{"id":240,"date":"2019-12-01T16:45:25","date_gmt":"2019-12-01T16:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.publiconsulting.com\/wordpress\/donquixoteoflamancha\/chapter\/second-part-chapter-iv-2\/"},"modified":"2020-03-23T07:37:17","modified_gmt":"2020-03-23T07:37:17","slug":"second-part-chapter-iv","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/www.publiconsulting.com\/wordpress\/donquixoteoflamancha\/chapter\/second-part-chapter-iv\/","title":{"rendered":"Second Part. Chapter IV"},"content":{"raw":"<a href=\"https:\/\/cvc.cervantes.es\/literatura\/clasicos\/quijote\/edicion\/parte2\/cap04\/default.htm\">CHAPTER IV<\/a>\r\n<div class=\"extract\">\r\n<h2 class=\"extractTextNoIndent\"><span class=\"italic\">In which Sancho Panza satisfies Bachelor Sans\u00f3n Carrasco with regard to his doubts and questions, with other events worthy of being known and recounted<\/span><\/h2>\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n<img class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/2651\/3751382249_eaeb17ff01_b.jpg&amp;scale=8&amp;rotate=0\" \/>\r\n<p class=\"chapterOpenerText\">Sancho came back to Don Quixote\u2019s house, and returning to their earlier discussion, he said:<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"para\">\u201cAs for what Se\u00f1or Sans\u00f3n said about people wanting to know who stole my donkey, and how, and when, I can answer by saying that on the same night we were running from the Holy Brotherhood, and entered the Sierra Morena after the misadventurous adventure of the galley slaves, and of the dead man being carried to Segovia, my master and I <a class=\"calibre\" id=\"page517\"><\/a>rode into a stand of trees where my master rested on his lance, and I on my donkey, and battered and tired from our recent skirmishes, we began to sleep as if we were lying on four featherbeds; I was so sound asleep that whoever the thief was could come up to me, and put me on four stakes that he propped under the four sides of my packsaddle, and leave me mounted on them, and take my donkey out from under me without my even knowing it.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"para\">\u201cThat is an easy thing to do, and nothing new; the same thing happened to Sacripante when he was at the siege of Albraca; with that same trick the famous thief named Brunelo took his horse from between his legs.\u201d<sup class=\"calibre4\"><span class=\"footnoteRef\"><a class=\"calibre2\" id=\"note329\" href=\"..\/footnotes#footnote329\">329<\/a><\/span><\/sup><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"para\">\u201cDawn broke,\u201d Sancho continued, \u201cand as soon as I moved, the stakes gave way and I fell to the ground; I looked for the donkey and didn\u2019t see him; tears filled my eyes, and I began to lament, and if the author of our history didn\u2019t put that in, you can be sure he left out something good. After I don\u2019t know how many days, when we were traveling with the Se\u00f1ora Princess Micomicona, I saw my donkey, and riding him, dressed like a Gypsy, was Gin\u00e9s de Pasamonte, the lying crook that my master and I freed from the chain.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"para\">\u201cThe error doesn\u2019t lie there,\u201d replied Sans\u00f3n, \u201cbut in the fact that before the donkey appeared, the author says that Sancho was riding on that same animal.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"para\">\u201cI don\u2019t know how to answer that,\u201d said Sancho, \u201cexcept to say that either the historian was wrong or the printer made a mistake.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"para\">\u201cThat must be the case, no doubt about it,\u201d said Sans\u00f3n, \u201cbut what happened to the hundred <span class=\"italic\">escudos?<\/span> Are they gone?\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"para\">\u201cI spent them for myself, and my wife, and my children, and they are the reason my wife patiently puts up with my traveling highways and byways in the service of my master, Don Quixote; if after so much time I came back home without a <span class=\"italic\">blanca<\/span> and without my donkey, a black future would be waiting for me; if there\u2019s any more to know about me, here I am, and I\u2019ll answer the king himself in person, and nobody has any reason to worry about whether I kept them or didn\u2019t keep them, spent them or didn\u2019t spend them; if the beatings I got on these journeys were paid for in money, even if they didn\u2019t cost more than four <span class=\"italic\">maraved\u00eds<\/span> a piece, another hundred <span class=\"italic\">escudos<\/span> wouldn\u2019t pay for half of them; so let each man put his hand over his own heart and not start <a class=\"calibre\" id=\"page518\"><\/a>judging white as black and black as white; each of us is as God made him, and often much worse.