Inez, take care; your common reading is,
I know, the Ballad-book; and, after all,
Your case may prove like that of the poor knight——
to which Inez replies, interrupting her mistress,—
Don Quixote of la Mancha, if you please,—
May God Cervantes pardon!—was a knight
Of that wild, erring sort the Chronicle
So magnifies. For me, I only read
The Ballad-book, and find myself from day
To day the better for it.