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堂吉诃德|Don Quixote

Part 2 第14章|Part 2 Chapter 12

属类： 双语小说 【分类】世界名著 -[作者: 塞万提斯] 阅读：[44443]
《堂吉诃德》是一部幽默诙谐、滑稽可笑、充满了奇思妙想的长篇文学巨著。此书主要描写了一个有趣、可敬、可悲、喜欢自欺欺人的没落贵族堂吉诃德，他痴狂地迷恋古代骑士小说，以至于放弃家业，用破甲驽马装扮成古代骑士的样子，再雇佣农民桑乔作侍从，三次出征周游全国，去创建所谓的扶弱锄强的骑士业绩。他们在征险的生涯中闹出了许多笑话，到处碰壁受辱，堂吉诃德多次被打成重伤，有一次还被当成疯子关在笼子里遣送回乡。最后，他因征战不利郁郁寡欢而与世长辞，临终前他那一番貌似悔悟的话语让人匪夷所思又哭笑不得。
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唐吉诃德和森林骑士谈了很多。据故事记述，森林骑士对唐吉诃德讲道：

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“总之，骑士大人，我想让您知道，我受命运驱使，或者说由我自己选择，我爱上了举世无双的班达利亚的卡西尔德亚。说她举世无双，是因为无论比身高、比地位或是比相貌，都没有人能够与她相比。这个卡西尔德亚对我善意的想法和适度的愿望答以各种各样的危险差使，就像赫拉克勒斯的教母对赫拉克勒斯那样，每次都答应我，只要做完这件事后再做一件就可以满足我的愿望。可是事情做了一件又一件，我也不知道究竟做了多少件，究竟做完哪一件才能实现我的美好愿望。有一次，她派我去向塞维利亚那个有名的女巨人希拉尔达①挑战。希拉尔达非常勇敢，她仿佛是青铜铸的，屹立在原地寸步不移，但她却又是世界上最轻浮、最易变的女人。我赶到那儿，看见了她，打败了她，让她老老实实地站在那儿，不敢乱动，要知道当时刮了一个多星期的北风呢。后来，她又让我去称两只巨大的吉桑多公牛石像的重量。这种活更适合脚夫干，而不适合骑士干。

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①此处提到的希拉尔达是著名的塞维利亚大教堂塔楼上的一尊青铜女神像。塔楼因此被称为希拉尔达塔楼。

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“还有一次，她让我跳进卡夫拉深渊，那可是空前可怕的事情哟。她要我把那黑洞深处的东西都给她拿上来。我制服了希拉尔达，我称了吉桑多公牛的重量，我又跳进深渊，把埋藏在深渊底部的东西都拿了上来，可是我的愿望仍然不能实现，而她的命令和嘲弄却没完没了。后来，她又命令我游历西班牙的所有省份，让各地所有的游侠骑士都承认只有她是最漂亮的，而我则是世界上最勇敢最多情的骑士。我按照她的要求游历了西班牙大部分省份，打败了所有胆敢对我持异议的人。不过，最令我自豪的是我在一次激烈的战斗中打败了曼查的著名骑士唐吉诃德，让他承认了我的卡西尔德亚比他的杜尔西内亚还漂亮。只此一举，我就可以说已打败了世界上的所有骑士，因为我说的那个唐吉诃德已经打败了所有骑士，而我又打败了他，那么他的光荣、名声和赞誉也就都转到了我的头上。

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败者越有名，

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胜者越光荣。

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就这样，原来记在唐吉诃德身上的无数丰功伟绩都算到我身上了。”

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唐吉诃德听了森林骑士这番话深感震惊。他多次想说森林骑士撒谎，话已经到了嘴边，可他还是强忍住了。他想让森林骑士自己承认是在撒谎。于是，唐吉诃德平静地对森林骑士说：

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“要说骑士大人您打败了西班牙的所有骑士，甚至是世界上的所有骑士，我都不想说什么；可要说您打败了曼查的唐吉诃德，我表示怀疑。很可能那是一个与唐吉诃德极其相似的人，尽管与他相似的人并不多。”

