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"What is it in reality," said Sancho, "that your worship means to do in

such an out-of-the-way place as this?"

"Have I not told thee," answered Don Quixote, "that Ithe victim of despair, the madman, the maniac, so as

at the same time to imitate the valiant Don Roland, when at the fountain

he had evidence of the fair Angelica having disgraced herself with Medoro

and through grief thereat went mad, and plucked up trees, troubled the

waters of the clear springs, slew destroyed flocks, burned down huts,

levelled houses, dragged mares after hies worthy of everlasting renown and record? And

though I have no intention of i Roland, or Orlando, or Rotolando

(for he went by all these nas he

did, said, and thought, I will h copy to the best of my power

of all that seems to me most essential; but perhaps I shall content

way to any

ained as much fame

as the hts who behaved in this way

had provocation and cause for those follies and penances; but what cause

has your worship for going mad? What lady has rejected you, or what