fears as shall for ever remain recorded in the books of fame Doest thou see Sancho the dust which ariseth there know that it is caused by a mighty Army and sundry and innumerable Nations which come martching there If that be so quoth Sancho then must there be two Armies for on this other side is raised as great a dust Don-Quixote turned back to behold it and seeing it was so indeed he was marvellous glad thinking that they were doubtlesly two Armies which came to fight one with another in the midest of that spacious Plain For he had his fantasie ever replenished with these battails inchantments successes ravings loves and challenges which are reheased in books of Knighthood And all that ever he spoak thought or did was addrest and applyed to the like things And the dust which he had seen was raised by two great Flocks of Sheep that came through the same Field by two different wayes and could not be discerned by reason of the dust untill they were very neer Don-Quixote did affirm that they were two Armies with so very good earnest as Sancho believed it and demanded of him Sir what then shall we two doe What shall we doe quoth Don-Quixote but assist the needfull and weeker side For thou shalt know Sancho that 〈◊〉 who comes towards us is the great Emperor Alifamfaron Lord of the great Island of Trapobana The other who martcheth at our back is his enemy the King of the Garamantes Pantopoline of the naked Arme so called because he still entereth in battail with his right Arme naked I pray you good Sir quoth Sancho to tell me why these two Princes hate one another so much They are enemies replyed Don-Quixote because that this Alifamfaron is a furious Pagan and is enamoured of Pentâ—polin's Daughter who is a very beautifull and gracious Princesse and moreover a Christian and her Father refuseth to give her to the Pagan King untill first he abandon Mahomet's false Sect and become one of his Religion By my beard quoth Sancho Pentapolin hath reason and I will help him all that I may By doing so quoth Don-Quixote thou performeâ—â— thy Duty for it is not requisite that one be a Knight to the end he may enter into such battails I doe apprehend that my self quoth Sancho very well But wheâ—e shall we leave this Asle in the mean time that we may be 〈◊〉 to finde him again after the Conflict for I think it is not the custome to enter into battail mounted on such a Beast It is true quoth Don-Quixote that which thou mayest doe is to leave him to his Adventures and care not whether he be lost or found for we shall have so many horses after coming out of this Battail Victors that very Rozinante himself is in danger to be changed for another But be attentive for I mean to describe unto thee the principall Knights of both the Armies And to the end thou mayest the better see and note all things let us retire our selves there to that little hillock from whence both Armies may easily be discryed They did so and standing on the top of a hill from whence they might have seen both the Flocks which Don-Quixote called an Army very well if the clouds of dust had not hindred it and blinded their sight yet notwithstanding our Knight seeing in conceit that which really he did not see at all began to say with a loud voyce That Knight which thou â—eest there with the yellow Armour who bears in his Shield a Lyon crownd crouching at a Damzells feet is the valorous Laurcalio Lord of the Silver Bridge The other whose Armes are powdred with flowers of gold and beares in an Azure Field three Crowns of silver is the dreaded Micocolembo great Duke of Quirocia The other limbed like a Gyant that standeth at his right hand is the undaunted Brandabarbaray of Boliche Lord of the three Arabias and comes Armed with a Serpents skin bearing for his Shield as is reported one of the Gates of the Temple which Sampson at his death overthrew to be revenged of his enemies But turn thine eyes to this other side and thou shalt see first of all and in the Front of this other Army the ever Victor and never Vanquished Timoneâ— of Carcaiona Prince of new Biskaye who comes Armed with Armes parted into blew green white and yellow quarters and bears in his Shield in a Field of tawney a Cat of gold with a letter that sayes Miau Cat which is the beginning of his Ladies name which is as the report runs the peeâ—â—esse Miaulina Daughter to Duke Alfeniquen of Algarue The other that burdens and oppresseth the back of that mighty Alfana Courser whose Armour is as white as Snow and also his Shield without any devise is a new Knight of France called Pierres Papin Lord of the Barony of Vâ—â—ique The other that beats his horsâ— sides with his Armed heels and bears the the Armes of pure Azâ—â—e is the mighty Duke of Nerâ—ia