The life and exploits of the ingenious gentleman Don Quixote de la Mancha Volume 1
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
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(RareBooksClub.com, May 14, 2012)
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1825 Excerpt: ...with this remedy he might thenceforward encounter without fear, any dangers, battles, and conflicts whatever, though never so perilous. Sancho Pan/.a, who likewise took his master's amendment for a miracle, desired he would give him what remained in the pipkin, which was no small qnaotity. Don Quixote granting his request, he took it in both hands, and with a good fanh and better will tossed it down into his stomach, swallowing very little less than his master had done. Now the case was, that poor Sancho's stomach was not so nice and squeamish.ss his master's; and therefore, before he could throw it up, it gave him such pangs and loathings, with such cold sweats and faintings, that he verily thought his last hour was come: and finding himself so afflicted and tormented, he cursed the balsam, and the thief tha: had given it him. Don Quixote, seeing him in that condition, said to him; ' l believe, Sancho, that all this mischief has befallen you because you are not dubbed a knight: for I am of opinion this liquor can do no good to those who are not.'--' It' your worship knew that,' replied Sancho, 'evil betide me and all my generation! why did yau suffer me to drink it?' By this lime the drench operated effectually, and the poor squire began to discharge at both ends with so much precipitation that the flag mat upon which he lay, and the blanket in which he wrapped himself, were never after fit for use. He sweated and sweated again, with such faintings and fits, that not only himself, but every body else, thought he was expiring. This hurricane and evacuation lasted him near two hours; at the end of which he did not remain as his master did, but so shattered and broken that he was not able to stand. But Don Quixote, who as is said, found himself at ease and wh...