After Don Quixote is put in a cage – Don Quixote, chapter 47 48

Don Quixote was put into a cage and loaded into an ox cart. Fearing that Don Quixote and Sancho would guess their ruse, he decided to hurry up.

So they packed up their things and comforted the lady of the inn and her daughter, who had shed tears of sympathy for them.

The barber priest was in the same room, Fernando and his friends, and the ladies Dorotoo, Lucinda, and so on.

So they finally set off, and after two miles of Spain, they came to a valley.

This is when the priest saw six or seven passengers dressed up on livestock coming from behind. One of the six or seven travelers was the sheikh of Toledo, and the rest were his servants.

The sheikh asked why Don Quixote sat in the car like this.

Don Quixote replied that it was because the magician was jealous of him and tricked him into a cage and imprisoned him.

The priest, fearing that the sheikh would find out the root cause, asked him to come aside and lay out these things. It was they who tried to cure Don Quixote of his madness by finding a way to bring him back to his hometown.

After listening to the priest's words, the sheikh replied that he thought that the knight novels were harmful and unproductive. A great critique of knight fiction.

The priest also told the sheikh that he had burned all of Don Quixote's chivalric novels. But in fact, the novel is also beneficial, with a wide range of materials, so that the writer's imagination can be fully utilized.

The sheikh agreed, and said that he had also tried to write a knight's novel, but did not insist on finishing it.

The sheikh then refuted the shortcomings of comedy and the present drama. And the knight novel should also have a reviewer of the novel.

Speaking of which, they found a scenic valley where they could rest their feet.

It was Sancho who suspected the barber and priest's words and deeds. He told Don Quixote that maybe the priest and the barber were the magicians who became, and that it was Don Quixote who had taken his magic path.

So Sancho began to seduce Don Quixote, looking for a way out of the cage.