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diff --git a/5908.txt b/5908.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0e3f268 --- /dev/null +++ b/5908.txt @@ -0,0 +1,997 @@ +The Project Gutenberg EBook of The History of Don Quixote, Vol. I., Part 6. +by Miguel de Cervantes + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: The History of Don Quixote, Vol. I., Part 6. + +Author: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra + +Release Date: July 18, 2004 [EBook #5908] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DON QUIXOTE, PART 6. *** + + + + +Produced by David Widger + + + + + + DON QUIXOTE + + by Miguel de Cervantes + + Translated by John Ormsby + + + Volume I. + + Part 6. + + + +CHAPTER XVI. + +OF WHAT HAPPENED TO THE INGENIOUS GENTLEMAN IN THE INN WHICH HE TOOK TO +BE A CASTLE + + +The innkeeper, seeing Don Quixote slung across the ass, asked Sancho what +was amiss with him. Sancho answered that it was nothing, only that he had +fallen down from a rock and had his ribs a little bruised. The innkeeper +had a wife whose disposition was not such as those of her calling +commonly have, for she was by nature kind-hearted and felt for the +sufferings of her neighbours, so she at once set about tending Don +Quixote, and made her young daughter, a very comely girl, help her in +taking care of her guest. There was besides in the inn, as servant, an +Asturian lass with a broad face, flat poll, and snub nose, blind of one +eye and not very sound in the other. The elegance of her shape, to be +sure, made up for all her defects; she did not measure seven palms from +head to foot, and her shoulders, which overweighted her somewhat, made +her contemplate the ground more than she liked. This graceful lass, then, +helped the young girl, and the two made up a very bad bed for Don Quixote +in a garret that showed evident signs of having formerly served for many +years as a straw-loft, in which there was also quartered a carrier whose +bed was placed a little beyond our Don Quixote's, and, though only made +of the pack-saddles and cloths of his mules, had much the advantage of +it, as Don Quixote's consisted simply of four rough boards on two not +very even trestles, a mattress, that for thinness might have passed for a +quilt, full of pellets which, were they not seen through the rents to be +wool, would to the touch have seemed pebbles in hardness, two sheets made +of buckler leather, and a coverlet the threads of which anyone that chose +might have counted without missing one in the reckoning. + +On this accursed bed Don Quixote stretched himself, and the hostess and +her daughter soon covered him with plasters from top to toe, while +Maritornes--for that was the name of the Asturian--held the light for +them, and while plastering him, the hostess, observing how full of wheals +Don Quixote was in some places, remarked that this had more the look of +blows than of a fall. + +It was not blows, Sancho said, but that the rock had many points and +projections, and that each of them had left its mark. "Pray, senora," he +added, "manage to save some tow, as there will be no want of some one to +use it, for my loins too are rather sore." + +"Then you must have fallen too," said the hostess. + +"I did not fall," said Sancho Panza, "but from the shock I got at seeing +my master fall, my body aches so that I feel as if I had had a thousand +thwacks." + +"That may well be," said the young girl, "for it has many a time happened +to me to dream that I was falling down from a tower and never coming to +the ground, and when I awoke from the dream to find myself as weak and +shaken as if I had really fallen." + +"There is the point, senora," replied Sancho Panza, "that I without +dreaming at all, but being more awake than I am now, find myself with +scarcely less wheals than my master, Don Quixote." + +"How is the gentleman called?" asked Maritornes the Asturian. + +"Don Quixote of La Mancha," answered Sancho Panza, "and he is a +knight-adventurer, and one of the best and stoutest that have been seen +in the world this long time past." + +"What is a knight-adventurer?" said the lass. + +"Are you so new in the world as not to know?" answered Sancho Panza. +"Well, then, you must know, sister, that a knight-adventurer is a thing +that in two words is seen drubbed and emperor, that is to-day the most +miserable and needy being in the world, and to-morrow will have two or +three crowns of kingdoms to give his squire." + +"Then how is it," said the hostess, "that belonging to so good a master +as this, you have not, to judge by appearances, even so much as a +county?" + +"It is too soon yet," answered Sancho, "for we have only been a month +going in quest of adventures, and so far we have met with nothing that +can be called one, for it will happen that when one thing is looked for +another thing is found; however, if my master Don Quixote gets well of +this wound, or fall, and I am left none the worse of it, I would not +change my hopes for the best title in Spain." + +To all this conversation Don Quixote was listening very attentively, and +sitting up in bed as well as he could, and taking the