PP chapter 21 which treats of the exalted adventure and Rich prize of Marino’s helmet together with other things that happened to our Invincible night it now began to rain a little and Sancho was for going into the foing Mills but Don kote had taken such an abhorrence to them on account of the
Late joke that he would not enter them on any account so turning aside to write They Came Upon another road different from that which they had taken the night before shortly afterwards Don keot perceived a man on Horseback who wore on his head something that Shone like gold
And the moment he saw him he turned to Sancho and said I think Sancho there is no proverb that is not true all being maxims drawn from experience itself the mother of all the Sciences especially that one that says or one door shuts another opens I say so because if last
Night Fortune shut the door of the adventure we were looking for against us cheating us with the fooling Mills it now opens wi another one for another better and more certain adventure and if I do not contrive to enter it it will be my own fault and I cannot lay it to my
Ignorance of fulling Mills or the darkness of the night I say this because if I mistake not there comes towards us one who wears on his head the helmet of momino concerning which I took the oath thou rememberest mind what you say your worship and still more what you do said
Sancho for I don’t want any more fing Mills to finish off foing and knocking our senses Out the Devil take thee man said Don kote what has a helmet to do with fooling Mills I don’t know replied Sancho but faith if I might speak as I used perhaps I could give such reasons
That your worship would see you were mistaken in what you say how could I be mistaken in what I say unbelieving traitor return Don kote tell me cease thou not Yonder Knight coming towards us on a dappled gray Steed who has upon his head a helmet of gold what I see and
Make out answered Sancho is only a man on a gray ass like my own who has something that shines on his head well that is the helmet of momino said Don kot stand to one side and leave me alone with him Thou shalt see how without
Saying a word to save time I shall bring this adventure to an issue and possess myself of the helmet I have so longed for I will take care to stand aside said Sancho but God grant I say once more that it may be maram and not fing Mills
I have told thee brother on no account to mention those fooling Mills to me again said Don kote or I vow and I say no more I’ll fool the soul out of you Sancho held his peace in dread lest his master should Carry Out The Vow he had
Hurled like a bowl at him the fact of the matter as regards the helmet steeve and Knight that Don keyote saw was this in that neighborhood there were two villagers one of them so small that it had neither Apothecary shop nor Barber which the other that was close to it had
So The Barber of the larger served the smaller and in it there was a sick man who required to be bled and another man who wanted to be shaved and on this errand the barber was going carrying with him a brass Basin but his luck
Would have it as he was on the way it began to rain and not to spoil his hat which probably was a new one he put the Basin on his head and being clean and glittered at half a League’s distance he rode upon a gray ass as Sancho said and
This was what made it seem to Don kote to be a dappled gry Ste and a knight and a golden helmet for everything he saw he made to fall in with his crazy chivalry and Ill erant Notions and when he saw the poor Knight draw near without
Entering into any parley with him at rosin’s top speed he bored down upon him with the pike pointed low fully determined to run him through and through and as he reached him without checking the fury of his charge he cried to him defend thyself miserable being or
Yield me of thine own accord that which is so reasonably my due the barber who without any expectation or apprehension of it saw this Apparition coming down upon him had no other way of saving himself from the stroke of the Lance but to let himself fall off his ass and no
Sooner had he touched the ground than he sprang up more nimbly than a deer and sped away across the plane faster than the wind he left the Basin on the ground with which Don keot contented himself saying that the Pagan had shown his discretion and imitated the beaver which
Finding itself pressed by the Hunter’s bites and cuts off with its teeth that for which by its natural instinct it knows it is pursued he told Sancho to pick up the helmet and he taking it in his hand said by God the Basin is a good
One and worth a re of eight if it is worth a maret and handed it to his master who immediately put it on his head turning it round now this way now that in search of fitment and not finding it he said clearly the Pagan to whose measure this famous headpiece was
First forged must have had a very large head but the worst of it is half of it is wanting when Sancho heard him call the Bas in a headpiece he was unable to restrain his laughter but remembering his master’s wrath he checked himself in the midst of it what art thou laughing
At Sancho said Don kote I am laughing said he think of the great head the Pagan must have had who owned this helmet for it looks exactly like a regular Barber’s Basin does thou know what I suspect Sancho said Don kote that this wonderful piece of this Enchanted
Helmet must by some strange accident have come into the hands of someone who was unable to recognize or realize its value and who not knowing what he did and seeing it to be of the purest gold must have melted down one half for the sake of what it might be worth and of
