Sancho Takes Possession of Barataria — Don Quixote

The Sun is invoked to lighten Hamete's wit as Sancho arrives at Barataria with bells, keys, and burlesque ceremony, is seated on the judgment seat, and told he must answer a knotty question to measure his wit.

Sancho asks what Don means on the wall inscription, declares he has no Don in his family, and offers to weed out Dons like midges before the first case enters: two old men dispute ten gold-crowns lent and sworn repaid.

Watching the debtor hand his stick to the creditor while swearing, Sancho calls the stick back, breaks it, finds the crowns inside, and is hailed as another Solomon while the chronicler wonders if he is fool or sage.

A woman drags a pig dealer before him claiming force; Sancho gives her his silver purse, then orders the man to snatch it back, exposes her vigour defending money but not her body, and banishes her with lashes.

A tailor and labourer dispute five caps made on five fingers; Sancho rules the tailor loses his labour, the labourer his cloth, and the caps go to the gaol, and the chronicler despatches all to the duke as Hamete leaves Sancho for Altisidora's music.