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"I protest, Senor Don Quixote," said Don Diego, "everything you have said

and done is proved correct by the test of reason itself; and I believe,

if the laws and ordinances of knight-errantry should be lost, they might

be found in your worship's breast as in their own proper depository and

muniment-house; but let us make haste, and reach my village, where you

shall take rest after your late exertions; for if they have not been of

the body they have been of the spirit, and these sometimes tend to

produce bodily fatigue."

"I take the invitation as a great favour and honour, Senor Don Diego,"

replied Don Quixote; and pressing forward at a better pace than before,

at about two in the afternoon they reached the village and house of Don

Diego, or, as Don Quixote called him, "The Knight of the Green Gaban."