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&rsquo;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 &ldquo;Hu, hu, hu,&rdquo; three times. The general, for so we
+      shall call him, a Valencian gentleman of rank, gave him his hand and
+      embraced him, saying, &ldquo;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 Señor Don Quixote of La Mancha, pattern and image wherein we see
+      contained and condensed all that is worthy in knight-errantry.&rdquo;
+    </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&rsquo;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&rsquo;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&rsquo;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&rsquo;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, &ldquo;It&rsquo;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!&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Don Quixote, observing how attentively Sancho regarded what was going on,
+      said to him, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The general was about to ask what these lashes were, and what was Dulcinea&rsquo;s
+      disenchantment, when a sailor exclaimed, &ldquo;Monjui signals that there
+      is an oared vessel off the coast to the west.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      On hearing this the general sprang upon the gangway crying, &ldquo;Now
+      then, my sons, don&rsquo;t let her give us the slip! It must be some
+      Algerine corsair brigantine that the watchtower signals to us.&rdquo; 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), &ldquo;This young man, señor, that you see here is our
+      rais,&rdquo; 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>
+      &ldquo;Tell me, dog,&rdquo; said the general, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </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>
+      &ldquo;You have had a good chase, señor general,&rdquo; said the viceroy.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Your excellency shall soon see how good, by the game strung up to
+      this yard,&rdquo; replied the general.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;How so?&rdquo; returned the viceroy.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Because,&rdquo; said the general, &ldquo;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,&rdquo; 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, &ldquo;Tell me, rais, art thou Turk,
+      Moor, or renegade?&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      To which the youth replied, also in Spanish, &ldquo;I am neither Turk, nor
+      Moor, nor renegade.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;What art thou, then?&rdquo; said the viceroy.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;A Christian woman,&rdquo; replied the youth.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;A woman and a Christian, in such a dress and in such circumstances!
+      It is more marvellous than credible,&rdquo; said the viceroy.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Suspend the execution of the sentence,&rdquo; said the youth;
+      &ldquo;your vengeance will not lose much by waiting while I tell you the
+      story of my life.&rdquo;
+    </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>
+      &ldquo;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&rsquo;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&rdquo;&mdash;and here she pointed to him who had first spoken&mdash;&ldquo;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&rsquo;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;&rdquo; 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, &ldquo;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!&rdquo;
+    </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, &ldquo;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&rsquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I know Ricote well,&rdquo; said Sancho at this, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      While all present stood amazed at this strange occurrence the general
+      said, &ldquo;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;&rdquo; 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&rsquo;s request, for revenge is not easily taken in cold blood.
+      They then tried to devise some scheme for rescuing Don Gaspar Gregorio
+      from the danger in which he had been left. Ricote offered for that object
+      more than two thousand ducats that he had in pearls and gems; they
+      proposed several plans, but none so good as that suggested by the renegade
+      already mentioned, who offered to return to Algiers in a small vessel of
+      about six banks, manned by Christian rowers, as he knew where, how, and
+      when he could and should land, nor was he ignorant of the house in which
+      Don Gaspar was staying. The general and the viceroy had some hesitation
+      about placing confidence in the renegade and entrusting him with the
+      Christians who were to row, but Ana Felix said she could answer for him,
+      and her father offered to go and pay the ransom of the Christians if by
+      any chance they should not be forthcoming. This, then, being agreed upon,
+      the viceroy landed, and Don Antonio Moreno took the fair Morisco and her
+      father home with him, the viceroy charging him to give them the best
+      reception and welcome in his power, while on his own part he offered all
+      that house contained for their entertainment; so great was the good-will
+      and kindliness the beauty of Ana Felix had infused into his heart.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p63e" id="p63e"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p63e.jpg (23K)" src="images/p63e.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      <a name="ch64b" id="ch64b"></a>CHAPTER LXIV.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      TREATING OF THE ADVENTURE WHICH GAVE DON QUIXOTE MORE UNHAPPINESS THAN ALL
+      THAT HAD HITHERTO BEFALLEN HIM
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <a name="p64a" id="p64a"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p64a.jpg (80K)" src="images/p64a.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p64a.jpg" style="width:100%;"><img alt="Full Size"
+      src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The wife of Don Antonio Moreno, so the history says, was extremely happy
+      to see Ana Felix in her house. She welcomed her with great kindness,
+      charmed as well by her beauty as by her intelligence; for in both respects
+      the fair Morisco was richly endowed, and all the people of the city
+      flocked to see her as though they had been summoned by the ringing of the
+      bells.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Don Quixote told Don Antonio that the plan adopted for releasing Don
+      Gregorio was not a good one, for its risks were greater than its
+      advantages, and that it would be better to land himself with his arms and
+      horse in Barbary; for he would carry him off in spite of the whole Moorish
+      host, as Don Gaiferos carried off his wife Melisendra.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Remember, your worship,&rdquo; observed Sancho on hearing him say
+      so, &ldquo;Señor 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&rsquo;s
+      the sea between.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;There&rsquo;s a remedy for everything except death,&rdquo; said Don
+      Quixote; &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Your worship hits it off mighty well and mighty easy,&rdquo; said
+      Sancho; &ldquo;but &lsquo;it&rsquo;s a long step from saying to doing;&rsquo;
+      and I hold to the renegade, for he seems to me an honest good-hearted
+      fellow.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Don Antonio then said that if the renegade did not prove successful, the
+      expedient of the great Don Quixote&rsquo;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 &ldquo;his only gear, his
+      only rest the fray,&rdquo; 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, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Don Quixote was amazed and astonished, as well at the Knight of the White
+      Moon&rsquo;s arrogance, as at his reason for delivering the defiance, and
+      with calm dignity he answered him, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </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, &ldquo;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&rsquo;s hand be it, and fall on.&rdquo;
+    </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, &ldquo;You are vanquished, sir knight, nay
+      dead unless you admit the conditions of our defiance.&rdquo;
+    </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, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;That will I not, in sooth,&rdquo; said he of the White Moon;
+      &ldquo;live the fame of the lady Dulcinea&rsquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The viceroy, Don Antonio, and several others who were present heard all
+      this, and heard too how Don Quixote replied that so long as nothing in
+      prejudice of Dulcinea was demanded of him, he would observe all the rest
+      like a true and loyal knight. The engagement given, he of the White Moon
+      wheeled about, and making obeisance to the viceroy with a movement of the
+      head, rode away into the city at a half gallop. The viceroy bade Don
+      Antonio hasten after him, and by some means or other find out who he was.
+      They raised Don Quixote up and uncovered his face, and found him pale and
+      bathed with sweat.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p64b" id="p64b"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p64b.jpg (344K)" src="images/p64b.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p64b.jpg" style="width:100%;"><img alt="Full Size"
+      src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Rocinante from the mere hard measure he had received lay unable to stir
+      for the present. Sancho, wholly dejected and woebegone, knew not what to
+      say or do. He fancied that all was a dream, that the whole business was a
+      piece of enchantment. Here was his master defeated, and bound not to take
+      up arms for a year. He saw the light of the glory of his achievements
+      obscured; the hopes of the promises lately made him swept away like smoke
+      before the wind; Rocinante, he feared, was crippled for life, and his
+      master&rsquo;s bones out of joint; for if he were only shaken out of his
+      madness it would be no small luck. In the end they carried him into the
+      city in a hand-chair which the viceroy sent for, and thither the viceroy
+      himself returned, eager to ascertain who this Knight of the White Moon was
+      who had left Don Quixote in such a sad plight.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p64e" id="p64e"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p64e.jpg (44K)" src="images/p64e.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p64e.jpg" style="width:100%;"><img alt="Full Size"
+      src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      <a name="ch65b" id="ch65b"></a>CHAPTER LXV.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      WHEREIN IS MADE KNOWN WHO THE KNIGHT OF THE WHITE MOON WAS; LIKEWISE DON
+      GREGORIO&rsquo;S RELEASE, AND OTHER EVENTS
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <a name="p65a" id="p65a"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p65a.jpg (149K)" src="images/p65a.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p65a.jpg" style="width:100%;"><img alt="Full Size"
+      src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Don Antonio Moreno followed the Knight of the White Moon, and a number of
+      boys followed him too, nay pursued him, until they had him fairly housed
+      in a hostel in the heart of the city. Don Antonio, eager to make his
+      acquaintance, entered also; a squire came out to meet him and remove his
+      armour, and he shut himself into a lower room, still attended by Don
+      Antonio, whose bread would not bake until he had found out who he was. He
+      of the White Moon, seeing then that the gentleman would not leave him,
+      said, &ldquo;I know very well, señor, 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,
+      señor, 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, señor, is how the matter stands,
+      and I have nothing more to tell you. I implore of you not to betray me, or
+      tell Don Quixote who I am; so that my honest endeavours may be successful,
+      and that a man of excellent wits&mdash;were he only rid of the fooleries
+      of chivalry&mdash;may get them back again.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;O señor,&rdquo; said Don Antonio, &ldquo;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, señor, that the gain by
+      Don Quixote&rsquo;s sanity can never equal the enjoyment his crazes give?
