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Now that I’ve to be sitting on a bare board, does your worship want me to flay my bum?
Sancho puts this question to Don Quixote
in Chapter XLI of the Second Part, after Don Quixote suggests that
Sancho whip himself to free Dulcinea from her alleged enchantment.
With these words, which display his sarcastic wit, skepticism, and
insubordinate nature, Sancho refuses to obey Don Quixote’s order.
The tale of Dulcinea’s enchantment literally comes back to bite
Sancho in the rear end—Sancho originally tells Don Quixote that
Dulcinea is enchanted in an effort to hide the fact that he does
not know where she lives and what she looks like. Sancho’s lie nearly
catches up with him a number of times until the Duchess finally
snares him completely, telling him that Dulcinea actually
