Note 332 — Chapter XI · WAR WITH THE TURKS.
Reading edition
Navarrete, Vida de Cervantes (Madrid, 1819), p. 19.
Cervantes, in the prologue to the second part of "Don Quixote," alluding to Lepanto, enthusiastically exclaims, that, for all his wounds, he would not have missed the glory of being present on that day. "Quisiera antes haberme hallado en aquella faccion prodigiosa, que sano ahora de mis heridas, sin haberme hallado en ella."