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+The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Story of Don Quixote, by Arvid Paulson,
+Clayton Edwards, and Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Illustrated by Florence
+Choate and Elizabeth Curtis
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+Title: The Story of Don Quixote
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+Author: Arvid Paulson, Clayton Edwards, and Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
+
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+Release Date: July 20, 2009  [eBook #29468]
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+Language: English
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+***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE STORY OF DON QUIXOTE***
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+THE STORY OF DON QUIXOTE
+
+by
+
+ARVID PAULSON and CLAYTON EDWARDS
+
+With Illustrations in Color by Florence Choate and Elizabeth Curtis
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: "DON QUIXOTE INSISTED THAT THE BOAT HAD BEEN SENT BY
+MAGIC TO FETCH HIM TO SOME GREAT KNIGHT."--_Page 222_]
+
+
+
+The Hampton Publishing Company
+New York
+
+Copyright, MCMXXII, by
+Frederick A. Stokes Company
+
+All rights reserved, including that of translation
+into foreign languages
+
+Printed in the United States of America
+
+
+
+
+CONTENTS
+
+    VOLUME I
+
+
+    CHAPTER                                                       PAGE
+
+         I  WHICH TREATS OF THE CHARACTER AND PURSUITS OF
+              THE FAMOUS GENTLEMAN, DON QUIXOTE OF LA MANCHA         1
+
+        II-III  WHICH TREATS OF THE FIRST SALLY DON QUIXOTE
+                 MADE FROM HOME                                      6
+
+        IV  WHICH TREATS OF DON QUIXOTE'S FURTHER
+              ADVENTURES                                            14
+
+         V  IN WHICH THE NARRATIVE OF OUR KNIGHT'S MISHAP
+              IS CONTINUED                                          20
+
+        VI  OF THE DIVERTING AND IMPORTANT SCRUTINY WHICH
+              THE CURATE AND THE BARBER MADE IN THE LIBRARY
+              OF OUR INGENIOUS GENTLEMAN                            22
+
+       VII  OF THE SECOND SALLY OF OUR WORTHY KNIGHT, DON
+              QUIXOTE OF LA MANCHA                                  24
+
+      VIII-IX  OF THE GOOD FORTUNE WHICH THE VALIANT DON
+              QUIXOTE HAD IN THE TERRIBLE AND UNDREAMT-OF
+              ADVENTURE OF THE WINDMILLS, WITH OTHER
+              OCCURRENCES WORTHY TO BE FITLY RECORDED,
+              INCLUDING THE TERRIBLE BATTLE BETWEEN THE
+              GALLANT BISCAYAN AND THE VALIANT MANCHEGAN            27
+
+         X  OF THE PLEASANT DISCOURSE THAT PASSED BETWEEN
+              DON QUIXOTE AND HIS SQUIRE SANCHO PANZA               33
+
+        XI  OF WHAT BEFELL DON QUIXOTE WITH CERTAIN
+              GOATHERDS                                             37
+
+       XII  OF WHAT A GOATHERD RELATED TO THOSE WITH
+              DON QUIXOTE                                           39
+
+      XIII  IN WHICH IS ENDED THE STORY OF THE SHEPHERDESS
+              MARCELA WITH OTHER INCIDENTS                          41
+
+       XIV  WHEREIN ARE DESCRIBED THE DESPAIRING VERSES
+              OF THE DEAD SHEPHERD                                  45
+
+        XV  IN WHICH IS RELATED THE UNFORTUNATE ADVENTURE
+              THAT DON QUIXOTE FELL IN WITH WHEN HE FELL
+              OUT WITH CERTAIN HEARTLESS YANGUESANS                 47
+
+       XVI  OF WHAT HAPPENED TO THE INGENIOUS GENTLEMAN IN
+              THE INN WHICH HE TOOK TO BE A CASTLE                  50
+
+      XVII  IN WHICH ARE CONTAINED THE INNUMERABLE TROUBLES
+              WHICH THE BRAVE DON QUIXOTE AND HIS GOOD
+              SQUIRE SANCHO PANZA ENDURED AT THE INN, WHICH,
+              TO HIS MISFORTUNE, HE TOOK TO BE A CASTLE             51
+
+     XVIII  IN WHICH IS RELATED THE DISCOURSE SANCHO PANZA
+              HELD WITH HIS MASTER, DON QUIXOTE, TOGETHER
+              WITH OTHER ADVENTURES WORTH RELATING                  55
+
+       XIX  OF THE SHREWD DISCOURSE WHICH SANCHO HELD WITH
+              HIS MASTER, AND OF THE ADVENTURE THAT BEFELL HIM
+              WITH A DEAD BODY, TOGETHER WITH OTHER NOTABLE
+              OCCURRENCES                                           59
+
+        XX  OF THE UNEXAMPLED AND UNHEARD-OF ADVENTURE
+              WHICH WAS ACHIEVED BY THE VALIANT DON QUIXOTE
+              OF LA MANCHA WITH LESS PERIL THAN ANY EVER
+              ACHIEVED BY ANY FAMOUS KNIGHT IN THE WORLD            62
+
+       XXI  WHICH TREATS OF THE EXALTED ADVENTURE AND RICH
+              PRIZE OF MAMBRINO'S HELMET, TOGETHER WITH OTHER
+              THINGS THAT HAPPENED TO OUR INVINCIBLE KNIGHT         65
+
+      XXII  OF THE FREEDOM DON QUIXOTE CONFERRED ON SEVERAL
+              UNFORTUNATES WHO AGAINST THEIR WILL WERE BEING
+              CARRIED WHERE THEY HAD NO WISH TO GO                  68
+
+     XXIII  OF WHAT BEFELL DON QUIXOTE IN THE SIERRA MORENA,
+              WHICH IS ONE OF THE RAREST ADVENTURES RELATED
+              IN THIS VERACIOUS HISTORY                             71
+
+      XXIV  IN WHICH IS CONTINUED THE ADVENTURE OF THE SIERRA
+              MORENA                                                73
+
+       XXV  WHICH TREATS OF THE STRANGE THINGS THAT HAPPENED
+              TO THE STOUT KNIGHT OF LA MANCHA IN THE SIERRA
+              MORENA                                                75
+
+      XXVI  IN WHICH ARE CONTINUED THE REFINEMENTS WHEREWITH
+              DON QUIXOTE PLAYED THE PART OF A LOVER
+              IN THE SIERRA MORENA                                  77
+
+     XXVII  OF HOW THE CURATE AND THE BARBER PROCEEDED WITH
+              THEIR SCHEME, TOGETHER WITH OTHER MATTERS
+              WORTHY OF RECORD IN THIS GREAT HISTORY                80
+
+    XXVIII  WHICH TREATS OF THE STRANGE AND DELIGHTFUL
+              ADVENTURE THAT BEFELL THE CURATE AND THE
+              BARBER IN THE SAME SIERRA                             81
+
+      XXIX  WHICH TREATS OF THE DROLL DEVICE AND METHOD
+              ADOPTED TO EXTRICATE OUR LOVE-STRICKEN KNIGHT
+              FROM THE SEVERE PENANCE HE HAD IMPOSED UPON
+              HIMSELF                                               83
+
+       XXX  WHICH TREATS OF THE ADDRESS DISPLAYED BY THE
+              FAIR DOROTHEA, WITH OTHER MATTERS, PLEASANT AND
+              AMUSING                                               88
+
+      XXXI  OF THE DELECTABLE DISCUSSION BETWEEN DON QUIXOTE
+              AND SANCHO PANZA, HIS SQUIRE, TOGETHER WITH
+              OTHER INCIDENTS                                       90
+
+     XXXII-XXXIV  WHICH TREATS OF WHAT BEFELL ALL DON
+              QUIXOTE'S PARTY AT THE INN                            91
+
+      XXXV  WHICH TREATS OF THE HEROIC AND PRODIGIOUS BATTLE
+              DON QUIXOTE HAD WITH CERTAIN SKINS OF RED WINE,
+              AND BRINGS THE NOVEL OF THE "ILL-ADVISED CURIOSITY"
+              TO AN END                                             92
+
+     XXXVI  WHICH TREATS OF MORE CURIOUS INCIDENTS THAT
+              OCCURRED AT THE INN                                   95
+
+    XXXVII  IN WHICH IS CONTINUED THE STORY OF THE FAMOUS
+              PRINCESS MICOMICONA, WITH OTHER DROLL ADVENTURES      98
+
+   XXXVIII  WHICH TREATS OF THE CURIOUS DISCOURSE DON QUIXOTE
+              DELIVERED ON ARMS AND LETTERS                        102
+
+     XXXIX-XLI  WHEREIN THE CAPTIVE RELATES HIS LIFE
+              AND ADVENTURES                                       103
+
+      XLII  WHICH TREATS OF WHAT FURTHER TOOK PLACE IN THE
+              INN, AND OF SEVERAL OTHER THINGS WORTH KNOWING       108
+
+     XLIII  WHEREIN IS RELATED THE PLEASANT STORY OF THE
+              MULETEER, TOGETHER WITH OTHER STRANGE THINGS THAT
+              CAME TO PASS IN THE INN                              112
+
+      XLIV  IN WHICH ARE CONTINUED THE UNHEARD-OF ADVENTURES
+              AT THE INN                                           117
+
+       XLV  IN WHICH THE DOUBTFUL QUESTION OF MAMBRINO'S
+              HELMET AND THE PACK-SADDLE IS FINALLY SETTLED,
+              WITH OTHER ADVENTURES THAT OCCURRED IN TRUTH
+              AND EARNEST                                          123
+
+      XLVI  OF THE END OF THE NOTABLE ADVENTURE OF THE OFFICERS
+              OF THE HOLY BROTHERHOOD; AND OF THE GREAT
+              FEROCITY OF OUR WORTHY KNIGHT, DON QUIXOTE           127
+
+     XLVII  OF THE STRANGE MANNER IN WHICH DON QUIXOTE OF
+              LA MANCHA WAS CARRIED AWAY ENCHANTED, TOGETHER
+              WITH OTHER REMARKABLE INCIDENTS                      132
+
+    XLVIII  IN WHICH THE CANON PURSUES THE SUBJECT OF THE
+              BOOKS OF CHIVALRY, WITH OTHER MATTERS WORTHY
+              OF HIS WIT                                           137
+
+      XLIX  WHICH TREATS OF HOW OUR KNIGHT IS PERMITTED TO
+              DESCEND FROM HIS CAGE, AND OF THE CANON'S ATTEMPT
+              TO CONVERT HIM FROM HIS ILLUSIONS                    138
+
+      L-LI  OF THE SHREWD CONTROVERSY WHICH DON QUIXOTE AND
+              THE CANON HELD, TOGETHER WITH OTHER INCIDENTS        139
+
+       LII  OF THE QUARREL THAT DON QUIXOTE HAD WITH THE
+              GOATHERD, TOGETHER WITH THE RARE ADVENTURE OF
+              THE PENITENTS, WHICH WITH AN EXPENDITURE OF
+              SWEAT HE BROUGHT TO A HAPPY CONCLUSION               142
+
+
+    VOLUME II
+
+
+    CHAPTER                                                       PAGE
+
+         I  OF THE INTERVIEW THE CURATE AND THE BARBER HAD
+              WITH DON QUIXOTE ABOUT HIS MALADY                    147
+
+        II  WHICH TREATS OF THE NOTABLE ALTERCATION WHICH SANCHO
+              PANZA HAD WITH DON QUIXOTE'S NIECE AND HIS
+              HOUSEKEEPER, TOGETHER WITH OTHER DROLL MATTERS       150
+
+       III  OF THE LAUGHABLE CONVERSATION THAT PASSED BETWEEN
+              DON QUIXOTE, SANCHO PANZA, AND THE BACHELOR
+              SAMSON CARRASCO                                      153
+
+        IV  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 MENTIONING                         156
+
+         V  OF THE SHREWD AND DROLL CONVERSATION THAT PASSED
+              BETWEEN SANCHO PANZA AND HIS WIFE TERESA
+              PANZA, AND OTHER MATTERS WORTHY OF BEING DULY
+              RECORDED                                             159
+
+        VI  OF WHAT TOOK PLACE BETWEEN DON QUIXOTE AND HIS
+              NIECE AND HIS HOUSEKEEPER; ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT
+              CHAPTERS IN THE WHOLE HISTORY                        161
+
+       VII  OF WHAT PASSED BETWEEN DON QUIXOTE AND HIS SQUIRE,
+              TOGETHER WITH OTHER VERY NOTABLE INCIDENTS           163
+
+      VIII  WHEREIN IS RELATED WHAT BEFELL DON QUIXOTE ON
+              HIS WAY TO SEE HIS LADY DULCINEA DEL TOBOSO          167
+
+        IX  WHEREIN IS RELATED WHAT WILL BE SEEN THERE             170
+
+         X  WHEREIN IS RELATED THE CRAFTY DEVICE SANCHO
+              ADOPTED TO ENCHANT THE LADY DULCINEA, AND OTHER
+              INCIDENTS AS LUDICROUS AS THEY ARE TRUE              172
+
+        XI  OF THE STRANGE ADVENTURE WHICH THE VALIANT DON
+              QUIXOTE HAD WITH THE CAR OR CART OF "THE CORTES
+              OF DEATH"                                            175
+
+       XII  OF THE STRANGE ADVENTURE WHICH BEFELL THE VALIANT
+              DON QUIXOTE WITH THE BOLD KNIGHT OF THE
+              GROVE                                                178
+
+      XIII-XIV  IN WHICH IS CONTINUED THE ADVENTURE OF THE
+              KNIGHT OF THE GROVE, TOGETHER WITH THE SENSIBLE
+              AND TRANQUIL COLLOQUY THAT PASSED BETWEEN THE
+              TWO SQUIRES                                          180
+
+        XV  WHEREIN IT IS MADE KNOWN HOW THE KNIGHT OF THE MIRROR
+              AND HIS SQUIRE EMERGED FROM THEIR ADVENTURE          186
+
+       XVI  OF WHAT BEFELL DON QUIXOTE WITH A DISCREET GENTLEMAN
+              OF LA MANCHA                                         187
+
+      XVII  WHEREIN IS SHOWN THE FARTHEST AND HIGHEST POINT
+              WHICH THE UNEXAMPLED COURAGE OF DON QUIXOTE
+              REACHED OR COULD REACH; TOGETHER WITH THE HAPPILY
+              ACHIEVED ADVENTURE OF THE LIONS                      190
+
+     XVIII  OF WHAT HAPPENED TO DON QUIXOTE IN THE CASTLE
+              OR HOUSE OF THE KNIGHT OF THE GREEN COAT, TOGETHER
+              WITH OTHER MATTERS OUT OF THE COMMON                 194
+
+       XIX  IN WHICH IS RELATED THE ADVENTURE OF THE ENAMORED
+              SHEPHERD, TOGETHER WITH OTHER TRULY DROLL INCIDENTS  196
+
+        XX  WHEREIN AN ACCOUNT IS GIVEN OF THE WEDDING OF
+              CAMACHO THE RICH, TOGETHER WITH THE INCIDENT
+              OF BASILIO THE POOR                                  199
+
+       XXI  IN WHICH CAMACHO'S WEDDING IS CONTINUED, WITH
+              OTHER DELIGHTFUL INCIDENTS                           200
+
+      XXII  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                                    203
+
+     XXIII  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 APOCRYPHAL          206
+
+      XXIV  WHEREIN ARE RELATED SOME TRIFLING MATTERS,
+              AS TRIVIAL AS THEY ARE NECESSARY TO THE RIGHT
+              UNDERSTANDING OF THIS GREAT HISTORY                  209
+
+       XXV  WHEREIN IS SET DOWN THE BRAYING ADVENTURE, AND
+              THE DROLL ONE OF THE PUPPET-SHOWMAN, TOGETHER
+              WITH THE MEMORABLE DIVINATIONS OF THE DIVINING
+              APE                                                  210
+
+      XXVI  WHEREIN IS CONTINUED THE DROLL ADVENTURE OF THE
+              PUPPET-SHOWMAN, TOGETHER WITH OTHER THINGS
+              IN TRUTH RIGHT GOOD                                  214
+
+     XXVII  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                                             217
+
+    XXVIII  OF MATTERS THAT BENENGELI SAYS HE WHO READS
+              THEM WILL KNOW, IF HE READS THEM WITH ATTENTION      220
+
+      XXIX  OF THE FAMOUS ADVENTURE OF THE ENCHANTED BARK          222
+
+       XXX  OF DON QUIXOTE'S ADVENTURE WITH A FAIR HUNTRESS        225
+
+      XXXI  WHICH TREATS OF MANY AND GREAT MATTERS                 228
+
+     XXXII  OF THE REPLY DON QUIXOTE GAVE HIS CENSURER, WITH
+              OTHER INCIDENTS, GRAVE AND DROLL                     232
+
+    XXXIII  OF THE DELECTABLE DISCOURSE WHICH THE DUCHESS AND
+              HER DAMSELS HELD WITH SANCHO PANZA, WELL
+              WORTH READING AND NOTING                             236
+
+     XXXIV  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                       238
+
+      XXXV  WHEREIN IS CONTINUED THE INSTRUCTION GIVEN TO DON
+              QUIXOTE TOUCHING THE DISENCHANTMENT OF DULCINEA,
+              TOGETHER WITH OTHER MARVELOUS INCIDENTS              242
+
+     XXXVI  WHEREIN IS RELATED THE STRANGE AND UNDREAMED-OF
+              ADVENTURE OF THE DISTRESSED DUENNA, ALIAS THE
+              COUNTESS TRIFALDI, TOGETHER WITH A LETTER WHICH
+              SANCHO PANZA WROTE TO HIS WIFE, TERESA PANZA         244
+
+    XXXVII-XXXIX  WHEREIN IS CONTINUED THE NOTABLE ADVENTURE
+              OF THE DISTRESSED DUENNA, INCLUDING HER
+              MARVELOUS AND MEMORABLE TALE OF MISFORTUNE           246
+
+        XL  OF MATTERS RELATING AND BELONGING TO THIS ADVENTURE
+              AND TO THIS MEMORABLE HISTORY                        249
+
+       XLI  THE END OF THIS PROTRACTED ADVENTURE                   250
+
+      XLII  OF THE COUNSELS WHICH DON QUIXOTE GAVE SANCHO
+              PANZA BEFORE HE SET OUT TO GOVERN THE ISLAND,
+              TOGETHER WITH OTHER WELL-CONSIDERED MATTERS          254
+
+     XLIII  OF THE SECOND SET OF COUNSELS DON QUIXOTE GAVE
+              SANCHO PANZA                                         255
+
+      XLIV  HOW SANCHO PANZA WAS CONDUCTED TO HIS GOVERNMENT;
+              AND OF THE STRANGE ADVENTURE THAT BEFELL
+              DON QUIXOTE IN THE CASTLE                            257
+
+       XLV  OF HOW THE GREAT SANCHO PANZA TOOK POSSESSION
+              OF HIS ISLAND; AND OF HOW HE MADE A BEGINNING
+              IN GOVERNING                                         259
+
+      XLVI  OF THE TERRIBLE BELL AND CAT FRIGHT THAT DON
+              QUIXOTE GOT IN THE COURSE OF THE ENAMORED
+              ALTISIDORA'S WOOING                                  260
+
+     XLVII  WHEREIN IS CONTINUED THE ACCOUNT OF HOW SANCHO
+              PANZA CONDUCTED HIMSELF IN HIS GOVERNMENT            263
+
+    XLVIII-XVIX  OF WHAT HAPPENED TO SANCHO IN MAKING THE
+              ROUND OF HIS ISLAND                                  265
+
+         L  WHEREIN IS SET FORTH HOW GOVERNOR SANCHO PANZA'S
+              WIFE RECEIVED A MESSAGE AND A GIFT FROM THE
+              DUCHESS; AND ALSO WHAT BEFELL THE PAGE WHO
+              CARRIED THE LETTER TO TERESA PANZA                   267
+
+        LI  OF THE PROGRESS OF SANCHO'S GOVERNMENT; AND OTHER
+              SUCH ENTERTAINING MATTERS                            271
+
+       LII  WHEREIN THREE DELECTABLE EPISTLES ARE READ BY
+              THE DUCHESS                                          273
+
+      LIII  OF THE TROUBLOUS END AND TERMINATION OF SANCHO
+              PANZA'S GOVERNMENT                                   275
+
+       LIV-LV  OF WHAT BEFELL SANCHO ON THE ROAD; AND OTHER
+              THINGS THAT CANNOT BE SURPASSED                      280
+
+       LVI-LVII  WHICH TREATS OF HOW DON QUIXOTE AGAIN
+              FELT THE CALLING OF KNIGHT-ERRANTRY AND HOW
+              HE TOOK LEAVE OF THE DUKE, AND OF WHAT FOLLOWED
+              WITH THE WITTY AND IMPUDENT ALTISIDORA, ONE OF
+              THE DUCHESS' DAMSELS                                 284
+
+     LVIII  WHICH TELLS HOW ADVENTURES CAME CROWDING ON
+              DON QUIXOTE IN SUCH NUMBERS THAT THEY GAVE
+              ONE ANOTHER NO BREATHING-TIME                        286
+
+       LIX  WHEREIN IS RELATED THE STRANGE THING, WHICH MAY
+              BE REGARDED AS AN ADVENTURE, THAT HAPPENED TO
+              DON QUIXOTE                                          292
+
+        LX  OF WHAT HAPPENED TO DON QUIXOTE ON HIS WAY TO
+              BARCELONA                                            297
+
+       LXI  OF WHAT HAPPENED TO DON QUIXOTE ON ENTERING
+              BARCELONA, TOGETHER WITH OTHER MATTERS THAT
+              PARTAKE OF THE TRUE RATHER THAN THE INGENIOUS        303
+
+      LXII  WHICH DEALS WITH THE ADVENTURE OF THE ENCHANTED
+              HEAD, TOGETHER WITH OTHER TRIVIAL MATTERS WHICH
+              CANNOT BE LEFT UNTOLD                                305
+
+     LXIII  THE MISHAP THAT BEFELL SANCHO PANZA THROUGH
+              THE VISIT TO THE GALLEYS                             310
+
+      LXIV  TREATING OF THE ADVENTURE WHICH GAVE DON QUIXOTE
+              MORE UNHAPPINESS THAN ALL THAT HAD HITHERTO
+              BEFALLEN HIM                                         313
+
+       LXV  WHEREIN IS MADE KNOWN WHO THE KNIGHT OF THE
+              WHITE MOON WAS; LIKEWISE OTHER EVENTS                316
+
+      LXVI-LXVII  OF THE RESOLUTION WHICH 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              317
+
+    LXVIII  OF THE BRISTLY ADVENTURE THAT BEFELL DON QUIXOTE       319
+
+      LXIX  OF THE STRANGEST AND MOST EXTRAORDINARY ADVENTURE
+              THAT BEFELL DON QUIXOTE IN THE WHOLE COURSE OF
+              THIS GREAT HISTORY                                   323
+
+       LXX  WHICH FOLLOWS CHAPTER SIXTY-NINE AND DEALS WITH
+              MATTERS INDISPENSABLE FOR THE CLEAR COMPREHENSION
+              OF THIS HISTORY                                      328
+
+      LXXI  OF WHAT PASSED BETWEEN DON QUIXOTE AND HIS
+              SQUIRE SANCHO ON THE WAY TO THEIR VILLAGE            331
+
+     LXXII-LXXIII  OF THE OMENS DON QUIXOTE HAD AS HE ENTERED
+              HIS OWN VILLAGE; AND OTHER INCIDENTS THAT
+              EMBELLISH AND GIVE A COLOR TO THIS GREAT HISTORY     334
+
+     LXXIV  OF HOW DON QUIXOTE FELL SICK, AND OF THE WILL HE
+              MADE, AND HOW HE DIED                                337
+
+
+
+
+LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
+
+
+    "Don Quixote insisted that the boat had been sent by
+        magic to fetch him to some great knight"        _Frontispiece_
+
+                                                           FACING PAGE
+
+    "Slashing right and left, dreaming that he had encountered
+        the giant enemy"                                            94
+
+    "He prayed that he should not be left to perish in the cage"   132
+
+    "With each lash he gave out the most heartrending cries"       334
+
+
+
+
+THE STORY OF DON QUIXOTE
+
+
+
+
+VOLUME I
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER I
+
+WHICH TREATS OF THE CHARACTER AND PURSUITS OF THE FAMOUS
+GENTLEMAN, DON QUIXOTE OF LA MANCHA
+
+
+Nearly four hundred years ago, there lived in the village of La Mancha
+in Spain an old gentleman of few worldly possessions but many books,
+who was given to a hardy and adventurous way of life, and who beguiled
+his spare time by reading the many tales of chivalry and knighthood
+that were in his possession.
+
+This old gentleman was a tall, gaunt man of about fifty, with a
+lantern jaw and straggling gray hair, and eyes that had a sparkle of
+madness in them. His surname was Quixada or Quesada, and though not
+rich, he was well known to the country folk and had some reputation in
+the community where he lived.
+
+In his younger days he was a great sportsman and used to get up before
+the sun to follow his favorite pursuits of hunting and hawking, but as
+he grew older he spent almost all his time in reading books on
+chivalry and knighthood with which his library was stocked; and at
+last he grew so fond of these books that he forgot to follow the
+hounds or even to look after his property, but spent all his time in
+his library, mulling over the famous deeds and love affairs of knights
+who conquered dragons and vanquished wicked enchanters.
+
+At the time when Quesada lived, Spain was saturated with this sort of
+literature, and everybody wasted much time in reading books which had no
+merit or value of any kind and which were full of the most ridiculous and
+impossible adventures. On the whole they were the most utter rubbish that
+it was possible to print. They told about impossible deeds in the most
+impossible language, and were filled with ambitious sentences that meant
+nothing under the sun. Se�or Quesada spent hours racking his brains to
+puzzle out the meaning of something like this:
+
+     "The reason of the unreason with which my reason is
+     afflicted so weakens my reason that with reason I murmur
+     at your beauty."
+
+Or again:
+
+     "The high heavens that of your divinity divinely fortify
+     you with the stars, render you deserving of the desert
+     your greatness deserves."
+
+Poor Se�or Quesada could not understand these sentences. Who could? No
+man in his right mind certainly, it would have taken a madman to read
+any real meaning into them. And he wasted so much time in puzzling
+over them that at last he became quite mad and the words in the books
+would appear on the walls of his room, written in letters of fire,
+with so bright a light that they prevented him from sleeping. From
+trying to read a meaning into things that had no meaning whatever,
+Se�or Quesada was mad--as mad as the books he had been reading.
+
+Se�or Quesada lived with his niece and his housekeeper, both sensible
+women who loved him and who were much grieved over the havoc his
+books of chivalry had worked with his senses. They believed that to
+talk about these books made the old gentleman worse, so they refused
+to answer him when he argued about knights and dragons and whether
+this fair lady was an enchantress in disguise or only a mortal woman,
+and whether that dragon actually did breathe forth fire from his
+nostrils, or only sulphur fumes and smoke. His niece and the
+housekeeper would run away when he started upon one of his favorite
+subjects; so he turned to the society of the village curate, a learned
+man for those times, who knew almost as much about books of chivalry
+as Se�or Quesada himself, and to that of Master Nicholas, the village
+barber. And these three friends would sit up until dawn arguing as to
+who was the better knight, Sir Lancelot or Amadis of Gaul, and how
+these both compared with the Knight of the Burning Sword, who with one
+back stroke cut in half two fierce and monstrous giants.
+
+After he had become thoroughly mad from reading, and more so from such
+arguments and discussions, Se�or Quesada hit upon the strangest notion
+that ever entered the head of a lunatic. He believed that he and no
+other was called upon to restore the entire world to the ancient
+conditions of chivalry, and bring back the tournaments and the
+courteous knights and fair ladies whose like had existed in the times
+of the famous King Arthur of Britain. Believing this, it was an easy
+step for him to think that the world was still full of giants and
+fierce dragons for him to vanquish, and that as a man of honor and
+skill at arms he must leave his comfortable home and do battle with
+them. To his disordered senses things took on a different appearance
+than was actually the case--inns seemed castles, and towers and hills
+appeared as giants that moved about in the distance; and Se�or Quesada
+could hardly wait before he could meet them on horseback and overthrow
+them in battle.
+
+To become a knight and encounter all these strange and visionary dangers
+it was necessary for him, however, to have a war horse, a stout lance and
+a suit of armor, and he cast about among his possessions to see what he
+could find that would answer the purpose--for he had no money to buy
+them, and no shop could have furnished them for him if he had possessed
+all the money in Spain. In his attic he found an old suit of armor that
+had belonged to his great-grandfather and had been lying there for ages,
+rotting with rust and mildew in company with old chests, bedding and
+other family treasures. He brought it out and scoured it as best he could
+and at last made it shine with considerable brightness. But the helmet
+was only partially complete, for it lacked a beaver and a visor to
+protect his face, so Se�or Quesada constructed these from pasteboard and
+painted them to resemble the armor as closely as possible. He tried their
+strength with his rusty sword, and on the first stroke cut them entirely
+away; so he rebuilt them and forbore to try them again, hoping they would
+be strong enough, but fearing to make a test that might undo once more
+all the troublesome work that he had spent upon them.
+
+His armor now complete, he looked in his stables for a horse to carry
+him, and found there his old hack, whose every bone was visible and
+who was more used to carrying sacks of potatoes and onions to market
+than to bearing the weight of a knight or a man at arms. This horse
+must have been at least twenty years old into the bargain, but to
+Quixada's brain it appeared a mettlesome charger and he was quite sure
+that his new steed would prove equal to any fatigue or danger that
+might come its way in the course of his adventures. And remembering
+that all the horses of famous warriors had possessed high-sounding
+names he called his horse Rocinante and adopted for himself the title
+of Don Quixote of La Mancha, under which name he will be known through
+the rest of the present history.
+
+Another thing, however, remained wanting--a lady-love for whose sake
+he might do battle and whose affections might inspire him to endure
+all sorts of dangers and hardships. So Don Quixote straightway
+searched through his recollection to find one that might answer, and
+hit at last upon a peasant girl named Aldonza Lorenzo, with whom it is
+supposed he had been in love when he was a young man. And though
+Aldonza Lorenzo was more used to winnowing wheat and caring for the
+live-stock than to fine phrases and courtly manners, and though she
+was no better than any of the other peasant girls who lived in her
+locality, Don Quixote believed that she was a lady of high lineage and
+noble birth and christened her in his mind Dulcinea del Toboso. And he
+was ready to fight with any man in Spain who would not acknowledge
+that she was the loveliest and most gifted lady in the world.
+
+A lance was easily made, and now, possessed of war horse, armor,
+weapons, and a glorious lady to do battle for, the poor old man was
+ready, so he believed, to go forth and meet the high adventures that
+he felt sure were awaiting him.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTERS II-III
+
+WHICH TREATS OF THE FIRST SALLY DON QUIXOTE MADE FROM HOME
+
+
+All things being ready, Don Quixote wished for no delay, and before
+sunrise on one of the hottest days of midsummer, he stole from his
+bed--taking care not to awaken his niece or his housekeeper--put on
+his ancient armor, saddled Rocinante, and with lance in hand and sword
+clattering beside him made his way across the fields in the highest
+state of content and satisfaction at the ease with which his purpose
+had been accomplished. He could hardly wait for his adventures to
+begin, or for the chance to try the strength of his mighty arm upon
+some wicked warrior or, better still, some dragon or giant; but
+scarcely did he find himself upon the open plain before a terrible
+thought came to his mind and one that nearly made him abandon his
+adventure before it was well begun. He reflected that, according to
+the rules of chivalry, he must be dubbed a knight before he could
+undertake any battles or engagements, and afterward he must wear white
+armor without any device upon his shield, until he had proved by
+bravery and endurance his right to these privileges of knighthood. He
+consoled himself, however, by resolving to have himself dubbed a
+knight by the first person who came along; and as for white armor, he
+determined to make his own rival the brightness of the moon by
+industrious scouring.
+
+Comforting himself with thoughts such as these, he pursued his way,
+which he allowed his horse to choose for him, thinking that in so
+doing he would be guided more surely and more quickly to the
+adventures that were awaiting him. And as he rode along he amused
+himself by quoting imaginary passages from the books that he felt sure
+would be written about his noble deeds--deeds that he would soon
+accomplish and that would astonish the entire world by their bravery
+and hardihood. At times he would break into wild speech, calling his
+lady Dulcinea by name and saying: "O Princess Dulcinea, lady of this
+captive heart, a grievous wrong hast thou done me to drive me forth
+with scorn and banish me from the presence of thy beauty!"
+
+And so he went along, stringing such absurd phrases together, while
+the hot sun rose and grew hotter, until it would have melted his
+brains in his helmet, if he had any. He traveled nearly all day
+without seeing anything remarkable, at which he was in despair, for he
+could hardly wait, as we have said, for his adventures to begin.
+
+Toward evening he came in sight of a common wayside inn, and standing at
+the door were two peasant girls who looked with astonishment on the
+strange figure that was approaching them. To the disordered imagination
+of Don Quixote, this appeared to be a castle with four towers, and the
+girls who stood in front of the door seemed ladies of noble birth and
+peerless beauty. He seemed to see behind them a drawbridge and a moat,
+and waited for some dwarf to appear upon the castle battlements and by
+sound of a trumpet announce that a knight was approaching the gates.
+
+At this point a swineherd who was gathering his pigs did happen to
+blow a blast on his horn to scare his charges along the road; and
+this, appearing to Don Quixote to be the dwarfs signal that he had
+expected, he drew near in high satisfaction, while Rocinante, scenting
+stables and hay and water, pricked up his ears and advanced at a brisk
+trot until the inn door was reached and Don Quixote addressed the
+astonished girls who were waiting there.
+
+The girls, on seeing an armed man approaching them, had turned to seek
+safety indoors, when Don Quixote, lifting his pasteboard beaver, said
+to them in the most courteous manner he could command:
+
+"Ladies, I beseech you, do not fly or fear any manner of rudeness, for
+it is against the rules of the knighthood, which I profess, to offer
+harm to high-born ladies such as you appear to be."
+
+The girls, hearing themselves addressed in this strange manner and
+called ladies, could not refrain from giggling, at which Don Quixote
+rebuked them, saying:
+
+"Modesty becomes the fair, and laughter without cause is the greatest
+silliness."
+
+The strange language and dilapidated appearance of the speaker only
+increased the girls' laughter, and that increased Don Quixote's
+irritation; and matters might have gone farther if the landlord had
+not appeared at this moment to see what might be the matter. When he
+beheld the grotesque figure on horseback whose armor did not match and
+whose mount was the sorriest one imaginable, it was all he could do to
+refrain from joining the girls in their hilarity; but being a little
+in awe of the strange knight, whose lance was pointed and whose sword
+appeared to have both strength and weight, he spoke courteously to Don
+Quixote. He told him that if he sought food or lodging he should have
+the best that the inn could afford for man or beast. And the poor old
+gentleman, who had been riding in the heat all day without food or
+drink, climbed stiffly out of the saddle and suffered Rocinante to be
+led away to the stable, cautioning the landlord to take the utmost
+care of him, for he was the finest bit of horseflesh in the world. The
+host, however, looking over the bony carcass of the old farm animal,
+had more difficulty than before in restraining his laughter.
+
+The girls now perceived that they had a crazy man before them and they
+entered into the spirit of the occasion.
+
+They helped Don Quixote remove his armor; but the helmet they could do
+nothing with, for it was tied tightly with green ribbons about his
+neck and on no pretext whatever would he hear of cutting them.
+
+They laid a table for him at the door of the inn for the sake of the
+air, and the host brought him a piece of badly soaked and badly cooked
+fish and a piece of bread as black and moldy as his own armor. And a
+laughable sight it was to see Don Quixote eat--for, having his helmet
+on, he could not reach his own mouth, but had to be fed, bit by bit,
+by one of the girls; and for drink he would have gone without
+altogether if the innkeeper had not brought a hollow reed and putting
+one end into the knight's mouth, poured wine through the other.
+
+While this was going on Don Quixote heard once more the swineherd's
+horn and felt entirely happy and satisfied, for he was convinced that
+he was in some famous castle and that they were regaling him with
+music; that the fish was trout, the bread of the whitest, the peasant
+girls beautiful ladies, and the landlord the castle steward. But he
+still felt distressed because he had not been dubbed a knight, and
+resolved to remedy this fault as soon as his supper was finished.
+
+As soon as he had eaten his fill, he called the landlord of the inn,
+and taking him into the stable, knelt on the ground before him,
+declaring that he would not rise until the landlord should grant his
+wish and dub him a knight so that he could continue on his adventures
+according to the laws of chivalry. For Don Quixote, as we have said,
+looked on the landlord as a person of great authority, with full power
+to make him a knight if he chose to do so.
+
+The landlord was something of a wag, and well aware that his guest was
+mad. He therefore decided to fall in with his wishes for the sport of
+the thing; so he told Don Quixote that he would make him a knight and
+gladly, that he too had been a knight errant in his time and wandered
+all over Spain seeking adventures, where he had proved the lightness
+of his feet in running away and the quickness of his fingers in
+picking pockets, until he had swindled and cheated so many people
+that he had been forced to retire to this castle of his. Here he lived
+on his property--and that of other persons--and he accepted money from
+wandering knights errant in return for the kindness and services he
+rendered them. And when Don Quixote told him that he never carried
+money with him in his travels, the landlord assured him he was making
+the greatest mistake in the world and that he must not suppose that,
+just because money and clean shirts were not mentioned in the books of
+chivalry of the time, the knights did without them; that was not the
+case at all.
+
+At last it was decided that the landlord should dub Don Quixote a
+knight on the following morning, and that the night should be spent by
+Don Quixote in watching over his armor in prayer and fasting, as was
+the custom with knights before they received the title of full
+knighthood and could go abroad on their adventures with a strong arm
+and untroubled spirit.
+
+It had been arranged between the landlord and Don Quixote that the
+watch over the armor should take place in the courtyard of the inn.
+Don Quixote placed his corselet and helmet by the side of a well from
+which the carriers drew water, and, grasping his lance, commenced to
+march up and down before it like a sentinel on duty; and as the hours
+wore by and the march continued, the landlord called other persons to
+watch the performance, explaining that the man was mad, and telling of
+the ceremony that was to take place in the morning. The passers-by,
+viewing the steadiness with which Don Quixote paced to and fro in the
+moonlight and the resolute way in which he handled his lance, were
+struck with wonder both at the peculiarity of the sight and the
+strange form that Don Quixote's madness had taken.
+
+At last, however, it became necessary for one of the carriers to draw
+water from the well. He did not observe the madman and he paid no
+attention to the armor until he stumbled across it, when he picked it
+up and flung it from him, whereupon Don Quixote raised his lance and
+struck him such a blow that he fell senseless on the ground and lay
+there stunned. Soon after this another carrier, who did not know of
+what had happened to the first one, approached with the same object;
+and Don Quixote, thinking him an enemy, also struck at him and laid
+his head open with two cuts from his lance in the form of a cross.
+
+The people of the inn heard the noise of the second encounter and came
+running to the spot. When they beheld what had happened and saw the
+battered condition of the carriers they commenced to throw stones at
+Don Quixote, not daring to approach him; and he, shielding himself as
+best he could with his buckler, defied them to draw near on pain of
+their lives, and returned the abuse and hard names they showered upon
+him. And he shouted at them with such a terrible voice that they
+became afraid and left him alone, moved not only by his threats but by
+the entreaties of the landlord, who kept calling out to them that the
+man was mad and would not be held accountable should he kill them all.
+
+The freaks of Don Quixote were not to the landlord's liking, and he
+desired to get rid of the strange knight with as little trouble as
+possible. He approached the well and told Don Quixote that the time
+for the ceremony of knighthood had now arrived, and that all the
+requirements had been met with by the watch that Don Quixote had
+already performed. He pulled out an account-book in which he kept the
+record of the straw and grain that he sold and bade Don Quixote kneel
+down before him. Then he read out the accounts in a solemn voice as
+though he were repeating some devout prayer, and the stable-boy and
+the two girls who worked at the inn stood by with a candle, trying to
+control their laughter. When the reading was finished the landlord
+took Don Quixote's sword and tapped him sharply on the shoulder,
+pretending to mutter more prayers while he was doing it, and one of
+the girls girded the sword about Don Quixote's waist, saying, as she
+did so:
+
+"May God make your Worship a very fortunate knight, and grant you
+success in battle!"
+
+Thus the ceremony was ended and Don Quixote was satisfied. And then it
+came about as the landlord had hoped and expected. The new knight was
+so eager to set out on his journey that he saddled his horse and rode
+forth at once, without paying his bill for his supper; and the
+landlord was so glad to see the last of him that he made no objection
+to this, thinking himself lucky to have got rid of the knight so
+cheaply, and he closed the door behind him as quickly as possible,
+thanking his lucky stars that Don Quixote was gone.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER IV
+
+WHICH TREATS OF DON QUIXOTE'S FURTHER ADVENTURES
+
+
+It was dawn when Don Quixote quitted the inn. He decided to return
+home to provide himself with money, shirts, and a squire, as the
+innkeeper had suggested, and so he turned his horse's head toward his
+village.
+
+He had not gone far, however, when he heard a feeble cry from the
+depths of a thicket on the roadside, as of some one in pain. He paused
+to thank Heaven for having favored him with this opportunity of
+fulfilling the obligation he had undertaken and gathering the fruit of
+his ambition; for he was certain that he had been called on from above
+to give aid and protection to some one in dire need. He quickly turned
+Rocinante in the direction from which the cries seemed to come; and he
+had gone but a few paces into the wood when he saw a youth, stripped
+to the waist and tied to a tree, being flogged in a merciless way by a
+powerful farmer. All the while the boy was crying out in his agony: "I
+won't do it again, master! I won't do it again! I promise I'll take
+better care of the sheep hereafter!"
+
+When Don Quixote saw what was going on he became most indignant.
+
+"Discourteous knight," he commanded in angry tones, "it ill becomes
+you to assail one who cannot defend himself! Mount your steed and take
+your lance! I will make you know that you are behaving like a coward!"
+
+The farmer looked up and saw Don Quixote in full armor, brandishing a
+lance over his head. He gave himself up for dead, then, and answered
+meekly:
+
+"Sir knight, the youth I am chastising is my servant. I employ him to
+watch a flock of sheep, and he is so careless that he loses one for me
+every day. And when I punish him for being careless, he accuses me of
+being a miser, saying that I do it that I might escape paying him the
+wages I owe him. That, I swear, is a sinful lie!"
+
+But the farmer's defense only angered Don Quixote all the more. He
+threatened to run the man through with his lance if he did not release
+the boy at once and pay him every penny he owed him in wages. Don
+Quixote then helped the lad to add up how much nine months' wages at
+seven reals a month might be, and found that it would make sixty-three
+reals; and the farmer was given his choice between paying his debt and
+dying upon the spot. The farmer replied, trembling with fear, that the
+sum was not so great and asked Don Quixote to take into account and
+deduct three pairs of shoes he had given the boy and a real for two
+blood-lettings when he was sick. But Don Quixote would not listen to
+this at all. He declared that the shoes and the blood-lettings had
+already been paid for by the blows the farmer had given the boy
+without cause, for, said he, "If he spoiled the leather of the shoes
+you paid for, you have damaged that of his body; and if the barber
+took blood from him when he was sick, you have drawn it when he was
+sound; so on that score he owes you nothing."
+
+When the farmer had heard his final judgment pronounced, he commenced
+to wail that he had no money about him, and pleaded with Don Quixote
+to let Andres, the lad, come home with him, when he would pay him real
+by real. Upon hearing this Andres turned to our knight errant and
+warned him that once he had departed his master would flay him like a
+Saint Bartholomew; but Don Quixote reassured him, saying now that his
+master had sworn to him by the knighthood that he, Don Quixote, had
+conferred upon him, justice would be done, and he himself would
+guarantee the payment.
+
+The youth had his doubts, however, and he dared to correct Don
+Quixote.
+
+"Consider what you say, Se�or," he said. "This master of mine is not a
+knight; he is simply Juan Haldudo the Rich, of Quintanar."
+
+To this Don Quixote replied that it mattered little; and the farmer
+again swore by all the knighthoods in the world to pay the lad as he
+had promised if he only came home.
+
+"See that you do as you have sworn," said Don Quixote, "for if you do
+not, by the same oath I swear to come back and hunt you out and punish
+you; and I shall find you though you should lie closer than a lizard!
+If you desire to know who it is lays this command upon you, that you
+may be more firmly bound to obey it, know that I am the valorous Don
+Quixote of La Mancha, the undoer of wrongs and injustices. And so, God
+be with you! But keep in mind what you have promised and sworn on
+pain of those penalties that have been already declared to you!"
+
+With these words he gave his steed the spur and rode away in a
+triumphant gallop, and was soon out of sight and reach. Now, when the
+farmer had convinced himself that the undoer of wrongs and injustices
+had entirely disappeared, he decided to give payment to the lad,
+Andres, then and there, without waiting till he came home; and so he
+tied him again to the tree and beat him until he was nearly dead.
+
+"Your valiant knight has made me realize an affection for you hitherto
+unknown to me. I shall give you added payment for that. Now go and
+look for him!" he remarked, as he gave him a last blow and untied him.
+And while the poor boy went off weeping, the lusty farmer stood there
+and laughed.
+
+Thus it was that our noble knight righted _that_ wrong. Don Quixote,
+however, was thoroughly satisfied with what he had done. He thought
+himself a most heroic figure and felt that he had made a most
+auspicious beginning in his knighthood. And as he was taking the road
+toward his village, utterly content with his own behavior, he said to
+himself: "Well mayest thou this day call thyself fortunate above all
+on earth, O Dulcinea del Toboso, fairest of the fair! since it has
+fallen to thy lot to hold subject and submissive to thy will and
+pleasure a knight so renowned as Don Quixote of La Mancha, who, as all
+the world knows, yesterday received the order of knighthood, and hath
+to-day righted the greatest wrong and grievance that ever injustice
+conceived and cruelty perpetrated: who hath to-day plucked the rod
+from the hand of yonder ruthless oppressor so wantonly lashing that
+tender child."
+
+As he was meditating and speaking in this fashion, he suddenly found
+himself at four crossroads. Of course, he had to emulate other knights
+who had gone before him, and follow tradition; so he paused in the
+manner that all knights do in books, and pondered, and, after much
+deep concern and consideration, finally decided to leave it to the
+instinct of his horse. The noble animal, realizing that his master had
+relinquished his will in his favor, made straight for his own stable,
+of course.
+
+After he had ridden a few miles, Don Quixote encountered six merchants
+from Toledo, who were on their way to Murcia to buy silk. They were
+accompanied by four mounted servants, and three who were on foot.
+Scarcely had he perceived them when his romantic imagination prompted
+him to believe that a fresh adventure was intended for him, and he
+began to prepare for it with great gestures. He fixed himself
+majestically and safely in the saddle, made ready with his lance, and
+planted himself firmly in the middle of the road. Here he awaited the
+arrival of the traders, who appeared to him to be real knights like
+himself; and as they came close to him, he halted them with a broad
+sweep of his lance, exclaiming boldly:
+
+"All the world stand, unless all the world confess that in all the
+world there is no maiden fairer than the Empress of la Mancha, the
+peerless Dulcinea del Toboso!"
+
+The thirteen men could not help but stand still at the sound of such
+words; nor did they hesitate about thinking that the speaker of them
+might be lacking in some of his wits. One of the travelers, however,
+either was curious or had a failing for making fun of people, for he
+asked Don Quixote to produce the lady before asking him to pay her his
+respects. Perhaps he was skeptical of his country's harboring such a
+rare beauty unbeknown to him.
+
+But Don Quixote was not to be fooled. "If I were to show her to you,"
+he replied, "what merit would you have in confessing a truth so
+manifest? You must believe without seeing her; otherwise you have to
+do with me in battle. Come on, you rabble! I rely on the justice of
+the cause I maintain!"
+
+The merchant with a sense of humor tried to plead for consideration.
+He suggested that a portrait of the fair lady might suffice to bring
+about a conversion to his conception of her beauty. But Don Quixote
+was determined that they were intolerant blasphemers who simply had to
+be thrashed. So he suddenly charged with such vehemence and fury that,
+if luck had not interfered and made his gentle steed stumble, the
+trader might have been killed. As Rocinante went down, our gallant
+hero went over his head, and after he had struck the ground he rolled
+for some distance. But when he tried to rise he could not: he was so
+weighted down with armor, helmet, spurs, buckler and lance. To make
+matters worse, one of the servants, having broken his lance in two,
+proceeded to batter him with one of the pieces until it seemed as if
+Don Quixote would be able to stand no more. Finally the man grew tired
+and went to catch up with his party, which had continued its way.
+But Don Quixote still lay on the ground, unable to get up.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER V
+
+IN WHICH THE NARRATIVE OF OUR KNIGHT'S MISHAP IS CONTINUED
+
+
+When Don Quixote began to realize that he was, so to speak, anchored
+to the ground, he turned his thoughts to his usual remedy, his books
+on knighthood and chivalry, which, in fact, had been the cause of his
+downfall. He decided that the passage to fit his case was the one
+about Baldwin and the Marquis of Mantua when Carloto left him wounded
+on the mountainside--for that he had been wounded by brigands he had
+no doubt. So he began to feign severe suffering, rolling to and fro on
+the ground, and repeating words that he had read in his books and
+ascribed to Baldwin as he lay wounded; until he finally was discovered
+by a peasant from his own village, a neighbor of his, whom he took for
+Baldwin's uncle, the Marquis of Mantua. This good neighbor of Don
+Quixote's was much concerned over his ravings. He removed the knight's
+breastplate, back piece and visor, expecting to see him badly wounded;
+but he found no trace of blood or marks upon him. Then he succeeded in
+hoisting poor Don Quixote up on his donkey, which seemed the easiest
+mount for him, while he tied the pieces of his arms on Rocinante. And
+thus they proceeded toward the village. Because of his blows and
+bruises, Don Quixote had a hard task sitting upright on the ass, and
+he emphasized the romance of his situation by constantly heaving sighs
+to heaven. But every time the peasant was driven by these sighs to ask
+him his trouble, he replied in the language of a different hero from a
+different book.
+
+It was nightfall when they arrived at Don Quixote's house in the
+village. His housekeeper, the curate, and the village barber were all
+in confusion, for it was now six days since the old gentleman had
+disappeared from La Mancha with his hack and armor. They had just come
+to the conclusion that his books were to blame for his dilapidated
+mentality, and agreed that they ought to be condemned to be publicly
+burned, when the peasant suddenly arrived with Don Quixote himself.
+They all ran out to greet and embrace him while he was still on the
+donkey--he had not dismounted because he could not. He insisted that
+he was severely wounded--through no fault of his own, however, but
+that of his horse--and asked that they put him to bed and send for the
+wise Urganda to cure him.
+
+The good people carried him to bed, but still they could find no
+wounds, although he insisted that he had been wounded in combat with
+ten giants, the greatest and most bloodthirsty in the world. Then he
+asked for something to eat; and then fell asleep.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER VI
+
+OF THE DIVERTING AND IMPORTANT SCRUTINY WHICH THE CURATE AND
+THE BARBER MADE IN THE LIBRARY OF OUR INGENIOUS GENTLEMAN
+
+
+Early the next morning the curate and his friend Master Nicholas, the
+barber, went to Don Quixote's house to settle their grievance with the
+cause of all the mischief--the books of their demented friend. The
+curate asked the niece for the keys to the library, and she was only
+too willing to let him have them. They all went in, followed by the
+housekeeper, who grew faint-hearted as soon as she caught sight of all
+the beautifully bound books in the room. She ran out as if beset,
+returning immediately with a bowl of holy water and a sprinkler, with
+which she implored the curate to sprinkle the room, so that none of
+the magicians who might come out of the books would be left to bewitch
+her.
+
+She was afraid that their ghosts might survive and bother her in
+revenge for having instigated their banishment from this world.
+
+The curate was amused by the housekeeper's fear. He asked the barber
+to give him the books one by one, as he was afraid that among the many
+there must be some innocent ones which did not deserve the penalty of
+death. But both the niece and the housekeeper made emphatic and
+vociferous remonstrances against such leniency and insisted that a
+bonfire be made in the courtyard for all of them. Now, the barber had
+a particular leaning toward poetry, and he thought that _such_ volumes
+ought to escape the stake; but he was promptly overruled by the
+conclusions of the niece, who reasoned that enough harm had already
+been done by books. "Your worship," she pleaded with the curate, "had
+best burn them all; for if my uncle, having been cured of his craze
+for chivalry, should take to reading these pastoral poems, he might
+take a fancy to become a shepherd and stroll the woods and pastures,
+singing and piping. What would be still worse, however, would be his
+turning poet; for that, they say, is both an incurable and infectious
+malady."
+
+Against such logic, strongly supported by the housekeeper, the
+arguments of the two men came to nothing; and the barber saw his
+favorite form of literature thrust into the heap that was being
+prepared in the yard for illumination. Only a few books were saved
+from this fate, and they only through the boldness of the curate and
+the barber together against the united efforts of the female members
+of the party. There was one volume in particular, called "The Tears of
+Angelica," which the curate fought for valiantly. "I should have shed
+tears myself," he said, "had I seen that book burn."
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER VII
+
+OF THE SECOND SALLY OF OUR WORTHY KNIGHT, DON QUIXOTE OF LA MANCHA
+
+
+While the curate was praising the merits of "The Tears of Angelica,"
+there was suddenly a tremendous outcry and noise from Don Quixote's
+bedroom. They hastened to see what was the matter, and when they
+reached his room they found him out of bed, sword in hand, cutting and
+slashing all around him, raving and shouting, with perspiration
+dripping from his body. He imagined that he was keeping at a distance
+several bold and daring warriors, and he kept exclaiming that the
+envious Don Roland had battered him with the trunk of an oak-tree
+because of his illustrious achievements in chivalry. They finally
+succeeded in forcibly putting him to bed, having wiped away the
+perspiration--which he insisted was blood. He then asked for something
+to eat; and when it was brought he fell asleep again.
+
+After the housekeeper had burned up all the books that were in the
+house, the curate and the barber thought it best to safeguard
+themselves against their friend's fury when he should find that his
+treasures had disappeared. So they decided to wall up and plaster the
+room where the books had been. Two days later, when Don Quixote got up
+out of bed, he went to look for his library. And it was nowhere to be
+found, of course: where the door had been, there was only a wall. He
+asked his housekeeper where his books were, as well as the room they
+had been kept in; but she had been well instructed and blamed it all
+on the devil. His niece told him that she believed a magician had
+taken the room away. She had seen him, she declared, come on a cloud,
+riding on a serpent; and when he had disappeared, the whole house was
+full of smoke and there was no trace of either room or books. The
+niece also declared that she had heard the magician say plainly that
+he was the Sage Munaton.
+
+The niece's explanation of the magic was heartily approved of by Don
+Quixote. The only doubt he expressed was about the identity of the
+magician. "He must have said Friston," he insisted. The housekeeper
+here came to the niece's aid and stated that she did not know whether
+he had said "Friston" or "Friton" or what he had said; but one thing
+she was sure of was that his name ended with "ton."
+
+This convinced Don Quixote that it was no other than the Sage Munaton,
+a great enemy of his, whose vanity could not tolerate the prophecies
+that Don Quixote was about to conquer in battle a certain knight whom
+Munaton had befriended.
+
+After this our worthy knight stuck to his house and home for a
+fortnight. His two gossiping friends, the curate and the village
+barber, did everything in their power to divert his thoughts from his
+fixed idea of a revival of the days of knighthood and chivalry. But
+the fire in Don Quixote's breast was smouldering: it was an undying
+flame.
+
+Near Don Quixote there lived a man by the name of Sancho Panza. He was
+a farm-hand--a poor but honest fellow who had both wife and children.
+Sancho Panza was not overburdened with thoughts derived from reading
+books of chivalry--the simple facts being that he could neither read
+nor write--nor, for that matter, with thoughts of any other kind on
+any other subject, for while Don Quixote had lost his wits, Sancho had
+never had any.
+
+To this poor fellow Don Quixote would talk of his adventures by the
+hour, trying to persuade Sancho that he was missing much romance by
+remaining a farm-hand all his life and that he ought to become the
+squire of some noble knight--for instance, himself. And so, after much
+persuasion and many promises, Sancho Panza decided to adopt his noble
+neighbor as his master. He was told that he must provide himself with
+all the necessaries for such an important and lofty position; and he
+assured his master that he would bring along his very best donkey. The
+mention of this ignoble animal somewhat took the knight aback. He
+ransacked his memory for any instance in which any other mount than a
+horse had been used, but he could recall none. However, he could not
+very well have an attendant on foot, so he decided to take him along,
+mounted on his donkey. Of course, there was no doubt in his mind that
+an opportunity would present itself ere long to appropriate the horse
+of some rebellious knight.
+
+One night the two sallied forth from the village, unseen. Sancho Panza
+sat on his donkey, a picture of grave joviality, already seeing
+himself the governor of some conquered island. Don Quixote was taking
+the same road he took on his first campaign, the road that led over
+the Campo de Montiel.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTERS VIII-IX
+
+OF THE GOOD FORTUNE WHICH THE VALIANT DON QUIXOTE HAD IN THE
+TERRIBLE AND UNDREAMT-OF ADVENTURE OF THE WINDMILLS, WITH OTHER
+OCCURRENCES WORTHY TO BE FITLY RECORDED, INCLUDING THE TERRIBLE
+BATTLE BETWEEN THE GALLANT BISCAYAN AND THE VALIANT MANCHEGAN
+
+
+When they had traveled a few miles they suddenly saw thirty or forty
+windmills scattered over a plain. Don Quixote pulled in his horse, his
+eyes staring out of their sockets.
+
+"Look, friend Sancho Panza!" he exclaimed. "Thirty or more monstrous
+giants present themselves! I mean to engage them all in battle and
+slay them; for this is righteous warfare. It is serving God to sweep
+so evil a breed from off the face of the earth!"
+
+"What giants?" asked Sancho curiously.
+
+"Those with the long arms," replied Don Quixote.
+
+"But, your worship," said Sancho, "those are not giants but windmills,
+and what seem to be their arms are the sails that make the millstones
+go."
+
+Hearing his squire make such a foolish remark, Don Quixote could not
+quite make up his mind whether it was through ignorance, inexperience
+in the pursuit of adventure, or cowardice, that he spoke like that. So
+he suggested Sancho would better stay away and pray while he, Don
+Quixote, fought the giants single-handed. The honor of conquering in
+such an unequal combat would be so much greater for him, he thought,
+if he won victory all by himself.
+
+Don Quixote made ready for the attack by commending himself to his
+Lady Dulcinea, and then he gave the spur to Rocinante in spite of the
+pleas and outcries of Sancho Panza. Just at this moment a breeze began
+to blow and the sails of the windmills commenced to move. The knight
+charged at his hack's fullest gallop, drove his spear with such force
+into one of the sails that the spear was shattered to pieces while the
+poor knight fell over the pommel of his saddle, head over heels in the
+air, and Rocinante fell stunned to the ground. There they rolled
+together on the plain, in a battered and bruised condition.
+
+Sancho hurried to his master's side as fast as his donkey could carry
+him. He was worried beyond words, for he expected to find Don Quixote
+well nigh dead, and he was not bent on giving up all hopes of
+governing an island, at so early a stage. The misguided knight was
+unable to move. Nevertheless Sancho Panza could not resist the impulse
+to reprimand his master. "Did I not tell your worship so!" he
+admonished. But Don Quixote would hear nothing, answering in a
+sportsmanlike fashion:
+
+"Hush, friend Sancho! The fortunes of war fluctuate, that's all." And
+then he added his suspicion that the same Sage Friston, the magician
+who had carried off his room of books, had turned the giants into
+windmills so that he would be unable to boast of having conquered
+them--all out of sheer envy and thirst for vengeance. What he most
+bewailed, however, was the loss of his lance.
+
+With much difficulty Sancho succeeded in placing Don Quixote on his
+horse, and they proceeded on their way, following the road to Puerto
+Lapice. All the while Don Quixote was scanning the woods along the
+roadside for the branch of an oak-tree that he would deem a worthy
+substitute for his departed spear. It seemed to him as if he had read
+somewhere in one of his books that some knight had done such a thing
+in an emergency.
+
+Having reminded Don Quixote that he must sit straight in the saddle,
+Sancho was in turn reminded by an inner feeling that it was time to
+eat. His master, however, scorned this idea, and let Sancho indulge by
+himself, while he fasted.
+
+Finally night fell, and they passed it in the woods. There Don Quixote
+chose at last the branch of an oak-tree that was to serve him as a
+spear, and to one of its ends he attached the head of his broken
+lance. All night long he lay looking up into the sky, visioning his
+sweet Dulcinea--all for the purpose of emulating other heroes of the
+past age of chivalry who could not sleep for thinking of their lady
+loves.
+
+Sancho Panza, unluckily, was stimulated in no such blessed way. He was
+supported by no sweet dreams of any beloved one of his. As for his
+wife, he had forgotten all about her. But as a matter of truth he had
+no memory of anything, having absorbed too much fluid out of his
+leather wine-bag, or _bota_, as it is called in Spanish. On getting up
+in the morning Sancho Panza was grieved to find the contents of his
+_bota_ decidedly diminished.
+
+Don Quixote bravely maintained his self-inflicted hunger and
+swallowed his appetite by thoughts of his past valiant deeds. They
+soon started out, and again took the road leading to Puerto Lapice,
+whose outlines they sighted in the afternoon. Don Quixote thought this
+an opportune time for addressing his squire on the etiquette and laws
+of knighthood, as they were now approaching a very hotbed of
+adventure.
+
+"Under no pretext," he admonished the faithful one, "must thou put a
+hand to thy sword in my defense unless it be that I am attacked by
+mere rabble or base folk; in such case, thou art in duty bound to be
+my bodyguard. But if my assailants be knights, thou must in no way
+interfere until thou hast been dubbed a knight thyself."
+
+Sancho promised to obey his master as nearly as his human nature
+permitted him. He declared that he liked peace and hated strife, yet, if
+he were assailed, he did not believe in turning the other cheek more than
+once. Don Quixote saw a certain amount of reason in this; still, he asked
+his squire to do his utmost to restrain himself against any such rash
+impulse in the case of members of the knighthood. And Sancho Panza swore
+that he would keep this precept as religiously as Sunday.
+
+While our noble knight was thus instructing his squire, there appeared
+on the road two friars of the order of St. Benedict. They were riding
+mules; and behind them came a coach with an escort numbering nearly
+half a dozen men on horseback and two men on foot. In the coach,
+traveling in state, was a lady of Biscay, on her way to Seville.
+
+What could this be except a plot of scheming magicians to steal away
+some princess? The friars, innocently traveling by themselves, became
+in Don Quixote's eyes a pair of evil magicians, and in his thirst for
+adventure the nearer one assumed stupendous proportions.
+
+"This will be worse than the windmills!" sighed Sancho, who tried in
+vain to convince his master of the facts in the case.
+
+But Don Quixote cut him short. "Thou knowest nothing of adventures,"
+he said; and that settled it.
+
+Boldly the knight went forward and took position in the middle of the
+road.
+
+"Devilish and unnatural beings!" he cried in a loud voice, "release
+instantly the high-born princess whom you are carrying off by force in
+this coach, else prepare to meet a speedy death as the just punishment
+of your evil deeds!"
+
+The mules came to a standstill, their ears erect with astonishment at
+such a figure, and the friars gaped in wonder. At last they recovered
+sufficiently to declare that they were traveling quite by themselves,
+and had no knowledge of the identity of the travelers following behind
+them.
+
+To their meek reply Don Quixote paid no heed, but bellowed forth
+furiously: "No soft words with me! I know you, you lying rabble!" And
+with his spurs in Rocinante and his lance lifted he rode against the
+two friars like a whirlwind, so that if one of them had not quickly
+thrust himself off his mule, he would certainly have been torn to
+shreds. The other one saved his skin by setting off across the country
+at a speed rivaling our hero's charge.
+
+At this stage Sancho Panza began to realize the full extent of his
+position as squire to a successful knight. Over by the roadside he saw
+the first friar lying breathless on the ground as a result of his
+jumping off his mule in such amazing hurry. He proceeded to strip off
+the friar's gown, using as a moral for doing this his own thoughts on
+the subject. He reasoned that if he could not share in the honors of
+battle, he at least ought to share in the spoils.
+
+He was intercepted by some of the men attending the carriage.
+Unfortunately, they were serious-minded men, and they failed to see
+the joke. Sancho Panza gave them his views on etiquette pertaining to
+such matters as these; but it would have been much better for him had
+he not, for the men set upon him with great fury, beating and kicking
+him until he was insensible. They left him lying on the ground and
+then helped the pale and trembling friar to mount his mule. As soon as
+he was in the saddle, he hastened to join his companion, and the two
+of them continued their journey, making more crosses than they would
+if the devil had pursued them.
+
+In the meantime Don Quixote had been trying to persuade the fair
+occupant of the coach to return to El Toboso that she herself might
+relate to his beloved Dulcinea the strange adventure from which he had
+delivered her.
+
+A Biscayan gentleman, who was one of her attendants and rode a hired
+mule, took offense at his insistence to bother her, and a fight was
+soon in progress. The Biscayan had no shield, so he snatched a cushion
+from the carriage and used it to defend himself. The engagement was a
+most heated one, and Don Quixote lost a piece of his ear early in the
+combat. This enraged him beyond words; he charged his adversary with
+such tremendous force and fury that he began to bleed from his mouth,
+his nose, and his ears. Had the Biscayan not embraced the neck of his
+mount, he would have been spilled on the ground immediately. It
+remained for his mule to complete the damage, and when the animal
+suddenly set off across the plain in great fright, the rider plunged
+headlong to the ground.
+
+Seeing this, Don Quixote hastened to the man's side and bade him
+surrender, at the penalty of having his head cut off. Absolutely
+bewildered, the gentleman from Biscay could say nothing; and had it
+not been for the ladies in the coach who interceded with prayers for
+his life, the Biscayan might have been beheaded right then and there.
+Don Quixote finally agreed to spare his opponent's life on one
+condition: that he present himself before the matchless Lady Dulcinea
+in the village of El Toboso, and it would be for her to determine his
+punishment. The ladies having promised that their protector should do
+anything and everything that might be asked of him, our hero from La
+Mancha said that he would harm the gentleman no more.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER X
+
+OF THE PLEASANT DISCOURSE THAT PASSED BETWEEN DON QUIXOTE
+AND HIS SQUIRE SANCHO PANZA
+
+
+When Sancho Panza had regained consciousness, he saw his master again
+engaged in battle. He thought that the best thing he could do was to
+pray, at a distance, for victory; and so he did. Soon he saw Don
+Quixote emerge from the struggle as victor! Overcome by emotion and
+gratitude to God, he ran to his master's side and fell on his knees
+before him. He kissed his hand, then helped him to mount his steed.
+All the while he did not forget the island of which Don Quixote had
+promised him he should become governor. He expectantly reminded his
+master of it now, and Don Quixote said to him that if things continued
+to go as they had gone, there would be even greater honors in store
+for him; perhaps he would become a king or an emperor, even.
+
+Much satisfied with this prospect, Sancho lifted himself up into the
+saddle and trotted after his master, who was galloping ahead at a wild
+pace. Sancho, seeing him disappear in a wood nearby, steered his ass
+in the same direction. He yelled to him in a loud voice, begging him
+to stop.
+
+At last our knight condescended to hear his tired squire, and waited
+until Sancho caught up with him. Sancho ventured to suggest that they
+hide in some church, for he was afraid that by this time the friars
+had reported the happening to the Holy Brotherhood; but his master
+only laughed at his simplicity and fear; and finally Sancho had to
+admit that he never in his life had served so brave and valiant a
+knight. However, he begged his master not to overlook his bleeding
+ear, and gave him some ointment to apply to the wound. It was only
+after a long discourse on the merits of the strange balsam of
+Fierabras, which possessed the enchanted quality of healing bodies cut
+in twain--he particularly dwelt upon the necessity of fitting the two
+separated halves evenly and exactly--that Don Quixote deigned to apply
+Sancho's ointment. In doing so he lamented the absence of the famous
+balsam.
+
+Now, Sancho Panza saw untold possibilities for making money out of
+such a remarkable remedy as this balsam. He was even willing to
+relinquish his rights to any throne in its favor. So what interested
+him more than anything else was the recipe for making it. But his
+master told him that he would teach him even greater secrets when the
+time came, and suddenly changed the subject by cursing the Biscayan,
+of whom he had just been reminded by a twinge in his bleeding ear. The
+sight of his shattered helmet brought the climax to his anger, and he
+swore by the creator and all the four gospels to avenge himself. When
+Sancho heard this, he reminded his knight of his solemn oath to the
+ladies. Had he not promised them to refer the Biscayan's punishment to
+the court of his Dulcinea? Being thus reminded by his squire, Don
+Quixote nobly declared his oath null and void, and commended Sancho
+Panza for unknowingly having made him conform with the customs of
+chivalry.
+
+Then he repeated his vows of knighthood and swore to capture from some
+other knight a helmet as good as his own. Sancho, by this time, was
+beginning to wonder whether so many oaths might not be injurious to
+Don Quixote's salvation. He suggested, for instance, the possibility
+of meeting with no one wearing a helmet, and asked what his master
+intended to do to keep his oath in such a case. Don Quixote assured
+him that they would soon encounter more men in armor than came to
+Albraca to win the fair Angelica.
+
+Unwittingly Sancho's thoughts went back to his favorite unconquered
+island, and again his master admonished him to feel no uneasiness on
+that score. He even bettered his chances, explaining that if the
+island should disappear or for some reason be out of the question,
+there were countless other realms to be considered. He mentioned the
+kingdoms of Denmark and Sobradisa as some of them, and added that
+these possessed advantages that no island had. These were on the
+mainland and did not have to be reached by boat or by swimming.
+
+Now Don Quixote was beginning to feel hungry, and he asked Sancho
+Panza to give him some food out of his _alforjas_. Sancho made
+apologies for having nothing but onions, cheese, and a few crusts of
+bread to offer such a valiant knight, but Don Quixote explained that
+one of the glories of knighthood was self-denial: many a knight had
+been known to go without food for a month at a time. However, he
+thought it advisable for Sancho to gather dry fruits from time to time
+as a safeguard against overwhelming hunger. Sancho feared that his
+appetite might crave food of a more substantial kind, and added that
+he would garnish his meals with some poultry. His master made no
+direct remonstrance to this assertion of his squire, but presumed that
+not _all_ knights at _all_ times lived on dry fruit.
+
+As soon as they had finished their repast, they mounted and continued
+their way, anxious to find some inhabited place before nightfall.
+When it had grown dark, they found themselves near the huts of some
+goatherds, and Don Quixote decided that they should spend the night
+there. Sancho had hoped that they would find some house where he could
+have a comfortable bed; but his master was pleased to sleep once more
+in the open. Each act of self-denial made him a more honored and more
+valuable member of the knighthood.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XI
+
+OF WHAT BEFELL DON QUIXOTE WITH CERTAIN GOATHERDS
+
+
+The goatherds were cordial in their greeting to our knight and his
+squire, and invited them to partake of their meal, which was just
+being served on a tablecloth of sheepskin spread on the ground. Don
+Quixote was given a seat of honor on a trough turned upside down.
+Sancho remained standing to serve him, but his master insisted upon
+his coming down to his level. To this Sancho objected. He said that he
+could enjoy his food much better in a corner by himself, where he
+could chew it as he pleased, without having to take into consideration
+the formalities inflicted by the presence of one so much above his own
+state as his worthy master. He called his master's attention to the
+fact that in company like this, a humble servant like himself would
+have to suppress all such inclinations as sneezing, coughing and other
+natural outbursts, and, worst of all, drinking to his heart's content.
+But Don Quixote would listen to no arguments and seated him by force
+at his side.
+
+All the while the goatherds were marveling at our knight's bombastic
+speech and flourishing manners, and their interest was only enhanced
+when Don Quixote suddenly commenced a vast and poetic discourse on the
+golden age of the past. Some parched acorns he had just eaten had
+served him as a reminder and this in turn as an inspiration.
+
+Sancho took advantage of his master's long speech by paying numerous
+visits to the leather wine-bag, which had been suspended from a
+cork-tree in order to keep the wine cool.
+
+Hardly had Don Quixote finished his discourse when the sound of music
+was heard in the distance, and soon a good-looking youth of twenty
+appeared, playing a lute. At the goatherds' request he sang a ballad
+of love, which was much favored by Don Quixote. Sancho Panza, however,
+felt the necessity for sleep and slyly suggested consideration on his
+master's part for the men, who no doubt had to rise with the sun and
+attend to their labors. This appeal did not fail to move Don Quixote,
+especially since his ear again began to trouble him with pain. One of
+the goatherds offered his help. He plucked some leaves of rosemary,
+put them in his mouth and chewed them well, then mixed them with a
+pinch of salt and put them as a plaster over the wounded ear, safely
+attaching it with a bandage. As he had predicted, this proved to be an
+excellent treatment.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XII
+
+OF WHAT A GOATHERD RELATED TO THOSE WITH DON QUIXOTE
+
+
+Just as Don Quixote was about to retire for the night, a young man from
+the village came to the hut and informed the goatherds of the death of a
+famous villager named Crysostom. The youth said there was a rumor that
+Crysostom--who had been a student and had turned shepherd--had died of a
+broken heart, for love of the daughter of Guillermo the Rich. In his will
+he had directed that he desired to be buried, like a Moor, at the very
+place where he first saw her, at the foot of a rock by a spring in the
+fields. The clergy of the village had been aroused by this and other
+directions in the will, which they considered smacked of heathenism, and
+objected to the carrying out of the will. Ambrosio, the bosom friend of
+Crysostom--and a student who had also become a shepherd--started an
+opposition to the clergy, and was determined that his dead friend's will
+should be done. The young man said that the whole village was in an
+uproar, and he was looking forward to interesting events in the morning,
+when the burial was to take place.
+
+Don Quixote was eager to learn something of the maiden for whose sake
+Ambrosio's friend had died. One of the goatherds, named Pedro, related
+to him all that he knew.
+
+The parents of Marcela--for that was the maiden's name--and of
+Crysostom were very rich people, although they were farmers. Marcela's
+father and mother died when she was a baby, and she was brought up
+under the care of her uncle, a priest in the village. As she grew up,
+her beauty was increased with each day that passed, and her uncle had
+many offers for her hand in marriage; but she would hear of none of
+them. One day, to the consternation of all in the village, she
+appeared dressed in the costume of a shepherdess, and declared her
+intention of turning to that kind of life.
+
+Just about this time the father of Crysostom died, leaving his great
+fortune to his son, who had just finished his studies in astrology and
+other learned subjects in the University of Salamanca. Crysostom
+returned home together with his friend and companion Ambrosio, and
+both became very well liked in the village. There Crysostom saw
+Marcela and fell deeply in love with her, and he, like so many others
+before him, decided to turn shepherd in order to be near her
+constantly. But she was indifferent to all talk of love; and the sting
+of her scorn made him take his life.
+
+Having ended his story, Pedro advised our knight not to miss the
+ceremonies that Crysostom's shepherd friends were to hold at his grave
+in the morning. Sancho, who had been greatly annoyed by the goatherd's
+talkativeness, was by this time beginning to think aloud that it might
+be time for his master to go to bed; and Pedro begged him to sleep in
+his hut, as he was afraid that the cold night air might hurt his
+wound.
+
+So Don Quixote retired for the night to the bed given him by his
+hosts, and dreamed all night of his beloved one in his native village,
+in imitation of other great lovers. Sancho rested, as comfortable and
+unemotional as a barrel of settled wine, between his master's charger
+and his own peaceful donkey.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XIII
+
+IN WHICH IS ENDED THE STORY OF THE SHEPHERDESS MARCELA WITH
+OTHER INCIDENTS
+
+
+As soon as the sun was rising in the east, Don Quixote was awakened,
+and a little later they were on their way to the burial of Crysostom.
+
+They had gone only a short distance, when they met six shepherds, all
+dressed in black sheepskins and with crowns of bitter oleander and
+cypress on their heads. In his hand each shepherd carried a staff of
+holly. Directly behind them came two dignified gentlemen on horseback,
+followed by three servants on foot. While stopping to exchange
+greetings, all had learned that they were going in the same direction
+for the same purpose. The two gentlemen had met the mourning
+shepherds, and from them had heard the sad story of the love of
+Crysostom for Marcela. That had aroused their curiosity and sorrow,
+and they wanted now to do him honor.
+
+The battle-clad Don Quixote, of course, attracted their attention, and
+one of the gentlemen was eager to learn why any one should be
+masquerading in armor so early in the morning. To which he got the
+reply that the danger of his calling made it necessary for him to wear
+it. The gentlemen could not help then but realize Don Quixote's mental
+condition. But one of them possessed a restless sense of humor, and
+when Don Quixote began to discourse on chivalry and knights errant, he
+asked to know what these things were. Our hero then explained their
+mysteries at length. He described the deeds of King Arthur, spoke of
+the famous Round Table, and told the love-story of Don Lancelot and
+Queen Guinevere.
+
+In the course of these descriptions the jesting gentleman felt that he
+had fully diagnosed the madness of our knight, and thought it only
+fair play to beguile the journey to the burial-place by listening to
+his absurdities. Now and then he would put in a word or ask a question
+in order not to break the thread. For instance, he suggested cunningly
+that the calling of a knight errant was as serious as that of a
+Carthusian monk; and Don Quixote replied that he thought it a much
+more necessary one. And as to its demands, there was no comparison, he
+declared, for if ever one rose to become an emperor it was only after
+tremendous sacrifice of blood and sweat.
+
+The traveling gentleman was agreed with him on that score; but there
+was one thing he did not approve of: whenever a knight went into
+battle, he commended himself to his lady, instead of God. This he
+thought wrong and unchristianlike. Don Quixote, however, saw no wrong
+in it. It was only human, he contended, to think first of his beloved
+one at so austere a moment; and, besides, often the knight errant
+would say things under his breath that would not be understood. Then
+only Heaven could know whether he had called upon his lady or God.
+
+The gentleman then soon found another argument. He expressed a doubt that
+all knights errant were in love, saying that some of them commended
+themselves to ladies fictitiously. Don Quixote denied this emphatically;
+but the traveler thought that he had read somewhere that Don Galaor, the
+brother of the valiant Amadis of Gaul, never commended himself to any
+particular lady, yet he was a brave and most illustrious knight errant.
+All that Don Quixote replied to this argument was: "Sir, one solitary
+swallow does not make summer!" and offered, as if in confidence, his
+conviction that this very knight had been very deeply in love, but
+secretly.
+
+At that very moment he heaved a sigh of weariness. The sigh was
+misinterpreted by the traveler, however, for he asked our knight
+whether he was reticent about telling the name of _his_ lady.
+
+"Dulcinea del Toboso, of La Mancha," answered Don Quixote. And this
+time he made her a princess, extolling her virtues and her beauty to
+the traveler, who found it amusing to hear the knight tell of her
+ancestry and lineage. First of all Don Quixote named to the traveler
+the families of Spain that she was _not_ connected with, then informed
+him that she was of the house of El Toboso of La Mancha. And though
+this was a most modern family, one could never foretell what position
+it would hold in the future.
+
+The traveler in his turn told Don Quixote of his own family, saying
+that he of course dared not to compare it with that of the fair
+Dulcinea, although he never had heard of hers ere this--a confession
+that surprised Don Quixote exceedingly.
+
+During this conversation between the knight and the traveling
+gentleman--who was named Se�or Vivaldo--they came in sight of a score
+of shepherds, all dressed in black sheepskins and crowned with
+garlands. Six of them were carrying a bier on which lay the body of
+the dead Crysostom. At his side were scattered some papers and books.
+When they had found the resting-place that the dead man had chosen for
+himself, Ambrosio, his dearest friend, spoke some words in his memory.
+He mentioned how Crysostom's heart had been rent asunder by the cruel
+treatment of one whom his departed friend would have immortalized to
+the world in poetry, had Ambrosio not been commissioned by him to
+consign the verses to the flames after having entrusted his body to
+the earth.
+
+Se�or Vivaldo thought it would be a great pity to do away with such
+beautiful verses, and he pleaded with Ambrosio against their consignment
+to oblivion. As he was speaking, he reached out his hand for some of the
+papers that were close to him, and Ambrosio considerately permitted him
+to keep them. The remaining ones were burned.
+
+Se�or Vivaldo glanced through the papers eagerly and read the
+title--"Lay of Despair." When Ambrosio heard this, he asked him to
+read the words aloud that all those assembled might hear the last
+verses of the dead shepherd. And while Se�or Vivaldo spoke the
+despairing lines, some of the shepherds were digging the grave for
+their friend.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XIV
+
+WHEREIN ARE DESCRIBED THE DESPAIRING VERSES OF THE DEAD SHEPHERD
+
+
+Se�or Vivaldo had finished the last verse and was about to glance
+through the rest of the papers he had saved from the fire, when
+suddenly on the summit of the rock by the grave he saw a most glorious
+apparition. It was no other than Marcela, the shepherdess, and
+every-one was aghast at her presence. The moment Ambrosio saw her, he
+became indignant beyond words and commanded her to leave. But she
+remained and asked them all to listen to her. She had come there to
+defend herself, she said; she knew what people had accused her of:
+cruelty, scornfulness, arrogance, ingratitude, deception, and hatred.
+But she hated no one, she declared. She had deceived no one. Crysostom
+had loved her because of her beauty; but she had loved neither him nor
+any other man. She had chosen solitude, the woods and the fields,
+because of her inborn craving for freedom. Should she have forced
+herself to give that up because any man chose to say, "I love you,"
+while she did not love him? Was she to be blamed for Crysostom's
+death. For not loving him? Would not that have been to pawn her
+modesty and her womanly honor and virtue? And why should he have
+wanted to rob her of them?
+
+So she spoke; and when she had finished she waited for no reply but
+turned and ran like a deer into the woods. All stood gazing after her
+in silent admiration, not only for her beauty but for her frank speech
+and good sense also. Some of the men seemed to be about to run after
+her, having been wellnigh enchanted by her gloriously bright eyes; but
+they were stopped by Don Quixote, who thundered: "Let no one, whatever
+his rank or condition, dare to follow the beautiful Marcela, under
+pain of incurring my fierce indignation! She has shown by clear and
+satisfactory arguments that no fault is to be found with her for the
+death of Crysostom. Instead of being followed and persecuted, she
+should in justice be honored and esteemed by all the good people of
+the world, for she shows that she is the only woman in it that holds
+to such a virtuous resolution."
+
+These words Don Quixote uttered in a threatening manner, his hand on
+the hilt of his sword. Whether because of his threats or because the
+grave had been dug and Crysostom's remains were about to be lowered
+into it, they all stayed until the burial was over. The grave was
+closed with a large stone, and then the shepherds strewed flowers,
+leaves and branches upon it, and shed many tears.
+
+The two travelers extended an invitation to Don Quixote to accompany
+them to Seville, where they assured him he would find no end of
+adventures awaiting him. But he told them that for the present he had
+his hands full ridding these very regions of highwaymen and robbers.
+He thanked them, however, and they continued their journey without our
+hero.
+
+Don Quixote now saw his duty clearly. He would search the woods and
+wilds for the beautiful Marcela. He was certain that she would need
+his services.
+
+But things did not turn out as he expected.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XV
+
+IN WHICH IS RELATED THE UNFORTUNATE ADVENTURE THAT DON QUIXOTE
+FELL IN WITH WHEN HE FELL OUT WITH CERTAIN HEARTLESS YANGUESANS
+
+
+When Don Quixote had taken leave of his hosts, he set off with his
+squire into the woods where he had seen Marcela disappear. They
+wandered about for some time and found no trace of the shepherdess.
+Then they came to a pasture through which a brook was running, and as
+they were both thirsty, warm, and tired, they decided to remain there
+for their noontide meal. They feasted on the scraps that remained in
+the _alforjas_, while Rocinante and Sancho's ass were left free to
+pluck all the grass they desired.
+
+Now, Fate would have it that at that very hour a band of Yanguesans
+were resting nearby, with their ponies let loose in the pasture. As
+soon as the ponies were discovered by Rocinante, he wanted to exchange
+friendly greetings with them, so he set off at a brisk trot in their
+direction. But the ponies seemed to have no desire to strike up an
+acquaintance with an unknown hack, for they arrogantly turned their
+backs on him and commenced to snort and kick and bite until the saddle
+fell off Rocinante and he was left quite naked. By this time the
+Yanguesans had heard the commotion and rushed up, armed with sticks,
+and with these they thrashed poor Rocinante so soundly that he fell to
+the ground in a heap.
+
+Just at this time Don Quixote and Sancho, having finished their
+repast, went to look for their chargers. As soon as Don Quixote had
+taken in the situation, he realized that these were no knights errant
+and confided this to his squire, charging him to help him in his
+battle for Rocinante's honor. Sancho made vehement pleas for
+abstaining from vengeance, seeing the great numbers of the enemy; but
+his master's conviction that he alone counted for a hundred eased his
+mind.
+
+Don Quixote attacked at once and cut off a portion of his opponent's
+shoulder; Sancho fought bravely too. But when the men saw that they
+were fighting such a small number they set upon them, all at one time,
+and after a few thrusts they had unseated our knight and his squire,
+both sorely battered. Then, fearing the hand of the law, the
+Yanguesans set off in great haste.
+
+When Sancho came to, he was certain that all his bones were broken,
+and he feebly turned to his master saying that he only wished that he
+had at hand the marvelous balsam of Fierabras, of which his master had
+spoken. Sancho lamented the lack of it no more than Don Quixote, who
+swore that within two days he would have the potion in his possession.
+As to his wounds, he took all the blame upon himself: he felt that it
+was God's punishment for having engaged in battle with ordinary rabble
+like these carriers, and decided that henceforth he would have Sancho
+alone chastise those who had not been dubbed knights.
+
+To this Sancho took exception, for he maintained that he had wife and
+children to support, and was by nature a peaceful, meek and timid man.
+He called upon God to forgive in advance all the insults man or beast
+might offer him in the future and for all times; but at this Don
+Quixote took him to task and admonished him not to lose his valor in
+attacking and defending himself in all sorts of emergencies.
+
+Sancho's soft heart now turned to Rocinante, who had been the cause of
+all the trouble. The poor horse was in a sorry plight. So it was
+considered best that Don Quixote--who could not sit upright--should be
+slung across his servant's donkey. This decision was reached when Don
+Quixote remembered that Silenus, the teacher of the God of Laughter,
+had entered the city of the hundred gates mounted on a handsome ass.
+
+When his master had been secured and Rocinante raised from the ground,
+Sancho took the two beasts by the halter and led them out to the road,
+and from there they proceeded on their way. Soon Sancho saw the
+outlines of an inn, which Don Quixote insisted must be a castle, and
+before they had finished their dispute, they found themselves at the
+gate and entered.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XVI
+
+OF WHAT HAPPENED TO THE INGENIOUS GENTLEMAN IN THE INN
+WHICH HE TOOK TO BE A CASTLE
+
+
+When the keeper of the inn saw the sorry body of the knight on the
+ass, he became anxious to learn what had happened to him. His wife was
+a kindly and good-natured woman, and when Sancho had explained that
+his master had fallen from a rock, she and her pretty daughter offered
+to care for him. The daughter, and a one-eyed Asturian servant-girl,
+with turned-up nose and high cheek-bones, made a bed for Don Quixote
+on four rough boards in a garret, where a carrier was also quartered.
+Stretched on this bed Don Quixote was attended by the innkeeper's
+wife, who soon covered him with more plasters than he had quilts. In
+the meantime she, her daughter, and the Asturian girl, all curious,
+questioned Sancho about his master.
+
+Sancho told, in as thrilling words as he could command, of their
+marvelous adventures; to all of which they listened with astonishment.
+The Asturian servant nearly stared her one eye out of her head. She
+asked Sancho Panza, trembling with excitement, what a knight errant
+was. To this Sancho replied that a knight was an adventurer, who one
+day might be the poorest and meanest of men, and the next day emperor,
+with crowns and kingdoms in abundance to give away to his squire and
+underlings. Here the women expressed surprise that he himself,
+judging by appearance, did not possess even so much as a small strip
+of land. He then confided to them that he and his master had been
+going but a short time; that as yet it was much too soon; that the
+adventures they had met with so far were but a beginning and not
+worthy of mention.
+
+Don Quixote, who had been listening to everything his squire said, now
+sat up in bed and informed them of the great honor he had conferred
+upon them by being in their house; he told them of his indescribable
+gratitude to them; and of his love for his Dulcinea del Toboso of La
+Mancha.
+
+The women, not being accustomed to such language, which seemed to them
+more difficult to understand than Greek, stared at him in bewilderment;
+then, thanking him for his courtesy, they left him while the Asturian
+plastered Sancho, who seemed to be in need of treatment as sadly as his
+master.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XVII
+
+IN WHICH ARE CONTAINED THE INNUMERABLE TROUBLES WHICH THE
+BRAVE DON QUIXOTE AND HIS GOOD SQUIRE SANCHO PANZA ENDURED
+AT THE INN, WHICH TO HIS MISFORTUNE HE TOOK TO BE A CASTLE
+
+
+The following morning Sancho, feeling his pains even more, reminded
+his master of the famous balsam he was to make. Don Quixote himself
+was anxious for it too, so he sent Sancho to an imagined fortress for
+some oil, wine, rosemary and salt. He mixed these ingredients in a
+pot, and boiled them. Then he poured the mixture into a tin flask,
+crossed himself and repeated innumerable paternosters and ave-marias.
+When he had nearly exhausted himself doing that, he swallowed a good
+portion of the liquid; and immediately he began to vomit and perspire,
+while his face and body contracted in the most horrible spasms. He
+asked to be put to bed at once, and they let him sleep for three
+hours. When he woke he felt so relieved that he really thought he had
+hit upon the remedy of Fierabras.
+
+Seeing his master's miraculous recovery, Sancho begged to be permitted
+to drink some of the wonderful liquid, and Don Quixote gave him a dose
+of it. Unlike his master, Sancho retained what he had drunk for some
+time before letting it all come up again, but in the meantime his
+agony was insufferable. He was seized with such gripings and faintness
+that he was sure his last hour had come. He even cursed his master for
+having given him such terrible stuff; but Don Quixote said that he had
+only now come to realize that the remedy was made solely for those who
+had been dubbed knights: whereupon Sancho, writhing in convulsions
+cursed him still more. Sancho's agony lasted for several hours.
+
+In the meantime Don Quixote himself, being anxious for new adventures,
+had saddled Rocinante. He had to help his squire mount the ass, for
+Sancho still was in a sorry condition. All the folk at the inn had
+gathered to see them depart, and when Don Quixote's eyes fell on the
+beautiful young daughter of the innkeeper, he heaved a heavy sigh;
+but no one there realized the soul or the reason of it, for they all
+thought it must be from the pain in his ribs.
+
+As he was about to leave, the valiant knight called the innkeeper and
+asked him with profound gravity whether he had any enemies that
+remained unpunished; if so, he, Don Quixote, would chastise them for
+him. The innkeeper answered shortly that he could take care of his own
+grudges; all he asked of our knight was payment for lodging and for
+what he and the beasts and the squire had consumed.
+
+"Then this is an inn?" cried Don Quixote, who could hardly believe his
+ears. He ransacked his memory for any incident when knight had ever
+paid for food and lodging, and, unable to remember one, raised his
+lance, turned Rocinante, and set off at a quick gallop, leaving Sancho
+behind.
+
+The innkeeper immediately took steps to attach the squire for the
+unpaid debt; but Sancho's stolid indifference to his representations
+only tended to prove the truth of the old proverb: like master, like
+servant. He argued that it was not for him to tear down traditions of
+noble knighthood.
+
+Unfortunately for Sancho, he was overheard by a good many guests at the
+inn, rollicking fellows, who were on the alert for amusement. These men
+seized a blanket, dismounted the squire unceremoniously, placed him in
+the middle of the blanket, and proceeded to hoist him, not gently, high
+in the air. This movement no doubt caused a return of Sancho's
+stomach-ache, for he commenced to groan and scream helplessly. His
+screams were heard far off by his master, who, believing that some new
+and glorious adventure was at hand, spurred his hack into a playful
+gallop and returned to the inn.
+
+The gates were closed, but over the wall the knight could see the
+tricks that his faithful follower was made to perform in the air and
+on the blanket, and he boiled with rage, unable to come to the rescue,
+for he could not dismount because of stiffness. Finally, when the men
+had been sufficiently amused, they stopped their sport, then mounted
+Sancho with no little kindness on his ass and bade him godspeed on his
+journey. The one-eyed Asturian compassionately offered the poor fellow
+some water to drink; but seeing this, Don Quixote commenced to
+gesticulate wildly, waving a tin flask in the air, and crying:
+"Sancho, my son, drink not water, for it will kill thee! See, here I
+have the blessed balsam: two drops of it will restore thee!"
+
+His master's advice did not appeal to the squire, and he replied
+rather cuttingly that Don Quixote ought to remember that he was not a
+knight. Saying this he put the cup the lass had offered him to his
+lips. But he found that it was not wine but water. He begged her to
+exchange it, which she did with Christian spirit, paying for it
+herself. The squire, having drunk the wine, spurred his ass toward the
+gate, and the innkeeper let him depart without further payment,
+having, unbeknown to Sancho, appropriated his _alforjas_.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XVIII
+
+IN WHICH IS RELATED THE DISCOURSE SANCHO PANZA HELD WITH
+HIS MASTER, DON QUIXOTE, TOGETHER WITH OTHER ADVENTURES
+WORTH RELATING
+
+
+Don Quixote told his squire he was certain that the inn was an
+enchanted castle, and blamed his transgressions of the laws of
+chivalry for all their mishaps; for he imagined that, had he abstained
+from laying hands on the rabble and base folk, these would not have
+occurred. His being unable to get out of the saddle and climb over the
+wall, he ascribed to enchantment as well. Sancho thought this might be
+the moment for reforming his master. He suggested that it was harvest
+time at home; and reminded the knight of the fact that of all his
+battles he had come out victorious but once, when he fought with the
+Biscayan, and then with half of his ear lost, not to speak of all the
+damage done to his armor.
+
+But Don Quixote was in no mood to contemplate past disasters, for in
+the distance he suddenly perceived rising clouds of dust, and what
+could it be but two opposing armies making ready for battle; since the
+clouds were seen on either side of the road! He made Sancho believe
+they were the great armies of the mighty emperor Alifanfaron and his
+enemy, the king of the Garamantas, Pentapolin of the Bare Arm,
+explaining--on seeing a bare-armed shepherd--that this lord always
+went into battle in this manner.
+
+Sancho Panza asked what they should do. His master replied that their
+duty was clear: they should, of course, help the weak and needy. Then
+he went on to explain that the reason for the feud was the pagan
+Alifanfaron's wish to marry the beautiful and Christian daughter of
+Pentapolin, and her father's refusal to sanction the marriage unless
+the emperor became a convert. Immediately Sancho's instinct for
+righteousness made him declare himself for Pentapolin, and he wanted
+to fight for him. This spirit pleased Don Quixote tremendously, for,
+he said, it was not required of dubbed knights to engage in feuds of
+this sort; thus Sancho would have a chance to distinguish himself all
+alone.
+
+Scratching his head, Sancho now began to worry about his faithful
+donkey, for he believed it was not good taste to go into battle
+mounted on an ass, and if he dismounted, he was afraid his Dapple
+would be lost in the ensuing tumult. Don Quixote, however, calmed his
+fears. There would be hundreds of riderless horses after the battle,
+from which both of them might choose; and he asked Sancho to follow
+him to a hill nearby that he might point out to his valiant squire the
+great and illustrious knights of the two armies. He cried out name
+after name, the last one always more illustrious than the previous
+one. But Sancho could see nothing but the two flocks of sheep and the
+shepherds, and he said so.
+
+"How can you say that!" cried Don Quixote. "Do you not hear the
+neighing of the steeds, the braying of the trumpets, the roll of the
+drums?"
+
+Sancho answered in despair that he could hear nothing but the
+bleating of ewes and sheep. To this his master explained that often
+fear deranged the senses and made things appear different from what
+they were. Therefore, being certain that Sancho had suddenly become
+possessed of fear, he put the spurs in Rocinante and charged down the
+hill like a flash of lightning, determined to down the pagan emperor.
+
+Lifting his lance, he galloped into the midst of the sheep, and
+commenced spearing right and left. The shepherds, panic-stricken, used
+their slings. Stones hit his head and body, but it was not until a
+large one struck him in the ribs that he imagined himself really
+wounded. He stopped in the midst of the furious battle, and suddenly
+remembering his flask of balsam, drew it out, put it to his mouth, and
+was about to swallow a quantity of it when there came a stone that
+took the flask out of his hand, and another one that smashed out three
+or four of his teeth. Don Quixote was so astonished and the force of
+the blow was so sudden that he lost his reins and fell backwards off
+his horse. When the shepherds came up and saw what they had done to
+him, they quickly gathered their flocks and hastened away, taking with
+them the seven sheep that Don Quixote killed with his spear.
+
+During this rampage, Sancho Panza was nearly beside himself where he
+stood on the hill. He was tearing his hair and beard, wishing he had
+never laid eyes on his master, and berating himself for ever having
+joined in his mad adventures. When the shepherds had disappeared, he
+ran to his master's side.
+
+"Did I not tell your worship," he reproached the prostrate knight,
+"that they were not armies, but droves of sheep!"
+
+But again our hero blamed his misfortune on his arch-enemy, that
+cursed Sage Friston, who had falsified the armies in such a way that
+they looked like meek and harmless sheep. Then he begged his squire to
+pursue the enemy by stealth that he might ascertain for himself that
+what he had said was true; for he was sure that ere they had gone very
+far they would resume their original shape.
+
+However, before Sancho Panza had time to make up his mind whether to
+go or not, his master's sip of the balsam during the battle suddenly
+began to take effect, and Sancho's presence became for the moment a
+necessity. Having gone through this ordeal, Don Quixote rose and asked
+his squire for a remedy for hunger. It was then they discovered that
+the _alforjas_ had disappeared, with all its precious contents. Both
+were dejected. Don Quixote tried to impart, out of the abundance of
+his optimism for the future, new hope to the discouraged Sancho. It
+was a difficult task, and he might have failed, had not the loss of
+his teeth and the sorry plight he was in made Sancho sway from his
+intentions of home-going. When, at his master's request, the squire
+put his finger in Don Quixote's mouth in order to learn the extent of
+the damage done in that region of his body, his heart was touched by
+the terrible devastation there. He could not, of course, leave his
+master to shift for himself on the highways in such a condition. So he
+consented to remain, and they proceeded along the road, hoping that
+they would soon come to a place where they could find shelter for the
+night, as well as something with which to still their hunger.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XIX
+
+OF THE SHREWD DISCOURSE WHICH SANCHO HELD WITH HIS MASTER,
+AND OF THE ADVENTURE THAT BEFELL HIM WITH A DEAD BODY,
+TOGETHER WITH OTHER NOTABLE OCCURRENCES
+
+
+Night had fallen, yet they had discovered no place of refuge.
+Suddenly, in the darkness, they saw a number of lights that came
+closer and closer without their being able to make out what it was.
+Sancho commenced to shake like a leaf, and even Don Quixote was
+frightened and muttered a paternoster between his teeth while his hair
+stood on end. They withdrew to the roadside, from where they soon
+distinguished twenty bodies on horseback, all dressed in white shirts,
+and carrying lighted torches in their hands. With chattering teeth
+Sancho stared at this awe-inspiring procession, which was not yet at
+an end, for behind the mounted bodies there came others, these in
+black and on mule-back, and surrounding a bier, covered with a large
+black cloth. All the while a quiet, solemn mumbling came from the
+moving figures, and Sancho Panza was now so stricken with fear that he
+was almost paralyzed.
+
+Don Quixote's courage--which likewise had been rather shaky at this
+passing of ghostlike beings, at such a time of the night--suddenly
+revived and mounted to such heights that he decided he would ask where
+they were carrying the wounded king on the bier. This he did without
+delay. But such a question seemed silly and out of place to one of
+the guardians of the corpse, and he commanded the knight to move on.
+This angered Don Quixote beyond measure. He seized the man's mule by
+the bridle; but this, in turn, annoyed the mule, which rose on its
+hind legs and flung its rider to the ground. Another man came up to
+Don Quixote and tried to talk reason to him, but to no avail, and in
+the disturbance that followed the procession was soon scattered over
+the fields and plains, with torches glimmering from all points like so
+many eyes in the black night.
+
+While our knight errant was lunging with his spear in all directions,
+the meek followers of the dead body became ensnared in their skirts
+and gowns and long white shirts, and fell head over heels wherever
+they happened to be, in ditch or field. Moans, groans, and prayers
+were intermingled, and they all were convinced that the procession had
+been interrupted by the devil himself, come to carry away the body of
+the dead man.
+
+When the battle had ceased, Don Quixote approached the man who was flung
+by his mule, to make him his prisoner. The poor man declared that Don
+Quixote had made a grave mistake; that the dead man was not a king and
+had not fallen in battle, but a gentleman who had died from fever; and he
+himself was a poor servant of the Holy Church who could harm no one. On
+hearing this confession Don Quixote made a slight apology for having
+mistaken him in the dark for something evil, if not for the very devil,
+explaining that since it was his sworn duty to right all wrongs, he had
+only set out to do so. But the worthy ecclesiastic was not easily
+appeased, and before making his departure, he unceremoniously
+excommunicated his attacker in flowing and flourishing Latin.
+
+Sancho, moved by a desire to alleviate the sting of the outburst,
+called out after him: "If the gentleman should wish to know who was
+the hero who served them thus, your worship may tell them he is the
+famous Don Quixote of La Mancha, otherwise called the Knight of the
+Rueful Countenance."
+
+Don Quixote asked his squire why he called him thus; and Sancho
+replied that the loss of his teeth had given his master a face so
+sorry looking that he could find no milder name to describe its
+ugliness. Don Quixote laughed at the compliment; nevertheless he
+decided to adopt Sancho's meaning name, and also to have his own
+rueful face commemorated on his shield at the first opportunity.
+
+After this conversation Sancho persuaded his master to continue their
+journey; although Don Quixote was eager to view the bones of the
+deceased man, and Sancho had some difficulty in preventing him from
+doing so.
+
+Sancho had made his coat into a sack and filled it with the provisions
+of the clergy; and so, when they arrived in a valley where they found
+an abundance of grass, they ate all the meals they had been missing.
+Their repast would have been complete had they had some wine; but they
+did not have even water.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XX
+
+OF THE UNEXAMPLED AND UNHEARD-OF ADVENTURE WHICH WAS ACHIEVED
+BY THE VALIANT DON QUIXOTE OF LA MANCHA WITH LESS PERIL THAN
+ANY EVER ACHIEVED BY ANY FAMOUS KNIGHT IN THE WORLD
+
+
+Sancho's thirst drove him to use his instincts in search for drink. He
+judged by the rank grass that there must be water nearby. So, leading
+their mounts, Don Quixote and Sancho came in the darkness to a meadow,
+and they had gone only a short distance when they heard the welcome
+sound of falling water. Then suddenly a most tremendous, ear-splitting
+noise came out of the darkness, a din like the beating of gigantic
+hammers, and added to this a shifting wind. All these furious sounds,
+the mystery of them, and the blackness of the night, might have
+intimidated any heart, however stout; but it only made Don Quixote
+leap like a flash upon his horse. Turning to Sancho, he cried: "I am
+he who is to revive the Knights of the Round Table, the Twelve of
+France, and the Nine Worthies; he who is to consign to oblivion the
+whole herd of famous knights errant of days gone by; he for whom all
+great perils and mighty deeds are reserved. Therefore, tighten
+Rocinante's girth a little, and God be with thee! Wait for me three
+days and no more. If in that time I come not back, thou canst return
+to our village, and thence thou wilt go to El Toboso, where thou
+shalt say to my incomparable Lady Dulcinea that her captive knight
+hath died in attempting things that might make him worthy of being
+called her own."
+
+These words made Sancho weep copious tears, and he begged his master
+not to undertake so dreadful an adventure. He even offered to
+sacrifice himself to such an extent as to go without water for three
+days, if his master would only return. When Don Quixote was firm in
+his resolve, Sancho decided that this was a case where the ends
+justified the means; therefore while tightening Rocinante's girth, he
+tied the horse's forelegs, so that when Don Quixote was going to ride
+off, his charger could move only by fits and starts. The more his
+rider spurred him, the more impossible it became for Rocinante to
+stir. Sancho had no great difficulty in persuading his master that
+this was a sign from above that he ought not to pursue any phantom
+adventure at that hour of the night, but wait until daybreak. Don
+Quixote resigned himself to do so, although it nearly made him weep,
+while Sancho tried to soothe his outraged feelings by telling amusing
+stories in a laborious way.
+
+At daybreak Sancho stole over to Rocinante and untied his legs. The
+horse immediately became spirited, and when Don Quixote saw this, he
+believed it a sign from heaven. Again he took a touching leave of his
+squire--who began to cry, as he had done before--and gave the spur to
+his steed. Sancho was resolved to follow his master to the end, so he
+took his donkey by the halter, as was his custom, and led him on foot
+in pursuit of his knight errant.
+
+They passed through a meadow that was fringed with trees, then came
+upon some huge rocks with cascades of water pouring over them. Below
+stood a row of dilapidated houses. It was from these houses that the
+din and noise emanated. As Rocinante came close to the racket, he
+began to make hysterical movements, pirouetting backward and forward,
+and Don Quixote crossed himself, commending himself to God and his
+Lady Dulcinea.
+
+Coming up cautiously from behind the houses, Don Quixote peered around
+the corner, and there beheld the cause of the awe-inspiring din--six
+hammers of the kind that were used in mills.
+
+Sancho could not help himself. He burst into uncontrollable laughter,
+shaking from head to foot. Don Quixote was mortified with shame and
+astonishment. And when he heard Sancho's laughter behind him, he broke
+into a rage, during which he repeated almost every word he had spoken
+the night before, when he was about to ride away to adventure on a
+three-legged horse. But Sancho was helpless. Four distinct times he
+broke into a fit of mirth, and finally his master struck him a blow on
+the body with his spear. Then he calmed down, and Don Quixote scolded
+him for his hilarity, saying that no such familiarity would be
+tolerated in the future. He quoted various chapters from books of
+chivalry, and cited Gandalin, squire to Amadis of Gaul. There, he
+said, was a model squire, for he would always address his lord with
+cap in hand, his head bowed down and his body bent double. And there
+were many others to look to. He mentioned a few, the most shining
+examples. Then he decreed that from that day on respect must be the
+barrier between squire and knight in all their intercourse. He spoke
+also about his squire's wages and the treasures and islands that were
+to be his in time to come. He told Sancho not to worry, for if he
+should not pay him his wages, he had at any rate mentioned him in his
+will. From the first he had considered everything; he knew the world,
+and what a hazardous task he had set before himself.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XXI
+
+WHICH TREATS OF THE EXALTED ADVENTURE AND RICH PRIZE OF
+MAMBRINO'S HELMET, TOGETHER WITH OTHER THINGS THAT HAPPENED
+TO OUR INVINCIBLE KNIGHT
+
+
+It started to rain, and Sancho suggested the fulling-mills as a place
+of refuge; but Don Quixote had taken such an aversion to them that he
+would not listen to it, and they continued riding, taking the roadway.
+
+Suddenly they saw a man on horseback, who had on his head something
+that shone like gold, and at once Don Quixote exclaimed: "There comes
+towards us one who wears on his head the helmet of Mambrino,
+concerning which I took the oath thou rememberest."
+
+Sancho's only reply to this was that he did not want anything more to
+do with any fulling-mills; and his master entirely failed to fathom
+the connection. Sancho then said he could plainly see that the man's
+horse was an ass and that the man had something on his head that
+shone.
+
+The truth of the matter was that in the neighborhood were two villages
+so small that the apothecary and barbershop in one of them had to
+serve for both. The village barber had just been summoned to shave and
+bleed a patient in the adjoining community, so he mounted his ass,
+armed with a brass basin for the bleeding, and set off. He had got
+about half-way, when it commenced to rain. Having a new hat, he
+covered it with the clean basin, that glittered like gold.
+
+But Don Quixote had more sense than his squire, of course, and pursued
+the unknown knight with the helmet at Rocinante's wildest gallop. When
+the fear-stricken barber realized that Don Quixote's uplifted spear
+was aimed at him, he promptly threw himself from his ass and ran all
+the way home without stopping, leaving his brass basin behind as a
+trophy for our hero, who could not understand why this helmet had no
+visor.
+
+"That pagan must have had a very large head," remarked Don Quixote,
+turning the basin round and round, trying to fit it to his own head,
+now this way, now that.
+
+"It looks exactly like a barber's basin," said Sancho Panza, who had
+all he could do to keep from bursting into laughter.
+
+Don Quixote treated this blasphemous thought with scorn, and said he
+would stop at the next smithy to have its shape changed. His next
+concern was his stomach; and when they found that the barber's ass
+carried ample supplies, they soon satisfied their appetites. Sancho
+now turned the conversation to the rest of the spoils of war; but Don
+Quixote was unable to make up his mind that it was chivalrous to
+exchange a bad ass for a good one, as was his squire's wish; so Sancho
+had to satisfy himself with the barber's trappings.
+
+Then they set out again. Soon Sancho felt the need of unburdening
+something he had had on his heart for some time. He suggested that
+instead of roaming about seeking adventures which no one ever witnessed
+and which therefore remained unsung and unheralded, they go and serve
+some great emperor engaged in war, so that their achievements and valor
+might go down to posterity. This struck a resonant chord in his master's
+heart. In fact, he went into raptures over it, and commenced to rant
+about all the great honors the future had in store for the Knight of the
+Rueful Countenance. He cunningly surmised that their first task would be
+to find a king who had an uncommonly beautiful daughter, for of course he
+had to marry a princess first of all. The plan excited him to such an
+extent that for a moment he forgot about the existence of his Dulcinea.
+The only thing that worried him was his royal lineage; he could not think
+of any emperor or king whose second cousin he might be. Yet he decided
+not to trouble too much about that; for were there not two kinds of
+lineages in the world? And Love always worked wonders: it had since the
+beginning of time. What would the princess care, if he _were_ a
+water-carrier's son? And if his future father-in-law should object, all
+he would have to do would be to carry her off by force.
+
+As Don Quixote went on picturing himself in the most romantic r�les in
+the history of this as yet unknown kingdom, Sancho began to think it
+was time for him to be considered as well, when it came to bestowals
+of honor. Once he had been beadle of a brotherhood, and he had looked
+so well in a beadle's gown, he said, that he was afraid his wife would
+burst with pride when she saw him in a duke's robe, with gold and lace
+and precious stones. Don Quixote thought so, too, but admonished him
+that he would have to shave his beard oftener, as it was most unkempt.
+Sancho replied that would be an easy matter, for he would have a
+barber of his own, as well as an equerry; he knew that all men of fame
+kept such a man, for once in Madrid he had seen a gentleman followed
+by a man on horseback as if he had been his tail. He inquired why the
+gentleman was being followed in that manner and learned it was his
+equerry. Don Quixote thought Sancho's idea to have a barber was an
+excellent one, and Sancho urged his master to make haste and find him
+his island, that he might roll in his glory as a count or a duke.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XXII
+
+OF THE FREEDOM DON QUIXOTE CONFERRED ON SEVERAL UNFORTUNATES
+WHO AGAINST THEIR WILL WERE BEING CARRIED WHERE THEY HAD NO
+WISH TO GO
+
+
+Hardly had they finished their conversation, when a gang of convicts
+came along on the road, guarded by two men on horseback and two on
+foot.
+
+"Galley-slaves," remarked Sancho Panza laconically.
+
+"If they are going against their own free will, it is a case for the
+exercise of my office," answered Don Quixote.
+
+He approached their custodians and asked to know what crimes these men
+had committed against his majesty the King. They answered it was not
+his business.
+
+"Nevertheless, I should like to know," insisted Don Quixote, and he
+used such choice and magic language that one of the guards was induced
+to give him permission to ask each one of the men about his crime and
+sentence.
+
+Don Quixote had questioned every one but the twelfth, and when he came
+to him he found that he was chained in a way different from the rest.
+This prisoner was a man of thirty, and crossed-eyed. His body was
+weighted down by very large irons and especially heavy chains, his
+hands were padlocked and so secured he could not raise them. Don
+Quixote asked why he was thus overburdened, and got the reply that he
+had committed more crimes than all the rest together. The guard then
+told the knight that the man had written a story of his unfinished
+life, and that he was no other than the famous Gines de Pasamonte. The
+culprit strongly objected to hearing his identity mentioned, and there
+ensued a furious battle of words between him and the guard. The latter
+lost his temper and was about to strike the slave a blow, when Don
+Quixote interfered, and pleaded for more kindly treatment. It seemed
+only fair to him that they, with their hands tied, might be permitted
+a free tongue. He grew fiery in his defense of them, reminded the
+guard that there was a God in heaven who would punish all sinners. He
+ended by requesting their immediate release.
+
+This demand seemed worse than absurd to the guard, who wished him
+godspeed on his journey, advised him to put the basin straight on his
+head, and told him not to go looking for trouble. This was too much
+for our knight. He set upon his jesting adversary with such speed and
+suddenness that the musket fell out of the guard's hand. And the other
+guards were so taken aback at what was going on, and there was such
+confusion, that they did not notice Sancho untying the arch-criminal
+Gines. They suddenly saw him free, and with him the rest of the
+slaves, who had broken the chain; whereupon the guards fled in all
+directions as fast as their legs could carry them.
+
+When the fray was over, Don Quixote asked the galley-slaves to gather
+around him, and to show him reverence for the deed he had done. He
+further demanded that they, armed with their chains, proceed in a
+body, to El Toboso to pay their respects to the fair Dulcinea. Gines
+attempted to explain the necessity of each one hiding himself,
+separately, in order to escape the pursuers, and offered to send up
+prayers for her instead; but Don Quixote would not listen to any
+argument. At last Gines decided he was quite mad, and when Don Quixote
+started to abuse him, he lost his temper, and they all attacked the
+knight with a rain of stones, until Rocinante and he both fell to the
+ground. There they belabored him savagely. Sancho had taken refuge
+behind his donkey, but the convicts found him, stripped him of his
+jacket, and left him shivering in the cold.
+
+While Don Quixote lay there, fearing the vengeance of the law and the
+Holy Brotherhood for what he had done, he was also reviewing in rage
+the ingratitude of mankind and the perversity of the iron age.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XXIII
+
+OF WHAT BEFELL DON QUIXOTE IN THE SIERRA MORENA, WHICH IS ONE
+OF THE RAREST ADVENTURES RELATED IN THIS VERACIOUS HISTORY
+
+
+Sancho at last convinced his master that they had best hide in the
+Sierra Morena mountains for a few days, in case a search should be
+made for them; and Don Quixote was pleased to find that the provisions
+carried by Sancho's ass had not disappeared. When night fell they took
+refuge under some cork-trees between two rocks. Fate would have it
+that to this very place should come that night the convict Gines.
+While Sancho was slumbering peacefully, Gines stole his ass; and by
+daybreak the thief was already far away. Don Quixote, awakened by
+sorrowful wailing, in order to console his squire, promised him three
+of his ass-colts at home in exchange. Then Sancho's tears stopped. But
+he now had to travel on foot behind his master, and he tried to keep
+up his humor by munching the provisions it had become his lot to
+carry.
+
+Suddenly he observed that his master had halted, and was poking with
+his lance into some object lying on the road. He quickly ran up to him
+and found an old saddle-pad with a torn knapsack tied to it. Sancho
+opened it covetously and came upon four shirts of excellent material,
+articles of linen, nearly a hundred gold crowns in a handkerchief, and
+a richly bound little memorandum book. The little volume was all that
+Don Quixote kept for himself. Brimful of curiosity, he read it through
+and learned that it contained the bemoanings of a rejected lover.
+
+Meantime Sancho Panza's great discovery of the gold coins had entirely
+banished from his memory all the suffering and pain and humiliation he
+had had to go through since he had became a squire. But Don Quixote
+was anxious to find out something about the owner of the knapsack, for
+he was convinced there was some very strange adventure connected with
+his disappearance. And as he was planning what to do, he perceived on
+the summit of a great height, a man, half-naked, jumping with
+remarkable swiftness and agility from rock to rock.
+
+Don Quixote saw no way of getting there, so he stood for some time
+pondering what to do. Then he saw above him on the mountainside a
+flock of goats, tended by an elderly goatherd. Calling to him, the
+knight asked him to come down, and the old man descended, amazed at
+seeing human beings there. Don Quixote immediately began to ask about
+the strange half-naked man he had seen, and the goatherd told what he
+knew of him and the mystery of the knapsack.
+
+The stranger, he said, was a youth of good looks and no doubt of high
+birth, who had lost his wits because of the faithlessness of a friend.
+His behavior was such that they had never seen the like of it. In fits
+of madness he would approach people, snatch away food offered him out
+of their hands, and then run away with the speed of a deer. Then
+again he would come begging for food, the tears flowing down his
+cheeks.
+
+Now, while they were standing there discussing the young man, chance
+would have it that he came along, and greeted them courteously. Don
+Quixote returned his greeting with grand gestures, descended from
+Rocinante's tired back, and advanced to the youth with open arms. He
+held him in his embrace for some time, as if he had known him forever.
+Finally the youth tore away and, placing his hands on the shoulders of
+the Knight of the Rueful Countenance, the youth, who might be called
+the Ragged One of the Sorry Countenance, looked into his eyes and
+spoke to him.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XXIV
+
+IN WHICH IS CONTINUED THE ADVENTURE OF THE SIERRA MORENA
+
+
+The Ragged One thanked Don Quixote for being so kind and courteous;
+and Don Quixote replied that his duty to the world consisted in giving
+succor to those in despair and need. He implored the youth to tell him
+the name of the one who had caused his misfortune, that he might
+revenge him. The Ragged One stared at him strangely and said: "If you
+will give me to eat, I will tell you my story."
+
+Sancho and the goatherd gave the youth something to appease his
+hunger; and he ate it ravenously. When he had finished, he motioned
+to them to follow him, and they came to a spot where green grass grew
+and all stretched themselves on the ground in silence. Before he began
+his story, the youth warned them not to interrupt him, for then it
+would come to an end. Don Quixote promised solemnly for all of them.
+
+The youth told of his love for one Luscinda, and how his best friend,
+Don Fernando, son of a grandee of Spain, had stolen her love away from
+him; but suddenly he was interrupted by Don Quixote, and refused to
+continue. Whereupon Don Quixote nearly lost his senses--for his
+curiosity was aroused beyond words--and called the Ragged One a
+villain.
+
+The Ragged One broke into a violent fit when he heard himself called
+names and picked up a stone which he hurled against the knight
+errant's breast with such force that it placed him flat on his back.
+Seeing this, Sancho Panza flew at the madman; but the youth seemed to
+possess supernatural strength, for he felled Sancho to the ground with
+one single blow, and then jumped on his chest and buckled his ribs.
+Having also beaten the old goatherd, he went into the woods again.
+
+When Sancho had seen the last of him, he turned loose his rage on the
+poor old goatherd, whom he cursed for not having warned them that the
+youth might be taken with fits. Words led to blows; the two grabbed
+each other by their beards, and had it not been for Don Quixote, their
+fray might have had a sad ending. He calmed his squire by absolving
+the old man of all blame. Then he asked him--for he was still aching
+with curiosity to learn the end of the story--whether he knew where
+he might find Cardenio (that being the youth's name). The goatherd
+answered that if he remained in the neighborhood long enough he could
+not help meeting him; but as to his mood, he could not answer for
+that.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XXV
+
+WHICH TREATS OF THE STRANGE THINGS THAT HAPPENED TO THE
+STOUT KNIGHT OF LA MANCHA IN THE SIERRA MORENA
+
+
+Don Quixote and Sancho Panza now made their way into unknown regions
+of the mountains, Sancho trailing behind his master, on foot, silent,
+and in bad humor. Finally he requested his master's permission to say
+what was in his heart, and Don Quixote removed the ban under which his
+squire was suffering. Sancho asked for the knight's blessing and
+begged leave to return to his wife and home; but his master could not
+make up his mind until he hit upon a great inspiration, the carrying
+out of which made necessary his using Sancho as a messenger to his
+incomparable Dulcinea.
+
+Don Quixote, in short, had decided to go mad, in emulation of other
+bold knights, such as Roland and Amadis--a decision that extracted
+from Sancho Panza some muttered words to the effect that any one who
+could mistake a barber's basin for a gold helmet could not go much
+madder. And then Don Quixote explained to what sufferings, sorrow,
+penance, and folly he would subject himself; and quite unintentionally
+he revealed to Sancho the real identity of his famous Lady Dulcinea,
+whom Sancho had always thought a princess. Now the good squire learned
+to his dismay that the famous Dulcinea was no other than Lorenzo
+Corchuelo's daughter, Aldonza Lorenzo, a lady with manners like a man,
+and a man's ability to handle a crowbar easily.
+
+When Don Quixote had determined upon his penance in the wilderness, all
+for the sake of Dulcinea, he thought it would be a good idea to make
+known to her the sacrifices and sufferings he was about to undergo for
+her sake. Therefore he granted his squire the requested permission to
+return to his family, and bade him speed homeward on Rocinante, so that
+he himself, horseless, might undergo an even greater penance. He sent a
+letter by Sancho to his fair one, relating to her the pain of his wounded
+heart; a pain enhanced by self-inflicted absence and to be ended only by
+death, to satisfy her cruelty.
+
+Sancho's covetousness did not permit his master to forget the three
+promised ass-colts; so Don Quixote wrote an order to his niece in the
+notebook of the ill-starred Cardenio.
+
+Before they parted, Don Quixote asked Sancho to stay and see some of
+the insanities he meant to perform in his absence. He then stripped to
+the skin and went through some remarkable capers before his squire.
+This exhibition nearly brought tears to Sancho's eyes, and he besought
+him to stop. And when he expressed a fear that he would not be able to
+find his way back, Don Quixote assured him that he would remain in
+that very spot, or thereabouts, until the squire returned from El
+Toboso; and he told him also to cut some branches and strew them in
+his path. Furthermore he said he would be on the lookout for him from
+the peak of the highest cliff.
+
+When Sancho finally took leave of his master, he felt that he could
+swear with unprotesting conscience that his beloved master was quite
+mad.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XXVI
+
+IN WHICH ARE CONTINUED THE REFINEMENTS WHEREWITH DON QUIXOTE
+PLAYED THE PART OF A LOVER IN THE SIERRA MORENA
+
+
+Soon after Sancho had gone, Don Quixote came to the conclusion that
+the exercises he was putting himself through were much too hard and
+troublesome. So he decided to change them, and instead of imitating
+Roland and his fury, he turned to the more melancholy Amadis, whose
+madness was of a much milder form and needed a less strenuous outlet.
+But to imitate Amadis, he had to have a rosary, and he had none. For a
+moment he was in a quandary; but a miracle gave him the inspiration to
+use the tail of his shirt--which was too long anyhow--and tearing off
+a long piece, on which he made eleven knots, he repeated quantities of
+credos and ave-marias on it, there in the wilderness. His love would
+at times drive him to write verses to his cruel and beloved one on the
+bark of the trees, all the while he would make moaning sounds of
+lovesickness. Again he would go about sighing, singing, calling to the
+nymphs and fauns and satyrs, and, of course, looking for herbs to
+nourish himself with.
+
+But while Don Quixote exiled himself in the wilds, his servant Sancho
+Panza was making for El Toboso. On the second day he found himself at
+the inn at which the incident of his blanket journey had taken place.
+The smell of food reminded him that it was dinner time; yet he
+hesitated about entering. As he was standing there, along came two
+men; and one of them was heard to say: "Is not that Sancho Panza?" "So
+it is," said the other one; and it turned out to be the curate and the
+barber of Don Quixote's own village.
+
+At once they approached him. They asked him about his master, but it
+was not until they had threatened to believe that he had robbed and
+murdered Don Quixote--for was he not mounted on Rocinante?--that he
+divulged the secret of his master's hiding-place. He told them of
+everything; even about his master's strange and unbounded love for the
+daughter of Lorenzo Corchuelo and the letter he had written to her.
+When the curate asked to see it, Sancho could not find it; and then he
+suddenly remembered that Don Quixote had given him neither the letter
+nor the order for the ass-colts. He turned pale and green, and beat
+his chest frantically, but it produced no miracle. The curate and the
+barber told him that the only thing to do was to find Don Quixote and
+get him to write them anew; and the thought of losing the ass-colts
+made Sancho only too anxious to return.
+
+When the squire had been comforted somewhat, he tried to recite Don
+Quixote's epistle of love; and his recital amused the two friends to
+such a degree that he had to repeat it thrice, each time adding new
+absurdities. Finally they invited him to come into the inn and eat,
+while they talked over the journey to their friend's wilderness
+paradise of penitence. Sancho was quick to refuse; but he gave no
+reason for so doing. He said he preferred to eat outside and asked
+that they bring him the food, and also some barley for Rocinante.
+
+While the barber was serving Sancho and Rocinante, the curate was
+developing a plan of strategy which was unanimously adopted by all
+concerned. It was arranged that the curate should invade the region of
+knightly penitence, dressed as an innocent-looking maiden with a
+masked countenance; while his friend the barber should appear on the
+scene behaving like a squire. The bogus maiden should be in great
+distress and ask for protection, when Don Quixote, valiant knight that
+he was, would be sure to give it. She would then beg him to shield her
+on her journey, and, as a favor, to ask her no questions regarding her
+identity, until she was safely at home. Once they had him there, they
+would try to find a cure for his strange madness.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XXVII
+
+OF HOW THE CURATE AND THE BARBER PROCEEDED WITH THEIR SCHEME;
+TOGETHER WITH MATTERS WORTHY OF RECORD IN THIS GREAT HISTORY
+
+
+The curate proceeded to borrow the needed dress from the landlady, whose
+curiosity he satisfied by explaining Don Quixote's madness and their
+mission in the mountains. The landlady recognized Don Quixote by the
+description the curate gave, and willingly furnished the clothes, and an
+ox-tail out of which the barber made himself a beard. As security for
+these things the curate left behind a brand-new cassock.
+
+When the curate's transfiguration was completed, however, his conscience
+began to trouble him; so it was agreed that he and the barber were to
+change r�les. The curate shed his female attire, and the barber decided
+not to don it until they approached the mountainside. Meanwhile Sancho
+was instructed as to how to act and what to say, when he saw his master.
+
+The day after they set out, they came to the place where Sancho's
+branches were strewn. The curate thought it best that they send Sancho
+ahead to take to his master Lady Dulcinea's reply; this was agreed to,
+and Sancho left.
+
+While the two conspirators were resting in the shade of some trees
+they were suddenly startled by hearing a man singing in the distance.
+It was clearly a voice trained in the art of singing, and the verses
+he sang were not of rustic origin. Soon they perceived the singer, and
+it was no other than Cardenio, the Ragged One. Now he was untouched by
+madness, for he spoke quite sanely, telling them of his woeful
+misfortune, the memory of which, he said, would sometimes overpower
+and strangle his senses. The curate and the barber were both eager to
+know the story of the comely youth's life, and he then told them of
+the faithlessness of his friend. This time he was not interrupted, and
+he finished his story, which was one of a great love as much as one of
+misfortune. He had just reached the end, when from no great distance
+came the sound of a lamenting voice.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XXVIII
+
+WHICH TREATS OF THE STRANGE AND DELIGHTFUL ADVENTURES THAT
+BEFELL THE CURATE AND THE BARBER IN THE SAME SIERRA
+
+
+When Cardenio and the curate and the barber looked about they
+discovered a youth with exquisite, delicate features bathing his feet
+in the brook below them. His garb was that of a peasant lad; on his
+head he had a _montera_. Having finished bathing, he took from under
+the _montera_ a cloth with which he dried his feet. In removing the
+cap there fell from under it a mass of auburn hair, and all were
+amazed to find that instead of a youth, it was a most lovely maiden.
+In their astonishment either the curate or the barber uttered a cry;
+and frightened at the sight of them, the girl took to flight, but soon
+stumbled and fell.
+
+The curate was the first one to reach her. He spoke some kind words
+and told her that they were there to help her, to fulfill any wish she
+might express. And he begged her to cast away any pretence, for he was
+certain that she was there because of some misery that had befallen
+her.
+
+At first the maiden seemed bewildered, but after a while she showed
+that the curate had gained her confidence, and she spoke to him in a
+beautiful, melancholy voice. She seated herself on a stone, while the
+three gathered around her, and confided to them with tears in her eyes
+the reasons for her being there. She told them of a certain grandee of
+Spain, living in Andalusia, of whom her father, lowly in birth but
+rich in fortune, was a vassal. This grandee had two sons. She had been
+betrothed to the younger one of these, Don Fernando, and he had jilted
+her in favor of a lady of noble birth, whose name was Luscinda.
+
+When Cardenio heard his own lady's name, he bit his lips and tears
+came to his eyes. Dorothea--for that was the maiden's name--wondered
+at such interest and such emotion, but she continued her story. She
+told of how, upon Don Fernando's marriage to lady Luscinda, she had
+fled in despair from house and home. A herdsman in the heart of the
+Sierra had given her employment as a servant; but when he had
+discovered that she was a woman, she was forced to leave. While she
+was bemoaning her evil fate, and praying to God in the woods, she had
+cut her feet on the stones; and she was bathing them in the brook when
+she encountered the present gathering.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XXIX
+
+WHICH TREATS OF THE DROLL DEVICE AND METHOD ADOPTED TO
+EXTRICATE OUR LOVE-STRICKEN KNIGHT FROM THE SEVERE PENANCE
+HE HAD IMPOSED UPON HIMSELF
+
+
+Dorothea had told her story with great simplicity. When she had ended
+it, the curate arose to console her; but Cardenio was already at her
+side.
+
+"Are you not the daughter of the rich Clenardo?" he asked of her
+eagerly.
+
+She gazed at him in wonder, for she had not spoken her father's name.
+She asked the youth who he might be, and he told her that he was the
+Cardenio who had been wronged by Don Fernando, the faithless friend
+and faithless lover; and he swore then and there a holy oath that he
+should see her married to Don Fernando or the latter would perish by
+his, Cardenio's, sword. Dorothea was moved to tears by the youth's
+words and thanked him profusely. The curate then made the suggestion
+that both of them return with him and the barber to their village
+where they could make further plans as to what to do to set things
+aright. And Dorothea and Cardenio accepted this kind offer gratefully.
+
+Sancho was now seen arriving, and the curate told the youth and the
+maiden the reason for his being there. He explained to them the
+curious nature of Don Quixote's madness, and Cardenio mentioned to the
+curate his meeting with the knight.
+
+Sancho had found Don Quixote nearly dead with hunger, crying aloud for
+his Dulcinea; and when his squire entreated him in her name to return
+to El Toboso, he refused, declaring that his penitence was not yet
+complete; that he was not yet worthy of her favor. Sancho was quite
+worried lest he should lose his island and his titles and all the
+other honors he had expected, and the curate did his best to calm his
+fears. The good man then explained to Cardenio and Dorothea how they
+had planned to take Don Quixote back to his home by persuading him to
+go there on an adventure in aid of a distressed damsel.
+
+Dorothea at once offered to play the part of the damsel. Having read a
+good many books of chivalry, herself, she thought she could qualify in
+asking favors of our knight. She had brought with her a complete
+woman's dress, with lace and rich embroidery, and when Sancho Panza
+saw her in her new array, he asked, in astonishment, what great lady
+she might be. The curate replied that she was the ruler of the great
+kingdom of Micomicon, and after having been dethroned by an evil giant
+had come all the way from Guinea to seek the aid of Don Quixote.
+Immediately Sancho's hope for his titles and possessions was revived,
+for the thought of his master's fame having spread to such distant
+parts seemed most encouraging.
+
+While Sancho Panza was entertaining these visions, Dorothea mounted
+the curate's mule, and the barber decorated himself with the ox-tail
+for a beard. Sancho was told to lead the way, and the curate explained
+to him that the success of their mission depended on him. He was
+warned that he must not give away the identity of the curate and the
+barber; if he did, the empire would be lost. And then they started
+out, leaving the curate and Cardenio behind, as that was thought best.
+
+They had gone almost a league when they saw Don Quixote on a rock,
+clothed, but wearing no armor. Dorothea was helped from her horse. She
+walked over to Don Quixote and knelt before him; and she told him the
+errand that had brought her there, saying that she would not rise
+until he had granted her the boon she was asking. While she was
+kneeling before him, Sancho Panza was anxiously whispering to Don
+Quixote bits of information about her and her kingdom, afraid that his
+master might refuse her; but, demented though he was, rank and riches
+mattered little to Don Quixote, for he drew his sword, he said, in
+defense of anything that was righteous, and the meek and downtrodden
+always found in him a ready and courteous defendant. When he learned
+from the Princess that a big giant had invaded her kingdom, he at once
+granted her the promise of his services. Dorothea wanted to kiss his
+hand as a proof of her gratitude; but Don Quixote would not permit her
+to do this, being ever a respectful and courteous knight. He commanded
+his squire to saddle his horse immediately, while he put on his armor,
+mounted, and was ready for the crusade.
+
+They set out, Sancho on foot, cheerfully grinning to himself at the
+covetous thought of all the possessions that would be his in a short
+time. Soon they passed the place where Cardenio and the curate were
+hiding. The curate had by this time conceived the idea of shearing
+Cardenio of his beard that Don Quixote would be unable to recognize
+him; and he had furnished him with his own grey jerkin and a black
+cloak, so that he himself appeared in breeches and doublet only.
+Having effected the change, they took a short-cut through the woods
+and came out on the open road ahead of Don Quixote.
+
+As he approached them, the curate feigned astonishment beyond words at
+seeing his old friend; and Don Quixote was so surprised that he hardly
+recognized the curate. He courteously offered Rocinante to him, but
+the curate remonstrated and finally accepted the long-bearded squire's
+mule, inviting the squire to sit behind him. This arrangement did not
+please the mule, however, for he commenced to kick with his hind legs.
+Luckily the beast did not damage the barber, but the demonstration
+frightened him so that he turned a somersault in a ditch. In so doing,
+his beard came off, but he had enough presence of mind to cover his
+face at the same moment, crying that his teeth were knocked out. When
+Don Quixote saw the beard on the ground without any sign of flesh or
+blood, he was struck with amazement, and thought that the barber had
+been shaved by a miracle.
+
+The curate hastened breathlessly to the barber's side, and began to
+mumble incomprehensible words, while the barber was groaning on the
+ground in an uncomfortable position. When the barber finally rose, Don
+Quixote's eyes nearly fell out of their sockets, for he beheld the
+barber bearded again. He begged the curate to teach him the charm that
+could produce such a miracle, and the curate promised he would. Then
+they proceeded on the journey.
+
+The curate now began to wonder about the road (all this was pre-arranged)
+and said that in order to go to the kingdom of Micomicon, they had to
+take the road to Cartagena, where they would embark on a ship. That, he
+said, would take them through his own village, and from there it was a
+journey of nine years to Micomicon. Here the Princess corrected him,
+saying that it had taken her only two years to make the journey here,
+in quest of the noble and famous knight who had now sworn to restore
+her kingdom to her.
+
+Don Quixote at this moment happened to observe the light attire of the
+curate, and was curious to know the reason for it. Whereupon the
+curate (having learned of the incident through Sancho) related how he
+and Master Nicholas, on their way to Seville, had been held up by a
+gang of liberated galley-slaves. These criminals, it was said, had
+been set free by a man on horseback, as brave as he was bold, for he
+had fought off all the guards, single-handed. The curate criticized
+this man heartlessly, called him a knave and a criminal for having set
+himself against law and order and his king, and expressed a belief
+that he could not have been in his right mind. The Holy Brotherhood,
+he said further, was searching for him now, and he himself was afraid
+that the man's soul would be lost. He finished his story by calling
+upon the Lord to pardon this unregenerate being who had taken away the
+galley-slaves from the punishment that had been meted out to them by
+justice.
+
+Don Quixote seemed to take the curate's sermon to heart, and bent his
+head humbly, not daring to admit that he was the culprit, and not
+knowing that the curate knew it.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XXX
+
+WHICH TREATS OF THE ADDRESS DISPLAYED BY THE FAIR DOROTHEA,
+WITH OTHER MATTERS, PLEASANT AND AMUSING
+
+
+When Sancho heard the harsh sermon of the curate, he, being a good
+Christian, became afraid that his own soul might be lost too; for was
+he not an accomplice? So he confessed then and there his own and his
+master's guilt, much to the shame and anger of Don Quixote. The
+Princess was quick to sense the danger, and she calmed our hero before
+his anger had risen to any great height, by reminding him of his
+promise, and how he had sworn to engage in no conflict of any kind
+until her kingdom had been saved. He answered her with infinite
+courtesy and expressed his regrets for having let his anger get the
+better of him; he would stand by his word. Then he asked her to tell
+him all that she could about herself and her kingdom. She would
+willingly do that, she said, and began her story.
+
+But she came very near ending it then and there, for she could not
+remember the name she had assumed. Luckily the curate--who had
+invented her long and difficult name--was there to prompt her, and the
+situation was saved. Having told Don Quixote that her name was
+Princess Micomicona, she continued her story, relating how she was
+left an orphan, how a certain giant and lord of an island near her
+kingdom had asked for her hand in marriage and she had refused, how
+his forces had overrun her country and she had fled to Spain, where it
+had been predicted by a magician she would find a certain great knight
+errant by the name of Don Quixote, otherwise called the Knight of the
+Rueful Countenance, who would be recognized by a gray mole with hairs
+like bristles under the left shoulder.
+
+Immediately upon hearing this, Don Quixote wanted to strip, but Sancho
+assured them that he did have just such a mark. Dorothea said she was
+quite sure he must, for in other respects the description that the
+magician had given fitted him; and she hastened to relate to him how
+she had first heard of him on her landing at Osuna. But evidently the
+pretended Princess had not been as careful a student of geography as
+Don Quixote, who was quick to ask her: "But how did you land at Osuna,
+se�orita, when it is not a seaport?" Again the curate displayed proof
+of rare presence of mind, for he broke in: "The Princess meant to say
+that after having landed at Malaga, the first place where she heard of
+your worship was Osuna." And Dorothea immediately corroborated the
+curate's explanation with great self-assurance.
+
+However, she thought it best to end her story here, for fear of
+complications, and only added how happy she was to have found him so
+soon. She also pointed out, demurely enough, that it had been
+predicted if after having cut off the giant's head the knight should
+ask her to marry him, she would accept. But Don Quixote said he would
+be true to his Dulcinea; and this made Sancho exclaim with dismay
+that he was out of his head, for Dulcinea could never come up to this
+fair princess.
+
+Sancho's remark angered his master so intensely that he knocked him to
+the ground with his spear; and if the Princess had not interfered the
+unfortunate squire might never again have been able to say his
+ave-marias or credos or, more to the point, have eaten another square
+meal. He was quick to cry out that he had meant no ill by what he
+said, and acting upon the suggestion of the Princess, he kissed his
+master's hand.
+
+At this moment a man, mounted on an ass, was seen on the road, and
+Sancho, no doubt feeling instinctively the proximity of his beloved
+animal, recognized in the man Gines de Pasamonte. Wildly shouting, he
+set out after the galley-slave, who threw himself off the ass at
+Sancho's first shout. Sancho, crying with joy, was so glad to have his
+faithful donkey returned to him that he did not pursue the thief. And
+Don Quixote himself was so pleased that he entirely forgot about his
+quarrel with Sancho. He called him to his side, and asked him to
+repeat everything his Dulcinea had told him, over and over again.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XXXI
+
+OF THE DELECTABLE DISCUSSION BETWEEN DON QUIXOTE AND SANCHO
+PANZA, HIS SQUIRE, TOGETHER WITH OTHER INCIDENTS
+
+
+Don Quixote was anxious to know what jewel his fair one had bestowed
+on Sancho before the leave-taking. Sancho replied that the only jewel
+Dulcinea had given him was some bread and cheese; whereupon Don
+Quixote remarked that no doubt she had had no jewels at hand. He
+expressed wonder at the speedy trip Sancho had made, to which Sancho
+replied that Rocinante had gone like lightning; and Don Quixote then
+was sure some friendly enchanter had carried him through the air.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTERS XXXII-XXXIV
+
+WHICH TREATS OF WHAT BEFELL ALL DON QUIXOTE'S PARTY AT THE INN
+
+
+The following day they reached the inn. The landlady at once wanted
+her ox-tail back, so it was decided that the barber should hereafter
+appear in his own true character, having supposedly arrived at the inn
+after the galley-slaves' hold-up.
+
+Don Quixote was tired, and was given a bed in the garret where he had
+slept once before. While the others were having dinner, the landlady
+was confidentially telling all who would listen of Don Quixote's
+absurdities during his previous visit, and also of Sancho Panza's
+being juggled in the blanket. And while the curate was discussing Don
+Quixote's madness, the innkeeper confided to him that he himself had a
+weakness for reading about deeds of the past, particularly stories of
+chivalry. Often, he said, he would read aloud from these books to his
+family and servants. He had just read a novel entitled "Ill-Advised
+Curiosity," which he had found very interesting. He showed the
+manuscript of it to the curate, who seemed to think it might make very
+good reading and expressed a desire to copy it. Whereupon the
+innkeeper asked him whether he would not read it aloud to them; and as
+they were all eager to hear it, the curate commenced the reading of
+the manuscript.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XXXV
+
+WHICH TREATS OF THE HEROIC AND PRODIGIOUS BATTLE DON QUIXOTE
+HAD WITH CERTAIN SKINS OF RED WINE, AND BRINGS THE NOVEL OF
+THE "ILL-ADVISED CURIOSITY" TO AN END
+
+
+The curate had almost finished the reading of the novel, (which
+consumed all of the two chapters which are omitted here) when Sancho
+Panza burst into the room, excitedly shouting that his master was
+having the wildest battle he had ever seen, up in the garret. He
+pleaded for reinforcements, and wanted them all to join in conquering
+the enemy who, he declared, was no other than the fierce giant that
+had invaded the kingdom of Micomicon. He said he had left just as his
+master had cut the giant's head clean off with his sword, leaving the
+beast to bleed like a stuffed pig.
+
+While Sancho was relating his blood-curdling story, a tremendous noise
+and loud exclamations poured forth from the garret, and the innkeeper,
+suddenly remembering all the many wine-skins he had hung up there on
+the previous night sprang out of his chair and toward the scene of
+action, followed by the rest.
+
+The worst that the innkeeper might have feared was true; for there, on
+the garret floor, was a sea of red wine, with hosts of empty skins
+floating about upon it. In the middle of the sea stood Don Quixote,
+sword in hand, slashing right and left, dressed in nothing but his
+shirt. But the strangest thing of all was not his attire, but the fact
+that he was fast asleep, his eyes shut tightly, dreaming that he had
+already arrived in the distant realm of the Princess Micomicona and
+had encountered the giant enemy.
+
+Seeing all his precious wine floating away, the innkeeper became
+enraged and set upon Don Quixote with his bare fists; but the beating
+had no effect on the knight except, perhaps, that it made him sleep
+more soundly. It was not until the barber had drenched him in cold
+water that he came to his senses.
+
+The Princess Micomicona, who had been listening to the saving of her
+kingdom outside the door, became eager, after she had heard the
+tempest subside, to enter and see the conquered giant; but she retired
+hastily and with a slight exclamation of horrified modesty on seeing
+the abbreviated length of her defender's night-shirt, the tail of
+which had been sacrificed to his prayers in the wilderness.
+
+The landlord, cursing his luck, swore that this time the knight errant
+and his squire should not escape without paying. But Don Quixote,
+whose hand the curate was holding in an endeavor to calm him, merely
+fell on his knees before the curate, exclaiming: "Exalted and
+beautiful Princess! Your Highness may now live in peace; for I have
+slain the giant!" He imagined that he was at the feet of Micomicona.
+Soon after having spoken thus, he showed signs of great weariness, and
+the curate, the barber and Cardenio carried him to his bed, where he
+fell asleep.
+
+Next they had to console Sancho, who was grief-stricken because he had
+been unable to find the giant's head. He swore he had seen it falling
+when his master cut it off, and imagined that if it could not be
+produced there would be no reward for either him or his master; but
+Dorothea, in her r�le of Princess, calmed and comforted him.
+
+All this time the innkeeper's wife was crying about the ox-tail, which,
+she said, had lost its usefulness after having served as beard, and the
+innkeeper was demanding that he be paid for the spilt wine and other
+losses. The curate assured them that he himself would see to it that they
+were reimbursed for everything; and when the excitement in the inn had
+simmered down, and everybody had gathered again in the room where they
+had heard the curate read from "Ill-Advised Curiosity," he was asked to
+resume the reading. This he did; and they all thought it a very
+entertaining story and listened intensely to what the curate was reading.
+
+[Illustration: "SLASHING RIGHT AND LEFT, DREAMING THAT HE HAD
+ENCOUNTERED THE GIANT ENEMY."--_Page 93_]
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XXXVI
+
+WHICH TREATS OF MORE CURIOUS INCIDENTS THAT OCCURRED AT THE INN
+
+
+At this moment there was a sound of people approaching on horseback,
+and the innkeeper rushed to the gate to receive the guests. There were
+four men, with lances and bucklers, and black veils for their faces; a
+woman, dressed in white and also veiled, and two attendants on foot.
+One of the four, a gentleman of distinction, helped the lady to
+dismount, and they entered the inn.
+
+As they came into the room where the curate had just finished reading
+the novel of "Ill-Advised Curiosity," Dorothea covered her face, and
+Cardenio left and went to the garret. As the gentleman seated the lady
+in a chair, she heaved a deep sigh. Her arms fell limply by her side.
+The curate was curious to know who these people were, so he asked one
+of the servants that accompanied them. But none of them knew, for they
+had met the travelers on the road, they said, and had been offered
+employment at good pay. They added that they feared the lady was being
+taken somewhere against her will, as she had done nothing but sigh all
+through the journey, and had exchanged no words whatever with her
+escort.
+
+Dorothea, hearing the lady sigh repeatedly, felt compassion for her,
+and asked her whether there was anything that she could do for her.
+But although she asked her the question several times, she got no
+reply.
+
+When the gentleman with the distinguished bearing observed that
+Dorothea was interested in this lady, he told her it was useless to
+bother with her, for her answers were all lies and anything done for
+her would be rewarded with ingratitude. This remark was speedily
+answered by the lady, who retorted. "I have never told a lie. On the
+contrary, it is because I am truthful and cannot lie that I am now in
+this miserable condition. And you are the lying one!"
+
+Cardenio was in the adjoining room, just returning from the garret,
+and when he heard these words he exclaimed: "Good God! What is this I
+hear! It is her voice!"
+
+The lady heard the exclamation, and seeing no one, she became agitated
+and rose, but was held back by the gentleman. Her veil suddenly fell
+off, and every one could see her face, which was one of alabaster-like
+whiteness and great beauty. And while the gentleman was struggling to
+keep her from leaving the room, his own veil became unfastened and
+Dorothea saw that he was no other than her own lover, Don Fernando.
+The moment she recognized him she fainted, and the barber caught her,
+or she would have fallen to the floor. The curate was quick to throw
+some water on her face, and she soon came to. As soon as Cardenio
+heard the commotion, he rushed in from the other room, imagining that
+the worst had happened to his Luscinda--for it was no other than
+she--and it was a curious thing to see the four suddenly finding
+themselves face to face.
+
+Luscinda was the first one to speak, and she implored Don Fernando to
+take her life, so that her beloved Cardenio might believe that she
+had been true and loyal and faithful to him until the very last.
+
+When Dorothea heard Luscinda speak thus, she fell on her knees before
+Don Fernando and implored him to reconsider everything that he had
+done that was base and wrong and sinful. She pleaded with tears in her
+eyes, begging him to give up Luscinda to her faithful Cardenio, told
+him how much she still loved him in spite of his wrong-doing, and said
+she would forgive him everything if he would only let his real and
+better nature come into its own. And her tears and sincerity moved Don
+Fernando so that he himself wept, and he promised to abide by the
+ending which Fate itself seemed to have provided for by bringing them
+all together in this strange way.
+
+He told Luscinda that when he had found the paper in which she
+declared she could never be the wife of any other man than Cardenio,
+he was tempted to kill her, but was prevented by chance. He had left
+the house in a rage, and had not returned home till the following day,
+when he found that she had disappeared. Some months later he learned
+that she had taken refuge in a convent. He gathered the companions
+they had seen at the inn, and with their help he carried her from the
+convent. Now he repented of what he had done, prayed he might be
+permitted forever to live with his Dorothea, and asked them all for
+forgiveness. Then he gave his blessing to the overjoyed Cardenio and
+Luscinda, who were both so affected at their reunion that they shed
+tears. Even Sancho was weeping, although for quite another reason. He
+was grieved to find his Princess Micomicona suddenly lose her royal
+identity and turn out to be a mere lady.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XXXVII
+
+IN WHICH IS CONTINUED THE STORY OF THE FAMOUS PRINCESS
+MICOMICONA, WITH OTHER DROLL ADVENTURES
+
+
+Sancho thought it his solemn duty to go to his master at once and
+inform him of the catastrophe. Dejected, he approached Don Quixote,
+who had just awakened, and said: "Sir Rueful Countenance, your Worship
+may as well sleep on, without troubling yourself about killing or
+restoring her kingdom to the Princess; for that is all over and
+settled now."
+
+Don Quixote agreed with his squire enthusiastically, and then told him
+of the tremendous battle he had just had with the giant, dwelling
+particularly upon the great amount of blood that flowed when the
+giant's head was cut off.
+
+"Red wine, your Worship means," said Sancho, "and no less than
+twenty-four gallons, all of which has to be paid for! The Princess
+your Worship will find turned into a private lady named Dorothea; and
+there is much more that will astonish your Worship."
+
+Whereupon there ensued a rich and varied conversation between master
+and servant. When Don Quixote heard his squire confound blood with
+wine, he called him a fool. And when he heard that his Princess had
+turned into a simple Dorothea, the fears he had entertained during
+his past visit to the inn, began to return, and he decided that the
+place was enchanted. But of that his squire could not be convinced,
+for the episode of the blanketing still remained a most vivid reality
+to him. Had it not been for that, he repeated, he could have believed
+it readily.
+
+Meanwhile the curate had been telling Don Fernando and the others of
+Don Quixote's strange malady; he described how they had succeeded in
+taking him away from the wilderness and his self-inflicted penance,
+and told them all the strange adventures he had heard Sancho relate.
+They were greatly amused and thought it the most remarkable craze they
+had ever heard of. Don Fernando was eager that Dorothea should
+continue playing her part, and they all decided to come along on the
+journey to the village in La Mancha.
+
+At this moment Don Quixote entered in his regalia, the barber's basin
+on his head, spear in hand, and with the buckler on his arm. Don
+Fernando was struck with astonishment and laughter at the sight of the
+mixed armament and the peculiar long yellow face of the knight. After
+a silence, Don Quixote turned to Dorothea and repeated his vow to
+regain her kingdom for her. He said he approved heartily of the magic
+interference of the spirit of the king, her father, who had devised
+this new state of hers, that of a private maiden, in which guise she
+would no doubt be more secure from evil influence on her journey to
+her home.
+
+His ignorant squire broke in when his master related of his battle in
+the garret, and inferred irreverently and rather loudly that he had
+attacked wine-skins instead of giants, but Don Fernando quickly made
+him be quiet. Dorothea rose and thanked our rueful knight at the end
+of his speech for the renewed offer of his sword.
+
+Having listened to her lovely voice, Don Quixote turned angrily to his
+squire and reprimanded him for being a disbeliever, saying that he
+could now judge for himself what a fool he had made of himself. Sancho
+replied that he hoped he had made a mistake about the Princess not
+being a princess, but that as to the wine-skins, there could be no
+doubt, for the punctured skins he had seen himself at the head of Don
+Quixote's bed--and had not the garret floor been turned into a lake of
+wine? Whereupon his master swore at his stupidity, until Don Fernando
+interrupted and proposed that they spend the evening in pleasant
+conversation at the inn instead of continuing their journey that
+night.
+
+While that was being agreed upon, two travelers, a man and a woman,
+dressed in Moorish fashion, came to the inn. They asked for rooms
+overnight, but were told there were none to be had. Dorothea felt
+sorry for the strange lady--whose face was covered with a veil--and
+told her that she and Luscinda would gladly share their room with her.
+The lady rose from her chair, bowed her head and made a sign with her
+hands as if to thank them; and they concluded, because of her silence,
+that she could not speak their language. At this moment her companion
+returned to her and, seeing her surrounded by the guests at the inn,
+he confirmed what they had thought, for he made the remark that it was
+useless to address any questions to her as she could speak no other
+tongue than her own. They explained that they had asked no questions,
+but had only offered her quarters for the night. When the stranger
+learned this, it seemed to please him very much, and he thanked them
+profusely.
+
+As they were all curious to know who the lady was, they asked the
+stranger whether or not she was a Christian. He replied that while she
+was not, she wished to become one; and he informed them that she was a
+lady of high rank from Algiers. This excited a desire to see her face
+as well as to know whom she might be, and Dorothea could not resist
+the temptation of asking her to remove her veil. When her companion
+had told her Dorothea's desire, and the Moorish lady had removed her
+veil, they all stood in awe, for they beheld a face that seemed to
+them lovelier than any they had ever beheld before. Don Fernando asked
+her name, and the stranger replied it was Lela Zoraida; but when the
+fair lady heard him speak this name, she exclaimed emphatically that
+she was called Maria and not Zoraida. Luscinda embraced her in a
+loving way and said they would call her by that name.
+
+The supper was now ready and all placed themselves at a long table, at
+the head of which Don Quixote was asked to seat himself. At his
+request Dorothea--as the Princess Micomicona in disguise--sat on his
+right. All were merry and content and many pleasantries were passed.
+But suddenly Don Quixote stopped eating, rose, and with inspiration in
+his eyes and voice, began a long discourse on knight-errantry,
+reviewing the great good it had done for mankind. The language he used
+was so perfect, his manners so free and easy, and his delivery
+possessed of such charm, that his listeners could hardly make
+themselves believe they were in the presence of one who was demented.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XXXVIII
+
+WHICH TREATS OF THE CURIOUS DISCOURSE DON QUIXOTE DELIVERED
+ON ARMS AND LETTERS
+
+
+Don Quixote told them in his discourse of that age in which victory in
+battle depended on personal courage and good swordsmanship, before the
+use of such devilish contrivances as lead and powder. These things
+almost made him despair of success for his revival of chivalry in this
+age, he said; for while guns and artillery could instill no fear in
+his breast, they did make him feel uneasy, as one never knew when a
+bullet, intended for some one else, might cut off one's life. The very
+worst of such a death, he maintained, was that the bullet might have
+been discharged by a fleeing coward. And so he pledged himself again,
+in spite of all the things he had to struggle against, not to give up
+what he had undertaken to do: to set the world aright in accordance
+with the principles of knight-errantry.
+
+All the while that Don Quixote was discoursing, Sancho was much
+concerned because he neglected his food. He broke in whenever he had
+an opportunity, and admonished his master that he would have much time
+for talking after he had eaten.
+
+When they had finished their supper, the landlord informed them that
+he had re-arranged their quarters in order to accommodate all, and
+that the three women might sleep in the garret, as Don Quixote
+gallantly had given up his quarters to them. Their interest then
+turned again to the stranger. Don Fernando asked him some questions
+about his life, and he replied that while his life-story would be
+interesting, it might not afford them much enjoyment. However, he
+said, he would tell it if they so wished. The curate begged that he do
+so; and, seeing the interest of all, the stranger mentioned by way of
+introduction that while his was a true story, many a story of fiction
+would seem tame and less strange in comparison. And while all of the
+company expectantly turned their eyes toward the strange traveler in
+Moorish garb, he began the following tale.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTERS XXXIX-XLI
+
+WHEREIN THE CAPTIVE RELATES HIS LIFE AND ADVENTURES
+
+
+As a young man, the stranger said, he had left Spain, bent on adventure
+and on becoming a soldier. He had served with the Duke of Alva in
+Flanders, and in the wars of the Christians against the Turks, the Moors,
+and the Arabs. In one of these wars he was taken prisoner by King El
+Uchali of Algiers; he had previously advanced to the rank of captain. He
+was held a captive for a long time, first at Constantinople, then at
+Tunis, then at Algiers. At Constantinople he encountered a good many
+other Christian prisoners. Particularly he remembered one Don Pedro de
+Augilar, a brave soldier and a native of Andalusia, who, he said, had
+written some very excellent poetry. He especially spoke of two sonnets
+which he had liked so well that he had learned them by heart. One day Don
+Pedro succeeded in making his escape, but what had become of him he had
+never heard.
+
+As soon as the captive had spoken Don Pedro's name, the ladies and Don
+Fernando exchanged glances and smiled, and Don Fernando could not
+refrain from informing the narrator that Don Pedro was his brother.
+Furthermore, he said, he was safe in Andalusia, where he was happily
+married, in the best of health, and had three robust children. Then he
+touched on his brother's gift for composing poetry, and said that the
+very two sonnets the captive had mentioned, he himself knew by heart.
+Whereupon every one asked him to recite them, and so he did with fine
+feeling and intelligence. Then the captive resumed his story.
+
+At Algiers, he said, there lived, overlooking the prison, a great
+alcaide named Hadji Morato, a very rich man, who had but one child, a
+daughter of great beauty. She had learned the Christian prayer from a
+slave of her father's, when she was a child; the things that this
+Christian woman had taught her had made her long to know more about
+the religion and to become a Christian herself. This beautiful
+Algerian maiden had seen the captive from her window, and she liked
+him, and one day she managed to get a message to him, begging him to
+escape and to take her with him. From time to time she would throw to
+him gold coins wrapped in cloth, and these he would hide until finally
+he had enough to buy not only himself but some other prisoners free
+from their slavery.
+
+However, in order to effect the escape of the maiden, the captive was
+obliged to take into his confidence an old Algerian renegade who
+turned out to be a believer in Christ. With this man the captive sent
+messages to Zoraida. Now, this renegade was a sly fellow, and he
+bought a small vessel with which he began to ply to and fro between
+the city and some islands nearby, bringing back fruit each time, in
+order to alleviate all suspicions of his having acquired the vessel
+for any other purpose than trading. Finally it was decided the time
+had come for the escape, and the captive had himself ransomed.
+
+That night the renegade had the ship anchored opposite the prison and
+Zoraida's garden, and, with the help of a number of Christians whom
+they had gathered as rowers, and who were eager to return to Spain,
+they secured the ship and put the Moorish crew in irons and chains.
+
+Zoraida witnessed the proceedings from her window, and when she saw
+her captive and the renegade return in the skiff of the vessel, she
+hastened below into the garden. She was bedecked with a fortune in
+pearls and precious stones. She asked the renegade to follow her into
+the house, and when they returned, they brought with them a chest
+laden with gold. Just then her father was awakened and he began to
+shout in Arabic as loudly as he could that he was being robbed by
+Christians. Had it not been for the quick action of the renegade all
+might have been lost. He bound and gagged the father and carried him
+downstairs, where Zoraida had fainted in the captive's arms. Then they
+hastened back to the ship and set sail for Majorca.
+
+It was some time before the old alcaide realized that his daughter had
+gone with the captive of her own free will, and when he learned it, he
+flung himself into the sea, but was rescued by one of the rowers. When
+he found himself then on board the ship, he began to curse his
+daughter, calling her a Christian dog and other vile names. Finally it
+was deemed best to set him and the other Moors ashore; and when the
+old man saw the ship sail away with his daughter, he began to sob and
+cry aloud in the most heartrending way, threatening to kill himself if
+she did not return to him. The last words that she heard were, "I
+forgive you all!" and they made her weep so bitterly that it seemed as
+if her tears would never cease flowing.
+
+They were then less than a day's voyage from the coast of Spain. As
+they were breezing along with all sails set, over a moonlit sea, they
+saw a large ship appear in the distance. It turned out to be a French
+corsair from Rochelle out for plunder, for when it came closer it
+suddenly fired two guns that took terrible effect and wrecked their
+vessel. As the ship began to sink, they begged to be taken aboard the
+corsair, to which the captain was not averse. Once aboard they were
+told that if they had been courteous enough to reply to the question
+shouted from the corsair as to what port they were bound for, their
+own vessel would still have been intact. The covetous crew stripped
+them of all their valuable belongings, the pearls and jewels, money
+and adornments of Zoraida. The chest of gold, however, the renegade
+stealthily lowered into the sea without any one seeing it.
+
+The next day when the Spanish coast was sighted the captain put them
+all in a skiff, gave them some bread and water for their voyage, and
+set out to sea. Before letting them depart, moved by some strange
+impulse, he gave Zoraida forty crowns; and he had not robbed her of
+her beautiful gown. They steered their skiff towards the shore, where
+they landed soon after midnight. Immediately they left the shore,
+eager to know where they were. They climbed the mountain--for the
+shore was a rocky one--and there they rested until dawn, then went on
+into the country.
+
+Soon they met a young shepherd; but when he saw their strange garbs,
+he ran away from them like a frightened lamb, crying that the Moors
+had invaded the country. And not so long after that they encountered
+fifty mounted men of the coast guard, but as soon as these saw their
+Moorish costumes and had heard the captive's explanation, they
+realized that the boy's vivid imagination had disturbed them
+needlessly. And when one of the Christian captives recognized in one
+of the guards an uncle of his, these men could not do enough for the
+returned slaves. They gave them their horses, some of them went to
+rescue the skiff for them, and when they arrived at the nearby city
+they were welcomed by all the inhabitants.
+
+At once they went to the church to return thanks to the Lord for their
+marvelous escape, and Zoraida was impressed beyond expression with the
+hosts of praying worshippers. She, the renegade, and the captive
+stayed at the house of the returned Christian, and the rest were
+quartered throughout the town. After six days the renegade departed
+for Granada to restore himself to the Church through the means of the
+Holy Inquisition. One by one the other captives left for their own
+homes, and finally only Zoraida and he himself remained. He then
+decided to go in search of his father, whom he had not seen for so
+many years, and he did not know whether he was alive or not. His
+journey had brought him to this inn, and it was here that his story
+came to an end.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XLII
+
+WHICH TREATS OF WHAT FURTHER TOOK PLACE IN THE INN, AND OF
+SEVERAL OTHER THINGS WORTH KNOWING
+
+
+The captive having finished his strange and interesting story, Don
+Fernando rose and thanked him, and all were eager for an opportunity
+to show him their goodwill. Don Fernando begged the stranger to allow
+him to provide for his comfort, and offered to take him to his
+brother, the Marquis, who, he said, would be most eager to act as
+Zoraida's godfather at her baptism. But the stranger declined
+graciously all the offers that were made.
+
+Night was now setting in, and each one was contemplating going to his
+room, when suddenly a coach with attendants on horseback arrived at
+the inn. The landlady told the one demanding lodging that there was
+none to be had at any price. Whereupon the man replied that room
+_must_ be found for his lordship, the Judge, his master. As soon as
+the landlady learned she was dealing with the law, she nearly fainted
+from exertion to please, and offered to give up their own room and bed
+to his lordship. By this time the Judge, attired in a long robe with
+ruffled sleeves, had stepped out of the coach, accompanied by a
+beautiful girl of about sixteen years of age. There were exclamations
+from all when they saw the young lady, for she possessed beauty and
+grace that were really rare.
+
+The first one to greet the strangers was no other than Don Quixote,
+who, with a grave air and the most exalted and flowery language, bade
+them welcome to the castle. He finished his speech by saying: "Enter,
+your worship, into this paradise, for here you will find stars and
+suns to accompany the heaven your Worship brings with you. Here you
+will find arms in their supreme excellence, and beauty in its highest
+perfection."
+
+The Judge looked for a moment as if he hesitated about entering with
+his daughter after such an unusual reception; he seemed to wonder
+whether he was at an inn or an asylum. He scrutinized Don Quixote's
+curious armor, then turned his attention to the rest of the company,
+which evidently made him feel more at ease.
+
+It was arranged that the young lady should sleep with the other
+ladies; which pleased her greatly, for it was evident that she was
+very much taken with them and their beauty. The Judge was as much
+pleased with the presence of so many people of quality as he was
+puzzled by Don Quixote and his strange appearance and behavior.
+
+The moment the former captive and captain had laid eyes on the Judge,
+he was stirred by the conviction that here was his own younger
+brother. He asked the Judge's name of one of the servants, and was
+told he was called the Licentiate Juan Perez de Viedma, lately
+appointed Judge of the Supreme Court of Mexico, to which country he
+was now on his way. The Captain inquired whether the servant knew from
+which part of Spain the Judge came, and got the reply that he had
+heard it rumored he was a native of a little village in the mountains
+of Leon. The Captain was then certain it was his brother, and he
+hastened to tell the curate, Don Fernando, and Cardenio, saying he
+felt diffident about making himself known too abruptly for fear his
+brother might refuse to acknowledge him because of his poverty and
+ill-fortune.
+
+The curate understood the Captain's way of thinking, and asked that he
+trust him to manage it in a discreet way. So when the Judge invited
+them all to keep him company while he supped, the curate told the
+story of the captive at the table. In telling it he pretended to have
+been a captive in the hands of the Turks and the Algerians and a
+comrade-in-arms of the Captain. When he had finished the story, tears
+rolled down the Judge's cheeks, and he begged the curate to help him
+to find his beloved brother, for whom their aged father was ever
+praying, ever asking, hoping that he might see him once more before he
+closed his eyes in death. It was then that the Captain, himself in
+tears, stepped forward and, the Judge having recognized him, embraced
+his brother. Then the Judge embraced Zoraida, offering her all the
+worldly goods he possessed. His daughter, the lovely young girl, now
+joined them, and all the others were moved to tears by the brothers'
+happiness in finding each other after so many years of separation.
+
+Don Quixote stood gazing in silence at what passed before his eyes,
+ascribing the two brothers' luck to magic.
+
+When the first emotion of the unexpected meeting had subsided, the
+Judge asked his brother and Zoraida to return with him to Seville,
+from where he would send a messenger to the father, telling him of the
+good news and begging him to come to the joint marriage and baptismal
+ceremony. As the Judge was obliged to leave for New Spain within a
+month, it was agreed that a speedy return to Seville was necessary.
+
+It was now early morning, though still dark, and all were tired, so it
+was decided that every one should go to bed. But Don Quixote,
+sacrificing himself in spite of his fatigue, appointed himself to keep
+guard for the remainder of the night, fearing attack of some evil
+giant or beast upon all the beauty that was slumbering within. They,
+who were aware of his peculiar weakness, returned thanks in their most
+gracious manner; and when they were alone with the Judge they hastened
+to explain the knight's mental state. The Judge was much amused by the
+accounts of his adventures and his attempts to revive knight errantry
+in Spain.
+
+There was only one unhappy being in the inn that night: that was
+Sancho Panza. He was not at all pleased with his master's staying up
+at such a late hour. But there seemed nothing he could do about it, so
+he retired and spread himself comfortably on the trappings of his
+donkey.
+
+While Don Quixote was guarding the castle, and dawn was approaching,
+Dorothea, who had lain awake, was suddenly stirred by the sound of a
+man's voice, a voice so beautiful that it seemed to her there could be
+none sweeter in the world. Then Cardenio was awakened by it, and he
+felt that he ought to share the joy of hearing it with the ladies, so
+he went to the garret to call their attention to it. When he knocked
+on the door and told them, Dorothea called out that they were already
+listening. The only one not awake at that time was Do�a Clara, the
+Judge's fair daughter.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XLIII
+
+WHEREIN IS RELATED THE PLEASANT STORY OF THE MULETEER, TOGETHER
+WITH OTHER STRANGE THINGS THAT CAME TO PASS IN THE INN
+
+
+Dorothea and the other ladies were in a quandary as to whether to
+awake Do�a Clara or not. Finally they decided that she would be sorry
+if she had to learn what she had missed and would regret that they had
+not awakened her; so they shook her until she opened her eyes and then
+asked her to sit up in bed and listen. But scarcely had she heard one
+note, before she began to sob hysterically. She threw her arms around
+Dorothea and cried: "Why, oh, why did you wake me, dear lady? The
+greatest kindness fortune could do me now would be to close my eyes
+and ears so that I could neither see nor hear that unhappy musician!"
+
+Dorothea was at a loss to know what had happened to the child. All the
+while she was trying to soothe her, the tears were streaming down the
+young girl's face, and she was trembling like a leaf. Finally she
+quieted her feelings sufficiently to be able to confide to Dorothea in
+a whispering voice the story of her romance with the singer, who, she
+said, was not a muleteer as his garb would indicate, but the only son
+and heir of a rich noble of Aragon. This gentleman's house in Madrid
+was situated directly opposite her father's, and having once seen Do�a
+Clara the youth proceeded to declare his love for her. She, being
+motherless and having no one to whom she could confide her love
+secrets, had to leave Madrid with her father, when he was given his
+appointment to New Spain, without an opportunity to see her lover. But
+as soon as the youth, who was not much older than herself, learned of
+their departure, he dressed himself up as a muleteer and set out on
+foot to pursue her. At every inn where they had stopped overnight she
+had found him awaiting their departure in the morning, and she was
+always in dread, she said, lest her father learn of their love for
+each other.
+
+With her arms tight around Dorothea, she confessed to her how great
+her love was for the youth, saying that she could never live without
+him. Dorothea kissed the girl, and promised her that with God's help
+all would end well, telling her to put her trust in Him; and before
+another day had passed she hoped to have good news for Do�a Clara.
+Dorothea's assurances calmed and put new faith in the young girl's
+heart; and soon they all were fast asleep again.
+
+Now, all this time the one-eyed Asturian maid, and the landlady's
+daughter, both bent on deviltry, were keeping their eyes open. It was
+impossible for them to forget Don Quixote, and they were determined to
+play a joke on him before the night was over. They posted themselves
+in the hayloft, where there was a hole in the wall; and when Don
+Quixote passed on Rocinante, he heard some one calling: "Pst! Come
+here, se�or!"
+
+As Don Quixote turned to see who it might be, he discovered the hole
+in the wall and it seemed very much like a marvelously decorated
+window, in keeping with the beautiful castle he had made out of the
+inn. He beheld at this window the two maidens, and immediately they
+became to him the daughter of the lord of the castle and her
+attendant. Wistfully he gazed at them, certain, however, that they had
+designed to destroy his faithful and stubborn allegiance to Dulcinea,
+to whom he had just been sending up prayers and salutations under the
+influence of the moon. Then he spoke to them, regretting that they
+should let themselves be so overcome by love for him that they could
+no longer master their feelings. He told them of that great and only
+mistress of his soul, the incomparable one of El Toboso of La Mancha,
+to whom he had sworn eternal love and undying admiration. And at last
+he admonished the innkeeper's daughter to retire to her beauteous
+apartment, lest he should be forced to prove himself ungrateful. If,
+he said, she would demand any other thing than love, he would
+willingly grant her the favor, even unto a lock of Medusa's hair.
+
+The wench immediately realized that her opportunity had come, so she
+quickly said that she cared for no lock of Medusa's or any other, but
+would be satisfied to feel the touch of his hand.
+
+Before sanctioning this demand, Don Quixote asserted his virtuousness
+again by stipulating that she must not kiss it, only touch it. He
+understood, of course, that any woman would be likely to ask such a
+favor of him at any time (for who would not be proud to have touched
+the sinewy hand of so remarkable and famous a knight errant as
+himself?) but he insisted on being discreet at all times. So he
+climbed up and stood on the saddle of his hack, reaching his lean arm
+through the hole in the wall.
+
+By this time the Asturian maid had procured from the stable the halter
+of Sancho's donkey, on which her young mistress quickly made a running
+knot and passed it over Don Quixote's wrist. As soon as she had
+proceeded thus far in her deviltry, she jumped down from the hole and
+made fast the other end of the halter to the bolt of the door. Then
+she and her maid swiftly made off, bursting with laughter, leaving the
+knight to complain of the roughness of her touch.
+
+But after a while Don Quixote began to realize that no one was there to
+listen to his complaints, and also that he was not standing too securely
+on his Rocinante's back; for should Rocinante move without being urged--a
+most unusual event--he would be left to hang in the air by one arm. It
+suddenly came to him that he was a victim of enchantment, and he called
+on all the saints, and Dulcinea, and Sancho Panza, on all kind magicians
+and sages, and every one else he could think of, to come to his aid.
+
+But no one came, until the morning brought four travelers on horseback.
+They found the gate still shut, so they called to Don Quixote, who by
+this time was almost exhausted. But although wearied, his spirit had not
+left him. He reprimanded the strangers for their insolence; asked whether
+they were so stupid they failed to realize that as yet the castle gates
+were not open, that all were asleep. He commanded them to withdraw to a
+distance and to approach the fortress after daylight; then he could
+better tell whether they should be permitted to enter or not.
+
+One of the travelers mistook Don Quixote for the innkeeper, and was
+immediately reprimanded for this. The offended knight then began to
+talk about knight errantry and its revival in the world, until finally
+the men tired of his discourse. Again they knocked at the gate, this
+time with such force and fury that the innkeeper woke up and came out
+and admitted them in a hurry. They entered violently on their horses,
+enraged because of their long waiting at the gate, and dismounted,
+leaving their horses free. The moment the horses saw Rocinante and the
+curious position of his master, they went to investigate him, and the
+unsuspecting Rocinante leaped from under Don Quixote with such
+suddenness that the poor knight's arm was nearly wrenched from his
+body. There he was left to dangle, while the shouts that forced their
+way from his throat rent the air fiercely.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XLIV
+
+IN WHICH ARE CONTINUED THE UNHEARD-OF ADVENTURES AT THE INN
+
+
+When the landlord heard the terrible outcries of Don Quixote, he ran,
+greatly excited, to see who could be giving vent to such agony. The
+travelers joined him; and the Asturian maid was stirred to quick
+action by a bad conscience, as well as by the excited state of her
+master. She untied the halter, and Don Quixote fell so suddenly that
+his meager body landed like a dead weight on the ground.
+
+The landlord and the travelers found him there, and asked him
+impatiently why he was making such a tremendous noise. He ignored
+their question entirely, pulled the rope off his wrist, and mounted
+his charger with as much nonchalance and elegance as his stiff limbs
+would permit. Then he haughtily raised his head, after having adjusted
+all his knightly paraphernalia, and circled down the field, returning
+in a canter. Having halted Rocinante, he bellowed out to those
+assembled "Whoever shall say that I have been enchanted with just
+cause, provided my lady the Princess Micomicona grants me permission
+to do so, I give him the lie, challenge him and defy him to single
+combat."
+
+The landlord saw at once the effect these words of the poor demented
+knight had on his newly arrived guests, so he hastened to explain Don
+Quixote's condition to them. They then asked whether the innkeeper had
+seen a youth dressed like a muleteer. He replied that he had not; but
+just then one of the men exclaimed that the youth must be there, since
+the Judge's coach--which he had suddenly observed--was there. They
+then decided to dissemble, each one going to a different entrance of
+the inn, so there would be no chance for the youth to escape.
+
+The landlord was curious to know what it was all about, but could
+arrive at no conclusion. The truth was that these men were servants of
+the young muleteer's father. And it was not long ere they had
+discovered him, lying asleep, never thinking that he would himself be
+pursued. The servant who roused him made a few caustic remarks to the
+young Don Luis--for this was his name--about his bed and the luxury of
+his surroundings, as particularly befitting a youth of his rank and
+breeding.
+
+Don Luis could not at first believe that he was really awake. He
+rubbed his eyes in astonishment, and failed to find a reply to the
+servant's remarks. The man then continued, advising his young master
+to return to his home at once, saying that his father, as a result of
+his disappearance, was dangerously ill. The youth was curious to learn
+how his father had found out what road he had taken and that he had
+disguised himself as a muleteer. The servant answered that a student
+to whom Don Luis had confided his love for Do�a Clara, had told his
+master everything, when he saw how he suffered.
+
+Now, it chanced that another muleteer, who had been sleeping with Don
+Luis, could not keep what he was hearing to himself; besides, he
+deemed it best to disappear from the scene. He informed some of the
+guests of what had occurred, and thus it happened that Don Fernando
+and Cardenio learned of the plight of the young singer, whose voice
+they had so admired a short time before; and when the muleteer told
+them that his comrade was a young nobleman in disguise, they decided
+to go and help him in his quandary.
+
+They found the four men entreating Don Luis to return to his father;
+and the youth emphatically refusing to do so, saying that they might
+take him dead, but never alive.
+
+At this moment Dorothea saw Cardenio from her window, and she called
+him and told him the story of the lad and Do�a Clara. He in turn
+related to her how the servants of the youth's father had come to take
+him back to his home. In telling Dorothea this news Cardenio was
+overheard by Do�a Clara who would have swooned had not Dorothea
+supported her.
+
+By this time the servants had brought Don Luis into the inn,
+threatening to take him back by force should he not go willingly.
+Again he protested, and at last the argument attracted all the guests,
+including Don Quixote, who had ceased his duties as guard for the
+present. The Judge was there too, and when one of the servants
+recognized in him their neighbor in Madrid, he pleaded with him to do
+all he could to make the young man return to his ill father.
+
+The Judge turned to the young muleteer, and saw that it was his
+neighbor's son; whereupon he embraced him and asked in a fatherly way
+what had brought him there dressed in such a manner. With his arm
+around the youth's neck, the Judge withdrew with the lad to discuss
+the reasons for his disguise and for his leaving his father.
+
+While the kindly Judge was thus occupied with Don Luis, a tumult suddenly
+arose at the gate of the inn. It was the landlord, trying to hold back
+two guests who had attempted to get away without paying. The innkeeper
+was stubbornly clinging to the garb of one of the adventurers, and in
+return was being pummeled mercilessly, until his face was a study in dark
+and fast colors, except his nose, which was tinted a running red. As soon
+as the landlady perceived her mate's distress, the thought struck her
+that this would be a most worthy opportunity for our valiant knight
+errant to show his skill as a swordsman and a wielder of the lance. So
+she dispatched her daughter, the fair young lady of the castle, to bring
+the knight her message of distress.
+
+Don Quixote received the young lady calmly and courteously, but said
+that he was in honor bound to engage in no combat except by the
+express permission of her Royal Highness the Princess Micomicona; she
+having granted it, there could be no doubt as to the outcome of any
+battle in which he chose to draw his sword. Seeing this, in her
+opinion, ill-timed hesitancy, the one-eyed Asturian muttered that by
+the time the Princess was found, her master would have passed the
+heavenly border. The Princess, however, was quickly summoned, and Don
+Quixote knelt on his stiff knees before her; but ere he had finished
+his long harangue of request, she--having been advised of the urgency
+of the situation--had already given him permission and wished him
+godspeed.
+
+Don Quixote arose and drew his sword, paced toward the gate, and then
+suddenly stopped short. All wondered what had happened to cause his
+hesitating thus, and the Asturian maid expressed her wonder aloud. Don
+Quixote was not long about the answer. He replied at once that this
+was no business for him; they had best call his squire. It was for
+Sancho, he said, that he reserved the task and joy of fighting such
+lowly people as the ones he saw before him here and now.
+
+Now, while all of this was taking place, Don Luis, with tears in his
+eyes, was confessing to Do�a Clara's father his great and indomitable
+love for her. This placed the Judge in a curious predicament, for he
+found himself forced to sit in judgment on the welfare of his own
+child. He was so taken with the charm and intelligence of the youth
+that he was anxious to have him for a son-in-law, particularly as his
+family was one of distinction, and extremely rich. Yet his better
+judgment told him that it would be wise to wait another day before
+giving his consent. He would have preferred to have Don Luis' father
+approve of the marriage, although he thought it almost certain that
+this gentleman would like to see his son married to a titled lady.
+
+And while the fate of the young lovers was being weighed by the Judge,
+peace had been declared between the innkeeper and the two travelers
+who, persuaded by the chivalrous words of Don Quixote, and the
+summoning of Sancho, had been made to see the light and pay the bill.
+By this time everything was settled amicably, the landlord having
+demanded no special indemnity for his battered, many-colored face.
+
+But who should loom up on the scene, now that everything was peaceful
+again, but the owner of Mambrino's golden helmet! This particular
+barber was now leading his donkey to the stable, when he suddenly
+discovered Sancho Panza hard at work repairing the barber's own
+trappings, which our Sancho had taken as booty at the time his master
+fell heir to the helmet. The barber left his donkey at no slow speed
+and ran towards Sancho, to whom he exclaimed threateningly "There, you
+thief, I have caught you! Give me my basin and my pack-saddle, and
+everything you robbed me of!"
+
+But Sancho was not willing to give up so easily things that he had gained
+as spoils in righteous warfare. He refuted with his fists, as well as by
+argument, the barber's coarse suggestion that he was a common highwayman;
+and his master, coming up at this instant, was proud and pleased to hear
+his faithful squire talk like that, and also to see the barber's teeth
+gone, which the force of Sancho's blow evidently had carried away. As a
+matter of fact, Sancho's demonstration of physical strength made such a
+profound impression on Don Quixote, that he decided his squire was not
+far from being eligible to knighthood.