The other made this which is like a Barber’s Basin as thou sayest but be it as it may to me who recognize it its transformation makes no difference for I will set it to rights at the first village where there is a blacksmith and in such style that that helmet the god
Of smithies forged for the god of battles shall not surpass it or even come up to it and in the meantime I will wear it as well as I can for something is better than nothing all the more as it will be quite enough to protect me
From any chance blow of a stone that is said Sancho if it is not shot with a sling as they were in the battle of the two armies when they signed the cross on your worships Grinders and smash the flask with that blessed draft that made me vomit my bowels up it does
Not grieve me much to have lost it said Don kote for thou knowest Sancho that I have the receipt in my memory so have I answered Sancho but if ever I make it or try it again as long as I live may this be my last hour moreover I have no
Intention of putting myself in the way of wanting it for I mean with all my five senses to keep myself from being wounded or from wounding anyone as to being blanketed again I say nothing for it is hard to prevent mishaps of that sort and if they come there is nothing
For it but to squeeze our shoulders together hold our breath shut our eyes and let ourselves go where luck and the blanket may send us thou art a bad Christian Sancho said Don kote on hearing this for once an injury has been done the thou never forgett us it but
Know that it is the part of noble and generous Hearts not to attach importance to Trifles what lame leg hast thou got by it what broken rib what cracked head that thou c not forget that justest for just and Sport it was properly regarded
And had I not seen it in that light I would have returned and done more Mischief in revenging thee than the Greeks did for the rape of Helen who if she were alive now or if my dlsa had lived then might depend upon it she
Would not be so famous for her beauty as she is and here he heaved a sigh and sent it a loft and said Sancho let it pass for a Gest as it cannot be revenged in Earnest but I know what sort of best and Earnest it was and I know it will
Never be rubbed out of my memory any more than off my shoulders but putting that aside will your worship tell me what are we to do with this dapple gry Steed that looks like a gray ass which that Martino that your worship overthrew has left deserted here four from the way
He took to his heels and bolted he is not likely ever to come back for it and by my beard but the gray is a good one I have never been in the habit said Don kot of taking spoil of Those whom I Vanquish nor is it the practice of
Chivalry to take away their horses and and leave them to go on foot unless indeed it be that the Victor have lost his own in the combat in which case it is lawful to take that of the vanquished as a thing one in lawful War therefore Sancho leave this horse or ass or
Whatever thou Wilt have it to be for when its owner sees us gone hence he will come back for it God knows I should like to take it return Sancho or at least to change it for my own which does not seem to me as good a one verily the
Laws of chivalry are strict since they cannot be stretched to let one ass be changed for another I should like to know if I might at least change trappings on that head I am not quite certain answered Don kote and the matter being doubtful pending better information I say thou mayest change
Them if so be thou Hast urgent need of them so urgent is it answered Sancho that if they were for my own person I could not want them more and forthwith fortified by this license he affected the mutch karum rigging out his Beast to the 99s and making quite another thing
Of it this done they broke their fast on the remains of The Spoils of War plundered from the Sumpter mule and drank of the Brook that flowed from the fooling Mills without casting a look in that direction in such loathing did they hold them for the alarm they had caused
Them and all anger and Gloom removed they mounted and without taking any fixed Road not to fix upon any being the proper thing for True Knights Aaron they set out Guided by rosin’s Will which carried along with it that of his master not to say that of the ass which always
Followed him wherever he led lovingly and sobly nevertheless they returned to the high road and pursued it at Adventure without any other aim as they went along then in this way Sancho said to his master seor would your worship give me leave to speak a little to you
For since you laid that hard injunction of Silence on me several things have gone to rot in my stomach and I have now just one on the tip of my tongue that I don’t want to be spoiled say on Sancho said Don kote and be brief in thy
Discourse for there is no pleasure in one that is long well then seor return Sancho I say that for some days past I have been considering how little is God or gained by going in search of these Adventures that your worship seeks in these wilds and Crossroads where even if
The most perilous are victoriously achieved there is no one to see or know of them and so they must be left Untold forever to the loss of your worships object and the credit they deserve therefore it seems to me it would be better saving your worships better
Judgment if we were to go and serve some Emperor or other great prince who may have some war on hand in whose service your worship may prove the worth of your person your great might and greater understanding on perceiving which the Lord in whose service we may will
Perforce have to reward us each according to his merits and there you will not be at a loss for someone to set down your achievements in writing so as to preserve their memory forever of my own I say nothing as they will not go beyond squirly limits though I make bold
