| Back | Finding himself fast, then, and that the ladies had retired, he began to fancy that all this was done by enchantment, as on the former occasion when in that same castle that enchanted Moor of a carrier had belaboured him; and he cursed in his heart his own want of sense and judgment in venturing to enter the castle again, after having come off so badly the first time; it being a settled point with knights-errant that when they have tried an adventure, and have not succeeded in it, it is a sign that it is not reserved for them but for others, and that therefore they need not try it again. |
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| Front | En resolución, viéndose don Quijote atado, y que ya las damas se habían ido, se dio a imaginar que todo aquello se hacía por vía de encantamento, como la vez pasada, cuando en aquel mesmo castillo le molió aquel moro encantado del arriero; y maldecía entre sí su poca discreción y discurso, pues, habiendo salido tan mal la vez primera de aquel castillo, se había aventurado a entrar en él la segunda, siendo advertimiento de caballeros andantes que, cuando han probado una aventura y no salido bien con ella, es señal que no está para ellos guardada, sino para otros; y así, no tienen necesidad de probarla segunda vez. |
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