Chapter XXVII
About how the priest and barber achieved their aim, and other matters worthy of being recounted in this great history
The priest and barber make a plan to dress in disguises and follow Sancho back to Don Quixote to help break him out of his madness. The priest and barber end up running into Cardenio, who tells them his complete story. He explains that the Duke’s son Don Fernando tricked him and asked for his love Luscinda’s hand in marriage, which she accepted. He is living in the sierra to torture himself due to his agony over being betrayed by both of them.
Chapter XXVIII
Concerning the unusual and agreeable adventure undergone by the priest and the barber in the Sierra Morena
Cardenio, the barber, and the priest discover a beautiful woman dressed in men’s farming clothes talking to herself near a stream. The woman, Dorotea, tells them her story of how Don Fernando had essentially forced her to marry him, and then quickly left her to go marry Luscinda. She tells about how she had discovered that Luscinda had a note declaring that Cardenio was her true husband and that she had intended to kill herself after the wedding ceremony (all of which Carenio was unaware of because he angrily left the ceremony too soon).
Chapter XXIX
Concerning the beautiful Dorotea’s intelligence and other delightful and entertaining matters
Cardenio tells Dorotea who he is, and promises that he will go find Don Fernando and make things right. Dorotea is able to help the priest, the barber, and Sancho by pretending to Don Quixote that she is a damsel in distress, and convincing him to leave the sierra and help them go find Don Fernando (whom she describes as an evil giant).
Chapter XXX
About the delectable conversation between Don Quixote and his squire Sancho Panza, and other events
Dorotea tells Don Quixote that he can marry her after he’s slain her giant. Don Quixote is initially very excited at the thought, but then remembers Dulcinea. Sancho gets his donkey back after he sees Gines de Pasamonte riding it wearing a gypsy disguise- who gets scared and runs off when he sees the group. Don Quixote reveals to Sancho that he already knew that his letter was not delivered to Dulcinea, because he found the letter still in his notebook not long after Sancho left.
Chapter XXXI
About the delectable conversation between Don Quixote and his squire Sancho Panza, and other events
The group comes across Andres on the road, the boy who was being flogged by his master in the woods. Andres explains that his master went back to whipping him even longer and harder as soon as Don Quixote left, and that Don Quixote’s interference in the affair only made things worse.
Chapter XXXII
Concerning what happened to Don Quixote and his gang at the inn
The group returns to stay at the inn where Sancho was blanket-tossed. The innkeeper reveals that he has some books on chivalry- to which the priest and barber want to burn but the innkeeper refuses. The priest begins to read a manuscript called the Tale of Inappropriate Curiosity to the group.
Oh, that was hysterical - what they did to Sancho. Poor Sancho.
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