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