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diff --git a/5926.txt b/5926.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5a02eda --- /dev/null +++ b/5926.txt @@ -0,0 +1,1000 @@ +The Project Gutenberg EBook of The History of Don Quixote, Vol. II., Part +23, by Miguel de Cervantes + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: The History of Don Quixote, Vol. II., Part 23 + +Author: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra + +Release Date: July 22, 2004 [EBook #5926] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DON QUIXOTE, PART 23 *** + + + + +Produced by David Widger + + + + + + DON QUIXOTE + + Volume II. + + Part 23. + + by Miguel de Cervantes + + + Translated by John Ormsby + + + +CHAPTER XIX. + +IN WHICH IS RELATED THE ADVENTURE OF THE ENAMOURED SHEPHERD, TOGETHER +WITH OTHER TRULY DROLL INCIDENTS + + +Don Quixote had gone but a short distance beyond Don Diego's village, +when he fell in with a couple of either priests or students, and a couple +of peasants, mounted on four beasts of the ass kind. One of the students +carried, wrapped up in a piece of green buckram by way of a portmanteau, +what seemed to be a little linen and a couple of pairs of-ribbed +stockings; the other carried nothing but a pair of new fencing-foils with +buttons. The peasants carried divers articles that showed they were on +their way from some large town where they had bought them, and were +taking them home to their village; and both students and peasants were +struck with the same amazement that everybody felt who saw Don Quixote +for the first time, and were dying to know who this man, so different +from ordinary men, could be. Don Quixote saluted them, and after +ascertaining that their road was the same as his, made them an offer of +his company, and begged them to slacken their pace, as their young asses +travelled faster than his horse; and then, to gratify them, he told them +in a few words who he was and the calling and profession he followed, +which was that of a knight-errant seeking adventures in all parts of the +world. He informed them that his own name was Don Quixote of La Mancha, +and that he was called, by way of surname, the Knight of the Lions. + +All this was Greek or gibberish to the peasants, but not so to the +students, who very soon perceived the crack in Don Quixote's pate; for +all that, however, they regarded him with admiration and respect, and one +of them said to him, "If you, sir knight, have no fixed road, as it is +the way with those who seek adventures not to have any, let your worship +come with us; you will see one of the finest and richest weddings that up +to this day have ever been celebrated in La Mancha, or for many a league +round." + +Don Quixote asked him if it was some prince's, that he spoke of it in +this way. "Not at all," said the student; "it is the wedding of a farmer +and a farmer's daughter, he the richest in all this country, and she the +fairest mortal ever set eyes on. The display with which it is to be +attended will be something rare and out of the common, for it will be +celebrated in a meadow adjoining the town of the bride, who is called, +par excellence, Quiteria the fair, as the bridegroom is called Camacho +the rich. She is eighteen, and he twenty-two, and they are fairly +matched, though some knowing ones, who have all the pedigrees in the +world by heart, will have it that the family of the fair Quiteria is +better than Camacho's; but no one minds that now-a-days, for wealth can +solder a great many flaws. At any rate, Camacho is free-handed, and it is +his fancy to screen the whole meadow with boughs and cover it in +overhead, so that the sun will have hard work if he tries to get in to +reach the grass that covers the soil. He has provided dancers too, not +only sword but also bell-dancers, for in his own town there are those who +ring the changes and jingle the bells to perfection; of shoe-dancers I +say nothing, for of them he has engaged a host. But none of these things, +nor of the many others I have omitted to mention, will do more to make +this a memorable wedding than the part which I suspect the despairing +Basilio will play in it. This Basilio is a youth of the same village as +Quiteria, and he lived in the house next door to that of her parents, of +which circumstance Love took advantage to reproduce to the word the +long-forgotten loves of Pyramus and Thisbe; for Basilio loved Quiteria +from his earliest years, and she responded to his passion with countless +modest proofs of affection, so that the loves of the two children, +Basilio and Quiteria, were the talk and the amusement of the town. As +they grew up, the father of Quiteria made up his mind to refuse Basilio +his wonted freedom of access to the house, and to relieve himself of +constant doubts and suspicions, he arranged a match for his daughter with +the rich Camacho, as he did not approve of marrying her to Basilio, who +had not so large a share of the gifts of fortune as of nature; for if the +truth be told ungrudgingly, he is the most agile youth we know, a mighty +thrower of the bar, a first-rate wrestler, and a great ball-player; he +runs like a deer, and leaps better than a goat, bowls over the nine-pins +as if by magic, sings like a lark, plays the guitar so as to make it +speak, and, above all, handles a sword as well as the best." + +"For that excellence alone," said Don Quixote at this, "the youth +deserves to marry, not merely the fair Quiteria, but Queen Guinevere +herself, were she alive now, in spite of Launcelot and all who would try +to prevent it." + +"Say that to my wife," said Sancho, who had until now listened in +silence, "for she won't hear of anything but each one marrying his equal, +holding with the proverb 'each ewe to her like.' What I would like is +that this good Basilio (for I am beginning to take a fancy to him +already) should marry this lady Quiteria; and a blessing and good luck--I +meant to say the opposite--on people who would prevent those who love one +another from marrying." + +"If all those who love one another were to marry," said Don Quixote, "it +would deprive parents of the right to choose, and marry their children to +the proper person and at the proper time; and if it was left to daughters +to choose husbands as they pleased, one would be for choosing her +father's servant, and another, some one she has seen passing in the +street and fancies gallant and dashing, though he may be a drunken bully; +for love and fancy easily blind the eyes of the judgment, so much wanted +in choosing one's way of life; and the matrimonial choice is very liable +to error, and it needs great caution and the special favour of heaven to +make it a good one. He who has to make a long journey, will, if he is +wise, look out for some trusty and pleasant companion to accompany him +before he sets out. Why, then, should not he do the same who has to make +the whole journey of life down to the final halting-place of death, more +especially when the companion has to be his companion in bed, at board, +and everywhere, as the wife is to her husband? The companionship of one's +wife is no article of merchandise, that, after it has been bought, may be +returned, or bartered, or changed; for it is an inseparable accident that +lasts as long as life lasts; it is a noose that, once you put it round +your neck, turns into a Gordian knot, which, if the scythe of Death does +not cut it, there is no untying. I could say a great deal more on this +subject, were I not prevented by the anxiety I feel to know if the senor +licentiate has anything more to tell about the story of Basilio." + +To this the student, bachelor, or, as Don Quixote called him, licentiate, +replied, "I have nothing whatever to say further, but that from the +moment Basilio learned that the fair Quiteria was to be married to +Camacho the rich, he has never been seen to smile, or heard to utter +rational word, and he always goes about moody and dejected, talking to +himself in a way that shows plainly he is out of his senses. He eats +little and sleeps little, and all he eats is fruit, and when he sleeps, +if he sleeps at all, it is in the field on the hard earth like a brute +beast. Sometimes he gazes at the sky, at other times he fixes his eyes on +the earth in such an abstracted way that he might be taken for a clothed +statue, with its drapery stirred by the wind. In short, he shows such +signs of a heart crushed by suffering, that all we who know him believe +that when to-morrow the fair Quiteria says 'yes,' it will be his sentence +of death." + +"God will guide it better," said Sancho, "for God who gives the wound +gives the salve; nobody knows what will happen; there are a good many +hours between this and to-morrow, and any one of them, or any moment, the +house may fall; I have seen the rain coming down and the sun shining all +at one time; many a one goes to bed in good health who can't stir the +next day. And tell me, is there anyone who can boast of having driven a +nail into the wheel of fortune? No, faith; and between a woman's 'yes' +and 'no' I wouldn't venture to put the point of a pin, for there would +not be room for it; if you tell me Quiteria loves Basilio heart and soul, +then I'll give him a bag of good luck; for love, I have heard say, looks +through spectacles that make copper seem gold, poverty wealth, and blear +eyes pearls." + +"What art thou driving at, Sancho? curses on thee!" said Don Quixote; +"for when thou takest to stringing proverbs and sayings together, no one +can understand thee but Judas himself, and I wish he had thee. Tell me, +thou animal, what dost thou know about nails or wheels, or anything +else?" + +"Oh, if you don't understand me," replied Sancho, "it is no wonder my +words are taken for nonsense; but no matter; I understand myself, and I +know I have not said anything very foolish in what I have said; only your +worship, senor, is always gravelling at everything I say, nay, everything +I do." + +"Cavilling, not gravelling," said Don Quixote, "thou prevaricator of +honest language, God confound thee!" + +"Don't find fault with me, your worship," returned Sancho, "for you