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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 7. + +Author: Miguel de Cervantes + +Release Date: July 18, 2004 [EBook #5909] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DON QUIXOTE, PART 7 *** + + + + +Produced by David Widger + + + + + +</pre> + + + +<h2>THE HISTORY OF DON QUIXOTE, By Cervantes, Vol. I., Part 7.</h2> + + +<br> +<hr> +<br><br><br><br><br><br> + + + +<center> +<h1>DON QUIXOTE</h1> +<br> +<h2>by Miguel de Cervantes</h2> +<br> +<h3>Translated by John Ormsby</h3> +</center> + +<br><br> + +<center><h3> +Volume I., Part 7. +<br><br> +Chapters 18-22 +</h3></center> + +<br><br> +<center> +<img alt="bookcover.jpg (230K)" src="images/bookcover.jpg" height="842" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/bookcover.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"> +</a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center> +<img alt="spine.jpg (152K)" src="images/spine.jpg" height="842" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/spine.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"> +</a> +<br><br><br><br> + + + +<h3>Ebook Editor's Note</h3> + +<blockquote><blockquote><blockquote><blockquote> +<p>The book cover and spine above and the images which follow were not part of the original Ormsby +translation—they are taken from the 1880 edition of J. W. Clark, illustrated by +Gustave Dore. Clark in his edition states that, "The English text of 'Don Quixote' +adopted in this edition is that of Jarvis, with occasional corrections from Motteaux." +See in the introduction below John Ormsby's critique of +both the Jarvis and Motteaux translations. It has been elected in the present Project Gutenberg edition +to attach the famous engravings of Gustave Dore to the Ormsby translation instead +of the Jarvis/Motteaux. The detail of many of the Dore engravings can be fully appreciated only +by utilizing the "Enlarge" button to expand them to their original dimensions. Ormsby +in his Preface has criticized the fanciful nature of Dore's illustrations; others feel +these woodcuts and steel engravings well match Quixote's dreams. + + D.W.</p> +</blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<br><br><br><br> +<center> +<img alt="p003.jpg (307K)" src="images/p003.jpg" height="813" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/p003.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"> +</a> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<center><h2>CONTENTS</h2></center> + +<pre> + +<a href="#ch18">CHAPTER XVIII</a> +IN WHICH IS RELATED THE DISCOURSE SANCHO PANZA +HELD WITH HIS MASTER, DON QUIXOTE, AND OTHER +ADVENTURES WORTH RELATING + +<a href="#ch19">CHAPTER XIX</a> +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 + +<a href="#ch20">CHAPTER XX</a> +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 + +<a href="#ch21">CHAPTER XXI</a> +WHICH TREATS OF THE EXALTED ADVENTURE AND RICH +PRIZE OF MAMBRINO'S HELMET, TOGETHER WITH OTHER +THINGS THAT HAPPENED TO OUR INVINCIBLE KNIGHT + +<a href="#ch22">CHAPTER XXII</a> +OF THE FREEDOM DON QUIXOTE CONFERRED ON SEVERAL +UNFORTUNATES WHO AGAINST THEIR WILL WERE BEING +CARRIED WHERE THEY HAD NO WISH TO GO + +</pre> + +<br><br> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><h2><a name="ch18"></a>CHAPTER XVIII.</h2></center> +<br> +<center><h3>IN WHICH IS RELATED THE DISCOURSE SANCHO PANZA HELD WITH HIS MASTER, +DON QUIXOTE, AND OTHER ADVENTURES WORTH RELATING +</h3></center> +<br> + +<br> +<br><br><br> +<center><a name="c18a"></a><img alt="c18a.jpg (79K)" src="images/c18a.jpg" height="242" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/c18a.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<p>Sancho reached his master so limp and faint that he could not urge +on his beast. When Don Quixote saw the state he was in he said, "I +have now come to the conclusion, good Sancho, that this castle or +inn is beyond a doubt enchanted, because those who have so atrociously +diverted themselves with thee, what can they be but phantoms or beings +of another world? and I hold this confirmed by having noticed that +when I was by the wall of the yard witnessing the acts of thy sad +tragedy, it was out of my power to mount upon it, nor could I even +dismount from Rocinante, because they no doubt had me enchanted; for I +swear to thee by the faith of what I am that if I had been able to +climb up or dismount, I would have avenged thee in such a way that +those braggart thieves would have remembered their freak for ever, +even though in so doing I knew that I contravened the laws of +chivalry, which, as I have often told thee, do not permit a knight +to lay hands on him who is not one, save in case of urgent and great +necessity in defence of his own life and person."</p> + +<p>"I would have avenged myself too if I could," said Sancho, +"whether I had been dubbed knight or not, but I could not; though +for my part I am persuaded those who amused themselves with me were +not phantoms or enchanted men, as your worship says, but men of +flesh and bone like ourselves; and they all had their names, for I +heard them name them when they were tossing me, and one was called +Pedro Martinez, and another Tenorio Hernandez, and the innkeeper, I +heard, was called Juan Palomeque the Left-handed; so that, senor, your +not being able to leap over the wall of the yard or dismount from your +horse came of something else besides enchantments; and what I make out +clearly from all this is, that these adventures we go seeking will +in the end lead us into such misadventures that we shall not know +which is our right foot; and that the best and wisest thing, according +to my small wits, would be for us to return home, now that it is +harvest-time, and attend to our business, and give over wandering from +Zeca to Mecca and from pail to bucket, as the saying is."</p> + +<p>"How little thou knowest about chivalry, Sancho," replied Don +Quixote; "hold thy peace and have patience; the day will come when +thou shalt see with thine own eyes what an honourable thing it is to +wander in the pursuit of this calling; nay, tell me, what greater +pleasure can there be in the world, or what delight can equal that +of winning a battle, and triumphing over one's enemy? None, beyond all +doubt."</p> + +<p>"Very likely," answered Sancho, "though I do not know it; all I know +is that since we have been knights-errant, or since your worship has +been one (for I have no right to reckon myself one of so honourable +a number) we have never won any battle except the one with the +Biscayan, and even out of that your worship came with half an ear +and half a helmet the less; and from that till now it has been all +cudgellings and more cudgellings, cuffs and more cuffs, I getting +the blanketing over and above, and falling in with enchanted persons +on whom I cannot avenge myself so as to know what the delight, as your +worship calls it, of conquering an enemy is like."</p> + +<p>"That is what vexes me, and what ought to vex thee, Sancho," replied +Don Quixote; "but henceforward I will endeavour to have at hand some +sword made by such craft that no kind of enchantments can take +effect upon him who carries it, and it is even possible that fortune +may procure for me that which belonged to Amadis when he was called +'The Knight of the Burning Sword,' which was one of the best swords +that ever knight in the world possessed, for, besides having the +said virtue, it cut like a razor, and there was no armour, however +strong and enchanted it might be, that could resist it."</p> + +<p>"Such is my luck," said Sancho, "that even if that happened and your +worship found some such sword, it would, like the balsam, turn out +serviceable and good for dubbed knights only, and as for the +squires, they might sup sorrow."</p> + +<p>"Fear not that, Sancho," said Don Quixote: "Heaven will deal +better by thee."</p> + +<p>Thus talking, Don Quixote and his squire were going along, when, +on the road they were following, Don Quixote perceived approaching +them a large and thick cloud of dust, on seeing which he turned to +Sancho and said:</p> + +<p>"This is the day, Sancho, on which will be seen the boon my +fortune is reserving for me; this, I say, is the day on which as +much as on any other shall be displayed the might of my arm, and on +which I shall do deeds that shall remain written in the book of fame +for all ages to come. Seest thou that cloud of dust which rises +yonder? Well, then, all that is churned up by a vast army composed +of various and countless nations that comes marching there."</p> + +<p>"According to that there must be two," said Sancho, "for on this +opposite side also there rises just such another cloud of dust."</p> + +<p>Don Quixote turned to look and found that it was true, and rejoicing +exceedingly, he concluded that they were two armies about to engage +and encounter in the midst of that broad plain; for at all times and +seasons his fancy was full of the battles, enchantments, adventures, +crazy feats, loves, and defiances that are recorded in the books of +chivalry, and everything he said, thought, or did had reference to +such things. Now the cloud of dust he had seen was raised by two great +droves of sheep coming along the same road in opposite directions, +which, because of the dust, did not become visible until they drew +near, but Don Quixote asserted so positively that they were armies +that Sancho was led to believe it and say, "Well, and what are we to +do, senor?"</p> + +<br> +<br><br><br> +<center><a name="c17b"></a><img alt="c17b.jpg (339K)" src="images/c17b.jpg" height="814" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/c17b.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<p>"What?" said Don Quixote: "give aid and assistance to the weak and +those who need it; and thou must know, Sancho, that this which comes +opposite to us is conducted and led by the mighty emperor Alifanfaron, +lord of the great isle of Trapobana; this other that marches behind me +is that of his enemy the king of the Garamantas, Pentapolin of the +Bare Arm, for he always goes into battle with his right arm bare."</p> + +<p>"But why are these two lords such enemies?"</p> + +<p>"They are at enmity," replied Don Quixote, "because this Alifanfaron +is a furious pagan and is in love with the daughter of Pentapolin, who +is a very beautiful and moreover gracious lady, and a Christian, and +her father is unwilling to bestow her upon the pagan king unless he +first abandons the religion of his false prophet Mahomet, and adopts +his own."</p> + +<p>"By my beard," said Sancho, "but Pentapolin does quite right, and +I will help him as much as I can."</p> + +<p>"In that thou wilt do what is thy duty, Sancho," said Don Quixote; +"for to engage in battles of this sort it is not requisite to be a +dubbed knight."</p> + +<p>"That I can well understand," answered Sancho; "but where shall we +put this ass where we may be sure to find him after the fray is +over? for I believe it has not been the custom so far to go into +battle on a beast of this kind."</p> + +<p>"That is true," said Don Quixote, "and what you had best do with him +is to leave him to take his chance whether he be lost or not, for +the horses we shall have when we come out victors will be so many that +even Rocinante will run a risk of being changed for another. But +attend to me and observe, for I wish to give thee some account of +the chief knights who accompany these two armies; and that thou mayest +the better see and mark, let us withdraw to that hillock which rises +yonder, whence both armies may be seen."</p> + +<p>They did so, and placed themselves on a rising ground from which the +two droves that Don Quixote made armies of might have been plainly +seen if the clouds of dust they raised had not obscured them and +blinded the sight; nevertheless, seeing in his imagination what he did +not see and what did not exist, he began thus in a loud voice:</p> + +<p>"That knight whom thou seest yonder in yellow armour, who bears upon +his shield a lion crowned crouching at the feet of a damsel, is the +valiant Laurcalco, lord of the Silver Bridge; that one in armour +with flowers of gold, who bears on his shield three crowns argent on +an azure field, is the dreaded Micocolembo, grand duke of Quirocia; +that other of gigantic frame, on his right hand, is the ever dauntless +Brandabarbaran de Boliche, lord of the three Arabias, who for armour +wears that serpent skin, and has for shield a gate which, according to +tradition, is one of those of the temple that Samson brought to the +ground when by his death he revenged himself upon his enemies. But +turn thine eyes to the other side, and thou shalt see in front and +in the van of this other army the ever victorious and never vanquished +Timonel of Carcajona, prince of New Biscay, who comes in armour with +arms quartered azure, vert, white, and yellow, and bears on his shield +a cat or on a field tawny with a motto which says Miau, which is the +beginning of the name of his lady, who according to report is the +peerless Miaulina, daughter of the duke Alfeniquen of the Algarve; the +other, who burdens and presses the loins of that powerful charger +and bears arms white as snow and a shield blank and without any +device, is a novice knight, a Frenchman by birth, Pierres Papin by +name, lord of the baronies of Utrique; that other, who with +iron-shod heels strikes the flanks of that nimble parti-coloured +zebra, and for arms bears azure vair, is the mighty duke of Nerbia, +Espartafilardo del Bosque, who bears for device on his shield an +asparagus plant with a motto in Castilian that says, Rastrea mi +suerte." And so he went on naming a number of knights of one +squadron or the other out of his imagination, and to all he assigned +off-hand their arms, colours, devices, and mottoes, carried away by +the illusions of his unheard-of craze; and without a pause, he +continued, "People of divers nations compose this squadron in front; +here are those that drink of the sweet waters of the famous Xanthus, +those that scour the woody Massilian plains, those that sift the +pure fine gold of Arabia Felix, those that enjoy the famed cool +banks of the crystal Thermodon, those that in many and various ways +divert the streams of the golden Pactolus, the Numidians, faithless in +their promises, the Persians renowned in archery, the Parthians and +the Medes that fight as they fly, the Arabs that ever shift their +dwellings, the Scythians as cruel as they are fair, the Ethiopians +with pierced lips, and an infinity of other nations whose features I +recognise and descry, though I cannot recall their names. In this +other squadron there come those that drink of the crystal streams of +the olive-bearing Betis, those that make smooth their countenances +with the water of the ever rich and golden Tagus, those that rejoice +in the fertilising flow of the divine Genil, those that roam the +Tartesian plains abounding in pasture, those that take their +pleasure in the Elysian meadows of Jerez, the rich Manchegans +crowned with ruddy ears of corn, the wearers of iron, old relics of +the Gothic race, those that bathe in the Pisuerga renowned for its +gentle current, those that feed their herds along the spreading +pastures of the winding Guadiana famed for its hidden course, those +that tremble with the cold of the pineclad Pyrenees or the dazzling +snows of the lofty Apennine; in a word, as many as all Europe includes +and contains."</p> + +<p>Good God! what a number of countries and nations he named! giving to +each its proper attributes with marvellous readiness; brimful and +saturated with what he had read in his lying books! Sancho Panza +hung upon his words without speaking, and from time to time turned +to try if he could see the knights and giants his master was +describing, and as he could not make out one of them he said to him:</p> + +<p>"Senor, devil take it if there's a sign of any man you talk of, +knight or giant, in the whole thing; maybe it's all enchantment, +like the phantoms last night."</p> + +<p>"How canst thou say that!" answered Don Quixote; "dost thou not hear +the neighing of the steeds, the braying of the trumpets, the roll of +the drums?"</p> + +<p>"I hear nothing but a great bleating of ewes and sheep," said +Sancho; which was true, for by this time the two flocks had come +close.</p> + +<p>"The fear thou art in, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "prevents thee +from seeing or hearing correctly, for one of the effects of fear is to +derange the senses and make things appear different from what they +are; if thou art in such fear, withdraw to one side and leave me to +myself, for alone I suffice to bring victory to that side to which I +shall give my aid;" and so saying he gave Rocinante the spur, and +putting the lance in rest, shot down the slope like a thunderbolt. +Sancho shouted after him, crying, "Come back, Senor Don Quixote; I vow +to God they are sheep and ewes you are charging! Come back! Unlucky +the father that begot me! what madness is this! Look, there is no +giant, nor knight, nor cats, nor arms, nor shields quartered or whole, +nor vair azure or bedevilled. What are you about? Sinner that I am +before God!" But not for all these entreaties did Don Quixote turn +back; on the contrary he went on shouting out, "Ho, knights, ye who +follow and fight under the banners of the valiant emperor Pentapolin +of the Bare Arm, follow me all; ye shall see how easily I shall give +him his revenge over his enemy Alifanfaron of the Trapobana."</p> + +<p>So saying, he dashed into the midst of the squadron of ewes, and +began spearing them with as much spirit and intrepidity as if he +were transfixing mortal enemies in earnest. The shepherds and +drovers accompanying the flock shouted to him to desist; seeing it was +no use, they ungirt their slings and began to salute his ears with +stones as big as one's fist. Don Quixote gave no heed to the stones, +but, letting drive right and left kept saying:</p> + +<p>"Where art thou, proud Alifanfaron? Come before me; I am a single +knight who would fain prove thy prowess hand to hand, and make thee +yield thy life a penalty for the wrong thou dost to the valiant +Pentapolin Garamanta." Here came a sugar-plum from the brook that +struck him on the side and buried a couple of ribs in his body. +Feeling himself so smitten, he imagined himself slain or badly wounded +for certain, and recollecting his liquor he drew out his flask, and +putting it to his mouth began to pour the contents into his stomach; +but ere he had succeeded in swallowing what seemed to him enough, +there came another almond which struck him on the hand and on the +flask so fairly that it smashed it to pieces, knocking three or four +teeth and grinders out of his mouth in its course, and sorely crushing +two fingers of his hand. Such was the force of the first blow and of +the second, that the poor knight in spite of himself came down +backwards off his horse. The shepherds came up, and felt sure they had +killed him; so in all haste they collected their flock together, +took up the dead beasts, of which there were more than seven, and made +off without waiting to ascertain anything further.</p> + +<p>All this time Sancho stood on the hill watching the crazy feats +his master was performing, and tearing his beard and cursing the +hour and the occasion when fortune had made him acquainted with him. +Seeing him, then, brought to the ground, and that the shepherds had +taken themselves off, he ran to him and found him in very bad case, +though not unconscious; and said he:</p> + +<p>"Did I not tell you to come back, Senor Don Quixote; and that what +you were going to attack were not armies but droves of sheep?"</p> + +<p>"That's how that thief of a sage, my enemy, can alter and falsify +things," answered Don Quixote; "thou must know, Sancho, that it is a +very easy matter for those of his sort to make us believe what they +choose; and this malignant being who persecutes me, envious of the +glory he knew I was to win in this battle, has turned the squadrons of +the enemy into droves of sheep. At any rate, do this much, I beg of +thee, Sancho, to undeceive thyself, and see that what I say is true; +mount thy ass and follow them quietly, and thou shalt see that when +they have gone some little distance from this they will return to +their original shape and, ceasing to be sheep, become men in all +respects as I described them to thee at first. But go not just yet, +for I want thy help and assistance; come hither, and see how many of +my teeth and grinders are missing, for I feel as if there was not +one left in my mouth."</p> + +<p>Sancho came so close that he almost put his eyes into his mouth; now +just at that moment the balsam had acted on the stomach of Don +Quixote, so, at the very instant when Sancho came to examine his +mouth, he discharged all its contents with more force than a musket, +and full into the beard of the compassionate squire.</p> + +<p>"Holy Mary!" cried Sancho, "what is this that has happened me? +Clearly this sinner is mortally wounded, as he vomits blood from the +mouth;" but considering the matter a little more closely he +perceived by the colour, taste, and smell, that it was not blood but +the balsam from the flask which he had seen him drink; and he was +taken with such a loathing that his stomach turned, and he vomited +up his inside over his very master, and both were left in a precious +state. Sancho ran to his ass to get something wherewith to clean +himself, and relieve his master, out of his alforjas; but not +finding them, he well-nigh took leave of his senses, and cursed +himself anew, and in his heart resolved to quit his master and +return home, even though he forfeited the wages of his service and all +hopes of the promised island.</p> + +<p>Don Quixote now rose, and putting his left hand to his mouth to keep +his teeth from falling out altogether, with the other he laid hold +of the bridle of Rocinante, who had never stirred from his master's +side—so loyal and well-behaved was he—and betook himself to where +the squire stood leaning over his ass with his hand to his cheek, like +one in deep dejection. Seeing him in this mood, looking so sad, Don +Quixote said to him:</p> + +<p>"Bear in mind, Sancho, that one man is no more than another, +unless he does more than another; all these tempests that fall upon us +are signs that fair weather is coming shortly, and that things will go +well with us, for it is impossible for good or evil to last for +ever; and hence it follows that the evil having lasted long, the +good must be now nigh at hand; so thou must not distress thyself at +the misfortunes which happen to me, since thou hast no share in them."</p> + +<p>"How have I not?" replied Sancho; "was he whom they blanketed +yesterday perchance any other than my father's son? and the alforjas +that are missing to-day with all my treasures, did they belong to +any other but myself?"</p> + +<p>"What! are the alforjas missing, Sancho?" said Don Quixote.</p> + +<p>"Yes, they are missing," answered Sancho.</p> + +<p>"In that case we have nothing to eat to-day," replied Don Quixote.</p> + +<p>"It would be so," answered Sancho, "if there were none of the +herbs your worship says you know in these meadows, those with which +knights-errant as unlucky as your worship are wont to supply such-like +shortcomings."</p> + +<p>"For all that," answered Don Quixote, "I would rather have just +now a quarter of bread, or a loaf and a couple of pilchards' heads, +than all the herbs described by Dioscorides, even with Doctor Laguna's +notes. Nevertheless, Sancho the Good, mount thy beast and come along +with me, for God, who provides for all things, will not fail us +(more especially when we are so active in his service as we are), +since he fails not the midges of the air, nor the grubs of the +earth, nor the tadpoles of the water, and is so merciful that he +maketh his sun to rise on the good and on the evil, and sendeth rain +on the unjust and on the just."</p> + +<p>"Your worship would make a better preacher than knight-errant," said +Sancho.</p> + +<p>"Knights-errant knew and ought to know everything, Sancho," said Don +Quixote; "for there were knights-errant in former times as well +qualified to deliver a sermon or discourse in the middle of an +encampment, as if they had graduated in the University of Paris; +whereby we may see that the lance has never blunted the pen, nor the +pen the lance."</p> + +<p>"Well, be it as your worship says," replied Sancho; "let us be off +now and find some place of shelter for the night, and God grant it may +be somewhere where there are no blankets, nor blanketeers, nor +phantoms, nor enchanted Moors; for if there are, may the devil take +the whole concern."</p> + +<p>"Ask that of God, my son," said Don Quixote; and do thou lead on +where thou wilt, for this time I leave our lodging to thy choice; +but reach me here thy hand, and feel with thy finger, and find out how +many of my teeth and grinders are missing from this right side of +the upper jaw, for it is there I feel the pain."</p> + +<p>Sancho put in his fingers, and feeling about asked him, "How many +grinders used your worship have on this side?"</p> + +<p>"Four," replied Don Quixote, "besides the back-tooth, all whole +and quite sound."</p> + +<p>"Mind what you are saying, senor."</p> + +<p>"I say four, if not five," answered Don Quixote, "for never in my +life have I had tooth or grinder drawn, nor has any fallen out or been +destroyed by any decay or rheum."</p> + +<p>"Well, then," said Sancho, "in this lower side your worship has no +more than two grinders and a half, and in the upper neither a half nor +any at all, for it is all as smooth as the palm of my hand."</p> + +<p>"Luckless that I am!" said Don Quixote, hearing the sad news his +squire gave him; "I had rather they despoiled me of an arm, so it were +not the sword-arm; for I tell thee, Sancho, a mouth without teeth is +like a mill without a millstone, and a tooth is much more to be prized +than a diamond; but we who profess the austere order of chivalry are +liable to all this. Mount, friend, and lead the way, and I will follow +thee at whatever pace thou wilt."</p> + +<p>Sancho did as he bade him, and proceeded in the direction in which +he thought he might find refuge without quitting the high road, +which was there very much frequented. As they went along, then, at a +slow pace—for the pain in Don Quixote's jaws kept him uneasy and +ill-disposed for speed—Sancho thought it well to amuse and divert him +by talk of some kind, and among the things he said to him was that +which will be told in the following chapter.</p> + + +<br> +<br><br><br> +<center><a name="c18e"></a><img alt="c18e.jpg (44K)" src="images/c18e.jpg" height="391" width="621"> +</center> +<br><br> + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><h2><a name="ch19"></a>CHAPTER XIX.</h2></center> +<br> +<center><h3>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 +</h3></center> +<br> + +<p>"It seems to me, senor, that all these mishaps that have befallen us +of late have been without any doubt a punishment for the offence +committed by your worship against the order of chivalry in not keeping +the oath you made not to eat bread off a tablecloth or embrace the +queen, and all the rest of it that your worship swore to observe until +you had taken that helmet of Malandrino's, or whatever the Moor is +called, for I do not very well remember."</p> + +<p>"Thou art very right, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "but to tell the +truth, it had escaped my memory; and likewise thou mayest rely upon it +that the affair of the blanket happened to thee because of thy fault +in not reminding me of it in time; but I will make amends, for there +are ways of compounding for everything in the order of chivalry."</p> + +<p>"Why! have I taken an oath of some sort, then?" said Sancho.</p> + +<p>"It makes no matter that thou hast not taken an oath," said Don +Quixote; "suffice it that I see thou art not quite clear of +complicity; and whether or no, it will not be ill done to provide +ourselves with a remedy."</p> + +<p>"In that case," said Sancho, "mind that your worship does not forget +this as you did the oath; perhaps the phantoms may take it into +their heads to amuse themselves once more with me; or even with your +worship if they see you so obstinate."</p> + +<p>While engaged in this and other talk, night overtook them on the +road before they had reached or discovered any place of shelter; and +what made it still worse was that they were dying of hunger, for +with the loss of the alforjas they had lost their entire larder and +commissariat; and to complete the misfortune they met with an +adventure which without any invention had really the appearance of +one. It so happened that the night closed in somewhat darkly, but +for all that they pushed on, Sancho feeling sure that as the road +was the king's highway they might reasonably expect to find some inn +within a league or two. Going along, then, in this way, the night +dark, the squire hungry, the master sharp-set, they saw coming towards +them on the road they were travelling a great number of lights which +looked exactly like stars in motion. Sancho was taken aback at the +sight of them, nor did Don Quixote altogether relish them: the one +pulled up his ass by the halter, the other his hack by the bridle, and +they stood still, watching anxiously to see what all this would turn +out to be, and found that the lights were approaching them, and the +nearer they came the greater they seemed, at which spectacle Sancho +began to shake like a man dosed with mercury, and Don Quixote's hair +stood on end; he, however, plucking up spirit a little, said:</p> + +<p>"This, no doubt, Sancho, will be a most mighty and perilous +adventure, in which it will be needful for me to put forth all my +valour and resolution."</p> + +<p>"Unlucky me!" answered Sancho; "if this adventure happens to be +one of phantoms, as I am beginning to think it is, where shall I +find the ribs to bear it?"