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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, 182, 184, 197.
• 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, 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.
• 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, 281.
• 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, 100.
• 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, 123.
• 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, 224.
• 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.

• Actions, when prejudicial, not to be recorded, 106.
• Advice, a woman's, to be taken, 120.
• Affront, an, to be maintained, 177.
• Animals, lessons to be learned from, 127.
• Analysis of fables, 87.
• Army, the, a school for generosity, 82.
• Associates, character indicated by self-chosen ones, 124.
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• Beauty, all does not inspire to love, 49.
• Beauty in a modest woman, 49.
• Beautiful objects infinite, 49.
• Benefits conferred on the base, 61.
• Bird, a, in the hand, 71, 120, 127, 282.
• Birds, none in last year's nests, 218.
• Biters, the, are bit, 245.
• Book, good in every, 109.
• Books, no, no bacon, 124.
• Brevity pleasing, 60.
• Building on impossibilities, 74.
• By-and-by, the streets of, 162.
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• Cats, by night all are gray, 180.
• Church, the, the court, the sea, 83.
• Clergyman, a, what he should be to be beloved, 33.
• Companions, a man known by his, 124.
• Comparisons offensive, 104.
• Course, the middle, the one of valor, 104.
• Customs not all invented at once, 6.
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• Death, a remedy for everything but, 210.
• Delay breeds danger, 86, 281.
• Devil, the, assumes an angel form, 74.
• Diligence, the mother of success, 86.
• Disquietude designed for knights, 34.
• Drinker, a good, covered by a bad cloak, 186.
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• Enemy, an, the merits of his cause, 209.
• Epics, prose, 88.
• Ermine, an, a modest woman compared to, 73.
• Fables, analysis of, 87.
• Fast bind, fast find, 120.
• Fear, the effect of, 49.
• Fiction, better as it resembles truth, 87.
• Finger, a, between two eye-teeth, 215.
• Flattery, the sway of, 145.
• Forewarned, forearmed, 132.
• Fortune, good, seldom comes single, 83.
• Fortune like a mill-wheel, 87.
• Friend, a, consolation, 62.
• Frying-pan, out of, 50.
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• God's mercy more glorious than His justice, 210.
• Good in every book, 109.
• Gold, all that glitters is not, 244.
• Governing pleasant, 203.
• Gratitude, a compensation, 271; a duty, 61.
• Grievance, no, can keep the sufferer from kindness, 70.
• Handle, the right one of things, 56.
• Happiness as reckoned by sages, 130.
• History, a sacred subject, 108.
• History, faithful, will survive, 280.
• Holy days to be kept peacefully, 122.
• Hope and love coincident, 74.
• Host, to reckon without the, 104.
• Hypocrite, a, less dangerous than the open transgressor, 173.
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• Jest, a painful, no jest, 272.
• Jesting, a time for, 123.
• Judge, a, should lean toward compassion, 209.
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• King, serving the, in war, 173.
• Knights, all, not courteous, 118.
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• Lance, the, never blunted the pen, 49.
• Learned men among mountains. 93.
• Leap, a, better than a prayer, 60.
• Liberality, the blessings of, 288.
• Liberty, the blessings of, 2.
• Light, the, shines upon all, 245.
• Lineages, two kinds of, 60.
• Liver, the good, the best preacher, 166.
• Love, a leveller, 29.
• Love, the eyes of, 70.
• Love, unconstrained, 49.
• Love, uncompromising, 56.
• Love, conquered by flight, 74.
• Love, vanities of, 76.
• Love, wears spectacles, 163.
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• Lovers, external actions of, 124.
• Madness, the followers of, 129.
• Maiden, a, her reserve her defence, 104.
• Many littles make a mickle, 121.
• Man, a dishonored, 71.
• Manners, good, cheap, 202.
• Master, a, judged by his servants, 176.
• Mayor, he whose father is a, 214.
• Might overcomes, 86.
• Mischance, one, invites another, 70.
• Misfortunes never single, 70.
• Money willingly lent to officials, 118.
• Music, the effect of, 70.
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• Nail, a, in Fortune's wheel, 162.
• Nature is like a potter, 176.
• Nobility, true, 76.
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• Pains, those of others are easy to bear, 176.
• Patience, and shuffle the cards, 168.
• Paymaster, a good, needs no security, 176.
• Peace, no, in scruples of conscience, 104.
• Philosophers in cottages, 93.
• Purpose, the honest, favored, 76.
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• Railing is neighbor to forgiveness, 281.
• Remedy, a, for everything but death, 210.
• Retreat sometimes wise, 61.
• Riches, two roads to, 120.
• Riches, of little avail against trouble, 62.
• Rome, when in, 264.
• Rules for obtaining excellence, 62.
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• Seeing is believing, 128.
• Severity is not disdain, 50.
• Sleep, a cure for trouble, 280.
• Soldier, a covetous, a monster, 82.
• Soldier, equal to a captain, 34.
• Song, the relief of, 61.
• Sorrow, concealed, 73.
• Sorrow, a blessing, 128.
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• Thing, a, begun is half finished, 202.
• Thing, a, the right handle of, 56.
• To-day here, to-morrow gone, 121.
• Tongues as weapons, 177.
• Tricks of a town, 86.
• Truffles, to look for, in the sea, 105.
• Truth, the mother of history, 29.
• Truth may bend, 124.
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• Virtue more persecuted than beloved, 86.
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• Walls have ears, 244.
• Wealth, its gratification is a right application, 119.
• Wise, a word to the, 202.
• Wit and humor, attributes of genius, 108.
• Woman, varieties of, 70.
• Woman, the burden to which she is born, 118.
• Woman, her advice, to be taken, 120.
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• Yes or no of a woman, between the, 162.