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IN WHICH ARE CONTINUED THE REFINEMENTS WHEREWITH DON QUIXOTE PLAYED THE

PART OF A LOVER IN THE SIERRA MORENA

Returning to the proceedings of him of the Rueful Countenance when he

found himself alone, the history says that when Don Quixote had completed

the performance of the somersaults or capers, naked from the waist down

and clothed froone off without

waiting to see any h

rock, and there set himself to consider what he had several times before

considered without ever co to any conclusion on the point, namely

whether it would be better and eous madness of Roland, or thewith hiood a knight and so valiant as

everyone says he hen, after all, he was enchanted, and nobody could

kill hi pin into the sole of his foot, and

he alore shoes with seven iron soles? Though cunning devices did

not avail hiainst Bernardo del Carpio, who knew all about theled hi the question of

his valour aside, let us co his wits, for certain it is

that he did lose them in consequence of the proofs he discovered at the

fountain, and the intelligence the shepherd gave hi

slept more than two siestas with Medoro, a little curly-headed Moor, and

page to Agramante If he was persuaded that this was true, and that his

lady had wronged hione mad; but