militibus pugnacibus Invulneratis Ferro facibus Miranda vidi mulieres Quas vivendo paenè Lapis fieres Sed pater quod ad res venereas Siquid unquam novi malè Pereas 5. Parentibus defunctis per dium Et Domus erant mihi taedium Fabulis refertus feror pronus Ut miles essem valeat Colonus Conscendo aequum mox capio arma Et cum Conto Cuspide Parmâ Que non tuli pater que non feci Plusquam quando egressus sum conjeci 6. Enumerare velim libens c. Upon six severall Trees were these lines ingraven and on the sixth something was begun which whether by injurie of weather or time erased and confounded is a shrewd scarre and losse to this History Some supplements from Arabian Neotericks we have which seem to compleat his confession and absolution which you shall have translated into the Mother Tongue for that was his Fathers to wit his Confessours 1. Sheep-slaughter and Sheep-murther I doe confesse and further Having no Providore The Poultry fell good store These peccadillo's Father You may forgive the rather Because sometimes by hunger put-on But by Nature I lov'd Mut-ton 2. Grice Mill and Fulling Mill I did attempt to Kill But bloodshed there was none And Pennance for the one I did i' th' aire my Horse And I are still the worse But O the Coarse who will me save Who fought a Corps out of its Graveâ— 3. Father I have a number More faults which castith ' lumbâ—r As swearing telling lies Of ungot Victories And crying up the sootie Aldonca for a beautie O by thy stretcht-out Armes declare That all these errors pardon'd are Now these Moderne Writers say that a Goatheard had conceal'd himselfe in a Corke Tree nere the Oak to heare Don Quixots Sonnets and complaints and desirous to make up the Scene spake from his hollow in a loud voice The Goathâ—ards absolution Sonne I have heard thy words thy sighs and grones Thy verses and thy lamentable tones I doe alsolve thee but you promise must By no means to take Gyants upon trust And ' cause your Windmill was the first ill fate Be sure to have a Windmill in your pate And ' cause you runne at Sheep I doe command You weare a goodly Sheepes taile for a Band. For the assault o' th' Coarse about your bed And rings when that you have 'um carve deaths head As for your lying and your fearfull oaths When you leave one I wish you to leave both Arise and thank the gods who pittying thee Gave Armes to th' Oake and tongue to the Corke Tree The Don tooke the miracle of his absolution to be farre more eminent then if an Heremite had pronounced it and confir'md in the opinion thaâ— he was cleare in foro poli soli he fell into his melancholy part againe and over-afflicted with the absence of Dulcinea he composed the most pittifull Poem that e'r was read whereby he doth approve himselfe the only mad Lover in the World Yet of all the furies you see by this that he was not troubled with Furor Poeticus It is congruent we turne and recount what happened to Sancho The Don is left grazing and picking of sallads which being the only nutriment he had did so discolour him that he might have added a superlative to his title and wrote of the most Ill-favour'd face Besides the crude herbs so frequently made their green sallies through his body that all the Field where he rav'd up and downe was full of Knight-sharne and had it been possible to have got a fire and frying panne he might have thriv'd better upon the Tanzies he evacuated then with the herbes at first gathering VVherefore he might very well containe and most properly usurp that Verse to himselfe Hei mihi quod null is amor est medicabilis herbis But Sancho is in his progresse to Toboso and rides not with Bellerophonâ— Letters but without Letters and with a mischiefe but yet being ignorant of his misfortune he arrives at the Inne where he incounter'd the Coverlet and came clean off But the indignity disturb'd his Valiant soul and he is as much toss'd in mind as then in body and at last resolves not to enter into the house though his owne belly and Rosinantes were of the dissenting party But while he plaies about the door he and his horse are discovered by two of the Mancha the knowing part of the Village the Curate and the Barber who betwixt threats and intreaties worke out of Sancho all the passage of his Masters new projects the errand that he had to his Lady of Toboso and that in Tablets the Letters to Dulcinea as also his warrant for three Asses were included When Sancho perceived that the Book was lost his visage waxed as pale and wanne as a deadman c. Sancho not capable of his Book doth fearefull execution upon himselfe and in an instant unthatches his reverend chin that Mr Barber with his Razor or his Tweezers could not be so expeditious He grub'd up all by the rootes where-ever his unmercifull hands