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“怎么会不可能呢？”森林骑士说，“我向高高在上的老天发誓，我是同唐吉诃德战斗，并且打败了他，俘虏了他。他高高的个子，干瘪脸，细长的四肢，花白头发，鹰鼻子还有点钩，黑黑的大胡子向下搭拉着。他还有个名字叫猥獕骑士，带着一个名叫桑乔的农夫当侍从。他骑的是一匹叫罗西南多的马，把托博索的杜尔西内亚当作自己的意中人。那女人原来叫阿尔东萨·洛伦索，就好比我的意中人叫卡西尔德亚，是安达卢西亚人，我就叫她班达利亚的卡西尔德亚那样。如果这些特征还不能证明我说的是真的，那么还有我的剑在此，它可以证明我说的确凿无疑。”

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“静一静，骑士大人，”唐吉诃德说，“您听我说。您该知道，您说的那个唐吉诃德是我在这个世界上的最好的朋友，可以说好得就像我就是他一样。您刚才说的那些特征说得很准确，但我并不能因此就认为您打败的那个人就是他本人。而且，就我本身的体验来说，也不可能是他本人，除非是他那许多魔法师冤家，而且其中有一个总是跟他过不去，变出了一个和他一样的人，把他打败，借此来诋毁他靠高尚的骑士行为在世界上赢得的声誉。为了证明这点，我还可以告诉您，就在两天前，他的魔法师冤家还把托博索的杜尔西内亚这个美人变成了粗野低下的农妇模样。这些魔法师同样也可以变出一个唐吉诃德来。如果这些还不足以让您相信我说的是真话，那么，唐吉诃德本人就在你眼前，无论是徒步还是骑马，他将以他的武器或者其他任何您认为合适的方式来证明这一点。”

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说着唐吉诃德站了起来，手按剑柄，等着森林骑士的决定。可是，森林骑士不慌不忙地说道：

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“您真是站着说话不腰疼。唐吉诃德大人，既然我能够打败变成您这个模样的人，也完全可能打败您本人。不过，骑士战斗最好不在暗处，就像那些强盗无赖一样。咱们最好等太阳出来了再比试，而且咱们比试还应该有个条件，那就是输者以后得听赢者的，让他干什么就得干什么，只要不辱没他的骑士身份。”

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“我赞成这个条件和约定。”唐吉诃德说。

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两人说完就去找自己的侍从。两个侍从自入睡以后一直鼾声不停。两人把侍从叫醒，让他们分头去备马，等太阳一出来，就要进行一场殊死非凡的战斗。桑乔一听这话吓坏了，他为主人的安全担忧，因为他已从森林骑士的侍从那里耳闻了森林骑士的勇猛。不过，两个侍从什么也没说，就去寻找自己的马。那三匹马和一头驴早已凑在一起互相嗅呢。

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森林骑士的侍从在路上对桑乔说：

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“知道吗，兄弟？在安达卢西亚，决斗有个规矩，那就是如果教父们发生决斗，教子们也不能闲着，也得打。我这是想提醒您，咱们的主人决斗时，咱们俩也得打得皮开肉绽。”

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“侍从大人，”桑乔说，“这个规矩在您说的那些强盗恶棍当中或许还行得通，可对于游侠骑士的侍从就休想。至少我没听我的主人讲过这个规矩，而游侠骑士界的所有规定他都能背下来。就算这是真的，明确规定了在侍从的主人决斗时侍从也必须互相打，我也不执行，我宁可接受对不愿打斗的侍从的处罚。我估计也就不过是罚两磅蜡烛罢了。我倒更愿意出那两磅蜡烛。我知道买蜡烛的钱要比买纱布包头的钱少得多，如果打起来准得把脑袋打破了。还有，就是我没有剑，不能打。我这辈子从来没拿过剑。”

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“我倒有个好办法。”森林骑士的侍从说，“我这儿有两个大小一样的麻袋，您拿一个，我拿一个，咱们以同样的武器对打。”

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“这样也好，”桑乔说，“这样来回掸土要比受伤强。”

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“不能这样。”另一个侍从说，“麻袋里还得装五六个光溜溜的漂亮的卵石，否则扔不起来。两个麻袋一样重，这样咱们扔来扔去也下会伤着谁。”

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“我的天啊！”桑乔说，“那咱们还得在麻袋里装上紫貂皮或者棉花团之类的东西，以免伤筋动骨。不过我告诉您，我的大人，你就是在麻袋里装满了蚕茧，我也不会打。咱们的主人愿意打就打吧，他们打他们的，咱们喝咱们的，过咱们的。到时候咱们都得死，所以没必要不等到时候就自己赶着去找死。”

