Parte,  Chap.

  1   I,  TransPre|          scholar, incomparably a better one than Shelton, except
  2   I,  TransPre|         all parties, so much the better; but his first duty is to
  3   I,  TransPre|         there could have been no better spot in Spain than Alcala
  4   I,  TransPre|        right of "Don Quixote" to better treatment than this. The
  5   I,  TransPre|         his ideal. But even when better informed they seem to have
  6   I,   AuthPre|        perfect the imitation the better the work will be. And as
  7   I,         I|         as to which had been the better knight, Palmerin of England
  8   I,        II|          are like veal, which is better than beef, or kid, which
  9   I,        II|      than beef, or kid, which is better than goat. But whatever
 10   I,       III|           and he would have done better to heed them if he had been
 11   I,        VI|       one of them done mischief; better fling them out of the window
 12   I,        VI|          truthful, or, to put it better, the less lying; all I can
 13   I,        VI|         niece, "your worship had better order these to be burned
 14   I,       VII|        quarrels? Would it not be better to remain at peace in your
 15   I,       VII|    roaming the world looking for better bread than ever came of
 16   I,       VII|     queen; countess will fit her better, and that only with God'
 17   I,      VIII|         arranging matters for us better than we could have shaped
 18   I,        IX|      sought one for an older and better language I should have found
 19   I,         X|         firma, thou wilt all the better enjoy thyself. But let us
 20   I,        XI|         I can eat it as well, or better, standing, and by myself,
 21   I,      XIII|     Quixote, who desired nothing better, rose and ordered Sancho
 22   I,      XIII|         him down as mad, and the better to settle the point and
 23   I,      XIII|         this; it would have been better if those words which he
 24   I,       XIV|        have acted against my own better resolution and purpose.
 25   I,        XV|    affairs for them from good to better, he had not gone a short
 26   I,      XVII|         in good faith and with a better will, gulped down and drained
 27   I,     XVIII|       Quixote: "Heaven will deal better by thee."~ ~Thus talking,
 28   I,     XVIII|         and that thou mayest the better see and mark, let us withdraw
 29   I,     XVIII|        Your worship would make a better preacher than knight-errant,"
 30   I,       XIX|         the said name may fit me better, I mean, when the opportunity
 31   I,        XX|          worship, trusting to do better and not worse; but as covetousness
 32   I,       XXI|          another one for another better and more certain adventure,
 33   I,       XXI|          I can, for something is better than nothing; all the more
 34   I,       XXI|          being doubtful, pending better information, I say thou
 35   I,       XXI|          seems to me it would be better (saving your worship's better
 36   I,       XXI|    better (saving your worship's better judgment) if we were to
 37   I,       XXI|      force;' though it would fit better to say, 'A clear escape
 38   I,       XXI|          say, 'A clear escape is better than good men's prayers.'
 39   I,      XXII|        and behave well and speak better; and now let us march on,
 40   I,     XXIII| understands rhyming too?"~ ~"And better than thou thinkest," replied
 41   I,     XXIII|         Sancho made answer, "Far better would it be not to look
 42   I,     XXIII|          restore it; it would be better, therefore, that without
 43   I,     XXIII|          chance arranged matters better than he expected or hoped,
 44   I,      XXIV|         told me he could find no better way of effacing from his
 45   I,       XXV|  chivalry, for I understand them better than all the world that
 46   I,       XXV|          s, and though they were better than half a league off they
 47   I,      XXVI|       namely whether it would be better and more to his purpose
 48   I,      XXVI|       his conscience it would be better to leave him in it, and
 49   I,     XXVII|        of bringing him back to a better mode of life and inducing
 50   I,     XXVII|        me away from this to some better retreat, showing me by many
 51   I,     XXVII|        me away that he might the better carry out his infernal scheme,
 52   I,     XXVII|       enemy of mine? Were it not better, cruel memory, to remind
 53   I,     XXVII|       turn my thoughts into some better channel; if not, I can only
 54   I,    XXVIII|      revived my hopes, and I was better pleased not to have found
 55   I,      XXIX|          new resolutions in your better mind, as I mean to do in
 56   I,      XXIX|       play the distressed damsel better than the barber; especially
 57   I,      XXXI|         a sparrow in the hand is better than a vulture on the wing,
