The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote de la Mancha
The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote de la Mancha
The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote de la Mancha
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144 <strong>Don</strong> <strong>Quixote</strong> <strong>de</strong> <strong>la</strong> <strong>Mancha</strong> <br />
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as well as wounds, the purity and continence of the p<strong>la</strong>tonic loves of your worship <br />
and my <strong>la</strong>dy Doña Dulcinea <strong>de</strong>l Toboso – " <br />
<br />
"I never heard my <strong>la</strong>dy Dulcinea called Doña," observed Sancho here; "nothing more <br />
than the <strong>la</strong>dy Dulcinea <strong>de</strong>l Toboso; so here already the history is wrong." <br />
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"That is not an objection of any importance," replied Carrasco. <br />
<br />
"Certainly not," said <strong>Don</strong> <strong>Quixote</strong>; "but tell me, señor bachelor, what <strong>de</strong>eds of mine <br />
are they that are ma<strong>de</strong> most of in this history?" <br />
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"On that point," replied the bachelor, "opinions differ, as tastes do; some swear by <br />
the adventure of the windmills that your worship took to be Briareuses and giants; <br />
others by that of the fulling mills; one cries up the <strong>de</strong>scription of the two armies that <br />
afterwards took the appearance of two droves of sheep; another that of the <strong>de</strong>ad <br />
body on its way to be buried at Segovia; a third says the liberation of the galley <br />
s<strong>la</strong>ves is the best of all, and a fourth that nothing comes up to the affair with the <br />
Benedictine giants, and the battle with the valiant Biscayan." <br />
<br />
"Tell me, señor bachelor," said Sancho at this point, "does the adventure with the <br />
Yanguesans come in, when our good Rocinante went hankering after dainties?" 12 <br />
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"<strong>The</strong> sage has left nothing in the ink‐bottle," replied Sanson; "he tells all and sets <br />
down everything, even to the capers that worthy Sancho cut in the b<strong>la</strong>nket." 13 <br />
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12 Yanguesans – inhabitants of the small town of Yanguas, in the province of Soria; <br />
they were pasturing a herd of mares that caught the eye of Rosinante; when he tried <br />
to approach them with amorous intent, the Yanguensans beat, him first, and then <br />
<strong>Quixote</strong> and Sancho when they tried to come to his rescue. <br />
13 Sancho and <strong>Quixote</strong> stayed the night at an inn, which <strong>Quixote</strong>, of course, took for a <br />
castle. <strong>The</strong> following morning, the innkeeper <strong>de</strong>man<strong>de</strong>d payment, exp<strong>la</strong>ining that <br />
this was, in fact, an inn. <strong>Quixote</strong>, citing chivalric tradition, refused to pay and ro<strong>de</strong> <br />
off, leaving Sancho at the mercy of four Segovian wool car<strong>de</strong>rs, who, as punishment <br />
and amusement, tossed him in a b<strong>la</strong>nket, while <strong>Quixote</strong>, now unable to rescue him,