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“即使这样，”森林骑士的侍从说，“咱们也得打半个钟头。”

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“不，”桑乔说，“我不会那么无礼，也不会那么忘恩负义，同人家一起吃喝过后又为一点儿小事找麻烦。更何况咱们现在既没动怒，也没发火，干吗像中了魔似的为打而打呢？”

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“对此我倒有个好办法。”森林骑士的侍从说，“在还没开始打之前，我先麻利地来到您身边，打您三四个嘴巴，把您打倒在我脚下，这样一来，就是再好的脾气也会发火的。”

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“这种办法我也会，”桑乔说，“而且决不次于您。我可以拿根棍子，不等您勾起我的火来，我就用棍子先把您的火打闷了，让它这辈子都发不起来。这样我就可以让别人知道我可不是好欺负的。谁做事都得小心点儿，不过最好还是别动怒；别人的心思谁也搞不清，别偷鸡不成反蚀一把米。上帝祝福和平，诅咒战斗。兔子急了还会咬人呢，何况我是个人，谁知道我会变成什么样。所以，现在我就告诉您，侍从大人，咱们究竟打出什么恶果，您得好好考虑一下。”

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“好吧，”森林骑士的侍从说，“咱们还是天亮了再说吧。”

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此时，无数种花色的小鸟已经开始在树林中啼鸣，它们欢快的叫声仿佛在向清秀的曙光女神祝福和问候。女神已经透过门窗和阳台，从东方露出了她美丽的脸庞，从她的头发上洒下无数的液体珍珠。小草沐浴着她的露水，仿佛又从自身产生出无数白色的细珠来。柳树分泌出甘露，泉水欢笑，小溪低吟，树林喜悦，草原也由于小溪的到来而变得肥沃。天色刚刚透亮，周围的一切依稀可见，但首先映入桑乔眼帘的却是森林骑士侍从的鼻子，那鼻子大得几乎把他的全身都遮盖住了。说实话，那鼻子真够大的，中部隆起，上面长满了肉赘，而且青紫得像茄子，鼻尖比嘴还低两指。这个鼻子的体积、颜色、肉赘和隆形使那个侍从的脸变得奇丑无比，桑乔见了就开始发抖，像小孩抽羊角风似的。他心里暗暗打算，宁愿让人打自己两百个嘴巴，也不愿动怒同这个妖怪作战。

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唐吉诃德正在观察自己的对手。森林骑士已经戴好了头盔，所以看不到他的脸。但唐吉诃德可以从外观看出，他个子不高，身体却很结实。他在甲胄外面还披了一件战袍或外套，看样子是金丝的，上面缀满了闪闪发光的小镜片，显得威武而又华丽。他的头盔顶上还摆动着很多绿、黄、白色的羽毛，长矛靠在树上，锋利的铁头比巴掌还大。

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唐吉诃德仔细观察之后，断定这个骑士的力气一定大得很。不过，他并没有像桑乔那样感到害怕，而是大大方方地对这位镜子骑士说：

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“假如您的战斗愿望并没有影响您的礼节，我请您把您的护眼罩掀起一点儿来，让我看看您的脸是否与您的打扮一样威武。”

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“无论您此次战胜还是战败，骑士大人，”镜子骑士说，“您都会有时间看我。我现在不能满足您的要求，因为我觉得在您没有承认我要求您承认的东西之前，掀起眼罩，耽误时间，便是对班达利亚美丽的卡西尔德亚的明显不恭。”

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“在咱们上马前，”唐吉诃德说，“您还可以告诉我，我到底是不是您说的那个被您打败的唐吉诃德。”

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“我对此的回答是，”镜子骑士说，“您同我打败的那个骑士如出一辙。不过，既然您说有魔法师跟你捣乱，我也就不能肯定您到底是不是那个骑士了。”

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“这足以让我相信您仍然执迷不悟了，”唐吉诃德说，“为了让您清醒清醒，还是叫咱们的马过来吧。如果上帝、我的夫人和我的臂膀保佑我，我马上就会让您掀起您的眼罩，让我看到您的面孔，您也就会知道，我并不是您想的那个唐吉诃德。”

