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堂吉诃德|Don Quixote

Part 2 第24章|Part 2 Chapter 22

属类： 双语小说 【分类】世界名著 -[作者: 塞万提斯] 阅读：[44359]
《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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这部巨著的译者说，当他翻译到蒙特西诺斯洞窟探险这一章时，发现原作者锡德·哈迈德·贝嫩赫利本人在边白上写了下面几句话：

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“我不能相信，也不想让自己相信，英勇的唐吉诃德真会遇到前面一章所记述的事情。他在此之前的各种奇遇都还真实可信，而洞窟奇遇这一章却显得不着边际，太超乎常理了。我不能想象，作为那个时代最当之无愧的贵族、最高尚的骑士，唐吉诃德竟会骗人；就是把他杀了，他也不会骗人。另外，我觉得他能讲得这样有声有色，这绝不是短时间内能够编出来的胡话。假如这段经历是杜撰的，我并没有责任，所以我也不管它是真是假，照写不误。读者须慎重对待，自己去判断，我也只能如此而已。不过，我确实听说唐吉诃德在临终之前反悔，承认这一段是他编的，因为他觉得在有关他的故事里应该有一段这样的经历。”然后，作者又言归正传：

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小伙子对桑乔的大胆和唐吉诃德的耐心深感惊讶。他以为，唐吉诃德是由于见到了他的夫人杜尔西内亚而高兴，尽管是中了魔法的杜尔西内亚也好，否则，桑乔免不了因为自己的那番话而遭受皮肉之苦，桑乔对主人的那番话确实出格了。小伙子对唐吉诃德说：

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“唐吉诃德大人，我觉得同您走这一趟确实受益匪浅，我从中得到了四个好处。第一就是认识了您，我觉得这是我的幸运。第二，我知道了这个蒙特西诺斯洞窟里的情况，并且了解了瓜迪亚纳河和鲁伊德拉诸河的变迁，这对我的《西班牙的奥维德》很有益处。第三，我知道了纸牌自古就有，至少在卡洛马尼奥皇帝时代就有了。按照您所说的，蒙特西诺斯同杜兰达尔德说了半天话之后，杜兰达尔德才醒过来说道：‘别着急，那就洗牌吧。’这种话肯定不会是在他被魔法制服以后，而是在他中魔法以前，在法国，即刚才说的那个卡洛马尼奥皇帝时代学会的。这个考证对于我正在编写的另一本书《维尔吉利奥·波利多罗古代发明补遗》也同样很有帮助。我觉得那本书里似乎忘了写纸牌的由来，现在正好写进去。这很重要，何况引证的又是像杜兰达尔德这样既严肃又可靠的人物。第四，就是确切查明了瓜迪亚纳河的发源地，这个问题到现在尚不为人所知呢。”

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“您说得对，”唐吉诃德说，“不过我想问一下，虽说我对上帝能否恩准您的书出版还表示怀疑，但假如他能恩准，您打算把您的书献给谁呢？”

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“所有能够接受我献书的达官贵人。”小伙子说。

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“那不会有很多，”唐吉诃德说，“并不是他们不配，而是因为他们不愿意接受。他们觉得没有义务满足作者因其作品而应当享受的荣誉。不过，我认识的一位王子可以弥补这项缺陷，而且能弥补得甚好，如果我斗胆说出来，恐怕即使心胸再宽广的人也会嫉妒呢。可是，咱们还是先说到这儿吧，等有时间再慢慢聊。现在，咱们先去找个过夜的地方吧。”

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“离这儿不远的地方有座寺院，”小伙子说，“住着一位隐士，听说他当过兵。大家觉得他是个好基督徒，而且特别见多识广，心地善良。他在寺院旁边自己花钱盖了一间房子。房子虽小，毕竟能容得下几个客人。”

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“这位隐士也有母鸡吗？”桑乔问。

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“很少有隐士不养母鸡的。”唐吉诃德说，“现在的隐士不同于埃及沙漠地带的那些隐士，穿的是棕榈叶，吃的是草根。我并不是想由此及彼，我只是想说明现在的隐士不像以前的教士那样清苦。不过，这并不等于说现在的隐士不像以前的隐士那样善良。至少我觉得他们还是善良的。如果人已经变坏了，假装善良的虚伪总比公开的罪恶强。”

