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[Pg 370] The duke and duchess resolved that Don Quixote's challenge against their vassal should not be ineffectual; and the young man being fled into Flanders, to avoid having Donna Rodriguez to his mother-in-law, they made choice of a Gascoin lackey, named Tosilos, to supply his place, and gave him instructions how to act his part. Two days after, the duke acquainted Don Quixote, that within four days his antagonist would meet him in the lists, armed at all points like a knight, to maintain that the damsel lied through the throat in saying that he had ever promised her marriage. Don Quixote was mightily pleased with this news, promising himself to do wonders on this occasion; and esteeming it an extraordinary happiness to have such an opportunity to shew, before such noble spectators, how great were his valour and his strength. Cheered and elevated with these hopes, he waited for the end of these four days, which his eager impatience made him think so many ages.
It happened one morning, as he was riding out to prepare and
exercise against the time of battle, that Rozinante pitched his feet
near the brink of a deep cave; insomuch that, if Don Quixote
had not used the best of his skill, he must infallibly have tumbled
into it. Having escaped that danger, he was tempted to look
into the cave without alighting; and wheeling about, rode up to
it. While he was satisfying his curiosity and seriously musing,
he thought he heard a noise within; and thereupon listening, he
could distinguish these words, which in a doleful tone arose out
of the cavern: "Ho, above there! is there no good Christian that
hears me; no charitable knight or gentleman, that will take pity
of a sinner buried alive, a poor governor without a government?"
Don Quixote fancied he heard Sancho's voice, which did not a
little surprise him; and for his better satisfaction, raising his
voice as much as he could, "Who is that below?" cried he;
"who is that complains?" "Who should it be, to his sorrow,"
cried Sancho, "but the most wretched Sancho Panza, governor,
for his sins and for his unlucky errantry, of the island of Barataria,
formerly squire to the famous knight Don Quixote de la
Mancha?" These words redoubled Don Quixote's surprise, and
increased his amazement: "I conjure thee," said he, "as I am a
Catholic Christian, to tell me who thou art? And, if thou art a
soul in pain, let me know what thou wouldst have me to do for
thee? For since my profession is to assist and succour all that
are afflicted in this world, it shall also be so to relieve and help
those who stand in need of it in the other, and who cannot help
themselves." "Surely, sir," answered he from below, "you that
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speak to me should be my master Don Quixote. By the tone of
your voice it can be no man else." "My (...)
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