The curate, the barber and the bachelor hatched the plan to make Quixote come home. They let him begin his journey, but then Sanson overtook him to beat him in a duel. The plan was that he would command that Quixote go home and stay there, which Quixote would have to obey by the laws of knight-errantry. Tome Cecial resolves to go home, but Sanson is resolved to see his plan through.
Sanson makes an important point in the story here. Cecial says, "Tell us, now, who is the greater madman, he who is so because he can't help it, or he who is.....
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