A Continuation of the Story of Marcella.
Don Quixote sets out the next morning with the goatherds to attend Chrysostom's funeral. They meet a party of shepherds dressed in black, and two gentlemen on horseback who are traveling in that direction. The knight and one of the horsemen, Vivaldo, enter into conversation about knight-errantry while they travel to their destination. At the burial service, one of Chrysostom's friends speaks. This young man, he says, so well-favored in appearance, talents, and person, has died for the love of a cruel and hard mistress. With him are to be buried the beautiful verses he wrote to immortalize the ungrateful Marcella. Vivaldo interrupts to beg that the verses be rescued from oblivion to serve as a warning to others to avoid "such tempting snares and enchanting destructions."
