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W. Clark, illustrated by +Gustave Dore. Clark in his edition states that, "The English text of 'Don Quixote' +adopted in this edition is that of Jarvis, with occasional corrections from Motteaux." +See in the introduction below John Ormsby's critique of +both the Jarvis and Motteaux translations. It has been elected in the present Project Gutenberg edition +to attach the famous engravings of Gustave Dore to the Ormsby translation instead +of the Jarvis/Motteaux. The detail of many of the Dore engravings can be fully appreciated only +by utilizing the "Enlarge" button to expand them to their original dimensions. Ormsby +in his Preface has criticized the fanciful nature of Dore's illustrations; others feel +these woodcuts and steel engravings well match Quixote's dreams. + D.W.</p> +</blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<br><br><br><br> +<center> +<img alt="p003.jpg (307K)" src="images/p003.jpg" height="813" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p003.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"> +</a> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<center><h2>CONTENTS</h2></center> + + +<pre> + +<a href="#ch22b">CHAPTER XXII</a> +WHERIN IS RELATED THE GRAND ADVENTURE OF THE CAVE +OF MONTESINOS IN THE HEART OF LA MANCHA, WHICH THE +VALIANT DON QUIXOTE BROUGHT TO A HAPPY TERMINATION + +</pre> + +<br><br><br><br> + + +<center><h1>DON QUIXOTE</h1></center> +<br><br> +<center><h2>Volume II.</h2></center> +<br> +<br> +<br> + + + +<br><br> +<center><h2><a name="ch22b"></a>CHAPTER XXII.</h2></center> +<br> +<center><h3>WHERIN IS RELATED THE GRAND ADVENTURE OF THE CAVE OF MONTESINOS IN +THE HEART OF LA MANCHA, WHICH THE VALIANT DON QUIXOTE BROUGHT TO A +HAPPY TERMINATION +</h3></center> +<br> +<br> + +<center><a name="p22a"></a><img alt="p22a.jpg (112K)" src="images/p22a.jpg" height="358" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p22a.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<p>Many and great were the attentions shown to Don Quixote by the newly +married couple, who felt themselves under an obligation to him for +coming forward in defence of their cause; and they exalted his +wisdom to the same level with his courage, rating him as a Cid in +arms, and a Cicero in eloquence. Worthy Sancho enjoyed himself for +three days at the expense of the pair, from whom they learned that the +sham wound was not a scheme arranged with the fair Quiteria, but a +device of Basilio's, who counted on exactly the result they had +seen; he confessed, it is true, that he had confided his idea to +some of his friends, so that at the proper time they might aid him +in his purpose and insure the success of the deception.</p> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p22b"></a><img alt="p22b.jpg (344K)" src="images/p22b.jpg" height="822" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p22b.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<p>"That," said Don Quixote, "is not and ought not to be called +deception which aims at virtuous ends;" and the marriage of lovers +he maintained to be a most excellent end, reminding them, however, +that love has no greater enemy than hunger and constant want; for love +is all gaiety, enjoyment, and happiness, especially when the lover +is in the possession of the object of his love, and poverty and want +are the declared enemies of all these; which he said to urge Senor +Basilio to abandon the practice of those accomplishments he was +skilled in, for though they brought him fame, they brought him no +money, and apply himself to the acquisition of wealth by legitimate +industry, which will never fail those who are prudent and persevering. +The poor man who is a man of honour (if indeed a poor man can be a man +of honour) has a jewel when he has a fair wife, and if she is taken +from him, his honour is taken from him and slain. The fair woman who +is a woman of honour, and whose husband is poor, deserves to be +crowned with the laurels and crowns of victory and triumph. Beauty +by itself attracts the desires of all who behold it, and the royal +eagles and birds of towering flight stoop on it as on a dainty lure; +but if beauty be accompanied by want and penury, then the ravens and +the kites and other birds of prey assail it, and she who stands firm +against such attacks well deserves to be called the crown of her +husband. "Remember, O prudent Basilio," added Don Quixote, "it was the +opinion of a certain sage, I know not whom, that there was not more +than one good woman in the whole world; and his advice was that each +one should think and believe that this one good woman was his own +wife, and in this way he would live happy. I myself am not married, +nor, so far, has it ever entered my thoughts to be so; nevertheless +I would venture to give advice to anyone who might ask it, as to the +mode in which he should seek a wife such as he would be content to +marry. The first thing I would recommend him, would be to look to good +name rather than to wealth, for a good woman does not win a good +name merely by being good, but by letting it be seen that she is so, +and open looseness and freedom do much more damage to a woman's honour +than secret depravity. If you take a good woman into your house it +will be an easy matter to keep her good, and even to make her still +better; but if you take a bad one you will find it hard work to mend +her, for it is no very easy matter to pass from one extreme to +another. I do not say it is impossible, but I look upon it as +difficult."