Errant from his Body At last gathering all his expulsive faculties together and setting his hands to his sides at the first reach he threw out his troublesome guest and dislodg'd the Balsamum which being embitter'd by his long stay made the Squire look very sowerly and so distorted his face by manifold writhings that he looked handsomer if his countenance could have kept the posture then ever he did in his life But he had more motions then one his backward memento's came so fast that he could not mind what his mouth utter'd No Bed-panne was sufficient nor the Tub for that purpose He was compelled to advance his Plukes to the Chimney which he most violently assaulted and batter'd in such furious sort that much of the shot recoil'd upon his Canon muzzle which the Asturian with a maukin cleans'd as oft as the enormities happ'ned very glad that shee had this revenge for the Battell plaid upon her Maine-Pillian shee ever and anon held his head too which shee bound about with a list taken from her leg The halfe Tub began to fill for up came all his Wallet-thefts his stomack was like a Foxes kennell or a Polecats hole whence innumerable parts of the creature came fluttering out as if they had been upon wing againe It would have puzz'led a Poulterer to have named the severall ransacks of that Oleo Such a hotch-potch was never seen insomuch that the poor Asturian even stifled with the fumes and Nauseae of his filthy Caldron could not hold his head nor her own stomack any longer but kept consort with him plaid her part so wel that she run through all the keyes from A-la-mi-re to double Gammut nor was she only vocal but her Base Violl went as fast as his with great danger of breaking her twatling-strings They made a foule house â—etwixt them and Sancho was so â—tupified with her continuall Cataracts that he could not heare his owne tale for the bellowing of Maritornes who reach'd as if she would have fetch'd up her Lady-tripe He called the Inne-keeper unto him and said with a grave and staid voice High Constable of this large Castle know I cannot pay you what I present owe For all the favours shewne for the sweet oyles Yet fragrant on my wounds got in late broyles But chiefely for the Queens affections And for your Daughters gentle Frictions Never was Knight so handled Wherefore say For new Adventures call your guest away Is there a Miscreant who hath dar'd to blast Your Queen or Daughter as they were unchast Or that your selfe are of no noble spirit Courteous above almost Knight-Errants merit Shew me the Varlet that I may confound him Before I goe to fight the world so round in All that I desire is saith the Inne-keeper that you defray your charges The Invincible ignorance of mine Host was very smartly reprehended and punisht in the Knights generous and free Goe-by Teaching the Foole hereafter more wit who when he demands money of a Knight-Errant to take hold of his Bridle or else by the Law of Effugium or Mittit habenas he may make his escape good and there are Presidents enough for it The Inne-keeper came to Sancho and ask'd his money of him Sancho over-heard his Masters Reasons for Non-payment and from a strong Argument drawn à paritate rei though not subjecto laboured to have convinc'd the â—ncredulous Host who had neither Faith for the Reckoning upon their words nor to the valiant Deeds they were to doe But it was Sancho's misfortune to have a more Indocile Creature under him and lesse manageable than the Dons so that he was left as alwayes the Asse is for the reckoning He urged often like Master like man and love me and love my Dog Beside other more true and significant Proverbs as Sue a Begger and get a Louse Where there is nothing to be had the Common-wealth must lose her due The Devill take the hindmost But mine Host on the other side had his Proverbs too Touch Pot touch penny Finger in Dish finger in Pouch Sancho could not deny that the Pot had touch'd his Master the Oyle-pot he meant and he had toucht the Ale-pot But he was impatient and telling them they could not without manifest danger and violation of the Lawes of Errantry stop him he attempted to escape The Clothiers of Segovia pull'd him from his Asse O happy happy Sancho hadst thou been If thou wert gone or ne'r hadst seen this Inne For the Cordovan Point-Makes Scoffers and Mockers by their Profession and Segovian Clothiers sellers of Blankets upon one of their strongest commodities lay dis-mounted Sancho now like a great Bell at which six lusty Ringers are plucking and after a Celeusma or two they raise him and finde him comming then up they have him and never give off till they have turn'd it over over Sometime they made him stand an end his head being flat very much helping to the posture Thus you see our Squire Errant is made a Squire Volant