hostess by the hand +he said to her, "Believe me, fair lady, you may call yourself fortunate +in having in this castle of yours sheltered my person, which is such that +if I do not myself praise it, it is because of what is commonly said, +that self-praise debaseth; but my squire will inform you who I am. I only +tell you that I shall preserve for ever inscribed on my memory the +service you have rendered me in order to tender you my gratitude while +life shall last me; and would to Heaven love held me not so enthralled +and subject to its laws and to the eyes of that fair ingrate whom I name +between my teeth, but that those of this lovely damsel might be the +masters of my liberty." + +The hostess, her daughter, and the worthy Maritornes listened in +bewilderment to the words of the knight-errant; for they understood about +as much of them as if he had been talking Greek, though they could +perceive they were all meant for expressions of good-will and +blandishments; and not being accustomed to this kind of language, they +stared at him and wondered to themselves, for he seemed to them a man of +a different sort from those they were used to, and thanking him in +pothouse phrase for his civility they left him, while the Asturian gave +her attention to Sancho, who needed it no less than his master. + +The carrier had made an arrangement with her for recreation that night, +and she had given him her word that when the guests were quiet and the +family asleep she would come in search of him and meet his wishes +unreservedly. And it is said of this good lass that she never made +promises of the kind without fulfilling them, even though she made them +in a forest and without any witness present, for she plumed herself +greatly on being a lady and held it no disgrace to be in such an +employment as servant in an inn, because, she said, misfortunes and +ill-luck had brought her to that position. The hard, narrow, wretched, +rickety bed of Don Quixote stood first in the middle of this star-lit +stable, and close beside it Sancho made his, which merely consisted of a +rush mat and a blanket that looked as if it was of threadbare canvas +rather than of wool. Next to these two beds was that of the carrier, made +up, as has been said, of the pack-saddles and all the trappings of the +two best mules he had, though there were twelve of them, sleek, plump, +and in prime condition, for he was one of the rich carriers of Arevalo, +according to the author of this history, who particularly mentions this +carrier because he knew him very well, and they even say was in some +degree a relation of his; besides which Cide Hamete Benengeli was a +historian of great research and accuracy in all things, as is very +evident since he would not pass over in silence those that have been +already mentioned, however trifling and insignificant they might be, an +example that might be followed by those grave historians who relate +transactions so curtly and briefly that we hardly get a taste of them, +all the substance of the work being left in the inkstand from +carelessness, perverseness, or ignorance. A thousand blessings on the +author of "Tablante de Ricamonte" and that of the other book in which the +deeds of the Conde Tomillas are recounted; with what minuteness they +describe everything! + +To proceed, then: after having paid a visit to his team and given them +their second feed, the carrier stretched himself on his pack-saddles and +lay waiting for his conscientious Maritornes. Sancho was by this time +plastered and had lain down, and though he strove to sleep the pain of +his ribs would not let him, while Don Quixote with the pain of his had +his eyes as wide open as a hare's. + +The inn was all in silence, and in the whole of it there was no light +except that given by a lantern that hung burning in the middle of the +gateway. This strange stillness, and the thoughts, always present to our +knight's mind, of the incidents described at every turn in the books that +were the cause of his misfortune, conjured up to his imagination as +extraordinary a delusion as can well be conceived, which was that he +fancied himself to have reached a famous castle (for, as has been said, +all the inns he lodged in were castles to his eyes), and that the +daughter of the innkeeper was daughter of the lord of the castle, and +that she, won by his high-bred bearing, had fallen in love with him, and +had promised to come to his bed for a while that night without the +knowledge of her parents; and holding all this fantasy that he had +constructed as solid fact, he began to feel uneasy and to consider the +perilous risk which his virtue was about to encounter, and he resolved in +his heart to commit no treason to his lady Dulcinea del Toboso, even +though the queen Guinevere herself and the dame Quintanona should present +themselves before him. + +While he was taken up with these vagaries, then, the time and the +hour--an unlucky one for him--arrived for the Asturian to come, who in +her smock, with bare feet and her hair gathered into a fustian coif, with +noiseless and cautious steps entered the chamber where the three were +quartered, in quest