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Which gives a further account of Sancho Panza's behaviour in his government.
The history informs us that Sancho was conducted from the court
of justice to a sumptuous palace, where, in a spacious room, he
found the cloth laid, and a magnificent entertainment prepared.
As soon as he entered, the wind-music played, and four pages
waited on him with water for washing his hands, which he did
with a great deal of gravity. The instruments ceasing, Sancho
sat down at the upper end of the table; for there was no seat but
there, and the cloth was only laid for one. A certain personage,
who afterwards appeared to be a physician, came and stood at his
elbow, with a whalebone wand in his hand. Then they took off
a curious white cloth that lay over the dishes on the table, and
discovered a great variety of fruit and other eatables. One that
looked like a student said grace; a page put a laced cloth under
Sancho's chin; and another set a dish of fruit before him. But
he had hardly put one bit into his mouth before the physician
touched the dish with his wand, and then it was taken away by a
page in an instant. Immediately another, with meat, was put
in the place; but Sancho no sooner offered to taste it than the
doctor, with the wand, conjured it away as fast as the fruit.
Sancho was amazed at this sudden removal, and, looking about
him on the company, asked them, "Whether the dinner was only
to shew off their sleight of hand." "My Lord Governor," answered
the physician, "you are to eat here no otherwise than
according to the use and custom of other islands where there are
governors. I am a doctor of physic, my lord, and have a salary
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allowed me in this island for taking charge of the governor's
health, and I am more careful of it than of my own, studying
night and day his constitution, that I may know what to prescribe
when he falls sick. Now the chief thing I do is, to attend
him always at his meals, to let him eat what I think convenient
for him, and to prevent his eating what I imagine to be prejudicial
to his health. Therefore I ordered the fruit to be taken
away, because it is too cold and moist; and the other dish, because
it is as much too hot, and overseasoned with spices, which
are apt to increase thirst; and he that drinks much destroys and
consumes the radical moisture, which is the fuel of life." "So,
then," quoth Sancho, "this dish of roasted partridges here can
do me no manner of harm." "Hold," said the physician, "the
Lord Governor shall not eat of them while I live to prevent it."
"Why so?" cried Sancho. "Because," answered the doctor,
"our great master, Hippocrates, the north-star and luminary of
physic, says, in one of his aphorisms, Omnis saturatio mala, perdicis
autem pessima; that is, 'All repletion is bad, but that of partridges
is worst of all.'" "If it be so," said Sancho, "let Mr.
Doctor see (...)
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