+      But my belief is that all the señor bachelor&rsquo;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&rsquo;s too, any one of which is enough to turn melancholy itself
+      into merriment. However, I&rsquo;ll hold my peace and say nothing to him,
+      and we&rsquo;ll see whether I am right in my suspicion that Señor Carrasco&rsquo;s
+      efforts will be fruitless.&rdquo;
+    </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&rsquo;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&rsquo;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, &ldquo;Hold up your
+      head, señor, 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 &lsquo;where they give they take,&rsquo;
+      and that &lsquo;there are not always fletches where there are pegs,&rsquo;
+      a fig for the doctor, for there&rsquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Peace, Sancho,&rdquo; said Don Quixote; &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;May God hear it and sin be deaf,&rdquo; said Sancho; &ldquo;I have
+      always heard say that &lsquo;a good hope is better than a bad holding.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      As they were talking Don Antonio came in looking extremely pleased and
+      exclaiming, &ldquo;Reward me for my good news, Señor Don Quixote! Don
+      Gregorio and the renegade who went for him have come ashore&mdash;ashore
+      do I say? They are by this time in the viceroy&rsquo;s house, and will be
+      here immediately.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Don Quixote cheered up a little and said, &ldquo;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?&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;No more of that, señor,&rdquo; said Sancho; &ldquo;&lsquo;let the
+      hen live, even though it be with her pip;&rsquo; &lsquo;to-day for thee and
+      to-morrow for me;&rsquo; 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;&rdquo; 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&rsquo;s house. When they carried him away from
+      Algiers he was in woman&rsquo;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>
+      &ldquo;Nay,&rdquo; said Ricote, who was present during the conversation,
+      &ldquo;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!&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;At any rate,&rdquo; said Don Antonio, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </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&rsquo;s wife, and Ricote
+      in the viceroy&rsquo;s house.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The day for Don Antonio&rsquo;s departure came; and two days later that
+      for Don Quixote&rsquo;s and Sancho&rsquo;s, for Don Quixote&rsquo;s fall
+      did not suffer him to take the road sooner. There were tears and sighs,
+      swoonings and sobs, at the parting between Don Gregorio and Ana Felix.
+      Ricote offered Don Gregorio a thousand crowns if he would have them, but
+      he would not take any save five which Don Antonio lent him and he promised
+      to repay at the capital. So the two of them took their departure, and Don
+      Quixote and Sancho afterwards, as has been already said, Don Quixote
+      without his armour and in travelling gear, and Sancho on foot, Dapple
+      being loaded with the armour.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p65e" id="p65e"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p65e.jpg (43K)" src="images/p65e.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      <a name="ch66b" id="ch66b"></a>CHAPTER LXVI.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      WHICH TREATS OF WHAT HE WHO READS WILL SEE, OR WHAT HE WHO HAS IT READ TO
+      HIM WILL HEAR
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <a name="p66a" id="p66a"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p66a.jpg (125K)" src="images/p66a.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p66a.jpg" style="width:100%;"><img alt="Full Size"
+      src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      As he left Barcelona, Don Quixote turned gaze upon the spot where he had
+      fallen. &ldquo;Here Troy was,&rdquo; said he; &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p66b" id="p66b"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p66b.jpg (251K)" src="images/p66b.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p66b.jpg" style="width:100%;"><img alt="Full Size"
+      src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Señor,&rdquo; said Sancho on hearing this, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Thou art a great philosopher, Sancho,&rdquo; said Don Quixote;
+      &ldquo;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 &lsquo;each of us is the maker of his own Fortune.&rsquo; 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&rsquo;s feeble strength could not resist the
+      mighty bulk of the Knight of the White Moon&rsquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Señor,&rdquo; returned Sancho, &ldquo;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&rsquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Thou sayest well, Sancho,&rdquo; said Don Quixote; &ldquo;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&rsquo;s armour-
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      These let none move<br /> Who dareth not his might with Roland prove.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;That&rsquo;s the very thing,&rdquo; said Sancho; &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;And yet, I had rather not have either him or the armour hung up,&rdquo;
+      said Don Quixote, &ldquo;that it may not be said, &lsquo;for good service
+      a bad return.&rsquo;&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Your worship is right,&rdquo; said Sancho; &ldquo;for, as sensible
+      people hold, &lsquo;the fault of the ass must not be laid on the
+      pack-saddle;&rsquo; and, as in this affair the fault is your worship&rsquo;s,
+      punish yourself and don&rsquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p66c" id="p66c"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p66c.jpg (389K)" src="images/p66c.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p66c.jpg" style="width:100%;"><img alt="Full Size"
+      src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      In converse of this sort the whole of that day went by, as did the four
+      succeeding ones, without anything occurring to interrupt their journey,
+      but on the fifth as they entered a village they found a great number of
+      people at the door of an inn enjoying themselves, as it was a holiday.
+      Upon Don Quixote&rsquo;s approach a peasant called out, &ldquo;One of
+      these two gentlemen who come here, and who don&rsquo;t know the parties,
+      will tell us what we ought to do about our wager.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;That I will, certainly,&rdquo; said Don Quixote, &ldquo;and
+      according to the rights of the case, if I can manage to understand it.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Well, here it is, worthy sir,&rdquo; said the peasant; &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Not at all,&rdquo; exclaimed Sancho at once, before Don Quixote
+      could answer; &ldquo;it&rsquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Answer in God&rsquo;s name, Sancho my friend,&rdquo; said Don
+      Quixote, &ldquo;for I am not fit to give crumbs to a cat, my wits are so
+      confused and upset.&rdquo;
+    </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, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;By all that&rsquo;s good,&rdquo; said one of the peasants as he
+      heard Sancho&rsquo;s decision, &ldquo;but the gentleman has spoken like a
+      saint, and given judgment like a canon! But I&rsquo;ll be bound the fat
+      man won&rsquo;t part with an ounce of his flesh, not to say eleven stone.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;The best plan will be for them not to run,&rdquo; said another,
+      &ldquo;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&rsquo;s take these gentlemen to the tavern where there&rsquo;s the
+      best, and &lsquo;over me be the cloak when it rains.&rsquo;&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I thank you, sirs,&rdquo; said Don Quixote; &ldquo;but I cannot
+      stop for an instant, for sad thoughts and unhappy circumstances force me
+      to seem discourteous and to travel apace;&rdquo; 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, &ldquo;If the servant is
+      so clever, what must the master be? I&rsquo;ll bet, if they are going to
+      Salamanca to study, they&rsquo;ll come to be alcaldes of the Court in a
+      trice; for it&rsquo;s a mere joke&mdash;only to read and read, and have
+      interest and good luck; and before a man knows where he is he finds
+      himself with a staff in his hand or a mitre on his head.&rdquo;
+    </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, &ldquo;O Señor 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!&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I do not recognise you, friend,&rdquo; said Don Quixote, &ldquo;nor
+      do I know who you are, unless you tell me.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I am Tosilos, my lord the duke&rsquo;s lacquey, Señor Don Quixote,&rdquo;
+      replied the courier; &ldquo;he who refused to fight your worship about
+      marrying the daughter of Dona Rodriguez.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;God bless me!&rdquo; exclaimed Don Quixote; &ldquo;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?&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Nonsense, good sir!&rdquo; said the messenger; &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I take the offer,&rdquo; said Sancho; &ldquo;no more compliments
+      about it; pour out, good Tosilos, in spite of all the enchanters in the
+      Indies.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Thou art indeed the greatest glutton in the world, Sancho,&rdquo;
+      said Don Quixote, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </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, &ldquo;Beyond a doubt, Sancho my friend, this
+      master of thine ought to be a madman.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Ought!&rdquo; said Sancho; &ldquo;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&rsquo;s the use?
