The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote de la Mancha

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224  Don Quixote de la Mancha    A crazy man his life he passed,    But in his senses died at last.  And said most sage Cide Hamete to his pen, "Rest here, hung up by this brass wire,  upon this shelf, O my pen, whether of skilful make or clumsy cut I know not; here  shalt thou remain long ages hence, unless presumptuous or malignant story‐tellers  take thee down to profane thee.  But ere they touch thee, warn them, and, as best  thou canst, say to them:      Hold off! ye weaklings; hold your hands!    Adventure it let none,  For this emprise, my lord the king,    Was meant for me alone.  For me alone was Don Quixote born, and I for him; it was his to act, mine to write;  we two together make but one, notwithstanding and in spite of that pretended  Tordesillesque writer who has ventured or would venture with his great, coarse, ill‐ trimmed ostrich quill to write the achievements of my valiant knight; – no burden  for his shoulders, nor subject for his frozen wit: whom, if perchance thou shouldst  come to know him, thou shalt warn to leave at rest where they lie the weary  moldering bones of Don Quixote, and not to attempt to carry him off, in opposition  to all the privileges of death, to Old Castile, making him rise from the grave where in  reality and truth he lies stretched at full length, powerless to make any third  expedition or new sally; for the two that he has already made, so much to the  enjoyment and approval of everybody to whom they have become known, in this as  well as in foreign countries, are quite sufficient for the purpose of turning into  ridicule the whole of those made by the whole set of the knights‐errant; and so  doing shalt thou discharge thy Christian calling, giving good counsel to one that  bears ill‐will to thee.  And I shall remain satisfied, and proud to have been the first  who has ever enjoyed the fruit of his writings as fully as he could desire; for my  desire has been no other than to deliver over to the detestation of mankind the false 
Don Quixote de la Mancha  225    and foolish tales of the books of chivalry, which, thanks to that of my true Don  Quixote, are even now tottering, and doubtless doomed to fall for ever.      Farewell."       
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THE AUTHOR’S PREFACE Idle reader:
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VOLUME I    CHAPTER I  Do
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CHAPTER II  Don Quixote de
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