know +I have not been bred up at court or trained at Salamanca, to know whether +I am adding or dropping a letter or so in my words. Why! God bless me, +it's not fair to force a Sayago-man to speak like a Toledan; maybe there +are Toledans who do not hit it off when it comes to polished talk." + +"That is true," said the licentiate, "for those who have been bred up in +the Tanneries and the Zocodover cannot talk like those who are almost all +day pacing the cathedral cloisters, and yet they are all Toledans. Pure, +correct, elegant and lucid language will be met with in men of courtly +breeding and discrimination, though they may have been born in +Majalahonda; I say of discrimination, because there are many who are not +so, and discrimination is the grammar of good language, if it be +accompanied by practice. I, sirs, for my sins have studied canon law at +Salamanca, and I rather pique myself on expressing my meaning in clear, +plain, and intelligible language." + +"If you did not pique yourself more on your dexterity with those foils +you carry than on dexterity of tongue," said the other student, "you +would have been head of the degrees, where you are now tail." + +"Look here, bachelor Corchuelo," returned the licentiate, "you have the +most mistaken idea in the world about skill with the sword, if you think +it useless." + +"It is no idea on my part, but an established truth," replied Corchuelo; +"and if you wish me to prove it to you by experiment, you have swords +there, and it is a good opportunity; I have a steady hand and a strong +arm, and these joined with my resolution, which is not small, will make +you confess that I am not mistaken. Dismount and put in practice your +positions and circles and angles and science, for I hope to make you see +stars at noonday with my rude raw swordsmanship, in which, next to God, I +place my trust that the man is yet to be born who will make me turn my +back, and that there is not one in the world I will not compel to give +ground." + +"As to whether you turn your back or not, I do not concern myself," +replied the master of fence; "though it might be that your grave would be +dug on the spot where you planted your foot the first time; I mean that +you would be stretched dead there for despising skill with the sword." + +"We shall soon see," replied Corchuelo, and getting off his ass briskly, +he drew out furiously one of the swords the licentiate carried on his +beast. + +"It must not be that way," said Don Quixote at this point; "I will be the +director of this fencing match, and judge of this often disputed +question;" and dismounting from Rocinante and grasping his lance, he +planted himself in the middle of the road, just as the licentiate, with +an easy, graceful bearing and step, advanced towards Corchuelo, who came +on against him, darting fire from his eyes, as the saying is. The other +two of the company, the peasants, without dismounting from their asses, +served as spectators of the mortal tragedy. The cuts, thrusts, down +strokes, back strokes and doubles, that Corchuelo delivered were past +counting, and came thicker than hops or hail. He attacked like an angry +lion, but he was met by a tap on the mouth from the button of the +licentiate's sword that checked him in the midst of his furious onset, +and made him kiss it as if it were a relic, though not as devoutly as +relics are and ought to be kissed. The end of it was that the licentiate +reckoned up for him by thrusts every one of the buttons of the short +cassock he wore, tore the skirts into strips, like the tails of a +cuttlefish, knocked off his hat twice, and so completely tired him out, +that in vexation, anger, and rage, he took the sword by the hilt and +flung it away with such force, that one of the peasants that were there, +who was a notary, and who went for it, made an affidavit afterwards that +he sent it nearly three-quarters of a league, which testimony will serve, +and has served, to show and establish with all certainty that strength is +overcome by skill. + +Corchuelo sat down wearied, and Sancho approaching him said, "By my +faith, senor bachelor, if your worship takes my advice, you will never +challenge anyone to fence again, only to wrestle and throw the bar, for +you have the youth and strength for that; but as for these fencers as +they call them, I have heard say they can put the point of a sword +through the eye of a needle." + +"I am satisfied with having tumbled off my donkey," said Corchuelo, "and +with having had the truth I was so ignorant of proved to me by +experience;" and getting up he embraced the licentiate, and they were +better friends than ever; and not caring to wait for the notary who had +gone for the sword, as they saw he would be a long time about it, they +resolved to push on so as to reach the village of Quiteria, to which they +all belonged, in good time. + +During the remainder of the journey the licentiate held forth to them on +the excellences of the sword, with such conclusive arguments, and such +figures and mathematical proofs, that all were convinced of the value