Excerpt from Don Quixote De La Mancha, Vol. 2 In short, all the dogs he met, whether mastiffs or turnspits, he averred were pointers, and so let fall his stone no more. So it may be, perhaps, with this story-teller, who will not venture to discharge any more the load of his wit in books, which, as they are bad, are harder than rocks. Let him know also that for his threat to deprive me of my profit by means of his book I care not a doit, for, adapting to myself the famous farce of La Perendenga, I answer, Long live the alderman my master and Christ for all! Long live the great Conde de Lemos, whose Christian charity and well known liberality maintain me against all the strokes of my scant fortune; and long live for me the supreme benevolence of his Eminence of Toledo, Don Bernardo Sandoval y Rojas, even though there be no more printing-presses in the world, and even though there be printed against me more books than there are letters in the couplets of Mingo Revulgo. These two princes, without my soliciting them with any adulation of mine or any kind of flattery of them, of their own goodness alone have taken it on themselves to do me kindness and favor, in which I esteem myself luckier and richer than if Fortune had placed me on her highest pinnacle by the ordinary way. The poor man may attain to honor, but not the vicious. Poverty may cloud nobility, but not obscure it wholly. Let but virtue show some glimmer of light, though it be through the chinks and straits of penury, and it comes to be regarded and consequently favored of lofty and noble spirits. And say thou no more to him, nor will I say more to thee than to bid thee to take note that this Second Part of Don Quixote, which I offer thee, is cut by the same hand and out of the same cloth as the First; and that in iti present thee with Don Quixote at fuller length, and in the end dead and buried, so that no one may presume to raise new testimonies to him, for the past are sufficient.
Don Quixote de La Mancha, Vol. 2
Year
2006
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484
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Excerpt from Don Quixote De La Mancha, Vol. 2 In short, all the dogs he met, whether mastiffs or turnspits, he averred were pointers, and so let fall his stone no more. So it may be, perhaps, with this story-teller, who will not venture to discharge any more the load of his wit in books, which, as they are bad, are harder than rocks. Let him know also that for his threat to deprive me of my profit by means of his book I care not a doit, for, adapting to myself the famous farce of La Perendenga, I answer, Long live the alderman my master and Christ for all! Long live the great Conde de Lemos, whose Christian charity and well known liberality maintain me against all the strokes of my scant fortune; and long live for me the supreme benevolence of his Eminence of Toledo, Don Bernardo Sandoval y Rojas, even though there be no more printing-presses in the world, and even though there be printed against me more books than there are letters in the couplets of Mingo Revulgo. These two princes, without my soliciting them with any adulation of mine or any kind of flattery of them, of their own goodness alone have taken it on themselves to do me kindness and favor, in which I esteem myself luckier and richer than if Fortune had placed me on her highest pinnacle by the ordinary way. The poor man may attain to honor, but not the vicious. Poverty may cloud nobility, but not obscure it wholly. Let but virtue show some glimmer of light, though it be through the chinks and straits of penury, and it comes to be regarded and consequently favored of lofty and noble spirits. And say thou no more to him, nor will I say more to thee than to bid thee to take note that this Second Part of Don Quixote, which I offer thee, is cut by the same hand and out of the same cloth as the First; and that in iti present thee with Don Quixote at fuller length, and in the end dead and buried, so that no one may presume to raise new testimonies to him, for the past are sufficient.
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