Balsam
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"All that might be well dispensed with," said Don Quixote, "if I had remembered to make a vial of the
balsam
of Fierabras, for time and medicine are saved by one single drop."
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"What vial and what
balsam
is that?" said Sancho Panza.
"It is a balsam," answered Don Quixote, "the receipt of which I have in my memory, with which one need have no fear of death, or dread dying of any wound; and so when I make it and give it to thee thou hast nothing to do when in some battle thou seest they have cut me in half through the middle of the body—as is wont to happen frequently,—but neatly and with great nicety, ere the blood congeal, to place that portion of the body which shall have fallen to the ground upon the other half which remains in the saddle, taking care to fit it on evenly and exactly.
Then thou shalt give me to drink but two drops of the
balsam
I have mentioned, and thou shalt see me become sounder than an apple."
But let us leave that to its own time; see if thou hast anything for us to eat in those alforjas, because we must presently go in quest of some castle where we may lodge to-night and make the
balsam
I told thee of, for I swear to thee by God, this ear is giving me great pain."
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