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- # CHAPTER 26. Knights and Squires.
## Overview
This entity is Chapter 26, titled "Knights and Squires," from Herman Melville's novel, [Moby-Dick; or, The Whale](arke:01KG8AJ9GN1K052QJEZVGKXJ0T). It was extracted on January 30, 2026, from a digital text file.
## Context
This chapter is an integral part of [Moby-Dick; or, The Whale](arke:01KG8AJ9GN1K052QJEZVGKXJ0T), a novel by Herman Melville. The novel itself is contained within the larger archival collection, [Melville Complete Works](arke:01KG89HMDZKNY753EZE1CJ8HZW). The text of this chapter was programmatically extracted from the source file [moby_dick.txt](arke:01KG89J198KE6FY8WPVJQQRCZ6). It follows [CHAPTER 25. Postscript.](arke:01KG8AK6V1FMRQRRVAN7RX3SV1) and precedes [CHAPTER 27. Knights and Squires.](arke:01KG8AK6V3KVVSV3WV5KD8KZ18) in the novel's sequence.
## Contents
Chapter 26, "Knights and Squires," begins on line 867 of the source text with the phrase "it. Let the most absent-minded of men be plunged in his deepest". The chapter title suggests a thematic exploration of chivalric archetypes within the context of the novel's narrative, likely referring to the relationships and roles among the crew members of the whaling ship, the *Pequod*.
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