fastened and quarter'd his face into a plaine betwixt two thickets nor did the rest of his Face scape his fury which he did assault in such rough manner that he was all gules which running along the Champion of his Chin made a bloody field Poor Sancho I pitty thy mistaken vengeance and causelesse revenge upon thy selfe and above all that thou shouldst forget thine own counsell to thy Master whom thou wouldst have if he had a minde to castigate himselfe to breake his head against the water or a tod of a wooll or some such favourable matter But great griefe is insensible and impatient of advice The Curate and the Barber stand astonished at his passion and forgetting for a time both their professions neither spirituall reproofe exhortation or comfort came from Sr Iohn in the Cassock nor any healing remedies from Mr Barber Surgeon untill Sancho tels the cause of his lamentation and unkinde usage of himselfe Both of them took great delight to see Sancho's good memory Sancho had a brutish memory and only serv'd him for the remembrance of his three Asses and the losse of his grey Asse But the Letter to Dulcinea it was as much from his head as the Tables were from his Breeches they never were there yet the fool ventures on a recitall and mingling his owne expressions with Don Quixots he rendred himselfe to have as much fancy as memory He only retaines that part of it which might have been best forgotten the subscription Yours untill death the Knight of the Ill-favour'd Face As to the relation of his Lords wandrings and prancks he was very punctuall but his memory fail'd him as to the tale of his owne tossing in a blanket which being perchance a secret belonging to the bed he thought it not fit to be revealed And he would give him one of the Emperors Ladies to wife Some of the deceaâ—ed
and would not endure the face of Heaven wherefore opportunity and place adding courage to his purposes apprehending Sanguines hand he thus accosted him who wondred with himselfe what would be the end of so courteous beginnings but Caesar-like accounting his fortunes in himselfe he said Sanguine feare not when Impotentio gravely and resolutely confess'd it is not the custome of this place friend Vernall much lesse of men of my Port to afford strangers such liberty as you this day have found But your lovely person and candid disposition had before so wrought upon me that this freedome to our nice and stanch Gentry indeed a great matter is the meanest and least priviledge which I invest you with having resolv'd to entertaine you into my very bosome But before you heare any further of my Noble intentions sweare unto me by all that hath a tie upon your soule and which invok'd you count it Religion to violate that you will not in the least scruple reveale it either by signes writing or talke no not if we are both of an opinion to the Priest Sanguine call'd to minde the Venetian absolution after renunciation of the faith and with these ensuing cautions to be praemitted he promised secrecy and assistance Signior said he if so be the secret be not against the present State which I have promised during the time of my abode to be true to nor my owne Country whose weale I have sacramentally vow'd nor any thing against your selfe whom by the Laws of hospitality I am commanded to secure 't is ratified and confirm'd and upon my oath of secrecy in attestation whereof I kisse your hand no screws arts racks nor allurements of any sexe shall be able to disclose what you have lockt up into my breast No Sanguine against none of these can you offend nay two of them you shall abundantly oblige that is said Impotentio the Common-Wealth of Venice and my selfe both which at once you shall gratifie at once make Venice happy in a Publicke sonne and your old friend with a brave heire For marke me Sanguine I am childlesse and ever like to be so unlesse this stratagem prevent it My younger Brother like a Vulture waits for my Carcass Not a Bell tols but he thinks or wisheth it were mine His how d' you man comes every day to know how I slept last night when indeed his errand is to enquire whether I had slept my last He seemingly laments my want of pledges which if he should see O the Basiliske what poysonous vapours would his eyes discharge more dangerous then a mâ—nstruous Organ to our purest mirrours I once desired Euphema to cozen him with some supposititious trick the very cheat reviv'd me and sent him home to bed sicke of a taffety Embryo To defraud this ravâ—â—ous expectant of his hopes and to disherison his malignant issue is my main design and I have in a most happy hour chosen thee Sanguine to be my instrument Proxies are allow'd in al Courts even in our Supream the Senate house Inferiour powers are regulated by