Note 36 — LIFE OF CERVANTES.

Some accounts state that whilst in La Mancha, Cervantes got involved in a street quarrel in the town of Argamasilla, and that in consequence of that affair he once more became the inmate of a jail. This, coupled with a hint, though a very vague one, thrown out by Cervantes himself, in the preface to the second part of Don Quixote has given rise to the conjecture that the first part was written in a prison.