Esparâ—asilardâ— of the Wood who bears for his devise a Esparraguera Harrow with a Motto that sayes So trailâ— my Fortune And thus he proceeded forward naming may Knights of the one and the other Squadron even as he had imagined them and attributed to each one his Arms his Colours Impreâ—â—e and Mottoes suddainly 〈◊〉 away by the imagination of his wonderfull distraction and without stammering he proceeded saying This first Squadron conteâ—eth folk of many Nations 〈…〉 are those which taste the sweet waters of famous 〈◊〉 the Mountainous men that tread the Mafilical fields those that doe sift the most pure and rare gold 〈…〉 Those that possessed the famous and delightfull banks of cleer 〈…〉 blood many and sundry waies the golden 〈◊〉 The Numides unsteadfast â—n their promise The Persianâ— famous for Archers The â—arthes and Medes thaâ— fight flyingâ— The Arabs inconstant in their dwellings The 〈◊〉 as cruell as white The Aethiops of boared lips and other infinite Naâ—ions whose faces I know and behold although I have forgotten their denominations In that other Army come those that taste the Christalins streams of the Olive-braring 〈◊〉 Those that dip and polish their faces with the liquor of the ever-rich and 〈◊〉 Tagâ—â—â— Those that possesse the profitable fluent of divine Genile Those that trample the 〈◊〉 fields so abundant in pasture Those that recreate themselves in the 〈◊〉 fields of 〈◊〉 The rich Manchâ—gans crowned with ruddy 〈◊〉 of corne Those apparrelled with iron the ancient reliques of the â—spansâ— Those thâ—â— bathe themselves in Pesverga renowned for the smoothnesse of his current Those that feed their Flocks in the vast Fields of the wrâ—athing 〈◊〉 so celebrated for his hidden course Those that tremble through the â—â—ld of the bushy Pirens and the lofty or white crested Apenineâ— Finally all those that Europe in it self contrinetâ— Good God I how many Provinces repeated he at that time and how many Nations did he name giving to every one of them with 〈…〉 and briefnesse
shee heard him and understood what they had demanded shee suddainly answered with anguish but yet with a very good grace No not Zoraida but Maria Maria giving them to understand that shee was called Maria and not Zoraida These words and the great affect and vehemenciâ— wherewithall the Moor delivered them extorted more then one tear from the hearers especially from the women who are naturally tender-hearted and compassive Luscinda embraced her then with great love and said I I Maria Maria. To which shee answered I I Maria Zoraida â—ancanga that is and not Zoraida By this it was grown some four of the clock in the afternoon and by order of those which were Don Fernando's Companions the Inn-keeper had provided for them as good a Beaver as the Inne could in any wise afford unto them Therefore it being the houre they sate down all together at a long Table for there was never a square or round one in all the house and they gave the first and principall end although hee refused it as much as hee could to Don-Quixote who commanded that the Ladie Micomicona should sit at his elbow seeing hee was her Champion Presently were placed Luscinda and Zoraida and Don Fernando and Cardenio right over against them and after the Captive and other Gentlemen and on the other side the Curate and Barber And thus they made their drinking with very great recreation which was the more augmented to see Don-Quixote leaving of his meat and moved by the like spirit of that which had made him once before talk so much to the Goat-heards beginne to offer them an occasion of Speech in this manner Truely good Sirs if it bee well considered those which professe the Order of Knight-hood doe see many great and unexpected things If it bee not so say what mortall man alive is there that entring in at this Castle gate and seeing of us all in the manner wee bee now present here can judge or believe that wee are those which wee bee Who is it that can say that this Ladie which sits here at my sleeve is the great Queen that wee all know her to bee and that I am that Knight of the Heavie Countenance that am so much blab'd of abroad by the mouth of Fame therefore it cannot bee now doubted but that this Art and Exercise excelleth all the others which ever human wit the underminer of Nature invented and it is the more to be prized by how much it exposeth it self more then other Trades to dangers and inconveniences Away with those that shall affirm learning to surpasse Armes for I will say unto them bee they what they list that they know not what they say For the reason which such men doe most urge and to which they doe most relye is That the travails of the Spirit doe farre exceed those of the Body And that the use of