The history and adventures of the renowned Don Quixote

part in the jest, had he not been engrossed by the affair of Don Lewis;

but that earnest business kept him in such perplexity of thought, that he could give little or no attention to the joke that was going forward.

‘Good God!’ cried the barber, with amazement, ‘is it possible that so many honourable persons should pronounce this bason to be a helmet! an assertion sufficient t...