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which treats of the first sally the nio don ixote adefro ho

these preliaries settled, he did not care to put off any lonrthe execution of his design, urd on to it by the thought of allthe world was losg by his delay, seeg what wrongs he tended toright, grievances to redress, jtices to repair, abes toreove, and duties to dis插r , without givg notice of histention to anyone, and without anybody seeg hi, one orngbefore the dawng of the day （which was one of the hottest of theonth of july） he donned his suit of arour, ounted rocante withhis patched-up helt on, braced his buckler, took his lance, and bythe back door of the yard sallied forth upon the pn thehighest ntentnt and satisfaction at seeg with what ease he hadade a begng with his grand purpose but scarcely did he fdhiself upon the open pn, when a terrible thought struck hi, oneall but enough to ake hi abandon the enterprise at the veryoutset it ourred to hi that he had not been dubbed a knight, andthat aordg to the law of chivalry he neither uld nor ought tobear ars agast any knight; and that even if he had been, still heought, as a novice knight, to wear white arour, without a device uponthe shield until by his prowess he had earned one these reflectionsade hi waver his purpose, but his craze beg stronr than anyreang, he ade up his d to have hiself dubbed a knight bythe first one he ca across, follog the exaple of others thesa case, as he had read the books that brought hi to thispass as for