To say that if it be the practice in Chivalry to write the achievements of Squires I think mine must not be left out thou speakest not a Miss Sancho answered Don kote but before that point is reached it is requisite to roam the world as it were on probation seeking
Adventures in order that by achieving some name and fame may be acquired such that when he betakes himself to the court of some great Monarch the Knight may be already known by his deeds and that the boys the instant they see him enter the Gate of the city may all
Follow him and Surround him crying this is the night of the Sun or the serpent or any other title under which he may have achieved great Deeds this they will say is he who vanquished in single combat the gigantic Bruno of Mighty strength he who delivered the great
Mamalu of Persia out of the long enchantment under which he had been for almost 900 years so from one to another they will go proclaiming his achievements and presently at the tumult of the boys and the others the king of that Kingdom will appear at the windows
Of his Royal Palace and as soon as he beholds the Knight recognizing him by his arms and the device on his shield he will as a matter of course say what ho forth all ye the Knights of my court to receive the flower of chivalry who cometh hither at which command all will
Issue forth and he himself advancing halfway down the stairs will Embrace him closely and salute him kissing him on on the cheek and will then lead him to the Queen’s chamber where the Knight will find her with the princess her daughter who will be one of the most beautiful
And accomplished damsels that could with the utmost pains be discovered anywhere in the Known World straightway it will come to pass that she will fix her eyes upon the night and he is upon her and each will seem to the other something more Divine than human and without
Knowing how or why they will be taken and entangled in the inextricable toils of love and sorely distressed in their hearts not to see any way of making their pains and sufferings known by speech then they will lead him no doubt to some richly adorned Chamber Of The
Palace where having removed his armor they will bring him a rich mantle of scarlet wherewith to robe himself and if he looked Noble in his armor he will look still more so in a dublet when Night comes he will Su with the king queen and princess and all the time he
Will never take his eyes off her stealing stealthy glances unnoticed by those present and she will do the same and with equal cautiousness being as I have said a damsel of great discretion the tables being removed suddenly through the door of the hall there will enter a hideous and diminutive dwarf
Followed by a fair Dame between two giants who comes with a certain Adventure the work of an ancient sage and he who shall achieve it shall be deemed the best Knight in the world the king will then command all those present to essay it and none will bring it to an
End and conclusion Save The Stranger Knight to the great enhancement of his Fame where at the princess will be overjoyed and will esteem herself happy and fortunate in having fixed and placed her thoughts so high and the best of it is that this king or Prince or whatever
He is is engaged in a very bitter war with another as powerful as himself and the stranger Knight after having been some days at his court requests leave from him to go and serve him in the said War the King will grant it very readily and the Knight will courteously kiss his
Hands for the favor done to him and that night he will take leave of his lady the princess at the grading of the chamber where she sleeps which looks upon a garden and at which he has already many times conversed with her that go between and Confidant in the matter being at
Damsel much trusted by the princess he will sigh she will Swoon at Dam will fetch water much distressed because morning approaches and for the honor of her lady he would not that they were discovered at last the princess will come to herself and will present her white hands through the gring to the
Knight who will kiss them a thousand and a thousand times bathing them with his tears it will be arranged between them how they are to inform each other of their good or evil fortunes and the princess will entreat him to make his absence as short as possible which he
Will promise to do with many Oaths once more he kisses her hands and takes his leave in such grief that he is well nigh ready to die he takes him then to his chamber flings himself on his bed cannot sleep for sorrow at parting Rises early
In the morning goes to take leave of the king queen and princess and as he takes his leave of the peir it is told him that the princess is indisposed and cannot receive a visit the Knight thinks it is from grief at his departure his heart is pierced and he is hardly able
To keep from showing his pain The Confidant is present observes all goes to tell her mistress who listens with tears and says that one of her greatest distresses is not knowing who this night is and whether he is a of kingly lineage or not the damsel assures her that so
Much courtesy gentleness and gallantry of bearing as her Knight possesses could not exist in any save one who was Royal and illustrious her anxiety is thus relieved and she strives to be of good cheer lest she should excite suspicion in her parents and at the end of two
Days she appears in public meanwhile the Knight has taken his departure he fights in the war conquers the King’s enemy wins many cities triumphs in many battles returns to the court sees his lady where he was want to see her and it is agreed that he shall demand her in
