Don Quixote by Miquel de Cervantes, Chapter VIII, Paragraphs 1-6

OF THE GOOD FORTUNE WHICH THE VALIANT DON QUIXOTE HAD IN THE TERRIBLE AND UNDREAMT-OF ADVENTURE OF THE WINDMILLS, WITH OTHER OCCURRENCES WORTHY TO BE FITLY RECORDED

PARAGRAPH 1: At this point they came in sight of thirty or forty windmills that there are on plain, and as soon as Don Quixote saw them he said to his squire, "Fortune is arranging matters for us better than we could have shaped our desires ourselves, for look there, friend Sancho Panza, where thirty or more monstrous giants present themselves, all of whom I mean to engage in battle and slay, and with whose spoils we shall begin to make our fortunes; for this is righteous warfare, and it is God's good service to sweep so evil a breed from off the face of the earth."

TIM'S OBSERVATIONS ON PARAGRAPH 1:
This is the most famous part of the book. Don Quixote and his squire are riding along and they see about 30 or more windmills in an open field. Don Quixote immediately says to Sancho that these are 30 or more giants that he intends to open up a can of whoopass on in the name of god and country.

PARAGRAPH 2: "What giants?" said Sancho Panza.

PARAGRAPH 3: "Those thou seest there," answered his master, "with the long arms, and some have them nearly two leagues long."

PARAGRAPH 4: "Look, your worship," said Sancho; "what we see there are not giants but windmills, and what seem to be their arms are the sails that turned by the wind make the millstone go."

PARAGRAPH 5: "It is easy to see," replied Don Quixote, "that thou art not used to this business of adventures; those are giants; and if thou art afraid, away with thee out of this and betake thyself to prayer while I engage them in fierce and unequal combat."

TIM'S OBSERVATIONS ON PARAGRAPHS 2-5:
Sancho, being too simple to lie, tells Don Quixote that these are not giants, but windmills. Don Quixote thinks Sancho is just being a chicken and tells him to go run off and pray if he is afraid of the giants..

PARAGRAPH 6: So saying, he gave the spur to his steed Rocinante, heedless of the cries his squire Sancho sent after him, warning him that most certainly they were windmills and not giants he was going to attack. He, however, was so positive they were giants that he neither heard the cries of Sancho, nor perceived, near as he was, what they were, but made at them shouting, "Fly not, cowards and vile beings, for a single knight attacks you."

TIM'S OBSERVATIONS ON PARAGRAPHS 6:
Then Don Quixote aims his horse at the nearest windmill that may or may not be a giant and charges. Sancho shouts at him to stop because he is attacking a windmill but Don Quixote isn't hearing any of it. He shouts at the windmills not to run because he is coming to fight them.

Don Quixote needs to loosen the straps on that carboard helmet because something tells me they are on a bit too tight.