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他们正说着，迎面走来一个人。那人走得急，而且不时用棍子抽打一匹驮着长矛和戟的骡子，走到他们面前时，只打了个招呼，便匆匆过去了。唐吉诃德对那人说：

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“那位好人，请停一停。看来你走得太快了，那头骡子恐怕不一定受得了呢。”

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“我不能停下来，大人。”那个人说，“我带的这些兵器明天还得用呢，所以我现在不能停下来，再见吧。不过，如果你想知道我为什么要运这些东西，我打算今晚就住在过了寺院之后的那个客店里。你要是顺路，就去找我，我可以给你讲些新鲜事。现在还是再见吧。”

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说完，不等唐吉诃德问他想讲什么新鲜事，他就急急地催骡走了。唐吉诃德觉得有些奇怪，而且他向来爱打听新鲜事，就吩咐立刻启程，也到那个客店，而不是去寺院光顾小伙子所说的那个隐士了。

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于是三个人上了马，直奔客店，到达客店时，天色已接近傍晚。路过寺院时，小伙子曾建议唐吉诃德进去喝一杯。桑乔听到此话，立即掉转驴向寺院奔去，唐吉诃德和小伙子也跟了过去。可是命运好像跟桑乔过不去，隐士偏巧不在家，只碰到一个替隐士看家的人。三个人要向那个看家人买点贵的东西①，那人回答说主人没有贵的东西，不过，若是要便宜的水，他十分乐意提供。

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“若是因为口渴，”桑乔说，“路上就有井，我喝井水就可以解渴了。”

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于是他们离开寺院，催骡向客店赶去，走了不远，就发现前面有一位青年，他走得并不快，所以很快就赶上了他。青年肩上扛着剑，剑上挑着一个包袱，估计里面是短裤或肥腿裤、短斗篷、衬衣之类的衣服。他身上穿着丝绒短外套，有的地方已经磨得发亮了，衬衣也露在外面，脚上穿的是丝袜和京城当时流行的方头鞋②，年龄大约十八九岁，一张快活的脸，看样子挺机灵。他嘴里哼着塞基迪亚③解闷，走到他们面前时，正好唱完一曲。小伙子记得歌词是这样唱的：

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从戎皆因贫困，

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有钱决不入伍。

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①当时习惯以此来指葡萄酒。

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②据说，当时一位叫莱尔马的公爵脚孤拐很大，所以穿了一双方头鞋。于是，很多朝臣都仿效他，一时京城颇为风行方头鞋。

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③西班牙一种民间乐曲及舞蹈，歌词为四行至七行的短诗。

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唐吉诃德首先同青年攀谈。唐吉诃德问他：

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“英俊的青年啊，看你轻装赶路，要去何方？如果你不介意，我们想知道。”

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青年回答说：

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“轻装赶路是因为天气热和贫困，我要去投军。”

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“因为天气热还说得过去，”唐吉诃德说，“因为贫困是怎么回事？”

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“大人，”那个青年说，“我这个包袱里有几条丝绒肥腿裤和一件短外套。如果我在路上穿坏，进城时就没有像样的衣服了，我也没钱再买衣服。还有，也是为了图凉快，我才穿得这么少，等我赶到离这儿十二西里远的步兵连入伍时再把衣服都穿上。那儿有不少车马到码头去，据说码头在卡塔赫纳。我宁愿入伍为国王效劳，也不愿意在京城里伺候穷光蛋。”

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“您难道能得到什么赏赐吗？”小伙子问。

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“若是我伺候一位西班牙的大人物，或者什么贵人，我肯定能得到赏赐。”青年人说，“伺候贵人总会有好处，仆役里往往出少尉或上尉，或者能弄到其他什么好差事。可是我不那么走运，总是伺候所谓的王位继承人或者收入菲薄的人，浆洗一条衣领就会花掉他们的一半薪俸。小听差若能挣大钱，那才是怪事呢。”

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“你以你的生命发誓，告诉我，朋友，”唐吉诃德问道，“你干了这么多年，难道连一套制服都没挣到吗？”