them and why not our Domestick Adoption it is true in these cases of sterility hath made up the want and Emperors have with great contentment created successors when they could not generate that common way doth not affect me I am for the child which though it be not of my blood it ought to be and since my impotency denies that happiness to me my justice to my bed shall be preserv'd in a substitute All things conspire in thee to effect my wishes youth strength and loveliness This night Euphema sleeps within thy Armes doe not suspect my promises this night Sanguine I 'll reckon as my wedding night and what hath been these foure years due unto Euphema shall with large interest be satisfied Be confident I am serious and let this chaine of Pearle confirme thee untill I bring thee to a Jewell of a Price unvaluable Sir said our confounded Merchant my life is in your hands either by my consent or refusall If you are only tentative and supplant my frailty my consent is mortall if it be true and that you have design'd this stratagem against your brothers off-spring though with the taincture of your owne t is death to know so much and not consent If then on both sides my ruine is certaine let me dye on the best choice for gratifying you in what you wish and I am sure I am able to perform then by a sullen negative call an unprofitable ruine on my selfe Impotentio kiss'd him desiring his patience but to while it selfe in those walks and he would returne with news should joy them both Sanguine left alone fell into these raptures Kindle you summon'd Spirits and unite Your scatter'd Atomes in this amorous fight More Innocent then those of hers whose Troy Was made a Bone-fire by her Firebrand boy But such an influence dart that every eye May sweare the Boy 's o' th' Flavian Family And borne for Empire for the times to come Will judge the mother to have been at Rome Then looking on his chaine of Pearle saith A way fond Merchandise I will no more Worship the East and the rich Coast adore Adventure men and lives at costly rates Euphema's are more safe and gainfull Straights Shoot this Venetian Gulph and say be rich Sanguine above a Misers covetous itch He that â—y such rare copeage Mounts is sure To break his neck or live for e'r secure Not shee so rich whom trucking Jove of old Bought by conversion of himselfe to Gold Could I descend like him in a bright Flame In harmelesse fires I 'd warme this Virgin Dame Was ever man so fortunate as I To be inchain'd thus to felicity Mother of Pearle and Pearle methinks we float Like Venus and Adonis in her boat Of glittering shels Euphema is alone Daughter of Pirra still the richest stone By this time Impotentio is return'd who having fully acquainted his wife with his unnaturall desires and the sodainnesse of the performance thought she durst not trifle with his fury or at leastwise would be unable to frustrate the yong Merchants importunity Euphema gave him no answer at all but stupified with the sencelessenesse of his device rested silent and amaz'd He left her mixing threats with entreaties and gave her some small time to consider in a back Chamber next to her Bed-Chamber which he vow'd was to be her Death-Bed if shee refused In this great conflict was the disconsolate Lady full of fears and teares and amidst those passions she thus disputed with her selfe What are my Crimes just Heavens or wherein Have I given cause to my wild Husbands sinne Have I in thought abus'd his bed or e'r Admitted Lust but kept this Conclave cleer Unravell me yee Powers and let him see The Residentials Court of Chastity A heart as pure as when in sacrifice The pleasing incense calm'd the Deities From thence as from an Altar of pure snow Fervent desires for Sacred life
Creature at the Oake might have mov'd him to some horse-errantry But that service cannot be expected upon Hay as Provender He that eates well does his worke well had Rosinante mounted the Mare and raised his Knight a by-mounted Chevalier no doubt but it had caused a new Frontispiece to the Book and the Don had been cut a story higher Had that Lady seen him which saw the Brewers horse at the same exercise with the Cart and Barrels at his back whence by the way Beere first learned to run a tilt she would no doubt have said as much for Rosinante as the Dray-horse in his full careere that he would have made a brave bedfellow had he but two legs The other beholding such an antick to hover over him Here is an Epitome in the Don and the Master correcting his boy of Bridewell and Bedlam only the Don hath grasse for Litter and is allowed the use of a horse which few Furiosos except Orlando though of the best quality ever had before How much quoth Don did his Master owe him The Don was an unfit Umpire or Judge