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"Oh, never, surely, was there knight

So served by hand of daht,

When fro on himself,

Princesses on his hack--

or Rocinante, for that, ladies mine, is my horse's nah I had no intention of declaring myself

until my achievements in your service and honour hadthat old ballad of Lancelot to the present occasion

has given you the knowledge of ether prematurely A time,

however, will come for your ladyships to coht of irls, ere not used to hearing rhetoric of this sort, had

nothing to say in reply; they only asked hiladly eat a bit of so," said Don Quixote, "for I

feel it would come very seasonably" The day happened to be a Friday, and

in the whole inn there was nothing but some pieces of the fish they call

in Castile "abadejo," in Andalusia "bacallao," and in some places

"curadillo," and in others "troutlet;" so they asked hiht he