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nowpeople, and that there is nothg sure this life who would havesaid that, after such ighty sla射s as your worship gave that unckyknight-errant, there was g, travellg post and at the very heelf the, such a great stor of sticks as has fallen upon ourshoulders?&ot;

&ot;and yet the, sancho,&ot; replied don ixote, &ot;ought to be ed tosuch salls; but e, reared ft cloth and fe len, it ispn they t feel ore keenly the pa of this ishap, and if iere not that i ia- why do i say ia?- know of a certatythat all these annoyances are very necessary aopants of thecallg of ars, i would lay down here to die of pure vexation&ot;

to this the sire replied, &ot;senor, as these ishaps are what onereaps of chivalry, tell if they happen very often, or if theyhave their own fixed tis for g to pass; becae it sees to that after o harvests we shall be no good for the third, unlessgod his fite rcy helps &ot;

&ot;know, friend sancho,&ot; answered don ixote, &ot;that the life ofknights-errant is subject to a thoand danrs and reverses, andneither ore nor less is it with idiate possibility forknights-errant to bee kgs and eperors, as experience has shown the case of any different knights with whose histories i athoroughly acated; and i uld tell thee now, if the pa wouldlet , of who siply by ight of ar have risen to the highstations i have ntioned; and those sa, both before and after,experienced divers isfortunes and iseries; for the valiant aadis ofgaul found hiself the power of his