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于是两人不再争论，翻身上了马。唐吉诃德掉转罗西南多的辔头向相反的方向跑去，准备跑出一段路后再折回来冲杀。镜子骑士也同样向相反的方向跑去。不过，唐吉诃德还没跑出二十步，就听见镜子骑士在叫他。两人都转过身来，镜子骑士对唐吉诃德说：

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“骑士大人，请您记着，咱们搏斗有个条件，也就是我原来说过的，败者必须听从胜者的吩咐。”

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“这我知道，”唐吉诃德说，“只要胜者吩咐的事情不违反骑士界的规定。”

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“是这个意思。”镜子骑士说。

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此时，唐吉诃德眼前出现了那个侍从少见的鼻子，把唐吉诃德吓了一跳，他被惊吓的程度并不次于桑乔。唐吉诃德以为那是个怪物，或者是世界上新发现的某个稀有人种。桑乔见主人已经开始助跑，不愿单独同大鼻子在一起，怕自己同那个侍从搏斗时，他用大鼻子一扒拉，就会把自己打倒或吓倒。于是，他抓着罗西南多鞍镫上的皮带，跟着主人，等到他认为主人该转身往回冲的时候对主人说：

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“求求您，我的主人，在您准备返身冲杀之前，帮助我爬到那棵栓皮槠树上去，在那儿我可以比在地上更津津有味地观看您同这位骑士的精彩搏斗。”

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“我倒是认为，桑乔，”唐吉诃德说，“你是想爬到高处去隔岸观火。”

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“您说得对，”桑乔说，“那个侍从的大鼻子可把我吓坏了，我不敢和他在一起。”

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“那鼻子是够吓人的，”唐吉诃德说，“要不是我胆大，也会被它吓坏了。既然这样，你过来，我帮你爬上去。”

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就在唐吉诃德帮助桑乔往树上爬的时候，镜子骑士已经跑了他认为足够的距离。他以为唐吉诃德也同他一样跑够了距离。于是，他不等喇叭响或者其他信号，就掉转他那匹比罗西南多强不到哪儿去的马的辔头，飞奔起来。他刚跑了一半儿路，就遇到了自己的对手。他见唐吉诃德正帮着桑乔上树，便勒住缰绳，停了下来。他的马对此感激不已，因为它本来就跑不动了。唐吉诃德意识到对手正飞奔而来，立刻把马刺扎向罗西南多的瘦肋骨，催它跑起来。据故事说，只有这次它才算跑，其他时候都应该说是快步。它跑到镜子骑士跟前时，镜子骑士已经把马刺的整个尖头都刺进了马身里，可那匹马就是待在原地不动。马不动，长矛也没准备好，因为他的长矛仍放在矛托上。在这紧急关头，唐吉诃德已经冲了上来。唐吉诃德并没有发现对手所处的窘境，稳稳当当地用力向对手刺去，只见对手身不由己地从马背上摔到了地上，摔得手脚动弹不得，像死了一样。

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桑乔见镜子骑士落地了，立刻从树上滑下来，跑到自己主人身边。这时唐吉诃德已跳下马，来到镜子骑士身旁，解开他头盔上的绳结，看他是否死了，想给他透透气，看他是否能活过来。可唐吉诃德看到的是……谁听说了会不惊奇呢？故事说，唐吉诃德看到的脸庞、脸型、脸面、脸色不是别人，正是参孙·卡拉斯科学士！唐吉诃德一见是他，便高声叫道：

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“快来，桑乔！你快过来看看，你肯定不会相信！你快点儿，伙计，你来看看魔法的本事，看看巫师和魔法师的本事吧。”

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桑乔过来了。他一见是卡拉斯科的脸，连忙一个劲儿画十字。看样子那位落地的骑士已经死了。桑乔对唐吉诃德说：

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“依我看，我的主人，不管对不对，您先往这个貌似参孙·卡拉斯科学士的家伙嘴里插一剑，也许这一下就能杀死您的一个魔法师对手呢。”

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“此话不错，”唐吉诃德说，“对手越少越好。”

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说完唐吉诃德就要动手，而镜子骑士的侍从跑了过来，此时他那难看的大鼻子也不见了。他大声喊道：

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“您要干什么，唐吉诃德大人，您脚下的那个人是您的朋友参孙·卡拉斯科学士，我就是他的侍从呀。”

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桑乔见这张脸已经不那么可怕了，便问道：

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“你的鼻子呢？”

