| Back | He then told Cardenio and Dorothea what they had proposed to do to cure Don Quixote, or at any rate take him home; upon which Dorothea said that she could play the distressed damsel better than the barber; especially as she had there the dress in which to do it to the life, and that they might trust to her acting the part in every particular requisite for carrying out their scheme, for she had read a great many books of chivalry, and knew exactly the style in which afflicted damsels begged boons of knights-errant. |
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| Front | Contó luego a Cardenio y a Dorotea lo que tenían pensado para remedio de don Quijote, a lo menos para llevarle a su casa. A lo cual dijo Dorotea que ella haría la doncella menesterosa mejor que el barbero, y más, que tenía allí vestidos con que hacerlo al natural, y que la dejasen el cargo de saber representar todo aquello que fuese menester para llevar adelante su intento, porque ella había leído muchos libros de caballerías y sabía bien el estilo que tenían las doncellas cuitadas cuando pedían sus dones a los andantes caballeros. |
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