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it could not live under the rule that Ferdinand substituted for the free

institutions of mediaeval Spain What he did s ht ar to the poet, "the world gave ground," and which Cervantes'

single laugh deathered from the words of one of his own

countrye Carleton, in

his "Military Memoirs from 1672 to 1713" "Before the appearance in the

world of that labour of Cervantes," he said, "it was next to an

iht or without

danger There were seen sobefore

the s of their ined the

whole nation to have been nothing less than a race of knight-errants But

after the world became a little acquainted with that notable history, the

man that was seen in that once celebrated drapery was pointed at as a Don

Quixote, and found hih and low And I verily believe

that to this, and this only, e that dah all our councils for a century past, so little

agreeable to those nobler actions of our famous ancestors"