 58   I,      XXXI|         very good, they were far better than those he put off. They
 59   I,      XXXI|         and that as he knew this better than anyone, he should restrain
 60   I,     XXXII|          and bade them make up a better bed for him than the last
 61   I,     XXXII|          replied that if he paid better than he did the last time
 62   I,     XXXII|         the landlord, in hope of better payment, served them up
 63   I,     XXXII|     truth to my mind there is no better reading in the world, and
 64   I,     XXXII|         if the time would not be better spent in sleeping."~ ~"It
 65   I,    XXXIII|        own thoughts, and with no better success than if I were endeavouring
 66   I,    XXXIII|           or in what will she be better then than she is now? Either
 67   I,    XXXIII|          which the wise Rinaldo, better advised, refused to do;
 68   I,    XXXIII|          from the city; and, the better to account for his departure
 69   I,    XXXIII|      justice be withheld, as was better expressed by a poet who
 70   I,     XXXIV|      unfinished; for love has no better agent for carrying out his
 71   I,     XXXIV|         Leonela, would it not be better, before I do what I am unwilling
 72   I,     XXXIV|  reputation and good name. It is better to dissemble your wrong
 73   I,     XXXIV|         doubt it would have been better; but I should not be avenged,
 74   I,     XXXIV|       Still, I think it might be better to disclose this to Anselmo.
 75   I,     XXXIV|        the fair Camilla; and the better to support the part he had
 76   I,     XXXIV|      this difficulty, it will be better to tell him the plain truth
 77   I,     XXXIV|         hope for, and desired no better pastime than making verses
 78   I,      XXXV|          what they were; and the better to support the position,
 79   I,    XXXVII|       red wine, your worship had better say," replied Sancho; "for
 80   I,   XXXVIII|          open field with nothing better than the breath of his mouth,
 81   I,     XXXIX|        household, for they say, 'Better a king's crumb than a lord'
 82   I,     XXXIX|         for you will recite them better than I can."~ ~"With all
 83   I,        XL|   Christians keep their promises better than the Moors. Allah and
 84   I,        XL|         comrades it had seemed a better plan to send to Majorca
 85   I,       XLI|         her."~ ~"Would it not be better," said Zoraida, "to wait
 86   I,       XLI|          Zoraida's father as the better linguist helped to interpret
 87   I,       XLI|    master says there are nowhere better herbs for salad then here."~ ~"
 88   I,       XLI|      debated whether it would be better first to go for Zoraida,
 89   I,       XLI|    Marien, for she can tell thee better than I."~ ~The Moor had
 90   I,       XLI|         her belief that yours is better than ours that has led her
 91   I,       XLI|       any of my brothers has had better fortune than mine has been;
 92   I,       XLI|        or a curious one let your better judgments decide; all I
 93   I,     XLIII|         Don Quixote; "but he had better beware of that, if he does
 94   I,     XLIII|        the head."~ ~"It would be better if it were the other way,"
 95   I,      XLIV|         all are at your service, better pleased than you can imagine
 96   I,       XLV|         arms; and I say - saving better opinions and always with
 97   I,       XLV|       leave it to your worships' better judgment. Perhaps as you
 98   I,      XLVI|      take him; and good luck and better fortune, having already
 99   I,      XLVI|          palfrey; for it will be better for us to stay quiet, and
100   I,     XLVII|          had more grass and much better than the one where they
101   I,     XLVII|          that fiction is all the better the more it looks like truth,
102   I,    XLVIII|          wise; and, though it is better to be praised by the wise
103   I,    XLVIII|        that for themselves it is better to get bread from the many
104   I,    XLVIII|           beyond all comparison, better attained by means of good
105   I,      XLIX|       cage, and that it would be better for me to reform and change
106   I,        LI|         can protect a young girl better than her own modesty. The
107   I,       LII|        that the power of another better disposed may prove superior
108   I,       LII|     however, arranged the matter better than they expected, for
109   I,       LII|      Sancho replied that he was, better than his master was.~ ~"
110   I,       LII|        he found himself somewhat better, and as they feared so it
111  II,         I|       other day, when there is a better opportunity and more time,
112  II,        II|          to govern and rule, and better than four cities or four
113  II,       III|     bring, he will be fitter and better qualified for being a governor
