Jose wrote:
Ahem... Alonso Quixano eventually repented his madness on his
deathbed. ;-)

... and I thought you'd point out my one error. Oh well, this is
usenet. Make a mistake and nobody notices!

Neglecting spelling and typos, and now that you've alerted me to an error,
the only two I've so far found a

1) You said "There's not a "from" in the whole passage," yet one sticks out
like a sore "from whence":

"...cometh from the..."

2) Insulting Samuel Langhorne Clemens, one of my favorite authors. (I grew
up reading Robert Heinlein, among other SF authors, and later in life read
several of Clemens' works. Those Missouri boys sure knew how to write some
tall tales! Heinlein once wrote that he hadn't invented any new stories,
just filed off the serial numbers of some old ones and repackaged them.
After I read enough Twain, I realized from whence some of Heinlein's plots
came. ;-) )

Besides, when he repented, he certainly didn't say "from whence my
madness cometh".

Out of curiosity I did a text search of Project Gutenberg's online copy of
John Ormsby's famous translation of Don Quixote[1] and while Ormsby used
whence 29 times, he slipped up once and wrote "from whence" one of those
times.

[1] http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/996