them I can tell better how to Plough to Digg to Prune and Plant Vineyards then to give Laws or defend Provinces and Kingdomes 't is good sleeping in a whole skin I mean 't is fit that every man should exercise the Calling to which hee was borne a Sickle is better in my hand then a Governours Scepter I had rather fill my selfe with a good dish of Gaspachos then bee subject to the misery of an impertinent Physician that would kill mee with hunger I had rather solace my selfe under the shade of an Oake in Summer and cover my selfe with a double sheepe skinne in Winter quietly then lay mee downe to the subjection of a Government in fine Holland sheetes and bee clothed in Sables fare you well Sir and tell my Lord the Duke Naked was I borne naked I am I neyther winne nor lose I meane I came without crosse to this government and I goe from it without a crosse contrary to what Governours of other Islands are used to doe Stand out of the way and let mee goe for I must seare-cloth my selfe for I beleeve all my ribs are bruised I thanke the enemy that trampled over mee all this night You shall not doe so Sir Governour quoth Doctor Rezio for I will give you a drinke good against falls and bruises that shall straight recover you and touching your diet I promise you to make amends and you shall eat plentifully of what you list 'T is too late quoth Sancho I le as soon tarry as turne Turke these jests are not good the second time you shall as soone get mee to stay here or admit of any other Government though it were presented in two platters to mee as make mee flye to heaven without wings I am of the linage of the Panca's and wee are all head-strong and if once wee cry odd odde it must bee though it be even in spite of all the world Here in this Stable let my Ants wings remaine that lifted mee up in the ayre to bee devouted by Marrlets and other birds and now let 's goe a plaine pace on the ground and though wee weare no pinked Spanish-leather shoos yet wee shall not want course pack-thread Sandals Like to like quoth the Devill to the Collier and let every man cut his measure according to his cloth and so let mee goe for it is late To which quoth the Steward With a very good will you should goe though wee shall bee very sorry to lose you for your judgement and Christian proceeding oblige us to desire your company but you know that all Governours are obliged before they depart from the place which they have governed to render first an account of their place which you ought to doe for the tenne daies you have governed and so Gods peace bee with you No man can aske any account of mee said hee but hee whom my Lord the Duke will appoint to him I goe and to him I le give a fiâ—ting account besides I going from hence so bare as I doe there can bee no greater signe that I have governed like an Angell I protest quoth Doctor Rezio the Grand Sancho hath a great deale of reason and I am of opinion that wee let him goe for the Duke will bee infinitely glad to see him So all agreed and let him goe offering first to accompany him and whatsoever hee had need of for himselfe or for the commodiousnesse of his Voyage Sancho told them hee desired nothing but a little Barley for Dapple and halfe a Cheese and a Loafe for himselfe for that by reason of the shortnesse of the way hee needed no other provision All of them embraced him and hee with teares embraced them and left them astonished as well at his discourse as his most resolute and discreet determination CHAP. LIV. That treats of matters concerening this History and no other THe Duke and Duchesse were resolved that Don-Quixote's Challenge that hee made against their Vassall for the aforesaid cause should goe forward and though the young man were in Flanders whither hee fled because hee would not have Donna Rodriguez to his Mother in Law yet they purposed to put a Gascoigne Lackey in his stead which was called Tosilos instructing him first very well in all that hee had to doe Some two daies after the Duke said to Don-Quixote that within foure daies his contrary would bee present and present himselfe in the field like an armed Knight and maintaine that the Damzell lied in her throat if shee affirmed that hee had promised her marriage Don-Quixote was much pleased with this newes and promised to himselfe to worke miracles in this businesse and hee held it to bee a speciall happinesse to him that occasion was offered wherein those Nobles might see how far the valor of his powerfull arme extended and so with great jocundnesse and content hee expected the foure daies which in the reckoning of his desire seemed to him to bee foure hundred Ages Let wee them passe as wee let passe divers other matters and come to the Grand Sancho to accompany him who betwixt mirth and mourning upon Dapple went to seeke out his Master whose company pleased him more then to bee Governour of all the Islands in the world It fell out so that hee having not gone very farre from the Island of his Government for hee never stood to averre whether it were Island Citty Village or Towne which hee governed hee saw that by the way hee went there came sixe Pilgrimes with their walking staves your strangers that use to beg almes singing who when they came neere beset him round and raising their voyces all together began to sing in their language what Sancho could not understand except it were one word which plainly signified Almes which hee perceived they begged in their song And hee as saith Cid Hamete being very charitable tooke halfe a Loafe and halfe a Cheese out of his wallet of which hee was provided and gave it them telling them by singnes hee had nothing else to give them they received it very willingly and said Guelte Guelte I understand you not what you would have good people quoth Sancho Then one of them tooke a purse out of his bosome and shewed it to Sancho whereby hee understood they asked him for money but hee putting his thumbe to his throat and his hand upward gave them to understand hee had not a Denier and spurting Dapple hee broke thorow them and passing by one of them looking wishly upon him layd hold on him and casting his armes about his middle with a loud voyce and very good spanish said God defend mee and what doe I see is it possible I have my deare friend in my armes my honest neighbour Sancho Panca Yes sure I have for I neyther sleep nor am drunke Sancho wondred to heare himselfe so called by his name and to see himselfe embraced by a Pilgrime-stranger and after hee had beheld him a good while without speaking a word and with
of Camila's answers and his own speech were but fictions and untruths and that hee might the more confirm himself and see whether it were so hee came forth and calling Lothario apart hee demanded of him what Camila had said and in what humour shee was at the present Lothario answered That hee meant not ever any more to found her in that matter for shee replyed unto him so untowardly and sharply as hee durst not attempt any more to speak unto her of such things Oh quoth Anselmo Lothario Lothario how evill doest thou answer to the affection thou owest me or to the confidence I did repose in thee I have stood beholding thee all this while thorow the hole of that lock and saw how thou never spokest one word to her Whereby I doe also collect that thou hast not yet once accosted her and if it bee so as doubtlesly it is say why doest thou deceive me or why goest thou about fraudulently to deprive me of those means whereby I may obtain my desires Anselmo said no more yet what he said was sufficient to make Lothario confused and ashamed who taking it to bee a blemish to his reputation to bee found in a lye swore to Anselmo That hee would from thence forward so indeavour to please his minde and tell him no more leasings as hee himself might perceive the successe thereof if hee did again curiously lye in watch for him a thing which hee might well excuse because him most serious labour to satisfie his desire should remove all shadow of suspicion Anselmo believed him and that hee might give him the greater commoditie and lesse occasion of fear hee resolved to absent himself from his house some eight dayes and goe to visit a friend of his that dwelled in a Village not far from the Cittie and therefore dealt with his friend that hee should send a Messenger to call for him very earnestly that under that pretext hee might finde an excuse to Camila for his departure O infortunate and inconsiderate Anselmo what is that which thou doest what doest thou contrive or what is that thou goest about behold thou workest thine own ruine laying plots of thine own dishonour and giving order to thy proper perdition Thy wife Camila is good thou doest possesse her in quiet and peaceable manner no man surpriseth thy delights her thoughts transgresse not the limits of her house Thou art her Heaven on earth and the goale to which her desires aspire Thou art the accomplishment and summe of her delectation Thou art the Square by which shee measureth and directeth her will adjusting wholy with thine and with that of Heaven Since then the Mines of her Honour Beautie Modestie and Recollection bountifully afford thee without any toyle all the treasures contained in them or thou canst desire why wouldest thou dig the earth and seek out new vains and new seen treasures exposing thy self to the danger that thy labours may turn to wrack seeing in fine that they are only susteined by the weak supporters of her fraile nature Remember how he that seeks the impossible may justly be refused of that which is possible according to that which the Poet saith IN Death for Life I seeke Health in infirmitie For issue in a Dungâ—on deep In Iayles for Libertie And in a Treachour Loyalty But envious-Fate which still Conspires to worke mine ill With Heav'n hath thus decreed That easie things should be to mee deni'd â—Cause I crave th'impossible Anselmo departed the next day following to the Village telling Camila at his departure that whil'st hee were absent his friend Lothario would come and see to the affaires of his house and to eate with her and desired her therefore to make as much of him as shee would doe of his owne person Camila like a discreet and modest woman was grieved at the order her husband did give to her and requested him to render how indecent it was that any one should possesse the chayre of his Table hee being absent and if hee did it as doubting her sufficiency to manage his houshould affaires that at least hee should make tryall of her that one time and should cleerly perceive how shee was able to discharge matters of far greater consequence Anselmo replyed that what hee commanded was his pleasure and therefore shee had nothing else to doe but hold downe her head and obey it Camila answered that shee would doe so although it were very much against her will In fine her husband departed and Lothario came the next day following to the house where hee was entertayned by Camila very friendly but would never treate with Lothario alone but evermore was compassed by her servants and waiting Maidens but chiefly by one called Leonela whom shee loved deerly as one that had been brought up with her in her fathers house even from their infancie and when shee did marry Anselmo shee brought her from thence in her company The first three dayes Lothario spoke not a word although hee might when the Tables were taken up and that the folke of the house went hastily to dinner for so Camila had commanded and did give Leonela order besides to dine before her selfe and that shee should still keepe by her side but the gyrle which had her fancie otherwise imployed in things more pleasing her humor and needed those houres and times for the accomplishing of them did not alwaies accomplish so punctually her Ladies command but now and then would leave her alone as if that were her Ladies behest But the honest presence of Camila the gravitie of her face and the modestie of her carriage was such that it served as a bridle to restraine Lotharioes tongue But the benefit of Camilaes many virtues seting silence to Lotharioes speech resulted afterward to both their harmes for though the tongue spoke not yet did his thoughts discourse and had leisure afforded them to contemplate part by part all the extremes of worth and beautie that were cumulated in Camila potent to enflame a statue of frozen Marble how much more a heart of flesh Lothario did only behold her in the time and space hee should speake unto her and did then consider how worthy shee was to be loved And this consideration did by little and little give assaults to the respects which hee ought to have borne towards his friend Anselmo a thousand times did hee determine to absent himselfe from the Citie and goe where Anselmo should never see him nor hee Camila but the delight hee tooke in beholding her did again withhold and hinder his resolutions When hee was alone hee would condemn himselfe of his madd designe and term himselfe a bad friend and worse Christian hee made discourses and comparisons betweene himselfe and Anselmo all which did finish in this point that Anselmoes foole-hardinesse anâ— madnesse was greater then his owne infidelitie and that if hee might bee as asily excused before God for that hee meant to doe as hee would bee befor men hee needed
