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Marcela appeared dressed like a shepherdess,
Simile
you’d hear these mountains and valleys echoing with the lamentations of the disappointed men who follow her.
sighs,
moans,
amorous...
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desperate lamen...
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Reminds me of Valentine and proteus in Two Gentlemen of Verona
spent the rest of the night thinking of his lady Dulcinea, in imitation of Marcela’s lovers.
Haha- pretty much the same effect.
e.g., encomium eulogy for Grisóstomo.
shepherds,
Señor Vivaldo,
Marcela
Grisóstomo.
“The exercise of my profession does not allow or permit me to go about in any other manner.
knights errant,
As soon as they heard this, they considered him mad,
Amadís of Gaul
Felixmarte of Hyrcania,
Tirant lo...
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Don Belianís of Greece.
therefore I wander these solitary and desolate places in search of adventures, determined to bring my arm and my person to the most dangerous that fortune may offer, in defense of the weak and helpless.”
These words fully persuaded the travelers that Don Quixote had lost his reason,
one of the most austere professions in the world; in my opinion, not even Carthusian friars have one so austere.”
Haha
In this way we are ministers of God on earth, the arms by which His justice is put into effect on earth.
Haha - right!
it is tradition and custom in knight errantry
we have countless examples of this in the histories.
there cannot be a knight errant without a lady,
Simile
Don Galaor,
Amadís of Gaul,
one swallow does not a summer make.
Proverb
her beauty is supernatural, for in it one finds the reality of all the impossible and chimerical aspects of beauty which poets attribute to their ladies:
Haha similes
Haha
the goatherds and shepherds realized that Don Quixote was not in his right mind.
Around him on the bier were bound volumes and many papers, both opened and closed.
Ambrosio,
Grisóstomo
that mortal enemy of the human race,
Haha - the loss of literature
Vivaldo,
Yay!
Haha see note
if he gave the order as an aggrieved man, it is not proper for you to carry it out like a foolish one.
Almost all lines are 11 syllables (some have 10) in a rough iambic meter.
