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Quixote and Panza meet up with a duke and duchess on the road who invite them to their castle.

Sancho complains to Don Quixote about his conditions as a squire. The pair continue their journey to the River Ebro where they find an empty fishing boat, which Don Quixote perceives to be enchanted and indicative of a knight across the world in need of help. The pair gets in the boat and lets the current take them to a mill, where they encounter angry mill workers and the boat gets destroyed.

The author relates the origin of the puppeteer’s being the convict who stole Sancho’s donkey. Don Quixote and Sancho set out for Saragossa and are met with a convoy from the village of brayers anticipating a battle with a neighboring village.

The puppeteer tells a rather lighthearted story of Doña Melisendra, daughter of Charlemagne, captured by Moors, grudgingly rescued by her husband Don Gaiferos. Don Quixote, believing he is still under an enchantment, takes the puppets for real people and destroys them as the papier-mâché Moors pursue the escaped captive.