Armes are only Exercised by the Body as if it were an Office fit for Porters for which nothing were requisite but Bodily forces or as if in that which wee that professe it doe call Armes were not included the acts of Fortitude which require deep understanding to execute them or as if the Warriours Minde did not labour as well as his Body who had a great Army to lead and command or the defence of a besiged Citie If not see if hee can arrive by his corporall strength to know or sound the intent of his Enemie the Designes Stratagems and Difficulties how to prevent imminent Dangers all these being operations of the understanding wherein the body hath no medling at all It being therefore so that the Exercise of Armes require Spirit as well as those of Learning let us now examine which of the two Spirits that of the Scholler or Souldier doe take most pains And this may bee best understood by the end to which both of them are addressed for that intention is most to bee esteemed which hath for object the most noble end The end and conclusion of Learning is I speak not now of Divinitie whose scope is to lead and addresse souls to Heaven for to an end so much without end as this no other may bee compared I mean of humane Sciences or Arts to maintaine distributive justice in his perfection and give to every one that which is is his own to indeavour and cause good Laws to bee religiously observed an end most certainly generous high and worthy of great praise but not of so much as that to which the Exercise of Armes is annext which hath for his object and end Peace which is the greatest good men can desire in this life and therefore the first good news that ever the World had or Men received were those which the Angels brought on that night which was our day when they sung in the skies Glorie bee in the heights and Peace on earth to men of good mindes And the Salvation which the best Master that ever was on Earth or in Heaven taught to his Disciples and Favorites was That when they entrd into any house they should say Peace bee to this house and many other times hee said I give unto you my Peace I leave my Peace unto you Peace bee amongst you It is a good as precious as a Jewell and a Gift given and left by such a hand a Jewel without which neither on Earth or in Heaven can there bee any perfect good This Peace is the true end of Warre for Armes and Warre are one and the selfe same things This truth being therefore presupposed that the end of Warre is Peace and that herein it doth excell the end of Learning let us descend to the corporall labours of the Scholler and to those of him which professeth Armes and consider which of them are more toylsome Don-Quixote did prosecute his discourse in such sort and with so pleasing terms as hee had almost induced his Audients to esteem him to hee at that time at least exempt from his frenzie and thereforeby reason that the greater number of them were Gentlemen to whom the use of Armes is in a manner essentiall and proper they did willingly listen to him aâ—d therefore hee continued on with his discourse in this manner I say then that the pains of the Student are commonly these Principally povertie not that I would maintain that all Students are poor but that I may put the case in greatest extreamitie it can have and by saying that hee may bee poor me thinks there may bee no greater aggravation of his misery For hee that is poor hath no perfection and this poverty is suffered by him sundrie waies sometimes by hunger other times by cold or nakednesse and many times by all of them together Yet it is never so extream but that hee doth eate although it bee somewhat later then the custome or of the Scraps and Reversion of the rich man and the greatest miserie of the Student is that which they terme to live by sops and pottage and though
and the end the beginning and middle But rather they have composed them of so many members as it more probably seems that the Authours intended to frame Chimeraes or Monsters then to deliver proportionate figures most harsh in their stile incredible in exploits impudent in love matters absurd in complements prolixe in Battels fond in discourses uncertain and senselesse in voyages and finally devoid of all discretion art and ingenious disposition And therefore they deserve as most idle and frivolous things to bee banished out of all Christian Common-wealths Master Curate did listen to the Canon with very great attention and hee seemed unto him to bee a man of good understanding and that hee had great reason for what hee had alledged and therefore said that in respect they did concur in opinions and that hee had an old grudge to the vanity of such Books hee had likewise fired all Don-Quixotes