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The curate listened to him attentively and felt that he was a ood reason in what he said; so

he told hie

to books of chivalry, he had burned all Don Quixote's, which were ave him an account of the scrutiny he had made of them, and of those

he had condemned to the flames and those he had spared, hich the

canon was not a little ah he had said so ood thing in theifted intellect for

displaying itself; for they presented a wide and spacious field over

which the penshipwrecks, te a valiant captain with all the

qualifications requisite to

the wiles of the enee or restrain his

soldiers, ripe in counsel, rapid in resolve, as bold in biding his tiic incident, now

some joyful and unexpected event; here a beauteous lady, virtuous, wise,

and entle; here a lawless,

barbarous braggart; there a courteous prince, gallant and gracious;

setting forth the devotion and loyalty of vassals, the greatness and

generosity of nobles "Or again," said he, "the author rapher, or musician, or one