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hi, "Who knows but that in time to come, when the

veracious history of e rites

it, when he has to set forth , will do

it after this fashion? 'Scarce had the rubicund Apollo spread o'er the

face of the broad spacious earth the golden threads of his bright hair,

scarce had the little birds of painted plue attuned their notes to

hail with dulcet andof the rosy Dawn,

that, deserting the soft couch of her jealous spouse, was appearing to

an horizon, when the

renowned knight Don Quixote of La Mancha, quitting the lazy down, an to traverse the ancient and

famous Ca

"Happy the age, happy the time," he continued, "in which shall be made

known my deeds of fame, worthy to be moulded in brass, carved in marble,

lie ician,

whoever thou art, to whom it shall fall to be the chronicler of this

wondrous history, forget not, I entreat thee, ood Rocinante, the

constant cos" Presently he broke out

again, as if he were love-stricken in earnest, "O Princess Dulcinea, lady

of this captive heart, a grievous wrong hast thou done me to drive me

forth with scorn, and with inexorable obduracy banish n to hold in reuish pines for love of thee"