entred but could finde no body therein but some certain sheets knit together and tied to the window as a certain signe how Leonela had made an escape by that way Wherefore hee returned very sad to tell to Camila the adventure but when hee could neither finde her at bed nor in the whole house hee remained astonied and demanded for her of his Servants but none of them could tell him any thing And as hee searched for her hee hapned to see her Coffers lye open and most of her Jewels wanting and herewithall fell into the true account of his disgrace and that Leonela was not the cause of his misfortune and so departed out of his house sad and pensive even as hee was half ready and unapparrelled to his friend Lothario to recount unto him his disaster but when hee found him to bee likewise absented and that the Servants told him how their Master was departed the very same night and had borne away with him all his Money hee was ready to runne out of his wits And to conclude hee returned to his own house again wherein he found no ceature man or woman for all his folk were departed and had left the house alone and desart Hee knew not what hee might think say or doe and then his judgement began to faile him There hee did contemplate and behold himself in an instant without a Wife a Friend and Servants abandoned to his seeming of Heaven that covered him and chiefly without honour for hee cleerly noted his own perdition in Camilaes crime In the end hee resolved after hee had bethought himself a great while to goe to his friends Village wherein hee had been all the while that hee afforded the leisure to contrive that disaster And so shutting up his house hee mounted a horseback and rode away in languishing and dolefull wise And scarce had hee ridden the half way when hee was so fiercely assaulted by his thoughts as hee was constrained to alight and tying his Horse to a Tree hee leaned himself to the trunck thereof and breathed out a thousand pittifull and dolorous sighs and there hee abode untill it was almost night about which hour espyed a man to come from the Citie a Horse-back by the same way and having saluted him hee demanded of him what news hee brought from Florence The Citizen replyed The strangest that had hapned there many a day For it is there reported publiquely That Lothario the great friend of the rich man hath carried away the said Anselmo's Wife Camila this night for shee is also missing all which a Waiting-maid of Camilaes hath confest whom the Governour apprehended yesternight as shee slipt down at a window by a pair of sheets out of the said Anselmo's house I know not particularly the truth of the Affair but well I wot that all the Citie is amazed at the accident for such a fact would not bee as much as surmized from the great and familiar amitie of them two which was so much as they were called The two friends Is it perhaps yet known replyed Anselmo which way Lothario and Camila have taken In no wise quoth the Citizen although the Governour hath used all possible diligence to finde them out Farewell then good Sir said Anselmo And with you Sir said the Traveller And so departed With these so unfortunate news poore Anselmo arived not only to termes of losing his wits but also well nigh of losing his life and therefore arising as well as hee might hee came to his friends house who had heard nothing yet of his disgrace but perceiving him to arive so wan pined and dried up hee presently conjectured that some grievous evill afflicted him Anselmo requested him presently that hee might bee caried to his Chamber and provided of paper and inke to write withall all was done and hee left in bed and alone for so hee desired them and also that the dore should bee fast locked And being alone the imagination of his misfortune gave him such a terrible charge as hee cleerely perceived that his life would shortly faile him and therefore resolved to leave notice of the cause of his suddaine and unexpected death and therefore hee began to write it but before hee could set an end to his discourse his breath fayled and hee yeelded up his life into the hands of sorrow which his impertinent curiositie had stirred up in him The Gentleman of the house seeing that it grew late and that Anselmo had not called determined to enter and know whether his indisposition passed forward and hee found him lying on his face with halfe of his body in the bed and the other half leaning on the table whereon he lay with a written paper unfolded and held the pen also yet in his hand His Oast drew neere unto him and first of all having called him he took him by the hand and seeing that he answered not and that it was cold he knew that he was dead and greatly perplexed and grieved thereat he called in his people that they might also be witnesses of the disastrous successe of Anselmo and after all he took the paper and read it which he knew to be written with his own hand the substance whereof was this A Foolish and Impertinent Desire hath dispoyled me of Life If the newes of my Death shall arrive to Camila let her also know that I doe pardon her for shee was not bound to worke Miracles nor had I any neede to desire that she should worke them And seeing I was the builder and contriver of mine owne dishonour there is no reason Hitherto did Anselmo write by which it appeared that his life ended in that point ere he could set an end to the Reason he was to give The next day ensuing the Gentleman his friend acquainted Anselmoes kinsfolke with his death the which had already knowledge of his misfortune and also of the Monastery wherein Camila had retyred her self being almost in terms to accompany her husband in that forcible voyage not for the newes of his death but for grief of others which she had received of her absent friend It is said that although she was a widow yet would she neither depart out of the Monastery nor become a Religious woman untill she had received within a few daies after news how Lothario was slaine in a battell given by Monsieur de Lauâ—reâ— to the great Captain Goncalo Fernandez of Cordova in the kingdom of Naples and that was the end of the late repentant friend the which being known to Camila she made a profession and shortly after deceased between the rigorous hands of sorrow and Melanchollie and this was the end of them all sprung from a rash and inconsiderate beginning This Novell quoth the Curate having read it is a pretty one but yet I cannot perswade my self that it is true and if it be a fiction the Author erred therein for it cannot be imagined that any husband would be so foolish as to make
the Sheepheards alarme would cause all the Countrey to rise up and that the horsemen that kept the coast would presently come to see what it was wee all agreed that the Runnagate should put off his Turkish attyre and put on a captives cassocke which one of the company gave unto him forthwith although the giver remained after in his shirt and thus committing the affaire unto almighty God wee followed on by the same way which wee saw the sheepheard had taken alwaies expecting when the horsemen of the coast would fall upon us and wee were not deceived in our expectation for within two houres after having issued out of those woods into a plane wee discovered about some fifty horsemen which came running towards us as swiftly as their horses could drive and having perceived them wee stood still and stayed untill they came to us and saw in stead of the Moors they sought for so many poore Christians and remained somwhat ashamed thereat and one of them demanded whether wee were the occasion that a Sheapheard had given the alarme Yes quoth I and as I was about to informe what I was and of all our Adventure and from whence wee came one of the Christians that came with us did take notice of the horseman who had spoken unto us and so interrupting my speech hee said Sirs let God bee praysed which hath brought us to so good a place as this is for if I bee not deceived the earth which wee tread is of Veley Malaga and if the yeeres of my captivity have not confounded my memorie you likewise Sir that demand what wee bee are Peter of Bustamonte mine Uncle As soone as ever the Christian captive had spoken those words the horseman leaping off his horse ran and embraced him saying O Nephew as deere to mee as my soule and life now I doe know thee very well and many a day since have I wept for thee thinking thou wast dead and so hath my sister thy Mother and all the rest of thy friends which doe live yet and God hath beene pleased to preserve their Lives that they may enjoy the pleasure to behold thee once againe Wee knew very well that thou wert in Argieres and by the signes and tokens of thy clothes and that of all the rest here of thy Companions I surmise that your escape hath beene miraculous Indeede it was so replyed the Captive and wee shall have time I hope to recount unto you the manner As soone as the horsemen had understood that wee were Christian Captives they alighted off their horses and every one of them invited us to mount upon his owne to carry us to the City of Veley Malaga which was yet a league and a halfe from that place and some of â—hem went to the place where wee had left the Boate to bring it to the Citie whom we informed first of the place where it lay others did mount us up on horseback behind themselves and Zoraida rode behinde the captives uncle all the people issued to receive us being premonished of our arivall by some one that had ridden before They did not wonder to see captives freed nor Moors captived there being an ordinary thing in those parts but that whereat they wondred was the surpassing beauty of Zoraida which at that season and instant was in her prime as well through the warmth she had gotten by her travell as also through the joy shee conceived to see her selfe in Christian lands secure from all feare of being surprised or lost and these things called out to her face such colours as if it be not that affection might then have deceived me I durst aver that a more beautifull then she was the world could not afford at least amoâ—g those which I had ever beheld Wee went directly to the Church to give thanks unto Almighty God for the benefit received And as soon as Zoraida entred into it shee said there were faces in it that resembled very much that of Lela Marien Wee told her that they were her images And the Runnagate as well as the brevitie of the time permitted instructed her what they signified to the end shee should doe them reverence as if every one of them were truely that same Lela Marien which had spoken unto her Shee who had a very good understanding and an easie and cleer conceit comprehended presently all that was told unto her concerning Images From thence they carried us and divided us among different houses of the Citie But the Christian that came with us carried the Runnagate Zoraida and me to the house of his Parents which were indifferently accommodated and stored with the goods of Fortune and did entertain me with as great love and kindenesse as if I were their own sonne We remained six dayes in Veley in which time the Runnagate having made an information of all that which might concern him hee went to the City of Granado to bee reconciled by the holy Inquisitions means to the bosome of our holy Mother the Church The rest of the freed Captives took every one the way that hee pleased and Zoraida and I remained behinde with those Ducats only which the Frenchmans courtesie was pleased to bestow on Zoraida and with part of that summe I bought her this beast whereon shee rides I my selfe serving her hitherto as her Father and her Squire and not as her Spouse wee travail with intention to see if my Father bee yet living or any of my Brothers have had more prosperous hap then my self although seeing Heaven hath made me Zoraida's Consort me thinks no other good Fortune could arrive were it never so great that I would hold in so high estimation The patience wherewithall shee bears the incommodities usually annext unto Povertie and the desires shee shews to become a Christian is such and so great as it strikes me into an admiration and doth move me to serve her all the dayes of my life although that the delight which I take to see my self hers and shee mine is oft times interrupted and almost dissolved by the fear which I have that I shall not finde in mine own Countrey some little Corner wherein I may entertain her and that Time and Death have wrought such alteration in the Goods and Lives of my Father and Brothers as I shall scarce finde any one at home that knows me I have no more good Sirs to tell you of my lives Historie then which whether it bee pleasing and rare or no your cleer conceits are to judge As for my self I dare say that if it had been possible I would have told it with more brevity fearing it might bee tedious unto you I purposely omitted many delightfull circumstances thereof CHAP. XV. Which speaks of that which after befell in the Inne and of sundry other things worthy to bee known THe Captive having said this held his peace and Don Fernando replyed to him thus Truely Captain the manner wherewithall you have recounted this marvellous successe hath