Marriage of her parents as the reward of his Services the king is unwilling to give her as he knows not who he is but nevertheless whether carried off or in whatever other way it may be the princess comes to be his bride and her father comes to regard it as very good
Fortune for it so happens that this night is proved to be the son of a valiant king of some Kingdom I know not what for I fancy it is not likely to be on the map the father dies the princess inherits and in two words the Knight
Becomes king and here comes in at once the bestow of rewards upon his Squire and all who have aided him in Rising to so exalted a rank he marries his Squire to a damsel of the princesses who will be no doubt the one who was Confidant in
Their Amore and is daughter of a very great Duke that’s what I want and no mistake about it said Sancho that’s what I’m waiting for for all this word for word is in store for your worship under the title of the night of the ruthful countenance th needs not doubt it Sancho
Replied Don kote for in the same manner and by the same steps as I described here Knights arent rise and have risen to be Kings and Emperors all we want now is to find out what king Christian or Pagan is at War and has a beautiful daughter but there will be time enough
To think of that for as I have told thee Fame must be one in other quarters before repairing to the court there is another thing two that is wanting for supposing we find a king who is at War and has a beautiful daughter and that I have one incredible Fame throughout the
Universe I know not how it can be made out that I am of Royal lineage or even second cousin to an emperor for the king will not be willing to give me his daughter in marriage unless he is first thoroughly satisfied on this point however much my famous Deeds May deserve
It so that by this deficiency I fear I shall lose what my arm has fairly earned true it is I am a gentleman of known House of estate and property and entitled to the 500 suos M and it may be that the sage who shall write my history
Will so clear up my ancestry and pedigree that I may find myself fifth or sixth in descent from a king for I would have thee know Sancho that there are two kinds of lineages in the world some there be tracing and deriving their descent from Kings and princes whom time
Has reduced little by little until they end in a point like a pyramid upside down and others who spring from the common herd and go on Rising step by step until they come to be great Lords so that the difference is that the one were what they no longer are and the
Others are what they formerly were not and I may be of such that after investigation my origin may prove great and famous with which the king my father-in-law that is to be ought to be satisfied and should he not be the princess will so love me that even
Though she well knew me to be the son of a water carrier she will take me for her Lord and husband in spite of her father if not then it comes to seizing her and carrying her off where I please for time or death will put an end to the wrath of
Her parents it comes to this to said Sancho what some naughty people say never ask as a favor what thou cast take by force though it would fit better to say a clear Escape is better than good men’s prayers I say so because if my Lord the king your worships
Father-in-law will not condescend to give you my lady the princess there is nothing for it but as your worship says to seize her and transport her but the Mischief is that until peace is made and you come into the peaceful enjoyment of your kingdom the poor Squire is
Famishing as far as rewards go unless it be that The Confidant damsel that is to be his wife comes with the princess and that with her he ties over his bad luck until Heaven otherwise orders things for his master I suppose may as well give
Her to him at once for a lawful wife nobody can object to that said Don kote then since that may be said Sancho there is nothing for it but to commend ourselves to to God and let Fortune take what course it will God guided according
To my wishes and thy wants said Don keot and mean be he who thinks himself mean in God’s name let him be so said Sancho I am an old Christian and to fit me for a that’s enough and more than enough for thee said Don kote and even W thou not
It would make no difference because I being the king can easily give thee nobility without purchase or service rendered by thee for when I make the account then thou art at once a gentleman and they may say what they will but by by faith they will have to
Call to your lordship whether they like it or not not a doubt of it and I’ll know how to support the tit said Sancho title thou should say not TI said his master so be it answered Sancho I say I will know how to behave for once in my
Life I was Beetle of a Brotherhood and The Beetles gown sat so well on me that all said I looked as if I was to be Steward of the same Brotherhood what will it be then when I put a Duke’s robe on my back or dress myself in gold and
Pearls like a count I believe they’ll come 100 leagues to see me thou Wilt look well said Don keot but thou must shave thy beard often for thou Hast it so thick and rough and unkempt that if thou dust not shave it every second day
At least they will see what thou art at the distance of a musket shot what more will it be said Sancho than having a barber and keeping him at wages in the house and even if it be necessary I will make him go behind me like a nobleman
Eiry why how dust thou know that nobl men have equiries behind them asked Don keot I will tell you answered Sancho years ago I was for a month at the capital and there I saw taking the heir a very small gentleman who they said was
