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7. Storms are trailing;
Winds are wailing,
Howling, railing,

At each door.
'Midst this trailing,
Howling, railing,
List the wailing
Of the poor!

1. Moaning, trailing, unpliant, inherit, wailing, vesper.

2. Compare this poem with that by Keats, on page 348. What different characteristics of autumn do they portray? Which poem shows the more imagination? From what direction is winter supposed to come? What is meant by "moon-whiteness fills the tides"? What are the "sparkling measures of Pleasure?

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LXVII. SANCHO PANZA ON HIS ISLAND.

PART I.

1. After the people of his island had received Sancho with due formalities, they carried him to the court of justice; where, when they had placed him in his seat, "My lord governor," said the duke's steward to him, "it is an ancient custom here, that he who takes possession of this famous island must answer to some difficult and intricate question that is propounded to him; and, by the return he makes, the people feel the pulse of his understanding, and,

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by an estimate of his abilities, judge whether they ought to rejoice or to be sorry for his coming."

2. At the same instant two men came into the court, the one dressed like a country fellow, the other looking like a tailor with a pair of shears in his hand. "If it please you, my lord," cried the tailor, "I and this farmer here are come before your worship. This honest man came to my shop yesterday—for, saving your presence, I am a tailor, and, Heaven be praised, free of my company; so, my lord, he showed me a piece of cloth. 'Sir,' quoth he, 'is there enough of this to make me a cap? Whereupon I measured the stuff, and answered him, Yes,' if it like your worship.

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3. "Now, as I imagined, do you see, he could not but think (and perhaps he thought right enough) that I had a mind to cabbage some of his cloth, judging hard of us honest tailors. 'Pr'ythee,' quoth he, 'look there be not enough for two caps? Now I smelt him out, and told him there was. Whereupon the old knave (if it like your worship), going on to the same tune, bid me look again, and see whether it would not make three. And at last, if it would not make five. I was resolved to humor my customer, and said it might; so we struck a bargain.

4. "Just now the man is come for his caps, which I gave him; but when I asked him for my

money he will have me give him his cloth again, or pay him for it." "Is this true, honest man ?” said Sancho to the farmer. "Yes, if it please you," answered the fellow; " but, pray, let him show the five caps he has made me.” "With all my heart," cried the tailor; and with that, pulling his hand from under his cloak, he held up five little tiny caps, hanging upon his four fingers and thumb as upon so many pins.

5. "There," quoth he, "you see the five caps this good gaffer asks for; and may I never whip a stitch more if I have wronged him of the least snip of his cloth, and let any workman be judge." The sight of the caps and the oddness of the cause set the whole court a laughing. Only Sancho sat gravely considering awhile; and then, "Methinks," said he, "this suit here needs not be long depending, but may be decided without any more ado, with a great deal of equity; and therefore, the judgment of the court is, that the tailor shall lose his making, and the countryman his cloth, and that the caps be given to the poor prisoners, and so let there be an end of the business."

1. Formalities, ancient, intricate, propounded, estimate, abilities, quoth, pr'ythee, resolved, gaffer, equity.

2. Explain “feeling the pulse of his understanding,” “to cabbage some of his cloth." Was the decision a wise one? What is meant by "I smelt him out"? "struck a bargain"?

LXVIII. SANCHO PANZA ON HIS ISLAND.

PART II.

1. If this sentence provoked the laughter of the whole court, the next no less raised their admiration. For, after the governor's order was executed, two old men appeared before him, one of them with a large cane in his hand, which he used as a staff. "My lord," said the other who had none, some time ago I lent this man ten gold crowns to do him a kindness, which money he was to repay me on demand. I did not ask him for it again in a good while, lest it should prove a greater inconvenience to him to repay me than he labored under when he borrowed it.

2. "However, perceiving that he took no care to pay me, I have asked him for my due; nay, I have been forced to dun him hard for it. But still he did not only refuse to pay me again, but denied he owed me anything, and said that if I lent him so much money he certainly returned it. Now, because I have no witnesses of the loan, nor he of the pretended payment, I beseech your lordship to put him to his oath, and if he will swear he has paid me, I will freely forgive him before God and the world."

3. "What say you to this, old gentleman with the staff?" asked Sancho. "Sir," answered the old

man, "I own he lent me the gold; and since he requires my oath, I beg you will be pleased to hold down your rod of justice, that I may swear upon it how I have honestly and truly returned him his money."

4. Thereupon the governor held down his rod, and in the meantime the defendant gave his cane to the plaintiff to hold, as if it hindered him, while he was to make a cross and swear over the judge's rod: this done, he declared that it was true the other had lent him ten crowns, but that he had really returned him the same sum into his own hands; and that, because, he supposed, the plaintiff had forgotten it, he was continually asking for it.

5. The great governor, hearing this, asked the creditor what he had to reply. He made answer that, since his adversary had sworn it, he was satisfied; for he believed him to be a better Christian than to offer to forswear himself, and that perhaps he had forgotten he had been repaid. Then the defendant took his cane again, and, having made a low obeisance to the judge, was immediately leaving the court; which when Sancho perceived, reflecting on the passage of the cane, and admiring the creditor's patience, after he had studied awhile, with his head leaning over his stomach and his forefinger on his nose, on a sudden he ordered the old man with the staff to be called back.

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