of the carrier; but scarcely had she gained the door +when Don Quixote perceived her, and sitting up in his bed in spite of his +plasters and the pain of his ribs, he stretched out his arms to receive +his beauteous damsel. The Asturian, who went all doubled up and in +silence with her hands before her feeling for her lover, encountered the +arms of Don Quixote, who grasped her tightly by the wrist, and drawing +her towards him, while she dared not utter a word, made her sit down on +the bed. He then felt her smock, and although it was of sackcloth it +appeared to him to be of the finest and softest silk: on her wrists she +wore some glass beads, but to him they had the sheen of precious Orient +pearls: her hair, which in some measure resembled a horse's mane, he +rated as threads of the brightest gold of Araby, whose refulgence dimmed +the sun himself: her breath, which no doubt smelt of yesterday's stale +salad, seemed to him to diffuse a sweet aromatic fragrance from her +mouth; and, in short, he drew her portrait in his imagination with the +same features and in the same style as that which he had seen in his +books of the other princesses who, smitten by love, came with all the +adornments that are here set down, to see the sorely wounded knight; and +so great was the poor gentleman's blindness that neither touch, nor +smell, nor anything else about the good lass that would have made any but +a carrier vomit, were enough to undeceive him; on the contrary, he was +persuaded he had the goddess of beauty in his arms, and holding her +firmly in his grasp he went on to say in low, tender voice: + +"Would that found myself, lovely and exalted lady, in a position to repay +such a favour as that which you, by the sight of your great beauty, have +granted me; but fortune, which is never weary of persecuting the good, +has chosen to place me upon this bed, where I lie so bruised and broken +that though my inclination would gladly comply with yours it is +impossible; besides, to this impossibility another yet greater is to be +added, which is the faith that I have pledged to the peerless Dulcinea +del Toboso, sole lady of my most secret thoughts; and were it not that +this stood in the way I should not be so insensible a knight as to miss +the happy opportunity which your great goodness has offered me." + +Maritornes was fretting and sweating at finding herself held so fast by +Don Quixote, and not understanding or heeding the words he addressed to +her, she strove without speaking to free herself. The worthy carrier, +whose unholy thoughts kept him awake, was aware of his doxy the moment +she entered the door, and was listening attentively to all Don Quixote +said; and jealous that the Asturian should have broken her word with him +for another, drew nearer to Don Quixote's bed and stood still to see what +would come of this talk which he could not understand; but when he +perceived the wench struggling to get free and Don Quixote striving to +hold her, not relishing the joke he raised his arm and delivered such a +terrible cuff on the lank jaws of the amorous knight that he bathed all +his mouth in blood, and not content with this he mounted on his ribs and +with his feet tramped all over them at a pace rather smarter than a trot. +The bed which was somewhat crazy and not very firm on its feet, unable to +support the additional weight of the carrier, came to the ground, and at +the mighty crash of this the innkeeper awoke and at once concluded that +it must be some brawl of Maritornes', because after calling loudly to her +he got no answer. With this suspicion he got up, and lighting a lamp +hastened to the quarter where he had heard the disturbance. The wench, +seeing that her master was coming and knowing that his temper was +terrible, frightened and panic-stricken made for the bed of Sancho Panza, +who still slept, and crouching upon it made a ball of herself. + +The innkeeper came in exclaiming, "Where art thou, strumpet? Of course +this is some of thy work." At this Sancho awoke, and feeling this mass +almost on top of him fancied he had the nightmare and began to distribute +fisticuffs all round, of which a certain share fell upon Maritornes, who, +irritated by the pain and flinging modesty aside, paid back so many in +return to Sancho that she woke him up in spite of himself. He then, +finding himself so handled, by whom he knew not, raising himself up as +well as he could, grappled with Maritornes, and he and she between them +began the bitterest and drollest scrimmage in the world. The carrier, +however, perceiving by the light of the innkeeper candle how it fared +with his ladylove, quitting Don Quixote, ran to bring her the help she +needed; and the innkeeper did the same but with a different intention, +for his was to chastise the lass, as he believed that beyond a doubt she +alone was the cause of all the harmony. And so, as the saying is, cat to +rat, rat to rope, rope to stick, the carrier pounded Sancho, Sancho the +lass, she him, and the innkeeper her, and all worked away so briskly that +they did not give themselves a moment's rest; and the best of it was that +the innkeeper's lamp went