ets out to his isle, Don Quixote gives him some advice. Don Quixote tells Sancho many things and it appears that Sancho does a good job of following his advice. Don Quixote says, “Let the poor man’s tears find more compassion in you, but not more justice, than the pleadings of the rich”(739). He is basically saying not to favor the rich, but look at both sides evenly. Sancho does a good job of following this advice when two old men come to him for help. One of the men, who happened to have a cane, lent his friend ten crowns of gold some time ago on condition that he would repay him on demand. When the man needed his money paid back, he asked his friend several times for it but he denied everything and said he was never given the ten crowns or if he was he repaid it back. Sancho makes the man with the cane take an oath swearing that he paid him back. The man was sneaky and gave his cane to the other man before taking the oath and he swore he paid him back. Sancho realizes that something is up and he orders the man with the cane to give the other man his cane and everything would be settled. Everyone was very surprised by this but Sancho actually makes the wise decision. Sancho orders the man to crack the cane open and when he does the ten gold crowns are inside the cane. The audience is amazed by Sancho’s decision.Don Quixote also tells Sancho, “he has good instincts”(745). Sancho proves many times while he is governor that his master was right about this. The main example that sticks out in my mind is the story about the woman being raped. The story is that a woman was raped by a man and she went to the governor to explain what had happened. Sancho asks the man to give the woman whatever money he had on him. When he does, the woman walked away pleased. Then, Sancho tells the man to go after her and get his money back. When he did this, the woman held so tightly onto her purse that t...