A very great man and a man following him on Horseback in every turn he took just as if he was his tail I asked why this man did not join the other man instead of always going behind him they answered me that he was his eiry and that it was
The custom with Nobles to have such persons behind them and ever since then I know it for I have never forgotten it thou artart right said Don kote and in the same way thou mayest care carry thy Barber with thee for Customs did not come into use altogether nor were they
All invented at once and thou mayest be the first count to have a barber to follow him and indeed shaving one’s beard is a greater trust than saddling one’s horse let the barber business be my Lookout said Sancho and your worships be it to strive to become a king and
Make me account so it shall be answered Don kote and raising his eyes he saw what will be told in the following chapter chapter 22 of the freedom Don K conferred on several unfortunates wh against their will were being carried where they had no wish to go Sid Benelli
The Arab and Manan author relates in this most grave High sounding minute delightful and original history that after the discussion between the famous Don kote of La Mancha and his Squire Sancho Pono which is set down at the end of chapter 21 Don keot raised his eyes
And saw coming along the road he was following some dozen men on foot strung together by the neck like beads on a great iron chain and and all with manacles on their hands with them there came also two men on Horseback and two on foot those on Horseback with Will
Luck muskets those on foot with javelins and swords and as soon as Sancho saw them he said that is a chain of Galley slaves on the way to the gys by force of the kingk orders how by force asked Don keot is it possible that the king uses
Force against anyone I do not say that answered Sancho but that these are people condemned for their crimes to serve by force in the kingk galleys in fact replied Don kote however it may be these people are going where they are taking them by force and not of their
Own will just so said Sancho then if so said Don keot here is a case for the exercise of my office to put down force and to sucker and help The Wretched recollect your worship said Sancho Justice which is the king himself is not using force or doing wrong to such
Persons but punishing them for their crimes the chain of Galley slaves had by this time come up up and Don kote in very courteous language asked those who were in custody of it to be good enough to tell him the reason or reasons for which they were conducting these people
In this manner one of the guards on Horseback answered that they were Galley slaves belonging to his majesty that they were going to the GS and that was all that was to be said and all he had any business to know nevertheless replied Don kote I should like to know
From each of them separately the reason of his Misfortune to this he added more to the same effect to induce them to tell him what he wanted so civil that the other mounted guard said to him though we have here the register and certificate of the sentence of every one
Of these wretches this is no time to take them out or read them come and ask themselves they can tell if they choose and they will for these fellows take a pleasure in doing and talking about rasali with this permission which Don keot would have taken even had they not
Granted it he approached the chain and asked the first for what offenses he was now in such a sorry case he made answer that it was for being a lover for that only replied Don keot why if for being lover they send people to the GS I might
Have been rowing in them long ago the love is not the sort your worship is thinking of said the galley slave mine was that I loved a washer woman’s basket of clean linen so well and held it so close In My Embrace that if the arm of
The law had not forced it from me I should never have let it go of my own will to this moment I was caught in the act there was no occasion for torture the case was settled they treated me to a 100 lashes on the back and three years
Of gpas besides and that was the end of it what are gpas asked Don kote gpas are GS answered the gley slave who was a young man of about 4 and 20 and said he was a native of pita Don kote asked the same question of the second who made no
Reply so downcast and Melancholy was he but the first answered for him and said he sir goes as a canary I mean as a musician and a singer what said Don kote for being musicians and singers are people sent to the GLE too yes sir answered the galley slave for there is
Nothing worse than singing Under suffering on the contrary I have heard say said Don kote that he who sings scares away his woes here it is the reverse said the gley slave for he who sings once weeps all his life I do not understand it said Don keot but one of
The guards said to him sir to sing Under suffering means with the non-sun to fraternity to confess under torture they put this sinner to the torture and he confessed his crime which was being a quatero that is a cattle stealer and on his confession they sentenced him to six
Years in the gys besides 200 lashes that he has already had on the back and he is always dejected and downcast because the other thieves that were left behind and that march here ill treat and snub and Jer and despise him for confessing and not having Spirit enough to say nay for
Say they nay has no more letters in it than yay and a culprit is well off when life or death with him depends on his own tongue and not on that of witnesses or evidence and to my thinking they are not very far out and I think so too