Sooth-sayers to passe the Rubicon And to give you more modern examples What was it bored those Ships and left those valorous Spaniards on ground guided by the most courteous Cortez in the new world All these and other great and severall exploits are have been and shall bee the works of Fame which mortalls desire as a reward and part of the immortalitie which their famous Arts deserve though we that bee Christian Catholick Knights Errant must look more to the happinesse of another World which is Eternall in the Etheriall and Celestiall Regions then to the vanitie of Fame which is gotten in this present frail age and which let it last as long as it will it must have ending with this world which hath its limited time so that oh Sancho our Actions must not passe the bounds that Christian Religion which wee professe hath put us in In Gyants wee must kill Pride Envie in generousnesse and noble Brests Anger in a continent reposed and quiet Minde Ryot and Drowzinesse in Temperance and Vigilance Lasciviousnesse in the Loyaltie wee observe to those that wee have made the Mistrisses of our thoughts and Sloth by travelling up and down the World seeking occasions that may make us besides Christians famous Knights These Sancho are the means by which the extreams of Glory are obtained which fame brings with it All that you have hithero spoken quoth Sancho I understand passing well but I would faine have you zolve mee of one doubt which even now comes into my head Resolve thou wouldst say Sancho quoth Don-Quixote speake a Gods name for I ' le answere thee as well as I can Tell mee Sir said Sancho these Iulies or Augusts and all these famous Knights you talke of that are dead where are they now The Gentiles said he undoubtedly are in Hell the Christians if they were good Christians either in Purgatorie according to the Romish opinion erronious or in Hell 'T is very well but the Sepulchres where the bodies of these great Lordings lie interred have they silver Lamps Relicks that use to bee hanged up in the Papists Churches burning before them or are their Chappell walls decked with Crutches winding-sheetes Periwigs Legs and wax-Eyes and if not with these with what The Sepulchres of the Gentiles said Don-Quixote were for the most part sumptuous Temples the ashes of Iulius Caesars body were put upon a huge Pyramis of stone which at this day is called Saint Peters Needle The Emperour Adrians Sepulchre was a great Castle as bigge as a pretty Village it was called Moles Adriani and at this day the Castle of Saint Angelo in Rome Queene Artemisia buried her husband Manseolus in a Sepulchre which was held to be one of the seven wonders of the World but none of all these nor many others the Gentiles had were decked with winding-sheetes nor any kinde of Offerings or Signes that testified they were Saints that were buried in them That 's it I come to said Sancho and tell mee now which is more to raise a dead man or to kill a Gyant The answere is at hand said Don-Quixote to raise a dead man There I caught you quoth Sancho then the fame of him that rayseth the dead gives sight to the Blinde makes the Lame walke restoreth Sick-men who hath Lampes burning before his Sepulchre whose Chappell is full of Devout People which upon their knees adore his Reliques this man hath greater renowne and in another world then ever any of your Gentile Emperours or Knights Errant ever left behinde them I grant you that quoth Don-Quixote Well answered Sancho this fame these graces these prerogatives how call ye um have the bodies and Relikes of Saints that by the approbation and license of our holy Mother the Church have their lamps their lights their winding-sheets their crutches their pictures their heads of haire their eyes and legs by which they increase mens devotions and endeere their Christian fame Kings carrie the Bodies of Saints or their Reliques upon their shoulders they kisse the peeces of their bones and doe deck and inrich their Chappell 's with them and their most precious Altars What will you have me inferr from all this Sancho quoth Don-Quixote I mean said Sancho that we endevour to be Saints and we shall the sooner obtaine the fame we looke after and let me tell you Sir that yesterday or t'other day for so I may say it being not long since there were two poor barefoote Friers canonized or beatified and now many thinke themselves happie to kisse or touch those yron chaines with which they girt and tormented their bodies and they are more reverenced then is as I said Roldans sword in the Armorie of our Lord the King God save him So that Master mine better it is to be a poore Frier of what order soever then a valiant Knight Errant a dozen or two of lashes obtaine more at Gods hands then two thousand blowes with the launce whether they be given to Giants to Spirits or Hobgoblins All this is true answered Don-Quixote but all cannot be Friers and God Almighty hath many waies by which he carries his Elect to heaven Cavallerie is a religion and you have many Knights Saints in heaven That may be said Sancho but I have heard you have more Friers there then Knights Errant That is quoth Don-Quixote because the Religious in number are more then the Knights But there are many Knights Errant said Sancho Many indeed quoth Don-Quixote but few that deserve the name In these and such like discourses they passed the whole night and the next day without lighting upon any thing worth relation for which Don-Quixote was not a little sorie at last the next day toward night they discovered the goodly Citty of Toboso with which sight Don-Quixotes spirits were revived but Sancho's dulled because hee knew not Dulcineaes House nor ever saw her in his Life no more then his Master so that the one to see her and the other because hee had not seene her were at their Wits end and Sancho knew not how to doe if his Master should send him to Toboso But Don-Quixote resolved to enter the Citty in the night and till the time came they staid betweene certaine Oakes that were neere Toboso and the prefixed moment being come they entred the City where they lighted upon things indeede CHAP. IX Where is set down as followeth MIdnight was neer spnn out when Don-Quixote and Sancho left the Mountaine and entred the Citie the Town was all husht and the dwellers were asleep with their leggs stretcht at length as they say The night was brightsome though Sancho wisht it had been darker that hee might not see his madnesse the Doggs in the Town did nothing but barke and thunder in Don-Quixotes eares and affrighted Sancho's heart Now and then an Asle braied Hoggs grunted Cats mewed whose different howlings were augmented with the silent night all which the enamoured Knight held to be ominous but yet hee spoke to
Sancho Son Sancho said hee guide to Dulcinea's Pallace it may bee wee shall finde her waking Body of the Sunne quoth Sancho to what Palace shall I guide for where I saw her Highnesse it was a little house Belike quoth Don-Quixote shee was retired into some corner of her Palace to solace her self in private with her Damzels as great Ladies and Princesses use to doe Sir quoth Sancho since whether I will or no you will have my Mistris Dulcinea's house to bee a Pallace doe you think neverthelesse this to bee a fit time of night to finde the door open in Doe you think it fit that we bounce that they may hear and let us in to disquiet the whole Town are wee going to a Bawdie-house think yee like your Whore-Masters that come and call and enter at what houre they list how late soever it bee First of all to make one thing sure let 's finde the Pallace replied Don-Quixote and then Sancho I 'le tell thee what 's fit to bee done and look Sancho either my sight fails me or that great bulk and shadow that wee see is Dulcinea's Palace Well guide on Sir said Sancho it may bee it is so though I 'le first see it with my eyes and feel it with my hands and beleeve it as much as it is now day Don-Quixote led on and having walked about some two hundred paces hee lighted on the bulk that made the shadow and saw a great Steeple which hee perceived was not the Pallace but of the chiefe Church in the Towne Then said hee Sancho wee are come to the Church I see it very well quoth Sancho and I pray God wee come not to our Graves for it is no good signe to haunt Church-yeards so late especially since I told you as I remember that this Ladies house is in a little Ally without passage through A pox on thee Block-head said Don-Quixote where hast thou ever found that Kings Houses and Palaces have beene built in such Allies Sir quoth Sancho every Countrey hath their severall fashions It may bee here in Toboso they build their great buildings thus and therefore pray Sir give mee leave to looke up and downe the streets or lanes that lye in my way and it may bee that in some corner I may light upon this Palace the Divell take it that thus mocks and misleads us Speak mannerly Sir quoth Don-Quixote of my Mistrisse things and let 's be merry and wise and cast not the rope after the bucket I will forbeare said Sancho but how shall I endure that you will needs have mee be throughly acquainted with a house I never saw but once and to find it at mid-night being you cannot finde it that have seen it a million of times Sirrah I shall grow desperate quoth Don-Quixote come hither Heretick Have not I told thee a thousand times that I never saw the Peerlesse Dulcinea nor never crossed the thresholds of her Palace and that I only am enamoured on her by heare-say and the great fame of her beauty and discretion Why now I heare you said Sancho and since you say you have never seen her nor I neither That cannot bee said Don-Quixote for you told mee at least that you had seene her winnowing of Wheate when you brought mee the answere of the Letter I sent by you Ne're stand upon that said Sancho for let mee tell you that I only saw her by heare-say too and so was the Answere I brought for I know her as well as I can box the Moone Sancho Sancho said Don-Quixote there 's a time to laugh and a time to mourne Now because I say I have neyther seene nor spoken to the Mistris of my Soul shouldest thou say thou hast neyther seene nor spoken to her it being otherwise as thou knowest Being in this discourse they saw one passing by them with two Mules and by the noise the Plough made which they drew upon the ground they might see it was some Husbandman that rose by breake of day to goe to his tillage and so it was as he came he went singing that Romante of the battell of Roncesualles with the French-men In hearing of which quoth