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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180 <strong>Don</strong> <strong>Quixote</strong> <strong>de</strong> <strong>la</strong> <strong>Mancha</strong> <br />
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accordance with what we stipu<strong>la</strong>ted before our combat, do not transgress the just <br />
limits of knight‐errantry." <br />
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"I confess," said the fallen knight, "that the dirty tattered shoe of the <strong>la</strong>dy Dulcinea <br />
<strong>de</strong>l Toboso is better than the ill‐combed though clean beard of Casil<strong>de</strong>a; and I <br />
promise to go and to return from her presence to yours, and to give you a full and <br />
particu<strong>la</strong>r account of all you <strong>de</strong>mand of me." <br />
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"You must also confess and believe," ad<strong>de</strong>d <strong>Don</strong> <strong>Quixote</strong>, "that the knight you <br />
vanquished was not and could not be <strong>Don</strong> <strong>Quixote</strong> of La <strong>Mancha</strong>, but some one else <br />
in his likeness, just as I confess and believe that you, though you seem to be the <br />
bachelor Sanson Carrasco, are not so, but some other resembling him, whom my <br />
enemies have here put before me in his shape, in or<strong>de</strong>r that I may restrain and <br />
mo<strong>de</strong>rate the vehemence of my wrath, and make a gentle use of the glory of my <br />
victory." <br />
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"I confess, think, and feel everything that you feel, think, and believe," said the <br />
crippled knight; "let me rise, I entreat you; if, in<strong>de</strong>ed, the shock of my fall will allow <br />
me, for I am in very bad shape." <br />
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<strong>Don</strong> <strong>Quixote</strong> helped him to rise, with the assistance of his squire Tomé Cecial; from <br />
whom Sancho never took his eyes, and to whom he put questions, the replies to <br />
which furnished clear proof that he was really and truly the Tomé Cecial he said; but <br />
the impression ma<strong>de</strong> on Sancho's mind by what his master said about the <br />
enchanters having changed the face of the Knight of the Mirrors into that of the <br />
bachelor Sanson Carrasco, would not permit him to believe what he saw with his <br />
eyes. In fine, both master and man remained un<strong>de</strong>r the <strong>de</strong>lusion; and, down in the <br />
mouth, and out of luck, he of the Mirrors and his squire parted from <strong>Don</strong> <strong>Quixote</strong> <br />
and Sancho, he meaning to go look for some vil<strong>la</strong>ge where he could p<strong>la</strong>ster and strap <br />
his ribs. <strong>Don</strong> <strong>Quixote</strong> and Sancho resumed their journey to Saragossa, and on it the