Answered Don kote then passing on to the third he asked him what he had asked the others and the man answered very readily and unconcernedly I am going for 5 years to their lady ships the gpas for the one of 10 duckets I will give 20 with
Pleasure to get you out of that trouble said Don keot that said the galley slave is like a man having money at Sea when he is dying of hunger and has no way of buying what he wants I say so because if at the right time I had those 20 duckets
That your worship now offers me I would have greased the notary’s pen and freshened up the attorney’s wit with them so that today I should be in the middle of the plaza of the zoko over at Toledo and not on this road coupled like a greyhound but God is great patience
There that’s enough of it Don kote passed on to the fourth a man of venerable aspect with a white beard falling below his breast who on hearing himself asked the reason of his being there began to weep without answering a word but the fifth acted as his tongue
And said this worthy man is going to the gys for four years after having gone the rounds in ceremony and on Horseback that means said Sancho pona as I take it to have been exposed to shame in public just so replied The Galley slave and the offense for which they gave him that
Punishment was having been an ear broker nay body broker I mean in short that this gentleman goes as a pimp and for having besides a certain touch of the sorcerer about him if that touch had not been thrown in said Don kote he would not deserve for mere pimping to row in
The gleys but rather to command and be Admiral of them for the office of pimp is no ordinary one being the office of persons of discretion one very necessary in a well-ordered state and only to be exercised by persons of good birth nay there ought to be an inspector and
Overseer of them as in other offices and recognized number as with the Brokers on change in this way many of the evils would be avoided which are caused by this office and calling being in the hands of stupid and ignorant people such as women more or less silly and pages
And gestures of little standing and experience who on the most urgent occasions and when Ingenuity of contrivance is needed let the crumbs freeze on the way to their mouths and know not which is their right hand I should like like to go farther and give reasons to show that it is advisable to
Choose those who are to hold so necessary an office in the state but this is not the fit place for it someday I will expound the matter to someone able to see to and rectify it all I say now is that the additional fact of his being a sorcerer has removed the sorrow
It gave me to see these white hairs and this venerable countenance in so painful a position on account of his being a pimp though I know well there are no sorceries in the world that can move or compel the will is some simple folk fancy for our will is free nor is there
Herb or Charm that can en force it all that certain silly women and quacks do is to turn men mad with potions and poisons pretending that they have power to cause love for as I say it is an impossibility to compel the will it is true said the good old man and indeed
Sir as far as the charge of sorcery goes I was not guilty as to that of being a pimp I cannot deny it but I never thought I was doing any harm by it for my only object was that all the world should enjoy itself and live in peace
And quiet without quarrels or troubles but my good intentions were unavailing to save me me from going where I never expect to come back from with this weight of years upon me into urinary ailment that never gives me a moment’s ease and again he fell to weeping as
Before and such compassion did Sancho feel for him that he took out a reel of four from his bosom and gave it to him in arms Don kote went on and asked another what his crime was and the man answered with no less but rather much more sprightliness than the last one I
Am here because I carried the joke to far with a couple of cousins of mine and with a couple of other cousins who were none of mine in short I carried the joke so far with them all that it ended in such a complicated increase of Kindred
That no accountant could make it clear it was all proved against me I got no favor I had no money I was near having my neck stretched they sentenced me to the gys for 6 years I accepted my fate it is the punishment of my fault I am a
Young man let life only last and with that all will come right if you sir have anything wherewith to help the poor God will repay it to you in heaven and we on Earth will take care in our petitions to him to pray for the life and health of
Your worship that they may be as long and as good as your amiable appearance deserves this one was in the dress of a student and one of the guards said he was a great talker and a very elegant Latin scholar behind all these there came a man of 30 a very personable
Fellow except that when he looked his eyes turned in a little one towards the other he was bound differently from the rest for he had to his leg a chain so long that it was wound all around his body and two rings on his neck one
Attached to the chain the other to what they call a keep friend or friend’s foot from which hung two irons reaching to his waist with two manacles fixed to them in which his hands were secured by a big padlock so that he could neither raise his hands to his mouth nor lower
His head to his hands donot asked why this man carried so many more chains than the others the guard replied that it was because he alone had committed more crimes than all the rest put together and was so daring and such a villain that though they marched him in