and in stead of the Government of an Island is made a petty Prince of the Aire to whom the Birds flock as to his Brother Broad-face when he flies abroad in the day time It was well the Balsamum Fieribras had so throughly purg'd his sinke otherwise he had left foule signes of his high Indignation in the Blankets In his Tranation he lookt about and saw under him though a farre off his Lord upon Rosinante no bigger than a Toad upon a Bucking-stoole and the Don beheld in amazement the motions of his Squire now equall with him in all Adventures this last paralelling his of the Windmill But the Don shaking his Javelin over the wall and discovering implacable rage and threatning but not attempting to leap the wall the Inne-keeper gave the signe to the Ringers and they let the Bell goe very Musically downe by lessening their stroaks heaves and tosses till they brought Sancho very well breath'd and air'd to the ground Sancho requested Maritornes to give him some Wine which shee did Poor Sancho was as dry as if he had been visiting the torrid Zone or pass'd the Line a draught of water he would have but his Master knowing in his great observation that water will putrifie and stink under the Line would not permit him to drinke it nor yet would Sancho be perswaded to a dram of the Bottle no Balsamum goes down his throat which was as open as a Sepulchre But Maritornes all after-claps forgot and forgiven mov'd with a Fellowship of his sufferings risings and fallings helpes him at last to a draught of pure Nepenthe a lusty glasse of Claret wine wherein the dead flyes look'd like the wholsome Clove and because he should be sure to have no more risings in the stomack she powder-sugar'd it with a little burnt Allum which shee crumbled into it and stirring often said partner in affliction drinke drinke it up the deeper the sweeter parting with Sancho in the very same proverb as she hop'd
not minde his Calls Nor hath the Don or gold or gilded Balls To bait her flight but both resolve together To bait themselves and let the Devill go with her The grasse is Table to the Don and meat To Rosinant who full was for a feat And lust full scents the Mares Gallician And presently is for coition The lab'ring â—ades were not for wanton tricks But answer his Levalto's with shrewd kicks But Rosinant persists and maugre packs He mounts girt-burst upon their skittish backs But the Yanguesian Carriers with Battoon Did cudgell out of 's side the salt Baboon And tam'd him straight where at the enraged Don Enters the Lists but had blowes three for one And Sancho too was here a Combatant But you will know the issue by the plaint Plainiffs were both both Sancho and his Master Defendants none the Umpire is a plaster TEXT TRavelling the space of two houres without finding her they arived to a pleasant Meâ—â—w Marcela was too quick of foot for the Don she that used to chase the vvilde Boare and ore-take the wounded Stagge hovv vvas it possible that an over-ridden Stallion or a tame Asse should over-reach her Horse and Asses tir'd and soultred with the heat of the day more than affection they flung their caps at her they had tassell ones in their pockets and cryed as we doe of a Hare escaped let her goe 't is but dry meat But the Meadow is got the pleasant smiling Meadow but no Marcela to bestowe a green gowne on here is the pure and refreshing streame but not Marcela who us'd to dresse her sweet face in it made more sleek lovely and glassy by receiving and returning those lines and imagery to those eyes which were only fit to behold them They did fall to with good accord and fellowship Hopelesse of satisfying their eyes they consult how to pleasure the rest of their senses and the Don being maimed in the Organ of one of the chiefest it was high time to provide for the maintenance of the rest Strato discumbiter Ostro The green Carpet was laid before them and they more graecorum in their lying down not at this time in taking up for they had no Caecubum I may say too more Brutoni for Bos pro cumbit humi they I say laid themselves downe falling to it haile fellow well met Sancho prov'd the nimbler feeder having his nose seldome out of the Manger which the Don did not so much mind because he often gaz'd about for adventures and did not follow his blow or rather his stroake for this encounter is of the Teeth insomuch that Sancho was the Knight of the Meadow though the Squire of the High-way Rosinante had a desire to solace himselfe with the Lady Mares Rosinante it seems was not runne off all his metall he was back'd to enterprizes and would have had a Barriers with a Gallician Philly which was a great errour in the Cephael-Errant for he was by ordure of his horse-hood to have reliev'd the Lady Mares not as Spanish Iennets are begot nor in that corner who were