Why should not I imitate him, and go in by his window?
This, then, being so, I consider, friend Sancho, that the knight-errant who shall imitate him most closely will come nearest to reaching the perfection of chivalry.
But my good master Bates dying two years after, and I having few friends, my business began to fail for my conscience would not suffer me to imitate the bad practice of too many among my brethren.
If he was persuaded that this was true, and that his lady had wronged him, it is no wonder that he should have gone mad but I, how am I to imitate him in his madness, unless I can imitate him in the cause of it?
Scarcely had Don Quixote descried them when the fancy possessed him that this must be some new adventure and to help him to imitate as far as he could those passages he had read of in his books, here seemed to come one made on purpose, which he resolved to attempt.
I say, too, that when a painter desires to become famous in his art he endeavours to copy the originals of the rarest painters that he knows and the same rule holds good for all the most important crafts and callings that serve to adorn a state thus must he who would be esteemed prudent and patient imitate Ulysses, in whose person and labours Homer presents to us a lively picture of prudence and patience as Virgil, too, shows us in the person of Æneas the virtue of a pious son and the sagacity of a brave and skilful captain not representing or describing them as they were, but as they ought to be, so as to leave the example of their virtues to posterity.
In the same way Amadis was the polestar, day-star, sun of valiant and devoted knights, whom all we who fight under the banner of love and chivalry are bound to imitate.
A little, pert face screwed up in determination as she tried to imitate his movements.
And so, now to business come to my memory ye deeds of Amadis, and show me how I am to begin to imitate you.
