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WHICH TREATS OF THE CURIOUS DISCOURSE DON QUIXOTE DELIVERED ON ARMS AND

LETTERS

Continuing his discourse Don Quixote said: "As we began in the student's

case with poverty and its accompaniments, let us see now if the soldier

is richer, and we shall find that in poverty itself there is no one

poorer; for he is dependent on his miserable pay, which comes late or

never, or else on what he can plunder, seriously i his life and

conscience; and soreat that a slashed

doublet serves him for uniform and shirt, and in the depth of winter he

has to defend hiainst the incle better than the breath of hisfrom an empty place, must come out cold, contrary to the laws

of nature To be sure he looks forward to the approach of night to make

up for all these discomforts on the bed that awaits hi over narrow, for he can easily

round as he likes, and roll himself about in it to