+
+As soon as the barber was able to make himself heard again, he began
+to arraign both master and squire. He was not to be subdued. He told
+all that quickly gathered round them that they could assure themselves
+of the truth of what he said by fitting Sancho's saddle to his own
+steed; furthermore, he said, they had plundered him of a basin.
+
+When Don Quixote heard this ridiculous accusation, his lips twisted
+into a scornful smile. He dispatched Sancho to fetch the helmet--which
+seemed to Sancho a dangerous move--and when Sancho returned with the
+basin, Don Quixote held it up with great self-assurance before
+everybody.
+
+"Your worships," said he, "may see with what face this squire can
+assert that this is a basin and not the helmet I told you of; and I
+swear by the order of chivalry I profess, that this helmet is the
+identical one I took from him, without anything added to or removed."
+
+This statement was corroborated in detail by Sancho, who added: "Since
+that battle my master has fought in the helmet only once. That was
+when he let loose the unfortunate ones in chains. And if it had not
+been for this basin-helmet he might have been killed in that
+engagement, for there were plenty of stones raining down on him at
+that time."
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XLV
+
+IN WHICH THE DOUBTFUL QUESTION OF MAMBRINO'S HELMET AND THE
+PACK-SADDLE IS FINALLY SETTLED, WITH OTHER ADVENTURES THAT
+OCCURRED IN TRUTH AND EARNEST
+
+
+The barber appealed to those present and asked them what they thought
+about Don Quixote's nonsense; and it was then that it occurred to Don
+Quixote's friend, the barber of his village to play a joke on his
+fellow barber. He solemnly asked the other barber whether he was out
+of his head, for of course anybody could see that it was a helmet,
+although, he admitted, not a complete one.
+
+The poor barber was so taken aback, so perplexed that a learned
+barber, and a seemingly sane one otherwise, could not tell the
+difference between a basin and a helmet that he nearly toppled over.
+But when the worthy curate, Cardenio, Don Fernando, and all--for they
+realized at once the barber's joke--insisted that he was wrong, and
+that it was not a basin, the perspiration began to trickle down his
+face, and he exclaimed: "God bless me! Is it possible that such an
+honorable company can say that this is not a basin but a helmet? Why,
+this is a thing that would astonish a whole university, however wise
+it might be! And if this basin is a helmet, then the pack-saddle must
+be a horse's caparison!"
+
+Some one present was quick to assert that it most certainly was a
+caparison and not a pack-saddle at all; that no one but a fool could
+take it for a pack-saddle. And when a gentleman of quality like Don
+Fernando offered to take the votes of those present and they turned
+out to be in favor of the pack-saddle's remaining a caparison, the
+barber thought he had gone completely mad.
+
+By this time the group of spectators had been increased by the arrival
+of the four servants of Don Luis, Don Luis himself, and three new
+guests--officers of the Holy Brotherhood, to whom the proceedings and
+the amusement of those present seemed utter foolishness. One of these
+uninitiated newcomers, one of the officers of the Brotherhood, dared
+to say that any one who maintained that it was a helmet instead of a
+basin must be drunk. But he should not have said it, for our knight
+lifted his lance and let it fly out of his hand with such ferocity and
+such sure aim that if the officer had not been lucky enough to be able
+to dodge it, it would have pierced his body.
+
+The tumult that followed was indescribable. The landlord came to the
+rescue of his Brotherhood comrades. His wife fell into hysterics for
+fear he would be beheaded by Don Quixote's vicious sword. The women
+were all screaming, wailing, weeping and fainting. Then this
+tremendous din and noise was suddenly rent by the voice of Don
+Quixote; and like a flash there was peace, when the knight errant
+began to appeal in soft lucid tones for a cessation of hostilities. It
+was a curious thing to observe how willingly the demented man's appeal
+to reason was listened to by all. The confusion had struck most of
+them with terror and they were glad to heed in such a moment even the
+will of unreason.
+
+But as soon as there was quiet again, the grudge against Don Quixote
+that had established itself in the heart of one of the Brotherhood,
+began to assert itself. It suddenly came to his mind that among his
+warrants he had one for a man of Don Quixote's description who was
+accused of having set free a chain of galley-slaves. As soon as he had
+convinced himself that there could be no mistake about the identity,
+he strode forth and seized Don Quixote so abruptly by the collar that
+the knight nearly choked.
+
+"Help for the Holy Brotherhood!" the officer yelled aloud. "And that
+you may see that I demand it in earnest, read this warrant which says
+this highwayman is to be arrested!"
+
+Hardly did Don Quixote feel himself handled in so undignified a
+manner, when he clutched the villain's throat, foaming at the mouth
+like a wild beast. Luckily they were separated in time by Don Fernando
+and the rest, or they would have torn each other to pieces. Yet the
+officer was not willing to give up his claim on Don Quixote's person:
+a claim that our knight errant laughed at, for who had ever heard of
+members of the knighthood being dependent on jurisdiction? Did he,
+this base knave, this ill-born scoundrel, not know that the law of
+knights was in their swords, their charter in their prowess, and their
+edicts in their will? And then he calmly rambled on, his speech of
+denunciation culminating in this last crushing remark: "What knight
+errant has there been, is there, or will there ever be in the world,
+not bold enough to give, single-handed, four hundred cudgellings to
+four hundred officers of the Holy Brotherhood if they come in his
+way?"
+
+While his master was thus discoursing in his usual vein, Sancho was
+reviewing past events at the inn, and he could not help but make this
+sad exclamation: "By the Lord, it is quite true what my master says
+about the enchantments of this castle, for it is impossible to live an
+hour in peace in it!"
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XLVI
+
+OF THE END OF THE NOTABLE ADVENTURE OF THE OFFICERS OF THE
+HOLY BROTHERHOOD; AND OF THE GREAT FEROCITY OF OUR WORTHY
+KNIGHT, DON QUIXOTE
+
+
+The curate had to argue for some time with the officers of the
+Brotherhood before he could finally persuade them that it would serve
+no purpose to arrest Don Quixote, for, being out of his senses, he
+would in the end be released as a madman. Furthermore, he warned them,
+Don Quixote would never submit to force.
+
+Sancho Panza and the barber were still quarreling over the pack-saddle
+and the other booty, and at last the officers agreed to act as
+mediators, and the differences were adjusted by arbitration. The
+curate settled for the basin by paying eight reals, and received a
+receipt for payment in full from the barber.
+
+Don Fernando, in the meantime, extracted a promise from three of the
+servants of Don Luis to return to Madrid, while the other one agreed
+to remain and accompany his young master to where Don Fernando wanted
+him to go. Do�a Clara was sparkling with happiness; and Zoraida seemed
+to feel at home with the Christians, in spite of the noise and tumult
+she had had to live through during her short stay at the inn.
+
+The landlord did not forget the reckoning for the wine-skins and all
+the other things whose loss he could attribute to Don Quixote, for he
+had witnessed the curate's paying off the debt for the barber's
+helmet. Don Fernando paid all the innkeeper's demands generously,
+after the curate had decided the claims were just.
+
+But when Don Quixote felt no discord in the air, he betook himself to
+the presence of Dorothea, knelt before her, and told her how willing
+and anxious he was to serve her and conquer her giant. And he
+requested that they make ready to leave. Her reply was simple and
+direct, for she told him that his will was hers. So Don Quixote
+ordered his squire to saddle Rocinante and his own donkey; but Sancho
+only shook his head in sorry fashion.
+
+"Master," he said, "there is more mischief in the village than one
+hears of." And as his master begged him to speak freely, he burst out:
+"This lady, who calls herself ruler of the great kingdom of Micomicon,
+is no more so than my mother; for, if she was what she says, she would
+not go rubbing noses with one that is here every instant and behind
+every door."
+
+Though it was merely with her husband, Don Fernando, that she had, as
+Sancho said, rubbed noses, the crimson in her royal blood came to the
+surface, and her face turned as red as a beet. Sancho, fearing that
+the Princess was a courtesan, wanted to save his master the two years'
+journey to Micomicon, if at the end of it it should turn out that
+another one than Don Quixote or himself should reap the fruits of
+their labor.
+
+It is impossible to describe the terrible wrath of the knight when he
+heard the Princess thus slandered. His indignation and fury knew no
+bounds. He began to stammer and stutter, inarticulate with rage,
+until Sancho was scared out of his wits, afraid of being cut open by
+his raving master's sword. He was just about to turn his back on his
+master and disappear till the storm had passed, when Dorothea came to
+his rescue. She suggested that Sancho's strange behavior could only be
+ascribed to one thing: enchantment. How else could he have seen such
+diabolical things as he described, how could he have been made to bear
+false witness against her, and how could he have spoken words so
+offensive to her modesty? Knowing the heart of Sancho, Don Quixote at
+once thought her explanation a most ingenious one, for what else could
+have put into Sancho's head such disrespect for a royal personage? Don
+Fernando, too, pleaded in Sancho's behalf; and Sancho meekly stumbled
+to his knees before his master, and kissed his hand frantically,
+begging him for forgiveness. Whereupon our knight errant with many
+gestures pardoned and blessed him.
+
+"Now, Sancho, my son," he said, "thou wilt be convinced of the truth
+of what I have many a time told thee, that everything in this castle
+is done by means of enchantment."
+
+To which Sancho Panza replied meekly but firmly: "So it is, I believe,
+except the affair of the blanket, which came to pass in reality by
+ordinary means."
+
+But Don Quixote as usual was not in a mood to listen to nonsense, and
+he replied that if such were the case he would have avenged him, but
+seeing no one to avenge himself upon, how could it have been anything
+else but enchantment?
+
+Those who were there were eager to know what had happened to Sancho, and
+the landlord was most obliging in giving a graphic description of all
+that had occurred. They all seemed to enjoy the account enormously, for
+they laughed hilariously. Had Don Quixote not again assured Sancho that
+it most certainly had happened by enchantment, there is no doubt that he
+would have interrupted their hilarity.
+
+It was now two days since they had arrived at the inn, and Don
+Fernando and Dorothea were becoming anxious to depart. In order that
+they might not have to go out of their way, it was arranged that they
+should go by themselves; meanwhile a scheme was devised whereby the
+curate and the barber could restore Don Quixote to his native village.
+
+An ox-cart passed that day, and the curate, hearing it was going in
+the direction of El Toboso, made arrangements with the owner to make
+the journey with him. Then he ordered some of the servants to make a
+cage, large enough to hold Don Quixote, and provided it with bars. He
+then asked Don Fernando and his companions, the officers of the Holy
+Brotherhood, the servants of Don Luis, and the innkeeper to cover
+their faces and change their appearance so that Don Quixote would
+think they were quite different people.
+
+When this had been done they tiptoed to the valiant knight errant's
+room, where they found him fast asleep, bound him, without waking him,
+hand and foot; then they stood about the room silently. When the
+knight awoke, he was startled to find that he could not move, and
+seeing all these strangely conjured-up figures before him, it struck
+him they must be phantoms of the enchanted castle. He was absolutely
+helpless, and the men had no difficulty in stuffing him into the cage.
+The bars were nailed on securely, and the cage was then carried out of
+the inn and placed in the ox-cart.
+
+While the procession slowly proceeded from the inn to the ox-cart, the
+men supporting the cage on their shoulders, the barber chanted strange
+words in a weird and hollow voice. The barber took it upon himself to
+become the prophet of the occasion, and he proclaimed to the Knight of
+the Rueful Countenance that he ought not to consider his present
+imprisonment an affliction. It was in a way a sort of penance, he
+said, through which he would be humbled to be in readiness for a still
+greater, sweeter imprisonment, the bond of matrimony. This prediction
+would come true, he avowed, when the fierce Manchegan lion and the
+tender Tobosan dove met again. They would be joined in one, and the
+offspring of this union would be of such stuff as to set the world
+aflame.
+
+When Don Quixote heard these words, he was stirred into an exalted
+emotion. Had he not been well bound it would have been expressed by
+kneeling. He raised his eyes toward Heaven and thanked the Lord for
+having sent this prophet to him in this needy moment. He prayed that
+he should not be left to perish in the cage, and also implored of the
+prophet not to let his faithful Sancho Panza abandon him, saying that
+if by chance the promise of the island should not come true, he had
+made provision for him in his will. Sancho was much moved by what his
+encaged and enchanted master had said, and he bent down and kissed
+his hands--he had to kiss both since they were tied together. By that
+time the procession had arrived at the ox-cart, and all was ready for
+the departure.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XLVII
+
+OF THE STRANGE MANNER IN WHICH DON QUIXOTE OF LA MANCHA WAS
+CARRIED AWAY ENCHANTED, TOGETHER WITH OTHER REMARKABLE
+INCIDENTS
+
+
+Don Quixote was greatly perplexed and, indeed, somewhat impatient with
+the slow speed of the cart carrying away this enchanted knight. The
+cart had rolled only a few paces and then stopped; there was nothing
+exciting or heroic in being carried off in such a way! Never had he
+read anywhere of so ridiculously slow and tame a proceeding. And on an
+ox-cart! However, times had changed, and he realized that until he had
+established the new era of knight-errantry, the most plebeian ways of
+being captured by enchantment would have to serve. Yet, he did not
+consider it beneath his dignity to ask Sancho what he thought on the
+subject.
+
+"I don't know what to think," answered Sancho, "not being as well read
+as your Worship in errant writings; but for all that, I venture to say
+and swear that these apparitions that are about us are not quite
+Catholic."
+
+Don Quixote could not refrain from laughing aloud at his squire's
+simplicity. How could they be Catholics when they were devils, made
+of no substance whatever, nothing but air?
+
+[Illustration: "HE PRAYED THAT HE SHOULD NOT BE LEFT TO PERISH IN THE
+CAGE."--_Page 131_]
+
+"By the Lord, Master," interrupted Sancho excitedly, "I have touched
+them already, and one of the devils, I swear, has firm flesh.
+Furthermore, I have always heard it said that all devils smelled of
+sulphur and brimstone, but this one smells of amber half a league
+off."
+
+Here Sancho was referring to Don Fernando, who, like most nobles, used
+a perfume; but Don Quixote explained to his squire that this
+particular devil was so besprinkled in order to give people the
+impression he was not a devil.
+
+While Don Quixote and his squire were thus exchanging thoughts on the
+subject of devils and their religion and what stuff they were made of,
+the curate and the barber were saying farewell to Don Fernando, his
+bride, Dorothea, Cardenio, Luscinda, the Judge and Do�a Clara, as well
+as to the Captain and the Captain's bride, Zoraida. All of them
+promised to write to the curate, so that he in return might let them
+know how his and Don Quixote's journey had ended.
+
+After many embraces, the curate and the barber were ready to make
+their departure when the landlord came running out with some papers
+which he handed to the curate as a gift. The landlord said it was the
+manuscript of the novel, "Rinconete and Cortadillo," a part of the
+contents of the valise in which he had found the story of "Ill-Advised
+Curiosity," which the curate had read aloud at the inn.
+
+The curate thanked the innkeeper, saying that he hoped it was as good
+as the other novel. Then he and the barber covered their faces that
+they might not be recognized by Don Quixote, and took their places
+behind the cart, mounted on their mules. The three officers of the
+Brotherhood had been brought by the curate to escort them to El
+Toboso, armed with muskets. And then Sancho Panza, mounted on his
+donkey, led Rocinante by the reins. As the procession started, the
+landlady came out to weep make-believe tears for Don Quixote, who
+begged her to shed none, for in the end, he said, virtue would
+triumph.
+
+At the head of the procession came the ox-cart, the officers of the
+Brotherhood marching beside it, then followed Sancho Panza on his ass,
+leading Rocinante by the bridle, and in the rear trailed the curate
+and the barber on their mules. The slow pace of the oxen had to be
+imitated by the rest, so the whole procession took on a solemn and
+mysterious aspect, which was enhanced by the encaged Don Quixote's
+stiff and stone-like form leaning against the wooden bars.
+
+They had traveled several leagues, when the curate heard the sound of
+riders approaching from behind. Turning in his saddle he perceived six
+or seven men, mounted on mules, and riding at a quick pace. They had
+soon overtaken the procession, and exchanged greetings with the curate
+and the barber. One of the travelers was a canon of Toledo, and on
+observing the fettered Don Quixote, with the armed officers of the
+Brotherhood as an escort, he took it for granted that the knight was
+some dangerous highwayman. Yet, scrutinizing the strange parade, he
+could not help asking questions. So when he inquired of one of the
+officers why Don Quixote was being transported in that way, the
+officer did not know what to say but referred him for an explanation
+to Don Quixote himself.
+
+The knight errant had heard the canon's question, and he offered to
+give him the information if he knew anything about errantry. As the
+canon said he had read a good deal about knights errant and their
+deeds, Don Quixote was quick to tell of his misfortune--how he had
+been encaged and made helpless by enchantment. At this moment the
+curate, seeing that the canon was talking to Don Quixote, and fearing
+a mishap in the carrying out of their plan, came up and joined in the
+conversation. He corroborated what the knight errant had just said,
+and added that it was not for his sins that he was enchanted, but
+because of his enemies' hatred of virtuous deeds, of which this famous
+Knight of the Rueful Countenance was the strongest champion in their
+age.
+
+When the good canon heard the two of them talk like that, he was at a
+loss for words and felt he had to cross himself, in which action his
+attendants joined him. But as luck would have it, Sancho Panza had
+been listening, and seeing the curate disguised by a mask, the
+suspicion crept into his head that he was trying to play a joke on his
+master. So he burst into the conversation with a grudge against them
+all.
+
+"Well, sirs, you may like it or not," he declared, "but my master is
+as much enchanted as my mother! He is in his full senses; he can eat,
+and sleep, and drink. Then why do they want me to believe that he is
+enchanted? I have heard it said that when you are enchanted you cannot
+do any of these things, nor talk. And my master will talk more than
+thirty lawyers would if you do not stop him." Then turning to the
+curate, he exclaimed: "And, se�or curate, se�or curate! Do you think I
+do not know you? Well, I can tell you I do, for all your face is
+covered; and I can tell you I am up to you, however you may hide your
+tricks. If it had not been for your Worship, my master would be
+married to the Princess Micomicona this minute, and I should be a
+Count at least--for no less was to be expected."
+
+And then the faithful Sancho went on to say that he had told all this
+that the curate might weigh in his conscience the pranks he had played
+on Don Quixote, and for which he would have to pay in heaven (if he
+ever should come there) unless he did penance now. Here the barber
+thought it best to put an end to Sancho's communications, and offered
+him a place in the cage beside his master, but Sancho was quick to
+retort: "Mind how you talk, master barber, for shaving is not
+everything; and as to the enchantment of my master, God knows the
+truth!"
+
+Soon after Sancho had commenced his tirade, the curate thought it
+best, having listened to his own denunciation, to explain everything
+concerning the knight errant and his squire to the canon. Therefore he
+asked him to ride on ahead with him. When the canon had heard the
+whole story, he remarked that he thought that books of chivalry were
+really harmful, for not one of them was truthful. He was amused when
+the curate related how he and the barber had burned nearly all of Don
+Quixote's treasures in literature of this sort.
+
+"But what mind," asked the canon, "that is not wholly barbarous and
+uncultured can find pleasure in reading of how a great tower full of
+knights sails away across the sea like a ship with a fair wind, and
+will be to-night in Lombardy and to-morrow morning in the land of
+Prester John of the Indies?"
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XLVIII
+
+IN WHICH THE CANON PURSUES THE SUBJECT OF THE BOOKS OF
+CHIVALRY, WITH OTHER MATTERS WORTHY OF HIS WIT
+
+
+The curate and the canon had become very much interested in their
+subject, and the canon after a while confided to the curate that he
+himself had once started to write a book on chivalry, with the
+intention of making each incident in it a plausible one. It was his
+view that fiction was all the better the more it resembled the truth.
+Furthermore, he believed in adhering to good taste and to the rules of
+art; these things, it seemed to him, had been ignored in the writing
+of these books. From fiction the conversation drifted to playwriting,
+and here again the curate and the canon were of the same mind. The
+actors of their age chose plays that appealed to people of nonsense
+and with bad taste. Instead of trying to improve the national taste,
+they produced tawdry plays. The canon cited three excellent plays,
+however, that he had seen at Madrid, which had earned great profits
+for their producers; this proved to the canon that the great mass of
+the public did appreciate a really good play if it was only produced.
+
+While the two clergymen were thus whiling away the time, the barber
+approached and told the curate they had reached a place which to him
+seemed a good pasture for the oxen. It was now noon, and the canon
+decided to join them in their rest. He offered them food out of the
+provisions that he had brought along on a pack-mule. The rest of the
+canon's mules were sent to an inn, which was seen nearby, to be fed
+there.
+
+Seeing his master unguarded, Sancho decided the time had come when he
+could speak undisturbedly to him, so he hastened to tell him of the
+plot that the curate and the barber had hit upon. He told his master
+he was certain it was out of envy and malice, for his having surpassed
+them in fame and brave deeds. Don Quixote, however, calmly told his
+squire that if he saw two shapes that resembled the barber and the
+curate there, they could be nothing but devils having taken on the
+appearance of his friends in order to be able to do their black deeds
+so much the more safely and cruelly.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XLIX
+
+WHICH TREATS OF HOW OUR KNIGHT IS PERMITTED TO DESCEND FROM
+HIS CAGE, AND OF THE CANON'S ATTEMPT TO CONVERT HIM FROM HIS
+ILLUSIONS
+
+
+During his conversation with Sancho, Don Quixote suddenly felt it an
+absolute necessity to leave the cage, and to stretch himself in the
+open. So Sancho went to the curate to ask his permission, which he
+received upon promising to answer for his master's not disappearing.
+The curate and the canon went to the cage, and Don Quixote swore as a
+knight that he would not run away, whereupon they untied his hands and
+feet.
+
+The first thing Don Quixote did was to go to his Rocinante; and then
+the canon thought he would try to talk sense into him, to see whether
+he could not persuade him to give up his crazy notions and ideas. Don
+Quixote listened courteously and attentively, but when the canon had
+finished, he turned to him and said he rather thought it was the canon
+and not he who was afflicted and out of his wits, since he had the
+audacity to blaspheme the order of knighthood. And then he went on,
+describing the deeds of all the famous knights he had read of; and the
+canon was really amazed at the great ease and clearness of mind with
+which he related these tales of adventure. He thought it a pity that
+so much knowledge of a wrong kind should be heaped into one brain.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTERS L-LI
+
+OF THE SHREWD CONTROVERSY WHICH DON QUIXOTE AND THE CANON
+HELD, TOGETHER WITH OTHER INCIDENTS
+
+
+What the canon had tried on the knight, Don Quixote now decided to try
+on him. Was that not the great mission he had undertaken in the
+world--to revive the spirit of chivalry? So he told the canon of the
+many fine qualities he had developed since he was dubbed a knight,
+such as courtesy, generosity, valor, good breeding, patience, and many
+others that he mentioned; how he had learned to bear hardships of all
+kinds, and now, of late, enchantment. He ended his long discourse by
+expressing a desire that he might soon be an emperor, for, he said, he
+wished to do good to some of his faithful friends, especially his
+squire Sancho Panza.
+
+Sancho heard his master's last words, and reminded him again of the
+island that he was to govern. On hearing this, the canon broke in with
+a few remarks about administration and government, and their
+difficulties, and Sancho interrupted the canon to say it would be very
+easy to find some one to do all that for him. In reply to this the
+canon came forward with a good many arguments phrased in philosophical
+language which the squire could make neither head nor tail of. So he
+took up the thread of his own mind, and replied: "I have as much soul
+as another, and as much body as any one, and I shall be as much king
+of my realm as any other of his; so let the country come, and God be
+with you, and let us see one another, as one blind man said to the
+other."
+
+All the canon could do when he realized how badly both master and
+servant were in the clutch of their beliefs and superstitions, was to
+wonder at it. But by the time Sancho had finished his words, the
+repast was being served on the grass.
+
+As they were about to seat themselves, a goat came running from
+between the trees, pursued by a man whose clear voice could be heard
+distinctly from the distance. Soon he came up, and he caught the goat
+by the horns and began to talk to her, calling her daughter, as if she
+had been a child. The goat seemed to understand everything, and the
+canon was so impressed with the scene that he asked the goatherd not
+to be in a hurry, but to sit down and eat with them.
+
+The goatherd accepted the invitation; and when they had finished the
+repast, they had found that he was by no means a fool. When he asked
+them if they would like to hear a true story, they were all anxious to
+have him tell it to them. Only Sancho Panza withdrew, that he might
+get a chance to load himself brimful of food; for he had heard his
+master once say that a knight errant's squire should eat until he
+could hold no more. The goatherd began his story, after having told
+the goat to lie down beside him. She did so, and while the goatherd
+was telling the story of his unfortunate love for Leandra, a rich
+farmer's daughter, who had jilted both him and his rival Anselmo for
+the good looks of a braggard by the name of Vicente de la Roca, the
+goat was looking up into his face with an expression as it seemed of
+understanding and sympathy.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER LII
+
+OF THE QUARREL THAT DON QUIXOTE HAD WITH THE GOATHERD,
+TOGETHER WITH THE RARE ADVENTURE OF THE PENITENTS, WHICH
+WITH AN EXPENDITURE OF SWEAT HE BROUGHT TO A HAPPY CONCLUSION
+
+
+All had enjoyed the goatherd's story, and they thanked him for it. Don
+Quixote offered him the aid of his sword for the future, and said that if
+he had not been enchanted at this moment he would at once set out to free
+his Leandra. When the goatherd perceived Don Quixote's strange behavior
+and appearance and heard his remarkable language, he was struck with
+amazement, and asked the barber what madness was his, who talked like the
+knights he had read about in the books of knight-errantry. Scarcely had
+Don Quixote heard that he was being taken for a madman by the goatherd
+than he flew at him in a raging fit. The most fierce battle ensued,
+during which the faces of both men were scratched until they could hardly
+be recognized. They fought in the midst of the setting for the meal, and
+plates and glasses were smashed and upset. Both were urged on like dogs
+by the rest of the company, and soon blood began to flow. Finally Don
+Quixote stumbled, and the goatherd managed to get him on his back, while
+Sancho was held off by one of the canon's servants, moaning all the while
+because he could not go to his master's rescue.
+
+Just then a trumpet blew a solemn note, and all listened in surprise.
+Don Quixote was all eagerness: there was no doubt in his mind but that
+he was being summoned by one in distress, so he asked for and received
+an hour's truce from the goatherd. As soon as he was on his feet, he
+ran to Rocinante, whom he bridled in great haste, and set off, armed
+with lance, buckler, sword and helmet, in the direction of the sound.
+
+What Don Quixote saw when he had ridden a short distance at his
+charger's usual comfortable canter was a procession of penitents, clad
+in white, some of whom were carrying an image, draped in black. The
+procession had been called for by the priests who desired to bring
+relief to the country, which had been suffering that year from a
+terrific heat and a lack of rain. They were now marching to a nearby
+hermitage, where they wanted to do penance, praying in silence to God
+that he might have pity on them.
+
+But what could such a procession have suggested to an imaginative mind
+like Don Quixote's but one of the many incidents that he had read of
+in his books of chivalry, where some great and worthy lady was being
+carried away by evil forces? To the knight the covered image easily
+became the worthy lady. Violently kicking Rocinante in the sides, for
+he had not had time to put on his spurs, he tried to increase his
+steed's canter to a gallop that he might attack in real knight errant
+fashion.
+
+The faithful squire, the curate, the canon and the barber all did
+their best to stop the knight by their yells. Sancho was frantic, and
+cried after him: "Where are you going, Se�or Don Quixote? What devils
+have possessed you to set you against our Catholic faith? Plague take
+me! It is a procession of penitents!" And then he asked him, filled
+with horror and almost choking with tears, whether he knew what he was
+doing. Why, he was charging the blessed image of the immaculate and
+holy Virgin Mary! Sancho, seeing his master's lifted lance, could not
+know that his master wanted to release her.
+
+When Don Quixote had reached the penitents, he abruptly halted his
+horse and demanded in no uncertain, though flowery, language that the
+fair lady--whom, he said, he could plainly see they were carrying away
+against her will--be released at once.
+
+One of four priests, who had just begun to chant the Litany, stopped
+on a high note and answered the knight that he must not hold up the
+singing or the procession, for the marchers were doing penitence by
+whipping themselves and could not stop once they had commenced the
+ceremony. Again Don Quixote put forth his demand, this time in
+language that seemed much more ludicrous to the penitents so that some
+of them could not resist bursting into laughter. This sign of
+disrespect was too much for our errant, who started his attack but was
+prevented from finishing it by the blow of a stick carried by one of
+the penitents. With one thwack of it he was felled to the ground.
+
+Sancho had now come up, and when he saw his master stretched out, with
+no sign of life, his eyes filled with tears, and he thrust himself
+over his master's body, crying and wailing like a little child. It was
+pitiful to see the sorrow and the devotion of the poor, simple-minded
+fellow, bewailing his master's fall from the blow of a mere stick.
+And he ended his tribute by thanking him for the great generosity he
+had always shown; for Don Quixote, for but eight months of service,
+had given him the best island that was afloat in the sea.
+
+Sancho was suddenly called from his grief by the weak voice of the
+knight, who implored his squire to mount him on the ox-cart, as his
+shoulder was in a dilapidated condition. Then he commended himself to
+his Lady Dulcinea, while Sancho recommended that they return with
+their friends to their village, where they could prepare for another
+sally at a more favorable time. The knight seemed inclined to take his
+squire's advice, for he remarked that it was not a bad idea: that in
+the meantime the prevailing evil influence of the stars might
+disappear.
+
+By this time the curate, the canon and the officers of the Brotherhood
+had arrived at the spot, and the curate found that he knew one of the
+priests in the procession. This simplified matters considerably, for
+he found it easy to explain to his friend the malady and peculiarities
+of Don Quixote, which had been the cause of so much disturbance in so
+short a time. After the curate had taken leave of the canon, the
+goatherd and those in the procession, he paid off the officers, who
+considered it unwise to accompany the party any further. The canon
+begged the curate to keep him informed of any change in Don Quixote's
+behavior, as he was most interested in his case. Then Don Quixote was
+heaved into the cart where a stack of hay served as a softer
+resting-place this time; and after six days of travel, the oxen and
+the cart and the whole procession entered the La Mancha village. When
+they passed the square, it being Sunday, the people crowded around
+them, and all were amazed at what they saw.
+
+Soon Don Quixote's niece and his housekeeper got word of his
+homecoming. When they saw him, and observed his pallor and leanness,
+they began to weep and beat their breasts, and curse all books of
+chivalry.
+
+Then Sancho Panza's wife learned the news, and as soon as she saw her
+husband the first thing she asked him was whether the donkey was well. To
+this greeting he replied that the donkey was better than he himself. And
+then she pestered him with questions as to what he had brought back with
+him for her and the children; to which he impatiently remarked that she
+would have to wait until he got his island or empire, when she would be
+called Her Ladyship. Of course, it was not to be expected that Teresa
+Panza should understand this; and she did not. Sancho attempted to give
+her an insight into the intricacies of knight-errantry by telling her of
+some of his remarkable experiences, such as the blanketing, which stood
+out in his mind's eye as the culmination of suffering in his career as a
+squire.
+
+While this was going on in the Panza household, Don Quixote had been
+undressed and put to bed by his niece and the housekeeper. The curate
+had told them what troubles and tribulations he had been forced to
+undergo in order to restore him to his community and his loved ones.
+So they decided, with fear in their hearts, to be ever watchful, lest
+he escape and depart on another rampage. And again and again they
+would curse the books that they had burned too late.
+
+
+
+
+VOLUME II
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER I
+
+OF THE INTERVIEW THE CURATE AND THE BARBER HAD WITH
+DON QUIXOTE ABOUT HIS MALADY
+
+
+Don Quixote had been at home almost a month. During that time neither
+the curate nor the barber had been to see him for fear that the sight
+of them would remind him of his days of knight-errantry and make him
+long for another campaign. They did visit the niece and housekeeper,
+however, and advised them from time to time what to do; and at last
+the women began to think that there was hope for our knight's being
+restored to his right mind, for his conversation never touched upon
+deeds of chivalry, and when he spoke on other subjects he always
+talked most sanely.
+
+Finally the curate and the barber decided to pay their friend a visit,
+firmly resolved not to let the subject of conversation turn to
+knight-errantry. They found him in bed, with a red Toledo cap on his
+head. His face had changed greatly; it was so withered and yellow that
+it resembled parchment rather than human flesh. He greeted them
+cordially, however, and soon they engaged in an animated conversation,
+which finally turned to such an intricate subject as government. So
+unusually sane and clear was Don Quixote's reasoning that his friends
+were amazed at the change that had taken place, and they felt quite
+certain that he was cured. Then they began to discuss the news from
+the capital, and the curate mentioned that the Turk was expected to
+attack. Nobody knew when, he said, but in order to safeguard the
+island of Malta and the coasts of Naples and Sicily, His Majesty had
+already made provisions for the defense of these provinces.
+
+Here Don Quixote interrupted and said that His Majesty could easily
+settle the whole thing if he would only follow his advice. Both the
+curate and the barber began to wonder and worry about what his plan
+might be, but before divulging it Don Quixote insisted upon absolute
+secrecy, which of course they promised. And then he began in the old,
+familiar strain, citing the examples of the innumerable heroes of his
+condemned books of chivalry, heroes who, single-handed, had conquered
+armies of millions. He finished with a tirade about God's providing
+such a knight errant to-day to save the nation and Christianity
+against the onslaught of the heathen Turk, with an inference in his
+last words that he was to be the chosen savior.
+
+When the two women heard Don Quixote again rave in this manner, they
+burst into tears, and the curate and the barber were as sorry and
+concerned as the women. The curate turned in bewilderment to his poor
+friend and asked him whether he truly believed that the heroes of these
+tales of chivalry were men of flesh and blood. He himself, he said, was
+convinced that these stories were nothing but fables and falsehoods, and
+that none of the personages in them ever lived. Whereupon Don Quixote
+began to ridicule the curate, and went on to describe his heroes,
+saying that his faith was so strong that he could almost swear he had
+seen Amadis of Gaul and some of the others he worshiped. Then he embarked
+on a description of these knights, giving the color of their eyes, of
+their beards and hair, their height, complexion, all according to his own
+crazy imagination. Much of what he said seemed so amusing to his two
+friends that they nearly went into hysterics from laughter. His mind's
+image of Roland was particularly laughable, for he saw him as a
+bow-legged, swarthy-complexioned gentleman with a hairy body, courteous
+and well-bred.
+
+On hearing Roland so pictured, the curate remarked it was no wonder
+that he was jilted by the fair lady Angelica. To this Don Quixote
+retorted that lady Angelica was a giddy and frivolous damsel with
+desires that smacked of wantonness. He only regretted that Roland had
+not been a poet that he might have libeled her in poetry for all
+eternity.
+
+Here the knight was interrupted by the sound of loud talking in the
+courtyard, intermingled with screams, and when he and the curate came
+running they saw the two women struggling to keep a man from entering
+the house.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER II
+
+WHICH TREATS OF THE NOTABLE ALTERCATION WHICH SANCHO PANZA
+HAD WITH DON QUIXOTE'S NIECE AND HIS HOUSEKEEPER, TOGETHER
+WITH OTHER DROLL MATTERS
+
+
+The man turned out to be no other than Sancho, who wanted to see his
+master. But the housekeeper and the niece were bent on not admitting
+him, for they considered Sancho the arch enticer and felt that he was
+to blame for Don Quixote's expeditions into the country. When Sancho
+heard himself thus accused, he defended himself with accusations
+against Don Quixote, who, he said, had been the one to hypnotize him;
+and then he added that he had come to find out about his island.
+
+As soon as Don Quixote recognized his squire, he quickly took him
+inside, being afraid that he would tell the women all the little
+details of the knight's adventures, such as the galley-slave episode
+and others not tending to reflect honor on his shield. Whereupon the
+barber and the curate left, both of them in despair of their friend's
+ever being cured. The curate remarked that it would not surprise him
+to learn before many moons that Don Quixote and Sancho had set off
+again on another sally. They were curious to know what the master and
+the servant might be discussing at that very moment. However, the
+curate was of the firm belief that they could rely upon the two women
+to keep their ears to the door. They would learn from them what had
+been the topic, and what had been said.
+
+When Don Quixote was alone with his squire, he expressed dismay over
+his having told the housekeeper the knight had taken him from house
+and home, when he knew perfectly well that he had gone of his own free
+will. They had shared everything, he said; everything except blows,
+where he had had a distinct advantage over his squire, having taken
+ninety-nine out of a hundred beatings. This dividing of fortune,
+Sancho thought, was quite as it should be, for of course knights
+errant ought to share the greater benefits of the battle. Here Don
+Quixote interrupted with a Latin quotation, which had an evil effect
+on Sancho, for it made him retaliate with the blanket episode which to
+him still seemed the height of all his suffering in the world. But
+this attempt to belittle the fairness of his master's division of
+honors in battle was speedily parried by Don Quixote, who maintained
+that his squire's bodily suffering in the blanket was as nothing
+compared with the painful agony of his own heart and soul when he had
+seen his squire in such a predicament. And then he proceeded to
+question Sancho as to public opinion of his deeds and valor.
+
+Sancho was inclined to be reticent; but urged by Don Quixote--and
+having been forgiven in advance for any vexation he might cause him by
+telling the truth--he told of the variety of opinions that existed in
+the village. This his master thought only natural; for when had the
+world ever given full recognition to a genius or a great hero until
+after he was dead? He pointed to all the great names he could
+recollect in history that had been persecuted.
+
+But Sancho had not come to the worst; and at last he found sufficient
+courage to tell his master of a book entitled "The Ingenious Gentleman,
+Don Quixote of La Mancha," which had already, he said, been spread
+abroad. In this book not only Don Quixote, but he himself--under his own
+name!--and the Lady Dulcinea del Toboso figured; and he was so stupefied
+that he had to cross himself, for he could not imagine how everything
+that had been told in the book--the most intimate happenings between Don
+Quixote and himself--had come to be known to the author. Don Quixote
+thought it was very plain that the adventures must have been reported by
+some sage and enchanter; but Sancho told him that the author was one Cid
+Hamet Berengena (meaning eggplant). It was no other than the son of
+Bartholomew Carrasco, who had been a student at Salamanca, who had told
+him all this, he said. He asked his master whether he should like to see
+the young bachelor, and Don Quixote begged him to run and fetch him at
+once, for, he said, he would be unable to digest a thing until he had had
+a talk with him.
+
+"Cid Hamet Berengena," repeated Don Quixote to himself. "That is a
+Moorish name."
+
+"Yes, I have heard the Moors like eggplant," added Sancho.
+
+And then his lord and master asked: "Didst thou not mistake the
+surname of this 'Cid,' which means in Arabic 'lord,' Sancho?"
+
+"Perhaps," said Sancho; "but the bachelor can tell you that."
+
+And he ran to fetch him.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER III
+
+OF THE LAUGHABLE CONVERSATION THAT PASSED BETWEEN DON
+QUIXOTE, SANCHO PANZA, AND THE BACHELOR SAMSON CARRASCO
+
+
+While Sancho was gone, Don Quixote sat and worried about what the book
+might be like; for what justice could be expected from the pen of a
+Moor writing history? But perhaps it was not true that such a
+chronicle had been written. It seemed almost an impossibility, for it
+was only a short time since he returned from his achievements. What
+worried him most was the thought that this Cid Hamet Berengena might
+have made public in some odious way that great love and sacred passion
+of his for the beautiful and virtuous Lady Dulcinea del Toboso.
+
+As he was thus meditating Sancho returned, bringing with him the
+younger Carrasco, who went by the strong name of Samson, in defiance
+of his unpretentious size. But what he lacked in this respect, he made
+up for in wit and humor. He was about twenty-four years of age, had a
+round jovial face, a large mouth and a flat nose. What more need one
+know to be inclined to think he might be mischievous? He gave proof of
+it as soon as he entered, for he fell on his knees and kissed the
+hero's hand respectfully, pronouncing him the first and foremost
+warrior and knight of the age. Then he called down a blessing on the
+name of Cid Hamet Benengeli, his noble biographer, and on the worthy,
+learned man who had translated the work from the difficult Arabic into
+their pure Castilian for the edification of all the Spanish people who
+knew how to read their own language.
+
+"So then there _is_ a history of me--and written by a Moor and a
+sage?" asked Don Quixote, as he bade Samson rise.
+
+The bachelor assented and went on to tell how the world was clamoring
+for this remarkable chronicle of heroism and sacrifices. Don Quixote
+remarked here what a great source of joy and inspiration it should
+prove to a man with achievements to his credit to see himself in print
+before being dead. The bachelor's opinion on the subject coincided
+with his own; and Samson took the opportunity to pay homage to the
+marvelous courage, intrepidity, gallantry, gentleness and patience of
+Don Quixote, as the author had described it in the book. He also spoke
+feelingly of the beautiful, platonic courtship of our knight errant;
+and the mention of this caused Don Quixote to ask which of his many
+acts of chivalry were most appealing to the reader. The bachelor
+replied that that depended greatly upon the reader's taste: some liked
+the adventure of the windmills that were enchanted giants; others
+preferred reading about the two armies that suddenly turned into
+droves of sheep; then again there were those who seemed to think the
+victorious assault on the Biscayan made a thrilling chapter; while
+many would swear they had never read anything that excited them
+quite as much as the account of the liberation of the galley slaves.
+
+Sancho interrupted him here, asking what was said of their experience
+with the Yanguesans, when the good Rocinante went looking for
+adventure and was bitten by the ponies. Samson replied that the sage
+had forgotten nothing; not even the capers that Sancho himself had cut
+in the blanket. Whereupon Sancho said: "I cut no capers in the
+blanket. In the air I did, and more of them than I liked!" But Don
+Quixote interposed here, saying that history must of necessity be more
+than one-sided. It must take into its pages adversities as well as
+good fortune.
+
+Some people, the bachelor held forth, had expressed a desire that the
+author might have eliminated some of the cruel thrashings he had given
+the hero; but Sancho differed with these people and supported the
+author unqualifiedly, saying, with a glance at Don Quixote, "That is
+where the truth of the history comes in!"
+
+Of course Don Quixote saw it in a different light, for he thought that
+the thrashings tended to bring the hero of the book into contempt. The
+author should have passed them over in silence, he said. Sancho
+muttered something to himself, and Don Quixote admonished him to be
+quiet so that the bachelor might tell him more of what was said of him
+in the book.
+
+"And about me!" broke in Sancho, "for they say that I am one of the
+principal presonages in it."
+
+"Personages," corrected Samson, adding that Sancho was the second
+person in the chronicle, although many thought he was even first. He
+also remarked that the author had been criticized for having inserted
+a story called "Ill-Advised Curiosity," which had nothing to do with
+Don Quixote whatever. This Don Quixote thought was an infringement on
+the hero's rights, and corroborated the justification of the
+criticism.
+
+Thus Don Quixote learned from the bachelor all about his own deeds and
+exploits, as they had been given to the world by the great Moorish
+sage Cid Hamet Benengeli. And when he had asked about himself again
+and again, and had been satisfied by the replies of Samson, he found
+it was nearly dinner time. Sancho took a hurried leave, fearing the
+wrath of his wife if he were late for his meal, and Don Quixote asked
+the bachelor to stay and keep him company.
+
+All the while they were eating, Don Quixote entertained his guest with
+tales of chivalry. When they finished their repast, they took a nap,
+and when they awoke, Sancho was there waiting for them to return to
+their conversation concerning the famous chronicle.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER IV
+
+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 MENTIONING
+
+
+Samson was anxious to learn what Sancho had done with the hundred
+crowns he had found in the knapsack. Sancho replied that he had spent
+them for the benefit of himself, his wife and children; adding that,
+had he come back to his wife without riches of any sort, he would have
+had a doubtful reward waiting for him. Now, he said, if anybody wanted
+to know anything about him, he was ready to answer the King himself.
+
+"It is no one's business," said he, "whether I took the money, or did
+not; whether I spent it or did not spend it, for if every beating I
+have received in my master's service were to be valued at no more than
+four maravedis, 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 us--aye, and often
+worse."
+
+Don Quixote was curious to know whether there was to be a second part
+to the book; and Samson replied that the author was diligently looking
+for one, but had as yet found none; so it remained only a possibility.
+Yet, inspired by the profits he had made out of the first book, he was
+anxious to find a second part, he said.
+
+"The author looks for money and profit, does he?" asked Sancho. "Well,
+let Master Moor, or whoever he is, pay attention to what he is doing,
+and I and my master will give him adventures and accidents of all
+sorts, enough to make up not only a second part but a hundred. The
+good man fancies, no doubt, we are 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 now be afield, redressing outrages and righting wrongs, as is
+the use and custom of good knights errant."
+
+Scarcely had Sancho spoken these words, when Rocinante commenced to
+neigh; and how could this be interpreted to be anything else than a
+good omen? In an instant Don Quixote had resolved to sally forth again
+in a few days. The bachelor warned him this time to expose himself to
+no such tremendous risks as on his previous sallies, and begged him to
+remember always, his life was no longer his own, but was dedicated to
+those in need and in despair.
+
+"There is what I abominate, Se�or Samson," Sancho sustained him. "My
+master will attack a hundred men as a greedy boy would half a dozen
+melons. Body of the world, Se�or bachelor, there is a time to attack
+and a time to retreat!"
+
+And here it was that Sancho felt it a solemn duty to himself and his
+wife and offspring to come to a definite understanding with his master
+regarding his position in battle. He wanted it stipulated that his
+master was to do all the fighting. He would willingly look after his
+master's and Rocinante's comfort, and keep them clean, but when it
+came to drawing sword, he would leave that honor to Don Quixote, he
+declared. He would do his duty so well that it would be worth a
+kingdom as well as an island, both of which he would gladly accept.
+
+The bachelor, having recommended Saragossa and the kingdom of Aragon
+as hotbeds of adventure, Don Quixote thanked him and asked him whether
+he was a poet; to which the bachelor replied that he was not one of
+the famous ones. Don Quixote explained that he wanted a most original
+idea of his carried out in poetry. Could Samson write a poem of love
+in such a manner as to have the first letters of each line, reading
+downward, form the name of his beloved one, the peerless Dulcinea del
+Toboso? Samson promised he would try, but Don Quixote replied: "It
+must be done by some means or other, for unless the name stands there
+plain and manifest, no woman would believe the verses were made for
+her." And so the bachelor promised to do it, and to have them ready
+before the day of the departure, which would be on the third day.
+
+Don Quixote extracted a promise from Samson to keep his intentions a
+secret; and he and Sancho took leave of him, Don Quixote promising he
+would not fail to send him word of his conquests. Sancho in the
+meantime went home and began preparations for their second quest of
+adventure.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER V
+
+OF THE SHREWD AND DROLL CONVERSATION THAT PASSED BETWEEN
+SANCHO PANZA AND HIS WIFE, TERESA PANZA, AND OTHER MATTERS
+WORTHY OF BEING DULY RECORDED
+
+
+When Sancho came home that evening, his wife noticed at once by his
+mood that something out of the ordinary had happened to him. After
+much persuasion, he finally told her that he had made up his mind to
+go out in the world again with his master, looking for strange
+adventures, during which, he said, he hoped to come across another
+hundred crowns that he would bring home to her. Then Sancho proceeded
+to tell his wife of his great plans for the future, when he became
+ruler of his island. Their daughter, Maria, he was going to marry
+off to some great count; his wife would be Do�a Teresa Panza, and he
+pictured her already, dressed according to richest fashion, sitting in
+her pew in church, surrounded by cushions and pillows, and walking on
+a red plush carpet. And as to his son, he should, of course, as was
+the custom, follow his father's trade; so what was he to do but be a
+ruler?
+
+But everything that her illustrious husband proposed, Teresa Panza
+only sneered at; and this angered Sancho, who thought she might be
+more appreciative. Certainly not every husband in their village
+offered to do as much for his wife and family. And so they began to
+quarrel with each other, Sancho using--as he invariably did with his
+master--all the proverbs he had ever heard, to defeat the arguments
+his wife put forward, enforced in the same manner. But when her good
+Sancho finally lost his patience with her entirely, she gave in and
+promised to go so far as to send their young son to him--that his
+father might train him in the business of government--as soon as
+Sancho, as the governor of the island, should send his wife the
+necessary money. Sancho charged her particularly with the task of
+seeing that the son on his departure should be dressed as a prince of
+the blood.
+
+And all the while poor Teresa Panza was receiving her husband's
+instructions as to herself and her two children, she was bemoaning and
+struggling against their fate in her heart; and at last she burst
+into bitter tears. Seeing her in such agony because he had predestined
+that their daughter Maria was to marry a mighty count instead of a
+poor peasant boy, Sancho tried to soothe her feelings by telling her
+that he would try to put off the day of the wedding as long as
+possible; and this promise seemed to cheer Teresa Panza to some
+extent, for she dried her tears.
+
+Having accomplished so much, Sancho then went back to his master's
+house to talk over some things of importance with him.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER VI
+
+OF WHAT TOOK PLACE BETWEEN DON QUIXOTE AND HIS NIECE AND HIS
+HOUSEKEEPER; ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT CHAPTERS IN THE WHOLE
+HISTORY
+
+
+While Sancho and his wife were flinging proverbs at each other at home,
+there was another scene of unrest at Don Quixote's house. The housekeeper
+had had a premonition of her master's impending expedition, and soon
+perceived by his actions that she had not been alarmed in vain. She and
+the niece employed all possible means to restrain him from faring forth;
+but to all their admonitions and advice and prayers he made the same
+reply: that there must be knights errant in the world to defend the weak
+and virtuous and to punish arrogance and sin, and that he was the one to
+set the world aright on that score. And when his niece began to bewail
+his stubbornness and called down the wrath of heaven upon all tales of
+chivalry, he threatened to chastise her for uttering such blasphemies.
+Then he burst into a tirade on things and usages pertaining to chivalry,
+a discourse so saturated with knowledge that it called forth a cry of
+astonishment, a wail of disappointment, and a sigh of pity from the
+niece, to whom it suddenly seemed that her uncle had missed his vocation
+in life when he did not become a preacher.
+
+This drove Don Quixote to discourse on almost everything under the
+sun, and he finished up by reciting poetry, at which the niece became
+terror-stricken from superstition, and exclaimed that her uncle knew
+everything in the world. She even dared to suppose he knew something
+about masonry and could build a house. This daring thought of hers he
+immediately corroborated by saying that if he were not so occupied
+with dealing out justice to the world, there would be nothing he could
+not do, from building cages to making toothpicks.
+
+Just then there was a knock at the door. It was Sancho Panza. As soon
+as the housekeeper learned it was he, she fled from the room, for she
+had grown to detest him like sin itself. The niece opened the door for
+him, and he hastened to his master's room, where he was welcomed by
+Don Quixote. And soon they were in the midst of a conversation, which
+took place behind locked doors.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER VII
+
+OF WHAT PASSED BETWEEN DON QUIXOTE AND HIS SQUIRE, TOGETHER
+WITH OTHER VERY NOTABLE INCIDENTS
+
+
+As soon as the housekeeper heard Don Quixote turn the key in the door,
+she realized the urgency of the situation, put on her shawl, and ran
+to the house of the bachelor Samson Carrasco. She knew that her master
+had taken a fancy to this learned young man and thought he might be
+able to persuade him to give up the crazy idea. She fell on her knees
+before Samson and told him in excited language that her master had
+broken out again.
+
+"Where is he breaking out?" asked the roguish bachelor.
+
+"He is breaking out at the door of his madness," replied the
+bewildered housekeeper. "I mean he is going to break out again, for
+the third time, to hunt all over the world for what he calls
+adventures."
+
+And then she went on to say that his first sally ended in his being
+brought back home, slung across the back of a donkey. The second time
+he made his entry into the village in an ox-cart, shut up in a cage,
+and looking so worn and emaciated that his own mother would not have
+known him. The last escapade had been an extremely expensive one, for
+it had taken no less than six hundred eggs to cover up his bones
+again.
+
+The bachelor quieted the housekeeper, and promised her to do all he
+could for her master. Then he advised her to return home and prepare
+something hot for breakfast, and on her way home to repeat the prayer of
+Santa Appolonia. He himself would be there in time for breakfast, he
+said. The housekeeper remonstrated with the bachelor for prescribing the
+prayer of Santa Appolonia, which, she declared, was for toothache and not
+for brains; but Samson told her to do as he bade her, reminding her that
+he was a learned bachelor of Salamanca and knew what he was talking
+about. The housekeeper then left, saying her prayer, and the bachelor
+went to look for the curate that they might decide what to do.
+
+In the meantime Don Quixote and Sancho were discussing what the future
+was holding for them, and Sancho gave the glad news to his master that
+he had induced his wife to sanction his departure and his becoming
+governor. Sancho was very much annoyed by his master's continual
+interruptions and corrections. Whenever Sancho would misuse or abuse a
+word, as he did in almost every sentence, Don Quixote would stop and
+ask him what he meant, until poor Sancho was so confused that he did
+not know what he had meant. Finally Don Quixote asked him to tell him
+all that his wife had said, and as soon as Sancho had a chance to use
+proverbs again, he felt more at home. "Teresa says," he repeated,
+"that I should make sure with your Worship, and let papers speak and
+beards be still. One _take_ is better than two _I'll give thee's_."
+
+"And so say I," said Don Quixote. "Continue, Sancho my friend. Go on;
+thou talkest pearls to-day."
+
+"The fact is," continued Sancho, "that, as your Worship knows better
+than I do, we are all of us liable to death, and to-day we are, and
+to-morrow we are not. The lamb goes as soon as the sheep, and nobody
+can promise himself more hours of life in this world than God may be
+pleased to give him; for death is deaf, and when it comes to knock at
+our life's door, it is always insistent, and neither prayers, nor
+struggles, nor scepters, nor miters, can keep it back, as they tell us
+from the pulpits every day."
+
+Here Don Quixote felt he ought to ask a question. "Sancho," said he,
+"all that is true; but what art thou driving at?"
+
+And then came the reason for all these long-winded preliminaries.
+Sancho wanted his master to make definite arrangements with him for
+compensation. But here was the drawback. Don Quixote could recall no
+incident in any of the many books he had read, when a knight errant
+had given his squire fixed wages. How could he possibly establish a
+precedent now? And so it became his sad and solemn duty to refuse his
+squire's miserly request, and inform him that his services were no
+longer wanted. Not only that, but our valiant hero was cruel enough to
+remark that there would be any number of people who would be only too
+eager to serve him; and, what was more, he was convinced that no one
+could be less careful and diligent, or more thick-headed and talkative
+than Sancho.
+
+Poor Sancho stood thunderstruck. He had expected his master would
+address him in a much more gracious manner; and had taken for granted
+that his own person was indispensable to his master. As he stood there
+gaping in amazement, the bachelor, Samson, suddenly entered, followed
+by the niece and the housekeeper. Samson threw himself on his knees
+before the knight, passionately declaiming:
+
+"O flower of knight-errantry! O shining light of arms! O honor and
+mirror of the Spanish nation! May God Almighty 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!"
+
+Then he rose and turned to the housekeeper, who was distressed and
+astonished beyond words, telling her it was no use gainsaying her
+master; that he had made up his mind, and no Santa Appolonia or any
+other prayer would cause him to change it. Whereupon he addressed Don
+Quixote again in the same lofty way, and slyly asked him whether he
+would deign to accept him as his squire or as his meanest servant.
+
+Sancho's eyes nearly bulged out of his head at this, and filled with
+tears. Fearing that he might lose both his master and his island, he
+embraced Don Quixote's knees and kissed his hand, begging Don Quixote
+not to give him up. Then he began to plead with him to leave the
+village at once. Don Quixote, having taken the squire into his fold
+again, embraced him, and then conferred with the bachelor and decided
+that they would set out three days hence. Samson promised to obtain a
+helmet for Don Quixote before the departure.
+
+In the meantime the bachelor had daily conferences with the curate and
+the barber. The niece and the housekeeper were cursing the evil and
+learned bachelor of Salamanca, and hardly slept at night for fear
+that Don Quixote would steal away in the darkness.
+
+Finally the night of the third day arrived, and Don Quixote and
+Sancho, accompanied by Samson, quietly and secretly stole out of the
+village, in the direction of El Toboso. When they had ridden half a
+league, Samson wished the knight errant godspeed, embraced him
+tenderly, begged him to let him hear of his good fortune, and then he
+returned to the village.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER VIII
+
+WHEREIN IS RELATED WHAT BEFELL DON QUIXOTE ON HIS WAY TO SEE
+HIS LADY DULCINEA DEL TOBOSO
+
+
+Scarcely had Samson departed before Rocinante began to neigh, and
+Dapple, Sancho's donkey, to bray; and these animal expressions,
+considering the time, and the road they were taking, were interpreted
+by their respective masters to be omens of good luck. But it so
+happened that Dapple kept up his braying. As a matter of fact he
+brayed so much louder than the emaciated Rocinante could neigh that
+the superstitious Sancho took it for a sign that his own good fortune
+would be ever so much greater than that of his master, though he was
+considerate enough to say nothing about it to him.
+
+Night soon began to fall, and the conversation between master and
+squire turned to Don Quixote's incomparable love, whom he had never
+seen in the flesh, and to whose abode he was now making this
+pilgrimage in the dark, that he might be blessed by her before going
+into new battles.
+
+Sancho was beginning to worry that his imagination, with which he was
+not overburdened, would give out; for with every new question of his
+master's he had to give a fresh answer, and he was in a deadly fear
+that Don Quixote might discover that he had never been at El Toboso
+with the letter to his Lady Dulcinea. Again Don Quixote asked his
+squire to repeat how he had been received when he had brought her the
+message of his master's penance in the wilderness, but it infuriated
+him that Sancho should insist on her having been sifting wheat instead
+of pearls on that occasion. The courtyard wall mentioned by his squire
+must, of course, have been a portico, or corridor, or gallery of some
+rich and royal palace, only Sancho's language was so limited he could
+not express himself or describe things properly. Or perhaps that
+infernal enchanter had been busy again, and made things appear in
+different shapes before his squire's eyes.
+
+What his master said made Sancho's thought suddenly turn to the book
+which the bachelor Samson had spoken of, and he began to worry that
+some enchanter might have misrepresented his true character in its
+pages. He felt it his place and duty to defend himself aloud against
+any such evil; and having his master as audience, he proceeded to
+carry out this thought, which, however, he abandoned towards the end
+in favor of a careless independence: "But let them say what they like;
+naked was I born, naked I find myself. I neither lose nor gain. When I
+see myself put into a book and passed on from hand to hand all over
+the world, I don't care a fig. Let them say what they like of me!"
+
+Perhaps what Sancho had just said made Don Quixote's thoughts drift
+out into the world, which was now being stirred by the accounts of his
+greatness, for he fell into contemplation on all the tombs and
+monuments to the great men of past ages. He touched upon the tombs of
+some who had become saints, when suddenly Sancho shot this question to
+him out of a clear sky: "Tell me, which is the greater work, to bring
+a dead man to life or to kill a giant?"
+
+Don Quixote was dumfounded by his squire's suddenness, but replied:
+"The answer is easy. It is a greater work to bring to life a dead
+man."
+
+"Now I have got you!" Sancho exclaimed. Then he divulged his longing,
+which he wanted his master to share, to become a saint; viewing a
+saint's life from all sides, he had come to the conclusion that it was
+a much more peaceful life than that of a roving knight errant, who had
+to be up at all hours and out in all sorts of weather.
+
+But his master answered laconically: "We cannot all be friars." And
+then he went on to say that the number of knights errant in the world,
+deserving that name, was a very small one; that, as a matter of truth,
+knight-errantry, was a religion. But Sancho, stubborn as usual,
+insisted that there were more friars in heaven than knights errant. In
+this way they passed that night and the following day, without any
+trace of excitement or adventure.
+
+Finally, at daybreak on the second day, they approached the great
+city of El Toboso; and Sancho's worries increased as they came closer
+to the place where the heart of the peerless Dulcinea was beating--for
+what was he going to say or do when his master wanted to meet his
+beloved one? Don Quixote decided to await dusk before entering the
+city, and they spent the day resting in the shade of some oak-trees
+outside the town.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER IX
+
+WHEREIN IS RELATED WHAT WILL BE SEEN THERE
+
+
+It was midnight when they rode into El Toboso. It was a very dark
+night, so Sancho could not be blamed for not finding the house in the
+darkness. They were greeted by a multitude of noises: barking dogs,
+braying asses, mewing cats, and grunting pigs; noises that seemed like
+an ill omen to Don Quixote. He suddenly turned to Sancho and said:
+"Sancho, my son, lead on to the place of Dulcinea. It may be that we
+shall find her awake."
+
+"Body of the sun! What palace am I to lead to, when what I saw Her
+Highness in was only a very little house?" exclaimed the squire.
+
+"Most likely she had then withdrawn into some small apartment of her
+palace," said Don Quixote, "to amuse herself with her damsels, as
+great ladies and princesses are accustomed to do."
+
+Here Sancho told his master to have it his own way, but asked him
+whether he thought it in conformity with the behavior of a gentleman
+to go around in the middle of the night knocking at people's doors.
+Don Quixote dispensed with the discussion of this particular point;
+all he wanted to do, he said, was to find the house. Then they could
+discuss how to proceed. So they roamed about the city, Don Quixote
+insisting that first one house and then another was the palace of his
+love, until they finally hit upon the great tower of the church. At
+last he had found it, he declared. Here was where she dwelt, he was
+quite sure.
+
+But Sancho, hearing this and seeing it was a church, began to feel ill
+at ease, for his superstitious soul did not like the idea of walking
+across a graveyard at such an hour of the night. He quickly told his
+master, he was now certain that the Lady Dulcinea lived in an alley, a
+kind thought which was rewarded by a fierce outburst from Don Quixote.
+
+"The curse of God on thee for a blockhead!" he exclaimed. "Where hast
+thou ever heard of castles and royal palaces being built in alleys?"
+
+"I wish I saw the dogs eating it for leading us such a dance," was all
+that Sancho said in reply.
+
+But evidently this was not a pleasing answer to Don Quixote, for he
+admonished his squire: "Speak respectfully of what belongs to my lady;
+let us keep the feast in peace, and not throw the rope after the
+bucket!"
+
+Sancho muttered something about how he could be expected to find, in
+the dark of night, a house he had only seen once in his lifetime, when
+his master, who must have seen it hundreds of times, could not
+recognize it. To this his master retorted wearily that he had told him
+a thousand times that he was enamored only by hearsay, and had never
+visited Dulcinea in her palace.
+
+At this moment a laborer on his way to his work came along on the
+road, singing a dreary song. It was only another omen to Don Quixote
+that his efforts to approach his lady would not be crowned with
+success that night. He asked the man to direct him to the palace of
+his princess, but the laborer turned out to be a stranger, having only
+just come to the city.
+
+Don Quixote was grieved that he could not find Dulcinea, and when
+Sancho suggested that they withdraw from the city and develop a plan
+for seeing her, he was ready to accept it. So they left El Toboso and
+hid in a forest nearby. There it was decided that Sancho should return
+to the city as the messenger of love for his master.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER X
+
+WHEREIN IS RELATED THE CRAFTY DEVICE SANCHO ADOPTED TO
+ENCHANT THE LADY DULCINEA, AND OTHER INCIDENTS AS LUDICROUS
+AS THEY ARE TRUE
+
+
+Don Quixote instructed Sancho to ask his lady for an audience for him,
+and he begged his squire to observe every little change in her
+expression and demeanor, that he might tell him about it afterward.
+Sancho then set off on Dapple; but as soon as he was out of sight, he
+dismounted, seated himself on the ground, and took measure of the
+situation aloud. In a meditative soliloquy he discussed with himself
+the problem that was his, and he finally reasoned that there was a
+remedy for everything except death. If his master could take windmills
+for giants, and a flock of sheep for an army, why could he not take
+black for white, and any country lass that came along, for his
+princess? Having reached this satisfactory conclusion, he decided to
+remain where he was till in the afternoon, in which time he could
+reasonably have gone to El Toboso and returned.
+
+As the afternoon arrived, three country girls came along on their
+donkeys, on the road from the city. The moment Sancho saw them, he
+mounted his ass and returned to find his master, who nearly went out
+of his head with joy, and promised Sancho the three next foals from
+his three mares, when his squire told him that the Lady Dulcinea was
+coming to see him, accompanied by two of her ladies-in-waiting. And
+then the lying Sancho went on to describe them: how they were robed in
+richest brocade, and weighted down with jewels--precious stones and
+pearls. But when Don Quixote saw the three peasant girls approach, he
+said he could see nothing but three jackasses and three girls. Any
+princess, or any one like one, he failed to see. Finally Sancho
+persuaded him to believe that those he saw were really three ladies,
+one of them being the Peerless One, who had come to bestow her
+blessing upon him. And so Don Quixote fell on his knees in the dust of
+the road before the girls, giving vent to his immeasurable gratitude
+to her, his queen, who had come all this distance to give him her
+blessing.
+
+When the ugly peasant girl heard herself called a queen and Dulcinea,
+she thought that Don Quixote was trying to play a joke on her, so she
+got angry, and yelled to him: "Get out of the way, bad luck to you,
+and let us pass, for we are in a hurry!" and left the astonished
+knight crawling in the dust.
+
+Sancho had also fallen to his knees, to help his master in his plea
+for blessing, and he called out after the peasant girls: "Oh, princess
+and universal lady of El Toboso, is not your heart softened by seeing
+the pillar and prop of knight-errantry on his knees before your
+sublimated presence?"
+
+When the wenches were out of sight, Don Quixote turned to his squire
+and bemoaned, cast-down, his evil fate, and the length his sage enemy
+would go to gain his ends. The very worst thing of all, he said, was
+that the evil enchanter had turned his Dulcinea into an ugly peasant,
+who smelled of garlic. And while Don Quixote was thus complaining,
+Sancho struggled to hide his laughter, happy to have saved himself and
+to have played such a joke on his master.
+
+At last Don Quixote was ready to mount his hack, and they steered
+their beasts in the direction of Saragossa.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XI
+
+OF THE STRANGE ADVENTURE WHICH THE VALIANT DON QUIXOTE HAD
+WITH THE CAR OR CART OF "THE CORTES OF DEATH"
+
+
+Sancho did his best to imbue his master with a new inspiration; for
+Don Quixote was a sorry sight as he was riding along on his hack. The
+enchantment of his Dulcinea had been a great blow to him. He fell into
+a sort of meditative slumber, from which he would rouse himself only
+now and then. Suddenly, however, he was fully awake, for on the road
+he saw before his very eyes a cart with Death on the front seat, and
+drawn by mules that were being led by the Devil himself.
+
+As soon as the knight could gather his senses, he distinguished the
+rest of the strange company that occupied the cart. Next to Death sat
+an ugly angel with wings, and on the other side Don Quixote observed
+an emperor with a crown of gold on his head. Then he discovered
+Cupid--who was a god--and a knight with plumes in his hat. There were
+a number of other figures, all weird and awe-inspiring, in strange
+costumes and with curious faces, and when Sancho saw them he turned as
+pale as Death himself, and his teeth began to chatter from fright.
+Even Don Quixote was more than startled, but his heroism soon asserted
+itself, and he was quickly himself again, glad to sense another
+adventure. He gave Rocinante the spur, the lean hack sprang forward to
+the cart at a sickly gallop, and Don Quixote exclaimed: "Carter or
+coachman, or devil or whatever thou art, tell me at once who thou art,
+whither thou art going, and who these folk are thou carriest in thy
+wagon, which looks more like Charon's boat than an ordinary cart!"
+
+To this challenge the devil responded on behalf of himself and his
+fellow-travelers, explaining that they were harmless players of Angulo
+el Malo's company; that they had been acting the play of "The Cortes
+of Death" in the village from which they had just come; and since they
+had to act the same play in a village nearby in the afternoon, they
+wished to save themselves the trouble of making up twice, by remaining
+in their costumes. The devil was extremely polite and offered to give
+Don Quixote any information he could, adding that, being the devil, he
+was up to everything; besides he played the leading parts, he said.
+Don Quixote told them how disappointed he was that this had not turned
+out to be another adventure; then he wished them a happy journey,
+saying that ever since he was a child he had been an admirer of the
+actor and fond of his art.
+
+As they were about to take leave, one of the mummers, with three blown
+ox-bladders at the end of a stick, came up and banged them against the
+ground under Rocinante's nose; and the frightened animal set off
+across the plain as if he had been shot out of a cannon, taking the
+bit in his teeth. Sancho was so certain his master would be thrown
+that he left his donkey and ran as fast as he could after Rocinante.
+But when he reached Don Quixote, the knight was already on the ground
+and with him Rocinante, whose legs always seemed to give away after a
+sudden strain.
+
+Now, as soon as Sancho had run away from Dapple, the crazy devil with
+the bladders was on his back tickling his ears with them, and the
+donkey flew across the fields toward the village as if beset.
+
+Seeing his faithful one running away, Sancho was in mortal agony, as
+well as in a quandary, for he did not know whether to attend to the
+donkey or his master first. Finally he found his love for human beings
+was the greater, and rushed to his master's side. When he had helped
+him to mount, he told him that the devil had run away with Dapple.
+Immediately Don Quixote was ready to pursue the enemy; but just then
+the squire saw his Dapple come running back, and cautioned his master
+to be meek.
+
+But Don Quixote was eager to give the mummer a lesson in courtesy,
+even, as he said, if he had to visit his sin upon the rest of the
+company, not barring the Emperor himself. Sancho did his best to warn
+his master that there was great danger in meddling with actors, as
+they were a favored class; but had the King himself interfered in
+their behalf, it would not have stayed the hand of the errant
+revenger.
+
+So Don Quixote drew forth, and caught up with the cart as it was close
+to the village. He commanded the players to halt, saying he wanted to
+teach them how to be courteous to donkeys and animals that served
+squires and knights errant for steeds. The merrymakers could tell by
+his stentorian tone that he was not jesting, so they all quickly
+jumped out of the cart and armed themselves with stones.
+
+By this time Sancho had reached the scene of action, and as soon as
+he saw the threatening attitude of the strollers, he begged his master
+not to fight against either Death or the angels, particularly since
+neither one of them was a knight errant; nor was there any one in the
+whole company who was. This point Don Quixote thought was wisely
+taken, and he ordered his squire to fight the battle himself. But
+Sancho said he preferred to show a Christian spirit and forgive, and
+promised his master he would come to an agreement with his donkey to
+leave his end of the grievance to the squire's goodwill.
+
+Don Quixote let Sancho have his way; and when they had seen the
+caravan of mountebanks disappear, Sancho was happy in the thought that
+he had averted a great calamity for himself and his master.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XII
+
+OF THE STRANGE ADVENTURE WHICH BEFELL THE VALIANT DON
+QUIXOTE WITH THE BOLD KNIGHT OF THE GROVE
+
+
+They passed that night under some cork-trees, and while they were
+eating their supper, Sancho as usual became talkative and again gave
+proof of his chronic weakness for proverbs. Every phrase abounded with
+them. As ever, he would use them to fit the wrong case, or twist them
+so as to fit what he wanted them to fit. Don Quixote had to laugh at
+his squire's simplicity, and at the way he tried to imitate his
+master's manner of speaking. His words and expressions were indeed a
+strange mixture. One moment he would use the most abominable grammar
+and the next he would borrow the language of Don Quixote, repeating in
+stilted fashion the polite phrases he had heard Don Quixote use in his
+flowery discourses on knighthood and chivalry.
+
+Soon after they had fallen asleep, Don Quixote was awakened by the
+sound of men's voices. He quickly rose, curious and anxious to learn
+who the disturbers were, and was amazed to behold a real knight, clad
+in full armor, dismount from his horse, while speaking words that
+indicated he was lovesick and in despair. Don Quixote hastened to call
+Sancho, who awoke to the tune of a love sonnet sung by the strange
+knight, and was as startled as his master had been, though, perhaps,
+not greatly thrilled at this promise of a new adventure in the middle
+of the night.
+
+But if Don Quixote was surprised when he was awakened, what was his
+amazement when he suddenly heard such words as these: "O fairest and
+most ungrateful woman on earth! Can it be possible, 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? Is it not enough that I have compelled all the knights of
+Navarre, the Leonese, the Tartesians, and the Castilians, and finally
+all the knights of La Mancha to confess thee the most beautiful in the
+world?"
+
+Don Quixote took exception to this last statement in silence, knowing
+that his chance to correct it was at no great distance. But Sancho
+soon gave himself and his master away to the Knight of the Grove by
+becoming too talkative, and they were hailed by the knight, who
+greeted them in the most courteous manner, when he learned who they
+were.
+
+The two knights errant soon were engaged in a friendly conversation,
+which Sancho could not restrain himself from breaking into; but the
+Knight of the Grove was quick to reprimand him, saying he never
+permitted his squire to open his mouth. Whereupon Sancho persuaded
+himself and the squire of the Grove to remove to a spot where they
+could talk between themselves without being overheard by their
+superiors, and where they might be undisturbed by any yoke of
+knighthood etiquette.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTERS XIII-XIV
+
+IN WHICH IS CONTINUED THE ADVENTURE OF THE KNIGHT OF THE
+GROVE, TOGETHER WITH THE SENSIBLE AND TRANQUIL COLLOQUY
+THAT PASSED BETWEEN THE TWO SQUIRES
+
+
+The two squires drank and talked most of the night, bemoaning the fate of
+squires in general. Before they finally fell asleep, the squire of the
+Grove suggested that, since they both were tired of knight-errantry, they
+give up the life. To this Sancho replied that he would remain in his
+master's service until he arrived at Saragossa, when he might decide to
+leave him.
+
+In the meantime the two knights also were exchanging confidences; and
+the Knight of the Grove told Don Quixote of all the great and famous
+errants he had conquered in single combat. Don Quixote was all ear,
+but nearly gasped for breath when he heard the knight say that he had
+vanquished the famous Don Quixote of La Mancha, and had made him
+confess that his own Casildea was more beautiful by far than the La
+Mancha knight's Dulcinea. Don Quixote suppressed a scornful smile that
+threatened to betray him, and controlled the feelings that the
+boasting errant's words provoked, while wondering at the braggart's
+audacity. He slyly expressed a doubt, however, that the valiant knight
+Don Quixote of La Mancha had let himself be vanquished by any living
+being. The Knight of the Grove then gave a description of Don Quixote
+which in every detail fitted him.
+
+That drew Don Quixote out of his originally assumed indifference. He
+told the knight that he himself was no other than that famed and
+illustrious errant, and declared that any other one that had appeared
+as Don Quixote, must have been some enchanter who had disguised
+himself to resemble him, in order to defraud him of the honor that was
+rightly due to him. Then he proceeded to tell the knight how his enemy
+had transformed the Lady Dulcinea, and challenged the Knight of the
+Grove to single combat if he dared to question what Don Quixote
+maintained to be the truth.
+
+To this challenge the Knight of the Grove retorted that since he had
+once vanquished the semblance of Don Quixote, he would now welcome the
+opportunity of meeting him in combat in his own proper shape. Being a
+cautious and cold-blooded knight, however, he suggested to Don Quixote
+that they should rest until the morning, when the mighty struggle
+could ensue in the light of day. It was further agreed that the
+vanquished knight should place himself at the command of the victor,
+to fulfill any desire of his within the bounds of chivalry.
+
+Each one was eager to inform his own squire of what the morning was to
+behold, so they awoke Sancho and the squire of the Grove and told
+them. Sancho was scared that his master might not be the gainer, for
+the squire of the Grove had been feeding him with stories of his
+master's conquests all that night until they had fallen asleep, drunk
+with wine.
+
+The squires went to get the horses ready, and on the way Sancho was
+aghast to learn that he would have to fight the friendly squire of the
+Grove in cold blood, this squire maintaining that such was a rule
+among knights errant. Sancho said he would rather give two pounds of
+wax to the church than fight with him; furthermore, he said, he could
+not, for he had no sword, and never had had one. Whereupon the
+friendly squire told him that did not matter, and proceeded to make
+ready two linen bags, both of the same size, saying they could fight
+their duel in this fashion. This was most pleasing to Sancho, until he
+perceived the other squire filling the bags with pebbles, when he
+remonstrated, saying he thought their masters could settle the whole
+affair without their interference. But his friend the squire insisted
+that they fight, even if it should be only for half an hour, and
+offered--if he should have any difficulty in rousing himself to the
+occasion--to give Sancho a few cudgels and whacks to act as an
+inspiration.
+
+By this time it was beginning to dawn, and Sancho was watching the
+sunrise. As he looked around, the first object that he saw the sunrays
+strike was the nose of the squire of the Grove, protruding out of the
+opened visor of his helmet. It was an object so fearful to look at
+that Sancho Panza was paralyzed with fright. The nose was so large it
+seemed uncanny. It was covered with warts and was bent at a tremendous
+angle, and it hung down way beneath his chin, while its color was that
+of an eggplant. It was a face so horrible and ugly to look at that
+Sancho's eyes nearly rolled out of his head. He acted as if he were
+about to have convulsions, for he began to tremble from head to foot.
+When Don Quixote beheld the squire's countenance, even he began to
+show signs of feebleness, but his bravery overcame his fears. He
+shrugged his shoulders as if shaking off an evil spirit, and was ready
+for the combat with his adversary.
+
+Before the battle began, Sancho pleaded with his master to help him up
+into a tree; so afraid was he of this monstrous squire with the awful
+nose. But while Don Quixote was hoisting his faithful one up into a
+cork-tree, he suddenly heard the knight approach on his steed behind
+him, and not knowing whether it was squire or master, and being
+subconsciously afraid of the nose, one blow of which might have felled
+him, it seemed, he turned around and made straight for the knight.
+
+The facts were that this gentleman was trying to limber up the joints
+of his charger--a hack of the same caliber as Rocinante--and was just
+taking his horse on a tour of exercise, making him skip hither and
+thither, wherever his master's agonized spurring would carry him. Each
+time he would land heavily on his stiff legs, and it was when Don
+Quixote suddenly heard the sound of such a landing behind him that he
+turned. But by the time Rocinante had completed the turn, which was a
+movement of much contemplation and hesitation on his part, the back of
+the Knight of the Grove shone in the distance. Charging by sound and
+instinct rather than by sight, not seeing whether the knight was
+coming or going, Don Quixote set upon him with such blind fury that
+with one thrust of his lance he sent the bespangled gentleman flying
+out of his saddle, so that he fell flat on the ground, seemingly dead.
+
+Now, when Sancho saw what an auspicious beginning and ending the
+adventure had had for his master, he heaved a sigh of relief and
+contentment and climbed down from his tree, approaching the lifeless
+monster with caution and superstitious awe. But he had taken only one
+look into his face, when he began to cross himself with so many
+motions and contortions that Don Quixote thought his squire had gone
+insane. Turning to his master, who had been contemplating his victory
+with pride from the back of Rocinante, Sancho begged him to thrust his
+sword into the mouth of his vanquished foe. Scarcely had he made this
+suggestion before Don Quixote drew his sword and advanced to carry it
+out, when the squire of the Grove, now minus the drooping nose, ran
+forward, wildly exclaiming: "Mind what you are about to do, Se�or Don
+Quixote! That is your friend the bachelor, Samson Carrasco, you have
+at your feet, and I am his squire!"
+
+"And the nose?" Sancho broke in, unable to restrain his amazed
+senses.
+
+"I have it here in my pocket," answered the squire of the Grove, as he
+pulled out and showed him a false nose of immense proportions.
+
+Whereupon Sancho eyed the squire more carefully, and suddenly cried
+out: "Holy Mary be good to me! Isn't it Tom Cecial, my neighbor and
+gossip!"
+
+And Tom was only too glad to confess that he was.
+
+At this very moment the bachelor returned from the dead, and when Don
+Quixote saw him open his eyes, he pointed his sword at his face and
+swore that the Knight of the Mirrors--thus he called the Knight of the
+Grove because of his shining regalia--would be a dead man if he did
+not pronounce the Lady Dulcinea del Toboso the most beautiful woman in
+the world. Furthermore, he demanded that he swear to present himself
+before the Peerless One in the city of El Toboso, that she might deal
+out judgment upon him. Having been dealt with by her, the Knight of
+the Grove was to return to inform him of the punishment, giving a full
+account of what had passed between them.
+
+The fallen Samson gladly confessed to everything, including his belief
+in the true identity of his conqueror. He felt an urgent need for
+medicine and plaster, and he and his squire departed quickly to seek
+such aid in the nearest village, while Don Quixote and Sancho took the
+road which lead to Saragossa.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XV
+
+WHEREIN IT IS MADE KNOWN HOW THE KNIGHT OF THE MIRROR AND
+HIS SQUIRE EMERGED FROM THEIR ADVENTURE
+
+
+As Don Quixote was bumping along on his lean Rocinante, he was
+dreaming of the return of the Knight of the Mirrors, who would bring
+him word about his beloved one. He was anxious to know whether she was
+still enchanted. Then he thought of the great victory he had won over
+this bold knight, and it was perhaps only pardonable if it aroused
+some conceit in his breast.
+
+But while Don Quixote was contemplating thus, the bachelor-knight kept
+bemoaning the fate he had brought upon himself. He had dubbed himself
+Knight at his own instigation, for the kindly and unselfish purpose of
+unseating and vanquishing Don Quixote in battle, thinking, of course,
+that that would be an easy matter to accomplish. It was for good
+reasons he had proposed that the vanquished one should place himself
+at the disposal of the victor. The bachelor, the curate, and the
+barber had conferred after Don Quixote's departure as to what to do,
+and when the bachelor Samson offered to go crusading and to bring back
+Don Quixote, the two gossips were pleased beyond words. A neighbor of
+Sancho's, Tom Cecial by name, was induced to become the squire of the
+knight Samson.
+
+Both knight and squire were now contemplating in a sorry mood the
+disastrous outcome of their encounter with the Knight of the Rueful
+Countenance. As they were staggering along on their decrepit mounts,
+the squire summed up the thoughts of his master Samson in this
+question: "I'd like to know now which is the madder, he who is so
+because he can not help it, or he who is so of his own choice?"
+
+While the learned bachelor was thoroughly in accord with the good
+reason for asking such a question, he could not at the same time help
+acknowledging the fact that the thrashing he had received was paining
+him. The desire he had had when he started out looking for Don
+Quixote--to bring him back to his home and his wits--was now changed
+into a wild inner cry for revenge.
+
+At last some of the physical agony of the Knight of the Mirrors was
+stilled by a quack, whom they found in a town along the road. Tom Cecial,
+the squire for a day and a night, had been cured of knight-errantry and
+returned to his less venturesome occupation in his La Mancha village; but
+the thoughts of evilness would not leave his master, who stayed behind,
+bent on having his revenge.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XVI
+
+OF WHAT BEFELL DON QUIXOTE WITH A DISCREET GENTLEMAN OF LA MANCHA
+
+
+While Don Quixote was contemplating his own greatness as a reviver of
+knight-errantry, the monstrous nose of the squire kept coming before
+Sancho in his fancies. When he told his master, Don Quixote asked him
+whether he ever for a moment doubted that the knight of the Mirrors
+and his squire were anything but enchanted and made to appear like the
+two village friends of theirs. The idea that Samson, who was such a
+devoted friend of his, should be envious of his deeds in battle and
+have wanted to steal away honors from him as a knight, was too absurd;
+and with this he dismissed the subject.
+
+While they were discussing these matters and the enchantment of the
+Lady Dulcinea, they were passed by a gentleman on horseback, and Don
+Quixote called to him and asked him politely whether he would not join
+company with them. The traveler accepted the knight's invitation, and
+both were soon scrutinizing each other. The gentleman, a man about
+fifty years of age, with handsome features, wondered at the strange
+appearance of Don Quixote; and when our knight saw his wonder, he told
+him why he was so attired and what he had set out to accomplish in the
+world. This confession drew forth still more astonishment on the
+gentleman's countenance, but he finally found words to ask whether he
+could really believe his own ears, for he had thought knight-errantry
+extinct. It was not long, however, before he realized that he was
+talking to a madman; and then Sancho Panza came under his observation,
+and he was deemed a simpleton.
+
+Don Quixote had asked the newcomer's name, and learned it was Don Diego
+de Miranda; and then the knight was curious to know what he did with his
+life. Whereupon Don Diego proceeded to tell his fellow-travelers of his
+tame and godly life in the country with his wife and children; and he
+pronounced in the course of his description some very beautiful thoughts
+and principles, which so took Sancho's fancy that he jumped off Dapple,
+embraced the gentleman's leg, and began to kiss his feet in the most
+passionate and ardent way.
+
+Astonished, the good gentleman inquired what all this display meant;
+and Sancho begged of him between his transports: "Let me kiss, for I
+think your Worship is the first saint in the saddle I ever saw!"
+
+Of course, the gentleman confessed his sinfulness to Sancho, who refused
+to change his opinion, in spite of his master's honest laughter. Then the
+gentleman told Don Quixote about his great pride, his son, who was
+eighteen years old, had been a student at Salamanca, and wrote divine
+poems. This immediately inspired Don Quixote to a discourse on poetry, in
+which he dwelt on the dishonor of commercializing this great gift of the
+gods. He finished his speech with the advice to Don Diego that he bring
+up his son to write discourses in which all vice was flayed and all sin
+chided and rebuked. Above all, he said, a poet must never let envy or
+personal grudge and hatred guide his pen. When the traveler heard Don
+Quixote speak in so wise and discerning manner, he was aghast; and he was
+entirely at a loss to know how to judge him. He was inclined to think
+that what he had taken for madness in him was nothing but eccentricity.
+
+But while Don Quixote was discoursing on poetry, Sancho, on seeing
+some shepherds, had fled to beg some ewe milk of them. When his master
+had finished his discourse, and the gentleman was silently considering
+his madness, Sancho suddenly heard himself called to battle. Having
+in his possession his master's helmet, he spurred his donkey to
+further increase his efforts toward speed, and when he reached the
+valiant knight, he discovered the reason for the call: a cart bedecked
+with royal flags approaching on the road.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XVII
+
+WHEREIN IS SHOWN THE FARTHEST AND HIGHEST POINT WHICH THE
+UNEXAMPLED COURAGE OF DON QUIXOTE REACHED OR COULD REACH;
+TOGETHER WITH THE HAPPILY ACHIEVED ADVENTURE OF THE LIONS
+
+
+When Sancho was summoned by his master, he had just bought some curds
+from the goatherd, and not knowing what to do with them at such a
+moment, he hastily deposited them in his master's helmet. The first
+thing Don Quixote did when Sancho had caught up with him, was to
+snatch the helmet from him, exclaiming that he had to make ready for
+what promised to be an exciting adventure; while all Sancho could see
+was the cart with the royal flags, probably carrying some treasure of
+the kings. As Sancho stood watching the cart, Don Quixote resolutely
+put on the helmet, which he proceeded to press down on his head in
+order to make it sit fast; but as he did so, the curds were squeezed,
+and the whey began to run down over his face, so that Don Quixote
+imagined that he had been taken with softening of the brain.
+
+Sancho said nothing but gave his master something to wipe his face
+with, and Don Quixote muttered that if this was sweat he was certain
+it was going to be a horrible adventure. As he was drying his face, he
+took off his helmet, and when he smelled the curds he turned to Sancho
+in great perturbation and accused him of having put them there,
+calling him a traitor and a scoundrel, and threatening to thrash him.
+But Sancho eyed his master innocently, and blamed it all on the devil
+or some enchanter, saying that his master might know that if he had
+had curds, he would have put them in his stomach and not in his
+master's helmet.
+
+This was a convincing argument to the knight, who now busied himself
+with the cart, which had nearly reached them. He called out to the
+driver and a man on mule-back, who were the only attendants: "Whither
+are you going, brothers? What cart is this? What have you got in it?
+What flags are those?"
+
+The man on the mule answered that the cart was his, that he was
+transporting a pair of enormous lions as a present from the Governor
+of Oran to His Majesty the King; that the flags were those of the
+King, and that therefore the property was royal property. He added
+that the lions were hungry, since they had not eaten anything that
+day, and that he was in great haste to reach a place where he could
+feed them.
+
+Here Don Quixote smiled a scornful, superior smile, and calmly told
+the keeper of the lions to open the cages and let out the beasts that
+they might learn who the courageous Don Quixote of La Mancha might be.
+When Sancho heard how mad his master was, he turned in sickly fear to
+the traveling gentleman and begged him for God's sake to keep his
+master from having a combat with the lions. The gentleman asked Sancho
+whether he thought his master would really be so foolish as to do such
+a thing; and Sancho's firm and emphatic reply made the gentleman
+hasten to the knight's side in an attempt to reason with him. He was
+promptly reprimanded by Don Quixote, however, who told him sharply to
+mind his own business, and then threatened to pin the keeper to the
+cart with his lance if he did not open the cages and chase out the
+lions at once.
+
+There was an indescribable consternation and confusion. The driver
+pleaded with Don Quixote on his knees, and when they all saw that he
+was determined to meet with the lions in combat, they began to pick up
+their belongings and run away into safety. Sancho and the gentleman
+made still another attempt to bring him to his senses, but all their
+pleas were in vain. Sancho left his master with the tears falling down
+his cheeks, and Don Quixote ordered the gentleman to speed away on his
+flea-bitten mare as fast as he could, if he was afraid to be bitten by
+the lions.
+
+Then Don Quixote decided it might be better to fight on foot, as he
+was afraid that his Rocinante might be frightened on seeing the
+beasts; so, sword in hand, he bravely advanced towards the cage. The
+keeper timidly opened the doors of the first cage, and a male lion of
+tremendous size, stretching himself leisurely, put his claws through
+the opening; then he yawned sleepily, and after some deliberation
+began to lick his eyes and face with his long, fierce tongue. Having
+thus washed his dirty face, he put his head out of the cage and stood
+gazing into space with a ferocious look in his eyes, which resembled
+glowing coals. Not even seeming surprised at the sight of the valiant
+knight, he then had the audacity to turn his back on our hero, and
+calmly and proudly lay down, with his hindquarters under Don Quixote's
+very nose.
+
+Such unheard-of scorn angered the knight, who commanded the keeper to
+take a stick and poke the beast out of the cage; but here he met with
+unyielding obstinacy, for this the man refused to do under any
+circumstances, saying that the first one to be chewed to pieces, if he
+did that, would be himself. Then he began to praise and flatter Don
+Quixote's courage which, he said, by this feat had been unequaled in
+the world. His adversary the lion, he said, had proven by his very
+action that he considered Don Quixote a superior foe; and when the
+keeper promised to give Don Quixote a certificate to the effect that
+the lion had been challenged in true knight errant fashion and refused
+to give battle, Don Quixote was soothed, and bade the keeper shut the
+doors to the cage and recall the fugitives that they might hear from
+the keeper's lips the true account of his remarkable achievement.
+
+The first thing Don Quixote did when Sancho had joined him was to
+order him to give two gold crowns to the driver and the keeper for
+lost time; but before Sancho carried out his master's command he was
+anxious to know whether the lions were dead or alive. Whereupon the
+keeper related how the valiant knight had single handed dared the
+lions to come out of their cage, and how they meekly and cowardly had
+refused at the sight of so bold a warrior; and he embellished his
+story with numerous little details--in anticipation of the gold
+crown--and added that when he returned to Madrid he would not fail to
+inform the King of his marvelous exploit.
+
+When Don Quixote heard this, his heart beat faster, and he told the
+keeper that if the King should happen to ask who performed this great
+deed, to say it was the Knight of the Lions, since he had decided to
+adopt this name hereafter.
+
+So the cart proceeded toward the capital, and Don Quixote, Sancho, and
+the traveling gentleman went their way. Don Diego bade them make haste
+that they might reach his village before nightfall, and he asked Don
+Quixote to spend the night at his house and rest after his exertions--an
+invitation that the knight accepted with profuse thanks.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XVIII
+
+OF WHAT HAPPENED TO DON QUIXOTE IN THE CASTLE OR HOUSE OF
+THE KNIGHT OF THE GREEN COAT, TOGETHER WITH OTHER MATTERS
+OUT OF THE COMMON
+
+
+The Knight of the Green Coat--which was the name Don Quixote had
+conferred on his host--reached his house in the afternoon, and he was
+welcomed home by his wife and son, who could not help staring in
+amazement at the strange figure Don Quixote presented. The latter
+advanced to the wife and kissed her virtuously on the hand, after
+having first asked her permission; and she received him courteously,
+as did the son also. Then he was escorted into the house, and Sancho
+helped him to remove his armor and to wash him clean of the curds,
+which had run down his face and his neck. This being done, Don Quixote
+joined father and son in another room.
+
+It was not long before Don Lorenzo, the young son, was perplexed by
+the knight's behavior and conversation, and at his first opportunity
+he confided this perplexity to his father. Don Diego told him that he
+himself was at his wit's end, for he had heard him speak as sensibly
+as he ever heard any man speak; then again, he said, he had seen him
+perform the most unbelievable acts of madness. Don Lorenzo again
+engaged in conversation with Don Quixote, who told the young man that
+he had already learned from his father of his great talents as a poet.
+The youth modestly disclaimed being entitled to be called a great
+poet; and the absence of conceit in one of this calling pleased the
+knight greatly. And he went on, discoursing on matters pertaining to
+education, on universities, and degrees, and his opinions seemed to
+Don Lorenzo so authoritative and advanced that he was at a loss to
+know what to conclude, until Don Quixote suddenly began to talk about
+the science of knight-errantry, which he maintained surpassed all
+other sciences.
+
+Don Lorenzo interrupted, of course, saying that he had never heard of
+any such science; he had read books of chivalry but had never believed
+that any knights had existed, he said. When Don Quixote heard the
+youth speak such blasphemy, he prayed that heaven should deliver him
+from his false illusions as to the existence of knight-errantry! Just
+then dinner was served.
+
+While they were eating, Don Quixote asked Don Lorenzo to repeat some
+of his verses to him, and the youth read some of his glosses and
+sonnets. Don Quixote was extremely impressed with them, and he praised
+the youth's rare gift in eloquent language. This praise--although he
+knew it to come from a madman--so pleased Don Lorenzo's father that he
+begged Don Quixote to remain; and for four days the knight was
+entertained by Don Diego.
+
+Then Don Quixote felt it his duty to break away from luxury and
+idleness in order to live up to the laws of knight-errantry, Sancho
+left with a sigh, and a tear in his eye, for never in his life had he
+lived so well. However, he saw to it that he was well provisioned
+before they departed. Don Quixote was anxious to see the poet turn
+knight-errant, he said, but since his parents no doubt would not
+permit him to give up his chosen work he thought it best not to
+attempt to sway them in their convictions. And so he and his squire
+took leave with many courtesies, while Don Diego and his family were
+pitying the poor demented knight in their hearts and still were
+wondering at his nonsense.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XIX
+
+IN WHICH IS RELATED THE ADVENTURE OF THE ENAMORED SHEPHERD,
+TOGETHER WITH OTHER TRULY DROLL INCIDENTS
+
+
+They had traveled but a short time when they met some students and
+peasants on mule-back, and since they were going in the same direction
+Don Quixote offered them his protection if they would only make the
+pace of their young mules conform with that of his steed and Dapple.
+They agreed to do so, and it was not long ere the Knight of the Lions
+had introduced himself to his companions, and told them of his
+revival. The students were quick to perceive that he was demented; but
+not so the peasants, who could make neither head nor tail of what he
+said, and ascribed this to their own ignorance.
+
+The students invited the knight to come with them to a wedding-feast, and
+immediately he asked which prince was to be married without his knowing
+it. The students informed him that it was not any prince's wedding, but
+that of a rich farmer by the name of Camacho, who was marrying the fair
+Quiteria, daughter of a rich man in their neighborhood. Quiteria, they
+said, was in love with one Basilio, a poor young shepherd, whom her
+father had sent away in anger from his house, forbidding him ever to see
+his daughter again. As a result of this banishment and his being
+separated from his love, he had now gone mad.
+
+Don Quixote, having listened attentively to the students' story, began
+a discourse on love and marriage. Now and then Sancho interrupted him
+with strings of proverbs; this would infuriate his master by making
+him deviate from his subject. Finally Don Quixote retaliated by
+attacking and criticising Sancho's language, which he said was
+atrocious.
+
+Soon their arguments were taken up by the students. One of them stood
+by Sancho; the other one took Don Quixote's point of view. Having once
+been involved, they argued first on one subject, then on another,
+until at last foils and the art of fencing became the subject. It so
+happened that one of them was carrying his foils with him, and he
+suggested that they settle their argument then and there. They did so
+under Don Quixote's chivalrous supervision, and when the engagement
+had come to an end, the one who had challenged was so worn and torn
+that Sancho felt sorry for him and went over to console him; at the
+same time he felt it his duty to advise him never again to fence,
+although he did not advise him against wrestling or throwing the bar,
+for he was strong enough for that, he thought. Whereupon the
+challenger rose and embraced his adversary, and after that they were
+better friends than ever.
+
+They pursued their journey, and before long it grew dark. Soon
+afterwards they heard the musicians at the wedding, and saw the
+preparations that were being made for it. Here Don Quixote took leave
+of the students and the peasants, saying that being a knight-errant,
+he was obliged to give up the comfort of a bed, and would go to sleep
+in the woods or some lonely field. They did their best to persuade him
+to accept their hospitality--aided and abetted by the comfort-loving
+Sancho--but all remonstrances were in vain, much to Sancho's regret.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XX
+
+WHEREIN AN ACCOUNT IS GIVEN OF THE WEDDING OF CAMACHO THE
+RICH, TOGETHER WITH THE INCIDENT OF BASILIO THE POOR
+
+
+Sancho was still snoring when his master was up and awake the next
+morning. After having soliloquized at length before the sleeping
+squire, he awoke him by ticking him with his lance. Sancho smelled the
+preparations for the wedding-feast, and at once was wide awake. His
+master asked him to hasten and come along, and they set off on their
+mounts and soon arrived at the place where the wedding was to be
+celebrated. They found there an arcade erected and through this they
+entered. There was being cooked and prepared enough food to feed every
+one in town, and when Sancho saw all the good things, his mouth began
+to water, and he could hardly control himself. As a matter of fact, he
+soon succumbed to his temptations and he did not have to beg twice,
+for the cooks told him that this was a day on which no one was to go
+hungry, that being the wish of the rich Camacho, and they even told
+him to keep the spoon. So Sancho skimmed all the pots to his heart's
+content.
+
+Soon the musicians and dancers arrived, and these performed an
+allegorical dance and play, but nothing interested Sancho as much as
+the skimmings, to which he returned after having finished an argument
+with his master about the relative qualities of Camacho the Rich and
+the poor Basilio; Camacho being the better provider, Sancho was
+decidedly in favor of him.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XXI
+
+IN WHICH CAMACHO'S WEDDING IS CONTINUED, WITH OTHER
+DELIGHTFUL INCIDENTS
+
+
+Sancho was still eating when suddenly loud exclamations and shouts
+were heard; and when he and Don Quixote looked to see what was the
+matter, they found that the bride and the bridegroom, accompanied by
+the priest and their relatives, were entering the arcade. They
+proceeded to a platform, on which they took places, and all noticed
+that the bride looked very pale. Scarcely had the bridal party seated
+themselves, when a voice was heard from behind them, calling out:
+"Wait a little, ye, as inconsiderate as ye are hasty!"
+
+All turned and perceived Basilio, poorly clad, with a crown of cypress
+on his head, and carrying a staff in his hand. The staff had a sharp
+end, and this he buried deep in the ground; then, pale and trembling,
+he turned to the fair Quiteria and accused her of marrying Camacho
+because of his wealth, though she knew she loved no one but himself,
+Basilio, who was poor, and, therefore, helpless. As he nevertheless
+wished them happiness, he would now remove the last obstacle to this
+end.
+
+So saying, Basilio pulled from the staff he carried and which served
+as a sheath, a rapier, upon which in another instant he had thrown
+himself. There he lay on the ground, bleeding profusely, the point of
+the blade appearing through his back, when his many friends came
+running to give him aid. Don Quixote lifted up his head, and they
+found that he was still breathing. Some one suggested that they pull
+out the blade, but the priest warned them not to do that before the
+poor man had been given the sacrament, as the moment the rapier was
+removed, death would follow.
+
+Just then Basilio was heard to say in a weak voice that if he could
+only be joined to his beloved one, he would die happy. The priest
+cautioned him to think of his soul rather than of his body in these
+last moments of his, but Basilio interrupted him stubbornly and said
+he would not confess until this had been done. When Don Quixote heard
+the dying man implore the priest to carry out his wish, he, too,
+besought him, and added that under the circumstances Se�or Camacho
+could have nothing against marrying a widow of a man who had died so
+gallantly and honorably as Basilio. Camacho heard all this, and when
+Basilio's friends at the same time entreated him to think of the poor
+man's soul, he consented; and as Quiteria, too, was compassionate, the
+priest united them as man and wife, gave them his blessing with tears
+in his eyes, and hoped that Heaven would receive the soul of the
+wedded man.
+
+But the instant the ceremony was at an end, the suicide jumped to his
+feet as lightly as a deer. Some began to shout that a miracle had been
+performed. But Basilio was honest and confessed that he had played a
+trick; and, indeed, it seemed as if the whole thing had been planned
+by the two lovers, for Quiteria said that if the marriage was not
+valid, she would now confirm it anew. Some of Camacho's friends became
+violent and threatened the life of Basilio, but the valiant Don
+Quixote did not abandon his new-found friend; he kept them all at a
+distance with his lance and his sword.
+
+In the meantime Sancho was guarding a spot that to his mind was the
+most important one there, namely where the wine-jars were standing.
+
+When Don Quixote had made himself respected by the followers of the
+rich Camacho, he addressed them on the subject of love and war, and
+held forth to them that all means to an end in these two games were
+justifiable, as long as no disgrace was brought on the object of one's
+love. Then he threatened to thrash any one who attempted to separate
+whom God now had joined; and they were all awed by his resolute
+language, not knowing who he was. Camacho showed that he was of good
+mettle, however, for he invited all to remain and have a merry time,
+and let the feast go on as if nothing had happened.
+
+But Basilio was proud, and so were his friends, and they preferred to
+withdraw to Basilio's village. They were accompanied by Don Quixote,
+whom they had invited as a special guest of honor because of his stout
+defense of Basilio; and Sancho, of course, had to trail along, much to
+his disgust, for he had looked forward to stilling his hunger for days
+to come on the remnants of the rich man's wedding-feast. As he was
+rocking to and fro in his seat on his faithful Dapple, he was
+contemplating with a surly and melancholy countenance a glorious, but
+now past day.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XXII
+
+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
+
+
+Don Quixote and Sancho remained at the home of the newly married
+couple for three days. Before the knight took leave of Basilio and
+Quiteria, he discoursed at length on love and matrimony: a discourse
+that Sancho seemed to take more to heart than they did, for when his
+master had finished he was heard muttering that he wished he had had
+such advice before marrying his wife.
+
+"Is thy Teresa so bad then, Sancho?" asked Don Quixote.
+
+"She is not very bad," replied the downtrodden squire, "but she is not
+very good; at least she is not as good as I could wish."
+
+"Thou dost wrong, Sancho, to speak ill of thy wife," admonished his
+master; "for after all she is the mother of thy children."
+
+And to this the squire answered: "We are quits, 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."
+
+Having exchanged these thoughts with his squire, Don Quixote decided
+it was time to take to the open again, and he begged one of the
+students who had invited him to the wedding to find him a guide to
+take him to the cave of Montesinos. The student provided him with a
+cousin of his own, a young scholar who was very much interested in
+tales of chivalry; and, followed by the earnest prayers of those they
+left behind, the three set out for the famous cave.
+
+Don Quixote wanted the scholar to tell him all about himself, and when
+he learned, he had had books printed which were inscribed to princes,
+he wanted to know what kind of books they were. When he mentioned that
+he was writing one now that was to deal with the invention of customs
+and things, Sancho became interested and thrust this question at him,
+which he answered himself: "Tell me, Se�or--and God give you luck in
+printing your books!--who was the first man that scratched his head?
+For to my thinking it must have been our father Adam."
+
+Glad to have had his supposition corroborated by so great an authority
+as an author of books, Sancho was encouraged to ask numerous other
+questions of the same caliber; and this helped to make the time seem
+short. When night fell they had reached a little village, from where
+it was only a very short distance to the cave.
+
+As Don Quixote was intent on discovering the cave's inmost secrets, he
+provided himself with a hundred fathoms of rope, and the following
+afternoon he was at the cavern, ready for the hazardous undertaking.
+Don Quixote was tied to the end of the rope, and all the while Sancho
+was admonishing him not to bury himself alive in the bottomless pit,
+telling him that he had no business being an explorer anyway. Before
+being lowered into the depths, Don Quixote commended himself to his
+Lady Dulcinea and sent up a prayer to Heaven on bended knees.
+
+In order to enter the cave, he had to cut his way through the brush, and
+as he commenced to swing his sword, a whole city of crows and bats flew
+against him and knocked him to the ground. Sancho crossed himself and
+kept up his vigilance over his master to the last. Finally he saw him
+disappear in the coal-black depths, and then he called on all the saints
+he knew by name to protect the flower and cream of knight-errantry, the
+dare-devil of the earth, the heart of steel and the arm of brass.
+
+At last Sancho and the scholar had given Don Quixote all the hundred
+fathoms of the rope, and then they got no more replies to their calls.
+They waited for half an hour, and then they were afraid that the
+knight was dead and decided to haul him up, Sancho weeping bitterly
+all the while. But when Sancho saw his master coming up, he could not
+restrain himself from being hopeful of a miracle, and he called out
+gleefully: "Welcome back, Se�or, for we had begun to think you were
+going to stop there to found a family."
+
+Don Quixote did not move, however, and they laid him on the ground and
+found he was fast asleep. When he came to, he was in an exalted state.
+He raised his eyes toward Heaven, and asked God to forgive them for
+having taken him away from such a glorious and spectacular pleasure.
+But Sancho was curious to know what he had seen down there in Hell,
+and he interrupted and asked the question.
+
+"Hell!" cried Don Quixote. "Call it by no such name, for it does not
+deserve it."
+
+Then he asked for something to eat, and Sancho put before him an
+abundance of food, since he said he was very hungry. When he had
+eaten, he asked them to sit still and listen to his story.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XXIII
+
+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 APOCRYPHAL
+
+
+When he was being hoisted down, Don Quixote said, he had suddenly
+landed on a precipice which led to a cave within the cave, large
+enough to hold a team of mules and a cart. There, he claimed, he fell
+asleep, only to wake and find himself in a beautiful field, from where
+he had gone on a regular sightseeing trip, visiting the most wonderful
+castles and palaces, and meeting with the most exalted personages.
+Among these was no other than the enchanted Montesinos himself. He had
+taken Don Quixote into his own palace, built of crystal and alabaster,
+and shown him the tomb of his friend Durandarte, who lay there in his
+enchantment, with his hairy hand over his heart. Don Quixote had asked
+whether it were indeed true that he, Montesinos, had cut out the heart
+of his dead friend, as the story had told, and brought it to his
+Lady Belerma, and Montesinos had nodded in affirmation.
+
+Suddenly they had heard the poor dead knight moan in the most
+heartrending way, and he had asked Montesinos again and again whether
+he had done as he had bade him and carried his heart to his Lady
+Belerma in France. Montesinos had fallen on his knees and had assured
+his cousin with tearful eyes that as soon as he had died he had cut
+out his heart with a poniard, dried it with a lace handkerchief as
+well as he could, and then departed to see his Lady. At the first
+village he had come to in France, he had stopped to sprinkle some salt
+on it to keep it fresh, and had given it to the Lady Belerma, who was
+now also enchanted in this cave.
+
+Don Quixote continued his tale. The enchanter, the sage Merlin, so
+Montesinos had said, had prophesied that he, Don Quixote, reviver of
+knight-errantry, was to be the one to disenchant them all. He and
+Montesinos had almost come to blows, however, when the latter had
+inferred that during her enchantment the Lady Belerma had developed
+large circles under her eyes, and that if it had not been for these
+her beauty would have surpassed even that of the famous Lady Dulcinea
+of El Toboso. But Montesinos was courteous enough to apologize and
+acknowledge the truth of the proverb which says that comparisons are
+odious.
+
+Sancho and the young author of books had some difficulty in persuading
+themselves that all these things had happened in so short a time, for
+Don Quixote had only been gone about an hour; but Don Quixote, hearing
+this, insisted that he had been absent three days and three nights.
+Then he proceeded to tell how he had felt no hunger whatever, that
+none down there ever ate, and that the enchanted never slept; he
+admitted, however, that their nails, hair, and beards grew.
+
+When Sancho heard all this he asked to be forgiven by God for saying
+he thought his master was lying, but the next moment he had retracted
+it, and when his master asked what he really meant, he said he did not
+know.
+
+There was one thing that had happened to our knight in the cave,
+which caused him infinite pain; he had met one of the enchanted
+ladies-in-waiting to his Lady Dulcinea, and she had told him in
+confidence that his beloved one wanted to borrow six reals on a
+petticoat which she had bought. He gave her all that he had,
+which amounted to only four reals, and she gave him in exchange
+her lady's blessing, saying that with it went many kisses. As
+she left him, he said, she had cut a caper and had sprung fully
+two yards into the air.
+
+"O blessed God," cried Sancho, "is it possible that enchantments can
+have such power as to have changed my master's right senses into a
+craze so full of absurdity? O Se�or, Se�or, consider yourself! Have a
+care for your honor, and give no credit to this silly stuff that has
+left you scant and short of wits."
+
+"Thou talkest in this way because thou lovest me, Sancho," said Don
+Quixote; and he ascribed his squire's incredulity to a lack of
+knowledge of the world and assured him that when the time came he
+would tell him even more that took place in the cave, which would
+make him believe what he now doubted.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XXIV
+
+WHEREIN ARE RELATED SOME TRIFLING MATTERS, AS TRIVIAL
+AS THEY ARE NECESSARY TO THE RIGHT UNDERSTANDING OF
+THIS GREAT HISTORY
+
+
+The scholar was surprised that Don Quixote permitted his servant to talk
+to him in this way, but ascribed his lenience to the good mood he was in.
+After having whiled away still another hour talking pleasantly, they
+proceeded to find a place where they might spend the night. The scholar
+knew of a hermitage not very far off; and on their way there they
+encountered a man with a mule that was loaded with halberds and lances.
+Don Quixote was curious to know where he was taking the weapons, but the
+man answered that he was in great haste to reach the inn beyond the
+hermitage. He would spend the night at this inn, he said, and if they
+happened to be there too, he would tell them some things that were both
+interesting and curious. Don Quixote was so inquisitive that he decided
+to pass by the hermitage and go to the inn instead.
+
+Just before coming to the inn, they met a happy looking lad of
+eighteen or nineteen, who carried a sword over his shoulder and a
+bundle on his back. Don Quixote stopped him and asked where he was
+going; and the lad replied that he was going to war for his king. He
+told the knight how he had been in the service of office-seekers and
+adventurers in Madrid until he had tired of such a life; and this
+pleased Don Quixote so much that he invited him to sit behind him on
+Rocinante and ride with him to the inn to sup with him. But the page,
+seeing the leanness of the knight's steed, said he preferred to walk,
+though he was glad to accept the invitation for supper.
+
+As soon as they had arrived at the inn, Don Quixote asked the landlord
+for the man with the lances and halberds; and Sancho was happy to know
+that his master took this inn for an inn and not for an enchanted
+castle.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XXV
+
+WHEREIN IS SET DOWN THE BRAYING ADVENTURE, AND THE DROLL
+ONE OF THE PUPPET-SHOWMEN, TOGETHER WITH THE MEMORABLE
+DIVINATIONS OF THE DIVINING APE
+
+
+Don Quixote found the man with the arms feeding his mule in the
+stable, and he asked the knight to accompany him to a quiet nook when
+he had finished this duty to his beast. But Don Quixote's curiosity
+knew no bounds, and he offered to help him sift the barley so that he
+might begin his story at once. Being a good-natured fellow, the man
+acquiesced. He related how a magistrate in his village, which was four
+leagues and a half away, had lost a donkey through the carelessness of
+a servant. Some weeks later another magistrate of the same village
+was hunting in the woods, and when he returned he brought word to his
+fellow officer that he had come across the lost beast but that he was
+now so wild that no one could approach him. He suggested, however,
+that they go together in search for him; and they developed a plan
+whereby they thought they should surely be able to capture the animal.
+Both of them were expert in braying, and they decided to place
+themselves at different ends of the forest, each one braying at
+intervals. In this way they thought they should be able to round up
+the donkey, for they were certain that he would answer their calls.
+
+But it so happened that both of them brayed at the same time, and when
+they ran to look, convinced that the donkey had turned up, they found
+not the ass but only each other, so naturally had they brayed. They
+tried the same scheme again and again, but every time with the same
+result; and at last they came in this way to a place in the woods
+where they found the dead donkey devoured by wolves.
+
+The story of the two magistrates going about in the forest braying to
+each other like asses soon spread to the villages in the county; and
+in one village in particular the habit of braying whenever they
+observed any one from the village of the braying magistrates took such
+root that it was decided to teach them a lesson by taking arms against
+them. The arms he carried with him now, he said, were to be used
+against these scoffers, that they might never again behave like asses.
+
+He had just finished his story when some one entered and cried out
+that the show of _The Release of Melisendra_ and the divining ape
+were coming to the inn, and a minute later Master Pedro himself came
+into the yard, where he was greeted by the landlord and all the
+guests. Master Pedro's one eye was covered by a piece of green silk;
+Don Quixote judged by this that something had befallen him by
+accident. He asked the landlord to tell him all he knew of Master
+Pedro, and he learned that he traveled with his puppet-show from town
+to town, and was greatly renowned throughout the provinces as a
+showman. And the ape, the innkeeper said, was like a human being, so
+clever was he, and wise.
+
+Soon the show was in readiness inside, and every one gathered around
+Master Pedro and his divining ape. Don Quixote and Sancho were eager
+to have their fortunes told, and both offered their reals at the same
+time; but Master Pedro refused to take any money until the ape had
+rendered satisfactory service.
+
+The ape jumped up on his master's shoulder, and began to chatter his
+teeth as if he were saying something, all the while keeping his mouth
+close to Master Pedro's ear. When he had been chattering long enough
+to please himself, he jumped down just as quickly as he had jumped up.
+The next instant Don Quixote and Sancho were both frightened and awed
+by the showman's suddenly throwing himself before Don Quixote's feet
+and embracing his legs, while he exclaimed: "These legs do I embrace
+as I would embrace the two pillars of Hercules, O illustrious reviver
+of knight-errantry, O prop of the tottering, so long consigned to
+oblivion!" But not only were the knight and the squire aghast; the
+landlord and the guests were as startled as they were, for they had
+never seen Master Pedro act like that before.
+
+But the showman had not finished, for in the next moment he lay at the
+feet of Sancho, to whom the divining ape brought cheer from his
+Teresa, saying that she was just soothing her feelings by indulging in
+wine from a pitcher which she was holding in her left hand and that
+had a broken spout.
+
+Don Quixote was not very well pleased with this exhibition, for he
+thought it decidedly out of place that an ape should know more than he
+or any other human being; and he confided to Sancho that the ape was
+possessed by the devil. He brought Sancho to a dark corner in the
+stable where he was sure no one could overhear them, and told him
+there that he was convinced Master Pedro had made a bargain with the
+devil to get rich through the ape, and then sell him his soul, and he
+said it surprised him beyond words that the Holy Office had not
+already interfered with this dastardly scheme.
+
+At this point Master Pedro came in search of Don Quixote, as the show
+was about to begin. Before entering the inn, however, Sancho entreated
+his master to ask the ape whether what he saw in the cave of
+Montesinos was true. Don Quixote did so, and the ape answered that
+some of it was true, some of it was not; and immediately Sancho
+scornfully broke in and said that he had told him so already. The ape
+intimated that by next Friday he should be able to tell more about the
+adventure; his mind was tired now.
+
+They entered and found the stage set for the performance; the tapers
+of wax were lit, it was a bright and beautiful scene. Master Pedro
+disappeared and took his place behind the scenes, for he was the one
+who created the life in the puppets. A lad who acted as interpreter,
+calling out the scenes and describing the action of the play, placed
+himself outside the theater. Don Quixote, Sancho, the page, and the
+scholar seated themselves in the front row; and the show began.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XXVI
+
+WHEREIN IS CONTINUED THE DROLL ADVENTURE OF THE
+PUPPET-SHOWMAN, TOGETHER WITH OTHER THINGS IN TRUTH
+RIGHT GOOD
+
+
+The play, which depicted how Melisendra was released by her husband,
+Se�or Don Gaiferos, from the hands of the Moors in the city of
+Sansue�a, now called Saragossa, had only proceeded a short way when
+Don Quixote became impatient with the young man who was making the
+explanations to the audience. The knight thought he drifted into
+unnecessary and superfluous language, and was quick to reprimand him.
+The show was continued, and again Don Quixote broke in, criticising
+some of the stage effects: bells were never used by the Moors, only
+kettledrums, he said. But here Master Pedro begged him not to be so
+particular, pleading that the show was given for the sake of
+amusement.
+
+Don Quixote acceded, and the show began again.
+
+But it was not long before a number of horsemen were galloping across the
+stage in pursuit of the two lovers. Their escape was accompanied by such
+blowing of horns and trumpets and beating of drums, that the noise and
+din of it all were too much for the poor knight's imagination which was
+now stirred to such a pitch that he believed himself in the midst of a
+real battle. He drew his sword and plunged against the Moorish horseman
+with such vehemence and force, cutting and slashing in all directions,
+that every one in the room was aghast at his madness, and ran to hide in
+safety. Master Pedro came within an inch of having his ear, not to say
+his whole head, cut off, and Don Quixote's fury was not at an end until
+he had decapitated all the Moorish pasteboard figures. Lucky it was that
+no blood could flow from them, or there would have been a plentiful
+stream of it. The ape took refuge on the roof, frightened out of his poor
+wits, and even Sancho Panza was more than ordinarily shaken with fear,
+for he admitted that he had never seen his master so wrought up.
+
+When Don Quixote was certain of complete victory--in other words,
+destruction--he turned and addressed those who had dared to return
+after the storm: "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!"
+
+But Master Pedro was lamenting the loss of all his emperors and kings
+and knights and horses, and Sancho was so touched by what he said it
+would cost him to buy a new show, that he pleaded with his master to
+make restitution; and, although Don Quixote could not see that he had
+done any wrong, he generously ordered his squire to pay Master Pedro
+the sum of forty reals and three quarters, the landlord having duly
+functioned as arbiter and agreed that that was a fair price for the
+damage done to the figures. Besides this amount, Master Pedro was
+allotted two reals for his trouble in catching the ape.
+
+While they were summing up, Don Quixote, however, had only one thought
+in his mind. He was wondering whether Melisendra and her husband had
+reached safety by this time: so possessed was he of his infernal
+imagination. Master Pedro promised him that as soon as he had caught
+his ape, he would put the question to him; and the showman began to
+worry about his African companion, hoping that he would soon be
+hungry, for then he would know whether he was still alive.
+
+The rest of the evening was passed in peace, and drinking at Don
+Quixote's expense, and soon it was morning, and the man with the
+halberds took his departure. The scholar and the page left, too, and
+Don Quixote generously gave the page twelve reals. But the first one
+to depart was the showman: he was afraid that the knight might have
+another outbreak, and he had no desire to experience it twice, and
+perhaps lose his ape, which he had now caught.
+
+The landlord was extremely pleased with Don Quixote's generosity, and
+was sorry to see him depart; but his madness he could make neither
+head nor tail of, for he had never seen any one thus afflicted.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XXVII
+
+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
+
+
+It was no doubt a good thing for Master Pedro of the puppet-show that
+neither Sancho nor Don Quixote recognized in him the thief who stole
+the squire's donkey, when he was asleep; for he it was. None other
+than the galley-slave Gines de Pasamonte, or Don Ginesillo de
+Paropilla, as Don Quixote would have it. It was in the guise of a
+showman, with only one eye and a part of his face visible, that he
+found it an easy matter to evade being caught by the servants of the
+law, who had been hunting for him ever since he was liberated through
+the generosity and bravery of Don Quixote. The ape he had bought from
+some captives who had returned from Barbary; and he had soon taught
+him the tricks which made people think he was really divining things.
+Before entering a village the clever galley-slave would learn all he
+could about its inhabitants; and being blessed with a remarkable
+memory, he seldom had any difficulty in making the ape's feat seem
+impressive to the masses.
+
+Now, when Don Quixote left the inn, it suddenly occurred to him that
+he ought to visit the banks of the Ebro before steering towards
+Saragossa. So he kept on the road for two days, and on the third day
+as he was mounting a hill he was suddenly aroused by hearing a
+tremendous din of drums, mixed with the sound of trumpets and
+musket-shots. In as few instants as it took to make his charger ascend
+to the top of the hill, he was there; and he saw several hundred men,
+armed with weapons of every imaginable sort. There were flags, of
+various descriptions, and among them one in particular attracted his
+attention: it was a large standard in white, on which was painted a
+donkey, and also an inscription, reading thus:
+
+                 They did not bray in vain,
+                    Our alcaldes twain.
+
+This made Don Quixote believe the warriors must be from the braying
+town, and he remarked to Sancho that the man to whom they had talked
+at the inn must have been misinformed, for evidently the two had not
+been magistrates but alcaldes, according to the sign. To this Sancho
+replied that having once been a magistrate should not exclude any one
+from becoming an alcalde; besides, somebody must have brayed, and
+whether it was an alcalde or a magistrate mattered little, he thought.
+Don Quixote, however, was in a quandary as to what to do that he might
+best live up to the laws of knight-errantry.
+
+He finally went to the braying ones, and, having begged their leave to
+address them, he began a stirring discourse on war and peace that
+lasted a considerable time. He flayed those who would go into battle
+for trifling matters; but just when he seemed to be about to win the
+braying ones over to his way of thinking, he had to pause for breath.
+
+Sancho thought it his duty to interrupt the silence and take up the
+broken thread here, so he continued in his own way, keeping more or
+less to the same subject. He started in by praising his master--the
+Knight of the Lions!--his bravery, his generosity, his knowledge of
+Latin (which Sancho unfortunately did not understand), and all his
+other virtues, and suddenly he bellowed out that they were fools to
+take offense at hearing some one bray. Then he became reminiscent and
+related how he as a boy used to like to go about braying, and told how
+envious every one in his village was because of his great gift in that
+direction. "Wait a bit and listen!" said he. "I'll show you!" And
+before his master had a chance to stop him, he had pinched his nose
+and brayed--had brayed such a bray that all the valleys and dales gave
+echo.
+
+When some of the men heard the braying they thought he had come there
+to mock them, and they set upon him with such fury and force that Don
+Quixote, though he did his best to defend him, had to spur Rocinante
+into retreat, in order to save his own life. But Sancho was both
+stoned and pummeled into insensibility, and then he was put on his
+donkey and tied there; and when he came to, he had to put his trust in
+Dapple, who was forced to smell his way back to Rocinante.
+
+The braying troops remained in the field until evening, but since no
+opposing army appeared, they returned to their village after dark.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XXVIII
+
+OF MATTERS THAT BENENGELI SAYS HE WHO READS THEM WILL KNOW,
+IF HE READS THEM WITH ATTENTION
+
+
+When Dapple reached his faithful playmate, Rocinante, Sancho fell from
+his back and rolled at his master's feet. There he lay; but Don
+Quixote was angry and showed no compassion.
+
+"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?"
+
+Having thus reprimanded his squire, the good knight looked to his
+wounds, which Sancho complained of, but found him only discolored.
+
+"I feel as if I was speaking through my shoulders," wailed Sancho; and
+then he begged his master to hasten away from such evil premises. Of
+course, he also had to say something scornful about Don Quixote's
+having abandoned him in the heat of battle; but the knight begged him
+to consider that there was a difference between flying and retiring.
+
+Don Quixote succeeded in making Sancho mount and remain on the donkey's
+back, and then they set off toward a grove which they sighted in the
+distance. Sancho's back pained him fearfully, but he was much relieved
+when he learned from his master--who had seen the accident--that it was
+caused by his having been smitten by a man armed with a staff. The cause
+being removed as it were, Sancho was jubilant, although his heart and
+courage fell as soon as he, in the course of his usual chattering,
+touched upon the subject of knight-errantry. While bewailing his fate, he
+forgot his pain; therefore Don Quixote was generous and Christian enough
+to beg him to keep on talking to himself. Sancho suddenly was reminded of
+his island, and in turn reminded his master of his promise concerning it.
+
+This impertinence was rewarded by the knight's demanding of him:
+"Well, how long is it, Sancho, since I promised thee an island?"
+
+And Sancho retorted innocently: "If I remember rightly, it must be
+over twenty years, three days more or less."
+
+Don Quixote then had to laugh, for it would have been ridiculous not
+to do so. His wrath was aroused, however, when Sancho again showed his
+covetousness--his one really great failing, Don Quixote thought--and
+he told him to keep all the money he had, and betake himself back to
+his Teresa.
+
+Sancho was moved to tears by his master's wrath, and he confessed in a
+broken voice that if he had only had a tail he would have been a
+complete ass himself. But, he said, if his master should care to
+attach one to him, he would willingly wear one, and serve him all his
+life as an ass. Then he asked on bended knees to be forgiven, saying
+that if he talked much it was less from malice than from ignorance,
+and finished up his harangue with a proverb that had nothing whatever
+to do with the rest of his discourse.
+
+So Don Quixote forgave his squire, and by that time they had reached
+the grove, and they spent the night there under the trees: Don Quixote
+in soliloquies and meditation, Sancho in pain and restlessness. In the
+morning they continued on their way to find the river Ebro.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XXIX
+
+OF THE FAMOUS ADVENTURE OF THE ENCHANTED BARK
+
+
+It took them two days to reach the river. The very first thing that
+struck the knight's eye when he got there, was a boat without oars,
+tied to a tree. Immediately Don Quixote insisted that the boat had
+been sent by magic to fetch him to some great knight or other person
+in need of his help; and all Sancho's contradictions were fruitless.
+
+Finally the proverb, "Do as thy master bids thee, and sit down to
+table with him," had its effect on Sancho, and, although certain he
+was about to give up his life, he tied the beasts to a tree on the
+bank, and seated himself in the boat, trembling like a leaf. Then the
+knight cut the rope, and they started to drift out into the stream,
+while Dapple was braying and Rocinante was trying to break away and
+plunge in after them. Seeing this, Sancho began to weep convulsively,
+but his master had no patience with him, and told him to control
+himself.
+
+Soon they had reached midstream, and Don Quixote, much to Sancho's
+perplexity, began to talk about cosmography, the three hundred and
+sixty degrees of the globe, and the equinoctial line, which, the
+knight said, they were just then passing. A sure sign by which all
+seafaring Spaniards determined the passing of this latitude, Don
+Quixote went on, was that all lice died on everybody on board ship.
+So, in accordance with this custom, he asked his squire to take the
+test. Sancho let his hand creep stealthily into the hollow of his left
+knee, and he promptly told his master that either was the test not to
+be relied upon, or they had not passed the line that had just been
+mentioned by name.
+
+"Why, how so?" asked Don Quixote; "hast thou come upon aught?"
+
+"Ay, and aughts," replied Sancho, and in replying he let the stream
+wash his fingers.
+
+Just then they came in view of some large floating mills, moored in
+midstream. At once Don Quixote became excited, crying to Sancho that
+there must be some fair princess or high-born lady in captivity in
+this castle.
+
+Sancho did his best to make his master believe they were not castles
+but only mills that ground corn; but to no avail. Don Quixote insisted
+that either his squire or the mills were enchanted. They came closer
+and closer to them, and soon shouts were heard from some of the
+millers, who realized the danger of the boat's being upset by the
+suction of the water, and dragged into the mill wheels.
+
+The men quickly got hold of some sticks and poles, and tried to stave
+off the boat, and when Don Quixote saw their white, flour-covered
+faces he turned to Sancho and begged him to take a good look at the
+monsters that had been sent to oppose him. The men were all the time
+crying out, unable to fathom such dare-deviltry or folly: "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?"
+
+In reply to these well-meant exclamations, Don Quixote stood up in the
+boat and began to swing his sword in a ferocious manner, calling them
+evil rabble, and demanding that they set free the princess who was
+imprisoned in the fortress; while Sancho said all the prayers he could
+think of, crawling on the bottom of the swaying boat, which was now
+close to the rushing water.
+
+At last the millers caught the boat with their hooks, but in so doing
+Don Quixote and his squire both fell into the river. Don Quixote in
+his heavy armor made two trips to the bottom, but both he and Sancho
+were rescued, thanks to the devils in white. As soon as they had come
+ashore, Sancho sank upon his knees and thanked the Lord for having
+been saved from such a death as that from drinking too much water, and
+prayed that he should be delivered from all future temptations to risk
+his life in any more foolish causes.
+
+As this moment the fishermen who owned the boat came running up,
+claiming damages for the wrecked craft, and after having failed to
+strike a bargain with this rabble for the delivery of the enchanted
+fair maiden in the castle, Don Quixote, wearied by their stupidity,
+paid them fifty reals for the boat, exclaiming: "God help us, this
+world is all machinations and schemes at cross purposes one with the
+other! I can do no more." Then, turning toward the water mills, he
+burst out into lamentations, confessing to the imagined captive
+princess his inability to set her free at this time; while the
+fishermen stood by, wondering what it was all about.
+
+Having ceased his lamentations, Don Quixote and Sancho joined their
+faithful beasts, and set out to find new adventures.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XXX
+
+OF DON QUIXOTE'S ADVENTURE WITH A FAIR HUNTRESS
+
+
+Sancho left the river Ebro with no regrets, except for the fifty reals
+just paid to the fishermen. He was seriously considering in his own
+mind the foolishness of remaining a squire to such a mad master as
+his. But late the following afternoon they approached a field, and
+suddenly Don Quixote discovered in the distance a number of people,
+and as they came closer they found it was a hawking party.
+
+Seeing in the party a lady with a hawk on her left hand, and dressed
+so richly that Sancho said he had never seen anything so fine in his
+life, Don Quixote decided that she must be some lady of great
+distinction. Therefore he dispatched his squire with a message to her,
+asking her for permission to kiss her hand in person. He instructed
+Sancho to be particularly careful not to dispense any of his proverbs
+to the lady; but Sancho said he could do without this warning, for had
+he not carried messages before to the exalted Dulcinea, the highest
+lady of them all?
+
+Soon Don Quixote saw his squire kneeling before the lady. Having given
+her his life's history and told her his name, Sancho proceeded with
+the message of his master, the valiant Knight of the Lions, formerly
+the Knight of the Rueful Countenance, explicitly explaining his
+master's modest desire. The lady, who was no other than a duchess, at
+once was interested, as she had read and laughed over the first volume
+of "The Ingenious Gentleman, Don Quixote of La Mancha"; and she
+immediately asked Sancho to return to his master and say that she
+would be delighted beyond words to have the worthy knight and his
+squire come and be her and the Duke's guests at a country place they
+had there.
+
+Sancho was so flattered that the Duchess had recognized him from
+having read the book, and so pleased with the reception she had given
+him, as well as so taken by her great charm and beauty that he could
+not get back to his master quickly enough to tell him the good news.
+With his best manner and bearing Don Quixote, attended by his faithful
+one, rode into the presence of the august lady, and kissed her hand.
+
+But while Sancho was on his way to his master with the Duchess'
+message, she had sent for the Duke, and they had arranged, both being
+gifted with a remarkable sense of humor, to receive and entertain the
+hero in true knight-errant fashion. Having read all the tales of
+chivalry, they knew exactly what to do.
+
+Don Quixote was about to dismount, when he had kissed the Duchess'
+hand; and Sancho, as was his custom, wanted to get off Dapple in a
+hurry and hold his stirrup, as soon as he perceived his master's
+intention. But luck would have it that one of his legs caught in the
+trappings, and he fell head first towards the ground. There the poor
+squire hung, unable to get up or down, caught by the foot. Now, when
+Don Quixote, his eyes fixedly and courteously on the Duchess, thought
+that his squire was there with the stirrup, he pressed downward with
+all his weight, and knight and saddle both flew high in the air off
+Rocinante. When Don Quixote had reached earth, he lay there, writhing
+in pain and cursing and swearing at his stupid squire, who was still
+hanging by his foot.
+
+The Duke and the Duchess, unable to constrain themselves at the
+amusing scene, finally were able through their laughter to order their
+huntsmen to their help; and, limping, the knight advanced to do homage
+to the Duke and his consort on his damaged knees. The Duke, however,
+nobly refused such honor, and instead, embraced the knight. He then
+regretted in a few well chosen words the knight's accident; but Don
+Quixote replied with an exalted speech, saying that if he had fallen
+to the depths of the bottomless pit, the glory of having seen such a
+noble and worthy pair would have lifted him up. Then, of course, he
+said something uncomplimentary about his squire, who did not know how
+to tighten the girths of a saddle, although he could not help giving
+him credit for having a loose tongue.
+
+But when the knight began to praise the beauty of the Duchess, the
+Duke asked him courteously whether there were not others to praise,
+as, for instance, his own Lady Dulcinea. At this Don Quixote offered
+the Duchess his services for a few days, together with those of his
+squire, Sancho Panza, whom he now took pity on and praised as being
+the drollest squire in the world. Whereupon the Duchess flattered
+Sancho, saying that if he were droll, she was sure he was shrewd as
+well; but Don Quixote broke in and added that he was talkative. When
+the knight, having heard himself addressed as the Knight of the Rueful
+Countenance, begged to correct it to the Knight of the Lions, the Duke
+asked him to relate the episode that thus changed his title. And then
+he invited all to come to the castle to be present at a reception that
+he would give to their great and distinguished guest.
+
+With the Duchess in the middle, flanked by Don Quixote and the Duke,
+the whole company headed for the castle; but it was not long before
+the Duchess found her desire for conversation with the droll and
+amusing Sancho irresistible. As soon as the Duchess' wish was made
+known to him, the squire eagerly wedged his way between the horses and
+chattered his way into the lady's good graces.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XXXI
+
+WHICH TREATS OF MANY AND GREAT MATTERS
+
+
+The reception tendered Don Quixote was arranged in true knight-errant
+fashion by the Duke, who had ridden ahead and given full instructions
+to the servants. So when Don Quixote arrived, he received a welcome
+that surpassed anything he had ever read or dreamt of.
+
+The staircases and the galleries of the court were lined with
+servants, who greeted him with the exclamation: "Welcome, flower and
+cream of knight-errantry!" At the same time they cast pellets with
+scented water over him.
+
+Sancho was taken aback at the sight of all this glory. He had followed
+the Duchess, but once in the castle, the absence of his Dapple made
+him feel worried. So he turned to one of the duennas, a dignified
+woman, named Do�a Rodriguez de Grijalba, and asked her whether she
+would not favor him by going outside and seeing that his poor little
+Dapple was well taken care of. Do�a Rodriguez was greatly incensed at
+his ordering a duenna of the ducal household to do things of that
+sort, and called him a garlic-stuffed scoundrel. Don Quixote,
+overhearing their conversation, reprimanded his misbehaving servant,
+and Sancho blamed it all on his love for his donkey.
+
+After this, Don Quixote was escorted into a hall the walls of which
+were covered with cloth of gold and rich tapestries, and here he was
+stripped of his armor by six fair damsels. These maidens could
+scarcely control their laughter when they saw him stand there, thin,
+emaciated, tall and bony, dressed in his chamois doublet and
+tight-fitting breeches. They begged him to permit them to put a clean
+shirt on him, but that he refused with many assurances of his modesty,
+asking them instead to give it to Sancho. The two were taken to a
+room, where Don Quixote, alone with his squire, undressed and put on
+the shirt, while he gave Sancho admonitions galore, as to how to
+behave, begging him never again to have any quarrels with any
+duennas, for that only tended to lessen the respect for the master,
+who was always judged by his squire's behavior and actions.
+
+Then Don Quixote returned to the hall, where he was attired in a rich
+baldric and a scarlet mantle, with a sword and a gorgeous montera of
+green satin. As he passed through the halls and chambers on his way to
+the state dining room, he was escorted by the seneschal and twelve
+pages; and the sides of each room, as well as the aisles, were lined
+with servants in pompous liveries.
+
+Only four covers were laid. Besides Don Quixote and his noble hosts
+the confessor of the ducal household, a cold and austere churchman,
+occupied a seat at the heavily laden table, to which our knight was
+ushered ceremoniously by the Duke himself. But the dinner had not even
+begun when Sancho unloosened his tongue and began with his proverbs,
+much to the distress and mortification of his master, although to the
+great enjoyment of the Duchess. Sancho had been standing by Don
+Quixote, staring wide-eyed and open-mouthed at everything that was
+taking place, for he had never in his life seen anything so sumptuous
+and ceremonious. The exchange of courtesies between the Duke and our
+Knight, when the latter finally was induced to accept the seat of
+honor at the head of the table, impressed the squire considerably; and
+it was then he thought the time ripe for the introduction of a story
+about this matter of seats. The Duchess told him by all means to let
+them hear it, and he began, telling it in the most roundabout way,
+with twists and curves, and expeditions here and there to places and
+matters that had as much to do with the story as had the proverbs
+that he stuffed it with.
+
+Don Quixote was beside himself, and the confessor interrupted the poor
+squire impatiently again and again; but on he went. All the while the
+Duchess was laughing so heartily that she could scarcely sit up
+straight in the chair. And while the Duke engaged himself with Don
+Quixote, she carried on a confidential conversation with Sancho, who
+told her how he had tricked his master into believing that his Lady
+Dulcinea was enchanted, saying she was as much enchanted as his
+father.
+
+When the confessor heard the sacrilegious conversation the Duchess was
+having with Sancho, discussing giants and enchantments, he severely
+reprimanded her and warned her that she would have to answer to God
+for whatever this man did and said. Then, addressing the Duke, whom he
+had forbidden to read the book about Don Quixote's adventures, he
+said: "This Don Simpleton, or whatever his name is, cannot be such a
+blockhead as your Excellency would have him, holding out encouragement
+to him to go on with his vagaries and follies." And then he turned to
+Don Quixote and told him to be on his way, and go home and bring up
+his children, if he had any; and he called him a numbskull, and other
+names, and a fool for believing that there were knights-errant in the
+world and Dulcineas and other such silly things.
+
+Don Quixote sat still and never moved a muscle while the churchman was
+speaking, but as soon as he had said all he had to say, he sprang up
+from his seat, trembling in his whole body, his face contorted with
+rage.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XXXII
+
+OF THE REPLY DON QUIXOTE GAVE HIS CENSURER, WITH OTHER
+INCIDENTS, GRAVE AND DROLL
+
+
+Had Don Quixote not been where he was and had the man who thus
+assailed him not been of the church, it is safe to say that Don
+Quixote would have made his defamer retract his words at the point of
+his sword. But instead he calmed himself, and began a long discourse
+on the virtues of knight-errantry, finishing it with an avowal of his
+intentions which, he swore, were to do good to all and evil to none.
+As for his deserving to be called a fool, he would leave that to the
+judgment of the Duke and the Duchess. But their worships never got a
+chance to utter a word before Sancho broke in with the most stupendous
+praise of his master's speech.
+
+The churchman wanted to know whether he was the Sancho Panza of the
+book he had seen in print, to which Sancho replied that he most
+certainly was, and corroborated it with a string of proverbs, ending
+his long-winded reply to the confessor's question with a wish for long
+life for his master and himself, saying that neither one of them would
+be in any want of empires or islands to rule. Whereupon the Duke at
+once said he conferred upon Sancho this very moment the government of
+one of his islands; and hearing this Don Quixote whispered to
+Sancho--who could not believe his own ears--to go down on his knees
+and thank the Duke for his kindness.
+
+The ecclesiastic could stand this impudence no longer, and he rose
+from his seat and left the room in disgust and ill-temper. The Duke
+wanted to call him back, but he was in such hysterics from hearing
+Sancho's proverbial nonsense that he could not speak. After the
+churchman's departure Don Quixote again took to discoursing, and
+delivered a tirade on the subject of giving and taking offense,
+comparing the confessor's rebuke to the offense of a woman, whose only
+weapon was her tongue and who therefore could not be punished by the
+sword. They marveled at his knowledge and at the quality of his
+language, however amusing he himself appeared; but it was Sancho who
+particularly took their fancy, for the ducal pair thought they had
+never met any one quite so amusing and droll in all their life. And
+when Don Quixote had ended his discourse, Sancho himself burst out
+regarding the priest: "By my faith, I am certain if Reinaldos of
+Montalvan had heard the little man's words, he would have given him
+such a spank on the mouth that he would not have spoken for the next
+three years."
+
+The dinner was now over, and four maidens entered: one carrying a
+silver basin, another one a jug, also of silver, a third one towels,
+while the fourth had her sleeves rolled up, and, approaching Don
+Quixote, began to soap his face and beard. Don Quixote thought this
+must be a custom after all ducal meals, so he submitted in amazement
+and stretched out his legs comfortably, that he should not appear out
+of place in such surroundings. When his face was all lathered, the
+barber maiden pretended there was no more water in the jug; and by
+this time the lather had worked its way into the knight's eyes, and he
+sat there making the most fierce and ludicrous faces until the water
+finally arrived. Then the Duke, in order that Don Quixote should have
+no suspicions, ordered the maiden to wash his face and beard as well.
+But the one who really was crying for and needing such a washing was
+Sancho. He at last got up sufficient courage to ask the Duchess that
+he might share in the ceremony, and she promised him that if necessary
+the maidens would even put him in the bathtub. This kind offer Sancho
+declined--with many thanks, however--saying he would be just as
+grateful for having only his beard washed.
+
+While Sancho went with the seneschal to have this attended to, Don
+Quixote lingered at the table with the Duke and the Duchess. The
+latter was anxious to have the hero tell her something about his Lady
+Dulcinea; and Don Quixote became reminiscent and began to sigh,
+telling her in exalted and flowery language of his great platonic love
+for this lady, who was now enchanted by some evil sage. When the
+Duchess asked Don Quixote if it were true that she was only an
+imaginary figure, he replied meekly that there was a good deal to be
+said on that point; still, he thought, one must not go to extreme
+lengths in asking for proof. They discussed many other things, not
+forgetting Sancho, whom his master praised for his drollery and
+criticised for being a booby.
+
+Suddenly a great noise was heard and the next moment Sancho burst
+into the room trembling with rage. He was followed by some of the
+servants in the kitchen. Round his neck was a straining cloth, and
+dirty lather was splashed in various places over his person. He
+presented an appearance that at once made the Duchess scream with
+laughter. He proceeded to tell how he had been set upon by the
+kitchen-boy, who had been appointed barber by the rest, and how the
+lad had attempted to lather his face with kitchen soap and dishwater,
+applied with a scrubbing-brush. Don Quixote thought it best here to
+make the servants understand that he would tolerate no such jokes on
+his squire, so he addressed them in severe fashion and then ordered
+them back to the kitchen, with the Duchess' kind consent.
+
+When the servants had left Sancho thought it a duty to himself and his
+master--in order to uphold their mutual dignity and for the sake of
+freeing himself from any untoward suspicion--to speak on his own
+behalf: "Let them bring a comb here 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." And when the Duchess had acknowledged her
+faith in Sancho and his virtues, the poor squire's happiness knew no
+bounds. He offered to serve her for the rest of his life. He wished
+that he might soon be dubbed a knight that he might carry out his
+desire on that point. She thanked him for expressing such a friendly
+feeling for her, and told him that she could plainly judge by his
+courteous offer to her that he had been reared in no other school than
+that of the great knight Don Quixote of La Mancha. And she assured
+him that the Duke would not forget the island he had promised him: she
+would see to that.
+
+Don Quixote was now feeling the necessity for his mid-day nap, and
+begged to be permitted to retire. Sancho wanted to do the same, and
+remarked to the Duchess that he usually slept about four or five hours
+in the middle of a warm summer day; but upon her earnest request he
+promised her to try to wake up after an hour and come and visit with
+her and her duennas.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XXXIII
+
+OF THE DELECTABLE DISCOURSE WHICH THE DUCHESS AND HER
+DAMSELS HELD WITH SANCHO PANZA, WELL WORTH READING AND
+NOTING
+
+
+As soon as Sancho had eaten his dinner, he decided to have no sleep
+that afternoon, but to hasten to the Duchess' chambers that he might
+talk to her the whole afternoon. The Duchess asked him innumerable
+questions about his master and the Lady Dulcinea, and about Teresa
+Panza and every one concerned in the book about Don Quixote; and
+Sancho managed to keep the Duchess and her duennas in an uncommonly
+good humor for the rest of the day. They soon drifted to Sancho's
+government, and the squire expressed the belief that perhaps after a
+fortnight he would be as well versed in the affairs of government as
+he was in the farm labor he had been doing all his life.
+
+"Let them only put me into this government and they will see wonders,"
+he said; "for one who has been a good squire will be a good governor."
+
+And then he took leave of the high lady, who suggested that he go home
+and sleep for the rest of the afternoon. He promised that he would,
+and entreated her to see to it that good care was taken of his Dapple.
+When he had explained to the Duchess that Dapple was his faithful
+donkey, and told her of the incident with Do�a Rodriguez, she assured
+him that Dapple would want for nothing in her stable. She suggested
+that when he had his government in hand, he ought to pension Dapple
+off and let him quit working; and Sancho thought that was by no means
+a bad idea, for, he said, he would not be the first ass to be so
+pensioned.
+
+The Duchess, when he had left, hastened to tell the Duke of her
+amusing conversation with Sancho; and again they put their heads
+together, trying to invent new ways and plots whereby they might
+derive amusement from the presence of Don Quixote and his squire.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XXXIV
+
+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
+
+
+When the Duke and the Duchess had hit upon a plan they proceeded to
+make preparations for its being carried out, and on the sixth day they
+invited Don Quixote to go hunting with them. There was an array of
+huntsmen and beaters, as great a retinue as the Duke could possibly
+get together. Both Don Quixote and his squire had been presented with
+splendid hunting suits; but Don Quixote did not accept his, saying
+that he would soon have to return to the hard pursuits of his calling,
+and that it would only be a burden to carry it along.
+
+Sancho did not know that his beautiful suit was destined to be torn
+that very day. A wild boar came along, and Sancho deserted his Dapple
+and climbed quickly up into the tallest tree he could find; but fate
+would have it that the branch gave way, and Sancho fell onto a branch
+below, where he hung suspended by a great rent in his breeches,
+screaming with all his might that he would be devoured by the boar;
+but the boar fell in the next moment, pierced by many spears, and
+Sancho was helped to the ground by his master.
+
+The boar was taken to some tents nearby, where dinner soon was ready
+and being served for the hunters. Sancho could not refrain then from
+showing the Duchess what had befallen him in the tree-top, expressing
+to her his opinion of hunts of that kind, involving so much risk. Much
+better, he thought, it would be to hunt hares and other little
+animals. And then he went on at a tremendous speed, repeating proverb
+after proverb, one minute telling the Duchess how he would govern his
+island, and the next minute talking about something in his home
+village.
+
+Night fell as they were talking. It was a very dark night, which
+helped to make the Duke's plan seem more likely of success. They had
+all left the tents and gone into the wood, when suddenly it seemed as
+if the whole space was afire in one blazing red mass of flames; then
+there came the sound of trumpets, numberless ones it seemed, and of
+hoofs, as if hordes of horses had passed through the wood, and of
+drums, and of battle-cries in Moorish. It was one long, tremendous,
+indescribable confusion. The Duke and the Duchess were seemingly taken
+aback; Don Quixote did not know what to think or do; and Sancho was
+absolutely panic-stricken. It was a din so overwhelming that even
+those who had arranged it were aghast and afraid.
+
+Then there came a sudden lull, and a messenger--dressed like a demon
+and blowing a horn that sounded a weird and sickly note--appeared
+before their eyes, apparently in great haste. The Duke called to him
+and asked him where he was going; and he replied in a coarse voice
+that he was the Devil and was looking for Don Quixote of La Mancha. He
+pointed to the on-riding troops, and said that they were enchanters
+who were bringing the famous Lady Dulcinea del Toboso and the great
+Frenchman Montesinos on a triumphal car to seek their disenchantment
+through the only one who could accomplish it, the Knight of the Lions.
+
+On hearing this, Don Quixote said: "If you are the Devil, you ought to
+know that I am Don Quixote!"
+
+Whereupon the Devil exclaimed in surprise that he had not noticed the
+knight at all because he was so preoccupied with so many other things
+that he had almost forgotten what he was there for. Judging the Devil
+by his remark Sancho decided he was a very honest fellow and a good
+Christian; otherwise he would not have sworn--as Sancho did--by God
+and his conscience. After that the squire concluded that even hell had
+its quota of souls.
+
+The Devil asked Don Quixote to communicate with Montesinos that he
+might receive instructions as to how to carry out the disenchantment
+of Lady Dulcinea; and then he turned around his horse and was gone.
+The whole thing had happened so suddenly that even Don Quixote was
+perplexed and seemed as if he did not know whether to believe what he
+had seen and heard. Sancho was dumbfounded and frightened out of his
+wits.
+
+As Don Quixote made no move to follow the Devil's advice, the Duke
+turned to him and asked whether he intended to remain where he was. He
+answered that he would even if all the devils from hell should attack
+him. Scarcely had he vowed this when he had to gather all his courage
+in order not to give way to fear, for again there broke out a noise
+and din that surpassed anything that he had ever heard: shots of
+cannon and muskets, shouts and screams from all sides, and the
+terrific sound of all the trumpets, horns, drums, bugles and clarions;
+and then came the heavy creaking noise of carts, coming through the
+wood and all brightly lighted with rows of tapers.
+
+It was too much for poor Sancho. He fell fainting on the Duchess'
+skirt. She ordered her servants to fan him and to throw water in his
+face, and he regained consciousness just as one of the carts was
+passing. It was drawn by four oxen, completely covered with black
+cloth, and attached to each horn was a lighted wax taper. Leading the
+oxen were two demons with such horrible, frightful faces that Sancho
+shut his eyes tightly after having got one glance of them. An old,
+worthy-looking man with a long, snow-white beard sat on a raised seat
+on the cart; and when he passed Don Quixote he said in a deep voice:
+"I am the sage Lirgandeo." And the cart continued. Then followed other
+carts, with other sages, and Sancho's face suddenly lighted up, for he
+heard sweet music in the distance, and he said to the Duchess:
+"Se�ora, where there is music, there can be no mischief."
+
+But Don Quixote would not commit himself, for all he remarked was:
+"That remains to be seen."
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XXXV
+
+WHEREIN IS CONTINUED THE INSTRUCTION GIVEN TO DON QUIXOTE
+TOUCHING THE DISENCHANTMENT OF DULCINEA, TOGETHER WITH
+OTHER MARVELOUS INCIDENTS
+
+
+As the sound of the music came closer, they distinguished a triumphal
+car, several times larger than the other ones, and on it were seated
+two figures, surrounded by a great many penitents, robed in white, and
+with lighted wax tapers in their hands. One of the figures was a young
+maiden in the costume of a nymph. She was very beautiful. The other
+one was dressed in a robe of state and had her head covered with a
+black veil.
+
+As the car reached the spot where the Duke and Duchess and Don Quixote
+were standing, the music suddenly ceased, and the figure in the long
+robe rose and removed both the robe and the veil. All were astonished
+to find themselves face to face with Death. Sancho was frightened; Don
+Quixote felt ill at ease; and even the Duke and the Duchess seemed
+uncomfortable.
+
+Then Death began to declaim a long poem which ended with the
+announcement that the Lady Dulcinea was enchanted by himself, the sage
+Merlin, here in the guise of Death, and that she could be redeemed in
+but one way: by three thousand three hundred lashes administered on
+Don Quixote's squire Sancho.
+
+When Sancho heard this he exclaimed that he would rather stab himself
+than take the lashes, for he failed to see what he had to do with the
+enchantment of the Lady Dulcinea. This talk infuriated Don Quixote,
+who threatened to tie him to a tree and lay on the lashes himself, if
+his faithful squire had so little respect for his beloved one that he
+would not sacrifice himself to such an extent. But Merlin said that
+would have no effect, for the worthy Sancho must do the sacrifice of
+his own free will, or the disenchantment could not be accomplished.
+
+Sancho, however, was as stubborn as a mule, and it was not until the
+Duke himself took a hand in the matter and threatened him with the
+loss of his governorship that he gave in; and then a compromise was
+made whereby Sancho promised to inflict the three thousand three
+hundred lashes upon himself. Merlin assured him, however, that if he
+should make any mistake in counting them, it would soon be known; for
+the moment all the lashes had been dealt, the Lady Dulcinea would be
+released--neither one lash before, nor one lash after--and she would
+at once come to thank and reward him for his sacrifice.
+
+As soon as Sancho had testified his willingness to serve his master and
+his master's lady, Don Quixote fell on his squire's neck and kissed him.
+The Duke and the Duchess praised him for his unselfishness. And the music
+played again. Then the car moved on, Lady Dulcinea bowed to Sancho and
+the ducal pair, and dawn appeared with its glowing smile. The muskets
+were again heard; and all was calm.
+
+The Duke was pleased beyond measure with his idea, which had been so
+effectively carried out. The hunt was at an end, and all returned
+happy and content--all except Sancho, who could not help thinking of
+the pain he was to give himself. But the Duke was bent on hitting upon
+new schemes whereby he should be able to continue the gaiety that
+Sancho and his master caused.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XXXVI
+
+WHEREIN IS RELATED THE STRANGE AND UNDREAMED-OF ADVENTURE
+OF THE DISTRESSED DUENNA, ALIAS THE COUNTESS TRIFALDI,
+TOGETHER WITH A LETTER WHICH SANCHO PANZA WROTE TO HIS
+WIFE, TERESA PANZA
+
+
+The Duke's majordomo had played the part of Merlin, and he it was who
+induced a page to appear as Dulcinea. This majordomo was a fellow full
+of pranks and good humor, and it was he who had written the verses he
+recited, too. To him the Duke now turned, and they contrived together
+another amusing scheme.
+
+The next day Sancho was asked by the Duchess how many lashes he had
+given himself; and he replied meekly that he had commenced with five.
+After a moment's inquisition, however, the squire admitted that it had
+not been with lashes but slaps that he had done penance. The Duchess
+said she was certain that the sage Merlin would not tolerate any such
+false pretense. She suggested that he make a scourge with claws or
+knotted cords so that he would be sure to feel what he was doing to
+himself, and when the Duchess offered to bring him such a scourge in
+the morning, he had to promise to accept it. Then he told her that he
+had written a letter to his wife, Teresa Panza, in the governor style;
+and begged her to read it, which she did. The Duchess derived so much
+amusement from it that she hastened to show it to the Duke. And when
+Sancho was asked whether he had written the letter himself, he said
+that he only dictated it, since he could neither read nor write.
+
+After dinner the Duke and the Duchess were sitting in the garden
+talking with Don Quixote and Sancho, when suddenly there was heard the
+sound of a deep doleful voice. They all turned quickly to see who was
+speaking, and there they saw approaching them a man with a snow-white
+beard that reached almost to the ground. He said he was Trifaldin, of
+the White Beard, squire to the Countess Trifaldi, otherwise called the
+Distressed Duenna, and that he had come in search of the valiant
+knight Don Quixote who he had heard was visiting at the castle. His
+mistress, he said, in order to find this knight had traveled all the
+way from the kingdom of Kandy without breaking her fast, and now he
+begged that Don Quixote would receive the lady, that she herself might
+tell him her misfortunes.
+
+Don Quixote at once bade the squire go and fetch the Countess; at the
+same time he uttered a desire to the Duke that the confessor who did
+not believe in knights errant might have been present to see how
+appreciated and famed his achievements had become throughout the
+world.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTERS XXXVII-XXXIX
+
+WHEREIN IS CONTINUED THE NOTABLE ADVENTURE OF THE DISTRESSED
+DUENNA, INCLUDING HER MARVELOUS AND MEMORABLE TALE OF
+MISFORTUNE
+
+
+The Countess soon arrived, escorted by twelve duennas, who formed a
+lane through which she passed into the Duke's presence. On seeing so
+distinguished a guest, he went to receive her with all the honors due
+to her rank. When she had curtsied, she asked the Duke if it were true
+that the famous Don Quixote of La Mancha was present in the company.
+The import of her question was heightened by the way she expressed it,
+for these were her words spoken in a deep and coarse voice: "Are there
+present here that knight immaculatissimus, Don Quixote de la
+Manchissima, and his squirissimus Panza?"
+
+Before Don Quixote or any one else had had an opportunity to reply,
+Sancho opened his mouth and burst out: "The Panza is here, and Don
+Quixottissimus too; and so, most distressedest Duennissima, you may
+say what you willissimus, for we are all readissimus to do you any
+servissimus."
+
+Then Don Quixote stepped forward and begged the duenna to give him an
+account of her distress that he might know how to relieve it. The
+duenna became emotional almost beyond bounds. She thrust herself
+before Don Quixote and embraced his legs, imploring his and his
+squire's help, and then began to tell her story of misery.
+
+All the while the Duke and the Duchess were in paroxysms of laughter,
+so well did the duenna act her part. And their enjoyment was further
+heightened by the remarks and questions that Sancho interspersed here
+and there, always at the wrong moment and much to his master's
+chagrin.
+
+The weeping duenna went on to tell how she had been the ranking duenna
+at the court of the dowager-queen of Kandy; how she had been entrusted
+with the care and the bringing up of the Princess Antonomasia, the
+young heiress of the kingdom, and how she had permitted a young
+gentleman at the court, who was enamored of the Princess, to gain her
+favor in such a degree that marriage followed. The young Don had
+captivated both the Princess and the duenna with his accomplishments,
+for not only did he play the guitar and write poetry, and dance, but
+he could as well make bird-cages. But when the Queen learned of her
+daughter's marriage to one so much beneath her in rank, her heart
+broke in twain and she collapsed and was buried in three days, the
+duenna declared, tears streaming down her face all the while.
+
+Sancho was curious at once, and wanted to have a doubt settled. "She
+died, no doubt?" he asked; and the duenna assured him that they did
+not bury the living in Kandy, only the dead. But Sancho thought it was
+a very stupid thing for the Old Queen to go and die thus; he said he
+could see no reason why she should have taken the whole thing so to
+heart, for the Princess might have married a page. That, in Sancho's
+opinion, might have been an excuse for dying; but the Don was such an
+accomplished man, and a gentleman at that, who could even make
+bird-cages. Dying was too absurd!
+
+Then the duenna resumed, and now came the worst of her story. She told
+how the two lovers, upon the Queen's death, had become enchanted by
+the giant Malambruno, the Queen's first cousin, who had sworn that
+they would not regain their right shapes until the famous and valiant
+knight of La Mancha had met him in single combat. Having sentenced
+them thus, he summoned all the duennas in the castle, charging them
+with the responsibility of the evil match, and saying that since he
+did not wish them to suffer death, he would punish them in some other
+way. Scarcely had the giant uttered these words before their faces
+began to sting, their pores opened, and when the duennas put their
+hands to their faces, they felt themselves punished in a most
+horrifying manner.
+
+Here the thirteen duennas raised their veils, and the Duke and his
+company were amazed to see that all the women were bearded. The
+Distressed Duenna raised a wail, and assured those present that had it
+not been that she had cried so much that she had no tears left, she
+would now shed them copiously, and she exclaimed: "Where, I ask, can a
+duenna with a beard go? What father or mother will pity her? Who will
+help her? For, if even when she has a smooth skin and a face tortured
+by a thousand kinds of cosmetics, she can hardly get anybody to love
+her, what will she do when she shows a countenance turned into a
+thicket? O duennas! It was an unlucky moment when we were born and
+when our fathers begot us!"
+
+As the unhappy duenna spoke these words, it seemed as if she were
+about to faint. With a deep and distressing moan, she covered her face
+with her hands.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XL
+
+OF MATTERS RELATING AND BELONGING TO THIS ADVENTURE AND TO
+THIS MEMORABLE HISTORY
+
+
+The one who was most impressed by this sad story and enchantment was
+Sancho, who thought it a dastardly trick for any giant to do. Did not
+the enchanter know that it cost money to shave? In Sancho's opinion,
+it would have been infinitely better to have taken off a part of their
+noses, even if it would have given them an impediment of speech. The
+duennas replied that some of them had tried sticking-plaster in order
+to spare themselves the expense of shaving, but to jerk it off their
+faces, was a painful procedure, they said.
+
+Don Quixote interrupted and declared that they would have to follow no
+such course, for he would rid them of their beards or he would pluck
+out his own in the land of the Moors. Such a noble declaration seemed
+to revive the Distressed Duenna. She came up to Don Quixote and told
+him that the giant Malambruno had been courteous enough to offer to
+send the famous wooden steed that the valiant Pierres used. Merlin had
+made it. This horse could go through the air with a speed that
+carried its rider to the ends of the world overnight. It was steered
+by a peg in his forehead, she said, and this peg also served as a
+bridle. Furthermore, there was room for two--one in the saddle, and
+one on the croup.
+
+"I should like to see him," said Sancho; "but to fancy that I am going
+to mount him, either in the saddle or on the croup, is to ask pears of
+an elm-tree. Let each one shave himself as best he can; I am not going
+to be bruised to get rid of any one's beard."
+
+But Countess Trifaldi insisted that Panza was indispensable to the
+shaving of the duennas; and when the Duchess had pleaded with him and
+he saw the Distressed Duenna's eyes fill with tears, he could hardly
+keep his own back. He bent to their will and resigned himself to his
+fate and the adventure of riding through the air on the croup of the
+mighty wooden steed.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XLI
+
+THE END OF THIS PROTRACTED ADVENTURE
+
+
+Don Quixote was in a state of anxiety during the whole day for fear
+that Malambruno should not send the steed, but soon after nightfall
+there arrived in the garden four wild-men, clad in ivy, and carrying
+on their shoulders a large wooden horse. Don Quixote was summoned by
+the Distressed Duenna and he mounted the horse at once, not even
+putting on his spurs. By this time, however, Sancho had changed his
+mind and decided that he was not going to fly through the air like a
+witch. But upon the earnest and courteous solicitations of the Duke,
+Sancho at last consented to ride with his master.
+
+Don Quixote begged Sancho to give himself five hundred lashes on
+behalf of his enchanted Dulcinea before they set off; but this request
+struck the squire as the absurdest one he had ever heard. How could
+his master expect him to sit on a hard wooden horse while he was all
+bruised and sore from the lashes? He did promise solemnly, however,
+that as soon as the duennas had been shaved he would turn to the
+fulfilling of the other debt.
+
+The Distressed Duenna blindfolded them, saying that doing so would
+prevent them from getting dizzy when they rose to great heights; and
+Sancho, trembling and tearful, complained that the croup was too hard
+and begged for a cushion. But the duenna answered him that the magic
+steed permitted no trappings of any kind, and she suggested that he
+place himself sideways like a woman, for no doubt he would feel the
+hardness less in that position.
+
+Sancho did so; and then he uncovered his eyes and looked in a tender
+fashion on those he was leaving behind, and began to cry piteously.
+Don Quixote told him sharply to cover his eyes again and not to act
+like a fool and a coward; and his squire did as he was bidden, after
+having commended himself to God and begged the duennas to pray all the
+paternosters and ave-marias they could for him. They in turn
+admonished him to stick tight to the croup and not to lose hold of it,
+warning him that if he fell, he would fall like a planet and be
+blinded by all the stars he would meet on his way down to Earth.
+
+Sobbing, Sancho clung to his master, embracing him with his fat arms
+so tightly that Don Quixote came near being upset. The knight took a
+firm grip on the steering peg, and reprimanded his squire for
+squeezing him. He told him there was nothing to worry about, for it
+seemed to him he had never in his life ridden a steed that was so
+easy-going: one would hardly think they had budged from their original
+place, he said. When Sancho had calmed himself, he concurred in this
+opinion. He had never heard that there were people living in the air,
+and did he not hear voices quite close to his ears? Don Quixote then
+had to explain that affairs of this sort were not of the every-day
+kind, and that whenever one went on a trip like this, the voices from
+the Earth would reach thousands of leagues away.
+
+Scarcely had Don Quixote said this, before a gust of wind came that
+threatened to unseat both the knight and his squire. (The fact was
+that it was the draught from a tremendous pair of bellows which the
+Duke had had unearthed for the occasion.) Sancho was shaking in his
+seat, and Don Quixote warned him again to sit still, for they were in
+danger of having a runaway straight into the regions of air and
+thunder, and then into the region of fire. He feared he might not get
+the steed to turn before it was too late, he said; for it seemed as if
+the machinery of the peg were rather intricate, and did not work
+quickly.
+
+Suddenly Sancho began to yell that they were already lost in the
+flames, and would be burned to death. (He felt his beard being singed
+by a torch. It was one of a great number that the majordomo had
+provided.) Don Quixote, too, felt his face warm up. But he would not
+permit Sancho to uncover his eyes; if he did, the knight said he would
+only be seized with giddiness and both of them would fall off their
+horse. Besides, he comforted Sancho with the thought that the journey
+would last only a few moments longer, and that they were now passing a
+final test before landing in the kingdom of Kandy. Don Quixote added
+that the distance they had traveled must have been tremendous, and
+Sancho replied: "All I know is that if the Se�ora Magallanes or
+Magalona was satisfied with this croup, she could not have been very
+tender of flesh."
+
+At this moment came the culmination of their journey through the air.
+A torch was tied to the tail of the steed, which was stuffed with
+fire-crackers, and suddenly there was a tremendous noise and a flash,
+and in the next moment Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, both scorched,
+lay as if thunderstruck on the ground.
+
+When the knight and his squire finally came to, and looked about, they
+were aghast at what they saw. The ground was strewn with bodies, but
+the bearded duennas were gone. Planted in the ground they saw a lance,
+attached to which they found a parchment which proclaimed that the
+enchantment of the duennas and of the Don and his royal bride was at
+an end, and that as soon as the squire Sancho Panza deigned to carry
+out the flogging he was to give himself, the peerless Dulcinea would
+appear in all her original beauty again.
+
+Now the Duke and the Duchess, who were among the bodies lying on the
+ground, seemingly dead, lifted up their heads, as if just coming out
+of a long sleep; and Don Quixote hastened to tell them of the great
+miracle that had befallen him. They were both convulsed with
+laughter--which Don Quixote mistook for emotion--and when he had
+finished telling them about his marvelous adventure, they had all they
+could do to reply. The Duke finally gathered enough strength to
+embrace him and tell him that he was no doubt the greatest knight the
+world had ever known.
+
+The Duchess was curious to know how Sancho had enjoyed the trip; and
+he confessed that in spite of his master's command he had peered from
+underneath the kerchief before his eyes, and had seen the earth below,
+and that the people seemed as little as hazelnuts and the earth itself
+looked like a grain of mustard-seed; and when he passed through the
+region of fire he had seen the goats of heaven, he said.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XLII
+
+OF THE COUNSELS WHICH DON QUIXOTE GAVE SANCHO PANZA
+BEFORE HE SET OUT TO GOVERN THE ISLAND, TOGETHER WITH
+OTHER WELL-CONSIDERED MATTERS
+
+
+The heaven-riding adventure had been such a success that the Duke and
+the Duchess could not rest until they had seen Sancho installed as
+governor of his island; for they felt certain they should derive a
+great fund of amusement from such an experiment. So Sancho was told to
+prepare himself.
+
+But Sancho, having seen heaven, seemed less keen to be governor now,
+since he felt how small humanity really was, particularly in
+comparison with the goats of the sky which he claimed he had seen, and
+he replied that he would much rather have a bit of heaven than any
+island on earth. The Duke, however, told Sancho that, not being the
+ruler there, it was for God to dispose of such domains. So Sancho
+promised to come down to earth and be governor, and to attire himself
+in the regalia befitting the office.
+
+This being done, Don Quixote and Sancho withdrew to the knight's room,
+and there Don Quixote gave his squire advice about governing. He
+admonished him to be a champion of virtue always, to strive to know
+himself and not to puff himself up like a peacock, whose feathers, he
+bade him remember, were fine, but who had ugly feet. And the advice
+and instructions that master gave servant were such that no one would
+have thought it was a madman speaking.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XLIII
+
+OF THE SECOND SET OF COUNSELS DON QUIXOTE GAVE SANCHO PANZA
+
+
+Don Quixote then told his squire to forget neither to cut his nails nor
+to supply his servants with livery. The latter, he said, must be neat and
+never showy. If he could do with three servants instead of six, he
+advised him to clothe three poor men: thus he would have pages for heaven
+as well as for earth. He must never eat garlic or onions, the knight
+said, and he begged him to leave out all affectations. When it came to
+drinking, he asked him always to bear in mind that too much wine kept
+neither secrets nor promises. Another thing he must not do was to flatter
+people; Don Quixote considered this a very odious practice. Last, but not
+least, said Don Quixote, he must remember not to use such quantities of
+proverbs as he had been wont to.
+
+Here Sancho felt he had to break in and say a word, and he retorted:
+"God alone can cure that, for I have more proverbs in me than a book,
+and when I speak they fall to fighting among themselves to get out;
+that's why my tongue lets fly the first that comes, though it may not
+be pat to the purpose." And here Sancho in the very face of his
+master's admonitions, let go a string of proverbs so long that Don
+Quixote was almost in despair.
+
+"My mother beats me, and I go on with my tricks," said Don Quixote. "I
+am bidding thee avoid proverbs, and here in a second thou hast shot
+out a whole litany of them. Those proverbs will bring thee to the
+gallows some day, I promise thee."
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XLIV
+
+HOW SANCHO PANZA WAS CONDUCTED TO HIS GOVERNMENT; AND OF
+THE STRANGE ADVENTURE THAT BEFELL DON QUIXOTE IN THE CASTLE
+
+
+Before Sancho departed for his island--which was in reality a village
+belonging to his new master's duchy, and surrounded by land on all
+sides--Don Quixote wrote out carefully the advice he had given him in
+the morning of the same day. To escort the new governor to the village
+the Duke had chosen the majordomo, who had played the part of the
+Countess Trifaldi; and the moment Sancho saw his face and heard him
+speak, he confided to his master the resemblance in voice and
+appearance.
+
+Always suspicious of enchanters, Don Quixote bade his late squire to
+keep a sharp eye on the man, and to be sure to inform him whether
+anything happened that confirmed his suspicion.
+
+Then Sancho was dressed in the garb of a lawyer and mounted on a mule.
+Dapple followed behind with new trappings, and Sancho was so pleased
+with the appearance of Dapple that he could not help turning around
+from time to time to look at him. Don Quixote wept when it came to the
+leave-taking, and Sancho kissed devotedly the hands of the Duchess and
+the Duke.
+
+But as soon as Sancho had left, Don Quixote felt a great loneliness in
+his heart; and that night, after having supped with the ducal pair, he
+begged to be excused early and retired to his room, saying he wanted
+no servant to wait on him.
+
+He undressed at once, and went to bed, leaving the window overlooking
+the garden open. Soon he heard the voices of two young maidens, and he
+was surprised to hear that they were speaking of him. One of them he
+recognized as the fair Altisidora, and, persuaded by the other voice,
+she commenced to serenade the knight, to whom in her song she bared
+her aching heart, and the passion that burned there for him.
+
+But the knight could not be moved. His was a love for no one but his
+Dulcinea. To indicate to the young maiden that he was aware of her
+intentions and could not be swayed, he rose from his bed, and went to
+the window and feigned a sneeze. When that was of no avail and neither
+produced reticence in the maidens nor drove them away from his window,
+he sighed: "O what an unlucky knight I am that no damsel can set eyes
+on me but falls in love with me!" And he went on to bewail his fate,
+crying out in the night that all the empresses in the world were
+jealous of the love he bore in his heart for the sweet Dulcinea, and
+saying that he must and would remain hers, pure, courteous, and
+chaste, in spite of all the magic-working powers on earth.
+
+Then the worthy knight shut his window with a bang, and thrust himself
+on his bed, entirely out of patience with the enticing and sinful
+young maidens.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XLV
+
+OF HOW THE GREAT SANCHO PANZA TOOK POSSESSION OF HIS ISLAND;
+AND OF HOW HE MADE A BEGINNING IN GOVERNING
+
+
+When Sancho arrived in his village he learned that his island was
+called Barataria. He was greeted with great demonstrations: the whole
+community had turned out to meet him, and all the churchbells were
+ringing. He was first taken to the church, where he gave thanks to
+God; then he was presented with the keys of the town. From the church
+he was taken to the judgment seat outside, and there he was told to
+answer numerous questions which the majordomo put to him, saying that
+that was an ancient custom on taking office.
+
+The questions were cases of quarrels between the villagers, and Sancho
+answered each one of them so sagely that every one gaped in wonder,
+for, judging by his appearance and the way he talked, they had thought
+their governor a fool. Instead of thinking thus, they now began to
+admire him and to consider themselves lucky and blessed by having him
+in their midst.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XLVI
+
+OF THE TERRIBLE BELL AND CAT FRIGHT THAT DON QUIXOTE GOT IN
+THE COURSE OF THE ENAMORED ALTISIDORA'S WOOING
+
+
+The thought of Altisidora's love bothered Don Quixote so that he could
+not go to sleep. He had torn his green stockings, while undressing, and
+having neither needle nor thread he could not mend them, and this
+increased his annoyance. Soon it was morning, and to put an end to his
+agony, he rose and dressed himself. But on his way to the ante-chamber,
+where the Duke and Duchess would receive him, he passed through a
+gallery, where he was surprised to find the fair Altisidora and her
+friend who had been with her outside his window the night before.
+
+When Altisidora laid eyes on the knight errant, she fell in a dead
+faint, but was caught in the arms of her friend, who began to unlace
+her dress. Don Quixote remained cold and untouched, mumbling all the
+while to himself that he knew perfectly well why she had fainted. Her
+friend retorted with venom in her voice that she wished he would
+disappear from the castle, for if he remained there much longer
+Altisidora would be wasting away into nothingness--even if she were
+the healthiest and most buxom maiden there at the moment--and die from
+a broken heart. This seemed to touch Don Quixote, for he replied that
+if she would see to it that a lute was put in his room that night, he
+would sing to her and try to comfort her in the night while she stood
+outside his window.
+
+The damsels went at once to tell the Duchess what had happened, and
+she was pleased beyond words; and together they hit upon a new joke
+which would bring them fresh merriment.
+
+Just before midnight Don Quixote came to his chamber and found there a
+guitar; and, having tuned it as best he could, he began to let out his
+rusty voice into the notes of a ballad that he himself had composed
+that day. While he stood there on his balcony singing, there suddenly
+broke out a tremendous din; and from above was let down a cord to
+which hundreds of bells were attached, making the most deafening
+sound. At the same time a bag of cats, each with a bell tied to its
+tail, came shooting down upon the unfortunate knight, who was
+frightened beyond words by the meowing and squalling and screaming of
+the cats and by the jingling of the bells.
+
+Don Quixote stood paralyzed, with the guitar clutched in his hand,
+when suddenly it struck him that his room must have been invaded by
+jumping devils--for the cats had knocked the candles down on the
+floor, extinguishing them as they did so, and the room was now in
+pitch darkness. He suddenly flung his guitar away and drew his sword,
+charging the enchanters with all the fervor and energy that he
+possessed.
+
+All the cats flew toward the balcony, from where they escaped into the
+garden--all except one, which Don Quixote had cornered, and was making
+violent stabs at, without hitting anything but the air, the wall and
+the floor. This little beast, fighting for its life, like one beset,
+jumped at the knight, put its teeth and claws into his nose, and
+remained there, holding on infuriated, while Don Quixote gave out the
+most terrible screams and howls.
+
+When the Duke and the Duchess heard what was going on, they became
+afraid that some harm might be done the knight errant; so they ran to
+his chamber with all haste. The Duke rushed to the rescue of Don
+Quixote's nose; but in spite of the horrible pain he must have been
+in, the knight was brave enough to decline all aid, shouting aloud
+that he wished to fight the malignant enchanter alone. At last,
+however, the Duke could see the poor fellow suffer no longer, and he
+managed to separate the cat from Don Quixote's nose.
+
+The fair Altisidora was given the task to cover the damaged parts of
+the knight's face with ointment, and she did this with a loving and
+caressing hand, although she could not resist telling him that he
+would not have been in this predicament if he had listened to her the
+night before. She jealously hoped, too, that his squire Sancho would
+forget all about the whippings so that Dulcinea would remain enchanted
+forever. But Don Quixote was insensible to anything she said; he only
+sighed and sighed. And then he thanked the Duke and the Duchess for
+all their kindness; and they really felt sorry in their hearts for the
+end the joke had taken. They bade him good-night; he stretched himself
+on his bed; and there he remained for five days.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XLVII
+
+WHEREIN IS CONTINUED THE ACCOUNT OF HOW SANCHO PANZA
+CONDUCTED HIMSELF IN HIS GOVERNMENT
+
+
+Having held court, Sancho was escorted to a magnificent palace, where
+dinner had been laid in a large and gorgeous chamber. There were
+numerous ceremonies that he had to pass through as he entered; but he
+went through them all undisturbed and with phlegmatic dignity. He was
+seated at the head of the table, his own guest of honor as it were,
+for he found he was the only one present there, excepting a number of
+pages who surrounded him. But then he discovered behind himself a
+gentleman who turned out to be a physician, and who soon aroused
+Sancho's ire. For every time a dish was passed to Sancho, it had first
+to be passed upon by the physician; and this dignitary seemed to have
+made up his mind that governors were not meant to live, for every dish
+was sent back to the kitchen, and Sancho found that a governor's meal
+consisted in starvation.
+
+This finally enraged the new governor so that he ordered the doctor
+out of his sight, threatening to break a chair over his head if he did
+not disappear quickly enough; but just at that moment there arrived a
+messenger with a letter for the Governor from the Duke, and Sancho
+became so excited that he forgot about his physician's expulsion for
+the moment. The majordomo read the letter, which was addressed to the
+Governor of the Island of Barataria. In it the Duke warned Sancho that
+attacks would be made upon the island some night in the near future by
+enemies of the Duke, and also, the Duke said, he had learned that four
+men had entered the town in disguise, and that they would make an
+attempt upon the Governor's life. He therefore cautioned Sancho to eat
+nothing that was offered to him.
+
+At once Sancho decided that the worst conspirator against his life was
+the physician, who wanted to kill him by the slow death of hunger. He
+said he thought it best to have him thrust into a dungeon. And then he
+asked for a piece of bread and four pounds of grapes, feeling sure
+that no poison would be in them, announcing at the same time as his
+maxim that if he were going to be able to combat enemies he would have
+to be well fed.
+
+He then turned to the messenger and bade him say to the Duke that his
+wishes would be obeyed; at the same time he sent a request to the
+Duchess that she should not forget to have the letter he had written
+to his Teresa Panza delivered, together with the bundle, by a
+messenger. Last but not least, he asked to be remembered to his
+beloved master Don Quixote by a kiss of the hand.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTERS XLVIII-XLIX
+
+OF WHAT HAPPENED TO SANCHO IN MAKING THE ROUND OF HIS ISLAND
+
+
+At last the physician felt it to his advantage to consent to prescribe
+a good supper for the Governor that evening. The day had been taken up
+with all sorts of applicants, who, it seemed to Sancho, would always
+arrive at the wrong time, either when he was about to eat or wanted to
+sleep.
+
+The supper hour, which Sancho had been longing for all that day
+arrived at last, and he was delighted with the beef, salad, onions,
+and calves' feet that were put before him. He told the doctor that for
+the future he ought never to trouble himself about giving him dainty
+dishes and choice food to eat, for it would only unhinge his stomach.
+Then to the head-carver he said: "What you had best do is to serve me
+with what they call _ollas podridas_--and the rottener they are the
+better they smell!" The others he addressed proverbially thus: "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 every one keep his eye open, and
+look out for the arrow; for I can tell them 'the devil is in
+Cantillana,' and if they drive me to it they shall see something that
+will astonish them. Nay, make yourself honey and the flies will eat
+you."
+
+In reply to this the head-carver took it upon himself to speak for the
+rest of the inhabitants on the island, assuring Sancho that every one
+was greatly pleased with his mild government, and that he already
+stood high in their affections.
+
+This brought forth a declaration from Sancho that if the people were
+not pleased with his government, they would be fools; and then he went
+on to state that he intended to see to it himself that the island was
+purged of everything unclean and of all idlers and vagabonds. The
+latter he compared to the drones in a hive, that eat up the honey the
+industrious bees make. Furthermore, he emphasized that he would
+encourage and reward the virtuous, and protect the church and its
+ministers.
+
+The majordomo was genuinely filled with admiration for all the
+excellent ideas and remarks of the new governor, particularly when he
+considered that he was a man without either education or culture; and
+he could not help admitting to himself that even a joke could
+sometimes become a reality, and that those who had played a joke on
+some one might live to find themselves the victims of the very same
+joke.
