The Library of Wit and Humor, Prose and Poetry, Vol. 5: Selected From the Literature of All Times and Nations (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Having given his horse a name so much to his satisfaction, be resolved to fix upon one for himself. This con sideration employed him eight more da when at length he determined to mfishimself Don Quixote; whence some of the historians of this most true history have concluded that his name was certainly (suixada and not Quesada, as others woul have it. Then recollect iug that the valorous Amadis, not con tent with the simple appellation of Amadis, added thereto the name of his kin dom and native country, in order to ren er it famous, styling himself Amadis de Gaul so he, like a good knight, also added the name of his province, and called himself Don Quixote de la Mancha; whereby, in his opinion, he fully proclaimed his lineage and country, which, at the same time, he honored by taking its name.

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