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To which Sancho ht of the Rueful

Countenance, I cannot endure or bear with patience soin to suspect that all you

tell iving

islands, and bestowing other rewards and dignities after the custohts-errant, ments, or whatever we may call them; for ould anyone think that

heard your worship calling a barber's basin Ma the mistake all this tis must have his brains addled? I have the basin init horace, I am allowed to see my wife and children

some day or other"

"Look here, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "by him thou didst swear by just

noear thou hast thethat any squire in

the world has or ever had Is it possible that all this ti about withto knights-errant seeo always by contraries? And not because it really is so,

but because there is always a sware and alter everything with us, and turn things as they please,

and according as they are disposed to aid or destroy us; thus what seems

to thee a barber's basin seems toelse; and rare foresight it was in the sage who is on

my side to make what is really and truly Ma held in such estimation as it is, all the world

would pursue me to rob me of it; but when they see it is only a barber's

basin they do not take the trouble to obtain it; as was plainly shown by

hiround without taking it,

for, by my faith, had he known it he would never have left it behind

Keep it safe, my friend, for just now I have no need of it; indeed, I

shall have to take off all this armour and remain as naked as I was born,

if I have a mind to follow Roland rather than Amadis in my penance"