a ee ee - ta er 74% . * a Ar aera a ae 2. 2 a aa | Digitized by Google a “*Pe ~~ a THIS TO pe fete 2 | £23 MR “AC ! oY OF SMES. i : |THE ° VALOROVS [| AND WITTIE - & a Ine Honourable Lord; hauing BS g Tranflated fome fue or fixe yeares agoe,the Hiftoric of Don nf Quixote, out of the Spanilh re4 tongue into the Eng!ith, in the my {pace of forty daies: a ther- Q vnto more then halfe enforced, % through the importunitic of a very deere friend, that_was-defirous to vnderftand | the fubic@: AfterJ.had giucn him-oncea view there- | | of Icaftitafide, where it lay long time neglected in acorner,and fo little regarded by me as I ncucr once fet hand to reuiew or correct the fame. Since when, at the intreatie of others my fricnds,I was content to let itcome to light, conditionally , that {ome one or ther, would perufe and amend the crrours cfcaped; | —~ me = peti wee -. - = a: aie _- The Epifile Dedicstorie. =F, a 5 on] -my many affaires hindering mec from vnde | thatlabour. Now I vnder(tand bythe Print hi: the Copic was prefented to your Honour: whic, at the firft fomewhat difguftmee, becaufe as it mutt paffe, I feare much, 1 will proue farre vaworthy, ci-_ ther of your Noble view or protection. Yet finccit is mine,though abortiue, [doz humbly intreate,that your Honour will lend it a fauourable countenance, | there by to animate the parent thereof to preduce in time fome worthier fubiect, in your Honourable name, whofe marty rare vertues haue already rendred me {fo highly devoted to your feruice, as I will fome day giue very cuident tokens of the | fame, and till then I reft, Your Honoursmost affettionate|}: . _Sferuitor, T honnas Sheleon.. SST HOV maift beleewe mee( gentle Reader ) ot a3) without [wearing , that 1 could willingly BT) INC, defire this booke (08 a child .of underflas- | Bate ding jto be the mot beaut! fall; mallantawd Sy): diferect shat 9 pofsebly bringin | Bat I could not tranfgre(fe the order of Natare, wocretr caery thing begets hus leke:vebich being fo, what could my frevile and il-tild wit iagender, but the hiftory of 4 dry to- fled, & bumearons fas, full of various thoughts cr tonceits| + neuer before imagined of anyother: much like onewhowas | ingendred within fome neyfome prifon, where abdifiam-| = 1°. modsties heue taken poffc/ston, and all dolefull wopfes made | = | their habitation? feeing that reff, pleafant places, armenmt La by of she prelacs , the cheerefulucfe of cleeve skie,the mur-| weaving noyfe of the Cristal foustaines andthe quiet re- pofe of the fpirst ave great helpes for the moit barren Mu- les to [bow them felues fruitful snd tadbring forth snto the world [uch births as mayenrich it with admiration and delight.st oft times befals, that a father hath a chtld both by bith eusl-fauoured and quite deuoide of all perfection, \ | andyct the lone that hee beaves hems is fuch , as it caits a maske cner ine ties which binders bis discerning ¢ = a q 3 aulss be) To the Reader, faults and fimplicities thereof, and makes bim rather to deeme thems difcretions and beauty, andfotels them to his friends,for witty ietts and conceites. But (though in{hew a Father yet in truth buta flepfather to Don-Quixote) | will not be bors away by the violent current of the modern custome now a dates,and therefore intreate thee, with the teares alwmott in mine etes as ~~ 1ny others are wont to dee, (most deare Reader ) to pardon and dr fremble the faults which thoufbalt difcerne in this my fonne : for thouart neither bis kinfman nor fricnd, and thou hajt thy foule sn thy body,endthy free wil therein as abfolute as the bef}, and thon art in thine owne houfe wherein thou art as ab- Solute a Lardyes the King ts of bis fabfidies,andthou know. oft well she.commnon Proucrbe,that vnder my cloakea fi 9 for the King,a/l which doth exempt thee and makes thee free fromallre/pett and obligation ; and fo thou wsatit babdely fayof this brStory whutfoener thou {halt think good without feare eyther to be coutrolled for the enil, or rewar- ded for the geod that thou {halt {peake thereof. = = I would very faine haue prefented it unto thee pare oy naked, without the ornament of a Preface, or tie rabble. | ment andCdvelogue of the wented Sonntts,Epigrams,Po- | emsyElegses Or, which are wost to bee put at the begin- ning of bookes. For § dare fay unto thec that (although st colt me forme paines to compofe it) yet in no refpec? did it equalize that which Iteoke to make this preface which thou doft now reade. I tooke oftentimes my pts inmy hand towrite tt,and as often fet it downeagsin,as not knowing what I fhould wrrte,aud being amce in. mule with wy pe- | per befare me, my pen.in neime care,wine elbow onthe ta- | ble end my handon my checke, imagining what | might write, Tothe Reader. TD, . - write, there entred a friend of mine vacxpectedly, who ‘was avery diferet Cr pleafantly witted man:whofecing me [o penfatiue demanded of me the reafow of my mufing:and not consealing it from him, faid,that Lbethought my feife on my preface I was to make to Don-Quixotes biftery, ‘which did fomuch trouble mt,as I neither meane to neake any at all, nor publi{b- the biftory of the sits of fa noble « knight. For how can I chufe(quoth 1) but bee much con- founded at that which the old legiflator ( the Vulgar} will {ate, when it fees that after the cad of fo many yeeres (as | are (peat fince Ifirft flept in the bofore of oblauton )I come ost loaden with my gray hiires,and bring with mea booke as avy 45 4 kexe, verd of inuention, barren ef good Phrafe, peor of conecipts,and altogether empty both of learning c | eloquencer without quotations on the margents,or annota- sions in theendof the béok,wherwith Ifee other books ave fs4ddornted be they wener fo idle, fabulous, andprop bane : fo full of fentences of Ariftocle and Plato aed the other crew of the Philofophers,as admires the Readers, makes them belecuc that shefe Authors are very lesrned and elo- guent.And after whe they c#té Plutarch or Cicero, what can they [ay but thas they are the fayings of S: Thomas or other Doctors of the Charch : obferuing herein fo ingeni- os a Methode, as in one line they will paint you an ina- moured zall,and 1 the other will lay you downe a little (ece- wine deucut fermon,fo that tt ieagreat pleefare and de- light to reade or beare it, all which things muff bee wan- ting in nry booke,for nerther hane I any thing to cite on | the margent,or notein the end, and much le(fe dee 1 know what _tuthors I follow , to pat thems at the begtuning as the cisflomse is ,Ly the lester of the A.BC. beginning with | . q 4 Ariftotle x aes —.)~Ct - . ea. tes ————— owen gam es. To the Reader, Ariftotle, asd ending i2 Xenophon , or in Zoylus or | Leuxis. Although the oye wea Rasler, and the other « | Painter. Solikewife fall my booke want fonnmets at the be- ginning,at leaft finch fonnets, whofe Aathors bee Duker, Mar que(fes,Earles,Bithops Ladies or famous Poets. Al- though tf I-would aemand them of two or three Artifers of mine acquaintance Iknow they. would make mee fome fuch, as thofe of the moit renowned tw Spairie, wonld in no wife be able toeguall or compare withthenn, . Finally good fir and my very deer friend, quoth 1)! de refolue that Sit Don-Quixote remain intombed among the oldresords of the Mancha,w0tsfi heamen ordaine [ome | | | one to adore him withthe manygraces that are yet wane} | ting : for I finde my felfe wholy uxable to remedy them, ‘| through mine infufficiency and little learning: and al{g besanfe I ans naturally lazye end. wawillieg to-xoe fear. 4 ' ching for authors to fay that which I can fay well enough \ | lh dud bence practeded the perplexity and |. | extafie wheria you found me Munged. My friend hearing phat, and firiking bimfelfe on thefore bead , after « long | and lond laugber ais ke geod faith frseudyt hauempes at laft delinexea muy felfe-of a loagand intricate error wher-_ with Iwas poffe(fed all the time, of our acqnaratance , for | hither to Laccounted thee ener ts be difcreet and prudent in all thy actions , but now fee platnely that thou art as farre from that'l tooke thee to bev, 4s Heauen is frows the Earth. ; an ee oe | How is tt pofsible, that things of fo frail moment, and foenfie tobee redreffed,can awe force to [ufpend.and fwal- | low up fo ripe awit as yours hath feemed to beand fo fitted tobreak up andtrample.oucr the grease diffuulties thas Caz | To the Reader. | | | canbe propounded. This proceeds wot in good footh from| , | | defect of will, but from fuperfluity of flouth,and penury of difcourfe, wilt thou fee whether that fay bee trae or no? Listen then atteutinely awhile, and thou {halt perceiue bow in the swinkling of au eye, [will confound all the dif- frculsies and {upply all the wants which do fufpend,and af- fright thee from publifbing ta the world the Hidtory of | thy famous Don Qui-xote, thelight and mierour of all Knighthood Errant. | _ Say l pray thee quoth I (hearing what bee had faid, ) | | after what manger dof thou thinke to repleni{h the vacn- _ [teyofeny feareyand reduce the Chaes of y-confufran to (ay cleereneffeand light ? andhe replied: the firfi thing hereas thew foplt, of Sonnets, Epigrams, Eglogues Cre. (which are wanting for the beginning, andenght to bee written by crane and noble per{ous) may bee remedsed, if thou thy felfe wilt byt take a little paine fo.compaffe them, and thou weai/t after ware thi 2s thou pleafeft, and father | | thes on Prefter Lobn of the Indians, er the Emperor of Trapifonde whom L-knew were held to be famous Poets, and fuppofe they were not , but that some padantes cr pre- | | famptuons fellowes would backebite thee, and mxrmure | | | acacia this trath,thowacedft not waizh thems two ftrawes: | | for although they could prowe it to be an untruth, yet can- | wot they cut off thy bandfor it. == 7 _ Astouching Citations in the margent,and authors out of whons thou may/t collect fentences and fayings to infert in thy history, there is nothing elfe to be dorte,out to bogbe ; . | éntost fomelatine fertences that thou knoweit already by | | vote, or maySt get cajily with alitle labour:as for example, wher thou treatest of liberty and thraldome , thou. mayst | cite eae -——_——« [. -| cite that, non bene pro toto liberras venditur auro: & ‘Ly fade thy felfe flored with an other wotable notation, To the Keader, ' prefently quote Horace,or he whofcener els that faid st on | the mar ae If thon [bouldft/peak of the power of death, foepheard Dauid flew with the blow qi aflone inthe vale : ¢ booke of Kings, in }- the Chapter wherein thou {halt finde it written. a After allthis, to fhew that thon art learnedin hu- \- maine letters and a Cofmographer , take fome occafion to make mention of the riner Ta gusyand thu {halt prefent- | faying the river Tagus was fo caled of « king of Spaine, st takes tt beginning from {uch 4 place , and dies in the \ Ocean Seas , kifting fir it the Wales of the agen Citie1 of Lisborne: And fome are of opinion, that the aa ee . 0ere-— ‘Tothe Reader, thereof areof gold,cxc. If thon wilt treate of theeues,1|' will rectte the Hiftorie of Cacus to thee, for 1 know st by memorie. If of whoores or Curtezans, there thou hai the Bifbop of Mondonnedo, who will lend thee La- mia, Layda, asd Flora,whofe ansotation will gaine thee nofmall credit. If of cruel perfons, Quid will tender Me- dea. Jf of Inchaunters or Witches, Homer hath Ca- lipfo, aad Virgil Circe.. fof valerous Captaines, Lulius Cefar hall lend himfelfc in bis Commentaries to thee, andPlutatch {hall gine thee « thonfand Alexanders, If | thou dokt treate of loue, and bast but two ounces of the Thufcanelesguage, thou {halt incounter with Lion the Hebrew, whowill replenifb thy veffels with flore in that | kind, but if thou wilt not tranaile for st into flrange Countries thou haf here at home in thy boufe Fonfeca of the loue.of God, wheresn is deciphered all that either thou, or the moft ingeszons capacitic can defire to learne of that fubiett. In conclufion, there is nothing elfe tobe done but | that thou only indeanonr to name thofe sames, or to touch’ | thofe Hiflories in thine owne which I bane bere related, } andleaue the adding of Annotations Crcitations unto me, for I doe promife thee that I will both fillup the margent, end alfo pend foure or fiue fbeeses of aduantage at the end of the Booke. | oo: Now let vs come tothe citation of Authors , which o- ther Bookes hane, andthiee wanteth, the remedic hereof us very cafie, for thou needeft doe nought elfe but [eeke out a Boske that doth quote thems all from the Letter A. untill L.as thou faidtt thy felfe but euen now, andthon {bale fet that very fame Alphabet to thine own Booke. For although the little mece/sitce shat thou hadfite w/e, the er ¢; ° i #»* . we '@ a To the Reader, it in thy work,will prefently conuict thee of fallbood,ft maks | gaine nothing by the matter. Tet if I doe not erre in the| | conftderation of fowaichtie anaffatre,this Booke of thine .| a inuectine againf? Bookes of Kwighthood , a fubiedt | | shat thy labour doth ayme at no more then to diminifb the | with fignificant, plaine, honeft,and welordered words thy: tT Ee eg Eg ag TE an RFE RG ee Ue NENG a Poe ee ore no matter, and perhaps there may not a few bee foaundfo fimple,as to beleewe that thon haft holpe thy felfe inthe Narration of thy wmoft rmple and fincere Hiflarie, with: all their authorities. And though that laree ‘Catalbgue of Authors dee ferueto none othcr pur pofe, yet will it at liaft gine fome anthoritie to the Booke at the firft blafb: and - the rather ,becanfe none will bee fo mad 2a to flandtoexa. mine whether thou dof follow them or no, feerng theycan. needes none of allthefe things , for as much as it ws onely whereof Ariltotle seaer dreamed, Saint Balil faidwo- | thing, Cicero neuer heard any word. Nor doe the pane- \ tuslsties of tructh , nor obfernations of Aftrologie fall | withintheSpheare of fuch-fabulous leflings. Nor -dee | Geometrical dimenfions tmpartiteny thing nor thecon- futation of arguments vfxrped by Rhetoricke, nor ought). ‘ittoPreach unto any the mixtare of boly matters with prophane., (a motley wherewith no Chniftian well{bould be attyred,) oncly it hath neede to helpe it felfewithimi-.\ tation, for by how much the more tt ballexcell thercin,by \' fomuch the more will the worke bee efteemed. And fince.\ authoritie and acceptance that Bookes of Chiualrie hawe inthe world, and among the vulgar , there 1s no occafion |. | why thou {houldeft goe begging of fentences from Philofo- |. phers, fables from Pocts, Orations from Rhetoritians,or-\ ~ ¢@ ‘wyracles from the Saints, but onely endeauour to deliuer leustall el 4 = - & o oxumnreaec To the Reader. Toutall and cheerefull difcour(e, exprefsieg as peeve as | thow matest pofsibly thy intention , making thy conceites cleare,and not intricate or darke; and labour alfo that the melancholy Mare by the reading thereof, may bee urged | tolanghter, the pleafant di(pofition increased, the fimple | not cloyeds and that the indicions may edmire thy innen- | tron, the grese not de(pfe it, the pradent applande it . In i conclufion let thy prozect be to oucrthrow the sll compiled | Machina and bulke of thofe Knightly Bookes , abhorred | by many, but applauded by more. For if thow bri ng this | to pale, thon baff mot atchiened a fmall matter. Lliflned with very great atention to my friends /peech, andbis reasfons are fofirmely imprinted in my minde,as without making any replic unto thems , I approwed them allfor good , and framed my preface of them. wherein (fweste Reader) thow msaie/? perceive my friends difereti- on, my happineffeto mecte with fo zcod aCouncchonr at fuch apinch, and thine owne cafe, in finding fo plainely | 47d fincerely related, the Hiflorie of the famous Don Quixote of the Mancha , of whom st is the common opé- vatow of alithe inhabitants bordring on the fields of Mon- ticl, that be w.ts the mo chafte enamoured , andvaliant | | Kntght,that hath bene feenc,read, or heard of thefe many «| 48es. Lill not indeere the benefit and ferutce I haue done ! thvee Ly making thee acquainted with fo Noble and Ho- nourablea Knight, but onely doe defiyethat thou gratifie me for the notice of tbe fameus Sancho Pancha his Squire , In whow in mineopinion are deciphered all the Squtrelike graces difperfed throuzhout the vaine route of Knightly Bookes. And bere witball { bid thee farewell, | and doe not forget me. Vale. } lo | $a Certaine Sonnets, written by Knights Errant, Ladies, Squires,and Horfes, inthe praifeof DoNQvIXxoTE, _ his Dame, his Squire, and STEEDE, EERE Dees Ie A™mAD1S of Gaulcin praile of , Don- Quixote. Hou that my dolefull life didft imicate, When abfent, and difdained it betell, _ Deuoideofloy, larepentant ftate | Did leade, and on the Poore Rock’s top did dwell, Thou that the ftreames, fo often from thine eyes Didft fucke of {calding teares diguftfull brine : And without Peuter, Copper, Plate, likewife, Watt on the bare earth, oft conftrain’d to dine, Liue, of one thing fecure eternally, a That whilft bright Phebus hall his Horfes{purre, Through the fourth Spheares dilated Monarchie, Thy name (hall be renowmed, neere and furre. And as mong(t'Countries, thine is beft alone, | Sothall chine author, Peeres, on Earth haue none. Don Whom, as by miracle I furely lou'd : c ) Don Be trantrs of Greece to Don Qutxcte of the Mancha. Tore, I hackt, abolifhe, faid and did, - More then Knight Errant elfe on Earth hath done, I dcxtrous, valiant, and {0 ftout belide, Haue thoufand wrongs reueng gd, millions yndone, I haue done acts, that my fame eternize : : In Loue I courteous and fo Pcereles was; Giants, as if but dwarts, I did delpife : And yet no tine of L oue plaints, I Ice paffe. [ have held Fortune proftrate at my feetc, And by my witceafd on occafions top, Whofe wandring fteps, I led ~here I thought meete, And though beyond the CMoore my foaring hope, — Did crowne my hap, with all felicitie : Yet Great Quixote, doc 1 enuic thee. The Knight of theSunncALPHEBO, | to Don-Quixete. ¥ {word could not at all compare with thine, Spanifh Alphebe ! fullof curtefie : Nor thine armes valour, can be matche by mine, Though I was fearde, whete dayes both {pring and dic. Empires I skorn’d, and the vaft Monarchie, Of th’ orient ruddie (offred me in vaine) Tlefc, chat I rhe foueraigne face might fee, Of my Aurora, faire Clarsdsane. So banifht by difgrace, even very hell, Quak’c at mine armie; that did his furie came : Bue thou, illuftrious, Gorhe, Quirore! halt proud, : A A : a) re LD | ee | Thy valour for Dileineas fake, fo well, As both on earth hauc saind ecernall fame. Oxranno Fvyatroso, Peereof France, tc Don-Quixote of the Mancha, Houch thou art not a Peere,thou hatt no peere, Who might among ten thoufand Peeres be one; Nor fhale thou neuer any Peere haue heere, Who cuer conquering, vang’uifht waft ofnone. Quixote Yme Orlande, that caitzaway For faire eAngelica, croft rewioteli feas, And did fuch Trophies on Fames altar lay, As paffe oblivious wretch,many degrees. : Ner can I bee thy Peere, for Peerle(nefie, Is to thy prowes dew and great renoune, - Although I left, 2s wellas thou my wit: Yet mine thoumaift be, ifthy good fucceffe Mahe thee, the proud AZoore tame, and {chite thar Vs equals in difyrace, and being fit. a (crowne | ‘Soxis Dan, to Don-Quixote of | the Mancha. M Auere the rauings,that are fet abroach, And rumble vp and downe thytyoubled braine: Yct now thine acts Quixote can reproach Or thy proceedings, taxe as vile, orvaine, — Thy feates fhalbe, thy faireft ornament (Secing wrongs to'ndoe, thou goefithus about ) Although, with blowes, a thoufand times y-fhluc Toou wert, well nigh, yee'uea bythe mifcrcant route. on — And > . eee ~ a —_ ~ And if thy faire Dadcinea, fhall wrong By milregard, thy fairer expectation, And te thy cares will lend no ighta ing eare. Then Jet this comfore ali thy woes out weare That Sancho faild in brokers occupation, He foolith, cruell hee: thou, without tongue.. ee The Princes O-n 1 aN aofGreat Brittaine, to Lady Dulcinea de Tobofo, — YY Appie thafe which.fer more commoditie And tafe Dulemea tairc ! could bring topaffe, That Greene Witch, where T obofo is might bee - AndiLendawchane'd, where thy Kaights village was, Happre fhe chat might body and foule adorne With thy rich li'uery, and thy hie defire: Andtce thy happic Knight by honour borne. - -. Jo crueli combat, broach iag out his Ire. | Buchappicitthe, that might fo cleanly {cape From Amadis, as thou.haft whilome done 7 From that well manered Knight, Curteous Quixote: O! were I thee, Id’een’uy now once hap,. And hadbeene merry, when I mot did moane And tane my pleafure, without paying fhot,. Gandaline, Amadis of Gaules Squiresto Sancho Paitca, Don-Quixotes Squtre.. Aile famou’s.man! whom fortune hath fo blift When firft in Squitclike trade, it thee did place: As thou didft (oft, and (weetly paffe diferace, , Or thou thereof the threatnine danger wilt. he Shouell or Sickle little doe refit = The wandring exercife; for nowe’s in grace, ty. Plaine Squirelike dealing, which doth quite deface, » His pride,that would the AZoore boare with hisfif, — Thine Affe I Iointly enuie and chy name, And eke thy Wallet I doe emulate; An argument of thy great prouidence: | | Haile once againe; who, caufe fo good a man, Thy worthes, our Spanith Owid does relate, And louely chaunts them, with ail reuerence, LEAD A Dialogue betweene Basreca, Horfe to the Cid afamous Conquerogr of Spaine: and R o- ZINANTE Don-QvIXoTEs ( ourfer. Ba. H Ow haps it Rezimanr, thou art fo leane? | Becaufe I trauaile till, and neuer eate : Ba. Thy want of Barley and Scraw, what doe’s it meane? Ro. Thatof my Lord, abit I cannot get. Ba. Away firlade! youare ill mannered, Whofe Affes tongue, your Lord does thus abafe : ‘Ro. If youdid fee how hees enamoured, . You would conclude, that hee’s the greater Affe. | Ba. Islouea folly? (Rox ) {ure itis no wit. - |Ba, Thouarta Metaphifitian, (Rox ) for want of meate. | Ba. Complaine vpon the Squire. (‘Roz.) what profits it ? + -Orhow’fhall I ny wofull plaints.repeate ! Since though che world impuges flowneffe to me, Y.t preater [ades, my Lord and Sancho be, The PCAs AC OEAN ad roa ac. fg) 3) Gai57 SEES 658 COSI SSISIESION The Table ofthe firft part of the delightfull Hiftorie of Don-Quixote. CHAPTER, I Herein is rehearfed the calling and exercifes of the VV renowned Gentleman Don-Quixote of the Mancha ’ CHaprer. II. Treating of the firft [ally that Poa wade to feeke aduentures., Cw'sA PTER,. ITI. Wherein ss recounted the pleafant manner ebferned in the Knghting of Don- Quixote. Cuaprer, IIII. } Of that which be fellto our Knight, after hee pas ga laa fronsthe Inne, | ¢ Cuarprer. V. | bY herein is profecuted the former narration of ony Fog sa CHAPTER. VI. Of the pleafant and curious fearch and inquifition made by the Curate and Barber of Den-Quixetes Librarie, CHaprer. VII. Ofthe fecond departure that the good Knight Don-Quix- ote cles from in onfe to feeke of eae . ia Cuaptrer. VIIL Ofthe good fneceffe Don- Quixote had inthe dreadfulland .neuer imagined aduenture of the Wud-mils , with other acci- dents worthy to be recounted, - misfortunes. | | a" co oe + The, 7 f | The Contents. The Table of the fecond Partof the delightfall Hiflorie of Don-Quixoteof Mancha, CHAPTER. I. Herein is concluded and finsfted the fearefull battaile Tha the gallants. Bifcanie fought with Don- Quixote, CHaPtTer. II. Of that which befellto Don-Quixote after bee had left the Ladies e | “3 . CHaAPTrerR. III. Of that which paffed betweene Don-Quixote and certaine Goatheards, CuHAprer. IIII. 7 ' Of that which one of the Goatheards resonnted to thofe-| - that tranailed with Don-Quixote. / CHAPTER. V. ' wherein is findbed the Hifforie of the Paffora Marcella, with other accidents, . | | , -CuHartrer. VL = Wherein averebearfea the difpatring Uerfes of the dead S hepheard, with other vneapetled et: 25, The Table ofthe third Part of thedelightfull ——— Hiftorie of Don-Quixoteof Mancha, Gama: EE CHAPTER L V Hereinis rebearfed the unfortunate adnenture hap- nedte Don-Quixote, by encountering with cer- tame Ganguefian Carriers, . a a | — The.Goméents.: : 7 CHuabrern. LI, | of hashed befellthe in i K nigh within the oo which be perpelee th ba aCafll | ‘Crap * BR, ILE: whereiwae lade downa the ixummer abs re that the which-he.to bis dammage (uppofed 10 be a (afte, ——-~ Gra PP! Rr, TER: oc Specifying the difconrfes palfed betmeene Sancho andhis Lord Dog: Quinéte ith ober’ Ocenrvemts eae) therecitall. CHARTER. V, Of the. difereete difcourfes bad between Sancho _ and bis Lord, wth the fucceedsng . Corer ke of adéad body, ando- | ther notable things. = Cana prea Vii ee | ” OF A wendérfrill aduentureatchiened wink fff bazapd, then ener any other Knight did sick 5 the valorone ‘Don:Quixote ae Mancha. A 2g ree vu, , Of the. high -aduentere, and rich prize of the Helmet ¢ of Mambiino, with other /ucceffas befallen the inuiseible K night. Craprern. VILL: |» tat were acarrience perfi.