Library consisting of many Books of that subject And then hee recounted to him the search and inquisition hee had made of them and which hee had condemned and which reserved Whereat the Canon laughed heartily and said that notwithstanding all the evill hee had spoken of such Books yet did hee finde one good in them to wit the subject they offered a good wit to work upon and shew it self in them for they displayed a large and open plaine thorow which the Pen might run without let or incumbrances describing of Ship-wracks Tempests Incounters and Battells delineating a valorous Captain with all the properties required in him as wisedome to frustrate the designes of his enemie eloquence to perswade or disswade his Souldiers ripenesse in advice promptnesse in execution as much valour in attending as in assaulting of an enemie deciphering now a lamentable and tragicall successe then a joyfull and unexpected event there a most beautifull honest and discreet Ladie here a valiant courteous and Christian Knight there an unmeasurable barbarous Braggard here a gentle valourous and wise Prince Representing the goodnesse and loyaltie of Subjects the magnificence and bountie of Lords Sometimes hee may shew himself an Astrologian sometimes a Cosmographer sometimes a Musician sometimes a Statist and sometimes if hee please hee may have occasion to shew himself a Nigromancer There may hee demonstrate the subtiltie of Vlisses the pietie of Encas the valour of Achilles the misfortune of Hector the treachery of Sinon the amitie of Eurialus the liberallitie of Alexander the resolution of Caesar the clemency and truth of Trajanus the fidelitie of Zopirus the prudence of Cato and finally all those parts that make a worthy man perfect one whiles by placing them all in one subject another by distributing them among many and this being done and set out in a pleasing stile and a wittie fashion that approacheth as neer as is possible unto the truth will questionlesse remain a work of many fair draughts which being accomplished will represent such beauty and perfection as shall fully attain to the best end aimed at in all writing that is as I have said joyntly to instruct and delight for the irregularity and liberality of those Books given to the Authour the means to shew himself an Epick Lyrick Tragedian and Comedian with all other things which the most gracefull and pleasant Sciences of Poetry and Oratorie include in themselves for Epicks may bee as well written in Prose as in Verse CHAP. XXI Wherein the Canon prosecutes his Discourse upon Books of Chivalrie and many other things worthy of his wit SIR you say very true quoth the Curate and for this very reason are they which have hitherto invented such Books the more worthy of reprehension because they neither heeded the good discourse the art nor the rules by which they might have guided themselves and by that means have grown as famous for their Prose as bee the two Princes of the Greek and Latine Poetrie for their Verse I have for my part quoth the Canon at least attempted to write a Book of Chivalrie observing therein all the points by me mentioned and in truth I have written above a hundred sheets thereof and to the end that I might trie whether they were correspondent to my estimation I did communicate them both with certain skillfull and wise men that are marvellously affected to that subject and with some ignorant persons that only delight to hear fanatic â—â—â—nventions and I have found in them all a great approbation of my labours yet would I not for all that prosecute the work as well because it seemed unfit for my Profession as also because I finde the number of the ignorant to excede that of the judicious And though more good come to a man by the praise of a few wise men then hurt by the scoffs of a number of fools yet would I not willingly subject my self to the confused judgement of the senselesse vulgar who commonly give themselves most unto the reading of such Books But that which most of all rid my hands yea and my memorie of all desire to end it was this argument drawn from our modern Comedies and thus made to my self If those as well the Fictions as Historicall ones are all or the most part of them notorious Fopperies and things without either head or foot and yet are by the vulgar heard with such delight and held and approved for good and both the Authours that compose them and Actors that represent them say that they must bee such as they bee for to please the Peoples humors and not more conformable to reason or truth and that because those wherein Decorum is observed and the fable followed according to the rules of Art serve onely for three or four discreete men If so many may be found at a Play which