Excerpt from The History and Adventures of the Renowned Don Quixote, Vol. 1 of 4: Translated From the Spanish Spain;' for, if his admirable genius and heroick fpirit conduced to the had nour of his country, the drl'trefs and obl'ciirity which attended his old age, as ctl'eeluallyredourrded to her difgrace. Had he lived amidlt Gothick darknds and barbarity, where no records were tiled, and letters altogether unknown, we might have expeeled to derive from tradition a number of particulars relaeingto the family and fortune of a man fo remarkably admired even in his own time. Britons would imagine. Pains had been taken to throw a veil of oblivion over the-puffing! Concerns of this excellent author. No enquiry hath as yet been able to afoertmin the place of his nativity; and, although in his works he has declared himlielf a gentleman by birth, no houfe has hitherto laid claim to fuch an illufirious de-i lcendant. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.