an AEgyptian whose language and many others hee could speake as well as if they were his mother tongue Sancho saw him and knew him and scarce had hee seene and taken notice of him when hee cryed out aloud Ah theese Ginesillo leave my goods behinde thee set my life loose and doe not intermeddle with my ease Leave mine Asse leave my comfort flie Villane absent thy selfe theeâ—e and abandon that which is none of thine He needed not to have used so many words and frumps for Gines leaped downe at the very first and beginning a Trot that seemed rather to bee a Gallop hee absented himselfe and fledde farre enough from them in a moment Sancho went then to his Asse and imbracing him said How hast thou done hitherto my Darling and Treasure gray Asse of mine Eyes and my deerest Companion and with that stroked and kissed him as if it were a reasonable creature The Asse held his peace and permitted Sancho to kisse and cherish him without answering a Word All the rest arived and congratulated with Sancho for the finding of his Asse but chiefely Don-Quixote who said unto him that notwithstanding that hee found his Asse yet would not hee therefore annull his Warrant for the three Colts for which Sancho returned him very great thanks Whilest they two travelled together discoursing thus the Curate said to Dorotea that shee had very discreetly discharged her selfe as well in the Historie as in her brevitie and immitation thereof to the phrase and conceits of Bookes of Knighthood Shee answered That shee did oft times reade bookes of that subject but that shee knew not where the Provinces lay nor Sea-ports and therefore did only say at randome that shee had landed in Osuna I knew it was so quoth the Curate and therefore I said what you heard wherewithall the matter was souldered But is it not a marveilous thing to see with what facilitie the unfortunate Gentleman beleeves all these inventions and lies only because they beare the stile and manner of the follies laid down in his bookes It is quoth Cardenio and that so rare and beyond all conceite as I beleeve if the like were to bee invented scarce could the sharpest wits devise such another There is yet quoth the Curate as marvellous a matter as that for leaving apart the simplicities which this good Gentleman speakes concerning his frenzie if you will commune with him of any other subject whatsoever he will discourse on it with an excellent method and shew himself to have a cleer and pleasing understanding So that if he be not touched by matters of Chivalry there is no man but will deem him to be of a sound and excellent Judgement Don-Quixote on the other side prosecuted his conversing with his Squire whilest the others talked together and said to Sancho Let us two friend Pancha forget old injuries and say unto me now without any rancour or anger Where how and when didest thou finde my Ladie Dulcinea What did shee when thou camest What said'st thou to her What answered she What countenance shewed she as she read my Letter And who writ it out fairly for thee And every other thing that thou shalt think worthy of notice in this affair to be demanded or answered without either addition or lying or soothing adulation and on the other side doe not abbreviate it lest thou shouldest defraud me thereby of expected delight Sir answered Sancho if I must say the truth none copied out the Letter for me for I carried no Letter at all Thou sayest true quoth Don-Quixote for I found the Tablets wherein it was written with my self two dayes after thy departure which did grieve me exceedingly because I knew not what thou wouldest doe when thou didest perceive the want of the Letter and I alwaies made full account that thou wouldest return again from the place where thou shouldest first misse it I had done so quoth Sancho if I had not borne it away in memory when you read it to me in such sort as I said it to a Cleark of a Verstrie who did copie it out of my understanding so poynt by poynt as he said that he never in all the dayes of his life although he had read many a Letter of excommunication read or seen so fine a Letter as it was And doest thou hold it yet in memory Sancho quoth Don-Quixote No Sir said Sancho for after I gave it seeing it served for none other purpose I did willingly forget it And if I remember any thing it is that of the mouldy I would say Soveraign Ladie and the end Yours untill death The Knight of the Ill-favoured face and I put between these two things in the Letter three hundred Souls and Lives and Sweet-eyes CHAP. IV. Of the pleasant discourses continued between Don-Quixote and his Squire Sancho Pança with other Adventures ALâ— this liketh me well said Don-Quixote therefore say on thou arrived'st and what was that Queen of Beauty doing then I dare say that thou foundest her threading of Pearls or imbroydering some curious Device with Venice gold for me her captive Knight No that I did not quoth Sancho but winnowing two bushels of Wheat in the yard of her house Why then said Don-Quixote thou mayest make account that each corne of that wheat was a grain of Pearl seeing they were touched by her delicate hand And friend didest thou note well what the Wheat was whether of the best or ordinarie It was not but red said Sancho Well then I assure thee answered Don-Quixote that being sifted by her hands it must needs make very fair bread and white But passe forward When thou didest deliver my Letter did she kisse it Did she set it on her head Did she use any ceremony worthy of such a Letter Or what did she When I went to give it unto her said Sancho she was holding up of her armes with a good quantity of Wheat that shee had in her Sieve and therefore said unto me Friend lay down that Letter there on the Sack for I cannot read it untill I have winnowed all that is here O discreet Ladie quoth Don-Quixote she surely did that because she might read it at leisure and recreate her self therewithall Forward Sancho And as long as she was thus busied what discourses passed she with thee What did she demand of thee concerning me And thou what didest thou answer Say all good Sancho say all recount to me every particularity and let not the least immunity remain in the Ink-horn Shee demanded nothing of mee quoth Sancho but I recounted unto her the state I had left you in for her sake doing of penance all naked from the gyrdle upward among these Rocks like a bruit Beast sleeping on the ground and eating your bread without Table-cloathes and that you never combed your Beard but was weeping and cursing your fortune There thou saidst ill quoth Don-Quixote for I doe not curse my fortune but rather blesse it and will blesse it as long
not to fear any punishment should bee inflicted on him forthe crime Finally Camilaes beautie and worths assisted by the occasion whih the ignorant Husband had thrust into his fists did wholy runine and overthrow Lotâ—ario his loyaltie and therefore without regarding any other thing then that to whih his pleasure conducted him about a three dayes after Anselmo's departure wâ—â—ch time hee had spent in a continuall battell and resistance of his contending thoâ—ghts he began to sollicite Camila with such trouble of the Spirits and so amorous woâ—ds as shee was strucken almost beside her self with wonder and made him no other ansver but arising from the Table flung away in a furie into her chamber But yet for ill this drynesse Lothario his hope which is wont evermore to bee borne at once wiâ— Love was nothing dismayed but rather accounted the more of Camila who perâ—eiving that in Lothario which shee never durst before to imagine knew not what sheâ— might doe but it seeming unto her to bee a thing neither secure nor honest to givâ— him occasion or leisure to speak unto him again determined to send one unto her Husband Anselmo the very same night as indeed shee did with a Letter to recall him home to her house The subject of her Letter was this CHAP. VII Wherein is prosecuted the Historie of the Curious-Impertinent EVen as it is commonly said That an Armie seems not well without a Generall or a Castle without a Constable So doe I affirm That it is much more indecent to see a young married Woman without her Husband when hee is not justly deteined away by necessarie Affairs I finde my self so ill-disposed in your absence and so impatient and impotent to indure it longer as if you doe not speedily return I shall bee constrained to return back unto my Father although I should leave your house without any keeping For the guard you appointed for me if it bee so that hee may deserve that title looks more I believe to his own pleasure then to that which concerns you therefore seeing you have wit enough I will say no more nor ought I to say more in reason Anselmo received the Letter and by it understood that Lothario had begun the enterprize and that Camila had answered to him according as he had hoped And marvellous glad at the news hee answered his wife by word of mouth That shee should not remove in any wise from her house for hee would return with all speed Camila was greatly admired at his answer which struck her into a greater perplexitie then shee was at the first being afraid to stay at home and also to goe to her Father For by staying shee indangers her honesty by going shee should transgresse her Husbands command At last shee resolved to doe that which was worst which was to remain at home and not to shun Lothario's presence lest shee should give her Servants occaâ—ion of suspiâ—ion and now shee was grieved to have written what shee did to her Husbâ—nd fearfull lest hee should think that Lothario had noted in her some token of lightnâ—sse which might have moved him to lose the respect which otherwise was due unto â—er But confident in her innocencie shee cast her hopes in God and her good thouâ—hts wherewithall shee thought to resist all Lothario's words and by holding her silent â—ithout making him any answer without giving any further account of the matter tâ— her Husband lest thereby shee might plunge him in new difficulties and contention â—ich his friend and did therefore bethink her how shee might excuse Lothario to Anselmo when hee should demand the occasion that moved her to write unto himthat Letter With these more honest then profitable or discreet resolutions shee gave eare thâ— second day to Lothario who charged her with such resolution as her constancie began to stagger and her honesty had enough to doe recurring to her eyes to containe them lest they should give any demonstration of the amorous compassion which Lotharioes words and teares had stirred in her brest Lothario noted all this and it inflamed him the more Finally hee thought that it was requisite