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IN WHICH THE CANON PURSUES THE SUBJECT OF THE BOOKS OF CHIVALRY, WITH

OTHER MATTERS WORTHY OF HIS WIT

"It is as you say, senor canon," said the curate; "and for that reason

those who have hitherto written books of the sort deserve all the ood taste or the

rules of art, by which they uide themselves and become as famous

in prose as the two princes of Greek and Latin poetry are in verse"

"I myself, at any rate," said the canon, "was once tempted to write a

book of chivalry in which all the points I have mentioned were to be

observed; and if I must own the truth I have more than a hundred sheets

written; and to try if it came up to my own opinion of it, I showed the, to learned and

intelligentbut

the pleasure of listening to nonsense, and fro

approval; nevertheless I proceeded no farther with it, as well because it

seemed to me an occupation inconsistent with my profession, as because I

perceived that the fools are h it

is better to be praised by the wise few than applauded by the foolish

of such books falls for the most part