+
+That night the Governor as usual made his rounds, accompanied by the
+majordomo and his whole staff, including the chronicler, who was to
+record the deeds of Governor Don Sancho Panza; and before the night
+was over he had given fresh proof of his wisdom, for he settled a
+quarrel between two gamblers and decided to break up gambling on his
+island. He kept a youth out of jail. And he restored a young girl, who
+wanted to see the world as a boy, to her father.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER L
+
+WHEREIN IS SET FORTH HOW GOVERNOR SANCHO PANZA'S WIFE
+RECEIVED A MESSAGE AND A GIFT FROM THE DUCHESS; AND ALSO
+WHAT BEFELL THE PAGE WHO CARRIED THE LETTER TO TERESA PANZA
+
+
+The Duchess did not forget her promise, and she sent the page who had
+played the part of Dulcinea when the Devil entered a plea for her
+disenchantment, with Governor Sancho's letter and bundle to his wife.
+At the same time the Duchess entrusted him with a string of coral
+beads as a gift from herself to Teresa Panza, with which gift went a
+letter as well.
+
+When the page reached the village of La Mancha he saw, on entering it,
+some women washing clothes in a brook; and he found that one of them
+was no other than the Governor's young daughter. She eagerly ran to
+the good-looking young man, and, breathless with excitement at the
+thought of his having news from her father, she skipped along in front
+of him until they had reached their little house.
+
+Teresa Panza was spinning, and she came out in a gray petticoat,
+vigorous, sunburnt and healthy, and wanted to know what all the
+excitement was about. The page quickly jumped from his horse, thrust
+himself on his knees before her, and exclaimed to the bewildered
+woman: "Let me kiss your hand, Se�ora Do�a Panza, as the lawful and
+only wife of Se�or Don Sancho Panza, rightful governor of the island
+of Barataria."
+
+But by this time the poor woman had got over her first surprise, and
+she bade him rise, saying that he should not do things like that, and
+that she was only a poor country woman, and the wife of a squire
+errant, not a governor. However, when the page had given her the
+letters and the gifts, her doubts were crushed, and she decided that
+Sancho's master must have given her husband the government he had
+promised him, the one that Sancho had been talking about all the time.
+And then she asked the page to read the letters to her, since she
+herself had not learned that art, although she could spin, she said.
+
+When the page had finished reading the Duchess' letter, poor Teresa
+Panza was overcome with gratitude to the gracious lady who had made
+her husband, a poor illiterate booby, governor--and a good one
+besides--and who had deigned to ask her, humble woman that she was,
+for a couple of dozen or so of acorns.
+
+"Ah, what a good, plain, lowly lady!" she exclaimed. "May I be buried
+with ladies of that sort, and not with 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 who seem to think they are disgraced if they look as a
+farmer's wife! And see here how this good lady, for all she is a
+Duchess, calls me her friend, and treats me as if I were her equal!"
+
+Then she told her Sanchica to make ready a meal, with plenty of eggs
+and bacon, for the lad who had brought them such good news, while she
+herself ran out and told the neighbors of their great luck. Soon
+Samson Carrasco and the curate came to the house, having heard the
+news, and wanted to know what madness had taken possession of Sancho's
+wife. But when they had read the letters and had seen the presents,
+they themselves were perplexed, and did not know what to make of it;
+and when they had met the page and he had confirmed everything that
+was said in the letters, they were convinced, although they were at a
+loss to understand how it all had come to happen.
+
+The Duchess' asking for a few acorns, they could not quite comprehend,
+but even this was soon explained, for the page assured them that his
+lady, the Duchess, was so plain and unassuming that she had even been
+known to have borrowed a comb from a peasant-woman neighbor on one
+occasion; and he added that the ladies of Aragon were not nearly as
+stiff and arrogant as those of Castile.
+
+Sanchica's greatest concern centered around her father's legs. She was
+anxious to learn how he covered them, now that he had become governor.
+She was hoping that he would wear trunk-hose, for she had always had a
+secret longing, she said, to see her father in tights; "What a sight
+he must be in them!" she added.
+
+The page replied that he had not observed her father's legs or how
+they were dressed; but the joking way in which he gave his answer
+furnished the curate and the bachelor with a fresh doubt as to the
+reality of the governorship and Sancho's position. Yet they could not
+forget the coral beads and the fine hunting-suit that the page had
+brought, and which pointed to some truth in the matter.
+
+Sanchica was anxious to make the trip to her father's island at once
+with the messenger, who told them he had to leave that evening; and
+Teresa Panza wanted to know whether the curate had heard of any one in
+the village going to Madrid or Toledo, for she thought that she at
+least ought to provide herself with a hooped petticoat, now that she
+was the wife of a distinguished governor and no doubt destined to be
+made a countess.
+
+And while mother and daughter were contemplating and worrying about
+their new position in life, they interspersed their sentences with so
+many proverbs that the curate felt obliged to remark that he thought
+that all the Panzas were born with a sackful of proverbs in their
+insides. The page told them here that the Governor uttered them most
+frequently and spontaneously, much to the amusement of the Duke and
+the Duchess; and then he reminded the Governor's lady of his hunger.
+But the curate softly took him by the arm and whispered to him that
+poor Teresa Panza had more will to serve than she had means, and
+invited him to sup at his own house.
+
+In order not to lose weight or starve, the page consented; and the
+curate was glad to have an opportunity to talk with him alone.
+
+Sanchica again expressed her desire to travel with the page; and the
+page tried to persuade her not to come along, for, he said, the
+daughters of governors must travel in a coach and in style, with many
+attendants. The girl thought that was nonsense, however, and it was
+not until her mother hushed her up with her proverbial logic that she
+ceased arguing. Said mother Teresa Panza to her daughter: "As the time
+so the behavior: when it was Sancho it was Sanchica, when it is
+governor it is se�orita." And that settled it.
+
+The bachelor offered to write letters for Teresa Panza to her husband
+and the Duchess; but, somehow, she did not seem to trust him, for she
+refused his offer. Instead she induced a young acolyte to write the
+epistles for her, paying him with the eggs which she was to have used
+for the page's supper.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER LI
+
+OF THE PROGRESS OF SANCHO'S GOVERNMENT; AND OTHER SUCH
+ENTERTAINING MATTERS
+
+
+The thing that troubled Sancho most was not his manifold duties nor
+his judgments, but his appetite. It was as keen as ever, yet he got
+next to nothing to eat. The morning after he had made his round, they
+gave him only some water and a little conserve for breakfast, the
+doctor advising him that light food was the most nourishing for the
+wits, and especially to be recommended to people who were placed in
+responsible positions--such as governors, for instance. Thus poor
+Sancho was persuaded to submit to a process of starvation which was
+gradually making him regret, and finally curse, his ever having
+become governor.
+
+He sat in judgment that day but a short time, and made a decision in
+an intricate case with so much good sense and wit that the majordomo
+was overwhelmed with admiration, and could not refrain from taking
+pity on the governor's stomach. So he stood up and announced, knowing
+it would have the Governor's immediate and unqualified sanction, that
+the session had come to an end for the morning; then turning to
+Sancho, he promised to give him a dinner that day that would please
+him.
+
+Sancho was grateful in advance, and felt moved to thank him. "That is
+all I ask for," he declared: "fair play! Give me my dinner, and then
+let it rain cases and questions on me, and I shall despatch them in a
+twinkling." And since it had been arranged by the conspirators in the
+joke that this was to be the last day of Sancho Panza's reign as
+governor, the majordomo gave him the best dinner that he could.
+
+Just as the Governor was finishing his repast a courier arrived with a
+letter from Don Quixote. The secretary read it aloud to him, and he
+listened attentively and respectfully to the wisdom and good and sound
+advice that his beloved Don Quixote gave him in the letter. All who
+heard it read were agreed that they had seldom had the fortune to hear
+such a well-worded and thoroughly sensible epistle; and Sancho was
+proud of the praise that was being bestowed on his former master, to
+whom he still was as devoted as ever.
+
+The Governor withdrew with his secretary into his own room, and there
+he dictated at once his reply to Don Quixote's letter. In this he
+confided to him all that had happened on his island, the reforms he
+had undertaken, and the judgments he had handed down. He finished by
+asking the knight to kiss the hand of the sweet Duchess for him and
+tell her that she had not thrown it into a sack with a hole in it, as
+she would see in the end: meaning by this that he would show her how
+grateful he was as soon as he had an opportunity.
+
+The courier returned to the ducal palace with the Governor's message;
+and Sancho spent the afternoon in making provisions for all sorts of
+beneficial improvements in his government, reducing prices on a number
+of necessaries, and confirming laws that tended to help the poor and
+needy, while they would incriminate those who were impostors,
+good-for-nothings, and vagabonds. Even to this day some of these laws
+are in existence there, and are called _The constitutions of the great
+governor, Sancho Panza_.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER LII
+
+WHEREIN THREE DELECTABLE EPISTLES ARE READ BY THE DUCHESS
+
+
+Don Quixote had now been healed of his scratches, and he began to long
+for the road; for the life was too easy, he thought, for one who had
+dedicated himself to knight-errantry and valorous deeds. But the day
+he had decided to break the news to the Duke and the Duchess, the
+messenger that the Duchess had sent to Sancho's wife returned,
+bringing with him two letters, one addressed to "The Duchess
+So-and-so, of I don't know where," and the other one to "The Governor,
+Sancho Panza of the Island of Barataria, whom God prosper longer than
+me!"
+
+The Duchess was so eager to read her letter that she opened it at
+once; and having read it to herself, she felt she ought to give
+amusement to the others too, so she read it aloud to all who were
+there. She was dying to see what the letter to the Governor contained,
+so she asked Don Quixote whether he thought it would be a breach of
+etiquette to read it; and Don Quixote took it upon himself, as
+Sancho's late master and guardian, to open it. Then he read it to the
+Duke and the Duchess, who laughed to their heart's content at the many
+drolleries with which Teresa Panza had stuffed her epistle.
+
+Just as the merriment was at its peak, the courier with Sancho Panza's
+reply to Don Quixote arrived, and that communication too was read
+aloud; and the Duke could not omit remarking that it was a most
+excellent and sane letter. The Duchess, however, was anxious to
+question the page about his visit with Teresa Panza, so she excused
+herself, and withdrew with the page and her presents; for, besides the
+acorns, the Governor's wife had sent her a cheese, much to the
+gratification of the Duchess.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER LIII
+
+OF THE TROUBLOUS END AND TERMINATION OF SANCHO PANZA'S GOVERNMENT
+
+
+The seventh day of Sancho's government was approaching its end. The
+Governor lay in his bed, resting after all the judgments and
+proclamations he had made that day upon a fasting stomach. Suddenly he
+rose in his bed, for he heard the most deafening noise, intermingled
+with the ringing of churchbells. To this sound was added that of
+trumpets and drums, and the combination made a din that frightened
+Sancho almost out of his wits. He flew out of bed, put on a pair of
+slippers, and rushed into the street, dressed in nothing but his night
+shirt. He was startled to see the streets crowded with men, carrying
+torches, and crying: "To arms, Se�or Governor, to arms! The enemy is
+here, and we are lost, unless you come to the rescue with your sword!"
+
+Sancho was lost; he did not know what to do, for swordsmanship was not
+among his accomplishments. And so he simply asked them whether the
+enemy could not wait until he had a chance to summon his master Don
+Quixote of La Mancha, who, he said, knew all about arms.
+
+Just then one of the inhabitants came along, carrying two shields, and
+without any ceremony he told Sancho in plain language that it was his
+duty as their governor to lead them into battle. Then he covered
+him--without giving him a chance to put on anything besides his
+night-shirt--with the two shields, one in front and the other one
+behind; pressing them together as tightly as he and another man could
+manage, they laced them with rope, so that Sancho could neither move a
+muscle, nor bend a leg. Then they put a lance in his hand and told him
+to lead them into battle against the enemy, for now they were no
+longer afraid of the outcome, they said.
+
+"How am I to march, unlucky being that I am," asked Sancho, "when I
+cannot stir my knee-caps for these boards that are bound so tightly to
+my body! What you must do is to carry me in your arms, and lay me
+across or set me upright in some postern, and I shall hold it either
+with this lance or with my body."
+
+When the men heard the Governor speak thus, one of them was bold enough
+to suggest that he could not move because he was too frightened; and this
+angered poor Sancho into a frantic attempt to take a step in the
+direction of the invading army. But this step was a fatal one, for the
+Governor fell in his undignified stiffness flat on his back with such a
+crash that he thought he had broken every bone in his body.
+
+The men now quickly extinguished their torches, and began to step on
+his shield, slashing their swords over his head, shouting and yelling,
+and making all the noise they could. Had Sancho not pulled in his head
+like a tortoise in his shell, he might have fared ill. One man boldly
+placed himself on Sancho's roof, calling in a mighty voice, now and
+then filled with an agonized grunt, such directions as these: "Hold
+the breach there! Shut the gate! Barricade those ladders! Block the
+streets with feather-beds! Here with your stink-pots of pitch and
+resin, and kettles of boiling oil!"
+
+All these exclamations put fear in the already hard-pressed and
+squeezed heart of Sancho Panza, who was wishing where he lay that he
+had never seen the sight of an island. He was in such an agony that he
+began to pray to the Lord in Heaven to have mercy on him and let him
+die, or else let this terrible strife and warfare come to an end.
+
+Heaven must have heard Sancho's prayer, for suddenly he heard cries
+of: "Victory! Victory! The enemy retreats!" Then some one jerked him
+by the arm, and told him to stand up and enjoy the victory; and
+finally some of the bystanders took pity on him, and lifted him up
+from his vertical position. But Sancho refused to enjoy any victory.
+All he asked for, he said, was that some one wipe the perspiration
+from his body, and give him some wine for his parched throat. When
+they had fulfilled this desire of his, they carried him to his
+chamber, were they put him to bed. Hardly had they got him to bed
+before he fainted away, overcome with excitement and governments.
+
+The attendants sprinkled some water in the Governor's face, and he
+soon came back to life. The first thing he asked was what time it was.
+They replied it was early morning. He rose without saying a word,
+dressed himself in haste, and then went out to the stable, where they
+found him hanging round his Dapple's neck, kissing and embracing him,
+while tears were streaming down his face. Having swallowed the first
+flood of tears, the late squire addressed his faithful donkey in the
+tenderest and most heartrending terms, telling him that he should
+have stuck by him all the time, and not let himself be carried away by
+ambitions to become governor of islands.
+
+Sancho then put the pack-saddle on Dapple's back, and mounted--a
+process of much pain--and from his dear confederate's back he
+addressed the majordomo and those of his staff who had followed him to
+the stable. "Make way," he said, "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 to protect
+islands or cities from the enemies that choose to attack them.
+Ploughing and digging, vine-dressing and pruning, are more in my way
+than defending provinces or kingdoms. Saint Peter is very well in
+Rome: I mean, each of us is best following the trade he was born to. I
+would rather have my fill of the simplest pot-luck than be subject to
+the misery of a meddling doctor who kills me with hunger; and I would
+rather lie in summer under the shade of an oak, and in winter wrap
+myself in a double sheepskin jacket in freedom, than to go to bed
+between Holland sheets and dress in sables under the restraint of a
+government. God be with your Worships! Tell my lord, the Duke, that
+naked was I born, naked I find myself, I neither lose nor gain: I mean
+that without a farthing I came into this government, and without a
+farthing I go out of it--very different from the way governors
+commonly leave other islands. Stand aside and let me go. I have to
+plaster myself, for I believe every one of my ribs is crushed, thanks
+to the enemies that have been trampling over me to-night."
+
+Here the doctor offered to give the retiring governor a draught that
+would cure him of all pain. He also promised Sancho if he would stay
+he would behave better in the future, and give him as much to eat as
+he desired. But Sancho was not at a loss for an answer this time.
+
+"You spoke late," said he. "I should as soon turn Turk as stay any
+longer. Those jokes will not pass a second time. By the Lord, I should
+as soon remain in this government, or take another one, even if it was
+offered me between two plates, as fly to heaven without wings. I am of
+the breed of Panzas, and they are every one of them obstinate, and if
+they once say odds, odds it must be, no matter if it is evens, in
+spite of all the world. Here in this stable I leave the ant's wings
+that lifted me up into the air for the swifts and other birds to eat
+them, and let us take to the level ground and our feet once more; and
+if they are not shod in pinked shoes of cordovan, they shall not want
+for rough sandals of hemp. Every ewe to her like and let no one
+stretch his leg beyond the length of the sheet. And now let me pass,
+for it is growing late with me."
+
+After this meditation, strung with proverbs, the majordomo turned to
+Sancho and said that before he departed it was necessary that he
+render an account for the ten days that he had governed the island.
+But this was not Sancho's idea, and he quickly replied that he would
+seek out the Duke and give an accounting to him, for he was the only
+one to whom he was responsible. He added that as he would come to him
+naked, that would be the best proof that he had governed like an
+angel.
+
+So they all agreed to let him proceed, for they were certain that the
+Duke would be delighted to see him. They offered him anything that he
+might need for the journey; but all Sancho asked for was some barley
+for his Dapple, and some bread and cheese for himself. Then they all
+bade him godspeed and embraced him; and Sancho, with tears in his
+eyes, took leave of them. The majordomo and the rest of Sancho's staff
+could not help thinking that he had displayed more sense than most men
+might have under the same circumstances; for when Sancho left his
+government he had earned their admiration for many and good reasons.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTERS LIV-LV
+
+OF WHAT BEFELL SANCHO ON THE ROAD; AND OTHER THINGS THAT
+CANNOT BE SURPASSED
+
+
+Sancho had almost reached the Duke's castle, when night suddenly fell
+and it grew so dark that he considered it best to stop where he was
+and remain there overnight. Accordingly he took Dapple off the road,
+and they went in search for some comfortable place where they could
+rest. Presently Sancho found himself among some old ruins, and as he
+was stumbling along he suddenly felt himself and Dapple falling deep
+into the earth. He thought it was going to be an endless journey, but
+when he struck bottom he discovered that nothing had happened to him
+or to his faithful donkey, for there he was, still mounted even.
+
+Of course he was somewhat shaken by this sudden plunge into the lower
+regions, and taken aback; but as soon as he realized that he was
+unhurt he began to praise the Lord and to give thanks to him on behalf
+of himself and Dapple, who had burst into lamentations upon finding
+himself separated from meadow and green grass. Then Sancho began to
+look about for a way out, but he searched in vain, and it became plain
+to him that here he was buried alive. He thought of his master's
+descent into the cave of Montesinos, and was envious of Don Quixote's
+imagination which could conjure up so easily soft beds to sleep in and
+good food to eat. He could already see himself as a skeleton, and he
+shed a tear when he thought of having no one to close his or Dapple's
+eyes, when they had breathed their last breath.
+
+All that night they sat there in somber reflection on the strange
+fates of man and beast; and when dawn came Sancho found that he was in
+a cave that had no outlet but which seemed to extend for miles
+underneath the ground. He crawled with Dapple from one cavern or
+compartment to another one; one dungeon was dark, the next one had a
+bit of flickering light; and as he proceeded he kept calling aloud,
+"God Almighty, help me!" at every step he took, fearing that he would
+be plunged still deeper into the insides of the earth, into still
+darker abysses. And then he wished that it had been his master instead
+of himself who had landed in this spot, for he was sure that Don
+Quixote would have welcomed such an adventure.
+
+It so happened that Don Quixote was riding along the countryside that
+day on Rocinante, and suddenly his steed's hoof grazed against a hole
+in the earth. Rocinante might have fallen into the hole had not Don
+Quixote swiftly pulled in the reins and held him back. As the knight
+was passing, and about to continue on his journey, he turned in his
+seat to observe the spot well, and then he was startled by a cry that
+seemed to come from the depths of the earth and found an outlet
+through this pit. Still more startled he was, when he recognized the
+voice of his own squire Sancho! These were the words he heard: "Ho,
+above there! Is there any Christian that hears me, or any charitable
+gentleman that will take pity on a sinner buried alive, or an
+unfortunate, disgoverned governor?"
+
+Of course it never entered our valiant knight's mind, devout Catholic
+that he was, that it was the voice of any Sancho Panza in the flesh.
+He thought that his devoted squire had suddenly met with death, and
+that his soul was now in Purgatory, and that it was from there that
+these sounds emanated. So he answered that he would do all in his
+power to have Sancho released from his pains.
+
+This brought forth an emphatic and tearful denial from below. Sancho
+swore that he had never died in his life. As if to corroborate that
+his master was not a liar, Dapple at this moment brayed most
+tellingly, and Don Quixote believed everything that Dapple told him in
+that short space of time, for Don Quixote knew Dapple's braying as
+well as if he had been his father. The knight errant assured Sancho
+that he would get him out of his prison in a very short time, though
+he thought it best to return to the castle first and get some men to
+help him in the task. Sancho begged his master to hurry, for he was
+afraid unto death, and could not stand the thought of being buried
+there much longer.
+
+As soon as the Duke heard what had happened to his governor, he was
+extremely surprised, for he had had no news from the island of
+Barataria about Sancho's departure. He sent men with ropes and tackle,
+and after much trouble they finally succeeded in hoisting Sancho and
+his beloved donkey out of the cave.
+
+Surrounded by a crowd of children and others, they arrived at the
+castle, where the Duke was awaiting them; but Sancho would not present
+himself before him until he had seen that Dapple was being taken good
+care of in the stable. Then he went before the Duke, and as soon as
+the Duke had greeted him, Sancho commenced a speech that seemed to
+last forever, stuffed with proverbs galore. In it he related to the
+Duke everything that happened during the time he was governor, ending
+it thus: "I have come by the knowledge that I should not give anything
+to be a governor, not to say of an island, but of the whole world; and
+that point being settled, kissing your Worship's feet, and imitating
+the game of the boys when they say, 'Leap thou, and give me one,' I
+take a leap out of the government and pass into the service of my
+master Don Quixote. For after all, though in it I eat my bread in fear
+and trembling, at any rate I take my fill; and, for my part, so long
+as I am full, it is alike to me whether it is with carrots or with
+partridges."
+
+When Sancho had finished his discourse Don Quixote was grateful, for
+he was constantly worried that his squire might say something that
+would cover both of them with discredit, and Sancho made no great
+blunders in his speech this time.
+
+The Duke and the Duchess both embraced Sancho with warmth, and he was
+greatly touched when they told him that they would try to find him
+another position, less responsible but more profitable, on their
+estate; and they gave orders that he was to be well taken care of and
+his wounds and bruises properly and carefully bandaged.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTERS LVI-LVII
+
+WHICH TREATS OF HOW DON QUIXOTE AGAIN FELT THE CALLING OF
+KNIGHT-ERRANTRY AND HOW HE TOOK LEAVE OF THE DUKE, AND OF
+WHAT FOLLOWED WITH THE WITTY AND IMPUDENT ALTISIDORA, ONE
+OF THE DUCHESS' DAMSELS
+
+
+Again the feeling came over Don Quixote that he was wasting his life
+while he was staying at the castle in luxury and ease as the Duke's
+guest. Out yonder was the great, wide world in which adventures were
+calling to him all the time. So it finally came about that after much
+hesitation he requested of the Duke and his consort that they grant
+him his release. They gave it to him, although they were sorry to see
+him go, they said.
+
+Early the following morning Sancho was soliloquizing in the courtyard
+of the castle, when suddenly Don Quixote appeared, in full regalia,
+ready to take to the road again for new adventures. The Duke and all
+in the castle were observing the departure from the corridors.
+Unobserved by Don Quixote, the majordomo gave Sancho a purse, in which
+he counted no less than two hundred gold crowns.
+
+When knight and squire had mounted, the fair Altisidora declaimed with
+touching voice some verses of poetry which she had written in the
+night, and in which she bewailed her cruel fate that had thrust her in
+the path of the valorous Don Quixote. Each verse ended with a
+denunciation of his coldness toward her, and a curse upon him and his
+Dulcinea. Then the daring maiden had inserted lines in which she
+accused the innocent knight of having taken possession of three
+kerchiefs and a pair of garters belonging to her. Don Quixote blushed
+with perplexity, but his squire came to the rescue and said that he
+had the kerchiefs, but knew nothing about the garters. The Duke, who
+was well initiated in the joke, now rose and announced that it was
+beginning to seem like a serious matter; and if the knight had the
+garters and did not wish to part with them, he, the Duke, would have
+to defend the fair maiden's honor and challenge him to single combat.
+
+Now Don Quixote was beside himself. Surely, he said, it would never
+occur to him, who had enjoyed such unbounded, superlative hospitality
+at the hands of one so illustrious as the Duke, to let such things
+come to pass as to bear arms against him; and he swore again by
+everything he could think of that he was innocent of what the maiden
+had inferred. Here the damsel gave a little shriek, and announced in a
+giggling voice that she had found the garters. Don Quixote was much
+relieved, and so seemed the Duke (though in reality both he and the
+Duchess were just about to burst from the pain that their own joke had
+inflicted upon them).
+
+Now the knight errant could depart without any smudge or stain on his
+honor, and quickly and resolutely he gave Rocinante the spur, and his
+steed gathered all the strength he had and turned around. Gallantly
+saluting the Duke and the whole assembly with a sweep of his lance,
+Don Quixote set off on the road to Saragossa, followed by the retired
+governor, who sat on his Dapple's back as phlegmatically as if the two
+were grown together.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER LVIII
+
+WHICH TELLS HOW ADVENTURES CAME CROWDING ON DON QUIXOTE
+IN SUCH NUMBERS THAT THEY GAVE ONE ANOTHER NO BREATHING-TIME
+
+
+Out on the open road Don Quixote was himself again, and he turned to
+Sancho and began to discourse on freedom, telling his squire that it
+was more precious than anything else in the world. And he ended by
+saying: "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!"
+
+Here Sancho broke his silence, for he felt that, in spite of what his
+master had just said, a good deal of thanks was due to the majordomo
+for the purse with the two hundred crowns, which he was carrying like
+a plaster next to his heart.
+
+While they were conversing thus, they suddenly came to a spot from
+where they could see a great many men, dressed like laborers, lying on
+the grass of a meadow, and partaking of their noonday meal. Here and
+there on the grass were scattered some objects or figures covered with
+white cloth, and as soon as Don Quixote observed them he could
+constrain himself no longer but had to learn what they were. So he
+politely approached the men and asked them what was hidden underneath
+the white coverings, and was told that they were images of saints that
+they were transporting to their village church; and in order not to
+soil them, they had covered them thus.
+
+The man took great pride in showing our knight the figures--there were
+Saint George, Saint Martin, Saint James the Moorslayer, and Saint
+Paul. Don Quixote spoke learnedly on each one of them. When he had
+seen them all, he bade the men cover the images with the cloths again.
+Then he declared that he considered it a happy omen to have come upon
+the images; for, said he, they were knights like himself. There was
+this difference, however, that while he fought with human weapons,
+poor sinner that he was, they used divine ones. And he added that if
+only his Dulcinea could be saved from her sufferings, perhaps his own
+mind might be restored to its proper function, and a desire for a
+milder and better life than he was leading now be the result. At this
+Sancho reverently chirped: "May God hear and sin be deaf!"
+
+The men, having finished their repast, took leave of Don Quixote and
+Sancho and continued the journey to their village. They were not out
+of sight before Sancho broke loose with praise for his master, who
+knew everything under the sun, it seemed. Then he added: "In truth,
+master, if what has happened to us to-day is to be called an
+adventure, it has been one of the sweetest and pleasantest that has
+befallen us in the whole course of our travels; we have come out of it
+without having drawn sword, nor have we been left famishing. Blessed
+be God that he has let me see such a thing with my own eyes!"
+
+The conversation now turned to other things, and soon love became the
+topic. Sancho could not understand why his master, as ugly as he was,
+should have turned the head of the fair Altisidora; and why his master
+had not fallen head over heels in love with her was entirely beyond
+Sancho's comprehension. Had he himself had the same opportunity he
+should not have foregone it, he could have promised his master. Here
+Don Quixote tried to explain to Sancho that there were different kinds
+of love: love of the mind, and of the body; but this explanation
+seemed to remain a puzzle to the squire.
+
+While they had been talking in this manner, they had come into a wood,
+and suddenly Don Quixote rode into a green net which entangled him so
+completely that he began to shout that he had been enchanted again. He
+made ready to cut and slash with his sword, when two beautiful girls
+dressed as shepherdesses came from amidst the trees and began to plead
+with him not to tear the nets, which they had spread in the woods that
+they might snare the little birds. There was a holiday in the
+neighborhood, and they were to give a pageant and a play, they said,
+and they wanted the birds to be actors in the play with them. Then
+they courteously begged Don Quixote to be their guest and remain with
+them; but Don Quixote in return told them that the urgency of his
+calling made it necessary for him to refuse, whereupon he made them
+aware of who he was. As soon as the girls heard that they had Don
+Quixote of La Mancha in their midst, they became still more eager that
+he should remain, for they had all read and heard of their illustrious
+guest, they said, through the book that the whole of Spain and all the
+world was devouring just then.
+
+A gay youth, who was the brother of the young maidens, came up at this
+moment and joined his sisters in their persuasions, and at last Don
+Quixote gave in and consented to stay. The youth, who was attired as a
+shepherd, brought Don Quixote to their tents, and after a morning of
+gaiety a repast was served, at which the knight was given the place of
+honor.
+
+When the meal was over, Don Quixote rose and addressed the gathering
+in his usual dignified manner. He chose for his topic gratitude, and
+said that there was but one way in which he could show his full
+appreciation of the hospitality he had enjoyed that day at their
+hands: namely, to maintain in the middle of the highway leading to
+Saragossa, for a period of two days, that these two damsels were--with
+the exception of his lady Dulcinea--the most adorable and beautiful
+maidens in the world.
+
+Don Quixote had got so far in the course of his speech, when the
+faithful Sancho could restrain his admiration for his master no
+longer. Brimming over with enthusiasm, he burst out: "Is it possible
+there is any one in the world who will dare to say and swear that this
+master of mine is a madman? Tell me, 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 a knight errant, whatever renown he may
+have as a man of valor, who could offer what my master has offered
+now?" This outburst of his squire's infuriated Don Quixote. He began
+to foam at the mouth, and after having scolded the meek and meddlesome
+Sancho, he told him abruptly to go at once and saddle Rocinante. His
+hosts were astounded at his remarkable behavior and proposal, and did
+all they could to stay him from carrying it out, but he was not to be
+swayed. So they all followed at a distance to see what would happen to
+the knight, who in his anger had not been slow to mount and disappear
+with Sancho trailing behind on Dapple at his usual gait.
+
+As soon as Don Quixote had posted himself in the middle of the road,
+he shouted out his challenge. But no one who passed seemed to pay any
+attention to what he said, much less were they inclined to take up the
+challenge, if they heard it. Suddenly, however, the knight sighted a
+troop of men on horseback, all armed with lances. They were coming
+closer at a fast pace, and as soon as the shepherds and shepherdesses
+saw them they withdrew in great haste. Sancho, overcome with some
+innate foreboding of disaster, took refuge in the shade of Rocinante's
+hindquarters; but Don Quixote stood resolute and held his ground.
+
+Ahead of the oncoming troop rode a man, who, observing Don Quixote's
+position, began to make violent signs to him to get away from the
+road; and when he saw that he was not being understood or obeyed, he
+yelled out with fierceness: "Get out of the way, you son of the devil,
+or these bulls will knock you to pieces!"
+
+But all Don Quixote was concerned about was his challenge, and
+permitting no evasions, he retorted heroically: "Rabble! I care
+nothing for bulls! Confess at once, scoundrels, that what I have
+declared is true; else ye have to deal with me in combat."
+
+Hardly had he spoken these words before the drove of bulls was on him
+and Sancho, trampling them both to the ground as if they had been
+figures of pasteboard; for they were no common bulls, they were fierce
+animals that were being taken to a nearby village for a bull-fight on
+the following day. Yet when they had passed, and the valiant knight
+came to, he had lost none of his intrepidity, for as soon as he could
+stand up he kept shouting at them to return and he would fight them
+all alone.
+
+The knight was so enraged and so humiliated to have been stepped on in
+such an unromantic fashion, that he sat down and buried his head in
+his hands; and Sancho could not persuade him to return to their hosts
+to bid them farewell. And so he decided instead to be on his way to
+Saragossa, and master and squire mounted again and continued their
+journey dejectedly.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER LIX
+
+WHEREIN IS RELATED THE STRANGE THING, WHICH MAY BE REGARDED
+AS AN ADVENTURE, THAT HAPPENED TO DON QUIXOTE
+
+
+Don Quixote was extremely weighed down and oppressed by the disaster
+of the morning. When they had ridden but a short way they came to a
+place where there was a spring, and they dismounted to refresh their
+dusty throats and to wash themselves. The knight was wearied, and
+Sancho suggested that he lie down and rest for a while. The suggestion
+pleased his master, who said he would do so if his squire would give
+himself three or four hundred lashes with Rocinante's reins in the
+meantime, as a help toward his Dulcinea's disenchantment. But after
+some arguing, Sancho wiggled himself out of the business for the
+moment, having pleaded an ill-nourished body--in spite of his constant
+eating. He said it was, besides, no easy matter to flog oneself in
+cold blood, but promised to make good some time, unexpectedly. Then
+they both ate a little, and soon afterward they fell asleep beside
+their faithful beasts. They awoke, refreshed, and made off to reach an
+inn--and Sancho gave thanks to Heaven that Don Quixote took it for an
+inn--that they had sighted in the distance before they went to sleep.
+
+When they arrived at the inn Sancho at once took the beasts to the
+stable and fed them, while Don Quixote retired to his room. When
+supper time came the landlord brought in a stewpan which contained
+cow-heels that tasted, he swore, like calves' feet; and the knight and
+his squire gathered gluttonously around the meal. They had scarcely
+began eating, however, when Don Quixote heard his name mentioned next
+door, and, surprised, he listened and heard some one say: "What
+displeases me most in this Second Part of 'Don Quixote of La Mancha'
+is that it represents Don Quixote as now cured of his love for
+Dulcinea del Toboso."
+
+Like a flash the knight was on his feet, shouting to the adjoining
+room: "Whoever he may be who says that Don Quixote of La Mancha has
+forgotten Dulcinea del Toboso, I will teach him with equal arms that
+what he says is very far from true; for his motto is constancy, and
+his profession is to maintain the same with his life and never wrong
+it."
+
+Immediately voices from the other room wished to know who was speaking;
+and Sancho shouted back that it was his master, and that his master was
+none other than Don Quixote of La Mancha himself. In the next instant two
+gentlemen entered the room, and as soon as they perceived Don Quixote,
+they fell on his neck and embraced him, saying that they were pleased and
+proud beyond measure to meet so distinguished and illustrious a
+personage, their own morning star of knight-errantry. One of the
+gentlemen, Don Jeronimo, assured him that there was no doubt in his mind
+that he was the real Don Quixote of the First Part, and not the
+counterfeit one of the Aragonese Second Part. With these words he put his
+copy of the Second Part, which he had just been reading, into Don
+Quixote's hands and begged him to read it. Don Quixote took it and
+glanced it through, and after having read a few pages, he returned it to
+the gentleman, with the remark that he had already discovered three
+things in the book that ought to be censured; and he said that when an
+author could make such a colossal mistake as to speak of Sancho's wife as
+Mari Guiterrez, one would be likely to doubt the veracity of every other
+statement of his in the book.
+
+When Sancho heard of this audacious libel, he became red in the face
+with indignation. "A nice sort of historian, indeed!" he burst out.
+"He must know a deal about our affairs when he calls my wife, Teresa
+Panza, Mari Guiterrez! Take the book again, se�or, and see whether I
+am in it and whether he has changed my name!"
+
+The gentleman looked at Sancho in an expectant manner, and said: "From
+your talk, friend, no doubt you are Sancho Panza, Se�or Don Quixote's
+squire."
+
+When Sancho affirmed this, saying he was proud of it, it was Don
+Jeronimo's turn to become indignant; for it seemed to him nothing
+short of blasphemy to take all the drollery out of the Sancho, whom he
+saw before him here, he said, and who had furnished him with so many
+enjoyable moments through his amusing talk, while he was reading the
+First Part. The Sancho of the Second Part was a stupid character, a
+fool with no sense of humor whatever, he declared; and his declaration
+promptly brought forth a proverb from Sancho's lips, which summed up
+his contempt for the new author. "Let him who knows how ring the
+bells," he exclaimed.
+
+The two gentlemen now invited the knight errant to join them at
+supper, as they knew, they said, that the inn could afford nothing
+that was befitting a warrior as illustrious as he. Always courteous,
+Don Quixote acquiesced, and they withdrew to the adjoining room,
+leaving Sancho and the landlord to sup by themselves. At supper Don
+Quixote related to the two gentlemen his many strange adventures, and
+they listened with the utmost interest; they could not help admiring
+his elegant and finished speech, and at the same time were astounded
+at the strange mixture of good sense and wit and absurd nonsense that
+flowed from his lips.
+
+When Sancho had finished his cow-heels, he betook himself to the room
+where his master and the gentleman were supping; and as he entered he
+asked Don Jeronimo: "If this author calls me glutton, as your Worships
+say, I trust he does not call me drunkard too."
+
+Don Jeronimo said that the author had been impertinent enough to do so,
+although he assured Sancho that he could see by his face that the author
+had lied. "Believe me," declared the squire, "the Sancho and the Don
+Quixote of this history must be different persons from those that appear
+in the one Cid Hamet Benengeli wrote, who are ourselves--my master,
+valiant, wise, and true in love, and I, simple, droll, and neither
+glutton nor drunkard."
+
+The other gentleman, Don Juan, was of Sancho's opinion, and he added
+that he thought no one but Cid Hamet, the original author, should be
+permitted to write the history of Don Quixote's achievements--just as
+Alexander issued an order that no one but Apelles should presume to
+paint his portrait.
+
+They carried on a conversation in this manner until quite late in the
+night. Don Juan offered the Second Part to our hero to read, but Don
+Quixote declined it, saying that it would only be flattering and
+encouraging to the author if he should, by chance, learn that he had
+read his book. Then they asked him where he would be bound for when he
+left the inn; and when he told them Saragossa, they mentioned that the
+author had given a description in the book of a tilting at the ring in
+that city, in which he who was called Don Quixote had participated.
+
+That made the knight change his intentions at once. Now he was
+determined not to set foot in Saragossa: thus he would make the author
+commit perjury, trap him as a complete liar, and hold him up to
+ridicule before the whole world. The gentlemen thought this a most
+ingenious way to treat the blaspheming author, and made a suggestion
+that there were to be other jousts at Barcelona, to which he would be
+welcomed; and Don Quixote announced that he would go there instead.
+Then he begged leave in his usual courteous manner to retire, and
+withdrew to his room.
+
+Early on the following morning the knight rose, and bade good-by to
+his two new friends by knocking at the partition that separated their
+rooms, while Sancho paid the landlord for the lodging and the
+cow-heels.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER LX
+
+OF WHAT HAPPENED TO DON QUIXOTE ON HIS WAY TO BARCELONA
+
+
+For six days Don Quixote and Sancho traveled without anything
+happening to them worth recording. At the end of the sixth day they
+came to a grove of oak and cork trees, where they dismounted and
+settled themselves for the night. Sancho, who had been nourished
+plentifully that day, at once fell asleep, but Don Quixote's mind
+wandered hither and thither into strange regions and imaginary places;
+and he thought of the sad plight of his beloved one. The more he
+considered the cruelty of his squire, the more enraged he became; and
+at last he decided that the only thing for him to do was to strip
+Sancho and administer the beating himself. With this intention he
+began to undo the squire's garments.
+
+Sancho, being awakened and realizing his master's foul play, now had
+lost all desire for sleep. He reminded his master that the whipping
+would have no effect toward Dulcinea's disenchantment, unless it was
+applied voluntarily and by his own hand. But Don Quixote insisted that
+there must be an end to this nonsense, for he had no desire to let his
+peerless Dulcinea suffer because of his squire's uncharitable
+disposition. And then he proceeded, with Rocinante's reins in his
+hand, to give his squire, as he said, two thousand lashes on account
+of the three thousand three hundred. But Sancho was on his feet in an
+instant, and began to grapple with his master, and he crushed his
+emaciated body almost to flatness in his firm grip. Then he suddenly
+let him loose and despatched him with a kick to no mean distance, and,
+still pursuing his victim, he there sat upon him. Don Quixote managed
+at last to gather all the breath that had not been squeezed out of him
+by the combat, and supported by that he ejaculated in a hoarse
+whisper:
+
+"How now, traitor! Dost thou revolt against thy master and natural
+lord? Dost thou rise against him who gives thee his bread?"
+
+"I neither put down king, nor set up king," replied Sancho, himself
+somewhat out of breath. And then he proceeded to dictate the peace
+terms, and he extracted a promise from his natural lord never to try
+to whip him again, neither awake nor asleep.
+
+Then the victor disappeared in the grove and went to lie down against
+a tree: but just as he had placed himself comfortably, he was
+frightened almost to death by seeing two feet, with shoes and
+stockings, dangling in the air above his head. He ran to another tree,
+thinking he had been dreaming, and there he found a like apparition
+haunting him. He began to scream aloud, calling upon his master for
+help, and ran to search for him. Don Quixote asked him what had
+frightened him, and the squire replied that all the trees were full of
+feet and legs. Don Quixote calmly looked at the dead bodies in the
+trees and told his squire that no doubt they were outlaws that had
+been hanged by the authorities; and he took them to be a sign that
+they were now close to Barcelona. They then lay down to rest for the
+night.
+
+When they awoke at dawn, they found themselves surrounded by a band of
+men who turned out to be highwaymen. The band stripped them of all
+they possessed, and were just about to search Sancho further for
+money, when a swarthy-looking man in his thirties appeared, mounted on
+a splendid horse and armed with many pistols. It was their captain,
+and none other than the notorious Roque Guinart, a man who had taken
+to the life of banditry and hold-ups because of having been wronged by
+the authorities.
+
+When the bandit captain observed what his men were about to do to Sancho,
+he commanded them to stop, and to return everything they had taken away
+from the knight and his squire. He asked Don Quixote why he looked so
+dejected, and the knight responded that he was grieved that he had been
+taken unaware, saying that had he been armed with his lance and shield
+and mounted on his Rocinante when he found himself surrounded by these
+men, he would have defended himself to the last drop of his blood, in
+accordance with all the rules of knight-errantry. And then he told Roque
+that he was the Don Quixote of La Mancha who had filled the whole world
+with the wonder of his achievements; and he thanked him for his great
+courtesy and mercifulness.
+
+Just then they heard the violent sound of hoofs clattering against the
+hard road, and as they turned they beheld a youth, extremely pleasing
+in appearance, who was coming their way in a wild gallop. As he
+reached them, he flung himself from his horse and addressed Roque, who
+then perceived that it was not a lad but a maiden. She said she was
+the daughter of his friend Simon Forte, and named Claudia Jeronima,
+and that she, unbeknown to her father, had fallen in love with and
+become engaged to the son of her father's arch enemy, Clauquel
+Torrellas, whose son was named Vicente. Yesterday, she went on, she
+had learned that he had promised to marry another one, and full of
+jealousy she had stolen upon him this morning in the guise that he now
+saw her in and shot him in the presence of his servants near his
+house. She had left him at once, and she now wanted Roque to procure
+for her a safe-conduct that she might take refuge in France where she
+had relatives. She also wanted to extract a promise from him to
+protect her father from the wrath and revenge of the Torrellas.
+
+Roque was evidently much taken with the girl, for he gave her a glance
+full of admiration; nor had she failed to make an impression on Don
+Quixote and Sancho. Don Quixote wanted at once to go in quest of the
+knight and make him keep his troth, and Sancho added that his master
+was an admirable match-maker. But Roque hastily took leave of them,
+and accompanied only by the fair Claudia, he had soon come to the spot
+where she had left Don Vicente. This young gentleman was surrounded by
+some servants who had been attempting to carry him to his home, but he
+had begged them to take him no further, for the pain was too great, he
+said and he felt that he was dying. All were astounded at the sight
+of the feared Roque, who dismounted with Claudia.
+
+The fair maiden approached her lover, and clasping his hand, she said:
+"Hadst thou given me this according to our compact thou hadst never
+come to this pass." And then the young lady told Don Vicente what she
+had heard; but he disavowed to her any intention to marry any one else
+but herself. Hearing this she broke down completely, flung herself
+upon his breast, and sobbed convulsively; and then she fainted.
+
+When she came to, she found that her beloved one had passed away, and
+her grief then knew no bounds. Again and again she would be overcome
+by her feelings, and swoon so that they had to sprinkle water on her
+face. Roque was moved to tears, and so were the servants, and Claudia
+said that she would go into cloister for the rest of her life to atone
+for her sin. Roque approved of her decision, and offered to conduct
+her wherever she wished to go, but she declined his company, with many
+thanks, and bade him farewell in tears. Roque then directed the
+servants to take the body of Don Vicente to the dead man's father, and
+returned to his band.
+
+He found Don Quixote addressing his men on lawlessness, but they
+seemed to be little impressed with his sermon. Soon afterward a
+sentinel came up to his captain, and reported that people were coming
+along on the road to Barcelona, and Roque, having made certain that
+they were not armed troops out to enforce the law and in search of
+bandits, gave order to capture the travelers and have them brought
+before him.
+
+Here the outlaw revealed himself again to Don Quixote as a naturally
+kindly and tender-hearted man, for though the travelers possessed a
+good deal of money, he assessed them but one hundred and forty crowns.
+Of this money he gave the men of his band two crowns each; that left
+twenty crowns over, and this he divided between some pilgrims who were
+on their way to Rome and our worthy Sancho. The travelers were two
+captains of Spanish infantry, and some titled ladies; and the women
+felt so grateful to Roque for his generosity, and his unusual behavior
+and courtesy touched them so, that they wanted to kiss his hand,
+considering him in the light of a hero rather than a robber. Roque did
+not forget to give them a safe-conduct to the leaders of his bands,
+for there were many of them, operating all through that region.
+
+One of Roque's men seemed dissatisfied with such leniency as he had
+seen displayed, and voiced his opinion rather too loudly, for the
+leader of the band heard it, and the offender's head was nearly cleft
+open in the next second. The captain turned to Don Quixote and
+remarked that that was the way he punished impudence; then he calmly
+sat down and wrote a letter to a friend of his in Barcelona, telling
+him of the early arrival there of the famous Don Quixote of La Mancha,
+of whose exploits in knight-errantry the whole world knew; and, to be
+exact, he fixed Saint John the Baptist's day as the very day on which
+our knight would make his first appearance in the very midst of the
+city of Barcelona under the auspices of him to whom he addressed this
+letter, and who would be grateful for the infinite joy Don Quixote and
+his droll squire Sancho Panza would afford him and the city. He sent
+the letter by one of his trusted followers, who, disguised as a
+peasant, made his way into Barcelona and delivered the letter to the
+right person.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER LXI
+
+OF WHAT HAPPENED TO DON QUIXOTE ON ENTERING BARCELONA,
+TOGETHER WITH OTHER MATTERS THAT PARTAKE OF THE TRUE RATHER
+THAN THE INGENIOUS
+
+
+Don Quixote remained with Roque for three days, and they were hectic
+days for our knight. Roque always slept apart from his men, for the
+viceroy of Barcelona had placed a great price on his head, and Roque
+was in constant fear that some one in his band would be tempted to
+deliver him up. On the fourth day he and Don Quixote, accompanied by
+Sancho and six of the band, made their way toward Barcelona; and on
+the night of St. John's Eve they reached the city. There Roque took
+farewell of the knight and his squire, and returned to his haunts in
+the woods.
+
+Throughout the night Don Quixote-kept guard over the city; and there
+he was still sitting on Rocinante when dawn appeared on the horizon,
+and Don Quixote and Sancho Panza for the first time in their lives
+beheld the sea. It seemed to them it was ever so much greater than any
+of the lakes they had seen in La Mancha. As the sun rose it was
+suddenly greeted with the ringing of bells, the din of drums, the
+sound of clarions, and the trampling and clatter of feet on the
+streets; and from the galleys along the beach a mass of streamers in
+varied colors waved its welcome, to the music and the noise of bugles,
+clarions and trumpets from shipboard. Then cannons on ship and shore
+began to thunder, and a constant fire was kept up from the walls and
+fortress of the city. It was a noise and a spectacle that might have
+over-awed any one, even a less simple-minded person than Sancho, who
+stared open-mouthed at the wonders he beheld. He gasped when he saw
+the galleys rowed about by their oarsmen on the water, and he told his
+master he had never seen so many feet in his life. A troop of horsemen
+in extravagant liveries rode past them, where they were standing, and
+suddenly Don Quixote was startled by hearing some one call out in a
+loud voice: "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
+one, but the true, the legitimate, the real one that Cid Hamet
+Benengeli, flower of historians, has described to us!"
+
+Don Quixote felt flattered by the attention he suddenly attracted, for
+all eyes had turned to gaze upon his lean and queer person; although
+it may be said here, in confidence, that the man who had recognized
+the hero was no other than the one to whom the rogue Roque had
+written. The cavalier divulged his identity to Don Quixote, and begged
+him politely to accept his services while in Barcelona; and Don
+Quixote replied with as much courtesy that he would follow him
+wherever he pleased and be entirely at his disposal. Then the
+horsemen closed in around him and they set out for the center of the
+city, to the music of a gay tune played by the clarions and drums.
+
+The Devil, however, was not asleep. He put temptation into the hearts
+of some street urchins, who stole their way into the close proximity
+of Rocinante's and Dapple's hindquarters, and there deposited a bunch
+of furze under their tails, with the fatal result that their riders
+were flung headlong into the crowd. Our proud hero, covered with dust
+and shame, pulled himself together and went to pick the flowers from
+the tail of his hack, while Sancho extracted the cause of Dapple's
+capers from his own mount. Then they mounted again, the music
+continued to play, and soon they found themselves at a large and
+impressive house, which they learned was occupied by the cavalier, who
+was a friend of Roque's.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER LXII
+
+WHICH DEALS WITH THE ADVENTURE OF THE ENCHANTED HEAD,
+TOGETHER WITH OTHER TRIVIAL MATTERS WHICH CANNOT BE LEFT UNTOLD
+
+
+The cavalier turned out to be one Don Antonio Moreno, a gentleman with
+a great sense of humor, well read and rich. As soon as Don Quixote had
+entered the house, Don Antonio persuaded him to discard the suit of
+armor; then he took him out on the balcony, where he at once attracted
+all the boys in the street and crowds of people, who gazed at him as
+if he had been a monkey. The cavaliers passed in review before the
+balcony, and the knight was given the impression that it was in his
+special honor they were bedecked as they were, for he did not realize
+that it was a holiday. Sancho was delighted beyond description. He was
+treated royally by the servants, who thought that they had never met
+any one quite as amusing as he. Don Antonio's friends were all
+instructed to pay homage to Don Quixote and at all times to address
+him as if he were a knight errant.
+
+The flattery and honors were too much for the poor knight: they turned
+his head completely, and he became puffed up with his own importance.
+Sancho, too, amused Don Antonio and his guests exceedingly, and they
+enjoyed particularly hearing about his escapades as governor.
+
+After dinner that day, the host took Don Quixote into a distant room,
+which contained no furniture except a table, on which was a pedestal
+supporting a head made of what seemed to be bronze. After having acted
+in the most mysterious manner, and having carefully ascertained that
+all the doors to the room were shut and no one listening, Antonio
+swore the knight to secrecy. Then he proceeded to tell Don Quixote
+that the head he saw there before him had been made by a Polish
+magician, and possessed the magic faculty of being able to answer any
+question whispered into its ear. Only on certain days, however, did
+its magic assert itself, and the following day, which was the day
+after Friday--it had been astrologically worked out--would again
+witness the miracle. Don Antonio asked the knight whether there was
+anything he should especially like to ask the head; if so, he could
+put the question to it on the morrow. Don Quixote seemed sceptical,
+but made no comment, and they returned to the other guests.
+
+In the afternoon the knight errant was placed on a tall mule, bedecked
+with beautiful trimmings, and himself encased in a heavy and
+uncomfortably warm garb of yellow cloth; then, unbeknown to him, they
+pinned on his back a parchment with this inscription in large letters:
+THIS IS DON QUIXOTE OF LA MANCHA.
+
+As they were parading through the streets the knight's vanity swelled
+more and more, for from every nook and corner there came great shouts
+of recognition. Soon he was unable to restrain his vainglorious
+nature, and he turned to his host and remarked to him with much
+satisfaction: "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." Finally the crowds increased so that Don
+Antonio was obliged to remove the parchment, and soon they had to take
+refuge in his house.
+
+In the evening Don Antonio's wife gave a dance, and it was amusing to
+see the tall and lank hero move about on the ballroom floor; the men
+gave him the opportunity to dance every dance, for they themselves
+enjoyed watching him better than dancing. At last Don Quixote was so
+exhausted both by the dancing and by the lovemaking that the ladies
+had imposed on him--and how they delighted in hearing him avow his
+great love for Dulcinea--that Sancho had to take him to his room and
+put him to bed.
+
+The next day Don Antonio took his wife, Don Quixote, and a few
+intimate friends into the secret chamber, and after many mysterious
+preliminaries, the questioning of the head began. All seemed
+particularly interested in what Don Quixote would have to ask, and
+felt rewarded when his turn came, for this is what he demanded: "Tell
+me, thou that answerest, was that which happened to me in the cave of
+Montesinos the truth or a dream? Will my squire Sancho's whipping be
+accomplished without fail? Will the disenchantment of Dulcinea be
+brought about?"
+
+In a mysterious voice that seemed to come from a great distance, the
+head returned these answers: "As to the question of the cave, there is
+much to be said; there is something of both in it. Sancho's whipping
+will proceed leisurely. The disenchantment of Dulcinea will attain its
+due consummation."
+
+Don Quixote heaved a sigh and declared that if only his peerless one
+were disenchanted, it would be all the good fortune he could wish for.
+Then Sancho tried his luck; but at the conclusion of Sancho's audience
+with the head, he did not seem properly awed, and his master became
+displeased with his pretentious expectations and reprimanded him
+severely in the presence of the whole company.
+
+All the while Sancho's incessant talking and his master's exalted
+behavior kept every one in an uproarious humor. The joke that Don
+Antonio had arranged consisted in having a student, a young nephew of
+Don Antonio's, placed in a chamber underneath the one in which the
+head was, to receive the questions and speak the replies through a
+tube that led from the inside of the head to the room below. Soon
+after this form of amusement had taken place, it was agreed upon by
+the gentlemen of the city to arrange for a tilting at the ring, for
+they were convinced that such an exhibition would afford greater
+opportunities for mirth and laughter than anything else they might
+think of.
+
+One day Don Quixote and Sancho, accompanied by two of Don Antonio's
+servants, were walking on foot through the city, when they suddenly
+passed a printing shop; and, never having seen one, the knight entered
+with Sancho and the servants. He was as curious as usual, and asked
+the printer innumerable questions about the books that he was
+printing. He saw some of the printers reading the proofs of a book,
+and he turned to them and inquired what the title of the book was.
+They told him it was the Second Part of "The Ingenious Gentleman Don
+Quixote of La Mancha," adding that it was written by a certain person
+of Tordesillas. Upon hearing this, Don Quixote grew quite cold in his
+demeanor, and having moralized that fiction resembling truth is always
+greater than absurdly untruthful stories, he uttered a hope that the
+book would be burned to ashes. And then he turned his back on the
+astonished men and left the shop in great haste.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER LXIII
+
+THE MISHAP THAT BEFELL SANCHO PANZA THROUGH THE VISIT TO THE GALLEYS
+
+
+The afternoon of that same day Don Antonio took Don Quixote and Sancho
+on board one of the galleys, amid all the honors that accompany the
+visits of great and famous personages. There were fanfares, and
+cheers, and the firing of guns, and all the high-ranking officers of
+the army and navy who were in the city had been appealed to by Don
+Antonio Moreno and turned out to pay him their respects.
+
+Don Quixote was delighted. He could scarcely find words to express his
+appreciation of such a magnificent and royal reception; and Sancho was
+almost carried away by the honors that were being paid his master. But
+when he saw all the men at the oars--stripped to the skin by the
+captain's command--he became afraid, for they seemed to him like so
+many devils.
+
+When Don Quixote and Sancho Panza had been presented to all the
+dignitaries, the captain escorted them to a platform on which he
+begged them to take their seats beside him. Sancho sat at the edge of
+the platform, next to one of the rowing devils (who had been
+instructed in advance by the captain what to do) and suddenly he felt
+himself lifted in the air by a pair of strong, muscular arms. The next
+instant he was in the clutches of another devil; and passing from
+hand to hand, he went the rounds of the crew with such swiftness that
+the poor superstitious Sancho did not know whether he was dead,
+dreaming, or alive. Sancho's a�rial expedition did not come to an end
+until he had been most unceremoniously deposited on the poop, where he
+landed in a strangely unbalanced condition--to the tremendous
+amusement of the crew and the onlookers. He was so dazed that it is
+doubtful whether he would have known his name, if he had been asked.
+
+Seeing what had happened to his squire, Don Quixote thought it best to
+forestall himself from being put through any such ceremony; so he
+stood up, his hand on the hilt of his sword, and announced with fire
+in his eyes that any one who dared to attempt such a thing to him
+would suffer by having his head cut off. He had hardly finished his
+sentence before a noise was heard that frightened Sancho almost into
+insensibility. He thought that Heaven was coming off its hinges and
+about to fall on his sinful head. And even Don Quixote trembled with
+something closely akin to fear, and grew (if that were possible) pale
+under his yellow hue.
+
+What the crew had done was to strike the awning and lower the yard and
+then hoist it up again with as much clatter and speed as they could
+produce, yet without uttering any human sound. This being done, the
+boatswain gave orders to weigh anchor, and as he went about on deck
+signaling with a whistle, he continually lashed and beat the backs of
+the naked oarsmen with a whip he had in his hand.
+
+When Sancho saw all the red oars moving, he took them to be the feet
+of enchanted beings, and he thought to himself: "It is these that are
+the real enchanted things, and not the ones my master talks of. What
+can those wretches have done to be whipped in that way; 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!"
+
+But when Don Quixote noticed his squire's interest in the naked creatures
+at the oars, he turned and said to him softly: "Ah, Sancho my friend, how
+quickly and cheaply you might 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."
+
+But Sancho was not to be persuaded, and the general of the fortress,
+who was eager to know why Sancho was urged to lash himself, could not
+wait for a reply to his question, for there loomed up on the horizon a
+ship which attracted his attention, and he immediately gave orders to
+the captain to steer down upon it.
+
+After an adventure on the seas, the first they had ever experienced,
+Don Quixote and Sancho came back to Barcelona that afternoon, and
+returned to the house of their host, escorted by the Viceroy, the
+General and the other high dignitaries.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER LXIV
+
+TREATING OF THE ADVENTURE WHICH GAVE DON QUIXOTE MORE
+UNHAPPINESS THAN ALL THAT HAD HITHERTO BEFALLEN HIM
+
+
+A few days after Don Quixote had visited the galley, he was riding along
+the beach one morning on Rocinante dressed in his armor, when suddenly he
+observed coming toward him a knight, also in full regalia, with a shining
+moon painted on his shield. As he came close to Don Quixote, he held in
+his horse, and spoke to our knight thus: "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 recall 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."
+
+And then the Knight of the White Moon went on to say that should he
+conquer Don Quixote, the Knight of the Lions must retire to his native
+village for a period of one year, and live there in peace and quiet,
+away from all knightly endeavors and deeds. Should, however, Don
+Quixote turn out to be the victor, he, the challenger, would gladly
+forfeit his head, as well as the renown of his many deeds and
+conquests, his arms and horse to him. He bade Don Quixote consider
+the challenge and give a speedy answer, for he had but that day at his
+disposal for the combat.
+
+Don Quixote was taken aback at the audacity and arrogance with which
+the knight had stated his demands, particularly when he took into
+consideration that he had never in his whole life heard him even
+spoken of, much less had he heard of the deeds and victorious combats
+he had named. But he accepted the challenge with calm pride on the
+conditions the Knight of the White Moon had given, barring the one
+which involved transferring his renown to Don Quixote's shoulders in
+case of his being vanquished. To our knight that seemed like taking
+too great chances, since he had no idea what the nature of the
+challenger's deeds might be, and since he was thoroughly satisfied
+with his own achievements.
+
+It so happened that the Viceroy had observed the Knight of the White
+Moon in conversation with Don Quixote, and thinking that some one had
+planned another joke on him, he hastened to Don Antonio's house, and
+got him to accompany him to the beach, where they found the two
+knights just taking their distance, and about to commence the combat.
+Don Antonio was as startled when he saw the other knight as the
+Viceroy had been, and neither one could make up his mind whether the
+whole thing was a joke, or not, for no one there seemed to know who
+the Knight of the White Moon was. However, the two gentlemen at last
+decided it could be nothing but a prank, planned by some gentleman for
+his own amusement. The Viceroy then turned to the knight and, learning
+that the combat was being fought to decide a question of precedence
+of beauty, bade them set to if both of them still remained unshaken
+and inflexible in their convictions. The two combatants, having
+thanked the Viceroy for his permission, separated and again took up
+the necessary distance. Their horses wheeled around and the knights
+came against each other with all the speed their mounts were capable
+of. But the Knight of the White Moon was mounted on a steed that
+completely outshone the poor Rocinante, for when they clashed, the
+poor hack fell from the mere force of the contact, and Don Quixote
+leaped over his head onto earth. At once the unknown knight held his
+lance over his visor and threatened him with death unless he confessed
+to being vanquished and acknowledged that he would abide by the
+conditions of the combat.
+
+In a feeble voice Don Quixote answered him that in spite of his defeat
+Dulcinea still was the most beautiful woman in the world, but that now
+that his honor had been taken away from him, he might as well die; and
+he begged the knight to drive home the blow of his lance. But the
+Knight of the White Moon was a generous gentleman. He said he would
+not have our hero deny the beauty of his Dulcinea in deference to his
+own lady; all that he asked was that Don Quixote return to his village
+of La Mancha and give up knight-errantry as he had promised. Don
+Quixote rose in a sorry and battered condition and swore that he would
+keep his word like a true knight errant; and in the next instant the
+mysterious Knight of the White Moon set off toward the city at a quick
+canter.
+
+As soon as the unknown knight had left, the Viceroy, Don Antonio and
+Sancho hastened to Don Quixote's side. They found him covered with
+perspiration and stiff in all his limbs. Rocinante had not yet
+stirred, for he, too, was in a deplorable condition. Sancho for once
+had lost his speech, and all that had happened to his master in so
+short a time seemed to him proof that the enchanters were still
+pursuing him. Now that his master for some time to come was to be
+confined to their own village, there would be no chance for him to
+redeem the promise he had made to his squire. Altogether it seemed to
+Sancho a sad state of affairs.
+
+Don Quixote was in such a dilapidated condition that he had to be
+carried into the city in a hand-chair which the Viceroy had sent for,
+and they all escorted him to the house of Don Antonio.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER LXV
+
+WHEREIN IS MADE KNOWN WHO THE KNIGHT OF THE WHITE MOON
+WAS; LIKEWISE OTHER EVENTS
+
+
+In the city the Viceroy and Don Antonio tried to locate the Knight of
+the White Moon, and when they had found the hostel at which he was
+staying Don Antonio went to call on him and learned that he was the
+bachelor Samson Carrasco, from the very same village as Don Quixote.
+The bachelor, having explained his aims regarding the knight, packed
+his arms in a knapsack, took leave as soon as he had told his story,
+and set off at once for La Mancha, mounted on a mule.
+
+A few days later, much to the sorrow of Sancho--who had never been so
+well fed in his life--Don Quixote and he took a fond farewell of their
+estimable and generous host who had heaped so many honors on them and
+who had enjoyed himself so tremendously at their expense. This time it
+was a sad and lonely journey on which they started. Don Quixote was
+mounted on Rocinante, who had somewhat recovered from his shock, but
+Sancho had to tread the trail on foot, for his Dapple had to serve as
+a carrier for the discarded armor of our late and lamented valiant
+Knight of the Lions.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTERS LXVI-LXVII
+
+OF THE RESOLUTION WHICH 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
+
+
+Toward the end of the fifth day Don Quixote was resting in the shade
+of some trees, and as always happened when he lay down to rest, his
+thoughts turned to the disenchantment of his Dulcinea and a feeling of
+impatience with his selfish and uncharitable squire rose up within
+him. He pleaded with Sancho and implored him to go through with the
+ordeal bravely; but Sancho was unflinching in his stubbornness and
+insisted he could see no reason why he should be coupled with the
+disenchantment of the peerless fair one. Thus Don Quixote could only
+pray that his squire might be moved by compassion to perform some day
+the deed that would liberate his lady.
+
+While discussing this subject so close to his heart Don Quixote had
+decided to pursue his journey, and while they were traveling along on
+the road to their village they again engaged in conversation. Suddenly
+they found themselves passing the spot where they had been trampled on
+by the bulls, but Don Quixote, not wishing to have his thoughts return
+to anything so bitter, turned to Sancho and remarked that this was
+where they had encountered the gay shepherds and shepherdesses. And
+the next instant he had decided to emulate their example and turn
+shepherd himself, now that his calling of knight errant had come to an
+end; he would buy some ewes, he said, and together they would retire
+to some quiet pastoral nook where the woods and the fields met, and
+where pure crystal water sprang from the ledge of a rock and the
+fragrance of flowers was in the air. And there he would sing to
+Dulcinea, his platonic and only love. The thought of a life so calm
+and so far away from danger and knightly adventures pleased Sancho so
+greatly and made his enthusiasm run so high that he could not restrain
+a row of proverbs from falling from his lips. It was a flow so
+incessant that Don Quixote at last felt obliged to ask for a truce.
+
+Night had now fallen, and Don Quixote thought it best to withdraw from
+the roadway and take refuge for the night some distance away from it.
+Having supped, Sancho at once fell asleep, but his master sat up all
+that night, thinking of Dulcinea and making up rhymes to the
+sweetness of her memory.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER LXVIII
+
+OF THE BRISTLY ADVENTURE THAT BEFELL DON QUIXOTE
+
+
+Don Quixote could not bear to see his squire sleep so restfully while
+he was being weighted down by all the cares of the world. So he woke
+Sancho, whose stolid unconcern about Dulcinea again was brought home
+to him, and almost went on his knees in order to induce him to scourge
+himself. He nearly wept in his efforts to have Sancho inflict the
+meager amount of three or four hundred lashes upon himself; but as
+ever the cruel squire remained unmoved. Don Quixote did everything in
+his power to entice him to do this beautiful deed of sacrifice. He
+held forth to him what a blessed night it would be for them, if he
+would only comply with his master's request, for then, Don Quixote
+suggested, they could spend the remainder of it singing, thus making
+this the beginning of the pastoral life to which they were about to
+devote themselves. But Sancho said he was no monk; and the idea of
+getting up in the middle of the night to perform such rituals did not
+appeal to him, he frankly avowed. The bewailings of his master, both
+in Castilian and in Latin, made no impression upon the hard-hearted
+Sancho, who remained as firm as the rock of Gibraltar, as far as the
+disenchantment was concerned.
+
+Don Quixote had just made up his mind that it was a useless task to
+try to prevail upon Sancho at that hour to do his duty, when suddenly
+there was heard a tremendous and terrifying noise, which increased as
+it seemed to come closer. Sancho was so frightened that he at once
+took refuge behind Dapple, entrenching himself between the pack-saddle
+and his master's discarded armor; and Don Quixote got palpitation of
+the heart, and began to shiver. As Sancho peeped from behind his
+entrenchments and Don Quixote took courage to look, the grunting drove
+of six hundred pigs--for that is what it was--was so close upon them
+that in the next moment they found themselves knocked to the ground;
+but it was some time before all of the snorting, disrespectful animals
+had passed their dirty feet over the prostrate bodies of the knight,
+his squire and their beasts and provisions.
+
+Sancho rose first, smeared with dirt, and having been stirred to
+unusual depths by the condition in which he found himself, he begged
+his master to let him take his sword, saying he felt he had to kill
+some of the pigs in order to be soothed. The exceedingly bad manners
+they had displayed and especially the fact that they had crushed all
+the provisions into nothingness, had produced an ire in Sancho that
+seemed wellnigh irrepressible.
+
+But Don Quixote calmed his squire with these words, spoken with a
+melancholy air: "Let them be, my friend. 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."
+
+To this Sancho Panza retorted pensively: "I suppose it is the
+chastisement of Heaven, too, 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
+descended upon us, even to the fourth generation. But what have the
+Panzas to do with the Quixotes? Well, let us lie down again and sleep
+out what little of the night there is left, and God will send us dawn
+and we shall be all right."
+
+Sancho lay down and slept, but his master sat up and commenced his
+emulation of the life of a shepherd by singing the song he had
+composed to his great love, accompanying it with his own sighs, and
+many wet tears. At last daylight came, and the sun awakened them both.
+Sancho began to rub his eyes, and they both got up and made ready to
+journey further. But before leaving Sancho again cursed the pigs for
+having ruined his stores.
+
+He and his master had traveled the whole day, when they encountered a
+number of men on horseback, and four or five men on foot, all heavily
+armed. Don Quixote's heart ached, for he could not forget his promise
+to the Knight of the White Moon. The men who were mounted approached
+our hero and Sancho, and surrounded them without speaking a word. Don
+Quixote attempted to ask a question, but one of them warned him to be
+silent by putting a finger to his lips, while another one pointed his
+lance against the knight's breast. Still another one took Rocinante by
+the bridle; while Sancho was being treated in the same manner by some
+of the others. Both Don Quixote and Sancho began to be worried as to
+the outcome of this adventure, for the whole proceeding seemed to them
+utterly mysterious.
+
+They rode all that day, unable to make out where they were being
+taken, or who their mysterious captors were, and at last night came.
+All the while the men were calling them all kinds of names, such as
+"bloodthirsty lions," "cannibals," "murderous Polyphemes" etc.; and
+Sancho was scared out of his wits, while Don Quixote was at his wits
+ends. Both were convinced that some terrible misfortune was in store
+for them, and they could only pray that they would get out of it as
+easily as possible.
+
+Before they knew it, it was midnight, and soon after that Don Quixote
+recognized a castle, which he saw in the distance, as that of the
+Duke. He was amazed when he found that the men were taking him there,
+and he said to himself: "God bless me! 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." They entered the court, and
+found it arrayed in such a manner that they could not help being
+amazed and speechless, and they felt fear creeping into their hearts.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER LXIX
+
+OF THE STRANGEST AND MOST EXTRAORDINARY ADVENTURE THAT
+BEFELL DON QUIXOTE IN THE WHOLE COURSE OF THIS GREAT HISTORY
+
+
+As soon as the horsemen had dismounted, they and the men on foot
+carried Don Quixote and Sancho bodily into the center of the court,
+which was illuminated with hundreds of torches and lamps placed all
+around it. In the very center there was a catafalque, elevated to a
+height of several yards above the ground and covered by a huge canopy
+of black velvet. To the catafalque steps led from all around, and on
+the steps were hundreds of wax tapers burning in silver candlesticks.
+On the catafalque lay the dead body of a beautiful maiden. On one side
+of the stage there was a large platform on which sat two figures, with
+scepters in their hands and crowns on their heads: judging by this,
+Don Quixote thought they must be royal personages. On the side of this
+platform were two empty chairs, to which Don Quixote and Sancho were
+led. And when they had seated themselves and turned around to observe
+what was going to happen, they were suddenly startled by seeing their
+friends, the Duke and the Duchess, mount the platform and seat
+themselves next to the royalty.
+
+Don Quixote and Sancho both paid them homage by rising and bowing
+profoundly, and the ducal pair returned their compliment with a
+slight bow of the head. Following them came a long row of attendants.
+Then suddenly Don Quixote came to realize that the corpse was none
+other than that of the fair Altisidora, whose love he had scorned, and
+that shocked him greatly.
+
+Some one connected with the ceremonies passed at that moment and threw
+a robe of black buckram covered with painted red flames of fire over
+Sancho and, removing his cap, put on his head a miter of the kind that
+those who were undergoing the sentence of the Holy Office wore. At the
+same time he whispered in Sancho's ear that if he opened his lips, his
+life would not be safe.
+
+At first Sancho, seeing all the flames that seemed to be licking his
+body, got frightened, but when he found that no heat ensued and
+nothing else happened, his worries ceased. In the next moment his and
+his master's attention was attracted by low, sweet sounds of music and
+singing that seemed to vibrate from underneath the catafalque; and
+then there appeared a youth with a harp, and he sang a song that dealt
+with the cruelty of Don Quixote toward the fair Altisidora, who now
+was dead from a broken heart.
+
+When he had sung of her charms, one of the two who seemed like kings
+rose from his seat and spoke. He, Minos, who sat in judgment with
+Rhadamanthus, now begged the latter to stand up and announce what must
+be done in order to affect the resuscitation and restoration of the
+damsel Altisidora. As soon as he had declaimed all he had to say, he
+sat down, and in the next moment Rhadamanthus rose and decreed that
+all the officials gather quickly and attach the person of Sancho
+Panza, as through him alone Altisidora's restoration could be
+effected, he said, by his receiving twenty-four smacks in the face,
+twelve pinches and six pin-thrusts in the back and arms.
+
+Nobody but Sancho objected to the King's proclamation; but Sancho was
+emphatic enough for a multitude. "Body of me!" he replied unhesitatingly.
+"What has mauling my face got to with the resurrection of this damsel?
+The old woman takes kindly to my persecution; 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 they must give me
+four-and-twenty smacks, and prick holes in my body with pins, and raise
+weals on my arms with pinches! Try those jokes on a brother-in-law; I am
+an old dog, and its no use with me."
+
+But Rhadamanthus was bent in carrying out his threat. He gave a sign
+to one of the attendants, and in the next moment a procession of
+duennas started toward Sancho with raised hands. Sancho saw them
+coming against him, he grew frantic, and began to bellow like a bull,
+crying out: "I might let myself be handled by all the world; but allow
+duennas to touch me? Not a bit of it! Scratch my face, as my master
+was served in this very castle; run me through the body with burnished
+daggers; pinch my arms with red-hot pincers; I shall bear all in
+patience to serve these gentlefolk; but I will not let duennas touch
+me, though the devil himself should carry me off!"
+
+Here Don Quixote thought it was time for him to add his plea to that
+of the King, and he began to reason with Sancho. At last he subdued
+him somewhat, and by that time the duennas had reached the spot where
+Don Quixote and Sancho were seated, and one of them came up,
+curtsied, and gave the poor squire a smack on the face that nearly
+unseated him, and that made him exclaim: "Less politeness and less
+paint, Se�ora Duenna. By God, your hands smell of vinegar-wash!"
+
+No sooner had Sancho uttered these words than he was smacked and
+pinched by nearly all the rest of them, until at last he lost his
+temper and seized a lighted torch, with which he pursued the flying
+duennas in an uncontrollable rage, crying: "Begone, ye ministers of
+Hell! I am not made of brass not to feel such out-of-the-way
+tortures."
+
+But just then Altisidora--who probably was tired of lying on her back
+such a long time--moved, and in the next moment exclamations were
+heard from all in the court: "Altisidora is alive! Altisidora lives!"
+
+Now that the great miracle had been attained, Rhadamanthus turned to
+Sancho and bade him still his anger; and Don Quixote again entreated
+Sancho, since he so nobly had proven that virtue now was ripe in him,
+to go to work and disenchant his Dulcinea in the same breath. To this
+Sancho replied:
+
+"That is 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 am to be always made the cow of the wedding for the cure
+of other people's ailments. Leave me alone; or else by the Lord I
+shall fling the whole thing to the dogs, come what may!"
+
+By this time Altisidora had entirely recovered from her death and was
+now sitting up on the catafalque. The music was again heard, the
+voices sang, and all came forward to help the young maiden down from
+her elevated position.
+
+Altisidora acted as if she were just coming out of a long, long sleep;
+and when she saw the Kings and the Duke and the Duchess she bowed her
+head to them in respect. Then she asked the Lord to forgive Don
+Quixote for his cruelty, while she praised and thanked Sancho Panza
+for his sacrifice, and offered to give him six smocks of hers to make
+into shirts for himself, adding that if they were not quite whole,
+they were at least all clean. On hearing this, Sancho fell on his
+knees and kissed her hands; and then one of the attendants approached
+him, at the order of the Duke, and asked him to return the red robe
+and the miter. Sancho, however, wanted to keep them to show to his
+villagers as a remembrance of his marvelous experience; and when the
+Duchess heard of his desire she commanded that they be given to her
+friend as a token of her everlasting esteem.
+
+Soon everybody had left the court and retired to their quarters, and
+the Duke had Don Quixote and Sancho shown to their old chambers.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER LXX
+
+WHICH FOLLOWS CHAPTER SIXTY-NINE AND DEALS WITH MATTERS
+INDISPENSABLE FOR THE CLEAR COMPREHENSION OF THIS HISTORY
+
+
+Sancho slept that night in the same chamber with Don Quixote. It was
+some time before he went asleep, however, for the pain of the pinching
+and smacking was quite evident. Don Quixote was inclined to talk, but
+Sancho begged him to let him sleep in peace for the remainder of the
+night, and at last both master and servant fell into slumber.
+
+In the meantime it might be told how it came about that Don Quixote
+came to visit the ducal castle again. The bachelor Samson Carrasco,
+having learned as much as he could from the page that carried the
+letter to Teresa Panza of the whereabouts of the hero, decided that
+the time had come for another combat with him. Thus he procured a new
+suit of armor and a fresh horse and set out to find the Duke's castle.
+Having reached it, he had a long conversation with the Duke, wherein
+he told him it was his great desire to bring Don Quixote back to his
+village and his friends, hoping that if he could defeat him in battle
+Don Quixote could be made to return of his own free will and in time
+be cured of his strange affliction. He then followed him to Saragossa,
+for which city he had set out when he left the Duke's castle, but
+finally traced him to Barcelona, where the bachelor encountered him
+with the result that he promised to return to his village and give up
+knight-errantry for a year.
+
+On his way home, the bachelor, at the Duke's request, had stopped at
+the castle to inform him of the outcome of the combat, and it was then
+that the Duke decided to play the knight and his squire another joke.
+The Duke had his men stationed everywhere on the road that led from
+Barcelona, and it was thus that they were able to bring in Don Quixote
+in the manner and at the hour that they did.
+
+When daylight arrived the morning after Altisidora's coming to life,
+Don Quixote awoke and found her in his presence; and the instant he
+saw her he showed his modesty and his confusion by pulling the sheet
+over his head. But while Don Quixote was not inclined to converse with
+a maiden so early in the morning, Sancho showed no aversion to it
+whatever, for he bombarded Altisidora with all kinds of impertinent
+questions as to what was going on in Hell when she was there. Of
+course Altisidora denied having any intimate knowledge of this place,
+for in spite of her immodesty she had only got as far as the gates,
+she said.
+
+Don Quixote now entered into the conversation and asked why the fair
+Altisidora had been so persistent in her love, when she knew that he
+would never change or give up his beloved Dulcinea, to whom he
+maintained he was born to belong. When she heard Don Quixote talk in
+this manner, Altisidora grew very angry with him, and exclaimed:
+"God's life! Don Stockfish, soul of a mortar, stone of a date, more
+obstinate and obdurate than a clown asked a favor when he has his
+mind made up! If I fall upon you I shall tear your eyes out! Do you
+fancy, then, Don Vanquished, Don Cudgeled, that I died for _your_
+sake? All that you have seen to-night has been make believe; I am not
+the woman to let the black of my nail suffer for such a camel, much
+less die!"
+
+Sancho interrupted her here and said he could well believe that; then
+he added: "All that about lovers pining to death is absurd. They may
+talk of it, but as far as doing it--Judas may believe that!"
+
+Now the Duke and the Duchess entered, and after an animated conversation
+during which Sancho's amusing sayings as usual captivated his
+distinguished friends, Don Quixote begged leave to be on his way to his
+village. They granted him his request, and then they asked him whether he
+had forgiven Altisidora for having tried to capture his love. He replied
+saying that this lady's lack of virtue had its root in her idleness, and
+he recommended that the Duchess see to it that Altisidora was put to
+making lace or given some other employment. Sancho approved of his
+master's advice, and remarked sagely that he never had seen any lacemaker
+die for love; and he further illustrated the truth of Don Quixote's
+remark by his own experience on that score: when he was digging, he
+vowed, he never bothered with the thought of his old woman. The testimony
+of two such staunch friends of hers as Don Quixote and Sancho made the
+Duchess promise that hereafter she would keep the fair Altisidora
+employed so that no foolish thoughts might take her away from the path of
+virtue. As soon as the fair maiden heard her mistress speak thus,
+however, she assured her that there was no longer any need of her being
+worked to death in order to divert her thought from the person of our
+knight errant, for his cruelty to her had been such that the very thought
+of that had now blotted him out of her memory forever. And, pretending to
+wipe a tear from her eye, she made a curtsy to the Duchess and left the
+chamber.
+
+It was now time for dinner, and soon afterward Don Quixote, having
+dined with the Duke and the Duchess, made his departure from the
+castle with Sancho, and started again for his home.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER LXXI
+
+OF WHAT PASSED BETWEEN DON QUIXOTE AND HIS SQUIRE SANCHO ON
+THE WAY TO THEIR VILLAGE
+
+
+Don Quixote and Sancho traveled along, both in a state of depression.
+Don Quixote was sad because he had been forced to give up the glories
+of knight-errantry and chivalry; Sancho because Altisidora had not
+kept her word when she promised to give him the smocks. To Sancho it
+seemed a terrible injustice that physicians should be paid even if
+their patients died, and here he had brought back a human being from
+the dead, and was being rewarded in this ungrateful manner!
+
+But Don Quixote's sadness was suddenly brightened by a hope that he
+might at last be able to prevail upon Sancho to bring about the
+disenchantment of Dulcinea. Knowing Sancho's covetousness, he offered
+him money as a bribe. Now Sancho became interested, and consented,
+for the love of his wife and children, to whip himself at a price of a
+quarter-real a lash, generously throwing the five lashes he had
+already given himself into the bargain.
+
+"O blessed Sancho! O dear Sancho!" exclaimed Don Quixote. "How we
+shall be bound to serve thee, Dulcinea and I, all the days of our
+lives that Heaven may grant us! 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."
+
+Sancho swore that he would begin the scourging that very night, and
+begged his master that he arrange it so that they spend the night in
+the open.
+
+Night came at last, and when they had supped, Sancho proceeded to make
+a sturdy whip out of Dapple's halter. When he had finished this task
+he made off for a distant part of the woods. He left his master with
+such a determined look in his eyes that Don Quixote thought it best to
+warn him not to go too fast but to take a breathing-space between
+lashes so that he would not cut his body to pieces. He was afraid
+also, he said, that Sancho might become so enthusiastic over what he
+was doing, or so anxious to come to the end of the lashes that he
+might overtax his strength, collapse and die; and he begged Sancho
+particularly not to do that, for then he would have gone through all
+his suffering in vain. When Sancho had stripped himself to the waist,
+Don Quixote placed himself where he could hear the sound of the
+lashes, and counted them on his rosary that Sancho would make neither
+too much nor too little effort to disenchant Dulcinea.
+
+After half a dozen lashes, Sancho felt that he had inflicted a
+sufficient measure of pain upon himself already, and demanded a higher
+price for his service. Don Quixote told Sancho that he would pay him
+twice the amount promised; and the squire began again. But this time
+he did not whip himself but let the lashes fall on a tree; and with
+each lash he gave out the most heartrending cries, and uttered such
+groans that his master began to feel the pain of his squire's torture
+in his own heart. When he had counted a thousand lashes or thereabout,
+he was quite worried about Sancho and begged him to stop for the
+present, but Sancho told his master he might as well brave the
+remainder of the ordeal now.
+
+Seeing his squire in such a sacrificing mood, Don Quixote retired at
+his request, and Sancho continued with the lashing, which he
+administered to a perfectly innocent tree with such brutality and
+ferocity that the bark flew in all directions. All the while he gave
+vent to his pain by fierce shrieks, and then there came one long
+agonizing cry, which nearly rent Don Quixote's heart, and Sancho
+exclaimed piteously: "Here dies Sancho, and all with him!" Don Quixote
+hastened to his squire's side, and insisted for the sake of his
+unsupported wife and children that he go no further, but to wait until
+some other time with the rest. Sancho retorted with a request that his
+master cover his shoulders with his cloak, as the exertion had been
+too great and had made him perspire freely, and he did not wish to run
+the risk of catching cold. Don Quixote did as he was asked and begged
+Sancho to lie down; then he covered him with the cloak.
+
+At dawn they resumed their journey, and when they had traveled three
+leagues, they came to an inn. Don Quixote did not take it for a castle
+this time; as a matter of fact, ever since he had found himself
+vanquished, he had begun to talk of and see things in a more rational
+way. They entered, and when Sancho saw the painted pictures on the
+wall he remarked to his master that not long from now there would be
+paintings picturing their deeds in every tavern and inn in the
+country. Don Quixote then turned to his squire and asked him whether
+he would like to finish the whipping business that day, and Sancho
+said it made no difference to him when he did it; he only made a
+suggestion that he thought he would prefer to do it among the trees as
+they seemed to help him bear the pain miraculously. But on second
+consideration Don Quixote deemed it advisable to put it off till a
+later time, when they were closer to their village, in case Sancho
+should have a breakdown as a result of his flogging himself. Their
+conversation came to an end when Sancho began to shoot proverbs at his
+master out of the corner of his mouth at such a speed that Don Quixote
+was overwhelmed and tore his hair in desperation.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTERS LXXII-LXXIII
+
+OF THE OMENS DON QUIXOTE HAD AS HE ENTERED HIS OWN VILLAGE;
+AND OTHER INCIDENTS THAT EMBELLISH AND GIVE A COLOR TO THIS
+GREAT HISTORY
+
+
+When they had left the inn that day Don Quixote and his squire
+traveled all through the night, and the following morning they arrived
+at their own village, from which they had been absent so long.
+Among the first to meet them were the curate and Samson Carrasco, who
+had discovered at a distance the red robe the Duchess had given to
+Sancho as a memento of their friendship. Sancho had thrown it over his
+donkey and the discarded armor, and it shone in the morning sun as
+brightly as a fiery sunset. Dapple was also adorned with the miter,
+which proudly crowned the beast's head.
+
+[Illustration: "WITH EACH LASH HE GAVE OUT THE MOST HEARTRENDING
+CRIES."--_Page 333_]
+
+When Don Quixote saw his old friends, he dismounted and embraced them;
+and all the little boys in town came running to see the sight of
+Dapple and the returning revivers of knight-errantry. They called out
+to their playmates: "Come here, fellows, and see how Sancho Panza's
+donkey is rigged out; and take a look at Don Quixote's horse: he is
+leaner than ever!"
+
+As they walked through the village, it was a whole parade that
+followed them; and at Don Quixote's house they were received by the
+niece and the housekeeper, who had already heard of the return.
+
+Teresa Panza, too, had been given the news, but she was sorely
+disappointed when she ran out with her two dirty children to welcome
+the returning Governor. She scolded him soundly for coming home
+dressed like a vagabond. But Sancho told her to put a clamp on her
+tongue, for he did bring her money, at any rate, he said. Then his
+daughter fell on his neck and kissed him, and in the next instant the
+whole family had dragged him inside their little cottage.
+
+Don Quixote shut himself in with the curate and the bachelor, as soon
+as he had entered his house, and related to them the sad story of his
+defeat, and the promise he had made to the Knight of the White Moon;
+and then he broached his new idea, that of turning shepherd. He told
+his friends he had chosen new names for them, for he hoped that they
+would share his new life with him; and they at once praised his scheme
+and promised that as shepherds they would accompany him in his pursuit
+of happiness. Samson added that he would be an especially valuable
+member of the pastoral colony, for he knew how to write poetry, and
+would devote his time to singing the praises of their simple life. Of
+course, there must be shepherdesses, too, Don Quixote ruled, and they
+could be represented by such modest and virtuous women as Dulcinea and
+Teresa Panza.
+
+When they had conversed in this pleasant manner for some time, the curate
+and the bachelor left, begging Don Quixote to take good care of himself
+and to eat plentifully. As soon as they had departed, the niece and the
+housekeeper, who had overheard the three men, entered the late knight's
+room and begged him not to turn shepherd saying that his health was not
+such as to allow him to dwell in the open in the damp night air; sooner
+or later he would succumb, they said, and take ill and die. They were
+both agreed that the foolishness of knight-errantry was much better than
+this craze. They entreated him to remain at home, to go to confession
+often, and to indulge in doing good deeds and being kind to the poor,
+instead. But Don Quixote would have none of their advice. He told them he
+knew where his duty lay. Then he implored them to put him to bed, saying
+that they ought to know he had always their interest at heart, no matter
+what happened.
+
+The two women began to weep, and then they helped Don Quixote to bed,
+and there they did all they could to make him comfortable, and gave
+him something to eat.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER LXXIV
+
+OF HOW DON QUIXOTE FELL SICK, AND OF THE WILL HE MADE; AND
+HOW HE DIED
+
+
+The following day Don Quixote did not rise from his bed, and he was
+taken with a fever which kept him in bed for six days. All this time
+his faithful Sancho remained at his bedside; and his friends, the
+curate, the barber and the bachelor, visited him frequently. They all
+did what they could, for they seemed to sense that the sickness was
+brought on by the sad thought of his having been forced to give up his
+great hope of reviving knight-errantry.
+
+When the doctor was sent for, he said frankly that it was time for Don
+Quixote to turn his thoughts to his soul; and when the niece and the
+devoted housekeeper heard this, they began to weep bitterly. The
+physician was of the same opinion as the curate and Don Quixote's
+other friends: that melancholy and unhappiness were the cause of the
+present state of his health.
+
+Soon Don Quixote asked to be left alone, and then he fell into a long
+sleep, which lasted over six hours. It provoked the anxiety of the two
+women, who were afraid he would never wake up again. At last he
+awoke, and as he opened his eyes he exclaimed in a voice of exaltation
+and joy: "Blessed be the Lord Almighty, 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!"
+
+The niece was struck by the unusual saneness of these words. She asked
+Don Quixote gently what he meant, and what sins of men he was speaking
+of. He replied in a voice full of calmness and serenity that God had
+just freed his reason, for he realized now how ignorance in believing
+in the absurdities of the books of chivalry had distorted his mind and
+vision so sadly. He regretted, he said, that he saw the light so late
+in life that there was no time for him to show his repentance by
+reading other books, which might have helped his soul. Then he begged
+his niece to send for the curate, the bachelor Carrasco, and the
+barber, as he wished to confess his sins and make his will before he
+departed from this earth.
+
+The moment the three friends stepped over the threshold to his
+chamber, he called out happily: "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 the Good." And he went on to say how
+he now loathed all books of chivalry which had brought him to the
+state he was in, and how happy he was in the thought that God had made
+him see his folly. The three men could only think that this was some
+new craze of their friend's and tried to persuade him not to talk
+thus, now that they had just got news of his peerless Dulcinea and
+were all of them about to become shepherds in order to keep him
+company; and they begged him to be rational and talk no more nonsense.
+But soon they realized that Don Quixote was not jesting, for he begged
+them to send for a notary, and while the bachelor went to fetch him,
+the barber went to soothe the women; and the curate alone remained
+with Don Quixote to confess him.
+
+When the good curate came out after the confession, the women gathered
+about him and when he told them that Don Quixote was indeed dying,
+they broke into sobs, for they loved him genuinely and dearly. The
+notary then came, and Don Quixote made his will. The first person he
+thought of was his faithful and beloved companion, Sancho Panza, whose
+simplicity and affection he rewarded by leaving him all the money of
+his own that was now in Sancho's possession. Had he had a kingdom to
+give him, he said, it would scarcely have been sufficient reward for
+all that Sancho had done for him. Then turning to Sancho, who stood at
+his bedside with tears in his eyes, he said to him: "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."
+
+"Ah," said Sancho, in a voice that was choked with tears, "do not die,
+master, but take my advice and live many years; for the foolishest
+thing a man can do in this life is to let himself die without rhyme or
+reason, without anybody killing him, or any hands but melancholy's
+making an end of him. Come, do not be lazy, but get up from your bed
+and let us take to the fields in a shepherd's trim as we agreed!
+Perhaps behind some bush we shall find the Lady Dulcinea disenchanted,
+as fine as fine can be. If it be that you are dying of vexation at
+having been vanquished, lay the blame on me, and say you were thrown
+because I girthed Rocinante badly."
+
+But although Samson Carrasco tried to persuade the dying knight that
+Sancho had reasoned rightly, they at last came to the conclusion that
+Don Quixote really was in his right senses, and that God had worked a
+miracle.
+
+They now let the notary proceed and one of the stipulations in the
+will was that if his niece, Antonia Quixana, ever married a man who
+had read books of chivalry, she should by so doing forfeit all that he
+had left to her, and instead it would go to charity. Another clause
+contained a request to the executors to offer his humble apologies to
+the author of the Second Part of "The Achievements of Don Quixote of
+La Mancha" for his having committed so many absurdities that had been
+a provocation to the author to write this book.
+
+When he had dictated the last words of his will, a sudden faintness
+came over Don Quixote, and for three days after that he was in a state
+between life and death. At last the end came, and he passed away so
+calmly that the notary felt compelled to confess that he never had
+read of any knight errant in the whole wide world who had breathed his
+last breath so peacefully.
+
+The bachelor, Samson Carrasco, wrote an epitaph for his tomb; and
+there is written on a tombstone in a little village of La Mancha the
+praise that those who knew and loved the valiant and doughty, yet
+gentle Don Quixote of La Mancha felt in their hearts for him, whose
+last wish was that he might die as Alonso Quixano the Good.
+
+
+THE END
+
+
+
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+Transcribers' note:
+
+The Title Page of this book credits Arvid Paulson and Clayton Edwards
+as being the authors of this work. The original Don Quixote of The
+Mancha was written, in Spanish, by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra around
+1605. It has been translated into many languages and editions. This
+book is based on Cervantes' story. The catalogue of the Library of
+Congress lists Cervantes as the author of this book, and Paulson and
+Edwards are included as "related names."
+
+Variations in spelling, such as grey/gray or pretence/pretense have
+been left as they appear in the original book.
+
+Some items that appear to be typographic errors have been changed
+as follows.
+
+Page 28 Corrected Neverthelesss to remove extra "s".
+
+Page 63 Corrected imcomparable to incomparable.
+
+Page 130 Corrected hilarously to hilariously.
+
+Page 231 Corrected sacrilegeous to sacrilegious in the passage that
+read "When the confessor heard the sacrilegeous conversation".
+
+Page 237 Corrected Do�o to Do�a in the passage that read "and told
+her of the incident with Do�o Rodriguez".
+
+Page 246 Corrected expresseed to expressed.
+
+Page 257 Deleted superfluous "to" in the passage that read "he
+confided to to his master the resemblance in voice and appearance".
+
+Chapter LIII Page 277 "and lifted him up from his vertical position."
+has been left as it appears in the book, although the intent would
+appear to be "horizontal" rather than "vertical".
+
+Chapter LXII Page 306 In the passage that reads "After having acted in
+the most mysterious manner, and having carefully ascertained that all
+the doors to the room were shut and no one listening, Don Quixote
+swore the knight to secrecy." Don Quixote has been changed to Antonio
+as this appears to be a typographic error as Don Quixote is the knight
+in question.
+
+Page 309 Changed lead to led in the passage that reads "through a tube
+that lead from the inside of the head".
+
+Page 317 Corrected Stubborness to Stubbornness in the passage that
+read "but Sancho was unflinching in his stubborness and insisted".
+
+Page 328 Corrected to affliction in the passage that reads "in time be
+cured of his strange affiction".
+
+
+
+
+Changes Have Been Made to Table of Contents As Follows.
+
+
+Volume I
+
+
+CHAPTER XXXII-XXXIV
+
+Which Treats of What Befell All Don Quixote's Party at the Inn
+
+The table of contents read "at the End". It has been amended to "... at
+the Inn" to match the chapter heading
+
+
+Volume II
+
+
+CHAPTER XII
+
+Of the Strange Adventure Which Befell the
+Valiant Don Quixote with the Bold Knight of the Grove
+
+The table of contents read "of the Mirrors" It has been amended to
+"of the Grove" to match this and the next chapter heading and sense
+of the story line.
+
+
+CHAPTER XLIV
+
+How Sancho Panza Was Conducted to His Government; and of
+the Strange Adventure That Befell Don Quixote in the Castle
+
+"Ad" in adventure was missing from the table of contents which read
+"Strange Venture". It has been amended to match the chapter heading.
+
+
+CHAPTER L
+
+Wherein Is Set Forth How Governor Sancho Panza's Wife Received a
+Message and a Gift from the Duchess; and also What Befell the Page Who
+Carried the Letter to Teresa Panza
+
+The table of contents went on to add "Sancho Panza's Wife" to the end
+of the above listing. This has been removed to agree with the chapter
+heading.
+
+
+CHAPTERS LVI-LVII
+
+Which Treats of How Don Quixote Again Felt the Calling of
+Knight-errantry and How He Took Leave of the Duke, and of What
+Followed with the Witty and Impudent Altisidora, One of the Duchess'
+Damsels
+
+Deleted "s" from "callings" in contents listing
+
+In the html version, capitalisation of the Table of Contents has been
+modified to agree with each applicable chapter heading.
+
+
+
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+<h1 class="pg">The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Story of Don Quixote, by Arvid Paulson,
+Clayton Edwards, and Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Illustrated by Florence
+Choate and Elizabeth Curtis</h1>
+<pre>
+This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
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+re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included
+with this eBook or online at <a href = "http://www.gutenberg.org">www.gutenberg.org</a></pre>
+<p>Title: The Story of Don Quixote</p>
+<p>Author: Arvid Paulson, Clayton Edwards, and Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra</p>
+<p>Release Date: July 20, 2009  [eBook #29468]</p>
+<p>Language: English</p>
+<p>Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1</p>
+<p>***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE STORY OF DON QUIXOTE***</p>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<h3>E-text prepared by Juliet Sutherland, Jen Haines,<br />
+    and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team<br />
+    (http://www.pgdp.net)</h3>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<hr class="full" />
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" >
+<img src="images/cover.jpg" width="600" height="667" alt="Book Cover" title="Book Cover" />
+</div>
+
+<p class="top7"></p>
+<p><a name="Frontis" id="Frontis"></a></p>
+<div class="figcenter" >
+<img src="images/illus.jpg" width="450" height="592"
+alt="&quot;DON QUIXOTE INSISTED THAT THE BOAT HAD BEEN SENT BY MAGIC TO
+FETCH HIM TO SOME GREAT KNIGHT.&quot;&mdash;Page 222"
+title="&quot;DON QUIXOTE INSISTED THAT THE BOAT HAD BEEN SENT BY MAGIC TO
+FETCH HIM TO SOME GREAT KNIGHT.&quot;&mdash;Page 222" />
+<span class="caption"><br />&quot;DON QUIXOTE INSISTED THAT THE BOAT HAD BEEN SENT BY MAGIC TO
+FETCH HIM TO SOME GREAT KNIGHT.&quot;&mdash;<a href="#front">Page 222</a></span>
+</div>
+
+<h2 class="top5">THE STORY OF</h2>
+<h1>DON QUIXOTE</h1>
+
+<h6 class="top5">BY</h6>
+<h3>ARVID PAULSON</h3>
+<h6>AND</h6>
+<h3>CLAYTON EDWARDS</h3>
+
+<h6 class="top5">WITH ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOR BY</h6>
+<h5>FLORENCE CHOATE</h5>
+<h6>AND</h6>
+<h5>ELIZABETH CURTIS</h5>
+
+<h3 class="top7">THE HAMPTON PUBLISHING COMPANY</h3>
+<h5>NEW YORK</h5>
+
+<h6 class="top7"><i>Copyright, MCMXXII, by</i></h6>
+<h5><span class="smcap">Frederick A. Stokes Company</span></h5>
+<hr class="hr2" />
+<h6><i>All rights reserved, including that of translation
+into foreign languages</i></h6>
+
+<h6 class="top5"><i>Printed in the United States of America</i></h6>
+
+<hr class="hr1" />
+
+<h2 class="top3">CONTENTS</h2>
+
+<hr class="hr2" />
+
+<div class="center">
+<table border="0" summary="Table of Contents Volume 1">
+<tr><td colspan="3"><h2><a href="#VOLUME_I">VOLUME I</a></h2></td></tr>
+<tr><td class="td1">CHAPTER</td>
+    <td class="td3" colspan="2">PAGE</td></tr>
+<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v1CHAPTERI"><b>I</b></a></td>
+    <td class="td2">Which Treats of the Character and Pursuits of The Famous Gentleman,
+                    Don Quixote of La Mancha</td>
+    <td class="td3">1</td></tr>
+<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v1CHAPTERII-III"><b>II-III</b></a></td>
+    <td class="td2">Which Treats of the First Sally Don Quixote Made from Home</td>
+    <td class="td3">6</td></tr>
+<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v1CHAPTERIV"><b>IV</b></a></td>
+    <td class="td2">Which Treats of Don Quixote's Further Adventures</td>
+    <td class="td3">14</td></tr>
+<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v1CHAPTERV"><b>V</b></a></td>
+    <td class="td2">In Which the Narrative of Our Knight's Mishap is Continued</td>
+    <td class="td3">20</td></tr>
+<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v1CHAPTERVI"><b>VI</b></a></td>
+    <td class="td2">Of the Diverting and Important Scrutiny Which the Curate and the
+                    Barber Made in the Library of Our Ingenious Gentleman</td>
+    <td class="td3">22</td></tr>
+<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v1CHAPTERVII"><b>VII</b></a></td>
+    <td class="td2">Of the Second Sally of Our Worthy Knight, Don Quixote of La Mancha</td>
+    <td class="td3">24</td></tr>
+<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v1CHAPTERVIII-IX"><b>VIII-IX</b></a></td>
+    <td class="td2">Of the Good Fortune Which the Valiant Don Quixote Had in the Terrible and
+                    Undreamt-of Adventure of the Windmills, with Other Occurrences Worthy to
+                    Be Fitly Recorded, Including the Terrible Battle Between the Gallant Biscayan
+                    and the Valiant Manchegan</td>
+    <td class="td3">27</td></tr>
+<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v1CHAPTERX"><b>X</b></a></td>
+    <td class="td2">Of the Pleasant Discourse That Passed Between Don Quixote and His Squire Sancho Panza</td>
+    <td class="td3">33</td></tr>
+<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v1CHAPTERXI"><b>XI</b></a></td>
+    <td class="td2">Of What Befell Don Quixote with Certain Goatherds</td>
+    <td class="td3">37</td></tr>
+<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v1CHAPTERXII"><b>XII</b></a></td>
+    <td class="td2">Of What a Goatherd Related to Those with Don Quixote</td>
+    <td class="td3">39</td></tr>
+<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v1CHAPTERXIII"><b>XIII</b></a></td>
+    <td class="td2">In Which Is Ended the Story of the Shepherdess Marcela with Other Incidents</td>
+    <td class="td3">41</td></tr>
+<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v1CHAPTERXIV"><b>XIV</b></a></td>
+    <td class="td2">Wherein Are Described the Despairing Verses of the Dead Shepherd</td>
+    <td class="td3">45</td></tr>
+<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v1CHAPTERXV"><b>XV</b></a></td>
+    <td class="td2">In Which Is Related the Unfortunate Adventure That Don Quixote Fell in with When
+                    He Fell out with Certain Heartless Yanguesans</td>
+    <td class="td3">47</td></tr>
+<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v1CHAPTERXVI"><b>XVI</b></a></td>
+    <td class="td2">Of What Happened to the Ingenious Gentleman in the Inn Which He Took to Be a Castle</td>
+    <td class="td3">50</td></tr>
+<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v1CHAPTERXVII"><b>XVII</b></a></td>
+    <td class="td2">In Which Are Contained the Innumerable Troubles Which the Brave Don Quixote and His
+                    Good Squire Sancho Panza Endured at the Inn, Which, to His Misfortune, He Took to
+                    Be a Castle</td>
+    <td class="td3">51</td></tr>
+<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v1CHAPTERXVIII"><b>XVIII</b></a></td>
+    <td class="td2">In Which Is Related the Discourse Sancho Panza Held with His Master, Don Quixote,
+                    Together with Other Adventures Worth Relating</td>
+    <td class="td3">55</td></tr>
+<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v1CHAPTERXIX"><b>XIX</b></a></td>
+    <td class="td2">Of the Shrewd Discourse Which Sancho Held with His Master, and of the Adventure
+                    that Befell Him with a Dead Body, Together with Other Notable Occurrences</td>
+    <td class="td3">59</td></tr>
+<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v1CHAPTERXX"><b>XX</b></a></td>
+    <td class="td2">Of the Unexampled and Unheard-of Adventure Which Was Achieved by the Valiant
+                    Don Quixote of La Mancha with Less Peril than Any Ever Achieved by Any Famous
+                    Knight in the World</td>
+    <td class="td3">62</td></tr>
+<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v1CHAPTERXXI"><b>XXI</b></a></td>
+    <td class="td2">Which Treats of the Exalted Adventure and Rich Prize of Mambrino's Helmet,
+                    Together with Other Things That Happened to Our Invincible Knight</td>
+    <td class="td3">65</td></tr>
+<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v1CHAPTERXXII"><b>XXII</b></a></td>
+    <td class="td2">Of the Freedom Don Quixote Conferred on Several Unfortunates Who Against Their
+                    Will Were Being Carried Where They Had No Wish to Go</td>
+    <td class="td3">68</td></tr>
+<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v1CHAPTERXXIII"><b>XXIII</b></a></td>
+    <td class="td2">Of What Befell Don Quixote in the Sierra Morena, Which Is One of the Rarest
+                    Adventures Related in This Veracious History</td>
+    <td class="td3">71</td></tr>
+<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v1CHAPTERXXIV"><b>XXIV</b></a></td>
+    <td class="td2">In Which Is Continued the Adventure of the Sierra Morena</td>
+    <td class="td3">73</td></tr>
+<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v1CHAPTERXXV"><b>XXV</b></a></td>
+    <td class="td2">Which Treats of the Strange Things That Happened to the Stout Knight of
+                    La Mancha in the Sierra Morena</td>
+    <td class="td3">75</td></tr>
+<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v1CHAPTERXXVI"><b>XXVI</b></a></td>
+    <td class="td2">In Which Are Continued the Refinements Wherewith Don Quixote Played the
+                    Part of a Lover in the Sierra Morena</td>
+    <td class="td3">77</td></tr>
+<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v1CHAPTERXXVII"><b>XXVII</b></a></td>
+    <td class="td2">Of How the Curate and the Barber Proceeded with Their Scheme, Together
+                    with Other Matters Worthy of Record in This Great History</td>
+    <td class="td3">80</td></tr>
+<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v1CHAPTERXXVIII"><b>XXVIII</b></a></td>
+    <td class="td2">Which Treats of the Strange and Delightful Adventure That Befell the
+                    Curate and the Barber In The Same Sierra</td>
+    <td class="td3">81</td></tr>
+<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v1CHAPTERXXIX"><b>XXIX</b></a></td>
+    <td class="td2">Which Treats of the Droll Device and Method Adopted to Extricate Our
+                    Love-stricken Knight from the Severe Penance He Had Imposed Upon Himself</td>
+    <td class="td3">83</td></tr>
+<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v1CHAPTERXXX"><b>XXX</b></a></td>
+    <td class="td2">Which Treats of the Address Displayed by the Fair Dorothea, with Other
+                    Matters, Pleasant and Amusing</td>
+    <td class="td3">88</td></tr>
+<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v1CHAPTERXXXI"><b>XXXI</b></a></td>
+    <td class="td2">Of the Delectable Discussion Between Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, His
+                    Squire, Together with Other Incidents</td>
+    <td class="td3">90</td></tr>
+<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v1CHAPTERXXXII-XXXIV"><b>&nbsp;XXXII-XXXIV</b></a></td>
+    <td class="td2">Which Treats of What Befell All Don Quixote's Party at the Inn</td>
+    <td class="td3">91</td></tr>
+<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v1CHAPTERXXXV"><b>XXXV</b></a></td>
+    <td class="td2">Which Treats of the Heroic and Prodigious Battle Don Quixote Had with
+                    Certain Skins of Red Wine, and Brings the Novel of the "Ill-advised Curiosity"
+                    to an End</td>
+    <td class="td3">92</td></tr>
+<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v1CHAPTERXXXVI"><b>XXXVI</b></a></td>
+    <td class="td2">Which Treats of More Curious Incidents That Occurred at the Inn</td>
+    <td class="td3">95</td></tr>
+<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v1CHAPTERXXXVII"><b>XXXVII</b></a></td>
+    <td class="td2">In Which Is Continued the Story of the Famous Princess Micomicona, with Other
+                    Droll Adventures</td>
+    <td class="td3">98</td></tr>
+<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v1CHAPTERXXXVIII"><b>XXXVIII</b></a></td>
+    <td class="td2">Which Treats of the Curious Discourse Don Quixote Delivered on Arms and Letters</td>
+    <td class="td3">102</td></tr>
+<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v1CHAPTERXXXIX-XLI"><b>XXXIX-XLI</b></a></td>
+    <td class="td2">Wherein the Captive Relates His Life and Adventures</td>
+    <td class="td3">103</td></tr>
+<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v1CHAPTERXLII"><b>XLII</b></a></td>
+    <td class="td2">Which Treats of What Further Took Place in the Inn, and of Several Other Things
+                    Worth Knowing</td>
+    <td class="td3">108</td></tr>
+<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v1CHAPTERXLIII"><b>XLIII</b></a></td>
+    <td class="td2">Wherein Is Related the Pleasant Story of the Muleteer, Together With Other
+                    Strange Things That Came To Pass in the Inn</td>
+    <td class="td3">112</td></tr>
+<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v1CHAPTERXLIV"><b>XLIV</b></a></td>
+    <td class="td2">In Which Are Continued the Unheard-of Adventures at the Inn</td>
+    <td class="td3">117</td></tr>
+<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v1CHAPTERXLV"><b>XLV</b></a></td>
+    <td class="td2">In Which the Doubtful Question of Mambrino's Helmet and the Pack-saddle Is
+                    Finally Settled, with Other Adventures That Occurred in Truth and Earnest</td>
+    <td class="td3">123</td></tr>
+<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v1CHAPTERXLVI"><b>XLVI</b></a></td>
+    <td class="td2">Of the End of the Notable Adventure of the Officers of the Holy Brotherhood;
+                    and of the Great Ferocity of Our Worthy Knight, Don Quixote</td>
+    <td class="td3">127</td></tr>
+<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v1CHAPTERXLVII"><b>XLVII</b></a></td>
+    <td class="td2">Of the Strange Manner in Which Don Quixote of La Mancha Was Carried Away
+                    Enchanted, Together with Other Remarkable Incidents</td>
+    <td class="td3">132</td></tr>
+<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v1CHAPTERXLVIII"><b>XLVIII</b></a></td>
+    <td class="td2">In Which the Canon Pursues the Subject of the Books of Chivalry, With Other
+                    Matters Worthy of His Wit</td>
+    <td class="td3">137</td></tr>
+<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v1CHAPTERXLIX"><b>XLIX</b></a></td>
+    <td class="td2">Which Treats of How Our Knight Is Permitted to Descend from His Cage, and
+                    of the Canon's Attempt to Convert Him from His Illusions</td>
+    <td class="td3">138</td></tr>
+<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v1CHAPTERL-LI"><b>L-LI</b></a></td>
+    <td class="td2">Of the Shrewd Controversy Which Don Quixote and the Canon Held, Together
+                    with Other Incidents</td>
+    <td class="td3">139</td></tr>
+<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v1CHAPTERLII"><b>LII</b></a></td>
+    <td class="td2">Of the Quarrel That Don Quixote Had with the Goatherd, Together with the
+                    Rare Adventure of the Penitents, Which with an Expenditure of Sweat He
+                    Brought to a Happy Conclusion</td>
+    <td class="td3">142</td></tr>
+</table></div>
+
+<hr class="hr2" />
+<div class="center">
+<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary="Table of Contents Volume 2">
+<tr><td colspan="3"><h2><a href="#VOLUME_II">VOLUME II</a></h2></td></tr>
+<tr><td class="td1">CHAPTER</td>
+    <td class="td3" colspan="2">PAGE</td></tr>
+<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v2CHAPTERI"><b>I</b></a></td>
+    <td class="td2">Of the Interview the Curate and the Barber Had with Don Quixote About His Malady</td>
+    <td class="td3">147</td></tr>
+<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v2CHAPTERII"><b>II</b></a></td>
+    <td class="td2">Which Treats of the Notable Altercation Which Sancho Panza Had with
+                    Don Quixote's Niece and His Housekeeper, Together with Other Droll Matters</td>
+    <td class="td3">150</td></tr>
+<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v2CHAPTERIII"><b>III</b></a></td>
+    <td class="td2">Of the Laughable Conversation That Passed Between Don Quixote, Sancho Panza,
+                    and the Bachelor Samson Carrasco</td>
+    <td class="td3">153</td></tr>
+<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v2CHAPTERIV"><b>IV</b></a></td>
+    <td class="td2">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
+                    Mentioning</td>
+    <td class="td3">156</td></tr>
+<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v2CHAPTERV"><b>V</b></a></td>
+    <td class="td2">Of the Shrewd and Droll Conversation That Passed Between Sancho Panza and His
+                    Wife Teresa Panza, and Other Matters Worthy of Being Duly Recorded</td>
+    <td class="td3">159</td></tr>
+<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v2CHAPTERVI"><b>VI</b></a></td>
+    <td class="td2">Of What Took Place Between Don Quixote and His Niece and His Housekeeper; One
+                    of the Most Important Chapters in the Whole History</td>
+    <td class="td3">161</td></tr>
+<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v2CHAPTERVII"><b>VII</b></a></td>
+    <td class="td2">Of What Passed Between Don Quixote and His Squire, Together With Other Very
+                    Notable Incidents</td>
+    <td class="td3">163</td></tr>
+<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v2CHAPTERVIII"><b>VIII</b></a></td>
+    <td class="td2">Wherein Is Related What Befell Don Quixote on His Way to See His Lady Dulcinea
+                    Del Toboso</td>
+    <td class="td3">167</td></tr>
+<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v2CHAPTERIX"><b>IX</b></a></td>
+    <td class="td2">Wherein Is Related What Will Be Seen There</td>
+    <td class="td3">170</td></tr>
+<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v2CHAPTERX"><b>X</b></a></td>
+    <td class="td2">Wherein Is Related the Crafty Device Sancho Adopted to Enchant the Lady Dulcinea,
+                    and Other Incidents as Ludicrous as They Are True</td>
+    <td class="td3">172</td></tr>
+<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v2CHAPTERXI"><b>XI</b></a></td>
+    <td class="td2">Of the Strange Adventure Which the Valiant Don Quixote Had with the Car or Cart
+                    of "the Cortes Of Death"</td>
+    <td class="td3">175</td></tr>
+<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v2CHAPTERXII"><b>XII</b></a></td>
+    <td class="td2">Of the Strange Adventure Which Befell the Valiant Don Quixote with the Bold Knight
+                    of the Grove</td>
+    <td class="td3">178</td></tr>
+<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v2CHAPTERXIII-XIV"><b>XIII-XIV</b></a></td>
+    <td class="td2">In Which Is Continued the Adventure of the Knight of the Grove, Together With
+                    the Sensible and Tranquil Colloquy That Passed Between the Two Squires</td>
+    <td class="td3">180</td></tr>
+<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v2CHAPTERXV"><b>XV</b></a></td>
+    <td class="td2">Wherein It Is Made Known How the Knight of the Mirror and His Squire Emerged
+                    from Their Adventure</td>
+    <td class="td3">186</td></tr>
+<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v2CHAPTERXVI"><b>XVI</b></a></td>
+    <td class="td2">Of What Befell Don Quixote with a Discreet Gentleman of La Mancha</td>
+    <td class="td3">187</td></tr>
+<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v2CHAPTERXVII"><b>XVII</b></a></td>
+    <td class="td2">Wherein Is Shown the Farthest and Highest Point Which the Unexampled Courage of
+                    Don Quixote Reached or Could Reach; Together with the Happily Achieved Adventure
+                    of the Lions</td>
+    <td class="td3">190</td></tr>
+<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v2CHAPTERXVIII"><b>XVIII</b></a></td>
+    <td class="td2">Of What Happened to Don Quixote in the Castle or House of the Knight of the
+                    Green Coat, Together with Other Matters Out of the Common</td>
+    <td class="td3">194</td></tr>
+<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v2CHAPTERXIX"><b>XIX</b></a></td>
+    <td class="td2">In Which Is Related the Adventure of the Enamored Shepherd, Together with
+                    Other Truly Droll Incidents</td>
+    <td class="td3">196</td></tr>
+<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v2CHAPTERXX"><b>XX</b></a></td>
+    <td class="td2">Wherein an Account Is Given of the Wedding of Camacho the Rich, Together
+                    with the Incident of Basilio the Poor</td>
+    <td class="td3">199</td></tr>
+<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v2CHAPTERXXI"><b>XXI</b></a></td>
+    <td class="td2">In Which Camacho's Wedding Is Continued, with Other Delightful Incidents</td>
+    <td class="td3">200</td></tr>
+<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v2CHAPTERXXII"><b>XXII</b></a></td>
+    <td class="td2">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</td>
+    <td class="td3">203</td></tr>
+<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v2CHAPTERXXIII"><b>XXIII</b></a></td>
+    <td class="td2">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 Apocryphal</td>
+    <td class="td3">206</td></tr>
+<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v2CHAPTERXXIV"><b>XXIV</b></a></td>
+    <td class="td2">Wherein Are Related Some Trifling Matters, as Trivial as They Are Necessary
+                    to the Right Understanding of This Great History</td>
+    <td class="td3">209</td></tr>
+<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v2CHAPTERXXV"><b>XXV</b></a></td>
+    <td class="td2">Wherein Is Set Down the Braying Adventure, and the Droll One of the Puppet-Showman,
+                    Together with the Memorable Divinations of the Divining Ape</td>
+    <td class="td3">210</td></tr>
+<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v2CHAPTERXXVI"><b>XXVI</b></a></td>
+    <td class="td2">Wherein Is Continued the Droll Adventure of the Puppet-Showman, Together with
+                     Other Things in Truth Right Good</td>
+    <td class="td3">214</td></tr>
+<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v2CHAPTERXXVII"><b>XXVII</b></a></td>
+    <td class="td2">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</td>
+    <td class="td3">217</td></tr>
+<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v2CHAPTERXXVIII"><b>XXVIII</b></a></td>
+    <td class="td2">Of Matters That Benengeli Says He Who Reads Them Will Know, If He Reads
+                    Them with Attention</td>
+    <td class="td3">220</td></tr>
+<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v2CHAPTERXXIX"><b>XXIX</b></a></td>
+    <td class="td2">Of the Famous Adventure of the Enchanted Bark</td>
+    <td class="td3">222</td></tr>
+<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v2CHAPTERXXX"><b>XXX</b></a></td>
+    <td class="td2">Of Don Quixote's Adventure with a Fair Huntress</td>
+    <td class="td3">225</td></tr>
+<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v2CHAPTERXXXI"><b>XXXI</b></a></td>
+    <td class="td2">Which Treats of Many and Great Matters</td>
+    <td class="td3">228</td></tr>
+<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v2CHAPTERXXXII"><b>XXXII</b></a></td>
+    <td class="td2">Of the Reply Don Quixote Gave His Censurer, with Other Incidents, Grave and Droll</td>
+    <td class="td3">232</td></tr>
+<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v2CHAPTERXXXIII"><b>XXXIII</b></a></td>
+    <td class="td2">Of the Delectable Discourse Which the Duchess And Her Damsels Held with Sancho Panza,
+                    Well Worth Reading and Noting</td>
+    <td class="td3">236</td></tr>
+<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v2CHAPTERXXXIV"><b>XXXIV</b></a></td>
+    <td class="td2">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</td>
+    <td class="td3">238</td></tr>
+<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v2CHAPTERXXXV"><b>XXXV</b></a></td>
+    <td class="td2">Wherein Is Continued the Instruction Given to Don Quixote Touching the
+                    Disenchantment of Dulcinea, Together with Other Marvelous Incidents</td>
+    <td class="td3">242</td></tr>
+<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v2CHAPTERXXXVI"><b>XXXVI</b></a></td>
+    <td class="td2">Wherein Is Related the Strange and Undreamed-of Adventure of the Distressed
+                    Duenna, Alias the Countess Trifaldi, Together with a Letter Which Sancho Panza
+                    Wrote to His Wife, Teresa Panza</td>
+    <td class="td3">244</td></tr>
+<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v2CHAPTERXXXVII-XXXIX"><b>XXXVII-XXXIX</b></a></td>
+    <td class="td2">Wherein Is Continued the Notable Adventure of the Distressed Duenna,
+                    Including Her Marvelous and Memorable Tale of Misfortune</td>
+    <td class="td3">246</td></tr>
+<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v2CHAPTERXL"><b>XL</b></a></td>
+    <td class="td2">Of Matters Relating and Belonging to This Adventure and to
+                    This Memorable History</td>
+    <td class="td3">249</td></tr>
+<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v2CHAPTERXLI"><b>XLI</b></a></td>
+    <td class="td2">The End of This Protracted Adventure</td>
+    <td class="td3">250</td></tr>
+<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v2CHAPTERXLII"><b>XLII</b></a></td>
+    <td class="td2">Of the Counsels Which Don Quixote Gave Sancho Panza Before He Set
+                    Out to Govern the Island, Together with Other Well-Considered Matters</td>
+    <td class="td3">254</td></tr>
+<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v2CHAPTERXLIII"><b>XLIII</b></a></td>
+    <td class="td2">Of the Second Set of Counsels Don Quixote Gave Sancho Panza</td>
+    <td class="td3">255</td></tr>
+<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v2CHAPTERXLIV"><b>XLIV</b></a></td>
+    <td class="td2">How Sancho Panza Was Conducted to His Government; and of the Strange
+                    Adventure That Befell Don Quixote in the Castle</td>
+    <td class="td3">257</td></tr>
+<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v2CHAPTERXLV"><b>XLV</b></a></td>
+    <td class="td2">Of How the Great Sancho Panza Took Possession of His Island; and of
+                    How He Made a Beginning in Governing</td>
+    <td class="td3">259</td></tr>
+<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v2CHAPTERXLVI"><b>XLVI</b></a></td>
+    <td class="td2">Of the Terrible Bell and Cat Fright That Don Quixote Got in the
+                    Course of the Enamored Altisidora's Wooing</td>
+    <td class="td3">260</td></tr>
+<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v2CHAPTERXLVII"><b>XLVII</b></a></td>
+    <td class="td2">Wherein Is Continued the Account of How Sancho Panza Conducted
+                    Himself in His Government</td>
+    <td class="td3">263</td></tr>
+<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v2CHAPTERXLVIII-XLIX"><b>XLVIII-XVIX</b></a></td>
+    <td class="td2">Of What Happened to Sancho in Making the Round of His Island</td>
+    <td class="td3">265</td></tr>
+<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v2CHAPTERL"><b>L</b></a></td>
+    <td class="td2">Wherein Is Set Forth How Governor Sancho Panza's Wife Received a
+                    Message and a Gift from the Duchess; and Also What Befell the Page
+                    Who Carried the Letter to Teresa Panza</td>
+    <td class="td3">267</td></tr>
+<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v2CHAPTERLI"><b>LI</b></a></td>
+    <td class="td2">Of the Progress of Sancho's Government; and Other Such Entertaining Matters</td>
+    <td class="td3">271</td></tr>
+<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v2CHAPTERLII"><b>LII</b></a></td>
+    <td class="td2">Wherein Three Delectable Epistles Are Read By the Duchess</td>
+    <td class="td3">273</td></tr>
+<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v2CHAPTERLIII"><b>LIII</b></a></td>
+    <td class="td2">Of the Troublous End and Termination of Sancho Panza's Government</td>
+    <td class="td3">275</td></tr>
+<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v2CHAPTERLIV-LV"><b>LIV-LV</b></a></td>
+    <td class="td2">Of What Befell Sancho on the Road; and Other Things That Cannot Be Surpassed</td>
+    <td class="td3">280</td></tr>
+<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v2CHAPTERLVI-LVII"><b>LVI-LVII</b></a></td>
+    <td class="td2">Which Treats of How Don Quixote Again Felt the Calling of Knight-errantry
+                    and How He Took Leave of the Duke, and of What Followed with the Witty and
+                    Impudent Altisidora, One of the Duchess' Damsels</td>
+    <td class="td3">284</td></tr>
+<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v2CHAPTERLVIII"><b>LVIII</b></a></td>
+    <td class="td2">Which Tells How Adventures Came Crowding on Don Quixote in Such Numbers
+                    That They Gave One Another No Breathing-Time</td>
+    <td class="td3">286</td></tr>
+<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v2CHAPTERLIX"><b>LIX</b></a></td>
+    <td class="td2">Wherein Is Related the Strange Thing, Which May Be Regarded as an Adventure,
+                    That Happened to Don Quixote</td>
+    <td class="td3">292</td></tr>
+<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v2CHAPTERLX"><b>LX</b></a></td>
+    <td class="td2">Of What Happened to Don Quixote on His Way to Barcelona</td>
+    <td class="td3">297</td></tr>
+<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v2CHAPTERLXI"><b>LXI</b></a></td>
+    <td class="td2">Of What Happened to Don Quixote on Entering Barcelona, Together with Other
+                    Matters That Partake of the True Rather Than the Ingenious</td>
+    <td class="td3">303</td></tr>
+<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v2CHAPTERLXII"><b>LXII</b></a></td>
+    <td class="td2">Which Deals with the Adventure of the Enchanted Head, Together with Other
+                    Trivial Matters Which Cannot Be Left Untold</td>
+    <td class="td3">305</td></tr>
+<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v2CHAPTERLXIII"><b>LXIII</b></a></td>
+    <td class="td2">The Mishap That Befell Sancho Panza Through the Visit to the Galleys</td>
+    <td class="td3">310</td></tr>
+<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v2CHAPTERLXIV"><b>LXIV</b></a></td>
+    <td class="td2">Treating of the Adventure Which Gave Don Quixote More Unhappiness Than
+                    All That Had Hitherto Befallen Him</td>
+    <td class="td3">313</td></tr>
+<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v2CHAPTERLXV"><b>LXV</b></a></td>
+    <td class="td2">Wherein Is Made Known Who the Knight of the White Moon Was; Likewise Other Events</td>
+    <td class="td3">316</td></tr>
+<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v2CHAPTERLXVI-LXVII"><b>LXVI-LXVII</b></a></td>
+    <td class="td2">Of the Resolution Which 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</td>
+    <td class="td3">317</td></tr>
+<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v2CHAPTERLXVIII"><b>LXVIII</b></a></td>
+    <td class="td2">Of the Bristly Adventure That Befell Don Quixote</td>
+    <td class="td3">319</td></tr>
+<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v2CHAPTERLXIX"><b>LXIX</b></a></td>
+    <td class="td2">Of the Strangest and Most Extraordinary Adventure That Befell Don Quixote
+                    in the Whole Course of This Great History</td>
+    <td class="td3">323</td></tr>
+<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v2CHAPTERLXX"><b>LXX</b></a></td>
+    <td class="td2">Which Follows Chapter Sixty-Nine and Deals with Matters Indispensable
+                    for the Clear Comprehension of This History</td>
+    <td class="td3">328</td></tr>
+<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v2CHAPTERLXXI"><b>LXXI</b></a></td>
+    <td class="td2">Of What Passed Between Don Quixote and His Squire Sancho
+                    on the Way to Their Village</td>
+    <td class="td3">331</td></tr>
+<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v2CHAPTERLXXII-LXXIII"><b>LXXII-LXXIII</b></a></td>
+    <td class="td2">Of the Omens Don Quixote Had as He Entered His Own Village; and
+                    Other Incidents That Embellish and Give a Color to This Great History</td>
+    <td class="td3">334</td></tr>
+<tr><td class="td1"><a href="#v2CHAPTERLXXIV"><b>LXXIV</b></a></td>
+    <td class="td2">Of How Don Quixote Fell Sick, and of the Will He Made, and How He Died</td>
+    <td class="td3">337</td></tr>
+</table></div>
+
+<hr class="hr2" />
+<h2 class="top3">LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS</h2>
+
+<div class="center">
+<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary="List of Illustrations with Hyperlinks">
+<tr><td class="td4">"Don Quixote insisted that the boat had been sent by
+    magic to fetch him to some great knight"</td>
+    <td class="td5"><i><a href="#Frontis">Frontispiece</a></i></td></tr>
+<tr class="weefont"><td class="td5" colspan="2">FACING PAGE</td></tr>
+<tr><td class="td4">"Slashing right and left, dreaming that he had encountered the giant enemy"</td>
+    <td class="td5"><a href="#Page93pic">94</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td class="td4">"He prayed that he should not be left to perish in the cage"</td>
+    <td class="td5"><a href="#Page131pic">132</a></td></tr>
+<tr><td class="td4">"With each lash he gave out the most heartrending cries"</td>
+    <td class="td5"><a href="#Page333pic">334</a></td></tr>
+</table></div>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_1" id="Page_1">[Pg&nbsp;1]</a></span></p>
+<h2 class="top3"></h2>
+<hr class="hr2" />
+
+<h2 class="top5">THE STORY OF DON QUIXOTE</h2>
+<h2 class="top5"></h2>
+<hr class="hr2" />
+<h2 class="top3"><a name="VOLUME_I" id="VOLUME_I"></a>VOLUME I</h2>
+<h2 class="top3"></h2>
+<hr class="hr2" />
+<h2 class="top3"><a name="v1CHAPTERI" id="v1CHAPTERI"></a>CHAPTER I</h2>
+
+<h4>Which Treats of the Character and Pursuits of the
+Famous Gentleman, Don Quixote of La Mancha</h4>
+
+<p class="cap">NEARLY four hundred years ago, there lived in the
+village of La Mancha in Spain an old gentleman of
+few worldly possessions but many books, who was given to
+a hardy and adventurous way of life, and who beguiled his
+spare time by reading the many tales of chivalry and
+knighthood that were in his possession.</p>
+
+<p>This old gentleman was a tall, gaunt man of about fifty,
+with a lantern jaw and straggling gray hair, and eyes that
+had a sparkle of madness in them. His surname was
+Quixada or Quesada, and though not rich, he was well
+known to the country folk and had some reputation in the
+community where he lived.</p>
+
+<p>In his younger days he was a great sportsman and used
+to get up before the sun to follow his favorite pursuits of
+hunting and hawking, but as he grew older he spent almost
+all his time in reading books on chivalry and knighthood
+with which his library was stocked; and at last he grew so
+fond of these books that he forgot to follow the hounds or
+even to look after his property, but spent all his time in
+his library, mulling over the famous deeds and love affairs
+of knights who conquered dragons and vanquished wicked
+enchanters.
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_2" id="Page_2">[Pg&nbsp;2]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>At the time when Quesada lived, Spain was saturated
+with this sort of literature, and everybody wasted much
+time in reading books which had no merit or value of any
+kind and which were full of the most ridiculous and impossible
+adventures. On the whole they were the most
+utter rubbish that it was possible to print. They told
+about impossible deeds in the most impossible language,
+and were filled with ambitious sentences that meant nothing
+under the sun. Se�or Quesada spent hours racking his
+brains to puzzle out the meaning of something like this:</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>"The reason of the unreason with which my reason is afflicted
+so weakens my reason that with reason I murmur at your beauty."</p></div>
+
+<p>Or again:</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>"The high heavens that of your divinity divinely fortify you
+with the stars, render you deserving of the desert your greatness deserves."</p></div>
+
+<p>Poor Se�or Quesada could not understand these sentences.
+Who could? No man in his right mind certainly,
+it would have taken a madman to read any real meaning
+into them. And he wasted so much time in puzzling over
+them that at last he became quite mad and the words in the
+books would appear on the walls of his room, written in
+letters of fire, with so bright a light that they prevented him
+from sleeping. From trying to read a meaning into things
+that had no meaning whatever, Se�or Quesada was mad&mdash;as
+mad as the books he had been reading.</p>
+
+<p>Se�or Quesada lived with his niece and his housekeeper,
+both sensible women who loved him and who were much
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_3" id="Page_3">[Pg&nbsp;3]</a></span>
+grieved over the havoc his books of chivalry had worked
+with his senses. They believed that to talk about these
+books made the old gentleman worse, so they refused to
+answer him when he argued about knights and dragons and
+whether this fair lady was an enchantress in disguise or
+only a mortal woman, and whether that dragon actually
+did breathe forth fire from his nostrils, or only sulphur
+fumes and smoke. His niece and the housekeeper would
+run away when he started upon one of his favorite subjects;
+so he turned to the society of the village curate, a
+learned man for those times, who knew almost as much
+about books of chivalry as Se�or Quesada himself, and to
+that of Master Nicholas, the village barber. And these
+three friends would sit up until dawn arguing as to who
+was the better knight, Sir Lancelot or Amadis of Gaul, and
+how these both compared with the Knight of the Burning
+Sword, who with one back stroke cut in half two fierce and
+monstrous giants.</p>
+
+<p>After he had become thoroughly mad from reading, and
+more so from such arguments and discussions, Se�or Quesada
+hit upon the strangest notion that ever entered the
+head of a lunatic. He believed that he and no other was
+called upon to restore the entire world to the ancient conditions
+of chivalry, and bring back the tournaments and the
+courteous knights and fair ladies whose like had existed
+in the times of the famous King Arthur of Britain. Believing
+this, it was an easy step for him to think that
+the world was still full of giants and fierce dragons for
+him to vanquish, and that as a man of honor and skill at
+arms he must leave his comfortable home and do battle
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_4" id="Page_4">[Pg&nbsp;4]</a></span>
+with them. To his disordered senses things took on a
+different appearance than was actually the case&mdash;inns
+seemed castles, and towers and hills appeared as giants
+that moved about in the distance; and Se�or Quesada
+could hardly wait before he could meet them on horseback
+and overthrow them in battle.</p>
+
+<p>To become a knight and encounter all these strange and
+visionary dangers it was necessary for him, however, to
+have a war horse, a stout lance and a suit of armor, and
+he cast about among his possessions to see what he could
+find that would answer the purpose&mdash;for he had no money
+to buy them, and no shop could have furnished them for
+him if he had possessed all the money in Spain. In his
+attic he found an old suit of armor that had belonged to his
+great-grandfather and had been lying there for ages, rotting
+with rust and mildew in company with old chests, bedding
+and other family treasures. He brought it out and
+scoured it as best he could and at last made it shine with
+considerable brightness. But the helmet was only partially
+complete, for it lacked a beaver and a visor to protect
+his face, so Se�or Quesada constructed these from pasteboard
+and painted them to resemble the armor as closely
+as possible. He tried their strength with his rusty sword,
+and on the first stroke cut them entirely away; so he rebuilt
+them and forbore to try them again, hoping they
+would be strong enough, but fearing to make a test that
+might undo once more all the troublesome work that he had
+spent upon them.</p>
+
+<p>His armor now complete, he looked in his stables for a
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_5" id="Page_5">[Pg&nbsp;5]</a></span>
+horse to carry him, and found there his old hack, whose
+every bone was visible and who was more used to carrying
+sacks of potatoes and onions to market than to bearing the
+weight of a knight or a man at arms. This horse must
+have been at least twenty years old into the bargain, but to
+Quixada's brain it appeared a mettlesome charger and he
+was quite sure that his new steed would prove equal to any
+fatigue or danger that might come its way in the course of
+his adventures. And remembering that all the horses of
+famous warriors had possessed high-sounding names he
+called his horse Rocinante and adopted for himself the
+title of Don Quixote of La Mancha, under which name he
+will be known through the rest of the present history.</p>
+
+<p>Another thing, however, remained wanting&mdash;a lady-love
+for whose sake he might do battle and whose affections
+might inspire him to endure all sorts of dangers and hardships.
+So Don Quixote straightway searched through his
+recollection to find one that might answer, and hit at last
+upon a peasant girl named Aldonza Lorenzo, with whom it
+is supposed he had been in love when he was a young man.
+And though Aldonza Lorenzo was more used to winnowing
+wheat and caring for the live-stock than to fine phrases and
+courtly manners, and though she was no better than any of
+the other peasant girls who lived in her locality, Don Quixote
+believed that she was a lady of high lineage and
+noble birth and christened her in his mind Dulcinea del
+Toboso. And he was ready to fight with any man in
+Spain who would not acknowledge that she was the loveliest
+and most gifted lady in the world.
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_6" id="Page_6">[Pg&nbsp;6]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>A lance was easily made, and now, possessed of war horse,
+armor, weapons, and a glorious lady to do battle for, the
+poor old man was ready, so he believed, to go forth and
+meet the high adventures that he felt sure were awaiting
+him.</p>
+
+<hr class="hr1" />
+<h2><a name="v1CHAPTERII-III" id="v1CHAPTERII-III"></a>CHAPTERS II-III</h2>
+
+<h4>Which Treats of the First Sally Don Quixote Made
+from Home</h4>
+
+<p class="cap">ALL things being ready, Don Quixote wished for no
+delay, and before sunrise on one of the hottest days
+of midsummer, he stole from his bed&mdash;taking care not to
+awaken his niece or his housekeeper&mdash;put on his ancient
+armor, saddled Rocinante, and with lance in hand and
+sword clattering beside him made his way across the fields
+in the highest state of content and satisfaction at the ease
+with which his purpose had been accomplished. He could
+hardly wait for his adventures to begin, or for the chance
+to try the strength of his mighty arm upon some wicked
+warrior or, better still, some dragon or giant; but scarcely
+did he find himself upon the open plain before a terrible
+thought came to his mind and one that nearly made him
+abandon his adventure before it was well begun. He reflected
+that, according to the rules of chivalry, he must be
+dubbed a knight before he could undertake any battles or
+engagements, and afterward he must wear white armor
+without any device upon his shield, until he had proved
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_7" id="Page_7">[Pg&nbsp;7]</a></span>
+by bravery and endurance his right to these privileges of
+knighthood. He consoled himself, however, by resolving
+to have himself dubbed a knight by the first person who
+came along; and as for white armor, he determined to make
+his own rival the brightness of the moon by industrious
+scouring.</p>
+
+<p>Comforting himself with thoughts such as these, he pursued
+his way, which he allowed his horse to choose for him,
+thinking that in so doing he would be guided more surely
+and more quickly to the adventures that were awaiting
+him. And as he rode along he amused himself by quoting
+imaginary passages from the books that he felt sure would
+be written about his noble deeds&mdash;deeds that he would
+soon accomplish and that would astonish the entire world
+by their bravery and hardihood. At times he would break
+into wild speech, calling his lady Dulcinea by name and
+saying: "O Princess Dulcinea, lady of this captive heart,
+a grievous wrong hast thou done me to drive me forth with
+scorn and banish me from the presence of thy beauty!"</p>
+
+<p>And so he went along, stringing such absurd phrases together,
+while the hot sun rose and grew hotter, until it
+would have melted his brains in his helmet, if he had any.
+He traveled nearly all day without seeing anything remarkable,
+at which he was in despair, for he could hardly
+wait, as we have said, for his adventures to begin.</p>
+
+<p>Toward evening he came in sight of a common wayside
+inn, and standing at the door were two peasant girls who
+looked with astonishment on the strange figure that was
+approaching them. To the disordered imagination of Don
+Quixote, this appeared to be a castle with four towers, and
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_8" id="Page_8">[Pg&nbsp;8]</a></span>
+the girls who stood in front of the door seemed ladies of
+noble birth and peerless beauty. He seemed to see behind
+them a drawbridge and a moat, and waited for some
+dwarf to appear upon the castle battlements and by sound
+of a trumpet announce that a knight was approaching the
+gates.</p>
+
+<p>At this point a swineherd who was gathering his pigs
+did happen to blow a blast on his horn to scare his charges
+along the road; and this, appearing to Don Quixote to be
+the dwarfs signal that he had expected, he drew near in
+high satisfaction, while Rocinante, scenting stables and
+hay and water, pricked up his ears and advanced at a brisk
+trot until the inn door was reached and Don Quixote addressed
+the astonished girls who were waiting there.</p>
+
+<p>The girls, on seeing an armed man approaching them,
+had turned to seek safety indoors, when Don Quixote,
+lifting his pasteboard beaver, said to them in the most
+courteous manner he could command:</p>
+
+<p>"Ladies, I beseech you, do not fly or fear any manner
+of rudeness, for it is against the rules of the knighthood,
+which I profess, to offer harm to high-born ladies such
+as you appear to be."</p>
+
+<p>The girls, hearing themselves addressed in this strange
+manner and called ladies, could not refrain from giggling,
+at which Don Quixote rebuked them, saying:</p>
+
+<p>"Modesty becomes the fair, and laughter without cause
+is the greatest silliness."</p>
+
+<p>The strange language and dilapidated appearance of the
+speaker only increased the girls' laughter, and that increased
+Don Quixote's irritation; and matters might have
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_9" id="Page_9">[Pg&nbsp;9]</a></span>
+gone farther if the landlord had not appeared at this moment
+to see what might be the matter. When he beheld
+the grotesque figure on horseback whose armor did not
+match and whose mount was the sorriest one imaginable,
+it was all he could do to refrain from joining the girls in
+their hilarity; but being a little in awe of the strange
+knight, whose lance was pointed and whose sword appeared
+to have both strength and weight, he spoke courteously
+to Don Quixote. He told him that if he sought
+food or lodging he should have the best that the inn could
+afford for man or beast. And the poor old gentleman,
+who had been riding in the heat all day without food or
+drink, climbed stiffly out of the saddle and suffered Rocinante
+to be led away to the stable, cautioning the landlord
+to take the utmost care of him, for he was the finest bit
+of horseflesh in the world. The host, however, looking
+over the bony carcass of the old farm animal, had more
+difficulty than before in restraining his laughter.</p>
+
+<p>The girls now perceived that they had a crazy man before
+them and they entered into the spirit of the occasion.</p>
+
+<p>They helped Don Quixote remove his armor; but the
+helmet they could do nothing with, for it was tied tightly
+with green ribbons about his neck and on no pretext whatever
+would he hear of cutting them.</p>
+
+<p>They laid a table for him at the door of the inn for the
+sake of the air, and the host brought him a piece of badly
+soaked and badly cooked fish and a piece of bread as black
+and moldy as his own armor. And a laughable sight it
+was to see Don Quixote eat&mdash;for, having his helmet on, he
+could not reach his own mouth, but had to be fed, bit by
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_10" id="Page_10">[Pg&nbsp;10]</a></span>
+bit, by one of the girls; and for drink he would have gone
+without altogether if the innkeeper had not brought a hollow
+reed and putting one end into the knight's mouth,
+poured wine through the other.</p>
+
+<p>While this was going on Don Quixote heard once more
+the swineherd's horn and felt entirely happy and satisfied,
+for he was convinced that he was in some famous castle
+and that they were regaling him with music; that the fish
+was trout, the bread of the whitest, the peasant girls beautiful
+ladies, and the landlord the castle steward. But
+he still felt distressed because he had not been dubbed a
+knight, and resolved to remedy this fault as soon as his
+supper was finished.</p>
+
+<p>As soon as he had eaten his fill, he called the landlord
+of the inn, and taking him into the stable, knelt on the
+ground before him, declaring that he would not rise until
+the landlord should grant his wish and dub him a knight
+so that he could continue on his adventures according to
+the laws of chivalry. For Don Quixote, as we have said,
+looked on the landlord as a person of great authority, with
+full power to make him a knight if he chose to do so.</p>
+
+<p>The landlord was something of a wag, and well aware
+that his guest was mad. He therefore decided to fall in
+with his wishes for the sport of the thing; so he told Don
+Quixote that he would make him a knight and gladly, that
+he too had been a knight errant in his time and wandered
+all over Spain seeking adventures, where he had proved
+the lightness of his feet in running away and the quickness
+of his fingers in picking pockets, until he had swindled
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_11" id="Page_11">[Pg&nbsp;11]</a></span>
+and cheated so many people that he had been forced to retire
+to this castle of his. Here he lived on his property&mdash;and
+that of other persons&mdash;and he accepted money from
+wandering knights errant in return for the kindness and
+services he rendered them. And when Don Quixote told
+him that he never carried money with him in his travels,
+the landlord assured him he was making the greatest mistake
+in the world and that he must not suppose that, just
+because money and clean shirts were not mentioned in the
+books of chivalry of the time, the knights did without
+them; that was not the case at all.</p>
+
+<p>At last it was decided that the landlord should dub Don
+Quixote a knight on the following morning, and that the
+night should be spent by Don Quixote in watching over
+his armor in prayer and fasting, as was the custom with
+knights before they received the title of full knighthood
+and could go abroad on their adventures with a strong arm
+and untroubled spirit.</p>
+
+<p>It had been arranged between the landlord and Don
+Quixote that the watch over the armor should take place
+in the courtyard of the inn. Don Quixote placed his
+corselet and helmet by the side of a well from which the
+carriers drew water, and, grasping his lance, commenced
+to march up and down before it like a sentinel on duty;
+and as the hours wore by and the march continued, the
+landlord called other persons to watch the performance,
+explaining that the man was mad, and telling of the ceremony
+that was to take place in the morning. The passers-by,
+viewing the steadiness with which Don Quixote
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_12" id="Page_12">[Pg&nbsp;12]</a></span>
+paced to and fro in the moonlight and the resolute way in
+which he handled his lance, were struck with wonder both
+at the peculiarity of the sight and the strange form that
+Don Quixote's madness had taken.</p>
+
+<p>At last, however, it became necessary for one of the
+carriers to draw water from the well. He did not observe
+the madman and he paid no attention to the armor until
+he stumbled across it, when he picked it up and flung it
+from him, whereupon Don Quixote raised his lance and
+struck him such a blow that he fell senseless on the ground
+and lay there stunned. Soon after this another carrier,
+who did not know of what had happened to the first one,
+approached with the same object; and Don Quixote, thinking
+him an enemy, also struck at him and laid his head
+open with two cuts from his lance in the form of a cross.</p>
+
+<p>The people of the inn heard the noise of the second encounter
+and came running to the spot. When they beheld
+what had happened and saw the battered condition of the
+carriers they commenced to throw stones at Don Quixote,
+not daring to approach him; and he, shielding himself as
+best he could with his buckler, defied them to draw near on
+pain of their lives, and returned the abuse and hard names
+they showered upon him. And he shouted at them with
+such a terrible voice that they became afraid and left him
+alone, moved not only by his threats but by the entreaties of
+the landlord, who kept calling out to them that the man
+was mad and would not be held accountable should he kill
+them all.</p>
+
+<p>The freaks of Don Quixote were not to the landlord's
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_13" id="Page_13">[Pg&nbsp;13]</a></span>
+liking, and he desired to get rid of the strange knight with
+as little trouble as possible. He approached the well and
+told Don Quixote that the time for the ceremony of knighthood
+had now arrived, and that all the requirements had
+been met with by the watch that Don Quixote had already
+performed. He pulled out an account-book in
+which he kept the record of the straw and grain that he sold
+and bade Don Quixote kneel down before him. Then he
+read out the accounts in a solemn voice as though he were
+repeating some devout prayer, and the stable-boy and the
+two girls who worked at the inn stood by with a candle,
+trying to control their laughter. When the reading was
+finished the landlord took Don Quixote's sword and tapped
+him sharply on the shoulder, pretending to mutter more
+prayers while he was doing it, and one of the girls girded
+the sword about Don Quixote's waist, saying, as she did
+so:</p>
+
+<p>"May God make your Worship a very fortunate knight,
+and grant you success in battle!"</p>
+
+<p>Thus the ceremony was ended and Don Quixote was
+satisfied. And then it came about as the landlord had
+hoped and expected. The new knight was so eager to set
+out on his journey that he saddled his horse and rode
+forth at once, without paying his bill for his supper; and
+the landlord was so glad to see the last of him that he made
+no objection to this, thinking himself lucky to have got
+rid of the knight so cheaply, and he closed the door behind
+him as quickly as possible, thanking his lucky stars that
+Don Quixote was gone.
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_14" id="Page_14">[Pg&nbsp;14]</a></span></p>
+
+<hr class="hr1" />
+<h2><a name="v1CHAPTERIV" id="v1CHAPTERIV"></a>CHAPTER IV</h2>
+
+<h4>Which Treats of Don Quixote's Further Adventures</h4>
+
+<p class="cap">IT was dawn when Don Quixote quitted the inn. He
+decided to return home to provide himself with money,
+shirts, and a squire, as the innkeeper had suggested, and so
+he turned his horse's head toward his village.</p>
+
+<p>He had not gone far, however, when he heard a feeble
+cry from the depths of a thicket on the roadside, as of
+some one in pain. He paused to thank Heaven for having
+favored him with this opportunity of fulfilling the obligation
+he had undertaken and gathering the fruit of his
+ambition; for he was certain that he had been called on
+from above to give aid and protection to some one in dire
+need. He quickly turned Rocinante in the direction from
+which the cries seemed to come; and he had gone but a
+few paces into the wood when he saw a youth, stripped
+to the waist and tied to a tree, being flogged in a merciless
+way by a powerful farmer. All the while the boy
+was crying out in his agony: "I won't do it again, master!
+I won't do it again! I promise I'll take better care of the
+sheep hereafter!"</p>
+
+<p>When Don Quixote saw what was going on he became
+most indignant.</p>
+
+<p>"Discourteous knight," he commanded in angry tones,
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_15" id="Page_15">[Pg&nbsp;15]</a></span>
+"it ill becomes you to assail one who cannot defend himself!
+Mount your steed and take your lance! I will
+make you know that you are behaving like a coward!"</p>
+
+<p>The farmer looked up and saw Don Quixote in full
+armor, brandishing a lance over his head. He gave himself
+up for dead, then, and answered meekly:</p>
+
+<p>"Sir knight, the youth I am chastising is my servant. I
+employ him to watch a flock of sheep, and he is so careless
+that he loses one for me every day. And when I
+punish him for being careless, he accuses me of being a
+miser, saying that I do it that I might escape paying him
+the wages I owe him. That, I swear, is a sinful lie!"</p>
+
+<p>But the farmer's defense only angered Don Quixote
+all the more. He threatened to run the man through with
+his lance if he did not release the boy at once and pay him
+every penny he owed him in wages. Don Quixote then
+helped the lad to add up how much nine months' wages at
+seven reals a month might be, and found that it would
+make sixty-three reals; and the farmer was given his choice
+between paying his debt and dying upon the spot. The
+farmer replied, trembling with fear, that the sum was not
+so great and asked Don Quixote to take into account and
+deduct three pairs of shoes he had given the boy and a real
+for two blood-lettings when he was sick. But Don Quixote
+would not listen to this at all. He declared that the
+shoes and the blood-lettings had already been paid for
+by the blows the farmer had given the boy without
+cause, for, said he, "If he spoiled the leather of the shoes
+you paid for, you have damaged that of his body; and if
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_16" id="Page_16">[Pg&nbsp;16]</a></span>
+the barber took blood from him when he was sick, you have
+drawn it when he was sound; so on that score he owes you
+nothing."</p>
+
+<p>When the farmer had heard his final judgment pronounced,
+he commenced to wail that he had no money about
+him, and pleaded with Don Quixote to let Andres, the lad,
+come home with him, when he would pay him real by real.
+Upon hearing this Andres turned to our knight errant and
+warned him that once he had departed his master would
+flay him like a Saint Bartholomew; but Don Quixote reassured
+him, saying now that his master had sworn to him
+by the knighthood that he, Don Quixote, had conferred
+upon him, justice would be done, and he himself would
+guarantee the payment.</p>
+
+<p>The youth had his doubts, however, and he dared to
+correct Don Quixote.</p>
+
+<p>"Consider what you say, Se�or," he said. "This master
+of mine is not a knight; he is simply Juan Haldudo the
+Rich, of Quintanar."</p>
+
+<p>To this Don Quixote replied that it mattered little; and
+the farmer again swore by all the knighthoods in the world
+to pay the lad as he had promised if he only came home.</p>
+
+<p>"See that you do as you have sworn," said Don Quixote,
+"for if you do not, by the same oath I swear to come back
+and hunt you out and punish you; and I shall find you
+though you should lie closer than a lizard! If you desire
+to know who it is lays this command upon you, that you
+may be more firmly bound to obey it, know that I am the
+valorous Don Quixote of La Mancha, the undoer of wrongs
+and injustices. And so, God be with you! But keep in
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_17" id="Page_17">[Pg&nbsp;17]</a></span>
+mind what you have promised and sworn on pain of those
+penalties that have been already declared to you!"</p>
+
+<p>With these words he gave his steed the spur and rode
+away in a triumphant gallop, and was soon out of sight
+and reach. Now, when the farmer had convinced himself
+that the undoer of wrongs and injustices had entirely disappeared,
+he decided to give payment to the lad, Andres,
+then and there, without waiting till he came home; and
+so he tied him again to the tree and beat him until he was
+nearly dead.</p>
+
+<p>"Your valiant knight has made me realize an affection
+for you hitherto unknown to me. I shall give you added
+payment for that. Now go and look for him!" he remarked,
+as he gave him a last blow and untied him. And
+while the poor boy went off weeping, the lusty farmer
+stood there and laughed.</p>
+
+<p>Thus it was that our noble knight righted <i>that</i> wrong.
+Don Quixote, however, was thoroughly satisfied with what
+he had done. He thought himself a most heroic figure and
+felt that he had made a most auspicious beginning in his
+knighthood. And as he was taking the road toward his
+village, utterly content with his own behavior, he said
+to himself: "Well mayest thou this day call thyself fortunate
+above all on earth, O Dulcinea del Toboso, fairest
+of the fair! since it has fallen to thy lot to hold subject and
+submissive to thy will and pleasure a knight so renowned
+as Don Quixote of La Mancha, who, as all the world
+knows, yesterday received the order of knighthood, and
+hath to-day righted the greatest wrong and grievance that
+ever injustice conceived and cruelty perpetrated: who hath
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_18" id="Page_18">[Pg&nbsp;18]</a></span>
+to-day plucked the rod from the hand of yonder ruthless
+oppressor so wantonly lashing that tender child."</p>
+
+<p>As he was meditating and speaking in this fashion, he
+suddenly found himself at four crossroads. Of course, he
+had to emulate other knights who had gone before him,
+and follow tradition; so he paused in the manner that all
+knights do in books, and pondered, and, after much deep
+concern and consideration, finally decided to leave it to the
+instinct of his horse. The noble animal, realizing that his
+master had relinquished his will in his favor, made straight
+for his own stable, of course.</p>
+
+<p>After he had ridden a few miles, Don Quixote encountered
+six merchants from Toledo, who were on their way
+to Murcia to buy silk. They were accompanied by four
+mounted servants, and three who were on foot. Scarcely
+had he perceived them when his romantic imagination
+prompted him to believe that a fresh adventure was intended
+for him, and he began to prepare for it with great
+gestures. He fixed himself majestically and safely in the
+saddle, made ready with his lance, and planted himself
+firmly in the middle of the road. Here he awaited the
+arrival of the traders, who appeared to him to be real
+knights like himself; and as they came close to him, he
+halted them with a broad sweep of his lance, exclaiming
+boldly:</p>
+
+<p>"All the world stand, unless all the world confess that in
+all the world there is no maiden fairer than the Empress
+of La Mancha, the peerless Dulcinea del Toboso!"</p>
+
+<p>The thirteen men could not help but stand still at the
+sound of such words; nor did they hesitate about thinking
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_19" id="Page_19">[Pg&nbsp;19]</a></span>
+that the speaker of them might be lacking in some of his
+wits. One of the travelers, however, either was curious
+or had a failing for making fun of people, for he asked Don
+Quixote to produce the lady before asking him to pay
+her his respects. Perhaps he was skeptical of his
+country's harboring such a rare beauty unbeknown to
+him.</p>
+
+<p>But Don Quixote was not to be fooled. "If I were to
+show her to you," he replied, "what merit would you have
+in confessing a truth so manifest? You must believe without
+seeing her; otherwise you have to do with me in battle.
+Come on, you rabble! I rely on the justice of the cause
+I maintain!"</p>
+
+<p>The merchant with a sense of humor tried to plead for
+consideration. He suggested that a portrait of the fair
+lady might suffice to bring about a conversion to his conception
+of her beauty. But Don Quixote was determined
+that they were intolerant blasphemers who simply had to
+be thrashed. So he suddenly charged with such vehemence
+and fury that, if luck had not interfered and made
+his gentle steed stumble, the trader might have been killed.
+As Rocinante went down, our gallant hero went over his
+head, and after he had struck the ground he rolled for
+some distance. But when he tried to rise he could not:
+he was so weighted down with armor, helmet, spurs, buckler
+and lance. To make matters worse, one of the servants,
+having broken his lance in two, proceeded to batter him
+with one of the pieces until it seemed as if Don Quixote
+would be able to stand no more. Finally the man grew
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_20" id="Page_20">[Pg&nbsp;20]</a></span>
+tired and went to catch up with his party, which had continued
+its way. But Don Quixote still lay on the ground,
+unable to get up.</p>
+
+<hr class="hr1" />
+<h2><a name="v1CHAPTERV" id="v1CHAPTERV"></a>CHAPTER V</h2>
+
+<h4>In Which the Narrative of Our Knight's Mishap is
+Continued</h4>
+
+<p class="cap">WHEN Don Quixote began to realize that he was,
+so to speak, anchored to the ground, he turned his
+thoughts to his usual remedy, his books on knighthood and
+chivalry, which, in fact, had been the cause of his downfall.
+He decided that the passage to fit his case was the
+one about Baldwin and the Marquis of Mantua when Carloto
+left him wounded on the mountainside&mdash;for that he
+had been wounded by brigands he had no doubt. So he
+began to feign severe suffering, rolling to and fro on the
+ground, and repeating words that he had read in his books
+and ascribed to Baldwin as he lay wounded; until he finally
+was discovered by a peasant from his own village, a neighbor
+of his, whom he took for Baldwin's uncle, the Marquis
+of Mantua. This good neighbor of Don Quixote's was
+much concerned over his ravings. He removed the knight's
+breastplate, back piece and visor, expecting to see him
+badly wounded; but he found no trace of blood or marks
+upon him. Then he succeeded in hoisting poor Don Quixote
+up on his donkey, which seemed the easiest mount for
+him, while he tied the pieces of his arms on Rocinante.
+And thus they proceeded toward the village. Because of
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_21" id="Page_21">[Pg&nbsp;21]</a></span>
+his blows and bruises, Don Quixote had a hard task sitting
+upright on the ass, and he emphasized the romance of his
+situation by constantly heaving sighs to heaven. But
+every time the peasant was driven by these sighs to ask
+him his trouble, he replied in the language of a different
+hero from a different book.</p>
+
+<p>It was nightfall when they arrived at Don Quixote's
+house in the village. His housekeeper, the curate, and
+the village barber were all in confusion, for it was now six
+days since the old gentleman had disappeared from La
+Mancha with his hack and armor. They had just come
+to the conclusion that his books were to blame for his dilapidated
+mentality, and agreed that they ought to be condemned
+to be publicly burned, when the peasant suddenly
+arrived with Don Quixote himself. They all ran out to
+greet and embrace him while he was still on the donkey&mdash;he
+had not dismounted because he could not. He insisted
+that he was severely wounded&mdash;through no fault of
+his own, however, but that of his horse&mdash;and asked that
+they put him to bed and send for the wise Urganda to cure
+him.</p>
+
+<p>The good people carried him to bed, but still they could
+find no wounds, although he insisted that he had been
+wounded in combat with ten giants, the greatest and most
+bloodthirsty in the world. Then he asked for something
+to eat; and then fell asleep.
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_22" id="Page_22">[Pg&nbsp;22]</a></span></p>
+
+<hr class="hr1" />
+<h2><a name="v1CHAPTERVI" id="v1CHAPTERVI"></a>CHAPTER VI</h2>
+
+<h4>Of the Diverting and Important Scrutiny Which the
+Curate and the Barber Made in the Library of
+Our Ingenious Gentleman</h4>
+
+<p class="cap">EARLY the next morning the curate and his friend
+Master Nicholas, the barber, went to Don Quixote's
+house to settle their grievance with the cause of all the mischief&mdash;the
+books of their demented friend. The curate
+asked the niece for the keys to the library, and she was only
+too willing to let him have them. They all went in, followed
+by the housekeeper, who grew faint-hearted as soon
+as she caught sight of all the beautifully bound books in
+the room. She ran out as if beset, returning immediately
+with a bowl of holy water and a sprinkler, with which she
+implored the curate to sprinkle the room, so that none of
+the magicians who might come out of the books would be
+left to bewitch her.</p>
+
+<p>She was afraid that their ghosts might survive and
+bother her in revenge for having instigated their banishment
+from this world.</p>
+
+<p>The curate was amused by the housekeeper's fear. He
+asked the barber to give him the books one by one, as he
+was afraid that among the many there must be some innocent
+ones which did not deserve the penalty of death.
+But both the niece and the housekeeper made emphatic
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_23" id="Page_23">[Pg&nbsp;23]</a></span>
+and vociferous remonstrances against such leniency and insisted
+that a bonfire be made in the courtyard for all of
+them. Now, the barber had a particular leaning toward
+poetry, and he thought that <i>such</i> volumes ought to escape
+the stake; but he was promptly overruled by the conclusions
+of the niece, who reasoned that enough harm had already
+been done by books. "Your worship," she pleaded
+with the curate, "had best burn them all; for if my uncle,
+having been cured of his craze for chivalry, should take
+to reading these pastoral poems, he might take a fancy to
+become a shepherd and stroll the woods and pastures, singing
+and piping. What would be still worse, however,
+would be his turning poet; for that, they say, is both an incurable
+and infectious malady."</p>
+
+<p>Against such logic, strongly supported by the housekeeper,
+the arguments of the two men came to nothing;
+and the barber saw his favorite form of literature thrust
+into the heap that was being prepared in the yard for illumination.
+Only a few books were saved from this fate,
+and they only through the boldness of the curate and the
+barber together against the united efforts of the female
+members of the party. There was one volume in particular,
+called "The Tears of Angelica," which the curate
+fought for valiantly. "I should have shed tears myself,"
+he said, "had I seen that book burn."
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_24" id="Page_24">[Pg&nbsp;24]</a></span></p>
+
+<hr class="hr1" />
+<h2><a name="v1CHAPTERVII" id="v1CHAPTERVII"></a>CHAPTER VII</h2>
+
+<h4>Of the Second Sally of Our Worthy Knight, Don
+Quixote of La Mancha</h4>
+
+<p class="cap">WHILE the curate was praising the merits of "The
+Tears of Angelica," there was suddenly a tremendous
+outcry and noise from Don Quixote's bedroom. They
+hastened to see what was the matter, and when they reached
+his room they found him out of bed, sword in hand, cutting
+and slashing all around him, raving and shouting, with perspiration
+dripping from his body. He imagined that he
+was keeping at a distance several bold and daring warriors,
+and he kept exclaiming that the envious Don Roland had
+battered him with the trunk of an oak-tree because of his
+illustrious achievements in chivalry. They finally succeeded
+in forcibly putting him to bed, having wiped away
+the perspiration&mdash;which he insisted was blood. He then
+asked for something to eat; and when it was brought he
+fell asleep again.</p>
+
+<p>After the housekeeper had burned up all the books that
+were in the house, the curate and the barber thought it
+best to safeguard themselves against their friend's fury
+when he should find that his treasures had disappeared.
+So they decided to wall up and plaster the room where the
+books had been. Two days later, when Don Quixote got
+up out of bed, he went to look for his library. And it was
+nowhere to be found, of course: where the door had been,
+there was only a wall. He asked his housekeeper where
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_25" id="Page_25">[Pg&nbsp;25]</a></span>
+his books were, as well as the room they had been kept in;
+but she had been well instructed and blamed it all on the
+devil. His niece told him that she believed a magician
+had taken the room away. She had seen him, she declared,
+come on a cloud, riding on a serpent; and when he had disappeared,
+the whole house was full of smoke and there was
+no trace of either room or books. The niece also declared
+that she had heard the magician say plainly that he was the
+Sage Munaton.</p>
+
+<p>The niece's explanation of the magic was heartily approved
+of by Don Quixote. The only doubt he expressed
+was about the identity of the magician. "He must have
+said Friston," he insisted. The housekeeper here came to
+the niece's aid and stated that she did not know whether
+he had said "Friston" or "Friton" or what he had said; but
+one thing she was sure of was that his name ended with
+"ton."</p>
+
+<p>This convinced Don Quixote that it was no other than
+the Sage Munaton, a great enemy of his, whose vanity
+could not tolerate the prophecies that Don Quixote was
+about to conquer in battle a certain knight whom Munaton
+had befriended.</p>
+
+<p>After this our worthy knight stuck to his house and home
+for a fortnight. His two gossiping friends, the curate and
+the village barber, did everything in their power to divert
+his thoughts from his fixed idea of a revival of the days
+of knighthood and chivalry. But the fire in Don Quixote's
+breast was smouldering: it was an undying flame.</p>
+
+<p>Near Don Quixote there lived a man by the name of
+Sancho Panza. He was a farm-hand&mdash;a poor but honest
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_26" id="Page_26">[Pg&nbsp;26]</a></span>
+fellow who had both wife and children. Sancho Panza
+was not overburdened with thoughts derived from reading
+books of chivalry&mdash;the simple facts being that he could
+neither read nor write&mdash;nor, for that matter, with thoughts
+of any other kind on any other subject, for while Don Quixote
+had lost his wits, Sancho had never had any.</p>
+
+<p>To this poor fellow Don Quixote would talk of his adventures
+by the hour, trying to persuade Sancho that he
+was missing much romance by remaining a farm-hand all
+his life and that he ought to become the squire of some
+noble knight&mdash;for instance, himself. And so, after much
+persuasion and many promises, Sancho Panza decided to
+adopt his noble neighbor as his master. He was told that
+he must provide himself with all the necessaries for such
+an important and lofty position; and he assured his master
+that he would bring along his very best donkey. The mention
+of this ignoble animal somewhat took the knight aback.
+He ransacked his memory for any instance in which any
+other mount than a horse had been used, but he could recall
+none. However, he could not very well have an attendant
+on foot, so he decided to take him along, mounted on
+his donkey. Of course, there was no doubt in his mind that
+an opportunity would present itself ere long to appropriate
+the horse of some rebellious knight.</p>
+
+<p>One night the two sallied forth from the village, unseen.
+Sancho Panza sat on his donkey, a picture of grave joviality,
+already seeing himself the governor of some conquered
+island. Don Quixote was taking the same road he took
+on his first campaign, the road that led over the Campo de
+Montiel.
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_27" id="Page_27">[Pg&nbsp;27]</a></span></p>
+
+<hr class="hr1" />
+<h2><a name="v1CHAPTERVIII-IX" id="v1CHAPTERVIII-IX"></a>CHAPTERS VIII-IX</h2>
+
+<h4>Of the Good Fortune Which the Valiant Don Quixote
+Had in the Terrible and Undreamt-of Adventure
+of the Windmills, with Other Occurrences
+Worthy to Be Fitly Recorded, Including
+the Terrible Battle Between The
+Gallant Biscayan and The
+Valiant Manchegan</h4>
+
+<p class="cap">WHEN they had traveled a few miles they suddenly
+saw thirty or forty windmills scattered over a
+plain. Don Quixote pulled in his horse, his eyes staring
+out of their sockets.</p>
+
+<p>"Look, friend Sancho Panza!" he exclaimed. "Thirty
+or more monstrous giants present themselves! I mean to
+engage them all in battle and slay them; for this is righteous
+warfare. It is serving God to sweep so evil a breed
+from off the face of the earth!"</p>
+
+<p>"What giants?" asked Sancho curiously.</p>
+
+<p>"Those with the long arms," replied Don Quixote.</p>
+
+<p>"But, your worship," said Sancho, "those are not giants
+but windmills, and what seem to be their arms are the
+sails that make the millstones go."</p>
+
+<p>Hearing his squire make such a foolish remark, Don
+Quixote could not quite make up his mind whether it was
+through ignorance, inexperience in the pursuit of adventure,
+or cowardice, that he spoke like that. So he suggested
+Sancho would better stay away and pray while he,
+Don Quixote, fought the giants single-handed. The honor
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_28" id="Page_28">[Pg&nbsp;28]</a></span>
+of conquering in such an unequal combat would be so
+much greater for him, he thought, if he won victory all by
+himself.</p>
+
+<p>Don Quixote made ready for the attack by commending
+himself to his Lady Dulcinea, and then he gave the spur to
+Rocinante in spite of the pleas and outcries of Sancho
+Panza. Just at this moment a breeze began to blow and
+the sails of the windmills commenced to move. The
+knight charged at his hack's fullest gallop, drove his spear
+with such force into one of the sails that the spear was
+shattered to pieces while the poor knight fell over the
+pommel of his saddle, head over heels in the air, and
+Rocinante fell stunned to the ground. There they rolled
+together on the plain, in a battered and bruised condition.</p>
+
+<p>Sancho hurried to his master's side as fast as his donkey
+could carry him. He was worried beyond words, for he
+expected to find Don Quixote well nigh dead, and he was
+not bent on giving up all hopes of governing an island,
+at so early a stage. The misguided knight was unable to
+move. Nevertheless Sancho Panza could not resist the
+impulse to reprimand his master. "Did I not tell your
+worship so!" he admonished. But Don Quixote would
+hear nothing, answering in a sportsmanlike fashion:</p>
+
+<p>"Hush, friend Sancho! The fortunes of war fluctuate,
+that's all." And then he added his suspicion that the same
+Sage Friston, the magician who had carried off his room of
+books, had turned the giants into windmills so that he would
+be unable to boast of having conquered them&mdash;all out of
+sheer envy and thirst for vengeance. What he most bewailed,
+however, was the loss of his lance.
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_29" id="Page_29">[Pg&nbsp;29]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>With much difficulty Sancho succeeded in placing Don
+Quixote on his horse, and they proceeded on their way,
+following the road to Puerto Lapice. All the while Don
+Quixote was scanning the woods along the roadside for
+the branch of an oak-tree that he would deem a worthy
+substitute for his departed spear. It seemed to him as if
+he had read somewhere in one of his books that some knight
+had done such a thing in an emergency.</p>
+
+<p>Having reminded Don Quixote that he must sit straight
+in the saddle, Sancho was in turn reminded by an inner
+feeling that it was time to eat. His master, however,
+scorned this idea, and let Sancho indulge by himself, while
+he fasted.</p>
+
+<p>Finally night fell, and they passed it in the woods.
+There Don Quixote chose at last the branch of an oak-tree
+that was to serve him as a spear, and to one of its ends he
+attached the head of his broken lance. All night long he
+lay looking up into the sky, visioning his sweet Dulcinea&mdash;all
+for the purpose of emulating other heroes of the past
+age of chivalry who could not sleep for thinking of their
+lady loves.</p>
+
+<p>Sancho Panza, unluckily, was stimulated in no such
+blessed way. He was supported by no sweet dreams of
+any beloved one of his. As for his wife, he had forgotten
+all about her. But as a matter of truth he had no memory
+of anything, having absorbed too much fluid out of
+his leather wine-bag, or <i>bota</i>, as it is called in Spanish.
+On getting up in the morning Sancho Panza was grieved
+to find the contents of his <i>bota</i> decidedly diminished.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_30" id="Page_30">[Pg&nbsp;30]</a></span>
+Don Quixote bravely maintained his self-inflicted hunger
+and swallowed his appetite by thoughts of his past
+valiant deeds. They soon started out, and again took the
+road leading to Puerto Lapice, whose outlines they sighted
+in the afternoon. Don Quixote thought this an opportune
+time for addressing his squire on the etiquette and laws of
+knighthood, as they were now approaching a very hotbed
+of adventure.</p>
+
+<p>"Under no pretext," he admonished the faithful one,
+"must thou put a hand to thy sword in my defense unless
+it be that I am attacked by mere rabble or base folk; in
+such case, thou art in duty bound to be my bodyguard.
+But if my assailants be knights, thou must in no way interfere
+until thou hast been dubbed a knight thyself."</p>
+
+<p>Sancho promised to obey his master as nearly as his
+human nature permitted him. He declared that he liked
+peace and hated strife, yet, if he were assailed, he did not
+believe in turning the other cheek more than once. Don
+Quixote saw a certain amount of reason in this; still, he
+asked his squire to do his utmost to restrain himself against
+any such rash impulse in the case of members of the knighthood.
+And Sancho Panza swore that he would keep this
+precept as religiously as Sunday.</p>
+
+<p>While our noble knight was thus instructing his squire,
+there appeared on the road two friars of the order of St.
+Benedict. They were riding mules; and behind them
+came a coach with an escort numbering nearly half a dozen
+men on horseback and two men on foot. In the coach,
+traveling in state, was a lady of Biscay, on her way to
+Seville.</p>
+
+<p>What could this be except a plot of scheming magicians
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_31" id="Page_31">[Pg&nbsp;31]</a></span>
+to steal away some princess? The friars, innocently traveling
+by themselves, became in Don Quixote's eyes a pair
+of evil magicians, and in his thirst for adventure the nearer
+one assumed stupendous proportions.</p>
+
+<p>"This will be worse than the windmills!" sighed Sancho,
+who tried in vain to convince his master of the facts in the
+case.</p>
+
+<p>But Don Quixote cut him short. "Thou knowest
+nothing of adventures," he said; and that settled it.</p>
+
+<p>Boldly the knight went forward and took position in
+the middle of the road.</p>
+
+<p>"Devilish and unnatural beings!" he cried in a loud
+voice, "release instantly the high-born princess whom you
+are carrying off by force in this coach, else prepare to meet
+a speedy death as the just punishment of your evil deeds!"</p>
+
+<p>The mules came to a standstill, their ears erect with
+astonishment at such a figure, and the friars gaped in wonder.
+At last they recovered sufficiently to declare that
+they were traveling quite by themselves, and had no knowledge
+of the identity of the travelers following behind
+them.</p>
+
+<p>To their meek reply Don Quixote paid no heed, but bellowed
+forth furiously: "No soft words with me! I know
+you, you lying rabble!" And with his spurs in Rocinante
+and his lance lifted he rode against the two friars like a
+whirlwind, so that if one of them had not quickly thrust
+himself off his mule, he would certainly have been torn to
+shreds. The other one saved his skin by setting off across
+the country at a speed rivaling our hero's charge.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_32" id="Page_32">[Pg&nbsp;32]</a></span>
+At this stage Sancho Panza began to realize the full extent
+of his position as squire to a successful knight. Over
+by the roadside he saw the first friar lying breathless on the
+ground as a result of his jumping off his mule in such
+amazing hurry. He proceeded to strip off the friar's gown,
+using as a moral for doing this his own thoughts on the
+subject. He reasoned that if he could not share in the
+honors of battle, he at least ought to share in the spoils.</p>
+
+<p>He was intercepted by some of the men attending the
+carriage. Unfortunately, they were serious-minded men,
+and they failed to see the joke. Sancho Panza gave them
+his views on etiquette pertaining to such matters as these;
+but it would have been much better for him had he not, for
+the men set upon him with great fury, beating and kicking
+him until he was insensible. They left him lying on the
+ground and then helped the pale and trembling friar to
+mount his mule. As soon as he was in the saddle, he
+hastened to join his companion, and the two of them continued
+their journey, making more crosses than they would
+if the devil had pursued them.</p>
+
+<p>In the meantime Don Quixote had been trying to persuade
+the fair occupant of the coach to return to El Toboso
+that she herself might relate to his beloved Dulcinea the
+strange adventure from which he had delivered her.</p>
+
+<p>A Biscayan gentleman, who was one of her attendants
+and rode a hired mule, took offense at his insistence to
+bother her, and a fight was soon in progress. The Biscayan
+had no shield, so he snatched a cushion from the carriage
+and used it to defend himself. The engagement
+was a most heated one, and Don Quixote lost a piece of
+his ear early in the combat. This enraged him beyond
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_33" id="Page_33">[Pg&nbsp;33]</a></span>
+words; he charged his adversary with such tremendous
+force and fury that he began to bleed from his mouth,
+his nose, and his ears. Had the Biscayan not embraced
+the neck of his mount, he would have been spilled on the
+ground immediately. It remained for his mule to complete
+the damage, and when the animal suddenly set off
+across the plain in great fright, the rider plunged headlong
+to the ground.</p>
+
+<p>Seeing this, Don Quixote hastened to the man's side and
+bade him surrender, at the penalty of having his head cut
+off. Absolutely bewildered, the gentleman from Biscay
+could say nothing; and had it not been for the ladies in the
+coach who interceded with prayers for his life, the Biscayan
+might have been beheaded right then and there. Don
+Quixote finally agreed to spare his opponent's life on one
+condition: that he present himself before the matchless
+Lady Dulcinea in the village of El Toboso, and it would
+be for her to determine his punishment. The ladies having
+promised that their protector should do anything and
+everything that might be asked of him, our hero from La
+Mancha said that he would harm the gentleman no more.</p>
+
+<hr class="hr1" />
+<h2><a name="v1CHAPTERX" id="v1CHAPTERX"></a>CHAPTER X</h2>
+
+<h4>Of the Pleasant Discourse that Passed between
+Don Quixote and His Squire Sancho Panza</h4>
+
+<p class="cap">WHEN Sancho Panza had regained consciousness, he
+saw his master again engaged in battle. He
+thought that the best thing he could do was to pray, at a
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_34" id="Page_34">[Pg&nbsp;34]</a></span>
+distance, for victory; and so he did. Soon he saw Don
+Quixote emerge from the struggle as victor! Overcome
+by emotion and gratitude to God, he ran to his master's side
+and fell on his knees before him. He kissed his hand, then
+helped him to mount his steed. All the while he did not
+forget the island of which Don Quixote had promised him
+he should become governor. He expectantly reminded
+his master of it now, and Don Quixote said to him that
+if things continued to go as they had gone, there would be
+even greater honors in store for him; perhaps he would
+become a king or an emperor, even.</p>
+
+<p>Much satisfied with this prospect, Sancho lifted himself
+up into the saddle and trotted after his master, who was
+galloping ahead at a wild pace. Sancho, seeing him disappear
+in a wood nearby, steered his ass in the same direction.
+He yelled to him in a loud voice, begging him to
+stop.</p>
+
+<p>At last our knight condescended to hear his tired squire,
+and waited until Sancho caught up with him. Sancho
+ventured to suggest that they hide in some church, for he
+was afraid that by this time the friars had reported the
+happening to the Holy Brotherhood; but his master only
+laughed at his simplicity and fear; and finally Sancho had
+to admit that he never in his life had served so brave and
+valiant a knight. However, he begged his master not to
+overlook his bleeding ear, and gave him some ointment to
+apply to the wound. It was only after a long discourse
+on the merits of the strange balsam of Fierabras, which
+possessed the enchanted quality of healing bodies cut in
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_35" id="Page_35">[Pg&nbsp;35]</a></span>
+twain&mdash;he particularly dwelt upon the necessity of fitting
+the two separated halves evenly and exactly&mdash;that Don
+Quixote deigned to apply Sancho's ointment. In doing so
+he lamented the absence of the famous balsam.</p>
+
+<p>Now, Sancho Panza saw untold possibilities for making
+money out of such a remarkable remedy as this balsam.
+He was even willing to relinquish his rights to any throne
+in its favor. So what interested him more than anything
+else was the recipe for making it. But his master told him
+that he would teach him even greater secrets when the time
+came, and suddenly changed the subject by cursing the Biscayan,
+of whom he had just been reminded by a twinge in
+his bleeding ear. The sight of his shattered helmet
+brought the climax to his anger, and he swore by the creator
+and all the four gospels to avenge himself. When
+Sancho heard this, he reminded his knight of his solemn
+oath to the ladies. Had he not promised them to refer
+the Biscayan's punishment to the court of his Dulcinea?
+Being thus reminded by his squire, Don Quixote nobly
+declared his oath null and void, and commended Sancho
+Panza for unknowingly having made him conform with
+the customs of chivalry.</p>
+
+<p>Then he repeated his vows of knighthood and swore to
+capture from some other knight a helmet as good as his
+own. Sancho, by this time, was beginning to wonder
+whether so many oaths might not be injurious to Don
+Quixote's salvation. He suggested, for instance, the possibility
+of meeting with no one wearing a helmet, and
+asked what his master intended to do to keep his oath in
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_36" id="Page_36">[Pg&nbsp;36]</a></span>
+such a case. Don Quixote assured him that they would
+soon encounter more men in armor than came to Albraca to
+win the fair Angelica.</p>
+
+<p>Unwittingly Sancho's thoughts went back to his favorite
+unconquered island, and again his master admonished him
+to feel no uneasiness on that score. He even bettered his
+chances, explaining that if the island should disappear or
+for some reason be out of the question, there were countless
+other realms to be considered. He mentioned the
+kingdoms of Denmark and Sobradisa as some of them, and
+added that these possessed advantages that no island had.