doe attend unto them and all the rest of the Auditors remaine fasting by reason they cannot conceive the artificiall contexture thereof therefore is it better for them to gaine good money and meanes by many then bare opinion or applause by a few The very same would bee the end of my Booke after I had used all possible industrie to observe the aforesaid precept and I should remaine only for a neede and as the Taylour that dwels in a corner without trade or estimation And although I have sundry times indeavoured to perswade the Players that their opinion was erronious herein and that they would attract more people and acquire greater fame by acting artificiall Comedies then those irregular and methodicall Playes then used yet are they so wedded to their opinion as no reason can woo nor demonstration winn them from it I remember how dealing upon a day with one of those obstinate fellowes I said unto him Doe not you remember how a few yeers agoe were represented in Spaine three Tragedies written by a famous Poet of our Kingdome which were such as delighted yea and amazed all the auditors as well the learned as the simple the exact as the slight ones and that the Players got more
require a new attention and a new beliefe CHAP. X. How Sancho cunningly Inchanted the Lady Dulcinea and other successes as ridiculous as true THe Authour of this History coming to relate that which hee doth in this Chapter sayes That hee would willingly have passed it over in silence as fearing not to bee beleeved because here Don-Quixotes madnesse did exceed and was at least two flight-shots beyond his greatest that ever was but for all this fear and suspition hee set it down as t'other acted it without adding or diminishing the least jot of truth in the Historie not caring for any thing that might bee objected against him for a lyer and hee hadâ—reason for truth is stretcht but never breaks and tramples on the lie as oyle doth upon water and so prosecuting his Historie hee sayes That as Don-Quixote had shaded himself in the Forrest or Oake-Wood neer the grand Toboso hee willed Sancho to return to the City and not to come to his presence without hee had first spoken to his Mistris from him requesting her that shee would please to bee seen by her captiv'd Knight and to daigne to bestow her blessing on him that by it hee might hope for many most prosperous successes in all his onsets and dangerous enterprizes Sancho took on him to fulfill his command and to bring him now as good an answer as the former Goe Lad said Don-Quixote and bee not daunted when thou comest before the beams of the Sunne of Beauty which thou goest to discover Oh happy thou above all the Squires of the world bee mindefull and forget not how shee entertains thee if shee blush just at the instant when thou deliverest my Embassie if shee bee stirred and troubled when she heares my name whether her cushion cannot hold her if shee bee set in the rich state of her Authority And if shee stand up mark her whether shee clap sometimes one foot upon another if shee repeat the answer shee gives thee twice or thrice over or change it from milde to curst from cruell to amorous whether she seem to order her haire though it bee not disorderd Lastly observe all her actions and gestures for if thou relate them just as they were I shall ghesse what is hidden in her heart touching my Love in matter of fact for know Sancho if thou knowest it not that the actions and outward motions that appear when love is in treaty are the certain Messengers that bring news of what passeth within Goe friend and better fortune guide thee then mine and send thee better successe then I can expect 'twixt hope and feare in this uncouth solitude in which thou leavest me I goe said Sancho and will return quickly Enlarge that little heart of yours no bigger then an Hasell-nur and consider the saying Faint heart never c. Sweet meat must have sowre sauce And another Where wee least think there goes the Hare away This I say because that if to night wee found not the Castle or Palace of my Lady now by day I doubt not but to finde it when I least dream of it and so to finde her Beleeve me Sancho quoth Don-Quixote thou alwaies bringest thy Proverbs so to the haire of the businesse wee treat of as God give mee no worse Fortune then I desire This said Sancho turned his back and switched his Dapple and Don Quixote stayd a horse-back easing himself on his stirrops and leaning on his Launce full of sorrowfull and confused thoughts where wee will leave him and wend with Sancho who parted from his Master no lesse troubled and pensative then hee insomuch that hee was scarce out of the Wood when turning his face and seeing that Don-Quixote was out of sight hee