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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—H

Hamet

The Cid Hamet Benengeli. 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.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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