</p> + +<p>"Be they phantoms ever so much," said Don Quixote, "I will not +permit them to touch a thread of thy garments; for if they played +tricks with thee the time before, it was because I was unable to +leap the walls of the yard; but now we are on a wide plain, where I +shall be able to wield my sword as I please."</p> + +<p>"And if they enchant and cripple you as they did the last time," +said Sancho, "what difference will it make being on the open plain +or not?"</p> + +<p>"For all that," replied Don Quixote, "I entreat thee, Sancho, to +keep a good heart, for experience will tell thee what mine is."</p> + +<p>"I will, please God," answered Sancho, and the two retiring to one +side of the road set themselves to observe closely what all these +moving lights might be; and very soon afterwards they made out some +twenty encamisados, all on horseback, with lighted torches in their +hands, the awe-inspiring aspect of whom completely extinguished the +courage of Sancho, who began to chatter with his teeth like one in the +cold fit of an ague; and his heart sank and his teeth chattered +still more when they perceived distinctly that behind them there +came a litter covered over with black and followed by six more mounted +figures in mourning down to the very feet of their mules—for they +could perceive plainly they were not horses by the easy pace at +which they went. And as the encamisados came along they muttered to +themselves in a low plaintive tone. This strange spectacle at such +an hour and in such a solitary place was quite enough to strike terror +into Sancho's heart, and even into his master's; and (save in Don +Quixote's case) did so, for all Sancho's resolution had now broken +down. It was just the opposite with his master, whose imagination +immediately conjured up all this to him vividly as one of the +adventures of his books.</p> + +<p>He took it into his head that the litter was a bier on which was +borne some sorely wounded or slain knight, to avenge whom was a task +reserved for him alone; and without any further reasoning he laid +his lance in rest, fixed himself firmly in his saddle, and with +gallant spirit and bearing took up his position in the middle of the +road where the encamisados must of necessity pass; and as soon as he +saw them near at hand he raised his voice and said:</p> + +<p>"Halt, knights, or whosoever ye may be, and render me account of who +ye are, whence ye come, where ye go, what it is ye carry upon that +bier, for, to judge by appearances, either ye have done some wrong +or some wrong has been done to you, and it is fitting and necessary +that I should know, either that I may chastise you for the evil ye +have done, or else that I may avenge you for the injury that has +been inflicted upon you."</p> + +<p>"We are in haste," answered one of the encamisados, "and the inn +is far off, and we cannot stop to render you such an account as you +demand;" and spurring his mule he moved on.</p> + +<p>Don Quixote was mightily provoked by this answer, and seizing the +mule by the bridle he said, "Halt, and be more mannerly, and render an +account of what I have asked of you; else, take my defiance to combat, +all of you."</p> + +<p>The mule was shy, and was so frightened at her bridle being seized +that rearing up she flung her rider to the ground over her haunches. +An attendant who was on foot, seeing the encamisado fall, began to +abuse Don Quixote, who now moved to anger, without any more ado, +laying his lance in rest charged one of the men in mourning and +brought him badly wounded to the ground, and as he wheeled round +upon the others the agility with which he attacked and routed them was +a sight to see, for it seemed just as if wings had that instant +grown upon Rocinante, so lightly and proudly did he bear himself. +The encamisados were all timid folk and unarmed, so they speedily made +their escape from the fray and set off at a run across the plain +with their lighted torches, looking exactly like maskers running on +some gala or festival night. The mourners, too, enveloped and +swathed in their skirts and gowns, were unable to bestir themselves, +and so with entire safety to himself Don Quixote belaboured them all +and drove them off against their will, for they all thought it was +no man but a devil from hell come to carry away the dead body they had +in the litter.</p> + +<p>Sancho beheld all this in astonishment at the intrepidity of his +lord, and said to himself, "Clearly this master of mine is as bold and +valiant as he says he is."</p> + +<p>A burning torch lay on the ground near the first man whom the mule +had thrown, by the light of which Don Quixote perceived him, and +coming up to him he presented the point of the lance to his face, +calling on him to yield himself prisoner, or else he would kill him; +to which the prostrate man replied, "I am prisoner enough as it is; +I cannot stir, for one of my legs is broken: I entreat you, if you +be a Christian gentleman, not to kill me, which will be committing +grave sacrilege, for I am a licentiate and I hold first orders."</p> + +<p>"Then what the devil brought you here, being a churchman?" said +Don Quixote.</p> + +<p>"What, senor?" said the other. "My bad luck."</p> + +<p>"Then still worse awaits you," said Don Quixote, "if you do not +satisfy me as to all I asked you at first."</p> + +<p>"You shall be soon satisfied," said the licentiate; "you must +know, then, that though just now I said I was a licentiate, I am +only a bachelor, and my name is Alonzo Lopez; I am a native of +Alcobendas, I come from the city of Baeza with eleven others, priests, +the same who fled with the torches, and we are going to the city of +Segovia accompanying a dead body which is in that litter, and is +that of a gentleman who died in Baeza, where he was interred; and now, +as I said, we are taking his bones to their burial-place, which is +in Segovia, where he was born."</p> + +<p>"And who killed him?" asked Don Quixote.</p> + +<p>"God, by means of a malignant fever that took him," answered the +bachelor.</p> + +<p>"In that case," said Don Quixote, "the Lord has relieved me of the +task of avenging his death had any other slain him; but, he who slew +him having slain him, there is nothing for it but to be silent, and +shrug one's shoulders; I should do the same were he to slay myself; +and I would have your reverence know that I am a knight of La +Mancha, Don Quixote by name, and it is my business and calling to roam +the world righting wrongs and redressing injuries."</p> + +<p>"I do not know how that about righting wrongs can be," said the +bachelor, "for from straight you have made me crooked, leaving me with +a broken leg that will never see itself straight again all the days of +its life; and the injury you have redressed in my case has been to +leave me injured in such a way that I shall remain injured for ever; +and the height of misadventure it was to fall in with you who go in +search of adventures."</p> + +<p>"Things do not all happen in the same way," answered Don Quixote; +"it all came, Sir Bachelor Alonzo Lopez, of your going, as you did, by +night, dressed in those surplices, with lighted torches, praying, +covered with mourning, so that naturally you looked like something +evil and of the other world; and so I could not avoid doing my duty in +attacking you, and I should have attacked you even had I known +positively that you were the very devils of hell, for such I certainly +believed and took you to be."</p> + +<p>"As my fate has so willed it," said the bachelor, "I entreat you, +sir knight-errant, whose errand has been such an evil one for me, to +help me to get from under this mule that holds one of my legs caught +between the stirrup and the saddle."</p> + +<p>"I would have talked on till to-morrow," said Don Quixote; "how long +were you going to wait before telling me of your distress?"</p> + +<p>He at once called to Sancho, who, however, had no mind to come, as +he was just then engaged in unloading a sumpter mule, well laden +with provender, which these worthy gentlemen had brought with them. +Sancho made a bag of his coat, and, getting together as much as he +could, and as the bag would hold, he loaded his beast, and then +hastened to obey his master's call, and helped him to remove the +bachelor from under the mule; then putting him on her back he gave him +the torch, and Don Quixote bade him follow the track of his +companions, and beg pardon of them on his part for the wrong which +he could not help doing them.</p> + +<p>And said Sancho, "If by chance these gentlemen should want to know +who was the hero that served them so, your worship may tell them +that he is the famous Don Quixote of La Mancha, otherwise called the +Knight of the Rueful Countenance."</p> + +<p>The bachelor then took his departure.</p> + +<p>I forgot to mention that before he did so he said to Don Quixote, +"Remember that you stand excommunicated for having laid violent +hands on a holy thing, juxta illud, si quis, suadente diabolo."</p> + +<p>"I do not understand that Latin," answered Don Quixote, "but I +know well I did not lay hands, only this pike; besides, I did not +think I was committing an assault upon priests or things of the +Church, which, like a Catholic and faithful Christian as I am, I +respect and revere, but upon phantoms and spectres of the other world; +but even so, I remember how it fared with Cid Ruy Diaz when he broke +the chair of the ambassador of that king before his Holiness the Pope, +who excommunicated him for the same; and yet the good Roderick of +Vivar bore himself that day like a very noble and valiant knight."</p> + +<p>On hearing this the bachelor took his departure, as has been said, +without making any reply; and Don Quixote asked Sancho what had +induced him to call him the "Knight of the Rueful Countenance" more +then than at any other time.</p> + +<p>"I will tell you," answered Sancho; "it was because I have been +looking at you for some time by the light of the torch held by that +unfortunate, and verily your worship has got of late the most +ill-favoured countenance I ever saw: it must be either owing to the +fatigue of this combat, or else to the want of teeth and grinders."</p> + +<p>"It is not that," replied Don Quixote, "but because the sage whose +duty it will be to write the history of my achievements must have +thought it proper that I should take some distinctive name as all +knights of yore did; one being 'He of the Burning Sword,' another +'He of the Unicorn,' this one 'He of the Damsels,' that 'He of the +Phoenix,' another 'The Knight of the Griffin,' and another 'He of +the Death,' and by these names and designations they were known all +the world round; and so I say that the sage aforesaid must have put it +into your mouth and mind just now to call me 'The Knight of the Rueful +Countenance,' as I intend to call myself from this day forward; and +that the said name may fit me better, I mean, when the opportunity +offers, to have a very rueful countenance painted on my shield."</p> + +<p>"There is no occasion, senor, for wasting time or money on making +that countenance," said Sancho; "for all that need be done is for your +worship to show your own, face to face, to those who look at you, +and without anything more, either image or shield, they will call +you 'Him of the Rueful Countenance' and believe me I am telling you +the truth, for I assure you, senor (and in good part be it said), +hunger and the loss of your grinders have given you such an +ill-favoured face that, as I say, the rueful picture may be very +well spared."</p> + +<p>Don Quixote laughed at Sancho's pleasantry; nevertheless he resolved +to call himself by that name, and have his shield or buckler painted +as he had devised.</p> + +<p>Don Quixote would have looked to see whether the body in the +litter were bones or not, but Sancho would not have it, saying:</p> + +<p>"Senor, you have ended this perilous adventure more safely for +yourself than any of those I have seen: perhaps these people, though +beaten and routed, may bethink themselves that it is a single man that +has beaten them, and feeling sore and ashamed of it may take heart and +come in search of us and give us trouble enough. The ass is in +proper trim, the mountains are near at hand, hunger presses, we have +nothing more to do but make good our retreat, and, as the saying is, +the dead to the grave and the living to the loaf."</p> + +<p>And driving his ass before him he begged his master to follow, +who, feeling that Sancho was right, did so without replying; and after +proceeding some little distance between two hills they found +themselves in a wide and retired valley, where they alighted, and +Sancho unloaded his beast, and stretched upon the green grass, with +hunger for sauce, they breakfasted, dined, lunched, and supped all +at once, satisfying their appetites with more than one store of cold +meat which the dead man's clerical gentlemen (who seldom put +themselves on short allowance) had brought with them on their +sumpter mule. But another piece of ill-luck befell them, which +Sancho held the worst of all, and that was that they had no wine to +drink, nor even water to moisten their lips; and as thirst tormented +them, Sancho, observing that the meadow where they were was full of +green and tender grass, said what will be told in the following chapter.</p> + + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><h2><a name="ch20"></a>CHAPTER XX.</h2></center> +<br> +<center><h3>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 +</h3></center> +<br> + +<br> +<br><br><br> +<center><a name="c19a"></a><img alt="c19a.jpg (147K)" src="images/c19a.jpg" height="287" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/c19a.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<p>"It cannot be, senor, but that this grass is a proof that there must +be hard by some spring or brook to give it moisture, so it would be +well to move a little farther on, that we may find some place where we +may quench this terrible thirst that plagues us, which beyond a +doubt is more distressing than hunger."</p> + +<p>The advice seemed good to Don Quixote, and, he leading Rocinante +by the bridle and Sancho the ass by the halter, after he had packed +away upon him the remains of the supper, they advanced the meadow +feeling their way, for the darkness of the night made it impossible to +see anything; but they had not gone two hundred paces when a loud +noise of water, as if falling from great rocks, struck their ears. The +sound cheered them greatly; but halting to make out by listening +from what quarter it came they heard unseasonably another noise +which spoiled the satisfaction the sound of the water gave them, +especially for Sancho, who was by nature timid and faint-hearted. They +heard, I say, strokes falling with a measured beat, and a certain +rattling of iron and chains that, together with the furious din of the +water, would have struck terror into any heart but Don Quixote's. +The night was, as has been said, dark, and they had happened to +reach a spot in among some tall trees, whose leaves stirred by a +gentle breeze made a low ominous sound; so that, what with the +solitude, the place, the darkness, the noise of the water, and the +rustling of the leaves, everything inspired awe and dread; more +especially as they perceived that the strokes did not cease, nor the +wind lull, nor morning approach; to all which might be added their +ignorance as to where they were.</p> + + +<br> +<br><br><br> +<center><a name="c19b"></a><img alt="c19b.jpg (204K)" src="images/c19b.jpg" height="525" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/c19b.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<p>But Don Quixote, supported by his +intrepid heart, leaped on Rocinante, and bracing his buckler on his +arm, brought his pike to the slope, and said, "Friend Sancho, know +that I by Heaven's will have been born in this our iron age to +revive revive in it the age of gold, or the golden as it is called; +I am he for whom perils, mighty achievements, and valiant deeds are +reserved; I am, I say again, he who is to revive the Knights of the +Round Table, the Twelve of France and the Nine Worthies; and he who is +to consign to oblivion the Platirs, the Tablantes, the Olivantes and +Tirantes, the Phoebuses and Belianises, with the whole herd of +famous knights-errant of days gone by, performing in these in which +I live such exploits, marvels, and feats of arms as shall obscure +their brightest deeds. Thou dost mark well, faithful and trusty +squire, the gloom of this night, its strange silence, the dull +confused murmur of those trees, the awful sound of that water in quest +of which we came, that seems as though it were precipitating and +dashing itself down from the lofty mountains of the Moon, and that +incessant hammering that wounds and pains our ears; which things all +together and each of itself are enough to instil fear, dread, and +dismay into the breast of Mars himself, much more into one not used to +hazards and adventures of the kind. Well, then, all this that I put +before thee is but an incentive and stimulant to my spirit, making +my heart burst in my bosom through eagerness to engage in this +adventure, arduous as it promises to be; therefore tighten Rocinante's +girths a little, and God be with thee; wait for me here three days and +no more, and if in that time I come not back, thou canst return to our +village, and thence, to do me a favour and a service, 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 hers."</p> + +<p>When Sancho heard his master's words he began to weep in the most +pathetic way, saying:</p> + +<p>"Senor, I know not why your worship wants to attempt this so +dreadful adventure; it is night now, no one sees us here, we can +easily turn about and take ourselves out of danger, even if we don't +drink for three days to come; and as there is no one to see us, all +the less will there be anyone to set us down as cowards; besides, I +have many a time heard the curate of our village, whom your worship +knows well, preach that he who seeks danger perishes in it; so it is +not right to tempt God by trying so tremendous a feat from which there +can be no escape save by a miracle, and Heaven has performed enough of +them for your worship in delivering you from being blanketed as I was, +and bringing you out victorious and safe and sound from among all +those enemies that were with the dead man; and if all this does not +move or soften that hard heart, let this thought and reflection move +it, that you will have hardly quitted this spot when from pure fear +I shall yield my soul up to anyone that will take it. I left home +and wife and children to come and serve your worship, trusting to do +better and not worse; but as covetousness bursts the bag, it has +rent my hopes asunder, for just as I had them highest about getting +that wretched unlucky island your worship has so often promised me, +I see that instead and in lieu of it you mean to desert me now in a +place so far from human reach: for God's sake, master mine, deal not +so unjustly by me, and if your worship will not entirely give up +attempting this feat, at least put it off till morning, for by what +the lore I learned when I was a shepherd tells me it cannot want three +hours of dawn now, because the mouth of the Horn is overhead and makes +midnight in the line of the left arm."</p> + +<p>"How canst thou see, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "where it makes that +line, or where this mouth or this occiput is that thou talkest of, +when the night is so dark that there is not a star to be seen in the +whole heaven?"</p> + +<p>"That's true," said Sancho, "but fear has sharp eyes, and sees +things underground, much more above in heavens; besides, there is good +reason to show that it now wants but little of day."</p> + +<p>"Let it want what it may," replied Don Quixote, "it shall not be +said of me now or at any time that tears or entreaties turned me aside +from doing what was in accordance with knightly usage; and so I beg of +thee, Sancho, to hold thy peace, for God, who has put it into my heart +to undertake now this so unexampled and terrible adventure, will +take care to watch over my safety and console thy sorrow; what thou +hast to do is to tighten Rocinante's girths well, and wait here, for I +shall come back shortly, alive or dead."</p> + +<p>Sancho perceiving it his master's final resolve, and how little +his tears, counsels, and entreaties prevailed with him, determined +to have recourse to his own ingenuity and compel him, if he could, +to wait till daylight; and so, while tightening the girths of the +horse, he quietly and without being felt, with his ass' halter tied +both Rocinante's legs, so that when Don Quixote strove to go he was +unable as the horse could only move by jumps. Seeing the success of +his trick, Sancho Panza said:</p> + +<p>"See there, senor! Heaven, moved by my tears and prayers, has so +ordered it that Rocinante cannot stir; and if you will be obstinate, +and spur and strike him, you will only provoke fortune, and kick, as +they say, against the pricks."</p> + +<p>Don Quixote at this grew desperate, but the more he drove his +heels into the horse, the less he stirred him; and not having any +suspicion of the tying, he was fain to resign himself and wait till +daybreak or until Rocinante could move, firmly persuaded that all this +came of something other than Sancho's ingenuity. So he said to him, +"As it is so, Sancho, and as Rocinante cannot move, I am content to +wait till dawn smiles upon us, even though I weep while it delays +its coming."</p> + +<p>"There is no need to weep," answered Sancho, "for I will amuse +your worship by telling stories from this till daylight, unless indeed +you like to dismount and lie down to sleep a little on the green grass +after the fashion of knights-errant, so as to be fresher when day +comes and the moment arrives for attempting this extraordinary +adventure you are looking forward to."</p> + +<p>"What art thou talking about dismounting or sleeping for?" said +Don Quixote. "Am I, thinkest thou, one of those knights that take +their rest in the presence of danger? Sleep thou who art born to +sleep, or do as thou wilt, for I will act as I think most consistent +with my character."</p> + +<p>"Be not angry, master mine," replied Sancho, "I did not mean to +say that;" and coming close to him he laid one hand on the pommel of +the saddle and the other on the cantle so that he held his master's +left thigh in his embrace, not daring to separate a finger's width +from him; so much afraid was he of the strokes which still resounded +with a regular beat. Don Quixote bade him tell some story to amuse him +as he had proposed, to which Sancho replied that he would if his dread +of what he heard would let him; "Still," said he, "I will strive to +tell a story which, if I can manage to relate it, and nobody +interferes with the telling, is the best of stories, and let your +worship give me your attention, for here I begin. What was, was; and +may the good that is to come be for all, and the evil for him who goes +to look for it—your worship must know that the beginning the old folk +used to put to their tales was not just as each one pleased; it was +a maxim of Cato Zonzorino the Roman, that says 'the evil for him +that goes to look for it,' and it comes as pat to the purpose now as +ring to finger, to show that your worship should keep quiet and not go +looking for evil in any quarter, and that we should go back by some +other road, since nobody forces us to follow this in which so many +terrors affright us."</p> + +<p>"Go on with thy story, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "and leave the +choice of our road to my care."</p> + +<p>"I say then," continued Sancho, "that in a village of Estremadura +there was a goat-shepherd—that is to say, one who tended goats—which +shepherd or goatherd, as my story goes, was called Lope Ruiz, and this +Lope Ruiz was in love with a shepherdess called Torralva, which +shepherdess called Torralva was the daughter of a rich grazier, and +this rich grazier-"</p> + +<p>"If that is the way thou tellest thy tale, Sancho," said Don +Quixote, "repeating twice all thou hast to say, thou wilt not have +done these two days; go straight on with it, and tell it like a +reasonable man, or else say nothing."</p> + +<p>"Tales are always told in my country in the very way I am telling +this," answered Sancho, "and I cannot tell it in any other, nor is +it right of your worship to ask me to make new customs."</p> + +<p>"Tell it as thou wilt," replied Don Quixote; "and as fate will +have it that I cannot help listening to thee, go on."</p> + +<p>"And so, lord of my soul," continued Sancho, as I have said, this +shepherd was in love with Torralva the shepherdess, who was a wild +buxom lass with something of the look of a man about her, for she +had little moustaches; I fancy I see her now."</p> + +<p>"Then you knew her?" said Don Quixote.</p> + +<p>"I did not know her," said Sancho, "but he who told me the story +said it was so true and certain that when I told it to another I might +safely declare and swear I had seen it all myself. And so in course of +time, the devil, who never sleeps and puts everything in confusion, +contrived that the love the shepherd bore the shepherdess turned +into hatred and ill-will, and the reason, according to evil tongues, +was some little jealousy she caused him that crossed the line and +trespassed on forbidden ground; and so much did the shepherd hate +her from that time forward that, in order to escape from her, he +determined to quit the country and go where he should never set eyes +on her again. Torralva, when she found herself spurned by Lope, was +immediately smitten with love for him, though she had never loved +him before."</p> + +<p>"That is the natural way of women," said Don Quixote, "to scorn +the one that loves them, and love the one that hates them: go on, +Sancho."</p> + +<p>"It came to pass," said Sancho, "that the shepherd carried out his +intention, and driving his goats before him took his way across the +plains of Estremadura to pass over into the Kingdom of Portugal. +Torralva, who knew of it, went after him, and on foot and barefoot +followed him at a distance, with a pilgrim's staff in her hand and a +scrip round her neck, in which she carried, it is said, a bit of +looking-glass and a piece of a comb and some little pot or other of +paint for her face; but let her carry what she did, I am not going +to trouble myself to prove it; all I say is, that the shepherd, they +say, came with his flock to cross over the river Guadiana, which was +at that time swollen and almost overflowing its banks, and at the spot +he came to there was neither ferry nor boat nor anyone to carry him or +his flock to the other side, at which he was much vexed, for he +perceived that Torralva was approaching and would give him great +annoyance with her tears and entreaties; however, he went looking +about so closely that he discovered a fisherman who had alongside of +him a boat so small that it could only hold one person and one goat; +but for all that he spoke to him and agreed with him to carry +himself and his three hundred goats across. The fisherman got into the +boat and carried one goat over; he came back and carried another over; +he came back again, and again brought over another—let your worship +keep count of the goats the fisherman is taking across, for if one +escapes the memory there will be an end of the story, and it will be +impossible to tell another word of it. To proceed, I must tell you the +landing place on the other side was miry and slippery, and the +fisherman lost a great deal of time in going and coming; still he +returned for another goat, and another, and another."</p> + +<p>"Take it for granted he brought them all across," said Don +Quixote, "and don't keep going and coming in this way, or thou wilt +not make an end of bringing them over this twelvemonth."</p> + +<p>"How many have gone across so far?" said Sancho.</p> + +<p>"How the devil do I know?" replied Don Quixote.</p> + +<p>"There it is," said Sancho, "what I told you, that you must keep a +good count; well then, by God, there is an end of the story, for there +is no going any farther."</p> + +<p>"How can that be?" said Don Quixote; "is it so essential to the +story to know to a nicety the goats that have crossed over, that if +there be a mistake of one in the reckoning, thou canst not go on +with it?"</p> + +<p>"No, senor, not a bit," replied Sancho; "for when I asked your +worship to tell me how many goats had crossed, and you answered you +did not know, at that very instant all I had to say passed away out of +my memory, and, faith, there was much virtue in it, and +entertainment."</p> + +<p>"So, then," said Don Quixote, "the story has come to an end?"</p> + +<p>"As much as my mother has," said Sancho.</p> + +<p>"In truth," said Don Quixote, "thou hast told one of the rarest +stories, tales, or histories, that anyone in the world could have +imagined, and such a way of telling it and ending it was never seen +nor will be in a lifetime; though I expected nothing else from thy +excellent understanding. But I do not wonder, for perhaps those +ceaseless strokes may have confused thy wits."</p> + +<p>"All that may be," replied Sancho, "but I know that as to my +story, all that can be said is that it ends there where the mistake in +the count of the passage of the goats begins."</p> + +<p>"Let it end where it will, well and good," said Don Quixote, "and +let us see if Rocinante can go;" and again he spurred him, and again +Rocinante made jumps and remained where he was, so well tied was he.