Here is an example of the types of changes that the church’s holy office found indecent
“The knight errant tears of the tail of his shirt and ties the knots in it to serve as a rosary in the wilderness of Sierra Morena.”
In the second edition the shirt tail was changed to a chaplet of corn tree nuts (censorship history of Don Quixote)
25 years later they omitted the sentence: “works of charity performed negligently have neither merit nor value” (censorship history of Don Quixote)
It was minor but fastidious changes