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Excerpt from The Works of Don Francisco De Quevedo, Vol. 2 of 3: Translated From the Spanish; Containing, Curious History of the Night Adventurer; The Life of Paul the Spanish Sharper, Book I Our hero was the youngefi of three brothers the eldeft fo wholly addicted to fencing, that, by his continual handling of cold iron, he loft an eye; which might have been no fmall ad vantage towards making him a good markfman. The fecond brother placed all his hopes on the air, for, being an excellent tennis plaver, be reckoned to make his fortune that way; but, among all the other faults in that game, he committed one never to be retrieved; for ha ving overheated himfelf, he fell into a pleurify, of which he died, leaving the poor balls and rackets deftitute of a real friend, who loved them above his life. This youngeft brother we are to treat of, in his tender years, was called plain Don Diego; but, when grown up, forne added the furname of fly-light, and others cal led him Don Diego love-night becaufe he fled from light and only delighted in darknefs. At ten years of age he was put to the Latin fchool; where, though he advanced but little, yet he had the good luck not.to grow pedantic. This fmall capacity was highly favoured by For tune, who took care of him from his cradle. Scarce was he fixteen years of age before he was preferred to fome church-livings, which obliged him to refide at Toledo; a pleafing. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.