in this case in my opinion and too strict upon the Master if he had remembred how he quit scores with mine Host but I had imagined by this nimble question that he would have shared with the boy had the Reals been numbred and saved the journey of returning to his own house All is well quoth Don Quixot let the price of the shooes c. Pithy and pat it would have become the Bench servants that have hard Masters let them read this Decision of the Dons it will teach them an excellent way of discount Taile Flebotomy or Leaching may very well be set against breathing a veine and excoriation or fleaing the Podes for given leather to the Pudds If it were pleaded in the Chamber of London I do beleeve it would have been excepted and the boy for his wit set upon Record Replied the boies Master I have no money This reply overthrows all Justice Businesse and Contrivance no money it non plâ—sses all Sutes Actions and Passions or what you will A Lady once requesting a Gentleman to play at Gleeke was refused but civilly and upon three reasons The first whereof Madam said the Gentleman is I have no money Her Ladyship knew that was so materiall and sufficient that she desired him to keep the other two reasons to himselfe The righter of Wrongs and undoer of Injuries Never did Knight take a title so inauspitiously both to himselfe and poore Andrew for Andrew was forced to the Oake againe though his Indentures were once cancelled And the Don proved just contrary in the next exploit being the abider of Wrongs and undergoer I cannot say but underlayer of Injuries I do also sweare the same quoth the Farmer There is as great Equivocation in the high shoone as the Cowle or the men of Trade One would have presumed the Oath both Andrew and his Master sware could not have been broke for they mutually invoked the Rock which is a very hard book to kisse but herein lay the evasion or mentall reservation when Andrew lookt for Reall payment the Sophister his Master gave him Corporall Who glad above all measure for his successe Had Andrews picture and the Dons been taken about the same businesse for both were high exalted they would have made exact pieces of Heracltus and Democritus but Dicitur infectâ— re rediisse Domum And the Don in this transportation was like the sleeper in the empty Theater who comming before the Play or Auditors dream'd of the passages and laugh'd clapp'd hiss'd and stamp'd as if the Players had been enter'd Vacuo sessor plausorque theatro Even so and so To Dulcinea the Empresse of his labours all devoires are tendred for her inspirations of speech and valour as a man should say briefly thus Blest be Dulcinea whose Favour I beseeching Rescu'd poore Andrew and his Nock-Andro from breeching The way which oft held Knight Errants in suspence This stand of the Dons makes me suspect he was a Foole for he is neither weather-wise nor way-wise nor penny-wise but in this Quadry-way he might though ne're so valiant be worsted for here was foure to one And came with their Quitasotes These are over-head boone Graces or Vardingales a portable pent-house against the sunne we had an old Lord or Lady shall I say for King Iames when he saw him at his first comming into England sware old Besse was alive againe who used in the summer time a Fanne and if he had transplaced his huge pok't ruffe foure handfull higher he had been in the Toledo mode and brought the Quitasotes into fashion in his own Country Such an adventure as he imagined The Don was extreamly mistaken for these were though not Knights â—is brother Merchant adventurers More beautifull then the Empresse of the Mancha This is the first challenge and Proclamation of his Ladies beauty you shall finde him begin and end a cryer The miserable but not so sad a representative of many a calamity undergone for no weightier a cause then the beauty of a Lady How many Ladies have seen their servants for the maintenance of that perchance whereof they are as great guardians as Dulcinea del Toboso perisht and lie like Philaster or Cupid himselfe a bleeding But this was a most high piece of madnesse in our Don to proclaime his Ladies excellencies if shee had them to the World which commonly comes not to Idolize such pieces but if they have purses as these Merchants to traffick for them Goe no farther then Gyges for the naked truth of this That without beholding her you doe believe confesse affirme sweare and defend Most legally prosecuted I professe to have hold occupy and enjoy But your Toledo Merchants are no fooles they will see and know their commodities before they buy what a pigge in a poke two words to a bargaine Ignoti nulla cupido Give me the Merchants judgements not their leavings But the Knight is at his sic volo sic jubeo Dulcinea must be