of +the science, and Corchuelo cured of his dogmatism. + +It grew dark; but before they reached the town it seemed to them all as +if there was a heaven full of countless glittering stars in front of it. +They heard, too, the pleasant mingled notes of a variety of instruments, +flutes, drums, psalteries, pipes, tabors, and timbrels, and as they drew +near they perceived that the trees of a leafy arcade that had been +constructed at the entrance of the town were filled with lights +unaffected by the wind, for the breeze at the time was so gentle that it +had not power to stir the leaves on the trees. The musicians were the +life of the wedding, wandering through the pleasant grounds in separate +bands, some dancing, others singing, others playing the various +instruments already mentioned. In short, it seemed as though mirth and +gaiety were frisking and gambolling all over the meadow. Several other +persons were engaged in erecting raised benches from which people might +conveniently see the plays and dances that were to be performed the next +day on the spot dedicated to the celebration of the marriage of Camacho +the rich and the obsequies of Basilio. Don Quixote would not enter the +village, although the peasant as well as the bachelor pressed him; he +excused himself, however, on the grounds, amply sufficient in his +opinion, that it was the custom of knights-errant to sleep in the fields +and woods in preference to towns, even were it under gilded ceilings; and +so turned aside a little out of the road, very much against Sancho's +will, as the good quarters he had enjoyed in the castle or house of Don +Diego came back to his mind. + + + + +CHAPTER XX. + +WHEREIN AN ACCOUNT IS GIVEN OF THE WEDDING OF CAMACHO THE RICH, TOGETHER +WITH THE INCIDENT OF BASILIO THE POOR + + +Scarce had the fair Aurora given bright Phoebus time to dry the liquid +pearls upon her golden locks with the heat of his fervent rays, when Don +Quixote, shaking off sloth from his limbs, sprang to his feet and called +to his squire Sancho, who was still snoring; seeing which Don Quixote ere +he roused him thus addressed him: "Happy thou, above all the dwellers on +the face of the earth, that, without envying or being envied, sleepest +with tranquil mind, and that neither enchanters persecute nor +enchantments affright. Sleep, I say, and will say a hundred times, +without any jealous thoughts of thy mistress to make thee keep ceaseless +vigils, or any cares as to how thou art to pay the debts thou owest, or +find to-morrow's food for thyself and thy needy little family, to +interfere with thy repose. Ambition breaks not thy rest, nor doth this +world's empty pomp disturb thee, for the utmost reach of thy anxiety is +to provide for thy ass, since upon my shoulders thou hast laid the +support of thyself, the counterpoise and burden that nature and custom +have imposed upon masters. The servant sleeps and the master lies awake +thinking how he is to feed him, advance him, and reward him. The distress +of seeing the sky turn brazen, and withhold its needful moisture from the +earth, is not felt by the servant but by the master, who in time of +scarcity and famine must support him who has served him in times of +plenty and abundance." + +To all this Sancho made no reply because he was asleep, nor would he have +wakened up so soon as he did had not Don Quixote brought him to his +senses with the butt of his lance. He awoke at last, drowsy and lazy, and +casting his eyes about in every direction, observed, "There comes, if I +don't mistake, from the quarter of that arcade a steam and a smell a +great deal more like fried rashers than galingale or thyme; a wedding +that begins with smells like that, by my faith, ought to be plentiful and +unstinting." + +"Have done, thou glutton," said Don Quixote; "come, let us go and witness +this bridal, and see what the rejected Basilio does." + +"Let him do what he likes," returned Sancho; "be he not poor, he would +marry Quiteria. To make a grand match for himself, and he without a +farthing; is there nothing else? Faith, senor, it's my opinion the poor +man should be content with what he can get, and not go looking for +dainties in the bottom of the sea. I will bet my arm that Camacho could +bury Basilio in reals; and if that be so, as no doubt it is, what a fool +Quiteria would be to refuse the fine dresses and jewels Camacho must have +given her and will give her, and take Basilio's bar-throwing and +sword-play. They won't give a pint of wine at the tavern for a good cast +of the bar or a neat thrust of the sword. Talents and accomplishments +that can't be turned into money, let Count Dirlos have them; but when +such gifts fall to one that has hard cash, I wish my condition of life +was as becoming as they are. On a good foundation you can raise a good +building, and the best foundation in the world is money." + +"For God's sake, Sancho," said Don Quixote here, "stop that harangue; it +is my belief, if thou wert allowed to continue all thou beginnest every +instant, thou wouldst have no time left for eating or sleeping; for