| Back | "You must know, Master Nicholas"—for that was the name of the barber—"it was often my uncle's way to stay two days and nights together poring over these unholy books of misventures, after which he would fling the book away and snatch up his sword and fall to slashing the walls; and when he was tired out he would say he had killed four giants like four towers; and the sweat that flowed from him when he was weary he said was the blood of the wounds he had received in battle; and then he would drink a great jug of cold water and become calm and quiet, saying that this water was a most precious potion which the sage Esquife, a great magician and friend of his, had brought him. |
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| Front | -Sepa, señor maese Nicolás -que éste era el nombre del barbero-, que muchas veces le aconteció a mi señor tío estarse leyendo en estos desalmados libros de desventuras dos días con sus noches, al cabo de los cuales, arrojaba el libro de las manos, y ponía mano a la espada y andaba a cuchilladas con las paredes; y cuando estaba muy cansado, decía que había muerto a cuatro gigantes como cuatro torres, y el sudor que sudaba del cansancio decía que era sangre de las feridas que había recebido en la batalla; y bebíase luego un gran jarro de agua fría, y quedaba sano y sosegado, diciendo que aquella agua era una preciosísima bebida que le había traído el sabio Esquife, un grande encantador y amigo suyo. |
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