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Wit and Wisdom of Don Quixote
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Wit and Wisdom of Don Quixote

by Cervantes Saavedra Miguel de

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Wit and Wisdom

of

Don Quixote.

 

Patch grief with proverbs.—Shakespeare.

 

 

BOSTON: ROBERTS BROTHERS. 1882.

Copyright, 1882, By Roberts Brothers.
University Press: John Wilson and Son, Cambridge.

INDEX.

  • Abadexo, 9.
  • Adam, the first head scratched, 168.
  • Adventure of the dead body, 51.
  • Adventures of Esplandian, 17.
  • Alamos of Medina del Campo, 199.
  • Aldermen, the braying, 169.
  • Altisidora, songs of, 219, 265.
  • Amadis de Gaul, 4, 17.
  • Amadis de Greece, 19.
  • Arms, the honorable profession of, 173.
  • Araucana, 24.
  • Austriada, 24.
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  • Bacallao, 9.
  • Barabbas, wife for, 115.
  • Barataria, the island of, 220, 223, 250.
  • Barber's basin, taken for Mambrino's helmet, 58.
  • Basilius the Poor, adventure of, 147.
  • Belfreys and palfreys much the same, 125.
  • Boar hunt, the, 182.
  • Bray, town of, 172.
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  • Cane, the hollow, 227.
  • Carrasco, views upon critics, 109;
    • made executor, 286.
  • Chrysostom, story of, 37;
    • interment of, 41;
    • song of, 45;
    • epitaph upon, 49.
  • Clavileno, flight of, 203.
  • Comedy, adherence to the unities necessary, 89.
  • Countryman, the tale of, 239.
  • Critic, not cricket, 163.
  • Cuenza, cloth of, 180.
  • Cupid's address at wedding of Quiteria, 153.
  • Curadillo, 9.
  • Cure of jealousy, 23.
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  • Dapple, 181,
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  • Darinel, 18.
  • Dead body, adventure of, 51.
  • Death, Sancho's views on, 165.
  • Description of a lady, 33.
  • Diana, the, of Montemayor, 20, 23.
  • Disenchantment of Dulcinea, 187, 196.
  • Don Bellionis, 20.
  • Don Diego de Miranda, 20.
  • Don Galaor, serving no especial mistress, 36.
  • Don Olivante de Laura, 18.
  • Don Kyrie Eleison of Montalvan, 20.
  • Don Quixote, income of, 1;
    • family of, 1;
    • age of, 1;
    • fancies of, 2;
    • his armor, 2;
    • his steed, 3;
    • begins his adventures, 5;
    • arrival at inn, 6;
    • seeks knighthood, 10;
    • watches his armor, 13;
    • is knighted, 14;
    • his self-confidence, 14;
    • his library destroyed, 16, 25;
    • his squire, 25;
    • extolls the Golden Age, 29;
    • his requisites for a knight-errant, 35;
    • at the interment of Chrysostom, 41;
    • his adventure with a dead body, 51;
    • captures Mambrino's helmet, 56;
    • performs penance, 63;
    • his views of knight-errantry, 76, 82;
    • receives a visit from the lady Dulcinea, 126;
    • adventure with the lions, 133;
    • attends the wedding of Quiteria the Fair, 147;
    • a "sensible madman," 197;
    • counsels Sancho, 203, 210,
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  • his views upon poetry, 131;
  • of love, 161;
  • of marriage, 162;
  • upon long finger-nails, 211;
  • of proverbs, 212;
  • converses with an author, 273;
  • returns home, 282;
  • his will, 284, 285;
  • his death, 287;
  • epitaph upon, 288.
  • Duke and Duchess, the, 181.
  • Dulcinea, described by Don Quixote, 37;
    • letters to, 65;
    • lines to, 66;
    • disenchantment of, 187, 196;
    • lines to, 66;
    • sonnet to, 96.
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  • Earldom, Sancho's views of the management of one, 91.
  • El Cancionero, 23.
  • Enchanter's errand, the, 188.
  • Epitaphs on Don Quixote, 96, 98, 288.
  • Epitaphs on Dulcinea, 99.
  • Ermine, a modest women compared to one, 73.
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  • Fabila, the fate of, 184.
  • Fish Nicholas, 143.
  • Florismarle of Hyrcania, 18.
  • Fort, Sonnet on the, 84.
  • Frasso, Antonio de lo, 23.
  • Friendship, sonnet to, 69.
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  • Galatea of Cervantes, 24.
  • Genealogies reduced to four kinds, 119.
  • Gil Polo, 23.
  • Golden Age, panegyric upon the, 29.
  • Goleta, sonnet upon the, 83.
  • Governor's round of inspection, 245.
  • Gratitude a duty, 61.
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  • Heaven, death by the hand of, demands patience, 55.
  • Herdsmen, the purse of the, 199.
  • Herradura, the, 199.
  • Industry tranquillizing,
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  • Instructions for government of Island, 203-210.
  • Island of Sancho Panza, promise of, 25, 26;
    • possession taken of, 220, 223.
