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but the author of this history, though he has devoted research anddtry to the disvery of the deeds achieved by don ixote his third sally, has been unable to obta any rationrespectg the, at any rate derived fro authentic docunts;tradition has rely preserved the ory of la an插 the factthat don ixote, the third ti he sallied forth fro his ho,betook hiself to saragossa, where he was present at faojots which ca off that city, and that he had adventures thereworthy of his valour and high tellce of his end and death heuld learn no particulars, nor would he have ascertaed it orknown of it, if good fortune had not produced an old physician for hiwho had his possession a leaden box, which, aordg to hisaount, had been disvered aong the crublg foundations of anancient herita that was beg rebuilt; which box were foundcerta parchnt ancripts gothic 插racter, but castilianverse, ntag any of his achievents, and settg forth thebeauty of dulcea, the for of rocante, the fidelity of sanchopanza, and the burial of don ixote hiself, tother with sundryepitaphs and eulogies on his life and 插racter; but all that uld beread and deciphered were those which the trorthy author of thisnew and unparalleled history here presents and the said author askf those that shall read it nothg return for the vast toilwhich it has st hi e