Don Quixote

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

that crazy old man the Marquis of Mantua,

How does Sancho know what the Marquis vowed? Question

if an ínsula is lacking, there is always the kingdom of Denmark, or that of Soliadisa,

Haha

my ear is hurting a good deal.”

Haha

their most common food would be rustic viands,

You should not try to make the world over again or change the nature of errant chivalry.”

fixed and immutable and perfect

I don’t know and am not aware of the rules of the chivalric profession;

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What do their mounts eat? question

the sun set, along with the hope of achieving their desire,

it pleased his master to sleep outdoors,

goatherds,

See Sidney’s double sestina, beginning “Ye goatherd-gods, that love the grassy mountains;….” https://homepages.uc.edu/~druryjp/Sidney,%20A%20Double%20Sestina.htm

one may say of knight errantry what is said of love: it makes all things equal.”

what I eat, even if it’s bread and onion, tastes much better to me in my corner without fancy or respectful manners,

Haha - Mee too

things that come with solitude and freedom.

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the times called golden by the ancients,

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the desire to make that foolish speech to the goatherds,

Antonio,

the ballad about your love that your uncle the vicar composed for you,

Olalla,

Is this composed by Cervantes? Is it a mock, or a seriously intended ballad?

more than once have I worn the same clothes on a Monday that honored Sunday morn.

Question - slept over at Olalla’s?

Teresa del Berrocal

Question

Strict Franciscan order

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those of my profession prefer standing vigil to sleeping.

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Nice

famous student shepherd

Grisóstomo

Mar...

Guillermo the r...

where he saw her for the first time.

Ambrosio,

Pedro,”

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bairn.”

barren,

“B...

ba...

Question - a Catalan pun? Or bairn = baby in Scots?

Haha - at least Don Quixote is literate, and not afraid to show it. The word "malapropism" (and its earlier form, "malaprop") comes from a character named "Mrs. Malaprop" in Richard Brinsley Sheridan's 1775 play The Rivals.[2] Mrs. Malaprop frequently misspeaks (to comic effect) by using words which do not have the meaning that she intends but which sound similar to words that do. Sheridan chose her name in humorous reference to the word malapropos, an adjective or adverb meaning "inappropriate" or "inappropriately", derived from the French phrase mal à propos (literally "poorly placed"). The synonymous term "Dogberryism" comes from the 1598 Shakespeare play Much Ado About Nothing in which the character Dogberry utters many malapropisms to humorous effect.[5] Though Shakespeare was an earlier writer than Sheridan, "malaprop/malapropism" seems an earlier coinage than "Dogberryism", which is not attested until 1836. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malapropism

he suddenly appeared one day dressed like a shepherd, with a staff and sheepskin jacket instead of the long gown he wore as a scholar,

the change in the way he dressed had been for no other reason than to go wandering through these wild places, following after that shepherdess Marcela

Simile haha

Marcela,

you can be sure, as I am, that a priest must be better than good if his parishioners have to speak well of him, especially in a village.”

Haha so true

he said, and rightly so, that parents shouldn’t force their children into marriage against their will.