+These were on the mainland and did not have to be reached
+by boat or by swimming.</p>
+
+<p>Now Don Quixote was beginning to feel hungry, and he
+asked Sancho Panza to give him some food out of his
+<i>alforjas</i>. Sancho made apologies for having nothing but
+onions, cheese, and a few crusts of bread to offer such a
+valiant knight, but Don Quixote explained that one of the
+glories of knighthood was self-denial: many a knight had
+been known to go without food for a month at a time.
+However, he thought it advisable for Sancho to gather
+dry fruits from time to time as a safeguard against overwhelming
+hunger. Sancho feared that his appetite might
+crave food of a more substantial kind, and added that he
+would garnish his meals with some poultry. His master
+made no direct remonstrance to this assertion of his squire,
+but presumed that not <i>all</i> knights at <i>all</i> times lived on dry
+fruit.</p>
+
+<p>As soon as they had finished their repast, they mounted
+and continued their way, anxious to find some inhabited
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_37" id="Page_37">[Pg&nbsp;37]</a></span>
+place before nightfall. When it had grown dark, they
+found themselves near the huts of some goatherds, and
+Don Quixote decided that they should spend the night
+there. Sancho had hoped that they would find some house
+where he could have a comfortable bed; but his master
+was pleased to sleep once more in the open. Each act of
+self-denial made him a more honored and more valuable
+member of the knighthood.</p>
+
+<hr class="hr1" />
+<h2><a name="v1CHAPTERXI" id="v1CHAPTERXI"></a>CHAPTER XI</h2>
+
+<h4>Of What Befell Don Quixote with Certain Goatherds</h4>
+
+<p class="cap">THE goatherds were cordial in their greeting to our
+knight and his squire, and invited them to partake
+of their meal, which was just being served on a tablecloth
+of sheepskin spread on the ground. Don Quixote was
+given a seat of honor on a trough turned upside down.
+Sancho remained standing to serve him, but his master insisted
+upon his coming down to his level. To this Sancho
+objected. He said that he could enjoy his food much better
+in a corner by himself, where he could chew it as he
+pleased, without having to take into consideration the
+formalities inflicted by the presence of one so much above
+his own state as his worthy master. He called his master's
+attention to the fact that in company like this, a humble
+servant like himself would have to suppress all such inclinations
+as sneezing, coughing and other natural outbursts,
+and, worst of all, drinking to his heart's content. But
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_38" id="Page_38">[Pg&nbsp;38]</a></span>
+Don Quixote would listen to no arguments and seated him
+by force at his side.</p>
+
+<p>All the while the goatherds were marveling at our
+knight's bombastic speech and flourishing manners, and
+their interest was only enhanced when Don Quixote suddenly
+commenced a vast and poetic discourse on the golden
+age of the past. Some parched acorns he had just eaten
+had served him as a reminder and this in turn as an inspiration.</p>
+
+<p>Sancho took advantage of his master's long speech by
+paying numerous visits to the leather wine-bag, which had
+been suspended from a cork-tree in order to keep the wine
+cool.</p>
+
+<p>Hardly had Don Quixote finished his discourse when
+the sound of music was heard in the distance, and soon a
+good-looking youth of twenty appeared, playing a lute.
+At the goatherds' request he sang a ballad of love, which
+was much favored by Don Quixote. Sancho Panza, however,
+felt the necessity for sleep and slyly suggested
+consideration on his master's part for the men, who no
+doubt had to rise with the sun and attend to their labors.
+This appeal did not fail to move Don Quixote, especially
+since his ear again began to trouble him with pain. One
+of the goatherds offered his help. He plucked some leaves
+of rosemary, put them in his mouth and chewed them well,
+then mixed them with a pinch of salt and put them as a
+plaster over the wounded ear, safely attaching it with a
+bandage. As he had predicted, this proved to be an excellent
+treatment.
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_39" id="Page_39">[Pg&nbsp;39]</a></span></p>
+
+<hr class="hr1" />
+<h2><a name="v1CHAPTERXII" id="v1CHAPTERXII"></a>CHAPTER XII</h2>
+
+<h4>Of What a Goatherd Related to Those with Don
+Quixote</h4>
+
+<p class="cap">JUST as Don Quixote was about to retire for the night,
+a young man from the village came to the hut and informed
+the goatherds of the death of a famous villager
+named Crysostom. The youth said there was a rumor that
+Crysostom&mdash;who had been a student and had turned shepherd&mdash;had
+died of a broken heart, for love of the daughter
+of Guillermo the Rich. In his will he had directed that he
+desired to be buried, like a Moor, at the very place where
+he first saw her, at the foot of a rock by a spring in the
+fields. The clergy of the village had been aroused by this
+and other directions in the will, which they considered
+smacked of heathenism, and objected to the carrying out
+of the will. Ambrosio, the bosom friend of Crysostom&mdash;and
+a student who had also become a shepherd&mdash;started an
+opposition to the clergy, and was determined that his dead
+friend's will should be done. The young man said that
+the whole village was in an uproar, and he was looking
+forward to interesting events in the morning, when the
+burial was to take place.</p>
+
+<p>Don Quixote was eager to learn something of the
+maiden for whose sake Ambrosio's friend had died. One
+of the goatherds, named Pedro, related to him all that he
+knew.
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_40" id="Page_40">[Pg&nbsp;40]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>The parents of Marcela&mdash;for that was the maiden's
+name&mdash;and of Crysostom were very rich people, although
+they were farmers. Marcela's father and mother died
+when she was a baby, and she was brought up under the
+care of her uncle, a priest in the village. As she grew up,
+her beauty was increased with each day that passed, and
+her uncle had many offers for her hand in marriage; but
+she would hear of none of them. One day, to the consternation
+of all in the village, she appeared dressed in the costume
+of a shepherdess, and declared her intention of turning
+to that kind of life.</p>
+
+<p>Just about this time the father of Crysostom died, leaving
+his great fortune to his son, who had just finished his
+studies in astrology and other learned subjects in the University
+of Salamanca. Crysostom returned home together
+with his friend and companion Ambrosio, and both became
+very well liked in the village. There Crysostom saw
+Marcela and fell deeply in love with her, and he, like so
+many others before him, decided to turn shepherd in order
+to be near her constantly. But she was indifferent to all
+talk of love; and the sting of her scorn made him take his
+life.</p>
+
+<p>Having ended his story, Pedro advised our knight not
+to miss the ceremonies that Crysostom's shepherd friends
+were to hold at his grave in the morning. Sancho, who
+had been greatly annoyed by the goatherd's talkativeness,
+was by this time beginning to think aloud that it might be
+time for his master to go to bed; and Pedro begged him to
+sleep in his hut, as he was afraid that the cold night air
+might hurt his wound.
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_41" id="Page_41">[Pg&nbsp;41]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>So Don Quixote retired for the night to the bed given
+him by his hosts, and dreamed all night of his beloved one
+in his native village, in imitation of other great lovers.
+Sancho rested, as comfortable and unemotional as a barrel
+of settled wine, between his master's charger and his
+own peaceful donkey.</p>
+
+<hr class="hr1" />
+<h2><a name="v1CHAPTERXIII" id="v1CHAPTERXIII"></a>CHAPTER XIII</h2>
+
+<h4>In Which Is Ended the Story of the Shepherdess
+Marcela with Other Incidents</h4>
+
+<p class="cap">AS soon as the sun was rising in the east, Don Quixote
+was awakened, and a little later they were on their
+way to the burial of Crysostom.</p>
+
+<p>They had gone only a short distance, when they met six
+shepherds, all dressed in black sheepskins and with crowns
+of bitter oleander and cypress on their heads. In his hand
+each shepherd carried a staff of holly. Directly behind
+them came two dignified gentlemen on horseback, followed
+by three servants on foot. While stopping to exchange
+greetings, all had learned that they were going in the same
+direction for the same purpose. The two gentlemen had
+met the mourning shepherds, and from them had heard the
+sad story of the love of Crysostom for Marcela. That had
+aroused their curiosity and sorrow, and they wanted now
+to do him honor.</p>
+
+<p>The battle-clad Don Quixote, of course, attracted their
+attention, and one of the gentlemen was eager to learn
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_42" id="Page_42">[Pg&nbsp;42]</a></span>
+why any one should be masquerading in armor so early in
+the morning. To which he got the reply that the danger
+of his calling made it necessary for him to wear it. The
+gentlemen could not help then but realize Don Quixote's
+mental condition. But one of them possessed a restless
+sense of humor, and when Don Quixote began to discourse
+on chivalry and knights errant, he asked to know what
+these things were. Our hero then explained their mysteries
+at length. He described the deeds of King Arthur,
+spoke of the famous Round Table, and told the love-story
+of Don Lancelot and Queen Guinevere.</p>
+
+<p>In the course of these descriptions the jesting gentleman
+felt that he had fully diagnosed the madness of our knight,
+and thought it only fair play to beguile the journey to the
+burial-place by listening to his absurdities. Now and then
+he would put in a word or ask a question in order not to
+break the thread. For instance, he suggested cunningly
+that the calling of a knight errant was as serious as that of
+a Carthusian monk; and Don Quixote replied that he
+thought it a much more necessary one. And as to its demands,
+there was no comparison, he declared, for if ever
+one rose to become an emperor it was only after tremendous
+sacrifice of blood and sweat.</p>
+
+<p>The traveling gentleman was agreed with him on that
+score; but there was one thing he did not approve of: whenever
+a knight went into battle, he commended himself to
+his lady, instead of God. This he thought wrong and
+unchristianlike. Don Quixote, however, saw no wrong in
+it. It was only human, he contended, to think first of his
+beloved one at so austere a moment; and, besides, often
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_43" id="Page_43">[Pg&nbsp;43]</a></span>
+the knight errant would say things under his breath that
+would not be understood. Then only Heaven could know
+whether he had called upon his lady or God.</p>
+
+<p>The gentleman then soon found another argument. He
+expressed a doubt that all knights errant were in love,
+saying that some of them commended themselves to ladies
+fictitiously. Don Quixote denied this emphatically; but
+the traveler thought that he had read somewhere that Don
+Galaor, the brother of the valiant Amadis of Gaul, never
+commended himself to any particular lady, yet he was a
+brave and most illustrious knight errant. All that Don
+Quixote replied to this argument was: "Sir, one solitary
+swallow does not make summer!" and offered, as if in
+confidence, his conviction that this very knight had been
+very deeply in love, but secretly.</p>
+
+<p>At that very moment he heaved a sigh of weariness. The
+sigh was misinterpreted by the traveler, however, for he
+asked our knight whether he was reticent about telling the
+name of <i>his</i> lady.</p>
+
+<p>"Dulcinea del Toboso, of La Mancha," answered Don
+Quixote. And this time he made her a princess, extolling
+her virtues and her beauty to the traveler, who found it
+amusing to hear the knight tell of her ancestry and lineage.
+First of all Don Quixote named to the traveler the families
+of Spain that she was <i>not</i> connected with, then informed
+him that she was of the house of El Toboso of La Mancha.
+And though this was a most modern family, one could
+never foretell what position it would hold in the future.</p>
+
+<p>The traveler in his turn told Don Quixote of his own
+family, saying that he of course dared not to compare it
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_44" id="Page_44">[Pg&nbsp;44]</a></span>
+with that of the fair Dulcinea, although he never had
+heard of hers ere this&mdash;a confession that surprised Don
+Quixote exceedingly.</p>
+
+<p>During this conversation between the knight and the
+traveling gentleman&mdash;who was named Se�or Vivaldo&mdash;they
+came in sight of a score of shepherds, all dressed in
+black sheepskins and crowned with garlands. Six of them
+were carrying a bier on which lay the body of the dead
+Crysostom. At his side were scattered some papers and
+books. When they had found the resting-place that the
+dead man had chosen for himself, Ambrosio, his dearest
+friend, spoke some words in his memory. He mentioned
+how Crysostom's heart had been rent asunder by the cruel
+treatment of one whom his departed friend would have
+immortalized to the world in poetry, had Ambrosio not been
+commissioned by him to consign the verses to the flames
+after having entrusted his body to the earth.</p>
+
+<p>Se�or Vivaldo thought it would be a great pity to do
+away with such beautiful verses, and he pleaded with Ambrosio
+against their consignment to oblivion. As he was
+speaking, he reached out his hand for some of the papers
+that were close to him, and Ambrosio considerately permitted
+him to keep them. The remaining ones were
+burned.</p>
+
+<p>Se�or Vivaldo glanced through the papers eagerly and
+read the title&mdash;"Lay of Despair." When Ambrosio heard
+this, he asked him to read the words aloud that all those
+assembled might hear the last verses of the dead shepherd.
+And while Se�or Vivaldo spoke the despairing lines, some
+of the shepherds were digging the grave for their friend.
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_45" id="Page_45">[Pg&nbsp;45]</a></span></p>
+
+<hr class="hr1" />
+<h2><a name="v1CHAPTERXIV" id="v1CHAPTERXIV"></a>CHAPTER XIV</h2>
+
+<h4>Wherein Are Described the Despairing Verses of the
+Dead Shepherd</h4>
+
+<p class="cap">SE�OR Vivaldo had finished the last verse and was
+about to glance through the rest of the papers he had
+saved from the fire, when suddenly on the summit of the
+rock by the grave he saw a most glorious apparition. It
+was no other than Marcela, the shepherdess, and every-one
+was aghast at her presence. The moment Ambrosio
+saw her, he became indignant beyond words and commanded
+her to leave. But she remained and asked them
+all to listen to her. She had come there to defend herself,
+she said; she knew what people had accused her of: cruelty,
+scornfulness, arrogance, ingratitude, deception, and hatred.
+But she hated no one, she declared. She had deceived no
+one. Crysostom had loved her because of her beauty; but
+she had loved neither him nor any other man. She had
+chosen solitude, the woods and the fields, because of her
+inborn craving for freedom. Should she have forced herself
+to give that up because any man chose to say, "I love
+you," while she did not love him? Was she to be blamed
+for Crysostom's death. For not loving him? Would not
+that have been to pawn her modesty and her womanly
+honor and virtue? And why should he have wanted to rob
+her of them?</p>
+
+<p>So she spoke; and when she had finished she waited for
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_46" id="Page_46">[Pg&nbsp;46]</a></span>
+no reply but turned and ran like a deer into the woods.
+All stood gazing after her in silent admiration, not only
+for her beauty but for her frank speech and good sense also.
+Some of the men seemed to be about to run after her, having
+been wellnigh enchanted by her gloriously bright eyes;
+but they were stopped by Don Quixote, who thundered:
+"Let no one, whatever his rank or condition, dare to follow
+the beautiful Marcela, under pain of incurring my
+fierce indignation! She has shown by clear and satisfactory
+arguments that no fault is to be found with her for
+the death of Crysostom. Instead of being followed and
+persecuted, she should in justice be honored and esteemed
+by all the good people of the world, for she shows that she
+is the only woman in it that holds to such a virtuous resolution."</p>
+
+<p>These words Don Quixote uttered in a threatening manner,
+his hand on the hilt of his sword. Whether because
+of his threats or because the grave had been dug and Crysostom's
+remains were about to be lowered into it, they all
+stayed until the burial was over. The grave was closed
+with a large stone, and then the shepherds strewed flowers,
+leaves and branches upon it, and shed many tears.</p>
+
+<p>The two travelers extended an invitation to Don Quixote
+to accompany them to Seville, where they assured him
+he would find no end of adventures awaiting him. But
+he told them that for the present he had his hands full
+ridding these very regions of highwaymen and robbers.
+He thanked them, however, and they continued their journey
+without our hero.</p>
+
+<p>Don Quixote now saw his duty clearly. He would
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_47" id="Page_47">[Pg&nbsp;47]</a></span>
+search the woods and wilds for the beautiful Marcela. He
+was certain that she would need his services.</p>
+
+<p>But things did not turn out as he expected.</p>
+
+<hr class="hr1" />
+<h2><a name="v1CHAPTERXV" id="v1CHAPTERXV"></a>CHAPTER XV</h2>
+
+<h4>In Which Is Related the Unfortunate Adventure
+That Don Quixote Fell in with When He Fell
+Out with Certain Heartless Yanguesans</h4>
+
+<p class="cap">WHEN Don Quixote had taken leave of his hosts,
+he set off with his squire into the woods where he
+had seen Marcela disappear. They wandered about for
+some time and found no trace of the shepherdess. Then
+they came to a pasture through which a brook was running,
+and as they were both thirsty, warm, and tired, they decided
+to remain there for their noontide meal. They
+feasted on the scraps that remained in the <i>alforjas</i>, while
+Rocinante and Sancho's ass were left free to pluck all the
+grass they desired.</p>
+
+<p>Now, Fate would have it that at that very hour a band
+of Yanguesans were resting nearby, with their ponies let
+loose in the pasture. As soon as the ponies were discovered
+by Rocinante, he wanted to exchange friendly greetings
+with them, so he set off at a brisk trot in their direction.
+But the ponies seemed to have no desire to strike up an
+acquaintance with an unknown hack, for they arrogantly
+turned their backs on him and commenced to snort and kick
+and bite until the saddle fell off Rocinante and he was
+left quite naked. By this time the Yanguesans had heard
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_48" id="Page_48">[Pg&nbsp;48]</a></span>
+the commotion and rushed up, armed with sticks, and with
+these they thrashed poor Rocinante so soundly that he fell
+to the ground in a heap.</p>
+
+<p>Just at this time Don Quixote and Sancho, having finished
+their repast, went to look for their chargers. As soon
+as Don Quixote had taken in the situation, he realized that
+these were no knights errant and confided this to his squire,
+charging him to help him in his battle for Rocinante's
+honor. Sancho made vehement pleas for abstaining from
+vengeance, seeing the great numbers of the enemy; but
+his master's conviction that he alone counted for a hundred
+eased his mind.</p>
+
+<p>Don Quixote attacked at once and cut off a portion of
+his opponent's shoulder; Sancho fought bravely too. But
+when the men saw that they were fighting such a small
+number they set upon them, all at one time, and after a few
+thrusts they had unseated our knight and his squire, both
+sorely battered. Then, fearing the hand of the law, the
+Yanguesans set off in great haste.</p>
+
+<p>When Sancho came to, he was certain that all his bones
+were broken, and he feebly turned to his master saying that
+he only wished that he had at hand the marvelous balsam
+of Fierabras, of which his master had spoken. Sancho
+lamented the lack of it no more than Don Quixote, who
+swore that within two days he would have the potion in
+his possession. As to his wounds, he took all the blame
+upon himself: he felt that it was God's punishment for
+having engaged in battle with ordinary rabble like these
+carriers, and decided that henceforth he would have Sancho
+alone chastise those who had not been dubbed knights.
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_49" id="Page_49">[Pg&nbsp;49]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>To this Sancho took exception, for he maintained that
+he had wife and children to support, and was by nature
+a peaceful, meek and timid man. He called upon God to
+forgive in advance all the insults man or beast might offer
+him in the future and for all times; but at this Don Quixote
+took him to task and admonished him not to lose his
+valor in attacking and defending himself in all sorts of
+emergencies.</p>
+
+<p>Sancho's soft heart now turned to Rocinante, who had
+been the cause of all the trouble. The poor horse was in
+a sorry plight. So it was considered best that Don Quixote&mdash;who
+could not sit upright&mdash;should be slung across
+his servant's donkey. This decision was reached when
+Don Quixote remembered that Silenus, the teacher of the
+God of Laughter, had entered the city of the hundred gates
+mounted on a handsome ass.</p>
+
+<p>When his master had been secured and Rocinante raised
+from the ground, Sancho took the two beasts by the halter
+and led them out to the road, and from there they proceeded
+on their way. Soon Sancho saw the outlines of an
+inn, which Don Quixote insisted must be a castle, and before
+they had finished their dispute, they found themselves
+at the gate and entered.
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_50" id="Page_50">[Pg&nbsp;50]</a></span></p>
+
+<hr class="hr1" />
+<h2><a name="v1CHAPTERXVI" id="v1CHAPTERXVI"></a>CHAPTER XVI</h2>
+
+<h4>Of What Happened to the Ingenious Gentleman in the
+Inn Which He Took to Be a Castle</h4>
+
+<p class="cap">WHEN the keeper of the inn saw the sorry body of
+the knight on the ass, he became anxious to learn
+what had happened to him. His wife was a kindly and
+good-natured woman, and when Sancho had explained that
+his master had fallen from a rock, she and her pretty
+daughter offered to care for him. The daughter,
+and a one-eyed Asturian servant-girl, with turned-up
+nose and high cheek-bones, made a bed for Don
+Quixote on four rough boards in a garret, where a carrier
+was also quartered. Stretched on this bed Don Quixote
+was attended by the innkeeper's wife, who soon covered
+him with more plasters than he had quilts. In the meantime
+she, her daughter, and the Asturian girl, all curious,
+questioned Sancho about his master.</p>
+
+<p>Sancho told, in as thrilling words as he could command,
+of their marvelous adventures; to all of which they listened
+with astonishment. The Asturian servant nearly stared
+her one eye out of her head. She asked Sancho Panza,
+trembling with excitement, what a knight errant was. To
+this Sancho replied that a knight was an adventurer, who
+one day might be the poorest and meanest of men, and the
+next day emperor, with crowns and kingdoms in abundance
+to give away to his squire and underlings. Here
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_51" id="Page_51">[Pg&nbsp;51]</a></span>
+the women expressed surprise that he himself, judging by
+appearance, did not possess even so much as a small strip
+of land. He then confided to them that he and his master
+had been going but a short time; that as yet it was much too
+soon; that the adventures they had met with so far were but
+a beginning and not worthy of mention.</p>
+
+<p>Don Quixote, who had been listening to everything his
+squire said, now sat up in bed and informed them of the
+great honor he had conferred upon them by being in their
+house; he told them of his indescribable gratitude to them;
+and of his love for his Dulcinea del Toboso of La Mancha.</p>
+
+<p>The women, not being accustomed to such language,
+which seemed to them more difficult to understand than
+Greek, stared at him in bewilderment; then, thanking him
+for his courtesy, they left him while the Asturian plastered
+Sancho, who seemed to be in need of treatment as sadly
+as his master.</p>
+
+<hr class="hr1" />
+<h2><a name="v1CHAPTERXVII" id="v1CHAPTERXVII"></a>CHAPTER XVII</h2>
+
+<h4>In Which Are Contained the Innumerable Troubles
+Which the Brave Don Quixote and His
+Good Squire Sancho Panza Endured
+at the Inn, Which to His
+Misfortune He Took to
+Be a Castle</h4>
+
+<p class="cap">THE following morning Sancho, feeling his pains even
+more, reminded his master of the famous balsam he
+was to make. Don Quixote himself was anxious for it
+too, so he sent Sancho to an imagined fortress for some oil,
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_52" id="Page_52">[Pg&nbsp;52]</a></span>
+wine, rosemary and salt. He mixed these ingredients in
+a pot, and boiled them. Then he poured the mixture
+into a tin flask, crossed himself and repeated innumerable
+paternosters and ave-marias. When he had nearly exhausted
+himself doing that, he swallowed a good portion
+of the liquid; and immediately he began to vomit and perspire,
+while his face and body contracted in the most horrible
+spasms. He asked to be put to bed at once, and they
+let him sleep for three hours. When he woke he felt so
+relieved that he really thought he had hit upon the remedy
+of Fierabras.</p>
+
+<p>Seeing his master's miraculous recovery, Sancho begged
+to be permitted to drink some of the wonderful liquid, and
+Don Quixote gave him a dose of it. Unlike his master,
+Sancho retained what he had drunk for some time before
+letting it all come up again, but in the meantime his agony
+was insufferable. He was seized with such gripings and
+faintness that he was sure his last hour had come. He
+even cursed his master for having given him such terrible
+stuff; but Don Quixote said that he had only now come to
+realize that the remedy was made solely for those who had
+been dubbed knights: whereupon Sancho, writhing in convulsions
+cursed him still more. Sancho's agony lasted for
+several hours.</p>
+
+<p>In the meantime Don Quixote himself, being anxious
+for new adventures, had saddled Rocinante. He had to
+help his squire mount the ass, for Sancho still was in a
+sorry condition. All the folk at the inn had gathered to
+see them depart, and when Don Quixote's eyes fell on the
+beautiful young daughter of the innkeeper, he heaved a
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_53" id="Page_53">[Pg&nbsp;53]</a></span>
+heavy sigh; but no one there realized the soul or the reason
+of it, for they all thought it must be from the pain in his
+ribs.</p>
+
+<p>As he was about to leave, the valiant knight called the
+innkeeper and asked him with profound gravity whether
+he had any enemies that remained unpunished; if so, he,
+Don Quixote, would chastise them for him. The innkeeper
+answered shortly that he could take care of his own
+grudges; all he asked of our knight was payment for lodging
+and for what he and the beasts and the squire had consumed.</p>
+
+<p>"Then this is an inn?" cried Don Quixote, who could
+hardly believe his ears. He ransacked his memory for any
+incident when knight had ever paid for food and lodging,
+and, unable to remember one, raised his lance, turned Rocinante,
+and set off at a quick gallop, leaving Sancho behind.</p>
+
+<p>The innkeeper immediately took steps to attach the
+squire for the unpaid debt; but Sancho's stolid indifference
+to his representations only tended to prove the truth of the
+old proverb: like master, like servant. He argued that it
+was not for him to tear down traditions of noble knighthood.</p>
+
+<p>Unfortunately for Sancho, he was overheard by a good
+many guests at the inn, rollicking fellows, who were on the
+alert for amusement. These men seized a blanket, dismounted
+the squire unceremoniously, placed him in the
+middle of the blanket, and proceeded to hoist him, not
+gently, high in the air. This movement no doubt caused a
+return of Sancho's stomach-ache, for he commenced to groan
+and scream helplessly. His screams were heard far off by
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_54" id="Page_54">[Pg&nbsp;54]</a></span>
+his master, who, believing that some new and glorious adventure
+was at hand, spurred his hack into a playful gallop
+and returned to the inn.</p>
+
+<p>The gates were closed, but over the wall the knight
+could see the tricks that his faithful follower was made to
+perform in the air and on the blanket, and he boiled with
+rage, unable to come to the rescue, for he could not dismount
+because of stiffness. Finally, when the men had
+been sufficiently amused, they stopped their sport, then
+mounted Sancho with no little kindness on his ass and bade
+him godspeed on his journey. The one-eyed Asturian compassionately
+offered the poor fellow some water to drink;
+but seeing this, Don Quixote commenced to gesticulate
+wildly, waving a tin flask in the air, and crying: "Sancho,
+my son, drink not water, for it will kill thee! See, here I
+have the blessed balsam: two drops of it will restore thee!"</p>
+
+<p>His master's advice did not appeal to the squire, and he
+replied rather cuttingly that Don Quixote ought to remember
+that he was not a knight. Saying this he put the cup
+the lass had offered him to his lips. But he found that it
+was not wine but water. He begged her to exchange it,
+which she did with Christian spirit, paying for it herself.
+The squire, having drunk the wine, spurred his ass toward
+the gate, and the innkeeper let him depart without further
+payment, having, unbeknown to Sancho, appropriated his
+<i>alforjas</i>.
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_55" id="Page_55">[Pg&nbsp;55]</a></span></p>
+
+<hr class="hr1" />
+<h2><a name="v1CHAPTERXVIII" id="v1CHAPTERXVIII"></a>CHAPTER XVIII</h2>
+
+<h4>In Which Is Related the Discourse Sancho Panza
+Held with His Master, Don Quixote, Together
+with Other Adventures Worth Relating</h4>
+
+<p class="cap">DON QUIXOTE told his squire he was certain that
+the inn was an enchanted castle, and blamed his
+transgressions of the laws of chivalry for all their mishaps;
+for he imagined that, had he abstained from laying hands
+on the rabble and base folk, these would not have occurred.
+His being unable to get out of the saddle and climb over
+the wall, he ascribed to enchantment as well. Sancho
+thought this might be the moment for reforming his master.
+He suggested that it was harvest time at home; and reminded
+the knight of the fact that of all his battles he had
+come out victorious but once, when he fought with the Biscayan,
+and then with half of his ear lost, not to speak of
+all the damage done to his armor.</p>
+
+<p>But Don Quixote was in no mood to contemplate past
+disasters, for in the distance he suddenly perceived rising
+clouds of dust, and what could it be but two opposing
+armies making ready for battle; since the clouds were seen
+on either side of the road! He made Sancho believe they
+were the great armies of the mighty emperor Alifanfaron
+and his enemy, the king of the Garamantas, Pentapolin of
+the Bare Arm, explaining&mdash;on seeing a bare-armed shepherd&mdash;that
+this lord always went into battle in this manner.
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_56" id="Page_56">[Pg&nbsp;56]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>Sancho Panza asked what they should do. His master
+replied that their duty was clear: they should, of course,
+help the weak and needy. Then he went on to explain
+that the reason for the feud was the pagan Alifanfaron's
+wish to marry the beautiful and Christian daughter of Pentapolin,
+and her father's refusal to sanction the marriage unless
+the emperor became a convert. Immediately Sancho's
+instinct for righteousness made him declare himself for
+Pentapolin, and he wanted to fight for him. This spirit
+pleased Don Quixote tremendously, for, he said, it was not
+required of dubbed knights to engage in feuds of this sort;
+thus Sancho would have a chance to distinguish himself
+all alone.</p>
+
+<p>Scratching his head, Sancho now began to worry about
+his faithful donkey, for he believed it was not good taste
+to go into battle mounted on an ass, and if he dismounted,
+he was afraid his Dapple would be lost in the ensuing tumult.
+Don Quixote, however, calmed his fears. There
+would be hundreds of riderless horses after the battle, from
+which both of them might choose; and he asked Sancho to
+follow him to a hill nearby that he might point out to his
+valiant squire the great and illustrious knights of the two
+armies. He cried out name after name, the last one always
+more illustrious than the previous one. But Sancho could
+see nothing but the two flocks of sheep and the shepherds,
+and he said so.</p>
+
+<p>"How can you say that!" cried Don Quixote. "Do you
+not hear the neighing of the steeds, the braying of the trumpets,
+the roll of the drums?"</p>
+
+<p>Sancho answered in despair that he could hear nothing
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_57" id="Page_57">[Pg&nbsp;57]</a></span>
+but the bleating of ewes and sheep. To this his master
+explained that often fear deranged the senses and made
+things appear different from what they were. Therefore,
+being certain that Sancho had suddenly become possessed
+of fear, he put the spurs in Rocinante and charged down the
+hill like a flash of lightning, determined to down the pagan
+emperor.</p>
+
+<p>Lifting his lance, he galloped into the midst of the sheep,
+and commenced spearing right and left. The shepherds,
+panic-stricken, used their slings. Stones hit his head and
+body, but it was not until a large one struck him in the ribs
+that he imagined himself really wounded. He stopped in
+the midst of the furious battle, and suddenly remembering
+his flask of balsam, drew it out, put it to
+his mouth, and was about to swallow a quantity of
+it when there came a stone that took the flask out of his
+hand, and another one that smashed out three or four
+of his teeth. Don Quixote was so astonished and the force
+of the blow was so sudden that he lost his reins and fell
+backwards off his horse. When the shepherds came up and
+saw what they had done to him, they quickly gathered their
+flocks and hastened away, taking with them the seven sheep
+that Don Quixote killed with his spear.</p>
+
+<p>During this rampage, Sancho Panza was nearly beside
+himself where he stood on the hill. He was tearing his
+hair and beard, wishing he had never laid eyes on his
+master, and berating himself for ever having joined in his
+mad adventures. When the shepherds had disappeared,
+he ran to his master's side.</p>
+
+<p>"Did I not tell your worship," he reproached the prostrate
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_58" id="Page_58">[Pg&nbsp;58]</a></span>
+knight, "that they were not armies, but droves of sheep!"</p>
+
+<p>But again our hero blamed his misfortune on his arch-enemy,
+that cursed Sage Friston, who had falsified the
+armies in such a way that they looked like meek and harmless
+sheep. Then he begged his squire to pursue the enemy
+by stealth that he might ascertain for himself that what he
+had said was true; for he was sure that ere they had gone
+very far they would resume their original shape.</p>
+
+<p>However, before Sancho Panza had time to make up his
+mind whether to go or not, his master's sip of the balsam
+during the battle suddenly began to take effect, and Sancho's
+presence became for the moment a necessity. Having
+gone through this ordeal, Don Quixote rose and asked
+his squire for a remedy for hunger. It was then they discovered
+that the <i>alforjas</i> had disappeared, with all its precious
+contents. Both were dejected. Don Quixote tried
+to impart, out of the abundance of his optimism for the future,
+new hope to the discouraged Sancho. It was a difficult
+task, and he might have failed, had not the loss of his
+teeth and the sorry plight he was in made Sancho sway from
+his intentions of home-going. When, at his master's request,
+the squire put his finger in Don Quixote's mouth in
+order to learn the extent of the damage done in that region
+of his body, his heart was touched by the terrible devastation
+there. He could not, of course, leave his master to
+shift for himself on the highways in such a condition. So
+he consented to remain, and they proceeded along the road,
+hoping that they would soon come to a place where they
+could find shelter for the night, as well as something with
+which to still their hunger.
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_59" id="Page_59">[Pg&nbsp;59]</a></span></p>
+
+<hr class="hr1" />
+<h2><a name="v1CHAPTERXIX" id="v1CHAPTERXIX"></a>CHAPTER XIX</h2>
+
+<h4>Of the Shrewd Discourse Which Sancho Held with His
+Master, and of the Adventure That Befell Him
+with a Dead Body, Together with Other
+Notable Occurrences</h4>
+
+<p class="cap">NIGHT had fallen, yet they had discovered no place
+of refuge. Suddenly, in the darkness, they saw a
+number of lights that came closer and closer without their
+being able to make out what it was. Sancho commenced
+to shake like a leaf, and even Don Quixote was frightened
+and muttered a paternoster between his teeth while his
+hair stood on end. They withdrew to the roadside, from
+where they soon distinguished twenty bodies on horseback,
+all dressed in white shirts, and carrying lighted torches in
+their hands. With chattering teeth Sancho stared at this
+awe-inspiring procession, which was not yet at an end, for
+behind the mounted bodies there came others, these in black
+and on mule&mdash;back, and surrounding a bier, covered with a
+large black cloth. All the while a quiet, solemn mumbling
+came from the moving figures, and Sancho Panza was now
+so stricken with fear that he was almost paralyzed.</p>
+
+<p>Don Quixote's courage&mdash;which likewise had been rather
+shaky at this passing of ghostlike beings, at such a time of
+the night&mdash;suddenly revived and mounted to such heights
+that he decided he would ask where they were carrying the
+wounded king on the bier. This he did without delay.
+But such a question seemed silly and out of place to one
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_60" id="Page_60">[Pg&nbsp;60]</a></span>
+of the guardians of the corpse, and he commanded the
+knight to move on. This angered Don Quixote beyond
+measure. He seized the man's mule by the bridle; but this,
+in turn, annoyed the mule, which rose on its hind legs and
+flung its rider to the ground. Another man came up to
+Don Quixote and tried to talk reason to him, but to no
+avail, and in the disturbance that followed the procession
+was soon scattered over the fields and plains, with torches
+glimmering from all points like so many eyes in the black
+night.</p>
+
+<p>While our knight errant was lunging with his spear in
+all directions, the meek followers of the dead body became
+ensnared in their skirts and gowns and long white shirts,
+and fell head over heels wherever they happened to be, in
+ditch or field. Moans, groans, and prayers were intermingled,
+and they all were convinced that the procession
+had been interrupted by the devil himself, come to
+carry away the body of the dead man.</p>
+
+<p>When the battle had ceased, Don Quixote approached
+the man who was flung by his mule, to make him his prisoner.
+The poor man declared that Don Quixote had made
+a grave mistake; that the dead man was not a king and had
+not fallen in battle, but a gentleman who had died from
+fever; and he himself was a poor servant of the Holy
+Church who could harm no one. On hearing this confession
+Don Quixote made a slight apology for having mistaken
+him in the dark for something evil, if not for the very
+devil, explaining that since it was his sworn duty to
+right all wrongs, he had only set out to do so. But the
+worthy ecclesiastic was not easily appeased, and before
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_61" id="Page_61">[Pg&nbsp;61]</a></span>
+making his departure, he unceremoniously excommunicated
+his attacker in flowing and flourishing Latin.</p>
+
+<p>Sancho, moved by a desire to alleviate the sting of the
+outburst, called out after him: "If the gentleman should
+wish to know who was the hero who served them thus,
+your worship may tell them he is the famous Don Quixote
+of La Mancha, otherwise called the Knight of the Rueful
+Countenance."</p>
+
+<p>Don Quixote asked his squire why he called him thus;
+and Sancho replied that the loss of his teeth had given
+his master a face so sorry looking that he could find no
+milder name to describe its ugliness. Don Quixote
+laughed at the compliment; nevertheless he decided to
+adopt Sancho's meaning name, and also to have his own
+rueful face commemorated on his shield at the first opportunity.</p>
+
+<p>After this conversation Sancho persuaded his master
+to continue their journey; although Don Quixote was eager
+to view the bones of the deceased man, and Sancho had
+some difficulty in preventing him from doing so.</p>
+
+<p>Sancho had made his coat into a sack and filled it with
+the provisions of the clergy; and so, when they arrived in
+a valley where they found an abundance of grass, they ate
+all the meals they had been missing. Their repast would
+have been complete had they had some wine; but they did
+not have even water.
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_62" id="Page_62">[Pg&nbsp;62]</a></span></p>
+
+<hr class="hr1" />
+<h2><a name="v1CHAPTERXX" id="v1CHAPTERXX"></a>CHAPTER XX</h2>
+
+<h4>Of the Unexampled and Unheard-of Adventure Which
+Was Achieved by the Valiant Don Quixote of
+La Mancha with Less Peril Than Any
+Ever Achieved by Any Famous Knight
+in the World</h4>
+
+<p class="cap">SANCHO'S thirst drove him to use his instincts in
+search for drink. He judged by the rank grass that
+there must be water nearby. So, leading their mounts,
+Don Quixote and Sancho came in the darkness to a
+meadow, and they had gone only a short distance when they
+heard the welcome sound of falling water. Then suddenly
+a most tremendous, ear-splitting noise came out of the
+darkness, a din like the beating of gigantic hammers, and
+added to this a shifting wind. All these furious sounds,
+the mystery of them, and the blackness of the night, might
+have intimidated any heart, however stout; but it only
+made Don Quixote leap like a flash upon his horse. Turning
+to Sancho, he cried: "I am he who is to revive
+the Knights of the Round Table, the Twelve of France,
+and the Nine Worthies; he who is to consign to oblivion
+the whole herd of famous knights errant of days gone by; he
+for whom all great perils and mighty deeds are reserved.
+Therefore, tighten Rocinante's girth a little, and God be
+with thee! Wait for me three days and no more. If in
+that time I come not back, thou canst return to our village,
+and thence thou wilt go to El Toboso, where thou shalt
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_63" id="Page_63">[Pg&nbsp;63]</a></span>
+say to my incomparable Lady Dulcinea that her captive
+knight hath died in attempting things that might make
+him worthy of being called her own."</p>
+
+<p>These words made Sancho weep copious tears, and he
+begged his master not to undertake so dreadful an adventure.
+He even offered to sacrifice himself to such an extent
+as to go without water for three days, if his master
+would only return. When Don Quixote was firm in his
+resolve, Sancho decided that this was a case where the ends
+justified the means; therefore while tightening Rocinante's
+girth, he tied the horse's forelegs, so that when Don Quixote
+was going to ride off, his charger could move only by fits
+and starts. The more his rider spurred him, the more impossible
+it became for Rocinante to stir. Sancho had no
+great difficulty in persuading his master that this was a
+sign from above that he ought not to pursue any phantom
+adventure at that hour of the night, but wait until daybreak.
+Don Quixote resigned himself to do so, although
+it nearly made him weep, while Sancho tried to soothe his
+outraged feelings by telling amusing stories in a laborious
+way.</p>
+
+<p>At daybreak Sancho stole over to Rocinante and untied
+his legs. The horse immediately became spirited, and
+when Don Quixote saw this, he believed it a sign from
+heaven. Again he took a touching leave of his squire&mdash;who
+began to cry, as he had done before&mdash;and gave the
+spur to his steed. Sancho was resolved to follow his
+master to the end, so he took his donkey by the halter,
+as was his custom, and led him on foot in pursuit of his
+knight errant.
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_64" id="Page_64">[Pg&nbsp;64]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>They passed through a meadow that was fringed with
+trees, then came upon some huge rocks with cascades of
+water pouring over them. Below stood a row of dilapidated
+houses. It was from these houses that the din and
+noise emanated. As Rocinante came close to the racket,
+he began to make hysterical movements, pirouetting backward
+and forward, and Don Quixote crossed himself, commending
+himself to God and his Lady Dulcinea.</p>
+
+<p>Coming up cautiously from behind the houses, Don
+Quixote peered around the corner, and there beheld the
+cause of the awe-inspiring din&mdash;six hammers of the kind
+that were used in mills.</p>
+
+<p>Sancho could not help himself. He burst into uncontrollable
+laughter, shaking from head to foot. Don Quixote
+was mortified with shame and astonishment. And
+when he heard Sancho's laughter behind him, he broke into
+a rage, during which he repeated almost every word he had
+spoken the night before, when he was about to ride away
+to adventure on a three-legged horse. But Sancho was
+helpless. Four distinct times he broke into a fit of mirth,
+and finally his master struck him a blow on the body with
+his spear. Then he calmed down, and Don Quixote
+scolded him for his hilarity, saying that no such familiarity
+would be tolerated in the future. He quoted various
+chapters from books of chivalry, and cited Gandalin, squire
+to Amadis of Gaul. There, he said, was a model squire,
+for he would always address his lord with cap in hand,
+his head bowed down and his body bent double. And
+there were many others to look to. He mentioned a few,
+the most shining examples. Then he decreed that from that
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_65" id="Page_65">[Pg&nbsp;65]</a></span>
+day on respect must be the barrier between squire and
+knight in all their intercourse. He spoke also about his
+squire's wages and the treasures and islands that were to
+be his in time to come. He told Sancho not to worry, for
+if he should not pay him his wages, he had at any rate
+mentioned him in his will. From the first he had considered
+everything; he knew the world, and what a hazardous
+task he had set before himself.</p>
+
+<hr class="hr1" />
+<h2><a name="v1CHAPTERXXI" id="v1CHAPTERXXI"></a>CHAPTER XXI</h2>
+
+<h4>Which Treats of the Exalted Adventure and Rich
+Prize of Mambrino's Helmet, Together with Other
+Things That Happened to Our Invincible
+Knight</h4>
+
+<p class="cap">IT started to rain, and Sancho suggested the fulling-mills
+as a place of refuge; but Don Quixote had taken
+such an aversion to them that he would not listen to it,
+and they continued riding, taking the roadway.</p>
+
+<p>Suddenly they saw a man on horseback, who had on his
+head something that shone like gold, and at once Don
+Quixote exclaimed: "There comes towards us one who
+wears on his head the helmet of Mambrino, concerning
+which I took the oath thou rememberest."</p>
+
+<p>Sancho's only reply to this was that he did not want anything
+more to do with any fulling-mills; and his master
+entirely failed to fathom the connection. Sancho then
+said he could plainly see that the man's horse was an ass
+and that the man had something on his head that shone.
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_66" id="Page_66">[Pg&nbsp;66]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>The truth of the matter was that in the neighborhood
+were two villages so small that the apothecary and barbershop
+in one of them had to serve for both. The village
+barber had just been summoned to shave and bleed a
+patient in the adjoining community, so he mounted his
+ass, armed with a brass basin for the bleeding, and set off.
+He had got about half-way, when it commenced to rain.
+Having a new hat, he covered it with the clean basin,
+that glittered like gold.</p>
+
+<p>But Don Quixote had more sense than his squire, of
+course, and pursued the unknown knight with the helmet
+at Rocinante's wildest gallop. When the fear-stricken
+barber realized that Don Quixote's uplifted spear was
+aimed at him, he promptly threw himself from his ass and
+ran all the way home without stopping, leaving his brass
+basin behind as a trophy for our hero, who could not
+understand why this helmet had no visor.</p>
+
+<p>"That pagan must have had a very large head," remarked
+Don Quixote, turning the basin round and round,
+trying to fit it to his own head, now this way, now that.</p>
+
+<p>"It looks exactly like a barber's basin," said Sancho
+Panza, who had all he could do to keep from bursting into
+laughter.</p>
+
+<p>Don Quixote treated this blasphemous thought with
+scorn, and said he would stop at the next smithy to have
+its shape changed. His next concern was his stomach;
+and when they found that the barber's ass carried ample
+supplies, they soon satisfied their appetites. Sancho now
+turned the conversation to the rest of the spoils of war;
+but Don Quixote was unable to make up his mind that
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_67" id="Page_67">[Pg&nbsp;67]</a></span>
+it was chivalrous to exchange a bad ass for a good one, as
+was his squire's wish; so Sancho had to satisfy himself with
+the barber's trappings.</p>
+
+<p>Then they set out again. Soon Sancho felt the need of
+unburdening something he had had on his heart for some
+time. He suggested that instead of roaming about seeking
+adventures which no one ever witnessed and which
+therefore remained unsung and unheralded, they go and
+serve some great emperor engaged in war, so that their
+achievements and valor might go down to posterity.
+This struck a resonant chord in his master's heart. In
+fact, he went into raptures over it, and commenced to rant
+about all the great honors the future had in store for the
+Knight of the Rueful Countenance. He cunningly surmised
+that their first task would be to find a king who had
+an uncommonly beautiful daughter, for of course he had to
+marry a princess first of all. The plan excited him to such
+an extent that for a moment he forgot about the existence
+of his Dulcinea. The only thing that worried him was
+his royal lineage; he could not think of any emperor or
+king whose second cousin he might be. Yet he decided
+not to trouble too much about that; for were there not two
+kinds of lineages in the world? And Love always worked
+wonders: it had since the beginning of time. What would
+the princess care, if he <i>were</i> a water-carrier's son? And
+if his future father-in-law should object, all he would have
+to do would be to carry her off by force.</p>
+
+<p>As Don Quixote went on picturing himself in the most
+romantic r�les in the history of this as yet unknown kingdom,
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_68" id="Page_68">[Pg&nbsp;68]</a></span>
+Sancho began to think it was time for him to be considered
+as well, when it came to bestowals of honor. Once
+he had been beadle of a brotherhood, and he had looked so
+well in a beadle's gown, he said, that he was afraid his
+wife would burst with pride when she saw him in a duke's
+robe, with gold and lace and precious stones. Don Quixote
+thought so, too, but admonished him that he would
+have to shave his beard oftener, as it was most unkempt.
+Sancho replied that would be an easy matter, for he would
+have a barber of his own, as well as an equerry; he knew
+that all men of fame kept such a man, for once in Madrid
+he had seen a gentleman followed by a man on horseback as
+if he had been his tail. He inquired why the gentleman
+was being followed in that manner and learned it was his
+equerry. Don Quixote thought Sancho's idea to have a
+barber was an excellent one, and Sancho urged his master
+to make haste and find him his island, that he might roll in
+his glory as a count or a duke.</p>
+
+<hr class="hr1" />
+<h2><a name="v1CHAPTERXXII" id="v1CHAPTERXXII"></a>CHAPTER XXII</h2>
+
+<h4>Of the Freedom Don Quixote Conferred on Several
+Unfortunates Who Against Their Will
+Were Being Carried Where They
+Had No Wish to Go</h4>
+
+<p class="cap">HARDLY had they finished their conversation, when
+a gang of convicts came along on the road, guarded
+by two men on horseback and two on foot.</p>
+
+<p>"Galley-slaves," remarked Sancho Panza laconically.</p>
+
+<p>"If they are going against their own free will, it is a case
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_69" id="Page_69">[Pg&nbsp;69]</a></span>
+for the exercise of my office," answered Don Quixote.</p>
+
+<p>He approached their custodians and asked to know what
+crimes these men had committed against his majesty the
+King. They answered it was not his business.</p>
+
+<p>"Nevertheless, I should like to know," insisted Don
+Quixote, and he used such choice and magic language
+that one of the guards was induced to give him permission
+to ask each one of the men about his crime and sentence.</p>
+
+<p>Don Quixote had questioned every one but the twelfth,
+and when he came to him he found that he was chained in
+a way different from the rest. This prisoner was a man of
+thirty, and crossed-eyed. His body was weighted down
+by very large irons and especially heavy chains, his hands
+were padlocked and so secured he could not raise them.
+Don Quixote asked why he was thus overburdened, and
+got the reply that he had committed more crimes than all
+the rest together. The guard then told the knight that
+the man had written a story of his unfinished life, and
+that he was no other than the famous Gines de Pasamonte.
+The culprit strongly objected to hearing his identity mentioned,
+and there ensued a furious battle of words between
+him and the guard. The latter lost his temper and was
+about to strike the slave a blow, when Don Quixote interfered,
+and pleaded for more kindly treatment. It seemed
+only fair to him that they, with their hands tied, might be
+permitted a free tongue. He grew fiery in his defense of
+them, reminded the guard that there was a God in heaven
+who would punish all sinners. He ended by requesting
+their immediate release.
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_70" id="Page_70">[Pg&nbsp;70]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>This demand seemed worse than absurd to the guard,
+who wished him godspeed on his journey, advised him to
+put the basin straight on his head, and told him not to go
+looking for trouble. This was too much for our knight.
+He set upon his jesting adversary with such speed and suddenness
+that the musket fell out of the guard's hand. And
+the other guards were so taken aback at what was going on,
+and there was such confusion, that they did not notice
+Sancho untying the arch-criminal Gines. They suddenly
+saw him free, and with him the rest of the slaves, who had
+broken the chain; whereupon the guards fled in all directions
+as fast as their legs could carry them.</p>
+
+<p>When the fray was over, Don Quixote asked the galley-slaves
+to gather around him, and to show him reverence
+for the deed he had done. He further demanded that
+they, armed with their chains, proceed in a body, to El
+Toboso to pay their respects to the fair Dulcinea. Gines
+attempted to explain the necessity of each one hiding himself,
+separately, in order to escape the pursuers, and offered
+to send up prayers for her instead; but Don Quixote would
+not listen to any argument. At last Gines decided he
+was quite mad, and when Don Quixote started to abuse
+him, he lost his temper, and they all attacked the knight
+with a rain of stones, until Rocinante and he both fell to
+the ground. There they belabored him savagely. Sancho
+had taken refuge behind his donkey, but the convicts
+found him, stripped him of his jacket, and left him shivering
+in the cold.</p>
+
+<p>While Don Quixote lay there, fearing the vengeance
+of the law and the Holy Brotherhood for what he had
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_71" id="Page_71">[Pg&nbsp;71]</a></span>
+done, he was also reviewing in rage the ingratitude of mankind
+and the perversity of the iron age.</p>
+
+<hr class="hr1" />
+<h2><a name="v1CHAPTERXXIII" id="v1CHAPTERXXIII"></a>CHAPTER XXIII</h2>
+
+<h4>Of What Befell Don Quixote in the Sierra Morena,
+Which Is One of the Rarest Adventures
+Related in This Veracious History</h4>
+
+<p class="cap">SANCHO at last convinced his master that they had
+best hide in the Sierra Morena mountains for a few
+days, in case a search should be made for them; and Don
+Quixote was pleased to find that the provisions carried by
+Sancho's ass had not disappeared. When night fell they
+took refuge under some cork-trees between two rocks.
+Fate would have it that to this very place should come
+that night the convict Gines. While Sancho was slumbering
+peacefully, Gines stole his ass; and by daybreak the
+thief was already far away. Don Quixote, awakened by
+sorrowful wailing, in order to console his squire, promised
+him three of his ass-colts at home in exchange. Then
+Sancho's tears stopped. But he now had to travel on foot
+behind his master, and he tried to keep up his humor by
+munching the provisions it had become his lot to carry.</p>
+
+<p>Suddenly he observed that his master had halted, and
+was poking with his lance into some object lying on the
+road. He quickly ran up to him and found an old saddle-pad
+with a torn knapsack tied to it. Sancho opened it
+covetously and came upon four shirts of excellent material,
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_72" id="Page_72">[Pg&nbsp;72]</a></span>
+articles of linen, nearly a hundred gold crowns in a handkerchief,
+and a richly bound little memorandum book.
+The little volume was all that Don Quixote kept for himself.
+Brimful of curiosity, he read it through and learned
+that it contained the bemoanings of a rejected lover.</p>
+
+<p>Meantime Sancho Panza's great discovery of the gold
+coins had entirely banished from his memory all the suffering
+and pain and humiliation he had had to go through
+since he had became a squire. But Don Quixote was anxious
+to find out something about the owner of the knapsack,
+for he was convinced there was some very strange
+adventure connected with his disappearance. And as he
+was planning what to do, he perceived on the summit of a
+great height, a man, half-naked, jumping with remarkable
+swiftness and agility from rock to rock.</p>
+
+<p>Don Quixote saw no way of getting there, so he stood
+for some time pondering what to do. Then he saw above
+him on the mountainside a flock of goats, tended by an
+elderly goatherd. Calling to him, the knight asked him to
+come down, and the old man descended, amazed at seeing
+human beings there. Don Quixote immediately began to
+ask about the strange half-naked man he had seen, and the
+goatherd told what he knew of him and the mystery of the
+knapsack.</p>
+
+<p>The stranger, he said, was a youth of good looks and no
+doubt of high birth, who had lost his wits because of the
+faithlessness of a friend. His behavior was such that they
+had never seen the like of it. In fits of madness he would
+approach people, snatch away food offered him out of their
+hands, and then run away with the speed of a deer. Then
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_73" id="Page_73">[Pg&nbsp;73]</a></span>
+again he would come begging for food, the tears flowing
+down his cheeks.</p>
+
+<p>Now, while they were standing there discussing the
+young man, chance would have it that he came along, and
+greeted them courteously. Don Quixote returned his
+greeting with grand gestures, descended from Rocinante's
+tired back, and advanced to the youth with open arms.
+He held him in his embrace for some time, as if he had
+known him forever. Finally the youth tore away and,
+placing his hands on the shoulders of the Knight of the
+Rueful Countenance, the youth, who might be called the
+Ragged One of the Sorry Countenance, looked into his
+eyes and spoke to him.</p>
+
+<hr class="hr1" />
+<h2><a name="v1CHAPTERXXIV" id="v1CHAPTERXXIV"></a>CHAPTER XXIV</h2>
+
+<h4>In Which Is Continued the Adventure of the Sierra
+Morena</h4>
+
+<p class="cap">THE Ragged One thanked Don Quixote for being so
+kind and courteous; and Don Quixote replied that
+his duty to the world consisted in giving succor to those in
+despair and need. He implored the youth to tell him the
+name of the one who had caused his misfortune, that he
+might revenge him. The Ragged One stared at him
+strangely and said: "If you will give me to eat, I will tell
+you my story."</p>
+
+<p>Sancho and the goatherd gave the youth something to
+appease his hunger; and he ate it ravenously. When he
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_74" id="Page_74">[Pg&nbsp;74]</a></span>
+had finished, he motioned to them to follow him, and they
+came to a spot where green grass grew and all stretched
+themselves on the ground in silence. Before he began
+his story, the youth warned them not to interrupt him, for
+then it would come to an end. Don Quixote promised
+solemnly for all of them.</p>
+
+<p>The youth told of his love for one Luscinda, and how
+his best friend, Don Fernando, son of a grandee of Spain,
+had stolen her love away from him; but suddenly he was
+interrupted by Don Quixote, and refused to continue.
+Whereupon Don Quixote nearly lost his senses&mdash;for his
+curiosity was aroused beyond words&mdash;and called the
+Ragged One a villain.</p>
+
+<p>The Ragged One broke into a violent fit when he heard
+himself called names and picked up a stone which he hurled
+against the knight errant's breast with such force that it
+placed him flat on his back. Seeing this, Sancho Panza
+flew at the madman; but the youth seemed to possess supernatural
+strength, for he felled Sancho to the ground with
+one single blow, and then jumped on his chest and buckled
+his ribs. Having also beaten the old goatherd, he went
+into the woods again.</p>
+
+<p>When Sancho had seen the last of him, he turned loose
+his rage on the poor old goatherd, whom he cursed for not
+having warned them that the youth might be taken with
+fits. Words led to blows; the two grabbed each other by
+their beards, and had it not been for Don Quixote, their fray
+might have had a sad ending. He calmed his squire by
+absolving the old man of all blame. Then he asked him&mdash;for
+he was still aching with curiosity to learn the end of
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_75" id="Page_75">[Pg&nbsp;75]</a></span>
+the story&mdash;whether he knew where he might find Cardenio
+(that being the youth's name). The goatherd answered
+that if he remained in the neighborhood long enough he
+could not help meeting him; but as to his mood, he could not
+answer for that.</p>
+
+<hr class="hr1" />
+<h2><a name="v1CHAPTERXXV" id="v1CHAPTERXXV"></a>CHAPTER XXV</h2>
+
+<h4>Which Treats of the Strange Things That Happened
+to the Stout Knight of La Mancha in the
+Sierra Morena</h4>
+
+<p class="cap">DON QUIXOTE and Sancho Panza now made their
+way into unknown regions of the mountains, Sancho
+trailing behind his master, on foot, silent, and in bad
+humor. Finally he requested his master's permission to
+say what was in his heart, and Don Quixote removed the
+ban under which his squire was suffering. Sancho asked
+for the knight's blessing and begged leave to return to his
+wife and home; but his master could not make up his mind
+until he hit upon a great inspiration, the carrying out of
+which made necessary his using Sancho as a messenger to
+his incomparable Dulcinea.</p>
+
+<p>Don Quixote, in short, had decided to go mad, in emulation
+of other bold knights, such as Roland and Amadis&mdash;a
+decision that extracted from Sancho Panza some muttered
+words to the effect that any one who could mistake
+a barber's basin for a gold helmet could not go much madder.
+And then Don Quixote explained to what sufferings,
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_76" id="Page_76">[Pg&nbsp;76]</a></span>
+sorrow, penance, and folly he would subject himself; and
+quite unintentionally he revealed to Sancho the real identity
+of his famous Lady Dulcinea, whom Sancho had always
+thought a princess. Now the good squire learned to his
+dismay that the famous Dulcinea was no other than Lorenzo
+Corchuelo's daughter, Aldonza Lorenzo, a lady with manners
+like a man, and a man's ability to handle a crowbar
+easily.</p>
+
+<p>When Don Quixote had determined upon his penance in
+the wilderness, all for the sake of Dulcinea, he thought
+it would be a good idea to make known to her the sacrifices
+and sufferings he was about to undergo for her sake.
+Therefore he granted his squire the requested permission
+to return to his family, and bade him speed homeward on
+Rocinante, so that he himself, horseless, might undergo an
+even greater penance. He sent a letter by Sancho to his
+fair one, relating to her the pain of his wounded heart; a
+pain enhanced by self-inflicted absence and to be ended
+only by death, to satisfy her cruelty.</p>
+
+<p>Sancho's covetousness did not permit his master to forget
+the three promised ass-colts; so Don Quixote wrote an
+order to his niece in the notebook of the ill-starred Cardenio.</p>
+
+<p>Before they parted, Don Quixote asked Sancho to stay
+and see some of the insanities he meant to perform in his
+absence. He then stripped to the skin and went through
+some remarkable capers before his squire. This exhibition
+nearly brought tears to Sancho's eyes, and he besought
+him to stop. And when he expressed a fear that he would
+not be able to find his way back, Don Quixote assured him
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_77" id="Page_77">[Pg&nbsp;77]</a></span>
+that he would remain in that very spot, or thereabouts,
+until the squire returned from El Toboso; and he told him
+also to cut some branches and strew them in his path. Furthermore
+he said he would be on the lookout for him from
+the peak of the highest cliff.</p>
+
+<p>When Sancho finally took leave of his master, he felt that
+he could swear with unprotesting conscience that his beloved
+master was quite mad.</p>
+
+<hr class="hr1" />
+<h2><a name="v1CHAPTERXXVI" id="v1CHAPTERXXVI"></a>CHAPTER XXVI</h2>
+
+<h4>In Which Are Continued the Refinements Wherewith
+Don Quixote Played the Part of a Lover
+in the Sierra Morena</h4>
+
+<p class="cap">SOON after Sancho had gone, Don Quixote came to the
+conclusion that the exercises he was putting himself
+through were much too hard and troublesome. So he decided
+to change them, and instead of imitating Roland and
+his fury, he turned to the more melancholy Amadis, whose
+madness was of a much milder form and needed a less
+strenuous outlet. But to imitate Amadis, he had to have
+a rosary, and he had none. For a moment he was in a
+quandary; but a miracle gave him the inspiration to use
+the tail of his shirt&mdash;which was too long anyhow&mdash;and tearing
+off a long piece, on which he made eleven knots, he repeated
+quantities of credos and ave-marias on it, there in
+the wilderness. His love would at times drive him to
+write verses to his cruel and beloved one on the bark of
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_78" id="Page_78">[Pg&nbsp;78]</a></span>
+the trees, all the while he would make moaning sounds
+of lovesickness. Again he would go about sighing, singing,
+calling to the nymphs and fauns and satyrs, and, of
+course, looking for herbs to nourish himself with.</p>
+
+<p>But while Don Quixote exiled himself in the wilds, his
+servant Sancho Panza was making for El Toboso. On the
+second day he found himself at the inn at which the incident
+of his blanket journey had taken place. The smell of food
+reminded him that it was dinner time; yet he hesitated
+about entering. As he was standing there, along came two
+men; and one of them was heard to say: "Is not that Sancho
+Panza?" "So it is," said the other one; and it turned out
+to be the curate and the barber of Don Quixote's own village.</p>
+
+<p>At once they approached him. They asked him about
+his master, but it was not until they had threatened to believe
+that he had robbed and murdered Don Quixote&mdash;for
+was he not mounted on Rocinante?&mdash;that he divulged the
+secret of his master's hiding-place. He told them of everything;
+even about his master's strange and unbounded love
+for the daughter of Lorenzo Corchuelo and the letter he
+had written to her. When the curate asked to see it, Sancho
+could not find it; and then he suddenly remembered
+that Don Quixote had given him neither the letter nor the
+order for the ass-colts. He turned pale and green, and
+beat his chest frantically, but it produced no miracle. The
+curate and the barber told him that the only thing to do
+was to find Don Quixote and get him to write them anew;
+and the thought of losing the ass-colts made Sancho only too
+anxious to return.
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_79" id="Page_79">[Pg&nbsp;79]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>When the squire had been comforted somewhat, he
+tried to recite Don Quixote's epistle of love; and his recital
+amused the two friends to such a degree that he had to
+repeat it thrice, each time adding new absurdities. Finally
+they invited him to come into the inn and eat, while they
+talked over the journey to their friend's wilderness paradise
+of penitence. Sancho was quick to refuse; but he gave
+no reason for so doing. He said he preferred to eat outside
+and asked that they bring him the food, and also some
+barley for Rocinante.</p>
+
+<p>While the barber was serving Sancho and Rocinante, the
+curate was developing a plan of strategy which was unanimously
+adopted by all concerned. It was arranged that
+the curate should invade the region of knightly penitence,
+dressed as an innocent-looking maiden with a masked
+countenance; while his friend the barber should appear on
+the scene behaving like a squire. The bogus maiden
+should be in great distress and ask for protection, when
+Don Quixote, valiant knight that he was, would be sure to
+give it. She would then beg him to shield her on her journey,
+and, as a favor, to ask her no questions regarding her
+identity, until she was safely at home. Once they had
+him there, they would try to find a cure for his strange
+madness.
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_80" id="Page_80">[Pg&nbsp;80]</a></span></p>
+
+<hr class="hr1" />
+<h2><a name="v1CHAPTERXXVII" id="v1CHAPTERXXVII"></a>CHAPTER XXVII</h2>
+
+<h4>Of How the Curate and the Barber Proceeded with
+Their Scheme; Together with Matters Worthy
+of Record in This Great History</h4>
+
+<p class="cap">THE curate proceeded to borrow the needed dress
+from the landlady, whose curiosity he satisfied by
+explaining Don Quixote's madness and their mission in
+the mountains. The landlady recognized Don Quixote
+by the description the curate gave, and willingly furnished
+the clothes, and an ox-tail out of which the barber made
+himself a beard. As security for these things the curate
+left behind a brand-new cassock.</p>
+
+<p>When the curate's transfiguration was completed, however,
+his conscience began to trouble him; so it was agreed
+that he and the barber were to change r�les. The curate
+shed his female attire, and the barber decided not to don
+it until they approached the mountainside. Meanwhile
+Sancho was instructed as to how to act and what to say,
+when he saw his master.</p>
+
+<p>The day after they set out, they came to the place where
+Sancho's branches were strewn. The curate thought it
+best that they send Sancho ahead to take to his master
+Lady Dulcinea's reply; this was agreed to, and Sancho left.</p>
+
+<p>While the two conspirators were resting in the shade of
+some trees they were suddenly startled by hearing a man
+singing in the distance. It was clearly a voice trained in
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_81" id="Page_81">[Pg&nbsp;81]</a></span>
+the art of singing, and the verses he sang were not of rustic
+origin. Soon they perceived the singer, and it was no
+other than Cardenio, the Ragged One. Now he was untouched
+by madness, for he spoke quite sanely, telling them
+of his woeful misfortune, the memory of which, he said,
+would sometimes overpower and strangle his senses. The
+curate and the barber were both eager to know the story
+of the comely youth's life, and he then told them of the
+faithlessness of his friend. This time he was not interrupted,
+and he finished his story, which was one of a great
+love as much as one of misfortune. He had just reached
+the end, when from no great distance came the sound of
+a lamenting voice.</p>
+
+<hr class="hr1" />
+<h2><a name="v1CHAPTERXXVIII" id="v1CHAPTERXXVIII"></a>CHAPTER XXVIII</h2>
+
+<h4>Which Treats of the Strange and Delightful Adventures
+That Befell the Curate and the Barber
+in the Same Sierra</h4>
+
+<p class="cap">WHEN Cardenio and the curate and the barber looked
+about they discovered a youth with exquisite, delicate
+features bathing his feet in the brook below them.
+His garb was that of a peasant lad; on his head he had a
+<i>montera</i>. Having finished bathing, he took from under
+the <i>montera</i> a cloth with which he dried his feet. In removing
+the cap there fell from under it a mass of auburn
+hair, and all were amazed to find that instead of a youth,
+it was a most lovely maiden. In their astonishment either
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_82" id="Page_82">[Pg&nbsp;82]</a></span>
+the curate or the barber uttered a cry; and frightened at
+the sight of them, the girl took to flight, but soon stumbled
+and fell.</p>
+
+<p>The curate was the first one to reach her. He spoke
+some kind words and told her that they were there to help
+her, to fulfill any wish she might express. And he begged
+her to cast away any pretence, for he was certain that she
+was there because of some misery that had befallen her.</p>
+
+<p>At first the maiden seemed bewildered, but after a while
+she showed that the curate had gained her confidence, and
+she spoke to him in a beautiful, melancholy voice. She
+seated herself on a stone, while the three gathered around
+her, and confided to them with tears in her eyes the reasons
+for her being there. She told them of a certain grandee
+of Spain, living in Andalusia, of whom her father, lowly in
+birth but rich in fortune, was a vassal. This grandee had
+two sons. She had been betrothed to the younger one of
+these, Don Fernando, and he had jilted her in favor of a
+lady of noble birth, whose name was Luscinda.</p>
+
+<p>When Cardenio heard his own lady's name, he bit his
+lips and tears came to his eyes. Dorothea&mdash;for that was
+the maiden's name&mdash;wondered at such interest and such
+emotion, but she continued her story. She told of how,
+upon Don Fernando's marriage to lady Luscinda, she had
+fled in despair from house and home. A herdsman in the
+heart of the Sierra had given her employment as a servant;
+but when he had discovered that she was a woman, she was
+forced to leave. While she was bemoaning her evil fate,
+and praying to God in the woods, she had cut her feet on
+the stones; and she was bathing them in the brook when she
+encountered the present gathering.
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_83" id="Page_83">[Pg&nbsp;83]</a></span></p>
+
+<hr class="hr1" />
+<h2><a name="v1CHAPTERXXIX" id="v1CHAPTERXXIX"></a>CHAPTER XXIX</h2>
+
+<h4>Which Treats of the Droll Device and Method Adopted
+to Extricate Our Love-Stricken Knight
+from the Severe Penance He Had
+Imposed Upon Himself</h4>
+
+<p class="cap">DOROTHEA had told her story with great simplicity.
+When she had ended it, the curate arose to console
+her; but Cardenio was already at her side.</p>
+
+<p>"Are you not the daughter of the rich Clenardo?" he
+asked of her eagerly.</p>
+
+<p>She gazed at him in wonder, for she had not spoken her
+father's name. She asked the youth who he might be, and
+he told her that he was the Cardenio who had been wronged
+by Don Fernando, the faithless friend and faithless lover;
+and he swore then and there a holy oath that he should
+see her married to Don Fernando or the latter would perish
+by his, Cardenio's, sword. Dorothea was moved to tears by
+the youth's words and thanked him profusely. The curate
+then made the suggestion that both of them return with
+him and the barber to their village where they could make
+further plans as to what to do to set things aright. And
+Dorothea and Cardenio accepted this kind offer gratefully.</p>
+
+<p>Sancho was now seen arriving, and the curate told the
+youth and the maiden the reason for his being there. He
+explained to them the curious nature of Don Quixote's
+madness, and Cardenio mentioned to the curate his meeting
+with the knight.
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_84" id="Page_84">[Pg&nbsp;84]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>Sancho had found Don Quixote nearly dead with hunger,
+crying aloud for his Dulcinea; and when his squire entreated
+him in her name to return to El Toboso, he refused,
+declaring that his penitence was not yet complete; that he
+was not yet worthy of her favor. Sancho was quite
+worried lest he should lose his island and his titles and all
+the other honors he had expected, and the curate did his
+best to calm his fears. The good man then explained to
+Cardenio and Dorothea how they had planned to take Don
+Quixote back to his home by persuading him to go there
+on an adventure in aid of a distressed damsel.</p>
+
+<p>Dorothea at once offered to play the part of the damsel.
+Having read a good many books of chivalry, herself, she
+thought she could qualify in asking favors of our knight.
+She had brought with her a complete woman's dress, with
+lace and rich embroidery, and when Sancho Panza saw her
+in her new array, he asked, in astonishment, what great
+lady she might be. The curate replied that she was the
+ruler of the great kingdom of Micomicon, and after having
+been dethroned by an evil giant had come all the way from
+Guinea to seek the aid of Don Quixote. Immediately
+Sancho's hope for his titles and possessions was revived,
+for the thought of his master's fame having spread to such
+distant parts seemed most encouraging.</p>
+
+<p>While Sancho Panza was entertaining these visions,
+Dorothea mounted the curate's mule, and the barber decorated
+himself with the ox-tail for a beard. Sancho was
+told to lead the way, and the curate explained to him that
+the success of their mission depended on him. He was
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_85" id="Page_85">[Pg&nbsp;85]</a></span>
+warned that he must not give away the identity of the curate
+and the barber; if he did, the empire would be lost.
+And then they started out, leaving the curate and Cardenio
+behind, as that was thought best.</p>
+
+<p>They had gone almost a league when they saw Don
+Quixote on a rock, clothed, but wearing no armor. Dorothea
+was helped from her horse. She walked over to Don
+Quixote and knelt before him; and she told him the errand
+that had brought her there, saying that she would not rise
+until he had granted her the boon she was asking. While
+she was kneeling before him, Sancho Panza was anxiously
+whispering to Don Quixote bits of information about her
+and her kingdom, afraid that his master might refuse her;
+but, demented though he was, rank and riches mattered
+little to Don Quixote, for he drew his sword, he said, in
+defense of anything that was righteous, and the meek
+and downtrodden always found in him a ready and courteous
+defendant. When he learned from the Princess that
+a big giant had invaded her kingdom, he at once granted
+her the promise of his services. Dorothea wanted to kiss
+his hand as a proof of her gratitude; but Don Quixote
+would not permit her to do this, being ever a respectful
+and courteous knight. He commanded his squire to saddle
+his horse immediately, while he put on his armor, mounted,
+and was ready for the crusade.</p>
+
+<p>They set out, Sancho on foot, cheerfully grinning to himself
+at the covetous thought of all the possessions that
+would be his in a short time. Soon they passed the place
+where Cardenio and the curate were hiding. The curate
+had by this time conceived the idea of shearing Cardenio
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_86" id="Page_86">[Pg&nbsp;86]</a></span>
+of his beard that Don Quixote would be unable to recognize
+him; and he had furnished him with his own grey jerkin
+and a black cloak, so that he himself appeared in
+breeches and doublet only. Having effected the change,
+they took a short-cut through the woods and came out on
+the open road ahead of Don Quixote.</p>
+
+<p>As he approached them, the curate feigned astonishment
+beyond words at seeing his old friend; and Don Quixote
+was so surprised that he hardly recognized the curate.
+He courteously offered Rocinante to him, but the curate
+remonstrated and finally accepted the long-bearded squire's
+mule, inviting the squire to sit behind him. This arrangement
+did not please the mule, however, for he commenced
+to kick with his hind legs. Luckily the beast did not damage
+the barber, but the demonstration frightened him so
+that he turned a somersault in a ditch. In so doing, his
+beard came off, but he had enough presence of mind to cover
+his face at the same moment, crying that his teeth were
+knocked out. When Don Quixote saw the beard on the
+ground without any sign of flesh or blood, he was struck
+with amazement, and thought that the barber had been
+shaved by a miracle.</p>
+
+<p>The curate hastened breathlessly to the barber's side,
+and began to mumble incomprehensible words, while the
+barber was groaning on the ground in an uncomfortable
+position. When the barber finally rose, Don Quixote's
+eyes nearly fell out of their sockets, for he beheld the barber
+bearded again. He begged the curate to teach him the
+charm that could produce such a miracle, and the curate
+promised he would. Then they proceeded on the journey.</p>
+
+<p>The curate now began to wonder about the road (all this
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_87" id="Page_87">[Pg&nbsp;87]</a></span>
+was pre-arranged) and said that in order to go to the kingdom
+of Micomicon, they had to take the road to Cartagena,
+where they would embark on a ship. That, he said, would
+take them through his own village, and from there it was
+a journey of nine years to Micomicon. Here the Princess
+corrected him, saying that it had taken her only two years
+to make the journey here, in quest of the noble and famous
+knight who had now sworn to restore her kingdom to
+her.</p>
+
+<p>Don Quixote at this moment happened to observe the
+light attire of the curate, and was curious to know the reason
+for it. Whereupon the curate (having learned of the
+incident through Sancho) related how he and Master Nicholas,
+on their way to Seville, had been held up by a gang
+of liberated galley-slaves. These criminals, it was said,
+had been set free by a man on horseback, as brave as he was
+bold, for he had fought off all the guards, single-handed.
+The curate criticized this man heartlessly, called him a
+knave and a criminal for having set himself against law
+and order and his king, and expressed a belief that he could
+not have been in his right mind. The Holy Brotherhood,
+he said further, was searching for him now, and he himself
+was afraid that the man's soul would be lost. He finished
+his story by calling upon the Lord to pardon this unregenerate
+being who had taken away the galley-slaves from the
+punishment that had been meted out to them by justice.</p>
+
+<p>Don Quixote seemed to take the curate's sermon to heart,
+and bent his head humbly, not daring to admit that he was
+the culprit, and not knowing that the curate knew it.
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_88" id="Page_88">[Pg&nbsp;88]</a></span></p>
+
+<hr class="hr1" />
+<h2><a name="v1CHAPTERXXX" id="v1CHAPTERXXX"></a>CHAPTER XXX</h2>
+
+<h4>Which Treats of the Address Displayed by the Fair
+Dorothea, with Other Matters, Pleasant
+and Amusing</h4>
+
+<p class="cap">WHEN Sancho heard the harsh sermon of the curate,
+he, being a good Christian, became afraid that his
+own soul might be lost too; for was he not an accomplice?
+So he confessed then and there his own and his master's
+guilt, much to the shame and anger of Don Quixote. The
+Princess was quick to sense the danger, and she calmed
+our hero before his anger had risen to any great height,
+by reminding him of his promise, and how he had sworn
+to engage in no conflict of any kind until her kingdom had
+been saved. He answered her with infinite courtesy and
+expressed his regrets for having let his anger get the better
+of him; he would stand by his word. Then he asked her
+to tell him all that she could about herself and her kingdom.
+She would willingly do that, she said, and began
+her story.</p>
+
+<p>But she came very near ending it then and there, for
+she could not remember the name she had assumed.
+Luckily the curate&mdash;who had invented her long and difficult
+name&mdash;was there to prompt her, and the situation was
+saved. Having told Don Quixote that her name was
+Princess Micomicona, she continued her story, relating
+how she was left an orphan, how a certain giant and lord
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_89" id="Page_89">[Pg&nbsp;89]</a></span>
+of an island near her kingdom had asked for her hand in
+marriage and she had refused, how his forces had overrun
+her country and she had fled to Spain, where it had been
+predicted by a magician she would find a certain great
+knight errant by the name of Don Quixote, otherwise
+called the Knight of the Rueful Countenance, who would
+be recognized by a gray mole with hairs like bristles under
+the left shoulder.</p>
+
+<p>Immediately upon hearing this, Don Quixote wanted to
+strip, but Sancho assured them that he did have just such a
+mark. Dorothea said she was quite sure he must, for
+in other respects the description that the magician had
+given fitted him; and she hastened to relate to him how she
+had first heard of him on her landing at Osuna. But
+evidently the pretended Princess had not been as careful
+a student of geography as Don Quixote, who was quick
+to ask her: "But how did you land at Osuna, se�orita,
+when it is not a seaport?" Again the curate displayed
+proof of rare presence of mind, for he broke in: "The
+Princess meant to say that after having landed at Malaga,
+the first place where she heard of your worship was Osuna."
+And Dorothea immediately corroborated the curate's explanation
+with great self-assurance.</p>
+
+<p>However, she thought it best to end her story here, for
+fear of complications, and only added how happy she was
+to have found him so soon. She also pointed out, demurely
+enough, that it had been predicted if after having cut off
+the giant's head the knight should ask her to marry him,
+she would accept. But Don Quixote said he would be
+true to his Dulcinea; and this made Sancho exclaim with
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_90" id="Page_90">[Pg&nbsp;90]</a></span>
+dismay that he was out of his head, for Dulcinea could
+never come up to this fair princess.</p>
+
+<p>Sancho's remark angered his master so intensely that he
+knocked him to the ground with his spear; and if the Princess
+had not interfered the unfortunate squire might never
+again have been able to say his ave-marias or credos or,
+more to the point, have eaten another square meal. He
+was quick to cry out that he had meant no ill by what he
+said, and acting upon the suggestion of the Princess, he
+kissed his master's hand.</p>
+
+<p>At this moment a man, mounted on an ass, was seen on
+the road, and Sancho, no doubt feeling instinctively the
+proximity of his beloved animal, recognized in the man
+Gines de Pasamonte. Wildly shouting, he set out after
+the galley-slave, who threw himself off the ass at Sancho's
+first shout. Sancho, crying with joy, was so glad to have
+his faithful donkey returned to him that he did not pursue
+the thief. And Don Quixote himself was so pleased that
+he entirely forgot about his quarrel with Sancho. He
+called him to his side, and asked him to repeat everything
+his Dulcinea had told him, over and over again.</p>
+
+<hr class="hr1" />
+<h2><a name="v1CHAPTERXXXI" id="v1CHAPTERXXXI"></a>CHAPTER XXXI</h2>
+
+<h4>Of the Delectable Discussion Between Don Quixote
+and Sancho Panza, His Squire, Together
+with Other Incidents</h4>
+
+<p class="cap">DON QUIXOTE was anxious to know what jewel his
+fair one had bestowed on Sancho before the leave-taking.
+Sancho replied that the only jewel Dulcinea had
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_91" id="Page_91">[Pg&nbsp;91]</a></span>
+given him was some bread and cheese; whereupon Don
+Quixote remarked that no doubt she had had no jewels at
+hand. He expressed wonder at the speedy trip Sancho had
+made, to which Sancho replied that Rocinante had gone
+like lightning; and Don Quixote then was sure some
+friendly enchanter had carried him through the air.</p>
+
+<hr class="hr1" />
+<h2><a name="v1CHAPTERXXXII-XXXIV" id="v1CHAPTERXXXII-XXXIV"></a>CHAPTERS XXXII-XXXIV</h2>
+
+<h4>Which Treats of What Befell All Don Quixote's
+Party at the Inn</h4>
+
+<p class="cap">THE following day they reached the inn. The
+landlady at once wanted her ox-tail back, so it was
+decided that the barber should hereafter appear in his
+own true character, having supposedly arrived at the inn
+after the galley-slaves' hold-up.</p>
+
+<p>Don Quixote was tired, and was given a bed in the
+garret where he had slept once before. While the others
+were having dinner, the landlady was confidentially telling
+all who would listen of Don Quixote's absurdities
+during his previous visit, and also of Sancho Panza's being
+juggled in the blanket. And while the curate was discussing
+Don Quixote's madness, the innkeeper confided to
+him that he himself had a weakness for reading about
+deeds of the past, particularly stories of chivalry. Often,
+he said, he would read aloud from these books to his family
+and servants. He had just read a novel entitled "Ill-Advised
+Curiosity," which he had found very interesting.
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_92" id="Page_92">[Pg&nbsp;92]</a></span>
+He showed the manuscript of it to the curate, who seemed
+to think it might make very good reading and expressed
+a desire to copy it. Whereupon the innkeeper asked him
+whether he would not read it aloud to them; and as they
+were all eager to hear it, the curate commenced the reading
+of the manuscript.</p>
+
+<hr class="hr1" />
+<h2><a name="v1CHAPTERXXXV" id="v1CHAPTERXXXV"></a>CHAPTER XXXV</h2>
+
+<h4>Which Treats of the Heroic and Prodigious Battle
+Don Quixote Had with Certain Skins of
+Red Wine, and Brings the Novel of The
+"Ill-Advised Curiosity" to an End</h4>
+
+<p class="cap">THE curate had almost finished the reading of the
+novel, (which consumed all of the two chapters
+which are omitted here) when Sancho Panza burst into the
+room, excitedly shouting that his master was having the
+wildest battle he had ever seen, up in the garret. He
+pleaded for reinforcements, and wanted them all to join
+in conquering the enemy who, he declared, was no other
+than the fierce giant that had invaded the kingdom of
+Micomicon. He said he had left just as his master had
+cut the giant's head clean off with his sword, leaving the
+beast to bleed like a stuffed pig.</p>
+
+<p>While Sancho was relating his blood-curdling story, a
+tremendous noise and loud exclamations poured forth from
+the garret, and the innkeeper, suddenly remembering all
+the many wine-skins he had hung up there on the previous
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_93" id="Page_93">[Pg&nbsp;93]</a></span>
+night sprang out of his chair and toward the scene of
+action, followed by the rest.</p>
+
+<p>The worst that the innkeeper might have feared was
+true; for there, on the garret floor, was a sea of red wine,
+with hosts of empty skins floating about upon it. In the
+middle of the sea stood Don Quixote, sword in hand,
+slashing right and left, dressed in nothing but his shirt.
+But the strangest thing of all was not his attire, but the
+fact that he was fast asleep, his eyes shut tightly,<a name="Page93Ill" id="Page93Ill"></a> dreaming
+that he had already arrived in the distant realm of the
+Princess Micomicona and had encountered the giant enemy.</p>
+
+<p>Seeing all his precious wine floating away, the innkeeper
+became enraged and set upon Don Quixote with his bare
+fists; but the beating had no effect on the knight except,
+perhaps, that it made him sleep more soundly. It was
+not until the barber had drenched him in cold water that
+he came to his senses.</p>
+
+<p>The Princess Micomicona, who had been listening to
+the saving of her kingdom outside the door, became eager,
+after she had heard the tempest subside, to enter and see
+the conquered giant; but she retired hastily and with a
+slight exclamation of horrified modesty on seeing the
+abbreviated length of her defender's night-shirt, the tail
+of which had been sacrificed to his prayers in the wilderness.</p>
+
+<p>The landlord, cursing his luck, swore that this time the
+knight errant and his squire should not escape without paying.
+But Don Quixote, whose hand the curate was holding
+in an endeavor to calm him, merely fell on his knees
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_94" id="Page_94">[Pg&nbsp;94]</a></span>
+before the curate, exclaiming: "Exalted and beautiful
+Princess! Your Highness may now live in peace; for
+I have slain the giant!" He imagined that he was at the
+feet of Micomicona. Soon after having spoken thus, he
+showed signs of great weariness, and the curate, the barber
+and Cardenio carried him to his bed, where he fell asleep.</p>
+
+<p>Next they had to console Sancho, who was grief-stricken
+because he had been unable to find the giant's head. He
+swore he had seen it falling when his master cut it off, and
+imagined that if it could not be produced there would be no
+reward for either him or his master; but Dorothea, in her
+r�le of Princess, calmed and comforted him.</p>
+
+<p>All this time the innkeeper's wife was crying about the
+ox-tail, which, she said, had lost its usefulness after having
+served as beard, and the innkeeper was demanding that he
+be paid for the spilt wine and other losses. The curate
+assured them that he himself would see to it that they
+were reimbursed for everything; and when the excitement
+in the inn had simmered down, and everybody had gathered
+again in the room where they had heard the curate read
+from "Ill-Advised Curiosity," he was asked to resume the
+reading. This he did; and they all thought it a very
+entertaining story and listened intensely to what the curate
+was reading.</p>
+
+<p><a name="Page93pic" id="Page93pic"></a></p>
+<div class="figcenter" >
+<img src="images/illus2.jpg" width="450" height="614"
+alt="&quot;SLASHING RIGHT AND LEFT, DREAMING THAT HE HAD
+ENCOUNTERED THE GIANT ENEMY.&quot;&mdash;Page 93"
+title="&quot;SLASHING RIGHT AND LEFT, DREAMING THAT HE HAD
+ENCOUNTERED THE GIANT ENEMY.&quot;&mdash;Page 93" />
+<span class="caption"><br />&quot;SLASHING RIGHT AND LEFT, DREAMING THAT HE HAD
+ENCOUNTERED THE GIANT ENEMY.&quot;&mdash;<a href="#Page93Ill">Page 93</a></span>
+</div>
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_95" id="Page_95">[Pg&nbsp;95]</a></span></p>
+
+<hr class="hr1" />
+<h2><a name="v1CHAPTERXXXVI" id="v1CHAPTERXXXVI"></a>CHAPTER XXXVI</h2>
+
+<h4>Which Treats of More Curious Incidents That Occurred
+at the Inn</h4>
+
+<p class="cap">AT this moment there was a sound of people approaching
+on horseback, and the innkeeper rushed to the
+gate to receive the guests. There were four men, with
+lances and bucklers, and black veils for their faces; a
+woman, dressed in white and also veiled, and two attendants
+on foot. One of the four, a gentleman of distinction,
+helped the lady to dismount, and they entered the inn.</p>
+
+<p>As they came into the room where the curate had just
+finished reading the novel of "Ill-Advised Curiosity,"
+Dorothea covered her face, and Cardenio left and went to
+the garret. As the gentleman seated the lady in a chair,
+she heaved a deep sigh. Her arms fell limply by her side.
+The curate was curious to know who these people were,
+so he asked one of the servants that accompanied them.
+But none of them knew, for they had met the travelers on
+the road, they said, and had been offered employment at
+good pay. They added that they feared the lady was being
+taken somewhere against her will, as she had done nothing
+but sigh all through the journey, and had exchanged no
+words whatever with her escort.</p>
+
+<p>Dorothea, hearing the lady sigh repeatedly, felt compassion
+for her, and asked her whether there was anything
+that she could do for her. But although she asked her
+the question several times, she got no reply.
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_96" id="Page_96">[Pg&nbsp;96]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>When the gentleman with the distinguished bearing observed
+that Dorothea was interested in this lady, he told
+her it was useless to bother with her, for her answers were
+all lies and anything done for her would be rewarded with
+ingratitude. This remark was speedily answered by the
+lady, who retorted. "I have never told a lie. On the
+contrary, it is because I am truthful and cannot lie that I
+am now in this miserable condition. And you are the lying
+one!"</p>
+
+<p>Cardenio was in the adjoining room, just returning from
+the garret, and when he heard these words he exclaimed:
+"Good God! What is this I hear! It is her voice!"</p>
+
+<p>The lady heard the exclamation, and seeing no one, she
+became agitated and rose, but was held back by the gentleman.
+Her veil suddenly fell off, and every one could see
+her face, which was one of alabaster-like whiteness and
+great beauty. And while the gentleman was struggling to
+keep her from leaving the room, his own veil became unfastened
+and Dorothea saw that he was no other than her
+own lover, Don Fernando. The moment she recognized
+him she fainted, and the barber caught her, or she would
+have fallen to the floor. The curate was quick to throw
+some water on her face, and she soon came to. As soon as
+Cardenio heard the commotion, he rushed in from the other
+room, imagining that the worst had happened to his Luscinda&mdash;for
+it was no other than she&mdash;and it was a curious
+thing to see the four suddenly finding themselves face
+to face.</p>
+
+<p>Luscinda was the first one to speak, and she implored
+Don Fernando to take her life, so that her beloved Cardenio
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_97" id="Page_97">[Pg&nbsp;97]</a></span>
+might believe that she had been true and loyal and faithful
+to him until the very last.</p>
+
+<p>When Dorothea heard Luscinda speak thus, she fell on
+her knees before Don Fernando and implored him to reconsider
+everything that he had done that was base and
+wrong and sinful. She pleaded with tears in her eyes,
+begging him to give up Luscinda to her faithful Cardenio,
+told him how much she still loved him in spite of his wrong-doing,
+and said she would forgive him everything if he
+would only let his real and better nature come into its own.
+And her tears and sincerity moved Don Fernando so that
+he himself wept, and he promised to abide by the ending
+which Fate itself seemed to have provided for by bringing
+them all together in this strange way.</p>
+
+<p>He told Luscinda that when he had found the paper in
+which she declared she could never be the wife of any other
+man than Cardenio, he was tempted to kill her, but was
+prevented by chance. He had left the house in a rage,
+and had not returned home till the following day, when he
+found that she had disappeared. Some months later he
+learned that she had taken refuge in a convent. He
+gathered the companions they had seen at the inn, and
+with their help he carried her from the convent. Now he
+repented of what he had done, prayed he might be permitted
+forever to live with his Dorothea, and asked them
+all for forgiveness. Then he gave his blessing to the
+overjoyed Cardenio and Luscinda, who were both so
+affected at their reunion that they shed tears. Even Sancho
+was weeping, although for quite another reason. He
+was grieved to find his Princess Micomicona suddenly lose
+her royal identity and turn out to be a mere lady.
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_98" id="Page_98">[Pg&nbsp;98]</a></span></p>
+
+<hr class="hr1" />
+<h2><a name="v1CHAPTERXXXVII" id="v1CHAPTERXXXVII"></a>CHAPTER XXXVII</h2>
+
+<h4>In Which Is Continued the Story of the Famous
+Princess Micomicona, with Other Droll
+Adventures</h4>
+
+<p class="cap">SANCHO thought it his solemn duty to go to his master
+at once and inform him of the catastrophe. Dejected,
+he approached Don Quixote, who had just awakened,
+and said: "Sir Rueful Countenance, your Worship
+may as well sleep on, without troubling yourself about
+killing or restoring her kingdom to the Princess; for that
+is all over and settled now."</p>
+
+<p>Don Quixote agreed with his squire enthusiastically,
+and then told him of the tremendous battle he had just
+had with the giant, dwelling particularly upon the great
+amount of blood that flowed when the giant's head was
+cut off.</p>
+
+<p>"Red wine, your Worship means," said Sancho, "and no
+less than twenty-four gallons, all of which has to be paid
+for! The Princess your Worship will find turned into a
+private lady named Dorothea; and there is much more that
+will astonish your Worship."</p>
+
+<p>Whereupon there ensued a rich and varied conversation
+between master and servant. When Don Quixote
+heard his squire confound blood with wine, he called him
+a fool. And when he heard that his Princess had turned
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_99" id="Page_99">[Pg&nbsp;99]</a></span>
+into a simple Dorothea, the fears he had entertained during
+his past visit to the inn, began to return, and he decided
+that the place was enchanted. But of that his
+squire could not be convinced, for the episode of the blanketing
+still remained a most vivid reality to him. Had it
+not been for that, he repeated, he could have believed it
+readily.</p>
+
+<p>Meanwhile the curate had been telling Don Fernando
+and the others of Don Quixote's strange malady; he
+described how they had succeeded in taking him away from
+the wilderness and his self-inflicted penance, and told
+them all the strange adventures he had heard Sancho relate.
+They were greatly amused and thought it the most remarkable
+craze they had ever heard of. Don Fernando
+was eager that Dorothea should continue playing her part,
+and they all decided to come along on the journey to the
+village in La Mancha.</p>
+
+<p>At this moment Don Quixote entered in his regalia, the
+barber's basin on his head, spear in hand, and with the
+buckler on his arm. Don Fernando was struck with astonishment
+and laughter at the sight of the mixed armament
+and the peculiar long yellow face of the knight. After
+a silence, Don Quixote turned to Dorothea and repeated
+his vow to regain her kingdom for her. He said he approved
+heartily of the magic interference of the spirit of
+the king, her father, who had devised this new state of
+hers, that of a private maiden, in which guise she would no
+doubt be more secure from evil influence on her journey
+to her home.</p>
+
+<p>His ignorant squire broke in when his master related
+of his battle in the garret, and inferred irreverently and
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_100" id="Page_100">[Pg&nbsp;100]</a></span>
+rather loudly that he had attacked wine-skins instead of
+giants, but Don Fernando quickly made him be quiet.
+Dorothea rose and thanked our rueful knight at the end
+of his speech for the renewed offer of his sword.</p>
+
+<p>Having listened to her lovely voice, Don Quixote turned
+angrily to his squire and reprimanded him for being a disbeliever,
+saying that he could now judge for himself what
+a fool he had made of himself. Sancho replied that he
+hoped he had made a mistake about the Princess not being
+a princess, but that as to the wine-skins, there could be no
+doubt, for the punctured skins he had seen himself at the
+head of Don Quixote's bed&mdash;and had not the garret floor
+been turned into a lake of wine? Whereupon his master
+swore at his stupidity, until Don Fernando interrupted
+and proposed that they spend the evening in pleasant conversation
+at the inn instead of continuing their journey
+that night.</p>
+
+<p>While that was being agreed upon, two travelers, a
+man and a woman, dressed in Moorish fashion, came to the
+inn. They asked for rooms overnight, but were told there
+were none to be had. Dorothea felt sorry for the strange
+lady&mdash;whose face was covered with a veil&mdash;and told her
+that she and Luscinda would gladly share their room with
+her. The lady rose from her chair, bowed her head and
+made a sign with her hands as if to thank them; and they
+concluded, because of her silence, that she could not speak
+their language. At this moment her companion returned
+to her and, seeing her surrounded by the guests at the inn,
+he confirmed what they had thought, for he made the remark
+that it was useless to address any questions to her as
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_101" id="Page_101">[Pg&nbsp;101]</a></span>
+she could speak no other tongue than her own. They explained
+that they had asked no questions, but had only
+offered her quarters for the night. When the stranger
+learned this, it seemed to please him very much, and he
+thanked them profusely.</p>
+
+<p>As they were all curious to know who the lady was, they
+asked the stranger whether or not she was a Christian. He
+replied that while she was not, she wished to become one;
+and he informed them that she was a lady of high rank
+from Algiers. This excited a desire to see her face as
+well as to know whom she might be, and Dorothea could
+not resist the temptation of asking her to remove her veil.
+When her companion had told her Dorothea's desire, and
+the Moorish lady had removed her veil, they all stood in
+awe, for they beheld a face that seemed to them lovelier
+than any they had ever beheld before. Don Fernando
+asked her name, and the stranger replied it was Lela Zoraida;
+but when the fair lady heard him speak this name,
+she exclaimed emphatically that she was called Maria and
+not Zoraida. Luscinda embraced her in a loving way and
+said they would call her by that name.</p>
+
+<p>The supper was now ready and all placed themselves at
+a long table, at the head of which Don Quixote was asked
+to seat himself. At his request Dorothea&mdash;as the Princess
+Micomicona in disguise&mdash;sat on his right. All were merry
+and content and many pleasantries were passed. But
+suddenly Don Quixote stopped eating, rose, and with inspiration
+in his eyes and voice, began a long discourse on
+knight-errantry, reviewing the great good it had done for
+mankind. The language he used was so perfect, his
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_102" id="Page_102">[Pg&nbsp;102]</a></span>
+manners so free and easy, and his delivery possessed of such
+charm, that his listeners could hardly make themselves
+believe they were in the presence of one who was demented.</p>
+
+<hr class="hr1" />
+<h2><a name="v1CHAPTERXXXVIII" id="v1CHAPTERXXXVIII"></a>CHAPTER XXXVIII</h2>
+
+<h4>Which Treats of the Curious Discourse Don Quixote
+Delivered on Arms and Letters</h4>
+
+<p class="cap">DON QUIXOTE told them in his discourse of that
+age in which victory in battle depended on personal
+courage and good swordsmanship, before the use
+of such devilish contrivances as lead and powder. These
+things almost made him despair of success for his revival
+of chivalry in this age, he said; for while guns and artillery
+could instill no fear in his breast, they did make him
+feel uneasy, as one never knew when a bullet, intended for
+some one else, might cut off one's life. The very worst of
+such a death, he maintained, was that the bullet might
+have been discharged by a fleeing coward. And so he
+pledged himself again, in spite of all the things he had to
+struggle against, not to give up what he had undertaken
+to do: to set the world aright in accordance with the principles
+of knight-errantry.</p>
+
+<p>All the while that Don Quixote was discoursing, Sancho
+was much concerned because he neglected his food. He
+broke in whenever he had an opportunity, and admonished
+his master that he would have much time for talking after
+he had eaten.
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_103" id="Page_103">[Pg&nbsp;103]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>When they had finished their supper, the landlord informed
+them that he had re-arranged their quarters in
+order to accommodate all, and that the three women might
+sleep in the garret, as Don Quixote gallantly had given
+up his quarters to them. Their interest then turned again
+to the stranger. Don Fernando asked him some questions
+about his life, and he replied that while his life-story
+would be interesting, it might not afford them much
+enjoyment. However, he said, he would tell it if they
+so wished. The curate begged that he do so; and, seeing
+the interest of all, the stranger mentioned by way of introduction
+that while his was a true story, many a story of
+fiction would seem tame and less strange in comparison.
+And while all of the company expectantly turned their
+eyes toward the strange traveler in Moorish garb, he began
+the following tale.</p>
+
+<hr class="hr1" />
+<h2><a name="v1CHAPTERXXXIX-XLI" id="v1CHAPTERXXXIX-XLI"></a>CHAPTERS XXXIX-XLI</h2>
+
+<h4>Wherein the Captive Relates His Life and Adventures</h4>
+
+<p class="cap">AS a young man, the stranger said, he had left Spain,
+bent on adventure and on becoming a soldier. He
+had served with the Duke of Alva in Flanders, and in the
+wars of the Christians against the Turks, the Moors, and
+the Arabs. In one of these wars he was taken prisoner by
+King El Uchali of Algiers; he had previously advanced
+to the rank of captain. He was held a captive for a long
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_104" id="Page_104">[Pg&nbsp;104]</a></span>
+time, first at Constantinople, then at Tunis, then at Algiers.
+At Constantinople he encountered a good many
+other Christian prisoners. Particularly he remembered
+one Don Pedro de Augilar, a brave soldier and a native
+of Andalusia, who, he said, had written some very excellent
+poetry. He especially spoke of two sonnets which he had
+liked so well that he had learned them by heart. One
+day Don Pedro succeeded in making his escape, but what
+had become of him he had never heard.</p>
+
+<p>As soon as the captive had spoken Don Pedro's name,
+the ladies and Don Fernando exchanged glances and
+smiled, and Don Fernando could not refrain from informing
+the narrator that Don Pedro was his brother. Furthermore,
+he said, he was safe in Andalusia, where he was
+happily married, in the best of health, and had three robust
+children. Then he touched on his brother's gift for
+composing poetry, and said that the very two sonnets the
+captive had mentioned, he himself knew by heart. Whereupon
+every one asked him to recite them, and so he did
+with fine feeling and intelligence. Then the captive resumed
+his story.</p>
+
+<p>At Algiers, he said, there lived, overlooking the prison,
+a great alcaide named Hadji Morato, a very rich man, who
+had but one child, a daughter of great beauty. She had
+learned the Christian prayer from a slave of her father's,
+when she was a child; the things that this Christian woman
+had taught her had made her long to know more about the
+religion and to become a Christian herself. This beautiful
+Algerian maiden had seen the captive from her window,
+and she liked him, and one day she managed to get a message
+to him, begging him to escape and to take her with
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_105" id="Page_105">[Pg&nbsp;105]</a></span>
+him. From time to time she would throw to him gold
+coins wrapped in cloth, and these he would hide until
+finally he had enough to buy not only himself but some
+other prisoners free from their slavery.</p>
+
+<p>However, in order to effect the escape of the maiden,
+the captive was obliged to take into his confidence an old
+Algerian renegade who turned out to be a believer in
+Christ. With this man the captive sent messages to Zoraida.
+Now, this renegade was a sly fellow, and he bought
+a small vessel with which he began to ply to and fro between
+the city and some islands nearby, bringing back
+fruit each time, in order to alleviate all suspicions of his
+having acquired the vessel for any other purpose than
+trading. Finally it was decided the time had come for the
+escape, and the captive had himself ransomed.</p>
+
+<p>That night the renegade had the ship anchored opposite
+the prison and Zoraida's garden, and, with the help of
+a number of Christians whom they had gathered as rowers,
+and who were eager to return to Spain, they secured the
+ship and put the Moorish crew in irons and chains.</p>
+
+<p>Zoraida witnessed the proceedings from her window, and
+when she saw her captive and the renegade return in the
+skiff of the vessel, she hastened below into the garden.
+She was bedecked with a fortune in pearls and precious
+stones. She asked the renegade to follow her into the
+house, and when they returned, they brought with them a
+chest laden with gold. Just then her father was awakened
+and he began to shout in Arabic as loudly as he could
+that he was being robbed by Christians. Had it not been
+for the quick action of the renegade all might have been
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_106" id="Page_106">[Pg&nbsp;106]</a></span>
+lost. He bound and gagged the father and carried him
+downstairs, where Zoraida had fainted in the captive's
+arms. Then they hastened back to the ship and set sail for
+Majorca.</p>
+
+<p>It was some time before the old alcaide realized that
+his daughter had gone with the captive of her own free
+will, and when he learned it, he flung himself into the sea,
+but was rescued by one of the rowers. When he found
+himself then on board the ship, he began to curse his
+daughter, calling her a Christian dog and other vile names.
+Finally it was deemed best to set him and the other Moors
+ashore; and when the old man saw the ship sail away with
+his daughter, he began to sob and cry aloud in the most
+heartrending way, threatening to kill himself if she did
+not return to him. The last words that she heard were,
+"I forgive you all!" and they made her weep so bitterly
+that it seemed as if her tears would never cease flowing.</p>
+
+<p>They were then less than a day's voyage from the coast
+of Spain. As they were breezing along with all sails set,
+over a moonlit sea, they saw a large ship appear in the distance.
+It turned out to be a French corsair from Rochelle
+out for plunder, for when it came closer it suddenly fired
+two guns that took terrible effect and wrecked their vessel.
+As the ship began to sink, they begged to be taken
+aboard the corsair, to which the captain was not averse.
+Once aboard they were told that if they had been courteous
+enough to reply to the question shouted from the corsair
+as to what port they were bound for, their own vessel
+would still have been intact. The covetous crew stripped
+them of all their valuable belongings, the pearls and
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_107" id="Page_107">[Pg&nbsp;107]</a></span>
+jewels, money and adornments of Zoraida. The chest of
+gold, however, the renegade stealthily lowered into the sea
+without any one seeing it.</p>
+
+<p>The next day when the Spanish coast was sighted the captain
+put them all in a skiff, gave them some bread and
+water for their voyage, and set out to sea. Before letting
+them depart, moved by some strange impulse, he gave
+Zoraida forty crowns; and he had not robbed her of her
+beautiful gown. They steered their skiff towards the
+shore, where they landed soon after midnight. Immediately
+they left the shore, eager to know where they were.
+They climbed the mountain&mdash;for the shore was a rocky one&mdash;and
+there they rested until dawn, then went on into the country.</p>
+
+<p>Soon they met a young shepherd; but when he saw their
+strange garbs, he ran away from them like a frightened
+lamb, crying that the Moors had invaded the country.
+And not so long after that they encountered fifty mounted
+men of the coast guard, but as soon as these saw their
+Moorish costumes and had heard the captive's explanation,
+they realized that the boy's vivid imagination had disturbed
+them needlessly. And when one of the Christian
+captives recognized in one of the guards an uncle of his,
+these men could not do enough for the returned slaves.
+They gave them their horses, some of them went to rescue
+the skiff for them, and when they arrived at the nearby
+city they were welcomed by all the inhabitants.</p>
+
+<p>At once they went to the church to return thanks to the
+Lord for their marvelous escape, and Zoraida was impressed
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_108" id="Page_108">[Pg&nbsp;108]</a></span>
+beyond expression with the hosts of praying worshippers.
+She, the renegade, and the captive stayed at the
+house of the returned Christian, and the rest were quartered
+throughout the town. After six days the renegade
+departed for Granada to restore himself to the Church
+through the means of the Holy Inquisition. One by one
+the other captives left for their own homes, and finally
+only Zoraida and he himself remained. He then decided
+to go in search of his father, whom he had not seen for so
+many years, and he did not know whether he was alive
+or not. His journey had brought him to this inn, and it
+was here that his story came to an end.</p>
+
+<hr class="hr1" />
+<h2><a name="v1CHAPTERXLII" id="v1CHAPTERXLII"></a>CHAPTER XLII</h2>
+
+<h4>Which Treats of What Further Took Place in the Inn,
+and of Several Other Things Worth
+Knowing</h4>
+
+<p class="cap">THE captive having finished his strange and interesting
+story, Don Fernando rose and thanked him,
+and all were eager for an opportunity to show him their
+goodwill. Don Fernando begged the stranger to allow
+him to provide for his comfort, and offered to take him to
+his brother, the Marquis, who, he said, would be most
+eager to act as Zoraida's godfather at her baptism. But
+the stranger declined graciously all the offers that were
+made.</p>
+
+<p>Night was now setting in, and each one was contemplating
+going to his room, when suddenly a coach with
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_109" id="Page_109">[Pg&nbsp;109]</a></span>
+attendants on horseback arrived at the inn. The landlady told
+the one demanding lodging that there was none to be
+had at any price. Whereupon the man replied that
+room <i>must</i> be found for his lordship, the Judge, his master.
+As soon as the landlady learned she was dealing with the
+law, she nearly fainted from exertion to please, and offered
+to give up their own room and bed to his lordship. By
+this time the Judge, attired in a long robe with ruffled
+sleeves, had stepped out of the coach, accompanied by a
+beautiful girl of about sixteen years of age. There were
+exclamations from all when they saw the young lady, for
+she possessed beauty and grace that were really rare.</p>
+
+<p>The first one to greet the strangers was no other than
+Don Quixote, who, with a grave air and the most exalted
+and flowery language, bade them welcome to the castle.
+He finished his speech by saying: "Enter, your worship,
+into this paradise, for here you will find stars and suns to
+accompany the heaven your Worship brings with you.
+Here you will find arms in their supreme excellence, and
+beauty in its highest perfection."</p>
+
+<p>The Judge looked for a moment as if he hesitated about
+entering with his daughter after such an unusual reception;
+he seemed to wonder whether he was at an inn or an asylum.
+He scrutinized Don Quixote's curious armor, then
+turned his attention to the rest of the company, which evidently
+made him feel more at ease.</p>
+
+<p>It was arranged that the young lady should sleep with
+the other ladies; which pleased her greatly, for it was evident
+that she was very much taken with them and their
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_110" id="Page_110">[Pg&nbsp;110]</a></span>
+beauty. The Judge was as much pleased with the presence
+of so many people of quality as he was puzzled by
+Don Quixote and his strange appearance and behavior.</p>
+
+<p>The moment the former captive and captain had laid
+eyes on the Judge, he was stirred by the conviction that here
+was his own younger brother. He asked the Judge's name
+of one of the servants, and was told he was called the Licentiate
+Juan Perez de Viedma, lately appointed Judge of
+the Supreme Court of Mexico, to which country he was
+now on his way. The Captain inquired whether the servant
+knew from which part of Spain the Judge came, and
+got the reply that he had heard it rumored he was a native
+of a little village in the mountains of Leon. The Captain
+was then certain it was his brother, and he hastened to
+tell the curate, Don Fernando, and Cardenio, saying he
+felt diffident about making himself known too abruptly
+for fear his brother might refuse to acknowledge him because
+of his poverty and ill-fortune.</p>
+
+<p>The curate understood the Captain's way of thinking,
+and asked that he trust him to manage it in a discreet way.
+So when the Judge invited them all to keep him company
+while he supped, the curate told the story of the captive
+at the table. In telling it he pretended to have been a
+captive in the hands of the Turks and the Algerians and a
+comrade-in-arms of the Captain. When he had finished
+the story, tears rolled down the Judge's cheeks, and he
+begged the curate to help him to find his beloved brother,
+for whom their aged father was ever praying, ever asking,
+hoping that he might see him once more before he closed
+his eyes in death. It was then that the Captain, himself
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_111" id="Page_111">[Pg&nbsp;111]</a></span>
+in tears, stepped forward and, the Judge having recognized him,
+embraced his brother. Then the Judge embraced
+Zoraida, offering her all the worldly goods he possessed.
+His daughter, the lovely young girl, now joined
+them, and all the others were moved to tears by the
+brothers' happiness in finding each other after so many
+years of separation.</p>
+
+<p>Don Quixote stood gazing in silence at what passed before
+his eyes, ascribing the two brothers' luck to magic.</p>
+
+<p>When the first emotion of the unexpected meeting had
+subsided, the Judge asked his brother and Zoraida to return
+with him to Seville, from where he would send a messenger
+to the father, telling him of the good news and begging
+him to come to the joint marriage and baptismal ceremony.
+As the Judge was obliged to leave for New Spain
+within a month, it was agreed that a speedy return to Seville
+was necessary.</p>
+
+<p>It was now early morning, though still dark, and all
+were tired, so it was decided that every one should go to
+bed. But Don Quixote, sacrificing himself in spite of his
+fatigue, appointed himself to keep guard for the remainder
+of the night, fearing attack of some evil giant or beast
+upon all the beauty that was slumbering within. They,
+who were aware of his peculiar weakness, returned thanks
+in their most gracious manner; and when they were alone
+with the Judge they hastened to explain the knight's mental
+state. The Judge was much amused by the accounts
+of his adventures and his attempts to revive knight errantry
+in Spain.</p>
+
+<p>There was only one unhappy being in the inn that night:
+that was Sancho Panza. He was not at all pleased with
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_112" id="Page_112">[Pg&nbsp;112]</a></span>
+his master's staying up at such a late hour. But there
+seemed nothing he could do about it, so he retired and
+spread himself comfortably on the trappings of his donkey.</p>
+
+<p>While Don Quixote was guarding the castle, and dawn
+was approaching, Dorothea, who had lain awake, was suddenly
+stirred by the sound of a man's voice, a voice so beautiful
+that it seemed to her there could be none sweeter in the
+world. Then Cardenio was awakened by it, and he felt
+that he ought to share the joy of hearing it with the ladies,
+so he went to the garret to call their attention to it. When
+he knocked on the door and told them, Dorothea called out
+that they were already listening. The only one not awake
+at that time was Do�a Clara, the Judge's fair daughter.</p>
+
+<hr class="hr1" />
+<h2><a name="v1CHAPTERXLIII" id="v1CHAPTERXLIII"></a>CHAPTER XLIII</h2>
+
+<h4>Wherein Is Related the Pleasant Story of the Muleteer,
+Together with Other Strange Things
+That Came to Pass in the Inn</h4>
+
+<p class="cap">DOROTHEA and the other ladies were in a quandary
+as to whether to awake Do�a Clara or not. Finally
+they decided that she would be sorry if she had to learn
+what she had missed and would regret that they had not awakened
+her; so they shook her until she opened her eyes
+and then asked her to sit up in bed and listen. But
+scarcely had she heard one note, before she began to sob
+hysterically. She threw her arms around Dorothea and
+cried: "Why, oh, why did you wake me, dear lady? The
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_113" id="Page_113">[Pg&nbsp;113]</a></span>
+greatest kindness fortune could do me now would be to
+close my eyes and ears so that I could neither see nor hear
+that unhappy musician!"</p>
+
+<p>Dorothea was at a loss to know what had happened to the
+child. All the while she was trying to soothe her, the tears
+were streaming down the young girl's face, and she was
+trembling like a leaf. Finally she quieted her feelings
+sufficiently to be able to confide to Dorothea in a whispering
+voice the story of her romance with the singer, who, she
+said, was not a muleteer as his garb would indicate, but
+the only son and heir of a rich noble of Aragon. This
+gentleman's house in Madrid was situated directly opposite
+her father's, and having once seen Do�a Clara the
+youth proceeded to declare his love for her. She, being
+motherless and having no one to whom she could confide her
+love secrets, had to leave Madrid with her father, when
+he was given his appointment to New Spain, without an
+opportunity to see her lover. But as soon as the youth,
+who was not much older than herself, learned of their departure,
+he dressed himself up as a muleteer and set out
+on foot to pursue her. At every inn where they had
+stopped overnight she had found him awaiting their departure
+in the morning, and she was always in dread, she
+said, lest her father learn of their love for each other.</p>
+
+<p>With her arms tight around Dorothea, she confessed to
+her how great her love was for the youth, saying that she
+could never live without him. Dorothea kissed the girl,
+and promised her that with God's help all would end well,
+telling her to put her trust in Him; and before another day
+had passed she hoped to have good news for Do�a Clara.
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_114" id="Page_114">[Pg&nbsp;114]</a></span>
+Dorothea's assurances calmed and put new faith in the
+young girl's heart; and soon they all were fast asleep again.</p>
+
+<p>Now, all this time the one-eyed Asturian maid, and the
+landlady's daughter, both bent on deviltry, were keeping
+their eyes open. It was impossible for them to forget Don
+Quixote, and they were determined to play a joke on him
+before the night was over. They posted themselves in
+the hayloft, where there was a hole in the wall; and when
+Don Quixote passed on Rocinante, he heard some one calling:
+"Pst! Come here, se�or!"</p>
+
+<p>As Don Quixote turned to see who it might be, he discovered
+the hole in the wall and it seemed very much like
+a marvelously decorated window, in keeping with the beautiful
+castle he had made out of the inn. He beheld at
+this window the two maidens, and immediately they became
+to him the daughter of the lord of the castle and her
+attendant. Wistfully he gazed at them, certain, however,
+that they had designed to destroy his faithful and stubborn
+allegiance to Dulcinea, to whom he had just been
+sending up prayers and salutations under the influence of
+the moon. Then he spoke to them, regretting that they
+should let themselves be so overcome by love for him that
+they could no longer master their feelings. He told them
+of that great and only mistress of his soul, the incomparable
+one of El Toboso of La Mancha, to whom he had sworn
+eternal love and undying admiration. And at last he admonished
+the innkeeper's daughter to retire to her beauteous
+apartment, lest he should be forced to prove himself ungrateful.
+If, he said, she would demand any other thing
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_115" id="Page_115">[Pg&nbsp;115]</a></span>
+than love, he would willingly grant her the favor, even unto
+a lock of Medusa's hair.</p>
+
+<p>The wench immediately realized that her opportunity
+had come, so she quickly said that she cared for no lock
+of Medusa's or any other, but would be satisfied to feel the
+touch of his hand.</p>
+
+<p>Before sanctioning this demand, Don Quixote asserted
+his virtuousness again by stipulating that she must not
+kiss it, only touch it. He understood, of course, that any
+woman would be likely to ask such a favor of him at any
+time (for who would not be proud to have touched the
+sinewy hand of so remarkable and famous a knight errant
+as himself?) but he insisted on being discreet at all times.
+So he climbed up and stood on the saddle of his hack,
+reaching his lean arm through the hole in the wall.</p>
+
+<p>By this time the Asturian maid had procured from the
+stable the halter of Sancho's donkey, on which her young
+mistress quickly made a running knot and passed it over
+Don Quixote's wrist. As soon as she had proceeded thus
+far in her deviltry, she jumped down from the hole and
+made fast the other end of the halter to the bolt of the
+door. Then she and her maid swiftly made off, bursting
+with laughter, leaving the knight to complain of the roughness
+of her touch.</p>
+
+<p>But after a while Don Quixote began to realize that no
+one was there to listen to his complaints, and also that he
+was not standing too securely on his Rocinante's back;
+for should Rocinante move without being urged&mdash;a most
+unusual event&mdash;he would be left to hang in the air by one
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_116" id="Page_116">[Pg&nbsp;116]</a></span>
+arm. It suddenly came to him that he was a victim of enchantment,
+and he called on all the saints, and Dulcinea,
+and Sancho Panza, on all kind magicians and sages,
+and every one else he could think of, to come to his
+aid.</p>
+
+<p>But no one came, until the morning brought four travelers
+on horseback. They found the gate still shut, so they
+called to Don Quixote, who by this time was almost exhausted.
+But although wearied, his spirit had not left
+him. He reprimanded the strangers for their insolence;
+asked whether they were so stupid they failed to realize
+that as yet the castle gates were not open, that all were
+asleep. He commanded them to withdraw to a distance
+and to approach the fortress after daylight; then he could
+better tell whether they should be permitted to enter or
+not.</p>
+
+<p>One of the travelers mistook Don Quixote for the innkeeper,
+and was immediately reprimanded for this. The
+offended knight then began to talk about knight errantry
+and its revival in the world, until finally the men tired
+of his discourse. Again they knocked at the gate, this
+time with such force and fury that the innkeeper woke up
+and came out and admitted them in a hurry. They entered
+violently on their horses, enraged because of their long
+waiting at the gate, and dismounted, leaving their horses
+free. The moment the horses saw Rocinante and the
+curious position of his master, they went to investigate
+him, and the unsuspecting Rocinante leaped from under
+Don Quixote with such suddenness that the poor knight's
+arm was nearly wrenched from his body. There he was
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_117" id="Page_117">[Pg&nbsp;117]</a></span>
+left to dangle, while the shouts that forced their way from
+his throat rent the air fiercely.</p>
+
+<hr class="hr1" />
+<h2><a name="v1CHAPTERXLIV" id="v1CHAPTERXLIV"></a>CHAPTER XLIV</h2>
+
+<h4>In Which Are Continued the Unheard-of Adventures
+at the Inn</h4>
+
+<p class="cap">WHEN the landlord heard the terrible outcries of
+Don Quixote, he ran, greatly excited, to see who
+could be giving vent to such agony. The travelers joined
+him; and the Asturian maid was stirred to quick action by
+a bad conscience, as well as by the excited state of her
+master. She untied the halter, and Don Quixote fell so
+suddenly that his meager body landed like a dead weight
+on the ground.</p>
+
+<p>The landlord and the travelers found him there, and
+asked him impatiently why he was making such a tremendous
+noise. He ignored their question entirely, pulled
+the rope off his wrist, and mounted his charger with as
+much nonchalance and elegance as his stiff limbs would
+permit. Then he haughtily raised his head, after having
+adjusted all his knightly paraphernalia, and circled down
+the field, returning in a canter. Having halted Rocinante,
+he bellowed out to those assembled "Whoever shall
+say that I have been enchanted with just cause, provided
+my lady the Princess Micomicona grants me permission to
+do so, I give him the lie, challenge him and defy him to
+single combat."
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_118" id="Page_118">[Pg&nbsp;118]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>The landlord saw at once the effect these words of the
+poor demented knight had on his newly arrived guests,
+so he hastened to explain Don Quixote's condition to them.
+They then asked whether the innkeeper had seen a youth
+dressed like a muleteer. He replied that he had not; but
+just then one of the men exclaimed that the youth must be
+there, since the Judge's coach&mdash;which he had suddenly observed&mdash;was
+there. They then decided to dissemble,
+each one going to a different entrance of the inn, so there
+would be no chance for the youth to escape.</p>
+
+<p>The landlord was curious to know what it was all about,
+but could arrive at no conclusion. The truth was that
+these men were servants of the young muleteer's father.
+And it was not long ere they had discovered him, lying
+asleep, never thinking that he would himself be pursued.
+The servant who roused him made a few caustic remarks to
+the young Don Luis&mdash;for this was his name&mdash;about his bed
+and the luxury of his surroundings, as particularly befitting
+a youth of his rank and breeding.</p>
+
+<p>Don Luis could not at first believe that he was really
+awake. He rubbed his eyes in astonishment, and failed
+to find a reply to the servant's remarks. The man then
+continued, advising his young master to return to his home
+at once, saying that his father, as a result of his disappearance,
+was dangerously ill. The youth was curious to learn
+how his father had found out what road he had taken and
+that he had disguised himself as a muleteer. The servant
+answered that a student to whom Don Luis had confided
+his love for Do�a Clara, had told his master everything,
+when he saw how he suffered.
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_119" id="Page_119">[Pg&nbsp;119]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>Now, it chanced that another muleteer, who had been
+sleeping with Don Luis, could not keep what he was hearing
+to himself; besides, he deemed it best to disappear
+from the scene. He informed some of the guests of what
+had occurred, and thus it happened that Don Fernando and
+Cardenio learned of the plight of the young singer, whose
+voice they had so admired a short time before; and when
+the muleteer told them that his comrade was a young nobleman
+in disguise, they decided to go and help him in his
+quandary.</p>
+
+<p>They found the four men entreating Don Luis to return
+to his father; and the youth emphatically refusing to do so,
+saying that they might take him dead, but never alive.</p>
+
+<p>At this moment Dorothea saw Cardenio from her window,
+and she called him and told him the story of the lad and
+Do�a Clara. He in turn related to her how the servants
+of the youth's father had come to take him back to his home.
+In telling Dorothea this news Cardenio was overheard by
+Do�a Clara who would have swooned had not Dorothea
+supported her.</p>
+
+<p>By this time the servants had brought Don Luis into the
+inn, threatening to take him back by force should he not go
+willingly. Again he protested, and at last the argument
+attracted all the guests, including Don Quixote, who had
+ceased his duties as guard for the present. The Judge was
+there too, and when one of the servants recognized in him
+their neighbor in Madrid, he pleaded with him to do all
+he could to make the young man return to his ill father.</p>
+
+<p>The Judge turned to the young muleteer, and saw that
+it was his neighbor's son; whereupon he embraced him
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_120" id="Page_120">[Pg&nbsp;120]</a></span>
+and asked in a fatherly way what had brought him there
+dressed in such a manner. With his arm around the youth's
+neck, the Judge withdrew with the lad to discuss the reasons
+for his disguise and for his leaving his father.</p>
+
+<p>While the kindly Judge was thus occupied with Don
+Luis, a tumult suddenly arose at the gate of the inn. It
+was the landlord, trying to hold back two guests who had
+attempted to get away without paying. The innkeeper
+was stubbornly clinging to the garb of one of the adventurers,
+and in return was being pummeled mercilessly, until
+his face was a study in dark and fast colors, except his
+nose, which was tinted a running red. As soon as the
+landlady perceived her mate's distress, the thought struck
+her that this would be a most worthy opportunity for our
+valiant knight errant to show his skill as a swordsman
+and a wielder of the lance. So she dispatched her
+daughter, the fair young lady of the castle, to bring the
+knight her message of distress.</p>
+
+<p>Don Quixote received the young lady calmly and
+courteously, but said that he was in honor bound to engage
+in no combat except by the express permission of her Royal
+Highness the Princess Micomicona; she having granted
+it, there could be no doubt as to the outcome of any battle
+in which he chose to draw his sword. Seeing this, in her
+opinion, ill-timed hesitancy, the one-eyed Asturian muttered
+that by the time the Princess was found, her master
+would have passed the heavenly border. The Princess,
+however, was quickly summoned, and Don Quixote knelt
+on his stiff knees before her; but ere he had finished his
+long harangue of request, she&mdash;having been advised of the
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_121" id="Page_121">[Pg&nbsp;121]</a></span>
+urgency of the situation&mdash;had already given him permission
+and wished him godspeed.</p>
+
+<p>Don Quixote arose and drew his sword, paced toward
+the gate, and then suddenly stopped short. All wondered
+what had happened to cause his hesitating thus, and the
+Asturian maid expressed her wonder aloud. Don Quixote
+was not long about the answer. He replied at once that
+this was no business for him; they had best call his squire.
+It was for Sancho, he said, that he reserved the task and
+joy of fighting such lowly people as the ones he saw before
+him here and now.</p>
+
+<p>Now, while all of this was taking place, Don Luis, with
+tears in his eyes, was confessing to Do�a Clara's father his
+great and indomitable love for her. This placed the Judge
+in a curious predicament, for he found himself forced to
+sit in judgment on the welfare of his own child. He was
+so taken with the charm and intelligence of the youth that
+he was anxious to have him for a son-in-law, particularly
+as his family was one of distinction, and extremely rich.
+Yet his better judgment told him that it would be wise to
+wait another day before giving his consent. He would
+have preferred to have Don Luis' father approve of the
+marriage, although he thought it almost certain that this
+gentleman would like to see his son married to a titled
+lady.</p>
+
+<p>And while the fate of the young lovers was being weighed
+by the Judge, peace had been declared between the innkeeper
+and the two travelers who, persuaded by the chivalrous
+words of Don Quixote, and the summoning of Sancho,
+had been made to see the light and pay the bill. By this
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_122" id="Page_122">[Pg&nbsp;122]</a></span>
+time everything was settled amicably, the landlord having
+demanded no special indemnity for his battered, many-colored
+face.</p>
+
+<p>But who should loom up on the scene, now that everything
+was peaceful again, but the owner of Mambrino's
+golden helmet! This particular barber was now leading
+his donkey to the stable, when he suddenly discovered Sancho
+Panza hard at work repairing the barber's own trappings,
+which our Sancho had taken as booty at the time
+his master fell heir to the helmet. The barber left his
+donkey at no slow speed and ran towards Sancho, to whom
+he exclaimed threateningly "There, you thief, I have caught
+you! Give me my basin and my pack-saddle, and everything
+you robbed me of!"</p>
+
+<p>But Sancho was not willing to give up so easily things
+that he had gained as spoils in righteous warfare. He refuted
+with his fists, as well as by argument, the barber's
+coarse suggestion that he was a common highwayman; and
+his master, coming up at this instant, was proud and pleased
+to hear his faithful squire talk like that, and also to see
+the barber's teeth gone, which the force of Sancho's blow
+evidently had carried away. As a matter of fact, Sancho's
+demonstration of physical strength made such a profound
+impression on Don Quixote, that he decided his squire was
+not far from being eligible to knighthood.</p>
+
+<p>As soon as the barber was able to make himself heard
+again, he began to arraign both master and squire. He
+was not to be subdued. He told all that quickly
+gathered round them that they could assure themselves of
+the truth of what he said by fitting Sancho's saddle to his
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_123" id="Page_123">[Pg&nbsp;123]</a></span>
+own steed; furthermore, he said, they had plundered him
+of a basin.</p>
+
+<p>When Don Quixote heard this ridiculous accusation, his
+lips twisted into a scornful smile. He dispatched Sancho
+to fetch the helmet&mdash;which seemed to Sancho a dangerous
+move&mdash;and when Sancho returned with the basin, Don
+Quixote held it up with great self-assurance before everybody.</p>
+
+<p>"Your worships," said he, "may see with what face this
+squire can assert that this is a basin and not the helmet I
+told you of; and I swear by the order of chivalry I profess,
+that this helmet is the identical one I took from him, without
+anything added to or removed."</p>
+
+<p>This statement was corroborated in detail by Sancho,
+who added: "Since that battle my master has fought in
+the helmet only once. That was when he let loose the unfortunate
+ones in chains. And if it had not been for this
+basin-helmet he might have been killed in that engagement,
+for there were plenty of stones raining down on him
+at that time."</p>
+
+<hr class="hr1" />
+<h2><a name="v1CHAPTERXLV" id="v1CHAPTERXLV"></a>CHAPTER XLV</h2>
+
+<h4>In Which the Doubtful Question of Mambrino's Helmet
+and the Pack-Saddle Is Finally Settled,
+with Other Adventures That Occurred
+in Truth and Earnest</h4>
+
+<p class="cap">THE barber appealed to those present and asked them
+what they thought about Don Quixote's nonsense;
+and it was then that it occurred to Don Quixote's friend,
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_124" id="Page_124">[Pg&nbsp;124]</a></span>
+the barber of his village to play a joke on his fellow barber.
+He solemnly asked the other barber whether he was out of
+his head, for of course anybody could see that it was a
+helmet, although, he admitted, not a complete one.</p>
+
+<p>The poor barber was so taken aback, so perplexed that
+a learned barber, and a seemingly sane one otherwise, could
+not tell the difference between a basin and a helmet that
+he nearly toppled over. But when the worthy curate, Cardenio,
+Don Fernando, and all&mdash;for they realized at once
+the barber's joke&mdash;insisted that he was wrong, and that it
+was not a basin, the perspiration began to trickle down his
+face, and he exclaimed: "God bless me! Is it possible that
+such an honorable company can say that this is not a basin
+but a helmet? Why, this is a thing that would astonish
+a whole university, however wise it might be! And if
+this basin is a helmet, then the pack-saddle must be a horse's
+caparison!"</p>
+
+<p>Some one present was quick to assert that it most certainly
+was a caparison and not a pack-saddle at all; that no
+one but a fool could take it for a pack-saddle. And when
+a gentleman of quality like Don Fernando offered to take
+the votes of those present and they turned out to be in favor
+of the pack-saddle's remaining a caparison, the barber
+thought he had gone completely mad.</p>
+
+<p>By this time the group of spectators had been increased
+by the arrival of the four servants of Don Luis, Don Luis
+himself, and three new guests&mdash;officers of the Holy Brotherhood,
+to whom the proceedings and the amusement of those
+present seemed utter foolishness. One of these uninitiated
+newcomers, one of the officers of the Brotherhood, dared to
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_125" id="Page_125">[Pg&nbsp;125]</a></span>
+say that any one who maintained that it was a helmet instead
+of a basin must be drunk. But he should not have
+said it, for our knight lifted his lance and let it fly out of
+his hand with such ferocity and such sure aim that if the
+officer had not been lucky enough to be able to dodge it, it
+would have pierced his body.</p>
+
+<p>The tumult that followed was indescribable. The landlord
+came to the rescue of his Brotherhood comrades. His
+wife fell into hysterics for fear he would be beheaded by
+Don Quixote's vicious sword. The women were all
+screaming, wailing, weeping and fainting. Then this
+tremendous din and noise was suddenly rent by the voice
+of Don Quixote; and like a flash there was peace, when the
+knight errant began to appeal in soft lucid tones for a
+cessation of hostilities. It was a curious thing to observe
+how willingly the demented man's appeal to reason was
+listened to by all. The confusion had struck most of them
+with terror and they were glad to heed in such a moment
+even the will of unreason.</p>
+
+<p>But as soon as there was quiet again, the grudge against
+Don Quixote that had established itself in the heart of one
+of the Brotherhood, began to assert itself. It suddenly
+came to his mind that among his warrants he had one for
+a man of Don Quixote's description who was accused of
+having set free a chain of galley-slaves. As soon as he
+had convinced himself that there could be no mistake about
+the identity, he strode forth and seized Don Quixote so
+abruptly by the collar that the knight nearly choked.</p>
+
+<p>"Help for the Holy Brotherhood!" the officer yelled aloud.
+"And that you may see that I demand it in earnest,
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_126" id="Page_126">[Pg&nbsp;126]</a></span>
+read this warrant which says this highwayman is to be
+arrested!"</p>
+
+<p>Hardly did Don Quixote feel himself handled in so undignified
+a manner, when he clutched the villain's throat,
+foaming at the mouth like a wild beast. Luckily they were
+separated in time by Don Fernando and the rest, or they
+would have torn each other to pieces. Yet the officer was
+not willing to give up his claim on Don Quixote's person:
+a claim that our knight errant laughed at, for who had ever
+heard of members of the knighthood being dependent on
+jurisdiction? Did he, this base knave, this ill-born scoundrel,
+not know that the law of knights was in their swords,
+their charter in their prowess, and their edicts in their
+will? And then he calmly rambled on, his speech of denunciation
+culminating in this last crushing remark:
+"What knight errant has there been, is there, or will there
+ever be in the world, not bold enough to give, single-handed,
+four hundred cudgellings to four hundred officers
+of the Holy Brotherhood if they come in his way?"</p>
+
+<p>While his master was thus discoursing in his usual vein,
+Sancho was reviewing past events at the inn, and he could
+not help but make this sad exclamation: "By the Lord, it is
+quite true what my master says about the enchantments of
+this castle, for it is impossible to live an hour in peace in
+it!"
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_127" id="Page_127">[Pg&nbsp;127]</a></span></p>
+
+<hr class="hr1" />
+<h2><a name="v1CHAPTERXLVI" id="v1CHAPTERXLVI"></a>CHAPTER XLVI</h2>
+
+<h4>Of the End of the Notable Adventure of the Officers
+of the Holy Brotherhood; and of the Great
+Ferocity of Our Worthy Knight, Don
+Quixote</h4>
+
+<p class="cap">THE curate had to argue for some time with the officers
+of the Brotherhood before he could finally persuade
+them that it would serve no purpose to arrest Don
+Quixote, for, being out of his senses, he would in the end
+be released as a madman. Furthermore, he warned them,
+Don Quixote would never submit to force.</p>
+
+<p>Sancho Panza and the barber were still quarreling over
+the pack-saddle and the other booty, and at last the officers
+agreed to act as mediators, and the differences were adjusted
+by arbitration. The curate settled for the basin by
+paying eight reals, and received a receipt for payment in
+full from the barber.</p>
+
+<p>Don Fernando, in the meantime, extracted a promise
+from three of the servants of Don Luis to return to Madrid,
+while the other one agreed to remain and accompany his
+young master to where Don Fernando wanted him to go.
+Do�a Clara was sparkling with happiness; and Zoraida
+seemed to feel at home with the Christians, in spite of the
+noise and tumult she had had to live through during her
+short stay at the inn.</p>
+
+<p>The landlord did not forget the reckoning for the wine-skins
+and all the other things whose loss he could attribute
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_128" id="Page_128">[Pg&nbsp;128]</a></span>
+to Don Quixote, for he had witnessed the curate's paying
+off the debt for the barber's helmet. Don Fernando paid
+all the innkeeper's demands generously, after the curate
+had decided the claims were just.</p>
+
+<p>But when Don Quixote felt no discord in the air, he betook
+himself to the presence of Dorothea, knelt before her,
+and told her how willing and anxious he was to serve her
+and conquer her giant. And he requested that they make
+ready to leave. Her reply was simple and direct, for she
+told him that his will was hers. So Don Quixote ordered
+his squire to saddle Rocinante and his own donkey; but
+Sancho only shook his head in sorry fashion.</p>
+
+<p>"Master," he said, "there is more mischief in the village
+than one hears of." And as his master begged him to
+speak freely, he burst out: "This lady, who calls herself
+ruler of the great kingdom of Micomicon, is no more so
+than my mother; for, if she was what she says, she would
+not go rubbing noses with one that is here every instant
+and behind every door."</p>
+
+<p>Though it was merely with her husband, Don Fernando,
+that she had, as Sancho said, rubbed noses, the crimson in
+her royal blood came to the surface, and her face turned
+as red as a beet. Sancho, fearing that the Princess was a
+courtesan, wanted to save his master the two years' journey
+to Micomicon, if at the end of it it should turn out that
+another one than Don Quixote or himself should reap the
+fruits of their labor.</p>
+
+<p>It is impossible to describe the terrible wrath of the
+knight when he heard the Princess thus slandered. His
+indignation and fury knew no bounds. He began to stammer
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_129" id="Page_129">[Pg&nbsp;129]</a></span>
+and stutter, inarticulate with rage, until Sancho was
+scared out of his wits, afraid of being cut open by his raving
+master's sword. He was just about to turn his back on
+his master and disappear till the storm had passed, when
+Dorothea came to his rescue. She suggested that Sancho's
+strange behavior could only be ascribed to one thing: enchantment.
+How else could he have seen such diabolical
+things as he described, how could he have been made to
+bear false witness against her, and how could he have
+spoken words so offensive to her modesty? Knowing the
+heart of Sancho, Don Quixote at once thought her explanation
+a most ingenious one, for what else could have put
+into Sancho's head such disrespect for a royal personage?
+Don Fernando, too, pleaded in Sancho's behalf; and Sancho
+meekly stumbled to his knees before his master, and kissed
+his hand frantically, begging him for forgiveness. Whereupon
+our knight errant with many gestures pardoned and
+blessed him.</p>
+
+<p>"Now, Sancho, my son," he said, "thou wilt be convinced
+of the truth of what I have many a time told thee,
+that everything in this castle is done by means of enchantment."</p>
+
+<p>To which Sancho Panza replied meekly but firmly: "So it
+is, I believe, except the affair of the blanket, which came to
+pass in reality by ordinary means."</p>
+
+<p>But Don Quixote as usual was not in a mood to listen
+to nonsense, and he replied that if such were the case he
+would have avenged him, but seeing no one to avenge himself
+upon, how could it have been anything else but enchantment?
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_130" id="Page_130">[Pg&nbsp;130]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>Those who were there were eager to know what had happened
+to Sancho, and the landlord was most obliging in
+giving a graphic description of all that had occurred.
+They all seemed to enjoy the account enormously, for they
+laughed hilariously. Had Don Quixote not again assured
+Sancho that it most certainly had happened by enchantment,
+there is no doubt that he would have interrupted
+their hilarity.</p>
+
+<p>It was now two days since they had arrived at the inn,
+and Don Fernando and Dorothea were becoming anxious
+to depart. In order that they might not have to go out
+of their way, it was arranged that they should go by themselves;
+meanwhile a scheme was devised whereby the curate
+and the barber could restore Don Quixote to his native
+village.</p>
+
+<p>An ox-cart passed that day, and the curate, hearing it
+was going in the direction of El Toboso, made arrangements
+with the owner to make the journey with him.
+Then he ordered some of the servants to make a cage, large
+enough to hold Don Quixote, and provided it with bars.
+He then asked Don Fernando and his companions, the
+officers of the Holy Brotherhood, the servants of Don Luis,
+and the innkeeper to cover their faces and change their
+appearance so that Don Quixote would think they were
+quite different people.</p>
+
+<p>When this had been done they tiptoed to the valiant
+knight errant's room, where they found him fast asleep,
+bound him, without waking him, hand and foot; then they
+stood about the room silently. When the knight awoke,
+he was startled to find that he could not move, and seeing
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_131" id="Page_131">[Pg&nbsp;131]</a></span>
+all these strangely conjured-up figures before him, it struck
+him they must be phantoms of the enchanted castle. He
+was absolutely helpless, and the men had no difficulty in
+stuffing him into the cage. The bars were nailed on securely,
+and the cage was then carried out of the inn and
+placed in the ox-cart.</p>
+
+<p>While the procession slowly proceeded from the inn to
+the ox-cart, the men supporting the cage on their shoulders,
+the barber chanted strange words in a weird and hollow
+voice. The barber took it upon himself to become the prophet
+of the occasion, and he proclaimed to the Knight of
+the Rueful Countenance that he ought not to consider his
+present imprisonment an affliction. It was in a way a
+sort of penance, he said, through which he would be humbled
+to be in readiness for a still greater, sweeter imprisonment,
+the bond of matrimony. This prediction would
+come true, he avowed, when the fierce Manchegan lion and
+the tender Tobosan dove met again. They would be
+joined in one, and the offspring of this union would be of
+such stuff as to set the world aflame.</p>
+
+<p>When Don Quixote heard these words, he was stirred
+into an exalted emotion. Had he not been well bound it
+would have been expressed by kneeling. He raised his
+eyes toward Heaven and thanked the Lord for having sent
+this prophet to him in this needy moment.<a name="Page131Ill" id="Page131Ill"></a> He prayed
+that he should not be left to perish in the cage, and also
+implored of the prophet not to let his faithful Sancho Panza
+abandon him, saying that if by chance the promise of the
+island should not come true, he had made provision for him
+in his will. Sancho was much moved by what his encaged
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_132" id="Page_132">[Pg&nbsp;132]</a></span>
+and enchanted master had said, and he bent down and
+kissed his hands&mdash;he had to kiss both since they were tied
+together. By that time the procession had arrived at the
+ox-cart, and all was ready for the departure.</p>
+
+<hr class="hr1" />
+<h2><a name="v1CHAPTERXLVII" id="v1CHAPTERXLVII"></a>CHAPTER XLVII</h2>
+
+<h4>Of the Strange Manner in Which Don Quixote of La
+Mancha Was Carried Away Enchanted, Together
+with Other Remarkable Incidents</h4>
+
+<p class="cap">DON QUIXOTE was greatly perplexed and, indeed,
+somewhat impatient with the slow speed of the cart
+carrying away this enchanted knight. The cart had rolled
+only a few paces and then stopped; there was nothing exciting
+or heroic in being carried off in such a way! Never
+had he read anywhere of so ridiculously slow and tame a
+proceeding. And on an ox-cart! However, times had
+changed, and he realized that until he had established the
+new era of knight-errantry, the most plebeian ways of being
+captured by enchantment would have to serve. Yet,
+he did not consider it beneath his dignity to ask Sancho
+what he thought on the subject.</p>
+
+<p>"I don't know what to think," answered Sancho, "not
+being as well read as your Worship in errant writings; but
+for all that, I venture to say and swear that these apparitions
+that are about us are not quite Catholic."</p>
+
+<p>Don Quixote could not refrain from laughing aloud at
+his squire's simplicity. How could they be Catholics
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_133" id="Page_133">[Pg&nbsp;133]</a></span>
+when they were devils, made of no substance whatever,
+nothing but air?</p>
+
+<p><a name="Page131pic" id="Page131pic"></a></p>
+<div class="figcenter" >
+<img src="images/illus3.jpg" width="450" height="597"
+alt="&quot;HE PRAYED THAT HE SHOULD NOT BE LEFT TO PERISH IN THE CAGE.&quot;&mdash;Page 131"
+title="&quot;HE PRAYED THAT HE SHOULD NOT BE LEFT TO PERISH IN THE CAGE.&quot;&mdash;Page 131" />
+<span class="caption"><br />&quot;HE PRAYED THAT HE SHOULD NOT BE LEFT TO PERISH IN THE CAGE.&quot;&mdash;
+<a href="#Page131Ill">Page 131</a></span>
+</div>
+
+<p>"By the Lord, Master," interrupted Sancho excitedly,
+"I have touched them already, and one of the devils, I
+swear, has firm flesh. Furthermore, I have always heard it
+said that all devils smelled of sulphur and brimstone, but
+this one smells of amber half a league off."</p>
+
+<p>Here Sancho was referring to Don Fernando, who, like
+most nobles, used a perfume; but Don Quixote explained
+to his squire that this particular devil was so besprinkled
+in order to give people the impression he was not a devil.</p>
+
+<p>While Don Quixote and his squire were thus exchanging
+thoughts on the subject of devils and their religion
+and what stuff they were made of, the curate and the barber
+were saying farewell to Don Fernando, his bride, Dorothea,
+Cardenio, Luscinda, the Judge and Do�a Clara, as
+well as to the Captain and the Captain's bride, Zoraida.
+All of them promised to write to the curate, so that he in
+return might let them know how his and Don Quixote's
+journey had ended.</p>
+
+<p>After many embraces, the curate and the barber were
+ready to make their departure when the landlord came
+running out with some papers which he handed to the curate
+as a gift. The landlord said it was the manuscript of
+the novel, "Rinconete and Cortadillo," a part of the contents
+of the valise in which he had found the story of "Ill-Advised
+Curiosity," which the curate had read aloud at
+the inn.</p>
+
+<p>The curate thanked the innkeeper, saying that he hoped
+it was as good as the other novel. Then he and the barber
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_134" id="Page_134">[Pg&nbsp;134]</a></span>
+covered their faces that they might not be recognized by
+Don Quixote, and took their places behind the cart,
+mounted on their mules. The three officers of the Brotherhood
+had been brought by the curate to escort them to El
+Toboso, armed with muskets. And then Sancho Panza,
+mounted on his donkey, led Rocinante by the reins. As
+the procession started, the landlady came out to weep make-believe
+tears for Don Quixote, who begged her to shed
+none, for in the end, he said, virtue would triumph.</p>
+
+<p>At the head of the procession came the ox-cart, the officers
+of the Brotherhood marching beside it, then followed
+Sancho Panza on his ass, leading Rocinante by the bridle,
+and in the rear trailed the curate and the barber on their
+mules. The slow pace of the oxen had to be imitated by the
+rest, so the whole procession took on a solemn and mysterious
+aspect, which was enhanced by the encaged Don Quixote's
+stiff and stone-like form leaning against the wooden
+bars.</p>
+
+<p>They had traveled several leagues, when the curate
+heard the sound of riders approaching from behind. Turning
+in his saddle he perceived six or seven men, mounted
+on mules, and riding at a quick pace. They had soon overtaken
+the procession, and exchanged greetings with the
+curate and the barber. One of the travelers was a canon
+of Toledo, and on observing the fettered Don Quixote,
+with the armed officers of the Brotherhood as an escort, he
+took it for granted that the knight was some dangerous
+highwayman. Yet, scrutinizing the strange parade, he
+could not help asking questions. So when he inquired of
+one of the officers why Don Quixote was being transported
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_135" id="Page_135">[Pg&nbsp;135]</a></span>
+in that way, the officer did not know what to say but referred
+him for an explanation to Don Quixote himself.</p>
+
+<p>The knight errant had heard the canon's question, and
+he offered to give him the information if he knew anything
+about errantry. As the canon said he had read a good deal
+about knights errant and their deeds, Don Quixote was
+quick to tell of his misfortune&mdash;how he had been encaged
+and made helpless by enchantment. At this moment the
+curate, seeing that the canon was talking to Don Quixote,
+and fearing a mishap in the carrying out of their plan,
+came up and joined in the conversation. He corroborated
+what the knight errant had just said, and added that it
+was not for his sins that he was enchanted, but because of
+his enemies' hatred of virtuous deeds, of which this famous
+Knight of the Rueful Countenance was the strongest
+champion in their age.</p>
+
+<p>When the good canon heard the two of them talk like
+that, he was at a loss for words and felt he had to cross
+himself, in which action his attendants joined him. But
+as luck would have it, Sancho Panza had been listening,
+and seeing the curate disguised by a mask, the suspicion
+crept into his head that he was trying to play a joke on his
+master. So he burst into the conversation with a grudge
+against them all.</p>
+
+<p>"Well, sirs, you may like it or not," he declared, "but
+my master is as much enchanted as my mother! He is in
+his full senses; he can eat, and sleep, and drink. Then
+why do they want me to believe that he is enchanted? I
+have heard it said that when you are enchanted you cannot
+do any of these things, nor talk. And my master will
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_136" id="Page_136">[Pg&nbsp;136]</a></span>
+talk more than thirty lawyers would if you do not stop
+him." Then turning to the curate, he exclaimed: "And,
+se�or curate, se�or curate! Do you think I do not know
+you? Well, I can tell you I do, for all your face is
+covered; and I can tell you I am up to you, however you
+may hide your tricks. If it had not been for your Worship,
+my master would be married to the Princess Micomicona
+this minute, and I should be a Count at least&mdash;for
+no less was to be expected."</p>
+
+<p>And then the faithful Sancho went on to say that he
+had told all this that the curate might weigh in his conscience
+the pranks he had played on Don Quixote, and for
+which he would have to pay in heaven (if he ever should
+come there) unless he did penance now. Here the barber
+thought it best to put an end to Sancho's communications,
+and offered him a place in the cage beside his master, but
+Sancho was quick to retort: "Mind how you talk, master
+barber, for shaving is not everything; and as to the enchantment
+of my master, God knows the truth!"</p>
+
+<p>Soon after Sancho had commenced his tirade, the curate
+thought it best, having listened to his own denunciation, to
+explain everything concerning the knight errant and his
+squire to the canon. Therefore he asked him to ride on
+ahead with him. When the canon had heard the whole
+story, he remarked that he thought that books of chivalry
+were really harmful, for not one of them was truthful.
+He was amused when the curate related how he and the
+barber had burned nearly all of Don Quixote's treasures
+in literature of this sort.</p>
+
+<p>"But what mind," asked the canon, "that is not wholly
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_137" id="Page_137">[Pg&nbsp;137]</a></span>
+barbarous and uncultured can find pleasure in reading of
+how a great tower full of knights sails away across the
+sea like a ship with a fair wind, and will be to-night in
+Lombardy and to-morrow morning in the land of Prester
+John of the Indies?"</p>
+
+<hr class="hr1" />
+<h2><a name="v1CHAPTERXLVIII" id="v1CHAPTERXLVIII"></a>CHAPTER XLVIII</h2>
+
+<h4>In Which the Canon Pursues the Subject of the Books
+of Chivalry, With Other Matters Worthy of
+His Wit</h4>
+
+<p class="cap">THE curate and the canon had become very much
+interested in their subject, and the canon after a
+while confided to the curate that he himself had once
+started to write a book on chivalry, with the intention of
+making each incident in it a plausible one. It was his
+view that fiction was all the better the more it resembled
+the truth. Furthermore, he believed in adhering to good
+taste and to the rules of art; these things, it seemed to him,
+had been ignored in the writing of these books. From
+fiction the conversation drifted to playwriting, and here
+again the curate and the canon were of the same mind.
+The actors of their age chose plays that appealed to people
+of nonsense and with bad taste. Instead of trying to
+improve the national taste, they produced tawdry plays.
+The canon cited three excellent plays, however, that he
+had seen at Madrid, which had earned great profits for
+their producers; this proved to the canon that the great
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_138" id="Page_138">[Pg&nbsp;138]</a></span>
+mass of the public did appreciate a really good play if it
+was only produced.</p>
+
+<p>While the two clergymen were thus whiling away the
+time, the barber approached and told the curate they had
+reached a place which to him seemed a good pasture for
+the oxen. It was now noon, and the canon decided to
+join them in their rest. He offered them food out of the
+provisions that he had brought along on a pack-mule.
+The rest of the canon's mules were sent to an inn, which
+was seen nearby, to be fed there.</p>
+
+<p>Seeing his master unguarded, Sancho decided the time
+had come when he could speak undisturbedly to him, so he
+hastened to tell him of the plot that the curate and the
+barber had hit upon. He told his master he was certain it
+was out of envy and malice, for his having surpassed them
+in fame and brave deeds. Don Quixote, however, calmly
+told his squire that if he saw two shapes that resembled the
+barber and the curate there, they could be nothing but
+devils having taken on the appearance of his friends in
+order to be able to do their black deeds so much the more
+safely and cruelly.</p>
+
+<hr class="hr1" />
+<h2><a name="v1CHAPTERXLIX" id="v1CHAPTERXLIX"></a>CHAPTER XLIX</h2>
+
+<h4>Which Treats of How Our Knight Is Permitted to
+Descend from His Cage, and of the Canon's Attempt
+to Convert Him from His Illusions</h4>
+
+<p class="cap">DURING his conversation with Sancho, Don Quixote
+suddenly felt it an absolute necessity to leave the
+cage, and to stretch himself in the open. So Sancho went
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_139" id="Page_139">[Pg&nbsp;139]</a></span>
+to the curate to ask his permission, which he received upon
+promising to answer for his master's not disappearing.
+The curate and the canon went to the cage, and Don Quixote
+swore as a knight that he would not run away, whereupon
+they untied his hands and feet.</p>
+
+<p>The first thing Don Quixote did was to go to his Rocinante;
+and then the canon thought he would try to talk
+sense into him, to see whether he could not persuade him to
+give up his crazy notions and ideas. Don Quixote listened
+courteously and attentively, but when the canon had finished,
+he turned to him and said he rather thought it was
+the canon and not he who was afflicted and out of his wits,
+since he had the audacity to blaspheme the order of knighthood.
+And then he went on, describing the deeds of all
+the famous knights he had read of; and the canon was
+really amazed at the great ease and clearness of mind with
+which he related these tales of adventure. He thought it
+a pity that so much knowledge of a wrong kind should be
+heaped into one brain.</p>
+
+<hr class="hr1" />
+<h2><a name="v1CHAPTERL-LI" id="v1CHAPTERL-LI"></a>CHAPTERS L-LI</h2>
+
+<h4>Of the Shrewd Controversy Which Don Quixote and
+the Canon Held, Together with Other
+Incidents</h4>
+
+<p class="cap">WHAT the canon had tried on the knight, Don Quixote
+now decided to try on him. Was that not the
+great mission he had undertaken in the world&mdash;to revive
+the spirit of chivalry? So he told the canon of the many
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_140" id="Page_140">[Pg&nbsp;140]</a></span>
+fine qualities he had developed since he was dubbed a
+knight, such as courtesy, generosity, valor, good breeding,
+patience, and many others that he mentioned; how he had
+learned to bear hardships of all kinds, and now, of late,
+enchantment. He ended his long discourse by expressing
+a desire that he might soon be an emperor, for, he said, he
+wished to do good to some of his faithful friends, especially
+his squire Sancho Panza.</p>
+
+<p>Sancho heard his master's last words, and reminded him
+again of the island that he was to govern. On hearing
+this, the canon broke in with a few remarks about administration
+and government, and their difficulties, and Sancho
+interrupted the canon to say it would be very easy to
+find some one to do all that for him. In reply to this the
+canon came forward with a good many arguments phrased
+in philosophical language which the squire could make
+neither head nor tail of. So he took up the thread of his
+own mind, and replied: "I have as much soul as another,
+and as much body as any one, and I shall be as much king
+of my realm as any other of his; so let the country come,
+and God be with you, and let us see one another, as one
+blind man said to the other."</p>
+
+<p>All the canon could do when he realized how badly both
+master and servant were in the clutch of their beliefs and
+superstitions, was to wonder at it. But by the time Sancho
+had finished his words, the repast was being served on the
+grass.</p>
+
+<p>As they were about to seat themselves, a goat came running
+from between the trees, pursued by a man whose clear
+voice could be heard distinctly from the distance. Soon
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_141" id="Page_141">[Pg&nbsp;141]</a></span>
+he came up, and he caught the goat by the horns and began
+to talk to her, calling her daughter, as if she had been a
+child. The goat seemed to understand everything, and
+the canon was so impressed with the scene that he asked
+the goatherd not to be in a hurry, but to sit down and eat
+with them.</p>
+
+<p>The goatherd accepted the invitation; and when they
+had finished the repast, they had found that he was by no
+means a fool. When he asked them if they would like to
+hear a true story, they were all anxious to have him tell it
+to them. Only Sancho Panza withdrew, that he might get
+a chance to load himself brimful of food; for he had heard
+his master once say that a knight errant's squire should eat
+until he could hold no more. The goatherd began his
+story, after having told the goat to lie down beside him.
+She did so, and while the goatherd was telling the story of
+his unfortunate love for Leandra, a rich farmer's daughter,
+who had jilted both him and his rival Anselmo for the
+good looks of a braggard by the name of Vicente de la
+Roca, the goat was looking up into his face with an expression
+as it seemed of understanding and sympathy.
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_142" id="Page_142">[Pg&nbsp;142]</a></span></p>
+
+<hr class="hr1" />
+<h2><a name="v1CHAPTERLII" id="v1CHAPTERLII"></a>CHAPTER LII</h2>
+
+<h4>Of the Quarrel That Don Quixote Had with the Goatherd,
+Together with the Rare Adventure of the
+Penitents, Which with an Expenditure of
+Sweat He Brought to a Happy
+Conclusion</h4>
+
+<p class="cap">ALL had enjoyed the goatherd's story, and they
+thanked him for it. Don Quixote offered him the
+aid of his sword for the future, and said that if he had not
+been enchanted at this moment he would at once set out
+to free his Leandra. When the goatherd perceived Don
+Quixote's strange behavior and appearance and heard his
+remarkable language, he was struck with amazement, and
+asked the barber what madness was his, who talked like
+the knights he had read about in the books of knight-errantry.
+Scarcely had Don Quixote heard that he was being
+taken for a madman by the goatherd than he flew at him in
+a raging fit. The most fierce battle ensued, during which
+the faces of both men were scratched until they could hardly
+be recognized. They fought in the midst of the setting
+for the meal, and plates and glasses were smashed and upset.
+Both were urged on like dogs by the rest of the
+company, and soon blood began to flow. Finally Don
+Quixote stumbled, and the goatherd managed to get him
+on his back, while Sancho was held off by one of the canon's
+servants, moaning all the while because he could not go
+to his master's rescue.</p>
+
+<p>Just then a trumpet blew a solemn note, and all listened
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_143" id="Page_143">[Pg&nbsp;143]</a></span>
+in surprise. Don Quixote was all eagerness: there was no
+doubt in his mind but that he was being summoned by one
+in distress, so he asked for and received an hour's truce
+from the goatherd. As soon as he was on his feet, he ran
+to Rocinante, whom he bridled in great haste, and set off,
+armed with lance, buckler, sword and helmet, in the direction
+of the sound.</p>
+
+<p>What Don Quixote saw when he had ridden a short distance
+at his charger's usual comfortable canter was a procession
+of penitents, clad in white, some of whom were
+carrying an image, draped in black. The procession had
+been called for by the priests who desired to bring relief
+to the country, which had been suffering that year from
+a terrific heat and a lack of rain. They were now marching
+to a nearby hermitage, where they wanted to do penance,
+praying in silence to God that he might have pity on
+them.</p>
+
+<p>But what could such a procession have suggested to an
+imaginative mind like Don Quixote's but one of the many
+incidents that he had read of in his books of chivalry, where
+some great and worthy lady was being carried away by
+evil forces? To the knight the covered image easily became
+the worthy lady. Violently kicking Rocinante in
+the sides, for he had not had time to put on his spurs, he
+tried to increase his steed's canter to a gallop that he might
+attack in real knight errant fashion.</p>
+
+<p>The faithful squire, the curate, the canon and the barber
+all did their best to stop the knight by their yells. Sancho
+was frantic, and cried after him: "Where are you going,
+Se�or Don Quixote? What devils have possessed you
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_144" id="Page_144">[Pg&nbsp;144]</a></span>
+to set you against our Catholic faith? Plague take me!
+It is a procession of penitents!" And then he asked him,
+filled with horror and almost choking with tears, whether
+he knew what he was doing. Why, he was charging the
+blessed image of the immaculate and holy Virgin Mary!
+Sancho, seeing his master's lifted lance, could not know
+that his master wanted to release her.</p>
+
+<p>When Don Quixote had reached the penitents, he abruptly
+halted his horse and demanded in no uncertain,
+though flowery, language that the fair lady&mdash;whom, he
+said, he could plainly see they were carrying away against
+her will&mdash;be released at once.</p>
+
+<p>One of four priests, who had just begun to chant the
+Litany, stopped on a high note and answered the knight
+that he must not hold up the singing or the procession, for
+the marchers were doing penitence by whipping themselves
+and could not stop once they had commenced the
+ceremony. Again Don Quixote put forth his demand, this
+time in language that seemed much more ludicrous to the
+penitents so that some of them could not resist bursting
+into laughter. This sign of disrespect was too much for our
+errant, who started his attack but was prevented from finishing
+it by the blow of a stick carried by one of the penitents.
+With one thwack of it he was felled to the ground.</p>
+
+<p>Sancho had now come up, and when he saw his master
+stretched out, with no sign of life, his eyes filled with tears,
+and he thrust himself over his master's body, crying and
+wailing like a little child. It was pitiful to see the sorrow
+and the devotion of the poor, simple-minded fellow, bewailing
+his master's fall from the blow of a mere stick.
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_145" id="Page_145">[Pg&nbsp;145]</a></span>
+And he ended his tribute by thanking him for the great
+generosity he had always shown; for Don Quixote, for but
+eight months of service, had given him the best island that
+was afloat in the sea.</p>
+
+<p>Sancho was suddenly called from his grief by the weak
+voice of the knight, who implored his squire to mount him
+on the ox-cart, as his shoulder was in a dilapidated condition.
+Then he commended himself to his Lady Dulcinea,
+while Sancho recommended that they return with their
+friends to their village, where they could prepare for another
+sally at a more favorable time. The knight seemed
+inclined to take his squire's advice, for he remarked that it
+was not a bad idea: that in the meantime the prevailing
+evil influence of the stars might disappear.</p>
+
+<p>By this time the curate, the canon and the officers of the
+Brotherhood had arrived at the spot, and the curate found
+that he knew one of the priests in the procession. This
+simplified matters considerably, for he found it easy to
+explain to his friend the malady and peculiarities of Don
+Quixote, which had been the cause of so much disturbance
+in so short a time. After the curate had taken leave of the
+canon, the goatherd and those in the procession, he paid
+off the officers, who considered it unwise to accompany the
+party any further. The canon begged the curate to keep
+him informed of any change in Don Quixote's behavior,
+as he was most interested in his case. Then Don Quixote
+was heaved into the cart where a stack of hay served as a
+softer resting-place this time; and after six days of travel,
+the oxen and the cart and the whole procession entered the
+La Mancha village. When they passed the square, it
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_146" id="Page_146">[Pg&nbsp;146]</a></span>
+being Sunday, the people crowded around them, and all
+were amazed at what they saw.</p>
+
+<p>Soon Don Quixote's niece and his housekeeper got word
+of his homecoming. When they saw him, and observed
+his pallor and leanness, they began to weep and beat their
+breasts, and curse all books of chivalry.</p>
+
+<p>Then Sancho Panza's wife learned the news, and as soon
+as she saw her husband the first thing she asked him was
+whether the donkey was well. To this greeting he replied
+that the donkey was better than he himself. And then she
+pestered him with questions as to what he had brought back
+with him for her and the children; to which he impatiently
+remarked that she would have to wait until he got his island
+or empire, when she would be called Her Ladyship.
+Of course, it was not to be expected that Teresa Panza
+should understand this; and she did not. Sancho attempted
+to give her an insight into the intricacies of
+knight-errantry by telling her of some of his remarkable
+experiences, such as the blanketing, which stood out in his
+mind's eye as the culmination of suffering in his career as
+a squire.</p>
+
+<p>While this was going on in the Panza household, Don
+Quixote had been undressed and put to bed by his niece
+and the housekeeper. The curate had told them what
+troubles and tribulations he had been forced to undergo in
+order to restore him to his community and his loved ones.
+So they decided, with fear in their hearts, to be ever watchful,
+lest he escape and depart on another rampage. And
+again and again they would curse the books that they had
+burned too late.
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_147" id="Page_147">[Pg&nbsp;147]</a></span></p>
+
+<hr class="hr1" />
+<h2><a name="VOLUME_II" id="VOLUME_II"></a>VOLUME II</h2>
+
+<hr class="hr2" />
+<h2><a name="v2CHAPTERI" id="v2CHAPTERI"></a>CHAPTER I</h2>
+
+<h4>Of the Interview the Curate and the Barber Had with
+Don Quixote About His Malady</h4>
+
+<p class="cap">DON QUIXOTE had been at home almost a month.
+During that time neither the curate nor the barber
+had been to see him for fear that the sight of them would
+remind him of his days of knight-errantry and make him
+long for another campaign. They did visit the niece and
+housekeeper, however, and advised them from time to
+time what to do; and at last the women began to think that
+there was hope for our knight's being restored to his right
+mind, for his conversation never touched upon deeds of
+chivalry, and when he spoke on other subjects he always
+talked most sanely.</p>
+
+<p>Finally the curate and the barber decided to pay their
+friend a visit, firmly resolved not to let the subject of conversation
+turn to knight-errantry. They found him in bed,
+with a red Toledo cap on his head. His face had changed
+greatly; it was so withered and yellow that it resembled
+parchment rather than human flesh. He greeted them
+cordially, however, and soon they engaged in an animated
+conversation, which finally turned to such an intricate subject
+as government. So unusually sane and clear was
+Don Quixote's reasoning that his friends were amazed at
+the change that had taken place, and they felt quite certain
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_148" id="Page_148">[Pg&nbsp;148]</a></span>
+that he was cured. Then they began to discuss the news
+from the capital, and the curate mentioned that the Turk
+was expected to attack. Nobody knew when, he said, but
+in order to safeguard the island of Malta and the coasts
+of Naples and Sicily, His Majesty had already made provisions
+for the defense of these provinces.</p>
+
+<p>Here Don Quixote interrupted and said that His Majesty
+could easily settle the whole thing if he would only
+follow his advice. Both the curate and the barber began
+to wonder and worry about what his plan might be, but before
+divulging it Don Quixote insisted upon absolute secrecy,
+which of course they promised. And then he began
+in the old, familiar strain, citing the examples of the innumerable
+heroes of his condemned books of chivalry,
+heroes who, single-handed, had conquered armies of millions.
+He finished with a tirade about God's providing
+such a knight errant to-day to save the nation and Christianity
+against the onslaught of the heathen Turk, with an
+inference in his last words that he was to be the chosen
+savior.</p>
+
+<p>When the two women heard Don Quixote again rave in
+this manner, they burst into tears, and the curate and the
+barber were as sorry and concerned as the women. The
+curate turned in bewilderment to his poor friend and asked
+him whether he truly believed that the heroes of these tales
+of chivalry were men of flesh and blood. He himself, he
+said, was convinced that these stories were nothing but
+fables and falsehoods, and that none of the personages in
+them ever lived. Whereupon Don Quixote began to ridicule
+the curate, and went on to describe his heroes, saying
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_149" id="Page_149">[Pg&nbsp;149]</a></span>
+that his faith was so strong that he could almost swear he
+had seen Amadis of Gaul and some of the others he worshiped.
+Then he embarked on a description of these
+knights, giving the color of their eyes, of their beards and
+hair, their height, complexion, all according to his own
+crazy imagination. Much of what he said seemed so amusing
+to his two friends that they nearly went into hysterics
+from laughter. His mind's image of Roland was particularly
+laughable, for he saw him as a bow-legged, swarthy-complexioned
+gentleman with a hairy body, courteous and
+well-bred.</p>
+
+<p>On hearing Roland so pictured, the curate remarked it
+was no wonder that he was jilted by the fair lady Angelica.
+To this Don Quixote retorted that lady Angelica
+was a giddy and frivolous damsel with desires that smacked
+of wantonness. He only regretted that Roland had not
+been a poet that he might have libeled her in poetry for all
+eternity.</p>
+
+<p>Here the knight was interrupted by the sound of loud
+talking in the courtyard, intermingled with screams, and
+when he and the curate came running they saw the two
+women struggling to keep a man from entering the house.
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_150" id="Page_150">[Pg&nbsp;150]</a></span></p>
+
+<hr class="hr1" />
+<h2><a name="v2CHAPTERII" id="v2CHAPTERII"></a>CHAPTER II</h2>
+
+<h4>Which Treats of the Notable Altercation Which
+Sancho Panza Had with Don Quixote's Niece
+and His Housekeeper, Together with Other
+Droll Matters</h4>
+
+<p class="cap">THE man turned out to be no other than Sancho, who
+wanted to see his master. But the housekeeper and
+the niece were bent on not admitting him, for they considered
+Sancho the arch enticer and felt that he was to
+blame for Don Quixote's expeditions into the country.
+When Sancho heard himself thus accused, he defended
+himself with accusations against Don Quixote, who, he
+said, had been the one to hypnotize him; and then he added
+that he had come to find out about his island.</p>
+
+<p>As soon as Don Quixote recognized his squire, he quickly
+took him inside, being afraid that he would tell the women
+all the little details of the knight's adventures, such as
+the galley-slave episode and others not tending to reflect
+honor on his shield. Whereupon the barber and the curate
+left, both of them in despair of their friend's ever being
+cured. The curate remarked that it would not surprise
+him to learn before many moons that Don Quixote and
+Sancho had set off again on another sally. They were curious
+to know what the master and the servant might be
+discussing at that very moment. However, the curate was
+of the firm belief that they could rely upon the two women
+to keep their ears to the door. They would learn from
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_151" id="Page_151">[Pg&nbsp;151]</a></span>
+them what had been the topic, and what had been
+said.</p>
+
+<p>When Don Quixote was alone with his squire, he expressed
+dismay over his having told the housekeeper the
+knight had taken him from house and home, when he knew
+perfectly well that he had gone of his own free will.
+They had shared everything, he said; everything except
+blows, where he had had a distinct advantage over his
+squire, having taken ninety-nine out of a hundred beatings.
+This dividing of fortune, Sancho thought, was quite as it
+should be, for of course knights errant ought to share the
+greater benefits of the battle. Here Don Quixote interrupted
+with a Latin quotation, which had an evil effect on
+Sancho, for it made him retaliate with the blanket episode
+which to him still seemed the height of all his suffering in
+the world. But this attempt to belittle the fairness of his
+master's division of honors in battle was speedily parried
+by Don Quixote, who maintained that his squire's bodily
+suffering in the blanket was as nothing compared with the
+painful agony of his own heart and soul when he had seen
+his squire in such a predicament. And then he proceeded
+to question Sancho as to public opinion of his deeds and
+valor.</p>
+
+<p>Sancho was inclined to be reticent; but urged by Don
+Quixote&mdash;and having been forgiven in advance for any
+vexation he might cause him by telling the truth&mdash;he told
+of the variety of opinions that existed in the village.
+This his master thought only natural; for when had the
+world ever given full recognition to a genius or a great
+hero until after he was dead? He pointed to all the great
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_152" id="Page_152">[Pg&nbsp;152]</a></span>
+names he could recollect in history that had been persecuted.</p>
+
+<p>But Sancho had not come to the worst; and at last he
+found sufficient courage to tell his master of a book entitled
+"The Ingenious Gentleman, Don Quixote of La
+Mancha," which had already, he said, been spread abroad.
+In this book not only Don Quixote, but he himself&mdash;under
+his own name!&mdash;and the Lady Dulcinea del Toboso figured;
+and he was so stupefied that he had to cross himself,
+for he could not imagine how everything that had been
+told in the book&mdash;the most intimate happenings between
+Don Quixote and himself&mdash;had come to be known to the
+author. Don Quixote thought it was very plain that the
+adventures must have been reported by some sage and enchanter;
+but Sancho told him that the author was one Cid
+Hamet Berengena (meaning eggplant). It was no other
+than the son of Bartholomew Carrasco, who had been a
+student at Salamanca, who had told him all this, he said.
+He asked his master whether he should like to see the
+young bachelor, and Don Quixote begged him to run and
+fetch him at once, for, he said, he would be unable to digest
+a thing until he had had a talk with him.</p>
+
+<p>"Cid Hamet Berengena," repeated Don Quixote to himself.
+"That is a Moorish name."</p>
+
+<p>"Yes, I have heard the Moors like eggplant," added
+Sancho.</p>
+
+<p>And then his lord and master asked: "Didst thou not
+mistake the surname of this 'Cid,' which means in Arabic
+'lord,' Sancho?"
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_153" id="Page_153">[Pg&nbsp;153]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>"Perhaps," said Sancho; "but the bachelor can tell you
+that."</p>
+
+<p>And he ran to fetch him.</p>
+
+<hr class="hr1" />
+<h2><a name="v2CHAPTERIII" id="v2CHAPTERIII"></a>CHAPTER III</h2>
+
+<h4>Of the Laughable Conversation That Passed Between
+Don Quixote, Sancho Panza, and the
+Bachelor Samson Carrasco</h4>
+
+<p class="cap">WHILE Sancho was gone, Don Quixote sat and
+worried about what the book might be like; for
+what justice could be expected from the pen of a Moor
+writing history? But perhaps it was not true that such a
+chronicle had been written. It seemed almost an impossibility,
+for it was only a short time since he returned from
+his achievements. What worried him most was the thought
+that this Cid Hamet Berengena might have made public in
+some odious way that great love and sacred passion of his
+for the beautiful and virtuous Lady Dulcinea del Toboso.</p>
+
+<p>As he was thus meditating Sancho returned, bringing
+with him the younger Carrasco, who went by the strong
+name of Samson, in defiance of his unpretentious size.
+But what he lacked in this respect, he made up for in wit
+and humor. He was about twenty-four years of age, had
+a round jovial face, a large mouth and a flat nose. What
+more need one know to be inclined to think he might be
+mischievous? He gave proof of it as soon as he entered,
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_154" id="Page_154">[Pg&nbsp;154]</a></span>
+for he fell on his knees and kissed the hero's hand respectfully,
+pronouncing him the first and foremost warrior and
+knight of the age. Then he called down a blessing on the
+name of Cid Hamet Benengeli, his noble biographer, and
+on the worthy, learned man who had translated the work
+from the difficult Arabic into their pure Castilian for the
+edification of all the Spanish people who knew how to read
+their own language.</p>
+
+<p>"So then there <i>is</i> a history of me&mdash;and written by a Moor
+and a sage?" asked Don Quixote, as he bade Samson rise.</p>
+
+<p>The bachelor assented and went on to tell how the world
+was clamoring for this remarkable chronicle of heroism and
+sacrifices. Don Quixote remarked here what a great source
+of joy and inspiration it should prove to a man with
+achievements to his credit to see himself in print before
+being dead. The bachelor's opinion on the subject coincided
+with his own; and Samson took the opportunity to
+pay homage to the marvelous courage, intrepidity, gallantry,
+gentleness and patience of Don Quixote, as the
+author had described it in the book. He also spoke feelingly
+of the beautiful, platonic courtship of our knight
+errant; and the mention of this caused Don Quixote to ask
+which of his many acts of chivalry were most appealing to
+the reader. The bachelor replied that that depended
+greatly upon the reader's taste: some liked the adventure
+of the windmills that were enchanted giants; others preferred
+reading about the two armies that suddenly turned
+into droves of sheep; then again there were those who
+seemed to think the victorious assault on the Biscayan made
+a thrilling chapter; while many would swear they had never
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_155" id="Page_155">[Pg&nbsp;155]</a></span>
+read anything that excited them quite as much as the account
+of the liberation of the galley slaves.</p>
+
+<p>Sancho interrupted him here, asking what was said of
+their experience with the Yanguesans, when the good Rocinante
+went looking for adventure and was bitten by the
+ponies. Samson replied that the sage had forgotten nothing;
+not even the capers that Sancho himself had cut in the
+blanket. Whereupon Sancho said: "I cut no capers in
+the blanket. In the air I did, and more of them than I
+liked!" But Don Quixote interposed here, saying that
+history must of necessity be more than one-sided. It must
+take into its pages adversities as well as good fortune.</p>
+
+<p>Some people, the bachelor held forth, had expressed a
+desire that the author might have eliminated some of the
+cruel thrashings he had given the hero; but Sancho differed
+with these people and supported the author unqualifiedly,
+saying, with a glance at Don Quixote, "That is where the
+truth of the history comes in!"</p>
+
+<p>Of course Don Quixote saw it in a different light, for he
+thought that the thrashings tended to bring the hero of
+the book into contempt. The author should have passed
+them over in silence, he said. Sancho muttered something
+to himself, and Don Quixote admonished him to be quiet
+so that the bachelor might tell him more of what was said
+of him in the book.</p>
+
+<p>"And about me!" broke in Sancho, "for they say that I
+am one of the principal presonages in it."</p>
+
+<p>"Personages," corrected Samson, adding that Sancho was
+the second person in the chronicle, although many thought
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_156" id="Page_156">[Pg&nbsp;156]</a></span>
+he was even first. He also remarked that the author had
+been criticized for having inserted a story called "Ill-Advised
+Curiosity," which had nothing to do with Don Quixote
+whatever. This Don Quixote thought was an infringement
+on the hero's rights, and corroborated the justification
+of the criticism.</p>
+
+<p>Thus Don Quixote learned from the bachelor all about
+his own deeds and exploits, as they had been given to the
+world by the great Moorish sage Cid Hamet Benengeli.
+And when he had asked about himself again and again,
+and had been satisfied by the replies of Samson, he found
+it was nearly dinner time. Sancho took a hurried leave,
+fearing the wrath of his wife if he were late for his meal,
+and Don Quixote asked the bachelor to stay and keep him
+company.</p>
+
+<p>All the while they were eating, Don Quixote entertained
+his guest with tales of chivalry. When they finished their
+repast, they took a nap, and when they awoke, Sancho was
+there waiting for them to return to their conversation concerning
+the famous chronicle.</p>
+
+<hr class="hr1" />
+<h2><a name="v2CHAPTERIV" id="v2CHAPTERIV"></a>CHAPTER IV</h2>
+
+<h4>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 Mentioning</h4>
+
+<p class="cap">SAMSON was anxious to learn what Sancho had done
+with the hundred crowns he had found in the knapsack.
+Sancho replied that he had spent them for the benefit
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_157" id="Page_157">[Pg&nbsp;157]</a></span>
+of himself, his wife and children; adding that, had he
+come back to his wife without riches of any sort, he would
+have had a doubtful reward waiting for him. Now, he
+said, if anybody wanted to know anything about him, he
+was ready to answer the King himself.</p>
+
+<p>"It is no one's business," said he, "whether I took the
+money, or did not; whether I spent it or did not spend it,
+for if every beating I have received in my master's service
+were to be valued at no more than four maravedis, 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 us&mdash;aye,
+and often worse."</p>
+
+<p>Don Quixote was curious to know whether there was to
+be a second part to the book; and Samson replied that the
+author was diligently looking for one, but had as yet found
+none; so it remained only a possibility. Yet, inspired by
+the profits he had made out of the first book, he was anxious
+to find a second part, he said.</p>
+
+<p>"The author looks for money and profit, does he?"
+asked Sancho. "Well, let Master Moor, or whoever he is,
+pay attention to what he is doing, and I and my master
+will give him adventures and accidents of all sorts, enough
+to make up not only a second part but a hundred. The
+good man fancies, no doubt, we are 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 now be afield, redressing
+outrages and righting wrongs, as is the use and
+custom of good knights errant."
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_158" id="Page_158">[Pg&nbsp;158]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>Scarcely had Sancho spoken these words, when Rocinante
+commenced to neigh; and how could this be interpreted
+to be anything else than a good omen? In an instant
+Don Quixote had resolved to sally forth again in a
+few days. The bachelor warned him this time to expose
+himself to no such tremendous risks as on his previous
+sallies, and begged him to remember always, his life was no
+longer his own, but was dedicated to those in need and in
+despair.</p>
+
+<p>"There is what I abominate, Se�or Samson," Sancho sustained
+him. "My master will attack a hundred men as a
+greedy boy would half a dozen melons. Body of the
+world, Se�or bachelor, there is a time to attack and a time
+to retreat!"</p>
+
+<p>And here it was that Sancho felt it a solemn duty to himself
+and his wife and offspring to come to a definite understanding
+with his master regarding his position in battle.
+He wanted it stipulated that his master was to do all the
+fighting. He would willingly look after his master's and
+Rocinante's comfort, and keep them clean, but when it
+came to drawing sword, he would leave that honor to Don
+Quixote, he declared. He would do his duty so well that
+it would be worth a kingdom as well as an island, both of
+which he would gladly accept.</p>
+
+<p>The bachelor, having recommended Saragossa and the
+kingdom of Aragon as hotbeds of adventure, Don Quixote
+thanked him and asked him whether he was a poet; to which
+the bachelor replied that he was not one of the famous ones.
+Don Quixote explained that he wanted a most original
+idea of his carried out in poetry. Could Samson write a
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_159" id="Page_159">[Pg&nbsp;159]</a></span>
+poem of love in such a manner as to have the first letters
+of each line, reading downward, form the name of his beloved
+one, the peerless Dulcinea del Toboso? Samson
+promised he would try, but Don Quixote replied: "It must
+be done by some means or other, for unless the name stands
+there plain and manifest, no woman would believe the
+verses were made for her." And so the bachelor promised
+to do it, and to have them ready before the day of the departure,
+which would be on the third day.</p>
+
+<p>Don Quixote extracted a promise from Samson to keep
+his intentions a secret; and he and Sancho took leave of
+him, Don Quixote promising he would not fail to send him
+word of his conquests. Sancho in the meantime went home
+and began preparations for their second quest of adventure.</p>
+
+<hr class="hr1" />
+<h2><a name="v2CHAPTERV" id="v2CHAPTERV"></a>CHAPTER V</h2>
+
+<h4>Of the Shrewd and Droll Conversation That Passed
+Between Sancho Panza and His Wife,
+Teresa Panza, and Other Matters
+Worthy of Being Duly Recorded</h4>
+
+<p class="cap">WHEN Sancho came home that evening, his wife
+noticed at once by his mood that something out of
+the ordinary had happened to him. After much persuasion,
+he finally told her that he had made up his mind to
+go out in the world again with his master, looking for
+strange adventures, during which, he said, he hoped to
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_160" id="Page_160">[Pg&nbsp;160]</a></span>
+come across another hundred crowns that he would bring
+home to her. Then Sancho proceeded to tell his wife of
+his great plans for the future, when he became ruler of his
+island. Their daughter, Maria, he was going to marry
+off to some great count; his wife would be Do�a Teresa
+Panza, and he pictured her already, dressed according to
+richest fashion, sitting in her pew in church, surrounded by
+cushions and pillows, and walking on a red plush carpet.
