The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote de la Mancha

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58  Don Quixote de la Mancha    though they are very many, among them all I have found no mention made of  knights‐errant eating, unless by accident or at some sumptuous banquets prepared  for them, and the rest of the time they passed in dalliance. And though it is plain  they could not do without eating and performing all the other natural functions,  because, in fact, they were men like ourselves, it is plain too that, wandering as they  did the most part of their lives through woods and wilds and without a cook, their  most usual fare would be rustic viands such as those thou now offer me; so that,  friend Sancho, let not that distress thee which pleases me, and do not seek to make a  new world or pervert knight‐errantry."    "Pardon me, your worship," said Sancho, "for, as I cannot read or write, as I said just  now, I neither know nor comprehend the rules of the profession of chivalry:  henceforward I will stock the alforjas with every kind of dry fruit for your worship,  as you are a knight; and for myself, as I am not one, I will furnish them with poultry  and other things more substantial."    "I do not say, Sancho," replied Don Quixote, "that it is imperative on knights‐errant  not to eat anything else but the fruits thou speakest of; only that their more usual  diet must be those, and certain herbs they found in the fields which they knew and I  know too."    "A good thing it is," answered Sancho, "to know those herbs, for to my thinking it  will be needful some day to put that knowledge into practice."    And here taking out what he said he had brought, the pair made their repast  peaceably and sociably. But anxious to find quarters for the night, they with all  despatch made an end of their poor dry fare, mounted at once, and made haste to  reach some habitation before night set in; but daylight and the hope of succeeding in  their object failed them close by the huts of some goatherds, so they determined to  pass the night there, and it was as much to Sancho's discontent not to have reached  a house, as it was to his master's satisfaction to sleep under the open heaven, for he 
Don Quixote de la Mancha  59    fancied that each time this happened to him he performed an act of ownership that  helped to prove his chivalry.           
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