May I set the stage
I shall impersonate a man
Come enter into my imagination and see him
His name Alonso Quijana a country squire
No longer young bony hollow- faced
Eyes that burn with the fire of inner vision
He lays down the melancholy burden of sanity
And conceives the strangest project ever imagined
To become a knight- errant
And sally forth into the world to right all wrongs
No longer shall he be plain Alonso Quijana
But a dauntless knight known as Don Quixote de La Mancha