oppress'd and overladen with heaviâ— packs and ought not to have laid more sacks to the Mill as they say being the only horse of the only Lady-relieving Knight now remaining in the whole world But the Yanguesian Carriers finding the Beast troubled with melancholy presently flew in to the assistance of their Mares who had hitherto more then many rationall creatures will doe defended themselves from this foule ravisher with their heeles But now Rosinante is at the stoole of repentance never was paure Brute so hamper'd for wicked intentions never such sharp blowes for the gentle stroakes that he meant to his Galician sweetharts besides that he did carrie the favours of one of the goodliest amongst them upon his flank as plain a Mare-shooe as ever was made by Smith these Battoone marks were too intollerable which their Masters did accumulate upon his hide till he lay down upon the grasse worse tired with this wooden entertainment then if he had all-abroud as the Scotch Kerle saith aw the Phillyes one after another upon the place Sancho at the second Peale is struck downe and the Don fell at his Coursers feet Love me and love my dog It was a signe Sancho did not heartily affect the Don that he was so unwilling to relieve Rosinante from the Yanguesian Gyants but he had reason for it he saw their number and the noise of the weapons from Rosinante's sides made him provide for his own Feare hath a quick eare and though it was tickled with the government of the Island which alwaies buzz'd in the hollow of it yet he perceived it was a desperate causway that conducted thither and that he should undergoe very strict discipline before he came to exercise any And so it proved for though he was spurr'd up with hopes by the couragious inspirations of the Don yet alas notwithstanding he collected his full spirit what were Hercules and Lycas against more then twelve labours at once or rather labourers whom Sancho very properly advised not to charge on foot or indeed at all or to engage upon a horse quarrell which would gaine no credit in History and especially if they should be foil'd what a blemish would it be in the book that was to be wrote of them to see in a great Cut or Brasse leafe there Rosinante laid breathlesse and by him the Don not able to heave a side or stir a limbe or stretch forth a hand and Sancho in wofull manner pictur'd aloof off with his face to the ground asham'd to looke up to Heaven or upon man or beast after this ignoble victory Only the Asse reserv'd to carry away the blushing spoiles of the field will be seen in the piece free grazing and leaping and as having more wit then three contented himselfe with his pasture not like Rosinante given to lust nor like both the fools I mean as to this enterprize his masters given to revenge The Carriers with all possible speed trussing up their loading followed on their way Fuga est pro culpâ A guilty Conscience is a thousand Judges Juries and witnesses But who shall make hue and cry after them who shall raise the Country It being done betwixt Sunne and Sunne the hundred was to pay for the Injury done by the Carriers which were wont to pay for injuries done to them But it was secure as to that matter for cantabit vacuus The Don fear'd no robbing and as for their Brutes they were not worth stealing Nothing was taken from them the fault was in what was given them and not the hundreds nor ten thousands could take it off Sancho more wise for in aâ—flictions he got experience then his Master who like his Couzen in the mortar never profited remembred his Lord of the liquor at Feoblas which was much that his head so disordered could containe so hard a word in it But as for the Balsamum Fierebras it was at that
eminent but taking friend into a small resentment by importunity and multiplyed Repetition The Holy Brother-hood care not two Farthings for all the Knight-Errants in the world A Brother of the Sword could doe no more but this Holy Brother-hood were Brothers of the Whippe or Bulls-pizzle I believe such as the Fratres of Bride-well whom to offend is a double punishment starving and stripping they are revenged upon back and belly giving this too little and that too much But Sancho doth very much dignifie the Title of Knight-Errants who it seemes in Spaine were esteemed no better then Vagrants and passable from Tithing-man to Tithing-man Vpon condition thou shalt never tell any mortall Creature that I with-drew for feare but onely to satisfie thy requests This Adventure of Sancho's promoting was the safest they yet encountred the Adventure of Retirement which was well ominously and politickly ingaged on with an Oath of Secrefie It will well become all spirits of equall undertakings with our Don and equall successe to sweare their Seconds and Company never to reveal