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 Mirror of King Ryence (The).Mirrors. 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Mirror of Knighthood (The).
 
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).   1
        “The barber, taking another book, said, ‘This is the Mirror of Knighthood.’”—Part 1, book i. 6.j
 


 Mirror of King Ryence (The).Mirrors. 

 
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