the time and leisure which Anselâ—oes absence afforded him to lay closer siege to that Fortresse and so hee assaulted her presumptuously with the prayses of her beautie for there is nothing which with such facilitie doth rend and raze to the ground the proudly-crested Turrets of womens vanitie then the same vanitie being dilated on by the tongue of adulation and flatterie To bee briefe hee did with all diligence undermine the Rock of her integritie with so warlike Engines as although Camila were made of brasse yet would shee bee overthrown for Lothario wept intreated promised flattered persisted and fained so feelingly and with such tokens of truth as traversing Cameliaes care of her honour hee came in the end to triumph over that which was least suspected and hee most desired for she rendred her selfe even Camelia rendred her selfe But what wonder if Lotharioes amitie could not stand on foote A cleere example plainly demonstrating that the amorous passion is only vanquished by shuning it and that no body ought to adventure to wrestle with so strong an Adversarie for heavenly forces are necessarie for him that would confront the violence of that passion although humane None but Leonela knew the weakenesse of her Ladie for from her the two bad friends and new lovers could not conceale the matter nor yet would Lothario discover to Camila her husbands pretence or that he had given him wittingly the oportunity whereby he arived to that passe because she should not imagine that he had gotten her lightly and by chance and did not purposely sollicite her A few dayes after Anselmo arrived to his house and did not perceive what wanted therein to wit that which it had lost and he most esteemed From thence he went to see his friend Lothario whom he found at home and embracing one another he demanded of him the news of his life or of his death The news which I can give thee friend Anselmo quoth Lothario are that thou hast a wife who may deservedly be the example and garland of all good women The words that I spoke unto her were spent on the ayre my proffers contemned and my gifts repulsed and besides she hath mock't mee notably for certain fained teares that I did shead In resolution even as Camila is the pattern of all beauty so is she a treasury wherein modesty resides courtesie and warinesse dwell and all the other vertues that may beautifie an honourable woman or make her fortunate Therefore friend take back thy money for here it is ready and I never had occasion to imploy it for Camila's integrity cannot bee subdued with so base things as are gifts and promises And Anselmo content thy selfe now with the proofes made already without attempting to make any farther tryall And seeing thou hast past over the Sea of difficulties and suspicions with a drie foot
which may and are wont to bee had of women doe not eftsoones enter into the profound depths of new inconveniences nor take thou any other Pilot to make experience of the goodnesse and strength of the Vessell that Heaven hath alotted to thee to passe therein thorow the Seas of this world but make account that thou art harboured in a safe Haven and there hold thy selfe fast with the Anchor of good consideration and so rest thee untill death come to demand his debt from the payment whereof no Nobility or priviledge whatsoever can exempt us Anselmo rested singularly satisfied at Lotharioes discourse and did beleeve it as firmly as if it were delivered by an Oracle but did intreate him notwithstanding to prosecute his attempt although it were only done for curiositie and to passe away the time yet not to use so efficacious meanes as hee thitherto practised and that hee only desired him to write some verses in her praise under the name of Clori for hee would make Camila beleeve that hee was enamoured on a certaine Lady to whom hee did appropriate that name that hee might celebrate her prayses with the respect due to her honour and that if hee would not take the pains to invent them that hee himselfe would willingly compose them That is not needfull quoth Lothario for the Muses are not so alienated from mee but that they visite mee somtimes in the yeere Tell you unto Camila what you have devised of my loves and as for the verses I will make them my selfe if not so well as the subject deserves yet at the least as artificially as I may devise them The impertinent curious man and his treacherous friend having thus agreed and Anselmo returned to his house hee demanded of Camila that which shee marvelled hee had not asked before that shee should tell unto him the occasion why shee sent unto him the Letter Camila made answer Because it seemed unto her that Lothario beheld her some what more immodest then when he was at home but that now she did againe disswade her selfe and beleeved that it was but a light surmise without any ground because that shee perceived Lothario to loath her presence or be by any meanes alone with her Anselmo told her that she might very well live secure for him for that he knew Lothario's affections were bestowed else-where and that upon one of the noblest Damzels of the Citie whose praises hee solemnized under the name of Clori and that although hee were not yet was there no cause to doubt of Lothario's virtue or the amitie that was between them both Here if Camila had not been premonished by Lothario that the love of Clori was but fained and that hee himself had told it to Anselmo to blinde him that hee might with lesse difficultie celebrate her own praises under the name of Clori shee had without doubt faln into the desperate toyles of jealousie but being already advertised shee posted over that assault lightly The day following they three sitting together at dinner Anselmo requested Lothario to repeat some one of the Verses that hee had made to his beloved Clori for seeing that Camila knew her not hee might boldly say what hee pleased Although shee knew her quoth Lothario yet would I not therefore suppresse any part of her praises For when any Lover praiseth his Ladie for her beauty and doth withall taxe her of cruelty her credit incurs no danger But befall what it list I composed yesterday a Sonnet of the ingratitude of Clori and is this ensuing A SONNET AMid'st the silence of the darkest night When sweetest sleep invadeth mortall eyes I poor account to Heav'n and Clori bright Give of the richest harmes which ever rise And at the time wee Phoebus may devise Shine through the roseal gates of th' Orient bright With deep accents and sighs in Wonted guise I doe my Plaints renew with main and might And when the Sunne down from his Starry seat Directest rayes towards the earth doth send My sighs I double and my sad regret And night returns but of my Woes no end For I finde alwaies in my mortall strife Heav'n without eares and Clori likewise deaf Camila liked the Sonnet very well but Anselmo best of all for hee praised it and said that the Lady must bee very cruell that would not answer such perspicuous truths with reciprocall affection But then Camila answered Why then belike all that which enamoured Poets say is true In as much as Poets quoth Lothario they say not truth but as they are inamoured they remain as short as they are true That is questionlesse quoth Anselmo all to underprop and give Lothario more credit with Camila who was as carelesse of the cause her Husband said so as shee was inamoured of Lothario and therefore with the delight shee took in his compositions but chiefly knowing that his desires and labours were addrest to her self who was the true Clori shee intreated him to repeat some other Sonnet or Dittie if hee remembred any Yes that I doe quoth Lothario but I believe that it is not so good as the first as you may well judge for it is this A SONNET I Die and if I cannot bee believ'd My death 's more certain as it is most sure To see me aâ— thy feet of life depriv'd Rather then grieve this thraldome to indure Well may I in oblivious shades obscure Of Glorie Life and Favour bee deny'd And yet even there shall in my bosome pure The shape of thy fair face iugrav'd bee ey'd For that 's a relique which I doe reserve For the last Trances my contentions threaten Which mid'st thy rigour doth it self preserve O woe's the Wight that is by tempests beaten By night in unknown Seas in danger rife For want of North or Hav'n to lose his life Anselmo commended also this second Sonnet as hee had done the first and added by that means one link to another in the chain wherewith hee intangled himself and forged his own dishonour seeing when Lothario dishonoured him most of all hee said unto him then that hee honoured him most And herewithall Camila made all the links that verily served only to abase her down to the Center of contempt seem to mount her in her Husbands opinion up to the height of virtue and good fame It befell soon after that Camila finding her self alone with her Maiden said to her I am ashamed friend Leonela to see how little I knew to value my self seeing that I made not Lothario spend some time at least in the purchasing the whole possession of me which I with a prompt will bestowed upon him so speedily I fear me that hee will impute my hastinesse to lightnesse without considering the force hee used towards me which wholly hindred and disabled my resistance Let not that afflict you Madam quoth Leonela for it is no sufficient cause to diminish estimation that that bee given quickly which is to bee given if that in effect be good
