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"I have before now told thee hty great chatterer, and that with a blunt wit thou art

always striving at sharpness; but to show thee what a fool thou art and

how rational I am, I would have thee listen to a short story Thou , independent, and rich, and above

all free and easy, fell in love with a sturdy strapping young

lay-brother; his superior came to know of it, and one day said to the

worthy ay of brotherly reood reason, that a wo, so fair,

and so rich as you are, should have fallen in love with such a mean, low,

stupid fellow as So-and-so, when in this house there are sowho this one I'll take, that I won't take;'

but she replied to hihtliness and candour, 'My dear

sir, you are very much mistaken, and your ideas are very old-fashioned,

if you think that I have made a bad choice in So-and-so, fool as he

seems; because for all I ith him he knows as much and more

philosophy than Aristotle' In the same way, Sancho, for all I ith

Dulcinea del Toboso she is just as good as the most exalted princess on

earth It is not to be supposed that all those poets who sang the praises

of ladies under the fancy naive them, had any such mistresses

Thinkest thou that the Amarillises, the Phillises, the Sylvias, the