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“倒是给了我两套，”青年人说，“不过，就像出家人还俗之前要交还法衣，再取回自己的衣服一样，侍从们完成了在宫廷的服役后回家，制服也就收走了。制服当初只是为了装门面用的。”

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“就像意大利人说的，真够奸的。”唐吉诃德说，“不过，你已经离开了宫廷，壮志满怀，应当看成是走了幸运之路。世界上再没有比首先为上帝效力，其次为国王和自己的主人效劳，尤其是以习武来为他们效劳更光荣、更有益的事情了。就像我多次说过的那样，习武即使不能像从文那样有利可图，至少比从文更能赢得荣誉。尽管文人比武士建立了更多的功业，我仍然觉得武士与文人相比，有种说不出的感觉，我知道那是一种辉煌的感觉，远远超过了文人。我现在有句话要对你说，你要记在脑子里，这对你会很有益处，会减轻你的负担。这句话就是要摒弃对可能遇到不测的忧虑，因为不测再大，至多不过是一死；如果死得其所，死是最崇高的事情。

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“曾经有人问那位英勇的罗马皇帝凯撒，什么是最好的死亡方式。他回答说，最好是突如其来、意想不到地死去。尽管这听起来像是一个无视上帝真正存在的异教徒的回答，却说得很对，因为这样可以免除人类心灵的痛苦。假如你在两军冲突中阵亡，或者被炮弹击中，或者被地雷炸飞，那又何妨呢？反正都是一死，一切都结束了。按照泰伦提乌斯①的说法，战死比逃生更能称得上勇士；越是服从指挥官，越是尽可能执行指挥官的命令，就越能获得优秀战士的美名。你记住，孩子，一个优秀战士身上散发出的应当是火药味，而不是香味。当你年事已高却仍然从事这项光荣使命时，即使你满身伤痕，断手瘸腿，你至少也感到一种光荣，不会因为自己的贫困而感到羞耻。况且，现在已就如何救济老弱病残士兵发布了命令。有的人嫌年老的黑奴不能干活，就借口‘解放他们’而把他们赶走，如果用这种办法来对待老弱病残的士兵就不对了，这会使他们遭受饥饿，导致死亡。这件事我现在不想再谈了，你先上来，骑在我的马屁股上。咱们一同到客店去，再同我一起吃顿晚饭吧。明天早晨你继续赶你的路，愿上帝让你如愿以偿。”

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①泰伦提乌斯是古罗马喜剧家。

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那个青年没有骑唐吉诃德的马屁股，不过，他同意与唐吉诃德在客店共进晚餐。据说，桑乔当时心里想：

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“上帝保佑我的主人吧！他刚才说了那么多，又说得那么好，可说起蒙特西诺斯洞窟的事情时，他怎么竟胡说他见到了那么多根本不可能见到的东西呢？好吧，以后再看吧。”

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傍晚时分，他们到达了客店。这回桑乔有些高兴，因为他的主人没有像以住那样把客店当成城堡，而是把它当成了真正的客店。他们一进客店，唐吉诃德就向店主打听那个运送长矛和戟的人。店主说他正在马厩里安顿他的骡子呢。小伙子和桑乔也去安顿自己的驴，并且把马厩里最好的马槽和地方让给了罗西南多。

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Many and great were the attentions shown to Don Quixote by the newly married couple, who felt themselves under an obligation to him for coming forward in defence of their cause; and they exalted his wisdom to the same level with his courage, rating him as a Cid in arms, and a Cicero in eloquence. Worthy Sancho enjoyed himself for three days at the expense of the pair, from whom they learned that the sham wound was not a scheme arranged with the fair Quiteria, but a device of Basilio’s , who counted on exactly the result they had seen; he confessed, it is true, that he had confided his idea to some of his friends, so that at the proper time they might aid him in his purpose and insure the success of the deception.