+      especially now that it is all over with him, for here he is beaten by the
+      Knight of the White Moon.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Tosilos begged him to explain what had happened him, but Sancho replied
+      that it would not be good manners to leave his master waiting for him; and
+      that some other day if they met there would be time enough for that; and
+      then getting up, after shaking his doublet and brushing the crumbs out of
+      his beard, he drove Dapple on before him, and bidding adieu to Tosilos
+      left him and rejoined his master, who was waiting for him under the shade
+      of a tree.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p66e" id="p66e"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p66e.jpg (29K)" src="images/p66e.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      <a name="ch67b" id="ch67b"></a>CHAPTER LXVII.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      OF THE RESOLUTION DON QUIXOTE FORMED TO TURN SHEPHERD AND TAKE TO A LIFE
+      IN THE FIELDS WHILE THE YEAR FOR WHICH HE HAD GIVEN HIS WORD WAS RUNNING
+      ITS COURSE; WITH OTHER EVENTS TRULY DELECTABLE AND HAPPY
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <a name="p67a" id="p67a"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p67a.jpg (145K)" src="images/p67a.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p67a.jpg" style="width:100%;"><img alt="Full Size"
+      src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      If a multitude of reflections used to harass Don Quixote before he had
+      been overthrown, a great many more harassed him since his fall. He was
+      under the shade of a tree, as has been said, and there, like flies on
+      honey, thoughts came crowding upon him and stinging him. Some of them
+      turned upon the disenchantment of Dulcinea, others upon the life he was
+      about to lead in his enforced retirement. Sancho came up and spoke in high
+      praise of the generous disposition of the lacquey Tosilos.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Is it possible, Sancho,&rdquo; said Don Quixote, &ldquo;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?&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;The thoughts that I had,&rdquo; said Sancho, &ldquo;were not such
+      as to leave time for asking fool&rsquo;s questions. Body o&rsquo; me,
+      señor! is your worship in a condition now to inquire into other people&rsquo;s
+      thoughts, above all love thoughts?&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Look ye, Sancho,&rdquo; said Don Quixote, &ldquo;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,&rsquo; illusory and deceptive; all I can give her is the place in
+      my memory I keep for her, without prejudice, however, to that which I hold
+      devoted to Dulcinea, whom thou art wronging by thy remissness in whipping
+      thyself and scourging that flesh&mdash;would that I saw it eaten by wolves&mdash;which
+      would rather keep itself for the worms than for the relief of that poor
+      lady.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Señor,&rdquo; replied Sancho, &ldquo;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, &lsquo;If
+      your head aches rub ointment on your knees;&rsquo; at any rate I&rsquo;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&rsquo;ll whip myself when I have a fancy
+      for it, and the opportunity serves for scourging myself comfortably.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;God grant it,&rdquo; said Don Quixote; &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </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, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Egad,&rdquo; said Sancho, &ldquo;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&rsquo;t have well seen it before they&rsquo;ll
+      want to follow it and turn shepherds along with us; and God grant it may
+      not come into the curate&rsquo;s head to join the sheepfold too, he&rsquo;s
+      so jovial and fond of enjoying himself.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Thou art in the right of it, Sancho,&rdquo; said Don Quixote;
+      &ldquo;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&rsquo;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&rsquo;s name does just as well for a shepherdess&rsquo;s
+      as for a princess&rsquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t mean to give her any but Teresona,&rdquo; said
+      Sancho, &ldquo;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&rsquo;ll show how chaste my passion is, for I&rsquo;m not
+      going to look &lsquo;for better bread than ever came from wheat&rsquo; in
+      other men&rsquo;s houses. It won&rsquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;God bless me, Sancho my friend!&rdquo; said Don Quixote, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;What are albogues?&rdquo; asked Sancho, &ldquo;for I never in my
+      life heard tell of them or saw them.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Albogues,&rdquo; said Don Quixote, &ldquo;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 &ldquo;al&rdquo; at the beginning as by the
+      &ldquo;i&rdquo; 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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      To this Sancho made answer, &ldquo;I am so unlucky, señor, that I&rsquo;m
+      afraid the day will never come when I&rsquo;ll see myself at such a
+      calling. O what neat spoons I&rsquo;ll make when I&rsquo;m a shepherd!
+      What messes, creams, garlands, pastoral odds and ends! And if they don&rsquo;t
+      get me a name for wisdom, they&rsquo;ll not fail to get me one for
+      ingenuity. My daughter Sanchica will bring us our dinner to the pasture.
+      But stay&mdash;she&rsquo;s good-looking, and shepherds there are with more
+      mischief than simplicity in them; I would not have her &lsquo;come for
+      wool and go back shorn;&rsquo; love-making and lawless desires are just as
+      common in the fields as in the cities, and in shepherds&rsquo; shanties as
+      in royal palaces; &lsquo;do away with the cause, you do away with the sin;&rsquo;
+      &lsquo;if eyes don&rsquo;t see hearts don&rsquo;t break&rsquo; and &lsquo;better
+      a clear escape than good men&rsquo;s prayers.&rsquo;&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;A truce to thy proverbs, Sancho,&rdquo; exclaimed Don Quixote;
+      &ldquo;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 &lsquo;preaching in the desert;&rsquo; &lsquo;my mother
+      beats me and I go on with my tricks.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;It seems to me,&rdquo; said Sancho, &ldquo;that your worship is
+      like the common saying, &lsquo;Said the frying-pan to the kettle, Get
+      away, blackbreech.&rsquo; You chide me for uttering proverbs, and you
+      string them in couples yourself.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Observe, Sancho,&rdquo; replied Don Quixote, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      They turned aside, and supped late and poorly, very much against Sancho&rsquo;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&rsquo;s,
+      at the wedding of Camacho the Rich, and at Don Antonio Moreno&rsquo;s; he
+      reflected, however, that it could not be always day, nor always night; and
+      so that night he passed in sleeping, and his master in waking.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p67e" id="p67e"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p67e.jpg (55K)" src="images/p67e.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      <a name="ch68b" id="ch68b"></a>CHAPTER LXVIII.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      OF THE BRISTLY ADVENTURE THAT BEFELL DON QUIXOTE
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <a name="p68a" id="p68a"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p68a.jpg (119K)" src="images/p68a.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p68a.jpg" style="width:100%;"><img alt="Full Size"
+      src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The night was somewhat dark, for though there was a moon in the sky it was
+      not in a quarter where she could be seen; for sometimes the lady Diana
+      goes on a stroll to the antipodes, and leaves the mountains all black and
+      the valleys in darkness. Don Quixote obeyed nature so far as to sleep his
+      first sleep, but did not give way to the second, very different from
+      Sancho, who never had any second, because with him sleep lasted from night
+      till morning, wherein he showed what a sound constitution and few cares he
+      had. Don Quixote&rsquo;s cares kept him restless, so much so that he awoke
+      Sancho and said to him, &ldquo;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&rsquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Señor,&rdquo; replied Sancho, &ldquo;I&rsquo;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&rsquo;ll make me swear never to touch a hair of my doublet,
+      not to say my flesh.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;O hard heart!&rdquo; said Don Quixote, &ldquo;O pitiless squire! O
+      bread ill-bestowed and favours ill-acknowledged, both those I have done
+      thee and those I mean to do thee! Through me hast thou seen thyself a
+      governor, and through me thou seest thyself in immediate expectation of
+      being a count, or obtaining some other equivalent title, for I&mdash;post
+      tenebras spero lucem.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t know what that is,&rdquo; said Sancho; &ldquo;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&rsquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Never have I heard thee speak so elegantly as now, Sancho,&rdquo;
+      said Don Quixote; &ldquo;and here I begin to see the truth of the proverb
+      thou dost sometimes quote, &lsquo;Not with whom thou art bred, but with
+      whom thou art fed.&rsquo;&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Ha, by my life, master mine,&rdquo; said Sancho, &ldquo;it&rsquo;s
+      not I that am stringing proverbs now, for they drop in pairs from your
+      worship&rsquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </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&rsquo;s pack-saddle on the
+      other, in fear and trembling as great as Don Quixote&rsquo;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&rsquo;s dignity or Sancho&rsquo;s,
+      passed right over the pair of them, demolishing Sancho&rsquo;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&rsquo; 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>
+      &ldquo;Let them be, my friend,&rdquo; said Don Quixote; &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I suppose it is the chastisement of heaven, too,&rdquo; said
+      Sancho, &ldquo;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&rsquo;s lie down again and sleep out what little of the night there&rsquo;s
+      left, and God will send us dawn and we shall be all right.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p68b" id="p68b"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p68b.jpg (345K)" src="images/p68b.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p68b.jpg" style="width:100%;"><img alt="Full Size"
+      src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Sleep thou, Sancho,&rdquo; returned Don Quixote, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I should think,&rdquo; said Sancho, &ldquo;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&rsquo;ll sleep as much as I can;&rdquo;
+      and forthwith, taking the space of ground he required, he muffled himself
+      up and fell into a sound sleep, undisturbed by bond, debt, or trouble of
+      any sort. Don Quixote, propped up against the trunk of a beech or a cork
+      tree&mdash;for Cide Hamete does not specify what kind of tree it was&mdash;sang
+      in this strain to the accompaniment of his own sighs:
+    </p>
+<pre xml:space="preserve">
+When in my mind
+I muse, O Love, upon thy cruelty,
+To death I flee,
+In hope therein the end of all to find.
