"I will take care," said Carrasco, "to impress upon the author of the

history that, if he prints it again, he must not forget what worthy

Sancho has said, for it will raise it a good span higher."

"Is there anything else to correct in the history, senor bachelor?" asked

Don Quixote.

"No doubt there is," replied he; "but not anything that will be of the

same importance as those I have mentioned."

"Does the author promise a second part at all?" said Don Quixote.

"He does promise one," replied Samson; "but he says he has not found it,

nor does he know who has got it; and we cannot say whether it will appear

or not; and so, on that head, as some say that no second part has ever

been good, and others that enough has been already written about Don

Quixote, it is thought there will be no second part; though some, who are

jovial rather than saturnine, say, 'Let us have more Quixotades, let Don

Quixote charge and Sancho chatter, and no matter what it may turn out, we

shall be satisfied with that.'"

"And what does the author mean to do?" said Don Quixote.

"What?" replied Samson; "why, as soon as he has found the history which

he is now searching for with extraordinary diligence, he will at once

give it to the press, moved more by the profit that may accrue to him

from doing so than by any thought of praise."

Whereat Sancho observed, "The author looks for money and profit, does he?

It will be a wonder if he succeeds, for it will be only hurry, hurry,

with him, like the tailor on Easter Eve; and works done in a hurry are

never finished as perfectly as they ought to be. Let master Moor, or

whatever he is, pay attention to what he is doing, and I and my master

will give him as much grouting ready to his hand, in the way of

adventures and accidents of all sorts, as would make up not only one

second part, but a hundred. The good man fancies, no doubt, that we are

fast asleep in the straw here, but let him hold up our feet to be shod

and he will see which foot it is we go lame on. All I say is, that if my

master would take my advice, we would be now afield, redressing outrages

and righting wrongs, as is the use and custom of good knights-errant."

Sancho had hardly uttered these words when the neighing of Rocinante fell

upon their ears, which neighing Don Quixote accepted as a happy omen, and

he resolved to make another sally in three or four days from that time.

Announcing his intention to the bachelor, he asked his advice as to the

quarter in which he ought to commence his expedition, and the bachelor

replied that in his opinion he ought to go to the kingdom of Aragon, and

the city of Saragossa, where there were to be certain solemn joustings at

the festival of St. George, at which he might win renown above all the

knights of Aragon, which would be winning it above all the knights of the

world. He commended his very praiseworthy and gallant resolution, but

admonished him to proceed with greater caution in encountering dangers,

because his life did not belong to him, but to all those who had need of

him to protect and aid them in their misfortunes.




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