Chapter XVII
As Don Quixote was speaking with Don Diego, a cart with
flags approached, which Quixote took to be an opportunity for adventure, and as
he advanced the cart he inquired of the carter’s business and what he was
transporting; the carter replied that he was carrying a pair lions from a
general as a gift to the King. At this,
Quixote ordered the carter to open the cage to release the lions that he may
challenge them, and after no one was able to persuade Quixote otherwise, they left him to his own fate; yet, when the lions had an opportunity to leave
the cage, they did not, and all who witnessed were amazed at the knight's great valor
and courage.
Chapter XVIII
Don Diego, impressed with Quixote as half mad with "glimmers of
sanity," took the Knight of the Lions, as he wished now to be called, and his
squire to his home to meet his wife and poet son, Don Lorenzo. After four days of hospitality with Don Diego
and his family, Don Lorenzo told his father that Quixote was “mad in patches,
full of lucid intervals.”
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