-to a place i defired nok, ' \CraPre Red mh. prse&e ‘CHAPTER. X.. Wherein is profecntedthe aguenture of Sierra Morena, _ CHaPTeR XI. which treates of the franze aduentures that hapned-to the ht of the Mancha in Sierva Morena: and of the Penance by ded shere i im ignitation of Beltinibros. CHAPTER, XII. Wherein are profecused.the prankes played .by Don-Quix- | Don-Quixote and his good Sqnire Sancho paffed in the Inne, ‘Of the hbertie that: Don-Quixote Lane to many swretches, | | ote: gs The Conrenta : : ote in bis Amero ara rhe. monntaines ofS Sierra ane = rena. | CHAPTER: XI II. - | | Howthe (urate and Barber. put their pear in pradlife, '| with many other ching s oe ig ag ol aad va ste og | , Hi iftorie, a | i’ Eee abe The Table ofthe a Giurehs Part of the delightful: | | Hi —— ee | CHAPTER L- Herein is difcourfed the new aud pleafant dickies: Wx nanert? te the cae and fener ins m Sie. Morepa, C HAPTER. 1 I. os | which treater of the difcretion of the’ beamifull Dorot ea: aud of the-artific fed" te difftonde the pclae | Knight fraws conti bis penance ; nd how hee wai Fetten aid ‘with me: other deligbifull and pleafant oerMrrences. ‘uw aAPrer. JIL - 0 fi many pleafant difconrfes pafled bermeene Don: Quixote’ and thofe of his companie, after that he bad abandoned the yi-' Sorous place ef his penance, == | . CHAPTER, J 6 & Of the pleafant dsfcourfes continned betweene Don-Quix. ote and his Squire Sanche Panca,with other adwentures. CHAPTER, a Treating of that which befell al Don-Quixotes traine Re the Inne. _ 7 ~~ - CHaPrer, VI, syhereinis viceusied the nontlle the Curions impertinent, CHAPTER. VIJ, Whereinis profecuted the nenell of the Csrions Impertivzesr . , fs Most Ile watovs Knight Bowe-Quixote of _theM. AN CH he aa : es btn Pare, @ o a CHAP. 1° Peta where inis rehearfe d the cabling, hd exercifesofw 1 renowmea Gentleman Don- Juixore *r a “phe Mancha. — | as : . . ; an «¢ ee Dag Here liued nor se font ince ina certaine : vilage ofthe ALancha,the name wher- of I pirpofely omit, a Yeoman of J- cheir calling that vfe és pile vp in their hals olde i” aunces, Halbards, Morri- 4 ons, and {uch other armours and wea- ~~ pons. He was befides:mafter of an an- cient Target, a leane Stallion , and afwift Grey-hound. His pot confifted daily of foricwhat more Beefe ther Mutton, HISTORIES? "OF: al te a oe on eee ~ renege anne geenan panto) ape ae ar Ce a Se — nee ee ee 182 e-yme |= The delightfull Hiftorreof the =| Panr.t. manasa ES Se a Mutton, alittle minced meate‘cuery night, griefes and complaints the Saturdayes, Lentils on Fridaycs , and now and then a. Pigeon of refpett on Sundayes ; did confume three parts of his rents : the reftand remnant thereof was (pent on a Jerkin of fine puke, a paire of veluet hofe, with antofles of the fame for the holly-dayes,and one appa- cell of the fineft veflure ; for therewithall he honored and fet out his perfon on the worke dayes. Hee had in his houfe a woman-feruant, ofabout foie forty yeares old, anda nicfe not yet twenty , anda man that ferued him both in fielde and at home, and could faddle his horfe , and likewife manage a pruning hooke. ‘The Mafter him- {elfe was about fifty yeares olde,ofa {trong complexion, drie flefh,and a withered face : he was an ae : rifer, and | a great friend of hunting. Somme affirme that his furname was Quixada or Quefada (for itt this there is fome vari- ance among the auchours that write his life ) although it ‘may be gathered by very probable coniectures, thathee { was called! Quixana.Yet all this concernes our hiftoricall relation but little ; let it chen fuffice,that in the narration thereof we will not vary atop fforn the triith.: You fhall cherefore wit ,@hat this, Yeoman abouena- | med the fpirts, that he wasidle ( which w. : the longer | part of the yeare) did apply himfelfe wholly to the rea. ding of bookes. of Knight. hoed,and that with fuch gufts |: | and delights , as he almoft wholly negleéted the exercife |, of hunting, yea and the very adminiftration of his houfe hould affaires: and his ‘curiofity and folly caine ro that paffe,thathe made away many acres of arable land to | buy him bookes of that kind ; aad therefore he brought to his houfe as many as ciel abate pet of that fubiccdt : and among them all none pleafed him better then thofe which famous Felician of Silaa compofed. For the fmoothnefle of his profe, with now and then fome intri- cate fentence medled, feemed to him pecrlefle ;and prin- : cipally when he did reade the louc dalliances, or lett Coen e18 of | Parti. ‘wittie Knight Don-Quixote, of challenge,thac Knights fent to Ladies , or one to ano- ther 5 where,in many places he found written the reafon of the vnreafonablenefle , which againf{ my reafon is wrought,doth fo weaken my reafon, as with all reafon J doe iuftly complaine on your beauty. And alfo when he read The high Heauens, which with your diuinity doe fortifie you diuinely with the ftarres , and make you de- feruereffe of the deferts that your greatneffe deferue, &c. _ With thefe and other fuch paflages the pooreGentleman grew dillraéted , and was breaking his braines day and night te vnderttand and vnbowell their fenfe. An endles labor , for euen eA rifforle himfelfe would not vnder(land chem, though he were againe refufcitated onely for that purpofe, He didnot like fo much the i Sy Seas blowes that Don Belianis gaue and tooke in fight; for, as he imagined,were the Surgeons neuer fo cunning that cured them, yet was it impoffible but that the patient his face & all his body muff remaine full of fcars,and tokens: yet did he praife notwithRanding in the authour of that Hiftory,the conclufion of his booke, with the promife of the endleffe aduenture,and many times he himfelfe had a defiretotake pen and finifh it exactly asit is there pro- mifed ;and would doubtlefly haue performed it,and that certes with happy fucceffe,if other mere vrgent and con- tinuall thouehts had not difturbed him. Many times did he fall at variance with the Curate of his village(who was a learned man, graduated in Cignen- | ca)touching who was the better Knight Palmserin of 4, England ,or eA madis de Gaule: but Matter Nichols the Barber of the fametowne would affirme, that none of | both arriued in,worth to the Knight of the Sun ; and if. nyone Knight might paragon with him, it was infallibly Don Galaor, Amadis de Gaulesbrother , whofe nature might fitly be accommodated to any thing ; for hee was not focoy and whyning a Knight as his brother, and that | it} mattersof valour,he did not bate him aa (ate. al a —_— 0 eee a . 7 ae * A famous Captaine of the WW Spanifla mation. eS a aaah en agg Sa eT AS A A ene I The del:ghtfull Hiftorie ofthe Part.1 In refolutien , he plunged himfelfe fo decpely in his reading of thefe bookes , a3 he {pent many timesin the 1 ecture of chem whole dayes.and nights; and in the end through his little {leepe and much reading, he dryed vp his braines in {uch fort as he loft wholly his iudgement. His fantafie was filled with thofe things that he read, of enchantments,quarrcls,battels,challenges, wounds , wo- ings, loues, tempetts, and other impoffible follies. And thefe toyes did fo firmly poflefle his imagination with an infallible opinion, that all that Machina of dreamed in- ventions which he read was true,as he accounted no Hi- fory in the worldto be fo certaine and fincere as they | were, He was wont to fay that the “ (id Raydiaz was avery good Knight, but not to be coinpared to the Knight of the burning fiwoed , which with one chwart blow cutafunder two fierce and mighty Giants, He a- orced better with Bernardo del (‘arpio , beeaufe he flew the enchanted Rowland in Ronce/uales. Helikewile liked ofthe thift Hercules vied when he fmothered e4nteox the fanneof the earth betweenc his armes, He prayfed the Gyant CA forgant imruelloufly , becaule though hee was cf chac monitrous progeniz , who are commonly ali of them proude and rude, yet he enely was attable and courteous, But he agreed beft of all with Reinzuld of Mount alban;and moftof all then, when he Jaw bim fale out of lus Caftle co rob as many aé eugr hee-could meete:and whenmorcouer he robdthe Idoll of C9£2- homet wade alofootd.as his Hiflory recountsyind weuld op Sees Y see be contént to eiue his foule,yea and his Nicic alfo, fora : Fe) > 3 | gocd oportunity on the traytor Galalos , thathe might lamb-skin and trampte him into powdey fs Finally, his wit being wholly extinguifhed ; he fell in- to one of the ftrangelt conceits that cucr mad-man {tum bled on: in this world,to wir, it {eemed vnto himvery re- ; cuifite and behouctull, as well forthe augmentation of | hishonours, as allo forthe benefite of the Common- ‘ wealth, _7— «men ale PARTI. wittie Knight Don- Quixote. wealth,that he himfelfe fhould become a Knight errant, | and goe throughout the world, wick his horfe and armor to fecke aduengures,and practife in perfon all thar he liad read was vied by Knights of yoare;reuenging of all kinds of inmries, and offering himfelfe to occafions and dane | gers: which being once happily atchieued , miyht paine him eternall renuwne. The poore foule did already fi- gure himfelfe crowned, through the valour of his arme, at leaft with the Empire of Trapefonda: and ledde thus by thefe foothing thoughts,and borne away wich the excee- ding delighc he found in them, he haftened all that he might,to effect his vrging defires. And firft of all he caufed certaine olde rufly armes to be fcoured, that belonged to his great Grand-father,and | lay many ages neglected, andforgotten in a by-corner of { his houfe ; he trimmed them and drefled them the bef he mought, and then perceiued a great defect they had ; for they wanted an helmet,and had only a plain morrion: but heby his induftry fupplicd that want; and framed f with certaine papers pafied together, a Beaver for his |. . Morrion. True it is,that to make tryall whether his pa- fled Beauer was {trong enough , and might abide the ad. | uenture ofa blow , he out with his {word , and gaue ica | blow or two,and with the very firft did quite yndoe his 4 whole weekes labour : the facility wherewithall it was - diffolued liked him nothing ; wherefore to affure him- felfe better the nexc time from the like danger,he made it anew,placing certaine iron barres within it , in fo artifici- all manner,as he refted at once fatisfied, both wigh bis in- uention,and alfo the follidity ofthe worke ; and without making afecond tryall, he deputed and held it in eftima- tion of a moft excellent Beaner. Then did he prefently vi- fit hishorfe, who though he had mere corners thena | Spanifh Reall,and more faults then Goxellas, hauing no- |. thing on him but skin and bone ; yet he thoughe that | neyther eLlexanders Bucepbalus ,ncr the Cid his horfe 2 \Babieca, es Se -o- ” 2 ae aa - Ns eae a 18 6 | The delightfal Hiftorteof toe = Ee ART.I Rr ea i Denes a eee ea een Balieca,were in any refpect equall to him, He {pent foure dayes deuifing hima name: for ( ashe reafonedto him- felfe ) it was not fit chatfo famous a Kniogts horfe , and | chicfly being fo good a beaft, fhould want a knowne name; and therefore he endeueured to give him fucha one,as fhould both declare what fometime he had been, before he pertayned toaKnight errant, and alfo what prefently he was: for it ftood greatly with reafon, feeing his Lord and Mafter changed his eflate and vocation , that he fhould alter likewife his denomination, and get a new one,thatwere famous and altifonant, as becommed the new orderand exercife which he now profefled : and therefore after many other names which he framed, blot- ted out,reieCted added, vndid, and curned again to frame in his memory and imagination , he finally concluded to name him ‘Roxinante,a name in his epinion,lofty,ful,and fignificatiue of what he had beene when he wasa fimple | herle,before he wasexalted to his new dignity ; being as be thought, the beftcarriage beaft of the world. The | neme being thus giuen to his horfe, and foto his minde , Abovfe of Tabor or civriage WB Sponcfiris called Rozin and the J word Ante,fic . nifies Before : as : 7 ; iis Reta ie relolued to giue himfelfe a name alfo, and in oe anteisaborje { thought he laboured other eight dayes ; and in conclufi- that fometime on,called himfcl’e Don- Quixote; whence (a5 is {aid ) the: Authours of this moft true Hiftory deduce, that he was yndoubtedly named Qaixada,and not Qdefadaas others.} would haue it. And temembring'that the valorous e4- | ° mad:s was not fatisfied onely with the dry name of e4- |. madis but added thereunto the asme of his Kingdome and Countgy, to render hisowne more redoubted , ter- ing hinWelfe Amadis de Ganla ;{o he, like a good Knight would adde co his owne, that-alfo of his Pre- uince ,gnd call himfelfe Den--Qnixote of the Mucha, wherewith itappeared , that he very liucly declared his linage and countrey, which he did honour, by taking it forhisfurname, - | His armour being fcoured, his mortion transformed oe - into —_—— was of carriage. Natl so cll maha So oe — -~ . —neee | ET. . 7 Parti. wittieKsight Don-Quixete. into an helmet, his horfe named, and himfelfe confirmed with anew name alfo ; he forthwith bethoughe himfel'c thacnow he wanted nothing bota Lady , on whom hee might beftow his feruice and affection ; for the Kuight errant that is Joueleffe, refembles a tree that wants Icsues and fruit,or a body withouta foule: and therefore hee was wontto fay, If I fhould for my finnes, or by good hap encownter there abroad with fome Giani(as Knights errant doe ordinarily ) and that I fhonld ouerthrow him with one blow to the ercund,or.cut him with a ftroke in two halues,or finally ouercom,& make him yeeld to me, would it not be very expedientro haue fome Lady, to whom | might prefent him ? And that he entring in her prefence do lay himfelfon his knees before my {weet J.a- dy,and fay ynto her with an humble & fubmiffiue voyce : Madam!I am’theGianc Caraculiambro,Lord of the Hand called Af ahndrania,whom the neuer-too-much-prayfed Knight Don-Onixote de la Mancha hath overcome in fin- gle combat; and hath commaunded to prefent my felic to your preatnefle, that it may pleafe your Highneffe to difpofe ofme according vnto your liking. O! how glad _.f Was our Knight when he had made this difcourfeto him- | | felfe,but chiefly when he had found out one, whom he “might call his Lady. For,as itis imagined,there dwelled in the next yillage vnto his Mannor, a young handfome wench,on whom he was fometime in loue , although as is vnderfiood, fhe neuer knew or tooke notice thercof, She was called eA /donca Lorenco, and her he thovght fictefito inticle with the name of Lady of his thoughts, and fearching aname for her that fhould not vary much fromher ewne, and yet fhould draw and aucere fome- [ what to chat of aPrinceffe or great Lady, he called her Dulcinea del Tobof (for there fhe was borne*) a name in his conceit harmonious .ftrange and fignificatiue’, like to afl che others that he had giuen to his things. ; B4 OEHAP, ie st—‘<—i—CO—e a a ee lin ee The delightfull Eiitory of the Cuap. II. Of the fir ft faly that Don-Quixote made to feeke ad- UCBEHT CS PART. 1c perce og Hele preuentions being made, he would | ie 14| [ogy deferre the execution of his defignes no a WAN longer, being {purd on the more vehe- ro) Wg fd de ewant which he efleemed PRTEL his delayes wrought in the world , accor- ding to the wrongs that he refolued cto right , the harmes | he meant to redrefle,the excefles he would amend, the a- bufes that-he would better,and the debts he would fatif- fie. And-therefore without acquainting any liuing crea- ture with his intention,he vnfeene of any,vpon a certaine morning ,fomwhat before the day(being one of the war- meft of luly ) armed himfelfe Cap a pie, mounted on Ro- zsnante , laced on his il-contriued Helimct,imbraced his Target,tooke his Launce, and by a poflerne doore of his bafe-court iflued out to the field, marueilous iocund and content to fee with what facility he had commenced his good defires. But fearce had he fallicd-to the fields when he was fuddenly affaulted by a terrible thought,and fuch | aoveas did welnigh ouerthrow his former good pur- - pofes ; which was , he remembred that he wasnot yet | dub’d Knight, and therefore by the lawes of Kuighthood neyther could nor ought to combat. with any Knight. And though he were one, yet oughthe to weare white {° armout likea new Knight, without any. deuice in his Shield, vntill he did win it by force of armes.. a Thefe thoughts did make him.tagger in his purpofes ; } , | buthis follies preuayling more then any other reafon, he purpofed to caufe himfelfe to be Kni chted by the firft he met,to the imitation of many others, that did the fame,as he had read in the bookes which diftrafted him. As tou- ching white armour,he refolued with the firft oportuni- | Ne Paxt.l. wittie Knight Don-Quixete. ty to fcoure his owne fo well, thatthey fhould ref whi- ter then Ermines : and thus he pacified his mind, and pro- fecuted his iourney, without chufing any other way then that which his horfe pleafed, beleeuing that therein con. filted the vigor of Knightly aduenturcs. Our flowrifhing aduenturer travelling thus onward , did parle with him-” * felfe in this manner: Who doubts in the enfuing ages, “‘ when the true Hiftory of my f>mous aétes fhall come | - °¢ co light,but that the wifeman who hall write ic will “¢ begin it when he comes to declare this my firft fally fo “ early in the morning, after this manner. Scarce bad the “© ruddy Apollo fpread oner the face of the vaft- and {pactous “ earth, the golden twifts of hes beautifull layres and {carce << badthe litsle enameld birds with their naked tongues fa- “* [uted-with fweet and” mellifluons harmony, the arrinall of “6 Rofe Asrora, when abandoning her icalous husbands ** foft couch , fhee fhewes her. felfe to mortall wights * through the gates.and windowes of the * ALanshegall "| “ Orizon. When the famous Knight Don- Quixote of the “ Mancha ,abandeniag the flouthfull plumes,did mount €¢ ypon his renounced horfe Rezgrante , and began to tra- “€ nell through theauncient and notorious fields of Afon- <€ trel,(as indeede he did)and following fill on with his <¢ Difcourfe,he {aid : O ! happy. the age, and fortunate ‘ . a _ os Ag: c oe .8 - [16 | _ Thedelighaful Mifare ofthe Parzat.