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flitches where there are no hooks; but who can put gates to the open

plain? moreover they said of God-"

"God bless me," said Don Quixote, "what a set of absurdities thou art

stringing together! What has e are talking about got to do with the

proverbs thou art threading one after the other? for God's sake hold thy

tongue, Sancho, and henceforward keep to prodding thy ass and don't

meddle in what does not concern thee; and understand with all thy five

senses that everything I have done, a, or shall do, is well

founded on reason and in conformity with the rules of chivalry, for I

understand them better than all the world that profess theood rule of chivalry that we should go

astray through thesefor a madman

hen he is found will perhaps take a fancy to finish what he began,

not his story, but your worship's head and ether for us?"