All 3 Uses of
hearsay
in
Don Quixote
- All this I know well myself, more by experience than by hearsay, and some day, señora, I will enlighten you on the subject, for I am of your flesh and blood too.†
Chpt 1.33-34 *hearsay = heard through another rather than directly
- Look here, heretic, have I not told thee a thousand times that I have never once in my life seen the peerless Dulcinea or crossed the threshold of her palace, and that I am enamoured solely by hearsay and by the great reputation she bears for beauty and discretion?†
Chpt 2.9-10
- "Don't mind that, señor," said Sancho; "I must tell you that my seeing her and the answer I brought you back were by hearsay too, for I can no more tell who the lady Dulcinea is than I can hit the sky."†
Chpt 2.9-10