now so conveniently offers me its forelock."

"What is it in reality," said Sancho, "that your worship means to do

in such an out-of-the-way place as this?"

"Have I not told thee," answered Don Quixote, "that I mean to

imitate Amadis here, playing the victim of despair, the madman, the

maniac, so as at the same time to imitate the valiant Don Roland, when

at the fountain he had evidence of the fair Angelica having

disgraced herself with Medoro and through grief thereat went mad,