All 4 Uses of
scruples
in
Don Quixote
- 'If that,' said this disloyal gentleman, 'be the only scruple you feel, fairest Dorothea' (for that is the name of this unhappy being), 'see here I give you my hand to be yours, and let Heaven, from which nothing is hid, and this image of Our Lady you have here, be witnesses of this pledge.'†
Chpt 1.27-28 *scruple = an ethical or moral principle that discourages certain kinds of action
- To which Don Quixote returned, "I know not what more there is to be said; I only guide myself by the example set me by the great Amadis of Gaul, when he made his squire count of the Insula Firme; and so, without any scruples of conscience, I can make a count of Sancho Panza, for he is one of the best squires that ever knight-errant had."†
Chpt 1.49-50
- "That may be," replied Don Quixote; "however, I will do what you suggest; though I have my own scruples about it."†
Chpt 2.25-26
- " The duke had now descended to the courtyard of the castle, and going up to Tosilos he said to him, "Is it true, sir knight, that you yield yourself vanquished, and that moved by scruples of conscience you wish to marry this damsel?"†
Chpt 2.55-56
Definition:
ethical or moral principles that discourage certain kinds of action