</p> + +<p>Just then, whether it was the cold of the morning that was now +approaching, or that he had eaten something laxative at supper, or +that it was only natural (as is most likely), Sancho felt a desire +to do what no one could do for him; but so great was the fear that had +penetrated his heart, he dared not separate himself from his master by +as much as the black of his nail; to escape doing what he wanted +was, however, also impossible; so what he did for peace's sake was +to remove his right hand, which held the back of the saddle, and +with it to untie gently and silently the running string which alone +held up his breeches, so that on loosening it they at once fell down +round his feet like fetters; he then raised his shirt as well as he +could and bared his hind quarters, no slim ones. But, this +accomplished, which he fancied was all he had to do to get out of this +terrible strait and embarrassment, another still greater difficulty +presented itself, for it seemed to him impossible to relieve himself +without making some noise, and he ground his teeth and squeezed his +shoulders together, holding his breath as much as he could; but in +spite of his precautions he was unlucky enough after all to make a +little noise, very different from that which was causing him so much +fear.</p> + +<br> +<br><br><br> +<center><a name="c19c"></a><img alt="c19c.jpg (308K)" src="images/c19c.jpg" height="839" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/c19c.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<p>Don Quixote, hearing it, said, "What noise is that, Sancho?"</p> + +<p>"I don't know, senor," said he; "it must be something new, for +adventures and misadventures never begin with a trifle." Once more +he tried his luck, and succeeded so well, that without any further +noise or disturbance he found himself relieved of the burden that +had given him so much discomfort. But as Don Quixote's sense of +smell was as acute as his hearing, and as Sancho was so closely linked +with him that the fumes rose almost in a straight line, it could not +be but that some should reach his nose, and as soon as they did he +came to its relief by compressing it between his fingers, saying in +a rather snuffing tone, "Sancho, it strikes me thou art in great +fear."</p> + +<p>"I am," answered Sancho; "but how does your worship perceive it +now more than ever?"</p> + +<p>"Because just now thou smellest stronger than ever, and not of +ambergris," answered Don Quixote.</p> + +<p>"Very likely," said Sancho, "but that's not my fault, but your +worship's, for leading me about at unseasonable hours and at such +unwonted paces."</p> + +<p>"Then go back three or four, my friend," said Don Quixote, all the +time with his fingers to his nose; "and for the future pay more +attention to thy person and to what thou owest to mine; for it is my +great familiarity with thee that has bred this contempt."</p> + +<p>"I'll bet," replied Sancho, "that your worship thinks I have done +something I ought not with my person."</p> + +<p>"It makes it worse to stir it, friend Sancho," returned Don Quixote.</p> + +<p>With this and other talk of the same sort master and man passed +the night, till Sancho, perceiving that daybreak was coming on +apace, very cautiously untied Rocinante and tied up his breeches. As +soon as Rocinante found himself free, though by nature he was not at +all mettlesome, he seemed to feel lively and began pawing—for as to +capering, begging his pardon, he knew not what it meant. Don +Quixote, then, observing that Rocinante could move, took it as a +good sign and a signal that he should attempt the dread adventure. +By this time day had fully broken and everything showed distinctly, +and Don Quixote saw that he was among some tall trees, chestnuts, +which cast a very deep shade; he perceived likewise that the sound +of the strokes did not cease, but could not discover what caused it, +and so without any further delay he let Rocinante feel the spur, and +once more taking leave of Sancho, he told him to wait for him there +three days at most, as he had said before, and if he should not have +returned by that time, he might feel sure it had been God's will +that he should end his days in that perilous adventure. He again +repeated the message and commission with which he was to go on his +behalf to his lady Dulcinea, and said he was not to be uneasy as to +the payment of his services, for before leaving home he had made his +will, in which he would find himself fully recompensed in the matter +of wages in due proportion to the time he had served; but if God +delivered him safe, sound, and unhurt out of that danger, he might +look upon the promised island as much more than certain. Sancho +began to weep afresh on again hearing the affecting words of his +good master, and resolved to stay with him until the final issue and +end of the business. From these tears and this honourable resolve of +Sancho Panza's the author of this history infers that he must have +been of good birth and at least an old Christian; and the feeling he +displayed touched his but not so much as to make him show any +weakness; on the contrary, hiding what he felt as well as he could, he +began to move towards that quarter whence the sound of the water and +of the strokes seemed to come.</p> + +<p>Sancho followed him on foot, leading by the halter, as his custom +was, his ass, his constant comrade in prosperity or adversity; and +advancing some distance through the shady chestnut trees they came +upon a little meadow at the foot of some high rocks, down which a +mighty rush of water flung itself. At the foot of the rocks were +some rudely constructed houses looking more like ruins than houses, +from among which came, they perceived, the din and clatter of blows, +which still continued without intermission. Rocinante took fright at +the noise of the water and of the blows, but quieting him Don +Quixote advanced step by step towards the houses, commending himself +with all his heart to his lady, imploring her support in that dread +pass and enterprise, and on the way commending himself to God, too, +not to forget him. Sancho who never quitted his side, stretched his +neck as far as he could and peered between the legs of Rocinante to +see if he could now discover what it was that caused him such fear and +apprehension. They went it might be a hundred paces farther, when on +turning a corner the true cause, beyond the possibility of any +mistake, of that dread-sounding and to them awe-inspiring noise that +had kept them all the night in such fear and perplexity, appeared +plain and obvious; and it was (if, reader, thou art not disgusted +and disappointed) six fulling hammers which by their alternate strokes +made all the din.</p> + +<p>When Don Quixote perceived what it was, he was struck dumb and rigid +from head to foot. Sancho glanced at him and saw him with his head +bent down upon his breast in manifest mortification; and Don Quixote +glanced at Sancho and saw him with his cheeks puffed out and his mouth +full of laughter, and evidently ready to explode with it, and in spite +of his vexation he could not help laughing at the sight of him; and +when Sancho saw his master begin he let go so heartily that he had +to hold his sides with both hands to keep himself from bursting with +laughter. Four times he stopped, and as many times did his laughter +break out afresh with the same violence as at first, whereat Don +Quixote grew furious, above all when he heard him say mockingly, "Thou +must know, friend Sancho, that of Heaven's will I was born in this our +iron age to revive in it the golden or age of gold; I am he for whom +are reserved perils, mighty achievements, valiant deeds;" and here +he went on repeating the words that Don Quixote uttered the first time +they heard the awful strokes.</p> + +<p>Don Quixote, then, seeing that Sancho was turning him into ridicule, +was so mortified and vexed that he lifted up his pike and smote him +two such blows that if, instead of catching them on his shoulders, +he had caught them on his head there would have been no wages to +pay, unless indeed to his heirs. Sancho seeing that he was getting +an awkward return in earnest for his jest, and fearing his master +might carry it still further, said to him very humbly, "Calm yourself, +sir, for by God I am only joking."</p> + +<p>"Well, then, if you are joking I am not," replied Don Quixote. "Look +here, my lively gentleman, if these, instead of being fulling hammers, +had been some perilous adventure, have I not, think you, shown the +courage required for the attempt and achievement? Am I, perchance, +being, as I am, a gentleman, bound to know and distinguish sounds +and tell whether they come from fulling mills or not; and that, when +perhaps, as is the case, I have never in my life seen any as you have, +low boor as you are, that have been born and bred among them? But turn +me these six hammers into six giants, and bring them to beard me, +one by one or all together, and if I do not knock them head over +heels, then make what mockery you like of me."</p> + +<p>"No more of that, senor," returned Sancho; "I own I went a little +too far with the joke. But tell me, your worship, now that peace is +made between us (and may God bring you out of all the adventures +that may befall you as safe and sound as he has brought you out of +this one), was it not a thing to laugh at, and is it not a good story, +the great fear we were in?—at least that I was in; for as to your +worship I see now that you neither know nor understand what either +fear or dismay is."</p> + +<p>"I do not deny," said Don Quixote, "that what happened to us may +be worth laughing at, but it is not worth making a story about, for it +is not everyone that is shrewd enough to hit the right point of a +thing."</p> + +<p>"At any rate," said Sancho, "your worship knew how to hit the +right point with your pike, aiming at my head and hitting me on the +shoulders, thanks be to God and my own smartness in dodging it. But +let that pass; all will come out in the scouring; for I have heard say +'he loves thee well that makes thee weep;' and moreover that it is the +way with great lords after any hard words they give a servant to +give him a pair of breeches; though I do not know what they give after +blows, unless it be that knights-errant after blows give islands, or +kingdoms on the mainland."</p> + +<p>"It may be on the dice," said Don Quixote, "that all thou sayest +will come true; overlook the past, for thou art shrewd enough to +know that our first movements are not in our own control; and one +thing for the future bear in mind, that thou curb and restrain thy +loquacity in my company; for in all the books of chivalry that I +have read, and they are innumerable, I never met with a squire who +talked so much to his lord as thou dost to thine; and in fact I feel +it to be a great fault of thine and of mine: of thine, that thou +hast so little respect for me; of mine, that I do not make myself more +respected. There was Gandalin, the squire of Amadis of Gaul, that +was Count of the Insula Firme, and we read of him that he always +addressed his lord with his cap in his hand, his head bowed down and +his body bent double, more turquesco. And then, what shall we say of +Gasabal, the squire of Galaor, who was so silent that in order to +indicate to us the greatness of his marvellous taciturnity his name is +only once mentioned in the whole of that history, as long as it is +truthful? From all I have said thou wilt gather, Sancho, that there +must be a difference between master and man, between lord and +lackey, between knight and squire: so that from this day forward in +our intercourse we must observe more respect and take less +liberties, for in whatever way I may be provoked with you it will be +bad for the pitcher. The favours and benefits that I have promised you +will come in due time, and if they do not your wages at least will not +be lost, as I have already told you."</p> + +<p>"All that your worship says is very well," said Sancho, "but I +should like to know (in case the time of favours should not come, +and it might be necessary to fall back upon wages) how much did the +squire of a knight-errant get in those days, and did they agree by the +month, or by the day like bricklayers?"</p> + +<p>"I do not believe," replied Don Quixote, "that such squires were +ever on wages, but were dependent on favour; and if I have now +mentioned thine in the sealed will I have left at home, it was with +a view to what may happen; for as yet I know not how chivalry will +turn out in these wretched times of ours, and I do not wish my soul to +suffer for trifles in the other world; for I would have thee know, +Sancho, that in this there is no condition more hazardous than that of +adventurers."</p> + +<p>"That is true," said Sancho, "since the mere noise of the hammers of +a fulling mill can disturb and disquiet the heart of such a valiant +errant adventurer as your worship; but you may be sure I will not open +my lips henceforward to make light of anything of your worship's, +but only to honour you as my master and natural lord."</p> + +<p>"By so doing," replied Don Quixote, "shalt thou live long on the +face of the earth; for next to parents, masters are to be respected as +though they were parents."</p> + + +<br> +<br><br><br> +<center><a name="c19e"></a><img alt="c19e.jpg (33K)" src="images/c19e.jpg" height="643" width="459"> +</center> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<br><br> +<center><h2><a name="ch21"></a>CHAPTER XXI.</h2></center> +<br> +<center><h3>WHICH TREATS OF THE EXALTED ADVENTURE AND RICH PRIZE OF MAMBRINO'S +HELMET, TOGETHER WITH OTHER THINGS THAT HAPPENED TO OUR INVINCIBLE +KNIGHT +</h3></center> +<br> +<br> + +<center><a name="c20a"></a><img alt="c20a.jpg (73K)" src="images/c20a.jpg" height="219" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/c20a.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + + +<p>It now began to rain a little, and Sancho was for going into the +fulling mills, but Don Quixote had taken such an abhorrence to them on +account of the late joke that he would not enter them on any +account; so turning aside to right they came upon another road, +different from that which they had taken the night before. Shortly +afterwards Don Quixote perceived a man on horseback who wore on his +head something that shone like gold, and the moment he saw him he +turned to Sancho and said:</p> + +<p>"I think, Sancho, there is no proverb that is not true, all being +maxims drawn from experience itself, the mother of all the sciences, +especially that one that says, 'Where one door shuts, another +opens.' I say so because if last night fortune shut the door of the +adventure we were looking for against us, cheating us with the fulling +mills, it now opens wide another one for another better and more +certain adventure, and if I do not contrive to enter it, it will be my +own fault, and I cannot lay it to my ignorance of fulling mills, or +the darkness of the night. I say this because, if I mistake not, there +comes towards us one who wears on his head the helmet of Mambrino, +concerning which I took the oath thou rememberest."</p> + +<p>"Mind what you say, your worship, and still more what you do," +said Sancho, "for I don't want any more fulling mills to finish off +fulling and knocking our senses out."</p> + +<p>"The devil take thee, man," said Don Quixote; "what has a helmet +to do with fulling mills?"</p> + +<p>"I don't know," replied Sancho, "but, faith, if I might speak as I +used, perhaps I could give such reasons that your worship would see +you were mistaken in what you say."</p> + +<p>"How can I be mistaken in what I say, unbelieving traitor?" returned +Don Quixote; "tell me, seest thou not yonder knight coming towards +us on a dappled grey steed, who has upon his head a helmet of gold?"</p> + +<p>"What I see and make out," answered Sancho, "is only a man on a grey +ass like my own, who has something that shines on his head."</p> + +<p>"Well, that is the helmet of Mambrino," said Don Quixote; "stand +to one side and leave me alone with him; thou shalt see how, without +saying a word, to save time, I shall bring this adventure to an +issue and possess myself of the helmet I have so longed for."</p> + +<p>"I will take care to stand aside," said Sancho; "but God grant, I +say once more, that it may be marjoram and not fulling mills."</p> + +<p>"I have told thee, brother, on no account to mention those fulling +mills to me again," said Don Quixote, "or I vow—and I say no +more—I'll full the soul out of you."</p> + +<p>Sancho held his peace in dread lest his master should carry out +the vow he had hurled like a bowl at him.</p> + +<p>The fact of the matter as regards the helmet, steed, and knight that +Don Quixote saw, was this. In that neighbourhood there were two +villages, one of them so small that it had neither apothecary's shop +nor barber, which the other that was close to it had, so the barber of +the larger served the smaller, and in it there was a sick man who +required to be bled and another man who wanted to be shaved, and on +this errand the barber was going, carrying with him a brass basin; but +as luck would have it, as he was on the way it began to rain, and +not to spoil his hat, which probably was a new one, he put the basin +on his head, and being clean it glittered at half a league's distance. +He rode upon a grey ass, as Sancho said, and this was what made it +seem to Don Quixote to be a dapple-grey steed and a knight and a +golden helmet; for everything he saw he made to fall in with his crazy +chivalry and ill-errant notions; and when he saw the poor knight +draw near, without entering into any parley with him, at Rocinante's +top speed he bore down upon him with the pike pointed low, fully +determined to run him through and through, and as he reached him, +without checking the fury of his charge, he cried to him:</p> + +<p>"Defend thyself, miserable being, or yield me of thine own accord +that which is so reasonably my due."</p> + +<p>The barber, who without any expectation or apprehension of it saw +this apparition coming down upon him, had no other way of saving +himself from the stroke of the lance but to let himself fall off his +ass; and no sooner had he touched the ground than he sprang up more +nimbly than a deer and sped away across the plain faster than the +wind.</p> + +<p>He left the basin on the ground, with which Don Quixote contented +himself, saying that the pagan had shown his discretion and imitated +the beaver, which finding itself pressed by the hunters bites and cuts +off with its teeth that for which, by its natural instinct, it knows +it is pursued.</p> + +<p>He told Sancho to pick up the helmet, and he taking it in his +hands said:</p> + +<p>"By God the basin is a good one, and worth a real of eight if it +is worth a maravedis," and handed it to his master, who immediately +put it on his head, turning it round, now this way, now that, in +search of fitment, and not finding it he said, "Clearly the pagan to +whose measure this famous head-piece was first forged must have had +a very large head; but the worst of it is half of it is wanting."</p> + +<p>When Sancho heard him call the basin a headpiece he was unable to +restrain his laughter, but remembering his master's wrath he checked +himself in the midst of it.</p> + +<p>"What art thou laughing at, Sancho?" said Don Quixote.</p> + +<p>"I am laughing," said he, "to think of the great head the pagan must +have had who owned this helmet, for it looks exactly like a regular +barber's basin."</p> + +<p>"Dost thou know what I suspect, Sancho?" said Don Quixote; "that +this wonderful piece of this enchanted helmet must by some strange +accident have come into the hands of some one who was unable to +recognise or realise its value, and who, not knowing what he did, +and seeing it to be of the purest gold, must have melted down one half +for the sake of what it might be worth, and of the other made this +which is like a barber's basin as thou sayest; but be it as it may, to +me who recognise it, its transformation makes no difference, for I +will set it to rights at the first village where there is a +blacksmith, and in such style that that helmet the god of smithies +forged for the god of battles shall not surpass it or even come up +to it; and in the meantime I will wear it as well as I can, for +something is better than nothing; all the more as it will be quite +enough to protect me from any chance blow of a stone."</p> + +<p>"That is," said Sancho, "if it is not shot with a sling as they were +in the battle of the two armies, when they signed the cross on your +worship's grinders and smashed the flask with that blessed draught +that made me vomit my bowels up."</p> + +<p>"It does not grieve me much to have lost it," said Don Quixote, "for +thou knowest, Sancho, that I have the receipt in my memory."</p> + +<p>"So have I," answered Sancho, "but if ever I make it, or try it +again as long as I live, may this be my last hour; moreover, I have no +intention of putting myself in the way of wanting it, for I mean, with +all my five senses, to keep myself from being wounded or from wounding +anyone: as to being blanketed again I say nothing, for it is hard to +prevent mishaps of that sort, and if they come there is nothing for it +but to squeeze our shoulders together, hold our breath, shut our eyes, +and let ourselves go where luck and the blanket may send us."</p> + +<p>"Thou art a bad Christian, Sancho," said Don Quixote on hearing +this, "for once an injury has been done thee thou never forgettest it: +but know that it is the part of noble and generous hearts not to +attach importance to trifles. What lame leg hast thou got by it, +what broken rib, what cracked head, that thou canst not forget that +jest? For jest and sport it was, properly regarded, and had I not seen +it in that light I would have returned and done more mischief in +revenging thee than the Greeks did for the rape of Helen, who, if +she were alive now, or if my Dulcinea had lived then, might depend +upon it she would not be so famous for her beauty as she is;" and here +he heaved a sigh and sent it aloft; and said Sancho, "Let it pass +for a jest as it cannot be revenged in earnest, but I know what sort +of jest and earnest it was, and I know it will never be rubbed out +of my memory any more than off my shoulders. But putting that aside, +will your worship tell me what are we to do with this dapple-grey +steed that looks like a grey ass, which that Martino that your worship +overthrew has left deserted here? for, from the way he took to his +heels and bolted, he is not likely ever to come back for it; and by my +beard but the grey is a good one."</p> + +<p>"I have never been in the habit," said Don Quixote, "of taking spoil +of those whom I vanquish, nor is it the practice of chivalry to take +away their horses and leave them to go on foot, unless indeed it be +that the victor have lost his own in the combat, in which case it is +lawful to take that of the vanquished as a thing won in lawful war; +therefore, Sancho, leave this horse, or ass, or whatever thou wilt +have it to be; for when its owner sees us gone hence he will come back +for it."</p> + +<p>"God knows I should like to take it," returned Sancho, "or at +least to change it for my own, which does not seem to me as good a +one: verily the laws of chivalry are strict, since they cannot be +stretched to let one ass be changed for another; I should like to know +if I might at least change trappings."</p> + +<p>"On that head I am not quite certain," answered Don Quixote, "and +the matter being doubtful, pending better information, I say thou +mayest change them, if so be thou hast urgent need of them."</p> + +<p>"So urgent is it," answered Sancho, "that if they were for my own +person I could not want them more;" and forthwith, fortified by this +licence, he effected the mutatio capparum, rigging out his beast to +the ninety-nines and making quite another thing of it. This done, they +broke their fast on the remains of the spoils of war plundered from +the sumpter mule, and drank of the brook that flowed from the +fulling mills, without casting a look in that direction, in such +loathing did they hold them for the alarm they had caused them; and, +all anger and gloom removed, they mounted and, without taking any +fixed road (not to fix upon any being the proper thing for true +knights-errant), they set out, guided by Rocinante's will, which +carried along with it that of his master, not to say that of the +ass, which always followed him wherever he led, lovingly and sociably; +nevertheless they returned to the high road, and pursued it at a +venture without any other aim.</p> + +<p>As they went along, then, in this way Sancho said to his master, +"Senor, would your worship give me leave to speak a little to you? For +since you laid that hard injunction of silence on me several things +have gone to rot in my stomach, and I have now just one on the tip +of my tongue that I don't want to be spoiled."</p> + +<p>"Say, on, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "and be brief in thy discourse, +for there is no pleasure in one that is long."</p> + +<p>"Well then, senor," returned Sancho, "I say that for some days +past I have been considering how little is got or gained by going in +search of these adventures that your worship seeks in these wilds +and cross-roads, where, even if the most perilous are victoriously +achieved, there is no one to see or know of them, and so they must +be left untold for ever, to the loss of your worship's object and +the credit they deserve; therefore it seems to me it would be better +(saving your worship's better judgment) if we were to go and serve +some emperor or other great prince who may have some war on hand, in +whose service your worship may prove the worth of your person, your +great might, and greater understanding, on perceiving which the lord +in whose service we may be will perforce have to reward us, each +according to his merits; and there you will not be at a loss for +some one to set down your achievements in writing so as to preserve +their memory for ever. Of my own I say nothing, as they will not go +beyond squirely limits, though I make bold to say that, if it be the +practice in chivalry to write the achievements of squires, I think +mine must not be left out."</p> + +<p>"Thou speakest not amiss, Sancho," answered Don Quixote, "but before +that point is reached it is requisite to roam the world, as it were on +probation, seeking adventures, in order that, by achieving some, +name and fame may be acquired, such that when he betakes himself to +the court of some great monarch the knight may be already known by his +deeds, and that the boys, the instant they see him enter the gate of +the city, may all follow him and surround him, crying, 'This is the +Knight of the Sun'-or the Serpent, or any other title under which he +may have achieved great deeds. 'This,' they will say, 'is he who +vanquished in single combat the gigantic Brocabruno of mighty +strength; he who delivered the great Mameluke of Persia out of the +long enchantment under which he had been for almost nine hundred +years.' So from one to another they will go proclaiming his +achievements; and presently at the tumult of the boys and the others +the king of that kingdom will appear at the windows of his royal +palace, and as soon as he beholds the knight, recognising him by his +arms and the device on his shield, he will as a matter of course +say, 'What ho! Forth all ye, the knights of my court, to receive the +flower of chivalry who cometh hither!' At which command all will issue +forth, and he himself, advancing half-way down the stairs, will +embrace him closely, and salute him, kissing him on the cheek, and +will then lead him to the queen's chamber, where the knight will +find her with the princess her daughter, who will be one of the most +beautiful and accomplished damsels that could with the utmost pains be +discovered anywhere in the known world. Straightway it will come to +pass that she will fix her eyes upon the knight and he his upon her, +and each will seem to the other something more divine than human, and, +without knowing how or why they will be taken and entangled in the +inextricable toils of love, and sorely distressed in their hearts +not to see any way of making their pains and sufferings known by +speech. Thence they will lead him, no doubt, to some richly adorned +chamber of the palace, where, having removed his armour, they will +bring him a rich mantle of scarlet wherewith to robe himself, and if +he looked noble in his armour he will look still more so in a doublet. +When night comes he will sup with the king, queen, and princess; and +all the time he will never take his eyes off her, stealing stealthy +glances, unnoticed by those present, and she will do the same, and +with equal cautiousness, being, as I have said, a damsel of great +discretion. The tables being removed, suddenly through the door of the +hall there will enter a hideous and diminutive dwarf followed by a +fair dame, between two giants, who comes with a certain adventure, the +work of an ancient sage; and he who shall achieve it shall be deemed +the best knight in the world.