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The adventure of the Shepherd-Lover, and other truly comical passages.
[Pg 235] Don Quixote stayed four days at Don Diego's house, and during all that time met with a very generous entertainment. However, he then desired his leave to go, and returned him a thousand thanks for his kind reception; letting him know that the duty of his profession did not admit of his staying any longer out of action; and therefore he designed to go in quest of adventures, which he knew were plentifully to be found in that part of Spain; and that he would employ his time in that till the tilts and tournaments began at Saragosa, to which place it was now his chief intent to go. However, he would first go to Montesinos' cave, about which so many wonderful stories were told in those parts; and there he would endeavour to explore and discover the source and original springs of the seven lakes, commonly called the lakes of Ruydera. Don Diego and his son highly commended his noble resolution, and desired him to command whatever their house afforded, assuring him he was sincerely welcome to do it; the respect they had for his honourable profession, and his particular merit, obliging them to do him all manner of service.
In short, the day of his departure came, a day of joy and
gladness to Don Quixote, but of grief and sadness to poor Sancho,
who had no mind to change his quarters, and liked the good cheer
and plenty at Don Diego's house, much better than his short
hungry commons in forests and deserts, or the sorry pittance of
his ill-stored wallets, which he however crammed and stuffed with
what he thought could best make the change of his condition tolerable.
And now Don Quixote taking his leave of Don Lorenzo,
"Sir," said he, "I don't know whether I have already said it to
you, but if I have, give me leave to repeat it once more, that if
you are ambitious of climbing up to the difficult, and in a manner
inaccessible, summit of the temple of Fame, your surest way is to
leave on one hand the narrow path of poetry, and follow the narrower
track of knight-errantry, which in a trice may raise you to
an imperial throne." With these words, Don Quixote seemed to
have summed up the whole evidence of his madness. However,
he could not conclude without adding something more. "Heaven
knows," said he, "how willingly I would take Don Lorenzo
with me, to instruct him in those virtues that are annexed to the
employment I profess, to spare the humble, and crush the proud
and haughty. But since his tender years do not qualify him for
the hardships of that life, and his laudable exercises detain him, I
must rest contented with letting you know, that one way to acquire
fame in poetry, is to be governed by other men's judgment
[Pg 236]
more than your own: for it is natural to fathers and mothers not
to think their own children ugly; and this error is nowhere (...)
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