Don Quixote - Part 2
" However, " said the Bachelor Carrasco,
" Some souls there be, reading your history,
Who wish the author had not numbered so
The bafflements that were your misery
And foil, most noble knight! " But Sancho, wise,
Spoke that thick candor which is half his zest:
" In these falls lies the history; all were lies
With these left out; and truth, gadzooks, is best! "
" Aye, truth to mortal eyes! " the old knight said,
" But such a truth might well have been let go.
Things that light not the living nor the dead
" Some souls there be, reading your history,
Who wish the author had not numbered so
The bafflements that were your misery
And foil, most noble knight! " But Sancho, wise,
Spoke that thick candor which is half his zest:
" In these falls lies the history; all were lies
With these left out; and truth, gadzooks, is best! "
" Aye, truth to mortal eyes! " the old knight said,
" But such a truth might well have been let go.
Things that light not the living nor the dead
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