| Back | "I have told you, friend," said the curate, "that this is done to divert our idle thoughts; and as in well-ordered states games of chess, fives, and billiards are allowed for the diversion of those who do not care, or are not obliged, or are unable to work, so books of this kind are allowed to be printed, on the supposition that, what indeed is the truth, there can be nobody so ignorant as to take any of them for true stories; and if it were permitted me now, and the present company desired it, I could say something about the qualities books of chivalry should possess to be good ones, that would be to the advantage and even to the taste of some; but I hope the time will come when I can communicate my ideas to some one who may be able to mend matters; and in the meantime, senor landlord, believe what I have said, and take your books, and make up your mind about their truth or falsehood, and much good may they do you; and God grant you may not fall lame of the same foot your guest Don Quixote halts on." |
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| Front | -Ya os he dicho, amigo -replicó el cura-, que esto se hace para entretener nuestros ociosos pensamientos; y, así como se consiente en las repúblicas bien concertadas que haya juegos de ajedrez, de pelota y de trucos, para entretener a algunos que ni tienen, ni deben, ni pueden trabajar, así se consiente imprimir y que haya tales libros, creyendo, como es verdad, que no ha de haber alguno tan ignorante que tenga por historia verdadera ninguna destos libros. Y si me fuera lícito agora, y el auditorio lo requiriera, yo dijera cosas acerca de lo que han de tener los libros de caballerías para ser buenos, que quizá fueran de provecho y aun de gusto para algunos; pero yo espero que vendrá tiempo en que lo pueda comunicar con quien pueda remediallo, y en este entretanto creed, señor ventero, lo que os he dicho, y tomad vuestros libros, y allá os avenid con sus verdades o mentiras, y buen provecho os hagan, y quiera Dios que no cojeéis del pie que cojea vuestro huésped don Quijote. |
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