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The canon gazed at hi at the extraordinary nature of his

madness, and that in all his remarks and replies he should show such

excellent sense, and only lose his stirrups, as has been already said,

when the subject of chivalry was broached And so, moved by corass awaiting the arrival

of the provisions:

"Is it possible, gentle sir, that the nauseous and idle reading of books

of chivalry can have had such an effect on your worship as to upset your

reason so that you fancy yourself enchanted, and the like, all as far

from the truth as falsehood itself is? How can there be any hu that can persuade itself there ever was all that infinity

of Ahts, all

those emperors of Trebizond, all those Felixmartes of Hircania, all those

palfreys, and daiants, and

marvellous adventures, and enchantious encounters, splendid costumes, love-sick princesses, squires

s,

swashbuckler women, and, in a word, all that nonsense the books of

chivalry contain? Foras I do not stop to think that they are all lies and frivolity, they

give me a certain amount of pleasure; but when I co the very best of the it

into the fire if there were one at hand, as richly deserving such

punishe of ordinary

toleration, and as founders of new sects and norant public to believe and accept as truth all the

folly they contain And such is their audacity, they even dare to