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belonging to a knight so famous, and one with such merits of his own,

should be without some distinctive name, and he strove to adapt it so as

to indicate what he had been before belonging to a knight-errant, and

what he then was; for it was only reasonable that, hisa

new character, he should take a new na one, befitting the new order and calling

he was about to follow And so, after having composed, struck out,

rejected, added to, unmade, and remade a multitude of na hi, lofty, sonorous, and significant of his condition as a hack

before he became what he noas, the first and foreot a naet one for hi over this

point, till at last he made up his mind to call himself "Don Quixote,"

whence, as has been already said, the authors of this veracious history

have inferred that his name must have been beyond a doubt Quixada, and

not Quesada as others would have it Recollecting, however, that the

valiant Amadis was not content to call hi

dom and country to make it faood knight, resolved to

add on the name of his, and to style himself Don Quixote of La Mancha,

whereby, he considered, he described accurately his origin and country,

and did honour to it in taking his surname from it