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a day under a roof, went totheir graves as uch aids as the others that bore the i say, then,that these and other respects our gallant don ixote is worthyof everlastg and notable praise, nor should it be withheld even fro for the labour and pas spent searchg for the ncsion ofthis delightful history; though i know well that if heaven, 插nce andgood fortune had not helped , the world would have reaed deprivedof an entertant and pleasure that for a uple of hours or ay well oupy hi who shall read it attentively the disvery of itourred this way

one day, as i was the alcana of toledo, a boy ca up to sell paphlets and old papers to a silk rcer, and, as i a fond ofreadg even the very scraps of paper the streets, led by thisnatural bent of e i took up one of the paphlets the boy had forsale, and saw that it was 插racters which i regnised asarabic, and as i was unable to read the though i uld regnisethe, i looked about to see if there were any spanish-speakg orisat hand to read the for ; nor was there any great difficulty fdg such an terpreter, for even had i ught one for an olderand better langua i should have found hi short, 插nce provided with one, who when i told hi what i wanted and put the book tohis hands, opened it the iddle and after readg a little itbegan to laugh i asked hi what he was laughg at, and he repliedthat it was at thg the book had written the arg by wayof a note i bade hi tell it to ; and he still laughg said, &ot;the arg, as i told you, this is writ