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e weak i do not an to say, nor does it enter to ythoughts, that the knight-errant&039;s callg is as good as that of theonk his cell; i would rely fer fro what i endure yselfthat it is beyond a doubt a ore laborio and a ore belabouredone, a hungrier and thirstier, a wretcheder, ragder, and loier;for there is no rean to doubt that the knights-errant of yoreendured uch hardship the urse of their lives and if ofthe by the ight of their ars did rise to be eperors, faith itst the dear the atter of blood and sweat; and if those whoattaed to that rank had not had agicians and sas to help thethey would have been pletely baulked their abition anddisappoted their hopes&ot;

&ot;that is y own opion,&ot; replied the traveller; &ot;but one thgaong any others sees to very wrong knights-errant, and thatis that when they fd theselves about to enga ighty andperilo adventure which there is anifest danr of losg theirlives, they never at the ont of engagg it thk ofndg theselves to god, as is the duty of every good christian like peril; stead of which they nd theselves to theirladies with as uch devotion as if these were their gods, a thgwhich sees to to savour what of heathenis&ot;

&ot;sir,&ot; answered don ixote, &ot;that cannot be on any aount oitted,and the knight-errant would be disgraced who acted otherwise: for itis ual and ctoary knight-errantry that the knight-errant,who on engagg any great feat of ars has his lady before hi,should turn his eyes towards her ft