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One of my principal motives in visiting Finisterra was to carry this book to that wild place. Alcalde. Ha, ha! how very singular. Yes, I remember. I have heard that the English highly prize this eccentric book. How very singular that the countrymen of the grand Baintham should set any value upon that old monkish book.
I should scarcely have thought, however, that he could be ranked as a poet with Lope de Vega. Alcalde. How surprising! I see, indeed, that you know nothing of his writings, though an Englishman. Now, here am I, a simple alcalde of Galicia, yet I possess all the writings of Baintham on that shelf, and I study them day and night. Myself. You doubtless, Sir, possess the English Language. Alcalde.
I do. I mean that part of it which is contained in the writings of Baintham. I am most truly glad to see a countryman of his in these Gothic wildernesses. I understand and appreciate your motives for visiting them: excuse the incivility and rudeness which you have experienced. But we will endeavour to make you reparation.
Truly it was very ridiculous that they should have arrested you as a Carlist. Myself. Not only as a Carlist, but as Don Carlos himself. Alcalde. Oh! most ridiculous; mistake a countryman of the grand Baintham for such a Goth! Myself. Excuse me, Sir, you speak of the grand somebody. Alcalde. The grand Baintham. He who has invented laws for all the world.
Borrow, when travelling in Spain some ten years after Bentham's death, was welcomed by an Alcalde on Cape Finisterre, who had upon his shelves all the works of the 'grand Baintham, and compared him to Solon, Plato, and even Lope de Vega. The last comparison appeared to Borrow to be overstrained.
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