and I le snuff them apace The Steward was as good as his word holding it to bee a matter of conscience to starve so discreet a Governour Besides his purpose was to make an end with him that night performing the last jest which hee had in Commission towards him It hapned then that having eaten contrary to the prescriptions and orders of the Doctor Tirte fuera when the cloth was taken away there came in a Poste with a Letter of Don-Quixotes to the Governour Sancho commanded the Secretary to read it to himself and that if there came no secret in it hee should read it aloud The Secretary did so and sodainly running it over said It may well bee read out for this that Don-Quixote writes to you deserves to bee stamped and written in golden Letters and thus it is Don-Quixotes Letter to Sancho Pança Governour of the Island Barataria WHen I thought friend Sancho to have heard news of thy negligence and folly I heard it of thy discretion for which I gave to God particular thanks I hear thou Governest as if thou wert a man and that thou art a man as if thou wert a beast such is thy humility thou usest yet let me note unto thee That it is very necessary and convenient many times for the Authority of a place to goe against the humility of the heart for the adornment of the person that is in eminent Offices must be according to their greatnesse and not according to the measure of the meek condition to which hee is inclined Goe well clad for a stake well dressed seems not to bee so I say not to thee that thou weare toyes or gawdy gay things not that being a Iudge thou goe like a Souldier but that thou adorn thy self with such a habit as thy place requires so that it bee handsome and neat To get the good will of those thou Governest amongst others thou must doe two things the one to bee courteous to all which I have already told thee of and the other to see that there bee plenty of sustenance for there is nothing that doth more weary the hearts of the poor then hunger and dearth Make not many Statute Laws and those thou doest make see they bee good but chiefly that they be observed and kept for Statutes not kept are the same as if they were not made and doth rather shew that the Prince had Wisedome and Authority to make them then valour to see that they should bee kept And Laws that only threaten and are not executed become like the beam King of Frogs that at first scarred them but in time they despised and gat up on the top of it Bee a Father of Virtue but a Father-in-law of Vice Bee not alwaies cruell nor alwaies mercifull choose a mean betwixt these two extreams for this is a point of discretion Visit the Prisons the Shambles and the Markets for in such places the Governours presence is of much importance Comfort the Prisoners that hope to be quickly dispatcht Be a Bull-begger to the Butchers and a scar-Crow to the Hucksterwomen for the same reason Shew not thy selfe though perhaps thou art which yet I beleeve not Covetous or a Whore-monger or a Glutton for when the Town and those that converse with thee know which way thou art inclined there they will set upon thee till they cast thee down head-long View and re-view passe and re-passe thine eyes over the Instructions I gave thee in writing before thou wentest from hence to thy Government and thou shalt see how thou findest in them if thou observe them an allowance to help thee to bear and passe over the troubles that are incident to Governours Write to my Lords and shew thy self thankfull for Ingratitude is the Daughter of Pride and one of the greatest sins that is and hee that is thankfull to those that have done him good gives a testimony that he will be so to God too that hath done him so much good and dayly doth continue it My Lady Duchesse dispatcht a Messenger a purpose with thy apparel and another present to thy Wife Teresa Pança every minute we expect an answer I have been somewhat ill at ease of late with a certain Cat businesse that hapned to me not very good for my nose but 't was nothing for if there be Enchanters that misuse me others there be that defend me Let me know if the Steward that is with thee had any hand in Trifaldi's actions as thou suspectedst and let me hear likewise of all that befalls thee since the way is so short besides I think to leave this idle life e're long for I was not born to it Here is a business at present that I beleeve will bring me in disgrace with these Nobles but though it much concern me I care not for indeed I had rather comply with my Profession then with their wills according to the saying Amicus Plato sed magis amica veritas I write thee this Latine because I think since thy being Governour thou hast learnt to understand it And so farewell God keep thee and send that no man pittie thee Thy Friend Don-Quixote de la Mancha Sancho heard the letter very attentively and those that heard it applauded it for a very discreet one and presently Sancho rose from the Table and calling the Secretary lockt him to him in his lodging Chamber and without more delay meant to answer his Master Don-Quixote and therefore hee bade the Secretarle without adding or diminishing ought to write what he would have him which hee did and the Letter in answer was of this ensuing tenour Sancho Pança's Letter to Don-Quixote de la Mancha My businesse and imployments are so great that I have not leisure either to scratch my head or pare my nails which is the reason they are so long God help me This I say dear Signior mine that you may not wonder if hitherto I have not given you notice of my well or ill being at this Governmeut in which I am now more hungry then when you and I travelled in the Woods and Wilderness My Lord the Duke wrote me the other day by way of advice that there were certain Spies entred the Island to kill me but hitherto I have discovered none but a certain Doctor who is entertained in this Town to kill as many Governours as come to it and his name is Doctor Pedro Rezio born in Tirte a fuera that you may see what a name this is for me to fear lest hee kill me This aforesaid Doctor sayes of himself that hee cures not infirmities when they are in present being but prevents them before they come and the Medicines he useth are dyet upon dyet till he makes a man nothing but bare bones as if leannesse were not a greater sicknesse then a Calenture Finally he hath even starved me and I am ready to dye for anger for when I thought to have comne to this Island to eate good warm things and to
went on but the Boyes and all manner of people pressed so thick to read the scrowl that Don-Antonio was forced to take it off from him as if hee had done something else The night came on and they returned home where was a Revels of women for Don Antonio's Wife that was well-bred mirthfull fair and discreet invited other shee-friends of hers to come and welcome her new Guest and to make merry with his strange madnesse Some of them came and they had a Royall supper and the Revels began about ten a clock at night Among these Dames there were two of a notable waggish disposition and great scoffers and though honest yet they strained their carriage that their tricks might the better delight without irksomenesse these were so eager to take Don-Quixote out to Dance that they wearied not only his body but his minde likewise 't was a goodly sight to see his shape long lank lean his visage pale the whole man shut up in his apparel ungraceful unweildy The Damzels wooed him as it were by stealth and he by stealth disdained them as fast but seeing himself much pressed by their courtings he lifed up his voyce and said Fugite partes advâ—rsae and leave me oh unwelcome imaginations to my quiet Get you farther off with your wishes Ladies for shee that is the Ladie of mine the peerlesse Dulcinea del Toboso will have none but hers subject and conquer me and so saying hee sate him down in the midest of the Hall upon the ground bruised and broken with his dancing exercise Don Antonio made him bee taken up in mens armes and carried to Bed the first that laid hold on him was Sancho saying In the name of God what meant you Master mine to Dance Think you that all that are valiant must bee Dancers and all Knights Errant Skip-jacks I say if you think so you are deceived you have some that will rather kill Gyants then fetch a caper if you were to frisk I would save you that labour for I can doe it like a Ier-Falcon but in your dancing I cannot work a stitch With this and such like discourse Sancho made the Revellers laugh and laid his Master to Bed laying clothes enough on him that hee might sweat out the cold hee had taken by dancing The next day Don Antonio thought fit to try the enchanted Head and so with Don Quixote Sancho and others his friends and the two Gentlewomen that had so laboured Don-Quixote in the Dance that staid all night with Don Antonio's Wife hee locked himself in the Room where the head was hee told them its propertie enjoyhing them to silence and hee said to them That this was the first time in which hee meant to make proof of the virtue of the Enchanted head and except his two friends no living creature else knew the trick of that Enchantment and if Don Antonio had not discovered it to them they also would have faln into the same admiration that the rest did for it was not otherwise possible the fabrick of it being so curious and cunning The first that came to the Heads hearing was Don Antonio himself who spoke softly but so that hee might be heard by all Tell me Head by the virtue that is contained in thee What think I now And the Head answered not moving the lips with a lowd and distinct voyce that all the by-standers might hear this reason I judge not of thoughts Which when they all heard they were astonisht and the more seeing neither in all the Roome nor any where about the Table there was not any humane creature to answer How many here be there of us quoth Don Antonio again And answer was made him in the same tenour voyce There are thou and thy Wife with two of thy hee-hee-friends and two of her shee-friends and a famous Knight called Don-Quixote de la Mancha and a Squire of his that hight Sancho Panca I marry Sir here was the wondring a-fresh here was every ones hair standing on end with pure horror And Don Antonio getting him aside from the Head said 'T is enough now for me to know that I was not deceived by him that sold thee me sage Head talking Head answering Head admired Head â— Come another now and ask what hee will and as your women for the most part are hastiest and most inquisitive the first that came was one of Don Antonio's Wives friends and her demand was this Tell me Head What shall I doe to make my self fair The answer was Bee honest I have done said shee Straight came her other companion and said I would fain know Head whether my Husband love me or no. And the answer was Thou shalt know by his usage The Married woman stood by saying The question might have been spared for good usage is the best signe of affection Then came one of Don Antonio's friends and asked Who am I The answere was Thou knowest I aske thee not that said the Gentleman but whether thou know me I doe it was answered Thou art Don Pedro Noris No more O Head â— let this suffice to make me know thou knowest all And so stepping aside the other friend came and asked Tell me Head What desires hath my eldest son I have told you it was answered That I judge not of thoughts yet let me tell you your sonne desires to bury you That quoth the Gentleman I know well and dayly perceive but I have done Don Antonio's Wife came next and said Head I know not what to ask thee I would only fain know of thee If I shall long enjoy my dear Husband And the answer was Thou shalt for his health and spare dyet promise him many yeers which many shorten by distempers Now came Don-Quixote and said Tell me thou that answerest Was it true or a dream that as I recount befell me in Montesino's Cave Shall Sancho my Squires whipping bee accomplisht Shall Dulcinea bee dis-enchanted For that of the Cave quoth the Answerer there is much to bee said it partakes of all Sancho's whipping shall bee prolonged but Dulcinea's dis-enchanting shall come to a reall end I desire no more said Don-Quixote for so Dulcinea bee disenchanted I make account all my good fortunes come upon me at a clap Sancho was the last Demander and his question was this Head shall I haply have another Government Shall I bee free from this penurious Squires life Shall I see my Wife and Children again To which it was answered him In thy house thou shalt Govern whither if thou return thou shalt see thy Wife and Children and leaving thy Service thou shalt leave being a Squire Very good quoth Sancho this I could have told before my self and my Fathers Horse could have said no more Beast quoth Don-Quixote what answer wouldest thou have Is it not enough that the answers this Head gives thee are correspondent to thy questions 'T is true said Sancho but I would have known more And now the questions and answers
