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"And yet I have heard your worship say," observed Panza, "that it is very

hts-errant to sleep in wastes and deserts, and that they

esteeood fortune"

"That is," said Don Quixote, "when they cannot help it, or when they are

in love; and so true is this that there have been knights who have

remained two years on rocks, in sunshine and shade and all the

incle of it; and

one of these was Amadis, when, under the name of Beltenebros, he took up

his abode on the Pena Pobre for--I know not if it was eight years or

eight ; at any rate he

stayed there doing penance for I know not what pique the Princess Oriana

had against him; but no more of this now, Sancho, and make haste before a

mishap like Rocinante's befalls the ass"

"The very devil would be in it in that case," said Sancho; and letting

off thirty "ohs," and sixty sighs, and a hundred and twenty maledictions