| him,not knowing what he might doe or fay,and did ftu- die and labour to make him arife : but all was in vaine, vntill he muft haue promifed vato him, that he would oraunt him any gitt thathe foupht at his handes, I did neuer expect leffe(ceplied Don- Quixete)from your great magnificence my Lord,and therctore J fay vnto you that |. a eee which I demaund of you, and thac hath beene graunted vnto me by your liberality , is, that to morrow in the morning you wil dubbe me Knight, and this night ‘| will watch mine armour in the Chappell of your Ca. fle,and in the morning, as I haue faid , the reft of my de- fires fhall be accomphfhed, that I may goe in due manner throughout the foure parts of the worldto feeke aduen- tures, to the benefit of the needy, as is the duety of | Knight-hood and of Knights errant, as I am, whofe de. fires are wholly inclined and dedicated to fuch atchicue- ments, The Hofte,who,as we noted beforc,was a great -giber,& had before gathered fom arguméts of the defect of wit in his guelt, did wholly now perfwade himfelf that his fufpicions were true, when he heard him {peake in that manner : and that hee might haue an occafion of laughter,he refolued to feed his humour that night, and therefore anfwered him,that he had very great reafon in that which he defired and fought , and that fuch proieéts ], Percheles, | were proper and naturall to Knights of ‘the garbe and * Axogn elo. worth he feemed to be of : and that he himfelfe likewife | ° The Potron of | in his youthfuil yeares had followed that honourable ex- Cordoua ts a caaiverk hd; Ci idte-t certaine foun. | €¥cile,going through divers parts of the world to feeke taine where | aducntures , without eyther omitting the” dangers of flazds a Pegalus: Malaga ,the Ifles of Riaran, the compaffe of Siuill, che and spt t foun-4 * Quicke-filuer-houfe of Segouia, the Oliue-field of Va- basa Nell ,. | lencia,the Circuit of Granada,the wharfe of S. Lucor;the { ny-catching fel. | Potro or Cowlt of Cordoua, and the little Tauernes of lowesyas Duke | Toledo; and many el alias he pra&tifed the rlumérey at dexterity ofhis handes,, doing many Wrongs, folliciting Paules. many widdowes,vndoing certaine maydens , and decei- on ) Ui : S OL ee — e . : Parts. —-wettia Knight Don- Quixote. uing many pupils, and finally making himfelfe knowne and famous in all the Tribunals and-Courts almoft of all Spaine,and that at laft he had retired himfelfe to that his Cafile,where he was {uflained. with his owne and other mens goeds ; entertayning in it all Knights crrants, of whatfoeuer quality and'condition they were, onely for the great affection he bore cowards them, and to the end they might dinide with him parc of their winnings in re- compeace of his good will: he added befides , thatchere was no Chappeliin his Caftle , wherein he might watch his armes, for he had broken it downeto build it vp a- new : but notwithflanding he knew very well that in a cafe of neceffity,they might lawfully be watched in any other place, and therefore hee might watch them that | night in the bafe Court of the-Cafile; for in the morning, and pleafed God,the ceremonies requifite fheuld bee done in fuch fort,as he fhould remainea dubbed Knight, in fo good fafhien, as in all rhe world he could not be bettered. He demaunded of Don-Quixete whether he had any moncy? who-anfwered that he had nota blanck, for he had never read in. any Hiflory of Knights errants, that any one of them evercaried any money. To this his Hofte replied, that he was deceiued;for adavit that Hi- ftories made no mention thereof, becaafe the auchours of | them deemed it not nexeflary toexprefie a thing fo msani-. feft,and needfull to be carried as was money and cleane| fhirts : it was not therefore to be credited,that they had none; and therefore he fhould hold for moft certaine and manifeft,that all. the Knights értant, with the ftory of whofe aéts fo many bookes are replenifhed and heaped, had their purfes well linedfor that which might befall, and did moreouer carie with them a litle Casket of oynt- ments and falues, to cure the wounds which they recei- ued ;for they had not the commodity of a Surgeon to cure them,euery time that they fought abroad in the fields and defarts, if they had noc by chaunce fome = Ne. 17. BE pe ee ee me INST Sey RES me Ct eg a eR Ee nee EME AG RE ye gee CLS I eee fee Ne nanan a Ts 18 The delightfall Hiftorieof the Part. Enchanter to their friend , who would prefently fuccour them, bringing vatothem in fome.cloude through the ayre fome damzell or dwarfe, with a Violl of water of fo ) reat vertue,as tafting one droppe therof, they remained } : wT as whole of their fores and wounds, as if they had never receiuedany. But when they had not that benefite ,the Knights of times paft held it for a very commendable and fecure courfe, that their Squires fhould be prouided of money and other neceffary things, as linte ,and oynt- ments for tocurethemfelues : and when it befell that the like Knights had no Squires to attend vpon them (which hapned but very feldome ) then would. they themfclues cari¢ all this prouifion behindethem on their horfes, in- fome flight and fubtile wallets , which could {carce be i perceiued,asa thing of very great confequence.For!if it were not vponfuch an occafion , the cariage of wallets } was not very tollerable among Knights errat.And in this refpect hedid aduife him, {ceing he might yet commaund | him as onethat by receiuing the order of Knight-hood | at his hands, fhould very fhortly become his God-childe, that he fhou!d nottrauell from thence forward withour inoney,and other the preuentions he had then giuen ynto him; and he fhould perceiue hin-felfe how behoouefull they would proue vnto him,when he leaft expected it. | Dan- Quixote promifed to accomplish all thache had counfelled him to doe, with all puntialit'y; and fo order Was forthwith piuen how he fhould watch his armes in a great yard that lay neere vnto one fide of the Inne: wherefore Dow- Qaixote gathering all his armes toge- ther,laid them ona Citerne that ftood neer vnto z Well: and buckling onhis Taract, he laid hold ort his Launce -| and walked vp and downe before the Ciflerne very de- a mutely;and when he began to walke the night likewife, ; began tolo. ke vp the fplendor ofthe day. The In-kees perinthe smeane feafon recounted to all the ref that |_dged in the Inne the folly of his gueit, the watching of : his _ mas i eS Sree ee 8 ee eer jhe vr es Peas a a ee Part. wettie Knight Don- Quixote. | 19 his armes and the Knighthood which he expeéted to re- ceiue. They all admired very muchat fo ftrange akinde of folly,and went out to behold hin from a farre off, and faw that fometimes he pranced too and fro with s quiet ecfture; other times leaniag vpon his Launce he looked vpon his armour, without beholding any othcr thing faue his armes for a good {pace. The night being fhut vp at laf wholly, but with fuch cleerenefle of the Moone,as it might well conapare with his brightneffe that lene her her (plendor , euery thing which onr new Knight did,was eafily perceiued by all the beholders. In this feafon one of the Carricrs that lodged in the Inne refolued to water his Mules, and for that pur- pofe it wasneceflary to remooue Don- Dusxotes armour that lay on the Cefterne ; who feeing him approach, faid vnto him with a loude voice : Othou! whofocuer thou | beeft,bold Knight,chat commeft to touch the armour of the moft valorous aduenturer that ever gyrded {word, | looke well what chou doft , and touch them not ifthou meancft not to leaue thy life in payment of thy prefump- tion. The Cartier madeno account of thofe words ( but it were better he had, for it would haue redounded to his benefite )but rather laying hold on the leathérings,threw the armour a prettie way off from him: which being per- ceiued by Don- Quixote, he lifted vp his eyes towards hcauen,andaddreffing his thoughts (as it feemed ) to his *€ Lady Dalcimea he faid, Afiili me deere Lady in this firft “ dangerous {corne and aduenture offeted to this breaft, * chat is inthralled to thee,and let not thy fauor and pro- “tection faile me in this my ficlt Traunce. And vetering thefeand other fuch words, he let flip his Target , and lif-} . © ting vp his Launce with both hands, hepaide the Carricr {fo rounda knocke therewithall on the paté, as he ouer- threw himto the ground in fo euill taking , as if he had " feconded it with another,he {hould not have needed any Surgcontocure him, This pane ended, he'gathered vp | . » sm > vit DB ten pthmch - =e : Ope teen = ny LI — LITE ee ee ey : 20 | the Cefterne of encumbrances,and take water the eafier : | “ Knighthood;he- would inake him vaderfland his trea- The delightfull Hifforieofthe Par Td. | his armour againe,and laying them where they had been before,he walked after vp and downe by them, withas much quietneffe as he did at the firft. : But very foone after, another Carrier without know- ing what had hapned (for his companion lay yet ina trance on the ground)came alfo to giue his Mules water, - and comming to take away the armes,thathe might frec | D on- Quixote faying nothing, vor imploring fauor of his Miftris or any other, let flip againehis Target, and lifting | his Lance, without breaking of it in pieces , made more | then three ofthe fecond Carriers noddle; for he broke it | in foure places, All the people of the Inne, and amongtt them the Hof like wife repaired at this time to the noile: which Don. Quixote perceiving , imbracing his. Taract , 2 9 ‘*and laying hand on his {word, he faid : O Lady cf all “« beauty,courage,and vigour of my weakned heart, it is “now high time that chou doe conucrtthe eyes of thy | “€ oreatneffe to this thy Captive Knight, who doth expeét : ** fo marucilous great an aduenture. Saying thus,he re- coucred as he thought fo great courage, that if'al the Car- riers of the world had aflayled him, he would not go one {teppe backward, The wounded mens fellowes, fecing them fo euill dight, from a farre off began to raine {tones on Den- Quixote , who did-defend himfelfe thebefthce ! might with his Target,and durit not depart from the Ce- fterne,leaft he fhould feemero abandon his armes, The Inkeeper cryed to themtolet him alone ;for he had al- ready informed them that he was madde , and for fuch a one would {cape {cot-free although he had flaine them all. Done Quixote likewwite cryed out louder , terming thew all difloyall men and traytors, and thatthe Lord of the Caftle was atreacherous and badde Knight, feeing he confented that Knivhts errant. fhould be fo bafely v- fed sand that if he had not yet receiued the order of rr cp NE ET IORI ata — ey an nee —— fon. rene “fon, but of you bale and rafcally Kenell ( quoth he) * “T make noreckoning at all: throw at mc, approach, “draw neare, and doe me all the hurt you may , for you “ thallere long perceiue the reward you fhall carie tor this your madneffe and outrage. Which wordes hee fpeke with fo great {pirit and boldneffe, as hee ftroke a cerrible feare into all chofe that affaulted him: andther. | fore moued both by it, andthe Inkeepers per{wafions, | they left off throwing flones at him, and he permitted them to carie away the wounded men, and returnedto the guard of hisarmes , with as great quietnefleand gra- uity,as be did at the beginning. The Inkeeper did not like very much thefe jefts of his oueft and therfore he determined to abbreuiare,and giue him) the vefortunate order of Kniohthood forthw ith, be- fore fome other difafter befell: and with this refolution comming ynto him,he excufed himfelf of the infolencies thofe bafe fellowes had vfedto him, without his priuity or confent,but their rafhneffe , as hefaid , remayned well chatifed: He added bow he had already told vnto him, that there was no Chappel in bis Caftel,and that for what yetretted voperfedted of their intention, it was notne. ceflary,becaufe the chiefe point ofremaynin 6 Knighted, confifted chiefly in blo-xes of the necke and thoulders, as he tad read in the ceremonial] booke of the order, and that,chat might be giuen in the very mid{tof the ficldes ; and that he had already accomplifhed the obligation of watching his armes , which with only two houres watch might be fulfild ;how much more after hauing watched foure,as he had done. Allthis Don- Quixote beleeucd,and therfore an{wered, that he was mofi ready to obey him, & requefled him to conclude with al the brevity poffible: fur ifhe faw himfelfe Knighted, and were once againe aifaulced,he meant not to leave one perfon aliue in all the Cafile,except thofe which the Conftable fhould com- mand, whom he would fpare for his fake, 3 The PARTI. wittie Knight Dow Quixote. ee ee ee The delicht{ull Hiflorie ofthe Part. The Conflable being thus aduertifed, and fearefull that he would put this his deliberation in execution , brought out a booke prefently , wherein he was wont to write downe the accounts of the Qraw and Barley, which he delivered from time to time , to fuch Carriers as lodg- ed in his Inne, for their beafls: and witha but ofa candle , whicha boy held lighting in his hand before him.accom- panied by the two datnzels aboue mentioned,he came to Don- Quixote, whom he commanded to kneele vpon his knees,and reading in his Mannal(as it fecmed fome deuoute Orifon)he held vp his hand in the mid of the LeCure,and gaue him a good blow on the neckc,and af- ter that gaue him an other trimme thwacke oucr the fhoulders with his owne {word ( alwayes murmuring fomething betweene the teeth as ifhe prayed) this being done,he commaunded one of the Ladies to gyrdon his {word which the did with a fingular good grace and dex- teritic, which was much,the matter being of itfelfe fo ri- diculous,as it wanted but little to makea man burt for laughter at cuery paflave of the Ceremonies + but the proweffe which they had already beteld in the new Knigne, did limit and contain their delight at the eyrding 01 ofhis {word,the good Lady faid,God make you a for~ tunate Kaiehe, and giue you good faccefle in all your debates, Don-Ovixote demauaded then how the was . | called, thathe might thenccforward know to whomhe ‘ wes fomuch obliged for the fauour receiued 2? And fhe antwered with ereat buxomnes.that the was named 7% fofa,and was a butcher$ da uvhter of Tol:do.that dwelt in the Rewes of Suneho Beneza ,andthat fhe would euer honourhimas he¥ Lord. Don. Quixote replicd , requc- ting her for his {sketo ca!l her felfe from thence forth the Lady T olofé , which he promiled him to performe. The other Lacy buckled on his fpurre, with whom hee had che very like conference: and asking her name, thee told him fhee was called ALolinera, and was daughter et eee oe a qe ta ‘ on wa ‘ ee oes a ae se ree eye ee A PARTI. wittie Knight Dow Quixote. toan honeft Miller of e4utequera : here likewife our Knight intreated to call her felfe the Lady (Mosnera, profering her new feruices and favours. The new and neuer-feene before Ceremonies being thus {peedily fini- thed,as it feemed witha gallop , Dox- Quixote could not reQ yntill he were mounted on horfe-backe, that hee might goeto feeke aduentures; wherefore caufing Ro- zinanteto be inftantly fadled, he leaped on him, and im- bracing his Hofte,he {aid vnto him fuch ftrange things, gratifying the fauour hee had done him in dubbing him Knight,as ic is impoflible to hit vpon the manner of re- counting themright. The Inkeeper that hee might be quickly rid of him,did anfwere his wordes with others no lef rethoricall,but was in his {peech fomwhat brief- er ;and without ‘demanding of him any thingfor his lodging, he fuftered him to depart in a forrunate houre. Cuap. IIII. Of that which befell toonr Knight, after he had depar- ted from the Inne, »_@ Vrora began to difplay her beauties about <% the time a Don- Quixote iflucd out of SZ che Inne,fo content, liuely, and jocund to ay behold himfelfe Knighted , as his very = horfe gyrts were ready to burft for joy: plements that he waseutcr to carie about him , of money and cleane fhirts,he determined to returne to his houfe , and to Bronide himfelfe ofthem,and alfo ofa Squire;ma-. king ec Sunt to intertaine acertaine Jabourer his ncigh- bour,who was poore,and had children, but yet one very fit for this purpofe,and Squirely function; belonging to: Knight- but calling to memory the counfels that. his Hofte had given him, touching the moft needfullim-. 23 The delightfull Hiftorie of the Part Knighthood. With this determination he turned Rozi- zante towards the way of hisowne village ,. who know- ing in a manner his will,began to trotte on with fo good awill , ashe feemed not to touch the ground. He had not trauellcd farre, when hee choughtthat he heard cer taine weake and delicate cryes , like to thofe of one that complayned to iflue out from the thickeft of a wood that flood onthe righthand, And {carce hadhe heard them ¢¢ when he faid: I render infinite thankes. to heauen for “che fauour it doth me, by profering ine fo foene occa- “¢ fions. wherein Imay accomplifh the duety of my pro- * feffion,and gather the fruits of my good defires : thele ‘plaints doubriefly be of fome difltrefled man or wo- “¢ man, who necdeth my fauour and ayde. Then turning the raynes,he guided Rezimante towards the place from | whence he thought the complaints {allied ; and within a few paces after he had entred into the thicket, he fawa Mare tyed ynto an Holme Oake,and to another was tied a young youth all naked fram the middle vpward of a- bout the age of hftecne yeares , and waghe thatcried fo pitifully : and nat without caufe ; for a certaine Countri- | nan of comely perfonage did whip him. witha girdle,and accompanied eucry blow with a reprehenfion and coun- fell,for he faid,the tongue muft peace, and the eyes be wari¢ : and the boy anfwercd, I will neuer dee it againe, | good Matter s forthe paffion of God, I will neuer doc it againe. And I promife to haue more care of your things from henceforth, a et But Don- Quixote viewing all that pafled,faid with an ‘“angry voyce : Difcourteous Knight, it is very vacomely “‘tofcethcedeale thus, with one that casnot defend “¢ himfelfe,leape therefore a horfe-backe , and take thy “* Launce (for the Farmer had alfo a Launce leaning to “the very fame tree,whereunto his Mare was tied) for I * will make thee know, that itis the vfe of Cowards to “‘deethat which thoudoft, The other beholding fuch an f a o*s . : Parti. —-wittle Knizht Don-Quixote. an Anticketo houer ouer him,all Jaden with armes,and brandifhing of his Lannce towards his tace,made full ac- count that hee fhould be flaine , and therefore hean{we- red with very milde and fubmiffiue wordes , faying , Sir Knight, the boy which I chaftife is mine owne feruant, and kecpcth for me a flocke of fheepe in this Com- marke ; who is growne fo negligent , as hce loofeth one o- them cuery other day,and becaufe I correct him for his carclefnefle and knauery, he fayes I doe it through coue- toufnefle and pinching , as meaning to defraude him of his waees; but before God and ib confcicnce he belies “me, What? The lie, in my prefence rafcally clowne ? “Quoth Don. Quixote by the Sunne. that doth kindle “this world , I am about to runne thee thorow and ‘¢ chorow with my Launce bafe Carle; pay him inflant- *¢ ly withoue more replying , or elfe by that God which “doth mannage. our .fublunar affaires, I will con- “‘clude thee , and annihilate thee in a moment; “loofe him forthwith, The Countrey-man hanging downe of his head, made no replie , but faofed his feruant ; of whom Don- Quixote demaundcd: how much ‘did his Mafler owe vato him ? hee faid, one monethshire, acfeuen Reals amoneth. Dore Quixote made then the account, and found that all a- mounted to feuenty and three Reals ,- and there- fore commaunded the Farmer to pay the money pre. fently, if hce meancd notto die forie, The fearefull Countrey-man an{wered , that by the trance wherein he _was then,and by the oath he had made ¢ which was none at all, for hee {wore not ) that hee ought not fo much: for there fhould bee deduéted ont of the accounts three paire of fhoes hee had ‘given yn- to him, and a Reall for twife letting him bloud, being ficke.. All is well, quoth Dow Quixote, bur let the price of the fhoes and letting bloud , goce for the blowes which chou: haft giuen him without a- ny 25 aes | 26 The delightfullHistory ofthe Panrr.t. my defert; for if he haue broken the leather of thofe t \ | Shoes thou haft beflowed on him, thou hat likewife torne the skinne of his body; and if the Barber tooke a- way his bloud being ficke, thou haft taken it out, he be- ing in health ; fo as in that refpeét he owes thee nothing. The damage is Sir Knight,replied the boyes Mafter , that Ihaue no inoney here about me. Let e4ndrew come with me to my houfe,and I will pay him his wages, one Real] vpon another, I goe with him,quoth the boy, E- uill befall mechen. No Sir,I neuer meant it; for as foone as caer he were alone,he would fley melike S. Bartho/o- mew, He willnot dare to do it, quoth Don- Quixote ,for nry commaund is fufficient to make him refpect me, and fo that he will {weare to me to obferue it by the order of Knighthood which he hath receiued , I will fet him free, and affure thee of the payment. Good Sir, quoththe youth,marke well what you fay, for this man my Matter isno Knight,nor did ever receiue any order of Kuight- hood; for he is John Haldudo the rich man , a dweller of Quintanar, That makes ao matter,quoth Don- Quixote, for there may be Knights of the Haldados: and what is mozc, euery one is fonne of his workes, That’s true, ‘ quoth ee bi of what workes can this my Mafter be fomne,feeing he denics me my wages, and my fweate and labour ? I doe not denie thy wages friend eAndrew, quoth his Mafter ; doe me but the pleafure to come with me,andI{weare by all the orders of Knighthood that are in the world,to pay thee as I haue faid, one Reall vp- “pon another, yca and thofe alfo perfumed. Forthe * perfuming I thauke thee,quoth Don Ouxote , give it “him in Reals,and with that J will reft {atisfied; and {ee “¢ that thou fulfilleft it as thou haft{worne:ifnot, I Gear “fagaine to thee by the faine oath to returne and fearch “thee,and chaftife thee,and I will finde theo out,though +) “thou didft hide thy felfe becter then a Lizarde : and if | “thou defirclt to note who commaunds thee this, that oa - thou ern reer - cprwtGiycia : 2 i PARTI. wettie Knight Don-Quixote. <¢ chou mayeft remaine more firmely obliged to accom- <¢ plifh it,know that Iam the valorous Dox-Qnixote of the CALancha che righter of wrongs and vidoer of in- “ juries,and fo farewell: and doe not forget what thou “« haft promifed and {worne on paine of the paincs alrea- dy pronounced. And faying thefe wordes , he {purred Rozinante , and in {hort {pace was got farre off from them. The Countrey-man purfued him with his eye, and perceiuing that he was patt the wood and quite out of fight,he returned to his man e4ndrew,and {aid to him come to me childe,for I will pay thee whacI owe thee, as that righter of wrongs hath left me commanded. That I fweare,quoth e4ndrew, and you fhall deale difcrectely ‘in fulfilling that good Knights commaundement , who | pray God may liue a thoufand yeares: for {ecing he is fo valorous and {o iufla Iudge I {wear by Reegue,that if you pay me not,he fhall recurne and execute what he promi- fed. Talfo doe {weare the fame quoth the Farmer, butin refpect of the great aftection I beare vito thee_I wil aug- mentthe debt,to increafe the payinent ; and catching the youth by the arme,he tied him againe tothe Oake, where he gaue him fo many blowes as he left him for dead. Call now Mafler Andrew(quoth he)forthe rivhter of wrongs, and thou fhalt fee that he cannot vndo this, although I belecue it isnot yet ended tobe done. For I haue yce a defire to fleathce aliue,as thou didfi thy felfe feare. Not withftanding a thefe threats, he vntied him at lal}, and oaue him leaue co goc feeke out his Iudge; to the end ine might execute the fentence pronounced, eudrew de- parted fomewhar difcontent,, {wearitig to fearch forthe valorous Don-Ounixote of the Mancha,ind recount vn- tohim point by poincall that had paft, and chat hc fhoutd pay the abufe with vfury: but for all his threats he depar- ted weeping,and his Maiter remained bebinde