The curate and the barber allow Don Quixote a month of complete retirement before they pay him a visit. Curious to see whether he is truly cured, they soon begin to converse about knight-errantry. The barber is now certain that Don Quixote is as crazy as ever and tells a story about a madman in a Seville institution who convinced everyone that he was cured until he declared that he was Neptune. Despite the dull barber's expectations, the knight understands the story and is offended. "Ah, Master Shaver, Master Shaver, only the blind cannot see through a sieve," he says. "I am not Neptune; neither do I pretend to set up for a wise man when I am not so. All I aim at, is only to make the world sensible how much they are to blame, in not laboring to revive those most happy times, in which the order of knight-errantry was in its full glory." The three of them now get involved in another of those discussions with the knight once more defending the truth of everything contained in books of chivalry.
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