ador'd and truly shee deserved the knees of all that ever saw her to be bowed in undissembled prayer for deliverance from such a sight for ever after I request you in all these Princes names This need not goe for a jest of the ingenious Merchant for Sans controversie none live more like Princes then they doe The Picture of the Lady though no bigger then a graine of Wheat Such rare Models and pieces of Art are wonderfull in these Countries though of late our Southerne men have learned to cut the ten Commandements Creed and Pater noster in a cherries stone and we have seen not a Ladies face indeed but Father Garnets in a straw and his neck in a string Don Quixot all inflamed with Choler The Merchants sting in the taile of his speech so netled the Don that had Rosinante been so in place where no ground had held him But the beast grew dull with his
of their beds and jealous-headed have not found out the praevarications of their spouses until some four years practise in disloyalty this is patience perforce and not so punctuall and ad Rem as in the next Story shall be evidenced unto you Mr Curate wherein spleen and choler have the predominancy yet working the same effects as indiscretion did in others A Clarissimo of Venice a dignity not inferiour to that of the Roman Patricii liv'd in a port and fashion above any of the place being a man of vast revenews and had in addition to all his other blessings a Lady of incomparable beauty and chastity in so high a degree that though it be naturall to the soyle the Clarissimo was not jealous nor us'd those customary restraints on his wife that others did exposing her to publique view and priviledging her with the liberty of entertaining his friends or her own as oft as they were call'd in person unvail'd and unsuspected so that they were counted them iracle of Venice she for her transcendent beauty and the old Noble man for his indulgencies and permissions Her irreprovable demeanour and disposition to please him gave him great cause to suspect and grieve that the default was on his part chiefly why that faire Copy was not taken out that Lucina was never yet call'd upon for helpe and that no lovely pledges plai'd about his Hall On the other side the Lady ever honoured for ignorance like that innocent soule which was join'd to a Husband of a most impure and noisome breath never fain'd any dislike at it imagining all men had smelt alike The Lady I say knew not but she was as well serv'd as Niobe But the old Signior was resolv'd since he had depriv'd her of her Virgin honour to recompence her with the reverence and dignity of a mother But how to effect it was res ardua how should he with hopes of any success communicate so foul a design to her chast ears with whom even lawful delights were not admitted without a blush and some modest aversenesse Doubtfull and beyond measure troubled his rest fail'd him his countenance chang'd his sprightfull pleasance and galliardnesse abated which so deeply affected his pious consort that in sympathy shee refus'd all those contentments whereof her Lord could not partake The Lady innocent and assured that no cause was given by her deported her selfe in silence not presuming to enquire whence these alterations did arise but applying comfortable cordials and what ever would cherish and restore his strength left the disquisition of the reason untill his owne time should discover it such strugling paâ—sions cannot long keep within the womb that bred them like imprisoned winds they will endure no forcible confinement but make their way through those concaves and dens though with the ruine of their detainers and an Earthquake to the places adjacent Wherefore what he had long deliberated he is resolv'd now to put in action and the chiefe obstacle being his wives inflexibility to such perswasions it was most necessary to accost her first without whose consent all the rest of the project would come to nothing Sitting together as their custome was after dinner and at that time free from strangers he took her by the hand and with looks full of high deâ—ire said thus Life of this little that 's left me better part of my beâ—t part soule of my soule elixer of my fainting spirits bright Sun-beame repairer and incitresse of my decaying heat How happy am I in thee how above merit what felicity can be added more unto me only one that thou might'st enjoy a reciprocall returne of joy and happinesse from me But then playing with his haires said how can this be unlesse these silver haâ—res were turn'd to gold Is there no Chymistry can worke this change The common Baths will alter argent metall into Or Methinks in time a man may be made capable of such transfiguration For thy sake Love I wish it it grieves me for thee