The two adventurers continue along their stretch of bad luck; including being beaten with walking sticks, a run-in with the Holy Brotherhood, a blanket-tossing for the squire, and excommunication from the church after yet another case of mistaken identity.
Chapter XI
About what happened to Don Quixote with some goatherds
Sancho and Don Quixote are welcomed by the goatherds and they all eat and drink together. Don Quixote, inspired by seeing a golden colored acorn, tells everybody about how wonderful and carefree of a time the golden ages were compared to their current age. A goatherd musician performs a song for them at the end of the night.
Chapter XII
About what a goatherd told Don Quixote and the others
The goatherds hear news that a famous shepherd named Grisostomo died that morning of despair after being rejected by a woman he loved named Marcela. A goatherd named Pedro tells Don Quixote the story of Marcela; a beautiful women who becomes a shepherdess and rejects all the many men who become shepherds to try to woo her. Don Quixote plans to go to Grisotomo’s burial with the other goatherds because he hears it will be a curiosity to see.
Chapter XIII
Which concludes the story about the shepherdess Marcela, together with other events
The group rides off together towards the burial service, and Don Quixote tells a shepherd named Vivaldo about his lady Dulcinea. At the burial, Vivaldo convinces the shepherd Ambrosio to let him keep a paper with the last song Grisotomo ever wrote, despite Grisotomo’s request that all of his papers be burned after his death.
Chapter XIV
In which the dead shepherd’s verses of despair are given, together with other unexpected events
Grisostomo’s final song is read. Then Marcela makes a surprise appearance to the service to defend herself against all the claims that she was responsible for Grisostomo’s death; arguing that it is not her fault that she is beautiful and that the men should accept her desire to live a solitary life. After the service Don Quixote told all the men to respect Marcela’s wishes and not to follow her, but then he himself went off to look for her.
Chapter XV
Which relates to the unfortunate adventure that came Don Quixote’s way when h came the way of some wicked men from Yanguas
After Rocinante wanders off in a meadow and finds trouble, he, Don Quixote and Sancho get beat up by a group of muleteers. The badly injured Sancho then straps the badly injured Don Quixote over the back of his donkey, then ties on the badly injured Rocinante to walk behind them. They come to another inn that Don Quixote again takes for a castle.
Chapter XVI
About what happened to the ingenious hidalgo at the inn that he took for a castle
While sleeping at the inn that night, Don Quixote provokes some confusion and jealousy involving a prostitute and a muleteer, which causes them all to get in a big fight that includes Sancho and the innkeeper as well. An officer of the Holy Brotherhood who was staying at the inn that night heard the commotion, saw Don Quixote lifeless, and assumed that he is dead and that one of the others had killed him.
Chapter XVII
In which a further account of the countless hardships that the brave Don Quixote and his good squire Sancho Panza underwent at the inn that, unfortunately for him, he mistook for a castle
Don Quixote leaves the inn without paying, but ends up having to return after he hears his squire being tossed in a blanket as punishment for trying to skip the bill.
Chapter XVIII
Which relates the conversation that Sancho Panza had with his master Don Quixote, and other adventures worth relating
Taking them to be two rival armies, Don Quixote attacks flocks of sheep and has his teeth knocked out with rocks flung by the flock’s herders.
Chapter XIX
About the intelligent conversation that Sancho had with his master, and their adventure with a corpse, together with other famous events
Sancho and Don Quixote spot an odd sight of men clad in white carrying torches walking towards them on the road. Don Quixote ends up attacking them, only later to discover that they are priests escorting a corpse.
Chapter XX
About the unprecedented and unique adventure undertaken by the valiant Don Quixote de la Mancha, the one that with the least danger was ever brought to a happy conclusion by any famous knight in the world.
The two adventures hear a dreadful sound of running water and clanking iron and Don Quixote is eager to take it on as his next adventure, only to later discover that the sound is just coming from fulling hammers.
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