thou +wouldst spend it all in talking." + +"If your worship had a good memory," replied Sancho, "you would remember +the articles of our agreement before we started from home this last time; +one of them was that I was to be let say all I liked, so long as it was +not against my neighbour or your worship's authority; and so far, it +seems to me, I have not broken the said article." + +"I remember no such article, Sancho," said Don Quixote; "and even if it +were so, I desire you to hold your tongue and come along; for the +instruments we heard last night are already beginning to enliven the +valleys again, and no doubt the marriage will take place in the cool of +the morning, and not in the heat of the afternoon." + +Sancho did as his master bade him, and putting the saddle on Rocinante +and the pack-saddle on Dapple, they both mounted and at a leisurely pace +entered the arcade. The first thing that presented itself to Sancho's +eyes was a whole ox spitted on a whole elm tree, and in the fire at which +it was to be roasted there was burning a middling-sized mountain of +faggots, and six stewpots that stood round the blaze had not been made in +the ordinary mould of common pots, for they were six half wine-jars, each +fit to hold the contents of a slaughter-house; they swallowed up whole +sheep and hid them away in their insides without showing any more sign of +them than if they were pigeons. Countless were the hares ready skinned +and the plucked fowls that hung on the trees for burial in the pots, +numberless the wildfowl and game of various sorts suspended from the +branches that the air might keep them cool. Sancho counted more than +sixty wine skins of over six gallons each, and all filled, as it proved +afterwards, with generous wines. There were, besides, piles of the +whitest bread, like the heaps of corn one sees on the threshing-floors. +There was a wall made of cheeses arranged like open brick-work, and two +cauldrons full of oil, bigger than those of a dyer's shop, served for +cooking fritters, which when fried were taken out with two mighty +shovels, and plunged into another cauldron of prepared honey that stood +close by. Of cooks and cook-maids there were over fifty, all clean, +brisk, and blithe. In the capacious belly of the ox were a dozen soft +little sucking-pigs, which, sewn up there, served to give it tenderness +and flavour. The spices of different kinds did not seem to have been +bought by the pound but by the quarter, and all lay open to view in a +great chest. In short, all the preparations made for the wedding were in +rustic style, but abundant enough to feed an army. + +Sancho observed all, contemplated all, and everything won his heart. The +first to captivate and take his fancy were the pots, out of which he +would have very gladly helped himself to a moderate pipkinful; then the +wine skins secured his affections; and lastly, the produce of the +frying-pans, if, indeed, such imposing cauldrons may be called +frying-pans; and unable to control himself or bear it any longer, he +approached one of the busy cooks and civilly but hungrily begged +permission to soak a scrap of bread in one of the pots; to which the cook +made answer, "Brother, this is not a day on which hunger is to have any +sway, thanks to the rich Camacho; get down and look about for a ladle and +skim off a hen or two, and much good may they do you." + +"I don't see one," said Sancho. + +"Wait a bit," said the cook; "sinner that I am! how particular and +bashful you are!" and so saying, he seized a bucket and plunging it into +one of the half jars took up three hens and a couple of geese, and said +to Sancho, "Fall to, friend, and take the edge off your appetite with +these skimmings until dinner-time comes." + +"I have nothing to put them in," said Sancho. + +"Well then," said the cook, "take spoon and all; for Camacho's wealth and +happiness furnish everything." + +While Sancho fared thus, Don Quixote was watching the entrance, at one +end of the arcade, of some twelve peasants, all in holiday and gala +dress, mounted on twelve beautiful mares with rich handsome field +trappings and a number of little bells attached to their petrals, who, +marshalled in regular order, ran not one but several courses over the +meadow, with jubilant shouts and cries of "Long live Camacho and +Quiteria! he as rich as she is fair; and she the fairest on earth!" + +Hearing this, Don Quixote said to himself, "It is easy to see these folk +have never seen my Dulcinea del Toboso; for if they had they would be +more moderate in their praises of this Quiteria of theirs." + +Shortly after this, several bands of dancers of various sorts began to +enter the arcade at different points, and among them one of sword-dancers +composed of some four-and-twenty lads of gallant and high-spirited mien, +clad in the finest and whitest of linen, and with handkerchiefs +embroidered in various colours with fine silk; and one of those on the +mares asked an active youth who led them if any of the dancers had been +wounded. "As yet, thank God, no one has been wounded," said