The curate and the barber borrow some dressing from the lady of the inn and set out in their disguises. The curate decides eventually that the barber should probably play the part of the lady since it would not do for a curate to undermine his dignity in this way, and they switch. Sancho is instructed to go on ahead and tell Quixote that he has indeed delivered the letter to Dulcinea and that her response was to ask Quixote to come to her immediately. When Sancho has gone, the curate and barber are surprised by singing, and they find it is Cardenio, whose story Sancho told them on the trip up. They get Cardenio to relate his story again, and since they do not interrupt him, he finishes the whole.....
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