</p> + +<p>"The king will then command all those present to essay it, and +none will bring it to an end and conclusion save the stranger +knight, to the great enhancement of his fame, whereat the princess +will be overjoyed and will esteem herself happy and fortunate in +having fixed and placed her thoughts so high. And the best of it is +that this king, or prince, or whatever he is, is engaged in a very +bitter war with another as powerful as himself, and the stranger +knight, after having been some days at his court, requests leave +from him to go and serve him in the said war. The king will grant it +very readily, and the knight will courteously kiss his hands for the +favour done to him; and that night he will take leave of his lady +the princess at the grating of the chamber where she sleeps, which +looks upon a garden, and at which he has already many times +conversed with her, the go-between and confidante in the matter +being a damsel much trusted by the princess. He will sigh, she will +swoon, the damsel will fetch water, much distressed because morning +approaches, and for the honour of her lady he would not that they were +discovered; at last the princess will come to herself and will present +her white hands through the grating to the knight, who will kiss +them a thousand and a thousand times, bathing them with his tears. +It will be arranged between them how they are to inform each other +of their good or evil fortunes, and the princess will entreat him to +make his absence as short as possible, which he will promise to do +with many oaths; once more he kisses her hands, and takes his leave in +such grief that he is well-nigh ready to die. He betakes him thence to +his chamber, flings himself on his bed, cannot sleep for sorrow at +parting, rises early in the morning, goes to take leave of the king, +queen, and princess, and, as he takes his leave of the pair, it is +told him that the princess is indisposed and cannot receive a visit; +the knight thinks it is from grief at his departure, his heart is +pierced, and he is hardly able to keep from showing his pain. The +confidante is present, observes all, goes to tell her mistress, who +listens with tears and says that one of her greatest distresses is not +knowing who this knight is, and whether he is of kingly lineage or +not; the damsel assures her that so much courtesy, gentleness, and +gallantry of bearing as her knight possesses could not exist in any +save one who was royal and illustrious; her anxiety is thus +relieved, and she strives to be of good cheer lest she should excite +suspicion in her parents, and at the end of two days she appears in +public. Meanwhile the knight has taken his departure; he fights in the +war, conquers the king's enemy, wins many cities, triumphs in many +battles, returns to the court, sees his lady where he was wont to +see her, and it is agreed that he shall demand her in marriage of +her parents as the reward of his services; the king is unwilling to +give her, as he knows not who he is, but nevertheless, whether carried +off or in whatever other way it may be, the princess comes to be his +bride, and her father comes to regard it as very good fortune; for +it so happens that this knight is proved to be the son of a valiant +king of some kingdom, I know not what, for I fancy it is not likely to +be on the map. The father dies, the princess inherits, and in two +words the knight becomes king. And here comes in at once the +bestowal of rewards upon his squire and all who have aided him in +rising to so exalted a rank. He marries his squire to a damsel of +the princess's, who will be, no doubt, the one who was confidante in +their amour, and is daughter of a very great duke."</p> + +<p>"That's what I want, and no mistake about it!" said Sancho. +"That's what I'm waiting for; for all this, word for word, is in store +for your worship under the title of the Knight of the Rueful +Countenance."</p> + +<p>"Thou needst not doubt it, Sancho," replied Don Quixote, "for in the +same manner, and by the same steps as I have described here, +knights-errant rise and have risen to be kings and emperors; all we +want now is to find out what king, Christian or pagan, is at war and +has a beautiful daughter; but there will be time enough to think of +that, for, as I have told thee, fame must be won in other quarters +before repairing to the court. There is another thing, too, that is +wanting; for supposing we find a king who is at war and has a +beautiful daughter, and that I have won incredible fame throughout the +universe, I know not how it can be made out that I am of royal +lineage, or even second cousin to an emperor; for the king will not be +willing to give me his daughter in marriage unless he is first +thoroughly satisfied on this point, however much my famous deeds may +deserve it; so that by this deficiency I fear I shall lose what my arm +has fairly earned. True it is I am a gentleman of known house, of +estate and property, and entitled to the five hundred sueldos mulct; +and it may be that the sage who shall write my history will so clear +up my ancestry and pedigree that I may find myself fifth or sixth in +descent from a king; for I would have thee know, Sancho, that there +are two kinds of lineages in the world; some there be tracing and +deriving their descent from kings and princes, whom time has reduced +little by little until they end in a point like a pyramid upside down; +and others who spring from the common herd and go on rising step by +step until they come to be great lords; so that the difference is that +the one were what they no longer are, and the others are what they +formerly were not. And I may be of such that after investigation my +origin may prove great and famous, with which the king, my +father-in-law that is to be, ought to be satisfied; and should he +not be, the princess will so love me that even though she well knew me +to be the son of a water-carrier, she will take me for her lord and +husband in spite of her father; if not, then it comes to seizing her +and carrying her off where I please; for time or death will put an end +to the wrath of her parents."</p> + +<p>"It comes to this, too," said Sancho, "what some naughty people say, +'Never ask as a favour what thou canst take by force;' though it would +fit better to say, 'A clear escape is better than good men's prayers.' +I say so because if my lord the king, your worship's father-in-law, +will not condescend to give you my lady the princess, there is nothing +for it but, as your worship says, to seize her and transport her. +But the mischief is that until peace is made and you come into the +peaceful enjoyment of your kingdom, the poor squire is famishing as +far as rewards go, unless it be that the confidante damsel that is +to be his wife comes with the princess, and that with her he tides +over his bad luck until Heaven otherwise orders things; for his +master, I suppose, may as well give her to him at once for a lawful +wife."</p> + +<p>"Nobody can object to that," said Don Quixote.</p> + +<p>"Then since that may be," said Sancho, "there is nothing for it +but to commend ourselves to God, and let fortune take what course it +will."</p> + +<p>"God guide it according to my wishes and thy wants," said Don +Quixote, "and mean be he who thinks himself mean."</p> + +<p>"In God's name let him be so," said Sancho: "I am an old +Christian, and to fit me for a count that's enough."</p> + +<p>"And more than enough for thee," said Don Quixote; "and even wert +thou not, it would make no difference, because I being the king can +easily give thee nobility without purchase or service rendered by +thee, for when I make thee a count, then thou art at once a gentleman; +and they may say what they will, but by my faith they will have to +call thee 'your lordship,' whether they like it or not."</p> + +<p>"Not a doubt of it; and I'll know how to support the tittle," said +Sancho.</p> + +<p>"Title thou shouldst say, not tittle," said his master.</p> + +<p>"So be it," answered Sancho. "I say I will know how to behave, for +once in my life I was beadle of a brotherhood, and the beadle's gown +sat so well on me that all said I looked as if I was to be steward +of the same brotherhood. What will it be, then, when I put a duke's +robe on my back, or dress myself in gold and pearls like a count? I +believe they'll come a hundred leagues to see me."</p> + +<p>"Thou wilt look well," said Don Quixote, "but thou must shave thy +beard often, for thou hast it so thick and rough and unkempt, that +if thou dost not shave it every second day at least, they will see +what thou art at the distance of a musket shot."</p> + +<p>"What more will it be," said Sancho, "than having a barber, and +keeping him at wages in the house? and even if it be necessary, I will +make him go behind me like a nobleman's equerry."</p> + +<p>"Why, how dost thou know that noblemen have equerries behind +them?" asked Don Quixote.</p> + +<p>"I will tell you," answered Sancho. "Years ago I was for a month +at the capital and there I saw taking the air a very small gentleman +who they said was a very great man, and a man following him on +horseback in every turn he took, just as if he was his tail. I asked +why this man did not join the other man, instead of always going +behind him; they answered me that he was his equerry, and that it +was the custom with nobles to have such persons behind them, and +ever since then I know it, for I have never forgotten it."</p> + +<p>"Thou art right," said Don Quixote, "and in the same way thou mayest +carry thy barber with thee, for customs did not come into use all +together, nor were they all invented at once, and thou mayest be the +first count to have a barber to follow him; and, indeed, shaving one's +beard is a greater trust than saddling one's horse."</p> + +<p>"Let the barber business be my look-out," said Sancho; "and your +worship's be it to strive to become a king, and make me a count."</p> + +<p>"So it shall be," answered Don Quixote, and raising his eyes he +saw what will be told in the following chapter.</p> + + +<br> +<br><br><br> +<center><a name="c20e"></a><img alt="c20e.jpg (18K)" src="images/c20e.jpg" height="392" width="308"> +</center> +<br><br><br><br> + +<br><br> +<center><h2><a name="ch22"></a>CHAPTER XXII.</h2></center> +<br> +<center><h3>OF THE FREEDOM DON QUIXOTE CONFERRED ON SEVERAL UNFORTUNATES WHO +AGAINST THEIR WILL WERE BEING CARRIED WHERE THEY HAD NO WISH TO GO +</h3></center> +<br> +<br> + +<center><a name="c22a"></a><img alt="c22a.jpg (178K)" src="images/c22a.jpg" height="453" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/c22a.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<p>Cide Hamete Benengeli, the Arab and Manchegan author, relates in +this most grave, high-sounding, minute, delightful, and original +history that after the discussion between the famous Don Quixote of La +Mancha and his squire Sancho Panza which is set down at the end of +chapter twenty-one, Don Quixote raised his eyes and saw coming along +the road he was following some dozen men on foot strung together by +the neck, like beads, on a great iron chain, and all with manacles +on their hands. With them there came also two men on horseback and two +on foot; those on horseback with wheel-lock muskets, those on foot +with javelins and swords, and as soon as Sancho saw them he said:</p> + +<p>"That is a chain of galley slaves, on the way to the galleys by +force of the king's orders."</p> + +<p>"How by force?" asked Don Quixote; "is it possible that the king +uses force against anyone?"</p> + +<p>"I do not say that," answered Sancho, "but that these are people +condemned for their crimes to serve by force in the king's galleys."</p> + +<p>"In fact," replied Don Quixote, "however it may be, these people are +going where they are taking them by force, and not of their own will."</p> + +<p>"Just so," said Sancho.</p> + +<p>"Then if so," said Don Quixote, "here is a case for the exercise +of my office, to put down force and to succour and help the wretched."</p> + +<p>"Recollect, your worship," said Sancho, "Justice, which is the +king himself, is not using force or doing wrong to such persons, but +punishing them for their crimes."</p> + +<p>The chain of galley slaves had by this time come up, and Don Quixote +in very courteous language asked those who were in custody of it to be +good enough to tell him the reason or reasons for which they were +conducting these people in this manner. One of the guards on horseback +answered that they were galley slaves belonging to his majesty, that +they were going to the galleys, and that was all that was to be said +and all he had any business to know.</p> + + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="c22b"></a><img alt="c22b.jpg (298K)" src="images/c22b.jpg" height="819" width="650"> +</center> +<a href="images/c22b.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Full Size" src="images/enlarge.jpg"></a> +<br><br><br><br> + +<p>"Nevertheless," replied Don Quixote, "I should like to know from +each of them separately the reason of his misfortune;" to this he +added more to the same effect to induce them to tell him what he +wanted so civilly that the other mounted guard said to him:</p> + +<p>"Though we have here the register and certificate of the sentence of +every one of these wretches, this is no time to take them out or +read them; come and ask themselves; they can tell if they choose, +and they will, for these fellows take a pleasure in doing and +talking about rascalities."</p> + +<p>With this permission, which Don Quixote would have taken even had +they not granted it, he approached the chain and asked the first for +what offences he was now in such a sorry case.</p> + +<p>He made answer that it was for being a lover.</p> + +<p>"For that only?" replied Don Quixote; "why, if for being lovers they +send people to the galleys I might have been rowing in them long ago."</p> + +<p>"The love is not the sort your worship is thinking of," said the +galley slave; "mine was that I loved a washerwoman's basket of clean +linen so well, and held it so close in my embrace, that if the arm +of the law had not forced it from me, I should never have let it go of +my own will to this moment; I was caught in the act, there was no +occasion for torture, the case was settled, they treated me to a +hundred lashes on the back, and three years of gurapas besides, and +that was the end of it."</p> + +<p>"What are gurapas?" asked Don Quixote.</p> + +<p>"Gurapas are galleys," answered the galley slave, who was a young +man of about four-and-twenty, and said he was a native of Piedrahita.</p> + +<p>Don Quixote asked the same question of the second, who made no +reply, so downcast and melancholy was he; but the first answered for +him, and said, "He, sir, goes as a canary, I mean as a musician and +a singer."</p> + +<p>"What!" said Don Quixote, "for being musicians and singers are +people sent to the galleys too?"</p> + +<p>"Yes, sir," answered the galley slave, "for there is nothing worse +than singing under suffering."</p> + +<p>"On the contrary, I have heard say," said Don Quixote, "that he +who sings scares away his woes."</p> + +<p>"Here it is the reverse," said the galley slave; "for he who sings +once weeps all his life."</p> + +<p>"I do not understand it," said Don Quixote; but one of the guards +said to him, "Sir, to sing under suffering means with the non sancta +fraternity to confess under torture; they put this sinner to the +torture and he confessed his crime, which was being a cuatrero, that +is a cattle-stealer, and on his confession they sentenced him to six +years in the galleys, besides two bundred lashes that he has already +had on the back; and he is always dejected and downcast because the +other thieves that were left behind and that march here ill-treat, and +snub, and jeer, and despise him for confessing and not having spirit +enough to say nay; for, say they, 'nay' has no more letters in it than +'yea,' and a culprit is well off when life or death with him depends +on his own tongue and not on that of witnesses or evidence; and to +my thinking they are not very far out."</p> + +<p>"And I think so too," answered Don Quixote; then passing on to the +third he asked him what he had asked the others, and the man +answered very readily and unconcernedly, "I am going for five years to +their ladyships the gurapas for the want of ten ducats."</p> + +<p>"I will give twenty with pleasure to get you out of that trouble," +said Don Quixote.</p> + +<p>"That," said the galley slave, "is like a man having money at sea +when he is dying of hunger and has no way of buying what he wants; I +say so because if at the right time I had had those twenty ducats that +your worship now offers me, I would have greased the notary's pen +and freshened up the attorney's wit with them, so that to-day I should +be in the middle of the plaza of the Zocodover at Toledo, and not on +this road coupled like a greyhound. But God is great; patience—there, +that's enough of it."</p> + +<p>Don Quixote passed on to the fourth, a man of venerable aspect +with a white beard falling below his breast, who on hearing himself +asked the reason of his being there began to weep without answering +a word, but the fifth acted as his tongue and said, "This worthy man +is going to the galleys for four years, after having gone the rounds +in ceremony and on horseback."</p> + +<p> "That means," said Sancho Panza, "as I take it, to have been +exposed to shame in public."</p> + +<p>"Just so," replied the galley slave, "and the offence for which they +gave him that punishment was having been an ear-broker, nay +body-broker; I mean, in short, that this gentleman goes as a pimp, and +for having besides a certain touch of the sorcerer about him."</p> + +<p>"If that touch had not been thrown in," said Don Quixote, "be +would not deserve, for mere pimping, to row in the galleys, but rather +to command and be admiral of them; for the office of pimp is no +ordinary one, being the office of persons of discretion, one very +necessary in a well-ordered state, and only to be exercised by persons +of good birth; nay, there ought to be an inspector and overseer of +them, as in other offices, and recognised number, as with the +brokers on change; in this way many of the evils would be avoided +which are caused by this office and calling being in the hands of +stupid and ignorant people, such as women more or less silly, and +pages and jesters of little standing and experience, who on the most +urgent occasions, and when ingenuity of contrivance is needed, let the +crumbs freeze on the way to their mouths, and know not which is +their right hand. I should like to go farther, and give reasons to +show that it is advisable to choose those who are to hold so necessary +an office in the state, but this is not the fit place for it; some day +I will expound the matter to some one able to see to and rectify it; +all I say now is, that the additional fact of his being a sorcerer has +removed the sorrow it gave me to see these white hairs and this +venerable countenance in so painful a position on account of his being +a pimp; though I know well there are no sorceries in the world that +can move or compel the will as some simple folk fancy, for our will is +free, nor is there herb or charm that can force it. All that certain +silly women and quacks do is to turn men mad with potions and poisons, +pretending that they have power to cause love, for, as I say, it is an +impossibility to compel the will."</p> + +<p>"It is true," said the good old man, "and indeed, sir, as far as the +charge of sorcery goes I was not guilty; as to that of being a pimp +I cannot deny it; but I never thought I was doing any harm by it, +for my only object was that all the world should enjoy itself and live +in peace and quiet, without quarrels or troubles; but my good +intentions were unavailing to save me from going where I never +expect to come back from, with this weight of years upon me and a +urinary ailment that never gives me a moment's ease;" and again he +fell to weeping as before, and such compassion did Sancho feel for him +that he took out a real of four from his bosom and gave it to him in +alms.</p> + +<p>Don Quixote went on and asked another what his crime was, and the +man answered with no less but rather much more sprightliness than +the last one.</p> + +<p>"I am here because I carried the joke too far with a couple of +cousins of mine, and with a couple of other cousins who were none of +mine; in short, I carried the joke so far with them all that it +ended in such a complicated increase of kindred that no accountant +could make it clear: it was all proved against me, I got no favour, +I had no money, I was near having my neck stretched, they sentenced me +to the galleys for six years, I accepted my fate, it is the punishment +of my fault; I am a young man; let life only last, and with that all +will come right. If you, sir, have anything wherewith to help the +poor, God will repay it to you in heaven, and we on earth will take +care in our petitions to him to pray for the life and health of your +worship, that they may be as long and as good as your amiable +appearance deserves."</p> + +<p>This one was in the dress of a student, and one of the guards said +he was a great talker and a very elegant Latin scholar.</p> + +<p>Behind all these there came a man of thirty, a very personable +fellow, except that when he looked, his eyes turned in a little one +towards the other. He was bound differently from the rest, for he +had to his leg a chain so long that it was wound all round his body, +and two rings on his neck, one attached to the chain, the other to +what they call a "keep-friend" or "friend's foot," from which hung two +irons reaching to his waist with two manacles fixed to them in which +his hands were secured by a big padlock, so that he could neither +raise his hands to his mouth nor lower his head to his hands. Don +Quixote asked why this man carried so many more chains than the +others. The guard replied that it was because he alone had committed +more crimes than all the rest put together, and was so daring and such +a villain, that though they marched him in that fashion they did not +feel sure of him, but were in dread of his making his escape.</p> + +<p>"What crimes can he have committed," said Don Quixote, "if they have +not deserved a heavier punishment than being sent to the galleys?"</p> + +<p>"He goes for ten years," replied the guard, "which is the same thing +as civil death, and all that need be said is that this good fellow +is the famous Gines de Pasamonte, otherwise called Ginesillo de +Parapilla."</p> + +<p>"Gently, senor commissary," said the galley slave at this, "let us +have no fixing of names or surnames; my name is Gines, not +Ginesillo, and my family name is Pasamonte, not Parapilla as you +say; let each one mind his own business, and he will be doing enough."</p> + +<p>"Speak with less impertinence, master thief of extra measure," +replied the commissary, "if you don't want me to make you hold your +tongue in spite of your teeth."</p> + +<p>"It is easy to see," returned the galley slave, "that man goes as +God pleases, but some one shall know some day whether I am called +Ginesillo de Parapilla or not."</p> + +<p>"Don't they call you so, you liar?" said the guard.</p> + +<p>"They do," returned Gines, "but I will make them give over calling +me so, or I will be shaved, where, I only say behind my teeth. If you, +sir, have anything to give us, give it to us at once, and God speed +you, for you are becoming tiresome with all this inquisitiveness about +the lives of others; if you want to know about mine, let me tell you I +am Gines de Pasamonte, whose life is written by these fingers."</p> + +<p>"He says true," said the commissary, "for he has himself written his +story as grand as you please, and has left the book in the prison in +pawn for two hundred reals."</p> + +<p>"And I mean to take it out of pawn," said Gines, "though it were +in for two hundred ducats."</p> + +<p>"Is it so good?" said Don Quixote.</p> + +<p>"So good is it," replied Gines, "that a fig for 'Lazarillo de +Tormes,' and all of that kind that have been written, or shall be +written compared with it: all I will say about it is that it deals +with facts, and facts so neat and diverting that no lies could match +them."</p> + +<p>"And how is the book entitled?" asked Don Quixote.</p> + +<p>"The 'Life of Gines de Pasamonte,'" replied the subject of it.</p> + +<p>"And is it finished?" asked Don Quixote.</p> + +<p>"How can it be finished," said the other, "when my life is not yet +finished? All that is written is from my birth down to the point +when they sent me to the galleys this last time."</p> + +<p>"Then you have been there before?" said Don Quixote.</p> + +<p>"In the service of God and the king I have been there for four years +before now, and I know by this time what the biscuit and courbash +are like," replied Gines; "and it is no great grievance to me to go +back to them, for there I shall have time to finish my book; I have +still many things left to say, and in the galleys of Spain there is +more than enough leisure; though I do not want much for what I have to +write, for I have it by heart."</p> + +<p>"You seem a clever fellow," said Don Quixote.</p> + +<p>"And an unfortunate one," replied Gines, "for misfortune always +persecutes good wit."</p> + +<p>"It persecutes rogues," said the commissary.</p> + +<p>"I told you already to go gently, master commissary," said +Pasamonte; "their lordships yonder never gave you that staff to +ill-treat us wretches here, but to conduct and take us where his +majesty orders you; if not, by the life of-never mind-; it may be that +some day the stains made in the inn will come out in the scouring; let +everyone hold his tongue and behave well and speak better; and now let +us march on, for we have had quite enough of this entertainment."</p> + +<p>The commissary lifted his staff to strike Pasamonte in return for +his threats, but Don Quixote came between them, and begged him not +to ill-use him, as it was not too much to allow one who had his +hands tied to have his tongue a trifle free; and turning to the +whole chain of them he said:</p> + +<p>"From all you have told me, dear brethren, make out clearly that +though they have punished you for your faults, the punishments you are +about to endure do not give you much pleasure, and that you go to them +very much against the grain and against your will, and that perhaps +this one's want of courage under torture, that one's want of money, +the other's want of advocacy, and lastly the perverted judgment of the +judge may have been the cause of your ruin and of your failure to +obtain the justice you had on your side. All which presents itself now +to my mind, urging, persuading, and even compelling me to +demonstrate in your case the purpose for which Heaven sent me into the +world and caused me to make profession of the order of chivalry to +which I belong, and the vow I took therein to give aid to those in +need and under the oppression of the strong. But as I know that it +is a mark of prudence not to do by foul means what may be done by +fair, I will ask these gentlemen, the guards and commissary, to be +so good as to release you and let you go in peace, as there will be no +lack of others to serve the king under more favourable +circumstances; for it seems to me a hard case to make slaves of +those whom God and nature have made free. Moreover, sirs of the +guard," added Don Quixote, "these poor fellows have done nothing to +you; let each answer for his own sins yonder; there is a God in Heaven +who will not forget to punish the wicked or reward the good; and it is +not fitting that honest men should be the instruments of punishment to +others, they being therein no way concerned. This request I make +thus gently and quietly, that, if you comply with it, I may have +reason for thanking you; and, if you will not voluntarily, this +lance and sword together with the might of my arm shall compel you +to comply with it by force."</p> + +<p>"Nice nonsense!" said the commissary; "a fine piece of pleasantry he +has come out with at last! He wants us to let the king's prisoners go, +as if we had any authority to release them, or he to order us to do +so! Go your way, sir, and good luck to you; put that basin straight +that you've got on your head, and don't go looking for three feet on a +cat."</p> + +<p>"'Tis you that are the cat, rat, and rascal," replied Don Quixote, +and acting on the word he fell upon him so suddenly that without +giving him time to defend himself he brought him to the ground +sorely wounded with a lance-thrust; and lucky it was for him that it +was the one that had the musket. The other guards stood +thunderstruck and amazed at this unexpected event, but recovering +presence of mind, those on horseback seized their swords, and those on +foot their javelins, and attacked Don Quixote, who was waiting for +them with great calmness; and no doubt it would have gone badly with +him if the galley slaves, seeing the chance before them of +liberating themselves, had not effected it by contriving to break +the chain on which they were strung. Such was the confusion, that +the guards, now rushing at the galley slaves who were breaking +loose, now to attack Don Quixote who was waiting for them, did nothing +at all that was of any use. Sancho, on his part, gave a helping hand +to release Gines de Pasamonte, who was the first to leap forth upon +the plain free and unfettered, and who, attacking the prostrate +commissary, took from him his sword and the musket, with which, aiming +at one and levelling at another, he, without ever discharging it, +drove every one of the guards off the field, for they took to +flight, as well to escape Pasamonte's musket, as the showers of stones +the now released galley slaves were raining upon them. Sancho was +greatly grieved at the affair, because he anticipated that those who +had fled would report the matter to the Holy Brotherhood, who at the +summons of the alarm-bell would at once sally forth in quest of the +offenders; and he said so to his master, and entreated him to leave +the place at once, and go into hiding in the sierra that was close by.</p> + +<p>"That is all very well," said Don Quixote, "but I know what must +be done now;" and calling together all the galley slaves, who were now +running riot, and had stripped the commissary to the skin, he +collected them round him to hear what he had to say, and addressed +them as follows: "To be grateful for benefits received is the part +of persons of good birth, and one of the sins most offensive to God is +ingratitude; I say so because, sirs, ye have already seen by +manifest proof the benefit ye have received of me; in return for which +I desire, and it is my good pleasure that, laden with that chain which +I have taken off your necks, ye at once set out and proceed to the +city of El Toboso, and there present yourselves before the lady +Dulcinea del Toboso, and say to her that her knight, he of the +Rueful Countenance, sends to commend himself to her; and that ye +recount to her in full detail all the particulars of this notable +adventure, up to the recovery of your longed-for liberty; and this +done ye may go where ye will, and good fortune attend you."