laughing; andin this manner the valorous Doz- Qurxore redrefic that wrong, Who a ‘The delightfullHifforie ofthe Parr.t. Who glad aboue meafure for his fuccc fle , accounting himfelfe to haue given a molt noble beginning to his feats of armes,did trauell towards his village , with very great fatisfaction of himfclfc,and faid ina low tune thete “‘ wordes enfuing : Well maift thou call thy felfe happy a- « boue allother women of the earth,O / aboue all beau- “ ties beautifull Dalcinea of Tobo/a , Gnce thy good for- “ tune was fuch, to hold fubiect and proftrate to thy will ‘and defire fo valiant and renouned a Knicht asis , and © ever fhall be, Don- Quixote of the Mancha: who,as all «che world knowes, received the order of Knighthood «but yefterday , and hath deftreyed to day the greateft | ‘* oucrage and wrong that want of reafon could forme, —\torcruelty commit. Today did he take away the whip | ce out of that pictileffe enemies hand, which did fovcruel- “ Jy fcourge without occafion the delicate infant. In this difcourfe he aimed toa way which diuided it felfe into foure, and prefently thefe thwarting crofle wayes reprefented then:felucs to his imagination, which oft-times held Knights errant in fufpence, which way they fhouldtake 3 andthathce might imitate them hee ftood ftill a while, and after he had bethought himfelfe well,he let flip the raines to Rezmante, fubiecting his will tothat of his horfe, who prefently purfued his firftde- fione,which was to returne home vnto his owne ftable: and hauing trauelled fome two miles , Don. Ouixete dil- covered a great troupe of people, who as it was after knownc,wete certaine Merchants of Zoledo , that rode cowards (Murcia to buy filkes : they were fixe in num- ber,and came with their * Qustafoles or fhadowes of the Sunnc,foure Seruing men a horfe-backe , and three Lac- keyes. Scarce had Don- Quixote perceiued them, when he ftraight imagined them to be a new aduenture: and becaufe he would imitate as much as was poffible the paf- fages which he read in his bookes,, he reprefented this to himfelfe to be iuft {uch an aduenture as hee purpofed to atchicue. a ap ——_ ee 2 ee Pant... wittieKnight Don-Quixote. atchieue. And fo with comely gefture and hardinefle, ferling himfelfe well in the flirrops, he fet his Launce in- to his reft;and imbraced his Target, and placing hinfelfe inthe midft of the way, he ftood awayting when thofe Knights errant fhould atriue 3 for now hee iudged ard tooke then! for fuch : and when they were fo neare as they might heare and fee him, he lifted vp his voyce, and “faid: Let all the world fland and paffe no further, ifall | “che world will not confeffe , that there is notin allthe “ world a more beautifull damzell then the Empreffe of the CAlancha, the peerelefle Dulcixea of Tcbofs, The Merchants ftaycd at thefe wordes to behold the maruel- lous and ridiculous fhape of him that {pake them , and by his fafhion and them ioynd , did incontinently gather his folly and diftraction,and notwithfanding would leifure- ly behold'to what tended that. confeffion which he ex- acted of chem; and therefore one ofthem who was for- whar giuen to gibing,and was withall very difcreete, faid vnto him, Sir Knight, we doe notknow that good | adv of whom you fpeake ; fhew her therefore tovs, and if fhe be fo beautiful as yau affrme, we will willingly and with. | out any compulfion confeffe the truth, which you now | _| demaund of vs, If T did fhew her to you, replied Don. Quixote, without maltrie were it then for you to acknow- ledge a truth fo notorious ? The confequence of nine af. | fairs con fis in this,shat withoatbeholding her, you doe | beleeye,confefle,affirme, fweare and defend it; which if you refufe to performe , I'challenge you all to battcll, proude and vnreafonable folke, and whether you ceme one by one(as the order of Knighthood requires) or ail | atonce , asis the cuflame and d:fhonourable practile of | men of your broode : here will J expect-and awaite you , all,crufting inthe reafon which I haue on iny file, Sir! Knight,rcplied the Merchant, Trequeityou in-all thefe ; Princes names,astwany as. we bc here, that to the cnd we | | may not burden your confciences, confeffing a thing | which 29 eee "| reftfecure and fatisfied , and you likewife remaine con- The delightfullHistery ofthe Parr.t. which we neuer beheld nor heard, and chiefly being fo preiudiciall to the Emprefles and Queenes of the King- domes of eA lcarria and Effremadura, you will pleafe to frew vs fome portraiture of that Lady, although it be no bigver then a graine of Wheate ; for by one thread wee | may judge of the whole clew,and we will wish this fauor tentand appaide. And Idoebelceue morcouer that we are already fo inclined to your fide, that although her pi- ture fhewed her tobe blinde of the one eye, and that Vermillion diftilled from the other were brimftone, yet: we would notwithilanding to pledfe you fay in her fa-_ | uour all that youJifted. There drops not infamous Kenell/ quoth Don. Quixote , all inflamed with choler ; there drops not, | fay, from her that which thou fayeft, but 4z- ber and { seet among bombafe; and:fhe is not blinde of ap eye,or crooke-backt, butis {traighter then a | oie of Guadarama : butall of you together fhall pay for the reat blafphemy thou haft {poken againft fo immenfe a Baur , as-is that of my Miftrefle. And faying fo , he a- bafed his Launce again him that had anfwered with’ fuch furie and anger,as if good fortune had not fo orday- ' ned it,that Rezssante fhould ftumble,and fal in the midft of the Carrier, ichad gone very ill with the bolde Mer- chant. Rozsantefellin fine, and his Mafler reeled ouera | : good piece of the field : andthough he attempted to a- rife,yet was he neuer able , he was fo encumbred by his Launce, Target, Spurs, Helmet, and his weighty oldear- mour, Andinthe meane while that he firiued to arife and could not,he cried, flie not cowardly folke,abide bafe people, abide,for I lic not here through mine ownce fault, but through the defeét of my horfe. One of the Lackeyes which came in the company, and feemed tobe a man of none of the beft intentions , hea- ring the poore overthrown Knight {peake fuch infolent _words, could not forbcare them, without returning kim : an | PanrrJl. wittie Knight Don-Quixote, an anfwere en his ribbes: and with that intention ap- proaching to him he tooke his Launce , and after he had broken itin pieces, he gaue Don- mia ote fo many blows with one of them, that in defpite of his armour he thre th. ed him like a fheafe of wheate.His Mafters cricd to him, commaunding him not to beate him fo much,but that he fhould leage him : but all would not ferue, for the youth was angry,and would not leaue off the play vail he had auoyded the reff of his choler. . And therefore running for the other pieces of the broken Launce,he broke them alf onthe miferable falue Knight , who for all the tempefi of blowes that rained on him, did neuer fhut his niouth, but threatned heauen and carth , and thofe * Murderers; | for fuch theyfeemed to him. The Lackey tyred himnfelfe at laft,and the Merchants followed on their way,carying with them occafion enough of talke of the poore bela- boured Knight : who when he faw himfelfe alone,turned againe to make tryall whether he might arife ; but if hee could not doe it when he was whole arid found;haw was it poflible he being fo brufed and almottdeAfoyed? And | yet he accounted himfelfe very happy , perfwading him- falfe that his difgrace was proper and ineidentto Knights | errant, anddid attribute afl the fanle to his horfe, and could in no wile ect vp. ait his body was fo # brujfed and loaden withblowes, ae aes : CHEs: Vv. = - ‘8 whereinis profecuted the former Narration of our | Knights misfortuntt.. 9 j,. & hinfelfe, herelolued co haue récourfe to ew his ordinary remedy, which was to think a ty thacof Valdoxmos, and the Marque | o f rt.

Dan geg. wibtie Knight Dow Quixote, | -commaundseffe of my will; and if yours, my true Lord and | Father, doe not hinder it, the fhall be m Ponte this very | day, For herfake haue labandoned my fathers houfe, and ‘|. went, asthe arrow doth the marke, or the mariner the ‘North Rtarres fheis;as yet, no further acquainted with my: by the teares which the faw minecyes diftill a farre off. Now Sis, you know the riches and nobilitie of my. difcent, and how I.ami my fathers{fole heire and if jtfeeme vato you that thefebe conditiss, whéripanyou ay venture 29 make me through! ine in law: for if my father, borne away by others his defignes fhall not like fo well of this good which I have fought ont - for my felfe, yettime hath more-force to.vndoe, and change beld his peace, and the Iudge' semained aftonied.as: well at the grace and difcretion wherewith DosLewis had difcor tered his affections vnto him, as alfo to.{ee himfelfe. in fuch | '| 2 paffe, that as he knew not-what cousés he-might beft.cake '| itifo fadaine, and vmexpodted sanatters and therefore he ane {wered no other thing atthat tinie , but onely badde him to fettle his minde, and .incersaine the time. with: his feruants, end deale with them,to thatday., becaufe he might | all. Don Lewis did kiffe: his hands perferce; and did bathe and much morethe Iudges who (as a wife man) did pre- fently perceine , how beneficialland honourable was that . preferment for his daughter zalthough hee could haue wi-. thed, if it.had beene peffible corefiect it with the confent’ of Deon Lewis bis father who tie knew did purpofe to haue his fonne made a Noble mgn of title. | By thistime the Inkeeper and his guefts bad agreed, ha- ning paid him ailchac they. ought — by Don -Qnivetes per* : faw Doves Clara your danehter and my Ladie gi thade her defires, then.as much as fhe might ynderflgnd fome times, . | for her Idid en this attire, to follow:her wherefocuer fhe'| happy, sccept.of me prefentlyfor your fonne | | che affaires, chen mens wilszHeere the amorous Gehtlemas '| haueleafireé'to copfider what nlightbe mofi.conuenient for | chem with teares, athing able to moue a heart of Marble, | | The delechtfull Hiftorieofihe = - Pata. perfwaliohs, and good réafons, thea by angenanated: Abd’ Dich Lewes tis feruentsexpedgdtheond of she ludgesdit-. ‘cotirfe,und his xefolution: when theidiuel (who never fleeps): ‘Would haut‘it,at that very cime-entred incd ‘the Inte, . the Barber frorty Whom Dow: Quixote cooke awaythé Helinesaf. CMa brits, BS ancho Vance ciefurnibure of the Affe, wher-: ‘Uf He tnade titiexchartgefor hit owne-s: whith. Barber ded- |-dirtg ts bealt'to the ftable:, faw Sancho Panca,.who was chending fome pattof the pannelt , and as foone as hé. had. | eyedctim; he kiwew:him and proferdy:fccvpomS anche fiy-, ing ¢ ASit ,Theeft haved found ydalbrere withallahd forni-: ture, whereof you tobd mer?! Sanche that faw bilnfelfexhus | effaulctd vnexpectedly, amd had heand the difpraceful vermes which the other wed, laying fafthald.on the. pannell.with | the one Hand’; pdue she: Barber: flch. a buffer withthe o- I thér,as hé-barhed at} hisiedertrin bhotid t:-butyet for alt-rhac the Barberhetd {aft his-gripe‘ofchepannell; andtherewith- all cried Gut fo tdtd jas all chofethat were in the boule came to the noylé,arrd\conffl dt, anmbbe faid, J call for che king and Tuftice, for. this theefe and robier by the high waies goeth ebout? to khine, -bucaufed ferke 10-TEoober ‘mine owe: Boos, thoutiett qaoth Semaba,fon tana nde s robber by che high waies; for my Lord Dass Qecwte wonne thofe fpoiles ina goed iwarte. Byzhi ameaLierrLwixete bimfelf-was come thither, 108 a indeproucco focchaw-welkhis Squire defen-. ded hinifalfc, and eéffendts! nsiaduerfary, and:thatefore hee | accounted hinr from thebcafdrth fhe aimarofvaldat, aid! purpoléd'in iis mind to dubbs dim Knight, on sche fir ob- cafion that fhould-be offered:, bepault bézchoughtthat the | order of Knighthood would be well-imployed-by him. ,: 1 ‘Among dehet thingethat the Bakber {aid in thedifcourfe | of hiscontention, this wasone: Sites thimparinell is:as cete-' | tainly ming as che death which I awe yato God; and know it as wellas if Thad bredit , & chere is my Affe in the ftable, who willnot permit mec to tella lie: or otherwife do but tric | the: pannell' én: him, and if itfic him not iufily, I ait con- | tener -_-_—— “Gens. _—Ss—-«w. ~Paatg. wittie Knight Dos-Quixote, sent. to remdino infamous: and I-can fay more, that the ve- sy day wherein: they tooke, my pannell from ‘mee, they robbed mee likewise: of a neerer brazen-Bafen, which | was neuer vied , and ‘coft mec a crowne. Heere Don- | Quixote could: sso:longer:.containe ‘himfelfe from {pea- _~ 1 king, and fo thrufting himfelfe betweene them two,and put- | ting them afunder, and caufing the pannel] to be laid pub- | likely on the ground, vntill the-truth were decided; he faid To theend that you may perceiue the cleere and manifeft error, wherein this goad Squire liués, fee how he cals thata bafen, which is, was,arid fhall be the helnetof «Alambrino, ‘| which I tooKe awa peor from him in: faire warre, and made my felfe Lord therof,in a4 lawfull and warlike manner. | About the pannell J will not contend, for that which I can fay therein is,that my SquireSancho demaunded leaug of me, to take.awag the furniture of this vanquifhed cowards horfe, that he'might'adorne his owne withall: I gaue him autho- titie to doeit,-and he tooke theto : and for his conuer- ting thereof from a horles furniture into afpannell, I can piue none othexseafon then theordinary, one, to wit, | hac fuchtransformations ard viually feene in the fucceffes of cbivalry.: for confirmation wh area, friend Sancho,cun fpec- dily,and bring me our the helmet which this good man a- uoucherh to.be a bafen: by my faith Sir,quoth Sancho, ifwe haué no better proofe of our intention, then that which you | fay, Iifay that the helmet of Mamébrivo.is as arrranta. bafen |-anchis goodmans furnitureds a pannel: Doe what l com. maund, faid Dow: Qurxote; Vcansiot belecue that al] the things in this Caftle will beguided by enchantment. Sancho went forthe bafen,& brought it,& as foone as Dor- Quixote L fawv.it, he-toike itin his hands and faid: See Sirs with what -facecad this impudent. Squire afficme, that this isa bafen, and not the helmet thar ]-haue mentioned : and I {weare to you all. by the arderof Knighthood which] profeffe,that this is the very fame helmet which I wan from him, without ha- ving added or taken any thing from it, “Fhatit is casting, | effc The delightful Hiflorie of the . Parr.g LL eer leffe quoth Sanshe, for fince the time that my Lord wonne ‘¢ votill now, he neuer fought but one battell with ic, when the deliuered tbe vnlucky chained men; And but for this Bs- few-Helmet,he had not efcaped fo free as hee, did, fo thicke a fhower of tones rained all che time of chat confli&. | Cuar. XVIII wherein are decided the coptromerfies of the Helmet of Mambrinus, and of the pannell, with other flrange and moft true aducnturese Se Ood Sirs quoth the Barber, what do you > thinke of thatlwhich is affirmed by thefe <> Gentlemen,who.yet contend that this is not a bafen buta helmet ? He that thall fay the aa comtraty ,quoth Dos-Qaxiote, I will make wen ~ him kaow chat he lies, ifhe be a Knight ; and ifhe be buta Squite, that he lies and lies againe a thoufand times. Our Barber, :who was slfo prefent as one that knew Deon- Quixotes humour very wel, would fortifie his folly,and make the ieft paffe yet a litele farther,tothe end that they all might laugh : and therefore {peaking to the other Barber,he | faid. Sir Barber,or what elfe you pleafe, know that I amal- fo of your occupation,end haue had my writ of examination and approbation in that trade more then thefe thirty yeares, and am one that knowes very well all the inftruments of Barbery whatfocuer ;!and haue beene befidesin my youth- full daies a fouldier, and doe therefore likefe know what is a helmet, and what a morrion, and whata clofe Caflle, and other things touching warfare, I meane all the kinde of armes that a fouldier oupht to have : andtherefore I fay, (full fubmitting my felfe to the better opinion) that this peece, which jslaid heere before.vs,.. and which thy Pan 14. wittie Knight Don-Onixote. good Knight holdes in his hand, not onely isnot a Bare bars bafen, but alfo is fo farre ftom being one, asis white from blacke , or veritie from vatruth, yet doe J withall affirme, that although it isan helmet, yet it isnot a compleace helmet. No truly, quoth Dons- Quixote, for it wants the halft , to wit, the neather part, and the bea- uer. Itis very tre, quoth the ( #rate, who very well ynder- ftood his friend the Barber his intention ; and the fame did C: ardenio, Don Fernando,and his fellowes confirme yea and eu¢n the Iudge himfelfe, had not Dow Lewis his affaire per- plexed his thoughts, would for his part haue holpen the jeft wellforward, But the earnefineffe of that affaire held his minde fo bufied, as he litle or nothing attended the paftime. Lord haue metry vpon me , quoth he other Barber, then halfe befide himdelte, and is it poffible that fo many Honon- rable men fhould fay that this is no balon, bue a helmet? this is athing able to ftrike admiration into a whole Vniuerfitie, ‘| how difcreet foever it were : tis enough if this bafen muff needesbe a helmet, thepannell mutt alfo Be a horfes furni- ture, asthisGentleman fayes. Toiwnec it feemes a pannell, quoth Den-Qaixere , but as I haue faid, I will not meddle with it, ner determine whether it be a pannell or the cappa- rifon ofahorfe. Therein is nothing elf o be donc, faid the Curate , bat that Sir Don- Quixote fay it once ; for in thefe matters.of Chinalsic, all chefe Noblemen, and my felfe, doe give vnto him the pricke, andthe price. I {weare ynto you by Ioue good Sirs, quoth Dox- Daixerg, that fo many and fo (range are the things which haue befallen me in this Caflle, thefe two times that I haue lodged therein, 4s I dare auouch nothing affirmatively of any ching thac fhatl be demauoded | of me concerning the things contayned it i; for I dee infal- | libly imagine, that all the aduentures whichpaffein it, are guided by inchauntment :the firfl time I wat very much vex- ed by an. inchaunted Afoore, thatisin it : and. Sache him. felfe {ped not very well with the Afoores followers : and ye- } fernizht I flood hanging almoft two houres fpaceby this } are, The delightful Hiftorieofthe _-Pant.4] arme, without kaowing how, or how that difprace befell | me, fo that for me to a1edic now in fa confuled and difficult a matter , as to deliver ntine opinion, were to ‘paffe a: rath iudvement :So that which they fay, that this is a bafon, and no helmet, I haue already madeanfwere ; bat whether chis be apannell , or furniture, I dare pronounce no definitive | fentence,but only remit it to your difcreet. opinions:perhaps becaufe you are not dubbed Knights as 1am, the. inchaunt- ments of this place, will haue no power over you ,"and your |. ynderftandings fhall be free, and able to iudge ofthe things | in this Cafile really , and truly , and not as they feeme vnto |! me. Doubtleffe, queth Dox Fernando, Don- Quixote (aies } very well, that the definition of this cafe.belongs vnto7s ; and therefore, and becaufe we may proceede in it vpon the better and more folid grounds, I. will fecretly take the fuf- nee ofall thofe Geritlemen, and afterwards make a cleare and full relation of what fhallcomeofthem. 