+And as to his son, he should, of course, as was the custom,
+follow his father's trade; so what was he to do but be a
+ruler?</p>
+
+<p>But everything that her illustrious husband proposed,
+Teresa Panza only sneered at; and this angered Sancho,
+who thought she might be more appreciative. Certainly
+not every husband in their village offered to do as much
+for his wife and family. And so they began to quarrel
+with each other, Sancho using&mdash;as he invariably did with
+his master&mdash;all the proverbs he had ever heard, to defeat
+the arguments his wife put forward, enforced in the same
+manner. But when her good Sancho finally lost his patience
+with her entirely, she gave in and promised to go so
+far as to send their young son to him&mdash;that his father might
+train him in the business of government&mdash;as soon as Sancho,
+as the governor of the island, should send his wife the
+necessary money. Sancho charged her particularly with
+the task of seeing that the son on his departure should be
+dressed as a prince of the blood.</p>
+
+<p>And all the while poor Teresa Panza was receiving her
+husband's instructions as to herself and her two children,
+she was bemoaning and struggling against their fate in her
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_161" id="Page_161">[Pg&nbsp;161]</a></span>
+heart; and at last she burst into bitter tears. Seeing her in
+such agony because he had predestined that their daughter
+Maria was to marry a mighty count instead of a poor peasant
+boy, Sancho tried to soothe her feelings by telling her
+that he would try to put off the day of the wedding as
+long as possible; and this promise seemed to cheer Teresa
+Panza to some extent, for she dried her tears.</p>
+
+<p>Having accomplished so much, Sancho then went back
+to his master's house to talk over some things of importance
+with him.</p>
+
+<hr class="hr1" />
+<h2><a name="v2CHAPTERVI" id="v2CHAPTERVI"></a>CHAPTER VI</h2>
+
+<h4>Of What Took Place Between Don Quixote and His
+Niece and His Housekeeper; One of the Most
+Important Chapters in the Whole
+History</h4>
+
+<p class="cap">WHILE Sancho and his wife were flinging proverbs
+at each other at home, there was another scene of
+unrest at Don Quixote's house. The housekeeper had
+had a premonition of her master's impending expedition,
+and soon perceived by his actions that she had not been
+alarmed in vain. She and the niece employed all possible
+means to restrain him from faring forth; but to all their
+admonitions and advice and prayers he made the same reply:
+that there must be knights errant in the world to defend
+the weak and virtuous and to punish arrogance and
+sin, and that he was the one to set the world aright on that
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_162" id="Page_162">[Pg&nbsp;162]</a></span>
+score. And when his niece began to bewail his stubbornness
+and called down the wrath of heaven upon all tales of
+chivalry, he threatened to chastise her for uttering such
+blasphemies. Then he burst into a tirade on things and
+usages pertaining to chivalry, a discourse so saturated with
+knowledge that it called forth a cry of astonishment, a
+wail of disappointment, and a sigh of pity from the niece,
+to whom it suddenly seemed that her uncle had missed his
+vocation in life when he did not become a preacher.</p>
+
+<p>This drove Don Quixote to discourse on almost everything
+under the sun, and he finished up by reciting poetry,
+at which the niece became terror-stricken from superstition,
+and exclaimed that her uncle knew everything in the world.
+She even dared to suppose he knew something about masonry
+and could build a house. This daring thought of
+hers he immediately corroborated by saying that if he were
+not so occupied with dealing out justice to the world, there
+would be nothing he could not do, from building cages to
+making toothpicks.</p>
+
+<p>Just then there was a knock at the door. It was Sancho
+Panza. As soon as the housekeeper learned it was he, she
+fled from the room, for she had grown to detest him like
+sin itself. The niece opened the door for him, and he hastened
+to his master's room, where he was welcomed by Don
+Quixote. And soon they were in the midst of a conversation,
+which took place behind locked doors.
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_163" id="Page_163">[Pg&nbsp;163]</a></span></p>
+
+<hr class="hr1" />
+<h2><a name="v2CHAPTERVII" id="v2CHAPTERVII"></a>CHAPTER VII</h2>
+
+<h4>Of What Passed Between Don Quixote and His Squire,
+Together with Other Very Notable Incidents</h4>
+
+<p class="cap">AS soon as the housekeeper heard Don Quixote turn the
+key in the door, she realized the urgency of the situation,
+put on her shawl, and ran to the house of the bachelor
+Samson Carrasco. She knew that her master had
+taken a fancy to this learned young man and thought he
+might be able to persuade him to give up the crazy idea.
+She fell on her knees before Samson and told him in excited
+language that her master had broken out again.</p>
+
+<p>"Where is he breaking out?" asked the roguish bachelor.</p>
+
+<p>"He is breaking out at the door of his madness," replied
+the bewildered housekeeper. "I mean he is going to break
+out again, for the third time, to hunt all over the world for
+what he calls adventures."</p>
+
+<p>And then she went on to say that his first sally ended in
+his being brought back home, slung across the back of a
+donkey. The second time he made his entry into the village
+in an ox-cart, shut up in a cage, and looking so worn
+and emaciated that his own mother would not have known
+him. The last escapade had been an extremely expensive
+one, for it had taken no less than six hundred eggs to cover
+up his bones again.</p>
+
+<p>The bachelor quieted the housekeeper, and promised her
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_164" id="Page_164">[Pg&nbsp;164]</a></span>
+to do all he could for her master. Then he advised her to
+return home and prepare something hot for breakfast, and
+on her way home to repeat the prayer of Santa Appolonia.
+He himself would be there in time for breakfast, he said.
+The housekeeper remonstrated with the bachelor for prescribing
+the prayer of Santa Appolonia, which, she declared,
+was for toothache and not for brains; but Samson
+told her to do as he bade her, reminding her that he was a
+learned bachelor of Salamanca and knew what he was talking
+about. The housekeeper then left, saying her prayer,
+and the bachelor went to look for the curate that they
+might decide what to do.</p>
+
+<p>In the meantime Don Quixote and Sancho were discussing
+what the future was holding for them, and Sancho
+gave the glad news to his master that he had induced his
+wife to sanction his departure and his becoming governor.
+Sancho was very much annoyed by his master's continual
+interruptions and corrections. Whenever Sancho would
+misuse or abuse a word, as he did in almost every sentence,
+Don Quixote would stop and ask him what he meant, until
+poor Sancho was so confused that he did not know what he
+had meant. Finally Don Quixote asked him to tell him
+all that his wife had said, and as soon as Sancho had a
+chance to use proverbs again, he felt more at home. "Teresa
+says," he repeated, "that I should make sure with your
+Worship, and let papers speak and beards be still. One
+<i>take</i> is better than two <i>I'll give thee's</i>."</p>
+
+<p>"And so say I," said Don Quixote. "Continue, Sancho
+my friend. Go on; thou talkest pearls to-day."</p>
+
+<p>"The fact is," continued Sancho, "that, as your Worship
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_165" id="Page_165">[Pg&nbsp;165]</a></span>
+knows better than I do, we are all of us liable to death,
+and to-day we are, and to-morrow we are not. The lamb
+goes as soon as the sheep, and nobody can promise himself
+more hours of life in this world than God may be pleased
+to give him; for death is deaf, and when it comes to knock
+at our life's door, it is always insistent, and neither
+prayers, nor struggles, nor scepters, nor miters, can keep it
+back, as they tell us from the pulpits every day."</p>
+
+<p>Here Don Quixote felt he ought to ask a question.
+"Sancho," said he, "all that is true; but what art thou driving
+at?"</p>
+
+<p>And then came the reason for all these long-winded preliminaries.
+Sancho wanted his master to make definite
+arrangements with him for compensation. But here was
+the drawback. Don Quixote could recall no incident in
+any of the many books he had read, when a knight errant
+had given his squire fixed wages. How could he possibly
+establish a precedent now? And so it became his
+sad and solemn duty to refuse his squire's miserly request,
+and inform him that his services were no longer wanted.
+Not only that, but our valiant hero was cruel enough to
+remark that there would be any number of people who
+would be only too eager to serve him; and, what was more,
+he was convinced that no one could be less careful and
+diligent, or more thick-headed and talkative than Sancho.</p>
+
+<p>Poor Sancho stood thunderstruck. He had expected his
+master would address him in a much more gracious manner;
+and had taken for granted that his own person was
+indispensable to his master. As he stood there gaping in
+amazement, the bachelor, Samson, suddenly entered, followed
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_166" id="Page_166">[Pg&nbsp;166]</a></span>
+by the niece and the housekeeper. Samson threw
+himself on his knees before the knight, passionately declaiming:</p>
+
+<p>"O flower of knight-errantry! O shining light of arms!
+O honor and mirror of the Spanish nation! May God
+Almighty 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!"</p>
+
+<p>Then he rose and turned to the housekeeper, who was
+distressed and astonished beyond words, telling her it was
+no use gainsaying her master; that he had made up his
+mind, and no Santa Appolonia or any other prayer would
+cause him to change it. Whereupon he addressed Don
+Quixote again in the same lofty way, and slyly asked him
+whether he would deign to accept him as his squire or as
+his meanest servant.</p>
+
+<p>Sancho's eyes nearly bulged out of his head at this, and
+filled with tears. Fearing that he might lose both his
+master and his island, he embraced Don Quixote's knees
+and kissed his hand, begging Don Quixote not to give him
+up. Then he began to plead with him to leave the village
+at once. Don Quixote, having taken the squire into his
+fold again, embraced him, and then conferred with the
+bachelor and decided that they would set out three days
+hence. Samson promised to obtain a helmet for Don
+Quixote before the departure.</p>
+
+<p>In the meantime the bachelor had daily conferences with
+the curate and the barber. The niece and the housekeeper
+were cursing the evil and learned bachelor of Salamanca,
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_167" id="Page_167">[Pg&nbsp;167]</a></span>
+and hardly slept at night for fear that Don Quixote would
+steal away in the darkness.</p>
+
+<p>Finally the night of the third day arrived, and Don
+Quixote and Sancho, accompanied by Samson, quietly and
+secretly stole out of the village, in the direction of El
+Toboso. When they had ridden half a league, Samson
+wished the knight errant godspeed, embraced him tenderly,
+begged him to let him hear of his good fortune, and then he
+returned to the village.</p>
+
+<hr class="hr1" />
+<h2><a name="v2CHAPTERVIII" id="v2CHAPTERVIII"></a>CHAPTER VIII</h2>
+
+<h4>Wherein Is Related What Befell Don Quixote on His
+Way to See His Lady Dulcinea Del Toboso</h4>
+
+<p class="cap">SCARCELY had Samson departed before Rocinante
+began to neigh, and Dapple, Sancho's donkey, to bray;
+and these animal expressions, considering the time, and the
+road they were taking, were interpreted by their respective
+masters to be omens of good luck. But it so happened
+that Dapple kept up his braying. As a matter of fact he
+brayed so much louder than the emaciated Rocinante
+could neigh that the superstitious Sancho took it for a
+sign that his own good fortune would be ever so much
+greater than that of his master, though he was considerate
+enough to say nothing about it to him.</p>
+
+<p>Night soon began to fall, and the conversation between
+master and squire turned to Don Quixote's incomparable
+love, whom he had never seen in the flesh, and to whose
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_168" id="Page_168">[Pg&nbsp;168]</a></span>
+abode he was now making this pilgrimage in the dark,
+that he might be blessed by her before going into new
+battles.</p>
+
+<p>Sancho was beginning to worry that his imagination,
+with which he was not overburdened, would give out; for
+with every new question of his master's he had to give
+a fresh answer, and he was in a deadly fear that Don
+Quixote might discover that he had never been at El Toboso
+with the letter to his Lady Dulcinea. Again Don
+Quixote asked his squire to repeat how he had been received
+when he had brought her the message of his master's
+penance in the wilderness, but it infuriated him that
+Sancho should insist on her having been sifting wheat instead
+of pearls on that occasion. The courtyard wall
+mentioned by his squire must, of course, have been a portico,
+or corridor, or gallery of some rich and royal palace,
+only Sancho's language was so limited he could not express
+himself or describe things properly. Or perhaps that infernal
+enchanter had been busy again, and made things
+appear in different shapes before his squire's eyes.</p>
+
+<p>What his master said made Sancho's thought suddenly
+turn to the book which the bachelor Samson had spoken of,
+and he began to worry that some enchanter might have
+misrepresented his true character in its pages. He felt it
+his place and duty to defend himself aloud against any
+such evil; and having his master as audience, he proceeded
+to carry out this thought, which, however, he abandoned
+towards the end in favor of a careless independence:
+"But let them say what they like; naked was I born, naked
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_169" id="Page_169">[Pg&nbsp;169]</a></span>
+I find myself. I neither lose nor gain. When I see myself
+put into a book and passed on from hand to hand all
+over the world, I don't care a fig. Let them say what they
+like of me!"</p>
+
+<p>Perhaps what Sancho had just said made Don Quixote's
+thoughts drift out into the world, which was now being
+stirred by the accounts of his greatness, for he fell into contemplation
+on all the tombs and monuments to the great
+men of past ages. He touched upon the tombs of some
+who had become saints, when suddenly Sancho shot this
+question to him out of a clear sky: "Tell me, which is the
+greater work, to bring a dead man to life or to kill a
+giant?"</p>
+
+<p>Don Quixote was dumfounded by his squire's suddenness,
+but replied: "The answer is easy. It is a greater
+work to bring to life a dead man."</p>
+
+<p>"Now I have got you!" Sancho exclaimed. Then he
+divulged his longing, which he wanted his master to share,
+to become a saint; viewing a saint's life from all sides,
+he had come to the conclusion that it was a much more
+peaceful life than that of a roving knight errant, who had
+to be up at all hours and out in all sorts of weather.</p>
+
+<p>But his master answered laconically: "We cannot all
+be friars." And then he went on to say that the number of
+knights errant in the world, deserving that name, was a
+very small one; that, as a matter of truth, knight-errantry,
+was a religion. But Sancho, stubborn as usual, insisted
+that there were more friars in heaven than knights errant.
+In this way they passed that night and the following day,
+without any trace of excitement or adventure.</p>
+
+<p>Finally, at daybreak on the second day, they approached
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_170" id="Page_170">[Pg&nbsp;170]</a></span>
+the great city of El Toboso; and Sancho's worries increased
+as they came closer to the place where the heart of the
+peerless Dulcinea was beating&mdash;for what was he going to
+say or do when his master wanted to meet his beloved one?
+Don Quixote decided to await dusk before entering the
+city, and they spent the day resting in the shade of some
+oak-trees outside the town.</p>
+
+<hr class="hr1" />
+<h2><a name="v2CHAPTERIX" id="v2CHAPTERIX"></a>CHAPTER IX</h2>
+
+<h4>Wherein Is Related What Will Be Seen There</h4>
+
+<p class="cap">IT was midnight when they rode into El Toboso. It
+was a very dark night, so Sancho could not be
+blamed for not finding the house in the darkness. They
+were greeted by a multitude of noises: barking dogs, braying
+asses, mewing cats, and grunting pigs; noises that
+seemed like an ill omen to Don Quixote. He suddenly
+turned to Sancho and said: "Sancho, my son, lead on to
+the place of Dulcinea. It may be that we shall find her
+awake."</p>
+
+<p>"Body of the sun! What palace am I to lead to, when
+what I saw Her Highness in was only a very little house?"
+exclaimed the squire.</p>
+
+<p>"Most likely she had then withdrawn into some small
+apartment of her palace," said Don Quixote, "to amuse
+herself with her damsels, as great ladies and princesses are
+accustomed to do."</p>
+
+<p>Here Sancho told his master to have it his own way,
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_171" id="Page_171">[Pg&nbsp;171]</a></span>
+but asked him whether he thought it in conformity with
+the behavior of a gentleman to go around in the middle of
+the night knocking at people's doors. Don Quixote dispensed
+with the discussion of this particular point; all he
+wanted to do, he said, was to find the house. Then they
+could discuss how to proceed. So they roamed about the
+city, Don Quixote insisting that first one house and then
+another was the palace of his love, until they finally hit
+upon the great tower of the church. At last he had found
+it, he declared. Here was where she dwelt, he was quite
+sure.</p>
+
+<p>But Sancho, hearing this and seeing it was a church, began
+to feel ill at ease, for his superstitious soul did not
+like the idea of walking across a graveyard at such an hour
+of the night. He quickly told his master, he was now certain
+that the Lady Dulcinea lived in an alley, a kind
+thought which was rewarded by a fierce outburst from Don
+Quixote.</p>
+
+<p>"The curse of God on thee for a blockhead!" he exclaimed.
+"Where hast thou ever heard of castles and
+royal palaces being built in alleys?"</p>
+
+<p>"I wish I saw the dogs eating it for leading us such a
+dance," was all that Sancho said in reply.</p>
+
+<p>But evidently this was not a pleasing answer to Don
+Quixote, for he admonished his squire: "Speak respectfully
+of what belongs to my lady; let us keep the feast in
+peace, and not throw the rope after the bucket!"</p>
+
+<p>Sancho muttered something about how he could be expected
+to find, in the dark of night, a house he had only
+seen once in his lifetime, when his master, who must have
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_172" id="Page_172">[Pg&nbsp;172]</a></span>
+seen it hundreds of times, could not recognize it. To
+this his master retorted wearily that he had told him a
+thousand times that he was enamored only by hearsay, and
+had never visited Dulcinea in her palace.</p>
+
+<p>At this moment a laborer on his way to his work came
+along on the road, singing a dreary song. It was only
+another omen to Don Quixote that his efforts to approach
+his lady would not be crowned with success that night. He
+asked the man to direct him to the palace of his princess,
+but the laborer turned out to be a stranger, having only
+just come to the city.</p>
+
+<p>Don Quixote was grieved that he could not find Dulcinea,
+and when Sancho suggested that they withdraw
+from the city and develop a plan for seeing her, he was
+ready to accept it. So they left El Toboso and hid in a
+forest nearby. There it was decided that Sancho should
+return to the city as the messenger of love for his master.</p>
+
+<hr class="hr1" />
+<h2><a name="v2CHAPTERX" id="v2CHAPTERX"></a>CHAPTER X</h2>
+
+<h4>Wherein Is Related the Crafty Device Sancho Adopted
+to Enchant the Lady Dulcinea, and Other Incidents
+as Ludicrous as They Are True</h4>
+
+<p class="cap">DON QUIXOTE instructed Sancho to ask his lady
+for an audience for him, and he begged his squire
+to observe every little change in her expression and demeanor,
+that he might tell him about it afterward. Sancho
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_173" id="Page_173">[Pg&nbsp;173]</a></span>
+then set off on Dapple; but as soon as he was out of
+sight, he dismounted, seated himself on the ground, and
+took measure of the situation aloud. In a meditative
+soliloquy he discussed with himself the problem that was
+his, and he finally reasoned that there was a remedy for
+everything except death. If his master could take windmills
+for giants, and a flock of sheep for an army, why
+could he not take black for white, and any country lass
+that came along, for his princess? Having reached this
+satisfactory conclusion, he decided to remain where he was
+till in the afternoon, in which time he could reasonably
+have gone to El Toboso and returned.</p>
+
+<p>As the afternoon arrived, three country girls came along
+on their donkeys, on the road from the city. The moment
+Sancho saw them, he mounted his ass and returned to find
+his master, who nearly went out of his head with joy, and
+promised Sancho the three next foals from his three mares,
+when his squire told him that the Lady Dulcinea was coming
+to see him, accompanied by two of her ladies-in-waiting.
+And then the lying Sancho went on to describe them:
+how they were robed in richest brocade, and weighted
+down with jewels&mdash;precious stones and pearls. But when
+Don Quixote saw the three peasant girls approach, he said
+he could see nothing but three jackasses and three girls.
+Any princess, or any one like one, he failed to see. Finally
+Sancho persuaded him to believe that those he saw were
+really three ladies, one of them being the Peerless One, who
+had come to bestow her blessing upon him. And so Don
+Quixote fell on his knees in the dust of the road before the
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_174" id="Page_174">[Pg&nbsp;174]</a></span>
+girls, giving vent to his immeasurable gratitude to her, his
+queen, who had come all this distance to give him her
+blessing.</p>
+
+<p>When the ugly peasant girl heard herself called a queen
+and Dulcinea, she thought that Don Quixote was trying
+to play a joke on her, so she got angry, and yelled to him:
+"Get out of the way, bad luck to you, and let us pass, for
+we are in a hurry!" and left the astonished knight crawling
+in the dust.</p>
+
+<p>Sancho had also fallen to his knees, to help his master
+in his plea for blessing, and he called out after the peasant
+girls: "Oh, princess and universal lady of El Toboso,
+is not your heart softened by seeing the pillar and prop
+of knight-errantry on his knees before your sublimated
+presence?"</p>
+
+<p>When the wenches were out of sight, Don Quixote
+turned to his squire and bemoaned, cast-down, his evil
+fate, and the length his sage enemy would go to gain his
+ends. The very worst thing of all, he said, was that the
+evil enchanter had turned his Dulcinea into an ugly peasant,
+who smelled of garlic. And while Don Quixote was
+thus complaining, Sancho struggled to hide his laughter,
+happy to have saved himself and to have played such a
+joke on his master.</p>
+
+<p>At last Don Quixote was ready to mount his hack, and
+they steered their beasts in the direction of Saragossa.
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_175" id="Page_175">[Pg&nbsp;175]</a></span></p>
+
+<hr class="hr1" />
+<h2><a name="v2CHAPTERXI" id="v2CHAPTERXI"></a>CHAPTER XI</h2>
+
+<h4>Of the Strange Adventure Which the Valiant Don
+Quixote Had with the Car or Cart of "The
+Cortes of Death"</h4>
+
+<p class="cap">SANCHO did his best to imbue his master with a new
+inspiration; for Don Quixote was a sorry sight as he
+was riding along on his hack. The enchantment of his
+Dulcinea had been a great blow to him. He fell into a
+sort of meditative slumber, from which he would rouse
+himself only now and then. Suddenly, however, he was
+fully awake, for on the road he saw before his very eyes a
+cart with Death on the front seat, and drawn by mules
+that were being led by the Devil himself.</p>
+
+<p>As soon as the knight could gather his senses, he distinguished
+the rest of the strange company that occupied
+the cart. Next to Death sat an ugly angel with wings,
+and on the other side Don Quixote observed an emperor
+with a crown of gold on his head. Then he discovered
+Cupid&mdash;who was a god&mdash;and a knight with plumes in his
+hat. There were a number of other figures, all weird and
+awe-inspiring, in strange costumes and with curious faces,
+and when Sancho saw them he turned as pale as Death himself,
+and his teeth began to chatter from fright. Even
+Don Quixote was more than startled, but his heroism soon
+asserted itself, and he was quickly himself again, glad to
+sense another adventure. He gave Rocinante the spur,
+the lean hack sprang forward to the cart at a sickly gallop,
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_176" id="Page_176">[Pg&nbsp;176]</a></span>
+and Don Quixote exclaimed: "Carter or coachman, or
+devil or whatever thou art, tell me at once who thou art,
+whither thou art going, and who these folk are thou carriest
+in thy wagon, which looks more like Charon's boat
+than an ordinary cart!"</p>
+
+<p>To this challenge the devil responded on behalf of himself
+and his fellow-travelers, explaining that they were
+harmless players of Angulo el Malo's company; that they
+had been acting the play of "The Cortes of Death" in the
+village from which they had just come; and since they had
+to act the same play in a village nearby in the afternoon,
+they wished to save themselves the trouble of making up
+twice, by remaining in their costumes. The devil was extremely
+polite and offered to give Don Quixote any information
+he could, adding that, being the devil, he was
+up to everything; besides he played the leading parts, he
+said. Don Quixote told them how disappointed he was
+that this had not turned out to be another adventure; then
+he wished them a happy journey, saying that ever since he
+was a child he had been an admirer of the actor and fond
+of his art.</p>
+
+<p>As they were about to take leave, one of the mummers,
+with three blown ox-bladders at the end of a stick, came
+up and banged them against the ground under Rocinante's
+nose; and the frightened animal set off across the plain as
+if he had been shot out of a cannon, taking the bit in his
+teeth. Sancho was so certain his master would be thrown
+that he left his donkey and ran as fast as he could after
+Rocinante. But when he reached Don Quixote, the knight
+was already on the ground and with him Rocinante, whose
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_177" id="Page_177">[Pg&nbsp;177]</a></span>
+legs always seemed to give away after a sudden strain.</p>
+
+<p>Now, as soon as Sancho had run away from Dapple, the
+crazy devil with the bladders was on his back tickling his
+ears with them, and the donkey flew across the fields
+toward the village as if beset.</p>
+
+<p>Seeing his faithful one running away, Sancho was in
+mortal agony, as well as in a quandary, for he did not
+know whether to attend to the donkey or his master first.
+Finally he found his love for human beings was the greater,
+and rushed to his master's side. When he had helped him
+to mount, he told him that the devil had run away with
+Dapple. Immediately Don Quixote was ready to pursue
+the enemy; but just then the squire saw his Dapple come
+running back, and cautioned his master to be meek.</p>
+
+<p>But Don Quixote was eager to give the mummer a lesson
+in courtesy, even, as he said, if he had to visit his sin
+upon the rest of the company, not barring the Emperor
+himself. Sancho did his best to warn his master that
+there was great danger in meddling with actors, as they
+were a favored class; but had the King himself interfered
+in their behalf, it would not have stayed the hand of the
+errant revenger.</p>
+
+<p>So Don Quixote drew forth, and caught up with the cart
+as it was close to the village. He commanded the players
+to halt, saying he wanted to teach them how to be courteous
+to donkeys and animals that served squires and knights
+errant for steeds. The merrymakers could tell by his
+stentorian tone that he was not jesting, so they all quickly
+jumped out of the cart and armed themselves with stones.</p>
+
+<p>By this time Sancho had reached the scene of action,
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_178" id="Page_178">[Pg&nbsp;178]</a></span>
+and as soon as he saw the threatening attitude of the
+strollers, he begged his master not to fight against either
+Death or the angels, particularly since neither one of them
+was a knight errant; nor was there any one in the whole
+company who was. This point Don Quixote thought was
+wisely taken, and he ordered his squire to fight the battle
+himself. But Sancho said he preferred to show a Christian
+spirit and forgive, and promised his master he would
+come to an agreement with his donkey to leave his end of
+the grievance to the squire's goodwill.</p>
+
+<p>Don Quixote let Sancho have his way; and when they
+had seen the caravan of mountebanks disappear, Sancho
+was happy in the thought that he had averted a great calamity
+for himself and his master.</p>
+
+<hr class="hr1" />
+<h2><a name="v2CHAPTERXII" id="v2CHAPTERXII"></a>CHAPTER XII</h2>
+
+<h4>Of the Strange Adventure Which Befell the Valiant
+Don Quixote with the Bold Knight of the Grove</h4>
+
+<p class="cap">THEY passed that night under some cork-trees, and
+while they were eating their supper, Sancho as usual
+became talkative and again gave proof of his chronic weakness
+for proverbs. Every phrase abounded with them.
+As ever, he would use them to fit the wrong case, or twist
+them so as to fit what he wanted them to fit. Don Quixote
+had to laugh at his squire's simplicity, and at the way he
+tried to imitate his master's manner of speaking. His
+words and expressions were indeed a strange mixture.
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_179" id="Page_179">[Pg&nbsp;179]</a></span>
+One moment he would use the most abominable grammar
+and the next he would borrow the language of Don Quixote,
+repeating in stilted fashion the polite phrases he had
+heard Don Quixote use in his flowery discourses on knighthood
+and chivalry.</p>
+
+<p>Soon after they had fallen asleep, Don Quixote was
+awakened by the sound of men's voices. He quickly rose,
+curious and anxious to learn who the disturbers were, and
+was amazed to behold a real knight, clad in full armor,
+dismount from his horse, while speaking words that indicated
+he was lovesick and in despair. Don Quixote
+hastened to call Sancho, who awoke to the tune of a love
+sonnet sung by the strange knight, and was as startled
+as his master had been, though, perhaps, not greatly thrilled
+at this promise of a new adventure in the middle of the
+night.</p>
+
+<p>But if Don Quixote was surprised when he was awakened,
+what was his amazement when he suddenly heard
+such words as these: "O fairest and most ungrateful
+woman on earth! Can it be possible, 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? Is it not enough that I have compelled
+all the knights of Navarre, the Leonese, the Tartesians,
+and the Castilians, and finally all the knights of La Mancha
+to confess thee the most beautiful in the world?"</p>
+
+<p>Don Quixote took exception to this last statement in
+silence, knowing that his chance to correct it was at no
+great distance. But Sancho soon gave himself and his
+master away to the Knight of the Grove by becoming too
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_180" id="Page_180">[Pg&nbsp;180]</a></span>
+talkative, and they were hailed by the knight, who greeted
+them in the most courteous manner, when he learned who
+they were.</p>
+
+<p>The two knights errant soon were engaged in a friendly
+conversation, which Sancho could not restrain himself from
+breaking into; but the Knight of the Grove was quick
+to reprimand him, saying he never permitted his squire to
+open his mouth. Whereupon Sancho persuaded himself
+and the squire of the Grove to remove to a spot where they
+could talk between themselves without being overheard
+by their superiors, and where they might be undisturbed by
+any yoke of knighthood etiquette.</p>
+
+<hr class="hr1" />
+<h2><a name="v2CHAPTERXIII-XIV" id="v2CHAPTERXIII-XIV"></a>CHAPTERS XIII-XIV</h2>
+
+<h4>In Which Is Continued the Adventure of the Knight
+of the Grove, Together with the Sensible and
+Tranquil Colloquy That Passed Between the
+Two Squires</h4>
+
+<p class="cap">THE two squires drank and talked most of the night,
+bemoaning the fate of squires in general. Before
+they finally fell asleep, the squire of the Grove suggested
+that, since they both were tired of knight-errantry, they
+give up the life. To this Sancho replied that he would
+remain in his master's service until he arrived at Saragossa,
+when he might decide to leave him.</p>
+
+<p>In the meantime the two knights also were exchanging
+confidences; and the Knight of the Grove told Don Quixote
+of all the great and famous errants he had conquered
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_181" id="Page_181">[Pg&nbsp;181]</a></span>
+in single combat. Don Quixote was all ear, but nearly
+gasped for breath when he heard the knight say that he
+had vanquished the famous Don Quixote of La Mancha,
+and had made him confess that his own Casildea was more
+beautiful by far than the La Mancha knight's Dulcinea.
+Don Quixote suppressed a scornful smile that threatened
+to betray him, and controlled the feelings that the boasting
+errant's words provoked, while wondering at the braggart's
+audacity. He slyly expressed a doubt, however,
+that the valiant knight Don Quixote of La Mancha had
+let himself be vanquished by any living being. The
+Knight of the Grove then gave a description of Don Quixote
+which in every detail fitted him.</p>
+
+<p>That drew Don Quixote out of his originally assumed indifference.
+He told the knight that he himself was no
+other than that famed and illustrious errant, and declared
+that any other one that had appeared as Don Quixote,
+must have been some enchanter who had disguised himself
+to resemble him, in order to defraud him of the honor
+that was rightly due to him. Then he proceeded to tell
+the knight how his enemy had transformed the Lady Dulcinea,
+and challenged the Knight of the Grove to single
+combat if he dared to question what Don Quixote maintained
+to be the truth.</p>
+
+<p>To this challenge the Knight of the Grove retorted that
+since he had once vanquished the semblance of Don Quixote,
+he would now welcome the opportunity of meeting
+him in combat in his own proper shape. Being a cautious
+and cold-blooded knight, however, he suggested to Don
+Quixote that they should rest until the morning, when the
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_182" id="Page_182">[Pg&nbsp;182]</a></span>
+mighty struggle could ensue in the light of day. It was
+further agreed that the vanquished knight should place
+himself at the command of the victor, to fulfill any desire
+of his within the bounds of chivalry.</p>
+
+<p>Each one was eager to inform his own squire of what the
+morning was to behold, so they awoke Sancho and the squire
+of the Grove and told them. Sancho was scared that his
+master might not be the gainer, for the squire of the Grove
+had been feeding him with stories of his master's conquests
+all that night until they had fallen asleep, drunk with wine.</p>
+
+<p>The squires went to get the horses ready, and on the
+way Sancho was aghast to learn that he would have to
+fight the friendly squire of the Grove in cold blood, this
+squire maintaining that such was a rule among knights
+errant. Sancho said he would rather give two pounds of
+wax to the church than fight with him; furthermore, he
+said, he could not, for he had no sword, and never had had
+one. Whereupon the friendly squire told him that did not
+matter, and proceeded to make ready two linen bags, both
+of the same size, saying they could fight their duel in this
+fashion. This was most pleasing to Sancho, until he perceived
+the other squire filling the bags with pebbles, when
+he remonstrated, saying he thought their masters could
+settle the whole affair without their interference. But
+his friend the squire insisted that they fight, even if it
+should be only for half an hour, and offered&mdash;if he should
+have any difficulty in rousing himself to the occasion&mdash;to
+give Sancho a few cudgels and whacks to act as an inspiration.</p>
+
+<p>By this time it was beginning to dawn, and Sancho was
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_183" id="Page_183">[Pg&nbsp;183]</a></span>
+watching the sunrise. As he looked around, the first object
+that he saw the sunrays strike was the nose of the squire
+of the Grove, protruding out of the opened visor of his
+helmet. It was an object so fearful to look at that Sancho
+Panza was paralyzed with fright. The nose was so large
+it seemed uncanny. It was covered with warts and was
+bent at a tremendous angle, and it hung down way beneath
+his chin, while its color was that of an eggplant.
+It was a face so horrible and ugly to look at that Sancho's
+eyes nearly rolled out of his head. He acted as if he were
+about to have convulsions, for he began to tremble from
+head to foot. When Don Quixote beheld the squire's
+countenance, even he began to show signs of feebleness,
+but his bravery overcame his fears. He shrugged his
+shoulders as if shaking off an evil spirit, and was ready for
+the combat with his adversary.</p>
+
+<p>Before the battle began, Sancho pleaded with his master
+to help him up into a tree; so afraid was he of this monstrous
+squire with the awful nose. But while Don Quixote
+was hoisting his faithful one up into a cork-tree, he
+suddenly heard the knight approach on his steed behind
+him, and not knowing whether it was squire or master,
+and being subconsciously afraid of the nose, one blow of
+which might have felled him, it seemed, he turned around
+and made straight for the knight.</p>
+
+<p>The facts were that this gentleman was trying to limber
+up the joints of his charger&mdash;a hack of the same caliber as
+Rocinante&mdash;and was just taking his horse on a tour of exercise,
+making him skip hither and thither, wherever his
+master's agonized spurring would carry him. Each time
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_184" id="Page_184">[Pg&nbsp;184]</a></span>
+he would land heavily on his stiff legs, and it was when
+Don Quixote suddenly heard the sound of such a landing
+behind him that he turned. But by the time Rocinante
+had completed the turn, which was a movement of much
+contemplation and hesitation on his part, the back of the
+Knight of the Grove shone in the distance. Charging by
+sound and instinct rather than by sight, not seeing whether
+the knight was coming or going, Don Quixote set upon him
+with such blind fury that with one thrust of his lance he
+sent the bespangled gentleman flying out of his saddle, so
+that he fell flat on the ground, seemingly dead.</p>
+
+<p>Now, when Sancho saw what an auspicious beginning
+and ending the adventure had had for his master, he
+heaved a sigh of relief and contentment and climbed down
+from his tree, approaching the lifeless monster with caution
+and superstitious awe. But he had taken only one
+look into his face, when he began to cross himself with so
+many motions and contortions that Don Quixote thought
+his squire had gone insane. Turning to his master, who
+had been contemplating his victory with pride from the
+back of Rocinante, Sancho begged him to thrust his sword
+into the mouth of his vanquished foe. Scarcely had
+he made this suggestion before Don Quixote drew his sword
+and advanced to carry it out, when the squire of the Grove,
+now minus the drooping nose, ran forward, wildly exclaiming:
+"Mind what you are about to do, Se�or Don Quixote!
+That is your friend the bachelor, Samson Carrasco,
+you have at your feet, and I am his squire!"</p>
+
+<p>"And the nose?" Sancho broke in, unable to restrain his
+amazed senses.
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_185" id="Page_185">[Pg&nbsp;185]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>"I have it here in my pocket," answered the squire of the
+Grove, as he pulled out and showed him a false nose of
+immense proportions.</p>
+
+<p>Whereupon Sancho eyed the squire more carefully, and
+suddenly cried out: "Holy Mary be good to me! Isn't
+it Tom Cecial, my neighbor and gossip!"</p>
+
+<p>And Tom was only too glad to confess that he was.</p>
+
+<p>At this very moment the bachelor returned from the
+dead, and when Don Quixote saw him open his eyes, he
+pointed his sword at his face and swore that the Knight of
+the Mirrors&mdash;thus he called the Knight of the Grove because
+of his shining regalia&mdash;would be a dead man if he
+did not pronounce the Lady Dulcinea del Toboso the most
+beautiful woman in the world. Furthermore, he demanded
+that he swear to present himself before the Peerless
+One in the city of El Toboso, that she might deal out
+judgment upon him. Having been dealt with by her,
+the Knight of the Grove was to return to inform him of the
+punishment, giving a full account of what had passed between
+them.</p>
+
+<p>The fallen Samson gladly confessed to everything, including
+his belief in the true identity of his conqueror.
+He felt an urgent need for medicine and plaster, and he
+and his squire departed quickly to seek such aid in the
+nearest village, while Don Quixote and Sancho took the
+road which lead to Saragossa.
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_186" id="Page_186">[Pg&nbsp;186]</a></span></p>
+
+<hr class="hr1" />
+<h2><a name="v2CHAPTERXV" id="v2CHAPTERXV"></a>CHAPTER XV</h2>
+
+<h4>Wherein It is Made Known How the Knight of the Mirror
+and His Squire Emerged from Their Adventure</h4>
+
+<p class="cap">AS Don Quixote was bumping along on his lean Rocinante,
+he was dreaming of the return of the Knight
+of the Mirrors, who would bring him word about his beloved
+one. He was anxious to know whether she was still
+enchanted. Then he thought of the great victory he had
+won over this bold knight, and it was perhaps only pardonable
+if it aroused some conceit in his breast.</p>
+
+<p>But while Don Quixote was contemplating thus, the
+bachelor-knight kept bemoaning the fate he had brought
+upon himself. He had dubbed himself Knight at his own
+instigation, for the kindly and unselfish purpose of unseating
+and vanquishing Don Quixote in battle, thinking,
+of course, that that would be an easy matter to accomplish.
+It was for good reasons he had proposed that the vanquished
+one should place himself at the disposal of the victor.
+The bachelor, the curate, and the barber had conferred
+after Don Quixote's departure as to what to do, and when
+the bachelor Samson offered to go crusading and to bring
+back Don Quixote, the two gossips were pleased beyond
+words. A neighbor of Sancho's, Tom Cecial by name, was
+induced to become the squire of the knight Samson.</p>
+
+<p>Both knight and squire were now contemplating in a
+sorry mood the disastrous outcome of their encounter with
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_187" id="Page_187">[Pg&nbsp;187]</a></span>
+the Knight of the Rueful Countenance. As they were
+staggering along on their decrepit mounts, the squire
+summed up the thoughts of his master Samson in this question:
+"I'd like to know now which is the madder, he who
+is so because he can not help it, or he who is so of his own
+choice?"</p>
+
+<p>While the learned bachelor was thoroughly in accord with
+the good reason for asking such a question, he could not
+at the same time help acknowledging the fact that the
+thrashing he had received was paining him. The desire
+he had had when he started out looking for Don Quixote&mdash;to
+bring him back to his home and his wits&mdash;was now
+changed into a wild inner cry for revenge.</p>
+
+<p>At last some of the physical agony of the Knight of the
+Mirrors was stilled by a quack, whom they found in a town
+along the road. Tom Cecial, the squire for a day and a
+night, had been cured of knight-errantry and returned to
+his less venturesome occupation in his La Mancha village;
+but the thoughts of evilness would not leave his master,
+who stayed behind, bent on having his revenge.</p>
+
+<hr class="hr1" />
+<h2><a name="v2CHAPTERXVI" id="v2CHAPTERXVI"></a>CHAPTER XVI</h2>
+
+<h4>Of What Befell Don Quixote with a Discreet Gentleman
+of La Mancha</h4>
+
+<p class="cap">WHILE Don Quixote was contemplating his own
+greatness as a reviver of knight-errantry, the monstrous
+nose of the squire kept coming before Sancho in his
+fancies. When he told his master, Don Quixote asked
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_188" id="Page_188">[Pg&nbsp;188]</a></span>
+him whether he ever for a moment doubted that the knight
+of the Mirrors and his squire were anything but enchanted
+and made to appear like the two village friends of theirs.
+The idea that Samson, who was such a devoted friend of his,
+should be envious of his deeds in battle and have wanted
+to steal away honors from him as a knight, was too absurd;
+and with this he dismissed the subject.</p>
+
+<p>While they were discussing these matters and the enchantment
+of the Lady Dulcinea, they were passed by a
+gentleman on horseback, and Don Quixote called to him
+and asked him politely whether he would not join company
+with them. The traveler accepted the knight's invitation,
+and both were soon scrutinizing each other. The gentleman,
+a man about fifty years of age, with handsome features,
+wondered at the strange appearance of Don Quixote;
+and when our knight saw his wonder, he told him why
+he was so attired and what he had set out to accomplish in
+the world. This confession drew forth still more astonishment
+on the gentleman's countenance, but he finally
+found words to ask whether he could really believe his own
+ears, for he had thought knight-errantry extinct. It was
+not long, however, before he realized that he was talking
+to a madman; and then Sancho Panza came under his observation,
+and he was deemed a simpleton.</p>
+
+<p>Don Quixote had asked the newcomer's name, and
+learned it was Don Diego de Miranda; and then the knight
+was curious to know what he did with his life. Whereupon
+Don Diego proceeded to tell his fellow-travelers of
+his tame and godly life in the country with his wife and
+children; and he pronounced in the course of his description
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_189" id="Page_189">[Pg&nbsp;189]</a></span>
+some very beautiful thoughts and principles, which
+so took Sancho's fancy that he jumped off Dapple, embraced
+the gentleman's leg, and began to kiss his feet in
+the most passionate and ardent way.</p>
+
+<p>Astonished, the good gentleman inquired what all this
+display meant; and Sancho begged of him between his
+transports: "Let me kiss, for I think your Worship is the
+first saint in the saddle I ever saw!"</p>
+
+<p>Of course, the gentleman confessed his sinfulness to
+Sancho, who refused to change his opinion, in spite of his
+master's honest laughter. Then the gentleman told Don
+Quixote about his great pride, his son, who was eighteen
+years old, had been a student at Salamanca, and wrote divine
+poems. This immediately inspired Don Quixote to
+a discourse on poetry, in which he dwelt on the dishonor of
+commercializing this great gift of the gods. He finished
+his speech with the advice to Don Diego that he bring up
+his son to write discourses in which all vice was flayed and
+all sin chided and rebuked. Above all, he said, a poet must
+never let envy or personal grudge and hatred guide his
+pen. When the traveler heard Don Quixote speak in so
+wise and discerning manner, he was aghast; and he was
+entirely at a loss to know how to judge him. He was inclined
+to think that what he had taken for madness in him
+was nothing but eccentricity.</p>
+
+<p>But while Don Quixote was discoursing on poetry, Sancho,
+on seeing some shepherds, had fled to beg some ewe
+milk of them. When his master had finished his discourse,
+and the gentleman was silently considering his madness,
+Sancho suddenly heard himself called to battle. Having
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_190" id="Page_190">[Pg&nbsp;190]</a></span>
+in his possession his master's helmet, he spurred his donkey
+to further increase his efforts toward speed, and when he
+reached the valiant knight, he discovered the reason for
+the call: a cart bedecked with royal flags approaching on
+the road.</p>
+
+<hr class="hr1" />
+<h2><a name="v2CHAPTERXVII" id="v2CHAPTERXVII"></a>CHAPTER XVII</h2>
+
+<h4>Wherein Is Shown the Farthest and Highest Point
+Which the Unexampled Courage of Don Quixote
+Reached or Could Reach; Together with the
+Happily Achieved Adventure of the Lions</h4>
+
+<p class="cap">WHEN Sancho was summoned by his master, he had
+just bought some curds from the goatherd, and not
+knowing what to do with them at such a moment, he hastily
+deposited them in his master's helmet. The first thing
+Don Quixote did when Sancho had caught up with him,
+was to snatch the helmet from him, exclaiming that he had
+to make ready for what promised to be an exciting adventure;
+while all Sancho could see was the cart with the royal
+flags, probably carrying some treasure of the kings. As
+Sancho stood watching the cart, Don Quixote resolutely
+put on the helmet, which he proceeded to press down on his
+head in order to make it sit fast; but as he did so, the curds
+were squeezed, and the whey began to run down over his
+face, so that Don Quixote imagined that he had been taken
+with softening of the brain.</p>
+
+<p>Sancho said nothing but gave his master something to
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_191" id="Page_191">[Pg&nbsp;191]</a></span>
+wipe his face with, and Don Quixote muttered that if this
+was sweat he was certain it was going to be a horrible adventure.
+As he was drying his face, he took off his helmet,
+and when he smelled the curds he turned to Sancho in
+great perturbation and accused him of having put them
+there, calling him a traitor and a scoundrel, and threatening
+to thrash him. But Sancho eyed his master innocently,
+and blamed it all on the devil or some enchanter, saying
+that his master might know that if he had had curds, he
+would have put them in his stomach and not in his master's
+helmet.</p>
+
+<p>This was a convincing argument to the knight, who
+now busied himself with the cart, which had nearly reached
+them. He called out to the driver and a man on mule&mdash;back,
+who were the only attendants: "Whither are you
+going, brothers? What cart is this? What have you got
+in it? What flags are those?"</p>
+
+<p>The man on the mule answered that the cart was his,
+that he was transporting a pair of enormous lions as a present
+from the Governor of Oran to His Majesty the King;
+that the flags were those of the King, and that therefore
+the property was royal property. He added that the lions
+were hungry, since they had not eaten anything that day,
+and that he was in great haste to reach a place where he
+could feed them.</p>
+
+<p>Here Don Quixote smiled a scornful, superior smile, and
+calmly told the keeper of the lions to open the cages and
+let out the beasts that they might learn who the courageous
+Don Quixote of La Mancha might be. When Sancho
+heard how mad his master was, he turned in sickly fear to
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_192" id="Page_192">[Pg&nbsp;192]</a></span>
+the traveling gentleman and begged him for God's sake to
+keep his master from having a combat with the lions. The
+gentleman asked Sancho whether he thought his master
+would really be so foolish as to do such a thing; and Sancho's
+firm and emphatic reply made the gentleman hasten
+to the knight's side in an attempt to reason with him. He
+was promptly reprimanded by Don Quixote, however,
+who told him sharply to mind his own business, and then
+threatened to pin the keeper to the cart with his lance if
+he did not open the cages and chase out the lions at once.</p>
+
+<p>There was an indescribable consternation and confusion.
+The driver pleaded with Don Quixote on his knees, and
+when they all saw that he was determined to meet with the
+lions in combat, they began to pick up their belongings
+and run away into safety. Sancho and the gentleman
+made still another attempt to bring him to his senses, but
+all their pleas were in vain. Sancho left his master with
+the tears falling down his cheeks, and Don Quixote ordered
+the gentleman to speed away on his flea-bitten mare
+as fast as he could, if he was afraid to be bitten by the lions.</p>
+
+<p>Then Don Quixote decided it might be better to fight
+on foot, as he was afraid that his Rocinante might be
+frightened on seeing the beasts; so, sword in hand, he
+bravely advanced towards the cage. The keeper timidly
+opened the doors of the first cage, and a male lion of tremendous
+size, stretching himself leisurely, put his claws
+through the opening; then he yawned sleepily, and after
+some deliberation began to lick his eyes and face with his
+long, fierce tongue. Having thus washed his dirty face,
+he put his head out of the cage and stood gazing into space
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_193" id="Page_193">[Pg&nbsp;193]</a></span>
+with a ferocious look in his eyes, which resembled glowing
+coals. Not even seeming surprised at the sight of the valiant
+knight, he then had the audacity to turn his back on
+our hero, and calmly and proudly lay down, with his hindquarters
+under Don Quixote's very nose.</p>
+
+<p>Such unheard-of scorn angered the knight, who commanded
+the keeper to take a stick and poke the beast out
+of the cage; but here he met with unyielding obstinacy,
+for this the man refused to do under any circumstances,
+saying that the first one to be chewed to pieces, if he did
+that, would be himself. Then he began to praise and flatter
+Don Quixote's courage which, he said, by this feat had
+been unequaled in the world. His adversary the lion, he
+said, had proven by his very action that he considered Don
+Quixote a superior foe; and when the keeper promised to
+give Don Quixote a certificate to the effect that the lion
+had been challenged in true knight errant fashion and refused
+to give battle, Don Quixote was soothed, and bade
+the keeper shut the doors to the cage and recall the fugitives
+that they might hear from the keeper's lips the true
+account of his remarkable achievement.</p>
+
+<p>The first thing Don Quixote did when Sancho had
+joined him was to order him to give two gold crowns to the
+driver and the keeper for lost time; but before Sancho
+carried out his master's command he was anxious to know
+whether the lions were dead or alive. Whereupon the
+keeper related how the valiant knight had single handed
+dared the lions to come out of their cage, and how they
+meekly and cowardly had refused at the sight of so bold
+a warrior; and he embellished his story with numerous
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_194" id="Page_194">[Pg&nbsp;194]</a></span>
+little details&mdash;in anticipation of the gold crown&mdash;and
+added that when he returned to Madrid he would not fail
+to inform the King of his marvelous exploit.</p>
+
+<p>When Don Quixote heard this, his heart beat faster, and
+he told the keeper that if the King should happen to ask
+who performed this great deed, to say it was the Knight
+of the Lions, since he had decided to adopt this name hereafter.</p>
+
+<p>So the cart proceeded toward the capital, and Don Quixote,
+Sancho, and the traveling gentleman went their way.
+Don Diego bade them make haste that they might reach
+his village before nightfall, and he asked Don Quixote to
+spend the night at his house and rest after his exertions&mdash;an
+invitation that the knight accepted with profuse thanks.</p>
+
+<hr class="hr1" />
+<h2><a name="v2CHAPTERXVIII" id="v2CHAPTERXVIII"></a>CHAPTER XVIII</h2>
+
+<h4>Of What Happened to Don Quixote in the Castle or
+House of the Knight of the Green Coat, Together
+with Other Matters out of the Common</h4>
+
+<p class="cap">THE Knight of the Green Coat&mdash;which was the name
+Don Quixote had conferred on his host&mdash;reached
+his house in the afternoon, and he was welcomed home by
+his wife and son, who could not help staring in amazement
+at the strange figure Don Quixote presented. The
+latter advanced to the wife and kissed her virtuously on
+the hand, after having first asked her permission; and she
+received him courteously, as did the son also. Then he
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_195" id="Page_195">[Pg&nbsp;195]</a></span>
+was escorted into the house, and Sancho helped him to remove
+his armor and to wash him clean of the curds, which
+had run down his face and his neck. This being done,
+Don Quixote joined father and son in another room.</p>
+
+<p>It was not long before Don Lorenzo, the young son, was
+perplexed by the knight's behavior and conversation, and
+at his first opportunity he confided this perplexity to his
+father. Don Diego told him that he himself was at his
+wit's end, for he had heard him speak as sensibly as he ever
+heard any man speak; then again, he said, he had seen him
+perform the most unbelievable acts of madness. Don
+Lorenzo again engaged in conversation with Don Quixote,
+who told the young man that he had already learned from
+his father of his great talents as a poet. The youth modestly
+disclaimed being entitled to be called a great poet;
+and the absence of conceit in one of this calling pleased
+the knight greatly. And he went on, discoursing on matters
+pertaining to education, on universities, and degrees, and
+his opinions seemed to Don Lorenzo so authoritative and
+advanced that he was at a loss to know what to conclude,
+until Don Quixote suddenly began to talk about the
+science of knight-errantry, which he maintained surpassed
+all other sciences.</p>
+
+<p>Don Lorenzo interrupted, of course, saying that he had
+never heard of any such science; he had read books of chivalry
+but had never believed that any knights had existed,
+he said. When Don Quixote heard the youth speak such
+blasphemy, he prayed that heaven should deliver him from
+his false illusions as to the existence of knight-errantry!
+Just then dinner was served.
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_196" id="Page_196">[Pg&nbsp;196]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>While they were eating, Don Quixote asked Don Lorenzo
+to repeat some of his verses to him, and the youth read
+some of his glosses and sonnets. Don Quixote was extremely
+impressed with them, and he praised the youth's
+rare gift in eloquent language. This praise&mdash;although he
+knew it to come from a madman&mdash;so pleased Don Lorenzo's
+father that he begged Don Quixote to remain; and for four
+days the knight was entertained by Don Diego.</p>
+
+<p>Then Don Quixote felt it his duty to break away from
+luxury and idleness in order to live up to the laws of knight-errantry,
+Sancho left with a sigh, and a tear in his eye,
+for never in his life had he lived so well. However, he
+saw to it that he was well provisioned before they departed.
+Don Quixote was anxious to see the poet turn knight-errant,
+he said, but since his parents no doubt would not permit
+him to give up his chosen work he thought it best not
+to attempt to sway them in their convictions. And so he
+and his squire took leave with many courtesies, while Don
+Diego and his family were pitying the poor demented
+knight in their hearts and still were wondering at his nonsense.</p>
+
+<hr class="hr1" />
+<h2><a name="v2CHAPTERXIX" id="v2CHAPTERXIX"></a>CHAPTER XIX</h2>
+
+<h4>In Which Is Related the Adventure of the Enamored
+Shepherd, Together with Other Truly Droll
+Incidents</h4>
+
+<p class="cap">THEY had traveled but a short time when they met
+some students and peasants on mule&mdash;back, and since
+they were going in the same direction Don Quixote offered
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_197" id="Page_197">[Pg&nbsp;197]</a></span>
+them his protection if they would only make the pace of
+their young mules conform with that of his steed and
+Dapple. They agreed to do so, and it was not long ere the
+Knight of the Lions had introduced himself to his companions,
+and told them of his revival. The students were
+quick to perceive that he was demented; but not so the
+peasants, who could make neither head nor tail of what he
+said, and ascribed this to their own ignorance.</p>
+
+<p>The students invited the knight to come with them to
+a wedding-feast, and immediately he asked which prince
+was to be married without his knowing it. The students
+informed him that it was not any prince's wedding, but
+that of a rich farmer by the name of Camacho, who was
+marrying the fair Quiteria, daughter of a rich man in their
+neighborhood. Quiteria, they said, was in love with one
+Basilio, a poor young shepherd, whom her father had sent
+away in anger from his house, forbidding him ever to
+see his daughter again. As a result of this banishment
+and his being separated from his love, he had now gone
+mad.</p>
+
+<p>Don Quixote, having listened attentively to the students'
+story, began a discourse on love and marriage.
+Now and then Sancho interrupted him with strings of
+proverbs; this would infuriate his master by making him
+deviate from his subject. Finally Don Quixote retaliated
+by attacking and criticising Sancho's language, which
+he said was atrocious.</p>
+
+<p>Soon their arguments were taken up by the students.
+One of them stood by Sancho; the other one took Don
+Quixote's point of view. Having once been involved,
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_198" id="Page_198">[Pg&nbsp;198]</a></span>
+they argued first on one subject, then on another, until at
+last foils and the art of fencing became the subject. It so
+happened that one of them was carrying his foils with him,
+and he suggested that they settle their argument then and
+there. They did so under Don Quixote's chivalrous supervision,
+and when the engagement had come to an end, the
+one who had challenged was so worn and torn that Sancho
+felt sorry for him and went over to console him; at the
+same time he felt it his duty to advise him never again to
+fence, although he did not advise him against wrestling
+or throwing the bar, for he was strong enough for that, he
+thought. Whereupon the challenger rose and embraced
+his adversary, and after that they were better friends than
+ever.</p>
+
+<p>They pursued their journey, and before long it grew
+dark. Soon afterwards they heard the musicians at the
+wedding, and saw the preparations that were being made
+for it. Here Don Quixote took leave of the students and
+the peasants, saying that being a knight-errant, he was
+obliged to give up the comfort of a bed, and would go to
+sleep in the woods or some lonely field. They did their
+best to persuade him to accept their hospitality&mdash;aided and
+abetted by the comfort-loving Sancho&mdash;but all remonstrances
+were in vain, much to Sancho's regret.
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_199" id="Page_199">[Pg&nbsp;199]</a></span></p>
+
+<hr class="hr1" />
+<h2><a name="v2CHAPTERXX" id="v2CHAPTERXX"></a>CHAPTER XX</h2>
+
+<h4>Wherein an Account Is Given of the Wedding of Camacho
+the Rich, Together with the Incident
+of Basilio the Poor</h4>
+
+<p class="cap">SANCHO was still snoring when his master was up
+and awake the next morning. After having soliloquized
+at length before the sleeping squire, he awoke him
+by ticking him with his lance. Sancho smelled the preparations
+for the wedding-feast, and at once was wide awake.
+His master asked him to hasten and come along, and they
+set off on their mounts and soon arrived at the place where
+the wedding was to be celebrated. They found there an
+arcade erected and through this they entered. There was
+being cooked and prepared enough food to feed every one
+in town, and when Sancho saw all the good things, his
+mouth began to water, and he could hardly control himself.
+As a matter of fact, he soon succumbed to his temptations
+and he did not have to beg twice, for the cooks told him
+that this was a day on which no one was to go hungry, that
+being the wish of the rich Camacho, and they even told him
+to keep the spoon. So Sancho skimmed all the pots to his
+heart's content.</p>
+
+<p>Soon the musicians and dancers arrived, and these performed
+an allegorical dance and play, but nothing interested
+Sancho as much as the skimmings, to which he returned
+after having finished an argument with his master
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_200" id="Page_200">[Pg&nbsp;200]</a></span>
+about the relative qualities of Camacho the Rich and the
+poor Basilio; Camacho being the better provider, Sancho
+was decidedly in favor of him.</p>
+
+<hr class="hr1" />
+<h2><a name="v2CHAPTERXXI" id="v2CHAPTERXXI"></a>CHAPTER XXI</h2>
+
+<h4>In Which Camacho's Wedding Is Continued, with
+Other Delightful Incidents</h4>
+
+<p class="cap">SANCHO was still eating when suddenly loud exclamations
+and shouts were heard; and when he and Don
+Quixote looked to see what was the matter, they found that
+the bride and the bridegroom, accompanied by the priest
+and their relatives, were entering the arcade. They proceeded
+to a platform, on which they took places, and all
+noticed that the bride looked very pale. Scarcely had the
+bridal party seated themselves, when a voice was heard
+from behind them, calling out: "Wait a little, ye, as inconsiderate
+as ye are hasty!"</p>
+
+<p>All turned and perceived Basilio, poorly clad, with a
+crown of cypress on his head, and carrying a staff in his
+hand. The staff had a sharp end, and this he buried deep
+in the ground; then, pale and trembling, he turned to the
+fair Quiteria and accused her of marrying Camacho because
+of his wealth, though she knew she loved no one but
+himself, Basilio, who was poor, and, therefore, helpless.
+As he nevertheless wished them happiness, he would now
+remove the last obstacle to this end.</p>
+
+<p>So saying, Basilio pulled from the staff he carried and
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_201" id="Page_201">[Pg&nbsp;201]</a></span>
+which served as a sheath, a rapier, upon which in another
+instant he had thrown himself. There he lay on the
+ground, bleeding profusely, the point of the blade appearing
+through his back, when his many friends came running
+to give him aid. Don Quixote lifted up his head, and they
+found that he was still breathing. Some one suggested
+that they pull out the blade, but the priest warned them
+not to do that before the poor man had been given the
+sacrament, as the moment the rapier was removed, death
+would follow.</p>
+
+<p>Just then Basilio was heard to say in a weak voice that
+if he could only be joined to his beloved one, he would die
+happy. The priest cautioned him to think of his soul
+rather than of his body in these last moments of his, but
+Basilio interrupted him stubbornly and said he would not
+confess until this had been done. When Don Quixote
+heard the dying man implore the priest to carry out his
+wish, he, too, besought him, and added that under the
+circumstances Se�or Camacho could have nothing against
+marrying a widow of a man who had died so gallantly and
+honorably as Basilio. Camacho heard all this, and when
+Basilio's friends at the same time entreated him to think
+of the poor man's soul, he consented; and as Quiteria, too,
+was compassionate, the priest united them as man and wife,
+gave them his blessing with tears in his eyes, and hoped
+that Heaven would receive the soul of the wedded
+man.</p>
+
+<p>But the instant the ceremony was at an end, the suicide
+jumped to his feet as lightly as a deer. Some began to
+shout that a miracle had been performed. But Basilio was
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_202" id="Page_202">[Pg&nbsp;202]</a></span>
+honest and confessed that he had played a trick; and, indeed,
+it seemed as if the whole thing had been planned by
+the two lovers, for Quiteria said that if the marriage was
+not valid, she would now confirm it anew. Some of Camacho's
+friends became violent and threatened the life of
+Basilio, but the valiant Don Quixote did not abandon
+his new-found friend; he kept them all at a distance with
+his lance and his sword.</p>
+
+<p>In the meantime Sancho was guarding a spot that to his
+mind was the most important one there, namely where the
+wine-jars were standing.</p>
+
+<p>When Don Quixote had made himself respected by the
+followers of the rich Camacho, he addressed them on the
+subject of love and war, and held forth to them that all
+means to an end in these two games were justifiable, as
+long as no disgrace was brought on the object of one's love.
+Then he threatened to thrash any one who attempted to
+separate whom God now had joined; and they were all
+awed by his resolute language, not knowing who he was.
+Camacho showed that he was of good mettle, however, for
+he invited all to remain and have a merry time, and let the
+feast go on as if nothing had happened.</p>
+
+<p>But Basilio was proud, and so were his friends, and they
+preferred to withdraw to Basilio's village. They were accompanied
+by Don Quixote, whom they had invited as a
+special guest of honor because of his stout defense of Basilio;
+and Sancho, of course, had to trail along, much to his
+disgust, for he had looked forward to stilling his hunger
+for days to come on the remnants of the rich man's wedding-feast.
+As he was rocking to and fro in his seat on his
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_203" id="Page_203">[Pg&nbsp;203]</a></span>
+faithful Dapple, he was contemplating with a surly and
+melancholy countenance a glorious, but now past day.</p>
+
+<hr class="hr1" />
+<h2><a name="v2CHAPTERXXII" id="v2CHAPTERXXII"></a>CHAPTER XXII</h2>
+
+<h4>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</h4>
+
+<p class="cap">DON QUIXOTE and Sancho remained at the home
+of the newly married couple for three days. Before
+the knight took leave of Basilio and Quiteria, he discoursed
+at length on love and matrimony: a discourse that
+Sancho seemed to take more to heart than they did, for when
+his master had finished he was heard muttering that he
+wished he had had such advice before marrying his wife.</p>
+
+<p>"Is thy Teresa so bad then, Sancho?" asked Don Quixote.</p>
+
+<p>"She is not very bad," replied the downtrodden squire,
+"but she is not very good; at least she is not as good as I
+could wish."</p>
+
+<p>"Thou dost wrong, Sancho, to speak ill of thy wife," admonished
+his master; "for after all she is the mother of thy
+children."</p>
+
+<p>And to this the squire answered: "We are quits, 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>Having exchanged these thoughts with his squire, Don
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_204" id="Page_204">[Pg&nbsp;204]</a></span>
+Quixote decided it was time to take to the open again,
+and he begged one of the students who had invited him to
+the wedding to find him a guide to take him to the cave of
+Montesinos. The student provided him with a cousin of
+his own, a young scholar who was very much interested in
+tales of chivalry; and, followed by the earnest prayers of
+those they left behind, the three set out for the famous cave.</p>
+
+<p>Don Quixote wanted the scholar to tell him all about
+himself, and when he learned, he had had books printed
+which were inscribed to princes, he wanted to know what
+kind of books they were. When he mentioned that he was
+writing one now that was to deal with the invention of
+customs and things, Sancho became interested and thrust
+this question at him, which he answered himself: "Tell
+me, Se�or&mdash;and God give you luck in printing your books!&mdash;who
+was the first man that scratched his head? For to
+my thinking it must have been our father Adam."</p>
+
+<p>Glad to have had his supposition corroborated by so
+great an authority as an author of books, Sancho was encouraged
+to ask numerous other questions of the same caliber;
+and this helped to make the time seem short. When
+night fell they had reached a little village, from where it
+was only a very short distance to the cave.</p>
+
+<p>As Don Quixote was intent on discovering the cave's inmost
+secrets, he provided himself with a hundred fathoms
+of rope, and the following afternoon he was at the cavern,
+ready for the hazardous undertaking. Don Quixote was
+tied to the end of the rope, and all the while Sancho was admonishing
+him not to bury himself alive in the bottomless
+pit, telling him that he had no business being an explorer
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_205" id="Page_205">[Pg&nbsp;205]</a></span>
+anyway. Before being lowered into the depths, Don
+Quixote commended himself to his Lady Dulcinea and sent
+up a prayer to Heaven on bended knees.</p>
+
+<p>In order to enter the cave, he had to cut his way through
+the brush, and as he commenced to swing his sword, a
+whole city of crows and bats flew against him and knocked
+him to the ground. Sancho crossed himself and kept up
+his vigilance over his master to the last. Finally he saw
+him disappear in the coal-black depths, and then he called
+on all the saints he knew by name to protect the flower and
+cream of knight-errantry, the dare-devil of the earth, the
+heart of steel and the arm of brass.</p>
+
+<p>At last Sancho and the scholar had given Don Quixote
+all the hundred fathoms of the rope, and then they got no
+more replies to their calls. They waited for half an hour,
+and then they were afraid that the knight was dead and
+decided to haul him up, Sancho weeping bitterly all the
+while. But when Sancho saw his master coming up, he
+could not restrain himself from being hopeful of a miracle,
+and he called out gleefully: "Welcome back, Se�or, for
+we had begun to think you were going to stop there to
+found a family."</p>
+
+<p>Don Quixote did not move, however, and they laid him
+on the ground and found he was fast asleep. When he
+came to, he was in an exalted state. He raised his eyes
+toward Heaven, and asked God to forgive them for having
+taken him away from such a glorious and spectacular
+pleasure. But Sancho was curious to know what he had
+seen down there in Hell, and he interrupted and asked the
+question.
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_206" id="Page_206">[Pg&nbsp;206]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>"Hell!" cried Don Quixote. "Call it by no such name,
+for it does not deserve it."</p>
+
+<p>Then he asked for something to eat, and Sancho put before
+him an abundance of food, since he said he was very
+hungry. When he had eaten, he asked them to sit still
+and listen to his story.</p>
+
+<hr class="hr1" />
+<h2><a name="v2CHAPTERXXIII" id="v2CHAPTERXXIII"></a>CHAPTER XXIII</h2>
+
+<h4>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
+Apocryphal</h4>
+
+<p class="cap">WHEN he was being hoisted down, Don Quixote
+said, he had suddenly landed on a precipice which
+led to a cave within the cave, large enough to hold a team
+of mules and a cart. There, he claimed, he fell asleep,
+only to wake and find himself in a beautiful field, from
+where he had gone on a regular sightseeing trip, visiting the
+most wonderful castles and palaces, and meeting with the
+most exalted personages. Among these was no other than
+the enchanted Montesinos himself. He had taken Don
+Quixote into his own palace, built of crystal and alabaster,
+and shown him the tomb of his friend Durandarte, who lay
+there in his enchantment, with his hairy hand over his heart.
+Don Quixote had asked whether it were indeed true that
+he, Montesinos, had cut out the heart of his dead friend, as
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_207" id="Page_207">[Pg&nbsp;207]</a></span>
+the story had told, and brought it to his Lady Belerma, and
+Montesinos had nodded in affirmation.</p>
+
+<p>Suddenly they had heard the poor dead knight moan in
+the most heartrending way, and he had asked Montesinos
+again and again whether he had done as he had bade him
+and carried his heart to his Lady Belerma in France. Montesinos
+had fallen on his knees and had assured his cousin
+with tearful eyes that as soon as he had died he had cut
+out his heart with a poniard, dried it with a lace handkerchief
+as well as he could, and then departed to see his Lady.
+At the first village he had come to in France, he had stopped
+to sprinkle some salt on it to keep it fresh, and had given it
+to the Lady Belerma, who was now also enchanted in this
+cave.</p>
+
+<p>Don Quixote continued his tale. The enchanter, the
+sage Merlin, so Montesinos had said, had prophesied that
+he, Don Quixote, reviver of knight-errantry, was to be the
+one to disenchant them all. He and Montesinos had almost
+come to blows, however, when the latter had inferred
+that during her enchantment the Lady Belerma had developed
+large circles under her eyes, and that if it had not been
+for these her beauty would have surpassed even that of
+the famous Lady Dulcinea of El Toboso. But Montesinos
+was courteous enough to apologize and acknowledge
+the truth of the proverb which says that comparisons are
+odious.</p>
+
+<p>Sancho and the young author of books had some difficulty
+in persuading themselves that all these things had
+happened in so short a time, for Don Quixote had only
+been gone about an hour; but Don Quixote, hearing this,
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_208" id="Page_208">[Pg&nbsp;208]</a></span>
+insisted that he had been absent three days and three
+nights. Then he proceeded to tell how he had felt no
+hunger whatever, that none down there ever ate, and that
+the enchanted never slept; he admitted, however, that their
+nails, hair, and beards grew.</p>
+
+<p>When Sancho heard all this he asked to be forgiven by
+God for saying he thought his master was lying, but the
+next moment he had retracted it, and when his master
+asked what he really meant, he said he did not know.</p>
+
+<p>There was one thing that had happened to our knight in
+the cave, which caused him infinite pain; he had met one of
+the enchanted ladies-in-waiting to his Lady Dulcinea, and
+she had told him in confidence that his beloved one wanted
+to borrow six reals on a petticoat which she had bought.
+He gave her all that he had, which amounted to only four
+reals, and she gave him in exchange her lady's blessing,
+saying that with it went many kisses. As she left him, he
+said, she had cut a caper and had sprung fully two yards
+into the air.</p>
+
+<p>"O blessed God," cried Sancho, "is it possible
+that enchantments can have such power as to have
+changed my master's right senses into a craze so full of
+absurdity? O Se�or, Se�or, consider yourself! Have a
+care for your honor, and give no credit to this silly stuff
+that has left you scant and short of wits."</p>
+
+<p>"Thou talkest in this way because thou lovest me, Sancho,"
+said Don Quixote; and he ascribed his squire's incredulity
+to a lack of knowledge of the world and assured
+him that when the time came he would tell him even more
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_209" id="Page_209">[Pg&nbsp;209]</a></span>
+that took place in the cave, which would make him believe
+what he now doubted.</p>
+
+<hr class="hr1" />
+<h2><a name="v2CHAPTERXXIV" id="v2CHAPTERXXIV"></a>CHAPTER XXIV</h2>
+
+<h4>Wherein Are Related Some Trifling Matters, as Trivial as
+They Are Necessary to the Right Understanding
+of This Great History</h4>
+
+<p class="cap">THE scholar was surprised that Don Quixote permitted
+his servant to talk to him in this way, but
+ascribed his lenience to the good mood he was in. After
+having whiled away still another hour talking pleasantly,
+they proceeded to find a place where they might spend the
+night. The scholar knew of a hermitage not very far off;
+and on their way there they encountered a man with a mule
+that was loaded with halberds and lances. Don Quixote
+was curious to know where he was taking the weapons, but
+the man answered that he was in great haste to reach the
+inn beyond the hermitage. He would spend the night at
+this inn, he said, and if they happened to be there too, he
+would tell them some things that were both interesting
+and curious. Don Quixote was so inquisitive that he decided
+to pass by the hermitage and go to the inn instead.</p>
+
+<p>Just before coming to the inn, they met a happy looking
+lad of eighteen or nineteen, who carried a sword over his
+shoulder and a bundle on his back. Don Quixote stopped
+him and asked where he was going; and the lad replied that
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_210" id="Page_210">[Pg&nbsp;210]</a></span>
+he was going to war for his king. He told the knight how
+he had been in the service of office-seekers and adventurers
+in Madrid until he had tired of such a life; and this
+pleased Don Quixote so much that he invited him to sit behind
+him on Rocinante and ride with him to the inn to
+sup with him. But the page, seeing the leanness of the
+knight's steed, said he preferred to walk, though he was
+glad to accept the invitation for supper.</p>
+
+<p>As soon as they had arrived at the inn, Don Quixote
+asked the landlord for the man with the lances and halberds;
+and Sancho was happy to know that his master took
+this inn for an inn and not for an enchanted castle.</p>
+
+<hr class="hr1" />
+<h2><a name="v2CHAPTERXXV" id="v2CHAPTERXXV"></a>CHAPTER XXV</h2>
+
+<h4>Wherein Is Set Down the Braying Adventure, and the
+Droll One of the Puppet-Showmen, Together with
+the Memorable Divinations of the
+Divining Ape</h4>
+
+<p class="cap">DON QUIXOTE found the man with the arms feeding
+his mule in the stable, and he asked the knight to
+accompany him to a quiet nook when he had finished this
+duty to his beast. But Don Quixote's curiosity knew no
+bounds, and he offered to help him sift the barley so that
+he might begin his story at once. Being a good-natured
+fellow, the man acquiesced. He related how a magistrate
+in his village, which was four leagues and a half
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_211" id="Page_211">[Pg&nbsp;211]</a></span>
+away, had lost a donkey through the carelessness of a servant.
+Some weeks later another magistrate of the same
+village was hunting in the woods, and when he returned
+he brought word to his fellow officer that he had come
+across the lost beast but that he was now so wild that no
+one could approach him. He suggested, however, that
+they go together in search for him; and they developed a
+plan whereby they thought they should surely be able to
+capture the animal. Both of them were expert in braying,
+and they decided to place themselves at different ends of
+the forest, each one braying at intervals. In this way they
+thought they should be able to round up the donkey, for
+they were certain that he would answer their calls.</p>
+
+<p>But it so happened that both of them brayed at the same
+time, and when they ran to look, convinced that the donkey
+had turned up, they found not the ass but only each other,
+so naturally had they brayed. They tried the same scheme
+again and again, but every time with the same result; and
+at last they came in this way to a place in the woods where
+they found the dead donkey devoured by wolves.</p>
+
+<p>The story of the two magistrates going about in the
+forest braying to each other like asses soon spread to the
+villages in the county; and in one village in particular the
+habit of braying whenever they observed any one from the
+village of the braying magistrates took such root that it
+was decided to teach them a lesson by taking arms against
+them. The arms he carried with him now, he said, were
+to be used against these scoffers, that they might never
+again behave like asses.</p>
+
+<p>He had just finished his story when some one entered
+and cried out that the show of <i>The Release of Melisendra</i>
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_212" id="Page_212">[Pg&nbsp;212]</a></span>
+and the divining ape were coming to the inn, and a minute
+later Master Pedro himself came into the yard, where he
+was greeted by the landlord and all the guests. Master
+Pedro's one eye was covered by a piece of green silk; Don
+Quixote judged by this that something had befallen him
+by accident. He asked the landlord to tell him all he
+knew of Master Pedro, and he learned that he traveled
+with his puppet-show from town to town, and was greatly
+renowned throughout the provinces as a showman. And
+the ape, the innkeeper said, was like a human being, so
+clever was he, and wise.</p>
+
+<p>Soon the show was in readiness inside, and every one
+gathered around Master Pedro and his divining ape. Don
+Quixote and Sancho were eager to have their fortunes told,
+and both offered their reals at the same time; but Master
+Pedro refused to take any money until the ape had rendered
+satisfactory service.</p>
+
+<p>The ape jumped up on his master's shoulder, and began
+to chatter his teeth as if he were saying something, all the
+while keeping his mouth close to Master Pedro's ear.
+When he had been chattering long enough to please himself,
+he jumped down just as quickly as he had jumped up.
+The next instant Don Quixote and Sancho were both frightened
+and awed by the showman's suddenly throwing himself
+before Don Quixote's feet and embracing his legs,
+while he exclaimed: "These legs do I embrace as I would
+embrace the two pillars of Hercules, O illustrious reviver
+of knight-errantry, O prop of the tottering, so long consigned
+to oblivion!" But not only were the knight and
+the squire aghast; the landlord and the guests were as
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_213" id="Page_213">[Pg&nbsp;213]</a></span>
+startled as they were, for they had never seen Master Pedro
+act like that before.</p>
+
+<p>But the showman had not finished, for in the next moment
+he lay at the feet of Sancho, to whom the divining
+ape brought cheer from his Teresa, saying that she was just
+soothing her feelings by indulging in wine from a pitcher
+which she was holding in her left hand and that had a
+broken spout.</p>
+
+<p>Don Quixote was not very well pleased with this exhibition,
+for he thought it decidedly out of place that an
+ape should know more than he or any other human being;
+and he confided to Sancho that the ape was possessed by the
+devil. He brought Sancho to a dark corner in the stable
+where he was sure no one could overhear them, and told
+him there that he was convinced Master Pedro had made
+a bargain with the devil to get rich through the ape, and
+then sell him his soul, and he said it surprised him beyond
+words that the Holy Office had not already interfered with
+this dastardly scheme.</p>
+
+<p>At this point Master Pedro came in search of Don
+Quixote, as the show was about to begin. Before entering
+the inn, however, Sancho entreated his master to ask the
+ape whether what he saw in the cave of Montesinos was
+true. Don Quixote did so, and the ape answered that
+some of it was true, some of it was not; and immediately
+Sancho scornfully broke in and said that he had told him
+so already. The ape intimated that by next Friday he
+should be able to tell more about the adventure; his mind
+was tired now.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_214" id="Page_214">[Pg&nbsp;214]</a></span>
+They entered and found the stage set for the performance;
+the tapers of wax were lit, it was a bright and beautiful
+scene. Master Pedro disappeared and took his place
+behind the scenes, for he was the one who created the life
+in the puppets. A lad who acted as interpreter, calling out
+the scenes and describing the action of the play, placed himself
+outside the theater. Don Quixote, Sancho, the page,
+and the scholar seated themselves in the front row; and the
+show began.</p>
+
+<hr class="hr1" />
+<h2><a name="v2CHAPTERXXVI" id="v2CHAPTERXXVI"></a>CHAPTER XXVI</h2>
+
+<h4>Wherein Is Continued the Droll Adventure of the
+Puppet-Showman, Together with Other
+Things in Truth Right Good</h4>
+
+<p class="cap">THE play, which depicted how Melisendra was released
+by her husband, Se�or Don Gaiferos, from
+the hands of the Moors in the city of Sansue�a, now called
+Saragossa, had only proceeded a short way when Don
+Quixote became impatient with the young man who was
+making the explanations to the audience. The knight
+thought he drifted into unnecessary and superfluous language,
+and was quick to reprimand him. The show was
+continued, and again Don Quixote broke in, criticising
+some of the stage effects: bells were never used by the
+Moors, only kettledrums, he said. But here Master Pedro
+begged him not to be so particular, pleading that the show
+was given for the sake of amusement.</p>
+
+<p>Don Quixote acceded, and the show began again.
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_215" id="Page_215">[Pg&nbsp;215]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>But it was not long before a number of horsemen were
+galloping across the stage in pursuit of the two lovers.
+Their escape was accompanied by such blowing of horns
+and trumpets and beating of drums, that the noise and
+din of it all were too much for the poor knight's imagination
+which was now stirred to such a pitch that he believed
+himself in the midst of a real battle. He drew his sword
+and plunged against the Moorish horseman with such
+vehemence and force, cutting and slashing in all directions,
+that every one in the room was aghast at his madness, and
+ran to hide in safety. Master Pedro came within an inch
+of having his ear, not to say his whole head, cut off, and
+Don Quixote's fury was not at an end until he had decapitated
+all the Moorish pasteboard figures. Lucky it
+was that no blood could flow from them, or there would
+have been a plentiful stream of it. The ape took refuge on
+the roof, frightened out of his poor wits, and even Sancho
+Panza was more than ordinarily shaken with fear, for he
+admitted that he had never seen his master so wrought
+up.</p>
+
+<p>When Don Quixote was certain of complete victory&mdash;in
+other words, destruction&mdash;he turned and addressed those
+who had dared to return after the storm: "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!"</p>
+
+<p>But Master Pedro was lamenting the loss of all his
+emperors and kings and knights and horses, and Sancho
+was so touched by what he said it would cost him to buy
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_216" id="Page_216">[Pg&nbsp;216]</a></span>
+a new show, that he pleaded with his master to make restitution;
+and, although Don Quixote could not see that he
+had done any wrong, he generously ordered his squire to
+pay Master Pedro the sum of forty reals and three quarters,
+the landlord having duly functioned as arbiter and agreed
+that that was a fair price for the damage done to the figures.
+Besides this amount, Master Pedro was allotted
+two reals for his trouble in catching the ape.</p>
+
+<p>While they were summing up, Don Quixote, however,
+had only one thought in his mind. He was wondering
+whether Melisendra and her husband had reached safety
+by this time: so possessed was he of his infernal imagination.
+Master Pedro promised him that as soon as he had
+caught his ape, he would put the question to him; and the
+showman began to worry about his African companion,
+hoping that he would soon be hungry, for then he would
+know whether he was still alive.</p>
+
+<p>The rest of the evening was passed in peace, and drinking
+at Don Quixote's expense, and soon it was morning, and
+the man with the halberds took his departure. The
+scholar and the page left, too, and Don Quixote generously
+gave the page twelve reals. But the first one to depart
+was the showman: he was afraid that the knight might
+have another outbreak, and he had no desire to experience
+it twice, and perhaps lose his ape, which he had now
+caught.</p>
+
+<p>The landlord was extremely pleased with Don Quixote's
+generosity, and was sorry to see him depart; but his madness
+he could make neither head nor tail of, for he had
+never seen any one thus afflicted.
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_217" id="Page_217">[Pg&nbsp;217]</a></span></p>
+
+<hr class="hr1" />
+<h2><a name="v2CHAPTERXXVII" id="v2CHAPTERXXVII"></a>CHAPTER XXVII</h2>
+
+<h4>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</h4>
+
+<p class="cap">IT was no doubt a good thing for Master Pedro of the
+puppet-show that neither Sancho nor Don Quixote
+recognized in him the thief who stole the squire's donkey,
+when he was asleep; for he it was. None other than the
+galley-slave Gines de Pasamonte, or Don Ginesillo de
+Paropilla, as Don Quixote would have it. It was in the
+guise of a showman, with only one eye and a part of his
+face visible, that he found it an easy matter to evade being
+caught by the servants of the law, who had been hunting
+for him ever since he was liberated through the generosity
+and bravery of Don Quixote. The ape he had bought
+from some captives who had returned from Barbary; and
+he had soon taught him the tricks which made people think
+he was really divining things. Before entering a village
+the clever galley-slave would learn all he could about its
+inhabitants; and being blessed with a remarkable memory,
+he seldom had any difficulty in making the ape's feat seem
+impressive to the masses.</p>
+
+<p>Now, when Don Quixote left the inn, it suddenly
+occurred to him that he ought to visit the banks of the Ebro
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_218" id="Page_218">[Pg&nbsp;218]</a></span>
+before steering towards Saragossa. So he kept on the road
+for two days, and on the third day as he was mounting a
+hill he was suddenly aroused by hearing a tremendous din
+of drums, mixed with the sound of trumpets and musket-shots.
+In as few instants as it took to make his charger
+ascend to the top of the hill, he was there; and he saw several
+hundred men, armed with weapons of every imaginable
+sort. There were flags, of various descriptions, and
+among them one in particular attracted his attention: it
+was a large standard in white, on which was painted a
+donkey, and also an inscription, reading thus:</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot">
+<p class="center">
+They did not bray in vain,<br />
+Our alcaldes twain.<br />
+</p></div>
+
+<p>This made Don Quixote believe the warriors must
+be from the braying town, and he remarked to Sancho that
+the man to whom they had talked at the inn must have
+been misinformed, for evidently the two had not been magistrates
+but alcaldes, according to the sign. To this Sancho
+replied that having once been a magistrate should not exclude
+any one from becoming an alcalde; besides, somebody
+must have brayed, and whether it was an alcalde or
+a magistrate mattered little, he thought. Don Quixote,
+however, was in a quandary as to what to do that he
+might best live up to the laws of knight-errantry.</p>
+
+<p>He finally went to the braying ones, and, having begged
+their leave to address them, he began a stirring discourse
+on war and peace that lasted a considerable time. He
+flayed those who would go into battle for trifling matters;
+but just when he seemed to be about to win the braying
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_219" id="Page_219">[Pg&nbsp;219]</a></span>
+ones over to his way of thinking, he had to pause for breath.</p>
+
+<p>Sancho thought it his duty to interrupt the silence and
+take up the broken thread here, so he continued in his own
+way, keeping more or less to the same subject. He started
+in by praising his master&mdash;the Knight of the Lions!&mdash;his
+bravery, his generosity, his knowledge of Latin (which
+Sancho unfortunately did not understand), and all his
+other virtues, and suddenly he bellowed out that they were
+fools to take offense at hearing some one bray. Then he
+became reminiscent and related how he as a boy used to
+like to go about braying, and told how envious every one in
+his village was because of his great gift in that direction.
+"Wait a bit and listen!" said he. "I'll show you!" And
+before his master had a chance to stop him, he had pinched
+his nose and brayed&mdash;had brayed such a bray that all the
+valleys and dales gave echo.</p>
+
+<p>When some of the men heard the braying they thought
+he had come there to mock them, and they set upon him
+with such fury and force that Don Quixote, though he did
+his best to defend him, had to spur Rocinante into retreat,
+in order to save his own life. But Sancho was both stoned
+and pummeled into insensibility, and then he was put on
+his donkey and tied there; and when he came to, he had to
+put his trust in Dapple, who was forced to smell his way
+back to Rocinante.</p>
+
+<p>The braying troops remained in the field until evening,
+but since no opposing army appeared, they returned to
+their village after dark.
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_220" id="Page_220">[Pg&nbsp;220]</a></span></p>
+
+<hr class="hr1" />
+<h2><a name="v2CHAPTERXXVIII" id="v2CHAPTERXXVIII"></a>CHAPTER XXVIII</h2>
+
+<h4>Of Matters That Benengeli Says He Who Reads Them
+Will Know, If He Reads Them with Attention</h4>
+
+<p class="cap">WHEN Dapple reached his faithful playmate, Rocinante,
+Sancho fell from his back and rolled at his
+master's feet. There he lay; but Don Quixote was angry
+and showed no compassion.</p>
+
+<p>"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?"</p>
+
+<p>Having thus reprimanded his squire, the good knight
+looked to his wounds, which Sancho complained of, but
+found him only discolored.</p>
+
+<p>"I feel as if I was speaking through my shoulders,"
+wailed Sancho; and then he begged his master to hasten
+away from such evil premises. Of course, he also had to
+say something scornful about Don Quixote's having abandoned
+him in the heat of battle; but the knight begged him
+to consider that there was a difference between flying and
+retiring.</p>
+
+<p>Don Quixote succeeded in making Sancho mount and remain
+on the donkey's back, and then they set off toward a
+grove which they sighted in the distance. Sancho's back
+pained him fearfully, but he was much relieved when he
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_221" id="Page_221">[Pg&nbsp;221]</a></span>
+learned from his master&mdash;who had seen the accident&mdash;that
+it was caused by his having been smitten by a man armed
+with a staff. The cause being removed as it were, Sancho
+was jubilant, although his heart and courage fell as soon
+as he, in the course of his usual chattering, touched upon
+the subject of knight-errantry. While bewailing his fate,
+he forgot his pain; therefore Don Quixote was generous and
+Christian enough to beg him to keep on talking to himself.
+Sancho suddenly was reminded of his island, and in turn
+reminded his master of his promise concerning it.</p>
+
+<p>This impertinence was rewarded by the knight's demanding
+of him: "Well, how long is it, Sancho, since
+I promised thee an island?"</p>
+
+<p>And Sancho retorted innocently: "If I remember rightly,
+it must be over twenty years, three days more or less."</p>
+
+<p>Don Quixote then had to laugh, for it would have been
+ridiculous not to do so. His wrath was aroused, however,
+when Sancho again showed his covetousness&mdash;his one
+really great failing, Don Quixote thought&mdash;and he told
+him to keep all the money he had, and betake himself back
+to his Teresa.</p>
+
+<p>Sancho was moved to tears by his master's wrath, and he
+confessed in a broken voice that if he had only had a tail
+he would have been a complete ass himself. But, he said,
+if his master should care to attach one to him, he would
+willingly wear one, and serve him all his life as an ass.
+Then he asked on bended knees to be forgiven, saying that
+if he talked much it was less from malice than from ignorance,
+and finished up his harangue with a proverb that had
+nothing whatever to do with the rest of his discourse.
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_222" id="Page_222">[Pg&nbsp;222]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>So Don Quixote forgave his squire, and by that time they
+had reached the grove, and they spent the night there under
+the trees: Don Quixote in soliloquies and meditation,
+Sancho in pain and restlessness. In the morning they continued
+on their way to find the river Ebro.</p>
+
+<hr class="hr1" />
+<h2><a name="v2CHAPTERXXIX" id="v2CHAPTERXXIX"></a>CHAPTER XXIX</h2>
+
+<h4>Of the Famous Adventure of the Enchanted Bark</h4>
+
+<p class="cap">IT took them two days to reach the river. The very first
+thing that struck the knight's eye when he got there,
+was a boat without oars, tied to a tree. Immediately Don
+Quixote insisted that the boat had been sent by magic to
+<a name="front" id="front"></a>fetch him to some great knight or other person in need of
+his help; and all Sancho's contradictions were fruitless.</p>
+
+<p>Finally the proverb, "Do as thy master bids thee, and sit
+down to table with him," had its effect on Sancho, and,
+although certain he was about to give up his life, he tied
+the beasts to a tree on the bank, and seated himself in the
+boat, trembling like a leaf. Then the knight cut the rope,
+and they started to drift out into the stream, while Dapple
+was braying and Rocinante was trying to break away and
+plunge in after them. Seeing this, Sancho began to weep
+convulsively, but his master had no patience with him,
+and told him to control himself.</p>
+
+<p>Soon they had reached midstream, and Don Quixote,
+much to Sancho's perplexity, began to talk about cosmography,
+the three hundred and sixty degrees of the globe,
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_223" id="Page_223">[Pg&nbsp;223]</a></span>
+and the equinoctial line, which, the knight said, they were
+just then passing. A sure sign by which all seafaring
+Spaniards determined the passing of this latitude, Don
+Quixote went on, was that all lice died on everybody on
+board ship. So, in accordance with this custom, he asked
+his squire to take the test. Sancho let his hand creep
+stealthily into the hollow of his left knee, and he promptly
+told his master that either was the test not to be relied
+upon, or they had not passed the line that had just been
+mentioned by name.</p>
+
+<p>"Why, how so?" asked Don Quixote; "hast thou come
+upon aught?"</p>
+
+<p>"Ay, and aughts," replied Sancho, and in replying he let
+the stream wash his fingers.</p>
+
+<p>Just then they came in view of some large floating mills,
+moored in midstream. At once Don Quixote became excited,
+crying to Sancho that there must be some fair princess
+or high-born lady in captivity in this castle.</p>
+
+<p>Sancho did his best to make his master believe they were
+not castles but only mills that ground corn; but to no
+avail. Don Quixote insisted that either his squire or the
+mills were enchanted. They came closer and closer to
+them, and soon shouts were heard from some of the millers,
+who realized the danger of the boat's being upset by the
+suction of the water, and dragged into the mill wheels.</p>
+
+<p>The men quickly got hold of some sticks and poles, and
+tried to stave off the boat, and when Don Quixote saw
+their white, flour-covered faces he turned to Sancho and
+begged him to take a good look at the monsters that had
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_224" id="Page_224">[Pg&nbsp;224]</a></span>
+been sent to oppose him. The men were all the time crying
+out, unable to fathom such dare-deviltry or folly:
+"Devils of men, where are you going to? Are you mad?
+Do you want to drown yourselves, or dash yourselves to
+pieces among these wheels?"</p>
+
+<p>In reply to these well-meant exclamations, Don Quixote
+stood up in the boat and began to swing his sword in
+a ferocious manner, calling them evil rabble, and demanding
+that they set free the princess who was imprisoned in
+the fortress; while Sancho said all the prayers he could
+think of, crawling on the bottom of the swaying boat, which
+was now close to the rushing water.</p>
+
+<p>At last the millers caught the boat with their hooks, but
+in so doing Don Quixote and his squire both fell into the
+river. Don Quixote in his heavy armor made two trips to
+the bottom, but both he and Sancho were rescued, thanks
+to the devils in white. As soon as they had come ashore,
+Sancho sank upon his knees and thanked the Lord for having
+been saved from such a death as that from drinking too
+much water, and prayed that he should be delivered from
+all future temptations to risk his life in any more foolish
+causes.</p>
+
+<p>As this moment the fishermen who owned the boat
+came running up, claiming damages for the wrecked craft,
+and after having failed to strike a bargain with this rabble
+for the delivery of the enchanted fair maiden in the castle,
+Don Quixote, wearied by their stupidity, paid them fifty
+reals for the boat, exclaiming: "God help us, this world
+is all machinations and schemes at cross purposes one with
+the other! I can do no more." Then, turning toward
+the water mills, he burst out into lamentations, confessing
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_225" id="Page_225">[Pg&nbsp;225]</a></span>
+to the imagined captive princess his inability to set her
+free at this time; while the fishermen stood by, wondering
+what it was all about.</p>
+
+<p>Having ceased his lamentations, Don Quixote and Sancho
+joined their faithful beasts, and set out to find new adventures.</p>
+
+<hr class="hr1" />
+<h2><a name="v2CHAPTERXXX" id="v2CHAPTERXXX"></a>CHAPTER XXX</h2>
+
+<h4>Of Don Quixote's Adventure with a Fair Huntress</h4>
+
+<p class="cap">SANCHO left the river Ebro with no regrets, except for
+the fifty reals just paid to the fishermen. He was
+seriously considering in his own mind the foolishness of
+remaining a squire to such a mad master as his. But late
+the following afternoon they approached a field, and suddenly
+Don Quixote discovered in the distance a number
+of people, and as they came closer they found it was a
+hawking party.</p>
+
+<p>Seeing in the party a lady with a hawk on her left hand,
+and dressed so richly that Sancho said he had never seen
+anything so fine in his life, Don Quixote decided that she
+must be some lady of great distinction. Therefore he dispatched
+his squire with a message to her, asking her for
+permission to kiss her hand in person. He instructed
+Sancho to be particularly careful not to dispense any of
+his proverbs to the lady; but Sancho said he could do without
+this warning, for had he not carried messages before
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_226" id="Page_226">[Pg&nbsp;226]</a></span>
+to the exalted Dulcinea, the highest lady of them all?</p>
+
+<p>Soon Don Quixote saw his squire kneeling before the
+lady. Having given her his life's history and told her
+his name, Sancho proceeded with the message of his master,
+the valiant Knight of the Lions, formerly the Knight of
+the Rueful Countenance, explicitly explaining his master's
+modest desire. The lady, who was no other than a duchess,
+at once was interested, as she had read and laughed
+over the first volume of "The Ingenious Gentleman, Don
+Quixote of La Mancha"; and she immediately asked Sancho
+to return to his master and say that she would be delighted
+beyond words to have the worthy knight and his
+squire come and be her and the Duke's guests at a country
+place they had there.</p>
+
+<p>Sancho was so flattered that the Duchess had recognized
+him from having read the book, and so pleased with
+the reception she had given him, as well as so taken by her
+great charm and beauty that he could not get back to his
+master quickly enough to tell him the good news. With
+his best manner and bearing Don Quixote, attended by his
+faithful one, rode into the presence of the august lady,
+and kissed her hand.</p>
+
+<p>But while Sancho was on his way to his master with the
+Duchess' message, she had sent for the Duke, and they had
+arranged, both being gifted with a remarkable sense of
+humor, to receive and entertain the hero in true knight-errant
+fashion. Having read all the tales of chivalry,
+they knew exactly what to do.</p>
+
+<p>Don Quixote was about to dismount, when he had kissed
+the Duchess' hand; and Sancho, as was his custom, wanted
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_227" id="Page_227">[Pg&nbsp;227]</a></span>
+to get off Dapple in a hurry and hold his stirrup, as soon
+as he perceived his master's intention. But luck would
+have it that one of his legs caught in the trappings, and he
+fell head first towards the ground. There the poor squire
+hung, unable to get up or down, caught by the foot.
+Now, when Don Quixote, his eyes fixedly and courteously
+on the Duchess, thought that his squire was there with the
+stirrup, he pressed downward with all his weight, and
+knight and saddle both flew high in the air off Rocinante.
+When Don Quixote had reached earth, he lay there, writhing
+in pain and cursing and swearing at his stupid squire,
+who was still hanging by his foot.</p>
+
+<p>The Duke and the Duchess, unable to constrain themselves
+at the amusing scene, finally were able through their
+laughter to order their huntsmen to their help; and, limping,
+the knight advanced to do homage to the Duke and his
+consort on his damaged knees. The Duke, however, nobly
+refused such honor, and instead, embraced the knight. He
+then regretted in a few well chosen words the knight's accident;
+but Don Quixote replied with an exalted speech,
+saying that if he had fallen to the depths of the bottomless
+pit, the glory of having seen such a noble and worthy pair
+would have lifted him up. Then, of course, he said something
+uncomplimentary about his squire, who did not know
+how to tighten the girths of a saddle, although he could
+not help giving him credit for having a loose tongue.</p>
+
+<p>But when the knight began to praise the beauty of the
+Duchess, the Duke asked him courteously whether there
+were not others to praise, as, for instance, his own Lady
+Dulcinea. At this Don Quixote offered the Duchess his
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_228" id="Page_228">[Pg&nbsp;228]</a></span>
+services for a few days, together with those of his squire,
+Sancho Panza, whom he now took pity on and praised as
+being the drollest squire in the world. Whereupon the
+Duchess flattered Sancho, saying that if he were droll, she
+was sure he was shrewd as well; but Don Quixote broke
+in and added that he was talkative. When the knight,
+having heard himself addressed as the Knight of the Rueful
+Countenance, begged to correct it to the Knight of the
+Lions, the Duke asked him to relate the episode that thus
+changed his title. And then he invited all to come to the
+castle to be present at a reception that he would give to
+their great and distinguished guest.</p>
+
+<p>With the Duchess in the middle, flanked by Don Quixote
+and the Duke, the whole company headed for the castle;
+but it was not long before the Duchess found her desire
+for conversation with the droll and amusing Sancho irresistible.
+As soon as the Duchess' wish was made known
+to him, the squire eagerly wedged his way between the
+horses and chattered his way into the lady's good graces.</p>
+
+<hr class="hr1" />
+<h2><a name="v2CHAPTERXXXI" id="v2CHAPTERXXXI"></a>CHAPTER XXXI</h2>
+
+<h4>Which Treats of Many and Great Matters</h4>
+
+<p class="cap">THE reception tendered Don Quixote was arranged
+in true knight-errant fashion by the Duke, who had
+ridden ahead and given full instructions to the servants.
+So when Don Quixote arrived, he received a welcome that
+surpassed anything he had ever read or dreamt of.
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_229" id="Page_229">[Pg&nbsp;229]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>The staircases and the galleries of the court were lined
+with servants, who greeted him with the exclamation:
+"Welcome, flower and cream of knight-errantry!" At
+the same time they cast pellets with scented water over
+him.</p>
+
+<p>Sancho was taken aback at the sight of all this glory.
+He had followed the Duchess, but once in the castle, the
+absence of his Dapple made him feel worried. So he
+turned to one of the duennas, a dignified woman, named
+Do�a Rodriguez de Grijalba, and asked her whether she
+would not favor him by going outside and seeing that his
+poor little Dapple was well taken care of. Do�a Rodriguez
+was greatly incensed at his ordering a duenna of the
+ducal household to do things of that sort, and called him a
+garlic-stuffed scoundrel. Don Quixote, overhearing their
+conversation, reprimanded his misbehaving servant, and
+Sancho blamed it all on his love for his donkey.</p>
+
+<p>After this, Don Quixote was escorted into a hall the
+walls of which were covered with cloth of gold and rich
+tapestries, and here he was stripped of his armor by six
+fair damsels. These maidens could scarcely control their
+laughter when they saw him stand there, thin, emaciated,
+tall and bony, dressed in his chamois doublet and tight-fitting
+breeches. They begged him to permit them to put
+a clean shirt on him, but that he refused with many assurances
+of his modesty, asking them instead to give it to
+Sancho. The two were taken to a room, where Don Quixote,
+alone with his squire, undressed and put on the shirt,
+while he gave Sancho admonitions galore, as to how to
+behave, begging him never again to have any quarrels with
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_230" id="Page_230">[Pg&nbsp;230]</a></span>
+any duennas, for that only tended to lessen the respect for
+the master, who was always judged by his squire's behavior
+and actions.</p>
+
+<p>Then Don Quixote returned to the hall, where he was
+attired in a rich baldric and a scarlet mantle, with a sword
+and a gorgeous montera of green satin. As he passed
+through the halls and chambers on his way to the state
+dining room, he was escorted by the seneschal and twelve
+pages; and the sides of each room, as well as the aisles,
+were lined with servants in pompous liveries.</p>
+
+<p>Only four covers were laid. Besides Don Quixote and
+his noble hosts the confessor of the ducal household, a cold
+and austere churchman, occupied a seat at the heavily
+laden table, to which our knight was ushered ceremoniously
+by the Duke himself. But the dinner had not even
+begun when Sancho unloosened his tongue and began with
+his proverbs, much to the distress and mortification of his
+master, although to the great enjoyment of the Duchess.
+Sancho had been standing by Don Quixote, staring wide-eyed
+and open-mouthed at everything that was taking
+place, for he had never in his life seen anything so sumptuous
+and ceremonious. The exchange of courtesies between
+the Duke and our Knight, when the latter finally
+was induced to accept the seat of honor at the head of the
+table, impressed the squire considerably; and it was then
+he thought the time ripe for the introduction of a story
+about this matter of seats. The Duchess told him by all
+means to let them hear it, and he began, telling it in the
+most roundabout way, with twists and curves, and expeditions
+here and there to places and matters that had as
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_231" id="Page_231">[Pg&nbsp;231]</a></span>
+much to do with the story as had the proverbs that he
+stuffed it with.</p>
+
+<p>Don Quixote was beside himself, and the confessor interrupted
+the poor squire impatiently again and again; but
+on he went. All the while the Duchess was laughing so
+heartily that she could scarcely sit up straight in the chair.
+And while the Duke engaged himself with Don Quixote,
+she carried on a confidential conversation with Sancho,
+who told her how he had tricked his master into believing
+that his Lady Dulcinea was enchanted, saying she was as
+much enchanted as his father.</p>
+
+<p>When the confessor heard the sacrilegious conversation
+the Duchess was having with Sancho, discussing
+giants and enchantments, he severely reprimanded her and
+warned her that she would have to answer to God for whatever
+this man did and said. Then, addressing the Duke,
+whom he had forbidden to read the book about Don Quixote's
+adventures, he said: "This Don Simpleton, or whatever
+his name is, cannot be such a blockhead as your Excellency
+would have him, holding out encouragement to
+him to go on with his vagaries and follies." And then
+he turned to Don Quixote and told him to be on his way,
+and go home and bring up his children, if he had any; and
+he called him a numbskull, and other names, and a fool
+for believing that there were knights-errant in the world
+and Dulcineas and other such silly things.</p>
+
+<p>Don Quixote sat still and never moved a muscle while
+the churchman was speaking, but as soon as he had said
+all he had to say, he sprang up from his seat, trembling
+in his whole body, his face contorted with rage.
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_232" id="Page_232">[Pg&nbsp;232]</a></span></p>
+
+<hr class="hr1" />
+<h2><a name="v2CHAPTERXXXII" id="v2CHAPTERXXXII"></a>CHAPTER XXXII</h2>
+
+<h4>Of the Reply Don Quixote Gave His Censurer, with
+Other Incidents, Grave and Droll</h4>
+
+<p class="cap">HAD Don Quixote not been where he was and had
+the man who thus assailed him not been of the
+church, it is safe to say that Don Quixote would have made
+his defamer retract his words at the point of his sword.
+But instead he calmed himself, and began a long discourse
+on the virtues of knight-errantry, finishing it with an
+avowal of his intentions which, he swore, were to do good
+to all and evil to none. As for his deserving to be called
+a fool, he would leave that to the judgment of the Duke
+and the Duchess. But their worships never got a chance
+to utter a word before Sancho broke in with the most stupendous
+praise of his master's speech.</p>
+
+<p>The churchman wanted to know whether he was the
+Sancho Panza of the book he had seen in print, to which
+Sancho replied that he most certainly was, and corroborated
+it with a string of proverbs, ending his long-winded
+reply to the confessor's question with a wish for long life
+for his master and himself, saying that neither one of them
+would be in any want of empires or islands to rule.
+Whereupon the Duke at once said he conferred upon Sancho
+this very moment the government of one of his islands;
+and hearing this Don Quixote whispered to Sancho&mdash;who
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_233" id="Page_233">[Pg&nbsp;233]</a></span>
+could not believe his own ears&mdash;to go down on his knees
+and thank the Duke for his kindness.</p>
+
+<p>The ecclesiastic could stand this impudence no longer,
+and he rose from his seat and left the room in disgust and
+ill-temper. The Duke wanted to call him back, but he
+was in such hysterics from hearing Sancho's proverbial nonsense
+that he could not speak. After the churchman's departure
+Don Quixote again took to discoursing, and delivered
+a tirade on the subject of giving and taking offense,
+comparing the confessor's rebuke to the offense of a woman,
+whose only weapon was her tongue and who therefore
+could not be punished by the sword. They marveled at
+his knowledge and at the quality of his language, however
+amusing he himself appeared; but it was Sancho who particularly
+took their fancy, for the ducal pair thought they
+had never met any one quite so amusing and droll in all
+their life. And when Don Quixote had ended his discourse,
+Sancho himself burst out regarding the priest: "By
+my faith, I am certain if Reinaldos of Montalvan had heard
+the little man's words, he would have given him such a
+spank on the mouth that he would not have spoken for the
+next three years."</p>
+
+<p>The dinner was now over, and four maidens entered:
+one carrying a silver basin, another one a jug, also of silver,
+a third one towels, while the fourth had her sleeves rolled
+up, and, approaching Don Quixote, began to soap his face
+and beard. Don Quixote thought this must be a custom
+after all ducal meals, so he submitted in amazement and
+stretched out his legs comfortably, that he should not appear
+out of place in such surroundings. When his face
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_234" id="Page_234">[Pg&nbsp;234]</a></span>
+was all lathered, the barber maiden pretended there was no
+more water in the jug; and by this time the lather had
+worked its way into the knight's eyes, and he sat there
+making the most fierce and ludicrous faces until the water
+finally arrived. Then the Duke, in order that Don Quixote
+should have no suspicions, ordered the maiden to wash
+his face and beard as well. But the one who really was
+crying for and needing such a washing was Sancho. He
+at last got up sufficient courage to ask the Duchess that he
+might share in the ceremony, and she promised him that if
+necessary the maidens would even put him in the bathtub.
+This kind offer Sancho declined&mdash;with many thanks,
+however&mdash;saying he would be just as grateful for having
+only his beard washed.</p>
+
+<p>While Sancho went with the seneschal to have this attended
+to, Don Quixote lingered at the table with the
+Duke and the Duchess. The latter was anxious to have
+the hero tell her something about his Lady Dulcinea; and
+Don Quixote became reminiscent and began to sigh, telling
+her in exalted and flowery language of his great platonic
+love for this lady, who was now enchanted by some evil
+sage. When the Duchess asked Don Quixote if it were
+true that she was only an imaginary figure, he replied
+meekly that there was a good deal to be said on that point;
+still, he thought, one must not go to extreme lengths in
+asking for proof. They discussed many other things, not
+forgetting Sancho, whom his master praised for his drollery
+and criticised for being a booby.</p>
+
+<p>Suddenly a great noise was heard and the next moment
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_235" id="Page_235">[Pg&nbsp;235]</a></span>
+Sancho burst into the room trembling with rage. He was
+followed by some of the servants in the kitchen. Round
+his neck was a straining cloth, and dirty lather was splashed
+in various places over his person. He presented an appearance
+that at once made the Duchess scream with
+laughter. He proceeded to tell how he had been set upon
+by the kitchen-boy, who had been appointed barber by the
+rest, and how the lad had attempted to lather his face
+with kitchen soap and dishwater, applied with a scrubbing-brush.
+Don Quixote thought it best here to make the servants
+understand that he would tolerate no such jokes on his
+squire, so he addressed them in severe fashion and then
+ordered them back to the kitchen, with the Duchess' kind
+consent.</p>
+
+<p>When the servants had left Sancho thought it a duty
+to himself and his master&mdash;in order to uphold their mutual
+dignity and for the sake of freeing himself from any untoward
+suspicion&mdash;to speak on his own behalf: "Let
+them bring a comb here 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." And when the Duchess had
+acknowledged her faith in Sancho and his virtues, the poor
+squire's happiness knew no bounds. He offered to serve
+her for the rest of his life. He wished that he might soon
+be dubbed a knight that he might carry out his desire on
+that point. She thanked him for expressing such a friendly
+feeling for her, and told him that she could plainly judge
+by his courteous offer to her that he had been reared in no
+other school than that of the great knight Don Quixote of
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_236" id="Page_236">[Pg&nbsp;236]</a></span>
+La Mancha. And she assured him that the Duke would
+not forget the island he had promised him: she would
+see to that.</p>
+
+<p>Don Quixote was now feeling the necessity for his mid-day
+nap, and begged to be permitted to retire. Sancho
+wanted to do the same, and remarked to the Duchess that
+he usually slept about four or five hours in the middle of a
+warm summer day; but upon her earnest request he promised
+her to try to wake up after an hour and come and
+visit with her and her duennas.</p>
+
+<hr class="hr1" />
+<h2><a name="v2CHAPTERXXXIII" id="v2CHAPTERXXXIII"></a>CHAPTER XXXIII</h2>
+
+<h4>Of the Delectable Discourse Which the Duchess and
+Her Damsels Held with Sancho Panza, Well
+Worth Reading and Noting</h4>
+
+<p class="cap">AS soon as Sancho had eaten his dinner, he decided to
+have no sleep that afternoon, but to hasten to the
+Duchess' chambers that he might talk to her the whole
+afternoon. The Duchess asked him innumerable questions
+about his master and the Lady Dulcinea, and about
+Teresa Panza and every one concerned in the book about
+Don Quixote; and Sancho managed to keep the Duchess
+and her duennas in an uncommonly good humor for the rest
+of the day. They soon drifted to Sancho's government,
+and the squire expressed the belief that perhaps after a
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_237" id="Page_237">[Pg&nbsp;237]</a></span>
+fortnight he would be as well versed in the affairs of government
+as he was in the farm labor he had been doing
+all his life.</p>
+
+<p>"Let them only put me into this government and they
+will see wonders," he said; "for one who has been a good
+squire will be a good governor."</p>
+
+<p>And then he took leave of the high lady, who suggested
+that he go home and sleep for the rest of the afternoon.
+He promised that he would, and entreated her to see to it
+that good care was taken of his Dapple. When he had
+explained to the Duchess that Dapple was his faithful
+donkey, and told her of the incident with Do�a Rodriguez,
+she assured him that Dapple would want for nothing in her
+stable. She suggested that when he had his government
+in hand, he ought to pension Dapple off and let him quit
+working; and Sancho thought that was by no means a bad
+idea, for, he said, he would not be the first ass to be so
+pensioned.</p>
+
+<p>The Duchess, when he had left, hastened to tell the
+Duke of her amusing conversation with Sancho; and again
+they put their heads together, trying to invent new ways
+and plots whereby they might derive amusement from the
+presence of Don Quixote and his squire.
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_238" id="Page_238">[Pg&nbsp;238]</a></span></p>
+
+<hr class="hr1" />
+<h2><a name="v2CHAPTERXXXIV" id="v2CHAPTERXXXIV"></a>CHAPTER XXXIV</h2>
+
+<h4>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</h4>
+
+<p class="cap">WHEN the Duke and the Duchess had hit upon a
+plan they proceeded to make preparations for its
+being carried out, and on the sixth day they invited Don
+Quixote to go hunting with them. There was an array
+of huntsmen and beaters, as great a retinue as the Duke
+could possibly get together. Both Don Quixote and his
+squire had been presented with splendid hunting suits; but
+Don Quixote did not accept his, saying that he would soon
+have to return to the hard pursuits of his calling, and that
+it would only be a burden to carry it along.</p>
+
+<p>Sancho did not know that his beautiful suit was destined
+to be torn that very day. A wild boar came along, and
+Sancho deserted his Dapple and climbed quickly up into
+the tallest tree he could find; but fate would have it that
+the branch gave way, and Sancho fell onto a branch below,
+where he hung suspended by a great rent in his breeches,
+screaming with all his might that he would be devoured
+by the boar; but the boar fell in the next moment, pierced
+by many spears, and Sancho was helped to the ground by
+his master.</p>
+
+<p>The boar was taken to some tents nearby, where dinner
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_239" id="Page_239">[Pg&nbsp;239]</a></span>
+soon was ready and being served for the hunters. Sancho
+could not refrain then from showing the Duchess what had
+befallen him in the tree-top, expressing to her his opinion
+of hunts of that kind, involving so much risk. Much
+better, he thought, it would be to hunt hares and other
+little animals. And then he went on at a tremendous
+speed, repeating proverb after proverb, one minute telling
+the Duchess how he would govern his island, and the
+next minute talking about something in his home village.</p>
+
+<p>Night fell as they were talking. It was a very dark
+night, which helped to make the Duke's plan seem more
+likely of success. They had all left the tents and gone into
+the wood, when suddenly it seemed as if the whole space
+was afire in one blazing red mass of flames; then there came
+the sound of trumpets, numberless ones it seemed, and of
+hoofs, as if hordes of horses had passed through the wood,
+and of drums, and of battle-cries in Moorish. It was one
+long, tremendous, indescribable confusion. The Duke
+and the Duchess were seemingly taken aback; Don Quixote
+did not know what to think or do; and Sancho was absolutely
+panic-stricken. It was a din so overwhelming
+that even those who had arranged it were aghast and afraid.</p>
+
+<p>Then there came a sudden lull, and a messenger&mdash;dressed
+like a demon and blowing a horn that sounded a weird and
+sickly note&mdash;appeared before their eyes, apparently in
+great haste. The Duke called to him and asked him where
+he was going; and he replied in a coarse voice that he was
+the Devil and was looking for Don Quixote of La Mancha.
+He pointed to the on-riding troops, and said that
+they were enchanters who were bringing the famous Lady
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_240" id="Page_240">[Pg&nbsp;240]</a></span>
+Dulcinea del Toboso and the great Frenchman Montesinos
+on a triumphal car to seek their disenchantment through
+the only one who could accomplish it, the Knight of the
+Lions.</p>
+
+<p>On hearing this, Don Quixote said: "If you are the
+Devil, you ought to know that I am Don Quixote!"</p>
+
+<p>Whereupon the Devil exclaimed in surprise that he had
+not noticed the knight at all because he was so preoccupied
+with so many other things that he had almost forgotten
+what he was there for. Judging the Devil by his remark
+Sancho decided he was a very honest fellow and a good
+Christian; otherwise he would not have sworn&mdash;as Sancho
+did&mdash;by God and his conscience. After that the squire
+concluded that even hell had its quota of souls.</p>
+
+<p>The Devil asked Don Quixote to communicate with
+Montesinos that he might receive instructions as to how
+to carry out the disenchantment of Lady Dulcinea; and
+then he turned around his horse and was gone. The whole
+thing had happened so suddenly that even Don Quixote
+was perplexed and seemed as if he did not know whether
+to believe what he had seen and heard. Sancho was dumbfounded
+and frightened out of his wits.</p>
+
+<p>As Don Quixote made no move to follow the Devil's
+advice, the Duke turned to him and asked whether he intended
+to remain where he was. He answered that he
+would even if all the devils from hell should attack him.
+Scarcely had he vowed this when he had to gather all his
+courage in order not to give way to fear, for again there
+broke out a noise and din that surpassed anything that he
+had ever heard: shots of cannon and muskets, shouts and
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_241" id="Page_241">[Pg&nbsp;241]</a></span>
+screams from all sides, and the terrific sound of all the
+trumpets, horns, drums, bugles and clarions; and then came
+the heavy creaking noise of carts, coming through the wood
+and all brightly lighted with rows of tapers.</p>
+
+<p>It was too much for poor Sancho. He fell fainting on
+the Duchess' skirt. She ordered her servants to fan him
+and to throw water in his face, and he regained consciousness
+just as one of the carts was passing. It was drawn
+by four oxen, completely covered with black cloth, and
+attached to each horn was a lighted wax taper. Leading
+the oxen were two demons with such horrible, frightful
+faces that Sancho shut his eyes tightly after having got
+one glance of them. An old, worthy-looking man with a
+long, snow-white beard sat on a raised seat on the cart;
+and when he passed Don Quixote he said in a deep voice:
+"I am the sage Lirgandeo." And the cart continued.
+Then followed other carts, with other sages, and Sancho's
+face suddenly lighted up, for he heard sweet music in the
+distance, and he said to the Duchess: "Se�ora, where
+there is music, there can be no mischief."</p>
+
+<p>But Don Quixote would not commit himself, for all he
+remarked was: "That remains to be seen."
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_242" id="Page_242">[Pg&nbsp;242]</a></span></p>
+
+<hr class="hr1" />
+<h2><a name="v2CHAPTERXXXV" id="v2CHAPTERXXXV"></a>CHAPTER XXXV</h2>
+
+<h4>Wherein Is Continued the Instruction Given to Don
+Quixote Touching the Disenchantment of
+Dulcinea, Together with Other
+Marvelous Incidents</h4>
+
+<p class="cap">AS the sound of the music came closer, they distinguished
+a triumphal car, several times larger than the
+other ones, and on it were seated two figures, surrounded by
+a great many penitents, robed in white, and with lighted
+wax tapers in their hands. One of the figures was a young
+maiden in the costume of a nymph. She was very beautiful.
+The other one was dressed in a robe of state and had
+her head covered with a black veil.</p>
+
+<p>As the car reached the spot where the Duke and Duchess
+and Don Quixote were standing, the music suddenly
+ceased, and the figure in the long robe rose and removed
+both the robe and the veil. All were astonished to find
+themselves face to face with Death. Sancho was frightened;
+Don Quixote felt ill at ease; and even the Duke and
+the Duchess seemed uncomfortable.</p>
+
+<p>Then Death began to declaim a long poem which ended
+with the announcement that the Lady Dulcinea was enchanted
+by himself, the sage Merlin, here in the guise of
+Death, and that she could be redeemed in but one way:
+by three thousand three hundred lashes administered on
+Don Quixote's squire Sancho.</p>
+
+<p>When Sancho heard this he exclaimed that he would
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_243" id="Page_243">[Pg&nbsp;243]</a></span>
+rather stab himself than take the lashes, for he failed to see
+what he had to do with the enchantment of the Lady Dulcinea.
+This talk infuriated Don Quixote, who threatened
+to tie him to a tree and lay on the lashes himself, if his
+faithful squire had so little respect for his beloved one
+that he would not sacrifice himself to such an extent. But
+Merlin said that would have no effect, for the worthy Sancho
+must do the sacrifice of his own free will, or the disenchantment
+could not be accomplished.</p>
+
+<p>Sancho, however, was as stubborn as a mule, and it was
+not until the Duke himself took a hand in the matter and
+threatened him with the loss of his governorship that he
+gave in; and then a compromise was made whereby Sancho
+promised to inflict the three thousand three hundred lashes
+upon himself. Merlin assured him, however, that if he
+should make any mistake in counting them, it would soon
+be known; for the moment all the lashes had been dealt,
+the Lady Dulcinea would be released&mdash;neither one lash
+before, nor one lash after&mdash;and she would at once come to
+thank and reward him for his sacrifice.</p>
+
+<p>As soon as Sancho had testified his willingness to serve
+his master and his master's lady, Don Quixote fell on his
+squire's neck and kissed him. The Duke and the Duchess
+praised him for his unselfishness. And the music played
+again. Then the car moved on, Lady Dulcinea bowed
+to Sancho and the ducal pair, and dawn appeared with its
+glowing smile. The muskets were again heard; and all
+was calm.</p>
+
+<p>The Duke was pleased beyond measure with his idea,
+which had been so effectively carried out. The hunt was
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_244" id="Page_244">[Pg&nbsp;244]</a></span>
+at an end, and all returned happy and content&mdash;all except
+Sancho, who could not help thinking of the pain he was
+to give himself. But the Duke was bent on hitting upon
+new schemes whereby he should be able to continue the
+gaiety that Sancho and his master caused.</p>
+
+<hr class="hr1" />
+<h2><a name="v2CHAPTERXXXVI" id="v2CHAPTERXXXVI"></a>CHAPTER XXXVI</h2>
+
+<h4>Wherein Is Related the Strange and Undreamed-of
+Adventure of the Distressed Duenna, Alias the
+Countess Trifaldi, Together with a
+Letter Which Sancho Panza
+Wrote to His Wife,
+Teresa Panza</h4>
+
+<p class="cap">THE Duke's majordomo had played the part of Merlin,
+and he it was who induced a page to appear as
+Dulcinea. This majordomo was a fellow full of pranks
+and good humor, and it was he who had written the verses
+he recited, too. To him the Duke now turned, and they
+contrived together another amusing scheme.</p>
+
+<p>The next day Sancho was asked by the Duchess how
+many lashes he had given himself; and he replied meekly
+that he had commenced with five. After a moment's inquisition,
+however, the squire admitted that it had not been
+with lashes but slaps that he had done penance. The
+Duchess said she was certain that the sage Merlin would
+not tolerate any such false pretense. She suggested that
+he make a scourge with claws or knotted cords so that he
+would be sure to feel what he was doing to himself, and
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_245" id="Page_245">[Pg&nbsp;245]</a></span>
+when the Duchess offered to bring him such a scourge in the
+morning, he had to promise to accept it. Then he told her
+that he had written a letter to his wife, Teresa Panza, in
+the governor style; and begged her to read it, which she
+did. The Duchess derived so much amusement from it
+that she hastened to show it to the Duke. And when Sancho
+was asked whether he had written the letter himself,
+he said that he only dictated it, since he could neither read
+nor write.</p>
+
+<p>After dinner the Duke and the Duchess were sitting in
+the garden talking with Don Quixote and Sancho, when
+suddenly there was heard the sound of a deep doleful voice.
+They all turned quickly to see who was speaking, and there
+they saw approaching them a man with a snow-white beard
+that reached almost to the ground. He said he was Trifaldin,
+of the White Beard, squire to the Countess Trifaldi,
+otherwise called the Distressed Duenna, and that he had
+come in search of the valiant knight Don Quixote who he
+had heard was visiting at the castle. His mistress, he said,
+in order to find this knight had traveled all the way from
+the kingdom of Kandy without breaking her fast, and now
+he begged that Don Quixote would receive the lady, that
+she herself might tell him her misfortunes.</p>
+
+<p>Don Quixote at once bade the squire go and fetch the
+Countess; at the same time he uttered a desire to the Duke
+that the confessor who did not believe in knights errant
+might have been present to see how appreciated and famed
+his achievements had become throughout the world.
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_246" id="Page_246">[Pg&nbsp;246]</a></span></p>
+
+<hr class="hr1" />
+<h2><a name="v2CHAPTERXXXVII-XXXIX" id="v2CHAPTERXXXVII-XXXIX"></a>CHAPTERS XXXVII-XXXIX</h2>
+
+<h4>Wherein Is Continued the Notable Adventure of the
+Distressed Duenna, Including Her
+Marvelous and Memorable
+Tale of Misfortune</h4>
+
+<p class="cap">THE Countess soon arrived, escorted by twelve duennas,
+who formed a lane through which she passed into
+the Duke's presence. On seeing so distinguished a guest,
+he went to receive her with all the honors due to her rank.
+When she had curtsied, she asked the Duke if it were
+true that the famous Don Quixote of La Mancha was present
+in the company. The import of her question was
+heightened by the way she expressed it, for these were
+her words spoken in a deep and coarse voice: "Are there
+present here that knight immaculatissimus, Don Quixote
+de la Manchissima, and his squirissimus Panza?"</p>
+
+<p>Before Don Quixote or any one else had had an opportunity
+to reply, Sancho opened his mouth and burst out:
+"The Panza is here, and Don Quixottissimus too; and so,
+most distressedest Duennissima, you may say what you
+willissimus, for we are all readissimus to do you any servissimus."</p>
+
+<p>Then Don Quixote stepped forward and begged the
+duenna to give him an account of her distress that he might
+know how to relieve it. The duenna became emotional
+almost beyond bounds. She thrust herself before Don
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_247" id="Page_247">[Pg&nbsp;247]</a></span>
+Quixote and embraced his legs, imploring his and his
+squire's help, and then began to tell her story of misery.</p>
+
+<p>All the while the Duke and the Duchess were in paroxysms
+of laughter, so well did the duenna act her part. And
+their enjoyment was further heightened by the remarks
+and questions that Sancho interspersed here and there,
+always at the wrong moment and much to his master's
+chagrin.</p>
+
+<p>The weeping duenna went on to tell how she had been
+the ranking duenna at the court of the dowager-queen of
+Kandy; how she had been entrusted with the care and the
+bringing up of the Princess Antonomasia, the young heiress
+of the kingdom, and how she had permitted a young
+gentleman at the court, who was enamored of the Princess,
+to gain her favor in such a degree that marriage followed.
+The young Don had captivated both the Princess and the
+duenna with his accomplishments, for not only did he
+play the guitar and write poetry, and dance, but he could
+as well make bird-cages. But when the Queen learned of
+her daughter's marriage to one so much beneath her in
+rank, her heart broke in twain and she collapsed and was
+buried in three days, the duenna declared, tears streaming
+down her face all the while.</p>
+
+<p>Sancho was curious at once, and wanted to have a doubt
+settled. "She died, no doubt?" he asked; and the duenna
+assured him that they did not bury the living in Kandy,
+only the dead. But Sancho thought it was a very stupid
+thing for the Old Queen to go and die thus; he said he
+could see no reason why she should have taken the whole
+thing so to heart, for the Princess might have married a
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_248" id="Page_248">[Pg&nbsp;248]</a></span>
+page. That, in Sancho's opinion, might have been an excuse
+for dying; but the Don was such an accomplished
+man, and a gentleman at that, who could even make bird-cages.
+Dying was too absurd!</p>
+
+<p>Then the duenna resumed, and now came the worst of
+her story. She told how the two lovers, upon the Queen's
+death, had become enchanted by the giant Malambruno,
+the Queen's first cousin, who had sworn that they would
+not regain their right shapes until the famous and valiant
+knight of La Mancha had met him in single combat. Having
+sentenced them thus, he summoned all the duennas
+in the castle, charging them with the responsibility of the
+evil match, and saying that since he did not wish them to
+suffer death, he would punish them in some other way.
+Scarcely had the giant uttered these words before their
+faces began to sting, their pores opened, and when the
+duennas put their hands to their faces, they felt themselves
+punished in a most horrifying manner.</p>
+
+<p>Here the thirteen duennas raised their veils, and the
+Duke and his company were amazed to see that all the
+women were bearded. The Distressed Duenna raised a
+wail, and assured those present that had it not been that
+she had cried so much that she had no tears left, she would
+now shed them copiously, and she exclaimed: "Where,
+I ask, can a duenna with a beard go? What father or
+mother will pity her? Who will help her? For, if even
+when she has a smooth skin and a face tortured by a thousand
+kinds of cosmetics, she can hardly get anybody to
+love her, what will she do when she shows a countenance
+turned into a thicket? O duennas! It was an unlucky
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_249" id="Page_249">[Pg&nbsp;249]</a></span>
+moment when we were born and when our fathers begot
+us!"</p>
+
+<p>As the unhappy duenna spoke these words, it seemed as
+if she were about to faint. With a deep and distressing
+moan, she covered her face with her hands.</p>
+
+<hr class="hr1" />
+<h2><a name="v2CHAPTERXL" id="v2CHAPTERXL"></a>CHAPTER XL</h2>
+
+<h4>Of Matters Relating and Belonging to This Adventure
+and to This Memorable History</h4>
+
+<p class="cap">THE one who was most impressed by this sad story
+and enchantment was Sancho, who thought it a dastardly
+trick for any giant to do. Did not the enchanter
+know that it cost money to shave? In Sancho's opinion,
+it would have been infinitely better to have taken off a
+part of their noses, even if it would have given them an impediment
+of speech. The duennas replied that some of
+them had tried sticking-plaster in order to spare themselves
+the expense of shaving, but to jerk it off their faces,
+was a painful procedure, they said.</p>
+
+<p>Don Quixote interrupted and declared that they would
+have to follow no such course, for he would rid them of
+their beards or he would pluck out his own in the land of
+the Moors. Such a noble declaration seemed to revive the
+Distressed Duenna. She came up to Don Quixote and told
+him that the giant Malambruno had been courteous enough
+to offer to send the famous wooden steed that the valiant
+Pierres used. Merlin had made it. This horse could go
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_250" id="Page_250">[Pg&nbsp;250]</a></span>
+through the air with a speed that carried its rider to the
+ends of the world overnight. It was steered by a peg in
+his forehead, she said, and this peg also served as a bridle.
+Furthermore, there was room for two&mdash;one in the saddle,
+and one on the croup.</p>
+
+<p>"I should like to see him," said Sancho; "but to fancy
+that I am going to mount him, either in the saddle or on the
+croup, is to ask pears of an elm-tree. Let each one shave
+himself as best he can; I am not going to be bruised to get
+rid of any one's beard."</p>
+
+<p>But Countess Trifaldi insisted that Panza was indispensable
+to the shaving of the duennas; and when the
+Duchess had pleaded with him and he saw the Distressed
+Duenna's eyes fill with tears, he could hardly keep his own
+back. He bent to their will and resigned himself to his
+fate and the adventure of riding through the air on the
+croup of the mighty wooden steed.</p>
+
+<hr class="hr1" />
+<h2><a name="v2CHAPTERXLI" id="v2CHAPTERXLI"></a>CHAPTER XLI</h2>
+
+<h4>The End of This Protracted Adventure</h4>
+
+<p class="cap">DON QUIXOTE was in a state of anxiety during the
+whole day for fear that Malambruno should not
+send the steed, but soon after nightfall there arrived in
+the garden four wild-men, clad in ivy, and carrying on
+their shoulders a large wooden horse. Don Quixote was
+summoned by the Distressed Duenna and he mounted the
+horse at once, not even putting on his spurs. By this time,
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_251" id="Page_251">[Pg&nbsp;251]</a></span>
+however, Sancho had changed his mind and decided that he
+was not going to fly through the air like a witch. But
+upon the earnest and courteous solicitations of the Duke,
+Sancho at last consented to ride with his master.</p>
+
+<p>Don Quixote begged Sancho to give himself five hundred
+lashes on behalf of his enchanted Dulcinea before they
+set off; but this request struck the squire as the absurdest
+one he had ever heard. How could his master expect
+him to sit on a hard wooden horse while he was all bruised
+and sore from the lashes? He did promise solemnly,
+however, that as soon as the duennas had been shaved he
+would turn to the fulfilling of the other debt.</p>
+
+<p>The Distressed Duenna blindfolded them, saying that
+doing so would prevent them from getting dizzy when
+they rose to great heights; and Sancho, trembling and tearful,
+complained that the croup was too hard and begged for
+a cushion. But the duenna answered him that the magic
+steed permitted no trappings of any kind, and she
+suggested that he place himself sideways like a woman,
+for no doubt he would feel the hardness less in that position.</p>
+
+<p>Sancho did so; and then he uncovered his eyes and
+looked in a tender fashion on those he was leaving behind,
+and began to cry piteously. Don Quixote told him
+sharply to cover his eyes again and not to act like a fool and
+a coward; and his squire did as he was bidden, after having
+commended himself to God and begged the duennas to
+pray all the paternosters and ave-marias they could for
+him. They in turn admonished him to stick tight to the
+croup and not to lose hold of it, warning him that if he fell,
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_252" id="Page_252">[Pg&nbsp;252]</a></span>
+he would fall like a planet and be blinded by all the stars
+he would meet on his way down to Earth.</p>
+
+<p>Sobbing, Sancho clung to his master, embracing him with
+his fat arms so tightly that Don Quixote came near being
+upset. The knight took a firm grip on the steering peg,
+and reprimanded his squire for squeezing him. He told
+him there was nothing to worry about, for it seemed to him
+he had never in his life ridden a steed that was so easy-going:
+one would hardly think they had budged from their
+original place, he said. When Sancho had calmed himself,
+he concurred in this opinion. He had never heard
+that there were people living in the air, and did he not
+hear voices quite close to his ears? Don Quixote then had
+to explain that affairs of this sort were not of the every-day
+kind, and that whenever one went on a trip like this,
+the voices from the Earth would reach thousands of
+leagues away.</p>
+
+<p>Scarcely had Don Quixote said this, before a gust of
+wind came that threatened to unseat both the knight and
+his squire. (The fact was that it was the draught from a
+tremendous pair of bellows which the Duke had had unearthed
+for the occasion.) Sancho was shaking in his seat,
+and Don Quixote warned him again to sit still, for they
+were in danger of having a runaway straight into the regions
+of air and thunder, and then into the region of fire.
+He feared he might not get the steed to turn before it was
+too late, he said; for it seemed as if the machinery of the
+peg were rather intricate, and did not work quickly.</p>
+
+<p>Suddenly Sancho began to yell that they were already
+lost in the flames, and would be burned to death. (He
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_253" id="Page_253">[Pg&nbsp;253]</a></span>
+felt his beard being singed by a torch. It was one of a
+great number that the majordomo had provided.) Don
+Quixote, too, felt his face warm up. But he would not
+permit Sancho to uncover his eyes; if he did, the knight
+said he would only be seized with giddiness and both of
+them would fall off their horse. Besides, he comforted
+Sancho with the thought that the journey would last only
+a few moments longer, and that they were now passing a
+final test before landing in the kingdom of Kandy. Don
+Quixote added that the distance they had traveled must
+have been tremendous, and Sancho replied: "All I know
+is that if the Se�ora Magallanes or Magalona was satisfied
+with this croup, she could not have been very tender of
+flesh."</p>
+
+<p>At this moment came the culmination of their journey
+through the air. A torch was tied to the tail of the steed,
+which was stuffed with fire-crackers, and suddenly there
+was a tremendous noise and a flash, and in the next moment
+Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, both scorched, lay
+as if thunderstruck on the ground.</p>
+
+<p>When the knight and his squire finally came to, and
+looked about, they were aghast at what they saw. The
+ground was strewn with bodies, but the bearded duennas
+were gone. Planted in the ground they saw a lance, attached
+to which they found a parchment which proclaimed
+that the enchantment of the duennas and of the Don and
+his royal bride was at an end, and that as soon as the squire
+Sancho Panza deigned to carry out the flogging he was
+to give himself, the peerless Dulcinea would appear in all
+her original beauty again.
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_254" id="Page_254">[Pg&nbsp;254]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>Now the Duke and the Duchess, who were among the
+bodies lying on the ground, seemingly dead, lifted up their
+heads, as if just coming out of a long sleep; and Don
+Quixote hastened to tell them of the great miracle that had
+befallen him. They were both convulsed with laughter&mdash;which
+Don Quixote mistook for emotion&mdash;and when he
+had finished telling them about his marvelous adventure,
+they had all they could do to reply. The Duke finally
+gathered enough strength to embrace him and tell him
+that he was no doubt the greatest knight the world had
+ever known.</p>
+
+<p>The Duchess was curious to know how Sancho had enjoyed
+the trip; and he confessed that in spite of his master's
+command he had peered from underneath the kerchief before
+his eyes, and had seen the earth below, and that the
+people seemed as little as hazelnuts and the earth itself
+looked like a grain of mustard-seed; and when he passed
+through the region of fire he had seen the goats of heaven,
+he said.</p>
+
+<hr class="hr1" />
+<h2><a name="v2CHAPTERXLII" id="v2CHAPTERXLII"></a>CHAPTER XLII</h2>
+
+<h4>Of the Counsels Which Don Quixote Gave Sancho Panza
+Before He Set Out to Govern the Island,
+Together with Other Well-Considered
+Matters</h4>
+
+<p class="cap">THE heaven-riding adventure had been such a success
+that the Duke and the Duchess could not rest
+until they had seen Sancho installed as governor of his
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_255" id="Page_255">[Pg&nbsp;255]</a></span>
+island; for they felt certain they should derive a great
+fund of amusement from such an experiment. So Sancho
+was told to prepare himself.</p>
+
+<p>But Sancho, having seen heaven, seemed less keen to be
+governor now, since he felt how small humanity really was,
+particularly in comparison with the goats of the sky
+which he claimed he had seen, and he replied that he would
+much rather have a bit of heaven than any island on earth.
+The Duke, however, told Sancho that, not being the ruler
+there, it was for God to dispose of such domains. So
+Sancho promised to come down to earth and be governor,
+and to attire himself in the regalia befitting the office.</p>
+
+<p>This being done, Don Quixote and Sancho withdrew to
+the knight's room, and there Don Quixote gave his squire
+advice about governing. He admonished him to be a champion
+of virtue always, to strive to know himself and not
+to puff himself up like a peacock, whose feathers, he bade
+him remember, were fine, but who had ugly feet. And the
+advice and instructions that master gave servant were such
+that no one would have thought it was a madman speaking.</p>
+
+<hr class="hr1" />
+<h2><a name="v2CHAPTERXLIII" id="v2CHAPTERXLIII"></a>CHAPTER XLIII</h2>
+
+<h4>Of the Second Set of Counsels Don Quixote Gave
+Sancho Panza</h4>
+
+<p class="cap">DON QUIXOTE then told his squire to forget
+neither to cut his nails nor to supply his servants
+with livery. The latter, he said, must be neat and never
+showy. If he could do with three servants instead of six,
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_256" id="Page_256">[Pg&nbsp;256]</a></span>
+he advised him to clothe three poor men: thus he would
+have pages for heaven as well as for earth. He must
+never eat garlic or onions, the knight said, and he begged
+him to leave out all affectations. When it came to drinking,
+he asked him always to bear in mind that too much
+wine kept neither secrets nor promises. Another thing he
+must not do was to flatter people; Don Quixote considered
+this a very odious practice. Last, but not least, said Don
+Quixote, he must remember not to use such quantities of
+proverbs as he had been wont to.</p>
+
+<p>Here Sancho felt he had to break in and say a word, and
+he retorted: "God alone can cure that, for I have more
+proverbs in me than a book, and when I speak they fall to
+fighting among themselves to get out; that's why my
+tongue lets fly the first that comes, though it may not be
+pat to the purpose." And here Sancho in the very face of
+his master's admonitions, let go a string of proverbs so long
+that Don Quixote was almost in despair.</p>
+
+<p>"My mother beats me, and I go on with my tricks," said
+Don Quixote. "I am bidding thee avoid proverbs, and
+here in a second thou hast shot out a whole litany of them.
+Those proverbs will bring thee to the gallows some day,
+I promise thee."
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_257" id="Page_257">[Pg&nbsp;257]</a></span></p>
+
+<hr class="hr1" />
+<h2><a name="v2CHAPTERXLIV" id="v2CHAPTERXLIV"></a>CHAPTER XLIV</h2>
+
+<h4>How Sancho Panza Was Conducted to His Government;
+and of the Strange Adventure That Befell Don
+Quixote in the Castle</h4>
+
+<p class="cap">BEFORE Sancho departed for his island&mdash;which was
+in reality a village belonging to his new master's
+duchy, and surrounded by land on all sides&mdash;Don Quixote
+wrote out carefully the advice he had given him in the
+morning of the same day. To escort the new governor to
+the village the Duke had chosen the majordomo, who had
+played the part of the Countess Trifaldi; and the moment
+Sancho saw his face and heard him speak, he confided to
+to his master the resemblance in voice and appearance.</p>
+
+<p>Always suspicious of enchanters, Don Quixote bade his
+late squire to keep a sharp eye on the man, and to be sure
+to inform him whether anything happened that confirmed
+his suspicion.</p>
+
+<p>Then Sancho was dressed in the garb of a lawyer and
+mounted on a mule. Dapple followed behind with new
+trappings, and Sancho was so pleased with the appearance
+of Dapple that he could not help turning around
+from time to time to look at him. Don Quixote wept
+when it came to the leave-taking, and Sancho kissed devotedly
+the hands of the Duchess and the Duke.</p>
+
+<p>But as soon as Sancho had left, Don Quixote felt a
+great loneliness in his heart; and that night, after having
+supped with the ducal pair, he begged to be excused early
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_258" id="Page_258">[Pg&nbsp;258]</a></span>
+and retired to his room, saying he wanted no servant to
+wait on him.</p>
+
+<p>He undressed at once, and went to bed, leaving the
+window overlooking the garden open. Soon he heard the
+voices of two young maidens, and he was surprised to hear
+that they were speaking of him. One of them he recognized
+as the fair Altisidora, and, persuaded by the other
+voice, she commenced to serenade the knight, to whom in
+her song she bared her aching heart, and the passion that
+burned there for him.</p>
+
+<p>But the knight could not be moved. His was a love
+for no one but his Dulcinea. To indicate to the young
+maiden that he was aware of her intentions and could not
+be swayed, he rose from his bed, and went to the window
+and feigned a sneeze. When that was of no avail and
+neither produced reticence in the maidens nor drove them
+away from his window, he sighed: "O what an unlucky
+knight I am that no damsel can set eyes on me but falls in
+love with me!" And he went on to bewail his fate, crying
+out in the night that all the empresses in the world were
+jealous of the love he bore in his heart for the sweet Dulcinea,
+and saying that he must and would remain hers,
+pure, courteous, and chaste, in spite of all the magic-working
+powers on earth.</p>
+
+<p>Then the worthy knight shut his window with a bang,
+and thrust himself on his bed, entirely out of patience with
+the enticing and sinful young maidens.
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_259" id="Page_259">[Pg&nbsp;259]</a></span></p>
+
+<hr class="hr1" />
+<h2><a name="v2CHAPTERXLV" id="v2CHAPTERXLV"></a>CHAPTER XLV</h2>
+
+<h4>Of How the Great Sancho Panza Took Possession of His
+Island; and of How He Made a Beginning in
+Governing</h4>
+
+<p class="cap">WHEN Sancho arrived in his village he learned that
+his island was called Barataria. He was greeted
+with great demonstrations: the whole community had
+turned out to meet him, and all the churchbells were ringing.
+He was first taken to the church, where he gave
+thanks to God; then he was presented with the keys of the
+town. From the church he was taken to the judgment
+seat outside, and there he was told to answer numerous
+questions which the majordomo put to him, saying that
+that was an ancient custom on taking office.</p>
+
+<p>The questions were cases of quarrels between the villagers,
+and Sancho answered each one of them so sagely
+that every one gaped in wonder, for, judging by his appearance
+and the way he talked, they had thought their
+governor a fool. Instead of thinking thus, they now began
+to admire him and to consider themselves lucky and
+blessed by having him in their midst.
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_260" id="Page_260">[Pg&nbsp;260]</a></span></p>
+
+<hr class="hr1" />
+<h2><a name="v2CHAPTERXLVI" id="v2CHAPTERXLVI"></a>CHAPTER XLVI</h2>
+
+<h4>Of the Terrible Bell and Cat Fright That Don Quixote
+Got in the Course of the Enamored Altisidora's
+Wooing</h4>
+
+<p class="cap">THE thought of Altisidora's love bothered Don Quixote
+so that he could not go to sleep. He had torn
+his green stockings, while undressing, and having neither
+needle nor thread he could not mend them, and this increased
+his annoyance. Soon it was morning, and to put
+an end to his agony, he rose and dressed himself. But on
+his way to the ante-chamber, where the Duke and Duchess
+would receive him, he passed through a gallery, where he
+was surprised to find the fair Altisidora and her friend
+who had been with her outside his window the night before.</p>
+
+<p>When Altisidora laid eyes on the knight errant, she fell
+in a dead faint, but was caught in the arms of her friend,
+who began to unlace her dress. Don Quixote remained
+cold and untouched, mumbling all the while to himself
+that he knew perfectly well why she had fainted. Her
+friend retorted with venom in her voice that she wished
+he would disappear from the castle, for if he remained
+there much longer Altisidora would be wasting away into
+nothingness&mdash;even if she were the healthiest and most
+buxom maiden there at the moment&mdash;and die from a broken
+heart. This seemed to touch Don Quixote, for he replied
+that if she would see to it that a lute was put in his room
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_261" id="Page_261">[Pg&nbsp;261]</a></span>
+that night, he would sing to her and try to comfort her in
+the night while she stood outside his window.</p>
+
+<p>The damsels went at once to tell the Duchess what had
+happened, and she was pleased beyond words; and together
+they hit upon a new joke which would bring them
+fresh merriment.</p>
+
+<p>Just before midnight Don Quixote came to his chamber
+and found there a guitar; and, having tuned it as best he
+could, he began to let out his rusty voice into the notes of
+a ballad that he himself had composed that day. While
+he stood there on his balcony singing, there suddenly broke
+out a tremendous din; and from above was let down a cord
+to which hundreds of bells were attached, making the most
+deafening sound. At the same time a bag of cats, each
+with a bell tied to its tail, came shooting down upon the
+unfortunate knight, who was frightened beyond words by
+the meowing and squalling and screaming of the cats and
+by the jingling of the bells.</p>
+
+<p>Don Quixote stood paralyzed, with the guitar clutched
+in his hand, when suddenly it struck him that his room
+must have been invaded by jumping devils&mdash;for the cats
+had knocked the candles down on the floor, extinguishing
+them as they did so, and the room was now in pitch darkness.
+He suddenly flung his guitar away and drew his
+sword, charging the enchanters with all the fervor and energy
+that he possessed.</p>
+
+<p>All the cats flew toward the balcony, from where they
+escaped into the garden&mdash;all except one, which Don Quixote
+had cornered, and was making violent stabs at, without
+hitting anything but the air, the wall and the floor.
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_262" id="Page_262">[Pg&nbsp;262]</a></span>
+This little beast, fighting for its life, like one beset, jumped
+at the knight, put its teeth and claws into his nose, and remained
+there, holding on infuriated, while Don Quixote
+gave out the most terrible screams and howls.</p>
+
+<p>When the Duke and the Duchess heard what was going
+on, they became afraid that some harm might be done the
+knight errant; so they ran to his chamber with all haste.
+The Duke rushed to the rescue of Don Quixote's nose; but
+in spite of the horrible pain he must have been in, the
+knight was brave enough to decline all aid, shouting aloud
+that he wished to fight the malignant enchanter alone. At
+last, however, the Duke could see the poor fellow suffer
+no longer, and he managed to separate the cat from Don
+Quixote's nose.</p>
+
+<p>The fair Altisidora was given the task to cover the damaged
+parts of the knight's face with ointment, and she did
+this with a loving and caressing hand, although she could
+not resist telling him that he would not have been in this
+predicament if he had listened to her the night before.
+She jealously hoped, too, that his squire Sancho would forget
+all about the whippings so that Dulcinea would remain
+enchanted forever. But Don Quixote was insensible to
+anything she said; he only sighed and sighed. And then he
+thanked the Duke and the Duchess for all their kindness;
+and they really felt sorry in their hearts for the end the
+joke had taken. They bade him good-night; he stretched
+himself on his bed; and there he remained for five days.
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_263" id="Page_263">[Pg&nbsp;263]</a></span></p>
+
+<hr class="hr1" />
+<h2><a name="v2CHAPTERXLVII" id="v2CHAPTERXLVII"></a>CHAPTER XLVII</h2>
+
+<h4>Wherein Is Continued the Account of How Sancho Panza
+Conducted Himself in His Government</h4>
+
+<p class="cap">HAVING held court, Sancho was escorted to a
+magnificent palace, where dinner had been laid in
+a large and gorgeous chamber. There were numerous
+ceremonies that he had to pass through as he entered; but
+he went through them all undisturbed and with phlegmatic
+dignity. He was seated at the head of the table, his own
+guest of honor as it were, for he found he was the only one
+present there, excepting a number of pages who surrounded
+him. But then he discovered behind himself a
+gentleman who turned out to be a physician, and who soon
+aroused Sancho's ire. For every time a dish was passed to
+Sancho, it had first to be passed upon by the physician;
+and this dignitary seemed to have made up his mind that
+governors were not meant to live, for every dish was sent
+back to the kitchen, and Sancho found that a governor's
+meal consisted in starvation.</p>
+
+<p>This finally enraged the new governor so that he ordered
+the doctor out of his sight, threatening to break a
+chair over his head if he did not disappear quickly enough;
+but just at that moment there arrived a messenger with a
+letter for the Governor from the Duke, and Sancho became
+so excited that he forgot about his physician's expulsion
+for the moment. The majordomo read the letter, which
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_264" id="Page_264">[Pg&nbsp;264]</a></span>
+was addressed to the Governor of the Island of Barataria.
+In it the Duke warned Sancho that attacks would be made
+upon the island some night in the near future by enemies
+of the Duke, and also, the Duke said, he had learned that
+four men had entered the town in disguise, and that they
+would make an attempt upon the Governor's life. He
+therefore cautioned Sancho to eat nothing that was offered
+to him.</p>
+
+<p>At once Sancho decided that the worst conspirator against
+his life was the physician, who wanted to kill him by the
+slow death of hunger. He said he thought it best to have
+him thrust into a dungeon. And then he asked for a piece
+of bread and four pounds of grapes, feeling sure that no
+poison would be in them, announcing at the same time as his
+maxim that if he were going to be able to combat enemies
+he would have to be well fed.</p>
+
+<p>He then turned to the messenger and bade him say
+to the Duke that his wishes would be obeyed; at the
+same time he sent a request to the Duchess that she should
+not forget to have the letter he had written to his Teresa
+Panza delivered, together with the bundle, by a messenger.
+Last but not least, he asked to be remembered to his beloved
+master Don Quixote by a kiss of the hand.
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_265" id="Page_265">[Pg&nbsp;265]</a></span></p>
+
+<hr class="hr1" />
+<h2><a name="v2CHAPTERXLVIII-XLIX" id="v2CHAPTERXLVIII-XLIX"></a>CHAPTERS XLVIII-XLIX</h2>
+
+<h4>Of What Happened to Sancho in Making the Round of
+His Island</h4>
+
+<p class="cap">AT last the physician felt it to his advantage to consent
+to prescribe a good supper for the Governor that
+evening. The day had been taken up with all sorts of
+applicants, who, it seemed to Sancho, would always arrive
+at the wrong time, either when he was about to eat
+or wanted to sleep.</p>
+
+<p>The supper hour, which Sancho had been longing for all
+that day arrived at last, and he was delighted with the beef,
+salad, onions, and calves' feet that were put before him.
+He told the doctor that for the future he ought never to
+trouble himself about giving him dainty dishes and choice
+food to eat, for it would only unhinge his stomach. Then
+to the head-carver he said: "What you had best do is to
+serve me with what they call <i>ollas podridas</i>&mdash;and the rottener
+they are the better they smell!" The others he addressed
+proverbially thus: "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 every one keep his
+eye open, and look out for the arrow; for I can tell them
+'the devil is in Cantillana,' and if they drive me to it they
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_266" id="Page_266">[Pg&nbsp;266]</a></span>
+shall see something that will astonish them. Nay, make
+yourself honey and the flies will eat you."</p>
+
+<p>In reply to this the head-carver took it upon himself to
+speak for the rest of the inhabitants on the island, assuring
+Sancho that every one was greatly pleased with his mild
+government, and that he already stood high in their affections.</p>
+
+<p>This brought forth a declaration from Sancho that if the
+people were not pleased with his government, they would
+be fools; and then he went on to state that he intended to
+see to it himself that the island was purged of everything
+unclean and of all idlers and vagabonds. The latter he
+compared to the drones in a hive, that eat up the honey the
+industrious bees make. Furthermore, he emphasized that
+he would encourage and reward the virtuous, and protect
+the church and its ministers.</p>
+
+<p>The majordomo was genuinely filled with admiration
+for all the excellent ideas and remarks of the new governor,
+particularly when he considered that he was a man
+without either education or culture; and he could not help
+admitting to himself that even a joke could sometimes become
+a reality, and that those who had played a joke on
+some one might live to find themselves the victims of the
+very same joke.</p>
+
+<p>That night the Governor as usual made his rounds, accompanied
+by the majordomo and his whole staff, including
+the chronicler, who was to record the deeds of Governor
+Don Sancho Panza; and before the night was over he had
+given fresh proof of his wisdom, for he settled a quarrel
+between two gamblers and decided to break up gambling
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_267" id="Page_267">[Pg&nbsp;267]</a></span>
+on his island. He kept a youth out of jail. And he restored
+a young girl, who wanted to see the world as a boy,
+to her father.</p>
+
+<hr class="hr1" />
+<h2><a name="v2CHAPTERL" id="v2CHAPTERL"></a>CHAPTER L</h2>
+
+<h4>Wherein Is Set Forth How Governor Sancho Panza's
+Wife Received a Message and a Gift from the
+Duchess; and also What Befell the Page Who
+Carried the Letter to Teresa Panza</h4>
+
+<p class="cap">THE Duchess did not forget her promise, and she sent
+the page who had played the part of Dulcinea when
+the Devil entered a plea for her disenchantment, with
+Governor Sancho's letter and bundle to his wife. At the
+same time the Duchess entrusted him with a string of coral
+beads as a gift from herself to Teresa Panza, with which
+gift went a letter as well.</p>
+
+<p>When the page reached the village of La Mancha he
+saw, on entering it, some women washing clothes in a
+brook; and he found that one of them was no other than the
+Governor's young daughter. She eagerly ran to the good-looking
+young man, and, breathless with excitement at the
+thought of his having news from her father, she skipped
+along in front of him until they had reached their little
+house.</p>
+
+<p>Teresa Panza was spinning, and she came out in a gray
+petticoat, vigorous, sunburnt and healthy, and wanted to
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_268" id="Page_268">[Pg&nbsp;268]</a></span>
+know what all the excitement was about. The page
+quickly jumped from his horse, thrust himself on his knees
+before her, and exclaimed to the bewildered woman:
+"Let me kiss your hand, Se�ora Do�a Panza, as the lawful
+and only wife of Se�or Don Sancho Panza, rightful governor
+of the island of Barataria."</p>
+
+<p>But by this time the poor woman had got over her first
+surprise, and she bade him rise, saying that he should not
+do things like that, and that she was only a poor country
+woman, and the wife of a squire errant, not a governor.
+However, when the page had given her the letters and the
+gifts, her doubts were crushed, and she decided that Sancho's
+master must have given her husband the government
+he had promised him, the one that Sancho had been talking
+about all the time. And then she asked the page to read
+the letters to her, since she herself had not learned that art,
+although she could spin, she said.</p>
+
+<p>When the page had finished reading the Duchess' letter,
+poor Teresa Panza was overcome with gratitude to the
+gracious lady who had made her husband, a poor illiterate
+booby, governor&mdash;and a good one besides&mdash;and who
+had deigned to ask her, humble woman that she was, for a
+couple of dozen or so of acorns.</p>
+
+<p>"Ah, what a good, plain, lowly lady!" she exclaimed.
+"May I be buried with ladies of that sort, and not with
+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 who seem to think they are disgraced if they look
+as a farmer's wife! And see here how this good lady, for
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_269" id="Page_269">[Pg&nbsp;269]</a></span>
+all she is a Duchess, calls me her friend, and treats me as
+if I were her equal!"</p>
+
+<p>Then she told her Sanchica to make ready a meal, with
+plenty of eggs and bacon, for the lad who had brought
+them such good news, while she herself ran out and told
+the neighbors of their great luck. Soon Samson Carrasco
+and the curate came to the house, having heard the news,
+and wanted to know what madness had taken possession of
+Sancho's wife. But when they had read the letters and
+had seen the presents, they themselves were perplexed, and
+did not know what to make of it; and when they had met the
+page and he had confirmed everything that was said in the
+letters, they were convinced, although they were at a loss
+to understand how it all had come to happen.</p>
+
+<p>The Duchess' asking for a few acorns, they could not
+quite comprehend, but even this was soon explained, for
+the page assured them that his lady, the Duchess, was so
+plain and unassuming that she had even been known to
+have borrowed a comb from a peasant-woman neighbor on
+one occasion; and he added that the ladies of Aragon were
+not nearly as stiff and arrogant as those of Castile.</p>
+
+<p>Sanchica's greatest concern centered around her father's
+legs. She was anxious to learn how he covered them, now
+that he had become governor. She was hoping that he
+would wear trunk-hose, for she had always had a secret
+longing, she said, to see her father in tights; "What a
+sight he must be in them!" she added.</p>
+
+<p>The page replied that he had not observed her father's
+legs or how they were dressed; but the joking way in which
+he gave his answer furnished the curate and the bachelor
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_270" id="Page_270">[Pg&nbsp;270]</a></span>
+with a fresh doubt as to the reality of the governorship and
+Sancho's position. Yet they could not forget the coral
+beads and the fine hunting-suit that the page had brought,
+and which pointed to some truth in the matter.</p>
+
+<p>Sanchica was anxious to make the trip to her father's
+island at once with the messenger, who told them he had to
+leave that evening; and Teresa Panza wanted to know
+whether the curate had heard of any one in the village going
+to Madrid or Toledo, for she thought that she at least
+ought to provide herself with a hooped petticoat, now that
+she was the wife of a distinguished governor and no doubt
+destined to be made a countess.</p>
+
+<p>And while mother and daughter were contemplating and
+worrying about their new position in life, they interspersed
+their sentences with so many proverbs that the
+curate felt obliged to remark that he thought that all the
+Panzas were born with a sackful of proverbs in their insides.
+The page told them here that the Governor uttered
+them most frequently and spontaneously, much to the
+amusement of the Duke and the Duchess; and then he reminded
+the Governor's lady of his hunger. But the curate
+softly took him by the arm and whispered to him that poor
+Teresa Panza had more will to serve than she had means,
+and invited him to sup at his own house.</p>
+
+<p>In order not to lose weight or starve, the page consented;
+and the curate was glad to have an opportunity to talk
+with him alone.</p>
+
+<p>Sanchica again expressed her desire to travel with the
+page; and the page tried to persuade her not to come along,
+for, he said, the daughters of governors must travel in a
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_271" id="Page_271">[Pg&nbsp;271]</a></span>
+coach and in style, with many attendants. The girl
+thought that was nonsense, however, and it was not until
+her mother hushed her up with her proverbial logic that
+she ceased arguing. Said mother Teresa Panza to her
+daughter: "As the time so the behavior: when it was Sancho
+it was Sanchica, when it is governor it is se�orita."
+And that settled it.</p>
+
+<p>The bachelor offered to write letters for Teresa Panza
+to her husband and the Duchess; but, somehow, she did
+not seem to trust him, for she refused his offer. Instead
+she induced a young acolyte to write the epistles for her,
+paying him with the eggs which she was to have used for
+the page's supper.</p>
+
+<hr class="hr1" />
+<h2><a name="v2CHAPTERLI" id="v2CHAPTERLI"></a>CHAPTER LI</h2>
+
+<h4>Of the Progress of Sancho's Government; and Other
+Such Entertaining Matters</h4>
+
+<p class="cap">THE thing that troubled Sancho most was not his
+manifold duties nor his judgments, but his appetite.
+It was as keen as ever, yet he got next to nothing to
+eat. The morning after he had made his round, they gave
+him only some water and a little conserve for breakfast, the
+doctor advising him that light food was the most nourishing
+for the wits, and especially to be recommended to
+people who were placed in responsible positions&mdash;such as
+governors, for instance. Thus poor Sancho was persuaded
+to submit to a process of starvation which was gradually
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_272" id="Page_272">[Pg&nbsp;272]</a></span>
+making him regret, and finally curse, his ever having become
+governor.</p>
+
+<p>He sat in judgment that day but a short time, and made
+a decision in an intricate case with so much good sense and
+wit that the majordomo was overwhelmed with admiration,
+and could not refrain from taking pity on the governor's
+stomach. So he stood up and announced, knowing
+it would have the Governor's immediate and unqualified
+sanction, that the session had come to an end for the morning;
+then turning to Sancho, he promised to give him a
+dinner that day that would please him.</p>
+
+<p>Sancho was grateful in advance, and felt moved to thank
+him. "That is all I ask for," he declared: "fair play!
+Give me my dinner, and then let it rain cases and questions
+on me, and I shall despatch them in a twinkling." And
+since it had been arranged by the conspirators in the joke
+that this was to be the last day of Sancho Panza's reign
+as governor, the majordomo gave him the best dinner that
+he could.</p>
+
+<p>Just as the Governor was finishing his repast a courier
+arrived with a letter from Don Quixote. The secretary
+read it aloud to him, and he listened attentively and respectfully
+to the wisdom and good and sound advice that
+his beloved Don Quixote gave him in the letter. All who
+heard it read were agreed that they had seldom had the
+fortune to hear such a well-worded and thoroughly sensible
+epistle; and Sancho was proud of the praise that was
+being bestowed on his former master, to whom he still was
+as devoted as ever.</p>
+
+<p>The Governor withdrew with his secretary into his own
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_273" id="Page_273">[Pg&nbsp;273]</a></span>
+room, and there he dictated at once his reply to Don Quixote's
+letter. In this he confided to him all that had happened
+on his island, the reforms he had undertaken, and
+the judgments he had handed down. He finished by asking
+the knight to kiss the hand of the sweet Duchess for
+him and tell her that she had not thrown it into a sack
+with a hole in it, as she would see in the end: meaning
+by this that he would show her how grateful he was as
+soon as he had an opportunity.</p>
+
+<p>The courier returned to the ducal palace with the Governor's
+message; and Sancho spent the afternoon in making
+provisions for all sorts of beneficial improvements in his
+government, reducing prices on a number of necessaries,
+and confirming laws that tended to help the poor and
+needy, while they would incriminate those who were impostors,
+good-for-nothings, and vagabonds. Even to this
+day some of these laws are in existence there, and are
+called <i>The constitutions of the great governor, Sancho
+Panza</i>.</p>
+
+<hr class="hr1" />
+<h2><a name="v2CHAPTERLII" id="v2CHAPTERLII"></a>CHAPTER LII</h2>
+
+<h4>Wherein Three Delectable Epistles Are Read By the
+Duchess</h4>
+
+<p class="cap">DON QUIXOTE had now been healed of his scratches,
+and he began to long for the road; for the life was
+too easy, he thought, for one who had dedicated himself
+to knight-errantry and valorous deeds. But the day he
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_274" id="Page_274">[Pg&nbsp;274]</a></span>
+had decided to break the news to the Duke and the Duchess,
+the messenger that the Duchess had sent to Sancho's
+wife returned, bringing with him two letters, one addressed
+to "The Duchess So-and-so, of I don't know where," and
+the other one to "The Governor, Sancho Panza of the
+Island of Barataria, whom God prosper longer than me!"</p>
+
+<p>The Duchess was so eager to read her letter that she
+opened it at once; and having read it to herself, she felt
+she ought to give amusement to the others too, so she read
+it aloud to all who were there. She was dying to see what
+the letter to the Governor contained, so she asked Don
+Quixote whether he thought it would be a breach of etiquette
+to read it; and Don Quixote took it upon himself,
+as Sancho's late master and guardian, to open it. Then
+he read it to the Duke and the Duchess, who laughed to
+their heart's content at the many drolleries with which Teresa
+Panza had stuffed her epistle.</p>
+
+<p>Just as the merriment was at its peak, the courier with
+Sancho Panza's reply to Don Quixote arrived, and that
+communication too was read aloud; and the Duke could
+not omit remarking that it was a most excellent and sane
+letter. The Duchess, however, was anxious to question the
+page about his visit with Teresa Panza, so she excused herself,
+and withdrew with the page and her presents; for,
+besides the acorns, the Governor's wife had sent her a
+cheese, much to the gratification of the Duchess.
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_275" id="Page_275">[Pg&nbsp;275]</a></span></p>
+
+<hr class="hr1" />
+<h2><a name="v2CHAPTERLIII" id="v2CHAPTERLIII"></a>CHAPTER LIII</h2>
+
+<h4>Of the Troublous End and Termination of Sancho Panza's
+Government</h4>
+
+<p class="cap">THE seventh day of Sancho's government was approaching
+its end. The Governor lay in his bed, resting
+after all the judgments and proclamations he had
+made that day upon a fasting stomach. Suddenly he rose
+in his bed, for he heard the most deafening noise, intermingled
+with the ringing of churchbells. To this sound
+was added that of trumpets and drums, and the combination
+made a din that frightened Sancho almost out of his
+wits. He flew out of bed, put on a pair of slippers, and
+rushed into the street, dressed in nothing but his night
+shirt. He was startled to see the streets crowded with
+men, carrying torches, and crying: "To arms, Se�or Governor,
+to arms! The enemy is here, and we are lost, unless
+you come to the rescue with your sword!"</p>
+
+<p>Sancho was lost; he did not know what to do, for swordsmanship
+was not among his accomplishments. And so
+he simply asked them whether the enemy could not wait
+until he had a chance to summon his master Don Quixote
+of La Mancha, who, he said, knew all about arms.</p>
+
+<p>Just then one of the inhabitants came along, carrying
+two shields, and without any ceremony he told Sancho in
+plain language that it was his duty as their governor to
+lead them into battle. Then he covered him&mdash;without
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_276" id="Page_276">[Pg&nbsp;276]</a></span>
+giving him a chance to put on anything besides his night-shirt&mdash;with
+the two shields, one in front and the other one
+behind; pressing them together as tightly as he and another
+man could manage, they laced them with rope, so that Sancho
+could neither move a muscle, nor bend a leg. Then
+they put a lance in his hand and told him to lead them into
+battle against the enemy, for now they were no longer afraid
+of the outcome, they said.</p>
+
+<p>"How am I to march, unlucky being that I am," asked
+Sancho, "when I cannot stir my knee-caps for these boards
+that are bound so tightly to my body! What you must do
+is to carry me in your arms, and lay me across or set me upright
+in some postern, and I shall hold it either with this
+lance or with my body."</p>
+
+<p>When the men heard the Governor speak thus, one of
+them was bold enough to suggest that he could not move
+because he was too frightened; and this angered poor Sancho
+into a frantic attempt to take a step in the direction of
+the invading army. But this step was a fatal one, for the
+Governor fell in his undignified stiffness flat on his back
+with such a crash that he thought he had broken every bone
+in his body.</p>
+
+<p>The men now quickly extinguished their torches, and
+began to step on his shield, slashing their swords over his
+head, shouting and yelling, and making all the noise they
+could. Had Sancho not pulled in his head like a tortoise
+in his shell, he might have fared ill. One man boldly
+placed himself on Sancho's roof, calling in a mighty voice,
+now and then filled with an agonized grunt, such directions
+as these: "Hold the breach there! Shut the gate!
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_277" id="Page_277">[Pg&nbsp;277]</a></span>
+Barricade those ladders! Block the streets with feather-beds!
+Here with your stink-pots of pitch and resin, and
+kettles of boiling oil!"</p>
+
+<p>All these exclamations put fear in the already hard-pressed
+and squeezed heart of Sancho Panza, who was
+wishing where he lay that he had never seen the sight of an
+island. He was in such an agony that he began to pray to
+the Lord in Heaven to have mercy on him and let him die,
+or else let this terrible strife and warfare come to an end.</p>
+
+<p>Heaven must have heard Sancho's prayer, for suddenly
+he heard cries of: "Victory! Victory! The enemy retreats!"
+Then some one jerked him by the arm, and told
+him to stand up and enjoy the victory; and finally some
+of the bystanders took pity on him, and lifted him up from
+his vertical position. But Sancho refused to enjoy any
+victory. All he asked for, he said, was that some one wipe
+the perspiration from his body, and give him some wine
+for his parched throat. When they had fulfilled this desire
+of his, they carried him to his chamber, were they put
+him to bed. Hardly had they got him to bed before he
+fainted away, overcome with excitement and governments.</p>
+
+<p>The attendants sprinkled some water in the Governor's
+face, and he soon came back to life. The first thing he
+asked was what time it was. They replied it was early
+morning. He rose without saying a word, dressed himself
+in haste, and then went out to the stable, where they
+found him hanging round his Dapple's neck, kissing and
+embracing him, while tears were streaming down his face.
+Having swallowed the first flood of tears, the late squire
+addressed his faithful donkey in the tenderest and most
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_278" id="Page_278">[Pg&nbsp;278]</a></span>
+heartrending terms, telling him that he should have stuck
+by him all the time, and not let himself be carried away
+by ambitions to become governor of islands.</p>
+
+<p>Sancho then put the pack-saddle on Dapple's back, and
+mounted&mdash;a process of much pain&mdash;and from his dear confederate's
+back he addressed the majordomo and those of
+his staff who had followed him to the stable. "Make way,"
+he said, "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 to protect
+islands or cities from the enemies that choose to attack
+them. Ploughing and digging, vine-dressing and pruning,
+are more in my way than defending provinces or kingdoms.
+Saint Peter is very well in Rome: I mean, each of us is
+best following the trade he was born to. I would rather
+have my fill of the simplest pot-luck than be subject to the
+misery of a meddling doctor who kills me with hunger; and
+I would rather lie in summer under the shade of an oak,
+and in winter wrap myself in a double sheepskin jacket in
+freedom, than to go to bed between Holland sheets and
+dress in sables under the restraint of a government. God
+be with your Worships! Tell my lord, the Duke, that
+naked was I born, naked I find myself, I neither lose nor
+gain: I mean that without a farthing I came into this
+government, and without a farthing I go out of it&mdash;very
+different from the way governors commonly leave other
+islands. Stand aside and let me go. I have to plaster
+myself, for I believe every one of my ribs is crushed, thanks
+to the enemies that have been trampling over me to-night."</p>
+
+<p>Here the doctor offered to give the retiring governor a
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_279" id="Page_279">[Pg&nbsp;279]</a></span>
+draught that would cure him of all pain. He also promised
+Sancho if he would stay he would behave better in the
+future, and give him as much to eat as he desired. But
+Sancho was not at a loss for an answer this time.</p>
+
+<p>"You spoke late," said he. "I should as soon turn Turk
+as stay any longer. Those jokes will not pass a second
+time. By the Lord, I should as soon remain in this government,
+or take another one, even if it was offered me between
+two plates, as fly to heaven without wings. I am
+of the breed of Panzas, and they are every one of them obstinate,
+and if they once say odds, odds it must be, no
+matter if it is evens, in spite of all the world. Here in
+this stable I leave the ant's wings that lifted me up into
+the air for the swifts and other birds to eat them, and let
+us take to the level ground and our feet once more; and
+if they are not shod in pinked shoes of cordovan, they shall
+not want for rough sandals of hemp. Every ewe to her
+like and let no one stretch his leg beyond the length of the
+sheet. And now let me pass, for it is growing late with me."</p>
+
+<p>After this meditation, strung with proverbs, the majordomo
+turned to Sancho and said that before he departed it
+was necessary that he render an account for the ten days
+that he had governed the island. But this was not Sancho's
+idea, and he quickly replied that he would seek out
+the Duke and give an accounting to him, for he was the
+only one to whom he was responsible. He added that as
+he would come to him naked, that would be the best proof
+that he had governed like an angel.</p>
+
+<p>So they all agreed to let him proceed, for they were certain
+that the Duke would be delighted to see him. They
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_280" id="Page_280">[Pg&nbsp;280]</a></span>
+offered him anything that he might need for the journey;
+but all Sancho asked for was some barley for his Dapple,
+and some bread and cheese for himself. Then they all
+bade him godspeed and embraced him; and Sancho, with
+tears in his eyes, took leave of them. The majordomo and
+the rest of Sancho's staff could not help thinking that he
+had displayed more sense than most men might have under
+the same circumstances; for when Sancho left his government
+he had earned their admiration for many and good
+reasons.</p>
+
+<hr class="hr1" />
+<h2><a name="v2CHAPTERLIV-LV" id="v2CHAPTERLIV-LV"></a>CHAPTERS LIV-LV</h2>
+
+<h4>Of What Befell Sancho on the Road; and Other Things
+That Cannot Be Surpassed</h4>
+
+<p class="cap">SANCHO had almost reached the Duke's castle, when
+night suddenly fell and it grew so dark that he considered
+it best to stop where he was and remain there overnight.
+Accordingly he took Dapple off the road, and they
+went in search for some comfortable place where they could
+rest. Presently Sancho found himself among some old ruins,
+and as he was stumbling along he suddenly felt himself
+and Dapple falling deep into the earth. He thought it
+was going to be an endless journey, but when he struck
+bottom he discovered that nothing had happened to him or
+to his faithful donkey, for there he was, still mounted even.</p>
+
+<p>Of course he was somewhat shaken by this sudden
+plunge into the lower regions, and taken aback; but as soon
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_281" id="Page_281">[Pg&nbsp;281]</a></span>
+as he realized that he was unhurt he began to praise the
+Lord and to give thanks to him on behalf of himself and
+Dapple, who had burst into lamentations upon finding
+himself separated from meadow and green grass. Then
+Sancho began to look about for a way out, but he searched
+in vain, and it became plain to him that here he was buried
+alive. He thought of his master's descent into the cave of
+Montesinos, and was envious of Don Quixote's imagination
+which could conjure up so easily soft beds to sleep
+in and good food to eat. He could already see himself as
+a skeleton, and he shed a tear when he thought of having
+no one to close his or Dapple's eyes, when they had breathed
+their last breath.</p>
+
+<p>All that night they sat there in somber reflection on the
+strange fates of man and beast; and when dawn came Sancho
+found that he was in a cave that had no outlet but
+which seemed to extend for miles underneath the ground.
+He crawled with Dapple from one cavern or compartment
+to another one; one dungeon was dark, the next one had a
+bit of flickering light; and as he proceeded he kept calling
+aloud, "God Almighty, help me!" at every step he took,
+fearing that he would be plunged still deeper into the insides
+of the earth, into still darker abysses. And then he
+wished that it had been his master instead of himself who
+had landed in this spot, for he was sure that Don Quixote
+would have welcomed such an adventure.</p>
+
+<p>It so happened that Don Quixote was riding along the
+countryside that day on Rocinante, and suddenly his steed's
+hoof grazed against a hole in the earth. Rocinante might
+have fallen into the hole had not Don Quixote swiftly
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_282" id="Page_282">[Pg&nbsp;282]</a></span>
+pulled in the reins and held him back. As the knight was
+passing, and about to continue on his journey, he turned
+in his seat to observe the spot well, and then he was startled
+by a cry that seemed to come from the depths of the earth
+and found an outlet through this pit. Still more startled
+he was, when he recognized the voice of his own squire
+Sancho! These were the words he heard: "Ho, above
+there! Is there any Christian that hears me, or any charitable
+gentleman that will take pity on a sinner buried
+alive, or an unfortunate, disgoverned governor?"</p>
+
+<p>Of course it never entered our valiant knight's mind,
+devout Catholic that he was, that it was the voice of any
+Sancho Panza in the flesh. He thought that his devoted
+squire had suddenly met with death, and that his soul was
+now in Purgatory, and that it was from there that these
+sounds emanated. So he answered that he would do all
+in his power to have Sancho released from his pains.</p>
+
+<p>This brought forth an emphatic and tearful denial from
+below. Sancho swore that he had never died in his life.
+As if to corroborate that his master was not a liar, Dapple
+at this moment brayed most tellingly, and Don Quixote
+believed everything that Dapple told him in that short
+space of time, for Don Quixote knew Dapple's braying as
+well as if he had been his father. The knight errant assured
+Sancho that he would get him out of his prison in a
+very short time, though he thought it best to return to the
+castle first and get some men to help him in the task. Sancho
+begged his master to hurry, for he was afraid unto
+death, and could not stand the thought of being buried
+there much longer.
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_283" id="Page_283">[Pg&nbsp;283]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>As soon as the Duke heard what had happened to his
+governor, he was extremely surprised, for he had had no
+news from the island of Barataria about Sancho's departure.
+He sent men with ropes and tackle, and after much
+trouble they finally succeeded in hoisting Sancho and his
+beloved donkey out of the cave.</p>
+
+<p>Surrounded by a crowd of children and others, they
+arrived at the castle, where the Duke was awaiting them;
+but Sancho would not present himself before him until he
+had seen that Dapple was being taken good care of in the
+stable. Then he went before the Duke, and as soon as the
+Duke had greeted him, Sancho commenced a speech that
+seemed to last forever, stuffed with proverbs galore. In it
+he related to the Duke everything that happened during
+the time he was governor, ending it thus: "I have come
+by the knowledge that I should not give anything to be a
+governor, not to say of an island, but of the whole world;
+and that point being settled, kissing your Worship's feet,
+and imitating the game of the boys when they say, 'Leap
+thou, and give me one,' I take a leap out of the government
+and pass into the service of my master Don Quixote.
+For after all, though in it I eat my bread in fear and trembling,
+at any rate I take my fill; and, for my part, so long
+as I am full, it is alike to me whether it is with carrots
+or with partridges."</p>
+
+<p>When Sancho had finished his discourse Don Quixote
+was grateful, for he was constantly worried that his squire
+might say something that would cover both of them with
+discredit, and Sancho made no great blunders in his speech
+this time.
