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diff --git a/5928.txt b/5928.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7224be3 --- /dev/null +++ b/5928.txt @@ -0,0 +1,689 @@ +The Project Gutenberg EBook of The History of Don Quixote, Vol. II., Part +25, 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 25 + +Author: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra + +Release Date: July 23, 2004 [EBook #5928] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DON QUIXOTE, PART 25 *** + + + + +Produced by David Widger + + + + + + DON QUIXOTE + + Volume II. + + Part 25. + + by Miguel de Cervantes + + + Translated by John Ormsby + + + +CHAPTER XXII. + +WHERIN IS RELATED THE GRAND ADVENTURE OF THE CAVE OF MONTESINOS IN THE +HEART OF LA MANCHA, WHICH THE VALIANT DON QUIXOTE BROUGHT TO A HAPPY +TERMINATION + + +Many and great were the attentions shown to Don Quixote by the newly +married couple, who felt themselves under an obligation to him for coming +forward in defence of their cause; and they exalted his wisdom to the +same level with his courage, rating him as a Cid in arms, and a Cicero in +eloquence. Worthy Sancho enjoyed himself for three days at the expense of +the pair, from whom they learned that the sham wound was not a scheme +arranged with the fair Quiteria, but a device of Basilio's, who counted +on exactly the result they had seen; he confessed, it is true, that he +had confided his idea to some of his friends, so that at the proper time +they might aid him in his purpose and insure the success of the +deception. + +"That," said Don Quixote, "is not and ought not to be called deception +which aims at virtuous ends;" and the marriage of lovers he maintained to +be a most excellent end, reminding them, however, that love has no +greater enemy than hunger and constant want; for love is all gaiety, +enjoyment, and happiness, especially when the lover is in the possession +of the object of his love, and poverty and want are the declared enemies +of all these; which he said to urge Senor Basilio to abandon the practice +of those accomplishments he was skilled in, for though they brought him +fame, they brought him no money, and apply himself to the acquisition of +wealth by legitimate industry, which will never fail those who are +prudent and persevering. The poor man who is a man of honour (if indeed a +poor man can be a man of honour) has a jewel when he has a fair wife, and +if she is taken from him, his honour is taken from him and slain. The +fair woman who is a woman of honour, and whose husband is poor, deserves +to be crowned with the laurels and crowns of victory and triumph. Beauty +by itself attracts the desires of all who behold it, and the royal eagles +and birds of towering flight stoop on it as on a dainty lure; but if +beauty be accompanied by want and penury, then the ravens and the kites +and other birds of prey assail it, and she who stands firm against such +attacks well deserves to be called the crown of her husband. "Remember, O +prudent Basilio," added Don Quixote, "it was the opinion of a certain +sage, I know not whom, that there was not more than one good woman in the +whole world; and his advice was that each one should think and believe +that this one good woman was his own wife, and in this way he would live +happy. I myself am not married, nor, so far, has it ever entered my +thoughts to be so; nevertheless I would venture to give advice to anyone +who might ask it, as to the mode in which he should seek a wife such as +he would be content to marry. The first thing I would recommend him, +would be to look to good name rather than to wealth, for a good woman +does not win a good name merely by being good, but by letting it be seen +that she is so, and open looseness and freedom do much more damage to a +woman's honour than secret depravity. If you take a good woman into your +house it will be an easy matter to keep her good, and even to make her +still better; but if you take a bad one you will find it hard work to +mend her, for it is no very easy matter to pass from one extreme to +another. I do not say it is impossible, but I look upon it as difficult." + +Sancho, listening to all this, said to himself, "This master of mine, +when I say anything that has weight and substance, says I might take a +pulpit in hand, and go about the world preaching fine sermons; but I say +of him that, when he begins stringing maxims together and giving advice +not only might he take a pulpit in hand, but two on each finger, and go +into the market-places to his heart's content. Devil take you for a +knight-errant, what a lot of things you know! I used to think in my heart +that the only thing he knew was what belonged to his chivalry; but there +is nothing he won't have a finger in." + +Sancho muttered this somewhat aloud, and his master overheard him, and +asked, "What art thou muttering there, Sancho?" + +"I'm not saying anything or muttering anything," said Sancho; "I was only +saying to myself that I wish I had heard what your worship has said just +now before I married; perhaps I'd say now, 'The ox that's loose licks +himself well.'" + +"Is thy Teresa so bad then, Sancho?" + +"She is not very bad," replied Sancho; "but she is not very good; at +least she is not as good as I could wish." + +"Thou dost wrong, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "to speak ill of thy wife; +for after all she is the mother of thy children." "We are quits," +returned Sancho; "for she speaks ill of me whenever she takes it into her +head, especially when she is jealous; and Satan himself could not put up +with her then." + +In fine, they remained three days with the newly married couple, by whom +they were entertained and treated like kings. Don Quixote begged the +fencing licentiate to find him a guide to show him the way to the cave of +Montesinos, as he had a great desire to enter it and see with his own +eyes if the wonderful tales that were told of it all over the country +were true. The licentiate said he would get him a cousin of his own, a +famous scholar, and one very much given to reading books of chivalry, who +would have great pleasure in conducting him to the mouth of the very +cave, and would show him the lakes of Ruidera, which were likewise famous +all over La Mancha, and even all over Spain; and he assured him he would +find him entertaining, for he was a youth who could write books good +enough to be printed and dedicated to princes. The cousin arrived at +last, leading an ass in foal, with a pack-saddle covered with a +parti-coloured carpet or sackcloth; Sancho saddled Rocinante, got Dapple +ready, and stocked his alforjas, along with which went those of the +cousin, likewise well filled; and so, commending themselves to God and +bidding farewell to all, they set out, taking the road for the famous +cave of Montesinos. + +On the way Don Quixote asked the cousin of what sort and character his +pursuits, avocations, and studies were, to which he replied that he was +by profession a humanist, and that his pursuits and studies were making +books for the press, all of great utility and no less entertainment to +the nation. One was called "The Book of Liveries," in which he described +seven hundred and three liveries, with their colours, mottoes, and +ciphers, from which gentlemen of the court might pick and choose any they +fancied for festivals and revels, without having to go a-begging for them +from anyone, or puzzling their brains, as the saying is, to have them +appropriate to their objects and purposes; "for," said he, "I give the +jealous, the rejected, the forgotten, the absent, what will suit them, +and fit them without fail. I have another book, too, which I shall call +'Metamorphoses, or the Spanish Ovid,' one of rare and original invention, +for imitating Ovid in burlesque style, I show in it who the Giralda of +Seville and the Angel of the Magdalena were, what the sewer of +Vecinguerra at Cordova was, what the bulls of Guisando, the Sierra +Morena, the Leganitos and Lavapies fountains at Madrid, not forgetting +those of the Piojo, of the Cano Dorado, and of the Priora; and all with +their allegories, metaphors, and changes, so that they are amusing, +interesting, and instructive, all at once. Another book I have which I +call 'The Supplement to Polydore Vergil,' which treats of the invention +of things, and is a work of great erudition and research, for I establish +and elucidate elegantly some things of great importance which Polydore +omitted to mention. He forgot to tell us who was the first man in the +world that had a cold in his head, and who was the first to try +salivation for the French disease, but I give it accurately set forth, +and quote more than five-and-twenty authors in proof of it, so you may +perceive I have laboured to good purpose and that the book will be of +service to the whole world." + +Sancho, who had been very attentive to the cousin's words, said to him, +"Tell me, senor--and God give you luck in printing your books-can you +tell me (for of course you know, as you know everything) who was the +first man that scratched his head? For to my thinking it must have been +our father Adam." + +"So it must," replied the cousin; "for there is no doubt but Adam had a +head and hair; and being the first man in the world he would have +scratched himself sometimes." + +"So I think," said Sancho; "but now tell me, who was the first tumbler in +the world?" + +"Really, brother," answered the cousin, "I could not at this moment say +positively without having investigated it; I will look it up when I go +back to where I have my books, and will satisfy you the next time we +meet, for this will not be the last time." + +"Look here, senor," said Sancho, "don't give yourself any trouble about +it, for I have just this minute hit upon what I asked you. The first +tumbler in the world, you must know, was Lucifer, when they cast or +pitched him out of heaven; for he came tumbling into the bottomless pit." + +"You are right, friend," said the cousin; and said Don Quixote, "Sancho, +that question and answer are not thine own; thou hast heard them from +some one else." + +"Hold your peace, senor," said Sancho; "faith, if I take to asking +questions and answering, I'll go on from this till to-morrow morning. +Nay! to ask foolish things and answer nonsense I needn't go looking for +help from my neighbours." + +"Thou hast said more than thou art aware of, Sancho," said Don Quixote; +"for there are some who weary themselves out in learning and proving +things that, after they are known and proved, are not worth a farthing to +the understanding or memory." + +In this and other pleasant conversation the day went by, and that night +they put up at a small hamlet whence it was not more than two leagues to +the cave of Montesinos, so the cousin told Don Quixote, adding, that if +he was bent upon entering it, it would be requisite for him to provide +himself with ropes, so that he might be tied and lowered into its depths. +Don Quixote said that even if it reached to the bottomless pit he meant +to see where it went to; so they bought about a hundred fathoms of rope, +and next day at two in the afternoon they arrived at the cave, the mouth +of which is spacious and wide, but full of thorn and wild-fig bushes and +brambles and briars, so thick and matted that they completely close it up +and cover it over. + +On coming within sight of it the cousin, Sancho, and Don Quixote +dismounted, and the first two immediately tied the latter very firmly +with the ropes, and as they were girding and swathing him Sancho said to +him, "Mind what you are about, master mine; don't go burying yourself +alive, or putting yourself where you'll be like a bottle put to cool in a +well; it's no affair or business of your worship's to become the explorer +of this, which must be worse than a Moorish dungeon." + +"Tie me and hold thy peace," said Don Quixote, "for an emprise like this, +friend