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 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 forever. Farewell."

TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES

1. Passages in italics are surrounded by _underscores_.

2. Images and footnotes have been moved from the middle of a paragraph
to the closest paragraph break.

3. The original text includes Greek characters. For this text version
these letters have been replaced with transliterations.

4. The original text has certain words which use "oe" ligature. These
are "Coelum", "Phoenician", "Phoebus", "mythopoeic" and "phoenix".

5. The word McGIFFERT has "c" as superscript in the original which has
been changed to lower case in this text version.

6. The footnote [7] in "The Lusiads" does not refer to anything in the
text.

7. Other than the corrections listed above, printer's inconsistencies
in spelling, punctuation, hyphenation, and ligature usage have been
retained.

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