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_284" id="Page_284">[Pg&nbsp;284]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>The Duke and the Duchess both embraced Sancho with
+warmth, and he was greatly touched when they told him
+that they would try to find him another position, less responsible
+but more profitable, on their estate; and they
+gave orders that he was to be well taken care of and his
+wounds and bruises properly and carefully bandaged.</p>
+
+<hr class="hr1" />
+<h2><a name="v2CHAPTERLVI-LVII" id="v2CHAPTERLVI-LVII"></a>CHAPTERS LVI-LVII</h2>
+
+<h4>Which Treats of How Don Quixote Again Felt the
+Calling of Knight-errantry and How He Took Leave
+of the Duke, and of What Followed with the
+Witty and Impudent Altisidora,
+One of the Duchess'
+Damsels</h4>
+
+<p class="cap">AGAIN the feeling came over Don Quixote that he was
+wasting his life while he was staying at the castle in
+luxury and ease as the Duke's guest. Out yonder was
+the great, wide world in which adventures were calling to
+him all the time. So it finally came about that after much
+hesitation he requested of the Duke and his consort that
+they grant him his release. They gave it to him, although
+they were sorry to see him go, they said.</p>
+
+<p>Early the following morning Sancho was soliloquizing
+in the courtyard of the castle, when suddenly Don Quixote
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_285" id="Page_285">[Pg&nbsp;285]</a></span>
+appeared, in full regalia, ready to take to the road again
+for new adventures. The Duke and all in the castle were
+observing the departure from the corridors. Unobserved
+by Don Quixote, the majordomo gave Sancho a purse, in
+which he counted no less than two hundred gold crowns.</p>
+
+<p>When knight and squire had mounted, the fair Altisidora
+declaimed with touching voice some verses of poetry
+which she had written in the night, and in which she bewailed
+her cruel fate that had thrust her in the path of the
+valorous Don Quixote. Each verse ended with a denunciation
+of his coldness toward her, and a curse upon him
+and his Dulcinea. Then the daring maiden had inserted
+lines in which she accused the innocent knight of having
+taken possession of three kerchiefs and a pair of garters belonging
+to her. Don Quixote blushed with perplexity, but
+his squire came to the rescue and said that he had the
+kerchiefs, but knew nothing about the garters. The Duke,
+who was well initiated in the joke, now rose and announced
+that it was beginning to seem like a serious matter; and if
+the knight had the garters and did not wish to part with
+them, he, the Duke, would have to defend the fair maiden's
+honor and challenge him to single combat.</p>
+
+<p>Now Don Quixote was beside himself. Surely, he said,
+it would never occur to him, who had enjoyed such unbounded,
+superlative hospitality at the hands of one so
+illustrious as the Duke, to let such things come to pass as
+to bear arms against him; and he swore again by everything
+he could think of that he was innocent of what the
+maiden had inferred. Here the damsel gave a little shriek,
+and announced in a giggling voice that she had found the
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_286" id="Page_286">[Pg&nbsp;286]</a></span>
+garters. Don Quixote was much relieved, and so seemed
+the Duke (though in reality both he and the Duchess were
+just about to burst from the pain that their own joke had
+inflicted upon them).</p>
+
+<p>Now the knight errant could depart without any smudge
+or stain on his honor, and quickly and resolutely he gave
+Rocinante the spur, and his steed gathered all the strength
+he had and turned around. Gallantly saluting the Duke
+and the whole assembly with a sweep of his lance, Don
+Quixote set off on the road to Saragossa, followed by the
+retired governor, who sat on his Dapple's back as phlegmatically
+as if the two were grown together.</p>
+
+<hr class="hr1" />
+<h2><a name="v2CHAPTERLVIII" id="v2CHAPTERLVIII"></a>CHAPTER LVIII</h2>
+
+<h4>Which Tells How Adventures Came Crowding on Don
+Quixote in Such Numbers That They Gave
+One Another No Breathing-Time</h4>
+
+<p class="cap">OUT on the open road Don Quixote was himself again,
+and he turned to Sancho and began to discourse on
+freedom, telling his squire that it was more precious than
+anything else in the world. And he ended by saying:
+"Happy he to whom Heaven has given a piece of bread
+for which he is not bound to give thanks to any but Heaven
+itself!"</p>
+
+<p>Here Sancho broke his silence, for he felt that, in spite of
+what his master had just said, a good deal of thanks was
+due to the majordomo for the purse with the two hundred
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_287" id="Page_287">[Pg&nbsp;287]</a></span>
+crowns, which he was carrying like a plaster next to his
+heart.</p>
+
+<p>While they were conversing thus, they suddenly came
+to a spot from where they could see a great many men,
+dressed like laborers, lying on the grass of a meadow, and
+partaking of their noonday meal. Here and there on the
+grass were scattered some objects or figures covered with
+white cloth, and as soon as Don Quixote observed them he
+could constrain himself no longer but had to learn what
+they were. So he politely approached the men and asked
+them what was hidden underneath the white coverings, and
+was told that they were images of saints that they were
+transporting to their village church; and in order not to
+soil them, they had covered them thus.</p>
+
+<p>The man took great pride in showing our knight the
+figures&mdash;there were Saint George, Saint Martin, Saint
+James the Moorslayer, and Saint Paul. Don Quixote
+spoke learnedly on each one of them. When he had seen
+them all, he bade the men cover the images with the cloths
+again. Then he declared that he considered it a happy
+omen to have come upon the images; for, said he, they were
+knights like himself. There was this difference, however,
+that while he fought with human weapons, poor sinner that
+he was, they used divine ones. And he added that if only
+his Dulcinea could be saved from her sufferings, perhaps
+his own mind might be restored to its proper function,
+and a desire for a milder and better life than he was leading
+now be the result. At this Sancho reverently chirped:
+"May God hear and sin be deaf!"</p>
+
+<p>The men, having finished their repast, took leave of
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_288" id="Page_288">[Pg&nbsp;288]</a></span>
+Don Quixote and Sancho and continued the journey to
+their village. They were not out of sight before Sancho
+broke loose with praise for his master, who knew everything
+under the sun, it seemed. Then he added: "In
+truth, master, if what has happened to us to-day is to be
+called an adventure, it has been one of the sweetest and
+pleasantest that has befallen us in the whole course of our
+travels; we have come out of it without having drawn
+sword, nor have we been left famishing. Blessed be God
+that he has let me see such a thing with my own eyes!"</p>
+
+<p>The conversation now turned to other things, and soon
+love became the topic. Sancho could not understand why
+his master, as ugly as he was, should have turned the head
+of the fair Altisidora; and why his master had not fallen
+head over heels in love with her was entirely beyond Sancho's
+comprehension. Had he himself had the same opportunity
+he should not have foregone it, he could have promised
+his master. Here Don Quixote tried to explain to
+Sancho that there were different kinds of love: love of the
+mind, and of the body; but this explanation seemed to
+remain a puzzle to the squire.</p>
+
+<p>While they had been talking in this manner, they had
+come into a wood, and suddenly Don Quixote rode into a
+green net which entangled him so completely that he began
+to shout that he had been enchanted again. He made
+ready to cut and slash with his sword, when two beautiful
+girls dressed as shepherdesses came from amidst the trees
+and began to plead with him not to tear the nets, which
+they had spread in the woods that they might snare the
+little birds. There was a holiday in the neighborhood,
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_289" id="Page_289">[Pg&nbsp;289]</a></span>
+and they were to give a pageant and a play, they said, and
+they wanted the birds to be actors in the play with them.
+Then they courteously begged Don Quixote to be their
+guest and remain with them; but Don Quixote in return
+told them that the urgency of his calling made it necessary
+for him to refuse, whereupon he made them aware of who
+he was. As soon as the girls heard that they had Don
+Quixote of La Mancha in their midst, they became still
+more eager that he should remain, for they had all read
+and heard of their illustrious guest, they said, through
+the book that the whole of Spain and all the world was devouring
+just then.</p>
+
+<p>A gay youth, who was the brother of the young maidens,
+came up at this moment and joined his sisters in their persuasions,
+and at last Don Quixote gave in and consented
+to stay. The youth, who was attired as a shepherd, brought
+Don Quixote to their tents, and after a morning of gaiety
+a repast was served, at which the knight was given the
+place of honor.</p>
+
+<p>When the meal was over, Don Quixote rose and addressed
+the gathering in his usual dignified manner. He
+chose for his topic gratitude, and said that there was but
+one way in which he could show his full appreciation of
+the hospitality he had enjoyed that day at their hands:
+namely, to maintain in the middle of the highway leading
+to Saragossa, for a period of two days, that these two damsels
+were&mdash;with the exception of his lady Dulcinea&mdash;the
+most adorable and beautiful maidens in the world.</p>
+
+<p>Don Quixote had got so far in the course of his speech,
+when the faithful Sancho could restrain his admiration for
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_290" id="Page_290">[Pg&nbsp;290]</a></span>
+his master no longer. Brimming over with enthusiasm, he
+burst out: "Is it possible there is any one in the world
+who will dare to say and swear that this master of mine is
+a madman? Tell me, 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 a knight errant, whatever
+renown he may have as a man of valor, who could
+offer what my master has offered now?" This outburst of
+his squire's infuriated Don Quixote. He began to foam
+at the mouth, and after having scolded the meek and
+meddlesome Sancho, he told him abruptly to go at once and
+saddle Rocinante. His hosts were astounded at his remarkable
+behavior and proposal, and did all they could to
+stay him from carrying it out, but he was not to be swayed.
+So they all followed at a distance to see what would happen
+to the knight, who in his anger had not been slow to mount
+and disappear with Sancho trailing behind on Dapple at his
+usual gait.</p>
+
+<p>As soon as Don Quixote had posted himself in the middle
+of the road, he shouted out his challenge. But no one who
+passed seemed to pay any attention to what he said, much
+less were they inclined to take up the challenge, if they
+heard it. Suddenly, however, the knight sighted a troop
+of men on horseback, all armed with lances. They were
+coming closer at a fast pace, and as soon as the shepherds
+and shepherdesses saw them they withdrew in great haste.
+Sancho, overcome with some innate foreboding of disaster,
+took refuge in the shade of Rocinante's hindquarters;
+but Don Quixote stood resolute and held his
+ground.
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_291" id="Page_291">[Pg&nbsp;291]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>Ahead of the oncoming troop rode a man, who, observing
+Don Quixote's position, began to make violent signs
+to him to get away from the road; and when he saw that he
+was not being understood or obeyed, he yelled out with
+fierceness: "Get out of the way, you son of the devil, or
+these bulls will knock you to pieces!"</p>
+
+<p>But all Don Quixote was concerned about was his challenge,
+and permitting no evasions, he retorted heroically:
+"Rabble! I care nothing for bulls! Confess at once,
+scoundrels, that what I have declared is true; else ye have
+to deal with me in combat."</p>
+
+<p>Hardly had he spoken these words before the drove of
+bulls was on him and Sancho, trampling them both to the
+ground as if they had been figures of pasteboard; for they
+were no common bulls, they were fierce animals that were
+being taken to a nearby village for a bull-fight on the following
+day. Yet when they had passed, and the valiant
+knight came to, he had lost none of his intrepidity, for as
+soon as he could stand up he kept shouting at them to return
+and he would fight them all alone.</p>
+
+<p>The knight was so enraged and so humiliated to have
+been stepped on in such an unromantic fashion, that he
+sat down and buried his head in his hands; and Sancho
+could not persuade him to return to their hosts to bid them
+farewell. And so he decided instead to be on his way to
+Saragossa, and master and squire mounted again and continued
+their journey dejectedly.
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_292" id="Page_292">[Pg&nbsp;292]</a></span></p>
+
+<hr class="hr1" />
+<h2><a name="v2CHAPTERLIX" id="v2CHAPTERLIX"></a>CHAPTER LIX</h2>
+
+<h4>Wherein Is Related the Strange Thing, Which May Be
+Regarded as an Adventure, That Happened to
+Don Quixote</h4>
+
+<p class="cap">DON QUIXOTE was extremely weighed down and
+oppressed by the disaster of the morning. When
+they had ridden but a short way they came to a place where
+there was a spring, and they dismounted to refresh their
+dusty throats and to wash themselves. The knight was
+wearied, and Sancho suggested that he lie down and rest
+for a while. The suggestion pleased his master, who said he
+would do so if his squire would give himself three or four
+hundred lashes with Rocinante's reins in the meantime, as a
+help toward his Dulcinea's disenchantment. But after some
+arguing, Sancho wiggled himself out of the business for the
+moment, having pleaded an ill-nourished body&mdash;in spite of
+his constant eating. He said it was, besides, no easy
+matter to flog oneself in cold blood, but promised to make
+good some time, unexpectedly. Then they both ate a
+little, and soon afterward they fell asleep beside their faithful
+beasts. They awoke, refreshed, and made off to reach
+an inn&mdash;and Sancho gave thanks to Heaven that Don
+Quixote took it for an inn&mdash;that they had sighted in the
+distance before they went to sleep.</p>
+
+<p>When they arrived at the inn Sancho at once took the
+beasts to the stable and fed them, while Don Quixote
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_293" id="Page_293">[Pg&nbsp;293]</a></span>
+retired to his room. When supper time came the landlord
+brought in a stewpan which contained cow-heels that tasted,
+he swore, like calves' feet; and the knight and his squire
+gathered gluttonously around the meal. They had scarcely
+began eating, however, when Don Quixote heard his name
+mentioned next door, and, surprised, he listened and heard
+some one say: "What displeases me most in this Second
+Part of 'Don Quixote of La Mancha' is that it represents
+Don Quixote as now cured of his love for Dulcinea del
+Toboso."</p>
+
+<p>Like a flash the knight was on his feet, shouting to
+the adjoining room: "Whoever he may be who says that
+Don Quixote of La Mancha has forgotten Dulcinea del
+Toboso, I will teach him with equal arms that what he says
+is very far from true; for his motto is constancy, and his
+profession is to maintain the same with his life and never
+wrong it."</p>
+
+<p>Immediately voices from the other room wished to know
+who was speaking; and Sancho shouted back that it was
+his master, and that his master was none other than Don
+Quixote of La Mancha himself. In the next instant two
+gentlemen entered the room, and as soon as they perceived
+Don Quixote, they fell on his neck and embraced him, saying
+that they were pleased and proud beyond measure to
+meet so distinguished and illustrious a personage, their
+own morning star of knight-errantry. One of the gentlemen,
+Don Jeronimo, assured him that there was no doubt in
+his mind that he was the real Don Quixote of the First Part,
+and not the counterfeit one of the Aragonese Second Part.
+With these words he put his copy of the Second Part, which
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_294" id="Page_294">[Pg&nbsp;294]</a></span>
+he had just been reading, into Don Quixote's hands and
+begged him to read it. Don Quixote took it and glanced
+it through, and after having read a few pages, he returned
+it to the gentleman, with the remark that he had already
+discovered three things in the book that ought to be censured;
+and he said that when an author could make such a
+colossal mistake as to speak of Sancho's wife as Mari Guiterrez,
+one would be likely to doubt the veracity of every
+other statement of his in the book.</p>
+
+<p>When Sancho heard of this audacious libel, he became
+red in the face with indignation. "A nice sort of historian,
+indeed!" he burst out. "He must know a deal about our
+affairs when he calls my wife, Teresa Panza, Mari Guiterrez!
+Take the book again, se�or, and see whether I am
+in it and whether he has changed my name!"</p>
+
+<p>The gentleman looked at Sancho in an expectant manner,
+and said: "From your talk, friend, no doubt you are
+Sancho Panza, Se�or Don Quixote's squire."</p>
+
+<p>When Sancho affirmed this, saying he was proud of it,
+it was Don Jeronimo's turn to become indignant; for it
+seemed to him nothing short of blasphemy to take all the
+drollery out of the Sancho, whom he saw before him here,
+he said, and who had furnished him with so many enjoyable
+moments through his amusing talk, while he was reading
+the First Part. The Sancho of the Second Part was a
+stupid character, a fool with no sense of humor whatever,
+he declared; and his declaration promptly brought forth
+a proverb from Sancho's lips, which summed up his contempt
+for the new author. "Let him who knows how ring
+the bells," he exclaimed.
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_295" id="Page_295">[Pg&nbsp;295]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>The two gentlemen now invited the knight errant to
+join them at supper, as they knew, they said, that the inn
+could afford nothing that was befitting a warrior as illustrious
+as he. Always courteous, Don Quixote acquiesced,
+and they withdrew to the adjoining room, leaving Sancho
+and the landlord to sup by themselves. At supper Don
+Quixote related to the two gentlemen his many strange adventures,
+and they listened with the utmost interest; they
+could not help admiring his elegant and finished speech,
+and at the same time were astounded at the strange mixture
+of good sense and wit and absurd nonsense that flowed
+from his lips.</p>
+
+<p>When Sancho had finished his cow-heels, he betook himself
+to the room where his master and the gentleman were
+supping; and as he entered he asked Don Jeronimo: "If
+this author calls me glutton, as your Worships say, I trust
+he does not call me drunkard too."</p>
+
+<p>Don Jeronimo said that the author had been impertinent
+enough to do so, although he assured Sancho that he could
+see by his face that the author had lied. "Believe me,"
+declared the squire, "the Sancho and the Don Quixote of
+this history must be different persons from those that appear
+in the one Cid Hamet Benengeli wrote, who are
+ourselves&mdash;my master, valiant, wise, and true in love,
+and I, simple, droll, and neither glutton nor drunkard."</p>
+
+<p>The other gentleman, Don Juan, was of Sancho's
+opinion, and he added that he thought no one but Cid
+Hamet, the original author, should be permitted to write
+the history of Don Quixote's achievements&mdash;just as Alexander
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_296" id="Page_296">[Pg&nbsp;296]</a></span>
+issued an order that no one but Apelles should presume
+to paint his portrait.</p>
+
+<p>They carried on a conversation in this manner until quite
+late in the night. Don Juan offered the Second Part to
+our hero to read, but Don Quixote declined it, saying that
+it would only be flattering and encouraging to the author if
+he should, by chance, learn that he had read his book.
+Then they asked him where he would be bound for when he
+left the inn; and when he told them Saragossa, they mentioned
+that the author had given a description in the book
+of a tilting at the ring in that city, in which he who was
+called Don Quixote had participated.</p>
+
+<p>That made the knight change his intentions at once.
+Now he was determined not to set foot in Saragossa: thus
+he would make the author commit perjury, trap him as a
+complete liar, and hold him up to ridicule before the whole
+world. The gentlemen thought this a most ingenious way
+to treat the blaspheming author, and made a suggestion
+that there were to be other jousts at Barcelona, to which he
+would be welcomed; and Don Quixote announced that he
+would go there instead. Then he begged leave in his
+usual courteous manner to retire, and withdrew to his room.</p>
+
+<p>Early on the following morning the knight rose, and bade
+good-by to his two new friends by knocking at the partition
+that separated their rooms, while Sancho paid the landlord
+for the lodging and the cow-heels.
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_297" id="Page_297">[Pg&nbsp;297]</a></span></p>
+
+<hr class="hr1" />
+<h2><a name="v2CHAPTERLX" id="v2CHAPTERLX"></a>CHAPTER LX</h2>
+
+<h4>Of What Happened to Don Quixote on His Way to
+Barcelona</h4>
+
+<p class="cap">FOR six days Don Quixote and Sancho traveled without
+anything happening to them worth recording. At
+the end of the sixth day they came to a grove of oak and
+cork trees, where they dismounted and settled themselves
+for the night. Sancho, who had been nourished plentifully
+that day, at once fell asleep, but Don Quixote's mind
+wandered hither and thither into strange regions and imaginary
+places; and he thought of the sad plight of his beloved
+one. The more he considered the cruelty of his squire, the
+more enraged he became; and at last he decided that the
+only thing for him to do was to strip Sancho and administer
+the beating himself. With this intention he began to
+undo the squire's garments.</p>
+
+<p>Sancho, being awakened and realizing his master's foul
+play, now had lost all desire for sleep. He reminded his
+master that the whipping would have no effect toward Dulcinea's
+disenchantment, unless it was applied voluntarily
+and by his own hand. But Don Quixote insisted that there
+must be an end to this nonsense, for he had no desire to let
+his peerless Dulcinea suffer because of his squire's uncharitable
+disposition. And then he proceeded, with Rocinante's
+reins in his hand, to give his squire, as he said, two
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_298" id="Page_298">[Pg&nbsp;298]</a></span>
+thousand lashes on account of the three thousand three hundred.
+But Sancho was on his feet in an instant, and began
+to grapple with his master, and he crushed his emaciated
+body almost to flatness in his firm grip. Then he suddenly
+let him loose and despatched him with a kick to no mean
+distance, and, still pursuing his victim, he there sat upon
+him. Don Quixote managed at last to gather all the
+breath that had not been squeezed out of him by the combat,
+and supported by that he ejaculated in a hoarse
+whisper:</p>
+
+<p>"How now, traitor! Dost thou revolt against thy
+master and natural lord? Dost thou rise against him who
+gives thee his bread?"</p>
+
+<p>"I neither put down king, nor set up king," replied Sancho,
+himself somewhat out of breath. And then he proceeded
+to dictate the peace terms, and he extracted a promise
+from his natural lord never to try to whip him again,
+neither awake nor asleep.</p>
+
+<p>Then the victor disappeared in the grove and went to lie
+down against a tree: but just as he had placed himself
+comfortably, he was frightened almost to death by seeing
+two feet, with shoes and stockings, dangling in the air above
+his head. He ran to another tree, thinking he had been
+dreaming, and there he found a like apparition haunting
+him. He began to scream aloud, calling upon his master
+for help, and ran to search for him. Don Quixote asked
+him what had frightened him, and the squire replied that
+all the trees were full of feet and legs. Don Quixote
+calmly looked at the dead bodies in the trees and told his
+squire that no doubt they were outlaws that had been
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_299" id="Page_299">[Pg&nbsp;299]</a></span>
+hanged by the authorities; and he took them to be a sign
+that they were now close to Barcelona. They then lay
+down to rest for the night.</p>
+
+<p>When they awoke at dawn, they found themselves surrounded
+by a band of men who turned out to be highwaymen.
+The band stripped them of all they possessed, and
+were just about to search Sancho further for money, when
+a swarthy-looking man in his thirties appeared, mounted
+on a splendid horse and armed with many pistols. It was
+their captain, and none other than the notorious Roque
+Guinart, a man who had taken to the life of banditry and
+hold-ups because of having been wronged by the authorities.</p>
+
+<p>When the bandit captain observed what his men were
+about to do to Sancho, he commanded them to stop, and to
+return everything they had taken away from the knight
+and his squire. He asked Don Quixote why he looked so
+dejected, and the knight responded that he was grieved
+that he had been taken unaware, saying that had he been
+armed with his lance and shield and mounted on his Rocinante
+when he found himself surrounded by these men,
+he would have defended himself to the last drop of his
+blood, in accordance with all the rules of knight-errantry.
+And then he told Roque that he was the Don Quixote of
+La Mancha who had filled the whole world with the wonder
+of his achievements; and he thanked him for his great
+courtesy and mercifulness.</p>
+
+<p>Just then they heard the violent sound of hoofs clattering
+against the hard road, and as they turned they beheld
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_300" id="Page_300">[Pg&nbsp;300]</a></span>
+a youth, extremely pleasing in appearance, who was coming
+their way in a wild gallop. As he reached them, he
+flung himself from his horse and addressed Roque, who
+then perceived that it was not a lad but a maiden. She
+said she was the daughter of his friend Simon Forte, and
+named Claudia Jeronima, and that she, unbeknown to her
+father, had fallen in love with and become engaged to the
+son of her father's arch enemy, Clauquel Torrellas, whose
+son was named Vicente. Yesterday, she went on, she had
+learned that he had promised to marry another one, and
+full of jealousy she had stolen upon him this morning in
+the guise that he now saw her in and shot him in the presence
+of his servants near his house. She had left him at
+once, and she now wanted Roque to procure for her a safe-conduct
+that she might take refuge in France where she had
+relatives. She also wanted to extract a promise from him
+to protect her father from the wrath and revenge of the
+Torrellas.</p>
+
+<p>Roque was evidently much taken with the girl, for he
+gave her a glance full of admiration; nor had she failed to
+make an impression on Don Quixote and Sancho. Don
+Quixote wanted at once to go in quest of the knight and
+make him keep his troth, and Sancho added that his master
+was an admirable match-maker. But Roque hastily
+took leave of them, and accompanied only by the fair
+Claudia, he had soon come to the spot where she had left
+Don Vicente. This young gentleman was surrounded by
+some servants who had been attempting to carry him to his
+home, but he had begged them to take him no further, for
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_301" id="Page_301">[Pg&nbsp;301]</a></span>
+the pain was too great, he said and he felt that he was dying.
+All were astounded at the sight of the feared Roque,
+who dismounted with Claudia.</p>
+
+<p>The fair maiden approached her lover, and clasping his
+hand, she said: "Hadst thou given me this according to
+our compact thou hadst never come to this pass." And
+then the young lady told Don Vicente what she had heard;
+but he disavowed to her any intention to marry any one
+else but herself. Hearing this she broke down completely,
+flung herself upon his breast, and sobbed convulsively;
+and then she fainted.</p>
+
+<p>When she came to, she found that her beloved one had
+passed away, and her grief then knew no bounds. Again
+and again she would be overcome by her feelings, and
+swoon so that they had to sprinkle water on her face.
+Roque was moved to tears, and so were the servants, and
+Claudia said that she would go into cloister for the rest of
+her life to atone for her sin. Roque approved of her decision,
+and offered to conduct her wherever she wished to
+go, but she declined his company, with many thanks, and
+bade him farewell in tears. Roque then directed the servants
+to take the body of Don Vicente to the dead man's
+father, and returned to his band.</p>
+
+<p>He found Don Quixote addressing his men on lawlessness,
+but they seemed to be little impressed with his sermon.
+Soon afterward a sentinel came up to his captain,
+and reported that people were coming along on the road
+to Barcelona, and Roque, having made certain that they
+were not armed troops out to enforce the law and in search
+of bandits, gave order to capture the travelers and have
+them brought before him.
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_302" id="Page_302">[Pg&nbsp;302]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>Here the outlaw revealed himself again to Don Quixote
+as a naturally kindly and tender-hearted man, for though
+the travelers possessed a good deal of money, he assessed
+them but one hundred and forty crowns. Of this money
+he gave the men of his band two crowns each; that left
+twenty crowns over, and this he divided between some pilgrims
+who were on their way to Rome and our worthy Sancho.
+The travelers were two captains of Spanish infantry,
+and some titled ladies; and the women felt so grateful to
+Roque for his generosity, and his unusual behavior and
+courtesy touched them so, that they wanted to kiss his
+hand, considering him in the light of a hero rather than a
+robber. Roque did not forget to give them a safe-conduct
+to the leaders of his bands, for there were many of them,
+operating all through that region.</p>
+
+<p>One of Roque's men seemed dissatisfied with such leniency
+as he had seen displayed, and voiced his opinion
+rather too loudly, for the leader of the band heard it, and
+the offender's head was nearly cleft open in the next second.
+The captain turned to Don Quixote and remarked that
+that was the way he punished impudence; then he calmly
+sat down and wrote a letter to a friend of his in Barcelona,
+telling him of the early arrival there of the famous Don
+Quixote of La Mancha, of whose exploits in knight-errantry
+the whole world knew; and, to be exact, he fixed
+Saint John the Baptist's day as the very day on which our
+knight would make his first appearance in the very midst
+of the city of Barcelona under the auspices of him to whom
+he addressed this letter, and who would be grateful for
+the infinite joy Don Quixote and his droll squire Sancho
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_303" id="Page_303">[Pg&nbsp;303]</a></span>
+Panza would afford him and the city. He sent the letter
+by one of his trusted followers, who, disguised as a peasant,
+made his way into Barcelona and delivered the letter
+to the right person.</p>
+
+<hr class="hr1" />
+<h2><a name="v2CHAPTERLXI" id="v2CHAPTERLXI"></a>CHAPTER LXI</h2>
+
+<h4>Of What Happened to Don Quixote on Entering Barcelona,
+Together With Other Matters That Partake
+of the True Rather Than the Ingenious</h4>
+
+<p class="cap">DON QUIXOTE remained with Roque for three
+days, and they were hectic days for our knight.
+Roque always slept apart from his men, for the viceroy of
+Barcelona had placed a great price on his head, and Roque
+was in constant fear that some one in his band would be
+tempted to deliver him up. On the fourth day he and
+Don Quixote, accompanied by Sancho and six of the band,
+made their way toward Barcelona; and on the night of
+St. John's Eve they reached the city. There Roque took
+farewell of the knight and his squire, and returned to his
+haunts in the woods.</p>
+
+<p>Throughout the night Don Quixote-kept guard over the
+city; and there he was still sitting on Rocinante when
+dawn appeared on the horizon, and Don Quixote and Sancho
+Panza for the first time in their lives beheld the sea.
+It seemed to them it was ever so much greater than any of
+the lakes they had seen in La Mancha. As the sun rose
+it was suddenly greeted with the ringing of bells, the din
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_304" id="Page_304">[Pg&nbsp;304]</a></span>
+of drums, the sound of clarions, and the trampling and
+clatter of feet on the streets; and from the galleys along
+the beach a mass of streamers in varied colors waved its
+welcome, to the music and the noise of bugles, clarions and
+trumpets from shipboard. Then cannons on ship and
+shore began to thunder, and a constant fire was kept up
+from the walls and fortress of the city. It was a noise
+and a spectacle that might have over-awed any one, even
+a less simple-minded person than Sancho, who stared open-mouthed
+at the wonders he beheld. He gasped when he
+saw the galleys rowed about by their oarsmen on the water,
+and he told his master he had never seen so many feet in
+his life. A troop of horsemen in extravagant liveries rode
+past them, where they were standing, and suddenly Don
+Quixote was startled by hearing some one call out in a
+loud voice: "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 one, but the
+true, the legitimate, the real one that Cid Hamet Benengeli,
+flower of historians, has described to us!"</p>
+
+<p>Don Quixote felt flattered by the attention he suddenly
+attracted, for all eyes had turned to gaze upon his lean and
+queer person; although it may be said here, in confidence,
+that the man who had recognized the hero was no other
+than the one to whom the rogue Roque had written. The
+cavalier divulged his identity to Don Quixote, and begged
+him politely to accept his services while in Barcelona; and
+Don Quixote replied with as much courtesy that he would
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_305" id="Page_305">[Pg&nbsp;305]</a></span>
+follow him wherever he pleased and be entirely at his disposal.
+Then the horsemen closed in around him and they
+set out for the center of the city, to the music of a gay tune
+played by the clarions and drums.</p>
+
+<p>The Devil, however, was not asleep. He put temptation
+into the hearts of some street urchins, who stole their way
+into the close proximity of Rocinante's and Dapple's
+hindquarters, and there deposited a bunch of furze under
+their tails, with the fatal result that their riders were flung
+headlong into the crowd. Our proud hero, covered with
+dust and shame, pulled himself together and went to pick
+the flowers from the tail of his hack, while Sancho extracted
+the cause of Dapple's capers from his own mount.
+Then they mounted again, the music continued to play,
+and soon they found themselves at a large and impressive
+house, which they learned was occupied by the cavalier,
+who was a friend of Roque's.</p>
+
+<hr class="hr1" />
+<h2><a name="v2CHAPTERLXII" id="v2CHAPTERLXII"></a>CHAPTER LXII</h2>
+
+<h4>Which Deals with the Adventure of the Enchanted
+Head, Together with Other Trivial Matters
+Which Cannot Be Left Untold</h4>
+
+<p class="cap">THE cavalier turned out to be one Don Antonio
+Moreno, a gentleman with a great sense of humor,
+well read and rich. As soon as Don Quixote had entered
+the house, Don Antonio persuaded him to discard the suit
+of armor; then he took him out on the balcony, where he
+at once attracted all the boys in the street and crowds of
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_306" id="Page_306">[Pg&nbsp;306]</a></span>
+people, who gazed at him as if he had been a monkey.
+The cavaliers passed in review before the balcony, and
+the knight was given the impression that it was in his
+special honor they were bedecked as they were, for he did
+not realize that it was a holiday. Sancho was delighted
+beyond description. He was treated royally by the servants,
+who thought that they had never met any one quite
+as amusing as he. Don Antonio's friends were all instructed
+to pay homage to Don Quixote and at all times
+to address him as if he were a knight errant.</p>
+
+<p>The flattery and honors were too much for the poor
+knight: they turned his head completely, and he became
+puffed up with his own importance. Sancho, too, amused
+Don Antonio and his guests exceedingly, and they enjoyed
+particularly hearing about his escapades as governor.</p>
+
+<p>After dinner that day, the host took Don Quixote into
+a distant room, which contained no furniture except a
+table, on which was a pedestal supporting a head made of
+what seemed to be bronze. After having acted in the most
+mysterious manner, and having carefully ascertained that
+all the doors to the room were shut and no one listening,
+Antonio swore the knight to secrecy.
+Then he proceeded
+to tell Don Quixote that the head he saw there before
+him had been made by a Polish magician, and possessed
+the magic faculty of being able to answer any question
+whispered into its ear. Only on certain days, however,
+did its magic assert itself, and the following day, which
+was the day after Friday&mdash;it had been astrologically
+worked out&mdash;would again witness the miracle. Don
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_307" id="Page_307">[Pg&nbsp;307]</a></span>
+Antonio asked the knight whether there was anything he
+should especially like to ask the head; if so, he could put
+the question to it on the morrow. Don Quixote seemed
+sceptical, but made no comment, and they returned to the
+other guests.</p>
+
+<p>In the afternoon the knight errant was placed on a tall
+mule, bedecked with beautiful trimmings, and himself encased
+in a heavy and uncomfortably warm garb of yellow
+cloth; then, unbeknown to him, they pinned on his back a
+parchment with this inscription in large letters: <span class="smcap">This is
+Don Quixote of La Mancha.</span></p>
+
+<p>As they were parading through the streets the knight's
+vanity swelled more and more, for from every nook and
+corner there came great shouts of recognition. Soon he
+was unable to restrain his vainglorious nature, and he
+turned to his host and remarked to him with much satisfaction:
+"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." Finally the crowds increased so that Don Antonio
+was obliged to remove the parchment, and soon they had
+to take refuge in his house.</p>
+
+<p>In the evening Don Antonio's wife gave a dance, and it
+was amusing to see the tall and lank hero move about on
+the ballroom floor; the men gave him the opportunity to
+dance every dance, for they themselves enjoyed watching
+him better than dancing. At last Don Quixote was so
+exhausted both by the dancing and by the lovemaking that
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_308" id="Page_308">[Pg&nbsp;308]</a></span>
+the ladies had imposed on him&mdash;and how they delighted in
+hearing him avow his great love for Dulcinea&mdash;that Sancho
+had to take him to his room and put him to bed.</p>
+
+<p>The next day Don Antonio took his wife, Don Quixote,
+and a few intimate friends into the secret chamber, and
+after many mysterious preliminaries, the questioning of the
+head began. All seemed particularly interested in what
+Don Quixote would have to ask, and felt rewarded when
+his turn came, for this is what he demanded: "Tell me,
+thou that answerest, was that which happened to me in
+the cave of Montesinos the truth or a dream? Will my
+squire Sancho's whipping be accomplished without fail?
+Will the disenchantment of Dulcinea be brought about?"</p>
+
+<p>In a mysterious voice that seemed to come from a great
+distance, the head returned these answers: "As to the
+question of the cave, there is much to be said; there is something
+of both in it. Sancho's whipping will proceed
+leisurely. The disenchantment of Dulcinea will attain
+its due consummation."</p>
+
+<p>Don Quixote heaved a sigh and declared that if only his
+peerless one were disenchanted, it would be all the good
+fortune he could wish for. Then Sancho tried his luck;
+but at the conclusion of Sancho's audience with the head,
+he did not seem properly awed, and his master became displeased
+with his pretentious expectations and reprimanded
+him severely in the presence of the whole company.</p>
+
+<p>All the while Sancho's incessant talking and his master's
+exalted behavior kept every one in an uproarious humor.
+The joke that Don Antonio had arranged consisted in having
+a student, a young nephew of Don Antonio's, placed in
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_309" id="Page_309">[Pg&nbsp;309]</a></span>
+a chamber underneath the one in which the head was, to
+receive the questions and speak the replies through a tube
+that led from the inside of the head to the room below.
+Soon after this form of amusement had taken place, it was
+agreed upon by the gentlemen of the city to arrange for a
+tilting at the ring, for they were convinced that such an
+exhibition would afford greater opportunities for mirth
+and laughter than anything else they might think of.</p>
+
+<p>One day Don Quixote and Sancho, accompanied by two
+of Don Antonio's servants, were walking on foot through
+the city, when they suddenly passed a printing shop; and,
+never having seen one, the knight entered with Sancho
+and the servants. He was as curious as usual, and asked
+the printer innumerable questions about the books that he
+was printing. He saw some of the printers reading the
+proofs of a book, and he turned to them and inquired what
+the title of the book was. They told him it was the Second
+Part of "The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La
+Mancha," adding that it was written by a certain person of
+Tordesillas. Upon hearing this, Don Quixote grew quite
+cold in his demeanor, and having moralized that fiction
+resembling truth is always greater than absurdly untruthful
+stories, he uttered a hope that the book would be
+burned to ashes. And then he turned his back on the
+astonished men and left the shop in great haste.
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_310" id="Page_310">[Pg&nbsp;310]</a></span></p>
+
+<hr class="hr1" />
+<h2><a name="v2CHAPTERLXIII" id="v2CHAPTERLXIII"></a>CHAPTER LXIII</h2>
+
+<h4>The Mishap That Befell Sancho Panza Through the
+Visit to the Galleys</h4>
+
+<p class="cap">THE afternoon of that same day Don Antonio took
+Don Quixote and Sancho on board one of the
+galleys, amid all the honors that accompany the visits of
+great and famous personages. There were fanfares, and
+cheers, and the firing of guns, and all the high-ranking
+officers of the army and navy who were in the city had
+been appealed to by Don Antonio Moreno and turned out
+to pay him their respects.</p>
+
+<p>Don Quixote was delighted. He could scarcely find
+words to express his appreciation of such a magnificent
+and royal reception; and Sancho was almost carried away
+by the honors that were being paid his master. But when
+he saw all the men at the oars&mdash;stripped to the skin by the
+captain's command&mdash;he became afraid, for they seemed to
+him like so many devils.</p>
+
+<p>When Don Quixote and Sancho Panza had been presented
+to all the dignitaries, the captain escorted them to
+a platform on which he begged them to take their seats
+beside him. Sancho sat at the edge of the platform, next
+to one of the rowing devils (who had been instructed in
+advance by the captain what to do) and suddenly he felt
+himself lifted in the air by a pair of strong, muscular arms.
+The next instant he was in the clutches of another devil;
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_311" id="Page_311">[Pg&nbsp;311]</a></span>
+and passing from hand to hand, he went the rounds of the
+crew with such swiftness that the poor superstitious Sancho
+did not know whether he was dead, dreaming, or alive.
+Sancho's a�rial expedition did not come to an end until
+he had been most unceremoniously deposited on the poop,
+where he landed in a strangely unbalanced condition&mdash;to
+the tremendous amusement of the crew and the onlookers.
+He was so dazed that it is doubtful whether he would have
+known his name, if he had been asked.</p>
+
+<p>Seeing what had happened to his squire, Don Quixote
+thought it best to forestall himself from being put through
+any such ceremony; so he stood up, his hand on the hilt of
+his sword, and announced with fire in his eyes that any
+one who dared to attempt such a thing to him would suffer
+by having his head cut off. He had hardly finished his
+sentence before a noise was heard that frightened Sancho
+almost into insensibility. He thought that Heaven was
+coming off its hinges and about to fall on his sinful head.
+And even Don Quixote trembled with something closely
+akin to fear, and grew (if that were possible) pale under
+his yellow hue.</p>
+
+<p>What the crew had done was to strike the awning and
+lower the yard and then hoist it up again with as much clatter
+and speed as they could produce, yet without uttering
+any human sound. This being done, the boatswain gave
+orders to weigh anchor, and as he went about on deck signaling
+with a whistle, he continually lashed and beat the
+backs of the naked oarsmen with a whip he had in his hand.</p>
+
+<p>When Sancho saw all the red oars moving, he took them
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_312" id="Page_312">[Pg&nbsp;312]</a></span>
+to be the feet of enchanted beings, and he thought to himself:
+"It is these that are the real enchanted things, and
+not the ones my master talks of. What can those
+wretches have done to be whipped in that way; and how
+does that one man who goes along there whistling dare to
+whip so many? I declare this is Hell, or at least Purgatory!"</p>
+
+<p>But when Don Quixote noticed his squire's interest in
+the naked creatures at the oars, he turned and said to him
+softly: "Ah, Sancho my friend, how quickly and cheaply
+you might finish off the disenchantment of Dulcinea, if
+you would strip to the waist and take your place among
+those gentlemen! Amid the pain and sufferings of so
+many you would not feel your own much; and, moreover,
+perhaps the sage Merlin would allow each of these lashes,
+being laid on with a good hand, to count for ten of those
+which you must give yourself at last."</p>
+
+<p>But Sancho was not to be persuaded, and the general of
+the fortress, who was eager to know why Sancho was urged
+to lash himself, could not wait for a reply to his question,
+for there loomed up on the horizon a ship which attracted
+his attention, and he immediately gave orders to the captain
+to steer down upon it.</p>
+
+<p>After an adventure on the seas, the first they had ever
+experienced, Don Quixote and Sancho came back to Barcelona
+that afternoon, and returned to the house of their
+host, escorted by the Viceroy, the General and the other
+high dignitaries.
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_313" id="Page_313">[Pg&nbsp;313]</a></span></p>
+
+<hr class="hr1" />
+<h2><a name="v2CHAPTERLXIV" id="v2CHAPTERLXIV"></a>CHAPTER LXIV</h2>
+
+<h4>Treating of the Adventure Which Gave Don Quixote
+More Unhappiness Than All That Had Hitherto
+Befallen Him</h4>
+
+<p class="cap">A FEW days after Don Quixote had visited the galley,
+he was riding along the beach one morning on
+Rocinante dressed in his armor, when suddenly he observed
+coming toward him a knight, also in full regalia,
+with a shining moon painted on his shield. As he came
+close to Don Quixote, he held in his horse, and spoke to
+our knight thus: "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 recall 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."</p>
+
+<p>And then the Knight of the White Moon went on to say
+that should he conquer Don Quixote, the Knight of the
+Lions must retire to his native village for a period of one
+year, and live there in peace and quiet, away from all
+knightly endeavors and deeds. Should, however, Don
+Quixote turn out to be the victor, he, the challenger, would
+gladly forfeit his head, as well as the renown of his many
+deeds and conquests, his arms and horse to him. He bade
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_314" id="Page_314">[Pg&nbsp;314]</a></span>
+Don Quixote consider the challenge and give a speedy
+answer, for he had but that day at his disposal for the
+combat.</p>
+
+<p>Don Quixote was taken aback at the audacity and arrogance
+with which the knight had stated his demands,
+particularly when he took into consideration that he had
+never in his whole life heard him even spoken of, much less
+had he heard of the deeds and victorious combats he had
+named. But he accepted the challenge with calm pride on
+the conditions the Knight of the White Moon had given,
+barring the one which involved transferring his renown to
+Don Quixote's shoulders in case of his being vanquished.
+To our knight that seemed like taking too great chances,
+since he had no idea what the nature of the challenger's
+deeds might be, and since he was thoroughly satisfied with
+his own achievements.</p>
+
+<p>It so happened that the Viceroy had observed the Knight
+of the White Moon in conversation with Don Quixote,
+and thinking that some one had planned another joke on
+him, he hastened to Don Antonio's house, and got him to
+accompany him to the beach, where they found the two
+knights just taking their distance, and about to commence
+the combat. Don Antonio was as startled when he saw the
+other knight as the Viceroy had been, and neither one
+could make up his mind whether the whole thing was
+a joke, or not, for no one there seemed to know who the
+Knight of the White Moon was. However, the two
+gentlemen at last decided it could be nothing but a prank,
+planned by some gentleman for his own amusement. The
+Viceroy then turned to the knight and, learning that the
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_315" id="Page_315">[Pg&nbsp;315]</a></span>
+combat was being fought to decide a question of precedence
+of beauty, bade them set to if both of them still remained
+unshaken and inflexible in their convictions. The
+two combatants, having thanked the Viceroy for his permission,
+separated and again took up the necessary distance.
+Their horses wheeled around and the knights came
+against each other with all the speed their mounts were
+capable of. But the Knight of the White Moon was
+mounted on a steed that completely outshone the poor
+Rocinante, for when they clashed, the poor hack fell
+from the mere force of the contact, and Don Quixote
+leaped over his head onto earth. At once the unknown
+knight held his lance over his visor and threatened him with
+death unless he confessed to being vanquished and acknowledged
+that he would abide by the conditions of the
+combat.</p>
+
+<p>In a feeble voice Don Quixote answered him that in
+spite of his defeat Dulcinea still was the most beautiful
+woman in the world, but that now that his honor had been
+taken away from him, he might as well die; and he begged
+the knight to drive home the blow of his lance. But the
+Knight of the White Moon was a generous gentleman.
+He said he would not have our hero deny the beauty of
+his Dulcinea in deference to his own lady; all that he asked
+was that Don Quixote return to his village of La Mancha
+and give up knight-errantry as he had promised. Don
+Quixote rose in a sorry and battered condition and swore
+that he would keep his word like a true knight errant; and
+in the next instant the mysterious Knight of the White
+Moon set off toward the city at a quick canter.
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_316" id="Page_316">[Pg&nbsp;316]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>As soon as the unknown knight had left, the Viceroy, Don
+Antonio and Sancho hastened to Don Quixote's side.
+They found him covered with perspiration and stiff in all
+his limbs. Rocinante had not yet stirred, for he, too, was
+in a deplorable condition. Sancho for once had lost his
+speech, and all that had happened to his master in so
+short a time seemed to him proof that the enchanters were
+still pursuing him. Now that his master for some time to
+come was to be confined to their own village, there would
+be no chance for him to redeem the promise he had made
+to his squire. Altogether it seemed to Sancho a sad state
+of affairs.</p>
+
+<p>Don Quixote was in such a dilapidated condition that he
+had to be carried into the city in a hand-chair which the
+Viceroy had sent for, and they all escorted him to the house
+of Don Antonio.</p>
+
+<hr class="hr1" />
+<h2><a name="v2CHAPTERLXV" id="v2CHAPTERLXV"></a>CHAPTER LXV</h2>
+
+<h4>Wherein Is Made Known Who the Knight of the White
+Moon Was; Likewise Other Events</h4>
+
+<p class="cap">IN the city the Viceroy and Don Antonio tried to locate
+the Knight of the White Moon, and when they had
+found the hostel at which he was staying Don Antonio
+went to call on him and learned that he was the bachelor
+Samson Carrasco, from the very same village as Don Quixote.
+The bachelor, having explained his aims regarding
+the knight, packed his arms in a knapsack, took leave as
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_317" id="Page_317">[Pg&nbsp;317]</a></span>
+soon as he had told his story, and set off at once for La Mancha,
+mounted on a mule.</p>
+
+<p>A few days later, much to the sorrow of Sancho&mdash;who
+had never been so well fed in his life&mdash;Don Quixote and
+he took a fond farewell of their estimable and generous
+host who had heaped so many honors on them and who had
+enjoyed himself so tremendously at their expense. This
+time it was a sad and lonely journey on which they started.
+Don Quixote was mounted on Rocinante, who had somewhat
+recovered from his shock, but Sancho had to tread
+the trail on foot, for his Dapple had to serve as a carrier
+for the discarded armor of our late and lamented valiant
+Knight of the Lions.</p>
+
+<hr class="hr1" />
+<h2><a name="v2CHAPTERLXVI-LXVII" id="v2CHAPTERLXVI-LXVII"></a>CHAPTERS LXVI-LXVII</h2>
+
+<h4>Of the Resolution Which 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</h4>
+
+<p class="cap">TOWARD the end of the fifth day Don Quixote was
+resting in the shade of some trees, and as always
+happened when he lay down to rest, his thoughts turned
+to the disenchantment of his Dulcinea and a feeling of impatience
+with his selfish and uncharitable squire rose up
+within him. He pleaded with Sancho and implored him
+to go through with the ordeal bravely; but Sancho was unflinching
+in his stubbornness and insisted he could see no
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_318" id="Page_318">[Pg&nbsp;318]</a></span>
+reason why he should be coupled with the disenchantment
+of the peerless fair one. Thus Don Quixote could only
+pray that his squire might be moved by compassion to perform
+some day the deed that would liberate his lady.</p>
+
+<p>While discussing this subject so close to his heart Don
+Quixote had decided to pursue his journey, and while they
+were traveling along on the road to their village they again
+engaged in conversation. Suddenly they found themselves
+passing the spot where they had been trampled on
+by the bulls, but Don Quixote, not wishing to have his
+thoughts return to anything so bitter, turned to Sancho
+and remarked that this was where they had encountered
+the gay shepherds and shepherdesses. And the next instant
+he had decided to emulate their example and turn
+shepherd himself, now that his calling of knight errant had
+come to an end; he would buy some ewes, he said, and together
+they would retire to some quiet pastoral nook where
+the woods and the fields met, and where pure crystal water
+sprang from the ledge of a rock and the fragrance of flowers
+was in the air. And there he would sing to Dulcinea,
+his platonic and only love. The thought of a life so calm
+and so far away from danger and knightly adventures
+pleased Sancho so greatly and made his enthusiasm run
+so high that he could not restrain a row of proverbs from
+falling from his lips. It was a flow so incessant that Don
+Quixote at last felt obliged to ask for a truce.</p>
+
+<p>Night had now fallen, and Don Quixote thought it best
+to withdraw from the roadway and take refuge for the
+night some distance away from it. Having supped, Sancho
+at once fell asleep, but his master sat up all that night,
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_319" id="Page_319">[Pg&nbsp;319]</a></span>
+thinking of Dulcinea and making up rhymes to the sweetness
+of her memory.</p>
+
+<hr class="hr1" />
+<h2><a name="v2CHAPTERLXVIII" id="v2CHAPTERLXVIII"></a>CHAPTER LXVIII</h2>
+
+<h4>Of the Bristly Adventure That Befell Don Quixote</h4>
+
+<p class="cap">DON QUIXOTE could not bear to see his squire
+sleep so restfully while he was being weighted down
+by all the cares of the world. So he woke Sancho, whose
+stolid unconcern about Dulcinea again was brought home
+to him, and almost went on his knees in order to induce him
+to scourge himself. He nearly wept in his efforts to have
+Sancho inflict the meager amount of three or four hundred
+lashes upon himself; but as ever the cruel squire remained
+unmoved. Don Quixote did everything in his power to
+entice him to do this beautiful deed of sacrifice. He held
+forth to him what a blessed night it would be for them, if
+he would only comply with his master's request, for then,
+Don Quixote suggested, they could spend the remainder
+of it singing, thus making this the beginning of the pastoral
+life to which they were about to devote themselves. But
+Sancho said he was no monk; and the idea of getting up in
+the middle of the night to perform such rituals did not
+appeal to him, he frankly avowed. The bewailings of his
+master, both in Castilian and in Latin, made no impression
+upon the hard-hearted Sancho, who remained as firm as the
+rock of Gibraltar, as far as the disenchantment was concerned.
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_320" id="Page_320">[Pg&nbsp;320]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>Don Quixote had just made up his mind that it was
+a useless task to try to prevail upon Sancho at that hour
+to do his duty, when suddenly there was heard a tremendous
+and terrifying noise, which increased as it seemed to
+come closer. Sancho was so frightened that he at once
+took refuge behind Dapple, entrenching himself between
+the pack-saddle and his master's discarded armor; and Don
+Quixote got palpitation of the heart, and began to shiver.
+As Sancho peeped from behind his entrenchments and Don
+Quixote took courage to look, the grunting drove of six
+hundred pigs&mdash;for that is what it was&mdash;was so close upon
+them that in the next moment they found themselves
+knocked to the ground; but it was some time before all of
+the snorting, disrespectful animals had passed their dirty
+feet over the prostrate bodies of the knight, his squire and
+their beasts and provisions.</p>
+
+<p>Sancho rose first, smeared with dirt, and having been
+stirred to unusual depths by the condition in which he
+found himself, he begged his master to let him take his
+sword, saying he felt he had to kill some of the pigs in order
+to be soothed. The exceedingly bad manners they had
+displayed and especially the fact that they had crushed all
+the provisions into nothingness, had produced an ire in
+Sancho that seemed wellnigh irrepressible.</p>
+
+<p>But Don Quixote calmed his squire with these words,
+spoken with a melancholy air: "Let them be, my friend.
+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."
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_321" id="Page_321">[Pg&nbsp;321]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>To this Sancho Panza retorted pensively: "I suppose
+it is the chastisement of Heaven, too, 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 descended upon
+us, even to the fourth generation. But what have the
+Panzas to do with the Quixotes? Well, let us lie down
+again and sleep out what little of the night there is left,
+and God will send us dawn and we shall be all right."</p>
+
+<p>Sancho lay down and slept, but his master sat up and
+commenced his emulation of the life of a shepherd by singing
+the song he had composed to his great love, accompanying
+it with his own sighs, and many wet tears. At last
+daylight came, and the sun awakened them both. Sancho
+began to rub his eyes, and they both got up and made ready
+to journey further. But before leaving Sancho again
+cursed the pigs for having ruined his stores.</p>
+
+<p>He and his master had traveled the whole day, when
+they encountered a number of men on horseback, and four
+or five men on foot, all heavily armed. Don Quixote's
+heart ached, for he could not forget his promise to the
+Knight of the White Moon. The men who were mounted
+approached our hero and Sancho, and surrounded them
+without speaking a word. Don Quixote attempted to
+ask a question, but one of them warned him to be silent
+by putting a finger to his lips, while another one pointed
+his lance against the knight's breast. Still another one
+took Rocinante by the bridle; while Sancho was being
+treated in the same manner by some of the others. Both
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_322" id="Page_322">[Pg&nbsp;322]</a></span>
+Don Quixote and Sancho began to be worried as to the
+outcome of this adventure, for the whole proceeding seemed
+to them utterly mysterious.</p>
+
+<p>They rode all that day, unable to make out where they
+were being taken, or who their mysterious captors were,
+and at last night came. All the while the men were calling
+them all kinds of names, such as "bloodthirsty lions,"
+"cannibals," "murderous Polyphemes" etc.; and Sancho
+was scared out of his wits, while Don Quixote was at his
+wits ends. Both were convinced that some terrible misfortune
+was in store for them, and they could only pray
+that they would get out of it as easily as possible.</p>
+
+<p>Before they knew it, it was midnight, and soon after that
+Don Quixote recognized a castle, which he saw in the distance,
+as that of the Duke. He was amazed when he found
+that the men were taking him there, and he said to himself:
+"God bless me! 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." They entered
+the court, and found it arrayed in such a manner that they
+could not help being amazed and speechless, and they felt
+fear creeping into their hearts.
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_323" id="Page_323">[Pg&nbsp;323]</a></span></p>
+
+<hr class="hr1" />
+<h2><a name="v2CHAPTERLXIX" id="v2CHAPTERLXIX"></a>CHAPTER LXIX</h2>
+
+<h4>Of the Strangest and Most Extraordinary Adventure
+That Befell Don Quixote in the Whole Course
+of This Great History</h4>
+
+<p class="cap">AS soon as the horsemen had dismounted, they and the
+men on foot carried Don Quixote and Sancho bodily
+into the center of the court, which was illuminated with
+hundreds of torches and lamps placed all around it. In
+the very center there was a catafalque, elevated to a height
+of several yards above the ground and covered by a huge
+canopy of black velvet. To the catafalque steps led from
+all around, and on the steps were hundreds of wax tapers
+burning in silver candlesticks. On the catafalque lay the
+dead body of a beautiful maiden. On one side of the
+stage there was a large platform on which sat two figures,
+with scepters in their hands and crowns on their heads:
+judging by this, Don Quixote thought they must be royal
+personages. On the side of this platform were two empty
+chairs, to which Don Quixote and Sancho were led. And
+when they had seated themselves and turned around to
+observe what was going to happen, they were suddenly
+startled by seeing their friends, the Duke and the Duchess,
+mount the platform and seat themselves next to the royalty.</p>
+
+<p>Don Quixote and Sancho both paid them homage by rising
+and bowing profoundly, and the ducal pair returned
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_324" id="Page_324">[Pg&nbsp;324]</a></span>
+their compliment with a slight bow of the head. Following
+them came a long row of attendants. Then suddenly
+Don Quixote came to realize that the corpse was none
+other than that of the fair Altisidora, whose love he had
+scorned, and that shocked him greatly.</p>
+
+<p>Some one connected with the ceremonies passed at that
+moment and threw a robe of black buckram covered with
+painted red flames of fire over Sancho and, removing his
+cap, put on his head a miter of the kind that those who
+were undergoing the sentence of the Holy Office wore. At
+the same time he whispered in Sancho's ear that if he opened
+his lips, his life would not be safe.</p>
+
+<p>At first Sancho, seeing all the flames that seemed to be
+licking his body, got frightened, but when he found that
+no heat ensued and nothing else happened, his worries
+ceased. In the next moment his and his master's attention
+was attracted by low, sweet sounds of music and singing
+that seemed to vibrate from underneath the catafalque;
+and then there appeared a youth with a harp, and he sang
+a song that dealt with the cruelty of Don Quixote toward
+the fair Altisidora, who now was dead from a broken heart.</p>
+
+<p>When he had sung of her charms, one of the two who
+seemed like kings rose from his seat and spoke. He,
+Minos, who sat in judgment with Rhadamanthus, now
+begged the latter to stand up and announce what must be
+done in order to affect the resuscitation and restoration of
+the damsel Altisidora. As soon as he had declaimed all he
+had to say, he sat down, and in the next moment Rhadamanthus
+rose and decreed that all the officials gather
+quickly and attach the person of Sancho Panza, as through
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_325" id="Page_325">[Pg&nbsp;325]</a></span>
+him alone Altisidora's restoration could be effected, he said,
+by his receiving twenty-four smacks in the face, twelve
+pinches and six pin-thrusts in the back and arms.</p>
+
+<p>Nobody but Sancho objected to the King's proclamation;
+but Sancho was emphatic enough for a multitude.
+"Body of me!" he replied unhesitatingly. "What has
+mauling my face got to with the resurrection of this damsel?
+The old woman takes kindly to my persecution; 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 they must give me four-and-twenty
+smacks, and prick holes in my body with pins, and raise
+weals on my arms with pinches! Try those jokes on a
+brother-in-law; I am an old dog, and its no use with me."</p>
+
+<p>But Rhadamanthus was bent in carrying out his threat.
+He gave a sign to one of the attendants, and in the next
+moment a procession of duennas started toward Sancho
+with raised hands. Sancho saw them coming against him,
+he grew frantic, and began to bellow like a bull, crying
+out: "I might let myself be handled by all the world; but
+allow duennas to touch me? Not a bit of it! Scratch
+my face, as my master was served in this very castle; run
+me through the body with burnished daggers; pinch my
+arms with red-hot pincers; I shall bear all in patience to
+serve these gentlefolk; but I will not let duennas touch me,
+though the devil himself should carry me off!"</p>
+
+<p>Here Don Quixote thought it was time for him to add
+his plea to that of the King, and he began to reason with
+Sancho. At last he subdued him somewhat, and by that
+time the duennas had reached the spot where Don Quixote
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_326" id="Page_326">[Pg&nbsp;326]</a></span>
+and Sancho were seated, and one of them came up, curtsied,
+and gave the poor squire a smack on the face that
+nearly unseated him, and that made him exclaim: "Less
+politeness and less paint, Se�ora Duenna. By God, your
+hands smell of vinegar-wash!"</p>
+
+<p>No sooner had Sancho uttered these words than he was
+smacked and pinched by nearly all the rest of them, until
+at last he lost his temper and seized a lighted torch, with
+which he pursued the flying duennas in an uncontrollable
+rage, crying: "Begone, ye ministers of Hell! I am not
+made of brass not to feel such out-of-the-way tortures."</p>
+
+<p>But just then Altisidora&mdash;who probably was tired of
+lying on her back such a long time&mdash;moved, and in the next
+moment exclamations were heard from all in the court:
+"Altisidora is alive! Altisidora lives!"</p>
+
+<p>Now that the great miracle had been attained, Rhadamanthus
+turned to Sancho and bade him still his anger;
+and Don Quixote again entreated Sancho, since he so nobly
+had proven that virtue now was ripe in him, to go to work
+and disenchant his Dulcinea in the same breath. To this
+Sancho replied:</p>
+
+<p>"That is 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 am to be always made the cow of the wedding
+for the cure of other people's ailments. Leave me alone;
+or else by the Lord I shall fling the whole thing to the dogs,
+come what may!"
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_327" id="Page_327">[Pg&nbsp;327]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>By this time Altisidora had entirely recovered from her
+death and was now sitting up on the catafalque. The
+music was again heard, the voices sang, and all came forward
+to help the young maiden down from her elevated
+position.</p>
+
+<p>Altisidora acted as if she were just coming out of a long,
+long sleep; and when she saw the Kings and the Duke and
+the Duchess she bowed her head to them in respect. Then
+she asked the Lord to forgive Don Quixote for his cruelty,
+while she praised and thanked Sancho Panza for his sacrifice,
+and offered to give him six smocks of hers to make
+into shirts for himself, adding that if they were not quite
+whole, they were at least all clean. On hearing this, Sancho
+fell on his knees and kissed her hands; and then one
+of the attendants approached him, at the order of the Duke,
+and asked him to return the red robe and the miter. Sancho,
+however, wanted to keep them to show to his villagers
+as a remembrance of his marvelous experience; and when
+the Duchess heard of his desire she commanded that they
+be given to her friend as a token of her everlasting esteem.</p>
+
+<p>Soon everybody had left the court and retired to their
+quarters, and the Duke had Don Quixote and Sancho
+shown to their old chambers.
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_328" id="Page_328">[Pg&nbsp;328]</a></span></p>
+
+<hr class="hr1" />
+<h2><a name="v2CHAPTERLXX" id="v2CHAPTERLXX"></a>CHAPTER LXX</h2>
+
+<h4>Which Follows Chapter Sixty-Nine and Deals with
+Matters Indispensable for the Clear
+Comprehension of This History</h4>
+
+<p class="cap">SANCHO slept that night in the same chamber with
+Don Quixote. It was some time before he went
+asleep, however, for the pain of the pinching and smacking
+was quite evident. Don Quixote was inclined to talk,
+but Sancho begged him to let him sleep in peace for the remainder
+of the night, and at last both master and servant
+fell into slumber.</p>
+
+<p>In the meantime it might be told how it came about that
+Don Quixote came to visit the ducal castle again. The
+bachelor Samson Carrasco, having learned as much as he
+could from the page that carried the letter to Teresa Panza
+of the whereabouts of the hero, decided that the time had
+come for another combat with him. Thus he procured a
+new suit of armor and a fresh horse and set out to find the
+Duke's castle. Having reached it, he had a long conversation
+with the Duke, wherein he told him it was his great
+desire to bring Don Quixote back to his village and his
+friends, hoping that if he could defeat him in battle Don
+Quixote could be made to return of his own free will and
+in time be cured of his strange affliction. He then followed
+him to Saragossa, for which city he had set out when
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_329" id="Page_329">[Pg&nbsp;329]</a></span>
+he left the Duke's castle, but finally traced him to Barcelona,
+where the bachelor encountered him with the result
+that he promised to return to his village and give up
+knight-errantry for a year.</p>
+
+<p>On his way home, the bachelor, at the Duke's request,
+had stopped at the castle to inform him of the outcome of
+the combat, and it was then that the Duke decided to play
+the knight and his squire another joke. The Duke had his
+men stationed everywhere on the road that led from Barcelona,
+and it was thus that they were able to bring in Don
+Quixote in the manner and at the hour that they did.</p>
+
+<p>When daylight arrived the morning after Altisidora's
+coming to life, Don Quixote awoke and found her in his
+presence; and the instant he saw her he showed his modesty
+and his confusion by pulling the sheet over his head.
+But while Don Quixote was not inclined to converse with
+a maiden so early in the morning, Sancho showed no aversion
+to it whatever, for he bombarded Altisidora with all
+kinds of impertinent questions as to what was going on in
+Hell when she was there. Of course Altisidora denied
+having any intimate knowledge of this place, for in spite
+of her immodesty she had only got as far as the gates, she
+said.</p>
+
+<p>Don Quixote now entered into the conversation and
+asked why the fair Altisidora had been so persistent in her
+love, when she knew that he would never change or give
+up his beloved Dulcinea, to whom he maintained he was
+born to belong. When she heard Don Quixote talk in
+this manner, Altisidora grew very angry with him, and exclaimed:
+"God's life! Don Stockfish, soul of a mortar,
+stone of a date, more obstinate and obdurate than a clown
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_330" id="Page_330">[Pg&nbsp;330]</a></span>
+asked a favor when he has his mind made up! If I fall
+upon you I shall tear your eyes out! Do you fancy, then,
+Don Vanquished, Don Cudgeled, that I died for <i>your</i> sake?
+All that you have seen to-night has been make believe; I
+am not the woman to let the black of my nail suffer for
+such a camel, much less die!"</p>
+
+<p>Sancho interrupted her here and said he could well believe
+that; then he added: "All that about lovers pining
+to death is absurd. They may talk of it, but as far as doing
+it&mdash;Judas may believe that!"</p>
+
+<p>Now the Duke and the Duchess entered, and after an
+animated conversation during which Sancho's amusing sayings
+as usual captivated his distinguished friends, Don
+Quixote begged leave to be on his way to his village.
+They granted him his request, and then they asked him
+whether he had forgiven Altisidora for having tried to
+capture his love. He replied saying that this lady's lack
+of virtue had its root in her idleness, and he recommended
+that the Duchess see to it that Altisidora was put to making
+lace or given some other employment. Sancho approved
+of his master's advice, and remarked sagely that he
+never had seen any lacemaker die for love; and he further
+illustrated the truth of Don Quixote's remark by his own
+experience on that score: when he was digging, he vowed,
+he never bothered with the thought of his old woman. The
+testimony of two such staunch friends of hers as Don Quixote
+and Sancho made the Duchess promise that hereafter
+she would keep the fair Altisidora employed so that no foolish
+thoughts might take her away from the path of virtue.
+As soon as the fair maiden heard her mistress speak thus,
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_331" id="Page_331">[Pg&nbsp;331]</a></span>
+however, she assured her that there was no longer any
+need of her being worked to death in order to divert her
+thought from the person of our knight errant, for his cruelty
+to her had been such that the very thought of that had
+now blotted him out of her memory forever. And, pretending
+to wipe a tear from her eye, she made a curtsy to
+the Duchess and left the chamber.</p>
+
+<p>It was now time for dinner, and soon afterward Don
+Quixote, having dined with the Duke and the Duchess,
+made his departure from the castle with Sancho, and started
+again for his home.</p>
+
+<hr class="hr1" />
+<h2><a name="v2CHAPTERLXXI" id="v2CHAPTERLXXI"></a>CHAPTER LXXI</h2>
+
+<h4>Of What Passed Between Don Quixote and His Squire
+Sancho on the Way to Their Village</h4>
+
+<p class="cap">DON QUIXOTE and Sancho traveled along, both in
+a state of depression. Don Quixote was sad because
+he had been forced to give up the glories of knight-errantry
+and chivalry; Sancho because Altisidora had not
+kept her word when she promised to give him the smocks.
+To Sancho it seemed a terrible injustice that physicians
+should be paid even if their patients died, and here he
+had brought back a human being from the dead, and was
+being rewarded in this ungrateful manner!</p>
+
+<p>But Don Quixote's sadness was suddenly brightened by
+a hope that he might at last be able to prevail upon Sancho
+to bring about the disenchantment of Dulcinea. Knowing
+Sancho's covetousness, he offered him money as a bribe.
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_332" id="Page_332">[Pg&nbsp;332]</a></span>
+Now Sancho became interested, and consented, for the love
+of his wife and children, to whip himself at a price of a
+quarter-real a lash, generously throwing the five lashes he
+had already given himself into the bargain.</p>
+
+<p>"O blessed Sancho! O dear Sancho!" exclaimed Don
+Quixote. "How we shall be bound to serve thee, Dulcinea
+and I, all the days of our lives that Heaven may grant
+us! But look here, Sancho: when wilt thou begin the
+scourging? For if thou wilt make short work of it, I will
+give thee a hundred reals over and above."</p>
+
+<p>Sancho swore that he would begin the scourging that
+very night, and begged his master that he arrange it so
+that they spend the night in the open.</p>
+
+<p>Night came at last, and when they had supped, Sancho
+proceeded to make a sturdy whip out of Dapple's halter.
+When he had finished this task he made off for a distant
+part of the woods. He left his master with such a determined
+look in his eyes that Don Quixote thought it best
+to warn him not to go too fast but to take a breathing-space
+between lashes so that he would not cut his body to pieces.
+He was afraid also, he said, that Sancho might become so
+enthusiastic over what he was doing, or so anxious to come
+to the end of the lashes that he might overtax his strength,
+collapse and die; and he begged Sancho particularly not to
+do that, for then he would have gone through all his suffering
+in vain. When Sancho had stripped himself to the
+waist, Don Quixote placed himself where he could hear the
+sound of the lashes, and counted them on his rosary that
+Sancho would make neither too much nor too little effort
+to disenchant Dulcinea.
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_333" id="Page_333">[Pg&nbsp;333]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>After half a dozen lashes, Sancho felt that he had inflicted
+a sufficient measure of pain upon himself already,
+and demanded a higher price for his service. Don Quixote
+told Sancho that he would pay him twice the amount
+promised; and the squire began again. But this time he
+did not whip himself but let the lashes fall on a tree;<a name="Page333Ill" id="Page333Ill"></a> and
+with each lash he gave out the most heartrending cries, and
+uttered such groans that his master began to feel the pain
+of his squire's torture in his own heart. When he had
+counted a thousand lashes or thereabout, he was quite
+worried about Sancho and begged him to stop for the present,
+but Sancho told his master he might as well brave the
+remainder of the ordeal now.</p>
+
+<p>Seeing his squire in such a sacrificing mood, Don Quixote
+retired at his request, and Sancho continued with the
+lashing, which he administered to a perfectly innocent tree
+with such brutality and ferocity that the bark flew in all
+directions. All the while he gave vent to his pain by fierce
+shrieks, and then there came one long agonizing cry, which
+nearly rent Don Quixote's heart, and Sancho exclaimed
+piteously: "Here dies Sancho, and all with him!" Don
+Quixote hastened to his squire's side, and insisted for the
+sake of his unsupported wife and children that he go no
+further, but to wait until some other time with the rest.
+Sancho retorted with a request that his master cover his
+shoulders with his cloak, as the exertion had been too great
+and had made him perspire freely, and he did not wish to
+run the risk of catching cold. Don Quixote did as he was
+asked and begged Sancho to lie down; then he covered him
+with the cloak.
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_334" id="Page_334">[Pg&nbsp;334]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>At dawn they resumed their journey, and when they had
+traveled three leagues, they came to an inn. Don Quixote
+did not take it for a castle this time; as a matter of fact,
+ever since he had found himself vanquished, he had begun
+to talk of and see things in a more rational way. They entered,
+and when Sancho saw the painted pictures on the
+wall he remarked to his master that not long from now there
+would be paintings picturing their deeds in every tavern
+and inn in the country. Don Quixote then turned to his
+squire and asked him whether he would like to finish the
+whipping business that day, and Sancho said it made no
+difference to him when he did it; he only made a suggestion
+that he thought he would prefer to do it among the trees as
+they seemed to help him bear the pain miraculously. But
+on second consideration Don Quixote deemed it advisable
+to put it off till a later time, when they were closer to their
+village, in case Sancho should have a breakdown as a result
+of his flogging himself. Their conversation came to an end
+when Sancho began to shoot proverbs at his master out of
+the corner of his mouth at such a speed that Don Quixote
+was overwhelmed and tore his hair in desperation.</p>
+
+<hr class="hr1" />
+<h2><a name="v2CHAPTERLXXII-LXXIII" id="v2CHAPTERLXXII-LXXIII"></a>CHAPTERS LXXII-LXXIII</h2>
+
+<h4>Of the Omens Don Quixote Had as He Entered His Own
+Village; and Other Incidents That Embellish
+and Give a Color to This Great History</h4>
+
+<p class="cap">WHEN they had left the inn that day Don Quixote
+and his squire traveled all through the night, and
+the following morning they arrived at their own village,
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_335" id="Page_335">[Pg&nbsp;335]</a></span>
+from which they had been absent so long. Among the
+first to meet them were the curate and Samson Carrasco,
+who had discovered at a distance the red robe the Duchess
+had given to Sancho as a memento of their friendship.
+Sancho had thrown it over his donkey and the discarded
+armor, and it shone in the morning sun as brightly as a
+fiery sunset. Dapple was also adorned with the miter,
+which proudly crowned the beast's head.</p>
+
+<p><a name="Page333pic" id="Page333pic"></a></p>
+<div class="figcenter" >
+<img src="images/illus4.jpg" width="450" height="593"
+alt="&quot;WITH EACH LASH HE GAVE OUT THE MOST HEARTRENDING CRIES.&quot;&mdash;Page 333"
+title="&quot;WITH EACH LASH HE GAVE OUT THE MOST HEARTRENDING CRIES.&quot;&mdash;Page 333" />
+<span class="caption"><br />&quot;WITH EACH LASH HE GAVE OUT THE MOST HEARTRENDING CRIES.&quot;&mdash;<a href="#Page333Ill">Page 333</a></span>
+</div>
+
+<p>When Don Quixote saw his old friends, he dismounted
+and embraced them; and all the little boys in town came
+running to see the sight of Dapple and the returning revivers
+of knight-errantry. They called out to their playmates:
+"Come here, fellows, and see how Sancho Panza's
+donkey is rigged out; and take a look at Don Quixote's
+horse: he is leaner than ever!"</p>
+
+<p>As they walked through the village, it was a whole parade
+that followed them; and at Don Quixote's house they
+were received by the niece and the housekeeper, who had
+already heard of the return.</p>
+
+<p>Teresa Panza, too, had been given the news, but she was
+sorely disappointed when she ran out with her two dirty
+children to welcome the returning Governor. She scolded
+him soundly for coming home dressed like a vagabond.
+But Sancho told her to put a clamp on her tongue, for he
+did bring her money, at any rate, he said. Then his
+daughter fell on his neck and kissed him, and in the next
+instant the whole family had dragged him inside their
+little cottage.</p>
+
+<p>Don Quixote shut himself in with the curate and the
+bachelor, as soon as he had entered his house, and related
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_336" id="Page_336">[Pg&nbsp;336]</a></span>
+to them the sad story of his defeat, and the promise he had
+made to the Knight of the White Moon; and then he
+broached his new idea, that of turning shepherd. He told
+his friends he had chosen new names for them, for he hoped
+that they would share his new life with him; and they at
+once praised his scheme and promised that as shepherds
+they would accompany him in his pursuit of happiness.
+Samson added that he would be an especially valuable
+member of the pastoral colony, for he knew how to write
+poetry, and would devote his time to singing the praises
+of their simple life. Of course, there must be shepherdesses,
+too, Don Quixote ruled, and they could be represented
+by such modest and virtuous women as Dulcinea
+and Teresa Panza.</p>
+
+<p>When they had conversed in this pleasant manner for
+some time, the curate and the bachelor left, begging Don
+Quixote to take good care of himself and to eat plentifully.
+As soon as they had departed, the niece and the housekeeper,
+who had overheard the three men, entered the late
+knight's room and begged him not to turn shepherd saying
+that his health was not such as to allow him to dwell in
+the open in the damp night air; sooner or later he would succumb,
+they said, and take ill and die. They were both
+agreed that the foolishness of knight-errantry was much
+better than this craze. They entreated him to remain at
+home, to go to confession often, and to indulge in doing
+good deeds and being kind to the poor, instead. But Don
+Quixote would have none of their advice. He told them he
+knew where his duty lay. Then he implored them to put
+him to bed, saying that they ought to know he had always
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_337" id="Page_337">[Pg&nbsp;337]</a></span>
+their interest at heart, no matter what happened.</p>
+
+<p>The two women began to weep, and then they helped
+Don Quixote to bed, and there they did all they could to
+make him comfortable, and gave him something to eat.</p>
+
+<hr class="hr1" />
+<h2><a name="v2CHAPTERLXXIV" id="v2CHAPTERLXXIV"></a>CHAPTER LXXIV</h2>
+
+<h4>Of How Don Quixote Fell Sick, and of the Will He Made;
+and How He Died</h4>
+
+<p class="cap">THE following day Don Quixote did not rise from his
+bed, and he was taken with a fever which kept him
+in bed for six days. All this time his faithful Sancho remained
+at his bedside; and his friends, the curate, the
+barber and the bachelor, visited him frequently. They all
+did what they could, for they seemed to sense that the
+sickness was brought on by the sad thought of his having
+been forced to give up his great hope of reviving knight-errantry.</p>
+
+<p>When the doctor was sent for, he said frankly that it
+was time for Don Quixote to turn his thoughts to his soul;
+and when the niece and the devoted housekeeper heard
+this, they began to weep bitterly. The physician was of
+the same opinion as the curate and Don Quixote's other
+friends: that melancholy and unhappiness were the cause
+of the present state of his health.</p>
+
+<p>Soon Don Quixote asked to be left alone, and then he
+fell into a long sleep, which lasted over six hours. It
+provoked the anxiety of the two women, who were afraid
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_338" id="Page_338">[Pg&nbsp;338]</a></span>
+he would never wake up again. At last he awoke, and as
+he opened his eyes he exclaimed in a voice of exaltation
+and joy: "Blessed be the Lord Almighty, who has shown
+me such goodness! In truth his mercies are boundless,
+and the sins of men can neither limit them nor keep them
+back!"</p>
+
+<p>The niece was struck by the unusual saneness of these
+words. She asked Don Quixote gently what he meant, and
+what sins of men he was speaking of. He replied in a
+voice full of calmness and serenity that God had just freed
+his reason, for he realized now how ignorance in believing
+in the absurdities of the books of chivalry had distorted his
+mind and vision so sadly. He regretted, he said, that he
+saw the light so late in life that there was no time for him
+to show his repentance by reading other books, which
+might have helped his soul. Then he begged his niece to
+send for the curate, the bachelor Carrasco, and the barber,
+as he wished to confess his sins and make his will before
+he departed from this earth.</p>
+
+<p>The moment the three friends stepped over the threshold
+to his chamber, he called out happily: "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 the Good." And he went on to say how
+he now loathed all books of chivalry which had brought
+him to the state he was in, and how happy he was in the
+thought that God had made him see his folly. The three
+men could only think that this was some new craze of their
+friend's and tried to persuade him not to talk thus, now
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_339" id="Page_339">[Pg&nbsp;339]</a></span>
+that they had just got news of his peerless Dulcinea and
+were all of them about to become shepherds in order to
+keep him company; and they begged him to be rational and
+talk no more nonsense. But soon they realized that Don
+Quixote was not jesting, for he begged them to send for
+a notary, and while the bachelor went to fetch him, the
+barber went to soothe the women; and the curate alone
+remained with Don Quixote to confess him.</p>
+
+<p>When the good curate came out after the confession, the
+women gathered about him and when he told them that
+Don Quixote was indeed dying, they broke into sobs, for
+they loved him genuinely and dearly. The notary then
+came, and Don Quixote made his will. The first person
+he thought of was his faithful and beloved companion,
+Sancho Panza, whose simplicity and affection he rewarded
+by leaving him all the money of his own that was now
+in Sancho's possession. Had he had a kingdom to give
+him, he said, it would scarcely have been sufficient reward
+for all that Sancho had done for him. Then turning to
+Sancho, who stood at his bedside with tears in his eyes, he
+said to him: "Forgive me, my friend, that I led thee to
+seem as mad as myself, making thee fall into the same
+error I myself fell into, that there were and still are knights
+errant in the world."</p>
+
+<p>"Ah," said Sancho, in a voice that was choked with tears,
+"do not die, master, but take my advice and live many
+years; for the foolishest thing a man can do in this life is
+to let himself die without rhyme or reason, without anybody
+killing him, or any hands but melancholy's making
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_340" id="Page_340">[Pg&nbsp;340]</a></span>
+an end of him. Come, do not be lazy, but get up from
+your bed and let us take to the fields in a shepherd's trim
+as we agreed! Perhaps behind some bush we shall find
+the Lady Dulcinea disenchanted, as fine as fine can be.
+If it be that you are dying of vexation at having been vanquished,
+lay the blame on me, and say you were thrown
+because I girthed Rocinante badly."</p>
+
+<p>But although Samson Carrasco tried to persuade the dying
+knight that Sancho had reasoned rightly, they at last
+came to the conclusion that Don Quixote really was in his
+right senses, and that God had worked a miracle.</p>
+
+<p>They now let the notary proceed and one of the stipulations
+in the will was that if his niece, Antonia Quixana,
+ever married a man who had read books of chivalry, she
+should by so doing forfeit all that he had left to her, and
+instead it would go to charity. Another clause contained
+a request to the executors to offer his humble apologies to
+the author of the Second Part of "The Achievements of
+Don Quixote of La Mancha" for his having committed so
+many absurdities that had been a provocation to the author
+to write this book.</p>
+
+<p>When he had dictated the last words of his will, a sudden
+faintness came over Don Quixote, and for three days after
+that he was in a state between life and death. At last the
+end came, and he passed away so calmly that the notary
+felt compelled to confess that he never had read of any
+knight errant in the whole wide world who had breathed
+his last breath so peacefully.</p>
+
+<p>The bachelor, Samson Carrasco, wrote an epitaph for
+his tomb; and there is written on a tombstone in a little
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_341" id="Page_341">[Pg&nbsp;341]</a></span>
+village of La Mancha the praise that those who knew and
+loved the valiant and doughty, yet gentle Don Quixote of
+La Mancha felt in their hearts for him, whose last wish was
+that he might die as Alonso Quixano the Good.</p>
+
+<h3>THE END</h3>
+
+<div class="bbox">
+<p class="bi">Transcribers' Note:</p>
+
+<p>The Title Page of this book credits Arvid Paulson and Clayton Edwards
+as being the authors of this work. The original Don Quixote of The
+Mancha was written, in Spanish, by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra around
+1605. It has been translated into many languages and editions. This
+book is based on Cervantes' story. The catalogue of the Library of
+Congress lists Cervantes as the author of this book, and Paulson and
+Edwards are included as "related names."</p>
+
+<p>Variations in spelling, such as grey/gray or pretence/pretense have
+been left as they appear in the original book.</p>
+
+<h4>Some Items That Appear To Be Typographic Errors Have Been Changed
+As Follows.</h4>
+
+<dl>
+<dt class="top1"><a href="#Page_28">Page 28</a></dt><dd>Corrected Neverthelesss to remove extra "s".</dd>
+
+<dt class="top1"><a href="#Page_63">Page 63</a></dt><dd>Corrected imcomparable to incomparable.</dd>
+
+<dt class="top1"><a href="#Page_130">Page 130</a></dt><dd>Corrected hilarously to hilariously.</dd>
+
+<dt class="top1"><a href="#Page_231">Page 231</a></dt><dd> Corrected sacrilegeous to sacrilegious in the passage that
+read "When the confessor heard the sacrilegeous conversation".</dd>
+
+<dt class="top1"><a href="#Page_237">Page 237</a></dt><dd> Corrected Do�o to Do�a in the passage that read "and told
+her of the incident with Do�o Rodriguez".</dd>
+
+<dt class="top1"><a href="#Page_246">Page 246</a></dt><dd>Corrected expresseed to expressed.</dd>
+
+<dt class="top1"><a href="#Page_257">Page 257</a></dt><dd> Deleted superfluous "to" in the passage that read "he
+confided to to his master the resemblance in voice and appearance".</dd>
+
+<dt class="top1"><a href="#Page_277">Page 277</a></dt><dd> "and lifted him up from his vertical position."
+has been left as it appears in the book, although the intent would
+appear to be "horizontal" rather than "vertical".</dd>
+
+<dt class="top1"><a href="#Page_306">Page 306</a></dt><dd> In the passage that reads "After having acted in
+the most mysterious manner, and having carefully ascertained that all
+the doors to the room were shut and no one listening, Don Quixote
+swore the knight to secrecy." Don Quixote has been changed to Antonio
+as this appears to be a typographic error as Don Quixote is the knight
+in question.</dd>
+
+<dt class="top1"><a href="#Page_309">Page 309</a></dt><dd>Changed lead to led in the passage that reads "through a tube
+that lead from the inside of the head".</dd>
+
+<dt class="top1"><a href="#Page_317">Page 317</a></dt><dd> Corrected Stubborness to Stubbornness in the passage that
+read "but Sancho was unflinching in his stubborness and insisted".</dd>
+
+<dt class="top1"><a href="#Page_328">Page 328</a></dt><dd> Corrected to affliction in the passage that reads "in time be
+cured of his strange affiction".</dd>
+
+</dl>
+
+<h4><br />Changes Have Been Made to Table of Contents As Follows.</h4>
+
+<h4>Volume I</h4>
+
+<p class="bi"><a href="#v1CHAPTERXXXII-XXXIV">CHAPTER XXXII-XXXIV</a></p>
+
+<p class="smcap">Which Treats of What Befell All Don Quixote's Party at the Inn</p>
+
+<p>The table of contents read "at the End". It has been amended to "at
+the Inn" to match the chapter heading.</p>
+
+<h4>Volume II</h4>
+
+<p class="bi"><a href="#v2CHAPTERXII">CHAPTER XII</a></p>
+
+<p class="smcap">Of the Strange Adventure Which Befell the
+Valiant Don Quixote with the Bold Knight of the Grove</p>
+
+<p>The table of contents read "of the Mirrors" It has been amended to
+"of the Grove" to match this and the next chapter heading and sense
+of the story line.</p>
+
+<p class="bi"><a href="#v1CHAPTERXLIV">CHAPTER XLIV</a></p>
+
+<p class="smcap">How Sancho Panza Was Conducted to His Government; and of
+the Strange Adventure That Befell Don Quixote in the Castle</p>
+
+<p>"Ad" in adventure was missing from the table of contents which read
+"Strange Venture". It has been amended to match the chapter heading.</p>
+
+<p class="bi"><a href="#v2CHAPTERL">CHAPTER L</a></p>
+
+<p class="smcap">Wherein Is Set Forth How Governor Sancho Panza's Wife Received a
+Message and a Gift from the Duchess; and also What Befell the Page Who
+Carried the Letter to Teresa Panza</p>
+
+<p>The table of contents went on to add "Sancho Panza's Wife" to the end
+of the above listing. This has been removed to agree with the chapter
+heading.</p>
+
+<p class="bi"><a href="#v2CHAPTERLVI-LVII">CHAPTERS LVI-LVII</a></p>
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+<p class="smcap">Which Treats of How Don Quixote Again Felt the Calling of
+Knight-errantry and How He Took Leave of the Duke, and of What
+Followed with the Witty and Impudent Altisidora, One of the Duchess'
+Damsels</p>
+
+<p>Deleted "s" from "callings" in contents listing.</p>
+
+<p>Capitalisation of the Table of Contents has been
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+The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Story of Don Quixote, by Arvid Paulson,
+Clayton Edwards, and Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Illustrated by Florence
+Choate and Elizabeth Curtis
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+Title: The Story of Don Quixote
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+Author: Arvid Paulson, Clayton Edwards, and Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
+
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+Release Date: July 20, 2009  [eBook #29468]
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+***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE STORY OF DON QUIXOTE***
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+THE STORY OF DON QUIXOTE
+
+by
+
+ARVID PAULSON and CLAYTON EDWARDS
+
+With Illustrations in Color by Florence Choate and Elizabeth Curtis
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration: "DON QUIXOTE INSISTED THAT THE BOAT HAD BEEN SENT BY
+MAGIC TO FETCH HIM TO SOME GREAT KNIGHT."--_Page 222_]
+
+
+
+The Hampton Publishing Company
+New York
+
+Copyright, MCMXXII, by
+Frederick A. Stokes Company
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+All rights reserved, including that of translation
+into foreign languages
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+
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+
+
+CONTENTS
+
+    VOLUME I
+
+
+    CHAPTER                                                       PAGE
+
+         I  WHICH TREATS OF THE CHARACTER AND PURSUITS OF
+              THE FAMOUS GENTLEMAN, DON QUIXOTE OF LA MANCHA         1
+
+        II-III  WHICH TREATS OF THE FIRST SALLY DON QUIXOTE
+                 MADE FROM HOME                                      6
+
+        IV  WHICH TREATS OF DON QUIXOTE'S FURTHER
+              ADVENTURES                                            14
+
+         V  IN WHICH THE NARRATIVE OF OUR KNIGHT'S MISHAP
+              IS CONTINUED                                          20
+
+        VI  OF THE DIVERTING AND IMPORTANT SCRUTINY WHICH
+              THE CURATE AND THE BARBER MADE IN THE LIBRARY
+              OF OUR INGENIOUS GENTLEMAN                            22
+
+       VII  OF THE SECOND SALLY OF OUR WORTHY KNIGHT, DON
+              QUIXOTE OF LA MANCHA                                  24
+
+      VIII-IX  OF THE GOOD FORTUNE WHICH THE VALIANT DON
+              QUIXOTE HAD IN THE TERRIBLE AND UNDREAMT-OF
+              ADVENTURE OF THE WINDMILLS, WITH OTHER
+              OCCURRENCES WORTHY TO BE FITLY RECORDED,
+              INCLUDING THE TERRIBLE BATTLE BETWEEN THE
+              GALLANT BISCAYAN AND THE VALIANT MANCHEGAN            27
+
+         X  OF THE PLEASANT DISCOURSE THAT PASSED BETWEEN
+              DON QUIXOTE AND HIS SQUIRE SANCHO PANZA               33
+
+        XI  OF WHAT BEFELL DON QUIXOTE WITH CERTAIN
+              GOATHERDS                                             37
+
+       XII  OF WHAT A GOATHERD RELATED TO THOSE WITH
+              DON QUIXOTE                                           39
+
+      XIII  IN WHICH IS ENDED THE STORY OF THE SHEPHERDESS
+              MARCELA WITH OTHER INCIDENTS                          41
+
+       XIV  WHEREIN ARE DESCRIBED THE DESPAIRING VERSES
+              OF THE DEAD SHEPHERD                                  45
+
+        XV  IN WHICH IS RELATED THE UNFORTUNATE ADVENTURE
+              THAT DON QUIXOTE FELL IN WITH WHEN HE FELL
+              OUT WITH CERTAIN HEARTLESS YANGUESANS                 47
+
+       XVI  OF WHAT HAPPENED TO THE INGENIOUS GENTLEMAN IN
+              THE INN WHICH HE TOOK TO BE A CASTLE                  50
+
+      XVII  IN WHICH ARE CONTAINED THE INNUMERABLE TROUBLES
+              WHICH THE BRAVE DON QUIXOTE AND HIS GOOD
+              SQUIRE SANCHO PANZA ENDURED AT THE INN, WHICH,
+              TO HIS MISFORTUNE, HE TOOK TO BE A CASTLE             51
+
+     XVIII  IN WHICH IS RELATED THE DISCOURSE SANCHO PANZA
+              HELD WITH HIS MASTER, DON QUIXOTE, TOGETHER
+              WITH OTHER ADVENTURES WORTH RELATING                  55
+
+       XIX  OF THE SHREWD DISCOURSE WHICH SANCHO HELD WITH
+              HIS MASTER, AND OF THE ADVENTURE THAT BEFELL HIM
+              WITH A DEAD BODY, TOGETHER WITH OTHER NOTABLE
+              OCCURRENCES                                           59
+
+        XX  OF THE UNEXAMPLED AND UNHEARD-OF ADVENTURE
+              WHICH WAS ACHIEVED BY THE VALIANT DON QUIXOTE
+              OF LA MANCHA WITH LESS PERIL THAN ANY EVER
+              ACHIEVED BY ANY FAMOUS KNIGHT IN THE WORLD            62
+
+       XXI  WHICH TREATS OF THE EXALTED ADVENTURE AND RICH
+              PRIZE OF MAMBRINO'S HELMET, TOGETHER WITH OTHER
+              THINGS THAT HAPPENED TO OUR INVINCIBLE KNIGHT         65
+
+      XXII  OF THE FREEDOM DON QUIXOTE CONFERRED ON SEVERAL
+              UNFORTUNATES WHO AGAINST THEIR WILL WERE BEING
+              CARRIED WHERE THEY HAD NO WISH TO GO                  68
+
+     XXIII  OF WHAT BEFELL DON QUIXOTE IN THE SIERRA MORENA,
+              WHICH IS ONE OF THE RAREST ADVENTURES RELATED
+              IN THIS VERACIOUS HISTORY                             71
+
+      XXIV  IN WHICH IS CONTINUED THE ADVENTURE OF THE SIERRA
+              MORENA                                                73
+
+       XXV  WHICH TREATS OF THE STRANGE THINGS THAT HAPPENED
+              TO THE STOUT KNIGHT OF LA MANCHA IN THE SIERRA
+              MORENA                                                75
+
+      XXVI  IN WHICH ARE CONTINUED THE REFINEMENTS WHEREWITH
+              DON QUIXOTE PLAYED THE PART OF A LOVER
+              IN THE SIERRA MORENA                                  77
+
+     XXVII  OF HOW THE CURATE AND THE BARBER PROCEEDED WITH
+              THEIR SCHEME, TOGETHER WITH OTHER MATTERS
+              WORTHY OF RECORD IN THIS GREAT HISTORY                80
+
+    XXVIII  WHICH TREATS OF THE STRANGE AND DELIGHTFUL
+              ADVENTURE THAT BEFELL THE CURATE AND THE
+              BARBER IN THE SAME SIERRA                             81
+
+      XXIX  WHICH TREATS OF THE DROLL DEVICE AND METHOD
+              ADOPTED TO EXTRICATE OUR LOVE-STRICKEN KNIGHT
+              FROM THE SEVERE PENANCE HE HAD IMPOSED UPON
+              HIMSELF                                               83
+
+       XXX  WHICH TREATS OF THE ADDRESS DISPLAYED BY THE
+              FAIR DOROTHEA, WITH OTHER MATTERS, PLEASANT AND
+              AMUSING                                               88
+
+      XXXI  OF THE DELECTABLE DISCUSSION BETWEEN DON QUIXOTE
+              AND SANCHO PANZA, HIS SQUIRE, TOGETHER WITH
+              OTHER INCIDENTS                                       90
+
+     XXXII-XXXIV  WHICH TREATS OF WHAT BEFELL ALL DON
+              QUIXOTE'S PARTY AT THE INN                            91
+
+      XXXV  WHICH TREATS OF THE HEROIC AND PRODIGIOUS BATTLE
+              DON QUIXOTE HAD WITH CERTAIN SKINS OF RED WINE,
+              AND BRINGS THE NOVEL OF THE "ILL-ADVISED CURIOSITY"
+              TO AN END                                             92
+
+     XXXVI  WHICH TREATS OF MORE CURIOUS INCIDENTS THAT
+              OCCURRED AT THE INN                                   95
+
+    XXXVII  IN WHICH IS CONTINUED THE STORY OF THE FAMOUS
+              PRINCESS MICOMICONA, WITH OTHER DROLL ADVENTURES      98
+
+   XXXVIII  WHICH TREATS OF THE CURIOUS DISCOURSE DON QUIXOTE
+              DELIVERED ON ARMS AND LETTERS                        102
+
+     XXXIX-XLI  WHEREIN THE CAPTIVE RELATES HIS LIFE
+              AND ADVENTURES                                       103
+
+      XLII  WHICH TREATS OF WHAT FURTHER TOOK PLACE IN THE
+              INN, AND OF SEVERAL OTHER THINGS WORTH KNOWING       108
+
+     XLIII  WHEREIN IS RELATED THE PLEASANT STORY OF THE
+              MULETEER, TOGETHER WITH OTHER STRANGE THINGS THAT
+              CAME TO PASS IN THE INN                              112
+
+      XLIV  IN WHICH ARE CONTINUED THE UNHEARD-OF ADVENTURES
+              AT THE INN                                           117
+
+       XLV  IN WHICH THE DOUBTFUL QUESTION OF MAMBRINO'S
+              HELMET AND THE PACK-SADDLE IS FINALLY SETTLED,
+              WITH OTHER ADVENTURES THAT OCCURRED IN TRUTH
+              AND EARNEST                                          123
+
+      XLVI  OF THE END OF THE NOTABLE ADVENTURE OF THE OFFICERS
+              OF THE HOLY BROTHERHOOD; AND OF THE GREAT
+              FEROCITY OF OUR WORTHY KNIGHT, DON QUIXOTE           127
+
+     XLVII  OF THE STRANGE MANNER IN WHICH DON QUIXOTE OF
+              LA MANCHA WAS CARRIED AWAY ENCHANTED, TOGETHER
+              WITH OTHER REMARKABLE INCIDENTS                      132
+
+    XLVIII  IN WHICH THE CANON PURSUES THE SUBJECT OF THE
+              BOOKS OF CHIVALRY, WITH OTHER MATTERS WORTHY
+              OF HIS WIT                                           137
+
+      XLIX  WHICH TREATS OF HOW OUR KNIGHT IS PERMITTED TO
+              DESCEND FROM HIS CAGE, AND OF THE CANON'S ATTEMPT
+              TO CONVERT HIM FROM HIS ILLUSIONS                    138
+
+      L-LI  OF THE SHREWD CONTROVERSY WHICH DON QUIXOTE AND
+              THE CANON HELD, TOGETHER WITH OTHER INCIDENTS        139
+
+       LII  OF THE QUARREL THAT DON QUIXOTE HAD WITH THE
+              GOATHERD, TOGETHER WITH THE RARE ADVENTURE OF
+              THE PENITENTS, WHICH WITH AN EXPENDITURE OF
+              SWEAT HE BROUGHT TO A HAPPY CONCLUSION               142
+
+
+    VOLUME II
+
+
+    CHAPTER                                                       PAGE
+
+         I  OF THE INTERVIEW THE CURATE AND THE BARBER HAD
+              WITH DON QUIXOTE ABOUT HIS MALADY                    147
+
+        II  WHICH TREATS OF THE NOTABLE ALTERCATION WHICH SANCHO
+              PANZA HAD WITH DON QUIXOTE'S NIECE AND HIS
+              HOUSEKEEPER, TOGETHER WITH OTHER DROLL MATTERS       150
+
+       III  OF THE LAUGHABLE CONVERSATION THAT PASSED BETWEEN
+              DON QUIXOTE, SANCHO PANZA, AND THE BACHELOR
+              SAMSON CARRASCO                                      153
+
+        IV  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 MENTIONING                         156
+
+         V  OF THE SHREWD AND DROLL CONVERSATION THAT PASSED
+              BETWEEN SANCHO PANZA AND HIS WIFE TERESA
+              PANZA, AND OTHER MATTERS WORTHY OF BEING DULY
+              RECORDED                                             159
+
+        VI  OF WHAT TOOK PLACE BETWEEN DON QUIXOTE AND HIS
+              NIECE AND HIS HOUSEKEEPER; ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT
+              CHAPTERS IN THE WHOLE HISTORY                        161
+
+       VII  OF WHAT PASSED BETWEEN DON QUIXOTE AND HIS SQUIRE,
+              TOGETHER WITH OTHER VERY NOTABLE INCIDENTS           163
+
+      VIII  WHEREIN IS RELATED WHAT BEFELL DON QUIXOTE ON
+              HIS WAY TO SEE HIS LADY DULCINEA DEL TOBOSO          167
+
+        IX  WHEREIN IS RELATED WHAT WILL BE SEEN THERE             170
+
+         X  WHEREIN IS RELATED THE CRAFTY DEVICE SANCHO
+              ADOPTED TO ENCHANT THE LADY DULCINEA, AND OTHER
+              INCIDENTS AS LUDICROUS AS THEY ARE TRUE              172
+
+        XI  OF THE STRANGE ADVENTURE WHICH THE VALIANT DON
+              QUIXOTE HAD WITH THE CAR OR CART OF "THE CORTES
+              OF DEATH"                                            175
+
+       XII  OF THE STRANGE ADVENTURE WHICH BEFELL THE VALIANT
+              DON QUIXOTE WITH THE BOLD KNIGHT OF THE
+              GROVE                                                178
+
+      XIII-XIV  IN WHICH IS CONTINUED THE ADVENTURE OF THE
+              KNIGHT OF THE GROVE, TOGETHER WITH THE SENSIBLE
+              AND TRANQUIL COLLOQUY THAT PASSED BETWEEN THE
+              TWO SQUIRES                                          180
+
+        XV  WHEREIN IT IS MADE KNOWN HOW THE KNIGHT OF THE MIRROR
+              AND HIS SQUIRE EMERGED FROM THEIR ADVENTURE          186
+
+       XVI  OF WHAT BEFELL DON QUIXOTE WITH A DISCREET GENTLEMAN
+              OF LA MANCHA                                         187
+
+      XVII  WHEREIN IS SHOWN THE FARTHEST AND HIGHEST POINT
+              WHICH THE UNEXAMPLED COURAGE OF DON QUIXOTE
+              REACHED OR COULD REACH; TOGETHER WITH THE HAPPILY
+              ACHIEVED ADVENTURE OF THE LIONS                      190
+
+     XVIII  OF WHAT HAPPENED TO DON QUIXOTE IN THE CASTLE
+              OR HOUSE OF THE KNIGHT OF THE GREEN COAT, TOGETHER
+              WITH OTHER MATTERS OUT OF THE COMMON                 194
+
+       XIX  IN WHICH IS RELATED THE ADVENTURE OF THE ENAMORED
+              SHEPHERD, TOGETHER WITH OTHER TRULY DROLL INCIDENTS  196
+
+        XX  WHEREIN AN ACCOUNT IS GIVEN OF THE WEDDING OF
+              CAMACHO THE RICH, TOGETHER WITH THE INCIDENT
+              OF BASILIO THE POOR                                  199
+
+       XXI  IN WHICH CAMACHO'S WEDDING IS CONTINUED, WITH
+              OTHER DELIGHTFUL INCIDENTS                           200
+
+      XXII  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                                    203
+
+     XXIII  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 APOCRYPHAL          206
+
+      XXIV  WHEREIN ARE RELATED SOME TRIFLING MATTERS,
+              AS TRIVIAL AS THEY ARE NECESSARY TO THE RIGHT
+              UNDERSTANDING OF THIS GREAT HISTORY                  209
+
+       XXV  WHEREIN IS SET DOWN THE BRAYING ADVENTURE, AND
+              THE DROLL ONE OF THE PUPPET-SHOWMAN, TOGETHER
+              WITH THE MEMORABLE DIVINATIONS OF THE DIVINING
+              APE                                                  210
+
+      XXVI  WHEREIN IS CONTINUED THE DROLL ADVENTURE OF THE
+              PUPPET-SHOWMAN, TOGETHER WITH OTHER THINGS
+              IN TRUTH RIGHT GOOD                                  214
+
+     XXVII  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                                             217
+
+    XXVIII  OF MATTERS THAT BENENGELI SAYS HE WHO READS
+              THEM WILL KNOW, IF HE READS THEM WITH ATTENTION      220
+
+      XXIX  OF THE FAMOUS ADVENTURE OF THE ENCHANTED BARK          222
+
+       XXX  OF DON QUIXOTE'S ADVENTURE WITH A FAIR HUNTRESS        225
+
+      XXXI  WHICH TREATS OF MANY AND GREAT MATTERS                 228
+
+     XXXII  OF THE REPLY DON QUIXOTE GAVE HIS CENSURER, WITH
+              OTHER INCIDENTS, GRAVE AND DROLL                     232
+
+    XXXIII  OF THE DELECTABLE DISCOURSE WHICH THE DUCHESS AND
+              HER DAMSELS HELD WITH SANCHO PANZA, WELL
+              WORTH READING AND NOTING                             236
+
+     XXXIV  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                       238
+
+      XXXV  WHEREIN IS CONTINUED THE INSTRUCTION GIVEN TO DON
+              QUIXOTE TOUCHING THE DISENCHANTMENT OF DULCINEA,
+              TOGETHER WITH OTHER MARVELOUS INCIDENTS              242
+
+     XXXVI  WHEREIN IS RELATED THE STRANGE AND UNDREAMED-OF
+              ADVENTURE OF THE DISTRESSED DUENNA, ALIAS THE
+              COUNTESS TRIFALDI, TOGETHER WITH A LETTER WHICH
+              SANCHO PANZA WROTE TO HIS WIFE, TERESA PANZA         244
+
+    XXXVII-XXXIX  WHEREIN IS CONTINUED THE NOTABLE ADVENTURE
+              OF THE DISTRESSED DUENNA, INCLUDING HER
+              MARVELOUS AND MEMORABLE TALE OF MISFORTUNE           246
+
+        XL  OF MATTERS RELATING AND BELONGING TO THIS ADVENTURE
+              AND TO THIS MEMORABLE HISTORY                        249
+
+       XLI  THE END OF THIS PROTRACTED ADVENTURE                   250
+
+      XLII  OF THE COUNSELS WHICH DON QUIXOTE GAVE SANCHO
+              PANZA BEFORE HE SET OUT TO GOVERN THE ISLAND,
+              TOGETHER WITH OTHER WELL-CONSIDERED MATTERS          254
+
+     XLIII  OF THE SECOND SET OF COUNSELS DON QUIXOTE GAVE
+              SANCHO PANZA                                         255
+
+      XLIV  HOW SANCHO PANZA WAS CONDUCTED TO HIS GOVERNMENT;
+              AND OF THE STRANGE ADVENTURE THAT BEFELL
+              DON QUIXOTE IN THE CASTLE                            257
+
+       XLV  OF HOW THE GREAT SANCHO PANZA TOOK POSSESSION
+              OF HIS ISLAND; AND OF HOW HE MADE A BEGINNING
+              IN GOVERNING                                         259
+
+      XLVI  OF THE TERRIBLE BELL AND CAT FRIGHT THAT DON
+              QUIXOTE GOT IN THE COURSE OF THE ENAMORED
+              ALTISIDORA'S WOOING                                  260
+
+     XLVII  WHEREIN IS CONTINUED THE ACCOUNT OF HOW SANCHO
+              PANZA CONDUCTED HIMSELF IN HIS GOVERNMENT            263
+
+    XLVIII-XVIX  OF WHAT HAPPENED TO SANCHO IN MAKING THE
+              ROUND OF HIS ISLAND                                  265
+
+         L  WHEREIN IS SET FORTH HOW GOVERNOR SANCHO PANZA'S
+              WIFE RECEIVED A MESSAGE AND A GIFT FROM THE
+              DUCHESS; AND ALSO WHAT BEFELL THE PAGE WHO
+              CARRIED THE LETTER TO TERESA PANZA                   267
+
+        LI  OF THE PROGRESS OF SANCHO'S GOVERNMENT; AND OTHER
+              SUCH ENTERTAINING MATTERS                            271
+
+       LII  WHEREIN THREE DELECTABLE EPISTLES ARE READ BY
+              THE DUCHESS                                          273
+
+      LIII  OF THE TROUBLOUS END AND TERMINATION OF SANCHO
+              PANZA'S GOVERNMENT                                   275
+
+       LIV-LV  OF WHAT BEFELL SANCHO ON THE ROAD; AND OTHER
+              THINGS THAT CANNOT BE SURPASSED                      280
+
+       LVI-LVII  WHICH TREATS OF HOW DON QUIXOTE AGAIN
+              FELT THE CALLING OF KNIGHT-ERRANTRY AND HOW
+              HE TOOK LEAVE OF THE DUKE, AND OF WHAT FOLLOWED
+              WITH THE WITTY AND IMPUDENT ALTISIDORA, ONE OF
+              THE DUCHESS' DAMSELS                                 284
+
+     LVIII  WHICH TELLS HOW ADVENTURES CAME CROWDING ON
+              DON QUIXOTE IN SUCH NUMBERS THAT THEY GAVE
+              ONE ANOTHER NO BREATHING-TIME                        286
+
+       LIX  WHEREIN IS RELATED THE STRANGE THING, WHICH MAY
+              BE REGARDED AS AN ADVENTURE, THAT HAPPENED TO
+              DON QUIXOTE                                          292
+
+        LX  OF WHAT HAPPENED TO DON QUIXOTE ON HIS WAY TO
+              BARCELONA                                            297
+
+       LXI  OF WHAT HAPPENED TO DON QUIXOTE ON ENTERING
+              BARCELONA, TOGETHER WITH OTHER MATTERS THAT
+              PARTAKE OF THE TRUE RATHER THAN THE INGENIOUS        303
+
+      LXII  WHICH DEALS WITH THE ADVENTURE OF THE ENCHANTED
+              HEAD, TOGETHER WITH OTHER TRIVIAL MATTERS WHICH
+              CANNOT BE LEFT UNTOLD                                305
+
+     LXIII  THE MISHAP THAT BEFELL SANCHO PANZA THROUGH
+              THE VISIT TO THE GALLEYS                             310
+
+      LXIV  TREATING OF THE ADVENTURE WHICH GAVE DON QUIXOTE
+              MORE UNHAPPINESS THAN ALL THAT HAD HITHERTO
+              BEFALLEN HIM                                         313
+
+       LXV  WHEREIN IS MADE KNOWN WHO THE KNIGHT OF THE
+              WHITE MOON WAS; LIKEWISE OTHER EVENTS                316
+
+      LXVI-LXVII  OF THE RESOLUTION WHICH 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              317
+
+    LXVIII  OF THE BRISTLY ADVENTURE THAT BEFELL DON QUIXOTE       319
+
+      LXIX  OF THE STRANGEST AND MOST EXTRAORDINARY ADVENTURE
+              THAT BEFELL DON QUIXOTE IN THE WHOLE COURSE OF
+              THIS GREAT HISTORY                                   323
+
+       LXX  WHICH FOLLOWS CHAPTER SIXTY-NINE AND DEALS WITH
+              MATTERS INDISPENSABLE FOR THE CLEAR COMPREHENSION
+              OF THIS HISTORY                                      328
+
+      LXXI  OF WHAT PASSED BETWEEN DON QUIXOTE AND HIS
+              SQUIRE SANCHO ON THE WAY TO THEIR VILLAGE            331
+
+     LXXII-LXXIII  OF THE OMENS DON QUIXOTE HAD AS HE ENTERED
+              HIS OWN VILLAGE; AND OTHER INCIDENTS THAT
+              EMBELLISH AND GIVE A COLOR TO THIS GREAT HISTORY     334
+
+     LXXIV  OF HOW DON QUIXOTE FELL SICK, AND OF THE WILL HE
+              MADE, AND HOW HE DIED                                337
+
+
+
+
+LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
+
+
+    "Don Quixote insisted that the boat had been sent by
+        magic to fetch him to some great knight"        _Frontispiece_
+
+                                                           FACING PAGE
+
+    "Slashing right and left, dreaming that he had encountered
+        the giant enemy"                                            94
+
+    "He prayed that he should not be left to perish in the cage"   132
+
+    "With each lash he gave out the most heartrending cries"       334
+
+
+
+
+THE STORY OF DON QUIXOTE
+
+
+
+
+VOLUME I
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER I
+
+WHICH TREATS OF THE CHARACTER AND PURSUITS OF THE FAMOUS
+GENTLEMAN, DON QUIXOTE OF LA MANCHA
+
+
+Nearly four hundred years ago, there lived in the village of La Mancha
+in Spain an old gentleman of few worldly possessions but many books,
+who was given to a hardy and adventurous way of life, and who beguiled
+his spare time by reading the many tales of chivalry and knighthood
+that were in his possession.
+
+This old gentleman was a tall, gaunt man of about fifty, with a
+lantern jaw and straggling gray hair, and eyes that had a sparkle of
+madness in them. His surname was Quixada or Quesada, and though not
+rich, he was well known to the country folk and had some reputation in
+the community where he lived.
+
+In his younger days he was a great sportsman and used to get up before
+the sun to follow his favorite pursuits of hunting and hawking, but as
+he grew older he spent almost all his time in reading books on
+chivalry and knighthood with which his library was stocked; and at
+last he grew so fond of these books that he forgot to follow the
+hounds or even to look after his property, but spent all his time in
+his library, mulling over the famous deeds and love affairs of knights
+who conquered dragons and vanquished wicked enchanters.
+
+At the time when Quesada lived, Spain was saturated with this sort of
+literature, and everybody wasted much time in reading books which had no
+merit or value of any kind and which were full of the most ridiculous and
+impossible adventures. On the whole they were the most utter rubbish that
+it was possible to print. They told about impossible deeds in the most
+impossible language, and were filled with ambitious sentences that meant
+nothing under the sun. Senor Quesada spent hours racking his brains to
+puzzle out the meaning of something like this:
+
+     "The reason of the unreason with which my reason is
+     afflicted so weakens my reason that with reason I murmur
+     at your beauty."
+
+Or again:
+
+     "The high heavens that of your divinity divinely fortify
+     you with the stars, render you deserving of the desert
+     your greatness deserves."
+
+Poor Senor Quesada could not understand these sentences. Who could? No
+man in his right mind certainly, it would have taken a madman to read
+any real meaning into them. And he wasted so much time in puzzling
+over them that at last he became quite mad and the words in the books
+would appear on the walls of his room, written in letters of fire,
+with so bright a light that they prevented him from sleeping. From
+trying to read a meaning into things that had no meaning whatever,
+Senor Quesada was mad--as mad as the books he had been reading.
+
+Senor Quesada lived with his niece and his housekeeper, both sensible
+women who loved him and who were much grieved over the havoc his
+books of chivalry had worked with his senses. They believed that to
+talk about these books made the old gentleman worse, so they refused
+to answer him when he argued about knights and dragons and whether
+this fair lady was an enchantress in disguise or only a mortal woman,
+and whether that dragon actually did breathe forth fire from his
+nostrils, or only sulphur fumes and smoke. His niece and the
+housekeeper would run away when he started upon one of his favorite
+subjects; so he turned to the society of the village curate, a learned
+man for those times, who knew almost as much about books of chivalry
+as Senor Quesada himself, and to that of Master Nicholas, the village
+barber. And these three friends would sit up until dawn arguing as to
+who was the better knight, Sir Lancelot or Amadis of Gaul, and how
+these both compared with the Knight of the Burning Sword, who with one
+back stroke cut in half two fierce and monstrous giants.
+
+After he had become thoroughly mad from reading, and more so from such
+arguments and discussions, Senor Quesada hit upon the strangest notion
+that ever entered the head of a lunatic. He believed that he and no
+other was called upon to restore the entire world to the ancient
+conditions of chivalry, and bring back the tournaments and the
+courteous knights and fair ladies whose like had existed in the times
+of the famous King Arthur of Britain. Believing this, it was an easy
+step for him to think that the world was still full of giants and
+fierce dragons for him to vanquish, and that as a man of honor and
+skill at arms he must leave his comfortable home and do battle with
+them. To his disordered senses things took on a different appearance
+than was actually the case--inns seemed castles, and towers and hills
+appeared as giants that moved about in the distance; and Senor Quesada
+could hardly wait before he could meet them on horseback and overthrow
+them in battle.
+
+To become a knight and encounter all these strange and visionary dangers
+it was necessary for him, however, to have a war horse, a stout lance and
+a suit of armor, and he cast about among his possessions to see what he
+could find that would answer the purpose--for he had no money to buy
+them, and no shop could have furnished them for him if he had possessed
+all the money in Spain. In his attic he found an old suit of armor that
+had belonged to his great-grandfather and had been lying there for ages,
+rotting with rust and mildew in company with old chests, bedding and
+other family treasures. He brought it out and scoured it as best he could
+and at last made it shine with considerable brightness. But the helmet
+was only partially complete, for it lacked a beaver and a visor to
+protect his face, so Senor Quesada constructed these from pasteboard and
+painted them to resemble the armor as closely as possible. He tried their
+strength with his rusty sword, and on the first stroke cut them entirely
+away; so he rebuilt them and forbore to try them again, hoping they would
+be strong enough, but fearing to make a test that might undo once more
+all the troublesome work that he had spent upon them.
+
+His armor now complete, he looked in his stables for a horse to carry
+him, and found there his old hack, whose every bone was visible and
+who was more used to carrying sacks of potatoes and onions to market
+than to bearing the weight of a knight or a man at arms. This horse
+must have been at least twenty years old into the bargain, but to
+Quixada's brain it appeared a mettlesome charger and he was quite sure
+that his new steed would prove equal to any fatigue or danger that
+might come its way in the course of his adventures. And remembering
+that all the horses of famous warriors had possessed high-sounding
+names he called his horse Rocinante and adopted for himself the title
+of Don Quixote of La Mancha, under which name he will be known through
+the rest of the present history.
+
+Another thing, however, remained wanting--a lady-love for whose sake
+he might do battle and whose affections might inspire him to endure
+all sorts of dangers and hardships. So Don Quixote straightway
+searched through his recollection to find one that might answer, and
+hit at last upon a peasant girl named Aldonza Lorenzo, with whom it is
+supposed he had been in love when he was a young man. And though
+Aldonza Lorenzo was more used to winnowing wheat and caring for the
+live-stock than to fine phrases and courtly manners, and though she
+was no better than any of the other peasant girls who lived in her
+locality, Don Quixote believed that she was a lady of high lineage and
+noble birth and christened her in his mind Dulcinea del Toboso. And he
+was ready to fight with any man in Spain who would not acknowledge
+that she was the loveliest and most gifted lady in the world.
+
+A lance was easily made, and now, possessed of war horse, armor,
+weapons, and a glorious lady to do battle for, the poor old man was
+ready, so he believed, to go forth and meet the high adventures that
+he felt sure were awaiting him.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTERS II-III
+
+WHICH TREATS OF THE FIRST SALLY DON QUIXOTE MADE FROM HOME
+
+
+All things being ready, Don Quixote wished for no delay, and before
+sunrise on one of the hottest days of midsummer, he stole from his
+bed--taking care not to awaken his niece or his housekeeper--put on
+his ancient armor, saddled Rocinante, and with lance in hand and sword
+clattering beside him made his way across the fields in the highest
+state of content and satisfaction at the ease with which his purpose
+had been accomplished. He could hardly wait for his adventures to
+begin, or for the chance to try the strength of his mighty arm upon
+some wicked warrior or, better still, some dragon or giant; but
+scarcely did he find himself upon the open plain before a terrible
+thought came to his mind and one that nearly made him abandon his
+adventure before it was well begun. He reflected that, according to
+the rules of chivalry, he must be dubbed a knight before he could
+undertake any battles or engagements, and afterward he must wear white
+armor without any device upon his shield, until he had proved by
+bravery and endurance his right to these privileges of knighthood. He
+consoled himself, however, by resolving to have himself dubbed a
+knight by the first person who came along; and as for white armor, he
+determined to make his own rival the brightness of the moon by
+industrious scouring.
+
+Comforting himself with thoughts such as these, he pursued his way,
+which he allowed his horse to choose for him, thinking that in so
+doing he would be guided more surely and more quickly to the
+adventures that were awaiting him. And as he rode along he amused
+himself by quoting imaginary passages from the books that he felt sure
+would be written about his noble deeds--deeds that he would soon
+accomplish and that would astonish the entire world by their bravery
+and hardihood. At times he would break into wild speech, calling his
+lady Dulcinea by name and saying: "O Princess Dulcinea, lady of this
+captive heart, a grievous wrong hast thou done me to drive me forth
+with scorn and banish me from the presence of thy beauty!"
+
+And so he went along, stringing such absurd phrases together, while
+the hot sun rose and grew hotter, until it would have melted his
+brains in his helmet, if he had any. He traveled nearly all day
+without seeing anything remarkable, at which he was in despair, for he
+could hardly wait, as we have said, for his adventures to begin.
+
+Toward evening he came in sight of a common wayside inn, and standing at
+the door were two peasant girls who looked with astonishment on the
+strange figure that was approaching them. To the disordered imagination
+of Don Quixote, this appeared to be a castle with four towers, and the
+girls who stood in front of the door seemed ladies of noble birth and
+peerless beauty. He seemed to see behind them a drawbridge and a moat,
+and waited for some dwarf to appear upon the castle battlements and by
+sound of a trumpet announce that a knight was approaching the gates.
+
+At this point a swineherd who was gathering his pigs did happen to
+blow a blast on his horn to scare his charges along the road; and
+this, appearing to Don Quixote to be the dwarfs signal that he had
+expected, he drew near in high satisfaction, while Rocinante, scenting
+stables and hay and water, pricked up his ears and advanced at a brisk
+trot until the inn door was reached and Don Quixote addressed the
+astonished girls who were waiting there.
+
+The girls, on seeing an armed man approaching them, had turned to seek
+safety indoors, when Don Quixote, lifting his pasteboard beaver, said
+to them in the most courteous manner he could command:
+
+"Ladies, I beseech you, do not fly or fear any manner of rudeness, for
+it is against the rules of the knighthood, which I profess, to offer
+harm to high-born ladies such as you appear to be."
+
+The girls, hearing themselves addressed in this strange manner and
+called ladies, could not refrain from giggling, at which Don Quixote
+rebuked them, saying:
+
+"Modesty becomes the fair, and laughter without cause is the greatest
+silliness."
+
+The strange language and dilapidated appearance of the speaker only
+increased the girls' laughter, and that increased Don Quixote's
+irritation; and matters might have gone farther if the landlord had
+not appeared at this moment to see what might be the matter. When he
+beheld the grotesque figure on horseback whose armor did not match and
+whose mount was the sorriest one imaginable, it was all he could do to
+refrain from joining the girls in their hilarity; but being a little
+in awe of the strange knight, whose lance was pointed and whose sword
+appeared to have both strength and weight, he spoke courteously to Don
+Quixote. He told him that if he sought food or lodging he should have
+the best that the inn could afford for man or beast. And the poor old
+gentleman, who had been riding in the heat all day without food or
+drink, climbed stiffly out of the saddle and suffered Rocinante to be
+led away to the stable, cautioning the landlord to take the utmost
+care of him, for he was the finest bit of horseflesh in the world. The
+host, however, looking over the bony carcass of the old farm animal,
+had more difficulty than before in restraining his laughter.
+
+The girls now perceived that they had a crazy man before them and they
+entered into the spirit of the occasion.
+
+They helped Don Quixote remove his armor; but the helmet they could do
+nothing with, for it was tied tightly with green ribbons about his
+neck and on no pretext whatever would he hear of cutting them.
+
+They laid a table for him at the door of the inn for the sake of the
+air, and the host brought him a piece of badly soaked and badly cooked
+fish and a piece of bread as black and moldy as his own armor. And a
+laughable sight it was to see Don Quixote eat--for, having his helmet
+on, he could not reach his own mouth, but had to be fed, bit by bit,
+by one of the girls; and for drink he would have gone without
+altogether if the innkeeper had not brought a hollow reed and putting
+one end into the knight's mouth, poured wine through the other.
+
+While this was going on Don Quixote heard once more the swineherd's
+horn and felt entirely happy and satisfied, for he was convinced that
+he was in some famous castle and that they were regaling him with
+music; that the fish was trout, the bread of the whitest, the peasant
+girls beautiful ladies, and the landlord the castle steward. But he
+still felt distressed because he had not been dubbed a knight, and
+resolved to remedy this fault as soon as his supper was finished.
+
+As soon as he had eaten his fill, he called the landlord of the inn,
+and taking him into the stable, knelt on the ground before him,
+declaring that he would not rise until the landlord should grant his
+wish and dub him a knight so that he could continue on his adventures
+according to the laws of chivalry. For Don Quixote, as we have said,
+looked on the landlord as a person of great authority, with full power
+to make him a knight if he chose to do so.
+
+The landlord was something of a wag, and well aware that his guest was
+mad. He therefore decided to fall in with his wishes for the sport of
+the thing; so he told Don Quixote that he would make him a knight and
+gladly, that he too had been a knight errant in his time and wandered
+all over Spain seeking adventures, where he had proved the lightness
+of his feet in running away and the quickness of his fingers in
+picking pockets, until he had swindled and cheated so many people
+that he had been forced to retire to this castle of his. Here he lived
+on his property--and that of other persons--and he accepted money from
+wandering knights errant in return for the kindness and services he
+rendered them. And when Don Quixote told him that he never carried
+money with him in his travels, the landlord assured him he was making
+the greatest mistake in the world and that he must not suppose that,
+just because money and clean shirts were not mentioned in the books of
+chivalry of the time, the knights did without them; that was not the
+case at all.
+
+At last it was decided that the landlord should dub Don Quixote a
+knight on the following morning, and that the night should be spent by
+Don Quixote in watching over his armor in prayer and fasting, as was
+the custom with knights before they received the title of full
+knighthood and could go abroad on their adventures with a strong arm
+and untroubled spirit.
+
+It had been arranged between the landlord and Don Quixote that the
+watch over the armor should take place in the courtyard of the inn.
+Don Quixote placed his corselet and helmet by the side of a well from
+which the carriers drew water, and, grasping his lance, commenced to
+march up and down before it like a sentinel on duty; and as the hours
+wore by and the march continued, the landlord called other persons to
+watch the performance, explaining that the man was mad, and telling of
+the ceremony that was to take place in the morning. The passers-by,
+viewing the steadiness with which Don Quixote paced to and fro in the
+moonlight and the resolute way in which he handled his lance, were
+struck with wonder both at the peculiarity of the sight and the
+strange form that Don Quixote's madness had taken.
+
+At last, however, it became necessary for one of the carriers to draw
+water from the well. He did not observe the madman and he paid no
+attention to the armor until he stumbled across it, when he picked it
+up and flung it from him, whereupon Don Quixote raised his lance and
+struck him such a blow that he fell senseless on the ground and lay
+there stunned. Soon after this another carrier, who did not know of
+what had happened to the first one, approached with the same object;
+and Don Quixote, thinking him an enemy, also struck at him and laid
+his head open with two cuts from his lance in the form of a cross.
+
+The people of the inn heard the noise of the second encounter and came
+running to the spot. When they beheld what had happened and saw the
+battered condition of the carriers they commenced to throw stones at
+Don Quixote, not daring to approach him; and he, shielding himself as
+best he could with his buckler, defied them to draw near on pain of
+their lives, and returned the abuse and hard names they showered upon
+him. And he shouted at them with such a terrible voice that they
+became afraid and left him alone, moved not only by his threats but by
+the entreaties of the landlord, who kept calling out to them that the
+man was mad and would not be held accountable should he kill them all.
+
+The freaks of Don Quixote were not to the landlord's liking, and he
+desired to get rid of the strange knight with as little trouble as
+possible. He approached the well and told Don Quixote that the time
+for the ceremony of knighthood had now arrived, and that all the
+requirements had been met with by the watch that Don Quixote had
+already performed. He pulled out an account-book in which he kept the
+record of the straw and grain that he sold and bade Don Quixote kneel
+down before him. Then he read out the accounts in a solemn voice as
+though he were repeating some devout prayer, and the stable-boy and
+the two girls who worked at the inn stood by with a candle, trying to
+control their laughter. When the reading was finished the landlord
+took Don Quixote's sword and tapped him sharply on the shoulder,
+pretending to mutter more prayers while he was doing it, and one of
+the girls girded the sword about Don Quixote's waist, saying, as she
+did so:
+
+"May God make your Worship a very fortunate knight, and grant you
+success in battle!"
+
+Thus the ceremony was ended and Don Quixote was satisfied. And then it
+came about as the landlord had hoped and expected. The new knight was
+so eager to set out on his journey that he saddled his horse and rode
+forth at once, without paying his bill for his supper; and the
+landlord was so glad to see the last of him that he made no objection
+to this, thinking himself lucky to have got rid of the knight so
+cheaply, and he closed the door behind him as quickly as possible,
+thanking his lucky stars that Don Quixote was gone.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER IV
+
+WHICH TREATS OF DON QUIXOTE'S FURTHER ADVENTURES
+
+
+It was dawn when Don Quixote quitted the inn. He decided to return
+home to provide himself with money, shirts, and a squire, as the
+innkeeper had suggested, and so he turned his horse's head toward his
+village.
+
+He had not gone far, however, when he heard a feeble cry from the
+depths of a thicket on the roadside, as of some one in pain. He paused
+to thank Heaven for having favored him with this opportunity of
+fulfilling the obligation he had undertaken and gathering the fruit of
+his ambition; for he was certain that he had been called on from above
+to give aid and protection to some one in dire need. He quickly turned
+Rocinante in the direction from which the cries seemed to come; and he
+had gone but a few paces into the wood when he saw a youth, stripped
+to the waist and tied to a tree, being flogged in a merciless way by a
+powerful farmer. All the while the boy was crying out in his agony: "I
+won't do it again, master! I won't do it again! I promise I'll take
+better care of the sheep hereafter!"
+
+When Don Quixote saw what was going on he became most indignant.
+
+"Discourteous knight," he commanded in angry tones, "it ill becomes
+you to assail one who cannot defend himself! Mount your steed and take
+your lance! I will make you know that you are behaving like a coward!"
+
+The farmer looked up and saw Don Quixote in full armor, brandishing a
+lance over his head. He gave himself up for dead, then, and answered
+meekly:
+
+"Sir knight, the youth I am chastising is my servant. I employ him to
+watch a flock of sheep, and he is so careless that he loses one for me
+every day. And when I punish him for being careless, he accuses me of
+being a miser, saying that I do it that I might escape paying him the
+wages I owe him. That, I swear, is a sinful lie!"
+
+But the farmer's defense only angered Don Quixote all the more. He
+threatened to run the man through with his lance if he did not release
+the boy at once and pay him every penny he owed him in wages. Don
+Quixote then helped the lad to add up how much nine months' wages at
+seven reals a month might be, and found that it would make sixty-three
+reals; and the farmer was given his choice between paying his debt and
+dying upon the spot. The farmer replied, trembling with fear, that the
+sum was not so great and asked Don Quixote to take into account and
+deduct three pairs of shoes he had given the boy and a real for two
+blood-lettings when he was sick. But Don Quixote would not listen to
+this at all. He declared that the shoes and the blood-lettings had
+already been paid for by the blows the farmer had given the boy
+without cause, for, said he, "If he spoiled the leather of the shoes
+you paid for, you have damaged that of his body; and if the barber
+took blood from him when he was sick, you have drawn it when he was
+sound; so on that score he owes you nothing."
+
+When the farmer had heard his final judgment pronounced, he commenced
+to wail that he had no money about him, and pleaded with Don Quixote
+to let Andres, the lad, come home with him, when he would pay him real
+by real. Upon hearing this Andres turned to our knight errant and
+warned him that once he had departed his master would flay him like a
+Saint Bartholomew; but Don Quixote reassured him, saying now that his
+master had sworn to him by the knighthood that he, Don Quixote, had
+conferred upon him, justice would be done, and he himself would
+guarantee the payment.
+
+The youth had his doubts, however, and he dared to correct Don
+Quixote.
+
+"Consider what you say, Senor," he said. "This master of mine is not a
+knight; he is simply Juan Haldudo the Rich, of Quintanar."
+
+To this Don Quixote replied that it mattered little; and the farmer
+again swore by all the knighthoods in the world to pay the lad as he
+had promised if he only came home.
+
+"See that you do as you have sworn," said Don Quixote, "for if you do
+not, by the same oath I swear to come back and hunt you out and punish
+you; and I shall find you though you should lie closer than a lizard!
+If you desire to know who it is lays this command upon you, that you
+may be more firmly bound to obey it, know that I am the valorous Don
+Quixote of La Mancha, the undoer of wrongs and injustices. And so, God
+be with you! But keep in mind what you have promised and sworn on
+pain of those penalties that have been already declared to you!"
+
+With these words he gave his steed the spur and rode away in a
+triumphant gallop, and was soon out of sight and reach. Now, when the
+farmer had convinced himself that the undoer of wrongs and injustices
+had entirely disappeared, he decided to give payment to the lad,
+Andres, then and there, without waiting till he came home; and so he
+tied him again to the tree and beat him until he was nearly dead.
+
+"Your valiant knight has made me realize an affection for you hitherto
+unknown to me. I shall give you added payment for that. Now go and
+look for him!" he remarked, as he gave him a last blow and untied him.
+And while the poor boy went off weeping, the lusty farmer stood there
+and laughed.
+
+Thus it was that our noble knight righted _that_ wrong. Don Quixote,
+however, was thoroughly satisfied with what he had done. He thought
+himself a most heroic figure and felt that he had made a most
+auspicious beginning in his knighthood. And as he was taking the road
+toward his village, utterly content with his own behavior, he said to
+himself: "Well mayest thou this day call thyself fortunate above all
+on earth, O Dulcinea del Toboso, fairest of the fair! since it has
+fallen to thy lot to hold subject and submissive to thy will and
+pleasure a knight so renowned as Don Quixote of La Mancha, who, as all
+the world knows, yesterday received the order of knighthood, and hath
+to-day righted the greatest wrong and grievance that ever injustice
+conceived and cruelty perpetrated: who hath to-day plucked the rod
+from the hand of yonder ruthless oppressor so wantonly lashing that
+tender child."
+
+As he was meditating and speaking in this fashion, he suddenly found
+himself at four crossroads. Of course, he had to emulate other knights
+who had gone before him, and follow tradition; so he paused in the
+manner that all knights do in books, and pondered, and, after much
+deep concern and consideration, finally decided to leave it to the
+instinct of his horse. The noble animal, realizing that his master had
+relinquished his will in his favor, made straight for his own stable,
+of course.
+
+After he had ridden a few miles, Don Quixote encountered six merchants
+from Toledo, who were on their way to Murcia to buy silk. They were
+accompanied by four mounted servants, and three who were on foot.
+Scarcely had he perceived them when his romantic imagination prompted
+him to believe that a fresh adventure was intended for him, and he
+began to prepare for it with great gestures. He fixed himself
+majestically and safely in the saddle, made ready with his lance, and
+planted himself firmly in the middle of the road. Here he awaited the
+arrival of the traders, who appeared to him to be real knights like
+himself; and as they came close to him, he halted them with a broad
+sweep of his lance, exclaiming boldly:
+
+"All the world stand, unless all the world confess that in all the
+world there is no maiden fairer than the Empress of la Mancha, the
+peerless Dulcinea del Toboso!"
+
+The thirteen men could not help but stand still at the sound of such
+words; nor did they hesitate about thinking that the speaker of them
+might be lacking in some of his wits. One of the travelers, however,
+either was curious or had a failing for making fun of people, for he
+asked Don Quixote to produce the lady before asking him to pay her his
+respects. Perhaps he was skeptical of his country's harboring such a
+rare beauty unbeknown to him.
+
+But Don Quixote was not to be fooled. "If I were to show her to you,"
+he replied, "what merit would you have in confessing a truth so
+manifest? You must believe without seeing her; otherwise you have to
+do with me in battle. Come on, you rabble! I rely on the justice of
+the cause I maintain!"
+
+The merchant with a sense of humor tried to plead for consideration.
+He suggested that a portrait of the fair lady might suffice to bring
+about a conversion to his conception of her beauty. But Don Quixote
+was determined that they were intolerant blasphemers who simply had to
+be thrashed. So he suddenly charged with such vehemence and fury that,
+if luck had not interfered and made his gentle steed stumble, the
+trader might have been killed. As Rocinante went down, our gallant
+hero went over his head, and after he had struck the ground he rolled
+for some distance. But when he tried to rise he could not: he was so
+weighted down with armor, helmet, spurs, buckler and lance. To make
+matters worse, one of the servants, having broken his lance in two,
+proceeded to batter him with one of the pieces until it seemed as if
+Don Quixote would be able to stand no more. Finally the man grew tired
+and went to catch up with his party, which had continued its way.
+But Don Quixote still lay on the ground, unable to get up.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER V
+
+IN WHICH THE NARRATIVE OF OUR KNIGHT'S MISHAP IS CONTINUED
+
+
+When Don Quixote began to realize that he was, so to speak, anchored
+to the ground, he turned his thoughts to his usual remedy, his books
+on knighthood and chivalry, which, in fact, had been the cause of his
+downfall. He decided that the passage to fit his case was the one
+about Baldwin and the Marquis of Mantua when Carloto left him wounded
+on the mountainside--for that he had been wounded by brigands he had
+no doubt. So he began to feign severe suffering, rolling to and fro on
+the ground, and repeating words that he had read in his books and
+ascribed to Baldwin as he lay wounded; until he finally was discovered
+by a peasant from his own village, a neighbor of his, whom he took for
+Baldwin's uncle, the Marquis of Mantua. This good neighbor of Don
+Quixote's was much concerned over his ravings. He removed the knight's
+breastplate, back piece and visor, expecting to see him badly wounded;
+but he found no trace of blood or marks upon him. Then he succeeded in
+hoisting poor Don Quixote up on his donkey, which seemed the easiest
+mount for him, while he tied the pieces of his arms on Rocinante. And
+thus they proceeded toward the village. Because of his blows and
+bruises, Don Quixote had a hard task sitting upright on the ass, and
+he emphasized the romance of his situation by constantly heaving sighs
+to heaven. But every time the peasant was driven by these sighs to ask
+him his trouble, he replied in the language of a different hero from a
+different book.
+
+It was nightfall when they arrived at Don Quixote's house in the
+village. His housekeeper, the curate, and the village barber were all
+in confusion, for it was now six days since the old gentleman had
+disappeared from La Mancha with his hack and armor. They had just come
+to the conclusion that his books were to blame for his dilapidated
+mentality, and agreed that they ought to be condemned to be publicly
+burned, when the peasant suddenly arrived with Don Quixote himself.
+They all ran out to greet and embrace him while he was still on the
+donkey--he had not dismounted because he could not. He insisted that
+he was severely wounded--through no fault of his own, however, but
+that of his horse--and asked that they put him to bed and send for the
+wise Urganda to cure him.
+
+The good people carried him to bed, but still they could find no
+wounds, although he insisted that he had been wounded in combat with
+ten giants, the greatest and most bloodthirsty in the world. Then he
+asked for something to eat; and then fell asleep.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER VI
+
+OF THE DIVERTING AND IMPORTANT SCRUTINY WHICH THE CURATE AND
+THE BARBER MADE IN THE LIBRARY OF OUR INGENIOUS GENTLEMAN
+
+
+Early the next morning the curate and his friend Master Nicholas, the
+barber, went to Don Quixote's house to settle their grievance with the
+cause of all the mischief--the books of their demented friend. The
+curate asked the niece for the keys to the library, and she was only
+too willing to let him have them. They all went in, followed by the
+housekeeper, who grew faint-hearted as soon as she caught sight of all
+the beautifully bound books in the room. She ran out as if beset,
+returning immediately with a bowl of holy water and a sprinkler, with
+which she implored the curate to sprinkle the room, so that none of
+the magicians who might come out of the books would be left to bewitch
+her.
+
+She was afraid that their ghosts might survive and bother her in
+revenge for having instigated their banishment from this world.
+
+The curate was amused by the housekeeper's fear. He asked the barber
+to give him the books one by one, as he was afraid that among the many
+there must be some innocent ones which did not deserve the penalty of
+death. But both the niece and the housekeeper made emphatic and
+vociferous remonstrances against such leniency and insisted that a
+bonfire be made in the courtyard for all of them. Now, the barber had
+a particular leaning toward poetry, and he thought that _such_ volumes
+ought to escape the stake; but he was promptly overruled by the
+conclusions of the niece, who reasoned that enough harm had already
+been done by books. "Your worship," she pleaded with the curate, "had
+best burn them all; for if my uncle, having been cured of his craze
+for chivalry, should take to reading these pastoral poems, he might
+take a fancy to become a shepherd and stroll the woods and pastures,
+singing and piping. What would be still worse, however, would be his
+turning poet; for that, they say, is both an incurable and infectious
+malady."
+
+Against such logic, strongly supported by the housekeeper, the
+arguments of the two men came to nothing; and the barber saw his
+favorite form of literature thrust into the heap that was being
+prepared in the yard for illumination. Only a few books were saved
+from this fate, and they only through the boldness of the curate and
+the barber together against the united efforts of the female members
+of the party. There was one volume in particular, called "The Tears of
+Angelica," which the curate fought for valiantly. "I should have shed
+tears myself," he said, "had I seen that book burn."
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER VII
+
+OF THE SECOND SALLY OF OUR WORTHY KNIGHT, DON QUIXOTE OF LA MANCHA
+
+
+While the curate was praising the merits of "The Tears of Angelica,"
+there was suddenly a tremendous outcry and noise from Don Quixote's
+bedroom. They hastened to see what was the matter, and when they
+reached his room they found him out of bed, sword in hand, cutting and
+slashing all around him, raving and shouting, with perspiration
+dripping from his body. He imagined that he was keeping at a distance
+several bold and daring warriors, and he kept exclaiming that the
+envious Don Roland had battered him with the trunk of an oak-tree
+because of his illustrious achievements in chivalry. They finally
+succeeded in forcibly putting him to bed, having wiped away the
+perspiration--which he insisted was blood. He then asked for something
+to eat; and when it was brought he fell asleep again.
+
+After the housekeeper had burned up all the books that were in the
+house, the curate and the barber thought it best to safeguard
+themselves against their friend's fury when he should find that his
+treasures had disappeared. So they decided to wall up and plaster the
+room where the books had been. Two days later, when Don Quixote got up
+out of bed, he went to look for his library. And it was nowhere to be
+found, of course: where the door had been, there was only a wall. He
+asked his housekeeper where his books were, as well as the room they
+had been kept in; but she had been well instructed and blamed it all
+on the devil. His niece told him that she believed a magician had
+taken the room away. She had seen him, she declared, come on a cloud,
+riding on a serpent; and when he had disappeared, the whole house was
+full of smoke and there was no trace of either room or books. The
+niece also declared that she had heard the magician say plainly that
+he was the Sage Munaton.
+
+The niece's explanation of the magic was heartily approved of by Don
+Quixote. The only doubt he expressed was about the identity of the
+magician. "He must have said Friston," he insisted. The housekeeper
+here came to the niece's aid and stated that she did not know whether
+he had said "Friston" or "Friton" or what he had said; but one thing
+she was sure of was that his name ended with "ton."
+
+This convinced Don Quixote that it was no other than the Sage Munaton,
+a great enemy of his, whose vanity could not tolerate the prophecies
+that Don Quixote was about to conquer in battle a certain knight whom
+Munaton had befriended.
+
+After this our worthy knight stuck to his house and home for a
+fortnight. His two gossiping friends, the curate and the village
+barber, did everything in their power to divert his thoughts from his
+fixed idea of a revival of the days of knighthood and chivalry. But
+the fire in Don Quixote's breast was smouldering: it was an undying
+flame.
+
+Near Don Quixote there lived a man by the name of Sancho Panza. He was
+a farm-hand--a poor but honest fellow who had both wife and children.
+Sancho Panza was not overburdened with thoughts derived from reading
+books of chivalry--the simple facts being that he could neither read
+nor write--nor, for that matter, with thoughts of any other kind on
+any other subject, for while Don Quixote had lost his wits, Sancho had
+never had any.
+
+To this poor fellow Don Quixote would talk of his adventures by the
+hour, trying to persuade Sancho that he was missing much romance by
+remaining a farm-hand all his life and that he ought to become the
+squire of some noble knight--for instance, himself. And so, after much
+persuasion and many promises, Sancho Panza decided to adopt his noble
+neighbor as his master. He was told that he must provide himself with
+all the necessaries for such an important and lofty position; and he
+assured his master that he would bring along his very best donkey. The
+mention of this ignoble animal somewhat took the knight aback. He
+ransacked his memory for any instance in which any other mount than a
+horse had been used, but he could recall none. However, he could not
+very well have an attendant on foot, so he decided to take him along,
+mounted on his donkey. Of course, there was no doubt in his mind that
+an opportunity would present itself ere long to appropriate the horse
+of some rebellious knight.
+
+One night the two sallied forth from the village, unseen. Sancho Panza
+sat on his donkey, a picture of grave joviality, already seeing
+himself the governor of some conquered island. Don Quixote was taking
+the same road he took on his first campaign, the road that led over
+the Campo de Montiel.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTERS VIII-IX
+
+OF THE GOOD FORTUNE WHICH THE VALIANT DON QUIXOTE HAD IN THE
+TERRIBLE AND UNDREAMT-OF ADVENTURE OF THE WINDMILLS, WITH OTHER
+OCCURRENCES WORTHY TO BE FITLY RECORDED, INCLUDING THE TERRIBLE
+BATTLE BETWEEN THE GALLANT BISCAYAN AND THE VALIANT MANCHEGAN
+
+
+When they had traveled a few miles they suddenly saw thirty or forty
+windmills scattered over a plain. Don Quixote pulled in his horse, his
+eyes staring out of their sockets.
+
+"Look, friend Sancho Panza!" he exclaimed. "Thirty or more monstrous
+giants present themselves! I mean to engage them all in battle and
+slay them; for this is righteous warfare. It is serving God to sweep
+so evil a breed from off the face of the earth!"
+
+"What giants?" asked Sancho curiously.
+
+"Those with the long arms," replied Don Quixote.
+
+"But, your worship," said Sancho, "those are not giants but windmills,
+and what seem to be their arms are the sails that make the millstones
+go."
+
+Hearing his squire make such a foolish remark, Don Quixote could not
+quite make up his mind whether it was through ignorance, inexperience
+in the pursuit of adventure, or cowardice, that he spoke like that. So
+he suggested Sancho would better stay away and pray while he, Don
+Quixote, fought the giants single-handed. The honor of conquering in
+such an unequal combat would be so much greater for him, he thought,
+if he won victory all by himself.
+
+Don Quixote made ready for the attack by commending himself to his
+Lady Dulcinea, and then he gave the spur to Rocinante in spite of the
+pleas and outcries of Sancho Panza. Just at this moment a breeze began
+to blow and the sails of the windmills commenced to move. The knight
+charged at his hack's fullest gallop, drove his spear with such force
+into one of the sails that the spear was shattered to pieces while the
+poor knight fell over the pommel of his saddle, head over heels in the
+air, and Rocinante fell stunned to the ground. There they rolled
+together on the plain, in a battered and bruised condition.
+
+Sancho hurried to his master's side as fast as his donkey could carry
+him. He was worried beyond words, for he expected to find Don Quixote
+well nigh dead, and he was not bent on giving up all hopes of
+governing an island, at so early a stage. The misguided knight was
+unable to move. Nevertheless Sancho Panza could not resist the impulse
+to reprimand his master. "Did I not tell your worship so!" he
+admonished. But Don Quixote would hear nothing, answering in a
+sportsmanlike fashion:
+
+"Hush, friend Sancho! The fortunes of war fluctuate, that's all." And
+then he added his suspicion that the same Sage Friston, the magician
+who had carried off his room of books, had turned the giants into
+windmills so that he would be unable to boast of having conquered
+them--all out of sheer envy and thirst for vengeance. What he most
+bewailed, however, was the loss of his lance.
+
+With much difficulty Sancho succeeded in placing Don Quixote on his
+horse, and they proceeded on their way, following the road to Puerto
+Lapice. All the while Don Quixote was scanning the woods along the
+roadside for the branch of an oak-tree that he would deem a worthy
+substitute for his departed spear. It seemed to him as if he had read
+somewhere in one of his books that some knight had done such a thing
+in an emergency.
+
+Having reminded Don Quixote that he must sit straight in the saddle,
+Sancho was in turn reminded by an inner feeling that it was time to
+eat. His master, however, scorned this idea, and let Sancho indulge by
+himself, while he fasted.
+
+Finally night fell, and they passed it in the woods. There Don Quixote
+chose at last the branch of an oak-tree that was to serve him as a
+spear, and to one of its ends he attached the head of his broken
+lance. All night long he lay looking up into the sky, visioning his
+sweet Dulcinea--all for the purpose of emulating other heroes of the
+past age of chivalry who could not sleep for thinking of their lady
+loves.
+
+Sancho Panza, unluckily, was stimulated in no such blessed way. He was
+supported by no sweet dreams of any beloved one of his. As for his
+wife, he had forgotten all about her. But as a matter of truth he had
+no memory of anything, having absorbed too much fluid out of his
+leather wine-bag, or _bota_, as it is called in Spanish. On getting up
+in the morning Sancho Panza was grieved to find the contents of his
+_bota_ decidedly diminished.
+
+Don Quixote bravely maintained his self-inflicted hunger and
+swallowed his appetite by thoughts of his past valiant deeds. They
+soon started out, and again took the road leading to Puerto Lapice,
+whose outlines they sighted in the afternoon. Don Quixote thought this
+an opportune time for addressing his squire on the etiquette and laws
+of knighthood, as they were now approaching a very hotbed of
+adventure.
+
+"Under no pretext," he admonished the faithful one, "must thou put a
+hand to thy sword in my defense unless it be that I am attacked by
+mere rabble or base folk; in such case, thou art in duty bound to be
+my bodyguard. But if my assailants be knights, thou must in no way
+interfere until thou hast been dubbed a knight thyself."
+
+Sancho promised to obey his master as nearly as his human nature
+permitted him. He declared that he liked peace and hated strife, yet, if
+he were assailed, he did not believe in turning the other cheek more than
+once. Don Quixote saw a certain amount of reason in this; still, he asked
+his squire to do his utmost to restrain himself against any such rash
+impulse in the case of members of the knighthood. And Sancho Panza swore
+that he would keep this precept as religiously as Sunday.
+
+While our noble knight was thus instructing his squire, there appeared
+on the road two friars of the order of St. Benedict. They were riding
+mules; and behind them came a coach with an escort numbering nearly
+half a dozen men on horseback and two men on foot. In the coach,
+traveling in state, was a lady of Biscay, on her way to Seville.
+
+What could this be except a plot of scheming magicians to steal away
+some princess? The friars, innocently traveling by themselves, became
+in Don Quixote's eyes a pair of evil magicians, and in his thirst for
+adventure the nearer one assumed stupendous proportions.
+
+"This will be worse than the windmills!" sighed Sancho, who tried in
+vain to convince his master of the facts in the case.
+
+But Don Quixote cut him short. "Thou knowest nothing of adventures,"
+he said; and that settled it.
+
+Boldly the knight went forward and took position in the middle of the
+road.
+
+"Devilish and unnatural beings!" he cried in a loud voice, "release
+instantly the high-born princess whom you are carrying off by force in
+this coach, else prepare to meet a speedy death as the just punishment
+of your evil deeds!"
+
+The mules came to a standstill, their ears erect with astonishment at
+such a figure, and the friars gaped in wonder. At last they recovered
+sufficiently to declare that they were traveling quite by themselves,
+and had no knowledge of the identity of the travelers following behind
+them.
+
+To their meek reply Don Quixote paid no heed, but bellowed forth
+furiously: "No soft words with me! I know you, you lying rabble!" And
+with his spurs in Rocinante and his lance lifted he rode against the
+two friars like a whirlwind, so that if one of them had not quickly
+thrust himself off his mule, he would certainly have been torn to
+shreds. The other one saved his skin by setting off across the country
+at a speed rivaling our hero's charge.
+
+At this stage Sancho Panza began to realize the full extent of his
+position as squire to a successful knight. Over by the roadside he saw
+the first friar lying breathless on the ground as a result of his
+jumping off his mule in such amazing hurry. He proceeded to strip off
+the friar's gown, using as a moral for doing this his own thoughts on
+the subject. He reasoned that if he could not share in the honors of
+battle, he at least ought to share in the spoils.
+
+He was intercepted by some of the men attending the carriage.
+Unfortunately, they were serious-minded men, and they failed to see
+the joke. Sancho Panza gave them his views on etiquette pertaining to
+such matters as these; but it would have been much better for him had
+he not, for the men set upon him with great fury, beating and kicking
+him until he was insensible. They left him lying on the ground and
+then helped the pale and trembling friar to mount his mule. As soon as
+he was in the saddle, he hastened to join his companion, and the two
+of them continued their journey, making more crosses than they would
+if the devil had pursued them.
+
+In the meantime Don Quixote had been trying to persuade the fair
+occupant of the coach to return to El Toboso that she herself might
+relate to his beloved Dulcinea the strange adventure from which he had
+delivered her.
+
+A Biscayan gentleman, who was one of her attendants and rode a hired
+mule, took offense at his insistence to bother her, and a fight was
+soon in progress. The Biscayan had no shield, so he snatched a cushion
+from the carriage and used it to defend himself. The engagement was a
+most heated one, and Don Quixote lost a piece of his ear early in the
+combat. This enraged him beyond words; he charged his adversary with
+such tremendous force and fury that he began to bleed from his mouth,
+his nose, and his ears. Had the Biscayan not embraced the neck of his
+mount, he would have been spilled on the ground immediately. It
+remained for his mule to complete the damage, and when the animal
+suddenly set off across the plain in great fright, the rider plunged
+headlong to the ground.
+
+Seeing this, Don Quixote hastened to the man's side and bade him
+surrender, at the penalty of having his head cut off. Absolutely
+bewildered, the gentleman from Biscay could say nothing; and had it
+not been for the ladies in the coach who interceded with prayers for
+his life, the Biscayan might have been beheaded right then and there.
+Don Quixote finally agreed to spare his opponent's life on one
+condition: that he present himself before the matchless Lady Dulcinea
+in the village of El Toboso, and it would be for her to determine his
+punishment. The ladies having promised that their protector should do
+anything and everything that might be asked of him, our hero from La
+Mancha said that he would harm the gentleman no more.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER X
+
+OF THE PLEASANT DISCOURSE THAT PASSED BETWEEN DON QUIXOTE
+AND HIS SQUIRE SANCHO PANZA
+
+
+When Sancho Panza had regained consciousness, he saw his master again
+engaged in battle. He thought that the best thing he could do was to
+pray, at a distance, for victory; and so he did. Soon he saw Don
+Quixote emerge from the struggle as victor! Overcome by emotion and
+gratitude to God, he ran to his master's side and fell on his knees
+before him. He kissed his hand, then helped him to mount his steed.
+All the while he did not forget the island of which Don Quixote had
+promised him he should become governor. He expectantly reminded his
+master of it now, and Don Quixote said to him that if things continued
+to go as they had gone, there would be even greater honors in store
+for him; perhaps he would become a king or an emperor, even.
+
+Much satisfied with this prospect, Sancho lifted himself up into the
+saddle and trotted after his master, who was galloping ahead at a wild
+pace. Sancho, seeing him disappear in a wood nearby, steered his ass
+in the same direction. He yelled to him in a loud voice, begging him
+to stop.
+
+At last our knight condescended to hear his tired squire, and waited
+until Sancho caught up with him. Sancho ventured to suggest that they
+hide in some church, for he was afraid that by this time the friars
+had reported the happening to the Holy Brotherhood; but his master
+only laughed at his simplicity and fear; and finally Sancho had to
+admit that he never in his life had served so brave and valiant a
+knight. However, he begged his master not to overlook his bleeding
+ear, and gave him some ointment to apply to the wound. It was only
+after a long discourse on the merits of the strange balsam of
+Fierabras, which possessed the enchanted quality of healing bodies cut
+in twain--he particularly dwelt upon the necessity of fitting the two
+separated halves evenly and exactly--that Don Quixote deigned to apply
+Sancho's ointment. In doing so he lamented the absence of the famous
+balsam.
+
+Now, Sancho Panza saw untold possibilities for making money out of
+such a remarkable remedy as this balsam. He was even willing to
+relinquish his rights to any throne in its favor. So what interested
+him more than anything else was the recipe for making it. But his
+master told him that he would teach him even greater secrets when the
+time came, and suddenly changed the subject by cursing the Biscayan,
+of whom he had just been reminded by a twinge in his bleeding ear. The
+sight of his shattered helmet brought the climax to his anger, and he
+swore by the creator and all the four gospels to avenge himself. When
+Sancho heard this, he reminded his knight of his solemn oath to the
+ladies. Had he not promised them to refer the Biscayan's punishment to
+the court of his Dulcinea? Being thus reminded by his squire, Don
+Quixote nobly declared his oath null and void, and commended Sancho
+Panza for unknowingly having made him conform with the customs of
+chivalry.
+
+Then he repeated his vows of knighthood and swore to capture from some
+other knight a helmet as good as his own. Sancho, by this time, was
+beginning to wonder whether so many oaths might not be injurious to
+Don Quixote's salvation. He suggested, for instance, the possibility
+of meeting with no one wearing a helmet, and asked what his master
+intended to do to keep his oath in such a case. Don Quixote assured
+him that they would soon encounter more men in armor than came to
+Albraca to win the fair Angelica.
+
+Unwittingly Sancho's thoughts went back to his favorite unconquered
+island, and again his master admonished him to feel no uneasiness on
+that score. He even bettered his chances, explaining that if the
+island should disappear or for some reason be out of the question,
+there were countless other realms to be considered. He mentioned the
+kingdoms of Denmark and Sobradisa as some of them, and added that
+these possessed advantages that no island had. These were on the
+mainland and did not have to be reached by boat or by swimming.
+
+Now Don Quixote was beginning to feel hungry, and he asked Sancho
+Panza to give him some food out of his _alforjas_. Sancho made
+apologies for having nothing but onions, cheese, and a few crusts of
+bread to offer such a valiant knight, but Don Quixote explained that
+one of the glories of knighthood was self-denial: many a knight had
+been known to go without food for a month at a time. However, he
+thought it advisable for Sancho to gather dry fruits from time to time
+as a safeguard against overwhelming hunger. Sancho feared that his
+appetite might crave food of a more substantial kind, and added that
+he would garnish his meals with some poultry. His master made no
+direct remonstrance to this assertion of his squire, but presumed that
+not _all_ knights at _all_ times lived on dry fruit.
+
+As soon as they had finished their repast, they mounted and continued
+their way, anxious to find some inhabited place before nightfall.
+When it had grown dark, they found themselves near the huts of some
+goatherds, and Don Quixote decided that they should spend the night
+there. Sancho had hoped that they would find some house where he could
+have a comfortable bed; but his master was pleased to sleep once more
+in the open. Each act of self-denial made him a more honored and more
+valuable member of the knighthood.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XI
+
+OF WHAT BEFELL DON QUIXOTE WITH CERTAIN GOATHERDS
+
+
+The goatherds were cordial in their greeting to our knight and his
+squire, and invited them to partake of their meal, which was just
+being served on a tablecloth of sheepskin spread on the ground. Don
+Quixote was given a seat of honor on a trough turned upside down.
+Sancho remained standing to serve him, but his master insisted upon
+his coming down to his level. To this Sancho objected. He said that he
+could enjoy his food much better in a corner by himself, where he
+could chew it as he pleased, without having to take into consideration
+the formalities inflicted by the presence of one so much above his own
+state as his worthy master. He called his master's attention to the
+fact that in company like this, a humble servant like himself would
+have to suppress all such inclinations as sneezing, coughing and other
+natural outbursts, and, worst of all, drinking to his heart's content.
+But Don Quixote would listen to no arguments and seated him by force
+at his side.
+
+All the while the goatherds were marveling at our knight's bombastic
+speech and flourishing manners, and their interest was only enhanced
+when Don Quixote suddenly commenced a vast and poetic discourse on the
+golden age of the past. Some parched acorns he had just eaten had
+served him as a reminder and this in turn as an inspiration.
+
+Sancho took advantage of his master's long speech by paying numerous
+visits to the leather wine-bag, which had been suspended from a
+cork-tree in order to keep the wine cool.
+
+Hardly had Don Quixote finished his discourse when the sound of music
+was heard in the distance, and soon a good-looking youth of twenty
+appeared, playing a lute. At the goatherds' request he sang a ballad
+of love, which was much favored by Don Quixote. Sancho Panza, however,
+felt the necessity for sleep and slyly suggested consideration on his
+master's part for the men, who no doubt had to rise with the sun and
+attend to their labors. This appeal did not fail to move Don Quixote,
+especially since his ear again began to trouble him with pain. One of
+the goatherds offered his help. He plucked some leaves of rosemary,
+put them in his mouth and chewed them well, then mixed them with a
+pinch of salt and put them as a plaster over the wounded ear, safely
+attaching it with a bandage. As he had predicted, this proved to be an
+excellent treatment.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XII
+
+OF WHAT A GOATHERD RELATED TO THOSE WITH DON QUIXOTE
+
+
+Just as Don Quixote was about to retire for the night, a young man from
+the village came to the hut and informed the goatherds of the death of a
+famous villager named Crysostom. The youth said there was a rumor that
+Crysostom--who had been a student and had turned shepherd--had died of a
+broken heart, for love of the daughter of Guillermo the Rich. In his will
+he had directed that he desired to be buried, like a Moor, at the very
+place where he first saw her, at the foot of a rock by a spring in the
+fields. The clergy of the village had been aroused by this and other
+directions in the will, which they considered smacked of heathenism, and
+objected to the carrying out of the will. Ambrosio, the bosom friend of
+Crysostom--and a student who had also become a shepherd--started an
+opposition to the clergy, and was determined that his dead friend's will
+should be done. The young man said that the whole village was in an
+uproar, and he was looking forward to interesting events in the morning,
+when the burial was to take place.
+
+Don Quixote was eager to learn something of the maiden for whose sake
+Ambrosio's friend had died. One of the goatherds, named Pedro, related
+to him all that he knew.
+
+The parents of Marcela--for that was the maiden's name--and of
+Crysostom were very rich people, although they were farmers. Marcela's
+father and mother died when she was a baby, and she was brought up
+under the care of her uncle, a priest in the village. As she grew up,
+her beauty was increased with each day that passed, and her uncle had
+many offers for her hand in marriage; but she would hear of none of
+them. One day, to the consternation of all in the village, she
+appeared dressed in the costume of a shepherdess, and declared her
+intention of turning to that kind of life.
+
+Just about this time the father of Crysostom died, leaving his great
+fortune to his son, who had just finished his studies in astrology and
+other learned subjects in the University of Salamanca. Crysostom
+returned home together with his friend and companion Ambrosio, and
+both became very well liked in the village. There Crysostom saw
+Marcela and fell deeply in love with her, and he, like so many others
+before him, decided to turn shepherd in order to be near her
+constantly. But she was indifferent to all talk of love; and the sting
+of her scorn made him take his life.
+
+Having ended his story, Pedro advised our knight not to miss the
+ceremonies that Crysostom's shepherd friends were to hold at his grave
+in the morning. Sancho, who had been greatly annoyed by the goatherd's
+talkativeness, was by this time beginning to think aloud that it might
+be time for his master to go to bed; and Pedro begged him to sleep in
+his hut, as he was afraid that the cold night air might hurt his
+wound.
+
+So Don Quixote retired for the night to the bed given him by his
+hosts, and dreamed all night of his beloved one in his native village,
+in imitation of other great lovers. Sancho rested, as comfortable and
+unemotional as a barrel of settled wine, between his master's charger
+and his own peaceful donkey.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XIII
+
+IN WHICH IS ENDED THE STORY OF THE SHEPHERDESS MARCELA WITH
+OTHER INCIDENTS
+
+
+As soon as the sun was rising in the east, Don Quixote was awakened,
+and a little later they were on their way to the burial of Crysostom.
+
+They had gone only a short distance, when they met six shepherds, all
+dressed in black sheepskins and with crowns of bitter oleander and
+cypress on their heads. In his hand each shepherd carried a staff of
+holly. Directly behind them came two dignified gentlemen on horseback,
+followed by three servants on foot. While stopping to exchange
+greetings, all had learned that they were going in the same direction
+for the same purpose. The two gentlemen had met the mourning
+shepherds, and from them had heard the sad story of the love of
+Crysostom for Marcela. That had aroused their curiosity and sorrow,
+and they wanted now to do him honor.
+
+The battle-clad Don Quixote, of course, attracted their attention, and
+one of the gentlemen was eager to learn why any one should be
+masquerading in armor so early in the morning. To which he got the
+reply that the danger of his calling made it necessary for him to wear
+it. The gentlemen could not help then but realize Don Quixote's mental
+condition. But one of them possessed a restless sense of humor, and
+when Don Quixote began to discourse on chivalry and knights errant, he
+asked to know what these things were. Our hero then explained their
+mysteries at length. He described the deeds of King Arthur, spoke of
+the famous Round Table, and told the love-story of Don Lancelot and
+Queen Guinevere.
+
+In the course of these descriptions the jesting gentleman felt that he
+had fully diagnosed the madness of our knight, and thought it only
+fair play to beguile the journey to the burial-place by listening to
+his absurdities. Now and then he would put in a word or ask a question
+in order not to break the thread. For instance, he suggested cunningly
+that the calling of a knight errant was as serious as that of a
+Carthusian monk; and Don Quixote replied that he thought it a much
+more necessary one. And as to its demands, there was no comparison, he
+declared, for if ever one rose to become an emperor it was only after
+tremendous sacrifice of blood and sweat.
+
+The traveling gentleman was agreed with him on that score; but there
+was one thing he did not approve of: whenever a knight went into
+battle, he commended himself to his lady, instead of God. This he
+thought wrong and unchristianlike. Don Quixote, however, saw no wrong
+in it. It was only human, he contended, to think first of his beloved
+one at so austere a moment; and, besides, often the knight errant
+would say things under his breath that would not be understood. Then
+only Heaven could know whether he had called upon his lady or God.
+
+The gentleman then soon found another argument. He expressed a doubt that
+all knights errant were in love, saying that some of them commended
+themselves to ladies fictitiously. Don Quixote denied this emphatically;
+but the traveler thought that he had read somewhere that Don Galaor, the
+brother of the valiant Amadis of Gaul, never commended himself to any
+particular lady, yet he was a brave and most illustrious knight errant.
+All that Don Quixote replied to this argument was: "Sir, one solitary
+swallow does not make summer!" and offered, as if in confidence, his
+conviction that this very knight had been very deeply in love, but
+secretly.
+
+At that very moment he heaved a sigh of weariness. The sigh was
+misinterpreted by the traveler, however, for he asked our knight
+whether he was reticent about telling the name of _his_ lady.
+
+"Dulcinea del Toboso, of La Mancha," answered Don Quixote. And this
+time he made her a princess, extolling her virtues and her beauty to
+the traveler, who found it amusing to hear the knight tell of her
+ancestry and lineage. First of all Don Quixote named to the traveler
+the families of Spain that she was _not_ connected with, then informed
+him that she was of the house of El Toboso of La Mancha. And though
+this was a most modern family, one could never foretell what position
+it would hold in the future.
+
+The traveler in his turn told Don Quixote of his own family, saying
+that he of course dared not to compare it with that of the fair
+Dulcinea, although he never had heard of hers ere this--a confession
+that surprised Don Quixote exceedingly.
+
+During this conversation between the knight and the traveling
+gentleman--who was named Senor Vivaldo--they came in sight of a score
+of shepherds, all dressed in black sheepskins and crowned with
+garlands. Six of them were carrying a bier on which lay the body of
+the dead Crysostom. At his side were scattered some papers and books.
+When they had found the resting-place that the dead man had chosen for
+himself, Ambrosio, his dearest friend, spoke some words in his memory.
+He mentioned how Crysostom's heart had been rent asunder by the cruel
+treatment of one whom his departed friend would have immortalized to
+the world in poetry, had Ambrosio not been commissioned by him to
+consign the verses to the flames after having entrusted his body to
+the earth.
+
+Senor Vivaldo thought it would be a great pity to do away with such
+beautiful verses, and he pleaded with Ambrosio against their consignment
+to oblivion. As he was speaking, he reached out his hand for some of the
+papers that were close to him, and Ambrosio considerately permitted him
+to keep them. The remaining ones were burned.
+
+Senor Vivaldo glanced through the papers eagerly and read the
+title--"Lay of Despair." When Ambrosio heard this, he asked him to
+read the words aloud that all those assembled might hear the last
+verses of the dead shepherd. And while Senor Vivaldo spoke the
+despairing lines, some of the shepherds were digging the grave for
+their friend.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XIV
+
+WHEREIN ARE DESCRIBED THE DESPAIRING VERSES OF THE DEAD SHEPHERD
+
+
+Senor Vivaldo had finished the last verse and was about to glance
+through the rest of the papers he had saved from the fire, when
+suddenly on the summit of the rock by the grave he saw a most glorious
+apparition. It was no other than Marcela, the shepherdess, and
+every-one was aghast at her presence. The moment Ambrosio saw her, he
+became indignant beyond words and commanded her to leave. But she
+remained and asked them all to listen to her. She had come there to
+defend herself, she said; she knew what people had accused her of:
+cruelty, scornfulness, arrogance, ingratitude, deception, and hatred.
+But she hated no one, she declared. She had deceived no one. Crysostom
+had loved her because of her beauty; but she had loved neither him nor
+any other man. She had chosen solitude, the woods and the fields,
+because of her inborn craving for freedom. Should she have forced
+herself to give that up because any man chose to say, "I love you,"
+while she did not love him? Was she to be blamed for Crysostom's
+death. For not loving him? Would not that have been to pawn her
+modesty and her womanly honor and virtue? And why should he have
+wanted to rob her of them?
+
+So she spoke; and when she had finished she waited for no reply but
+turned and ran like a deer into the woods. All stood gazing after her
+in silent admiration, not only for her beauty but for her frank speech
+and good sense also. Some of the men seemed to be about to run after
+her, having been wellnigh enchanted by her gloriously bright eyes; but
+they were stopped by Don Quixote, who thundered: "Let no one, whatever
+his rank or condition, dare to follow the beautiful Marcela, under
+pain of incurring my fierce indignation! She has shown by clear and
+satisfactory arguments that no fault is to be found with her for the
+death of Crysostom. Instead of being followed and persecuted, she
+should in justice be honored and esteemed by all the good people of
+the world, for she shows that she is the only woman in it that holds
+to such a virtuous resolution."
+
+These words Don Quixote uttered in a threatening manner, his hand on
+the hilt of his sword. Whether because of his threats or because the
+grave had been dug and Crysostom's remains were about to be lowered
+into it, they all stayed until the burial was over. The grave was
+closed with a large stone, and then the shepherds strewed flowers,
+leaves and branches upon it, and shed many tears.
+
+The two travelers extended an invitation to Don Quixote to accompany
+them to Seville, where they assured him he would find no end of
+adventures awaiting him. But he told them that for the present he had
+his hands full ridding these very regions of highwaymen and robbers.
+He thanked them, however, and they continued their journey without our
+hero.
+
+Don Quixote now saw his duty clearly. He would search the woods and
+wilds for the beautiful Marcela. He was certain that she would need
+his services.
+
+But things did not turn out as he expected.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XV
+
+IN WHICH IS RELATED THE UNFORTUNATE ADVENTURE THAT DON QUIXOTE
+FELL IN WITH WHEN HE FELL OUT WITH CERTAIN HEARTLESS YANGUESANS
+
+
+When Don Quixote had taken leave of his hosts, he set off with his
+squire into the woods where he had seen Marcela disappear. They
+wandered about for some time and found no trace of the shepherdess.
+Then they came to a pasture through which a brook was running, and as
+they were both thirsty, warm, and tired, they decided to remain there
+for their noontide meal. They feasted on the scraps that remained in
+the _alforjas_, while Rocinante and Sancho's ass were left free to
+pluck all the grass they desired.
+
+Now, Fate would have it that at that very hour a band of Yanguesans
+were resting nearby, with their ponies let loose in the pasture. As
+soon as the ponies were discovered by Rocinante, he wanted to exchange
+friendly greetings with them, so he set off at a brisk trot in their
+direction. But the ponies seemed to have no desire to strike up an
+acquaintance with an unknown hack, for they arrogantly turned their
+backs on him and commenced to snort and kick and bite until the saddle
+fell off Rocinante and he was left quite naked. By this time the
+Yanguesans had heard the commotion and rushed up, armed with sticks,
+and with these they thrashed poor Rocinante so soundly that he fell to
+the ground in a heap.
+
+Just at this time Don Quixote and Sancho, having finished their
+repast, went to look for their chargers. As soon as Don Quixote had
+taken in the situation, he realized that these were no knights errant
+and confided this to his squire, charging him to help him in his
+battle for Rocinante's honor. Sancho made vehement pleas for
+abstaining from vengeance, seeing the great numbers of the enemy; but
+his master's conviction that he alone counted for a hundred eased his
+mind.
+
+Don Quixote attacked at once and cut off a portion of his opponent's
+shoulder; Sancho fought bravely too. But when the men saw that they
+were fighting such a small number they set upon them, all at one time,
+and after a few thrusts they had unseated our knight and his squire,
+both sorely battered. Then, fearing the hand of the law, the
+Yanguesans set off in great haste.
+
+When Sancho came to, he was certain that all his bones were broken,
+and he feebly turned to his master saying that he only wished that he
+had at hand the marvelous balsam of Fierabras, of which his master had
+spoken. Sancho lamented the lack of it no more than Don Quixote, who
+swore that within two days he would have the potion in his possession.
+As to his wounds, he took all the blame upon himself: he felt that it
+was God's punishment for having engaged in battle with ordinary rabble
+like these carriers, and decided that henceforth he would have Sancho
+alone chastise those who had not been dubbed knights.
+
+To this Sancho took exception, for he maintained that he had wife and
+children to support, and was by nature a peaceful, meek and timid man.
+He called upon God to forgive in advance all the insults man or beast
+might offer him in the future and for all times; but at this Don
+Quixote took him to task and admonished him not to lose his valor in
+attacking and defending himself in all sorts of emergencies.
+
+Sancho's soft heart now turned to Rocinante, who had been the cause of
+all the trouble. The poor horse was in a sorry plight. So it was
+considered best that Don Quixote--who could not sit upright--should be
+slung across his servant's donkey. This decision was reached when Don
+Quixote remembered that Silenus, the teacher of the God of Laughter,
+had entered the city of the hundred gates mounted on a handsome ass.
+
+When his master had been secured and Rocinante raised from the ground,
+Sancho took the two beasts by the halter and led them out to the road,
+and from there they proceeded on their way. Soon Sancho saw the
+outlines of an inn, which Don Quixote insisted must be a castle, and
+before they had finished their dispute, they found themselves at the
+gate and entered.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XVI
+
+OF WHAT HAPPENED TO THE INGENIOUS GENTLEMAN IN THE INN
+WHICH HE TOOK TO BE A CASTLE
+
+
+When the keeper of the inn saw the sorry body of the knight on the
+ass, he became anxious to learn what had happened to him. His wife was
+a kindly and good-natured woman, and when Sancho had explained that
+his master had fallen from a rock, she and her pretty daughter offered
+to care for him. The daughter, and a one-eyed Asturian servant-girl,
+with turned-up nose and high cheek-bones, made a bed for Don Quixote
+on four rough boards in a garret, where a carrier was also quartered.
+Stretched on this bed Don Quixote was attended by the innkeeper's
+wife, who soon covered him with more plasters than he had quilts. In
+the meantime she, her daughter, and the Asturian girl, all curious,
+questioned Sancho about his master.
+
+Sancho told, in as thrilling words as he could command, of their
+marvelous adventures; to all of which they listened with astonishment.
+The Asturian servant nearly stared her one eye out of her head. She
+asked Sancho Panza, trembling with excitement, what a knight errant
+was. To this Sancho replied that a knight was an adventurer, who one
+day might be the poorest and meanest of men, and the next day emperor,
+with crowns and kingdoms in abundance to give away to his squire and
+underlings. Here the women expressed surprise that he himself,
+judging by appearance, did not possess even so much as a small strip
+of land. He then confided to them that he and his master had been
+going but a short time; that as yet it was much too soon; that the
+adventures they had met with so far were but a beginning and not
+worthy of mention.
+
+Don Quixote, who had been listening to everything his squire said, now
+sat up in bed and informed them of the great honor he had conferred
+upon them by being in their house; he told them of his indescribable
+gratitude to them; and of his love for his Dulcinea del Toboso of La
+Mancha.
+
+The women, not being accustomed to such language, which seemed to them
+more difficult to understand than Greek, stared at him in bewilderment;
+then, thanking him for his courtesy, they left him while the Asturian
+plastered Sancho, who seemed to be in need of treatment as sadly as his
+master.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XVII
+
+IN WHICH ARE CONTAINED THE INNUMERABLE TROUBLES WHICH THE
+BRAVE DON QUIXOTE AND HIS GOOD SQUIRE SANCHO PANZA ENDURED
+AT THE INN, WHICH TO HIS MISFORTUNE HE TOOK TO BE A CASTLE
+
+
+The following morning Sancho, feeling his pains even more, reminded
+his master of the famous balsam he was to make. Don Quixote himself
+was anxious for it too, so he sent Sancho to an imagined fortress for
+some oil, wine, rosemary and salt. He mixed these ingredients in a
+pot, and boiled them. Then he poured the mixture into a tin flask,
+crossed himself and repeated innumerable paternosters and ave-marias.
+When he had nearly exhausted himself doing that, he swallowed a good
+portion of the liquid; and immediately he began to vomit and perspire,
+while his face and body contracted in the most horrible spasms. He
+asked to be put to bed at once, and they let him sleep for three
+hours. When he woke he felt so relieved that he really thought he had
+hit upon the remedy of Fierabras.
+
+Seeing his master's miraculous recovery, Sancho begged to be permitted
+to drink some of the wonderful liquid, and Don Quixote gave him a dose
+of it. Unlike his master, Sancho retained what he had drunk for some
+time before letting it all come up again, but in the meantime his
+agony was insufferable. He was seized with such gripings and faintness
+that he was sure his last hour had come. He even cursed his master for
+having given him such terrible stuff; but Don Quixote said that he had
+only now come to realize that the remedy was made solely for those who
+had been dubbed knights: whereupon Sancho, writhing in convulsions
+cursed him still more. Sancho's agony lasted for several hours.
+
+In the meantime Don Quixote himself, being anxious for new adventures,
+had saddled Rocinante. He had to help his squire mount the ass, for
+Sancho still was in a sorry condition. All the folk at the inn had
+gathered to see them depart, and when Don Quixote's eyes fell on the
+beautiful young daughter of the innkeeper, he heaved a heavy sigh;
+but no one there realized the soul or the reason of it, for they all
+thought it must be from the pain in his ribs.
+
+As he was about to leave, the valiant knight called the innkeeper and
+asked him with profound gravity whether he had any enemies that
+remained unpunished; if so, he, Don Quixote, would chastise them for
+him. The innkeeper answered shortly that he could take care of his own
+grudges; all he asked of our knight was payment for lodging and for
+what he and the beasts and the squire had consumed.
+
+"Then this is an inn?" cried Don Quixote, who could hardly believe his
+ears. He ransacked his memory for any incident when knight had ever
+paid for food and lodging, and, unable to remember one, raised his
+lance, turned Rocinante, and set off at a quick gallop, leaving Sancho
+behind.
+
+The innkeeper immediately took steps to attach the squire for the
+unpaid debt; but Sancho's stolid indifference to his representations
+only tended to prove the truth of the old proverb: like master, like
+servant. He argued that it was not for him to tear down traditions of
+noble knighthood.
+
+Unfortunately for Sancho, he was overheard by a good many guests at the
+inn, rollicking fellows, who were on the alert for amusement. These men
+seized a blanket, dismounted the squire unceremoniously, placed him in
+the middle of the blanket, and proceeded to hoist him, not gently, high
+in the air. This movement no doubt caused a return of Sancho's
+stomach-ache, for he commenced to groan and scream helplessly. His
+screams were heard far off by his master, who, believing that some new
+and glorious adventure was at hand, spurred his hack into a playful
+gallop and returned to the inn.
+
+The gates were closed, but over the wall the knight could see the
+tricks that his faithful follower was made to perform in the air and
+on the blanket, and he boiled with rage, unable to come to the rescue,
+for he could not dismount because of stiffness. Finally, when the men
+had been sufficiently amused, they stopped their sport, then mounted
+Sancho with no little kindness on his ass and bade him godspeed on his
+journey. The one-eyed Asturian compassionately offered the poor fellow
+some water to drink; but seeing this, Don Quixote commenced to
+gesticulate wildly, waving a tin flask in the air, and crying:
+"Sancho, my son, drink not water, for it will kill thee! See, here I
+have the blessed balsam: two drops of it will restore thee!"
+
+His master's advice did not appeal to the squire, and he replied
+rather cuttingly that Don Quixote ought to remember that he was not a
+knight. Saying this he put the cup the lass had offered him to his
+lips. But he found that it was not wine but water. He begged her to
+exchange it, which she did with Christian spirit, paying for it
+herself. The squire, having drunk the wine, spurred his ass toward the
+gate, and the innkeeper let him depart without further payment,
+having, unbeknown to Sancho, appropriated his _alforjas_.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XVIII
+
+IN WHICH IS RELATED THE DISCOURSE SANCHO PANZA HELD WITH
+HIS MASTER, DON QUIXOTE, TOGETHER WITH OTHER ADVENTURES
+WORTH RELATING
+
+
+Don Quixote told his squire he was certain that the inn was an
+enchanted castle, and blamed his transgressions of the laws of
+chivalry for all their mishaps; for he imagined that, had he abstained
+from laying hands on the rabble and base folk, these would not have
+occurred. His being unable to get out of the saddle and climb over the
+wall, he ascribed to enchantment as well. Sancho thought this might be
+the moment for reforming his master. He suggested that it was harvest
+time at home; and reminded the knight of the fact that of all his
+battles he had come out victorious but once, when he fought with the
+Biscayan, and then with half of his ear lost, not to speak of all the
+damage done to his armor.
+
+But Don Quixote was in no mood to contemplate past disasters, for in
+the distance he suddenly perceived rising clouds of dust, and what
+could it be but two opposing armies making ready for battle; since the
+clouds were seen on either side of the road! He made Sancho believe
+they were the great armies of the mighty emperor Alifanfaron and his
+enemy, the king of the Garamantas, Pentapolin of the Bare Arm,
+explaining--on seeing a bare-armed shepherd--that this lord always
+went into battle in this manner.
+
+Sancho Panza asked what they should do. His master replied that their
+duty was clear: they should, of course, help the weak and needy. Then
+he went on to explain that the reason for the feud was the pagan
+Alifanfaron's wish to marry the beautiful and Christian daughter of
+Pentapolin, and her father's refusal to sanction the marriage unless
+the emperor became a convert. Immediately Sancho's instinct for
+righteousness made him declare himself for Pentapolin, and he wanted
+to fight for him. This spirit pleased Don Quixote tremendously, for,
+he said, it was not required of dubbed knights to engage in feuds of
+this sort; thus Sancho would have a chance to distinguish himself all
+alone.
+
+Scratching his head, Sancho now began to worry about his faithful
+donkey, for he believed it was not good taste to go into battle
+mounted on an ass, and if he dismounted, he was afraid his Dapple
+would be lost in the ensuing tumult. Don Quixote, however, calmed his
+fears. There would be hundreds of riderless horses after the battle,
+from which both of them might choose; and he asked Sancho to follow
+him to a hill nearby that he might point out to his valiant squire the
+great and illustrious knights of the two armies. He cried out name
+after name, the last one always more illustrious than the previous
+one. But Sancho could see nothing but the two flocks of sheep and the
+shepherds, and he said so.
+
+"How can you say that!" cried Don Quixote. "Do you not hear the
+neighing of the steeds, the braying of the trumpets, the roll of the
+drums?"
+
+Sancho answered in despair that he could hear nothing but the
+bleating of ewes and sheep. To this his master explained that often
+fear deranged the senses and made things appear different from what
+they were. Therefore, being certain that Sancho had suddenly become
+possessed of fear, he put the spurs in Rocinante and charged down the
+hill like a flash of lightning, determined to down the pagan emperor.
+
+Lifting his lance, he galloped into the midst of the sheep, and
+commenced spearing right and left. The shepherds, panic-stricken, used
+their slings. Stones hit his head and body, but it was not until a
+large one struck him in the ribs that he imagined himself really
+wounded. He stopped in the midst of the furious battle, and suddenly
+remembering his flask of balsam, drew it out, put it to his mouth, and
+was about to swallow a quantity of it when there came a stone that
+took the flask out of his hand, and another one that smashed out three
+or four of his teeth. Don Quixote was so astonished and the force of
+the blow was so sudden that he lost his reins and fell backwards off
+his horse. When the shepherds came up and saw what they had done to
+him, they quickly gathered their flocks and hastened away, taking with
+them the seven sheep that Don Quixote killed with his spear.