0.0007 | Tothofe that knew Don- Qysgote his humour, this was 2 matter of maguailons Jsughser, and. (pore ;. bur ea‘fuch as were Dot acquainted therewithall, it {eemed the gteatell folly of the world, efpecially to Dev Lewss, and his foure feruants, & with other shree paflengers thas had arriued by |. chance to the Inne, and {eetned to be troppers of the holy Brotherhood, .as,indeede-they were,: but he thacwyas:moft of all befide himfelfe for wrath;-was the Barber, whofeba- | fen they had transformed-befote: bis oven face inte the bel- | met of Aambrino, and whofe pannell he made full account fhould likewife be turned into the ri¢h furniture, and equip- | page of a great horfe, All of chem, Jaughed hartily co fee Don Fernandes go vpand downe:taking the fuffrages of this man and thac , and rounding cuery one of thearin the eare, chat they might declare in fecret whether that was a pannell or a furniture, for which fuch deadly contention had pafled. ‘| Afterthat hee had taken the fuffrages of fo many as knew |. Don- Quixote, he faid very lowdly , The truth is good fel- low that I grow weary of demaundinig fo many opinions; a ~ PaRT.4. " wittre Knight Don-Qutxote, for I can ne fooner demaund of any man what I defirero know, but they forthwith anfwere me,how it is meere mad- neffe to affirme, that this is che pannell of an Affe, but rather the furnicure of a Horfe, yea and of a ehiefe horfe of feruice; and therefore you mu(t haue patience : for in defpite both of you and of your Affe, and notwithflanding your weake alle- niture of agreathorfe. Let me neucr inioy.a place in hea- uen, quoth the Barber, if you all be not-deceiued ; and fo may my foule appeare before God, as it appeares to mec to beapannell, and no horfe furniture : bur the law carriesix away, and fo fare well it, and yet furely 1am notdrunke; for voleffe it be by finning , my faft hath not beene broken this “ OTe’ follies which the Barber vtcered ; Aitred no leffe laughter among them, then did the rorings of Den- Dnixore, who then {poke in this manner : here isnow no more tobe done , but that euery msn take vp his owne goods , andto whom God Hath given thém, let:St. Peter giue his bleffing. Then faid one of che foureServingmen , if this were not a jeft premeditated , and made: of purpofe, I could not per- {wade my felfe chat men of fo good vaderflanding as al thefe are, or-feeme to be, fhould dare to fay,and affirme, that this is not‘a bafen, gor that.a pannells bur feeing that they auerre ie, foconftantly I haue caufe to fulpedty chat it canhat bee without miftery to affirme a thing fo contrary to that which very truth it felfe and experience demonftrate ynto vs, for I | doe vow (and faying fo he rapt out around oth or twe) that | as many as.are in the world,. fhould neuer make me belecue | that cliisis nobafen, nor that no panuell of a hee Affe: it might as well bee of a fhee Affe, quoth the €ayate': that comes all but toone, replyed the other; foritte queftion confifts nottherein, but whether it bea pannedlor not, as you doe auouch ? Then one of the Troupers of the holy Bro- ; therhood (who had Iiftned to their difpacation , and was . [ growne full of choler to heare fuch an errour,maintayned, faid: gations and worfe prooues, it is, and will continue, the fur- | al am a pee | faid : it is asvery a pannel] as my father-is oy facher.sand hee: that hath faid, or fhall fay, the contrary is, I beleeuo, turned intoa grape, Thou lyeftlike a clownih knaue, quoth Dea: Quixote, and lifting vp his Zamels, whictt he alwayes held in | his hand, he difcharged{uch a blow atthe. Trouporspate, as if hee had not.auoided , it would hayethrqwen-him ta the ground ; the /qudline was broken 7 einai of the fall into. {plisters, ane che ather Troupers, fecing thoir fellew.fo.mil- 4 vied, cryod out for help, and. afiftanceforshar holy Brother- | heodsthe Jnkeeper who alfa warane ofshe fame fraternicy, ] rannedn far hisrod of I uftice and his dwond, and shen flood by hisfellowes- Dont Lemus his faure foruants com paficd him wt, Ice fhould attempt to.efcape. whilt che tumul ins dured. The Barber{ceing all the houfe turned vpfide downe, 4 laid:hand agaige tpewhi 1, andthe fame did- Sancho, |, Dow-Daieese fer hang:to his {word, and afaulsed the Troypers:: Des dcws.cryedte hisSemingmen , that they | Gronld leaus. hin, and. geese helpe Den Auinote, Cardenio, | and{D on Fernandes (ox: all of thera toake Don. Drixoses ‘| part. ap ei Leer nnatae ie wien | tes fqueaked, Af entermeshowied, Dexetas ficed-confuled, Lufainda, amazed, and Denna Clara diftonyedt the Barber - '| bagesed Sanpete, and Senche pounded himagaine. Dew. Lewis, onwhome ave. af his Seruingmen-had prefamedco . lay:haades, andboldbim.bythearme, gauchimfuchapat : onthesnouth , ashee brake his-cecth, and cheashedudge topks bins .inge: hig-owne proteAion, Dom Fenmande had 1 geen one ofthe Troupess vader hisfeete, where he Rood | | Delabopsing himmachnpieafuse. Thelekeeperrcnewed his pytery aad! reinforced -his vaice:,: a, forthe holy Brotkarkond: fo shan all she lane feemed nothing elie bur plainta,cryes, (chsitches, canfulions, foases, dreades,. | A, Sana carat {pusnings, and cfhifion | ar 3 J {1 Iathesaidfofthia Chass, and Labyrinth of things, Da. | | Reuxate beganne todmagine, and éanciera himielfeythet he eS. o ealhc ou hold your hands, ail: of you put vp your {Words;alt ofyau | | be-quiet, and litten to me, ifeny of you'defite to contitlire d- ‘lie : “Ehargeeat.and ‘monftrots voice made theth all Rand ‘fill; thereupon hethus proceeded :did:not I telfyou, Sirs, thdtthis.Caftle was inchaunted, ‘and chatfdne lepidn of Di- | ‘nels didinhabit it ? ia -cotifirmacton wheredf I would hatte - | °. Thecroupters. which did not-viidertand Dus. :Opvne manner of{peech, ardYaw themfelues very ‘il hartdied by Dow F ernundoand ( xrdenta,wouldin no wile be pacifled ; § bus theBarker whscontemt,, by. resfon thee in'tire confit | - both hisbeard ond his pannell'jsad beene tome in‘ pieces. | : Sancho.cotms Mafters voyce was qaickly ebedienc., as bier]. ‘came a dusifull feruant.. Don. Dems-his foore. Strainpttien || . ‘flood: tle quiet, fecing how:licle:waspained in being other: | ; only the lekeeperperfifted ss before, affirming that puniffes | fens wesdue ¢nto the:tifolencies of that nad. min, who e | - ryfoorcentounded'& difquicted his Jan. Fivally,cheramor | was pacified for chat time 3 the psanell remained for a horfe farniture-votill the. dayofiudginient;the bafon for ‘abelimer, atid the Sane fora Catlle in Don-Qminvres inagtnacion. All, the bediles being new appeated, sid aH mun accorded by | the ludges and Carates perfwa fons, Then began Don Lewis | The delightful Hiflorie of the Parr.g his feruants againe to vree him to depart with them, and whileft he and they debated the matter together, the ludge communicated the whole to Don Fernando , Cardenio , and the Curate defiring to know their opinions concerning that: affaire, and telling them all chat Dow Lewis had faid vnto hin ; whereupon they agreed that Dos Fernando fhould | tell che Serutagmen what he himfelfe was, and how it was his pleafure that Dow Lewis fhould goe with him to e4nda- luzsa , where he fhould becheriflied , and accounted ofby the Marquefle his brother , according vnto his calling and deferts: for he knew well Dox Lewis his refolutien co be fuch as he would not returne into his fathersprefence at that} - time, although they tore him into pieces. Don Fernando his quality and Den Lewis his iacention being vnderftood by the foure,they agreed among themfclues chat three ofthem fhould goe backe, to beare the tidings of all ehat had paffed to hisfather,and the other fhould abide there to attend en | -him,and never to leaue him vatill they returned to fetch him home,or knew what elfe his father. Would: commaunid, And in this fort was that monftrous bulke of diu:fion and ceacention,reduced to fome fornie by the authority of ef- | grameant and the wifedome of King Sebrixo, ., Butthe enemy of concord , and. che aduerfary of pegce, findiag his proieéts to be thus illaded, aad contemned , and feeing the hue fruite he had goeten by fetcing chem all by 4 the earcs,refolutd once againetotric his wits ,and {tirre vp new difcords and troubles, which befell ia this manner : The {| Troupers were quieted, hauing vnderfteod the |! chiles, the mistortunes of Ffefor , the See dat Sinen, |' athe refo- 7? @. 9 4% | The delightful Hiftorie of the Parr.¢ felues. For the Epickes may be as well written in profeas in verfe. | 554 i Cuan XXL wherein the Canon profecutes his difcourfe vpon Lookes of Chinalrie, andmany other thinges worthy of bis wet. _ % Ube 4 y- Ou fay very true , quoth the Curate; and for this very reafon are they , which haue , hitherto invented fuch bookes, the more sa Lat | worthy of reprehenfion, becaufe they nei- {a wy = ther heeded the good difcourfe, the arte, Nema 2ay northe rules , by which they might hawe guided themielues, and by that meanes haue growen as fa- mous for their profe.as be the two Princes of the Greeke and Latin Poetrie for theit verfe. ] baue for my part, quoth the Canon, 2¢ Jeaft atcemptedto, write a beoke of Chiualrie,ob- feruing therein all the points by-me meationed; and ia truth I haue written aboue a hundred fheetes thereof: and to the endthat I might trie. whether they were correfpondent to my eftimatign, I did communicate them, both with certaine Skilfull and wife men, that are maruailoufly affected to that fubie&t,and with fome ignorant perfons that only delight to F heare fanatical] inuentions ; and I bzue found in them alla yratefull apprebation of my labours : yet would I not for all -| that, profecute che worke, as well becaufe it feemed rnfit for my profeffion , as alfo becaufe I flade the number of the ‘ignorant to,exceede that of the judicious:: and though more good come to a man by the praife of a few wifemen, thea urt by the fcoffes of a number of fooles , yet would I not ey {ubie& my felfe to the confufed iudgementf the fenfeleffe vulgar,who commonly giue themfelues moft vnto at the reading of fuch bookes, Buechat which moft of all rid.?~ G. Sees —™s rs _ 6 easy epeeae ben = 2 c A. PaRt.g4. — wittie Knight Don-Quixote, my hands, yea and my memorie of all defire to end it, was this argument, drawne from our moderne Comedies, and thus made to my felfe :If thofe, (as well the fidiions , as hi- Rorical ones) are all or the moft part of chem notorious fop- by the vulgar heard with fuch delight, and held and appro- | ued for good: and both the Authors that compofe them, and actors that reprefent them, fay,that they mutt be fuch as they be for to pleafe the peoples humers,and not more con~ formable to reafon of truth, and that becaufe thofe where- in Decorumsis obferued, and the fable followed according | tothe rules of Art , ferue onely for three or foure difcreete | men ([f fo many may be found at a Play) which doe attend vito them, and all the reft of the Auditours remaine fafting, by reafon they cannot conceiue the artificiall contexture ney and meanes by many, then bare opinion or applaufe by a a The very fame would be the end of my Booke after Ihad vied all pofsible induftrie, to obferue the aforefaid precept; and I fHould remaine onely for a neede,and as the Taylour that dwels in a corner, without trade or eftimation, - And although I haue fundry times indeuoured to per- fwade the Players that their opinion was erronious herein, | ter fame by acting artificiall Comedies then thofe irrepu- 1 lar, and methodicall Playes then vfed : yet are they fo wed- ded to their opinion,as no reafon can wooe,nor demonfira- tion winne them from it. I rememberhow dealing vpona day with one of thofe obftinate fellowes , I {aid a a : doenot youremember how a few yeeres agoe were repre- | fented in Spaine three’ Tragedies, written by a famous Poet of our Kingdome, which were {uch asdelighted , yea and the exact as the fleight ones; and that the te Si gotmore by thofe three alone, then by thirtie-of the beftthat were penned,or Acted fince that time? You meane without que- peries, and things without either head or foote, and yet are | thereof; therefore is it better for them to gaine good mo. } and that chey would attract more people and acquire grea. | amazed all the auditours as well the learned as the fimple, | 555 ) Rion EO eRe The delightfull Hiflorie of the Parr.4 as le ee eee em ne re nee ftion , quoth the Actor anfwering mee, Ifabela, Filis, and eA lexandra. The veryfame quoth I; and note whether in them were not rightly obferued all the rules and precepts of Art, and yet thereby they neither wanted any part of their dignitie,ner the approbation of all the world, So that I in- ferre the fault not to be in the vulgar that couets idle toyes, but rather in thofe which know not how to penne or A& a- ny other thing, for no fuch fond fluffe was in the Comedie of Ingratituderenenged: nor found in Nassantia, nor per- ceiued inthatofthe Amorous Merchant, and muchleffe in the Fanonrable enemy ,nor in fome others made by iudicious Poets, which both redounded to their infinite fame and re- nowne, and yeelded vato thefe Actors aboundane gaine. To thefe I added other reafons , wherewith I left him, in mine opinion, fomewhat perplexed, but not fatisfied, or de- firous to forgoe his erronious opinion. : Truely M. Canow, quoth the Carate, you haue touched a matter that hath rowfed an ancient rancour and heart-bur- ning of mine againft the Comedies now in requeft ; che which is as ee to the grudge that I beare to Bookes of Knighthood. For feeing the Comedie as Tully affirmes ought to be a mirrour of manslife , a patterne of manners, and an Image oftruth: Thofe that are now exhibited, are mirrours of vanitie , patecrnes of folly, and Images of vo- luptuoufnefie, For what greater abfurditie can be in fuch a fabied, then-to feea child come out, in the firfl Scene of the firft Act, in his fwadling cloutes, and iffue in the fecond already growne a man, yeaa bearded man? And what grea- ter vanitie therrto prefent before vs, a valiant old man , and | ayoung coward? A Lay manbecome a Diuine, a Pagea Counfellour, a King a fcoundrell, and a Princefle a fcowre- kettle? What fhould I fay, of the little care had of the due | -obferuation of time, for the fucceeding of that they repre- fent, other then that I my felfe haue feene Comedies, whofe firft A&t began in Ewrope, the fecend in Affe , and the third ended in ef friea,and truely if there had beenea fourth, it] + © la nent ere __. WOUld | Pa RT Go wittie Knight Don-Quixote.. . | 557 weuld queftionleffe haue finifhed in America, and by con- fequence we fhould haue feene a round walke about the foure parts of the world. And fayning an exployt perfor- med in the time of King Pepix , or of Charlemaine, they make the principall Actors thereof, either Heraclins the | Emperour that entred into Hierufalem bearing of the holy Croffe; or Godfree of Bulloin that recouered the Holy-!and; Many yeeres, yea and ages hauing occurred betweene the ‘times of the one and the other: yea andthe Comedie being | | crounded on a fidtion, to attribute vnto it the verities of a iRorie, and mingle it and patch it vp , with peeces of o= thers, hauing relation to different perfons, and times ; and this with no plaufible inuention, or draught refembling ‘the truth, but rather with palpable, groffe ,and inexcufable | -errours.And which 1s ark one guls are found to affirme, that all perfection confifts herein , and that they are too | daintie that looke for any other. | Now if wee-would paffe further co examine the diuine | Comedies that treate of God, er the liues of Saints, what a | ‘multitude of falfe miracles doe the compofers deuife ? what ‘a bulke of matters Apocriphall,and ill-vnderftood ? attribu- ting to one Saint the miracles done by another : yea andin |} -hamane Comedies they prefume to doe miracles ( without | farther tefpect, or confideration y but that {uch a miracle or ‘thew , as they teraeit, would doe well in fucha place) to the end that che ignorant folke may admire them, and come the more willingly to them : all which doth preiudice truth, | difcredit hiftories, and turne to the difgrace of our Spanifh wits : for ftrangers which doe with much pundtualitie ob- | ferug the method of Comedies,hold vs to be rude and igno- rant, whenthey fee fuch follies , and abfurdities efcape ys: | and it will be no fufficient excufe for this errour, to fay, that the principall end of well gouerned Commonwealths,in the permitting of Comedies, is only to entertaine the Comunal- tie with fome honeft paftime , and thereby diuert the exor- | bitant and vicious humours which idlencfle is wont-to in- | eo gender: ———eeeey — ——= I will revieale vnto you all chat hath paft in this affaire‘of your inchatntment: which briefly is,thar thoic two which ride with-their faces couercd , are the Curate ot our Village andthe Barber, and as 1 imagine they both are the plotters of this your kinde of carrying away , for meere emulation that they fee you farpaffe them both in atchie- uing of famous acts. This truth being prefuppofed , it fol- lowes,that you are not inchaunted, but bee gulled and made afoole. For the proofe whereof] will but demaund of you one queftion, and if you doe anfwere me according to mine exp< Ctation,as I beleeue you will,you fhallfcele the deceipt with your owne handes , and percciue how ycuarenotin- : =e chaunted, — rie he oe \ PAR T.4. wittie Knight Don-Qurxote. . ‘56! chaunted, but rather haue your wits turned vpfide-downe. Sonn Sancho demaund what thou wilt,quoth Den- Duixote, and I. will fatisfiethee, and anfwere dire tly to thy defire : But as touching thy auerment, that thofe which goc along with vs be the Curate, and Barber, our Goffips, and old ac- quaintance ; it may well befall that they feeme to bee fuch; | bucthat they are fo really, and in effect, I would not haue thee beleewe in any manner, For that which thou art to be- leeue, and fhouldeft vnderftand in this matter is, that if they be like thofe our friends as thou fayeft, it muff needs be that thofe which haue inchaunted:mee, haue aflumed their fem- blance, and likeneffe (foritis an eafte thing for Magicians to put cn any (hape they pleafe) thereby to give thee occafion } to thinke that which thou doeft, to driue thee inte fucha labyrinth of imaginations, as thou fhalt not afterwards know how to fallie out , .alshough thou hadft the affitlance of Thefeus clew : and wathall to make me wauerin mine vn- | derftanding , to the end] may not conicéture from whence | this charme is deriued yvnto me: for if chou on the one fide doctt affirme, that the Barber,and Curate of our Village doe accompany-me; and Lon the other fide finde my felfe inca- ged, and am fo aflured. of mine: owne force, thatno humane |. firength bee it not {upernatirall, is able thus to incage mee, what weuldeft thou haue mee fay, or thinke , but that the | manner of mine inchantment exceeds as many as ever I read throughout all the Hiflories , intreating of Knights errant which haue beene inchaunted. Wherefore thou maicft very | well appeafe , and quiet thy felfe in that point of beleeuing, | | then to be chofe thou faift ; for they are thofe as much , as I ama Turke ; and as touching thy defire to demaund fome- what of me, fpeake, for I will anfwere the¢, although thou -putteft me queftions vntillro morrow morning. Our Ladie affi me quoth Sancho (as loude as he could ) and is it-poffible that you are fo brainficke, and hard headed as you cannot perceiue that I affime the very pure truth, and chat malice hath a greater ftroake in this yourdifgracé and | | ae) The delightfull Hiftorie of the Panrr.4 imployment, then any inchantments. Bur feeing itis fo, I will proue ewidently that you are not inchanted : if pot, tell me, as God fhall deliuer you out of this cempefl, and as you fhall fee your felfe, when you leaftthinke of it ininy Ladie Daleineas armes : make an end of coniuring mee, faid Don- Duixote,and aske me what quettion thou wilt ys I haue al- readie cold thee chat I will anfwere with all punCtuality: that is it ] demaund-quoth Sancbe ; and the thing I would know is, that you tell me without adding or diminifhing ought, bur with all truth vfed or looked for of all thofe which pro- fefle the exercife of armes as you doc, vader the title of Knights errants? I fay anfwered Don-Qnixete, that I will net lie a iot : make therefore a beginning , or an ende j. of his demaunds, for ia good footh thou doft weary me with | fo many falutations, petitions and preuentions ? Sancho re+ plied, I fay that I am fecure of the bountie and truth of my.|. Lord: and therefore, becaufe it makes to the gal aa in out affaire, ] doe with all refpect,demaund, whether your wor. fhip fince your incagement, and as you imagine inchant}: ment in that coope, haue not hada defire to make greater or leffe water, as men are wont to fay, Ido not vnderftand good Saxche, that phrafe of making water : and therefore - explicate thy felfe if thou wouldeft haue me to ainfwere thee dire@ly : and is it poffible replied he, that your worfhip vo- derflands not what it is to make great or little waters ? then goe to fome {choole, and leatne it of the boyes, and know that I would fay, haue you had a defire to doe that which cannot be vndone ? O now,now, I vnderftand thee Sancho; yes verie many times,yea and even now I haue, wherefore, I praysthee, deliver] mee from the extremitie thereof, for I promife thee I ans not altegether fo cleane as I would be, CHAP. Part.4. - wittie Knight Don. Quixote. Cuan XXII. Wherein the difereete difeonr{e that palfedbetweene San- cho -Panca «nd his Lord Don-Quijxote , is ex- preffid. wy A, quoth Sancho, haue I caught you at Jaft > this is that which ] defired to know,as much f as my foule or life, Come now Sir, and tell B) rea £2) me, can you denie that which is wonttobe Nase {aid,when abodie is ill difpofed,I know not , what ayles fuch a one; for hee neither eates nor drinkes,nor f Aécpes, nor anfweres direGtly to that whith is demaunded him, fo as jt feemes that he is inchanted ? by which maybe |. ~ { colleRed, that fuch as neither cate,drinke,fleepe, nor do the other nacurall things you wote of are inchanted : but not | ” | thofe which haue a defire as you haue, and eate meate,when they get it, and drinke drinke when’ itis giuen them, and anfwere to all chat is propounded vntothem? Thou fayeft | true Sancho quoth Don- Onixore: but I haue told thee alrea- |: die,chat there are diuers forts of inchantments, and perhaps they change with the times from one kinde into another; | and chat new the inchanted vfe to doeall that which I doe, alchough they did not fo is times paft; and therefore there is no difputing or drawing of concluftons againft the cu- Romes of the time, I know, and doe verily perfwade m felfe,that laminclranted, and thatis fufficient for the dif- charge of my confcience, which would be greatlyburdened | if I thoughe that I were notinchanted , and yet permitted my felfeco be borne away inthis Cage idlely, and like a coward withholding the fuccour I might glue tomany di- (treffed and needie perfons, which euen at this houre be like chough to haue extreane want of mine aide, and affiftance. Yct fay I notwithttanding replied Sancho, thatfor more a- bundant fatisfaction your worfhip might do welto scenes | _ . ° . Noa -tWJOQD the eee ee SO en cen a cD $6 4.| | The delight full Hiftorie of the PAR T.4 the getting out of this prifon, the which Ido oblige my felt¢ with all my power to facilitate, yeaandto get you our, and then hs may recount eftfoons on the good Rozinantq who this being done, wetuay againte aflay ‘the fornme of fee- king aduentures, which if it haue no gocd fuccefle,we haue time cnough toreturneto our Cage; wherein I promife, by the faith of a good aud loyall Squire, to, fhut yp my-folfe to- gether with you, if yau fhall proue fo vaforeunate,orI fo foo- lith, as not to bring our defgnes toa gacd iflue, I am con- f{eeme to haue of my difprace.. | time in thefe difcourfes, votill they arriued vnto the place where the Canon, Curate, and Barber expected them; and | the wainenran ynyoaked bis Oxen, permitting them to take the benefit of paflure inthat greene and pleafant valley, whofe verder inuited not fuch to inioyne it as were in-. chanted like Dos- Quixote, but rather {uch heedfull and dif- creete perfons as was his man, who intreated the Cwrate to | licence bis Lord ta.comne out, but a lucle while, for other- wife the prifon would nat be fa cleanly as che prefence of fo worthie a Knight as his Lord was required. The Cu- rate vnderftood his meaning, and anfwered that he would fatishe his requeft very willingly , bur that hee feared that when he jaw bimfelfe at liberty ,. he would play then fome eye on him after: I will be his furety chac he fhall not flie a- way quoth Sanche:and J alfo,quoth the Canon, if he wil bur promif: mee, as he is a knight, that he will not depart from | vs withoucourconfent, Egiuemy word that I will not, faid Don. Quixote ( who heard all that they had {aid ) and the ra- : } ther - alfo feemes inchanted, {0 fad and melanthely he goes: Ard: tent to doe what thou faye fl, brother Sancho , replied Deon- | OQuixete, and when thou feet oportunity offered to free ine, | I will be rated by thee in euery ching, but yet shou fhalt fee, | how far thou are oucrwroughe in the knowledge thou wile [ The Koight errant,and the ill errant Squire beguiled the | then Sancho allighting, & helping to take downe the Cage, |, pranke or other, and goe whither no. bodice fhould ener fer | a ee ewe ya - ¢ agen .