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Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Volume II, Chapter XXII, Wherin is related the grand adventure of the Cave of Montesinos in the heart of la Mancha, which the valiant don Quixote brought to a happy termination.
"Don Quixote begged the
fencing licentiate to find him a guide to show him the way to the Cave of
Montesinos, as he had a great desire to enter it and see with his own
eyes if the wonderful tales that were told of it all over the country
were true. The licentiate said he would get him a cousin of his own, a
famous scholar, and one very much given to reading books of chivalry, who
would have great pleasure in conducting him to the mouth of the very
cave, and would show him the lakes of Ruidera, which were likewise famous
all over La Mancha, and even all over Spain; and he assured him he would
find him entertaining, for he was a youth who could write books good
enough to be printed and dedicated to princes. The cousin arrived at
last, leading an ass in foal, with a pack-saddle covered with a
parti-coloured carpet or sackcloth; Sancho saddled Rocinante, got Dapple
ready, and stocked his alforjas, along with which went those of the
cousin, likewise well filled; and so, commending themselves to God and
bidding farewell to all, they set out, taking the road for the famous
Cave of Montesinos."
Prepare for the unexpected
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Volume II, Chapter XXIII: Of the wonderful things the incomparable don Quixote said he saw in the profound Cave of Montesinos the impossibility and magnitude of which cause this adventure to be deemed apocryphal
"It was about four in the afternoon when the sun, veiled in clouds, with
subdued light and tempered beams, enabled Don Quixote to relate, without
heat or inconvenience, what he had seen in the Cave of Montesinos to his
two illustrious hearers, and he began as follows:"...
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