SANCHO Your Reverence, could I talk to him? PADRE I'm afraid he won't hear you SANCHO (moving toward the bed) Then, I won't say much PADRE And no mention of ...

DON QUIXOTE My lady ALDONZA I am not your lady! I am not any kind of a lady! I was spawned in a ditch By a mother who left me there, Naked and cold and too hun...

DON QUIXOTE Someone approaches! SANCHO Just an ordinary traveler DON QUIXOTE (pointing off) But see what he wears upon his head Get thee to a place of hiding,...

DON QUIXOTE (enters the inn) Sweet lady fair virgin (Don Quixote averts his eyes worshipfully) I dare not gaze full upon thy countenance Lest I be blinded by be...

ALDONZA Dulcinea Dulcinea Once you found a girl And called her Dulcinea, When you spoke the name An angel seemed to whisper Dulcinea Dulcinea Dulcinea Dulcinea...

DON QUIXOTE (courteously, but without recognition) Now then What is it you want? ALDONZA Don't you know me? DON QUIXOTE Should I? ALDONZA I am Aldonza! DON ...

ALDONZA To dream the impossible dream, To fight the unbeatable foe, PADRE To bear with unbearable sorrow To run where the brave dare not go ANTONIA To run whe...

DON QUIXOTE Hand over that golden helmet! BARBER But this is a shaving basin! DON QUIXOTE Shaving basin! Know thou not what this really is? The Golden Helmet ...

SANCHO I like him, I really like him Tear out my fingernails one by one, I like him! I don't have a very good reason, Since I've been with him, Cuckoo-nuts have...

ANTONIA (Don Quixote's niece) (piously) I'm only thinking of him, I'm only thinking of him, Whatever I may do or say; I'm only thinking of him! In my body; it's...

ANTONIA (Don Quixote's niece) (piously) I'm only thinking of him, I'm only thinking of him, Whatever I may do or say; I'm only thinking of him! In my body; it's...

MULETEERS Food! Wine! Aldonza! Aldonza! I come for love, I come for love, I come to Aldonza for love! ALDONZA One pair of arms is like another I don't know why...

INNKEEPER Hail, Knight of the Woeful Countenance, Knight of the Woeful Countenance! Wherever you go People will know Of the glorious deeds Of the Knight of the ...

ANSELMO, PEDRO (two Muleteers) Little bird, little bird, In the cinnamon tree, Little bird, little bird, Do you sing for me? Do you bring me word Of one I know?...

CERVANTES May I set the stage? I shall impersonate a man Come, enter into my imagination and see him! His name Alonso Quijana a country squire, no longer young ...

DON QUIXOTE Oh the trumpets of glory Now call me to ride, Yes, the trumpets are calling to me, And wherever I ride, Ever staunch at my side My squire and my lad...

INNKEEPER Don Quixote de La Mancha, Having proved yourself this day In glorious and terrible combat, And by my authority as lord of this castle I hereby dub the...

ALDONZA "To dream the impossible dream" but they're your own words! "To fight the unbeatable foe" Don't you remember? "To be with unbearable sorrow" You must re...

ALDONZA Why do you do these things? DON QUIXOTE What things? ALDONZA These ridiculous the things you do! DON QUIXOTE I hope to add some measure of grace to t...

SANCHO (reciting Don Quixote's words) "Most lovely sov'reign and highborn lady" ALDONZA Ho SANCHO "The heart of this, Thy vassal knight faints for thy favor" ...

PADRE De profundis clamo ad te, Domine, Domine, Audi vocem meam! Fiant aures tuae intendae Ad vocem obsecrationis meae Si delictorum memoriam serva veris, Domin...

PADRE To each his Dulcinea That he alone can name To each a secret hiding place Where he can find the haunting face To light his secret flame For with his Dulci...

ALDONZA Why does he do the things he does? Why does he do these things? Why does he march Through that dream that he's in, Covered with glory and rusty old tin?...