Don-Quixote Sancho hang me if we have any good fortune this night Do not you hear what this Clown sings Yes marry doe I said Sancho but what doth the Chase of Roncesualles concerne us 'T is no more then if hee had sung the Romante of Calamos as if we should have said in English Chevie-Case or some such like and all one for our good or ill luck in this businesse By this the Plough-man came by them and Don-Quixote questioned him Can you tell mee friend so God reward you which is the Palace of the Peerlesâ— Dulcinea del Toboso Sir answered the yong man I am a stranger and have lived but a while in this towne and serve a rich husbandman to till his ground here over against the Vicar and the Sexton both live any of them will tell you of this Lady Princess as having a List of all the inhabitants of Toboso although I think there is no such Princesse here but many Gentlefolke each of which may be a Princesse in her own house Why friend qd Don-Quixote it may be that she I ask for is amongst these It may be so said the fellow and God speed you for now it begins to be day peep and switching his Mules he staid for no more questions Sancho seeing his Master in a deep suspence and very Malecontent told him Sir The day comes on apace and it will not bee so fitte that wee Sunne our selves in the Streete It is better to goe out of the Cittie and that you shade your selfe in some Grove hereabouts and I will come backe anon and not leave a by place in all this Towne where I may search for the House Castle or Palace of my Lady and it were ill luck if I found her not and if I doe I will speake with her and let her know where and how you doe expecting that shee give you Order and Direction how you may see her without any manner of prejudice to her Honour and good name Sancho said Don-Quixote thou hast spoken a thousand sentences inclosed in the circle of thy short discourse The advice that thou hast now given me I hunger after and most lovingly accept of Come sonne let us take shade and thou shalt return as thou sayest to seek to see and to speak to my Mistris from whose discretion and courtesie I hope for a thousand miraculous favours Sancho stood upon Thornes till hee had drawn his Master from the Town lest hee should verifie the lie of the answer that hee had carried him from Dulcinea to Sierra Morena So hee hastened him to be gone which was presently done some two miles from the Town where they found a Forrest or Wood where Don-Quixote took shade and Sancho returned to the Citie to speak with Dulcinea in which Embassie matters befell him that
all bruised and amazed without heaving up his Visor as if hee had spoken out of a Toombe with a faint and weake voyce said Dulcinea del Toboso is the fairest Woman in the world and I the unfortunatest Knight on earth and it is not fit that my weaknesse defraud this truth thrust your Launce into mee Knight and kill mee since you have bereaved mee of my honour Not so truly quoth hee of the White-Moone let the same of my Lady Dulcinea's beauty live in her entirenesse I am onely contented that the Grand Don-Quixote retire home for a yeer or till such time as I please as wee agreed before wee began the battell All this the Vice-Roy with Don Antonio and many others standing by heard and Don-Quixote answered that so nothing were required of him in prejudice of his Lady Dulcinea hee would accomplish all the rest like a true and punctuall Knight This Confession ended the Knight of the white-Moone turned his Horse and making a low obeysance on Horse-back to the Vice-Roy hee rode a false gallop into the Citty The Vice-Roy willed Don Antonio to follow him and to know by all meanes who hee was Don-Quixote was lifted up and they discovered his face and found him discolour'd and in a cold sweat Rozinante out of pure hard handling could not as yet stirr Sancho all sad and sorrowfull knew not what to doe or say and all that had hapned to him seemed but a dreame and all that Machine a matter of Enchantment hee saw his Master was vanquished and bound not to take Armes for a yeer Now he thought the light of his glory was Eclipsed the hopes of his late promises were undone and parted as smoke with winde hee feared lest Rozinante's bones were broken and his Masters out of joynt Finally in a Chaire which the Vice-Roy commanded to bee brought hee was carryed to the Citty whither the Vice-Roy too returned desirous to know who the Knight of the White-Moone was that had left Don-Quixote in so bad a taking CHAP. LV. Who the Knight of the White-Moon was with Don Gregorio's liberty and other passages DOn Antonio Moreno followed the Knight of the White-Moone and many Boyes too followed and persecuted him till hee got him to his Inne into the Citty Don Antonio entred desirous to know him and hee had his Squire to un-arme him hee shut himselfe in a lower Roome and Don Antonio with him who stood upon Thornes till hee knew who hee was Hee of the White-Moone seeing then that the Gentleman would not leave him said I well know Sir wherefore you come and to know who I am and since there is no reason to deny you this I will tell you whilest my man is unarming me the truth without erring a jot Know Sir that I am stiled the Bachelour Samson Carrasco and am one of Don-Quixotes Town whose wilde madnesse hath moved as many of us as know him to compassion and mee amongst the rest most and beleeving that the best means to procure his health is to keep him quiet And so to have him in his own house I thought upon this device and so about a three moneths since I met him upon the way calling my self by the name of The Knight of the Looking-glasses with a purpose to fight with him and vanquish him without doing him any hurt and making this the condition of our Combat That the vanquished should bee left to the discretion of the vanquisher and that which I would enjoyne him for I held him already conquered was That hee should retâ—rn home and not abroad again in a whole yeer in which time hee might haply have been cured but fortune would have it otherwise for he vanquished me and unhorsed me and so my project took no effect hee went on his way and I returned conquered ashamed and bruised with my fall that was very dangerous but for all that I had still a desire to finde him again and to conquer him as now you have seen And hee being so punctuall in observing the Orders of Knight Errantry will doubtlesse keep his promise made to me This Sir is all I can tell you and I beseech you conceale me from Don-Quixote that my desires may take effect and that the man who hath otherwise a good understanding may recover it if his madnesse leave him Oh Sir said Don Antonio God forgive you the wrong you doe the whole world in seeking to recover the pleasantest mad-man in the world Perceive you not that this recovery cannot be so much worth as the delight that his fopperies cause but I imagine Sir Bachelor that all your Art will not make a man so irrecoverably mad wise again and if it were not uncharitable I would say Never may he recover for in his health wee lose not only his own conceits but Sancho Panca his Squires too each of which would turn melancholy it self into mirth for all that I will hold my peace I will say nothing and see whether I ghesse right that Signior Carrasco's pains will bee to no purpose Who answered that as yet the businesse was brought to a good passe and hee hoped for a happy successe and so offering Don Antonio his service hee took leave of him And causing his Armour to hee packed upon a great hee Mule at the instant hee got himself upon the Horse with which hee entred the Lists and the same day hee went out of the Citie homeward where by the way nothing hapned to him worth the relating in this true Historie Don Antonio told the Vice-roy all that Carrasco said at which hee received not much content for in Don-Quixotes retirement was theirs also that ever had notice of his mad pranks Six dayes was Don-Quixote in his bed all muddy sad sorrowfull and wayward descanting in his thoughts upon his ill fortune to bee vanquished Sancho comforted him and amongst other reasons told him Signior mine cheer up bee lively if you can give Heaven thanks that though you came with a tumbling cast to the ground yet you have never a rib broken and since you know that sweet meat must have sowre sawce that there is not alwaies good cheer where there is a smoaking Chimney cry A fig for the Physician since you need not his help in this disease Let 's home to our houses and leave looking after these Adventures thorow Countries and places wee know not and if you consider it well I am here the greatest loser though you be in the worst pickle â—â—though when I left to bee a Governour left also my desires that way yet left not my desire of being an Earle which will never bee effected if you leave to bee a King by leaving the exercise of Chivalrie and so my hopes are like to vanish into smoak Peace Sancho said Don-Quixote my retirement shall bee but for a yeer and then I le straight to my honourable Profession again and I shall not want a Kingdome for my self and some Earldome for thee God
Princeâ— or what else hee is hath a very great Warre with another as mightie as he and the Knight his guest doth ask him after hee hath been in the Court a few dayes licence to goe and serve him in that Warre The King will give it with a very good will and the Knight will kisse his hands courteously for the favour hee doth him therein And that night he will take leave of his Ladie the Princesse by some window of a Garden that looks into her Bed-chamber by the which he hath spoaken to her oft times before being a great means and help thereto a certain Damzell which the Princesse trusts very much He sighs and she will fall in a swond and the Damzell will bring water to bring her to her self again Shee will bee also full of care because the morning draws neer and she would not have them discovered for any her Ladies honour Finally the Princesse will return to her self and will give out her beautifull hands at the window to the Knight who will kisse them a thousand and a thousand times and will bathe them all in tears There it will remain agreed between them two the means that they will use to acquaint one another with their good or bad successes and the Princesse will pray him to stay away as little time as he may which hee shall promise unto her with many Oaths and Protestations Then will he turn again to kisse her hands and take his leave of her with such feeling that there will want but little to end his life in the place hee goes from thence to his Chamber and casts himself upon his Bed but he shall not be able to sleep a nap for sorrow of his departure Hee will after get up very early and will goe to take leave of the King the Queene and Princesse They tell him having taken leave of the first two that the Princesse is ill at ease and that shee cannot bee visited the Knight thinks that it is for griefe of his departure and the which tiâ—â—ngs launceth him a new to the bottom of his heart whereby hee will bee almost constrained to give manifest tokens of his griefe the damzel that is privie to their loves will be present and must note all that passeth and goe after to tell it to her Mistrisse who receives her with teares and sayes unto her that one of the greatest afflictions shee hath is that shee doth not know who is her Knight or whether hee bee of blood royall or no Her Damzell will assure her againe that so great bountie beauty and valour as is in her Knight could not finde place but in a great and royall subject The carefull Princesse will comfort her selfe with this hope and labor to bee cheerefull left shee should give occasion to her Parents to suspect any sinister thing of her and within two dayes agayne shee will come out in publique By this the Knight is departed hee fights in the war and overcomes the Kings enemie hee winnes many Cities and triumphs for many Battles hee returnes to the Court hee visits his Lady and speaks to her at the accustomed place hee agreeth with her to demand her of the King for his wife in reward of his services whereunto the King will not consent because hee knowes not what hee is but for all this eyther by carying her away or by some other manner the Princesse becomes his wife and hee accounts himselfe therefore very fortunate because it was after known that the same