E-text prepared by Juliet Sutherland, Turgut Dincer, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (https://www.pgdp.net)

Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 24754-h.htm or 24754-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/4/7/5/24754/24754-h/24754-h.htm) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/4/7/5/24754/24754-h.zip)

Wit and Wisdom of Don Quixote

+------------------------------------------------+ | Transcriber's note: | | | | Proverbs in the original book are separated by | | short horizontal lines; in this text file | | proverbs are treated as indented block quotes | | to distinguish them from the main body of the | | text. | +------------------------------------------------+

Wit and Wisdom of Don Quixote

PATCH GRIEF WITH PROVERBS.--_Shakespeare._

Wit and Wisdom of Don Quixote

[Illustration: Cervantes Monument in Madrid, Spain.]

University Press: John Wilson and Son, Cambridge.

Barber's basin, taken for Mambrino's helmet, 58.

Belfreys and palfreys much the same, 125.

Carrasco, views upon critics, 109; made executor, 286.

Chrysostom, story of, 37; interment of, 41; song of, 45; epitaph upon, 49.

Comedy, adherence to the unities necessary, 89.

Cupid's address at wedding of Quiteria, 153.

Don Galaor, serving no especial mistress, 36.

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, 16; 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, 225; 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.

Dulcinea, described by Don Quixote, 37; letters to, 65; lines to, 66; disenchantment of, 187, 196; lines to, 66; sonnet to, 96.