Love be courteous as some men say By thy humanity I must collect My hopes hows'ever thou dost use delay Shall reap at last the good I doe expect If many services bee of esteeme Or pow'r to render a hard heart benign Such things I did for thee as make mee deems I have the match gain'd and thou shalt be mine For if at any time thou hast tane heed Thou more then once might'st view how I was clad To honour thee on Mondaies with the Weed Which worn on Sondaies got mee credit had For Love and Brav'ry still themselves consort Because they both shoote ever at one end Which made mee when I did to thee resort Still to bee neat and fine I did contend Here I omit the daunces I have done And Musicks I have at thy Window given When thou didst at Cock-crow listen alone And seem'dst hearing my voice to be in Heav'n I doe not eke the praises here recount Which of thy beauty I so oft have said Which though they all were true were likewise wont To make thee Enuious me for spight upbraid When to Teresa shee of Berrocal I of thy worths discourse did somtime shape Good God! quoth shee you seem an Angels thrall And yet for Idoll you adore an Ape Shee to her Bugles thanks may give and chains False haires and other shifts that shee doth use To mend her beauty with a thousand pains And guiles which might loves very self abuse Wroth at her words I gave her streight the lie Which did her and her Cousin so offend As mee to fight hee challeng'd presently And well thou know'st of our debate the end I meane not thee to purchase at a clap Nor to that end doe I thy favour sue Thereby thine honour either to intrap Or thee perswade to take courses undue The Church hath bands which doe so surely hold As no silk string for strength comes to them neer To thrust thy neck once in the yoake bee bold And see if I to follow thee will fear If thou wilt not here solemnly I Vow By holliest Saint enwrapt in precious Shrine Never to leave those hils where I dwell now If 't bee not to become a Capucine Here the Goat-heard ended his Ditty and although Don-Quixote intreated him to sing somwhat else yet would not Sancho Panca consent to it who was at that time better disposed to sleep then to heare Musick and therefore said to his Master you had better provide your self of a place wherein to sleep this night then to heare Music for the labour that these good men indure all the day long doth not permit that they likewise spend the night in singing I understand thee well enough Sancho answered Don-Quixote nor did I thinke lesse but that thy manifold visitations of the wine-bottle would rather desire to bee recompenced with sleepe then with Music. The Wine liked us all well quoth Sancho I doe not denie it replyed Don-Quixote but goe thou and lay thee downe where thou pleasest for it becomes much more men of my profession to watch then to sleepe Yet notwithstanding it will not bee amisse to lay somwhat againe to mine eare for it grieves mee very much One of the Goat-heards beholding the hurt bad him bee of good cheere for hee would apply a remedy that should cure it easily And taking some Rosemary leaves of many that grew thereabouts hee hewed them and after mixed a little salt among them and applyed this Medecine to the eare hee bound it up well with a cloth assuring him that he needed to use no other Medecine as it proved after in effect CHAP. IV. Of that which one of the Goat-heards recounted to those that were with Don-Quixote ABOUT this time arived another youth one of those that brought them provision from the Village who said Companions doe not you know what passeth in the Village How can wee know it beeing absent saies another of them Then wit quoth the youth that the famous Sheepheard and Student Chrisostome died this morning and they murmur that hee died for love of that divellish lasse Mareela William the rich his daughter shee that goes up and down these Plaines and Hills among us in the habit of a Sheepheardesse Dost thou mean Marcela quoth one of them Even her I say answered the other and the jest is that hee hath commanded in his Testament that hee bee buried in the fields as if he were a Moor and that it be at the foot of the Rock where the Fountain stands of the Cork-Tree For that according to same and as they say he himself affirmed was the place wherein he viewed her first And he hath likewise commanded such other things to be done as the ancienter sort of the Village doe not allow nor think fit to be performed for they seem to be ceremonies of the Gentils To all which objections his great friend Ambrosio the Student who likewise apparelled himself like a Sheepheard at once with him answers that all shall be accomplished without omission of any thing as Chrysostome hath ordeyned and all the Village is in an uproar about this affair and yet it is said that what Ambrosio and all the other Sheepheards his friends doe pretend shall in fine be done and to morrow morning they will come to the place I have named to burie him with great pomp and as I suppose it will be a thing worthy the seeing at leastwise I will not omit to goe and behold it although I were sure that I could not return the same day to the Village We will all doe the same quoth the Goat-heards and will draw Lots who shall tarry here to keep all our Heards Thou saist well Peter quoth one of them although that labour may be excused for I mean to stay behinde for you all which you must not attribute to any virtue or little curiosity in me but rather to the fork that prickt my foot the other day and makes me unable to travell from hence We doe thank thee notwithstanding quoth Peter for thy good will And Don-Quixote who heard all their discourse intreated Peter to tell him who that dead man was and what the Sheepheardesse of whom they spoak Peter made answer that what he knew of the affair was that the dead person was a rich Gentleman of a certain Village seated among those mountains who had studied many yeers in Salamanca and after returned home to his house with the opinion to be a very wise and learned man But principally it was reported of him that he was skillfull in Astronomie and all that which passed above in heaven in the Sunne and the Moon for he would tell us most punctually the clips of the Sunne and the Moon Friend quoth Don-Quixote the darkning of these two greater Luminaries is called an Eclipse and not a Clipse But Peter stopping not at those trifles did prosecute his History saying he did also Prognosticate when the yeer would be abundant or Estill Thou wouldest say Sterril
after him and committed a hundred thousand other insolencies worthy of eternall fame and memorie And although I meane not to imitate Roldan or Orlands or Rowland for hee had all these names exactly in every mad pranke that hee played Yet will I doe it the best I can in those things which shall seeme unto mee most essentiall And perhaps I may rest contented with the only imitation of Amadis who without indammaging any by his ravings and only using these of feeling laments ariving to as great fame thereby as any one whatsoever I beleeve replied Sancho that the Knights which performed the like penances were moved by some reasons to doe the like austerities and follies but good Sir what occasion hath beene offered unto you to become madd What Lady hath disdayned you Or what arguments have you found that the Lady Dulcinea of Toboso hath ever dallied with Moore or Christian There is the point answered our Knight and therein consists the perfection of mine affaires for that a Knight Errant doe runne madd upon any just occasion deserves neither prayse nor thanks the wit is in waxing madd without cause whereby my Mistresse may understand that if drie I could doe this what would I have done being watered How much more seeing I have a just motive through the proliâ—e absence that I have made from my ever supremest Lady Dulcinea of Toboso For as thou mightest have heard read in Marias Ambrosio his Sheepheard To him that absent is All things succeede amiss So that friend Sancho I would not have thee lavish time longer in advising to let slip so rare so happy and singular an imitation I am madd and will bee madd untill thou returne againe with answere upon a Letter which I meane to send with thee to my Lady Dulcinea and if it bee such as my loyalty deserves my madnesse and penance shall end but if the contrary I shall runne madd in good earnest and bee in that state that I shall apprehend nor feele any thing So that howsoever I bee answered I shall issue out of the conflict and paine wherein thou leavest me by joying the good thou shalt bring mee as wise or not feeling the evill thou shalt denounce as mad But tell mee Sancho keepest thou charily yet the helmet of Mambrino which I saw thee take up from the ground the other day when that ungratefull fellow thought to have broken it into pieces but could not by which may be collected the excellent temper thereof Sancho answered to this demand saying I cannot suffer or bear longer Sir Knight of the Ill-favoured face nor take patiently many things which you say and I beginne to suspect by your words that all that which you have said to mee of Chivalry and of gaining Kingdomes and Empires of bestowing Islands and other gifts and great things as Knights Errant are wont are all matters of ayre and lies all couzenage or couzening or how else you please to term it for he that shall hear you name a Barbers Bason Mambrino's Helmet and that you will not abandon that errour in more then four dayes what other can he think but that hee who affirms such a thing doth want wit and discretion I carry the Bason in my Bagge all battered