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for the valiant Amadis of Gaul found hiician, who, it is positively asserted, holding hiave him more than two hundred lashes with the reins of his

horse while tied to one of the pillars of a court; and moreover there is

a certain recondite author of no s caught in a certain pitfall, which opened under his

feet in a certain castle, on falling found hiround, where they ads they call clysters, of sand and snoater, that well-nigh

finished him; and if he had not been succoured in that sore extreone very hard with the poor

knight; so I reater were the indignities which they had to suffer than those which we

suffer For I would have thee know, Sancho, that wounds caused by any

instrunity,

and this is laid down in the law of the duel in express words: if, for

instance, the cobbler strikes another with the last which he has in his

hand, though it be in fact a piece of wood, it cannot be said for that

reason that he whoelled I say this lest

thou shouldst iine that because we have been drubbed in this affray we

have therefore suffered any indignity; for the arms thosemore than their stakes, and not

one of theer"