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The Cid Hamet Benengeʹli. The hypothetical Moorish chronicler from whom Cervantës professes to derive his adventures of Don Quixote.
“Of the two bad cassocks I am worth … I would have given the latter of them as freely as even Cid Hamet offered his … to have stood by.”—Sterne.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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