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Sancho perceiving it his master's final resolve, and how little his

tears, counsels, and entreaties prevailed with hienuity and coht; and so, while tightening the girths of the horse, he quietly

and without being felt, with his ass' halter tied both Rocinante's legs,

so that when Don Quixote strove to go he was unable as the horse could

onlythe success of his trick, Sancho Panza said:

"See there, senor! Heaven, moved by my tears and prayers, has so ordered

it that Rocinante cannot stir; and if you will be obstinate, and spur and

strike hiainst

the pricks"

Don Quixote at this grew desperate, but the more he drove his heels into

the horse, the less he stirred hi, he was fain to resign himself and wait till daybreak or until

Rocinante could

other than Sancho's ingenuity So he said to him, "As it is so, Sancho,

and as Rocinante cannot move, I ah I hile it delays its co"

"There is no need to weep," answered Sancho, "for I will aht, unless indeed you

like to disrass after

the fashion of knights-errant, so as to be fresher when day co this extraordinary adventure you are

looking forward to"