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The Life and Exploits of Don Quixote de la Mancha
The Life and Exploits of Don Quixote de la Mancha Author:Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: gious profession ; and some knights are now taints in glory. True, answered Sancho ; but I have heard say, there are more friars in heaven, than knights-errant. ... more »It may well be so, replied Don Quixote; beca :se the number of the religious is much greater than that of the knights-errant. And yet, quoth Sancho, there are abundance of the errant sort. Abundance, indeed, answered Don Quixote; but few, who deserve the name of knights. In these and the like discourses they passed that night, and the following day, without any accident worth relating ; whereat Don Quixote was not a little grieved. In short, next day they descried the great city of Tobosoj at sight whereof Don Quixote's spirits were much elevated, and Sancho's as much dejected, because he did not know Dulcinea's house, and had never seen her in his life, no more than his master had; so that they were both equally in pain, the ona to see her, and the oilier for not having seen her: and Sancho knew not what to do, when his master should send him to Toboso. In fine, Don Quixote resolved to enter the city about night-fall; and. till that hour came, they staid among some oak trees near the town j and the time appointed being come, they went into the city, where things betel them that were things indeed. CHAP. IX. Which relates what will be found in it. Half the night, or thereabouts, was spent, when Don Quixote and Sancho left the mountain, an4 entered into Toboeo. The town was all hushed in silence: for its inhabitants were sound asleep, reposing, as the phrase is. with out-stretched legs. The night Here Cervantes has made a large amends for the several strokes of satire upon the clergy eccasionally scattered up and down this work.—The master and man are in a very deftiut vein, and give the preference to the wh...« less