Knight is sonne to a very valorous King of I know not what Countrey for I beleeve it is not in all the Mappe The Father dies and the Princesse doth inherit the Kingdome and thus in two words our Knight is become a King Here in this place enters presently the commoditie to reward his Squire and all those that holpe him to ascend to so high an estate Hee marries his Squire with one of the Princesses Damzels which shall doubtlesly be the very same that was acquainted with his love who is some principall Dukes daughter That 's it I seek for quoth Sancho and all will goe right therefore I will leave to that for every whit of it which you said will happen to your self without missing a jot calling your self The Knight of the ill-favoured â—ace Never doubt it Sancho quoth Don-Quixote for even in the very same manner and by the same steps that I have recounted here Knights Errant doe ascend and have ascended to be Kings and Emperours This only is expedient That we enquire what King among the Christians or Heathens makes warr and hath a fair daughter but we shall have time enough to bethink that since as I have said we must first acquire fame in other places before we goe to the Court. Also I want another thing that put case that we find a Christian or Pagan King that hath warrs and a fair daughter and that I have gained incredible fame throughout the wide-world yet cannot I tell how I might finde that I am descended from Kings or that I am at the least Cousen Germain removed of an Emperour for the King will not give mee his daughter untill this bee first very well proved though my works deserve it never so much so that I feare to lose through this defect that which mine owne hath merited so well True it is that I am a Gentleman of a known house of propriety and possession and perhaps the wise man that shall write my History will so beautifie my kindred and discent that hee will finde mee to bee the fift or sixe discent from a King for thou must understand Sancho that there are two manners of lineages in the world Some that derive their Pedegree from Princes and Monarchs whom time hath by little and little diminished and consumed and ended in a point like Pyramydes Others that tooke their beginning from base people and ascend from degree unto degree untill they become at last great Lords So that all the difference is That some were that which they are not now and others are that which they were not and it might bee that I am of those and after good examination my beginning might bee found to have beene famous and glorious wherewithall the King my father in lawe ought to bee content whosoever hee were and when hee were not yet shall the Princesse love mee in such sort that shee shall in despight of her Fathers teeth admitt mee for her Lord and Spouse although shee knew mee to bee the son of a water-bearer And if not here in this place may quader well the carying of her away perforce and carying of her where best I liked for either time or death must needs end her fathers displeasure Here comes well to passe that Sancho which some damned fellowes are wont to say Seeke not to get that with a good will which thou maist take perforce although it were better said The leaps of a shrub is more worth then good
Brother if thou beest a Christian as thou appearest to bee one I pray thee for Gods sake that thou doe forthwith addresse this Letter to the place and person that the superscription assigneth for they bee well known and therein thou shalt doe our Lord great service And because thou mayest not want means to doe it take what thou shalt finde wraped in that handcerchif And saying so shee threw out of the window a handcerchif wherein were laped up a hundred Rialls this Ring of gold which I carry here and that Letter which I delivered unto you and presently without expecting mine answer shee departed but first saw me take up the handkerchif and Letter and then I made her signes that I would accomplish herein her command and after perceiving the pains I might take in bringing you it so well considered and seeing by the indorsement that you were the man to whom it was addrest for Sir I know you very well and also oblieged to doe it by the tears of that beautifull Lady I determined not to trust any other with it but to come and bring it you my self in person and in sixteen hours since it was given unto me I have travelled the journey you know which is at least eighteen leagues long Whilest the thankfull new Messenger spake thus unto me I remained in a manner hanging on his words and my thighs did tremble in such manner as I could very hardly sustein my self on foot yet taking courage at last I opened the Letter whereof these were the Contents THe word that Don Ferdinando hath past unto you to speak to your father that hee might speak to mine hee hath accomplished more to his own pleasure then to your profit For Sir you shall understand that hee hath demanded me for his wife and my father borne away by the advantage of worths which hee supposes to bee in Don Ferdinando more then in you hath agreed to his demand in so good earnest as the espousals shall bee celebrated within these two dayes and that so secretly and alone as only the Heavens and some folk of the house shall bee witnesses How I remain imagine and whether it bee convenient you should return you may consider And the successe of this affair shall let you to perceive whether I love you well or no. I beseech Almightie God that this may arrive unto your hands before mine shall be in danger to joyn it self with his which keepeth his promised faith so ill These were in summe the contents of the Letter and the motives that perswaded me presently to depart without attending any other answer or other monies for then I conceived cleerly that it was not the buy-all of the horses but that of his delights which had moved Don Ferdinando to send me to his brother The rage which I conceived against him joyned with the fear to lose the Jewell which I had gained by so many yeers service and desires did set wings on me for I arrived as I had flyen next day at mine owne City in the houre and moment fit to goe speake to Luscinda I entred secretly and left my Mule whereon I rode in the honest mans House that had brought mee the Letter and my fortune purposing then to bee favourable to mee disposed so mine affaires that I found Luscinda siting at that yron-grate which was the sole witnesse of our Loves Luscinda knew mee streight and I her but not as wee ought to know one another But who is hee in the world that can truely vaunt that hee hath penetrated and throughly exhausted the confused thoughts and mutable nature of women Truly none I say then to proceed with my tale that as soon as Luscinda perceived me shee said Cardenio I am attyred with my wedding Garments and in the Hall doth wait for me the Traitor Don Ferdinando and my covetous father with other witnesses which shall rather bee such of my death then of mine espousals bee not troubled deer friend but procure to bee present at this sacrifice the which if I cannot hinder by my perswasions and reasons I carry hidden about me a Ponyard secretly which may hinder more resolute forces by giving end to my life and a beginning to thee to know certain the affection which I have ever borne and doe bear unto thee I answered her troubled and hastily fearing I should not have the leisure to reply unto her saying Sweet Ladie let thy works verifie thy words for if thou carriest a Ponyard to defend thy credit I doe here likewise bear a Sword wherewithall I will defend thee or kill my self if fortune proove adverse and contrary I believe that she could not hear all my words by reason shee was called hastily away as I perceived for that the Bridegroom expected her comming By this the night of my forrows did throughly fall and the Sunne of my gladnesse was set and I remained without light in mine eyes or discourse in my understanding I could not finde the way into her house nor could I moove my self to any part yet considering at last how important my presence was for that which might befall in that adventure I animated my self the best I could and entred into the house and as one that knew very well all the entries and passages thereof and specially by reason of the trouble and businesse that was then in hand I went in unperceived of any And thus without beeing seen I had the oportunity to place my self in the hollow room of a window of the same Hall which was covered by the ends of two encountring pieces of Tapestry from whence I could see all that was done in the Hall remaining my self unviewed of any Who could now describe the assaults and surprizals of my heart while I there abode the thoughts which incountred my minde the considerations which I had which were so many and such as they can neither bee said nor is it reason they should Let it suffice you to know that the Bridegroom entred into the Hall without any ornament wearing the ordinary array hee was wont and was accompanied by a Cousin Germane of Luscinda's and in all the Hall there was no stranger present nor any other then the houshold Servants Within a while after Luscinda came out of the Parlour accompanied by her mother and two waiting maids of her own as richly attired and deckt as her calling and beauty deserved and the perfection of Courtly pomp and bravery could afford my distraction and trouble of minde lent me no time to note particularly the apparrell shee wore and therefore did only marke the colours which were Carnation and White and the splendour which the precious Stones and Jewels of her Tires and all the rest of her Garments yeelded yet did the singular beauty of her fair and golden tresses surpasse them so much as being in competencie with the precious Stones and flame of four Links that lighted in the Hall yet did the splendour thereof seem farr more bright
like unto one that goeth to buy with intention never to pay for what hee takes and therefore never considers the price worth or defect of the stuffe hee takes co credit I at this season made a briefe discourse and said thus to my selfe I may doe this for I am not the first which by Matrimony hath ascended from a low degree to a high estate not shall Don Fernando bee the first whom beautie or blind affection for that is the most certaine hath induced to make choice of a Consort equall to his Greatness Then since herein I create no new world nor custome what error can bee committed by embracing the honour wherewithall fortune crownes mee Although it so befell that his affection to mee endured no longer then till he accomplisht his will for before God I certes shall still remaine his wife And if I should disdainfully give him the repulse I see him now in such termes as perhaps forgetting the dutie of a Nobleman hee may use violence and then shall I remaine for ever dishonoured and also without excuse of the imputations of the ignorant which knew not how much without any fault I have faln into this inevitable danger For what reasons may bee sufficiently forcible to perswade my father and other that this Nobleman did enter into my Chamber without my consent All these demands and Answeres did I in an instant revolve in mine imagination and found my selfe chiefly forced how I cannot tell to assent to his Petition by the witnesses hee invoked the teares hee shed and finally by his sweete disposition and comely feature which accompanied with so many arguments of unfained affection were able to conquer and enthrall any other heart though it were as free and wary as mine own Then called I for my waiting-maid that shee might on earth accompany the coelestiall witnesses And then Don Fernando turned again to reiterate and confirme his oathes and added to his former other new Saints as witnesses and wished a thousand succeeding maledictions to light on him if hee did not accomplish his promise to mee His eyes againe waxed moist his sighes increased and himselfe inwreathed mee more streightly between his armes from which hee had never once loosed mee and with this and my Maydens departure I left to bee a Mayden and hee began to bee a Traytor and a disloyall man The day that succeeded to the night of my mishaps came not I think so soon as Don Fernando desired it for after a man hath satisfied that which the appetite covets the greatest delight it can take after is