The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote de la Mancha

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168  Don Quixote de la Mancha    to relate what passed between the Knight of the Wood and him of the Mournful  Countenance.         
CHAPTER XIV.  Don Quixote de la Mancha  169    WHEREIN IS CONTINUED THE ADVENTURE OF THE KNIGHT OF THE WOOD    Among the things that passed between Don Quixote and the Knight of the Wood, the  history tells us he of the Wood said to Don Quixote, "In fine, sir knight, I would have  you know that my destiny, or, more properly speaking, my choice led me to fall in  love with the peerless Casildea de Vandalia. I call her peerless because she has no  peer, whether it be in bodily stature or in the supremacy of rank and beauty. This  same Casildea, then, that I speak of, requited my honorable passion and gentle  aspirations by compelling me, as his stepmother did Hercules, to engage in many  perils of various sorts 36 , at the end of each promising me that, with the end of the  next, the object of my hopes should be attained; but my labors have gone on  increasing link by link until they are past counting, nor do I know what will be the  last one that is to be the beginning of the accomplishment of my chaste desires. On  one occasion she bade me go and challenge the famous giantess of Seville, La  Giralda 37  by name, who is as mighty and strong as if made of brass, and though  never stirring from one spot, is the most restless and changeable woman in the  world. I came, I saw, I conquered, and I made her stay quiet and behave herself, for  nothing but north winds blew for more than a week. Another time I was ordered to  lift those ancient stones, the mighty bulls of Guisando 38 , an enterprise that might  more fitly be entrusted to porters than to knights. Again, she bade me fling myself  into the cavern of Cabra 39  – an unparalleled and awful peril – and bring her a minute  account of all that is concealed in those gloomy depths. I stopped the motion of the  Giralda, I lifted the bulls of Guisando, I flung myself into the cavern and brought to  light the secrets of its abyss; and my hopes are as dead as dead can be, and her scorn                                                           36  The son of Zeus and Alcmena, Hercules was persecuted by Zeus’s wife Hera.  37  Actually, a brass statue on the Moorish belfry of the cathedral at Seville.  38  More statues – these representing animals and supposedly marking a place where  Cesar defeated Pompey.  39  Possibly an ancient mine shaft in the Sierra de Cabra near Cordova. 
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