A few years after Our Lord Don Quixote had journeyed through Spain, Jacob Böhme declared in his Aurora (chap xi., § 142) that he did not write a story or history related to him by others, but that he himself had had to stand in the battle, which he found to be full of heavy strivings, and wherein he was often struck down to the ground like all other men;
Gure Jaun Don Quixote Espainian zehar ibili ondoan, urte gutxi geroago, Jakob Boehme-k zioskun (Aurora, XI.