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Often appears with: counsel and advisers to rulers · strategy and the aims of war · refusal to attack · plans for sanchica · marriage proposal · marriage and betrothal · leaving phantoms behind · justice as a virtue · fate, destiny, and necessity · carver’s desire
Usually: argument (1) · narrative (1) · temptation (1) · the test or trial (1) · detachment (1) · exhortation (1)
“A respectable damsel should have a broken leg and keep at home; and the woman and the hen by gadding about are soon lost; and she who is eager to see is also eager to be seen; I say no more.” Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote · wit
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…
Sancho persuades the youths to return home and not be childish, while the head-carver resolves to demand the damsel in marriage, and Sancho begins plotting to match the disguised youth with Sanchica.
“That is true,” said the damsel, “but you see the confusion I was in was so great it did not let me behave as I ought.” “No harm has been done,” said Sancho; “come, we will leave you at your father’s house; perhaps they will not have missed you; and another time don’t be so childish or eager to see the world; for a respectable damsel should have a broken leg and keep at home; and the woman and the hen by gadding abo…