The Alchemist by Ben Jonson: “It is my humour: you are a pimp and a trig, And an Amadis de Gaul, or a Don Quixote.”
The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton: “or such inamoratos as read nothing but play-books, idle poems, jests, Amadis de Gaul, the Knight of the Sun, the Seven Champions, Palmerin de Oliva, Huon of Bordeaux, &c.”