One of the books in Don Quixote’s library, a Spanish romance at one time very popular. Butler calls Hudibras “the Mirror of Knighthood” (book i. 15).
“The barber, taking another book, said, ‘This is the Mirror of Knighthood.ʹ”—Part 1, book i. 6.j
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.