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the lance has never blunted the pen, nor the pen the lance"

"Well, be it as your worship says," replied Sancho; "let us be off now

and find sorant it may be

somewhere where there are no blankets, nor blanketeers, nor phantoms, nor

enchanted Moors; for if there are, may the devil take the whole concern"

"Ask that of God, my son," said Don Quixote; "and do thou lead on where

thou wilt, for this ti to thy choice; but reach er, and find out how ht side of the upper jaw, for

it is there I feel the pain"

Sancho put in his fingers, and feeling about asked hirinders used your worship have on this side?"

"Four," replied Don Quixote, "besides the back-tooth, all whole and quite

sound"

"Mind what you are saying, senor"

"I say four, if not five," answered Don Quixote, "for never in rinder drawn, nor has any fallen out or been

destroyed by any decay or rheum"

"Well, then," said Sancho, "in this lower side your worship has no rinders and a half, and in the upper neither a half nor any at

all, for it is all as smooth as the palm of my hand"