bodies, and they are held in greater veneration, so it is said, than

the sword of Roland in the armoury of our lord the King, whom God

preserve. So that, senor, it is better to be an humble little friar of

no matter what order, than a valiant knight-errant; with God a

couple of dozen of penance lashings are of more avail than two

thousand lance-thrusts, be they given to giants, or monsters, or

"All that is true," returned Don Quixote, "but we cannot all be

friars, and many are the ways by which God takes his own to heaven;