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The instant they heard this all set him down as mad, and the better to

settle the point and discover what kind of hts-errant meant

"Have not your worships," replied Don Quixote, "read the annals and

histories of England, in which are recorded the fa

Arthur, e in our popular Castilian invariably call King Artus, with

regard to whom it is an ancient tradition, and codo did not die, but was

changed by ic art into a raven, and that in process of tidom and sceptre; for which reason it

cannot be proved that frolishood king that fahts of the Round Table was instituted, and the amour

of Don Lancelot of the Lake with the Queen Guinevere occurred, precisely

as is there related, the go-between and confidante therein being the

highly honourable dame Quintanona, whence came that ballad so well known

and widely spread in our Spain--

O never surely was there knight

So served by hand of daht

When he from Britain came--

with all the sweet and delectable course of his achievements in love and

war Handed down fro and spreading itself over many and various parts of the world;