[Supper finished, Don Quixote knelt and begged a boon of the man he took for the lord of the castle] [The innkeeper, recognising the madness of the man, resolved to humour him for the night's sport] [He warned that the castle had no chapel — but that the watch could be kept just as well in the courtyard] [And so he set his armour by the horse-trough and began to keep watch, pacing in the moonlight] [A carrier came to water his mules, laid the armour aside — and was promptly cudgelled to the ground] [A second carrier, ignorant of the first, fared no better — and the inn rose up in stones and shouts] [To end the riot, the innkeeper hurried through the ceremony by lantern-light — and pronounced him a knight in two strokes of the sword] [The host produced his accounts-book, called the trollops as witnesses, and clapped him on the neck and shoulder] [The ceremony done, he saddled Rocinante, embraced the host, paid nothing, and rode out into the morning, the maddest of all knights]