+
+During this rampage, Sancho Panza was nearly beside himself where he
+stood on the hill. He was tearing his hair and beard, wishing he had
+never laid eyes on his master, and berating himself for ever having
+joined in his mad adventures. When the shepherds had disappeared, he
+ran to his master's side.
+
+"Did I not tell your worship," he reproached the prostrate knight,
+"that they were not armies, but droves of sheep!"
+
+But again our hero blamed his misfortune on his arch-enemy, that
+cursed Sage Friston, who had falsified the armies in such a way that
+they looked like meek and harmless sheep. Then he begged his squire to
+pursue the enemy by stealth that he might ascertain for himself that
+what he had said was true; for he was sure that ere they had gone very
+far they would resume their original shape.
+
+However, before Sancho Panza had time to make up his mind whether to
+go or not, his master's sip of the balsam during the battle suddenly
+began to take effect, and Sancho's presence became for the moment a
+necessity. Having gone through this ordeal, Don Quixote rose and asked
+his squire for a remedy for hunger. It was then they discovered that
+the _alforjas_ had disappeared, with all its precious contents. Both
+were dejected. Don Quixote tried to impart, out of the abundance of
+his optimism for the future, new hope to the discouraged Sancho. It
+was a difficult task, and he might have failed, had not the loss of
+his teeth and the sorry plight he was in made Sancho sway from his
+intentions of home-going. When, at his master's request, the squire
+put his finger in Don Quixote's mouth in order to learn the extent of
+the damage done in that region of his body, his heart was touched by
+the terrible devastation there. He could not, of course, leave his
+master to shift for himself on the highways in such a condition. So he
+consented to remain, and they proceeded along the road, hoping that
+they would soon come to a place where they could find shelter for the
+night, as well as something with which to still their hunger.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XIX
+
+OF THE SHREWD DISCOURSE WHICH SANCHO HELD WITH HIS MASTER,
+AND OF THE ADVENTURE THAT BEFELL HIM WITH A DEAD BODY,
+TOGETHER WITH OTHER NOTABLE OCCURRENCES
+
+
+Night had fallen, yet they had discovered no place of refuge.
+Suddenly, in the darkness, they saw a number of lights that came
+closer and closer without their being able to make out what it was.
+Sancho commenced to shake like a leaf, and even Don Quixote was
+frightened and muttered a paternoster between his teeth while his hair
+stood on end. They withdrew to the roadside, from where they soon
+distinguished twenty bodies on horseback, all dressed in white shirts,
+and carrying lighted torches in their hands. With chattering teeth
+Sancho stared at this awe-inspiring procession, which was not yet at
+an end, for behind the mounted bodies there came others, these in
+black and on mule-back, and surrounding a bier, covered with a large
+black cloth. All the while a quiet, solemn mumbling came from the
+moving figures, and Sancho Panza was now so stricken with fear that he
+was almost paralyzed.
+
+Don Quixote's courage--which likewise had been rather shaky at this
+passing of ghostlike beings, at such a time of the night--suddenly
+revived and mounted to such heights that he decided he would ask where
+they were carrying the wounded king on the bier. This he did without
+delay. But such a question seemed silly and out of place to one of
+the guardians of the corpse, and he commanded the knight to move on.
+This angered Don Quixote beyond measure. He seized the man's mule by
+the bridle; but this, in turn, annoyed the mule, which rose on its
+hind legs and flung its rider to the ground. Another man came up to
+Don Quixote and tried to talk reason to him, but to no avail, and in
+the disturbance that followed the procession was soon scattered over
+the fields and plains, with torches glimmering from all points like so
+many eyes in the black night.
+
+While our knight errant was lunging with his spear in all directions,
+the meek followers of the dead body became ensnared in their skirts
+and gowns and long white shirts, and fell head over heels wherever
+they happened to be, in ditch or field. Moans, groans, and prayers
+were intermingled, and they all were convinced that the procession had
+been interrupted by the devil himself, come to carry away the body of
+the dead man.
+
+When the battle had ceased, Don Quixote approached the man who was flung
+by his mule, to make him his prisoner. The poor man declared that Don
+Quixote had made a grave mistake; that the dead man was not a king and
+had not fallen in battle, but a gentleman who had died from fever; and he
+himself was a poor servant of the Holy Church who could harm no one. On
+hearing this confession Don Quixote made a slight apology for having
+mistaken him in the dark for something evil, if not for the very devil,
+explaining that since it was his sworn duty to right all wrongs, he had
+only set out to do so. But the worthy ecclesiastic was not easily
+appeased, and before making his departure, he unceremoniously
+excommunicated his attacker in flowing and flourishing Latin.
+
+Sancho, moved by a desire to alleviate the sting of the outburst,
+called out after him: "If the gentleman should wish to know who was
+the hero who served them thus, your worship may tell them he is the
+famous Don Quixote of La Mancha, otherwise called the Knight of the
+Rueful Countenance."
+
+Don Quixote asked his squire why he called him thus; and Sancho
+replied that the loss of his teeth had given his master a face so
+sorry looking that he could find no milder name to describe its
+ugliness. Don Quixote laughed at the compliment; nevertheless he
+decided to adopt Sancho's meaning name, and also to have his own
+rueful face commemorated on his shield at the first opportunity.
+
+After this conversation Sancho persuaded his master to continue their
+journey; although Don Quixote was eager to view the bones of the
+deceased man, and Sancho had some difficulty in preventing him from
+doing so.
+
+Sancho had made his coat into a sack and filled it with the provisions
+of the clergy; and so, when they arrived in a valley where they found
+an abundance of grass, they ate all the meals they had been missing.
+Their repast would have been complete had they had some wine; but they
+did not have even water.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XX
+
+OF THE UNEXAMPLED AND UNHEARD-OF ADVENTURE WHICH WAS ACHIEVED
+BY THE VALIANT DON QUIXOTE OF LA MANCHA WITH LESS PERIL THAN
+ANY EVER ACHIEVED BY ANY FAMOUS KNIGHT IN THE WORLD
+
+
+Sancho's thirst drove him to use his instincts in search for drink. He
+judged by the rank grass that there must be water nearby. So, leading
+their mounts, Don Quixote and Sancho came in the darkness to a meadow,
+and they had gone only a short distance when they heard the welcome
+sound of falling water. Then suddenly a most tremendous, ear-splitting
+noise came out of the darkness, a din like the beating of gigantic
+hammers, and added to this a shifting wind. All these furious sounds,
+the mystery of them, and the blackness of the night, might have
+intimidated any heart, however stout; but it only made Don Quixote
+leap like a flash upon his horse. Turning to Sancho, he cried: "I am
+he who is to revive the Knights of the Round Table, the Twelve of
+France, and the Nine Worthies; he who is to consign to oblivion the
+whole herd of famous knights errant of days gone by; he for whom all
+great perils and mighty deeds are reserved. Therefore, tighten
+Rocinante's girth a little, and God be with thee! Wait for me three
+days and no more. If in that time I come not back, thou canst return
+to our village, and thence thou wilt go to El Toboso, where thou
+shalt say to my incomparable Lady Dulcinea that her captive knight
+hath died in attempting things that might make him worthy of being
+called her own."
+
+These words made Sancho weep copious tears, and he begged his master
+not to undertake so dreadful an adventure. He even offered to
+sacrifice himself to such an extent as to go without water for three
+days, if his master would only return. When Don Quixote was firm in
+his resolve, Sancho decided that this was a case where the ends
+justified the means; therefore while tightening Rocinante's girth, he
+tied the horse's forelegs, so that when Don Quixote was going to ride
+off, his charger could move only by fits and starts. The more his
+rider spurred him, the more impossible it became for Rocinante to
+stir. Sancho had no great difficulty in persuading his master that
+this was a sign from above that he ought not to pursue any phantom
+adventure at that hour of the night, but wait until daybreak. Don
+Quixote resigned himself to do so, although it nearly made him weep,
+while Sancho tried to soothe his outraged feelings by telling amusing
+stories in a laborious way.
+
+At daybreak Sancho stole over to Rocinante and untied his legs. The
+horse immediately became spirited, and when Don Quixote saw this, he
+believed it a sign from heaven. Again he took a touching leave of his
+squire--who began to cry, as he had done before--and gave the spur to
+his steed. Sancho was resolved to follow his master to the end, so he
+took his donkey by the halter, as was his custom, and led him on foot
+in pursuit of his knight errant.
+
+They passed through a meadow that was fringed with trees, then came
+upon some huge rocks with cascades of water pouring over them. Below
+stood a row of dilapidated houses. It was from these houses that the
+din and noise emanated. As Rocinante came close to the racket, he
+began to make hysterical movements, pirouetting backward and forward,
+and Don Quixote crossed himself, commending himself to God and his
+Lady Dulcinea.
+
+Coming up cautiously from behind the houses, Don Quixote peered around
+the corner, and there beheld the cause of the awe-inspiring din--six
+hammers of the kind that were used in mills.
+
+Sancho could not help himself. He burst into uncontrollable laughter,
+shaking from head to foot. Don Quixote was mortified with shame and
+astonishment. And when he heard Sancho's laughter behind him, he broke
+into a rage, during which he repeated almost every word he had spoken
+the night before, when he was about to ride away to adventure on a
+three-legged horse. But Sancho was helpless. Four distinct times he
+broke into a fit of mirth, and finally his master struck him a blow on
+the body with his spear. Then he calmed down, and Don Quixote scolded
+him for his hilarity, saying that no such familiarity would be
+tolerated in the future. He quoted various chapters from books of
+chivalry, and cited Gandalin, squire to Amadis of Gaul. There, he
+said, was a model squire, for he would always address his lord with
+cap in hand, his head bowed down and his body bent double. And there
+were many others to look to. He mentioned a few, the most shining
+examples. Then he decreed that from that day on respect must be the
+barrier between squire and knight in all their intercourse. He spoke
+also about his squire's wages and the treasures and islands that were
+to be his in time to come. He told Sancho not to worry, for if he
+should not pay him his wages, he had at any rate mentioned him in his
+will. From the first he had considered everything; he knew the world,
+and what a hazardous task he had set before himself.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XXI
+
+WHICH TREATS OF THE EXALTED ADVENTURE AND RICH PRIZE OF
+MAMBRINO'S HELMET, TOGETHER WITH OTHER THINGS THAT HAPPENED
+TO OUR INVINCIBLE KNIGHT
+
+
+It started to rain, and Sancho suggested the fulling-mills as a place
+of refuge; but Don Quixote had taken such an aversion to them that he
+would not listen to it, and they continued riding, taking the roadway.
+
+Suddenly they saw a man on horseback, who had on his head something
+that shone like gold, and at once Don Quixote exclaimed: "There comes
+towards us one who wears on his head the helmet of Mambrino,
+concerning which I took the oath thou rememberest."
+
+Sancho's only reply to this was that he did not want anything more to
+do with any fulling-mills; and his master entirely failed to fathom
+the connection. Sancho then said he could plainly see that the man's
+horse was an ass and that the man had something on his head that
+shone.
+
+The truth of the matter was that in the neighborhood were two villages
+so small that the apothecary and barbershop in one of them had to
+serve for both. The village barber had just been summoned to shave and
+bleed a patient in the adjoining community, so he mounted his ass,
+armed with a brass basin for the bleeding, and set off. He had got
+about half-way, when it commenced to rain. Having a new hat, he
+covered it with the clean basin, that glittered like gold.
+
+But Don Quixote had more sense than his squire, of course, and pursued
+the unknown knight with the helmet at Rocinante's wildest gallop. When
+the fear-stricken barber realized that Don Quixote's uplifted spear
+was aimed at him, he promptly threw himself from his ass and ran all
+the way home without stopping, leaving his brass basin behind as a
+trophy for our hero, who could not understand why this helmet had no
+visor.
+
+"That pagan must have had a very large head," remarked Don Quixote,
+turning the basin round and round, trying to fit it to his own head,
+now this way, now that.
+
+"It looks exactly like a barber's basin," said Sancho Panza, who had
+all he could do to keep from bursting into laughter.
+
+Don Quixote treated this blasphemous thought with scorn, and said he
+would stop at the next smithy to have its shape changed. His next
+concern was his stomach; and when they found that the barber's ass
+carried ample supplies, they soon satisfied their appetites. Sancho
+now turned the conversation to the rest of the spoils of war; but Don
+Quixote was unable to make up his mind that it was chivalrous to
+exchange a bad ass for a good one, as was his squire's wish; so Sancho
+had to satisfy himself with the barber's trappings.
+
+Then they set out again. Soon Sancho felt the need of unburdening
+something he had had on his heart for some time. He suggested that
+instead of roaming about seeking adventures which no one ever witnessed
+and which therefore remained unsung and unheralded, they go and serve
+some great emperor engaged in war, so that their achievements and valor
+might go down to posterity. This struck a resonant chord in his master's
+heart. In fact, he went into raptures over it, and commenced to rant
+about all the great honors the future had in store for the Knight of the
+Rueful Countenance. He cunningly surmised that their first task would be
+to find a king who had an uncommonly beautiful daughter, for of course he
+had to marry a princess first of all. The plan excited him to such an
+extent that for a moment he forgot about the existence of his Dulcinea.
+The only thing that worried him was his royal lineage; he could not think
+of any emperor or king whose second cousin he might be. Yet he decided
+not to trouble too much about that; for were there not two kinds of
+lineages in the world? And Love always worked wonders: it had since the
+beginning of time. What would the princess care, if he _were_ a
+water-carrier's son? And if his future father-in-law should object, all
+he would have to do would be to carry her off by force.
+
+As Don Quixote went on picturing himself in the most romantic roles in
+the history of this as yet unknown kingdom, Sancho began to think it
+was time for him to be considered as well, when it came to bestowals
+of honor. Once he had been beadle of a brotherhood, and he had looked
+so well in a beadle's gown, he said, that he was afraid his wife would
+burst with pride when she saw him in a duke's robe, with gold and lace
+and precious stones. Don Quixote thought so, too, but admonished him
+that he would have to shave his beard oftener, as it was most unkempt.
+Sancho replied that would be an easy matter, for he would have a
+barber of his own, as well as an equerry; he knew that all men of fame
+kept such a man, for once in Madrid he had seen a gentleman followed
+by a man on horseback as if he had been his tail. He inquired why the
+gentleman was being followed in that manner and learned it was his
+equerry. Don Quixote thought Sancho's idea to have a barber was an
+excellent one, and Sancho urged his master to make haste and find him
+his island, that he might roll in his glory as a count or a duke.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XXII
+
+OF THE FREEDOM DON QUIXOTE CONFERRED ON SEVERAL UNFORTUNATES
+WHO AGAINST THEIR WILL WERE BEING CARRIED WHERE THEY HAD NO
+WISH TO GO
+
+
+Hardly had they finished their conversation, when a gang of convicts
+came along on the road, guarded by two men on horseback and two on
+foot.
+
+"Galley-slaves," remarked Sancho Panza laconically.
+
+"If they are going against their own free will, it is a case for the
+exercise of my office," answered Don Quixote.
+
+He approached their custodians and asked to know what crimes these men
+had committed against his majesty the King. They answered it was not
+his business.
+
+"Nevertheless, I should like to know," insisted Don Quixote, and he
+used such choice and magic language that one of the guards was induced
+to give him permission to ask each one of the men about his crime and
+sentence.
+
+Don Quixote had questioned every one but the twelfth, and when he came
+to him he found that he was chained in a way different from the rest.
+This prisoner was a man of thirty, and crossed-eyed. His body was
+weighted down by very large irons and especially heavy chains, his
+hands were padlocked and so secured he could not raise them. Don
+Quixote asked why he was thus overburdened, and got the reply that he
+had committed more crimes than all the rest together. The guard then
+told the knight that the man had written a story of his unfinished
+life, and that he was no other than the famous Gines de Pasamonte. The
+culprit strongly objected to hearing his identity mentioned, and there
+ensued a furious battle of words between him and the guard. The latter
+lost his temper and was about to strike the slave a blow, when Don
+Quixote interfered, and pleaded for more kindly treatment. It seemed
+only fair to him that they, with their hands tied, might be permitted
+a free tongue. He grew fiery in his defense of them, reminded the
+guard that there was a God in heaven who would punish all sinners. He
+ended by requesting their immediate release.
+
+This demand seemed worse than absurd to the guard, who wished him
+godspeed on his journey, advised him to put the basin straight on his
+head, and told him not to go looking for trouble. This was too much
+for our knight. He set upon his jesting adversary with such speed and
+suddenness that the musket fell out of the guard's hand. And the other
+guards were so taken aback at what was going on, and there was such
+confusion, that they did not notice Sancho untying the arch-criminal
+Gines. They suddenly saw him free, and with him the rest of the
+slaves, who had broken the chain; whereupon the guards fled in all
+directions as fast as their legs could carry them.
+
+When the fray was over, Don Quixote asked the galley-slaves to gather
+around him, and to show him reverence for the deed he had done. He
+further demanded that they, armed with their chains, proceed in a
+body, to El Toboso to pay their respects to the fair Dulcinea. Gines
+attempted to explain the necessity of each one hiding himself,
+separately, in order to escape the pursuers, and offered to send up
+prayers for her instead; but Don Quixote would not listen to any
+argument. At last Gines decided he was quite mad, and when Don Quixote
+started to abuse him, he lost his temper, and they all attacked the
+knight with a rain of stones, until Rocinante and he both fell to the
+ground. There they belabored him savagely. Sancho had taken refuge
+behind his donkey, but the convicts found him, stripped him of his
+jacket, and left him shivering in the cold.
+
+While Don Quixote lay there, fearing the vengeance of the law and the
+Holy Brotherhood for what he had done, he was also reviewing in rage
+the ingratitude of mankind and the perversity of the iron age.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XXIII
+
+OF WHAT BEFELL DON QUIXOTE IN THE SIERRA MORENA, WHICH IS ONE
+OF THE RAREST ADVENTURES RELATED IN THIS VERACIOUS HISTORY
+
+
+Sancho at last convinced his master that they had best hide in the
+Sierra Morena mountains for a few days, in case a search should be
+made for them; and Don Quixote was pleased to find that the provisions
+carried by Sancho's ass had not disappeared. When night fell they took
+refuge under some cork-trees between two rocks. Fate would have it
+that to this very place should come that night the convict Gines.
+While Sancho was slumbering peacefully, Gines stole his ass; and by
+daybreak the thief was already far away. Don Quixote, awakened by
+sorrowful wailing, in order to console his squire, promised him three
+of his ass-colts at home in exchange. Then Sancho's tears stopped. But
+he now had to travel on foot behind his master, and he tried to keep
+up his humor by munching the provisions it had become his lot to
+carry.
+
+Suddenly he observed that his master had halted, and was poking with
+his lance into some object lying on the road. He quickly ran up to him
+and found an old saddle-pad with a torn knapsack tied to it. Sancho
+opened it covetously and came upon four shirts of excellent material,
+articles of linen, nearly a hundred gold crowns in a handkerchief, and
+a richly bound little memorandum book. The little volume was all that
+Don Quixote kept for himself. Brimful of curiosity, he read it through
+and learned that it contained the bemoanings of a rejected lover.
+
+Meantime Sancho Panza's great discovery of the gold coins had entirely
+banished from his memory all the suffering and pain and humiliation he
+had had to go through since he had became a squire. But Don Quixote
+was anxious to find out something about the owner of the knapsack, for
+he was convinced there was some very strange adventure connected with
+his disappearance. And as he was planning what to do, he perceived on
+the summit of a great height, a man, half-naked, jumping with
+remarkable swiftness and agility from rock to rock.
+
+Don Quixote saw no way of getting there, so he stood for some time
+pondering what to do. Then he saw above him on the mountainside a
+flock of goats, tended by an elderly goatherd. Calling to him, the
+knight asked him to come down, and the old man descended, amazed at
+seeing human beings there. Don Quixote immediately began to ask about
+the strange half-naked man he had seen, and the goatherd told what he
+knew of him and the mystery of the knapsack.
+
+The stranger, he said, was a youth of good looks and no doubt of high
+birth, who had lost his wits because of the faithlessness of a friend.
+His behavior was such that they had never seen the like of it. In fits
+of madness he would approach people, snatch away food offered him out
+of their hands, and then run away with the speed of a deer. Then
+again he would come begging for food, the tears flowing down his
+cheeks.
+
+Now, while they were standing there discussing the young man, chance
+would have it that he came along, and greeted them courteously. Don
+Quixote returned his greeting with grand gestures, descended from
+Rocinante's tired back, and advanced to the youth with open arms. He
+held him in his embrace for some time, as if he had known him forever.
+Finally the youth tore away and, placing his hands on the shoulders of
+the Knight of the Rueful Countenance, the youth, who might be called
+the Ragged One of the Sorry Countenance, looked into his eyes and
+spoke to him.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XXIV
+
+IN WHICH IS CONTINUED THE ADVENTURE OF THE SIERRA MORENA
+
+
+The Ragged One thanked Don Quixote for being so kind and courteous;
+and Don Quixote replied that his duty to the world consisted in giving
+succor to those in despair and need. He implored the youth to tell him
+the name of the one who had caused his misfortune, that he might
+revenge him. The Ragged One stared at him strangely and said: "If you
+will give me to eat, I will tell you my story."
+
+Sancho and the goatherd gave the youth something to appease his
+hunger; and he ate it ravenously. When he had finished, he motioned
+to them to follow him, and they came to a spot where green grass grew
+and all stretched themselves on the ground in silence. Before he began
+his story, the youth warned them not to interrupt him, for then it
+would come to an end. Don Quixote promised solemnly for all of them.
+
+The youth told of his love for one Luscinda, and how his best friend,
+Don Fernando, son of a grandee of Spain, had stolen her love away from
+him; but suddenly he was interrupted by Don Quixote, and refused to
+continue. Whereupon Don Quixote nearly lost his senses--for his
+curiosity was aroused beyond words--and called the Ragged One a
+villain.
+
+The Ragged One broke into a violent fit when he heard himself called
+names and picked up a stone which he hurled against the knight
+errant's breast with such force that it placed him flat on his back.
+Seeing this, Sancho Panza flew at the madman; but the youth seemed to
+possess supernatural strength, for he felled Sancho to the ground with
+one single blow, and then jumped on his chest and buckled his ribs.
+Having also beaten the old goatherd, he went into the woods again.
+
+When Sancho had seen the last of him, he turned loose his rage on the
+poor old goatherd, whom he cursed for not having warned them that the
+youth might be taken with fits. Words led to blows; the two grabbed
+each other by their beards, and had it not been for Don Quixote, their
+fray might have had a sad ending. He calmed his squire by absolving
+the old man of all blame. Then he asked him--for he was still aching
+with curiosity to learn the end of the story--whether he knew where
+he might find Cardenio (that being the youth's name). The goatherd
+answered that if he remained in the neighborhood long enough he could
+not help meeting him; but as to his mood, he could not answer for
+that.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XXV
+
+WHICH TREATS OF THE STRANGE THINGS THAT HAPPENED TO THE
+STOUT KNIGHT OF LA MANCHA IN THE SIERRA MORENA
+
+
+Don Quixote and Sancho Panza now made their way into unknown regions
+of the mountains, Sancho trailing behind his master, on foot, silent,
+and in bad humor. Finally he requested his master's permission to say
+what was in his heart, and Don Quixote removed the ban under which his
+squire was suffering. Sancho asked for the knight's blessing and
+begged leave to return to his wife and home; but his master could not
+make up his mind until he hit upon a great inspiration, the carrying
+out of which made necessary his using Sancho as a messenger to his
+incomparable Dulcinea.
+
+Don Quixote, in short, had decided to go mad, in emulation of other
+bold knights, such as Roland and Amadis--a decision that extracted
+from Sancho Panza some muttered words to the effect that any one who
+could mistake a barber's basin for a gold helmet could not go much
+madder. And then Don Quixote explained to what sufferings, sorrow,
+penance, and folly he would subject himself; and quite unintentionally
+he revealed to Sancho the real identity of his famous Lady Dulcinea,
+whom Sancho had always thought a princess. Now the good squire learned
+to his dismay that the famous Dulcinea was no other than Lorenzo
+Corchuelo's daughter, Aldonza Lorenzo, a lady with manners like a man,
+and a man's ability to handle a crowbar easily.
+
+When Don Quixote had determined upon his penance in the wilderness, all
+for the sake of Dulcinea, he thought it would be a good idea to make
+known to her the sacrifices and sufferings he was about to undergo for
+her sake. Therefore he granted his squire the requested permission to
+return to his family, and bade him speed homeward on Rocinante, so that
+he himself, horseless, might undergo an even greater penance. He sent a
+letter by Sancho to his fair one, relating to her the pain of his wounded
+heart; a pain enhanced by self-inflicted absence and to be ended only by
+death, to satisfy her cruelty.
+
+Sancho's covetousness did not permit his master to forget the three
+promised ass-colts; so Don Quixote wrote an order to his niece in the
+notebook of the ill-starred Cardenio.
+
+Before they parted, Don Quixote asked Sancho to stay and see some of
+the insanities he meant to perform in his absence. He then stripped to
+the skin and went through some remarkable capers before his squire.
+This exhibition nearly brought tears to Sancho's eyes, and he besought
+him to stop. And when he expressed a fear that he would not be able to
+find his way back, Don Quixote assured him that he would remain in
+that very spot, or thereabouts, until the squire returned from El
+Toboso; and he told him also to cut some branches and strew them in
+his path. Furthermore he said he would be on the lookout for him from
+the peak of the highest cliff.
+
+When Sancho finally took leave of his master, he felt that he could
+swear with unprotesting conscience that his beloved master was quite
+mad.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XXVI
+
+IN WHICH ARE CONTINUED THE REFINEMENTS WHEREWITH DON QUIXOTE
+PLAYED THE PART OF A LOVER IN THE SIERRA MORENA
+
+
+Soon after Sancho had gone, Don Quixote came to the conclusion that
+the exercises he was putting himself through were much too hard and
+troublesome. So he decided to change them, and instead of imitating
+Roland and his fury, he turned to the more melancholy Amadis, whose
+madness was of a much milder form and needed a less strenuous outlet.
+But to imitate Amadis, he had to have a rosary, and he had none. For a
+moment he was in a quandary; but a miracle gave him the inspiration to
+use the tail of his shirt--which was too long anyhow--and tearing off
+a long piece, on which he made eleven knots, he repeated quantities of
+credos and ave-marias on it, there in the wilderness. His love would
+at times drive him to write verses to his cruel and beloved one on the
+bark of the trees, all the while he would make moaning sounds of
+lovesickness. Again he would go about sighing, singing, calling to the
+nymphs and fauns and satyrs, and, of course, looking for herbs to
+nourish himself with.
+
+But while Don Quixote exiled himself in the wilds, his servant Sancho
+Panza was making for El Toboso. On the second day he found himself at
+the inn at which the incident of his blanket journey had taken place.
+The smell of food reminded him that it was dinner time; yet he
+hesitated about entering. As he was standing there, along came two
+men; and one of them was heard to say: "Is not that Sancho Panza?" "So
+it is," said the other one; and it turned out to be the curate and the
+barber of Don Quixote's own village.
+
+At once they approached him. They asked him about his master, but it
+was not until they had threatened to believe that he had robbed and
+murdered Don Quixote--for was he not mounted on Rocinante?--that he
+divulged the secret of his master's hiding-place. He told them of
+everything; even about his master's strange and unbounded love for the
+daughter of Lorenzo Corchuelo and the letter he had written to her.
+When the curate asked to see it, Sancho could not find it; and then he
+suddenly remembered that Don Quixote had given him neither the letter
+nor the order for the ass-colts. He turned pale and green, and beat
+his chest frantically, but it produced no miracle. The curate and the
+barber told him that the only thing to do was to find Don Quixote and
+get him to write them anew; and the thought of losing the ass-colts
+made Sancho only too anxious to return.
+
+When the squire had been comforted somewhat, he tried to recite Don
+Quixote's epistle of love; and his recital amused the two friends to
+such a degree that he had to repeat it thrice, each time adding new
+absurdities. Finally they invited him to come into the inn and eat,
+while they talked over the journey to their friend's wilderness
+paradise of penitence. Sancho was quick to refuse; but he gave no
+reason for so doing. He said he preferred to eat outside and asked
+that they bring him the food, and also some barley for Rocinante.
+
+While the barber was serving Sancho and Rocinante, the curate was
+developing a plan of strategy which was unanimously adopted by all
+concerned. It was arranged that the curate should invade the region of
+knightly penitence, dressed as an innocent-looking maiden with a
+masked countenance; while his friend the barber should appear on the
+scene behaving like a squire. The bogus maiden should be in great
+distress and ask for protection, when Don Quixote, valiant knight that
+he was, would be sure to give it. She would then beg him to shield her
+on her journey, and, as a favor, to ask her no questions regarding her
+identity, until she was safely at home. Once they had him there, they
+would try to find a cure for his strange madness.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XXVII
+
+OF HOW THE CURATE AND THE BARBER PROCEEDED WITH THEIR SCHEME;
+TOGETHER WITH MATTERS WORTHY OF RECORD IN THIS GREAT HISTORY
+
+
+The curate proceeded to borrow the needed dress from the landlady, whose
+curiosity he satisfied by explaining Don Quixote's madness and their
+mission in the mountains. The landlady recognized Don Quixote by the
+description the curate gave, and willingly furnished the clothes, and an
+ox-tail out of which the barber made himself a beard. As security for
+these things the curate left behind a brand-new cassock.
+
+When the curate's transfiguration was completed, however, his conscience
+began to trouble him; so it was agreed that he and the barber were to
+change roles. The curate shed his female attire, and the barber decided
+not to don it until they approached the mountainside. Meanwhile Sancho
+was instructed as to how to act and what to say, when he saw his master.
+
+The day after they set out, they came to the place where Sancho's
+branches were strewn. The curate thought it best that they send Sancho
+ahead to take to his master Lady Dulcinea's reply; this was agreed to,
+and Sancho left.
+
+While the two conspirators were resting in the shade of some trees
+they were suddenly startled by hearing a man singing in the distance.
+It was clearly a voice trained in the art of singing, and the verses
+he sang were not of rustic origin. Soon they perceived the singer, and
+it was no other than Cardenio, the Ragged One. Now he was untouched by
+madness, for he spoke quite sanely, telling them of his woeful
+misfortune, the memory of which, he said, would sometimes overpower
+and strangle his senses. The curate and the barber were both eager to
+know the story of the comely youth's life, and he then told them of
+the faithlessness of his friend. This time he was not interrupted, and
+he finished his story, which was one of a great love as much as one of
+misfortune. He had just reached the end, when from no great distance
+came the sound of a lamenting voice.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XXVIII
+
+WHICH TREATS OF THE STRANGE AND DELIGHTFUL ADVENTURES THAT
+BEFELL THE CURATE AND THE BARBER IN THE SAME SIERRA
+
+
+When Cardenio and the curate and the barber looked about they
+discovered a youth with exquisite, delicate features bathing his feet
+in the brook below them. His garb was that of a peasant lad; on his
+head he had a _montera_. Having finished bathing, he took from under
+the _montera_ a cloth with which he dried his feet. In removing the
+cap there fell from under it a mass of auburn hair, and all were
+amazed to find that instead of a youth, it was a most lovely maiden.
+In their astonishment either the curate or the barber uttered a cry;
+and frightened at the sight of them, the girl took to flight, but soon
+stumbled and fell.
+
+The curate was the first one to reach her. He spoke some kind words
+and told her that they were there to help her, to fulfill any wish she
+might express. And he begged her to cast away any pretence, for he was
+certain that she was there because of some misery that had befallen
+her.
+
+At first the maiden seemed bewildered, but after a while she showed
+that the curate had gained her confidence, and she spoke to him in a
+beautiful, melancholy voice. She seated herself on a stone, while the
+three gathered around her, and confided to them with tears in her eyes
+the reasons for her being there. She told them of a certain grandee of
+Spain, living in Andalusia, of whom her father, lowly in birth but
+rich in fortune, was a vassal. This grandee had two sons. She had been
+betrothed to the younger one of these, Don Fernando, and he had jilted
+her in favor of a lady of noble birth, whose name was Luscinda.
+
+When Cardenio heard his own lady's name, he bit his lips and tears
+came to his eyes. Dorothea--for that was the maiden's name--wondered
+at such interest and such emotion, but she continued her story. She
+told of how, upon Don Fernando's marriage to lady Luscinda, she had
+fled in despair from house and home. A herdsman in the heart of the
+Sierra had given her employment as a servant; but when he had
+discovered that she was a woman, she was forced to leave. While she
+was bemoaning her evil fate, and praying to God in the woods, she had
+cut her feet on the stones; and she was bathing them in the brook when
+she encountered the present gathering.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XXIX
+
+WHICH TREATS OF THE DROLL DEVICE AND METHOD ADOPTED TO
+EXTRICATE OUR LOVE-STRICKEN KNIGHT FROM THE SEVERE PENANCE
+HE HAD IMPOSED UPON HIMSELF
+
+
+Dorothea had told her story with great simplicity. When she had ended
+it, the curate arose to console her; but Cardenio was already at her
+side.
+
+"Are you not the daughter of the rich Clenardo?" he asked of her
+eagerly.
+
+She gazed at him in wonder, for she had not spoken her father's name.
+She asked the youth who he might be, and he told her that he was the
+Cardenio who had been wronged by Don Fernando, the faithless friend
+and faithless lover; and he swore then and there a holy oath that he
+should see her married to Don Fernando or the latter would perish by
+his, Cardenio's, sword. Dorothea was moved to tears by the youth's
+words and thanked him profusely. The curate then made the suggestion
+that both of them return with him and the barber to their village
+where they could make further plans as to what to do to set things
+aright. And Dorothea and Cardenio accepted this kind offer gratefully.
+
+Sancho was now seen arriving, and the curate told the youth and the
+maiden the reason for his being there. He explained to them the
+curious nature of Don Quixote's madness, and Cardenio mentioned to the
+curate his meeting with the knight.
+
+Sancho had found Don Quixote nearly dead with hunger, crying aloud for
+his Dulcinea; and when his squire entreated him in her name to return
+to El Toboso, he refused, declaring that his penitence was not yet
+complete; that he was not yet worthy of her favor. Sancho was quite
+worried lest he should lose his island and his titles and all the
+other honors he had expected, and the curate did his best to calm his
+fears. The good man then explained to Cardenio and Dorothea how they
+had planned to take Don Quixote back to his home by persuading him to
+go there on an adventure in aid of a distressed damsel.
+
+Dorothea at once offered to play the part of the damsel. Having read a
+good many books of chivalry, herself, she thought she could qualify in
+asking favors of our knight. She had brought with her a complete
+woman's dress, with lace and rich embroidery, and when Sancho Panza
+saw her in her new array, he asked, in astonishment, what great lady
+she might be. The curate replied that she was the ruler of the great
+kingdom of Micomicon, and after having been dethroned by an evil giant
+had come all the way from Guinea to seek the aid of Don Quixote.
+Immediately Sancho's hope for his titles and possessions was revived,
+for the thought of his master's fame having spread to such distant
+parts seemed most encouraging.
+
+While Sancho Panza was entertaining these visions, Dorothea mounted
+the curate's mule, and the barber decorated himself with the ox-tail
+for a beard. Sancho was told to lead the way, and the curate explained
+to him that the success of their mission depended on him. He was
+warned that he must not give away the identity of the curate and the
+barber; if he did, the empire would be lost. And then they started
+out, leaving the curate and Cardenio behind, as that was thought best.
+
+They had gone almost a league when they saw Don Quixote on a rock,
+clothed, but wearing no armor. Dorothea was helped from her horse. She
+walked over to Don Quixote and knelt before him; and she told him the
+errand that had brought her there, saying that she would not rise
+until he had granted her the boon she was asking. While she was
+kneeling before him, Sancho Panza was anxiously whispering to Don
+Quixote bits of information about her and her kingdom, afraid that his
+master might refuse her; but, demented though he was, rank and riches
+mattered little to Don Quixote, for he drew his sword, he said, in
+defense of anything that was righteous, and the meek and downtrodden
+always found in him a ready and courteous defendant. When he learned
+from the Princess that a big giant had invaded her kingdom, he at once
+granted her the promise of his services. Dorothea wanted to kiss his
+hand as a proof of her gratitude; but Don Quixote would not permit her
+to do this, being ever a respectful and courteous knight. He commanded
+his squire to saddle his horse immediately, while he put on his armor,
+mounted, and was ready for the crusade.
+
+They set out, Sancho on foot, cheerfully grinning to himself at the
+covetous thought of all the possessions that would be his in a short
+time. Soon they passed the place where Cardenio and the curate were
+hiding. The curate had by this time conceived the idea of shearing
+Cardenio of his beard that Don Quixote would be unable to recognize
+him; and he had furnished him with his own grey jerkin and a black
+cloak, so that he himself appeared in breeches and doublet only.
+Having effected the change, they took a short-cut through the woods
+and came out on the open road ahead of Don Quixote.
+
+As he approached them, the curate feigned astonishment beyond words at
+seeing his old friend; and Don Quixote was so surprised that he hardly
+recognized the curate. He courteously offered Rocinante to him, but
+the curate remonstrated and finally accepted the long-bearded squire's
+mule, inviting the squire to sit behind him. This arrangement did not
+please the mule, however, for he commenced to kick with his hind legs.
+Luckily the beast did not damage the barber, but the demonstration
+frightened him so that he turned a somersault in a ditch. In so doing,
+his beard came off, but he had enough presence of mind to cover his
+face at the same moment, crying that his teeth were knocked out. When
+Don Quixote saw the beard on the ground without any sign of flesh or
+blood, he was struck with amazement, and thought that the barber had
+been shaved by a miracle.
+
+The curate hastened breathlessly to the barber's side, and began to
+mumble incomprehensible words, while the barber was groaning on the
+ground in an uncomfortable position. When the barber finally rose, Don
+Quixote's eyes nearly fell out of their sockets, for he beheld the
+barber bearded again. He begged the curate to teach him the charm that
+could produce such a miracle, and the curate promised he would. Then
+they proceeded on the journey.
+
+The curate now began to wonder about the road (all this was pre-arranged)
+and said that in order to go to the kingdom of Micomicon, they had to
+take the road to Cartagena, where they would embark on a ship. That, he
+said, would take them through his own village, and from there it was a
+journey of nine years to Micomicon. Here the Princess corrected him,
+saying that it had taken her only two years to make the journey here,
+in quest of the noble and famous knight who had now sworn to restore
+her kingdom to her.
+
+Don Quixote at this moment happened to observe the light attire of the
+curate, and was curious to know the reason for it. Whereupon the
+curate (having learned of the incident through Sancho) related how he
+and Master Nicholas, on their way to Seville, had been held up by a
+gang of liberated galley-slaves. These criminals, it was said, had
+been set free by a man on horseback, as brave as he was bold, for he
+had fought off all the guards, single-handed. The curate criticized
+this man heartlessly, called him a knave and a criminal for having set
+himself against law and order and his king, and expressed a belief
+that he could not have been in his right mind. The Holy Brotherhood,
+he said further, was searching for him now, and he himself was afraid
+that the man's soul would be lost. He finished his story by calling
+upon the Lord to pardon this unregenerate being who had taken away the
+galley-slaves from the punishment that had been meted out to them by
+justice.
+
+Don Quixote seemed to take the curate's sermon to heart, and bent his
+head humbly, not daring to admit that he was the culprit, and not
+knowing that the curate knew it.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XXX
+
+WHICH TREATS OF THE ADDRESS DISPLAYED BY THE FAIR DOROTHEA,
+WITH OTHER MATTERS, PLEASANT AND AMUSING
+
+
+When Sancho heard the harsh sermon of the curate, he, being a good
+Christian, became afraid that his own soul might be lost too; for was
+he not an accomplice? So he confessed then and there his own and his
+master's guilt, much to the shame and anger of Don Quixote. The
+Princess was quick to sense the danger, and she calmed our hero before
+his anger had risen to any great height, by reminding him of his
+promise, and how he had sworn to engage in no conflict of any kind
+until her kingdom had been saved. He answered her with infinite
+courtesy and expressed his regrets for having let his anger get the
+better of him; he would stand by his word. Then he asked her to tell
+him all that she could about herself and her kingdom. She would
+willingly do that, she said, and began her story.
+
+But she came very near ending it then and there, for she could not
+remember the name she had assumed. Luckily the curate--who had
+invented her long and difficult name--was there to prompt her, and the
+situation was saved. Having told Don Quixote that her name was
+Princess Micomicona, she continued her story, relating how she was
+left an orphan, how a certain giant and lord of an island near her
+kingdom had asked for her hand in marriage and she had refused, how
+his forces had overrun her country and she had fled to Spain, where it
+had been predicted by a magician she would find a certain great knight
+errant by the name of Don Quixote, otherwise called the Knight of the
+Rueful Countenance, who would be recognized by a gray mole with hairs
+like bristles under the left shoulder.
+
+Immediately upon hearing this, Don Quixote wanted to strip, but Sancho
+assured them that he did have just such a mark. Dorothea said she was
+quite sure he must, for in other respects the description that the
+magician had given fitted him; and she hastened to relate to him how
+she had first heard of him on her landing at Osuna. But evidently the
+pretended Princess had not been as careful a student of geography as
+Don Quixote, who was quick to ask her: "But how did you land at Osuna,
+senorita, when it is not a seaport?" Again the curate displayed proof
+of rare presence of mind, for he broke in: "The Princess meant to say
+that after having landed at Malaga, the first place where she heard of
+your worship was Osuna." And Dorothea immediately corroborated the
+curate's explanation with great self-assurance.
+
+However, she thought it best to end her story here, for fear of
+complications, and only added how happy she was to have found him so
+soon. She also pointed out, demurely enough, that it had been
+predicted if after having cut off the giant's head the knight should
+ask her to marry him, she would accept. But Don Quixote said he would
+be true to his Dulcinea; and this made Sancho exclaim with dismay
+that he was out of his head, for Dulcinea could never come up to this
+fair princess.
+
+Sancho's remark angered his master so intensely that he knocked him to
+the ground with his spear; and if the Princess had not interfered the
+unfortunate squire might never again have been able to say his
+ave-marias or credos or, more to the point, have eaten another square
+meal. He was quick to cry out that he had meant no ill by what he
+said, and acting upon the suggestion of the Princess, he kissed his
+master's hand.
+
+At this moment a man, mounted on an ass, was seen on the road, and
+Sancho, no doubt feeling instinctively the proximity of his beloved
+animal, recognized in the man Gines de Pasamonte. Wildly shouting, he
+set out after the galley-slave, who threw himself off the ass at
+Sancho's first shout. Sancho, crying with joy, was so glad to have his
+faithful donkey returned to him that he did not pursue the thief. And
+Don Quixote himself was so pleased that he entirely forgot about his
+quarrel with Sancho. He called him to his side, and asked him to
+repeat everything his Dulcinea had told him, over and over again.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XXXI
+
+OF THE DELECTABLE DISCUSSION BETWEEN DON QUIXOTE AND SANCHO
+PANZA, HIS SQUIRE, TOGETHER WITH OTHER INCIDENTS
+
+
+Don Quixote was anxious to know what jewel his fair one had bestowed
+on Sancho before the leave-taking. Sancho replied that the only jewel
+Dulcinea had given him was some bread and cheese; whereupon Don
+Quixote remarked that no doubt she had had no jewels at hand. He
+expressed wonder at the speedy trip Sancho had made, to which Sancho
+replied that Rocinante had gone like lightning; and Don Quixote then
+was sure some friendly enchanter had carried him through the air.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTERS XXXII-XXXIV
+
+WHICH TREATS OF WHAT BEFELL ALL DON QUIXOTE'S PARTY AT THE INN
+
+
+The following day they reached the inn. The landlady at once wanted
+her ox-tail back, so it was decided that the barber should hereafter
+appear in his own true character, having supposedly arrived at the inn
+after the galley-slaves' hold-up.
+
+Don Quixote was tired, and was given a bed in the garret where he had
+slept once before. While the others were having dinner, the landlady
+was confidentially telling all who would listen of Don Quixote's
+absurdities during his previous visit, and also of Sancho Panza's
+being juggled in the blanket. And while the curate was discussing Don
+Quixote's madness, the innkeeper confided to him that he himself had a
+weakness for reading about deeds of the past, particularly stories of
+chivalry. Often, he said, he would read aloud from these books to his
+family and servants. He had just read a novel entitled "Ill-Advised
+Curiosity," which he had found very interesting. He showed the
+manuscript of it to the curate, who seemed to think it might make very
+good reading and expressed a desire to copy it. Whereupon the
+innkeeper asked him whether he would not read it aloud to them; and as
+they were all eager to hear it, the curate commenced the reading of
+the manuscript.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XXXV
+
+WHICH TREATS OF THE HEROIC AND PRODIGIOUS BATTLE DON QUIXOTE
+HAD WITH CERTAIN SKINS OF RED WINE, AND BRINGS THE NOVEL OF
+THE "ILL-ADVISED CURIOSITY" TO AN END
+
+
+The curate had almost finished the reading of the novel, (which
+consumed all of the two chapters which are omitted here) when Sancho
+Panza burst into the room, excitedly shouting that his master was
+having the wildest battle he had ever seen, up in the garret. He
+pleaded for reinforcements, and wanted them all to join in conquering
+the enemy who, he declared, was no other than the fierce giant that
+had invaded the kingdom of Micomicon. He said he had left just as his
+master had cut the giant's head clean off with his sword, leaving the
+beast to bleed like a stuffed pig.
+
+While Sancho was relating his blood-curdling story, a tremendous noise
+and loud exclamations poured forth from the garret, and the innkeeper,
+suddenly remembering all the many wine-skins he had hung up there on
+the previous night sprang out of his chair and toward the scene of
+action, followed by the rest.
+
+The worst that the innkeeper might have feared was true; for there, on
+the garret floor, was a sea of red wine, with hosts of empty skins
+floating about upon it. In the middle of the sea stood Don Quixote,
+sword in hand, slashing right and left, dressed in nothing but his
+shirt. But the strangest thing of all was not his attire, but the fact
+that he was fast asleep, his eyes shut tightly, dreaming that he had
+already arrived in the distant realm of the Princess Micomicona and
+had encountered the giant enemy.
+
+Seeing all his precious wine floating away, the innkeeper became
+enraged and set upon Don Quixote with his bare fists; but the beating
+had no effect on the knight except, perhaps, that it made him sleep
+more soundly. It was not until the barber had drenched him in cold
+water that he came to his senses.
+
+The Princess Micomicona, who had been listening to the saving of her
+kingdom outside the door, became eager, after she had heard the
+tempest subside, to enter and see the conquered giant; but she retired
+hastily and with a slight exclamation of horrified modesty on seeing
+the abbreviated length of her defender's night-shirt, the tail of
+which had been sacrificed to his prayers in the wilderness.
+
+The landlord, cursing his luck, swore that this time the knight errant
+and his squire should not escape without paying. But Don Quixote,
+whose hand the curate was holding in an endeavor to calm him, merely
+fell on his knees before the curate, exclaiming: "Exalted and
+beautiful Princess! Your Highness may now live in peace; for I have
+slain the giant!" He imagined that he was at the feet of Micomicona.
+Soon after having spoken thus, he showed signs of great weariness, and
+the curate, the barber and Cardenio carried him to his bed, where he
+fell asleep.
+
+Next they had to console Sancho, who was grief-stricken because he had
+been unable to find the giant's head. He swore he had seen it falling
+when his master cut it off, and imagined that if it could not be
+produced there would be no reward for either him or his master; but
+Dorothea, in her role of Princess, calmed and comforted him.
+
+All this time the innkeeper's wife was crying about the ox-tail, which,
+she said, had lost its usefulness after having served as beard, and the
+innkeeper was demanding that he be paid for the spilt wine and other
+losses. The curate assured them that he himself would see to it that they
+were reimbursed for everything; and when the excitement in the inn had
+simmered down, and everybody had gathered again in the room where they
+had heard the curate read from "Ill-Advised Curiosity," he was asked to
+resume the reading. This he did; and they all thought it a very
+entertaining story and listened intensely to what the curate was reading.
+
+[Illustration: "SLASHING RIGHT AND LEFT, DREAMING THAT HE HAD
+ENCOUNTERED THE GIANT ENEMY."--_Page 93_]
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XXXVI
+
+WHICH TREATS OF MORE CURIOUS INCIDENTS THAT OCCURRED AT THE INN
+
+
+At this moment there was a sound of people approaching on horseback,
+and the innkeeper rushed to the gate to receive the guests. There were
+four men, with lances and bucklers, and black veils for their faces; a
+woman, dressed in white and also veiled, and two attendants on foot.
+One of the four, a gentleman of distinction, helped the lady to
+dismount, and they entered the inn.
+
+As they came into the room where the curate had just finished reading
+the novel of "Ill-Advised Curiosity," Dorothea covered her face, and
+Cardenio left and went to the garret. As the gentleman seated the lady
+in a chair, she heaved a deep sigh. Her arms fell limply by her side.
+The curate was curious to know who these people were, so he asked one
+of the servants that accompanied them. But none of them knew, for they
+had met the travelers on the road, they said, and had been offered
+employment at good pay. They added that they feared the lady was being
+taken somewhere against her will, as she had done nothing but sigh all
+through the journey, and had exchanged no words whatever with her
+escort.
+
+Dorothea, hearing the lady sigh repeatedly, felt compassion for her,
+and asked her whether there was anything that she could do for her.
+But although she asked her the question several times, she got no
+reply.
+
+When the gentleman with the distinguished bearing observed that
+Dorothea was interested in this lady, he told her it was useless to
+bother with her, for her answers were all lies and anything done for
+her would be rewarded with ingratitude. This remark was speedily
+answered by the lady, who retorted. "I have never told a lie. On the
+contrary, it is because I am truthful and cannot lie that I am now in
+this miserable condition. And you are the lying one!"
+
+Cardenio was in the adjoining room, just returning from the garret,
+and when he heard these words he exclaimed: "Good God! What is this I
+hear! It is her voice!"
+
+The lady heard the exclamation, and seeing no one, she became agitated
+and rose, but was held back by the gentleman. Her veil suddenly fell
+off, and every one could see her face, which was one of alabaster-like
+whiteness and great beauty. And while the gentleman was struggling to
+keep her from leaving the room, his own veil became unfastened and
+Dorothea saw that he was no other than her own lover, Don Fernando.
+The moment she recognized him she fainted, and the barber caught her,
+or she would have fallen to the floor. The curate was quick to throw
+some water on her face, and she soon came to. As soon as Cardenio
+heard the commotion, he rushed in from the other room, imagining that
+the worst had happened to his Luscinda--for it was no other than
+she--and it was a curious thing to see the four suddenly finding
+themselves face to face.
+
+Luscinda was the first one to speak, and she implored Don Fernando to
+take her life, so that her beloved Cardenio might believe that she
+had been true and loyal and faithful to him until the very last.
+
+When Dorothea heard Luscinda speak thus, she fell on her knees before
+Don Fernando and implored him to reconsider everything that he had
+done that was base and wrong and sinful. She pleaded with tears in her
+eyes, begging him to give up Luscinda to her faithful Cardenio, told
+him how much she still loved him in spite of his wrong-doing, and said
+she would forgive him everything if he would only let his real and
+better nature come into its own. And her tears and sincerity moved Don
+Fernando so that he himself wept, and he promised to abide by the
+ending which Fate itself seemed to have provided for by bringing them
+all together in this strange way.
+
+He told Luscinda that when he had found the paper in which she
+declared she could never be the wife of any other man than Cardenio,
+he was tempted to kill her, but was prevented by chance. He had left
+the house in a rage, and had not returned home till the following day,
+when he found that she had disappeared. Some months later he learned
+that she had taken refuge in a convent. He gathered the companions
+they had seen at the inn, and with their help he carried her from the
+convent. Now he repented of what he had done, prayed he might be
+permitted forever to live with his Dorothea, and asked them all for
+forgiveness. Then he gave his blessing to the overjoyed Cardenio and
+Luscinda, who were both so affected at their reunion that they shed
+tears. Even Sancho was weeping, although for quite another reason. He
+was grieved to find his Princess Micomicona suddenly lose her royal
+identity and turn out to be a mere lady.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XXXVII
+
+IN WHICH IS CONTINUED THE STORY OF THE FAMOUS PRINCESS
+MICOMICONA, WITH OTHER DROLL ADVENTURES
+
+
+Sancho thought it his solemn duty to go to his master at once and
+inform him of the catastrophe. Dejected, he approached Don Quixote,
+who had just awakened, and said: "Sir Rueful Countenance, your Worship
+may as well sleep on, without troubling yourself about killing or
+restoring her kingdom to the Princess; for that is all over and
+settled now."
+
+Don Quixote agreed with his squire enthusiastically, and then told him
+of the tremendous battle he had just had with the giant, dwelling
+particularly upon the great amount of blood that flowed when the
+giant's head was cut off.
+
+"Red wine, your Worship means," said Sancho, "and no less than
+twenty-four gallons, all of which has to be paid for! The Princess
+your Worship will find turned into a private lady named Dorothea; and
+there is much more that will astonish your Worship."
+
+Whereupon there ensued a rich and varied conversation between master
+and servant. When Don Quixote heard his squire confound blood with
+wine, he called him a fool. And when he heard that his Princess had
+turned into a simple Dorothea, the fears he had entertained during
+his past visit to the inn, began to return, and he decided that the
+place was enchanted. But of that his squire could not be convinced,
+for the episode of the blanketing still remained a most vivid reality
+to him. Had it not been for that, he repeated, he could have believed
+it readily.
+
+Meanwhile the curate had been telling Don Fernando and the others of
+Don Quixote's strange malady; he described how they had succeeded in
+taking him away from the wilderness and his self-inflicted penance,
+and told them all the strange adventures he had heard Sancho relate.
+They were greatly amused and thought it the most remarkable craze they
+had ever heard of. Don Fernando was eager that Dorothea should
+continue playing her part, and they all decided to come along on the
+journey to the village in La Mancha.
+
+At this moment Don Quixote entered in his regalia, the barber's basin
+on his head, spear in hand, and with the buckler on his arm. Don
+Fernando was struck with astonishment and laughter at the sight of the
+mixed armament and the peculiar long yellow face of the knight. After
+a silence, Don Quixote turned to Dorothea and repeated his vow to
+regain her kingdom for her. He said he approved heartily of the magic
+interference of the spirit of the king, her father, who had devised
+this new state of hers, that of a private maiden, in which guise she
+would no doubt be more secure from evil influence on her journey to
+her home.
+
+His ignorant squire broke in when his master related of his battle in
+the garret, and inferred irreverently and rather loudly that he had
+attacked wine-skins instead of giants, but Don Fernando quickly made
+him be quiet. Dorothea rose and thanked our rueful knight at the end
+of his speech for the renewed offer of his sword.
+
+Having listened to her lovely voice, Don Quixote turned angrily to his
+squire and reprimanded him for being a disbeliever, saying that he
+could now judge for himself what a fool he had made of himself. Sancho
+replied that he hoped he had made a mistake about the Princess not
+being a princess, but that as to the wine-skins, there could be no
+doubt, for the punctured skins he had seen himself at the head of Don
+Quixote's bed--and had not the garret floor been turned into a lake of
+wine? Whereupon his master swore at his stupidity, until Don Fernando
+interrupted and proposed that they spend the evening in pleasant
+conversation at the inn instead of continuing their journey that
+night.
+
+While that was being agreed upon, two travelers, a man and a woman,
+dressed in Moorish fashion, came to the inn. They asked for rooms
+overnight, but were told there were none to be had. Dorothea felt
+sorry for the strange lady--whose face was covered with a veil--and
+told her that she and Luscinda would gladly share their room with her.
+The lady rose from her chair, bowed her head and made a sign with her
+hands as if to thank them; and they concluded, because of her silence,
+that she could not speak their language. At this moment her companion
+returned to her and, seeing her surrounded by the guests at the inn,
+he confirmed what they had thought, for he made the remark that it was
+useless to address any questions to her as she could speak no other
+tongue than her own. They explained that they had asked no questions,
+but had only offered her quarters for the night. When the stranger
+learned this, it seemed to please him very much, and he thanked them
+profusely.
+
+As they were all curious to know who the lady was, they asked the
+stranger whether or not she was a Christian. He replied that while she
+was not, she wished to become one; and he informed them that she was a
+lady of high rank from Algiers. This excited a desire to see her face
+as well as to know whom she might be, and Dorothea could not resist
+the temptation of asking her to remove her veil. When her companion
+had told her Dorothea's desire, and the Moorish lady had removed her
+veil, they all stood in awe, for they beheld a face that seemed to
+them lovelier than any they had ever beheld before. Don Fernando asked
+her name, and the stranger replied it was Lela Zoraida; but when the
+fair lady heard him speak this name, she exclaimed emphatically that
+she was called Maria and not Zoraida. Luscinda embraced her in a
+loving way and said they would call her by that name.
+
+The supper was now ready and all placed themselves at a long table, at
+the head of which Don Quixote was asked to seat himself. At his
+request Dorothea--as the Princess Micomicona in disguise--sat on his
+right. All were merry and content and many pleasantries were passed.
+But suddenly Don Quixote stopped eating, rose, and with inspiration in
+his eyes and voice, began a long discourse on knight-errantry,
+reviewing the great good it had done for mankind. The language he used
+was so perfect, his manners so free and easy, and his delivery
+possessed of such charm, that his listeners could hardly make
+themselves believe they were in the presence of one who was demented.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XXXVIII
+
+WHICH TREATS OF THE CURIOUS DISCOURSE DON QUIXOTE DELIVERED
+ON ARMS AND LETTERS
+
+
+Don Quixote told them in his discourse of that age in which victory in
+battle depended on personal courage and good swordsmanship, before the
+use of such devilish contrivances as lead and powder. These things
+almost made him despair of success for his revival of chivalry in this
+age, he said; for while guns and artillery could instill no fear in
+his breast, they did make him feel uneasy, as one never knew when a
+bullet, intended for some one else, might cut off one's life. The very
+worst of such a death, he maintained, was that the bullet might have
+been discharged by a fleeing coward. And so he pledged himself again,
+in spite of all the things he had to struggle against, not to give up
+what he had undertaken to do: to set the world aright in accordance
+with the principles of knight-errantry.
+
+All the while that Don Quixote was discoursing, Sancho was much
+concerned because he neglected his food. He broke in whenever he had
+an opportunity, and admonished his master that he would have much time
+for talking after he had eaten.
+
+When they had finished their supper, the landlord informed them that
+he had re-arranged their quarters in order to accommodate all, and
+that the three women might sleep in the garret, as Don Quixote
+gallantly had given up his quarters to them. Their interest then
+turned again to the stranger. Don Fernando asked him some questions
+about his life, and he replied that while his life-story would be
+interesting, it might not afford them much enjoyment. However, he
+said, he would tell it if they so wished. The curate begged that he do
+so; and, seeing the interest of all, the stranger mentioned by way of
+introduction that while his was a true story, many a story of fiction
+would seem tame and less strange in comparison. And while all of the
+company expectantly turned their eyes toward the strange traveler in
+Moorish garb, he began the following tale.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTERS XXXIX-XLI
+
+WHEREIN THE CAPTIVE RELATES HIS LIFE AND ADVENTURES
+
+
+As a young man, the stranger said, he had left Spain, bent on adventure
+and on becoming a soldier. He had served with the Duke of Alva in
+Flanders, and in the wars of the Christians against the Turks, the Moors,
+and the Arabs. In one of these wars he was taken prisoner by King El
+Uchali of Algiers; he had previously advanced to the rank of captain. He
+was held a captive for a long time, first at Constantinople, then at
+Tunis, then at Algiers. At Constantinople he encountered a good many
+other Christian prisoners. Particularly he remembered one Don Pedro de
+Augilar, a brave soldier and a native of Andalusia, who, he said, had
+written some very excellent poetry. He especially spoke of two sonnets
+which he had liked so well that he had learned them by heart. One day Don
+Pedro succeeded in making his escape, but what had become of him he had
+never heard.
+
+As soon as the captive had spoken Don Pedro's name, the ladies and Don
+Fernando exchanged glances and smiled, and Don Fernando could not
+refrain from informing the narrator that Don Pedro was his brother.
+Furthermore, he said, he was safe in Andalusia, where he was happily
+married, in the best of health, and had three robust children. Then he
+touched on his brother's gift for composing poetry, and said that the
+very two sonnets the captive had mentioned, he himself knew by heart.
+Whereupon every one asked him to recite them, and so he did with fine
+feeling and intelligence. Then the captive resumed his story.
+
+At Algiers, he said, there lived, overlooking the prison, a great
+alcaide named Hadji Morato, a very rich man, who had but one child, a
+daughter of great beauty. She had learned the Christian prayer from a
+slave of her father's, when she was a child; the things that this
+Christian woman had taught her had made her long to know more about
+the religion and to become a Christian herself. This beautiful
+Algerian maiden had seen the captive from her window, and she liked
+him, and one day she managed to get a message to him, begging him to
+escape and to take her with him. From time to time she would throw to
+him gold coins wrapped in cloth, and these he would hide until finally
+he had enough to buy not only himself but some other prisoners free
+from their slavery.
+
+However, in order to effect the escape of the maiden, the captive was
+obliged to take into his confidence an old Algerian renegade who
+turned out to be a believer in Christ. With this man the captive sent
+messages to Zoraida. Now, this renegade was a sly fellow, and he
+bought a small vessel with which he began to ply to and fro between
+the city and some islands nearby, bringing back fruit each time, in
+order to alleviate all suspicions of his having acquired the vessel
+for any other purpose than trading. Finally it was decided the time
+had come for the escape, and the captive had himself ransomed.
+
+That night the renegade had the ship anchored opposite the prison and
+Zoraida's garden, and, with the help of a number of Christians whom
+they had gathered as rowers, and who were eager to return to Spain,
+they secured the ship and put the Moorish crew in irons and chains.
+
+Zoraida witnessed the proceedings from her window, and when she saw
+her captive and the renegade return in the skiff of the vessel, she
+hastened below into the garden. She was bedecked with a fortune in
+pearls and precious stones. She asked the renegade to follow her into
+the house, and when they returned, they brought with them a chest
+laden with gold. Just then her father was awakened and he began to
+shout in Arabic as loudly as he could that he was being robbed by
+Christians. Had it not been for the quick action of the renegade all
+might have been lost. He bound and gagged the father and carried him
+downstairs, where Zoraida had fainted in the captive's arms. Then they
+hastened back to the ship and set sail for Majorca.
+
+It was some time before the old alcaide realized that his daughter had
+gone with the captive of her own free will, and when he learned it, he
+flung himself into the sea, but was rescued by one of the rowers. When
+he found himself then on board the ship, he began to curse his
+daughter, calling her a Christian dog and other vile names. Finally it
+was deemed best to set him and the other Moors ashore; and when the
+old man saw the ship sail away with his daughter, he began to sob and
+cry aloud in the most heartrending way, threatening to kill himself if
+she did not return to him. The last words that she heard were, "I
+forgive you all!" and they made her weep so bitterly that it seemed as
+if her tears would never cease flowing.
+
+They were then less than a day's voyage from the coast of Spain. As
+they were breezing along with all sails set, over a moonlit sea, they
+saw a large ship appear in the distance. It turned out to be a French
+corsair from Rochelle out for plunder, for when it came closer it
+suddenly fired two guns that took terrible effect and wrecked their
+vessel. As the ship began to sink, they begged to be taken aboard the
+corsair, to which the captain was not averse. Once aboard they were
+told that if they had been courteous enough to reply to the question
+shouted from the corsair as to what port they were bound for, their
+own vessel would still have been intact. The covetous crew stripped
+them of all their valuable belongings, the pearls and jewels, money
+and adornments of Zoraida. The chest of gold, however, the renegade
+stealthily lowered into the sea without any one seeing it.
+
+The next day when the Spanish coast was sighted the captain put them
+all in a skiff, gave them some bread and water for their voyage, and
+set out to sea. Before letting them depart, moved by some strange
+impulse, he gave Zoraida forty crowns; and he had not robbed her of
+her beautiful gown. They steered their skiff towards the shore, where
+they landed soon after midnight. Immediately they left the shore,
+eager to know where they were. They climbed the mountain--for the
+shore was a rocky one--and there they rested until dawn, then went on
+into the country.
+
+Soon they met a young shepherd; but when he saw their strange garbs,
+he ran away from them like a frightened lamb, crying that the Moors
+had invaded the country. And not so long after that they encountered
+fifty mounted men of the coast guard, but as soon as these saw their
+Moorish costumes and had heard the captive's explanation, they
+realized that the boy's vivid imagination had disturbed them
+needlessly. And when one of the Christian captives recognized in one
+of the guards an uncle of his, these men could not do enough for the
+returned slaves. They gave them their horses, some of them went to
+rescue the skiff for them, and when they arrived at the nearby city
+they were welcomed by all the inhabitants.
+
+At once they went to the church to return thanks to the Lord for their
+marvelous escape, and Zoraida was impressed beyond expression with the
+hosts of praying worshippers. She, the renegade, and the captive
+stayed at the house of the returned Christian, and the rest were
+quartered throughout the town. After six days the renegade departed
+for Granada to restore himself to the Church through the means of the
+Holy Inquisition. One by one the other captives left for their own
+homes, and finally only Zoraida and he himself remained. He then
+decided to go in search of his father, whom he had not seen for so
+many years, and he did not know whether he was alive or not. His
+journey had brought him to this inn, and it was here that his story
+came to an end.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XLII
+
+WHICH TREATS OF WHAT FURTHER TOOK PLACE IN THE INN, AND OF
+SEVERAL OTHER THINGS WORTH KNOWING
+
+
+The captive having finished his strange and interesting story, Don
+Fernando rose and thanked him, and all were eager for an opportunity
+to show him their goodwill. Don Fernando begged the stranger to allow
+him to provide for his comfort, and offered to take him to his
+brother, the Marquis, who, he said, would be most eager to act as
+Zoraida's godfather at her baptism. But the stranger declined
+graciously all the offers that were made.
+
+Night was now setting in, and each one was contemplating going to his
+room, when suddenly a coach with attendants on horseback arrived at
+the inn. The landlady told the one demanding lodging that there was
+none to be had at any price. Whereupon the man replied that room
+_must_ be found for his lordship, the Judge, his master. As soon as
+the landlady learned she was dealing with the law, she nearly fainted
+from exertion to please, and offered to give up their own room and bed
+to his lordship. By this time the Judge, attired in a long robe with
+ruffled sleeves, had stepped out of the coach, accompanied by a
+beautiful girl of about sixteen years of age. There were exclamations
+from all when they saw the young lady, for she possessed beauty and
+grace that were really rare.
+
+The first one to greet the strangers was no other than Don Quixote,
+who, with a grave air and the most exalted and flowery language, bade
+them welcome to the castle. He finished his speech by saying: "Enter,
+your worship, into this paradise, for here you will find stars and
+suns to accompany the heaven your Worship brings with you. Here you
+will find arms in their supreme excellence, and beauty in its highest
+perfection."
+
+The Judge looked for a moment as if he hesitated about entering with
+his daughter after such an unusual reception; he seemed to wonder
+whether he was at an inn or an asylum. He scrutinized Don Quixote's
+curious armor, then turned his attention to the rest of the company,
+which evidently made him feel more at ease.
+
+It was arranged that the young lady should sleep with the other
+ladies; which pleased her greatly, for it was evident that she was
+very much taken with them and their beauty. The Judge was as much
+pleased with the presence of so many people of quality as he was
+puzzled by Don Quixote and his strange appearance and behavior.
+
+The moment the former captive and captain had laid eyes on the Judge,
+he was stirred by the conviction that here was his own younger
+brother. He asked the Judge's name of one of the servants, and was
+told he was called the Licentiate Juan Perez de Viedma, lately
+appointed Judge of the Supreme Court of Mexico, to which country he
+was now on his way. The Captain inquired whether the servant knew from
+which part of Spain the Judge came, and got the reply that he had
+heard it rumored he was a native of a little village in the mountains
+of Leon. The Captain was then certain it was his brother, and he
+hastened to tell the curate, Don Fernando, and Cardenio, saying he
+felt diffident about making himself known too abruptly for fear his
+brother might refuse to acknowledge him because of his poverty and
+ill-fortune.
+
+The curate understood the Captain's way of thinking, and asked that he
+trust him to manage it in a discreet way. So when the Judge invited
+them all to keep him company while he supped, the curate told the
+story of the captive at the table. In telling it he pretended to have
+been a captive in the hands of the Turks and the Algerians and a
+comrade-in-arms of the Captain. When he had finished the story, tears
+rolled down the Judge's cheeks, and he begged the curate to help him
+to find his beloved brother, for whom their aged father was ever
+praying, ever asking, hoping that he might see him once more before he
+closed his eyes in death. It was then that the Captain, himself in
+tears, stepped forward and, the Judge having recognized him, embraced
+his brother. Then the Judge embraced Zoraida, offering her all the
+worldly goods he possessed. His daughter, the lovely young girl, now
+joined them, and all the others were moved to tears by the brothers'
+happiness in finding each other after so many years of separation.
+
+Don Quixote stood gazing in silence at what passed before his eyes,
+ascribing the two brothers' luck to magic.
+
+When the first emotion of the unexpected meeting had subsided, the
+Judge asked his brother and Zoraida to return with him to Seville,
+from where he would send a messenger to the father, telling him of the
+good news and begging him to come to the joint marriage and baptismal
+ceremony. As the Judge was obliged to leave for New Spain within a
+month, it was agreed that a speedy return to Seville was necessary.
+
+It was now early morning, though still dark, and all were tired, so it
+was decided that every one should go to bed. But Don Quixote,
+sacrificing himself in spite of his fatigue, appointed himself to keep
+guard for the remainder of the night, fearing attack of some evil
+giant or beast upon all the beauty that was slumbering within. They,
+who were aware of his peculiar weakness, returned thanks in their most
+gracious manner; and when they were alone with the Judge they hastened
+to explain the knight's mental state. The Judge was much amused by the
+accounts of his adventures and his attempts to revive knight errantry
+in Spain.
+
+There was only one unhappy being in the inn that night: that was
+Sancho Panza. He was not at all pleased with his master's staying up
+at such a late hour. But there seemed nothing he could do about it, so
+he retired and spread himself comfortably on the trappings of his
+donkey.
+
+While Don Quixote was guarding the castle, and dawn was approaching,
+Dorothea, who had lain awake, was suddenly stirred by the sound of a
+man's voice, a voice so beautiful that it seemed to her there could be
+none sweeter in the world. Then Cardenio was awakened by it, and he
+felt that he ought to share the joy of hearing it with the ladies, so
+he went to the garret to call their attention to it. When he knocked
+on the door and told them, Dorothea called out that they were already
+listening. The only one not awake at that time was Dona Clara, the
+Judge's fair daughter.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XLIII
+
+WHEREIN IS RELATED THE PLEASANT STORY OF THE MULETEER, TOGETHER
+WITH OTHER STRANGE THINGS THAT CAME TO PASS IN THE INN
+
+
+Dorothea and the other ladies were in a quandary as to whether to
+awake Dona Clara or not. Finally they decided that she would be sorry
+if she had to learn what she had missed and would regret that they had
+not awakened her; so they shook her until she opened her eyes and then
+asked her to sit up in bed and listen. But scarcely had she heard one
+note, before she began to sob hysterically. She threw her arms around
+Dorothea and cried: "Why, oh, why did you wake me, dear lady? The
+greatest kindness fortune could do me now would be to close my eyes
+and ears so that I could neither see nor hear that unhappy musician!"
+
+Dorothea was at a loss to know what had happened to the child. All the
+while she was trying to soothe her, the tears were streaming down the
+young girl's face, and she was trembling like a leaf. Finally she
+quieted her feelings sufficiently to be able to confide to Dorothea in
+a whispering voice the story of her romance with the singer, who, she
+said, was not a muleteer as his garb would indicate, but the only son
+and heir of a rich noble of Aragon. This gentleman's house in Madrid
+was situated directly opposite her father's, and having once seen Dona
+Clara the youth proceeded to declare his love for her. She, being
+motherless and having no one to whom she could confide her love
+secrets, had to leave Madrid with her father, when he was given his
+appointment to New Spain, without an opportunity to see her lover. But
+as soon as the youth, who was not much older than herself, learned of
+their departure, he dressed himself up as a muleteer and set out on
+foot to pursue her. At every inn where they had stopped overnight she
+had found him awaiting their departure in the morning, and she was
+always in dread, she said, lest her father learn of their love for
+each other.
+
+With her arms tight around Dorothea, she confessed to her how great
+her love was for the youth, saying that she could never live without
+him. Dorothea kissed the girl, and promised her that with God's help
+all would end well, telling her to put her trust in Him; and before
+another day had passed she hoped to have good news for Dona Clara.
+Dorothea's assurances calmed and put new faith in the young girl's
+heart; and soon they all were fast asleep again.
+
+Now, all this time the one-eyed Asturian maid, and the landlady's
+daughter, both bent on deviltry, were keeping their eyes open. It was
+impossible for them to forget Don Quixote, and they were determined to
+play a joke on him before the night was over. They posted themselves
+in the hayloft, where there was a hole in the wall; and when Don
+Quixote passed on Rocinante, he heard some one calling: "Pst! Come
+here, senor!"
+
+As Don Quixote turned to see who it might be, he discovered the hole
+in the wall and it seemed very much like a marvelously decorated
+window, in keeping with the beautiful castle he had made out of the
+inn. He beheld at this window the two maidens, and immediately they
+became to him the daughter of the lord of the castle and her
+attendant. Wistfully he gazed at them, certain, however, that they had
+designed to destroy his faithful and stubborn allegiance to Dulcinea,
+to whom he had just been sending up prayers and salutations under the
+influence of the moon. Then he spoke to them, regretting that they
+should let themselves be so overcome by love for him that they could
+no longer master their feelings. He told them of that great and only
+mistress of his soul, the incomparable one of El Toboso of La Mancha,
+to whom he had sworn eternal love and undying admiration. And at last
+he admonished the innkeeper's daughter to retire to her beauteous
+apartment, lest he should be forced to prove himself ungrateful. If,
+he said, she would demand any other thing than love, he would
+willingly grant her the favor, even unto a lock of Medusa's hair.
+
+The wench immediately realized that her opportunity had come, so she
+quickly said that she cared for no lock of Medusa's or any other, but
+would be satisfied to feel the touch of his hand.
+
+Before sanctioning this demand, Don Quixote asserted his virtuousness
+again by stipulating that she must not kiss it, only touch it. He
+understood, of course, that any woman would be likely to ask such a
+favor of him at any time (for who would not be proud to have touched
+the sinewy hand of so remarkable and famous a knight errant as
+himself?) but he insisted on being discreet at all times. So he
+climbed up and stood on the saddle of his hack, reaching his lean arm
+through the hole in the wall.
+
+By this time the Asturian maid had procured from the stable the halter
+of Sancho's donkey, on which her young mistress quickly made a running
+knot and passed it over Don Quixote's wrist. As soon as she had
+proceeded thus far in her deviltry, she jumped down from the hole and
+made fast the other end of the halter to the bolt of the door. Then
+she and her maid swiftly made off, bursting with laughter, leaving the
+knight to complain of the roughness of her touch.
+
+But after a while Don Quixote began to realize that no one was there to
+listen to his complaints, and also that he was not standing too securely
+on his Rocinante's back; for should Rocinante move without being urged--a
+most unusual event--he would be left to hang in the air by one arm. It
+suddenly came to him that he was a victim of enchantment, and he called
+on all the saints, and Dulcinea, and Sancho Panza, on all kind magicians
+and sages, and every one else he could think of, to come to his aid.
+
+But no one came, until the morning brought four travelers on horseback.
+They found the gate still shut, so they called to Don Quixote, who by
+this time was almost exhausted. But although wearied, his spirit had not
+left him. He reprimanded the strangers for their insolence; asked whether
+they were so stupid they failed to realize that as yet the castle gates
+were not open, that all were asleep. He commanded them to withdraw to a
+distance and to approach the fortress after daylight; then he could
+better tell whether they should be permitted to enter or not.
+
+One of the travelers mistook Don Quixote for the innkeeper, and was
+immediately reprimanded for this. The offended knight then began to
+talk about knight errantry and its revival in the world, until finally
+the men tired of his discourse. Again they knocked at the gate, this
+time with such force and fury that the innkeeper woke up and came out
+and admitted them in a hurry. They entered violently on their horses,
+enraged because of their long waiting at the gate, and dismounted,
+leaving their horses free. The moment the horses saw Rocinante and the
+curious position of his master, they went to investigate him, and the
+unsuspecting Rocinante leaped from under Don Quixote with such
+suddenness that the poor knight's arm was nearly wrenched from his
+body. There he was left to dangle, while the shouts that forced their
+way from his throat rent the air fiercely.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XLIV
+
+IN WHICH ARE CONTINUED THE UNHEARD-OF ADVENTURES AT THE INN
+
+
+When the landlord heard the terrible outcries of Don Quixote, he ran,
+greatly excited, to see who could be giving vent to such agony. The
+travelers joined him; and the Asturian maid was stirred to quick
+action by a bad conscience, as well as by the excited state of her
+master. She untied the halter, and Don Quixote fell so suddenly that
+his meager body landed like a dead weight on the ground.
+
+The landlord and the travelers found him there, and asked him
+impatiently why he was making such a tremendous noise. He ignored
+their question entirely, pulled the rope off his wrist, and mounted
+his charger with as much nonchalance and elegance as his stiff limbs
+would permit. Then he haughtily raised his head, after having adjusted
+all his knightly paraphernalia, and circled down the field, returning
+in a canter. Having halted Rocinante, he bellowed out to those
+assembled "Whoever shall say that I have been enchanted with just
+cause, provided my lady the Princess Micomicona grants me permission
+to do so, I give him the lie, challenge him and defy him to single
+combat."
+
+The landlord saw at once the effect these words of the poor demented
+knight had on his newly arrived guests, so he hastened to explain Don
+Quixote's condition to them. They then asked whether the innkeeper had
+seen a youth dressed like a muleteer. He replied that he had not; but
+just then one of the men exclaimed that the youth must be there, since
+the Judge's coach--which he had suddenly observed--was there. They
+then decided to dissemble, each one going to a different entrance of
+the inn, so there would be no chance for the youth to escape.
+
+The landlord was curious to know what it was all about, but could
+arrive at no conclusion. The truth was that these men were servants of
+the young muleteer's father. And it was not long ere they had
+discovered him, lying asleep, never thinking that he would himself be
+pursued. The servant who roused him made a few caustic remarks to the
+young Don Luis--for this was his name--about his bed and the luxury of
+his surroundings, as particularly befitting a youth of his rank and
+breeding.
+
+Don Luis could not at first believe that he was really awake. He
+rubbed his eyes in astonishment, and failed to find a reply to the
+servant's remarks. The man then continued, advising his young master
+to return to his home at once, saying that his father, as a result of
+his disappearance, was dangerously ill. The youth was curious to learn
+how his father had found out what road he had taken and that he had
+disguised himself as a muleteer. The servant answered that a student
+to whom Don Luis had confided his love for Dona Clara, had told his
+master everything, when he saw how he suffered.
+
+Now, it chanced that another muleteer, who had been sleeping with Don
+Luis, could not keep what he was hearing to himself; besides, he
+deemed it best to disappear from the scene. He informed some of the
+guests of what had occurred, and thus it happened that Don Fernando
+and Cardenio learned of the plight of the young singer, whose voice
+they had so admired a short time before; and when the muleteer told
+them that his comrade was a young nobleman in disguise, they decided
+to go and help him in his quandary.
+
+They found the four men entreating Don Luis to return to his father;
+and the youth emphatically refusing to do so, saying that they might
+take him dead, but never alive.
+
+At this moment Dorothea saw Cardenio from her window, and she called
+him and told him the story of the lad and Dona Clara. He in turn
+related to her how the servants of the youth's father had come to take
+him back to his home. In telling Dorothea this news Cardenio was
+overheard by Dona Clara who would have swooned had not Dorothea
+supported her.
+
+By this time the servants had brought Don Luis into the inn,
+threatening to take him back by force should he not go willingly.
+Again he protested, and at last the argument attracted all the guests,
+including Don Quixote, who had ceased his duties as guard for the
+present. The Judge was there too, and when one of the servants
+recognized in him their neighbor in Madrid, he pleaded with him to do
+all he could to make the young man return to his ill father.
+
+The Judge turned to the young muleteer, and saw that it was his
+neighbor's son; whereupon he embraced him and asked in a fatherly way
+what had brought him there dressed in such a manner. With his arm
+around the youth's neck, the Judge withdrew with the lad to discuss
+the reasons for his disguise and for his leaving his father.
+
+While the kindly Judge was thus occupied with Don Luis, a tumult suddenly
+arose at the gate of the inn. It was the landlord, trying to hold back
+two guests who had attempted to get away without paying. The innkeeper
+was stubbornly clinging to the garb of one of the adventurers, and in
+return was being pummeled mercilessly, until his face was a study in dark
+and fast colors, except his nose, which was tinted a running red. As soon
+as the landlady perceived her mate's distress, the thought struck her
+that this would be a most worthy opportunity for our valiant knight
+errant to show his skill as a swordsman and a wielder of the lance. So
+she dispatched her daughter, the fair young lady of the castle, to bring
+the knight her message of distress.
+
+Don Quixote received the young lady calmly and courteously, but said
+that he was in honor bound to engage in no combat except by the
+express permission of her Royal Highness the Princess Micomicona; she
+having granted it, there could be no doubt as to the outcome of any
+battle in which he chose to draw his sword. Seeing this, in her
+opinion, ill-timed hesitancy, the one-eyed Asturian muttered that by
+the time the Princess was found, her master would have passed the
+heavenly border. The Princess, however, was quickly summoned, and Don
+Quixote knelt on his stiff knees before her; but ere he had finished
+his long harangue of request, she--having been advised of the urgency
+of the situation--had already given him permission and wished him
+godspeed.
+
+Don Quixote arose and drew his sword, paced toward the gate, and then
+suddenly stopped short. All wondered what had happened to cause his
+hesitating thus, and the Asturian maid expressed her wonder aloud. Don
+Quixote was not long about the answer. He replied at once that this
+was no business for him; they had best call his squire. It was for
+Sancho, he said, that he reserved the task and joy of fighting such
+lowly people as the ones he saw before him here and now.
+
+Now, while all of this was taking place, Don Luis, with tears in his
+eyes, was confessing to Dona Clara's father his great and indomitable
+love for her. This placed the Judge in a curious predicament, for he
+found himself forced to sit in judgment on the welfare of his own
+child. He was so taken with the charm and intelligence of the youth
+that he was anxious to have him for a son-in-law, particularly as his
+family was one of distinction, and extremely rich. Yet his better
+judgment told him that it would be wise to wait another day before
+giving his consent. He would have preferred to have Don Luis' father
+approve of the marriage, although he thought it almost certain that
+this gentleman would like to see his son married to a titled lady.
+
+And while the fate of the young lovers was being weighed by the Judge,
+peace had been declared between the innkeeper and the two travelers
+who, persuaded by the chivalrous words of Don Quixote, and the
+summoning of Sancho, had been made to see the light and pay the bill.
+By this time everything was settled amicably, the landlord having
+demanded no special indemnity for his battered, many-colored face.
+
+But who should loom up on the scene, now that everything was peaceful
+again, but the owner of Mambrino's golden helmet! This particular
+barber was now leading his donkey to the stable, when he suddenly
+discovered Sancho Panza hard at work repairing the barber's own
+trappings, which our Sancho had taken as booty at the time his master
+fell heir to the helmet. The barber left his donkey at no slow speed
+and ran towards Sancho, to whom he exclaimed threateningly "There, you
+thief, I have caught you! Give me my basin and my pack-saddle, and
+everything you robbed me of!"
+
+But Sancho was not willing to give up so easily things that he had gained
+as spoils in righteous warfare. He refuted with his fists, as well as by
+argument, the barber's coarse suggestion that he was a common highwayman;
+and his master, coming up at this instant, was proud and pleased to hear
+his faithful squire talk like that, and also to see the barber's teeth
+gone, which the force of Sancho's blow evidently had carried away. As a
+matter of fact, Sancho's demonstration of physical strength made such a
+profound impression on Don Quixote, that he decided his squire was not
+far from being eligible to knighthood.
+
+As soon as the barber was able to make himself heard again, he began
+to arraign both master and squire. He was not to be subdued. He told
+all that quickly gathered round them that they could assure themselves
+of the truth of what he said by fitting Sancho's saddle to his own
+steed; furthermore, he said, they had plundered him of a basin.
+
+When Don Quixote heard this ridiculous accusation, his lips twisted
+into a scornful smile. He dispatched Sancho to fetch the helmet--which
+seemed to Sancho a dangerous move--and when Sancho returned with the
+basin, Don Quixote held it up with great self-assurance before
+everybody.
+
+"Your worships," said he, "may see with what face this squire can
+assert that this is a basin and not the helmet I told you of; and I
+swear by the order of chivalry I profess, that this helmet is the
+identical one I took from him, without anything added to or removed."
+
+This statement was corroborated in detail by Sancho, who added: "Since
+that battle my master has fought in the helmet only once. That was
+when he let loose the unfortunate ones in chains. And if it had not
+been for this basin-helmet he might have been killed in that
+engagement, for there were plenty of stones raining down on him at
+that time."
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XLV
+
+IN WHICH THE DOUBTFUL QUESTION OF MAMBRINO'S HELMET AND THE
+PACK-SADDLE IS FINALLY SETTLED, WITH OTHER ADVENTURES THAT
+OCCURRED IN TRUTH AND EARNEST
+
+
+The barber appealed to those present and asked them what they thought
+about Don Quixote's nonsense; and it was then that it occurred to Don
+Quixote's friend, the barber of his village to play a joke on his
+fellow barber. He solemnly asked the other barber whether he was out
+of his head, for of course anybody could see that it was a helmet,
+although, he admitted, not a complete one.
+
+The poor barber was so taken aback, so perplexed that a learned
+barber, and a seemingly sane one otherwise, could not tell the
+difference between a basin and a helmet that he nearly toppled over.
+But when the worthy curate, Cardenio, Don Fernando, and all--for they
+realized at once the barber's joke--insisted that he was wrong, and
+that it was not a basin, the perspiration began to trickle down his
+face, and he exclaimed: "God bless me! Is it possible that such an
+honorable company can say that this is not a basin but a helmet? Why,
+this is a thing that would astonish a whole university, however wise
+it might be! And if this basin is a helmet, then the pack-saddle must
+be a horse's caparison!"
+
+Some one present was quick to assert that it most certainly was a
+caparison and not a pack-saddle at all; that no one but a fool could
+take it for a pack-saddle. And when a gentleman of quality like Don
+Fernando offered to take the votes of those present and they turned
+out to be in favor of the pack-saddle's remaining a caparison, the
+barber thought he had gone completely mad.
+
+By this time the group of spectators had been increased by the arrival
+of the four servants of Don Luis, Don Luis himself, and three new
+guests--officers of the Holy Brotherhood, to whom the proceedings and
+the amusement of those present seemed utter foolishness. One of these
+uninitiated newcomers, one of the officers of the Brotherhood, dared
+to say that any one who maintained that it was a helmet instead of a
+basin must be drunk. But he should not have said it, for our knight
+lifted his lance and let it fly out of his hand with such ferocity and
+such sure aim that if the officer had not been lucky enough to be able
+to dodge it, it would have pierced his body.
+
+The tumult that followed was indescribable. The landlord came to the
+rescue of his Brotherhood comrades. His wife fell into hysterics for
+fear he would be beheaded by Don Quixote's vicious sword. The women
+were all screaming, wailing, weeping and fainting. Then this
+tremendous din and noise was suddenly rent by the voice of Don
+Quixote; and like a flash there was peace, when the knight errant
+began to appeal in soft lucid tones for a cessation of hostilities. It
+was a curious thing to observe how willingly the demented man's appeal
+to reason was listened to by all. The confusion had struck most of
+them with terror and they were glad to heed in such a moment even the
+will of unreason.
+
+But as soon as there was quiet again, the grudge against Don Quixote
+that had established itself in the heart of one of the Brotherhood,
+began to assert itself. It suddenly came to his mind that among his
+warrants he had one for a man of Don Quixote's description who was
+accused of having set free a chain of galley-slaves. As soon as he had
+convinced himself that there could be no mistake about the identity,
+he strode forth and seized Don Quixote so abruptly by the collar that
+the knight nearly choked.
+
+"Help for the Holy Brotherhood!" the officer yelled aloud. "And that
+you may see that I demand it in earnest, read this warrant which says
+this highwayman is to be arrested!"
+
+Hardly did Don Quixote feel himself handled in so undignified a
+manner, when he clutched the villain's throat, foaming at the mouth
+like a wild beast. Luckily they were separated in time by Don Fernando
+and the rest, or they would have torn each other to pieces. Yet the
+officer was not willing to give up his claim on Don Quixote's person:
+a claim that our knight errant laughed at, for who had ever heard of
+members of the knighthood being dependent on jurisdiction? Did he,
+this base knave, this ill-born scoundrel, not know that the law of
+knights was in their swords, their charter in their prowess, and their
+edicts in their will? And then he calmly rambled on, his speech of
+denunciation culminating in this last crushing remark: "What knight
+errant has there been, is there, or will there ever be in the world,
+not bold enough to give, single-handed, four hundred cudgellings to
+four hundred officers of the Holy Brotherhood if they come in his
+way?"
+
+While his master was thus discoursing in his usual vein, Sancho was
+reviewing past events at the inn, and he could not help but make this
+sad exclamation: "By the Lord, it is quite true what my master says
+about the enchantments of this castle, for it is impossible to live an
+hour in peace in it!"
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XLVI
+
+OF THE END OF THE NOTABLE ADVENTURE OF THE OFFICERS OF THE
+HOLY BROTHERHOOD; AND OF THE GREAT FEROCITY OF OUR WORTHY
+KNIGHT, DON QUIXOTE
+
+
+The curate had to argue for some time with the officers of the
+Brotherhood before he could finally persuade them that it would serve
+no purpose to arrest Don Quixote, for, being out of his senses, he
+would in the end be released as a madman. Furthermore, he warned them,
+Don Quixote would never submit to force.
+
+Sancho Panza and the barber were still quarreling over the pack-saddle
+and the other booty, and at last the officers agreed to act as
+mediators, and the differences were adjusted by arbitration. The
+curate settled for the basin by paying eight reals, and received a
+receipt for payment in full from the barber.
+
+Don Fernando, in the meantime, extracted a promise from three of the
+servants of Don Luis to return to Madrid, while the other one agreed
+to remain and accompany his young master to where Don Fernando wanted
+him to go. Dona Clara was sparkling with happiness; and Zoraida seemed
+to feel at home with the Christians, in spite of the noise and tumult
+she had had to live through during her short stay at the inn.
+
+The landlord did not forget the reckoning for the wine-skins and all
+the other things whose loss he could attribute to Don Quixote, for he
+had witnessed the curate's paying off the debt for the barber's
+helmet. Don Fernando paid all the innkeeper's demands generously,
+after the curate had decided the claims were just.
+
+But when Don Quixote felt no discord in the air, he betook himself to
+the presence of Dorothea, knelt before her, and told her how willing
+and anxious he was to serve her and conquer her giant. And he
+requested that they make ready to leave. Her reply was simple and
+direct, for she told him that his will was hers. So Don Quixote
+ordered his squire to saddle Rocinante and his own donkey; but Sancho
+only shook his head in sorry fashion.
+
+"Master," he said, "there is more mischief in the village than one
+hears of." And as his master begged him to speak freely, he burst out:
+"This lady, who calls herself ruler of the great kingdom of Micomicon,
+is no more so than my mother; for, if she was what she says, she would
+not go rubbing noses with one that is here every instant and behind
+every door."
+
+Though it was merely with her husband, Don Fernando, that she had, as
+Sancho said, rubbed noses, the crimson in her royal blood came to the
+surface, and her face turned as red as a beet. Sancho, fearing that
+the Princess was a courtesan, wanted to save his master the two years'
+journey to Micomicon, if at the end of it it should turn out that
+another one than Don Quixote or himself should reap the fruits of
+their labor.
+
+It is impossible to describe the terrible wrath of the knight when he
+heard the Princess thus slandered. His indignation and fury knew no
+bounds. He began to stammer and stutter, inarticulate with rage,
+until Sancho was scared out of his wits, afraid of being cut open by
+his raving master's sword. He was just about to turn his back on his
+master and disappear till the storm had passed, when Dorothea came to
+his rescue. She suggested that Sancho's strange behavior could only be
+ascribed to one thing: enchantment. How else could he have seen such
+diabolical things as he described, how could he have been made to bear
+false witness against her, and how could he have spoken words so
+offensive to her modesty? Knowing the heart of Sancho, Don Quixote at
+once thought her explanation a most ingenious one, for what else could
+have put into Sancho's head such disrespect for a royal personage? Don
+Fernando, too, pleaded in Sancho's behalf; and Sancho meekly stumbled
+to his knees before his master, and kissed his hand frantically,
+begging him for forgiveness. Whereupon our knight errant with many
+gestures pardoned and blessed him.
+
+"Now, Sancho, my son," he said, "thou wilt be convinced of the truth
+of what I have many a time told thee, that everything in this castle
+is done by means of enchantment."
+
+To which Sancho Panza replied meekly but firmly: "So it is, I believe,
+except the affair of the blanket, which came to pass in reality by
+ordinary means."
+
+But Don Quixote as usual was not in a mood to listen to nonsense, and
+he replied that if such were the case he would have avenged him, but
+seeing no one to avenge himself upon, how could it have been anything
+else but enchantment?
+
+Those who were there were eager to know what had happened to Sancho, and
+the landlord was most obliging in giving a graphic description of all
+that had occurred. They all seemed to enjoy the account enormously, for
+they laughed hilariously. Had Don Quixote not again assured Sancho that
+it most certainly had happened by enchantment, there is no doubt that he
+would have interrupted their hilarity.
+
+It was now two days since they had arrived at the inn, and Don
+Fernando and Dorothea were becoming anxious to depart. In order that
+they might not have to go out of their way, it was arranged that they
+should go by themselves; meanwhile a scheme was devised whereby the
+curate and the barber could restore Don Quixote to his native village.
+
+An ox-cart passed that day, and the curate, hearing it was going in
+the direction of El Toboso, made arrangements with the owner to make
+the journey with him. Then he ordered some of the servants to make a
+cage, large enough to hold Don Quixote, and provided it with bars. He
+then asked Don Fernando and his companions, the officers of the Holy
+Brotherhood, the servants of Don Luis, and the innkeeper to cover
+their faces and change their appearance so that Don Quixote would
+think they were quite different people.
+
+When this had been done they tiptoed to the valiant knight errant's
+room, where they found him fast asleep, bound him, without waking him,
+hand and foot; then they stood about the room silently. When the
+knight awoke, he was startled to find that he could not move, and
+seeing all these strangely conjured-up figures before him, it struck
+him they must be phantoms of the enchanted castle. He was absolutely
+helpless, and the men had no difficulty in stuffing him into the cage.
+The bars were nailed on securely, and the cage was then carried out of
+the inn and placed in the ox-cart.
+
+While the procession slowly proceeded from the inn to the ox-cart, the
+men supporting the cage on their shoulders, the barber chanted strange
+words in a weird and hollow voice. The barber took it upon himself to
+become the prophet of the occasion, and he proclaimed to the Knight of
+the Rueful Countenance that he ought not to consider his present
+imprisonment an affliction. It was in a way a sort of penance, he
+said, through which he would be humbled to be in readiness for a still
+greater, sweeter imprisonment, the bond of matrimony. This prediction
+would come true, he avowed, when the fierce Manchegan lion and the
+tender Tobosan dove met again. They would be joined in one, and the
+offspring of this union would be of such stuff as to set the world
+aflame.
+
+When Don Quixote heard these words, he was stirred into an exalted
+emotion. Had he not been well bound it would have been expressed by
+kneeling. He raised his eyes toward Heaven and thanked the Lord for
+having sent this prophet to him in this needy moment. He prayed that
+he should not be left to perish in the cage, and also implored of the
+prophet not to let his faithful Sancho Panza abandon him, saying that
+if by chance the promise of the island should not come true, he had
+made provision for him in his will. Sancho was much moved by what his
+encaged and enchanted master had said, and he bent down and kissed
+his hands--he had to kiss both since they were tied together. By that
+time the procession had arrived at the ox-cart, and all was ready for
+the departure.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XLVII
+
+OF THE STRANGE MANNER IN WHICH DON QUIXOTE OF LA MANCHA WAS
+CARRIED AWAY ENCHANTED, TOGETHER WITH OTHER REMARKABLE
+INCIDENTS
+
+
+Don Quixote was greatly perplexed and, indeed, somewhat impatient with
+the slow speed of the cart carrying away this enchanted knight. The
+cart had rolled only a few paces and then stopped; there was nothing
+exciting or heroic in being carried off in such a way! Never had he
+read anywhere of so ridiculously slow and tame a proceeding. And on an
+ox-cart! However, times had changed, and he realized that until he had
+established the new era of knight-errantry, the most plebeian ways of
+being captured by enchantment would have to serve. Yet, he did not
+consider it beneath his dignity to ask Sancho what he thought on the
+subject.
+
+"I don't know what to think," answered Sancho, "not being as well read
+as your Worship in errant writings; but for all that, I venture to say
+and swear that these apparitions that are about us are not quite
+Catholic."
+
+Don Quixote could not refrain from laughing aloud at his squire's
+simplicity. How could they be Catholics when they were devils, made
+of no substance whatever, nothing but air?
+
+[Illustration: "HE PRAYED THAT HE SHOULD NOT BE LEFT TO PERISH IN THE
+CAGE."--_Page 131_]
+
+"By the Lord, Master," interrupted Sancho excitedly, "I have touched
+them already, and one of the devils, I swear, has firm flesh.
+Furthermore, I have always heard it said that all devils smelled of
+sulphur and brimstone, but this one smells of amber half a league
+off."
+
+Here Sancho was referring to Don Fernando, who, like most nobles, used
+a perfume; but Don Quixote explained to his squire that this
+particular devil was so besprinkled in order to give people the
+impression he was not a devil.
+
+While Don Quixote and his squire were thus exchanging thoughts on the
+subject of devils and their religion and what stuff they were made of,
+the curate and the barber were saying farewell to Don Fernando, his
+bride, Dorothea, Cardenio, Luscinda, the Judge and Dona Clara, as well
+as to the Captain and the Captain's bride, Zoraida. All of them
+promised to write to the curate, so that he in return might let them
+know how his and Don Quixote's journey had ended.
+
+After many embraces, the curate and the barber were ready to make
+their departure when the landlord came running out with some papers
+which he handed to the curate as a gift. The landlord said it was the
+manuscript of the novel, "Rinconete and Cortadillo," a part of the
+contents of the valise in which he had found the story of "Ill-Advised
+Curiosity," which the curate had read aloud at the inn.
+
+The curate thanked the innkeeper, saying that he hoped it was as good
+as the other novel. Then he and the barber covered their faces that
+they might not be recognized by Don Quixote, and took their places
+behind the cart, mounted on their mules. The three officers of the
+Brotherhood had been brought by the curate to escort them to El
+Toboso, armed with muskets. And then Sancho Panza, mounted on his
+donkey, led Rocinante by the reins. As the procession started, the
+landlady came out to weep make-believe tears for Don Quixote, who
+begged her to shed none, for in the end, he said, virtue would
+triumph.
+
+At the head of the procession came the ox-cart, the officers of the
+Brotherhood marching beside it, then followed Sancho Panza on his ass,
+leading Rocinante by the bridle, and in the rear trailed the curate
+and the barber on their mules. The slow pace of the oxen had to be
+imitated by the rest, so the whole procession took on a solemn and
+mysterious aspect, which was enhanced by the encaged Don Quixote's
+stiff and stone-like form leaning against the wooden bars.
+
+They had traveled several leagues, when the curate heard the sound of
+riders approaching from behind. Turning in his saddle he perceived six
+or seven men, mounted on mules, and riding at a quick pace. They had
+soon overtaken the procession, and exchanged greetings with the curate
+and the barber. One of the travelers was a canon of Toledo, and on
+observing the fettered Don Quixote, with the armed officers of the
+Brotherhood as an escort, he took it for granted that the knight was
+some dangerous highwayman. Yet, scrutinizing the strange parade, he
+could not help asking questions. So when he inquired of one of the
+officers why Don Quixote was being transported in that way, the
+officer did not know what to say but referred him for an explanation
+to Don Quixote himself.
+
+The knight errant had heard the canon's question, and he offered to
+give him the information if he knew anything about errantry. As the
+canon said he had read a good deal about knights errant and their
+deeds, Don Quixote was quick to tell of his misfortune--how he had
+been encaged and made helpless by enchantment. At this moment the
+curate, seeing that the canon was talking to Don Quixote, and fearing
+a mishap in the carrying out of their plan, came up and joined in the
+conversation. He corroborated what the knight errant had just said,
+and added that it was not for his sins that he was enchanted, but
+because of his enemies' hatred of virtuous deeds, of which this famous
+Knight of the Rueful Countenance was the strongest champion in their
+age.
+
+When the good canon heard the two of them talk like that, he was at a
+loss for words and felt he had to cross himself, in which action his
+attendants joined him. But as luck would have it, Sancho Panza had
+been listening, and seeing the curate disguised by a mask, the
+suspicion crept into his head that he was trying to play a joke on his
+master. So he burst into the conversation with a grudge against them
+all.
+
+"Well, sirs, you may like it or not," he declared, "but my master is
+as much enchanted as my mother! He is in his full senses; he can eat,
+and sleep, and drink. Then why do they want me to believe that he is
+enchanted? I have heard it said that when you are enchanted you cannot
+do any of these things, nor talk. And my master will talk more than
+thirty lawyers would if you do not stop him." Then turning to the
+curate, he exclaimed: "And, senor curate, senor curate! Do you think I
+do not know you? Well, I can tell you I do, for all your face is
+covered; and I can tell you I am up to you, however you may hide your
+tricks. If it had not been for your Worship, my master would be
+married to the Princess Micomicona this minute, and I should be a
+Count at least--for no less was to be expected."
+
+And then the faithful Sancho went on to say that he had told all this
+that the curate might weigh in his conscience the pranks he had played
+on Don Quixote, and for which he would have to pay in heaven (if he
+ever should come there) unless he did penance now. Here the barber
+thought it best to put an end to Sancho's communications, and offered
+him a place in the cage beside his master, but Sancho was quick to
+retort: "Mind how you talk, master barber, for shaving is not
+everything; and as to the enchantment of my master, God knows the
+truth!"
+
+Soon after Sancho had commenced his tirade, the curate thought it
+best, having listened to his own denunciation, to explain everything
+concerning the knight errant and his squire to the canon. Therefore he
+asked him to ride on ahead with him. When the canon had heard the
+whole story, he remarked that he thought that books of chivalry were
+really harmful, for not one of them was truthful. He was amused when
+the curate related how he and the barber had burned nearly all of Don
+Quixote's treasures in literature of this sort.
+
+"But what mind," asked the canon, "that is not wholly barbarous and
+uncultured can find pleasure in reading of how a great tower full of
+knights sails away across the sea like a ship with a fair wind, and
+will be to-night in Lombardy and to-morrow morning in the land of
+Prester John of the Indies?"
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XLVIII
+
+IN WHICH THE CANON PURSUES THE SUBJECT OF THE BOOKS OF
+CHIVALRY, WITH OTHER MATTERS WORTHY OF HIS WIT
+
+
+The curate and the canon had become very much interested in their
+subject, and the canon after a while confided to the curate that he
+himself had once started to write a book on chivalry, with the
+intention of making each incident in it a plausible one. It was his
+view that fiction was all the better the more it resembled the truth.
+Furthermore, he believed in adhering to good taste and to the rules of
+art; these things, it seemed to him, had been ignored in the writing
+of these books. From fiction the conversation drifted to playwriting,
+and here again the curate and the canon were of the same mind. The
+actors of their age chose plays that appealed to people of nonsense
+and with bad taste. Instead of trying to improve the national taste,
+they produced tawdry plays. The canon cited three excellent plays,
+however, that he had seen at Madrid, which had earned great profits
+for their producers; this proved to the canon that the great mass of
+the public did appreciate a really good play if it was only produced.
+
+While the two clergymen were thus whiling away the time, the barber
+approached and told the curate they had reached a place which to him
+seemed a good pasture for the oxen. It was now noon, and the canon
+decided to join them in their rest. He offered them food out of the
+provisions that he had brought along on a pack-mule. The rest of the
+canon's mules were sent to an inn, which was seen nearby, to be fed
+there.
+
+Seeing his master unguarded, Sancho decided the time had come when he
+could speak undisturbedly to him, so he hastened to tell him of the
+plot that the curate and the barber had hit upon. He told his master
+he was certain it was out of envy and malice, for his having surpassed
+them in fame and brave deeds. Don Quixote, however, calmly told his
+squire that if he saw two shapes that resembled the barber and the
+curate there, they could be nothing but devils having taken on the
+appearance of his friends in order to be able to do their black deeds
+so much the more safely and cruelly.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XLIX
+
+WHICH TREATS OF HOW OUR KNIGHT IS PERMITTED TO DESCEND FROM
+HIS CAGE, AND OF THE CANON'S ATTEMPT TO CONVERT HIM FROM HIS
+ILLUSIONS
+
+
+During his conversation with Sancho, Don Quixote suddenly felt it an
+absolute necessity to leave the cage, and to stretch himself in the
+open. So Sancho went to the curate to ask his permission, which he
+received upon promising to answer for his master's not disappearing.
+The curate and the canon went to the cage, and Don Quixote swore as a
+knight that he would not run away, whereupon they untied his hands and
+feet.
+
+The first thing Don Quixote did was to go to his Rocinante; and then
+the canon thought he would try to talk sense into him, to see whether
+he could not persuade him to give up his crazy notions and ideas. Don
+Quixote listened courteously and attentively, but when the canon had
+finished, he turned to him and said he rather thought it was the canon
+and not he who was afflicted and out of his wits, since he had the
+audacity to blaspheme the order of knighthood. And then he went on,
+describing the deeds of all the famous knights he had read of; and the
+canon was really amazed at the great ease and clearness of mind with
+which he related these tales of adventure. He thought it a pity that
+so much knowledge of a wrong kind should be heaped into one brain.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTERS L-LI
+
+OF THE SHREWD CONTROVERSY WHICH DON QUIXOTE AND THE CANON
+HELD, TOGETHER WITH OTHER INCIDENTS
+
+
+What the canon had tried on the knight, Don Quixote now decided to try
+on him. Was that not the great mission he had undertaken in the
+world--to revive the spirit of chivalry? So he told the canon of the
+many fine qualities he had developed since he was dubbed a knight,
+such as courtesy, generosity, valor, good breeding, patience, and many
+others that he mentioned; how he had learned to bear hardships of all
+kinds, and now, of late, enchantment. He ended his long discourse by
+expressing a desire that he might soon be an emperor, for, he said, he
+wished to do good to some of his faithful friends, especially his
+squire Sancho Panza.
+
+Sancho heard his master's last words, and reminded him again of the
+island that he was to govern. On hearing this, the canon broke in with
+a few remarks about administration and government, and their
+difficulties, and Sancho interrupted the canon to say it would be very
+easy to find some one to do all that for him. In reply to this the
+canon came forward with a good many arguments phrased in philosophical
+language which the squire could make neither head nor tail of. So he
+took up the thread of his own mind, and replied: "I have as much soul
+as another, and as much body as any one, and I shall be as much king
+of my realm as any other of his; so let the country come, and God be
+with you, and let us see one another, as one blind man said to the
+other."
+
+All the canon could do when he realized how badly both master and
+servant were in the clutch of their beliefs and superstitions, was to
+wonder at it. But by the time Sancho had finished his words, the
+repast was being served on the grass.
+
+As they were about to seat themselves, a goat came running from
+between the trees, pursued by a man whose clear voice could be heard
+distinctly from the distance. Soon he came up, and he caught the goat
+by the horns and began to talk to her, calling her daughter, as if she
+had been a child. The goat seemed to understand everything, and the
+canon was so impressed with the scene that he asked the goatherd not
+to be in a hurry, but to sit down and eat with them.
+
+The goatherd accepted the invitation; and when they had finished the
+repast, they had found that he was by no means a fool. When he asked
+them if they would like to hear a true story, they were all anxious to
+have him tell it to them. Only Sancho Panza withdrew, that he might
+get a chance to load himself brimful of food; for he had heard his
+master once say that a knight errant's squire should eat until he
+could hold no more. The goatherd began his story, after having told
+the goat to lie down beside him. She did so, and while the goatherd
+was telling the story of his unfortunate love for Leandra, a rich
+farmer's daughter, who had jilted both him and his rival Anselmo for
+the good looks of a braggard by the name of Vicente de la Roca, the
+goat was looking up into his face with an expression as it seemed of
+understanding and sympathy.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER LII
+
+OF THE QUARREL THAT DON QUIXOTE HAD WITH THE GOATHERD,
+TOGETHER WITH THE RARE ADVENTURE OF THE PENITENTS, WHICH
+WITH AN EXPENDITURE OF SWEAT HE BROUGHT TO A HAPPY CONCLUSION
+
+
+All had enjoyed the goatherd's story, and they thanked him for it. Don
+Quixote offered him the aid of his sword for the future, and said that if
+he had not been enchanted at this moment he would at once set out to free
+his Leandra. When the goatherd perceived Don Quixote's strange behavior
+and appearance and heard his remarkable language, he was struck with
+amazement, and asked the barber what madness was his, who talked like the
+knights he had read about in the books of knight-errantry. Scarcely had
+Don Quixote heard that he was being taken for a madman by the goatherd
+than he flew at him in a raging fit. The most fierce battle ensued,
+during which the faces of both men were scratched until they could hardly
+be recognized. They fought in the midst of the setting for the meal, and
+plates and glasses were smashed and upset. Both were urged on like dogs
+by the rest of the company, and soon blood began to flow. Finally Don
+Quixote stumbled, and the goatherd managed to get him on his back, while
+Sancho was held off by one of the canon's servants, moaning all the while
+because he could not go to his master's rescue.
+
+Just then a trumpet blew a solemn note, and all listened in surprise.
+Don Quixote was all eagerness: there was no doubt in his mind but that
+he was being summoned by one in distress, so he asked for and received
+an hour's truce from the goatherd. As soon as he was on his feet, he
+ran to Rocinante, whom he bridled in great haste, and set off, armed
+with lance, buckler, sword and helmet, in the direction of the sound.
+
+What Don Quixote saw when he had ridden a short distance at his
+charger's usual comfortable canter was a procession of penitents, clad
+in white, some of whom were carrying an image, draped in black. The
+procession had been called for by the priests who desired to bring
+relief to the country, which had been suffering that year from a
+terrific heat and a lack of rain. They were now marching to a nearby
+hermitage, where they wanted to do penance, praying in silence to God
+that he might have pity on them.
+
+But what could such a procession have suggested to an imaginative mind
+like Don Quixote's but one of the many incidents that he had read of
+in his books of chivalry, where some great and worthy lady was being
+carried away by evil forces? To the knight the covered image easily
+became the worthy lady. Violently kicking Rocinante in the sides, for
+he had not had time to put on his spurs, he tried to increase his
+steed's canter to a gallop that he might attack in real knight errant
+fashion.
+
+The faithful squire, the curate, the canon and the barber all did
+their best to stop the knight by their yells. Sancho was frantic, and
+cried after him: "Where are you going, Senor Don Quixote? What devils
+have possessed you to set you against our Catholic faith? Plague take
+me! It is a procession of penitents!" And then he asked him, filled
+with horror and almost choking with tears, whether he knew what he was
+doing. Why, he was charging the blessed image of the immaculate and
+holy Virgin Mary! Sancho, seeing his master's lifted lance, could not
+know that his master wanted to release her.
+
+When Don Quixote had reached the penitents, he abruptly halted his
+horse and demanded in no uncertain, though flowery, language that the
+fair lady--whom, he said, he could plainly see they were carrying away
+against her will--be released at once.
+
+One of four priests, who had just begun to chant the Litany, stopped
+on a high note and answered the knight that he must not hold up the
+singing or the procession, for the marchers were doing penitence by
+whipping themselves and could not stop once they had commenced the
+ceremony. Again Don Quixote put forth his demand, this time in
+language that seemed much more ludicrous to the penitents so that some
+of them could not resist bursting into laughter. This sign of
+disrespect was too much for our errant, who started his attack but was
+prevented from finishing it by the blow of a stick carried by one of
+the penitents. With one thwack of it he was felled to the ground.
+
+Sancho had now come up, and when he saw his master stretched out, with
+no sign of life, his eyes filled with tears, and he thrust himself
+over his master's body, crying and wailing like a little child. It was
+pitiful to see the sorrow and the devotion of the poor, simple-minded
+fellow, bewailing his master's fall from the blow of a mere stick.
+And he ended his tribute by thanking him for the great generosity he
+had always shown; for Don Quixote, for but eight months of service,
+had given him the best island that was afloat in the sea.
+
+Sancho was suddenly called from his grief by the weak voice of the
+knight, who implored his squire to mount him on the ox-cart, as his
+shoulder was in a dilapidated condition. Then he commended himself to
+his Lady Dulcinea, while Sancho recommended that they return with
+their friends to their village, where they could prepare for another
+sally at a more favorable time. The knight seemed inclined to take his
+squire's advice, for he remarked that it was not a bad idea: that in
+the meantime the prevailing evil influence of the stars might
+disappear.
+
+By this time the curate, the canon and the officers of the Brotherhood
+had arrived at the spot, and the curate found that he knew one of the
+priests in the procession. This simplified matters considerably, for
+he found it easy to explain to his friend the malady and peculiarities
+of Don Quixote, which had been the cause of so much disturbance in so
+short a time. After the curate had taken leave of the canon, the
+goatherd and those in the procession, he paid off the officers, who
+considered it unwise to accompany the party any further. The canon
+begged the curate to keep him informed of any change in Don Quixote's
+behavior, as he was most interested in his case. Then Don Quixote was
+heaved into the cart where a stack of hay served as a softer
+resting-place this time; and after six days of travel, the oxen and
+the cart and the whole procession entered the La Mancha village. When
+they passed the square, it being Sunday, the people crowded around
+them, and all were amazed at what they saw.
+
+Soon Don Quixote's niece and his housekeeper got word of his
+homecoming. When they saw him, and observed his pallor and leanness,
+they began to weep and beat their breasts, and curse all books of
+chivalry.
+
+Then Sancho Panza's wife learned the news, and as soon as she saw her
+husband the first thing she asked him was whether the donkey was well. To
+this greeting he replied that the donkey was better than he himself. And
+then she pestered him with questions as to what he had brought back with
+him for her and the children; to which he impatiently remarked that she
+would have to wait until he got his island or empire, when she would be
+called Her Ladyship. Of course, it was not to be expected that Teresa
+Panza should understand this; and she did not. Sancho attempted to give
+her an insight into the intricacies of knight-errantry by telling her of
+some of his remarkable experiences, such as the blanketing, which stood
+out in his mind's eye as the culmination of suffering in his career as a
+squire.
+
+While this was going on in the Panza household, Don Quixote had been
+undressed and put to bed by his niece and the housekeeper. The curate
+had told them what troubles and tribulations he had been forced to
+undergo in order to restore him to his community and his loved ones.
+So they decided, with fear in their hearts, to be ever watchful, lest
+he escape and depart on another rampage. And again and again they
+would curse the books that they had burned too late.
+
+
+
+
+VOLUME II
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER I
+
+OF THE INTERVIEW THE CURATE AND THE BARBER HAD WITH
+DON QUIXOTE ABOUT HIS MALADY
+
+
+Don Quixote had been at home almost a month. During that time neither
+the curate nor the barber had been to see him for fear that the sight
+of them would remind him of his days of knight-errantry and make him
+long for another campaign. They did visit the niece and housekeeper,
+however, and advised them from time to time what to do; and at last
+the women began to think that there was hope for our knight's being
+restored to his right mind, for his conversation never touched upon
+deeds of chivalry, and when he spoke on other subjects he always
+talked most sanely.
+
+Finally the curate and the barber decided to pay their friend a visit,
+firmly resolved not to let the subject of conversation turn to
+knight-errantry. They found him in bed, with a red Toledo cap on his
+head. His face had changed greatly; it was so withered and yellow that
+it resembled parchment rather than human flesh. He greeted them
+cordially, however, and soon they engaged in an animated conversation,
+which finally turned to such an intricate subject as government. So
+unusually sane and clear was Don Quixote's reasoning that his friends
+were amazed at the change that had taken place, and they felt quite
+certain that he was cured. Then they began to discuss the news from
+the capital, and the curate mentioned that the Turk was expected to
+attack. Nobody knew when, he said, but in order to safeguard the
+island of Malta and the coasts of Naples and Sicily, His Majesty had
+already made provisions for the defense of these provinces.
+
+Here Don Quixote interrupted and said that His Majesty could easily
+settle the whole thing if he would only follow his advice. Both the
+curate and the barber began to wonder and worry about what his plan
+might be, but before divulging it Don Quixote insisted upon absolute
+secrecy, which of course they promised. And then he began in the old,
+familiar strain, citing the examples of the innumerable heroes of his
+condemned books of chivalry, heroes who, single-handed, had conquered
+armies of millions. He finished with a tirade about God's providing
+such a knight errant to-day to save the nation and Christianity
+against the onslaught of the heathen Turk, with an inference in his
+last words that he was to be the chosen savior.
+
+When the two women heard Don Quixote again rave in this manner, they
+burst into tears, and the curate and the barber were as sorry and
+concerned as the women. The curate turned in bewilderment to his poor
+friend and asked him whether he truly believed that the heroes of these
+tales of chivalry were men of flesh and blood. He himself, he said, was
+convinced that these stories were nothing but fables and falsehoods, and
+that none of the personages in them ever lived. Whereupon Don Quixote
+began to ridicule the curate, and went on to describe his heroes,
+saying that his faith was so strong that he could almost swear he had
+seen Amadis of Gaul and some of the others he worshiped. Then he embarked
+on a description of these knights, giving the color of their eyes, of
+their beards and hair, their height, complexion, all according to his own
+crazy imagination. Much of what he said seemed so amusing to his two
+friends that they nearly went into hysterics from laughter. His mind's
+image of Roland was particularly laughable, for he saw him as a
+bow-legged, swarthy-complexioned gentleman with a hairy body, courteous
+and well-bred.
+
+On hearing Roland so pictured, the curate remarked it was no wonder
+that he was jilted by the fair lady Angelica. To this Don Quixote
+retorted that lady Angelica was a giddy and frivolous damsel with
+desires that smacked of wantonness. He only regretted that Roland had
+not been a poet that he might have libeled her in poetry for all
+eternity.
+
+Here the knight was interrupted by the sound of loud talking in the
+courtyard, intermingled with screams, and when he and the curate came
+running they saw the two women struggling to keep a man from entering
+the house.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER II
+
+WHICH TREATS OF THE NOTABLE ALTERCATION WHICH SANCHO PANZA
+HAD WITH DON QUIXOTE'S NIECE AND HIS HOUSEKEEPER, TOGETHER
+WITH OTHER DROLL MATTERS
+
+
+The man turned out to be no other than Sancho, who wanted to see his
+master. But the housekeeper and the niece were bent on not admitting
+him, for they considered Sancho the arch enticer and felt that he was
+to blame for Don Quixote's expeditions into the country. When Sancho
+heard himself thus accused, he defended himself with accusations
+against Don Quixote, who, he said, had been the one to hypnotize him;
+and then he added that he had come to find out about his island.
+
+As soon as Don Quixote recognized his squire, he quickly took him
+inside, being afraid that he would tell the women all the little
+details of the knight's adventures, such as the galley-slave episode
+and others not tending to reflect honor on his shield. Whereupon the
+barber and the curate left, both of them in despair of their friend's
+ever being cured. The curate remarked that it would not surprise him
+to learn before many moons that Don Quixote and Sancho had set off
+again on another sally. They were curious to know what the master and
+the servant might be discussing at that very moment. However, the
+curate was of the firm belief that they could rely upon the two women
+to keep their ears to the door. They would learn from them what had
+been the topic, and what had been said.
+
+When Don Quixote was alone with his squire, he expressed dismay over
+his having told the housekeeper the knight had taken him from house
+and home, when he knew perfectly well that he had gone of his own free
+will. They had shared everything, he said; everything except blows,
+where he had had a distinct advantage over his squire, having taken
+ninety-nine out of a hundred beatings. This dividing of fortune,
+Sancho thought, was quite as it should be, for of course knights
+errant ought to share the greater benefits of the battle. Here Don
+Quixote interrupted with a Latin quotation, which had an evil effect
+on Sancho, for it made him retaliate with the blanket episode which to
+him still seemed the height of all his suffering in the world. But
+this attempt to belittle the fairness of his master's division of
+honors in battle was speedily parried by Don Quixote, who maintained
+that his squire's bodily suffering in the blanket was as nothing
+compared with the painful agony of his own heart and soul when he had
+seen his squire in such a predicament. And then he proceeded to
+question Sancho as to public opinion of his deeds and valor.
+
+Sancho was inclined to be reticent; but urged by Don Quixote--and
+having been forgiven in advance for any vexation he might cause him by
+telling the truth--he told of the variety of opinions that existed in
+the village. This his master thought only natural; for when had the
+world ever given full recognition to a genius or a great hero until
+after he was dead? He pointed to all the great names he could
+recollect in history that had been persecuted.
+
+But Sancho had not come to the worst; and at last he found sufficient
+courage to tell his master of a book entitled "The Ingenious Gentleman,
+Don Quixote of La Mancha," which had already, he said, been spread
+abroad. In this book not only Don Quixote, but he himself--under his own
+name!--and the Lady Dulcinea del Toboso figured; and he was so stupefied
+that he had to cross himself, for he could not imagine how everything
+that had been told in the book--the most intimate happenings between Don
+Quixote and himself--had come to be known to the author. Don Quixote
+thought it was very plain that the adventures must have been reported by
+some sage and enchanter; but Sancho told him that the author was one Cid
+Hamet Berengena (meaning eggplant). It was no other than the son of
+Bartholomew Carrasco, who had been a student at Salamanca, who had told
+him all this, he said. He asked his master whether he should like to see
+the young bachelor, and Don Quixote begged him to run and fetch him at
+once, for, he said, he would be unable to digest a thing until he had had
+a talk with him.
+
+"Cid Hamet Berengena," repeated Don Quixote to himself. "That is a
+Moorish name."
+
+"Yes, I have heard the Moors like eggplant," added Sancho.
+
+And then his lord and master asked: "Didst thou not mistake the
+surname of this 'Cid,' which means in Arabic 'lord,' Sancho?"
+
+"Perhaps," said Sancho; "but the bachelor can tell you that."
+
+And he ran to fetch him.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER III
+
+OF THE LAUGHABLE CONVERSATION THAT PASSED BETWEEN DON
+QUIXOTE, SANCHO PANZA, AND THE BACHELOR SAMSON CARRASCO
+
+
+While Sancho was gone, Don Quixote sat and worried about what the book
+might be like; for what justice could be expected from the pen of a
+Moor writing history? But perhaps it was not true that such a
+chronicle had been written. It seemed almost an impossibility, for it
+was only a short time since he returned from his achievements. What
+worried him most was the thought that this Cid Hamet Berengena might
+have made public in some odious way that great love and sacred passion
+of his for the beautiful and virtuous Lady Dulcinea del Toboso.
+
+As he was thus meditating Sancho returned, bringing with him the
+younger Carrasco, who went by the strong name of Samson, in defiance
+of his unpretentious size. But what he lacked in this respect, he made
+up for in wit and humor. He was about twenty-four years of age, had a
+round jovial face, a large mouth and a flat nose. What more need one
+know to be inclined to think he might be mischievous? He gave proof of
+it as soon as he entered, for he fell on his knees and kissed the
+hero's hand respectfully, pronouncing him the first and foremost
+warrior and knight of the age. Then he called down a blessing on the
+name of Cid Hamet Benengeli, his noble biographer, and on the worthy,
+learned man who had translated the work from the difficult Arabic into
+their pure Castilian for the edification of all the Spanish people who
+knew how to read their own language.
+
+"So then there _is_ a history of me--and written by a Moor and a
+sage?" asked Don Quixote, as he bade Samson rise.
+
+The bachelor assented and went on to tell how the world was clamoring
+for this remarkable chronicle of heroism and sacrifices. Don Quixote
+remarked here what a great source of joy and inspiration it should
+prove to a man with achievements to his credit to see himself in print
+before being dead. The bachelor's opinion on the subject coincided
+with his own; and Samson took the opportunity to pay homage to the
+marvelous courage, intrepidity, gallantry, gentleness and patience of
+Don Quixote, as the author had described it in the book. He also spoke
+feelingly of the beautiful, platonic courtship of our knight errant;
+and the mention of this caused Don Quixote to ask which of his many
+acts of chivalry were most appealing to the reader. The bachelor
+replied that that depended greatly upon the reader's taste: some liked
+the adventure of the windmills that were enchanted giants; others
+preferred reading about the two armies that suddenly turned into
+droves of sheep; then again there were those who seemed to think the
+victorious assault on the Biscayan made a thrilling chapter; while
+many would swear they had never read anything that excited them
+quite as much as the account of the liberation of the galley slaves.
+
+Sancho interrupted him here, asking what was said of their experience
+with the Yanguesans, when the good Rocinante went looking for
+adventure and was bitten by the ponies. Samson replied that the sage
+had forgotten nothing; not even the capers that Sancho himself had cut
+in the blanket. Whereupon Sancho said: "I cut no capers in the
+blanket. In the air I did, and more of them than I liked!" But Don
+Quixote interposed here, saying that history must of necessity be more
+than one-sided. It must take into its pages adversities as well as
+good fortune.
+
+Some people, the bachelor held forth, had expressed a desire that the
+author might have eliminated some of the cruel thrashings he had given
+the hero; but Sancho differed with these people and supported the
+author unqualifiedly, saying, with a glance at Don Quixote, "That is
+where the truth of the history comes in!"
+
+Of course Don Quixote saw it in a different light, for he thought that
+the thrashings tended to bring the hero of the book into contempt. The
+author should have passed them over in silence, he said. Sancho
+muttered something to himself, and Don Quixote admonished him to be
+quiet so that the bachelor might tell him more of what was said of him
+in the book.
+
+"And about me!" broke in Sancho, "for they say that I am one of the
+principal presonages in it."
+
+"Personages," corrected Samson, adding that Sancho was the second
+person in the chronicle, although many thought he was even first. He
+also remarked that the author had been criticized for having inserted
+a story called "Ill-Advised Curiosity," which had nothing to do with
+Don Quixote whatever. This Don Quixote thought was an infringement on
+the hero's rights, and corroborated the justification of the
+criticism.
+
+Thus Don Quixote learned from the bachelor all about his own deeds and
+exploits, as they had been given to the world by the great Moorish
+sage Cid Hamet Benengeli. And when he had asked about himself again
+and again, and had been satisfied by the replies of Samson, he found
+it was nearly dinner time. Sancho took a hurried leave, fearing the
+wrath of his wife if he were late for his meal, and Don Quixote asked
+the bachelor to stay and keep him company.
+
+All the while they were eating, Don Quixote entertained his guest with
+tales of chivalry. When they finished their repast, they took a nap,
+and when they awoke, Sancho was there waiting for them to return to
+their conversation concerning the famous chronicle.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER IV
+
+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 MENTIONING
+
+
+Samson was anxious to learn what Sancho had done with the hundred
+crowns he had found in the knapsack. Sancho replied that he had spent
+them for the benefit of himself, his wife and children; adding that,
+had he come back to his wife without riches of any sort, he would have
+had a doubtful reward waiting for him. Now, he said, if anybody wanted
+to know anything about him, he was ready to answer the King himself.
+
+"It is no one's business," said he, "whether I took the money, or did
+not; whether I spent it or did not spend it, for if every beating I
+have received in my master's service were to be valued at no more than
+four maravedis, 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 us--aye, and often
+worse."
+
+Don Quixote was curious to know whether there was to be a second part
+to the book; and Samson replied that the author was diligently looking
+for one, but had as yet found none; so it remained only a possibility.
+Yet, inspired by the profits he had made out of the first book, he was
+anxious to find a second part, he said.
+
+"The author looks for money and profit, does he?" asked Sancho. "Well,
+let Master Moor, or whoever he is, pay attention to what he is doing,
+and I and my master will give him adventures and accidents of all
+sorts, enough to make up not only a second part but a hundred. The
+good man fancies, no doubt, we are 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 now be afield, redressing outrages and righting wrongs, as is
+the use and custom of good knights errant."
+
+Scarcely had Sancho spoken these words, when Rocinante commenced to
+neigh; and how could this be interpreted to be anything else than a
+good omen? In an instant Don Quixote had resolved to sally forth again
+in a few days. The bachelor warned him this time to expose himself to
+no such tremendous risks as on his previous sallies, and begged him to
+remember always, his life was no longer his own, but was dedicated to
+those in need and in despair.
+
+"There is what I abominate, Senor Samson," Sancho sustained him. "My
+master will attack a hundred men as a greedy boy would half a dozen
+melons. Body of the world, Senor bachelor, there is a time to attack
+and a time to retreat!"
+
+And here it was that Sancho felt it a solemn duty to himself and his
+wife and offspring to come to a definite understanding with his master
+regarding his position in battle. He wanted it stipulated that his
+master was to do all the fighting. He would willingly look after his
+master's and Rocinante's comfort, and keep them clean, but when it
+came to drawing sword, he would leave that honor to Don Quixote, he
+declared. He would do his duty so well that it would be worth a
+kingdom as well as an island, both of which he would gladly accept.
+
+The bachelor, having recommended Saragossa and the kingdom of Aragon
+as hotbeds of adventure, Don Quixote thanked him and asked him whether
+he was a poet; to which the bachelor replied that he was not one of
+the famous ones. Don Quixote explained that he wanted a most original
+idea of his carried out in poetry. Could Samson write a poem of love
+in such a manner as to have the first letters of each line, reading
+downward, form the name of his beloved one, the peerless Dulcinea del
+Toboso? Samson promised he would try, but Don Quixote replied: "It
+must be done by some means or other, for unless the name stands there
+plain and manifest, no woman would believe the verses were made for
+her." And so the bachelor promised to do it, and to have them ready
+before the day of the departure, which would be on the third day.
+
+Don Quixote extracted a promise from Samson to keep his intentions a
+secret; and he and Sancho took leave of him, Don Quixote promising he
+would not fail to send him word of his conquests. Sancho in the
+meantime went home and began preparations for their second quest of
+adventure.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER V
+
+OF THE SHREWD AND DROLL CONVERSATION THAT PASSED BETWEEN
+SANCHO PANZA AND HIS WIFE, TERESA PANZA, AND OTHER MATTERS
+WORTHY OF BEING DULY RECORDED
+
+
+When Sancho came home that evening, his wife noticed at once by his
+mood that something out of the ordinary had happened to him. After
+much persuasion, he finally told her that he had made up his mind to
+go out in the world again with his master, looking for strange
+adventures, during which, he said, he hoped to come across another
+hundred crowns that he would bring home to her. Then Sancho proceeded
+to tell his wife of his great plans for the future, when he became
+ruler of his island. Their daughter, Maria, he was going to marry
+off to some great count; his wife would be Dona Teresa Panza, and he
+pictured her already, dressed according to richest fashion, sitting in
+her pew in church, surrounded by cushions and pillows, and walking on
+a red plush carpet. And as to his son, he should, of course, as was
+the custom, follow his father's trade; so what was he to do but be a
+ruler?
+
+But everything that her illustrious husband proposed, Teresa Panza
+only sneered at; and this angered Sancho, who thought she might be
+more appreciative. Certainly not every husband in their village
+offered to do as much for his wife and family. And so they began to
+quarrel with each other, Sancho using--as he invariably did with his
+master--all the proverbs he had ever heard, to defeat the arguments
+his wife put forward, enforced in the same manner. But when her good
+Sancho finally lost his patience with her entirely, she gave in and
+promised to go so far as to send their young son to him--that his
+father might train him in the business of government--as soon as
+Sancho, as the governor of the island, should send his wife the
+necessary money. Sancho charged her particularly with the task of
+seeing that the son on his departure should be dressed as a prince of
+the blood.
+
+And all the while poor Teresa Panza was receiving her husband's
+instructions as to herself and her two children, she was bemoaning and
+struggling against their fate in her heart; and at last she burst
+into bitter tears. Seeing her in such agony because he had predestined
+that their daughter Maria was to marry a mighty count instead of a
+poor peasant boy, Sancho tried to soothe her feelings by telling her
+that he would try to put off the day of the wedding as long as
+possible; and this promise seemed to cheer Teresa Panza to some
+extent, for she dried her tears.
+
+Having accomplished so much, Sancho then went back to his master's
+house to talk over some things of importance with him.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER VI
+
+OF WHAT TOOK PLACE BETWEEN DON QUIXOTE AND HIS NIECE AND HIS
+HOUSEKEEPER; ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT CHAPTERS IN THE WHOLE
+HISTORY
+
+
+While Sancho and his wife were flinging proverbs at each other at home,
+there was another scene of unrest at Don Quixote's house. The housekeeper
+had had a premonition of her master's impending expedition, and soon
+perceived by his actions that she had not been alarmed in vain. She and
+the niece employed all possible means to restrain him from faring forth;
+but to all their admonitions and advice and prayers he made the same
+reply: that there must be knights errant in the world to defend the weak
+and virtuous and to punish arrogance and sin, and that he was the one to
+set the world aright on that score. And when his niece began to bewail
+his stubbornness and called down the wrath of heaven upon all tales of
+chivalry, he threatened to chastise her for uttering such blasphemies.
+Then he burst into a tirade on things and usages pertaining to chivalry,
+a discourse so saturated with knowledge that it called forth a cry of
+astonishment, a wail of disappointment, and a sigh of pity from the
+niece, to whom it suddenly seemed that her uncle had missed his vocation
+in life when he did not become a preacher.
+
+This drove Don Quixote to discourse on almost everything under the
+sun, and he finished up by reciting poetry, at which the niece became
+terror-stricken from superstition, and exclaimed that her uncle knew
+everything in the world. She even dared to suppose he knew something
+about masonry and could build a house. This daring thought of hers he
+immediately corroborated by saying that if he were not so occupied
+with dealing out justice to the world, there would be nothing he could
+not do, from building cages to making toothpicks.
+
+Just then there was a knock at the door. It was Sancho Panza. As soon
+as the housekeeper learned it was he, she fled from the room, for she
+had grown to detest him like sin itself. The niece opened the door for
+him, and he hastened to his master's room, where he was welcomed by
+Don Quixote. And soon they were in the midst of a conversation, which
+took place behind locked doors.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER VII
+
+OF WHAT PASSED BETWEEN DON QUIXOTE AND HIS SQUIRE, TOGETHER
+WITH OTHER VERY NOTABLE INCIDENTS
+
+
+As soon as the housekeeper heard Don Quixote turn the key in the door,
+she realized the urgency of the situation, put on her shawl, and ran
+to the house of the bachelor Samson Carrasco. She knew that her master
+had taken a fancy to this learned young man and thought he might be
+able to persuade him to give up the crazy idea. She fell on her knees
+before Samson and told him in excited language that her master had
+broken out again.
+
+"Where is he breaking out?" asked the roguish bachelor.
+
+"He is breaking out at the door of his madness," replied the
+bewildered housekeeper. "I mean he is going to break out again, for
+the third time, to hunt all over the world for what he calls
+adventures."
+
+And then she went on to say that his first sally ended in his being
+brought back home, slung across the back of a donkey. The second time
+he made his entry into the village in an ox-cart, shut up in a cage,
+and looking so worn and emaciated that his own mother would not have
+known him. The last escapade had been an extremely expensive one, for
+it had taken no less than six hundred eggs to cover up his bones
+again.
+
+The bachelor quieted the housekeeper, and promised her to do all he
+could for her master. Then he advised her to return home and prepare
+something hot for breakfast, and on her way home to repeat the prayer of
+Santa Appolonia. He himself would be there in time for breakfast, he
+said. The housekeeper remonstrated with the bachelor for prescribing the
+prayer of Santa Appolonia, which, she declared, was for toothache and not
+for brains; but Samson told her to do as he bade her, reminding her that
+he was a learned bachelor of Salamanca and knew what he was talking
+about. The housekeeper then left, saying her prayer, and the bachelor
+went to look for the curate that they might decide what to do.
+
+In the meantime Don Quixote and Sancho were discussing what the future
+was holding for them, and Sancho gave the glad news to his master that
+he had induced his wife to sanction his departure and his becoming
+governor. Sancho was very much annoyed by his master's continual
+interruptions and corrections. Whenever Sancho would misuse or abuse a
+word, as he did in almost every sentence, Don Quixote would stop and
+ask him what he meant, until poor Sancho was so confused that he did
+not know what he had meant. Finally Don Quixote asked him to tell him
+all that his wife had said, and as soon as Sancho had a chance to use
+proverbs again, he felt more at home. "Teresa says," he repeated,
+"that I should make sure with your Worship, and let papers speak and
+beards be still. One _take_ is better than two _I'll give thee's_."
+
+"And so say I," said Don Quixote. "Continue, Sancho my friend. Go on;
+thou talkest pearls to-day."
+
+"The fact is," continued Sancho, "that, as your Worship knows better
+than I do, we are all of us liable to death, and to-day we are, and
+to-morrow we are not. The lamb goes as soon as the sheep, and nobody
+can promise himself more hours of life in this world than God may be
+pleased to give him; for death is deaf, and when it comes to knock at
+our life's door, it is always insistent, and neither prayers, nor
+struggles, nor scepters, nor miters, can keep it back, as they tell us
+from the pulpits every day."
+
+Here Don Quixote felt he ought to ask a question. "Sancho," said he,
+"all that is true; but what art thou driving at?"
+
+And then came the reason for all these long-winded preliminaries.
+Sancho wanted his master to make definite arrangements with him for
+compensation. But here was the drawback. Don Quixote could recall no
+incident in any of the many books he had read, when a knight errant
+had given his squire fixed wages. How could he possibly establish a
+precedent now? And so it became his sad and solemn duty to refuse his
+squire's miserly request, and inform him that his services were no
+longer wanted. Not only that, but our valiant hero was cruel enough to
+remark that there would be any number of people who would be only too
+eager to serve him; and, what was more, he was convinced that no one
+could be less careful and diligent, or more thick-headed and talkative
+than Sancho.
+
+Poor Sancho stood thunderstruck. He had expected his master would
+address him in a much more gracious manner; and had taken for granted
+that his own person was indispensable to his master. As he stood there
+gaping in amazement, the bachelor, Samson, suddenly entered, followed
+by the niece and the housekeeper. Samson threw himself on his knees
+before the knight, passionately declaiming:
+
+"O flower of knight-errantry! O shining light of arms! O honor and
+mirror of the Spanish nation! May God Almighty 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!"
+
+Then he rose and turned to the housekeeper, who was distressed and
+astonished beyond words, telling her it was no use gainsaying her
+master; that he had made up his mind, and no Santa Appolonia or any
+other prayer would cause him to change it. Whereupon he addressed Don
+Quixote again in the same lofty way, and slyly asked him whether he
+would deign to accept him as his squire or as his meanest servant.
+
+Sancho's eyes nearly bulged out of his head at this, and filled with
+tears. Fearing that he might lose both his master and his island, he
+embraced Don Quixote's knees and kissed his hand, begging Don Quixote
+not to give him up. Then he began to plead with him to leave the
+village at once. Don Quixote, having taken the squire into his fold
+again, embraced him, and then conferred with the bachelor and decided
+that they would set out three days hence. Samson promised to obtain a
+helmet for Don Quixote before the departure.
+
+In the meantime the bachelor had daily conferences with the curate and
+the barber. The niece and the housekeeper were cursing the evil and
+learned bachelor of Salamanca, and hardly slept at night for fear
+that Don Quixote would steal away in the darkness.
+
+Finally the night of the third day arrived, and Don Quixote and
+Sancho, accompanied by Samson, quietly and secretly stole out of the
+village, in the direction of El Toboso. When they had ridden half a
+league, Samson wished the knight errant godspeed, embraced him
+tenderly, begged him to let him hear of his good fortune, and then he
+returned to the village.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER VIII
+
+WHEREIN IS RELATED WHAT BEFELL DON QUIXOTE ON HIS WAY TO SEE
+HIS LADY DULCINEA DEL TOBOSO
+
+
+Scarcely had Samson departed before Rocinante began to neigh, and
+Dapple, Sancho's donkey, to bray; and these animal expressions,
+considering the time, and the road they were taking, were interpreted
+by their respective masters to be omens of good luck. But it so
+happened that Dapple kept up his braying. As a matter of fact he
+brayed so much louder than the emaciated Rocinante could neigh that
+the superstitious Sancho took it for a sign that his own good fortune
+would be ever so much greater than that of his master, though he was
+considerate enough to say nothing about it to him.
+
+Night soon began to fall, and the conversation between master and
+squire turned to Don Quixote's incomparable love, whom he had never
+seen in the flesh, and to whose abode he was now making this
+pilgrimage in the dark, that he might be blessed by her before going
+into new battles.
+
+Sancho was beginning to worry that his imagination, with which he was
+not overburdened, would give out; for with every new question of his
+master's he had to give a fresh answer, and he was in a deadly fear
+that Don Quixote might discover that he had never been at El Toboso
+with the letter to his Lady Dulcinea. Again Don Quixote asked his
+squire to repeat how he had been received when he had brought her the
+message of his master's penance in the wilderness, but it infuriated
+him that Sancho should insist on her having been sifting wheat instead
+of pearls on that occasion. The courtyard wall mentioned by his squire
+must, of course, have been a portico, or corridor, or gallery of some
+rich and royal palace, only Sancho's language was so limited he could
+not express himself or describe things properly. Or perhaps that
+infernal enchanter had been busy again, and made things appear in
+different shapes before his squire's eyes.
+
+What his master said made Sancho's thought suddenly turn to the book
+which the bachelor Samson had spoken of, and he began to worry that
+some enchanter might have misrepresented his true character in its
+pages. He felt it his place and duty to defend himself aloud against
+any such evil; and having his master as audience, he proceeded to
+carry out this thought, which, however, he abandoned towards the end
+in favor of a careless independence: "But let them say what they like;
+naked was I born, naked I find myself. I neither lose nor gain. When I
+see myself put into a book and passed on from hand to hand all over
+the world, I don't care a fig. Let them say what they like of me!"
+
+Perhaps what Sancho had just said made Don Quixote's thoughts drift
+out into the world, which was now being stirred by the accounts of his
+greatness, for he fell into contemplation on all the tombs and
+monuments to the great men of past ages. He touched upon the tombs of
+some who had become saints, when suddenly Sancho shot this question to
+him out of a clear sky: "Tell me, which is the greater work, to bring
+a dead man to life or to kill a giant?"
+
+Don Quixote was dumfounded by his squire's suddenness, but replied:
+"The answer is easy. It is a greater work to bring to life a dead
+man."
+
+"Now I have got you!" Sancho exclaimed. Then he divulged his longing,
+which he wanted his master to share, to become a saint; viewing a
+saint's life from all sides, he had come to the conclusion that it was
+a much more peaceful life than that of a roving knight errant, who had
+to be up at all hours and out in all sorts of weather.
+
+But his master answered laconically: "We cannot all be friars." And
+then he went on to say that the number of knights errant in the world,
+deserving that name, was a very small one; that, as a matter of truth,
+knight-errantry, was a religion. But Sancho, stubborn as usual,
+insisted that there were more friars in heaven than knights errant. In
+this way they passed that night and the following day, without any
+trace of excitement or adventure.
+
+Finally, at daybreak on the second day, they approached the great
+city of El Toboso; and Sancho's worries increased as they came closer
+to the place where the heart of the peerless Dulcinea was beating--for
+what was he going to say or do when his master wanted to meet his
+beloved one? Don Quixote decided to await dusk before entering the
+city, and they spent the day resting in the shade of some oak-trees
+outside the town.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER IX
+
+WHEREIN IS RELATED WHAT WILL BE SEEN THERE
+
+
+It was midnight when they rode into El Toboso. It was a very dark
+night, so Sancho could not be blamed for not finding the house in the
+darkness. They were greeted by a multitude of noises: barking dogs,
+braying asses, mewing cats, and grunting pigs; noises that seemed like
+an ill omen to Don Quixote. He suddenly turned to Sancho and said:
+"Sancho, my son, lead on to the place of Dulcinea. It may be that we
+shall find her awake."
+
+"Body of the sun! What palace am I to lead to, when what I saw Her
+Highness in was only a very little house?" exclaimed the squire.
+
+"Most likely she had then withdrawn into some small apartment of her
+palace," said Don Quixote, "to amuse herself with her damsels, as
+great ladies and princesses are accustomed to do."
+
+Here Sancho told his master to have it his own way, but asked him
+whether he thought it in conformity with the behavior of a gentleman
+to go around in the middle of the night knocking at people's doors.
+Don Quixote dispensed with the discussion of this particular point;
+all he wanted to do, he said, was to find the house. Then they could
+discuss how to proceed. So they roamed about the city, Don Quixote
+insisting that first one house and then another was the palace of his
+love, until they finally hit upon the great tower of the church. At
+last he had found it, he declared. Here was where she dwelt, he was
+quite sure.
+
+But Sancho, hearing this and seeing it was a church, began to feel ill
+at ease, for his superstitious soul did not like the idea of walking
+across a graveyard at such an hour of the night. He quickly told his
+master, he was now certain that the Lady Dulcinea lived in an alley, a
+kind thought which was rewarded by a fierce outburst from Don Quixote.
+
+"The curse of God on thee for a blockhead!" he exclaimed. "Where hast
+thou ever heard of castles and royal palaces being built in alleys?"
+
+"I wish I saw the dogs eating it for leading us such a dance," was all
+that Sancho said in reply.
+
+But evidently this was not a pleasing answer to Don Quixote, for he
+admonished his squire: "Speak respectfully of what belongs to my lady;
+let us keep the feast in peace, and not throw the rope after the
+bucket!"
+
+Sancho muttered something about how he could be expected to find, in
+the dark of night, a house he had only seen once in his lifetime, when
+his master, who must have seen it hundreds of times, could not
+recognize it. To this his master retorted wearily that he had told him
+a thousand times that he was enamored only by hearsay, and had never
+visited Dulcinea in her palace.
+
+At this moment a laborer on his way to his work came along on the
+road, singing a dreary song. It was only another omen to Don Quixote
+that his efforts to approach his lady would not be crowned with
+success that night. He asked the man to direct him to the palace of
+his princess, but the laborer turned out to be a stranger, having only
+just come to the city.
+
+Don Quixote was grieved that he could not find Dulcinea, and when
+Sancho suggested that they withdraw from the city and develop a plan
+for seeing her, he was ready to accept it. So they left El Toboso and
+hid in a forest nearby. There it was decided that Sancho should return
+to the city as the messenger of love for his master.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER X
+
+WHEREIN IS RELATED THE CRAFTY DEVICE SANCHO ADOPTED TO
+ENCHANT THE LADY DULCINEA, AND OTHER INCIDENTS AS LUDICROUS
+AS THEY ARE TRUE
+
+
+Don Quixote instructed Sancho to ask his lady for an audience for him,
+and he begged his squire to observe every little change in her
+expression and demeanor, that he might tell him about it afterward.
+Sancho then set off on Dapple; but as soon as he was out of sight, he
+dismounted, seated himself on the ground, and took measure of the
+situation aloud. In a meditative soliloquy he discussed with himself
+the problem that was his, and he finally reasoned that there was a
+remedy for everything except death. If his master could take windmills
+for giants, and a flock of sheep for an army, why could he not take
+black for white, and any country lass that came along, for his
+princess? Having reached this satisfactory conclusion, he decided to
+remain where he was till in the afternoon, in which time he could
+reasonably have gone to El Toboso and returned.
+
+As the afternoon arrived, three country girls came along on their
+donkeys, on the road from the city. The moment Sancho saw them, he
+mounted his ass and returned to find his master, who nearly went out
+of his head with joy, and promised Sancho the three next foals from
+his three mares, when his squire told him that the Lady Dulcinea was
+coming to see him, accompanied by two of her ladies-in-waiting. And
+then the lying Sancho went on to describe them: how they were robed in
+richest brocade, and weighted down with jewels--precious stones and
+pearls. But when Don Quixote saw the three peasant girls approach, he
+said he could see nothing but three jackasses and three girls. Any
+princess, or any one like one, he failed to see. Finally Sancho
+persuaded him to believe that those he saw were really three ladies,
+one of them being the Peerless One, who had come to bestow her
+blessing upon him. And so Don Quixote fell on his knees in the dust of
+the road before the girls, giving vent to his immeasurable gratitude
+to her, his queen, who had come all this distance to give him her
+blessing.
+
+When the ugly peasant girl heard herself called a queen and Dulcinea,
+she thought that Don Quixote was trying to play a joke on her, so she
+got angry, and yelled to him: "Get out of the way, bad luck to you,
+and let us pass, for we are in a hurry!" and left the astonished
+knight crawling in the dust.
+
+Sancho had also fallen to his knees, to help his master in his plea
+for blessing, and he called out after the peasant girls: "Oh, princess
+and universal lady of El Toboso, is not your heart softened by seeing
+the pillar and prop of knight-errantry on his knees before your
+sublimated presence?"
+
+When the wenches were out of sight, Don Quixote turned to his squire
+and bemoaned, cast-down, his evil fate, and the length his sage enemy
+would go to gain his ends. The very worst thing of all, he said, was
+that the evil enchanter had turned his Dulcinea into an ugly peasant,
+who smelled of garlic. And while Don Quixote was thus complaining,
+Sancho struggled to hide his laughter, happy to have saved himself and
+to have played such a joke on his master.
+
+At last Don Quixote was ready to mount his hack, and they steered
+their beasts in the direction of Saragossa.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XI
+
+OF THE STRANGE ADVENTURE WHICH THE VALIANT DON QUIXOTE HAD
+WITH THE CAR OR CART OF "THE CORTES OF DEATH"
+
+
+Sancho did his best to imbue his master with a new inspiration; for
+Don Quixote was a sorry sight as he was riding along on his hack. The
+enchantment of his Dulcinea had been a great blow to him. He fell into
+a sort of meditative slumber, from which he would rouse himself only
+now and then. Suddenly, however, he was fully awake, for on the road
+he saw before his very eyes a cart with Death on the front seat, and
+drawn by mules that were being led by the Devil himself.
+
+As soon as the knight could gather his senses, he distinguished the
+rest of the strange company that occupied the cart. Next to Death sat
+an ugly angel with wings, and on the other side Don Quixote observed
+an emperor with a crown of gold on his head. Then he discovered
+Cupid--who was a god--and a knight with plumes in his hat. There were
+a number of other figures, all weird and awe-inspiring, in strange
+costumes and with curious faces, and when Sancho saw them he turned as
+pale as Death himself, and his teeth began to chatter from fright.
+Even Don Quixote was more than startled, but his heroism soon asserted
+itself, and he was quickly himself again, glad to sense another
+adventure. He gave Rocinante the spur, the lean hack sprang forward to
+the cart at a sickly gallop, and Don Quixote exclaimed: "Carter or
+coachman, or devil or whatever thou art, tell me at once who thou art,
+whither thou art going, and who these folk are thou carriest in thy
+wagon, which looks more like Charon's boat than an ordinary cart!"
+
+To this challenge the devil responded on behalf of himself and his
+fellow-travelers, explaining that they were harmless players of Angulo
+el Malo's company; that they had been acting the play of "The Cortes
+of Death" in the village from which they had just come; and since they
+had to act the same play in a village nearby in the afternoon, they
+wished to save themselves the trouble of making up twice, by remaining
+in their costumes. The devil was extremely polite and offered to give
+Don Quixote any information he could, adding that, being the devil, he
+was up to everything; besides he played the leading parts, he said.
+Don Quixote told them how disappointed he was that this had not turned
+out to be another adventure; then he wished them a happy journey,
+saying that ever since he was a child he had been an admirer of the
+actor and fond of his art.
+
+As they were about to take leave, one of the mummers, with three blown
+ox-bladders at the end of a stick, came up and banged them against the
+ground under Rocinante's nose; and the frightened animal set off
+across the plain as if he had been shot out of a cannon, taking the
+bit in his teeth. Sancho was so certain his master would be thrown
+that he left his donkey and ran as fast as he could after Rocinante.
+But when he reached Don Quixote, the knight was already on the ground
+and with him Rocinante, whose legs always seemed to give away after a
+sudden strain.
+
+Now, as soon as Sancho had run away from Dapple, the crazy devil with
+the bladders was on his back tickling his ears with them, and the
+donkey flew across the fields toward the village as if beset.
+
+Seeing his faithful one running away, Sancho was in mortal agony, as
+well as in a quandary, for he did not know whether to attend to the
+donkey or his master first. Finally he found his love for human beings
+was the greater, and rushed to his master's side. When he had helped
+him to mount, he told him that the devil had run away with Dapple.
+Immediately Don Quixote was ready to pursue the enemy; but just then
+the squire saw his Dapple come running back, and cautioned his master
+to be meek.
+
+But Don Quixote was eager to give the mummer a lesson in courtesy,
+even, as he said, if he had to visit his sin upon the rest of the
+company, not barring the Emperor himself. Sancho did his best to warn
+his master that there was great danger in meddling with actors, as
+they were a favored class; but had the King himself interfered in
+their behalf, it would not have stayed the hand of the errant
+revenger.
+
+So Don Quixote drew forth, and caught up with the cart as it was close
+to the village. He commanded the players to halt, saying he wanted to
+teach them how to be courteous to donkeys and animals that served
+squires and knights errant for steeds. The merrymakers could tell by
+his stentorian tone that he was not jesting, so they all quickly
+jumped out of the cart and armed themselves with stones.
+
+By this time Sancho had reached the scene of action, and as soon as
+he saw the threatening attitude of the strollers, he begged his master
+not to fight against either Death or the angels, particularly since
+neither one of them was a knight errant; nor was there any one in the
+whole company who was. This point Don Quixote thought was wisely
+taken, and he ordered his squire to fight the battle himself. But
+Sancho said he preferred to show a Christian spirit and forgive, and
+promised his master he would come to an agreement with his donkey to
+leave his end of the grievance to the squire's goodwill.
+
+Don Quixote let Sancho have his way; and when they had seen the
+caravan of mountebanks disappear, Sancho was happy in the thought that
+he had averted a great calamity for himself and his master.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XII
+
+OF THE STRANGE ADVENTURE WHICH BEFELL THE VALIANT DON
+QUIXOTE WITH THE BOLD KNIGHT OF THE GROVE
+
+
+They passed that night under some cork-trees, and while they were
+eating their supper, Sancho as usual became talkative and again gave
+proof of his chronic weakness for proverbs. Every phrase abounded with
+them. As ever, he would use them to fit the wrong case, or twist them
+so as to fit what he wanted them to fit. Don Quixote had to laugh at
+his squire's simplicity, and at the way he tried to imitate his
+master's manner of speaking. His words and expressions were indeed a
+strange mixture. One moment he would use the most abominable grammar
+and the next he would borrow the language of Don Quixote, repeating in
+stilted fashion the polite phrases he had heard Don Quixote use in his
+flowery discourses on knighthood and chivalry.
+
+Soon after they had fallen asleep, Don Quixote was awakened by the
+sound of men's voices. He quickly rose, curious and anxious to learn
+who the disturbers were, and was amazed to behold a real knight, clad
+in full armor, dismount from his horse, while speaking words that
+indicated he was lovesick and in despair. Don Quixote hastened to call
+Sancho, who awoke to the tune of a love sonnet sung by the strange
+knight, and was as startled as his master had been, though, perhaps,
+not greatly thrilled at this promise of a new adventure in the middle
+of the night.
+
+But if Don Quixote was surprised when he was awakened, what was his
+amazement when he suddenly heard such words as these: "O fairest and
+most ungrateful woman on earth! Can it be possible, 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? Is it not enough that I have compelled all the knights of
+Navarre, the Leonese, the Tartesians, and the Castilians, and finally
+all the knights of La Mancha to confess thee the most beautiful in the
+world?"
+
+Don Quixote took exception to this last statement in silence, knowing
+that his chance to correct it was at no great distance. But Sancho
+soon gave himself and his master away to the Knight of the Grove by
+becoming too talkative, and they were hailed by the knight, who
+greeted them in the most courteous manner, when he learned who they
+were.
+
+The two knights errant soon were engaged in a friendly conversation,
+which Sancho could not restrain himself from breaking into; but the
+Knight of the Grove was quick to reprimand him, saying he never
+permitted his squire to open his mouth. Whereupon Sancho persuaded
+himself and the squire of the Grove to remove to a spot where they
+could talk between themselves without being overheard by their
+superiors, and where they might be undisturbed by any yoke of
+knighthood etiquette.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTERS XIII-XIV
+
+IN WHICH IS CONTINUED THE ADVENTURE OF THE KNIGHT OF THE
+GROVE, TOGETHER WITH THE SENSIBLE AND TRANQUIL COLLOQUY
+THAT PASSED BETWEEN THE TWO SQUIRES
+
+
+The two squires drank and talked most of the night, bemoaning the fate of
+squires in general. Before they finally fell asleep, the squire of the
+Grove suggested that, since they both were tired of knight-errantry, they
+give up the life. To this Sancho replied that he would remain in his
+master's service until he arrived at Saragossa, when he might decide to
+leave him.
+
+In the meantime the two knights also were exchanging confidences; and
+the Knight of the Grove told Don Quixote of all the great and famous
+errants he had conquered in single combat. Don Quixote was all ear,
+but nearly gasped for breath when he heard the knight say that he had
+vanquished the famous Don Quixote of La Mancha, and had made him
+confess that his own Casildea was more beautiful by far than the La
+Mancha knight's Dulcinea. Don Quixote suppressed a scornful smile that
+threatened to betray him, and controlled the feelings that the
+boasting errant's words provoked, while wondering at the braggart's
+audacity. He slyly expressed a doubt, however, that the valiant knight
+Don Quixote of La Mancha had let himself be vanquished by any living
+being. The Knight of the Grove then gave a description of Don Quixote
+which in every detail fitted him.
+
+That drew Don Quixote out of his originally assumed indifference. He
+told the knight that he himself was no other than that famed and
+illustrious errant, and declared that any other one that had appeared
+as Don Quixote, must have been some enchanter who had disguised
+himself to resemble him, in order to defraud him of the honor that was
+rightly due to him. Then he proceeded to tell the knight how his enemy
+had transformed the Lady Dulcinea, and challenged the Knight of the
+Grove to single combat if he dared to question what Don Quixote
+maintained to be the truth.
+
+To this challenge the Knight of the Grove retorted that since he had
+once vanquished the semblance of Don Quixote, he would now welcome the
+opportunity of meeting him in combat in his own proper shape. Being a
+cautious and cold-blooded knight, however, he suggested to Don Quixote
+that they should rest until the morning, when the mighty struggle
+could ensue in the light of day. It was further agreed that the
+vanquished knight should place himself at the command of the victor,
+to fulfill any desire of his within the bounds of chivalry.
+
+Each one was eager to inform his own squire of what the morning was to
+behold, so they awoke Sancho and the squire of the Grove and told
+them. Sancho was scared that his master might not be the gainer, for
+the squire of the Grove had been feeding him with stories of his
+master's conquests all that night until they had fallen asleep, drunk
+with wine.
+
+The squires went to get the horses ready, and on the way Sancho was
+aghast to learn that he would have to fight the friendly squire of the
+Grove in cold blood, this squire maintaining that such was a rule
+among knights errant. Sancho said he would rather give two pounds of
+wax to the church than fight with him; furthermore, he said, he could
+not, for he had no sword, and never had had one. Whereupon the
+friendly squire told him that did not matter, and proceeded to make
+ready two linen bags, both of the same size, saying they could fight
+their duel in this fashion. This was most pleasing to Sancho, until he
+perceived the other squire filling the bags with pebbles, when he
+remonstrated, saying he thought their masters could settle the whole
+affair without their interference. But his friend the squire insisted
+that they fight, even if it should be only for half an hour, and
+offered--if he should have any difficulty in rousing himself to the
+occasion--to give Sancho a few cudgels and whacks to act as an
+inspiration.
+
+By this time it was beginning to dawn, and Sancho was watching the
+sunrise. As he looked around, the first object that he saw the sunrays
+strike was the nose of the squire of the Grove, protruding out of the
+opened visor of his helmet. It was an object so fearful to look at
+that Sancho Panza was paralyzed with fright. The nose was so large it
+seemed uncanny. It was covered with warts and was bent at a tremendous
+angle, and it hung down way beneath his chin, while its color was that
+of an eggplant. It was a face so horrible and ugly to look at that
+Sancho's eyes nearly rolled out of his head. He acted as if he were
+about to have convulsions, for he began to tremble from head to foot.
+When Don Quixote beheld the squire's countenance, even he began to
+show signs of feebleness, but his bravery overcame his fears. He
+shrugged his shoulders as if shaking off an evil spirit, and was ready
+for the combat with his adversary.
+
+Before the battle began, Sancho pleaded with his master to help him up
+into a tree; so afraid was he of this monstrous squire with the awful
+nose. But while Don Quixote was hoisting his faithful one up into a
+cork-tree, he suddenly heard the knight approach on his steed behind
+him, and not knowing whether it was squire or master, and being
+subconsciously afraid of the nose, one blow of which might have felled
+him, it seemed, he turned around and made straight for the knight.
+
+The facts were that this gentleman was trying to limber up the joints
+of his charger--a hack of the same caliber as Rocinante--and was just
+taking his horse on a tour of exercise, making him skip hither and
+thither, wherever his master's agonized spurring would carry him. Each
+time he would land heavily on his stiff legs, and it was when Don
+Quixote suddenly heard the sound of such a landing behind him that he
+turned. But by the time Rocinante had completed the turn, which was a
+movement of much contemplation and hesitation on his part, the back of
+the Knight of the Grove shone in the distance. Charging by sound and
+instinct rather than by sight, not seeing whether the knight was
+coming or going, Don Quixote set upon him with such blind fury that
+with one thrust of his lance he sent the bespangled gentleman flying
+out of his saddle, so that he fell flat on the ground, seemingly dead.
+
+Now, when Sancho saw what an auspicious beginning and ending the
+adventure had had for his master, he heaved a sigh of relief and
+contentment and climbed down from his tree, approaching the lifeless
+monster with caution and superstitious awe. But he had taken only one
+look into his face, when he began to cross himself with so many
+motions and contortions that Don Quixote thought his squire had gone
+insane. Turning to his master, who had been contemplating his victory
+with pride from the back of Rocinante, Sancho begged him to thrust his
+sword into the mouth of his vanquished foe. Scarcely had he made this
+suggestion before Don Quixote drew his sword and advanced to carry it
+out, when the squire of the Grove, now minus the drooping nose, ran
+forward, wildly exclaiming: "Mind what you are about to do, Senor Don
+Quixote! That is your friend the bachelor, Samson Carrasco, you have
+at your feet, and I am his squire!"
+
+"And the nose?" Sancho broke in, unable to restrain his amazed
+senses.
+
+"I have it here in my pocket," answered the squire of the Grove, as he
+pulled out and showed him a false nose of immense proportions.
+
+Whereupon Sancho eyed the squire more carefully, and suddenly cried
+out: "Holy Mary be good to me! Isn't it Tom Cecial, my neighbor and
+gossip!"
+
+And Tom was only too glad to confess that he was.
+
+At this very moment the bachelor returned from the dead, and when Don
+Quixote saw him open his eyes, he pointed his sword at his face and
+swore that the Knight of the Mirrors--thus he called the Knight of the
+Grove because of his shining regalia--would be a dead man if he did
+not pronounce the Lady Dulcinea del Toboso the most beautiful woman in
+the world. Furthermore, he demanded that he swear to present himself
+before the Peerless One in the city of El Toboso, that she might deal
+out judgment upon him. Having been dealt with by her, the Knight of
+the Grove was to return to inform him of the punishment, giving a full
+account of what had passed between them.
+
+The fallen Samson gladly confessed to everything, including his belief
+in the true identity of his conqueror. He felt an urgent need for
+medicine and plaster, and he and his squire departed quickly to seek
+such aid in the nearest village, while Don Quixote and Sancho took the
+road which lead to Saragossa.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XV
+
+WHEREIN IT IS MADE KNOWN HOW THE KNIGHT OF THE MIRROR AND
+HIS SQUIRE EMERGED FROM THEIR ADVENTURE
+
+
+As Don Quixote was bumping along on his lean Rocinante, he was
+dreaming of the return of the Knight of the Mirrors, who would bring
+him word about his beloved one. He was anxious to know whether she was
+still enchanted. Then he thought of the great victory he had won over
+this bold knight, and it was perhaps only pardonable if it aroused
+some conceit in his breast.
+
+But while Don Quixote was contemplating thus, the bachelor-knight kept
+bemoaning the fate he had brought upon himself. He had dubbed himself
+Knight at his own instigation, for the kindly and unselfish purpose of
+unseating and vanquishing Don Quixote in battle, thinking, of course,
+that that would be an easy matter to accomplish. It was for good
+reasons he had proposed that the vanquished one should place himself
+at the disposal of the victor. The bachelor, the curate, and the
+barber had conferred after Don Quixote's departure as to what to do,
+and when the bachelor Samson offered to go crusading and to bring back
+Don Quixote, the two gossips were pleased beyond words. A neighbor of
+Sancho's, Tom Cecial by name, was induced to become the squire of the
+knight Samson.
+
+Both knight and squire were now contemplating in a sorry mood the
+disastrous outcome of their encounter with the Knight of the Rueful
+Countenance. As they were staggering along on their decrepit mounts,
+the squire summed up the thoughts of his master Samson in this
+question: "I'd like to know now which is the madder, he who is so
+because he can not help it, or he who is so of his own choice?"
+
+While the learned bachelor was thoroughly in accord with the good
+reason for asking such a question, he could not at the same time help
+acknowledging the fact that the thrashing he had received was paining
+him. The desire he had had when he started out looking for Don
+Quixote--to bring him back to his home and his wits--was now changed
+into a wild inner cry for revenge.
+
+At last some of the physical agony of the Knight of the Mirrors was
+stilled by a quack, whom they found in a town along the road. Tom Cecial,
+the squire for a day and a night, had been cured of knight-errantry and
+returned to his less venturesome occupation in his La Mancha village; but
+the thoughts of evilness would not leave his master, who stayed behind,
+bent on having his revenge.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XVI
+
+OF WHAT BEFELL DON QUIXOTE WITH A DISCREET GENTLEMAN OF LA MANCHA
+
+
+While Don Quixote was contemplating his own greatness as a reviver of
+knight-errantry, the monstrous nose of the squire kept coming before
+Sancho in his fancies. When he told his master, Don Quixote asked him
+whether he ever for a moment doubted that the knight of the Mirrors
+and his squire were anything but enchanted and made to appear like the
+two village friends of theirs. The idea that Samson, who was such a
+devoted friend of his, should be envious of his deeds in battle and
+have wanted to steal away honors from him as a knight, was too absurd;
+and with this he dismissed the subject.
+
+While they were discussing these matters and the enchantment of the
+Lady Dulcinea, they were passed by a gentleman on horseback, and Don
+Quixote called to him and asked him politely whether he would not join
+company with them. The traveler accepted the knight's invitation, and
+both were soon scrutinizing each other. The gentleman, a man about
+fifty years of age, with handsome features, wondered at the strange
+appearance of Don Quixote; and when our knight saw his wonder, he told
+him why he was so attired and what he had set out to accomplish in the
+world. This confession drew forth still more astonishment on the
+gentleman's countenance, but he finally found words to ask whether he
+could really believe his own ears, for he had thought knight-errantry
+extinct. It was not long, however, before he realized that he was
+talking to a madman; and then Sancho Panza came under his observation,
+and he was deemed a simpleton.
+
+Don Quixote had asked the newcomer's name, and learned it was Don Diego
+de Miranda; and then the knight was curious to know what he did with his
+life. Whereupon Don Diego proceeded to tell his fellow-travelers of his
+tame and godly life in the country with his wife and children; and he
+pronounced in the course of his description some very beautiful thoughts
+and principles, which so took Sancho's fancy that he jumped off Dapple,
+embraced the gentleman's leg, and began to kiss his feet in the most
+passionate and ardent way.
+
+Astonished, the good gentleman inquired what all this display meant;
+and Sancho begged of him between his transports: "Let me kiss, for I
+think your Worship is the first saint in the saddle I ever saw!"
+
+Of course, the gentleman confessed his sinfulness to Sancho, who refused
+to change his opinion, in spite of his master's honest laughter. Then the
+gentleman told Don Quixote about his great pride, his son, who was
+eighteen years old, had been a student at Salamanca, and wrote divine
+poems. This immediately inspired Don Quixote to a discourse on poetry, in
+which he dwelt on the dishonor of commercializing this great gift of the
+gods. He finished his speech with the advice to Don Diego that he bring
+up his son to write discourses in which all vice was flayed and all sin
+chided and rebuked. Above all, he said, a poet must never let envy or
+personal grudge and hatred guide his pen. When the traveler heard Don
+Quixote speak in so wise and discerning manner, he was aghast; and he was
+entirely at a loss to know how to judge him. He was inclined to think
+that what he had taken for madness in him was nothing but eccentricity.
+
+But while Don Quixote was discoursing on poetry, Sancho, on seeing
+some shepherds, had fled to beg some ewe milk of them. When his master
+had finished his discourse, and the gentleman was silently considering
+his madness, Sancho suddenly heard himself called to battle. Having
+in his possession his master's helmet, he spurred his donkey to
+further increase his efforts toward speed, and when he reached the
+valiant knight, he discovered the reason for the call: a cart bedecked
+with royal flags approaching on the road.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XVII
+
+WHEREIN IS SHOWN THE FARTHEST AND HIGHEST POINT WHICH THE
+UNEXAMPLED COURAGE OF DON QUIXOTE REACHED OR COULD REACH;
+TOGETHER WITH THE HAPPILY ACHIEVED ADVENTURE OF THE LIONS
+
+
+When Sancho was summoned by his master, he had just bought some curds
+from the goatherd, and not knowing what to do with them at such a
+moment, he hastily deposited them in his master's helmet. The first
+thing Don Quixote did when Sancho had caught up with him, was to
+snatch the helmet from him, exclaiming that he had to make ready for
+what promised to be an exciting adventure; while all Sancho could see
+was the cart with the royal flags, probably carrying some treasure of
+the kings. As Sancho stood watching the cart, Don Quixote resolutely
+put on the helmet, which he proceeded to press down on his head in
+order to make it sit fast; but as he did so, the curds were squeezed,
+and the whey began to run down over his face, so that Don Quixote
+imagined that he had been taken with softening of the brain.
+
+Sancho said nothing but gave his master something to wipe his face
+with, and Don Quixote muttered that if this was sweat he was certain
+it was going to be a horrible adventure. As he was drying his face, he
+took off his helmet, and when he smelled the curds he turned to Sancho
+in great perturbation and accused him of having put them there,
+calling him a traitor and a scoundrel, and threatening to thrash him.
+But Sancho eyed his master innocently, and blamed it all on the devil
+or some enchanter, saying that his master might know that if he had
+had curds, he would have put them in his stomach and not in his
+master's helmet.
+
+This was a convincing argument to the knight, who now busied himself
+with the cart, which had nearly reached them. He called out to the
+driver and a man on mule-back, who were the only attendants: "Whither
+are you going, brothers? What cart is this? What have you got in it?
+What flags are those?"
+
+The man on the mule answered that the cart was his, that he was
+transporting a pair of enormous lions as a present from the Governor
+of Oran to His Majesty the King; that the flags were those of the
+King, and that therefore the property was royal property. He added
+that the lions were hungry, since they had not eaten anything that
+day, and that he was in great haste to reach a place where he could
+feed them.
+
+Here Don Quixote smiled a scornful, superior smile, and calmly told
+the keeper of the lions to open the cages and let out the beasts that
+they might learn who the courageous Don Quixote of La Mancha might be.
+When Sancho heard how mad his master was, he turned in sickly fear to
+the traveling gentleman and begged him for God's sake to keep his
+master from having a combat with the lions. The gentleman asked Sancho
+whether he thought his master would really be so foolish as to do such
+a thing; and Sancho's firm and emphatic reply made the gentleman
+hasten to the knight's side in an attempt to reason with him. He was
+promptly reprimanded by Don Quixote, however, who told him sharply to
+mind his own business, and then threatened to pin the keeper to the
+cart with his lance if he did not open the cages and chase out the
+lions at once.
+
+There was an indescribable consternation and confusion. The driver
+pleaded with Don Quixote on his knees, and when they all saw that he
+was determined to meet with the lions in combat, they began to pick up
+their belongings and run away into safety. Sancho and the gentleman
+made still another attempt to bring him to his senses, but all their
+pleas were in vain. Sancho left his master with the tears falling down
+his cheeks, and Don Quixote ordered the gentleman to speed away on his
+flea-bitten mare as fast as he could, if he was afraid to be bitten by
+the lions.
+
+Then Don Quixote decided it might be better to fight on foot, as he
+was afraid that his Rocinante might be frightened on seeing the
+beasts; so, sword in hand, he bravely advanced towards the cage. The
+keeper timidly opened the doors of the first cage, and a male lion of
+tremendous size, stretching himself leisurely, put his claws through
+the opening; then he yawned sleepily, and after some deliberation
+began to lick his eyes and face with his long, fierce tongue. Having
+thus washed his dirty face, he put his head out of the cage and stood
+gazing into space with a ferocious look in his eyes, which resembled
+glowing coals. Not even seeming surprised at the sight of the valiant
+knight, he then had the audacity to turn his back on our hero, and
+calmly and proudly lay down, with his hindquarters under Don Quixote's
+very nose.
+
+Such unheard-of scorn angered the knight, who commanded the keeper to
+take a stick and poke the beast out of the cage; but here he met with
+unyielding obstinacy, for this the man refused to do under any
+circumstances, saying that the first one to be chewed to pieces, if he
+did that, would be himself. Then he began to praise and flatter Don
+Quixote's courage which, he said, by this feat had been unequaled in
+the world. His adversary the lion, he said, had proven by his very
+action that he considered Don Quixote a superior foe; and when the
+keeper promised to give Don Quixote a certificate to the effect that
+the lion had been challenged in true knight errant fashion and refused
+to give battle, Don Quixote was soothed, and bade the keeper shut the
+doors to the cage and recall the fugitives that they might hear from
+the keeper's lips the true account of his remarkable achievement.
+
+The first thing Don Quixote did when Sancho had joined him was to
+order him to give two gold crowns to the driver and the keeper for
+lost time; but before Sancho carried out his master's command he was
+anxious to know whether the lions were dead or alive. Whereupon the
+keeper related how the valiant knight had single handed dared the
+lions to come out of their cage, and how they meekly and cowardly had
+refused at the sight of so bold a warrior; and he embellished his
+story with numerous little details--in anticipation of the gold
+crown--and added that when he returned to Madrid he would not fail to
+inform the King of his marvelous exploit.
+
+When Don Quixote heard this, his heart beat faster, and he told the
+keeper that if the King should happen to ask who performed this great
+deed, to say it was the Knight of the Lions, since he had decided to
+adopt this name hereafter.
+
+So the cart proceeded toward the capital, and Don Quixote, Sancho, and
+the traveling gentleman went their way. Don Diego bade them make haste
+that they might reach his village before nightfall, and he asked Don
+Quixote to spend the night at his house and rest after his exertions--an
+invitation that the knight accepted with profuse thanks.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XVIII
+
+OF WHAT HAPPENED TO DON QUIXOTE IN THE CASTLE OR HOUSE OF
+THE KNIGHT OF THE GREEN COAT, TOGETHER WITH OTHER MATTERS
+OUT OF THE COMMON
+
+
+The Knight of the Green Coat--which was the name Don Quixote had
+conferred on his host--reached his house in the afternoon, and he was
+welcomed home by his wife and son, who could not help staring in
+amazement at the strange figure Don Quixote presented. The latter
+advanced to the wife and kissed her virtuously on the hand, after
+having first asked her permission; and she received him courteously,
+as did the son also. Then he was escorted into the house, and Sancho
+helped him to remove his armor and to wash him clean of the curds,
+which had run down his face and his neck. This being done, Don Quixote
+joined father and son in another room.
+
+It was not long before Don Lorenzo, the young son, was perplexed by
+the knight's behavior and conversation, and at his first opportunity
+he confided this perplexity to his father. Don Diego told him that he
+himself was at his wit's end, for he had heard him speak as sensibly
+as he ever heard any man speak; then again, he said, he had seen him
+perform the most unbelievable acts of madness. Don Lorenzo again
+engaged in conversation with Don Quixote, who told the young man that
+he had already learned from his father of his great talents as a poet.
+The youth modestly disclaimed being entitled to be called a great
+poet; and the absence of conceit in one of this calling pleased the
+knight greatly. And he went on, discoursing on matters pertaining to
+education, on universities, and degrees, and his opinions seemed to
+Don Lorenzo so authoritative and advanced that he was at a loss to
+know what to conclude, until Don Quixote suddenly began to talk about
+the science of knight-errantry, which he maintained surpassed all
+other sciences.
+
+Don Lorenzo interrupted, of course, saying that he had never heard of
+any such science; he had read books of chivalry but had never believed
+that any knights had existed, he said. When Don Quixote heard the
+youth speak such blasphemy, he prayed that heaven should deliver him
+from his false illusions as to the existence of knight-errantry! Just
+then dinner was served.
+
+While they were eating, Don Quixote asked Don Lorenzo to repeat some
+of his verses to him, and the youth read some of his glosses and
+sonnets. Don Quixote was extremely impressed with them, and he praised
+the youth's rare gift in eloquent language. This praise--although he
+knew it to come from a madman--so pleased Don Lorenzo's father that he
+begged Don Quixote to remain; and for four days the knight was
+entertained by Don Diego.
+
+Then Don Quixote felt it his duty to break away from luxury and
+idleness in order to live up to the laws of knight-errantry, Sancho
+left with a sigh, and a tear in his eye, for never in his life had he
+lived so well. However, he saw to it that he was well provisioned
+before they departed. Don Quixote was anxious to see the poet turn
+knight-errant, he said, but since his parents no doubt would not
+permit him to give up his chosen work he thought it best not to
+attempt to sway them in their convictions. And so he and his squire
+took leave with many courtesies, while Don Diego and his family were
+pitying the poor demented knight in their hearts and still were
+wondering at his nonsense.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XIX
+
+IN WHICH IS RELATED THE ADVENTURE OF THE ENAMORED SHEPHERD,
+TOGETHER WITH OTHER TRULY DROLL INCIDENTS
+
+
+They had traveled but a short time when they met some students and
+peasants on mule-back, and since they were going in the same direction
+Don Quixote offered them his protection if they would only make the
+pace of their young mules conform with that of his steed and Dapple.
+They agreed to do so, and it was not long ere the Knight of the Lions
+had introduced himself to his companions, and told them of his
+revival. The students were quick to perceive that he was demented; but
+not so the peasants, who could make neither head nor tail of what he
+said, and ascribed this to their own ignorance.
+
+The students invited the knight to come with them to a wedding-feast, and
+immediately he asked which prince was to be married without his knowing
+it. The students informed him that it was not any prince's wedding, but
+that of a rich farmer by the name of Camacho, who was marrying the fair
+Quiteria, daughter of a rich man in their neighborhood. Quiteria, they
+said, was in love with one Basilio, a poor young shepherd, whom her
+father had sent away in anger from his house, forbidding him ever to see
+his daughter again. As a result of this banishment and his being
+separated from his love, he had now gone mad.
+
+Don Quixote, having listened attentively to the students' story, began
+a discourse on love and marriage. Now and then Sancho interrupted him
+with strings of proverbs; this would infuriate his master by making
+him deviate from his subject. Finally Don Quixote retaliated by
+attacking and criticising Sancho's language, which he said was
+atrocious.
+
+Soon their arguments were taken up by the students. One of them stood
+by Sancho; the other one took Don Quixote's point of view. Having once
+been involved, they argued first on one subject, then on another,
+until at last foils and the art of fencing became the subject. It so
+happened that one of them was carrying his foils with him, and he
+suggested that they settle their argument then and there. They did so
+under Don Quixote's chivalrous supervision, and when the engagement
+had come to an end, the one who had challenged was so worn and torn
+that Sancho felt sorry for him and went over to console him; at the
+same time he felt it his duty to advise him never again to fence,
+although he did not advise him against wrestling or throwing the bar,
+for he was strong enough for that, he thought. Whereupon the
+challenger rose and embraced his adversary, and after that they were
+better friends than ever.
