| Back | With these words he approached the cavern, and perceived that it was impossible to let himself down or effect an entrance except by sheer force or cleaving a passage; so drawing his sword he began to demolish and cut away the brambles at the mouth of the cave, at the noise of which a vast multitude of crows and choughs flew out of it so thick and so fast that they knocked Don Quixote down; and if he had been as much of a believer in augury as he was a Catholic Christian he would have taken it as a bad omen and declined to bury himself in such a place. |
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| Front | Y, en diciendo esto, se acercó a la sima; vio no ser posible descolgarse, ni hacer lugar a la entrada, si no era a fuerza de brazos, o a cuchilladas, y así, poniendo mano a la espada, comenzó a derribar y a cortar de aquellas malezas que a la boca de la cueva estaban, por cuyo ruido y estruendo salieron por ella una infinidad de grandísimos cuervos y grajos, tan espesos y con tanta priesa, que dieron con don Quijote en el suelo; y si él fuera tan agorero como católico cristiano, lo tuviera a mala señal y escusara de encerrarse en lugar semejante. |
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