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The duchess begged him to tell her about the enchantment or deception , so Sancho told the whole story exactly as it had happened , and his hearers were not a little amused by it ; and then resuming , the duchess said , `` In consequence of what worthy Sancho has told me , a doubt starts up in my mind , and there comes a kind of whisper to my ear that says , ` If Don Quixote be mad , crazy , and cracked , and Sancho Panza his squire knows it , and , notwithstanding , serves and follows him , and goes trusting to his empty promises , there can be no doubt he must be still madder and sillier than his master ; and that being so , it will be cast in your teeth , senora duchess , if you give the said Sancho an island to govern ; for how will he who does not know how to govern himself know how to govern others ? ' '' `` By God , senora , '' said Sancho , `` but that doubt comes timely ; but your grace may say it out , and speak plainly , or as you like ; for I know what you say is true , and if I were wise I should have left my master long ago ; but this was my fate , this was my bad luck ; I ca n't help it , I must follow him ; we 're from the same village , I 've eaten his bread , I 'm fond of him , I 'm grateful , he gave me his ass-colts , and above all I 'm faithful ; so it 's quite impossible for anything to separate us , except the pickaxe and shovel . And if your highness does not like to give me the government you promised , God made me without it , and maybe your not giving it to me will be all the better for my conscience , for fool as I am I know the proverb ` to her hurt the ant got wings , ' and it may be that Sancho the squire will get to heaven sooner than Sancho the governor . ` They make as good bread here as in France , ' and ` by night all cats are grey , ' and ` a hard case enough his , who has n't broken his fast at two in the afternoon , ' and ` there 's no stomach a hand 's breadth bigger than another , ' and the same can be filled ` with straw or hay , ' as the saying is , and ` the little birds of the field have God for their purveyor and caterer , ' and ` four yards of Cuenca frieze keep one warmer than four of Segovia broad-cloth , ' and ` when we quit this world and are put underground the prince travels by as narrow a path as the journeyman , ' and ` the Pope 's body does not take up more feet of earth than the sacristan 's , ' for all that the one is higher than the other ; for when we go to our graves we all pack ourselves up and make ourselves small , or rather they pack us up and make us small in spite of us , and then -- good night to us . And I say once more , if your ladyship does not like to give me the island because I 'm a fool , like a wise man I will take care to give myself no trouble about it ; I have heard say that ` behind the cross there 's the devil , ' and that ` all that glitters is not gold , ' and that from among the oxen , and the ploughs , and the yokes , Wamba the husbandman was taken to be made King of Spain , and from among brocades , and pleasures , and riches , Roderick was taken to be devoured by adders , if the verses of the old ballads do n't lie . '' `` To be sure they do n't lie ! '' exclaimed Dona Rodriguez , the duenna , who was one of the listeners .