and boared and will have it mended and dresse my beard in it at home if God shall doe me the favour that I may one day see my Wife and Barnes Behold Sancho quoth Don-Quixote I doe likewise swear that thou haste the shallowest pate that ever any Squire had or hath in the World is it possible that in all the time thou hast gone with me thou couldest not perceive that all the Adventers of Knights Errant doe appear Chimera's follies and desperate things being quite contrary Not that they are indeed such but rather by reason that wee are still haunted by a crue of Inchanters which change and transforme our acts making them seem what they please according as they like to favour or annoy us And so this which seems to thee a Barbers Bason is in my conceit Mambrino his Helmet and to another will appear in some other shape And it is doubtlesly done by the profound Science of the wise man my friend to make that seem a Bason which really and truely is Mambrino's Helmet because that it being so precious a Jewell all the world would pursue me to deprive me of it but now seeing that it is to like a Barbers Bason they indeavour not to gain it as was cleerly shewed in him that thought to break it the other day and would not carry it with him but left it lying behinde him on the ground for yfaith hee had never left it did he know the worthinesse thereof Keep it friend for I need it not at this present wherein I must rather diâ—arme my self of the Armes I weare and remain as naked as I was at the hour of my birth if I shall take the humour rather to imitate Orlando in doing of my penance then Amadis Whilest thus hee discoursed hee arived to the foote of a loftie Mountaine which stood like a hewn Rock divided from all the rest by the skyrt whereof glyded a smooth River hemmed in on every side by a greene and flourishing Meadow whose verdure did marveilously delight the greedy beholding eye There were in it also many wilde Trees and some plants and floures which rendred the place much more pleasing The Knight of the illfavored face made choice of this place to accomplish therein his penance and therefore as soone as hee had viewed it hee began to say with a loud voice like a distracted man these words ensuing This is the place where the humor of mine eyes shall increase the liquid veines of this Chrystall Current and my continuall and deepe sighes shall give perpetuall motion to the leaves of these mountanie Trees in testimony of the paine which my oppressed heart doth suffer O you whosoever ye bee Rusticall Gods which have your Mansion in this inhabitable place give care to the plaints of this unfortunate Lover whom a long absence and a few imagined suspicions have conducted to deplore his state among these Desarts and make him exclame on the rough condition of that Ingrate and Faire who is the top the suâ—â—â— the period terme and end of all humane beauty O ye Napeas and Driades which doe wontedly inhabite the Thickets and Groves so may the nimble and lascyvious Satyres by whom although in vaine you are beloved never have power to interrupt your sweet rest as you shall assist mee to lament my disasters or at least attend them whilest I dolefully breathe them O Dulcinea of Toboso the day of my night the glory of my paine North of my travells and starre of my Fortunes so heav'n enrich thee with the highest whensoever thou shalt demand it as thou wilt consider the place and passe unto which thine absence hath conducted mee and answere my faith and desires in compassionate and gracious manner
with very many teares by the God which that Image represented in whom hee although a sinner and wicked man did most firmly believe that hee would bee most loyall and secreet to us in all that which wee would discover unto him for it seemed to him and hee almost divined that both himself and wee all should recover our liberties by her means that did write the Letter and hee should then also see himself in the State which hee most desired to wit in the bosome of his Mother the holy Catholique Church from which through his ignorance and sinne hee was departed and divided as an unprofitable and corrupt member The Runnagate said this with so many teares and such evident tokens of repentance as all of us consented to open our mindes unto him and declare the truth of the matter and so we recounted unto him the whole discourse without concealing any circumstance and shewed unto him the Window by which the Cane was wont to appear and hee marked the house from thence and rested with speciall charge to inform himself well of those that dwelled therein Wee thought also that it was requisite to answer the Moorish Ladies Letter and therefore having him present that could so well perform that task wee caused the Runnagate to draw out an answer presently as I did dilate it to him which was punctually such as I will recount for of all the most substantiall points that befell me in that Affair no one is faln out of my memorie nor shall ever as long as I have breath In effect that which I answered to the Moor was this THE true Ala preserve you deer Ladie and that blessed Marien who is the true Mother of God and is shee that hath put in your minde the desire to goe into the Christian Countries because shee doth love you well Pray unto her that shee will vouchsafe to instruct you how you may bring the matter to passe which shee commandeth you to doe for shee is so good as shee will easily condiscend to doe it As for my part I doe promise as well for my self as for these other Christians that are with me to doe for you all that wee are able to doe untill death Doe not omit to write unto me and acquaint me with your purposes and I will answer you every time for great Ala hath given us a Captive Christian that can write and reade your Language well as you may perceive by this Paper So that you may securely and without any dread advise us of all that you shall think good And as concerning that which you say that you will become my Wife after we arive to the Christian Countries I doe promise you the same as I am a good Christian and you shall understand that the Christians doe accomplish their words far better then doe the Moors Ala and Marien his Mother preserve you my dearest Lady The Letter being written and inclosed I expected two dayes that the Bathes might be free of concourse as it was wont which as soone as it befell I went up to my accustomed place of the battlements to see whether the cane appeared which was presently after thrust out at the window And as soon as I perceived it although I could not note who it was that set it I shewed my paper to give them warning to set on the threed but it was already hanging thereon To the which I tied the Letter and within a while after began to appear our Starr with the white flagg of peace and the knotted linnen which they let fall and I tooke up and I found therein in divers sorts of money and gold more then fiftie Ducats which redoubled our joyes more then fifty times and confirmed the hope wee conceived of attayning Libertie The very same night our Runnagate returned to us and told how hee had learned that the very same Moor which we were informed of before called Aguimorata dwelt there and was excessive rich and had one only daughter the Heir of all his goods of whom the common opinion throughout the City was that shee was the fairest woman of all Barbarie and that many of the Vice-Royes that came there had demanded her to wife but shee would never condiscend to any motion of mariage and that hee likewise had understood that shee had sometimes a Christian captive which now was deceased all which agreed with the contents of the Letter We presently entred in Councell with the Runnagate about the means wee were to use to fetch away the Moor and come all of us to Christian Lands and in the end we concluded to attend for that time the second advice of Zoraida for so was shee then called who now means to name her selfe Maria for as much as we cleerely perceived that it was shee and none other that could minister to us the meanes to remove all these difficulties After wee had rested on this resolution the Runagate bid us bee of good courage for hee would ingage his life or set us at liberty Foure dayes after the Bathes were troubled with People which was an occasion that the Cane appeared not all that while But that impediment being removed and the accustomed solitude returned the Cane did againe appeare with a linnen hanging thereat so grosly impregned as it promised to bee delivered of a most happy burthen Both Cane and Linnen bent themselves to mee and in them I found another Paper and a hundred Ducats in Gold besides other small money The Runnagate was present and wee gave him the Letter to reade the effect whereof was this I Know not good Sir what order to give for our going into Spayne nor hath Lela Marien told mee any thing concerning it although I have demanded her counsaile That which at present I conceive may bee done is that I will through this windowe give unto you great store of money wherewith you may redeeme your selfe and your friends and let one of you goe into the Christians Countrey and buy a Barke and after returne for his fellowes and he shall finde mee in my fathers Garden which is at the gate of Babazon neere to the Sea-coast where I meane to stay all the Summer with my father aud my servants from whence you may take mee out boldly by night and cary mee to the Barke And see well that thou wilt bee my Husband For if thou wilt not I will demand of Marien to chastise thee and if thou darest trust no body to goe for the Vessell Redeeme thy selfe and goe for I know thou wilt rather returne then another seeing thou art a Gentleman and a Christian learne out the Garden and when I see thee walke there where thou now art I will make account that the Bath is emptie and will give thee great store of money Ala preserve thee my deere friend These were the contents of the secoâ—d Letter which being heard by us all every one offered to be himselfe the ransomed person and promised to goe and