</p> + +<p>Gines de Pasamonte made answer for all, saying, "That which you, +sir, our deliverer, demand of us, is of all impossibilities the most +impossible to comply with, because we cannot go together along the +roads, but only singly and separate, and each one his own way, +endeavouring to hide ourselves in the bowels of the earth to escape +the Holy Brotherhood, which, no doubt, will come out in search of +us. What your worship may do, and fairly do, is to change this service +and tribute as regards the lady Dulcinea del Toboso for a certain +quantity of ave-marias and credos which we will say for your worship's +intention, and this is a condition that can be complied with by +night as by day, running or resting, in peace or in war; but to +imagine that we are going now to return to the flesh-pots of Egypt, +I mean to take up our chain and set out for El Toboso, is to imagine +that it is now night, though it is not yet ten in the morning, and +to ask this of us is like asking pears of the elm tree."</p> + +<p>"Then by all that's good," said Don Quixote (now stirred to +wrath), "Don son of a bitch, Don Ginesillo de Paropillo, or whatever +your name is, you will have to go yourself alone, with your tail +between your legs and the whole chain on your back."</p> + +<p>Pasamonte, who was anything but meek (being by this time +thoroughly convinced that Don Quixote was not quite right in his +head as he had committed such a vagary as to set them free), finding +himself abused in this fashion, gave the wink to his companions, and +falling back they began to shower stones on Don Quixote at such a rate +that he was quite unable to protect himself with his buckler, and poor +Rocinante no more heeded the spur than if he had been made of brass. +Sancho planted himself behind his ass, and with him sheltered +himself from the hailstorm that poured on both of them. Don Quixote +was unable to shield himself so well but that more pebbles than I +could count struck him full on the body with such force that they +brought him to the ground; and the instant he fell the student pounced +upon him, snatched the basin from his head, and with it struck three +or four blows on his shoulders, and as many more on the ground, +knocking it almost to pieces. They then stripped him of a jacket +that he wore over his armour, and they would have stripped off his +stockings if his greaves had not prevented them. From Sancho they took +his coat, leaving him in his shirt-sleeves; and dividing among +themselves the remaining spoils of the battle, they went each one +his own way, more solicitous about keeping clear of the Holy +Brotherhood they dreaded, than about burdening themselves with the +chain, or going to present themselves before the lady Dulcinea del +Toboso. The ass and Rocinante, Sancho and Don Quixote, were all that +were left upon the spot; the ass with drooping head, serious, +shaking his ears from time to time as if he thought the storm of +stones that assailed them was not yet over; Rocinante stretched beside +his master, for he too had been brought to the ground by a stone; +Sancho stripped, and trembling with fear of the Holy Brotherhood; +and Don Quixote fuming to find himself so served by the very persons +for whom he had done so much.</p> + + +<br><br><br><br> +<center><a name="c22e"></a><img alt="c22e.jpg (44K)" src="images/c22e.jpg" height="637" width="527"> +</center> + + + +<br> +<br> +<hr> +<br><br> + + + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The History of Don Quixote, Vol. I., +Part 7., by Miguel de Cervantes + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DON QUIXOTE, PART 7 *** + +***** This file should be named 5909-h.htm or 5909-h.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/5/9/0/5909/ + +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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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 7. + +Author: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra + +Release Date: July 18, 2004 [EBook #5909] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DON QUIXOTE, PART 7 *** + + + + +Produced by David Widger + + + + + + DON QUIXOTE + + by Miguel de Cervantes + + Translated by John Ormsby + + + Volume I. + + Part 7. + + + +CHAPTER XVIII. + +IN WHICH IS RELATED THE DISCOURSE SANCHO PANZA HELD WITH HIS MASTER, DON +QUIXOTE, AND OTHER ADVENTURES WORTH RELATING + +Sancho reached his master so limp and faint that he could not urge on his +beast. When Don Quixote saw the state he was in he said, "I have now come +to the conclusion, good Sancho, that this castle or inn is beyond a doubt +enchanted, because those who have so atrociously diverted themselves with +thee, what can they be but phantoms or beings of another world? and I +hold this confirmed by having noticed that when I was by the wall of the +yard witnessing the acts of thy sad tragedy, it was out of my power to +mount upon it, nor could I even dismount from Rocinante, because they no +doubt had me enchanted; for I swear to thee by the faith of what I am +that if I had been able to climb up or dismount, I would have avenged +thee in such a way that those braggart thieves would have remembered +their freak for ever, even though in so doing I knew that I contravened +the laws of chivalry, which, as I have often told thee, do not permit a +knight to lay hands on him who is not one, save in case of urgent and +great necessity in defence of his own life and person." + +"I would have avenged myself too if I could," said Sancho, "whether I had +been dubbed knight or not, but I could not; though for my part I am +persuaded those who amused themselves with me were not phantoms or +enchanted men, as your worship says, but men of flesh and bone like +ourselves; and they all had their names, for I heard them name them when +they were tossing me, and one was called Pedro Martinez, and another +Tenorio Hernandez, and the innkeeper, I heard, was called Juan Palomeque +the Left-handed; so that, senor, your not being able to leap over the +wall of the yard or dismount from your horse came of something else +besides enchantments; and what I make out clearly from all this is, that +these adventures we go seeking will in the end lead us into such +misadventures that we shall not know which is our right foot; and that +the best and wisest thing, according to my small wits, would be for us to +return home, now that it is harvest-time, and attend to our business, and +give over wandering from Zeca to Mecca and from pail to bucket, as the +saying is." + +"How little thou knowest about chivalry, Sancho," replied Don Quixote; +"hold thy peace and have patience; the day will come when thou shalt see +with thine own eyes what an honourable thing it is to wander in the +pursuit of this calling; nay, tell me, what greater pleasure can there be +in the world, or what delight can equal that of winning a battle, and +triumphing over one's enemy? None, beyond all doubt." + +"Very likely," answered Sancho, "though I do not know it; all I know is +that since we have been knights-errant, or since your worship has been +one (for I have no right to reckon myself one of so honourable a number) +we have never won any battle except the one with the Biscayan, and even +out of that your worship came with half an ear and half a helmet the +less; and from that till now it has been all cudgellings and more +cudgellings, cuffs and more cuffs, I getting the blanketing over and +above, and falling in with enchanted persons on whom I cannot avenge +myself so as to know what the delight, as your worship calls it, of +conquering an enemy is like." + +"That is what vexes me, and what ought to vex thee, Sancho," replied Don +Quixote; "but henceforward I will endeavour to have at hand some sword +made by such craft that no kind of enchantments can take effect upon him +who carries it, and it is even possible that fortune may procure for me +that which belonged to Amadis when he was called 'The Knight of the +Burning Sword,' which was one of the best swords that ever knight in the +world possessed, for, besides having the said virtue, it cut like a +razor, and there was no armour, however strong and enchanted it might be, +that could resist it." + +"Such is my luck," said Sancho, "that even if that happened and your +worship found some such sword, it would, like the balsam, turn out +serviceable and good for dubbed knights only, and as for the squires, +they might sup sorrow." + +"Fear not that, Sancho," said Don Quixote: "Heaven will deal better by +thee." + +Thus talking, Don Quixote and his squire were going along, when, on the +road they were following, Don Quixote perceived approaching them a large +and thick cloud of dust, on seeing which he turned to Sancho and said: + +"This is the day, Sancho, on which will be seen the boon my fortune is +reserving for me; this, I say, is the day on which as much as on any +other shall be displayed the might of my arm, and on which I shall do +deeds that shall remain written in the book of fame for all ages to come. +Seest thou that cloud of dust which rises yonder? Well, then, all that is +churned up by a vast army composed of various and countless nations that +comes marching there." + +"According to that there must be two," said Sancho, "for on this opposite +side also there rises just such another cloud of dust." + +Don Quixote turned to look and found that it was true, and rejoicing +exceedingly, he concluded that they were two armies about to engage and +encounter in the midst of that broad plain; for at all times and seasons +his fancy was full of the battles, enchantments, adventures, crazy feats, +loves, and defiances that are recorded in the books of chivalry, and +everything he said, thought, or did had reference to such things. Now the +cloud of dust he had seen was raised by two great droves of sheep coming +along the same road in opposite directions, which, because of the dust, +did not become visible until they drew near, but Don Quixote asserted so +positively that they were armies that Sancho was led to believe it and +say, "Well, and what are we to do, senor?" + +"What?" said Don Quixote: "give aid and assistance to the weak and those +who need it; and thou must know, Sancho, that this which comes opposite +to us is conducted and led by the mighty emperor Alifanfaron, lord of the +great isle of Trapobana; this other that marches behind me is that of his +enemy the king of the Garamantas, Pentapolin of the Bare Arm, for he +always goes into battle with his right arm bare." + +"But why are these two lords such enemies?" + +"They are at enmity," replied Don Quixote, "because this Alifanfaron is a +furious pagan and is in love with the daughter of Pentapolin, who is a +very beautiful and moreover gracious lady, and a Christian, and her +father is unwilling to bestow her upon the pagan king unless he first +abandons the religion of his false prophet Mahomet, and adopts his own." + +"By my beard," said Sancho, "but Pentapolin does quite right, and I will +help him as much as I can." + +"In that thou wilt do what is thy duty, Sancho," said Don Quixote; "for +to engage in battles of this sort it is not requisite to be a dubbed +knight." + +"That I can well understand," answered Sancho; "but where shall we put +this ass where we may be sure to find him after the fray is over? for I +believe it has not been the custom so far to go into battle on a beast of +this kind." + +"That is true," said Don Quixote, "and what you had best do with him is +to leave him to take his chance whether he be lost or not, for the horses +we shall have when we come out victors will be so many that even +Rocinante will run a risk of being changed for another. But attend to me +and observe, for I wish to give thee some account of the chief knights +who accompany these two armies; and that thou mayest the better see and +mark, let us withdraw to that hillock which rises yonder, whence both +armies may be seen." + +They did so, and placed themselves on a rising ground from which the two +droves that Don Quixote made armies of might have been plainly seen if +the clouds of dust they raised had not obscured them and blinded the +sight; nevertheless, seeing in his imagination what he did not see and +what did not exist, he began thus in a loud voice: + +"That knight whom thou seest yonder in yellow armour, who bears upon his +shield a lion crowned crouching at the feet of a damsel, is the valiant +Laurcalco, lord of the Silver Bridge; that one in armour with flowers of +gold, who bears on his shield three crowns argent on an azure field, is +the dreaded Micocolembo, grand duke of Quirocia; that other of gigantic +frame, on his right hand, is the ever dauntless Brandabarbaran de +Boliche, lord of the three Arabias, who for armour wears that serpent +skin, and has for shield a gate which, according to tradition, is one of +those of the temple that Samson brought to the ground when by his death +he revenged himself upon his enemies. But turn thine eyes to the other +side, and thou shalt see in front and in the van of this other army the +ever victorious and never vanquished Timonel of Carcajona, prince of New +Biscay, who comes in armour with arms quartered azure, vert, white, and +yellow, and bears on his shield a cat or on a field tawny with a motto +which says Miau, which is the beginning of the name of his lady, who +according to report is the peerless Miaulina, daughter of the duke +Alfeniquen of the Algarve; the other, who burdens and presses the loins +of that powerful charger and bears arms white as snow and a shield blank +and without any device, is a novice knight, a Frenchman by birth, Pierres +Papin by name, lord of the baronies of Utrique; that other, who with +iron-shod heels strikes the flanks of that nimble parti-coloured zebra, +and for arms bears azure vair, is the mighty duke of Nerbia, +Espartafilardo del Bosque, who bears for device on his shield an +asparagus plant with a motto in Castilian that says, Rastrea mi suerte." +And so he went on naming a number of knights of one squadron or the other +out of his imagination, and to all he assigned off-hand their arms, +colours, devices, and mottoes, carried away by the illusions of his +unheard-of craze; and without a pause, he continued, "People of divers +nations compose this squadron in front; here are those that drink of the +sweet waters of the famous Xanthus, those that scour the woody Massilian +plains, those that sift the pure fine gold of Arabia Felix, those that +enjoy the famed cool banks of the crystal Thermodon, those that in many +and various ways divert the streams of the golden Pactolus, the +Numidians, faithless in their promises, the Persians renowned in archery, +the Parthians and the Medes that fight as they fly, the Arabs that ever +shift their dwellings, the Scythians as cruel as they are fair, the +Ethiopians with pierced lips, and an infinity of other nations whose +features I recognise and descry, though I cannot recall their names. In +this other squadron there come those that drink of the crystal streams of +the olive-bearing Betis, those that make smooth their countenances with +the water of the ever rich and golden Tagus, those that rejoice in the +fertilising flow of the divine Genil, those that roam the Tartesian +plains abounding in pasture, those that take their pleasure in the +Elysian meadows of Jerez, the rich Manchegans crowned with ruddy ears of +corn, the wearers of iron, old relics of the Gothic race, those that +bathe in the Pisuerga renowned for its gentle current, those that feed +their herds along the spreading pastures of the winding Guadiana famed +for its hidden course, those that tremble with the cold of the pineclad +Pyrenees or the dazzling snows of the lofty Apennine; in a word, as many +as all Europe includes and contains." + +Good God! what a number of countries and nations he named! giving to each +its proper attributes with marvellous readiness; brimful and saturated +with what he had read in his lying books! Sancho Panza hung upon his +words without speaking, and from time to time turned to try if he could +see the knights and giants his master was describing, and as he could not +make out one of them he said to him: + +"Senor, devil take it if there's a sign of any man you talk of, knight or +giant, in the whole thing; maybe it's all enchantment, like the phantoms +last night." + +"How canst thou say that!" answered Don Quixote; "dost thou not hear the +neighing of the steeds, the braying of the trumpets, the roll of the +drums?" + +"I hear nothing but a great bleating of ewes and sheep," said Sancho; +which was true, for by this time the two flocks had come close. + +"The fear thou art in, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "prevents thee from +seeing or hearing correctly, for one of the effects of fear is to derange +the senses and make things appear different from what they are; if thou +art in such fear, withdraw to one side and leave me to myself, for alone +I suffice to bring victory to that side to which I shall give my aid;" +and so saying he gave Rocinante the spur, and putting the lance in rest, +shot down the slope like a thunderbolt. Sancho shouted after him, crying, +"Come back, Senor Don Quixote; I vow to God they are sheep and ewes you +are charging! Come back! Unlucky the father that begot me! what madness +is this! Look, there is no giant, nor knight, nor cats, nor arms, nor +shields quartered or whole, nor vair azure or bedevilled. What are you +about? Sinner that I am before God!" But not for all these entreaties did +Don Quixote turn back; on the contrary he went on shouting out, "Ho, +knights, ye who follow and fight under the banners of the valiant emperor +Pentapolin of the Bare Arm, follow me all; ye shall see how easily I +shall give him his revenge over his enemy Alifanfaron of the Trapobana." + +So saying, he dashed into the midst of the squadron of ewes, and began +spearing them with as much spirit and intrepidity as if he were +transfixing mortal enemies in earnest. The shepherds and drovers +accompanying the flock shouted to him to desist; seeing it was no use, +they ungirt their slings and began to salute his ears with stones as big +as one's fist. Don Quixote gave no heed to the stones, but, letting drive +right and left kept saying: + +"Where art thou, proud Alifanfaron? Come before me; I am a single knight +who would fain prove thy prowess hand to hand, and make thee yield thy +life a penalty for the wrong thou dost to the valiant Pentapolin +Garamanta." Here came a sugar-plum from the brook that struck him on the +side and buried a couple of ribs in his body. Feeling himself so smitten, +he imagined himself slain or badly wounded for certain, and recollecting +his liquor he drew out his flask, and putting it to his mouth began to +pour the contents into his stomach; but ere he had succeeded in +swallowing what seemed to him enough, there came another almond which +struck him on the hand and on the flask so fairly that it smashed it to +pieces, knocking three or four teeth and grinders out of his mouth in its +course, and sorely crushing two fingers of his hand. Such was the force +of the first blow and of the second, that the poor knight in spite of +himself came down backwards off his horse. The shepherds came up, and +felt sure they had killed him; so in all haste they collected their flock +together, took up the dead beasts, of which there were more than seven, +and made off without waiting to ascertain anything further. + +All this time Sancho stood on the hill watching the crazy feats his +master was performing, and tearing his beard and cursing the hour and the +occasion when fortune had made him acquainted with him. Seeing him, then, +brought to the ground, and that the shepherds had taken themselves off, +he ran to him and found him in very bad case, though not unconscious; and +said he: + +"Did I not tell you to come back, Senor Don Quixote; and that what you +were going to attack were not armies but droves of sheep?" + +"That's how that thief of a sage, my enemy, can alter and falsify +things," answered Don Quixote; "thou must know, Sancho, that it is a very +easy matter for those of his sort to make us believe what they choose; +and this malignant being who persecutes me, envious of the glory he knew +I was to win in this battle, has turned the squadrons of the enemy into +droves of sheep. At any rate, do this much, I beg of thee, Sancho, to +undeceive thyself, and see that what I say is true; mount thy ass and +follow them quietly, and thou shalt see that when they have gone some +little distance from this they will return to their original shape and, +ceasing to be sheep, become men in all respects as I described them to +thee at first. But go not just yet, for I want thy help and assistance; +come hither, and see how many of my teeth and grinders are missing, for I +feel as if there was not one left in my mouth." + +Sancho came so close that he almost put his eyes into his mouth; now just +at that moment the balsam had acted on the stomach of Don Quixote, so, at +the very instant when Sancho came to examine his mouth, he discharged all +its contents with more force than a musket, and full into the beard of +the compassionate squire. + +"Holy Mary!" cried Sancho, "what is this that has happened me? Clearly +this sinner is mortally wounded, as he vomits blood from the mouth;" but +considering the matter a little more closely he perceived by the colour, +taste, and smell, that it was not blood but the balsam from the flask +which he had seen him drink; and he was taken with such a loathing that +his stomach turned, and he vomited up his inside over his very master, +and both were left in a precious state. Sancho ran to his ass to get +something wherewith to clean himself, and relieve his master, out of his +alforjas; but not finding them, he well-nigh took leave of his senses, +and cursed himself anew, and in his heart resolved to quit his master and +return home, even though he forfeited the wages of his service and all +hopes of the promised island. + +Don Quixote now rose, and putting his left hand to his mouth to keep his +teeth from falling out altogether, with the other he laid hold of the +bridle of Rocinante, who had never stirred from his master's side--so +loyal and well-behaved was he--and betook himself to where the squire +stood leaning over his ass with his hand to his cheek, like one in deep +dejection. Seeing him in this mood, looking so sad, Don Quixote said to +him: + +"Bear in mind, Sancho, that one man is no more than another, unless he +does more than another; all these tempests that fall upon us are signs +that fair weather is coming shortly, and that things will go well with +us, for it is impossible for good or evil to last for ever; and hence it +follows that the evil having lasted long, the good must be now nigh at +hand; so thou must not distress thyself at the misfortunes which happen +to me, since thou hast no share in them." + +"How have I not?" replied Sancho; "was he whom they blanketed yesterday +perchance any other than my father's son? and the alforjas that are +missing to-day with all my treasures, did they belong to any other but +myself?" + +"What! are the alforjas missing, Sancho?" said Don Quixote. + +"Yes, they are missing," answered Sancho. + +"In that case we have nothing to eat to-day," replied Don Quixote. + +"It would be so," answered Sancho, "if there were none of the herbs your +worship says you know in these meadows, those with which knights-errant +as unlucky as your worship are wont to supply such-like shortcomings." + +"For all that," answered Don Quixote, "I would rather have just now a +quarter of bread, or a loaf and a couple of pilchards' heads, than all +the herbs described by Dioscorides, even with Doctor Laguna's notes. +Nevertheless, Sancho the Good, mount thy beast and come along with me, +for God, who provides for all things, will not fail us (more especially +when we are so active in his service as we are), since he fails not the +midges of the air, nor the grubs of the earth, nor the tadpoles of the +water, and is so merciful that he maketh his sun to rise on the good and +on the evil, and sendeth rain on the unjust and on the just." + +"Your worship would make a better preacher than knight-errant," said +Sancho. + +"Knights-errant knew and ought to know everything, Sancho," said Don +Quixote; "for there were knights-errant in former times as well qualified +to deliver a sermon or discourse in the middle of an encampment, as if +they had graduated in the University of Paris; whereby we may see that +the lance has never blunted the pen, nor the pen the lance." + +"Well, be it as your worship says," replied Sancho; "let us be off now +and find some place of shelter for the night, and God grant it may be +somewhere where there are no blankets, nor blanketeers, nor phantoms, nor +enchanted Moors; for if there are, may the devil take the whole concern." + +"Ask that of God, my son," said Don Quixote; "and do thou lead on where +thou wilt, for this time I leave our lodging to thy choice; but reach me +here thy hand, and feel with thy finger, and find out how many of my +teeth and grinders are missing from this right side of the upper jaw, for +it is there I feel the pain." + +Sancho put in his fingers, and feeling about asked him, "How many +grinders used your worship have on this side?" + +"Four," replied Don Quixote, "besides the back-tooth, all whole and quite +sound." + +"Mind what you are saying, senor." + +"I say four, if not five," answered Don Quixote, "for never in my life +have I had tooth or grinder drawn, nor has any fallen out or been +destroyed by any decay or rheum." + +"Well, then," said Sancho, "in this lower side your worship has no more +than two grinders and a half, and in the upper neither a half nor any at +all, for it is all as smooth as the palm of my hand." + +"Luckless that I am!" said Don Quixote, hearing the sad news his squire +gave him; "I had rather they despoiled me of an arm, so it were not the +sword-arm; for I tell thee, Sancho, a mouth without teeth is like a mill +without a millstone, and a tooth is much more to be prized than a +diamond; but we who profess the austere order of chivalry are liable to +all this. Mount, friend, and lead the way, and I will follow thee at +whatever pace thou wilt." + +Sancho did as he bade him, and proceeded in the direction in which he +thought he might find refuge without quitting the high road, which was +there very much frequented. As they went along, then, at a slow pace--for +the pain in Don Quixote's jaws kept him uneasy and ill-disposed for +speed--Sancho thought it well to amuse and divert him by talk of some +kind, and among the things he said to him was that which will be told in +the following chapter. + + + + +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 + +"It seems to me, senor, that all these mishaps that have befallen us of +late have been without any doubt a punishment for the offence committed +by your worship against the order of chivalry in not keeping the oath you +made not to eat bread off a tablecloth or embrace the queen, and all the +rest of it that your worship swore to observe until you had taken that +helmet of Malandrino's, or whatever the Moor is called, for I do not very +well remember." + +"Thou art very right, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "but to tell the truth, +it had escaped my memory; and likewise thou mayest rely upon it that the +affair of the blanket happened to thee because of thy fault in not +reminding me of it in time; but I will make amends, for there are ways of +compounding for everything in the order of chivalry." + +"Why! have I taken an oath of some sort, then?" said Sancho. + +"It makes no matter that thou hast not taken an oath," said Don Quixote; +"suffice it that I see thou art not quite clear of complicity; and +whether or no, it will not be ill done to provide ourselves with a +remedy." + +"In that case," said Sancho, "mind that your worship does not forget this +as you did the oath; perhaps the phantoms may take it into their heads to +amuse themselves once more with me; or even with your worship if they see +you so obstinate." + +While engaged in this and other talk, night overtook them on the road +before they had reached or discovered any place of shelter; and what made +it still worse was that they were dying of hunger, for with the loss of +the alforjas they had lost their entire larder and commissariat; and to +complete the misfortune they met with an adventure which without any +invention had really the appearance of one. It so happened that the night +closed in somewhat darkly, but for all that they pushed on, Sancho +feeling sure that as the road was the king's highway they might +reasonably expect to find some inn within a league or two. Going along, +then, in this way, the night dark, the squire hungry, the master +sharp-set, they saw coming towards them on the road they were travelling +a great number of lights which looked exactly like stars in motion. +Sancho was taken aback at the sight of them, nor did Don Quixote +altogether relish them: the one pulled up his ass by the halter, the +other his hack by the bridle, and they stood still, watching anxiously to +see what all this would turn out to be, and found that the lights were +approaching them, and the nearer they came the greater they seemed, at +which spectacle Sancho began to shake like a man dosed with mercury, and +Don Quixote's hair stood on end; he, however, plucking up spirit a +little, said: + +"This, no doubt, Sancho, will be a most mighty and perilous adventure, in +which it will be needful for me to put forth all my valour and +resolution." + +"Unlucky me!" answered Sancho; "if this adventure happens to be one of +phantoms, as I am beginning to think it is, where shall I find the ribs +to bear it?" + +"Be they phantoms ever so much," said Don Quixote, "I will not permit +them to touch a thread of