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Excerpt from The History of the Valorous and Witty Knight-Errant, Don Quixote of the Mancha, Vol. 1 of 4 I would very fain have pro/inted it time thee pure and naked, without the Ornament of a Preface, or the Rabblement and Catalogue of the wanted Sonnets, Epigrams, Poems, Elegies, &c. Which are wont to be put at the Beginning of Books. For I dare fay unto thee, that (altho' it coji me fame Pains to campafe it yet in no Rcypet? Did it equalize that, which I took to make this Preface, which thou do/l now read. I took oftentimes my Pen in my Hand to write it, and as often fit it down again, as not knowing what I flsould write; and being once in a Mufe with my Paper before me, my Pen in mine Ear, mine Elbow on the T able, and mine Hand on. My Cheek, imagining what I might write, there entered a Friend of mine unexpet'r'edly, who was a very difcreet and plea/bully witted Alan 3. Who, fining me j?) pen/ative, demanded of men the Rea/en of my met/mg, and not concealing it'. 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.