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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A31538	The history of the valorous and vvitty-knight-errant, Don-Quixote, of the Mancha tr. out of the Spanish.; Don Quixote. English	Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616.; Shelton, Thomas, fl. 1612.	1652 (1652)	Wing C1776; ESTC R3484	814,560	576

Academick of Argamasilla on DON-QUIXOTE his Tombe AN EPITAPH THe worthy Knight lies there Well bruis'd but evil-andant Who born on Rozinant Rode waies both farr and neer Sancho his faithfull Squire Pansa ycleept also Lyeth besides him too In his Trade without Peer Tiquitoc Academick of Argamasilla on DULCINEA of Toboso's Sepulchre AN EPITAPH DUlcinea here beneath Lies though of flesh so round To Dust and Ashes ground By foul and ugly Death Shee was of gentle breath And somewhat like a Dame Being great Quixotes flame And her Towns glorie eath These were the Verses that could bee read As for the rest in respect that they were half consumed and eaten away by time they were delivered to a Scholler that he might by conjectures declare their meaning and wee have had intelligence that hee hath done it with the cost of many nights watching and other great paines and that hee means to publish them and also gives hope of a third Sallie made by Don-Quixote FINIS THE SECOND PART Of the HISTORY of the Valorous and Witty KNIGHT-ERRANT DON-QUIXOTE OF THE MANCHA Written in Spanish by MICHAEL CERVANTES And now Translated into English LONDON Printed by Richard Hodgkinsonne for Andrew Crooke An. Dom. 1652. The Epistle Dedicatorie TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE GEORGE Marquesse Buckingham Viscount VILLIERS Baron of Whaddon Lord high Admirall of England Justice in Eyre of all his Majesties Forrests Parks and Chases beyond Trent Master of the Horse to his Majesty and one of the Gentlemen of his Majesties Bed-Chamber Knight of the most Noble Order of the Garter and one of his Majesties most Honourable Privy Counsell of England and Scotland RIGHT NOBLE LORD YOVR humble Servant hath observ'd in the multitude of Books that have past his hands no small varietie of Dedications and those severally sorted to their Presenters ends Some for the meer ambition of great names Others for the desire or need of Protection Many to win Friends and so favour and opinion but Most for the more sordid respect Gain This humbly offers into your Lo presence with none of these deformities But as a bashfull Stranger newly arrived in English having originally had the fortune to be borne commended to a Grandee of Spain and by the way of translation the grace to kisse the hands of a great Ladie of France could not despair of lesse courtesie in the Court of Great Brittain then to be received of your Lo delight his studie being to sweeten those short starts of your retirement from publick affairs which so many so unseasonable even to molestation trouble By him who most truely honours and humbly professes all duties to your Lordship Ed. Blount The Authours Prologue to the Reader NOw God defend Reader Noble or Plebeyan what e're thou art how earnestly must thou needs by this time expect this Prologue supposing that thou must finde in it nothing but Revenge Brawling and Rayling upon the Authour of the second Don-Quixote of whom I only say as others say that hee was begot in Tordesillas and borne in Tarragona the truth is herein I mean not to give thee content Let it bee never so generall a Rule that injuries awaken and rouze up choler in humble brests yet in mine must this Rule admit an exception Thou it may bee wouldst have me be-Asse him be-Madman him and be-Fool him but no such matter can enter into my thought no let his own Rod whip him as hee hath brewed so let him bake elsewhere hee shall have it and yet there is somewhat which I cannot but resent and that is that he exprobates unto me my age and my mayme He lost one of his hands as if it had been in my power to hold Time back that so it should not passe upon me or if my mayme had befaln me in a Tavern and not upon the most famous occasion which either the ages past or present have seen At the Battell of Lepanto nor may the times to come look for the like If my Wounds shine not in the eyes of such as behold them yet shall they be esteemed at least in the judgement of such as know how they were gotten A Souldier had rather bee dead in the Battell then free by runing away And so is it with me that should men set before me and facilitate an impossibilitie I should rather have desired to have been in that prodigious action then now to bee in a whole skinne free from my skars for not having been in it The skars which a Souldier shews in his face and brest are starrs which lead others to the Haven of Honour and to the desire of just Praise and besides it may bee noted that it is not so much mens Pens which write as their Judgements and these use to be better'd with yeers Nor am I insensible of his calling me Envious and describing me as an ignorant What Envie may be I vow seriously that of those two sorts that are I skill not but of that Holy Noble and ingenious Envie which being so as it is I have no meaning to abuse any Priest especially if he hath annexed unto him the title of FAMILIAR of the Inquisition and if he said so as it seems by this second Authour that hee did he is utterly deceived For I adore his Wit admire his Works and his continuall virtuous imployment and yet in effect I cannot but thank this sweet Senior Authour for saying that my Novells are more Satyrick then Exemplar and that yet they are good which they could not be were they not so quite thorow It seems thou tellest me that I write somewhat limited and obscurely and contain my self within the bounds of my modestie as knowing that a man ought not add misery to him that is afflicted which doubtlesse must needs bee very great in this Senior since he dares not appear in open Field in the light but conceals his Name fains his Countey as if hee had committed some Treason against his King Well if thou chance to light upon him and know him tell him from me that I hold for my self no whit agrieved at him for I well know what the temptations of the Divell are and one of the greatest is when hee puts into a mans head that he is able to compose and print a Book whereby hee shall gain as much Fame as Money and as much Money as Fame For confirmation hereof I intreat thee when thou art disposed to be merry pleasant to tell him this Tale. There was a Mad-man in Sevill which hit upon one of the prettiest absurd tricks that ever Mad-man in this world lighted on which was He made him a Cane sharp at one end and then catching a Dogge in the street or elsewhere he held fast one of the Doggs Leggs under his Foot and the other he held up with his hand Then fitting his Cane as well as he could behinde he fell a blowing till he made the Dogge as round as a Ball and then holding him still in the same