out, and as they were left in the dark they all +laid on one upon the other in a mass so unmercifully that there was not a +sound spot left where a hand could light. + +It so happened that there was lodging that night in the inn a caudrillero +of what they call the Old Holy Brotherhood of Toledo, who, also hearing +the extraordinary noise of the conflict, seized his staff and the tin +case with his warrants, and made his way in the dark into the room +crying: "Hold! in the name of the Jurisdiction! Hold! in the name of the +Holy Brotherhood!" + +The first that he came upon was the pummelled Don Quixote, who lay +stretched senseless on his back upon his broken-down bed, and, his hand +falling on the beard as he felt about, he continued to cry, "Help for the +Jurisdiction!" but perceiving that he whom he had laid hold of did not +move or stir, he concluded that he was dead and that those in the room +were his murderers, and with this suspicion he raised his voice still +higher, calling out, "Shut the inn gate; see that no one goes out; they +have killed a man here!" This cry startled them all, and each dropped the +contest at the point at which the voice reached him. The innkeeper +retreated to his room, the carrier to his pack-saddles, the lass to her +crib; the unlucky Don Quixote and Sancho alone were unable to move from +where they were. The cuadrillero on this let go Don Quixote's beard, and +went out to look for a light to search for and apprehend the culprits; +but not finding one, as the innkeeper had purposely extinguished the +lantern on retreating to his room, he was compelled to have recourse to +the hearth, where after much time and trouble he lit another lamp. + + + + +CHAPTER XVII. + +IN WHICH ARE CONTAINED THE INNUMERABLE TROUBLES WHICH THE BRAVE DON +QUIXOTE AND HIS GOOD SQUIRE SANCHO PANZA ENDURED IN THE INN, WHICH TO HIS +MISFORTUNE HE TOOK TO BE A CASTLE + +By this time Don Quixote had recovered from his swoon; and in the same +tone of voice in which he had called to his squire the day before when he +lay stretched "in the vale of the stakes," he began calling to him now, +"Sancho, my friend, art thou asleep? sleepest thou, friend Sancho?" + +"How can I sleep, curses on it!" returned Sancho discontentedly and +bitterly, "when it is plain that all the devils have been at me this +night?" + +"Thou mayest well believe that," answered Don Quixote, "because, either I +know little, or this castle is enchanted, for thou must know-but this +that I am now about to tell thee thou must swear to keep secret until +after my death." + +"I swear it," answered Sancho. + +"I say so," continued Don Quixote, "because I hate taking away anyone's +good name." + +"I say," replied Sancho, "that I swear to hold my tongue about it till +the end of your worship's days, and God grant I may be able to let it out +tomorrow." + +"Do I do thee such injuries, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "that thou +wouldst see me dead so soon?" + +"It is not for that," replied Sancho, "but because I hate keeping things +long, and I don't want them to grow rotten with me from over-keeping." + +"At any rate," said Don Quixote, "I have more confidence in thy affection +and good nature; and so I would have thee know that this night there +befell me one of the strangest adventures that I could describe, and to +relate it to thee briefly thou must know that a little while ago the +daughter of the lord of this castle came to me, and that she is the most +elegant and beautiful damsel that could be found in the wide world. What +I could tell thee of the charms of her person! of her lively wit! of +other secret matters which, to preserve the fealty I owe to my lady +Dulcinea del Toboso, I shall pass over unnoticed and in silence! I will +only tell thee that, either fate being envious of so great a boon placed +in my hands by good fortune, or perhaps (and this is more probable) this +castle being, as I have already said, enchanted, at the time when I was +engaged in the sweetest and most amorous discourse with her, there came, +without my seeing or knowing whence it came, a hand attached to some arm +of some huge giant, that planted such a cuff on my jaws that I have them +all bathed in blood, and then pummelled me in such a way that I am in a +worse plight than yesterday when the carriers, on account of Rocinante's +misbehaviour, inflicted on us the injury thou knowest of; whence +conjecture that there must be some enchanted Moor guarding the treasure +of this damsel's beauty, and that it is not for me." + +"Not for me either," said Sancho, "for more than four hundred Moors have +so thrashed me that the drubbing of the stakes was cakes and fancy-bread +to it. But tell me, senor, what do you call this excellent and rare +adventure that has left us as we are left now? Though your worship was +not so badly off, having in your arms that incomparable beauty you spoke +of; but I, what did I have, except the heaviest whacks I think I had in +all my life? Unlucky me and the mother that bore me! for I am not a +knight-errant and never expect to be one, and of all the mishaps, the +greater part falls to my share." + +"Then thou