+
+They pursued their journey, and before long it grew dark. Soon
+afterwards they heard the musicians at the wedding, and saw the
+preparations that were being made for it. Here Don Quixote took leave
+of the students and the peasants, saying that being a knight-errant,
+he was obliged to give up the comfort of a bed, and would go to sleep
+in the woods or some lonely field. They did their best to persuade him
+to accept their hospitality--aided and abetted by the comfort-loving
+Sancho--but all remonstrances were in vain, much to Sancho's regret.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XX
+
+WHEREIN AN ACCOUNT IS GIVEN OF THE WEDDING OF CAMACHO THE
+RICH, TOGETHER WITH THE INCIDENT OF BASILIO THE POOR
+
+
+Sancho was still snoring when his master was up and awake the next
+morning. After having soliloquized at length before the sleeping
+squire, he awoke him by ticking him with his lance. Sancho smelled the
+preparations for the wedding-feast, and at once was wide awake. His
+master asked him to hasten and come along, and they set off on their
+mounts and soon arrived at the place where the wedding was to be
+celebrated. They found there an arcade erected and through this they
+entered. There was being cooked and prepared enough food to feed every
+one in town, and when Sancho saw all the good things, his mouth began
+to water, and he could hardly control himself. As a matter of fact, he
+soon succumbed to his temptations and he did not have to beg twice,
+for the cooks told him that this was a day on which no one was to go
+hungry, that being the wish of the rich Camacho, and they even told
+him to keep the spoon. So Sancho skimmed all the pots to his heart's
+content.
+
+Soon the musicians and dancers arrived, and these performed an
+allegorical dance and play, but nothing interested Sancho as much as
+the skimmings, to which he returned after having finished an argument
+with his master about the relative qualities of Camacho the Rich and
+the poor Basilio; Camacho being the better provider, Sancho was
+decidedly in favor of him.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XXI
+
+IN WHICH CAMACHO'S WEDDING IS CONTINUED, WITH OTHER
+DELIGHTFUL INCIDENTS
+
+
+Sancho was still eating when suddenly loud exclamations and shouts
+were heard; and when he and Don Quixote looked to see what was the
+matter, they found that the bride and the bridegroom, accompanied by
+the priest and their relatives, were entering the arcade. They
+proceeded to a platform, on which they took places, and all noticed
+that the bride looked very pale. Scarcely had the bridal party seated
+themselves, when a voice was heard from behind them, calling out:
+"Wait a little, ye, as inconsiderate as ye are hasty!"
+
+All turned and perceived Basilio, poorly clad, with a crown of cypress
+on his head, and carrying a staff in his hand. The staff had a sharp
+end, and this he buried deep in the ground; then, pale and trembling,
+he turned to the fair Quiteria and accused her of marrying Camacho
+because of his wealth, though she knew she loved no one but himself,
+Basilio, who was poor, and, therefore, helpless. As he nevertheless
+wished them happiness, he would now remove the last obstacle to this
+end.
+
+So saying, Basilio pulled from the staff he carried and which served
+as a sheath, a rapier, upon which in another instant he had thrown
+himself. There he lay on the ground, bleeding profusely, the point of
+the blade appearing through his back, when his many friends came
+running to give him aid. Don Quixote lifted up his head, and they
+found that he was still breathing. Some one suggested that they pull
+out the blade, but the priest warned them not to do that before the
+poor man had been given the sacrament, as the moment the rapier was
+removed, death would follow.
+
+Just then Basilio was heard to say in a weak voice that if he could
+only be joined to his beloved one, he would die happy. The priest
+cautioned him to think of his soul rather than of his body in these
+last moments of his, but Basilio interrupted him stubbornly and said
+he would not confess until this had been done. When Don Quixote heard
+the dying man implore the priest to carry out his wish, he, too,
+besought him, and added that under the circumstances Senor Camacho
+could have nothing against marrying a widow of a man who had died so
+gallantly and honorably as Basilio. Camacho heard all this, and when
+Basilio's friends at the same time entreated him to think of the poor
+man's soul, he consented; and as Quiteria, too, was compassionate, the
+priest united them as man and wife, gave them his blessing with tears
+in his eyes, and hoped that Heaven would receive the soul of the
+wedded man.
+
+But the instant the ceremony was at an end, the suicide jumped to his
+feet as lightly as a deer. Some began to shout that a miracle had been
+performed. But Basilio was honest and confessed that he had played a
+trick; and, indeed, it seemed as if the whole thing had been planned
+by the two lovers, for Quiteria said that if the marriage was not
+valid, she would now confirm it anew. Some of Camacho's friends became
+violent and threatened the life of Basilio, but the valiant Don
+Quixote did not abandon his new-found friend; he kept them all at a
+distance with his lance and his sword.
+
+In the meantime Sancho was guarding a spot that to his mind was the
+most important one there, namely where the wine-jars were standing.
+
+When Don Quixote had made himself respected by the followers of the
+rich Camacho, he addressed them on the subject of love and war, and
+held forth to them that all means to an end in these two games were
+justifiable, as long as no disgrace was brought on the object of one's
+love. Then he threatened to thrash any one who attempted to separate
+whom God now had joined; and they were all awed by his resolute
+language, not knowing who he was. Camacho showed that he was of good
+mettle, however, for he invited all to remain and have a merry time,
+and let the feast go on as if nothing had happened.
+
+But Basilio was proud, and so were his friends, and they preferred to
+withdraw to Basilio's village. They were accompanied by Don Quixote,
+whom they had invited as a special guest of honor because of his stout
+defense of Basilio; and Sancho, of course, had to trail along, much to
+his disgust, for he had looked forward to stilling his hunger for days
+to come on the remnants of the rich man's wedding-feast. As he was
+rocking to and fro in his seat on his faithful Dapple, he was
+contemplating with a surly and melancholy countenance a glorious, but
+now past day.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XXII
+
+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
+
+
+Don Quixote and Sancho remained at the home of the newly married
+couple for three days. Before the knight took leave of Basilio and
+Quiteria, he discoursed at length on love and matrimony: a discourse
+that Sancho seemed to take more to heart than they did, for when his
+master had finished he was heard muttering that he wished he had had
+such advice before marrying his wife.
+
+"Is thy Teresa so bad then, Sancho?" asked Don Quixote.
+
+"She is not very bad," replied the downtrodden squire, "but she is not
+very good; at least she is not as good as I could wish."
+
+"Thou dost wrong, Sancho, to speak ill of thy wife," admonished his
+master; "for after all she is the mother of thy children."
+
+And to this the squire answered: "We are quits, 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."
+
+Having exchanged these thoughts with his squire, Don Quixote decided
+it was time to take to the open again, and he begged one of the
+students who had invited him to the wedding to find him a guide to
+take him to the cave of Montesinos. The student provided him with a
+cousin of his own, a young scholar who was very much interested in
+tales of chivalry; and, followed by the earnest prayers of those they
+left behind, the three set out for the famous cave.
+
+Don Quixote wanted the scholar to tell him all about himself, and when
+he learned, he had had books printed which were inscribed to princes,
+he wanted to know what kind of books they were. When he mentioned that
+he was writing one now that was to deal with the invention of customs
+and things, Sancho became interested and thrust this question at him,
+which he answered himself: "Tell me, Senor--and God give you luck in
+printing your books!--who was the first man that scratched his head?
+For to my thinking it must have been our father Adam."
+
+Glad to have had his supposition corroborated by so great an authority
+as an author of books, Sancho was encouraged to ask numerous other
+questions of the same caliber; and this helped to make the time seem
+short. When night fell they had reached a little village, from where
+it was only a very short distance to the cave.
+
+As Don Quixote was intent on discovering the cave's inmost secrets, he
+provided himself with a hundred fathoms of rope, and the following
+afternoon he was at the cavern, ready for the hazardous undertaking.
+Don Quixote was tied to the end of the rope, and all the while Sancho
+was admonishing him not to bury himself alive in the bottomless pit,
+telling him that he had no business being an explorer anyway. Before
+being lowered into the depths, Don Quixote commended himself to his
+Lady Dulcinea and sent up a prayer to Heaven on bended knees.
+
+In order to enter the cave, he had to cut his way through the brush, and
+as he commenced to swing his sword, a whole city of crows and bats flew
+against him and knocked him to the ground. Sancho crossed himself and
+kept up his vigilance over his master to the last. Finally he saw him
+disappear in the coal-black depths, and then he called on all the saints
+he knew by name to protect the flower and cream of knight-errantry, the
+dare-devil of the earth, the heart of steel and the arm of brass.
+
+At last Sancho and the scholar had given Don Quixote all the hundred
+fathoms of the rope, and then they got no more replies to their calls.
+They waited for half an hour, and then they were afraid that the
+knight was dead and decided to haul him up, Sancho weeping bitterly
+all the while. But when Sancho saw his master coming up, he could not
+restrain himself from being hopeful of a miracle, and he called out
+gleefully: "Welcome back, Senor, for we had begun to think you were
+going to stop there to found a family."
+
+Don Quixote did not move, however, and they laid him on the ground and
+found he was fast asleep. When he came to, he was in an exalted state.
+He raised his eyes toward Heaven, and asked God to forgive them for
+having taken him away from such a glorious and spectacular pleasure.
+But Sancho was curious to know what he had seen down there in Hell,
+and he interrupted and asked the question.
+
+"Hell!" cried Don Quixote. "Call it by no such name, for it does not
+deserve it."
+
+Then he asked for something to eat, and Sancho put before him an
+abundance of food, since he said he was very hungry. When he had
+eaten, he asked them to sit still and listen to his story.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XXIII
+
+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 APOCRYPHAL
+
+
+When he was being hoisted down, Don Quixote said, he had suddenly
+landed on a precipice which led to a cave within the cave, large
+enough to hold a team of mules and a cart. There, he claimed, he fell
+asleep, only to wake and find himself in a beautiful field, from where
+he had gone on a regular sightseeing trip, visiting the most wonderful
+castles and palaces, and meeting with the most exalted personages.
+Among these was no other than the enchanted Montesinos himself. He had
+taken Don Quixote into his own palace, built of crystal and alabaster,
+and shown him the tomb of his friend Durandarte, who lay there in his
+enchantment, with his hairy hand over his heart. Don Quixote had asked
+whether it were indeed true that he, Montesinos, had cut out the heart
+of his dead friend, as the story had told, and brought it to his
+Lady Belerma, and Montesinos had nodded in affirmation.
+
+Suddenly they had heard the poor dead knight moan in the most
+heartrending way, and he had asked Montesinos again and again whether
+he had done as he had bade him and carried his heart to his Lady
+Belerma in France. Montesinos had fallen on his knees and had assured
+his cousin with tearful eyes that as soon as he had died he had cut
+out his heart with a poniard, dried it with a lace handkerchief as
+well as he could, and then departed to see his Lady. At the first
+village he had come to in France, he had stopped to sprinkle some salt
+on it to keep it fresh, and had given it to the Lady Belerma, who was
+now also enchanted in this cave.
+
+Don Quixote continued his tale. The enchanter, the sage Merlin, so
+Montesinos had said, had prophesied that he, Don Quixote, reviver of
+knight-errantry, was to be the one to disenchant them all. He and
+Montesinos had almost come to blows, however, when the latter had
+inferred that during her enchantment the Lady Belerma had developed
+large circles under her eyes, and that if it had not been for these
+her beauty would have surpassed even that of the famous Lady Dulcinea
+of El Toboso. But Montesinos was courteous enough to apologize and
+acknowledge the truth of the proverb which says that comparisons are
+odious.
+
+Sancho and the young author of books had some difficulty in persuading
+themselves that all these things had happened in so short a time, for
+Don Quixote had only been gone about an hour; but Don Quixote, hearing
+this, insisted that he had been absent three days and three nights.
+Then he proceeded to tell how he had felt no hunger whatever, that
+none down there ever ate, and that the enchanted never slept; he
+admitted, however, that their nails, hair, and beards grew.
+
+When Sancho heard all this he asked to be forgiven by God for saying
+he thought his master was lying, but the next moment he had retracted
+it, and when his master asked what he really meant, he said he did not
+know.
+
+There was one thing that had happened to our knight in the cave,
+which caused him infinite pain; he had met one of the enchanted
+ladies-in-waiting to his Lady Dulcinea, and she had told him in
+confidence that his beloved one wanted to borrow six reals on a
+petticoat which she had bought. He gave her all that he had,
+which amounted to only four reals, and she gave him in exchange
+her lady's blessing, saying that with it went many kisses. As
+she left him, he said, she had cut a caper and had sprung fully
+two yards into the air.
+
+"O blessed God," cried Sancho, "is it possible that enchantments can
+have such power as to have changed my master's right senses into a
+craze so full of absurdity? O Senor, Senor, consider yourself! Have a
+care for your honor, and give no credit to this silly stuff that has
+left you scant and short of wits."
+
+"Thou talkest in this way because thou lovest me, Sancho," said Don
+Quixote; and he ascribed his squire's incredulity to a lack of
+knowledge of the world and assured him that when the time came he
+would tell him even more that took place in the cave, which would
+make him believe what he now doubted.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XXIV
+
+WHEREIN ARE RELATED SOME TRIFLING MATTERS, AS TRIVIAL
+AS THEY ARE NECESSARY TO THE RIGHT UNDERSTANDING OF
+THIS GREAT HISTORY
+
+
+The scholar was surprised that Don Quixote permitted his servant to talk
+to him in this way, but ascribed his lenience to the good mood he was in.
+After having whiled away still another hour talking pleasantly, they
+proceeded to find a place where they might spend the night. The scholar
+knew of a hermitage not very far off; and on their way there they
+encountered a man with a mule that was loaded with halberds and lances.
+Don Quixote was curious to know where he was taking the weapons, but the
+man answered that he was in great haste to reach the inn beyond the
+hermitage. He would spend the night at this inn, he said, and if they
+happened to be there too, he would tell them some things that were both
+interesting and curious. Don Quixote was so inquisitive that he decided
+to pass by the hermitage and go to the inn instead.
+
+Just before coming to the inn, they met a happy looking lad of
+eighteen or nineteen, who carried a sword over his shoulder and a
+bundle on his back. Don Quixote stopped him and asked where he was
+going; and the lad replied that he was going to war for his king. He
+told the knight how he had been in the service of office-seekers and
+adventurers in Madrid until he had tired of such a life; and this
+pleased Don Quixote so much that he invited him to sit behind him on
+Rocinante and ride with him to the inn to sup with him. But the page,
+seeing the leanness of the knight's steed, said he preferred to walk,
+though he was glad to accept the invitation for supper.
+
+As soon as they had arrived at the inn, Don Quixote asked the landlord
+for the man with the lances and halberds; and Sancho was happy to know
+that his master took this inn for an inn and not for an enchanted
+castle.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XXV
+
+WHEREIN IS SET DOWN THE BRAYING ADVENTURE, AND THE DROLL
+ONE OF THE PUPPET-SHOWMEN, TOGETHER WITH THE MEMORABLE
+DIVINATIONS OF THE DIVINING APE
+
+
+Don Quixote found the man with the arms feeding his mule in the
+stable, and he asked the knight to accompany him to a quiet nook when
+he had finished this duty to his beast. But Don Quixote's curiosity
+knew no bounds, and he offered to help him sift the barley so that he
+might begin his story at once. Being a good-natured fellow, the man
+acquiesced. He related how a magistrate in his village, which was four
+leagues and a half away, had lost a donkey through the carelessness of
+a servant. Some weeks later another magistrate of the same village
+was hunting in the woods, and when he returned he brought word to his
+fellow officer that he had come across the lost beast but that he was
+now so wild that no one could approach him. He suggested, however,
+that they go together in search for him; and they developed a plan
+whereby they thought they should surely be able to capture the animal.
+Both of them were expert in braying, and they decided to place
+themselves at different ends of the forest, each one braying at
+intervals. In this way they thought they should be able to round up
+the donkey, for they were certain that he would answer their calls.
+
+But it so happened that both of them brayed at the same time, and when
+they ran to look, convinced that the donkey had turned up, they found
+not the ass but only each other, so naturally had they brayed. They
+tried the same scheme again and again, but every time with the same
+result; and at last they came in this way to a place in the woods
+where they found the dead donkey devoured by wolves.
+
+The story of the two magistrates going about in the forest braying to
+each other like asses soon spread to the villages in the county; and
+in one village in particular the habit of braying whenever they
+observed any one from the village of the braying magistrates took such
+root that it was decided to teach them a lesson by taking arms against
+them. The arms he carried with him now, he said, were to be used
+against these scoffers, that they might never again behave like asses.
+
+He had just finished his story when some one entered and cried out
+that the show of _The Release of Melisendra_ and the divining ape
+were coming to the inn, and a minute later Master Pedro himself came
+into the yard, where he was greeted by the landlord and all the
+guests. Master Pedro's one eye was covered by a piece of green silk;
+Don Quixote judged by this that something had befallen him by
+accident. He asked the landlord to tell him all he knew of Master
+Pedro, and he learned that he traveled with his puppet-show from town
+to town, and was greatly renowned throughout the provinces as a
+showman. And the ape, the innkeeper said, was like a human being, so
+clever was he, and wise.
+
+Soon the show was in readiness inside, and every one gathered around
+Master Pedro and his divining ape. Don Quixote and Sancho were eager
+to have their fortunes told, and both offered their reals at the same
+time; but Master Pedro refused to take any money until the ape had
+rendered satisfactory service.
+
+The ape jumped up on his master's shoulder, and began to chatter his
+teeth as if he were saying something, all the while keeping his mouth
+close to Master Pedro's ear. When he had been chattering long enough
+to please himself, he jumped down just as quickly as he had jumped up.
+The next instant Don Quixote and Sancho were both frightened and awed
+by the showman's suddenly throwing himself before Don Quixote's feet
+and embracing his legs, while he exclaimed: "These legs do I embrace
+as I would embrace the two pillars of Hercules, O illustrious reviver
+of knight-errantry, O prop of the tottering, so long consigned to
+oblivion!" But not only were the knight and the squire aghast; the
+landlord and the guests were as startled as they were, for they had
+never seen Master Pedro act like that before.
+
+But the showman had not finished, for in the next moment he lay at the
+feet of Sancho, to whom the divining ape brought cheer from his
+Teresa, saying that she was just soothing her feelings by indulging in
+wine from a pitcher which she was holding in her left hand and that
+had a broken spout.
+
+Don Quixote was not very well pleased with this exhibition, for he
+thought it decidedly out of place that an ape should know more than he
+or any other human being; and he confided to Sancho that the ape was
+possessed by the devil. He brought Sancho to a dark corner in the
+stable where he was sure no one could overhear them, and told him
+there that he was convinced Master Pedro had made a bargain with the
+devil to get rich through the ape, and then sell him his soul, and he
+said it surprised him beyond words that the Holy Office had not
+already interfered with this dastardly scheme.
+
+At this point Master Pedro came in search of Don Quixote, as the show
+was about to begin. Before entering the inn, however, Sancho entreated
+his master to ask the ape whether what he saw in the cave of
+Montesinos was true. Don Quixote did so, and the ape answered that
+some of it was true, some of it was not; and immediately Sancho
+scornfully broke in and said that he had told him so already. The ape
+intimated that by next Friday he should be able to tell more about the
+adventure; his mind was tired now.
+
+They entered and found the stage set for the performance; the tapers
+of wax were lit, it was a bright and beautiful scene. Master Pedro
+disappeared and took his place behind the scenes, for he was the one
+who created the life in the puppets. A lad who acted as interpreter,
+calling out the scenes and describing the action of the play, placed
+himself outside the theater. Don Quixote, Sancho, the page, and the
+scholar seated themselves in the front row; and the show began.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XXVI
+
+WHEREIN IS CONTINUED THE DROLL ADVENTURE OF THE
+PUPPET-SHOWMAN, TOGETHER WITH OTHER THINGS IN TRUTH
+RIGHT GOOD
+
+
+The play, which depicted how Melisendra was released by her husband,
+Senor Don Gaiferos, from the hands of the Moors in the city of
+Sansuena, now called Saragossa, had only proceeded a short way when
+Don Quixote became impatient with the young man who was making the
+explanations to the audience. The knight thought he drifted into
+unnecessary and superfluous language, and was quick to reprimand him.
+The show was continued, and again Don Quixote broke in, criticising
+some of the stage effects: bells were never used by the Moors, only
+kettledrums, he said. But here Master Pedro begged him not to be so
+particular, pleading that the show was given for the sake of
+amusement.
+
+Don Quixote acceded, and the show began again.
+
+But it was not long before a number of horsemen were galloping across the
+stage in pursuit of the two lovers. Their escape was accompanied by such
+blowing of horns and trumpets and beating of drums, that the noise and
+din of it all were too much for the poor knight's imagination which was
+now stirred to such a pitch that he believed himself in the midst of a
+real battle. He drew his sword and plunged against the Moorish horseman
+with such vehemence and force, cutting and slashing in all directions,
+that every one in the room was aghast at his madness, and ran to hide in
+safety. Master Pedro came within an inch of having his ear, not to say
+his whole head, cut off, and Don Quixote's fury was not at an end until
+he had decapitated all the Moorish pasteboard figures. Lucky it was that
+no blood could flow from them, or there would have been a plentiful
+stream of it. The ape took refuge on the roof, frightened out of his poor
+wits, and even Sancho Panza was more than ordinarily shaken with fear,
+for he admitted that he had never seen his master so wrought up.
+
+When Don Quixote was certain of complete victory--in other words,
+destruction--he turned and addressed those who had dared to return
+after the storm: "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!"
+
+But Master Pedro was lamenting the loss of all his emperors and kings
+and knights and horses, and Sancho was so touched by what he said it
+would cost him to buy a new show, that he pleaded with his master to
+make restitution; and, although Don Quixote could not see that he had
+done any wrong, he generously ordered his squire to pay Master Pedro
+the sum of forty reals and three quarters, the landlord having duly
+functioned as arbiter and agreed that that was a fair price for the
+damage done to the figures. Besides this amount, Master Pedro was
+allotted two reals for his trouble in catching the ape.
+
+While they were summing up, Don Quixote, however, had only one thought
+in his mind. He was wondering whether Melisendra and her husband had
+reached safety by this time: so possessed was he of his infernal
+imagination. Master Pedro promised him that as soon as he had caught
+his ape, he would put the question to him; and the showman began to
+worry about his African companion, hoping that he would soon be
+hungry, for then he would know whether he was still alive.
+
+The rest of the evening was passed in peace, and drinking at Don
+Quixote's expense, and soon it was morning, and the man with the
+halberds took his departure. The scholar and the page left, too, and
+Don Quixote generously gave the page twelve reals. But the first one
+to depart was the showman: he was afraid that the knight might have
+another outbreak, and he had no desire to experience it twice, and
+perhaps lose his ape, which he had now caught.
+
+The landlord was extremely pleased with Don Quixote's generosity, and
+was sorry to see him depart; but his madness he could make neither
+head nor tail of, for he had never seen any one thus afflicted.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XXVII
+
+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
+
+
+It was no doubt a good thing for Master Pedro of the puppet-show that
+neither Sancho nor Don Quixote recognized in him the thief who stole
+the squire's donkey, when he was asleep; for he it was. None other
+than the galley-slave Gines de Pasamonte, or Don Ginesillo de
+Paropilla, as Don Quixote would have it. It was in the guise of a
+showman, with only one eye and a part of his face visible, that he
+found it an easy matter to evade being caught by the servants of the
+law, who had been hunting for him ever since he was liberated through
+the generosity and bravery of Don Quixote. The ape he had bought from
+some captives who had returned from Barbary; and he had soon taught
+him the tricks which made people think he was really divining things.
+Before entering a village the clever galley-slave would learn all he
+could about its inhabitants; and being blessed with a remarkable
+memory, he seldom had any difficulty in making the ape's feat seem
+impressive to the masses.
+
+Now, when Don Quixote left the inn, it suddenly occurred to him that
+he ought to visit the banks of the Ebro before steering towards
+Saragossa. So he kept on the road for two days, and on the third day
+as he was mounting a hill he was suddenly aroused by hearing a
+tremendous din of drums, mixed with the sound of trumpets and
+musket-shots. In as few instants as it took to make his charger ascend
+to the top of the hill, he was there; and he saw several hundred men,
+armed with weapons of every imaginable sort. There were flags, of
+various descriptions, and among them one in particular attracted his
+attention: it was a large standard in white, on which was painted a
+donkey, and also an inscription, reading thus:
+
+                 They did not bray in vain,
+                    Our alcaldes twain.
+
+This made Don Quixote believe the warriors must be from the braying
+town, and he remarked to Sancho that the man to whom they had talked
+at the inn must have been misinformed, for evidently the two had not
+been magistrates but alcaldes, according to the sign. To this Sancho
+replied that having once been a magistrate should not exclude any one
+from becoming an alcalde; besides, somebody must have brayed, and
+whether it was an alcalde or a magistrate mattered little, he thought.
+Don Quixote, however, was in a quandary as to what to do that he might
+best live up to the laws of knight-errantry.
+
+He finally went to the braying ones, and, having begged their leave to
+address them, he began a stirring discourse on war and peace that
+lasted a considerable time. He flayed those who would go into battle
+for trifling matters; but just when he seemed to be about to win the
+braying ones over to his way of thinking, he had to pause for breath.
+
+Sancho thought it his duty to interrupt the silence and take up the
+broken thread here, so he continued in his own way, keeping more or
+less to the same subject. He started in by praising his master--the
+Knight of the Lions!--his bravery, his generosity, his knowledge of
+Latin (which Sancho unfortunately did not understand), and all his
+other virtues, and suddenly he bellowed out that they were fools to
+take offense at hearing some one bray. Then he became reminiscent and
+related how he as a boy used to like to go about braying, and told how
+envious every one in his village was because of his great gift in that
+direction. "Wait a bit and listen!" said he. "I'll show you!" And
+before his master had a chance to stop him, he had pinched his nose
+and brayed--had brayed such a bray that all the valleys and dales gave
+echo.
+
+When some of the men heard the braying they thought he had come there
+to mock them, and they set upon him with such fury and force that Don
+Quixote, though he did his best to defend him, had to spur Rocinante
+into retreat, in order to save his own life. But Sancho was both
+stoned and pummeled into insensibility, and then he was put on his
+donkey and tied there; and when he came to, he had to put his trust in
+Dapple, who was forced to smell his way back to Rocinante.
+
+The braying troops remained in the field until evening, but since no
+opposing army appeared, they returned to their village after dark.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XXVIII
+
+OF MATTERS THAT BENENGELI SAYS HE WHO READS THEM WILL KNOW,
+IF HE READS THEM WITH ATTENTION
+
+
+When Dapple reached his faithful playmate, Rocinante, Sancho fell from
+his back and rolled at his master's feet. There he lay; but Don
+Quixote was angry and showed no compassion.
+
+"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?"
+
+Having thus reprimanded his squire, the good knight looked to his
+wounds, which Sancho complained of, but found him only discolored.
+
+"I feel as if I was speaking through my shoulders," wailed Sancho; and
+then he begged his master to hasten away from such evil premises. Of
+course, he also had to say something scornful about Don Quixote's
+having abandoned him in the heat of battle; but the knight begged him
+to consider that there was a difference between flying and retiring.
+
+Don Quixote succeeded in making Sancho mount and remain on the donkey's
+back, and then they set off toward a grove which they sighted in the
+distance. Sancho's back pained him fearfully, but he was much relieved
+when he learned from his master--who had seen the accident--that it was
+caused by his having been smitten by a man armed with a staff. The cause
+being removed as it were, Sancho was jubilant, although his heart and
+courage fell as soon as he, in the course of his usual chattering,
+touched upon the subject of knight-errantry. While bewailing his fate, he
+forgot his pain; therefore Don Quixote was generous and Christian enough
+to beg him to keep on talking to himself. Sancho suddenly was reminded of
+his island, and in turn reminded his master of his promise concerning it.
+
+This impertinence was rewarded by the knight's demanding of him:
+"Well, how long is it, Sancho, since I promised thee an island?"
+
+And Sancho retorted innocently: "If I remember rightly, it must be
+over twenty years, three days more or less."
+
+Don Quixote then had to laugh, for it would have been ridiculous not
+to do so. His wrath was aroused, however, when Sancho again showed his
+covetousness--his one really great failing, Don Quixote thought--and
+he told him to keep all the money he had, and betake himself back to
+his Teresa.
+
+Sancho was moved to tears by his master's wrath, and he confessed in a
+broken voice that if he had only had a tail he would have been a
+complete ass himself. But, he said, if his master should care to
+attach one to him, he would willingly wear one, and serve him all his
+life as an ass. Then he asked on bended knees to be forgiven, saying
+that if he talked much it was less from malice than from ignorance,
+and finished up his harangue with a proverb that had nothing whatever
+to do with the rest of his discourse.
+
+So Don Quixote forgave his squire, and by that time they had reached
+the grove, and they spent the night there under the trees: Don Quixote
+in soliloquies and meditation, Sancho in pain and restlessness. In the
+morning they continued on their way to find the river Ebro.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XXIX
+
+OF THE FAMOUS ADVENTURE OF THE ENCHANTED BARK
+
+
+It took them two days to reach the river. The very first thing that
+struck the knight's eye when he got there, was a boat without oars,
+tied to a tree. Immediately Don Quixote insisted that the boat had
+been sent by magic to fetch him to some great knight or other person
+in need of his help; and all Sancho's contradictions were fruitless.
+
+Finally the proverb, "Do as thy master bids thee, and sit down to
+table with him," had its effect on Sancho, and, although certain he
+was about to give up his life, he tied the beasts to a tree on the
+bank, and seated himself in the boat, trembling like a leaf. Then the
+knight cut the rope, and they started to drift out into the stream,
+while Dapple was braying and Rocinante was trying to break away and
+plunge in after them. Seeing this, Sancho began to weep convulsively,
+but his master had no patience with him, and told him to control
+himself.
+
+Soon they had reached midstream, and Don Quixote, much to Sancho's
+perplexity, began to talk about cosmography, the three hundred and
+sixty degrees of the globe, and the equinoctial line, which, the
+knight said, they were just then passing. A sure sign by which all
+seafaring Spaniards determined the passing of this latitude, Don
+Quixote went on, was that all lice died on everybody on board ship.
+So, in accordance with this custom, he asked his squire to take the
+test. Sancho let his hand creep stealthily into the hollow of his left
+knee, and he promptly told his master that either was the test not to
+be relied upon, or they had not passed the line that had just been
+mentioned by name.
+
+"Why, how so?" asked Don Quixote; "hast thou come upon aught?"
+
+"Ay, and aughts," replied Sancho, and in replying he let the stream
+wash his fingers.
+
+Just then they came in view of some large floating mills, moored in
+midstream. At once Don Quixote became excited, crying to Sancho that
+there must be some fair princess or high-born lady in captivity in
+this castle.
+
+Sancho did his best to make his master believe they were not castles
+but only mills that ground corn; but to no avail. Don Quixote insisted
+that either his squire or the mills were enchanted. They came closer
+and closer to them, and soon shouts were heard from some of the
+millers, who realized the danger of the boat's being upset by the
+suction of the water, and dragged into the mill wheels.
+
+The men quickly got hold of some sticks and poles, and tried to stave
+off the boat, and when Don Quixote saw their white, flour-covered
+faces he turned to Sancho and begged him to take a good look at the
+monsters that had been sent to oppose him. The men were all the time
+crying out, unable to fathom such dare-deviltry or folly: "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?"
+
+In reply to these well-meant exclamations, Don Quixote stood up in the
+boat and began to swing his sword in a ferocious manner, calling them
+evil rabble, and demanding that they set free the princess who was
+imprisoned in the fortress; while Sancho said all the prayers he could
+think of, crawling on the bottom of the swaying boat, which was now
+close to the rushing water.
+
+At last the millers caught the boat with their hooks, but in so doing
+Don Quixote and his squire both fell into the river. Don Quixote in
+his heavy armor made two trips to the bottom, but both he and Sancho
+were rescued, thanks to the devils in white. As soon as they had come
+ashore, Sancho sank upon his knees and thanked the Lord for having
+been saved from such a death as that from drinking too much water, and
+prayed that he should be delivered from all future temptations to risk
+his life in any more foolish causes.
+
+As this moment the fishermen who owned the boat came running up,
+claiming damages for the wrecked craft, and after having failed to
+strike a bargain with this rabble for the delivery of the enchanted
+fair maiden in the castle, Don Quixote, wearied by their stupidity,
+paid them fifty reals for the boat, exclaiming: "God help us, this
+world is all machinations and schemes at cross purposes one with the
+other! I can do no more." Then, turning toward the water mills, he
+burst out into lamentations, confessing to the imagined captive
+princess his inability to set her free at this time; while the
+fishermen stood by, wondering what it was all about.
+
+Having ceased his lamentations, Don Quixote and Sancho joined their
+faithful beasts, and set out to find new adventures.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XXX
+
+OF DON QUIXOTE'S ADVENTURE WITH A FAIR HUNTRESS
+
+
+Sancho left the river Ebro with no regrets, except for the fifty reals
+just paid to the fishermen. He was seriously considering in his own
+mind the foolishness of remaining a squire to such a mad master as
+his. But late the following afternoon they approached a field, and
+suddenly Don Quixote discovered in the distance a number of people,
+and as they came closer they found it was a hawking party.
+
+Seeing in the party a lady with a hawk on her left hand, and dressed
+so richly that Sancho said he had never seen anything so fine in his
+life, Don Quixote decided that she must be some lady of great
+distinction. Therefore he dispatched his squire with a message to her,
+asking her for permission to kiss her hand in person. He instructed
+Sancho to be particularly careful not to dispense any of his proverbs
+to the lady; but Sancho said he could do without this warning, for had
+he not carried messages before to the exalted Dulcinea, the highest
+lady of them all?
+
+Soon Don Quixote saw his squire kneeling before the lady. Having given
+her his life's history and told her his name, Sancho proceeded with
+the message of his master, the valiant Knight of the Lions, formerly
+the Knight of the Rueful Countenance, explicitly explaining his
+master's modest desire. The lady, who was no other than a duchess, at
+once was interested, as she had read and laughed over the first volume
+of "The Ingenious Gentleman, Don Quixote of La Mancha"; and she
+immediately asked Sancho to return to his master and say that she
+would be delighted beyond words to have the worthy knight and his
+squire come and be her and the Duke's guests at a country place they
+had there.
+
+Sancho was so flattered that the Duchess had recognized him from
+having read the book, and so pleased with the reception she had given
+him, as well as so taken by her great charm and beauty that he could
+not get back to his master quickly enough to tell him the good news.
+With his best manner and bearing Don Quixote, attended by his faithful
+one, rode into the presence of the august lady, and kissed her hand.
+
+But while Sancho was on his way to his master with the Duchess'
+message, she had sent for the Duke, and they had arranged, both being
+gifted with a remarkable sense of humor, to receive and entertain the
+hero in true knight-errant fashion. Having read all the tales of
+chivalry, they knew exactly what to do.
+
+Don Quixote was about to dismount, when he had kissed the Duchess'
+hand; and Sancho, as was his custom, wanted to get off Dapple in a
+hurry and hold his stirrup, as soon as he perceived his master's
+intention. But luck would have it that one of his legs caught in the
+trappings, and he fell head first towards the ground. There the poor
+squire hung, unable to get up or down, caught by the foot. Now, when
+Don Quixote, his eyes fixedly and courteously on the Duchess, thought
+that his squire was there with the stirrup, he pressed downward with
+all his weight, and knight and saddle both flew high in the air off
+Rocinante. When Don Quixote had reached earth, he lay there, writhing
+in pain and cursing and swearing at his stupid squire, who was still
+hanging by his foot.
+
+The Duke and the Duchess, unable to constrain themselves at the
+amusing scene, finally were able through their laughter to order their
+huntsmen to their help; and, limping, the knight advanced to do homage
+to the Duke and his consort on his damaged knees. The Duke, however,
+nobly refused such honor, and instead, embraced the knight. He then
+regretted in a few well chosen words the knight's accident; but Don
+Quixote replied with an exalted speech, saying that if he had fallen
+to the depths of the bottomless pit, the glory of having seen such a
+noble and worthy pair would have lifted him up. Then, of course, he
+said something uncomplimentary about his squire, who did not know how
+to tighten the girths of a saddle, although he could not help giving
+him credit for having a loose tongue.
+
+But when the knight began to praise the beauty of the Duchess, the
+Duke asked him courteously whether there were not others to praise,
+as, for instance, his own Lady Dulcinea. At this Don Quixote offered
+the Duchess his services for a few days, together with those of his
+squire, Sancho Panza, whom he now took pity on and praised as being
+the drollest squire in the world. Whereupon the Duchess flattered
+Sancho, saying that if he were droll, she was sure he was shrewd as
+well; but Don Quixote broke in and added that he was talkative. When
+the knight, having heard himself addressed as the Knight of the Rueful
+Countenance, begged to correct it to the Knight of the Lions, the Duke
+asked him to relate the episode that thus changed his title. And then
+he invited all to come to the castle to be present at a reception that
+he would give to their great and distinguished guest.
+
+With the Duchess in the middle, flanked by Don Quixote and the Duke,
+the whole company headed for the castle; but it was not long before
+the Duchess found her desire for conversation with the droll and
+amusing Sancho irresistible. As soon as the Duchess' wish was made
+known to him, the squire eagerly wedged his way between the horses and
+chattered his way into the lady's good graces.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XXXI
+
+WHICH TREATS OF MANY AND GREAT MATTERS
+
+
+The reception tendered Don Quixote was arranged in true knight-errant
+fashion by the Duke, who had ridden ahead and given full instructions
+to the servants. So when Don Quixote arrived, he received a welcome
+that surpassed anything he had ever read or dreamt of.
+
+The staircases and the galleries of the court were lined with
+servants, who greeted him with the exclamation: "Welcome, flower and
+cream of knight-errantry!" At the same time they cast pellets with
+scented water over him.
+
+Sancho was taken aback at the sight of all this glory. He had followed
+the Duchess, but once in the castle, the absence of his Dapple made
+him feel worried. So he turned to one of the duennas, a dignified
+woman, named Dona Rodriguez de Grijalba, and asked her whether she
+would not favor him by going outside and seeing that his poor little
+Dapple was well taken care of. Dona Rodriguez was greatly incensed at
+his ordering a duenna of the ducal household to do things of that
+sort, and called him a garlic-stuffed scoundrel. Don Quixote,
+overhearing their conversation, reprimanded his misbehaving servant,
+and Sancho blamed it all on his love for his donkey.
+
+After this, Don Quixote was escorted into a hall the walls of which
+were covered with cloth of gold and rich tapestries, and here he was
+stripped of his armor by six fair damsels. These maidens could
+scarcely control their laughter when they saw him stand there, thin,
+emaciated, tall and bony, dressed in his chamois doublet and
+tight-fitting breeches. They begged him to permit them to put a clean
+shirt on him, but that he refused with many assurances of his modesty,
+asking them instead to give it to Sancho. The two were taken to a
+room, where Don Quixote, alone with his squire, undressed and put on
+the shirt, while he gave Sancho admonitions galore, as to how to
+behave, begging him never again to have any quarrels with any
+duennas, for that only tended to lessen the respect for the master,
+who was always judged by his squire's behavior and actions.
+
+Then Don Quixote returned to the hall, where he was attired in a rich
+baldric and a scarlet mantle, with a sword and a gorgeous montera of
+green satin. As he passed through the halls and chambers on his way to
+the state dining room, he was escorted by the seneschal and twelve
+pages; and the sides of each room, as well as the aisles, were lined
+with servants in pompous liveries.
+
+Only four covers were laid. Besides Don Quixote and his noble hosts
+the confessor of the ducal household, a cold and austere churchman,
+occupied a seat at the heavily laden table, to which our knight was
+ushered ceremoniously by the Duke himself. But the dinner had not even
+begun when Sancho unloosened his tongue and began with his proverbs,
+much to the distress and mortification of his master, although to the
+great enjoyment of the Duchess. Sancho had been standing by Don
+Quixote, staring wide-eyed and open-mouthed at everything that was
+taking place, for he had never in his life seen anything so sumptuous
+and ceremonious. The exchange of courtesies between the Duke and our
+Knight, when the latter finally was induced to accept the seat of
+honor at the head of the table, impressed the squire considerably; and
+it was then he thought the time ripe for the introduction of a story
+about this matter of seats. The Duchess told him by all means to let
+them hear it, and he began, telling it in the most roundabout way,
+with twists and curves, and expeditions here and there to places and
+matters that had as much to do with the story as had the proverbs
+that he stuffed it with.
+
+Don Quixote was beside himself, and the confessor interrupted the poor
+squire impatiently again and again; but on he went. All the while the
+Duchess was laughing so heartily that she could scarcely sit up
+straight in the chair. And while the Duke engaged himself with Don
+Quixote, she carried on a confidential conversation with Sancho, who
+told her how he had tricked his master into believing that his Lady
+Dulcinea was enchanted, saying she was as much enchanted as his
+father.
+
+When the confessor heard the sacrilegious conversation the Duchess was
+having with Sancho, discussing giants and enchantments, he severely
+reprimanded her and warned her that she would have to answer to God
+for whatever this man did and said. Then, addressing the Duke, whom he
+had forbidden to read the book about Don Quixote's adventures, he
+said: "This Don Simpleton, or whatever his name is, cannot be such a
+blockhead as your Excellency would have him, holding out encouragement
+to him to go on with his vagaries and follies." And then he turned to
+Don Quixote and told him to be on his way, and go home and bring up
+his children, if he had any; and he called him a numbskull, and other
+names, and a fool for believing that there were knights-errant in the
+world and Dulcineas and other such silly things.
+
+Don Quixote sat still and never moved a muscle while the churchman was
+speaking, but as soon as he had said all he had to say, he sprang up
+from his seat, trembling in his whole body, his face contorted with
+rage.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XXXII
+
+OF THE REPLY DON QUIXOTE GAVE HIS CENSURER, WITH OTHER
+INCIDENTS, GRAVE AND DROLL
+
+
+Had Don Quixote not been where he was and had the man who thus
+assailed him not been of the church, it is safe to say that Don
+Quixote would have made his defamer retract his words at the point of
+his sword. But instead he calmed himself, and began a long discourse
+on the virtues of knight-errantry, finishing it with an avowal of his
+intentions which, he swore, were to do good to all and evil to none.
+As for his deserving to be called a fool, he would leave that to the
+judgment of the Duke and the Duchess. But their worships never got a
+chance to utter a word before Sancho broke in with the most stupendous
+praise of his master's speech.
+
+The churchman wanted to know whether he was the Sancho Panza of the
+book he had seen in print, to which Sancho replied that he most
+certainly was, and corroborated it with a string of proverbs, ending
+his long-winded reply to the confessor's question with a wish for long
+life for his master and himself, saying that neither one of them would
+be in any want of empires or islands to rule. Whereupon the Duke at
+once said he conferred upon Sancho this very moment the government of
+one of his islands; and hearing this Don Quixote whispered to
+Sancho--who could not believe his own ears--to go down on his knees
+and thank the Duke for his kindness.
+
+The ecclesiastic could stand this impudence no longer, and he rose
+from his seat and left the room in disgust and ill-temper. The Duke
+wanted to call him back, but he was in such hysterics from hearing
+Sancho's proverbial nonsense that he could not speak. After the
+churchman's departure Don Quixote again took to discoursing, and
+delivered a tirade on the subject of giving and taking offense,
+comparing the confessor's rebuke to the offense of a woman, whose only
+weapon was her tongue and who therefore could not be punished by the
+sword. They marveled at his knowledge and at the quality of his
+language, however amusing he himself appeared; but it was Sancho who
+particularly took their fancy, for the ducal pair thought they had
+never met any one quite so amusing and droll in all their life. And
+when Don Quixote had ended his discourse, Sancho himself burst out
+regarding the priest: "By my faith, I am certain if Reinaldos of
+Montalvan had heard the little man's words, he would have given him
+such a spank on the mouth that he would not have spoken for the next
+three years."
+
+The dinner was now over, and four maidens entered: one carrying a
+silver basin, another one a jug, also of silver, a third one towels,
+while the fourth had her sleeves rolled up, and, approaching Don
+Quixote, began to soap his face and beard. Don Quixote thought this
+must be a custom after all ducal meals, so he submitted in amazement
+and stretched out his legs comfortably, that he should not appear out
+of place in such surroundings. When his face was all lathered, the
+barber maiden pretended there was no more water in the jug; and by
+this time the lather had worked its way into the knight's eyes, and he
+sat there making the most fierce and ludicrous faces until the water
+finally arrived. Then the Duke, in order that Don Quixote should have
+no suspicions, ordered the maiden to wash his face and beard as well.
+But the one who really was crying for and needing such a washing was
+Sancho. He at last got up sufficient courage to ask the Duchess that
+he might share in the ceremony, and she promised him that if necessary
+the maidens would even put him in the bathtub. This kind offer Sancho
+declined--with many thanks, however--saying he would be just as
+grateful for having only his beard washed.
+
+While Sancho went with the seneschal to have this attended to, Don
+Quixote lingered at the table with the Duke and the Duchess. The
+latter was anxious to have the hero tell her something about his Lady
+Dulcinea; and Don Quixote became reminiscent and began to sigh,
+telling her in exalted and flowery language of his great platonic love
+for this lady, who was now enchanted by some evil sage. When the
+Duchess asked Don Quixote if it were true that she was only an
+imaginary figure, he replied meekly that there was a good deal to be
+said on that point; still, he thought, one must not go to extreme
+lengths in asking for proof. They discussed many other things, not
+forgetting Sancho, whom his master praised for his drollery and
+criticised for being a booby.
+
+Suddenly a great noise was heard and the next moment Sancho burst
+into the room trembling with rage. He was followed by some of the
+servants in the kitchen. Round his neck was a straining cloth, and
+dirty lather was splashed in various places over his person. He
+presented an appearance that at once made the Duchess scream with
+laughter. He proceeded to tell how he had been set upon by the
+kitchen-boy, who had been appointed barber by the rest, and how the
+lad had attempted to lather his face with kitchen soap and dishwater,
+applied with a scrubbing-brush. Don Quixote thought it best here to
+make the servants understand that he would tolerate no such jokes on
+his squire, so he addressed them in severe fashion and then ordered
+them back to the kitchen, with the Duchess' kind consent.
+
+When the servants had left Sancho thought it a duty to himself and his
+master--in order to uphold their mutual dignity and for the sake of
+freeing himself from any untoward suspicion--to speak on his own
+behalf: "Let them bring a comb here 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." And when the Duchess had acknowledged her
+faith in Sancho and his virtues, the poor squire's happiness knew no
+bounds. He offered to serve her for the rest of his life. He wished
+that he might soon be dubbed a knight that he might carry out his
+desire on that point. She thanked him for expressing such a friendly
+feeling for her, and told him that she could plainly judge by his
+courteous offer to her that he had been reared in no other school than
+that of the great knight Don Quixote of La Mancha. And she assured
+him that the Duke would not forget the island he had promised him: she
+would see to that.
+
+Don Quixote was now feeling the necessity for his mid-day nap, and
+begged to be permitted to retire. Sancho wanted to do the same, and
+remarked to the Duchess that he usually slept about four or five hours
+in the middle of a warm summer day; but upon her earnest request he
+promised her to try to wake up after an hour and come and visit with
+her and her duennas.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XXXIII
+
+OF THE DELECTABLE DISCOURSE WHICH THE DUCHESS AND HER
+DAMSELS HELD WITH SANCHO PANZA, WELL WORTH READING AND
+NOTING
+
+
+As soon as Sancho had eaten his dinner, he decided to have no sleep
+that afternoon, but to hasten to the Duchess' chambers that he might
+talk to her the whole afternoon. The Duchess asked him innumerable
+questions about his master and the Lady Dulcinea, and about Teresa
+Panza and every one concerned in the book about Don Quixote; and
+Sancho managed to keep the Duchess and her duennas in an uncommonly
+good humor for the rest of the day. They soon drifted to Sancho's
+government, and the squire expressed the belief that perhaps after a
+fortnight he would be as well versed in the affairs of government as
+he was in the farm labor he had been doing all his life.
+
+"Let them only put me into this government and they will see wonders,"
+he said; "for one who has been a good squire will be a good governor."
+
+And then he took leave of the high lady, who suggested that he go home
+and sleep for the rest of the afternoon. He promised that he would,
+and entreated her to see to it that good care was taken of his Dapple.
+When he had explained to the Duchess that Dapple was his faithful
+donkey, and told her of the incident with Dona Rodriguez, she assured
+him that Dapple would want for nothing in her stable. She suggested
+that when he had his government in hand, he ought to pension Dapple
+off and let him quit working; and Sancho thought that was by no means
+a bad idea, for, he said, he would not be the first ass to be so
+pensioned.
+
+The Duchess, when he had left, hastened to tell the Duke of her
+amusing conversation with Sancho; and again they put their heads
+together, trying to invent new ways and plots whereby they might
+derive amusement from the presence of Don Quixote and his squire.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XXXIV
+
+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
+
+
+When the Duke and the Duchess had hit upon a plan they proceeded to
+make preparations for its being carried out, and on the sixth day they
+invited Don Quixote to go hunting with them. There was an array of
+huntsmen and beaters, as great a retinue as the Duke could possibly
+get together. Both Don Quixote and his squire had been presented with
+splendid hunting suits; but Don Quixote did not accept his, saying
+that he would soon have to return to the hard pursuits of his calling,
+and that it would only be a burden to carry it along.
+
+Sancho did not know that his beautiful suit was destined to be torn
+that very day. A wild boar came along, and Sancho deserted his Dapple
+and climbed quickly up into the tallest tree he could find; but fate
+would have it that the branch gave way, and Sancho fell onto a branch
+below, where he hung suspended by a great rent in his breeches,
+screaming with all his might that he would be devoured by the boar;
+but the boar fell in the next moment, pierced by many spears, and
+Sancho was helped to the ground by his master.
+
+The boar was taken to some tents nearby, where dinner soon was ready
+and being served for the hunters. Sancho could not refrain then from
+showing the Duchess what had befallen him in the tree-top, expressing
+to her his opinion of hunts of that kind, involving so much risk. Much
+better, he thought, it would be to hunt hares and other little
+animals. And then he went on at a tremendous speed, repeating proverb
+after proverb, one minute telling the Duchess how he would govern his
+island, and the next minute talking about something in his home
+village.
+
+Night fell as they were talking. It was a very dark night, which
+helped to make the Duke's plan seem more likely of success. They had
+all left the tents and gone into the wood, when suddenly it seemed as
+if the whole space was afire in one blazing red mass of flames; then
+there came the sound of trumpets, numberless ones it seemed, and of
+hoofs, as if hordes of horses had passed through the wood, and of
+drums, and of battle-cries in Moorish. It was one long, tremendous,
+indescribable confusion. The Duke and the Duchess were seemingly taken
+aback; Don Quixote did not know what to think or do; and Sancho was
+absolutely panic-stricken. It was a din so overwhelming that even
+those who had arranged it were aghast and afraid.
+
+Then there came a sudden lull, and a messenger--dressed like a demon
+and blowing a horn that sounded a weird and sickly note--appeared
+before their eyes, apparently in great haste. The Duke called to him
+and asked him where he was going; and he replied in a coarse voice
+that he was the Devil and was looking for Don Quixote of La Mancha. He
+pointed to the on-riding troops, and said that they were enchanters
+who were bringing the famous Lady Dulcinea del Toboso and the great
+Frenchman Montesinos on a triumphal car to seek their disenchantment
+through the only one who could accomplish it, the Knight of the Lions.
+
+On hearing this, Don Quixote said: "If you are the Devil, you ought to
+know that I am Don Quixote!"
+
+Whereupon the Devil exclaimed in surprise that he had not noticed the
+knight at all because he was so preoccupied with so many other things
+that he had almost forgotten what he was there for. Judging the Devil
+by his remark Sancho decided he was a very honest fellow and a good
+Christian; otherwise he would not have sworn--as Sancho did--by God
+and his conscience. After that the squire concluded that even hell had
+its quota of souls.
+
+The Devil asked Don Quixote to communicate with Montesinos that he
+might receive instructions as to how to carry out the disenchantment
+of Lady Dulcinea; and then he turned around his horse and was gone.
+The whole thing had happened so suddenly that even Don Quixote was
+perplexed and seemed as if he did not know whether to believe what he
+had seen and heard. Sancho was dumbfounded and frightened out of his
+wits.
+
+As Don Quixote made no move to follow the Devil's advice, the Duke
+turned to him and asked whether he intended to remain where he was. He
+answered that he would even if all the devils from hell should attack
+him. Scarcely had he vowed this when he had to gather all his courage
+in order not to give way to fear, for again there broke out a noise
+and din that surpassed anything that he had ever heard: shots of
+cannon and muskets, shouts and screams from all sides, and the
+terrific sound of all the trumpets, horns, drums, bugles and clarions;
+and then came the heavy creaking noise of carts, coming through the
+wood and all brightly lighted with rows of tapers.
+
+It was too much for poor Sancho. He fell fainting on the Duchess'
+skirt. She ordered her servants to fan him and to throw water in his
+face, and he regained consciousness just as one of the carts was
+passing. It was drawn by four oxen, completely covered with black
+cloth, and attached to each horn was a lighted wax taper. Leading the
+oxen were two demons with such horrible, frightful faces that Sancho
+shut his eyes tightly after having got one glance of them. An old,
+worthy-looking man with a long, snow-white beard sat on a raised seat
+on the cart; and when he passed Don Quixote he said in a deep voice:
+"I am the sage Lirgandeo." And the cart continued. Then followed other
+carts, with other sages, and Sancho's face suddenly lighted up, for he
+heard sweet music in the distance, and he said to the Duchess:
+"Senora, where there is music, there can be no mischief."
+
+But Don Quixote would not commit himself, for all he remarked was:
+"That remains to be seen."
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XXXV
+
+WHEREIN IS CONTINUED THE INSTRUCTION GIVEN TO DON QUIXOTE
+TOUCHING THE DISENCHANTMENT OF DULCINEA, TOGETHER WITH
+OTHER MARVELOUS INCIDENTS
+
+
+As the sound of the music came closer, they distinguished a triumphal
+car, several times larger than the other ones, and on it were seated
+two figures, surrounded by a great many penitents, robed in white, and
+with lighted wax tapers in their hands. One of the figures was a young
+maiden in the costume of a nymph. She was very beautiful. The other
+one was dressed in a robe of state and had her head covered with a
+black veil.
+
+As the car reached the spot where the Duke and Duchess and Don Quixote
+were standing, the music suddenly ceased, and the figure in the long
+robe rose and removed both the robe and the veil. All were astonished
+to find themselves face to face with Death. Sancho was frightened; Don
+Quixote felt ill at ease; and even the Duke and the Duchess seemed
+uncomfortable.
+
+Then Death began to declaim a long poem which ended with the
+announcement that the Lady Dulcinea was enchanted by himself, the sage
+Merlin, here in the guise of Death, and that she could be redeemed in
+but one way: by three thousand three hundred lashes administered on
+Don Quixote's squire Sancho.
+
+When Sancho heard this he exclaimed that he would rather stab himself
+than take the lashes, for he failed to see what he had to do with the
+enchantment of the Lady Dulcinea. This talk infuriated Don Quixote,
+who threatened to tie him to a tree and lay on the lashes himself, if
+his faithful squire had so little respect for his beloved one that he
+would not sacrifice himself to such an extent. But Merlin said that
+would have no effect, for the worthy Sancho must do the sacrifice of
+his own free will, or the disenchantment could not be accomplished.
+
+Sancho, however, was as stubborn as a mule, and it was not until the
+Duke himself took a hand in the matter and threatened him with the
+loss of his governorship that he gave in; and then a compromise was
+made whereby Sancho promised to inflict the three thousand three
+hundred lashes upon himself. Merlin assured him, however, that if he
+should make any mistake in counting them, it would soon be known; for
+the moment all the lashes had been dealt, the Lady Dulcinea would be
+released--neither one lash before, nor one lash after--and she would
+at once come to thank and reward him for his sacrifice.
+
+As soon as Sancho had testified his willingness to serve his master and
+his master's lady, Don Quixote fell on his squire's neck and kissed him.
+The Duke and the Duchess praised him for his unselfishness. And the music
+played again. Then the car moved on, Lady Dulcinea bowed to Sancho and
+the ducal pair, and dawn appeared with its glowing smile. The muskets
+were again heard; and all was calm.
+
+The Duke was pleased beyond measure with his idea, which had been so
+effectively carried out. The hunt was at an end, and all returned
+happy and content--all except Sancho, who could not help thinking of
+the pain he was to give himself. But the Duke was bent on hitting upon
+new schemes whereby he should be able to continue the gaiety that
+Sancho and his master caused.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XXXVI
+
+WHEREIN IS RELATED THE STRANGE AND UNDREAMED-OF ADVENTURE
+OF THE DISTRESSED DUENNA, ALIAS THE COUNTESS TRIFALDI,
+TOGETHER WITH A LETTER WHICH SANCHO PANZA WROTE TO HIS
+WIFE, TERESA PANZA
+
+
+The Duke's majordomo had played the part of Merlin, and he it was who
+induced a page to appear as Dulcinea. This majordomo was a fellow full
+of pranks and good humor, and it was he who had written the verses he
+recited, too. To him the Duke now turned, and they contrived together
+another amusing scheme.
+
+The next day Sancho was asked by the Duchess how many lashes he had
+given himself; and he replied meekly that he had commenced with five.
+After a moment's inquisition, however, the squire admitted that it had
+not been with lashes but slaps that he had done penance. The Duchess
+said she was certain that the sage Merlin would not tolerate any such
+false pretense. She suggested that he make a scourge with claws or
+knotted cords so that he would be sure to feel what he was doing to
+himself, and when the Duchess offered to bring him such a scourge in
+the morning, he had to promise to accept it. Then he told her that he
+had written a letter to his wife, Teresa Panza, in the governor style;
+and begged her to read it, which she did. The Duchess derived so much
+amusement from it that she hastened to show it to the Duke. And when
+Sancho was asked whether he had written the letter himself, he said
+that he only dictated it, since he could neither read nor write.
+
+After dinner the Duke and the Duchess were sitting in the garden
+talking with Don Quixote and Sancho, when suddenly there was heard the
+sound of a deep doleful voice. They all turned quickly to see who was
+speaking, and there they saw approaching them a man with a snow-white
+beard that reached almost to the ground. He said he was Trifaldin, of
+the White Beard, squire to the Countess Trifaldi, otherwise called the
+Distressed Duenna, and that he had come in search of the valiant
+knight Don Quixote who he had heard was visiting at the castle. His
+mistress, he said, in order to find this knight had traveled all the
+way from the kingdom of Kandy without breaking her fast, and now he
+begged that Don Quixote would receive the lady, that she herself might
+tell him her misfortunes.
+
+Don Quixote at once bade the squire go and fetch the Countess; at the
+same time he uttered a desire to the Duke that the confessor who did
+not believe in knights errant might have been present to see how
+appreciated and famed his achievements had become throughout the
+world.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTERS XXXVII-XXXIX
+
+WHEREIN IS CONTINUED THE NOTABLE ADVENTURE OF THE DISTRESSED
+DUENNA, INCLUDING HER MARVELOUS AND MEMORABLE TALE OF
+MISFORTUNE
+
+
+The Countess soon arrived, escorted by twelve duennas, who formed a
+lane through which she passed into the Duke's presence. On seeing so
+distinguished a guest, he went to receive her with all the honors due
+to her rank. When she had curtsied, she asked the Duke if it were true
+that the famous Don Quixote of La Mancha was present in the company.
+The import of her question was heightened by the way she expressed it,
+for these were her words spoken in a deep and coarse voice: "Are there
+present here that knight immaculatissimus, Don Quixote de la
+Manchissima, and his squirissimus Panza?"
+
+Before Don Quixote or any one else had had an opportunity to reply,
+Sancho opened his mouth and burst out: "The Panza is here, and Don
+Quixottissimus too; and so, most distressedest Duennissima, you may
+say what you willissimus, for we are all readissimus to do you any
+servissimus."
+
+Then Don Quixote stepped forward and begged the duenna to give him an
+account of her distress that he might know how to relieve it. The
+duenna became emotional almost beyond bounds. She thrust herself
+before Don Quixote and embraced his legs, imploring his and his
+squire's help, and then began to tell her story of misery.
+
+All the while the Duke and the Duchess were in paroxysms of laughter,
+so well did the duenna act her part. And their enjoyment was further
+heightened by the remarks and questions that Sancho interspersed here
+and there, always at the wrong moment and much to his master's
+chagrin.
+
+The weeping duenna went on to tell how she had been the ranking duenna
+at the court of the dowager-queen of Kandy; how she had been entrusted
+with the care and the bringing up of the Princess Antonomasia, the
+young heiress of the kingdom, and how she had permitted a young
+gentleman at the court, who was enamored of the Princess, to gain her
+favor in such a degree that marriage followed. The young Don had
+captivated both the Princess and the duenna with his accomplishments,
+for not only did he play the guitar and write poetry, and dance, but
+he could as well make bird-cages. But when the Queen learned of her
+daughter's marriage to one so much beneath her in rank, her heart
+broke in twain and she collapsed and was buried in three days, the
+duenna declared, tears streaming down her face all the while.
+
+Sancho was curious at once, and wanted to have a doubt settled. "She
+died, no doubt?" he asked; and the duenna assured him that they did
+not bury the living in Kandy, only the dead. But Sancho thought it was
+a very stupid thing for the Old Queen to go and die thus; he said he
+could see no reason why she should have taken the whole thing so to
+heart, for the Princess might have married a page. That, in Sancho's
+opinion, might have been an excuse for dying; but the Don was such an
+accomplished man, and a gentleman at that, who could even make
+bird-cages. Dying was too absurd!
+
+Then the duenna resumed, and now came the worst of her story. She told
+how the two lovers, upon the Queen's death, had become enchanted by
+the giant Malambruno, the Queen's first cousin, who had sworn that
+they would not regain their right shapes until the famous and valiant
+knight of La Mancha had met him in single combat. Having sentenced
+them thus, he summoned all the duennas in the castle, charging them
+with the responsibility of the evil match, and saying that since he
+did not wish them to suffer death, he would punish them in some other
+way. Scarcely had the giant uttered these words before their faces
+began to sting, their pores opened, and when the duennas put their
+hands to their faces, they felt themselves punished in a most
+horrifying manner.
+
+Here the thirteen duennas raised their veils, and the Duke and his
+company were amazed to see that all the women were bearded. The
+Distressed Duenna raised a wail, and assured those present that had it
+not been that she had cried so much that she had no tears left, she
+would now shed them copiously, and she exclaimed: "Where, I ask, can a
+duenna with a beard go? What father or mother will pity her? Who will
+help her? For, if even when she has a smooth skin and a face tortured
+by a thousand kinds of cosmetics, she can hardly get anybody to love
+her, what will she do when she shows a countenance turned into a
+thicket? O duennas! It was an unlucky moment when we were born and
+when our fathers begot us!"
+
+As the unhappy duenna spoke these words, it seemed as if she were
+about to faint. With a deep and distressing moan, she covered her face
+with her hands.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XL
+
+OF MATTERS RELATING AND BELONGING TO THIS ADVENTURE AND TO
+THIS MEMORABLE HISTORY
+
+
+The one who was most impressed by this sad story and enchantment was
+Sancho, who thought it a dastardly trick for any giant to do. Did not
+the enchanter know that it cost money to shave? In Sancho's opinion,
+it would have been infinitely better to have taken off a part of their
+noses, even if it would have given them an impediment of speech. The
+duennas replied that some of them had tried sticking-plaster in order
+to spare themselves the expense of shaving, but to jerk it off their
+faces, was a painful procedure, they said.
+
+Don Quixote interrupted and declared that they would have to follow no
+such course, for he would rid them of their beards or he would pluck
+out his own in the land of the Moors. Such a noble declaration seemed
+to revive the Distressed Duenna. She came up to Don Quixote and told
+him that the giant Malambruno had been courteous enough to offer to
+send the famous wooden steed that the valiant Pierres used. Merlin had
+made it. This horse could go through the air with a speed that
+carried its rider to the ends of the world overnight. It was steered
+by a peg in his forehead, she said, and this peg also served as a
+bridle. Furthermore, there was room for two--one in the saddle, and
+one on the croup.
+
+"I should like to see him," said Sancho; "but to fancy that I am going
+to mount him, either in the saddle or on the croup, is to ask pears of
+an elm-tree. Let each one shave himself as best he can; I am not going
+to be bruised to get rid of any one's beard."
+
+But Countess Trifaldi insisted that Panza was indispensable to the
+shaving of the duennas; and when the Duchess had pleaded with him and
+he saw the Distressed Duenna's eyes fill with tears, he could hardly
+keep his own back. He bent to their will and resigned himself to his
+fate and the adventure of riding through the air on the croup of the
+mighty wooden steed.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XLI
+
+THE END OF THIS PROTRACTED ADVENTURE
+
+
+Don Quixote was in a state of anxiety during the whole day for fear
+that Malambruno should not send the steed, but soon after nightfall
+there arrived in the garden four wild-men, clad in ivy, and carrying
+on their shoulders a large wooden horse. Don Quixote was summoned by
+the Distressed Duenna and he mounted the horse at once, not even
+putting on his spurs. By this time, however, Sancho had changed his
+mind and decided that he was not going to fly through the air like a
+witch. But upon the earnest and courteous solicitations of the Duke,
+Sancho at last consented to ride with his master.
+
+Don Quixote begged Sancho to give himself five hundred lashes on
+behalf of his enchanted Dulcinea before they set off; but this request
+struck the squire as the absurdest one he had ever heard. How could
+his master expect him to sit on a hard wooden horse while he was all
+bruised and sore from the lashes? He did promise solemnly, however,
+that as soon as the duennas had been shaved he would turn to the
+fulfilling of the other debt.
+
+The Distressed Duenna blindfolded them, saying that doing so would
+prevent them from getting dizzy when they rose to great heights; and
+Sancho, trembling and tearful, complained that the croup was too hard
+and begged for a cushion. But the duenna answered him that the magic
+steed permitted no trappings of any kind, and she suggested that he
+place himself sideways like a woman, for no doubt he would feel the
+hardness less in that position.
+
+Sancho did so; and then he uncovered his eyes and looked in a tender
+fashion on those he was leaving behind, and began to cry piteously.
+Don Quixote told him sharply to cover his eyes again and not to act
+like a fool and a coward; and his squire did as he was bidden, after
+having commended himself to God and begged the duennas to pray all the
+paternosters and ave-marias they could for him. They in turn
+admonished him to stick tight to the croup and not to lose hold of it,
+warning him that if he fell, he would fall like a planet and be
+blinded by all the stars he would meet on his way down to Earth.
+
+Sobbing, Sancho clung to his master, embracing him with his fat arms
+so tightly that Don Quixote came near being upset. The knight took a
+firm grip on the steering peg, and reprimanded his squire for
+squeezing him. He told him there was nothing to worry about, for it
+seemed to him he had never in his life ridden a steed that was so
+easy-going: one would hardly think they had budged from their original
+place, he said. When Sancho had calmed himself, he concurred in this
+opinion. He had never heard that there were people living in the air,
+and did he not hear voices quite close to his ears? Don Quixote then
+had to explain that affairs of this sort were not of the every-day
+kind, and that whenever one went on a trip like this, the voices from
+the Earth would reach thousands of leagues away.
+
+Scarcely had Don Quixote said this, before a gust of wind came that
+threatened to unseat both the knight and his squire. (The fact was
+that it was the draught from a tremendous pair of bellows which the
+Duke had had unearthed for the occasion.) Sancho was shaking in his
+seat, and Don Quixote warned him again to sit still, for they were in
+danger of having a runaway straight into the regions of air and
+thunder, and then into the region of fire. He feared he might not get
+the steed to turn before it was too late, he said; for it seemed as if
+the machinery of the peg were rather intricate, and did not work
+quickly.
+
+Suddenly Sancho began to yell that they were already lost in the
+flames, and would be burned to death. (He felt his beard being singed
+by a torch. It was one of a great number that the majordomo had
+provided.) Don Quixote, too, felt his face warm up. But he would not
+permit Sancho to uncover his eyes; if he did, the knight said he would
+only be seized with giddiness and both of them would fall off their
+horse. Besides, he comforted Sancho with the thought that the journey
+would last only a few moments longer, and that they were now passing a
+final test before landing in the kingdom of Kandy. Don Quixote added
+that the distance they had traveled must have been tremendous, and
+Sancho replied: "All I know is that if the Senora Magallanes or
+Magalona was satisfied with this croup, she could not have been very
+tender of flesh."
+
+At this moment came the culmination of their journey through the air.
+A torch was tied to the tail of the steed, which was stuffed with
+fire-crackers, and suddenly there was a tremendous noise and a flash,
+and in the next moment Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, both scorched,
+lay as if thunderstruck on the ground.
+
+When the knight and his squire finally came to, and looked about, they
+were aghast at what they saw. The ground was strewn with bodies, but
+the bearded duennas were gone. Planted in the ground they saw a lance,
+attached to which they found a parchment which proclaimed that the
+enchantment of the duennas and of the Don and his royal bride was at
+an end, and that as soon as the squire Sancho Panza deigned to carry
+out the flogging he was to give himself, the peerless Dulcinea would
+appear in all her original beauty again.
+
+Now the Duke and the Duchess, who were among the bodies lying on the
+ground, seemingly dead, lifted up their heads, as if just coming out
+of a long sleep; and Don Quixote hastened to tell them of the great
+miracle that had befallen him. They were both convulsed with
+laughter--which Don Quixote mistook for emotion--and when he had
+finished telling them about his marvelous adventure, they had all they
+could do to reply. The Duke finally gathered enough strength to
+embrace him and tell him that he was no doubt the greatest knight the
+world had ever known.
+
+The Duchess was curious to know how Sancho had enjoyed the trip; and
+he confessed that in spite of his master's command he had peered from
+underneath the kerchief before his eyes, and had seen the earth below,
+and that the people seemed as little as hazelnuts and the earth itself
+looked like a grain of mustard-seed; and when he passed through the
+region of fire he had seen the goats of heaven, he said.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XLII
+
+OF THE COUNSELS WHICH DON QUIXOTE GAVE SANCHO PANZA
+BEFORE HE SET OUT TO GOVERN THE ISLAND, TOGETHER WITH
+OTHER WELL-CONSIDERED MATTERS
+
+
+The heaven-riding adventure had been such a success that the Duke and
+the Duchess could not rest until they had seen Sancho installed as
+governor of his island; for they felt certain they should derive a
+great fund of amusement from such an experiment. So Sancho was told to
+prepare himself.
+
+But Sancho, having seen heaven, seemed less keen to be governor now,
+since he felt how small humanity really was, particularly in
+comparison with the goats of the sky which he claimed he had seen, and
+he replied that he would much rather have a bit of heaven than any
+island on earth. The Duke, however, told Sancho that, not being the
+ruler there, it was for God to dispose of such domains. So Sancho
+promised to come down to earth and be governor, and to attire himself
+in the regalia befitting the office.
+
+This being done, Don Quixote and Sancho withdrew to the knight's room,
+and there Don Quixote gave his squire advice about governing. He
+admonished him to be a champion of virtue always, to strive to know
+himself and not to puff himself up like a peacock, whose feathers, he
+bade him remember, were fine, but who had ugly feet. And the advice
+and instructions that master gave servant were such that no one would
+have thought it was a madman speaking.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XLIII
+
+OF THE SECOND SET OF COUNSELS DON QUIXOTE GAVE SANCHO PANZA
+
+
+Don Quixote then told his squire to forget neither to cut his nails nor
+to supply his servants with livery. The latter, he said, must be neat and
+never showy. If he could do with three servants instead of six, he
+advised him to clothe three poor men: thus he would have pages for heaven
+as well as for earth. He must never eat garlic or onions, the knight
+said, and he begged him to leave out all affectations. When it came to
+drinking, he asked him always to bear in mind that too much wine kept
+neither secrets nor promises. Another thing he must not do was to flatter
+people; Don Quixote considered this a very odious practice. Last, but not
+least, said Don Quixote, he must remember not to use such quantities of
+proverbs as he had been wont to.
+
+Here Sancho felt he had to break in and say a word, and he retorted:
+"God alone can cure that, for I have more proverbs in me than a book,
+and when I speak they fall to fighting among themselves to get out;
+that's why my tongue lets fly the first that comes, though it may not
+be pat to the purpose." And here Sancho in the very face of his
+master's admonitions, let go a string of proverbs so long that Don
+Quixote was almost in despair.
+
+"My mother beats me, and I go on with my tricks," said Don Quixote. "I
+am bidding thee avoid proverbs, and here in a second thou hast shot
+out a whole litany of them. Those proverbs will bring thee to the
+gallows some day, I promise thee."
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XLIV
+
+HOW SANCHO PANZA WAS CONDUCTED TO HIS GOVERNMENT; AND OF
+THE STRANGE ADVENTURE THAT BEFELL DON QUIXOTE IN THE CASTLE
+
+
+Before Sancho departed for his island--which was in reality a village
+belonging to his new master's duchy, and surrounded by land on all
+sides--Don Quixote wrote out carefully the advice he had given him in
+the morning of the same day. To escort the new governor to the village
+the Duke had chosen the majordomo, who had played the part of the
+Countess Trifaldi; and the moment Sancho saw his face and heard him
+speak, he confided to his master the resemblance in voice and
+appearance.
+
+Always suspicious of enchanters, Don Quixote bade his late squire to
+keep a sharp eye on the man, and to be sure to inform him whether
+anything happened that confirmed his suspicion.
+
+Then Sancho was dressed in the garb of a lawyer and mounted on a mule.
+Dapple followed behind with new trappings, and Sancho was so pleased
+with the appearance of Dapple that he could not help turning around
+from time to time to look at him. Don Quixote wept when it came to the
+leave-taking, and Sancho kissed devotedly the hands of the Duchess and
+the Duke.
+
+But as soon as Sancho had left, Don Quixote felt a great loneliness in
+his heart; and that night, after having supped with the ducal pair, he
+begged to be excused early and retired to his room, saying he wanted
+no servant to wait on him.
+
+He undressed at once, and went to bed, leaving the window overlooking
+the garden open. Soon he heard the voices of two young maidens, and he
+was surprised to hear that they were speaking of him. One of them he
+recognized as the fair Altisidora, and, persuaded by the other voice,
+she commenced to serenade the knight, to whom in her song she bared
+her aching heart, and the passion that burned there for him.
+
+But the knight could not be moved. His was a love for no one but his
+Dulcinea. To indicate to the young maiden that he was aware of her
+intentions and could not be swayed, he rose from his bed, and went to
+the window and feigned a sneeze. When that was of no avail and neither
+produced reticence in the maidens nor drove them away from his window,
+he sighed: "O what an unlucky knight I am that no damsel can set eyes
+on me but falls in love with me!" And he went on to bewail his fate,
+crying out in the night that all the empresses in the world were
+jealous of the love he bore in his heart for the sweet Dulcinea, and
+saying that he must and would remain hers, pure, courteous, and
+chaste, in spite of all the magic-working powers on earth.
+
+Then the worthy knight shut his window with a bang, and thrust himself
+on his bed, entirely out of patience with the enticing and sinful
+young maidens.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XLV
+
+OF HOW THE GREAT SANCHO PANZA TOOK POSSESSION OF HIS ISLAND;
+AND OF HOW HE MADE A BEGINNING IN GOVERNING
+
+
+When Sancho arrived in his village he learned that his island was
+called Barataria. He was greeted with great demonstrations: the whole
+community had turned out to meet him, and all the churchbells were
+ringing. He was first taken to the church, where he gave thanks to
+God; then he was presented with the keys of the town. From the church
+he was taken to the judgment seat outside, and there he was told to
+answer numerous questions which the majordomo put to him, saying that
+that was an ancient custom on taking office.
+
+The questions were cases of quarrels between the villagers, and Sancho
+answered each one of them so sagely that every one gaped in wonder,
+for, judging by his appearance and the way he talked, they had thought
+their governor a fool. Instead of thinking thus, they now began to
+admire him and to consider themselves lucky and blessed by having him
+in their midst.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XLVI
+
+OF THE TERRIBLE BELL AND CAT FRIGHT THAT DON QUIXOTE GOT IN
+THE COURSE OF THE ENAMORED ALTISIDORA'S WOOING
+
+
+The thought of Altisidora's love bothered Don Quixote so that he could
+not go to sleep. He had torn his green stockings, while undressing, and
+having neither needle nor thread he could not mend them, and this
+increased his annoyance. Soon it was morning, and to put an end to his
+agony, he rose and dressed himself. But on his way to the ante-chamber,
+where the Duke and Duchess would receive him, he passed through a
+gallery, where he was surprised to find the fair Altisidora and her
+friend who had been with her outside his window the night before.
+
+When Altisidora laid eyes on the knight errant, she fell in a dead
+faint, but was caught in the arms of her friend, who began to unlace
+her dress. Don Quixote remained cold and untouched, mumbling all the
+while to himself that he knew perfectly well why she had fainted. Her
+friend retorted with venom in her voice that she wished he would
+disappear from the castle, for if he remained there much longer
+Altisidora would be wasting away into nothingness--even if she were
+the healthiest and most buxom maiden there at the moment--and die from
+a broken heart. This seemed to touch Don Quixote, for he replied that
+if she would see to it that a lute was put in his room that night, he
+would sing to her and try to comfort her in the night while she stood
+outside his window.
+
+The damsels went at once to tell the Duchess what had happened, and
+she was pleased beyond words; and together they hit upon a new joke
+which would bring them fresh merriment.
+
+Just before midnight Don Quixote came to his chamber and found there a
+guitar; and, having tuned it as best he could, he began to let out his
+rusty voice into the notes of a ballad that he himself had composed
+that day. While he stood there on his balcony singing, there suddenly
+broke out a tremendous din; and from above was let down a cord to
+which hundreds of bells were attached, making the most deafening
+sound. At the same time a bag of cats, each with a bell tied to its
+tail, came shooting down upon the unfortunate knight, who was
+frightened beyond words by the meowing and squalling and screaming of
+the cats and by the jingling of the bells.
+
+Don Quixote stood paralyzed, with the guitar clutched in his hand,
+when suddenly it struck him that his room must have been invaded by
+jumping devils--for the cats had knocked the candles down on the
+floor, extinguishing them as they did so, and the room was now in
+pitch darkness. He suddenly flung his guitar away and drew his sword,
+charging the enchanters with all the fervor and energy that he
+possessed.
+
+All the cats flew toward the balcony, from where they escaped into the
+garden--all except one, which Don Quixote had cornered, and was making
+violent stabs at, without hitting anything but the air, the wall and
+the floor. This little beast, fighting for its life, like one beset,
+jumped at the knight, put its teeth and claws into his nose, and
+remained there, holding on infuriated, while Don Quixote gave out the
+most terrible screams and howls.
+
+When the Duke and the Duchess heard what was going on, they became
+afraid that some harm might be done the knight errant; so they ran to
+his chamber with all haste. The Duke rushed to the rescue of Don
+Quixote's nose; but in spite of the horrible pain he must have been
+in, the knight was brave enough to decline all aid, shouting aloud
+that he wished to fight the malignant enchanter alone. At last,
+however, the Duke could see the poor fellow suffer no longer, and he
+managed to separate the cat from Don Quixote's nose.
+
+The fair Altisidora was given the task to cover the damaged parts of
+the knight's face with ointment, and she did this with a loving and
+caressing hand, although she could not resist telling him that he
+would not have been in this predicament if he had listened to her the
+night before. She jealously hoped, too, that his squire Sancho would
+forget all about the whippings so that Dulcinea would remain enchanted
+forever. But Don Quixote was insensible to anything she said; he only
+sighed and sighed. And then he thanked the Duke and the Duchess for
+all their kindness; and they really felt sorry in their hearts for the
+end the joke had taken. They bade him good-night; he stretched himself
+on his bed; and there he remained for five days.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER XLVII
+
+WHEREIN IS CONTINUED THE ACCOUNT OF HOW SANCHO PANZA
+CONDUCTED HIMSELF IN HIS GOVERNMENT
+
+
+Having held court, Sancho was escorted to a magnificent palace, where
+dinner had been laid in a large and gorgeous chamber. There were
+numerous ceremonies that he had to pass through as he entered; but he
+went through them all undisturbed and with phlegmatic dignity. He was
+seated at the head of the table, his own guest of honor as it were,
+for he found he was the only one present there, excepting a number of
+pages who surrounded him. But then he discovered behind himself a
+gentleman who turned out to be a physician, and who soon aroused
+Sancho's ire. For every time a dish was passed to Sancho, it had first
+to be passed upon by the physician; and this dignitary seemed to have
+made up his mind that governors were not meant to live, for every dish
+was sent back to the kitchen, and Sancho found that a governor's meal
+consisted in starvation.
+
+This finally enraged the new governor so that he ordered the doctor
+out of his sight, threatening to break a chair over his head if he did
+not disappear quickly enough; but just at that moment there arrived a
+messenger with a letter for the Governor from the Duke, and Sancho
+became so excited that he forgot about his physician's expulsion for
+the moment. The majordomo read the letter, which was addressed to the
+Governor of the Island of Barataria. In it the Duke warned Sancho that
+attacks would be made upon the island some night in the near future by
+enemies of the Duke, and also, the Duke said, he had learned that four
+men had entered the town in disguise, and that they would make an
+attempt upon the Governor's life. He therefore cautioned Sancho to eat
+nothing that was offered to him.
+
+At once Sancho decided that the worst conspirator against his life was
+the physician, who wanted to kill him by the slow death of hunger. He
+said he thought it best to have him thrust into a dungeon. And then he
+asked for a piece of bread and four pounds of grapes, feeling sure
+that no poison would be in them, announcing at the same time as his
+maxim that if he were going to be able to combat enemies he would have
+to be well fed.
+
+He then turned to the messenger and bade him say to the Duke that his
+wishes would be obeyed; at the same time he sent a request to the
+Duchess that she should not forget to have the letter he had written
+to his Teresa Panza delivered, together with the bundle, by a
+messenger. Last but not least, he asked to be remembered to his
+beloved master Don Quixote by a kiss of the hand.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTERS XLVIII-XLIX
+
+OF WHAT HAPPENED TO SANCHO IN MAKING THE ROUND OF HIS ISLAND
+
+
+At last the physician felt it to his advantage to consent to prescribe
+a good supper for the Governor that evening. The day had been taken up
+with all sorts of applicants, who, it seemed to Sancho, would always
+arrive at the wrong time, either when he was about to eat or wanted to
+sleep.
+
+The supper hour, which Sancho had been longing for all that day
+arrived at last, and he was delighted with the beef, salad, onions,
+and calves' feet that were put before him. He told the doctor that for
+the future he ought never to trouble himself about giving him dainty
+dishes and choice food to eat, for it would only unhinge his stomach.
+Then to the head-carver he said: "What you had best do is to serve me
+with what they call _ollas podridas_--and the rottener they are the
+better they smell!" The others he addressed proverbially thus: "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 every one keep his eye open, and
+look out for the arrow; for I can tell them 'the devil is in
+Cantillana,' and if they drive me to it they shall see something that
+will astonish them. Nay, make yourself honey and the flies will eat
+you."
+
+In reply to this the head-carver took it upon himself to speak for the
+rest of the inhabitants on the island, assuring Sancho that every one
+was greatly pleased with his mild government, and that he already
+stood high in their affections.
+
+This brought forth a declaration from Sancho that if the people were
+not pleased with his government, they would be fools; and then he went
+on to state that he intended to see to it himself that the island was
+purged of everything unclean and of all idlers and vagabonds. The
+latter he compared to the drones in a hive, that eat up the honey the
+industrious bees make. Furthermore, he emphasized that he would
+encourage and reward the virtuous, and protect the church and its
+ministers.
+
+The majordomo was genuinely filled with admiration for all the
+excellent ideas and remarks of the new governor, particularly when he
+considered that he was a man without either education or culture; and
+he could not help admitting to himself that even a joke could
+sometimes become a reality, and that those who had played a joke on
+some one might live to find themselves the victims of the very same
+joke.
+
+That night the Governor as usual made his rounds, accompanied by the
+majordomo and his whole staff, including the chronicler, who was to
+record the deeds of Governor Don Sancho Panza; and before the night
+was over he had given fresh proof of his wisdom, for he settled a
+quarrel between two gamblers and decided to break up gambling on his
+island. He kept a youth out of jail. And he restored a young girl, who
+wanted to see the world as a boy, to her father.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER L
+
+WHEREIN IS SET FORTH HOW GOVERNOR SANCHO PANZA'S WIFE
+RECEIVED A MESSAGE AND A GIFT FROM THE DUCHESS; AND ALSO
+WHAT BEFELL THE PAGE WHO CARRIED THE LETTER TO TERESA PANZA
+
+
+The Duchess did not forget her promise, and she sent the page who had
+played the part of Dulcinea when the Devil entered a plea for her
+disenchantment, with Governor Sancho's letter and bundle to his wife.
+At the same time the Duchess entrusted him with a string of coral
+beads as a gift from herself to Teresa Panza, with which gift went a
+letter as well.
+
+When the page reached the village of La Mancha he saw, on entering it,
+some women washing clothes in a brook; and he found that one of them
+was no other than the Governor's young daughter. She eagerly ran to
+the good-looking young man, and, breathless with excitement at the
+thought of his having news from her father, she skipped along in front
+of him until they had reached their little house.
+
+Teresa Panza was spinning, and she came out in a gray petticoat,
+vigorous, sunburnt and healthy, and wanted to know what all the
+excitement was about. The page quickly jumped from his horse, thrust
+himself on his knees before her, and exclaimed to the bewildered
+woman: "Let me kiss your hand, Senora Dona Panza, as the lawful and
+only wife of Senor Don Sancho Panza, rightful governor of the island
+of Barataria."
+
+But by this time the poor woman had got over her first surprise, and
+she bade him rise, saying that he should not do things like that, and
+that she was only a poor country woman, and the wife of a squire
+errant, not a governor. However, when the page had given her the
+letters and the gifts, her doubts were crushed, and she decided that
+Sancho's master must have given her husband the government he had
+promised him, the one that Sancho had been talking about all the time.
+And then she asked the page to read the letters to her, since she
+herself had not learned that art, although she could spin, she said.
+
+When the page had finished reading the Duchess' letter, poor Teresa
+Panza was overcome with gratitude to the gracious lady who had made
+her husband, a poor illiterate booby, governor--and a good one
+besides--and who had deigned to ask her, humble woman that she was,
+for a couple of dozen or so of acorns.
+
+"Ah, what a good, plain, lowly lady!" she exclaimed. "May I be buried
+with ladies of that sort, and not with 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 who seem to think they are disgraced if they look as a
+farmer's wife! And see here how this good lady, for all she is a
+Duchess, calls me her friend, and treats me as if I were her equal!"
+
+Then she told her Sanchica to make ready a meal, with plenty of eggs
+and bacon, for the lad who had brought them such good news, while she
+herself ran out and told the neighbors of their great luck. Soon
+Samson Carrasco and the curate came to the house, having heard the
+news, and wanted to know what madness had taken possession of Sancho's
+wife. But when they had read the letters and had seen the presents,
+they themselves were perplexed, and did not know what to make of it;
+and when they had met the page and he had confirmed everything that
+was said in the letters, they were convinced, although they were at a
+loss to understand how it all had come to happen.
+
+The Duchess' asking for a few acorns, they could not quite comprehend,
+but even this was soon explained, for the page assured them that his
+lady, the Duchess, was so plain and unassuming that she had even been
+known to have borrowed a comb from a peasant-woman neighbor on one
+occasion; and he added that the ladies of Aragon were not nearly as
+stiff and arrogant as those of Castile.
+
+Sanchica's greatest concern centered around her father's legs. She was
+anxious to learn how he covered them, now that he had become governor.
+She was hoping that he would wear trunk-hose, for she had always had a
+secret longing, she said, to see her father in tights; "What a sight
+he must be in them!" she added.
+
+The page replied that he had not observed her father's legs or how
+they were dressed; but the joking way in which he gave his answer
+furnished the curate and the bachelor with a fresh doubt as to the
+reality of the governorship and Sancho's position. Yet they could not
+forget the coral beads and the fine hunting-suit that the page had
+brought, and which pointed to some truth in the matter.
+
+Sanchica was anxious to make the trip to her father's island at once
+with the messenger, who told them he had to leave that evening; and
+Teresa Panza wanted to know whether the curate had heard of any one in
+the village going to Madrid or Toledo, for she thought that she at
+least ought to provide herself with a hooped petticoat, now that she
+was the wife of a distinguished governor and no doubt destined to be
+made a countess.
+
+And while mother and daughter were contemplating and worrying about
+their new position in life, they interspersed their sentences with so
+many proverbs that the curate felt obliged to remark that he thought
+that all the Panzas were born with a sackful of proverbs in their
+insides. The page told them here that the Governor uttered them most
+frequently and spontaneously, much to the amusement of the Duke and
+the Duchess; and then he reminded the Governor's lady of his hunger.
+But the curate softly took him by the arm and whispered to him that
+poor Teresa Panza had more will to serve than she had means, and
+invited him to sup at his own house.
+
+In order not to lose weight or starve, the page consented; and the
+curate was glad to have an opportunity to talk with him alone.
+
+Sanchica again expressed her desire to travel with the page; and the
+page tried to persuade her not to come along, for, he said, the
+daughters of governors must travel in a coach and in style, with many
+attendants. The girl thought that was nonsense, however, and it was
+not until her mother hushed her up with her proverbial logic that she
+ceased arguing. Said mother Teresa Panza to her daughter: "As the time
+so the behavior: when it was Sancho it was Sanchica, when it is
+governor it is senorita." And that settled it.
+
+The bachelor offered to write letters for Teresa Panza to her husband
+and the Duchess; but, somehow, she did not seem to trust him, for she
+refused his offer. Instead she induced a young acolyte to write the
+epistles for her, paying him with the eggs which she was to have used
+for the page's supper.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER LI
+
+OF THE PROGRESS OF SANCHO'S GOVERNMENT; AND OTHER SUCH
+ENTERTAINING MATTERS
+
+
+The thing that troubled Sancho most was not his manifold duties nor
+his judgments, but his appetite. It was as keen as ever, yet he got
+next to nothing to eat. The morning after he had made his round, they
+gave him only some water and a little conserve for breakfast, the
+doctor advising him that light food was the most nourishing for the
+wits, and especially to be recommended to people who were placed in
+responsible positions--such as governors, for instance. Thus poor
+Sancho was persuaded to submit to a process of starvation which was
+gradually making him regret, and finally curse, his ever having
+become governor.
+
+He sat in judgment that day but a short time, and made a decision in
+an intricate case with so much good sense and wit that the majordomo
+was overwhelmed with admiration, and could not refrain from taking
+pity on the governor's stomach. So he stood up and announced, knowing
+it would have the Governor's immediate and unqualified sanction, that
+the session had come to an end for the morning; then turning to
+Sancho, he promised to give him a dinner that day that would please
+him.
+
+Sancho was grateful in advance, and felt moved to thank him. "That is
+all I ask for," he declared: "fair play! Give me my dinner, and then
+let it rain cases and questions on me, and I shall despatch them in a
+twinkling." And since it had been arranged by the conspirators in the
+joke that this was to be the last day of Sancho Panza's reign as
+governor, the majordomo gave him the best dinner that he could.
+
+Just as the Governor was finishing his repast a courier arrived with a
+letter from Don Quixote. The secretary read it aloud to him, and he
+listened attentively and respectfully to the wisdom and good and sound
+advice that his beloved Don Quixote gave him in the letter. All who
+heard it read were agreed that they had seldom had the fortune to hear
+such a well-worded and thoroughly sensible epistle; and Sancho was
+proud of the praise that was being bestowed on his former master, to
+whom he still was as devoted as ever.
+
+The Governor withdrew with his secretary into his own room, and there
+he dictated at once his reply to Don Quixote's letter. In this he
+confided to him all that had happened on his island, the reforms he
+had undertaken, and the judgments he had handed down. He finished by
+asking the knight to kiss the hand of the sweet Duchess for him and
+tell her that she had not thrown it into a sack with a hole in it, as
+she would see in the end: meaning by this that he would show her how
+grateful he was as soon as he had an opportunity.
+
+The courier returned to the ducal palace with the Governor's message;
+and Sancho spent the afternoon in making provisions for all sorts of
+beneficial improvements in his government, reducing prices on a number
+of necessaries, and confirming laws that tended to help the poor and
+needy, while they would incriminate those who were impostors,
+good-for-nothings, and vagabonds. Even to this day some of these laws
+are in existence there, and are called _The constitutions of the great
+governor, Sancho Panza_.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER LII
+
+WHEREIN THREE DELECTABLE EPISTLES ARE READ BY THE DUCHESS
+
+
+Don Quixote had now been healed of his scratches, and he began to long
+for the road; for the life was too easy, he thought, for one who had
+dedicated himself to knight-errantry and valorous deeds. But the day
+he had decided to break the news to the Duke and the Duchess, the
+messenger that the Duchess had sent to Sancho's wife returned,
+bringing with him two letters, one addressed to "The Duchess
+So-and-so, of I don't know where," and the other one to "The Governor,
+Sancho Panza of the Island of Barataria, whom God prosper longer than
+me!"
+
+The Duchess was so eager to read her letter that she opened it at
+once; and having read it to herself, she felt she ought to give
+amusement to the others too, so she read it aloud to all who were
+there. She was dying to see what the letter to the Governor contained,
+so she asked Don Quixote whether he thought it would be a breach of
+etiquette to read it; and Don Quixote took it upon himself, as
+Sancho's late master and guardian, to open it. Then he read it to the
+Duke and the Duchess, who laughed to their heart's content at the many
+drolleries with which Teresa Panza had stuffed her epistle.
+
+Just as the merriment was at its peak, the courier with Sancho Panza's
+reply to Don Quixote arrived, and that communication too was read
+aloud; and the Duke could not omit remarking that it was a most
+excellent and sane letter. The Duchess, however, was anxious to
+question the page about his visit with Teresa Panza, so she excused
+herself, and withdrew with the page and her presents; for, besides the
+acorns, the Governor's wife had sent her a cheese, much to the
+gratification of the Duchess.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER LIII
+
+OF THE TROUBLOUS END AND TERMINATION OF SANCHO PANZA'S GOVERNMENT
+
+
+The seventh day of Sancho's government was approaching its end. The
+Governor lay in his bed, resting after all the judgments and
+proclamations he had made that day upon a fasting stomach. Suddenly he
+rose in his bed, for he heard the most deafening noise, intermingled
+with the ringing of churchbells. To this sound was added that of
+trumpets and drums, and the combination made a din that frightened
+Sancho almost out of his wits. He flew out of bed, put on a pair of
+slippers, and rushed into the street, dressed in nothing but his night
+shirt. He was startled to see the streets crowded with men, carrying
+torches, and crying: "To arms, Senor Governor, to arms! The enemy is
+here, and we are lost, unless you come to the rescue with your sword!"
+
+Sancho was lost; he did not know what to do, for swordsmanship was not
+among his accomplishments. And so he simply asked them whether the
+enemy could not wait until he had a chance to summon his master Don
+Quixote of La Mancha, who, he said, knew all about arms.
+
+Just then one of the inhabitants came along, carrying two shields, and
+without any ceremony he told Sancho in plain language that it was his
+duty as their governor to lead them into battle. Then he covered
+him--without giving him a chance to put on anything besides his
+night-shirt--with the two shields, one in front and the other one
+behind; pressing them together as tightly as he and another man could
+manage, they laced them with rope, so that Sancho could neither move a
+muscle, nor bend a leg. Then they put a lance in his hand and told him
+to lead them into battle against the enemy, for now they were no
+longer afraid of the outcome, they said.
+
+"How am I to march, unlucky being that I am," asked Sancho, "when I
+cannot stir my knee-caps for these boards that are bound so tightly to
+my body! What you must do is to carry me in your arms, and lay me
+across or set me upright in some postern, and I shall hold it either
+with this lance or with my body."
+
+When the men heard the Governor speak thus, one of them was bold enough
+to suggest that he could not move because he was too frightened; and this
+angered poor Sancho into a frantic attempt to take a step in the
+direction of the invading army. But this step was a fatal one, for the
+Governor fell in his undignified stiffness flat on his back with such a
+crash that he thought he had broken every bone in his body.
+
+The men now quickly extinguished their torches, and began to step on
+his shield, slashing their swords over his head, shouting and yelling,
+and making all the noise they could. Had Sancho not pulled in his head
+like a tortoise in his shell, he might have fared ill. One man boldly
+placed himself on Sancho's roof, calling in a mighty voice, now and
+then filled with an agonized grunt, such directions as these: "Hold
+the breach there! Shut the gate! Barricade those ladders! Block the
+streets with feather-beds! Here with your stink-pots of pitch and
+resin, and kettles of boiling oil!"
+
+All these exclamations put fear in the already hard-pressed and
+squeezed heart of Sancho Panza, who was wishing where he lay that he
+had never seen the sight of an island. He was in such an agony that he
+began to pray to the Lord in Heaven to have mercy on him and let him
+die, or else let this terrible strife and warfare come to an end.
+
+Heaven must have heard Sancho's prayer, for suddenly he heard cries
+of: "Victory! Victory! The enemy retreats!" Then some one jerked him
+by the arm, and told him to stand up and enjoy the victory; and
+finally some of the bystanders took pity on him, and lifted him up
+from his vertical position. But Sancho refused to enjoy any victory.
+All he asked for, he said, was that some one wipe the perspiration
+from his body, and give him some wine for his parched throat. When
+they had fulfilled this desire of his, they carried him to his
+chamber, were they put him to bed. Hardly had they got him to bed
+before he fainted away, overcome with excitement and governments.
+
+The attendants sprinkled some water in the Governor's face, and he
+soon came back to life. The first thing he asked was what time it was.
+They replied it was early morning. He rose without saying a word,
+dressed himself in haste, and then went out to the stable, where they
+found him hanging round his Dapple's neck, kissing and embracing him,
+while tears were streaming down his face. Having swallowed the first
+flood of tears, the late squire addressed his faithful donkey in the
+tenderest and most heartrending terms, telling him that he should
+have stuck by him all the time, and not let himself be carried away by
+ambitions to become governor of islands.
+
+Sancho then put the pack-saddle on Dapple's back, and mounted--a
+process of much pain--and from his dear confederate's back he
+addressed the majordomo and those of his staff who had followed him to
+the stable. "Make way," he said, "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 to protect
+islands or cities from the enemies that choose to attack them.
+Ploughing and digging, vine-dressing and pruning, are more in my way
+than defending provinces or kingdoms. Saint Peter is very well in
+Rome: I mean, each of us is best following the trade he was born to. I
+would rather have my fill of the simplest pot-luck than be subject to
+the misery of a meddling doctor who kills me with hunger; and I would
+rather lie in summer under the shade of an oak, and in winter wrap
+myself in a double sheepskin jacket in freedom, than to go to bed
+between Holland sheets and dress in sables under the restraint of a
+government. God be with your Worships! Tell my lord, the Duke, that
+naked was I born, naked I find myself, I neither lose nor gain: I mean
+that without a farthing I came into this government, and without a
+farthing I go out of it--very different from the way governors
+commonly leave other islands. Stand aside and let me go. I have to
+plaster myself, for I believe every one of my ribs is crushed, thanks
+to the enemies that have been trampling over me to-night."
+
+Here the doctor offered to give the retiring governor a draught that
+would cure him of all pain. He also promised Sancho if he would stay
+he would behave better in the future, and give him as much to eat as
+he desired. But Sancho was not at a loss for an answer this time.
+
+"You spoke late," said he. "I should as soon turn Turk as stay any
+longer. Those jokes will not pass a second time. By the Lord, I should
+as soon remain in this government, or take another one, even if it was
+offered me between two plates, as fly to heaven without wings. I am of
+the breed of Panzas, and they are every one of them obstinate, and if
+they once say odds, odds it must be, no matter if it is evens, in
+spite of all the world. Here in this stable I leave the ant's wings
+that lifted me up into the air for the swifts and other birds to eat
+them, and let us take to the level ground and our feet once more; and
+if they are not shod in pinked shoes of cordovan, they shall not want
+for rough sandals of hemp. Every ewe to her like and let no one
+stretch his leg beyond the length of the sheet. And now let me pass,
+for it is growing late with me."
+
+After this meditation, strung with proverbs, the majordomo turned to
+Sancho and said that before he departed it was necessary that he
+render an account for the ten days that he had governed the island.
+But this was not Sancho's idea, and he quickly replied that he would
+seek out the Duke and give an accounting to him, for he was the only
+one to whom he was responsible. He added that as he would come to him
+naked, that would be the best proof that he had governed like an
+angel.
+
+So they all agreed to let him proceed, for they were certain that the
+Duke would be delighted to see him. They offered him anything that he
+might need for the journey; but all Sancho asked for was some barley
+for his Dapple, and some bread and cheese for himself. Then they all
+bade him godspeed and embraced him; and Sancho, with tears in his
+eyes, took leave of them. The majordomo and the rest of Sancho's staff
+could not help thinking that he had displayed more sense than most men
+might have under the same circumstances; for when Sancho left his
+government he had earned their admiration for many and good reasons.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTERS LIV-LV
+
+OF WHAT BEFELL SANCHO ON THE ROAD; AND OTHER THINGS THAT
+CANNOT BE SURPASSED
+
+
+Sancho had almost reached the Duke's castle, when night suddenly fell
+and it grew so dark that he considered it best to stop where he was
+and remain there overnight. Accordingly he took Dapple off the road,
+and they went in search for some comfortable place where they could
+rest. Presently Sancho found himself among some old ruins, and as he
+was stumbling along he suddenly felt himself and Dapple falling deep
+into the earth. He thought it was going to be an endless journey, but
+when he struck bottom he discovered that nothing had happened to him
+or to his faithful donkey, for there he was, still mounted even.
+
+Of course he was somewhat shaken by this sudden plunge into the lower
+regions, and taken aback; but as soon as he realized that he was
+unhurt he began to praise the Lord and to give thanks to him on behalf
+of himself and Dapple, who had burst into lamentations upon finding
+himself separated from meadow and green grass. Then Sancho began to
+look about for a way out, but he searched in vain, and it became plain
+to him that here he was buried alive. He thought of his master's
+descent into the cave of Montesinos, and was envious of Don Quixote's
+imagination which could conjure up so easily soft beds to sleep in and
+good food to eat. He could already see himself as a skeleton, and he
+shed a tear when he thought of having no one to close his or Dapple's
+eyes, when they had breathed their last breath.
+
+All that night they sat there in somber reflection on the strange
+fates of man and beast; and when dawn came Sancho found that he was in
+a cave that had no outlet but which seemed to extend for miles
+underneath the ground. He crawled with Dapple from one cavern or
+compartment to another one; one dungeon was dark, the next one had a
+bit of flickering light; and as he proceeded he kept calling aloud,
+"God Almighty, help me!" at every step he took, fearing that he would
+be plunged still deeper into the insides of the earth, into still
+darker abysses. And then he wished that it had been his master instead
+of himself who had landed in this spot, for he was sure that Don
+Quixote would have welcomed such an adventure.
+
+It so happened that Don Quixote was riding along the countryside that
+day on Rocinante, and suddenly his steed's hoof grazed against a hole
+in the earth. Rocinante might have fallen into the hole had not Don
+Quixote swiftly pulled in the reins and held him back. As the knight
+was passing, and about to continue on his journey, he turned in his
+seat to observe the spot well, and then he was startled by a cry that
+seemed to come from the depths of the earth and found an outlet
+through this pit. Still more startled he was, when he recognized the
+voice of his own squire Sancho! These were the words he heard: "Ho,
+above there! Is there any Christian that hears me, or any charitable
+gentleman that will take pity on a sinner buried alive, or an
+unfortunate, disgoverned governor?"
+
+Of course it never entered our valiant knight's mind, devout Catholic
+that he was, that it was the voice of any Sancho Panza in the flesh.
+He thought that his devoted squire had suddenly met with death, and
+that his soul was now in Purgatory, and that it was from there that
+these sounds emanated. So he answered that he would do all in his
+power to have Sancho released from his pains.
+
+This brought forth an emphatic and tearful denial from below. Sancho
+swore that he had never died in his life. As if to corroborate that
+his master was not a liar, Dapple at this moment brayed most
+tellingly, and Don Quixote believed everything that Dapple told him in
+that short space of time, for Don Quixote knew Dapple's braying as
+well as if he had been his father. The knight errant assured Sancho
+that he would get him out of his prison in a very short time, though
+he thought it best to return to the castle first and get some men to
+help him in the task. Sancho begged his master to hurry, for he was
+afraid unto death, and could not stand the thought of being buried
+there much longer.
+
+As soon as the Duke heard what had happened to his governor, he was
+extremely surprised, for he had had no news from the island of
+Barataria about Sancho's departure. He sent men with ropes and tackle,
+and after much trouble they finally succeeded in hoisting Sancho and
+his beloved donkey out of the cave.
+
+Surrounded by a crowd of children and others, they arrived at the
+castle, where the Duke was awaiting them; but Sancho would not present
+himself before him until he had seen that Dapple was being taken good
+care of in the stable. Then he went before the Duke, and as soon as
+the Duke had greeted him, Sancho commenced a speech that seemed to
+last forever, stuffed with proverbs galore. In it he related to the
+Duke everything that happened during the time he was governor, ending
+it thus: "I have come by the knowledge that I should not give anything
+to be a governor, not to say of an island, but of the whole world; and
+that point being settled, kissing your Worship's feet, and imitating
+the game of the boys when they say, 'Leap thou, and give me one,' I
+take a leap out of the government and pass into the service of my
+master Don Quixote. For after all, though in it I eat my bread in fear
+and trembling, at any rate I take my fill; and, for my part, so long
+as I am full, it is alike to me whether it is with carrots or with
+partridges."
+
+When Sancho had finished his discourse Don Quixote was grateful, for
+he was constantly worried that his squire might say something that
+would cover both of them with discredit, and Sancho made no great
+blunders in his speech this time.
+
+The Duke and the Duchess both embraced Sancho with warmth, and he was
+greatly touched when they told him that they would try to find him
+another position, less responsible but more profitable, on their
+estate; and they gave orders that he was to be well taken care of and
+his wounds and bruises properly and carefully bandaged.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTERS LVI-LVII
+
+WHICH TREATS OF HOW DON QUIXOTE AGAIN FELT THE CALLING OF
+KNIGHT-ERRANTRY AND HOW HE TOOK LEAVE OF THE DUKE, AND OF
+WHAT FOLLOWED WITH THE WITTY AND IMPUDENT ALTISIDORA, ONE
+OF THE DUCHESS' DAMSELS
+
+
+Again the feeling came over Don Quixote that he was wasting his life
+while he was staying at the castle in luxury and ease as the Duke's
+guest. Out yonder was the great, wide world in which adventures were
+calling to him all the time. So it finally came about that after much
+hesitation he requested of the Duke and his consort that they grant
+him his release. They gave it to him, although they were sorry to see
+him go, they said.
+
+Early the following morning Sancho was soliloquizing in the courtyard
+of the castle, when suddenly Don Quixote appeared, in full regalia,
+ready to take to the road again for new adventures. The Duke and all
+in the castle were observing the departure from the corridors.
+Unobserved by Don Quixote, the majordomo gave Sancho a purse, in which
+he counted no less than two hundred gold crowns.
+
+When knight and squire had mounted, the fair Altisidora declaimed with
+touching voice some verses of poetry which she had written in the
+night, and in which she bewailed her cruel fate that had thrust her in
+the path of the valorous Don Quixote. Each verse ended with a
+denunciation of his coldness toward her, and a curse upon him and his
+Dulcinea. Then the daring maiden had inserted lines in which she
+accused the innocent knight of having taken possession of three
+kerchiefs and a pair of garters belonging to her. Don Quixote blushed
+with perplexity, but his squire came to the rescue and said that he
+had the kerchiefs, but knew nothing about the garters. The Duke, who
+was well initiated in the joke, now rose and announced that it was
+beginning to seem like a serious matter; and if the knight had the
+garters and did not wish to part with them, he, the Duke, would have
+to defend the fair maiden's honor and challenge him to single combat.
+
+Now Don Quixote was beside himself. Surely, he said, it would never
+occur to him, who had enjoyed such unbounded, superlative hospitality
+at the hands of one so illustrious as the Duke, to let such things
+come to pass as to bear arms against him; and he swore again by
+everything he could think of that he was innocent of what the maiden
+had inferred. Here the damsel gave a little shriek, and announced in a
+giggling voice that she had found the garters. Don Quixote was much
+relieved, and so seemed the Duke (though in reality both he and the
+Duchess were just about to burst from the pain that their own joke had
+inflicted upon them).
+
+Now the knight errant could depart without any smudge or stain on his
+honor, and quickly and resolutely he gave Rocinante the spur, and his
+steed gathered all the strength he had and turned around. Gallantly
+saluting the Duke and the whole assembly with a sweep of his lance,
+Don Quixote set off on the road to Saragossa, followed by the retired
+governor, who sat on his Dapple's back as phlegmatically as if the two
+were grown together.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER LVIII
+
+WHICH TELLS HOW ADVENTURES CAME CROWDING ON DON QUIXOTE
+IN SUCH NUMBERS THAT THEY GAVE ONE ANOTHER NO BREATHING-TIME
+
+
+Out on the open road Don Quixote was himself again, and he turned to
+Sancho and began to discourse on freedom, telling his squire that it
+was more precious than anything else in the world. And he ended by
+saying: "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!"
+
+Here Sancho broke his silence, for he felt that, in spite of what his
+master had just said, a good deal of thanks was due to the majordomo
+for the purse with the two hundred crowns, which he was carrying like
+a plaster next to his heart.
+
+While they were conversing thus, they suddenly came to a spot from
+where they could see a great many men, dressed like laborers, lying on
+the grass of a meadow, and partaking of their noonday meal. Here and
+there on the grass were scattered some objects or figures covered with
+white cloth, and as soon as Don Quixote observed them he could
+constrain himself no longer but had to learn what they were. So he
+politely approached the men and asked them what was hidden underneath
+the white coverings, and was told that they were images of saints that
+they were transporting to their village church; and in order not to
+soil them, they had covered them thus.
+
+The man took great pride in showing our knight the figures--there were
+Saint George, Saint Martin, Saint James the Moorslayer, and Saint
+Paul. Don Quixote spoke learnedly on each one of them. When he had
+seen them all, he bade the men cover the images with the cloths again.
+Then he declared that he considered it a happy omen to have come upon
+the images; for, said he, they were knights like himself. There was
+this difference, however, that while he fought with human weapons,
+poor sinner that he was, they used divine ones. And he added that if
+only his Dulcinea could be saved from her sufferings, perhaps his own
+mind might be restored to its proper function, and a desire for a
+milder and better life than he was leading now be the result. At this
+Sancho reverently chirped: "May God hear and sin be deaf!"
+
+The men, having finished their repast, took leave of Don Quixote and
+Sancho and continued the journey to their village. They were not out
+of sight before Sancho broke loose with praise for his master, who
+knew everything under the sun, it seemed. Then he added: "In truth,
+master, if what has happened to us to-day is to be called an
+adventure, it has been one of the sweetest and pleasantest that has
+befallen us in the whole course of our travels; we have come out of it
+without having drawn sword, nor have we been left famishing. Blessed
+be God that he has let me see such a thing with my own eyes!"
+
+The conversation now turned to other things, and soon love became the
+topic. Sancho could not understand why his master, as ugly as he was,
+should have turned the head of the fair Altisidora; and why his master
+had not fallen head over heels in love with her was entirely beyond
+Sancho's comprehension. Had he himself had the same opportunity he
+should not have foregone it, he could have promised his master. Here
+Don Quixote tried to explain to Sancho that there were different kinds
+of love: love of the mind, and of the body; but this explanation
+seemed to remain a puzzle to the squire.
+
+While they had been talking in this manner, they had come into a wood,
+and suddenly Don Quixote rode into a green net which entangled him so
+completely that he began to shout that he had been enchanted again. He
+made ready to cut and slash with his sword, when two beautiful girls
+dressed as shepherdesses came from amidst the trees and began to plead
+with him not to tear the nets, which they had spread in the woods that
+they might snare the little birds. There was a holiday in the
+neighborhood, and they were to give a pageant and a play, they said,
+and they wanted the birds to be actors in the play with them. Then
+they courteously begged Don Quixote to be their guest and remain with
+them; but Don Quixote in return told them that the urgency of his
+calling made it necessary for him to refuse, whereupon he made them
+aware of who he was. As soon as the girls heard that they had Don
+Quixote of La Mancha in their midst, they became still more eager that
+he should remain, for they had all read and heard of their illustrious
+guest, they said, through the book that the whole of Spain and all the
+world was devouring just then.
+
+A gay youth, who was the brother of the young maidens, came up at this
+moment and joined his sisters in their persuasions, and at last Don
+Quixote gave in and consented to stay. The youth, who was attired as a
+shepherd, brought Don Quixote to their tents, and after a morning of
+gaiety a repast was served, at which the knight was given the place of
+honor.
+
+When the meal was over, Don Quixote rose and addressed the gathering
+in his usual dignified manner. He chose for his topic gratitude, and
+said that there was but one way in which he could show his full
+appreciation of the hospitality he had enjoyed that day at their
+hands: namely, to maintain in the middle of the highway leading to
+Saragossa, for a period of two days, that these two damsels were--with
+the exception of his lady Dulcinea--the most adorable and beautiful
+maidens in the world.
+
+Don Quixote had got so far in the course of his speech, when the
+faithful Sancho could restrain his admiration for his master no
+longer. Brimming over with enthusiasm, he burst out: "Is it possible
+there is any one in the world who will dare to say and swear that this
+master of mine is a madman? Tell me, 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 a knight errant, whatever renown he may
+have as a man of valor, who could offer what my master has offered
+now?" This outburst of his squire's infuriated Don Quixote. He began
+to foam at the mouth, and after having scolded the meek and meddlesome
+Sancho, he told him abruptly to go at once and saddle Rocinante. His
+hosts were astounded at his remarkable behavior and proposal, and did
+all they could to stay him from carrying it out, but he was not to be
+swayed. So they all followed at a distance to see what would happen to
+the knight, who in his anger had not been slow to mount and disappear
+with Sancho trailing behind on Dapple at his usual gait.
+
+As soon as Don Quixote had posted himself in the middle of the road,
+he shouted out his challenge. But no one who passed seemed to pay any
+attention to what he said, much less were they inclined to take up the
+challenge, if they heard it. Suddenly, however, the knight sighted a
+troop of men on horseback, all armed with lances. They were coming
+closer at a fast pace, and as soon as the shepherds and shepherdesses
+saw them they withdrew in great haste. Sancho, overcome with some
+innate foreboding of disaster, took refuge in the shade of Rocinante's
+hindquarters; but Don Quixote stood resolute and held his ground.
+
+Ahead of the oncoming troop rode a man, who, observing Don Quixote's
+position, began to make violent signs to him to get away from the
+road; and when he saw that he was not being understood or obeyed, he
+yelled out with fierceness: "Get out of the way, you son of the devil,
+or these bulls will knock you to pieces!"
+
+But all Don Quixote was concerned about was his challenge, and
+permitting no evasions, he retorted heroically: "Rabble! I care
+nothing for bulls! Confess at once, scoundrels, that what I have
+declared is true; else ye have to deal with me in combat."
+
+Hardly had he spoken these words before the drove of bulls was on him
+and Sancho, trampling them both to the ground as if they had been
+figures of pasteboard; for they were no common bulls, they were fierce
+animals that were being taken to a nearby village for a bull-fight on
+the following day. Yet when they had passed, and the valiant knight
+came to, he had lost none of his intrepidity, for as soon as he could
+stand up he kept shouting at them to return and he would fight them
+all alone.
+
+The knight was so enraged and so humiliated to have been stepped on in
+such an unromantic fashion, that he sat down and buried his head in
+his hands; and Sancho could not persuade him to return to their hosts
+to bid them farewell. And so he decided instead to be on his way to
+Saragossa, and master and squire mounted again and continued their
+journey dejectedly.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER LIX
+
+WHEREIN IS RELATED THE STRANGE THING, WHICH MAY BE REGARDED
+AS AN ADVENTURE, THAT HAPPENED TO DON QUIXOTE
+
+
+Don Quixote was extremely weighed down and oppressed by the disaster
+of the morning. When they had ridden but a short way they came to a
+place where there was a spring, and they dismounted to refresh their
+dusty throats and to wash themselves. The knight was wearied, and
+Sancho suggested that he lie down and rest for a while. The suggestion
+pleased his master, who said he would do so if his squire would give
+himself three or four hundred lashes with Rocinante's reins in the
+meantime, as a help toward his Dulcinea's disenchantment. But after
+some arguing, Sancho wiggled himself out of the business for the
+moment, having pleaded an ill-nourished body--in spite of his constant
+eating. He said it was, besides, no easy matter to flog oneself in
+cold blood, but promised to make good some time, unexpectedly. Then
+they both ate a little, and soon afterward they fell asleep beside
+their faithful beasts. They awoke, refreshed, and made off to reach an
+inn--and Sancho gave thanks to Heaven that Don Quixote took it for an
+inn--that they had sighted in the distance before they went to sleep.
+
+When they arrived at the inn Sancho at once took the beasts to the
+stable and fed them, while Don Quixote retired to his room. When
+supper time came the landlord brought in a stewpan which contained
+cow-heels that tasted, he swore, like calves' feet; and the knight and
+his squire gathered gluttonously around the meal. They had scarcely
+began eating, however, when Don Quixote heard his name mentioned next
+door, and, surprised, he listened and heard some one say: "What
+displeases me most in this Second Part of 'Don Quixote of La Mancha'
+is that it represents Don Quixote as now cured of his love for
+Dulcinea del Toboso."
+
+Like a flash the knight was on his feet, shouting to the adjoining
+room: "Whoever he may be who says that Don Quixote of La Mancha has
+forgotten Dulcinea del Toboso, I will teach him with equal arms that
+what he says is very far from true; for his motto is constancy, and
+his profession is to maintain the same with his life and never wrong
+it."
+
+Immediately voices from the other room wished to know who was speaking;
+and Sancho shouted back that it was his master, and that his master was
+none other than Don Quixote of La Mancha himself. In the next instant two
+gentlemen entered the room, and as soon as they perceived Don Quixote,
+they fell on his neck and embraced him, saying that they were pleased and
+proud beyond measure to meet so distinguished and illustrious a
+personage, their own morning star of knight-errantry. One of the
+gentlemen, Don Jeronimo, assured him that there was no doubt in his mind
+that he was the real Don Quixote of the First Part, and not the
+counterfeit one of the Aragonese Second Part. With these words he put his
+copy of the Second Part, which he had just been reading, into Don
+Quixote's hands and begged him to read it. Don Quixote took it and
+glanced it through, and after having read a few pages, he returned it to
+the gentleman, with the remark that he had already discovered three
+things in the book that ought to be censured; and he said that when an
+author could make such a colossal mistake as to speak of Sancho's wife as
+Mari Guiterrez, one would be likely to doubt the veracity of every other
+statement of his in the book.
+
+When Sancho heard of this audacious libel, he became red in the face
+with indignation. "A nice sort of historian, indeed!" he burst out.
+"He must know a deal about our affairs when he calls my wife, Teresa
+Panza, Mari Guiterrez! Take the book again, senor, and see whether I
+am in it and whether he has changed my name!"
+
+The gentleman looked at Sancho in an expectant manner, and said: "From
+your talk, friend, no doubt you are Sancho Panza, Senor Don Quixote's
+squire."
+
+When Sancho affirmed this, saying he was proud of it, it was Don
+Jeronimo's turn to become indignant; for it seemed to him nothing
+short of blasphemy to take all the drollery out of the Sancho, whom he
+saw before him here, he said, and who had furnished him with so many
+enjoyable moments through his amusing talk, while he was reading the
+First Part. The Sancho of the Second Part was a stupid character, a
+fool with no sense of humor whatever, he declared; and his declaration
+promptly brought forth a proverb from Sancho's lips, which summed up
+his contempt for the new author. "Let him who knows how ring the
+bells," he exclaimed.
+
+The two gentlemen now invited the knight errant to join them at
+supper, as they knew, they said, that the inn could afford nothing
+that was befitting a warrior as illustrious as he. Always courteous,
+Don Quixote acquiesced, and they withdrew to the adjoining room,
+leaving Sancho and the landlord to sup by themselves. At supper Don
+Quixote related to the two gentlemen his many strange adventures, and
+they listened with the utmost interest; they could not help admiring
+his elegant and finished speech, and at the same time were astounded
+at the strange mixture of good sense and wit and absurd nonsense that
+flowed from his lips.
+
+When Sancho had finished his cow-heels, he betook himself to the room
+where his master and the gentleman were supping; and as he entered he
+asked Don Jeronimo: "If this author calls me glutton, as your Worships
+say, I trust he does not call me drunkard too."
+
+Don Jeronimo said that the author had been impertinent enough to do so,
+although he assured Sancho that he could see by his face that the author
+had lied. "Believe me," declared the squire, "the Sancho and the Don
+Quixote of this history must be different persons from those that appear
+in the one Cid Hamet Benengeli wrote, who are ourselves--my master,
+valiant, wise, and true in love, and I, simple, droll, and neither
+glutton nor drunkard."
+
+The other gentleman, Don Juan, was of Sancho's opinion, and he added
+that he thought no one but Cid Hamet, the original author, should be
+permitted to write the history of Don Quixote's achievements--just as
+Alexander issued an order that no one but Apelles should presume to
+paint his portrait.
+
+They carried on a conversation in this manner until quite late in the
+night. Don Juan offered the Second Part to our hero to read, but Don
+Quixote declined it, saying that it would only be flattering and
+encouraging to the author if he should, by chance, learn that he had
+read his book. Then they asked him where he would be bound for when he
+left the inn; and when he told them Saragossa, they mentioned that the
+author had given a description in the book of a tilting at the ring in
+that city, in which he who was called Don Quixote had participated.
+
+That made the knight change his intentions at once. Now he was
+determined not to set foot in Saragossa: thus he would make the author
+commit perjury, trap him as a complete liar, and hold him up to
+ridicule before the whole world. The gentlemen thought this a most
+ingenious way to treat the blaspheming author, and made a suggestion
+that there were to be other jousts at Barcelona, to which he would be
+welcomed; and Don Quixote announced that he would go there instead.
+Then he begged leave in his usual courteous manner to retire, and
+withdrew to his room.
+
+Early on the following morning the knight rose, and bade good-by to
+his two new friends by knocking at the partition that separated their
+rooms, while Sancho paid the landlord for the lodging and the
+cow-heels.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER LX
+
+OF WHAT HAPPENED TO DON QUIXOTE ON HIS WAY TO BARCELONA
+
+
+For six days Don Quixote and Sancho traveled without anything
+happening to them worth recording. At the end of the sixth day they
+came to a grove of oak and cork trees, where they dismounted and
+settled themselves for the night. Sancho, who had been nourished
+plentifully that day, at once fell asleep, but Don Quixote's mind
+wandered hither and thither into strange regions and imaginary places;
+and he thought of the sad plight of his beloved one. The more he
+considered the cruelty of his squire, the more enraged he became; and
+at last he decided that the only thing for him to do was to strip
+Sancho and administer the beating himself. With this intention he
+began to undo the squire's garments.
+
+Sancho, being awakened and realizing his master's foul play, now had
+lost all desire for sleep. He reminded his master that the whipping
+would have no effect toward Dulcinea's disenchantment, unless it was
+applied voluntarily and by his own hand. But Don Quixote insisted that
+there must be an end to this nonsense, for he had no desire to let his
+peerless Dulcinea suffer because of his squire's uncharitable
+disposition. And then he proceeded, with Rocinante's reins in his
+hand, to give his squire, as he said, two thousand lashes on account
+of the three thousand three hundred. But Sancho was on his feet in an
+instant, and began to grapple with his master, and he crushed his
+emaciated body almost to flatness in his firm grip. Then he suddenly
+let him loose and despatched him with a kick to no mean distance, and,
+still pursuing his victim, he there sat upon him. Don Quixote managed
+at last to gather all the breath that had not been squeezed out of him
+by the combat, and supported by that he ejaculated in a hoarse
+whisper:
+
+"How now, traitor! Dost thou revolt against thy master and natural
+lord? Dost thou rise against him who gives thee his bread?"
+
+"I neither put down king, nor set up king," replied Sancho, himself
+somewhat out of breath. And then he proceeded to dictate the peace
+terms, and he extracted a promise from his natural lord never to try
+to whip him again, neither awake nor asleep.
+
+Then the victor disappeared in the grove and went to lie down against
+a tree: but just as he had placed himself comfortably, he was
+frightened almost to death by seeing two feet, with shoes and
+stockings, dangling in the air above his head. He ran to another tree,
+thinking he had been dreaming, and there he found a like apparition
+haunting him. He began to scream aloud, calling upon his master for
+help, and ran to search for him. Don Quixote asked him what had
+frightened him, and the squire replied that all the trees were full of
+feet and legs. Don Quixote calmly looked at the dead bodies in the
+trees and told his squire that no doubt they were outlaws that had
+been hanged by the authorities; and he took them to be a sign that
+they were now close to Barcelona. They then lay down to rest for the
+night.
+
+When they awoke at dawn, they found themselves surrounded by a band of
+men who turned out to be highwaymen. The band stripped them of all
+they possessed, and were just about to search Sancho further for
+money, when a swarthy-looking man in his thirties appeared, mounted on
+a splendid horse and armed with many pistols. It was their captain,
+and none other than the notorious Roque Guinart, a man who had taken
+to the life of banditry and hold-ups because of having been wronged by
+the authorities.
+
+When the bandit captain observed what his men were about to do to Sancho,
+he commanded them to stop, and to return everything they had taken away
+from the knight and his squire. He asked Don Quixote why he looked so
+dejected, and the knight responded that he was grieved that he had been
+taken unaware, saying that had he been armed with his lance and shield
+and mounted on his Rocinante when he found himself surrounded by these
+men, he would have defended himself to the last drop of his blood, in
+accordance with all the rules of knight-errantry. And then he told Roque
+that he was the Don Quixote of La Mancha who had filled the whole world
+with the wonder of his achievements; and he thanked him for his great
+courtesy and mercifulness.
+
+Just then they heard the violent sound of hoofs clattering against the
+hard road, and as they turned they beheld a youth, extremely pleasing
+in appearance, who was coming their way in a wild gallop. As he
+reached them, he flung himself from his horse and addressed Roque, who
+then perceived that it was not a lad but a maiden. She said she was
+the daughter of his friend Simon Forte, and named Claudia Jeronima,
+and that she, unbeknown to her father, had fallen in love with and
+become engaged to the son of her father's arch enemy, Clauquel
+Torrellas, whose son was named Vicente. Yesterday, she went on, she
+had learned that he had promised to marry another one, and full of
+jealousy she had stolen upon him this morning in the guise that he now
+saw her in and shot him in the presence of his servants near his
+house. She had left him at once, and she now wanted Roque to procure
+for her a safe-conduct that she might take refuge in France where she
+had relatives. She also wanted to extract a promise from him to
+protect her father from the wrath and revenge of the Torrellas.
+
+Roque was evidently much taken with the girl, for he gave her a glance
+full of admiration; nor had she failed to make an impression on Don
+Quixote and Sancho. Don Quixote wanted at once to go in quest of the
+knight and make him keep his troth, and Sancho added that his master
+was an admirable match-maker. But Roque hastily took leave of them,
+and accompanied only by the fair Claudia, he had soon come to the spot
+where she had left Don Vicente. This young gentleman was surrounded by
+some servants who had been attempting to carry him to his home, but he
+had begged them to take him no further, for the pain was too great, he
+said and he felt that he was dying. All were astounded at the sight
+of the feared Roque, who dismounted with Claudia.
+
+The fair maiden approached her lover, and clasping his hand, she said:
+"Hadst thou given me this according to our compact thou hadst never
+come to this pass." And then the young lady told Don Vicente what she
+had heard; but he disavowed to her any intention to marry any one else
+but herself. Hearing this she broke down completely, flung herself
+upon his breast, and sobbed convulsively; and then she fainted.
+
+When she came to, she found that her beloved one had passed away, and
+her grief then knew no bounds. Again and again she would be overcome
+by her feelings, and swoon so that they had to sprinkle water on her
+face. Roque was moved to tears, and so were the servants, and Claudia
+said that she would go into cloister for the rest of her life to atone
+for her sin. Roque approved of her decision, and offered to conduct
+her wherever she wished to go, but she declined his company, with many
+thanks, and bade him farewell in tears. Roque then directed the
+servants to take the body of Don Vicente to the dead man's father, and
+returned to his band.
+
+He found Don Quixote addressing his men on lawlessness, but they
+seemed to be little impressed with his sermon. Soon afterward a
+sentinel came up to his captain, and reported that people were coming
+along on the road to Barcelona, and Roque, having made certain that
+they were not armed troops out to enforce the law and in search of
+bandits, gave order to capture the travelers and have them brought
+before him.
+
+Here the outlaw revealed himself again to Don Quixote as a naturally
+kindly and tender-hearted man, for though the travelers possessed a
+good deal of money, he assessed them but one hundred and forty crowns.
+Of this money he gave the men of his band two crowns each; that left
+twenty crowns over, and this he divided between some pilgrims who were
+on their way to Rome and our worthy Sancho. The travelers were two
+captains of Spanish infantry, and some titled ladies; and the women
+felt so grateful to Roque for his generosity, and his unusual behavior
+and courtesy touched them so, that they wanted to kiss his hand,
+considering him in the light of a hero rather than a robber. Roque did
+not forget to give them a safe-conduct to the leaders of his bands,
+for there were many of them, operating all through that region.
+
+One of Roque's men seemed dissatisfied with such leniency as he had
+seen displayed, and voiced his opinion rather too loudly, for the
+leader of the band heard it, and the offender's head was nearly cleft
+open in the next second. The captain turned to Don Quixote and
+remarked that that was the way he punished impudence; then he calmly
+sat down and wrote a letter to a friend of his in Barcelona, telling
+him of the early arrival there of the famous Don Quixote of La Mancha,
+of whose exploits in knight-errantry the whole world knew; and, to be
+exact, he fixed Saint John the Baptist's day as the very day on which
+our knight would make his first appearance in the very midst of the
+city of Barcelona under the auspices of him to whom he addressed this
+letter, and who would be grateful for the infinite joy Don Quixote and
+his droll squire Sancho Panza would afford him and the city. He sent
+the letter by one of his trusted followers, who, disguised as a
+peasant, made his way into Barcelona and delivered the letter to the
+right person.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER LXI
+
+OF WHAT HAPPENED TO DON QUIXOTE ON ENTERING BARCELONA,
+TOGETHER WITH OTHER MATTERS THAT PARTAKE OF THE TRUE RATHER
+THAN THE INGENIOUS
+
+
+Don Quixote remained with Roque for three days, and they were hectic
+days for our knight. Roque always slept apart from his men, for the
+viceroy of Barcelona had placed a great price on his head, and Roque
+was in constant fear that some one in his band would be tempted to
+deliver him up. On the fourth day he and Don Quixote, accompanied by
+Sancho and six of the band, made their way toward Barcelona; and on
+the night of St. John's Eve they reached the city. There Roque took
+farewell of the knight and his squire, and returned to his haunts in
+the woods.
+
+Throughout the night Don Quixote-kept guard over the city; and there
+he was still sitting on Rocinante when dawn appeared on the horizon,
+and Don Quixote and Sancho Panza for the first time in their lives
+beheld the sea. It seemed to them it was ever so much greater than any
+of the lakes they had seen in La Mancha. As the sun rose it was
+suddenly greeted with the ringing of bells, the din of drums, the
+sound of clarions, and the trampling and clatter of feet on the
+streets; and from the galleys along the beach a mass of streamers in
+varied colors waved its welcome, to the music and the noise of bugles,
+clarions and trumpets from shipboard. Then cannons on ship and shore
+began to thunder, and a constant fire was kept up from the walls and
+fortress of the city. It was a noise and a spectacle that might have
+over-awed any one, even a less simple-minded person than Sancho, who
+stared open-mouthed at the wonders he beheld. He gasped when he saw
+the galleys rowed about by their oarsmen on the water, and he told his
+master he had never seen so many feet in his life. A troop of horsemen
+in extravagant liveries rode past them, where they were standing, and
+suddenly Don Quixote was startled by hearing some one call out in a
+loud voice: "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
+one, but the true, the legitimate, the real one that Cid Hamet
+Benengeli, flower of historians, has described to us!"
+
+Don Quixote felt flattered by the attention he suddenly attracted, for
+all eyes had turned to gaze upon his lean and queer person; although
+it may be said here, in confidence, that the man who had recognized
+the hero was no other than the one to whom the rogue Roque had
+written. The cavalier divulged his identity to Don Quixote, and begged
+him politely to accept his services while in Barcelona; and Don
+Quixote replied with as much courtesy that he would follow him
+wherever he pleased and be entirely at his disposal. Then the
+horsemen closed in around him and they set out for the center of the
+city, to the music of a gay tune played by the clarions and drums.
+
+The Devil, however, was not asleep. He put temptation into the hearts
+of some street urchins, who stole their way into the close proximity
+of Rocinante's and Dapple's hindquarters, and there deposited a bunch
+of furze under their tails, with the fatal result that their riders
+were flung headlong into the crowd. Our proud hero, covered with dust
+and shame, pulled himself together and went to pick the flowers from
+the tail of his hack, while Sancho extracted the cause of Dapple's
+capers from his own mount. Then they mounted again, the music
+continued to play, and soon they found themselves at a large and
+impressive house, which they learned was occupied by the cavalier, who
+was a friend of Roque's.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER LXII
+
+WHICH DEALS WITH THE ADVENTURE OF THE ENCHANTED HEAD,
+TOGETHER WITH OTHER TRIVIAL MATTERS WHICH CANNOT BE LEFT UNTOLD
+
+
+The cavalier turned out to be one Don Antonio Moreno, a gentleman with
+a great sense of humor, well read and rich. As soon as Don Quixote had
+entered the house, Don Antonio persuaded him to discard the suit of
+armor; then he took him out on the balcony, where he at once attracted
+all the boys in the street and crowds of people, who gazed at him as
+if he had been a monkey. The cavaliers passed in review before the
+balcony, and the knight was given the impression that it was in his
+special honor they were bedecked as they were, for he did not realize
+that it was a holiday. Sancho was delighted beyond description. He was
+treated royally by the servants, who thought that they had never met
+any one quite as amusing as he. Don Antonio's friends were all
+instructed to pay homage to Don Quixote and at all times to address
+him as if he were a knight errant.
+
+The flattery and honors were too much for the poor knight: they turned
+his head completely, and he became puffed up with his own importance.
+Sancho, too, amused Don Antonio and his guests exceedingly, and they
+enjoyed particularly hearing about his escapades as governor.
+
+After dinner that day, the host took Don Quixote into a distant room,
+which contained no furniture except a table, on which was a pedestal
+supporting a head made of what seemed to be bronze. After having acted
+in the most mysterious manner, and having carefully ascertained that
+all the doors to the room were shut and no one listening, Antonio
+swore the knight to secrecy. Then he proceeded to tell Don Quixote
+that the head he saw there before him had been made by a Polish
+magician, and possessed the magic faculty of being able to answer any
+question whispered into its ear. Only on certain days, however, did
+its magic assert itself, and the following day, which was the day
+after Friday--it had been astrologically worked out--would again
+witness the miracle. Don Antonio asked the knight whether there was
+anything he should especially like to ask the head; if so, he could
+put the question to it on the morrow. Don Quixote seemed sceptical,
+but made no comment, and they returned to the other guests.
+
+In the afternoon the knight errant was placed on a tall mule, bedecked
+with beautiful trimmings, and himself encased in a heavy and
+uncomfortably warm garb of yellow cloth; then, unbeknown to him, they
+pinned on his back a parchment with this inscription in large letters:
+THIS IS DON QUIXOTE OF LA MANCHA.
+
+As they were parading through the streets the knight's vanity swelled
+more and more, for from every nook and corner there came great shouts
+of recognition. Soon he was unable to restrain his vainglorious
+nature, and he turned to his host and remarked to him with much
+satisfaction: "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." Finally the crowds increased so that Don
+Antonio was obliged to remove the parchment, and soon they had to take
+refuge in his house.
+
+In the evening Don Antonio's wife gave a dance, and it was amusing to
+see the tall and lank hero move about on the ballroom floor; the men
+gave him the opportunity to dance every dance, for they themselves
+enjoyed watching him better than dancing. At last Don Quixote was so
+exhausted both by the dancing and by the lovemaking that the ladies
+had imposed on him--and how they delighted in hearing him avow his
+great love for Dulcinea--that Sancho had to take him to his room and
+put him to bed.
+
+The next day Don Antonio took his wife, Don Quixote, and a few
+intimate friends into the secret chamber, and after many mysterious
+preliminaries, the questioning of the head began. All seemed
+particularly interested in what Don Quixote would have to ask, and
+felt rewarded when his turn came, for this is what he demanded: "Tell
+me, thou that answerest, was that which happened to me in the cave of
+Montesinos the truth or a dream? Will my squire Sancho's whipping be
+accomplished without fail? Will the disenchantment of Dulcinea be
+brought about?"
+
+In a mysterious voice that seemed to come from a great distance, the
+head returned these answers: "As to the question of the cave, there is
+much to be said; there is something of both in it. Sancho's whipping
+will proceed leisurely. The disenchantment of Dulcinea will attain its
+due consummation."
+
+Don Quixote heaved a sigh and declared that if only his peerless one
+were disenchanted, it would be all the good fortune he could wish for.
+Then Sancho tried his luck; but at the conclusion of Sancho's audience
+with the head, he did not seem properly awed, and his master became
+displeased with his pretentious expectations and reprimanded him
+severely in the presence of the whole company.
+
+All the while Sancho's incessant talking and his master's exalted
+behavior kept every one in an uproarious humor. The joke that Don
+Antonio had arranged consisted in having a student, a young nephew of
+Don Antonio's, placed in a chamber underneath the one in which the
+head was, to receive the questions and speak the replies through a
+tube that led from the inside of the head to the room below. Soon
+after this form of amusement had taken place, it was agreed upon by
+the gentlemen of the city to arrange for a tilting at the ring, for
+they were convinced that such an exhibition would afford greater
+opportunities for mirth and laughter than anything else they might
+think of.
+
+One day Don Quixote and Sancho, accompanied by two of Don Antonio's
+servants, were walking on foot through the city, when they suddenly
+passed a printing shop; and, never having seen one, the knight entered
+with Sancho and the servants. He was as curious as usual, and asked
+the printer innumerable questions about the books that he was
+printing. He saw some of the printers reading the proofs of a book,
+and he turned to them and inquired what the title of the book was.
+They told him it was the Second Part of "The Ingenious Gentleman Don
+Quixote of La Mancha," adding that it was written by a certain person
+of Tordesillas. Upon hearing this, Don Quixote grew quite cold in his
+demeanor, and having moralized that fiction resembling truth is always
+greater than absurdly untruthful stories, he uttered a hope that the
+book would be burned to ashes. And then he turned his back on the
+astonished men and left the shop in great haste.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER LXIII
+
+THE MISHAP THAT BEFELL SANCHO PANZA THROUGH THE VISIT TO THE GALLEYS
+
+
+The afternoon of that same day Don Antonio took Don Quixote and Sancho
+on board one of the galleys, amid all the honors that accompany the
+visits of great and famous personages. There were fanfares, and
+cheers, and the firing of guns, and all the high-ranking officers of
+the army and navy who were in the city had been appealed to by Don
+Antonio Moreno and turned out to pay him their respects.
+
+Don Quixote was delighted. He could scarcely find words to express his
+appreciation of such a magnificent and royal reception; and Sancho was
+almost carried away by the honors that were being paid his master. But
+when he saw all the men at the oars--stripped to the skin by the
+captain's command--he became afraid, for they seemed to him like so
+many devils.
+
+When Don Quixote and Sancho Panza had been presented to all the
+dignitaries, the captain escorted them to a platform on which he
+begged them to take their seats beside him. Sancho sat at the edge of
+the platform, next to one of the rowing devils (who had been
+instructed in advance by the captain what to do) and suddenly he felt
+himself lifted in the air by a pair of strong, muscular arms. The next
+instant he was in the clutches of another devil; and passing from
+hand to hand, he went the rounds of the crew with such swiftness that
+the poor superstitious Sancho did not know whether he was dead,
+dreaming, or alive. Sancho's aerial expedition did not come to an end
+until he had been most unceremoniously deposited on the poop, where he
+landed in a strangely unbalanced condition--to the tremendous
+amusement of the crew and the onlookers. He was so dazed that it is
+doubtful whether he would have known his name, if he had been asked.
+
+Seeing what had happened to his squire, Don Quixote thought it best to
+forestall himself from being put through any such ceremony; so he
+stood up, his hand on the hilt of his sword, and announced with fire
+in his eyes that any one who dared to attempt such a thing to him
+would suffer by having his head cut off. He had hardly finished his
+sentence before a noise was heard that frightened Sancho almost into
+insensibility. He thought that Heaven was coming off its hinges and
+about to fall on his sinful head. And even Don Quixote trembled with
+something closely akin to fear, and grew (if that were possible) pale
+under his yellow hue.
+
+What the crew had done was to strike the awning and lower the yard and
+then hoist it up again with as much clatter and speed as they could
+produce, yet without uttering any human sound. This being done, the
+boatswain gave orders to weigh anchor, and as he went about on deck
+signaling with a whistle, he continually lashed and beat the backs of
+the naked oarsmen with a whip he had in his hand.
+
+When Sancho saw all the red oars moving, he took them to be the feet
+of enchanted beings, and he thought to himself: "It is these that are
+the real enchanted things, and not the ones my master talks of. What
+can those wretches have done to be whipped in that way; 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!"
+
+But when Don Quixote noticed his squire's interest in the naked creatures
+at the oars, he turned and said to him softly: "Ah, Sancho my friend, how
+quickly and cheaply you might 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."
+
+But Sancho was not to be persuaded, and the general of the fortress,
+who was eager to know why Sancho was urged to lash himself, could not
+wait for a reply to his question, for there loomed up on the horizon a
+ship which attracted his attention, and he immediately gave orders to
+the captain to steer down upon it.
+
+After an adventure on the seas, the first they had ever experienced,
+Don Quixote and Sancho came back to Barcelona that afternoon, and
+returned to the house of their host, escorted by the Viceroy, the
+General and the other high dignitaries.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER LXIV
+
+TREATING OF THE ADVENTURE WHICH GAVE DON QUIXOTE MORE
+UNHAPPINESS THAN ALL THAT HAD HITHERTO BEFALLEN HIM
+
+
+A few days after Don Quixote had visited the galley, he was riding along
+the beach one morning on Rocinante dressed in his armor, when suddenly he
+observed coming toward him a knight, also in full regalia, with a shining
+moon painted on his shield. As he came close to Don Quixote, he held in
+his horse, and spoke to our knight thus: "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 recall 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."
+
+And then the Knight of the White Moon went on to say that should he
+conquer Don Quixote, the Knight of the Lions must retire to his native
+village for a period of one year, and live there in peace and quiet,
+away from all knightly endeavors and deeds. Should, however, Don
+Quixote turn out to be the victor, he, the challenger, would gladly
+forfeit his head, as well as the renown of his many deeds and
+conquests, his arms and horse to him. He bade Don Quixote consider
+the challenge and give a speedy answer, for he had but that day at his
+disposal for the combat.
+
+Don Quixote was taken aback at the audacity and arrogance with which
+the knight had stated his demands, particularly when he took into
+consideration that he had never in his whole life heard him even
+spoken of, much less had he heard of the deeds and victorious combats
+he had named. But he accepted the challenge with calm pride on the
+conditions the Knight of the White Moon had given, barring the one
+which involved transferring his renown to Don Quixote's shoulders in
+case of his being vanquished. To our knight that seemed like taking
+too great chances, since he had no idea what the nature of the
+challenger's deeds might be, and since he was thoroughly satisfied
+with his own achievements.
+
+It so happened that the Viceroy had observed the Knight of the White
+Moon in conversation with Don Quixote, and thinking that some one had
+planned another joke on him, he hastened to Don Antonio's house, and
+got him to accompany him to the beach, where they found the two
+knights just taking their distance, and about to commence the combat.
+Don Antonio was as startled when he saw the other knight as the
+Viceroy had been, and neither one could make up his mind whether the
+whole thing was a joke, or not, for no one there seemed to know who
+the Knight of the White Moon was. However, the two gentlemen at last
+decided it could be nothing but a prank, planned by some gentleman for
+his own amusement. The Viceroy then turned to the knight and, learning
+that the combat was being fought to decide a question of precedence
+of beauty, bade them set to if both of them still remained unshaken
+and inflexible in their convictions. The two combatants, having
+thanked the Viceroy for his permission, separated and again took up
+the necessary distance. Their horses wheeled around and the knights
+came against each other with all the speed their mounts were capable
+of. But the Knight of the White Moon was mounted on a steed that
+completely outshone the poor Rocinante, for when they clashed, the
+poor hack fell from the mere force of the contact, and Don Quixote
+leaped over his head onto earth. At once the unknown knight held his
+lance over his visor and threatened him with death unless he confessed
+to being vanquished and acknowledged that he would abide by the
+conditions of the combat.
+
+In a feeble voice Don Quixote answered him that in spite of his defeat
+Dulcinea still was the most beautiful woman in the world, but that now
+that his honor had been taken away from him, he might as well die; and
+he begged the knight to drive home the blow of his lance. But the
+Knight of the White Moon was a generous gentleman. He said he would
+not have our hero deny the beauty of his Dulcinea in deference to his
+own lady; all that he asked was that Don Quixote return to his village
+of La Mancha and give up knight-errantry as he had promised. Don
+Quixote rose in a sorry and battered condition and swore that he would
+keep his word like a true knight errant; and in the next instant the
+mysterious Knight of the White Moon set off toward the city at a quick
+canter.
+
+As soon as the unknown knight had left, the Viceroy, Don Antonio and
+Sancho hastened to Don Quixote's side. They found him covered with
+perspiration and stiff in all his limbs. Rocinante had not yet
+stirred, for he, too, was in a deplorable condition. Sancho for once
+had lost his speech, and all that had happened to his master in so
+short a time seemed to him proof that the enchanters were still
+pursuing him. Now that his master for some time to come was to be
+confined to their own village, there would be no chance for him to
+redeem the promise he had made to his squire. Altogether it seemed to
+Sancho a sad state of affairs.
+
+Don Quixote was in such a dilapidated condition that he had to be
+carried into the city in a hand-chair which the Viceroy had sent for,
+and they all escorted him to the house of Don Antonio.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER LXV
+
+WHEREIN IS MADE KNOWN WHO THE KNIGHT OF THE WHITE MOON
+WAS; LIKEWISE OTHER EVENTS
+
+
+In the city the Viceroy and Don Antonio tried to locate the Knight of
+the White Moon, and when they had found the hostel at which he was
+staying Don Antonio went to call on him and learned that he was the
+bachelor Samson Carrasco, from the very same village as Don Quixote.
+The bachelor, having explained his aims regarding the knight, packed
+his arms in a knapsack, took leave as soon as he had told his story,
+and set off at once for La Mancha, mounted on a mule.
+
+A few days later, much to the sorrow of Sancho--who had never been so
+well fed in his life--Don Quixote and he took a fond farewell of their
+estimable and generous host who had heaped so many honors on them and
+who had enjoyed himself so tremendously at their expense. This time it
+was a sad and lonely journey on which they started. Don Quixote was
+mounted on Rocinante, who had somewhat recovered from his shock, but
+Sancho had to tread the trail on foot, for his Dapple had to serve as
+a carrier for the discarded armor of our late and lamented valiant
+Knight of the Lions.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTERS LXVI-LXVII
+
+OF THE RESOLUTION WHICH 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
+
+
+Toward the end of the fifth day Don Quixote was resting in the shade
+of some trees, and as always happened when he lay down to rest, his
+thoughts turned to the disenchantment of his Dulcinea and a feeling of
+impatience with his selfish and uncharitable squire rose up within
+him. He pleaded with Sancho and implored him to go through with the
+ordeal bravely; but Sancho was unflinching in his stubbornness and
+insisted he could see no reason why he should be coupled with the
+disenchantment of the peerless fair one. Thus Don Quixote could only
+pray that his squire might be moved by compassion to perform some day
+the deed that would liberate his lady.
+
+While discussing this subject so close to his heart Don Quixote had
+decided to pursue his journey, and while they were traveling along on
+the road to their village they again engaged in conversation. Suddenly
+they found themselves passing the spot where they had been trampled on
+by the bulls, but Don Quixote, not wishing to have his thoughts return
+to anything so bitter, turned to Sancho and remarked that this was
+where they had encountered the gay shepherds and shepherdesses. And
+the next instant he had decided to emulate their example and turn
+shepherd himself, now that his calling of knight errant had come to an
+end; he would buy some ewes, he said, and together they would retire
+to some quiet pastoral nook where the woods and the fields met, and
+where pure crystal water sprang from the ledge of a rock and the
+fragrance of flowers was in the air. And there he would sing to
+Dulcinea, his platonic and only love. The thought of a life so calm
+and so far away from danger and knightly adventures pleased Sancho so
+greatly and made his enthusiasm run so high that he could not restrain
+a row of proverbs from falling from his lips. It was a flow so
+incessant that Don Quixote at last felt obliged to ask for a truce.
+
+Night had now fallen, and Don Quixote thought it best to withdraw from
+the roadway and take refuge for the night some distance away from it.
+Having supped, Sancho at once fell asleep, but his master sat up all
+that night, thinking of Dulcinea and making up rhymes to the
+sweetness of her memory.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER LXVIII
+
+OF THE BRISTLY ADVENTURE THAT BEFELL DON QUIXOTE
+
+
+Don Quixote could not bear to see his squire sleep so restfully while
+he was being weighted down by all the cares of the world. So he woke
+Sancho, whose stolid unconcern about Dulcinea again was brought home
+to him, and almost went on his knees in order to induce him to scourge
+himself. He nearly wept in his efforts to have Sancho inflict the
+meager amount of three or four hundred lashes upon himself; but as
+ever the cruel squire remained unmoved. Don Quixote did everything in
+his power to entice him to do this beautiful deed of sacrifice. He
+held forth to him what a blessed night it would be for them, if he
+would only comply with his master's request, for then, Don Quixote
+suggested, they could spend the remainder of it singing, thus making
+this the beginning of the pastoral life to which they were about to
+devote themselves. But Sancho said he was no monk; and the idea of
+getting up in the middle of the night to perform such rituals did not
+appeal to him, he frankly avowed. The bewailings of his master, both
+in Castilian and in Latin, made no impression upon the hard-hearted
+Sancho, who remained as firm as the rock of Gibraltar, as far as the
+disenchantment was concerned.
+
+Don Quixote had just made up his mind that it was a useless task to
+try to prevail upon Sancho at that hour to do his duty, when suddenly
+there was heard a tremendous and terrifying noise, which increased as
+it seemed to come closer. Sancho was so frightened that he at once
+took refuge behind Dapple, entrenching himself between the pack-saddle
+and his master's discarded armor; and Don Quixote got palpitation of
+the heart, and began to shiver. As Sancho peeped from behind his
+entrenchments and Don Quixote took courage to look, the grunting drove
+of six hundred pigs--for that is what it was--was so close upon them
+that in the next moment they found themselves knocked to the ground;
+but it was some time before all of the snorting, disrespectful animals
+had passed their dirty feet over the prostrate bodies of the knight,
+his squire and their beasts and provisions.
+
+Sancho rose first, smeared with dirt, and having been stirred to
+unusual depths by the condition in which he found himself, he begged
+his master to let him take his sword, saying he felt he had to kill
+some of the pigs in order to be soothed. The exceedingly bad manners
+they had displayed and especially the fact that they had crushed all
+the provisions into nothingness, had produced an ire in Sancho that
+seemed wellnigh irrepressible.
+
+But Don Quixote calmed his squire with these words, spoken with a
+melancholy air: "Let them be, my friend. 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."
+
+To this Sancho Panza retorted pensively: "I suppose it is the
+chastisement of Heaven, too, 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
+descended upon us, even to the fourth generation. But what have the
+Panzas to do with the Quixotes? Well, let us lie down again and sleep
+out what little of the night there is left, and God will send us dawn
+and we shall be all right."
+
+Sancho lay down and slept, but his master sat up and commenced his
+emulation of the life of a shepherd by singing the song he had
+composed to his great love, accompanying it with his own sighs, and
+many wet tears. At last daylight came, and the sun awakened them both.
+Sancho began to rub his eyes, and they both got up and made ready to
+journey further. But before leaving Sancho again cursed the pigs for
+having ruined his stores.
+
+He and his master had traveled the whole day, when they encountered a
+number of men on horseback, and four or five men on foot, all heavily
+armed. Don Quixote's heart ached, for he could not forget his promise
+to the Knight of the White Moon. The men who were mounted approached
+our hero and Sancho, and surrounded them without speaking a word. Don
+Quixote attempted to ask a question, but one of them warned him to be
+silent by putting a finger to his lips, while another one pointed his
+lance against the knight's breast. Still another one took Rocinante by
+the bridle; while Sancho was being treated in the same manner by some
+of the others. Both Don Quixote and Sancho began to be worried as to
+the outcome of this adventure, for the whole proceeding seemed to them
+utterly mysterious.
+
+They rode all that day, unable to make out where they were being
+taken, or who their mysterious captors were, and at last night came.
+All the while the men were calling them all kinds of names, such as
+"bloodthirsty lions," "cannibals," "murderous Polyphemes" etc.; and
+Sancho was scared out of his wits, while Don Quixote was at his wits
+ends. Both were convinced that some terrible misfortune was in store
+for them, and they could only pray that they would get out of it as
+easily as possible.
+
+Before they knew it, it was midnight, and soon after that Don Quixote
+recognized a castle, which he saw in the distance, as that of the
+Duke. He was amazed when he found that the men were taking him there,
+and he said to himself: "God bless me! 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." They entered the court, and
+found it arrayed in such a manner that they could not help being
+amazed and speechless, and they felt fear creeping into their hearts.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER LXIX
+
+OF THE STRANGEST AND MOST EXTRAORDINARY ADVENTURE THAT
+BEFELL DON QUIXOTE IN THE WHOLE COURSE OF THIS GREAT HISTORY
+
+
+As soon as the horsemen had dismounted, they and the men on foot
+carried Don Quixote and Sancho bodily into the center of the court,
+which was illuminated with hundreds of torches and lamps placed all
+around it. In the very center there was a catafalque, elevated to a
+height of several yards above the ground and covered by a huge canopy
+of black velvet. To the catafalque steps led from all around, and on
+the steps were hundreds of wax tapers burning in silver candlesticks.
+On the catafalque lay the dead body of a beautiful maiden. On one side
+of the stage there was a large platform on which sat two figures, with
+scepters in their hands and crowns on their heads: judging by this,
+Don Quixote thought they must be royal personages. On the side of this
+platform were two empty chairs, to which Don Quixote and Sancho were
+led. And when they had seated themselves and turned around to observe
+what was going to happen, they were suddenly startled by seeing their
+friends, the Duke and the Duchess, mount the platform and seat
+themselves next to the royalty.
+
+Don Quixote and Sancho both paid them homage by rising and bowing
+profoundly, and the ducal pair returned their compliment with a
+slight bow of the head. Following them came a long row of attendants.
+Then suddenly Don Quixote came to realize that the corpse was none
+other than that of the fair Altisidora, whose love he had scorned, and
+that shocked him greatly.
+
+Some one connected with the ceremonies passed at that moment and threw
+a robe of black buckram covered with painted red flames of fire over
+Sancho and, removing his cap, put on his head a miter of the kind that
+those who were undergoing the sentence of the Holy Office wore. At the
+same time he whispered in Sancho's ear that if he opened his lips, his
+life would not be safe.
+
+At first Sancho, seeing all the flames that seemed to be licking his
+body, got frightened, but when he found that no heat ensued and
+nothing else happened, his worries ceased. In the next moment his and
+his master's attention was attracted by low, sweet sounds of music and
+singing that seemed to vibrate from underneath the catafalque; and
+then there appeared a youth with a harp, and he sang a song that dealt
+with the cruelty of Don Quixote toward the fair Altisidora, who now
+was dead from a broken heart.
+
+When he had sung of her charms, one of the two who seemed like kings
+rose from his seat and spoke. He, Minos, who sat in judgment with
+Rhadamanthus, now begged the latter to stand up and announce what must
+be done in order to affect the resuscitation and restoration of the
+damsel Altisidora. As soon as he had declaimed all he had to say, he
+sat down, and in the next moment Rhadamanthus rose and decreed that
+all the officials gather quickly and attach the person of Sancho
+Panza, as through him alone Altisidora's restoration could be
+effected, he said, by his receiving twenty-four smacks in the face,
+twelve pinches and six pin-thrusts in the back and arms.
+
+Nobody but Sancho objected to the King's proclamation; but Sancho was
+emphatic enough for a multitude. "Body of me!" he replied unhesitatingly.
+"What has mauling my face got to with the resurrection of this damsel?
+The old woman takes kindly to my persecution; 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 they must give me
+four-and-twenty smacks, and prick holes in my body with pins, and raise
+weals on my arms with pinches! Try those jokes on a brother-in-law; I am
+an old dog, and its no use with me."
+
+But Rhadamanthus was bent in carrying out his threat. He gave a sign
+to one of the attendants, and in the next moment a procession of
+duennas started toward Sancho with raised hands. Sancho saw them
+coming against him, he grew frantic, and began to bellow like a bull,
+crying out: "I might let myself be handled by all the world; but allow
+duennas to touch me? Not a bit of it! Scratch my face, as my master
+was served in this very castle; run me through the body with burnished
+daggers; pinch my arms with red-hot pincers; I shall bear all in
+patience to serve these gentlefolk; but I will not let duennas touch
+me, though the devil himself should carry me off!"
+
+Here Don Quixote thought it was time for him to add his plea to that
+of the King, and he began to reason with Sancho. At last he subdued
+him somewhat, and by that time the duennas had reached the spot where
+Don Quixote and Sancho were seated, and one of them came up,
+curtsied, and gave the poor squire a smack on the face that nearly
+unseated him, and that made him exclaim: "Less politeness and less
+paint, Senora Duenna. By God, your hands smell of vinegar-wash!"
+
+No sooner had Sancho uttered these words than he was smacked and
+pinched by nearly all the rest of them, until at last he lost his
+temper and seized a lighted torch, with which he pursued the flying
+duennas in an uncontrollable rage, crying: "Begone, ye ministers of
+Hell! I am not made of brass not to feel such out-of-the-way
+tortures."
+
+But just then Altisidora--who probably was tired of lying on her back
+such a long time--moved, and in the next moment exclamations were
+heard from all in the court: "Altisidora is alive! Altisidora lives!"
+
+Now that the great miracle had been attained, Rhadamanthus turned to
+Sancho and bade him still his anger; and Don Quixote again entreated
+Sancho, since he so nobly had proven that virtue now was ripe in him,
+to go to work and disenchant his Dulcinea in the same breath. To this
+Sancho replied:
+
+"That is 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 am to be always made the cow of the wedding for the cure
+of other people's ailments. Leave me alone; or else by the Lord I
+shall fling the whole thing to the dogs, come what may!"
+
+By this time Altisidora had entirely recovered from her death and was
+now sitting up on the catafalque. The music was again heard, the
+voices sang, and all came forward to help the young maiden down from
+her elevated position.
+
+Altisidora acted as if she were just coming out of a long, long sleep;
+and when she saw the Kings and the Duke and the Duchess she bowed her
+head to them in respect. Then she asked the Lord to forgive Don
+Quixote for his cruelty, while she praised and thanked Sancho Panza
+for his sacrifice, and offered to give him six smocks of hers to make
+into shirts for himself, adding that if they were not quite whole,
+they were at least all clean. On hearing this, Sancho fell on his
+knees and kissed her hands; and then one of the attendants approached
+him, at the order of the Duke, and asked him to return the red robe
+and the miter. Sancho, however, wanted to keep them to show to his
+villagers as a remembrance of his marvelous experience; and when the
+Duchess heard of his desire she commanded that they be given to her
+friend as a token of her everlasting esteem.
+
+Soon everybody had left the court and retired to their quarters, and
+the Duke had Don Quixote and Sancho shown to their old chambers.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER LXX
+
+WHICH FOLLOWS CHAPTER SIXTY-NINE AND DEALS WITH MATTERS
+INDISPENSABLE FOR THE CLEAR COMPREHENSION OF THIS HISTORY
+
+
+Sancho slept that night in the same chamber with Don Quixote. It was
+some time before he went asleep, however, for the pain of the pinching
+and smacking was quite evident. Don Quixote was inclined to talk, but
+Sancho begged him to let him sleep in peace for the remainder of the
+night, and at last both master and servant fell into slumber.
+
+In the meantime it might be told how it came about that Don Quixote
+came to visit the ducal castle again. The bachelor Samson Carrasco,
+having learned as much as he could from the page that carried the
+letter to Teresa Panza of the whereabouts of the hero, decided that
+the time had come for another combat with him. Thus he procured a new
+suit of armor and a fresh horse and set out to find the Duke's castle.
+Having reached it, he had a long conversation with the Duke, wherein
+he told him it was his great desire to bring Don Quixote back to his
+village and his friends, hoping that if he could defeat him in battle
+Don Quixote could be made to return of his own free will and in time
+be cured of his strange affliction. He then followed him to Saragossa,
+for which city he had set out when he left the Duke's castle, but
+finally traced him to Barcelona, where the bachelor encountered him
+with the result that he promised to return to his village and give up
+knight-errantry for a year.
+
+On his way home, the bachelor, at the Duke's request, had stopped at
+the castle to inform him of the outcome of the combat, and it was then
+that the Duke decided to play the knight and his squire another joke.
+The Duke had his men stationed everywhere on the road that led from
+Barcelona, and it was thus that they were able to bring in Don Quixote
+in the manner and at the hour that they did.
+
+When daylight arrived the morning after Altisidora's coming to life,
+Don Quixote awoke and found her in his presence; and the instant he
+saw her he showed his modesty and his confusion by pulling the sheet
+over his head. But while Don Quixote was not inclined to converse with
+a maiden so early in the morning, Sancho showed no aversion to it
+whatever, for he bombarded Altisidora with all kinds of impertinent
+questions as to what was going on in Hell when she was there. Of
+course Altisidora denied having any intimate knowledge of this place,
+for in spite of her immodesty she had only got as far as the gates,
+she said.
+
+Don Quixote now entered into the conversation and asked why the fair
+Altisidora had been so persistent in her love, when she knew that he
+would never change or give up his beloved Dulcinea, to whom he
+maintained he was born to belong. When she heard Don Quixote talk in
+this manner, Altisidora grew very angry with him, and exclaimed:
+"God's life! Don Stockfish, soul of a mortar, stone of a date, more
+obstinate and obdurate than a clown asked a favor when he has his
+mind made up! If I fall upon you I shall tear your eyes out! Do you
+fancy, then, Don Vanquished, Don Cudgeled, that I died for _your_
+sake? All that you have seen to-night has been make believe; I am not
+the woman to let the black of my nail suffer for such a camel, much
+less die!"
+
+Sancho interrupted her here and said he could well believe that; then
+he added: "All that about lovers pining to death is absurd. They may
+talk of it, but as far as doing it--Judas may believe that!"
+
+Now the Duke and the Duchess entered, and after an animated conversation
+during which Sancho's amusing sayings as usual captivated his
+distinguished friends, Don Quixote begged leave to be on his way to his
+village. They granted him his request, and then they asked him whether he
+had forgiven Altisidora for having tried to capture his love. He replied
+saying that this lady's lack of virtue had its root in her idleness, and
+he recommended that the Duchess see to it that Altisidora was put to
+making lace or given some other employment. Sancho approved of his
+master's advice, and remarked sagely that he never had seen any lacemaker
+die for love; and he further illustrated the truth of Don Quixote's
+remark by his own experience on that score: when he was digging, he
+vowed, he never bothered with the thought of his old woman. The testimony
+of two such staunch friends of hers as Don Quixote and Sancho made the
+Duchess promise that hereafter she would keep the fair Altisidora
+employed so that no foolish thoughts might take her away from the path of
+virtue. As soon as the fair maiden heard her mistress speak thus,
+however, she assured her that there was no longer any need of her being
+worked to death in order to divert her thought from the person of our
+knight errant, for his cruelty to her had been such that the very thought
+of that had now blotted him out of her memory forever. And, pretending to
+wipe a tear from her eye, she made a curtsy to the Duchess and left the
+chamber.
+
+It was now time for dinner, and soon afterward Don Quixote, having
+dined with the Duke and the Duchess, made his departure from the
+castle with Sancho, and started again for his home.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER LXXI
+
+OF WHAT PASSED BETWEEN DON QUIXOTE AND HIS SQUIRE SANCHO ON
+THE WAY TO THEIR VILLAGE
+
+
+Don Quixote and Sancho traveled along, both in a state of depression.
+Don Quixote was sad because he had been forced to give up the glories
+of knight-errantry and chivalry; Sancho because Altisidora had not
+kept her word when she promised to give him the smocks. To Sancho it
+seemed a terrible injustice that physicians should be paid even if
+their patients died, and here he had brought back a human being from
+the dead, and was being rewarded in this ungrateful manner!
+
+But Don Quixote's sadness was suddenly brightened by a hope that he
+might at last be able to prevail upon Sancho to bring about the
+disenchantment of Dulcinea. Knowing Sancho's covetousness, he offered
+him money as a bribe. Now Sancho became interested, and consented,
+for the love of his wife and children, to whip himself at a price of a
+quarter-real a lash, generously throwing the five lashes he had
+already given himself into the bargain.
+
+"O blessed Sancho! O dear Sancho!" exclaimed Don Quixote. "How we
+shall be bound to serve thee, Dulcinea and I, all the days of our
+lives that Heaven may grant us! 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."
+
+Sancho swore that he would begin the scourging that very night, and
+begged his master that he arrange it so that they spend the night in
+the open.
+
+Night came at last, and when they had supped, Sancho proceeded to make
+a sturdy whip out of Dapple's halter. When he had finished this task
+he made off for a distant part of the woods. He left his master with
+such a determined look in his eyes that Don Quixote thought it best to
+warn him not to go too fast but to take a breathing-space between
+lashes so that he would not cut his body to pieces. He was afraid
+also, he said, that Sancho might become so enthusiastic over what he
+was doing, or so anxious to come to the end of the lashes that he
+might overtax his strength, collapse and die; and he begged Sancho
+particularly not to do that, for then he would have gone through all
+his suffering in vain. When Sancho had stripped himself to the waist,
+Don Quixote placed himself where he could hear the sound of the
+lashes, and counted them on his rosary that Sancho would make neither
+too much nor too little effort to disenchant Dulcinea.
+
+After half a dozen lashes, Sancho felt that he had inflicted a
+sufficient measure of pain upon himself already, and demanded a higher
+price for his service. Don Quixote told Sancho that he would pay him
+twice the amount promised; and the squire began again. But this time
+he did not whip himself but let the lashes fall on a tree; and with
+each lash he gave out the most heartrending cries, and uttered such
+groans that his master began to feel the pain of his squire's torture
+in his own heart. When he had counted a thousand lashes or thereabout,
+he was quite worried about Sancho and begged him to stop for the
+present, but Sancho told his master he might as well brave the
+remainder of the ordeal now.
+
+Seeing his squire in such a sacrificing mood, Don Quixote retired at
+his request, and Sancho continued with the lashing, which he
+administered to a perfectly innocent tree with such brutality and
+ferocity that the bark flew in all directions. All the while he gave
+vent to his pain by fierce shrieks, and then there came one long
+agonizing cry, which nearly rent Don Quixote's heart, and Sancho
+exclaimed piteously: "Here dies Sancho, and all with him!" Don Quixote
+hastened to his squire's side, and insisted for the sake of his
+unsupported wife and children that he go no further, but to wait until
+some other time with the rest. Sancho retorted with a request that his
+master cover his shoulders with his cloak, as the exertion had been
+too great and had made him perspire freely, and he did not wish to run
+the risk of catching cold. Don Quixote did as he was asked and begged
+Sancho to lie down; then he covered him with the cloak.
+
+At dawn they resumed their journey, and when they had traveled three
+leagues, they came to an inn. Don Quixote did not take it for a castle
+this time; as a matter of fact, ever since he had found himself
+vanquished, he had begun to talk of and see things in a more rational
+way. They entered, and when Sancho saw the painted pictures on the
+wall he remarked to his master that not long from now there would be
+paintings picturing their deeds in every tavern and inn in the
+country. Don Quixote then turned to his squire and asked him whether
+he would like to finish the whipping business that day, and Sancho
+said it made no difference to him when he did it; he only made a
+suggestion that he thought he would prefer to do it among the trees as
+they seemed to help him bear the pain miraculously. But on second
+consideration Don Quixote deemed it advisable to put it off till a
+later time, when they were closer to their village, in case Sancho
+should have a breakdown as a result of his flogging himself. Their
+conversation came to an end when Sancho began to shoot proverbs at his
+master out of the corner of his mouth at such a speed that Don Quixote
+was overwhelmed and tore his hair in desperation.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTERS LXXII-LXXIII
+
+OF THE OMENS DON QUIXOTE HAD AS HE ENTERED HIS OWN VILLAGE;
+AND OTHER INCIDENTS THAT EMBELLISH AND GIVE A COLOR TO THIS
+GREAT HISTORY
+
+
+When they had left the inn that day Don Quixote and his squire
+traveled all through the night, and the following morning they arrived
+at their own village, from which they had been absent so long.
+Among the first to meet them were the curate and Samson Carrasco, who
+had discovered at a distance the red robe the Duchess had given to
+Sancho as a memento of their friendship. Sancho had thrown it over his
+donkey and the discarded armor, and it shone in the morning sun as
+brightly as a fiery sunset. Dapple was also adorned with the miter,
+which proudly crowned the beast's head.
+
+[Illustration: "WITH EACH LASH HE GAVE OUT THE MOST HEARTRENDING
+CRIES."--_Page 333_]
+
+When Don Quixote saw his old friends, he dismounted and embraced them;
+and all the little boys in town came running to see the sight of
+Dapple and the returning revivers of knight-errantry. They called out
+to their playmates: "Come here, fellows, and see how Sancho Panza's
+donkey is rigged out; and take a look at Don Quixote's horse: he is
+leaner than ever!"
+
+As they walked through the village, it was a whole parade that
+followed them; and at Don Quixote's house they were received by the
+niece and the housekeeper, who had already heard of the return.
+
+Teresa Panza, too, had been given the news, but she was sorely
+disappointed when she ran out with her two dirty children to welcome
+the returning Governor. She scolded him soundly for coming home
+dressed like a vagabond. But Sancho told her to put a clamp on her
+tongue, for he did bring her money, at any rate, he said. Then his
+daughter fell on his neck and kissed him, and in the next instant the
+whole family had dragged him inside their little cottage.
+
+Don Quixote shut himself in with the curate and the bachelor, as soon
+as he had entered his house, and related to them the sad story of his
+defeat, and the promise he had made to the Knight of the White Moon;
+and then he broached his new idea, that of turning shepherd. He told
+his friends he had chosen new names for them, for he hoped that they
+would share his new life with him; and they at once praised his scheme
+and promised that as shepherds they would accompany him in his pursuit
+of happiness. Samson added that he would be an especially valuable
+member of the pastoral colony, for he knew how to write poetry, and
+would devote his time to singing the praises of their simple life. Of
+course, there must be shepherdesses, too, Don Quixote ruled, and they
+could be represented by such modest and virtuous women as Dulcinea and
+Teresa Panza.
+
+When they had conversed in this pleasant manner for some time, the curate
+and the bachelor left, begging Don Quixote to take good care of himself
+and to eat plentifully. As soon as they had departed, the niece and the
+housekeeper, who had overheard the three men, entered the late knight's
+room and begged him not to turn shepherd saying that his health was not
+such as to allow him to dwell in the open in the damp night air; sooner
+or later he would succumb, they said, and take ill and die. They were
+both agreed that the foolishness of knight-errantry was much better than
+this craze. They entreated him to remain at home, to go to confession
+often, and to indulge in doing good deeds and being kind to the poor,
+instead. But Don Quixote would have none of their advice. He told them he
+knew where his duty lay. Then he implored them to put him to bed, saying
+that they ought to know he had always their interest at heart, no matter
+what happened.
+
+The two women began to weep, and then they helped Don Quixote to bed,
+and there they did all they could to make him comfortable, and gave
+him something to eat.
+
+
+
+
+CHAPTER LXXIV
+
+OF HOW DON QUIXOTE FELL SICK, AND OF THE WILL HE MADE; AND
+HOW HE DIED
+
+
+The following day Don Quixote did not rise from his bed, and he was
+taken with a fever which kept him in bed for six days. All this time
+his faithful Sancho remained at his bedside; and his friends, the
+curate, the barber and the bachelor, visited him frequently. They all
+did what they could, for they seemed to sense that the sickness was
+brought on by the sad thought of his having been forced to give up his
+great hope of reviving knight-errantry.
+
+When the doctor was sent for, he said frankly that it was time for Don
+Quixote to turn his thoughts to his soul; and when the niece and the
+devoted housekeeper heard this, they began to weep bitterly. The
+physician was of the same opinion as the curate and Don Quixote's
+other friends: that melancholy and unhappiness were the cause of the
+present state of his health.
+
+Soon Don Quixote asked to be left alone, and then he fell into a long
+sleep, which lasted over six hours. It provoked the anxiety of the two
+women, who were afraid he would never wake up again. At last he
+awoke, and as he opened his eyes he exclaimed in a voice of exaltation
+and joy: "Blessed be the Lord Almighty, 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!"
+
+The niece was struck by the unusual saneness of these words. She asked
+Don Quixote gently what he meant, and what sins of men he was speaking
+of. He replied in a voice full of calmness and serenity that God had
+just freed his reason, for he realized now how ignorance in believing
+in the absurdities of the books of chivalry had distorted his mind and
+vision so sadly. He regretted, he said, that he saw the light so late
+in life that there was no time for him to show his repentance by
+reading other books, which might have helped his soul. Then he begged
+his niece to send for the curate, the bachelor Carrasco, and the
+barber, as he wished to confess his sins and make his will before he
+departed from this earth.
+
+The moment the three friends stepped over the threshold to his
+chamber, he called out happily: "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 the Good." And he went on to say how
+he now loathed all books of chivalry which had brought him to the
+state he was in, and how happy he was in the thought that God had made
+him see his folly. The three men could only think that this was some
+new craze of their friend's and tried to persuade him not to talk
+thus, now that they had just got news of his peerless Dulcinea and
+were all of them about to become shepherds in order to keep him
+company; and they begged him to be rational and talk no more nonsense.
+But soon they realized that Don Quixote was not jesting, for he begged
+them to send for a notary, and while the bachelor went to fetch him,
+the barber went to soothe the women; and the curate alone remained
+with Don Quixote to confess him.
+
+When the good curate came out after the confession, the women gathered
+about him and when he told them that Don Quixote was indeed dying,
+they broke into sobs, for they loved him genuinely and dearly. The
+notary then came, and Don Quixote made his will. The first person he
+thought of was his faithful and beloved companion, Sancho Panza, whose
+simplicity and affection he rewarded by leaving him all the money of
+his own that was now in Sancho's possession. Had he had a kingdom to
+give him, he said, it would scarcely have been sufficient reward for
+all that Sancho had done for him. Then turning to Sancho, who stood at
+his bedside with tears in his eyes, he said to him: "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."
+
+"Ah," said Sancho, in a voice that was choked with tears, "do not die,
+master, but take my advice and live many years; for the foolishest
+thing a man can do in this life is to let himself die without rhyme or
+reason, without anybody killing him, or any hands but melancholy's
+making an end of him. Come, do not be lazy, but get up from your bed
+and let us take to the fields in a shepherd's trim as we agreed!
+Perhaps behind some bush we shall find the Lady Dulcinea disenchanted,
+as fine as fine can be. If it be that you are dying of vexation at
+having been vanquished, lay the blame on me, and say you were thrown
+because I girthed Rocinante badly."
+
+But although Samson Carrasco tried to persuade the dying knight that
+Sancho had reasoned rightly, they at last came to the conclusion that
+Don Quixote really was in his right senses, and that God had worked a
+miracle.
+
+They now let the notary proceed and one of the stipulations in the
+will was that if his niece, Antonia Quixana, ever married a man who
+had read books of chivalry, she should by so doing forfeit all that he
+had left to her, and instead it would go to charity. Another clause
+contained a request to the executors to offer his humble apologies to
+the author of the Second Part of "The Achievements of Don Quixote of
+La Mancha" for his having committed so many absurdities that had been
+a provocation to the author to write this book.
+
+When he had dictated the last words of his will, a sudden faintness
+came over Don Quixote, and for three days after that he was in a state
+between life and death. At last the end came, and he passed away so
+calmly that the notary felt compelled to confess that he never had
+read of any knight errant in the whole wide world who had breathed his
+last breath so peacefully.
+
+The bachelor, Samson Carrasco, wrote an epitaph for his tomb; and
+there is written on a tombstone in a little village of La Mancha the
+praise that those who knew and loved the valiant and doughty, yet
+gentle Don Quixote of La Mancha felt in their hearts for him, whose
+last wish was that he might die as Alonso Quixano the Good.
+
+
+THE END
+
+
+
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+
+Transcribers' note:
+
+The Title Page of this book credits Arvid Paulson and Clayton Edwards
+as being the authors of this work. The original Don Quixote of The
+Mancha was written, in Spanish, by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra around
+1605. It has been translated into many languages and editions. This
+book is based on Cervantes' story. The catalogue of the Library of
+Congress lists Cervantes as the author of this book, and Paulson and
+Edwards are included as "related names."
+
+Variations in spelling, such as grey/gray or pretence/pretense have
+been left as they appear in the original book.
+
+Some items that appear to be typographic errors have been changed
+as follows.
+
+Page 28 Corrected Neverthelesss to remove extra "s".
+
+Page 63 Corrected imcomparable to incomparable.
+
+Page 130 Corrected hilarously to hilariously.
+
+Page 231 Corrected sacrilegeous to sacrilegious in the passage that
+read "When the confessor heard the sacrilegeous conversation".
+
+Page 237 Corrected Dono to Dona in the passage that read "and told
+her of the incident with Dono Rodriguez".
+
+Page 246 Corrected expresseed to expressed.
+
+Page 257 Deleted superfluous "to" in the passage that read "he
+confided to to his master the resemblance in voice and appearance".
+
+Chapter LIII Page 277 "and lifted him up from his vertical position."
+has been left as it appears in the book, although the intent would
+appear to be "horizontal" rather than "vertical".
+
+Chapter LXII Page 306 In the passage that reads "After having acted in
+the most mysterious manner, and having carefully ascertained that all
+the doors to the room were shut and no one listening, Don Quixote
+swore the knight to secrecy." Don Quixote has been changed to Antonio
+as this appears to be a typographic error as Don Quixote is the knight
+in question.
+
+Page 309 Changed lead to led in the passage that reads "through a tube
+that lead from the inside of the head".
+
+Page 317 Corrected Stubborness to Stubbornness in the passage that
+read "but Sancho was unflinching in his stubborness and insisted".
+
+Page 328 Corrected to affliction in the passage that reads "in time be
+cured of his strange affiction".
+
+
+
+
+Changes Have Been Made to Table of Contents As Follows.
+
+
+Volume I
+
+
+CHAPTER XXXII-XXXIV
+
+Which Treats of What Befell All Don Quixote's Party at the Inn
+
+The table of contents read "at the End". It has been amended to "... at
+the Inn" to match the chapter heading
+
+
+Volume II
+
+
+CHAPTER XII
+
+Of the Strange Adventure Which Befell the
+Valiant Don Quixote with the Bold Knight of the Grove
+
+The table of contents read "of the Mirrors" It has been amended to
+"of the Grove" to match this and the next chapter heading and sense
+of the story line.
+
+
+CHAPTER XLIV
+
+How Sancho Panza Was Conducted to His Government; and of
+the Strange Adventure That Befell Don Quixote in the Castle
+
+"Ad" in adventure was missing from the table of contents which read
+"Strange Venture". It has been amended to match the chapter heading.
+
+
+CHAPTER L
+
+Wherein Is Set Forth How Governor Sancho Panza's Wife Received a
+Message and a Gift from the Duchess; and also What Befell the Page Who
+Carried the Letter to Teresa Panza
+
+The table of contents went on to add "Sancho Panza's Wife" to the end
+of the above listing. This has been removed to agree with the chapter
+heading.
+
+
+CHAPTERS LVI-LVII
+
+Which Treats of How Don Quixote Again Felt the Calling of
+Knight-errantry and How He Took Leave of the Duke, and of What
+Followed with the Witty and Impudent Altisidora, One of the Duchess'
+Damsels
+
+Deleted "s" from "callings" in contents listing
+
+In the html version, capitalisation of the Table of Contents has been
+modified to agree with each applicable chapter heading.
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