That fashion they did not feel sure of him but were in dread of his making his Escape what crimes can he have committed said Don keot if they have not deserved a heavier punishment than being sent to the gyss he goes for 10 years replied the guard which is the same thing as
Civil death and all that need be said is that this good fellow is the famous anesta pamon otherwise called Jilla to Parilla gently seor commissary said the G Slave at this let us have no fixing of names or surnames my name is aness not jillo and my family name is pamon not
Parilla as you say Let each one mind his own business and he will be doing enough speak with less impertinence Master thief of extra measure replied the commissary if you don’t want me to make you hold your tongue in spite of your teeth it is easy to see return the
Galley slave that man goes as God pleases but someone shall know someday whether I am called jillo to par a pillow or not don’t they call you so you liar said the guard they do return aness but I will make them give over calling
Me so or I will be shaved where I only say behind my teeth if you sir have anything to give us give it to us at once once and God speed you for you are becoming tiresome with all this inquisitiveness about the lives of others if you want to know about mine
Let me tell you I am hesta pamon whose life is written by these fingers he says true said the commissary for he has himself written his story as Grand as you please and has left the book in the prison in Pawn for 200 reals and I mean
To take it out of Pawn said Hess though it were in for 200 duckets is it so good said Don keot so good is it replied Hess that a fig for lar rotores and all of that kind that have been written or shall be written compared with it all I
Will say about it is that it deals with facts and facts so neat and diverting that no lies could match them and how is the book entitled asked Don kote the life of hesta pamon replied the subject of it and is it finished asked Don kote
How can it be finished said the other when my life is not yet finished all that is written is from my birth down to the point when they sent me to the G this last time then you have been there before said Don kote in the service of
God and the king I have been there for 4 years before now and I know by this time what the biscuit and kbash are like replied iness and it is no great grievance to me to go back to them for there I shall have time to finish my
Book I have still many things left to say and in the gleys of Spain there is more than enough Leisure though I do not want much for what I have to write for I have it by heart you seem a clever fellow said Don kote and an unfortunate
One replied Hess for Misfortune always persecutes good Wit It persecutes Rogues said the commissary I told you all ready to go gently Master commissary said pamon their Lordships Yonder never gave you that staff to Ill treat us wretches here but to conduct and take us where
His majesty orders you if not by the life of never mind it may be that someday the stains made in the end will come out in the scouring let everyone hold his tongue and behave well and speak better and now let us march on for we have had quite enough of this entertainment
The commissary lifted his staff to strike pamon in return for his threats but Don kote came between them and begged him not to use him as it was not too much to allow one who had his hands tied to have his tongue a trifle free and turning to the whole chain of them
He said from all you have told me dear Brethren make out clearly that though they have punished you for your faults the punishments you are about to endure do not give you much pleasure and that you go to them very much Against the Grain and against your will and that
Perhaps this one’s one of Courage under torture that one’s one of money the other is one of advocacy and lastly the perverted Judgment of the judge may have been the cause of your ruin and of your failure to obtain the Justice you had on your side all which presents itself now
To my mind urging persuading and even compelling me to demonstrate in your case the purpose for which heaven sent me into the world and caused me to make profession of the order of chivalry to which I belong and The Vow I took therein to give Aid to those in need and
Under the oppression of the strong but as I know that it is a mark of prudence not to do by foul means what may be done by fair I will ask these gentle gentlemen the guards and commissary to be so good as to release you and let you
Go in peace as there will be no lack of others to serve the king under more favorable circumstances for it seems to me a hard case to make slaves of Those whom God and nature have made free moreover sers of the Guard added Don kote these poor fellows have done
Nothing to you let each answer for his own sins Yonder there is a God in heaven who will not forget to punish the wicked or reward the good and it is not fitting that honest men should be the instruments of punishment to others they being therein no way concerned
This request I make thus gently and quietly that if you comply with it I may have reason for thanking you and if you will not voluntarily this Lance and sword together with the might of my arm shall compel you to comply with it by force nice nonsense said the commissary
A fine piece of pleasantry he has come out with at last he wants us to let the kingk prisoners go as if we had any authority to release them or he to order us to do so go your way sir and good luck to you put that Basin straight that
You’ve got on your head and don’t don’t go looking for three feet on a catti you that are the cat rat and Rascal replied Don keot and acting on the word he fell upon him so suddenly that without giving him time to defend himself he brought
