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"What vial and what balsam is that?" said Sancho Panza

"It is a balsam," answered Don Quixote, "the receipt of which I have in

my memory, hich one need have no fear of death, or dread dying of

any wound; and so when Ito

do when in soh the

middle of the body--as is wont to happen frequently,--but neatly and with

great nicety, ere the blood congeal, to place that portion of the body

which shall have fallen to the ground upon the other half which re care to fit it on evenly and exactly Then thou

shalt give me to drink but two drops of the balsam I have mentioned, and

thou shalt see me become sounder than an apple"

"If that be so," said Panza, "I renounce henceforth the govern more in payment of ive me the receipt of this

supreme liquor, for I am persuaded it will be worth more than two reals

an ounce anywhere, and I want no more to pass the rest of my life in ease

and honour; but it remains to be told if it costs much to make it"