the keeper

Role: lion keeper · First appears: Part 2, Ch. 17.2

Part 2, Ch. 17.2

employer: Don Quixote (Don Quixote commands the lion keeper to open the cage.) “He of the green gaban would have offered resistance, but he found himself ill-matched as to arms, and did not think it prudent to come to blows with a madman, for such Don Quixote now showed himself to be in every respect; and the latter, renewing his commands to the keeper and repeating his threats, gave warning to the gentleman to spur his mare, Sancho his Dapple, and the carter his mules, all striving to get away from the cart as far as they could before the lions broke loose.”
pupil: Don Quixote (The keeper warns Don Quixote against the danger.) “The keeper, seeing that the fugitives were now some distance off, once more entreated and warned him as before”

patron: Don Quixote “Sancho paid the crowns, the carter put to, the keeper kissed Don Quixote’s hands for the bounty bestowed upon him, and promised to give an account of the valiant exploit to the King himself, as soon as he saw him at court.”
patron: Sancho Panza “Put your mules to once more, brother, and continue your journey; and do thou, Sancho, give him two gold crowns for himself and the keeper, to compensate for the delay they have incurred through me.”
pupil: Don Quixote (The keeper warns Don Quixote against provoking the lion.) “The keeper, then, in full detail, and bit by bit, described the end of the contest, exalting to the best of his power and ability the valour of Don Quixote, at the sight of whom the lion quailed, and would not and dared not come out of the cage, although he had held the door open ever so long; and showing how, in consequence of his having represented to the knight that it was tempting God to provoke the lion in order to force him out, which he wished to have done, he very reluctantly, and altogether against his will, had allowed the door to be closed.”

Extracted from the original text of Don Quixote (Ormsby's translation). Made with Rho MD.