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Of the adventure of the enchanted head; with other trifling matters that must not be omitted.
[Pg 399] The name of Don Quixote's present host was Don Antonio Moreno; he was rich, sensible, and good-humoured; and being cheerfully disposed, with such an inmate he soon began to consider how he might extract amusement from his whimsical infirmity, but without offence to his guest: for the jest that gives pain is no jest, nor is that lawful pastime which inflicts an injury. Having prevailed upon the knight to take off his armour, he led him to a balcony at the front of his house, and there in his straight chamois doublet (which has already been mentioned) exposed him to the populace, who stood gazing at him as if he had been some strange baboon. The gay cavaliers again appeared and paraded before him, as in compliment to him alone, and not in honour of that day's festival. Sancho was highly delighted to find so unexpectedly what he fancied to be another Camacho's wedding, another house like that of Don Diego de Miranda, and another duke's castle.
On that day several of Don Antonio's friends dined with him,
all paying homage and respect to Don Quixote as a knight-errant;
with which his vanity was so flattered that he could scarcely
conceal the delight which it gave him. And such was the power
of Sancho's wit that every servant of the house, and indeed all
who heard him, hung as it were upon his lips. While sitting at
table, Don Antonio said to him, "We are told here, honest
Sancho, that you are so great a lover of capons and sausages, that
when you have crammed your belly, you stuff your pockets with
the fragments for another day." "'Tis not true, an't please your
worship; I am not so filthy, nor am I a glutton, as my master
Don Quixote here present can bear witness; for he knows we
have often lived day after day, ay a whole week together, upon a
handful of acorns or hazel nuts. It is true, I own, that if they
give me a heifer, I make haste with a halter; my way is, to take
things as I find them, and eat what comes to hand; and whoever
has said that I am given to greediness, take my word for it, he is
very much out; and I would tell my mind in another manner,
but for the respect due to the honourable beards here at table."
"In truth, gentlemen," said Don Quixote, "the frugality of my
squire and his cleanliness in eating deserve to be recorded on plates
of brass, to remain an eternal memorial for ages to come. I confess
that, when in great want of food, he may appear somewhat
ravenous, eating fast and chewing on both sides of his mouth;
but as for cleanliness, he is therein most punctilious; and when
he was a governor, such was his nicety in eating that he would
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take up grapes, and even the grains of a pomegranate, with the
point of a fork." "How!" quoth Don Antonio, "has Sancho
been a governor?" "Yes, I have," (...)
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