Note 202 — BOOK IV. (continued 2)

I am apt to believe that this remark was intended as an ironical sarcasm on the trivial observations of hypercriticks: for we cannot suppose Cervantes did not know, by this time, that he himself had more than once, in the first part of this history, actually called Sancho’s wife by the name of Mary Gutierrez; an oversight which I have taken notice of in the proper place.