The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, Part 20 by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
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this the housekeeper retired, and the bachelor went to look for the
curate, and arrange with him what will be told in its proper place. While Don Quixote and Sancho were shut up together, they had a discussion which the history records with great precision and scrupulous exactness. Sancho said to his master, "Senor, I have educed my wife to let me go with your worship wherever you choose to take me." "Induced, you should say, Sancho," said Don Quixote; "not educed." "Once or twice, as well as I remember," replied Sancho, "I have begged of your worship not to mend my words, if so be as you understand what I mean by them; and if you don't understand them to say 'Sancho,' or 'devil,' 'I don't understand thee; and if I don't make my meaning plain, then you may correct me, for I am so focile-" "I don't understand thee, Sancho," said Don Quixote at once; "for I know not what 'I am so focile' means." "'So focile' means I am so much that way," replied Sancho. "I understand thee still less now," said Don Quixote. "Well, if you can't understand me," said Sancho, "I don't know how to put it; I know no more, God help me." "Oh, now I have hit it," said Don Quixote; "thou wouldst say thou art so docile, tractable, and gentle that thou wilt take what I say to thee, and submit to what I teach thee." |
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