thy garments; for if they played tricks with +thee the time before, it was because I was unable to leap the walls of +the yard; but now we are on a wide plain, where I shall be able to wield +my sword as I please." + +"And if they enchant and cripple you as they did the last time," said +Sancho, "what difference will it make being on the open plain or not?" + +"For all that," replied Don Quixote, "I entreat thee, Sancho, to keep a +good heart, for experience will tell thee what mine is." + +"I will, please God," answered Sancho, and the two retiring to one side +of the road set themselves to observe closely what all these moving +lights might be; and very soon afterwards they made out some twenty +encamisados, all on horseback, with lighted torches in their hands, the +awe-inspiring aspect of whom completely extinguished the courage of +Sancho, who began to chatter with his teeth like one in the cold fit of +an ague; and his heart sank and his teeth chattered still more when they +perceived distinctly that behind them there came a litter covered over +with black and followed by six more mounted figures in mourning down to +the very feet of their mules--for they could perceive plainly they were +not horses by the easy pace at which they went. And as the encamisados +came along they muttered to themselves in a low plaintive tone. This +strange spectacle at such an hour and in such a solitary place was quite +enough to strike terror into Sancho's heart, and even into his master's; +and (save in Don Quixote's case) did so, for all Sancho's resolution had +now broken down. It was just the opposite with his master, whose +imagination immediately conjured up all this to him vividly as one of the +adventures of his books. + +He took it into his head that the litter was a bier on which was borne +some sorely wounded or slain knight, to avenge whom was a task reserved +for him alone; and without any further reasoning he laid his lance in +rest, fixed himself firmly in his saddle, and with gallant spirit and +bearing took up his position in the middle of the road where the +encamisados must of necessity pass; and as soon as he saw them near at +hand he raised his voice and said: + +"Halt, knights, or whosoever ye may be, and render me account of who ye +are, whence ye come, where ye go, what it is ye carry upon that bier, +for, to judge by appearances, either ye have done some wrong or some +wrong has been done to you, and it is fitting and necessary that I should +know, either that I may chastise you for the evil ye have done, or else +that I may avenge you for the injury that has been inflicted upon you." + +"We are in haste," answered one of the encamisados, "and the inn is far +off, and we cannot stop to render you such an account as you demand;" and +spurring his mule he moved on. + +Don Quixote was mightily provoked by this answer, and seizing the mule by +the bridle he said, "Halt, and be more mannerly, and render an account of +what I have asked of you; else, take my defiance to combat, all of you." + +The mule was shy, and was so frightened at her bridle being seized that +rearing up she flung her rider to the ground over her haunches. An +attendant who was on foot, seeing the encamisado fall, began to abuse Don +Quixote, who now moved to anger, without any more ado, laying his lance +in rest charged one of the men in mourning and brought him badly wounded +to the ground, and as he wheeled round upon the others the agility with +which he attacked and routed them was a sight to see, for it seemed just +as if wings had that instant grown upon Rocinante, so lightly and proudly +did he bear himself. The encamisados were all timid folk and unarmed, so +they speedily made their escape from the fray and set off at a run across +the plain with their lighted torches, looking exactly like maskers +running on some gala or festival night. The mourners, too, enveloped and +swathed in their skirts and gowns, were unable to bestir themselves, and +so with entire safety to himself Don Quixote belaboured them all and +drove them off against their will, for they all thought it was no man but +a devil from hell come to carry away the dead body they had in the +litter. + +Sancho beheld all this in astonishment at the intrepidity of his lord, +and said to himself, "Clearly this master of mine is as bold and valiant +as he says he is." + +A burning torch lay on the ground near the first man whom the mule had +thrown, by the light of which Don Quixote perceived him, and coming up to +him he presented the point of the lance to his face, calling on him to +yield himself prisoner, or else he would kill him; to which the prostrate +man replied, "I am prisoner enough as it is; I cannot stir, for one of my +legs is broken: I entreat you, if you be a Christian gentleman, not to +kill me, which will be committing grave sacrilege, for I am a licentiate +and I hold first orders." + +"Then what the devil brought you here, being a churchman?" said Don +Quixote. + +"What, senor?" said the other. "My bad luck." + +"Then still worse awaits you," said Don Quixote, "if you do not satisfy +me as to all I asked you at first." + +"You shall be soon satisfied," said the licentiate; "you must know, then, +that though just now I said I was a licentiate, I am only a bachelor, and +my name is Alonzo Lopez; I am a native of Alcobendas, I come from the +city of Baeza with eleven others, priests, the same who fled with the +torches, and we are going to the city of Segovia accompanying a dead body +which is in that litter, and is that of a gentleman who died in Baeza, +where he was interred; and now, as I said, we are taking his bones to +their burial-place, which is in Segovia, where he was born." + +"And who killed him?" asked Don Quixote. + +"God, by means of a malignant fever that took him," answered the +bachelor. + +"In that case," said Don Quixote, "the Lord has relieved me of the task +of avenging his death had any other slain him; but, he who slew him +having slain him, there is nothing for it but to be silent, and shrug +one's shoulders; I should do the same were he to slay myself; and I would +have your reverence know that I am a knight of La Mancha, Don Quixote by +name, and it is my business and calling to roam the world righting wrongs +and redressing injuries." + +"I do not know how that about righting wrongs can be," said the bachelor, +"for from straight you have made me crooked, leaving me with a broken leg +that will never see itself straight again all the days of its life; and +the injury you have redressed in my case has been to leave me injured in +such a way that I shall remain injured for ever; and the height of +misadventure it was to fall in with you who go in search of adventures." + +"Things do not all happen in the same way," answered Don Quixote; "it all +came, Sir Bachelor Alonzo Lopez, of your going, as you did, by night, +dressed in those surplices, with lighted torches, praying, covered with +mourning, so that naturally you looked like something evil and of the +other world; and so I could not avoid doing my duty in attacking you, and +I should have attacked you even had I known positively that you were the +very devils of hell, for such I certainly believed and took you to be." + +"As my fate has so willed it," said the bachelor, "I entreat you, sir +knight-errant, whose errand has been such an evil one for me, to help me +to get from under this mule that holds one of my legs caught between the +stirrup and the saddle." + +"I would have talked on till to-morrow," said Don Quixote; "how long were +you going to wait before telling me of your distress?" + +He at once called to Sancho, who, however, had no mind to come, as he was +just then engaged in unloading a sumpter mule, well laden with provender, +which these worthy gentlemen had brought with them. Sancho made a bag of +his coat, and, getting together as much as he could, and as the bag would +hold, he loaded his beast, and then hastened to obey his master's call, +and helped him to remove the bachelor from under the mule; then putting +him on her back he gave him the torch, and Don Quixote bade him follow +the track of his companions, and beg pardon of them on his part for the +wrong which he could not help doing them. + +And said Sancho, "If by chance these gentlemen should want to know who +was the hero that served them so, your worship may tell them that he is +the famous Don Quixote of La Mancha, otherwise called the Knight of the +Rueful Countenance." + +The bachelor then took his departure. + +I forgot to mention that before he did so he said to Don Quixote, +"Remember that you stand excommunicated for having laid violent hands on +a holy thing, juxta illud, si quis, suadente diabolo." + +"I do not understand that Latin," answered Don Quixote, "but I know well +I did not lay hands, only this pike; besides, I did not think I was +committing an assault upon priests or things of the Church, which, like a +Catholic and faithful Christian as I am, I respect and revere, but upon +phantoms and spectres of the other world; but even so, I remember how it +fared with Cid Ruy Diaz when he broke the chair of the ambassador of that +king before his Holiness the Pope, who excommunicated him for the same; +and yet the good Roderick of Vivar bore himself that day like a very +noble and valiant knight." + +On hearing this the bachelor took his departure, as has been said, +without making any reply; and Don Quixote asked Sancho what had induced +him to call him the "Knight of the Rueful Countenance" more then than at +any other time. + +"I will tell you," answered Sancho; "it was because I have been looking +at you for some time by the light of the torch held by that unfortunate, +and verily your worship has got of late the most ill-favoured countenance +I ever saw: it must be either owing to the fatigue of this combat, or +else to the want of teeth and grinders." + +"It is not that," replied Don Quixote, "but because the sage whose duty +it will be to write the history of my achievements must have thought it +proper that I should take some distinctive name as all knights of yore +did; one being 'He of the Burning Sword,' another 'He of the Unicorn,' +this one 'He of the Damsels,' that 'He of the Phoenix,' another 'The +Knight of the Griffin,' and another 'He of the Death,' and by these names +and designations they were known all the world round; and so I say that +the sage aforesaid must have put it into your mouth and mind just now to +call me 'The Knight of the Rueful Countenance,' as I intend to call +myself from this day forward; and that the said name may fit me better, I +mean, when the opportunity offers, to have a very rueful countenance +painted on my shield." + +"There is no occasion, senor, for wasting time or money on making that +countenance," said Sancho; "for all that need be done is for your worship +to show your own, face to face, to those who look at you, and without +anything more, either image or shield, they will call you 'Him of the +Rueful Countenance' and believe me I am telling you the truth, for I +assure you, senor (and in good part be it said), hunger and the loss of +your grinders have given you such an ill-favoured face that, as I say, +the rueful picture may be very well spared." + +Don Quixote laughed at Sancho's pleasantry; nevertheless he resolved to +call himself by that name, and have his shield or buckler painted as he +had devised. + +Don Quixote would have looked to see whether the body in the litter were +bones or not, but Sancho would not have it, saying: + +"Senor, you have ended this perilous adventure more safely for yourself +than any of those I have seen: perhaps these people, though beaten and +routed, may bethink themselves that it is a single man that has beaten +them, and feeling sore and ashamed of it may take heart and come in +search of us and give us trouble enough. The ass is in proper trim, the +mountains are near at hand, hunger presses, we have nothing more to do +but make good our retreat, and, as the saying is, the dead to the grave +and the living to the loaf." + +And driving his ass before him he begged his master to follow, who, +feeling that Sancho was right, did so without replying; and after +proceeding some little distance between two hills they found themselves +in a wide and retired valley, where they alighted, and Sancho unloaded +his beast, and stretched upon the green grass, with hunger for sauce, +they breakfasted, dined, lunched, and supped all at once, satisfying +their appetites with more than one store of cold meat which the dead +man's clerical gentlemen (who seldom put themselves on short allowance) +had brought with them on their sumpter mule. But another piece of +ill-luck befell them, which Sancho held the worst of all, and that was +that they had no wine to drink, nor even water to moisten their lips; and +as thirst tormented them, Sancho, observing that the meadow where they +were was full of green and tender grass, said what will be told in the +following chapter. + + + + +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 + +"It cannot be, senor, but that this grass is a proof that there must be +hard by some spring or brook to give it moisture, so it would be well to +move a little farther on, that we may find some place where we may quench +this terrible thirst that plagues us, which beyond a doubt is more +distressing than hunger." + +The advice seemed good to Don Quixote, and, he leading Rocinante by the +bridle and Sancho the ass by the halter, after he had packed away upon +him the remains of the supper, they advanced the meadow feeling their +way, for the darkness of the night made it impossible to see anything; +but they had not gone two hundred paces when a loud noise of water, as if +falling from great rocks, struck their ears. The sound cheered them +greatly; but halting to make out by listening from what quarter it came +they heard unseasonably another noise which spoiled the satisfaction the +sound of the water gave them, especially for Sancho, who was by nature +timid and faint-hearted. They heard, I say, strokes falling with a +measured beat, and a certain rattling of iron and chains that, together +with the furious din of the water, would have struck terror into any +heart but Don Quixote's. The night was, as has been said, dark, and they +had happened to reach a spot in among some tall trees, whose leaves +stirred by a gentle breeze made a low ominous sound; so that, what with +the solitude, the place, the darkness, the noise of the water, and the +rustling of the leaves, everything inspired awe and dread; more +especially as they perceived that the strokes did not cease, nor the wind +lull, nor morning approach; to all which might be added their ignorance +as to where they were. + +But Don Quixote, supported by his intrepid heart, leaped on Rocinante, +and bracing his buckler on his arm, brought his pike to the slope, and +said, "Friend Sancho, know that I by Heaven's will have been born in this +our iron age to revive revive in it the age of gold, or the golden as it +is called; I am he for whom perils, mighty achievements, and valiant +deeds are reserved; I am, I say again, he who is to revive the Knights of +the Round Table, the Twelve of France and the Nine Worthies; and he who +is to consign to oblivion the Platirs, the Tablantes, the Olivantes and +Tirantes, the Phoebuses and Belianises, with the whole herd of famous +knights-errant of days gone by, performing in these in which I live such +exploits, marvels, and feats of arms as shall obscure their brightest +deeds. Thou dost mark well, faithful and trusty squire, the gloom of this +night, its strange silence, the dull confused murmur of those trees, the +awful sound of that water in quest of which we came, that seems as though +it were precipitating and dashing itself down from the lofty mountains of +the Moon, and that incessant hammering that wounds and pains our ears; +which things all together and each of itself are enough to instil fear, +dread, and dismay into the breast of Mars himself, much more into one not +used to hazards and adventures of the kind. Well, then, all this that I +put before thee is but an incentive and stimulant to my spirit, making my +heart burst in my bosom through eagerness to engage in this adventure, +arduous as it promises to be; therefore tighten Rocinante's girths a +little, and God be with thee; wait for me here three days and no more, +and if in that time I come not back, thou canst return to our village, +and thence, to do me a favour and a service, 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 hers." + +When Sancho heard his master's words he began to weep in the most +pathetic way, saying: + +"Senor, I know not why your worship wants to attempt this so dreadful +adventure; it is night now, no one sees us here, we can easily turn about +and take ourselves out of danger, even if we don't drink for three days +to come; and as there is no one to see us, all the less will there be +anyone to set us down as cowards; besides, I have many a time heard the +curate of our village, whom your worship knows well, preach that he who +seeks danger perishes in it; so it is not right to tempt God by trying so +tremendous a feat from which there can be no escape save by a miracle, +and Heaven has performed enough of them for your worship in delivering +you from being blanketed as I was, and bringing you out victorious and +safe and sound from among all those enemies that were with the dead man; +and if all this does not move or soften that hard heart, let this thought +and reflection move it, that you will have hardly quitted this spot when +from pure fear I shall yield my soul up to anyone that will take it. I +left home and wife and children to come and serve your worship, trusting +to do better and not worse; but as covetousness bursts the bag, it has +rent my hopes asunder, for just as I had them highest about getting that +wretched unlucky island your worship has so often promised me, I see that +instead and in lieu of it you mean to desert me now in a place so far +from human reach: for God's sake, master mine, deal not so unjustly by +me, and if your worship will not entirely give up attempting this feat, +at least put it off till morning, for by what the lore I learned when I +was a shepherd tells me it cannot want three hours of dawn now, because +the mouth of the Horn is overhead and makes midnight in the line of the +left arm." + +"How canst thou see, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "where it makes that +line, or where this mouth or this occiput is that thou talkest of, when +the night is so dark that there is not a star to be seen in the whole +heaven?" + +"That's true," said Sancho, "but fear has sharp eyes, and sees things +underground, much more above in heavens; besides, there is good reason to +show that it now wants but little of day." + +"Let it want what it may," replied Don Quixote, "it shall not be said of +me now or at any time that tears or entreaties turned me aside from doing +what was in accordance with knightly usage; and so I beg of thee, Sancho, +to hold thy peace, for God, who has put it into my heart to undertake now +this so unexampled and terrible adventure, will take care to watch over +my safety and console thy sorrow; what thou hast to do is to tighten +Rocinante's girths well, and wait here, for I shall come back shortly, +alive or dead." + +Sancho perceiving it his master's final resolve, and how little his +tears, counsels, and entreaties prevailed with him, determined to have +recourse to his own ingenuity and compel him, if he could, to wait till +daylight; and so, while tightening the girths of the horse, he quietly +and without being felt, with his ass' halter tied both Rocinante's legs, +so that when Don Quixote strove to go he was unable as the horse could +only move by jumps. Seeing the success of his trick, Sancho Panza said: + +"See there, senor! Heaven, moved by my tears and prayers, has so ordered +it that Rocinante cannot stir; and if you will be obstinate, and spur and +strike him, you will only provoke fortune, and kick, as they say, against +the pricks." + +Don Quixote at this grew desperate, but the more he drove his heels into +the horse, the less he stirred him; and not having any suspicion of the +tying, he was fain to resign himself and wait till daybreak or until +Rocinante could move, firmly persuaded that all this came of something +other than Sancho's ingenuity. So he said to him, "As it is so, Sancho, +and as Rocinante cannot move, I am content to wait till dawn smiles upon +us, even though I weep while it delays its coming." + +"There is no need to weep," answered Sancho, "for I will amuse your +worship by telling stories from this till daylight, unless indeed you +like to dismount and lie down to sleep a little on the green grass after +the fashion of knights-errant, so as to be fresher when day comes and the +moment arrives for attempting this extraordinary adventure you are +looking forward to." + +"What art thou talking about dismounting or sleeping for?" said Don +Quixote. "Am I, thinkest thou, one of those knights that take their rest +in the presence of danger? Sleep thou who art born to sleep, or do as +thou wilt, for I will act as I think most consistent with my character." + +"Be not angry, master mine," replied Sancho, "I did not mean to say +that;" and coming close to him he laid one hand on the pommel of the +saddle and the other on the cantle so that he held his master's left +thigh in his embrace, not daring to separate a finger's width from him; +so much afraid was he of the strokes which still resounded with a regular +beat. Don Quixote bade him tell some story to amuse him as he had +proposed, to which Sancho replied that he would if his dread of what he +heard would let him; "Still," said he, "I will strive to tell a story +which, if I can manage to relate it, and nobody interferes with the +telling, is the best of stories, and let your worship give me your +attention, for here I begin. What was, was; and may the good that is to +come be for all, and the evil for him who goes to look for it--your +worship must know that the beginning the old folk used to put to their +tales was not just as each one pleased; it was a maxim of Cato Zonzorino +the Roman, that says 'the evil for him that goes to look for it,' and it +comes as pat to the purpose now as ring to finger, to show that your +worship should keep quiet and not go looking for evil in any quarter, and +that we should go back by some other road, since nobody forces us to +follow this in which so many terrors affright us." + +"Go on with thy story, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "and leave the choice +of our road to my care." + +"I say then," continued Sancho, "that in a village of Estremadura there +was a goat-shepherd--that is to say, one who tended goats--which shepherd +or goatherd, as my story goes, was called Lope Ruiz, and this Lope Ruiz +was in love with a shepherdess called Torralva, which shepherdess called +Torralva was the daughter of a rich grazier, and this rich grazier-" + +"If that is the way thou tellest thy tale, Sancho," said Don Quixote, +"repeating twice all thou hast to say, thou wilt not have done these two +days; go straight on with it, and tell it like a reasonable man, or else +say nothing." + +"Tales are always told in my country in the very way I am telling this," +answered Sancho, "and I cannot tell it in any other, nor is it right of +your worship to ask me to make new customs." + +"Tell it as thou wilt," replied Don Quixote; "and as fate will have it +that I cannot help listening to thee, go on." + +"And so, lord of my soul," continued Sancho, as I have said, this +shepherd was in love with Torralva the shepherdess, who was a wild buxom +lass with something of the look of a man about her, for she had little +moustaches; I fancy I see her now." + +"Then you knew her?" said Don Quixote. + +"I did not know her," said Sancho, "but he who told me the story said it +was so true and certain that when I told it to another I might safely +declare and swear I had seen it all myself. And so in course of time, the +devil, who never sleeps and puts everything in confusion, contrived that +the love the shepherd bore the shepherdess turned into hatred and +ill-will, and the reason, according to evil tongues, was some little +jealousy she caused him that crossed the line and trespassed on forbidden +ground; and so much did the shepherd hate her from that time forward +that, in order to escape from her, he determined to quit the country and +go where he should never set eyes on her again. Torralva, when she found +herself spurned by Lope, was immediately smitten with love for him, +though she had never loved him before." + +"That is the natural way of women," said Don Quixote, "to scorn the one +that loves them, and love the one that hates them: go on, Sancho." + +"It came to pass," said Sancho, "that the shepherd carried out his +intention, and driving his goats before him took his way across the +plains of Estremadura to pass over into the Kingdom of Portugal. +Torralva, who knew of it, went after him, and on foot and barefoot +followed him at a distance, with a pilgrim's staff in her hand and a +scrip round her neck, in which she carried, it is said, a bit of +looking-glass and a piece of a comb and some little pot or other of paint +for her face; but let her carry what she did, I am not going to trouble +myself to prove it; all I say is, that the shepherd, they say, came with +his flock to cross over the river Guadiana, which was at that time +swollen and almost overflowing its banks, and at the spot he came to +there was neither ferry nor boat nor anyone to carry him or his flock to +the other side, at which he was much vexed, for he perceived that +Torralva was approaching and would give him great annoyance with her +tears and entreaties; however, he went looking about so closely that he +discovered a fisherman who had alongside of him a boat so small that it +could only hold one person and one goat; but for all that he spoke to him +and agreed with him to carry himself and his three hundred goats across. +The fisherman got into the boat and carried one goat over; he came back +and carried another over; he came back again, and again brought over +another--let your worship keep count of the goats the fisherman is taking +across, for if one escapes the memory there will be an end of the story, +and it will be impossible to tell another word of it. To proceed, I must +tell you the landing place on the other side was miry and slippery, and +the fisherman lost a great deal of time in going and coming; still he +returned for another goat, and another, and another." + +"Take it for granted he brought them all across," said Don Quixote, "and +don't keep going and coming in this way, or thou wilt not make an end of +bringing them over this twelvemonth." + +"How many have gone across so far?" said Sancho. + +"How the devil do I know?" replied Don Quixote. + +"There it is," said Sancho, "what I told you, that you must keep a good +count; well then, by God, there is an end of the story, for there is no +going any farther." + +"How can that be?" said Don Quixote; "is it so essential to the story to +know to a nicety the goats that have crossed over, that if there be a +mistake of one in the reckoning, thou canst not go on with it?" + +"No, senor, not a bit," replied Sancho; "for when I asked your worship to +tell me how many goats had crossed, and you answered you did not know, at +that very instant all I had to say passed away out of my memory, and, +faith, there was much virtue in it, and entertainment." + +"So, then," said Don Quixote, "the story has come to an end?" + +"As much as my mother has," said Sancho. + +"In truth," said Don Quixote, "thou hast told one of the rarest stories, +tales, or histories, that anyone in the world could have imagined, and +such a way of telling it and ending it was never seen nor will be in a +lifetime; though I expected nothing else from thy excellent +understanding. But I do not wonder, for perhaps those ceaseless strokes +may have confused thy wits." + +"All that may be," replied Sancho, "but I know that as to my story, all +that can be said is that it ends there where the mistake in the count of +the passage of the goats begins." + +"Let it end where it will, well and good," said Don Quixote, "and let us +see if Rocinante can go;" and again he spurred him, and again Rocinante +made jumps and remained where he was, so well tied was he. + +Just then, whether it was the cold of the morning that was now +approaching, or that he had eaten something laxative at supper, or that +it was only natural (as is most likely), Sancho felt a desire to do what +no one could do for him; but so great was the fear that had penetrated +his heart, he dared not separate himself from his master by as much as +the black of his nail; to escape doing what he wanted was, however, also +impossible; so what he did for peace's sake was to remove his right hand, +which held the back of the saddle, and with it to untie gently and +silently the running string which alone held up his breeches, so that on +loosening it they at once fell down round his feet like fetters; he then +raised his shirt as well as he could and bared his hind quarters, no slim +ones. But, this accomplished, which he fancied was all he had to do to +get out of this terrible strait and embarrassment, another still greater +difficulty presented itself, for it seemed to him impossible to relieve +himself without making some noise, and he ground his teeth and squeezed +his shoulders together, holding his breath as much as he could; but in +spite of his precautions he was unlucky enough after all to make a little +noise, very different from that which was causing him so much fear. + +Don Quixote, hearing it, said, "What noise is that, Sancho?" + +"I don't know, senor," said he; "it must be something new, for adventures +and misadventures never begin with a trifle." Once more he tried his +luck, and succeeded so well, that without