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The next day they reached the place where Sancho had laid the

broom-branches as marks to direct hi it he told them that here was the entrance, and that they

would do well to dress themselves, if that was required to deliver his

uise and

dressing in this ere of the highest importance in order to rescue

his ed him

strictly not to tell his master who they were, or that he knew theiven the letter to Dulcinea,

to say that he had, and that, as she did not kno to read, she had

given an answer by word ofthat she commanded him, on pain

of her displeasure, to come and see her at once; and it was a very

important matter for himself, because in this way and hat they

hi him to take immediate steps to become an e an archbishop All this

Sancho listened to and fixed it well in histo recommend his master to be an emperor instead

of an archbishop, for he felt sure that in the way of bestowing rewards

on their squires emperors could do more than archbishops-errant He said,