who lying by so dull and unprofitable a lump contractedst nothing but deadnesse and diseaseâ— and I shame to speak barrennesse the mockery of thy sexe that which women had rather not be then live withall If I had met thee in parity of years our Gallery had been enrich'd with the sweet Imagery of our own loines Thou mightst have read the History of thy selfe multiplyed to the visiting friends now thou lookest for issue from a charnell-house enduring the cruellest torment instead of satisfaction that can be devised a dead Corps to be join'd to thy sprightfull and lively person Abandon me for ever Deer if I labour not that divorce or suffer any longer so monstrous a conjunction I perceive thou art so innocent thou knowest not what this meanes nor whither my wild fancy carries me Obedience hath been hitherto thy excellency obedience to a frigid plant a shâ—king Aspine leafe a dogs nose Yet be thou still obedient and what I now intreate thee put in execution I have decreed thou goe to Church to morrow to St Marks in all the bravery thou canst adorne thy selfe though truly thou deckest it shew thy selfe such as the daz'led Auditors may lose their eyes in thee and since Ladies come thither to be seen as well to behold it shall be by the addition of this sparkling Diamond thou shalt be only lookt upon And therewithall he gave her a most radiant stone amongst that captive company let thy eye single out one whom if I like for quality as well as thou for personablesse and ingenuous favour I may if we continue issulesse adopt into my Family Of this faile not as thou wouldst perpetuate the life and name of him thou never yet in the least circumstance didst offend Euphema so was this accomplish'd Lady call'd made no scrupulous demurs to her Lords desires and since the businesse was to be transacted in the Church she was confident the sanctity of the place beside the holy exercises would guard her from any undecent gestures thoughts or carriages Moreover shee knew her selfe a Temple into which no prophane thoughts had ever entred unresisted and unreplied nor did shee and rightly too account those thoughts her owne which she forthwith was in Armes against and summon'd all the spirituall Posse of her soule to expell as invaders and deadly enemies to its happinesse and pious tranquillity Violent intrusions upon devout and sacred mindes are Diabolicall suggestions and such as Crown the vanquishers with honour upon earth and immortality and glory afterward The day came when deckt like the Altar she went to the Church with an humility and reverence due to the place with eyes fastened unto the earth she knew she came from and was to returne to then advancing to her seat private short devotions ended she join'd into the publique worship which being begun rais'd a condemning but selfe-absolving blush into her cheeks that shee had lost any part of the Oraizons staying for the other pinne or hanging
it is therefore noted that of all his adventures he came safest off in this without any reply made or the words beaten downe his throat again Don Quixot was ready to burst with wrath c. Iô triumphs in this bloodlesse victory over a Quadrivirate of Mummers as he takes them to be is not concluded with any Epithalamiums or songs of joy but contrary his Bonefires are within and his bels ring backward the Don is inflam'd that he can shew no spoiles no luggage for Sancho not a Wallet nor a Pannell to be seen whereby the monumentall Ensignes of so great a daring for it cannot well be called a defeat should be published to the world In strange disputes with himselfe our Knight was what should be done to an enemy that would doe nothing what said to a silent foe language was unfit for mutes and action for men of no spirit Never was Heros so becalm'd The businesse the challenge once over was a dumbe shew where the Don swels looks big menaces with hand and shaken Javelin disdaines sides noses claps his owne hands and bounds with Rosinante the other part shrug snecze and blurt neglect make mouths and flout in Spanish postures and so exeunt The man drew him by the arme and said Truly Don Lewis the habit that you were in answers very well your calling It had been more modest Signior Servitore to have drawn off your young Don 's undecent Habits and accoutred him with better but you cannot see the Lord for the Lackey Great Personages lose their reverence with their apparell amongst those who only esteem their Masters by their ambitious outsides The Yeoman of the Bottles turnes privy counseller and is as sage as Seneca adviseth beyond any Savill and will turne Master of the Horse if the young Lord doe not returne to himselfe and carry him home like a Cloak-bag But his insolence is suddenly check'd and the slave