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“That,” said Don Quixote, “is not and ought not to be called deception which aims at virtuous ends;” and the marriage of lovers he maintained to be a most excellent end, reminding them, however, that love has no greater enemy than hunger and constant want; for love is all gaiety, enjoyment, and happiness, especially when the lover is in the possession of the object of his love, and poverty and want are the declared enemies of all these; which he said to urge Senor Basilio to abandon the practice of those accomplishments he was skilled in, for though they brought him fame, they brought him no money, and apply himself to the acquisition of wealth by legitimate industry, which will never fail those who are prudent and persevering. The poor man who is a man of honour (if indeed a poor man can be a man of honour) has a jewel when he has a fair wife, and if she is taken from him, his honour is taken from him and slain. The fair woman who is a woman of honour, and whose husband is poor, deserves to be crowned with the laurels and crowns of victory and triumph. Beauty by itself attracts the desires of all who behold it, and the royal eagles and birds of towering flight stoop on it as on a dainty lure; but if beauty be accompanied by want and penury, then the ravens and the kites and other birds of prey assail it, and she who stands firm against such attacks well deserves to be called the crown of her husband. “Remember, O prudent Basilio,” added Don Quixote, “it was the opinion of a certain sage, I know not whom, that there was not more than one good woman in the whole world; and his advice was that each one should think and believe that this one good woman was his own wife, and in this way he would live happy. I myself am not married, nor, so far, has it ever entered my thoughts to be so; nevertheless I would venture to give advice to anyone who might ask it, as to the mode in which he should seek a wife such as he would be content to marry. The first thing I would recommend him, would be to look to good name rather than to wealth, for a good woman does not win a good name merely by being good, but by letting it he seen that she is so, and open looseness and freedom do much more damage to a woman’s honour than secret depravity. If you take a good woman into your house it will he an easy matter to keep her good, and even to make her still better; but if you take a bad one you will find it hard work to mend her, for it is no very easy matter to pass from one extreme to another. I do not say it is impossible, but I look upon it as difficult.”

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Sancho, listening to all this, said to himself, “This master of mine, when I say anything that has weight and substance, says I might take a pulpit in hand, and go about the world preaching fine sermons; but I say of him that, when he begins stringing maxims together and giving advice not only might he take a pulpit in hand, but two on each finger, and go into the market-places to his heart’s content. Devil take you for a knight-errant, what a lot of things you know! I used to think in my heart that the only thing he knew was what belonged to his chivalry; but there is nothing he won’t have a finger in.”

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Sancho muttered this somewhat aloud, and his master overheard him, and asked, “What art thou muttering there, Sancho?”

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“I’m not saying anything or muttering anything,” said Sancho; “I was only saying to myself that I wish I had heard what your worship has said just now before I married; perhaps I’d say now, ‘The ox that’s loose licks himself well.’”

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“Is thy Teresa so bad then, Sancho?”

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“She is not very bad,” replied Sancho; “but she is not very good; at least she is not as good as I could wish.”

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“Thou dost wrong, Sancho,” said Don Quixote, “to speak ill of thy wife; for after all she is the mother of thy children.” “We are quits,” returned Sancho; “for she speaks ill of me whenever she takes it into her head, especially when she is jealous; and Satan himself could not put up with her then.”

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In fine, they remained three days with the newly married couple, by whom they were entertained and treated like kings. Don Quixote begged the fencing licentiate to find him a guide to show him the way to the cave of Montesinos, as he had a great desire to enter it and see with his own eyes if the wonderful tales that were told of it all over the country were true. The licentiate said he would get him a cousin of his own, a famous scholar, and one very much given to reading books of chivalry, who would have great pleasure in conducting him to the mouth of the very cave, and would show him the lakes of Ruidera, which were likewise famous all over La Mancha, and even all over Spain; and he assured him he would find him entertaining, for he was a youth who could write books good enough to be printed and dedicated to princes. The cousin arrived at last, leading an ass in foal, with a pack-saddle covered with a parti-coloured carpet or sackcloth; Sancho saddled Rocinante, got Dapple ready, and stocked his alforjas, along with which went those of the cousin, likewise well filled; and so, commending themselves to God and bidding farewell to all, they set out, taking the road for the famous cave of Montesinos.

