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110 Rozinante) appoach'd breathless, and Don Quixote said to Sancho, Forasmuch as I can perceive, Friend Sancho, these Men are no Knights, but base rascally People of vile quality: I say it, because thou mayest help me to take due Revenge for the Outrage which they have done before our faces to Rozinante. What a Devil, quoth Sancho, what Revenge should we take, if these be more than twenty, and we but two, and peradventure but one and a half? I am worth a hundred, reply 'd Don Quixote: And without making any longer Discourse he let Hand to his Sword and slew upon the Yanguesians, and Sancho Pancha moved by his Lord's Example, did the like, when with the first Blow Don Quixote piercing a Buff Coat that one of them wore, wounded him grievously in the Shoulder. The Yanguesians seeing themselves so rudely handled by two Men only, they being so many, ran to the Stakes and Truncheons of their Carriage, and hemming in their Adversaries in the midst of them, they laid on them with admirable speed and vehemency. True it is, that at the second Peal they struck Sancho down to the Ground, and the like happen'd to Don Quixote his Dexterity and Courage being nothing available in that Trance; and his Fate so ordaining, he fell just at his Courier's Feet, who had not yet gotten up: By which we may ponder the Fury wherewithal Truncheons batter, being placed in wrathful and rustical Fists.

The Carriers perceiving the Evil they had committed, trussing up their Loading with all possible speed, follow'd on their Way, leaving both the Adventurers in a bad Fashion, and a worse Talent. The first that came to himself was Sancho Pancha who seeing his Lord near unto him, said with a pitiful Voice, Sir Don Quixote ! O Sir Don Quixote ! What wouldst thou have, Brother Sancho reply'd the Knight with the like effeminate and doleful Tone? I would, quoth Sancho, have of your Worship a Draught or two of the Liquor of Feoblas, if you have any of it at hand; perhaps it is good for broken Bones as well as it helps Wounds. What would we want, unhappy that I am reply'd Don Quixote, if I had