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"para\">\u201cI\u2019ll be sure,\u201d said Carrasco, \u201cto tell the author of the history that if it has a second printing, he should not forget what our good Sancho has said, for that would elevate it a good half-span higher than it is now.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"para\">\u201cIs there anything else that needs to be corrected in the book, Se\u00f1or Bachelor?\u201d asked Don Quixote.<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"para\">\u201cI\u2019m sure there is,\u201d he responded, \u201cbut nothing as important as the ones we\u2019ve already mentioned.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"para\">\u201cAnd by any chance,\u201d said Don Quixote, \u201cdoes the author promise a second part?\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"para\">\u201cYes, he does,\u201d responded Sans\u00f3n, \u201cbut he says he hasn\u2019t found it and doesn\u2019t know who has it, and so we don\u2019t know if it will be published or not; for this reason, and because some people say: \u2018Second parts were never very good,\u2019 and others say: \u2018What\u2019s been written about Don Quixote is enough,\u2019 there is some doubt there will be a second part; but certain people who are more jovial than saturnine say: \u2018Let\u2019s have more quixoticies: let Don Quixote go charging and Sancho Panza keep talking, and whatever else happens, that will make us happy.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"para\">\u201cAnd what does the author say to all of this?\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"para\">\u201cHe says,\u201d responded Sans\u00f3n, \u201cthat as soon as he finds the history, which he is searching for with extraordinary diligence, he will immediately have it printed, for he is more interested in earning his profit than in winning any praise.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"para\">Sancho responded to this by saying:<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"para\">\u201cThe author\u2019s interested in money and profit? I\u2019d be surprised if he got any, because all he\u2019ll do is rush rush rush, like a tailor on the night before a holiday, and work done in a hurry is never as perfect as it should be. Let this Moorish gentleman, or whatever he is, pay attention to what he\u2019s doing; my master and I will give him such an abundance of adventures and so many different deeds that he\u2019ll be able to write not just a second part, but a hundred more parts. No doubt about it, the good man must think we\u2019re asleep here; well, just let him try to shoe us, and he\u2019ll know if we\u2019re lame or not. What I can say is that if my master would take my advice, we\u2019d already be out in those fields righting wrongs and undoing injustices, which is the habit and custom of good knights errant.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"para\">No sooner had Sancho said these words than the sound of Rocinante neighing reached their ears; Don Quixote took this as a very good omen and resolved that in three or four days he would undertake another sally, <a class=\"calibre\" id=\"page519\"><\/a>and after declaring his intention to the bachelor, he asked his advice as to the direction he should take on his journey; the bachelor responded that in his opinion, he ought to go to the kingdom of Arag\u00f3n and the city of Zaragoza, where in a few days they would be holding solemn jousts for the Festival of San Jorge, and there he could win fame vanquishing all the Aragonese knights, which would be the same as vanquishing all the knights in the world. He praised his determination as being most honorable and brave and warned him to be more cautious about rushing into danger, because his life belonged not to him alone but to all those who needed him to protect and defend them in their misfortunes.<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"para\">\u201cThat\u2019s exactly what I hate most, Se\u00f1or Sans\u00f3n,\u201d said Sancho. \u201cMy master goes charging at a hundred armed men like a greedy boy attacking half a dozen melons. Good Lord, Se\u00f1or Bachelor! There are times to attack and times to retreat, and not everything\u2019s \u2018Charge for Santiago and Spain!\u2019<sup class=\"calibre4\"><span class=\"footnoteRef\"><a class=\"calibre2\" id=\"note330\" href=\"..