Don Quixote, Chapter 26 summary
Chapter 26 of 129 · Part 1 · 13 min to read the chapter
In Chapter 26, Don Quixote chooses to imitate Amadis through prayer and sorrow, while Sancho meets the village priest and barber and discovers that he lacks the memorandum book. After hearing Sancho’s account, the two men plan a disguise that exploits his master’s chivalric beliefs to bring him home.
What happens
- Don Quixote rejects Roland’s violent madness and chooses Amadis as his model for loving sorrow.
- He makes a knotted rosary, prays, writes verses about Dulcinea, and gathers herbs for food.
- Sancho reaches the inn, meets the priest and barber, and tells them where his master is.
- Discovering that he lacks the memorandum book, Sancho hurts himself over the missing order for three donkeys.
- The priest reassures him, and Sancho mangles the love letter while describing his hopes of wealth and rank.
- The priest proposes posing as a distressed maiden, with the barber as squire, to lead Don Quixote home.
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What to notice
Don Quixote measures his own situation against Roland’s story. The question leads him to reject violent madness and select Amadis’s sorrowful retreat instead.
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Why can Sancho not produce the memorandum book?
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