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“He has done like Orbaneja, the painter of Ubeda, who, being asked what he painted, answered, "As it may hit;" and when he had scrawled out a misshapen cock, was forced to write underneath, in Gothic letters, "This is a cock."”
Provenance
- Source:
- Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. iii.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- b4b4cdde95f2f68322b811269d278c37214ed00905c19382d4ed55f4d26aa691
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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