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- "I looked for no less, my lord, from your High Magnificence," replied Don Quixote, "and I have to tell you that the boon I have asked and your liberality has granted is that you shall dub me knight to-morrow morning, and that to-night I shall watch my arms in the chapel of this your castle; thus to-morrow, as I have said, will be accomplished what I so much desire, enabling me lawfully to roam through all the four quarters of the world seeking adventures on behalf of those in distress, as is the...
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Don Quixote's great problem is to get himself dubbed a knight, preferably by some powerful lord in a castle. He begs this boon of his landlord, a sharp man who has himself read many books of chivalry and who also knows that one must humor a madman's fantasies.
Don Quixote shouted even louder, calling them all traitors, and said that the warden of the castle was a rogue and a base-born knight for having allowed a knight errant to be treated in this way, and he would make him accountable for his treachery.
In a pretended ceremony, the innkeeper dubs him a knight to be rid of him and sends him on his way. Quixote encounters a servant named Andres who is tied to a tree and beaten by his master over disputed wages. Quixote orders the master to stop beating Andres and untie him and makes the master swear to treat Andres fairly.
- An Eternal Code
- Restored Customs
- Reviving Knighthood
- Keeping The Sanctity of A Vow
- Faithfulness to Friends
Don Quixote, however, knows that the moral code of a knight never ages. Knighthood is not merely a military profession but a way of life that cultivates gentlemen and ladies. Every society and period of history require men who follow the knightly ideals that elevate the human condition, refine human manners, defend the enduring values of civilizati...
In his quest to revive knight-errantry, Quixote soon discovers it is an object of mockery and a way of life no one takes seriously. Knighthood in Quixote’s world is fictional, appearing only in imaginary stories with unrealistic plots and unlikely heroes who defeat giants and disenchant princesses cast into spells by wizards. When Quixote arrives a...
A world without a knightly code of honor and chivalry collapses into a way of life in which might is right, people worship gold, maidens violate modesty, men view women as objects of pleasure, and the cunning dupe the innocent. In one of his adventures Quixote encounters a farmer beating his servant who refuses to work because his master has denied...
A world without knightly virtue never honors the sanctity of promises and vows and quickly degenerates into schemes of deceitfulness and trickery. In an adventure in the Sierra Morena Mountains Quixote encounters Cardenio, a man with raving fits of depression and temptations of suicide because of a broken heart and a sense of betrayal. His best fri...
In his loyalty to Sancho, Quixote upholds the faithfulness of a friend. No matter how many times Sancho complains about defeats, beatings, or blanket-tossings; no matter how many times Sancho threatens to leave his master and return home; and no matter how many times Sancho argues with the knight of La Mancha about windmills and giants or calls him...
An Account of the Pleasant Method Taken by Don Quixote to Be Dubbed a Knight. Don Quixote cuts his awkward meal short and begs the innkeeper to follow him to the stable where he...
Don Quixote believed it all, and told him he stood there ready to obey him, and to make an end of it with as much despatch as possible; for, if he were again attacked, and felt himself to be dubbed knight, he would not, he thought, leave a soul alive in the castle, except such as out of respect he might spare at his bidding.
Day was dawning when Don Quixote quitted the inn, so happy, so gay, so exhilarated at finding himself now dubbed a knight, that his joy was like to burst his horse-girths.
