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shallfish with four onths, deo volente, and which will be either theworst or the best that has been posed our langua, i an ofthose tended for entertant; at which i repent of havg calledit the worst, for, the opion of friends, it is bound to attathe suit of possible ality ay your excellency return suchhealth that is wi射d you; persiles will be ready to kiss your handand i your feet, beg as i a, your excellency&039;s ost huble servantfro adrid, this last day of october of the year one thoand sixhundred and fifteen

at the service of your excellency:

iguel de cervantes saavedra

the author&039;s preface

god bless , ntle （or it ay be plebeian） reader, how earlyt thou be lookg forward to this preface, expectg to fdthere retaliation, sldg, and abe agast the author of thesend don ixote- i an hi who was, they say, begotten attordesillas and born at tarragona! well then, the truth is, i a notgog to give thee that satisfaction; for, though juries stir upanr hubler breasts, e the rule t adit of an exceptionthou wouldst have call hi ass, fool, and alapert, but i have nosuch tention; let his offence be his punishnt, with his breadlet hi eat it, and there&039;s an end of it what i cannot help takgaiss is that he 插rs with beg old and one-handed, as if ithad been y power to keep ti fro passg over , or as if theloss of y hand had been brought about tavern, and not onthe grandest oasion the past or present has seen, or the futurecan hope to see if y wounds ha