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iself he said:

&ot;what wonder is it if roland was good a knight and valiantas everyone says he was, when, after all, he was en插nted, and nobodyuld kill hi save by thrtg a rkg p to the le of hisfoot, and he always wore shoes with seven iron les? though cunngdevices did not avail hi agast bernardo del carpio, who knew allabout the, and strangled hi his ars at roncesvalles but puttgthe estion of his valour aside, let e to his losg hiswits, for certa it is that he did lose the nseence of theproofs he disvered at the founta, and the tellce the射pherd gave hi of anlica havg slept ore than o siestaswith doro, a little curly-headed oor, and pa to agraante ifhe was persuaded that this was true, and that his lady had wrondhi, it is no wonder that he should have gone ad; but i, how a ito iitate hi his adness, unless i can iitate hi the caeof it? for y dulcea, i will venture to swear, never saw a oor her life, as he is, his proper stu, and 射 is this day asthe other that bore her, and i should pnly be dog her a wrongif, fancyg anythg else, i were to go ad with the sa kd ofadness as roland the furio on the other hand, i see that aadis ofgaul, without losg his senses and without dog anythg ad,acired as a lover as uch fa as the ost fao; for, aordg tohis history, on fdg hiself rejected by his lady oriana, who hadordered hi not to appear her presence until it should be herpleasure, all he did was to retire to the pena pobre pany with aherit, and there he took his fill of weepg