| Back | After this the history goes on to say that the day fixed for the battle arrived, and that the duke, after having repeatedly instructed his lacquey Tosilos how to deal with Don Quixote so as to vanquish him without killing or wounding him, gave orders to have the heads removed from the lances, telling Don Quixote that Christian charity, on which he plumed himself, could not suffer the battle to be fought with so much risk and danger to life; and that he must be content with the offer of a battlefield on his territory (though that was against the decree of the holy Council, which prohibits all challenges of the sort) and not push such an arduous venture to its extreme limits. |
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| Front | Después desto, cuenta la historia que se llegó el día de la batalla aplazada, y, habiendo el duque una y muy muchas veces advertido a su lacayo Tosilos cómo se había de avenir con don Quijote para vencerle sin matarle ni herirle, ordenó que se quitasen los hierros a las lanzas, diciendo a don Quijote que no permitía la cristiandad, de que él se preciaba, que aquella batalla fuese con tanto riesgo y peligro de las vidas, y que se contentase con que le daba campo franco en su tierra, puesto que iba contra el decreto del Santo Concilio, que prohíbe los tales desafíos, y no quisiese llevar por todo rigor aquel trance tan fuerte. |
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