Don Quixote - Part I - Page 49/400

While this was going on there came up to the inn a sowgelder, who, as he

approached, sounded his reed pipe four or five times, and thereby

completely convinced Don Quixote that he was in some famous castle, and

that they were regaling him with music, and that the stockfish was trout,

the bread the whitest, the wenches ladies, and the landlord the castellan

of the castle; and consequently he held that his enterprise and sally had

been to some purpose. But still it distressed him to think he had not

been dubbed a knight, for it was plain to him he could not lawfully

engage in any adventure without receiving the order of knighthood.