hast been thrashed too?" said Don Quixote. + +"Didn't I say so? worse luck to my line!" said Sancho. + +"Be not distressed, friend," said Don Quixote, "for I will now make the +precious balsam with which we shall cure ourselves in the twinkling of an +eye." + +By this time the cuadrillero had succeeded in lighting the lamp, and came +in to see the man that he thought had been killed; and as Sancho caught +sight of him at the door, seeing him coming in his shirt, with a cloth on +his head, and a lamp in his hand, and a very forbidding countenance, he +said to his master, "Senor, can it be that this is the enchanted Moor +coming back to give us more castigation if there be anything still left +in the ink-bottle?" + +"It cannot be the Moor," answered Don Quixote, "for those under +enchantment do not let themselves be seen by anyone." + +"If they don't let themselves be seen, they let themselves be felt," said +Sancho; "if not, let my shoulders speak to the point." + +"Mine could speak too," said Don Quixote, "but that is not a sufficient +reason for believing that what we see is the enchanted Moor." + +The officer came up, and finding them engaged in such a peaceful +conversation, stood amazed; though Don Quixote, to be sure, still lay on +his back unable to move from pure pummelling and plasters. The officer +turned to him and said, "Well, how goes it, good man?" + +"I would speak more politely if I were you," replied Don Quixote; "is it +the way of this country to address knights-errant in that style, you +booby?" + +The cuadrillero finding himself so disrespectfully treated by such a +sorry-looking individual, lost his temper, and raising the lamp full of +oil, smote Don Quixote such a blow with it on the head that he gave him a +badly broken pate; then, all being in darkness, he went out, and Sancho +Panza said, "That is certainly the enchanted Moor, Senor, and he keeps +the treasure for others, and for us only the cuffs and lamp-whacks." + +"That is the truth," answered Don Quixote, "and there is no use in +troubling oneself about these matters of enchantment or being angry or +vexed at them, for as they are invisible and visionary we shall find no +one on whom to avenge ourselves, do what we may; rise, Sancho, if thou +canst, and call the alcaide of this fortress, and get him to give me a +little oil, wine, salt, and rosemary to make the salutiferous balsam, for +indeed I believe I have great need of it now, because I am losing much +blood from the wound that phantom gave me." + +Sancho got up with pain enough in his bones, and went after the innkeeper +in the dark, and meeting the officer, who was looking to see what had +become of his enemy, he said to him, "Senor, whoever you are, do us the +favour and kindness to give us a little rosemary, oil, salt, and wine, +for it is wanted to cure one of the best knights-errant on earth, who +lies on yonder bed wounded by the hands of the enchanted Moor that is in +this inn." + +When the officer heard him talk in this way, he took him for a man out of +his senses, and as day was now beginning to break, he opened the inn +gate, and calling the host, he told him what this good man wanted. The +host furnished him with what he required, and Sancho brought it to Don +Quixote, who, with his hand to his head, was bewailing the pain of the +blow of the lamp, which had done him no more harm than raising a couple +of rather large lumps, and what he fancied blood was only the sweat that +flowed from him in his sufferings during the late storm. To be brief, he +took the materials, of which he made a compound, mixing them all and +boiling them a good while until it seemed to him they had come to +perfection. He then asked for some vial to pour it into, and as there was +not one in the inn, he decided on putting it into a tin oil-bottle or +flask of which the host made him a free gift; and over the flask he +repeated more than eighty paternosters and as many more ave-marias, +salves, and credos, accompanying each word with a cross by way of +benediction, at all which there were present Sancho, the innkeeper, and +the cuadrillero; for the carrier was now peacefully engaged in attending +to the comfort of his mules. + +This being accomplished, he felt anxious to make trial himself, on the +spot, of the virtue of this precious balsam, as he considered it, and so +he drank near a quart of what could not be put into the flask and +remained in the pigskin in which it had been boiled; but scarcely had he +done drinking when he began to vomit in such a way that nothing was left +in his stomach, and with the pangs and spasms of vomiting he broke into a +profuse sweat, on account of which he bade them cover him up and leave +him alone. They did so, and he lay sleeping more than three hours, at the +end of which he awoke and felt very great bodily relief and so much ease +from his bruises that he thought himself quite cured, and verily believed +he had hit upon the balsam of Fierabras; and that with this remedy he +might thenceforward, without any fear, face any kind of destruction, +battle, or combat, however perilous it might be. + +Sancho Panza, who also regarded the amendment