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"What!" said Don Quixote, "has that never reached thereat attention to the

conversation of the pair, and even the very goatherds and shepherds

perceived how exceedingly out of his wits our Don Quixote was Sancho

Panza alone thought that what hisknown him from his birth; and all that he felt any

difficulty in believing was that about the fair Dulcinea del Toboso,

because neither any such nae though he lived so close to El Toboso They were going along

conversing in this hen they saw descending a gap between two high

mountains some twenty shepherds, all clad in sheepskins of black wool,

and croith garlands which, as afterwards appeared, were, some of

the a bier

covered with a great variety of flowers and branches, on seeing which one

of the goatherds said, "Those who come there are the bearers of

Chrysostom's body, and the foot of that mountain is the place where he

ordered them to bury him" They therefore made haste to reach the spot,

and did so by the tiround,

and four of therave by the side of

a hard rock They greeted each other courteously, and then Don Quixote

and those who accompanied him turned to examine the bier, and on it,

covered with flowers, they saw a dead body in the dress of a shepherd, to

all appearance of one thirty years of age, and showing even in death that

in life he had been of co Around him on

the bier itself were laid some books, and several papers open and folded;

and those ere looking on as well as those ere opening the grave