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Of the new and agreeable adventure that befell the Priest and the Barber, and of the beautiful Dorothea.
[Pg 96] "Alas, is it possible that I have at last found out a place which will afford a private grave to this miserable body, whose load I so repine to bear? Yes, if the silence and solitude of these deserts do not deceive me, here I may die concealed from human eyes. Ah me! ah wretched creature! to what extremity has affliction driven me, reduced to think these hideous woods and rocks a kind retreat! It is true, indeed, I may here freely complain to Heaven, and beg for that relief which I might ask in vain of false mankind; for it is vain, I find, to seek below either counsel, ease, or remedy."
The curate and his company, hearing all this distinctly, and
conceiving they must be near the person who thus expressed his
grief, rose to find him out. They had not gone above twenty paces
before they spied a youth in a country habit, sitting at the foot of
a rock behind an ash-tree; but they could not well see his face,
being bowed almost upon his knees, as he sat washing his feet
in a rivulet that glided by. They approached him so softly that
he did not perceive them; and as he was gently paddling in the
clear water, they had time to discern that his legs were as white
as alabaster, and so taper, so curiously proportioned, and so fine,
that nothing of the kind could appear more beautiful. Our observers
were amazed at this discovery, rightly imagining that such
tender feet were not used to trudge in rugged ways, or measure
the steps of oxen at the plough, the common employments of
people in such apparel; and therefore the curate, who went before
the rest, whose curiosity was heightened by this sight, beckoned
to them to step aside, and hide themselves behind some of the
little rocks that were by; which they did, and from thence making
a stricter observation, they found he had on a grey double-skirted
jerkin, girt tight about his body with a linen towel. He
wore also a pair of breeches, and gamashes of grey cloth, and a
grey huntsman's cap on his head. His gamashes were now pulled
up to the middle of his leg, which really seemed to be of snowy
alabaster. Having made an end of washing his beauteous feet,
he immediately wiped them with a handkerchief, which he pulled
out from under his cap; and with that looking up, he discovered
so charming a face, so accomplished a beauty, that Cardenio could
not forbear saying to the curate, that since this was not Lucinda,
it was certainly no human form, but an angel. And then the
youth taking off his cap, and shaking his head, an incredible
quantity of lovely hair flowed down upon his shoulders, and not
only covered them, but almost all his body; by which they were
[Pg 97]
now convinced that what they at first took to be a country lad
was a young woman, and one of the most beautiful (...)
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