Sancho, was reserved for me;" and said the guide, "I beg of you, +Senor Don Quixote, to observe carefully and examine with a hundred eyes +everything that is within there; perhaps there may be some things for me +to put into my book of 'Transformations.'" + +"The drum is in hands that will know how to beat it well enough," said +Sancho Panza. + +When he had said this and finished the tying (which was not over the +armour but only over the doublet) Don Quixote observed, "It was careless +of us not to have provided ourselves with a small cattle-bell to be tied +on the rope close to me, the sound of which would show that I was still +descending and alive; but as that is out of the question now, in God's +hand be it to guide me;" and forthwith he fell on his knees and in a low +voice offered up a prayer to heaven, imploring God to aid him and grant +him success in this to all appearance perilous and untried adventure, and +then exclaimed aloud, "O mistress of my actions and movements, +illustrious and peerless Dulcinea del Toboso, if so be the prayers and +supplications of this fortunate lover can reach thy ears, by thy +incomparable beauty I entreat thee to listen to them, for they but ask +thee not to refuse me thy favour and protection now that I stand in such +need of them. I am about to precipitate, to sink, to plunge myself into +the abyss that is here before me, only to let the world know that while +thou dost favour me there is no impossibility I will not attempt and +accomplish." With these words he approached the cavern, and perceived +that it was impossible to let himself down or effect an entrance except +by sheer force or cleaving a passage; so drawing his sword he began to +demolish and cut away the brambles at the mouth of the cave, at the noise +of which a vast multitude of crows and choughs flew out of it so thick +and so fast that they knocked Don Quixote down; and if he had been as +much of a believer in augury as he was a Catholic Christian he would have +taken it as a bad omen and declined to bury himself in such a place. He +got up, however, and as there came no more crows, or night-birds like the +bats that flew out at the same time with the crows, the cousin and Sancho +giving him rope, he lowered himself into the depths of the dread cavern; +and as he entered it Sancho sent his blessing after him, making a +thousand crosses over him and saying, "God, and the Pena de Francia, and +the Trinity of Gaeta guide thee, flower and cream of knights-errant. +There thou goest, thou dare-devil of the earth, heart of steel, arm of +brass; once more, God guide thee and send thee back safe, sound, and +unhurt to the light of this world thou art leaving to bury thyself in the +darkness thou art seeking there;" and the cousin offered up almost the +same prayers and supplications. + +Don Quixote kept calling to them to give him rope and more rope, and they +gave it out little by little, and by the time the calls, which came out +of the cave as out of a pipe, ceased to be heard they had let down the +hundred fathoms of rope. They were inclined to pull Don Quixote up again, +as they could give him no more rope; however, they waited about half an +hour, at the end of which time they began to gather in the rope again +with great ease and without feeling any weight, which made them fancy Don +Quixote was remaining below; and persuaded that it was so, Sancho wept +bitterly, and hauled away in great haste in order to settle the question. +When, however, they had come to, as it seemed, rather more than eighty +fathoms they felt a weight, at which they were greatly delighted; and at +last, at ten fathoms more, they saw Don Quixote distinctly, and Sancho +called out to him, saying, "Welcome back, senor, for we had begun to +think you were going to stop there to found a family." But Don Quixote +answered not a word, and drawing him out entirely they perceived he had +his eyes shut and every appearance of being fast asleep. + +They stretched him on the ground and untied him, but still he did not +awake; however, they rolled him back and forwards and shook and pulled +him about, so that after some time he came to himself, stretching himself +just as if he were waking up from a deep and sound sleep, and looking +about him he said, "God forgive you, friends; ye have taken me away from +the sweetest and most delightful existence and spectacle that ever human +being enjoyed or beheld. Now indeed do I know that all the pleasures of +this life pass away like a shadow and a dream, or fade like the flower of +the field. O ill-fated Montesinos! O sore-wounded Durandarte! O unhappy +Belerma! O tearful Guadiana, and ye O hapless daughters of Ruidera who +show in your waves the tears that flowed from your beauteous eyes!" + +The cousin and Sancho Panza listened with deep attention to the words of +Don Quixote, who uttered them as though with immense pain he drew them up +from his very bowels. They begged of him to explain himself, and tell +them what he had seen in that hell down there. + +"Hell do you call it?" said Don Quixote; "call it by no such name, for it +does not deserve it, as ye shall soon see." + +He then begged them to give him something to eat, as he was very hungry. +They spread the cousin's sackcloth on the grass, and put the stores of +the alforjas into requisition, and all three sitting down lovingly and +sociably, they made a luncheon and a supper of it all in one; and when +the sackcloth was removed, Don Quixote of La Mancha said, "Let no one +rise, and attend to me, my sons, both of you." + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The History of Don Quixote, Vol. II., +Part 25, by Miguel de Cervantes + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DON QUIXOTE, PART 25 *** + +***** This file should be named 5928.txt or 5928.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/5/9/2/5928/ + +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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