lighted from his Asse and resting at the foot of a Tree hee began to discourse thus to himself and say Now brother Sancho I pray let 's know whither is your Worship going To seek some Asse that you have lost No forsooth Well what is it you seek for I seek a matter of nothing a Princesse and in her the Sunne of Beauty and all Heaven withall And where doe you think to finde this you speak of Sancho Where Why in the grand Citie of Toboso Well and from whom doe you seek her From the most famous Knight Don-Quixote de la Mancha hee that righteth wrongs gives the thirsty meat and the hungry drink Mistakes of simplicity All this is well And doe you know her house Sancho My Master sayes it is a Royall Palace or a lofty Towre And have you ever seen her trow Neither hee nor I never And doe you think it were well that the men of Toboso should know that you were here to entice their Princesses and to trouble their Wenches and should come and grinde your ribs with bangs and leave you never a sound bone Indeed belike they should consider that you are commanded friend but as a Messenger that you are in no fault not you Trust not to that Sancho for your Manchegan People are as cholerick as honest and doe not love to bee jested with In very deed if they smell you you are sure to pay for it Ware Hawk ware Hawk No no let me for anothers pleasure seeke better bread then 's made of Wheat and I may as well finde this Dulcinea as one Mary in Robena As if we should say one Jone in London or a Scholler in black in Salamanca The Devill the Devill and none else hath clapt me into this businesse This Soliloquy passed Sancho with himself and the upshot was this All things said he have a remedy but death under whose yoke wee must all passe in spite of our teethes when life ends This Master of mine by a thousand signes that I have seen is a Bedlam fit to be bound and I come not a whit short of him and am the greater Cox-combe of two to serve him if the Proverbe bee true that sayes Like master like man and another Thou art known by him that doth thee feed not by him that doth thee breed Hee being thus mad then and subject out of madnesse to mistaking of one thing for another to judge black for white and white for blacke as appeared when he sayd the winde-mils were Gyants and the Friers mules Dromedaries and the flocks of sheep armies of enemies and much more to this tune it will not be hard to make him beleeve that some husband-mans daughter the first we meet with is the Lady Dulcinea and if he beleeve it not I le swear and if hee swear I le out-swear him and if he be obstinate I le be so more and so that I will stand to my tackling come what will on it Perhaps with mine obstinacy I shall so prevaile with him that hee will send mee no more upon these kinde of Messages seeing what bad dispatch I bring him or perhaps hee will thinke that some wicked Enchanter one of those that hee saies persecute him hath changed her shape to vexe him
of Bells and Out-cries as if the whole Island had been sunk he sate up in his Bed and was very attentive hearkning if he could ghesse at the cause of so great an Up-roar but he was so farre from knowing it that a noyse of a world of Drumms and Trumpets added to that of the Bells and Cries made him more confused and more full of fear and horror and rising up he put on a pair of Slippers for the moystnesse of the ground and without any night-Gown upon him or any thing like it he went out at his Chamber door at such time as he saw at least twenty persons come running thorow the Entries with Torches in their hands lighted and Swords unsheathed crying all out aloud Arm Arm Sir Governour Arm for a world of enemies are entred the Island and we are undone if your skill and valour help us not With this Fury Noyse and Uproar they came where Sancho was astonisht and embeseld with what he heard saw and when they came to him one of them said Arm your self strait Sir if you mean not to be destroyed and that all the Island be lost I Arm my self quoth Sancho Know I any thing what belongs to Arms or Succours 't were better leave these things to my Master Don-Quixote de la Mancha he will dispatch and put them in safety in an instant for I sinner that I am understand nothing of this quick service Ha Sir Governour said another what faint-heartednesse is this Arm your self for here we bring you Arms offensive and defensive Martch to the Mâ—rket-place and bee our Guide and Captain since you ought being our Governour to be so Arm me on Gods name quoth Sancho And strait they brought him two Shields of which they had good store and they clapt them upon his Shirt without letting him take any other clothes one they put before and the other behinde and they drew out his arms