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The Delightful

Of the most Ingenious

Of the BOOK IV.

CHAP. I.

Wherein is discoursed the new and pleasant Adventure, that happened to the Curate and Barber in Sierra Morena.

OST happy and fortunate were those Times, Wherein the thrice audacious and bold Knight Don Quixote of the Mancha was bestowed on the World; by whose most honourable Resolution, to renew and revive in it the already worn-out, and well night deceased Exercise of Arms, we joy in this our so niggard and scant an Age of all Pastimes, not only the Sweetness of his true History, but also of the other Tales and Digressions contained Vol II.