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What happened to Don Quixote going to Barcelona.
The morning was cool, and seemed to promise a temperate day,
when Don Quixote left the inn, having first informed himself
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which was the readiest way to Barcelona; for he was resolved he
would not so much as see Saragosa, that he might prove that
new author a liar, who, as he was told, had so much misrepresented
him in the pretended second part of his history. For the
space of six days they travelled without meeting any adventure
worthy of memory; but the seventh, having lost their way, and
being overtaken by the night, they were obliged to stop in a
thicket of oaks or cork-trees. There both dismounted; and
laying themselves down at the foot of the trees, Sancho, who
had eaten heartily that day, easily resigned himself into the arms
of sleep. But Don Quixote, whom his chimeras kept awake
much more than hunger, could not so much as close his eyes;
his working thoughts being hurried to a thousand several places.
This time he fancied himself in Montesinos' cave; fancied he saw
his Dulcinea, perverted as she was into a country hoyden, jump
at a single leap upon her ass colt. The next moment he thought he
heard the sage Merlin's voice in awful words relate the means
required to effect her disenchantment. Presently a fit of despair
seized him; he was enraged to think of Sancho's remissness and
want of charity,—the squire having not given himself above five
lashes, a small and inconsiderable number in proportion to the
number still behind. This reflection so aggravated his vexation,
that he could not forbear thinking on some extraordinary methods.
If Alexander the Great, thought he, when he could not untie the
Gordian knot, said, it is the same thing to cut or to undo, and so
slashed it asunder, and yet became the sovereign of the world,
why may not I free Dulcinea from enchantment by lashing
Sancho myself, whether he will or no? For, if the condition of
this remedy consists in Sancho's receiving three thousand and odd
lashes, what does it signify to me whether he gives himself those
blows, or another gives them him, since the stress lies upon his
receiving them, by what means soever they are given? Full of
that conceit, he came up to Sancho, having first taken the reins
of Rozinante's bridle, and fitted them to his purpose of lashing
him with them. Sancho, however, soon started out of his sleep,
and was thoroughly awake in an instant. "What is here?" cried
he. "It is I," answered Don Quixote, "I am come to repair thy
negligence, and to seek the remedy of my torments. I am come
to whip thee, Sancho, and to discharge, in part at least, that debt
for which thou standest engaged. Dulcinea perishes, while thou
livest careless of her fate; and therefore I am resolved, while we are
here alone in this recess, to give thee at least two thousand
stripes." "Hold you there," (...)
(......)
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