to apart it selfe from the place where the desire was accomplished I say this because Don Fernando did hasten his departure from mee by my maids industrie who was the very same that had brought him into my Chamber hee was got in the street before dawning And at his departure from mee hee said although not with so great shew of affection and vehemency as hee had used at his coming that I might bee secure of his faith and that his oathes were firme and most true and for a more confirmation of his word hee tooke a rich Ring off his finger and put it on mine In fine hee departed and I remayned behinde I cannot well say whether joyfull or sad but this much I know that I rested confused and pensive and almost beside my self for the late mischance yet either I had not the heart or else I forgot to chide my Maid for her treacherie committed by shutting up Don Fernando in my Chamber for as yet I could not determine whether that which had befaln me was a good or an evill I said to Don Fernando at his departure that he might see me other nights when hee pleased by the same means he had come that night seeing I was his own and would rest so untill it pleased him to let the world know that I was his wife But hee never returned again but the next night following could I see him after for the space of a moneth either in the street or Church so as I did but spend time in vain to expect him although I understood that he was still in Town and rode every other day a hunting an Exercise to which he was much addicted Those dayes were I know unfortunate and accursed to me and those hours sorrowfull for in them I began to doubt nay rather wholly to discredit Don Fernando's faith and my maid did then hear loudly the checks I gave unto her for her presumption ever untill then dissembled And I was moreover constrained to watch and keep guard on my tears and countenance lest I should give occasion to my Parents to demand of me the cause of my discontents and thereby ingage me to use ambages or untruths to cover them But all this ended in an instant one moment ariving whereon all these respects stumbled all honourable discourses ended patience was lost and my most hidden secrets issued in publique which was when there was spread a certain rumour throughout the Town within a few dayes after that Don Fernando had married in a Citty neer adjoyning a Damzell of surpassing beauty and of very Noble birth although not so rich as could deserve by her preferment or dowrie so worthie a husband it was also said that shee was named Luscinda with many other things that hapned at their Spousals worthy of admiration Cardenio hearing Luscinda named did nothing else but lift up his shoulders bite his lip bend his brows and after a little while shed from his eyes two floods of tears But yet for all that Dorotea did not interrupt the file of her History saying This dolefull news came to my hearing and my heart instead of freezing thereat was so inflamed with choler and rage as I had well-nigh run out to the streets and with out-cries published the Deceit and Treason that was done to me but my furie was presently asswaged by the resolution which I made to doe what I put in execution the very same night and then I put on this habit which you see being given unto me by one of those that among us Country-folk are called Swains who was my fathers servant to whom I disclosed all my misfortunes and requested him to accompanie me to the Citie where I understood my enemie sojourned He after he had reprehended my boldnesse perceiving me to have an inflexible resolution made offer to attend on me as he said unto the end of the world And presently after I trussed up in a pillow-bear a womans attire some Money and Jewels to prevent necessities that might befall and in the silence of night without acquainting my treacherous maid with my purpose I issued out of my house accompanied by my servant and many imaginations and in that manner set on towards the Citie and though I went on foot was yet born away flying by my desires to come if not time enough to hinder that which was past yet at least to demand of Don
Fernando that he would tell me with what conscience or soul he had done it I arrived where I wished within two dayes and a half and at the entry of the City I demanded where Luscinda her father dwelled and he of whom I first demanded the question answered me more then I desired to hear hee shewed me the house and recounted to me all that befell at the daughters marriage being a thing so publique and known in the City as men made meetings of purpose to discourse thereof Hee said to me that the very night wherein Don Fernando was espoused to Luscinda after she had given her consent to be his wife she was instantly assailed by a terrible accident that struck her into a Trance and her Spouse approaching to unclapse her bosome that shee might take the aire found a paper folded in it written with Luscinda's own hand wherein she said and declared that shee could not be Don Fernando's wife because she was already Cardenio's who was as the man told me a very principall Gentleman man of the same Citie and that if shee had given her consent to Don Fernando it was only done because shee would not disobey her Parents in conclusion hee told mee that the paper made also mention how shee had a resolution to kill her selfe presently after the marriage and did also lay downe therein the motives shee had to doe it all which as they say was confirmed by a Ponyard that was found hidden about her in her apparell Which Don Fernando perceiving presuming that Luscinda did flout him and hold him in little account hee set upon her ere shee was come to her selfe and attempted to kill her with the very same Ponyard and had done it if her father and other friends which were present had not opposed themselves and hindred his determination Moreover they reported that presently after Don Fernando absented himselfe from the Citie and that Luscinda turned not out of her agonie untill the next day and then recounted to her parents how shee was verily Spouse to that Cardenio of whom wee spake even now I learned besides that Cardenio as it is rumor'd was present at the marriage and that as soone as hee saw her married being a thing hee would never have credited departed out of the Citty in a desperate moode but first left behinde him a letter wherein hee shewed at large the wrong Luscinda had done to him and that hee himself meant to goe to some place where people should never after hear of him All this was notorious and publiquely bruited thorowout the Citty and every one spoke thereof but most of all having very soone after understood that Luscinda was missing from her Parents house and the Citie for shee could not bee found in neyther of both for which her parents were almost beside themselves not knowing what meanes to use to finde her These news reduced my hopes againe to their ranks and I esteemed it better to finde Don Fernando unmarried then married persuming that yet the gates of my remedy were not wholly shut I giving my selfe to understand that heaven had peradventure set that impediment on the second marriage to make him understand what hee ought to the first and to remember how hee was a Christian and that hee was more oblieged to his Soule then to humane respects I revolved all these things in my minde and comfortlesse did yet comfort my selfe by fayning large yet languishing hopes to sustain that life which I now doe so much abhor And whilest I stayed thus in the Citie ignorant what I might doe seeing I found not Don Fernando I heard a Cryer goe about publiquely promising great rewards to any one that could finde mee out giving signes of the very age and apparell I wore And I likewise heard it was bruited abroad that the Youth which came with mee had caried mee away from my fathers house A thing that touched my soule very neerely to view my credit so greatly wrak't seeing that it was not sufficient to have lost it by my coming away without the addition of him with whom I departed being a subject so base and unworthy of my loftier thoughts Having heard this crie I departed out of the Citie with my servant who even then began to give tokens that he faultred in the fidelity hee had promised to me and both of us together entred the very same night into the most hidden parts of this Mountain fearing lest we might be found But as it is commonly said That one evill calls on another and that the end of one disaster is the beginning of a greater so proved it with me for my good servant untill then faithfull and trustie rather incited by his own Villainy then my Beauty thought to have taken the benefit of the oportunity which these inhabitable places offered and sollicited me of Love with little shame and lesse fear of God or respect of my self And now seeing that I answered his impudencies with severe and reprehensive words leaving the intreaties aside wherewithall he thought first to have compast his will he began to use his force But just Heaven which seldome or never neglects the just mans assistance did so favour my proceedings as with my weak forces and very little labour I threw him down a â—â—eep Rock and there I left him I know not whether alive or dead And presently I entred in among these Mountains with more swiftnesse then my fear and wearinesse required having therein no other project or designe then to hide my self in them and 〈◊〉 my father and others which by his intreaty and means sought for me every where Some moneths are past since my first comming here where I found a Heard-man who carried me to a Village seated in the midest of these Rocks wherein hee dwelled and entertained me whom I have served as a Sheepheard ever since procuring as much as lay in me to abide stil in the field to cover these hairs which have now so unexpectedly betraid me Yet all my care and industry aviled not seeing my Master came at last to the notice that I was no man but a woman which was an occasion that the like evill thought sprung in him as before in my servant And as fortune gives not alwais remedie for the difficulties which occur I found neither Rock nor downfall to cool and cure my Masters infirmitie as I had done for my man and therefore I accounted it a lesse inconvenience to depart thence and hide my self again among these Desarts then to adventure the tryall of my strength or reason with him Therefore as I say I turned to imbosk my self and search out some place where without any encumbrance I might intreat Heaven with my sighs and tears to have compassion on my mis-hap and lend me industry and favour either to issue fortunately out of it or else to die amid'st these solitudes not leaving any memory of a wretch who hath ministred matter although not through her own default that