\/footnotes#footnote330\">330<\/a><\/span><\/sup> And besides, I\u2019ve heard it said, I think by my master himself, if I remember correctly, that between the extremes of cowardice and recklessness lies the middle way of valor, and if this is true, I don\u2019t want him to run for no reason or attack when the numbers demand something else. But above all, I advise my master that if he wants to take me with him, it has to be on the condition that he\u2019ll do all the battles and I won\u2019t be obliged to do anything except look after his person in questions of cleanliness and food; as far as this goes, I\u2019ll do everything he asks, but to think that I\u2019ll raise my sword, even against lowborn scoundrels with their caps and axes, is to think something that will never happen. I, Se\u00f1or Sans\u00f3n, don\u2019t plan to win fame as a valiant man but as the best and most loyal squire who ever served a knight errant; and if my master, Don Quixote, as a reward for my many good services, wants to give me one of the many \u00ednsulas that his grace says are to be found out there, I\u2019ll be very happy to accept it; and if he doesn\u2019t give it to me, I\u2019m a human being, and a man shouldn\u2019t live depending on anybody but God; besides, bread will taste as good, and maybe even better, whether I\u2019m a governor or not; for all I know, in those governorships the devil could have set a snare for me that will make me stumble and fall and knock out all my teeth. Sancho I was born, and Sancho I plan to die; but even so, if heaven should be so kind as to offer me, without too much trouble or risk, an \u00ednsula or something else like that, I\u2019m not such a fool that I\u2019d turn it down, because, as they say: \u2018When they give you a heifer, don\u2019t <a class=\"calibre\" id=\"page520\"><\/a>forget to bring a rope,\u2019 and \u2018When good comes along, lock it in your house.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"para\">\u201cYou, brother Sancho,\u201d said Carrasco, \u201chave spoken like a university professor, but still, trust in God and in Se\u00f1or Don Quixote, who will give you a kingdom, not merely an \u00ednsula.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"para\">\u201cWhatever it is, it\u2019s all the same to me,\u201d responded Sancho, \u201cthough I can tell Se\u00f1or Carrasco that my master won\u2019t be tossing that kingdom into a sack with holes in it; I\u2019ve taken my own pulse and I\u2019m healthy enough to rule kingdoms and govern \u00ednsulas, and this is something I\u2019ve already told my master.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"para\">\u201cBe careful, Sancho,\u201d said Sans\u00f3n, \u201cfor offices can alter behavior, and it might be that when you are governor you won\u2019t know the mother who bore you.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"para\">\u201cThat\u2019s something that may apply,\u201d responded Sancho, \u201cto people of low birth, but not to those who have in their souls a little of the spirit of Old Christians, like me. No, first get to know my character and then tell me if I could be ungrateful to anybody!\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"para\">\u201cGod willing,\u201d said Don Quixote, \u201cwe shall see when the governorship comes along, for I seem to see it right before my eyes.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"para\">Having said this, he asked the bachelor, if he was a poet, to be so kind as to compose a few verses for him that would deal with the farewell he intended to make to his lady Dulcinea of Toboso, and he said that at the beginning of each line he was to place a letter of her name, so that when one reached the last verse and read all the first letters together, it would say: <span class=\"italic\">Dulcinea of Toboso.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"para\">The bachelor responded that although he was not one of the famous poets of Spain, who, as people said, did not number more than three and a half, he would be sure to write the lines, although he found a great difficulty in their composition because the number of letters in her name was seventeen, and if he made four Castilian stanzas of four octosyllabic lines each, there would be one letter too many, and if he made the stanzas of five octosyllabic lines each, the ones called <span class=\"italic\">d\u00e9cimas<\/span> or <span class=\"italic\">redondillas,<\/span> <sup class=\"calibre4\"><span class=\"footnoteRef\"><a class=\"calibre2\" id=\"note331\" href=\"..\/footnotes#footnote331\">331<\/a><\/span><\/sup> there would be three letters too few; despite this, however he would attempt to somehow shrink one letter so that the name Dulcinea of Toboso would fit into four Castilian stanzas.<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"para\">\u201cIt must fit in, however you do it,\u201d said Don Quixote, \u201cbecause if the <a class=\"calibre\" id=\"page521\"><\/a>name is not there to see, patent and obvious, no woman will believe that the verses were written for her.