of his master as +miraculous, begged him to give him what was left in the pigskin, which +was no small quantity. Don Quixote consented, and he, taking it with both +hands, in good faith and with a better will, gulped down and drained off +very little less than his master. But the fact is, that the stomach of +poor Sancho was of necessity not so delicate as that of his master, and +so, before vomiting, he was seized with such gripings and retchings, and +such sweats and faintness, that verily and truly be believed his last +hour had come, and finding himself so racked and tormented he cursed the +balsam and the thief that had given it to him. + +Don Quixote seeing him in this state said, "It is my belief, Sancho, that +this mischief comes of thy not being dubbed a knight, for I am persuaded +this liquor cannot be good for those who are not so." + +"If your worship knew that," returned Sancho--"woe betide me and all my +kindred!--why did you let me taste it?" + +At this moment the draught took effect, and the poor squire began to +discharge both ways at such a rate that the rush mat on which he had +thrown himself and the canvas blanket he had covering him were fit for +nothing afterwards. He sweated and perspired with such paroxysms and +convulsions that not only he himself but all present thought his end had +come. This tempest and tribulation lasted about two hours, at the end of +which he was left, not like his master, but so weak and exhausted that he +could not stand. Don Quixote, however, who, as has been said, felt +himself relieved and well, was eager to take his departure at once in +quest of adventures, as it seemed to him that all the time he loitered +there was a fraud upon the world and those in it who stood in need of his +help and protection, all the more when he had the security and confidence +his balsam afforded him; and so, urged by this impulse, he saddled +Rocinante himself and put the pack-saddle on his squire's beast, whom +likewise he helped to dress and mount the ass; after which he mounted his +horse and turning to a corner of the inn he laid hold of a pike that +stood there, to serve him by way of a lance. All that were in the inn, +who were more than twenty persons, stood watching him; the innkeeper's +daughter was likewise observing him, and he too never took his eyes off +her, and from time to time fetched a sigh that he seemed to pluck up from +the depths of his bowels; but they all thought it must be from the pain +he felt in his ribs; at any rate they who had seen him plastered the +night before thought so. + +As soon as they were both mounted, at the gate of the inn, he called to +the host and said in a very grave and measured voice, "Many and great are +the favours, Senor Alcaide, that I have received in this castle of yours, +and I remain under the deepest obligation to be grateful to you for them +all the days of my life; if I can repay them in avenging you of any +arrogant foe who may have wronged you, know that my calling is no other +than to aid the weak, to avenge those who suffer wrong, and to chastise +perfidy. Search your memory, and if you find anything of this kind you +need only tell me of it, and I promise you by the order of knighthood +which I have received to procure you satisfaction and reparation to the +utmost of your desire." + +The innkeeper replied to him with equal calmness, "Sir Knight, I do not +want your worship to avenge me of any wrong, because when any is done me +I can take what vengeance seems good to me; the only thing I want is that +you pay me the score that you have run up in the inn last night, as well +for the straw and barley for your two beasts, as for supper and beds." + +"Then this is an inn?" said Don Quixote. + +"And a very respectable one," said the innkeeper. + +"I have been under a mistake all this time," answered Don Quixote, "for +in truth I thought it was a castle, and not a bad one; but since it +appears that it is not a castle but an inn, all that can be done now is +that you should excuse the payment, for I cannot contravene the rule of +knights-errant, of whom I know as a fact (and up to the present I have +read nothing to the contrary) that they never paid for lodging or +anything else in the inn where they might be; for any hospitality that +might be offered them is their due by law and right in return for the +insufferable toil they endure in seeking adventures by night and by day, +in summer and in winter, on foot and on horseback, in hunger and thirst, +cold and heat, exposed to all the inclemencies of heaven and all the +hardships of earth." + +"I have little to do with that," replied the innkeeper; "pay me what you +owe me, and let us have no more talk of chivalry, for all I care about is +to get my money." + +"You are a stupid, scurvy innkeeper," said Don Quixote, and putting spurs +to Rocinante and bringing his pike to the slope he rode out of the inn +before anyone could stop him, and pushed on some distance without looking +to see if his squire was following him. + +The innkeeper when he saw him go without paying him ran to get payment of +Sancho, who said that as his master would not pay neither would