thousand millions more are like to be if Heaven permit Lastly to shut up all in a word I am Don-Quixote de la Mancha otherwise called The Knight of the Sorrowfull Countenance And though one should not praise himself yet I must needs doe it that is there being none present that may doe it for me so that kinde Gentle-man neither this horse this lance nor this shield nor this Squire nor all these armes together nor the palenesse of my face nor my slender macilency ought henceforward to admire you you knowing now who I am and the profession I maintaine This sayd Don-Quixote was silent and hee with the greene Coat was a great while ere he could answer as if hee could not hit upon 't but after some pause hee sayd You were in the right Sir Knight in knowing by my suspension my desire but yet you have not quite remooved my admiration which was caused with seeing you for although that as you say Sir that to know who you are might make me leave wondring it is otherwise rather since now I know it I am in more suspence and wonderment And is it possible that at this day there bee Knights Errant in the world and that there bee true Histories of Knighthood printed I cannot perswade my self that any now favor widows defend Damzels honour married Women or succour Orphans and I should never have beleeved it if I had not in you beheld it with mine eyes Blessed bee Heavens for with this History you speak of which is printed of your true and lofty Chivalrie those innumerable falsities of fained Knights Errant will bee forgotten which the world was full of so hurtfull to good education and prejudiciall to true Stories There is much to bee spoken quoth Don-Quixote whether the Histories of Knights Errant were fained or true Why is there any that doubts said hee in the Green that they bee not false I doe said Don-Quixote and let it suffice for if our Journey last I hope in God to let you see that you have done ill to bee led with the stream of them that hold they are not true At this last speech of Don-Quixote the Traveller suspected hee was some Ideot and expected when some others of his might confirm it but before they should bee diverted with any other discourse Don-Quixote desired to know who hee was since hee had imparted to him his condition and life Hee in the Green made answer I Sir Knighs of the Sorrowfull Countenance am a Gentleman borne in a Town where God willing wee shall dine to day I am well to live my name is Don Diego de Miranda I spend my life with my Wife and Children and Friends my sports are Hunting and Fishing but I have neither Hawk nor Gray-Hounds only a tame Cock-Partridge or a murthering Ferret some six dozen of Books some Spanish some Latin some History others Devotion Your Books of Knighthood have not yet entred the threshold of my door I doe more turn over your Prophane Books then Religious if they bee for honest recreation such as may delight for their language and admire and supend for their invention although in Spain there bee few of these Sometimes I dine with my neighbours and friends and other whiles invite them My Meals are neat and handsome and nothing scarce I neither love to back-bite my self nor to hear others doe it I search not into other mens lives or am a Lynce to other mens actions I heare every day a Masse part my Goods with the Poor without making a muster of my good Deeds that I may not give way to hypocrisie and vain-glory to enter into my heart enemies that easily seize upon the wariest brest I strive to make Peace between such as are at Ods I am devoted to our blessed Lady and alwaies trust in Gods infinite Mercy Sancho was most attentive to this relation of the life and entertainments of this Gentleman which seeming to him to be good and holy and that he that led it worked miracles hee flung himself from Dapple and in great haste laid hold of his right stirrop and with the tears in his eyes often kissed his feet which being seen by the Gentleman he asked him What doe you Brother Wherefore be these kisses Let me kisse quoth Sancho for me thinks your Worship is the first Saint that in all the dayes of my life I ever saw a horse-back I am no Saint said hee but a great Sinner you indeed brother are and a good Soul as your simplicitie shews you to bee Sancho went again to recover his Pack-saddle having as it were brought into the Market-place his Masters laughter out of a profound melancholy and caused a new admiration in Don Diego Don-Quixote asked him how many sonnes hee had who told him that one of the things in which the Philosophers Summum Bonum did consist who wanted the true knowledge of God was in the goods of Nature in those of Fortune in having many Friends and many and virtuous Children I Sir Don-Quixote answered the Gentleman have a son whom if I had not perhaps you would judge me more happy then I am not that he is so bad but because not so good as I would have him he is about eighteen yeers of age sixe of which he hath spent in Salamenca learning the tongues Greeke and Latine and when I had a purpose that he should fall to other Sciences I found him so besotted with Poesy and that Science if so it may be called that it is not possible to make him look upon the Law which I would have him study nor Divinity the Queen of all Sciences I would he were the Crown of all his linage since wee live in an age wherein our King doth highly reward good learning for learning without goodnesse is like a pearle cast in a Swines-snout all the day long he spends in his Critiscismes whether Homer said well or ill in such a verse of his Iliads whether Martial were bawdie or no in such an Epigram whether such or such a verse in Virgil ought to be understood this way or that way Indeed all his delight is in these aforesaid Poets and in Horace Persius Iuvenal and Tibullus but of modern writers he makes small account yet for all the grudg he beares to modern Poesie he is mad upon your catches and your glossing upon four verses which were sent him from Salamanca and that I think is his true study To all which Don-Quixote answered Children Sir are peeces of the very entrails of their Parents so let them bee good or bad they must love them as wee must love our spirits that give us life It concernes their Parents to direct them from their infancie in the paths of virtue of good manners and good and Christian exercises that when they come to yeeres they may bee the staffe of their age and the glory of their posteritie and I hold it not so proper to force them to study this or that
some half an hour the apparitions vanished Donna Rodrignez tucked up her Coats and bewailing her mishap got her out of the door not speaking a word to Don-Quixote who heavy and all to bee pinched sad and pensative remained alone where wee will leave him desirous to know who was the perverse Enchanter that had so drest him But that shall be told in due time for Sancho Panca calls us and the Decorum of this Historie CHAP. XLIX What hapned to Sancho in walking the Round in his Island WEe left the famous Governour moody angry with the knavish Husbandman-painter who instructed by the Steward and the Steward by the Duke all made sport with Sancho but hee held them all tack though a Fool a Dullard and a Block and said to those about him and to Doctor Pedro Rezio for as soon as hee had ended the secret of the Dukes Letter hee came into the Hall again Certainly said hee I think now Judges and Governours had need bee made of Brasse that they may have no feeling of the importunities of suitors that would that at all hours and all times they should give them audience and dispatch them intending only their businesse let them have never so much of their own and if the poor Judge hear them not or dispatch them not either because hee cannot or because they come not in a fit time to have audience straight they back-bite and curse him gnaw his bones and unbury his Ancestors Oh foolish Suiter and idle make not such haste stay for a fit season and conjuncture to negotiate in come not at dinner time or bed time for Judges are flesh and blood and must satisfie nature except it bee I that give my self nothing to eat thanks to Master Doctor Pedro Rezio Tirte a fuera here present that would have me die for hunger and yet stands in it that this death is life such a life God grant him and all his profession I mean such ill Physicians for the good deserve Lawrell and Palme All that knew Sancho admired him when they heard him speak so elegantly and knew not to what they should attribute it except it were that Offices and great charges doe eythet season the understanding or altogether dull it Finally the Doctor Pedro Rezio Agnero de Tirte a fuera promised him hee should sup that night though hee exceeded all Hypocrates his Aphorismes With this the Governour was well pleased and very greedily expected the comming of the night and supper time and though time as hee thought stood still not moving a jot from his place yet at length it came so longed for by him and hee had to supper a cold mince-meat of Beef and Onions with a Calves foot somewhat stale and fell to as contentedly as if they had given him a God-wit of Milan or a Pheasant of Rome or Veale of Sorrentum or Partridges of Moron or Geese of Lanaxos and in the midest of his Supper hee turned to the Doctor and said Look yee Master Doctor hence-forward never care to give me dainties or exquisite meats to eat for you will pluck my stomack quite off the hinges which is used only to Goat Beef and Bacon Pork and Turneps and Onions and if you come to me with your Court dishes they make my stomack squeamish and many times I loath um Carver let it bee your care to provide me a good Olla podrida and the more podrida it is the better and more favorie and in your Olla's you may boil and ballast in what you will so it bee victuals and I will bee mindefull of you and make you amends one day and let no man play the fool with mee for either wee are or wee are not Let 's bee merry and wife when the Sunne shines hee shines upon all I le Govern this Island without looking my due or taking Bribes and therefore let all the world bee watchfull and look to their bolt for I give um to understand there 's Rods in Pisse for them and if they put me to it they shall see wonders I I cover your selves with Honey and you shall see the Flies will eat you Truly Sir Governour quoth the Carver you have reason in all you speak and let me promise you in the behalf of all the Islanders of this Island that they will serve you with all diligence love and good will for the sweet and milde kinde of Governing that hitherto in the beginning you have used makes them neither doe nor speak ought that may redound to your contempt I beleeve it quoth Sancho and they were very Asses if they did or thought otherwise and therefore let me say again Let there bee a care had for the maintenance of my Person and Dapples which is very important and to the matter And so when 't is time to walk the Round let us goe for my purpose is to cleanse this Island from all kinde of filth Vagamunds lazie and masterlesse persons for know friends that slothfull and idle people in a Common-wealth are the same that Drones in Hives that eate the Honey which the labouring Bees make I purpose to cherish the Husbandman and to grant the Gentlemen their preeminencies to reward the Virtuous and