Miguel de Cervantes

Name: Don Quixote — Volume 2, Chapter XVIII
Author: Miguel de Cervantes

Don Quixote — Volume 2, Chapter XVIII (1885)

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“Don Quixote — Volume 2, Chapter XVIII”, published in 1885, is a work by Miguel de Cervantes. It explores elements such as Don Quixote, Don Lorenzo and gloss.

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Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote — Volume 2, Chapter XVIII (1885)

“ It is true that I am somewhat given to poetry and to reading good poets, but not so much so as to justify the title of 'great' which my father gives me."
"I do not dislike that modesty," said Don Quixote; "for there is no poet who is not conceited and does not think he is the best poet in the world."
"There is no rule without an exception," said Don Lorenzo; "there may be some who are poets and yet do not think they are."
"Very few," said Don Quixote; "but tell me, what verses are those which you have now in hand, and which your father tells me keep you somewhat restless and absorbed? ”

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Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote — Volume 2, Chapter XVIII (1885)

“ Don Diego asked his son what he had been able to make out as to the wits of their guest. To which he replied, "All the doctors and clever scribes in the world will not make sense of the scrawl of his madness; he is a madman full of streaks, full of lucid intervals."
They went in to dinner, and the repast was such as Don Diego said on the road he was in the habit of giving to his guests, neat, plentiful, and tasty; but what pleased Don Quixote most was the marvellous silence that reigned throughout the house, for it was like a Carthusian monastery. ”

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Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote — Volume 2, Chapter XVIII (1885)

“ With this Don Lorenzo went away to entertain Don Quixote as has been said, and in the course of the conversation that passed between them Don Quixote said to Don Lorenzo, "Your father, Senor Don Diego de Miranda, has told me of the rare abilities and subtle intellect you possess, and, above all, that you are a great poet."
"A poet, it may be," replied Don Lorenzo, "but a great one, by no means. ”

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Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote — Volume 2, Chapter XVIII (1885)

“ For love will find a way whate'er befall. Impatient of delay, with reckless pace The rash maid wins the fatal spot where she Sinks not in lover's arms but death's embrace. So runs the strange tale, how the lovers twain One sword, one sepulchre, one memory, Slays, and entombs, and brings to life again. "Blessed be God," said Don Quixote when he had heard Don Lorenzo's sonnet, "that among the hosts there are of irritable poets I have found one consummate one, which, senor, the art of this sonnet proves to me that you are!" ”

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Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote — Volume 2, Chapter XVIII (1885)

“ In this speech Don Quixote wound up the evidence of his madness, but still better in what he added when he said, "God knows, I would gladly take Don Lorenzo with me to teach him how to spare the humble, and trample the proud under foot, virtues that are part and parcel of the profession I belong to; but since his tender age does not allow of it, nor his praiseworthy pursuits permit it, I will simply content myself with impressing it upon your worship that you will become famous as a poet if you are guided by the opinion of others rather than by your own ”

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Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote — Volume 2, Chapter XVIII (1885)

“ When the cloth had been removed, grace said and their hands washed, Don Quixote earnestly pressed Don Lorenzo to repeat to him his verses for the poetical tournament, to which he replied, "Not to be like those poets who, when they are asked to recite their verses, refuse, and when they are not asked for them vomit them up, I will repeat my gloss, for which I do not expect any prize, having composed it merely as an exercise of ingenuity." ”

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Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote — Volume 2, Chapter XVIII (1885)

“ That time should ever be, and then Come back to us, and be again, No power on earth can bring to pass; For fleet of foot is he, I wis, And idly, therefore, do we pray That what for aye hath left us may Become for us the time that is. Perplexed, uncertain, to remain 'Twixt hope and fear, is death, not life ”

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Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote — Volume 2, Chapter XVIII (1885)

“ He must be an astronomer, so as to know by the stars how many hours of the night have passed, and what clime and quarter of the world he is in. He must know mathematics, for at every turn some occasion for them will present itself to him ”

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Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote — Volume 2, Chapter XVIII (1885)

“ He must be a physician, and above all a herbalist, so as in wastes and solitudes to know the herbs that have the property of healing wounds, for a knight-errant must not go looking for some one to cure him at every step. ”

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