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Part 1 Chapter 9

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ng blows that if they had fallen full and fair they would at least have split and cleft them asunder from top to toe and laid them open like a pomegranate; and

ould have been without some sage to undertake the task of writing his marvellous achievements; a thing that was never wanting to any of those knights-errant who, they say, went after adventures; for every one of them had one or two sages as if made on purpose, who not only recorded their deeds but described their most trifling thoughts and follies, however s

age and in these so evil days devoted himself to the labour and exercise of the arms of knight-errantry, righting wrongs, succouring widows, and protecting damsels of that sort that used to ride about, whip in hand, on their palfreys, with all their virginity about them, from mountain to mountain and valley to valley - for, if it were not for some ruffian, or boor with a hood and hatchet, or monstrous giant, that forced them, there were in days of yore damsels that at the end of eighty years, in all which time they had never slept a day under a roof, went to their

m, I looked about to see if there were any Spanish-speaking Morisco at hand to read them for me; nor was there any great difficulty in finding such an interpreter, for even had I sought one for an older and better language I should have found him. In short, chance provided me with one, who when I told him what I wanted and put the book into his hands, opened it in the middle and after reading a l

he title of the book reached my ears, and snatching it from the silk mercer, I bought all the papers and pamphlets from the boy for half a real; and if he had had his wits about him and had known how eager I was for them, he might have safely calculated on making more than six reals by the bargain. I withdrew at once with the Morisco into the cloister of the cathedral, and begged him to turn all these pamphlets that related to Don Quixote into

bt must have been his name; and at the feet of Rocinante was another that said, "Don Quixote." Rocinante was marvellously portrayed, so long and thin, so lank and lean, with so much backbone and so far gone in consumption, that he showed plainly with what judgment and propriety the name of Rocinante had been bestowed upon him. Near him was Sancho Panza holding the halter of his ass, at whose feet was another label that said, "Sancho

freedom to his pen in praise of so worthy a knight, he seems to me deliberately to pass it over in silence; which is ill done and worse contrived, for it is the business and duty of historians to be exact, truthful, and wholly free from passion, and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor love, should make them swerve from the path of truth, whose mother is history, rival of time, st

as delivered with such force and fury that had not the sword turned in its course, that single stroke would have sufficed to put an end to the bitter struggle and to all the adventures of our knight; but that good fortune which reserved him for greater things, turned aside the swo

his arms about its neck; at the same time, however, he slipped his feet out of the stirrups and then unclasped his arms, and the mule, taking fright at the terrible blow, made off across the plain, and with a few plunges flung its master to the ground. Don Quixote stood looking on very calmly, and, when he saw him fall, leaped from his horse and with great briskness ran to him, and, presenting the point of his sword to his eyes, bade him surrender, or he would cut his head off. The Biscayan was so bewildered that he was unable to answer a word, and it would have gone hard with him, so blind was Don Quix

on Quixote's demand or asking who Dulcinea might be, promis

d Don Quixote, "I shall do him no further

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Contents

Part 1 The Author's Preface Part 1 Chapter 1 Part 1 Chapter 2 Part 1 Chapter 3 Part 1 Chapter 4 Part 1 Chapter 5 Part 1 Chapter 6 Part 1 Chapter 7 Part 1 Chapter 8 Part 1 Chapter 9 Part 1 Chapter 10
Part 1 Chapter 11
Part 1 Chapter 12
Part 1 Chapter 13
Part 1 Chapter 14
Part 1 Chapter 15
Part 1 Chapter 16
Part 1 Chapter 17
Part 1 Chapter 18
Part 1 Chapter 19
Part 1 Chapter 20
Part 1 Chapter 21
Part 1 Chapter 22
Part 1 Chapter 23
Part 1 Chapter 24
Part 1 Chapter 25
Part 1 Chapter 26
Part 1 Chapter 27
Part 1 Chapter 28
Part 1 Chapter 29
Part 1 Chapter 30
Part 1 Chapter 31
Part 1 Chapter 32
Part 1 Chapter 33
Part 1 Chapter 34
Part 1 Chapter 35
Part 1 Chapter 36
Part 1 Chapter 37
Part 1 Chapter 38
Part 1 Chapter 39
Part 1 Chapter 40
Part 1 Chapter 41
Part 1 Chapter 42
Part 1 Chapter 43
Part 1 Chapter 44
Part 1 Chapter 45
Part 1 Chapter 46
Part 1 Chapter 47
Part 1 Chapter 48
Part 1 Chapter 49
Part 1 Chapter 50
Part 1 Chapter 51
Part 1 Chapter 52
Part 2 The Author's Preface
Part 2 Chapter 1
Part 2 Chapter 2
Part 2 Chapter 3
Part 2 Chapter 4
Part 2 Chapter 5
Part 2 Chapter 6
Part 2 Chapter 7
Part 2 Chapter 8
Part 2 Chapter 9
Part 2 Chapter 10
Part 2 Chapter 11
Part 2 Chapter 12
Part 2 Chapter 13
Part 2 Chapter 14
Part 2 Chapter 15
Part 2 Chapter 16
Part 2 Chapter 17
Part 2 Chapter 18
Part 2 Chapter 19
Part 2 Chapter 20
Part 2 Chapter 21
Part 2 Chapter 22
Part 2 Chapter 23
Part 2 Chapter 24
Part 2 Chapter 25
Part 2 Chapter 26
Part 2 Chapter 27
Part 2 Chapter 28
Part 2 Chapter 29
Part 2 Chapter 30
Part 2 Chapter 31
Part 2 Chapter 32
Part 2 Chapter 33
Part 2 Chapter 34
Part 2 Chapter 35
Part 2 Chapter 36
Part 2 Chapter 37
Part 2 Chapter 38
Part 2 Chapter 39
Part 2 Chapter 40
Part 2 Chapter 41
Part 2 Chapter 42
Part 2 Chapter 43
Part 2 Chapter 44
Part 2 Chapter 45
Part 2 Chapter 46
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