any further noise or +disturbance he found himself relieved of the burden that had given him so +much discomfort. But as Don Quixote's sense of smell was as acute as his +hearing, and as Sancho was so closely linked with him that the fumes rose +almost in a straight line, it could not be but that some should reach his +nose, and as soon as they did he came to its relief by compressing it +between his fingers, saying in a rather snuffing tone, "Sancho, it +strikes me thou art in great fear." + +"I am," answered Sancho; "but how does your worship perceive it now more +than ever?" + +"Because just now thou smellest stronger than ever, and not of +ambergris," answered Don Quixote. + +"Very likely," said Sancho, "but that's not my fault, but your worship's, +for leading me about at unseasonable hours and at such unwonted paces." + +"Then go back three or four, my friend," said Don Quixote, all the time +with his fingers to his nose; "and for the future pay more attention to +thy person and to what thou owest to mine; for it is my great familiarity +with thee that has bred this contempt." + +"I'll bet," replied Sancho, "that your worship thinks I have done +something I ought not with my person." + +"It makes it worse to stir it, friend Sancho," returned Don Quixote. + +With this and other talk of the same sort master and man passed the +night, till Sancho, perceiving that daybreak was coming on apace, very +cautiously untied Rocinante and tied up his breeches. As soon as +Rocinante found himself free, though by nature he was not at all +mettlesome, he seemed to feel lively and began pawing--for as to +capering, begging his pardon, he knew not what it meant. Don Quixote, +then, observing that Rocinante could move, took it as a good sign and a +signal that he should attempt the dread adventure. By this time day had +fully broken and everything showed distinctly, and Don Quixote saw that +he was among some tall trees, chestnuts, which cast a very deep shade; he +perceived likewise that the sound of the strokes did not cease, but could +not discover what caused it, and so without any further delay he let +Rocinante feel the spur, and once more taking leave of Sancho, he told +him to wait for him there three days at most, as he had said before, and +if he should not have returned by that time, he might feel sure it had +been God's will that he should end his days in that perilous adventure. +He again repeated the message and commission with which he was to go on +his behalf to his lady Dulcinea, and said he was not to be uneasy as to +the payment of his services, for before leaving home he had made his +will, in which he would find himself fully recompensed in the matter of +wages in due proportion to the time he had served; but if God delivered +him safe, sound, and unhurt out of that danger, he might look upon the +promised island as much more than certain. Sancho began to weep afresh on +again hearing the affecting words of his good master, and resolved to +stay with him until the final issue and end of the business. From these +tears and this honourable resolve of Sancho Panza's the author of this +history infers that he must have been of good birth and at least an old +Christian; and the feeling he displayed touched his but not so much as to +make him show any weakness; on the contrary, hiding what he felt as well +as he could, he began to move towards that quarter whence the sound of +the water and of the strokes seemed to come. + +Sancho followed him on foot, leading by the halter, as his custom was, +his ass, his constant comrade in prosperity or adversity; and advancing +some distance through the shady chestnut trees they came upon a little +meadow at the foot of some high rocks, down which a mighty rush of water +flung itself. At the foot of the rocks were some rudely constructed +houses looking more like ruins than houses, from among which came, they +perceived, the din and clatter of blows, which still continued without +intermission. Rocinante took fright at the noise of the water and of the +blows, but quieting him Don Quixote advanced step by step towards the +houses, commending himself with all his heart to his lady, imploring her +support in that dread pass and enterprise, and on the way commending +himself to God, too, not to forget him. Sancho who never quitted his +side, stretched his neck as far as he could and peered between the legs +of Rocinante to see if he could now discover what it was that caused him +such fear and apprehension. They went it might be a hundred paces +farther, when on turning a corner the true cause, beyond the possibility +of any mistake, of that dread-sounding and to them awe-inspiring noise +that had kept them all the night in such fear and perplexity, appeared +plain and obvious; and it was (if, reader, thou art not disgusted and +disappointed) six fulling hammers which by their alternate strokes made +all the din. + +When Don Quixote perceived what it was, he was struck dumb and rigid from +head to foot. Sancho glanced at him and saw him with his head bent down +upon his breast in manifest mortification; and Don Quixote glanced at +Sancho and saw him with his cheeks puffed out and his mouth full of +laughter, and evidently ready to explode with it, and in spite of his +vexation he could not help laughing at the sight of him; and when Sancho +saw his master begin he let go so heartily that he had to hold his sides +with both hands to keep himself from bursting with laughter. Four times +he stopped, and as many times did his laughter break out afresh with the +same violence as at first, whereat Don Quixote grew furious, above all +when he heard him say mockingly, "Thou must know, friend Sancho, that of +Heaven's will I was born in this our iron age to revive in it the golden +or age of gold; I am he for whom are reserved perils, mighty +achievements, valiant deeds;" and here he went on repeating the words +that Don Quixote uttered the first time they heard the awful strokes. + +Don Quixote, then, seeing that Sancho was turning him into ridicule, was +so mortified and vexed that he lifted up his pike and smote him two such +blows that if, instead of catching them on his shoulders, he had caught +them on his head there would have been no wages to pay, unless indeed to +his heirs. Sancho seeing that he was getting an awkward return in earnest +for his jest, and fearing his master might carry it still further, said +to him very humbly, "Calm yourself, sir, for by God I am only joking." + +"Well, then, if you are joking I am not," replied Don Quixote. "Look +here, my lively gentleman, if these, instead of being fulling hammers, +had been some perilous adventure, have I not, think you, shown the +courage required for the attempt and achievement? Am I, perchance, being, +as I am, a gentleman, bound to know and distinguish sounds and tell +whether they come from fulling mills or not; and that, when perhaps, as +is the case, I have never in my life seen any as you have, low boor as +you are, that have been born and bred among them? But turn me these six +hammers into six giants, and bring them to beard me, one by one or all +together, and if I do not knock them head over heels, then make what +mockery you like of me." + +"No more of that, senor," returned Sancho; "I own I went a little too far +with the joke. But tell me, your worship, now that peace is made between +us (and may God bring you out of all the adventures that may befall you +as safe and sound as he has brought you out of this one), was it not a +thing to laugh at, and is it not a good story, the great fear we were +in?--at least that I was in; for as to your worship I see now that you +neither know nor understand what either fear or dismay is." + +"I do not deny," said Don Quixote, "that what happened to us may be worth +laughing at, but it is not worth making a story about, for it is not +everyone that is shrewd enough to hit the right point of a thing." + +"At any rate," said Sancho, "your worship knew how to hit the right point +with your pike, aiming at my head and hitting me on the shoulders, thanks +be to God and my own smartness in dodging it. But let that pass; all will +come out in the scouring; for I have heard say 'he loves thee well that +makes thee weep;' and moreover that it is the way with great lords after +any hard words they give a servant to give him a pair of breeches; though +I do not know what they give after blows, unless it be that +knights-errant after blows give islands, or kingdoms on the mainland." + +"It may be on the dice," said Don Quixote, "that all thou sayest will +come true; overlook the past, for thou art shrewd enough to know that our +first movements are not in our own control; and one thing for the future +bear in mind, that thou curb and restrain thy loquacity in my company; +for in all the books of chivalry that I have read, and they are +innumerable, I never met with a squire who talked so much to his lord as +thou dost to thine; and in fact I feel it to be a great fault of thine +and of mine: of thine, that thou hast so little respect for me; of mine, +that I do not make myself more respected. There was Gandalin, the squire +of Amadis of Gaul, that was Count of the Insula Firme, and we read of him +that he always addressed his lord with his cap in his hand, his head +bowed down and his body bent double, more turquesco. And then, what shall +we say of Gasabal, the squire of Galaor, who was so silent that in order +to indicate to us the greatness of his marvellous taciturnity his name is +only once mentioned in the whole of that history, as long as it is +truthful? From all I have said thou wilt gather, Sancho, that there must +be a difference between master and man, between lord and lackey, between +knight and squire: so that from this day forward in our intercourse we +must observe more respect and take less liberties, for in whatever way I +may be provoked with you it will be bad for the pitcher. The favours and +benefits that I have promised you will come in due time, and if they do +not your wages at least will not be lost, as I have already told you." + +"All that your worship says is very well," said Sancho, "but I should +like to know (in case the time of favours should not come, and it might +be necessary to fall back upon wages) how much did the squire of a +knight-errant get in those days, and did they agree by the month, or by +the day like bricklayers?" + +"I do not believe," replied Don Quixote, "that such squires were ever on +wages, but were dependent on favour; and if I have now mentioned thine in +the sealed will I have left at home, it was with a view to what may +happen; for as yet I know not how chivalry will turn out in these +wretched times of ours, and I do not wish my soul to suffer for trifles +in the other world; for I would have thee know, Sancho, that in this +there is no condition more hazardous than that of adventurers." + +"That is true," said Sancho, "since the mere noise of the hammers of a +fulling mill can disturb and disquiet the heart of such a valiant errant +adventurer as your worship; but you may be sure I will not open my lips +henceforward to make light of anything of your worship's, but only to +honour you as my master and natural lord." + +"By so doing," replied Don Quixote, "shalt thou live long on the face of +the earth; for next to parents, masters are to be respected as though +they were parents." + + + + +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 now began to rain a little, and Sancho was for going into the fulling +mills, but Don Quixote had taken such an abhorrence to them on account of +the late joke that he would not enter them on any account; so turning +aside to right they came upon another road, different from that which +they had taken the night before. Shortly afterwards Don Quixote perceived +a man on horseback who wore on his head something that shone like gold, +and the moment he saw him he turned to Sancho and said: + +"I think, Sancho, there is no proverb that is not true, all being maxims +drawn from experience itself, the mother of all the sciences, especially +that one that says, 'Where one door shuts, another opens.' I say so +because if last night fortune shut the door of the adventure we were +looking for against us, cheating us with the fulling mills, it now opens +wide another one for another better and more certain adventure, and if I +do not contrive to enter it, it will be my own fault, and I cannot lay it +to my ignorance of fulling mills, or the darkness of the night. I say +this because, if I mistake not, there comes towards us one who wears on +his head the helmet of Mambrino, concerning which I took the oath thou +rememberest." + +"Mind what you say, your worship, and still more what you do," said +Sancho, "for I don't want any more fulling mills to finish off fulling +and knocking our senses out." + +"The devil take thee, man," said Don Quixote; "what has a helmet to do +with fulling mills?" + +"I don't know," replied Sancho, "but, faith, if I might speak as I used, +perhaps I could give such reasons that your worship would see you were +mistaken in what you say." + +"How can I be mistaken in what I say, unbelieving traitor?" returned Don +Quixote; "tell me, seest thou not yonder knight coming towards us on a +dappled grey steed, who has upon his head a helmet of gold?" + +"What I see and make out," answered Sancho, "is only a man on a grey ass +like my own, who has something that shines on his head." + +"Well, that is the helmet of Mambrino," said Don Quixote; "stand to one +side and leave me alone with him; thou shalt see how, without saying a +word, to save time, I shall bring this adventure to an issue and possess +myself of the helmet I have so longed for." + +"I will take care to stand aside," said Sancho; "but God grant, I say +once more, that it may be marjoram and not fulling mills." + +"I have told thee, brother, on no account to mention those fulling mills +to me again," said Don Quixote, "or I vow--and I say no more-I'll full +the soul out of you." + +Sancho held his peace in dread lest his master should carry out the vow +he had hurled like a bowl at him. + +The fact of the matter as regards the helmet, steed, and knight that Don +Quixote saw, was this. In that neighbourhood there were two villages, one +of them so small that it had neither apothecary's shop nor barber, which +the other that was close to it had, so the barber of the larger served +the smaller, and in it there was a sick man who required to be bled and +another man who wanted to be shaved, and on this errand the barber was +going, carrying with him a brass basin; but as luck would have it, as he +was on the way it began to rain, and not to spoil his hat, which probably +was a new one, he put the basin on his head, and being clean it glittered +at half a league's distance. He rode upon a grey ass, as Sancho said, and +this was what made it seem to Don Quixote to be a dapple-grey steed and a +knight and a golden helmet; for everything he saw he made to fall in with +his crazy chivalry and ill-errant notions; and when he saw the poor +knight draw near, without entering into any parley with him, at +Rocinante's top speed he bore down upon him with the pike pointed low, +fully determined to run him through and through, and as he reached him, +without checking the fury of his charge, he cried to him: + +"Defend thyself, miserable being, or yield me of thine own accord that +which is so reasonably my due." + +The barber, who without any expectation or apprehension of it saw this +apparition coming down upon him, had no other way of saving himself from +the stroke of the lance but to let himself fall off his ass; and no +sooner had he touched the ground than he sprang up more nimbly than a +deer and sped away across the plain faster than the wind. + +He left the basin on the ground, with which Don Quixote contented +himself, saying that the pagan had shown his discretion and imitated the +beaver, which finding itself pressed by the hunters bites and cuts off +with its teeth that for which, by its natural instinct, it knows it is +pursued. + +He told Sancho to pick up the helmet, and he taking it in his hands said: + +"By God the basin is a good one, and worth a real of eight if it is worth +a maravedis," and handed it to his master, who immediately put it on his +head, turning it round, now this way, now that, in search of fitment, and +not finding it he said, "Clearly the pagan to whose measure this famous +head-piece was first forged must have had a very large head; but the +worst of it is half of it is wanting." + +When Sancho heard him call the basin a headpiece he was unable to +restrain his laughter, but remembering his master's wrath he checked +himself in the midst of it. + +"What art thou laughing at, Sancho?" said Don Quixote. + +"I am laughing," said he, "to think of the great head the pagan must have +had who owned this helmet, for it looks exactly like a regular barber's +basin." + +"Dost thou know what I suspect, Sancho?" said Don Quixote; "that this +wonderful piece of this enchanted helmet must by some strange accident +have come into the hands of some one who was unable to recognise or +realise its value, and who, not knowing what he did, and seeing it to be +of the purest gold, must have melted down one half for the sake of what +it might be worth, and of the other made this which is like a barber's +basin as thou sayest; but be it as it may, to me who recognise it, its +transformation makes no difference, for I will set it to rights at the +first village where there is a blacksmith, and in such style that that +helmet the god of smithies forged for the god of battles shall not +surpass it or even come up to it; and in the meantime I will wear it as +well as I can, for something is better than nothing; all the more as it +will be quite enough to protect me from any chance blow of a stone." + +"That is," said Sancho, "if it is not shot with a sling as they were in +the battle of the two armies, when they signed the cross on your +worship's grinders and smashed the flask with that blessed draught that +made me vomit my bowels up." + +"It does not grieve me much to have lost it," said Don Quixote, "for thou +knowest, Sancho, that I have the receipt in my memory." + +"So have I," answered Sancho, "but if ever I make it, or try it again as +long as I live, may this be my last hour; moreover, I have no intention +of putting myself in the way of wanting it, for I mean, with all my five +senses, to keep myself from being wounded or from wounding anyone: as to +being blanketed again I say nothing, for it is hard to prevent mishaps of +that sort, and if they come there is nothing for it but to squeeze our +shoulders together, hold our breath, shut our eyes, and let ourselves go +where luck and the blanket may send us." + +"Thou art a bad Christian, Sancho," said Don Quixote on hearing this, +"for once an injury has been done thee thou never forgettest it: but know +that it is the part of noble and generous hearts not to attach importance +to trifles. What lame leg hast thou got by it, what broken rib, what +cracked head, that thou canst not forget that jest? For jest and sport it +was, properly regarded, and had I not seen it in that light I would have +returned and done more mischief in revenging thee than the Greeks did for +the rape of Helen, who, if she were alive now, or if my Dulcinea had +lived then, might depend upon it she would not be so famous for her +beauty as she is;" and here he heaved a sigh and sent it aloft; and said +Sancho, "Let it pass for a jest as it cannot be revenged in earnest, but +I know what sort of jest and earnest it was, and I know it will never be +rubbed out of my memory any more than off my shoulders. But putting that +aside, will your worship tell me what are we to do with this dapple-grey +steed that looks like a grey ass, which that Martino that your worship +overthrew has left deserted here? for, from the way he took to his heels +and bolted, he is not likely ever to come back for it; and by my beard +but the grey is a good one." + +"I have never been in the habit," said Don Quixote, "of taking spoil of +those whom I vanquish, nor is it the practice of chivalry to take away +their horses and leave them to go on foot, unless indeed it be that the +victor have lost his own in the combat, in which case it is lawful to +take that of the vanquished as a thing won in lawful war; therefore, +Sancho, leave this horse, or ass, or whatever thou wilt have it to be; +for when its owner sees us gone hence he will come back for it." + +"God knows I should like to take it," returned Sancho, "or at least to +change it for my own, which does not seem to me as good a one: verily the +laws of chivalry are strict, since they cannot be stretched to let one +ass be changed for another; I should like to know if I might at least +change trappings." + +"On that head I am not quite certain," answered Don Quixote, "and the +matter being doubtful, pending better information, I say thou mayest +change them, if so be thou hast urgent need of them." + +"So urgent is it," answered Sancho, "that if they were for my own person +I could not want them more;" and forthwith, fortified by this licence, he +effected the mutatio capparum, rigging out his beast to the ninety-nines +and making quite another thing of it. This done, they broke their fast on +the remains of the spoils of war plundered from the sumpter mule, and +drank of the brook that flowed from the fulling mills, without casting a +look in that direction, in such loathing did they hold them for the alarm +they had caused them; and, all anger and gloom removed, they mounted and, +without taking any fixed road (not to fix upon any being the proper thing +for true knights-errant), they set out, guided by Rocinante's will, which +carried along with it that of his master, not to say that of the ass, +which always followed him wherever he led, lovingly and sociably; +nevertheless they returned to the high road, and pursued it at a venture +without any other aim. + +As they went along, then, in this way Sancho said to his master, "Senor, +would your worship give me leave to speak a little to you? For since you +laid that hard injunction of silence on me several things have gone to +rot in my stomach, and I have now just one on the tip of my tongue that I +don't want to be spoiled." + +"Say, on, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "and be brief in thy discourse, for +there is no pleasure in one that is long." + +"Well then, senor," returned Sancho, "I say that for some days past I +have been considering how little is got or gained by going in search of +these adventures that your worship seeks in these wilds and cross-roads, +where, even if the most perilous are victoriously achieved, there is no +one to see or know of them, and so they must be left untold for ever, to +the loss of your worship's object and the credit they deserve; therefore +it seems to me it would be better (saving your worship's better judgment) +if we were to go and serve some emperor or other great prince who may +have some war on hand, in whose service your worship may prove the worth +of your person, your great might, and greater understanding, on +perceiving which the lord in whose service we may be will perforce have +to reward us, each according to his merits; and there you will not be at +a loss for some one to set down your achievements in writing so as to +preserve their memory for ever. Of my own I say nothing, as they will not +go beyond squirely limits, though I make bold to say that, if it be the +practice in chivalry to write the achievements of squires, I think mine +must not be left out." + +"Thou speakest not amiss, Sancho," answered Don Quixote, "but before that +point is reached it is requisite to roam the world, as it were on +probation, seeking adventures, in order that, by achieving some, name and +fame may be acquired, such that when he betakes himself to the court of +some great monarch the knight may be already known by his deeds, and that +the boys, the instant they see him enter the gate of the city, may all +follow him and surround him, crying, 'This is the Knight of the Sun'-or +the Serpent, or any other title under which he may have achieved great +deeds. 'This,' they will say, 'is he who vanquished in single combat the +gigantic Brocabruno of mighty strength; he who delivered the great +Mameluke of Persia out of the long enchantment under which he had been +for almost nine hundred years.' So from one to another they will go +proclaiming his achievements; and presently at the tumult of the boys and +the others the king of that kingdom will appear at the windows of his +royal palace, and as soon as he beholds the knight, recognising him by +his arms and the device on his shield, he will as a matter of course say, +'What ho! Forth all ye, the knights of my court, to receive the flower of +chivalry who cometh hither!' At which command all will issue forth, and +he himself, advancing half-way down the stairs, will embrace him closely, +and salute him, kissing him on the cheek, and will then lead him to the +queen's chamber, where the knight will find her with the princess her +daughter, who will be one of the most beautiful and accomplished damsels +that could with the utmost pains be discovered anywhere in the known +world. Straightway it will come to pass that she will fix her eyes upon +the knight and he his upon her, and each will seem to the other something +more divine than human, and, without knowing how or why they will be +taken and entangled in the inextricable toils of love, and sorely +distressed in their hearts not to see any way of making their pains and +sufferings known by speech. Thence they will lead him, no doubt, to some +richly adorned chamber of the palace, where, having removed his armour, +they will bring him a rich mantle of scarlet wherewith to robe himself, +and if he looked noble in his armour he will look still more so in a +doublet. When night comes he will sup with the king, queen, and princess; +and all the time he will never take his eyes off her, stealing stealthy +glances, unnoticed by those present, and she will do the same, and with +equal cautiousness, being, as I have said, a damsel of great discretion. +The tables being removed, suddenly through the door of the hall there +will enter a hideous and diminutive dwarf followed by a fair dame, +between two giants, who comes with a certain adventure, the work of an +ancient sage; and he who shall achieve it shall be deemed the best knight +in the world. + +"The king will then command all those present to essay it, and none will +bring it to an end and conclusion save the stranger knight, to the great +enhancement of his fame, whereat the princess will be overjoyed and will +esteem herself happy and fortunate in having fixed and placed her +thoughts so high. And the best of it is that this king, or prince, or +whatever he is, is engaged in a very bitter war with another as powerful +as himself, and the stranger knight, after having been some days at his +court, requests leave from him to go and serve him in the said war. The +king will grant it very readily, and the knight will courteously kiss his +hands for the favour done to him; and that night he will take leave of +his lady the princess at the grating of the chamber where she sleeps, +which looks upon a garden, and at which he has already many times +conversed with her, the go-between and confidante in the matter being a +damsel much trusted by the princess. He will sigh, she will swoon, the +damsel will fetch water, much distressed because morning approaches, and +for the honour of her lady he would not that they were discovered; at +last the princess will come to herself and will present her white hands +through the grating to the knight, who will kiss them a thousand and a +thousand times, bathing them with his tears. It will be arranged between +them how they are to inform each other of their good or evil fortunes, +and the princess will entreat him to make his absence as short as +possible, which he will promise to do with many oaths; once more he +kisses her hands, and takes his leave in such grief that he is well-nigh +ready to die. He betakes him thence to his chamber, flings himself on his +bed, cannot sleep for sorrow at parting, rises early in the morning, goes +to take leave of the king, queen, and princess, and, as he takes his +leave of the pair, it is told him that the princess is indisposed and +cannot receive a visit; the knight thinks it is from grief at his +departure, his heart is pierced, and he is hardly able to keep from +showing his pain. The confidante is present, observes all, goes to tell +her mistress, who listens with tears and says that one of her greatest +distresses is not knowing who this knight is, and whether he is of kingly +lineage or not; the damsel assures her that so much courtesy, gentleness, +and gallantry of bearing as her knight possesses could not exist in any +save one who was royal and illustrious; her anxiety is thus relieved, and +she strives to be of good cheer lest she should excite suspicion in her +parents, and at the end of two days she appears in public. Meanwhile the +knight has taken his departure; he fights in the war, conquers the king's +enemy, wins many cities, triumphs in many battles, returns to the court, +sees his lady where he was wont to see her, and it is agreed that he +shall demand her in marriage of her parents as the reward of his +services; the king is unwilling to give her, as he knows not who he is, +but nevertheless, whether carried off or in whatever other way it may be, +the princess comes to be his bride, and her father comes to regard it as +very good fortune; for it so happens that this knight is proved to be the +son of a valiant king of some kingdom, I know not what, for I fancy it is +not likely to be on the map. The father dies, the princess inherits, and +in two words the knight becomes king. And here comes in at once the +bestowal of rewards upon his squire and all who have aided him in rising +to so exalted a