the unfortunate issue of any fight nor the necessities of a Retreat whether orderly or otherwise as great Feare or Apprehension of Danger shall direct But that you may see in what a stout Accent with that Princely Gate what undaunted Countenance a Don can make an escape take Sanctuary or else like Robin Hood befor the green Hills presuming a shrug or two preparatively made Thus highly speaks The Knight that sneaks Retreat Retire O base But Sancho sweare Advance thy mouth unto our grisly haire And knab a Lock of that contorted curle That breaks the heart of faire Toboso's Gurle Sweare to a Haire sweare by these sable Locks 'T was thy desire to live 'mongst Trees and Stocks Sweare that I went for Company swear Sirrah That I ne'r led the way into Sierra For though in all the Tables they shall finde Me on the Forlorne Sancho Panch ' behind Yet in this businesse is 't be cut in Brasse Or Wood all 's one I followed here the Asse For what could Rosinant doe with his proud Bristles The Asse was best for guide through Thorns and Thistles CHAP. X. The Knight o' th' rock and Knight o' th' harder face Salute each other in most Courtly grace Looke on these postures who 'l judge him o' th' Rocks Mad for a Mistresse or the Don for knocks Such civiliz'd deportment shews of Love As Rock and Bad-face had been hand and Glove With strenvous Complements above the School Of Sr John Daw or Amorous La Fool. The Don obtaines Cardenio's wofull Tale. Where doth not Armes and Rhetorick prevaile Great was the attention o' th' Ill-favour'd Knight Who for Dulcinea was in wofull plight As oft as Ferdinand Luscinda prais'd A panting feare in his fond breast it rais'd Toboso too was flesh and blood and how If some great Prince should vacuate her vow 'T would prove of dangerous consequence for us To have our Ladies so adventurous But yet Cardenio gave no ground to raise Such scruples but Luscinda still doth praise And prosecutes his Story with such grace That it astonish'd all upon the place And the Don too for so it fortuned He best the Tale into his Cockscombs head TEXT TRuly good Sr whosoever you are for I know you not I doe with all my heart gratifie c. Behold and view the very Picture of the Salutation-Taverne reform'd an Andaluzian and a Manchegan in the Spanish mode passing Punctilios upon one another I wonder it scap'd our Pencill men especially when they had so many Signes to alter A Knight-Errant and a Bedlam exactly drawn in the liveliest postures of the Madrid Salutados would have been as magnetick and beneficiall to the house as the Renouned pieces of Iohn a Green or Mul-sack The Knight of the Rock did nothing but behold him and re-beheld him from top to toe Certainly these two inlarg'd their Organs beyond the Sphaere of their ordinary capacities It is thought by the unusuall dilatation of their optick Nerves they had so far extended their eyes that all that instant they might have been taken for a brace of Saracens and as their postures before made 'um unfit for Tavernes so these for Innes After viewing him well he said if you have any meat give it me for Gods sake Cardenio being to make a full relation of his misfortunes desires to eat first and being quick at meat was quick at worke for having filled himselfe from the Wallets he forthwith filled their Eares with a most passionate Story which he did more sagely and deliberately deliver then could be expected from such wild looks and strange postures The Story you shall have in Verse because it is long and the bestowing Feet upon it will make it passe away the quicker Cardenio's story My name is Cardenio the place of my Birth one of the best Cities in Andaluzia 1. Cardenio is my name my Birth In one of Andaluzias Best Cities which hath got the praise For one o' th' choisest Seates on Earth 2. My Parents did in wealth abound As I in sad Misfortunes doe Wealth is no Antidote for Woe Such as else-where cannot be found 3 In the same Cities round there shin'd A beauty of transcendent grace Who made a Heaven of the place Yet to my ruine was assign'd 4. Luscinda was this Angels name And she had earthly glories too If Wealth and Honour ought can doe To magnify a Ladies Fame 5. Loves fuell in our Child-hood glow'd And when we knew not what w' would have To amorous play our selves we gave And innocent fire along flowed 6. Untill with yeares the flame grew high And our wise Parents 'gan to see These fires could not extinguish'd be But by our mutuall tie 7. Luscinda's Father fear'd our Loves Might unresisted run whereby A non-admittance unto me My faith and loyall temper proves 8. Like Pyramus and Thisbe then Through crannies we did Court And chinks and holes conveigh'd our sport Made stronger by her Fathers Pen. 9. Restraint in Flames and Currents stopp'd Runne wilder and most furious