O famous knight, never sufficiently praised, to you, both valiant and wise, O Don Quixote, the splendor of La Mancha and star of Spain, that for the peerless lady Dulcinea to regain and recover her first state, your squire, Sancho, needs to give himself three thousand and three hundred blows upon both of his broad buttocks, robust and large, bared to the whip, and struck in such a way that they turn red, and smart, and give him pain. This is the decision of all the authors of her misfortune, woe, and alteration, and for this I have come, my lords and
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