114  II,       III|          all will be and perhaps better than you think; no leaf
115  II,        IV|     attack when the odds make it better not. But, above all things,
116  II,        IV|        as well, and perhaps even better, without a government than
117  II,         V|      after all, a daughter looks better ill married than well whored."~ ~"
118  II,         V|    themselves on our memory much better and more forcibly than things
119  II,       VII|    wrangle,' since one 'take' is better than two 'I'll give thee'
120  II,       VII|      that, as your worship knows better than I do, we are all of
121  II,       VII|         son, that a good hope is better than a bad holding, and
122  II,       VII|    holding, and a good grievance better than a bad compensation.
123  II,       VII|         and loyally, as well and better than all the squires that
124  II,      VIII|      gods,' but now-a-days, by a better nomenclature, 'of all the
125  II,      VIII|        adoring their relics be a better fame in this life and in
126  II,      VIII|  preserve. So that, senor, it is better to be an humble little friar
127  II,        IX|        in the street; it will be better for us to quit the city,
128  II,         X|       hearts. Go, my friend, may better fortune than mine attend
129  II,         X|       deal with; may God give me better luck in what I am anxious
130  II,         X|   worship," replied Sancho, "had better mark it with ruddle, like
131  II,         X|          go ours, and it will be better for you."~ ~"Get up, Sancho,"
132  II,        XI|       and turn to the pursuit of better and worthier adventures;
133  II,       XII|         a sparrow in the hand is better than a vulture on the wing.'"~ ~"
134  II,      XIII|     though I seem a man, I am no better than a beast for the Church."~ ~"
135  II,      XIII|          upon his shoulders. Far better would it be for us who have
136  II,      XIII|      falling into the pit. It is better for us to beat a quiet retreat
137  II,      XIII|         paltry squire? I carry a better larder on my horse's croup
138  II,       XIV|     knight, more to my taste and better than from the ground."~ ~"
139  II,       XIV|         of enemies the fewer the better;" and he was drawing his
140  II,       XIV|      lady Dulcinea del Toboso is better than the ill-combed though
141  II,       XVI|         his apparel, they looked better than if they had been of
142  II,       XVI|         to his aid will be a far better poet, and will surpass him
143  II,      XVII|      attempting adventures it is better to lose by a card too many
144  II,      XVII|         rash and daring,' sounds better than 'such a knight is timid
145  II,      XVII|        and pressing forward at a better pace than before, at about
146  II,     XVIII|         death, not life;~ 'Twere better, sure, to end the strife,~
147  II,     XVIII|        of his madness, but still better in what he added when he
148  II,       XIX|          of the fair Quiteria is better than Camacho's; but no one
149  II,       XIX|      runs like a deer, and leaps better than a goat, bowls over
150  II,       XIX|     death."~ ~"God will guide it better," said Sancho, "for God
151  II,       XIX|        licentiate, and they were better friends than ever; and not
152  II,        XX|        Basilio's, and that he is better at satire than at vespers;
153  II,        XX|          covered with gold looks better than a horse with a pack-saddle.
154  II,        XX|   Quixote at this; "don't try to better it, and risk a fall; for
155  II,      XXII|       and even to make her still better; but if you take a bad one
156  II,     XXIII|      mean, who has again, and to better purpose than in past times,
157  II,     XXIII|     asked Don Quixote.~ ~"Little better than an hour," replied Sancho.~ ~"
158  II,      XXIV|         Terence, a soldier shows better dead in battle, than alive
159  II,      XXIV|     remember, my son, that it is better for the soldier to smell
160  II,       XXV|      with me, for who knows that better than I do myself? And to
161  II,      XXVI|          so I think, saving your better judgments, that for his
162  II,      XXVI|        No one could tell us that better than my ape," said Master
163  II,    XXVIII|        to reserve themselves for better occasions. This proved to
164  II,    XXVIII|          reserved themselves for better times; the histories are
165  II,    XXVIII|          I would do a great deal better (if I was not an ignorant
166  II,    XXVIII|          I would do a great deal better, I say, to go home to my
167  II,       XXX|         God's curse upon him, is better at unloosing his tongue
168  II,       XXX|          Quixote.~ ~"So much the better," said the duke, "for many
169  II,     XXXII|          reproof, for that comes better with gentleness than with
170  II,     XXXII|   through La Cava, though with a better title and tradition. For
