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ou desire toread books of achievents and of chivalry, read the book of juds the holy scriptures, for there you will fd grand reality, anddeeds as true as they are heroic sitania had a viriat, ro acaesar, cartha a hannibal, greece an alexander, castile a untfernan gonzalez, valencia a cid, andasia a gonzalo fernandez,estreadura a diego garcia de paredes, jerez a garci perez devargas, toledo a garcila, seville a don anuel de leon, to read ofwhose valiant deeds will enterta and struct the loftiest ds andfill the with delight and wonder here, senor don ixote, will bereadg worthy of your und understandg; fro which you will riselearned history, love with virtue, strengthened goodness,iproved anners, brave without rashness, prudent withouardice; and all to the honour of god, your own advanta and theglory of la an插, whence, i a rd, your worship derives yourbirth&ot;

don ixote listened with the greatest attention to the canon&039;swords, and when he found he had fi射d, after regardg hi for ti, he replied to hi:

&ot;it appears to , ntle sir, that your worship&039;s disurse istended to persuade that there never were any knights-errant the world, and that all the books of chivalry are false, lyg,ischievo and eless to the state, and that i have done wrong readg the, and worse believg the, and still worse iitatg the, when i undertook to follow the arduo callg ofknight-errantry which they set forth; for you deny that there everwere aadises of gaul or of greece, or any oth