| Back | For all that, he fancied some sage, either a friend or an enemy, might, by the aid of magic, have given them to the press; if a friend, in order to magnify and exalt them above the most famous ever achieved by any knight-errant; if an enemy, to bring them to naught and degrade them below the meanest ever recorded of any low squire, though as he said to himself, the achievements of squires never were recorded. If, however, it were the fact that such a history were in existence, it must necessarily, being the story of a knight-errant, be grandiloquent, lofty, imposing, grand and true. |
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| Front | Con todo eso, imaginó que algún sabio, o ya amigo o enemigo, por arte de encantamento las habrá dado a la estampa: si amigo, para engrandecerlas y levantarlas sobre las más señaladas de caballero andante; si enemigo, para aniquilarlas y ponerlas debajo de las más viles que de algún vil escudero se hubiesen escrito, puesto -decía entre sí- que nunca hazañas de escuderos se escribieron; y cuando fuese verdad que la tal historia hubiese, siendo de caballero andante, por fuerza había de ser grandílocua, alta, insigne, magnífica y verdadera. |
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