Sancho wants to talk badly to Don Quixote. He wants to go back home to his wife and kids. Don Quixote hears out what he has to say, and tries to explain to Sancho that what there doing is very important. Don Quixote tells Sancho about the knight he was trying to act like named Amadis. Amadis was the best of the best of the knights. Amadis also acted mad because Angelica (the woman he loved) loved some other man than him. Don Quixote goes on to say that he wants to send a letter to Duleinea by Sancho to see if she is in love with him, and if the answer is yes he will stop acting as a mad man. If the answer is no, he will continue to act as a mad man and let Sancho go. Don Quixote tells Sancho about this famous helmet that he descried as a barber basin so it wouldn't get taken. Don Quixote and Sancho come to a nice forest, and Don Quixote told Sancho that Duleinea is the reason for him acting like this. Later he releases his horse and is willing to give up his armor because of Duleinea. sancho tells him to stop this madness, and start to write the letter. Don Quixote has never really seen Duleinea there love is distance.