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On the way Don Quixote asked the cousin of what sort and character his pursuits, avocations, and studies were, to which he replied that he was by profession a humanist, and that his pursuits and studies were making books for the press, all of great utility and no less entertainment to the nation. One was called “The Book of Liveries,” in which he described seven hundred and three liveries, with their colours, mottoes, and ciphers, from which gentlemen of the court might pick and choose any they fancied for festivals and revels, without having to go a-begging for them from anyone, or puzzling their brains, as the saying is, to have them appropriate to their objects and purposes; “for,” said he, “I give the jealous, the rejected, the forgotten, the absent, what will suit them, and fit them without fail. I have another book, too, which I shall call ‘Metamorphoses, or the Spanish Ovid,’ one of rare and original invention, for imitating Ovid in burlesque style, I show in it who the Giralda of Seville and the Angel of the Magdalena were, what the sewer of Vecinguerra at Cordova was, what the bulls of Guisando, the Sierra Morena, the Leganitos and Lavapies fountains at Madrid, not forgetting those of the Piojo, of the Cano Dorado, and of the Priora; and all with their allegories, metaphors, and changes, so that they are amusing, interesting, and instructive, all at once. Another book I have which I call ‘The Supplement to Polydore Vergil,’ which treats of the invention of things, and is a work of great erudition and research, for I establish and elucidate elegantly some things of great importance which Polydore omitted to mention. He forgot to tell us who was the first man in the world that had a cold in his head, and who was the first to try salivation for the French disease, but I give it accurately set forth, and quote more than five-and-twenty authors in proof of it, so you may perceive I have laboured to good purpose and that the book will be of service to the whole world.”

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Sancho, who had been very attentive to the cousin’s words, said to him, “Tell me, senor — and God give you luck in printing your books — can you tell me (for of course you know, as you know everything) who was the first man that scratched his head? For to my thinking it must have been our father Adam.”

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“So it must,” replied the cousin; “for there is no doubt but Adam had a head and hair; and being the first man in the world he would have scratched himself sometimes.”

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“So I think,” said Sancho; “but now tell me, who was the first tumbler in the world?”

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“Really, brother,” answered the cousin, “I could not at this moment say positively without having investigated it; I will look it up when I go back to where I have my books, and will satisfy you the next time we meet, for this will not be the last time.”

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“Look here, senor,” said Sancho, “don’t give yourself any trouble about it, for I have just this minute hit upon what I asked you. The first tumbler in the world, you must know, was Lucifer, when they cast or pitched him out of heaven; for he came tumbling into the bottomless pit.”

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“You are right, friend,” said the cousin; and said Don Quixote, “Sancho, that question and answer are not thine own; thou hast heard them from some one else.”

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“Hold your peace, senor,” said Sancho; “faith, if I take to asking questions and answering, I’ll go on from this till to-morrow morning. Nay! to ask foolish things and answer nonsense I needn’t go looking for help from my neighbours.”

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“Thou hast said more than thou art aware of, Sancho,” said Don Quixote; “for there are some who weary themselves out in learning and proving things that, after they are known and proved, are not worth a farthing to the understanding or memory.”

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In this and other pleasant conversation the day went by, and that night they put up at a small hamlet whence it was not more than two leagues to the cave of Montesinos, so the cousin told Don Quixote, adding, that if he was bent upon entering it, it would be requisite for him to provide himself with ropes, so that he might be tied and lowered into its depths. Don Quixote said that even if it reached to the bottomless pit he meant to see where it went to; so they bought about a hundred fathoms of rope, and next day at two in the afternoon they arrived at the cave, the mouth of which is spacious and wide, but full of thorn and wild-fig bushes and brambles and briars, so thick and matted that they completely close it up and cover it over.

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On coming within sight of it the cousin, Sancho, and Don Quixote dismounted, and the first two immediately tied the latter very firmly with the ropes, and as they were girding and swathing him Sancho said to him, “Mind what you are about, master mine; don’t go burying yourself alive, or putting yourself where you’ll be like a bottle put to cool in a well; it’s no affair or business of your worship’s to become the explorer of this, which must be worse than a Moorish dungeon.”

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“Tie me and hold thy peace,” said Don Quixote, “for an emprise like this, friend Sancho, was reserved for me;” and said the guide, “I beg of you, Senor Don Quixote, to observe carefully and examine with a hundred eyes everything that is within there; perhaps there may be some things for me to put into my book of ‘Transformations.’”

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“The drum is in hands that will know how to beat it well enough,” said Sancho Panza.

