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Often appears with: sancho’s prudence · princess’s squire obligations · marriage proposal · marriage and betrothal · justice as a virtue · ambition and the love of glory
Usually: dialogue (1) · ambition and its cost (1) · the fall of the great (1) · exhortation (1) · humor (1)
“For thou must know that according to our way of thinking in chivalry, it is a high honour to a lady to have many knights-errant in her service, whose thoughts never go beyond serving her for her own sake, and who look for no other reward for their great and true devotion than that she should be willing to accept them as her knights.” Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote · precept
Sancho urges Don Quixote to marry quickly for practical profit, while they bargain about becoming king after killing a giant, and Don Quixote explains chivalric service to Dulcinea should be publicly honored yet privately imagined.
all that I have won, am winning, or shall win by arms in this life, comes to me of the favour she extends to me, and because I am hers.” “Ah! what a sad state your worship’s brains are in!” said Sancho. “Tell me, señor, do you mean to travel all that way for nothing, and to let slip and lose so rich and great a match as this where they give as a portion a kingdom that in sober truth I have heard say is more than twe…