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Taking down another book, the barber said, "This is 'The Mirror of

Chivalry'"

"I know his worship," said the curate; "that is where Senor Reinaldos of

Montalvan figures with his friends and coreater thieves than

Cacus, and the Twelve Peers of France with the veracious historian

Turpin; however, I a them to more than perpetual

banishment, because, at any rate, they have some share in the invention

of the famous Matteo Boiardo, whence too the Christian poet Ludovico

Ariosto wove his web, to whoe but his own, I shall show no respect whatever; but if he speaks

his own tongue I will put him upon my head"

"Well, I have him in Italian," said the barber, "but I do not understand

him"

"Nor would it be well that you should understand hiht have excused the Captain if he had not

brought him into Spain and turned hireat deal of his natural force, and so do all those who try to turn

books written in verse into another language, for, with all the pains

they take and all the cleverness they show, they never can reach the

level of the originals as they were first produced In short, I say that

this book, and all thatof those French affairs,

should be thrown into or deposited in some dry well, until after more

consideration it is settled what is to be done with the about, and another called