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“放在我的衣袋里了。”

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说着他把手伸向右边衣袋，拿出了一个用纸板做的用漆涂过的面具，其相貌前面已经描述过了。桑乔仔细地看了看那个人，惊奇地高声说道：

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“圣母保佑！这不是邻居老弟托梅·塞西亚尔吗？”

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“正是我，”那位已疲惫不堪的侍从说，“我就是托梅·塞西亚尔，桑乔的老友。待一会儿我再告诉你，我是如何上当受骗，迫不得已来到这儿的。现在我请求您，恳求您，不要碰、不要虐待、不要伤害、不要杀死镜子骑士，他确实是咱们的同乡，是勇敢却又处世不慎的参孙·卡拉斯科学士。”

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此时镜子骑士已经苏醒过来。唐吉诃德看见了，把剑尖放在他脸上，对他说：

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“骑士，如果你不承认托博索举世无双的杜尔西内亚比你那位班达利亚的卡西尔德亚强，我就杀死你。此外，如果经过这场战斗你能活下来，你还得答应我到托博索城去，代表我去拜见她，听候她的吩咐。如果她让你自己决定，你还得回来找我，把遇见她的情况告诉我。我所做出的丰功伟绩到处都会留下踪迹，你沿着这些踪迹就可以找到我。这些条件都是根据咱们在战前的约定提出的，而且没有违犯游侠骑士的规定。”

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“我承认，托博索的杜尔西内亚夫人的开了绽的破鞋子也比卡西尔德亚干净，比她那梳理杂乱的毛发贵重。我答应去拜见您那位夫人，回来后按照您的要求，把情况向您如实汇报。”

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“你还得承认和相信，”唐吉诃德说，“你战胜的那个骑士，不是也不可能是曼查的唐吉诃德，而是另一个与他相像的人，就像我承认并且相信你不是参孙·卡拉斯科学士一样。虽然你很像他，但你只是个与他很相像的人。是我的敌人把你变成了这个样子，以便遏制和缓解我的斗志，盗用我战无不胜的美名。”

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“您怎么认为、怎么认定、怎么感觉，我就怎么承认、怎么认定、怎么感觉，”在地上动弹不得的骑士说，“只要我还能站起来。求求您，先让我站起来吧。您把我打翻在地，把我伤得真不轻。”

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唐吉诃德把他扶了起来，而桑乔却一直盯着托梅·塞西亚尔，问了他一些事情，而他的回答证明他确实就是托梅·塞西亚尔。不过，唐吉诃德坚持认为是魔法师把镜子骑士变成了参孙·卡拉斯科学士的模样，对桑乔产生了影响，使桑乔对自己亲眼见到的事实也不敢相信了。最后，唐吉诃德和桑乔仍然坚持己见，垂头丧气的镜子骑士和侍从只得离开了唐吉诃德和桑乔，想到附近某个地方去上点儿药膏，把断骨接好。唐吉诃德和桑乔继续向萨拉戈萨赶路，故事对此暂且按下不表，先来谈镜子骑士和他的大鼻子侍从究竟是什么人。

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The night succeeding the day of the encounter with Death, Don Quixote and his squire passed under some tall shady trees, and Don Quixote at Sancho’s persuasion ate a little from the store carried by Dapple, and over their supper Sancho said to his master, “Senor, what a fool I should have looked if I had chosen for my reward the spoils of the first adventure your worship achieved, instead of the foals of the three mares. After all, ‘a sparrow in the hand is better than a vulture on the wing.’”

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“At the same time, Sancho,” replied Don Quixote, “if thou hadst let me attack them as I wanted, at the very least the emperor’s gold crown and Cupid’s painted wings would have fallen to thee as spoils, for I should have taken them by force and given them into thy hands.”

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“The sceptres and crowns of those play-actor emperors,” said Sancho, “were never yet pure gold, but only brass foil or tin.”

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“That is true,” said Don Quixote, “for it would not be right that the accessories of the drama should be real, instead of being mere fictions and semblances, like the drama itself; towards which, Sancho — and, as a necessary consequence, towards those who represent and produce it — I would that thou wert favourably disposed, for they are all instruments of great good to the State, placing before us at every step a mirror in which we may see vividly displayed what goes on in human life; nor is there any similitude that shows us more faithfully what we are and ought to be than the play and the players. Come, tell me, hast thou not seen a play acted in which kings, emperors, pontiffs, knights, ladies, and divers other personages were introduced? One plays the villain, another the knave, this one the merchant, that the soldier, one the sharp-witted fool, another the foolish lover; and when the play is over, and they have put off the dresses they wore in it, all the actors become equal.”

