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and could not make out what had befallen him; and all his attendants were

in the same state of amazement

At this point Sancho Panza, who had drawn near to hear the conversation,

said, in order toplain, "Well, sirs, youto say, but the fact of the matter is, my master,

Don Quixote, is just as much enchanted as my mother He is in his full

senses, he eats and he drinks, and he has his calls like other ed hi me to believe that he is enchanted? For I have heard

many a one say that enchanted people neither eat, nor sleep, nor talk;

and my master, if you don't stop hi to the curate he exclaimed, "Ah, senor curate,

senor curate! do you think I don't know you? Do you think I don't guess

and see the drift of these new enchantments? Well then, I can tell you I

know you, for all your face is covered, and I can tell you I am up to

you, however you ns

virtue cannot live, and where there is niggardliness there can be no

liberality Ill betide the devil! if it had not been for your worship my

master would be married to the Princess Micomicona this minute, and I

should be a count at least; for no less was to be expected, as well frooodness of reatness of my services But I see no true it is what they say in

these parts, that the wheel of fortune turns faster than a mill-wheel,

and that those ere up yesterday are down to-day I aht fairly and reasonably expect to

see their father return to thedom, they will see him come back a horse-boy I have said all this,

senor curate, only to urge your paternity to lay to your conscience your

ill-treatment of my master; and have a care that God does not call you to

account in another life for ainst you all the succours and good deeds that my lord Don

Quixote leaves undone while he is shut up