</p> + +<p>Sancho, listening to all this, said to himself, "This master of +mine, when I say anything that has weight and substance, says I +might take a pulpit in hand, and go about the world preaching fine +sermons; but I say of him that, when he begins stringing maxims +together and giving advice not only might he take a pulpit in hand, +but two on each finger, and go into the market-places to his heart's +content. Devil take you for a knight-errant, what a lot of things +you know! I used to think in my heart that the only thing he knew +was what belonged to his chivalry; but there is nothing he won't +have a finger in."</p> + +<p>Sancho muttered this somewhat aloud, and his master overheard him, +and asked, "What art thou muttering there, Sancho?"</p> + +<p>"I'm not saying anything or muttering anything," said Sancho; "I was +only saying to myself that I wish I had heard what your worship has +said just now before I married; perhaps I'd say now, 'The ox that's +loose licks himself well.'"</p> + +<p>"Is thy Teresa so bad then, Sancho?"</p> + +<p>"She is not very bad," replied Sancho; "but she is not very good; at +least she is not as good as I could wish."</p> + +<p>"Thou dost wrong, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "to speak ill of thy +wife; for after all she is the mother of thy children." "We are +quits," returned Sancho; "for she speaks ill of me whenever she +takes it into her head, especially when she is jealous; and Satan +himself could not put up with her then."</p> + +<p>In fine, they remained three days with the newly married couple, +by whom they were entertained and treated like kings. Don Quixote +begged the fencing licentiate to find him a guide to show him the +way to the cave of Montesinos, as he had a great desire to enter it +and see with his own eyes if the wonderful tales that were told of +it all over the country were true. The licentiate said he would get +him a cousin of his own, a famous scholar, and one very much given +to reading books of chivalry, who would have great pleasure in +conducting him to the mouth of the very cave, and would show him the +lakes of Ruidera, which were likewise famous all over La Mancha, and +even all over Spain; and he assured him he would find him +entertaining, for he was a youth who could write books good enough +to be printed and dedicated to princes. The cousin arrived at last, +leading an ass in foal, with a pack-saddle covered with a +parti-coloured carpet or sackcloth; Sancho saddled Rocinante, got +Dapple ready, and stocked his alforjas, along with which went those of +the cousin, likewise well filled; and so, commending themselves to God +and bidding farewell to all, they set out, taking the road for the +famous cave of Montesinos.</p> + +<p>On the way Don Quixote asked the cousin of what sort and character +his pursuits, avocations, and studies were, to which he replied that +he was by profession a humanist, and that his pursuits and studies +were making books for the press, all of great utility and no less +entertainment to the nation. One was called "The Book of Liveries," in +which he described seven hundred and three liveries, with their +colours, mottoes, and ciphers, from which gentlemen of the court might +pick and choose any they fancied for festivals and revels, without +having to go a-begging for them from anyone, or puzzling their brains, +as the saying is, to have them appropriate to their objects and +purposes; "for," said he, "I give the jealous, the rejected, the +forgotten, the absent, what will suit them, and fit them without fail. +I have another book, too, which I shall call 'Metamorphoses, or the +Spanish Ovid,' one of rare and original invention, for imitating +Ovid in burlesque style, I show in it who the Giralda of Seville and +the Angel of the Magdalena were, what the sewer of Vecinguerra at +Cordova was, what the bulls of Guisando, the Sierra Morena, the +Leganitos and Lavapies fountains at Madrid, not forgetting those of +the Piojo, of the Cano Dorado, and of the Priora; and all with their +allegories, metaphors, and changes, so that they are amusing, +interesting, and instructive, all at once. Another book I have which I +call 'The Supplement to Polydore Vergil,' which treats of the +invention of things, and is a work of great erudition and research, +for I establish and elucidate elegantly some things of great +importance which Polydore omitted to mention. He forgot to tell us who +was the first man in the world that had a cold in his head, and who +was the first to try salivation for the French disease, but I give +it accurately set forth, and quote more than five-and-twenty authors +in proof of it, so you may perceive I have laboured to good purpose +and that the book will be of service to the whole world."