Vulgar words in The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Part 01 (Page 1)
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"About the ass," we are told, "Don Quixote hesitated a little, trying whether he could call to mind any knight-errant taking with him an esquire mounted on ass-back; but no instance occurred to his memory."
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La Mancha as the knight's country and scene of his chivalries is of a piece with the pasteboard helmet, the farm-labourer on ass-back for a squire, knighthood conferred by a rascally ventero, convicts taken for victims of oppression, and the rest of the incongruities between Don Quixote's world and the world he lived in, between things as he saw them and things as they were.
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"Come, come, you show ill-breeding, sir, I ween; 'T is like an ass your master thus to scorn."
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R. He is an ass, will die an ass, an ass was born; Why, he's in love; what's what's plainer to be seen?"