. The adventures of Don Quixote abridged from the original edition by Thackeray. dventure that he determined at last toimitate the knights of old, and to start forth 8 DON QUIXOTE. armed and on horseback, in search of wrongsto right and enemies to overcome. So filled was his mind with theseromantic ideas that he completelyoverlooked the fact that, the timeshaving changed, no need for knight-errantry any longer existed, and thatto return to the manners and customsof a bygone age was but absurdityand foolishness. With all possible eagerness hemade ready for the start, and firsthe turned out
. The adventures of Don Quixote abridged from the original edition by Thackeray. dventure that he determined at last toimitate the knights of old, and to start forth 8 DON QUIXOTE. armed and on horseback, in search of wrongsto right and enemies to overcome. So filled was his mind with theseromantic ideas that he completelyoverlooked the fact that, the timeshaving changed, no need for knight-errantry any longer existed, and thatto return to the manners and customsof a bygone age was but absurdityand foolishness. With all possible eagerness hemade ready for the start, and firsthe turned out his grandfathers suitof armour which was falling to piecesfrom disuse, and prepared it for hisown wear. The armour itself hescoured from the rust with which itwas thickly encrusted, and finding the helmetincomplete, he made a vizor of pasteboardlined with thin plates of iron, which, withmuch ingenuity, he fastened to it. These preparations completed, a mostridiculous figure might have been seen oneearly morning issuing from the village. Thiswas none other than Don Quixada clad in. DON QUIXOTE. 9 his grandfathers ramshackle suit of armour,and mounted on the only horse he possessed,a gaunt and bony animal of advanced age,on which, before starting, he had bestowedthe high-sounding name of Rozinante. His own name he altered to Don Quixote,which seemed to him to have a romanticsound suitable to knight-errantry; and therenow remained but one thing to completehis satisfaction. In all stories of chivalryDon Quixote (as we must now call him)remembered that some fair lady figuredprominently to inspire each knight with anardour and devotion which fired his heartand gave strength to his arm, at whose feethe was wont to lay trophies of the battle,and whose smile was his greatest reward. Don Quixote, as he now sorrowfully re-collected, had no fair lady to give heart tohis enterprise ; but not to be daunted by sucha trifle as this he at once determined to findone : and for this purpose he se
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