"My squire, however, will intimate how I am; while I content myself with assuring you, that I will, to all eternity, preserve engraven upon the tablets of my memory, the benevolence you this day vouchsafed unto me, that I may be grateful for the favour, as long as life shall remain."
The History and Adventures of the Renowned Don Quixote. Translated from the Spanish of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. To which is prefixed, Some Account of the Author's Life. By Tobias Smollett, M.D
At least 21 entries in the ESTC (1755, 1761, 1765, 1766, 1770, 1782, 1783, 1784, 1786, 1792, 1793, 1794, 1795, 1796)<br>
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Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de. <u>The History and Adventures of the Renowned Don Quixote</u>, trans. Tobias Smollett (New York: Random House, 2001).