break Poor Damms in Combate too too weak And winds oppos'd will ne're be topp'd 10 Deny'd accesse and tongues up ty'd To Paper Stratagems we turn'd Our passions then in Letters burn'd And the conveyance was our pride 11. And by the Emblem of true Love A feather'd Messenger well taught VVere constant Letters to us brought And we well paid the Carrier Dove 12. On it as on Luscindas Lips Were kisses plentifully laid The Dove as if accompt it made The loving tally justly keeps 13. And with the letter would approach Which ' oout her colour'd Neck was hung And soon as that was once unstrung To Bill Luscinda 't would incroach 14. So that Luscinda knowing well The Bird did nothing but 't was taught Her Lips unto like kindnesse brought And paid my Favours with a fragrant smel 15. For that the kisses came from her Might be assur'd to me shee sum'd Her Lips in Civet I
ex rapto He that can catch and hold He is the man of Gold And so I leave the Scholar rather pittying then triumphing over him Of Armes Most illustrious Queen and by your residence glories presence and derivative rayes eminent and conspicuous Confessours I know full well that the Tree of Knowledge was the most glorious pleasant stock of Paradice but yet forbidden the bold attempting to know above what they should disposfest the aspirers of that beautifull Garden and gave the first occasion for Armes in the world a Flaming sword being set for an eternall barre upon the passe that they should not re-enter A long time it was before warrs came in though a fourth part of the world was murder'd by his brother as the generations of men multiplyed then societies Kingdomes and Governments were erected in severall places and good and wholesome Lawes invented for the security of Meum and Tuum every man's right the Vindex of which lawes if they were infring'd was the publick Magistrate but sometimes the multitude offending the Delegated Power could not restraine 'um wherefore he was enforc'd to call in help and friends to set all right at home And to prevent future insurrections they rais'd a Military Power which stood for the defence of the Magistrate against contempt and violence so that the same strength serv'd against civill Commotions and forraign invasions At home the souldiors life was easie and gratefull But when he was commanded to draw forth to avenge the injuries offered to the Prince then his life is worth taking notice of what long Marches what tedious Sieges what short allowance what thin accoutrements what dangerous duties and what gallant ends VVell said our Poet Multum ille terris jactatus alto There 's tossing for you Scholars a little more troublesome then ratling chaines in a Library and tumbling old musty Authors from morning till night not a line there hurts you but from one of our Lines perchance a hundred commanded men may have their ultima linea rerum This is our Rubrick the Scholars the letter which doth immortalize or rather Canonize us A vengeance take all Gunnes Bullets Powder and the Authors of them Printing and they were about an age and the Devill knows which is the worst They were made for dispatches very right the one makes the quarrell and the other defends it and both sides rue it And yet you Scholars say that the Sword was more destructive then the Ordnance Herquebuzze or any Powder Engine The noise forsooth the terrour the suddaine dispatch of a party saves the rest of an Army sometimes and induces a summons to a Treaty as King Henry with his letherne guns obtain'd it before Bulloigne whereas when the matter was disputed by the Sword and Javelin a major part must be slaine before the Generals could tell which side had the better No Sophister no such matter the businesse was effected with lesse blood or at least blood of lesse moment In the antient wars before these Bombards Blunderbushes Petars or salt Peter the Devils Ale-Tubs were ever tapt The very name of Caesar Hector or any famous Officer routed a wing a Legion as soon as it was heard they were in the Field And therefore contend no more for your two black coats the Monke and the Devill who were the contrivers of these murderous Engines whereby an Alexander an Achilles a Solyman or a Solomon either the wise man and the valiant fall undistinguish'd without knowing their enemy or shewing any experiment of their undoubted strength or subtle stratagems in war so it may befall our selfe dread Queen at the siege of the chiefe Castle that some misguised Bullet which Heaven forefend may deprive you of the man who slew indeed the Gyant and laid all wast before him conquering by his high fame as much as his known prowesse and yet behold the Heros how he lyes the Triumph and the spoile of a piece of Lead I have a whole Field to expatiate in the praise of this Antient and Honourable