he, "we are +all safe and sound;" and he at once began to execute complicated figures +with the rest of his comrades, with so many turns and so great dexterity, +that although Don Quixote was well used to see dances of the same kind, +he thought he had never seen any so good as this. He also admired another +that came in composed of fair young maidens, none of whom seemed to be +under fourteen or over eighteen years of age, all clad in green stuff, +with their locks partly braided, partly flowing loose, but all of such +bright gold as to vie with the sunbeams, and over them they wore garlands +of jessamine, roses, amaranth, and honeysuckle. At their head were a +venerable old man and an ancient dame, more brisk and active, however, +than might have been expected from their years. The notes of a Zamora +bagpipe accompanied them, and with modesty in their countenances and in +their eyes, and lightness in their feet, they looked the best dancers in +the world. + +Following these there came an artistic dance of the sort they call +"speaking dances." It was composed of eight nymphs in two files, with the +god Cupid leading one and Interest the other, the former furnished with +wings, bow, quiver and arrows, the latter in a rich dress of gold and +silk of divers colours. The nymphs that followed Love bore their names +written on white parchment in large letters on their backs. "Poetry" was +the name of the first, "Wit" of the second, "Birth" of the third, and +"Valour" of the fourth. Those that followed Interest were distinguished +in the same way; the badge of the first announced "Liberality," that of +the second "Largess," the third "Treasure," and the fourth "Peaceful +Possession." In front of them all came a wooden castle drawn by four wild +men, all clad in ivy and hemp stained green, and looking so natural that +they nearly terrified Sancho. On the front of the castle and on each of +the four sides of its frame it bore the inscription "Castle of Caution." +Four skillful tabor and flute players accompanied them, and the dance +having been opened, Cupid, after executing two figures, raised his eyes +and bent his bow against a damsel who stood between the turrets of the +castle, and thus addressed her: + +I am the mighty God whose sway + Is potent over land and sea. +The heavens above us own me; nay, + The shades below acknowledge me. +I know not fear, I have my will, + Whate'er my whim or fancy be; +For me there's no impossible, + I order, bind, forbid, set free. + +Having concluded the stanza he discharged an arrow at the top of the +castle, and went back to his place. Interest then came forward and went +through two more figures, and as soon as the tabors ceased, he said: + +But mightier than Love am I, + Though Love it be that leads me on, +Than mine no lineage is more high, + Or older, underneath the sun. +To use me rightly few know how, + To act without me fewer still, +For I am Interest, and I vow + For evermore to do thy will. + +Interest retired, and Poetry came forward, and when she had gone through +her figures like the others, fixing her eyes on the damsel of the castle, +she said: + +With many a fanciful conceit, + Fair Lady, winsome Poesy +Her soul, an offering at thy feet, + Presents in sonnets unto thee. +If thou my homage wilt not scorn, + Thy fortune, watched by envious eyes, +On wings of poesy upborne + Shall be exalted to the skies. + +Poetry withdrew, and on the side of Interest Liberality advanced, and +after having gone through her figures, said: + +To give, while shunning each extreme, + The sparing hand, the over-free, +Therein consists, so wise men deem, + The virtue Liberality. +But thee, fair lady, to enrich, + Myself a prodigal I'll prove, +A vice not wholly shameful, which + May find its fair excuse in love. + +In the same manner all the characters of the two bands advanced and +retired, and each executed its figures, and delivered its verses, some of +them graceful, some burlesque, but Don Quixote's memory (though he had an +excellent one) only carried away those that have been just quoted. All +then mingled together, forming chains and breaking off again with +graceful, unconstrained gaiety; and whenever Love passed in front of the +castle he shot his arrows up at it, while Interest broke gilded pellets +against it. At length, after they had danced a good while, Interest drew +out a great purse, made of the skin of a large brindled cat and to all +appearance full of money, and flung it at the castle, and with the force +of the blow the boards fell asunder and tumbled down, leaving the damsel +exposed and unprotected. Interest and the characters of his band +advanced, and throwing a great chain of gold over her neck pretended to +take her and lead her away captive, on seeing which, Love and his +supporters made as though they would release her, the whole action being +to the accompaniment of the tabors and in the form of a regular dance. +The wild men made peace between them, and with great dexterity readjusted +and fixed the boards of the castle, and the damsel once more ensconced +herself within; and