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"These must be, not chivalry, but poetry," said the curate;and opening one he saw it was the "Diana" of Jorge de Montemayor, and, supposing all the others to be of the same sort,"these," he said, "do not deserve to be burned like the others, for they neither do nor can do the mischief the books of chivalry have done, being books of entertainment that can hurt no one."