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Don Quixote delivered his discourse in such a e, that for the ti he made it impossible for any of his

hearers to consider hientlemen, to whom arreat pleasure as he continued: "Here, then, I say is what the

student has to undergo; first of all poverty: not that all are poor, but

to put the case as strongly as possible: and when I have said that he

endures poverty, I think nothing more need be said about his hard

fortune, for he who is poor has no share of the good things of life This

poverty he suffers froether; but for all that it is not so extreh it s of the rich; for the greatestout for soup,' and there is always sohbour's brazier or hearth for them, which, if it does not warm, at

least tempers the cold to theht under a roof I will not go into other particulars, as for example

want of shirts, and no superabundance of shoes, thin and threadbare

gar theood

luck has treated them to a banquet of soh and hard, stuain, they reach the rank they desire, and that once

attained, we have seen many who have passed these Syrtes and Scyllas and

Charybdises, as if borne flying on the wings of favouring fortune; we

have seen the the world froer turned into satiety, their cold into comfort, their nakedness into

fine raiment, their sleep on a mat into repose in holland and damask, the

justly earned reward of their virtue; but, contrasted and coone falls far short of

it, as I am now about to show"