| dawne along vpan the graffe, expecting their dinner , hee ‘| faid vnto him: Gentlemen , is it pofsible that the idle and PART.4. — withe Knight Don-Quixote. ther becaufe that inchanted bodies haue not { pce of themfelues as they lifl; for he that hg a le may make them vnable to ftirre from one placcin three daies: and'if they make: an efcape, he can compell them to ae flying : and therefore finee it was fo , they might fecurely fer | him ac liberty, efsecially fecine that it would ecard { | much to all their benefits: for if they did not free him, or - furcher off,he protefted that he could not forbeare to offend _ | their nofes, The Canon tooke his hand (although .it were {bound ) and by his faich,and word, that he would not de- part, and chen they gaue him liberty ; whereat he infinite- ly reioyced, efpecially feeing himfelfe out of the Cage. The ' | fir ching that he did after was to fretch all his bodie’, and . | chen he went edwards Roxinante, and ftriking him twice or thrice on the buttocks,hefaid: T hope yet in God, and his bleffed mother : O flower and mirrour of horfes , that wee two fhall fee out felues very foone in that ftate which our: hearts defire; thou withthy Lord.on thy backe,and I moun- ted.on thea , and, exercifing the function for which God fent meeinta this word. And faying fo, Don-Duixote with his Squire Sancho, retired himfelfe fomewhat from the companie,and came backe foone after a little more ligh- tned, butgreatly defiring to execute his Squires defignes, ‘The Canon beheld him very-earnefily, and with admira-. tion wondering to fee the frangeneffe of his fond hu- ‘| mour, and how that he fhewed’, in whatfoeuer he vetercd, ‘averv good vnderftanding, and onely left the Rtirrops (as is faid before) when any mention was made of Chiualrie; and | — therefore moued to compassion, after they were all laide | vnfanourie leQure of Bookes of Knighthood, hath fo much diftradted your wit, as thus tabelecue , that you are caried away inchanted, with ogher things of that kind , as much wide from truth, as yntruths can be from veritie ic felfe? Cr how is je pofiible chat any humaine vaderftanding can frainc es 566 | The delightfull Hiftorieof the . Pant. it felfe to belceue, that inthis world there have beeng fuch an infinitic of eA madsfes,fuch a crew of famous Knights, fo many Emperours of Frah:foxds , fuch a number of Felix- martes of Hyrcanias {o many Palfrayes, Damaels errant, Serpents, Robbers, Giants , Battailes., vnheard of aducn- ‘tures, fundrie kinds of inchantments, fuch vnmeafurable in Counters, fuch brauerie of apparell, fuch a multitude of en- amoured and valiant Princefles , fo many Squires-Earles, - 4 | wittie Dwarfes, Viragoes, Loue letters, amorous dallian- _cesgand firially fo many , fo vnteafonable , and impofsible aduentures,as are contained in the Bookes of Knighthood. _ This much I dare-auouch of my felfe,that when: Lread them as long as Idoe not thinke that. they are all but toyes.and vntcuthes, they delight me: but when J ponder ferioufly, whacthey are, I throw the very beft of themagainft the wals, yea.and would throw. them into the fire ifthey were neere me, or in my hands, Hauing well deferued that feue- ritie, as falfe Impoflures , and feducers of common fence; _as broachers of new Sects , and. of vncouth courfes of life; as thofe that giue occafion ta the ignorahe vulgar to -beleeue in, fuch exorbitant. vntruthes as are contained in them. Yea, and ate withall fo prefimptuous, as to dire to confound the wits of the moft difcrerte, and beft difcended Gentlemen; as we may cléarely perceitie by that they haute } .done to yourfelfe,whom they haue brought to fuch terines: as itis neceffarie to fhut you vp in a Cage, and carie you on a Teame of Oxen, cuen as one caries a Lion or Tygre from place to place, to gaine a liuing by the fhewing ofhim. Therefore, good Don- etainete , take compafsion of your. felfe, and returne intothe bofome of diferetida; andlearne toimplay the moft happie talent of vaderitanding , anda- bundance of wit, wherewith bountifull heauen hath inrich- ed it, yet fome other-courfe of Audie, which'may redounde to the profit of your foule, and aduancement of your credit and eftate. And if, borne away by your naturall difpofici- on; you will yet perfilt in the reading of warlike, & Knight- Y — ([Panr.g. | ~wittie Knight Dan-Quixote. ly difcourfes; Reade in the holy Scripture the Adts of Iud- ges, for there you fhall find furpafsing feates and deedes, as true, as valorous. Portugallhad a Viriate. RomeaCefar. Carthage an Hannibal,Greece an Alexander ,Caftile an Earl, Fernan GoncalezV alencia 2 Cid, Andaluxiea Goncalo Fer. nandex., Eftremaduzaa Diego Garcia de Paredes , Xereza- GarsiPerex deVarzas, Toledo a GarciLafe, Suila Don Manuel de Leon , The difcourfes of whofe va lorous Ades,” may entertaine, teach, delight, and make wonder, the moft ‘| fublime wit chat fhallreade them. Yea,, this were indeed a Audie fit for your fharpe vnderftanding , my deere Sir Don- | Quixote, for by this you fhould. become learned in Hifto- | ries, enamoured of vertue, inftracted in goodneffe, bettered | in maners, valiant without,rafhneffe , bold without cowar- [ dice:and all this to Gods, honour , your owne profit, and | renowme of the ALancha, fromm whence, as I haue learned, | you deduce your beginning andprogenie, ; Deon- Quixote liftned with all attention vnto the Cations admonition, and perceiving that he wascome to.an end of them, after he had looked .vpon him a:good while, he fid, }- mie thinkes Gentheman, that the fcope of your difcourfe hath } beene addreftto perfwade me, that there neuer were any | Knights Errant in the world; and that all the bookes of Chi- | ualrie are falfe, lying /aurtfull, and vnprofitable to the Com- mon-wealth; and that I haue done ill to reade them, worfe | tobeleeue inthem, and worft of all ta follow them, by hauing thus caken on mee the moft auftete profefsion of wandring Knighthood, whereof they intreate : denying moreouer that there were euer any Amadifes,cither of Gant | or Greece; or any ofall the other Knights , wherewith uch Bookes are ftuffed; All is iuft.as you haue faid, quoth the |. Cauon: whereto Don- Quixote replied thus, Y ou alfo added, that fuch Bookes had done me much hurt, feeing they had turned my iudgement,and immured me vp in this Cage;and chat it were betterforme, to make fome ashendment, and alter my ftudie, reading other that are more authenticall, “NW 3 and < 565 | Tire dig hfe! Bftor ie of the Parts and'delight and nftru& mach better, Ic is very true anfwe- red the Canon. Why then, quoth Don- Quixote, | finde by mine accounts,that the inchanted,and.fenfleffe man is your felfe; (ceme you haue bent your felfe to {peak fo many blal- _phemieoagainits thing fo truc, fo currane, and offuch ree " Queflin te world, as hee that fhould denic.it, as youdoe, | prerices che fame punifiment, whichies pe Pik gine to shofe Boakes, when the reading thereof offends-yon : For to gor sbourto make men belecuc, that eFmades neuer li- ' ged, nor arty other of thofe Knights, Wherewith Hiftories “are fallyreplenifived , would bee notie-other then to per- {wadethem, that. che Sumne lightens not,the Earth fuftaines not, nor the Ice mukesany thing cold: See what witte is there in the world fo profound, ‘thatcan induce another to beleaue, thacthe Miftorie of Gupof Berg andy, and the Prin- cts Floripes, was howwtue? Nor thet ot Fierabras, with the bridge of ALantible, which; befell in (bar lenraines time, and is, I fweare, as ttue, as thatit is day at chis inflanty and if it bealie, fo mufticbecd!fo; that ewer there was an FY efor - Ahetnlles, or the wurte of Trbyy F be twelte Peeres of France, “or King Aribanef Bolttuive; Who woes yer about the world in the flrape'of Crow; and is etery foarte expected in his 'Kingdonte.. ‘And they will es well prefumeto fay , thatthe Hiorie of Guarino CM taquine;and'of vie diel} ofthe ho- ly Suangvsalle' thes anlithae-for thedlotre betweere Sir Tri ' firamandiLa Betis Pfobde and betweene Qhicene ‘Gaenenor . and SirlLaancelet Dilak; we haue Ho fufficieht Authoritie, and yerrhere ber cettaine perfons elite ,. which alinofi re- member, thatthey-hauefeene the Lady Gneetaniona, who was one-of the Bcalskinkersof Wine that cuet Great Brit tasne hac; and this-isfocértsine)’ a¢ Lremember'that one of _| ny Grandmothers of my-Fathers fide; ‘was wont to fay vn- | toume, when thee faw my tatrone , with along and reue- rend kerchiefo or vaile , my boy , that woman refembles very much Lady Osintanionk {ftom which Iargue, that ei- ther thee knew her felfejor at the leaf, had feene fome por- oer > .. oaf eeainiire |Parr.q. . witteKnight Don Quxde | §6 9 traicure of hers. Who-can morenuer deniethe certaintie of the Hiflorie of Peter of Promaunce , and the. beautifull: Moagolena, feeing that. vntill this.very day one may beheld in the Kings. Armorie, the Pisne wherewith he guided, and turned any way he lifted, cheHosfe of wood.; whereupon | he:rode thordw the’ Ayre; whid-Pinne,, is a little bigger . then the Thill of a Cart , and neerevato:it.is alfa feene Bas bieca his faddle: and in Rencefwale there:yet hangs Rowlawds | hornes, which is as bigge as 2 veryoreat leyft, whence.is in- , ferred, that there »were/twelac Pecres , that theoe: was: a Pierres of Promanasy thar alfo there. were (iaet, and othdr {uch Kaights .as thofe which the world termes adventurers; if not, let them alfo rell me, thatthe valiant Laftanian,lohn de Melo, wasno Knight Ertatit., who. wem to Bargauidia, and in the Ciie ef Rec: foughe with tho:fansous : Losd of Charwi called ©Mofen P iewré, and after-voithed fofen: Hekry of Rameftan in the Citie of Baflea y anth bore: away, dhe vi- toric in both the confiits,; cohis etorball famme3 and chat there-were no fuch curres as the aduenranss;andfinglé come | bats bcpunne, and ended in:‘Burgunive, by che: valiant Spas | | niards Pedro: Barba, and Gutserre Quidada (fontwhois I my felfe am lineally difeended:).whoouercane the Farle:of | Saint Paws fonnes. Fhey may alfo verre vnto me, that } Dou Fernando de Guenarra wentnot to feeke aduentires in | Germania, where he fought with Aticer. George a soir He of. | the Duke of e-fuftria his houfe Let chem ike wife affirme, |; chat Saare de: Dainownes' ofthe paflage, his luftes were but |! | ieftes;as alfo che enterprife of Adofen Lewis de falfes, againkt | Den Geucalaide Guamana Gentleman of Caffde,with many | ocherrenqumed Adts, done as well by ‘Chriffian Knighrs of Tt thie Kingdome; as:of other forraine lands, and {o suthenti- | jcalland true, a9 that I.am compelled. ta rciterare what I faid-before, tliat whofaduer denies ‘thein , is defectiue of reafon and good difcourfe. , tee ee Fultof admiration remained the good Canon, toheare the compofition ,: aiid ‘medly, that, Den-Qaixete made of 4 Nn. 4 truchs, 47° - The delightfull Hiftorieofthe | Pant.g. truths, and fictions together ; and at the preat notice he had of all chings that might any way concerne his Knighthood errant cand therefore he fhaped him this an{were : I cannot denie Sir Dom Duixete,but that fome part of that which you haue faid is true, {pecially touching thofe Spanifs aduentu- | cers of whome you haue fpoken ; and will likewife praunt you, that there were twelue Peeres of France, bat I willnot beleeue that they haue accomplifhed all that which the Arebbifbop T urpine hath left written of them : for the bare truth of che affaire is, that. they were certaine Noblemen chofen out by the Kings of Franceywhom they called Peeres, becaufe they were all equalk in valour, qualitie, and worth ; or if they were nor, it was at lea(t prefumed that they were ; and they were not much volike the militarie orders of Saint Taras, or Calatrana,were imrequefl, wherein it is prefuppo- _| fed thar fch as.ave of the profeflion, are, or ought to be va- lorous , and well defcended:, Gentlemen: and-as now they fay, a Knighe af StJobe,or Alcantara, fo in thofe times they faid;a Knight of the ewelue Peeres;becayfe they were twelue equals, chofen to be of that military order. That there was a Cid , and 2 Bernard: of Carpio , isalfo doubtleffe ; that they haue done the ats recounted of them, I beleeue there is ve- ry great caufe to doubt, . As touching the pinne of the good Earle Pierves,and that it is by Rabieca his faddle in the kings Armourie, I confeflethat my finihath made me fo ignorant, “{ orblind, that alchough I haue the faddle very well,yet could I neuer getafhghe. of that:Pinne, how. great foeter you af- firme it tobee. Well, it is chere without queftion , {aid . | Dox- Quixote, and forthe greater confirmation thereof they fay itis laid vp ina cafe of Neates leather, to keepe it from rufling. That may very well fo be, faidche Canon , yet by the orders that I haue seceiued, I doe notremember that e- uer I faw it : and alchough J fhould graunt it to be there, yet | doc I noctherefore oblige my felfe to belecue the Hiftories of all che eS maidifes , nor thofe.of the other rabblement of Knights, which bookes doe ingsitton ynto vs :norisit reafon _ eo Cl aes thar _ le Pa RT.46 ware Knight Dow-Qutxote, 57 that fo Honorable a man,adorned with fo many good parts, and iadowed with fuch a wit, as you are, fhould beleeue, that fa many, and fo lirange follies, as are written'in the ra- | uing bookes of Chiualrie, canbe true. i” Cuap. XXIII. Of the difercet contention betweene Don-Quixote and " the Canon, with other accidents. | : Be Hat were a jeft indeed,quoth Don- Dnixote, thatbooks which are printed with the Kings licence, and approbation of chofe to whom their examination was committed , and that are read with vuiuerfall delight and accep- | tance; and celebrated by great and little, rich, and poore, learned and ignorant,Plebeans and Gentle- | men, and finally by all kinde of perfons of what flate or con- | dition foeuer,fhould be fo lying and fabulous ; {pecially {ee- ing they haue fuch probabilitie of truth;feeing they defcribe ‘| vntovsthe Father, Mother, Countrey, Kinsfolke, Age, Towne, and Adts of fuch a Knight, or Knights, and that fo -exa@tly , point by point , and day by day : Hold your peace | and neuer {peake againe fuch a blafphemie; and beleeue me, | for I doe fincerely counfaile you what you,asa difcreet man, | ought todoe herein ; and if not, reade them but once, and | you hall fee what delight you fhall receive thereby : if nor, | tellme what greater pleafure cantherebe, thea to behold (as one would fay ) euen here and before our eyes 5 9 great lake of pitch boiling hot, and many Serpents, Snakes , Li- zarts, and other kinds of cruell and dreadfull beafts fwim- ming a thwart it, and in euery part of it, and that there iffues out of che lake a moft lamentablevoice, faying. O shon r Knight , whatfoener thon art , which doeft bebold the fearefull i lake, if thom defireft to obtaine the good cancealed under thefe { ! ho.vide OWN a aN Ch 1a ® ¢ oe, i va he = ftall, Aides over the {mall fands, and white litle flones, which T be delightfull Hifforie ofthe | PAR Tq herride and blacke waters , fhew the valour of thy. firong brest, and throw thy fel into the widft of ths fable, and wnflamed k_ conr; for sf thon doef? not fo, thou {bale not be worthy to dsfcouer the great wonders hidden in she fenen Caffles of the feuen Fates, which are feated under thefe gloomie wanes : and that fcaree hath the Knight heard the fearefull voice, when without en- tring into any new dilcourfes, or once ¢onfidering the dan- ger whereinto he thrufts himfelfe , yea or eafing himfelfe of the waight of his ponderous armour, but only commendin e him{elfe vnto God, and his Ladie Miftris, hee plungesinto the midft of that burning puddle, and when he neither cares nor knowes what ma Peel him , -hee finds himfelfe in the midtt of flourifhing felde » with which the very EL/ean plaines can in no fort be compared ; There it {cemes to han that the element is. more tran{parent, and that a Sunne | ine with a cleereglight then in awe Orbe : cherd offers it felfe to his greedie and curious cye, a moft pleafinp forreft replenifhed with fo greene, and well-{pred trees, as the ver- dure thereof both ioyes and quickens the fight; whileft rhe ‘eares are entertained by the harmonious , thougharttefle ' fongs of infinxe and enamelled birds, which tranerfe-the in- \ tricate bowes of that (hadie habitation : Here hice difcouers | afmall ftreame , whofe frefh waters refembling liquid (7- ' refemble fifted gold wherein Oriental] Peasles are inchaced: | there he difcernes an-artificiall Fountaine wrought of niotly | lafper and {mooth Marble : and hard by it an other , rudely and negligently framed, wherein the fiindry Cockle thels ' with the wreathed white & yellow houfes of the Peruincle, and Snaile intermingled, and placed-after.a diforderly:ordey : | Chauing now and then peeces of cleare Criffad, and ‘coun. i tertait Emeralds mingled among them) do make a worke of fo pracefull varietie, as. Arte imitating Nature, doth herein feeme to {urpaffeber. Suddainely he difcouers a frong Ca. {tle or goadly Palace, whofe walles are of beaten gold, the pinacles of Dianouds, the pares of Zacines ; finally,ic is of fo : Cx. Pa RY op. wittie Knight Don-Quixote. | exquifite workemanthip,as alchough the materials whereof itis. built, are no worfe then Diamonds, Carbuncles, Rubies, } Emeralds, Pearles, and Gold, yetis the Architecture thereof of more cftimation & value then they,and is there any more to be feene, after the feeing hereof, then to fee fallie out at the Caflle gates, a goodly troupe of louely Damzels, whofe braue and cofily attyre, if I fhould attempt to defcribe as it is laid downe in Hidorics, wee fhould neuer make an end 2 and fhee that feemeg the chieteft of all to take prefently our bold Knight, that threw himfelfe into the boiling lake, by the hand, and carry him into therich Cafile or Palace with- out fpeaking.a word, and caufe him to ftrip h'mfelfe as na- |. ked, as he was when his Mother bore him, and bathe him in _Verytemperate waters, and afterward.annoint him all ouer with precious ointments,and put on hima fhirt of moft fine, . odoriferous,and perfumed Sendall; and then another Dam- zell to come {addainely and cafts on his backe a rich mantel, which they fay is wonttobee worth, at the very leaft a tich City, yea-and more ? then what a {port it is, when they tell vs shee , that afterchis hee is carried into another Hall, where he finds the tables couered fo orderly as he refis ama- zed ? what, to fee caft on his hands water diftilled al! of Am- | bar, and mof fragrant Howers ? what, to fee him feated ina chpire of Yuorie ? what ,.r0 fee_him ferued by all the Dame | izels with maruailous filénce ? what, the fetting before him | | fuch variety of accates, andthefe fo excellently drefled, as his appetite knowes not to which of them ic fhall firfl ad- drefle his hand ? what, to heare the Muficke which founds. whilit he is-at dinner , without knowing who makes it, or | | whence it comes ? and after that dinner is ended, and the ta- ‘blestaken-away, the Knight to remaine leaning on a chaire, .| and perhapspicking of his teeth, as che cuftome is, and on a -( fuddaine toenter at the Hal-dore another much more beau- ful] Damzell then any of the former,and to-fit by his fide and beginne to recount vato him what Caflle that is, and how ; thee ssinchaunted therein:, with many other things that a- | igitized fy | mazed | 574 | to doe good vnto my friends,butefpecially to this my peore | Squire Sancho Paxca,who is one of the honefteft men inthe j which I promifed him many dayes paft, but that I feare mee | ‘Sancho ouethearing thofe laft words of his mafters faid, The delightful Hiftorie of the Parr. 4.: mazed the Knight, and amazed the Readers. I will noten- large my felfe any more in this matter, feeing that you may colle&t out of that which I haue faid, that any pare that is read of any booke ofa Knight errant, will delight, and afto- nithhim, that fhall perufe it withattention : and therefore I pray you belecue me, & as Ihaue faid already, reade thofe kinde of bookes, and you fhall finde that they will exile all the melancholie that fhall trouble you, and rectifie your dif | pofition , if by fortune it be depraued : for I dare affirme of my felfe that fince I am become a Knight errant , I am vali- ant, curteous, liberal! , well mannered , gencrous, gentile, |. bold, mild, patient, an indurer of labours , imprifonments3 and inchauntments: andalcthough it be but fo little a while fince I was fhut vp ina cage like amad man , yet doe I hope by the valour of mine arme (heauen concurring and fortune not croffing me) to fee my felfe within a few dayes,the King of fome Kingdome, wherein I may thew the bounty and li- beralitie included within my breft. For in good truth Sir, a poore man is made vnable to manifeft che vertue of libera- litie cowards any other, although he-virtually poffeffe ‘it | himfelfe in a moft eminent degree : and the will te pratifie which only confilts of will, is as dead a thiny, as Faith with- out Workes.For which caufe I doe with, that fortune would quickly prefent me fome occafion. whereby I might make } - my felfe an Emperour; that I may difcouer the defire I haue world, on whome I would faine beflow the Earledome he will not be able to gouerne his flate. labour you, Sir Don- Quixore,to pette mee that Earledome as often eae by you, as much longed for by me’, and Ipromife you that I will not want fufficiency to gouerne it, and though I fhould,yet haue I heard fay,that there are men im the world who take Lordthips to farme, paying the Lord : : fo OO Re ge OMe TO PAR Te — waltie Knight Don-Qurxote, $95 = a fo much by the yeare, and vadertaking the care of the: go- | urromentthercof; whilft the Lard: himfelfe with outftret- ched legs deth live at his eafe;‘enioying the rents they.bring | him, .and caring for nothing:elfe: and {o will I doe, and will ' | natfland racking itto the vtmioft, but prefently defift from |: ’ | all admialtteation,and line merrily vpon my rent like a-yon Dukes and,foletthe world wagge, and goe how it will. That friend Saxchyis to be vnderftood quoth the Canon, of -enioyning the revenewes.; but as concerning the admini+ Agation of iufice; the Lord ‘of the Signiory is bound to looketo it, inthatisrequired a fufficiency and ability to go: | 4 uerne,and aboue all, a goodinténtionto deale iuftly, and . |. determine rightly: for if this be wanting when we besinne, . our meanes and ends. will alwaies be fubi€t to errour, And therefore is Ged wont as well to further the good defignes | | of che fimple, as to disfauour the bad ‘ones of thofe that be } wittily wicked. © - . _ Ivnderftand not thofe Philofophies quoth Sancho Panca, but this I know -well,that I would I had as {peedily the Earl- dome, as I- could tell how-to gonerne it, for I haue as much foule as another, anidas much bodie ashee that hath moft; and I would be as abfolute aking in my eftate, as anyone . | would be in his; arid being-fuch,I would. doe what I liked, _and deing what I liked, I. would take my pleafure; and taz king my pleafure I would be content ; and when oneis-con- tent,be-hath no more to defire, and hauing no mere to de- fire che matter were ended : and then come the flate when it will, or-farewell it, and let vs behold our felues , as: one Blinde man faidto another. They are no bad Philofophies which thou comeft out with kind Sanebo,quoth the Canon, but yet for all chae there is much to be {aid concerning this matter of Earledomes. To that Dos- Quixote replied : I know net what more may be faid, onely I youerne my felfe by the the example of Amadis de Gaule, who made his Squire Earle of the firme Iland:.and therefore I ‘may with- out {cruple of confcience make Sancho Pancaan Earle ;for | ee he eee a a ae 576 The delightfull Hiflerieof the Pan 4 te Ed _ .