above all to have Religion in reverence and to honour Religious persons What think yee of this friends Say I ought or doe I talk idlely So well Sir said the Steward that I wonder to see that a man so without learning as you for I think you cannot skill of a letter should speak such sentences and instructions so contrary to what was expected from your wit by all that sent you and by all us that came with you Every day wee see novelties in the world jests turn'd to earnest and those that mock are mocked at Well it was night and the Governour supped with Master Doctor Rezio's licence They made ready to walk the Round the Steward the Secretary and Carver went with him and the Chroniclist that was carefull to keep a Register of his actions together with Constables and Notaries so many that they might well make a reasonable Squadron Sancho went in the midest of them with his Rod of Justice which was the only chief fight and when they had walkâ— some few streets of the Town they heard a noyse of flashing thither they made and found that they were two men only that were together by the eares who seeing the Justice comming stood still and the one of them said Here for God and the King shall I bee suffered to bee robbed in the midest of a Town and that the midest of the streets bee made the high-way Softly honest friend quoth Sancho and tell me what 's the reason of this fray for I am the Governour The other his contrary said Sir Governour I le tell you briefly the matter You shall understand Sir that this Gentleman even now at a Gaming-house here over the way got a thousand Ryâ—lls God knows by what tricks and I being present
by the shortnesse of it that it had been cut off at the Placket and shee had Russet bodies of the same and shee was in her smoâ—k-sleeves shee was not very old for shee lookt as if shee had beene about forty but shee was strong tough sinowie and raw-boned who seeing her Daughter and the Page a horse-back said What 's the matter child What Gentleman is this A servant of my Lady Teresa Panca's quoth the Page so doing and speaking hee flung himselfe from his horse and with great humilitie went to prostrate himselfe before the Lady Teresa saying My Lady Teresa give mee your hands to kisse as you are lawfull and particular Wife to my Lord Don Sancho Panca proper Governour of the Island Barataria Ah good Sir forbear I pray do not doe so quoth Teresa for I am no Court-noll but a poore Husband-woman a Ploughmans daughter and wife to a Squire Errant and not a Governour You are quoth the Page a most worthy wife to an Arch-worthy Governour and for proofe of what I say I pray receive this Letter and this token when instantly hee plucked out of his pocket a Corall string with the lac'd Beads of gold and put it about her neck and said This Letter is from the Governour and another that I bring and these Corals are from my Lady the Duchesse that sends me to you Teresa was amazed and her daughter also and the Wench said Hang mee if our Master Don-Quixote have not a hand in this businesse and hee it is that hath given my Father this Government or Earledome that he so often promised him You say true quoth the Page for for Signior Don-Quixotes sake Signior Sancho Panca is now Governour of the Island Barataria as you shall see by this Letter Reade it gentle Sir said Teresa for though I can spin I cannot reade a jot nor I neither added Sanchica but stay a little and I le call one that shall either the Vicar himselfe or the Bachelor Samson Carrasco who will both come hither with all their hearts to heare newes of my Father You need not call any body said hee for though I cannot spin yet I can reade and therefore I will reade it so hee did thorowout which because it was before related it is not now set downe here and then hee drew out the Duchesses which was as followeth FRiend Teresa your Husbands good parts of his wit and honesty moved and obliged mee to request the Duke my Husband to give him the Government of one of the many Islands hee hath I have understood that hee governs like a Ier-Falcon for which I am very glad and consequently my Lord the Duke for which I render heaven many thankes in that I have not beene deceived in making choise of him for the said government for let mee tell Mistris Teresa it is a very difficult thing to finde a good Governour in the world and so God deale with mee as Sancho governes I have sent you my beloved a string of Corall Beads with the tens of gold I could wish they had beene Orientall Pearles but something is better then nothing time will come that wee may know and converse one with another and God knowes what will become of it Commend me to Sanchica your Daughter and bid her from me that shee bee in a readinesse for I mean to Marry her highly when shee least thinks of it They tell me that in your Town there you have goodly Acornes I pray send me some two dozen of them I shall esteem them much as comming from you and write me at large that I may know of your health and well-being and if you want ought there is no more to be done but mouth it and your mouth shall have full measure so God keep you From this Town Your loving Friend The Duchesse Lord quoth Teresa when she heard the Letter what a good plain meek-Lady ' t is God bury me with such Ladies and not with your stately ones that are used in this town who think because they are Jantle-folks the winde must not touch them and they go so fantastically to Church as if they were Queenes at least and they think it a disgrace to um to looke upon a poor Countrey Woman But looke you here 's a good Lady that though she bee a Duchesse calls mee friend and useth mee as if I were her equall equall may I see her with the highest Steeple in the Mancha and concerning her Acorns Signior mine I will send her Ladyship a whole Pecke that every body shall behold and admire them for their bignesse and now Sanchica doe thou see that this Gentleman bee welcome set his Horse up and get some Egges out of the Stable and cut some Bacon hee shall fare like a Prince for the good newes hee hath brought us and his good face deserves it all in the meane time I will goe tell my neighbours of this good newes and to our father Vicar and Master Nicholas the Barber who have beene and still are so much thy fathers friends Yes marry will I quoth Sanchica but harke you you must give mee half that string for I doe not thinke my Ladie Duchesse such a foole that shee would send it all to her 'T is all thine Daughter said Teresa but let mee weare it a few dayes about my neck for verily it glads mee to the heart You will bee glad quoth the Page when you see the bundle that I have in my Port-mantue which is a garment of fine cloth which the Governour onely wore one day a Hunting which he hath sent to Mistris Sanchica Long may he live quoth Sanchica and hee that brings it too Teresa went out with her chaine about her neck and playd with her fingers upon her Letters as if they had been a Timbrel and meeting by chance with the Vicar and Samson Carrasce shee began to dance and to say yfaith now there is none poore of the kinn we have a little Government No no. Now let the proudest Gentlewoman of um all meddle with mee and I le shew her a new tricke What madnesse is this Teresa Panca and what Papers are these No madnesse quoth shee but these are Letters from Duchesses and Governours and these I weare about my neck are fine Corals the Ave-Maries and Pater-nosters are of beaten gold and I am a Governesse Now God shield us Teresa wee understand you not neither know wee what you meane There you may see quoth Teresa and gave um the Letters The Vicar reads them that Samson Carrasco might heare so hee and the Vicar lookâ— one upon the other wondring at what they had read And the Bachelor asked Who brought those Letters Teresa answered that they should goe home with her and they should see the Messenger a young Youth as fair as a golden Pine-Apple and that hee brought her another Present twice as good The Vicar took the Corals from her neck and beheld them again and again and assuring himself
I despayre not to come to a safe harbour Don-Quixote admired to heare from Roque such good and sound reasons for hee thought that amongst those of this profession of robbing killing and High-way-laying there could bee none so well spoken and answered him Signior Roque the beginning of health consists in knowing the infirmity and that the sick man bee willing to take the Medicines that the Physician ordaines You are sick you know your griefe and heaven or to say truer God who is our Physician will apply Medicines that may cure you which doe heal by degrees but not suddenly and by miracle Besides sinners that have knowledge are neerer amendment then those that are without it and since you by your discourse have shew'd your discretion there is no more to bee done but bee of good courage and despair not of the recovering your sick conscience and if you will save a labour and facilitate the way of your salvation come with me and I will teach you to bee a Knight Errant and how you shall undergoe so many labours and mis-adventures that taking them by way of penance you shall climbe Heaven in an instant Roque laughed at Don-Quixotes counsail to whom changing their discourse hee recounted the Tragicall successe of Claudia Ieronimo at which Sancho wept exceedingly for the Beauty Spirit and Buck-somenesse of the Wench misliked him not By this the Squires returned with their Prize bringing with them two Gentlemen on horse-back and two Pilgrims on foot and a Coach full of Women and some half a dozen of Servants that on horse-back and on foot waited on them with two Mule-men that belonged to the two Gentlemen The Squires brought them in triumph the Conquerors and Conquered being all silent and expecting what the Grand Roque should determine who asked the Gentlemen who they were whither they would and what money they carried One of them answered him Sir We two are Captains of Spanish Foot and have companies in Naples and are going to imbarke our selves in four Gallies that wee hear are bound for Silicia we carry with us two or three hundred Crowns which wee think is sufficient as being the largest treasure incident to the ordinary penury of Souldiers Roque asked the Pilgrims the same questions who answered him likewise That they were to be imbarqued towards Rome and that they carried a matter of thirty shillings between them both The same he likewise desired to know of those that went in the Coach and one of them on Horse-back answered My Lady Donna Guiomar de Quinnones Wife to a Judge of Naples with a little Gyrle and her Maids are they that goe in the Coach and some six servants of us wait on her and wee