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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—M

Mirror of Knighthood

(The). One of the books in Don Quixote's library, a Spanish romance at one time very popular. Butler calls Hudibras “the Mirror of Knighthood” (book i. 15).

“The barber, taking another book, said, `This is the Mirror of Knighthood. ' ”- Part 1, book i. 6.1

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