profession which throughout the world is formidable what Land can you come into but you shall finde the Monuments of some great Battels surviving in Stones Cuts and works in the ground Pillars Coynes Inscriptions Arms with Bodies of an incredible weight and stature buried and commonly found What hath set your braines on worke more then the Histories of fighting Princes the Greeks and Trojan war the Field of Pharsalia enobled by our Country man Lucan and the like when all the stock of wit was vented in flattering the victorious side although in your affections you were for the beaten party Pro Verre or contra Verrem 't is all alike to you you turne as round as a Pigg in all disturbances for the successe We fight it you enjoy the profits of it It were good policy in my Imagination to change and shift callings and sometimes the Souldier should spend a yeare or two in a Gowne enjoy a Government a fellowship and others while the Scholar doth lead a Company traile a Pike thâ—â— they may experimentally and judiciously discourse of the severall excellencies paines and labours of both these professions How many bloody rounds are there to be clim'd in the scale of military honour before you are at the top of preferment and how many brave soules perish in the getting up every step being under-watch'd with Dragons Lyons Tygers and old Mors himselfe If a Scholar obtain not his desires it is his own fault very few miscarry if they will make themselves able and apply to the right way study and be thrifty take heed of Alla To and especially have a care when they are young students not to intoxicate their noddles with hot loaves and butter pudding Pies and penny Custards which make dunces and clotpates And thus I have discharg'd this undertaking of the preeminency of Arts and Armes which later doth as much exceed the other as a sword doth a Penne knife or a Campania a Brown studdy Dixit Quid vocis precium siccus petasunculus aut vas Pelamidum A dish of Plaisâ— or Spanish Bacon had been meat for a better Rhetorician but it fals out otherwise Armes great Defender and of Truncheons Prates himselfe out of 's after-noons Luncheons The Curate applauded his discourse affirming that he had very good reason for what he spoke in favour of Armes and that he himselfe was of his opinion An applause obtained like that of a Play most ridiculously penn'd and acted where the Auditors who notwithstanding convinced in judgement to the contrary durst dislike nothing but gave great Plaudies to most things that were to be hiss'd off the Stage with the Speakers but the exhibitors of that shew politiquely had plac'd Whiflers arm'd and link'd through the Hall that it was the spoyl of a Beaver hat the firing a Gown beside many a shrewd Bastinado to looke with a condemning face upon any solaecisme either in action or language Mr Curate was therefore well
meat for their mouths then mouths for their meat non offendimur ambulante coenâ Is understood when one dish dances round the table but this was all a running banquet as if they had been serv'd in plates of quicksilver No dish nor cup stood still but only while 't was kiss'd and the salutations so pestilent and close that they drew blood at billing Insomuch that though the meat was well drest the guests were all raw and blood runne about their mouths as if they had been Cannibals and fed upon one another In conclusion they heard the sound of a Trumpet What at other times animates to fight did here dissolve the fray The noble sound of that Warlike instrument recall'd shame into the combatants who full of flesh-wounds cross'd the cudgels the right way and fell to picking quarrels with their teeth their bellies being the only sufferers and not easily after so great a spoyle to be satisfied But as the Fool thinketh so the bell tinketh The Don conceits this Trumpet sounds for his assistance the Lady Micomiconas Trumpet upon his life who having join'd battell with Pandafiland her mortall foe sent this summons for the restorer of her Kingdome or else Dulcineas Trumpet at her dinner of Beanes and gray Pease or else Fames Trumpet to blow him honourably home after his many victories But it was not so nor so nor so But a Trumpet it was and a Ladies Trumpet too but at this time it blew no good to the Don it was a solemn Church Trumpet sounding dolefully before an armory of Prayers and teares to remove a great drought from the Land but it prov'd Quixot's day of judgement-Trumpet after the dismall sounds whereof he was carried to the Mancha to his old woman which was as bad as Hell and furies to him Sancho saying whither doe you goe Sr Don Quixot What Devils doe you beare in your brest that you runne thus against the Catholick faith Contra Romanam Catholicam fidem you should say Sancho for Don Quixot and your selfe