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"Then if it be essential that every knight-errant should be in love,"

said the traveller, "it may be fairly supposed that your worship is so,

as you are of the order; and if you do not pride yourself on being as

reticent as Don Galaor, I entreat you as earnestly as I can, in the name

of all this company and in my own, to inform us of the name, country,

rank, and beauty of your lady, for she will esteem herself fortunate if

all the world knows that she is loved and served by such a knight as your

worship seeh and said, "I cannot say positively

whether my sweet enemy is pleased or not that the world should know I

serve her; I can only say in answer to what has been so courteously asked

of e of La

Mancha, her rank must be at least that of a princess, since she is my

queen and lady, and her beauty superhuman, since all the impossible and

fanciful attributes of beauty which the poets apply to their ladies are

verified in her; for her hairs are gold, her forehead Elysian fields, her