with this the dance wound up, to the great enjoyment +of the beholders. + +Don Quixote asked one of the nymphs who it was that had composed and +arranged it. She replied that it was a beneficiary of the town who had a +nice taste in devising things of the sort. "I will lay a wager," said Don +Quixote, "that the same bachelor or beneficiary is a greater friend of +Camacho's than of Basilio's, and that he is better at satire than at +vespers; he has introduced the accomplishments of Basilio and the riches +of Camacho very neatly into the dance." Sancho Panza, who was listening +to all this, exclaimed, "The king is my cock; I stick to Camacho." "It is +easy to see thou art a clown, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "and one of that +sort that cry 'Long life to the conqueror.'" + +"I don't know of what sort I am," returned Sancho, "but I know very well +I'll never get such elegant skimmings off Basilio's pots as these I have +got off Camacho's;" and he showed him the bucketful of geese and hens, +and seizing one began to eat with great gaiety and appetite, saying, "A +fig for the accomplishments of Basilio! As much as thou hast so much art +thou worth, and as much as thou art worth so much hast thou. As a +grandmother of mine used to say, there are only two families in the +world, the Haves and the Haven'ts; and she stuck to the Haves; and to +this day, Senor Don Quixote, people would sooner feel the pulse of +'Have,' than of 'Know;' an ass covered with gold looks better than a +horse with a pack-saddle. So once more I say I stick to Camacho, the +bountiful skimmings of whose pots are geese and hens, hares and rabbits; +but of Basilio's, if any ever come to hand, or even to foot, they'll be +only rinsings." + +"Hast thou finished thy harangue, Sancho?" said Don Quixote. "Of course I +have finished it," replied Sancho, "because I see your worship takes +offence at it; but if it was not for that, there was work enough cut out +for three days." + +"God grant I may see thee dumb before I die, Sancho," said Don Quixote. + +"At the rate we are going," said Sancho, "I'll be chewing clay before +your worship dies; and then, maybe, I'll be so dumb that I'll not say a +word until the end of the world, or, at least, till the day of judgment." + +"Even should that happen, O Sancho," said Don Quixote, "thy silence will +never come up to all thou hast talked, art talking, and wilt talk all thy +life; moreover, it naturally stands to reason, that my death will come +before thine; so I never expect to see thee dumb, not even when thou art +drinking or sleeping, and that is the utmost I can say." + +"In good faith, senor," replied Sancho, "there's no trusting that +fleshless one, I mean Death, who devours the lamb as soon as the sheep, +and, as I have heard our curate say, treads with equal foot upon the +lofty towers of kings and the lowly huts of the poor. That lady is more +mighty than dainty, she is no way squeamish, she devours all and is ready +for all, and fills her alforjas with people of all sorts, ages, and +ranks. She is no reaper that sleeps out the noontide; at all times she is +reaping and cutting down, as well the dry grass as the green; she never +seems to chew, but bolts and swallows all that is put before her, for she +has a canine appetite that is never satisfied; and though she has no +belly, she shows she has a dropsy and is athirst to drink the lives of +all that live, as one would drink a jug of cold water." + +"Say no more, Sancho," said Don Quixote at this; "don't try to better it, +and risk a fall; for in truth what thou hast said about death in thy +rustic phrase is what a good preacher might have said. I tell thee, +Sancho, if thou hadst discretion equal to thy mother wit, thou mightst +take a pulpit in hand, and go about the world preaching fine sermons." +"He preaches well who lives well," said Sancho, "and I know no more +theology than that." + +"Nor needst thou," said Don Quixote, "but I cannot conceive or make out +how it is that, the fear of God being the beginning of wisdom, thou, who +art more afraid of a lizard than of him, knowest so much." + +"Pass judgment on your chivalries, senor," returned Sancho, "and don't +set yourself up to judge of other men's fears or braveries, for I am as +good a fearer of God as my neighbours; but leave me to despatch these +skimmings, for all the rest is only idle talk that we shall be called to +account for in the other world;" and so saying, he began a fresh attack +on the bucket, with such a hearty appetite that he aroused Don Quixote's, +who no doubt would have helped him had he not been prevented by what must +be told farther on. + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The History of Don Quixote, Vol. II., +Part 23, by Miguel de Cervantes + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DON QUIXOTE, PART 23 *** + +***** This file should be named 5926.txt or 5926.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/5/9/2/5926/ + +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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