he, +because, being as he was squire to a knight-errant, the same rule and +reason held good for him as for his master with regard to not paying +anything in inns and hostelries. At this the innkeeper waxed very wroth, +and threatened if he did not pay to compel him in a way that he would not +like. To which Sancho made answer that by the law of chivalry his master +had received he would not pay a rap, though it cost him his life; for the +excellent and ancient usage of knights-errant was not going to be +violated by him, nor should the squires of such as were yet to come into +the world ever complain of him or reproach him with breaking so just a +privilege. + +The ill-luck of the unfortunate Sancho so ordered it that among the +company in the inn there were four woolcarders from Segovia, three +needle-makers from the Colt of Cordova, and two lodgers from the Fair of +Seville, lively fellows, tender-hearted, fond of a joke, and playful, +who, almost as if instigated and moved by a common impulse, made up to +Sancho and dismounted him from his ass, while one of them went in for the +blanket of the host's bed; but on flinging him into it they looked up, +and seeing that the ceiling was somewhat lower what they required for +their work, they decided upon going out into the yard, which was bounded +by the sky, and there, putting Sancho in the middle of the blanket, they +began to raise him high, making sport with him as they would with a dog +at Shrovetide. + +The cries of the poor blanketed wretch were so loud that they reached the +ears of his master, who, halting to listen attentively, was persuaded +that some new adventure was coming, until he clearly perceived that it +was his squire who uttered them. Wheeling about he came up to the inn +with a laborious gallop, and finding it shut went round it to see if he +could find some way of getting in; but as soon as he came to the wall of +the yard, which was not very high, he discovered the game that was being +played with his squire. He saw him rising and falling in the air with +such grace and nimbleness that, had his rage allowed him, it is my belief +he would have laughed. He tried to climb from his horse on to the top of +the wall, but he was so bruised and battered that he could not even +dismount; and so from the back of his horse he began to utter such +maledictions and objurgations against those who were blanketing Sancho as +it would be impossible to write down accurately: they, however, did not +stay their laughter or their work for this, nor did the flying Sancho +cease his lamentations, mingled now with threats, now with entreaties but +all to little purpose, or none at all, until from pure weariness they +left off. They then brought him his ass, and mounting him on top of it +they put his jacket round him; and the compassionate Maritornes, seeing +him so exhausted, thought fit to refresh him with a jug of water, and +that it might be all the cooler she fetched it from the well. Sancho took +it, and as he was raising it to his mouth he was stopped by the cries of +his master exclaiming, "Sancho, my son, drink not water; drink it not, my +son, for it will kill thee; see, here I have the blessed balsam (and he +held up the flask of liquor), and with drinking two drops of it thou wilt +certainly be restored." + +At these words Sancho turned his eyes asquint, and in a still louder +voice said, "Can it be your worship has forgotten that I am not a knight, +or do you want me to end by vomiting up what bowels I have left after +last night? Keep your liquor in the name of all the devils, and leave me +to myself!" and at one and the same instant he left off talking and began +drinking; but as at the first sup he perceived it was water he did not +care to go on with it, and begged Maritornes to fetch him some wine, +which she did with right good will, and paid for it with her own money; +for indeed they say of her that, though she was in that line of life, +there was some faint and distant resemblance to a Christian about her. +When Sancho had done drinking he dug his heels into his ass, and the gate +of the inn being thrown open he passed out very well pleased at having +paid nothing and carried his point, though it had been at the expense of +his usual sureties, his shoulders. It is true that the innkeeper detained +his alforjas in payment of what was owing to him, but Sancho took his +departure in such a flurry that he never missed them. The innkeeper, as +soon as he saw him off, wanted to bar the gate close, but the blanketers +would not agree to it, for they were fellows who would not have cared two +farthings for Don Quixote, even had he been really one of the +knights-errant of the Round Table. + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The History of Don Quixote, Vol. I., +Part 6., by Miguel de Cervantes + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DON QUIXOTE, PART 6. *** + +***** This file should be named 5908.txt or 5908.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/5/9/0/5908/ + +Produced by David Widger + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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