+
+But drawing near
+That welcome haven in my sea of woe,
+Such joy I know,
+That life revives, and still I linger here.
+
+Thus life doth slay,
+And death again to life restoreth me;
+Strange destiny,
+That deals with life and death as with a play!
+
+</pre>
+    <p>
+      He accompanied each verse with many sighs and not a few tears, just like
+      one whose heart was pierced with grief at his defeat and his separation
+      from Dulcinea.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      And now daylight came, and the sun smote Sancho on the eyes with his
+      beams. He awoke, roused himself up, shook himself and stretched his lazy
+      limbs, and seeing the havoc the pigs had made with his stores he cursed
+      the drove, and more besides. Then the pair resumed their journey, and as
+      evening closed in they saw coming towards them some ten men on horseback
+      and four or five on foot. Don Quixote&rsquo;s heart beat quick and Sancho&rsquo;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, &ldquo;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.&rdquo; 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&rsquo;s bridle
+      and drew him out of the road, and the others driving Sancho and Dapple
+      before them, and all maintaining a strange silence, followed in the steps
+      of the one who led Don Quixote. The latter two or three times attempted to
+      ask where they were taking him to and what they wanted, but the instant he
+      began to open his lips they threatened to close them with the points of
+      their lances; and Sancho fared the same way, for the moment he seemed
+      about to speak one of those on foot punched him with a goad, and Dapple
+      likewise, as if he too wanted to talk. Night set in, they quickened their
+      pace, and the fears of the two prisoners grew greater, especially as they
+      heard themselves assailed with&mdash;&ldquo;Get on, ye Troglodytes;&rdquo;
+      &ldquo;Silence, ye barbarians;&rdquo; &ldquo;March, ye cannibals;&rdquo;
+      &ldquo;No murmuring, ye Scythians;&rdquo; &ldquo;Don&rsquo;t open your
+      eyes, ye murderous Polyphemes, ye blood-thirsty lions,&rdquo; and suchlike
+      names with which their captors harassed the ears of the wretched master
+      and man. Sancho went along saying to himself, &ldquo;We, tortolites,
+      barbers, animals! I don&rsquo;t like those names at all; &lsquo;it&rsquo;s
+      in a bad wind our corn is being winnowed;&rsquo; &lsquo;misfortune comes
+      upon us all at once like sticks on a dog,&rsquo; and God grant it may be
+      no worse than them that this unlucky adventure has in store for us.&rdquo;
+    </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&rsquo;s, where they had been but a short time before. &ldquo;God
+      bless me!&rdquo; said he, as he recognised the mansion, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      They entered the chief court of the castle and found it prepared and
+      fitted up in a style that added to their amazement and doubled their
+      fears, as will be seen in the following chapter.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p68e" id="p68e"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p68e.jpg (49K)" src="images/p68e.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      <a name="ch69b" id="ch69b"></a>CHAPTER LXIX.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      OF THE STRANGEST AND MOST EXTRAORDINARY ADVENTURE THAT BEFELL DON QUIXOTE
+      IN THE WHOLE COURSE OF THIS GREAT HISTORY
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <a name="p69a" id="p69a"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p69a.jpg (141K)" src="images/p69a.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p69a.jpg" style="width:100%;"><img alt="Full Size"
+      src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The horsemen dismounted, and, together with the men on foot, without a
+      moment&rsquo;s delay taking up Sancho and Don Quixote bodily, they carried
+      them into the court, all round which near a hundred torches fixed in
+      sockets were burning, besides above five hundred lamps in the corridors,
+      so that in spite of the night, which was somewhat dark, the want of
+      daylight could not be perceived. In the middle of the court was a
+      catafalque, raised about two yards above the ground and covered completely
+      by an immense canopy of black velvet, and on the steps all round it white
+      wax tapers burned in more than a hundred silver candlesticks. Upon the
+      catafalque was seen the dead body of a damsel so lovely that by her beauty
+      she made death itself look beautiful. She lay with her head resting upon a
+      cushion of brocade and crowned with a garland of sweet-smelling flowers of
+      divers sorts, her hands crossed upon her bosom, and between them a branch
+      of yellow palm of victory. On one side of the court was erected a stage,
+      where upon two chairs were seated two persons who from having crowns on
+      their heads and sceptres in their hands appeared to be kings of some sort,
+      whether real or mock ones. By the side of this stage, which was reached by
+      steps, were two other chairs on which the men carrying the prisoners
+      seated Don Quixote and Sancho, all in silence, and by signs giving them to
+      understand that they too were to be silent; which, however, they would
+      have been without any signs, for their amazement at all they saw held them
+      tongue-tied. And now two persons of distinction, who were at once
+      recognised by Don Quixote as his hosts the duke and duchess, ascended the
+      stage attended by a numerous suite, and seated themselves on two gorgeous
+      chairs close to the two kings, as they seemed to be. Who would not have
+      been amazed at this? Nor was this all, for Don Quixote had perceived that
+      the dead body on the catafalque was that of the fair Altisidora. As the
+      duke and duchess mounted the stage Don Quixote and Sancho rose and made
+      them a profound obeisance, which they returned by bowing their heads
+      slightly. At this moment an official crossed over, and approaching Sancho
+      threw over him a robe of black buckram painted all over with flames of
+      fire, and taking off his cap put upon his head a mitre such as those
+      undergoing the sentence of the Holy Office wear; and whispered in his ear
+      that he must not open his lips, or they would put a gag upon him, or take
+      his life. Sancho surveyed himself from head to foot and saw himself all
+      ablaze with flames; but as they did not burn him, he did not care two
+      farthings for them. He took off the mitre and seeing it painted with
+      devils he put it on again, saying to himself, &ldquo;Well, so far those
+      don&rsquo;t burn me nor do these carry me off.&rdquo; 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>
+
+<p class="poem">
+While fair Altisidora, who the sport<br/>
+    Of cold Don Quixote&rsquo;s cruelty hath been,<br/>
+Returns to life, and in this magic court<br/>
+    The dames in sables come to grace the scene,<br/>
+And while her matrons all in seemly sort<br/>
+    My lady robes in baize and bombazine,<br/>
+Her beauty and her sorrows will I sing<br/>
+With defter quill than touched the Thracian string.<br/>
+<br/>
+But not in life alone, methinks, to me<br/>
+    Belongs the office; Lady, when my tongue<br/>
+Is cold in death, believe me, unto thee<br/>
+    My voice shall raise its tributary song.<br/>
+My soul, from this strait prison-house set free,<br/>
+    As o&rsquo;er the Stygian lake it floats along,<br/>
+Thy praises singing still shall hold its way,<br/>
+And make the waters of oblivion stay.<br/>
+</p>
+
+    <p>
+      At this point one of the two that looked like kings exclaimed, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      No sooner had Minos the fellow judge of Rhadamanthus said this, than
+      Rhadamanthus rising up said:
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Ho, officials of this house, high and low, great and small, make
+      haste hither one and all, and print on Sancho&rsquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      On hearing this Sancho broke silence and cried out, &ldquo;By all
+      that&rsquo;s good, I&rsquo;ll as soon let my face be smacked or handled
+      as turn Moor. Body o&rsquo; me! What has handling my face got to do with
+      the resurrection of this damsel? &lsquo;The old woman took kindly to the
+      blits;&rsquo; 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; &lsquo;I&rsquo;m an old
+      dog, and &ldquo;tus, tus&rdquo; is no use with me.&rsquo;&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Thou shalt die,&rdquo; said Rhadamanthus in a loud voice; &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </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, &ldquo;I might let myself be handled by all the world; but
+      allow duennas to touch me&mdash;not a bit of it! Scratch my face, as my
+      master was served in this very castle; run me through the body with
+      burnished daggers; pinch my arms with red-hot pincers; I&rsquo;ll bear all
+      in patience to serve these gentlefolk; but I won&rsquo;t let duennas touch
+      me, though the devil should carry me off!&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Here Don Quixote, too, broke silence, saying to Sancho, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </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>
+      &ldquo;Less politeness and less paint, señora duenna,&rdquo; said Sancho;
+      &ldquo;by God your hands smell of vinegar-wash.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      In line, all the duennas smacked him and several others of the household
+      pinched him; but what he could not stand was being pricked by the pins;
+      and so, apparently out of patience, he started up out of his chair, and
+      seizing a lighted torch that stood near him fell upon the duennas and the
+      whole set of his tormentors, exclaiming, &ldquo;Begone, ye ministers of
+      hell; I&rsquo;m not made of brass not to feel such out-of-the-way
+      tortures.&rdquo;
+    </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, &ldquo;Altisidora is alive! Altisidora lives!&rdquo;
+    </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, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      To which Sancho made answer, &ldquo;That&rsquo;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&rsquo;m to be always made the
+      cow of the wedding for the cure of other people&rsquo;s ailments. Leave me
+      alone; or else by God I&rsquo;ll fling the whole thing to the dogs, let
+      come what may.&rdquo;
+    </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, &ldquo;Long life to Altisidora! long life to
+      Altisidora!&rdquo; 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, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Sancho kissed her hands in gratitude, kneeling, and with the mitre in his
+      hand. The duke bade them take it from him, and give him back his cap and
+      doublet and remove the flaming robe. Sancho begged the duke to let them
+      leave him the robe and mitre; as he wanted to take them home for a token
+      and memento of that unexampled adventure. The duchess said they must leave
+      them with him; for he knew already what a great friend of his she was. The
+      duke then gave orders that the court should be cleared, and that all
+      should retire to their chambers, and that Don Quixote and Sancho should be
+      conducted to their old quarters.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p69e" id="p69e"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p69e.jpg (60K)" src="images/p69e.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      <a name="ch70b" id="ch70b"></a>CHAPTER LXX.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      WHICH FOLLOWS SIXTY-NINE AND DEALS WITH MATTERS INDISPENSABLE FOR THE
+      CLEAR COMPREHENSION OF THIS HISTORY
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <a name="p70a" id="p70a"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p70a.jpg (131K)" src="images/p70a.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p70a.jpg" style="width:100%;"><img alt="Full Size"
+      src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Sancho slept that night in a cot in the same chamber with Don Quixote, a
+      thing he would have gladly excused if he could for he knew very well that
+      with questions and answers his master would not let him sleep, and he was
+      in no humour for talking much, as he still felt the pain of his late
+      martyrdom, which interfered with his freedom of speech; and it would have
+      been more to his taste to sleep in a hovel alone, than in that luxurious
+      chamber in company. And so well founded did his apprehension prove, and so
+      correct was his anticipation, that scarcely had his master got into bed
+      when he said, &ldquo;What dost thou think of to-night&rsquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;She might have died and welcome,&rdquo; said Sancho, &ldquo;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&rsquo;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&rsquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Sleep, Sancho my friend,&rdquo; said Don Quixote, &ldquo;if the
+      pinprodding and pinches thou hast received and the smacks administered to
+      thee will let thee.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;No pain came up to the insult of the smacks,&rdquo; said Sancho,
+      &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Be it so, and God be with thee,&rdquo; 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&rsquo;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&rsquo;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&rsquo;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&rsquo;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&rsquo;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&rsquo; 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, &ldquo;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, Señor 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 class="poem">
+      O harder thou than marble to my plaint;
+    </p>
+
+<p class="noindent">
+      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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Love might very well have let it rest upon the sufferings of my
+      ass, and I should have been obliged to him,&rdquo; said Sancho. &ldquo;But
+      tell me, señora&mdash;and may heaven send you a tenderer lover than my
+      master&mdash;what did you see in the other world? What goes on in hell?
