Samson, Sancho, and the Third Sally — Don Quixote

The housekeeper runs to Samson Carrasco, sure Don Quixote is breaking out into a third sally. She recalls the first return slung on an ass and the second in a cage, and the six hundred eggs it took to bring him round. Samson sends her home with the prayer of Santa Apollonia and a promise of miracles, then goes to the curate to arrange what the history will tell later.

Shut in with Quixote, Sancho reports that Teresa has been induced to let him go, then asks for fixed monthly wages from the estate. Quixote refuses: knight histories pay squires on reward, not salary, and he will not unhinge the ancient usage. If Sancho will not come on those terms, there will be more obedient companions.

Samson arrives with the women and ironically urges the sally on, offering himself as squire. Stung by rivalry, Sancho rejoins on the old reward terms, malaprops a will that cannot be provoked, and they set departure in three days for El Toboso. Samson promises a rusty closed helmet. The women curse him as if the knight were already dead. At nightfall, unseen except by the bachelor, who rides half a league with them, Quixote and Sancho take the road.