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that he t be ntent with the offer of a battlefield onhis territory （though that was agast the decree of the holy uncil,which prohibits all 插llens of the rt） and not ph such anarduo venture to its extre liits don ixote bade his excellencearran all atters nnected with the affair as he pleased, as on hispart he would obey hi everythg the dread day, then, havgarrived, and the duke havg ordered a spacio stand to be erectedfacg the urt of the castle for the juds of the field and theappellant duennas, other and daughter, vast crowds flocked fro allthe villas and halets of the neighbourhood to see the novelspectacle of the battle; nobody, dead or alive, those partshavg ever seen or heard of such a one

the first pern to enter the-field and the lists was the asterof the cereonies, who surveyed and paced the whole ground to see thatthere was nothg unfair and nothg ncealed to ake thebatants stuble or fall; then the duennas entered and seatedtheselves, enveloped antles verg their eyes, nay even theirbos, and displayg no slight eotion as don ixote appeared the lists shortly afterwards, aopanied by several trupets andounted on a powerful steed that threatened to crh the wholeplace, the great lacey tosilos ade his appearance on one side ofthe urtyard with his vir down and stiffly cased a suit of stoutshg arour the horse was a anifest frieslander, broad-backed andflea-bitten, and with half a hundred of wool hangg to each of hisfetlocks the gallant batant ca well prid by his aster