A Dialogue Between Scipio and Bergansa 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: liking to the flock, and continue in it; faying this, he went away, and the fhepherd immediately put about my neck, a collar full of fteel points, having firft g... more »iven me in a trough, a great quantity of bread foak'd in milk ; he likewife named me, calling me Barzino. I was very well pleafed with my fecond mafter, and my new office, and was very diligent and careful in watching the flock, without ever ftirring from it, except in the heat of the day, which I pafled either under the (hade of fome tree, or elfe of fome hill or rock, or upon the banks of fome rivulet, that gently glided through that place; and thefe vacant hours were not wholly unemployed, for I fpent them in calling to mind feveral things, and more particularly in reflecting on the ftrange life I lead in the flaughter-houfe, and that which my mafter and all thofe lead, who, like him, are flaves to the extravagant, and never-fatisfied de- fires of their miftrefles: O how many things could I tell you now, which I learned in the fchool of this butcher-lady! but I fhall not mention them, left you fhouH think me a cenforious pratter. Stip. Having heard what a famous poet among the ancients faid, viz. That it was a difficult thing to forbear writing Satires, I will allow you to point out faults, but not to injureInjure or wound the character of any one, by the thing hinted at; for that fatire is not good or commendable which hurts any one, though it may make many laugh; and if you can pleafe without that, I mall think you very difcreet. Berg. I mall take your advice, and will wait with great impatience, till the time comes for you to relate your adventures, by which I mall know the faults I have committed, in relating mine, and may amend them ; for I imagine, yours will be related in fuch a manner, that they may ple...« less