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and in it, fahty Amadis of

Gaul with all his sons and descendants to the fifth generation, and the

valiant Felixmarte of Hircania, and the never sufficiently praised

Tirante el Blanco, and in our own days almost we have seen and heard and

talked with the invincible knight Don Belianis of Greece This, then,

sirs, is to be a knight-errant, and what I have spoken of is the order of

his chivalry, of which, as I have already said, I, though a sinner, have

hts professed that sah these solitudes and wilds seeking

adventures, resolved in soul to oppose my arm and person to the most

perilous that fortune may offer me in aid of the weak and needy"

By these words of his the travellers were able to satisfy the out of his senses and of the form of madness that

overmastered him, at which they felt the sa acquainted with it; and Vivaldo, as a person of

great shrewdness and of a lively teuile the

short journey which they said was required to reach the ive hi on with

his absurdities So he said to hiht-errant,

that your worship has made choice of one of the ine even that of the Carthusian monks is not so

austere"