Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The History and Adventures of the Renowned Don Quixote, Vol. 1: Translated From the Spanish
A man who is so unfortunate as to have an ugly child, desti tute of every grace and favourable endowment, may be so hood winked by paternal tenderness, that he cannot perceive his de fects': but, on the contra looks upon eve blemish as a bean and recounts to his frien 8 every instance 0 his folly as a Sam 0 of his wit: but I, who, though seemingly the parent, am no other than the step-father of Don Quixote, Wlll not sail with the stream of custom; nor, like some Others, supplicate thee, gentle reader, With the tears in my eyes, to pardon or conceal the faults which thou mayest sp in this production. Thou art neither its father nor kinsman; hast thy own soul in thy own body, and a will as free as the finest; thou art in thine Own house, of which] hold thee as absolute master as the king of his revenue; and thou bowest the common saying, f' Under my cloak the king is a joke. These considerations free and exem t thee from all manner of restraint and obligation; so that tliou mayest fully and frankly declare thy opinion of this h' without fear of' calumny for thy censure, and without hope 0 recompence for thy approbation.
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