y study and books has turned these giants into mills in order to
rob me of the glory of vanquishing them,--such is the enmity he bears
me; but in the end his wicked arts will avail but little against my
good sword."

"God order it as he may," said Sancho Panza; and helping him to rise,
got him up again on Rosinante, whose shoulder was half out; and then,
discussing the late adventure, they followed the road to Puerto
Lapice, for there, said Don Quixote, they could not fail to find
adventures in abundance and variety, as it was a great thoroughfare.

SANCHO PANZA AND HIS WIFE TERESA CONVERSE SHREWDLY

The translator of this history, when he comes to write this fifth
chapter, says that he considers it apocryphal, because in it Sancho
Panza speaks in a style unlike that which might have been expected
from his limited intelligence, and says things so subtle that he does
not think it possible he could have conceived them; however, desirous
of doing what his task imposed upon him, he was unwilling to leave it
untranslated, and therefore he went on to say:--

Sancho came home in such glee and spirits that his wife noticed his
happiness a bowshot off, so much so that it made her ask him, "What
have you got, Sancho friend, that you are so glad?"

To which he replied, "Wife, if it were God's will, I should be very
glad not to be so well pleased as I show myself."

"I don't understand you, husband," said she, "and I don't know what
you mean by saying you would be glad, if it were God's will, not to be
well pleased; for fool as I am, I don't know how one can find pleasure
in not having it."

"Hark ye, Teresa," replied Sancho, "I am glad because I have made up
my mind to go back to the service of my master Don Quixote, who means
to go out a third time to seek for adventures; and I am going with him
again, for my necessities will have it so, and also the hope that
cheers me with the thought that I may find another hundred crowns like
those we have spent; though it makes me sad to have to leave thee and
the children; and if God would be pleased to let me have my daily
bread, dry-shod and at home, without taking me out into the byways and
cross-roads--and he could do it at small cost by merely willing it--it
is clear my happiness would be more solid and lasting, for the
happiness I have is mingled with sorrow at leaving thee; so that I was
right in saying I would be glad, if it were God's will, not to be well
pleased."