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… you have uttered so many blasphemies against something so widely accepted in the world as true…as your grace has done…that there was no Hector, no Achilles, no Trojan War…no King Arthur of England…the search for the Holy Grail, and that the loves of Don Tristan and Queen Iseult, and those of Guinevere and Lancelot, are apocryphal…

“But isn't it strange to see how easily this unfortunate gentleman believes all those inventions and lies simply because they are in the same style and manner as his foolish books….if you speak to him of other matters, he talks rationally and shows a clear, calm understanding in everything; in other words, except if the subject is chivalry, no one would think he does not have a very good mind."

"God save me!" said Sancho. "Didn't I tell your grace to watch what you were doing, that these were nothing but windmills….”
"Be quiet, Sancho my friend," replied Don Quixote. "Matters of war…are subject to continual change…the same Frestón the Wise who stole my room and my books has turned these giants into windmills in order to deprive me of the glory…such is the enmity he feels for me….”