carry six hundred Pistolets in gold So that said Roque Guinarte wee have here in all nine hundreth Crowns and sixty Ryals my Souldiers are about a sixtie let us see what comes to each mans share for I am a bad Arithmetician When the Theeves heard this they cryed alowd Long live Roque Guinarte in spight of the Cullions that seek to deltory him The Captains were afflicted the Lady was sorrowfull and the Pilgrims never a whit glad to see their goods thus confiscated Roque a while held them in this suspence but hee would no longer detein them in this sadnesse which hee might see a gun-shoot off in their faces and turning to the Captains said Captains you shall doe me the kindnesse as to lend me threescore Ducats and you Madam fourscore to content my Squadron that follows me for herein consists my Revenue and so you may passe on freely only with a safe conduct that I shall give you that if you meet with any other Squadrons of mine which are divided upon these Downs they doe you no hurt for my intent is not to wrong Souldiers or any woman especially Noble The Captains infinitely extolled Roques courteous liberality for leaving them their money The Lady would have cast her self out of the Coach to kisse the Grand Roques feet and hands but hee would by no means yeeld to it rather asked pardon that hee had presumed so farre which was only to comply with the obligation of his ill employment The Lady commanded a Servant of hers to give him straight fourscore Ducats which were allotted him the Captains too disbursed their sixty and the Pilgrims tendered their Povertie but Roque bade them bee still and turning to his people said Out of these Crowns there are to each man two due and there remain twenty let the poor Pilgrims have ten of them and the other ten this honest Squire that hee may speak well of this Adventure and so bringing him necessaries to write of which he ever went provided hee gave them a safe conduct to the heads of his Squadrons and taking leave of them let them passe free and wondring at the noblenesse of his brave and strange condition holding him rather for a great Alexander then an open Robber One of the Theeves said in his Catalan language This Captain of ours were fitter to bee a Frier then a Robber and if hee mean henceforward to bee so liberall let it bee with his own goods and not with ours This the Wretch spoke not so softly but Roque might over hear him who catching his Sword in hand almost clove his pate in two saying This is the punishment I use to sawcy Knaves All the rest were amazed and durst not reply a word such was the awe in which they stood of him Roque then retired aside and wrote a Letter to a friend of his to Barselona advising him how the famous Don-Quixote de la Mancha was with him that Knight Errant so notorious and hee gave him to understand that hee was the most conceited understanding fellow in the world and that about some four dayes after which was Mid-summer day hee should have him upon the City Wharf Armed at all points upon his Horse Rozinante and his Squire likewise upon his Asse And that hee should let the Niarros his friends know so much that they might solace themselves with him But hee could wish the Cadels his Adversaries might want the pastime that the madnesse of Don-Quixote and his conceited Squire would make Hee delivered the Letter to one of his Squires who changing his Theeves habit for a Country-mans went to the Citie and delivered it to whom it was directed CHAP. LXI What hapned to Don-Quixote at his entrance into Barselona with other events more true then witty THree daies and three nights was Don-Quixote with Roque and had hee been so three hundred yeers hee should not have wanted matter to make him see and admire his kinde of life One while here they lye another there they dine Sometimes they flye from I know not whom other while they wait for I know not whom They sleep standing a broken sleep changing from place to place all waies setting of Spies listening of Sentinels blowing Musquet matches though of such shot they had but few most of
were ended but not the admiration in which all remained but Don Antonio's friends that knew the conceit Which Cid Hamete Benehgeli would forthwith declare not to hold the world in suspence to think that some Witch or extraordinary mysterie was enclosed in the said Head And thus saith hee That Don Antonio Moreno in imitation of another Head which hee saw in Madrid framed by a Carver caused this to bee made in his house to entertain the simple and make them wonder at it and the Fabrick was in this manner The Table it self was of wood painted and varnished over like Jasper and the foot on which it stood was of the same with four Eagles claws standing out to uphold it the better The Head that shewed like the Medall or picture of a Romane Emperour and of brasse colour was all hollow and so was the Table too to which it was so cunningly joyned that there was no appearance of it the foot of the Table was likewise hollow that answered to the brest and neck of the head and all this answered to another Chamber that was under the Room where the Head was and thorow all this hollownesse of the foot the table brest and neck of the Medall there went a tinne pipe made fit to them that could not bee perceived Hee that was to Answere set his Mouth to the Pipe in the Chamber underneathe Answering to this upper Roome so that the Voice ascended and descended as through a Trunke so cleerely and distinctly as it was hardly possible to make discovery of the juggling A Nephew of Don Antonio's a Scholler a good witty and discreet youth was the answerer who having notice from his Uncle of those that were to enter the Roome it was easie for him to answer suddenly and punctually to their first questions and to the rest he answered by discreet conjectures Moreover Cid Hamete saies that this marvelous Engine lasted for some ten or twelve daies but when it was divulged up and downe the Citie that Don Antonio had an Enchanted Head in his House that answered to all questions fearing lest it should come to the notice of the waking Centinels of our Faith Having acquainted those Inquisitors with the businesse they commanded him to make away with it lest it should scandalize the ignorant vulgar But yet in Don-Quixote and Sanchoes opinion the Head was still Enchaâ—ted and answering but indeed not altogether so much to Sanchoes satisfaction The gallants of the City to please Don Antonio and for Don-Quixotes better hospitalitie and on purpose that his madnesse might make the more generall sport appointed a runing at the Ring about a sixe dayes after which was broken off upon an occasion that after hapned Don-Quixote had a minde to walke round about the City on foote fearing that if hee went â— Horsehack the Boyes would persecute him So hee and Sancho with two servants of Don Antonioes went a walking It happened that as they passed through one Streete Don-Quixote looked up and saw written upon a Doore in great Letters Here are Bookes printed which did please him very wonderfully for till then hee had never seene any Presse and hee much desired to know the manner of it In he went with all his retinue where he saw in one place drawing of sheets in another Correcting in this Composing in that mending Finaly all the Machine that is usuall in great Presses Don-Quixote came to one of the Boxes and asked what they had in hand there the workemen told him he wondred and passed farther To another he came and asked one that was in it what he was doing The workman answered Sir This Gentleman you see and he shewed him a good comely proper man and somewhat ancient hath translated an Italian Booke into Spanish and I am composing of it here to bee Printed What is the name of it quoth Don-Quixote To which said the Author Sir it is called Le Bagatele to wit in Spanish The Trifle and though it beare but a mean name yet it contains in it many great and substantiall matters I understand a little Italian said Don Quixote and dare venter upon a Stanzo of Ariostoes But tell mee Signior mine not that I would examine your skill but only for Curiositie Have you ever found set downe in all your writing the word Pinnata Yes often quoth the Author and how translate you it said Don-Quixote How should I translate it said the Author but in saying Potage pot Body of me said Don-Quixote and how forward are you in the Italian Idiome I le lay a good wager that where the Italian sayes Piaccie you translate it Please and where Pin you say more and Su is above and Giu beneath Yes indeed doe I said the Author for these be their proper significations I dare sweare quoth Don-Quixote you are not knowne to the world which is alwaies backward in rewarding flourishing wits and laudable industrie Oh what a company of rare abilities are lost in the world What witts cubbed up What Virtues contemned but for all that mee thinkes this translating from one language into another except it be out of the Queenes of Tongues Greeke and Latine is just like looking upon the wrong side of Arras hangings that although the Pictures bee seene yet they are full of thred-ends that darken them and they are not seene with the plainnesse and smoothnesse as on the other side and the translating out of easie languages argues neither wit nor elocution no more then doth the coppying from out of one Paper into another yet I inferr not from this that translating is not a laudable exercise for a man may bee far worse employed and in things lesse profitable I except amongst Translators our two famous ones the one Doctor Christoval de Figneroa in his Pastor fido and the other Don Iohn de Xaurigni in his Amyntas where they haply leave it doubtfull which is the Translation or Originall But tell mee Sir Print you this Book upon your owne charge or sell you your licence to some Booke-binder Vpon mine owne said the Author and I thinke to get a thousand crownes by it at least with this first impression for there will bee two thousand Copies and they will vent at three shillings apiece roundly You understand the matter well said Don-Quixote it seemes you know not the passages of Printers and the correspondencies they have betwixt one and the other I promise you that when you have two thousand Copies lying by you you 'le bee so troubled as passeth and the rather if the booke bee but a little dull and not conceited all thorow Why would you have mee quoth the Author let a Booke-seller have my Licence that would give mee but a halfe-penny a Sheet and that thinkes hee doth mee a kindnes in it too I print not my workes to get fame in the world for I am by them well known in it I must have profit for without that fame is not worth a rush God send you