rank. He marries his squire to a damsel of the +princess's, who will be, no doubt, the one who was confidante in their +amour, and is daughter of a very great duke." + +"That's what I want, and no mistake about it!" said Sancho. "That's what +I'm waiting for; for all this, word for word, is in store for your +worship under the title of the Knight of the Rueful Countenance." + +"Thou needst not doubt it, Sancho," replied Don Quixote, "for in the same +manner, and by the same steps as I have described here, knights-errant +rise and have risen to be kings and emperors; all we want now is to find +out what king, Christian or pagan, is at war and has a beautiful +daughter; but there will be time enough to think of that, for, as I have +told thee, fame must be won in other quarters before repairing to the +court. There is another thing, too, that is wanting; for supposing we +find a king who is at war and has a beautiful daughter, and that I have +won incredible fame throughout the universe, I know not how it can be +made out that I am of royal lineage, or even second cousin to an emperor; +for the king will not be willing to give me his daughter in marriage +unless he is first thoroughly satisfied on this point, however much my +famous deeds may deserve it; so that by this deficiency I fear I shall +lose what my arm has fairly earned. True it is I am a gentleman of known +house, of estate and property, and entitled to the five hundred sueldos +mulct; and it may be that the sage who shall write my history will so +clear up my ancestry and pedigree that I may find myself fifth or sixth +in descent from a king; for I would have thee know, Sancho, that there +are two kinds of lineages in the world; some there be tracing and +deriving their descent from kings and princes, whom time has reduced +little by little until they end in a point like a pyramid upside down; +and others who spring from the common herd and go on rising step by step +until they come to be great lords; so that the difference is that the one +were what they no longer are, and the others are what they formerly were +not. And I may be of such that after investigation my origin may prove +great and famous, with which the king, my father-in-law that is to be, +ought to be satisfied; and should he not be, the princess will so love me +that even though she well knew me to be the son of a water-carrier, she +will take me for her lord and husband in spite of her father; if not, +then it comes to seizing her and carrying her off where I please; for +time or death will put an end to the wrath of her parents." + +"It comes to this, too," said Sancho, "what some naughty people say, +'Never ask as a favour what thou canst take by force;' though it would +fit better to say, 'A clear escape is better than good men's prayers.' I +say so because if my lord the king, your worship's father-in-law, will +not condescend to give you my lady the princess, there is nothing for it +but, as your worship says, to seize her and transport her. But the +mischief is that until peace is made and you come into the peaceful +enjoyment of your kingdom, the poor squire is famishing as far as rewards +go, unless it be that the confidante damsel that is to be his wife comes +with the princess, and that with her he tides over his bad luck until +Heaven otherwise orders things; for his master, I suppose, may as well +give her to him at once for a lawful wife." + +"Nobody can object to that," said Don Quixote. + +"Then since that may be," said Sancho, "there is nothing for it but to +commend ourselves to God, and let fortune take what course it will." + +"God guide it according to my wishes and thy wants," said Don Quixote, +"and mean be he who thinks himself mean." + +"In God's name let him be so," said Sancho: "I am an old Christian, and +to fit me for a count that's enough." + +"And more than enough for thee," said Don Quixote; "and even wert thou +not, it would make no difference, because I being the king can easily +give thee nobility without purchase or service rendered by thee, for when +I make thee a count, then thou art at once a gentleman; and they may say +what they will, but by my faith they will have to call thee 'your +lordship,' whether they like it or not." + +"Not a doubt of it; and I'll know how to support the tittle," said +Sancho. + +"Title thou shouldst say, not tittle," said his master. + +"So be it," answered Sancho. "I say I will know how to behave, for once +in my life I was beadle of a brotherhood, and the beadle's gown sat so +well on me that all said I looked as if I was to be steward of the same +brotherhood. What will it be, then, when I put a duke's robe on my back, +or dress myself in gold and pearls like a count? I believe they'll come a +hundred leagues to see me." + +"Thou wilt look well," said Don Quixote, "but thou must shave thy beard +often, for thou hast it so thick and rough and unkempt, that if thou dost +not shave it every second day at least, they will see what thou art at +the distance of a musket shot." + +"What more will it be," said Sancho, "than having a barber, and keeping +him at wages in the house? and even if it be necessary, I will make him +go behind me like a nobleman's equerry." + +"Why, how dost thou know that noblemen have equerries behind them?" asked +Don Quixote. + +"I will tell you," answered Sancho. "Years ago I was for a month at the +capital and there I saw taking the air a very small gentleman who they +said was a very great man, and a man following him on horseback in every +turn he took, just as if he was his tail. I asked why this man did not +join the other man, instead of always going behind him; they answered me +that he was his equerry, and that it was the custom with nobles to have +such persons behind them, and ever since then I know it, for I have never +forgotten it." + +"Thou art right," said Don Quixote, "and in the same way thou mayest +carry thy barber with thee, for customs did not come into use all +together, nor were they all invented at once, and thou mayest be the +first count to have a barber to follow him; and, indeed, shaving one's +beard is a greater trust than saddling one's horse." + +"Let the barber business be my look-out," said Sancho; "and your +worship's be it to strive to become a king, and make me a count." + +"So it shall be," answered Don Quixote, and raising his eyes he saw what +will be told in the following chapter. + + + + +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 + + +Cide Hamete Benengeli, the Arab and Manchegan author, relates in this +most grave, high-sounding, minute, delightful, and original history that +after the discussion between the famous Don Quixote of La Mancha and his +squire Sancho Panza which is set down at the end of chapter twenty-one, +Don Quixote raised his eyes and saw coming along the road he was +following some dozen men on foot strung together by the neck, like beads, +on a great iron chain, and all with manacles on their hands. With them +there came also two men on horseback and two on foot; those on horseback +with wheel-lock muskets, those on foot with javelins and swords, and as +soon as Sancho saw them he said: + +"That is a chain of galley slaves, on the way to the galleys by force of +the king's orders." + +"How by force?" asked Don Quixote; "is it possible that the king uses +force against anyone?" + +"I do not say that," answered Sancho, "but that these are people +condemned for their crimes to serve by force in the king's galleys." + +"In fact," replied Don Quixote, "however it may be, these people are +going where they are taking them by force, and not of their own will." + +"Just so," said Sancho. + +"Then if so," said Don Quixote, "here is a case for the exercise of my +office, to put down force and to succour and help the wretched." + +"Recollect, your worship," said Sancho, "Justice, which is the king +himself, is not using force or doing wrong to such persons, but punishing +them for their crimes." + +The chain of galley slaves had by this time come up, and Don Quixote in +very courteous language asked those who were in custody of it to be good +enough to tell him the reason or reasons for which they were conducting +these people in this manner. One of the guards on horseback answered that +they were galley slaves belonging to his majesty, that they were going to +the galleys, and that was all that was to be said and all he had any +business to know. + +"Nevertheless," replied Don Quixote, "I should like to know from each of +them separately the reason of his misfortune;" to this he added more to +the same effect to induce them to tell him what he wanted so civilly that +the other mounted guard said to him: + +"Though we have here the register and certificate of the sentence of +every one of these wretches, this is no time to take them out or read +them; come and ask themselves; they can tell if they choose, and they +will, for these fellows take a pleasure in doing and talking about +rascalities." + +With this permission, which Don Quixote would have taken even had they +not granted it, he approached the chain and asked the first for what +offences he was now in such a sorry case. + +He made answer that it was for being a lover. + +"For that only?" replied Don Quixote; "why, if for being lovers they send +people to the galleys I might have been rowing in them long ago." + +"The love is not the sort your worship is thinking of," said the galley +slave; "mine was that I loved a washerwoman's basket of clean linen so +well, and held it so close in my embrace, that if the arm of the law had +not forced it from me, I should never have let it go of my own will to +this moment; I was caught in the act, there was no occasion for torture, +the case was settled, they treated me to a hundred lashes on the back, +and three years of gurapas besides, and that was the end of it." + +"What are gurapas?" asked Don Quixote. + +"Gurapas are galleys," answered the galley slave, who was a young man of +about four-and-twenty, and said he was a native of Piedrahita. + +Don Quixote asked the same question of the second, who made no reply, so +downcast and melancholy was he; but the first answered for him, and said, +"He, sir, goes as a canary, I mean as a musician and a singer." + +"What!" said Don Quixote, "for being musicians and singers are people +sent to the galleys too?" + +"Yes, sir," answered the galley slave, "for there is nothing worse than +singing under suffering." + +"On the contrary, I have heard say," said Don Quixote, "that he who sings +scares away his woes." + +"Here it is the reverse," said the galley slave; "for he who sings once +weeps all his life." + +"I do not understand it," said Don Quixote; but one of the guards said to +him, "Sir, to sing under suffering means with the non sancta fraternity +to confess under torture; they put this sinner to the torture and he +confessed his crime, which was being a cuatrero, that is a +cattle-stealer, and on his confession they sentenced him to six years in +the galleys, besides two bundred lashes that he has already had on the +back; and he is always dejected and downcast because the other thieves +that were left behind and that march here ill-treat, and snub, and jeer, +and despise him for confessing and not having spirit enough to say nay; +for, say they, 'nay' has no more letters in it than 'yea,' and a culprit +is well off when life or death with him depends on his own tongue and not +on that of witnesses or evidence; and to my thinking they are not very +far out." + +"And I think so too," answered Don Quixote; then passing on to the third +he asked him what he had asked the others, and the man answered very +readily and unconcernedly, "I am going for five years to their ladyships +the gurapas for the want of ten ducats." + +"I will give twenty with pleasure to get you out of that trouble," said +Don Quixote. + +"That," said the galley slave, "is like a man having money at sea when he +is dying of hunger and has no way of buying what he wants; I say so +because if at the right time I had had those twenty ducats that your +worship now offers me, I would have greased the notary's pen and +freshened up the attorney's wit with them, so that to-day I should be in +the middle of the plaza of the Zocodover at Toledo, and not on this road +coupled like a greyhound. But God is great; patience--there, that's +enough of it." + +Don Quixote passed on to the fourth, a man of venerable aspect with a +white beard falling below his breast, who on hearing himself asked the +reason of his being there began to weep without answering a word, but the +fifth acted as his tongue and said, "This worthy man is going to the +galleys for four years, after having gone the rounds in ceremony and on +horseback." + +"That means," said Sancho Panza, "as I take it, to have been exposed to +shame in public." + +"Just so," replied the galley slave, "and the offence for which they gave +him that punishment was having been an ear-broker, nay body-broker; I +mean, in short, that this gentleman goes as a pimp, and for having +besides a certain touch of the sorcerer about him." + +"If that touch had not been thrown in," said Don Quixote, "he would not +deserve, for mere pimping, to row in the galleys, but rather to command +and be admiral of them; for the office of pimp is no ordinary one, being +the office of persons of discretion, one very necessary in a well-ordered +state, and only to be exercised by persons of good birth; nay, there +ought to be an inspector and overseer of them, as in other offices, and +recognised number, as with the brokers on change; in this way many of the +evils would be avoided which are caused by this office and calling being +in the hands of stupid and ignorant people, such as women more or less +silly, and pages and jesters of little standing and experience, who on +the most urgent occasions, and when ingenuity of contrivance is needed, +let the crumbs freeze on the way to their mouths, and know not which is +their right hand. I should like to go farther, and give reasons to show +that it is advisable to choose those who are to hold so necessary an +office in the state, but this is not the fit place for it; some day I +will expound the matter to some one able to see to and rectify it; all I +say now is, that the additional fact of his being a sorcerer has removed +the sorrow it gave me to see these white hairs and this venerable +countenance in so painful a position on account of his being a pimp; +though I know well there are no sorceries in the world that can move or +compel the will as some simple folk fancy, for our will is free, nor is +there herb or charm that can force it. All that certain silly women and +quacks do is to turn men mad with potions and poisons, pretending that +they have power to cause love, for, as I say, it is an impossibility to +compel the will." + +"It is true," said the good old man, "and indeed, sir, as far as the +charge of sorcery goes I was not guilty; as to that of being a pimp I +cannot deny it; but I never thought I was doing any harm by it, for my +only object was that all the world should enjoy itself and live in peace +and quiet, without quarrels or troubles; but my good intentions were +unavailing to save me from going where I never expect to come back from, +with this weight of years upon me and a urinary ailment that never gives +me a moment's ease;" and again he fell to weeping as before, and such +compassion did Sancho feel for him that he took out a real of four from +his bosom and gave it to him in alms. + +Don Quixote went on and asked another what his crime was, and the man +answered with no less but rather much more sprightliness than the last +one. + +"I am here because I carried the joke too far with a couple of cousins of +mine, and with a couple of other cousins who were none of mine; in short, +I carried the joke so far with them all that it ended in such a +complicated increase of kindred that no accountant could make it clear: +it was all proved against me, I got no favour, I had no money, I was near +having my neck stretched, they sentenced me to the galleys for six years, +I accepted my fate, it is the punishment of my fault; I am a young man; +let life only last, and with that all will come right. If you, sir, have +anything wherewith to help the poor, God will repay it to you in heaven, +and we on earth will take care in our petitions to him to pray for the +life and health of your worship, that they may be as long and as good as +your amiable appearance deserves." + +This one was in the dress of a student, and one of the guards said he was +a great talker and a very elegant Latin scholar. + +Behind all these there came a man of thirty, a very personable fellow, +except that when he looked, his eyes turned in a little one towards the +other. He was bound differently from the rest, for he had to his leg a +chain so long that it was wound all round his body, and two rings on his +neck, one attached to the chain, the other to what they call a +"keep-friend" or "friend's foot," from which hung two irons reaching to +his waist with two manacles fixed to them in which his hands were secured +by a big padlock, so that he could neither raise his hands to his mouth +nor lower his head to his hands. Don Quixote asked why this man carried +so many more chains than the others. The guard replied that it was +because he alone had committed more crimes than all the rest put +together, and was so daring and such a villain, that though they marched +him in that fashion they did not feel sure of him, but were in dread of +his making his escape. + +"What crimes can he have committed," said Don Quixote, "if they have not +deserved a heavier punishment than being sent to the galleys?" + +"He goes for ten years," replied the guard, "which is the same thing as +civil death, and all that need be said is that this good fellow is the +famous Gines de Pasamonte, otherwise called Ginesillo de Parapilla." + +"Gently, senor commissary," said the galley slave at this, "let us have +no fixing of names or surnames; my name is Gines, not Ginesillo, and my +family name is Pasamonte, not Parapilla as you say; let each one mind his +own business, and he will be doing enough." + +"Speak with less impertinence, master thief of extra measure," replied +the commissary, "if you don't want me to make you hold your tongue in +spite of your teeth." + +"It is easy to see," returned the galley slave, "that man goes as God +pleases, but some one shall know some day whether I am called Ginesillo +de Parapilla or not." + +"Don't they call you so, you liar?" said the guard. + +"They do," returned Gines, "but I will make them give over calling me so, +or I will be shaved, where, I only say behind my teeth. If you, sir, have +anything to give us, give it to us at once, and God speed you, for you +are becoming tiresome with all this inquisitiveness about the lives of +others; if you want to know about mine, let me tell you I am Gines de +Pasamonte, whose life is written by these fingers." + +"He says true," said the commissary, "for he has himself written his +story as grand as you please, and has left the book in the prison in pawn +for two hundred reals." + +"And I mean to take it out of pawn," said Gines, "though it were in for +two hundred ducats." + +"Is it so good?" said Don Quixote. + +"So good is it," replied Gines, "that a fig for 'Lazarillo de Tormes,' +and all of that kind that have been written, or shall be written compared +with it: all I will say about it is that it deals with facts, and facts +so neat and diverting that no lies could match them." + +"And how is the book entitled?" asked Don Quixote. + +"The 'Life of Gines de Pasamonte,'" replied the subject of it. + +"And is it finished?" asked Don Quixote. + +"How can it be finished," said the other, "when my life is not yet +finished? All that is written is from my birth down to the point when +they sent me to the galleys this last time." + +"Then you have been there before?" said Don Quixote. + +"In the service of God and the king I have been there for four years +before now, and I know by this time what the biscuit and courbash are +like," replied Gines; "and it is no great grievance to me to go back to +them, for there I shall have time to finish my book; I have still many +things left to say, and in the galleys of Spain there is more than enough +leisure; though I do not want much for what I have to write, for I have +it by heart." + +"You seem a clever fellow," said Don Quixote. + +"And an unfortunate one," replied Gines, "for misfortune always +persecutes good wit." + +"It persecutes rogues," said the commissary. + +"I told you already to go gently, master commissary," said Pasamonte; +"their lordships yonder never gave you that staff to ill-treat us +wretches here, but to conduct and take us where his majesty orders you; +if not, by the life of-never mind-; it may be that some day the stains +made in the inn will come out in the scouring; let everyone hold his +tongue and behave well and speak better; and now let us march on, for we +have had quite enough of this entertainment." + +The commissary lifted his staff to strike Pasamonte in return for his +threats, but Don Quixote came between them, and begged him not to ill-use +him, as it was not too much to allow one who had his hands tied to have +his tongue a trifle free; and turning to the whole chain of them he said: + +"From all you have told me, dear brethren, make out clearly that though +they have punished you for your faults, the punishments you are about to +endure do not give you much pleasure, and that you go to them very much +against the grain and against your will, and that perhaps this one's want +of courage under torture, that one's want of money, the other's want of +advocacy, and lastly the perverted judgment of the judge may have been +the cause of your ruin and of your failure to obtain the justice you had +on your side. All which presents itself now to my mind, urging, +persuading, and even compelling me to demonstrate in your case the +purpose for which Heaven sent me into the world and caused me to make +profession of the order of chivalry to which I belong, and the vow I took +therein to give aid to those in need and under the oppression of the +strong. But as I know that it is a mark of prudence not to do by foul +means what may be done by fair, I will ask these gentlemen, the guards +and commissary, to be so good as to release you and let you go in peace, +as there will be no lack of others to serve the king under more +favourable circumstances; for it seems to me a hard case to make slaves +of those whom God and nature have made free. Moreover, sirs of the +guard," added Don Quixote, "these poor fellows have done nothing to you; +let each answer for his own sins yonder; there is a God in Heaven who +will not forget to punish the wicked or reward the good; and it is not +fitting that honest men should be the instruments of punishment to +others, they being therein no way concerned. This request I make thus +gently and quietly, that, if you comply with it, I may have reason for +thanking you; and, if you will not voluntarily, this lance and sword +together with the might of my arm shall compel you to comply with it by +force." + +"Nice nonsense!" said the commissary; "a fine piece of pleasantry he has +come out with at last! He wants us to let the king's prisoners go, as if +we had any authority to release them, or he to order us to do so! Go your +way, sir, and good luck to you; put that basin straight that you've got +on your head, and don't go looking for three feet on a cat." + +"'Tis you that are the cat, rat, and rascal," replied Don Quixote, and +acting on the word he fell upon him so suddenly that without giving him +time to defend himself he brought him to the ground sorely wounded with a +lance-thrust; and lucky it was for him that it was the one that had the +musket. The other guards stood thunderstruck and amazed at this +unexpected event, but recovering presence of mind, those on horseback +seized their swords, and those on foot their javelins, and attacked Don +Quixote, who was waiting for them with great calmness; and no doubt it +would have gone badly with him if the galley slaves, seeing the chance +before them of liberating themselves, had not effected it by contriving +to break the chain on which they were strung. Such was the confusion, +that the guards, now rushing at the galley slaves who were breaking +loose, now to attack Don Quixote who was waiting for them, did nothing at +all that was of any use. Sancho, on his part, gave a helping hand to +release Gines de Pasamonte, who was the first to leap forth upon the +plain free and unfettered, and who, attacking the prostrate commissary, +took from him his sword and the musket, with which, aiming at one and +levelling at another, he, without ever discharging it, drove every one of +the guards off the field, for they took to flight, as well to escape +Pasamonte's musket, as the showers of stones the now released galley +slaves were raining upon them. Sancho was greatly grieved at the affair, +because he anticipated that those who had fled would report the matter to +the Holy Brotherhood, who at the summons of the alarm-bell would at once +sally forth in quest of the offenders; and he said so to his master, and +entreated him to leave the place at once, and go into hiding in the +sierra that was close by. + +"That is all very well," said Don Quixote, "but I know what must be done +now;" and calling together all the galley slaves, who were now running +riot, and had stripped the commissary to the skin, he collected them +round him to hear what he had to say, and addressed them as follows: "To +be grateful for benefits received is the part of persons of good birth, +and one of the sins most offensive to God is ingratitude; I say so +because, sirs, ye have already seen by manifest proof the benefit ye have +received of me; in return for which I desire, and it is my good pleasure +that, laden with that chain which I have taken off your necks, ye at once +set out and proceed to the city of El Toboso, and there present +yourselves before the lady Dulcinea del Toboso, and say to her that her +knight, he of the Rueful Countenance, sends to commend himself to her; +and that ye recount to her in full detail all the particulars of this +notable adventure, up to the recovery of your longed-for liberty; and +this done ye may go where ye will, and good fortune attend you." + +Gines de Pasamonte made answer for all, saying, "That which you, sir, our +deliverer, demand of us, is of all impossibilities the most impossible to +comply with, because we cannot go together along the roads, but only +singly and separate, and each one his own way, endeavouring to hide +ourselves in the bowels of the earth to escape the Holy Brotherhood, +which, no doubt, will come out in search of us. What your worship may do, +and fairly do, is to change this service and tribute as regards the lady +Dulcinea del Toboso for a certain quantity of ave-marias and credos which +we will say for your worship's intention, and this is a condition that +can be complied with by night as by day, running or resting, in peace or +in war; but to imagine that we are going now to return to the flesh-pots +of Egypt, I mean to take up our chain and set out for El Toboso, is to +imagine that it is now night, though it is not yet ten in the morning, +and to ask this of us is like asking pears of the elm tree." + +"Then by all that's good," said Don Quixote (now stirred to wrath), "Don +son of a bitch, Don Ginesillo de Paropillo, or whatever your name is, you +will have to go yourself alone, with your tail between your legs and the +whole chain on your back." + +Pasamonte, who was anything but meek (being by this time thoroughly +convinced that Don Quixote was not quite right in his head as he had +committed such a vagary as to set them free), finding himself abused in +this fashion, gave the wink to his companions, and falling back they +began to shower stones on Don Quixote at such a rate that he was quite +unable to protect himself with his buckler, and poor Rocinante no more +heeded the spur than if he had been made of brass. Sancho planted himself +behind his ass, and with him sheltered himself from the hailstorm that +poured on both of them. Don Quixote was unable to shield himself so well +but that more pebbles than I could count struck him full on the body with +such force that they brought him to the ground; and the instant he fell +the student pounced upon him, snatched the basin from his head, and with +it struck three or four blows on his shoulders, and as many more on the +ground, knocking it almost to pieces. They then stripped him of a jacket +that he wore over his armour, and they would have stripped off his +stockings if his greaves had not prevented them. From Sancho they took +his coat, leaving him in his shirt-sleeves; and dividing among themselves +the remaining spoils of the battle, they went each one his own way, more +solicitous about keeping clear of the Holy Brotherhood they dreaded, than +about burdening themselves with the chain, or going to present themselves +before the lady Dulcinea del Toboso. The ass and Rocinante, Sancho and +Don Quixote, were all that were left upon the spot; the ass with drooping +head, serious, shaking his ears from time to time as if he thought the +storm of stones that assailed them was not yet over; Rocinante stretched +beside his master, for he too had been brought to the ground by a stone; +Sancho stripped, and trembling with fear of the Holy Brotherhood; and Don +Quixote fuming to find himself so served by the very persons for whom he +had done so much. + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The History of Don Quixote, Vol. I., +Part 7., by Miguel de Cervantes + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DON QUIXOTE, PART 7 *** + +***** This file should be named 5909.txt or 5909.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/5/9/0/5909/ + +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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