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On, then, as aforesaid, caainst the wary Biscayan, with

uplifted sword and a fir him in half, while on

his side the Biscayan waited for him sword in hand, and under the

protection of his cushion; and all present stood tre in

suspense the result of blows such as threatened to fall, and the lady in

the coach and the rest of her folloere es and shrines of Spain, that God reat peril in which they found

themselves But it spoils all, that at this point and crisis the author

of the history leaves this battle i more written about these achievements of Don Quixote

than what has been already set forth It is true the second author of

this as unwilling to believe that a history so curious could have

been allowed to fall under the sentence of oblivion, or that the wits of

La Mancha could have been so undiscerning as not to preserve in their

archives or registries so his persuasion, he did not despair of finding the

conclusion of this pleasant history, which, heaven favouring him, he did

find in a way that shall be related in the Second Part