'As God liveth, Sir Knight of the Sorrowful Figure, I cannot
endure nor bear with patience some things your
worship says: they are enough to make me think,
that all you tell me of chivalry, and of
winning kingdoms and empires, of
bestowing islands, and doing other favours and
mighty things, according to the custom of
knights-errant , must be mere vapour, and a lie,
and all friction, or fiction, or
how do you call it? for, to hear you say,that a
barber's basin is Mambrino's helmet, and that
you cannot be beaten out of this error in several days,
what can one think, but that he, who says and
affirms such a thing, must be crack-brained?
I have the basin in my wallet, all
battered, and I carry it to get it mended at home,
for the use of my beard, if God be so
gracious to me, as to restore me one time or other
to my wife and children.'
1 comment:
Fabulous! I was seriously considering putting up a Quote from him today!
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