+      For of course that&rsquo;s where one who dies in despair is bound for.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;To tell you the truth,&rdquo; said Altisidora, &ldquo;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&rsquo; 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.&rdquo;
+      &ldquo;That&rsquo;s no wonder,&rdquo; said Sancho; &ldquo;for devils,
+      whether playing or not, can never be content, win or lose.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Very likely,&rdquo; said Altisidora; &ldquo;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. &lsquo;Look
+      what book that is,&rsquo; said one devil to another, and the other
+      replied, &lsquo;It is the &ldquo;Second Part of the History of Don Quixote
+      of La Mancha,&rdquo; not by Cide Hamete, the original author, but by an
+      Aragonese who by his own account is of Tordesillas.&rsquo; &lsquo;Out of
+      this with it,&rsquo; said the first, &lsquo;and into the depths of hell
+      with it out of my sight.&rsquo; &lsquo;Is it so bad?&rsquo; said the
+      other. &lsquo;So bad is it,&rsquo; said the first, &lsquo;that if I had
+      set myself deliberately to make a worse, I could not have done it.&rsquo;
+      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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;A vision it must have been, no doubt,&rdquo; said Don Quixote,
+      &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Altisidora was about to proceed with her complaint against Don Quixote,
+      when he said to her, &ldquo;I have several times told you, señora, 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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Hearing this, Altisidora, with a show of anger and agitation, exclaimed,
+      &ldquo;God&rsquo;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&rsquo;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&rsquo;m not the woman to
+      let the black of my nail suffer for such a camel, much less die!&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;That I can well believe,&rdquo; said Sancho; &ldquo;for all that
+      about lovers pining to death is absurd; they may talk of it, but as for
+      doing it&mdash;Judas may believe that!&rdquo;
+    </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, &ldquo;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?&rdquo; &ldquo;Will your worship tell me who you are,&rdquo;
+      replied Don Quixote, &ldquo;so that my courtesy may be answerable to your
+      deserts?&rdquo; The young man replied that he was the musician and
+      songster of the night before. &ldquo;Of a truth,&rdquo; said Don Quixote,
+      &ldquo;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&rsquo;s
+      stanzas to do with the death of this lady?&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Don&rsquo;t be surprised at that,&rdquo; returned the musician;
+      &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </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, &ldquo;Señora, let me tell your ladyship that this damsel&rsquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;And mine,&rdquo; added Sancho; &ldquo;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&rsquo;m digging I never think of
+      my old woman; I mean my Teresa Panza, whom I love better than my own
+      eyelids.&rdquo; &ldquo;You say well, Sancho,&rdquo; said the duchess,
+      &ldquo;and I will take care that my Altisidora employs herself
+      henceforward in needlework of some sort; for she is extremely expert at
+      it.&rdquo; &ldquo;There is no occasion to have recourse to that remedy,
+      señora,&rdquo; said Altisidora; &ldquo;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&rsquo;s
+      leave I will retire, not to have before my eyes, I won&rsquo;t say his
+      rueful countenance, but his abominable, ugly looks.&rdquo; &ldquo;That
+      reminds me of the common saying, that &lsquo;he that rails is ready to
+      forgive,&rsquo;&rdquo; 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>
+      &ldquo;Ill luck betide thee, poor damsel,&rdquo; said Sancho, &ldquo;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&rsquo;faith &lsquo;another cock
+      would have crowed to thee.&rsquo;&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      So the conversation came to an end, and Don Quixote dressed himself and
+      dined with the duke and duchess, and set out the same evening.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p70e" id="p70e"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p70e.jpg (73K)" src="images/p70e.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p70e.jpg" style="width:100%;"><img alt="Full Size"
+      src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      <a name="ch71b" id="ch71b"></a>CHAPTER LXXI.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      OF WHAT PASSED BETWEEN DON QUIXOTE AND HIS SQUIRE SANCHO ON THE WAY TO
+      THEIR VILLAGE
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <a name="p71a" id="p71a"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p71a.jpg (82K)" src="images/p71a.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p71a.jpg" style="width:100%;"><img alt="Full Size"
+      src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The vanquished and afflicted Don Quixote went along very downcast in one
+      respect and very happy in another. His sadness arose from his defeat, and
+      his satisfaction from the thought of the virtue that lay in Sancho, as had
+      been proved by the resurrection of Altisidora; though it was with
+      difficulty he could persuade himself that the love-smitten damsel had been
+      really dead. Sancho went along anything but cheerful, for it grieved him
+      that Altisidora had not kept her promise of giving him the smocks; and
+      turning this over in his mind he said to his master, &ldquo;Surely, señor,
+      I&rsquo;m the most unlucky doctor in the world; there&rsquo;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&rsquo;s good if they put another patient into my hands,
+      they&rsquo;ll have to grease them for me before I cure him; for, as they
+      say, &lsquo;it&rsquo;s by his singing the abbot gets his dinner,&rsquo;
+      and I&rsquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Thou art right, Sancho my friend,&rdquo; said Don Quixote, &ldquo;and
+      Altisidora has behaved very badly in not giving thee the smocks she
+      promised; and although that virtue of thine is gratis data&mdash;as it has
+      cost thee no study whatever, any more than such study as thy personal
+      sufferings may be&mdash;I can say for myself that if thou wouldst have
+      payment for the lashes on account of the disenchant of Dulcinea, I would
+      have given it to thee freely ere this. I am not sure, however, whether
+      payment will comport with the cure, and I would not have the reward
+      interfere with the medicine. I think there will be nothing lost by trying
+      it; consider how much thou wouldst have, Sancho, and whip thyself at once,
+      and pay thyself down with thine own hand, as thou hast money of mine.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      At this proposal Sancho opened his eyes and his ears a palm&rsquo;s
+      breadth wide, and in his heart very readily acquiesced in whipping
+      himself, and said he to his master, &ldquo;Very well then, señor, I&rsquo;ll
+      hold myself in readiness to gratify your worship&rsquo;s wishes if I&rsquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;If Sancho,&rdquo; replied Don Quixote, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Of them,&rdquo; said Sancho, &ldquo;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&rsquo;ll
+      return home rich and content, though well whipped, for &lsquo;there&rsquo;s
+      no taking trout&rsquo;&mdash;but I say no more.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;O blessed Sancho! O dear Sancho!&rdquo; said Don Quixote; &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;When?&rdquo; said Sancho; &ldquo;this night without fail. Let your
+      worship order it so that we pass it out of doors and in the open air, and
+      I&rsquo;ll scarify myself.&rdquo;
+    </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&rsquo;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&rsquo;s saddle and Dapple&rsquo;s pack-saddle, they
+      stretched themselves on the green grass and made their supper off Sancho&rsquo;s
+      stores, and he making a powerful and flexible whip out of Dapple&rsquo;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, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;&lsquo;Pledges don&rsquo;t distress a good payer,&rsquo;&rdquo;
