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Of the pleasant and curious scrutiny which the Curate and the Barber made of the library of our ingenious gentleman.
The knight was yet asleep, when the curate came, attended by the barber, and desired his niece to let him have the key of the room where her uncle kept his books, the author of his woes: she readily consented; and so in they went, and the housekeeper with them. There they found above an hundred large volumes neatly bound, and a good number of small ones. As soon as the housekeeper had spied them out, she ran out of the study, and returned immediately with a holy-water pot and a sprinkler: "Here, doctor," cried she, "pray sprinkle every cranny and corner in the room, lest there should lurk in it some one of the many sorcerers these books swarm with, who might chance to bewitch us, for the ill-will we bear them, in going about to send them out of the world." The curate could not forbear smiling at the good woman's simplicity; and desired the barber to reach him the books one by one, that he might peruse the title-pages, for perhaps he might find some among them that might not deserve this fate. "Oh, by no means," cried the niece; "spare none of them; they all help, somehow or other, to crack my uncle's brain. I fancy we had best throw them all out at the window [Pg 21] in the yard, and lay them together in a heap, and then set them on fire, or else carry them into the back-yard, and there make a pile of them, and burn them, and so the smoke will offend nobody." The housekeeper joined with her, so eagerly bent were both upon the destruction of those poor innocents; but the curate would not condescend to those irregular proceedings, and resolved first to read at least the title-page of every book.
The first that Mr. Nicholas put into his hands was Amadis de
Gaul, in four volumes. "There seems to be some mystery in this
book's being the first taken down," cried the curate, as soon as
he had looked upon it; "for I have heard it is the first book of
knight-errantry that ever was printed in Spain, and the model
of all the rest; and therefore I am of opinion, that, as the first
teacher and author of so pernicious a sect, it ought to be condemned
to the fire without mercy." "I beg a reprieve for him,"
cried the barber; "for I have been told 'tis the best book that has
been written in that kind; and therefore, as the only good thing of
that sort, it may deserve a pardon." "Well then," replied the
curate, "for this time let him have it. Let's see that other,
which lies next to him." "These," said the barber, "are the
exploits of Esplandian, the son of Amadis de Gaul." "Verily,"
said the curate, "the father's goodness shall not excuse the want
of it in the son. Here, good mistress housekeeper, open that window,
and throw it into the yard, and let it serve as a foundation to
that pile we are to set a blazing (...)
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