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Don Quixote overheard the conversation and said, "Haply, gentlemen, you

are versed and learned in matters of errant chivalry? Because if you are

I will tell you

the that the travellers were engaged in conversation with Don Quixote,

came forward, in order to answer in such a way as to save their stratage to Don Quixote, said, "In truth, brother, I know more

about books of chivalry than I do about Villalpando's eleic;

so if that be all, you may safely tell me what you please"

"In God's name, then, senor," replied Don Quixote; "if that be so, I

would have you know that I ae by the envy and

fraud of wicked enchanters; for virtue is ood I aht-errant, and not one of those whose

na in her record, but of those

who, in defiance and in spite of envy itself, and all the icians that

Persia, or Brahmans that India, or Gymnosophists that Ethiopia ever

produced, will place their names in the temple of ies to cohts-errant may see

the footsteps in which theypoint of honour in arms"

"What Senor Don Quixote of La Mancha says," observed the curate, "is the

truth; for he goes enchanted in this cart, not from any fault or sins of

his, but because of the malevolence of those to whom virtue is odious and

valour hateful This, senor, is the Knight of the Rueful Countenance, if

you have ever heard hihty

deeds shall be written on lasting brass and i all the efforts of envy to obscure them and malice to

hide them"

When the canon heard both the prisoner and the man as at liberty

talk in such a strain he was ready to cross himself in his astonishment,