+      said Sancho; &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </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>
+      &ldquo;Go on, Sancho my friend, and be not disheartened,&rdquo; said Don
+      Quixote; &ldquo;for I double the stakes as to price.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;In that case,&rdquo; said Sancho, &ldquo;in God&rsquo;s hand be it,
+      and let it rain lashes.&rdquo; 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&rsquo;s imprudence he might
+      miss his own object, said to him, &ldquo;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; &lsquo;Zamora was not won in an
+      hour.&rsquo; If I have not reckoned wrong thou hast given thyself over a
+      thousand lashes; that is enough for the present; &lsquo;for the ass,&rsquo;
+      to put it in homely phrase, &lsquo;bears the load, but not the overload.&rsquo;&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;No, no, señor,&rdquo; replied Sancho; &ldquo;it shall never be said
+      of me, &lsquo;The money paid, the arms broken;&rsquo; 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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;As thou art in such a willing mood,&rdquo; said Don Quixote,
+      &ldquo;may heaven aid thee; lay on and I&rsquo;ll retire.&rdquo;
+    </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, &ldquo;Here dies Samson, and all with him!&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p71b" id="p71b"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p71b.jpg (349K)" src="images/p71b.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p71b.jpg" style="width:100%;"><img alt="Full Size"
+      src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      At the sound of his piteous cry and of the stroke of the cruel lash, Don
+      Quixote ran to him at once, and seizing the twisted halter that served him
+      for a courbash, said to him, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;As your worship will have it so, señor,&rdquo; said Sancho, &ldquo;so
+      be it; but throw your cloak over my shoulders, for I&rsquo;m sweating and
+      I don&rsquo;t want to take cold; it&rsquo;s a risk that novice
+      disciplinants run.&rdquo;
+    </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 Æneas, 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, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I&rsquo;ll lay a bet,&rdquo; said Sancho, &ldquo;that before long
+      there won&rsquo;t be a tavern, roadside inn, hostelry, or barber&rsquo;s
+      shop where the story of our doings won&rsquo;t be painted up; but I&rsquo;d
+      like it painted by the hand of a better painter than painted these.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Thou art right, Sancho,&rdquo; said Don Quixote, &ldquo;for this
+      painter is like Orbaneja, a painter there was at Ubeda, who when they
+      asked him what he was painting, used to say, &lsquo;Whatever it may turn
+      out; and if he chanced to paint a cock he would write under it, &lsquo;This
+      is a cock,&rsquo; for fear they might think it was a fox. The painter or
+      writer, for it&rsquo;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 &lsquo;whatever it might turn out;&rsquo;
+      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?&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Egad, señor,&rdquo; said Sancho, &ldquo;for what I&rsquo;m going to
+      give myself, it comes all the same to me whether it is in a house or in
+      the fields; still I&rsquo;d like it to be among trees; for I think they
+      are company for me and help me to bear my pain wonderfully.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;And yet it must not be, Sancho my friend,&rdquo; said Don Quixote;
+      &ldquo;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 to-morrow.&rdquo;
+    </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 &ldquo;in delay there is apt to be danger&rdquo;
+      very often, and &ldquo;praying to God and plying the hammer,&rdquo; and
+      &ldquo;one take was better than two I&rsquo;ll give thee&rsquo;s,&rdquo;
+      and &ldquo;a sparrow in the hand than a vulture on the wing.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;For God&rsquo;s sake, Sancho, no more proverbs!&rdquo; exclaimed
+      Don Quixote; &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t know what bad luck it is of mine,&rdquo; said Sancho,
+      &ldquo;but I can&rsquo;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;&rdquo;
+      and so for the present the conversation ended.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p71e" id="p71e"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p71e.jpg (42K)" src="images/p71e.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      <a name="ch72b" id="ch72b"></a>CHAPTER LXXII.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      OF HOW DON QUIXOTE AND SANCHO REACHED THEIR VILLAGE
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <a name="p72a" id="p72a"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p72a.jpg (155K)" src="images/p72a.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p72a.jpg" style="width:100%;"><img alt="Full Size"
+      src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      All that day Don Quixote and Sancho remained in the village and inn
+      waiting for night, the one to finish off his task of scourging in the open
+      country, the other to see it accomplished, for therein lay the
+      accomplishment of his wishes. Meanwhile there arrived at the hostelry a
+      traveller on horseback with three or four servants, one of whom said to
+      him who appeared to be the master, &ldquo;Here, Señor Don Alvaro Tarfe,
+      your worship may take your siesta to-day; the quarters seem clean and
+      cool.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      When he heard this Don Quixote said to Sancho, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Very likely,&rdquo; said Sancho; &ldquo;we had better let him
+      dismount, and by-and-by we can ask about it.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The gentleman dismounted, and the landlady gave him a room on the ground
+      floor opposite Don Quixote&rsquo;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,
+      &ldquo;In what direction is your worship bound, gentle sir?&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;To a village near this which is my own village,&rdquo; replied Don
+      Quixote; &ldquo;and your worship, where are you bound for?&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I am going to Granada, señor,&rdquo; said the gentleman, &ldquo;to
+      my own country.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;And a goodly country,&rdquo; said Don Quixote; &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;My name is Don Alvaro Tarfe,&rdquo; replied the traveller.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      To which Don Quixote returned, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I am the same,&rdquo; replied the gentleman; &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Tell me, Señor Don Alvaro,&rdquo; said Don Quixote, &ldquo;am I at
+      all like that Don Quixote you talk of?&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;No indeed,&rdquo; replied the traveller, &ldquo;not a bit.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;And that Don Quixote&mdash;&rdquo; said our one, &ldquo;had he
+      with him a squire called Sancho Panza?&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;He had,&rdquo; said Don Alvaro; &ldquo;but though he had the name
+      of being very droll, I never heard him say anything that had any drollery
+      in it.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;That I can well believe,&rdquo; said Sancho at this, &ldquo;for to
+      come out with drolleries is not in everybody&rsquo;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&rsquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;By God I believe it,&rdquo; said Don Alvaro; &ldquo;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&rsquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t know whether I am good,&rdquo; said Don Quixote,
+      &ldquo;but I can safely say I am not &lsquo;the Bad;&rsquo; and to prove
+      it, let me tell you, Señor 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, Señor 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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;That I will do most willingly,&rdquo; replied Don Alvaro; &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;No doubt your worship is enchanted, like my lady Dulcinea del
+      Toboso,&rdquo; said Sancho; &ldquo;and would to heaven your disenchantment
+      rested on my giving myself another three thousand and odd lashes like what