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"para\">They agreed to this, and to the knight\u2019s departing in eight days. Don Quixote asked the bachelor to keep this secret, especially from the priest and Master Nicol\u00e1s, and from his niece and housekeeper, so that they would not interfere with his honorable and valiant resolve. Carrasco promised he would, and then he took his leave, asking Don Quixote to keep him informed, when possible, of all his successes and failures; and so they said goodbye, and Sancho left to make preparations for their journey.<\/p>\r\n<img class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/2543\/3751402825_b8de14c937_z.jpg&amp;scale=8&amp;rotate=0\" \/>","rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cvc.cervantes.es\/literatura\/clasicos\/quijote\/edicion\/parte2\/cap04\/default.htm\">CHAPTER IV<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"extract\">\n<h2 class=\"extractTextNoIndent\"><span class=\"italic\">In which Sancho Panza satisfies Bachelor Sans\u00f3n Carrasco with regard to his doubts and questions, with other events worthy of being known and recounted<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/2651\/3751382249_eaeb17ff01_b.jpg&amp;scale=8&amp;rotate=0\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"chapterOpenerText\">Sancho came back to Don Quixote\u2019s house, and returning to their earlier discussion, he said:<\/p>\n<p class=\"para\">\u201cAs for what Se\u00f1or Sans\u00f3n said about people wanting to know who stole my donkey, and how, and when, I can answer by saying that on the same night we were running from the Holy Brotherhood, and entered the Sierra Morena after the misadventurous adventure of the galley slaves, and of the dead man being carried to Segovia, my master and I <a class=\"calibre\" id=\"page517\"><\/a>rode into a stand of trees where my master rested on his lance, and I on my donkey, and battered and tired from our recent skirmishes, we began to sleep as if we were lying on four featherbeds; I was so sound asleep that whoever the thief was could come up to me, and put me on four stakes that he propped under the four sides of my packsaddle, and leave me mounted on them, and take my donkey out from under me without my even knowing it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"para\">\u201cThat is an easy thing to do, and nothing new; the same thing happened to Sacripante when he was at the siege of Albraca; with that same trick the famous thief named Brunelo took his horse from between his legs.\u201d<sup class=\"calibre4\"><span class=\"footnoteRef\"><a class=\"calibre2\" id=\"note329\" href=\"..\/footnotes#footnote329\">329<\/a><\/span><\/sup><\/p>\n<p class=\"para\">\u201cDawn broke,\u201d Sancho continued, \u201cand as soon as I moved, the stakes gave way and I fell to the ground; I looked for the donkey and didn\u2019t see him; tears filled my eyes, and I began to lament, and if the author of our history didn\u2019t put that in, you can be sure he left out something good. After I don\u2019t know how many days, when we were traveling with the Se\u00f1ora Princess Micomicona, I saw my donkey, and riding him, dressed like a Gypsy, was Gin\u00e9s de Pasamonte, the lying crook that my master and I freed from the chain.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"para\">\u201cThe error doesn\u2019t lie there,\u201d replied Sans\u00f3n, \u201cbut in the fact that before the donkey appeared, the author says that Sancho was riding on that same animal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"para\">\u201cI don\u2019t know how to answer that,\u201d said Sancho, \u201cexcept to say that either the historian was wrong or the printer made a mistake.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"para\">\u201cThat must be the case, no doubt about it,\u201d said Sans\u00f3n, \u201cbut what happened to the hundred <span class=\"italic\">escudos?<\/span> Are they gone?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"para\">\u201cI spent them for myself, and my wife, and my children, and they are the reason my wife patiently puts up with my traveling highways and byways in the service of my master, Don Quixote; if after so much time I came back home without a <span class=\"italic\">blanca<\/span> and without my donkey, a black future would be waiting for me; if there\u2019s any more to know about me, here I am, and I\u2019ll answer the king himself in person, and nobody has any reason to worry about whether I kept them or didn\u2019t keep them, spent them or didn\u2019t spend them; if the beatings I got on these journeys were paid for in money, even if they didn\u2019t cost more than four <span class=\"italic\">maraved\u00eds<\/span> a piece, another hundred <span class=\"italic\">escudos<\/span> wouldn\u2019t pay for half of them; so let each man put his hand over his own heart and not start <a class=\"calibre\" id=\"page518\"><\/a>judging white as black and black as white; each of us is as God made him, and often much worse.