Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes, Chapter 1, the last paragraph

So then, his armour being furbished, his morion turned into a helmet, his hack christened, and he himself confirmed, he came to the conclusion that nothing more was needed now but to look out for a lady to be in love with; for a knight-errant without love was like a tree without leaves or fruit, or a body without a soul. As he said to himself, "If, for my sins, or by my good fortune, I come across some giant hereabouts, a common occurrence with knights-errant, and overthrow him in one onslaught, or cleave him asunder to the waist, or, in short, vanquish and subdue him, will it not be well to have some one I may send him to as a present, that he may come in and fall on his knees before my sweet lady, and in a humble, submissive voice say, 'I am the giant Caraculiambro, lord of the island of Malindrania, vanquished in single combat by the never sufficiently extolled knight Don Quixote of La Mancha, who has commanded me to present myself before your Grace, that your Highness dispose of me at your pleasure'?" Oh, how our good gentleman enjoyed the delivery of this speech, especially when he had thought of some one to call his Lady! There was, so the story goes, in a village near his own a very good-looking farm-girl with whom he had been at one time in love, though, so far as is known, she never knew it nor gave a thought to the matter. Her name was Aldonza Lorenzo, and upon her he thoughtfit to confer the title of Lady of his Thoughts; and after some search for a name which should not be out of harmony with her own, and should suggest and indicate that of a princess and great lady, he decided upon calling her Dulcinea del Toboso -she being of El Toboso- a name, to his mind, musical, uncommon, and significant, like all those he had already bestowed upon himself and the things belonging to him.

TIM-ELVIS' OBSERVATIONS ON THE LAST PARAGRAPH OF CHAPTER 1
Cervantes has regained his wind at the end of this chapter and is finishing with another long paragraph. But this is a good one. I like to think of it as Don Quixote's booty call paragraph.

Sentence 1: Don Quixote has cleaned up his armor, crafted his carboard visor, renamed his horse and renamed himself. So now that he thinks he is looking fine, he decides all that is missing now is a lady to love. Because what is the point of prancing about on a horse in shiny armor if you don't have a lady to impress? Don Quixote is stuck in that Jerry Maguire, "you complete me" mode.

Sentence 2: Don Quixote reasons that it would be a bummer to come across a giant, open up a major can of knight whoopass on him and then not have a girlfriend to brag to about it. He had a major fantasy about sending the humbled giant to his lady to tell her how his cojones were bigger than a giant's (I'm loosely paraphrasing her, but I think you get my drift).

Sentence 3: Don Quixote was really getting off on this fantasy.

Sentence 4: As it happens, Don Quixote already had his eye on a goodlooking farm girl in a nearby village. He had the hots for her, but she didn't know or care to know.

Sentence 5: Her name was Aldonza Lorenzo. His nickname for her was "Lady of his Thoughts" but he also wanted to come up with a more formal name (what the heck, he renamed his horse and himself, why not a total stranger). So he came up with "Dulcinea del Toboso" (she came from El Toboso). He thought that name was had more of a ring to it and fit with all of the other names he'd given himself and "things belonging to him." Okay...can you say, "STALKER?"

And that is the end of Chapter 1. It was an okay chapter. Don Quixote has renamed lots of stuff and fixated on a girl in a nearby village. You don't have to be a rocket scientist to figure out that our knight will very soon set out on a quest. So, stay tuned for chapter 2.