The Bristly Pig Drive and Capture at the Duke's Castle — Don Quixote

On a dark night when Diana strolls to the antipodes, Don Quixote wakes Sancho and demands three or four hundred lashes for Dulcinea's disenchantment before they begin their pastoral songs, but Sancho refuses to scourge himself in the middle of sleep and praises slumber as the universal coin wherewith everything is bought, the cloak that covers all a man's thoughts, and almost the equal of death. Quixote answers with post tenebras spero lucem and calls him ungrateful for governorship and promised county, while Sancho retorts that proverbs drop from his master's mouth well-timed and from his own untimely.

A harsh noise approaches: six hundred pigs bound for a fair trample Quixote, Sancho, Rocinante, and Dapple without respect for knight or squire, scattering armour and stores while Sancho wants his sword to kill half a dozen dirty pigs. Quixote calls the insult heaven's chastisement of a vanquished knight whom jackals devour, wasps sting, and pigs trample, though Sancho asks what the Panzas have to do with the Quixotes when squires inherit knights' penalties. Quixote sings a madrigal on love's cruelty while Sancho sleeps, then at dawn they resume until armed horsemen surround them in silence, threaten lances if they speak, and march them with abuse as Troglodytes, cannibals, and blood-thirsty lions until Quixote recognises the duke's castle where good turns into evil and evil into worse.