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"para\">\u201cI\u2019ll be sure,\u201d said Carrasco, \u201cto tell the author of the history that if it has a second printing, he should not forget what our good Sancho has said, for that would elevate it a good half-span higher than it is now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"para\">\u201cIs there anything else that needs to be corrected in the book, Se\u00f1or Bachelor?\u201d asked Don Quixote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"para\">\u201cI\u2019m sure there is,\u201d he responded, \u201cbut nothing as important as the ones we\u2019ve already mentioned.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"para\">\u201cAnd by any chance,\u201d said Don Quixote, \u201cdoes the author promise a second part?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"para\">\u201cYes, he does,\u201d responded Sans\u00f3n, \u201cbut he says he hasn\u2019t found it and doesn\u2019t know who has it, and so we don\u2019t know if it will be published or not; for this reason, and because some people say: \u2018Second parts were never very good,\u2019 and others say: \u2018What\u2019s been written about Don Quixote is enough,\u2019 there is some doubt there will be a second part; but certain people who are more jovial than saturnine say: \u2018Let\u2019s have more quixoticies: let Don Quixote go charging and Sancho Panza keep talking, and whatever else happens, that will make us happy.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"para\">\u201cAnd what does the author say to all of this?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"para\">\u201cHe says,\u201d responded Sans\u00f3n, \u201cthat as soon as he finds the history, which he is searching for with extraordinary diligence, he will immediately have it printed, for he is more interested in earning his profit than in winning any praise.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"para\">Sancho responded to this by saying:<\/p>\n<p class=\"para\">\u201cThe author\u2019s interested in money and profit? I\u2019d be surprised if he got any, because all he\u2019ll do is rush rush rush, like a tailor on the night before a holiday, and work done in a hurry is never as perfect as it should be. Let this Moorish gentleman, or whatever he is, pay attention to what he\u2019s doing; my master and I will give him such an abundance of adventures and so many different deeds that he\u2019ll be able to write not just a second part, but a hundred more parts. No doubt about it, the good man must think we\u2019re asleep here; well, just let him try to shoe us, and he\u2019ll know if we\u2019re lame or not. What I can say is that if my master would take my advice, we\u2019d already be out in those fields righting wrongs and undoing injustices, which is the habit and custom of good knights errant.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"para\">No sooner had Sancho said these words than the sound of Rocinante neighing reached their ears; Don Quixote took this as a very good omen and resolved that in three or four days he would undertake another sally, <a class=\"calibre\" id=\"page519\"><\/a>and after declaring his intention to the bachelor, he asked his advice as to the direction he should take on his journey; the bachelor responded that in his opinion, he ought to go to the kingdom of Arag\u00f3n and the city of Zaragoza, where in a few days they would be holding solemn jousts for the Festival of San Jorge, and there he could win fame vanquishing all the Aragonese knights, which would be the same as vanquishing all the knights in the world. He praised his determination as being most honorable and brave and warned him to be more cautious about rushing into danger, because his life belonged not to him alone but to all those who needed him to protect and defend them in their misfortunes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"para\">\u201cThat\u2019s exactly what I hate most, Se\u00f1or Sans\u00f3n,\u201d said Sancho. \u201cMy master goes charging at a hundred armed men like a greedy boy attacking half a dozen melons. Good Lord, Se\u00f1or Bachelor! There are times to attack and times to retreat, and not everything\u2019s \u2018Charge for Santiago and Spain!\u2019<sup class=\"calibre4\"><span class=\"footnoteRef\"><a class=\"calibre2\" id=\"note330\" href=\"..