Don Quixote

n, I say in reply that the same night we went into the Sierra Morena, flying from the Holy Brotherhood after that unlucky adventure of the galley slaves, and the other of the corpse that was going to

to come and prop me up on four stakes, which he put under the four corners of the pack-saddle in

the same thing happened to Sacripante at the siege of Albracca; the famous t

y eyes and I raised such a lamentation that, if the author of our history has not put it in, he may depend upon it he has left out a good thing. Some days after, I know not how many, travelling with

n; "it is, that before the ass has turned up, the

, "unless that the historian made a mistake, or

son; "but what became of the h

d without the ass, it would have been a poor look-out for me; and if anyone wants to know anything more about me, here I am, ready to answer the king himself in person; and it is no affair of anyone's whether I took or did not take, whether I spent or did not spend; for the whacks that were given me in

the history that, if he prints it again, he must not forget what

to correct in the histor

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not anything that will be of the same

ise a second part at

some say that no second part has ever been good, and others that enough has been already written about Don Quixote, it is thought there will be no second part; though some, who a

author mean to do

rching for with extraordinary diligence, he will at once give it to the press, moved

r whatever he is, pay attention to what he is doing, and I and my master will give him as much grouting ready to his hand, in the way of adventures and accidents of all sorts, as would make up not only one second part, but a hundred. The good man fancies, no doubt, that we are fast

ch he ought to commence his expedition, and the bachelor replied that in his opinion he ought to go to the kingdom of Aragon, and the city of Saragossa, where there were to be certain solemn joustings at the festival of St. George, at which he might win renown above all the knights of Aragon, which would

n that he is to do all the fighting, and that I am not to be called upon to do anything except what concerns keeping him clean and comfortable; in this I will dance attendance on him readily; but to expect me to draw sword, even against rascally churls of the hatchet and hood, is idle. I don't set up to be a fighting man, Senor Samson, but only the best and most loyal squire that ever served knight-errant; and if my master Don Quixote, in consideration of my many faithful services, is pleased to give me some island of the many his worship says one may stumble on in these parts, I will take it as a great favour; and if he does not give it to me, I was born like everyone else,

sor; but, for all that, put your trust in God and in Senor Don

ter would not throw the kingdom he might give me into a sack all in holes; for I have felt my own pulse and I

e manners, and perhaps when you find yourself a

ose who have the fat of an old Christian four fingers deep on their souls, as I hav

we shall see when the government co

ad by putting together the first letters. The bachelor replied that although he was not one of the famous poets of Spain, who were, they said, only three and a half, he would not fail to compose the required verses; though he saw a great difficulty in the task, as the letters which made up the name were seventeen; so, if

, "for unless the name stands there plain and manifest

as, and from his niece and the housekeeper, lest they should prevent the execution of his praiseworthy and valiant purpose. Carrasco promised all, and then took his leave, charging Don Quixote