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Don Quixote de la Mancha. Tr. by C. Jarvis (1819)
Don Quixote de la Mancha Tr by C Jarvis - 1819 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 pay their tribute to the rivers that expected them. The earth rejoiced, the sky was clear, and the air serene; each singly, and all together, giving manifest ... more »tokens, that the day, which trod upon Aurora's heels, would be fair and clear. The duke and duchess, being satisfied with the sport, and having executed their design so ingeniously and happily, returned to their castle, with an intention of seconding their jest; since nothing real could have afforded them more pleasure. CHAP. IV. Wherein is related the strange and never imagined adventure of the afflicted matron, alias the countess of Trifaldi,' with a letter written by Sancho Panxa to his wife Teresa Panxa. J. HE duke had a steward, of a very pleasant and facetious wit, who represented Merlin, and contrived the whole apparatus of the late adventure, composed the verses, and made a page act Dulci- nea. And now, with the duke and duchess's leave, he prepared another scene, of the pleasantest and strangest contrivance imaginable. The next day, the duchess asked SanchOi whether he had begun the task of the penahce he was to do for the disenchanting of Dulcinea. He said, he had, and had given himself five lashes thatnight. The duchess desired to know, with what he had given them. He answered, with the palm of his hand. That, replied the duchers, is rather clapping than whipping, and I am of opinion sig- nor Merlin will hardly be contented at so easy a rate. Honest Sancho must get a rod made of briars, or of whip-cord, that the lashes may be felt ; for letters written in blood stand good, and the liberty of so great a lady as Dulcinea is not to be purchased so easily, or at so low a price. And tak notice, Sancho, that works of charity, done faintly and coldly, lose their merit, and s...« less