</p> + +<p>Sancho, who had been very attentive to the cousin's words, said to +him, "Tell me, senor—and God give you luck in printing your +books—can you tell me (for of course you know, as you know everything) who +was the first man that scratched his head? For to my thinking it +must have been our father Adam."</p> + +<p>"So it must," replied the cousin; "for there is no doubt but Adam +had a head and hair; and being the first man in the world he would +have scratched himself sometimes."</p> + +<p>"So I think," said Sancho; "but now tell me, who was the first +tumbler in the world?"</p> + +<p>"Really, brother," answered the cousin, "I could not at this +moment say positively without having investigated it; I will look it +up when I go back to where I have my books, and will satisfy you the +next time we meet, for this will not be the last time."</p> + +<p>"Look here, senor," said Sancho, "don't give yourself any trouble +about it, for I have just this minute hit upon what I asked you. The +first tumbler in the world, you must know, was Lucifer, when they cast +or pitched him out of heaven; for he came tumbling into the bottomless +pit."</p> + +<p>"You are right, friend," said the cousin; and said Don Quixote, +"Sancho, that question and answer are not thine own; thou hast heard +them from some one else."</p> + +<p>"Hold your peace, senor," said Sancho; "faith, if I take to asking +questions and answering, I'll go on from this till to-morrow +morning. Nay! to ask foolish things and answer nonsense I needn't go +looking for help from my neighbours."</p> + +<p>"Thou hast said more than thou art aware of, Sancho," said Don +Quixote; "for there are some who weary themselves out in learning +and proving things that, after they are known and proved, are not +worth a farthing to the understanding or memory."</p> + +<p>In this and other pleasant conversation the day went by, and that +night they put up at a small hamlet whence it was not more than two +leagues to the cave of Montesinos, so the cousin told Don Quixote, +adding, that if he was bent upon entering it, it would be requisite +for him to provide himself with ropes, so that he might be tied and +lowered into its depths. Don Quixote said that even if it reached to +the bottomless pit he meant to see where it went to; so they bought +about a hundred fathoms of rope, and next day at two in the +afternoon they arrived at the cave, the mouth of which is spacious and +wide, but full of thorn and wild-fig bushes and brambles and briars, +so thick and matted that they completely close it up and cover it +over.</p> + +<p>On coming within sight of it the cousin, Sancho, and Don Quixote +dismounted, and the first two immediately tied the latter very +firmly with the ropes, and as they were girding and swathing him +Sancho said to him, "Mind what you are about, master mine; don't go +burying yourself alive, or putting yourself where you'll be like a +bottle put to cool in a well; it's no affair or business of your +worship's to become the explorer of this, which must be worse than a +Moorish dungeon."</p> + +<p>"Tie me and hold thy peace," said Don Quixote, "for an emprise +like this, friend Sancho, was reserved for me;" and said the guide, "I +beg of you, Senor Don Quixote, to observe carefully and examine with a +hundred eyes everything that is within there; perhaps there may be +some things for me to put into my book of 'Transformations.'"</p> + +<p>"The drum is in hands that will know how to beat it well enough," +said Sancho Panza.</p> + +<p>When he had said this and finished the tying (which was not over the +armour but only over the doublet) Don Quixote observed, "It was +careless of us not to have provided ourselves with a small cattle-bell +to be tied on the rope close to me, the sound of which would show that +I was still descending and alive; but as that is out of the question +now, in God's hand be it to guide me;" and forthwith he fell on his +knees and in a low voice offered up a prayer to heaven, imploring +God to aid him and grant him success in this to all appearance +perilous and untried adventure, and then exclaimed aloud, "O +mistress of my actions and movements, illustrious and peerless +Dulcinea del Toboso, if so be the prayers and supplications of this +fortunate lover can reach thy ears, by thy incomparable beauty I +entreat thee to listen to them, for they but ask thee not to refuse me +thy favour and protection now that I stand in such need of them. I +am about to precipitate, to sink, to plunge myself into the abyss that +is here before me, only to let the world know that while thou dost +favour me there is no impossibility I will not attempt and +accomplish." With these words he approached the cavern, and +perceived that it was impossible to let himself down or effect an +entrance except by sheer force or cleaving a passage; so drawing his +sword he began to demolish and cut away the brambles at the mouth of +the cave, at the noise of which a vast multitude of crows and +choughs flew out of it so thick and so fast that they knocked Don +Quixote down; and if he had been as much of a believer in augury as he +was a Catholic Christian he would have taken it as a bad omen and +declined to bury himself in such a place. He got up, however, and as +there came no more crows, or night-birds like the bats that flew out +at the same time with the crows, the cousin and Sancho giving him +rope, he lowered himself into the depths of the dread cavern; and as +he entered it Sancho sent his blessing after him, making a thousand +crosses over him and saying, "God, and the Pena de Francia, and the +Trinity of Gaeta guide thee, flower and cream of knights-errant. There +thou goest, thou dare-devil of the earth, heart of steel, arm of +brass; once more, God guide thee and send thee back safe, sound, and +unhurt to the light of this world thou art leaving to bury thyself +in the darkness thou art seeking there;" and the cousin offered up +almost the same prayers and supplications.</p> + + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p22c"></a><img alt="p22c.jpg (365K)" src="images/p22c.jpg" height="819" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p22c.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<p>Don Quixote kept calling to them to give him rope and more rope, and +they gave it out little by little, and by the time the calls, which +came out of the cave as out of a pipe, ceased to be heard they had let +down the hundred fathoms of rope. They were inclined to pull Don +Quixote up again, as they could give him no more rope; however, they +waited about half an hour, at the end of which time they began to +gather in the rope again with great ease and without feeling any +weight, which made them fancy Don Quixote was remaining below; and +persuaded that it was so, Sancho wept bitterly, and hauled away in +great haste in order to settle the question. When, however, they had +come to, as it seemed, rather more than eighty fathoms they felt a +weight, at which they were greatly delighted; and at last, at ten +fathoms more, they saw Don Quixote distinctly, and Sancho called out +to him, saying, "Welcome back, senor, for we had begun to think you +were going to stop there to found a family." But Don Quixote +answered not a word, and drawing him out entirely they perceived he +had his eyes shut and every appearance of being fast asleep.</p> + +<p>They stretched him on the ground and untied him, but still he did +not awake; however, they rolled him back and forwards and shook and +pulled him about, so that after some time he came to himself, +stretching himself just as if he were waking up from a deep and +sound sleep, and looking about him he said, "God forgive you, friends; +ye have taken me away from the sweetest and most delightful +existence and spectacle that ever human being enjoyed or beheld. Now +indeed do I know that all the pleasures of this life pass away like +a shadow and a dream, or fade like the flower of the field. O +ill-fated Montesinos! O sore-wounded Durandarte! O unhappy Belerma! +O tearful Guadiana, and ye O hapless daughters of Ruidera who show +in your waves the tears that flowed from your beauteous eyes!"</p> + + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p22d"></a><img alt="p22d.jpg (318K)" src="images/p22d.jpg" height="818" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p22d.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<p>The cousin and Sancho Panza listened with deep attention to the +words of Don Quixote, who uttered them as though with immense pain +he drew them up from his very bowels. They begged of him to explain +himself, and tell them what he had seen in that hell down there.</p> + +<p>"Hell do you call it?" said Don Quixote; "call it by no such name, +for it does not deserve it, as ye shall soon see."</p> + +<p>He then begged them to give him something to eat, as he was very +hungry. They spread the cousin's sackcloth on the grass, and put the +stores of the alforjas into requisition, and all three sitting down +lovingly and sociably, they made a luncheon and a supper of it all +in one; and when the sackcloth was removed, Don Quixote of La Mancha +said, "Let no one rise, and attend to me, my sons, both of you."</p> + + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p22e"></a><img alt="p22e.jpg (48K)" src="images/p22e.jpg" height="741" width="433"> +</center> + + + + +<br> +<br> + + +<center> +<table summary="" cellPadding=4 border=3> +<tr><td> + <a href="p24.htm">Previous Part</a> +</td><td> + <a href="5946-h.htm">Main Index</a> +</td><td> + <a href="p26.htm">Next Part</a> + </td></tr> +</table> +</center> +<br><br> + +</body> +</html> + |