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"Lies before me, base clown!" said Don Quixote "By the sun that shines

on us I have a h with this lance Pay him at once

without another word; if not, by the God that rules us I will make an end

of you, and annihilate you on the spot; release hi his head, and without a word untied his servant, of whom

Don Quixote asked how much his master owed him

He replied, nine months at seven reals a month Don Quixote added it up,

found that it came to sixty-three reals, and told the farmer to pay it

down i clown replied that as he lived and by the oath he had sworn

(though he had not sworn any) it was not so much; for there were to be

taken into account and deducted three pairs of shoes he had given his when he was sick

"All that is very well," said Don Quixote; "but let the shoes and the

blood-lettings stand as a setoff against the blows you have given him

without any cause; for if he spoiled the leather of the shoes you paid

for, you have daed that of his body, and if the barber took blood from