} he is enc of che belt Squires thac euer knight errant had. The | Canon abade amazed at che well-compacted ‘and order i rauings of Don. Quote; ar the manner wherewith he ha deciphered the adueocure of the Knightof the lake; acthe -impreffion which his lying bookes had made into‘Him:: ahd finally ie wondeed at the fimplicitie of Sanche Pasca, who focarnefily defired to he made Karle ofthe county his Lord hadpromifedhim = = °°: - By this time che Canons feruingmen, which had gone to the Inne for the funiprire Male, were returned, and making their tatile of a carpet, and of tho greene praffe of that mea- dow,they fate dawae ynder the thadow of the treés,and did eate these, ta the end that the waineman might not lofe the commoditic of the paflure, as'we haue faid before , and as |. thoy fare at dinner, they fodiialpheard.the found of a! lirtte. bell ifuing fram amongthe-briersand brambles that were at hand, and inftanely after chey faw come out of the thicket avery faire thee-Goate, whofe hide was poudered all ouet with blacke, white, and browne fpors : after her followed a Goatheard crying vinta her, and. id:his language bidding her flay, o8 recurne againe eo: thefobld :-bur the flgitiue | Goate all affrigttedand fearcfull ranie towards the com. pany,and as ic were feeking in her dimbe manner to be pro- tected Arayed necre vato them, thendidithe Goatheard ar. riue, and laying bold ef her hosnes (.as if thee had beene eapable of his seprehenfton ) faid vaco her. O-yee wei. tan ape, ye {patted elf, how come you to halt with me a late daies? what walues doskarre your daughter? will you: not tell me, faire, what the matrer is? but whatcan it be o- ther chen that yeu are a female, and therefore can neuer be quiet,afoule euill ake your conditions,and.af} theit:, whom you fo much refemble’, turne backe toue, tutne backe, and though yau be not fo content withall,- yet fhall you ay lea(t be more fafe inyourfold, and amang the ref ef your fellowes: for if you chat fhall guide and dire&i them,go thus diflraéted, and. wandering, what chen muft they doe; | what we ne rr ee 8 ee — et ow eee we ee * will. °e « OO ae SO ee ne ee 6 nagar EON EO eR ON ~ Aa - 3S Hewes amg ee eo —ae FS Fh: peat Aare ae es oa 7 ro -) & pwn FFA - —-~: — > JF eA Be wo FR Ramwr.4, ‘withe Knight Bow-Quixotey ERIS em Ws be oes a En Ne eT TE willbecome of-them? . The Goatheatds words did ‘tot 4 lictde delight she hearets, bur pringipally the Canay, who fgid ynto him, | pray thee gaad felow. sake thy.eAheerea | while,and.doe not:haBen that Goate fo muah to: her fould, for feeing fheis afemale, as thou fayeft, fhe will follow her 4 natural inftin& how much focuer thau appofett thy felf vn- toit: take chereforeshat bit, and drinke a draught where- | ' withdll thou mat remperthy choller, andthe Goate will |. tefl her the.whilfts and faying fo, hee gave him the hinder | | | quareet of acdid Rabbet, which he receiving, rendréd him | | | many thankes,and drinking adrauphtof wine, did pacifi¢ patente faid prt fently after: 3 vrould not haue you my | nahers accosrts.me, (inple, although I Ipoketo this beaft in. | Yo-caxnicht a fafhion; forin truchzhs watds which J vied ye- | toher where hot wisheits fome rmyfteri¢ Ladd tudeed rpfick, | ‘and yct-not fo muchsaue that:] know-how to couderfe with | men,aud With brafis.d beleaweshatesGly quoth.ehe.Curate,.{ | for knew aireadia by experience ,shat the woods breede | learned atea, and fheepe codte comisine Phildfaphess, At: the lead Sirwe phat hthie Goathicard, they h4veamoag then experienced men:sandiahet youmay giud the niere: credite: co this truth, and as it were,touch it with your owne hands, | ( althoughtilhi be bidden, | mey-feemeto inuice my felfe } {I will, if you pleafe may ss but a while, relate vntoyou 'a very true accidene,slictt flial] make good what thisGen- |. ‘tleman (pointing to the Curate) and my felfe haue affirmed, | - | ‘to this Don -Qrirote'anfwered; becaufe the Cafe doth feeme to haue in it fome {hadow of kimghtly aduerteures, Twill for my part liften vnto thee with avery good will, and I pre-{ . . | fume thicalt theft Gentlerhog wit deethe like , -{o great is | their difcretion sand delice to.know curious nauelty' which 2 | amaze, delight; and entartaine the fenfes, as] doe certain! | belcewethy hittory will.. ‘Fhercfose beginiitfriend , and all -. | of vswillend ons cares ontaa,Jexceptanme quoth Sanche, for L-will goe withthis:paftiewntodhac hide ftredme, where: I meane to fill my felfe forthree daics yfor} haue heard my: 7 mo Lord | | @. pe). ae 578 | 2 om. (an then he began his hiftory ia thisinsaener, . . Ph POSE oss Teh, ow. a Ca a The delightfoll Hiflorie ofthe —§ Pxnvtg Lord Don- Quixote fay, that a Knight errants Squire mu eate whenhe can, and alwaies as much ashecan, becavfe thar oftentimes-they-enterby-chance into fome wood fo in- tricare,as they cannot git out of # againein five or fixe dates: and if amens panchibe not then well ftuffed, or his wallet well flored, he may there remaine, and be turned as many | times it happens , into mummie,’ Thou art in the right of it Sanche,quoth Don. Quixete, goo therefore where thou’ wilt, and-eate-what thea maf ; for I ant alreadie fatisfied, and onely want refeGtion for my minde, which now I will giuc it by liftening to this good follow. ‘The fame will wee alfo giue vnto ours queth the Canon, who therewithal] in- treated the Goatheard to keepe. promife!, and begiane: his. tale, Then he ftroking: ence or twicd his: prettie Goate,: (which he yer held:faft by the hornes) {atd thus : Lyedownce an foole,by mee, for we fhall have time enough co returne ome dgaine. Iefeemed thatthe Goat vaderftood him; for as'foone as her mafter fate downe, fheiquictly Rtretched her felfe along by him, and looking him inthe face, did giue.to yaderitand, that (he was attentite to what hee was faying, |. id Cuan XXIMB Relating that which the Goatheard sold to thofe that car- riedaway Don.quixote wait : mo tae ak oe aa eee . g. Heereis a villagediftant fome: three leagues py from this valley, which albeit it belittle , is Aye one of the richeft‘of all this commark: there- infometime did dwell a wealthie farmer.of | Par T.4. wittie Knight Don-Qutxote. 597 al wealth he poflefled: Buc that which did mo(t accumulate his happinefle(as he himfelfe was wont to fay) was,that he had a daughter of fo accomplifhed beauty, fo rare difcretion,com- lineffe, and vertue, that as many as knew and beheld her, ad- mired co fee the paffing indowments wherewith heaven, and nature had inriched her. Being a child fhe was fayre,& increa- fing daily in feature, fhe was at the age of fixteeu moft beau- tiful. The fame wherof extended i: felfe ouer allthe bordcring villages, buc why fay I the bordring villages alone, if it fpread it felf over the farthett cities,yea & entrcd into the kings Pal- lace,& intothe eares of all kinde of people? fo that they came from all parts to behold her as a rare thing, and patterne of miracles? her father did carefully keepe her,and fhe likewifc | heeded her fclfesfor there is neither guard, locke , nor bolt able to keepe a mayden betecr, then is her owne warineffe , and care. The wealth of the father,and worth of the daugh- ter moued diuers, as well of his owne village as ftrangers,to demaund her to wife,but he(as one whom the difpofall of fo rich a iewell moft neerely concerned) was much pexplexed, and vnable to determine on whom, among fuch an infinite number of importunate woers,he might beftow her: among others that bore this good wil towards her,I my felf was one to whom gaue many, and very great hopes of good fuccefe, the knowledge that her father had of mee, my birth in the fame village,my defcent honeft, and blood yneainted,flouri- mee in yeares,very rich in goods, and no leffe in gifts of the mind, Another of che fame village,and qualities was alfo a {uiter voto her: which was an occafion to hold her in fu- {pence, and put his will in the ballance, deeming as he did, that fhe might be beftowed en either of vs two: and that he might be rid of his doubr, he refolued totellit to Leandra, (for fo do they call the rich maids which hath brought mee | | . toextreamemifery ) noting difercetly, that fecing we both were equals, ic would not be amiffe to leaue in his deeré daughters power the making choyce of whether fhe liked belt. A thing worthy to be noted by all thofe pargzts that would Oo 7 ~ hane RELLY 580 | Se ‘| bawe their children marry. Wherein my meaning is not that T be delight full Hiftorie of the Parr.4! they fhould permit them to make a bad or a bafe choyce,bur that they propound certaine good ones, and referre to their liking which of them they will take. I know not what was the liking of Leandra,but only know this,that the father po- (ted vscff by alleaging the ouer greene yearcs of his daugh- tcr, and vfing generall termes , which neither obliged him, nor difchareed vs, My riuall wascalled e4xfelmo, andiny | felfe Emgenio: chat you mey alfo haue fome iuflice of the per- fons which were aétors in this tragcedie, whofe conclufion is yet depending, but threatens much future difafter, About the very fame time arrived to our village oneUin~ cent of the Rofe,{onne to a poore labourer of the fame place, which Vincente returned as then from /ta/y, and diuers other countries, wherin he had beene a fouldier,for being of fome tweluc yeares of age,a certaine Captaine that with bis com- pany paffed along by our village, did carry him away with him, and the youth after a dozen yeares more, came backe againe attired like & a foldier, painted with a hundred co- lours, full of a thoufand deuifes of Criftall, fiuc fteele chains: to day he would put on fome gay thing, the next day fome othcr,but allofithem flight painted , and of little waight, | leffe worth. The clownith people which are naturally mali- cious, and ifthey haue but euer fo little idlencfle or leafure become malice it felfe, did note and recken vp all his braue- jixsyand tewcls, and found that he had but three fuits of ap- pore ll of dfferent colours, with garters and Aackings an- (werable to them; but he vfed fo many difgurfements, varie- cies transformations, and inuentions,which they , as if they ad not counted themall, fome one would bane {worne that he nad made fhew of more then tenne fuits of apparrell,and more then twenty plumes of feathers:and let not that which Ttell you ofthe apparrell be counted impertinent, or froin the matter; for it makes a principall pare in the biftory, He would fit on abenchthat food vader a great Poplar tree in | the mid@ ofthe market place, andthere would holdvs all, Pa RT.4. wittte Knight Don. Quixote. 5 SI with gaping mouthes, liltening to the gallant aducntures, and refolute acts he recounted ynto vs, there was no land in all the world, whofe foile he had not troden on,no ba:teil wherein he had not been prefent,he had flaine more AZocres, then the kingdomes of Marrocco,and Tuney comtained,and vidertaken more findle combats, as he faid, then eucr did e1- cher Gant, Lana, or Diego Garcia de Paredes, and a theu- ‘and others whom he named, and yet hee ftill came away wich the victory, without hauing euer left one.drop of blood. Aa the other fide he would fhew vs fignes of wounds, wnich althoughthey could not be difcerned,yet would he perlwade vs that they were the markes of bujlets, which he receiued. 1 diuers'skirmifhés, and manaces. ‘Finally he would thou his equals, and thofe which kneW hin very well with mar- ucllous arrovancyé and faidjthaehis arme was his father, his warkes lis nage, and that befidehis being a fouldier , hee ought nota whitto the king. Tothefc his arrogancies was annext fomefuperficiall skill in muficke, for he could {cratch alittle on a Gytterne,and fome would fay that hee made it (peake: bur his many graces made nota Rop there 5 for hee bad likewife fome fhadowes of Poetry,and fo woald make a ballade of a Jeague and a halfe long vpon cuery toy that hapned inthe village: The fouldicr therefore, whom I haue deciphered , this Vincente of the Rofe,this braggard,this Mufician, this Poet, eyedand beheld many times by Leandra from. a ccrtaine window of her houfe that looked into the Market placesand the golden fhew of his attire enamoured her: an@his Ditties ‘nchanted hers for hee would giue twentie Copies of cuery one he compofed: The report of his worthy acts , beaurificd byhimfelfe, camealfo vnto her eares,and finally (for fo itis likely theDiucll had ordered the matter) fhee became in Loue with him before he prefumed to thinke once of folici- ting her. And as in Loue aduentures no one is accompli« fhed with more facilitie, then that which is fauoured by the womans defire; Leandra and Vimcemtemadea {hort and ¢a- | Oo 4 fie : a 582 The delightfull Hifforie of the PaRrt.4 fie goreement, and ereany one of her fuiters could once fulpect her defires, fhee had fully fatisfied them; abandoned her deere and loving Fathers honfe, (for her mother lives not) and running away from the Village with the Souldier, who departed with more triumph from that enterprife, then trom all che others which he had arrogated to himfelfe, The accident amazed all the Towne, yea and all thofe to whome the rumour thereof arrived ; was aftonifhed, A#/elmo ama- zed, her father forrowfull, her kinsfolke afhamed. The mi- niflers of IuRice carefull , and the Troupers readie to make purfuir; all the wayes were laide, and the woods, and euery other place meerely fearched; and at the end of three dayes they found the luftfull Leandra hidden in a Caue within a wood, naked in her fmocke,and difpoyled ofa great fumme of money, and many precious Iewels, which fhee had brought away with her: they returned her to her dolefull fathers prefence, Where asking how fhee became fo defpoy- led, thee prefently confefled , that Vimcent of the Rofe had deceived her; for hauing pafled his. word tamake her his wife, he perfwaded bes to leaue her fathers houfe, and made her beleeue chat he would carrie her to the richefl, and moft delightfull Citie of the world, which was Naples. And that fhee through indifcretion , and his fraude, had giuen credit to his words, and robbing her father , tole away with him the very fame night that fhee wasmifled; andthat he caried her to a very rough thicket, and fhuc ber vp in that Caue wherein they found her : Shee alfo recounted bow the Soul- dier, wich8ur touching her honour, had robd ber ot all that fhee caried, and Jeauing her in that Caue, was fled away; which fuccefle ftroke vs into preater admiration then all the reft: for we could hardly be induced to beleeue the yong gallants continencie, but fhee did fo carnefily protelt it,as it did nota lictle comfort her comforcleffe father, who made no reckoning of theriches hee had loft, {eeing his daughter had yet referued that Iewell which being once gone , ce-ald neuer againebe recouered, The fame day that Leandra ap- a= =e . § Parr. 4. wittie Knight Don-Quixote. | 58 2 peared, thee alfo vanifhed out of our fights, being conueicd | away by her Father, and fhut vp in a Numnerie at a certaine Towne not farre off; hoping that time would illiterate fome part of the bad opinion already conceiued of his daughters facilitie. Leandra her youth ferued to excufe her errour , at leaft with thofe which gained nothing by her being good or sill; but fuch as knew her difcretion , and great wit, did not attribute her finne to ignorance, but rather to her too much | hghtnefle, and the naturall infirmitie of that fexe, which for the mofl part is inconfiderate, and flipperie, Leandra being fhut vp, Anfelmos eyes loft her light,or at leaft beheld not a- ny thing that could delight them , and mine remained in darkneffe without light , that could addreffe them to any pleating obie&in Leandraes abfence. Our griefes increa- fed, our patience diminifhed, wee curfed the Souldiers orna- ments, aed abhord her Fathers want of looking to her. To bebriefe, Anfelmo and my felfe , refolued to abandon the Vilage, and cometothis valley , where hee feeding a great flocke of Sheepe ofhis owne, and I ascopious a Heardof | Goates of mine, we paffe our Jiues among thefe trees .giuing | vent to our paffions , cither by finging a el the beauti- full Leandraes praifes, or difpraifes:or by fighing alone,and alone communicating our quarrelfome complaints with heauen, Manyochers of Leandras {uitors haue fince, by our example, come tothefe intricate woods, where they vfe our | very exercife;& they are fo many, as it feemes that this place is conuerted into the Paftoral Arcadia,it is ful of fhepheards and ficepfolds,and there is no one part thereof Wherein the name of the beautifull Leandra refoundeth not: There one doth curfe her, and termeth her humours inconfant and dif- honeft:an other condemnes her of being fo facile and light; fome one abfolues, and pardons him, an other condemnes and difpifes her, and eerste: her beautie , an other exe- crates her difpofition , and finally all blame, but yet adore her, and the rauing diftraction of them all, doth fo farre ex- tend it felfe, as fome one complaines ofdifdaine, that neuer Oo ? {noke The delight full Hiftorie of the Pantd- (poke word vato her, aad fome one laments, and fecles the iaraged fits of iealoufie, though fhee neuer minificed any occafton thereof; for as I haue faid ber finne was knowne before her defises; There is no clift of a Rocke, 10 banke of a (tceame, nor fhadow of a tree withonit fome Shepheard or other, thatbreathes out his misfortunes to the filent ayre. The Ecche repeates Lequdras name, wherefoeuer.it can bee formed; the woods refound Leandra, the brokes doc mur- mut Leandra, and Leaxdra holds vs ali perplexed and in- charted, hoping without hope, and fearing without know- ledge what we feare. | tee & yn And among all this flocke of franticke men none fhewes more , or lefle iudpement, then my companion Axfelme; who hauing fo mavy other titles ynder which hee mighr { plaine him, onely complaines of abfence , and doeth to the found of arebecke (which he handles admirably. weil) fap certaine dolefull verfes, which fully difcower the excellencie efhiscenceit. Efollow a more eae, and(in mine opinion) a more certaine way; to wit , Irayle onthe lightnes of wo- { men, on their isconftancie, double dealing, dead promifes, crackc truft, and the fonall difcretéoa they fhewe in placing of their affeQtions , and this Sir was. the occafion ‘of the words, and reafons I lately: vfed to this Goarte, whom I doe cfleeme but little becaufe thee isa female, alchough thee be otherwife, the beft af allmy:beard: Andchis is the Hiftorie which I promifed-to rell you, wherein #t I hauc beene pro- _ lixe, 1 will bee alvogether as large m-doing youany. . ferui@e , for I haue bere at hand my Cabine ,. and. therein Gore of freth milke,and Bas cheefe, with many fortes of excelient fruit, a0 .. keffe agreeable tothe fight then plea- | fing vocherafie, CHA Pp. —— ART.4. wittie Knight Don-Quixote. "' Cnuap, XXYV. Of the falling out of Don- Quixote and the Goatcheard: with the aduenture of the dsfciplimants, to which the Knight ganeendtohiscat. reed He Goatcheards tale bred a general de- isa lig htin all chehearers, but {pecially in the 6 Canon, who did very exadtly note the man ¥y ner wherewithal] he delivered it, as diffe- SRO Goatcheard , as-approching to the difcreti- on of a perfect Courier ; and therefore he faid,that the Cu- rate had {poken very iudicioufly,in affirming that the woods bred learnedmen , all of them made bountifull tenders of their friendfhip and feruice to Exgento, but hee that enlarged, himsfelfe more chen the ref, was Don- Quixote, who faid vii- to him : certes, friend Goateheard, if I were at this time able to vndertake any aduenture , I would prefently fet forwatd, and fallin hand with it-ta dee you.a good turne, and I | would take Leandra out of the Monafterie ( wherein with-: out doubr thee is reftrainedagainft her will) in defpighe of the Ladie Abbeffe, and of all thofe that fhould take her parc and would put her into your-hands, to the end you | might difpofe of her at your pleafure , yet {till obferuing the | dawes of Knighthood; which-command,that no man doe a-: ny wrong, and offer violence vnto.a Damzell:: yet I hope in’ our Lord God, that the skill of a malicious inchaunter fhall not be of fuch force, but that the {ciencc of a better meaning '| wifard thall preuaile againft-him ; and whenfoeucr that fhal befall, I doe promife you my help and fauaus, as.] am bound | by my profeffton, which chiefly confifts in affiiting the weake and diftreffed, - The Goateheard beheld him, and feeing the Knight fo il] arrayed, and ot {0 euill-fauoufed a countepance , hee won- dred,and queflioned the Barber, who fateneareto him, thus Oo4 I tcl Mac sh bey I pray you Sir,who is this man,of fo ftrange a figure, and that {peaks fo odly? who elfe fhould he be, anfwered the Barber, but the famous Don- Duixote of the Mancha , the righter of wrongs, the redreffer of iniuries , the protector of Dam- | zels, the affrighter of Giants , and the ouercommer of bat- | | tails ? chat which you fay of this man, anfwered the Goate- heard, is very like chat which in bookes of Chiualrie is writ- | ten of Knights errant; who did all thofe things which yop. apply to this man : and yet I beleeue that cither you ieft , or elfe that this Gentlemans head is voide of braines. Thou art a great villaine, {aid Dow- Qwixote , and thou art hee whofe ‘pate wants braines ; for mine is fullerthen the very, very whoores that bore thee; and faying fo, and {natching vp a loafe of bread that fteode by him,he caught the Goateheard fo furious a blow withall, as it beate his nofe flat to his face: but the other, who was not acquainted with fuch iefis , and faw how ill hee was handled, without hauing refpect to the Carpet, Napkins, or thofe that were cating , he leaped vporn Don- Durxote , and taking bold of his collar with both the hands, would certainely haue ftranglea him, Sancho Panca had not arriued atchat veryiaRant, and taking him fait be- hinde , had not throwen him backe onthe Table, crufhing difhcs, breaking plaffes,and fhedding,and overthrowing all thac did lie vpon it. Don- Quixote fecing himfelfe free retur- ned to get vpon the Goatcheard, who all befmeered with |~ bloud, and trampled to peeces.vnder Sanchos feete , groped here and there groueling as hee was for fome knife or other to take a bloudy reuenge withall , but che Canon & Curate preuented his purpofe ; and yet, by the Barbers affiftance,he got vnder him Dox-Qarxete, on whome hee rained fuch a fhower of buffets, as hee powred as much bloud fromthe poore Knights face, as had done from his owne: the Canon and Curate were ready to burftfor laughter : The Troupers danced fer {port ; euery one hiffed, as men ve todoe when Dogges fall out, and quarrel together: only Saxche Panca was wood, becaufe he could not get from enc of the Canons i Ser- = he Pel Te PART. Ae wittie Knight Don-Quixote, Seruingmen, whowith-held him ftom going to helpe his Matter. In conclufion , allbeing very merry , faue the cwo buffetants, that rugged one another extremly,they heard the found of a trumpet fo dolefull, as it made them turne their | faces towards that part from whence it feemed tocome: but hee that was moft troubled at the noife thereof was Don- ‘| Qnixete; who although he was vnder the Goateheard, full fore againft his will,and by him exceedingly bruifed and bat« tered, yet faid vato him : brother Diuell (for it is impoffible that thou canfi bee any other, feeing that thou haft had va- lour & firength to fubie& my forces) I pray thee let vs make truce , for one onlyhoure; for the dolorous found of that trumpet which toucheth our cares, doth, mee thinks inuite mie to forme new aduenture, The Goatheard, who was weary of buffetting, and being beaten , left him off incoatinently, and Don- Quixote ftood vp, and turned himfelfe towards the place from whence he imagined the noifeto procecde , and prefently he efpyed defcending from a certaine height many men apparelled in white like difciplinants. The matter indeed was, that the clowdes had that yeere denyed to beflow their due on the earth, and therefore they did inflitute Rogations, Proceffions, and Difciplines; throughout all that Countrey, to defire almighty God to open the hands of his mercy, and to beflow fome raine vpon them : and to this effe& the peo- ple of a Village, neere vnto that place, came in Proceffion to 4 devout Eremitage builded vpon one of thc hilles that inui- roned that Vally. : Den- Quixote noting the ftrange attyre of the Difcipli- nants, without any calling to meinorie how hee had often feen the like before, did forthwithimagine that it was fome new aduentore , and that the triall thereof only appertained to him, as to a Koight errant; and this his pretumption was fortified the more, by beleeuing that an Image which they carried all couered over. with blacke, was fome principall Lady whom thofe mifcreants and difcourteous Knights did e| beare away perforce. And as foone as this fell into his brain, ee he 587 | 588 The delightfull Hiftorie ofthe Panx.q he leaped lightly towards Roxivante, that went feeding vp and downe the plaines,and difmounting from bis pomell the bridle, and his target chat hanged thereat, hee bridled him inatrice; and taking his {word from Sancho , got inftantly vpon his horfe,and then embracing his-target,faid in a loude "voice to all thofe that were prefent you fhall now fee, va- lorous company , haw important a thing it isto haue in the world fuch Knights as profefle the order of Chiualrie errant: now I fay, you fhall difcerne by the freeing of chat good La- dy, who is there carryed captiue away, whether Knights ad- ucntpirous are to be-held in price 3 and faying fo, he Arucke Roxinapte with his heeles(for fpurs he had none)and mahing him to gallop (for it is not read in any part of this true Hi lorie, that Rozimante did euer pafle one formall or full car- reer)- he pofted to encounter the difciplanants,although the -hold him ,. but all was not poffible y and much leffe could he be detained by thefe ourcries of Sancho, faying, whether do you goe Sir Dow-Ousxote ? what Diuels doe you beare in your breft that incite you to runne thus againft the Catholike | faith ? fee Sir, vnfoxcuhate thet Jam, how thacis a Proceffi- on of difciplinants , arid that the Lady whom they beare, is the blefled Image of the immaculate Virgin, looke Sir what you doe, for at this time it may. well be faid, that you are not ycuknow what. But Sancho laboured in vaine, for.his Lord rode with fo..greedic a defire ¢o.cacoimter the white men, and deliuer the morning Ladie, as he heard-not a word, and | although he had, yet would he not then haue returned backe at the Kings commandement.: Being come at laft, neere to the Proceffion, snd Rlopping Rozsnante.( who.had. already a great-defire to reli himfelfe a while) ‘he {aid witha troubled and hoarfe vaice : O you that couer your faces, perhaps be- caufe you are not good men, giue care and liften to what J fhall fay: che firft that Rodd at this alarme were thofe which carryed the Image; ancone of the foure Priefls which fung the Litanics , beholding the Arange fhape of Don- Quixore, the Curate, Canon, and Barber did what they mightzowith- PaRt.4. wittie Knight Don-Qatxote. the leaneffe of Rozinante, and other circumftances worthy of | Jaughter,which he noted in our Knight,rerarned him quick- y this anfwere. Good Sir, if you would fay anything to vs, | fay itinflantly; forthefehoneft men , as you fee, are toiled extremely; and therefore wee cannot , nor isitreafon wee | fhonld fland lingring to heare any thing, if'it be not fo brief, | as.itanay be detiuered in two words; I will-{ay.icin one, aid’ Don: Qusxote, and it is chis, that you'doe forth with give li- bertie to that beautifull Lady, . whofe ceares & pittifull fem- blance cleerely denote , that you carry her away againft her will, and haue donc het fome notable initrie 3 and], who was borne to right fuch wrongs, will nev perinit ker to pafle: one flep forward, vatill thee be wholly poffeffed of ‘the free- dome fhee doth fo much defire antd:deferue, All chofe that overheard Don- Duixote, gathered by.his words chat he was fome diflrated man; and therefore bepanne to laugh very | harcily, which nse Sea par to adde gun-powder to his choler; for laying his hand on his fword without any more words,he prefently affaulted the Image-carriers; one where- of leaving the cherge of che burden to his.fellowes,came out to'encounter-the Knight with a wooden forke (whereon he fupported the beere whenfoeuer they made a fland) and re- ceiuing ypon it a great blow which Dom- Daina: difchar- ged at him, it parted the forke in two ; and yet hee with the | pecce that remained iti his hand reourned the Kaight fuch:a‘| thwacke vpon the thoulder, on the fword fide, as-histarget: not being able to make refittanceagaint thatrufticall force,’ poure Ddn- Osixete wis ouerthrowen to. the ground,and extremelybruifed,- @°') Ft Sancho P ance: (who: tad followed. him, puffing and: — as faft'as heeould). eine himxenerthcowne cryed .| to his adnerfary chat hee thould Arike him no more ¢ for hee ‘as a poore ichaunted Kniphe, that had nouer ell the daies of his life done any man harme: but that which detained te fwaine was not Sanches outdttes, bus to fee that Don- Onix- ote flirred neither hand nor foote, and’ therefore belecuing —oehar $90 The delightful Hiftorie of the Panrr.4f' ee, that he had flaine him, hee tucked vp his coate to his gyrdle as foone as he could, and fled away through the fields like a Deere. In the meane while Don-Qnixotes companions did haften to the place where hee lay, when thofe of the Proceflion feeing them (but principally the froupers of the holy Brotherhood with-their Croffe-bowes) runne to- wards them, did feare fome difaltrous fuccefle ; and there fore chey gathered together in a troupe about the Image, and lifting vp their hoods, and laying fa hold on theit whips, and the Priefles on their Tapers , they attended the | affaule, with refolution both to defend themfelues » and of- fend the aflaylants ifthey might: but fortune difpofed the matter better then they expected; for Sancho did nothing elfe then throw himfelfe on his Lords body, making ouer | :him the moft dolerous and ridiculous lamentation of the | world, and beleeuing that hee was dead. The Curate was _knowen by the other Curate that came in the proceffion; aad their acquaintance appeafed the conceiued feare of the '| two {quadrons, The firft Curate in two words, che other iwith what Don- Quixote was, and therefore he , and all the crew: of the difciplinants went ouer to fee, whether the |-poore Knight were dead or alive; and then might heare ‘Sancho Ranca, with the teares in his eyes,beway ing him in thismaner. O flower of Chiuslrie,who haft heh blow alone ended the Carreere of thy {0 well beftowed Peeres ; : O renowme of thislinage, thy honour and glorie of all the Ad ancha, yea and of all the world béfide ; which ceing it waaceth thee, thall remaine full of mifcreants , fecure from being not punithed for their mifdeedes, O liberall beyond all dlexanders, {ccing thou hall given mee , for on ely for eight moneths feruice, the beft Hapd that the Sea docth compafie or ingist. O humble to the proude,and Rately to | the humbled, vodertaker of perils, indurer of affronts, ena- moured without caufe, imitator of yood men , whip of the cuill, enemie of the wicked, and in conclufien » Knight Er- fant, then which no greater thing may be faid, eae PART.4. wittie Knight Don-Qarxote. Don- Quixotewas called againe to himfelfc by Sancho his out-cries, and then the firft word that euer he fyake was;he that liues abfented from thee molt {weete Dulcinea, is fub- ie€t to greater mifcries then this shelpe me friend Sanc%o to | get vp intothe inchanted Chariot againe, for] am not in ae to opprefle Rozinantes Saddle , hauing this thoulder roken all into peeces,that will. I doe with-a very good wil, iny deere Lord, replied the Squire; and Jet vs returne to my village, in companie of thofe Gentlemen, which defire your | welfare fo much; & there we will take order for fome other voyage, which may bee more profitable, and famous then this hath beene , thou fpeakeft reafonably Sancho replied Don- Quixote, and it will bee a grea wifedome to let oucr- paffe the croffe afpe& of thofe Planets that raigne at this prefent. The Canon, Curate, and Barbour commended his refolution, and fo hauing taken delight enough in Sancho Paneas fimplicitie, they placed Don-Qwixore as before in the Teame. Fhe stpesoners returning into their former order did profecute their way the goateheard tooke leaue -ofthemall, The troupers would not ride any farther, and therefore the Curate fatisfied chem for the paines they had taken: The Cancn intreated the Curate to let him vnder- ftand all that fucceeded of Don- Daixoté; to wit whether he amended of his frenfie, or grew more diflraGted , and then hetooke leaue, to continue his iourney. Laftly, all of them departed, the Curate, Barber, Don- Daixete, Sancho Panca, and the good ‘Rezssante onely remaining behind, Then the waineman yoked his Oxen, and accommodated the Knivht on a bottle of Hay ; and afterward followed on in his. wonted low maner,that way which the Curate directed. At the end of two dayes they arrived to Dom- Qnixotes Vil- lage, into which they entred about noone; this befellona Sunday, when all the people were in the Market flead, through the middle whereof Don- Quixetes Cart did paffe: all ot them drew neere to fee what came init, and when they knew their Countrie man, they were maruciloufly a+] Ronifhed: { . ee - §92 The delightfull Hiftorie of the Par ry | (tonifhed: the whilf a little boy ranne home before , to tell | the old wife and the Knights nice,that their Lord and yncle | wasreturned, very leane, pale, dishgured, and ftretcht all along ona bundell of hay. It would haue moued one to compafsion to haue heard the lamentations ,and out-cries,then raifd by the two good women; the blowes they gaue themfelues, and the curfes and execrations which they powred out againit all Bookes of Knighthood , all which was againe renewed, when they faw Don- Quixote himafelfe centred in at their doores, At the newes of this his arriuall , Sancho Pancas wife repaired allo to get fome tidings of her goodman; for fhee had lear- ned thathe was gone away with the Knight, co ferue him as his Squire , and as foone aseuer thee faw her husband, the queition fhee asked him was, whether the Affe were in health or no. Sanche an{wered that hee was come in better health then his Mafter : God be thanked quoth fhee, who hath done me fo great a fauour, but tell me now friend, | what profit haft chou reaped by this thy Squirefhip ? What | Peticote haft thoubrought me home ? What fhooes for thy | little boyes? I bring none of thefe things good wife, quoth Sancho, although I brmg other things of mére momenr, | e(ftmation: Lam very plad of that, quoth his wife; thew | me thofe things of more moment & cftimation good friend, for I would faine fee them,to the end that this heart of mine may be cheered, which hath beene fo {wollen and forrow- full, all the time of thine abfence? Thou thalt fee them at home quoth Sancho, and therfore reft fatishied for this time; | for andit pleafe God,that we tranaile once againe to feeke aduentures, thou fhalt fee me fhortly after an Earle,or Go- | uccnour of an Jland, and that, not eucry ordinarie one nei- ther, but ofone of the beftin the world. I pray God huf- bund itmay be fo, (replied thee) for wee haue very yrcac necdc of ir, But what meanes that Hand, for] vnderntand not the word, Honny is notmade for the Affes month, quoth Saxcho: wifechau.fhale know it in good tume,yca,& i) |Par r.4. wittie Knight Don-Qurxote. (hale wonder, to heare the title of Ladifhip giuen thee by all thy vaffalles, what is that thou {peakelt,Sancho,of Lord- fhips, Ilands, and vaffalles ? Anfwered Joan Panca (for fo | was thee called , although her husband and fhee were not kinsfolke; but by reafon that in the AZancha the wiues are vfually called atter their husbands furname) doe not bufie thy felfe Joa2, quoth Sancho to know thofe things on fuch a fuddaine; let it fuffice that I cell thee the truch, and there- withall fow vp thy mouth, I will onely fay thus much vnto thee, as it were by the way, that there is nothitig in the world fo pleafant as for an honeft man to be the Squire of a Knight Errant, that feeke aduentures,it is very true,thae the ereateft number of aduenturers found out,fucceeded not to a mans fatisfaGtions fo muchas he would defire: for ofa hundred chat are incountred, the ninetie and nine are wont | to be croffe and vntoward ones;I know it by experience,for I have come away my felfe out of fome of thé well canuaf- | fed,and out of others well beaten. But yet for all that itis a fine thing to expect events, trauerfe groues, fearch woods, treade on rockes, vifite Caftles, and lodge in Innes ata mans pleafure, without paying the diuell acrofle, All thefe difcourfes pafled betweene Sancho Panca, and his wife Joan Paxca, whilft the old woman,and Don-Qnix- otes Niece did receiue him , put. off his clothes , and lay him downe in his ancient bed: hee looked vpon them very ear- | nefily, and could not conieCture where he was, The Curate een engrave charged the Niece to cherifh her Vncle verycarefully, and that they fhou!d look wel that he made not the third efcape; relating at large all the adoe that they had had to bring him home. Here both the women renewed their exclamations: cheir execrations of al] bookes of Knighthood herecame to be reiterated :herethcy befought heauen to throw downe into the very Center of the bottomleffe pit,the outcries of fo many lies and rauings. Finally,they remained perplcxed and timerous,that th: y (hould loole againe their Mafter and Vn- cle, as foone as he was any thing recoucred; andirbefelliatt 25 ———— ee ne The delightfull Hiflorée of the Part.4 as they fufpectcd: but'the Authour of this hiftorie,althoogh he haue with all diligence and coriofitie inquired after the A@s atchicued by Don-Ouixote in his third {allie co feeke aduentures, yet could he neuer attaine (at leaft by authenti- call writings ) to any notice of chem : Only fame hath left io the memories of the Mancha, that Don- Quixote, after his third efcape , was at Garagoca;.and prefent af cercaine fa- mous iufts nade in that Cittie ; and that therein befell him euents moft worthy of his valour and goad wit. But of his end hee could finde nothing’, nor euer fhould haue knowne ought, if good fortune had not offered to his view an old Phifition, who had in his cuflodie aleaden box, which as he affirmed, was found in the ruincs of an old Eremitage , as ic was a repairing ; in which box were certaine ferolles of Parchement written in with Gothicad/ Characters, but con- taining Caftilian Verfes, which comprehended many of his A&s, and {pecified Daleines of Tobofo her beautie,decyphe- red Reximante , and intrcated of Sancho Pancas fidelity ; as alfo of Dox- Quixotes Sepulchre, with fundry Epitaphes,and ais , of his life and manners , and thofe chat could bee read and copied out throughly, were thofe that are here fer downe by the faithfull Authour of this new and ynmatched relation, Which Authour demaunds of the Readers noo- ther guerdon, in regard of his huge trauaile {pent in the fearch of all the old records of the ALancha , for the bring | ing thereof vato light, but that they will deigne to afford it as much credit as difcreet men areyvont to giue vnto bookcs of Knighthood, which are of fo grea¢r8putation now a daies in the world ; for herewith he will reft moft fully contented, and fatisfieds and withall incouraged to publifh and feeke outfor other difcourfes, if not altogether fo true as this, at leaft of as great, both inuention, and recreation, The firft words wricten iu the Scrowle of Parchement,that was found in the leaden box, were thefe. The. > =e Va gr. 9 Phe fa te Ti ¥ 2 . PRAS Gage © Ay AR ‘Ss MeN GAZ AEN OY : *) CA gE nw 4} BONS Fy ee The Academikes of Argamifilla, a Towne of the Mancha, on the life and death of the valorous Don- Quixote of the Mancha, hoc feripferunt. . AnEpitaphe of Monioongo the Academike of Argamafilla , to Don-Quixores SEPVLCHER. T He clattrng thunderbolt that did adorne | The Mancha, with more {poiles then lafon, Creete: The wit whofe wether. cocke, was [barpe as Thorne, | When fomewhat flatter it to be was meete. The arme which did bis power fo much dilate, As it Gaeta and Cathay did retch, The dreadful! Mufe, and eke difcreeteft, that In brazen fheetes, did praifes ener fireteh, He that the Amadifes left bebinde, ‘ And held the Gataors bat in fasall effeeme: Both for his brancrie and bisloning minde. He dumbe that made Don Belianis to feeme: And he that farre on Rozinante erde, Vnder this froxeu flone doth lye interde. | Paniagando an Academike of Argamafilla in praife of Daleines of T: obe(a. | SONNET, S” ewhich yan view with triple face and fi eene He brefted and couragions like a man, P p ™ Digh I's | Is tall Dulcinea of lobofo Queene, | Of great Quixote welbelomed than. He for her (ake, treadth'one and tirother fide, Of the browne mountaine, andthe famus fields, Of Montiel and Aran Tuez fe wide On foote alltyrde, leaden wsth {peare and fhield. (The fault was Rozinantes : ) O bard frarre! . Thatthis Manchegan Dame and worthy Knight, In tender yeares when people firengeft are, ¢ se She lost by death the glimfe of beantie bright: bey Asd he although in Marble richly done : . Co Yet lones wrath, and deceits, ‘re could mat Sounne. : a Cae ee wig ~ a A Caprichiolo the moft ingenious” Academicke of Argamafilla, in praile of Rezsmamte, Don- Quixote his fteede. . YM sonnet. Nto the proud, erefled Diamond frecke VV hich Mats with blondie plants.fo-ofren boared, Halfe wood with valour, the Manchegan fiucke: His wanving flandard: and his armesveflored, — Far thems, thereon he hung, and bis bright fword, VV herewith he hacks, rents, parts, and onerthrowess (New prowzffes,) towhich art muft affoord New files on this new Palatine to gloze, end if Gaule, such her Amadis does prize VV bofe brane difcendants bane illuftred Greece, end fild it full of Tropheis and of Fame: (Much more Bellonas Court doth folemuize — Quixote: whofe like im Gaule, mar Grecia is So honourd s none, as in Mancha, bis name. Let no oblinion bis glory ftaine , / Seeing in fuiftneffeRozinant his feede | &#en Bayarde dosh, and Briliador exceede. Ieee hace es Burla-g. e Burlador Academucke of Argamaiilla, to | SANCHO Panca, «© SONNET. . His Sancho Panca is, of body litle But yet, O muracle ! in valour great, The fimpleft Squire, and footh to fay, leSt futtle That inthis world I fweare, lnedewer yet, From being an Earle, he {carce was athreeds bread, ‘Had nat at once conspir di to croffe his guerdon, The malice of the times, and men mnfled * VV bich [carce an Affe mcountring , would him pardon, Upon the Itke be rode, O gine me leane Totell how this meeke Squire aftor the borfe CMild Rozinante, and his Lord did drime ! O ! then vaine hopes of mex, what thing is worfe ? VV hich proues vs, defived cafe to lend, Yet doe at last im (mokes onr glories end, Cachidiablo’ Academicke of Argamafilla, on Dew+Quixore his Tombe. | AN EPITAPH, on The worthy Knight lies there VV ell bruifde, but euil.andant VV ho borue ox Roziaante | Rode wases both farre and meere. Sancho his fasthfull Squire Panca yeleep'd alfo | Lieth befides him too: Jn his trade withont peere. oe : (ee eon - ~—eEe — | Tiquitoc Academicke of Argamafilla = %: ie _ Dulemea of Tobofos Sepulcher, ee ‘ my 7 a ~ > 7 ‘ .* , a Vrs ‘ / POW Ay Rie os : os ee ee Nl . aw rr? - 7 * . 4 —— ; } ,