at certain holes they had made and bound him very well with cords so that hee was walled and boorded up straight like a spindle not able to bend his knees or to move a step In his hands they put a Launce on which he leant to keep himself up When they had him thus they bade him martch and guide them and cheer them all for that hee being their Lanthorne North and Morning starre their matters would be well ended How should I wretch that I am martch quoth Sancho for my knee bones will not move since these boords that are so sowed to my flesh doe hinder me your only way is to carry me in your armes and to lay me a-thwart or let me stand up at some Postern which I will make good either with my Launce or body Fie Sir said another 't is more your fear then the boords that hinder your pace make an end for shame and bestir your self for it is late and the enemies increase the cries are augmented and the danger waxeth more and more At whole perswasions and vitupery the poor Governour tryed if he could move himself so he fell to the ground and had such a fall that he thought he had broken himself to pieces and now he lay like a Tortoise shut in and covered with his shell or like a Flitch of Bacon clapped between two boords or like a Boat overturned upon a flat and for all his fall those Scoffers had no compassion at all on him but rather putting out their Torches they began to re enforce their cryes to reiterate their Arme Arm so fast running over poor Sancho giving him an infinite company of flashes upon his Shields that if he had not withdrawn himself and shrunk his head up into them the poor Governour had been in wofull plight who being thus shrugged up in this straight he was in a terrible sweat and berayed and recommended himself heartily to God Almighty to deliver him from that danger Some stumbled upon him others fell and another would get upon him for a good while and from thence as from a watch-Tower governed the Army and cryed aloud Here on our side here the enemies are thickest Make this Breach good keep that Gate shut down with those Ladders Wilde-fire-Balls Pitch and Rozin and Kettles of scalding Oyle Trench the streets with Beds in fine he named all manner of Ware Instruments and Furniture of Warre for the defence of a City assaulted And the bruised Sancho that heard and suffered all said to himself Oh that it would please the Lord that this Island were once lost or that I were dead or delivered from this strait Heaven heard his Petition and when he least expected he heard this cry Victory Victory the Foes are vanquished Ho Sir Governour rise rise enjoy the conquest and divide the spoyles that are taken from the enemies by the valour of your invincible arme Raise me quoth the grieved Sancho with a pittyfull voyce They helpt to raise him and being up he said Every enemie that I have vanquished naile him in my fore-head I le divide no spoils of enemies but desire some friend if I have any to give me a draught of Wine that may dry up this sweat for I am all water They wiped him brought him Wine and unbound the Shields from him he sate upon his Bed and with the very anguish of the sodain fright and his toyle he fell into a swound and they that plaid that trick with him were sorry it fell out so heavily but Sancho's comming straight to himself tempered their sorrow Hee asked them what a clock it was They answered him it grew to be day Hee held his peace and without more words began to cloath himself all buried in silence and all beheld him expecting what would bee the issue of his hasty dressing himself Thus by little and little he made himself ready for by reason of his wearinesse hee could not doe it very fast and so went toward the Stable all they that were there following him and comming to Dapple he embraced and gave him a loving kisse on the fore-head and not without tears in his eyes said Come thou hither companion mine and friend fellow-partner of my labours and miseries when I consorted with you no other cares troubled me then to mend thy Furniture and to sustein thy little corps happy then were my hours dayes and yeers but since I left thee and mounted on the towers of Ambition and Pride a thousand miseries a thousand toyles four thousand unquietnesses have entred my soul. And as he was thus discoursing he fitted on the Pack-saddle no body saying ought unto him Dapple being thus Pack-saddled with much adoe he got upon him and directing his speeches and reasons to the Stward the Doctor and many others there present he said Give me room Sirs and leave to return to my former liberty let me seek my ancient life to rise from this present death I was not born to bee a Governour not to defend Islands nor Cities from enemies that would assault