Lothario for he it was that with all sollicitude and care regarded the honour of his friend and therefore endeavoured to clip and diminish the number of the dayes promised lest he should give occasion to the idle vulgar or to the eyes of vagabonds and malicious men to judge any sinister thing viewing so rich comely noble and qualified a young man as he was to have so free accesse into the house of a woman so beautifull as Camila For though his virtues and modest carriage were sufficiently able to set a bridle to any malignant tongue yet notwithstanding he would not have his credit nor that of his friends called into any question and therefore would spend most of the dayes that he had agreed to visit his friend in other places and exercises yet feigning excuses so plausible as his friend admitted them for very reasonable And thus the time passed on in challenges of unkindnesse of the one side and lawfull excuses of the other It so fell out that as both the friends walked on a day together in a field without the Citie Anselmo said to Lothario these words ensuing I know very well friend Lothario that among all the favours which God of his bountie hath bestowed upon me by making me the Sonne of such Parents and giving to me with so liberall a hand both the goods of Nature and Fortune yet as I cannot answer him with sufficient gratitude for the benefits already received so doe I finde my self most highly bound unto him above all others for having given me such a friend as thou art and so beautifull a wife as Camila being both of you such pawns as if I esteem you not in the degree which I ought yet doe I hold you as deer as I may And yet possessing all those things which are wont to be the all and sum that are wont and may make a man happie I live notwithstanding the most sullen and discontented life of the World being troubled I know not since when and inwardly wrested with so strange a desire and extravagant from the common use of others as I marvell at my self and doe condemn and rebuke my self when I am alone and doe labour to conceale and cover mine own desires all which hath served me to as little effect as if I had proclaimed mine own errours purposely to the World And seeing that it must finally break out my will is that it be only communicated to the treasury of thy secret hoping by it and mine own industry which as my true friend thou wilt use to help me I shall bee quickly freed from the anguish it causeth and by thy means my joy and contentment shall arive to the passe that my discontents have brought me through mine own folly Lothario stood suspended at Anselmo's Speech as one that could not imagine to what so prolixe a prevention and preamble tended And although he revolved and imagined sundry things in his minde which he deemed might afflict his friend yet did hee ever shoot wide from the mark which in truth it was and that he might quickly escape that agonie wherein the suspention held him he said That his friend did notable injurie to their amity in searching out wreathings and ambages in the discovery of his most hidden thoughts to him seeing bee might assure himself certainly either to receive counsells of him how to entertain or else remedy and means how to accomplish them It is very true answered Anselmo and with that confidence I let thee to understand friend Lothario That the desire which vexeth me is a longing to know whether my wife Camila be as good and perfect as I doe account her and I cannot wholy rest satisfied of this truth but by making tryall of her in such sort as it may give manifest argument of the degree of her goodnesse as the fire doth shew the value of gold For I am of opinion O friend that a woman is of no more worth or virtue then that which is in her after shee hath been solicited Casta est quam nemo rogavit and that she alone is strong who cannot be bowed by the Promises Gifts Tears and continuall importunities of importunate Lovers For what thanks is it quoth he for a woman to be good if no body say or teach her ill What wonder that she be retired and timorous if no occasion be ministred to her of dissolution and chiefly she that knows she hath a husband ready to kill her for the least argument of lightnesse So that she which is only good for fear or want of occasion will I never hold in that estimation that I would the other sollicited and pursued who notwithstanding comes away crowned with the victory And therefore being moved as well by these reasons as by many other which I could tell you which accredit and fortifie mine opinion I desire that my wife Camila doe also passe thorow the pikes of those proofs and difficulties and purifie and refine her self in the fire of being requested sollicited and pursued and that by one whose worths and valour may deserve acceptance in her opinion and if she bear away the Palme of the victory as I believe shee will I shall account my fortune matchlesse and may brag that my desires are in their height and will say that a strong woman hath faln to my lot of whom the Wise man faith who shall finde her And when it shall succeed contrary to mine expection I shall with the pleasure that I will conceive to see how rightly it jumps with mine opinion bear very indifferent the grief which in all reason this so costly a tryall must stir in me And presupposing that nothing which thou shalt say to me shall be available to hinder my designe or disswade me from putting my purpose in execution I would have thy selfe deer friend Lothario to provide thee to be the instrument that shall labour this worke of my liking and I will give thee oportunitie enough to performe the same without omitting any thing that may further thee in the sollicitation of an Honest Noble Warie Retired and Passionlesse woman And I am chiefly moved to commit this so hard an enterprize to thy trust because I know that if Camila be vanquished by thee yet shall not the victory arive to the last push and upshot but only to that of accounting a thing to bee done which shall not bee done for many good respects So shall I remain nothing offended and mine injury concealed in the virtue of thy silence for I know thy care to be such in matters concerning me as it shall bee eternall like that of death And therefore if thou desirest that I may lead a life deserving that name thou must forthwith provide thy selfe to enter into this amorous conflict and that not languishing or slothfully but with that courage and diligence which my desire expecteth and the confidence I have in our amitie assureth mee These were the reasons used by Anselmo to Lothario to
well that hee made the Rector to bee suspected and his Kindred thought covetous and damnable persons and himself so discreet that the Chaplain determined to have him with him that the Arch-Bishop might see him and bee satisfied of the truth of the businesse With this good belief the Chaplain required the Rector to give the Bachelor the clothes he brought with him thither Who replyed desiring him to consider what he did for that the partie was still mad But the Rectors advice prevailed nothing with the Chaplain to make him leave him so hee was forced to give way to the Arch-Bishops Order and to give him his apparell which was new and handsome And when the Mad man saw himself civilly clad and his Mad-mans weeds off hee requested the Chaplain that in charity hee would let him take his leave of the Mad-men his Companions The Chaplain told him that hee would likewise accompanie him and see the Mad-men that were in the house So up they went and with them some others there present and the Bachelor being come to a kinde of Cage where an outragious Mad-man lay although as then still and quiet hee said Brother if you will command me ought I am going to my house for now it hath pleased God of his infinite goodnesse and mercy without my desert to bring me to my right minde I am now well and sensible for unto Gods power nothing is impossible Bee of good comfort trust in him that since hee hath turned me to my former estate hee will doe the like to you if you trust in him I will bee carefull to send you some dainty to eat and by any means eat it for let me tell you what I know by experience that all our madnesse proceeds from the emptinesse of our Stomacks that fills our Brains with aire Take heart take heart for this dejecting in misery lessens the health and hastens death Another Mad man in a Cage over against heard all the Bachelors discourse and raysing himself upon an old Matresse upon which hee lay stark naked asked aloud who it was that was going away sound and in his wits The Bachelor replied It is I brother that am going for I have no need to stay here any longer for which I render infinite thanks to God that hath done me so great a favour Take heed what you say Bachelor replyed the Mad-man let not the Devill deceive you keep still your foot and bee quiet here at home and so you may save a bringing back I know quoth the Bachelor I am well and shal need to walk no more stations hither You are well said the Mad-man the event will try God be with you but I swear to thee by Iupiter whose Majesty I represent on earth that for this dayes offence I will eat up all Sevill for delivering thee from hence and saving thou art in thy wits I will take such a punishment on this City as shall bee remembred for ever and ever Amen Knowest not thou poor Rascall Bachelor that I can doe it since as I say I am thundring Iupiter that carry in my hands the scorching bolts with which I can and use to threaten and destroy the World But in one thing only will I chastise this ignorant Town which is That for three yeers together there shall fall no rain about it nor the Liberties thereof counting from this time and instant hence forward that this threat hath been made Thou free thou sound thou wise and I mad I sick I bound as sure will I rain as I mean to hang my self The standers by gave attention to the Mad-man but our Bachelor turning to the Chaplain and taking him by the hand said Bee not afraid Sir nor take any heed to this Mad mans words for if hee bee Iupiter and will not rain I that am Neptune the Father and God of the Waters will rain as oft as I list and need shall require To which quoth the Chaplain Nay Master Neptune it were not good angring Master Iupiter I pray stay you here still and some other time at more leisure and oportunity wee will return for you again The Rector and standers by began to laugh and the Chaplain grew to be half abashed the Bachelor was unclothed there remained and there the Tale ends Well is this the Tale Master Barber quoth Don-Quixote that because it fell out so pat you could not but relate it Ah goodman Shavester goodman Shavester I am not Neptune God of the Waters neither care I who thinks me a wise man I being none only I am troubled to let the world understand the errour it is in in not renewing that most happy Age in which the Order of Knight Erranty did flourish But our depraved times deserve not to enjoy so great a happinesse as former Ages when Knights Errant undertook the defence of Kingdomes the protection of Damzels the succouring of Orphanes the chastising the Proud the reward of the humble Most of your Knights now-a-daies are such as russle in their silks their cloth of gold and silver and such rich stuffs as these they weare rather then Maile with which they should arme themselves You have no Knight now that will lye upon the bare ground subject to the rigour of the aire armed Cap a pie None now that upright on his styrrops and leaning on his Launce strives to behead-sleep as they say your Knights Errant did You have none now that comming out of this Wood enters into that Mountain and from thence tramples over a barren and desart shoare of the Sea most commonly stormy and unquiet and finding at the brink of it some little Cock-boat without Oares Sail Mast or any kinde of Tackling casts himself into it with undaunted courage yeelds himself to the implacable waves of the deep Main that now tosse him as high as heaven and then cast him as low as Hell and hee exposed to the inevitable tempest when hee least dreams of it findes himself at least three thousand leagues distant from the place where hee embarqued himself and leaping on a remote and unknown shoare lights upon successes worthy to bee written in brasse and not parchment But now sloth triumphs upon industrie idlenesse on labour vice on virtue persumption on valour the Theorie on the Practice of Armes which only lived and shined in those golden Ages and in those Knights Errant If not tell me who was more virtuous more valiant then the renowned Amadis de Gaule more discreet then Palmerin of England more affable and free then Tirante the White more gallant then Lisuart of Greece a greater hackster or more hacked then Don Belianis more undaunted then Perian of Gaule who a greater undertaker of dangers then Felismarte of Hircania who more sincere then Esplandian who more courteous then Don Cierongilio of Thracia who more fierce then Rodomant who wiser then King Sobrinus who more couragious then Renaldo who more invincible then Roldan who more comely or more courteous then Rogero from
