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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="#ch61b">CHAPTER LXI</a> +OF WHAT HAPPENED DON QUIXOTE ON ENTERING BARCELONA, +TOGETHER WITH OTHER MATTERS THAT PARTAKE OF THE TRUE +RATHER THAN OF THE INGENIOUS + +</pre> + +<br><br><br><br> + + +<center><h1>DON QUIXOTE</h1></center> +<br><br> +<center><h2>Volume II.</h2></center> +<br> +<br> +<br> + +<br><br> +<center><h2><a name="ch61b"></a>CHAPTER LXI.</h2></center> +<br> +<center><h3>OF WHAT HAPPENED DON QUIXOTE ON ENTERING BARCELONA, TOGETHER WITH +OTHER MATTERS THAT PARTAKE OF THE TRUE RATHER THAN OF THE INGENIOUS +</h3></center> +<br> +<br> + +<center><a name="p61a"></a><img alt="p61a.jpg (143K)" src="images/p61a.jpg" height="435" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p61a.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<p>Don Quixote passed three days and three nights with Roque, and had +he passed three hundred years he would have found enough to observe +and wonder at in his mode of life. At daybreak they were in one +spot, at dinner-time in another; sometimes they fled without knowing +from whom, at other times they lay in wait, not knowing for what. They +slept standing, breaking their slumbers to shift from place to +place. There was nothing but sending out spies and scouts, posting +sentinels and blowing the matches of harquebusses, though they carried +but few, for almost all used flintlocks. Roque passed his nights in +some place or other apart from his men, that they might not know where +he was, for the many proclamations the viceroy of Barcelona had issued +against his life kept him in fear and uneasiness, and he did not +venture to trust anyone, afraid that even his own men would kill him +or deliver him up to the authorities; of a truth, a weary miserable +life! At length, by unfrequented roads, short cuts, and secret +paths, Roque, Don Quixote, and Sancho, together with six squires, +set out for Barcelona. They reached the strand on Saint John's Eve +during the night; and Roque, after embracing Don Quixote and Sancho +(to whom he presented the ten crowns he had promised but had not until +then given), left them with many expressions of good-will on both +sides.</p> + +<p>Roque went back, while Don Quixote remained on horseback, just as he +was, waiting for day, and it was not long before the countenance of +the fair Aurora began to show itself at the balconies of the east, +gladdening the grass and flowers, if not the ear, though to gladden +that too there came at the same moment a sound of clarions and +drums, and a din of bells, and a tramp, tramp, and cries of "Clear the +way there!" of some runners, that seemed to issue from the city.</p> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p61b"></a><img alt="p61b.jpg (271K)" src="images/p61b.jpg" height="824" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p61b.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<p>The +dawn made way for the sun that with a face broader than a buckler +began to rise slowly above the low line of the horizon; Don Quixote +and Sancho gazed all round them; they beheld the sea, a sight until +then unseen by them; it struck them as exceedingly spacious and broad, +much more so than the lakes of Ruidera which they had seen in La +Mancha. They saw the galleys along the beach, which, lowering their +awnings, displayed themselves decked with streamers and pennons that +trembled in the breeze and kissed and swept the water, while on +board the bugles, trumpets, and clarions were sounding and filling the +air far and near with melodious warlike notes. Then they began to move +and execute a kind of skirmish upon the calm water, while a vast +number of horsemen on fine horses and in showy liveries, issuing +from the city, engaged on their side in a somewhat similar movement. +The soldiers on board the galleys kept up a ceaseless fire, which they +on the walls and forts of the city returned, and the heavy cannon rent +the air with the tremendous noise they made, to which the gangway guns +of the galleys replied. The bright sea, the smiling earth, the clear +air—though at times darkened by the smoke of the guns—all seemed +to fill the whole multitude with unexpected delight. Sancho could +not make out how it was that those great masses that moved over the +sea had so many feet.</p> + +<p>And now the horsemen in livery came galloping up with shouts and +outlandish cries and cheers to where Don Quixote stood amazed and +wondering; and one of them, he to whom Roque had sent word, addressing +him exclaimed, "Welcome to our city, mirror, beacon, star and cynosure +of all knight-errantry in its widest extent! Welcome, I say, valiant +Don Quixote of La Mancha; not the false, the fictitious, the +apocryphal, that these latter days have offered us in lying histories, +but the true, the legitimate, the real one that Cide Hamete Benengeli, +flower of historians, has described to us!"</p> + +<p>Don Quixote made no answer, nor did the horsemen wait for one, but +wheeling again with all their followers, they began curvetting round +Don Quixote, who, turning to Sancho, said, "These gentlemen have +plainly recognised us; I will wager they have read our history, and +even that newly printed one by the Aragonese."</p> + +<p>The cavalier who had addressed Don Quixote again approached him +and said, "Come with us, Senor Don Quixote, for we are all of us +your servants and great friends of Roque Guinart's;" to which Don +Quixote returned, "If courtesy breeds courtesy, yours, sir knight, +is daughter or very nearly akin to the great Roque's; carry me where +you please; I will have no will but yours, especially if you deign +to employ it in your service."</p> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p61c"></a><img alt="p61c.jpg (448K)" src="images/p61c.jpg" height="834" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p61c.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<p>The cavalier replied with words no less polite, and then, all +closing in around him, they set out with him for the city, to the +music of the clarions and the drums. As they were entering it, the +wicked one, who is the author of all mischief, and the boys who are +wickeder than the wicked one, contrived that a couple of these +audacious irrepressible urchins should force their way through the +crowd, and lifting up, one of them Dapple's tail and the other +Rocinante's, insert a bunch of furze under each. The poor beasts +felt the strange spurs and added to their anguish by pressing their +tails tight, so much so that, cutting a multitude of capers, they +flung their masters to the ground. Don Quixote, covered with shame and +out of countenance, ran to pluck the plume from his poor jade's +tail, while Sancho did the same for Dapple. His conductors tried to +punish the audacity of the boys, but there was no possibility of doing +so, for they hid themselves among the hundreds of others that were +following them. Don Quixote and Sancho mounted once more, and with the +same music and acclamations reached their conductor's house, which was +large and stately, that of a rich gentleman, in short; and there for +the present we will leave them, for such is Cide Hamete's pleasure.</p> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="p61e"></a><img alt="p61e.jpg (32K)" src="images/p61e.jpg" height="475" width="565"> +</center> + + + + +<br> +<br> + + +<center> +<table summary="" cellPadding=4 border=3> +<tr><td> + <a href="p36.htm">Previous Part</a> +</td><td> + <a href="5946-h.htm">Main Index</a> +</td><td> + <a href="p38.htm">Next Part</a> + </td></tr> +</table> +</center> +<br><br> + +</body> +</html> + |