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&ot;o, senor, do you not know ? look at well; i a that lad andres that your worship released fro theoak-tree where i was tied&ot;

don ixote regnised hi, and takg his hand he turned to thosepresent and said: &ot;that your worships ay see how iportant it is tohave knights-errant to redress the wrongs and juries done bytyrannical and wicked n this world, i ay tell you that daysago passg through a wood, i heard cries and piteo pnts as ofa pern pa and distress; i idiately hastened, ipelled byy bounden duty, to the arter whence the pntive aents seed to to proceed, and i found tied to an oak this lad who now standsbefore you, which y heart i rejoice at, for his testiony will notperit to depart fro the truth any particular he was, i say,tied to an oak, naked fro the waist up, and a clown, who iafterwards found to be his aster, was scarifyg hi by la射s withthe res of his are as on as i saw hi i asked the rean of cruel a flallation the boor replied that he was floggg hibecae he was his servant and becae of carelessness thatproceeded rather fro dishonesty than stupidity; on which this boysaid, &039;senor, he flogs only becae i ask for y was&039; the asterade i know not what speeches and explanations, which, though ilistened to the, i did not aept short, i pelled the clown tounbd hi, and to swear he would take hi with hi, and pay hireal by real, and perfud to the barga is not all this true,andres y n? didst thou not ark with what authority i andedhi, and with what huility