times; and he says he utters these thanksgivings at seeing that he has

now got Don Quixote and Sancho fairly afield, and that the readers

of his delightful history may reckon that the achievements and humours

of Don Quixote and his squire are now about to begin; and he urges

them to forget the former chivalries of the ingenious gentleman and to

fix their eyes on those that are to come, which now begin on the

road to El Toboso, as the others began on the plains of Montiel; nor

is it much that he asks in consideration of all he promises, and so he