In short, he became so absorbed in his books that he spent his night from sunset to sunrise, and his days from dawn to dark, poring over them; and what with little sleep and much reading his brains got so dry that he lost his wits.''
''O Princess Dulcinea, lady of this captive heart, a grievous wrong hast thou done me to drive me forth with scorn, and with inexorable obduracy banish me from the presence of thy beauty.''
''O lady, deign to hold in remembrance this heart, thy vassal, that thus in anguish pines for love of thee.''
if he had any :)
''... and all the while he rode so slowly and the sun mounted so rapidly and with such fervour that it was enough to melt his brains if he had any.''
''He asked if he had any money with him, to which Don Quixote replied that he had not a farthing, as in the histories of knights-errant he had never read of any of them carrying any.''
''Shortly after this, another, not knowing what had happened (for the carrier still lay senseless), came with the same object of giving water to his mules, and was proceeding to remove the armour in order to clear the trough, when Don Quixote, without uttering a word or imploring aid from anyone, one more dropped his buckler and once more lifted his lance, and withour actually breaking the second carrier's head into pieces, made more than three of it, for he laid it open in four.''