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“Yes, I have seen that,” said Sancho.

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“Well then,” said Don Quixote, “the same thing happens in the comedy and life of this world, where some play emperors, others popes, and, in short, all the characters that can be brought into a play; but when it is over, that is to say when life ends, death strips them all of the garments that distinguish one from the other, and all are equal in the grave.”

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“A fine comparison!” said Sancho; “though not so new but that I have heard it many and many a time, as well as that other one of the game of chess; how, so long as the game lasts, each piece has its own particular office, and when the game is finished they are all mixed, jumbled up and shaken together, and stowed away in the bag, which is much like ending life in the grave.”

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“Thou art growing less doltish and more shrewd every day, Sancho,” said Don Quixote.

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“Ay,” said Sancho; “it must be that some of your worship’s shrewdness sticks to me; land that, of itself, is barren and dry, will come to yield good fruit if you dung it and till it; what I mean is that your worship’s conversation has been the dung that has fallen on the barren soil of my dry wit, and the time I have been in your service and society has been the tillage; and with the help of this I hope to yield fruit in abundance that will not fall away or slide from those paths of good breeding that your worship has made in my parched understanding.”

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Don Quixote laughed at Sancho’s affected phraseology, and perceived that what he said about his improvement was true, for now and then he spoke in a way that surprised him; though always, or mostly, when Sancho tried to talk fine and attempted polite language, he wound up by toppling over from the summit of his simplicity into the abyss of his ignorance; and where he showed his culture and his memory to the greatest advantage was in dragging in proverbs, no matter whether they had any bearing or not upon the subject in hand, as may have been seen already and will be noticed in the course of this history.

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In conversation of this kind they passed a good part of the night, but Sancho felt a desire to let down the curtains of his eyes, as he used to say when he wanted to go to sleep; and stripping Dapple he left him at liberty to graze his fill. He did not remove Rocinante’s saddle, as his master’s express orders were, that so long as they were in the field or not sleeping under a roof Rocinante was not to be stripped — the ancient usage established and observed by knights-errant being to take off the bridle and hang it on the saddle-bow, but to remove the saddle from the horse — never! Sancho acted accordingly, and gave him the same liberty he had given Dapple, between whom and Rocinante there was a friendship so unequalled and so strong, that it is handed down by tradition from father to son, that the author of this veracious history devoted some special chapters to it, which, in order to preserve the propriety and decorum due to a history so heroic, he did not insert therein; although at times he forgets this resolution of his and describes how eagerly the two beasts would scratch one another when they were together and how, when they were tired or full, Rocinante would lay his neck across Dapple’s , stretching half a yard or more on the other side, and the pair would stand thus, gazing thoughtfully on the ground, for three days, or at least so long as they were left alone, or hunger did not drive them to go and look for food. I may add that they say the author left it on record that he likened their friendship to that of Nisus and Euryalus, and Pylades and Orestes; and if that be so, it may be perceived, to the admiration of mankind, how firm the friendship must have been between these two peaceful animals, shaming men, who preserve friendships with one another so badly. This was why it was said —

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For friend no longer is there friend; The reeds turn lances now.

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And some one else has sung —

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Friend to friend the bug, etc.

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And let no one fancy that the author was at all astray when he compared the friendship of these animals to that of men; for men have received many lessons from beasts, and learned many important things, as, for example, the clyster from the stork, vomit and gratitude from the dog, watchfulness from the crane, foresight from the ant, modesty from the elephant, and loyalty from the horse.

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Sancho at last fell asleep at the foot of a cork tree, while Don Quixote dozed at that of a sturdy oak; but a short time only had elapsed when a noise he heard behind him awoke him, and rising up startled, he listened and looked in the direction the noise came from, and perceived two men on horseback, one of whom, letting himself drop from the saddle, said to the other, “Dismount, my friend, and take the bridles off the horses, for, so far as I can see, this place will furnish grass for them, and the solitude and silence my love-sick thoughts need of.” As he said this he stretched himself upon the ground, and as he flung himself down, the armour in which he was clad rattled, whereby Don Quixote perceived that he must be a knight-errant; and going over to Sancho, who was asleep, he shook him by the arm and with no small difficulty brought him back to his senses, and said in a low voice to him, “Brother Sancho, we have got an adventure.”

