Don Quixote de la Mancha
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER IV. WHAT A CERTAIN GOATHERD RELATED TO THOSE THAT WERE WITH DON QUIXOTE. Soon after this, there came another of those young lads, who brought them their provisions from the village, and said : " Co...
MorePurchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER IV. WHAT A CERTAIN GOATHERD RELATED TO THOSE THAT WERE WITH DON QUIXOTE. Soon after this, there came another of those young lads, who brought them their provisions from the village, and said : " Comrades, do you know what has happened in the village ?" " How should we know ?" answered one of them. " Know then," continued the youth, " that this morning died that famous shepherd and scholar, Chrysostom ; and it is whispered, that he died for love of that devilish untoward lass Marcella, daughter of William the Rich ; she who rambles about these woods and fields in the dress of a shepherdess." " For Marcella say you ?" quoth one. " For the same, I say," answered the goatherd, " and the best of it is, he has ordered by his will that they should bury him in the fields as if he had been a Moor, and that it should be at the foot of the rock by the cork-tree fountain ; for, according to report, and what they say he himself declared, that was the very place where he first saw her. He ordered also other things so extravagant, that the clergy say they must not be performed ; nor is it fit they should, for they seem to be heathenish. To which that great friend of his, Ambrosio the student, who accompanied him likewise in the dress of a shepherd, answers that the whole must be fulfilled, without omitting any thing, as Chrysostom enjoined ; and upon this the village is all in an uproar; but by what I can learn, they will at least do what Ambrosio, and all the shepherds require ; and to-morrow they come to inter him, with great solemnity, in the place I have already told you of. lam of opinion that it will be very well worth seeing; at least I will not fail to go, though I knew I should not return to-morrow to the village." "We will do so too," answered the goatherds, "and let u...
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