+      I&rsquo;m giving myself for her, for I&rsquo;d lay them on without looking
+      for anything.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t understand that about the lashes,&rdquo; 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 &ldquo;Second Part of Don Quixote of La
+      Mancha, by one Avellaneda of Tordesillas.&rdquo; 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&rsquo;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&rsquo;s
+      enchantment and the remedy, all which threw Don Alvaro into fresh
+      amazement, and embracing Don Quixote and Sancho, he went his way, and Don
+      Quixote went his. That night he passed among trees again in order to give
+      Sancho an opportunity of working out his penance, which he did in the same
+      fashion as the night before, at the expense of the bark of the beech trees
+      much more than of his back, of which he took such good care that the
+      lashes would not have knocked off a fly had there been one there. The
+      duped Don Quixote did not miss a single stroke of the count, and he found
+      that together with those of the night before they made up three thousand
+      and twenty-nine. The sun apparently had got up early to witness the
+      sacrifice, and with his light they resumed their journey, discussing the
+      deception practised on Don Alvaro, and saying how well done it was to have
+      taken his declaration before a magistrate in such an unimpeachable form.
+      That day and night they travelled on, nor did anything worth mention
+      happen to them, unless it was that in the course of the night Sancho
+      finished off his task, whereat Don Quixote was beyond measure joyful. He
+      watched for daylight, to see if along the road he should fall in with his
+      already disenchanted lady Dulcinea; and as he pursued his journey there
+      was no woman he met that he did not go up to, to see if she was Dulcinea
+      del Toboso, as he held it absolutely certain that Merlin&rsquo;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, &ldquo;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&rsquo;m bringing back money, for if I was
+      well whipped, I went mounted like a gentleman.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p72b" id="p72b"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p72b.jpg (375K)" src="images/p72b.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p72b.jpg" style="width:100%;"><img alt="Full Size"
+      src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Have done with these fooleries,&rdquo; said Don Quixote; &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      With this they descended the slope and directed their steps to their
+      village.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p72e" id="p72e"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p72e.jpg (35K)" src="images/p72e.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      <a name="ch73b" id="ch73b"></a>CHAPTER LXXIII.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      OF THE OMENS DON QUIXOTE HAD AS HE ENTERED HIS OWN VILLAGE, AND OTHER
+      INCIDENTS THAT EMBELLISH AND GIVE A COLOUR TO THIS GREAT HISTORY
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <a name="p73a" id="p73a"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p73a.jpg (141K)" src="images/p73a.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p73a.jpg" style="width:100%;"><img alt="Full Size"
+      src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      At the entrance of the village, so says Cide Hamete, Don Quixote saw two
+      boys quarrelling on the village threshing-floor, one of whom said to the
+      other, &ldquo;Take it easy, Periquillo; thou shalt never see it again as
+      long as thou livest.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Don Quixote heard this, and said he to Sancho, &ldquo;Dost thou not mark,
+      friend, what that boy said, &lsquo;Thou shalt never see it again as long
+      as thou livest&rsquo;?&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Well,&rdquo; said Sancho, &ldquo;what does it matter if the boy
+      said so?&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;What!&rdquo; said Don Quixote, &ldquo;dost thou not see that,
+      applied to the object of my desires, the words mean that I am never to see
+      Dulcinea more?&rdquo;
+    </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, &ldquo;Malum signum, malum signum! a hare flies, greyhounds chase
+      it, Dulcinea appears not.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Your worship&rsquo;s a strange man,&rdquo; said Sancho; &ldquo;let&rsquo;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&rsquo;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?&rdquo;
+    </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, &ldquo;Thou shalt never see it again as long as thou
+      livest,&rdquo; 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&rsquo;s hands, saying, &ldquo;There,
+      señor! 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&rsquo;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&rsquo;s
+      no need of making words about it; let us push on and go into our village.&rdquo;
+    </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&rsquo;s castle
+      the night Altisidora came back to life. He had also fixed the mitre on
+      Dapple&rsquo;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&rsquo;s mitre and came
+      running to see it, calling out to one another, &ldquo;Come here, boys, and
+      see Sancho Panza&rsquo;s ass figged out finer than Mingo, and Don Quixote&rsquo;s
+      beast leaner than ever.&rdquo;
+    </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&rsquo;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&rsquo;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, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Hold your tongue, Teresa,&rdquo; said Sancho; &ldquo;often &lsquo;where
+      there are pegs there are no flitches;&rsquo; let&rsquo;s go into the house
+      and there you&rsquo;ll hear strange things. I bring money, and that&rsquo;s
+      the main thing, got by my own industry without wronging anybody.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;You bring the money, my good husband,&rdquo; said Teresa, &ldquo;and
+      no matter whether it was got this way or that; for, however you may have
+      got it, you&rsquo;ll not have brought any new practice into the world.&rdquo;
+    </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&rsquo;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&rsquo;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. &ldquo;And what&rsquo;s more,&rdquo;
+      said Samson Carrasco, &ldquo;I am, as all the world knows, a very famous
+      poet, and I&rsquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;That&rsquo;s the very thing,&rdquo; said Don Quixote; &ldquo;though
+      I am relieved from looking for the name of an imaginary shepherdess, for
+      there&rsquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Very true,&rdquo; said the curate; &ldquo;but we the others must
+      look about for accommodating shepherdesses that will answer our purpose
+      one way or another.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;And,&rdquo; added Samson Carrasco, &ldquo;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&rsquo;ll sing her praises under the name of Anarda, and if Francisca, I&rsquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </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, &ldquo;What&rsquo;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 &lsquo;young shepherd, thou that comest here, young shepherd going
+      there?&rsquo; Nay! indeed &lsquo;the straw is too hard now to make pipes
+      of.&rsquo;&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;And,&rdquo; added the housekeeper, &ldquo;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&rsquo;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&rsquo;s better to be a knight-errant than a shepherd! Look here,
+      señor; take my advice&mdash;and I&rsquo;m not giving it to you full of
+      bread and wine, but fasting, and with fifty years upon my head&mdash;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Hold your peace, my daughters,&rdquo; said Don Quixote; &ldquo;I
+      know very well what my duty is; help me to bed, for I don&rsquo;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.&rdquo; And the good wenches (for that they undoubtedly
+      were), the housekeeper and niece, helped him to bed, where they gave him
+      something to eat and made him as comfortable as possible.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      <a name="ch74b" id="ch74b"></a>CHAPTER LXXIV.