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“God send us a good one,” said Sancho; “and where may her ladyship the adventure be?”

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“Where, Sancho?” replied Don Quixote; “turn thine eyes and look, and thou wilt see stretched there a knight-errant, who, it strikes me, is not over and above happy, for I saw him fling himself off his horse and throw himself on the ground with a certain air of dejection, and his armour rattled as he fell.”

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“Well,” said Sancho, “how does your worship make out that to be an adventure?”

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“I do not mean to say,” returned Don Quixote, “that it is a complete adventure, but that it is the beginning of one, for it is in this way adventures begin. But listen, for it seems he is tuning a lute or guitar, and from the way he is spitting and clearing his chest he must be getting ready to sing something.”

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“Faith, you are right,” said Sancho, “and no doubt he is some enamoured knight.”

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“There is no knight-errant that is not,” said Don Quixote; “but let us listen to him, for, if he sings, by that thread we shall extract the ball of his thoughts; because out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.”

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Sancho was about to reply to his master, but the Knight of the Grove’s voice, which was neither very bad nor very good, stopped him, and listening attentively the pair heard him sing this Sonnet Your pleasure, prithee, lady mine, unfold; Declare the terms that I am to obey; My will to yours submissively I mould, And from your law my feet shall never stray.

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Would you I die, to silent grief a prey?

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Then count me even now as dead and cold;

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Would you I tell my woes in some new way?

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Then shall my tale by Love itself be told.

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The unison of opposites to prove,

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Of the soft wax and diamond hard am I;

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But still, obedient to the laws of love,

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Here, hard or soft, I offer you my breast, Whate’er you grave or stamp thereon shall rest Indelible for all eternity.

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With an “Ah me!” that seemed to be drawn from the inmost recesses of his heart, the knight of the Grove brought his lay to an end, and shortly afterwards exclaimed in a melancholy and piteous voice, “O fairest and most ungrateful woman on earth! What! can it be, most serene Casildea de Vandalia, that thou wilt suffer this thy captive knight to waste away and perish in ceaseless wanderings and rude and arduous toils? It is not enough that I have compelled all the knights of Navarre, all the Leonese, all the Tartesians, all the Castilians, and finally all the knights of La Mancha, to confess thee the most beautiful in the world?”

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“Not so,” said Don Quixote at this, “for I am of La Mancha, and I have never confessed anything of the sort, nor could I nor should I confess a thing so much to the prejudice of my lady’s beauty; thou seest how this knight is raving, Sancho. But let us listen, perhaps he will tell us more about himself.”

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“That he will,” returned Sancho, “for he seems in a mood to bewail himself for a month at a stretch.”

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But this was not the case, for the Knight of the Grove, hearing voices near him, instead of continuing his lamentation, stood up and exclaimed in a distinct but courteous tone, “Who goes there? What are you? Do you belong to the number of the happy or of the miserable?”

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“Of the miserable,” answered Don Quixote.

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“Then come to me,” said he of the Grove, “and rest assured that it is to woe itself and affliction itself you come.”

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Don Quixote, finding himself answered in such a soft and courteous manner, went over to him, and so did Sancho.

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The doleful knight took Don Quixote by the arm, saying, “Sit down here, sir knight; for, that you are one, and of those that profess knight-errantry, it is to me a sufficient proof to have found you in this place, where solitude and night, the natural couch and proper retreat of knights-errant, keep you company.” To which Don made answer, “A knight I am of the profession you mention, and though sorrows, misfortunes, and calamities have made my heart their abode, the compassion I feel for the misfortunes of others has not been thereby banished from it. From what you have just now sung I gather that yours spring from love, I mean from the love you bear that fair ingrate you named in your lament.”

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In the meantime, they had seated themselves together on the hard ground peaceably and sociably, just as if, as soon as day broke, they were not going to break one another’s heads.

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“I was never scorned by my lady,” said Don Quixote.

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“Certainly not,” said Sancho, who stood close by, “for my lady is as a lamb, and softer than a roll of butter.”

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