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Solis Dan to Don Quixote of the Mancha.

MAugre the Ravings that arc set abroach
And rumble up and down thy troubled Brain;
Yet none thine Act, Don Quixote, can reproach,
Or thy Proceedings tax as vile or vain.
Thy Feats shall be thy fairest Ornament
(Seeing Wrongs t'undo thou goest thus about)
Altho' with Blows a thousand times y-shent
Thou wert well nigh, yea, e'en by the Miscreant Rout.
And if thy fair Dulcinea shall wrong,
By Misregard thy fairer Expectation,
And to thy Cares will lend no list'ning Ear,
Then let this Comfort all thy Woes out-wear.
That Sancho fail'd in Broker's Occupation,
He foolish, cruel she; thou, without Tongue.
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