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Don Quixote smiled when he heard these words, and said very calhway robbery to give freedoe, to release the captives, to succour the miserable, to

raise up the fallen, to relieve the needy? Infa intellects deserve that heaven should not ht-errantry, or show you the sin and

ignorance in which ye lie when ye refuse to respect the shadow, not to

say the presence, of any knight-errant! Come now; band, not of officers,

but of thieves; footpads with the licence of the Holy Brotherhood; tell

ainst such a

knight as I ahts-errant are

independent of all jurisdictions, that their law is their sword, their

charter their prowess, and their edicts their will? Who, I say again, was

the fool that knows not that there are no letters patent of nobility that

confer such privileges or exeht-errant acquires the day

he is dubbed a knight, and devotes hiht-errant ever paid poll-tax, duty, queen's pin-'s dues, toll or ferry? What tailor ever took pay his clothes? What castellan that received hi did not seat him at his table? What

damsel was not enamoured of him and did not yield herself up wholly to

his will and pleasure? And, lastly, what knight-errant has there been, is

there, or will there ever be in the world, not bold enough to give,

single-handed, four hundred cudgellings to four hundred officers of the

Holy Brotherhood if they come in his way?"