The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote de la Mancha

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140  Don Quixote de la Mancha      "Recollect, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "that wherever virtue exists in an eminent  degree it is persecuted. Few or none of the famous men that have lived escaped  being calumniated by malice. Julius Caesar, the boldest, wisest, and bravest of  captains, was charged with being ambitious, and not particularly cleanly in his  dress, or pure in his morals. Of Alexander, whose deeds won him the name of Great,  they say that he was somewhat of a drunkard. Of Hercules, him of the many labors, it  is said that he was lewd and luxurious. Of Don Galaor, the brother of Amadis of Gaul,  it was whispered that he was over quarrelsome, and of his brother that he was  lachrymose. So that, Sancho, amongst all these calumnies against good men, mine  may be let pass, since they are no more than thou hast said."    "That's just where it is, body of my father!"    "Is there more, then?" asked Don Quixote.    "There's the tail to be skinned yet," said Sancho; "all so far is cakes and fancy bread;  but if your worship wants to know all about the calumnies they bring against you, I  will fetch you one this instant who can tell you the whole of them without missing  an atom; for last night the son of Bartholomew Carrasco, who has been studying at  Salamanca, came home after having been made a bachelor 9 , and when I went to  welcome him, he told me that your worship's history is already abroad in books,  with the title of the Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha; and he says they  mention me in it by my own name of Sancho Panza, and the lady Dulcinea del  Toboso too, and divers things that happened to us when we were alone; so that I  crossed myself in my wonder how the historian who wrote them down could have  known them."                                                             9  Having been granted a Bachelor’s degree. 
Don Quixote de la Mancha  141    "I promise thee, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "the author of our history will be some  sage enchanter; for to such, nothing that they choose to write about is hidden."    "What!" said Sancho, "a sage and an enchanter! Why, the bachelor Sanson Carrasco  (that is the name of him I spoke of) says the author of the history is called Cide  Hamete Berengena."    "That is a Moorish name," said Don Quixote.    "May be so," replied Sancho; "for I have heard say that the Moors are mostly great  lovers of berengenas." 10     "Thou must have mistaken the surname of this 'Cide' – which means in Arabic 'Lord'  – Sancho," observed Don Quixote.    "Very likely," replied Sancho, "but if your worship wishes me to fetch the bachelor I  will go for him in a twinkling."    "Thou wilt do me a great pleasure, my friend," said Don Quixote, "for what thou hast  told me has amazed me, and I shall not eat a morsel that will agree with me until I  have heard all about it."    "Then I am off for him," said Sancho; and leaving his master he went in quest of the  bachelor, with whom he returned in a short time, and, all three together, they had a  very droll colloquy.                                                                 10  Another name for eggplant. 
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