171  II,    XXXIII|         could not have said them better; but for all that, really,
172  II,    XXXIII|         it to me will be all the better for my conscience, for fool
173  II,    XXXIII|      master say, 'a good name is better than great riches;' let
174  II,    XXXIII|         that in civilities it is better to lose by a card too many
175  II,     XXXIV|           he whom God helps does better than he who gets up early,'
176  II,     XXXIV|   honestly, no doubt I'll govern better than a gerfalcon. Nay, let
177  II,     XXXIV|          than others that may be better brought in and more seasonably
178  II,      XXXV|          and that 'one "take" is better than two "I'll give thee'
179  II,     XXXVI|      found in no sort of persons better than in knights-errant;
180  II,    XXXVII|    barber said, that 'it will be better not to stir the rice even
181  II,    XXXVII|        very much so; but she had better bide her time for fighting
182  II,        XL|        better-it would have been better for them -- to have taken
183  II,        XL|       would send him a steed far better and with less tricks than
184  II,       XLI|         the croup, my master had better look out for another squire
185  II,      XLII|          own humble condition or better myself, but from the desire
186  II,     XLIII|        of those compared will be better than the other, and thou
187  II,     XLIII|    occurs to me."~ ~"What can be better," said Sancho, "than 'never
188  II,      XLIV|      will be more fortunate, and better known to the world by the
189  II,      XLIV|         love; but come what may; better a blush on the cheeks than
190  II,     XLVII|        are paralytics, and for a better name they call them Perlerines;
191  II,    XLVIII|         cases of this sort it is better to flee than to await the
192  II,    XLVIII|       hand, senora; I require no better protection than my own continence,
193  II,      XLIX|        the rottener they are the better they smell); and he can
194  II,      XLIX|       and that there could be no better proof that he himself was
195  II,      XLIX|         has become common, it is better that men should play in
196  II,        LI|      could not have pronounced a better decision than the great
197  II,       LII|          whom it would have been better not to have been so ready
198  II,      LIII|          about arms or supports? Better leave all that to my master
199  II,      LIII|        reaping-hook fits my hand better than a governor's sceptre;
200  II,      LIII|   promise your worship to behave better, and let you eat plentifully
201  II,      LIII|          was no occasion for any better or bulkier provant. They
202  II,      LVII|         whom I entreat to have a better opinion of me, and once
203  II,     LVIII|       might direct my steps in a better path than I am following
204  II,     LVIII|     guiding affairs for him from better to better, so ordered it
205  II,     LVIII|   affairs for him from better to better, so ordered it that shortly
206  II,       LIX|      awake you'll feel something better."~ ~Don Quixote did as he
207  II,       LIX|      nobody touch them; I'll pay better for them than anyone else,
208  II,       LIX|         of his inn or to keep it better provided.~ ~ ~ ~
209  II,        LX|          if thou wilt; I have no better satisfaction to offer thee
210  II,        LX|          to pass her life with a better and everlasting spouse.
211  II,        LX|      done me so overturns all my better impulses that I keep on
212  II,        LX|     captain of ours would make a better friar than highwayman; if
213  II,      LXII|           the truer they are the better they are;" and so saying
214  II,      LXIV| advantages, and that it would be better to land himself with his
215  II,       LXV|         say that 'a good hope is better than a bad holding."~ ~As
216  II,     LXVII|       for one that will suit her better; to thine, Sancho, thou
217  II,     LXVII|         m not going to look 'for better bread than ever came from
218  II,     LXVII|         hearts don't break' and 'better a clear escape than good
219  II,      LXIX|          though fear had got the better of his faculties, he could
220  II,      LXIX|       and pin-proddings! You had better take a big stone and tie
221  II,       LXX|       his hand again, hoping for better luck than he had before;
222  II,       LXX|        Teresa Panza, whom I love better than my own eyelids." "You
223  II,      LXXI|          let Dulcinea wait for a better opportunity, and I will
224  II,      LXXI|         painted by the hand of a better painter than painted these."~ ~"
225  II,      LXXI|       hammer," and "one take was better than two I'll give thee'
226  II,     LXXII|    likely," said Sancho; "we had better let him dismount, and by-and-by
227  II,    LXXIII|       make choice of evils, it's better to be a knight-errant than