Him to the ground sorely wounded with a lance thrust and lucky it was for him that it was the one that had the musket the other guards stood thunderstuck and amazed at this unexpected event but recovering presence of Mind those on Horseback seized their swords and those
On foot their javelins and attacked Don kote who was waiting for them with great calmness and no no doubt it would have gone badly with him if the galley slaves seeing the chance before them of liberating themselves had not affected it by contriving to break the chain on
Which they were strung such was the confusion that the guards now rushing at the galley slaves who were breaking loose now to attack Don keot who was waiting for them did nothing at all that was of any use Sancho on his part gave a helping hand to release anesta pasamonte
Who was the first to LEAP forth upon the plane free and unfettered and who attacking the prostrate commissary took from him his sword and the musket with which aiming at one and leveling at another he without ever discharging it drove every one of the guards off the
Field for they took to flight as well to escape pason’s musket as the showers of stones the now relased Galley slaves were reigning upon them Sancho was greatly grieved at the affair because he anticipated that those who had fled would report the matter to the holy Brotherhood who at the Summons of the
Alarm Bell would at once Sally Forth in quest of the offenders and he said so to his master and entreated him to leave the place at once and go into hiding in the Sierra that was close by that is all very well said Don keot but I know what
Must be done now and calling together all the galley slaves who were now running Riot and had stripped the commissary to the skin he collected them round him to hear what he had to say and addressed them as follows to be grateful for benefits received is the part of
Persons of good birth and one of the sins most offensive to God is in gratitude I say so because sir ye have already seen by manifest proof the benefit ye have received of me in return for which I desire and and it is my good pleasure that Laden with that chain
Which I have taken off your necks ye at once set out and proceed to the city of El toboso and there present yourselves before the lady DSA Del toboso and say to her that her Knight he of the ruthful countenance sends to commend himself to
Her and at ye recount to her in full detail all the particulars of this notable Adventure up to the recovery of your long for Liberty and this done you may go where you will and good fortune attend you hesta pasamonte made answer for all saying that which you sir our
Deliverer demand of us is of all impossibilities the most impossible to comply with because we cannot go together along the roads but only singly and separate and each one his own way endeavoring to hide ourselves in the bowels of the earth to escape the holy Brotherhood which no doubt will come out
In search of us what your worship may do and fairly do is to change this service and tribute as regards the lady delsa Del toboso for a certain quantity of a maras and credos which we will say for your worships intention and this is a condition that had to be complied with
By night as by day running or resting in peace or in war but to imagine that we are going now to return to the flesh pots of Egypt I mean to take up our chain and set out for El toboso is to imagine that it is now night though it
Is not yet 10 in the morning and to ask this of us is like asking pairs of the elm tree then by all that’s good said Don kote now stirred to wrath Don son of a Don jillo to parapo or whatever your name is you will have to go
Yourself alone with your tail between your legs and the whole chain on your back pamon who was anything but Meek being by this time thoroughly convinced that Don keot was not quite right in his head as he had committed such a vager as to set them free finding himself abused in this
Fashion gave the wink to his companions and falling back they began to shower stones on Don kote at such a rate that he was quite unable to protect himself with his Buckler and poor rosinante no more heated the spur than if he had been made of brass Sancho planted himself
Behind his ass and with him sheltered himself from the hail storm that poured on both of them Don keot was unable to Shield himself so well but that more Pebbles than I could count struck him full on the body with such force that they brought him to the ground and the
Instant he fell the student pounced upon Him snatched the Basin from his head and with it struck three or four blows on his shoulders and as many more on the ground knocking it almost to Pieces they then stripped him of a jacket that he wore over his armor and they would have
Stripped off his stockings if his gaves had not prevented them from sancha they took his coat leaving him in his shirt sleeves and dividing among themselves the remaining spoil of the battle they went each one his own way more solicitous about keeping clear of the Holy Brotherhood they dreaded than about
Burdening themselves with a chain or going to present themselves before the lady dsad Del toboso the ass and rosinante Sancho and Don kote were all that were left upon the spot the ass with drooping head serious shaking his ears from time to time as if he thought
The storm of stones that assailed them was not yet over rosinante stretched beside his master for he too had been brought to the ground by a stone Sancho RT and trembling with fear of the Holy Brotherhood and Don kote fuming to find himself so served by the very persons
For whom he had done so much PP sh
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