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He established and created an alguacil of the poor, not to harass them, but to examine them and see whether they really were so; for many a sturdy thief or drunkard goes about under cover of a make-believe crippled limb or a sham sore. In a word, he made so many good rules that to this day they are preserved there, and are called

The Constitutions of the Great Governor Sancho Panza .

Wherein is related the adventure of the second distressed or afflicted Duenna, otherwise called Doña Rodriguez.

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