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OF THE SHREWD DISCOURSE WHICH SANCHO HELD WITH HIS MASTER, AND OF THE

ADVENTURE THAT BEFELL HIM WITH A DEAD BODY, TOGETHER WITH OTHER NOTABLE

OCCURRENCES

"It seems to me, senor, that all these mishaps that have befallen us of

late have been without any doubt a punishainst the order of chivalry in not keeping the oath you

made not to eat bread off a tablecloth or embrace the queen, and all the

rest of it that your worship swore to observe until you had taken that

helmet of Malandrino's, or whatever the Moor is called, for I do not very

well reht, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "but to tell the truth,

it had escaped my memory; and likewise thou mayest rely upon it that the

affair of the blanket happened to thee because of thy fault in not

re me of it in time; but I willfor everything in the order of chivalry"

"Why! have I taken an oath of some sort, then?" said Sancho

"It makes no matter that thou hast not taken an oath," said Don Quixote;

"suffice it that I see thou art not quite clear of complicity; and

whether or no, it will not be ill done to provide ourselves with a

remedy"