Children and they have been the cause that shee hath indured my Journies and Careers which I have fetche in my Master Don-Quixotes service for if I should have returned emptie and without mine Asse I should have been welcommed with a pox And if you will know any more of me here I am that will answer the King himself in person and let no body intermeddle to know whether I brought or whether I brought not whether I spent or spent not for if the blows that I have had in these Voyages were to bee paid in money though every one of them were taxed but at three farthings a peece an hundred Pistolets more would not pay me the half of them and let every man look to himself and not take white for black and black for white for every man is as God hath made him and sometimes a great deale worse Let me alone quoth Carrasco for accusing the Authour of the History that if hee Print it again hee shall not forget what Sancho hath said which shâ—ll make it twice as good as it was Is there ought else Sir Bachelour said Don-Quixote to bee mended in this Legend Yes marry is there said hee but nothing so important as what hath been mentioned Perhaps the Authour promiseth a second part quoth Don-Quixote Hee doth said Samson but saith hee neither findes nor knowes who hath it so that it is doubtfull whether it will come out or no so that partly for this and partly because some hold that Second Parts were never good and others That there is enough written of Don-Quixote it is doubted that there will bee no Second Part although some more Ioviall then Saturnists cry out Let us have more Quixotisme Let Don-Quixote assault and Sancho speake let the rest be what they will this is enough And how is the Author enclined To which said Samson when he had found this History that he searcheth after with extraordinary diligence he will straight commit it to the Presse rather for his profit tho then for any other respect To this said Sancho What doth the Author looke after money and gain 't is a wonder if he be in the right rather he will be like your false stitching Taylors upon Christmas Eeves for your hastie worke is never well performed let that Mr. Moore have a care of his businesse for my Master and I will furnish him with Rubbish enough at hand in matter of Adventures and with such different successes that hee may not only make one second Part but one hundreth the poore fellow thinkes belike that wee sleepe here in an Hay-mow well let it come to scanning and hee shall see whether wee bee defective This I know that if my Master would take my Counsell hee should now bee abroade in the Champion remedying grievances rectifying wrongs as good Knights Errant are wont to doe No sooner had Sancho ended this discourse when the neighing of Rozinante came to his eares which Don-Quixote tooke to be most auspicious and resolved within three or four dayes after to make another sally and manifesting his minde to the Bachelor asked his advice to know which way he should begin his journey whose opinion was That he should goe to the Kingdome of Aragon and to the Citty of Saragosa where not long after there were solemn Justs to be held in honour of Saint George wherein he might get more fame then all the Knights of Aragon which were above all other Knights Hee praised his most noble and valiant resolution but withall desired him to be more wary in attempting of dangers since his life was not his owne but all theirs also who needed his protection and succour in their distresse I renounce that Master Samson said Sancho for my Master will set upon an hundred armed men as a boy would upon halfe a dozen of young Melons Body of the world Sir Bachelour there is a time to attempt a time to retire all must not be Saint Iacques and upon um Santingo y Cierra Espana As we use in England Saint George and thâ— Victory Besides I have heard and I beleeve from my Master himself if I have not forgotten that valour is a mean between the two extreames of a Coward and a rash man and if this be so neither would I have him fly nor follow without there be reason for it but above all I wish that if my Master carry mee with him it be upon condition that he fight for us both and that I be tied to nothing but waiting upon him to look to his clothes and his diet for this I will doe as nimbly as bring him water but to think that I will lay hand to my sword although it be but against base fellowes and poor rascals is most impossible I Master Samson strive not to hoord up a fame of being valiant but of the best and trustiest Squire that ever served Knight Errant And if Don-Quixote my Master obliged thereunto by my many services will bestow any Island on me of those many his Worship saith wee shall light upon I shall be much bound to him And if he give me none I was borne one man must not live to relie on another but on God perhaps I shall bee as well with a piece of bread at mine ease as to bee a Governour and what doe I know whether in these kindes of Government the Divill hath set any tripping-block before me where I may stumble and fall and dash out my Teeth Sancho was I borne Sancho must I die but for all that if so and so without any care or danger Heaven should provide some Island for mee or any such like thing I am not so very an Asse as to refuse it according to the Proverbe Looke not a given Horse in the Mouth Friend Sancho quoth Carrasco you have spoken like an Oracle Notwithstanding trust in God and Master Don-Quixote that hee will give you not only an Island but a Kingdome too I think one as well as tother quoth Sancho and let me tell you Master Samson said Sancho I thinke my Masters Kingdome would not bee bestowed on mee in vaine for I have felt mine owne Pulse and finde my selfe healthy enough to rule Kingdomes and governe Islands and thus I have told my Master many times Look yee Sancho quoth Samson Honours change Manners and perhaps when you are once a Governour you may scarse know your own Mother That 's to bee understood said Sancho of them that are basely born and not of those that have on their Souls four singers fat of the old Christian as I have To expresse his not being borne a Iew or Moor No but come to my condition which will bee ungratefull to no body God grant it quoth Don-Quixote and wee shall see when the Government comes for me thinks I have it before mine eyes Which said hee asked the Bachelour whether he were a Poet and that hee would doe him the favour to make him some Verses the subject of
different sorts of Arms to wit Speers Cros-bows Partizans Halberds and Pikes and some Guns and many Targets He came down from the high-ground and drew neer to the Squadron insomuch that he might distinctly perceive their Banners judged of their colours and noted their Impreses and especially one which was on a Standard or shred of white Satten where was lively painted a little Asse like one of your Sardinian Asses his head lifted up his mouth open and his tongue out in act and posture just as he were Braying about him were these two verses written in faire Letters 'T was not for nought that day The one and th' other Iudge did Bray By this device Don Quixote collected that those People belonged to the Braying Town and so hee told Sancho declaring likewise what was written in the Standard hee told him also that hee that told them the Story was in the wrong to say they were two Aldermen that Brayed for by the Verses of the Standard they were two Judges To which Sancho answered Sir that breakes no square for it may very well be that the Aldermen that then brayed might come in time to bee Judges of the Town so they may have been called by both Titles Howsoever 't is not materiall to the truth of the Story whether the Brayers were Aldermen or Judges one for another bee they who they would and a Judge is even as likely to Bray as an Alderman To conclude they perceived and knew that the Town that was mocked went out to skirmish with another that had too much abused them and more then was fitting for good neighbours Don-Quixote went towards them to Sancho's no small grief who was no friend to those Enterprizes Those of the Squadron hemmed him in taking him to be some one of their side Don Quixote lifting up his Visor with a pleasant countenance and courage came toward the Standard of the Asse and there all the chiefest of the Army gathered about him to behold him falling into the same admiration as all else did the first time they had seen him Don-Quixote that saw them attentively look on him and no man offering to speake to him or ask him ought taking hold on their silence and breaking his own hee raised his voyce and said Honest friends I desire you with all earnestnesse that you interrupt not the discourse that I shall make to you till you shall see that I either distaste or weary you which if it bee so at the least signe you shall make I will seal up my looks and clap a gag on my tongue All of them bade him speak what hee would for they would heare him willingly Don-Quixote having this licence went on saying I my friends am a Knight Errant whose Exercise is Armes whose Profession to favour those that need favour and to help the distressed I have long known of your misfortune and the cause that every while moves you to take Armes to bee revenged on your Enemies And having not once but many times pondered your businesse in my understanding I finde according to the Laws of Duell that you are deceived to think your selves affronted for no particular person can affront a whole Town except it bee for defying them for Traitors in generall because hee knows not who in particular committed the Treason for which hee defied all the Town Wee have an example of this in Don Diego Ordonnez de Lara who defied the whole Towne of Zamora because hee was ignorant that only Velido de Olfos committed the treason in killing his King so hee defied them all and the revenge and answer concerned them all though howsoever Don Diego was somewhat too hasty and too forward for it was needlesse for him to have defied the Dead or the Waters or the Corne or the Children unborn with many other trifles there mentioned but let it goe for when choller over-flows the tongue hath neither Father Governour or Guide that may correct it This being so then that one particular person cannot affront a Kingdome Province Citie Common-wealth or Town only it is manifest that the revenge of defiance for such as affront is needlesse since it is none for it were a goodly matter sure that those of the Town of Reloxa should every foot go out to kill those that abuse them so Or that your Cazoteros Verengeneros Vallenatos Xanoneros Severall nick-names given to Towns in Spain upon long tradition and too tedious to bee put in a margent or others of these kindes of nick-names that are common in every Boyes mouth and the ordinary sort of People 't were very good I say that all these famous Towns should bee ashamed and take revenge and runne with their Swords continually drawn like Sack buts for every slender Quarrell No no God forbid Men of wisedome and well governed Common-wealths ought to take Armes for four things and so to endanger their Persons lives and estates First To defend the Catholike Faith Secondly Their Lives which is according to Divine and Naturall Law Thirdly To defend their Honour Family aud Estates Fourthly To serve their Prince in a lawfull warre And if wee will we may add a fift that may serve for a second To defend their Country To these five capitall causes may bee joyned many others just and reasonable that may oblige men to take Armes But to take them for trifles and things that are rather fit for laughter and pastime then for any affront it seems that hee who takes them wants his judgement Besides to take an unjust revenge indeed nothing can bee just by way of revenge is directly against Gods Law which wee professe in which wee are commanded to doe well to our enemies and good to those that hate us a Commandement that though it seem difficult to fulfill yet it is not only to those that know lesse of God then the world and more of the slesh then the Spirit for Jesus Christ true God and man who never lyed neither could nor can being our Law-giver said That his Yoak was sweet and his Burden light so hee would command us nothing that should bee unpossible for us to fulfill So that my Masters you are tyed both by Laws Divine and humane to bee pacified The Devill take me thought Sancho to himself at this instant if this Master of mine bee not a Divine or if not not as like one as one egge is to another Don-Quixote took breath a while and seeing them still attentive had proceeded in his discourse but that Sancho's conceitednesse came betwixt him and home who seeing his Master pause took his turne saying My Master Don-Quixote de la Mancha sometimes called The Knight of the sorrowfull Countenance and now The Knight of the Lyons is a very judicious Gentleman speaks Latin and his mother tongue as well as a Bachelour of Arts and in all hee handleth or adviseth proceeds like a man of Armes and hath all the Laws and Statutes of that you call Duell ad unguem therefore
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