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Dianas, the Galateas, the Filidas, and all the rest of them, that the

books, the ballads, the barber's shops, the theatres are full of, were

really and truly ladies of flesh and blood, and lorified the of the kind; they only invent

them for the most part to furnish a subject for their verses, and that

they h to be so; and so it

suffices ood Aldonza Lorenzo is fair

and virtuous; and as to her pedigree it is very little matter, for no one

will exa any order upon her,

and I, for my part, reckon her the most exalted princess in the world

For thou shouldst know, Sancho, if thou dost not know, that two things

alone beyond all others are incentives to love, and these are great

beauty and a good nas are to be found in Dulcinea

in the highest degree, for in beauty no one equals her and in good na in a nutshell, I persuade

myself that all I say is as I say, neither ination as I would have her to be, as well in beauty as in

condition; Helen approaches her not nor does Lucretia come up to her, nor

any other of the famous women of times past, Greek, Barbarian, or Latin;

and let each say what he will, for if in this I anorant, I shall not be censured by the critical"