Question

How can there be any human understanding that can persuade itself there ever was all that infinity of Amadises in the world, or all that multitude of famous knights, all those emperors of Trebizond, all those Felixmartes of Hircania, all those palfreys, and damsels-errant, and serpents, and monsters, and giants, and marvellous adventures, and enchantments of every kind, and battles, and prodigious encounters, splendid costumes, love-sick princesses, squires made counts, droll dwarfs, love letters, billings and cooings, swashbuckler women, and, in a word, all that nonsense the books of chivalry contain?

Accepted Answer

Y ¿cómo es posible que haya entendimiento humano que se dé a entender que ha habido en el mundo aquella infinidad de Amadises, y aquella turbamulta de tanto famoso caballero, tanto emperador de Trapisonda, tanto Felixmarte de Hircania, tanto palafrén, tanta doncella andante, tantas sierpes, tantos endriagos, tantos gigantes, tantas inauditas aventuras, tanto género de encantamentos, tantas batallas, tantos desaforados encuentros, tanta bizarría de trajes, tantas princesas enamoradas, tantos escuderos condes, tantos enanos graciosos, tanto billete, tanto requiebro, tantas mujeres valientes; y, finalmente, tantos y tan disparatados casos como los libros de caballerías contienen?

De Tanto Tantas Y Hircania Aquella Tanta Human