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WHICH TREATS OF ADDRESS DISPLAYED BY THE FAIR DOROTHEA, WITH OTHER

MATTERS PLEASANT AND AMUSING

The curate had hardly ceased speaking, when Sancho said, "In faith, then,

senor licentiate, he who did that deed washi him to mind what he was

about, and that it was a sin to set them at liberty, as they were all on

the march there because they were special scoundrels"

"Blockhead!" said Don Quixote at this, "it is no business or concern of

knights-errant to inquire whether any persons in affliction, in chains,

or oppressed that they o that way and suffer

as they do because of their faults or because of their misfortunes It

only concerns theard

to their sufferings and not to their rascalities I encountered a chaplet

or string of miserable and unfortunate people, and did for them what my

sense of duty demands of me, and as for the rest be that as itthe sacred dignity of the senor

licentiate and his honoured person, I say he knows little about chivalry

and lies like a whoreson villain, and this I will give him to know to the

fullest extent withhe settled himself in his

stirrups and pressed down histo hi at the