They attend the funeral of a man who died of love for a beautiful shepherdess, and they inadvertently help to reunite several estranged couples. They meet all sorts of interesting strangers, many of whom are involved in unhappy love affairs. They free a group of prisoners, who thank them by pelting them with stones. Wherever they go, people mock them and give them beatings, because their ideas are so strange and ridiculous.
In their travels, Sancho and Quixote encounter many imaginary enemies – giants that turn out to be windmills, enchanters that turn out to be angry muleteers, abductors who are peaceful friars. He enlists a peasant named Sancho Panza to be his squire, and they set off for the second sally.
Quixote takes this to be the work of evil enchanters, who generally plague knights errant. While Quixote is sleeping off his injuries, his friends the priest and the barber decide to burn most of his chivalry books, which they blame for his madness and recent injuries. He is knighted at an inn, which he takes to be a castle, defends a young shepherd from his angry master, and receives a beating from some merchants, who are ignorant of the rules of knight-errantry. In a few days’ time, Don Quixote puts on a rusty suit of armor and sets out on his first sally. He names himself Don Quixote de la Mancha, names his bony horse Rocinante, and gives his beloved the sweet name Dulcinea. A middle-aged man named Alonso Quixano, a skinny bachelor and a lover of chivalry romances, loses his mind and decides to become a valiant knight.
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