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What passed between Don Quixote, his Niece, and the Housekeeper; being one of the most important chapters in the whole history.
While Sancho Panza and his wife Teresa Cascajo had the foregoing dialogue, Don Quixote's niece and housekeeper were not idle, guessing by a thousand signs that the knight intended a third sally. Therefore they endeavoured by all possible means to divert him from his design; but all in vain; for it was but preaching to a rock, and hammering stubborn steel. "In short, sir," quoth the housekeeper, "if you will not be ruled, but will needs run wandering over hill and dale, seeking for mischief—for so I may well call the hopeful adventures which you go about—I will never leave complaining to Heaven and the king, till there is a stop put to it some way or other."
"What answer Heaven will vouchsafe to give thee, I know
not," answered Don Quixote; "neither can I tell what return
his majesty will make to thy petition. This I know, that were I
king, I would excuse myself from answering the infinite number
of impertinent memorials that disturb the repose of princes. I
tell thee, woman, among the many other fatigues which royalty
sustains, it is one of the greatest to be obliged to hear every one,
and to give answer to all people. Therefore, pray trouble not
his majesty with anything concerning me." "But pray, sir, tell
me," replied she, "are there not amany knights in the king's
court?" "I must confess," said Don Quixote, "that, for the
ornament, the grandeur, and the pomp of royalty, many knights
are and ought to be maintained there." "Why, then," said the
woman, "would it not be better for your worship to be one of
those brave knights who serve the king their master on foot in his
court?" "Hear me, sweetheart," answered Don Quixote; "all
knights cannot be courtiers, nor can all courtiers be knights-errant.
There must be of all sorts in the world; and though we
were all to agree in the common appellation of knights, yet there
would be a great difference between the one and the other. For
your courtiers, without so much as stirring out of the shade and
shelter of the court, can journey over all the universe in a map,
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without the expense and fatigue of travelling, without suffering
the inconveniencies of heat, cold, hunger, and thirst; while we
who are the true knights-errant, exposed to all the inclemencies
of heaven, by night and day, on foot as well as on horseback,
measure the whole surface of the earth with our own feet. And
further, the true knight-errant, though he met ten giants, whose
tall aspiring heads not only touch but overtop the clouds, each of
them stalking with prodigious legs like huge towers, their sweeping
arms like masts of mighty ships, each eye as large as a mill-wheel,
and more fiery than a glass furnace; yet he is so far from
being afraid to meet them, that he must (...)
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