submits at the sight of the brandisht whippe one authoritative word stopes him into the sellar the Alembick of his spirits where he only properly commands and draws To this Don Quixot answered very leisurely and with great gravity Beautifull Damzell your Petition cannot prevaâ—le at this time What in the negative to a quarrell the Adventure-seeker refuse adventures and incited to it by a Lady for her Fathers rescue the Constable of the Castle oppress'd by number two and in a just cause the maintenance of his Castle O Iupiter Hospitalis can this apology of the Dons smell of lesse then Pusillanimity is our Hercules that just now assaulted foure not able contra duos or what is the cause doth Valour ebb and flow in valiant breasts and are they more daring at the ebullition of the blood or at the circular refluxion or doth the last cowardize react upon the Challenger will he be sullen and not fight the humorous Lievtenant Is it a drinking day or a Courting day and no day of Turnament none of these it cannot be He is ingag'd not in actuall combat but potentiall His word is his blow no enemy till the Gyant of Micomicona be incountred must be admitted and so mine Host is like to be paid and have his scores in Capite The Princesse did grant him leave very willingly Now he is once more licentiatus ad preliandum vapulandum per totam Hispaniam What 's the matter now he hath a quarrell but it is that they are not Knights for whom this uproar is and so intailes the adventure upon his Squire pares cum paribus O Don how might'st thou by this effugium have sav'd all thy misfortunes The Yanguesian Carriers the Goat-heards were no Knights the Windmill and the fulling-mils were not dubb'd and yet thou didst condescend to a beating with some or all of these Eare-beaten by the Fulling maces beaten out of wind by the Windmills beaten and re-beaten by the Carriers and why now so stanch To what purpose didst thou kneel for a Licence if thou wilt not take the liberty to fight Certeinly though Cyd Hameti Benengeli doth not discover the reason of this Micropseachy of the Don it is easily to be conjectur'd for the cause of quarrelling was non payment of the reckoning a thing which the Don stood to maintaine and so could not without wounding his owne Conscience and breach of practise be of mine Hosts part so he prudently stood a neuter and would have shifted off the businesse to Sancho Pancha who for feare of the blanket-encounter perchance might have ingag'd as farre as a douze or two in the businesse The Barber presently set upon Sancho saying ah sir Thiefe have I found you there with all the furniture c. These are scurvy salutes Sancho and inconsistent with the man that was in more then hopes of the government of an Island but Sancho out of hand confutes him and makes him wash his mouth in blood for his foule aspersions wishing him hereafter to keep his chops as cleane as his fingers and save him the labour of opening a veine for the matter Sancho hop'd by this meanes to have traverss'd an inditement with an action of battery but the Barber being blooded in the mouth was freed from the staggers and stood stoutly to the claime of the Pannell and makes bloody hue and cry after him Insomuch that Sancho is forc'd to appeal to the Don who finding that his Squire had plaid the man so notoriously was more ready to make a Knight of him then an honest man and dignifiâ— him more then justifie him Which both were equally in his power The very day they robb'd me of a new Bason which was never us'd which cost me a crowne Here Don Quixot could not containe Like master like man the Barber charges both and now the Court is sate what will be said in the businesse for Councill there is none allow'd in point of Felony was the expectation of every one Here is evidentia facti the very Pannell and the Bason Coram judice The Barber pro rege sweares they were his and now the two at the Barre will speake for themselves Don Quixot for the Helmet Thou simple animall thou Iobbernole Thy Basons when that once they hang on Pole Are Helmets strait true under chinne they are Basons indeed and serve to wash us faire But to the Pole annex your Brasen Bason 'T is not to smug one then but to amaze one The property is chang'd and this brave cover No longer is to snap your fingers over For though like Brasse it look 't is true as Steel Things are not as they seem but as they feel Didst thou not lose it fairly in the Field When did Campania e'r a Bason yield But ' cause thou wert ignoble as I spie-now I did create it Helmet of Mambrino Sancho for the Pannell If e'r I joy'd my wife in smock of Flannell Then this a Saddle is and not a Panvell Have Pannels any pummels â— When you came To challenge 't you were pummel'd for the same