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Often appears with: strategy and the aims of war · sancho’s counsel · leaving phantoms behind · fate, destiny, and necessity · counsel and advisers to rulers
Usually: argument (1) · the test or trial (1) · detachment (1)
Sancho persuades Don Quixote not to fight the stone-armed Death squad because it would be rash against an “army”; Don Quixote yields and they leave for new adventures while the cart returns to the journey.
I will arrange it with my ass to leave his grievance to my good-will and pleasure, and that is to live in peace as long as heaven grants me life.” “Well,” said Don Quixote, “if that be thy determination, good Sancho, sensible Sancho, Christian Sancho, honest Sancho, let us leave these phantoms alone and turn to the pursuit of better and worthier adventures; for, from what I see of this country, we cannot fail to fin…