not by force, and at whatever time he pleases, for there is no fixed

limit assigned to him; but it is permitted him, if he likes to commute

by half the pain of this whipping, to let them be given by the hand of

another, though it may be somewhat weighty."

"Not a hand, my own or anybody else's, weighty or weighable, shall

touch me," said Sancho. "Was it I that gave birth to the lady Dulcinea

del Toboso, that my backside is to pay for the sins of her eyes? My

master, indeed, that's a part of her- for,he's always calling her