\/footnotes#footnote330\">330<\/a><\/span><\/sup> And besides, I\u2019ve heard it said, I think by my master himself, if I remember correctly, that between the extremes of cowardice and recklessness lies the middle way of valor, and if this is true, I don\u2019t want him to run for no reason or attack when the numbers demand something else. But above all, I advise my master that if he wants to take me with him, it has to be on the condition that he\u2019ll do all the battles and I won\u2019t be obliged to do anything except look after his person in questions of cleanliness and food; as far as this goes, I\u2019ll do everything he asks, but to think that I\u2019ll raise my sword, even against lowborn scoundrels with their caps and axes, is to think something that will never happen. I, Se\u00f1or Sans\u00f3n, don\u2019t plan to win fame as a valiant man but as the best and most loyal squire who ever served a knight errant; and if my master, Don Quixote, as a reward for my many good services, wants to give me one of the many \u00ednsulas that his grace says are to be found out there, I\u2019ll be very happy to accept it; and if he doesn\u2019t give it to me, I\u2019m a human being, and a man shouldn\u2019t live depending on anybody but God; besides, bread will taste as good, and maybe even better, whether I\u2019m a governor or not; for all I know, in those governorships the devil could have set a snare for me that will make me stumble and fall and knock out all my teeth. Sancho I was born, and Sancho I plan to die; but even so, if heaven should be so kind as to offer me, without too much trouble or risk, an \u00ednsula or something else like that, I\u2019m not such a fool that I\u2019d turn it down, because, as they say: \u2018When they give you a heifer, don\u2019t <a class=\"calibre\" id=\"page520\"><\/a>forget to bring a rope,\u2019 and \u2018When good comes along, lock it in your house.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"para\">\u201cYou, brother Sancho,\u201d said Carrasco, \u201chave spoken like a university professor, but still, trust in God and in Se\u00f1or Don Quixote, who will give you a kingdom, not merely an \u00ednsula.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"para\">\u201cWhatever it is, it\u2019s all the same to me,\u201d responded Sancho, \u201cthough I can tell Se\u00f1or Carrasco that my master won\u2019t be tossing that kingdom into a sack with holes in it; I\u2019ve taken my own pulse and I\u2019m healthy enough to rule kingdoms and govern \u00ednsulas, and this is something I\u2019ve already told my master.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"para\">\u201cBe careful, Sancho,\u201d said Sans\u00f3n, \u201cfor offices can alter behavior, and it might be that when you are governor you won\u2019t know the mother who bore you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"para\">\u201cThat\u2019s something that may apply,\u201d responded Sancho, \u201cto people of low birth, but not to those who have in their souls a little of the spirit of Old Christians, like me. No, first get to know my character and then tell me if I could be ungrateful to anybody!\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"para\">\u201cGod willing,\u201d said Don Quixote, \u201cwe shall see when the governorship comes along, for I seem to see it right before my eyes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"para\">Having said this, he asked the bachelor, if he was a poet, to be so kind as to compose a few verses for him that would deal with the farewell he intended to make to his lady Dulcinea of Toboso, and he said that at the beginning of each line he was to place a letter of her name, so that when one reached the last verse and read all the first letters together, it would say: <span class=\"italic\">Dulcinea of Toboso.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"para\">The bachelor responded that although he was not one of the famous poets of Spain, who, as people said, did not number more than three and a half, he would be sure to write the lines, although he found a great difficulty in their composition because the number of letters in her name was seventeen, and if he made four Castilian stanzas of four octosyllabic lines each, there would be one letter too many, and if he made the stanzas of five octosyllabic lines each, the ones called <span class=\"italic\">d\u00e9cimas<\/span> or <span class=\"italic\">redondillas,<\/span> <sup class=\"calibre4\"><span class=\"footnoteRef\"><a class=\"calibre2\" id=\"note331\" href=\"..\/footnotes#footnote331\">331<\/a><\/span><\/sup> there would be three letters too few; despite this, however he would attempt to somehow shrink one letter so that the name Dulcinea of Toboso would fit into four Castilian stanzas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"para\">\u201cIt must fit in, however you do it,\u201d said Don Quixote, \u201cbecause if the <a class=\"calibre\" id=\"page521\"><\/a>name is not there to see, patent and obvious, no woman will believe that the verses were written for her.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"para\">They agreed to this, and to the knight\u2019s departing in eight days. 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