The Voyage to Parnassus - 1870 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: To these two worthies I said, of this deed Of ignorance or malice I know nought; With this I went straight off; full of despatch, I sought my antique dismal inn,... more » and then All beaten threw me on my pallet mean, At a too long day's work exhausted quite. chapter{Section 4APPENDIX TO THE PARNASSUS. I Awaited some days to repair my strength after so extended a voyage, at the end of which I sallied forth to see and to be seen, and to receive gratulations from my friends and ugly looks from my enemies, for I do not think I can be without them, in accordance with the lot of humanity. It fell out going one morning from the monastery of Atocha, that a youth joined me, seemingly about twenty-four years of age, less or more, neat, adorned and wrapped up in a suit of grogram, but with a neck so long and bestarched that I verily believed it would require an Atlas to raise it up. The issue from this neck were two flat fists, which, starting from the wrist, mounted and jumped by the long bone of the arm upwards, and looked as though an assault on the beard was intended. Never did I see ivy so covetous of an ascent from the foot of the wall where it rests up to the battlements, as the desire which animated these fists to give some strokes with their extremities. Finally, the extravagance of the neck and fists was such that the very face was buried, and in the fists were lost the arms. I say then that this selfsame youth joined me, and with a grave and settled voice said, " Peradventure your worshipis Don Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, he who lately arrived from Parnassus?" At this question I believe certainly that my colour left me, for in a twinkling I imagined and said within myself, If this be one of the poets whom I have placed in my narrative, or should have put there, and he comes n...« less