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The discourse continued; also the wise and pleasant dialogue between Sancho Panza and Teresa Panza his wife; together with other passages worthy of happy memory.
During this discourse Rozinante's neighing reached the ears of
the party. Don Quixote took this for a lucky omen, and resolved
to set out upon another sally within three or four days.
He discovered his resolutions to the bachelor, and consulted him
to know which way to steer his course. The bachelor advised
him to take the road of Saragossa, in the kingdom of Arragon, a
solemn tournament being shortly to be performed at that city
on St. George's festival; where, by worsting all the Arragonian
champions, he might win immortal honour, since to out-tilt
them would be to out-rival all the knights in the universe. He
applauded his matchless courage, but withal admonished him not
to be so desperate in exposing himself to dangers, since his life
was not his own, but theirs who in distress stood in want of his
assistance and protection. "That is it now," quoth Sancho,
"that makes me some times ready to run mad, Mr. Bachelor,
for my master makes no more to set upon an hundred armed
men than a young hungry tailor to guttle down half a dozen of
cucumbers. Surely, Mr. Bachelor, there is a time to retreat as
well as a time to advance; for I have heard some body say, and,
if I am not mistaken, it was my master himself, that valour lies
just between rashness and cowheartedness; and if it be so, I
would not have him run away without there is a reason for it,
nor would I have him fall on when there is no good to be got by
it. But, above all things, I would have him to know, if he has
a mind I should go with him, that the bargain is, he shall fight
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for us both, and that I am tied to nothing but to look after him
and his victuals and clothes. So far as this comes to, I will fetch
and carry like any water-spaniel; but to think I will lug out my
sword, though it be but against poor rogues, and sorry shirks,
and hedge-birds, in troth I must beg his diversion. For my
part, Mr. Bachelor, it is not the fame of being thought valiant
that I aim at, but that of being deemed the very best and trustiest
squire that ever followed the heels of a knight-errant. And if,
after all my services, my master Don Quixote will be so kind as
to give me one of those many islands which his worship says he
shall light on, I shall be much beholden to him; but if he does
not, why then I am born, do you see, and one man must not
live to rely on another. Mayhaps the bread I shall eat without
government will go down more savourily than if I were a governor;
and what do I know but that the devil is providing me
one of these governments for a stumbling-block, that I may
stumble and fall? I was born Sancho, and Sancho I mean to
die; and yet for all that, if fairly and squarely, with little trouble
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