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"It was a practice very much in vogue with the knights-errant of old to make their squires governors of the condos or kingdoms they won, and I am determined that there shall be no failure on my part in so liberal a custom; on the contrary, I mean to improve upon it." pages 11-12 |
Sancho partly heard these last words of his master, and said to him, "I promise you there will be no want of capacity in me to govern it; I have heard say there are men in the world who farm seigniories, paying so much a year, and they themselves take charge of the government, while the lord, with his legs stretched out, enjoys the revenue they pay him, with out troubling himself." |