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h3>
+      OF HOW DON QUIXOTE FELL SICK, AND OF THE WILL HE MADE, AND HOW HE DIED
+    </h3>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <a name="p74a" id="p74a"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p74a.jpg (96K)" src="images/p74a.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p74a.jpg" style="width:100%;"><img alt="Full Size"
+      src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      As nothing that is man&rsquo;s can last for ever, but all tends ever
+      downwards from its beginning to its end, and above all man&rsquo;s life,
+      and as Don Quixote&rsquo;s enjoyed no special dispensation from heaven to
+      stay its course, its end and close came when he least looked for it.
+      For&mdash;whether it was of the dejection the thought of his defeat
+      produced, or of heaven&rsquo;s will that so ordered it&mdash;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&rsquo;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, &ldquo;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!&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The niece listened with attention to her uncle&rsquo;s words, and they
+      struck her as more coherent than what usually fell from him, at least
+      during his illness, so she asked, &ldquo;What are you saying, señor? Has
+      anything strange occurred? What mercies or what sins of men are you
+      talking of?&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;The mercies, niece,&rdquo; said Don Quixote, &ldquo;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.&rdquo; But his niece was saved the
+      trouble by the entrance of the three. The instant Don Quixote saw them he
+      exclaimed, &ldquo;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&rsquo;s mercy schooled into my
+      right senses, I loathe them.&rdquo;
+    </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, &ldquo;What?
+      Señor 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&rsquo;s sake, be rational
+      and let&rsquo;s have no more nonsense.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;All that nonsense,&rdquo; said Don Quixote, &ldquo;that until now
+      has been a reality to my hurt, my death will, with heaven&rsquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      They looked at one another, wondering at Don Quixote&rsquo;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, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      This news gave a tremendous impulse to the brimming eyes of the
+      housekeeper, niece, and Sancho Panza his good squire, making the tears
+      burst from their eyes and a host of sighs from their hearts; for of a
+      truth, as has been said more than once, whether as plain Alonso Quixano
+      the Good, or as Don Quixote of La Mancha, Don Quixote was always of a
+      gentle disposition and kindly in all his ways, and hence he was beloved,
+      not only by those of his own house, but by all who knew him.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The notary came in with the rest, and as soon as the preamble of the will
+      had been set out and Don Quixote had commended his soul to God with all
+      the devout formalities that are usual, coming to the bequests, he said,
+      &ldquo;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.&rdquo; And
+      then, turning to Sancho, he said, &ldquo;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Ah!&rdquo; said Sancho weeping, &ldquo;don&rsquo;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&rsquo;s making an end of
+      him. Come, don&rsquo;t be lazy, but get up from your bed and let us take
+      to the fields in shepherd&rsquo;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 to-morrow.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Very true,&rdquo; said Samson, &ldquo;and good Sancho Panza&rsquo;s
+      view of these cases is quite right.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Sirs, not so fast,&rdquo; said Don Quixote, &ldquo;&lsquo;in last
+      year&rsquo;s nests there are no birds this year.&rsquo; 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>
+      &ldquo;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>
+      &ldquo;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>
+      &ldquo;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 &lsquo;Second Part of
+      the Achievements of Don Quixote of La Mancha,&rsquo; 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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      With this he closed his will, and a faintness coming over him he stretched
+      himself out at full length on the bed. All were in a flutter and made
+      haste to relieve him, and during the three days he lived after that on
+      which he made his will he fainted away very often. The house was all in
+      confusion; but still the niece ate and the housekeeper drank and Sancho
+      Panza enjoyed himself; for inheriting property wipes out or softens down
+      in the heir the feeling of grief the dead man might be expected to leave
+      behind him.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p74b" id="p74b"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p74b.jpg (391K)" src="images/p74b.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p74b.jpg" style="width:100%;"><img alt="Full Size"
+      src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      At last Don Quixote&rsquo;s end came, after he had received all the
+      sacraments, and had in full and forcible terms expressed his detestation
+      of books of chivalry. The notary was there at the time, and he said that
+      in no book of chivalry had he ever read of any knight-errant dying in his
+      bed so calmly and so like a Christian as Don Quixote, who amid the tears
+      and lamentations of all present yielded up his spirit, that is to say
+      died. On perceiving it the curate begged the notary to bear witness that
+      Alonso Quixano the Good, commonly called Don Quixote of La Mancha, had
+      passed away from this present life, and died naturally; and said he
+      desired this testimony in order to remove the possibility of any other
+      author save Cide Hamete Benengeli bringing him to life again falsely and
+      making interminable stories out of his achievements.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Such was the end of the Ingenious Gentleman of La Mancha, whose village
+      Cide Hamete would not indicate precisely, in order to leave all the towns
+      and villages of La Mancha to contend among themselves for the right to
+      adopt him and claim him as a son, as the seven cities of Greece contended
+      for Homer. The lamentations of Sancho and the niece and housekeeper are
+      omitted here, as well as the new epitaphs upon his tomb; Samson Carrasco,
+      however, put the following lines:
+    </p>
+<pre xml:space="preserve">
+A doughty gentleman lies here;
+A stranger all his life to fear;
+Nor in his death could Death prevail,
+In that last hour, to make him quail.
+He for the world but little cared;
+And at his feats the world was scared;
+A crazy man his life he passed,
+But in his senses died at last.
+
+</pre>
+    <p>
+      And said most sage Cide Hamete to his pen, &ldquo;Rest here, hung up by
+      this brass wire, upon this shelf, O my pen, whether of skilful make or
+      clumsy cut I know not; here shalt thou remain long ages hence, unless
+      presumptuous or malignant story-tellers take thee down to profane thee.
+      But ere they touch thee warn them, and, as best thou canst, say to them:
+    </p>
+<pre xml:space="preserve">
+Hold off! ye weaklings; hold your hands!
+Adventure it let none,
+For this emprise, my lord the king,
+Was meant for me alone.
+
+</pre>
+    <p>
+      For me alone was Don Quixote born, and I for him; it was his to act, mine
+      to write; we two together make but one, notwithstanding and in spite of
+      that pretended Tordesillesque writer who has ventured or would venture
+      with his great, coarse, ill-trimmed ostrich quill to write the
+      achievements of my valiant knight;&mdash;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.&rdquo;
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name="p74e" id="p74e"></a>
+    </p>
+    <div class="fig" style="width:60%;">
+      <img alt="p74e.jpg (49K)" src="images/p74e.jpg" style="width:100%;" />
+    </div>
+    <p>
+      <a href="images/p74e.jpg" style="width:100%;"><img alt="Full Size"
+      src="images/enlarge.jpg" /></a><br /> <br />
+    </p>
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