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Don quixote grossman5/27/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “Truly, answered Sancho, I have been look at you some time, by the light of that torch the unfortunate traveller held in his hand and in good faith, your worship cuts the most dismal figure I have almost ever seen and it must certainly be occasioned either by the fatigue you have undergone in this battle, or by the want of your teeth.” “That is not the case, replied his master but, the sage who is destined to write the history of my exploits, hath thought proper that I should assume some appellation, by the example of foreign knights, one of whom took the title of the Flaming Sword another, of the Unicorn a third, of the Ladies a fourth, of the Phoenix a fifth, of the Griffin a sixth called himself the Knight of Death and by these epithets and symbols, they were known all over the face of the earth, and therefore, I say, that the fore-mentioned sage hath now put it into thy thoughts, and directed thy language to call me the Knight of the Rueful Countenance, an appellation that henceforth I adopt and that it may suit me better, I am resolved to have a most woeful figure painted upon my shield, with the first opportunity.” ![]() Thus dismissed, the bachelor pursued his way, and the knight asked what had induced Sancho, now, rather than at any other time, to style him the Knight of the Rueful Countenance. ![]()
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