Synopsis
Excerpt from The Life and Exploits of the Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote De La Mancha
Heaven S! With what impatience, gentle, or, it may be, simple reader, must thou be now waiting for this preface, expecting to find in it resentments, rail ings, and invectives without number, against the au thor of the second Don Quixote him, I mean, who, it is said, was begotten in Tordes1llas, and whelped in Tarragona! But, in truth, it is'not my design to give thee that satisfaction; for, though injuries are apt to awaken choler in the humblest breasts, yet in mine must this rule admit of an exception. Thou wouldst have me, perhaps, call him ass, coxcomb, madman! But no. Be his own sin his punishment; let him chew the cud of remorse, and there, for me, let the matter rest.
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