The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote de la Mancha

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182  Don Quixote de la Mancha    CHAPTER XV.  WHEREIN IT IS TOLD AND KNOWN WHO THE KNIGHT OF THE MIRRORS AND HIS  SQUIRE WERE    Don Quixote went off satisfied, elated, and vainglorious in the highest degree at  having won a victory over such a valiant knight as he fancied him of the Mirrors to  be, and one from whose knightly word he expected to learn whether the  enchantment of his lady still continued; inasmuch as the said vanquished knight was  bound, under the penalty of ceasing to be one, to return and render him an account  of what took place between him and her. But Don Quixote was of one mind, he of the  Mirrors of another, for he just then had no thought of anything but finding some  village where he could plaster himself, as has been stated already.     The history goes on to say, then, that when the bachelor Sanson Carrasco suggested  to Don Quixote that he resume his knight‐errantry which he had laid aside, it was as  a result of having previously met with the curate and the barber to decide how best  to induce Don Quixote to stay at home in peace without worrying himself with his  ill‐starred adventures.  At this consultation it was decided by the unanimous vote of  all, and on the special advice of Carrasco, that Don Quixote should be allowed to go,  as it seemed impossible to restrain him, and that Sanson should sally forth to meet  him as a knight‐errant, and do battle with him, for there would be no difficulty in  finding a cause, and vanquish him – that being looked upon as an easy matter; and  that it should be agreed and settled that the vanquished was to be at the mercy of  the victor.  Then, Don Quixote being vanquished, the bachelor knight was to  command him to return to his village and his house, and not quit it for two years, or  until he received further orders from him.  And it was assumed that Don Quixote  would unhesitatingly obey, rather than contravene or fail to observe the laws of  chivalry; and during the period of his seclusion he might perhaps forget his folly, or  there might be an opportunity of discovering some remedy for his madness.  Carrasco undertook the task, and Tomé Cecial, a gossip and neighbor of Sancho 
Don Quixote de la Mancha  183    Panza's, a lively, feather‐headed fellow, offered himself as his squire. Carrasco  armed himself in the fashion described, and Tomé Cecial, that he might not be  known by his gossip when they met, fitted on over his own natural nose the false  one that has been mentioned; and so they followed the same route Don Quixote  took, and almost came up with him in time to be present at the adventure of the cart  of Death and finally encountered them in the Wood, where all that the sagacious  reader has been reading about took place; and had it not been for the extraordinary  fancies of Don Quixote, and his conviction that the bachelor was not the bachelor,  señor bachelor would have been incapacitated for ever from taking his degree of  licentiate, all through not finding nests where he thought to find birds.    Tomé Cecial, seeing how ill they had succeeded, and what a sorry end their  expedition had come to, said to the bachelor, "Surely, Señor Sanson Carrasco, we are  served right; it is easy enough to plan and set about an enterprise, but it is often a  difficult matter to make it come out well.  Don Quixote a madman, and we sane; he  goes off laughing, safe, and sound, and you are left sore and sorry!  I'd like to know  now which is the crazier, he who is crazy because he cannot help it, or he who turns  crazy of his own free will?"    To which Sanson replied, "The difference between the two lies in this: that he who  cannot help being crazy will always be so, whereas the one who is crazy by choice  can leave off being crazy whenever he likes."    "In that case," said Tomé Cecial, "I was a madman of my own free will when I  volunteered to become your squire, and now, of my own free will, I'll leave off being  one and go home."    "That's your affair," returned Sanson, "but to suppose that I am going home until I  have given Don Quixote a thrashing is absurd; and what will urge me on now is not  any desire to see him recover his wits, but rather a thirst for vengeance, for the sore  pain in my ribs won't let me entertain any more charitable thoughts." 
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