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When he had said this and finished the tying (which was not over the armour but only over the doublet) Don Quixote observed, “It was careless of us not to have provided ourselves with a small cattle-bell to be tied on the rope close to me, the sound of which would show that I was still descending and alive; but as that is out of the question now, in God’s hand be it to guide me;” and forthwith he fell on his knees and in a low voice offered up a prayer to heaven, imploring God to aid him and grant him success in this to all appearance perilous and untried adventure, and then exclaimed aloud, “O mistress of my actions and movements, illustrious and peerless Dulcinea del Toboso, if so be the prayers and supplications of this fortunate lover can reach thy ears, by thy incomparable beauty I entreat thee to listen to them, for they but ask thee not to refuse me thy favour and protection now that I stand in such need of them. I am about to precipitate, to sink, to plunge myself into the abyss that is here before me, only to let the world know that while thou dost favour me there is no impossibility I will not attempt and accomplish.” With these words he approached the cavern, and perceived that it was impossible to let himself down or effect an entrance except by sheer force or cleaving a passage; so drawing his sword he began to demolish and cut away the brambles at the mouth of the cave, at the noise of which a vast multitude of crows and choughs flew out of it so thick and so fast that they knocked Don Quixote down; and if he had been as much of a believer in augury as he was a Catholic Christian he would have taken it as a bad omen and declined to bury himself in such a place. He got up, however, and as there came no more crows, or night-birds like the bats that flew out at the same time with the crows, the cousin and Sancho giving him rope, he lowered himself into the depths of the dread cavern; and as he entered it Sancho sent his blessing after him, making a thousand crosses over him and saying, “God, and the Pena de Francia, and the Trinity of Gaeta guide thee, flower and cream of knights-errant. There thou goest, thou dare-devil of the earth, heart of steel, arm of brass; once more, God guide thee and send thee back safe, sound, and unhurt to the light of this world thou art leaving to bury thyself in the darkness thou art seeking there;” and the cousin offered up almost the same prayers and supplications.

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Don Quixote kept calling to them to give him rope and more rope, and they gave it out little by little, and by the time the calls, which came out of the cave as out of a pipe, ceased to be heard they had let down the hundred fathoms of rope. They were inclined to pull Don Quixote up again, as they could give him no more rope; however, they waited about half an hour, at the end of which time they began to gather in the rope again with great ease and without feeling any weight, which made them fancy Don Quixote was remaining below; and persuaded that it was so, Sancho wept bitterly, and hauled away in great haste in order to settle the question. When, however, they had come to, as it seemed, rather more than eighty fathoms they felt a weight, at which they were greatly delighted; and at last, at ten fathoms more, they saw Don Quixote distinctly, and Sancho called out to him, saying, “Welcome back, senor, for we had begun to think you were going to stop there to found a family.” But Don Quixote answered not a word, and drawing him out entirely they perceived he had his eyes shut and every appearance of being fast asleep.

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They stretched him on the ground and untied him, but still he did not awake; however, they rolled him back and forwards and shook and pulled him about, so that after some time he came to himself, stretching himself just as if he were waking up from a deep and sound sleep, and looking about him he said, “God forgive you, friends; ye have taken me away from the sweetest and most delightful existence and spectacle that ever human being enjoyed or beheld. Now indeed do I know that all the pleasures of this life pass away like a shadow and a dream, or fade like the flower of the field. O ill-fated Montesinos! O sore-wounded Durandarte! O unhappy Belerma! O tearful Guadiana, and ye O hapless daughters of Ruidera who show in your waves the tears that flowed from your beauteous eyes!”

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The cousin and Sancho Panza listened with deep attention to the words of Don Quixote, who uttered them as though with immense pain he drew them up from his very bowels. They begged of him to explain himself, and tell them what he had seen in that hell down there.

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“Hell do you call it?” said Don Quixote; “call it by no such name, for it does not deserve it, as ye shall soon see.”

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He then begged them to give him something to eat, as he was very hungry. They spread the cousin’s sackcloth on the grass, and put the stores of the alforjas into requisition, and all three sitting down lovingly and sociably, they made a luncheon and a supper of it all in one; and when the sackcloth was removed, Don Quixote of La Mancha said, “Let no one rise, and attend to me, my sons, both of you.”

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