The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote de la Mancha

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212  Don Quixote de la Mancha    CHAPTER LXXIII.  OF THE OMENS DON QUIXOTE HAD AS HE ENTERED HIS OWN VILLAGE, AND  OTHER INCIDENTS THAT EMBELLISH AND GIVE A COLOUR TO THIS GREAT  HISTORY    At the entrance of the village, so says Cide Hamete, Don Quixote saw two boys  quarrelling on the village threshing‐floor one of whom said to the other, "Take it  easy, Periquillo; thou shalt never see it again as long as thou livest."    Don Quixote heard this, and said he to Sancho, "Dost thou not mark, friend, what  that boy said, 'Thou shalt never see it 55  again as long as thou livest'?"    "Well," said Sancho, "what does it matter if the boy said so?"    "What!" said Don Quixote, "dost thou not see that, applied to the object of my  desires, the words mean that I am never to see Dulcinea again?"    Sancho was about to answer, when his attention was diverted by seeing a hare come  flying across the plain pursued by several greyhounds and sportsmen. In its terror it  ran to take shelter and hide itself under the Dapple.  Sancho caught it alive and  presented it to Don Quixote, who was saying, "Malum signum, malum signum! 56  a  hare flies, greyhounds chase it, Dulcinea appears not."    "Your worship's a strange man," said Sancho; "let's take it for granted that this hare  is Dulcinea, and these greyhounds chasing it the malignant enchanters who turned  her into a country wench; she flies, and I catch her and put her into your worship's                                                           55  In Spanish, nouns are feminine and masculine.  A cricket cage is feminine and is  thus referred to as “her;” thus Quixote’s inference concerning Dulcinea.  56  A bad sign. Meeting a hare is considered an ill omen. 
Don Quixote de la Mancha  213    hands, and you hold her in your arms and cherish her; what bad sign is that, or what  ill omen is there to be found here?"    The two boys who had been quarrelling came over to look at the hare, and Sancho  asked one of them what their quarrel was about. He was answered by the one who  had said, "Thou shalt never see it again as long as thou livest," that he had taken a  cage full of crickets from the other boy, and did not mean to give it back to him as  long as he lived.  Sancho took out four cuartos from his pocket and gave them to the  boy for the cage, which he placed in Don Quixote's hands, saying, "There, señor!  there are the omens broken and destroyed, and they have no more to do with our  affairs, to my thinking, fool as I am, than with last year's clouds; and if I remember  rightly I have heard the curate of our village say that it does not become Christians  or sensible people to give any heed to these silly things; and even you yourself said  the same to me some time ago, telling me that all Christians who minded omens  were fools; but there's no need of making words about it; let us push on and go into  our village."    The sportsmen came up and asked for their hare, which Don Quixote gave them.  They then went on, and upon the green at the entrance of the town they came upon  the curate and the bachelor Sanson Carrasco busy reading their breviaries.  It should  be mentioned that Sancho had thrown, by way of a sumpter‐cloth, over the Dapple  and over the bundle of armor, the buckram robe painted with flames which they had  put upon him at the duke's castle the night Altisidora came back to life. 57   He had  also fixed the miter on the Dapple's head, the oddest transformation and decoration  that ever an ass in the world underwent.  They were at once recognized by both the  curate and the bachelor, who came towards them with open arms.  Don Quixote  dismounted and received them with a close embrace; and the boys, who are like  lynxes that nothing escapes, spied out the ass's miter and came running to see it,                                                           57  Altisidora was a girl in the duke’s castle where Quixote and Sancho were guests  for a time; she dramatically pretended to be in love with Don Quixote. 
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