both by your stomacks Lutherans but by your provisions Carthusians or Cappucines might very well be against Images and yet maintaine the Catholike Faith without mutilation of the second Commandement or breaking one into two But Sancho labour'd all in vaine The whole Councill of Trent could not have perswaded the Don from the attempt who at this instant fiercer then the Councill of Dort fear'd no Anathemas Buls nor Beares This action had it been in late dayes would have new dubb'd him Knight of the reformation and from the successe of this adventure as great an harvest of conversion might have been expected as was from the fall of Mahomets Tombe amongst the Jews and Infidels which Tombe hath stood on the ground at Mecha ever since the imbalming of that impostor although it is a piece of Alchoran faith that he in an Iron Chest hangs in the aire supported by the equall attraction of two loadstones He assaulted the Image-Carriers one whereof leaving the charge of the burthen encountred the Knight with a wooden forke c. This fellow stood not for an Image it seems His faith was prov'd by his workes for he was resolv'd to try which was the greater Pageant that which they carried or he which Rosinant O the unfortunatenesse of this adventure Pitchforke prevails against Sword and Porter against Knight The Don by one unhappy blow is depriv'd of the use of his shoulder a judgement no doubt in specie punishing that part which first did lift it selfe against the Idoll Nec enim lex justior ulla est c. Then might they heare Sancho bewailing him with tears in his eyes in this manner O flower of Chivalry O yee Knight-Errants past and those to come Weep yee before you 'r born you from the tombe This day was slaine in homely fashion Their envy and your Imitation Whom they ne'r liv'd to see you ne'r will see Vnlesse it be in this sad Elegie Wherefore we 'l leave him in a Character For in effigie 't will be fowler farre The Knight that Lady lov'd and ne'r enjoy'd That fought with any thing but ne'r destroy'd That eat but little lesse then little paid That frighted every one of all afraid That had a faithfull Squire that had an Asse That had an Iland had but for this passe That Knight stretcht out lyes to be seen at length That bestrid Rosinant that Horse of strength That is the Knight that must be the example That the prime horse that with Knight-Errants vamp will That Squire that weeps is he that is content That Iland lost to live o' th' continent Don Quixot was call'd againe to himselfe with Sancho's out-cries It had been worth Sancho's question and none indeed deserv'd the answer to it but Sancho whether in this deliquium and trance his soule was transported What more eminent place in Elysium was prepared for Knight-Errants then of any other order And whether he did see those many Hero's whose Histories incited him to this profession advanced according to the merits of their undertakings in the other world What habits Amadis du â—aul and the other Amadis of Greece wore Or whether there were any investitures at all till the compleat number of Knight-Errants were accomplished in his departure Or were there any more to follow But Sancho was over-joy'd at the sight of his revoked Lord and forgot to move the question And the Don as all recoveries and victories are imputed to the soveraigne aspects of their Ladies so their defeats and crosses to their aversions or some obnoxious interpositions Knight-Errant like gave the maxime of his sufferings to be the absence and long distance betwixt the Tobosian Lady and his person unto whom now as to an Antidote as fast as Cart can goe he will hasten Sancho replied Don Quixot thou speakest reasonably and it will be great wisdome to let passe the crosse aspects of those Planets that raigne at this present Knight-Errantry doth not ingage the order of them against the Stars if they be Planet-struck once they never returne a blow 't is wisdome then not valour must manage the businesse Sapiens dominabitur astris And certeinly if ever Knights were borne under malignant Planets ours was Venus was crosse legg'd Mars retrograde Sol in nubibus Iupiter excentrick Saturne sullen Luna and Mercury only conspir'd to assist him home againe She because he was her companion much on nights the other for his unwearied Errantry on dayes Insomuch that if the number ever be augmented amongst them he is in election to make the eight Planet What influence the septentriones had upon him at present is to be easily guess'd for he is upon his second hoyst into the Cart and but that the Don was provided there was an Auriga for him too There the Wain-man yoked his Oxen and accommodated the Knight on a bottle of Hay Grasse and Hay we are all mortall the greatest men must dye like beasts though the Don expires with what