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"Thou hast said well and hit the point," answered Don Quixote; and so I

recall the oath in so far as relates to taking fresh vengeance on him,

but I make and confirm it anew to lead the life I have said until such

tiht another helood; and think not, Sancho, that I a so, for I have one to i to a hair happened in the case of Mambrino's helmet, which cost

Sacripante so dear"

"Senor," replied Sancho, "let your worship send all such oaths to the

devil, for they are very pernicious to salvation and prejudicial to the

conscience; just tell me now, if for several days to come we fall in with

no man armed with a helmet, what are we to do? Is the oath to be observed

in spite of all the inconvenience and discomfort it will be to sleep in

your clothes, and not to sleep in a house, and a thousand other

mortifications contained in the oath of that old fool the Marquis of

Mantua, which your worship is noanting to revive? Let your worship

observe that there are nobut carriers and carters, who not only do not wear helmets, but

perhaps never heard tell of them all their lives"