  • Julius Cæsar, anecdote of, 174.
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  • Knighted, Don Quixote, 14.
  • Knight-errant, the, without a mistress, 4, 36, 177;
    • food of, 28;
    • impiety of, 35;
    • defence of, 35;
    • hunger of, 71;
    • compared to the courtier-knight, 118;
    • extolled, 141;
    • compared to the saints, 122, 123;
    • his need of money never recorded, 12.
  • Knight-errantry, the surpassing excellence of, 76;
    • compared to the life of a scholar or soldier, 78, 79;
    • science of, 142.
  • Knighthood, ceremonies of, 14, 15.
  • Knight of the Cross, 19.
  • Knight Platir, 19.
  • Knight, the, reproved, 198;
    • if poor, his rank is manifested by his virtues, 128.
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  • Lace-bone, 263.
  • Lace worn in Purgatory, 281.
  • La Mancha, 1, 95, 288.
  • Lanzarote, romance of, 8.
  • Learning of Sancho Panza, 28, 205.
  • Letters, from Don Quixote, 255;
    • from the Duchess, 251;
    • from the Duke, 237;
    • from Sancho, 196, 258;
    • from Teresa, 261.
  • Library of Don Quixote destroyed, 16.
  • Licentiate, story of,
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  • Lions, adventure with, 133.
  • Lucifer, the first tumbler, 168.
  • Mambrino's helmet, 56.
  • Manuscript discovered in Saragossa, 95.
  • Marcela, cruelty of, 33, 37, 39.
  • Marriage of Camacho the Rich, 147.
  • Mateo Boyardo, 19.
  • Merlin, 188-190.
  • Miraguardia, castle of, 20.
  • Mirror of chivalry, 19.
  • Molinera buckles the spurs, 15.
  • Monteil, plains of, 26.
  • Monsurato, 24.
  • Montesinos, care of, 181.
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  • Nymphs of Enares, 23.
  • Olalia, poem to, 31.
  • Oran, general of, 133.
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  • Palinurus, 84.
  • Panza, Sancho, vide Sancho Panza.
  • Panza, Teresa, vide Teresa Panza.
  • Parley about the penance, 189.
  • Pastor Fido, 274.
  • Penance, a pleasing, 65.
  • Penance of Don Quixote, 63.
  • Poem addressed to Dulcinea, 66.
  • Poem addressed to Olalia, 31.
  • Poetry, views of Don Quixote upon, 131
  • Praise of poverty, 217.
  • Proverbs. See Index To Proverbs.
  • Proverbs, Don Quixote's dislike of, 186, 212, 215, 215.
  • Proverbs of Sancho Panza, 212.
  • Pyramus and Thisbe, story of, 145.
  • Queen Pintiquinestra, 18.
  • Quexana, Antonia, heiress of Don Quixote, 286.
  • Quixote, Don, vide Don Quixote.
  • Quiteria, the Fair, 147.
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  • Retention, definition of, 63.
  • Rosinante, named, 3;
    • encomiums upon, 6;
    • sonnet to, 97, 124.
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  • Saints and knights-errant compared,
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  • Sancha Mary, a match for her considered, 113-115.
  • Sanchica, 263.
  • Sancho Panza, becomes a squire, 25;
    • counselled to ambition, 27;
    • defines retention, 63;
    • love to God, 71;
    • his views upon administration, 91;
    • is received by his wife, 93;
    • plain speaking of, 105;
    • conditions of his service, 110;
    • self-confidence of, 111;
    • rejoicing at rejoining Don Quixote, 112;
    • homecomings of, 117;
    • at the wedding of Quiteria, 147;
    • views upon death, 165;
      • upon penance, 189, 196;
      • upon sleep, 277;
    • his conundrum, 168;
    • description of, 168;
    • plight of, 181;
    • at the boar hunt, 183;
    • submits to penance, 195;
    • government of, 197;
    • official dress of, 205;
    • learning of, 28, 205;
    • proverbs of, 212;
    • receives advice, 213;
    • assumes the governorship, 220;
    • encounter with the doctor, 233;
    • advises the countryman, 239;
    • makes a round of inspection, 245;
    • returns home, 282.
  • Saragossa, 95.
  • Scholars, sufferings of, 78, 79.
  • Serenade, a, 218.
  • Seville, story of lunatic of, 100.
  • Shepherd of Iberia, 23.
  • Shepherd of Filida, 23.
  • Sleep, Sancho's views upon, 277.
  • Soldier, sufferings of the, 79, 80.
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  • Tailor, the secret of a,
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  • Tasters, story of, 129.
  • Tears of St. Peter, 72.
  • Tembleque, 200.
  • Teresa Panza, receives Sancho, 93;
    • counsels him, 114;
    • her good sense, 116;
    • receives the page, 249;
    • writes Sancho, 261.
  • Tirante the White, 20.
  • Tolosa, girds on sword of Don Quixote, 14.
  • Truchuela, 9.
  • Truth, the mother of history, 29.
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  • Wife, but one good, 160.
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  • Zamora, a bagpipe, 152.

  • INDEX TO PROVERBS.